00:17:02.740Okay, I want to show you what is happening on our streets. And I told you at the very beginning,
00:17:09.500Remember, from the beginning, I'm talking early 20th century American progressives, and you're seeing it now.
00:17:17.540Early American progressives, they are actually communists.
00:17:21.360They liked communism, and they just didn't like the bloody revolution.
00:17:27.480And so they decided, if we just take it one step at a time, we can get there to this totalitarian state where we have experts running everything.
00:17:36.960That's the early 20th century American progressive, okay?
00:23:11.020But none of us gets to choose the day something goes wrong.
00:23:13.580What we do get to choose is whether we're prepared if it does.
00:23:17.100That's why I think the Berna launcher makes so much sense.
00:23:19.020It gives you a way to protect yourself and the people you love without carrying a traditional firearm.
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00:23:27.880And it fires powerful kinetic and chemical irritant projectiles that can stop a threat from as far as 60 feet, giving you the opportunity to get to safety.
00:23:36.860Hundreds of thousands of people have already chosen Berna because they wanted another option for professional protection.
00:44:54.540Yeah, it's Wednesday. Wednesday night, we're doing one of our live documentaries, and it is really, really, really good.
00:45:02.420We're taking you to the streets of Manhattan to show you the history of immigration, what it really means, because it's all been distorted.
00:45:11.260And we can't have any more immigration if we can't get it right.
00:46:14.500wear the mask, arguing with me is arguing with science.
00:46:17.400you know, all those things, make sure you have decided ahead of time that you are going to take
00:46:22.720a little more responsibility for your own preparedness. That's one of the reasons why
00:46:26.720I like my Patriot Supply right now. They're celebrating America's 250th anniversary,
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00:46:44.180advantage of their independence sale it's prepare with glenn.com is laura with us yet
00:46:53.260oh hi laura how are you laura hello thank you how are things things are good
00:47:01.820week thank you happy independence week happy birthday america 250 years is pretty solid
00:47:07.080yeah my family and i we're going we're going to go see the the fireworks in the
00:47:12.220Lincoln Memorial. I'm going to take him on a tour of the White House and everything else. Some of
00:47:16.940my family members have never been there, never been to Washington. And it looks better than it
00:47:23.980ever has. And I'm really excited to see a rodeo on the National Mall. A rodeo, apparently a Ferris
00:47:33.420wheel. There's going to be a race there at some point with a bunch of crazy fast cars. So there's
00:47:39.640a lot going on. And by the way, this is the time to go visit our Capitol because it is safer than
00:47:45.460it's ever been, Glenn. It is more beautiful than it's ever been. The president is restoring the
00:47:50.000beauty of our nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. So this is the time to go. I love that you guys
00:47:55.260are going to have that experience. I mean, I think this is the place to be this summer. It is the
00:48:00.520vacation that everybody should take. If you can afford a vacation, go to Washington, D.C.
00:48:04.780So, Laura, I want to talk to you a little bit about, I'm doing a special this Wednesday called The Golden Door from Ellis Island to the White House, where we tell the truth about immigration and what it is really for and how the left has so distorted, you know, the Emma Lazarus poem of, you know, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.
00:48:25.260We were never meant to be a hospital. What that means is you come here with an idea. You want to be a part of this American experiment. You can leave the past behind and you can do anything. And one of the examples I use is your father-in-law's parents, his grandfather and his mother. That's an incredible story.
00:48:50.100It is. And you're right. I think it's really important that we continue to talk about the real immigration situation here in America and the legal immigration.
00:49:01.460You're right. The left has really distorted what this president has been talking about, really, Glenn, since the day he came down the golden escalators and announced his run for president in June of 2015, which everyone remembers was hysteria.
00:49:14.420It was pandemonium after Donald Trump tried to acknowledge the fact that there were a lot of people who were coming to our country with bad intentions, who were bringing illicit drugs to our country, who were causing problems, who were bringing crime into America, because somehow we had kind of left what this country had started as, as a country of legal immigrants.
