Glenn Beck is back from the holidays and ready to bring in the new year. He talks about his trip to Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration, and why he thinks New York City is a shadow of its former self.
00:04:19.900She's different than she was 18 or 24 months ago.
00:04:23.420And I'm not going to outline all the political, you know, changes, our economy, the status with other countries, you know, looming war, etc., etc.
00:04:32.040I think most of us are aware of all of those things.
00:04:35.900You know, if you go to McDonald's, how many of us have driven through the drive through and you've gotten a couple of hamburgers and they give you the price?
00:04:46.520I want to discuss the changes that I felt in the last couple of weeks.
00:04:53.140New York is a shadow of its former self.
00:04:58.000And there's a real divide in New York that I have not felt before.
00:05:03.100New York is pretty much they walk in lockstep.
00:05:07.120Now, I want to preface this with many times you see what you want to see or you, you know, you have a sample size so small it's meaningless to pull anything out of it.
00:06:14.060You know, and I did say to him, I am just probably not at the speed you're hoping.
00:06:21.100Anyway, I had a multitude of these encounters and they happen wherever I go to some degree or another.
00:06:29.000It's the positive comments that tended toward the unique, this time around, at least for New Yorkers.
00:06:38.700If I'm walking down Broadway or a place where, you know, there's tourists, I usually, people will call out, let it back, you know, or whatever.
00:06:51.080Outside of the tourist areas, that doesn't happen.
00:06:54.500And if you're outside of the tourist areas, the best response that I've ever gotten was, hey, don't look directly at me while I say this, but I'm a big fan of yours.
00:07:10.700I mean, that's the way New Yorkers usually do it.
00:07:13.360It's usually a whisper and it's never in a group.
00:07:17.680Until this time, I was approached by several self-identified, long-time, born-and-bred, die-hard liberal New Yorkers who shockingly, to my, I mean, I was just like, you know, there are people around you, right?
00:07:37.660I leaned in to a table or leaned in to me and loudly say, you know, I'm not a conservative and I used to make fun of you or, you know, I used to think you were crazy, whatever.
00:09:33.780But there seems to be no end to the politicians in Washington that are willing to sell our sons and daughters into financial slavery to the highest bidder.
00:09:42.740I sense that people are waking up and not necessarily becoming conservative, but are becoming American again.
00:09:58.000They have more faith in each other, in themselves, their families.
00:17:00.980Tonight on my Wednesday night special,
00:17:03.480We return with the conservative agenda for 2023, at least what it should be.
00:17:10.460I am sick and tired of the Republican Party and they shoot themselves in the foot.
00:17:17.680And if they're not shooting themselves in the foot, they're shooting us in the back.
00:17:20.780The historic non-election of the Speaker of the House yesterday confirmed there are some competing priorities in the Republican Party right now.
00:18:57.880If that wasn't a direct betrayal, every single one of those senators who voted for that omnibus bill should be remembered when it comes time for re-election.
00:19:20.600You took all of the power away from Congress, the only branch you have.
00:19:25.820You took all the power away from the Republicans in Congress to actually not do extremist stuff,
00:19:33.580but actually pass a budget so we could go back to pulling things apart and saying, you know what?
00:19:41.720No, we're going to pass this part of the budget, but we're not doing this part.
00:19:45.480We're not going to fund this, but we will fund this.
00:19:48.160It took away all of the opportunity that all of us work so hard to go out and get these Republicans elected so they could go and do something and stop the out-of-control spending and the madness of 80,000 new IRS agents and all kinds of slop being taught to our children.
00:20:11.340Everyone, they took that off the table.
00:20:25.900We have one shot, one shot of exposing what is going on in the DOJ, what is going on with the Treasury, what is going on in the administration with ESG, the public-private partnerships, what's happened at the CDC.
00:20:50.400You know, I want to talk a little bit about what happened on Monday night with Monday Night Football.
00:31:38.360You know, and I think even through the midst of absolute tragedy last night, I think you saw some of the beauty of football as well, that it's brought us all here together.
00:31:47.240You know, like, this is a little bit different.
00:31:49.660I heard, I've heard it all day, like thoughts and prayers.
