'Grab On To Life, It's So Worth Living' (Nick Vujicic joins Glenn) - 3⧸14⧸18
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Summary
The National School Walkout is taking place across the country today, and your kids are in school. But who are the people behind the Women's March and what are they really up to? And why are they so radical? Glenn explains.
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In 54 minutes from now, across all time zones, you want to make sure you know exactly where your kids are.
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National School Walkout has been organized for today, exactly one month after Parkland, Florida, the school shooting to protest guns and gun violence.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands of kids all over the country are expected to take part.
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So, how does something like this get organized?
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Because I've organized events before and it's really, it's tough and expensive.
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Was it David Hogg and the merry band of underage gun control experts?
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For the first time in a month, they actually didn't have anything to do with it.
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Maybe you've given your consent for your kids to participate today.
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But I thought it was both relevant and important for you to know, as a parent, who put all of this in motion.
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Everything going down today was set up and organized by the Women's March.
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Now, the brain trust behind the Women's March first began organizing today's walkout on February 16th.
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And they've been hard at work organizing for weeks to make sure that today's student protest goes off without a hitch.
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Their leaders and honorary co-chairs only care about pushing their own agenda.
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They also think it's both relevant and important for you to know why some of these people are who they are and what they believe and what's behind the Women's March.
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I mean, if my children were participating in this, I would want to know.
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They're co-chairs of the Women's Man, and they also have a certain special friend.
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Now, we can tell you who Louis Farrakhan is and how much of a nut he is.
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But if you're curious about his ideology, all you need to do is hear the climax of his recent speech at the annual Nation of Islam gathering.
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And he said, quote, white folks are going down.
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And Farrakhan, by God's grace, has pulled the cover off that satanic Jew.
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By the way, Louis Farrakhan has not lost his position on Twitter.
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Now, that's the ideology that the most powerful organizers in the Women's March are associated with and friendly with.
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The list of honorary co-chairs at the original Women's March on Washington, D.C. reads like a list of who's who's of radical.
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She was the leader in the Communist Party USA during the 1960s.
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You have Dolores Huerta, who is a radical socialist that came to prominence organizing the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
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She also participated in the communist organized Women's Strike for Peace.
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By the way, anybody who's a big fan of Hugo Chavez, how's that working out for you?
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Maybe you can't hear me because I'm sure you're down there helping the people.
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The average person has lost 25 pounds, not because they're on a diet, but because they're starving to death.
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Also, Harry Belafonte, another honorary co-chair with some interesting statements.
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Once called Colin Powell a house slave, compared Powell and Condoleezza Rice to Jews working for the Nazis.
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Now, these are the people that are either directly responsible for or associated with the march that your kids may be participating in today.
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If your kid participated, you need to sit down with them today and talk to them about how they're being used as a useful idiot.
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Make sure that you teach them the history of useful idiots and how communists always use them.
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Make no mistake, this is about a radical, radical agenda.
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This has nothing to do with common sense gun control.
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I'm going to do a monologue tonight on television that is a look back at history and to show you what exactly is happening to the West
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and how we are being dismantled, just like we dismantled the East, especially in the 1980s.
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All of the same tactics are being used and they're being used and we are we are blind to what is happening.
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And if we don't start pulling together and we don't start rejecting the radicals on both sides, those who are in in the conservative movement that are excusing Russia and Putin.
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Those who are sticking up and saying, oh, Putin's a good guy.
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And then on the other side, those in on the Democrats, there was a story because of the Pennsylvania thing.
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Oh, is the is the rise of the moderate conservative Democrat?
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And I'm sorry, I know it seems like it's crazy.
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Yes, there are Democratic Socialist Party of America.
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There are those radicals that still believe in that nonsense.
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And they're choking the life out of the Democratic Party.
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How many liberal, how many liberal Democrats who consider themselves, you know, the, the, the, the, the Jack Kennedy Democrat.
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Have you heard what she's calling the average person in America that didn't want to vote for her?
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I know a lot of Democrats that didn't want to vote for her.
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They didn't want to vote for her because they felt she was corrupt.
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They're losing, they're losing steam, you know, with, with white Americans.
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Because everything you say about America in the center of the country, it sounds like you hate us.
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Except for those women who just listened to their husband and they're so weak and pathetic that their husband or their boss convinced them to vote against you.
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Because just a few days, just a few days before the election, Comey came out and said,
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Yeah, it looks like there is something here we need to look at.
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My gosh, that's your statement about what women are today?
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And it is the same thing that I believe CPAC was doing.
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CPAC is like, you know, let's just bring them in.
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I don't care if I agree with, you know, with the Nazis that the Audubon's pretty good.
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Because, on balance, the things I don't agree with them on is bigger.
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I don't bring the people who say burn it all down.
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I don't bring them into the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.
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When I look at somebody like Joe Lieberman, who is a common sense guy and who was your vice presidential candidate, who four years later said, there is no place for me in this party.
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I'm leaving and spoke at the Republican Party convention.
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When that happens, I think as a Democrat, I say, wait a minute, what does he know that I don't know?
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Now, if you're for freedom of speech, meaning the speech that I like, if that's what you're for, then I got a couple of parties for you.
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If you're for just silencing everyone who disagrees with you, I know who you can vote for.
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But if you think that's not America, that's not who we are.
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If you're for xenophobia, all foreigners are bad.
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If you're for, wait a minute, I think we just need to know who's coming in here.
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I think we just, I think we should watch all of our borders and I think we should figure out who's here.
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And I think we should make sure that it's all legal and that we're not getting the murderers and MS-13 coming in.
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But if I think all foreigners are bad, I'm not going to let, I'm not going to hang out with you.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are on the early road, but the Democrats did this back in the 80s and it destroyed them.
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And it's beginning to happen with the Republicans.
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And we're going to be able to have a very clear understanding of who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
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On the, on the left and the right for those who stand with Vladimir Putin.
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Teresa May had enough of Vladimir Putin coming in and killing people in her country.
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Now, last week, Russia using a, what was the name of this toxin, this nerve agent?
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Okay, so they use this and they used it for a reason.
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They wanted to make sure everybody knew, well, this is, this is us.
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They went and they were trying to kill a spy, a former spy.
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And they bring, they sneak this chemical agent in.
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And they hospitalized 21 people, many of them in critical condition.
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Don't know if anybody, we don't know how many are going to be killed because of this nerve agent.
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It had to have come in through some sort of a diplomatic pouch.
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I want to take a quick break and I want to talk to you because you're going to be able
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to see, we're going to separate the men from the boys here soon, right now, because
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Vladimir Putin is saying, oh, you're just telling fairy tales.
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We are in a more precarious place than I have felt we have been at with the Soviet Union since
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We told you that that was coming and we told you that it would happen with Russia.
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If you've been following us, we've been talking about this for years.
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And if the Nazis destabilize the Middle East, then destabilize Europe, the communists, the anarchists, and the Islamists will work together to destabilize the Western world and collapse it.
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I think we're at the point to where they think they're strong enough to collapse it.
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And quite honestly, if you don't understand that Russia and Putin are really bad actors,
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and you're seeing people who are, oh, you know what?
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You need to do a little reading and a little research.
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And you separated this earlier, but it's not about any election thing.
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It has more to do, honestly, with the Democrats who have brought all these radicals into their own party.
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But the Republicans are starting to do it, too.
