The Glenn Beck Program - Inauguration Day, 2017 1⧸20⧸17

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00:00:17.520 We're just sitting here on the day of the inauguration.

00:00:21.160 The last eight years I think have been the longest eight years of my life.

00:00:25.920 And Jeffy just said, did you see a picture of you eight years ago?

00:00:30.400 Yeah, you know, the president isn't the only one who has gone white over the last eight years.

00:00:36.740 Some of us have also earned our gray hairs during the last eight years.

00:00:42.740 Where we were eight years ago, where we are now, how we felt about things eight years ago, how we feel about things now.

00:00:53.520 Think of where you were eight years ago mentally, what you believed about America, what you believed about where we were headed, how strong we were, how united we were.

00:01:13.060 Even though we were just recovering, eight years ago, we were recovering from Fahrenheit 9-11.

00:01:21.140 We were recovering from the Michael Moores of the world.

00:01:23.980 And we're headed right back to that.

00:01:27.760 We're going to take a look at the last eight years, and we're going to fill in some of the blanks of President Obama.

00:01:36.920 He said he was a scandal-free, I can't believe the press, a scandal-free presidency.

00:01:43.800 That the one thing he's proud of is that there weren't scandals during the last eight years.

00:01:47.720 Only because the press was, what did he say, not sycophants, sycophants, which is actually a word.

00:01:57.540 They just fall in sync with the party.

00:02:00.580 Well, it's an urban dictionary word.

00:02:02.220 Yes, probably entered by Michelle Obama about 25 minutes after he said sycophant.

00:02:07.380 But because the press were sycophants, and they were in sync with the party and the inauguration, they didn't notice the scandals.

00:02:18.960 But we did, and we'll go over them right now.

00:02:22.100 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one.

00:02:32.060 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.

00:02:40.840 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:02:44.740 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:52.100 Eight years ago yesterday, eight years ago yesterday, I sat in a chair in the Fox studio for the very first time and said,

00:03:05.100 I have no idea what I've, this is the first quote, this is the first time I've ever done live television.

00:03:12.480 Eight years ago, this is the first time I've ever done live television, and I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

00:03:22.100 It was eight years ago that I sat in the green room, before I said that, with Ramos and Compion's wives.

00:03:31.260 And we had them on because we were going to talk about how, oh my gosh, how, how we were disappointed that George W. Bush had not released their husbands.

00:03:49.560 And just then, they got a phone call from their attorneys, who said, the president has just pardoned or commuted the sentence of your husbands.

00:04:07.760 Eight years ago, we were at the beginning of finding out who Barack Obama was, and we didn't know about Van Jones.

00:04:23.960 We didn't know about ACORN.

00:04:30.000 We didn't know that ACORN would lead us to New Orleans, which would lead us to SCIU, which would lead us to Andy Stern.

00:04:42.580 We didn't know that somebody in the cabinet, the manufacturing czar, would say,

00:04:48.220 we all pretty much agree with Mao, that power comes from the barrel of a gun.

00:04:54.540 We didn't know about, what was it, Lizard Tongue Lady, what was her name?

00:04:58.240 You remember?

00:04:59.620 Yeah.

00:05:01.060 Anita Dunn.

00:05:01.720 Anita Dunn.

00:05:03.320 Who said her two favorite philosophers were Mother Teresa and Mao, right?

00:05:08.460 Yeah.

00:05:08.640 These last eight years, think about what you have done in the last eight years, what you have thought, what you have learned in the last eight years.

00:05:21.220 I am proud to say that life isn't about what happens to you.

00:05:28.680 It's about what you do with it.

00:05:31.380 And I am proud to say that much of the experience of my last eight years, and I think most people in this audience, I think you feel the same way.

00:05:41.100 That if you really sit down and think about it, you're proud of the way, or I shouldn't say this, of what you've done for the most part, how you've handled it.

00:05:52.320 You went and you turned it into a positive.

00:05:54.200 You learned, you studied, you stretched.

00:05:58.940 We are better people today because of Barack Obama.

00:06:03.460 And anybody who didn't like Donald Trump doesn't want Donald Trump.

00:06:09.900 Thinks he's, what was it, I couldn't believe, George Soros of all people.

00:06:16.220 George Soros said this week that Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.

00:06:22.940 George Soros, who's media matters, did everything they could to destroy me and to destroy the movement because we would say this guy's a dictator in the making.

00:06:36.540 George Soros, who brought down five sovereign nation economies that we know of.

00:06:42.100 By the way, eight years ago, we didn't know that.

00:06:46.380 He says he's a wannabe dictator.

00:06:48.320 Let me just say this to all the people that would feel this way.

00:06:53.220 No matter what happens, you're going to be a better person at the end of these four or eight years because Donald Trump was in office.

00:07:03.040 Should you choose to be, we can either become the people that the Barack Obama supporters were, or we can rise above it and become the people that we know we really are.

00:07:19.360 It's going to be hard because they are so blind to the hypocrisy.

00:07:29.420 And quite honestly, it's going to be hard for them because many of us are very blind to our own hypocrisy.

00:07:36.520 What wasn't okay for Obama to do is suddenly okay for us to do because it's our guy.

00:07:42.720 When we would say, how could they possibly be for this when they were against it four years ago?

00:07:51.700 Where were they then?

00:07:53.360 We can't have people say that about us.

00:07:55.400 We have to be consistent.

00:07:57.360 And like I said, it's going to be hard because in Ohio State today, at Ohio State, they have a safe space for anybody who's afraid of the inauguration.

00:08:07.720 Oh, good.

00:08:08.060 How can you possibly think that's preparing these kids for the world?

00:08:12.700 Are there going to be safe spaces in life?

00:08:16.060 No.

00:08:16.480 Where you don't have to hear anything that bothers you?

00:08:18.860 No.

00:08:19.400 I mean, that is so...

00:08:20.620 A safe space.

00:08:21.960 It is the dumbest thing I think I've heard of in my life.

00:08:26.340 Greg is on the phone.

00:08:27.900 There are counselors in public schools now in Connecticut for today.

00:08:33.540 Greg, are you a teacher?

00:08:36.140 Yes, I am.

00:08:37.160 Okay.

00:08:37.420 Oh, and good morning, by the way, to you and your assembled co-workers.

00:08:40.640 Thank you very much.

00:08:44.100 So, Greg, tell me what's happening in Connecticut.

00:08:48.360 Well, you can, if you dig a little bit deeper, and pardon me my voice, I have a cold, so...

00:08:55.160 But if you dig a little bit deeper, it's not just my district.

00:08:58.140 It's quite a few districts where, not only after the election, but now with the inauguration, they're charging the social workers, psychologists, and counselors in the schools to provide grief counseling for any faculty or students that are not happy with the state of the nation right now.

00:09:20.560 So, Greg, was there anything to reach out to those in the last eight years that might have been upset with the direction of the country under Barack Obama?

00:09:34.580 No, and it was, you know, I was listening to you talk about eight years ago.

00:09:39.540 Eight years ago, I had left my full-time career of 20 years in business to go back to school to be a history teacher.

00:09:46.800 And I was in college at the time that Obama won, and it was complete ecstasy amongst the kids, kids, they were kids compared to me, that I was going to school with.

00:09:59.480 And I think back to that now, and I think now I'm looking at these young people, instead of learning to cope with change, their grief, their feelings are being enabled, and they're never going to learn how to deal with this stuff.

00:10:12.960 Yeah, and to me, it also says that you're right and half of the country is wrong.

00:10:24.820 Correct. I totally agree.

00:10:27.760 What about the grief of the people who disagreed with you last time? What about those people? I mean, we were just dismissed. You were called names if you disagreed.

00:10:38.760 Oh, yeah, and I live in Connecticut, so you can imagine what it was like.

00:10:41.460 Oh, no, eight years ago, I was living in Connecticut.

00:10:45.480 Yes, I remember. I listen to you all the time.

00:10:48.040 I remember you when you were doing radio in Connecticut.

00:10:51.400 Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry for that.

00:10:53.300 What were you, three?

00:10:56.060 Yeah, I wish.

00:10:57.280 Yeah, how old were you? If you were eight years ago, if you were in college, then...

00:11:01.880 Well, he was older, though.

00:11:03.080 You were older? Because I was in Connecticut doing radio in the 90s.

00:11:05.700 It must have been grade school with you.

00:11:08.040 No, I was in my 30s.

00:11:11.900 Okay, I can't work out the message.

00:11:14.660 You're in your 30s now.

00:11:16.780 I'm in my 50s now.

00:11:18.440 Oh, okay, okay.

00:11:19.520 I was in grade school when I listened to you in Connecticut on radio.

00:11:22.120 Thank you.

00:11:22.640 Shut up.

00:11:23.240 Can I tell you something?

00:11:23.920 My wife was, I believe, in junior high or high school, so it wasn't, you know...

00:11:29.840 I remember when I first met her, we first started dating and stuff, she was like,

00:11:33.080 oh, I used to listen to you when I was a kid.

00:11:35.100 And I was like, okay, all right, stop.

00:11:37.420 What is that?

00:11:39.220 That's creepy.

00:11:41.020 Thanks, Greg, for your phone call.

00:11:42.420 Well, this plays a bigger role than I think we realize.

00:11:51.160 We have to find a way to not dismiss people's feelings

00:12:03.920 or call them names when we hear about the grief counselors.

00:12:12.400 But we have to find a way to talk to people now

00:12:16.400 and show them that this is not healthy for our society.

00:12:23.560 If you would have had grief counselors...

00:12:30.560 You know, we're moving into a new studio tomorrow.

00:12:34.820 Sorry, thinking out loud here.

00:12:36.980 Monday.

00:12:37.520 Monday, yeah.

00:12:38.340 Monday, we're moving into a new studio for the radio show.

00:12:40.600 It's a brand new start, brand new season, brand new president.

00:12:45.720 And I've painted some paintings for the walls.

00:12:50.360 And one of them is the mask of George Washington,

00:12:55.140 the life mask of George Washington.

00:12:57.720 And he's weeping, and you'll see it on Monday.

00:13:03.480 And I call it the mask of civility.

00:13:08.780 This is a prime example of what that means.

00:13:13.840 The mask of civility.

00:13:15.980 Here we have social workers.

00:13:19.380 We have the most caring, the most loving,

00:13:23.720 the ones who understand the human psyche,

00:13:27.680 who had no compassion for those who felt their country

00:13:33.520 was being ripped apart.

00:13:36.280 No compassion.

00:13:38.040 They were called outsiders.

00:13:40.600 They were called old thinkers.

00:13:45.240 They were just trying to block progress.

00:13:47.960 No compassion to somebody who said,

00:13:52.300 wait, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

00:13:57.260 Let's remember who we are in the first place.

00:14:01.720 No compassion.

00:14:04.960 The ones we pay to help teach us to be compassionate.

00:14:09.940 It's the mask of civility.

00:14:16.780 Now, how do we get that across to people?

00:14:19.840 Because we can either whine about it, bitch about it,

00:14:25.280 call people names, say what babies they are,

00:14:29.280 which is not going to, nobody will listen to that

00:14:32.120 and will miss possibly an opportunity.

00:14:35.860 I don't know how to get there.

00:14:39.660 But, because my first response is,

00:14:43.200 what a bunch of two-faced, hypocritical babies.

00:14:48.200 Well, yeah, and that should be your first response.

00:14:50.640 Because that's what they are.

00:14:53.420 It is.

00:14:54.040 I mean, this is, what a bunch of numbskulls.

00:14:57.660 How could you possibly think this is good for these kids?

00:15:00.740 How could you possibly think, yeah,

00:15:02.600 let's shelter them from reality?

00:15:05.480 Why would you do that?

00:15:06.620 Why, why?

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00:18:32.700 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:34.980 What's amazing is

00:18:39.600 in Stu's lifetime,

00:18:43.460 his adult life,

00:18:45.620 since he's been able to vote,

00:18:47.480 there is only two possibilities of an election.

00:18:51.700 One, a Democratic win.

00:18:53.300 And two, a Republican win

00:18:56.940 that the Democrats claim is illegitimate.

00:18:59.980 George H.W. Bush

00:19:02.940 was the last legitimate

00:19:05.060 Republican president.

00:19:10.120 Dole was a GOP win.

00:19:14.920 2000, selected, not elected.

00:19:20.400 This Barack Obama, Democratic win.

00:19:22.840 You skipped 2004.

00:19:24.160 2004 was Ohio fixed voting machines.

00:19:28.780 John Kerry saying

00:19:29.640 people said

00:19:30.320 the Democrats should vote

00:19:31.620 on the wrong day.

00:19:32.580 That's right.

00:19:33.460 Due to some weird

00:19:34.500 Wafflehead vehicle

00:19:35.480 running through the streets.

00:19:36.760 That was a...

00:19:37.380 I don't know what happened there.

00:19:38.540 I don't know either.

00:19:39.400 But yeah, I mean,

00:19:40.240 they complained about that one

00:19:41.540 as well as illegitimate.

00:19:43.020 Yeah.

00:19:43.260 Well, I just counted,

00:19:44.500 but he was an illegitimate president.

00:19:46.880 I forgot that they claimed it twice.

00:19:49.600 Twice they claimed that.

00:19:50.740 Both elections he won.

00:19:51.220 They said were illegitimate.

00:19:51.760 Then Barack Obama won.

00:19:54.280 Then Barack Obama won.

00:19:56.160 And now this president,

00:19:57.360 and he's illegitimate.

00:19:58.620 That's insane.

00:20:00.260 I mean, it's since 1988.

00:20:02.800 There hasn't been

00:20:03.880 a Republican president

00:20:05.140 elected legitimately

00:20:06.340 in the eyes of Democrats.

00:20:07.780 Okay, so think of that.

00:20:09.420 You're born in 1990.

00:20:13.260 You think that

00:20:14.780 you have been taught

00:20:16.240 your whole life

00:20:17.200 that the Republicans

00:20:18.660 only win when they steal it.

00:20:21.240 Wow, that's incredible.

00:20:23.020 What do you...

00:20:23.960 Of course they need

00:20:24.960 safe spaces.

00:20:28.040 The Republicans

00:20:28.960 only steal things.

00:20:31.340 And they're going to come

00:20:32.340 and steal everything you have.

00:20:36.480 Pretty amazing.

00:20:38.220 We're going to go into

00:20:39.120 the scandals

00:20:40.260 that Obama has forgotten

00:20:41.880 coming up.

00:20:42.620 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:57.240 Mercury.

00:20:59.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:01.040 Welcome to the program.

00:21:04.840 We're bringing in

00:21:06.180 Riaz Patel,

00:21:07.080 who's a good friend of ours,

00:21:08.600 and he's the guy

00:21:10.000 you might remember

00:21:10.700 that right before the election

00:21:12.240 went to Alaska

00:21:13.680 on his own dime.

00:21:15.760 He is...

00:21:16.740 How would you describe

00:21:18.360 yourself politically?

00:21:19.880 I would say I was...

00:21:20.820 Funny, I wouldn't say

00:21:22.040 I was Democrat.

00:21:22.840 I would say I'm

00:21:23.440 Democrat-Liberal,

00:21:24.580 but I'm understanding

00:21:26.140 a whole segment

00:21:27.580 of America

00:21:28.140 I didn't understand before.