00:31:51.980And you just heard Scherf and Jonathan Allen say, like, all we can do is pray for him.
00:31:55.460And I've heard the Buffalo Bills organization say that we believe in prayer.
00:31:59.080And maybe this is not the right thing to do, but I want to, it's just on my heart that I want to pray for.
00:32:07.860I'm going to bow my head and I'm just going to pray for him.
00:32:12.060God, we come to you in these moments that we don't understand, that are hard, because we believe that your God and coming to you and praying to you has impact.
00:32:27.200And we want answers, but some things are unanswerable.
00:32:31.240We just want to pray, truly come to you and pray for strength for DeMar, for healing for DeMar, for comfort for DeMar, to be with his family, to give them peace.
00:32:43.600If we didn't believe that prayer didn't work, we wouldn't ask this of you, God.
00:33:14.940If you look at the stats, according to Dr. McCullough, who is a world famous, probably one of the most respected and decorated cardiologists in history, Peter McCullough.
00:33:28.900He published a paper, and I shouldn't say it that way, because it was just an op-ed.
00:39:37.200This is something, this type of story is this type of story that requires deep reporting on, you know, a bunch of different aspects of it.
00:39:49.040And it's, you know, people were reacting to the NFL and how they said, well, they're going to be back on the field in five minutes.
00:39:55.520And it's like, well, they are denying they ever said that.
00:39:59.000You know, I have someone I know who, you know, works with the NFL.
00:40:02.840And they were basically like, look, at every game, there's one guy that is in the stadium that has a giant binder that basically has every option for every crazy thing that could happen.
00:40:26.160Like, but you, and it was like listed as something like, and this isn't a quote from the NFL or anything, but it was basically something like, okay, well, you got to make sure that they get five minutes to warm up.
00:40:36.180And like somehow that filters to ESPN who says they want to start this game in five minutes.
00:42:53.940Standing up for what you believe in is challenging, but there are basic things that we can all do,
00:42:57.800like buying from companies that believe what you and I believe.
00:43:01.520We need to stick together now more than ever.
00:43:04.200And there has been one mobile phone company willing to stand with you in defense of liberty and religious freedom and educational freedom since 2012.
00:46:39.180Like, yes, I understand what the Constitution says.
00:46:42.160To be consistent with the spirit of the Constitution, we should all easily agree to pass a law that says nobody who is a sitting congressman or a staff member or anyone related to a sitting congressman can go.
00:49:22.660There are far too many things that are going on in Ukraine that we need answers on.
00:49:28.580But you're never going to get the answers if you can't ask the questions.
00:49:33.540This is why I said last hour with ESPN and what happened on Monday Night Football was the fact that people started saying, well, it's the vaccine.
00:49:45.680Well, you don't know it's the vaccine.
00:50:24.060If that wasn't if it was the vaccine, we should know that.
00:50:27.600I don't know if we're going to know right away what the effects of the vaccine are, because usually they go through 10 years of trials on humans.
00:51:15.660The College of Psychologists of Ontario is now investigating clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson over criticism of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:51:28.880The association confirmed on its Web site that it released a decision November 22nd requiring Peterson to complete a specified continuing education or remedial program, a coaching program designed to address concerns about an individual's public conduct.
00:51:50.000Peterson says the investigation is due to his retweeting a retweeting of an opposition candidate for prime minister.
00:51:57.760However, I'm going to take a course of such training with reports documenting my progress or face an all in-person tribunal and suspension of my right to operate as a licensed clinical psychologist, Peterson tweeted.
00:52:16.300Once you have once you have once you have an inquisition run by doctors, what's the difference between an inquisition run by doctors and one by run by the church?
00:52:34.240Twenty twenty three needs to be a year of questions asked and answered.
00:52:39.200You used to get criticized all the time back in the day, be like, oh, he's just asking questions, you know, and they would try to say that that was your way of insinuating some false theory, right?
00:53:05.940Like, you know, asking honest questions that you really want to find the answer to.
00:53:11.040And like, you know, one of the things that's hanging on just before you go on that, what is an honest question?
