The Glenn Beck Program - JD Vance Tells Glenn About Iran, the Pope & His Faith Journey ｜ Guest： Vice President JD Vance ｜ 6⧸16⧸26

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00:01:54.100 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program it is tuesday

00:01:57.220 I want to get right to our guest because it is the vice president of the United States.

00:02:02.140 It's J.D. Vance.

00:02:03.300 I got to talk to him about many, many things, but he has a new book out called Communion,

00:02:08.640 Finding My Way Back to Faith, which I think is a very important book at this time, especially

00:02:13.320 even if you're just trying to understand the vice president who may become our next president

00:02:18.420 of the United States, at least we'll be running for it, and also the times in which we live.

00:02:25.100 We'll get to that and the Iranian things here in just a minute.

00:02:29.960 Let me introduce the 50th vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance,

00:02:34.600 and his new book, Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith.

00:02:38.140 J.D., you and I, when I'm reading your book, we have an awful lot in common.

00:02:44.240 Your mother, I'm a big fan of Hillbilly Elegy.

00:02:47.840 I mean, what an amazing story.

00:02:50.120 Your mother was an addict.

00:02:51.360 My mother was an addict.

00:02:52.400 Your mom had a happy ending.

00:02:53.420 My mom did not.

00:02:54.480 your father, you were estranged when you died. It was a lot more severe than mine. I was estranged

00:03:01.640 with my father when he died. And there was so many things that add complexities to your life

00:03:11.400 when you go through all of that. And I hope we have a chance to have a longer interview to kind

00:03:15.000 of get into that. But I want to start with a part of the book where you talk about where you

00:03:21.900 committed to Christ, you were in a cathedral, and you noticed that everything was kind of falling

00:03:29.120 apart, the whole world was falling apart, and you committed. Can you talk a little bit about

00:03:32.600 the moment you chose to commit? Yeah, Glenn, so this is back in the summer of, I think, 2018,

00:03:44.080 and if you remember, the time was, you know, I eventually became a baptized Catholic,

00:03:49.600 and very bad time for the Catholic Church.

00:03:52.460 There was a very bad sex abuse scandal that was getting reported on in Pennsylvania.

00:03:57.140 And, you know, there was just this sense that, yeah, I was curious in Christ.

00:04:01.840 I was curious about Christianity, but I wasn't yet ready to commit.

00:04:07.160 And I was there with my son, actually.

00:04:08.820 I was in this cathedral.

00:04:09.680 It was beautiful.

00:04:10.260 It was completely empty.

00:04:11.520 And I felt this kind of sense of despair at first because, you know, no one was there.

00:04:16.680 And this beautiful old church, no one was there. There was nobody praying. It felt almost lifeless. And then there was just this beautiful sort of ray of light that came through the stained glass windows. And it was the perfect time of day to where, you know, you could see the dust and the light.

00:04:33.100 And I just, I felt this sense, it's difficult to explain.

00:04:36.900 I'm not saying it's rational, but I felt this sense that, you know, yes, the church is going

00:04:42.040 through a tough spot, but things are going to be okay.

00:04:45.000 And I belong here.

00:04:46.720 And that was sort of the moment that I decided, you know what, for all of my belly aching

00:04:51.020 and back and forth, and here are the reasons why to do it and not to do it, like, this

00:04:55.180 is my home, and I'm going to try to make this home as successful as possible and contribute

00:04:59.380 as much as I can.

00:05:00.240 And that's what I did.

00:05:01.380 that was the moment I made the decision. Okay, so that seems like a commitment to the church.

00:05:09.460 Is that the same as the moment to follow Christ? Did that come first and then the

00:05:15.220 commitment to the church, or are they the same thing to you?

00:05:19.000 Well, I would say that the decision to follow Christ was gradual. I was raised in sort of an

00:05:26.940 unchurched, but very devout household. My grandmother would take us to church every now

00:05:31.320 and then, but not regularly. I didn't feel like I had a church home. And so I became, as a teenager,

00:05:36.240 sort of an early 20s kid, like a lot of kids who were raised in that background, but weren't

00:05:41.580 properly formed in a real faith community, you know, sort of an arrogant atheist. I was one of

00:05:45.520 these people who thought that I knew better. And I went about trying to achieve every marker of

00:05:50.320 worldly success. You know, I wanted to go to the best schools, and I wanted to have the best job.

00:05:53.940 I wanted to make the most money. I wanted something prestigious to hang my hat on.

00:05:58.140 And I kind of got to this point where I had won all of these elite competitions.

00:06:02.340 I was at Yale Law School. Things were going very well for me personally.

00:06:05.980 And I was kind of looking around and saying, you know what?

00:06:07.660 Those people that I dismissed as simpletons, they're much happier and much healthier

00:06:12.340 and much more interesting people than the elite crew that I seem to be joining.

00:06:17.220 And if they have something that's kind of anchoring them,

00:06:22.500 maybe there's something deeper to what's going on here. Maybe the inspiration for their character

00:06:27.640 and their wisdom is this Jesus Christ figure that I'd kind of discarded. And so that was not like

00:06:33.100 a conversion on the road to Damascus. That was me slowly seeing reflections of Christian truth

00:06:39.080 and the way that various Christians live their lives and the way that they raise their families.

00:06:43.700 And over time, I just started to think, you know what, there's something real here. And then when

00:06:48.760 you decide that there's something real here, then I think I wanted to give my family what I didn't

00:06:53.340 have as a kid, which is a real formation, like an actual church community. And I kind of experimented

00:06:59.480 with different churches and went to a number of different places and eventually found a home and

00:07:04.720 a church that we love. And that's kind of where we are today.

00:07:09.460 Hugh, your story is just absolutely, you're one of the most fascinating guys, I think,

00:07:14.360 alive today. Your story is just fascinating. You talk in the book about Peter Thiel and you wrote,

00:07:22.960 Peter gave voice to something I'd been feeling, but not fully understood. I was obsessed with

00:07:27.360 achievement per se, not accomplishing something meaningful, but to win a social competition.

00:07:33.900 I think that's what you just addressed. People will say your relationship with Peter Thiel is

00:07:40.480 all about high tech. Some uncharitably will say that, you know, he funded your campaign. And so

00:07:46.400 you're going to usher in a new, you know, high tech oligarchy, but it seems that your relationship

00:07:52.340 is more spiritual. Is that, was that accurate reading in this? Yeah. So, so one of the things

00:08:00.560 that happened, so, so Peter was a friend of mine before, you know, we sort of ever were talking

00:08:05.120 about politics, but one of the things, and by the way, Peter's a very unorthodox Christian. Like I

00:08:09.880 I want to be I want to be fair on that account. Right. You know, he's very like unconventional

00:08:14.320 views about a whole host of things. Sometimes I disagree with him. Sometimes I agree with him.

00:08:18.420 But what what what Peter sort of almost gave me permission is that I was in law school. I was

00:08:23.780 calling myself an atheist at the time. And, you know, he came and gave a talk and he talked more

00:08:28.620 about spirituality and religion than he did about business or politics. And I sort of realized,

00:08:33.500 like, whether you agree or disagree with this guy, his Christianity is much more interesting

00:08:38.940 than the atheism of the people that I see surrounding me.

00:08:41.560 Like there's something there that I'd kind of dismissed as a kid.

00:08:45.460 And that started me down, again, this way of sort of re-exploring

00:08:49.700 and rediscovering my own faith.

00:08:51.480 But definitely seeing this guy who was smarter than anybody I had met,

00:08:56.540 who was obviously very wealthy, very successful,

00:08:59.560 sort of realizing that this idea that I had in my head

00:09:03.980 that Christianity was for superstitious people and atheism was for smart people. And that was

00:09:11.160 the kind of the, that was the categorization that I had made falsely. And there were a lot of people,

00:09:16.400 Peter was one of them, but there were a lot of people who slowly over time revealed that to be

00:09:20.620 fundamentally an arrogance that was deeply corrosive to my own soul.

00:09:24.700 you you are in a religion and a political party i think that is hard to square at times

00:09:34.520 because of the pope you and marco you know you have things you have to do as the president of

00:09:40.680 the or vice president of the united states um your foreign policy objectives in iran the pope is

00:09:47.600 against uh the you know what you have to do on immigration you view it one way he views it another

00:09:53.660 way even now i mean the press is even saying you know the the fraud task force initiative is you

00:10:00.160 know an attempt again just to target somalis um how how how do you how do you thread that needle

00:10:08.840 with the with a pope a guy who seems to not appreciate what you believe politically and yet

00:10:16.460 he's your your spiritual leader well i think a couple things first of all i think this is true

00:10:22.120 of sort of all Christianity is you have, you know, certain people who are going to disagree

00:10:27.840 politically with what me or the president or Secretary Rubio or anybody else does, and they're

00:10:32.560 going to try to say you're not being Christian enough. And one interesting thing is that often

00:10:37.000 those criticisms are made by people who say, I don't believe in Jesus, but you're not being

00:10:41.260 Christian enough, which I always roll my eyes at a little bit. Now, obviously, that's not true of

00:10:44.860 the Pope. The Pope is explicitly the leader of the Catholic Church. I'll say two things about

00:10:48.980 the Pope, Glenn. So the first is that oftentimes I find that when the media reports on him as an

00:10:55.520 antagonist of Donald Trump or somebody who just rejects wholesale everything that Donald Trump

00:11:00.420 says, and then I'll read what he actually says. And I realize the Pope does sometimes have

00:11:05.300 disagreements, but he's actually much more nuanced and much more subtle than what the

00:11:10.020 media gives him credit for. They want to play up the conflict. But even on the immigration issue,

00:11:14.220 Yes, he's criticized some of the policy directions that we've taken, but he's also said it's right for a nation to have borders, that newcomers have a duty to integrate into their host cultures.

00:11:24.720 Those are things I very much agree with. The media doesn't talk about that because it's driving the narrative of conflict.

00:11:30.700 But I actually think the Pope's thinking on how to apply Christian teaching to the world today is much more complicated than the left-right media spectacle drives home.

00:11:42.620 You know, when I saw the cover of the book a few weeks ago, I just looked at it quickly.

00:11:47.320 I thought it was communism.

00:11:48.380 I was like, oh, he's going to write a book on communism.