00:21:29.100 And you've kind of

00:21:29.800 done what we've done,

00:21:31.180 kind of unchained yourself

00:21:32.280 from the label

00:21:33.680 of liberal or Democrat,

00:21:37.220 and you want to end

00:21:39.900 the hatred

00:21:42.180 and the black and white

00:21:45.760 of everything, right?

00:21:47.420 It's too black and white.

00:21:48.440 I think to me,

00:21:49.200 and that's where media plays,

00:21:50.540 and that's where

00:21:51.120 my profession is.

00:21:52.200 I come from media.

00:21:53.840 And to me,

00:21:54.220 when you're talking

00:21:54.600 about the safe space,

00:21:55.780 it really is a direct product

00:21:57.780 of what the media

00:21:58.460 has done for two years.

00:21:59.440 So let's talk about

00:22:00.100 the safe space.

00:22:00.760 We just heard in Ohio

00:22:01.880 and also in Connecticut,

00:22:03.220 they're bringing grief

00:22:04.260 counselors in today

00:22:05.420 for the teachers

00:22:06.660 and for the children

00:22:07.720 who might be experiencing

00:22:09.820 any kind of discomfort

00:22:11.240 with Donald Trump

00:22:13.160 being the president.

00:22:14.180 It's less about

00:22:15.000 the discomfort

00:22:15.900 and more about

00:22:16.500 for two years

00:22:17.320 you were taught

00:22:17.980 that there was nothing

00:22:19.180 positive about this man,

00:22:20.560 that it was like

00:22:21.180 electing Hitler

00:22:21.920 for two years.

00:22:23.800 There was not

00:22:24.260 one positive thing he said.

00:22:25.520 Now, I'm not

00:22:26.160 a Trump supporter.

00:22:27.380 That being said,

00:22:28.240 if you are fair

00:22:29.240 and uneven about news,

00:22:31.340 why are you vilifying?

00:22:32.460 So the result

00:22:33.080 of him winning

00:22:34.540 created this panic

00:22:35.620 that we'd elected

00:22:36.520 a monster,

00:22:37.580 and that is

00:22:38.020 the direct product

00:22:38.980 of how the media

00:22:39.680 portrayed him

00:22:40.220 for two years.

00:22:40.860 Now, I'm not getting

00:22:41.760 into politics.

00:22:42.260 I'm not interested.

00:22:42.840 Wow, that is a...

00:22:43.460 Hang on just a second.

00:22:44.200 That is a different

00:22:46.220 way of looking at it,

00:22:47.140 isn't it?

00:22:48.160 I just associated

00:22:50.000 that with the

00:22:52.360 progressive

00:22:53.680 mamby-pamby.

00:22:55.880 I never tied

00:22:57.180 the media

00:22:57.960 and said,

00:23:00.100 it is the way

00:23:01.520 he's been portrayed.

00:23:03.260 It actually helps me

00:23:05.340 validate

00:23:07.520 their feelings.

00:23:08.660 We know this

00:23:09.760 because when you

00:23:10.400 talk to families

00:23:11.420 on the Democratic

00:23:12.340 side that I've

00:23:12.940 talked to,

00:23:13.960 the children

00:23:14.440 are unable

00:23:15.220 to get their

00:23:16.080 heads around it

00:23:16.780 because in their

00:23:17.660 homes,

00:23:18.100 through their TVs

00:23:18.720 and through

00:23:19.140 their phones,

00:23:20.680 this monster

00:23:21.560 was running

00:23:22.020 for president

00:23:22.540 against Hillary

00:23:23.560 Clinton.

00:23:24.480 And then when

00:23:24.920 the monster won,

00:23:26.280 they don't know

00:23:26.740 what to do.

00:23:27.300 And I remember

00:23:27.820 on the night

00:23:28.460 of the election,

00:23:29.100 every single parent

00:23:30.060 I know said,

00:23:30.700 how do I explain

00:23:31.260 this in the morning

00:23:31.720 to my kids?

00:23:32.640 And I thought,

00:23:33.700 why don't they

00:23:34.680 think it's a

00:23:35.200 presidential election?

00:23:36.880 Why do they

00:23:37.720 think that

00:23:38.080 humanity is at

00:23:38.880 stake?

00:23:39.660 And I remember

00:23:40.100 being on a

00:23:40.420 parenting panel

00:23:40.980 and a woman

00:23:42.100 said to me,

00:23:43.020 my daughter

00:23:43.560 was at a

00:23:43.980 neighbor's house

00:23:44.600 and they were

00:23:45.080 discussing politics

00:23:45.740 and she came

00:23:46.240 home at 2 a.m.

00:23:46.980 It was a slumber

00:23:47.280 party because she

00:23:48.100 felt unsafe.

00:23:49.540 And everyone

00:23:49.960 in the room

00:23:50.380 said congratulations

00:23:51.040 that you taught

00:23:51.680 your daughter

00:23:52.000 to remove

00:23:52.520 herself from

00:23:53.080 unsafe situations.

00:23:54.320 And I sat

00:23:54.840 on a parenting

00:23:55.300 panel,

00:23:55.640 as the panel

00:23:56.220 is the only

00:23:56.620 male,

00:23:57.160 awkward,

00:23:57.920 and said,

00:23:58.520 a little bit

00:23:59.000 shame on you.

00:24:00.080 How long have

00:24:00.520 you known these

00:24:00.920 neighbors?

00:24:01.680 And she said,

00:24:02.020 about a decade.

00:24:03.160 Why would your

00:24:03.840 daughter ever feel

00:24:05.160 unsafe in a

00:24:05.900 house with

00:24:06.320 someone she's

00:24:06.820 known for a

00:24:07.480 decade?

00:24:08.620 That is the

00:24:09.720 media.

00:24:10.420 The conflict-driven

00:24:11.740 entertainment of

00:24:13.260 reality seeped in,

00:24:14.520 which obviously

00:24:14.900 Donald Trump came

00:24:15.620 from, they taught

00:24:16.500 him how to do

00:24:16.960 this, seeped into

00:24:18.180 every aspect for

00:24:19.240 the past two years

00:24:19.840 of election

00:24:20.460 coverage.

00:24:21.520 It became a

00:24:21.940 reality show.

00:24:22.700 I don't know if

00:24:22.880 you saw the CNN

00:24:23.460 ads where they

00:24:24.220 looked like these

00:24:24.700 fighters.

00:24:25.360 The lights

00:24:25.620 literally looked

00:24:26.500 like a heavyweight

00:24:27.100 fight.

00:24:27.980 The conflict-driven

00:24:29.100 setup of this

00:24:29.760 whole election made

00:24:31.180 it that Hillary had

00:24:32.240 to win.

00:24:33.000 Had to win.

00:24:33.580 It was the only

00:24:34.020 right choice.

00:24:35.020 It was right and

00:24:35.560 wrong.

00:24:36.160 And wrong

00:24:36.620 won.

00:24:36.920 How do you

00:24:37.180 explain to the

00:24:37.580 kids at Ohio

00:24:38.000 State that wrong

00:24:39.140 won?

00:24:39.880 Because you don't

00:24:40.440 understand the

00:24:41.140 other side.

00:24:42.220 When I went to

00:24:42.560 Alaska, I found the

00:24:44.060 other side.

00:24:44.520 And it's very hard to

00:24:45.280 hate people when

00:24:46.120 they're looking at

00:24:46.620 you and saying,

00:24:47.160 my life has been

00:24:47.660 miserable for eight

00:24:48.480 years.

00:24:49.420 Eight long years.

00:24:51.180 And I really am

00:24:51.900 quite frustrated with

00:24:53.760 liberals.

00:24:54.240 I'll be honest with

00:24:54.860 you.

00:24:55.000 I was on Facebook

00:24:55.600 yesterday, people

00:24:56.500 going to the

00:24:56.900 march, and it was

00:24:58.180 downright mean.

00:24:59.800 A woman that I know

00:25:00.840 who has done amazing

00:25:01.640 work for Muslims,

00:25:02.360 specifically, wrote

00:25:04.000 that.

00:25:04.240 By the way, so

00:25:04.660 people know, Riaz is

00:25:07.660 a Muslim, Pakistani

00:25:10.100 immigrant.

00:25:11.580 You've lived here for

00:25:12.360 how long?

00:25:12.980 Most of my life.

00:25:13.660 We're at the age of

00:25:14.120 two.

00:25:14.460 Okay.

00:25:15.620 And a gay man who

00:25:17.740 is married and has an

00:25:19.120 adopted child.

00:25:19.920 So there is no more

00:25:21.320 boxes you can check.

00:25:23.300 No.

00:25:24.140 For people that we are

00:25:25.440 not supposed to get

00:25:26.720 along with.

00:25:27.340 I have them all.

00:25:28.020 You have the whole set

00:25:28.680 with me.

00:25:29.000 You don't need to

00:25:30.120 collect the cards.

00:25:30.800 I've got them all.

00:25:31.540 And we had dinner

00:25:32.260 last night.

00:25:32.840 Our family joined

00:25:34.180 Riaz last night for

00:25:35.980 dinner.

00:25:37.340 And what was nice,

00:25:38.680 Riaz, was beforehand

00:25:39.660 we had a meeting and

00:25:40.840 we had a bunch of

00:25:41.360 people from the

00:25:41.880 office.

00:25:42.780 And the president of

00:25:43.660 my country company is

00:25:44.640 a Jew.

00:25:45.320 And obviously, I mean,

00:25:46.460 he wears the yarmulke

00:25:47.260 and everything else.

00:25:48.460 And here is a Muslim

00:25:49.900 man and a Jewish man

00:25:51.280 and we're all joking

00:25:52.680 together.

00:25:53.440 Yeah.

00:25:53.700 And we're joking.

00:25:54.720 He's joking about the

00:25:57.140 Jew building a

00:25:58.300 settlement.

00:25:58.620 He'd come over and

00:25:59.520 he's like, don't build

00:26:00.080 a settlement over here.

00:26:01.220 And the Jew was like,

00:26:02.440 oh, go ahead and

00:26:03.760 fill a bag with nails

00:26:04.900 and blow me up.

00:26:05.540 And we were all

00:26:06.080 laughing about it.

00:26:06.980 You have to.

00:26:07.900 Because it was this.

00:26:09.680 We were joking about

00:26:11.180 the stereotypes that

00:26:13.320 have kept us apart.

00:26:15.680 Yes.

00:26:16.380 Yes.

00:26:16.880 And to me, the only

00:26:17.880 way to live with these

00:26:18.820 labels is to make them

00:26:19.920 funny.

00:26:20.440 Yeah.

00:26:20.760 Because otherwise, I

00:26:21.360 walk through the world

00:26:21.940 as a collection of

00:26:22.640 labels.

00:26:22.980 And I have to say,

00:26:24.280 when I'm around

00:26:25.080 liberals, those labels

00:26:26.340 are hugely important.

00:26:28.020 I believe, honestly,

00:26:29.260 too important.

00:26:30.340 And it's going to be

00:26:31.120 interesting in the days

00:26:31.980 ahead because this

00:26:32.740 Facebook thread was the

00:26:34.160 meanest thing I've seen.

00:26:35.500 They said they got on a

00:26:36.260 bus in D.C.

00:26:36.780 with all these Trump

00:26:37.660 supporters.

00:26:38.260 And the thread went on

00:26:39.600 about all these white

00:26:40.700 women.

00:26:41.040 And I thought, you're at a

00:26:42.440 march for women's rights.

00:26:44.420 And you are literally on a

00:26:45.860 Facebook thread like mean

00:26:47.460 girls attacking a group of

00:26:48.940 white girls who got on the

00:26:50.740 van.

00:26:51.760 How is this a new era of

00:26:54.200 celebration when even the

00:26:55.580 women, the feminists, are

00:26:57.120 attacking the other women?

00:26:58.800 And they'll say, well, the

00:26:59.580 women don't support each

00:27:00.400 other.

00:27:01.540 Well, you're not supporting

00:27:02.520 the women on that van right

00:27:03.560 now.

00:27:04.140 I was literally, it was

00:27:05.320 after we had dinner, I was

00:27:06.180 utterly shocked.

00:27:07.280 And I think they really need

00:27:08.920 to wake up.

00:27:10.060 Riaz, I get a lot of mail

00:27:12.940 from people who say, what

00:27:15.460 you're trying to do is not

00:27:16.860 going to work.

00:27:17.780 Nobody is interested in

00:27:19.820 getting along.

00:27:20.860 The left will never change.

00:27:23.620 And I mean, I'm disappointed

00:27:25.380 in my own side, but I will

00:27:28.280 tell you that I get very

00:27:29.680 frustrated and tired at

00:27:32.160 times of going on and

00:27:34.360 talking to people in the

00:27:35.760 press and saying, look, I

00:27:37.080 understand how you feel.

00:27:40.000 Do you understand how I feel?

00:27:42.180 And they don't have any

00:27:44.160 care to even think about it.

00:27:46.600 Because they think they know

00:27:47.920 what's best for you.

00:27:49.160 Correct.

00:27:49.380 And this is something I'm

00:27:50.420 really trying to get people

00:27:51.820 on.

00:27:52.080 Again, I'm not interested in

00:27:52.880 the politics space, but I'm

00:27:53.720 interested in the humanity

00:27:54.400 space.

00:27:55.120 When you know people who have

00:27:56.660 lives and situations that are

00:27:57.700 completely different from

00:27:58.540 yours, that voted for Trump

00:27:59.960 for very specific reasons

00:28:01.240 for their family's welfare,

00:28:02.900 you tell me how you can hate

00:28:04.320 them once you meet them and

00:28:06.120 see their home that slipped

00:28:07.100 off the foundation 10 years

00:28:08.340 ago, but they can't afford

00:28:09.520 to move.

00:28:10.500 That is the humanity that's

00:28:11.900 out there if people can get

00:28:13.240 past the labels.

00:28:14.500 And that's what we have to do.

00:28:15.740 We have to do.

00:28:16.320 So how do we talk to

00:28:18.040 somebody, Riaz, that is

00:28:19.880 encouraging their kids to,

00:28:25.860 well, let's put it this way.

00:28:28.140 Do you know who is the, he's

00:28:31.680 ABC, George Stephanopoulos.

00:28:33.200 I read an article and without

00:28:35.680 anybody saying anything like

00:28:38.540 this is weird, this is dangerous.

00:28:41.740 George Stephanopoulos is young,

00:28:44.840 like 12 year old daughter has

00:28:49.260 had to sleep in their bed with

00:28:51.580 them at night for like the week

00:28:53.640 after the election because they

00:28:56.000 were so upset.

00:28:57.580 Yeah.

00:28:57.960 And my scared, I believe it's

00:28:59.420 scared.

00:28:59.780 And my thought was what the

00:29:02.760 hell is being said in that

00:29:04.680 home by a quote, objective

00:29:07.360 reporter.

00:29:08.480 Yeah.

00:29:08.840 Yeah.

00:29:09.580 That makes your 12 year old.

00:29:13.140 Sleep in bed with you at night

00:29:14.500 because they're afraid.

00:29:15.840 I would love to know that

00:29:17.080 families and children who

00:29:18.560 didn't live off of a two year

00:29:20.180 diet of liberal doomsday with

00:29:22.640 Trump, if they are as

00:29:24.560 traumatized and scared, even

00:29:25.840 the ones who lost.

00:29:27.160 Did you think you met my kids

00:29:29.180 last night?

00:29:29.780 My kids, I mean, everybody,

00:29:32.740 every liberal would say my

00:29:33.840 kids, of course, have had a

00:29:35.500 steady diet of, of fear

00:29:38.020 mongering and everything.

