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00:06:07.060 All right, so let me start with a piece of audio here on Donald Trump apparently changing his mind.

00:06:17.260 Because he had said, you know, the Iranian leaders, I've talked to them.

00:06:22.740 They're good people. They want to make a deal.

00:06:25.160 I think it's going to be wonderful. Blah, blah, blah.

00:06:28.880 Here he is yesterday.

00:06:30.860 Last month, you said Iranian leaders were very rational people, nice people to deal with, strong people, smart people.

00:06:37.720 Today, you said they were scum, sick people, and being led by sick people.

00:06:41.820 What changed, and do you think they were-

00:06:43.420 I got to know.

00:06:45.300 I've said that about a lot.

00:06:47.120 Now, when you say rational, I think they're much more rational than level one, level two.

00:06:51.380 Level one is gone.

00:06:53.340 Level two is gone.

00:06:54.620 This is level three.

00:06:58.360 and i think we're taking the elevator down a couple more levels here in the coming days

00:07:04.580 um i'll explain what he's doing but let me just talk on the way his language has changed do you

00:07:09.180 remember little rocket man i mean this is a new york times reporter they are so stupid ask the

00:07:16.200 president something that you don't already know if you just engage your brain you know this remember

00:07:24.740 little rocket man he's crazy he's short i'm thinking about turning his entire country into

00:07:31.900 glass because he's unreasonable and then he goes over and meets with him and they do a deal and

00:07:38.060 he's like he's the great we're pals we're pals how about this one how about this one remember this

00:07:43.740 one glenn beck he's a fat failure remember that now we're pals donald trump there's a system to

00:07:53.840 Donald Trump okay you uh you put yourself in a position of an enemy of his and he calls you a

00:08:05.080 fat loser or a short little dictator a rocket man who you're he's gonna vaporize or you're scum

00:08:14.020 now you start moving in his direction because he's a negotiator you start moving in his direction

00:08:20.740 and what happens? All of a sudden, you know what? I missed a lot of his brain cells. He's got a lot

00:08:26.540 going on upstairs. Now, let me tell you one thing personally about him. It's all negotiation.

00:08:34.860 He doesn't mean this stuff. It's negotiation. How do I know that? I was with the president a year

00:08:42.280 ago, and I'm walking down the stairs from the residence, and Ricky is with me, and we're just

00:08:48.020 kind of joking around about stuff and Ricky looks up the stairs and says don't worry Mr. President

00:08:53.200 he's going to give you a good review tomorrow and he's looking down at me at from the balcony up

00:08:59.380 upstairs I'm walking down the stairs so he's right above me I'm looking up from the stairs he's

00:09:05.080 looking down at me on the stairs and he went oh Ricky I know otherwise tomorrow he'll be a fat

00:09:12.300 loser. And we all laughed. We all laughed. Okay. Cause that's, we, I know how he operates.

00:09:22.280 He knows how he operates. And I think he appreciates people who understand this is

00:09:27.340 negotiation. All right. That's what happens. He's known who you don't, if you are bringing somebody

00:09:35.740 in and they're getting closer and closer, don't bite them. Flatter them. You get more with sugar

00:09:44.320 than vinegar. Remember that? That's what he does. And then he's also making sure that they

00:09:51.500 understand you're in trouble and I will vaporize you. That's important. Now, before I get to why

00:10:01.740 that's important let me play one more thing here's uh this is cut 12 talking to reporters on air force

00:10:10.000 one this is after we've unloaded i don't know another billion dollars worth of bombs uh here's

00:10:19.320 what trump says on air force one listen we have many ways we can win but we've already won

00:10:24.660 militarily they have very little they have very little left and they want to make a deal so badly

00:10:29.840 They called a little while ago.

00:10:32.140 They want to make a deal so badly.

00:10:33.980 I just don't know if they're worthy of making a deal.

00:10:36.260 I don't know if they're going to honor the deal.

00:10:37.800 That's the problem.

00:10:38.660 If they want to make a deal, why do you think they attacked commercial vessels?

00:10:44.000 Because it's sort of crazy, to be honest with you.

00:10:48.600 It's sort of crazy.

00:10:50.200 They're a little bit out of control, but they want to make a deal badly.

00:10:59.840 I think your whole world will open up

00:11:03.420 if you just listen to my read on this.

00:11:06.740 Now, I don't have any inside information.

00:11:08.740 I just listen to him.

00:11:11.280 I listen to him.

00:11:12.480 I read his books.

00:11:14.420 I think I understand him.

00:11:18.140 So let me open up your world.

00:11:19.900 If that doesn't make sense to you, okay,

00:11:23.400 wait, you just said they were crazy,

00:11:27.460 and now why are they wanting to make a deal?

00:11:29.840 Well, because I just unleashed hell on them.

00:11:33.500 But you said they were scum and they don't want to make a deal.

00:11:37.500 And now you're saying they really want to make a deal.

00:11:39.980 Yes.

00:11:41.320 But who wants to make a deal?

00:11:43.460 Let me explain what I believe is his strategy.

00:11:47.840 Yesterday I told you that Trump is knowingly, or not, maybe,

00:11:55.460 but he instinctively understands he's looking for an albert spear figure albert spear was the

00:12:05.280 good friend of donald trump i mean of adolf hitler uh he was a good friend and he was the architect

00:12:11.700 he was there at the very beginning uh of the you know the movement back in the 1920s by his side

00:12:19.320 the whole time at the very end he tells spear like four weeks left in the war hitler's about

00:12:25.080 to kill himself and he comes up with the nero doctrine hitler does and he says burn it all down

00:12:31.420 i want to burn it all down this is when spear realizes we're going to lose and now i have to

00:12:38.780 decide am i going to live or die do i betray hitler now because i want to live okay

00:12:48.340 he survived the nuremberg trials because of what he didn't do by following hitler one last time

00:12:57.520 on burn it all down okay so trump's iran strategy is not hunting for a moderate to negotiate

00:13:05.600 it's trying to make the regime looked doomed enough that a senior insider decides his best

00:13:15.160 move is to help the outside win in exchange for surviving what comes after. Pressure and diplomacy

00:13:24.480 are one instrument. They're not two, one. And the counterparty that they're aimed at

00:13:31.380 isn't a good guy and isn't the whole council. It's one self-interested guy who would rather

00:13:38.980 be remembered as the man who saved the country than the guy who was just taken out in the middle

00:13:44.700 of the night by a bomb okay maximum pressure and open negotiations are not intention in this

00:13:52.820 scenario pressure builds the private conclusion that the regime is finished that's what he's

00:13:58.860 trying to do he's saying they want to make a deal so bad but i don't know if they're gonna i don't

00:14:03.060 know i don't know i don't even know if i want to make a deal with them basically what is he saying

00:14:07.300 You're doomed. I'm coming for you. It might be too late. Okay. The negotiation is the off-ramp

00:14:16.200 waiting for whoever reaches that conclusion first. He's going to kill all of us. And there is

00:14:22.700 somebody, let's say there's 20 people. There might be a couple of people in there that are talking

00:14:27.120 to themselves right now going, I don't think we're going to survive this. When they believe

00:14:32.320 that they're not going to survive, that person, that group of people will then start to

00:14:39.200 sabotage inside to be able to go and say, I want to negotiate. I want to save our country. Okay.

00:14:48.300 That's what's really happening here. And it stops working when no insider actually believes the

00:14:55.340 regime is losing at that point the pressure produces defiance instead of defection and that

00:15:03.900 gives you north korea you don't want north korea okay let me say this again

00:15:10.700 if this stops working if the regime and everybody at the table let's say there's 20 guys and all

00:15:22.620 20 of them are like they're not going to do it they're not going to actually destroy us

00:15:26.720 they won't do it when they believe they're going to survive that stops this and then it solidifies

00:15:35.760 into what happened in north korea it's the north korea trap okay and it has one root cause

00:15:40.680 the regime got a survival guarantee before any insider concluded it was finished

00:15:47.420 once the people in north korea the leadership around you know rocket man once they had the bomb

00:15:57.200 and beijing was behind it no senior figure was ever going to look around and decide the ship

00:16:03.640 was sinking because it wasn't the pressure kept running but there was nothing for it to land on

00:16:09.980 okay because they knew they had china's backing and they had a nuclear weapon so we're not going

00:16:14.220 anywhere. To avoid that with Iran, four things have to happen and be true all at the same time.

00:16:22.560 First, the window has to be open, meaning you have to move before they have nuclear weapons.

00:16:28.180 He's done that. If once they cross that nuclear line, no insider is going to conclude the game

00:16:34.120 is up. So you'll be frozen with the people who are running it. Second thing,

00:16:39.300 the patrons have to be visibly wavering because as long as moscow and beijing look like they'll

00:16:49.060 catch the regime if it falls they say you know what china's got our back we're fine russia has

00:16:56.080 our back it's fine that's why it was so important when he went over to china to get them on our side

00:17:02.640 Once they're not sure if China will really have their back, they're done.

00:17:09.220 Third thing, the off-ramp has to be personal and specific.

00:17:14.480 This is not a general invitation to negotiate.

00:17:17.580 A named figure needs a credible path to survive the collapse with his money, his family, and some claim that he actually helped save the country.

00:17:29.780 It has to be personal.

00:17:31.700 But that person has to appear first.

00:17:34.020 So I can guarantee you they're sending those signals.

00:17:38.340 Trump's transactional instinct actually helps here

00:17:41.900 because the recruitment is closer to a deal with one man than a treaty with a state.

00:17:47.280 You just need one guy.

00:17:49.840 Fourth, the pressure has to move fast enough

00:17:54.000 that the insider can act before internal security notices what he's doing.

00:17:59.720 He's hesitating.

00:18:00.600 since the same signals that make him reachable to you

00:18:05.280 also make him a target at home.

00:18:08.740 Spear moved in the last four weeks,

00:18:11.540 not in the middle years,

00:18:13.120 and he did it for a reason, okay?

