The Glenn Beck Program - 'Lies, Worries and the Beginning of the End'？ - 7⧸26⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:07.880 The number one threat to America, the number one threat to the world, the indoctrination

00:00:13.060 of our kids, freedom of speech, freedom of press, war, debt, the death of the Western

00:00:21.340 civilization.

00:00:22.160 I mean, what is the number one threat to America and the world?

00:00:28.980 Come on.

00:00:30.880 Say it with me.

00:00:33.960 Pl-pl-plastic straws.

00:00:39.600 Right?

00:00:40.080 Plastic straws.

00:00:41.460 Yes.

00:00:41.600 I knew you knew it.

00:00:43.560 The plastic straws.

00:00:45.540 It's a catastrophe, especially the extendable bendy kind of straws.

00:00:50.980 I mean, love them as a kid, sure.

00:00:52.920 But then you find out how evil they are.

00:00:54.940 They are the worst because, yes, they're fun.

00:00:57.940 And they make people want to use a straw, even if one is technically not necessary.

00:01:05.740 Now, I didn't get the specs on when a straw is necessary and when it isn't.

00:01:11.520 But those bendy straws, they're the best.

00:01:13.740 Now, we use plastic straws one at a time and then we throw them away.

00:01:18.820 We just we just toss them out.

00:01:20.240 When I was a kid, sometimes we would take more than one and we would use more than one, but

00:01:27.420 we'd still throw them away.

00:01:28.620 And every single discarded straw in America ends up in the ocean.

00:01:35.540 Now, I believe it's part of the Republican Party platform to ensure that all straws are

00:01:40.460 dumped directly into the ocean, you know, along with plastic bags and those plastic six pack

00:01:47.880 ring thingies.

00:01:48.960 I don't know what those are called.

00:01:50.220 I think I'm that's technically it.

00:01:52.420 Ring thingies.

00:01:53.060 Ring thingies.

00:01:53.500 Yeah.

00:01:53.680 OK, because Republicans hate nature and everyone knows this.

00:01:59.720 So the plastic straws end up forming giant straw masses the size of icebergs that float

00:02:06.760 around just looking for another ship like the Titanic to sink and menacing small islands,

00:02:14.520 boating enthusiasts and even nuclear submarines.

00:02:17.900 Oh, yes.

00:02:18.720 Don't laugh.

00:02:19.780 Straw islands.

00:02:20.860 They can be taken down by them.

00:02:22.440 Now, don't ask me how, but trust me, it happens.

00:02:25.980 These plastic straw icebergs are large enough to be seen from space.

00:02:31.680 In fact, astronauts report that they have made the mistake of spotting a floating straw iceberg

00:02:38.640 and thought it was Hawaii.

00:02:40.080 It wasn't straws.

00:02:42.320 Now, don't forget the aquatic life.

00:02:44.860 And that's really much more important than anything else we've talked about here.

00:02:48.400 The aquatic life that is going extinct because of plastic straws.

00:02:53.260 It's stromageddon.

00:02:54.580 It really is.

00:02:56.100 Dolphins are being decimated by the straws clogging up their blowholes and octopuses, which

00:03:02.640 I always thought it was octopi, but it is technically octopuses.

00:03:06.280 Octopuses can't squirt ink now because the ink squirter is all blocked by straws. 1.00

00:03:12.960 It's horrific.

00:03:14.860 Discovery Channel is even talking now about canceling Shark Week because sharks all have

00:03:19.120 tummy aches because, yes, they've been eating plastic straws, you know, because there's

00:03:25.520 no more fish to eat and they're all dying from straws and everybody knows it.

00:03:30.800 But the evil Republicans won't do a damn thing about it.

00:03:34.260 Now, since Americans use 500 million plastic straws every day, 500 million plastic straws

00:03:43.580 every day just in this country, I think Republicans actually use more than that themselves.

00:03:49.440 But it is clear just looking at that number that we're all about to die.

00:03:53.400 500 million straws per day just in America.

00:03:57.100 That's a huge number.

00:03:58.280 And virtually every major media outlet has cited that stat as a fact.

00:04:02.900 And so we know it is until it's not because NPR, of all sources, did some digging.

00:04:09.540 Turns out that 500 million straws that America uses every day, that number just came from a 1.00

00:04:14.900 young environmentalist named Milo Kress.

00:04:17.060 Now, when I say young, well, he was younger when he was, you know, when it was seven years

00:04:23.460 ago, that's when he first cited this stat.

00:04:26.820 And, you know, how old were you?

00:04:28.940 How old were you seven years ago?

00:04:31.160 You know, what were you doing?

00:04:33.360 You know, my Milo was in the fourth grade.

00:04:35.860 So when he found that stat, well, he didn't actually find that stat.

00:04:40.340 He couldn't find any stats on how many straws were used each day in the U.S.

00:04:43.860 So he just called straw manufacturers around the country and said, hey, how many straws

00:04:48.280 do you think America uses?

00:04:50.160 And they said, oh, a billion.

00:04:52.180 Some said 100 million.

00:04:53.560 And he decided that 500 million there in the fourth grade sounded right.

00:05:00.020 So now major companies like Starbucks routinely make million dollar decisions like their decision

00:05:06.560 to ban plastic straws based on research data from fourth graders.

00:05:12.000 Which is, you know, which is really great.

00:05:16.420 And and Starbucks has banned the plastic straw, which is also really good, except except don't

00:05:22.160 pat yourself on the back just yet, Starbucks, because the lid that you made to replace the

00:05:28.000 evil straw.

00:05:28.800 Is twice as bad, you know, in the amount of Moby Dick Tummy Killers plastic.

00:05:36.900 Uh, it's got twice the amount of plastic as a straw.

00:05:40.880 So bucks lids. 0.83

00:05:42.500 America just discards directly into the eye of an octopus. 0.62

00:05:48.320 It's coming soon.

00:05:49.680 And believe me, the press will accept it.

00:06:00.880 It's Thursday, July 26th.

00:06:03.380 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:06:05.680 I mean, isn't that just like them?

00:06:06.880 So typical twice as bad as straws.

00:06:09.440 They and everybody's patting themselves.

00:06:11.520 Oh, we got rid of the straws.

00:06:13.020 You made a lid that is twice as bad.

00:06:15.440 And it's unbelievable.

00:06:17.820 It's not surprising at all.

00:06:19.940 So I guess maybe it's not unbelievable.

00:06:22.000 Yeah, but it is incredible.

00:06:23.500 I like to I've heard now.

00:06:25.520 I don't know if this is true, but a second grader called me a little while ago and said

00:06:29.140 that a lot of those lids are ending up right in the tear ducts of zebras. 0.75

00:06:34.240 Really?

00:06:34.760 Yeah.

00:06:35.080 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:35.840 Let's report that as fact.

00:06:37.180 Well, we already have.

00:06:38.280 It's on the radio now.

00:06:39.160 And if I put it on the Internet, then you'll have second source material for that.

00:06:43.020 Right.

00:06:43.140 So that's right.

00:06:44.640 So that'll be that'll be good.

00:06:46.420 Now, we have a we have a lot to talk about.

00:06:48.280 We have this stuff that's going on with CNN and the White House.

00:06:52.060 And now Brett Baer is being, you know, just killed online.

00:06:57.380 Oh, Brett Baer is sold out.

00:07:00.140 Brett Baer has sold out.

00:07:02.780 Come on.

00:07:04.360 Now, there's this this this kick up of dust with the White House.

00:07:09.000 And quite honestly, the best way to explain what's happening with the First Amendment is

00:07:14.720 to explain to you what's happening with the Second Amendment.

00:07:17.900 And we'll get to that here in in just a second.

00:07:20.500 But I wanted to start with something different today.

00:07:23.200 I wanted to start with something.

00:07:26.740 I don't know, a little more a little more personal.

00:07:29.220 I heard something from StoryCorps.

00:07:34.860 And I don't know if you listen to that podcast at all, but probably not because it's from NPR.

00:07:40.580 And so it's a serious.

00:07:41.820 It says NPR and you're like, no, no.

00:07:45.020 But I listen to StoryCorps because I think I think these guys are I think they're really good at what they do.

00:07:51.660 And and what they do is they they go and they record people having conversations, honest conversations.

00:07:59.400 They put up these booths and and they and people come in and they say, I just want to record my thoughts about whatever's going on.

00:08:09.620 And they have a gigantic library now of all of these voices and they will someday in history be really important.

00:08:19.580 And one of the things that they did in, I think, 2006, and they've done several of them, was the story between Danny and Annie.

00:08:30.640 It's this old couple.

00:08:32.320 And they went in to record their story one day and everybody fell in love with him.

00:08:37.940 And so Danny kept calling and he wanted to do more StoryCorps.

00:08:41.760 And so he would he would come in from time to time.

00:08:45.380 And then there was one last episode of Danny and Annie.

00:08:53.560 And it was about their love for one another.

00:08:58.000 On on over the weekend, you know, I've just got I've got all these weird things that are just I don't know, but I could barely use my hands over the weekend.

00:09:13.460 And I've had to pack my hands in ice for the last few days and sleep with ice bags around my hands.

00:09:21.240 And it's been really weird.

00:09:22.780 And and and, you know, I think my wife is looking at me now going, I think I made the right choice.

00:09:30.240 I think I when when there was the whole selection of men to marry, I think I made the right choice.

00:09:37.960 And I couldn't do it without my wife.

00:09:41.380 I would be totally lost without Tanya.

00:09:44.580 Yeah.

00:09:44.680 Yeah.

00:09:51.240 So yesterday I'm I'm coming in and I'm listening to this story of StoryCorps and.

00:09:59.680 And Danny and Annie.

00:10:04.360 And at the same time, I'm listening to this, I'm I look up at the TV and there's a picture that had gone viral of these two people.

00:10:14.940 And they were in their 80s and they were on a subway in New York.

00:10:19.500 And the old man who looked like an old man and the old woman who looked like an old woman. 0.52

00:10:28.300 They're sitting next to each other on the subway and they're practically in the same seat.

00:10:32.820 And they're holding hands and he has his head down and his eyes closed.

00:10:36.620 And she is sitting right next to him and she has pressed her forehead next to the side of his forehead.

00:10:44.520 And I thought.

00:10:50.280 I want to live long enough.

00:10:52.940 To have that experience with Tanya.

00:10:55.020 I want to be old and gray and I want her to be old and gray and I want to be the couple that is still in love with each other.

00:11:10.480 Like kids in love.

00:11:12.580 With that in mind, let me share a bit of the story of Danny and Annie from StoryCorps.

00:11:25.180 Being married is like having a color television set.

00:11:27.980 You never want to go back to black and white.

00:11:31.320 Oh, what a voice.

00:11:32.840 Danny and Annie came back to StoryCorps many times.

00:11:35.960 Then in 2006, he was diagnosed with cancer.

00:11:39.300 He wanted to record one last interview, so StoryCorps went to their home in Brooklyn.

00:11:44.600 The illness is not hard on me.

00:11:47.840 It's just, you know, the finality of it.

00:11:50.520 And him, he goes along like a trooper.

00:11:52.520 She said it was her call.

00:11:54.220 She wants to walk out behind the casket alone.

00:11:58.320 I guess that's the way to do it.

00:12:00.120 Because when we were married, you know how your brother takes you down, your father takes you down?

00:12:05.500 She said, well, I don't know which of my brothers to walk in with.

00:12:08.360 I don't want to offend anybody.

00:12:09.940 I said, I got a solution.

