The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 81 ｜ White House’s Female Fighter Reveals the TRUTH of Working for Trump ｜ Sarah Huckabee Sanders ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Right towards the beginning of President Trump's administration, our guest today was one of the

00:00:05.680 most recognizable women in America. That was not her intention when she was invited to join the

00:00:12.260 White House staff, but the unique and unprecedented media assault on this administration thrust her

00:00:19.060 into a spotlight, and it was a harsh, hot spotlight. She was the first mother to ever

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00:00:43.200 restaurant for daring to show her face. She ended up having to have Secret Service, the first one ever

00:00:48.400 to have Secret Service protection because of the violent threats against her and her children.

00:00:53.320 Her story epitomizes today what's happening and the vitriol and the hatred and the desperation

00:01:02.680 to stop Donald Trump. So how did she handle? How did she withstand it? How did she how did she leave

00:01:09.640 with her soul after the vicious attacks? And she left with the full trust of the president of the

00:01:16.340 United States and her dignity intact. Today, you're going to get to hear the real story. Sarah Huckabee

00:01:23.800 Sanders. She has a new book, Speaking Out for Myself, and that's what she's doing on today's podcast.

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00:02:46.180 Sarah, uh, it's a glutton for punishment. Uh, now you write a book and you go on a, on a book tour

00:03:06.580 and do interviews about it. Uh, and I know what it's like to be in your chair with a media that

00:03:14.760 has their mind made up and they will not let you, um, say what you really feel or who you really

00:03:24.140 are. Um, well, I think it's less that they won't let me say it, but they don't want to hear it. They

00:03:30.380 don't care to hear positive things about somebody who worked in the Trump white house. And I, that's

00:03:36.720 one of the reasons that, um, you call it a glutton for punishment, but it's one of the reasons that I

00:03:41.260 want to be out there is because there've been so many books and so many, uh, negative things said

00:03:47.840 about the president. And I spent two and a half years, almost every single day of those two and a

00:03:52.800 half years with the president. And I want people to see him the way that I did during that time and

00:03:59.820 get to know Donald Trump in the way that I did. And I really try to make that come out in the book.

00:04:05.500 So I think you did a great job on that. You do get a feeling of what it, uh, felt like to be there,

00:04:11.460 what it feels like the trouble at the beginning, um, and the other side of Trump that nobody, um,

00:04:19.620 gets to see. Um, if, if, if I were asked you to take two snapshots, one that shows the complete,

00:04:33.800 um, lack of honesty or integrity or even interest where you witness something, you're like, I can't

00:04:44.120 believe I was just in that room and now I'm hearing it from these people and it's not the same.

00:04:50.720 Can you give me that? And what the, what kept you there? The, the one thing that would keep you going

00:05:02.020 out to a lion's den to have them just feast on you every day? 0.91

00:05:08.940 So I'll, I'll start with, um, the, the first question. And, um, sadly I have too many examples

00:05:15.560 of that, but one in particular that really stands out was actually, as I was leaving the white house,

00:05:21.040 um, the president had announced that I would be departing at the end of the month and a group

00:05:27.660 of reporters that I worked with on the regular, um, that were always at the white house came by my

00:05:33.160 office. Um, several of them, I had a very good relationship with, I know that's hard to believe,

00:05:38.240 but in this moment, um, they were thanking me, telling me how much they'd enjoyed working with me.

00:05:43.820 They were going to miss me. One in particular, um, she had tears in her eyes and was like,

00:05:48.760 I'm going to miss you. Like you've been so great. Like this has been such a good working relationship.

00:05:53.900 And then the next morning I'm sitting in my office and I see, you know, my name scroll across the

00:05:59.720 bottom of the screen. So I turned the sound on the TV up and that reporter is on and they're asking

00:06:04.080 it. And she's like, she had to go. It was time, no credibility left. Like she had to be out of the

00:06:09.940 building. I was like, wait a minute. You literally were almost crying in my office yesterday, telling

00:06:15.320 me how much you were going to miss me, how great of a relationship that we had developed over the

00:06:19.920 course of those two years. And now like it's, you know, cause you're on a mainstream cable network

00:06:26.740 that doesn't like the president. It's like, Oh, couldn't say anything nice about this person.

00:06:32.000 So that would be one of those moments where you just saw just complete hypocrisy and a total

00:06:36.080 double standard of the media in terms of why I went out there every day. It's because I love our

00:06:43.500 country. And I believe in standing up and being very vocal about the things I believe in. And I

00:06:52.260 wanted to be helpful to the president. And if I felt I could play even the smallest role in helping

00:07:00.240 him continue to make our country better, then I felt an obligation to do that.

