On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to discuss the Heller decision and why she should have been the one to overturn it. Glenn explains why the Supreme Court should have overturned it.
00:14:01.020And he's been so lost with what he has to do, and he doesn't know, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:14:10.920I wrote something for my son, and I want to share it to you, because I shared it with him last night.
00:14:16.620I said, I wrote something for you, and I want you to listen to it.
00:14:20.380I told my son he would change the world.
00:14:26.920He thought I meant that he would build spaceships and go to Mars or cure cancer, or that he would become president and lead America into a new chapter.
00:14:37.220That he could do anything, and he would accomplish great things if he just put his mind to it.
00:14:45.580That his new ideas would subdue the earth, and his generation would have dominion over the paradise that they had created.
00:14:53.480I told him he would change the world, but I think he misunderstood me.
00:14:59.940He thought, I said, he has to be important to matter.
00:15:08.620He thought, I said, that he had to be extraordinary.
00:15:13.060He thought, I told him, you have to get into the best school.
00:20:20.260And if you don't know who she is, this is the woman that when they were talking about white women voting more for Republican candidates, she said, F the white.
00:27:12.200They'll touch the steering wheel and everything else.
00:27:14.420And they'll either take the mask off, which now the mask, which has all the bad stuff on it, is now sitting there in your car and your hands.
00:27:21.900You're touching your mouth and your face in your car or you're driving home all by yourself in the mask.
00:27:47.420It's something like 64 percent of the population thinks the appropriate amount of risk they're willing to assume as a country is 100 deaths a year or less.
00:29:35.040Now, this was during the second wave of the attack at Pearl Harbor.
00:29:38.260The plane was hit by U.S. fire, and the pilot had only been able to limp as far as the island of Nihau.
00:29:45.720Well, Kale pulled the dazed pilot from the wreckage.
00:29:49.960Somehow in the process, Kale had the presence of mind to take the pilot's papers from the cockpit.
00:29:56.040And the other villagers quickly converged on the crash site, and they sent for an old man named Shintani.
00:30:04.720Shintani. Shintani had been born in Japan and spoke Japanese, and Shintani conversed with the pilot.
00:30:11.360Then he left the scene and didn't say anything to the villagers.
00:30:17.400He just left, and so they sent for another guy named Harada, who also spoke Japanese.
00:30:24.900The pilot told Harada about the attack in Pearl Harbor, but nobody knew on Nihau about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet.
00:30:34.720So they didn't know that we were technically at war, and this guy, they just thought it was a pilot of a Japanese airplane that had been, you know, that crash landed.
00:30:45.680They had no idea what had happened, and Harada didn't tell any of the villagers.
00:30:51.280Later in the day, the villagers heard about, over the radio, about the attack at Pearl Harbor.
00:30:57.480They realized this is one of the, this is an enemy.
00:31:02.860So the Hawaiians decided to detain the Japanese pilot until the proper authorities would come from Kauai.
00:31:11.280In the meantime, Harada and his wife offered to keep the pilot at their house, and the villagers agreed as long as he was kept under close watch.
00:31:20.020Four days passed, and no word from the mainland.
00:31:25.000The island residents didn't know that the Navy had imposed an emergency travel ban between the islands, and so they didn't understand why nobody was coming.
00:31:33.720Meanwhile, as the week wore on, the pilot gained the trust of Harada and his wife, and they hatched a plan.
00:31:41.320It was Friday, December 12th, the old man Shintani offered Kale $200 for the pilot's papers, but Kale said, I'm not giving them to you.
00:31:53.460Later that afternoon, the pilot and Harada pounced on the single villager who was on watch outside of Harada's house.
00:31:59.820They wrestled him into a nearby warehouse and locked him in it, and then they grabbed the shotgun and a pistol and made their way to Kale's house.
00:32:06.440Luckily for Kale, nature had called, and he was in his outhouse, and he saw them approaching his house, so he made a run for it.
