The Glenn Beck Program - How Much Free Speech Should We Allow？｜ Guests： Carol Roth & Dinesh D'Souza ｜ 5⧸2⧸22

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00:00:12.880 I'm just saying, you know, Stu, you know, you never turn down a mint from a friend because

00:00:17.720 you never know what they're really saying.

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00:01:01.200 We're going to talk a little bit about the White House Correspondents Dinner and the threat

00:01:05.280 to the freedom of speech next.

00:01:07.380 We've got no room to compromise.

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00:01:49.680 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:57.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:03.960 Imagine if we didn't have the right to a free press. 0.98

00:02:08.260 We didn't have a right to our opinions online.

00:02:11.400 Because that's what's happening now.

00:02:13.360 If you say something in the public square, you can be shut down.

00:02:17.860 Well, that public square is no longer, you know, in the supermarket or in the town square.

00:02:23.420 It's now online.

00:02:25.620 Dare I say the government is trying to build a digital ghetto with a digital wall.

00:02:32.800 You can talk all you want just on the other side of the wall where no one can hear you.

00:02:37.280 What happens when something like that is the way a country is run?

00:02:42.400 Well, you get things like this.

00:02:45.000 This coming in from the New York Times, President Xi Jinping from China went on a big tour of China.

00:02:54.380 He was talking about everything, the Olympics, yada, yada, yada.

00:02:58.220 But he didn't address at all the outbreaks in China, in Shanghai, where they have shut down the entire city of Shanghai.

00:03:09.460 Nobody asked him any questions.

00:03:13.120 He didn't really give any indication that it was even happening in China.

00:03:20.560 That's what happens when the government controls everything. 0.76

00:03:25.760 Imagine the don't say gay bill.

00:03:28.100 We'd all think that it was that Rick DeSantis actually did pass a don't say gay bill if it wasn't that we could question things.

00:03:39.080 Ron DeSantis.

00:03:40.060 I don't know why I keep calling him Rick.

00:03:41.460 Absolutely incredible.

00:03:42.840 You need to learn this man's name.

00:03:44.980 I got it.

00:03:45.460 I got it.

00:03:45.900 I got it.

00:03:46.340 When he's president.

00:03:47.260 When he's president.

00:03:47.960 94% of Americans are concerned about inflation.

00:03:54.100 Okay.

00:03:56.280 What happens when the press is just allowed to say it's temporary?

00:04:02.220 It's not that bad.

00:04:04.120 It's about to go.

00:04:05.400 It's about to get much better.

00:04:07.040 It's about to go down.

00:04:09.280 This is why freedom of the press is so important.

00:04:13.640 We begin there in 60 seconds.

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00:05:19.220 So, what happens when you can't say Rachel Levine is a dude, man?

00:05:27.140 It's a dude.

00:05:27.860 It's a dude.

00:05:29.360 What happens when you say Rachel Levine probably shouldn't be the one we're listening to

00:05:34.740 when she comes out and says pediatricians all agree on the importance of gender-affirming care for children?

00:05:44.940 What happens when you can't question things?

00:05:47.260 What happens when you can't have an opinion?

00:05:51.640 See, this is what the First Amendment is all about.

00:05:56.560 The freedom of speech.

00:05:58.200 The freedom to petition your government.

00:06:01.280 The freedom of press.

00:06:03.320 There is a really great book out.

00:06:06.400 The Know Your Rights and Know Your Bill of Rights book.

00:06:10.020 And I talk about it in my book, Addicted to Outrage.

00:06:14.620 And I talked about freedom of the press and how important it is.

00:06:19.340 It's essential if we are going to be free, you must be able to tolerate people saying crazy stuff.

00:06:31.340 And when I say you, I especially mean the government.

00:06:35.720 When freedom of press was first and freedom of speech was first put into the Bill of Rights, it was challenged.

00:06:43.420 How far does that, how far does that mean?

00:06:47.100 How far can you go?

00:06:49.000 Remember Edison, it was about 100 years later that he was like,

00:06:52.220 I got a crowded movie theater because we're watching a movie.

00:06:56.880 Don't cry fire.

00:06:58.240 So, you know, it took about 100 years before we got to that.

00:07:02.220 But you can say fire in a crowded movie house.

00:07:06.840 You can't incite a riot.

00:07:09.780 You can't incite panic.

00:07:12.460 But I've been on stage in several crowded theaters all across the country.

00:07:18.700 And I have said from the stage, fire.

00:07:21.400 There were certain things like the press now is saying, Elon Musk, he's going to let people just say they're going to rape me and give me threats of death on Twitter.

00:07:34.920 No, no, that's against the law.

00:07:37.660 That's against the law.

00:07:40.200 So if you break the law by inciting violence, inciting a riot, well, then that's not freedom of speech.

00:07:48.740 That's breaking the law.

00:07:50.080 Well, what's protected your opinion, even believe it or not, lies or things you can't prove about the government?

00:08:07.660 This was really well thought out about freedom of the press around the turn of the century in the 1800s.

00:08:20.080 They had the Sedition Act.

00:08:22.120 And that's where the guys who just wrote the Bill of Rights were like, you know what?

00:08:26.580 They're saying bad things about me and the government.

00:08:29.540 I don't like it.

00:08:31.480 And so we went back and forth and they passed the Sedition Act.

00:08:34.980 Now, Woodrow Wilson did the same thing.

00:08:38.200 He tried to do exactly the same thing and stifle people.

00:08:41.520 And now we're doing it again.

00:08:43.840 It rears its head about every hundred years.

00:08:47.620 And that should tell you something.

00:08:50.260 Politicians and people never change.

00:08:53.600 We're having the same argument.

00:08:56.140 So how do you how do you punish people?

00:09:02.160 How do I when when when a an author, an opinion guy like I am, when a newspaper prints something and the government says that's false and the government has all of the tools at its disposal.

00:09:20.540 It can hide documents.

00:09:22.940 It doesn't have to, for national security purposes, release certain information when they are the highest authority in the land.

00:09:32.200 And you're like, no, I'm telling you they're doing this.

00:09:37.800 How do you prove that?

00:09:40.980 And do you want the federal government to be able to say, no, you can't say that.

00:09:48.780 Would you want Nixon to be able to say to The Washington Post, you can't publish that.

00:09:55.300 Would you want the Pentagon to say to The New York Times, you can't publish those papers.

00:10:02.200 That stuff never happened.

00:10:07.260 Imagine.

00:10:08.120 Imagine how different it would be.

00:10:13.620 How does a government ensure the freedom of the individual and the press if they're the arbiter of truth?

00:10:29.580 How do you do that?

00:10:32.200 So our founders actually came up with a couple of really good statements.

00:10:40.260 Truth of opinions can't be proved.

00:10:45.160 Allowing truth as a defense of freedom is like asking a jury to say, what's the best food or drink?

00:10:53.460 It's an opinion.

00:10:57.000 So you can't prove the truth of opinions.

00:10:59.940 So opinion is covered.

00:11:01.740 A citizen should have and I'm quoting should have the right to say everything which is passions suggest he may employ all of his time, all of his talents.

00:11:14.640 And if he's wicked enough to do so in speaking against the government matters.

00:11:20.180 And using things that are false, scandalous or malicious.

00:11:25.920 Despite this, even if he condemns the principle of Republican institutions, censures the measures of our government and every department and officer thereof.

00:11:40.960 And ascribes the measures of the former and conduct of the latter, however upright to the basis motives, even if he ascribes to them measures and acts which never had existence.

00:11:57.800 Thus violating at one every principle of decency and truth.

00:12:05.300 He needs to be protected in his speech.

00:12:11.920 Holy cow. 0.89

00:12:13.620 You want to know how far it goes?

00:12:15.560 That's it.

00:12:17.220 That's it.

00:12:18.320 This was something incredibly new and novel.

00:12:22.720 No government had ever done anything like this.

00:12:26.640 It was so radical.

00:12:28.480 We're still debating it.

00:12:31.280 That's that's the key to our founders.

00:12:35.160 They were radicals.

00:12:37.240 So much so that we don't think of this as old, dusty and irrelevant.

00:12:42.420 That's as a that is as relevant today as anything else.

00:12:52.820 John Thompson wrote, the government cannot tell a citizen, you shall not think this or that upon certain subjects or if you do, it is at your own peril.

00:13:04.720 This was the first time the government was the slave.

00:13:13.120 Not the other way around.

00:13:16.880 The master.

00:13:20.180 Was the citizen.

00:13:23.440 We could tell government what they can and cannot do.

00:13:27.920 But we cannot have the government tell us what we can and cannot do.

00:13:36.920 Now, it took about 100 years before all of this was dismantled again.

00:13:43.240 Progressives started to dismantle free speech in the way that it would help them and injure their foes.

00:13:54.080 But John Stuart Mill in his book on liberty said,

00:13:56.900 The silencing of opinion is a particular evil.

00:14:01.880 For if that opinion is correct.

00:14:05.400 Then we're robbed of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth.

00:14:09.460 And if it's wrong, we're deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth.

00:14:14.980 In its collision with error.

00:14:21.420 Now, I brought up the progressives because the White House Correspondents Dinner.

00:14:26.900 It happened this weekend.

00:14:29.260 And nobody paid attention to it.

00:14:32.040 Nobody paid attention to it.

00:14:34.820 Because we know who all of these people are.

00:14:37.820 There are 3,000 people that attended this.

00:14:41.780 And they all gave themselves a big round of applause because they all showed their vaccination certificates at the door.

00:14:50.140 That's great.

00:14:53.140 That's great.

00:14:55.320 But what is this?

00:14:57.520 How did this even begin?

00:14:59.920 What does this have to do with the DHS and the Ministry of Truth?

00:15:07.120 I'll tell you in 60 seconds.

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00:16:58.720 So the president has always had press conferences.

00:17:01.820 And what changed in the nineteen hundreds is the the press used to work for the people.

00:17:08.680 Their their idea was that the people in Washington, D.C.

00:17:13.980 are the guys who are corrupt and have power and are trying to steal money and power from the people.

00:17:22.760 Woodrow Wilson and the progressives changed all of that.

00:17:26.540 And they they changed it.

00:17:28.120 In 1914, Woodrow Wilson decided, I'm not going to give any more press conferences.

00:17:34.160 It was like, wait, what?

00:17:36.520 And he's like, no, I don't think so.

00:17:39.000 Well, and all of the reporters went crazy.

00:17:42.080 He's like, OK, I'm going to have them from time to time.

00:17:45.160 I'll have them.

00:17:46.040 But I'm inviting only the people I want to invite.

00:17:50.040 That's where the White House Correspondents Association started.

00:17:55.260 They started because they saw the White House as an enemy.

00:17:59.740 And the White House was trying to cut off access.

00:18:04.260 And so the White House Correspondents got together and said, hey, we're the ones going to cover and you don't tell us who's going to be in and who's going to be out.

00:18:14.960 OK, then Woodrow Wilson had this idea.

00:18:20.100 What if we just get them all together and we make friends?

00:18:24.120 We just bring them into our circle.

00:18:27.740 This happened around the same time they were starting with Colonel House, the best friend of Woodrow Wilson, when they started the Council of Foreign Relations.

00:18:40.120 And no matter what it is today, what it was started as was let's get the scholars, the politicians and the media together to explain to them so they can understand.

00:18:52.540 And explain it to the people because the people are too stupid.

00:18:57.700 This is where you start getting the press looking down their nose at the average American.

00:19:04.280 Before that, it wasn't happening.

00:19:07.660 After the Wilson administration, they start thinking that they are better because they know because they're informed.

00:19:13.400 They talk to all the experts.

00:19:15.140 They talk to the politicians.

00:19:16.880 They know who they are.

00:19:18.280 We just had dinner the other night and we made mad passion and love after that.

00:19:25.360 And so that's that they start gathering as a group of intellectuals, politicians and media.

00:19:33.700 In 1920, I think the first White House correspondent, there's like 50 people there.

00:19:39.800 In 24, Silent Cow goes and Charlie Chaplin makes fun of him.

00:19:46.840 But it was it was a very small group of just the correspondents.

00:19:51.780 And it was a very small group.

00:19:53.440 And they would put, you know, back in the 50s and 60s, Frank Sinatra would show up and sing.

00:19:58.780 But there was no comedy until the 80s.

00:20:00.640 And that's when they started bringing the comedians on.

00:20:05.440 And the comedians used to be neutral and kind of, you know, Jay Leno ish.

00:20:11.820 So it wasn't, you know, nobody's hair was on fire.

00:20:14.460 And then in 94, Don Imus, a good friend of ours, went on, went on the stage and started making fun of Bill Clinton and, you know, cigars and and everything else.

00:20:30.240 In 94, 90, it was 96, I think.

00:20:34.860 That's when that's when that's when things kind of changed at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

00:20:42.700 Thank you, Don Imus.

00:20:45.520 But Don Imus was doing something that none of the rest of the press would.

00:20:49.580 He actually talked about it.

00:20:51.220 He burned everybody to the ground.