00:07:05.400 I don't think people, and I haven't been at your level, um, um, and far from it, but I have

00:07:13.940 gone through the machine where they are, where they just destroy you. And I don't think people

00:07:22.320 understand what that feels like. Can you describe or explain maybe what you were surprised by? I mean,

00:07:33.340 you had to know you were running into trouble, but sometimes the, the reality is far beyond anything

00:07:41.440 you ever would expect. I think the thing that probably surprised me the most was the level of

00:07:50.320 vitriol and also that nothing was off limits. Um, you know, everything from my appearance, my makeup,

00:07:58.380 my hair, my clothes, my fitness, to be a mother, my ability to bake a pie. Um, everything was on the

00:08:06.100 table and, you know, multiple members of the media regularly attacked me, not for my politics,

00:08:13.860 but for me as a person. And so that was much different. I think that I expected, I've always

00:08:19.720 been prepared, uh, to fight back for what I believe in and principles that I think are important and

00:08:25.680 what's right, but to have to defend myself, um, on whether or not I'm a capable parent or whether

00:08:32.140 or not I should have worn red when I wore blue. Um, those were things I didn't necessarily plan for

00:08:38.580 and hadn't really expected. I mean, I even had a member of the mainstream media say I should be

00:08:46.120 choked. A Hollywood actor suggested my kids should be kidnapped. I mean, that level of anger and hatred

00:08:54.640 was something that I wasn't necessarily prepared for going in. The red hen incident, which you talk

00:09:00.680 about in the book. Um, you are the first, uh, um, uh, spokesperson for the president that has

00:09:08.160 ever needed, uh, and issued secret service protection. Tell me what that felt like when people

00:09:17.340 surrounded you and, uh, and, and you realized, uh, my gosh, regular Americans are now doing this

00:09:25.500 for me. And, and, and specifically as a parent, that was the most difficult challenge is knowing

00:09:33.840 that the role that I was playing, um, kept me from, from being able to really protect my kids.

00:09:41.060 And, um, um, that was a very scary realization and a very difficult thing to process. Um, and wanting

00:09:50.420 to do everything you can to make sure, you know, we're protecting, we're raising them the way that

00:09:55.440 we're supposed to, um, teaching them to love America, to love freedom, to love their faith and

00:10:01.860 have that challenged in a way, um, that didn't just verbally make you have to respond, but that you had

00:10:10.160 to be prepared, you know, from a physical threat. And that was something, um, that was extremely

00:10:15.560 difficult for me and going through that, the red hen incident, um, that one came kind of out of left

00:10:22.880 field. I, I had gone to meet my family in Lexington, Virginia. Uh, they had already been there for a day

00:10:29.960 or so before I arrived. I'd just come off a long week. I drove down from DC through rush hour. I was

00:10:36.480 exhausted. I sit down at the table and within a minute or two of sitting down before I even,

00:10:42.700 you know, have a chance to get settled and say hello to my family. The owner of the restaurant

00:10:47.360 comes over, asked to speak with me and lets me know that she thinks I'm a horrible person.

00:10:52.640 Um, I don't belong there. I don't represent their community and kicked me out of the restaurant.

00:10:58.080 And I was a little taken aback, but I just said, okay. I whispered to my husband that I'd been

00:11:03.940 kicked out of the restaurant. I grabbed my things and I walked out. What a lot of people don't know

00:11:08.540 is the second part of that story. And I talk about that in the book is after my husband and I

00:11:13.880 went back home to the place we were staying, the rest of our family went to a restaurant across the

00:11:19.560 street and the owner of the red hen actually followed them to that second restaurant, gathered

00:11:26.940 a group of friends, held up makeshift signs and protested them at another restaurant until one of my

00:11:33.580 family members who actually is not a Trump supporter and voted for Hillary Clinton, went outside and

00:11:39.200 said, look, Sarah's not even here and you're not helping our calls, like go home. And so they

00:11:44.420 finally, you know, dissipated and left. But that level of anger to one, kick me out of a restaurant.

00:11:53.520 I don't think we ever want to be the type of country that has Democrat restaurants and Republican

00:11:57.920 restaurants. And to have that moment and then to continue it, to follow them even after I'd left

00:12:04.960 was, you know, pretty eye opening and just showed the level of anger and hatred from the liberal mob

00:12:13.180 for people that don't agree with them. So you just used a keyword, liberal, the liberal mob.

00:12:21.440 And I don't have a problem with liberals per se. I don't have a problem with people who vote

00:12:29.560 differently. I don't understand you, but OK, you know, and I can live next door to somebody who

00:12:37.300 vehemently disagrees with me as long as we agree on certain principles. And we used to have,

00:12:42.400 you know, an American set of principles that we all agreed on. So are you do you believe that

00:12:50.320 this vitriol and this anger and rage is is happening to the average Democrat now as much as before?

00:13:05.580 Or do you think the average person who is always considered themselves a Democrat is is looking 0.92

00:13:12.600 at their own party and saying, you guys are in bed now with crazy anti-American Marxists.

00:13:21.140 Do you see any opening of that at all? I definitely think over the last couple of months,

00:13:27.440 we've seen some people go, whoa, this is not what we signed up for. And we aren't supporting

00:13:34.640 people that turn our cities to the ground that want to, you know, create violent atmospheres in

00:13:41.560 a lot of major cities across the country. I don't think that most Democrats, particularly those kind

00:13:47.960 of in the middle, want to see that. The problem is the radical left has so taken over the Democrat

00:13:55.200 party that they've become beholden to this sector of their party and have not had the ability to fight

00:14:02.380 back. We saw that in the primaries. They moved so far to the left. Look, the primary is always you're

00:14:09.080 going to have your candidate move a little more to the right on the Republican side, a little more to

00:14:13.000 the left on the Democrats. That's not new. But the distance that they moved from the center and how far

00:14:20.180 to the left they went, I think is surprising for a lot of Democrats, at least I hope so. And I hope

00:14:27.080 that they realize that that radical left is very dangerous for our country and is not the direction

00:14:34.260 that we want to go. I mean, the ideas that they're pushing on that end of their party have never worked

00:14:40.120 in any country. I don't know why we would think, oh, let's try it here. It's never worked before.

