The Glenn Beck Program - Nobody Wants War ｜ Guests： Lt. Gov Ken Paxton, Andrew Wilkow, & Philip K. Howard ｜ 7⧸11⧸19

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00:00:08.480 There is a lot to discuss today, and one of the things I want to start with is Iran.

00:00:15.480 What the hell is happening with Iran?

00:00:19.140 Also, this hour, we have the Attorney General of the state of Texas, Ken Paxton, with us to talk to us about the lawsuit that Texas is currently engaged in and the Trump administration has just joined that could overturn the entire Obamacare system.

00:00:44.700 And the way I read it, it looks like John Roberts, because of the contortions that he went through to try to get that thing to hold together, it may actually now fall apart because of that.

00:01:00.640 We'll talk to Ken Paxton coming up.

00:01:03.340 First, Iran. And what are they doing? In one minute. 0.99

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00:02:55.400 There is a really, there's something happening with the acceptance of gay sex.

00:03:16.520 It's in decline in the U.K.

00:03:18.620 That is the big story today.

00:03:20.300 But there was another story that came out in a study in the United States over the holiday weekend that I also want to share with you.

00:03:27.300 It's a new Harris poll.

00:03:28.980 Something has changed, and I think I know what it is.

00:03:33.740 And to me, it makes total sense.

00:03:36.320 The left is like, what is happening?

00:03:38.280 Those polls can't be right.

00:03:39.640 In fact, I think it makes total sense.

00:03:42.420 And I'll give it to you here in just a second.

00:03:44.240 What doesn't make sense to me today, unless Iran wants war, is what's happening with Iran. 0.55

00:03:51.360 In the last few weeks, they have shot down a U.S. drone.

00:03:55.800 We almost had war on that.

00:03:58.200 Thank goodness Donald Trump changed his mind at the last minute.

00:04:01.440 Then, before that, they had mined two oil tankers.

00:04:09.320 So they blew up two oil tankers.

00:04:12.160 Last night, the British went and boarded a ship, took a ship that they said was full of Iranian oil, which is illegal to ship it to Syria.

00:04:26.080 So it's in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:04:28.900 The British, I think they had a frigate or was it a frigate or battleship that came and blocked it.

00:04:38.300 30 Royal Marines boarded, took over the ship.

00:04:41.820 Iran said they're going to pay a heavy price for this.

00:04:45.040 We'll see.

00:04:45.800 What are they doing?

00:04:47.920 We have Jason Buttrell with us.

00:04:49.480 And Jason has the latest.

00:04:52.640 He oversees our research and our foreign affairs and military affairs around the world.

00:04:58.520 Jason, what are they doing?

00:05:01.920 Iran's doing what they always do every time they deploy any kind of military asset, which is usually by the IRGC.

00:05:07.880 And they are a non-conventional force.

00:05:10.680 So I think it's very, very important to understand that Iran does not want war.

00:05:15.440 The United States does not want war.

00:05:17.360 General McMaster said it the best.

00:05:20.460 He said there's two ways to fight the United States military, non-conventionally and stupidly.

00:05:26.180 Nobody is going into a conventional war with the United States, not the United States Navy and not in that area.

00:05:32.140 And Iran knows this.

00:05:33.200 The IRGC knows this.

00:05:34.500 What they do want to do, the non-conventional things they do want to do is they want to use elements like the IRGC or Hezbollah or all the little Shia militias to harass, 0.94

00:05:42.920 to do whatever they can to make it so economically painful in that area that they want to force us to the negotiating table.

00:05:51.180 It's no coincidence that, you know, the Iran, they collaborated with the North Koreans to get their nuclear program up to speed.

00:05:58.720 Now they are using the exact same strategy of, I'm the crazy guy.

00:06:03.900 You don't know what I'm going to do.

00:06:06.080 The Khomeini is pulling a Kim Jong-un. 1.00

00:06:07.860 Do they realize that that's the strategy of Donald Trump?

00:06:14.100 Right.

00:06:14.480 I'm the crazy guy.

00:06:15.900 Right.

00:06:16.160 I just might send the nukes over to you.

00:06:18.820 And I think.

00:06:19.360 I mean, yeah.

00:06:20.060 He's the last guy you screw with.

00:06:22.660 For sure.

00:06:23.260 They don't know what he's going to do.

00:06:24.980 And that's kind of one of the geniuses of the Trump doctrine there is they have no idea.

00:06:29.380 I agree.

00:06:30.400 He's very unpredictable.

00:06:31.980 That's why they're doing a lot of probing right now.

00:06:34.120 They had no idea how Trump was going to respond to downing of an unmanned drone.

00:06:37.760 They had no idea.

00:06:38.860 So they probed.

00:06:39.640 They had no idea how he would respond to a couple of tankers with those ridiculous limpant mines where they stuck. 0.90

00:06:46.380 That was not meant to cause any real damage.

00:06:48.840 That was supposed to seem.

00:06:50.440 What should he be doing, Jason?

00:06:53.860 Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions.

00:06:55.840 He's doing exactly what he's supposed to do.

00:06:57.920 Exactly.

00:06:58.560 Like this swarming attack was not serious.

00:07:01.780 It was not serious at all because the Iranians knew, just as we knew, that there were naval vessels all over the place out there.

00:07:08.220 They knew that they would be on them instantaneously.

00:07:11.160 And that's exactly what happened.

00:07:12.640 What they're trying to do is they're trying to drive up the insurance costs of oil tankers going through that strait so incredibly high.

00:07:18.920 That the companies, that the world, that governments will say, look, Trump, please go to the negotiating table.

00:07:26.040 Get this under control.

00:07:27.200 That's what they want.

00:07:27.960 There's some facts right now that are coming out of the Iranian economy.

00:07:32.220 Their inflation rate just topped 50%.

00:07:34.040 Now, the last time they were forced to the negotiating table, it wasn't even anywhere near 50%.

00:07:38.920 And then Rouhani was guaranteeing to the people that he was going to drop it below 20%.

00:07:43.340 But now it's topping 50%, and the people are going crazy in Iran. 0.91

00:07:48.060 You're already seeing us.

00:07:49.240 Just for the average person, imagine a loaf of bread being 50% higher than it is today in less than a year.

00:07:58.860 Imagine the cost of everything that you have going up 50% in less than a year.

00:08:07.540 People would be on the streets.

00:08:09.840 Now, they're not on the streets currently because the crackdowns are so bad.

00:08:15.080 But this is the kind of thing that helped the United States collapse the Soviet Union.

00:08:20.860 We pressured them.

00:08:23.520 We sanctioned them.

00:08:24.920 We drove them into bankruptcy.

00:08:26.820 And then at the same time, we were helping the people on the streets of Poland through the church.

00:08:34.620 And also, because we had a great ally in Margaret Thatcher, our operatives were also in helping those people organize and try to overthrow the government, which they did.

00:08:47.920 That's exactly right.

00:08:49.200 You're exactly right, Glenn.

00:08:50.560 Speaking of food prices, and that's one of the biggest things that always brings people out into the streets in Iran.

00:08:55.580 Man, the jump in food staples is absolutely insane.

00:08:58.860 85% increase since May.

00:09:04.400 85%.

00:09:04.720 That's why you're seeing all this aggression from Iran right now. 0.99

00:09:07.900 And I tell you what, it's going to get worse.

00:09:09.960 And the key thing for us is to be not hyperbolic about it.

00:09:13.560 The Trump administration needs to not respond overly aggressive.

00:09:17.000 The Iranians are being very, very careful. 1.00

00:09:18.540 But it's going to get worse.

00:09:20.060 They're going to use people like Hezbollah, groups like all their different militias in Iraq, for instance, that are going to get very, very close to, let's say, the U.S. Embassy, the Green Zone in Baghdad.

00:09:31.120 They're going to get very, very close to U.S. troops in Syria.

00:09:33.740 But if there's ever a—this is where it could change.

00:09:36.040 If they mess up, if there is a loss of life between U.S. personnel, allied personnel, that's when this thing could escalate.

00:09:44.660 They're playing a very, very dangerous game with this escalation.

00:09:47.780 But as long as it doesn't, if it stays like it is now, like drones getting knocked out.

00:09:52.740 Okay, yeah, that sucks.

00:09:53.980 It's very, very expensive.

00:09:54.900 That drone that got hit was that last—a couple weeks ago was more expensive than F-22, crying out loud.

00:10:02.480 Those things are expensive.

00:10:04.620 But as long as they don't cause any loss of life or they don't—let's say if they don't sink a tanker, then this will not escalate.

00:10:11.620 But the Trump administration needs to hold the line here.

00:10:13.800 Continue with what you're doing.

00:10:14.940 Keep those sanctions going.

00:10:16.340 The Iranian people will do this for him.

00:10:18.580 They really will.

00:10:19.460 Yes.

00:10:19.720 I think that cooler heads prevailed.

00:10:26.300 And I don't think Donald Trump—I mean, you know, the left is trying to make him look like a warmonger.

00:10:30.400 He is always against war.

00:10:33.340 He's always been against interventionalist thinking.

00:10:37.600 Even though he has John Bolton, you know, I really believe that he is a guy that doesn't believe we should be involved everywhere.

00:10:45.360 He has a very long record of that.

00:10:47.740 And so I think when he, you know, when he figured out or when somebody came to him and said, look, look, look, look, no loss of life.

00:10:58.260 This will be just an endless bloodbath.

00:11:01.940 It'll not be good if we go in.

00:11:04.280 We're on the right track.

00:11:05.920 They're only doing this because we're on the right track.

00:11:09.500 I think his true colors showed that he is not a guy that wants this kind of confrontation.

00:11:21.020 And it amazes me that they all say that he's such a warmonger and he's surrounded by warmongers.

00:11:27.780 John Bolton is there.

00:11:29.820 Have you read anything about what John Bolton is saying about this?

00:11:33.060 What is his recommendation?

00:11:34.180 I haven't heard him say anything publicly on it lately, but I think John Bolton plays perfectly into if this really is a strategy by by by President Trump.

00:11:44.820 But I think it's genius to put a guy like John Bolton at the head of the Pentagon.

00:11:50.080 It's absolutely genius because it plays into that unpredictability.

00:11:54.320 Now, if it has no weight, if you have I don't know, you know, if you have a pacifist up in there, you can't play the doctrine of, look, you don't know what I'm going to do.

00:12:02.940 I'm going to strike at any time.

00:12:03.940 You can't play that.

00:12:04.920 But everybody in the media ever, all of his opponents, everyone has been saying, oh, warmonger, warmonger.

00:12:09.960 He just wants to go to go to war.

00:12:11.840 That's good.

00:12:12.280 That's great.

00:12:12.880 Exactly.

00:12:13.320 It's great.

00:12:14.540 It's good.

00:12:15.060 And we know by now is we have we have always said for I don't know how long.

00:12:20.720 Oh, man, why do we tell everybody exactly what we're going to do?

00:12:24.680 Why do we tell everybody in advance?

00:12:26.600 That doesn't work to our advantage.

00:12:28.960 That almost guarantees the conflict where here you don't know where the line is.

00:12:36.940 You don't know what he's going to do.

00:12:38.720 His his record shows that he is somebody that just does not want war, doesn't want us to be involved in the Middle East.

00:12:48.660 He's on record saying destabilizing the Middle East was exactly the wrong thing.

00:12:54.060 He's been against the Iraq war.

00:12:56.340 He was against the the surge.

00:13:00.200 He was against what we were doing in Benghazi was against what we're doing in Syria.

00:13:06.400 He wrapped it up quickly with ISIS. 0.89

00:13:10.540 I mean, this guy has every bit of record saying I don't want to do this.