00:11:50.860 And it's Communion is the name of the book, not communism.

00:11:54.500 At a time when the vice president, you know, should be talking about communism, et cetera, et cetera.

00:12:02.100 That's the obvious thought.

00:12:04.620 Why is it important that you wrote a book on communion?

00:12:07.900 well because one i i obviously had a very complicated but i think in some ways a very

00:12:16.700 common way to finding my own faith where i was raised christian fell away from it and came back

00:12:21.720 to it i mean now i think a lot and i think a lot of christian parents are asking themselves the

00:12:26.680 question why is it that we or how you know maybe they've raised a kid who's fallen away from the

00:12:31.880 faith or maybe they're raising children in the faith and they're sort of thinking about why why

00:12:35.980 didn't that stick? Or how do I make it stick so that they don't have the same journey that I did?

00:12:41.140 I think there are a lot of people, especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination,

00:12:45.640 who are thinking about spirituality, who are going back to church. We see a lot of young

00:12:50.640 people in particular who are returning to church, but maybe like me, they didn't have the proper

00:12:54.780 formation. And so I felt that this was something important that I wanted to say. It's obviously

00:12:59.740 not a very political book. It's not a conventional politician's book. It's not like I have the

00:13:03.920 eight-point policy proposal in the final chapter to solve all the problems, but I just thought it

00:13:09.020 was something that was valuable and meaningful to say, I've been writing this book for 10 years,

00:13:13.260 and I kind of had this moment of, well, I'm either going to publish it now, or I'm never

00:13:18.120 going to publish this thing, so I might as well just get it out there, say what I need to say,

00:13:22.140 and obviously, you know, people are going to take from it what they will, but the one thing I'd ask,

00:13:26.180 Glenn, is that if you find it meaningful, great, but I think that there are so many different

00:13:31.160 pathways to Christ. And I think, you know, for some people, it's the Pentecostal church that

00:13:36.500 my dad called home. For some people, it's the Southern Baptist church that a lot of my friends

00:13:40.120 call home. I think what's really cool and dynamic about American Christianity is that we're sort of

00:13:45.480 forced to reckon with a lot of very complicated issues because our faith is constantly being

00:13:50.880 challenged, both by non-Christians, but also I think importantly by our fellow Christians who

00:13:55.620 are asking very important questions about the meaning and nature of God. That's what I love

00:13:59.860 about the american church and that's one of the things that i hope to contribute to in some small

00:14:03.860 way so i have to i have to ask you a couple of questions on iraq or i'm sorry on iran um sure

00:14:11.180 we are supposedly we have now apparently electronically signed a a peace deal we don't

00:14:16.880 know what is in in it yet you've come out and said you know some of the things are wrong that

00:14:21.680 being said. How do you negotiate with an apocalyptic end times twelver regime? And what

00:14:30.660 makes you confident that we can, as the president has said on the outset, get no support for

00:14:36.280 proxies, end of the missile program, and no nukes? Do we have those? And how do you lock them in with,

00:14:45.040 to be honest, crazy people that think they're living in the end times?

00:14:48.400 Let me say a few things about this. First of all, Glenn, you know, the president is one of the most important lessons that he's given me in international negotiation or anything is you don't trust anybody. I don't trust the words. I don't trust the commitments that they have committed to stop funding terrorism and to stop building or buying a nuclear weapon.

00:15:08.800 And those commitments are there, but I trust people's actions.

00:15:12.280 And so the way that we set up that deal, given the president's directives, is if they perform

00:15:16.720 the things that they say they're going to perform, then they get a lot of relief.

00:15:20.260 And if they don't perform any of those things, then they get nothing.

00:15:23.400 And for the United States, either way, Glenn, we're in a great position.

00:15:26.800 They don't get one cent of American money, regardless of how this deal takes place.

00:15:31.140 They don't get any sanctions relief unless they perform.

00:15:33.820 But we got the Straits of Hormuz open.

00:15:36.340 Oil is now down below $80 today.

00:15:38.800 we have their military still destroyed their defense industrial base still destroyed their

00:15:44.700 nuclear program still destroyed and now the president's saying you know what if you want

00:15:48.460 to behave like a normal country we're going to treat you like a normal country and if not the

00:15:52.500 united states still has all the cards and there's no skin off our back for entering into this into

00:15:57.260 this negotiation and no support for proxies end of the missile program and no nukes for sure

00:16:03.020 correct glenn and if they don't do that then they don't get any of the benefits of the bargain and

00:16:07.740 that's really the whole point here is i keep on sort of hearing people say well the iranians get

00:16:12.440 this or the iranians get that and they miss out the part where the iranians get some sanctions

00:16:17.320 relief you know the ability to sell their oil for example if they do what they promised they would

00:16:21.920 do that's the fundamental point of this deal is we reward good behavior we don't do anything if

00:16:30.000 the iranians don't meet their end of the bargain so i like your stance on you know you know you're

00:16:36.140 a very big skeptic on military interventionalism, as I am. We have to learn our lessons from

00:16:42.000 the 20th century. As a Christian, however, it is hard to watch a regime slaughter its own people

00:16:48.340 who are just, to use an American term, yearning to breathe free. We hoped that we would be able

00:16:54.780 to have a free people in Iran by the end of this. It doesn't look like that is part of the plan at

00:17:00.140 can that be done without military intervention without regime change which i don't want you

00:17:08.320 don't want trump doesn't want well i think what the president has said is one we've given the

00:17:13.080 iranian people an opportunity here their military is substantially weaker and it's effectively gone

00:17:18.400 their conventional military is effectively gone if the iranian people want to rise up and make

00:17:24.340 you know their own country or make their own political future then obviously the president

00:17:29.020 the United States would be happy to deal with whatever new government they produce. But we're

00:17:33.420 not going to force that on anybody. I think this is what is fundamentally different from foreign

00:17:37.920 policy compared to, you know, Barack Obama's or George W. Bush's is we will empower people on the

00:17:44.100 ground who yearn to breathe free, but we're not going to force them to do what, you know, we're

00:17:50.360 not going to force them to elect their own government. What we're going to do is pursue

00:17:54.280 our best interests. And what did the United States want out of this? We wanted an Iran that

00:17:58.640 didn't have a nuclear weapon. We wanted an Iran that had a conventional military that it was not

00:18:03.740 able to threaten its allies in the region. And that's what we got. And so the president is saying

00:18:08.300 we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. We accomplished what we needed to. I think it's

00:18:13.180 actually a great virtue and wisdom of the president's foreign policy that he's not now

00:18:18.660 saying, you know what, now we're going to go do something else that's not related to our core

00:18:22.640 national security objectives. He's saying we got what we came for. Let's negotiate with these guys

00:18:26.980 to see if they're willing to change their behavior.

00:18:28.940 And if not, we still got what we came for fundamentally.

00:18:33.000 Well, I appreciate all the hard work that you do.

00:18:35.400 I know how tired you are.

00:18:37.720 That guy never sleeps.

00:18:39.120 So thank you for all of the hard work

00:18:41.660 that you guys have all done.

00:18:43.680 Your next interview,

00:18:44.640 I think you're going right from this to The View,

00:18:46.540 and I don't know why you're,

00:18:47.760 and I know you talk about it in the book,

00:18:49.160 so you won't say it, but I will.

00:18:50.320 Why are you hanging out with the sad cat ladies?

00:18:52.360 What do you need from the view?

00:18:57.940 What do you hope to get from the view?

00:19:00.680 I would appreciate the prayers of you and your audience, Glenn, because I'm certainly going to need it here in about 30 minutes.

00:19:05.860 But, you know, the president's attitude on this is, and I really do believe this, is you go everywhere, you go anywhere to try to take the message.

00:19:14.540 I mean, we'll talk about the book, obviously.

00:19:16.760 We're going to talk, I'm sure, about the Iran deal, about other policies in the administration.

00:19:20.180 I just what I love about this administration is we go everywhere and the view has a lot of a lot

00:19:26.780 of people who watch it now most of them are not sympathetic to the administration but if every

00:19:30.860 10 people who watch that show are not fans of ours but you get the message out to one open-minded

00:19:36.180 person that was worth it in my view and that's how we're going to win the future is actually

00:19:40.260 go out and persuade people even in hostile places good for you good for you JD Vance thank you very

00:19:45.400 much, Mr. Vice President. Thanks, Glenn. Take care of you. Talk again. Bye. You bet. You bet.

00:19:48.980 Bye-bye. Let me just take a quick break. 10 seconds, station ID.

00:20:08.120 I'm getting shouted in my ear the whole time. Got to go. He's got to go. He's got to go. He's

00:20:12.380 got to go he's got to go i know he's got to go i know he's got to go i've got an interview to do

00:20:17.180 um but uh ricky your initial thoughts on what he had to say um i was really really proud that you

00:20:27.700 asked the crazy cat lady question um and it but it also affirmed my hunch that he is doing a

00:20:38.880 worldwide book tour with even the crazy cat ladies because there is no demographic he wants

00:20:45.680 to leave untouched for future presidential run and he is he is one of the guys that can meet with

00:20:53.600 anyone and can handle any room i mean he's a very rare politician that can not pander

00:21:01.980 um and but handle himself in such a way to where you know in a room of 100 people maybe

00:21:09.680 you know two or three will say wow that was actually a really good answer um you know in

00:21:16.620 a very hostile room he has a he has a way of being able to handle that so you know good for him

00:21:21.780 yeah i was just gonna say quickly he became a rock star during the election when he would go

00:21:27.860 on all this opposition media and come out completely unscarred he's a great debater

00:21:32.860 uh i've only got a minute um jason did he say what you needed him to say

00:21:41.240 on the you know no interventionalism and i tried to hold him to that

00:21:45.880 i think uh yeah and i i noticed that uh i think we that deserves a lot more discussion because

00:21:54.140 i'm trying to interpret what he how he answered and where i see they can wiggle out of some things

00:22:01.240 okay well let's i didn't i didn't feel he was trying to get wiggle room but i but let's talk

00:22:07.320 about it we'll get into that next uh analyze what he just said about uh iran because that's more

00:22:12.380 than i think he has given or anybody has given on iran um so far but apparently we have a digital

00:22:20.240 signature on some deal. They're going to be releasing the details. The president is still

00:22:25.240 with the G7 summit over in Europe coming back and we'll have more on all of that. And the summer of

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00:26:33.160 the uh let's start with the iraq or sorry the iran news um in it i asked him a couple of questions

00:26:42.640 you know can you deal with 12ers how do you deal with them uh and jason his answer to me was

00:26:50.160 well you don't trust them you verify and you hold back things that you know you can you know uh

00:26:58.520 punish them with and it sounds like we are relieving uh the the burden of sanctions against

00:27:07.000 them if they sign this is that the way you interpreted ricky i want to bring you in on

00:27:11.440 this too jason go ahead that's what it sounded like to me and i to me it sounds i don't want

00:27:18.080 to call it a non-answer um i i think it's it's it's one of the fallacies of how uh past presidents

00:27:23.760 administrations and people in general have dealt with iran so the the the this is the baseline of

00:27:29.780 iran their eventual goals have not changed who they are has not changed their capability at the

00:27:36.800 moment has changed but what they really want to do is exactly the same they want to spread out

00:27:42.720 all over the middle east they still have the same 12 ideology they want to encircle israel destroy

00:27:48.760 israel but that was i think covered with the question that i had about the people

00:27:54.200 you can't do these things unless you have regime change and that is not what the president

00:28:00.980 wants that's not and i don't if it takes boots on the ground i don't want it i don't want it

00:28:07.960 I will take a push them back for several years on the nuclear front and, yeah, kick the can down the road.