00:14:45.920 Socialism has always been a disaster. But you know what? I think we could do it. Let's let's give it a

00:14:50.580 try. Like why that makes sense to anyone. I don't understand. Most people flee those countries and

00:14:57.120 come to America because it's so much better because they want this freedom. They want to live in a

00:15:02.680 country where they can dream anything, they can be anything and they can do anything. And they want

00:15:09.020 to take that away. I don't know why we would allow a group again, that radical left to destroy what

00:15:16.860 makes America so special and so unique. So my theory has always been, and I said this in 2008,

00:15:24.380 and I said, sorry, I said this in 2004, I think, when they put Michael Moore in the presidential box

00:15:31.900 of the Democratic Convention with Jimmy Carter. And I said, you know, liberals, you are making your bed

00:15:41.780 with the devil. You are inviting Marxists in who believe in something radically different and you

00:15:51.120 think you're going to use them as fuel. And then you can put that genie back in the bottle, but they

00:15:58.220 will eat you. And I wondered now if when you were seeing the president and seeing the behind the scenes

00:16:08.300 machinery with Schumer and Pelosi and the others, are they afraid of the left now? Do they know that

00:16:18.760 they're about to be eaten? Or do they just really, do they really believe this stuff?

00:16:25.700 You know, I honestly, I don't know. But I don't think they realize that they're getting played.

00:16:32.260 And that's, I think, almost as scary as letting the left control everything is letting a group of

00:16:39.660 people who have no idea what's going on and have no backbone, they don't have the conviction to stand

00:16:45.160 up and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not going down this road. We're still Americans. We still hold

00:16:51.860 on to a few just pillars of what makes our country special. We're not willing to abandon that. And I

00:16:58.320 haven't seen the leadership in the Democrat Party do that. If anything, they've bowed to this

00:17:04.580 leftist side because that side is so much louder. You know, we have an expression in the South that

00:17:11.300 just because somebody eats their soup louder doesn't mean it tastes better. And I think that

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00:18:49.160 As you are looking at the landscape of today,

00:18:54.720 you know, the left, not the Democrats, the left is gathering now and have been gathering since 2016

00:19:07.040 on this integrity in transition project. And they are now saying that the right and the right wing

00:19:18.700 extremists and the Nazis and the all of these people are going to start a civil war because of the election

00:19:26.780 in November. And so they are now planning on what they have to do to counter to be able to fight

00:19:34.140 for the Republic. I see what's happening now and how the media is covering for Black Lives Matter and

00:19:43.900 letting people get away with things that you arrest people for. How, how plausible do you think it is

00:19:55.420 that the election and the voting system, you know, the mail in vote is done intentionally to cause more

00:20:06.180 chaos and more strife? I'm hopeful that that's not the case. Obviously, I'm a supporter of the

00:20:14.020 president. So I'm very hopeful, hopeful that he wins outright and it's clear and it's decisive and we

00:20:20.080 don't have a long drawn out process. I think that could be very detrimental, very dangerous for our

00:20:27.460 country and very divisive. So I'm hopeful that whatever the outcome is, that it's very clear,

00:20:32.960 that it's very decisive. And obviously, I hope it favors the president. You know, I'm sure you know,

00:20:39.340 I said this to the president. I said, you know, that during your election and he just stopped me,

00:20:43.700 he says, oh no, I'm very well aware. I'm very well aware of where you stood, Glenn. But I did,

00:20:50.940 I missed several things in him. And honestly, I saw a New York liberal and I thought he's never going

00:21:01.460 to, he's never going to do any of these things. He's kept his promise. But the one thing I worried

00:21:07.880 about and I warned about it in, you know, in the election of 2016, in the last year, there's going

00:21:16.680 to be some event that is going to crush our economy and cause all kinds of strife. And I fear this guy

00:21:24.860 will be a guy who will out FDR, FDR, and he will grab control because that's in his root. And I had

00:21:35.040 nothing to, nothing to prove that other than he was a New York kind of guy. He's been the exact

00:21:42.860 opposite of that. And yet they call him a dictator. They say that he's going to, he won't, he won't

00:21:50.860 leave the office if, if he loses. Is there anything that you have seen that shows anything like that?

00:22:01.160 What I saw day in and day out from the president is somebody who loves this country and who didn't

00:22:09.380 need to be president. He'd already been a celebrity. He had already been very successful in business.

00:22:15.380 He'd made a lot of money. He'd written bestsellers. He'd kind of already hit the peak in a lot of areas

00:22:21.220 and he didn't need to be president. But I think our country needed him at this moment. They needed

00:22:27.720 somebody to shake things up, to be the disruptor that he's been. I think a lot of people were like

00:22:33.880 you and they were skeptical early on about Donald Trump, but he's governed more conservative than

00:22:40.480 anybody in my lifetime. I mean, he has been very good for the pro-life community. He has been great

00:22:47.420 for religious freedom. But more than that, and not just for conservatives, he has done things that

00:22:53.440 impact every demographic of Americans that make their life better. You know, he's regularly attacked

00:22:59.840 for not, you know, I guess a lot of people want to paint him as somebody different that hasn't been

00:23:05.940 good for the black community. When in reality, he's done more for the black community in America in four 0.94