00:49:35.400and we had phased into a place where we had a lot of just open door policy of you can come here and
00:49:42.000you don't have to follow the proper process. We are a country of legal immigrants. That is how
00:49:47.100America was founded. And if you look at the history of the Trump family, if you look at my,
00:49:52.980you know, personal family's history as well, and I think you can talk to Americans across the
00:49:57.440country, this is how it started. But we have to have a process and you have to follow the law
00:50:02.240When you come to America and then, yes, we are the land of opportunity, there's no place on earth that gives you the opportunities and the chance to rise and succeed like America.
00:50:12.280It's all about how hard you are willing to work and how big you're willing to dream.0.80
00:50:16.580And we have to clarify, I think, unfortunately, for a lot of people, the truth about the immigration here in this country.
00:50:22.940Do you think, and I'm sure he's past it now, but I think in the first term, he had to feel like he was hit in the face with a shovel because of how he was viewed all the time.
00:51:03.200Oh, it's incredible how he, the history of, of his family and of immigration. I mean, even, even his wife and somehow or another, he's, he's painted as this guy who just hates immigrants.
00:51:19.480But if you look back, actually, Glenn, at what so many prominent Democrats, including Barack Obama, including Joe Biden, all of these people were saying not so long before Donald Trump came down that escalator.
00:51:34.420They were all saying the things that Donald Trump has been saying for the past 11 years.
00:51:38.600And yet, all of a sudden, that's a problem.
00:51:41.380All of a sudden, you're xenophobic, you're racist if you say those things.
00:51:44.620No, what we need to talk about is the fact that somewhere along the way, the Democrats decided, wait a minute, our policies are no longer anything that anyone wants to buy into.
00:51:54.520Our policies are going to be very hard to sell to the American people.
00:51:58.320And so we need to find another way to keep ourselves on top.
00:52:02.240We need to find another way to win elections.
00:52:04.340And I think you look back to about 11 years ago and somebody said, you know what, let's just start letting people come in and let's not really vet people.
00:52:12.000Let's not follow the law and follow the process that's been in place for so long.
00:52:16.400Let's just let people in and we won't really talk about it.
00:52:19.840We'll just do it and we'll hope that these people become Democrat voters and vote for
00:52:23.860us in perpetuity, which we all have to assume was the whole goal and the whole plan of all
01:02:25.740They make sure they have the right protection so they can stay focused on serving their customers instead of worrying about what if, what if, what if.
01:03:29.240Roberts, what a surprise, and Barrett sided with the Dems.
01:03:32.160The Supreme Court ruled that states like Mississippi can still count certain mail-in ballots that arrive a few days after the election day,
01:03:40.040rejecting the GOP challenge to Mississippi's law for late-arriving ballots
01:03:44.460as long as they were mailed and postmarked by Election Day.
01:03:49.280This is why we need the Save America Act.
01:03:52.740Also, the Supreme Court lets $5 million sex abuse verdict stand against Trump.
01:03:59.420President Trump had asked the justices to intervene
01:04:01.680after a jury found that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.
01:04:06.280Supreme Court Monday declined a request by the president to review the $5 million civil judgment against him.
01:04:13.180And the court has denied Trump's effort to remove federal government Lisa Cook.
01:08:27.280This week, starting tomorrow, I'm going to tell you three days in a row, I'm going to tell you what it took to write the Declaration of Independence.
01:08:33.600It's going to be in this hour, and you do not want to miss it.
01:08:36.760It is a great story, and I've been working a week on the research on this.
01:08:42.780But today I just want to show you something that we just got.
01:08:46.200I just won this in auction for our museum.
01:08:51.800Tanya and I bid on this this weekend or this last Friday.
01:10:05.300we say the Declaration of Independence is what started it
01:10:07.580But it wasn't the 4th of July or the 2nd of July, you know, a continent of farmers standing up declaring themselves free and then go fetch your muskets.
01:12:07.400They're not some lesser breed to be managed or taxed or garrisoned, but they're my loyal subjects.