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But, I mean, our closest ally had 21 people go to the hospital because of a chemical weapons attack by a foreign power.
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This is not some silly thing that you blow off because, well, the Democrats are doing it,
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or you see your liberal friend on Twitter keep saying the word Russia.
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Just because they're saying the word Russia doesn't mean that this stuff isn't real.
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So, Vladimir Putin responded yesterday to Theresa May, who said, you know, you stop, you know, this is, she almost said, act of war.
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This is a use of unauthorized weapons on UK soil.
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Sounded like she was starting to invoke the Article 5 NATO treaty.
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Putin responded with, don't threaten a nuclear power.
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You don't have any idea who you're dealing with.
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Started a, said this is a disinformation campaign of the West.
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And, uh, Theresa May has pulled out the diplomats and frozen the Russian assets in the UK.
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But first, so you understand, this is not some little deal.
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This is only, the only people that make this nerve agent that has hospitalized 21 people, uh, the only ones that made it was the Soviet Union.
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And the guy who was the co-creator lives now here in America, defected, and is, and is in New Jersey.
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Yeah, he's a three-year-old man, co-creator of the nerve agent.
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Um, interesting, because he, he actually wrote a book, defected, wrote a book outing all the illegal chemical weapons that the Soviet Union was producing.
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And that was one of the weapons that they did not disclose.
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They didn't disclose that, and they kept it under the wraps.
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And the reason being is because it was, it was created so that they could actually slip through sanctions like this or inspections.
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Because it combines multiple different, like, actual, everyday, like, manufacturing chemicals.
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So they could have brought this on, not through a diplomatic pouch, but on a regular airplane?
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Um, well, I guess it's possible, but I would say highly unlikely.
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Because it's more than just the chemical agent.
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And this is also another heavily, you know, heavy indicator that says that a state actor of Russia was involved with this.
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Because the, you, just having the chemical is not the biggest thing.
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So you have to have some means to hold it, transport it, keep it safe, and release it, which is a delivery agent.
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Okay, so this is ten times more dangerous than VX gas.
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The, the, that's another thing the co-creator has said is, like, there's no reason to use this.
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You would just use VX or polonium or something like that.
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The only reason is because it causes intense, unimaginable pain, is a quote from him.
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The only reason is to, this is to instill fear.
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Okay, so there's more on this and the response and what is in the future.
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Boy, I do not, um, envy Mike Pompeo, uh, and his first day on the job.
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Uh, we have serious issues heating up with Russia and, and actions that none of us saw coming.
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I mean, you don't, you, you, you pick a fight with a nuclear power and you have very few options.
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This has been escalated and there's already talk now about a cyber war that, that, uh, the UK may start to engage.
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This is the kind of stuff, world war, world war three.
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If you count the cold war, I think you can count it as a world war.
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We're entering world war four, but world war one and two were fought with bullets and tanks and planes.
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World war three or four is, is not going to be fought that way.
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And we know people have already tried to penetrate, uh, and, uh, and, and ping our power grid.
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And, and they've already shown us that they can get in past many of the things in the power grid.
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I was a little concerned today when they were talking about Jeff Bezos and, uh, how the Pentagon is now going to put all of their secret files
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I'm glad Amazon's not connected to a major news outlet.
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So, you know, the one, the one that the Pentagon papers or, you know, like, isn't that a weird,
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He is our head of our, um, uh, our military intelligence and, and global strategy, uh, department
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and, and our head researcher and has a background in military intelligence and, uh, and has been
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So 21 people, I think this is really important.
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Oh, they, they, they breathe some, you know, some gas in and they're really sick.
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Well, I mean, a lot of this comes down to personal taste too.
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Like I know that you, you like musicals and I don't, you know, I'm an Eagles fan.
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So I don't know what you have to decide for yourself, whether you think this would be fun
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But exposure either by inhalation or through the skin leads to muscle spasms, secretion
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of fluid into the lungs, organ failure, and foaming at the mouth.
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Um, if the, no psoriasis, no, there's no heartbreak of psoriasis that exists with this
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and no restless leg syndrome that we know rashes there.
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Well, I mean, and you're not bleeding from the eyes, right?
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Uh, listen to this quote from the same guy you were quoting Jason, who one of the co-creators
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of this particular chemical weapon launched, uh, on the, uh, grounds of our, you know, best
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ally, uh, antidotes exist, but what does an antidote mean?
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You're saving a person who has been exposed to this gas, but temporarily not to die at this
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time, but he will be an invalid for the rest of his life.
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So 21 citizens of the UK have been hit by this gas that was made and only exists in the
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21 people, you know, they're in the hospital, they're in critical condition.
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They're not, none of them are going to return to their normal life.
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Even if they get better, they're not, there is no cure for this, uh, which is also another
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It's what sets the West apart from the former Soviet union chemical and biological weapons
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So now Teresa May said on Monday, look, you come up with an explanation of this.
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We were speculating that they would kick out the, uh, the ambassadors, which is a very big,
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They, the UK already this morning kicked out 21 ambassadors because Putin said, don't threaten
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It didn't come from us, uh, and don't threaten a nuclear power.
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And he said, if you kick out, uh, if you kick out people, we're going to retaliate.
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You kick out our press, you kick out our spies, you kick out, uh, our ambassadors.
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And then some, then there was somebody else, uh, in the, I believe it was the foreign office
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of the UK that started talking about, there's a possibility.
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We, one of the options on the table is a, uh, a first strike digital attack.
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This getting a lot more serious, uh, uh, really fast.
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And if you think back towards the, uh, the Soviet era and kind of goes back to what you're
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saying about, you know, the cold war, World War I, World War II, those types of wars.
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Um, the Soviets actually called the cold war in the very beginning, World War III, they
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considered that the next great war, but they specifically said that this would not be a
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It would not be a war even fought with nukes, even though we were all, you know, rapidly trying
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He said, we were going to fight this war without a single shot fired.
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And it was going to be completely done using disinformation, using spies, you know, spies,
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And I mean, I mean, frankly, they, they were very, very successful in that, but now, I mean,
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now as we move towards this, you know, this new era, uh, you know, with technology, with
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cyber warfare, um, everything that we have today, we can move into another war, but you
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know, after the cold war, which is all about, uh, you know, cyber warfare.
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It's all about, uh, using, uh, tactics like what they did to, you know, to interfere with
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the election, um, those were just opening salvos.
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Those are just opening salvos with the aggressiveness that the Russia is doing now with how they
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They're doing these things and basically laughing in our face.
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If they're doing that, how, you know, how more aggressive do you think they're going
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Let's say, how bad do you think the midterms are going to be?
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How bad do you think the next presidential election is going to be?
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And not only for us, but every single NATO country in the world or any country that they
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Do you think they have the, the, for lack of a better term, the scramjet technology for
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I think this is, I think this is Ronald Reagan's Star Wars play at the end of the American
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empire in their eyes, um, to get us to spend ourselves into oblivion even more.
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He released a video, Putin did over the weekend, apparently of this, this missile that can
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Far as I know, we do not have an alloy that can hold up to that speed.
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There's nothing that, there's nothing that can, can, can hold that heat.
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And, uh, they say it can go 10 times as fast as the speed of the sound and will bypass every
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single Patriot missile defense or any kind of shield that anybody has.
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I, and also to, to who has this technology, I don't think anyone has it.