00:23:12.060 years than Joe Biden's done in 40 years in government. The president fought for and secured

00:23:19.120 and passed legislation for criminal justice reform. He got HBCU historic funding and made it permanent,

00:23:26.880 created opportunity zones, which have been significant, made a significant impact in a lot

00:23:33.060 of minority communities across the country. And let's not forget the economy. And it wasn't just

00:23:38.960 black Americans that did better under Donald Trump's economy. Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans,

00:23:45.180 all have the lowest unemployment in history prior to the coronavirus. And so I think if you look at the

00:23:53.320 policies and you look at the substance of what this president has done, he's made America better for

00:23:59.340 everybody. I don't, you know, I was, I was really concerned. And I think a lot of Americans were,

00:24:07.300 and maybe some still are about his use of Twitter. And, but I have come to a place to realize it is his

00:24:17.020 fearlessness and his, his wrecking ball that he just puts out there every day. And he doesn't care

00:24:29.180 that is actually exposed. You know, I, it was like impeachment. He, they go after him for impeachment

00:24:36.580 and he's, he's, he's such a wrecking ball, but all of a sudden the wall comes down. You're like,

00:24:42.380 holy cow, look what's behind the wall. And, you know, I wonder if he's not at times genius,

00:24:50.160 lucky, or I don't know. I mean, do you ever get the feeling that he, when he swings something

00:24:58.020 towards a wall and it comes down that he knew what was on the other, I know he'd tell you he did,

00:25:03.180 but do you think? I think, I think he hopes that it's there. And, you know, one of the things I loved

00:25:11.800 about the president and watching him in a negotiation is we would go in and I think he would have a certain

00:25:18.840 set of things he was hoping to get and everybody had kind of agreed, but the president always had

00:25:23.460 a whole nother set of stuff he wanted. And he wasn't just happy with asking for a good deal.

00:25:28.800 He wanted the best deal. So he would go in, the team would sit there and have this kind of agreed

00:25:35.160 upon list. And then he'd go ahead and lean into the other 10 things. And everybody's like, wait a

00:25:39.420 minute. And he's like, well, let's not just waste time. He's like, I don't want to leave until I get it

00:25:43.800 all. And, you know, he would push harder and more aggressive than anybody else had ever seen. And he

00:25:49.800 wasn't going to take no for an answer. And I think the only reason he was able to get things like the

00:25:54.680 USMCA deal done and pass historic tax cuts at the levels that he did was because he said, I won't

00:26:03.000 accept anything less. And I think because he has that kind of wrecking ball mentality, people didn't want

00:26:11.380 to go against him and eventually gave in and said, you know what, maybe he's right. Let's do this.

00:26:17.160 Let's give it a try. And it's worked well for him. So I, I had a conversation with him

00:26:23.760 relatively recently, and it was before COVID and we were talking about China. And I said, I am

00:26:35.700 hoping Mr. President, that, you know, we disagree on trade, but I am hoping that you are using your

00:26:45.500 Tiffany's strategy. Uh, and he said, Tiffany strategy. And I said, uh-huh. The way you built

00:26:53.420 Trump tower. And he just laughed and he said, good for you for knowing that. And I think it's one of the

00:27:01.420 things that people don't understand. He, part of his, uh, his, uh, way, his method is to be the guy

00:27:12.580 with the twitchy eye. He's not, he's not crazy, but you're not sure he won't do something crazy.

00:27:20.720 You know what I mean? And that's the way he's always just opened things and changed the paradigm.

00:27:27.720 So can you, can you talk to a little bit about that? Cause people, I think there are some people

00:27:35.740 that think he's just, you know, shooting from the hip. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's

00:27:42.140 not well read. He's just going in and vomiting out words where I think he is actually much more

00:27:49.640 strategic. I think you're definitely right. Um, and he does have that sense. If I,

00:27:57.700 if everybody knows what you're going to do and you say, if you don't do this, this is what I'm

00:28:02.300 going to do. Well, then you've, you've given your entire playbook to the other side and the president

00:28:08.800 never wants anybody to know what his playbook looks like. It was one of the things he talked about

00:28:13.640 that frustrated him so much with Obama is he would tell our adversaries, you know, exactly when we were

00:28:20.780 going to withdraw or here's what we're going to do next. And he's like, why would you ever tell

00:28:24.700 the enemy what your plan is? And he said, we have to have a level of unpredictability. So they don't

00:28:32.360 know what our next move is. So we have the element of surprise and we get more of what we're working

00:28:38.100 towards. And I think that's how, I think you're exactly right. There was a strategy behind a lot

00:28:43.980 of those moments that most people thought, Oh my gosh, he's crazy. Like, I can't believe he's doing

00:28:48.760 that, but really there was a very clear method to the madness and he had a, a solid, clear goal in

00:28:56.200 mind and he was going to take steps to make sure he got there. When you went with him, you talk about

00:29:02.880 it in the book, uh, to meet Kim Jong ill, right? Uh, is it on or ill? I can't remember. One's a son,

00:29:10.920 one's a father, but, um, uh, you, I mean, that was, that had to be a surreal moment. And here's

00:29:21.900 the president saying all kinds, he's saying, I'm going to, you know, he'll burn in the fires of the

00:29:27.060 fury of the, you know, nuclear missiles. And the next moment he's like, he's a great guy. We talked

00:29:32.500 basketball. I mean, it was insane. Um, tell me what it was like to be there and what you saw that