00:18:15.340 Because the time had to be short,

00:18:17.780 otherwise he would have been caught and killed.

00:18:20.000 So it has to be short

00:18:21.380 and it has to be right before the collapse.

00:18:24.020 The trap closes if any of those four conditions fail.

00:18:27.660 if Iran gets across the nuclear line if the window shuts if Russia and China visibly backstop them

00:18:36.180 no doom perception will form if the offer stays vague and state to state there's no counterparty

00:18:43.420 for it to find and if the pressure grinds on for years without a clear crisis point

00:18:49.340 the regime just purges the spear-shaped people from the senior ranks and eventually you're

00:18:54.120 negotiating with a room of true believers, which is exactly the North Korea endgame.

00:18:59.220 So let me tell you why this matters, because you might think, well, North Korea is not a problem.

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00:20:38.820 Okay, so North Korea is not Iran, and this is why. North Korea sits on a peninsula. It doesn't

00:20:46.100 have any serious ambitions um you know to take on everybody else um uh they have they know they're

00:20:56.140 going to survive okay um the allies are already living under the nuclear umbrella of america and

00:21:03.120 the bomb froze this really bad situation in place but the situation was already local iran is

00:21:10.600 different in four ways that compound. It sits on the Persian Gulf, which is a fifth of the world

00:21:17.200 oil passes right at their doorstep. A regime that can credibly threaten nuclear escalation

00:21:23.460 gets a permanent veto power over anyone interfering with its behavior in that waterway,

00:21:29.960 the Strait of Hormuz. Every oil shock for the next 50 years will run on Tehran's mood.

00:21:36.800 Two, it also runs a live proxy network across four countries, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, militias in Iraq, and what's left of Assad's apparatus in Syria.

00:21:50.400 North Korea doesn't have any proxies, okay?

00:21:53.780 The nuclear umbrella over Iran also is a nuclear umbrella over everything those proxies do because retaliation against the sponsor now carries escalation risk.

00:22:05.680 The proxies become untouchable because their parent has a nuclear bomb, and that also triggers

00:22:13.820 a regional cascade. Saudi Arabia has already said publicly for years, if Iran gets the bomb,

00:22:19.540 we have to have a bomb. Turkey's not going to sit with an Iranian bomb without one of its own.

00:22:23.580 Egypt follows that. So you go from one nuclear state in the Middle East, Israel undeclared,

00:22:28.760 to four or five almost overnight in the most unstable region on earth with active shooting

00:22:36.700 wars already running. This is not North Korea. It's a very dangerous situation.

00:22:45.120 So what do we do about it? Well, exactly what I think what Donald Trump is doing.

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00:24:43.540 you know in history there have been a couple of people that have been you know world leaders um

00:24:55.000 that have made peace with their death um and martin luther king was one of them i may not

00:25:02.960 join you on the mountaintop i may not get there with you um and abraham lincoln abraham lincoln

00:25:11.360 knew he was going to die and made peace with it he had dreams and everything else he just didn't

00:25:17.140 tell his wife about it but he wrote about it and he talked about it um more obliquely Donald Trump

00:25:24.320 said something yesterday and remember Donald Trump is a guy if you know anything about him

00:25:29.000 he speaks things into reality he does not say things um without the understanding of manifesting

00:25:40.980 it okay like he never will talk to you about an assassination attempt he will not talk to you

00:25:47.180 about it however lately he's been saying things like he said yesterday i want you to listen to

00:25:52.360 this do you know why they had us close our window blinds that was nine years well yeah because uh

00:25:59.740 you're you know probably on a dangerous way because of the sleazebags that we have to deal

00:26:06.080 The same thing that Iran was possibly thinking, Charlie.

00:26:09.040 Well, I mean, if they asked you to close your windows, probably they'd feel that way.

00:26:11.920 They didn't ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would have done it.

00:26:15.360 Now, these are sick people.

00:26:17.120 So I could see something like that.

00:26:19.000 I didn't know they did that, but I could see something.

00:26:21.780 Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against her first one?

00:26:24.740 Well, I haven't read all the time.

00:26:26.280 I'm number one on their list before you.

00:26:29.440 But if I go, you go, right?

00:26:31.580 But was there a specific threat today?

00:26:32.900 Perhaps someday you want to change professions.

00:26:36.080 now he also said yesterday these things like threats of the president they usually don't

00:26:44.940 work out well and the way he said it in a way seemed like he was making peace with that

00:26:52.660 and i will tell you that i've had i've lived with credible threats for a long time and some of them

00:26:58.200 have just been it's like now it's just always in the background um but there have been times when

00:27:04.540 I have a serious threat. We know the individual who's made the threats. They're still out there,

00:27:11.660 you know, or we know a group that's making a credible threat. And so it's different.

00:27:16.240 And the first time I dealt with it, I didn't know how to deal with it. You don't know how to live

00:27:20.120 your life when you know somebody, when you know somebody, you could walk up, you know, in a crowd

00:27:25.220 of people and somebody could turn to you and go, Hey, Glenn, and then shoot you to death.

00:27:29.140 it's a weird thing. And the way I got through it was, I just imagined the worst that could happen

00:27:35.520 and I'm not going to get into it. Um, but I just imagined what, what that would be like and,

00:27:40.020 and the worst. Um, and so I, I visualized it and then I went, okay, well, that's the worst

00:27:48.840 that could happen. And then I could move on and it actually helped me. And I think that's what

00:27:53.020 Donald Trump is doing. He is finding a way that he can compartmentalize this and go on with his

00:27:58.720 life and be out in public. And, you know, I'm okay with it. If that's what's going to happen,

00:28:03.140 that's what's going to happen. You have to do that. But the lowering of the shades thing

00:28:08.820 had me listen, had me think about several different things. And I want to take you

00:28:14.840 through what was going through my mind. So the president flies to Turkey and he uses his brand

00:28:20.040 new airplane, the gold trim, the red, white, and blue. It's a beautiful plane. Okay. It's a flying

00:28:24.480 palace and it was gifted by Qatar and he's been showing it off kind of like he's just like me if

00:28:30.840 I have a new truck I am just driving around going look at the truck man is this not a great truck

00:28:35.380 that's what he was doing the old one is what he flew home on okay and this is why this reporter

00:28:42.360 asked these questions it's the baby blue jet so one that you know your grandfather recognizes

00:28:47.600 you know and um you know jackie o designed okay before the wheels even left the tarmac in turkey

00:28:55.960 the reporters on board you just heard it were told to do something they never get told to do

00:28:59.960 would you close your window shades all right the man who climbed the stairs had just spent two days

00:29:07.300 telling anyone anyone but you know with a microphone with his words he's the number one

00:29:13.240 kill list in iran and that's not bluster okay this spring a trained operative of iran's

00:29:20.700 revolutionary guard was convicted in a courtroom here in america you didn't hear much about this

00:29:25.520 but it was a murder for hire plot to kill him also back in february on the first morning of

00:29:30.980 this war america and israel killed the man at the very top of iran the regime's security chief went

00:29:37.380 on television and promised to hold donald trump responsible and we will kill him okay so there's

00:29:43.000 a reason to think about the window shades now here's the part that nobody's really talking

00:29:47.340 about you know we've argued about this plane you know whether it's a gift or who gets it or the

00:29:53.760 color of the plane the old jet the ugly one um that's all armored in places you don't see

00:30:02.040 missile warning sensors that watch the sky for the heat of incoming warhead electronic

00:30:08.440 countermeasures you know to blind whatever's chasing it communications harden so no one can

00:30:14.080 listen in shielding built so the the president can carry through an emp and a nuclear blast

00:30:20.380 decades of quiet classified engineering all of it built for exactly one job bring him home

00:30:28.240 through hostile air no matter what it is the new beautiful one doesn't have any of that stuff

00:30:35.600 The retrofit was rushed.

00:30:37.920 Normally, it takes years and years, costs billions of dollars, squeezed into months.

00:30:42.340 One former CIA official said, it's not ready for primetime overseas, okay?

00:30:48.980 Let me say it another way.

00:30:50.260 This one should stay at home.

00:30:51.880 He can fly this plane at home, but we need the big blue one until we get Boeing to finish the very expensive one.

00:31:00.020 So, it's not at home.

00:31:04.440 And in fact, if you look at the map, who does Turkey share a border with?

00:31:10.820 Turkey shares a border with Iran.

00:31:13.740 Iran has drones and ballistic missiles.

00:31:17.380 The Shahabs and the Shabibs or the Shaheds or whatever they are.

00:31:22.340 Anyway, some of them can reach 800 miles.

00:31:26.260 This airport sits inside of that ring.

00:31:28.900 Meanwhile, the gorgeous new plane was sent on ahead, empty of the president to England.

00:31:35.060 England's 2,500 miles away, past the reach of anything in Iran's inventory.

00:31:41.280 So the palace was perfectly safe going there.

00:31:45.880 It wasn't safe bringing him home past Iran's front door.

00:31:50.160 The armor, it turns out, is a map problem.

00:31:54.260 And that's why they said put the shades down.

00:31:56.180 He wasn't on the plane.

00:31:57.840 He wasn't on the plane.

00:31:58.900 which would have made me more nervous.

00:32:00.220 Wait a minute, put the shades down.

00:32:01.060 Why am I on this plane?

00:32:03.680 Now, when this happened yesterday,

00:32:06.820 I had just gotten off the air

00:32:08.780 and I saw Ricky's face when her eyes

00:32:11.060 just went as round as saucers.

00:32:14.260 And she was like, what are you saying?

00:32:16.240 Because I said, if I'm the president,

00:32:18.460 I target every member of that council

00:32:21.480 and I kill them one by one.

00:32:23.440 And I let them know, I'm coming for you next.

00:32:26.080 I might be you next,

00:32:27.300 might be somebody else on the council next,

00:32:28.900 but you're on the list and you make them so paranoid that somebody collapses and does what

00:32:34.560 I told you, I think what the president's plan is at the beginning of this hour.