00:28:16.620 But as long as we have really, truly kicked that can way down the road, I'm kind of okay because of the other things that we could do to destabilize their government.

00:28:27.440 Look at what they're doing to us.

00:28:29.100 Look at what other countries are doing to us to destabilize.

00:28:31.820 They are so weak.

00:28:33.080 I mean, I don't think it would be hard for us to destabilize their nation.

00:28:37.960 And that's up for them then, you know, if the people want to rise up, good, we'll help you, you know, not directly with, you know, intervention and military, but we'll help you.

00:28:51.220 But it's up to you to do it.

00:28:53.520 Yeah.

00:28:53.800 Wasn't that covered?

00:28:56.020 I guess.

00:28:57.840 I'm trying to interpret.

00:28:59.040 You just disagree with it.

00:28:59.940 Well, no. So I'm trying to interpret his answers and then what we have not seen in the deal yet, which is kind of unfair because we might see some of these things in the deal.

00:29:08.400 But I'm worried. You asked specifically, and you asked it in a follow-up.

00:29:13.160 You said, so no nuclear program, no long-wing missile program, and support for proxies.

00:29:19.280 And he answered with correct, Glenn.

00:29:21.340 So I'm not exactly sure which part of that is the correct portion, but I see a lot of wiggle room without having seen the deal yet.

00:29:28.700 And I could be wrong on this when we see the deal, but I see them having some wiggle room with by saying, look, they're extremely diminished, just like what you just said.

00:29:37.840 We've destroyed their military. They have no military. They're they're broke. They have no you know, they're on the verge of collapse as it is.

00:29:45.060 I could see them looking, you know, using that as an excuse to say, well, this is why we didn't include specifics like missile programs, support for proxies, things like that, because they they don't have it right now.

00:29:57.280 and they're not going to be able to have that in the future.

00:29:59.940 Well, eventually, as I...

00:30:01.420 No, I didn't get that impression.

00:30:02.520 I would think that would be shady if that's what he meant.

00:30:07.760 I mean, because I asked him specifically,

00:30:09.380 so none of these things, none of these things,

00:30:12.580 these are not, this is involved

00:30:14.080 and we're getting those things done.

00:30:17.040 And he said, that's correct.

00:30:19.540 So I guess, I mean, that's a slippery answer

00:30:23.220 if you don't actually have that in writing,

00:30:25.760 that they're not going to do those things.

00:30:28.180 If it's just, well, we've pounded them back to the Stone Age.

00:30:31.000 I mean, we know they're going to do those things,

00:30:34.300 but that would be against the treaty that we just did.

00:30:39.180 And so then we could say, okay, well, then you're not getting this stuff

00:30:41.980 because it's against the treaty.

00:30:43.860 And we're completely talking out of our rears on this

00:30:46.560 because we have not seen the text of the deal.

00:30:48.800 But if the text of the deal,

00:30:50.800 if they could not get the Iranians to sign off on curtailing their missile program,

00:30:54.360 If they would not agree to not support proxies, well, then I think the wiggle room, and this is where I would push back and object to the text if that's how it is, I would say, well, you haven't really stopped anything because their main focus, their 12-er ideology, everything has not changed.

00:31:13.800 We've just set them back, and they're still going to try this in the future.

00:31:17.780 That's what worries me about this.

00:31:19.540 well we know they're going to try it in the future even if it's in writing um so you know

00:31:27.080 that's a that's a different thing but i i think i agree with you i would want it in writing i can

00:31:31.840 understand how they're not going to want that in writing i mean ricky where do you stand on this

00:31:36.820 well i was curious yeah i wanted to know why you believe we don't have the text of the deal public

00:31:43.220 yet, one. And then two, how are they going to hold the regime accountable when they will find

00:31:51.500 ways to fund proxies? The Trump administration seems to signal that they think that just by

00:31:58.520 ending the sanctions or applying sanctions and applying financial pressure will be enough to

00:32:05.680 disincentivize the regime, but I'm not sure that's true. So I don't think it is true. I think

00:32:13.160 here's what we learned. Here's what we learned. President Trump went in and kicked the can down

00:32:21.900 the road. Okay. Let me give you the most uncharitable view of it. Kick the can down

00:32:27.060 the road farther than any other president has kicked the can down the road. Reason why I was

00:32:31.500 for this was because we were not kicking the can down the road. However, I think what we learned is

00:32:38.280 these guys there was not the movement inside the irgc was stronger than the people and it was

00:32:47.780 stronger than the the non-crazy people okay the 12ers are the strength in that uh regime that

00:32:55.640 that is something we had to learn for ourselves okay we suspected i hoped the other way but we

00:33:03.080 now know the 12ers are fully in charge okay and there's no way of getting them out unless you kill

00:33:08.960 all of them because nobody's going to stand up against them so that was the new information that

00:33:14.940 we got since the war and you could say well you were naive for believing you know that you you

00:33:21.040 could that they weren't in charge whatever that's fine that's fine so then you're down to whichever

00:33:27.400 one of those you believed that we were naive to believe that in the first place you know um or

00:33:33.060 it was worth the shot. We did it and we kicked the can much further down the road, which I'm

00:33:39.600 not happy about. Um, but since you can't get them out, we know they're going to, um, we know they're

00:33:48.340 going to rebuild. They are not capable of doing the things that they were capable of doing, um,

00:33:55.940 just a few months ago.

00:33:58.080 They're not.

00:33:59.540 At least we hope.

00:34:00.800 We hope they're not.

00:34:02.900 If that gives us more time,

00:34:04.360 that gives us more time.

00:34:05.300 Not a happy ending,

00:34:06.920 but an okay ending.

00:34:08.740 I'm much happier with that ending

00:34:10.440 than I would be

00:34:11.280 if we would have now sent troops

00:34:13.060 in to Iran

00:34:15.100 and then kicked the regime out

00:34:17.500 and then had another Iraq on our hands.

00:34:20.200 I would have really been unhappy with that.

00:34:23.080 So I'm happy-ish.

00:34:25.940 with this ending, if it turns out we've only kicked the can down the road, but a long way.

00:34:31.180 Does that help explain? Yeah, it does. And I think that, and again, once the text of this

00:34:40.180 comes out, that's when we are going to know a lot more. And it's very hard for me to comment

00:34:44.640 before actually seeing that text. That's why we didn't yesterday.

00:34:47.740 um exactly right and i mean i i do think i think that possibly even the delay on this

00:34:53.940 is i i would love to hear you know the vice president's uh you know answer on is this

00:34:59.060 really a peace deal or is this really it's more like a ceasefire while all of these things that

00:35:04.400 we're worried about are ironed out over the next 30 to 60 days i'd love to know that as well that's

00:35:09.940 possibly why we haven't seen a lot of the text there because they just they're still working on

00:35:14.540 it. So this could still go a completely different way to where a lot of these concerns we have are

00:35:20.100 ironed out and addressed. We just don't really have that much information right now. But I believe

00:35:26.140 full transparency is the best way to go forward. Whatever you do have, just let us know what you

00:35:30.660 do have. That way we can be just as formed as the government is. They start this.

00:35:34.320 Well, we're going to. I mean, the president has to release what is in this. I think you're right.

00:35:40.300 I think it's still being ironed out, even though they've said that we have a digital signature on

00:35:44.040 it already. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's just political waiting. He's out of the country. He

00:35:50.020 is waiting until it comes back. They're supposed to sign it officially on Friday. Maybe that's

00:35:53.760 when we find out. So I don't know what the reason is. I will tell you, I am hopeful that this is

00:36:03.100 at least what I said. It is a long-term kicking the can down the road. I am hopeful that it is

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00:40:32.300 so just got a um a tweet in from somebody who is an insider

00:40:49.680 founder 1791 just wrote and said so glenn you're okay with kicking the can way down the road where

00:40:55.280 our kids and grandkids will end up having to fight in the middle east they need to be totally

00:40:59.300 defeated a regime change is totally secured israel will have no problems okay um founder

00:41:05.180 here's here's where we differ i agree with you 100 i've said it on the air one 100 times if not

00:41:13.740 a thousand times. But I've learned two things in this. One, Twelvers will have to be dealt with

00:41:20.700 like the Nazis. I suspected that, but didn't know for sure. Thought maybe, hoped we could topple

00:41:26.320 this regime. But you can't. They're all going to have to be killed like we killed the Nazis. So

00:41:31.320 that means total war. And here's the second thing I learned in this. Americans will not do it. And

00:41:37.620 I am not going to support a war that the Americans are not for. I'm not going to do it. That's

00:41:43.160 Vietnam that would tear us apart that will destroy us and they will win in the end okay I am not

00:41:50.020 going to support a war that the American people will not fight if you're not willing to fight

00:41:56.480 and I mean the country has to be united like we were in World War II the country has to be united

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00:42:08.840 we lose the wars we choose to sit out we choose to say i don't know i'm kind of tired i've had

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00:42:21.540 the nazis number two america's not prepared to do that so kick the can down the road because that

00:42:28.080 is what the american people will support and we still are a nation that doesn't have a dictator

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00:45:16.600 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program uh i want to share some good news with you i

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00:45:25.880 While I think that is happening, we need an awakening, but there is a spiritual revival happening.