00:29:41.740 we didn't see. You know, it was like you said, I think surreal is probably one of the best words

00:29:48.780 you could use to describe it because there's nothing else like walking into that room. Um,

00:29:54.880 and, and first watching that moment unfold between the two leaders walking across that carpet and

00:30:01.980 shaking hands for the very first time, very historic moment. Um, and to witness that firsthand

00:30:07.520 and then later sit at the table, um, across from Kim Jong Un was, uh, startling in some ways,

00:30:14.300 but also very surreal. Uh, one of the things that I thought the president was masterful at both in that

00:30:21.240 meeting, as well as, you know, watching him over the course of that two and a half year timeframe

00:30:25.920 was his ability to connect with somebody, talk about things that they were interested in,

00:30:31.620 but then still managed to cover NBA basketball and make a sharp right turn and start talking

00:30:37.180 about denuclearization. Not a lot of people can fit those two topics into the same one hour conversation

00:30:43.420 like Donald Trump can do. And he did it seamlessly and flawlessly to be able to engage them at a level

00:30:51.120 that they wanted to talk about things. Um, but then still accomplish his goals and lay out what he

00:30:56.900 expected. So what did we, what did we get from that in the end? What, what will be the legacy there?

00:31:04.380 Well, I think the, the first couple of things, um, were the buildup from before that meeting,

00:31:10.740 certainly, uh, getting our hostages back from North Korea was certainly, I think a very positive 0.99

00:31:17.040 thing, getting the remains of us soldiers back and giving those families closure, stopping and halting

00:31:23.380 testing, uh, during that timeframe. But even just the open dialogue to start a conversation,

00:31:29.980 um, it's not lost on anybody. The challenge that is presented of taking nuclear weapons away from Kim

00:31:36.580 Jong-un or anybody else. Um, that is going to be difficult no matter what nation you're trying to

00:31:44.020 accomplish that with. Um, and particularly a place like North Korea and the president went into that

00:31:50.200 clear-eyed and very well aware that that was an uphill battle, but it was one worth going down

00:31:56.660 that road. And I feel like he's made progress. Does that mean it'll happen in his presidency?

00:32:01.800 I don't know, but he's definitely making steps in the right direction. We were at an all time high,

00:32:07.780 uh, level of tension between the United States and North Korea that has dropped down. And now there's

00:32:14.080 at least some dialogue. There's also the sanctions, the toughest ever sanctions that have ever been

00:32:20.120 on North Korea are still in place. And I think that that has been a key, uh, component of the

00:32:27.260 president's strategy with North Korea is not lifting those sanctions while the conversations were ongoing.

00:32:33.220 Now, let me just tell you this, you don't get a body like this without working really hard.

00:32:39.800 And, uh, boy, I've worked, I've worked hard. The lifting of just tubs of ice cream. Unbelievable.

00:32:48.980 Um, my wife has been telling me, you got it, please just stop. Just stop. Yeah. Well, uh, she wanted me 0.68

00:32:56.060 to eat these protein bars and all protein bars taste like sawdust. At least that's what I told her. Then

00:33:02.280 she was gone and I tried a, uh, protein bar that she was eating and she told me they were really,

00:33:08.660 really good. They're built bars and they were really, really good. So now I eat the ice cream

00:33:13.960 and the built bars. Anyway, they're low carb, they're high protein, low calorie. They are so

00:33:20.940 good. This is a client that I went and approached them and said, you have to let me advertise. Please

00:33:27.520 let me advertise. They blew my mind. Real chocolate, real taste, and they're good for you. Are you kidding

00:33:33.280 me? It's a candy bar, 130 calories. That's not a candy bar. It's a built bar. It's a protein bar.

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00:34:00.080 Let me go to the Middle East. My entire life, everyone I knew said, why are we in bed with

00:34:11.260 people? Why don't we just say that's the capital in Jerusalem and let the chips fall where they

00:34:17.920 may? And State Department and all the experts always said, no, no, it'll be the biggest war

00:34:23.720 ever. I don't know a lot of people that thought that that would happen that way. Donald Trump

00:34:29.640 was the first one to just go, screw it. I'm not going your way. Is this the reason they 0.92

00:34:39.160 hate him so much? Because he's disrupting this deep state or this state that just thinks they

00:34:48.100 know better than everybody else?

00:34:49.660 I think it's definitely has to be one of the big reasons. And it wasn't just the embassy. It was

00:34:57.360 the Iran deal. It was the Paris Climate Agreement. These were all things that people said, if you do

00:35:06.240 this, essentially, the world will come to an end. And the president said, I don't believe you. And he

00:35:12.260 did it. And look, we're all still here. The world didn't end. And he was right to push forward on things

00:35:17.780 that so many other people had spoken out against, but been afraid to do. I mean, every president

00:35:22.280 before him said they would move the embassy. And then when the moment came, they never did it.

00:35:26.620 And this was a president who said, you know what? We said we were going to do it. We're going to do it.

00:35:31.600 And they couldn't handle that he actually followed through on something he said he was going to do

00:35:37.380 and disrupted the order of how they felt things should happen. And certainly, I think that's one of the

00:35:43.340 reasons that the American people love Donald Trump. And it's one of the reasons the D.C. swamp hates

00:35:49.180 him. So I don't know if you saw the news. I think it came out this week about Vindman,

00:35:57.240 that Vindman turns out to be the whistleblower. And the whistleblower was not really a whistleblower.