00:32:41.440 Now, if Iran killed Trump, if they used a missile and it was executed by the army,

00:32:49.520 it's not an assassination. What they have been doing, if they bring a guy in out of a uniform

00:32:56.300 and they just have a rocket and they point it up there in Turkey and they point it up at the sky

00:33:00.060 and they take it out. Then it's murder. It's terror and it's an assassination. Okay. And everybody

00:33:05.420 would be wipe them off the face of the earth. Even if they had their military do it, it still would

00:33:10.180 not go well for them. Okay. Four months ago at the beginning of this war, American Israel killed the

00:33:17.240 top guy, Supreme Leader. And we called that a strike, an operation, practically a Tuesday.

00:33:24.140 And the president said it out loud that he got Khomeini before Khomeini could get him.

00:33:30.940 Same verb, pointed both directions.

00:33:36.300 So is there a difference?

00:33:39.640 Because we've made a promise not to kill leaders.

00:33:43.260 Our CIA has done it in the past and it's wrong when we do it.

00:33:46.400 But it's not a question of can you do it.

00:33:50.180 It's a question on whose hand is on the trigger.

00:33:52.360 And there is a difference, okay?

00:33:55.340 In the difference, we made this decision before we were even a country.

00:34:00.640 Civilization spent centuries building walls between two worlds, war and murder.

00:34:07.180 Thou shalt not murder.

00:34:08.840 Well, that doesn't apply to war, okay?

00:34:12.720 It's actually between two men, the soldier and the assassin.

00:34:17.840 A soldier wears a uniform, fights in the open, under a flag, under a chain of command, in a declared fight.

00:34:25.700 Say what you want about the killing of Khomeini, wise or reckless, whatever, righteous or ruinous, whatever it is, you decide.

00:34:32.720 But it was done by the uniform forces of nations in daylight in a war.

00:34:38.800 What Iran has tried to do to Trump was hire a man, cash for killing, arranged in the dark,

00:34:44.440 to be carried out by a hired hand

00:34:46.600 who would slip out of the country

00:34:48.720 before the deed was done.

00:34:50.540 Not a soldier, an assassin, not a war, murder.

00:34:56.260 The difference is not about who's stronger.

00:34:59.120 It's about the rule.

00:35:00.860 And I know this sounds crazy in a world

00:35:02.900 where you're talking about war,

00:35:04.720 but there are rules.

00:35:06.560 And the entire point of the laws of war,

00:35:09.140 the thing that separates us from the pit

00:35:11.720 is that even killing has limits.

00:35:15.540 Who, how, when, in the open or in the dark.

00:35:20.440 But that wall is only as strong

00:35:22.820 as our willingness to honor it

00:35:24.480 when it costs us something.

00:35:26.960 The moment we decide

00:35:28.200 decapitating the other side's leadership

00:35:30.220 is just good, efficient policy,

00:35:32.940 that the result is worth quietly kicking

00:35:35.180 out the bottom brick

00:35:37.000 by hiring some assassin to go in and do it,

00:35:39.980 then we're in trouble

00:35:41.420 because the other side watches.

00:35:42.680 The whole world watches

00:35:43.360 and they will hand back our own logic.

00:35:46.220 So if leadership is a target,

00:35:47.820 then our leadership is a target.

00:35:49.620 On the tarmac,

00:35:50.960 if they would have used a military missile,

00:35:53.920 it would not have been an assassination.

00:35:57.360 It would have been war.

00:36:00.000 Okay?

00:36:00.840 And you can't cheer the decapitation strike

00:36:03.520 and then act stunned when they aim for yours.

00:36:09.220 So we have to be really careful.

00:36:11.420 And that's why I don't want the CIA going in and killing leaders, because you're setting that

00:36:16.580 example. The military can do it. Killing the president of the United States is different

00:36:22.280 from killing the leader of a nation at war. But the difference is thinner than we'd like to believe.

00:36:29.280 And it's held up by nothing sturdier than our own discipline, our own willingness to keep the rule,

00:36:34.160 even when breaking it would feel like winning. So when I said yesterday, because this bothered me

00:36:38.500 yesterday because i kept thinking about ricky looking at me going what are you saying because

00:36:42.780 what i said was i don't want boots on the ground and i believe what the president is doing is

00:36:49.260 looking for an albert spear he's trying to find somebody that wants to live more than you know

00:36:55.600 wants to you know worship all up you know in the 12th the mom and the you know the mahadi and bring

00:37:02.080 the world into chaos somebody who says i you know what i i just want to live and the way to do that

00:37:08.060 is to show them you're going to be dead if you keep down this path you're going to be dead and

00:37:13.720 you don't want to kill the Iranians and the Persians they're good people you want to kill the

00:37:18.040 bad guys so target them but target them militarily now one last thing back to the runway they're

00:37:30.160 telling people you know not to look out the window most protected human being alive is not on this

00:37:36.980 plane because he needed the armor he the beautiful one didn't have it and that's the one you're on

00:37:42.400 and you might want to close the shades wow it's interesting that it happened to those people

00:37:49.840 through the press okay because it was the press that has spent the last year arguing about the

00:37:55.780 gold and the gift and the billion dollars and you know the it's red white and blue and it should be

00:38:01.580 you know, Jackie O, Robin, you know, Robin's egg, you know, Tiffany's blue.

00:38:08.660 They really weren't talking about the missile sensors. You know what I mean?

00:38:12.900 Not until the shades came down. Maybe they should re-examine their priorities. Maybe it's not always

00:38:20.620 about the personality. Maybe it's just not about, oh, he really likes gold. Oh, he, you know,

00:38:26.320 is he just trying to get a free plane? Maybe you should narrow that because you're on the same

00:38:33.200 plane. And when it burst into flames because a missile hit it, nobody's going to care what

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00:45:17.640 I got an email in, and one of the more disturbing emails I have received from anybody.

00:45:24.160 They're a new Torch member, just joined last night, and I got this email this morning.

00:45:30.600 And she said, Glenn, I've been a listener of yours for many, many years.

00:45:34.100 I joined tonight because something my 14-year-old said to me.

00:45:39.220 I want to share this email with you and then show you what's happening in the country

00:45:45.500 and show you why it is so important we all stick together and work together towards one cause.

00:45:51.960 I think the rest of this email will connect with most of us.

00:45:56.240 And it's funny it came in because last night I made a decision myself in my own family to do something

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00:47:33.240 So page 6395 wrote in.

00:47:36.520 She just joined Torch, became a member of Torch.

00:47:40.260 She said, Glenn, I have been a listener of yours for many years.

00:47:43.280 I joined tonight because of something my 14-year-old just said to me.

00:47:47.000 She said, Mom, America is not a great country.

00:47:52.260 Look at what they're doing to the immigrants.

00:47:54.780 No one's illegal on stolen land.

00:47:57.060 That's in quotes.

00:47:58.660 We've always been a conservative household.

00:48:01.020 I've discussed many of these things with her.

00:48:03.920 And I'm not even sure where I've gone wrong.

00:48:06.820 I want her to love America and to understand where we came from.

00:48:10.640 I'm hoping to use some of your material to help with this.

00:48:13.340 I don't even know where to start.

00:48:14.840 If you have any advice on where I should start, I would be most grateful.

00:48:18.160 I would start with the American story.

00:48:20.120 That's the first thing I would do is start with the American story.

00:48:22.860 That's a podcast.

00:48:24.040 It's all commercial-free.

00:48:25.220 There's going to be 20 episodes here by the end of the month or hour long,

00:48:28.800 and they are really well done, and they are captivating.

00:48:32.120 I would start there.

00:48:34.340 But there's many other things.

00:48:37.540 The great thing is Torch is a community.

00:48:40.900 We were just talking about that a minute ago during the commercial break.

00:48:43.560 the torch is a community and um they'll help you because we're all working towards the same thing

00:48:50.160 and i will tell you that um i made a decision last night i'm taking a i'm taking two weeks

00:48:58.320 of vacation which i never do i don't take two weeks of vacation um but i'm taking two weeks

00:49:03.020 of vacation because my children who are 19 and 20 or 19 and 21 now um are

00:49:09.740 are struggling um their college age one's in college one's not and but they're both hearing

00:49:18.860 the same thing it's all coming from social media and they're coming to me with questions i spent a

00:49:24.380 few days with them in washington and i could see the drift and they're both fighting to understand

00:49:31.420 but they don't know it in my household they don't know it and they have been with me and they have

00:49:37.920 seen things and they they have history i mean they have they've been in my vault they've seen

00:49:44.540 the documents we were just at the national archives in the vault of the national archives

00:49:49.140 with my kids looking at documents and explaining history to them if my kids struggle with this

00:49:55.880 god help you what is it like to be a parent in your house um it is overwhelming what's happening

00:50:03.800 to them on social media so i'm taking my kids to class for a couple of weeks and i'll explain that

00:50:10.620 you know later in detail but um and i just decided this last night because my wife and i were driving

00:50:17.320 and my wife said i feel like we failed in so many ways and i said honey i say that to you and you

00:50:22.460 always say to me stop it you didn't we did the best we could and i said i want to give you that

00:50:27.820 advice and she says it's not helpful and i said i just want you to know that's kind of what i say

00:50:32.320 to you when you say it to me, but it's true. Do the best you can. The Lord will make up for the

00:50:40.600 difference, but you have to engage in different ways. I was in Washington, D.C., and I went to

00:50:46.560 the Smithsonian, and I have to tell you, I am so glad that next year we are opening the American

00:50:52.900 Journey experience, because I went to the Smithsonian, and while they have billions,

00:50:59.420 They have everything on the American story.

00:51:02.120 The way they tell it is A, boring, and B, so skewed now.

00:51:08.420 I don't even recognize my country.

00:51:10.760 And this is better than it was under Biden.

00:51:13.460 They've made a lot of changes.

00:51:15.460 But I went into the Smithsonian, the American History Museum.