00:29:39.140 Did you think my kids were

00:29:40.500 frightened?

00:29:41.580 No, not at all.

00:29:42.720 Not at all.

00:29:43.160 Because I think there is our

00:29:44.400 discussions about politics in

00:29:45.640 the world.

00:29:46.100 And then there is the

00:29:46.960 humanity that you have at

00:29:47.980 home.

00:29:48.380 And I think with liberals, the

00:29:49.900 way to go in, I don't think

00:29:50.900 we can say your beliefs are

00:29:52.220 wrong.

00:29:52.560 That doesn't work for either

00:29:53.480 side.

00:29:54.000 It just doesn't work to me.

00:29:55.480 It's here's what you don't

00:29:56.680 know about me.

00:29:58.000 Here's what you don't know

00:29:58.840 about my life.

00:30:00.000 This is the way to start the

00:30:00.860 conversation.

00:30:01.420 If I go attacking your

00:30:02.460 beliefs, we're not going to

00:30:03.640 end up anywhere.

00:30:04.300 We're going to dig in like we

00:30:05.080 have for two years, if not

00:30:06.060 longer.

00:30:06.840 To me, it's just so you know,

00:30:08.100 this is something you don't

00:30:08.960 know about my life.

00:30:10.240 And that is the way to

00:30:11.660 understand why someone voted

00:30:13.700 differently, why someone

00:30:14.540 believes differently.

00:30:15.900 Start from the bottom.

00:30:17.220 What is your life and why do

00:30:19.140 you make the choices you

00:30:19.940 make?

00:30:20.440 And then we can discuss

00:30:21.580 beliefs.

00:30:22.080 The problem is people are

00:30:22.640 going in beliefs.

00:30:23.700 You're going to have a

00:30:24.180 deadlock.

00:30:25.040 You're deadlock.

00:30:25.640 There's no way around

00:30:26.480 that.

00:30:27.260 And so to me, it's here's

00:30:28.260 what you don't know about

00:30:29.120 me.

00:30:29.420 As much as you want what's

00:30:30.480 best interest for me, this

00:30:32.200 is me.

00:30:32.780 Why don't I tell you what's

00:30:33.620 in best interest for me?

00:30:34.900 And I think that's the way

00:30:35.640 you begin the conversation

00:30:36.420 is this is what you don't

00:30:37.600 know about me.

00:30:38.200 And everyone can do it on

00:30:39.060 both sides.

00:30:40.000 I think the two-year diet of

00:30:42.080 conflict and rage that came

00:30:43.960 from reality TV.

00:30:45.220 Look, we all watch what most

00:30:46.660 of us watch.

00:30:47.520 If people don't want to watch

00:30:48.720 conflict, it won't be there

00:30:50.160 as much.

00:30:50.980 So my hope is after this

00:30:51.960 election, we've reached

00:30:52.800 conflict saturation with

00:30:54.400 media and that people, I

00:30:55.980 believe, I believe your

00:30:57.160 viewers, whether right now

00:30:58.040 they're driving a pickup

00:30:58.720 truck or a Tesla, it

00:30:59.520 doesn't matter.

00:31:00.140 They want this to stop.

00:31:01.720 Like the election, the

00:31:02.400 inauguration day to me is

00:31:04.080 the day we breathe and move

00:31:05.000 on.

00:31:05.420 So I am hopeful because now

00:31:07.380 this constant yelling about

00:31:09.180 the election is gone.

00:31:10.780 There'll be constant yelling,

00:31:11.640 but at least we can move on

00:31:12.500 with our lives and we know

00:31:13.380 what the truth is for four

00:31:14.360 years.

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00:32:51.620 People will come out.

00:32:53.420 Talking to Riaz Patel, he is

00:32:54.820 a friend of ours and a

00:32:57.380 liberal who hates labels.

00:33:02.140 And I can't put a label on

00:33:03.780 him.

00:33:04.040 We were just talking about,

00:33:05.740 we're going to talk about

00:33:06.540 these scandals coming up at

00:33:07.600 the top of the hour that

00:33:08.460 nobody in the press wants to

00:33:12.040 admit were scandals under

00:33:14.000 Barack Obama.

00:33:15.360 And they're saying he was a

00:33:16.560 scandal-free president.

00:33:17.640 It couldn't be further from

00:33:18.540 the truth.

00:33:19.860 And Riaz said, I'll bet you

00:33:21.520 I don't know a lot of those

00:33:23.640 scandals.

00:33:24.400 True.

00:33:25.000 And I bet you you don't.

00:33:26.480 True.

00:33:26.720 I bet you don't.

00:33:27.360 You said you had never heard

00:33:29.080 of the feeling that Barack

00:33:32.240 Obama was a Manchurian

00:33:33.360 candidate.

00:33:33.860 Until when?

00:33:34.480 Not once.

00:33:35.480 Until I came here.

00:33:36.420 What was that, July, August?

00:33:37.440 Never even came across my

00:33:39.740 desk, my radar.

00:33:41.160 Never heard the expression.

00:33:42.560 Never heard the expression.

00:33:44.120 Until I was here.

00:33:45.200 What is that, eight years of

00:33:46.460 Obama?

00:33:46.840 Never heard the expression.

00:33:48.860 Things don't make, and I watch

00:33:50.700 the news.

00:33:51.360 Well, we don't think that he was

00:33:52.820 a Manchurian candidate.

00:33:54.020 I don't know how that came up.

00:33:55.380 Not literally, but I mean, certainly

00:33:56.720 people, I mean, they made the

00:33:59.040 Manchurian candidate movie during

00:34:00.720 the Bush administration.

00:34:02.340 Meryl Streep was in it.

00:34:03.900 Well, actually, and that was a

00:34:05.700 remake.

00:34:06.160 I mean, the first one was with

00:34:07.020 Frank Sinatra.

00:34:07.860 There were people on the right

00:34:09.740 who believed.

00:34:10.360 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:11.080 We weren't among them, but there

00:34:12.360 were those people.

00:34:13.180 It was fun as a movie script

00:34:15.540 because it was easy to write

00:34:17.740 that.

00:34:18.120 Because there were, you know,

00:34:19.960 signs that, I mean, if you wanted

00:34:22.440 to use your imagination, you could

00:34:23.900 get there because, as you mentioned

00:34:26.280 it during the break, the guy did

00:34:27.840 one speech during a convention, and

00:34:29.640 then all of a sudden he's president

00:34:30.600 of the United States.

00:34:31.900 It seemed to me.

00:34:33.020 Where did this guy come from?

00:34:33.620 And again, to me, it was sort of

00:34:34.960 unprecedented.

00:34:36.060 Right.

00:34:36.340 And for us, we thought, that's

00:34:37.960 amazing.

00:34:38.700 He wins the Nobel Prize before he's

00:34:40.680 even signed a bill in office.

00:34:42.700 I mean, again, the Obama

00:34:44.640 presidency had lots of strengths.

00:34:46.180 For me as a gay man, it was a

00:34:47.980 bit of a roller coaster.

00:34:49.080 Remember the first term where he

00:34:50.480 did not support marriage?

00:34:51.640 Yes.

00:34:52.100 He supported civil unions, but he

00:34:53.280 felt a marriage should be between

00:34:54.200 a man and a woman.

00:34:54.740 We remember that.

00:34:55.560 I'm glad you do.

00:34:56.120 And I remember thinking, well,

00:34:56.540 that feels like I just got sold

00:34:58.020 out for votes.

00:34:58.540 And then he gets second term, and

00:34:59.960 suddenly we can get married.

00:35:01.680 And to me, that's a clear-cut

00:35:03.960 example of the politics game.

00:35:05.920 How can you look at that and not

00:35:06.940 see that as politics?

00:35:07.320 Do you know very many other people

00:35:08.840 in the homosexual community who

00:35:11.460 feel that way?

00:35:12.540 Or did they just all accept him?

00:35:14.160 And yeah, he's great because now.

00:35:15.720 Yeah, now, because now it's the

00:35:17.140 short-term memory thing.

00:35:18.080 Yeah.

00:35:18.380 It's the, and to me, there were

00:35:20.280 issues, there were problems.

00:35:21.360 And I think, I sit in my office,

00:35:23.360 it's funny, and in L.A., and a

00:35:24.760 couple people have come in over the

00:35:25.660 past few weeks and closed the door

00:35:27.540 and still slightly whispered that

00:35:29.600 they're, you know, they're

00:35:30.580 concerned about, well, you know,

00:35:31.440 why is this happening?

00:35:32.420 Why are people so angry?

00:35:33.680 You know, personally, I was

00:35:34.540 concerned about Hillary, too.

00:35:36.080 And I'm like, why are we

00:35:37.080 whispering in my office?

00:35:38.700 They're so afraid to say anything

00:35:40.680 bad about Hillary.

00:35:41.480 You know, facts are facts.

00:35:42.700 What I was in those emails, whether

00:35:44.740 I liked her or not, that was a

00:35:46.220 problem for me.

00:35:47.360 Why is it not a problem for anyone

00:35:48.440 else?

00:35:49.100 Why is it that they're saying that

00:35:50.780 this election was, because I

00:35:53.060 believe the Russians were

00:35:54.280 involved.

00:35:54.860 I mean, I think the evidence is

00:35:55.920 very, very clear.

00:35:56.720 I agree.

00:35:57.120 But the Russians didn't steal the

00:35:58.920 election.

00:35:59.780 Why is it that the press can't get

00:36:01.500 their arms around that Hillary was,

00:36:03.960 I mean, I can look at Bob Dole and

00:36:05.520 say he was an awful candidate.

00:36:08.960 Why can't they get their arms

00:36:10.560 around Hillary was an awful

00:36:12.620 candidate?

00:36:13.100 Because I believe she's too swept

00:36:14.720 up in the womanhood.

00:36:15.980 I believe that, you know, the same

00:36:18.040 with Barack Obama.

00:36:18.920 I think flaws are overlooked because

00:36:20.480 of his ethnicity at times.

00:36:21.940 I think we wanted him to be a great

00:36:23.160 president.

00:36:23.560 I think Hillary Clinton, everyone

00:36:24.680 wanted her to be the first female

00:36:26.160 president.

00:36:26.680 I wanted to see what a first female

00:36:28.000 president would be like.

00:36:29.120 But was she the right candidate in

00:36:30.620 the ideal world?

00:36:31.280 Not for me.

00:36:31.920 No.

00:36:32.560 Why does a female's politics have to

00:36:34.740 come alongside her husband's?

00:36:36.480 People are talking about Michelle

00:36:37.300 Obama running.

00:36:38.000 I'm like, can we look for great

00:36:39.000 Democratic women outside of the

00:36:40.700 spousal relationship?

00:36:42.060 Right.

00:36:42.460 And so to me, it's sort of a

00:36:44.260 misogyny to say, I hope Michelle

00:36:45.880 Obama runs.

00:36:46.940 Like, there are millions of

00:36:48.260 qualified women out there.

00:36:49.260 Why are we looking at the wife?

00:36:50.700 Well, I couldn't believe how

00:36:52.720 Carly Fiorina was made to look

00:36:56.040 like a misogynist.

00:36:57.040 Yeah.

00:36:58.600 She's a woman.

00:36:59.580 Yeah.

00:37:00.580 Incredibly successful woman.

00:37:01.900 Incredibly successful woman.

00:37:03.180 You may not agree with her, but

00:37:04.540 she's an incredible, strong woman.

00:37:07.860 A great candidate.

00:37:09.560 Yet, she wouldn't be a good first

00:37:11.900 woman president.

00:37:13.780 I mean, what?

00:37:15.360 To me, this march, I do not have a

00:37:17.780 problem with it.

00:37:18.340 I think it's great.

00:37:19.540 If the spirit of it is to bring

00:37:22.700 people together, to bring inclusion,

00:37:24.380 to unite as women.

00:37:26.020 But it's their fighting against each

00:37:27.500 other.

00:37:28.100 And that was in the Facebook thread,

00:37:29.360 which honestly broke my heart.

00:37:31.280 Because these are people I know

00:37:32.960 incredibly well, who've done

00:37:34.460 unbelievable work.

00:37:36.000 I literally know this on a social

00:37:37.320 level for all minorities.

00:37:39.000 Back in just a second with the

00:37:40.640 nine biggest Obama scandals.

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00:39:19.800 Hello, America, and welcome to the

00:39:21.480 program.

00:39:23.220 Eight years for half the country.

00:39:26.320 It's been a total hell where nobody

00:39:29.880 has listened.

00:39:31.680 It seemed as though reason went out

00:39:34.020 the window and you were a pariah.

00:39:37.520 Today is a new day and we have a

00:39:42.220 choice.

00:39:43.300 Are we going to make the other half

00:39:45.860 of the country feel like we have

00:39:48.080 felt for the last eight years or are

00:39:50.760 we going to find a new way forward?

00:39:52.980 It's a chance to start fresh today and

00:39:58.480 not to pack reason in a suitcase and

00:40:01.780 not to pack our principles and what we

00:40:04.160 really truly believe as individuals

00:40:07.360 pack those away in a suitcase, but

00:40:10.180 actually stand for the truth no matter

00:40:13.620 whose side is upset about it.

00:40:16.820 Stand for the truth and reach out to

00:40:19.380 those who disagree with you and see if

00:40:21.840 we can find a coalition of reason.

00:40:26.000 We begin there right now.

00:40:27.560 I will make a stand.

00:40:30.900 I will raise my voice.

00:40:33.220 I will hold your hand.

00:40:35.660 Because we are one.

00:40:37.480 I will beat my drum.

00:40:39.700 I have made my choice.

00:40:41.960 We will overcome.

00:40:44.340 Because we are one.

00:40:46.020 The fusion of entertainment and

00:40:48.700 enlightenment.

00:40:49.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:55.240 Welcome to the program.

00:40:58.020 Today I just kind of want to pack up

00:41:00.080 you know the last eight years and

00:41:02.560 first of all say you made it gang.

00:41:04.900 You made it.

00:41:06.120 A lot of people including me for a long

00:41:09.100 period of time didn't think we would

00:41:10.820 make it here.

00:41:11.880 I think there's still a few people

00:41:13.100 suspicious that we still won't.

00:41:15.820 Like at 1130 this morning he's going

00:41:18.380 to sign some executive order and he

00:41:20.000 stays for all time.

00:41:21.980 Until that.

00:41:22.920 And those people will not be happy

00:41:24.620 until that airplane or that

00:41:26.860 helicopter is up and out of sight.

00:41:30.100 You know you could see it take off

00:41:32.320 and then come back down and go you

00:41:33.600 know what I was just kidding.

00:41:35.080 He's not going to be president.

00:41:36.820 Psych!

00:41:37.160 We have Riaz Patel who's joining us

00:41:41.300 today who is a good friend and from

00:41:45.240 I hate to say this because it's

00:41:48.260 let's say it this way he's from the

00:41:51.160 left and becoming a good friend and

00:41:54.260 ally of Pat.

00:41:56.160 Which that doesn't happen.

00:41:58.780 That doesn't happen.

00:42:00.840 We want to go through the nine

00:42:03.340 scandals that President Obama has

00:42:05.840 forgotten about when he said he was

00:42:07.640 proud that this was a scandal-free

00:42:09.820 administration and the press just

00:42:12.640 lapped it up.

00:42:14.500 Here are the big nine.

00:42:15.700 This is from National Review.