01:12:15.060They're English, Englishmen, loyal, asking only for the rights that any Englishman was born holding.
01:12:22.560And just before the Declaration of Independence in the summer of 1775, so a year before, we sent out what's called the Olive Branch Petition.
01:12:31.380It was after Bunker Hill, after the dead had already been counted.
01:12:34.620but even then with the war begun they wrote to their king and said please we're still yours
01:12:41.960stop this hear us please he wouldn't even take this olive branch into his own hands he would
01:12:47.720he wouldn't receive it he didn't read it instead he stood up and he said they're in open rebellion
01:12:53.140and then he went further he signed a law that cut the colonies uh out of his protection entirely
01:13:00.520declared all of their ships fair prize sent foreign soldiers the hessians mercenaries hired
01:13:06.740guns to come across the sea and bring his own people to heal kill his own people that was the0.66
01:13:12.040answer not hand extended a fist foreign bayonets paid by him to drive it home and that not the
01:13:21.300dead at lexington not the smoke over boston that was the thing that finally broke the cord because
01:13:26.280a war you can survive a war you can even forgive at the end of it if the man on the throne looks
01:13:32.160at you and finally calls you his own but but this this told them the truth that they had spent a
01:13:38.280year refusing to believe that the king was never going to see them as people so he he had made up
01:13:43.480his mind across the ocean and he would sooner hire strangers to kill them than sit and hear them
01:13:48.640so the declaration of independence was not the beginning of anything
01:13:52.540it was the surrender of this little word up here in this document hope it was the moment loyal
01:13:59.440people finally in grief let go of the king's hand not because they stopped loving the idea of him
01:14:05.880because they finally understood he's never going to love us back now look at the date on this page
01:14:11.860again the date on this page is the 6th of may 1776 why is that important because two days earlier the
01:14:18.8804th of may that little colony of rhode island had become the first to make it actually official
01:14:24.960they struck the king's name out of all of their oaths they crossed the crown out of all of their
01:14:31.100laws the smallest colony on the map let it go first and stepped off alone and then two days
01:14:38.280after committing that treason they sat down and wrote this order for two delegates to ride to
01:14:44.120philadelphia to finish to take in the words on the page all such measures that shall be thought of
01:14:51.120best for promoting the welfare of the united colonies it's a blank check written against
01:14:57.560their own necks in the middle of the war they were losing and the first man it named uh was old
01:15:03.520stephen hopkins stephen hopkins he had been in the fight for a while but he had palsy uh in his uh
01:15:12.800in his hand. So his hand, when he signed things, you look at the Declaration of Independence and
01:15:17.420you'll see his name and it's so shaky. He could barely write. And when it came to his time at the
01:15:22.600table to sign the Declaration of Independence, he reached across with his left hand and gripped his
01:15:28.340trembling right. And so he could steady his hand somewhat and sign it. And he said, my hand
01:15:34.160trembles but my heart does not the second guy on this was new and he was only there because of a
01:15:43.240fresh grave Samuel Ward he was the delegate from Rhode Island the other delegate he had gone down
01:15:48.580to Philadelphia caught smallpox and died of it on in like on the 26th of March and the war was on
01:15:55.360the seat was suddenly empty at the worst hour to leave it empty so they reached for William Ellery
01:16:00.180He was a lawyer in Newport, Rhode Island, and he's the guy, they put this paper in his hand, and then he went down, and he fought for the Declaration of Independence, and he didn't flinch. He didn't flinch. He went straight to grinding out this revolution, and it was pretty amazing what he had done.