00:51:19.700 It's not even worth going to.

00:51:20.960 It really isn't.

00:51:21.780 It's not worth going to.

00:51:24.400 Because I don't know any kid that's going to connect with it.

00:51:27.740 Um, and, uh, some of the things that they're showing are just, you know, horrible, you

00:51:34.880 know, James Smithson is the guy, he was an English scientist, um, and he was the illegitimate

00:51:45.180 son of a Duke in England.

00:51:47.440 He was locked out by the accident of his birth and the, from the titles and the inheritance

00:51:52.500 in england um and he died in a rented room uh in 1829 he never come to the united states ever he

00:52:01.000 had no american friends no no one in america he could even he knew or could name no businesses

00:52:07.720 here there's no reason and yet that guy is the guy who left us everything there was a strange

00:52:15.620 little clause at the end of his will that if his nephew died without children his entire fortune

00:52:22.100 would cross the ocean to a country he had never been to, to the United States of America,

00:52:28.340 to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for

00:52:36.460 the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. What made America different? Well, his nephew

00:52:45.460 died young and childless so 1838 an american ship comes home to america with 104 900 one i'm sorry

00:52:56.880 104,960 gold sovereigns in giant crates a stranger's whole fortune handed to us when we're

00:53:10.220 We're barely 50 years old.

00:53:14.040 Here's the amazing thing.

00:53:15.180 You know, we almost threw it out.

00:53:16.800 We almost didn't accept it.

00:53:18.400 John Calhoun rose on the Senate floor and said,

00:53:21.120 this is beneath the dignity of the United States to accept charity from a foreigner.

00:53:26.580 Others just wanted to sweep it into a general spending and forget the man's wishes entirely.

00:53:32.600 It fell to one man, one of my favorite presidents, John Quincy Adams.

00:53:37.140 Someday I'll do a quick podcast on John Quincy Adams

00:53:40.680 because he's one of the most important presidents we've ever had,

00:53:46.860 one of the most important citizens we've ever had.

00:53:51.240 This guy was amazing.

00:53:53.040 Anyway, he's a former president.

00:53:55.100 He's finishing out his life as a congressman,

00:53:58.340 and he is fighting and fighting,

00:54:01.080 and he fought for years to keep that gift from being squandered

00:54:04.320 to what nobler object could he, you know, ask his colleagues

00:54:11.440 than to take this donation and devote that donation

00:54:18.320 to the spreading of the American secret.

00:54:23.640 He won.

00:54:24.980 And this is the only reason why the Smithsonian exists.

00:54:27.300 A stranger who never saw America, but saw us from afar,

00:54:31.280 believed in her enough to leave everything.

00:54:33.080 and a statesman who believed that the stranger's faith was warranted

00:54:40.420 because he could see the goodness of America as well.

00:54:44.040 And he defended the pirates, if you will, in his own government.

00:54:50.400 So last week, I'm at the Smithsonian, and I'm seeing some beautiful things,

00:54:55.500 some really remarkable things.

00:54:57.160 And then I also see some horrible things.

00:54:58.980 And I had told the president, I was in the hall, the, what is it?

00:55:03.280 The portrait hall or portrait museum.

00:55:07.320 And there are parts of it that were beautiful and have all the portraits of,

00:55:11.300 you know, all the presidents and everything else and some really great stuff.

00:55:14.480 But then when I was there for his inauguration, I went there and it was awful.

00:55:19.420 It was awful.

00:55:20.340 The things that they were highlighting made no sense, all tearing America down.

00:55:25.600 Well, he took this seriously when he got into office, and the White House Domestic Policy Council has just put out a 162-page report on the crown jewel of that stranger's gift, the National Museum of American History.

00:55:40.580 I was just there.

00:55:43.060 Whatever you make of the messenger, I want you to listen to what is drawn from the museum's own materials.

00:55:52.100 There is an exhibit on Benjamin Franklin.

00:55:54.500 Now, Benjamin Franklin was adored the world over. They made plates that hung on the walls of homes in Paris with his face on it. They said he was like the Elon Musk, except more mysterious at the time.

00:56:12.980 He was the lightning genius, okay?

00:56:15.920 And when there's this article in, I think it's the New York Times, or sorry, the London Times from the 1700s, right about the time we're starting to break away.

00:56:27.620 And he's coming to town to talk to the king.

00:56:31.580 And they said, be careful.

00:56:32.760 Everybody in London should leave because he's been messing around with lightning.

00:56:36.600 And we think that he's bottled it.

00:56:38.460 And he's come up with a lightning gun.

00:56:40.380 and he tends to burn down the entire city of London, okay?

00:56:44.360 The guy was a genius and nobody understood him.

00:56:46.620 He was a diplomat.

00:56:47.620 He helped bind France to us,

00:56:51.480 help win the revolution.

00:56:56.980 The exhibit on Ben Franklin

00:56:58.860 gives a fifth of the space

00:57:02.120 on Ben Franklin to the enslaved.

00:57:06.780 Now, he did own slaves.

00:57:08.940 He did.

00:57:10.380 But at his time, that was normal everywhere in the world.

00:57:14.780 But he evolved and became a massive abolitionist in the end.

00:57:21.220 He fought against slavery.

00:57:23.880 He's, again, a very complicated guy at the time for us to look back

00:57:27.820 because we don't understand this was normal at the time, okay?

00:57:33.340 So as you're going through this, if you're going with a guide,

00:57:38.040 you're seeing and they focus a fifth of the time on slaves with him okay all the other things he

00:57:44.200 did no a fifth of it goes to slaves then they ask the question and they just pull it you know

00:57:53.540 just pull it out you know let me ask you do you think ben franklin ever used enslaved people in

00:58:01.240 his electric experiments wait what now they concede in the text there's no evidence he did

00:58:12.780 any of that no evidence there's there's no hint of that all of a sudden he's dr frankenstein

00:58:18.960 okay it's not a fact of course not i'm just asking questions i'm just asking questions

00:58:25.980 have you heard that before i'm just asking questions that's all i'm doing is asking

00:58:29.260 questions uh-huh uh-huh yeah what is the purpose of your question again this is a suggestion with

00:58:36.520 nothing underneath it and your children are walking through and as they're walking to the

00:58:43.200 water fountain they're thinking wow did he do experiments with electricity on slaves

00:58:48.240 there's no truth to any of that okay the museum guidance drawn from a document a sister smithsonian

00:58:58.540 hung on its wall in 2020 that files hard work nuclear family individualism and rational thinking

00:59:07.800 under the heading of whiteness hard work the family the individual and rational thought

00:59:17.180 those are the that's the engine underneath every person who ever climbed out of nothing

00:59:27.220 It's been reclassified as a racial trait,

00:59:30.840 something that should be examined and unlearned.

00:59:35.200 The material that the families,

00:59:37.620 I mean, families drive across the country to see this.

00:59:40.800 It's now full of sexual content, gender content,

00:59:44.220 aimed squarely at your child.

00:59:48.660 As you're packing your minivan to go to Washington,

00:59:51.040 you don't expect to find that.

00:59:52.780 I mean, I can get that on social media.

00:59:54.400 I need that from my government.

00:59:56.300 I have said before, a nation dies when it forgets who it is.

01:00:04.200 Rome didn't fall in an afternoon because the barbarians at the gate.

01:00:07.080 It rotted from the inside long before that,

01:00:09.860 when it stopped remembering what had made it Rome.

01:00:14.760 That's the usual lesson.

01:00:17.680 People forget.

01:00:20.500 But this is worse than forgetting.

01:00:22.680 And let me explain how and why in 60 seconds.

01:00:26.300 And strangely, I'll do it with history because it's a lot better than my opinion.

01:00:32.160 Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.

01:00:33.680 There's an old principle I'm sure you've heard before.

01:00:36.360 If you want to see what people really care about, don't just listen to what they say.

01:00:41.700 Watch what they support.

01:00:43.960 That applies to not just people, but it applies to companies, too.

01:00:47.000 I've been telling you about Patriot Mobile, America's only Christian conservative wireless phone company for a long time.

01:00:51.940 They built an entire business about supporting the values of faith and family and freedom.

01:00:57.400 They don't talk about it.

01:00:58.880 They spend hundreds and hundreds, thousands of man hours every year volunteering their time to do it.

01:01:06.040 And they contribute millions of dollars every single year to organizations that are defending them on the front line.

01:01:12.220 I believe when it's all said and done, Patriot Mobile is going to be a company that probably might even have a hall named after them for the American Journey Experience, our new history museum.

01:01:25.860 They are engaged.

01:01:27.080 Every time we have called them and said, hey, we need help.

01:01:30.060 We need to do this.

01:01:31.180 We need to rescue these people.

01:01:32.680 We need to help with the museum.

01:01:34.480 They're there every single time.

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01:02:20.780 Okay, I've told you before that a country loses itself when it forgets its story and forgets who it is.

01:02:30.320 But this is worse, because forgetting is passive.

01:02:34.780 This is worse. This is not passive.

01:02:38.060 This is active, and it's being funded by you and your tax dollars.

01:02:45.500 Let me show you what happens.

01:02:46.660 Let me go back to Moscow in 1953.

01:02:49.620 Stalin had their secret police, and the secret police chief was arrested and shot.