00:42:17.440 One.

00:42:18.640 And let's see if Riaz how many of

00:42:20.420 these do you know?

00:42:22.440 How many of these do you

00:42:25.280 what's your impression of each of

00:42:27.620 these?

00:42:28.000 Okay.

00:42:28.140 If you know them.

00:42:28.800 I feel like this is a game show.

00:42:29.860 Okay.

00:42:30.920 Number nine.

00:42:32.080 Scandal-ridden secret service.

00:42:34.240 I remember that.

00:42:35.040 I remember that.

00:42:35.620 What is the scandal?

00:42:36.560 I believe it was they were in South

00:42:38.740 America and they engaged in illicit

00:42:41.640 activities with some females there.

00:42:43.560 Right.

00:42:44.780 That's the scandal.

00:42:45.960 Okay.

00:42:46.200 That's part of it.

00:42:47.340 Okay.

00:42:47.640 Do you remember the wedding crashers

00:42:52.400 if you will of the state dinner of

00:42:54.460 Obama?

00:42:55.540 Yes.

00:42:55.780 Yes.

00:42:56.520 You do remember the Bravo reality

00:42:58.420 show.

00:42:59.000 Yes.

00:42:59.700 Yes.

00:43:00.060 But a lot of people would say including

00:43:01.780 Obama.

00:43:02.560 That's not my scandal.

00:43:03.740 That's not the administration's

00:43:05.100 scandal.

00:43:05.260 I would agree with him.

00:43:06.040 That's a secret services deal.

00:43:07.420 Yes.

00:43:07.760 But it is a scandal.

00:43:08.940 He is over the secret service because

00:43:10.600 he's over the Treasury Department.

00:43:11.880 But I will agree with you.

00:43:12.620 It's not really.

00:43:13.760 But there wasn't.

00:43:14.380 The house wasn't cleaned.

00:43:15.880 I don't remember anything ever

00:43:18.180 happening from that.

00:43:19.200 It was just swept under the rug.

00:43:20.440 The whole thing was just swept

00:43:20.960 under the rug.

00:43:21.660 Yeah.

00:43:21.900 And which is one of the reasons why

00:43:23.320 I have said for so long pray for the

00:43:25.360 secret service and pray for the

00:43:26.420 protection of our president.

00:43:27.540 Yeah.

00:43:27.880 Because there's something fundamentally

00:43:30.220 wrong with the secret service.

00:43:32.120 There.

00:43:32.840 I've seen that way for a while.

00:43:34.120 Yeah.

00:43:34.400 It's kind of died down.

00:43:35.840 Yes.

00:43:36.300 Seemed that way.

00:43:36.880 Okay.

00:43:37.480 Number eight.

00:43:38.320 The DOJ spying on journalists.

00:43:42.580 Interesting.

00:43:43.260 I don't.

00:43:43.840 Don't know.

00:43:44.660 Tell me.

00:43:45.100 Let me see.

00:43:45.440 But how funny that that seems

00:43:46.960 pretty bad.

00:43:49.680 Yes.

00:43:50.320 Yes.

00:43:50.980 Yes.

00:43:51.440 And I think to me, this is the

00:43:52.600 this is the system of this is the

00:43:53.860 result of the echo chamber.

00:43:54.980 This is horrific that I don't I

00:43:56.860 don't think I know what you're

00:43:57.680 referring to.

00:43:58.360 And I live off a steady diet of

00:44:00.040 news.

00:44:00.740 Who remembers it the best?

00:44:03.060 It is Rosenthal.

00:44:05.500 Right.

00:44:06.120 James Rosenthal.

00:44:07.980 That.

00:44:08.740 Yes.

00:44:09.120 From Fox.

00:44:09.480 But there were.

00:44:10.200 He was one of them.

00:44:10.860 There were three of them.

00:44:12.460 Yeah.

00:44:13.140 James Rosen.

00:44:14.100 Sorry.

00:44:14.480 James Rosen.

00:44:15.780 And there were, I believe, three of them that the DOJ was suspecting.

00:44:24.000 Yeah.

00:44:24.460 What's her name?

00:44:25.260 They were they were being leaked information about what was happening inside the government.

00:44:31.360 But it was not.

00:44:32.420 Oh, Cheryl Atkinson.

00:44:33.320 Yes.

00:44:33.800 Yes.

00:44:34.200 Thank you.

00:44:34.580 And it was not, you know, stuff like CIA.

00:44:38.720 It was not WikiLeaks.

00:44:39.800 It was just there's corruption in the administration.

00:44:43.300 The DOJ wiretapped.

00:44:46.140 The DOJ went and looked into all of his family, went through all of his internal records without.

00:44:54.820 They turned on Cheryl Atkinson's phone, computer and phone in the middle of the night.

00:45:00.360 She saw the light go on.

00:45:01.460 The access information.

00:45:02.520 And they were deleting documents.

00:45:03.680 They were watching her, listening to her.

00:45:05.480 Now, here's what's interesting.

00:45:06.520 I don't know about this, but I imagine my peers will think this is one of your conspiracy theories.

00:45:11.400 Correct.

00:45:12.140 Yeah.

00:45:12.320 Because that's why you get able to conspiracy theories, because I don't know this.

00:45:15.420 Because the media never covered it.

00:45:17.300 Do you know who Cheryl Atkinson is?

00:45:18.600 Yes.

00:45:18.860 Okay.

00:45:19.940 She's.

00:45:20.680 Would you agree that she is credible?

00:45:22.680 Yes.

00:45:23.100 Okay.

00:45:24.120 She said this is the most disturbing part.

00:45:26.640 And thank you for reminding me of it.

00:45:28.500 That in the middle of the night, she woke up because her computer went on.

00:45:33.860 And she started seeing things being pulled up on the screen.

00:45:38.560 Somebody was remotely going through her files and pulling up the documents that she had been given and deleting.

00:45:48.780 And she couldn't shut the computer down fast enough.

00:45:52.080 And she actually recorded it.

00:45:53.820 She took her phone and went, look, what's happening to my computer?

00:45:57.960 Nobody.

00:45:58.880 I have no idea.

00:46:00.260 Not a Fox News radio.

00:46:02.040 Because you will see my mouth again.

00:46:03.300 She was at CBS when it happened.

00:46:05.280 I will say.

00:46:06.240 And the CBS isn't CBS.

00:46:08.740 The head of CBS News was the brother of somebody in the administration.

00:46:14.620 Oh, it seems like it.

00:46:15.480 Yeah.

00:46:15.700 There was some wife connection or brother family connection to the administration, to the head of CBS News, which gave it that conspiratorial feeling.

00:46:23.840 Because CBS just brushed it away.

00:46:26.540 Yeah.

00:46:26.720 I mean, they should have stood up and said, what's going on here?

00:46:29.680 Yeah.

00:46:29.780 The Cheryl Atkinson one, I would say a lot of people on the left do dismiss.

00:46:33.060 But the James Rosen one is hard.

00:46:35.480 I mean, that is, I mean, the left media even embraced that one.

00:46:38.620 Let me give you a quote.

00:46:39.200 This is from the editorial board of the New York Times.

00:46:41.660 With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible co-conspirator in a criminal investigation of a news leak,

00:46:48.160 the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.

00:46:54.480 Never heard of this.

00:46:55.440 Never.

00:46:55.680 Never heard of this sounds like the kind of thing that I will hear under Trump.

00:46:58.340 I did not know.

00:46:59.060 Oh, you will.

00:46:59.760 Oh, you will.

00:47:00.380 Oh, my gosh, you will.

00:47:01.400 They're already saying it.

00:47:02.380 And this is why when President Obama yesterday or two days ago in his last press conference said,

00:47:07.260 you can't be a sycophant to this next president.

00:47:11.640 You have to stand up.

00:47:13.180 And then he also pardoned the people who were giving information to WikiLeaks.

00:47:20.180 You were going after the press.

00:47:23.040 He's used the what is the Woodrow Wilson espionage?

00:47:27.140 The espionage act from Woodrow Wilson.

00:47:29.320 He has charged reporters with the espionage act more than all other presidents combined.

00:47:37.460 Is that part of this or is that a separate?

00:47:39.000 No, that's separate.

00:47:39.880 That's a separate one on the list.

00:47:41.380 No, that's not on this list.

00:47:45.480 Oh, it's not even on this list?

00:47:46.640 It's not even on this list.

00:47:47.340 So you've got to add this.

00:47:48.560 You've got to add the espionage because he's done that more times than all other presidents combined.

00:47:54.420 Combined.

00:47:54.920 Combined.

00:47:55.440 I feel embarrassed with it.

00:47:57.680 As a really straight A student, I feel like I didn't do my homework because I don't know this, which is disturbing to me.

00:48:03.260 But it's not your fault.

00:48:05.020 It's the press.

00:48:06.060 Because it was being done by their side, they just thought, OK, well, I don't really understand.

00:48:12.880 There's got to be a reason for it or whatever.

00:48:15.280 Where Donald Trump, I begged the press, you have to pay attention.

00:48:21.160 You can't stand silently while this is going on because the next guy.

00:48:27.620 You don't know.

00:48:28.340 If you allow it to happen now, you don't know what's going to happen.

00:48:32.560 And the difference is they'll say it's OK for Obama because he's morally and ethically sound.

00:48:37.080 And I think that's what they'll say.

00:48:39.860 And that's why it's different because Trump is obviously not morally and ethically sound.

00:48:42.820 Now, I'm not saying that's the reason.

00:48:44.680 I think it's just I'm shocked that I don't know this.

00:48:47.460 I'm shocked and saddened that I've lived in this country for eight years and I do not know your experiences.

00:48:54.220 Eight years I've been in traffic jams with people that I don't know what is going on inside their car.

00:48:59.880 And that's that makes me very sad.

00:49:01.980 And to me, this is the opportunity of our lifetime to say, oh, gosh, we cannot be more conflict ridden than we are now.

00:49:08.680 Who are you?

00:49:09.800 What is important to you?

00:49:11.620 That is what the opportunity is right in front of us.

00:49:14.020 And we can either get more angry, which I don't know how we possibly can, or we can choose differently.

00:49:19.800 Yeah, we can get more angry.

00:49:21.300 And we're only up to what, eight?

00:49:22.660 Yeah, that's that's number eight.

00:49:25.460 Money's a nine and eight.

00:49:26.880 Money squandered on Solyndra.

00:49:29.580 You know that?

00:49:31.000 No.

00:49:31.480 Stu, I know you're all over this.

00:49:32.720 That was an early one.

00:49:33.560 Five hundred million dollars.

00:49:35.160 Over.

00:49:35.940 It was.

00:49:36.440 Yeah, you're right.

00:49:37.040 It was.

00:49:37.380 There was some.

00:49:37.860 You don't even.

00:49:38.760 Yeah, a few million dollars here and there.

00:49:41.180 Five hundred million dollars to do it.

00:49:43.280 They, you know, government tax dollars.

00:49:44.920 And that was just one of many.

00:49:46.000 One of many.

00:49:46.760 That was kind of the abbreviation of that.

00:49:49.020 I don't think Solyndra was even the biggest.

00:49:51.100 But they dumped money into a specialized new technology solar company to try to get the green stuff, energy off the ground.

00:49:57.520 And, you know, sadly, our money went to waste as the company disintegrated just a few months after they gave them the money.

00:50:06.760 The other part of that is they actually had, before they lent the money, had reports from the people investigating it saying, we don't think this company is going to make it.

00:50:14.880 It's not going to.

00:50:15.240 It's not going to work.

00:50:16.080 They did it anyway.

00:50:17.540 Don't eat it.

00:50:18.100 You know, there are connections between the White House and this company.

00:50:20.700 They tried to save it with this gigantic infusion of cash and it did not succeed.

00:50:26.180 Yeah, so it was just a waste of our money.

00:50:28.420 Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress.

00:50:31.740 Did you know that our attorney general was held in contempt of Congress?

00:50:36.060 No.

00:50:37.180 I don't even know if I remember that one.

00:50:39.180 You know, that got almost no coverage.

00:50:42.940 I barely remember that.

00:50:45.220 That was over him now, going to testify, right?

00:50:48.280 Yes.

00:50:48.820 Yeah, on Fast and Furious.

00:50:50.860 Yes, Fast and Furious.

00:50:52.360 Which is another.

00:50:53.280 Do you know Fast and Furious?

00:50:54.580 Not the movie.

00:50:55.380 I mean, because it is a great series.

00:50:58.080 Do you know what Fast and Furious refers to?

00:51:02.280 No.

00:51:03.140 Okay.

00:51:03.780 Oh, wow.

00:51:04.400 Do you know that, if I say it this way, illegal arms sales to Mexican drug traffickers?

00:51:11.260 That sounds really bad.

00:51:13.000 This is getting really embarrassing.

00:51:14.180 Honestly, and this is why everyone has changed their profile photos to Barack Obama's family

00:51:21.120 on my Facebook, because they're devastated they're leaving, and it has a perfect legacy

00:51:25.720 because it was kept perfect.

00:51:27.900 Yes.

00:51:28.820 Thank you for saying that.

00:51:30.160 And to me, look, I'm not trying, I'm not here to diminish Obama.

00:51:34.440 I'm here to say that he wasn't the ideal you thought he was, and Trump isn't the villain

00:51:39.740 you think he is.

00:51:40.520 And maybe somewhere we can all get along, and I don't have to feel like my president determines

00:51:45.580 my love and affection.

00:51:46.700 So, this is why I'm convinced.

00:51:48.620 Good gully.

00:51:49.480 Riaz, if you weren't already married, I'd propose to you right now.

00:51:52.200 Oh my gosh.

00:51:53.160 This is serious.

00:51:55.020 This is serious.

00:51:55.660 If my skin wasn't so dark, you'd see me turn red.

00:51:57.340 Here's what it is.

00:52:04.100 If they would have taken, for instance, Eric Holder, on record, saying, we need to find

00:52:11.500 a way to show how dangerous these guns are and how easy they are to get into bad hands.

00:52:19.760 So, they took, and the government agents sold illegal guns, thousands of them, at the border.

00:52:28.040 They got into the hands of the illegal drug lords.

00:52:31.820 Of course, that's where they're going.

00:52:33.220 In fact, many of them were sold directly to the drug lords.

00:52:35.820 Sold directly to the drug lords.

00:52:37.780 One of them actually ended up in the hands of a terrorist in the Paris shooting.

00:52:43.200 A gun, an automatic weapon.

00:52:45.600 Never heard of this.

00:52:46.780 An automatic weapon used in the shooting in Paris was sold by Eric Holder.

00:52:52.920 A border agent was killed.

00:52:55.340 The frustration now is I'm hearing everyone hearing this and saying, oh, Glenn and his

00:52:59.500 friends, conspiracy.

00:53:00.460 Here comes another conspiracy.

00:53:01.540 Because it's discounted.

00:53:02.980 And I know you now.

00:53:04.440 And I know when you speak truth, because I'm looking you in the eyes.

00:53:07.040 And I don't know how I convince other people of that.

00:53:09.780 Correct.

00:53:10.440 And so, I'm convinced that if we would have had a situation to where these things would

00:53:16.280 have been taken seriously, and people would have, if the press would have done their job

00:53:23.380 even-handedly, and said, yeah, he's not scandal-free.

00:53:28.340 That's a huge scandal.

00:53:30.620 I think it's a very, I think it's a...

00:53:32.480 We wouldn't have ratcheted things up.