00:36:06.140 The whistleblower got all of the information from Vindman because it couldn't come from Vindman.

00:36:13.340 And the Democratic side knew about it. That's why Peter Schiff was saying all of a sudden,

00:36:23.520 no, no, you can't know who he was. First, you can absolutely interview him. We're going to bring

00:36:27.900 him to the table. Then, no, no one can know his name because it would have gone back to Vindman.

00:36:33.120 And Vindman, his problem was he didn't like the way the president wanted to proceed in Ukraine.

00:36:43.420 Can you tell me how deep does this infection go? How many Vindmans are there? Are all departments 1.00

00:36:57.720 in our government like this, that a lot of them are just on autopilot and we'll just do what we want

00:37:04.240 anyway and we'll outlast you? I don't know how deep it goes, but I know that it's definitely all

00:37:11.860 over government. And one of the things that I saw, and certainly with some of the senior officials,

00:37:19.320 is they would come into the administration with their own agenda. And they forgot somewhere along the

00:37:25.380 way, but nobody voted for them. Their name never appeared anywhere on the ballot. And they came

00:37:31.500 with a plan and thought that they could just get Donald Trump to do what they wanted. I don't know

00:37:36.900 where they had been to think that they could get Donald Trump to do what they wanted, but it didn't

00:37:44.040 work. And when it didn't, they would get very angry and lash out. And again, it's one of the

00:37:50.340 reasons the president has such a loyal, enthusiastic base of support is because he has pushed back on

00:37:59.320 all of kind of the DC norms. And, you know, I think he fought back against those people. He was willing

00:38:07.260 to tell them no. And they didn't like not getting to control the agenda. One of the things I think

00:38:14.700 that happens to a lot of people in Washington, they get so drunk on power, and so consumed with

00:38:20.320 the idea that they should be the president, they almost convince themselves that they are. And it's

00:38:25.520 their decision to make their agenda to drive. And when Donald Trump didn't fall in line, they didn't

00:38:31.580 like it at all. The image that you get, if you just watch the press is that Donald Trump is isolated.

00:38:40.400 Um, he's got nobody in the white house. He can trust. Um, he, everybody in the white house is

00:38:48.400 trying secretly to, you know, keep him to look stable and, and try to have him, you know, not destroy

00:38:55.700 the country. Um, and then that is somewhat helped by the number of leaks early on. What's the reality

00:39:04.580 of the white house? Uh, there's certainly, uh, some bad actors that are in the white house,

00:39:12.760 but there are also a lot of people that I met that I got the privilege of serving alongside

00:39:18.080 that love our country, support our president and want to see both him and America be successful.

00:39:25.220 And, um, I'm thankful that they're there and that the president has a good group of people.

00:39:32.100 I, every white house has had leaks. Certainly. Um, this one has probably had more than others.

00:39:38.940 And, um, I think some of that too, and the president has talked about this before,

00:39:43.320 and I've heard him tell the story about how he'd only been to Washington a handful of times

00:39:47.980 before his actual inauguration. He really hadn't spent a lot of time in DC. Um, and he didn't know

00:39:54.140 a lot of the players and, um, you know, he had been met with a lot of, but he didn't really

00:39:59.920 know, uh, some of the movers and shakers in previous administrations in the way that he does now.

00:40:06.720 And he said, you know, I show up and one of the first nights I ever spend in Washington, DC

00:40:12.520 is at the white house. And so some of that was learning who those people were and building a

00:40:19.740 really good team around him. I think he's got some great people in his cabinet, uh, that have done just

00:40:24.680 a tremendous job, uh, Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, uh, to name a few that have really been spectacular

00:40:32.320 in their role. Steven Mnuchin, uh, Larry Kudlow in the NEC office. And then he's got a circle there

00:40:39.140 in the white house that are really a great team and people that are very loyal, both to the president

00:40:44.160 and to the country.

00:40:45.760 So when the impeachment was going on, um, we started doing our homework and I wanted,

00:40:51.020 I told my staff, find out the truth. If the president is doing something, then we expose it.

00:40:57.360 If he's not, we expose that. What is the truth? And we did months of research and, um, it's very

00:41:05.620 clear what happened there. And, um, I know you had, uh, you were investigated, uh, for the report,

00:41:14.380 for the Mueller report. Um, you just mentioned, uh, Bob Barr. I put a lot of hope into Bob Barr,

00:41:23.220 but I mean, are we going to see real change and a restoration of some credibility? Will people go

00:41:33.380 to jail for the things that were happening? I certainly hope so. Um, I think that the level

00:41:41.840 of corruption that went on particularly, and I can speak more, more personally about the Russia

00:41:48.160 witch hunt, cause I was there during that process and during that time and the level of corruption

00:41:54.800 and the links to which people went to, to try to take the president down are unprecedented. And,

00:42:01.920 um, you know, I think Bill Barr has done a great job of coming in and really moving that forward.