00:20:54.620 That's what should happen.

00:20:55.980 And that is exactly the kind of stuff this new disinformation governance board is involved in.

00:21:02.680 In fact, we happen to have the clip from the weekend.

00:21:06.640 Here's Mayorkas. 1.00

00:21:10.140 Cut number seven.

00:21:11.960 Here's this secretary of DHS.

00:21:14.440 Will American citizens be monitored?

00:21:16.420 No.

00:21:17.420 Guarantee that.

00:21:18.220 Well, so what we do, we in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.

00:21:24.860 You don't.

00:21:25.320 But will this board change that?

00:21:26.680 No, no, no.

00:21:27.020 The board does not have any operational authority or capability.

00:21:31.360 What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries.

00:21:41.000 Hold on just a second.

00:21:42.920 Mr. Secretary, follow up.

00:21:45.180 Are you using any other agencies that do monitor?

00:21:50.420 Are you using agencies from other countries that will monitor?

00:21:55.780 They're not going to give you the truth anyway.

00:21:58.480 But whenever anybody in the government says, oh, of course, we are not going to.

00:22:02.520 I can guarantee you they're already doing it.

00:22:04.980 They're already like, oh, yeah.

00:22:07.180 In fact, I knew that question was coming because I've been monitoring between you and your cohorts on the questions that you were going to ask me today.

00:22:14.780 Of course.

00:22:15.900 Of course they're monitoring.

00:22:17.460 I love how they blow it off as like, hey, we're announcing this big initiative.

00:22:22.300 It doesn't do anything, though.

00:22:23.980 Whatever you think it might do, it doesn't do those things.

00:22:27.860 It does nothing.

00:22:28.400 It's a total waste of time.

00:22:30.460 Don't worry about it at all.

00:22:31.740 Yeah.

00:22:32.320 Because it's only it's a positive idea that does not accomplish a thing.

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00:24:17.360 Pat Gray just joined us in studio bringing a big box of his Mother's Day cookies.

00:24:25.640 You mean the ones that you can find at Keksi.com?

00:24:29.680 Is that the ones I brought?

00:24:30.960 K-E-K-S-I?

00:24:33.120 Keksi.com.

00:24:34.140 It is such a great address.

00:24:36.040 Isn't it?

00:24:36.860 Keksi.com.

00:24:38.020 Yeah.

00:24:38.460 Just that easy.

00:24:39.340 It means cookie in Norwegian.

00:24:41.520 Finish.

00:24:41.920 Finish.

00:24:42.460 Yeah.

00:24:42.720 Finish.

00:24:43.140 Which we all speak.

00:24:45.380 So how are things going, Pat Gray?

00:24:47.460 Things are going well.

00:24:48.660 Are they?

00:24:48.920 We had the White House press correspondence dinner.

00:24:52.460 So great.

00:24:52.980 Whatever you call it.

00:24:54.500 Can't believe it's still going on, quite honestly.

00:24:56.520 Yeah.

00:24:56.820 I went one time.

00:24:59.040 Oh, that's right.

00:24:59.740 I forgot about that.

00:25:01.840 Honestly, it was the scummiest thing I've ever been to.

00:25:05.560 I left there and literally my wife and I said, I feel like I have to take a shower after that.

00:25:12.400 It was so scummy.

00:25:14.940 This is not revisionism either.

00:25:16.320 This was literally the day after you said that.

00:25:18.580 Yeah.

00:25:18.860 This is not like you looking back.

00:25:20.620 Was it during the Bush administration?

00:25:22.160 No, it was the first year of the Obama administration.

00:25:26.420 Yeah.

00:25:26.660 Bill O'Reilly had invited me to go and said, come on, sit at the Fox table.

00:25:32.180 And I was like, really, Bill?

00:25:33.320 And he's like, yeah, no, it'll be fun.

00:25:34.940 And if it wasn't for Bill, it wouldn't have been fun.

00:25:39.720 But we were making fun of it the whole time.

00:25:43.240 And it really, I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

00:25:46.240 It was just so dirty.

00:25:48.900 It really is incredible that it goes on.

00:25:51.940 And it was, did they cancel it completely during the Trump administration or at least

00:25:55.500 a couple of times?

00:25:56.200 Trump was just not interested in.

00:25:57.720 Yeah.

00:25:57.840 He didn't go.

00:25:58.780 And then it became canceled because of COVID.

00:26:01.500 And they say, I mean, the left has a narrative that the one, I think it was Colbert hosting

00:26:06.660 it.

00:26:07.020 And Trump was an attendee and they were making fun of him the whole time.

00:26:10.960 Yeah.

00:26:11.180 And they say that that was one of the reasons, the legend is that was one of the reasons

00:26:15.440 Trump was like, screw it, I'm running.

00:26:17.040 I'm going after these people.

00:26:18.060 I've heard that.

00:26:18.680 Yeah.

00:26:18.920 I've heard that.

00:26:19.300 We should ask him that.

00:26:20.240 Yeah.

00:26:20.600 I mean, I don't know if it's real or not, but I mean, it's, it's a, that is the narrative

00:26:24.560 of the left.

00:26:25.140 They're like, we should probably, you know, watch who we make fun of in the future because

00:26:29.180 they'll probably be the next president. 0.93

00:26:30.700 I just think that now, you know, maybe you stop doing that.

00:26:35.220 You stop doing the whole thing.

00:26:36.600 Really?

00:26:37.100 Why?

00:26:37.300 Because it's, it's, it's a little like, I mean, you've got Biden talking about his low

00:26:42.620 approval ratings and what's, you've got, uh, Trevor Noah talking about everything looking

00:26:49.820 up, gas prices, grocery prices, uh, automobile prices.

00:26:57.380 And it's, it's just reminds me of, uh, Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

00:27:03.060 It's, it's got that feel to it now.

00:27:05.700 Yeah.

00:27:05.920 You got Biden standing up saying, uh, my, my approval rating.

00:27:13.540 Anyway, that was a good line.

00:27:16.740 That was the best line.

00:27:17.440 That was a good line.

00:27:18.100 That was really funny.

00:27:19.040 That might've been the funniest line of all, but he's talking about his low approval rating.

00:27:23.460 These things aren't funny.

00:27:24.920 You know, you're the president of the United States and we're in real trouble right now.

00:27:29.640 Yeah.

00:27:29.780 They, they didn't do this during, um, the great depression.

00:27:33.120 They had it, but it was very somber.

00:27:36.340 I think that's how it should be.

00:27:38.080 You know, gauge the room a little bit.

00:27:40.280 Um, America is kind of reeling right now, especially with the devastating losses we have going on

00:27:44.980 right now.

00:27:45.340 I mean, they could have at least done a funeral for CNN plus at the very least.

00:27:49.920 That's too devastating to even talk about them.

00:27:52.220 Would that have been great?

00:27:52.920 Oh, it would have.

00:27:53.860 That's what you would have done.

00:27:55.020 Oh, I would have.

00:27:57.360 I would have had the casket brought in and everything.

00:28:00.300 You bet I would have.

00:28:02.420 That would have been really good.

00:28:03.700 Imus really wrecked my chance of ever being a host. 0.99

00:28:07.680 Yes.

00:28:08.080 You know what I mean?

00:28:08.740 They learned, don't put somebody who does talk radio on stage because they don't care.

00:28:15.320 They don't care.

00:28:16.000 They don't.

00:28:16.380 Imus really didn't care.

00:28:17.920 And what, was he the host of one of these?

00:28:20.820 No, he was the, he was the comedian.

00:28:23.140 Yeah.

00:28:23.520 And he got up and he burned the house down.

00:28:28.820 He made fun of everybody and then he was like, uh, uh, you know, how Hillary is, how Hillary

00:28:36.420 doesn't like it when, when Bill just pulls up a truck and just says, Hey babes, get in

00:28:41.860 and they all get in the back of the truck and it was not good.

00:28:46.020 He doesn't care though.

00:28:47.540 He doesn't care.

00:28:48.360 He doesn't care.

00:28:48.800 And he was on the air the next day saying, what did you expect me to say?

00:28:52.660 Right.

00:28:53.180 That's what I say on the air.

00:28:55.040 You expect me to not say it to your face?

00:28:57.880 Of course I will.

00:28:59.200 Right.

00:29:00.160 Although it wasn't as good natured fun as they like, uh, it's only good natured fun if it's

00:29:04.800 directed against a Republican.

00:29:06.440 Yes.

00:29:06.800 That's the only time it's okay.

00:29:08.380 Correct.

00:29:08.820 Right.

00:29:09.000 Cause it didn't Bush, maybe it was Colbert that I'm thinking of, but like Bush had Colbert

00:29:12.800 out at one of them or Jon Stewart or something.

00:29:14.540 And it was ugly.

00:29:15.240 It was ugly.

00:29:15.660 Like they just, they didn't, they didn't, the tone of, the tone of Imus's was exactly

00:29:20.720 what you'd expect from Imus.

00:29:22.220 Right.

00:29:23.180 Uh, you know, and like, I get the idea of a roast, right?

00:29:27.420 You're taking this person who's, I'm certainly with Biden.

00:29:30.560 I can't believe anyone's ever saying anything to him that is questioning him.

00:29:35.020 It doesn't seem like he's running, uh, his, his administration, like he's scared president

00:29:40.020 that has any input from anyone's Satan.

00:29:42.860 Yeah.

00:29:43.300 So like, you know, you get, they get it, knock them down a notch.

00:29:45.760 I mean, like there's something American about that, but that's not what happens unless you're

00:29:49.540 a Republican.

00:29:50.440 Republicans, they're just mean to them.

00:29:51.960 And Democrats are like, ah, look at all the people who are dying from various problems.

00:29:57.120 That's kind of the tone of it.

00:29:59.000 You know, it really is kind of a, uh, uh, a snobbish kind of look, but you know, the American

00:30:05.140 people don't care.

00:30:06.380 It's just, it is, uh, you know, I was telling somebody the other day, I really want the next

00:30:13.540 president to have the attitude.

00:30:15.980 I mean, and Trump could pull this off.

00:30:18.260 I want everybody to know I'm going to destroy your property values.

00:30:22.640 Uh, not, you know, inside the beltway.

00:30:25.860 If you live in Northern Virginia or Southern Maryland, I'm going to sell your house. 0.78

00:30:32.520 You won't be able to get shoes for your house because I'm going to go in and fire everybody.

00:30:38.040 I just, I want somebody who takes this system on.

00:30:42.900 Yeah.

00:30:43.560 And you know, the Republicans, have you seen their plan?

00:30:47.440 Cause I've seen their plan when they take over, they're going to have hearings.

00:30:53.640 Oh yeah.

00:30:54.320 We're going to get lots, lots of really good fundraising clips out of hearings.

00:30:59.140 That's going to be the highlight of hearings.

00:31:00.760 If, if they actually win and don't blow it here in the midterm, which they should really

00:31:04.920 could though, they, they, they, well, I mean, could blow it.

00:31:08.240 Yes.

00:31:08.500 There's about a 40% chance.

00:31:10.120 I think that they completely blow it.

00:31:11.880 So here's the thing.

00:31:13.340 Hispanics are, Hispanics are moving away from the Democrats. 1.00

00:31:17.500 Yeah.

00:31:17.980 Big time.

00:31:18.400 Like crazy.

00:31:18.820 But they are not going to the Republicans.

00:31:22.200 The Republicans have only grown with Hispanics. 0.99

00:31:25.280 Like 1%.

00:31:26.560 Where are they going?

00:31:27.680 Just independent?

00:31:28.280 Yeah.

00:31:28.740 Just like, I'm not for these guys.

00:31:31.700 Yeah.

00:31:31.880 Because I mean, that might still get them the votes, but I don't think there's a, there's

00:31:35.500 not a huge vision that you see that I think people are excited about on, uh, from the Republicans.

00:31:42.880 The one thing they're excited about.

00:31:43.580 Because they all have cataracts.

00:31:46.300 It's hard to have vision when you have cataracts.

00:31:47.860 It's really hard to have vision.

00:31:49.180 But like, it's like, I think people, what, what are people excited about on the right

00:31:53.180 right now?

00:31:53.720 And it's pushing back against things like CRT.

00:31:56.660 It's pushing back against, you know, the gender stuff. 0.98

00:31:59.840 It's all that sort of defense type of stuff.

00:32:02.480 Now they're going, they're being more aggressive on defense, right?

00:32:05.620 They're, they're, they're putting on the press rather than sitting back in a zone, which is

00:32:08.700 Glenn did not understand that reference at all.

00:32:10.380 But it's one of those things where they're at least turning up the pressure a little bit

00:32:14.740 here.

00:32:15.440 Uh, they're just, I think that's what people are excited about, but there's no like, Hey,

00:32:20.180 here's how we're changing healthcare.

00:32:21.620 Hey, here's how we're changing the economy.

00:32:23.360 No, there's not a lot there because as much as you don't like the Democrats, you want

00:32:28.000 the Republicans to give you an alternative and they never do.

00:32:31.260 They never do.