00:53:34.280 But nobody was listening.

00:53:36.080 And we're like, the country is accepting this.

00:53:39.480 The press is in bed and accepting corruption at the highest levels.

00:53:44.840 It freaked people out.

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00:56:43.680 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:56:46.520 I will tell you, in just looking at the screens today and watching the television coverage of

00:56:53.620 the Obamas and the Trumps are about to leave the White House,

00:56:58.900 this is always a day whenever there's a change in power that makes me so proud.

00:57:06.520 It makes me proud to be an American, that we have this peaceful transfer of power.

00:57:14.280 Every single time.

00:57:15.460 Every time.

00:57:16.220 Without exception.

00:57:17.040 Every time.

00:57:18.240 And there is something to be said for that.

00:57:21.180 That is, it is unlike we do not, and this is one reason why, and I know this pisses a lot of people off,

00:57:28.560 why I am so torn as I don't believe there should be special, special classes of people.

00:57:39.280 You do wrong, you go to jail.

00:57:42.100 However, because politics, and we know how politicians will use the levers of power to destroy their enemies,

00:57:51.660 it's one reason why I'm glad that Trump is saying, we're not going after Hillary.

00:57:59.820 Just leave it alone.

00:58:01.700 Walk away in the sunset.

00:58:03.820 Because every other country puts their opponents in jail.

00:58:09.800 We don't.

00:58:11.300 And I will tell you, I got this argument from the most surprising of places, Mike Lee.

00:58:17.540 I asked Mike Lee, please tell me, Mike, somebody is going to go after the scandals with Hillary Clinton,

00:58:27.280 and we're going to correct this.

00:58:29.620 And he made the best cautioned case of, be careful, because that sets up a precedent of,

00:58:40.880 you're going to go after your opponents and put them in jail.

00:58:44.080 And then you get a bad guy who says, really, you stood against me?

00:58:49.340 I'll get you.

00:58:51.520 We don't do that.

00:58:53.220 And to be able to show that to the rest of the world is great.

00:58:57.560 This is a truly proud day for America to be able to see Barack Obama,

00:59:03.280 who couldn't be more different than Donald Trump,

00:59:06.760 and Donald Trump, who couldn't be more different than Barack Obama,

00:59:10.180 get together in the White House, and Obama reaches into his pants, so to speak,

00:59:16.680 and takes out the key to the White House and hands it to him and says,

00:59:20.500 it's yours, and here's the important thing that I learned.

00:59:25.980 Don't do this.

00:59:28.280 I think that is great.

00:59:30.080 I agree.

00:59:30.240 So we're going over these scandals, and this is really unfair to do to you, Riaz.

00:59:35.880 It's really unfair, because honestly, some of these, I can't remember all of the details vividly,

00:59:40.500 but everybody in our audience knows these scandals, but we may not be able to recall them easily.

00:59:47.400 I don't think it's unfair.

00:59:49.100 I'm sitting here shocked that I've never heard of them.

00:59:51.900 You never heard ever about Fast and Furious at all?

00:59:54.880 Fast and Furious never crossed your screen.

00:59:57.100 No.

00:59:57.280 Wow, that's something.

00:59:58.920 And that is a huge one.

01:00:00.280 That's one of the bigger.

01:00:01.100 Okay, we've got about four scandals left, the nine scandals Obama has forgotten about,

01:00:05.860 and apparently liberals never learned about from the National Review.

01:00:09.080 We continue next.

01:00:18.640 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:00:25.180 Look your head.

01:00:27.280 We're with Riaz Patel, who is a friend of ours, and we thought it would be good to have him on the day of the inauguration,

01:00:41.100 because today is a day to start all over again.

01:00:43.280 Today is a day of real hope.

01:00:44.860 Today is a day that if we choose, and if we choose to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others,

01:00:52.480 we can move forward, we can move forward.

01:00:55.220 If what was the worst thing, we're learning this from Riaz, he's not aware of the scandals.

01:01:00.940 He's from the left, lives in Hollywood, is a Hollywood producer, not aware of the scandals that we're talking about from the National Review.

01:01:07.160 All very well documented.

01:01:08.660 None of them are conspiracy theories.

01:01:10.600 All of them were pretty much erased by the administration and by the press.

01:01:16.240 He's not aware of most of them.

01:01:17.760 So now, are we going to do the same thing?

01:01:22.980 Will our media outlets on the right erase the scandals or excuse the scandals,

01:01:31.380 which will come under this or any other administration that we happen to like?

01:01:37.140 The answer to that should be clearly no.

01:01:41.560 If he breaks the law, if he breaks with the Constitution,

01:01:45.760 if he does things that are not right or not the right way,

01:01:51.680 we need to be the most vocal.

01:01:54.120 Otherwise, the conspiracy theories start.

01:01:57.920 And everything that the right says he's doing,

01:02:01.600 those on the left who only read the Drudge Report, Breitbart or whatever,

01:02:07.060 will say to the people on the on the left who are actually watching what's going on,

01:02:13.300 and they'll say, well, that's just a conspiracy.

01:02:15.240 And I know that to be true because for about a month during the election,

01:02:19.720 I only read the Huffington Post doing a little bit of research on my own.

01:02:24.420 I only read the Huffington Post and any links that would take me to stories from the left.

01:02:30.100 Let me see.

01:02:33.180 And it's not that they had a different version of the story.

01:02:36.780 They would just not have the story.

01:02:40.040 So it was a conspiracy theory because it was never reported on their side.

01:02:45.000 So let's go through the rest of the scandals.

01:02:48.880 The Veterans Administration scandal.

01:02:50.820 You know that one, right?

01:02:52.620 Hillary Clinton's email scandal.

01:02:54.820 Yes.

01:02:54.920 Do you know how much of that, do you know that she went in?

01:03:00.940 What are those safe rooms called?

01:03:02.980 What is the designation?

01:03:04.420 Anybody remember those safe rooms?

01:03:06.020 They're safe rooms that are electronic proof that nothing comes in or out,

01:03:11.060 no signals, nothing.

01:03:12.420 And you have to have a safe room to be able to read the classified documents.

01:03:18.320 And you are not allowed to take a classified document out.

01:03:22.060 You're not allowed to take pictures of it.

01:03:24.460 You're not allowed to do anything with it.

01:03:28.200 Do you remember when she says they were never marked top secret?

01:03:31.320 Do you know that in her emails, it says, in so many words, remove the header?

01:03:40.140 And so people had to go in to those top secret rooms, cut off the header of top secret,

01:03:48.480 bring them out of that room, then send them, either scan them or retype them and send them to her.

01:03:57.780 Breaking our top secret laws.

01:04:01.420 It's not like these documents are just being passed on from computer to computer.

01:04:05.120 A lot of these documents were only able to be seen in that room.

01:04:09.720 Did you know that?

01:04:10.520 No, I didn't.

01:04:11.360 No, I didn't.

01:04:12.840 Does it change that scandal?

01:04:14.480 I mean, I think to me the whole scandal has laid there in a way that it sort of is mentioned a lot,

01:04:20.540 but never really dealt with.

01:04:22.100 To me, I find it, it was always a problem.

01:04:24.200 It was always sort of what was in those emails that they were eradicated.

01:04:27.000 And so I think when we selectively morally choose what is okay and not with a candidate,

01:04:31.660 we're putting our own bias, and the news is doing that too.

01:04:34.620 A guy went in a submarine.

01:04:36.620 He was a submariner.

01:04:38.240 He took a picture of where he worked in the submarine and had it on his phone and sent it to his kids.

01:04:47.780 Illegal.

01:04:48.540 Can't do that.

01:04:49.620 Submarines are top secret.

01:04:51.580 He's in jail today.

01:04:52.860 At the same time that Hillary was going in, it wasn't just too many of us on the left, on the right.

01:05:00.340 It was not about what was in them.

01:05:03.600 It was about how did you get them?

01:05:06.220 You had to knowingly break the law to remove them from that room.

01:05:13.440 It doesn't matter if it just says, I love Cheerios.

01:05:15.660 You went in and instructed other people to go break the law so you could read that.

01:05:23.780 You know this one, I'm sure.

01:05:25.000 Ransom payments to Iranians.

01:05:26.620 Yes.

01:05:27.320 What is that story?

01:05:28.580 Oh gosh, really?

01:05:29.820 Do you remember?

01:05:31.340 Do you remember?

01:05:31.960 I'm just trying to...

01:05:32.660 I don't mean to do it that way.

01:05:35.700 Let me say, I just want to see what your recollection is.

01:05:39.040 Do you remember that there was a cash payment that we don't ever make cash payments?

01:05:45.840 Yes.

01:05:46.280 Okay.

01:05:46.640 And it went in the middle of the night at the airport?

01:05:48.780 Okay.

01:05:50.300 And I think the last one here is the...

01:05:53.060 Do you remember the serial numbers on the cash that we paid?

01:05:55.260 I literally started to feel like, you see my pops are sweating.

01:05:57.540 And I'm always a student.

01:05:58.180 I don't mean to do that to you.

01:05:59.120 I don't mean it that way.

01:05:59.880 Yes, you do.

01:06:00.620 I'm sitting...

01:06:00.940 No, I really don't.

01:06:02.420 The IRS harassment of conservative groups.

01:06:05.640 No.

01:06:08.140 That was a big one too.

01:06:09.040 I mean, that is the number one on the national review list.

01:06:12.180 I thought that was always one of the...

01:06:13.520 Well, give me an example of the conservative groups.

01:06:15.280 Because maybe if it's specific, like which one of the ones that we're targeting...

01:06:17.980 Tea Party groups generally.

01:06:19.700 Yes.

01:06:19.860 Yes.

01:06:20.180 Okay.

01:06:20.760 Tea Party...

01:06:21.540 But again, a blip and then gone.

01:06:23.960 Yes.

01:06:24.420 Anything you're saying, yes.

01:06:26.020 I mean, some of them we...

01:06:26.740 Obviously, the emails...

01:06:27.700 So, if we told you that there is...

01:06:32.640 There are witnesses that are not conservative in the IRS that were told...

01:06:38.140 That said, we can't go in and do these things to these people.

01:06:42.840 And the woman, Lois Lerner, who ran the IRS, directly reached out and said, do it.

01:06:49.580 And then they were told, erase these emails.

01:06:52.640 And the email on one side wasn't erased.

01:06:55.080 But then the servers started to be wiped at the IRS.

01:06:58.540 I don't know if you can hear the sound of glass shattering.

01:07:02.400 That's me breaking my own echo chamber.

01:07:04.380 Like, it's...

01:07:05.280 That is what it...

01:07:06.100 That's what this is.

01:07:07.120 And to me, on Inauguration Day, I love the fact that I'm sitting here with you learning

01:07:12.020 things I don't know.

01:07:13.500 And to me, it has to be that way moving forward.

01:07:15.620 And all of your friends will say conspiracy.

01:07:19.280 But, well, my friends also know how tenacious I am.

01:07:22.600 And I think they know my integrity.

01:07:24.700 And they know who I am.

01:07:25.720 And that I'm not easily duped.

01:07:27.080 And I think that reputation will serve me well as I go forward and say to people, listen

01:07:31.200 to this other side.

01:07:32.100 Okay.

01:07:32.380 So, how do we...

01:07:34.460 Because I think the way to do this is for me to come to people that I don't know.

01:07:39.760 Yes.

01:07:40.060 Like you did with me.

01:07:41.820 And say, look, let me just tell you my role in all of this.

01:07:46.600 Let me just tell you the things that I've done or that I...

01:07:51.020 The way I see the world or see you, and I don't want to see it that way anymore.

01:07:57.760 So, help me fill in the gaps.

01:08:01.200 Is that...

01:08:02.240 Do you think there will be enough people on the left that will reciprocate or just pontificate?

01:08:09.880 I think they will reciprocate if they are faced with the humanity of another person.

01:08:13.840 It is very hard for any of us to dig in emotionally when we are bombarded with so much information.

01:08:19.660 But if you see, if you were sitting next to that fisherman I met in Kachuk, Analaska,

01:08:22.880 who can explain to you very clearly why he's sitting there drinking coffee all day because

01:08:26.620 he has no money, explain to him why the environmental policies specifically for him have hurt him.

01:08:32.140 Now, it's not that he's against the environment.

01:08:33.560 He lives off of fish.

01:08:35.080 But if you talk to him, then you understand.

01:08:37.760 To me, it's a bottom-up approach.

01:08:39.520 I think we've reached tipping point of the top defining who we are.

01:08:43.140 So, I think breaking your own echo chamber, to me, is the mandate from Inauguration Day forward.

01:08:48.960 I have to introduce you to somebody that we haven't even talked about on the air yet.

01:08:54.120 So, I don't want to say all the details.

01:08:58.100 I'm already engaged to...

01:08:59.700 I know.

01:09:00.600 I have to Pat.

01:09:02.340 I know.

01:09:02.780 I'm married and Pat and I have this thing.

01:09:05.200 So, if I'm being introduced...

01:09:06.460 No, you're going to like this guy because he describes himself as a progressive.

01:09:11.660 And he was in my office two weeks ago.

01:09:13.980 And I said, don't know why you're in my office because, do you know I'm like the number one progressive hunter?

01:09:23.620 And I know who progressives are?

01:09:27.760 And he said, yes, I do.

01:09:30.080 He said, but I don't think I have the same definition that you do.

01:09:34.660 And I said, well, that's fine.

01:09:36.320 But we have to start on the understanding of what progressives...

01:09:39.820 The root of progressivism is.

01:09:42.240 He knew it inside and out and rejected all of it.

01:09:44.880 And he's like, the progressivism that I'm looking at...

01:09:48.240 He's from Seattle.

01:09:49.640 The progressivism that I feel is kind of my thing is that it is all about the community.

01:09:57.480 It's not about government.

01:09:59.080 It's all about letting the individuals in the community decide.

01:10:05.180 And we didn't leave with comfort necessarily that we were on the same page by any stretch of the imagination.

01:10:13.140 But to me, that's classic liberalism, not progressivism.

01:10:19.440 So I haven't gotten to with him where he... how he's making that work.

01:10:24.180 But I like that we're all defining it in our own way now because the labels of this past election don't really apply.

01:10:29.060 A conservative... is that conservative?

01:10:30.940 Is Republican?

01:10:31.820 Is Democrat?

01:10:32.340 The lines are all blurring, which is a great opportunity to say, I'm going to define myself differently.

01:10:36.420 I agree with you because I don't know what it means to be a Republican.

01:10:40.080 I don't know what it means to be a conservative.

01:10:41.920 If a conservative is good with a trillion dollar stimulus package, then I don't know what a conservative is.

01:10:50.260 Because that's not traditionally us.

01:10:53.140 So getting rid of the labels is going to be really, really hard.

01:10:57.980 But fantastic.

01:10:59.340 The blurring of the lines will be a fantastic thing for all of us.

01:11:02.520 You're going to Washington, D.C. now?

01:11:04.380 Yes.

01:11:05.360 What are you going to do?

01:11:06.240 I'm going to go... part of the march, I'm going to go.

01:11:08.000 I have meetings on Monday with the head of the Islamic Society of North America to talk a bit about what I think as a Muslim they can do differently.

01:11:15.860 I work in media.

01:11:16.560 I think it's obviously a very dark time for Muslims and because they're being...

01:11:22.040 I mean, it's the same thing here.

01:11:23.540 A few people are becoming the reputation of everyone.

