When did this become a partisan issue? How did we become so obsessed with shutting things down? And why does it have to do with Obama? Glenn Beck takes a look at it and explains why it's not.
00:06:00.300Well, now the governor, Governor Whitmer and the attorney general have had the Michigan, I don't know, barbershop quartet cancel his license.
00:06:14.440They've suspended his license so he can't operate his business.
00:06:18.800They took his his livelihood away from him.
00:06:23.400Then they said, if he does cut hair, it'll be a thousand dollar fine every single day.
00:06:30.400And he he is subject to court proceedings that could put him into jail for a year.
00:10:27.780By the way, so you know, a WHO official.
00:10:31.160So now if I said this, which I did in January, now I guess I won't be banned by Facebook for saying it because the WHO official has finally come out and said it.
00:13:27.580Why are we keeping them home from school?
00:13:29.500Meanwhile, in Seattle, a port policeman has now been threatened with termination for asking whether law enforcement around the country is doing the right thing enforcing non-constitutional government.
00:13:45.300Now, what is happening is this guy asked for permission.
00:13:49.560He posted something, and everybody was fine with it until it went viral.
00:13:52.660And then the higher-ups were like, oh, I don't know.
00:15:44.580Manhattan is going to be facing a massive overstock of office space.
00:15:50.940Because as people are staying home and people are saying, you know what, just work from home from here on out.
00:15:57.320What happens to all those big, empty office buildings, De Blasio?
00:16:01.660And where do you get your tax dollars, you dope?
00:16:05.960Meanwhile, Facebook is now deleting Michigan Anti-Quarantine Group.
00:16:11.520That's what they're now called, the Anti-Quarantine.
00:16:14.100Well, they are their name, Michigan, Michigan, Michiganenders, Michigan, and people from Michigan, Michigananders, Michigananders, Michigananders.
00:19:02.460We are we are a nation so damn close to war with itself.
00:19:06.720You know, there's it's just split down party party lines and I don't know what to do about it.
00:19:13.400But you got to stop giving money to organizations and companies that are working against the values that you hold.
00:19:20.920And if you are with one of the major character carriers for your cell phone service, most likely you are giving money to Planned Parenthood,
00:19:29.740anti-First Amendment, anti-Second Amendment groups because they take their profits and they split.
00:21:01.700I'm quoting thanks to the Republican legislators who have convinced for Supreme Court justices to not look at the law, but look at their political careers.
00:21:10.000I guess it's a bad day for Washington for Wisconsin.
00:21:20.080You know, Stu did a great show last night on Stu does.
00:21:23.740What was the name of it last night, Stu?
00:21:25.900Well, it's technically called Stu does Elon Musk because we also talked about Elon Musk during this section.
00:21:31.940But you did you did stats on the the states and people are were staying home and they got the message long before any of these states said we got to have a stay at home order.
00:21:47.320They were already doing it by the time the states put their stay at home order in.
00:21:53.100That's when people were like, OK, well, and it went on for a few days and a couple of weeks.
00:21:57.660But then it started to creep back up and they're going back to work anyway.
00:22:00.800You're not doing anything except violating rights and making average citizens criminals.
00:22:08.240In other words, people stayed home and then the government told them to stay home.
00:22:13.080That's how it went in all in every single state that had a stay at home order.
00:22:17.140In all cases, 100 percent of the cases, that's what happened.
00:22:20.560I'm telling you, some of these people and it's mainly Democrats.
00:24:52.600My question for you is, where in the Constitution did the people of Wisconsin confer authority on a single, unelected cabinet secretary to compel almost 6 million people to stay at home and close their businesses and face imprisonment if they don't comply, with no input from the legislature, without the consent of the people?
00:25:17.020Isn't it the very definition of tyranny for one person to order people to be in prison for going to work, among other ordinarily lawful activities?
00:25:28.660Where does the Constitution say that's permissible counsel?
00:25:31.660One of the bravest guys, and the guy who appointed her to the Supreme Court, successful governor, economic education and health care reformer, Scott Walker, joins us now.
00:25:55.720Well, there was no stay, so it means technically anyone anywhere in the state of Wisconsin could be opened.
00:26:05.220The one caveat to that is Wisconsin's a home rule state, so there are still the ability of local jurisdictions.
00:26:12.000So a handful of communities, city of Milwaukee, city of Racine, Dane County, where our state capitol's at, all very liberal Democrat areas, their governor, or excuse me, their mayors and or county executives issued similar orders to what the governor's administration had done.
00:26:31.260But for everybody else, it means technically any retail establishment.
00:26:35.740There were taverns open last night around the state.