00:53:14.660So in case you don't know, an honest question is something that you ask that if they respond in any way and it is verifiable in any way that you disagree with, you will change your opinion or your action accordingly.
00:53:34.120Yeah, you're open to what the answer might be, right?
00:53:37.860I think a lot of people, and people do this all the time, but like you ask a question basically trying to reinforce a prior belief, right?
00:53:45.120And that's not the way you get to real answers.
00:53:47.960It's also impossible to get to a real answer if you treat things that way.
00:53:52.260And the human brain is wired to do that, right?
00:53:54.720Like, everyone, once you believe something, you kind of like look for ways to continue to believe it.
00:54:00.460That's very well studied and, you know.
00:54:27.340Like, when, this is an example we brought up before, but like, when all the, COVID is breaking, and the society is shutting down, and all this is going on, Mike Lindell, of all people, reforms his factories to help and make masks for people because we couldn't find them.
00:54:53.040The people who were still like, mask, this is the greatest thing that saved everybody.
00:54:56.840Instead of making pillows and slippers, he decided, you know what, I'm going to help out, and we're just going to start making masks in mass just to help people get through this time.
00:55:05.860And over time, there was a somewhat rational initial reaction, right?
00:55:10.780Like, people were like, okay, well, masks, maybe that will help.
00:55:13.200Doctors wear them, maybe this will help.
00:55:14.900And over time, the evidence showed pretty clearly that unless you got an N95 mask, it's probably not doing much of anything.
00:55:21.540Certainly a bandana is doing very little, right?
00:55:24.280But it became a cultish belief by the media and by the left in a lot of these blue states that you were killing grandma if you didn't have your bandana on.
00:55:36.520And instead of looking at the evidence over time and changing your belief, people decided their belief was set in stone and they were never going to change again.
00:56:04.340The other side of that are the people who just bought the political answer and will not be influenced by honest questions and honest answers.
00:56:29.740And certainly stopped – and this is the biggest part of all of this – certainly stopped requiring people to go down these roads.
00:56:36.320I mean, you know, I think you mentioned before that, like, if people were honest and they were, you know, more forthright about some of the, you know, maybe the vaccine didn't work as perfectly as they thought initially and all that stuff, that would have helped the situation.
00:56:48.000And I think that's true, but I think the biggest thing about it is if you didn't force people to take it.
00:56:54.540You know, when people are making their own decisions, if that decision, just like this, you know, DeMar Hamlin, like, he made a decision to play in the NFL, it may wind up causing him massive health problems.
01:00:18.900But probably the most divisive thing he said, this was a really, really good speech.
01:00:25.360He is a deep, deep thinker, and I like him.
01:00:30.060It's funny because I was at dinner with him on Monday night, and he and his wife and my son and I, and we were sitting there, and she looks over at me and she says,
01:00:40.360so what is it you like about my husband, and you know, when somebody says that you have many options in front of you, I always travel the least traveled path.
01:00:52.300And I said to Ron, I grabbed his arm, patted a bit, and said, no offense to you, but the thing I like the most about him is you.
01:01:04.880Casey is a brilliant, brilliant woman.
01:02:51.400These days, your personal information is floating around all over the place on the Internet.
01:02:55.800Wait until I get, it's probably been a couple of weeks, but wait until I get to whammy.
01:03:00.580Some new technology you're going to love.
01:03:03.220Anyway, there is, we're in this era of social media where platforms like Instagram have become the top apps cyber criminals are, you know, running their online scams with.
01:03:15.760You need to be prepared for as many popular possibilities as possible.
01:03:21.500You need people like LifeLock protecting you.
01:03:34.100And if you don't have the basic line of defense, you're going to end up having your information hacked into and used against you and possibly to a devastating effect.
01:04:35.300We're engaged in yet another series of meetings this morning.
01:04:39.100We were here until midnight last night at the Capitol, and we're going to continue to fight for the people that sent us here to fight for them.
01:04:44.840Well, A, I appreciate that, and I hope that America responds.
01:04:50.120I think the Carl Rove's of the world are thinking that people like you are going to get a lot of calls and deluge at your office today saying,
01:05:04.620I think the other is going to happen because I'm done, Chip, I'm done.