00:32:31.980 They will say we're going to push back on things, but where is the alternative?

00:32:36.460 I mean, I really want, we should put this together ourselves.

00:32:40.740 Uh, I, I just really want a, a president and a party who says we're going to fire a lot

00:32:47.840 of people like 80% of this government.

00:32:51.560 We're just going to fire everybody.

00:32:54.360 Uh, and we don't care what anybody says, but it's time to clean this thing out.

00:32:58.680 And the best thing we can do is return power to the people.

00:33:02.180 So we're just going to, we're just going to shut a lot of it down and we're going to

00:33:05.860 not, we're not going to do it through, uh, you know, Fiat.

00:33:09.320 We're not going to just have the president do something where they can reverse.

00:33:12.140 We're passing laws.

00:33:13.660 We're passing laws.

00:33:15.020 And you know what?

00:33:15.940 If this president doesn't sign it fine, the laws will be all passed and ready to go.

00:33:21.560 And the next president can come in and just sign away, but we have the purse strings.

00:33:26.020 I would like Congress to say, you know what?

00:33:28.220 We're taking our power back.

00:33:29.900 CDC can't do that stuff.

00:33:31.800 And in fact, we're going to take it back.

00:33:35.100 Officially.

00:33:35.620 We, as a Republican house and Senate are saying no more of these bills that just say, uh,

00:33:43.860 the secretary's discretion.

00:33:45.800 No, these are the laws.

00:33:48.260 You want to change them?

00:33:49.560 Got to go through Congress.

00:33:50.960 You're thinking maybe like the, uh, American form of government.

00:33:54.280 Maybe we should return to that.

00:33:55.620 Yeah.

00:33:55.800 Okay.

00:33:56.300 Yeah.

00:33:56.720 Cause I don't know.

00:33:57.560 I mean, this new one's kind of fun.

00:33:59.820 Yeah.

00:34:00.180 We just, we just take the power that's specifically designated in the constitution to Congress.

00:34:05.500 And then Congress, Congress just says, Hey, that power you gave me, I'm just going to give

00:34:08.960 it to somebody else.

00:34:09.960 We're going to transfer it to someone else.

00:34:11.560 Cause the decision making there is really like people keep calling us on it.

00:34:16.020 And we'd rather an election.

00:34:18.020 It's just too hard.

00:34:19.440 It's just too hard.

00:34:20.920 Yeah.

00:34:21.120 Really hard.

00:34:21.700 You know, the communists have it really easy cause somebody just makes a decision and

00:34:25.000 they move on.

00:34:26.640 That's real government right there.

00:34:28.660 By the way, speaking of that, have you heard that Putin is going in for cancer surgery?

00:34:33.060 Yeah, I did hear that.

00:34:34.280 Yeah.

00:34:34.500 Okay.

00:34:36.480 All right.

00:34:38.800 Um, would you, if you were Putin, would you feel comfortable with being put out?

00:34:45.580 He doesn't even want to sit in the same room as his employees.

00:34:49.260 He's like 50,000 feet away from them.

00:34:51.120 You trusted that.

00:34:52.140 No, the little sleepy sleep time.

00:34:54.220 Don't worry.

00:34:54.900 We'll wake you right back up.

00:34:56.540 I mean, that is, that's a scary thing.

00:35:00.400 For him.

00:35:00.960 For him.

00:35:01.740 Yeah.

00:35:01.980 That Putin's going under and could be for us.

00:35:04.580 Who takes over?

00:35:06.440 Medvedev?

00:35:07.540 I mean, Medvedev would be the, would be the logical guy because he's so associated with

00:35:13.140 Putin.

00:35:13.620 He obviously was the head of the government.

00:35:15.560 And, you know, when Putin had that, uh, that difficult constitutional situation where he

00:35:21.440 couldn't run again.

00:35:22.220 Right.

00:35:22.520 Like, ah, let's give it to this guy.

00:35:24.040 And then when I come back in, we're going to make it so I don't have to do this anymore.

00:35:26.860 Right.

00:35:27.140 Um, yeah.

00:35:28.400 I mean, I don't know.

00:35:29.360 They put the, they have, they appointed someone new to, to, uh, to do the war planning and

00:35:35.740 everything while he's out.

00:35:36.840 I mean, it is a pretty serious issue.

00:35:38.740 Yeah, it's serious.

00:35:39.200 They said they, they'll, he'll be out and they don't know when he'll be back to.

00:35:42.940 Would you take your chances though, at this point with Putin?

00:35:45.280 I mean, like it, yes, you could do worse, but I don't think he, he's no longer, I think

00:35:49.920 five years ago you might say, okay, Putin's really bad, but at least he's a known quantity.

00:35:54.680 Like at this point, I don't even think he's more unstable now.

00:35:57.480 Yeah.

00:35:57.620 He's unstable.

00:35:58.460 He's doing, it might be because he's has nothing to lose.

00:36:01.560 Yeah.

00:36:02.000 Yeah.

00:36:02.400 He's dying and he knows it and he wants to make a mark before he goes out.

00:36:06.060 Yeah.

00:36:07.080 So I'm just hoping that dangerous.

00:36:09.300 Oops.

00:36:09.620 My hand slipped.

00:36:10.580 Yeah.

00:36:10.680 Oh, dang it.

00:36:11.200 It's gas.

00:36:11.820 Oh, what happened there?

00:36:13.880 Holy cow. 0.89

00:36:15.560 All right.

00:36:16.260 Inflation is substantially outpacing wage growth.

00:36:19.800 Sorry.

00:36:20.620 I meant to tell you, sit down first.

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00:36:24.920 I'm sure, as you might imagine, that sort of thing can kind of put a damper on your budget.

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00:37:31.360 The Russian sanctions are about to get much, much worse.

00:37:49.860 It looks like Germany now has said that they will join a complete embargo on Russian oil

00:37:59.520 that only leaves a few states left to do that in Europe.

00:38:03.720 But there's something else.

00:38:05.300 Everybody knows that oil and gas production is, you know, the number one driver of the

00:38:10.860 Russian economy, between 50% and 60% of their GDP.

00:38:16.260 And, you know, so you conjure up, you know, visions of swarthy, shirtless, sweaty Russians 1.00

00:38:21.600 carrying around giant wrenches on their shoulder.

00:38:24.300 Have I thought about this too much?

00:38:26.160 Opening up the oil and closing them down.

00:38:29.240 However, this is not the way it actually works.

00:38:33.960 Russia owns all the oil and gas fields, but they mostly are operated by Western, U.S.-based

00:38:40.680 companies.

00:38:42.140 Oil and gas is Russian, but the extraction and refinement has been handled by Western

00:38:47.580 companies using U.S., Canadian, and Scandinavian workers.

00:38:52.400 There are only a few companies in the world that can do what they do.

00:38:57.940 All three companies said that they would suspend all future projects with Russia and refuse all

00:39:05.540 future contracts.

00:39:06.660 But they were seeing out the existing contracts to see an orderly shutdown of the oil fields.

00:39:15.260 Well, that's tens of thousands of workers who are now leaving the country.

00:39:22.640 Siberia, Mongolia, the North Sea.

00:39:26.360 Those contracts are now ending.

00:39:29.540 The wind down date is May 15th.

00:39:33.660 It's fast.

00:39:35.240 Yeah.

00:39:36.060 They're saying now between what's happening in Europe and shutting down all of these, the

00:39:42.700 ability to extract oil and to refine it and ship it, that they'll very quickly go into a

00:39:52.400 depression.

00:39:53.440 Not a recession, but a depression.

00:39:55.540 They've already lost 10% of their GDP.

00:39:58.960 And they can't really make it up with India and China, which has been kind of their hope. 0.99

00:40:02.860 At least that's what analysts are saying.

00:40:05.820 Yeah.

00:40:06.020 It's hard to know exactly.

00:40:07.100 I mean, they've said various things before.

00:40:10.080 They said the ruble was going to completely collapse, and it did for a while, and then it

00:40:13.320 bounced back up.

00:40:15.080 There's some uncertainty, I think, attached to this.

00:40:17.120 But it's hard to justify, I think, if you're some Eastern European country that is sending 1.00

00:40:22.840 missiles into this region to fight against the Russians to take their oil, isn't it?

00:40:29.820 I mean, isn't there some moral consistency there that, you know, it may very well throw

00:40:36.380 Russia into a depression, but that's not your concern, right?

00:40:38.880 If you're one of these European countries that is afraid of being invaded.

00:40:42.180 But as you point out, as Putin feels more desperate, as he feels more humiliated by this,

00:40:47.980 if that is where this goes, it could escalate even farther.

00:40:52.340 The great-granddaughter of Khrushchev came out over the weekend and said,

00:40:56.480 we are closer now to nuclear war than we were when my great-great-grandfather was dealing

00:41:03.480 with John F. Kennedy.

00:41:05.280 She said this, at least at that point, both of them knew you can't fight a nuclear war.

00:41:11.700 She said, I'm not getting that from either side.

00:41:15.180 More in just a second.

00:41:16.460 We're going to talk about your economy.

00:41:20.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:23.600 I want to tell you about Bilt Bar.

00:41:24.980 Bilt Bar, you know, you actually have to work out, apparently.

00:41:29.880 And you shouldn't eat more of these than, you know, just because they're lower in calories

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00:41:37.740 You know, that's what they say.

00:41:39.040 You do that thing where you have the five Bilt Bar sandwich, which I don't think...

00:41:43.220 It is delicious.

00:41:44.800 It's a lot of different flavors, and it's very...

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00:41:47.720 You have to mash them down quite a bit.

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00:41:53.440 See, I don't think this is how they're designed to be used.

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00:43:02.420 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:43:10.460 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:13.420 Hey, don't worry about that inflation or war or, you know, anything, food shortages or something,

00:43:22.260 because Samantha Power is on it.

00:43:26.380 She's now with USAID.

00:43:29.780 Here's what she said over the weekend about, you know, not having a lot of fertilizer.

00:43:35.440 Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia's a big exporter of fertilizer, and even though

00:43:41.620 fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia.

00:43:46.140 As a result, we're working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and

00:43:50.740 compost, and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make

00:43:55.840 eventually anyway. So never let a crisis go to waste, but we really do need this financial support

00:44:01.040 from the Congress to be able to meet emergency food needs so we don't see the cascading deadly effects

00:44:07.940 of Russia's war extend into Africa and beyond.

00:44:10.920 Won't this be great? Natural solutions to fertilizer, which will hasten the Great Reset.

00:44:17.220 Things that would be in the farmer's best interest anyway in the long term.

00:44:21.480 Isn't this fantastic? We're going to take your questions on the economy.

00:44:27.140 Carol Roth joins us in 60 seconds.

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00:45:42.120 Our our good friend Carol Roth is here.

00:45:45.760 She's a recovering investment banker.

00:45:48.240 She is also the author of the book The War on Small Business.

00:45:54.520 And she's she worked across all kinds of industry.

00:45:59.100 She's an outsourced CCO and a director on public and private company boards as a strategy advisor.

00:46:08.480 Here. Welcome, Carol.

00:46:09.740 How are you?

00:46:10.980 I am doing well, Glenn, and happy National Small Business Week to you.

00:46:14.920 Yeah. Thank you very much.

00:46:16.660 You know, I never really wanted to start my own.

00:46:20.280 But it's not something that I was like, hey, I can't wait to do that because my dad was a small businessman and it's really tough.

00:46:27.320 I mean, I saw him struggle his whole life.

00:46:30.160 And then I did it because I just didn't want to work for clowns.

00:46:33.520 I didn't know what they were doing.

00:46:35.100 I mean, if I want to work for that clown, might as well be me.

00:46:37.360 You know, I'm saying is is I'm concerned that small business can't continue in a country where we are teaching our kids to be risk averse.

00:46:51.000 It's certainly very difficult or you get the type of entrepreneurs who are delusional, who think that it's easy.

00:47:03.560 We all know who David Hogg is, I believe.

00:47:08.100 And, you know, he was complaining on Twitter the other day how difficult it was.

00:47:12.100 He tried to set up an LLC and boy, it was so difficult.

00:47:16.540 And why does the government make it so hard?

00:47:19.420 Oh, I hate these guys.

00:47:22.020 I mean, really?

00:47:23.660 Welcome to the party, David.

00:47:25.300 Well, I know.

00:47:26.300 And so, I mean, in a sense, it's almost a good thing.

00:47:29.240 It's almost like we should have a training program.

00:47:31.960 Where anybody who's leaning towards socialism is required to start a small business just so they can see how difficult it is.

00:47:40.380 But certainly an aversion to risk, you know, more consolidation of power that takes away the opportunity to innovate.

00:47:49.700 And all of the barriers that the government has put up to make it more difficult to not only start a small business, but to hire your first employee and to allow a small business owner to succeed, you know, it is not a good thing for economic freedom, which is one of the reasons why people come here from all over the world to try to start that business and live the American dream.