01:11:26.380 So we're going to have to have a talk on ISNA and we had a talk last night on the Muslim Brotherhood and you feel the same way about the Muslim Brotherhood, I think, as I do.

01:11:38.580 And CARE seems to be that we seem to have the same view.

01:11:43.600 You concerned about ISNA and some of their...

01:11:46.160 I don't know enough to sit down.

01:11:48.240 Again, my whole world is politics adjacent and my whole relationship with Islam and the Islamic community is different because I was gay.

01:11:54.740 So to me, it's now more born of there's a problem here in terms of the perception, in terms of fear.

01:12:00.280 I think we need to be more open.

01:12:02.300 Let people into our homes.

01:12:03.280 Show them who we are.

01:12:04.040 There's nothing to hide.

01:12:05.000 You should probably explain what ISNA is.

01:12:07.380 It's Islamic Society of North America.

01:12:09.140 That's what I thought.

01:12:09.520 And so I don't know much about them.

01:12:11.320 I'm very intrigued to me.

01:12:12.660 To me, sitting with you, sitting with ISNA, sitting in Saudi Arabia, in Kachakan, I'm breaking my own echo chamber to say, what do I not know?

01:12:20.060 And then I'll decide.

01:12:21.220 And then what I don't know, I'm going to share.

01:12:23.060 Hey, guys, do you know this?

01:12:24.600 I read your book.

01:12:25.560 And there's a lot of points in it that I'm like, oh, I didn't see it that way.

01:12:28.340 You mean Truth About Islam?

01:12:30.380 No, no, no.

01:12:30.760 That one, too.

01:12:31.340 I've read three of your books now.

01:12:33.340 My God.

01:12:33.880 And I know.

01:12:34.460 I haven't even read three of my books.

01:12:36.060 I know.

01:12:36.380 And then I get quizzed on these scandals.

01:12:38.980 And I'm like, wait, I did my homework.

01:12:41.180 I read the books.

01:12:43.260 So you read It Is About Islam?

01:12:45.420 Yeah.

01:12:45.940 Was it offensive to you?

01:12:47.000 No.

01:12:47.800 No, because I know the intention of what you're writing.

01:12:50.600 Things are not offensive to me.

01:12:52.340 Like when someone asks me a question about Islam.

01:12:53.700 Did you disagree with things?

01:12:55.220 I would like to discuss the framework.

01:12:57.920 Because to me, what you set up in the introduction is the framework with which people read the whole thing.

01:13:02.300 You definitely heard us out.

01:13:03.740 We should have you back to hear you out on that.

01:13:05.740 Yeah, yeah.

01:13:06.600 We should do one of those.

01:13:08.200 Absolutely.

01:13:08.480 So next time, let's have you back and let's just talk about that.

01:13:11.620 Yeah.

01:13:11.840 And I'll bring a friend, too.

01:13:12.860 Because there's a couple of people I'd like you guys to meet that I think would be very interesting for you to meet to hear their perspectives.

01:13:16.940 Oh, we could bring more people.

01:13:18.460 Oh, yeah.

01:13:18.880 I mean, if you're going to start bringing people, we'll bring our people, too.

01:13:21.200 Well, there are four of you.

01:13:22.820 I'll see your people and raise some others.

01:13:26.460 You are a remarkably courageous man, and I salute you and really respect you.

01:13:32.040 And I will say, being here, you are four exceptionally nice human beings.

01:13:35.680 Every person in this building, which, by the way, the meeting we had yesterday, there's Afghani, there's a Jew, and there's me in there.

01:13:41.780 Like, I don't understand the perception of people here.

01:13:44.120 You are an incredibly good human being who I believe want what is best for Americans and America.

01:13:49.960 Now, we don't have to agree about that, but your intention is quite clear, and I feel that.

01:13:53.860 So, mutual.

01:13:54.780 Thank you.

01:13:55.760 Thank you.

01:13:56.660 What a good day.

01:13:57.700 Good day to start all over again as we wait for the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.

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01:15:35.860 Yeah.

01:15:36.520 Do you want to get away to beautiful Las Colinas, Texas?

01:15:39.580 That sounds nice.

01:15:40.440 Bask in an abnormally large concrete building?

01:15:42.660 Sure, why not?

01:15:43.520 With an inexplicable round window on top?

01:15:45.860 Yeah.

01:15:46.240 Have your shoulders massaged by a heavy breathing talk show host and his large manly-esque hands?

01:15:51.800 Ah, well, I don't know about that.

01:15:52.920 Great!

01:15:53.620 What?

01:15:54.380 Oh, it's okay.

01:15:55.220 I don't...

01:15:55.480 It will blow your mind.

01:15:57.460 Oh.

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01:16:17.240 We're watching The Beast roll down Pennsylvania Avenue.

01:16:22.760 That is one amazing car.

01:16:24.940 And there's a new one coming, right?

01:16:26.660 There is a new one coming with 8-inch thick bulletproof layer glass.

01:16:31.080 Wow.

01:16:31.780 So chemical and biological attacks.

01:16:34.440 Good.

01:16:34.740 You're good at it?

01:16:35.500 Yeah.

01:16:35.740 No problem.

01:16:36.740 Except you eventually have to get out.

01:16:39.440 Can you imagine how heavy those doors are?

01:16:41.800 Oh, I know.

01:16:42.860 Wow.

01:16:43.080 It's got the...

01:16:44.540 In the front, it's got a tear gas cannon and a shotgun.

01:16:48.260 I mean, don't mess with it.

01:16:49.640 Does it lay down nails behind it so that you...

01:16:52.540 Pops tires.

01:16:53.460 Oil slicks.

01:16:54.180 Oil slicks.

01:16:55.080 Smokes green.

01:16:55.560 I bet it does.

01:16:56.480 I bet it does, too.

01:16:56.980 I bet it does.

01:16:57.980 I bet it does.

01:16:58.820 I think they're putting in adjustable suspension, too, so it doesn't get caught.

01:17:02.540 Oh, yeah.

01:17:02.900 It doesn't get high-centered.

01:17:04.160 That was part of the scandal for me, for the Secret Service.

01:17:07.980 Who didn't map this route and see the beast isn't going to make it here?

01:17:13.340 There is it.

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01:17:48.980 There's a couple things that are disturbing.

01:17:51.820 Pat is having a love affair with the Muslim Pakistani liberal.

01:17:58.140 And he can't let it go.

01:17:59.200 He was just right before it went on the air.

01:18:00.540 He's like, I have to tell you, as Riaz Patel walks out.

01:18:03.740 The soulmate.

01:18:04.160 I mean, when you meet your soulmate, what are you going to do?

01:18:05.940 Yeah.

01:18:06.180 He's like, I love him.

01:18:07.160 It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.

01:18:11.420 I think England, Dan, and John Ford Coley said it based.

01:18:14.280 Right.

01:18:14.520 We'll get to that.

01:18:16.160 Also, audio from journalists mocking Donald Trump.

01:18:19.420 Is this really what we want?

01:18:21.200 And a prediction that has come true.

01:18:24.700 Unfortunately, not one of mine.

01:18:25.840 It was one of Stu's.

01:18:26.580 But a prediction come true.

01:18:29.360 We go there right now.

01:18:31.160 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:18:52.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:57.840 Welcome to the program.

01:19:03.120 The Trump children just were introduced and are walking now to be seated for the inauguration.

01:19:09.980 Good.

01:19:11.280 Yay.

01:19:12.120 This is such a proud day.

01:19:13.720 It really is.

01:19:14.400 And I felt the same way with Barack Obama, that it is a proud day.

01:19:19.720 I do remember fearing his speech.

01:19:22.320 I have less fear of Donald Trump's speech, but I still do have fear of the speech.

01:19:34.620 But what a great day.

01:19:35.960 A peaceful transfer of power.

01:19:38.720 No country does it like this.

01:19:41.600 No country does it like this.

01:19:44.040 Welcome to the program.

01:19:45.300 We do have to get to a couple of predictions that happen on this program.

01:19:51.060 Both right.

01:19:51.800 Well, if they're right.

01:19:53.320 I mean, do you need me to take the wheel here?

01:19:56.580 Because I didn't make them.

01:19:58.480 Stu did.

01:19:59.360 And so did Lawrence Jones.

01:20:01.740 Yeah.

01:20:02.020 Lawrence Jones really nailed his.

01:20:03.620 He did.

01:20:04.140 Mine is, you know.

01:20:06.060 These happen, what, in August?

01:20:07.320 We spent a lot of time talking about all the stuff we've got wrong over the past year

01:20:10.100 and a half, which has been everything.

01:20:12.080 It's almost impossible to count the examples.

01:20:14.340 Yes.

01:20:14.660 But this one is, I think, interesting.

01:20:16.320 This was election night, wasn't it?

01:20:18.000 No, this was August.

01:20:19.440 It was?

01:20:19.740 I did say it on election.

01:20:21.000 I said it a bunch of times.

01:20:22.160 Okay.

01:20:22.720 But this one.

01:20:23.900 It was really a clear cry for help.

01:20:25.540 It was like, please pay attention to me.

01:20:27.220 Please pay attention to me.

01:20:28.120 Well, yes.

01:20:28.780 But this one is really negative, far beyond the way that, you know, I think people will

01:20:35.780 look at it.

01:20:37.000 And then also, Lawrence's is really prescient.

01:20:40.400 It really is.

01:20:41.780 This is back in August.

01:20:43.160 Yeah.

01:20:43.500 How's he going to be remembered?

01:20:44.380 He's going to be remembered as the first black president.

01:20:48.160 Okay.

01:20:48.380 Tell me that Lawrence didn't nail it.

01:20:51.200 Oh, come on.

01:20:51.880 He's going to be remembered as the first black president.

01:20:55.980 I mean, I think it's true.

01:20:56.960 He nailed it.

01:20:58.220 Can I tell you something?

01:20:59.360 He nailed it.

01:21:00.740 You too.

01:21:01.960 That is new.

01:21:03.040 That is new because Bill Clinton was the first black president.

01:21:07.600 That is true.

01:21:08.320 That is true.

01:21:08.980 We were busting on Lawrence on that yesterday when he came on the Pat and Stu show.

01:21:13.200 However, the rest of this is actually me blabbing about my prediction.

01:21:16.020 You know, that's going to be a great president.

01:21:18.640 Is he going to be remembered as a great president?

01:21:21.860 I'm telling you, he's going to walk out of here with a 60% approval rating.

01:21:25.380 He is.

01:21:25.840 He is.

01:21:26.240 And that was really close because it is a, I think, no, he said 60, but Stu said 60.

01:21:33.660 I said 60.

01:21:35.760 And I kind of go, I asked the question.

01:21:39.120 That's true.

01:21:39.740 So you were part of the prediction.

01:21:40.840 I was part of the, I was, I was, I was probably the, the catalyst, the water for your flower.

01:21:48.320 Right.

01:21:48.880 You exercise the genius out of Lawrence and Stu.

01:21:52.660 Right.

01:21:52.880 Yes.

01:21:53.160 Thank you.

01:21:53.720 Yes.

01:21:54.160 Thank you.

01:21:54.800 So it was really me that was right.

01:21:57.420 And the reason why we talked about that is that it is because you might say now, well,

01:22:01.940 yeah, he's, he's walking out of there as a popular president.

01:22:04.040 I mean, 60% approval rating.

01:22:05.760 The man had between 42 and 45 for almost his entire term.

01:22:10.940 Yeah.

01:22:11.220 He was not a popular president when he was president.

01:22:13.860 As low as either 38 or 39.

01:22:16.020 39.

01:22:16.400 Yeah.

01:22:16.800 One point.

01:22:17.280 Well, he is a guy who is, there are no scandals.

01:22:20.300 Right.

01:22:20.540 I mean, but, but when you erase him, that's why I've said he is going to be remembered

01:22:25.200 as the likes of FDR.

01:22:27.340 He is going to be somebody who is studied as almost the perfect president.

01:22:32.000 I think you're right.

01:22:33.120 And here's, first of all, he was completely an unpopular president until this election

01:22:39.760 started.

01:22:40.160 And when this election started, number one, people stopped focusing on what he was doing.

01:22:44.140 And number two, the people that we focused on were largely unpopular to the general population.

01:22:49.340 And yes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both included in that, but many of the

01:22:52.980 other candidates were as well, including like Ted Cruz, for example, other candidates that

01:22:57.700 ran in that early primary were not overwhelmingly popular to the general society of America.

01:23:03.360 Then obviously Trump and Hillary Clinton are number one and number two with the worst

01:23:07.500 approval ratings ever by major party nominees.

01:23:10.300 So now what society has done as forgotten his presidency and just compared him in a point

01:23:17.880 when he was not being focused on against these other two people who they don't like and constantly

01:23:23.620 focused on for a year and a half.

01:23:25.280 So his approval rating has risen, not because of things that he's done, but because every

01:23:30.420 people are contrasting him against these other two candidates who they don't like.

01:23:34.900 So now he's risen up to 60%.

01:23:37.240 That is going to be, I would not be surprised at all if that goes up and up and up and up

01:23:41.060 from here.

01:23:42.320 And what is most important about this is not whether Barack Obama is seen as popular.

01:23:48.020 The issue is he, think about this in context of how historians will look at the Barack Obama

01:23:53.360 presidency.

01:23:54.440 He takes a country in economic crisis.

01:23:58.660 George W. Bush leaves with an approval rating in the low to mid thirties.

01:24:03.220 He takes office.

01:24:05.640 He leaves with a 60% approval rating and then Trump takes office with a 40% approval rating.

01:24:12.060 Now, Trump may be able to do, if he makes America great again, maybe he'll be able to

01:24:16.040 get rid of this narrative.

01:24:17.140 And obviously we're all rooting for that.

01:24:19.500 However, I don't think anyone could because of what I believe is going to come.

01:24:25.460 Um, and maybe it doesn't come in the next four years, but what I believe is going to come,

01:24:29.560 the great instability that is on the horizon.

01:24:33.260 Um, and the fact that he doesn't have the press.

01:24:38.960 That will help him.

01:24:40.420 He doesn't have more importantly, he doesn't have EDU.

01:24:42.840 If you don't have, if you don't have the educational system behind you, you don't win in the end.

01:24:49.580 Barack Obama, remember, uh, it was a year in pictures.

01:24:52.940 Time magazine did a year in pictures.

01:24:54.660 They never put the tea party rally of nine, uh, nine, 12 up in the year in pictures.

01:25:02.960 How did you, how did you miss that?

01:25:05.600 They didn't miss that.

01:25:08.280 They didn't want that in there as the history that you would look back on and see.

01:25:13.400 It was the whitewashing of the times.

01:25:17.060 So you will see the role that we played because the winners write the history books and the

01:25:24.120 winners since 1920 have been the progressives.

01:25:26.600 And so they will write the history books that will make him even more legendary than what we

01:25:34.100 remembered.

01:25:34.560 It's why I've been saying for the last eight years, you've got to write a journal and keep

01:25:40.560 a journal on what is happening in today's world.

01:25:45.120 So you can teach it to your children and grandchildren because it won't be in books.

01:25:49.420 It just will, it will be a different version in books and a lot of it will be glossed over.

01:25:55.580 Um, and you know, and the same to be said for Donald Trump.

01:25:59.340 Um, yeah.

01:26:00.040 And hopefully, you know, look, if Trump's presidency goes really well and he wins over America,

01:26:04.060 I think a lot of this narrative can be destroyed and hopefully that's the case.