01:05:09.000When the Senate passed the omnibus bill, I was done.
01:05:15.760If you guys don't have the freedom to investigate and the teeth and the backbone to actually do things in the interest of all Americans, why did we vote for any Republicans?
01:05:35.880People have been asking, like, what's the message?
01:05:37.500I tried to deliver a message on the floor of the House last night that what we're fighting for are the tools and the leadership necessary to stop the swamp from rolling over the average American who are sick and tired of seeing this town undermine their freedom, spend money we don't have, and continue to violate every promise they've ever made in the campaign.
01:05:59.660I'm going to come up and I'm going to cut spending.
01:06:04.660You saw what happened unfold with that ridiculous $1.7 trillion bill.
01:06:09.900There was no real significant pushback from the House leadership when Mitch McConnell stuck it to the American people, made it impossible for us to secure the border, took away our leverage, and did it so that the current D.C. establishment could get what they wanted in terms of a big spending bill for the defense complex and to jam through something that the American people didn't want.
01:06:35.700So, now, will those of you who are mounting this battle, is there a compromise McCarthy could make?
01:06:49.060So, I would have told you 48 hours ago that the answer to that question was yes.
01:06:55.860The problem is, is there is a growing group of hardcore no votes against Kevin because of the way things unfolded yesterday at the Republican conference meeting in which Mike Rogers stood up and threatened members from losing their committees.
01:07:10.460And when lies were being told about what was behind the motives of members seeking, quote, petty personal privileges and being on certain committees, which was a total lie.
01:07:22.840Because members offered in good faith, all right, put me on the appropriations committee.
01:07:27.300I don't want to be on the appropriations committee, but I'll do it, right?
01:07:32.940I said, sure, put my name on the rules committee as someone who would do it.
01:07:35.820Even though I don't want to fly away from my home and miss my family on Sunday night and fly up here to be here on Monday mornings to set the rules.
01:07:41.940And the rules committee is the funnel through which all things get to the floor.
01:07:46.080The fight in 1923, when there were nine rounds of votes for the speaker, the culmination of that was a complete change of the rules committee because it's so powerful.
01:07:55.420It's a secret committee kind of that nobody knows about that just sits there and decides what bills get to the floor, what's in them, and what it looks like.
01:08:03.200So we had a debate about that, and then people lied about it.
01:08:06.460So now you've got a bunch of members that are saying, you know what?
01:08:10.340I'm not going to be able to vote for the guy.
01:08:12.020Now, that being said, Glenn, literally the conversations I had until midnight last night and this morning is trying to work in good faith on how to change the institution.
01:08:20.560I, speaking for myself, would there be a path for me to get there?
01:08:24.200But the path for me requires us to be able to control the ability of the control of the legislation that gets to the floor and stop something like that omnibus bill in December.
01:08:38.180May I just break this down for idiots like me?
01:08:41.140I think what you're saying is because I was stunned when I saw you all sitting in the chamber yesterday.
01:08:46.640I'm like, wow, I haven't seen that since turn of the century.
01:08:49.380The problem is all of these bills are being done behind closed doors by just a small group, and then it's brought to the floor not for discussion but for a vote.
01:09:09.560The progress we've made over the last 60 days to get rules is not because Kevin was standing up trying to figure out, oh, I've got these great ideas on how to make the place better.
01:09:19.220It was because some of us, five in particular publicly, that were no's, said they weren't going to support Kevin.
01:09:25.140And then another seven of us signed a letter saying, here are the kinds of things we want to see change.
01:09:29.700That forced the conversation to get changed.
01:09:32.440Now these guys are running around saying, well, we gave you everything you want.
01:09:36.480You gave us some things that will be an improvement, but you didn't give us the key things, which is what is necessary to stop big bills that the defense world and the liberals among Democrats jam through.
01:09:52.340Remember and consider, Kevin voted in the minority with more Democrats than Republicans on multiple bills over the last decade.
01:10:00.420Since he has been in Republican leadership, the debt has gone from $11 trillion to $32 trillion.