00:26:38.880Although, and I heard the tail end of your last segment, in the end, I've said for weeks, the government can get out of the way, but ultimately the market will determine when businesses reopen, when employees feel safe to come back, and when customers ultimately come back as well.
00:26:57.280But the first step is getting the government out of the way.
00:26:59.500So the new governor, the guy who I think replaced you, had issued the stay-at-home order.
00:27:08.240He said yesterday, last night on CNN, this puts our state into chaos.
00:27:13.800Now we have no plan, no protections for the people.
00:27:17.060When you have more people in a small space, I don't care if it's bars, restaurants, or the home, you're going to be able to spread the virus.
00:27:22.540Today, thanks to the Republican legislators, convinced four Supreme Court justices not to look at the law, but look at their political careers, I guess.
00:27:30.280It's a bad day for Wisconsin because now it's the Wild West.
00:27:36.180Well, Glenn, it's like they've suspended common sense, not only in his statement, but in others across the country.
00:27:45.040We have been operating for nearly two months now with the threat of this coronavirus, and every time anyone goes into a grocery store, every time someone goes into a hardware store, every time someone shows up at a manufacturing plant that is deemed essential by the government, they've been able to do that overwhelmingly across the country safely.
00:28:07.920So, to me, it just defies common sense that now suddenly the so-called non-essential businesses can open, finally, because those justices actually upheld the law.
00:28:18.480They did exactly the opposite of what he said.
00:28:22.260Now, does that mean that people who've been operating safely are suddenly going to go crazy and not use the same safety precautions they've done before?
00:28:33.380First of all, I think you guys had the election when nobody knew what was going to happen, and it shows that there was no spread from you guys holding the election, which, quite honestly, at the time, I would have found surprising.
00:28:50.600But there was no problem from holding the election.
00:28:53.780I guess the governor didn't learn his lesson from that one.
00:28:56.760And when did we go from a let's not overwhelm the system, let's not overwhelm the hospitals and the doctors and the nurses, let's flatten the curve, to nobody's going out until everybody is safe?
00:29:10.160Yeah, it's the flatten the curve versus now we have to find a cure before anyone can set foot out there.
00:29:16.000The logic, I went back and looked two months ago yesterday.
00:29:19.180I wrote a piece on Facebook about how we need to be rational.
00:29:39.820Over two months, we've flattened the curve.
00:29:42.920But we still have government officials who, to me at least, seem like they're hiding under their bed, hoping to God somehow this will just go away.
00:29:51.940It's not going to change anytime soon.
00:29:54.900And if we don't want us here, not just our economy devastated, but think of all the people across America who missed out on doctors' visits and clinics and other checkups, who missed out on early detection.
00:30:06.180I mean, this is literally a life-threatening issue, even when it comes to reopening the economy.
00:30:10.580So, Governor, do you really believe that these people are hiding under their beds, or is there something else involved?
00:30:25.420He gets advice from the Fauci's and they say, Fauci, just tell me about the health effects.
00:30:31.200And then somebody else has to advise, tell me just about the economic effects.
00:30:37.120And then I have to make choices as a leader on what we do.
00:30:42.000We are now looking at a group of people in Washington, and it seems to be falling on party lines, that they, for some reason, just don't want to open the economy.
00:30:52.400And no one is talking about the deadly effects of America going down the drain or going into a deep depression.
00:31:01.620Not only the effects financially, but the effects of health and welfare all over the globe.
00:31:09.480Millions could die because we go down.
00:31:13.500Even, amazingly, a group that I'm not aligned with that don't normally reference, but even a United Nations report recently, just this week, showed that grave concern about massive, I mean, we're talking crippling poverty around the world because of the economic effects here.
00:31:29.000And their point was that this will actually have a much larger, devastating impact on fatalities, on casualties because of malnutrition, because of depression, because of suicide, because of all sorts of issues.
00:31:42.720I think it's a combination of some are afraid and some have an agenda.
00:31:46.260When I look at Nancy Pelosi's, and we could talk all day about her ridiculous $3 trillion bill that's out there.
00:31:52.480But one of the things I think has been ignored about what she just put out this week is they've got a provision that would extend the federal unemployment enhanced benefit till January 1.
00:32:02.460That tells me Democrats believe or hope some have an agenda that they want the economy not to open until after the start of the year, which conveniently happens to be after the presidential election.
00:32:13.940And I got to say, if you're an American, not a Republican, not a Democrat, not a conservative, not a liberal, but an American, that should scare the crap out of you.
00:32:22.200We should be doing something about it.
00:32:25.000So do you think that the American people are?
00:32:29.860I mean, I think that my father used to say there is no such thing as bad.