00:12:12.260 I said, you walk in with me, you walk out with me.

00:12:15.360 And the other day, I said, who's going to walk down the aisle with you behind the casket?

00:12:20.520 You know, the supporter.

00:12:22.560 And she said, no, buddy.

00:12:24.580 I walked in with you alone.

00:12:26.660 I'm walking out with you alone.

00:12:27.880 I always said, the only thing I have to give you is a poor gift, and it's myself.

00:12:34.980 And I always gave it.

00:12:37.400 And if there's a way to come back and give it, I'll do that too.

00:12:41.600 Do you have the Valentine's Day letter there?

00:12:43.940 Yeah.

00:12:44.120 My dearest wife, this is a very special day.

00:12:48.640 It is a day on which we share our love, which still grows after all these years.

00:12:53.680 Now that love is being used by us to sustain us through these hard times.

00:12:58.160 All my love, all my days, and more.

00:13:01.100 Happy Valentine's Day.

00:13:02.540 I could write on and on about her.

00:13:07.640 She lights up the room in the morning when she tells me to put both hands on her shoulders so she can support me.

00:13:14.640 She lights up my life when she says to me at night, wouldn't you like a little ice cream?

00:13:19.760 Or would you please drink more water?

00:13:22.240 I mean, those aren't very romantic things to say, but they stir my heart.

00:13:28.320 In my mind, in my heart.

00:13:32.540 There has never been, there is not now, and never will be at night already.

00:13:42.180 There is nothing like marriage.

00:13:50.840 When you find the right person, don't let them go.

00:14:02.540 My daughter, when she was in college, she fell in love with her husband now, Tim.

00:14:12.840 And, um, we were driving into the city, and she was sitting in the back seat, and I was driving, and I said, um, do you love him?

00:14:27.400 She said, Dad, I love him so much.

00:14:32.160 He's the one.

00:14:32.960 And I said, then why aren't you, why haven't you married him?

00:14:40.920 She said, because, Dad, you know, I mean, you know what society thinks, and you know, I'm young, and I'm in college, and you know, you're not supposed to do that.

00:14:52.080 And I didn't say anything for a while, and I said, I can't believe my daughter cares about what the rest of the world thinks.

00:15:06.700 If you found the right one, there is nothing better than marriage.

00:15:22.700 My father told me once, he said, son, make a list.

00:15:32.200 Make a list of everything that you're looking for in a spouse.

00:15:40.140 Write it down.

00:15:41.740 Put it in front of you.

00:15:46.860 The mind is like a beacon, and you will attract those things that you are looking for, whether you know you're looking for them or not.

00:15:55.580 So be very careful of your thoughts.

00:16:02.200 I was about to ask Tanya to marry me, and she said no the first time.

00:16:16.260 But I found that list.

00:16:17.600 It was about three years old, and I found that list.

00:16:20.920 And if I had any doubts, which I didn't, she was everything that I had written down.

00:16:35.860 If you are, if you have forgotten what it was like when you first fell in love with the person that is by your side,

00:16:57.920 and you are rolling over in bed at night, and you kind of kiss each other off to the side,

00:17:06.040 and you turn off your light.

00:17:14.960 Spend some time today just trying to remember what it was that first captivated you.

00:17:22.660 Because there is nothing like last night when my wife came to bed.

00:17:39.080 Our backs were to each other.

00:17:42.760 And she just reached over and grabbed my hand. 1.00

00:17:45.860 And we fell back to sleep holding hands.

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00:19:26.220 I've got this thing that I've wanted to talk to you about on Elon Musk for, I don't know, almost a whole week now.

00:19:33.040 We've got to get to that today.

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00:19:56.120 Coming up.

00:19:59.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:02.480 All right.

00:20:02.800 So a press release came out yesterday from CNN.

00:20:06.180 CNN White House correspondent Caitlin Collins was denied access to cover an open press event at the White House.

00:20:13.980 After posing questions to President Trump earlier in the day as the network pool reporter,

00:20:19.320 Collins was told by White House press deputy chief of staff for communications, Bill Shine,

00:20:25.420 and the press secretary, Sarah Sanders, that her questions were inappropriate.

00:20:30.400 They were not.

00:20:31.180 Just because the White House wasn't comfortable with a question regarding the news of the day

00:20:34.760 doesn't mean the question isn't relevant and shouldn't be asked.

00:20:38.360 That decision to bar the member of press is retaliatory in nature and not indicative of an open and free press.

00:20:46.340 We demand better.

00:20:47.440 OK, so what was this all about?

00:20:51.160 Well, here is the raw tape.

00:20:54.040 The president is meeting with the head of the EU and they're in the Oval Office and the you know,

00:21:01.420 the press is allowed to come in and and view it and take some notes.

00:21:07.260 And if the president wants to allow people to take questions, he can allow them to take questions.

00:21:12.400 If he doesn't want to take questions, he doesn't.

00:21:13.660 It's his office.

00:21:14.680 He does it a lot, by the way.

00:21:15.780 He takes questions a lot in scenarios, more than I think any other president.

00:21:20.280 Yeah.

00:21:20.420 He doesn't do a lot of formal press conferences, but like he'll just let people come in

00:21:23.880 and they just start peppering him with questions quite often.

00:21:26.000 Now, if you watch the tape, this is where you have to remember, this is the president's office

00:21:31.260 and you know what it's like if you've if you've ever done anything.

00:21:37.820 I don't know how to relate this.

00:21:40.800 If you've ever done anything.

00:21:45.960 You're a manager and you have to let somebody go.

00:21:51.540 You bring them into your office, but you want to have a way so everybody gets up at the end

00:22:01.220 and walks out.

00:22:02.700 You don't want to be trapped someplace.

00:22:04.920 You know what I mean?

00:22:05.420 You have to have the plan of how do we get out?

00:22:08.460 The president is trapped in his office now.

00:22:11.400 That's why he will walk to the Rose Garden to do this so he can walk away.

00:22:17.040 That's important because if you're staying in that room,

00:22:20.760 it requires somebody to say, OK, everybody, let's go.

00:22:24.960 Let's go.

00:22:25.940 And if they don't want to go, then you have ugliness.

00:22:28.820 The president is doing what?

00:22:30.740 Sitting there the whole time.

00:22:32.340 So here is the the actual raw tape of this correspondent, Caitlin Collins from CNN.

00:22:40.700 Ask ask yourself if you think she's out of line by asking these questions as the press conference

00:22:47.260 is is breaking up and and they are being escorted out.

00:22:50.980 Did Michael Cohen betray you, Mr. President?

00:22:53.940 Thank you very much.

00:22:54.580 Thank you, everybody.

00:22:55.400 Mr. President, did Michael Cohen betray you?

00:22:59.880 Thank you very much.

00:23:00.700 I'm sorry about that, everybody.

00:23:01.960 Thank you, everybody.

00:23:03.740 Thank you, everybody.

00:23:04.540 Mr. President, are you worried about what Michael Cohen is going to say to prosecutors?

00:23:08.480 Thank you, Kayla.

00:23:09.320 Let's keep going.

00:23:10.220 Are you worried about what is on the other tapes, Mr. President?

00:23:12.880 Thank you all.

00:23:13.620 Keep going.

00:23:14.280 OK.

00:23:14.820 So stop.

00:23:15.740 Thank you very much.

00:23:16.460 So that's it.

00:23:17.760 That's it.

00:23:18.160 She's asking in a normal voice.

00:23:20.080 There are people in the room screaming at the president.

00:23:23.000 Yeah.

00:23:23.280 She's one of many people.

00:23:24.920 It's almost like, did they get the wrong person?

00:23:26.560 Right.

00:23:26.880 I know.

00:23:27.560 So she's and she's asking, did Michael Cohen betray you by releasing these tapes?

00:23:33.160 Are you concerned about anything else that might be on those tapes?

00:23:36.460 OK, those are legitimate questions.

00:23:38.340 President may not want to answer them, but those are legitimate questions.

00:23:42.280 And she's not screaming or being inappropriate.

00:23:44.320 And she's not the only one.

00:23:45.440 Now, nobody is leaving the room.

00:23:47.960 That's a real problem.

00:23:48.940 People like, OK, come on, move on, move on.

00:23:51.340 So on the first on the first point with the, you know, did she do anything inappropriate?

00:23:58.180 No, all of them did leave.

00:24:00.400 It's over.

00:24:01.300 Leave. 0.99

00:24:01.840 But they always ask questions.

00:24:03.300 Correct.

00:24:03.580 And many times he responds.

00:24:05.000 Correct.

00:24:05.380 Correct.

00:24:05.940 Correct.

00:24:06.380 But none of them were even moving.

00:24:08.000 Yeah, there didn't seem to be.

00:24:08.840 I mean, we're watching the video here.

00:24:10.320 Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a lot of movement from the press corps, though.

00:24:12.680 You can't actually see the door.

00:24:14.220 So I don't know, maybe the first people were starting to strike, you know, yeah, so it seems

00:24:18.620 to be on the other side of the room.

00:24:19.560 Yeah, it is.

00:24:20.040 So it's like a giant horseshoe.

00:24:22.040 Yeah.

00:24:22.220 So they have to go all the way around the room.

00:24:23.880 So it might have taken some time.

00:24:25.960 But it wasn't it wasn't bad that they did.

00:24:28.160 I mean, that's what happens.

00:24:29.680 Normal happens.

00:24:30.640 It's normal.

00:24:31.680 Get out.

00:24:32.600 Let's go.

00:24:33.420 Come on.

00:24:34.040 Get out.

00:24:34.540 It's normal.

00:24:35.020 Now, were her questions inappropriate?

00:24:40.460 No, that's news of the day.

00:24:44.380 She's asking normal questions that we would have asked if it was Barack Obama.

00:24:50.760 That's normal.

00:24:53.180 So I'm actually interested in the answers to those, too, because it will indicate kind of

00:24:58.320 where the story goes.

00:24:59.480 Correct.

00:24:59.720 Like, is Trump going to try to say, no, no, he's a good guy and who knows what kind of

00:25:04.200 pressure he's feeling, which would indicate a much more a bigger possibility of the, you

00:25:10.000 know, the rift being healed?

00:25:12.060 Or is it like, look, I, you know, he's he's, you know, I don't know what kind of crazy attorney,

00:25:16.600 you know, tapes his client.

00:25:18.120 Is he still in that mode?

00:25:19.520 Right.

00:25:19.760 Because if he's still in that mode, the rift is still quite wide.

00:25:23.380 Correct.

00:25:23.920 And quite honestly, I think the other person that wants that answer more than the American

00:25:27.520 people is Cohen.

00:25:28.720 He wants to know from the president, what, where, what am I, what, what Donald Trump

00:25:33.900 am I dealing with here?

00:25:35.400 My friend and my protector or my enemy?

00:25:37.980 Which one?

00:25:39.540 Okay.

00:25:40.020 So not appropriate.

00:25:41.300 Okay.

00:25:41.820 Not inappropriate.

00:25:42.520 Not inappropriate.

00:25:43.620 So next.

00:25:45.380 Well, she's with CNN.

00:25:46.880 She's just a liberal hack. 1.00

00:25:48.720 Well, no, she's not.

00:25:50.260 Yeah.

00:25:50.440 Caitlin Collins came to CNN from the Daily Caller.

00:25:54.540 So, I mean, that doesn't mean that she's an ideological conservative, but certainly

00:25:58.560 she's not, you're not, you're not a nut job liberal. 0.70

00:26:01.060 If you're taking a job at the Daily Caller.