01:10:06.120He voted, for example, for good Latin.
01:10:12.120Tell me what the specifics are that have to be changed, because I think people need to know specifically, what are we fighting for?
01:10:21.180The key thing that I believe needs to change is that we have to have people on the rules committee who reflect the conservatives who send Republicans to Washington to change the town.
01:10:39.780Is that we need conservatives, enough conservatives.
01:10:42.940I'm not saying put every Freedom Caucus member on there.
01:10:45.380I'm saying you need to have actual conservatives who will stand up in defense of the American people from the big spending in this town, be on the committees that actually determine what gets to the floor, combined with the changes to the rules that we are partway down the road and getting of opening up the floor so we can have amendments and debate on the floor so that we can kill this stuff.
01:11:09.500So we're kind of halfway there, but halfway there ain't there, and so if they're not going to work with us to get us there, then that's the problem, and yesterday damaged that and may have created an environment where there's too many guys here who are saying, we can't cut a deal with Kevin.
01:12:49.100So if we're cutting a deal with Kevin, we better damn well get the rules that will box him in.
01:12:55.060Otherwise, you've got to have a deal with a leader who you can trust to break the swamp, to break the cartel that's destroying our country, spending money we don't have, leaving our borders open, continuing to empower bureaucrats that undermine our freedom.
01:13:08.340The tools we need have to give us the tools to stop continuing to do the same thing we've been doing over and over again, while every single Republican goes back in campaigns and then comes to this godforsaken town and throws our country down the drain and undermines everything that the men and women in uniform have fought so valiantly to save for our kids and our grandkids.
01:13:29.920Do you have are you fighting for or do you already have enough power of investigation to be able to answer the questions that must be answered this year must be answered?
01:13:46.580So I would say we had we were going way down the path of organizing and we have the fire and we're ready to go after a lot of the entities that need to Jim Jordan and Judiciary Committee, for example.
01:13:57.560And we've already been having lots of conversations and meetings.
01:25:10.660It's probably more than that altogether, but under their direct leadership, $8 trillion.
01:25:20.600Now, they had some preliminary agreements with the head of state and Larry Fink.
01:25:29.280The BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise Ukrainian government on how to structure the country's reconstruction funds.
01:25:38.600So I just want to know that Ukraine comes, and they want money for this war, and our government gives them money, and we don't send any accountants to track that money.
01:25:55.980Then BlackRock starts working with their government and says, we'll help you use that money.
01:26:03.340Hmm, that doesn't sound like there's anything we should be watching here, does it?
01:26:09.300He agreed with Larry Fink to focus on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of their country, channeling investments into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy.
01:26:27.760During the conversation, it was emphasized that BlackRock leaders plan to visit Ukraine in the next year.
01:26:40.860They are going in and looking after the allocated funds, and they're going to advise on structuring the reconstruction projects for Ukraine.
01:26:56.180So why has Ukraine become such a big deal?
01:27:05.620If you go back in time, do you remember?
01:27:09.000Ukraine was a big deal under Obama with Biden.
01:27:49.660Now, is it because we are strategically using Ukraine to dismantle Russia because there is a fight for a new world order?
01:28:03.600And it is either going to be the World Economic Forum's world order or the world order of the communists in China or the Putin's of the world.
01:28:15.160And that is a national socialistic kind of nation.
01:28:20.720Or what the World Economic Forum is going for is an international socialistic sort of program.
01:28:40.940When the state and the business collude with one another and the government tells business what they're going to do and what they're not going to do.
01:28:52.740And it's all privately owned, but it's a public-private partnership.
01:28:57.200That is the literal definition of fascism.
01:29:00.780This is what we went through in World War.
01:34:22.180And there's probably no stopping it now, you know, unless we had Congress on our side, which don't count on that one.
01:34:31.360But that is extraordinarily dangerous.
01:34:34.540What part of that technology are you talking about when you say the part of technology?
01:34:39.780What they're building now is low-altitude satellites in a string that can monitor one place all the time.
01:34:52.240So because the satellites move, you need a string of them.
01:34:56.220So it's constantly trained on New York City and can lock in on New York City continually 24 hours a day.