00:48:11.580 So when the Fed is raising the interest rates to try to control inflation, the reason why this led to an economic boom in the 80s is because at the same time, the government said, forget all this regulation, just go out and start a business, right?

00:48:30.880 Without that part of the Reagan plan, raising interest rates while piling new regulation on, that's really a killer, isn't it?

00:48:44.980 Yeah, I mean, if you think about the Fed's options here and what they're trying to do in terms of slowing down the economy, given the backdrop that we have of this messed up labor market and supply chain.

00:49:00.160 I mean, I mean, the only way you're really getting a slower economy, in my opinion, is if small businesses and to some extent, big businesses, you know, just stop hiring altogether.

00:49:11.920 And I think the small businesses, since they've had such a hard time hiring, you know, can't survive or, you know, other things that make it very difficult for a small business to survive.

00:49:22.480 So the well-capitalized big businesses are going to be able to withstand this roller coaster, which benefited them on the front end, and they will coast through, you know, come out the other end okay.

00:49:34.640 And the small businesses that have been beaten up, you know, have been closed, didn't get the relief funds, and, you know, haven't been able to take advantage of that free debt because they're smaller in scale, are really the ones that are going to suffer from all of this.

00:49:50.400 Once again, Glenn, once again.

00:49:52.100 So, if I read this one more time, my head will pop.

00:49:56.380 I keep reading that the economy is, I mean, people are spending money like there's no tomorrow because the average American just has so much money in their bank account.

00:50:09.660 I know that's not true.

00:50:13.360 Common sense will tell you that's not true.

00:50:16.280 Can you please put this to bed?

00:50:18.980 So, the average, and we've talked about before, average is not necessarily the median.

00:50:27.560 It's often dragged up by the wealthy at the top end.

00:50:31.160 But the average American is in better shape going into this potential recession or stagflation or whatever it is that we're about to face and kind of in the middle of than they have been in other recessions.

00:50:46.620 The personal saving rate is around, I think, 6.2%, 6.3% as of the end of March, which was the last number that came out.

00:50:58.340 Now, that is worse than where we were in 2019 and 2020 going into the pandemic decisions, but it's not sort of horrible on a historic level.

00:51:12.880 We had people pay down a lot of their credit card debt with the relief funds and whatnot since they were staying home during the pandemic.

00:51:20.980 Now, that's starting to creep back up again.

00:51:23.620 So, today, they are in better shape, but the trajectory, particularly with the inflation, as we know, is eating away at that.

00:51:33.360 So, I would imagine that the personal saving rate will continue to decline.

00:51:37.460 We will continue to see balances increase on their credit cards.

00:51:41.020 And at some point, the consumer won't have that strength in their balance sheet and probably will also be making decisions to just punt certain expenditures because their core expenditures of living every single day have gone through the roof.

00:51:55.740 So, we had some questions come in from the audience, and I want to go over a couple of them.

00:52:01.140 Steve and Mary wrote in.

00:52:02.660 You can write in, by the way, glennbeck.com slash question.

00:52:06.520 I keep hearing about food shortages.

00:52:09.920 Some say that famine is coming.

00:52:12.420 My wife and I keep arguing back and forth. 0.99

00:52:15.320 She says this is really the rest of the world and not us.

00:52:20.000 Yes, food will be more expensive because of inflation, but we won't have shortages.

00:52:25.820 Which one of us is right?

00:52:28.980 So, probably splitting that down the middle.

00:52:33.200 Certainly, there is a ginormous crisis across the globe.

00:52:38.760 We heard that clip that you played from the fantastic Samantha Power, who doesn't seem to care, that potentially, you know, 40 to 65 percent of the world could be food insecure or, you know, face starvation because, you know, we don't have enough fertilizer.

00:52:53.880 Certainly, we are in a better position in the United States, but it depends on things going the right way.

00:53:03.380 I mean, we've seen that we had, you know, a bout of avion flu that we had to contend with.

00:53:09.280 You know, it depends on crop yields.

00:53:11.660 It depends on our government not just doing stupid things.

00:53:14.960 I mean, we're seeing them pulling, you know, feed out of, you know, of the farm in order to put it into gasoline so that they don't have to drill for more oil.

00:53:27.180 I mean, they don't make the best decision.

00:53:29.960 So, I wouldn't say that there isn't a possibility that we're going to have issues here because I think there is that possibility.

00:53:38.660 It just probably isn't as stark as it is in the rest of the world.

00:53:43.400 That being said, nobody's ever been upset for being too prepared.

00:53:49.100 So, be prepared for that.

00:53:51.260 Worst case scenario.

00:53:52.580 Ron in New York wrote, I think my job is secure, but so did my grandfather or my great-grandfather during the Great Depression.

00:54:02.900 How do we know what's coming?

00:54:05.020 What is the difference and how do we prepare?

00:54:07.540 Is it smart for me to buy a house at this point?

00:54:10.520 So, again, this is not financial advice, just some food for thought for you.

00:54:19.000 It really depends on your personal financial situation.

00:54:23.740 You know, if you're somebody who is still sort of living paycheck to paycheck or building up your reserves, we don't know what is coming down the pike.

00:54:34.060 You know, there are a lot of issues.

00:54:36.980 The big thing right now geopolitically is, you know, are these stupid statements from the Biden administration going to pull us into some sort of a nuclear war?

00:54:46.280 At that point, you know, all bets are off.

00:54:49.000 If we're just looking at sort of the inflation picture and the recession, I think the one benefit that we do have is that we have so few people in the labor market.

00:55:00.380 Now, granted, it may get many people off the sidelines as they see their 401ks shrinking and have to deal with more inflation.

00:55:09.100 But if you have a job that you are secure in, you are probably in a better position.

00:55:15.080 But it's always good, again, to kind of think through what are your second and third options.

00:55:20.960 What could you do if that worst case scenario comes about?

00:55:24.600 And then, you know, again, look at sort of the risk reward on the home front situation.

00:55:30.260 We are underbuilt as a nation in terms of homes.

00:55:33.880 And that is long term, probably going to support housing prices.

00:55:38.080 But it doesn't mean there isn't going to be some variability in the meantime, especially with the increase in mortgage rates.

00:55:45.000 So I would just spend a lot of time doing the little pros and cons and putting that plan together for your plan B and plan C and, you know, wish you a ton of success.

00:55:54.080 I remember my parents getting a small business in the 70s.

00:55:59.860 It was a nightmare because it was a lot like this.

00:56:03.880 Is it get what do you mean?

00:56:07.820 What do you think is coming?

00:56:08.900 Is it like the 1970s and it just stays like this?

00:56:14.040 I mean, nobody knows.

00:56:17.340 You know what I mean?

00:56:18.060 No.

00:56:18.540 Americans have no benchmark. 0.98

00:56:23.360 Yeah.

00:56:23.920 Yeah.

00:56:24.460 But no benchmark to go back and say it will be like this.

00:56:28.200 We've never seen this.

00:56:29.720 No, there are just a number of factors that are all coming together.

00:56:34.880 And as I said, I think that geopolitical wild card is the biggest wild card right now.

00:56:42.180 Assuming that we can get that piece under control, because as I said, if that goes off the rails, all bets are off here.

00:56:49.080 I think the likelihood is that we see a recession.

00:56:53.500 But because of the way the recession has come about and some of the other weird things that are happening in the economy.

00:57:02.120 I think, at least in the United States, it's probably a shallower recession than we have seen in previous periods.

00:57:13.000 You know, not to say that that won't cause real pain for people.

00:57:17.160 It will.

00:57:18.480 You know, there will be people probably who lose their jobs.

00:57:21.420 Small businesses will end up closing.

00:57:24.080 But I don't think I think that it will be shorter in duration than it otherwise would have been if we didn't have some of these other structural issues going on at the same time.

00:57:35.660 That's fingers crossed. But, you know, there are a number of factors here that the Fed between raising rates and shrinking their balance sheets, the geopolitical issues and, you know, some of the other kind of issues that we're contending with.

00:57:48.860 You know, that that's just sort of a best guess right now.

00:57:51.140 But but we've got to stay on top of this real time because things could change really quickly.

00:57:55.400 All right. Back with more and Carol Roth and your phone call, 888-727-BECK.

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00:59:24.900 Jen in Texas. 0.97

00:59:26.560 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:29.160 Glenn, thank you for taking my call.

00:59:31.000 My question is just recently, within the last 30 days or so, my husband completely.

00:59:37.020 My husband and I completely paid off our mortgage.

00:59:39.840 Was this a dumb thing to do?

00:59:44.740 Because now we've we've we've totally we're now debt free now.

00:59:49.540 But and that's a wonderful thing.

00:59:51.400 But now we miss out on that tax advantage.

00:59:54.720 So, you know, I have to tell you, being debt free is probably the best thing you could ever do.

01:00:00.160 But I hear this question, Carol, from so many people.

01:00:03.360 A, I don't get the tax advantage.

01:00:05.020 And B, if if we go into real inflation, doesn't that help me pay down a debt?

01:00:13.100 I had use of dollars that are worth a lot more.

01:00:16.480 I mean, they play this game.

01:00:18.500 Can you answer this?

01:00:19.920 Yeah.

01:00:20.300 So, I mean, it really depends on how sophisticated you are financially and how on top of things you are.

01:00:27.800 I mean, the reality is that for most Americans, you're not going, oh, well, you know, on a on a real interest rate basis, this is a negative interest rate on my house.

01:00:36.860 And I'm really glad I have this capital to do these other things.

01:00:40.300 I never think it's a bad thing to get rid of your debt, because that's just money that's going out the window.

01:00:47.000 And unless you have some other great investment that is replacing that same kind of return.

01:00:53.620 And right now, like, I'm just not sure where you're getting that.

01:00:58.060 You know, we're having that the stock market is in turmoil.

01:01:01.940 You certainly aren't getting that in your bank accounts.

01:01:04.360 So, you know, now you have it in that asset.

01:01:07.840 You don't have to worry about it.

01:01:09.180 You're not putting that extra money out each month.

01:01:13.060 And then on the tax benefit side, I mean, again, I'm not a tax accountant, but, you know, they've changed a lot of the rules.

01:01:20.300 Like, you're not getting that much of a benefit the same way that you used to.

01:01:24.560 They put a lot of caps around these things.

01:01:27.600 So, you know, certainly talk to your tax accountant.

01:01:30.480 But, you know, from my perspective, for just kind of the average person who's trying to do the right thing, getting out of debt is a phenomenal, phenomenal move.

01:01:42.360 And, again, unless you've got some other amazing investment that you know is going to return you more than what it is you're paying on your debt, net, net, you've won.

01:01:51.680 Thank you so much, Jen.

01:01:53.020 I appreciate it.

01:01:53.740 So that is the hard thing to, I think, for people to figure out or to really understand how it's not that prices are going up.

01:02:04.320 It's that your dollar is losing value.

01:02:07.780 And that causes people to raise prices because their dollar doesn't go as far to buy all of the things that they need to buy, right?

01:02:18.520 Yeah.

01:02:19.040 I mean, if you have a business, you have all of your vendors who have higher wages, higher cost of inputs.

01:02:26.440 So that means whatever it is that they're selling to you is higher in cost.

01:02:30.660 You're contending with higher wages and higher operating costs.

01:02:34.840 And you put all those together.

01:02:36.300 And all of a sudden, your profit margins, which in most industries, you know, aren't that big.

01:02:41.240 Sometimes they're in the single digits, you know, starts to erode.

01:02:45.380 And so you say, well, either I have to pass this on to the consumer or, in some cases, they shrink the product that they're offering called shrinkflation.

01:02:55.840 You know, the pizza that you get that, you know, used to be huge, you know, all of a sudden kind of looks like it's half the size.

01:03:02.320 Or they end up going out of business.

01:03:04.120 There are only so many different levers that can be pulled.

01:03:06.900 And that's, you know, that's how it ends up seeping through the economy.

01:03:11.400 And, you know, it's why it ends up impacting all of us and being a permanent tax.

01:03:16.600 Carol Roth, she is the author of The War on Small Business.

01:03:21.000 You can ask her anything that you want.

01:03:24.840 You can follow her on her website at carolroth.com or caroljsroth on Twitter.

01:03:34.680 But you can ask any questions and we'll have her on again to answer questions at glennbeck.com slash question.

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01:03:42.520 Carol, thank you so much.

01:03:43.580 We'll talk to you again.

01:03:45.140 Always a pleasure.

01:03:45.840 Have a great week.

01:03:46.540 God bless.

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01:05:27.860 I mean, I don't want to be a worrywart here.

01:05:30.480 So, Stu, I'm just looking to you to, you know.

01:05:32.820 Sure.

01:05:33.100 So, Germany said, you know, we can't, we cannot outright ban oil from Russia because it would destroy Germany's economy and it would destroy the economy on the continent as a whole.

01:05:51.060 And now he's changed his mind and he's saying we're going to stop all oil.

01:05:58.400 They've changed their mind on quite a bit recently.

01:06:00.900 Yeah.

01:06:01.180 Their entire philosophy of foreign affairs for the past multiple decades.