00:26:02.980 No, it's, it's a, it's a very, people are trying to make this out because she currently 1.00

00:26:07.380 works at CNN that she's this like ideological liberal just out for the president. 1.00

00:26:12.380 But I mean, you know, she's, she's a well-respected reporter, but came from a conservative outlet.

00:26:17.780 Okay.

00:26:19.600 So now have you ever noticed, have you ever noticed that, uh, when the press has any

00:26:29.040 violation at all of the first amendment freedom of press that they freak out and it's, it's

00:26:37.520 like this, they're all against terrorism until one of theirs is kidnapped by a terrorist.

00:26:41.540 And then it's the biggest story of all time, right?

00:26:46.880 Yeah.

00:26:47.080 And when it affects your world, you're going to be more fired up about it.

00:26:50.040 Correct.

00:26:50.800 Say that again, Stu.

00:26:52.040 When it affects your world, you're going to be a lot more fired up about it.

00:26:54.840 So that's normal.

00:26:57.080 Pretty normal.

00:26:57.680 Yeah.

00:26:58.180 Can you think of another amendment that maybe the press doesn't understand when it is violated

00:27:05.280 in the least?

00:27:07.240 Hmm.

00:27:07.620 Let me think, uh, the second amendment, second amendment, second amendment.

00:27:12.280 And what happens when the second amendment is violated?

00:27:16.820 Leave it like bump stocks.

00:27:18.180 Do you care really about bump stocks?

00:27:19.520 I'm never going to own a bump stock.

00:27:21.060 No, me neither.

00:27:21.700 So don't really care.

00:27:23.040 However, however, however, don't know.

00:27:25.900 Wait a minute.

00:27:26.220 Hang on just a second.

00:27:27.000 I don't think you can take bump stocks.

00:27:28.600 Shall not be infringed.

00:27:31.900 Okay.

00:27:32.440 So I don't really care about them and I'm never going to own them.

00:27:35.280 I don't know who would own them.

00:27:36.820 And they really don't do anything that you can't do yourself with a belt loop.

00:27:40.740 I mean, so watch go on YouTube.

00:27:42.460 You can find dozens of people doing the exact same thing a bump stock does with their belt.

00:27:46.640 Yeah.

00:27:46.880 I mean, so it's just ridiculous.

00:27:48.300 So why does the right get all freaked out when you come after something like bump stock?

00:27:54.800 Because when you, they, when you give them an inch, they look for a mile.

00:27:59.540 Hmm.

00:27:59.940 They look to take a mile.

00:28:01.340 And it's the same way the press is feeling today.

00:28:03.560 When there's an inch taken, yes, one reporter not allowed at one press.

00:28:07.800 What's the big deal?

00:28:08.620 It's not a big deal.

00:28:09.980 But they're looking at the long term there and they're worried their rights are going

00:28:14.240 to be taken away.

00:28:15.560 Huh.

00:28:16.160 Huh.

00:28:16.760 They're the, the right associated to a constitutionally guaranteed amendment that says you, there

00:28:26.300 shall not be any infringement on your, in this case, free speech in our case, uh, second

00:28:31.220 amendment.

00:28:31.660 And that's why what's so frustrating when the press caught, uh, covers the second amendment,

00:28:36.760 right?

00:28:37.180 They say, well, what do you need?

00:28:38.180 But this is common sense legislation.

00:28:40.300 What do you need bump stocks where you don't need, you don't need bump stocks.

00:28:43.020 You don't need a high capacity magazines.

00:28:45.420 What do you need those for?

00:28:47.260 Well, you know, we could say the same thing.

00:28:48.680 There's other, there's dozens of other reporters.

00:28:50.560 What do you need your reporter there for?

00:28:52.580 What do you need your reporter there?

00:28:53.800 There, there's tons of cameras there.

00:28:55.500 What do you need your camera there for?

00:28:57.040 And it's no big deal.

00:28:58.220 It's just one reporter and the president is upset and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:29:03.560 We make all kinds of excuses, but we don't, we don't.

00:29:08.960 And anybody who is mad at Brett Baer today from Fox, when he came out and said, we stand

00:29:14.740 firmly with CNN, don't be mad at Brett Baer.

00:29:18.940 If you want to be mad at anybody, be mad at the constitution and be mad at James Madison

00:29:25.200 and Thomas Jefferson and all the great thinkers that gave us these rights.

00:29:30.960 We are to protect these rights.

00:29:34.700 And when anybody starts to violate those rights in the least amount, we must stand up for those

00:29:42.660 that even those, maybe more importantly, those we do not agree with.

00:29:47.720 Last night I tweeted, I stand fully behind a free and unfettered press.

00:29:55.340 I fully support the first amendment right of the press.

00:30:01.280 As much as it kills me to say this, I stand, even though I disagree with the way CNN has handled

00:30:09.720 the president and treats the president, they have this right and no government official should be able

00:30:17.760 to ban somebody from an open press event.

00:30:21.400 No one, no one, period.

00:30:23.980 However, CNN, we will follow the constitution and you have a problem right now with the first amendment

00:30:37.360 violation because you say the president is making you into the enemy of the country.

00:30:45.420 So when I stand firmly for the first amendment and your right to be an idiot, in my opinion,

00:30:55.400 not in this particular case, but in others, I don't, you don't, you don't even say thank you.

00:31:02.320 You don't even recognize it.

00:31:03.800 Okay.

00:31:04.340 You don't even recognize half of the country will stand up.

00:31:07.500 They despise you and they will stand up and say, I stand with them today, but you don't even notice

00:31:14.440 that.

00:31:15.460 And then every time we stand up for a right that is just as airtight and guaranteed as yours,

00:31:23.980 you look at us and say, we're dangerous.

00:31:29.240 We're crazy.

00:31:30.040 We're the enemy of the people.

00:31:31.260 I don't understand.

00:31:33.080 You say that you are so offended because the president is calling a free press in your mind,

00:31:41.380 the free press, an enemy, an enemy of the people, an enemy of the West.

00:31:48.800 You have a problem with that.

00:31:50.560 And yet when we stand up for our second amendment, right?

00:31:54.060 You say that about us, that we are the enemy of freedom.

00:32:01.960 We are the enemy of security.

00:32:04.380 We are the enemy of common sense and common decency.

00:32:09.780 Now, I don't try to shut you down from saying that you have a right to say that.

00:32:15.080 But I would like to say, CNN, I stand firmly by your right.

00:32:26.180 I will go as far as George Hay did when he was writing the defense of freedom of press after

00:32:38.220 the Sedition Act.

00:32:39.140 Even if your intent is to lie, the government has no place, no place to say, well, that one's

00:32:49.360 a lie and that one's not.

00:32:50.620 No place, no place because sometimes it is a matter of opinion and the government should

00:32:57.960 not be regulating that at all.

00:33:01.940 So I'll stand for your full right, even though you don't stand for mine.

00:33:05.820 But I would like to ask CNN, would you take a minute and think about that right and what

00:33:17.540 responsibilities you hold to at least listen and recognize that we, too, are not your enemy.

00:33:27.380 We, too, are not the enemy of freedom and the people.

00:33:31.820 The American people, you said yesterday, CNN, that you demand better.

00:33:40.000 Well, the American people have demanded better from you for a very long time.

00:33:47.600 I stand with your right.

00:33:50.760 Even though I don't want to, as an American, I have to.

00:33:54.820 So I stand with you shoulder to shoulder to defend you today.

00:34:01.500 I would just like to ask once in a while, surprise us, surprise us, use that right and try

00:34:12.520 to serve all Americans.

00:34:24.820 All right.

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00:35:51.740 Okay, let's go to James.

00:35:53.160 Hello, James, you're on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:56.500 James, are you there?

00:35:58.240 Yes, sir.

00:35:58.720 How are you?

00:35:59.260 Good.

00:35:59.560 Go ahead.

00:36:00.000 You want to make a comment on CNN and Caitlin Collins?

00:36:03.900 Yeah.

00:36:04.500 You know, I mean, I just think there's a time for everything.

00:36:07.340 I understand First Amendment.

00:36:09.860 I agree with you 100% on that.

00:36:13.240 She's talking, asking questions at a normal voice.

00:36:16.660 She's not yelling like the other people in the room.

00:36:18.680 But if you notice, she's the only one asking about something other than the tariffs and this

00:36:23.600 meeting that they just had.

00:36:25.820 I mean, James, I understand that.

00:36:28.700 But since when does that happen?

00:36:31.280 That is the way everyone deals with the president.

00:36:36.180 No matter who the president is, you have a chance to ask a question.

00:36:39.660 You ask it.

00:36:40.840 I mean, they're not shouting helicopter questions as he's walking to the helicopter.

00:36:45.600 Glenn Beck.

00:36:46.600 Mercury.

00:36:49.800 Glenn Beck.

00:36:51.780 When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Axis 0.99

00:36:58.140 powers learned a pretty big lesson.

00:37:01.100 It should have been obvious, but it wasn't.

00:37:02.780 If you're going to go to war, it might not be a good idea to start another one with the 1.00

00:37:08.460 entire world.

00:37:10.920 Three against the rest of the planet should have been easy numbers for the Axis statisticians 1.00

00:37:17.620 to break down.

00:37:18.720 Not good.

00:37:20.400 Now, think about those odds and how ludicrous it sounds to win a fight like that.

00:37:25.300 Now, think about how many countries we are currently threatening with a trade war.

00:37:30.800 China, all the countries within the EU, Mexico, Canada.

00:37:34.560 The list goes on and on and on.

00:37:36.600 You're not going to win a war that you are fighting on all fronts.

00:37:41.720 The U.S. economy is not invincible.

00:37:45.240 Something has to give.

00:37:46.520 And we might beginning and we might be beginning to see the the end of this trade war.

00:37:52.880 Yesterday, President Trump and the joint head of the EU made a statement yesterday from

00:37:59.020 the White House announcing a pause in the escalating trade war with the Europeans.

00:38:04.240 Now, this has been going on ever since the Trump administration hit the EU with these steel

00:38:08.620 and aluminum tariffs.

00:38:10.300 Europe then retaliated by imposing over three billion dollars in tariffs on U.S.

00:38:16.020 goods.

00:38:17.000 The president then, in turn, threatened an imminent response targeting European cars.

00:38:24.200 OK, it's got to stop.

00:38:26.980 And yesterday, it kind of did.

00:38:29.680 We're not entirely sure how long this ceasefire is going to take place, and we're definitely

00:38:33.520 not out of the woods yet.

00:38:34.760 But we do know that President Trump agreed not to follow through with the European car tariffs

00:38:40.920 and to, quote, reassess the steel and aluminum tariffs while negotiations are taking place.

00:38:47.020 In return, Europe will boost purchases of U.S. soybeans and import more of our natural gas.

00:38:54.480 So if I have this straight, and I think I do, all we have to do is not do something we hadn't

00:39:04.420 done yet, the car tariff, and just reassess something we've already done.

00:39:10.060 And in return, Europe will start buying more of our stuff.

00:39:16.200 I don't know about you, but I'm pretty good with that.

00:39:18.040 It sounds like a win.

00:39:19.080 Let's go.

00:39:20.980 Tariff again still looms.

00:39:23.420 This is a temporary agreement that still has a long way to go.

00:39:27.480 And the president tweeted that the eventual goal is the elimination of all tariffs.

00:39:32.400 That would be great.

00:39:33.660 If that's the case, that would be great.