01:16:26.180what he had done. When he signed the declaration, he signed it so large, it's only second in size
01:16:36.840to Hancock's. And Ellery knew exactly what his signature was. He knew that that was a noose at
01:16:42.800the end of that sentence. So as the delegates came forward one by one, if you see the painting of
01:16:47.720them, you will see Ellery standing back behind. He was watching every man. He said he wanted to
01:16:53.420watch every man's face as they signed their own death warrant um and he said i wanted to see
01:16:59.940if they were sincere or not see if any man would break as he put his face as he put his uh hand to
01:17:07.460the declaration of independence and he said he stood there and he looked at face after face after
01:17:12.480face and he said afterwards all i saw was undaunted resolution none of them flinged all of them were
01:17:22.240ready for war. These were men who had already buried their own, men who had begged the king
01:17:29.040and had been answered with mercenaries, and they signed anyway. This room, to get into this room,
01:17:39.960which was locked and sealed tight, this was your ticket. This is what bought you a seat in that
01:17:47.580room. To hold this thing 250 years later, to have it in my own hands is amazing. The
01:18:03.440days of 4th of July, 2026, the king is gone. He's a footnote. The empire is gone, but
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01:26:56.980Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad that you are here.
01:27:02.620This is Independence Week. We're going to be doing a lot on the Declaration of Independence and our nation's history this week.
01:27:09.480Beginning tomorrow, every hour, hour number two for the rest of the week will all be about the writing and signing about the Declaration of Independence.
01:27:18.920And I've done a week's worth of research on it. I've really worked hard on this. I've learned so much in researching it.
01:27:25.720I'm so excited to tell you the true story of how we came to be America and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
01:27:34.940That begins on tomorrow's program, hour number two.
01:28:59.680He's going to talk about it, how it came about, and if there's any plans for more Washington stories, but we'll see how this one does, I guess.
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01:30:28.200john erwin welcome to the program then good to see you man it's it's uh it's been a while it's
01:30:35.580great to it's great to be uh among friends i remember being on your show release week of a
01:30:41.840film for i can only imagine many years ago and uh and dennis quaid was on and we had lost him
01:30:48.180in the arctic he was filming with like a bunch of polar bears or something and he in the middle of
01:30:52.700the night so right before i got on the segment i hear like we've lost dennis in a town there's
01:30:57.780more polar bears than people. And so I'm like, I'm going to go on and stall with Glenn and you're
01:31:02.200going to find Dennis Quaid in the Antarctic. And they did. And they did right before we came out
01:31:05.860of commercial break. So, so I have many memories. He had to go back. Yeah, I know he had to go back
01:31:11.280inside because he had to get his gun, I think, because they wouldn't allow him to be outside
01:31:15.720without his gun. It was crazy. Anyway, to get service, he had to be like risk his life with
01:31:21.060polar bears. I digress. Anyway, many, many great memories with you, man. I remember this has got
01:31:27.340to be 15 years ago we first talked and we talked about the problem with hollywood and that you
01:31:31.900were setting out and you were going to change hollywood and it was hard at that time it was
01:31:36.660really really hard for anybody on a conservative side to be able to do it and i have to tell you
01:31:43.100john i watched your movie young washington with such pride and admiration for you on all that
01:31:48.560you've accomplished and how good of a director and a producer and a and a screenwriter you have
01:31:53.660become. It's a great story and a great movie. Congratulations. Thank you so much. We share
01:32:00.380the obsession for Washington. I read many books on Washington, including yours. And I just wanted
01:32:07.900to write a kind of a love letter to the country for our 250. And it's the only film in theaters
01:32:13.900nationwide that celebrates American history as we go into the 250. And it's one of those things
01:32:21.100I'm just grateful to the audience because, you know, the audience just keeps shocking Hollywood.
01:32:26.980And that allows us to do more and have more, have larger budgets.
01:40:24.940And especially as you get into 70, 76 and beyond, just the pressure that he was under, you know, I think she was there for him in every way.
01:40:33.320So these were the two loves of his life, you know, and it's so fascinating to explore.
01:40:38.880Yeah, she was not only there for him, but when they went to Valley Forge, I mean, she was there.
01:40:43.980I mean, no woman is going to Valley Forge.
01:40:45.740She was there helping and she was a remarkable woman.
01:40:52.440What is the one thing you learned about George Washington you did not know that you thought, wow, everyone should know this?