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I think the last time I heard the Chinese were maybe a little bit ahead of us on this, but
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I know that we are very, very close and I haven't heard a thing about Russia.
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Um, and let's, let's be honest over the past, you know, almost a hundred years, Russia, Russian
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They very rarely develop something on their own.
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They stole cruise missile technology, all of that stuff.
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So I highly doubt in this one instance, they suddenly leapfrogged the rest of the world
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and created something that no one else has been able to do before.
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It's just, again, it's, it's like using one of the most deadly nerve agents on the planet
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While this is talking about this chemical weapon, uh, that, you know, is out there apparently
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now, while the chemical would take effect almost instantaneously if inhaled, it would
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work much more slowly, perhaps over a matter of hours if absorbed through the skin.
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So we've got a couple of, you know, a few hours if it goes through your skin and this
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is where it gets really good for you and me, Glenn.
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The agent is activated when it comes in contact with water and would be absorbed through the
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How serious do you think the, the move is to freeze Russia's assets?
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She's, I think, I think the clarification may said where we see a threat.
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So it didn't sound like it was all their assets.
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It's like if they suspect, I guess, some kind of money laundering or something like that,
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But with Russian banks, it's pretty much all of them.
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It's, but it's, it's interesting though, because London is pretty much the financial hub
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It was kind of funny when it is like during Brexit, they said, it's going to crash, you
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know, it's going to crash the financial system.
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They're not going to have access to European money.
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And people like Daniel Hamm knew that, but they were still trying to make the case that,
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But so if they actually, if London wanted to, they could apply some serious pressure to
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Russian banks because all of it runs through there.
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That's actually also why you always see so many Russians that are killed in the UK, because
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all those oligarchs, all those old like KGB spies, they know exactly where they go.
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All the money they hoarded, they put it in UK banks.
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So that's why they're always killed in the UK, because they go there to retire or to defect.
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Putin's not going to let them squeeze on the banks.
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We will freeze Russian state assets wherever we have the evidence that they're that they
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may be used to threaten the life or property of UK nationals or residents.
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So it doesn't mean that they're going to freeze all of them, but they're certainly leaving
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that door open to whatever they want to freeze, because, I mean, you can make that justification
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where they may be used to threaten the life or property of the UK.
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And, uh, and let's see if we can have this ready for Monday.
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Uh, I would like to war game a, uh, a cyber war.
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Cause I don't even know what does it really mean to get into a cyber war?
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What's, what's the first volleys, uh, the responses and what it looks like if it's, if
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it goes serious, um, because I, it's a completely different kind of warfare and
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And a couple of years ago, he's the one who said next war is going to be fought with,
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Uh, and he's been preparing for it and we've already seen, again, it didn't change the
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He's been getting stuff to yell at each other and hate each other.
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And, and, um, it's why they, they were putting out, uh, blasts, you know, pro cop.
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And at the same time doing social media, pro BLM, they just want us at each other's throats
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And if we don't find our way to each other, when things get serious, they will be able
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We also need to remember that what brought down the Soviet empire was debt.
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Building an emergency food storage plan kind of sounds like a good idea right now.
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Um, we've been talking about it for years, but this is the week to build that foundation.
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Uh, this week, there is a, um, a special four week emergency food supply special happening
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So Donald Trump yesterday was in, uh, California and he, uh, he had a couple of things to say.
00:35:16.980
My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war fighting domain, just like
00:35:29.780
We may even have a space force develop another one.
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You know, I was saying it the other day because we're doing a tremendous amount of work in space.
00:35:53.240
This has actually been going on for a, I mean, it started a long time ago, mostly in a galaxy
00:36:00.960
You know, it's weird because he always goes off script.
00:36:02.860
So that, that space force thing was not written by him.
00:36:05.880
And I think that was written as a response to Vladimir Putin.
00:36:12.480
We're developing a space force and I'm not sure if he undercut that, uh, or not, but that
00:36:17.880
it's interesting that the space force was, was in his script.
00:36:22.520
Um, uh, also he said something yesterday about the governor of California.
00:36:33.220
Criticism from governor Brown that some of this money might be better spent elsewhere.
00:36:36.700
Well, I think governor Brown's done a very poor job running California.
00:36:39.440
They have the highest taxes in the United States.
00:36:44.820
You have sanctuary cities where you have criminals living in the sanctuary cities.
00:36:48.860
And then the mayor of Oakland goes out and notifies when ICE is going in to pick them
00:36:54.000
And many of them were criminals with criminal records and very dangerous people.
00:36:59.740
And, uh, no, I think the governor is doing a terrible job running the state of California.
00:37:04.720
And, you know, hey, I have property in California.
00:37:06.900
I will say, I don't think too much about my property anymore, but I have great property in
00:37:19.200
I would hope that it plays well that people are like, yep, yep, that's right.
00:37:24.320
But I'm not sure we see the world the same anymore.
00:37:27.560
The mechanical voice with the ironically American accent has gone silent today.
00:37:49.980
This morning, the most famous theoretical scientist and physicist in the world has passed away.
00:38:04.660
And in, in many ways, uh, an inspiration to me in many other ways, not so much.
00:38:17.080
He took his education so, it's such a meaningless bother that most of his papers were written the
00:38:30.360
And he would throw away his extra draft and his, his notes.
00:38:35.660
And his, his roommate pulled them out of the garbage to save them because he said they were
00:38:47.500
He was, uh, he was a partier at college until he fell down the stairs.
00:38:57.580
While at Cambridge, he had been tripping an awful lot.
00:39:02.940
And as he was laying at the bottom of the stairs, he thought something is wrong.
00:39:06.360
He was diagnosed with ALS, which at the time I believe was called Lou Gehrig's disease.
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He was told that he would have no more than a couple of years to live.
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What ALS does is it just paralyzes the body slowly.
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He began to move or began to lose all of his motor skills.
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He was eventually confined to a wheelchair and he fell into a deep depression.
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Thankfully, a professor in his life encouraged him not to let his disease define him.
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With newfound confidence, he dove back into his work in science and physics.
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He was able to see the world and see, see these physics equations in three dimensions in his imagination.
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Stephen Hawking is the prime example that all life is precious and has meaning.
00:40:04.740
He is also a reminder about how great, how great a time we live.
00:40:13.620
If he would have lived 50 years ago, he would have spent his entire life with people talking to him like this.
00:40:33.880
Talking down to him like he was an imbecile and in his head trapped.
00:40:40.380
Three-dimensional maps of space and black holes.
00:40:49.940
Now, we know how Margaret Sanger and George Bernard Shaw would view Stephen Hawking.
00:41:00.880
They would have said he was disabled and therefore a burden on society.
00:41:05.300
They would have said, you know, before he goes through all of this pain.
00:41:14.780
Before he has to put his family through all of this.
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The doctors believe he has no quality of life and no future and we should put him down.
00:41:25.480
Isn't it amazing how that struggle is what made Stephen Hawking?
00:41:36.980
Without ALS, he himself said, I don't know who I would have been.
00:41:42.200
He didn't take his studies seriously until he knew he was running out of time.
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Until he knew, I had been given a gift of life and intelligence and I'd been wasting it.
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The world is a better place because of Stephen Hawking.
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Because he chose to live his life to the fullest despite his crippling disease.
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He leaves behind now a loving wife, three children, and a legacy unmatched by many, most, and perhaps only eclipsed by Einstein.