00:13:14.640 And he because he's surrounding himself with the best military minds.

00:13:19.780 He is peace through strength.

00:13:22.360 I look I want peace and I think this is a great example.

00:13:26.460 And Reagan, I think, was this way that it's a great example of look, I don't want to fight a war.

00:13:33.700 But if we have to, oh, I'm going to fight it to win and we'll obliterate you in the first 10 minutes.

00:13:41.540 That's the attitude the American president should always have.

00:13:46.600 I don't want war.

00:13:48.220 I have a long record of having a very patient and long fuse on this.

00:13:54.060 Don't do it.

00:13:55.100 Don't do it.

00:13:55.800 But if you start killing our people, I'm going to turn your sand into glass in about five minutes.

00:14:02.780 And then I'm going to go home and leave you with the message.

00:14:07.400 Don't screw with us.

00:14:09.620 We are your best friends, as the Declaration of Independence says.

00:14:13.360 We are your friends in peace and your worst enemy in war.

00:14:20.420 That's important.

00:14:21.360 Do you remember when John Bolton had that that that's supposed slip up when he had written when they're talking about Venezuela and it was written on the back.

00:14:29.340 Like five thousand U.S. troops or whatever.

00:14:31.700 Right.

00:14:32.240 So that's exactly proving our theory here.

00:14:35.200 There's no way that was a mistake.

00:14:37.560 That was a will he or will he not?

00:14:40.280 Because, you know, I'm, you know, the mustachioed one.

00:14:42.540 I'm John Bolton.

00:14:43.280 I'll do it.

00:14:43.760 I'll do it.

00:14:44.520 Yeah.

00:14:44.740 No, no, no.

00:14:45.320 Yeah.

00:14:45.540 I want to do it.

00:14:46.560 Please let me do it.

00:14:47.600 I want to do it.

00:14:48.400 I want to send the troops.

00:14:49.760 So state John.

00:14:50.520 I know John Bolton.

00:14:52.300 John Bolton is one of the most buttoned up guys ever.

00:14:55.500 Right.

00:14:56.040 Ever for him to walk in and have send five thousand troops to Venezuela on the back of a notebook that he's holding right directly towards the press is just ridiculous.

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00:17:04.060 So, Jason, let me ask you one more question about Iran, then I want to switch the subject.

00:17:21.760 When it comes to Iran, how much do you think the elites, especially the religious council, actually believe in the 12th Amman and the destruction of Israel?

00:17:41.060 How much do you think they actually believe that?

00:17:43.200 I think that's the majority of the Mullahs. 0.99

00:17:45.380 We know that's the Ayatollah, so all of their religious elite, and I think that's probably 95% of the IRGC, which is very, very dangerous. 0.93

00:17:55.180 Okay, that's the Iranian Republican Guard, right?

00:17:58.740 Right.

00:17:58.980 They're the ones that answer only to the Ayatollah.

00:18:02.680 I would say the Mullahs and the Ayatollah, but pretty much only to the Ayatollah.

00:18:05.820 They operate basically as a separate government, which, again, is very, very dangerous.

00:18:09.320 They don't answer.

00:18:10.100 You know, it was not too long ago, their foreign minister, Javad Zarif, tried to retire, but the president, Rouhani, didn't let him do it.

00:18:17.920 And the reason being, is what everyone thinks, is because the IRGC is just doing their own foreign policy.

00:18:21.980 He's like, why don't we even have a Department of State over here?

00:18:23.760 Because they're just doing whatever they want to do.

00:18:25.860 They are operating, and it's crazy because it offers them deniability.

00:18:29.720 They're like, no, we didn't send those ships out to seize that British tanker.

00:18:33.640 They probably had no idea that that was going on.

00:18:35.900 That was all IRGC, and they are pretty much all 12-er Shiites, which is pretty dang scary once you know what they want to do. 1.00

00:18:45.100 They want to bathe the world in blood.

00:18:46.880 That's what they want to do.

00:18:48.960 So imagine if we had—this is a great explanation, I think, a good conversation to have.

00:18:55.520 If you want to understand Iran, imagine if we had our federal government, and then above the federal government, there was this group of religious fanatics.

00:19:08.940 And I don't care what religion they were, but they believed—let's say they were Christians—and they believed they could hasten the return of Jesus.

00:19:16.720 And they had ultimate control.

00:19:20.240 So they had an army of their own, and they had all of the tools at their disposal.

00:19:29.200 So they could launch a nuke, if they wanted to, for their religious reasons. 0.57

00:19:34.920 They could go round up people on the street for religious reasons.

00:19:39.300 And the president and the Congress would have nothing to do with it, and if they really said anything bad about them, they would be rounded up and killed as well.

00:19:48.380 And all of the politicians were vetted before they could even run by this religious council.

00:19:55.800 That's what's happening in Iran.

00:19:57.680 That's the system of government that they have.

00:20:00.060 And it doesn't matter what the people believe.

00:20:04.060 What matters is what that ruling council believes.

00:20:09.140 And those are mullahs, and they are the religious fanatics. 1.00

00:20:13.200 And that's why you can't allow them to have the nuclear bomb.

00:20:17.540 Because most rational people will say, you know what, we have it as a deterrent.

00:20:23.160 We have it because it'll make people listen to us, but we're never going to use it.

00:20:26.820 But the religious zealots, imagine if a bunch of Christians were running a country that was developing a nuclear weapon, 0.96

00:20:36.300 and those Christians were saying, it is my belief that if I launch a nuclear attack against another country,

00:20:46.740 that Jesus will come home soon, and we're just going to hasten the second coming. 0.78

00:20:52.340 And so we're doing the work of Jesus.

00:20:56.420 Would anyone take that country and say, ah, don't worry about it?

00:21:04.520 This is what's happening with Iran, and that's why America should pay attention to everything they're doing. 0.99

00:21:11.900 It goes well beyond oil, and it is not the same as Kim Jong-un having a nuclear weapon himself.

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00:23:55.520 I love this guy.

00:23:57.000 He is a pit bull, and he's going after Obamacare.

00:24:01.640 The Trump administration has joined this lawsuit, and there's a chance that the entire law is thrown out.

00:24:10.380 And we'll get his read on that coming up in just a second.

00:24:14.140 There's a couple of things.

00:24:15.100 A story that came out today from The Guardian, acceptance of gay sex is in decline in the U.K., the very first time since the AIDS crisis.

00:24:24.740 30 years, this is a story, 30 years of increasingly liberal attitude towards gay sex may be coming to an end after the number of people who said they considered it wrong rose for the first time since the AIDS crisis.

00:24:37.620 In 1987, when every household received somber leaflets warning, don't die of ignorance, nine out of ten people thought that there was something wrong with sexual relations between two adults of the same sex.

00:24:51.560 Nine out of ten.

00:24:52.880 This is during the height of the AIDS scare.

00:24:54.400 Every year since then, tolerance has increased, but now the British Social Attitude Survey has found the number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen, leaving a third of the population in some way opposed.

00:25:11.700 Now, think of that.

00:25:12.940 It was nine out of ten said there was something wrong.

00:25:16.260 Then it then every year it built more and more tolerance until it was in the in the vast majority said there was nothing wrong with it.

00:25:25.700 Now it's down to a third.

00:25:29.140 This is this is remarkable.

00:25:32.820 And they don't know why.

00:25:34.940 Let me give you another story.

00:25:36.240 This came out last week on July 3rd.

00:25:38.580 So you may not have heard it.

00:25:39.840 There was a new Harris pullout.

00:25:41.960 Now, understand there is a he describes himself as pro homosexual. 0.60

00:25:47.040 He's the CEO of the Harris pull.

00:25:49.660 He says these numbers are really alarming.

00:25:52.580 Now, listen to this.

00:25:53.740 According to the new Harris pull, Americans aged 18 to 34 are becoming less and less enamored with the LGBT lifestyle every year.

00:26:03.680 In 2016, 63 percent of millennials consider themselves allies of the LGBT movement.

00:26:11.960 That number fell the next year to 53 percent.

00:26:16.600 So it lost 10 points.

00:26:18.760 Then the next year it was at 45 percent.

00:26:24.100 Today, 36 percent of millennials are not comfortable when they learn a family member is homosexual.

00:26:31.800 That's up from 29 percent just a year ago.

00:26:35.740 Forty two percent of millennial males are uncomfortable learning their child has had a lesson on LGBT history at school or as a homosexual teacher.

00:26:46.200 That's up from 27 percent.

00:26:48.800 Now, here's what the pro homosexual CEO of the Harris pull says.

00:26:54.100 These numbers are alarming.

00:26:55.880 I believe the reason it's happening is simple.

00:26:58.100 Millennials have had a gay agenda crammed down their throats their entire lives.

00:27:01.560 And 75 percent of them have at least one friend who is a homosexual.

00:27:06.480 OK, so what's what's happening?

00:27:09.740 I honestly believe that this has nothing to do with people.

00:27:16.440 It has nothing to do with homosexuals that you may know this has everything to do with. 0.96

00:27:25.180 Two years ago, would you be uncomfortable that your teacher, your child was being taught by a homosexual? 1.00

00:27:32.380 No.

00:27:33.320 Are you today?

00:27:35.260 Maybe.

00:27:36.420 Why?

00:27:36.940 Not because they're homosexual, but because you don't know what their agenda is anymore. 0.59

00:27:44.120 When we have when we have trans people coming in to the library and as we have seen recently are laying on top of these trans people and reading them stories, you kind of say, what the hell is going on? 1.00

00:28:01.320 Why does my six year old or seven year old have to go through this?

00:28:05.440 What are they teaching?

00:28:08.000 You know, a few years ago, it was about love.

00:28:11.560 This isn't about love anymore.

00:28:14.020 This is not about love.

00:28:16.620 This is about, you know, last night I saw Wicked with my daughter.

00:28:22.420 And I'm sorry, I've seen it before.

00:28:25.120 And maybe I didn't notice it, but I'm pretty sure this is new.

00:28:30.120 The number of guys on stage from Oz that were dressed as women where they were wearing the the the jacket of the men, all the men and all the women were dressed similarly.

00:28:43.660 OK, but the there were some men that were wearing dresses and then they had the male jacket on top and they were clearly males.

00:28:53.140 Now, what the hell?

00:28:55.220 Why are you doing that?

00:28:56.600 This is the thing that people are pushing against.

00:29:02.040 Stop jamming it down people's throats.

00:29:06.320 I don't care how you live your life in your own time.

00:29:09.920 You shouldn't care about how I live my life.

00:29:12.360 But stop jamming it down everybody's throat.

00:29:16.600 And it's no longer teaching love because love would then teach, hey, you know what?

00:29:23.720 People who are married and who are heterosexual, they're just in in love just as much.

00:29:30.760 And you know what?

00:29:32.220 The majority of people feel that way.

00:29:36.600 But some people feel this way.

00:29:39.540 OK, don't have a problem.

00:29:41.720 But when you're now saying, no, it's not a choice, I can't change my sexuality.

00:29:48.420 It's absolutely not a choice.

00:29:50.840 That's what they used to say.

00:29:52.560 Now they're saying it is a choice and you should try it.

00:29:56.960 That's different.

00:29:59.340 That's different.

00:30:01.420 So I think that this, again, is a sign that they have massively, the left, massively overplayed their hand.

00:30:09.540 People like justice.

00:30:12.220 People like fairness.

00:30:14.480 But what we're seeing now is nothing like fairness, nothing like justice and nothing like love.

00:30:21.200 Ken Paxton coming up next.