01:41:00.160Well, as I studied his life, you know, you think about these characters forged in stone, you know, and they're mythic.
01:41:07.300And then you ask, where do these characteristics come from?
01:41:10.660And I think what I learned was just the value of failure that George Washington learned through his mistakes, and he kept going, and he didn't give up, and he was very self-aware, and he forged himself before he could forge a nation.
01:41:28.460And you see that in this film, in this early chapter in his life.
01:41:32.300So I think one of the great lessons for me was that failure doesn't have to define you, but it can mold you into the person that you're meant to become if you'll let it and if you'll not quit.
01:41:43.380And this guy had an uncommon endurance, and he learned from his mistakes, and he kept going, and he had true courage.
01:41:55.200So I think those were the primary things.
01:41:57.300Other than that, I think his personality was like a lid on top of a volcano.
01:42:01.680I think that this was not a boring person.
01:42:04.320This was a person of great passion and great emotion,
01:42:07.380and his personality was kind of like a lid on that.
01:43:51.480the left took it from us and has butchered it to death we must find it again and we must support
01:43:59.460great storytellers and i will tell you john irwin is one of my favorites and one of the best uh and
01:44:05.960the uh the name of the film is young washington and if you make this you you go to see this and
01:44:12.500this becomes a success i can't wait to see the series that he will make on this because washington
01:44:18.420is the greatest story ever told in american history he is fabulous john thank you god bless
01:44:25.220you thank you glenn great to see you again as always take care good to see you all right john
01:44:29.560irwin um young washington opens this weekend let me tell you the same kind of scenario that none of
01:44:34.540us ever kind of expect ourself to be in suppose you know it's supposed to be a peaceful protest
01:44:38.920uh-huh you're just trying to drive your family across town for dinner when traffic stops your
01:44:43.200car is surrounded uh and people are pounding on the windows somebody tries the door handle
01:44:47.460Another person starts yelling for everybody to pull you out of the vehicle.
01:44:50.620Now you got about three seconds to decide what to do.
01:44:53.060It's not necessarily a situation that calls for lethal force, but it absolutely calls for something.
01:44:58.360I'd roll my window down about a crack, and then I'd take my burner launcher, and I'd push it out the window, and I would hit them with tear gas.
01:45:06.040That makes them scatter, and they're scattered for about 40 minutes, and it's fabulous.
01:47:37.300All right, let me tell you about the International Fellowship.
01:47:39.200As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, it's worth asking, what makes alliances last?
01:47:44.580The strongest are built on shared principles, belief in freedom, faith, democracy, and the idea that some things are worth defending, no matter the cost.
01:47:52.440That's why the friendship between the United States and Israel has endured for so many decades.
01:47:56.320In fact, John F. Kennedy said something about Israel that has proven remarkable in its prophecy.
01:48:04.120He said, Israel was not created in order to disappear.
01:48:07.460Israel will endure and flourish, and it is.