00:45:31.060 But there's another kind of revival, and I think it stems from this feeling that I think the average American has,

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00:45:42.980 I'm tired of hating. I'm tired of it. Enough is enough.

00:45:47.560 And I want to run down a couple of things because I think what is bringing this to the forefront is FIFA.

00:45:55.880 I think all of the people who are soccer fans that are traveling from all over the country,

00:46:00.100 all over the world, are coming to our country, and they are now saying the truth about America,

00:46:05.540 and Americans are relieved to hear it, and it's renewing our spirit.

00:46:10.120 I think there is an American colonial, if you will, revival, and I don't mean colonialism,

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00:46:21.920 i mean it in the old way that we're actually starting to there's a revival of being proud

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00:47:48.100 All right, so I want to talk to you a little bit about

00:47:50.340 what I'm experiencing, and I don't think I'm alone, and it gives me great hope for our nation.

00:47:56.660 If we do not restore our country's story, then we lose. Humans survive on storylines,

00:48:07.520 and we must restore our story. It is why the progressives, they knew this from the get-go.

00:48:14.560 It's why the progressives back in the 1920s started taking storyline away and started instead

00:48:20.060 teaching names and dates memorization just memorize this date memorize this name because

00:48:25.980 that doesn't do anything for you you will never use that date ever again you don't care you don't

00:48:33.060 care it means nothing but the story means everything so we've lost our story and when

00:48:39.460 you lose your story you start losing respect you start losing meaning for anything and so

00:48:45.900 everything that we have, everything that we've done, everything that we are, we no longer

00:48:50.880 appreciate. And then the next step is just death because everybody just is like, nah, doesn't

00:48:56.280 matter. Okay. And so the country dies. So the first thing that is being restored here, we have

00:49:01.720 an opportunity to restore it, is being restored by people who are visiting us because of the FIFA

00:49:07.540 games. All of these soccer fans are coming in from all over the world and they're seeing America for

00:49:12.540 the very first time. They're not seeing it on television. They're not hearing it through the

00:49:15.740 media they're seeing it with their own eyes and they're like wait a minute something is i mean

00:49:20.900 the media has everything about america wrong let me just play some of these this cut 16

00:49:28.000 media is wrong about the usa this is a british content uh creator andy in america now listen

00:49:35.240 to what he says the media portrays americans as rude lazy all the above and it's further from

00:49:43.000 the truth. The amount of hospitality and kindness and care and pride Americans hold is truly like

00:49:53.040 no other country I've been to. And to show you a perfect example of that, today is flag day,

00:49:59.080 national flag day. And I went to the Huntsville Square. They did the whole ceremony where they

00:50:04.460 lower the flag and I guess put a new flag up for the year. And that was obviously followed by the

00:50:09.880 American national anthem and it was just so nice to see everyone get their hat take it off and

00:50:16.240 respect the country the communities are so tight knit together and whilst I was there of course

00:50:22.540 I was noticed because of my online presence now and everyone came up to me and said hi

00:50:30.240 handshakes how are you if you have any questions about this or that let me know if you want to go

00:50:36.020 hunting i'll show you this not to mention i've got fantastic neighbors and they are always coming

00:50:42.980 over to see if i need anything after specifically living in arkansas for almost six years i can

00:50:48.880 safely say anyone outside of the u.s ignore the media because this is the best place i've been

00:50:54.460 to i love living here i respect the culture here and i'm so proud to be an american citizen i'm

00:51:01.540 just so grateful to be here and i'm looking forward to the next 50 years i have as my life

00:51:07.400 in this country and hopefully soon i'll be able to travel the country as well and experience all

00:51:12.520 of it because it's just wonderful all right so that's a guy who is obviously living here

00:51:20.740 made the choice that's the kind of immigrant that we want now we're finding more people that are

00:51:26.880 saying you know i kind of kind of wish i lived here that are visiting us here is a british couple

00:51:33.920 um talking about their experience in the south listen to this guys what is going on in the south

00:51:41.560 seriously life over here is completely different to what we've experienced before the people are

00:51:48.660 so friendly and welcoming the pace of life over here seems like time has slowed down everything

00:51:57.700 is chilled out since we got here i feel like our stress levels our stress our stress levels

00:52:03.600 blood pressure has lowered blood pressure has lowered everybody is so welcoming so friendly

00:52:10.540 how many offers are we getting like just everyone is being so nice and we also we are obsessed with

00:52:15.340 their accents, we love the southern accent,

00:52:18.260 we love how slow they talk so we can understand them properly.

00:52:21.200 I just love it, we love that accent so much.

00:52:23.400 It's really helping us slow down.

00:52:25.540 We live life very fast, like,

00:52:28.560 and being over here in the south is doing something to us

00:52:31.180 in such a good way, it's really like mellowing us out.

00:52:35.400 It's touching our hearts.

00:52:36.220 It's touching our hearts.

00:52:37.380 Like since we got here, we've just been,

00:52:39.400 every five minutes we're like, that accent,

00:52:40.980 that accent, that accent, oh.

00:52:42.540 We love it here in the south.

00:52:43.380 We'll stop with you.

00:52:45.340 Okay, so now listen to what the media is saying about this.

00:52:48.380 The media is saying that all this stuff you're seeing online,

00:52:51.640 they're saying that America is not racist, blah, blah, blah.

00:52:55.080 No, no, the media will tell you.

00:52:57.100 No, that's not what they're saying.

00:52:58.760 They're saying it's not as bad as we thought it was, okay?

00:53:02.860 No, listen to what they just said about the people in the South.

00:53:05.640 They love them.

00:53:06.540 It's changing their heart.

00:53:08.780 Try this one.

00:53:09.780 Cut 19.

00:53:11.620 I am absolutely in shock.

00:53:14.200 I made this account a month ago showing a British perspective of life in America.

00:53:18.540 And the amount of messages and the amount of support that I have received from Americans has been overwhelming.

00:53:25.100 Like it has been insane.

00:53:27.060 I have people asking to show me around.

00:53:29.480 I have people offering to take me out on a boat.

00:53:32.000 I have people offering to take me to their favorite restaurants.

00:53:34.960 And that is beautiful.

00:53:37.420 Like there generally isn't any words to describe it.

00:53:39.340 And I am overwhelmed with love.

00:53:40.920 And I really do like to everybody.

00:53:43.040 I really appreciate that.

00:53:45.680 Let me take you to a Scottish guy who just arrived in Boston, but he went the long way.

00:53:52.520 He decided to go to Los Angeles and he walked the length of America.

00:53:58.200 He walked from Los Angeles, walked from Los Angeles to Boston to raise awareness for mental illness.

00:54:05.940 His arrival in Boston was absolutely amazing.

00:54:08.820 But here he is in Illinois just talking about the kindness of Americans.

00:54:15.220 Cut 23.

00:54:16.240 So last night we slept outside this garage in a place called Brownstown, Illinois.

00:54:22.060 When I went in, the amazing man at the counter instantly said,

00:54:27.440 what the f*** is this all about?

00:54:29.860 Very confused, as most people are.

00:54:32.760 And after very briefly explaining the story, he said, wait one second.

00:54:37.420 And he turned around and I had no idea what he was doing.

00:54:41.720 And this man wrote a cheque, on the spot, a cheque for $200.

00:54:47.500 And on the cheque, he wrote three words, importance of humanity.

00:54:54.560 He said, that's not from me.

00:54:56.460 And then point to the sky.

00:54:58.740 I just want to say a massive thank you because that is the nicest thing ever.

00:55:03.540 so we're learning that america is nice we're also learning the opposite of what i learned

00:55:13.300 when i went to uh europe it is so small there it is so small um somebody talked to me uh talked to

00:55:23.140 me about this when i was over in great britain and they said you know the amazing difference

00:55:27.540 between americans and the british or europeans is that americans think 200 years is old

00:55:32.940 or a hundred years is old and uh the british don't uh but the british think a hundred miles

00:55:43.360 is a long way away and americans don't that's just down the street for us listen to this cut

00:55:49.000 six or actually it's cut 15 number six here a brit there's a fact that i use to verify the

00:55:56.640 size of america to people who don't believe how big it actually is you've never been there and

00:56:01.360 it's this fact right here and it blows my mind that i've been to america if you now were to drive

00:56:06.980 in europe across france belgium netherlands germany luxembourg austria and switzerland so

00:56:15.540 seven different european countries and you took the amount of time you drove across them countries

00:56:19.940 in europe you still wouldn't make it across texas you still wouldn't how insane is that

00:56:28.000 and that's just one state i use that fact all the time when i try and tell people how big america

00:56:33.340 actually is you can drive across seven seven european countries and in the same time if you

00:56:39.600 did that across texas you still wouldn't make it across texas what okay now let's go to cut 24 here's

00:56:50.000 another british person talking about the size of america in a way we need to stop calling americans

00:56:58.900 uncultured just because they haven't left america and now let me tell you for why because each state

00:57:07.860 is like a different country like a completely different country with its own culture with its

00:57:14.060 own landscape with its own feel i have been traveling around america for a while now and

00:57:20.680 have visited many different states and they're honestly so unique in their own way everyone is

00:57:26.500 like a different country in its own right so we need to stop calling them uncultured because

00:57:31.280 there's no need for americans to leave their country they can just go to a different state

00:57:36.960 and have a holiday whereas us in the uk we live on a tiny little island and for us to have a

00:57:43.380 different experience we actually have to get on a plane and go to another country whereas americans

00:57:50.100 can just hop in their car and drive a few hours in a different direction and it will feel like

00:57:54.980 they're in a completely different country even different weather each state has its own unique

00:57:59.780 weather it is fascinating to me as i'm watching this what i'm learning or rediscovering about

00:58:07.420 America and what I love. You know, when I was younger, I used to drive across the country

00:58:13.920 because I'd move all the time. I was in radio. And I'd drive across the country. And there was

00:58:18.340 nothing I love, and I still do, there's nothing I love more than driving across the country,

00:58:24.620 especially not on the interstate. When you can drive across the country, you recognize the

00:58:31.540 personality of each state and of each town and they are different and i've i've railed against

00:58:38.740 you know the the tj maxx and the gap and the you know and taylorization of america where every

00:58:47.820 town has the same stores it used to be that each town had its own flavor and it would have its own

00:58:54.040 local stores and it was so great it was so great um everything wasn't purchased at walmart

00:59:00.960 And I think we're still developing that, but what we miss here in America, what I miss, is that, no, no, no, it really is different to every state.