01:26:08.060 But if, if he does not, I mean, because Trump comes into this with certain advantages and

01:26:11.860 disadvantages.

01:26:12.820 One of the reasons he was able to become president of the United States is because he came in

01:26:15.720 as a very well-known figure, uh, that people, uh, had been inviting into their homes for

01:26:20.020 a long time.

01:26:20.800 The other part of that is people really know him and have made up their minds about him.

01:26:23.820 It's not like Barack Obama.

01:26:24.760 But when he came into office, people had this open book of possibilities of who this guy

01:26:29.080 could become.

01:26:30.080 And that's not the way people look at Donald Trump because they just know him really well.

01:26:33.520 I mean, he's been around for a long time.

01:26:35.000 He's got a public record of almost 40 years.

01:26:37.780 So, uh, for him to turn that around will be difficult.

01:26:40.480 I hope he does it.

01:26:41.400 But if he doesn't do it, they're going to look at the Obama administration as the high

01:26:44.960 water mark of the years of 2000 to 2020.

01:26:49.120 And they're going to look at the policies, uh, as the hero there, even though that's

01:26:54.180 not true, people are saying, well, you know what, look, uh, Trump got elected in the end

01:26:57.340 and the, uh, the stock market has gone through the roof.

01:27:01.020 He is going to leave this.

01:27:02.860 He hasn't left office yet.

01:27:04.260 He's going to, Barack Obama is going to leave office with the Dow Jones industrial average

01:27:07.740 at the highest point it's ever been at.

01:27:10.000 They're going to look back and see the, uh, the, yes, there are lots of problems with the

01:27:14.000 unemployment rate and the things that it measures.

01:27:16.300 They're going to see it in 4.8.

01:27:17.680 4.8.

01:27:18.340 They're going to see it down under 5%.

01:27:20.100 They're going to see all of these things.

01:27:22.000 They're going to have a lot of stuff and they're going to compare it to only when he took office.

01:27:25.600 What was the, which was a, a, uh, an economic crisis that was at its lowest, which is of

01:27:31.020 course a big reason why he won so easily.

01:27:33.580 Um, and you know, they're going to compare these things.

01:27:36.000 If you're playing for 2020 or 2024, this is perfectly played.

01:27:41.380 Yeah.

01:27:41.700 I mean, look, Trump might be, he's, he's certainly pulled off many miracles.

01:27:45.200 If I were writing, may I, may I go into a movie writing?

01:27:47.680 If I were at a pitch table and I said, okay, let's write a movie.

01:27:52.920 And I said, um, you've got this group of people, let's call them progressives that, um, control

01:28:00.920 the media, control education.

01:28:03.020 And we have this guy, we're going to give him, first thing we're going to do is we're

01:28:06.320 going to give him a Nobel peace prize.

01:28:07.720 He's got to win a Nobel peace prize.

01:28:10.880 And somebody stupidly says, yeah, right out of the beginning of the movie, he wins a Nobel

01:28:15.360 peace prize.

01:28:16.220 And nobody realizes that the guy hasn't even done anything yet.

01:28:19.640 He's, he's just, he's given one speech.

01:28:22.160 He ran for president.

01:28:23.740 What qualified him for a Nobel peace prize?

01:28:26.640 Hopes and dreams.

01:28:27.120 He's going to, well, we're going to use that as foreshadowing on how this is going to play

01:28:32.780 out.

01:28:33.120 We're going to show that he's kind of in the bag with the system, that the group of global

01:28:39.600 elites are all behind him.

01:28:41.540 And so they've just engineered this global peace prize for him.

01:28:44.620 So they give him the peace prize.

01:28:46.580 Then all these scandals happen, but he turns the tables and concentrates and makes everybody

01:28:52.500 look like conspiracy theorists.

01:28:54.220 And they whitewash.

01:28:55.640 Then what they're really doing is they want to change the global system because the global

01:29:01.600 system doesn't work.

01:29:03.460 And we're going to, the bad guys are these, these big shadowy figures.

01:29:07.700 And so the shadowy figures are, you know, all part of the big banks and everything else.

01:29:13.320 And they're doing this, they're going to whitewash.

01:29:15.140 Then this, this capitalist, who's not really a capitalist, he's kind of been in with these

01:29:20.300 guys the whole time.

01:29:21.260 He goes in and he's just doing a show, but what he doesn't know is we've got the world

01:29:28.680 positioned into a place to where everything's going to collapse in his first four or eight

01:29:33.740 years.

01:29:34.860 And everyone will remember, oh, it was so good with this, this other guy.

01:29:40.200 We got to go back to those policies and it will be done for all time.

01:29:45.440 You want to hijack a world in a movie.

01:29:48.420 That's the script I would write.

01:29:49.880 And it's set up.

01:29:52.620 I mean, hopefully Trump can change a narrative like that, but I mean, they're going to go

01:29:56.080 back and say, look, these are the policies that work.

01:29:58.120 These are the policies that people want.

01:29:59.780 Look at Barack Obama was a great president.

01:30:01.780 I mean, even Bush who left office with the approval rating, the low to mid thirties has,

01:30:06.600 we've seen lots of approval ratings past his administration in the area of 50 and above.

01:30:12.440 And, you know, that's because they're comparing it to what they have now.

01:30:15.020 He's out of their minds.

01:30:15.980 Because if Barack Obama leaves office at 60, I mean, if he, if he has anything, if it's

01:30:21.520 anything similar to what happened to most of our past presidents, that approval rating

01:30:25.340 as they go away increases, people are going to be looking back.

01:30:28.600 He might hit 70.

01:30:29.920 He might hit 75.

01:30:31.280 These are unheard of.

01:30:32.180 He is going to be FDR.

01:30:33.740 He's got the, yeah, exactly.

01:30:35.100 He's going to be FDR.

01:30:36.140 Look what that did to our country.

01:30:39.000 The fact that FDR had a high approval rating and is looked at as one of the greatest presidents

01:30:43.620 of all time by historians.

01:30:45.560 What has that done to our country?

01:30:47.420 It gave, it basically gave you the $19 trillion of debt.

01:30:51.400 Yes, it did.

01:30:52.280 It's basically responsible.

01:30:53.420 It's something that he knew at the time and said, this won't work.

01:30:57.160 We're going to have to deal with this debt at some time.

01:30:59.700 And that's immoral.

01:31:01.740 But they did it.

01:31:03.240 I mean, this legacy is dangerous.

01:31:05.380 And it's one of those things that if you were there and live through it, you remember

01:31:09.160 for the vast majority of this guy's presidency, he was in the low 40s.

01:31:13.440 He was fighting with unpopular policies, policies that people didn't like.

01:31:18.020 He was constantly seen as a person who really didn't connect with the American people with

01:31:26.560 the exception of election time.

01:31:27.960 It's why people say that we don't have to, Glenn, you don't connect with the left and

01:31:33.100 you, you know, basically I want to rub it in their face.

01:31:37.680 Rubbing it in their face will ensure a loss for all time because our kids are going to

01:31:46.620 be educated in the way Stu has said, this is the greatest president of all time.

01:31:51.980 And unless we correct some of those things like we did with Riaz, Riaz is, Riaz is intellectually

01:31:58.720 curious.

01:31:59.720 He's going to go look up those scandals.

01:32:02.200 He's going to look them up and he's going to decide because he is going to now,

01:32:07.660 have to decide which world do I live in?

01:32:11.220 Do I take the red, blue, red pill or the blue pill?

01:32:13.660 And he's taken the pill and I don't remember which one's which to wake up, man, wake up.

01:32:19.020 And, uh, he'll see that they're not conspiracy theorists, the theories, and he will then stand

01:32:26.700 in his group of people and say, guys, you're wrong about this.

01:32:30.760 And it may not be as bad as maybe these guys think, but this is pretty bad.

01:32:36.060 This is pretty bad.

01:32:38.060 And by the way, the Benghazi scandal isn't even on the national reviews list.

01:32:44.020 And they covered it extensively.

01:32:45.540 Nine scandals.

01:32:46.700 Benghazi is one of the worst scandals of all time.

01:32:48.960 Maybe it's because it's seen as a Hillary scandal rather than a, uh, an Obama scandal.

01:32:52.860 But I mean, they list the email scandal on there.

01:32:54.580 I mean, he was president of the United States and retired at five o'clock in the afternoon,

01:32:58.840 wasn't heard from again.

01:32:59.600 There was a deal on, uh, there was a deal on a HuffPo or one of those today that I saw

01:33:04.960 the 50 most iconic pictures of the president.

01:33:07.500 I was like, Oh, I want to see these.

01:33:09.140 You know what?

01:33:09.360 One of them was the night they went in, uh, to, for Osama, Osama, where the president

01:33:16.000 was not sitting at the lead of the table.

01:33:17.760 Yeah.

01:33:18.180 And I thought to myself, that is an iconic photo, but not for the reasons you think you

01:33:22.360 don't even notice that he wasn't the man in charge.

01:33:25.720 He went up most of the night.

01:33:28.020 Remember this?

01:33:28.800 And played cards.

01:33:30.240 Yeah.

01:33:30.360 He was playing cards.

01:33:31.080 He didn't even want to be in the room.

01:33:32.700 It was, it was, he didn't want to be a part of that.

01:33:35.900 What's his face said that his, uh, basketball buddy.

01:33:39.640 Yeah.

01:33:39.880 I can't think of his name.

01:33:40.560 Yeah.

01:33:41.160 Yeah.

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01:36:16.180 So, George W. Bush, Trump's family, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama,

01:36:24.340 Michelle Obama just walked out.

01:36:25.760 Now, you know, I've talked about yesterday, I talked about what is Donald Trump's night

01:36:31.580 going to be like tonight?

01:36:32.780 The night before you become president of the United States.

01:36:35.600 Do you sleep?

01:36:37.320 Do you sleep?

01:36:38.500 I mean, what is that like?

01:36:40.560 Well, he didn't look like he slept very well coming out of the Blair House because he didn't

01:36:43.400 want to sleep there to begin with.

01:36:44.860 What was the story with that?

01:36:45.860 He didn't.

01:36:46.340 Is that true?

01:36:47.020 Yeah.

01:36:47.300 He wanted to stay at the hotel, which is probably much gaudier than the Blair House.

01:36:52.400 Why did he have to stay at the Blair House?

01:36:55.080 Well, because that's what they do.

01:36:56.240 That's what you do.

01:36:57.560 And he had to really be convinced of that, that all presidents do this the night before

01:37:02.020 the inauguration.

01:37:02.940 They stay at the Blair House.

01:37:04.020 It's tradition.

01:37:04.700 It's important.

01:37:05.820 It's easier to defend.

01:37:07.300 Just do it.

01:37:08.280 And I think they finally convinced him to do it because he didn't want to.

01:37:10.880 So he's, somebody teach him how to tie a tie, man.

01:37:14.700 It doesn't go past your belt line.

01:37:17.200 No, that's the way he wears it.

01:37:18.120 I know, that's the way he always loves it.

01:37:19.920 But anyway, so everybody's up there.

01:37:25.040 Now, imagine Barack Obama.

01:37:27.420 Imagine being the president of the United States where you're responsible for everything.

01:37:31.700 And more than that, when you move, almost the entire country moves.

01:37:37.940 You know, when you move, when you go someplace, they shut down all the streets.

01:37:40.600 Yeah.

01:37:40.800 Everything.

01:37:41.520 You're getting on a plane.

01:37:44.120 You're getting in an hour.

01:37:47.120 You will be getting on a plane and you'll be flying away.

01:37:52.960 And well, he'll probably get in a car and drive away.

01:37:55.720 No, no, no.

01:37:56.420 Aren't they living in D.C.?

01:37:58.400 No, I thought they were going to Palm Springs.

01:38:00.240 They have a house in Palm Springs now.

01:38:01.860 They are also doing it in Palm.

01:38:03.240 They're also living in D.C., but I think they have their house in Palm Springs, too.

01:38:07.380 They were going to vacation.

01:38:08.680 They were going to take off to California, right?

01:38:10.600 Really?

01:38:10.940 I thought they bought a house in Palm Springs.

01:38:12.580 I think they did.

01:38:13.600 So anyway, but we looked at it in an hour from now.

01:38:16.780 As soon as he says, you know, I take the oath.

01:38:21.240 Barack Obama's life is over.

01:38:23.200 I mean, it's weird.

01:38:24.420 Well, his life is over.

01:38:25.400 I don't mean his presidential life is over.

01:38:27.460 Thank heaven.

01:38:28.600 But yeah, nobody.

01:38:29.780 It's a transition.

01:38:30.420 But I'm saying to you as a man, that's got to be like coming off of heroin.

01:38:34.940 It really, I mean, it's got to be weird.

01:38:38.300 Good.

01:38:38.600 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:51.100 Mercury.

01:38:53.100 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:56.640 Does anybody have butterflies in their stomach?

01:39:00.180 No.

01:39:00.800 No?

01:39:01.120 No?

01:39:01.440 Really?

01:39:01.620 I mean, we're watching history here.

01:39:05.460 I mean, they're ready to administer the oath of office in about 35, 40 minutes.

01:39:14.860 And Donald Trump now is in front of the crowd.

01:39:18.020 The crowd, you say, looks small on people are posting.

01:39:21.780 Are these, who is taking these pictures?

01:39:24.000 Average people or the news media?

01:39:25.600 As far as the crowd, they're the overhead camera shot of the mall.

01:39:31.380 Now, I mean, look, I, Donald Trump has never had problems bringing crowds anywhere.

01:39:34.880 So, I mean, I can't imagine that they're accurate.

01:39:37.580 My guess is people are taking older photos from earlier this morning and reposting them.

01:39:41.420 However, it does seem to be a major news organization.

01:39:44.280 Some places, our own listeners are sending me screenshots of television broadcasts that are showing them from right now.

01:39:50.100 I just saw a shot.

01:39:50.680 It looked jam-packed.

01:39:51.980 Yeah, I just saw the one I saw.

01:39:53.520 Again, this is Fox.

01:39:54.740 It looked jam-packed.

01:39:55.840 It looked like an 800,000-person crowd.

01:39:58.140 Good.

01:39:58.520 Let me go to Michael Opelka because he is actually in the crowd.

01:40:01.160 How far away are you from the podium?

01:40:03.560 I'm about 200 yards, 300 yards away.

01:40:07.000 Michael, you were at the Obama inauguration, were you not?

01:40:11.020 No, I was not.

01:40:12.160 Oh, you were.

01:40:12.420 This is my very first.

01:40:13.600 Okay.

01:40:13.860 But it's packed, Glenn.

01:40:15.560 I can tell you guys, it is jammed and there's overflow.

01:40:19.180 I had tickets in the orange section, which was about 100 yards away.

01:40:23.140 And by the time I got here, they had overflowed the place.

01:40:26.780 It was like the old People's Express Airlines, people rushing in.

01:40:30.320 So, I'm a little farther away, but it is packed and passionate.

01:40:34.600 I'll tell you that.

01:40:36.860 Was there any boos when the, you know, Nancy Pelosi's or anybody walked out?

01:40:41.840 There were two things happened that you could see.

01:40:45.140 Nancy Pelosi was announced and there was a resounding boo that rippled through the crowd.

01:40:50.060 And every time they put the camera on Hillary Clinton, the crowd started chanting, lock her up, lock her up.

01:40:56.480 Oh, man.