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00:32:13.420 Ken Paxton, who I think is one of the best attorney generals in the country.

00:32:18.740 There's another one I like an awful lot as well from Utah.

00:32:22.980 But Ken is just tremendous.

00:32:26.780 And one of the first things he did as attorney general,

00:32:29.880 he formed a special unit dedicated to combating human trafficking in Texas,

00:32:35.000 which we're on the border.

00:32:36.840 It's really bad.

00:32:38.020 If we have time, I want to talk to him a little bit about that.

00:32:40.700 But I really want to understand, Ken, if you can explain,

00:32:45.820 Texas is arguing for an end of Obamacare.

00:32:48.860 And the White House now has joined.

00:32:53.460 And I think there's another state involved.

00:32:55.820 And it actually could take the ACA and throw the entire law out.

00:33:02.780 Is that correct?

00:33:04.220 Well, good morning, Glenn.

00:33:05.160 Yes, it's 18 states.

00:33:07.640 We filed shortly after Congress passed the Tax Reform Act at the end of 2017.

00:33:13.880 The argument being when they passed that,

00:33:16.460 they eliminated the penalty associated with the individual mandate.

00:33:20.900 If you'll remember what Justice Roberts said,

00:33:23.360 he joined the four conservatives and said,

00:33:24.940 yes, the individual mandate that orders you, Glenn,

00:33:27.040 and every one of us to have health insurance,

00:33:29.240 and it orders you to participate in commerce,

00:33:32.240 was unconstitutional.

00:33:33.280 However, he switched sides, joined the four liberals,

00:33:37.440 and said, but because this is a penalty associated with that,

00:33:40.780 that's a tax.

00:33:41.720 And under the taxing power of Congress,

00:33:44.100 they can do this whole individual mandate thing.

00:33:47.240 So they eliminated the penalty in 2017.

00:33:50.640 We filed a lawsuit and said, hey, the penalty's gone.

00:33:53.380 Therefore, the taxing power's gone.

00:33:54.580 Therefore, the individual mandate falls.

00:33:56.380 That's our argument.

00:33:58.000 It was successful in federal district court.

00:34:00.280 We got an overwhelming win.

00:34:01.640 The court declared it unconstitutional in full.

00:34:04.260 And we just argued this week that it was at the Fifth Circuit,

00:34:08.340 the very same thing.

00:34:11.140 How do you think this is going to be decided?

00:34:15.680 And will it get to the Supreme Court?

00:34:18.100 And will John Roberts, you know, contort and do all kinds of gymnastics

00:34:23.940 to save it again?

00:34:26.560 You are asking the million-dollar question that we're all wondering.

00:34:29.600 We have gone through this whole process.

00:34:32.060 Feeling like, well, knowing that we are right on the law,

00:34:34.980 that we are right on the Constitution.

00:34:36.100 Congress has never had the authority to order you to buy a house,

00:34:39.620 a car, food, whatever.

00:34:41.340 That's what this does.

00:34:42.120 It is an exception to this rule that they can't make you buy anything.

00:34:47.100 So Justice Roberts...

00:34:48.080 That's the amazing thing, is that Roberts took the stance.

00:34:53.940 And while Congress was saying it wasn't a tax,

00:34:57.460 he went and he made sure that it was known as a tax,

00:35:01.240 because he knew that constitutionally that's the only way it could work.

00:35:05.700 Right?

00:35:06.020 Exactly.

00:35:07.060 There's no doubt legal contortions to get to this result is where Roberts went,

00:35:12.360 and that's why it was so disappointing that he made this decision.

00:35:15.360 But we've now stripped that away from him,

00:35:17.600 and we're going to put it back on his plate and say,

00:35:20.020 hey, your rationale for the case, your only rationale, is gone.

00:35:24.540 Now go back and do the right thing.

00:35:26.180 Strike this down and get rid of this unconstitutional control of our lives.

00:35:31.940 Which would then take everything that has been done,

00:35:37.040 the entire law, and return us to a somewhat free market.

00:35:41.640 We would return to where we were, kind of, before Obamacare, correct?

00:35:48.040 Well, so there's this other argument,

00:35:49.940 is if the individual mandate is clearly in constitution and that's struck down,

00:35:54.640 does that mean that the entire law is struck down?

00:35:57.160 California is arguing no.

00:35:59.000 The rest of it, some of it stays in place.

00:36:01.260 So we'd still have vestiges of Obamacare running around. 0.86

00:36:05.720 It doesn't make any sense to keep it in place because, one,

00:36:09.440 Congress didn't put a severability clause in there. 0.77

00:36:11.440 What that means is typically if Congress wants a law to stay in place,

00:36:16.180 if some part of it struck down, they put a clause in that says,

00:36:18.560 hey, if part of it struck down, that doesn't mean the whole law struck down.

00:36:21.400 They didn't do that.

00:36:22.360 As a matter of fact, six times in the language of the bill,

00:36:24.900 they said the whole bill is essential, the individual mandate is essential to this entire bill.

00:36:31.920 And it is.

00:36:32.560 It is the guts of the bill.

00:36:34.740 So if you strip out the individual mandate, why would you leave the rest of it alone?

00:36:38.020 We're arguing the whole thing should fall.

00:36:39.420 California is saying, no, keep the rest of it in place.

00:36:42.760 It would be great if we could do this.

00:36:46.360 And the insurance company, I'm not sure the insurance companies are on the side of the free market,

00:36:50.740 but if we could get the Republicans to say, now let's strengthen the free market with this,

00:36:56.860 we are going to remove the barriers where you could buy insurance across state lines,

00:37:03.840 that would actually be a real boom for the American people.

00:37:08.060 We would be able to shop around and get better prices.

00:37:13.360 Do you agree with that?

00:37:14.560 Oh, absolutely.

00:37:15.180 This is exactly part of the solution to making health care work is eliminating these.

00:37:20.200 Because every state has individual insurance rules that make it hard for insurance across state lines

00:37:26.040 because you have to have different products for every state.

00:37:29.060 So if we could eliminate those, if Congress wanted to eliminate those, I think that would be great.

00:37:33.340 It would open up the market,

00:37:34.320 and we would move away from this government control that drives up cost,

00:37:39.880 pushes doctors out of the market,

00:37:42.660 and offers less choice to consumers to more of an American model,

00:37:47.200 which is free enterprise, competition, lower cost.

00:37:50.840 Is it perfect?

00:37:51.700 No, but it's a whole lot better than what we have now.

00:37:54.900 Sarah, how much time do I have left?

00:37:56.920 I think I only have about a minute.

00:37:58.680 Two minutes?

00:37:59.220 Two minutes.

00:38:00.680 Ken, I know you're on a tight schedule here.

00:38:02.680 Can you give me an explanation of what's happening on the border and what Texas is doing?

00:38:09.280 We've seen a 43% increase in illegals into Texas.

00:38:15.100 It is an absolute mess.

00:38:17.660 Is Texas doing enough to stop this themselves?

00:38:21.540 So Texas, from what I can see, we have a legislature that has put, I think, over $600 million every biennium into border control, border security.

00:38:32.920 However, we can only do so much with that.

00:38:35.620 We can assist.

00:38:37.400 We can stop people from violating our state laws.

00:38:40.100 But when it comes to violating federal law, if they're crossing the border illegally and it's just a violation of federal law,

00:38:45.260 there's nothing we can do.

00:38:46.160 There's a case called Arizona v. U.S. in which Arizona tried to step in the place of the federal government and do some of this stuff,

00:38:54.100 and they were told, no, you can't do that, even if the federal government abdicates their responsibility.

00:38:58.800 So it's really frustrating because the federal government can create laws, not enforce them,

00:39:03.340 and then push the states out of doing what they otherwise would have done.

00:39:06.580 But they are also dropping these people into our communities, and many of our border towns are on the verge of collapse.

00:39:14.000 Our churches are on the verge of collapse, and nobody's talking about all of the kids that we're trying to save from being sex trafficked.

00:39:23.100 And that sex trafficking has gotten much, much worse.

00:39:26.600 Only 40 seconds to answer, if you can.

00:39:29.220 So you're exactly correct.

00:39:31.360 People are not addressing the cost of this.

00:39:33.960 And part of the cost is not just to our country, but also to the people that are being brought through here. 1.00

00:39:39.460 And trafficking in Texas, we're the number two trafficking state in the country.

00:39:43.500 We have Houston's the worst.

00:39:45.040 So this is a huge problem that the media never talks about.

00:39:50.240 Ken, please keep up the good work.

00:39:52.700 I'd love to have you back on when you have more time.

00:39:55.900 That'd be great.

00:39:56.300 And say hi to your wife.

00:39:58.200 I will.

00:39:58.780 I'll see you in a few minutes.

00:39:59.840 All right.

00:40:00.560 Good.

00:40:01.160 God bless.

00:40:01.640 Ken Paxton, the attorney general for the great state of Texas, he is on top of it.

00:40:07.740 And as much as I like him and respect him, his wife is even better.

00:40:11.280 She's a senator in Texas, and she is remarkable as well.

00:40:16.780 All right.

00:40:17.660 Andrew Wilkow joins the broadcast in just a few minutes.

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00:42:52.460 So Andrew and I were just talking a minute ago about Google and and YouTube and the silencing of conservative voices online.

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00:45:20.260 You were there at the beginning and it's good to have you back at The Blaze TV.

00:45:25.780 Welcome.

00:45:26.440 Thank you.

00:45:27.620 How are you?

00:45:28.300 Fine.

00:45:28.560 How are you?

00:45:29.080 I'm good.

00:45:30.180 I'm good.

00:45:30.440 You're killing me with the with the thing about about the de-platforming and the in the Patriot Mobile and all that, because, you know, we've been doing this forever.

00:45:39.800 Yeah.

00:45:40.020 And I think these companies and the activist groups they work with know that we go on the air every day and say, you know, private companies and capitalism.

00:45:49.080 We don't we don't like boycotts.

00:45:50.500 Right.

00:45:50.720 Conservatives don't want to be in the streets.

00:45:52.020 We have more important things to do.

00:45:53.420 And they've they've they've they've they've they've they've played on that for so long, for so long that they have gotten away with this because we've been like capitalism, private property.

00:46:04.600 Get your hands off the Internet.

00:46:05.720 We don't want the government in the Internet.

00:46:07.080 And they've been like, oh, how nice.

00:46:09.320 I know.

00:46:10.140 Conservatives aren't going to fight us.

00:46:11.940 Let's do our thing right here.

00:46:13.760 And, you know, what's amazing is they are they are now in a position to where they are so powerful.

00:46:20.100 You know, every time I go out to Silicon Valley, I am both horrified and thrilled about what is on the horizon.

00:46:27.480 And they all say the same thing.

00:46:29.060 Anybody who's up at the top echelons, they always say the same thing to me.

00:46:32.720 Glenn, you're thinking you're thinking things.

00:46:34.720 You're not thinking things of the way they're going to be.

00:46:37.440 Nation states are a thing of a past.

00:46:39.440 And that really, finally, I started to understand that in about the last year, I was trying to get my handle on get a handle on.

00:46:47.860 Well, what?

00:46:48.240 So how does it work?

00:46:49.540 And and it's all, you know, we're just going to have free trade and blah, blah.

00:46:52.640 No, no, no.

00:46:53.160 That's not what they're saying.

00:46:54.180 What they're saying is corporations are the new nation.

00:46:58.080 But again, conservatives.

00:46:59.940 I know you conservatives with your corporate love affairs, your oil, your oil companies.

00:47:04.840 I know it is.

00:47:06.300 I think they dialed us in.