00:32:19.700Harada fired the shotgun at Kale, but missed.
00:32:22.920Harada and the pilot gave up their pursuit and rushed to the plane wreckage where they tried to use the plane's radio, but it was broken.
00:32:29.080They set the plane on fire and returned to Kale's house and burned it down, too.
00:32:32.800Meanwhile, Kale and five other villagers hopped in a boat and spent the next 15 hours paddling to Kauai for help.
00:32:44.800Harada and the pilot spent hours searching the island for Kale, and shortly after dawn on Saturday, December 13th, the desperate duo came across Ben Kanehi, Kanehi-Lei, I think it is, and his wife, Ella.
00:32:59.780And they threatened to shoot the couple if they didn't give up Kale's whereabouts.
00:33:06.860Ben knew Kale and knew that he was on his way to Kauai, but he said, I don't know.
00:33:12.420By early that afternoon, Kale had contacted the authorities on Kauai, and 12 U.S. Army soldiers were on their way to Nihao to apprehend the Japanese pilot.
00:33:23.260At the same time, Harada and the pilot still held Ben and Ella at gunpoint.
00:33:28.480Ben waited for just the right moment, and it was then that the pilot handed the shotgun to Harada.
00:35:38.360Don't you think we should round them up?
00:35:44.020Sometimes you can be convinced you're doing the right thing by violating people's rights.
00:35:49.820Because you start to see these people as a danger because powerful people with powerful words have convinced you that those people over there are the real danger.
00:36:04.840In times like these, you need to keep your head and your wits and your common sense and know that people use emergencies and use fear in ways that you and our nation will regret in the end.
00:42:56.200And then they've been in negotiations.
00:42:58.040And yesterday it came out that the former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is going to sue Nancy Pelosi and the January 6th committee members.
00:43:07.880We have Mark Meadows on in 60 seconds to tell us all about this.
00:43:13.580I remember the good old days of grilling.
00:43:20.000You know, the days, I mean, when you'd fill up that grill with enough charcoal.
00:43:23.620And then you would get just a big old can of lighter fluid and you just pour it over and it would have an explosion and you'd burn the hair off your hands.
00:43:34.620And if you're close enough, off your eyebrows.
00:44:20.600Former White House chief of staff, senior partner now at Conservative Partner Institute and a guy who's filing a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi with which let's just pause for a second and and revel in that news.
00:44:54.520Tell me what's going on, because first you said you weren't going to testify January 6th, right?
00:45:02.900Well, there was a yeah, there was a whole lot that was actually written about what was happening and what was not happening, just to be blunt.
00:45:11.960And I can tell you that from day one, what we what we said was we were always going to honor the president's executive privilege.
00:45:24.300It's not I'm not going to be the first chief of staff to waive it.
00:45:27.320I don't think that, you know, compelling his chief of staff to come to Congress to testify is is something that historically has ever been done and certainly is not a good precedent to start.
00:45:42.280That being said, we've been in negotiations for, you know, for several, several weeks and months, being very clear that the president's executive privilege would always be protected.
00:45:57.800We have we tried to reach an accommodation.
00:46:01.600We were working on that accommodation, providing some of the documents.
00:46:05.580Then it became very apparent that that they were going to continue to ask about conversations that I had with either the president or other senior staff as it related to some of those nonprivileged documents.
00:46:21.520And and then over the last 72 hours or so prior to filing the lawsuit, you know, a subpoena arrived where they were actually looking for all of the communication from my personal cell phone device, my my carrier.
00:46:44.800And when that happened, it became very obvious that there they were not going to put any limits on what they were looking for.
00:46:54.580And the overreach, the constitutional overreach, in my opinion, was just not where I could voluntarily come in and participate for a deposition.
00:47:06.880And we also know I mean, we we know they've already made up their minds on what happened.
00:47:12.600They did this with Donald Trump in the impeachment, and it was grotesque what they did.
