On today's episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn sits down with President Donald Trump to talk about his first 100 days in office and what he has in store for the country. He also talks about the Baby Sparrow scandal, and why he thinks we should get rid of all the illegal immigrants in America.
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00:02:45.480hello america welcome to the glenbeck program we're glad you're here i want to talk to you
00:02:53.360about a couple of things and they both start on the border i mean we have good news today
00:02:56.900we have good news on baby sparrow if you've been following that some amazing it was like a movie
00:03:01.680in the courtroom in virginia yesterday we'll tell you about that also uh they fired all the people
00:03:07.460that we told you about yesterday that were using our money our tax dollars and our confidential
00:03:13.060systems uh to protect our country the spies were just talking about you know their fetishes uh which
00:03:21.060you know hey who am i to judge oh i remember a taxpayer you're fired was said to them yesterday
00:03:28.140thank god we'll give you the update on that uh also i i want to just think out loud a little bit
00:03:34.560on the idea that uh that we should get rid of all of these all of these illegals i mean it sounds
00:03:43.860pretty harsh doesn't it let's think that one through also the drug cartels and an ied that
00:03:51.880killed a texas rancher not in afghanistan but here on our border we go there in just a minute first
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00:04:14.620cozy earth has something i had never heard of before and it just don't sound comfortable and then i
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00:05:07.880pajamas you've ever had it's cozy earth.com slash beck promo code beck so i want to tell you uh i want to
00:05:16.460tell you a story i mean the blood soaked dirt of texas tells a story that i don't think you want to
00:05:22.660hear but you probably should a rancher calloused hands sun creased face the kind of guy that gets
00:05:30.080up with the chickens in the morning and wrestles a living from earth he's he stepped outside to just
00:05:38.720check on his herd one moment he is breathing in the crisp morning air near brownsville uh texas and
00:05:47.320the next he's gone i want you to remember this is in america there was an ied a coward's weapon
00:05:56.820planted by a cartel it turned this american just living his life into pieces a mangled memory
00:06:12.620it blown his boots off now the cattle wander uh uh untended his widow is
00:06:24.340left there wondering what's left this isn't kabul this isn't fallujah this is our land a stone's
00:06:34.080throw away from where i sit right now where cartels are running wild and now they've brought their war
00:06:40.260here now we have ignored this for a very long time our government was in bed with them this isn't
00:06:48.060murder this is a declaration of war by the cartels so what did the u.s state department do well this
00:06:57.280happened a few weeks ago and the state department just put a warning on border towns like it's some
00:07:02.640third world hell hole the texas ag commissioner sid miller told ranchers hey you should avoid dirt roads
00:07:10.960and any suspicious junk like what you're like you're dodging snipers in fallujah this is america
00:07:17.900we're not supposed to cower on our own soil hey you want to survive today here's what you need to do
00:07:26.740no foreign criminals have turned our ranches and many of our cities into kill zones these cartels
00:07:36.180correct he was correct for saying this trump called them terrorists and terrorist organizations and he's
00:07:43.980right but you know what they thrive on spinelessness that's what they that's what they thrive on spinelessness
00:07:52.740they want you to cower they want you to be afraid they rake in blood money while now planting bombs in
00:08:00.600our backyards and what do we do so far nothing so far nothing it's one little story today you probably
00:08:11.200won't even see if unless you're looking for it we have drones that can spot a snake
00:08:18.640and track it we have ai that tracks every move we have ai that can go in and find where every penny is
00:08:31.660we have special operators who make these cowards wet themselves
00:08:37.080when they plant an improvised explosive device
00:08:44.480on our u.s soil and kill an innocent american citizen i don't know i think we should use some
00:08:53.260of those tools that we have at our disposal crush this cancer use them tell mexico and their cartel
00:09:03.300buddies sorry gang homie don't play this game anymore yeah say just like that try i want to hear trump say
00:09:12.100that america should not ever bend or ignore you spill our blood on our soil we bury you that's the line
00:09:23.860we don't want war with anybody we don't want foreign wars but you bring death onto our soil
00:09:33.160we will kill you we will kill everybody that's involved with you we will burn your empire down
00:54:27.960But where I don't think we've invested enough is how to apply that AI, how to use that next generation of intelligence to apply it to their respective fields,
00:54:37.740from health care to financial services to construction design.