00:42:08.420 Um, I'm not sure if he hadn't come in, if we wouldn't still be in the middle of the Mueller

00:42:13.740 investigation, he helped bring that to a conclusion. He helped get that information out and a summary

00:42:20.280 very quickly, fully exonerating and vindicating the president from that absurd two year waste of

00:42:27.000 taxpayer time and resources to bring us to where we are now. And, um, again, I remain hopeful

00:42:33.480 that we see, um, the people that were responsible and people who truly have played a role in the

00:42:40.000 corruption held, uh, held accountable at some point. I'm concerned, um, again, with the, um,

00:42:49.140 with where we are as a country and the media and everything else. Um,

00:42:54.720 and I have been watching for the tools of revolution for a long time, since 2006, I started really

00:43:05.360 researching revolution and, and, uh, coups and everything else. Um, and they have captured

00:43:13.580 everything now that is needed except the military. But if you notice, they are now trying to separate the

00:43:22.380 military from the president. They're trying to, uh, they, I mean, you were there in France. The latest

00:43:31.580 story is that, you know, he called fallen soldiers, losers, et cetera, et cetera. They were all anonymous

00:43:39.800 sources. You were there. Tell me what happened. Well, not only was I there and I've spoken out on the

00:43:48.060 record, but I think 11 other people who were also, uh, on that trip have come out on the record and

00:43:54.800 talked about not just that day, but their overall experience with the president. I think the people

00:44:00.860 who are making this outrageous charge are such cowards for doing so in an anonymous way. If you 0.54

00:44:08.820 really believe this and believe it was wrong, one, why did it take you so long? And two, um,

00:44:15.680 put your name on it the way the rest of us have. I was there that day. I was part of the discussion

00:44:20.820 about the president's movements and the logistics. Um, and he didn't say those things, but not only

00:44:26.240 was I there that day, Glenn, I spent two and a half years traveling all over the world with the

00:44:31.000 president, watching him interact with men and women of our armed forces almost every single day during

00:44:37.040 that two and a half year period. I watched him, uh, sit in the oval office and make condolence calls

00:44:42.860 to families. I watched the emotional toll that took on the president in those moments. I saw his

00:44:49.620 heart. I saw a person who doesn't normally show vulnerability, show some. I watched when we traveled

00:44:56.500 and we were going to do a fuel stop at two o'clock in the morning. And we were coming back from Asia

00:45:03.060 and we were going to be on the ground, I think about two hours. And the president said, Oh, well,

00:45:07.840 let's get off the plane and say hi to the troops. And they said, well, Mr. President will be two

00:45:12.560 o'clock in the morning because it's a military base. You mean to tell me nobody's working at two

00:45:16.620 o'clock in the morning? He said, if we get off, we see 10 people, we see 10 people. Um, but we'll

00:45:21.840 see who who's on duty. We'll say hello. We'll thank them. Um, but we're not landing at a military base

00:45:27.060 and not saying hi to the troops. When we landed at that military base, there were hundreds, if not

00:45:33.260 thousands of troops that had come out in the freezing cold in a hangar at two o'clock in the

00:45:39.120 morning to see the president. And we ended up staying for a long time. He went all the way up

00:45:45.840 and down the rope line, shaking hands, taking pictures, making remarks before we got back on

00:45:51.620 the plane and headed home. This is a person who loves America and loves the people who allow the rest

00:45:57.420 of us to live in America free and have prosperity. And I got to see that a lot. And I think it is

00:46:04.740 shameful that people are trying to distort who he is and what he has done, particularly when it comes

00:46:12.400 to the men and women of our military. The one thing that I think I had nailed in 2016 was, and it was

00:46:19.940 something that I could not put into place really until recently. Um, and I said, his children love

00:46:29.400 him. I mean, love him. And you would have to believe that his children, all of his children are also

00:46:38.020 monsters if he's a monster. Um, and that just didn't ever fit right with me because they're diverse and

00:46:46.300 every family has, you know, a wayward kid or whatever, but to have all of them be monsters

00:46:53.600 and covering for a monster would be insane to think. And then I watched this convention,

00:47:00.340 which I thought was remarkable. And I saw the private side of Donald Trump. And is it safe to

00:47:12.500 say that they're there in some ways, uh, not as you know, broken personality, but that there are two

00:47:19.840 Donald Trump's the one that is the mover, the shaker, the Titan, the president that is, and the

00:47:28.320 performer and the other one that really only his family sees the quiet Donald Trump that you never

00:47:37.320 see. Is that, do you think that's accurate or not? I don't know if there's a quiet Donald Trump.

00:47:45.880 So I don't know if I would use that term, but I do think that there is, um, a side of the president,

00:47:51.700 the generous and the compassionate and the kind Donald Trump that a lot of people don't see. Um,

00:47:58.500 one of the stories I write about in the book and one that frankly, I was even surprised by,

00:48:03.520 um, there was one day I came into, uh, the back dining room of the oval office, the president

00:48:11.320 sitting there. And he asked me, have you ever heard of this music group called point of grace?

00:48:15.820 I was like, actually, yes, I have. Um, I'm like, they performed at my wedding, but where did you

00:48:22.280 hear about them? And he's like, I saw them on TV. I thought they had the most beautiful voices,

00:48:27.620 just incredibly said such great spirit, such a great message. They're a Christian, uh, group of

00:48:33.860 women, uh, that went to the same small college in Arkansas that I went to very small world here 0.99

00:48:38.600 that he saw this. And out of nowhere, he randomly, he sent them a check like $5,000 just because he

00:48:46.000 wanted them to get their message to more people because he liked it because he saw it. Um, and it

00:48:51.680 was little moments like that, that I think people would be surprised by, um, and not expect from

00:49:01.980 Donald Trump. And there were, I think were a lot of moments like that, but I think you are exactly

00:49:06.160 right that his kids, they, they didn't just start working for him or start being around him when he

00:49:13.020 became president. They all worked in the Trump organization. They all have, uh, you know, really

00:49:19.400 celebrated and championed the work that he's done. And now they've been willing to take all the hits,

00:49:25.020 um, a huge sacrifice personally. Um, they are probably as brutally attacked as anybody ever

00:49:32.320 has been and they keep doing it and they keep fighting and they keep standing up and standing

00:49:37.820 with him. And I think that says a lot about him and a lot about each of them as well.