01:40:58.100 Oh, my God.

01:40:59.140 Oh, jeez.

01:40:59.720 And what, and how, when the president walked out and was introduced, were there boos or did they handle that right?

01:41:09.880 It was respectful.

01:41:11.540 There was nobody booed, but there were a couple of the kitty cat hat people here who were screaming and cheering, he's still my president.

01:41:19.400 What the hell is the kitty cat hat?

01:41:22.760 That's a shot at Donald Trump's words about what he grabbed.

01:41:28.560 They used a different word, Glenn.

01:41:30.280 I've told I said it too many times on the radio.

01:41:32.660 Yeah, I'd probably say, let's not expand that usage here.

01:41:35.200 Okay.

01:41:35.760 I get it.

01:41:36.520 I get it.

01:41:36.980 Everybody gets it now.

01:41:38.000 I get it.

01:41:38.460 I just was a little behind.

01:41:39.560 So what are you, what are you, what are your thoughts, Michael?

01:41:45.160 What have you seen?

01:41:47.520 I've seen a ton of people who look very hopeful today and have seen a small groups of angry people who have been here with bullhorns and signs and they're out in the streets outside screaming.

01:42:00.320 They always are in D.C., though.

01:42:01.560 There's a lot of them.

01:42:02.360 They're always out there.

01:42:04.000 Yeah, Michael.

01:42:04.660 And during Obama, there were people that did that on our side.

01:42:07.780 And you still have Vietnam protesters, I think, on the mall in Washington.

01:42:12.220 It's like, okay, it's been over for 40 years.

01:42:14.420 Let's move past it.

01:42:16.000 Michael, we're seeing that.

01:42:17.180 I spent some time with the bikers.

01:42:18.820 You know, the bikers who are here.

01:42:20.280 Yeah, sure, sure.

01:42:22.080 And?

01:42:22.760 There are several of them and several groups of them, and they are gathered, and they are going to make their presence known tomorrow.

01:42:29.280 They said, we're here today, and some of them will ride in the parade, but they said, we're really here for tomorrow.

01:42:34.760 So pay attention to that.

01:42:36.080 Yeah, Michael, we're seeing lots of reports from around D.C. of broken windows by, I'm certainly not going to call them protesters, of vandals, criminals, breaking windows of restaurants and all over the place.

01:42:47.800 Have you seen anything like that in the localized location?

01:42:50.840 Not where I've been.

01:42:53.680 Doc Thompson sent me a text saying that he heard about that.

01:42:56.560 I was a couple blocks away from the deplore ball last night when the riot police came rushing in, and they seem to get that under control pretty quickly.

01:43:04.600 But you have anarchists here yelling, F the police and break down the government, et cetera.

01:43:10.500 But there's such a police presence here.

01:43:12.600 I don't see how anything could really happen.

01:43:15.820 That's positive.

01:43:17.020 Michael, thank you very much.

01:43:18.060 And you're covering it for the blaze.

01:43:19.940 And the one thing I really want is I really just want to see the shot of the president on the step of the helicopter waving goodbye.

01:43:30.400 That's the memory I want seared in my mind of him of flying away.

01:43:36.520 So thank you so much, Michael.

01:43:39.200 Appreciate it.

01:43:40.080 Michael Opelka from the blaze reporting there at the scene.

01:43:46.240 Let me share a couple of things with you.

01:43:51.320 From the Mercury vault, got a couple of things.

01:43:55.400 Now, today what's happening is there are counselors in many schools, at least in Connecticut, and I can't believe this is only a Connecticut thing.

01:44:06.500 There are social workers and counselors that are working with the children who are upset by Barack Obama leaving and Donald Trump coming in.

01:44:17.920 So these things probably won't happen.

01:44:21.220 Let me give you a couple of letters from the vault.

01:44:24.320 This one is from Ronald Reagan.

01:44:26.340 This one was Ronald wrote, Reagan wrote to kids in school who had questions about the administration.

01:44:36.500 And what was going to happen.

01:44:38.020 Now, imagine, is this happening?

01:44:41.320 Do the teachers now say, hey, this is good.

01:44:44.240 And here's how the transfer of power.

01:44:47.380 And let's write the president and say congratulations.

01:44:50.260 Is that happening today?

01:44:52.680 He writes, dear boys and girls, thank you for your support that you expressed in your letters.

01:44:57.940 I encourage you to watch news on how policy develops in those areas of special interest to you.

01:45:02.320 In this way, you'll best learn answers to the many questions you raised about the direction of my new administration.

01:45:08.040 Your views are always a welcome message that you care about the welfare of America.

01:45:13.560 I hope that you will always involve yourself as concerned citizens dedicated to the progress of our country.

01:45:19.500 With best wishes always.

01:45:21.060 Sincerely, Ronald Reagan.

01:45:22.140 He's not the only president to do this.

01:45:26.480 This has been a theme.

01:45:32.180 This one was written by a boy in Miss Jones' class, October 29, 1915.

01:45:42.360 This was written by Theodore Roosevelt.

01:45:45.700 My dear young friend, the question was, what do we do?

01:45:51.080 What's the best way I can be a good American?

01:45:56.200 The thing for you to do is to go on and work hard as a schoolboy.

01:46:01.780 I'm sure you're a first-class young American of just the right type.

01:46:05.760 Then, when you're a little older, it'll be time enough for you to decide what occupation you'll take up.

01:46:11.680 Now, listen to this.

01:46:13.900 Imagine a president writing this to a class.

01:46:17.720 But he wasn't president in 1950.

01:46:19.400 No, but he was still, remember, he ran for president and lost.

01:46:23.340 Right.

01:46:24.740 I wish you to learn to bear arms.

01:46:28.980 So that you, if your country needs you, you can be a soldier and fight for your country.

01:46:38.360 But you also must learn how to work and how to be a good citizen in times of peace.

01:46:44.080 Show this letter to your principal, Mr. Jones, and your teacher, Ms. Jones.

01:46:48.660 Hmm.

01:46:49.580 Something going on with nepotism there.

01:46:52.640 Remember, imagine the president writing to a class today, I wish that you would learn to bear arms.

01:47:03.100 Theodore Roosevelt thought that it was so important that every kid should learn to bear arms,

01:47:09.940 that he wanted every elementary school to have a shooting range in it.

01:47:13.920 And the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in our elementary schools is because the people didn't reject shooting ranges.

01:47:23.820 They said, how dare you, the federal government, tell us what we should do in our schools.

01:47:30.920 We'll decide, not you.

01:47:34.220 That's the only reason why we don't have shooting ranges in all of our elementary schools.

01:47:39.400 That's how the world has changed in just a hundred years.

01:47:47.060 Now this, gold line.

01:47:49.060 Just now minutes away from a new president being sworn in.

01:47:53.500 I was thinking about it driving in today.

01:47:56.400 The most amazing swearing-in ceremony of my life was the swearing-in of Ronald Reagan.

01:48:05.040 Because if you watched it, it was at about this time that the news anchor broke in and said,

01:48:15.860 we've just received word, what?

01:48:19.360 We have the hostages.

01:48:20.100 The Iran hostages.

01:48:20.660 That Iran has released the hostages.

01:48:23.640 And we got a similar with El Chapo.

01:48:25.880 Yeah.

01:48:26.140 Being extradited to the United States as a supposed message from Mexico to the outgoing administration and to the incoming administration.

01:48:36.280 There you go.

01:48:37.800 It's amazing when you're not a softie what the bad guys will do.

01:48:46.680 What's going to happen over the next few days?

01:48:50.180 I don't know.

01:48:50.740 Donald Trump could bring about some very much positive change.

01:48:56.440 But I also know that with change comes strife.

01:49:03.120 Even if we start to, we were just talking about this off the air.

01:49:06.320 If we start to have great job growth and great growth of our economy,

01:49:12.400 this administration has prepared us for deflation by printing $4 trillion.

01:49:18.160 If we start to have a healthy economy and the businesses start, the company, corporations start taking their money and using it first,

01:49:27.780 they're going to take it out of the stock market.

01:49:29.540 Stock market will go down.

01:49:30.760 And they'll start investing it in building new factories, etc., etc., which will then circulate all that money.

01:49:37.060 And there is too much money in the system.

01:49:39.580 It is why the Dow Jones is at record highs right now.

01:49:44.040 Because that's an inflated price, because the people and corporations were the ones that got those $4 trillion and they just parked it in the stock market.

01:49:54.880 This is exactly what happened before hyperinflation or during hyperinflation with Germany.

01:50:02.780 The stock market went through the roof.

01:50:05.600 It was the only place.

01:50:06.820 And then it came crashing down.

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01:50:13.560 History repeats itself.

01:50:15.080 Not exactly, but it rhymes.

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01:51:11.500 Well, the comparisons of the crowds has now begun.

01:51:14.380 Of course.

01:51:15.000 It has.

01:51:15.620 And look, I don't care about Obama's crowd being very big in 2009.

01:51:18.620 We all know first black president.

01:51:20.120 It was quite a moment.

01:51:21.200 That was huge.

01:51:21.520 I really don't think you can compare it to 2009.

01:51:24.360 Every American was there.

01:51:26.020 Yeah.

01:51:26.560 In 2008.

01:51:28.100 Every single American.

01:51:30.080 If you look at the pictures from 2009 when he was sworn in, it is a monstrous crowd.

01:51:35.400 No, come on.

01:51:36.160 It was a monster crowd.

01:51:37.120 Well, they estimated it at 1.2 million, right?

01:51:39.540 Yeah.

01:51:39.760 It was a monstrous crowd.

01:51:41.160 It was big.

01:51:41.560 It says a giant zilch about what his presidency was and what it was going to become.

01:51:45.780 Right.

01:51:46.080 It said everything about America not being the home of racists.

01:51:50.440 That's true.

01:51:51.380 This, I will say, I mean, I've been able to track down now multiple pictures and live cameras

01:51:57.940 of this event.

01:51:58.880 And it is, for an inauguration, a small crowd.

01:52:03.080 Quite a small crowd.

01:52:04.260 Which is surprising to me.

01:52:05.820 Not 800,000?

01:52:06.640 No, you're looking.

01:52:07.720 I don't know.

01:52:08.860 I mean, I don't.

01:52:09.720 You know, it's hard to measure these things.

01:52:11.780 But you're looking at, you know, you can see the overheads.

01:52:14.240 And I was initially concerned, and I didn't want to bring this up, because it looked like

01:52:17.280 they might have been posting old photos.

01:52:19.540 But, I mean, look, this is definitely sparse, certainly compared to 2009, which is almost

01:52:25.080 unfair.

01:52:25.740 How many people went to the 9-12 Tea Party rally?

01:52:29.260 What was that estimated?

01:52:31.020 600,000, 700,000.

01:52:32.420 Between, you know, 400,000 or 500,000.

01:52:34.340 Okay, so this crowd is, I think, about maybe three times the size, up to the first monument.

01:52:45.040 The main bulk, where it's really full, is about three times the size of the Tea Party,

01:52:50.660 maybe four.

01:52:52.140 Wouldn't you say?

01:52:53.280 Because that's the same basic area the Tea Party was in.

01:52:56.320 They just didn't take care of that lawn.

01:52:57.820 And we've spoken on that lawn several times.

01:53:01.180 I'm not sure how to, honestly.

01:53:02.680 I don't know how to count the crowds.

01:53:04.360 I don't know.

01:53:04.920 I don't want to get in a number of crowds.

01:53:06.160 It's hard to do with any other comparison.

01:53:07.700 I can compare it to other events in the same place.

01:53:10.820 Yeah.

01:53:11.080 And you look at, I mean, look, this doesn't mean anything.

01:53:14.380 It doesn't mean he's going to be a bad president.

01:53:16.140 No, it doesn't mean anything.

01:53:16.960 I mean, certainly, he's talked about how inspired people are.

01:53:19.100 I am surprised, because Donald Trump is so good at bringing crowds.

01:53:23.180 I'm surprised.

01:53:23.680 But this isn't his, this is pomp and circumstance.

01:53:26.500 It is.

01:53:26.920 It is.

01:53:27.240 This is not him, you know, this is not him, you know, leaning up against, well, I haven't

01:53:31.420 heard his speech yet, but it's not him leaning up against the podium and going, you know

01:53:35.400 what?

01:53:35.620 Let me tell you something about, let me tell you something about the Kardashians.

01:53:40.920 You know what I mean?

01:53:42.640 No, yeah.

01:53:43.080 It's a different vibe, obviously.

01:53:44.800 But still.

01:53:45.040 So this is not his, that's not why he draws a close crowd.

01:53:48.100 Also, they're expecting rain.

01:53:49.560 Maybe that chases people away.

01:53:50.200 And security, they talked about, they talked about weather, they talked about heavy security.

01:53:53.700 It's a hassle.

01:53:53.880 It's a hassle to get around.

01:53:55.000 It is, but I mean, you know, this is the same story for every single year.

01:53:58.700 It was, it was nine degrees or something when Obama did his, I mean, there's always something

01:54:02.140 in Washington DC in the middle of the winter.

01:54:03.880 I don't think you can, you can't play games with the crowd, but it has nothing to say,

01:54:10.260 except like last night, Barack Obama said no president has ever had a ceremony like this

01:54:16.340 before at the Lincoln Memorial the night before.

01:54:19.100 Yeah.

01:54:19.980 Yes, they, they do.

01:54:21.600 George Bush did.

01:54:22.600 Barack Obama did that.

01:54:23.520 That's yeah.

01:54:23.920 We do that.

01:54:24.940 Yeah.

01:54:25.860 And then he said, you know, that there's never going to be a crowd like this.

01:54:29.520 It'll be on, you know, you won't be able to compare.

01:54:32.960 If, if we're truthful about these things, maybe he'll stop making these grandiose statements

01:54:39.980 that just are, they're meaningless.

01:54:42.280 Stop it.

01:54:42.920 They're meaningless.

01:54:43.940 I take the rest of the day off on that comment.

01:54:46.400 Well, I'm just going to, well, we just have to tell the truth no matter where it falls,

01:54:49.760 because for instance, this is meaningless.

01:54:51.900 So it doesn't matter.

01:54:53.280 It doesn't mean that it doesn't matter at all.

01:54:55.240 It doesn't matter.

01:54:56.220 It doesn't affect anything.

01:54:57.160 If he does a good job, people will like him.

01:54:58.520 If he doesn't, they won't.

01:54:59.660 Yes.

01:54:59.920 So this has nothing to do with anything.

01:55:01.180 It's not a popularity contest.

01:55:02.760 And I'm only surprised because he usually wins popularity contests.

01:55:06.060 I mean, Donald Trump is, is able to bring crowds.

01:55:09.120 People are enthusiastic.

01:55:10.620 And because it's certainly the way he describes it is this is a movement.

01:55:13.720 And here is you.

01:55:15.100 But again, a guy who had no chance to win the presidency is one.

01:55:18.020 Wouldn't you show up?

01:55:19.200 Also, he also has made the point that he is bringing in the people who haven't voted ever,

01:55:24.660 who haven't been a part of the system, who, who don't like the system.

01:55:27.920 Why would they go to New York?

01:55:29.140 Why would they go to Washington, D.C. and watch this?

01:55:32.180 Because they're heroes about to be president of the United States in a couple of minutes.

01:55:35.040 That's why.

01:55:36.740 Doesn't matter anyway.

01:55:38.780 Congratulations, President Trump.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 20, 2017

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