01:02:56.620 And at that moment, the great Soviet encyclopedia that was sitting on the shelves and homes all across the Soviet Union,

01:03:04.660 it had carried many pages in the encyclopedia praising this guy so what do you do we got to

01:03:13.760 erase him now we just shot him he was a bad guy so the state publishing house mailed its subscribers

01:03:20.220 an envelope and inside were new pages and instructions and honest to god this is what

01:03:25.600 they said take a razor blade cut pages 21 through 24 out of your encyclopedia and paste the new

01:03:34.600 pages as its replacement and just like that this guy was gone millions of citizens sat in their

01:03:44.540 own kitchen tables with their own hands and sliced the guy out of history that's a state rewriting

01:03:52.540 its memory in real time and it's chilling because that was 1953 they don't need to do that they can

01:03:58.220 do that with a stroke on the keyboard and all of it has gone overnight and you have no idea it was

01:04:03.720 edited the soviets edited to make themselves look better they cut the villains out so the regime

01:04:10.960 would shine it was a lie but a flattering one self-glorifying what we're funding now runs the

01:04:18.940 other way it's saying take a razor blade to all the good things in your history and cut these

01:04:25.180 pages out and put these things in the edit doesn't remove the villains to leave us as heroes it turns

01:04:31.540 heroes into villains it makes the founding a crime scene the founders the accused the whole

01:04:38.400 inheritance something to apologize for you know right there it's a self-loathing lie

01:04:45.780 the soviet citizen was compelled to do it this is the big difference here they were compelled to do

01:04:53.000 it a regime pressed the razor in its hand nobody's pressing anything into ours we're doing this and

01:05:01.520 paying for it we're mailing in the check and we're doing it not even thinking

01:05:07.660 this is what separates us and this from any private outfit with an axe to grind the smithsonian runs

01:05:16.240 on 1.86 billion dollars a year and close to a billion of that comes straight out of the treasury

01:05:23.500 out of your pocket smithson his crates of gold they were the sea the tree grew on public

01:05:31.500 money. This is not a fringe group you can scroll past. It is the flagship carrying the trust of a

01:05:38.200 foreign stranger in the labor of 180 years and you're paying for it. Teach your kids not to

01:05:44.780 hold their own country in contempt. I'm going to give you more on this and what to do in just a

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01:07:26.620 so we were talking about um what's happening in the smithsonian and i started with this

01:07:49.540 this uh letter that i got from an insider um who just joined us at torch because her 14 year old

01:07:57.360 said mom america's not a great country look at what they're doing to immigrants no one is illegal

01:08:02.260 on stolen land our kids are buying into all of this stuff and it is so dangerous and there was

01:08:09.180 a 162 page report out about what the smithsonian is doing in 2008 um i started a personal project

01:08:17.020 called the Clay Pots Project in my own head, in my own family. And it is based on what happened

01:08:23.080 with the Dead Sea Scrolls. We have the Dead Sea Scrolls. We can verify from an outside untouched

01:08:30.060 source that's 2,000 years old because a community knew that people were coming for those documents

01:08:36.260 and they were going to destroy them. So they took all their scriptures, rolled the scrolls up and

01:08:40.480 put them in clay pots, put them in the back of a cave, and they left them there, forgot about them

01:08:44.540 for 2000 years in the 1930s or 40s a kid a shepherd boy was throwing rocks at a cave expected

01:08:51.960 to hear the back it hit the rock hit the back of the cave instead he heard a crack of a pot

01:08:56.080 went in that's how we discovered the dead sea scrolls those things are so important because

01:09:00.540 they verify as a separate source that these things happen we are getting and i said this in 2008

01:09:07.500 the people we are fighting against should we lose they will erase our history they they have

01:09:14.520 all of these documents i was just in the national archives they have all these documents and they

01:09:19.740 started under biden putting disclaimers on the declaration of independence saying that it's a

01:09:26.580 triggering document that is the first thing that happens when you're getting ready to destroy them

01:09:32.140 Okay. So I started preserving documents. David Barton is doing it. I'm doing it. An American

01:09:38.460 Journey Experience, which is a subsidiary of Mercury One, started doing it. And we're all

01:09:43.860 putting stuff together and we're building a museum coming next year. We are putting our lives,

01:09:49.180 our fortunes and our sacred honor. We are putting our fortunes in these just this summer. I don't

01:09:54.880 say this to be grandiose. I say this to show you the commitment level that I and my family have

01:10:01.140 to this um and it is all going to be going to a museum um but just in the last this summer

01:10:10.020 because some really precious american important american things have come up

01:10:14.920 um i've invested over a quarter of a million dollars in just like five pieces for the museum

01:10:22.520 um and there were so many pieces there was this unbelievable letter from george washington

01:10:28.500 to Thomas Paine that explains and corrects history.

01:10:32.780 I just couldn't afford it.

01:10:34.760 And there's all of this stuff coming up all the time.

01:10:38.360 And it must be in private hands

01:10:40.480 because the institutions that have it now,

01:10:44.040 they are corrupted and they can hide it.

01:10:47.160 They can bury it.

01:10:49.060 You know, the National Archives

01:10:49.880 said something really interesting.

01:10:51.200 They said, you know, we never lose anything,

01:10:52.920 but we're constantly discovering stuff

01:10:55.420 because they have billions of documents.

01:10:58.500 literally 13 billion pieces in the collection.

01:11:02.780 Nobody can keep up with all of that.

01:11:04.640 So they're constantly going,

01:11:05.980 oh my gosh, I just found this in the archives,

01:11:08.340 you know, blah, blah, blah.

01:11:09.780 So these last 10 or 15, 20 years of my life,

01:11:18.140 it's why I started The Torch.

01:11:19.940 I am dedicating my life, my fortune,

01:11:22.940 my sacred honor to preserve American history

01:11:26.140 and to teach American history.

01:11:27.940 And we're only at the beginning of this.

01:11:30.600 So that's how one way, how your dollars go.

01:11:34.740 If you join the torch, some of those dollars go to me

01:11:38.660 so I can take and buy American history

01:11:41.320 and I can put it on display and travel it.

01:11:43.920 We have pieces that are in museums

01:11:46.040 all over the country right now.

01:11:47.600 We have it traveling to schools and to churches,

01:11:50.480 another set of documents and pieces of American history.

01:11:55.260 And we've only just begun.

01:11:56.420 and next year we're opening up a brick-and-mortar museum

01:11:59.100 that hopefully will be very different than anything you've ever seen

01:12:02.400 because I'm going to tell the story of American history,

01:12:06.180 and that's important.

01:12:08.280 So when the insider last night, page 6395,

01:12:14.580 wrote in and said, Glenn, I've been a listener of yours.

01:12:16.520 My daughter, a 14-year-old, just said we're not a great country.

01:12:20.120 I joined the torch, but I don't even know where to start.

01:12:22.660 She said, I don't know where to start.

01:12:24.520 if you have any advice is where I should start, I'd be most grateful. Yes. First thing you're

01:12:29.680 doing is you're gaining access to a bunch of information, but please help us do this. Please

01:12:36.800 help us by, we monitor what people are watching and what is working and what's not. And if it's

01:12:42.200 not being consumed, we try to find another way to tell that story so it will be consumed. So by

01:12:48.200 trying everything on the torch and letting us know what's working, what's not, what's connecting

01:12:52.220 with your kids and what's not helps us. One of the things that is really connecting with people

01:12:57.300 is the American story. And it is a 20, it'll be by, what is it? In a couple of weeks, it'll be a

01:13:04.980 20 hour documentary cut in hour pieces, all audio right now. It's produced these things.

01:13:13.680 one hour takes us a total of man hours of about 70 man hours to to do one hour

01:13:21.120 and they are produced unlike anything you've ever heard before and it's a compelling way to learn

01:13:27.500 history um i i would recommend you you start there um and you know the new york times came

01:13:35.440 out last night with a response to this 167 page memo that says um you know we have uh we have a

01:13:45.100 problem with the smithsonian and they come out with this deal and they say no we've talked to

01:13:49.600 all of these history experts and all of these history experts say that's not right we're telling

01:13:55.440 american story oh so you got the experts like the experts that told us the hunter biden laptop

01:14:01.740 Like the experts that told us that it was Russia that was behind Donald Trump.

01:14:06.660 Like the experts that told us to mask up and to take the sixth booster shot.

01:14:11.900 Really?

01:14:12.980 But this works on people.

01:14:15.640 And people don't know why.

01:14:17.080 Why don't you listen to yourself?

01:14:20.020 Why do you listen to experts?

01:14:22.260 Why do you trust the expert on raising kids, in many cases, more than you trust your mom?

01:14:29.040 this is new by the way it's never been like this

01:14:33.620 there is a series on the torch called control freaks and it explains how this happened and how

01:14:42.680 well thought out and how coordinated it was in the 20th century to get you to disconnect with

01:14:51.600 yourself and the people in your own family that had the answers because they wanted and needed

01:14:58.860 to shape the American people to do certain things.

01:15:03.740 And so they needed to introduce experts.

01:15:06.100 And when you hear how crazy,

01:15:09.460 how crazy they were and the crazy things they did,

01:15:14.060 you will see, uh-uh, no, I'm sorry.

01:15:17.140 There are experts that are required,

01:15:18.800 but I'm not letting experts run my life.

01:15:21.240 So that's called control freaks.

01:15:23.480 And that is available now.

01:15:24.900 um Michaela who is one of my staff members she wrote this great series and we just did

01:15:32.840 book one and it was a New York Times bestseller and we have had so many requests over the last

01:15:37.780 couple years I just haven't had the time to do it or quite honestly the money to do it um to do it

01:15:43.220 the way I wanted to do it an audio book um that is an adventure that takes and is vivid in its

01:15:50.780 storytelling. There is a new study out that, by the way, that is available in for audio books,

01:15:56.120 wherever you get your audio book, it's called Chasing Embers. It's out today. Please go get it.

01:16:01.480 But there is a story out now. There's an article out in the Atlantic called The Death of Reading.

01:16:09.980 We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post.

01:16:15.820 what was the thing that was was punishable by death if you did for a slave during the slave

01:16:25.480 trade what was the one thing you could not do teach them to read because being able to read

01:16:34.660 is the key to freedom okay the number of americans who read keep keeps going down less than half of

01:16:43.220 all adults in america read a book in 2022 just one book less than half every year um that your

01:16:53.060 child gets older the likelihood that he's going he or she is going to read goes down 30 of adults

01:17:00.740 can't read multiple pages and paraphrase it or tell you what it means 30 can't tell you what

01:17:09.160 they've just read means. There's a staff member at Harvard who said that asking students to read

01:17:16.220 is like arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through its

01:17:22.860 more difficult medium. Go home and read this. He's saying that is like withholding information

01:17:32.620 because they don't do it. So here's what we're looking at if we don't start to read.