00:49:43.040 After the, um, after the RNC, uh, I actually wrote a letter, um, to the children, um, and

00:49:53.580 apologized, even though I never said anything about them. I, I, I was so moved by, um, how wrong I had

00:50:06.020 been that I realized I didn't even realize, I didn't even think I know what my children go through.

00:50:12.360 You know what your children go through when you're attacked. And it was just, it was a little

00:50:18.420 overwhelming, um, on, uh, on just the, the cruelty that can, uh, that, that everybody seems to be going

00:50:30.880 through and they are at the top of that heap. You know what I mean? Yeah. Um, so what's next for you?

00:50:39.640 When, when are you going to sit in your father's old chair?

00:50:45.080 Uh, well, we'll see right now. I want to help the president get reelected in 2020. Um, I'd like to

00:50:51.200 see us keep the Senate. I'd love to see Republicans take the house and never have to say Speaker Pelosi

00:50:56.720 again. So right now I'm focused on 2020. Um, the Arkansas governor's race is in 2022 and our

00:51:03.380 governor Asa Hutchinson is termed out and I'll make a decision at some point after we get through

00:51:08.100 this cycle, uh, whether or not I'll make a run for that. You, you, um, uh, tell an interesting

00:51:13.860 story about the Bill Clinton machine and your dad, uh, in the book. Can you, can you tell that story?

00:51:22.360 Yeah. So my dad, um, the very first time he ran for office was in 1992. I was 10 years old at the time

00:51:29.260 and he lost, uh, the U S Senate race that year. But because that same year, Bill Clinton was on

00:51:37.060 the ballot, not the best year to run as a Republican in the home state of the guy who wins

00:51:41.120 the presidency. But because Bill Clinton won, the Lieutenant governor became governor and they held

00:51:47.380 a special election for the Lieutenant governor. They came to my dad, the party apparatus and said,

00:51:52.280 look, we don't know if you have much of a shot, but we think if we do, you're the best one we've

00:51:56.440 got. So will you run? He said, well, with an endorsement like that, why not? So he launches

00:52:02.280 into the race and he surprises everybody and he wins the governor's race in 93, upsetting the

00:52:11.700 Democrat machine campaign, the Clinton campaign or Clinton White House had raised money for his

00:52:18.540 opponent directly from Washington. Uh, they held back nothing to try to defeat him and he still

00:52:24.200 managed to win. And they were so excited that he won that to welcome him to the Capitol. They zeroed

00:52:31.640 out the entire budget and nailed his door shut so that he couldn't physically occupy the office. Um,

00:52:39.240 it took about 59 days before even some of the Democrats said, guys, this is getting absurd. Like

00:52:46.400 let the man in the door. So finally they opened the office, but he had to raise private funds to,

00:52:52.180 to buy furniture, to get stationary for a government office that he had been elected to because the

00:52:58.800 Democrat Clinton machine in Arkansas, um, was not happy to see him arrive. And it's only gotten worse,

00:53:06.440 hasn't it? Unfortunately, do you, do you, do you miss it at all? I definitely miss the people. Um,

00:53:17.800 and I miss being in this, the center of the action and getting to work with the team that I really

00:53:23.760 loved and getting to work with the president who I came to get very close to. And so I miss that part

00:53:29.980 of it. There are certainly days where I look and I'm like, I'm glad that I'm not there today. Um,

00:53:35.160 and I also get to spend a lot of time with my kids and I'm very thankful for that time. I get to drop

00:53:41.180 them off and pick them up from school a lot more often than I ever did at the White House. Um,

00:53:46.320 and that's a really nice transition and a really nice time to get to share with my family.

00:53:51.780 Well, I have to, um, tell you, Sarah, uh, you know, there are people that have gone to battle

00:53:57.720 and lost a leg and lost arms and lost their lives, uh, in service. Uh, you went in and did battle and

00:54:08.080 while you didn't lose anything physically, and I don't think you lost anything spiritually either.

00:54:14.440 Um, I thank you for your service sincerely. It, it was grotesque, uh, what was done to you.

00:54:22.320 Absolutely grotesque. And, uh, you don't seem any worse for the wear.

00:54:28.280 Well, thank you. I really appreciate it. And, uh, appreciate you letting me be on and us getting

00:54:33.320 to have a good conversation today. It's nice to actually talk to a friendly face every once in a while.

00:54:38.440 I, I know, I know. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the name of the book is Speaking for Myself and it is

00:54:47.600 available, uh, everywhere, um, wherever you buy your books. Thank you so much, Sarah. God bless.

00:54:53.940 You bet. Thank you so much.

00:54:55.160 You bet.

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The Glenn Beck Program - September 12, 2020

Ep 81 ｜ White House’s Female Fighter Reveals the TRUTH of Working for Trump ｜ Sarah Huckabee Sanders ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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