00:42:27.700
Agree with him or not, Hawking challenged everything we know.
00:42:33.140
He challenged every perception of the universe.
00:42:35.740
What I like about Stephen Hawking is, he said, I believe this is true.
00:42:42.620
And later would come out and be the first to say, I was wrong.
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He challenged even the things that he fought so hard because he believed they were true.
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He fought everyone and said, no, prove that it's wrong.
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And when somebody, or even him, proved that it was otherwise, he led the charge to say, mm-mm, we don't have that.
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The most important thing that Stephen Hawking gave to the world
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is that no one can define your life by what you look like or what your abilities are.
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You are the master of your own world and works.
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Really kind of, in some ways, bummed Stephen Hawking.
00:43:58.000
In some ways, played a big role in my coming of age, if you will.
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He was one of the first people that I started to read
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when I questioned with boldness even the very existence of God.
00:44:15.140
And he is, in many ways, a true inspiration of what can be done if you just say,
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He was, if you had seen pictures of him recently,
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But, man, you want to talk about a guy who fought and fought and fought and fought.
00:44:53.280
And I just, I, I, every time I think of Stephen Hawking, I think of,
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Think of the torture that would have been for him.
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And I remember sitting on the carpet in his living room.
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How many minds before have been trapped like that?
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My daughter has a really hard time with communication.
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I know that statue is really oppressing me right now,
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you don't know how many people are actually rooting for you.
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You don't know how many people are praying for you.
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and the truly great people figure that out and go crap.
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Is today the day that you've been given a second chance?
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I remember the day that I decided not to repeat my mother's ending of her life.
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My mother was an alcoholic and addicted to prescription drugs.
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And I remember the day I realized I'm going to repeat my mom's life.
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I wish I could say that the next day was better,
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that the greatest pain you may ever feel is having a baby.
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maybe not ready to have another one right then,
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There's no statue in the town square is doing that.
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ALS ain't doing that because it didn't hold him back.
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There's somebody lobbying now for the self-driving cars for those laws to get
00:55:52.680
So we can get these self-driving cars on the road.
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Someone really encouraged by this new technology.
00:56:02.020
The liquor industry is now fully on board with self-driving cars.
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of course their interest is for the betterment of humanity.
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And you can drink their product while in the car.
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You could drink their product while in the car to save a lot of lives.
00:56:32.420
it might end some other ones because people are more willing to drink more.
00:56:37.200
They think that it's going to boost alcohol sales by as much as $250 billion.
00:57:06.940
it's interesting because we kind of have a real world experiment.
00:57:12.660
in some ways has had a real world experiment in this.
00:57:23.300
it's basically you're in a world of self-driving cars.
00:57:35.580
And I drank a lot more in New York than I drink here.
00:57:41.040
It may be New York itself that encourages you to drink.
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I'd really be interested to hear from you if your child has come home and said,
00:58:07.660
there's a big walkout and I want to participate.
00:58:24.020
There are thousands of kids who have just got out of those hallowed halls of learning.
00:58:36.000
I don't take this precious gift of education lightly,
00:58:56.100
you are in the middle of that situation enough that,
00:58:59.460
this is all you're thinking about all the time,
00:59:07.140
So I walked out of school several times back in the day,
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You want to just give me the one of just jumps off the top priority.
00:59:29.040
I guess there's so many that I wouldn't want to downplay one of the other ones that I'm not
00:59:35.880
I walked out and kept walking until I got to McDonald's,
00:59:46.580
It didn't matter which one of the events I'm talking about.
01:00:03.320
I had absolutely no idea what we were walking out of school for.
01:00:08.840
probably were things that I completely disagreed with,
01:00:12.060
but I didn't care because I was out of school and I would have done anything to leave school at any time.
01:00:22.880
If you can leave school without getting in trouble for leaving school,
01:00:37.340
The reason why you don't skip school every single day is because you realize you'll get in trouble for it.
01:00:42.280
It's not because you think you're going to learn something or miss out on learning.
01:00:45.460
It's because you're going to get in trouble and you don't want to get in trouble.
01:00:51.260
This is breaking news to many people in the world,
01:01:08.680
So you're saying then that these kids don't care really.
01:01:25.800
there's a lot of kids that are pro-Second Amendment
01:01:30.880
it's important that we have to protect these rights.
01:01:33.400
You know what that kid in North Dakota is doing that's pro-Second Amendment?
01:01:38.320
They're all walking out of school because you're telling them it's okay to leave school.
01:01:45.880
there's some activists that are anti-gun and their parents are anti-gun,
01:01:49.280
and then they're going to walk out and they're going to be anti-gun,
01:01:53.200
And I'm not saying that there's not people who are really,
01:02:27.620
And it's in memory of the people who lost their lives.
01:02:31.600
I called the school to verify that there was no political anything
01:02:35.940
because I've seen how students can be just useful idiots.
01:02:45.240
It's just in memory and to show respect and to have silence.
01:02:51.080
They're singing kumbaya and I forget the other time.
01:02:59.880
But still, that's a fine way to deal with it, right?
01:03:02.300
And there's probably some teachers who are like trying to get these kids quiet
01:03:06.500
for 17 minutes is, I mean, if they'll stand quietly,
01:03:10.740
I'm going to go take a nap in the teacher's room.
01:03:14.120
Look, obviously, it's great to show respect and that's real
01:03:23.200
And that's a much better way of doing it than letting the kids walk out.
01:03:29.460
We asked him at the dinner table last night, what is this for?
01:03:34.240
And all he could say is it was about the shooting in Parkland
01:03:39.320
So he didn't know the whole realm of what could be involved in a walk-in or a walk-out.
01:03:46.240
And I wanted to make sure that he understood what it was about
01:03:50.160
if he was going to participate, not just follow blindly.
01:03:55.080
And it really – they really did say it's just to show respect.
01:03:59.720
It's not a protest in any way and they would not allow it to be a protest.
01:04:04.320
Well, I'd be anxious to hear if that's what – you know, promises kept there on that one.
01:04:09.580
So you don't want your kids, let's say, walking around just being a useful idiot
01:04:13.740
like I'm watching on TV in New York, a sign that says the NRA KKK.
01:04:22.840
Don't forget that they're calling the entire country a group of KKK members.
01:04:33.240
They seem to be professionally printed, that sign, too.
01:04:35.140
That's interesting that a student – I guess they just went to the local –
01:04:41.740
Okay, so I'm here in Newtown and the kids – it's cold for them to protest outside,
01:04:54.700
They really want to show their – you know, what they really stand for,
01:04:59.440
So instead of walking out of school or staying home from school,
01:05:02.280
we just – we go to the gym because we got a snowstorm last night, you know?
01:05:05.580
Well, I mean, look, again, I think, honestly, like, they're talking about school safety.
01:05:10.260
If you have kids go out in freezing cold temperatures, it's probably not a good idea.
01:05:13.140
If you have kids leave the school premises, even in Florida or Africa, it's not good for safety.
01:05:21.780
It's also true that being in school is still one of the safest places your child can be.
01:05:32.580
I mean, that doesn't mean we don't protect them.
01:05:34.240
That doesn't mean we don't add security to schools.
01:05:37.020
We don't try to address these specific threats.
01:05:39.020
But, like, doing absolutely nothing from where we are still is one of the safest places they can be.
01:05:43.880
Did you see all the number of shoes that were put on the Capitol steps yesterday?