00:47:08.480 They zeroed in their their scopes and they got us that we they knew that we would stick by our principles because we're always talking about principles.

00:47:17.260 We're always talking about, you know, not being like the left or imitating the left or trying to do what the left does.

00:47:23.260 And they said, where are our friends on the left?

00:47:27.520 Right.

00:47:27.640 Right. So here's the thing that I think and I'd love to hear your your thoughts on this.

00:47:32.740 I think to retain our principles and to win this war, we don't break them up.

00:47:39.460 We make them live by the law that the rest of us have to live by. 0.95

00:47:43.560 And that is you're not a platform.

00:47:46.540 You're an editor.

00:47:47.860 You're a publisher.

00:47:49.220 The minute you start editing content, you're a publisher, which means you're going to have to deal with all the lawsuits and the litigation that come your way.

00:47:59.140 As a platform, you're protected from all of that.

00:48:03.020 Their stock price would go to about three bucks overnight if they if the government took their platform status away from them and charge them with you are now a publisher and you get all of the fun stuff that comes along with that.

00:48:20.000 That would change their dynamics overnight.

00:48:23.660 You don't have to break them up.

00:48:24.840 Our one of our colleagues, Dennis Prager, is going to be speaking before the Senate subcommittee chaired by Ted Cruz on this.

00:48:32.340 And President Trump is now really paying attention to this.

00:48:36.140 And, you know, and I'm old enough to remember when some of the Silicon Valley people want to be friends with you.

00:48:41.620 Right. I remember that they said, OK, well, maybe we should bring some conservatives in here.

00:48:45.260 Maybe we should talk to Glenn Beck and guys like Glenn Beck.

00:48:47.760 I don't know if that was a May to December.

00:48:50.100 Right. That was just one of those short romances like, hey, look at us.

00:48:53.920 We're not biased. We hung out with Glenn Beck for an hour.

00:48:58.440 It's it really what's scary to me about this is the more they do it, the more they try to convince us they're not doing it.

00:49:06.080 Right. It's it's the more they are manipulating the algorithms, deciding what we see, deciding who we don't see, claiming that it's just a glitch in the system.

00:49:17.180 And when a video magically disappears, that was supposed to be monetized.

00:49:20.060 And it's it's got to kill some of these companies to hand over money to to conservative, upstart filmmakers and even established personalities.

00:49:29.140 And the more they try to give off the impression that they're neutral, the more we know they are putting their thumbs on it.

00:49:36.860 Oh, yeah. And, you know, but they're very good at it.

00:49:39.540 I mean, I learned my lesson on Zuckerberg that fast, not stupid people.

00:49:43.120 I gave him the benefit of the doubt because he was he seems so genuine in person and he makes good business cases for why it would be crazy for it to happen.

00:49:59.140 And I know somebody who's in the conservative movement who just had a private meeting with him, one of the smartest guys I know in in our business.

00:50:08.120 And he called me right after and he said, I said, how'd that go?

00:50:13.360 And he said, you know, he's really surprising.

00:50:15.820 I really believe. And I said, don't don't.

00:50:19.240 You're falling into exactly the same trap I did.

00:50:22.240 He's very, very smart and he makes a great, believable, passionate case.

00:50:30.780 The guy is a total fraud.

00:50:32.420 The guy is a total fraud, either that or he has absolutely no control of his own company.

00:50:37.640 Well, that's and that's the second layer of this, because we did a whole episode on Blaze TV of all the tech sector money going to the very candidates that want to break them up.

00:50:46.680 So they're giving money to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

00:50:50.560 Bernie's out there on the stump telling you that if he gets elected, he's going to break these companies up.

00:50:55.580 And yet they're they're they're employees.

00:50:57.460 The people they pay are giving those people money.

00:50:59.840 But, you know, you know, history well enough to know that's exactly what GM that's exactly what Ford.

00:51:05.960 That's exactly what BF Goodrich and Goodyear Tire did during during the FDR administration.

00:51:12.440 They said, you've got to regulate us.

00:51:15.160 And so who did FDR go to?

00:51:17.380 The experts in that industry help us come up with regulation.

00:51:21.400 That's another conservative thing.

00:51:23.620 You know, we don't like the idea of professors who write term papers on environmentalism regulating oil companies.

00:51:31.680 But they don't know anything.

00:51:32.900 They think they know something.

00:51:34.180 Let's say we got a peer reviewed study here by a bunch of other people who are trying to get their stuff peer reviewed.

00:51:39.140 Correct.

00:51:39.460 Don't like oil companies.

00:51:40.360 So we say it's nice when people have actual experience and there's another trap that we just fell right into our principles.

00:51:47.600 Exactly right.

00:51:48.280 That's why we just have to enforce the laws that we have and make it an even.

00:51:53.920 I mean, they're going to right now.

00:51:55.820 They are so big.

00:51:57.100 They're gobbling up any competition, something that Ray Kurzweil said that would never happen.

00:52:00.900 I said, Ray, let's just play this out.

00:52:03.080 Why would a company that is putting together AI, knowing that whoever has AI, real AI, when they have that, they rule the world.

00:52:16.440 If you are collecting information on me and you know everything about me and I happen to be a scientist that's working on AI and I'm going to beat Google.

00:52:27.040 You're telling me Google would never do anything.

00:52:32.580 They would never manipulate anything on me.

00:52:35.460 They wouldn't come after me.

00:52:38.400 They made this movie, The Net with, what's her face, Sandra Bullock.

00:52:42.200 Yeah.

00:52:42.380 That was like the first movie out of the gate.

00:52:43.960 Right.

00:52:44.460 And that was the story.

00:52:45.500 And he said to me, Glenn, they would never do that.

00:52:48.580 And I said, why do you say that?

00:52:51.660 Because it's just against our corporate culture.

00:52:54.880 And I said, have you seen real people?

00:52:59.520 Have you seen life in history?

00:53:01.860 I mean, it happens historically the same way over and over and over again.

00:53:07.600 I fear at some point Jeff Bezos is just going to become the lawnmower man.

00:53:11.440 He's just going to, you ever see that movie?

00:53:13.240 No.

00:53:13.580 I think it's a Stephen King book where he becomes like electricity.

00:53:16.980 Like he just, Jeff Fahey is this slow kind of dim-witted guy and Pierce Brosnan runs these experiments on him by trying to use this like nascent, it's before we called it the internet, it's like 1992.

00:53:30.700 And all of this brain power starts going into the Jeff Fahey character and he becomes this like electrical, like non-human entity person who can like travel through computers and stuff.

00:53:43.620 And I feel like Bezos is just going to be some like Bond villain in like a giant armor suit that we can't stop.

00:53:50.060 You know, he's just going to go around, you know.

00:53:52.160 Right.

00:53:52.340 I will tell you the guy who would do that is Ray Kurzweil.

00:53:56.100 I mean, Ray Kurzweil, I mean, he's on the cutting edge of all of it.

00:53:59.380 He's with Google.

00:54:00.300 He's the head of their singularity project.

00:54:04.220 And he believes in upgrades.

00:54:05.900 And he will be the first guy that is saying, upgrade me.

00:54:10.020 He'll be the scientist in the lab where he's like, no, no, no, we can't do that yet.

00:54:14.200 It's unethical.

00:54:14.900 It stays at night and is like, I'm just doing it myself and becomes, you know, part of the machine.

00:54:21.700 You know, what scares me the most about this is right now, this is good for progressives, right?

00:54:26.480 They're on the winning side here.

00:54:28.240 They're on the winning side of the equation.

00:54:30.700 And there's very few progressive voices.

00:54:33.860 I'm sure there are some that are saying, hey, are we sure we like this?

00:54:38.340 You know, you do see a little bit of liberals saying how the anti-free speech sort of heretic movement is illiberal, right?

00:54:48.380 That we don't have to like these people, but let's be smarter than them.

00:54:51.660 Let's be better than them.

00:54:52.480 Let's debate them.

00:54:53.200 Let's not burn cars and beat people with antifa because we don't like this guy.

00:54:58.000 So there are some liberals that realize that the antifa shock troop, I don't like what you're going to say, dynamic is kind of illiberal.

00:55:04.940 It's very illiberal.

00:55:05.700 I'm waiting for them to recognize that when this is bad for us, it's going to be bad for everyone.

00:55:11.660 It's not going to be what they're not going to stop and go.

00:55:14.300 We've defeated the conservatives.

00:55:15.520 We defeated Trump.

00:55:16.760 You know, we've got our little utopia.

00:55:18.680 Everybody's, you know, riding on Google trains to Amazon jobs, right?

00:55:23.520 Everything is great now.

00:55:25.100 Look at what's happening with Nancy Pelosi and AOC just yesterday.

00:55:28.260 And Nancy Pelosi has to bring all of them in and saying, look, stop eating your own. 0.98

00:55:35.220 Get off of Twitter, AOC, and stop eating us alive. 1.00

00:55:39.820 They've already lost control of the real radicals that they were using as fuel.

00:55:47.640 You and I both said 10 years ago, you don't want to open that can of worms because they're going to eat you.

00:55:54.140 You think you're using them, they're using you, and you're going to lose control of this, and they're going to wipe you out first.

00:56:03.380 And that's exactly what they're doing.

00:56:05.000 I don't think these companies want anyone getting in their way.

00:56:08.020 That's the bottom line.

00:56:08.800 They don't want anyone or anything getting in their way.

00:56:11.360 It is they live.

00:56:13.040 It is obey and consume.

00:56:14.280 It is do not think.

00:56:15.820 And, you know, that's scary that liberals think for a short-term victory, this is a good bandwagon to be on.

00:56:22.760 You know that to be true when you actually read what Bill Gates said in the launch of his Common Core curricula.

00:56:30.460 He talked about how they're going to use the cameras to read kids' eyes.

00:56:35.780 And he said, that way we'll know early on what they should do for a living, and we can put them in there.

00:56:43.700 It's only about consuming and just being put into a little mold, and you're a little cog, and you go do this, and you'll obey.

00:56:53.140 Brave new world.

00:56:53.540 And you'll consume.

00:56:54.680 Brave new world.

00:56:55.260 Right.

00:56:55.580 That's what they're doing.

00:56:56.600 All right.

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00:58:51.560 All right.

00:58:52.180 We are sitting with Andrew Wilkow.

00:58:54.960 We're talking about freedom of speech.

00:58:57.780 I've got a couple of other things.

00:58:59.020 Wait till you hear what he has to share about the women's soccer team.

00:59:03.780 We'll get to that here in just a few minutes.

00:59:05.300 First, I want to just switch over to Tommy Robinson because you had him on yesterday.

00:59:10.160 Yeah.

00:59:10.540 We played a clip of it earlier on the program.

00:59:14.700 He is a hard guy to get a hold of and he's a hard guy to get a handle on because of the misinformation and disinformation.

00:59:22.980 And I haven't wanted to take a firm stand on him until I've talked to him myself and have some sort of a gut feeling.

00:59:32.960 Now, you've talked to him.

00:59:34.240 Who is he?

00:59:35.800 Let me just say this.

00:59:37.080 And if you're in this business, there's a lot of people that make you look good, right?

00:59:42.060 Producers, camera people, production people.

00:59:44.320 Our staff down in D.C. just threw it out there, right?

00:59:48.400 They threw it out there not knowing if he would get back to us.

00:59:53.200 And while we were in the midst of doing a bunch of other things, like he's on Skype right now.

00:59:57.760 You need to get into this studio and get this done.

01:00:00.160 So I went running into the studio and he was sitting there and we were talking off camera.

01:00:06.720 And I could tell you he was as emotional just as we were lining up the shot as he was when we went to record with him.