01:06:06.380 Yeah.

01:06:07.160 So, nothing to see there, right?

01:06:10.220 I mean, that's no big deal.

01:06:11.980 It's a pretty big deal, seems like, to me.

01:06:14.800 Oh, I mean, sorry.

01:06:16.420 Not a big deal.

01:06:17.160 Who cares?

01:06:17.880 It's way over there.

01:06:18.980 Right?

01:06:19.480 The thing that's happening that's bad is really far away.

01:06:23.140 Right.

01:06:23.640 And they changed their mind, as you said, on a lot of things lately.

01:06:28.260 And what could that mean?

01:06:29.500 I don't know.

01:06:31.660 I certainly all good things.

01:06:34.240 Of course.

01:06:35.100 You know, I believe it was the philosopher Sheryl Crow who said, a change will do you good.

01:06:41.760 Amen.

01:06:42.180 So, in the last few days, Russia, you know, has stopped all the gas supplies as well.

01:06:49.760 And then, again, over the weekend said the risk to nuclear war is very real.

01:06:55.520 You know, which I like.

01:06:57.240 Coming from Putin, who we found out now over the weekend does have cancer, does have to go under the knife.

01:07:04.240 And he's going seepy-seep for, we don't know how long, as they do whatever, to remove the cancer from him.

01:07:12.960 So, you got a guy who is probably going to die, knows he's going to die, wants to go out with a bang, going under the knife.

01:07:24.360 There's a tad bit of speculation in there.

01:07:27.540 That he's probably going to die?

01:07:28.740 I mean, he's going to die someday, I suppose.

01:07:30.560 But we don't know.

01:07:32.000 That's not necessarily the belief here, right?

01:07:34.140 The belief is this is just a minor, minor surgery.

01:07:37.600 And the fact that it would explain all of the actions that have occurred over the past couple of months is totally separate.

01:07:44.700 Right.

01:07:44.900 And the fact that, like, they've had, like, 56 visits from the radiology department.

01:07:50.680 Just the 56, though.

01:07:51.680 Yeah.

01:07:52.120 I mean, it's no big deal.

01:07:52.880 That's like saying you think Joe Biden is, you know, incoherent, you know?

01:07:58.320 What evidence do you have other than all the evidence?

01:08:01.440 You know?

01:08:02.220 It's just the constant stream of evidence.

01:08:05.260 But other than that, what do you have?

01:08:06.880 Nothing.

01:08:07.020 Okay, so he also said over the weekend that any foreign intervention in Ukraine would provoke what he called lightning-fast response from Moscow.

01:08:17.900 Now, I'm not sure what he deems as foreign intervention.

01:08:28.200 I feel like we're pretty involved.

01:08:30.080 Now, we don't have troops, theoretically, on the ground in the country.

01:08:34.200 We don't seem to be firing these weapons ourselves.

01:08:36.340 We're just giving them to the people next to us who are firing themselves.

01:08:40.780 In all seriousness, Glenn, if you were, how would you take this if Russia was doing this to us in another country?

01:08:48.980 If we were in the middle of the Iraq war, let's say, and Russia is not only doing things, which we know they were involved in some of the-

01:08:57.340 Yeah, Afghanistan.

01:08:58.140 Afghanistan, and we know they had involvement, but they weren't doing press conferences every day,

01:09:03.260 bragging about how they were sending weapons to-

01:09:05.880 We've donated 10,000 IEDs to the resistance in Iraq, and they've killed all of these soldiers.

01:09:14.340 It's going really well for us.

01:09:15.660 Yeah, no, it would not go well.

01:09:16.560 We would not accept that.

01:09:17.780 No.

01:09:17.920 We would not be thrilled about it.

01:09:19.100 Now, I'm not saying that it's insane to help.

01:09:25.020 I do think it's insane to keep talking about it.

01:09:28.280 I don't understand why we're announcing that we're sending them weapons.

01:09:32.040 I'm kind of with you on that one.

01:09:33.160 Let there be an air of mystery as to where these weapons came from.

01:09:37.500 You know, we, officially, Israel does not have nuclear weapons.

01:09:44.340 And when we're asked about that, we say, what?

01:09:47.580 What are-

01:09:48.360 I don't even know what weapons you're talking about.

01:09:50.140 What country are you talking about?

01:09:52.080 And that should be-

01:09:52.880 The appropriate response to this is, I'm not sure what you mean.

01:09:56.380 That's what-

01:09:56.940 When someone asks you, are you sending weapons into Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers, you say, I don't know what you mean.

01:10:01.820 Is there something going on there?

01:10:03.480 So, they had a bloodbath this weekend in Ukraine. 0.52

01:10:07.780 I mean, things did not go well for Russia again this weekend.

01:10:12.240 And they are just a few days away from May 9th.

01:10:16.360 Yeah, which is a big day for them.

01:10:17.740 Big day.

01:10:18.500 That's called Victory Day.

01:10:20.980 And they don't want to have record numbers of soldiers coming home in body bags on Victory Day.

01:10:28.520 So-

01:10:29.480 That would be suboptimal.

01:10:31.120 Be suboptimal for them and probably for us.

01:10:34.700 Meanwhile, the military has now gotten an order-

01:10:39.940 I shouldn't say this.

01:10:42.480 Representative Kinzinger said on, I don't know, ABC or whatever this weekend, something that nobody was watching,

01:10:49.680 that he has, he's now drafted a bill and it's gone to Congress to authorize the president so he has better flexibility.

01:11:00.640 Believe me, that guy hasn't been flexible in a long time.

01:11:04.100 If they use weapons of mass destruction of any kind, the president has a right to go to war.

01:11:10.120 I totally trust Joe Biden's judgment on this important matter.

01:11:16.160 Yeah.

01:11:16.420 I don't think we should just write that check.

01:11:19.040 No.

01:11:19.400 And I don't think that will happen, by the way.

01:11:22.020 I don't think Kinzinger is out on his own on this one for the most part.

01:11:25.700 I don't know.

01:11:26.280 But it could change.

01:11:27.260 I mean, look, you know, if they actually use, which by the way, there's no evidence they're going to use chemical weapons in Ukraine.

01:11:34.020 And they may, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be stunned if Vladimir Putin did it.

01:11:38.260 But remember, even in Syria, they did what we did, what we're doing in Ukraine right now.

01:11:45.920 They kind of stood around and backed up the Syrians.

01:11:49.180 But the Syrians were the ones using the chemical weapons. 0.59

01:11:51.840 They didn't even use them there.

01:11:53.940 Now, look, that doesn't mean they won't do it here.

01:11:57.140 I would not be stunned if Vladimir Putin did something else crazy.

01:12:00.320 He's done many crazy things in his life.

01:12:01.780 He does seem to be losing badly.

01:12:04.640 Yeah.

01:12:05.200 And one of the things that's interesting about the structure of this war with us giving them all these weapons, which we can talk about because they publicly announced it.

01:12:12.040 Oh, have you heard about the Phoenix Ghost Kamikaze drones we've sent?

01:12:14.600 Yes, yes.

01:12:15.360 Oh, I love that.

01:12:16.260 Yeah.

01:12:16.600 Let's get that on the front page.

01:12:18.100 What's interesting here is that Russia has a pretty strong military, but not as strong as maybe we believed beforehand.

01:12:25.840 But it is what it is, right?

01:12:28.000 They've had a lot of their important people killed.

01:12:29.880 A lot of their best soldiers killed.

01:12:31.380 A lot of their weapons utilized already.

01:12:33.320 They're constantly there.

01:12:34.820 I mean, there's all sorts of rumors of them pulling people off the streets basically for this effort.

01:12:39.240 So their military is getting worse as this goes on.

01:12:42.840 The opposite is happening with the Ukrainian military.

01:12:45.080 It's getting stronger because we keep sending them hundreds of millions of dollars of brand new shiny weapons.

01:12:50.320 So their resistance is actually increasing in its ability to execute the war, which we've seen happen over just the past week, where now targets inside of Russia, inside Russian borders are being hit by Ukrainians with missiles and drones sent to them by Western countries.

01:13:14.180 Again, on military installations, not targeting civilians like the Russians are doing in many places across Ukraine.

01:13:22.980 But still, again, you know, this is a country who went to its people this week and said, hey, you know, Adolf Hitler was probably Jewish.

01:13:32.820 Seriously, this is what they're saying.

01:13:36.140 They do not need a lot of justification to to to to do all sorts of crazy things.

01:13:41.320 And they will you clearly would utilize this for their own propaganda purposes and have honestly what you would probably consider if you were completely neutral in this battle as a good argument that we are involved in this, that we are helping their soldiers die.

01:13:59.520 And while I agree that they should not be able to roll over the border of Ukraine and, you know, kill tons of civilians like they're doing, I can understand why the Russian people are looking at this and saying, wait a minute, we just had a special military operation going on here.

01:14:17.640 And now they're hitting us inside of our borders with with missiles and drones from the United States of America.

01:14:23.600 It shows they want regime regime change.

01:14:26.260 Well, and, you know, we've also added something really super special.

01:14:30.160 There's now, I think, two or three countries that are like it's I know it's Sweden and Finland who have now said, you know what, we really we really want in on that NATO thing.

01:14:39.600 Oh, that's good.

01:14:41.360 That's good.

01:14:42.040 So we got them as well.

01:14:45.020 So now that's going to make the Russians even more convinced. 0.98

01:14:49.480 I mean, I, you know, look, I think peace through strength.

01:14:53.600 But I also think you also have to look at your enemy.

01:14:57.500 And I think our enemy is wounded and nuts.

01:15:02.020 Absolutely nuts.

01:15:03.420 And think of that.

01:15:04.500 We've talked about this a lot in the framework of Islamic extremism when it comes to humiliation. 0.98

01:15:09.620 That factor.

01:15:10.680 That is one of the most important times to Vladimir Putin and Russia.

01:15:13.760 Big time.

01:15:14.240 That's been his entire desire this entire time.

01:15:16.760 They've been they were humiliated by what happened with the fall of the communist regime.

01:15:20.020 We need to bring ourself back, not even to communism, but back to the czar days. 0.94

01:15:24.160 Right.

01:15:25.240 And he when if this goes the way it's going, this country, they thought they could roll over and be welcomed as liberators.

01:15:33.460 If it goes the way it's going, he is not going to just take it sitting down unless he's under from cancer surgery.

01:15:41.020 That's that's the only way that happens.

01:15:42.980 And, man, I, you know, the possibilities here are ugly.

01:15:48.900 Do you know what bothers me is the the press whipping everybody up into a frenzy?

01:15:54.960 That's what I don't like.

01:15:55.920 There's and this is from a friendly, you know, conservative paper, Washington Examiner.

01:16:00.940 Russia is upping its World War Three rhetoric.

01:16:03.080 Vladimir Putin has threatened any nation that directly intervenes in Ukraine with retaliation via strategic weapons.

01:16:09.640 Strategic meaning nuclear.

01:16:11.180 At the same time, Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, says the risks of nuclear war are now very significant.

01:16:18.640 Russian state media prominent commentators this week suggested that nuclear war with the West wouldn't be too problematic because the Russians would go to heaven, whereas Westerners would just die.

01:16:29.860 Yet this is not the time to bow before Russian threats. 0.63

01:16:33.600 Indeed, Biden must respond to Russian aggression forcefully.

01:16:37.840 This moment is also shaping a message about what America and by association, what the free world will tolerate in the 21st century.

01:16:46.300 If Biden waivers, he will be sacrificing the relative peace and cooperation that was hard won in World War Two.

01:16:53.560 So he's going on there.

01:16:57.320 This this this writer is going on.

01:16:59.020 Do Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mark Milley like their forebears in World War Two, share a willingness to stare down the threat and to win?

01:17:09.600 I think this is a really important discussion.

01:17:13.160 But does it feel like this is a discussion that Americans are having?

01:17:18.740 No, it feels like it's happening in the ether up with the elites and we're not really engaged in it.

01:17:27.980 I think a lot of people just see this as this, you know, this thing that's far over there and not really our concern.

01:17:34.060 We need to be worried about what's going on here.

01:17:35.600 And we do.

01:17:36.140 There's a lot to worry about here.

01:17:38.060 We have a completely incoherent president, a massive inflation, the border situations out of control, CRT, gender stuff. 1.00

01:17:46.320 All of this is real and a big problem.

01:17:48.380 When you talk about the entire human civilization and it is existence, this problem is right there.

01:17:56.060 And especially since, you know, you never want an emergency to go to waste.

01:18:00.800 Yeah.

01:18:01.480 The things that can be enacted and done during a massive war are staggering and you never come back from them.

01:18:10.620 When you're looking at a party that is acting as reckless as they are, not listening to the average American, not watching the poll numbers, and they are just going over the cliff with our finances, with our dollar, with freedoms, all of these things.

01:18:32.180 These chickens are coming home to roost.

01:18:34.860 And what is their plan?

01:18:37.160 Yeah, it's scary because if everyone acts somewhat reasonably here, meaning like logically, you could see this escalating out of control.