00:33:17.940Do you think the American people are waking up on both sides of the aisle and saying, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:33:23.840These essential Bill of Rights liberties are really important.
00:33:27.520I do, some more slowly than others, but I do think they're waking up.
00:33:34.000Yesterday's ruling in the Wisconsin Supreme Court was a good step in the right direction because, as I said, after the ruling came out, you know, upholding the rule of law is important.
00:33:46.960And I'm optimistic, as frustrated as I am, as challenging as times are, I think about America in particular,
00:33:54.080a country that started out defeating the greatest military power at the time, who overcame a civil war that would have torn about just any other country in the world.
00:34:03.960We overcame, excuse me, two world wars, took on 9-11.
00:34:07.780We're Americans, and we're a country based on freedom.
00:34:10.700And as long as we cherish those freedoms and liberties, even in times like this, I have no doubt we can overcome anything.
00:34:17.240But part of that means free will and the ability to engage in free enterprise.
00:34:22.720That's something that I think is fundamentally a part of who we are.
00:34:26.860It's why King Solomon talked about finding joy in your labor.
00:34:29.940I often say nobody signed my high school yearbook saying good luck becoming dependent on the government.
00:34:35.520We all, no matter where we come from, what we look like, we all in our hearts want to work.
00:35:09.300I think that's one of the great things, even some of the temporary things that now the president, but even some state local officials have done.
00:35:15.460It should draw attention to the question of why did we have these things in the first place?
00:35:19.900If we could operate under these circumstances without those onerous restrictions from the federal, state and local governments,
00:35:26.320we shouldn't have them in the first place.
00:35:28.060And that will unleash unlimited prosperity going forward.
00:35:33.280I'm going to go back to the local lawmakers or the local administrators.
00:35:39.600You said that some local counties and cities can, you know, still say you're not opening up in Wisconsin.
00:35:47.540But didn't the Supreme Court yesterday say that these are not enforceable?
00:35:52.060Well, and that's part that's going to be probably another legal challenge, although by the time it makes its way through the courts will probably be past that date.
00:36:01.820But it is the sort of thing that I think will have a lasting impact on where entrepreneurs decide to place their businesses at that.
00:36:11.080We just saw it recently with Tesla making the threat that they were going to go somewhere else.
00:36:15.960If California and that local county that was trying to restrict them didn't back away, they backed away.
00:36:21.720But that means we need to be vigilant everywhere and every place at every moment because the government's there to serve the people and not the other way around.
00:36:29.400And sadly, we've seen too many examples of at all levels of government of people trying to get the people to serve the government.
00:36:38.820That's not how our country was founded.
00:36:40.460And it certainly shouldn't be the case.
00:36:42.520We're tested the most when we face times of emergency and challenge.
00:36:46.380This is one of those moments we need to stand up.
00:36:49.400Well, we miss your leadership as a governor and and and miss all the fodder that you were able to talk about because you were just pissing everybody off.
00:40:21.640They tied him up, locked him in the shed, told him that he was bad.
00:40:26.520Anytime he had to leave, uh, that she had to leave the house, she would wish the grandma would wash the child outside of the property by spraying him with water from a hose.
00:40:37.060He was only given a plastic bag if he had to go to the bathroom, uh, and forced to sleep in the shed.
00:41:00.980Can anyone, could anyone please take into consideration the physical and mental abuse that has got to be off the charts all around the world because of this?
00:41:24.600You've heard me talk about my Takovas boots and how much I love them and what a great company they come from.
00:41:29.380It's a small business that's doing things the right way down here in Texas.
00:41:33.180Well, given the challenges that we're going through as a country, Takovas has asked me to speak about something else that comes to mind every time I put on my Takovas boots, the cowboy.
00:41:42.260Now, you know, I'm not a working cowboy, but I know some of those guys and not being one of them, I wouldn't pretend to be.
00:41:49.420But what I see in them, I see in other people too, because in many ways, cowboy is just a mindset, an uncompromising can do attitude,
00:41:58.180a willingness to help even when it's really hard.
00:42:02.080And most of all, the cowboy knows that the good guys always win in the end.
00:42:06.780So as you begin the hard work of bootstrapping this country and economy back into shape,
01:06:44.020And that was the first point that I was going to clarify listening to your introduction.
01:06:47.580I wouldn't say that I had permission from the department to do the video.
01:06:51.460I did the video 100 percent on my own accord for reasons that we'll get into.
01:06:56.700But I didn't I initially didn't get any pushback from the department.
01:07:00.360That's what that's what I brought up the following day.
01:07:04.840OK, so when you say you did it for reasons of your own, what what what were those reasons?