00:39:37.100 But there is a long way to go.

00:39:40.760 The president is not wrong about EU having greater tariffs on U.S. goods.

00:39:45.680 That's a fact.

00:39:46.860 How many U.S. built cars do you see in Paris?

00:39:49.420 Probably not very many.

00:39:50.560 The EU tax a 10% tariff on all of our cars.

00:39:56.860 But that's low, considering how European tariffs are slapped on the U.S. agriculture imports.

00:40:07.940 17% on apples, 20% on grapes.

00:40:11.980 So yeah, there is a long way to go.

00:40:14.440 But let's just hope we're moving forward.

00:40:17.180 Because if it breaks down, as it does with China and Mexico and Canada, and the 11th billion other countries we are threatening trade war with, we will lose.

00:40:28.640 It's Thursday, July 26th.

00:40:38.040 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:40.320 Dan Abrams.

00:40:46.300 He is a professor.

00:40:48.100 He's a lawyer.

00:40:49.320 And he's an author of the latest book, Lincoln's Last Trial, the murder case that propelled him to the presidency.

00:40:56.440 He's a co-author with David Fisher, who is just a great man.

00:41:01.700 And welcome to the program, Dan.

00:41:03.120 How are you?

00:41:04.140 Good, Glenn.

00:41:04.920 Good to be with you.

00:41:05.480 So I'm reading this.

00:41:07.420 I'm fascinated by history, and in particular, Abraham Lincoln.

00:41:10.680 The Lincoln Museum right now is about a year away from losing some of the most remarkable things that were personally owned and used by Abraham Lincoln.

00:41:23.600 His hat and his bloodstained gloves from that night.

00:41:26.960 You know, Mary's fan from that she was fanning herself that has blood splatters all over. 1.00

00:41:33.940 They've never been in public before.

00:41:36.860 And they were just purchased at auction.

00:41:39.900 And now the Lincoln Museum has to meet a note, and they're about nine million dollars away from making that.

00:41:46.040 And they've only got a year.

00:41:46.780 So I'm really kind of fascinated by him right now for many reasons.

00:41:51.040 But this is a new discovery of the last case that Abraham Lincoln tried.

00:41:59.000 And it was a murder trial, right?

00:42:00.620 Right before he went into the office.

00:42:02.760 That's right.

00:42:03.460 So we're talking about September of 1859.

00:42:06.400 He gets the Republican nomination in June of 1860.

00:42:11.660 And this is the only case that Lincoln ever argued that was transcribed.

00:42:18.300 Literally, every word of the witness's questioning, of the lawyer's questions, et cetera, transcribed in a new thing called transcription.

00:42:30.380 Wow.

00:42:30.980 Because we never had that before?

00:42:32.880 Yeah.

00:42:33.320 No, most trials and most things weren't transcribed.

00:42:36.080 I mean, what made Lincoln think of this for this case was that the person who transcribed this, and he's the person that we look at this story through the eyes of the transcriber, Robert Hitt.

00:42:48.240 He was the guy who transcribed the Lincoln-Douglas debates for Lincoln to the point where there was one of the debates, I think it was the second one, where Hitt wasn't in his seat in the front.

00:42:59.760 And Lincoln would not start, and Lincoln would not start the debate until Robert Hitt was sitting there ready to transcribe for Lincoln the debates.

00:43:08.820 And so he recommended to the family of the defendant in this high-profile murder case that in the event your son, your child is convicted, you'll want a record of what was said in court.

00:43:22.640 And so they hired Robert Hitt, who also was able to distribute his transcriptions to the media at the time of what was happening.

00:43:32.900 This was a high-profile case, and not really because Lincoln was arguing it.

00:43:38.200 It was a high-profile case because it was a long-standing feud between two neighbors, both of whom were known as good young men with promising futures.

00:43:52.260 And they have this ongoing fight, and a fight ensues, and one stabs the other, then claiming self-defense.

00:43:59.880 And there's a celebrity witness in the case in the form of a preacher who was much better known than Lincoln was at the time, one of the most famous people in America at the time, Peter Cartwright.

00:44:11.600 And he was not a fan of Lincoln.

00:44:14.760 Correct.

00:44:15.920 He had had a long-standing, he was a long-standing political rival of Lincoln's.

00:44:22.160 He'd actually beaten Lincoln in an election in the 1830s.

00:44:26.200 And this is not, and someone who really had harsh words to say about Lincoln over time.

00:44:31.240 He called him an infidel.

00:44:33.120 Exactly.

00:44:33.920 Right.

00:44:34.360 So Peter Cartwright was no friend of Lincoln's, and he was the key to the case for the defense.

00:44:42.500 And the reason was because he had went, he had gone and counseled the victim before he died.

00:44:49.880 He had gone, he had sat on his, and people didn't know if he was going to survive or not.

00:44:54.700 But in the context of that, the victim allegedly said, I brought this upon myself, and I forgive Peachy, the defendant.

00:45:07.780 And those are incredibly powerful words when you're talking about a self-defense case.

00:45:12.740 And so he became a critical witness.

00:45:14.960 And there was one point where there was an argument over whether this should be permitted into evidence.

00:45:19.180 Is it hearsay?

00:45:20.180 Is there an exception to the hearsay rule here?

00:45:22.380 Et cetera.

00:45:22.860 And Lincoln initially lost the argument.

00:45:26.040 And we describe in the book how furious he became.

00:45:29.920 And we have quotes from people who were in court when this happened saying they'd never seen him ever like this.

00:45:36.280 As furious as they'd ever seen him.

00:45:38.240 And it's another side to Lincoln that we don't see and we don't hear about is not just Lincoln the advocate, but Lincoln becoming enraged at losing what he thought was a critical, and he believed he had the right to introduce this evidence.

00:45:57.200 Can you describe his Lincoln rage?

00:46:00.580 So the fury that they describe is, you know, it's over initially losing this legal ruling and saying to the effect that they felt like he was about to climb onto the bench of the court.

00:46:16.580 And, you know, really just to the point where, you know, all I can all we can do is use the the contemporaneous responses from the people who were there.

00:46:29.300 But both the court crier and his law partner both described later just the the depth of his fury and how they had never seen him anything like like that.

00:46:44.100 Now, he he had done like twenty five murder cases and thousands of other cases.

00:46:49.220 But this is this is the last one.

00:46:52.140 The murder case that he tried before, I think the guy was hung.

00:46:56.420 He lost. And the one before that, he had won. Right.

00:47:00.040 Well, so, you know, his most famous case was called the Almanac trial. Right.

00:47:04.180 I mean, this was the case where this is in 1857.

00:47:07.500 So this was two years before this case where Lincoln, a guy had been convicted for killing another guy with effectively a rock.

00:47:18.640 And there were two people involved.

00:47:20.140 And the key eyewitness said he saw it clear as day because it was a full moon.

00:47:25.200 And he said he said he was about 150 feet away and he described everything that happened with these two guys.

00:47:29.880 But they were tried separately. The one guy got convicted and the second guy was on trial.

00:47:33.160 And he hired Lincoln and everyone presumed he would be convicted as well.

00:47:38.160 And when this guy gets up on the stand, he starts telling his whole story about the moon.

00:47:42.040 And he remembers seeing exactly what he saw, the two of these guys hitting the sky.

00:47:46.220 And Lincoln pulls out an almanac from that day, turns to that page, says, read to me what the moon was that day.

00:47:55.000 Only a quarter moon, not a full moon.

00:47:58.000 Guy couldn't have possibly seen what he says he saw with no lights out there.

00:48:01.620 And he was acquitted.

00:48:03.900 And it really, that case really put Lincoln on the map.

00:48:08.540 He was already well known, but this one elevated him.

00:48:12.120 So was he concerned at all about what this might mean to a presidential bid if he lost?

00:48:18.380 Well, you would think he should have been, right?

00:48:20.080 I mean, obviously, any candidate today wouldn't take a high-profile controversial murder case.

00:48:25.480 But I think, you know, back then, look, A, he wasn't a serious candidate.

00:48:33.620 When I say serious candidate, he wasn't a favorite in September of 1859.

00:48:38.260 Did he have his eye on it?

00:48:39.760 Sure.

00:48:40.460 But he had just lost the Senate election in Illinois.

00:48:43.760 He was still well-regarded by the party.

00:48:45.900 This was only, as you know, the second time the Republicans were having a convention in 1860.

00:48:53.880 So, you know, I don't think he thought seriously that he had to think about the presidency.

00:48:59.620 And his job was being an attorney.

00:49:01.840 Now, keep in mind, he also had a relationship with the family of the defendant.

00:49:06.220 He had known them for a long time.

00:49:08.040 He was also asked to do it by his former law partner.

00:49:12.280 He always had enormous respect for Stephen Logan.

00:49:15.500 And so, and I think he believed in the case.

00:49:17.920 And I think that mattered to Lincoln.

00:49:19.460 The defendant, but he also had a relationship with the, what was it?

00:49:23.080 The victim.

00:49:23.480 The victim, the mother of the victim, right? 0.99

00:49:25.840 No, not just the victim himself.

00:49:27.360 Greek Crafton.

00:49:28.040 Greek Crafton had interned in his office.

00:49:31.520 So the victim had actually interned in Lincoln's office.

00:49:35.680 Wow.

00:49:36.220 So there was a lot of personal connection.

00:49:37.900 And trials back then were just, you know, were different.

00:49:41.000 Meaning, we're in Springfield, Illinois.

00:49:43.020 The only people who can serve on a jury are white men of a certain age who own land. 0.98

00:49:48.060 And so you've got a limited pool of jurors.

00:49:50.160 You've got a limited, everyone kind of knows everybody.

00:49:53.400 And I think that's part of the reason that the community was so invested in this case.

00:50:00.300 But I also think, much like today, when, you know, there's a good story, right?

00:50:06.100 That leads to a trial becoming more well-watched.

00:50:09.120 And I think that that's why this became a national case.

00:50:12.260 So how come these transcripts were not known for so long?

00:50:17.620 They were in a chewed-up box with a yellow bow around it, found in the garage of the great-grandson of the defendant after he died.

00:50:31.280 And it was just discovered there in 1989.

00:50:34.420 And my co-author, who brought me this project, he came to me and he said, you know, there's a transcript out there.

00:50:40.480 It just came, just discovered in 1989.

00:50:42.060 The only transcript that exists of a Lincoln trial.

00:50:44.920 And it's a really compelling murder case.

00:50:48.260 And no one's really written about it.

00:50:49.560 I said, come on.

00:50:50.660 He said, Lincoln.

00:50:51.820 What do you mean?

00:50:52.420 What do you mean no one's really written about the last major trial that Lincoln did?

00:50:56.600 It's the only transcript that exists.

00:50:58.300 I said, come on, David.

00:50:58.980 But we looked at it, you know, I investigated.

00:51:01.500 We looked, investigated this together.

00:51:03.260 He was absolutely right.

00:51:04.820 There was one New York Times article from 1989 of the discovery.

00:51:08.920 And then the American Bar Association did a sort of legal review of it a few years later.

00:51:14.160 And essentially became a footnote to history.

00:51:16.820 And yet our position is that this case was very important to him.

00:51:20.780 Because, you know, his stock wasn't as high.

00:51:25.900 Meaning Lincoln Douglas, he was very high, 1858.

00:51:28.960 We're now 1859.

00:51:31.260 He's not really considered a serious candidate for president.

00:51:35.340 He's trying to figure out, you know, his next step.