00:59:12.460 They have countries, but our founders looked at our nation, these colonies, as almost separate countries.

00:59:21.340 we needed just enough power as a federal government to hold them together to be able to

00:59:26.940 you know make sure they're not warring with each other and you know they had fair commerce and and

00:59:32.320 you know money that was the same etc etc but they wanted everybody to be different and we were

00:59:38.380 and we should be you know that is the thing that kills me the left keeps saying diversity is our

00:59:47.020 strength. This is going to be diametrically opposed to itself on both sides. Diversity is

00:59:52.740 our strength. No, it's not. Unity is a strength. A house divided against itself cannot stand, okay?

01:00:01.020 Unity is our strength. But united in what? United in principles. Not the same. We do want to be

01:00:11.340 diverse as individuals but they don't want you to be they they push for diversity as individuals

01:00:18.900 but then they also push for the collective you all have to believe certain things because

01:00:25.640 there are certain things like you know transgenderism that's their god that's their

01:00:31.180 god americans america's god what is america's religion ben franklin was asked this what is

01:00:38.880 America? Ben, trying to trap him. What is America's religion? That there is a God. That he gave all of

01:00:46.620 us individual rights. That he will judge us. And we should serve him. And the best way to serve him

01:00:56.780 is to serve as individuals, to serve other individuals, to serve our fellow man. That's our

01:01:04.820 choice. That was what made us together. It's not our denomination. It's the basic belief that all

01:01:15.600 men are created equal, that we all have individual rights, that we're all in this together, even

01:01:22.240 though we're individuals, that the best way to help our nation, the best way to serve our God

01:01:27.680 is to help one another by choice that's what we used to have in common everything else

01:01:35.800 our diversity was strength our diversity was cool but you have to have the basic fundamental

01:01:43.560 building block their building block is transgenderism their building block is marxism

01:01:49.540 our building block is all men are created equal endowed by their creator certain inalienable

01:01:55.560 rights life liberty pursuit of happiness and governments are instituted among men to protect

01:02:01.000 those rights that's where our unity should come from our strength of diversity follows that

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01:04:12.180 So the other thing that we take for granted that I think these people who are traveling the U.S. and are posting,

01:04:20.200 I think they're renewing our belief in things like that we are different, that it is better here in America than any place else.

01:04:28.160 And you only know that if you travel.

01:04:30.840 And when you travel, you come back home and you're like, I am glad to be back in America.

01:04:35.700 Well, here's a British traveler who says, this beats everything I've ever seen.

01:04:45.000 Cut to 25, please.

01:04:47.200 I was well and truly born in the wrong country.

01:04:49.140 I'm a British girl and I have been to around 27 different countries in my whole life.

01:04:54.920 I've been to the Caribbean.

01:04:56.220 I've been to St. Lucia.

01:04:57.200 I've been to Barbados.

01:04:58.060 I've been to Southeast Asia, Thailand, Bali, places in Europe. I've been all over the world,

01:05:03.460 basically. And nothing comes close to the USA. You can get every single landscape,

01:05:12.940 every single climate, every slight, you can get everything in the US, the people, the food,

01:05:20.140 the landscapes, the cars, the trucks, everything in the US simply beats anything I've ever

01:05:28.320 experienced anywhere in the world. I was born in the wrong country. I feel like I belong in the

01:05:34.940 US. My heart is there. I mean, we found a puppy in the US. We rescued a puppy in the US and brought

01:05:39.560 her home to the UK. There are no words to describe how lucky you guys are to live there. Americans

01:05:45.060 are so lucky to live in such an amazing country.

01:05:49.720 And I wish I was there, guys, honestly.

01:05:53.120 Tell me you're against immigration when you hear that.

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01:07:37.580 there is something in the air and i think the left has overplayed its hand i think the pendulum

01:07:49.980 has started to swing back you know if you've ever read the book i think it's called the pendulum or

01:07:55.020 pendulum theory um it is a fantastic book and it talks about this 80 year cycle and we are about

01:08:00.800 90 years into it and i think it's because the progressives just kept pushing and pushing and

01:08:06.080 pushing and delaying things that are naturally supposed to happen. But I think Generation Alpha

01:08:13.440 is the greatest generation. It's the one that is going to come and it's going to be like

01:08:17.540 the World War II generation. And the progressives have overplayed their hand and people are sick of

01:08:25.800 it and they don't want it anymore. And it's a passing fad. They want to be connected to

01:08:32.680 something that is real. That's why you're seeing resurgence of God. And I think you're seeing a

01:08:36.580 resurgence of family and country. And it's not happening rapidly. It's just beginning to start

01:08:50.640 with the country. And I just sense it. And I think we need to encourage it in every way we can.

01:08:55.980 right now because of all the people that are here visiting us there is this massive move

01:09:02.760 on social media to show how great america is from people who are visiting us if you see those

01:09:10.140 post them repost them like them interact with them that changes the algorithm and hearing

01:09:18.380 positive things about your country from people who are not in the country changes people's

01:09:23.380 perspective. It gives them hope. This is the most hopeful thing you could do. Go online and post and

01:09:30.320 repost and interact. You've got to make a comment and like and share. When you like, share, and

01:09:37.800 interact with it, it changes the algorithm. And if everybody in this audience just spent the next

01:09:44.760 week, every time you saw one of those, comment on it, click the little heart, and share it.

01:09:50.820 when you do that it will sweep the country and it will make a difference it will make a difference

01:09:58.160 listen to a couple more of these things here is a british fitness influencer who is uh getting a

01:10:06.880 tour of america and seeing everything and he comes across an air park neighborhood don't know if you

01:10:12.540 know what these are but this is where you can land your plane in your neighborhood and park it in

01:10:17.020 your garage okay it's crazy but listen to his perspective on this cut 30 i've just arrived

01:10:23.200 at an air park neighborhood almost every front drive has a plane parked on it this is basically

01:10:33.940 like a plane neighborhood if you have a plane you come and live here and you can drive down here and

01:10:39.440 there's a runway just off of it so you drive your plane down the road and onto the runway and there's

01:10:45.740 over 600 of these in america roughly what you would never get this in the uk this is crazy look

01:10:52.800 plane there plane there plane down there what in the world man this is why i love america i just i

01:11:01.020 i'd never do about this till that's just now this man here what is he saying what is he saying here

01:11:05.960 you'd never get this anywhere else why because the government always just says no and americans

01:11:13.600 are like i want a neighborhood where i can park my plane what's wrong with that and we just do it

01:11:19.160 we just do it they're controlled by everything think of this think of the little things that

01:11:25.320 we dismiss think of this play cut 20 please this is an italian

01:11:29.080 i can refill this a thousand times yeah but you won't drink a thousand cups of

01:11:41.040 You don't know me.

01:11:42.260 And it's free.

01:11:43.560 You paid for it.

01:11:44.500 You paid it.

01:11:45.120 Once.

01:11:46.520 Bro, slow down.

01:11:48.980 Slow down.

01:11:50.460 It's cold.

01:11:51.500 Slow down.

01:11:54.480 He's got free refills on his drink.

01:11:56.620 Because it's free.

01:11:58.300 Cold?

01:11:58.980 Yes, please.

01:11:59.780 Thank you.

01:12:02.680 Hey, stop.

01:12:03.660 He just can't get past the fact, I've already paid for this once.

01:12:08.380 He paid for it.

01:12:09.720 Free refill.

01:12:10.360 we take that for granted he's like this is insane okay listen to this australian cut 22

01:12:17.260 this is probably the most american thing i've ever seen i'm saying that a lot in america we've got

01:12:22.340 one size sorry one size of monster another size of monster another size of monster but if that's

01:12:30.660 still not big enough for you we've got another size of monster oh my god also how big these

01:12:40.100 arizona teaser two for three dollars as well i can't even i can't even hold this

01:12:47.380 also plus all of the coffee flavor cappuccino double shot monster's duncan's plus even just

01:12:55.920 like a soda station or like a gas station if you're american you can just fill up with all

01:13:00.300 these like melon juice with like all these um soft rinks just in the in the gas stations oh

01:13:08.040 oh my god what is that that's the coffee that's creamer oh my gosh decaf turbo it's all those

01:13:16.400 different types of coffee this is crazy i love it this is an australian who's looking at coffee

01:13:23.740 pots we're not talking starbucks we're not it's a coffee pot with creamer next to it she's like

01:13:29.560 look at that it's just in the gas station america america stop tearing yourself apart

01:13:37.280 Listen to this woman from France, cut 28.

01:13:42.080 There's something I deeply love with the Americans is their mindset of,

01:13:46.720 we don't care, do whatever you want.

01:13:48.680 If you want to dress a certain way, go for it.

01:13:51.440 If you want to start a project, go for it.

01:13:53.660 If you want to pass a car on the right, you can do it.

01:13:58.000 And it's something that personally is helping me to heal.