01:07:10.560Well, I can tell you of, you know, being a military vet and now being in law enforcement, I have friends in law enforcement all over the country.
01:07:18.720And speaking to everybody that is in my profession, I can assure you that ninety nine point nine percent of officers feel the exact same way I do.
01:07:27.760You know, all the stuff we're seeing going on, nobody can believe it.
01:07:31.420And everybody I talk to says I would never arrest someone for going into a park and I would never arrest a surfer and I would never arrest a lady for cutting somebody's hair.
01:07:42.180Yet we keep seeing it every single day more and more.
01:07:46.320And it really started to bother me for several reasons.
01:07:49.140I mean, the first and foremost reason is we're trampling up people's constitutional rights.
01:07:53.780And we don't have the authority to do those things to people, regardless of what elected officials say.
01:08:00.640And the other aspect of this that's really troubling to me is maintaining a good relationship with the public is something that's been a struggle for law enforcement for a long time.
01:08:11.300And in a short amount of time, I saw that relationship greatly strained and the gap, the trust between law enforcement and the public, that gap is growing exponentially.
01:08:22.200And I felt like I needed to say something in an attempt to slow that down.
01:08:27.300And I think the proof is in the pudding.
01:08:42.740I feel I mean, and like I said in my video, I haven't seen it firsthand at my department.
01:08:47.840I the Port of Seattle has been a really good department when it comes to any type of enforcement.
01:08:52.220But I believe in my heart that officers don't want to be doing these things, but they're put in a place where they're higher up, ask them to.
01:09:01.500And now they're stuck between, OK, am I going to be looking at disciplinary actions or losing my job where I lose my livelihood and the ability to feed my family?
01:09:09.160Or do I have to just, you know, kind of bend the rules a little bit this one time?
01:09:13.460And I feel like a lot of officers are getting stuck in that place and they a lot of people don't have the courage to just draw the line in the sand and say, no, I have an oath to the citizens of this country and I'm not going to do that.
01:09:29.700I can't believe, Greg, that we're actually talking about this.
01:09:32.220This is something that war gamed in my head a million times the last 20 years on whether or not, you know, we'd have to rely on the sheriffs or the police would turn and, you know, and it's always been a crazy thought.
01:09:46.140And thank God it's not to the level of of, you know, why I was thinking about these things.
01:09:49.980But this is really an important thing.
01:09:53.740And doesn't it seem crazy that we're here?
01:11:03.700Well, the reason that I'm taking such a hard stance on that is because in the video, I implored officers to stand up for what's right, regardless of what it costs you, regardless of what it costs you.
01:11:18.940You have to put right over your own personal comfort.
01:11:21.740And I think the reason that I'm trying to push that message out there is because if every officer stood up for what they believed, it'd be a non-issue.
01:11:30.380And the people in these political positions that are using us like like their their foot soldiers, they would lose all the power.
01:11:37.600And so that is why I think it's important to tell people no matter what is on the line, you stand up for what's right and you stand up for the Constitution.
01:11:47.680And that's why I had to take such a hard line on this.
01:11:50.160Well, my department said, hey, it's time to pull the video down.
01:12:16.740You know, regardless of whether it costs me my job or not, the amount of feedback I've got across the country from both officers and citizens about how it just opened their eyes.
01:12:31.460You know, I got an email and we're literally getting thousands and thousands of emails.
01:12:35.020I can't even begin to keep up on them.
01:12:37.300But I got one yesterday that I did read and it was from a guy who works for NYPD.
01:12:41.780And he said, Greg, I want to let you know.
01:12:44.380Every officer in our department has watched your video.
01:12:46.820It made a lot of people do some self-reflection.
01:12:49.660And I can assure you that your eight minute video changed the culture in NYPD.
01:12:53.980And I mean, that is the most it's unbelievable to think that me sharing my ideas for eight minutes has been able to reach people across the country.
01:13:04.020But when I'm getting all this feedback from people, I have to believe that I did the right thing.
01:14:22.040But but what what might a governor order tomorrow?
01:14:25.640You know, that's why laws have to go through a long legislative process to become law.
01:14:30.300And it's not just on a whim of one person, because before you know it, that becomes tyranny.
01:14:35.160Greg, may your voice be heard all over the country by police officers, and may they begin to form their own words and their own spine to stand up and say exactly the same thing.
01:14:48.700You didn't do it in a time of crisis and you didn't do it, you know, because you were all upset or anything.
01:14:56.060You spoke calmly and rationally and you've made a big impact.
01:15:01.980And I hope to see more police officers doing the same.
01:15:24.760Somewhere in America, within the sound of my voice, there's a man slow dancing with his best gal under the shifting starlight of an old fashioned honky tonks disco ball.