00:51:38.580 And this was a high-profile case being widely covered.

00:51:43.060 And so Lincoln had everything to lose by taking it.

00:51:46.680 And I think in the end helped him quite a bit.

00:51:49.460 A number of the people who worked on this case ended up working on his 1860 campaign, for example.

00:51:56.220 So what's the one thing, Dan?

00:52:00.340 And we've got about 60 seconds.

00:52:02.580 What's the one thing about Lincoln that you learned?

00:52:05.720 I know you've been fascinated by him and, you know, have consumed his life throughout yours.

00:52:13.000 What did you learn new?

00:52:15.560 I think for me it was, this is a book about Lincoln, the lawyer.

00:52:18.740 This is a book about this case.

00:52:21.100 We don't try and be the biographers of Lincoln.

00:52:23.720 So what I learned was that Lincoln really was a smart attorney.

00:52:28.800 And what I mean by smart is he knew how to relate to people.

00:52:31.400 He knew when to stop.

00:52:33.100 Not just how to ask questions, but he knew how not to bore the jury.

00:52:37.420 He knew how not to get bogged down in details and he would be able to close those things up later.

00:52:42.900 And I think that for me, learning all of this about Lincoln, the lawyer, and then seeing it, how he mastered it in this case, was probably the thing I learned most about him.

00:52:54.360 Dan, thank you very much.

00:52:55.480 The name of the book is Lincoln's Last Trial, the murder case that propelled him to the presidency.

00:53:01.160 It's written by Dan Abrams and his co-author is David Fisher, who has written like 20 New York Times number one bestsellers.

00:53:09.340 He is a fantastic writer and researcher.

00:53:11.360 And I'll tell you, there is nothing like reading a David Fisher book when it comes to digging up the facts on history.

00:53:21.760 Dan Abrams, David Fisher, Lincoln's Last Trial, available everywhere now.

00:53:27.840 All right.

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00:54:50.000 Dan Abrams, he's a great storyteller, isn't he?

00:54:54.180 And by the way, the story of Lincoln.

00:54:57.420 We're doing something with the Lincoln Museum down here at the Mercury Studios in February.

00:55:03.700 We're going to do Black History Month, and we'll be telling you more about that coming up.

00:55:09.360 But the Lincoln Museum is just is remarkable.

00:55:13.260 And his story has to be told.

00:55:15.440 And so many people are starting to lose touch with our past and our heritage and Abraham Lincoln.

00:55:23.600 You lose Abraham Lincoln.

00:55:25.300 It's like losing Washington.

00:55:26.520 We've already lost Washington.

00:55:27.900 You lose Lincoln.

00:55:29.160 You lose it all.

00:55:29.880 And and we're trying to help them raise money.

00:55:35.620 They have a nine million dollar bill that they have to pay.

00:55:38.800 Otherwise, this huge collection of really important stuff that has never been seen in public since his death.

00:55:47.020 His hat and his bloodstained gloves, all the stuff that he had with him, including a lot of the letters and everything else.

00:55:53.400 Those were all in private hands.

00:55:55.340 And if it goes for auction, it's going to go back to private hands.

00:56:00.240 It just will.

00:56:01.540 And it's important that the Lincoln Museum has these so you can see them.

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00:56:44.560 All right.

00:56:45.240 In defense of Elon Musk.

00:56:52.100 I cannot believe what we as a society are doing about or to Elon Musk.

00:56:59.220 He's not a perfect guy.

00:57:01.000 He's not a guy I always agree with.

00:57:02.960 He's not a guy who's always successful.

00:57:06.160 But the guy.

00:57:08.260 Is a genius.

00:57:10.900 Now, listen to what the New York Post just wrote about Elon Musk.

00:57:14.520 So far, Elon Musk has only been successful at tricking people into thinking he's a success.

00:57:21.680 One disastrous tweet has finally revealed Elon Musk for what he is, a fraud.

00:57:27.220 Enraged that a British cave diver called his his idea to rescue the Thai soccer team for what it was a PR stunt with absolutely no chance of working.

00:57:36.500 Musk took to Twitter and called him a pedo.

00:57:39.400 That was a stupid idea.

00:57:40.420 Just like that, Mark is Tesla's market value plummeted by two billion.

00:57:44.980 Musk has been in business since 2002.

00:57:46.780 His stated goal is nothing short of transforming humanity through his products, his electric car, space travel and an underground high speed Hyperloop system.

00:57:54.660 Yet he has yet to succeed at anything.

00:57:58.620 But somehow spins every failure into proof of imminent success.

00:58:03.260 His only accomplishment has been this decade long Jedi mind trick.

00:58:08.240 Tesla, best known for blowing deadlines and constantly falling short on production.

00:58:14.300 The company has burned through five hundred thousand dollars per hour.

00:58:18.820 It's an epic talent drain.

00:58:21.120 That's to say nothing of the human toll that Tesla has caused.

00:58:25.280 In March, a Tesla driver was killed while test driving an autopiloted Model X.

00:58:30.120 Then in May, they announced an investigation after two teenagers were killed in a Tesla Model S after a battery caught fire.

00:58:38.820 A similar accident claimed the life of a driver two months prior.

00:58:43.280 California's Division of Occupational.

00:58:45.140 OK, so did we get that?

00:58:46.300 That's four people that have died in a Tesla for with a car that drives itself for.

00:58:53.460 Anyway, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health opened its third investigation into workplace safety at Tesla in July after a employee complained.

00:59:03.900 Two investigations have been ongoing since April.

00:59:05.980 Yet Musk took to Twitter to boast that Tesla was now building cars in a tent.

00:59:10.060 Not sure we even need a building, he tweeted.

00:59:13.080 This is a genius, says the New York Post.

00:59:17.380 Tesla was founded in 2003.

00:59:19.140 World's largest automakers quickly surpassed Musk's vision for electric vehicles.

00:59:22.900 Oh, you mean like the Volt that was catching on fire all the time?

00:59:26.740 Tesla will never catch up.

00:59:28.460 Shareholders are finally catching on.

00:59:30.780 Musk isn't sorry and nothing is ever his fault.

00:59:34.060 So should the government, which reportedly gifts Musk's companies with an estimated $4.9 billion in subsidies.

00:59:44.540 SpaceX, which Musk touts as replacing NASA and colonizing Mars, has been a literal failure to launch.

00:59:51.960 Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:59:54.080 I did, I, I, I, I, I, let me just go through this here.

00:59:58.140 Elon Musk, failure to succeed at anything.

01:00:02.480 Really?

01:00:04.900 Stu, name one of the hottest cars on the road.

01:00:08.220 I would assume you're saying Tesla.

01:00:09.400 Okay, I think so.

01:00:10.380 Name the fastest car in the world.

01:00:13.740 I mean, certainly at the price point, Tesla.

01:00:15.680 Name the car every single person that you know wants or drools over when you see them.

01:00:22.000 Especially if they've ever driven one.

01:00:23.420 Yes.

01:00:24.000 The Tesla, they will drool over that car, yes.

01:00:25.680 Right.

01:00:25.940 Name the only car that right now basically drives itself.

01:00:30.100 Tesla's the most advanced probably in that, right?

01:00:32.620 So who made that possible?

01:00:34.740 Probably the author of that article that you were just reading, right?

01:00:36.760 No, strangely, Elon Musk, who didn't succeed at anything.

01:00:41.520 Hey, Maureen, let me, let me ask you this.

01:00:43.500 Ever heard of PayPal?

01:00:45.800 Ever used it?

01:00:47.740 How about eBay?

01:00:48.680 Ever bought anything on eBay?

01:00:50.040 Well, if you have, you can thank Elon, you know, the guy who has never succeeded at anything.

01:00:58.620 Name any other person, any other company, any other government, any other country that has ever put a payload into orbit and then landed three rockets so perfectly it looked like CGI footage.

01:01:13.200 Can you do that?

01:01:14.680 On water.

01:01:16.520 On water.

01:01:17.720 The land, it was moving.

01:01:20.720 That's a failure.

01:01:22.220 That's a fraud.

01:01:24.240 If it weren't for Elon Musk, this country would barely have a space program and there'd be a lot of hungry astronauts.

01:01:33.780 She continues.

01:01:35.380 So the government giving gifts to the companies, $4.9 billion in subsidies.

01:01:41.260 Yeah, that's the one thing I don't like about him.

01:01:43.640 He takes the subsidies, but he has also said, why would I not take them and let my competitors take them?

01:01:49.520 It would put me at a disadvantage.

01:01:51.320 So it sounds like he's being responsible to his shareholders.

01:01:54.760 Yeah.

01:01:55.260 I mean, there's a huge problem with this as a country.

01:01:58.980 But I mean, you know, look, if you're here, every business that has including oil and gas companies and all sorts of things.

01:02:05.840 And here's and here's the thing.

01:02:07.080 I'm against the subsidies, but the press, people like you beat the hell out of everybody in this country to make sure that we had those subsidies.

01:02:16.660 You would think that maybe this this writer would would be appreciative on making the making the very green lifestyle that idiotic progressives are incapable of creating themselves as being created by Elon Musk.

01:02:33.040 SpaceX Musk counts is replacing NASA colonizing Mars failure to launch.

01:02:41.480 Really?

01:02:41.900 Who has a sports car circling Mars choreographed perfectly with a David Bowie soundtrack?

01:02:47.920 Is it you, Marine?

01:02:49.120 Do you have that or no?

01:02:51.480 No, I'm sorry.

01:02:52.180 I'm sorry.

01:02:52.900 Who goes to space on a regular reusable basis?

01:02:57.040 Global basis, not NASA.

01:03:00.300 Well, he made a blooper reel.

01:03:02.300 Why would he do that?

01:03:03.220 Because he has a sense of humor.

01:03:05.820 Because he's one of the only people that actually has a sense of humor.

01:03:10.640 He doesn't hide the difficulty of the challenges that he's trying to tackle.

01:03:16.060 As for the hyper loop, most experts say it's impossible and unnecessary.

01:03:20.600 It gives me pause to think that otherwise intelligent people are buying into this kind of utopian vision.

01:03:28.880 Uh-huh.

01:03:29.780 Uh-huh.

01:03:30.880 They're up against the airlines and airlines don't need to install hundreds of miles of track.

01:03:36.540 Okay.

01:03:37.820 You know what we should probably do?

01:03:39.780 We should probably come back to this one in 20 years.

01:03:42.700 I don't know if this will work.

01:03:44.140 But I think I remember reading stuff from these experts that said, oh, air travel, that will never.

01:03:52.220 That's not.

01:03:53.100 Going to the moon, that's crazy.

01:03:55.460 Going to space, that's crazy.

01:03:58.120 People only need one television and even that.

01:04:01.520 I don't know if that's even possible.

01:04:04.120 Really?

01:04:05.180 Really?

01:04:07.700 That was really silly to criticize.

01:04:09.340 I tend to agree.

01:04:11.920 I don't think that's a real solution to our problem.

01:04:14.660 But like wouldn't their history has not been written on that one yet.

01:04:17.780 Yeah.

01:04:18.000 Yeah.

01:04:18.180 And can I ask you, Stu, which one burns up, you know, millions of gallons of jet fuel and

01:04:26.240 which one's clean?

01:04:27.740 Right.

01:04:28.060 And do you think the left would love these?

01:04:29.300 You would think.

01:04:30.300 And of course, obviously, that's one of his motivations.

01:04:32.780 Right.

01:04:33.740 Right.

01:04:34.800 So she harps on about how, you know, the the Thai rescue, blah, blah, blah.