00:54:40.680And there you're talking about using skilled workers who are already in the state that don't have to be programming the next generation of AI.
00:55:20.260So I think one of the things we need to do is invest in workforce training and education and allow the private sector to already do it by getting out of the way.
00:55:56.960But we also want to be the state that has two and one year and even six month or nine month vocational programs that train people to be an electrician or a welder or a builder and give them also in their respective fields.
00:56:11.960Even the training needed know how to use that AI, how to use that generation of technology to apply it to their respective fields.
00:56:20.220That's what true modernization looks like.
00:56:21.900So I don't want to fall in this camp and say, oh, well, that technological revolution is for somebody else.
00:56:26.760How do we harness the fruits of that to actually improve our own lives, even in fields that weren't traditionally thought to necessarily be technologically forward fields?
00:58:09.160Well, the truth is, one of the paths is grow, grow, grow.
00:58:12.140It goes to that spirit that you talked about.
00:58:14.180That's where I think, as a great leader of a state, you can at least help in that regard, where if you're depressing economic growth, then your debt to GDP ratio becomes even worse because your GDP growth rates are lower.
00:58:25.860So one of the areas to focus on is just robust economic growth through mass deregulation, through mass unlocking of private sector potential, through slashing and burning bureaucracy wherever necessary.
00:58:39.300On the other side, though, Glenn, and you raise a good point here, I would just say there are ways to rationalize the budget that actually lift people up in the process.
00:58:50.100I'll give you one example, and I'm going to lead the way here in Ohio on this front is reattaching work requirements to welfare, Medicaid and other forms of aid.
00:59:31.260You're looking at a lot of the spending in Medicaid, a lot of spending in welfare.
00:59:34.620That's a great way to bring down spending.
00:59:36.500But even more importantly, it is an even better way to help those Americans to actually realize the American dream rather than to be permanently dependent on a state that serves as a ceiling for what they're able to achieve in their lives.
00:59:50.020And there are a lot of that does have to be done and led at the state level.
00:59:54.040The federal government, there's a role to play.
00:59:56.020But I think there's also an important role for what does a leader look like who has the spine to step up and actually do that?
01:00:02.800Ohio is a state that doesn't have work requirements attached to Medicaid right now.
01:00:13.240One is it enhances economic productivity and GDP growth.
01:00:16.980The other thing it does is it brings down our debt and our spending.
01:00:20.460But the third and most important thing it does is it brings back our sense of national spirit and self-worth and individual self-confidence.
01:00:29.020For so many who have lost that in this culture of victimhood and entitlement and dependence on the government, it's time for us to graduate from the era of dependence and move back to our era of independence.
01:00:41.900Think about that as a modern day declaration of independence from the government, a modern day Northwest ordinance centered right here in Ohio.
01:00:50.960And I personally think, Glenn, a lot of politically homeless people, independents, libertarians, not just Republicans, maybe even some orphaned Reagan Democrats will come along with us for this ride.
01:01:49.560Abortion is a tragic part of our lives as Americans.
01:01:52.060Even after overturning of Roe versus Wade, it continues to rob our children of the right to live.
01:01:57.020What's even more devastating is that a majority of the women who get abortion say they would have chosen life if they just had the support.
01:02:03.540And you would not believe how little it takes to turn somebody.
01:02:07.600Pre-born's network of clinics saves 200 babies every day by offering free ultrasounds to expecting moms, doubling that baby's chance that the mom is going to choose life.
01:02:18.700You could make the difference between the life and death of so many babies.
01:02:22.280As abortion continues to rise, believe it or not, pre-born is expanding their life-affirming care in the darkest corners of our nation to help more hurting women and save more babies and moms.
01:02:33.140If you have the means, would you consider a gift, maybe a leadership gift, to save babies in a big way?