01:00:15.780 He is somebody that is begging this country.

01:00:20.240 And I started very sarcastically.

01:00:21.660 I said, we got a million people at the southern border.

01:00:23.600 Why should we give you asylum? 0.95

01:00:25.180 And the story that he told us was that ever since speaking out about these gangs of men who have given over to the belief that non-Muslims are the kafir,

01:00:39.000 they are the non-believers, they are the infidels, that they have begun to take liberties with young women, mostly in small towns. 1.00

01:00:50.400 This makes Jeffrey Epstein look like he's a great guy.

01:00:54.900 I mean, what's happening over in England with the Muslims and what they're doing to young girls, 1.00

01:01:01.820 it makes him look like he's done nothing.

01:01:05.660 It's so bad over there.

01:01:07.120 What he has said is that it's not the threats that are coming from the gangs.

01:01:12.460 It's the fact that he is making these judges and police officials look really bad.

01:01:19.220 And one of the questions I had for him was when these sexual assaults occur, as they've been,

01:01:24.660 we've read about them in Germany since the migrant crisis, it's been, this has been plaguing Europe for quite some time.

01:01:29.140 I said, has any member of government or upper echelon of the police department had any of their daughters subjected to this?

01:01:36.180 He said, no, it's almost as if they know to target lower working class, you know, right?

01:01:41.980 So this is something that's being done to, you know, working class British citizens with the government kind of looking the other way.

01:01:54.800 So he got in trouble for Facebook living, a court case where some of these men were being released on very,

01:02:02.120 you want to talk about the Epstein?

01:02:03.040 Yeah, they got sweetheart deals and he embarrassed the judge.

01:02:06.980 Right.

01:02:07.340 So now his fear is not the threat, the death threats that he's getting from these gangs,

01:02:13.380 which he says he was informed that six of them were on the way to his house to murder him at one point with bombs and guns and knives.

01:02:21.040 He says, we can't even buy guns for ourselves, but they got them.

01:02:24.120 He says, I genuinely believe my government wants me to go away, that I am the problem with the politically correct, you know, society that we have built in Europe.

01:02:35.480 And he said, I'm begging America to see this, that my life is in danger from both these gangs and my own government at this point.

01:02:43.120 He's dead if he goes to prison.

01:02:44.260 And let me add this, I said, you are lucky we have a Republican president because there's no way a Democrat president would insult your government that way.

01:02:52.120 Because if we give him asylum, it's like we're acknowledging, we're saying, and when we think of asylum, we think of really terrible places on earth, right? 0.91

01:03:00.880 We think of dissidents and activists and religious minorities in the Middle East.

01:03:04.480 If we actually acknowledge that Tommy Robinson's life is a threat from the British government, we are saying to the British government, we're going to give someone asylum because we don't think you are going to protect him.

01:03:15.700 I think things might change, though, if Boris Johnson becomes the prime minister.

01:03:20.620 We'll continue our conversation next.

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01:04:47.540 So, Andrew Wilkow is with me.

01:04:50.320 We're just, we're both just, our heads are about to explode over the women's soccer team.

01:04:56.320 The latest is that Rapinoe, she was the one who dropped the flag and, you know, the girl that ran up and picked it up right away.

01:05:05.820 The deal now is, yeah, the conservatives don't know she's a lesbian. 0.99

01:05:09.680 I don't care.

01:05:11.760 No, pick up the flag.

01:05:13.460 We're on global television and the captain of the U.S. women's team is more concerned about getting that Instagram post than making sure the flag of the nation she represents in a global competition does not land on the floor.

01:05:28.160 So, my chief of staff happens to be somebody that was a Royal Marine, okay?

01:05:34.180 He's in the elite, elite, elite Royal Marines.

01:05:36.620 He doesn't have to stand up for the queen when she comes in, okay?

01:05:40.100 That's the elite crew that he's in.

01:05:42.740 He's Scottish.

01:05:44.000 He doesn't like the queen, okay?

01:05:46.460 And he even said, because he's been with me as we've, you know, put up flags and everything else.

01:05:54.500 We just had a flag at our studios that we had moved, and I joked with him, make sure it doesn't, you know, it's not on the floor, you Scottish people. 1.00

01:06:01.500 He said to me, when this first happened and she dropped the flag, he said, I got news for you.

01:06:08.680 The rest of the world doesn't understand you guys with the flag.

01:06:11.700 He said, but no one, no one from any country would have their captain of their team at that moment drop their flag on the ground like that.

01:06:21.780 That wouldn't be accepted by anyone.

01:06:23.720 Everyone, that's saying something, how disrespectful.

01:06:28.100 Rapinoe is, she is the perfect role model for everything I don't want my kids to be.

01:06:34.520 My daughter plays soccer, and I'm sour on it.

01:06:39.600 You know, and they say, well, you know, people will say, this is how it always goes, right?

01:06:42.660 If you don't like Megan Rapinoe, they'll say, why don't you, why do you hate women's soccer? 1.00

01:06:47.000 Why do you hate the women's national team, you conservatives?

01:06:49.700 I don't hate soccer.

01:06:51.940 I don't hate the women's national team.

01:06:53.860 I think, I think the women's national team is bigger than the captain.

01:06:58.100 I think it's bigger than any one player.

01:07:00.180 I think that's part of the reason why you play.

01:07:01.800 You're representing the country, not the white part of the country, not the black part of the country, not the northern part of the country, not the urban or the rural part of the country. 0.82

01:07:08.640 You are there to show the world how awesome the United States is.

01:07:13.340 Now, let me just add a little something here.

01:07:15.280 If Rapinoe was a MAGA hat wearing Texas girl who, you know, she would not be being pulled to run for president. 1.00

01:07:23.880 All you'd be hearing is how soccer is a white privilege suburban sport, even though it's largely favored by Hispanics more often than not.

01:07:34.140 You would still be talking about how white the team looks, how suburban they look, how much paper was wasted.

01:07:42.840 And while we're fighting global warming, you're throwing paper out a window for a bunch of dumb jocks to be paraded through New York City.

01:07:50.780 That's what you'd be hearing if Rapinoe and her merry band of progressives, woke progressives, were a bunch of Trump supporters.

01:07:58.540 And look, you know, it's been said by many.

01:08:01.060 I'm not breaking this.

01:08:02.200 Do you remember when the Bruins won the cup and one of the players said, I don't want to go meet Obama?

01:08:06.900 Yes.

01:08:07.280 They had a cow.

01:08:09.180 Savaged him.

01:08:09.760 Yes.

01:08:10.100 Right.

01:08:10.380 It's the president of the United States.

01:08:12.300 The office.

01:08:12.960 Yeah.

01:08:13.280 You respect the office.

01:08:14.400 But that's the Boston Bruins.

01:08:15.720 Okay.

01:08:15.840 Let me compare that.

01:08:16.480 Kaepernick played for the San Francisco 49ers, private sector team representing the city, the NFL.

01:08:23.460 We could say the NFL is an American institution, but really it's a private institution.

01:08:27.740 So if these people don't want to do this as private professional athletes, that's fine.

01:08:33.240 But again, this is the U.S. women's team, right?

01:08:35.780 This is America's team that we put on the stage and say, okay, let's see if we can win a few World Cups.

01:08:42.480 And we did.

01:08:43.380 And awesome for those girls. 1.00

01:08:44.520 They worked for it.

01:08:45.220 They deserve it.

01:08:45.720 Now go to the Oval Office and meet the president.

01:08:49.220 You know, Brandy Chaston said that.

01:08:50.740 She's been saying, I went and met the president.

01:08:52.440 It's not about how you feel about the president.

01:08:54.220 It's you play for the country and that's the president.

01:08:56.940 And if you don't like Barack Obama, well, I'm sorry.

01:08:59.460 You know?

01:08:59.620 I just can't take the...

01:09:01.220 Or Donald Trump.

01:09:02.160 The arrogance.

01:09:03.420 I can't take the arrogance of Rapinoe and the rest of the team.

01:09:08.240 I can't take the fact that the media is fawning.

01:09:12.600 Andrea Mitchell said, oh, she was so eloquent with such grace.

01:09:16.480 She used the F word. 0.98

01:09:19.040 The mother F word. 0.79

01:09:20.420 I mean, that is all of a sudden eloquent.

01:09:23.200 And Bill DeClazio looks so excited.

01:09:24.700 He was like flounder in animal.

01:09:27.000 Oh, boy, is this great?

01:09:28.840 He was so excited.

01:09:30.320 I'd never seen that man so excited.

01:09:31.860 It was, it's really tough.

01:09:34.200 Now, I have not heard about...

01:09:36.620 First of all, I'm not a soccer fan.

01:09:38.380 I like to taunt soccer fans.

01:09:40.160 I'm a soccer dad.

01:09:41.200 Okay.

01:09:41.680 So, I was too for a while.

01:09:43.880 And now an MMA dad.

01:09:45.040 Yeah.

01:09:45.260 My daughter's doing MMA now. 0.97

01:09:46.500 Right.

01:09:46.820 So, I like to taunt soccer fans.

01:09:52.000 But I don't really care.

01:09:54.200 I really don't care.

01:09:55.620 I was actually proud of the team for about 10 minutes.

01:10:00.420 I was like, wow, this is great.

01:10:02.920 This is such a great thing.

01:10:05.000 Something to bring us together.

01:10:06.240 That spiraled out of control so fast.

01:10:09.720 They were up there talking.

01:10:10.720 She was up there talking yesterday in front of all the white players about how diverse they are.

01:10:16.360 And it didn't look real diverse to me.

01:10:19.400 It looked like a bunch of spoiled rich kids or white kids.

01:10:23.180 But I had not known the name Jalene Hinkle.

01:10:27.740 This is an important story that people need to know.

01:10:30.740 Okay, Glenn.

01:10:31.100 I'm going to read you a quote from Jalene Hinkle.

01:10:32.860 This is the thing that got her in trouble and disinvited from playing for the U.S. women's team. 0.62

01:10:37.820 By everyone's standard, if you read up on her, she's one of the best players, professional women's players in the country.

01:10:44.960 She is a devout Christian.

01:10:46.720 Now, I'm just going to whisper this into the microphone.

01:10:48.820 She's black. 0.97

01:10:49.500 She went on Instagram after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and said, and I quote,

01:10:58.860 The world may change, but Christ and his word never will.

01:11:02.920 My heart is that as Christians, we don't begin to throw a tantrum over what has been brought into law today, but we become that much more loving.

01:11:11.220 How great is that?

01:11:14.500 That is literally the most innocuous thing I have ever heard when somebody is professing their faith.

01:11:21.360 Right.

01:11:21.560 All she said was, okay, this is now the law of the land.

01:11:25.620 Let's not get crazy.

01:11:26.780 Yeah.

01:11:27.000 Let's love people even more.

01:11:28.460 How great is that?

01:11:29.540 And she went on the 700 Club, and this apparently rubbed the coach and the captain the wrong way.

01:11:38.540 She also refused to wear a gay pride jersey, which she got booed in a game in Portland, Oregon for that.

01:11:46.980 So this...

01:11:48.400 You should wear that as a badge of honor.

01:11:50.540 The Washington Times speculated that she was only called up so they wouldn't get an EEOC lawsuit.

01:11:57.280 But there are others who are saying, this girl's an amazing talent.

01:12:00.480 She is, you know, she's a dominating force on the field. 1.00

01:12:03.700 That there's kind of a mean girl thing going on here between Rapinoe and Ellis, the coach, because the coach is also a lesbian. 0.98

01:12:11.660 Now, here's my question.

01:12:12.900 What she just said about love and acceptance, why are these teams forcing people to affirm things they know damn well?