01:14:01.800 Because when you're used to shrink yourself and you arrive in the US

01:14:06.040 and you discover this space to just be yourself and do whatever you want it's so refreshing even

01:14:12.360 wearing this stupid thing is something that i'm just like yeah cool and as an american you can

01:14:17.400 say yeah she's just wearing something like that and what's wrong but a french would see this and

01:14:23.080 would be like what is wrong with you you look ridiculous share these things i'm telling you

01:14:33.320 all we need is to believe that we are worth saving that's the first step listen to what

01:14:45.300 people from all around the world are coming here and experiencing and saying about you

01:14:51.580 okay listen to what they're saying and you you can you can be on the left you could be overseas

01:15:00.040 to say they just they hate people they they are bigots or whatever they just hate foreigners or

01:15:05.320 they don't want you know brown people whatever the lie is it's not true one of the most amazing

01:15:12.000 things that i saw um was at wrigley field in chicago and there was an american national anthem

01:15:19.580 played now i thought i thought this was for um the uh i thought this was for fifa it wasn't it

01:15:27.100 was just at wrigley field it was in may okay um and it was a mariachi bond band from mexico

01:15:34.640 and they played the national the american national anthem and i watched this and i was

01:15:42.040 it was so heartwarming play a cut 14 please

01:15:46.280 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

01:16:08.240 now if i were a racist i would have a real hard time with that i'd be like look at them mexicans

01:16:20.380 with those big sombrero hats and their marching band and mariachi music i was thrilled because

01:16:28.560 it showed people who were here that were different than me that treated what we love with respect

01:16:36.720 that is that is america that is america again i don't need you to look like me i don't need you

01:16:47.380 to dress like me i don't need you to listen to the same kind of music i don't need any of that

01:16:51.760 i just want you to respect the basic idea that all men are created equal

01:17:00.400 endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

01:17:04.980 and governments are instituted among men to protect those rights and that's what makes us

01:17:10.780 different it's not our wealth it's it's not it's a total mindset that you can be different

01:17:20.000 because we can all come together on one idea that we are all meant to be different and the government

01:17:29.600 is to enforce the freedoms that we have it's to make sure that we that nothing encroaches

01:17:38.600 on the right to be who you are in the grand scheme of things and what happens is two things you either

01:17:48.240 deny that or you take it to such a degree that says well then yeah that's right and that's why

01:17:55.060 I can have my big, bare, fat ass in front of kindergartners in this school park yard.

01:18:01.740 No.

01:18:02.220 No, it also requires you to play a role in that.

01:18:08.280 It requires you to have some self-restraint.

01:18:12.060 Know that we are a civilization.

01:18:14.060 We are a society.

01:18:15.140 We are trying to get along.

01:18:18.100 And the minute you stop trying to get along, the minute you say, I'm above everyone else,

01:18:23.140 my wishes, whatever I want to do is above everyone else, then you break the system.

01:18:29.400 And that requires then somebody to be heavy handed with you.

01:18:32.600 And it wrecks it for all of us.

01:18:34.760 And the left knows this.

01:18:36.140 This is why they're encouraging all of this stuff.

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01:18:53.780 at torch 250 can you just play a little bit of the song that we have for the second amendment

01:18:58.880 we just released today our um kind of our schoolhouse rock song on the second amendment

01:19:04.700 here's a piece of it

01:19:05.780 amendment to protect the few who object the many's point of view

01:19:12.760 So each song, I wrote the lyrics and AI Assist with music

01:19:35.020 to be able to drill these things into your kids' heads.

01:19:43.260 So what is the Second Amendment?

01:19:44.400 It is the right to protect your freedom.

01:19:46.240 It's not the right to, you know, keep and bear arms.

01:19:48.820 That's what it says, but it's the right to protect your freedom.

01:19:52.680 And so every single one of these songs drills it into their heads on what it actually says

01:19:57.880 and what its purpose is, what it's meant to do, and explains it.

01:20:03.220 Because if we can just get these into our kids' heads, it comes with the responsibility.

01:20:09.820 Once you understand these rights, you understand the responsibility that goes with the rights.

01:20:14.960 Because the song also teaches that.

01:20:16.600 But we also have kind of catechism, if you will.

01:20:20.580 It's made for a conversation.

01:20:22.840 It's not a test you give your kids.

01:20:24.380 It's a conversation you have with your kids.

01:20:26.460 And each one of these has that catechism that goes with it.

01:20:30.620 So you can have conversations.

01:20:31.920 if we can restore a the uniqueness the willingness to say you know there is something different

01:20:40.460 about america and it's it's pretty great we have our problems but it's it's pretty great

01:20:45.060 have you traveled the country watch watch for the um people who are coming to our country and

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01:20:54.480 saw somebody in arizona i think they were in sedona and they were like how is this even real

01:20:59.000 Look at this. This doesn't even look real. I was just in Bryce Canyon over the weekend,

01:21:06.840 and it is one of the most spectacular, beautiful places I have ever been, and I've traveled the

01:21:12.260 world. It is spectacular. We are a unique place, a blessed land, but we're also a blessed people.

01:21:22.580 We're blessed with these freedoms and this understanding, and we're about to lose them,

01:21:26.480 But if we can restore first this idea that, yeah, we're worth saving, and then learn our history.

01:21:33.620 That's why we have The American Story out on Torch250.com.

01:21:39.300 By, I think, next month, there will be 20 episodes of The American Story, and you'll hear it in a way you've never heard The American Story before.

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01:28:33.880 hello america the fbi has come out with something disturbing a plot they thwarted

01:28:43.540 over the weekend targeting the white house ufc event i looked at that event on sunday night and

01:28:50.440 I said to my wife, pray for the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, because can

01:28:56.460 you imagine securing all of the things that are going on in the United States?

01:29:01.620 It is a miracle.

01:29:02.820 If we make it through this summer without a major terror attack, it's a miracle.

01:29:08.800 Please pray for our law enforcement officials who are doing everything they can to keep

01:29:14.140 us safe.

01:29:15.200 But there is a balance there.

01:29:16.600 And I want to tell you first about what happened, because it is truly frightening the details that has just come out.

01:29:22.200 And then I want to give you a warning on that, because the power that our government can grab in a moment of terror is terrifying in and of itself.

01:29:35.120 And I'll explain coming up in a sec.

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01:30:45.140 Okay, let me just give you the story here that's just broken earlier today.

01:30:50.040 An alleged plot targeting this weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C.

01:30:55.860 was disrupted by the FBI and saw its law enforcement partners spring into action.

01:31:01.920 Here's what we know so far.

01:31:03.460 Five people were in custody as of Monday.

01:31:06.960 Investigators have identified 23 individuals as part of what they describe as a potential network of plotters.

01:31:13.900 so we're no longer talking a lone gunman it's not and it's not a lone wolf anymore now who are

01:31:20.020 these people officials say the alleged plan involved using explosive laden drones to strike

01:31:27.080 buildings near the event that's what we saw happen in ukraine that's what when we saw i warned and

01:31:35.460 said this is not a good development and warned that this was the future of warfare so they plan

01:31:42.640 on using drones that they strapped with explosives, it would trigger a mass evacuation and funnel

01:31:52.060 crowds toward a pre-stage sniper team.

01:31:56.840 A second phase allegedly called for storming the White House gate.

01:32:03.480 This is pretty elaborate.

01:32:04.980 it and the funneling in is what we've been talking about what terrorists have been planning on doing

01:32:13.100 for a while what they do is they strike and then when the ems and everybody else shows up

01:32:18.820 when everybody starts running there that's when the real terror strike happens fbi learned of

01:32:26.460 the threat on june 10th secured probable cause for an arrest in cincinnati where one suspect

01:32:32.860 was taken into custody. Investigators later uncovered signal chats in which multiple people

01:32:38.540 allegedly discussed the attacks on the UFC event. An initial review of one suspect's iPhone revealed

01:32:46.140 at least 23 signal users discussing pre-operational activity. Some participants allegedly planned to

01:32:53.120 travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia on June 12th or 13th to prepare for the attack. One suspect

01:33:01.180 allegedly told investigators the goal was to target capitalist elites, billionaires, or

01:33:07.940 politicians who received donations from the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee,

01:33:13.060 otherwise known as AIPAC. Now, let me see. What does this sound like? Capitalist elites were

01:33:20.140 targeted, billionaires, or politicians who were in bed with AIPAC. That does not sound like a

01:33:30.240 right-wing plot does it investigations spanned at least 12 fbi field offices cash patel credited

01:33:38.160 agents the department of justice law enforcement partners with acting quickly the event drew an

01:33:42.800 estimated 4 300 attendees including 1200 active duty service members as 14 fighters competed

01:33:49.220 blah blah the alleged scheme comes amid a series of threats and security incidents involving trump

01:33:54.640 and senior administration officials highlighting concerns about political violence.

01:34:00.240 We are on the edge, gang.

01:34:03.140 We are on the edge.

01:34:05.240 And when it happens, a couple of things could happen.

01:34:08.760 Let me tell you what the left is counting on, that it will tear us apart even more

01:34:15.220 and that we will do the opposite of what we did on September 11th.

01:34:21.000 What we did on September 11th is we united.

01:34:23.600 we came together we didn't care about your politics we didn't care who you were your class

01:34:29.640 we didn't care if you're a billionaire or you know poverty ridden we stopped people in the

01:34:35.520 street you remember doing this you would pass people in a store or something and you could

01:34:40.280 see it in their eyes and they were complete stranger and you would say are you okay are you

01:34:46.180 okay? We would hug strangers. We would help strangers. That's who we are. Americans reveal

01:34:55.900 themselves at times of crisis. Now, are we still those same people? That's the only really remaining

01:35:04.760 question. That's why I have been preaching for years. Don't close your heart. Don't close your

01:35:12.780 heart. Do everything you can to keep your heart open. Keep it soft. Remember who you are. Don't

01:35:18.780 get angry. Because only if that charitable part of your heart is open, where you can still

01:35:27.000 recognize even the people who you don't like, as spiritual family members, part of the human race,

01:35:37.860 we won't make it and they're counting on us turning on each other and it growing

01:35:44.140 we have to decide right now we're not going to do that we are going to come together we will be

01:35:52.880 the americans we were on 9 12 and it's going to be harder because there are going to be those

01:35:59.180 in our own communities that are still pushing still blaming still you've got to be the person

01:36:04.880 that says, when everybody is running one way,

01:36:08.900 you need to be the person that is brave enough

01:36:12.580 and in touch with the spirit enough

01:36:15.140 to be able to stand up and go,

01:36:16.420 don't, don't, don't, don't go that way.

01:36:18.680 Listen, you know me.

01:36:20.740 Don't go that way.

01:36:22.080 Please don't go that way.

01:36:23.560 And know that some of them are going to continue

01:36:25.160 to run past you in the wrong direction.

01:36:28.100 Just be calm, cool, and collected.