01:17:38.280 We're going back to the time when the elite read for us and told us what it was all about.

01:17:44.240 And then I guess a government agency or AI can tell us what the Declaration says or the Constitution, and they can paraphrase it and post it on X.

01:17:52.060 I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

01:17:54.860 This is what William Tyndale, this is why he was burned at the stake.

01:18:01.360 By the way, you don't know who William Tyndale is.

01:18:04.100 Read or listen to Chasing Embers because we've put him in there.

01:18:08.280 chasing embers is this dystopian story about the future it's written for young adults it's really

01:18:13.560 great um and uh and it buries certain things they're trying to piece history together and

01:18:20.760 remember it and so there are pieces there that we hope your kids will learn and go wow i didn't even

01:18:26.040 know anything about that who is this person william tyndale is one of them he fought to get the bible

01:18:31.380 to be in English

01:18:34.980 so the average person could read it

01:18:37.500 and decide for himself

01:18:38.840 because if you go to the church

01:18:40.420 and if the church is corrupt

01:18:41.660 and they're the only ones that can read it,

01:18:43.880 they can say,

01:18:44.520 yeah, no, God said he's really pissed at you

01:18:46.480 and you need to pay me some more money.

01:18:48.440 You need to do exactly this

01:18:50.100 or you'll burn in the fires of hell.

01:18:52.500 He knew this was wrong.

01:18:55.880 He risked his life and died

01:18:58.440 printing the Bible,

01:19:00.140 pages of the Bible,

01:19:01.380 in English so people could read it for themselves.

01:19:05.640 Revolutionary idea back then.

01:19:07.560 Absolutely revolutionary.

01:19:08.780 He gave his life for it.

01:19:11.040 Today, there's a Bible in every nightstand

01:19:13.020 at every one-star hotel.

01:19:15.160 Access is no longer the problem.

01:19:16.880 The Bible is on your phone.

01:19:19.680 The books are there.

01:19:21.700 We just don't read them.

01:19:23.520 We find no value in the books.

01:19:27.160 That's why we're forgetting our own story.

01:19:29.180 and that is the heart of most of our problems today.

01:19:34.520 But the answer isn't to chain kids to books

01:19:37.860 and force them to read.

01:19:39.040 That'll just backfire.

01:19:39.860 They'll hate it.

01:19:41.020 Our kids have to fall in love with good stories again

01:19:43.900 so they can compete with the influencer

01:19:48.020 giving them constant dopamine hits on YouTube shorts.

01:19:51.860 It's a really hard task, but there is a gateway

01:19:55.420 and we're trying to do it with our podcasts

01:19:57.560 that are storytelling podcasts to tell us our stories,

01:20:00.440 all available with your Torch membership, okay?

01:20:04.420 And today, our audio book, Chasing Embers.

01:20:07.260 We still listen to long content and we still take it in

01:20:10.880 if it grips us.

01:20:12.980 And if it grips us, we'll actually pick up the book.

01:20:16.060 You know, I read when I was 18,

01:20:19.100 the first book I read for my own pleasure

01:20:21.500 was Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.

01:20:24.000 I must have read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

01:20:26.200 between 18 and 25, maybe five times,

01:20:29.200 because I didn't think there could ever be a book

01:20:31.400 as good as that one.

01:20:32.960 Boy, was I wrong.

01:20:34.180 But it took one story to get me there.

01:20:38.240 Maybe Chasing Embers will be that story.

01:20:40.700 We release it today as an audio book,

01:20:42.880 as a gateway to this and every story

01:20:45.940 that helps us remember who we are.

01:20:48.640 Listen to your kids.

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01:20:53.140 Your kids are struggling right now.

01:20:55.140 You most likely are struggling. It's amazing to me. I was telling stories in Washington, D.C., and I would be in one of these museums, and people would start to gather around me listening to me telling stories, and I could see it on the faces.

01:21:10.040 I would say something that I thought was really

01:21:12.300 that everybody knew, you know?

01:21:14.900 Well, you know, Ben Franklin, he was the guy,

01:21:17.020 and people would look at me and go,

01:21:19.200 and I could just see,

01:21:20.360 they had no idea who Ben Franklin really was.

01:21:23.160 That can't last.

01:21:24.840 It cannot last.

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01:26:54.300 back program in this new world that's being run by topos topos ink the united states of america

01:27:09.420 only exists as a fading memory and it is very faded no one really remembers what it was

01:27:17.720 on the path to utopia the pillars of culture and religion and art and history and science

01:27:23.460 were decimated. The past is dead. Forget about that. There's a whole new world ahead of us and

01:27:29.900 we're going to create it. 16-year-old Ember remembers the day her parents were taken by

01:27:38.100 Topos seven years ago. Her only possession that she has from them is a leather notebook

01:27:43.720 containing the history of the world, but she doesn't understand what it is. It's contraband

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01:28:16.460 This is a dystopian story that I wrote in my head, oh, probably 20 years ago after reading Karl Marx.

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01:28:43.540 you could not read and that those books were sought after the ones that were banned

01:28:49.280 so i told this story to michaela who is um she was new on my staff at the time she'd worked for

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01:31:21.480 this was it they were going to kill me too now

01:31:28.680 I had to do something. I had to fight. The doors opened wider.

01:31:40.560 I was so young. Too young to die. But that didn't matter.

01:31:47.720 I was standing on a front porch. I waved my weapon in the air and yelled at them.

01:31:52.480 Everyone faces on the ground now.

01:31:53.960 Nothing made sense.

01:31:59.680 I had to get out of there.

01:32:03.980 Who, what is happening?

01:32:08.480 This summer, experience the thriller like never before.

01:32:13.280 Chasing Embers.

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01:32:18.520 Michaela Hedrick.

01:32:19.280 She is a writer and producer for the nationally syndicated radio host and Blaze and Torch founder, Glenn Beck, and is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, Chasing Embers.

01:32:30.680 Michaela, how are you?

01:32:32.620 I'm good. How are you, Glenn?

01:32:35.020 Good. Am I on a speakerphone? Am I around? Do you have a party listening to us?

01:32:40.180 No, you're in my kitchen.

01:32:41.840 Okay. You're in your kitchen. Okay.

01:32:44.140 Listen, Michaela, I came to you with this story,

01:32:47.340 I don't know, a couple, three years ago,

01:32:48.580 and you have taken it and you just made it

01:32:50.440 into just something really, really good.

01:32:53.580 And I've seen the outlines for the future books

01:32:56.460 and it's riveting.

01:32:58.420 It's just about to get really good.

01:33:01.800 Tell people who have not heard about it

01:33:04.120 why this is an important book,

01:33:07.200 not only a good book and a fun book for your family

01:33:09.920 and for your young adults,

01:33:11.360 but it's important you've been saying something lately that's really stuck with me which is that

01:33:18.560 we don't know our own story anymore as americans as citizens of the west as descendants of the

01:33:27.900 ideological lineage of the god of abraham isaac and jacob we don't know our story

01:33:31.960 and chasing embers is just like this entire summer for torch is another way to infuse

01:33:40.500 the values of our culture through stories into the minds of the next generation and we do that

01:33:47.640 in a way that's not just like sit down and read this history story because most kids don't want

01:33:52.420 to do that we embed it into this really thrilling dystopian story that my favorite review we ever

01:33:58.680 get glenn is my mom handed me this book and i don't want to read it because i don't really

01:34:02.860 like glenn beck but actually it's really cool and hopefully at the end they walk away and they have

01:34:09.820 a love for some of these real stories, like the story of William Tyndale, the man who wanted to

01:34:14.020 get the Bible to the world, the story of Squanto, who helped save the American colonists' lives.

01:34:19.340 These are the foundational stories of who we are, and now we have a new way to teach them to

01:34:24.440 the TikTok generation, like you said, who's not reading. But now we have a new way with

01:34:30.140 this audiobook, hopefully, to get them into the gateway, like you said.

01:34:32.860 so um the the stories that you know we've we're embedding history into it because they they are

01:34:40.280 searching for history and there's this group of these extremists that the corporation is trying

01:34:45.320 to kill and they live out in the you know the wilds um and they are assembling the pieces of

01:34:53.440 our history back together and nobody really knows the whole story um and so there it's there is this

01:34:59.980 journey of discovery. And the stories that we are telling, the history stories, it's not long

01:35:05.940 and involved. They're just little pieces. And it's really, it's just a little nugget that we're

01:35:11.440 hoping that your kids will go, wow, that sounds really good. What was that person? And then go

01:35:18.320 and start to do a journey on their own on those people. Explain how you went and picked the

01:35:25.340 stories that are the sub, you know, stories, the pieces of history and, and how they were

01:35:31.120 researched to make sure that they were accurate. I had the unique privilege of being friends with

01:35:36.780 David and Tim Barton, thanks to you and everyone at the American journey experience. So I could

01:35:41.820 walk over and read the declaration of independence and an original draft if I wanted to, but I

01:35:46.600 partnered with American journey experience early on, and we tested out a series of maybe 15 history

01:35:53.020 stories on the age group that the book is written for. And we put them in a room and we told them

01:35:58.880 these stories multiple different ways. And we asked them, which stories resonate with you and

01:36:04.580 why? What sticks with you in these stories? And we picked the stories that created the most debate,

01:36:09.920 the most discussion. Stories like Raoul Wallenberg, who lied to save lives during World War II.