01:04:40.340 He first of all, he apologized for his disgusting accusations against the hero diver.

01:04:45.080 He did.

01:04:46.000 He did.

01:04:48.600 The diver has said, you know, this is just a PR stunt.

01:04:51.960 Imagine, imagine, imagine just for a second that Elon Musk was actually trying to do the

01:04:57.860 right thing.

01:04:59.220 And he actually, I mean, we have the we have the email exchanges from the Thai government

01:05:04.100 that the sub was built to specifications from the dive team leader.

01:05:09.680 Well, wait a minute.

01:05:12.840 Who was the dive team leader there?

01:05:15.840 Who was it now?

01:05:18.220 I'm sorry that it didn't work.

01:05:21.120 I'm sorry.

01:05:21.800 I wasn't able to invent a submarine capable of fitting through a cupboard door in time to

01:05:26.540 be used.

01:05:27.500 But the Thai military is keeping it and said that will be used for rescues in the future.

01:05:33.380 He sent 10 engineers from SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring Company to help.

01:05:41.320 Maureen, what did you do?

01:05:43.200 What did you do?

01:05:46.760 All right.

01:05:47.460 The real reason why I want to bring this up is because I think we have we are looking at

01:05:52.340 a guy where we're living at a time right now where we have Edison and Tesla and and Armstrong

01:06:00.920 and some of the greatest inventors of all time.

01:06:05.080 And they're doing miraculous things and we don't seem to even notice.

01:06:11.580 These people are changing the world and they're going to fail over and over and over again because

01:06:16.520 there's no model for this because it's brand new.

01:06:23.380 Here's a real point.

01:06:26.140 Why suddenly is Elon Musk being attacked?

01:06:30.920 He's been the hero for so long, right?

01:06:34.760 He's been praised almost universally.

01:06:36.900 Yeah.

01:06:37.240 Years and years.

01:06:38.160 Yeah.

01:06:38.620 Yeah.

01:06:39.040 Especially by the media and the left.

01:06:40.540 Yes.

01:06:41.300 Yes.

01:06:42.240 And it's funny because they seem to have found out that in this current cycle, he gave seven

01:06:51.920 times more money to the right than he did to the left.

01:06:57.980 Now, normally he gives equally to the left and the right.

01:07:01.300 But in this current election cycle, he has given more money to the GOP than to the DNC by

01:07:09.200 seven.

01:07:11.180 I wonder.

01:07:12.620 I wonder if that's not what drives Maureen and others crazy.

01:07:21.600 I'm just wondering if, if maybe, perhaps, how dare you step out of line, Elon Musk?

01:07:29.780 How dare you support these monsters?

01:07:38.180 In today's world, I don't know which is true.

01:07:41.500 I mean, people could be so short sighted and so blind that they don't see that somebody like

01:07:48.040 Elon Musk is once in a generation.

01:07:50.760 And so they'll just, they'll just torch him because they are small minded.

01:08:00.160 And they don't know how real science and, and, and they don't know how, how real innovations

01:08:06.100 are actually done.

01:08:08.200 You're going to fail over and over.

01:08:10.360 You're going to fail much more than you succeed.

01:08:12.240 But it is the one who keeps picking himself up and brush and brushes the dirt off of his

01:08:19.660 face and the sweat off of his brow that says, okay, let's go again.

01:08:24.220 It's those people that made America great.

01:08:27.820 Those people.

01:08:29.220 And I know Elon Musk isn't originally from American America, but he sure has the American

01:08:37.480 spirit.

01:08:38.280 He, he is the embodiment of what made us great in many ways.

01:08:44.960 He's not without his flaws, but I'm not sure which it is.

01:08:54.580 It's either just my optic little people or it's worse.

01:09:02.280 It's people that will destroy anybody who has a different political opinion than theirs.

01:09:18.960 Which do you think it is?

01:09:20.080 I don't know.

01:09:20.840 I'm, I'm conflicted.

01:09:21.680 It's very tight.

01:09:22.680 I, you have to admire the ability though, to go through all these supposed failures.

01:09:26.620 And he's had some failures and many question marks, right?

01:09:29.900 We don't know what, how these things are going to turn out.

01:09:31.380 But like, how did he do all those things?

01:09:34.980 Like, how does he have the money to start all these businesses?

01:09:38.080 Shouldn't you point out that he obviously did succeed and make billions of dollars to

01:09:44.000 give him the opportunity to fail at whatever you think he's failing at?

01:09:46.820 He succeeded.

01:09:47.800 eBay, PayPal.

01:09:49.520 Those were things that were, were not easy slam dunks.

01:09:53.940 Those were crazy.

01:09:55.100 He graduated from that kind of crazy to, hey, let's go to Mars.

01:10:02.960 And he's, he's obviously had a lot of amazing technological success there.

01:10:07.040 And, but think about how difficult PayPal was at that time.

01:10:10.140 You remember that era?

01:10:10.880 Yes.

01:10:11.140 People didn't want to put, they didn't want to use their ATM card to, to deposit money.

01:10:15.060 Yes.

01:10:15.280 They didn't want to put, put their credit card into a computer because they were worried

01:10:19.300 it would get stolen.

01:10:20.700 And you tell me, you tell me of any man besides Ben Franklin, who has been in his position with

01:10:28.440 inventions, who has said, I'm going to make all of, I'm going to make all of my research,

01:10:34.180 all of my plans on batteries.

01:10:36.820 It's all open to the public.

01:10:38.740 I hope somebody will take it and build off of this because it's important for humanity.

01:10:45.340 Only Ben Franklin that I know of has done that.

01:10:48.300 Oh, and Elon Musk.

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01:12:50.160 Glenn, back.

01:12:51.440 When is the Falcon Heavy launching?

01:12:53.680 Do you know?

01:12:54.340 November.

01:12:55.540 If you've never taken your kids to a missile launch, you should take them.

01:13:01.440 A rocket launch?

01:13:02.100 Yeah, a rocket launch, not a missile launch.

01:13:03.620 Hey, North Korea, everybody.

01:13:06.320 You got to go to a rocket launch.

01:13:08.120 They are amazing.

01:13:09.640 I saw the second to the last space shuttle launch with my kids.

01:13:13.120 And it's a wonder of the world.

01:13:15.800 It's a wonder of the world.

01:13:17.060 And while you can't watch that, you can see now in November, you can see the Falcon Heavy

01:13:22.100 launch.

01:13:22.620 That's the SpaceX rocket launching.

01:13:26.440 Don't miss it.

01:13:27.460 If you're anywhere around, take your family.

01:13:29.440 Glenn, back.

01:13:30.760 Mercury.

01:13:33.620 Glenn, back.

01:13:36.520 It's Thursday, July 26th.

01:13:38.940 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:13:41.220 U.S. Army Major Eric King is finally home.

01:13:45.580 He thought he was going to meet a guy called Ronnie Liles, project manager of Operation Finally

01:13:50.700 Home for coffee.

01:13:52.320 This is a week ago Monday.

01:13:53.640 When he got out of his truck, he looked a little shocked and a little humbled.

01:14:00.340 He was greeted by a gathering of journalists and friends, a bunch of Texas flags.

01:14:06.120 It happened here in Dallas.

01:14:08.580 King is a veteran.

01:14:10.440 He served in our army for 13 years.

01:14:13.720 Two tours of duty in Iraq, one in Afghanistan.

01:14:16.420 He was wounded by an IED explosion in combat.

01:14:21.500 Now, the guy who was surprising him, Ronnie Liles, said this.

01:14:26.800 We'll never know what he's gone through.

01:14:29.560 We never know what he's going through and what he will continue to go through the rest

01:14:32.580 of his life.

01:14:33.140 You know, we're able to remove the burden of a mortgage for he and his family, but he's

01:14:39.560 still going to have these mental, emotional, physical injuries and scars that he's going

01:14:43.220 to deal with on a daily basis for the rest of his life.

01:14:46.840 So, we're doing this so that we can just be a small part of helping him to heal and to

01:14:53.760 start a new chapter in his life.

01:14:55.280 Since the founding in 2005, Operation Finally Home has donated over 150 houses to veterans

01:15:03.580 all across the country.

01:15:06.900 Major King said this.

01:15:10.560 I want to say thanks to the soldiers who served beside me, who are the true heroes, who are

01:15:16.800 no longer here with me today.

01:15:18.340 I think about them every day.

01:15:19.700 And I think, and I think, and I thank the American people who are served for this country.

01:15:27.660 There's no greater place I want to be.

01:15:30.080 There's no greater country I would rather serve than the great U.S. of A.

01:15:33.860 So, I thank all of you on today for being here.

01:15:37.460 I thank all of you for your love and support.

01:15:40.320 And I am glad to now be a citizen of urban Texas.

01:15:45.600 King and his family then took the shovels and broke ground.

01:15:49.380 Where their house is going to be built.

01:15:51.280 Behind them, two giant American flags.

01:15:54.100 And a rendering of the future four-bedroom house where Major Eric King and his family

01:15:59.620 will finally call home.

01:16:03.340 Major King, how are you?

01:16:04.960 I'm great this morning.

01:16:05.900 How are you?

01:16:06.540 I'm great.

01:16:07.800 I'm glad to have you here.

01:16:09.420 Thank you.

01:16:10.300 We also have Ronnie Lyles here.

01:16:12.460 Ronnie, how are you?

01:16:13.400 Doing good.

01:16:13.960 Good morning, sir.

01:16:14.720 Good to see you.

01:16:15.520 Thanks, sir.

01:16:15.940 So, first of all, you thought you were just going to go for coffee with Ronnie?

01:16:23.360 Yes.

01:16:23.700 You had no idea.

01:16:24.640 Well, it was another man by the name of David Royals.

01:16:29.000 I was told to meet with him at Joe's Coffee Shop, and we was going to meet with the builder

01:16:34.980 to interview with him to see if I can be a candidate to receive a mortgage-free home

01:16:40.380 from Operation Finally Home.

01:16:42.440 And once I got there, I was told we have to go and meet with the builder because there

01:16:46.260 seemed to be an issue over at the site.

01:16:49.100 So, what did your stomach tell you?

01:16:52.840 I said, okay, if I suppose I met with the builder here at the coffee shop and he's not

01:16:59.100 here, then maybe they've already interviewed the other candidate, and they want to go with

01:17:03.180 that candidate.

01:17:04.640 So, they pretty much just want to now cut my interview time down and meet with me and

01:17:09.820 my family for a couple of minutes and send us on our way.

01:17:12.120 And so, you pulled up, and you saw everybody there.

01:17:17.560 Yes.

01:17:17.900 Yes.

01:17:18.480 Yes.

01:17:19.500 Surprised, shocked, blown away.

01:17:21.740 And I'm like, okay, told me to interview.

01:17:25.760 Now, these people, what's going on?

01:17:28.200 And then when I was told, well, hey, you've already been selected at that point, I just

01:17:34.500 became very emotional and just shocked and surprised.

01:17:38.260 So, you, when you pulled up, you didn't know it was for you.

01:17:41.420 As we were pulling up, and I'm like, hey, what's going on?

01:17:44.580 Well, at first, when the police escort pulled out, I'm like, okay, we just got into something

01:17:50.220 that's going on up ahead of us.

01:17:52.000 There's a convoy.

01:17:52.960 We've just gotten involved in this.

01:17:55.000 I just thought you were like, you're accidentally in the middle of a funeral procession or something's

01:17:59.660 going on because you had a police escort.