01:05:52.980
There were 7,000 shoes that were dropped on the Capitol lawn yesterday.
01:06:04.420
Now, I'd like to go drop the 60 million baby shoes on the front lawn of Planned Parenthood.
01:06:22.720
Well, it may not be more effective, but it'd be more realistic.
01:06:27.580
It's a lot of socks, and that's why I haven't done it yet today.
01:06:31.520
Yeah, well, because, you know, you can – all kids, you say to them, hey, let's put 7,000, you know, kids' shoes on the lawn of the Capitol building.
01:06:43.160
And, of course, the kids organize that like that.
01:06:54.760
That's the mind of a 14-year-old and the organizing power of 14-year-olds all across the country.
01:07:01.360
But 60 million baby shoes, that might take a little while, and an adult.
01:07:06.940
Now, is it true that to organize a protest to honor the kids who have been killed in these attacks, do you have to be on the side of Louis Farrakhan and dislike Jews?
01:07:20.560
Is that something that – because it seems like all of these are done by the Women's March people who are very tied – closely tied to Louis Farrakhan.
01:07:27.540
And I don't – you know, I feel like the dislike of Jews really has nothing to do with gun violence or honoring children.
01:07:38.020
Just because you're talking about the two, three, six, or seven people that are on the board of directors that are with Louis Farrakhan at his latest conference, sat there while he said those horrible things about white people's time is coming.
01:07:56.400
And Jews are the enemy, and they will all be wiped out.
01:07:59.260
Just because they sat through that and, you know, and then had photos taken afterwards with Louis Farrakhan, that doesn't mean that –
01:08:10.320
Because it seems like it would mean that for anyone else.
01:08:14.220
It seems like – I don't know, if you had a Tea Party organizer who sat through speech after speech about how bad Jews are or how bad blacks are.
01:08:24.400
In fact, you've made comparisons on the air to the Holocaust saying, we've got to make sure this doesn't happen again.
01:08:32.780
And the ADL comes out and criticizes you for it.
01:08:36.020
Now, the ADL has been critical of Farrakhan as well, but it doesn't seem to get any pickup outside of Jake Tapper.
01:08:41.980
He's the only person in the mainstream media who seems to be noticing this and putting any pressure on Democrats who are still, to this day, meeting with Farrakhan.
01:08:50.840
Well, what's good about this, Stu, is that Twitter's all over Farrakhan.
01:08:55.760
He's never been allowed to have a Twitter feed.
01:09:00.600
And he tweets things about the Jews all the time.
01:09:16.360
As soon as they get back in, they're going to take care of Lewis Farrakhan's Twitter feed.
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I want to say I'm very proud of my children for not walking out.
01:09:30.720
My son's number one in his senior class, and some of his AP professors gave them extra credit
01:09:40.000
They said they could do more for the children in Florida by showing them how safe it is in
01:09:53.840
A teacher is giving extra credit for staying in class.
01:09:59.200
Yeah, because he said just the trend, not going against the trend and actually sitting
01:10:04.400
in for what you believe, which is the Second Amendment.
01:10:07.460
And this is his AP European history class, professor.
01:10:10.360
He gave them all extra credit for those who wanted to stay in and just didn't go out,
01:10:25.960
I was telling your screener that when my son was much younger and the Connecticut shooting
01:10:35.360
I said, tell me, son, that brave principal that threw herself in front of all those kids.
01:10:40.560
How many people do you think would have passed away had she had a firearm?
01:10:49.600
And it's like to him, we're constantly talking about the gun-free zones.
01:10:54.520
He thinks that the whole thing is just off the charts nuts.
01:10:59.300
It's like he just has a complete inherent understanding that that's what's causing all this.
01:11:04.500
You know, we have firearms in the home and, you know, he's just always been taught to
01:11:12.220
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I can't, I'm a little humbled right now by the, by the bravery of so many people.
01:13:02.900
In case you don't know, Viacom, you know, MTV and all the Viacom, they, they have decided
01:13:09.100
that they are going to shut down next hour in solidarity with the school walkouts.
01:13:14.460
They're going to, all of their stations going dark for 17 minutes.
01:13:23.220
That is, that's so brave of them to, I mean, to go dark for 17 minutes.
01:13:27.600
Hey, Stu, by the way, before I forget, I've got a question about tonight's TV show.
01:13:32.360
The, when, when is the first commercial break usually on TV?
01:13:39.280
Anyway, Viacom, so brave of you to break, you know, you're not going to lose any money
01:13:45.540
because you can make it back in time for that first commercial break, but wow.
01:13:49.640
Well, and it's, the important thing is, I know MTV too, they will be returning right
01:13:54.600
after the 17 minutes of silence to honor the children, the high school children they're
01:13:58.580
talking about with the program 16 and pregnant, which is going to really, which would sound
01:14:05.100
like a joke to some, to some, to the cynics, to the cynics, but it's not.
01:14:09.960
But you can flip over to MTV instead and get catfish, uh, the TV show, which is, which
01:14:18.280
Well, you have 17 minutes, then the commercial break.
01:14:20.580
Then, then they'll, they'll, they'll rejoin the previously scheduled program, either 16 and
01:14:30.760
And I just hope, Glenn, that we can get through today with these students walking out and
01:14:35.360
I just hope they are not thinking or praying while they're walking out.
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One of my favorite people in the world is Nick Vujicic.
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If you have not heard of him, this is going to be a very interesting time for you.
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Nick is a guy who was born without any arms or legs, hands and feet, and he has a new book
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He is one of the more inspiring people I think I have ever met.
01:16:43.440
So first of all, let's kind of catch up with you.
01:16:46.980
For anybody who doesn't know you, tell me your story quickly.
01:16:50.880
Quickly, I was born in Melbourne, Australia without limbs.
01:16:55.780
Many people had their own theories and philosophies of life, including a woman who said that, well,
01:17:00.560
in my previous life, reincarnation, I was a bad boy and now I'm getting punished.
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But now that I'm a good boy, I'll come back in my next life and be a butterfly.
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And I'm thinking, she don't know how many butterflies I've killed in my wheelchair.
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Being isolated at times, a very loving home though.
01:17:19.680
I was the first disabled child to go to the mainstream school system of Australia in 1989
01:17:23.460
and was excelling in mathematics because that was the only way that I could compete with everyone.
01:17:30.280
But I really had depression and fears about my future.
01:17:32.760
Attempted suicide at age 10 because of bullying predominantly at school.
01:17:39.340
Yeah, I went to the bathtub and I told my dad I just want to relax in the bathtub of four inches,
01:17:43.660
five inches of water and I turned over to let the breath out.
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But I couldn't go through with it, not because it was physical limitations,
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but because I didn't want to leave my parents with that pain.
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So I did not go through with that by the grace of God.
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Tell me the depth there of despair, of losing hope.
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But just because of the bleak and broken future that I could see ahead,
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I convinced myself I'd never get married, never be happy, never be a father, never find a job,
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I thought even if I got married, I can't even hold my wife's hand.
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Even if I had kids, I can't even hold my kids when they're crying.
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I think you had just gotten married last time I saw you.
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So we have two boys, Kiyoshi and Dayan, five and two and a half years old.
01:19:08.760
So when I wanted to say this, I don't need to hold my wife's hand.
01:19:11.820
I just need to hold her heart and you don't need hands for that.