01:18:47.540 Each side has reason to believe the other side is acting aggressively.

01:18:52.760 And I remember the Breonna Taylor situation where she was shot, was one of the Black Lives Matter things.

01:18:57.600 When you look at that situation in depth, one thing you notice is both sides acted really logically for what happened in the moment.

01:19:05.180 The police came to the door.

01:19:06.640 They had a warrant to go in.

01:19:08.020 They believed something was going on.

01:19:09.620 They banged through the door.

01:19:11.800 The guy has a legal permit.

01:19:13.640 He wakes up in the middle of the night.

01:19:15.200 What are you going to do in that situation?

01:19:16.680 You're going to shoot the guy who's breaking into your room.

01:19:18.900 Yep.

01:19:19.540 The police officer gets shot.

01:19:23.320 Well, of course, the police officer is going to fire back into the room.

01:19:26.440 And then Breonna Taylor gets hit.

01:19:27.720 Totally logical on both sides.

01:19:29.200 On both sides.

01:19:29.780 It's every action except for maybe the idea that the warrant should not have been presented that way.

01:19:35.000 But that was a decision made before the interaction happened.

01:19:38.080 Kind of the same thing here.

01:19:39.340 You know, Russia makes, I think, an irrational decision in going into Ukraine.

01:19:43.740 But it's setting off a bunch of series of actions of people acting relatively logically for the moment that keeps escalating the situation.

01:19:52.900 And that's where real danger lies.

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01:21:19.480 You know, Switzerland doesn't seem like a panicky place, does it?

01:21:42.820 I mean, you know.

01:21:44.580 Seems pretty chill.

01:21:45.160 Yeah, any place you can ski to the bank, I guess, you know.

01:21:48.840 It's going to feel chill.

01:21:49.920 Yeah.

01:21:50.240 So there's an emergency stocks boom in Switzerland going on.

01:21:55.780 Canned goods are in such demand that there is what's called a ravioli frenzy going on in Switzerland.

01:22:06.740 Chef Boyardee is making a killing right now.

01:22:10.960 We'll give you all the details and so much more coming up in just a second on the Glenn Beck program as we continue after the top of the hour news.

01:22:18.580 We've got no room to compromise.

01:22:44.340 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:23:09.640 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:23:16.200 The Washington Post writes,

01:23:18.240 With the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, a number of states made changes to their voting systems to reduce the need to vote in person.

01:23:26.980 Those changes triggered a backlash from Republicans, in part because it was expected to increase turnout and in part because President Donald Trump was actively engaged in trying to cast mail-in ballots as suspect,

01:23:40.340 understanding that it was likely he would lose once those ballots were counted in the hours after the polls closed.

01:23:47.620 There was a concerted effort to push back on the changes aimed both at constraining access and at triggering a legal fight that would empower state legislatures to decide election results.

01:23:59.360 Trump and his allies lost most of those debates.

01:24:03.220 The rules varied by state by state.

01:24:06.360 The turnout was massive and Trump lost.

01:24:09.300 That brings us to the new theory of how President Biden's victory somehow represents a successful effort to steal the presidency.

01:24:19.360 It's been percolating for weeks, quietly being presented to state legislative bodies and in conservative media outlets.

01:24:27.740 Next week, right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza will release a movie called 2,000 Mules that aims to force the theory into the spotlight.

01:24:40.800 Well, Dinesh D'Souza is here to tell you all about it and to answer some of the questions that I guess they just didn't want to ask Dinesh in the Washington Post.

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01:25:58.200 Dinesh D'Souza.

01:25:59.740 How are you, sir?

01:26:00.460 I'm doing great, thank you.

01:26:02.420 Very excited about this movie, which will be seen for the first time tonight.

01:26:09.360 So, I know so many people who have seen it.

01:26:13.820 I've seen it.

01:26:14.700 People are talking about it.

01:26:16.840 I wanted to go over with you some of the things that you would hear from friends that are just tired of hearing about the election being stolen on the other side.

01:26:28.720 So, tell me, first of all, the theory that you are proposing and what you found.

01:26:37.540 Sure.

01:26:39.620 So, the foil, the thing we're arguing against is the mantra that this was the most secure election in history.

01:26:48.880 This is dogmatically asserted pretty much everywhere you look.

01:26:52.180 And it's the basis for calling disputes about the election to be a big lie.

01:26:56.960 It's also the basis for digital censorship.

01:26:59.240 So, a lot is riding on this claim.

01:27:01.300 And I work in this film with a group, an election intelligence group that is called True the Vote.

01:27:10.180 And at the time when lots of charges of fraud were flying around, many of them sincerely meant but unsubstantiated, True the Vote got kind of a genius idea, which was, let us test a hypothesis.

01:27:23.920 And the hypothesis is that if the Democrats are going to cheat, they're going to cheat exactly where the rules changed.

01:27:29.940 In other words, it's kind of like saying that there were new vulnerabilities created by the sudden mushrooming of all these mail-and-drop boxes, the mailing of not just millions, tens of millions of mail-out ballots.

01:27:41.660 So, if it's going to happen, it doesn't mean it did happen, but if it did happen, this is probably how it would happen.

01:27:47.080 And so, what True the Vote did is they bought cell phone geospatial data, which is cell phone geo-tracking, in all the key areas where the election was decided.

01:27:58.800 Atlanta, Georgia, Phoenix, Arizona, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, 10 trillion pings of cell phones.

01:28:06.400 And our cell phone, Glenn, has apps that enable the exact location in a given moment of time to be known about that phone.

01:28:15.580 And if you buy the cell phone data, you can track the movement of phones.

01:28:19.520 By the way, this is used by law enforcement.

01:28:21.600 It's used by intelligence agencies.

01:28:24.500 Frankly, if you walk into a mall and you get a notification saying, hey, there's a special at the Apple store, well, how do they know you're there?

01:28:30.500 They're tracking your phone.

01:28:32.340 So, it's this exact same technology.

01:28:35.300 And what True the Vote did is they ran a search algorithm.

01:28:38.120 And they were looking for mules.

01:28:39.560 Now, what's a mule?

01:28:40.800 A paid political operative hired to deliver fraudulent votes to mail in drop boxes, by the way, typically in the middle of the night.

01:28:49.380 And they were looking for mules who went to 10 or more drop boxes.

01:28:52.700 Now, this is key.

01:28:53.880 And it's key because you might have a legitimate reason to go to two drop boxes, right?

01:28:57.900 You went to one, you dropped off your ballot.

01:28:59.960 But you went to the second.

01:29:01.200 And by mistake, you just had to tie your shoelace.

01:29:04.080 And so, you're found at the second location.

01:29:06.320 But who has a rational reason to go to 10 or more drop boxes?

01:29:10.800 So, the idea is let's try to catch the most egregious or most industrious mules.

01:29:17.000 And in these five areas that I mentioned, there are at least 2,000 mules.

01:29:21.800 That's where I get the title for the movie, 2,000 mules.

01:29:24.620 The actual number of mules is, of course, much greater.

01:29:27.040 Because if you look for people who went to five or more drop boxes, the number of mules increases exponentially.

01:29:33.480 So, that's the first line of evidence.

01:29:35.740 It's geo-tracking.

01:29:36.840 The second line of evidence is surveillance video.

01:29:39.840 And we're talking here not about some guy in his truck, you know, turning on his iPhone and capturing some guy dumping ballots.

01:29:46.520 No, we're talking about the official surveillance video from the states themselves and what it shows.

01:29:53.380 And this is probably the highlight of the movie.

01:29:55.880 It's almost eerie.

01:29:57.020 You're taken back to the days leading up to the election, early voting, election day.

01:30:02.380 You can see these criminals, and they are criminals, jumping out of their car.

01:30:06.640 They look to the left and right, make sure no one's looking, and then they start dumping these ballots into mail and drop boxes.

01:30:12.840 So, in a sense, the audience can see the crime being committed.

01:30:16.420 They become eyewitnesses to a coordinated network of illegal ballot trafficking.

01:30:23.240 So, I mean, I was shocked to see, I mean, wearing gloves.

01:30:26.680 They know exactly what they're doing.

01:30:29.460 They know exactly what they're doing.

01:30:30.800 And so do you, just by watching.

01:30:33.680 Just by watching.

01:30:34.620 And, you know, initially when I saw the gloves, I thought, could it be, could it be that these mules are wearing gloves because of COVID?

01:30:41.400 They don't want to touch the drop box.

01:30:43.000 But then, this is what crushes it.

01:30:45.180 You realize that the mules initially aren't wearing gloves.

01:30:48.840 And then what happens is there's a big arrest in Arizona where the FBI busts some people for illegal vote dumping, ballot harvesting.

01:30:57.000 And the FBI was able to find their fingerprints on multiple ballots.

01:31:01.040 The moment that happened, the mules start wearing gloves.

01:31:03.800 So, the word goes out among these left-wing organizations that deploy the mules. 0.57

01:31:07.740 Wear gloves.

01:31:08.600 That way you don't leave your fingerprints on the ballot.

01:31:11.140 So, very often when you're trying to decide whether to believe a theory, it's little details like this.

01:31:16.700 You also know from seeing the movie client, people taking photos of the ballots being dropped in.

01:31:21.760 Not a selfie.

01:31:22.560 Not sort of a, I voted.

01:31:23.740 But who takes photos of themselves putting in multiple ballots if not to show their employers, hey, I was there, I did the work, I need to get paid.

01:31:33.340 So, let me just go through this.

01:31:36.220 I'm quoting the Washington Post.

01:31:38.620 So, let's walk through this.

01:31:39.960 First, the changes in the rules that were allowed, that allowed the election heist, they have those in quotes.

01:31:46.340 They are changes that made it easier to vote.

01:31:50.960 That's at the heart of D'Souza's complaint and the Trump allies broadly.

01:31:55.420 Often the allegation isn't that fraudulent ballots were cast, but just that the Democrats made it easier to vote, and that was the election theft.

01:32:04.060 It's like complaining that your computer sold more widgets illegally because it lowered its prices.

01:32:11.240 That's not your case at all.

01:32:13.400 That's not our case at all.

01:32:15.960 What he's saying is something like this.

01:32:17.740 You have a bank, and what the Democrats have done is they have made sure by filing lawsuits that the security guards get three hours off every night,

01:32:27.440 and they turn off the surveillance video when they take a break, and they've told the tellers,

01:32:32.520 don't be too rigorous about matching signatures.

01:32:35.060 Just make sure that the scrawl is roughly similar.

01:32:38.640 So, now I agree with the Washington Post that that does not prove a heist.

01:32:42.580 That simply proves that the bank is more vulnerable to a heist.

01:32:46.420 The beauty of our movie is we don't just show the vulnerability.

01:32:50.200 We actually show the heist.

01:32:51.860 So, he says, the writer, then D'Souza crosses a bright line in his allegation.

01:32:57.460 He's not saying that those collecting ballots and submitting there were violating state laws.

01:33:01.600 He's saying that the ballots themselves were fraudulent, that this amounted to hundreds of thousands of illegal votes.

01:33:07.860 If he has evidence to this, he's cracked the voter fraud thing wide open.

01:33:12.280 But there's no reason to assume he does.

01:33:15.360 Right, so, actually, Philip Bump, the guy who wrote this article, has not seen the movie.

01:33:21.860 In fact, he's been begging me to give him an advance copy of the movie.

01:33:25.280 I'll probably send him one today.

01:33:27.040 Here's what he's saying, and it's a little bit of guesswork on his part.

01:33:30.880 What he's basically saying is that there is a difference.

01:33:33.600 What he's saying is that vote harvesting, which is essentially giving your ballot to somebody else to return it, is legal under some circumstances.

01:33:44.080 And that's true.

01:33:45.120 26 or so states allow some form of vote harvesting.

01:33:49.740 Now, California, which has, not surprisingly, the most liberal law, you can give your ballot, Glenn, to anyone and say, hey, you return it.

01:33:57.500 You drop it off.

01:33:58.220 And that would explain people coming, you know, with a whole bunch of ballots, you know, I just collected them from everybody in the office.

01:34:05.340 Exactly, exactly.

01:34:06.440 Now, in the five states we're talking about, the rules are not like that.

01:34:10.020 None of them allow that kind of unlimited harvesting.

01:34:12.820 So, in Georgia, for example, this is pretty typical.

01:34:15.880 You can give your ballot to a family member or, if you are in a confined facility, to a caregiver, but not to anyone else.

01:34:24.560 It is strictly forbidden.

01:34:25.800 I can't give my ballot in Georgia to my neighbor and say, drop it off.

01:34:29.940 Now, even though those laws vary a little bit from state to state, here's the crushing key point.

01:34:35.420 In no state is it legal to pay anyone, let alone a mule, to go deliver a ballot. 0.72

01:34:41.180 The moment that money changes hands, you have corrupted the process.

01:34:45.040 So, even in California, if I say to my neighbor, hey, Tom, go drop off my ballot, no problem.