00:47:18.060But the critics now CNN would say that, well, what do you have to hide, Mark?
00:47:25.820What is it that you're hiding? Why? Why won't you share all these things?
00:47:29.380Can you explain why presidential privilege is so important, not just for this president, but for presidents down the road?
00:47:37.960Well, for every president and certainly for every chief of staff, it's it's not only that they're there.
00:47:45.340You know, they say, well, what do you have to hide?
00:47:47.800You know, I've I've publicly have stated that to my knowledge, no one in the West Wing had any advanced knowledge that there would be a breach of security at the Capitol on January 6.
00:47:59.600And and and I've shared that publicly and privately.
00:48:05.100But at the same time, what you know, to have have them have me come in and say, well, what did you tell the president?
00:48:13.400You know, it at this point, what it does is just empowers them.
00:48:19.140And you're right. All the people on the January 6th commission have all voted for impeachment.
00:48:23.720You know, so I don't know that they're neutral arbiters of the truth.
00:48:29.160As you know, I've got a new book out, The Chief's Chief.
00:48:32.560And they said, well, you know, you talk about things in The Chief's Chiefs.
00:48:36.300And and and the you know, the subject matters in there are not the intimate conversations that a chief of staff would have with the president of the United States.
00:48:49.620And so for me, it it it is far too expansive.
00:48:55.840And and I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, truthfully, Glenn.
00:49:00.900I mean, when you really look at this is what courts are for, if if this is something that the courts would, you know, believe is constitutional and should weigh in.
00:49:10.080Should a president, a current president, be able to waive the executive privilege of a previous president, it would set in my mind a very dangerous precedent where just different parties would then essentially use both Congress and this waiver to actually just look at political point opponents.
00:49:31.780And it's just not where what our founding fathers, I think, envision, you know, Mark, I've I've talked to Mark to Mike Lee about this and I and I've always disagreed with this until I talked to Mike.
00:49:43.220I said, why didn't we go after, you know, Nixon?
00:49:46.820Why didn't we go after Hillary Clinton?
00:49:54.420He said, once you open that can of worms on your opponent after they left office, he said, that's what happens in banana republics, he said, because then it will be used for sheer political purposes to destroy the other party or the other candidates of the future.
00:50:14.520And he said, you just he said, I think it's just way too dangerous to do that.
00:50:24.240And, you know, there's sometimes when, you know, when you're in power that you would love to have the ability to use the, you know, the law and the rules to your point.
00:50:38.240I mean, you know, I'm not one to to basically put a motive behind a particular individual.
00:50:45.680But I am here to say that I do know, and, you know, obviously for filing the lawsuit against Speaker Pelosi in the January 6th committee is, you know, it needs to have legitimate legislative purpose.
00:51:01.480It can't be just a fishing expedition in the broad scope of everything that appears that they're looking at.
00:51:12.420Now, some of those questions are not going to get answered in this lawsuit.
00:51:16.340You know, should Congress have the ability to subpoena just about everybody's record?
00:51:21.940Well, that becomes a dangerous path to go down as well.
00:51:25.240But certainly this question of executive privilege and the broad scope of what they're doing would have a chilling effect on future chiefs of staff and senior advisors to the president of the United States in any future administration.
00:51:41.660Can you imagine, you know, all of a sudden a Republican president in 2024, and then there's a subpoena for Joe Biden's chief of staff and, you know, all his personal records and official records as well.
00:51:57.660So this is what courts are designed to do.
00:52:00.560We felt like that this particular lawsuit was necessary to at least bring the question and hopefully have the courts weigh in on it.
00:52:09.040Yeah, whether whether it changes my outcome or not, I don't know.
00:52:13.040I mean, I think this is perfectly reasonable for people to to understand that, because when you say that about Joe Biden, yeah, you know, if there's something criminal that was going on, I would want to talk to the chief of staff.
00:52:26.920But I would also want it to be very, very narrow.