01:18:03.020 Yes.

01:18:03.460 And you pulled out of where?

01:18:05.380 Oh, we was just driving down the street, and they just pulled out of a parking lot and

01:18:10.200 just got in front of us, the lights on.

01:18:12.460 So, yeah.

01:18:15.680 Ronnie, tell me what a mortgage-free house means.

01:18:23.140 I mean, I know what it means, but do you have to pay for anything?

01:18:29.340 Do you have to help build it?

01:18:30.900 What is this?

01:18:31.620 Well, back when we started in 2005, Glenn, our mission was to provide custom-built mortgage-free

01:18:37.820 homes to America's wounded, ill, and injured veterans, as well as the widows of the fallen,

01:18:42.080 just to honor their courage and sacrifice.

01:18:44.560 And so what we do with every project is start with a builder.

01:18:48.640 And when a builder confirms that he wants to do a project, then we reach out to his trade

01:18:53.100 partners, his suppliers, vendors, and we get them to donate as much as they can.

01:18:58.560 So at the end of the day, Operation Finally Home picks up the gap funding, but we are

01:19:04.120 presenting a truly deserving veteran, such as Major King, with a 100% mortgage-free home

01:19:10.360 that's going to, you know, change their lives forever.

01:19:12.660 Yeah.

01:19:13.280 How did you select him?

01:19:15.380 Our selection process is very thorough.

01:19:19.220 Applicants can apply.

01:19:21.340 They go through a very thorough vetting process.

01:19:24.680 They must be honorably discharged.

01:19:26.420 Our primary focus is 70% or more disabled.

01:19:31.040 They have to pass a criminal and a financial background check.

01:19:35.000 They have to be able to show that they could take home ownership as a responsibility.

01:19:41.460 And so when we present our candidate to the builder and the builder community, we want them

01:19:48.240 to know that we've done our due diligence.

01:19:50.320 So in this case, with Major King, I think we've hit a home run.

01:19:53.520 He, as well as his family, are just great folks, and they are excited to be getting a mortgage-free

01:20:00.700 home and starting a new step in their lives in Irving.

01:20:03.720 How are you from Texas originally?

01:20:06.180 No, I'm not.

01:20:06.960 When I retired in June 28th of 2016, I came here to Dallas.

01:20:12.740 Prior to getting out, I wanted to see what state and city had the best veteran facility, of course, the VA, that would be able to provide me all the assistance

01:20:25.440 in medical care and treatment that I needed.

01:20:27.720 And I found that Dallas was the best VA for me.

01:20:30.300 Tell me about your wound.

01:20:33.060 Tell me about what happened to you with the IED.

01:20:34.720 Well, it was my very first mission, actually, when I went out, my first IED encounter that came about with the traumatic brain injury

01:20:47.160 and all the other ailments or disabilities that came behind it.

01:20:50.540 But I was an infantryman, rifle platoon leader, and we was out on a mission and just out of nowhere, IED explosion,

01:21:01.940 and just things just went from there.

01:21:04.800 How is the VA?

01:21:07.020 The VA, if it wasn't for the VA, I'd probably be worse off than what I am.

01:21:13.760 The VA here in Dallas has provided me with the utmost care and treatment and meeting the needs for me to make sure that I can be in a position to help reclaim my life,

01:21:25.740 both mentally and physically.

01:21:27.400 What are you going to do now?

01:21:28.320 What are you doing?

01:21:28.740 Right now, I'm 100% permanent and total disabled, so I'm unable to work due to my disabilities.

01:21:37.300 But currently, right now, I have kids that I am home for that I can help now raise because I miss so many years of their lives

01:21:46.460 coming up due to multiple deployments and training.

01:21:48.780 Tell me about your kids.

01:21:49.640 How old are they?

01:21:50.560 I have an 18-year-old.

01:21:53.260 You do not look old enough to have it.

01:21:57.240 You know, I've got to tell you.

01:21:58.720 I thought you were going to say like five.

01:22:00.420 Jeez, yeah.

01:22:02.080 18.

01:22:02.920 How old are you?

01:22:03.940 I'm 39 years old.

01:22:05.060 Wow.

01:22:05.460 Shut up. 0.95

01:22:06.400 Yeah, 39 years old.

01:22:06.760 No, get out of my house. 0.98

01:22:07.700 Get out of my house.

01:22:10.000 You look like you're 22.

01:22:12.360 Yeah, 39 years old.

01:22:13.620 I came into the military fairly young.

01:22:15.660 Actually served 16 years in the military.

01:22:18.640 That was a typo at the 13th.

01:22:20.500 But 16 years, I served in the military.

01:22:24.400 So, yeah.

01:22:25.620 Tell me about your wife.

01:22:28.500 Well, hopefully my wife and I will be able to restore our marriage.

01:22:40.100 We don't have a marriage anymore.

01:22:43.540 And I would say to a lot of veterans who have served in the military, who have encountered physical and mental things from being deployed, coming back from deployments, coming out of the hospital, being medically retired out of the military.

01:23:00.740 As a transition that we go through, and a lot of times, things that we have endured and encountered, it kind of fall back into our homes with our families.

01:23:12.700 I bet it does.

01:23:13.520 And there was a period where I was going through a lot.

01:23:17.700 I was going through a lot before I finally started getting the actual help that I needed mentally.

01:23:24.840 And that brought a wedge in between myself and my family.

01:23:28.660 So, I would say to all veterans out there, get the help that you need, not tomorrow, but today.

01:23:36.020 Because it can totally change your life in a way where your loved ones are forced to feel like they're walking on eggshells.

01:23:44.200 They feel like they can't be there.

01:23:46.760 Because we are going through some things that's pushing our families away from us.

01:23:52.340 I have to tell you, you know, everybody I know that is in the military, you're just different.

01:23:59.700 You're just all different.

01:24:00.740 I mean, you know, you have brothers and that was your life, you know, and you're doing things that nobody does.

01:24:09.480 Nobody does.

01:24:10.080 And everyone that I know that has been wounded, especially if they're fully disabled, they're not fully disabled up here.

01:24:18.140 Correct.

01:24:18.680 You know, and it has to be, I don't want to get too personal, but I can imagine that it's a challenge to you as a man to come home, to lose all that,

01:24:33.920 and then not be able to, you know, do what society or what you've always thought you were supposed to do.

01:24:41.120 And it's, it's got to be rough on a marriage.

01:24:44.040 It's very tough.

01:24:45.480 I can speak for me.

01:24:48.640 Being back home, being told you can no longer serve, coming into the military, in my mind, I want to serve 30 plus years.

01:24:57.860 I want to go as far as I can possibly go beyond Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and above.

01:25:03.320 But being told you can no longer serve, you are being forced to medically retire out, and you feel like that there's still unfinished business overseas.

01:25:14.360 Because it's like, okay, this happened to me.

01:25:17.100 I need to go back.

01:25:18.080 Like, so being back at home with your family, every day you're thinking about the soldiers' lives that were lost, the soldiers that were injured,

01:25:27.980 things that felt like, for me, under my command and the positions I served.

01:25:33.000 And I've started saying to myself, what could I have done differently on that mission?

01:25:38.000 So I live with that every day.

01:25:39.480 You don't ever get to, you know, it's like when you fall off a horse, you get back on.

01:25:45.400 You don't get a chance to get back on.

01:25:46.960 No, no, no, no.

01:25:50.600 Is it hard to come back to a society that seems so frivolous?

01:25:59.420 Operation Finally Home has helped since last Monday me to say, you know what, the American people in public, they still care.

01:26:11.200 Because once you come back and you've gotten out of the military, for me, I was no longer Major King.

01:26:19.140 I was Eric King.

01:26:20.900 And I felt like I lost that power base.

01:26:23.940 I felt like I lost, you know, taking care of soldiers, making decisions.

01:26:28.920 And now I'm here and it's like, well, nobody care about me.

01:26:33.140 You know, I go to the VA, I get my treatment, get my medications, physical therapy, you know, behavior, health and all that.

01:26:41.520 I'm like, I just feel like I'm a nobody now.

01:26:43.420 So it really made me, you know, say that the American people, they still care about us.

01:26:51.520 They still out there, they care about us.

01:26:52.920 And I felt like at one point I was lost.

01:26:56.340 I didn't know what to do.

01:26:58.280 I was just a nobody now who was fighting to reclaim my life.

01:27:02.360 Millions of people care, deeply, deeply care.

01:27:09.540 We just don't always know what to do.

01:27:11.820 We don't always know what to say.

01:27:14.400 And I'm glad you're here.

01:27:18.240 Yeah.

01:27:18.600 How can people get involved running?

01:27:21.360 We love to let the community get involved in each project.

01:27:24.820 So I would encourage everyone to go to our website, OperationFinallyHome.org.

01:27:30.580 OperationFinallyHome.org.

01:27:31.560 They can follow every project that we've got going throughout the country.

01:27:36.040 They can also look at the bios and visit and find out more about our heroes that we've been able to honor and projects that are currently underway.

01:27:44.760 And they can also donate to OperationFinallyHome or to a specific project.

01:27:49.620 So if you if you're a builder, you want to get involved.

01:27:51.940 If you if you make things that, you know, are used for home building or for home supplies, you can donate.

01:27:58.400 But you can also, as a regular person, just donate cash.

01:28:00.680 Absolutely.

01:28:01.000 Okay.

01:28:03.020 It's remarkable what you do.

01:28:05.180 And I thank you for that and all of the people that you work with.

01:28:10.500 Um, I, I, I don't know if you ever feel like this, but in a man's life, you can feel like, do I make a difference at all?

01:28:25.780 Like what you were saying.

01:28:27.060 And, uh, if you ever feel like this, you can feel like this.

01:28:30.800 And, uh, if you ever feel that way, you listen to what he just said.

01:28:34.440 It's remarkable.

01:28:36.080 Good for you.

01:28:37.740 OperationFinallyHome.

01:28:40.260 Join them, Major.

01:28:42.280 Thank you.

01:28:42.960 Welcome home.

01:28:44.020 Thank you.

01:28:44.740 Thank you, sir.