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And when my boys cry, I can't put my arms around them,
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So you were convinced that you would be a burden on everyone.
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And that's kind of the way the world is working right now,
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especially with anybody with any kind of disability.
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We were talking off the air that this is a providential week to have you come in.
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Because I have been truly sleepless in the last few nights about what's happening.
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With the Washington Post coming out saying, you know, if you have Down syndrome,
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you know, it's very brave, very brave to abort them because we're curing Down syndrome.
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Of course, they're not saying killing, but that's what they mean.
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They have, you know, the responses are people with Down syndrome have no quality of life.
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if we can, if we as a society can embrace killing the most angelic,
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I've been interviewed all week, Glenn, all week, you know, being on the road for my book
01:20:33.340
And the question that, you know, because we talk about how when I was in Russia a couple
01:20:37.340
years ago, there was a petition signed because I was famous in Russia overnight preaching the
01:20:45.900
And some editor from a publication in Russia said, no disabled person should get married,
01:20:53.640
should reproduce, and should ever have a stage and ever be on TV.
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And then a million people got angry and that guy got fired.
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And so the idea here is, well, how many more of these articles will actually be publicized
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without us actually saying, hey, wait a second, let's really, really analyze this.
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I'm Yugoslav and I love the Soviet area and I love the Slavic region.
01:21:42.140
After I spoke to the government, just to let you know, they're allowing special needs
01:21:48.880
But you come home here and you get so discouraged and stuff like this.
01:21:52.240
You know, it's remarkable to me that you wouldn't, if we had this, if you would have been seen
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If Stephen Hawking would have been able to be tested in utero, he'd be gone.
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And, you know, when you look at the Nazi era, the people who voted for Hitler, think of
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this, when he started his T4 program to wipe out, would have killed you, would have killed
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my daughter, would have killed anybody with Down syndrome.
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When they found out that they were gassing those children, the people who voted for Hitler
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And there's many fronts on any fight that you can choose, right?
01:23:08.900
But the bottom line, though, is I understand the opposition in trying, or the challenge,
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let's say, in trying to convince people of changing their mind.
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But you know what also gets me just a little bit angry?
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Are the people who actually say we're Christian, and we allow 111,000 7.8-year-old children
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in America still waiting, still waiting for an adopted home.
01:23:35.040
100,000 churches spend billions of dollars on buildings, and we're not the hands and feet.
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Do you know how many teenagers, they think they're Christian because they go to church on
01:23:48.300
Sunday, then they tease someone at school on Monday.
01:23:50.620
40% of the reason for teenage suicide in America is because of bullying at school.
01:23:59.060
If we really are the salt and light, there's 400,000 foster kids waiting.
01:24:04.100
And they, anyway, in the foster adoption industry, you know it.
01:24:10.780
Last week, we were talking about how Christians, I don't know what it means to be a Christian
01:24:15.680
anymore, because if this is what it means to be a Christian, it makes literally statistically
01:24:28.800
In Islam, in the Quran, they actually say that it's against Allah that you adopt, because
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you can never love somebody that's not your blood like you love someone that is your blood.
01:24:46.780
Because so many people think, well, how can I love somebody as much as I love my own?
01:24:54.720
It's just addressing the biggest questions and fears that people have and saying, hey,
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look, don't just sit and listen to the prosperity gospel from the pews.
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The next paragraph, what do you want God to do for you today?
01:25:15.920
The prosperity gospel will end, Glenn, in 10 years from now, when 35% of all jobs in
01:25:24.360
How dare any prosperity preaching preacher will talk about prosperity when a third of their
01:25:31.220
It's time to realize, stop waiting on God to do something.
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I'm all for praying for revival in our country, Glenn.
01:25:39.940
And a million people trying to gather in Washington, D.C.
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But what if a million people actually learned how to preach the gospel?
01:25:48.860
And we preach the gospel to 20 people in a day.
01:25:52.000
You can reach the whole country of America in 16 days.
01:26:06.920
I was at a venture capitalist conference and I had to speak and it was all Silicon Valley.
01:26:18.980
And a guy gets up and he's an atheist, one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world.
01:26:23.700
And he gets up and he said, I had news for you.
01:26:34.480
He said, because the unemployment rate, he said, and this is important, I think, for people to understand.
01:26:41.880
We now look at unemployment and say, oh, can we get it close to zero?
01:26:47.480
They Silicon Valley with the way we're working now, they're the opposite.
01:26:51.940
They're saying, let's get it 100 percent unemployment so you can do what you want to do, which is a noble thing.
01:26:59.420
However, it also removes meaning for a lot of people who find meaning in their jobs.
01:27:05.220
And he said, so we're going to have a lot of meaningless.
01:27:07.680
He said, but you know, who's going to be, you know, who's going to conquer that people who have actual faith.
01:27:14.920
Because people who have actual faith find meaning in good works.
01:27:26.100
And we have to because it'll be the only thing.
01:27:28.900
We will be the ones that can lead the world into meaning and into the hope.
01:27:35.740
The hope of there is going to be it's going to be OK.
01:27:52.940
The name of the book is Be the Hands of Feet, Living Out God's Love for All of His Children.
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I want to talk a little bit more about the book and the your adventures.
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So, Nick, let's talk a little bit because, you know, you talk in your book about how we need to share the gospel.
01:29:55.500
However, I think people, because of what we were just talking about, people are tired of people talking about the gospel because, you know, it doesn't make a difference.
01:30:06.920
We're going to church, but we're living a hypocritical life.
01:30:13.060
And so, the bottom line is when me and as evangelists go, 68 countries, meet 18 presidents, speak in front of 10 governments and in front of billionaires to sex slaves and orphans.
01:30:22.900
There are commonalities of why people don't believe in a loving God.
01:30:28.740
And one of them, rightly said, is that I'm not going to become a Christian because I know Christians.
01:30:34.800
There was a bumper sticker that said, dear Lord, save me from thy followers.
01:30:42.480
And so, that's when we point the finger at ourselves and make sure that how we live shows it.
01:30:47.180
You know, if you're a teenager and you love Jesus, then you're not sexually active until marriage, period, no matter what you feel.
01:30:53.800
And we're going to hand the truth with love and love with the truth.
01:30:57.100
And the bottom line is when you put God in the throne of your life and you realize his plan and his way is best and money, drug, sex, alcohol, pornography, fame and fortune and where this country is going, where this world is going, we know that the only hope is in Jesus Christ.
01:31:13.280
That's one of the top seven reasons, Glenn, why people don't come to church.
01:31:18.220
Another one is because they think church is a business.
01:31:25.700
I have the least amount of argument for that point out of seven.
01:31:31.000
And that's why I'm, you know, pretty firm to the churches in making sure that the center of ministry isn't your gifts.
01:31:43.240
And I feel like we as Americans are absolutely ignoring the fact that the prosperity gospel started in America and it's absolutely devastated Latin America and Africa.
01:31:53.600
And the pinnacle of growth and beauty in the church of those continents was when the church met the needs of the people.
01:32:07.400
I mean, I have this argument with people all the time, you know, about faith and works.
01:32:12.120
No, all I have to do is have faith in Jesus and then I'm saved.
01:32:17.160
However, you can't tell me that you've been saved if your works aren't his works.
01:32:34.780
I tell the teenagers, if you teach someone at school on Monday, I don't think you're a Christian because you have no idea what the love of God is.