01:02:38.960Your tax-deductible donation of $15,000 would put a machine, a ultrasound machine, into one of their clinics in a really needy women's center and save I don't know how many lives in the years to come.
01:09:52.580OK, we'll cover there are other topics of as well, of course, but viewpoints opposing those two pillars will be left to be published by others.
01:17:36.940But they also, because I know people who have been in this situation without Amazon, if they see you're successful, they'll reinvent your business and put you out of business.
01:17:48.760And their Amazon Essentials is part of that, right?
01:17:52.040Like where they create their own products and sell them.
01:17:54.800And a lot of times sell them cheaper than the other.
01:17:57.160Again, I'm not saying it's perfect, but again, when people are saying, hey, I can't do this, I have to go to Amazon, it indicates that Amazon is bringing value to them.
01:25:08.560I think West Point is another gold reserve.
01:25:12.800And then we're supposed to have our money down on, you know, underneath the Wall Street area in the tip of southern Manhattan in underneath the Federal Reserve.
01:25:25.760OK, I'd like simultaneous teams to go in at the same time with cameras and examine all of it.
01:25:33.220But you won't believe what a scam this appears to be when you just are asking, hey, can we see the gold?
01:25:40.460Nobody's really seen it since the 1950s.
01:25:44.120And even then, people saw the gold and they're like, that's not gold.
01:25:50.140I think it's all there because if it's not, we're in deep trouble.
01:25:54.960But this week, you know, you had the Treasury Secretary said, anybody can ask, any senator can get on the phone and ask, well, Mike Lee's been on the phone with him several times.
01:26:07.420And they're all like, no, today, today's not a good day.
01:28:38.380So let's start with the gold thing, first of all.
01:28:42.000Are you going to put a call in to the Treasury and just say, hey, I'm glad that you now say it's so easy for a senator to go in and look at the gold?
01:30:04.840And most of the video footage that I saw from that visit in the 1970s, which is the most recent one I've seen, it looked to me like mostly a lot of fanfare about the door.
01:30:15.800I mean, there's this giant door that's like 10 feet thick and about 10 guys it took to operate all the wheels to open it.
01:30:23.760But, you know, there wasn't a lot of time spent on the gold, very little time spent actually inspecting it, testing it, making sure it was there, that it was what it purported to be.
01:30:33.080That's one of the many reasons why the American people, as our government has gotten bigger, as it's gotten more expensive, as it's gotten more intrusive, as it's gotten more, frankly, dishonest.
01:30:42.600People don't trust it and they want verification.
01:30:44.760And this is important for the full faith and credit of the United States government.
01:30:49.100It is important that people know that we have what we say we have.
01:30:52.700The only problem is, Mike, and I honestly, I wrestle with this.
01:30:55.380Because we go in and you find out that there's the gold's not there or the gold has been rehypothecated, which I explain in tonight's show.
01:31:05.400You find out any of these really nasty things.
01:32:48.500The Senate still would have to act on it.
01:32:51.240And I personally prefer a much more aggressive approach and would much rather see a more aggressive approach like that.
01:32:58.580It's been discussed extensively by my friend and colleague from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson.
01:33:03.600Senator Ron Johnson has pointed out that if we just went back to pre-COVID spending levels and then made upward adjustments for inflation and population increase since COVID with respect to Social Security and Medicare,
01:33:19.640that we could get very, very close to balance, we could be at balance within just a few years, like two, three years.
01:33:27.720So why not take a more aggressive approach like that?
01:33:31.160Why not use the budget as an opportunity to set that plan, set that predicate to just say we're not doing this anymore because we can't afford it,
01:33:38.220and it's going to shut our country and our economy down if we keep messing with this.
01:33:43.040So why is that not being taken seriously?
01:33:46.980Well, OK, so there are a lot of reasons.
01:33:50.260A lot of people are eager to point out, look, House Republicans have a tough.
01:33:55.100They've got only, you know, depending on the day, the phase of the moon, the day of the week.
01:34:00.500They've only got that one, two or three seat majority cushion, and there are a lot of variances of opinion.
01:34:06.760But this is exactly the kind of moment when we need leadership.