01:36:16.420 There was a hot debate between 12-year-olds and 16-year-olds about whether that was the right

01:36:22.040 thing to do. And so we knew, okay, this is a story that's going to resonate. This is a story

01:36:25.700 that had modern application for these young people. And we picked it and then we would

01:36:30.980 thoroughly research it and we would test it at every level on the audience target, which is

01:36:36.740 starting around age 12. But also we have adults that read the book now and tell us they really

01:36:41.780 love it. Our goal was like Harry Potter to where you're an adult and you can read it and you love

01:36:48.940 it but your kids will love it as well i mean that we it's it's made for young adults but we are

01:36:55.240 hoping that the parents you know there's there's something about you know kids shows disney was

01:37:00.960 great at this his his stories were aimed right for that same age group but you could go as an adult

01:37:06.680 and you'd love it you'd love it i know i heard adults i've had adults come up to me a lot and

01:37:11.320 tell me that as they were reading the story they were on the edge of their seat at one time i was

01:37:16.060 sitting near someone who was reading it and they were reading and it's probably a 45 year old and

01:37:22.980 that's such a high compliment to us that it's it's thrilling all ages we're really grateful so

01:37:28.700 you've got all these kids on tiktok and and social media um how do you convince them

01:37:38.980 you know a 13 year old that the answer to the problems of the digital age

01:37:43.560 you know is in a dusty old book that nobody relates to anymore this is your genius glenn

01:37:52.180 and the answer was to forbid it it was to take these stories that are so accessible to us that

01:37:58.340 are being offered to us in so many different ways you can have a book on your doorstep and

01:38:03.640 in four days if you want any book in the whole world and in chasing embers we took all those

01:38:08.600 books that we want everyone to read the stories we want everyone to know and we made them forbidden

01:38:12.800 we hid them we made them something you have to go seek out like a treasure to find a quest to go on

01:38:18.560 and at the end were these stories and so they became something worth fighting for instead of

01:38:23.820 something that we take for granted and i think that the that kind of adventure infused in the

01:38:29.280 idea of a story is the way that we're going to hook this next generation that they're seeking

01:38:33.840 out something forbidden something counter-cultural something that's going to start the kind of

01:38:39.940 revolution that we want essentially a revolution back to the founding principles but that feels

01:38:46.060 cool yeah i will tell you you know my kids were they loved um uh oh shoot the mocking jay what

01:38:55.260 was that hunger hunger games love the hunger games um you know they like those kinds of stories and

01:39:01.900 this is very much kind of in that vein um but it is also you know michaela's genius is she is good

01:39:09.500 at taking the things that are happening in the real world and going, okay, AI, how does AI fit

01:39:15.020 70 years from now? What, what does that lead us to? You know, we're talking now, we have people

01:39:23.680 actually in our own country, in the democratic party saying we need re-education camps. What

01:39:29.560 does that mean? And what does that lead to a re-education camp? And the way you have,

01:39:35.800 the way you've done these sleep camps has been is is is remarkable and it's it's terrifying in

01:39:45.000 its cleanliness yes it's a it's a scary world i think one of the secret agendas of this series

01:39:53.100 is to convince us of something that's absolutely true that these stories from the past have

01:39:58.920 something to teach us about life today and about the future so homer and shakespeare has something

01:40:03.900 to say about AI and that the Bible has something to say about these issues we're dealing with with

01:40:09.520 gender. They have these issues of we're dealing with tyranny, totalitarianism, and all of that

01:40:14.500 is able to transmit into our lives today. And yeah, sleep camp is essentially the ultimate

01:40:23.380 nightmare of totalitarianism. And hopefully you read it and you run in the opposite direction in

01:40:29.100 your real life because you don't want your life to look anything like what sleep camps looks like

01:40:33.520 and will continue to be revealed as throughout the series.

01:40:36.900 And it shows that it doesn't, it never says this in the book,

01:40:39.980 but, you know, when you're listening to it,

01:40:41.680 I've listened to the audio book now twice, maybe three times.

01:40:45.780 And it's just really good.

01:40:47.700 And when you're getting to, you know, these things,

01:40:50.240 it never says it in the book,

01:40:51.940 but you can see the parallels if you're looking for it.

01:40:54.960 You'll see the parallels in today and you'll see like Sleep Camp,

01:40:58.560 how it's just made into this really good thing.

01:41:00.700 This is, this is fine.

01:41:02.160 This is really fine.

01:41:02.980 This is a humane thing to do to keep society going.

01:41:05.980 Its ends justify the means.

01:41:07.860 So it's a lot of the stuff that we talk about on the show,

01:41:10.160 but it is geared so you can share this with your kids.

01:41:14.760 And you don't have to focus on any of that spooky stuff.

01:41:18.980 They just, we did enough testing.

01:41:21.040 Kids like that stuff.

01:41:23.400 And that's the gateway drug to get them into learning history

01:41:27.740 and seeing how important history really is.

01:41:30.560 Yeah.

01:41:30.760 I'm so proud of you.

01:41:32.980 oh thanks i was saying it's a dystopia you can kind of walk into with your eyes wide open

01:41:36.820 that's what we're trying to warn against through the book and uh and i can't i can't tell you how

01:41:42.980 much i enjoy working with you michaela you i i hired you i think i read a post of yours

01:41:48.500 on some obscure blog didn't i there were two people reading my blog you and my mom

01:41:54.100 and then you hired me and she was talking i hired her because she wrote a blog about telling stories

01:42:00.740 and how important stories were and i didn't have a job for her i she had no experience in anything

01:42:07.880 that what we were doing and i remember going to ricky and i'm like i'm gonna hire this girl and

01:42:12.660 she's like what but she has no and i'm like i know i know i don't know what exactly she's gonna do

01:42:17.540 but she's gonna be really good at it no no i'm not saying that you didn't i'm saying that you

01:42:25.240 were you you're a news producer and she had no news and i'm like i don't know what she's gonna

01:42:29.480 to do but she has become one of our best writers um she is a constant sounding board for me uh

01:42:37.840 and she is wildly talented and i can't wait until we publish is is book two coming out next summer

01:42:43.780 do you know we'll see glenn that's up to you and me and everybody listening

01:42:49.020 i guess if this does well the whole series and we're very excited about where it can go and i'm

01:42:56.360 really grateful because people are always asking me that question which i think is is wonderful

01:43:00.820 i actually glenn we wanted to tell one story which was that real quick real quick this book

01:43:07.020 when we started to work on it we're working with a lot of people in the audiobook that are maybe

01:43:11.960 not glenn beck fans per se because they might be more liberal because they're actors and they're

01:43:18.300 audio technicians right and some of them were kind of scared to be associated with you by the

01:43:22.420 time the story was over they all wanted to be a part of it and i think that's the power of a story

01:43:27.840 and so if you have a kid like that torch insider who's struggling this is a way to get them in this

01:43:34.640 is the gateway drug to all the rest of the torch content the glenn beck content that is accessible

01:43:40.340 to even your liberal teenager that you're wondering how it happened this book will entertain them and

01:43:46.020 they won't realize that they're going to become a conservative by the end of it i don't want to

01:43:50.280 I don't want to stick anybody out because they were so gracious and they

01:43:54.020 were so honest about it.

01:43:55.220 I wish we could tell you the full story here, but honestly,

01:43:57.980 what she just said is so true. These people,

01:44:01.280 these people were very, very liberal and, you know, in all category,

01:44:05.540 you know, it was produced out in,

01:44:06.960 I think it was out in LA and everything else.

01:44:08.940 And so there was like nobody who was like a big fan and all of them at the

01:44:13.520 end loved it and were proud of their involvement in it.

01:44:18.760 So this is something that can appeal to anybody.

01:44:21.620 All right, Michaela, thank you.

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01:46:05.540 I want to get into Platner here in just a second.

01:46:08.600 But Jonathan Turley had such a great take on this.

01:46:13.840 Jonathan Turley came out and said the actual red line of Plattner, in case you don't know, he dropped out yesterday.

01:46:19.760 But he suspended his candidacy.

01:46:24.460 He did not withdraw.

01:46:26.140 Suspends his candidacy.

01:46:28.700 Jonathan Turley writes, the actual red line appears to be polling that showed that Plattner could not deliver his side of the Faustian bargain.

01:46:38.300 He could not deliver Maine.

01:46:40.520 Suddenly, again, women had to be believed, and the party had to choose his replacement.

01:46:46.760 That is so true, and it is so transparent.

01:46:49.500 The minute that he's elected as the candidate, and some news starts to come out, additional news, and the numbers start to flip,

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01:49:20.780 welcome to the glenn beck program there's a couple of things that i

01:49:30.260 i want to hit um platner officially drops out still denying the claims um he hasn't shut his

01:49:40.040 campaign down he kept that operating so we'll see what all of this means but play cut for here he

01:49:46.020 Yes, listen to him.

01:49:47.740 Hey, everyone.

01:49:49.320 It's Graham Plattner here.

01:49:51.360 I think as many of you know, over the past couple days,

01:49:53.660 I have faced some very serious allegations,

01:49:56.740 and I just want to make it clear.

01:49:58.620 This is all false.

01:50:00.560 The things that have been claimed did not happen.

01:50:03.860 It's not real.

01:50:06.780 It has placed an immense amount of weight

01:50:09.880 on me as I think about

01:50:14.460 what needs to happen now.

01:50:18.340 We believe that for the movement to continue,

01:50:22.760 it can't be made.

01:50:29.880 And for that reason,

01:50:33.540 we are suspending campaign operations.

01:50:43.300 Suspending.