01:32:42.940
And so the other things that I write about in my Be the Hands and Feet book is how do you talk to somebody who's an atheist who says, well, science explains everything.
01:32:52.140
And I, you know, present the points where witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, science can't explain it, but man, it's real.
01:32:59.080
And I'm not an atheist because I've seen an angel.
01:33:03.140
And so when you realize how you can actually come back with knowledge and points and saying, well, how can a loving God let pain be in the world?
01:33:12.880
And people don't share about their faith because they don't know the answers to the top six and most common questions that people have.
01:33:21.200
We're going to cover these tonight on TV at five o'clock.
01:33:28.440
If there's a God in the world, Nick, how could he possibly let a child be born without arms and legs and go through what you went through as a child?
01:33:39.540
Well, first of all, I want to say that I believe it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms and legs.
01:33:46.000
Number one, we can't compare each other's brokenness.
01:33:48.080
Number two, though, we know that sickness, disease and death and uncomfortability to our existence didn't happen until sin came into the world.
01:33:56.920
And that's when people say, well, then why did God allow the serpent in the Garden of Eden?
01:34:01.820
How unfair God would be to make Adam and Eve with free choice, yet never let them hear anybody else but his voice.
01:34:09.540
If he never allowed the serpent in the Garden of Eden to actually say the contrary to what God said, then do they really have free choice or not?
01:34:18.420
And we know that there is a lion devouring, killing, destroying.
01:34:26.060
And he's going around and destroying the world.
01:34:29.000
And the bottom line, the Bible says, Glenn, very clear, black and white.
01:34:32.220
But we know that Jesus is coming back when all the gospel has been preached to all the four corners of the earth.
01:34:39.180
And when I was in front of Billy Graham in 2011, he said, Nick, we don't have to preach down other religions.
01:34:48.100
And Bible says, my people perish because they don't have knowledge.
01:34:52.020
I also think it's Christians who are losing their faith because they don't grow in knowledge.
01:34:56.480
They think, well, now I'm a Christian and now, you know, God's going to bless me and that's it.
01:35:02.960
It's about us being on the front line of God's army ambassadors, the king of kings and lord of lords.
01:35:07.720
And I'm a man without arms and legs, being the hands and feet of Jesus, standing in front of the gates of hell and redirecting traffic.
01:35:13.580
If God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet, God can use any willing heart.
01:35:24.320
I think I'm so glad that you're here, especially, you know, this week where we've been talking about Down syndrome and on the day that we mark the the life of an exceptional man of Stephen Hawking.
01:35:37.280
And, you know, I see I see God's I see God's blessings and glory.
01:35:42.980
Not that he wants anybody to suffer, but I see his glory through Stephen Hawking.
01:35:49.320
He was wasting his life until he realized I may not have very much time and it changed him fundamentally how it changes us is is up to us.
01:36:00.460
We'll talk some more this afternoon on the blaze TV.
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The name of the book be the hands and feet living out God's love for all of his children.
01:36:31.580
I got to tell you, I one of my favorite guests is Nick Vujicic.
01:36:37.720
Does he make you feel like you're like, you know, here's a guy who has no arms and no, no legs.
01:36:50.680
Because then, yes, he's exercised more than you do.
01:36:57.740
If I mean, if you if you think you can't do it.
01:37:05.800
I mean, it's just it's amazing what people can do when they when they put their minds to it and they they partner with a with a higher power.
01:37:15.760
By the way, he's going to be speaking tonight in Dallas at the Fellowship Bible Church.
01:37:34.360
One of the most powerful speakers that you'll hear.
01:37:38.700
Let's talk a little bit about what happened in Pennsylvania last night.
01:37:45.940
They haven't actually we don't know for sure who's won yet.
01:37:50.180
The Democrat in the race has a lead of I think it's like five or six hundred votes.
01:37:57.580
And they still have a few votes to count, though.
01:38:00.660
It looks highly unlikely there's enough to count that the Republican would come back and win.
01:38:19.420
But, you know, who wins is sort of of lesser importance here.
01:38:24.340
First of all, they read doing all these districts anyway.
01:38:28.400
So whoever wins here will only hold the job until November.
01:38:32.240
So it's not that big of a deal as of, you know, of who who wins.
01:38:36.680
It's it's one vote and it's going to expire very soon.
01:38:40.140
But but it's, you know, the bigger point here is there's a large trend going on.
01:38:48.560
What we're seeing here are districts won by Donald Trump by large margins are becoming competitive here.
01:38:56.100
And, you know, every midterm sucks for the president.
01:39:00.780
It's it's a it's a long term rule that, you know, the party of the president that is in power has a really tough time in these midterm elections.
01:39:12.100
Because I think as people, we like the balance of power.
01:39:19.120
I mean, this happened, if you remember, with Obama, the Tea Party.
01:39:24.540
So you kind of go back and look at how far this has gone.
01:39:27.660
I mean, 2014 was a wave election for Republicans with Barack Obama's president coming off his 2012 win.
01:39:33.840
2010 was the Tea Party wave coming off of Barack Obama's first win.
01:39:38.860
2006 off of Bush's reelection was a huge wave for Democrats.
01:39:50.140
It's September 11th, right after September 11th.
01:39:52.560
You know, Bush later, 90 Bush had hit an 81 percent approval rating at one point among Democrats.
01:40:06.700
That's how that's how much we came together after.
01:40:12.680
You know, there is something to be said about, you know, coming together at, you know, a time of crisis, et cetera, et cetera.
01:40:17.920
But we had low expectations for George W. Bush.
01:40:23.000
He was kind of this goofy guy that you're like, OK, well, yeah, I know he ran of he ran a baseball team and his dad was president.
01:40:32.120
And when he stepped up on 9-11, he was the man.
01:40:37.780
I mean, he handled that flawlessly, flawlessly, at least in the public.
01:40:51.080
And everyone pretty much agreed on that for a while.
01:40:53.760
A lot of that was just a statement, I think, of of patriotism in a way.
01:40:58.460
People just saying, look, I mean, look, we're under attack here.
01:41:04.260
I don't remember having to say or hearing anyone say, oh, you're against the president.
01:41:15.500
You know, like there was a lot of people on the left said that like, I'm tired.
01:41:19.200
I'm tired of people saying that I disagree with his president.
01:41:24.080
And that whole thing, that voice thing that she did worked really well for her, by the
01:41:30.100
But it made me think, I don't want Indians from India to be successful.
01:41:40.060
That will make black people have like voting rights and things like that.
01:41:46.600
And so it didn't work for me because that's what I thought of every time I heard that.
01:41:52.300
You're referring to the recent comments by Hillary Clinton and while she was in India,
01:41:59.280
You're angry maybe about her saying those things about you.
01:42:04.820
They want her to go inside of a hermetically sealed cavern somewhere and hide.
01:42:13.560
Just hide forever is what they want because they think, I mean, and look, they've got
01:42:19.460
If you have one special election, you can very easily say, well, that candidate sucked.
01:42:27.840
What you're seeing so far is there's been eight special elections since Donald Trump
01:42:35.420
And you can blame this on a million things, but I'm just saying that's the time period.
01:42:40.560
Here are the results, the swing from Donald Trump's vote and the partisan lean to what
01:42:47.960
Plus 18 for Democrats, plus 23 for Democrats, plus 16 for Democrats, plus six for Democrats,
01:42:54.880
plus 16 for Democrats, plus three for Democrats, plus 31 for Democrats, and plus 22 for Democrats.