00:52:32.120You know, it's kind of like a search warrant.
00:52:33.820You can't just kick my house, my door down and say, yeah, we're looking for stuff.
00:52:37.780You have to say, I know that we believe this is here and this specifically is what we're looking for.
00:52:45.840And if the courts decided that I, you know.
00:53:13.740And so when you look at that, there are already provisions for sharing of information if, you know, if fraud or criminal activity took place.
00:53:23.220And so I appreciate you making the distinction because that's that that is a significant one.
00:54:17.560But more importantly, they destroy people's reputations.
00:54:23.240Howard Hughes is one of the only ones that I know that came out unscathed in some something like this.
00:54:28.660Do you worry that because they can't get Donald Trump because there's nothing there that they they are just looking for someone to hang this on?
00:54:37.180Even if they can't really prove it, they just want to they need a bad guy's head.
00:54:44.180Well, obviously, again, I don't want to ascribe motives to particular members of Congress, but the political nature is not lost on me.
00:54:55.560I you know, obviously, when you look at that there, I think that you can tell from some of the public comments that members of the January 6th committee have already made continue to make.
00:55:07.280You know, this is more of a political narrative than it is a legislative one.
00:55:12.540And, you know, there's a lot of people claiming the fifth and, you know, or at least I'm reading about that.
00:55:20.000You know, for me, I felt like it was important from a constitutional standpoint that we we fight back on on this executive privilege and the scope of this investigation.
00:55:30.500You know, listen, I trust in the Lord and and that's where I put my trust.
00:55:36.400And I can tell you at this point, I'm fervently praying and, you know, it's Congress will do what they typically always do.
00:55:48.640And and overreach is is one of those attributes.
00:55:53.500So when the courts decide, if they decide you have to testify, you will testify, you have to testify.
00:55:58.720And, you know, obviously, they're they're the neutral arbiter in all of this, you know, certainly in sharing that.
00:56:06.540I think that many of the Democrat members members of Congress will be very disappointed with the facts and what actually happened, you know, with regards to, you know, President Trump and his team.
00:56:21.080I, you know, and at the same time, you know, I think that they're going to move ahead with contempt and hold me in contempt before that.
00:56:30.540I'm hopeful that the courts will weigh in.
00:56:33.220All right. Mark Meadows, best of luck.
01:03:55.840You actually get in to get into your get into an airplane and get your ticket on one of the on one of the flights to get home, because I have to tell you, it is.
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01:04:15.200And if it breaks down, how long what's wrong with it?
01:04:19.040If it's a chip, how long is that thing going to sit in a repair shop waiting for the part?
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01:05:27.620What do you think is going to come of that?
01:05:30.840Well, they say they talk for two hours and I find that very hard to believe because if it was that long, Biden would have needed a nap in between.
01:05:40.600Two hours is not, you know, something that he does.
01:05:45.180So, you know, it's hard to be precise on this because we just don't know.
01:09:19.660However, there's one thing that could bring Putin to his knees, and that is if Joe Biden signs an executive order that says no American banks do business with Russia, and if a foreign bank does, we're not going to do business with that foreign bank.
01:09:47.920Now, I assume that was the red line you mentioned, that the banks.
01:09:52.840Russia needs the currency because they can't survive without international money going in there.
01:09:59.740Well, I don't know what the red line was, but I would take Biden at his word when he says, you know, I can cripple an economy because he's done it here.
01:10:10.800So I think he's probably got a lot of practice.
01:10:14.540Yeah, he's got a lot of practice over here.
01:10:16.760But he can't shut down the Nordstrom or whatever it is, pipeline.
01:10:24.280And there's a Germans sitting there going, they made a deal with the devil.
01:10:27.820Merkel, thank God, Merkel's out of there.
01:10:29.880So they make the deal with the devil that they're going to take natural gas from Russia, Germany now, and the pipeline goes from Russia right into Germany under the Baltic Sea.