01:34:09.340We need bold people to just stand up and say, no, we're not doing this.
01:34:12.680We're going to be more aggressive about it.
01:34:19.000We're still very near the beginning of the process.
01:34:21.080And I personally hope that the Ron Johnson approach will gain more appeal and more of that will get injected into whatever ends up getting passed.
01:34:28.680You know, I was kind of excited, you know, about a month ago.
01:34:32.320I thought, wait a minute, we might even be able to get the Reigns Act, which is something people either don't know what it is or they've heard it for, you know, the last 10 or 12 years.
01:34:41.900And, you know, honestly, maybe it just needs to be called the we're going to do a lot of really cool free stuff for the American People Act and we'll get passed.
01:35:02.120The Reigns Act bottom line is that it requires what the Constitution already mandates.
01:35:07.640In Article one, sections one and seven, we read that you cannot make a federal law without Congress and that to pass a federal law that requires a couple of things.
01:35:16.820First, bicameral passage, meaning passage of the same bill in the House and in the Senate.
01:35:22.620Secondly, you have to present that to the president who can then sign it, veto it, or acquiesce to it.
01:35:31.040Because Article one, sections one and seven makes that clear.
01:35:34.080And yet for the last 85 years or so, Congress has been in this death spiral of delegating its lawmaking powers.
01:35:40.900In short, we will say things like, well, we shall have good law in Area X and we hereby delegate to Agency Y the power to make good law in that area.
01:35:52.020That makes the work easier for members of Congress and it insulates members of Congress from political accountability.
01:35:56.960But even more, does it not violate my right to representation?
01:36:02.980No taxation, no taxation without representation.
01:36:07.000A hundred percent, because these people who make most of your laws measured by weight, volume, regulatory compliance costs, you name it, are now made by men and women, not of our own choosing.
01:36:22.060He said, in effect, he said, it'll be of little avail to the American people that their laws may be written by men of their own choosing.
01:36:28.280If those laws be so voluminous, complex, and ever-changing, they can't know from one day to the next what the law says and what it requires.
01:36:34.300We don't live in that dystopian nightmare.
01:37:28.920The new provision of the RAINS Act that I inserted last year would allow an individual who had one of these enforced against him or her to raise as an affirmative defense, hey, I wasn't on notice.
01:37:41.320You have to be adequately placed on notice.
01:37:43.460It's one of the hallmark characteristics of due process.
01:37:45.680You're placed adequately on notice as to what your obligation is.
01:37:48.600And the way you need to be placed on notice is that something is passed by both the houses of Congress and then given to the president for a signature.
01:37:56.680And if you can point out that the affirmative legal obligations in that regulation were not evident on the face of any statute passed by Congress, then you could use that as a defense and you can be let off the hook for that.
01:38:12.180But currently, you can go to prison or have your business shut down if you don't comply with whatever the bureaucratic can tell you you have to do.
01:38:18.860Right. And this is where it gets scary, because show me the person, I'll show you the crime.
01:38:23.200There's so much on the books that you don't even know that they can just put you away for.
01:38:49.160They both ended up serving prison time just for clearing some land.
01:38:53.100They hadn't even built anything on it yet.
01:38:55.240They started to clear some land to get ready to dig a foundation for some homes.
01:39:00.080They had no reason to believe they were violating any regulation.
01:39:03.500But unbeknownst to them, some bureaucratic pinhead had designated that a wetland area, even though it didn't have any visible wetland characteristics.
01:39:22.020Okay, let me take a one-minute break, and then I want to come back with the other parts of it.
01:39:26.000Right to sue, the Liberty Act, and deregulatory actions that are exempted from it, all in the Rains Act.
01:39:33.300This is the key and should be included with the passage of whatever they're going to pass in the Senate and the House.
01:39:40.560We'll talk about that coming up in just a second.
01:39:42.000First, Cozy Earth, you don't usually use the words luxury and affordable in the same sentence, but Cozy Earth has made that possible.
01:39:49.780When you think about betting that you might find in some celebrity's house, for instance, you usually don't assume that they bought those things for a price that you'd be comfortable paying for, right?