01:36:32.240 The other place we're going to need cool heads to prevail will be in Washington, D.C.

01:36:40.440 Because the government will look to gain more and more power.

01:36:47.020 And it will happen with the Republicans just as fast as it will happen with the Democrats.

01:36:51.180 And they've already weaponized this government.

01:36:54.960 It's not too late, but it is soon.

01:36:58.440 Almost impossible to stop soon.

01:37:00.860 if we don't get it under control.

01:37:03.880 I don't care how you vote.

01:37:06.080 This is one thing that we all should unite on.

01:37:13.500 You know that scene?

01:37:15.380 We've seen it in movies a million times.

01:37:18.240 That scene usually in a mob movie

01:37:20.400 where somebody walks into a store,

01:37:24.080 neighborhood guy standing behind the counter,

01:37:26.120 his little grocery store,

01:37:27.320 he's worked there his whole life,

01:37:28.500 his dad built it,

01:37:29.500 his kids stock the shelves after school you know and then a local guy walks in in a nice suit

01:37:38.120 and he almost offhandedly says nice place you got here shame if something happened to it huh

01:37:45.800 everybody understands what's happening immediately everybody understands that threat only works

01:37:52.760 because the mob already controls the pressure points um i watched what is the new dutton show

01:38:00.060 the is it dutton ranch uh yeah right dutton ranch tanya and i were watching that last night

01:38:06.840 and i won't give anything away in case you haven't watched it yet it's really good i love

01:38:11.160 beth and her character but um there's corruption and it's in this town and it's deep in this town

01:38:17.720 and one of the characters is kind of like faced in this situation what are you going to do i mean

01:38:23.740 you know what to do what the right thing is but it's basically like that be a shame if you said

01:38:29.160 anything now you know it'd be a shame if something happened to you because you know

01:38:32.020 basically we control everything and that's what has happened in america okay the the threat only

01:38:40.340 works if you control the unions and the permits and the cops and the judges and the banks the

01:38:45.840 loans and the trucking routes. That's real power. Real power doesn't kick your door in.

01:38:52.360 It just sometimes makes it impossible until you cooperate. And if that doesn't work, then, you

01:38:59.920 know, be ashamed if something happened. If that doesn't work, they burn your house down.

01:39:04.740 And you know, the police are never going to do anything because they own the police as well.

01:39:11.820 That's the conversation that we should start having. That's the way we should start viewing

01:39:15.480 our government. That is the healthy way to view a government. Never give them enough power so they

01:39:21.040 can do those things. And whether people like hearing it or not, the story didn't begin with

01:39:26.220 Donald Trump or Obama or Biden. This road goes back more than a century. I mean, when America

01:39:33.820 first fell in love with the idea that experts should manage society. Ricky, what is the name

01:39:40.860 of that uh podcast that we have on uh on torch 250 is it the experts or control freaks oh my gosh

01:39:49.640 that is such a good series uh nathan nipper wrote this before he wrote the american story

01:39:54.920 um and he's he is our historian he is really super good a great writer and he wrote control

01:40:02.220 freaks and it is a um a whole podcast series about how did we get here how did we get to a

01:40:08.800 place to where you won't even listen to yourself anymore. You won't listen to your mom. You'll

01:40:13.020 listen to an expert. You won't listen to your mom about raising your kids. And look at the damage

01:40:17.680 we've done by listening to experts. This started in the early 1900s. In the early 1900s, we fell

01:40:26.660 in love with this. Progressives looked at Europe the same way youth, many of us in our 20s,

01:40:34.040 might have looked at you know scandinavian socialism it's easy to see centralized power

01:40:38.800 and it's modern and it's efficient and it's scientific it doesn't work but on the surface

01:40:43.740 it looks kind of good right you know the canadian health care system it looks good until it catches

01:40:49.320 up with you and then it's horrific woodrow wilson actually argued the constitution was outdated

01:40:55.800 because it restrained the government too much think about that he said the same thing actually

01:41:01.180 that Obama used to say.

01:41:02.860 Constitution is a charter of negative liberties,

01:41:05.540 tells the government what it can't do.

01:41:07.160 We need a charter of positive liberties

01:41:08.960 telling us what the government must do.

01:41:11.760 Wow, sounds nice until you realize

01:41:14.100 that that is the failed model

01:41:16.720 of every authoritarian state, okay?

01:41:19.920 Well, let me stick with Wilson.

01:41:22.680 1900s, he openly believed government

01:41:25.620 needed more freedom from the Constitution.

01:41:28.860 and that mindset is what changed everything in America.

01:41:32.360 We began listening to the elite class,

01:41:34.660 the experts over common sense and the common man

01:41:36.820 and you won't believe how this was played.

01:41:39.120 I mean, you've got to listen to that Control Freaks podcast

01:41:41.520 because in it, I tell you a story about

01:41:43.280 how all these experts went into places like GM

01:41:46.860 and said, well, here's how many widgets you should make.

01:41:50.820 This is what every man should do

01:41:52.540 and they were making it up, okay?

01:41:55.380 The elite class, the modern scientific class,

01:41:58.620 they gave us the rise of eugenics and everything else.

01:42:01.460 And this is one of the parts of history

01:42:02.800 that schools fly past at about 90 miles an hour

01:42:05.920 because it's ugly.

01:42:07.320 But that's the kind of stuff that happened in America

01:42:09.160 that we should be talking about.

01:42:10.520 Not only slavery, but the American elites,

01:42:13.360 the politicians, the professors, the journalists,

01:42:15.360 the academics that supported the idea

01:42:17.020 that government should improve humanity

01:42:19.420 by controlling who could reproduce and who couldn't.

01:42:22.780 Force sterilizations.

01:42:24.740 We don't talk about that.

01:42:25.960 That happened a lot, lot closer to us now than slavery did.

01:42:30.780 In America, thousands of people, and mostly poor, mostly disabled, minorities,

01:42:37.520 people the experts decided were undesirable.

01:42:41.520 Okay, if that sounds bad to you, if you think Donald Trump can do that or wants to do that

01:42:46.560 to the people he finds undesirable, well, then you shouldn't give the government more power.

01:42:52.420 And it's not just him, because your side did this last time.

01:42:55.960 Okay? Here's the uncomfortable part nobody likes talking about. America's eugenics programs are the inspiration. They were big inspirational parts that made up the Nazi Germany racial policies.

01:43:13.080 okay that's just fact the nazis studied the american programs our elite educated class

01:43:19.640 went to meet with a scientist who taught them to quote the nazis to show them what could be done

01:43:26.340 with modern eugenics okay now why does that matter why am i telling you this after i'm telling you a

01:43:30.960 story in washington dc because it shows how quickly government power becomes dangerous once people

01:43:37.280 convince themselves they're building a better society or they're saving society that's the

01:43:43.760 pattern every era and we'll do it too you get these big terrorist attacks and people will say

01:43:49.880 yeah but this time it's different we've got to do something okay wait a minute wait a minute

01:43:53.780 we've got to do something that's really bad that's a very dangerous phrase because that doesn't tell

01:44:02.200 us what we are doing. That tells us we have to do something. Well, maybe not that. Yeah, every era

01:44:08.360 says, oh, this power is only going to be used for good. Until somebody ugly gets all control of the

01:44:14.560 machine, and it always happens. Okay, let me take you from Woodrow Wilson to FDR. Sorry, I'm going

01:44:21.840 on this history tangent, but it's important to understand what not to do if something like what

01:44:28.900 was just thwarted actually happens, and it could happen this summer. I'll take you to FDR here in

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01:46:18.740 So how did our government get out of control?

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01:46:35.860 in its reach into everyday life. I mean, exploded. The federal government exploded in size,

01:46:42.180 agencies multiplied, regulations multiplied, the alphabet soup began, the FEC, the FCC, the

01:46:49.400 NR, the NLRB, the SSA. Why did the CIA happen? Because of the OSS. Why did the OSS happen?

01:46:59.120 Because of WW2. That's why. It was another crisis. Once government systems grow and grow large

01:47:07.480 enough, they stop behaving like temporary emergency measures. They become permanent institutions with

01:47:13.740 their own interests, and it's human nature.

01:47:17.040 World War II,

01:47:17.860 Japanese-Americans, what happened to them?

01:47:19.860 Round up. They were rounded up,

01:47:21.720 put into internment camps, entire families.

01:47:24.640 They lost businesses.

01:47:25.720 They lost home. They lost land.

01:47:27.100 They were American citizens.

01:47:29.280 What did the government say?

01:47:30.720 Gotta do it for security. They're gonna kill us all.

01:47:33.240 We're at war.

01:47:34.780 Fear becomes the

01:47:37.040 justification for expanded state power.

01:47:39.520 Fear.

01:47:41.740 Again,

01:47:42.300 why am i telling you this did you hear what i just said was thwarted over the weekend

01:47:49.800 flying drones into businesses at the white house then funneling because they know the plans of

01:48:01.260 escape funneling those people into choke points then shooting those choke points okay then storming

01:48:09.640 the gates of the, that's what they just stopped over the weekend. What does that, does that make

01:48:13.360 you feel comfortable or does that make you feel fearful? How many people will hear that and go,

01:48:18.160 I don't know if I want to go to Washington DC this summer. I know I'm going with my whole family this

01:48:22.700 summer. I'm going for the 4th of July, maybe giving speeches and everywhere all over my whole family's

01:48:28.700 coming. I mean, not going to stop me. I'll be more alert. But when fear happens, the pattern starts

01:48:37.720 and it repeats over and over and over again.

01:48:41.640 More on this in just a second.

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01:50:58.340 so during the break we were just talking about how education has gotten completely out of control

01:51:09.160 because the government is in charge of teaching and when there's a story in show prep about how

01:51:14.720 the supreme court is not taking on this case about free speech in school and they said because the

01:51:18.680 school boards have to be able to decide blah blah blah but the school boards many times have been

01:51:23.120 completely hijacked, and the teachers' unions and the Department of Education, they're almost

01:51:28.040 one right now. They're so powerful, these forces, and they're all leftists. We need to make sure

01:51:36.660 that we have control of everything locally, everything locally. You need to be able to

01:51:44.420 decide, and they need to be able to be based on the principles of the American founding.