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01:30:50.520 first times i've gone back out and i said what do you mean we were talking about his wife and uh

01:30:57.220 he said you know it's taken me a while to realize it it it was me it really was me wow yeah and um

01:31:03.980 i said you know uh good luck and he said i'm i just have to just i just have to show her that i

01:31:13.420 understand that it was me not her and he said you know but it was the night terrors and the and the

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01:31:35.260 2015 yeah i mean we've had so many you know veterans come through here with with similar stories yeah i mean

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01:34:26.680 this is the glenbeck program detectives in canada are still seeking a motive for a mass

01:34:38.160 shooter that left three dead including the gunman and injured more than a dozen others

01:34:42.080 as residents of toronto grapple with the latest in a string of violence incidents to hit canada's

01:34:47.860 biggest city in recent months federal officials said on tuesday that there was no terror link in

01:34:53.260 sunday's attack in which the lone gunman open fired open fire along a bustling avenue in the city

01:34:59.700 at this time there's no national security nexus to the investigation spokespeople said the attack

01:35:05.300 killed two people recent high school graduate reese fallon and 10 year old juliana cosis 13 injured

01:35:13.000 including six women and girls and seven men authorities have not publicly speculated on the

01:35:18.680 motive of the gunman faisal hassein or explained how he obtained the handgun used for the attack

01:35:27.440 okay uh so what they're saying here is this is a uh this is a a guy who went through depression

01:35:36.200 uh they're not blaming it on the gun you know they have a pretty tough gun laws up in canada uh so

01:35:44.060 it's certainly not the gun although he strangely found a way to a gun uh but they can't figure out

01:35:50.740 um quote i can't put two and two together said amir shakira uh i just can't believe it's him

01:36:02.540 mm-hmm uh he lived with his uh parents uh hussein parents uh he did carried out uh boxes of possible

01:36:10.720 evidence with uh you know the the equivalent of the fbi up in canada but he was found dead on sunday

01:36:17.720 after he exchanged gun uh gunfire with police and then fled so can't figure out what he did well why

01:36:24.740 would he do that can't figure it out right isis uh it's claimed responsibility said he was one of

01:36:31.020 theirs he still can't figure it out i don't know what the deal is i mean pretty confusing it is

01:36:37.180 when you think about it i mean what could it be did you have any idea is there any are there any

01:36:40.820 theories about for faisal hussein and why he shot people yeah does anyone have it was it um did he

01:36:47.180 have an issue well he was probably depressed he was probably depressed because yeah he's living in

01:36:51.700 canada and you know that can be a little oppressive and you know people probably might have been mean to

01:36:56.480 him did trump set him off that's the only thing i can think well that could be trump's fault but

01:37:01.740 trump's fault that's good could i throw one out there um uh barack hussein obama our former president

01:37:06.820 faisal hussein right right is it possible that this guy is just uh an incredible mean christian a

01:37:13.460 mean christian because our president as you remember uh former president a hardcore christian

01:37:17.820 was at church for 40 years and i didn't really catch anything that happened in the sermons well he

01:37:21.840 slept through a lot of the sermons a lot of sermons but i mean you know he's a he's a hard worker

01:37:25.140 hard core christian guy yeah so hardcore christian guy could it be an extremist christian attack

01:37:30.400 that's probably right okay that's probably right okay good it probably is so is there is there any

01:37:38.960 evidence of anything else uh pat any evidence of anything else no i mean we can't other than what

01:37:44.840 we've just outlined here we can't figure it out again isis tried to shed some light on this but i

01:37:51.900 still don't get it what did isis say what did isis say well they claimed credit they claimed he was

01:37:56.580 an isis fighter um well you can't trust a radical islamist you can't you can't trust them they don't 0.95

01:38:04.360 you know they'll say anything right they yeah they usually tell you what they're doing kind of in

01:38:09.640 advance and then afterwards they'll also tell you what they've done so i think we need to look into

01:38:15.180 his mental health again and gun laws you should look in oh that's a great gun laws because there's

01:38:21.300 no gun laws in canada it's it's a it's basically a the wild west out there other than some of the

01:38:26.660 toughest in the world uh yeah well other than that other than that i mean we all know that it's other

01:38:31.820 it is the wild west other than the toughest gun laws in the world right um and there is a 59

01:38:38.680 percent increase in gun violence uh over the same period from last year wait a minute so no wait

01:38:45.780 what is it the damn americans coming over with our guns the nra is looking for a root in good time 0.78

01:38:52.920 has to be that it has to be yeah but well they've run out of people to shoot here so they're going up

01:38:57.980 to canada now really right yeah oh yeah they've killed everybody they possibly can so now they're

01:39:03.100 looking for fresh killing territory in canada white men bastards americans yeah christians yeah 0.92

01:39:09.820 christians now he wasn't by trump he he was uh he was he was arab uh faisal hussein yeah um was it

01:39:19.640 was he oh can i guess there's no clue as to his heritage no i've got a guess you don't guess well i

01:39:25.420 believe uh that faisal hussein was colluding with donald trump in russia okay that's what i think

01:39:31.460 happened okay well there i'm not sure if i could go take you on that lead can i ask was he an

01:39:37.160 immigrant was he was he was he born in canada um i don't know all right i don't know was he doesn't

01:39:46.800 was he was he a muslim well i with a name like hussein sharing the same name as our former president

01:39:56.240 you would say no i'd say no i would say no he was not but have you seen any reporting on

01:40:01.400 whether he was i have zero zero reporting on that yeah huh this is perplexing it's a conundrum

01:40:09.240 it is it is perplexing i wonder what's happening huh i think our best guess as it's formed right now

01:40:16.160 is uh donald trump colluded with the russians to place this person here an extremist christian

01:40:21.360 extremist christian yeah as he shares the name with our former president uh and uh and it was because

01:40:27.400 the nra gave him the guns to cross the border um and then then he shot a bunch of people i think

01:40:35.600 that's where we are that's what it's exactly where we are we may now that's not to say there might be

01:40:40.300 some information at some time that may make us believe something else but one thing we can rule

01:40:44.500 out is the Islamic extremism we can rule that out there's no there's no immediately there was no

01:40:49.700 evidence no evidence none none zero zero zero now we may come to find out that perhaps a

01:40:59.140 a tea party extremist oh uh was involved um we're not sure we're not like it could be a tea party

01:41:06.700 extremist could be uh you know a member of the freedom caucus and there are several possibilities

01:41:11.340 of of of who this guy could be but we know they're all white we know they're white and we know

01:41:16.640 they're christian we know they're christian and we know that they're conservative you know well let

01:41:23.160 me just say it all right i mean there let's just stop using thank you the cover story of conservative

01:41:28.520 we've all been beating around the bush let's just stop doing it the all right it's nazis okay it's it's

01:41:35.880 white small government nazis that are christians i think it had to be said you know what i'm i

01:41:45.500 you know i wouldn't be surprised to find out that faisal hussein wasn't even there

01:41:51.420 that he wasn't there he wasn't even there that's a great point it wasn't even there he was probably

01:41:57.480 it's a false flag probably tied up by some white christian held and they're only using him because

01:42:06.220 he's a minority would you be surprised to find out that this story we're hearing about this faisal

01:42:13.540 hussein was just a cover up for the person who really did it brett kavanaugh i would not be

01:42:19.500 surprised i would not be surprised that is the thing fit my world belief right you know sometimes

01:42:24.700 like a glove when sometimes people say something you know how it just it just like connects with you

01:42:30.300 and it rings true right now it probably didn't happen but what high impact oh if it did if it did

01:42:39.700 probability high impact yeah yeah i mean i'm learning that from i'm learning that from msnbc

01:42:44.660 you know it may not have happened but we should seriously consider that kavanaugh trump white

01:42:52.820 supremacists christians nazis tied this guy to a chair wound him up okay and then he's still no matter

01:43:05.240 how crazed they made him he still would not do it wouldn't do it so kavanaugh himself came and was

01:43:10.940 the trigger man uh for the massacre up in toronto that makes sense it does it does make sense that

01:43:17.200 was basically like an entire like law and order or 48 hours episode right in front of your eyes

01:43:21.940 you just heard it the problem is solved when am i ever going to get a client that will tell me the

01:43:26.820 truth when will i ever get a guy like kavanaugh to come into my office and say look i killed him

01:43:31.860 i mean i can't help these clients if they don't tell me the truth

01:43:35.720 that's the way it works it always wraps up so nicely on those programs we never get the truth

01:43:45.580 though we never really find out what happened and we'll probably never know pat we won't there but i

01:43:50.660 do know this there's no evidence of muslim extremism here why are you even bringing no evidence i'm rolling

01:43:55.580 it out i just wanted to make sure that everybody knew i don't want any hate yeah to happen as a result

01:44:01.360 cut the knees off of those those speculators right and i mean literally literally cut the knees off of

01:44:09.260 them yes uh because we have there's no place for that kind of speculation not in our society not in

01:44:15.080 our society at all not in our society at all okay um now there is there has been a case that has been

01:44:21.560 solved um uh there was a uh there was a there was a guy named kelton griffin who uh asked a woman

01:44:34.620 uh whose name shall remain uh uh nameless here um uh she she she she griffin approached her and said

01:44:43.540 hey i i really i i think we have a lot in common and uh and i think we should we should we should go out

01:44:50.100 and she said well um that wasn't really elegant the way you stated that but uh okay so he said look

01:44:58.700 can i come over to your house and can we take your car and she said okay you're starting to sound like

01:45:07.780 a loser but okay sure so he um he rang the doorbell and uh he said i tell you what uh you know let's 0.67

01:45:16.920 you know what let's stop for some gas uh for the car and she's like well you know we have we're just

01:45:22.300 going around the corner he said yeah but let's let's stop for some gas so um he gets out and

01:45:27.540 chivalrous that he is uh and he was driving i believe yeah he was driving yeah yeah her car

01:45:33.480 yeah her car right that's i mean what part of this didn't you understand yeah so he takes her car and

01:45:38.760 they're stopping to get gas and and he says hey let me pump the gas you go in and uh pay for the gas and

01:45:44.300 why don't you get us a couple of cigars that's nice okay all all right that's again a little weird

01:45:52.100 but okay so she's in you know and she's in the 7-eleven you know walk-in humidor i'm i'm imagining

01:45:59.800 and uh saying what you know what do you suggest and uh he's like oh i've got a monte cristo over here

01:46:05.100 that's great anyway so she's buying the cigars and uh when she finishes buying the cigar she walks 0.99

01:46:10.620 outside and um the car is gone and uh and her phone is in the car okay and so she's she's she's

01:46:21.180 calling him she's calling her and she's like uh where's the car and uh he's not answering um and so

01:46:28.300 she you know she she calls the police and um they said you know mike you know the car has been stolen i

01:46:34.900 know who did it uh and so they the police are like okay well we'll look around but you know we're

01:46:40.520 police and so we we we usually beat minorities uh and is that what they said well i'm pretty sure 0.99

01:46:47.560 that's that's probably if they were these were the honest cops okay okay and they said we're usually at

01:46:52.460 this time just beating minorities so i don't know if we're going to be able to squeeze this in 1.00

01:46:55.500 she said well i happen to know uh my sister knows uh his relative so i'll call i'll call my sister she'll

01:47:04.140 call the relative and maybe the relative will call him and find out where the car is and so um she did

01:47:10.660 and she found out that he was at a drive-in movie theater um because um he he had made a he had made

01:47:21.640 a date uh with somebody that he he really uh liked a lot and uh he didn't have a car and so he he he

01:47:29.800 needed to borrow somebody else's car and uh so he he left you know uh the cigar and gas store and uh

01:47:38.780 and drove to another girl's house and and said hey i'm here for the date and what do you think of the

01:47:45.340 car huh we've all been there right how many times does that happen you know three times last week alone

01:47:50.480 really wow is that weird times the last week yeah there's a lot seems coincidental but it seems

01:47:56.460 like uh if you're going to target this sort of maneuver you're going to go out on a date with

01:48:03.040 another woman perhaps you don't go to a date that requires the car right like you could have gone to 0.99

01:48:10.120 a normal movie theater and met them there and not needed to steal a car but instead you went to a

01:48:15.240 drive-in movie theater which is was there 20 of them in the country yeah i mean

01:48:20.240 and you know and how many people were probably there i mean i don't think it was a you know a

01:48:24.880 big stakeout there were probably like four cars there so like you know it's like barney fife just

01:48:30.920 waiting going yeah get out of the car what's interesting is the guy had no car and no money

01:48:37.200 so so both dates had to pay for the gas had to pay for the cigars had to pay for the food that they

01:48:43.800 picked up at the at the uh gas station humidor store right and and then had to pay for the

01:48:49.480 drive-in movie the new date yeah so but it's not like he doesn't love them i mean no no he went to

01:48:55.080 the trouble of stealing a car for her so right

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