01:43:01.700
They've improved their standing in every single race by an average of about 17 points.
01:43:06.800
Now, there has not been, if you look back at the average swing in these midterm elections,
01:43:13.280
there's nothing, the only one that's even close to that is 2006, where the Democrats improved
01:43:19.280
But as we just noted, that was in comparison to the election right after September 11th.
01:43:24.100
So the Republicans held a lot more seats than they would have normally been expected to hold
01:43:29.740
in a midterm election because of that aftermath of September 11th.
01:43:34.020
And so the improvement in 2006 was more dramatic for Democrats.
01:43:37.980
This is still less than what we've seen so far on average with these special elections.
01:43:44.100
It does not mean that this is going to for sure, you know, a lot can change in a year.
01:43:55.240
It's about, you know, six months of voting in one seat.
01:43:59.100
I mean, you know, it really isn't the big deal there is that this pattern is become very
01:44:06.380
consistent in these special elections and Republicans.
01:44:09.260
They're talking about now this is going to potentially affect people retiring.
01:44:13.000
We've already seen an almost record number of retirements.
01:44:16.380
And you're talking about people who are promising candidates who will say, maybe I'll skip this
01:44:23.900
Um, and you're in a real danger of losing the house.
01:44:27.460
The Senate is the map is so strongly favored to Republicans.
01:44:32.400
It would take a mega disaster for them to lose the Senate, but the house is really in danger
01:44:42.000
If you don't know it, that was a 20, uh, point victory for Donald Trump, but it wasn't
01:44:48.680
It was a 17 point victory for Mitt Romney against Barack Obama, who was a much stronger
01:44:57.960
Uh, and this is a 22 point swing, uh, in just a year.
01:45:04.620
So you can look at this, I think fairly and say, well, it doesn't mean for sure Republicans
01:45:12.320
A lot of things can happen, but two things you should point out here.
01:45:15.720
Number one, you have to realize this is a, you're in trouble here.
01:45:21.360
If you are the Republicans and you want to hold the house.
01:45:23.660
And again, this means you're talking potential impeachment talk.
01:45:33.820
Uh, not to mention you won't get anything passed.
01:45:36.340
So that is number one, realize that the house is legitimately in trouble.
01:45:42.660
Uh, and, and that is a, it's not a minor thing.
01:45:46.540
And number two, if I may go in quickly, treat this year as if LeBron James just told you
01:45:55.820
he's going to retire and you're the Cavs and you're thinking to yourself, we better go get
01:46:00.520
every free agent and try to do everything this year because next year we're going to
01:46:09.360
You've got eight months to get anything done that you have the chance to get done.
01:46:14.280
Maybe you'll win the house and hold onto it, but you should treat the next eight months
01:46:17.860
as if it is your utter maximum priority to get everything done that you think you can
01:46:22.640
get done because you very well may lose the opportunity to get anything passed in eight,
01:46:29.080
And then I guess you have the, until they get seated.
01:46:31.660
So 10 months, this is a, you do not have a big window here.
01:46:39.880
So the more you screw around with the little controversies, more you screw around with,
01:46:45.100
you know, uh, with everybody fighting with each other, that is just eating away at your
01:46:52.440
And that is mostly a conversation to have, not with the president, but with the house,
01:47:00.080
And I'd like you to look at the stats and tell me where those swings are.
01:47:05.480
If you're starting to see more of the, uh, old style, conservative Democrat, blue dog
01:47:15.640
Democrat, is that, is that starting to pop up at all?
01:47:21.620
This is one of the things they're talking about in this election and that Republicans
01:47:24.380
defense here is that Conor Lamb, the Democrat, he was basically just a Republican and guy ran
01:47:33.060
Um, I mean, like you tell me, is this, I don't know what a Republican is anymore.
01:47:37.920
I have no freaking idea, but the guy was against the tax cuts, said they were a big giveaway
01:47:42.460
He was, uh, he was, he's for new gun laws like that go further than Manchin to me.
01:47:51.780
So, I mean, again, it's not, he's not for big, he calls himself pro gun.
01:47:56.240
Um, and you know, he has that, he didn't come out as like Bernie, Bernie Sanders actually
01:48:01.720
He didn't come out as Nancy Pelosi on guns, right?
01:48:04.700
He came out as like, you know, I'm a, I'm a sensible Democrat.
01:48:07.420
We need new restrictions, but you know, universal background checks further than Manchin to me
01:48:13.480
Now, again, I don't know if that's a Republican position.
01:48:18.380
Um, he's pro choice and he is against not only just pro choice, but against the 20 week
01:48:26.260
So it's not like, I mean, 20 week abortion ban, you're talking 75% of Americans agree
01:48:34.080
So the idea that this guy is some Republican they ran in this district is bull crap.
01:48:40.620
Donald Trump won some Democrats, you know, in these, in these Rust Belt states.
01:48:45.260
But again, Mitt Romney won by basically the same margin.
01:48:47.860
This was not like a big, you know, union victory for Donald Trump in this district.
01:49:03.180
Again, elections are largely exercises in feelings.
01:49:09.400
These policies mean less and less every single time we go to the booth.
01:49:13.860
And I think if they feel that this is a common sense Democrat, the policies don't matter.
01:49:27.340
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So, you know, you can, you know, you can find jobs the way you normally do, or you can just go post them online or go up to HR or whatever.
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But this is something that companies the size of mine and below and all the way up to Fortune 100 companies use ZipRecruiter.
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And what they do is they, the first thing they did when they first came out was just post on all of the job sites with a single click, which would save you a ton of time.
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Now they have made ZipRecruiter smart to where it actually learns what you're looking for and then goes out and searches and then finds the best candidates.
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And it highlights the best candidates after it's invited everybody, you know, hey, did you see this job?
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As those applications come in, it highlights them so you don't miss them.
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You know that ZipRecruiter, which has taken the time to learn what you're looking for, has taken it and said, that is a great candidate.
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Make sure you interview them before you do anything else.
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It's how you find the great employees of the future.
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So Facebook comments on today's program, just to wrap up, Janet to McClellan wrote in and said, you know, people are saying that they're forbidding students, their exercise of their free First Amendment rights.
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The protest is scheduled to take place on a school day during hours that the schools are required to, the students are required to be in class.
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Any other school day or time would be perfectly fine.
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They should hold the protest on Saturday or after school hours to see where the feelings from these students about gun control really lie.
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Why isn't this at five o'clock during rush hour?
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You're always going to get increased turnout when you get out of class.
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Katie, you know the story about the person that won the lottery and they're saying, no, no, no.
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And then they filed a lawsuit and said, I don't want my likeness or my name used.
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The judge has ruled that they can remain anonymous.
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This is great from Andrea Baxter, a listener of ours, Andrea Baxter.
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I feel kind of bad for her, though, because she'll never get to meet her long lost cousin, Andrea Baxter.
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We may be witnessing the first lottery winner that may end up in 20 years having the cash.
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If you're going into it thinking that way, you probably are going to protect the cash.
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Yeah, you're thinking, I don't want to be known.
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Well, then if you don't want to be known, unless you're going to move, you're not going to live large.
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So this this might be the very first lottery winner who will all want to know, because they'll be the only ones that, you know, aren't laying in a gutter in five years going, I used to be somebody.