01:34:50.200 Hey, Tom, go drop off my ballot, and here's a hundred bucks to do it, that becomes a fraudulent vote, an illegal vote.

01:34:56.940 It cannot and must not be counted.

01:34:58.520 I'm going to quote from the thing again.

01:35:02.180 What's more, even True the Vote doesn't allege the ballots themselves were fraudulent.

01:35:06.180 When the website Just the News covered the Georgia story, it noted that True the Vote was not making such a claim.

01:35:11.820 When True the Vote representatives testified in front of Wisconsin Legislative Committee, the group's Catherine Engelbrecht said so publicly.

01:35:18.520 I want to make it clear we're not suggesting the ballots were cast were illegal ballots.

01:35:24.080 What we're saying is the process was abused.

01:35:26.760 It's the difference between making and selling a product legally and have someone smuggle that product into another country without your realizing it.

01:35:35.100 If D'Souza's film shows that the ballots were fraudulent, that's a massive deal one would assume would have to quickly be presented to law enforcement.

01:35:42.760 But there's been no such investigation, and the group whose data he's using says that's not what happened.

01:35:50.820 That suggests, then, that D'Souza's claim to Kudlow is not backed up, that the 400,000 illegal votes, itself a remarkable assertion of scale, were not that.

01:36:02.100 So, I think what's going on here is that Philip Bump is confusing the difference between a fraudulent ballot and a ballot fraudulently cast.

01:36:17.000 Here's what I mean.

01:36:18.260 No one is claiming, and True the Vote is not claiming, and this is the distinction they're trying to make.

01:36:22.680 No one is saying that the actual ballot, the piece of paper, is fraudulent.

01:36:26.860 In other words, they're not saying that somebody went to a high-quality copying machine and made hundreds of thousands of ballots.

01:36:33.200 That would be a fraudulent physical ballot.

01:36:37.460 What they are saying is that these ballots are not legal votes.

01:36:41.800 And the way we know this, by the way, is you look at these nonprofit organizations,

01:36:47.860 and it's worth mentioning here, by the way, that many of these so-called 501c3 organizations are strictly forbidden by law and by IRS rules

01:36:58.460 from engaging in any kind of explicit electioneering.

01:37:02.580 They can urge people generically to go out and vote, but the idea that they campaign or they collect votes for the Democrats

01:37:09.260 or they try to advance a candidate or a party, this is strictly forbidden.

01:37:13.180 So here's the question. How would 400,000 legal votes somehow end up in the hands of these far left-wing groups

01:37:21.080 that would then need to hire mules to go out in the middle of the night and secretly dump them?

01:37:27.140 Why would they act in that manner if these were legitimate votes, plausibly picked up?

01:37:31.560 They just got them from people who said, yeah, here's my vote. You drop it off.

01:37:34.980 Somehow they ended up with hundreds of thousands of these votes.

01:37:38.460 Then the question becomes, why hire the mules?

01:37:41.220 So the other thing about this, Glenn, is that this can be easily resolved, this ambiguity, if you will,

01:37:49.080 by federal agents raiding these nonprofit centers, by cops arresting the mules,

01:37:55.000 and all you have to ask them is, where did you get the ballots?

01:37:58.280 Who gave them to you? Where did they get them?

01:38:00.580 Who paid you? Who organized this operation?

01:38:03.360 Now, obviously, we're not law enforcement. We can't do that in the movie.

01:38:06.500 That's the logical next step, but it's ridiculous to say, since we don't know where an individual ballot came from.

01:38:13.760 It's kind of like if I were to show you a murder, and I'm actually showing you the murder.

01:38:18.180 And then the Washington Post is like, but where did he buy the gun?

01:38:20.640 Where did he get the gun?

01:38:22.100 And I'm like, there are 10 gun stores that he could have gotten from any of those.

01:38:25.500 They're like, yeah, but if he can't prove which gun store he went to,

01:38:28.520 all he's saying is, he can't show you where the ballot came from, or where, in this case, the gun came from.

01:38:34.760 True, but there's an easy way to take that next step, and it's called law enforcement needs to spring into action.

01:38:40.580 All right, back with more with Dinesh D'Souza, his new movie out this week.

01:38:45.680 It is called 2,000 Mules, A Must See.

01:38:49.760 Back with him in 60 seconds.

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01:40:14.920 We're here with Dinesh Desuja talking about his new movie.

01:40:32.140 Dinesh, I'm curious if, because you're talking about the prosecution of real standing laws,

01:40:37.920 laws that are on the books, is there a little tiny bit of motivation here that just,

01:40:44.520 because the only time I can think of anybody going after any of these laws is when they came after you.

01:40:49.920 And then here's a real situation where an election might be on the line,

01:40:53.540 and people are very worried about the integrity of the election.

01:40:56.760 And here they don't seem to have any interest in it whatsoever.

01:40:59.780 One of the most fascinating questions for me is going to be, what comes next?

01:41:05.520 You know, here's this movie.

01:41:06.640 And by the way, you know, in my earlier movies,

01:41:08.340 I always took a certain pleasure in people standing up and applauding in the theater when the movie ended.

01:41:13.520 That's not going to happen here.

01:41:15.160 I predict that tonight and then Wednesday night when we do our second theatrical showing,

01:41:19.240 be dead silence in the theater.

01:41:20.740 As people sort of take it in, because we do a very careful computational math.

01:41:25.800 In other words, it's not just 400,000 illegal votes,

01:41:28.640 therefore the election was stolen.

01:41:30.020 No, you have to look at each individual state and see if the volume of fraud was large enough

01:41:35.320 to have moved that state from one camp into the other camp.

01:41:38.580 So all of this is in the movie, and it puts us into constitutionally uncharted territory,

01:41:43.340 because while the Constitution lays out a procedure, the electors vote,

01:41:47.600 both houses of Congress affirm and ratify, the president is inaugurated,

01:41:51.700 the Constitution does not contemplate what happens if it comes out later,

01:41:55.320 that the guy in the White House got there because of not episodic,

01:41:59.800 but coordinated planned fraud in the key states.

01:42:03.120 It's never happened before in American history, as far as I know.

01:42:06.200 So when we're looking at this, you know, the real reason,

01:42:10.920 because the Constitution doesn't say this, you know, what we do in this case,

01:42:14.860 but it can help us make sure the midterms and the next presidential election,

01:42:21.720 this doesn't happen.

01:42:23.640 Where do we stand on any of that, Dinesh?

01:42:26.960 Well, I think that the voter integrity laws that some of the states have passed

01:42:31.120 do contain some good things.

01:42:33.380 So, for example, they strengthen voter ID requirements,

01:42:36.640 or they say things like there needs to be more rigorous signature matching,

01:42:40.380 or you can't let a private individual, Mark Zuckerberg, come in with $400 million

01:42:45.240 and essentially muscle these counties and states.

01:42:48.640 Hey, listen, I got a bunch of money to give you,

01:42:51.100 but in order to get it, you got to put in these mail-in drop boxes.

01:42:54.520 The media portrayed it like the cities wanted to do it,

01:42:57.360 and Zuckerberg gallantly agreed to pay for it.

01:42:59.460 No, he used his muscle, the financial leverage, to make these places do that.

01:43:04.420 So this all created the infrastructure for the heist.

01:43:08.400 And, yes, there are important things that can be done to prevent it from happening again.

01:43:14.440 In a weird way, this depends on the Republican Party and the Republican establishment,

01:43:18.740 because if Republicans indulge in there, let's not look over there.

01:43:21.840 We all want to move on.

01:43:23.060 We don't want to really deal with this.

01:43:24.700 We want to be the wildebeest that is eaten last by the lion.

01:43:28.640 If that's the mentality, then we are in deep trouble.

01:43:31.740 But if the Republicans say, what can we do to prevent this the next time?

01:43:35.400 There are lots of simple things that can be done,

01:43:38.100 one of which is just have surveillance on every mail-in drop box.

01:43:42.460 Should be done. Should be done.

01:43:44.200 Dinesh, as always, thank you so much.

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01:45:27.760 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:45:30.740 I'm glad you're here.

01:45:31.400 We're talking about 2,000 Mules, where you can find out where it's playing

01:45:36.600 and get a ticket at 2,000mules.com.

01:45:41.700 2,000mules.com.

01:45:43.520 Interested to see.

01:45:44.780 I haven't seen it yet.

01:45:46.300 But I'm interested to see.

01:45:47.620 What's your take on the idea that this should be the focus for the conversation going forward?

01:45:53.680 Absolutely not.

01:45:55.080 This should be.

01:45:55.940 Not meaning Dinesh's movie, obviously.

01:45:59.580 I'm just saying, generally speaking, looking back at the 2020 election.

01:46:03.000 We cannot spend our time doing anything other than fix the problem.

01:46:10.500 I would love a committee that is just going in, looking at it, and saying,

01:46:15.920 this is how it has to be fixed.

01:46:17.640 But that needs to be at the state level.

01:46:20.120 You know what I mean?

01:46:20.860 And let's say everything he found is true.

01:46:25.480 Great.

01:46:26.220 Let's fix it.

01:46:27.480 But this should not be the 2022 election or the 2024 election.

01:46:33.020 And what he's asking for here is completely rational.

01:46:37.380 Right?

01:46:37.500 Like, the idea that we should have drop boxes that are not monitored is insane.

01:46:43.220 He's saying, look, we should have surveillance of every drop box.

01:46:45.860 100%.

01:46:46.380 Yes, definitely.

01:46:47.660 But, like, to me, there should be no drop boxes.

01:46:51.180 No, none.

01:46:51.540 You have to hand your vote to a person in front of a camera.

01:46:57.740 That has to happen with every vote cast.

01:47:00.320 That is not a lot to ask.

01:47:01.740 You have it staffed.

01:47:02.880 You don't need to drop off votes at 3 in the morning.

01:47:06.160 It's ridiculous.

01:47:07.720 Of course that's irrational.

01:47:09.400 If we cared, everything would be blockchain right now.

01:47:12.640 If we really cared, everything, every vote would be encoded by blockchain.

01:47:16.380 And then you would know.

01:47:18.300 It would be a signed number and a person, and it's a blockchain, and nothing can be done.

01:47:23.940 Nothing can be taken out of the chain.

01:47:25.440 We know absolutely positively when it was cast, who cast it.

01:47:29.060 But nobody really wants to play cleanly, except the American people.

01:47:36.460 You know, everybody wants these margins.

01:47:39.500 You know, get rid of gerrymandering entirely.

01:47:43.700 Entirely.

01:47:44.320 Nobody wants to do that.

01:47:45.300 You can, it's very easy to do.

01:47:48.220 You just break them up.

01:47:49.560 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams talked about it.

01:47:51.880 Do it the way Moses did. 0.97

01:47:53.580 Stakes.

01:47:55.100 You've got 300 families in an area.

01:47:58.140 It's a square.

01:47:59.980 In that area, 300 families.

01:48:02.080 When it gets to be, you know, 500, you break it up into another square.

01:48:07.420 And then you have 300 families in every single square, and you just keep dividing.

01:48:13.880 Even if that means that's one apartment building, that's one district.

01:48:18.080 That's one apartment building.

01:48:20.620 You would be able to have much more accountability.

01:48:27.020 People are, you know, if you're voting and you're in that apartment building and that's one district,

01:48:32.400 because there's that many families there, guess who's going to be running?

01:48:36.500 And you're going to know them.

01:48:38.460 And there's a pretty significant constitutional nerd debate over whether the house should be massively expanded.

01:48:45.480 Yes.

01:48:45.940 You know, because they keep it at the same number and just get the districts larger and larger and larger and larger,

01:48:51.460 where it definitely seems like the intent at the beginning was, no, it needs to be small.

01:48:57.000 So if there were 5,000 house members instead of 500 or 435.

01:49:02.040 And that could be done easily.

01:49:05.120 Yes, it should be.

01:49:06.500 And that could be done easily online with blockchain.

01:49:09.780 There's no reason why our congressman, why are our congressmen and our senators going to Washington, D.C.?

01:49:15.900 Yeah.

01:49:16.440 Seriously, why are they going?

01:49:17.800 There's nothing but create problems.

01:49:19.700 All kinds of problems.

01:49:20.540 And get lots of awesome perks for the people who get the jobs.

01:49:22.480 Exactly right.

01:49:23.760 They go to Washington, D.C.

01:49:25.420 They feel all powerful and everything else.

01:49:27.960 They lose touch with the common man and they're wined and dined by, you know, lobbyists who build their offices in that one city.

01:49:38.140 Hey, make those make those bums fly from city to city to city, district to district to district. 1.00

01:49:45.100 You can't just you.

01:49:46.540 I'm sorry.

01:49:47.040 You got to go to the farmland in Iowa.

01:49:49.280 Hmm.

01:49:49.640 Sucks to be you.

01:49:50.480 Oh, we don't want to do that.

01:49:51.820 Oh, again, sucks to be.

01:49:53.460 And, again, you make it 5,000 representatives.

01:49:56.340 Yeah.

01:49:56.720 It makes that job even harder.