01:50:44.460 campaign operations the movement what is the movement here this is critical this is truly

01:50:53.940 critical um the democrats are being eaten by the democratic socialists this guy you know all the

01:51:03.300 people that uh vetted him this all coming from the same stock it's all democratic socialists

01:51:10.500 Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren

01:51:13.140 were deeply involved in this guy

01:51:15.000 have a lot riding on him

01:51:16.260 so the movement is

01:51:19.340 honestly

01:51:21.600 more than just

01:51:23.640 stop Donald Trump

01:51:24.800 the movement is burn down the Democratic Party

01:51:28.020 as we know it

01:51:28.700 and here's why it's interesting

01:51:31.740 that Bernie Sanders is involved

01:51:33.060 because what happened to Bernie Sanders

01:51:36.300 in 2016

01:51:37.060 Bernie Sanders

01:51:39.980 had a real movement going on and the democratic party decided no you're not going to be the one

01:51:49.720 and they gave it to hillary clinton they selected now this is slightly different than what's

01:51:58.060 happening now and i mean slightly because this is the way it's been since reagan when reagan came

01:52:03.880 into office, they saw that, nope, remember, the Republicans did not like Ronald Reagan, okay? The

01:52:09.800 machine did not like Ronald Reagan. He was outside of the machine, but he got elected, and so the

01:52:18.960 machine kind of had to get behind him. It was kind of like it is with Donald Trump, and they really

01:52:25.540 didn't like him, and they fought him on a lot of things, but he was very effective and got it done,

01:52:30.600 and he had a lot of charm and everything else but when the democrats saw that a guy who was

01:52:35.700 outside of the machine a guy that the party did not like could get elected they went in and they

01:52:42.960 changed their rules and what they did is they came and said we're going to have super delegates

01:52:50.360 so we're going to have the delegates but then we're going to have these elites who are super

01:52:56.220 delegates and they can change everything if they want okay and it was just a safety so you didn't

01:53:03.220 get it they said you wouldn't get a radical in there but what they meant was you wouldn't get

01:53:08.240 somebody in who wanted to blow up the whole system that didn't that that the party hadn't selected

01:53:14.380 so you hadn't really see that come to play until bernie sanders and then hillary gets all of the

01:53:23.520 the superdelegates together and she escorted all the superdelegates and they all are like now

01:53:28.500 Bernie you're out okay and that was the first time that I think Democrats looked at it and

01:53:33.920 wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute this is the they're selecting they're not they're not

01:53:39.480 listening to the people the party is actually rigged this yes yes then you saw it come to play

01:53:49.740 again they didn't run primaries against uh joe biden they didn't let him out to be seen by

01:53:58.340 anybody and there were those in the party that thought this guy cannot he's going to lose

01:54:04.040 only when they realized he was going to lose that's why somebody in his own party

01:54:10.940 suggested that they have a debate in the spring that's never been done before i've never seen

01:54:17.740 that happen before why did that happen that debate should have happened when in the fall

01:54:25.640 they didn't let it happen they they let that debate happen before they were nominees

01:54:32.280 why would you do that because somebody in the democratic camp went he can't be the guy

01:54:41.540 we got to take him out so the internal machine turned on and because you were already past the

01:54:48.700 primaries now it was left up to the super delegates or in this case to the super super elite

01:54:56.880 barack obama hillary clinton and maybe a couple of others and they were the ones that decided and

01:55:03.820 they picked kamala harris again in 2016 you didn't have a say on it if if unless you wanted

01:55:11.320 Hillary Clinton. And with Kamala, no one had a say on it. She was the candidate that you would

01:55:17.560 vote for. And they kind of got away with it because Donald Trump just has to be beaten.

01:55:24.020 Well, now they're using this tactic a lot and they've just had Plattner in and they knew exactly

01:55:31.980 what he was. They knew that he's a democratic socialist. He is not for the democratic party.

01:55:37.400 He is a deep radical, but I think a couple of things happened.

01:55:43.000 I think Jonathan Turley is right.

01:55:45.000 He not only said that once the internal polling showed he can't beat the Republican, we got

01:55:53.060 to get him out of there.

01:55:54.060 We got to get him out of there.

01:55:55.760 And now we can have the elites pick the candidate we want.

01:56:00.800 So we're not going to pick a candidate that is going to blow up the Democratic Party.

01:56:06.680 will pick one that we like it could be that the one they like is a even stronger democratic

01:56:14.120 socialist i don't know i doubt it but we'll see the point is they're picking not you they are

01:56:24.380 they've decided and they did exactly what they did with hunter biden remember another thing the

01:56:30.880 Democratic Party did in 2020 was they worked with the FBI, the DOJ, the social media companies,

01:56:41.600 the New York Times, and the Washington Post. And they said, if anything comes out about Hunter

01:56:47.060 Biden, this is all an op from Russia. And they controlled the news and they locked it down.

01:56:53.080 They did not let the American people see that news. And the American people after,

01:56:59.260 Democrats after said, had I known that that was true, I would have voted differently and Biden

01:57:05.360 wouldn't have won. So you're seeing now they control everything. They will get their way.

01:57:13.240 Here's the problem. This is what happened to the Republicans in 2016. In 2008, you know,

01:57:24.500 they run john mccain and and and it didn't work out well and then they just keep going down this

01:57:30.220 progressive republican rhino path and they george bush is the one that said i'm gonna bail out the

01:57:39.180 banks well it was i mean that was a universal outrage and nobody on nobody that i know that

01:57:48.040 was a conservative liked that at all and so what happened we get the tea party because we see this

01:57:54.080 And we go, you're bailing out the big banks.

01:57:56.260 You're bailing out your buddies, and you're not bailing out mom and pop.

01:57:59.600 This isn't right.

01:58:01.160 This has got to stop.

01:58:02.480 And so the Tea Party started, and they played along with it.

01:58:05.800 First, they were scared.

01:58:07.040 Then they played along with it for a while, and they got a new group.

01:58:11.380 We had the biggest turnover ever, and Republicans all of a sudden took the House and the Senate,

01:58:19.500 and all these real fresh blood came in.

01:58:23.440 and we had some power, not enough, but some power, and those guys almost immediately were

01:58:29.500 eaten by the rhino sharks, and we lost a lot of them quickly, okay, and so we saw that happen,

01:58:37.140 and then we saw the GOP turn against the Tea Party along with the media and the Democrats

01:58:43.220 because the party wanted its power. Just like the Democrats, they wanted the power. They're not

01:58:48.980 going to listen to a bunch of people out in the middle of the country who are trying to tell them

01:58:52.860 how to run the country they know better okay so the GOP stopped listening to the people that's

01:59:00.580 how you got Donald Trump because the GOP they were like screw you we don't care and they went

01:59:06.520 to a guy who said I'm not with him either but he was smart enough to begin to change it from the

01:59:13.960 inside he was not a blow it up he's a change it from the inside that's been happening with the

01:59:20.620 Democratic Party now for a while. They are changing it to a Democratic Socialist Party.

01:59:26.280 Nobody wants to admit that, but that's what happened. Democrats, you don't have your party

01:59:31.880 anymore. You have a Democratic Socialist Party. So if you're in with socialism, you're happy and

01:59:37.960 you're fine. If you're not, and it's in the death throes now, it's in the last pieces of it.

01:59:45.480 and they have to win

01:59:47.920 and they will do anything they have to

01:59:49.740 to stop Donald Trump

01:59:51.060 but they also want their people in

01:59:53.700 and once they saw

01:59:56.020 that Plattner is causing trouble

01:59:58.000 and could not win

02:00:01.380 they're done with him

02:00:02.480 that's the other thing you have to learn

02:00:04.340 about progressives

02:00:05.200 oh you can be their hero

02:00:07.560 well it's a guy in California

02:00:10.400 that all of a sudden

02:00:12.180 they found was such a dirtbag

02:00:13.540 Ricky, what's his name?

02:00:15.480 he was instrumental in the impeachment.

02:00:19.460 He was instrumental in Swalwell.

02:00:21.660 I mean, we've all known he was a dirtbag.

02:00:23.860 The minute he became a problem for what the machine wanted,

02:00:28.900 he's dead to them, and they destroyed him.

02:00:31.780 They just leave wreckage of bodies behind them.

02:00:35.000 And you can see the pattern.

02:00:36.680 Are you going to look at it, Democrats?

02:00:38.300 I don't know.

02:00:39.280 But you should because your body could be one of those bodies

02:00:43.100 laying in the wake of that machine at some point.

02:00:45.240 And it will be at some point.

02:00:49.540 But here's the main point.

02:00:55.280 The Republicans didn't listen to the people.

02:00:59.860 They stopped listening to the people.

02:01:02.760 The Democrats are engineering the people.

02:01:07.400 And that's not going to sit well once people figure that out.

02:01:11.740 so you don't need the socialists to burn the democratic party down you don't

02:01:20.420 they're burning themselves down because if the socialists don't eat them first and work their

02:01:30.240 way in and worm their way into positions of power and then they just transform it like donald trump

02:01:34.660 transform the republicans and they transform it into a democratic socialist party

02:01:39.400 it won't matter because the democrats are engineering people and people don't like to

02:01:45.860 be manipulated and they're being manipulated and they know now what platner said was this this vote

02:01:53.060 it wasn't about me it really wasn't about him it's not it's not about the people of maine either

02:01:58.440 it's about the party and so the democrats are burning their own house down

02:02:03.840 and believe me there's somebody out there already building a new house

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02:04:01.220 so let me go to back to graham platter and and give you a bigger um view of this you know the

02:04:22.620 thing that you have to understand about graham platter and this whole saga is it's it's not about

02:04:28.180 him it's not about the voter it's not even about the woman that is that was raped or accused him

02:04:35.100 of raping her uh it's not about the me too and all those women that have been lied to it's about

02:04:40.920 the party it's about the collective what does the collective need and this goes through everything

02:04:48.000 in fact i was there's a speech that i gave uh earlier this week in washington for kufi um and

02:04:55.200 i talked about the god of the individual and what we're really fighting listen to this it's

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02:05:04.680 hates the jew because the jew gave the world the god of the individual

02:05:11.840 before mount sinai the gods belong to the tribe the gods belong to the empire the mob

02:05:25.180 might made right, the strong ate the weak, and the single human life was worth

02:05:32.380 nothing against the machinery of the collective. And into that world walked a

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02:05:48.580 a nation, not an army, one old childless dude in the desert. Abram. And God said, I will make you a

02:06:02.900 name. And then he did something even crazier. He changed the name. Abram became Abraham. Jacob

02:06:12.100 wrestled with him in the dark and he became Israel. God does not deal with the collective

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