01:12:24.520 What does this have to do with soccer?

01:12:26.400 We all know that the captain's a lesbian, right? 1.00

01:12:28.360 We all know it.

01:12:29.040 She can't stop telling us.

01:12:30.400 She dyed her hair purple.

01:12:31.620 She can't stop telling us she's a lesbian. 1.00

01:12:34.100 When she's talking about diversity, and that's another function of this,

01:12:37.240 how does Jalene Hinkle not represent the diversity of America as a black Christian?

01:12:42.900 This isn't about diversity, and you know that.

01:12:48.800 And this is, you know, it goes, what's amazing to me is if you go to the Old Testament,

01:12:54.720 there are two stories that are told in the Old Testament that show this.

01:12:59.740 One of them is about Sodom and Gomorrah.

01:13:02.560 The angels come down.

01:13:04.740 The door is open.

01:13:06.840 He says, come on in here.

01:13:08.260 You can't stay outside.

01:13:09.660 You got to come in.

01:13:10.520 There's a knock on the door.

01:13:13.740 Lot says, hey, leave these guys alone.

01:13:15.860 He even does this crazy thing and says, look, I'll compromise with you.

01:13:19.660 Take my two virgin daughters. 1.00

01:13:21.560 How crazy is that?

01:13:22.820 Take my two virgin daughters and have sex with them. 1.00

01:13:25.900 Please leave these two strangers alone.

01:13:28.540 They said, no, they have to come out into the public square.

01:13:33.060 What is that about?

01:13:33.860 In two different stories in the Old Testament, exactly the same.

01:13:38.200 Those stories are about being forced to participate.

01:13:43.080 You are forced to participate.

01:13:46.320 You cannot stay in your own house and not bother anyone.

01:13:49.840 You must participate.

01:13:52.080 So it's not about love.

01:13:53.680 It's not about anything else.

01:13:55.040 You must toe the line.

01:13:58.440 History repeats itself.

01:14:00.140 We are exactly at that place.

01:14:02.400 Let me bring in another name, Iba Taj Mohamed, the fencing, the Olympic fencer.

01:14:06.980 She wore a hijab.

01:14:07.960 And the left got very upset that she was not selected to be the flag carrier.

01:14:14.800 That was a big deal, even though the team elected somebody else.

01:14:20.140 There were people that were saying that she should get it no matter what.

01:14:23.900 Could you imagine forcing her in a fencing match to wear a whatever the uniform, I don't know.

01:14:31.280 What do they call the uniform fencing?

01:14:32.840 I don't know.

01:14:33.500 I know the thing is called a foil.

01:14:34.860 Padded and they wear that white thing with the spaghetti gravy, right?

01:14:40.900 Can you imagine forcing?

01:14:43.420 This is only ever done to Christians. 0.88

01:14:45.320 This is only ever done.

01:14:47.040 Nobody goes into a halal bakery and says, you're going to bake me a same-sex wedding cake or else.

01:14:53.640 It never happens.

01:14:55.620 And this poor girl did nothing. 1.00

01:14:58.720 Again, her biggest crime was going on Instagram and saying, let's love people. 0.95

01:15:03.660 Her biggest crime was saying, I can't bake this cake. 1.00

01:15:06.500 That's all she says.

01:15:07.400 Why do I have to wear this jersey?

01:15:09.000 Why can't I just wear my team jersey?

01:15:10.600 Why are you doing this?

01:15:12.140 And look, I'm sure there are other players, and this is the bargain that people are forced to make,

01:15:17.520 that if you have faith and you want to live your faith, there's going to be somebody who says, okay, well, you've got a choice to make.

01:15:25.200 And people have made choices, right?

01:15:26.580 There is something – my dad used to always say, pick your battles, right?

01:15:29.320 You've always been told, pick your battles.

01:15:30.760 There are some things that are not worth fighting over.

01:15:33.280 They're really no big deal.

01:15:34.380 They're really not something that makes you violate your core tenets.

01:15:37.360 But in some cases, it does make someone violate their core tenets.

01:15:41.780 And I don't understand the connection between pride and sports.

01:15:47.660 One has nothing to do – if Megan Rapinoe and the team want to march at a pride parade on their own, good for them. 1.00

01:15:53.280 Even if they want to wear their jerseys when they do it.

01:15:55.520 It's their numbers, their names.

01:15:56.780 They can do it.

01:15:57.840 Why are you – why would you create this controversy unnecessarily?

01:16:02.080 I just don't get it.

01:16:04.000 Because they are empowered now.

01:16:06.180 To force everyone to participate.

01:16:09.680 That's all it's about.

01:16:11.220 That's really all it's about.

01:16:13.280 I can only imagine the headline if they had lost the World Cup because they disinvited one of the top players.

01:16:20.700 That's the point of having a tryout, right?

01:16:22.680 Isn't that the point of a tryout in tournaments is to say, who are the best 23 girls that we're going to send into this tournament? 1.00

01:16:29.420 Well, we don't like number 23 over there, so we're going to take 24.

01:16:32.380 Well, take 24 because 23 doesn't wear the pride jersey.

01:16:34.840 Well, what if you lost because 24 wasn't as good as 23?

01:16:38.340 They wouldn't have ever brought it up.

01:16:39.880 All right.

01:16:40.340 They wouldn't have ever brought it up.

01:16:41.880 Andrew Wilkow, thank you so much for being on the program.

01:16:44.300 Thank you for inviting me.

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01:17:02.060 Andrew Wilkow, thank you so much.

01:17:03.860 Appreciate it.

01:17:04.120 Thank you.

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01:18:44.640 Americans aged 18 to 34 are becoming less and less enamored with the LGBT lifestyle every year.

01:18:51.480 In 2016, 63% of millennials considered themselves allies of the LGBT movement.

01:18:57.500 That number fell last year, 53%.

01:19:01.220 Then it's down this year to 45%.

01:19:05.920 Why is this happening?

01:19:07.760 They can't figure it out.

01:19:08.840 It's because it's not about love.

01:19:11.520 It is for the average person.

01:19:13.840 It really is for the average person.

01:19:15.940 I know gay people and gay married people that are totally cool and totally fine who are seeing the things that are going on and going, what the hell is this?

01:19:27.860 I mean, what has Donald Trump done to trigger gay people?

01:19:32.160 He's the only president who has been pro-gay marriage during the campaign and long before the campaign.

01:19:41.520 I don't understand.

01:19:43.580 I really don't understand.

01:19:44.920 It's because it's about politics and because it is about conform.

01:19:50.760 Confess and conform.

01:19:52.260 And they're doing gay people and all people a grave disservice.

01:19:58.940 The progressive leftist movement is doing anyone they say they're sticking up for a grave disservice.

01:20:08.200 Rape victims. 0.79

01:20:08.940 By how they politicized the Kavanaugh hearings, they knew they didn't have a chance.

01:20:18.840 It was a last-ditch effort.

01:20:20.680 They were using this woman.

01:20:22.420 Now, whether she went through that or was making it up, I happen to not believe her.

01:20:28.980 But it was wrong to even bring it up.

01:20:31.500 What are we supposed to do with that as a society?

01:20:33.800 We're just supposed to demonize him or demonize her? 0.98

01:20:40.220 We're not in the position to know.

01:20:43.240 What are we doing?

01:20:45.220 Now, think about all the people that were raped last night that are seeing these things.

01:20:51.880 And they're like, well, now I can't say anything.

01:20:54.100 Nobody's going to believe me.

01:20:55.240 Look at the atmosphere.

01:20:57.180 Well, if I'm for Trump and I was raped, am I going to get help?

01:21:01.060 If I was against Trump and I was raped, what are the people on the right going to do?

01:21:06.400 This is hurting humanity.

01:21:10.940 Common sense, responsibility, accountability needs to become popular again.

01:21:17.780 Truth needs to become popular again.

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01:21:23.540 There's a new book called Try Common Sense.

01:21:28.120 We have its author next.

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01:23:25.760 Well, there is a new book out called Try Common Sense, Replacing Failed Ideologies of Left

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01:23:49.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:26:00.560 Howard is a, uh, is a leader of, um, of government and legal system, uh, reform in America.

01:26:09.460 He, uh, he's written a new book called try common sense, but he's also the guy who wrote

01:26:14.480 the death of common sense and the collapse of the common good kind of a theme, uh, that

01:26:19.680 he's been working on for a while.

01:26:21.640 You might've seen his Ted talk.

01:26:23.700 Uh, I didn't know this until after, uh, we decided to, uh, book him, but he is, uh, he

01:26:31.220 was the chairperson of the tribute in light for, uh, the nine 11 Memorial.

01:26:37.780 That is, I was here at the time.

01:26:39.880 It was one of the most stunning things and moving things I have ever seen.

01:26:46.120 It's an honor to meet you, sir.

01:26:47.580 Great to be with you.

01:26:48.500 Yeah.

01:26:48.660 Thank you.

01:26:49.380 Okay.

01:26:49.740 So I want to go through some of these things.

01:26:52.520 You say the profile of a practical society, um, and, and let me just run through these,

01:26:58.420 uh, quickly, and then we're going to come back and dissect a profile of a practical

01:27:03.180 society features the following characteristics, regulators, police, unsafe conduct, not correctness.

01:27:11.580 Regulation will be more effective, less disruptive when regulators and citizens alike focus on

01:27:16.580 avoiding actual harm.

01:27:18.900 How politically incorrect of you.

01:27:21.360 Yeah.

01:27:21.700 Yeah.

01:27:22.020 I mean, how basic, I mean, that's the role of law is to prevent harm.

01:27:25.100 It's not to tell us how to live our lives.

01:27:27.100 It's not to replace freedom.

01:27:29.620 Washington basically has written so many rules.

01:27:32.100 They're trying to replace our freedom.

01:27:33.640 They're suffocating people.

01:27:35.060 They think that their job is to, um, protect people from, in many cases from themselves

01:27:43.320 or whoever they deem as the bad guy where, wait, they're making us all into bad guys in

01:27:51.440 many ways.

01:27:52.120 Yeah, that's right.

01:27:52.700 No one can comply with thousands of rules.

01:27:54.600 You know, it's interesting.

01:27:55.660 They lost the idea of law.

01:27:56.960 Law is supposed to be outer boundaries, protect against people, breaching your contracts, committing

01:28:01.700 crimes, polluting, but that's fine.

01:28:04.160 And that's, and the whole point of that is to make everybody feel more free and to define

01:28:08.920 the field of freedom where people can get along or not, have disagreements and follow

01:28:13.660 their star on a field of freedom.

01:28:15.220 And what happened beginning about 50 years ago is they got the idea that they would tell people

01:28:20.260 how to do everything correctly.

01:28:22.360 And so they reached like vines reaching in from the outside.

01:28:25.860 They started wrapping around our toes and our necks telling us how to, how to teach a

01:28:32.060 classroom and how to, what forms to fill out, even though nobody read them for making clean

01:28:37.180 apples at the orchard or whatever, you know, and it made no sense.

01:28:40.820 And it drives people nuts and it doesn't work.

01:28:43.660 So which is, which, where's the, which is the chicken and which is the egg?

01:28:47.820 Because part of it, when you have, you know, when you buy a lawnmower and it says on the

01:28:54.200 lawnmower, do not use on roof, you know, that's because somebody used it up on the roof and

01:29:01.220 then tried to sue them.

01:29:02.760 Well, so is it, was it the, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I want those people who see

01:29:07.680 a lawnmower and go, I could use that on my roof.

01:29:09.520 I want you to use it on the roof because it's just survival of the fittest in some ways.