01:49:58.300 Even harder.

01:49:58.680 Right.

01:49:58.960 Like, it should be hard.

01:50:00.500 Right.

01:50:00.840 It should be difficult.

01:50:02.220 And there's no reason with the technology we have, all of this thing of the security, continuity of government.

01:50:11.780 How is that system going to be?

01:50:13.820 It's all over the country.

01:50:18.200 So there's no place to blow up.

01:50:20.340 Then, the most important is it's really easy to say, you know what, this sucks.

01:50:28.520 In this community, this sucks.

01:50:30.460 And we've got to do something about it.

01:50:32.040 Well, I'm getting a bus trip together to go to Washington, D.C.

01:50:36.260 No.

01:50:37.200 Hey, tomorrow after work, what do you say we all drive down?

01:50:42.540 You know, it's like three miles away.

01:50:44.060 Let's drive to his office because he or she is there.

01:50:48.340 Why aren't we doing that?

01:50:50.860 It should be more decentralized.

01:50:52.920 Yes.

01:50:53.240 You know, it really, that's the way it was designed.

01:50:56.800 You know, it really, yes, they had Washington, D.C.

01:50:59.080 It was a different time as far as technology goes.

01:51:01.620 And it's not to say that they can never get together there.

01:51:04.780 Nobody's having the problem with Joe Biden going every weekend to his house.

01:51:09.380 Yeah.

01:51:09.680 Nobody had a problem with the president flying to Mar-a-Lago.

01:51:13.340 What's the difference?

01:51:15.260 What's the difference?

01:51:16.260 Does he really have to be there?

01:51:17.640 No, you want to have a conference call with everybody?

01:51:20.220 You want to meet with somebody?

01:51:21.940 Okay, you can call people together to meet from time to time.

01:51:25.000 But why can't he have a private?

01:51:27.360 I mean, we do this with the Pentagon.

01:51:29.020 Are we worried about the Pentagon being hacked into?

01:51:31.880 If we are, we should probably double up on that security because they're hacking into it all the time.

01:51:37.980 But we have systems, especially now with blockchain, we have systems that can maintain security.

01:51:44.420 And please, please, I beg you to make the argument to me.

01:51:48.340 After forcing all of us into two years of Zoom calls that you can't do it that way.

01:51:54.380 After shutting all these businesses down and not letting anyone go to the office for two years.

01:51:59.620 Now you're going to come to me and tell me you can't do it that way?

01:52:02.180 Yes, you can.

01:52:02.720 Look, it's a way to centralize power.

01:52:05.760 The lifestyle of a person who many times as a representative is not the coolest person and they maybe weren't the coolest kid in high school.

01:52:13.460 To be able to go to, you know, to be wined and dined by lobbyists and business people and constantly asked for things and constantly rewarded with things in Washington, D.C. as their Mr. Important.

01:52:27.900 You know, look, that's tempting to anybody, especially people who come oftentimes from a somewhat loserish background.

01:52:34.580 So, look, I mean, you know, I understand why you'd want to keep that system going if you happen to be in Congress.

01:52:39.860 I don't understand why we would allow it to keep going as the American people.

01:52:44.840 And, you know, if you want to keep the agencies, which I'm not for at all.

01:52:48.240 No.

01:52:48.500 CDC?

01:52:49.960 Really?

01:52:51.120 Has that done a good job lately?

01:52:54.600 Wonderful.

01:52:55.460 The Department of Education?

01:52:57.300 How's that going for us?

01:52:59.140 How about the State Department?

01:53:00.380 They were great in Afghanistan.

01:53:01.800 Wasn't that great?

01:53:02.920 I mean, if you want to keep them, fine.

01:53:05.720 Just fire everybody.

01:53:07.200 Fire everybody.

01:53:07.820 And put term limits in for people who are appointed or go take a job there.

01:53:14.540 There's no reason, no reason, other than maybe a secretarial pool, which I don't think you need anymore.

01:53:23.520 There's no reason that people get a job in the government and then they make that their life.

01:53:30.420 That should never be anybody's life.

01:53:33.120 We don't need that.

01:53:35.020 It only causes problems.

01:53:36.480 That is why we have the deep state.

01:53:39.700 These bureaucrats are there for 40 years. 1.00

01:53:42.420 You can't fire them.

01:53:44.000 And they just do whatever they want because they grow arrogant.

01:53:46.700 Yeah, I'll outlive that president, too.

01:53:48.920 Do you know the name Sanford Bishop Jr.?

01:53:51.620 No.

01:53:52.660 Neither do I.

01:53:53.620 I had never said it before until Friday's episode of Studios America in my entire life.

01:53:58.240 And what I find interesting about that, because I was doing a thing on Marjorie Taylor Greene and how they're trying to get her thrown off the ballot and how this is really bad for democracy, like Marjorie Taylor Greene or not.

01:54:08.000 Horrible idea to throw people off of the ballot, trying to utilize the Constitution in this way that it obviously was not intended.

01:54:15.060 That was the point.

01:54:15.660 But as I was going through that, I realized Sanford Bishop Jr. has been a representative from Georgia since I was in high school.

01:54:23.760 I've been doing this job on talk radio for 20 years and have never uttered his name.

01:54:30.220 God only knows what he's done in those 20, 30, 30, 20, 30 years, something like almost 30 years now.

01:54:37.820 But I mean, these people can get into office and stay there forever, forever.

01:54:44.920 They stay there until the day they die.

01:54:49.000 Literally.

01:54:49.540 In many cases.

01:54:50.380 Yeah.

01:54:50.640 And it's just completely ridiculous.

01:54:53.080 We have to come up with a...

01:54:55.540 But it's not just them.

01:54:57.020 Term limits is a big deal.

01:54:58.060 But you're right.

01:54:59.140 It's the people behind the scenes as much as anybody.

01:55:01.300 It needs to be with...

01:55:02.340 You should be able to work for 10 years, maybe, eight years for the federal government.

01:55:06.460 That's it.

01:55:07.520 That's it.

01:55:08.000 Well, we won't get people to work good.

01:55:09.940 Then it'll be smaller.

01:55:11.020 Then you're not going to attract people who want to go into this as a life's work.

01:55:14.200 Exactly right.

01:55:14.700 You know what?

01:55:15.500 We can all pitch in and work together.

01:55:18.420 And, you know, they're having a hard time finding...

01:55:21.420 You know what?

01:55:21.920 Okay.

01:55:22.220 I'll go work in, you know, the State Department for four years or eight years and that's it.

01:55:30.000 And, you know, it's like jury duty.

01:55:31.860 I don't want professional jurors.

01:55:34.420 I don't want people who have learned how to milk the system.

01:55:38.020 Right.

01:55:38.540 You want people who are going to see this as a real period of service where they go in and they do something.

01:55:43.400 And quite honestly, a pain in the ass.

01:55:45.280 Yeah.

01:55:46.080 I want this...

01:55:46.940 Almost jury duty-ish.

01:55:47.940 All of these...

01:55:48.600 It should be.

01:55:49.500 All of these jobs should be.

01:55:51.140 Oh, crap.

01:55:52.080 I guess I'll do it for a few years.

01:55:53.980 Jeez.

01:55:54.280 I've been elected congressman.

01:55:56.120 I mean, Jim DeMint, when he was in the Senate, proposed a constitutional amendment for term limits.

01:56:03.320 And I want to say, if I'm remembering the details correctly, it was two terms in the Senate and three terms in the House.

01:56:10.560 Still too long.

01:56:10.960 That's 18 years, okay?

01:56:13.080 Yeah, still too long.

01:56:13.500 It might have been four terms in Congress.

01:56:15.920 That's 18 to 20 years of service.

01:56:18.820 And I think he got 27 votes on it when they tried to push it through.

01:56:22.940 And it's like...

01:56:23.620 Because they know it's a gravy train.

01:56:25.580 20 years is not enough.

01:56:28.620 Now, of course, you could also be governor and you could also be president and you could also be vice president.

01:56:33.400 So you could theoretically extend this even longer.

01:56:36.100 But just in those two jobs, 20 years was basically laughed out of the building.

01:56:43.200 Laughed out of the building.

01:56:44.820 Because those people who are in Congress for more than three, they're all in it.

01:56:51.100 And they see, wait a minute, look at how much money these guys have made.

01:56:54.940 I can't wait to get to the top of the gravy train.

01:56:58.300 Everybody's shooting for their time to be like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

01:57:03.380 Everybody's waiting for their chance to be the first one to put the slop on their plate.

01:57:09.400 It's disgusting.

01:57:10.780 And I give credit to people like Pat Toomey, for example, who's a senator from Pennsylvania, who's leaving.

01:57:17.880 Who's saying, okay, I'm all done.

01:57:19.860 And he's leaving.

01:57:20.880 He's proposed term limits while he was in the Senate.

01:57:24.160 And now he's leaving because he's done.

01:57:27.320 And, you know, it makes the seat a little more vulnerable maybe.

01:57:30.700 But you know what?

01:57:31.440 But this is how it should be.

01:57:33.440 You should be making these decisions not based on personality.

01:57:36.720 You should be making these decisions based on, you know, the control of the power of the people who are manipulating the government.

01:57:45.840 When they're there too long, this is what they do.

01:57:47.980 Yes.

01:57:48.340 And the minute they say, you know what?

01:57:51.600 I mean, if I don't do it, who else is going to do it?

01:57:53.860 That's the sign they've been there too long.

01:57:55.340 Get them out.

01:57:56.180 Get them out.

01:57:56.580 When they think they're the only ones that can do it.

01:57:59.400 No, you just don't understand.

01:58:01.140 Get them out.

01:58:02.100 No, I had to compromise because if I compromise on this one, then I can get them out.

01:58:08.560 All right.

01:58:09.160 Back in just a second.

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01:59:46.820 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:59:51.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

02:00:12.000 Let's play cut one here.

02:00:13.440 This is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

02:00:16.860 Once you win a big election like we did in 2020, people think, well, everything's going to work out well.

02:00:23.300 And we now we can rest a little bit.

02:00:25.420 But folks have to understand that we can't pause.

02:00:28.220 Saving democracy is not something that you can just take a vacation from.

02:00:31.600 You think about the Republican Party right now.

02:00:33.900 This is a party that is built on fear.

02:00:36.220 It's built on fraud.

02:00:37.460 And I would like to say it is also fascism.

02:00:40.920 They are tinkering on fascism right now in the Republican Party.

02:00:45.600 And so the Democratic Party, in contrast, Tiffany, has to be a party that is about hope.

02:00:50.320 It's about aspirations.

02:00:51.560 It's about providing safety and security.

02:00:55.920 Safety and security, which is not fascistic at all, taken to the degree of where we are.

02:01:02.280 You really could run MSNBC with a random word generator.

02:01:06.380 Like if you just put in the word fascist and racist and sexist and homophobic and just transphobic

02:01:11.980 and put them in there with a bunch of different pronouns and adjectives around them,

02:01:17.680 you really could just run the network without anybody.

02:01:20.300 You could automate it.

02:01:21.000 You could get tinkering with fascism.

02:01:24.140 Yeah, you get tinkering on fascism.

02:01:26.820 Tinkering on fascism.

02:01:27.800 So we don't know if it was teetering on fascism.

02:01:31.260 Could be tinkling on fascism, though that one doesn't make quite as much sense.

02:01:34.240 Well, have we talked to anybody with a dossier from Russia?

02:01:38.820 We don't know.

02:01:39.940 That's true.

02:01:40.600 It could be tinkling.

02:01:41.460 That's true.

02:01:41.640 It makes, they just make the same point every day over and over and over and over again

02:01:51.880 and insert the new names.

02:01:53.180 I mean, we all know the truth that Ron DeSantis will be even scarier than Donald Trump.

02:01:59.460 Do we not?

02:01:59.660 Oh, yeah.

02:02:00.440 Absolutely.

02:02:00.800 If Donald Trump decides not to run, Ron runs absolutely positively, he's much worse than

02:02:11.900 Donald Trump.

02:02:12.120 Much worse.

02:02:12.540 Much more dangerous.

02:02:13.120 Much worse.

02:02:13.560 This is this guy.

02:02:14.560 He wants to just, you know, kill black people.

02:02:19.600 He's been doing it already.

02:02:20.800 We just don't have the footage of it.

02:02:22.320 Ron DeSantis is worse than Donald Trump.

02:02:24.000 An explainer.

02:02:25.220 Like, that is going to be the headline of five million big pieces from the left.

02:02:29.680 It's agonizing.

02:02:35.100 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 02, 2022

How Much Free Speech Should We Allow？｜ Guests： Carol Roth & Dinesh D'Souza ｜ 5⧸2⧸22

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The Glenn Beck Program - May 02, 2022

How Much Free Speech Should We Allow？ ｜ Guests： Carol Roth & Dinesh D'Souza ｜ 5⧸2⧸22

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript

How Much Free Speech Should We Allow？｜ Guests： Carol Roth & Dinesh D'Souza ｜ 5⧸2⧸22