01:10:42.780And now Russia gets currency from Germany.
01:10:48.380But if Biden says no, no more foreign currency going into Russia, then the Germans are going to freeze their tushes off.
01:10:55.480What is what is what are the odds that he does cross that border and goes in and takes Ukraine?
01:11:03.920You know, I would say four to one against.
01:11:08.320I don't think that he wants at this juncture to provoke that kind of reaction because the Russian economy is fairly weak.
01:11:18.740And, you know, you're just basically putting your country into a depression.
01:11:24.480China's not going to do anything until after the Olympics.
01:11:28.360I mean, they could saber-rattle all they want, but they're putting on an exposition in February and March that will rival Hitler's Olympics in the mid-1930s.
01:11:38.680It's the same kind of propaganda outfit.
01:11:50.760I don't know whether he agrees with me or not, but China is close to us as far as power is concerned.
01:11:59.220Not quite as powerful, but they're close.
01:12:02.160If you push them away and embarrass them and poke them and do all kinds of things, it's much more likely that they will invade Taiwan, that they will help North Korea, that they will even help Putin.
01:12:42.940And he never went in and said, you know, in a bellicose way.
01:12:48.520It was, Trump was all about making deals.
01:12:51.020And if he didn't like the deal, then he'd say, well, we're not going to let you do this, or you're going to have to pay more to get your goods into.
01:15:22.080Where Bob, he did his deal and he moved on.
01:15:25.300You know, I said on BillOReilly.com on the Newsman News the other night that what Americans of all ages don't understand is the vast gulf between the baby boom generation.
01:15:50.200The vast difference, because we were raised under parents and grandparents who endured incredible hardship with the Great Depression and World War II.
01:16:04.840And sacrifice for the good of the country was the mantra.
01:16:10.420And if you didn't do that, you were ostracized.
01:16:35.580That you have a totally different societal outlook.
01:16:37.760And that's why the permissiveness and the violent crime, and you let homeless people overrun property, and you let them shoot up narcotics, you let them do whatever they want.
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01:19:01.140I was on Tucker Carlson last night and talked about Fauci.
01:19:06.920I said to him right before we went on, you realize you're asking me to boil down a two hour chalkboard to three and a half to four minutes.
01:19:18.560And I said, all right, I'm going to try not to sound crazy.
01:19:21.980But I don't know if I was successful in laying out the fact that the United States government went into business with Moderna November 2015.
01:37:44.000Patriot Mobile believes in the country that you believe in, believes in the Bill of Rights, believes in the First Amendment, Second Amendment.
01:57:54.920And that's why the market is so confused.
01:57:57.000And I thought to myself, this is a story about why you shouldn't have the Fed.
01:58:03.420There is no such thing as the free market.
01:58:05.780If everybody's just watching what the Fed's going to do and then buying or selling because of that, that's not a free market.
01:58:12.220That's something that's manipulated by these people in Washington, D.C. who don't work for you.
01:58:18.380This is why there's gold and silver, because when manipulation begins to happen and the dollar is starting to be bastardized and just printed for on whims, really, there's nothing left.
01:58:57.620Nearly 70 percent, 71 percent of Democrats say they would not go on a date with someone who holds a different political opinion, as opposed to 31 percent of responding Republicans.
01:59:20.96037 percent of college level Democrats may might not consider someone's friendship if they had an opposing political view compared to five percent of Republicans.
01:59:55.500I mean, life together is a very long time.
01:59:59.220What are the principles that brought her to that?
02:00:01.880And what are the principles that bring you to yours?
02:00:04.720You guys need to stop talking about politics and talk about principles.
02:00:08.140Yeah, I mean, if you're going to get married to someone with totally different views than you, you better know we better really have a good grip on that before you go in.
02:00:17.640And we've seen marriages that have worked out like that for long periods of time.
02:00:21.860But still, it's it's it makes things harder, I think.