01:29:14.680 But is it, was it the government or was it the attorneys going and suing everybody?

01:29:21.480 It's, well, basically, if you have the idea that you want to warn or prohibit against anything

01:29:29.460 that might go wrong, you have some dweeb in a back office somewhere writing every rule

01:29:37.400 and writing every warning, not realizing that if you have too many warnings, it's like crying

01:29:43.980 wolf.

01:29:44.560 There's no, it's like no warning at all.

01:29:46.600 It's like white noise.

01:29:47.800 I was, I was at the, I think it's at the South Rim.

01:29:52.100 Is it the South Rim or the, I don't remember.

01:29:54.260 It's the Native American rim of the canyon and you can walk up, I mean, to the edge. 0.79

01:30:01.620 Okay.

01:30:02.020 It is a terrifying, your butt is clenched for like a week after that experience.

01:30:07.120 And I said to, you know, one of the guys, I said, how many people die here?

01:30:13.040 And he said, funny, we don't have any problem.

01:30:15.780 And I said, what, really?

01:30:17.960 And he said, no, you guys in America is a Native American telling me you guys in America,

01:30:23.380 you have so many warnings and so many walls and so many gates.

01:30:28.100 People actually climb over your walls because they think they wouldn't make a wall that I

01:30:34.140 could climb over if they didn't really want me to do it.

01:30:37.580 So it's safe.

01:30:38.680 We are actually doing great damage because people don't think for themselves.

01:30:44.880 They don't think for themselves.

01:30:45.760 They're not alert.

01:30:46.520 It's, there are lots of studies of this.

01:30:48.180 It's counterproductive.

01:30:49.300 The warnings were counterproductive.

01:30:51.120 I mean, my favorite warning was on a five inch fishing lure.

01:30:54.400 It said, caution, harmful if swallowed.

01:30:59.740 And he sort of scoped into it because it turned out that the hook had lead in it or something,

01:31:07.140 but nobody's going to swallow it.

01:31:09.220 It's like completely, it's completely idiotic.

01:31:12.580 And if you did swallow it, everyone would know that's harmful.

01:31:18.420 Right.

01:31:18.720 Let me, let me go to point number two.

01:31:21.280 Government is accountable.

01:31:23.620 Really, really important.

01:31:25.500 The whole basis of the constitution was to give, not tell people how to do things, but

01:31:30.780 to give people in government responsibility and to have a mechanism for accountability.

01:31:35.540 That's what democracy is supposed to be.

01:31:37.120 It's a mechanism for accountability.

01:31:39.340 You don't like the people in office.

01:31:41.260 They're not doing a good job.

01:31:42.320 You like new people.

01:31:43.120 But that requires that they be in charge of the people who work for government.

01:31:47.740 So now nobody's in charge.

01:31:50.240 So I wrote an essay, and I'm arguing this in tri-common sense.

01:31:53.640 The civil service system, federal civil services, without any question, violates Article 2 of the

01:31:58.340 Constitution, because Congress subjected the president to collective bargaining in a law in 1978, which means he can't fire anybody, basically.

01:32:08.820 Well, there's a lot of learning, a lot of discussion by Madison early on.

01:32:13.560 Even FDR was against that.

01:32:16.820 Yes.

01:32:17.400 If there's any power inherent in the executive, it's the power to hire and fire.

01:32:23.460 If you break that link in the chain, there is no accountability.

01:32:27.840 And you wonder why it doesn't matter whom you elect.

01:32:30.900 You keep electing new people, expecting things to work differently, and the ship just sails on.

01:32:36.460 You know, it's like this democracy is run by dead people, right?

01:32:39.100 It's run by all the people who wrote all these laws, 40, 50 regulations, 40, 50 years ago, and you can't even fire the people for badly enforcing them.

01:32:49.020 You know, I think there was one place where I think the founders didn't see the future.

01:32:55.240 They didn't see a future where greedy, power-hungry people would gladly give their power up because they didn't want accountability.

01:33:06.340 Yes, they did.

01:33:07.000 These, you know, divisions now, these giant bureaucracies where the Congress says, okay, you guys make the laws.

01:33:20.760 No, that's your job.

01:33:22.200 You guys make the laws.

01:33:23.760 There is no accountability because who the hell do I complain to?

01:33:28.160 Right, right.

01:33:28.600 Ask yourself any stupid thing.

01:33:31.300 Okay, who's responsible for that?

01:33:33.700 And the answer to that is nobody.

01:33:35.860 Correct.

01:33:36.240 Nobody.

01:33:37.000 Because, oh, the rule made me do it.

01:33:38.980 You know, it's that.

01:33:41.360 That's a system of democracy that's no longer functioning.

01:33:45.060 That's why it's got to get rebooted.

01:33:47.600 The third one, public schools have similar freedoms as charter schools.

01:33:51.680 What does that mean?

01:33:52.880 Oh, boy.

01:33:53.920 I mean, we have so bureaucratized public schools.

01:33:56.560 People have, over 20 states now have more non-instructional personnel than teachers.

01:34:01.940 So there are a bunch of people filling out forms.

01:34:04.600 That's where your tax dollars are going.

01:34:06.160 They're filling out forms instead of teaching the kids.

01:34:09.060 I mean, it's literally, combine that with special ed, and you've basically probably wasted about a third or more of the money of the budget.

01:34:18.220 But there's no reason in the world why local communities can't run their local schools the way they want to do it.

01:34:26.360 Exactly right.

01:34:26.640 There's no reason in the world.

01:34:28.160 And by the way-

01:34:28.680 Yes, there is.

01:34:29.480 Department of Education.

01:34:30.820 Right, right.

01:34:31.500 Well, the Department of Education needs to go.

01:34:33.360 And actually, the Trump administration has proposed merging it with the Labor Department, which I think actually makes a lot of sense.

01:34:38.680 But even if you have any role for the federal government, it ought to be as a distant trustee making sure they don't, you know, discriminate or something.

01:34:47.380 It shouldn't be getting involved in daily choices where the principal of one school in Brooklyn told me last year she spends all Friday afternoon filling out forms saying that they did things they didn't do in order to protect the teachers from having to worry about all this bureaucracy.

01:35:06.540 Crazy.

01:35:06.880 And she has a very effective school.

01:35:08.160 So her job as an effective principal is to lie to the bureaucracy. 1.00

01:35:14.180 You know, I have a collection of items from history, and one of my favorites is a shooting target of a teddy bear that was put out by Theodore Roosevelt, okay?

01:35:30.280 And it's an engraving of a teddy bear, and it's got targets all over him.

01:35:37.060 And he used this as a way to try to convince the schools all across America.

01:35:43.280 He wanted to have a shooting range in every school.

01:35:47.820 Now, to show you how much America has changed.

01:35:51.300 They were not upset about the government saying you should have a shooting range and we should teach kids how to use guns.

01:35:59.020 Can you imagine how much better people would feel about their local communities if they had actual input into how the schools ran and where bad teachers could be fired?

01:36:21.360 There was a teacher just this week that said, you know, I can't tell you that the Holocaust is even factual or real history.

01:36:32.840 They weren't fired.

01:36:34.960 They were just transferred to another job.

01:36:38.120 You know, can we talk about accountability for one second?

01:36:42.180 Accountability in an organization, people think of it and we naturally think of it as let's get rid of the bad people, right?

01:36:48.360 And you do want to get rid of the bad people.

01:36:50.140 But the reason you need accountability in government and in schools and such is for a positive reason,

01:36:55.920 which is that it's only when you know everybody else is in your group, your school or whatever, it's going to be trying hard that you feel good about trying hard yourself,

01:37:05.720 that you have pride in your school, that you have the energy.

01:37:09.940 And if you know that job performance doesn't matter in government or in the school or so, what does that do to the energy?

01:37:18.700 It's like putting a hole in a balloon.

01:37:20.940 Every every American has worked at a job where we have said, I don't know if that person has pictures of the boss with sheep or what it is,

01:37:28.820 but they should have been fired long ago.

01:37:31.560 And when they're not, morale goes down and you never accomplish anything.

01:37:37.220 We're going to come back in just a second.

01:37:39.360 A fascinating conversation.

01:37:41.540 I think a great book that everyone should read.

01:37:44.100 Try Common Sense, Replacing Failed Ideologies of the Left and the Right.

01:37:48.180 Try Common Sense.

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01:37:50.180 More in just a second.

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01:39:23.980 So, Philip, when you're talking about common sense, this one is so clear.

01:39:30.680 This is your fourth point, and it is so clear, and yet we're going in exactly the opposite direction.

01:39:40.060 And that is doctors should focus on care, not metrics and paperwork.

01:39:45.300 Most of the costs that we have, you can go to a doctor and you say, I'm going to pay cash.

01:39:50.020 You're not paying the usual fee.

01:39:53.380 It's because they know they don't have to worry about paperwork.

01:39:56.680 And now with opioids, it's worse.

01:39:59.280 Yeah, 30% of the American health care dollar goes through administration.

01:40:03.680 That's a trillion dollars.

01:40:05.220 That's a million dollars per physician, mainly on paperwork.

01:40:09.720 So, you know, the Democratic candidates, I'll talk about Medicare for all and such, they're completely missing the point.

01:40:18.920 It's a crisis of cost.

01:40:21.540 And the crisis of cost is largely a question of too much bureaucracy and not enough both freedom and accountability of the doctors.

01:40:31.720 You know, there's no market at work.

01:40:33.540 There's no skin in the game.

01:40:35.240 The most socialistic countries, like in Scandinavia, that have health care for everybody, they make people have skin in the game.

01:40:41.880 You've got to pay a portion of your fees.

01:40:43.500 And if you do that, what happens is that people use them more reasonably, right?

01:40:47.960 It's common sense.

01:40:48.860 It's so, I say this all the time because I am in a position in my life where I can pay, you know, cash for things and I have insurance for catastrophic, me personally.

01:40:59.220 And I'll go to my doctor and I'll say, okay, where can I get this test done where I can get it done right, can get it done quickly, and I'm not paying an arm and a leg.

01:41:08.840 Oh, go here.

01:41:10.200 And you go there and it's reasonable, you know, and is there anything that I can do?

01:41:16.260 Is there a drug that is cheaper than that does the same thing?

01:41:19.180 They all, none of them, none of them are like, well, I'm not sure.

01:41:23.080 They all say, oh, you're paying for it for yourself.

01:41:26.260 Yeah.

01:41:27.080 And then they write a prescription for something else.

01:41:29.220 Sure.

01:41:29.960 So we have this system, well, like our government in general, where it's literally out of anyone's control.

01:41:36.920 Right.

01:41:38.460 Workplace isn't a legal minefield, point number five.

01:41:41.900 Oh, my God.

01:41:42.700 People have to be free to be themselves.

01:41:45.700 I mean, there's no greater barrier between people of different races or genders or religions and stuff than being scared that anything you say could turn into a, you know, kind of a lawsuit.

01:41:59.220 Right.

01:41:59.460 Or something that's completely counterproductive.

01:42:01.500 This notion that you might get fired because you tell a bad joke.

01:42:05.160 I mean, I have this idea that we should have like five bisques.

01:42:08.280 You know, you should be able to say every year five things that are completely inappropriate without any.

01:42:12.980 I mean, it's like a video game where you have a life.

01:42:15.660 Yeah, yeah.

01:42:15.860 You get five lives.

01:42:16.900 Yeah, yeah.

01:42:17.360 I get five lives.

01:42:18.620 Because you want people to be – the point of being in a free country is to be yourself.

01:42:24.020 Right.

01:42:24.160 And by the way, people do have different values.