01:35:04.400And then it will have parameters through the algorithm of that's unusual, that's not right.
01:35:10.380And it can, you know, it can read your, you know, the back of your credit card from space.
01:35:16.820And the algorithm will say something terrorist activity, something illegal may be happening, and it can automatically gin down, zoom in on any area, alert the police, alert the feds, or it can zoom in.
01:35:32.360And if it can't get close enough, all through algorithm, it will then start to use the local cameras all the way to your cell phones and be able to see exactly what's going on everywhere in that area.
01:35:55.680But that is now coming soon to a world near you.
01:36:03.060And even, I know you, I think I understand what you meant by this, but you said, you know, oh, this is definitely going to happen unless Congress gets on our side.
01:36:10.360But even if Congress was a Congress that respected the Constitution, China's is not.
01:36:16.420Someone eventually is going to do this.
01:36:17.780No, somebody is going to do it, and that is the excuse that all of them use.
01:36:20.740Look, China is going to do it, so we better do it too.
01:36:22.800The problem, the problem with it is once you have it, no, no one, no one ever gives that power up.
01:37:18.480I've been reading up on it lately and it's a little terrifying.
01:37:23.440The stuff that we've talked about it for years and said, one of these days.
01:37:29.520Well, when I say one of these days, it could be in the next six months that these things begin to come online.
01:37:37.320I'm a little disturbed that if they're calling it whammy, are they naming it after the creature that steals your points on press your luck?
01:39:23.200These rounds commemorate the four hundredth year of the landing of the mayflower.
01:39:27.400They are beautiful and they have the crest of the United States, the seal of the United States, as designed by Benjamin Franklin, which is totally different on the back of each.
01:39:39.640Call them at eight six six gold line eight six six gold line or gold line dot com.
01:39:44.400OK, so in mid through late December, the United Nations hosted its COP 15 international meeting on biodiversity.
01:40:07.520And they did this right before Christmas, you know, because they knew everybody was paying attention.
01:40:12.860And, you know, we want to make sure everybody understands what we just did.
01:40:16.320The last day of the conference, the member nations adopted, in the words of Reuters, quote, a landmark global deal to protect nature and direct billions of dollars towards conservative conservation.
01:40:31.240The Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, reflecting the joint leadership of China and Canada, is the culmination of four years of work toward creating an agreement to guide global conservation efforts efforts through 2030.
01:40:51.580Delegates were able to build a consensus around the deal's most ambitious target of protecting 30 percent of the world's land and seas by the decade's end.
01:41:05.200The Canadian environment and climate climate change minister called the agreement a major win for our planet and all of humanity, charging a new course away from the relentless destruction of habitats and species.
01:41:19.640Hmm. The deal directs countries to allocate 200 billion dollars per year for biodiversity initiatives and from both the public and private sectors, as well as to conserve massive amounts of land and water to reach the global goal of 30 percent of land and water conserved globally by 2030.
01:41:40.920The other parts, they want to cut food waste in half to reduce overconsumption, reduce by half both excess nutrients and overall risk posed by pesticides and hazardous chemicals.
01:42:07.920Progressively face out or reform by 2030 subsidies that harm biodiversity by at least 500 billion dollars a year while scaling up positive incentives for biodiversity's conservation and sustainable use.
01:42:22.320Ensure that areas under agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry are managed sustainably, in particular through the use of sustainable biodiversity programs,
01:42:35.920including through a substantial increase of the application of biodiversity-friendly practices.
01:42:49.940By the way, the Biden administration, a big part of this agreement, has already adopted its own 30 by 30 conservation goal in the United States.
01:42:59.620It's all ESG and the Great Reset at Work.
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01:44:34.320Where do you stand on this McCarthy issue, Stu?
01:44:37.880I think it was coming in the most likely thing that McCarthy would win.
01:44:45.420However, his approach seemed to be he gave a lot of ground, as even Chip Roy mentioned, some important things, and then got really angry about it.
01:44:53.440And his closing argument to everyone who was opposing him was, F you.
01:44:59.460I was shocked Dan Crenshaw said, you're an enemy if you don't vote for him.