01:51:49.800 I bring this up because of a story that I shared with you about half an hour ago about what the FBI just broke up over the weekend.

01:51:58.840 It was a very elaborate plan.

01:52:01.500 I think five people now are in jail, and I think 17 have been identified, something like that.

01:52:09.540 And it was a plan to use drones and explosives at the White House or near the White House, get everybody to panic.

01:52:19.240 then run for the exits

01:52:20.980 and then they had a sniper team

01:52:22.680 that they were setting up

01:52:23.920 that were going to target the exits

01:52:25.560 and they were going to shoot people

01:52:26.960 at the exits

01:52:27.900 as they were trying to get out

01:52:29.260 so mass casualties

01:52:30.660 then phase two

01:52:32.160 was storm the gates of the White House

01:52:33.920 I mean it's insane

01:52:35.360 insane

01:52:36.260 but we're not in lone wolf territory anymore

01:52:38.920 we are headed towards Beslan

01:52:40.700 you don't know what that is

01:52:42.560 look it up

01:52:43.520 that's what we're headed towards

01:52:46.080 and that will change us forever look at what happened after 9-11 look how the airports have

01:52:54.440 changed look how all your rights have changed look at the fisa courts you know the fisa courts

01:52:59.840 were actually set up for our own good i mean i was taking taking you through wilson then fdr

01:53:05.560 then you have mccarthyism fear of nuclear war so we got to do something government says all of this

01:53:11.900 stuff is good for security we need it fear becomes the justification to be able to expand the state

01:53:18.020 power red scare mccarthyism um co-intel pro something else they don't teach you in school

01:53:24.920 that should um then the in then the the fbi with that infiltrating civil rights groups anti-war

01:53:32.140 movements political organizations journalists why red scare scare of terrorism scare of communism

01:53:39.780 all of this stuff martin luther king he gets his phones wiretapped by the government the government

01:53:46.420 sends him anonymous letters the government does suggesting he should kill himself all of this

01:53:51.300 happened not in soviet russia here in america all of it then came nixon in watergate and watergate

01:53:58.500 mattered because americans realized the executive branch would absolutely use federal agencies and

01:54:03.580 intelligence tools on political enemies if nobody stopped them and so what do we do we

01:54:08.560 formed the Church Commission, investigations in the 1970s, huge. Congress uncovers widespread

01:54:15.460 surveillance abuses by the FBI and the CIA and the NSA, secret files on people like you and me,

01:54:23.400 political spying, manipulation campaigns, all of it. Most Americans have never even heard of

01:54:28.620 the Church Committee, but they know the solution. They know that modern surveillance uses FISA

01:54:35.960 courts well that was from the church commission that was started not because of the patriot act

01:54:41.800 that was started because of watergate they were trying to get the government under control

01:54:45.520 and so they put fisa courts and said you need a warrant and what happened those agencies have

01:54:51.320 bastardized that thing and have now used it as a weapon because government will always convince you

01:54:58.540 it needs it. It must have it. And now with technology, with the scale of things that

01:55:06.540 could happen here in the United States, I mean, before computers, they could only track so much.

01:55:11.720 Now, how do you think we could track these guys? Their phones, computers, guarantee it.

01:55:18.100 Now, all of this stuff, all of the protections are being removed, okay? Now, human beings had

01:55:25.060 limits. Paper had limits. They could only track so much. But now, searches, your searches, your

01:55:32.360 purchases, your locations, your contacts, your opinions, your friends, what you're saying, who

01:55:38.800 you're saying it to, all of that. After 9-11, we just gave the government all these new powers.

01:55:45.040 And it was understandable because we were terrified. Why am I telling you all of this?

01:55:50.100 because I fear you're going to be terrified

01:55:53.220 and you have to remember these things.

01:55:56.060 It has to be fresh in your memory.

01:55:58.300 Tell your friends these stories.

01:56:00.500 Make sure they understand it.

01:56:02.120 Back it up with the facts.

01:56:03.740 You don't believe me?

01:56:04.600 I don't ask for you to believe me.

01:56:06.220 I don't want you to believe me.

01:56:07.800 I want you to be curious enough

01:56:09.440 about some of these stories

01:56:10.620 and look it up for yourself.

01:56:11.580 What the hell is COINTELPRO?

01:56:12.940 What is that?

01:56:13.520 Look it up.

01:56:15.320 You don't believe me about Martin Luther King

01:56:16.900 being spied on by our own government

01:56:18.580 with suicide promptings sent to him in the mail by our FBI.

01:56:25.100 You don't believe me? Look it up.

01:56:28.220 Because once you give the government the power to do these things,

01:56:32.460 it will never disappear.

01:56:34.440 It will never go away.

01:56:37.500 Patriot Act expanded surveillance dramatically.

01:56:41.760 Most Americans barely understood what was happening

01:56:44.000 because our country was focused on being bombed.

01:56:46.980 we were being focused on what was happening to us right now and it was it's much more

01:56:53.700 sophisticated than old school censorship soviet union needed secret police you don't need it we

01:56:59.400 have we have algorithms now you don't believe me look at covid what happened with covid this was

01:57:05.440 the biggest stress test centralized authority has ever had ever had what what happened businesses

01:57:13.960 closed, churches closed, schools closed, travel restricted, speech monitored. Okay, some of these

01:57:21.020 things might have been necessary. That's not even the biggest issue. The bigger issue was

01:57:25.560 watching nearly every institution move exactly in sync. Government, media, tech companies,

01:57:33.100 corporate HR departments, universities, same phrases almost overnight, same approved opinions

01:57:40.380 overnight. Same punishment, same suggestions for punishments overnight. People noticed,

01:57:47.720 especially when opinions labeled dangerous misinformation one year suddenly became

01:57:52.960 acceptable debate the very next year. That destroys trust. And now you throw DEI policies

01:58:00.820 into the mix. Most Americans support fairness. Most Americans support treating people decently,

01:58:07.300 But that's not about equal treatment. That's ideological management, mandatory training, speech codes, hiring quotas, institutional loyalty tests, NASA documents, military trainings, federal agencies, corporate America.

01:58:23.860 The language changed, but the instinct underneath was very familiar.

01:58:29.060 Shape behavior, shape the language, control the thought.

01:58:34.260 that's why so many americans feel like you're walking on eggshells all the time not because

01:58:40.400 america became more evil overnight but because institutional pressure became constant soft

01:58:47.080 pressure career pressure social pressure digital pressure soft pressure changes behavior just as

01:58:55.660 effectively as as force if people become afraid enough you know one thing that jonah goldberg

01:59:01.740 used to say that was absolutely right fascism will come with a happy face it's not going to

01:59:06.640 come in a black trench coat it's going to come with a happy face we're here to help you that's

01:59:11.560 the danger it's not one dictator not one election a culture that slowly trains its citizens to

01:59:18.440 self-censor that's the danger that's why this moment matters because all of this stuff is

01:59:26.640 bigger than republicans or democrats it's bigger than donald trump it's bigger than any of this

01:59:31.560 It's why we all should be celebrating America 250.

01:59:35.280 We should all be at the National Mall.

01:59:37.480 We should all be holding up our documents.

01:59:39.280 We should all be celebrating in our own ways, even though we vote differently.

01:59:45.060 The real issue in America is whether Americans still believe government exists to protect liberty

01:59:50.360 or whether government exists to manage society.

01:59:56.000 Those are completely different systems.

01:59:58.560 the founders and our documents understand this clearly that's why they limited power that's why

02:00:06.900 they separated power that's why they distributed power that's why they said the press cannot be

02:00:12.060 with the government because they understood something modern societies always forget

02:00:17.980 human nature does not improve because technology improves look at us are we any different than the

02:00:25.240 people that Jesus was talking to on the streets of Jerusalem that he was preaching to? He's given

02:00:32.200 us all of this. He's given us this entirely new way of life. Is our society really that different?

02:00:40.120 No. Why? Because what Jesus taught doesn't work or because people haven't changed. People are

02:00:48.120 still people. We don't always apply it. Temptation, the temptation to control people, it never

02:00:57.400 disappears. The temptation to get what you want, it never disappears. That's why the solutions are

02:01:03.180 always in the heart, not in handcuffs. Humans just update the software. And if history teaches

02:01:12.400 us anything every government believes its own abuses were necessary while it commits them and

02:01:19.000 all of the people in that society cheer it along because they've been convinced that's why we should

02:01:26.260 be celebrating stubborn citizens we should be celebrating those people like whoa wait a minute

02:01:31.080 not so fast here citizens willing to question power even when it's wildly uncomfortable citizens

02:01:38.840 willing to defend principles

02:01:40.500 even when their own political tribe is winning.

02:01:43.780 Because once people start cheering for government power

02:01:46.860 simply because their side controls it,

02:01:50.060 freedom is dying.

02:01:51.880 And it usually dies with applause, not gunfire.

02:01:58.480 That is the part that history is teaching us today.

02:02:02.600 That's why I bring this up to you today

02:02:05.380 when I hear about a massive...

02:02:07.940 Do you know what that would have done?

02:02:10.340 Do you know how close we were to possibly absolute authoritarian?

02:02:15.800 And it would have happened under Biden, and it would have happened under Trump,

02:02:18.940 because everybody wants to feel safe.

02:02:21.860 And the government, especially the government agencies, FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA,

02:02:30.580 all of those, they want more power because they can keep us safe.

02:02:34.020 i'm telling you these things so we can answer the question are we finally willing to learn

02:02:42.380 this lesson and stop the weaponization of government while we still have enough power

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02:02:54.880 happens this summer will you be part of the american solution or will you run for protection

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02:03:11.440 a statue of someone great i've never seen a statue of a crowd it's always that one person

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02:03:27.320 prepare yourself so you are that person that can stand up, shoulders square, maybe inside

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02:07:33.620 I have to share something I got on from yesterday's show.

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02:08:30.900 Let's just put it that way.

02:08:31.960 alright we'll see you tomorrow

02:08:33.700 thank you for listening

02:08:34.720 may God save the Republic

The Glenn Beck Program - June 16, 2026

JD Vance Tells Glenn About Iran, the Pope & His Faith Journey ｜ Guest： Vice President JD Vance ｜ 6⧸16⧸26

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