01:15:33.180Some soft air on the fiddle grazes his ears in the misty makeshift ballroom.
01:15:38.460And it's good to have her head resting on his shoulder like in the good old days.
01:15:42.460He smiles because it took him a long time to understand that youth is wasted on the young.
01:17:44.660You have to know this because this is going to be a battle for the soul of the Republic.
01:17:53.200If this is not corrected, I don't believe that we survive as a Republic, as a free people.
01:18:01.560Uh, and I know that sounds pretty, uh, horrible, but it's true.
01:18:08.120Uh, this is much worse than what was going on, uh, in Ukraine.
01:18:13.840Same kind of stuff, same exact people.
01:18:17.240And, uh, we now have it dead to rights, dead to rights.
01:18:21.080And we'll go over some of that here in a second.
01:18:23.180I, if you are a police officer, I would urge you to download the book or get the book, um, immediately called ordinary men's to who wrote that.
01:18:37.480Uh, ordinary men was written after world war two.
01:18:41.800And it was a study about how the Nazis took the strongest, best non-antisemitic police force in Poland and turned them into the Nazis, most vicious killers.
01:18:56.460And it is, it's an amazing piece of research.
01:19:02.600And they had a very hard time getting the research back in the fifties because these guys just didn't want to talk about it.
01:19:10.200Um, but they, they found the patterns on how you turn a good man bad.
01:19:19.240And it's so easy to do in a police force.
01:19:22.560If you don't know what's being done to you, who wrote it?
01:19:29.480This is, you know, uh, when I say this, it sounds like it's a boring book, but it's not.
01:19:34.200It was an academic study, um, done to make sure we never repeat these mistakes.
01:19:40.360Every police officer in America should read this book right now.
01:19:45.160Every police officer, every sheriff's, uh, deputy, everybody in the fight, anyone, anyone in law enforcement should be reading this book.
01:19:56.340If you want to do something nice for your police department, uh, go buy several copies of this book and give it to your police department, uh, buy a copy, read it yourself, keep it in your car.
01:20:10.480And if you ever stopped by a cop, give it to them.
01:20:28.040No, it's probably the worst idea is to give it to them while they're giving you a ticket.
01:20:31.540But, uh, but by going to a police officer that you know, or going to your local police officers and just say, Hey guys, I mean, I know you guys don't need any of this, but I'm really concerned what I'm seeing around the rest of the country.
01:20:44.020And, uh, I don't know if you've ever read this, but in Poland, the police officers, there's a group of really good guys and the way they were manipulated, turned them into really bad guys.
01:21:12.700I think it's probably comes best from the police officers in this audience who know how important this would be giving it to other police officers.
01:21:19.040I think coming from some random person you just pulled over because their taillight is out would be, would be, yeah, relatively offensive.
01:21:25.160You might want to, or you could just, you could just drop ship from Amazon 10 copies to your local police department without a return address.
01:22:13.980We now have many of the secret testimonies of the people who are on television and in high-ranking positions saying, oh, no, we've got something.
01:22:24.840They under oath with Adam Schiff said, we don't have anything.
01:24:02.960Anyway, this is stimulating the housing market.
01:24:05.420And if you're thinking of buying or selling, it can't hurt to check out and try to find for the best real estate agent you can find in your area.
01:38:40.380Now, this is way beyond anything that any of us would want to happen to us way beyond, by the way, I'm going to give, I'm going to take a break.
01:38:51.020And then I'm going to come back and I'm going to tell you why Obamagate even exists.
01:44:49.860The case was going to be closed, and they informed the president at the White House, President Obama, on January 4th, 2017.
01:45:01.300So before the transition of power, on January 15th, the president called a meeting.
01:45:07.260In that meeting, according to records and now testimony, Rice was in there, FBI Director Comey, Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, Sally Yates, Brennan, Clapper, Biden, and Obama.
01:45:25.680They're all in this meeting, and they're all called in to discuss General Flynn.
01:45:32.240And he says, we got a deal from the FBI.
01:47:08.640They were trying to set up a super secret back channel with Russia.
01:47:13.700But here's what the documents actually proved after the investigation.
01:47:19.160They were about ascertaining the Trump's team's view of the region and sharing the UAE's view of the region and what the U.S. role should be.
01:47:29.800No one was coming in to sell anything or arrange anything.
01:47:32.460That's according to the people that were in the meeting.
01:48:35.020What did you know and what do you know about any Russian collusion?
01:48:40.540James Clapper, quote, I never saw any direct imperial evidence that Trump or the campaign or someone in it was plotting or conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.