01:48:45.000And wear your support for the Jewish people.0.99
01:48:48.260Are we required to let Haitians and Syrians stay forever? Well, Len reveals the truth about America's immigration story. Watch it live at Torch250.com. July 1st, 8 p.m. Eastern.0.98
01:49:18.260welcome to the glenn beck program um i'm gonna talk to you a little bit about iran
01:49:28.080i want to talk to you some more about democratic socialism but i also want to uh recap we we just
01:49:34.820talked to laura trump last hour um and i just i just love her i just think she's great um but
01:49:42.240we were talking about how and she didn't even know did you notice this ricky she didn't even know
01:49:47.060that the president had won back in 1985 the ellis island award which is the highest immigration
01:49:55.740award the ellis island award and he won it with muhammad ali and rosa parks imagine and it's this
01:50:05.340great picture of the three of them standing together in 1985 at ellis island now he's the
01:50:11.840president who just apparently hates all immigrants even though his grandfather was an immigrant his
01:50:17.880mother was an immigrant he's won the ellis island award for immigrants uh and uh and he just hates
01:50:25.580them oh and by the way his wife is also an immigrant just an incredible story speaking of0.55
01:50:31.740that the story of his father can we play the friedrich uh section this is from our special
01:50:38.160that is coming out. It's a live documentary that is coming out on Wednesday night. I'll be in
01:50:44.480Washington, D.C., 8 p.m., only on The Torch. You're going to learn stuff about our immigration
01:50:50.240policies and the history and what it actually means. You're going to learn all about that on
01:50:56.200Wednesday night. Watch it with your family. It's very inspiring. But here's a clip from the part
01:51:01.980where we meet the grandfather of our current president but despite the chaos people kept
01:51:08.800coming why because america represented something no other country on earth could offer opportunity
01:51:17.080freedom and reinvention of yourself in 1885 a 16 year old german immigrant stepped off a steamship
01:51:27.260Here, after a 12-day voyage from Bremen, Germany,
01:57:13.280A 44-point difference here in the wrong direction when we come to Democratic Socialists of America
01:57:18.860jumping from being pretty popular among Democrats to being not popular at all among all voters.
01:57:24.580What about just the word socialist or socialism? How does that do it?
01:57:28.980Yeah. OK. So, you know, one of the trends that we have seen is in among Democrats, socialism has become more popular over the last decade and a half.
01:57:37.480But what about the rest of the electorate? And this, I think, gives the game away right here.
01:57:41.020OK. Positive view of socialism among Democrats.
01:57:44.000Look at this up considerably from where we were in 2010, 50 percent to now 66 percent.
01:57:49.480Now, that's a jump of 16 points in a decade and a half.
01:57:52.020But look at all others. The number is the same. It was 29% back in 2010. It's 30% now. Socialism has become increasingly popular among Democrats, but it is a much tougher sell in the rest of the electorate. It's a much tougher sell among independents.
01:58:09.480but remember you cannot have a third of the nation before socialism and really you remember
01:58:20.500the tipping point is about 18 so the worst thing we can do is import more people that are loving
01:58:27.860socialism um are for socialism or trying to destroy us you have one group of people and again
01:58:34.940i remind you there are 13 democrats that came out this weekend i mean out of 257 they could
01:58:42.360only get 13 but 13 democrats signed and said we're not socialist we don't like anarchy we want the
01:58:49.820rule of law we want prisons 13 of them did that they're very very brave especially when you have
01:58:57.280everybody in the press going the other way here's joy behar cut 18 listen to her and they're not
01:59:04.040afraid of the term democratic socialism if i fall down i want an ambulance if my house is on fire
01:59:10.040bring your hose you know what i mean we are looking it's not socialism i'm not scared of
01:59:16.180the term i think they're scared of the term okay in this country but the social security is a
01:59:21.160democratic socialism partly unemployment insurance the people who pick up your garbage
01:59:27.660the people who take the fire out at your house all of these things are democratic socialist
01:59:32.340stop i can't do it my head will explode oh my gosh firemen are not socialists
01:59:39.000they're not socialists we had firemen back in the day before socialism that is not the same thing
01:59:49.500democratic socialists that's not redistribution of wealth you know why we have police why do we
01:59:55.040have police how did police come about okay police come about because in the old days in america
02:00:01.220You used to have a gun. In fact, some cities required you to have a gun. Why? Because if
02:00:10.200somebody broke into your house or you caught somebody doing something and you could have
02:00:14.980stopped them and you didn't, you were implicated in the crime that they did for your neighbors,
02:00:21.840okay? We didn't have police like we have police now, so you were required to be involved. You
02:00:28.880were the first responder well when we all started going to work and we were plowing our fields and
02:00:34.420everything else and we got some money we realized i can't do this myself i can't i i can't police
02:00:42.340and keep my family safe i need somebody else to do that while i'm working on other things building
02:00:47.340the country so we got together and we all said okay let's take our right of self-defense i mean
02:00:53.940And, you know, citizen's arrest, I'm making a citizen's arrest.