01:40:08.260I've never felt bamboo, ever, you know, cloth.
01:40:13.220I think a bamboo is, you know, something you just don't want.
01:40:16.140Well, somebody that, if you had a problem with a neighbor, let's say, somebody who was nefarious might go in the middle of night and just plant bamboo someplace in their backyard, and it would grow uncontrollably until the end of time.
01:40:30.280I wouldn't do that, but some might do that, and you might think of bamboo that way.
01:40:35.520I don't think of bamboo as sheets or bath towels or pajamas.
01:41:05.520So, you know, we've been talking about Doge gutting the administration, and the RAINS Act is the way to do it and stop all of this over-regulation and stop the growth of these agencies.
01:41:27.160So, the new defense for individuals is in the RAINS Act, the right to sue, people can stop enforcement, and if an agency has made this major rule without getting congressional approval.
01:41:38.080And what does the Liberty Act part of it do, Mike?
01:41:41.400Okay, so the Liberty Act part of it, added by the representative Kat Kamek, the House sponsor of the legislation, is the part that would extend this also to agency guidance documents.
01:41:54.360Sometimes agencies might be expected, in the event the RAINS Act passed, to try to get around the provisions of the RAINS Act by saying, well, this was just a guidance document.
01:42:06.040So, she would extend it to that as well, and I think that is a good addition.
01:42:09.720Okay, and then this is a really good part, deregulation.
01:42:15.100Yes. So, deregulation across the board, again, this refers to the overall trust of the RAINS Act, which is to say that our laws should be written by men and women of our own choosing, people who are elected.
01:42:30.660You cannot serve in the United States Senate or in the United States House of Representatives without standing for election at regular intervals.
01:42:38.100Every two years in the case of representatives, every six years in the case of senators.
01:42:41.940So, this puts that back in their hands.
01:42:44.100And then, there's another provision that is related to this, that is part of the new RAINS Act that we added last year, which says that if you see something that comes up in a regulation,
01:42:56.380You can bring an affirmative case, you can bring a private right of action in court to enjoin the enforcement of a particular regulatory provision against you, again, based on the theory that it hasn't been enacted by Congress.
01:43:13.860This ought to be common sense. It is common sense. It's already part of the Constitution.
01:43:17.860It's just a part of the Constitution that's for reasons I cannot entirely fathom. The Supreme Court and consequently the lower federal courts have been utterly unwilling to enforce.
01:43:28.420In fact, they even have a doctrine about this, a doctrine that recognizes it's a problem. It's called the non-delegation doctrine.
01:43:34.320The problem is it's toothless. The problem is that for nearly a century, they have, while acknowledging that the lawmaking task within the federal government can't be delegated outside of Congress, they refuse to enforce it.
01:43:52.380Because as long as there's some intelligible principle that you can glean from the statute, that's enough.
01:43:57.700This is absurd. It's unacceptable. And we ought not have to wait for the Supreme Court to pull its head out of the sands here in order to fix this problem from Congress.
01:44:06.940Okay. So we've been talking about this for a long time. What are the odds this is going to happen this time?
01:44:14.080Look, it has to happen. It's not easy to get it done.
01:44:20.060The Reins Act itself is difficult to impossible to pass as part of what we call budget reconciliation, which is the one exception to the 60 vote cloture rule in the Senate.
01:44:33.480So what that means is we, in order to get the full Reins Act, we're basically going to have to do this with 60 votes.
01:44:40.140Now, Republicans in both houses uniformly support it.
01:44:42.880A handful of Democrats are sympathetic to it, and a handful of Democrats, at least on the House side, have voted for it.
01:44:48.940We've never had a straight up or down vote on the Reins Act in the Senate, so we're not sure.
01:44:53.580But the way we get it done with 60, I believe, is we've got to attach the Reins Act to something else that everybody wants,
01:45:01.420or at least is really important to the Democrats.
01:45:04.000Now, they're constantly talking about how much we absolutely positively have to raise the debt ceiling.
01:45:08.900There's never any question in their mind.
01:45:11.160I would make that the bill you attach it to.
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