01:42:26.900 They do have different ways of going.

01:42:30.640 And in a free society, we ought to be able to congregate with those people, like the Mormons in Utah and the Hasidic Jews are in Williamsburg.

01:42:39.180 Right.

01:42:39.400 People of alike values and religions like to be together.

01:42:42.900 What's wrong with that?

01:42:44.380 America encouraged that.

01:42:46.700 You look in Manhattan, no matter how diverse Manhattan is as a whole, you have Chinatown, you have Little Italy, you have – people congregate with their like-minded.

01:42:59.220 You have the Upper East Side, which is generally conservative.

01:43:02.340 You have the Upper West Side, which – and believe me, if I as a conservative want to go live on the West Side, it ain't going to be easy.

01:43:09.600 You know, they'll vote me out of that building.

01:43:11.980 Forget their diversity crap. 1.00

01:43:13.900 Right, right.

01:43:14.480 Last one, quickly.

01:43:15.920 How much time do I have?

01:43:17.300 I have one minute, and then we're going to take a break, and I want to get to your principles.

01:43:21.720 But children should be allowed to run around.

01:43:24.740 Amen.

01:43:26.160 Oh, my God.

01:43:26.780 It is crazy.

01:43:27.460 We have taken away the authority of parents.

01:43:29.480 You know, we've made parents feel so terrified that any normal risk is somehow a sin that we're actually making it so that our children will not be resourceful.

01:43:43.520 They'll not be successful.

01:43:44.800 They'll not be able to compete with all the kids in other countries that are learning how to be resourceful by being kids.

01:43:51.200 It's madness.

01:43:51.980 There are several groups starting to work on this now, but it's going to require a major push and legal protection to get this back.

01:44:01.520 It's going to take a complete reboot, and we talk about that when we come back.

01:44:09.260 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

01:44:11.580 All right.

01:44:13.700 So when I first moved to Texas, I lived in Texas in the 1980s, and it was a great place, and everybody had boots, and everybody had a hat, and everybody had a belt.

01:44:22.200 It's not like that anymore, but people still wear boots down there, and I like to wear boots on occasion.

01:44:27.580 I like to wear boots when I'm on vacation.

01:44:29.820 I'm up to the ranch and wearing boots every single day, but I don't want the boots that you're getting.

01:44:34.500 You know, I'm not going to say the name of these brands, the famous brands down in Texas because they're like $5,000, and you're like, who's wearing these?

01:44:43.400 Who's wearing $5,000 boots?

01:44:45.660 So you want a great boot.

01:44:48.420 You want a boot that fits you.

01:44:50.160 You want a boot that looks good, is high quality.

01:44:53.380 If you could, have it handmade, 200 steps in the process, all handmade.

01:44:59.160 How are you going to afford that?

01:45:00.720 Well, most people can't, so they buy a crappy boot off of the shelves.

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01:45:08.020 It's Tecovis.

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01:45:11.020 They're about half the price of any of the fancy boots.

01:45:14.800 Actually, they're a lot less than half the price of the real fancy boots.

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01:45:21.020 They cut out the middleman, and that's how they're affordable.

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01:45:37.820 Philip Howard is the author of a book called Try Common Sense, which I think is the,

01:45:43.400 everybody says burn the system down.

01:45:45.920 The left, the right said burn the system down, drain the swamp.

01:45:50.980 Donald Trump said, I mean, Barack Obama said hope and change, but nobody is saying burn it

01:45:56.880 down for what?

01:45:58.480 Hope and change.

01:45:59.300 Change to what?

01:46:00.300 The only ones that are offering a, an alternative view now are the socialists.

01:46:06.260 And they're saying, yeah, we'll get rid of the free market system and we're going to replace

01:46:09.600 it with this.

01:46:10.280 They're not even being honest about what the replacement really is, but they're, they are

01:46:15.700 actually talking about this system doesn't work.

01:46:19.360 So we're going to try something new.

01:46:22.180 That's going to catch up to all of the politicians who are eating around the fringes.

01:46:27.100 It's why Donald Trump was supported was because he was the wrecking ball.

01:46:33.420 Now, if you couple this with what you're talking about, you have a positive vision that I think

01:46:40.020 both left and right, not left Democrats and Republicans and most of the right can come around.

01:46:47.300 Yeah, which is give back to people the freedom to take responsibility, but it's, but it's

01:46:53.080 not, it's more than just that.

01:46:55.220 You'll hear that from politicians, but you actually are outlining how to do it.

01:47:01.600 You say, well, for instance, let's just go through these quickly.

01:47:04.480 Restore individual responsibility.

01:47:06.720 Yeah.

01:47:07.060 You govern for goals and then you give people responsibility, whether they meet them or not.

01:47:11.860 That's it.

01:47:12.540 But you let people fill up the whole teach the classroom, whatever it is in there.

01:47:17.300 Their own way, do their best and be accountable for how they do.

01:47:21.920 Revive individual accountability.

01:47:23.640 You cannot have a healthy government.

01:47:25.460 You cannot have a democracy.

01:47:26.720 You cannot have a good society unless other, everybody is accountable for whether they're

01:47:31.700 pulling their shares.

01:47:32.360 So that's not possible in the system that we have right now.

01:47:37.920 No, you've got to get rid of the idea of lawsuits over.

01:47:42.240 I was treated unfairly.

01:47:43.900 Forget it.

01:47:44.460 Just cut it out.

01:47:45.500 You can preserve anti-discrimination laws, but they have to be focused on patterns or

01:47:50.500 practices or other things.

01:47:52.060 Not, I personally should have gotten a promotion.

01:47:54.780 Social justice is out the window.

01:47:56.740 Yeah, that's right.

01:47:57.460 I mean, all this victimization stuff that you see on the campus and stuff is so un-American.

01:48:03.200 All it does is take away everyone else's freedom.

01:48:06.200 Not only that, it crushes the soul of the individual.

01:48:09.360 My father said to me one time, I was whining about something and he said, oh my gosh, you're

01:48:14.420 right.

01:48:14.600 You had a really tough life.

01:48:16.020 You've gone through a lot of tough things.

01:48:17.940 And I said, I did.

01:48:18.600 And he said, you know, make a list of those things and call me back.

01:48:21.260 And so I did.

01:48:22.080 And I was, oh, poor me.

01:48:23.120 And I got about three of them in and I realized, wait a minute, these were horrible things,

01:48:30.340 but they all turned out to be good.

01:48:32.760 I'm where I'm at because of those things in a positive way.

01:48:37.520 So victimization, playing the victim your whole life, gets you nowhere.

01:48:41.780 Well, it makes people miserable.

01:48:44.280 Yes.

01:48:44.680 It makes the person who's thinking that way miserable.

01:48:48.820 Right.

01:48:49.180 You know, and there's so many studies.

01:48:51.800 And gives the people who enable them power over those people.

01:48:54.400 That's right.

01:48:55.400 And its goal is to disempower other people, as you see on the campuses with political correctness

01:49:02.120 and, you know, all this stuff.

01:49:03.640 You know, you can't teach King Lear because they're misogynistic or something.

01:49:07.940 Right.

01:49:08.340 You know, I mean, give me a break.

01:49:10.220 Right.

01:49:10.360 Go transfer schools if you don't like it.

01:49:12.800 Don't take the class.

01:49:14.400 So you have number three is bureaucracy is evil.

01:49:17.620 I have a guy who's working for me now who was, I don't even know what his job was, but

01:49:22.080 he said, I couldn't take it anymore when we were sitting around in a room and we had a

01:49:27.020 bunch of attorneys and they were trying to decide how far away the desk should be from

01:49:32.040 the wall.

01:49:32.700 Should it be four inches or six inches or maybe eight inches?

01:49:36.220 And he said, I finally just got up and I moved the damn desk.

01:49:38.880 And I said, whatever it is right here.

01:49:41.320 Yeah, exactly.

01:49:42.180 Right.

01:49:42.360 So I talk a lot about this and try common sense.

01:49:46.060 But first, bureaucracy is stupid.

01:49:48.800 We know it's stupid.

01:49:49.860 Apple orchard has a rule.

01:49:52.700 You've got to cover the cloth of the apples when they're picked and coming back to the

01:49:57.040 barn.

01:49:57.480 And this one case, it was like took about three minutes.

01:49:59.860 Why to protect the apples against bird droppings?

01:50:03.160 Well, those apples have been growing on the trees for five months with no protection by

01:50:07.640 the federal government against bird droppings.

01:50:09.780 And they're going to go to the barn to get washed.

01:50:11.540 It's completely idiotic rule.

01:50:13.060 So people know it's idiotic.

01:50:14.720 But it's worse than that.

01:50:15.820 Because when you make people focus on filling out forms and checklists, that means they're

01:50:20.720 not thinking about actually the student in front of them or the resident of the nursing

01:50:25.480 home or solving the problem.

01:50:28.020 Or any kind of innovation.

01:50:29.600 Or any kind of innovation.

01:50:31.300 And so it literally makes people go brain dead.

01:50:34.360 There's psychological studies, I said.

01:50:36.400 It uses up all of what's called a working memory.

01:50:38.720 So you can't access the smart part of your brain, which is in your subconscious, where

01:50:42.280 your experience and values and instincts are.

01:50:45.360 And so Americans hate it for a reason.

01:50:48.460 Because they go through the day being forced to think about things that they know don't

01:50:52.560 matter.

01:50:53.240 And it prevents them from being, from making a difference.

01:50:58.520 From creating value.

01:50:59.700 What they think, I want to do something of value.

01:51:01.760 I want to do something that means something.

01:51:03.900 And they spend a lot of time.

01:51:04.960 I was taught by a great guy when I was very young.

01:51:09.080 He said, why did you do that?

01:51:10.560 And I said, well, you know, breaking the rules, blah, blah, blah.

01:51:14.920 And he said, it's cool to be a rule breaker.

01:51:16.440 I'm a rule breaker.

01:51:17.340 But until you know what the rule is, don't break it.

01:51:20.780 You have to know what the rule is.

01:51:22.660 And then you have to have a reason to break it because you've invented something or you've

01:51:30.600 come up with something different.

01:51:32.020 And that's what's stopping us is the rules are so complex and so all-encompassing.

01:51:38.900 All you're doing is just trying to stay within the lines.

01:51:42.360 And you can't.

01:51:43.000 And so now the presumption is that you can't, instead of being free, this is what we're

01:51:48.640 supposed to be in a free society.

01:51:50.060 It's how Susan gave us.

01:51:51.680 The presumption is you can't do something unless it's specifically allowed, just like

01:51:56.380 the Soviet Union, because you know you don't know all the rules.

01:51:59.920 So there was this program in California a few years ago for waivers for schools to give

01:52:05.320 them more flexibility, right?

01:52:06.700 So that some agency came up with this waiver program.

01:52:08.960 So they started getting these applications from all these schools to ask for waivers.

01:52:13.160 What turned out that all the things they were asking for, they were able to do without a

01:52:17.060 waiver.

01:52:17.820 Wow.

01:52:18.060 They just assumed they couldn't do anything.

01:52:20.160 My son said to me, I knew there was a change in society when my 13-year-old son at the time

01:52:26.880 said to me, we were watching something.

01:52:30.520 It was a piece of old news or an old movie.

01:52:34.220 And there was something politically correct in it.

01:52:37.120 And he's incorrect.

01:52:38.360 And he said, how did the government ever allow this movie to be made?

01:52:43.120 And I was like, he's growing up in my house, you know?

01:52:46.840 And I'm like, son, you got it all upside down.

01:52:51.940 Let's go to, and this is the hard part, reboot government programs.

01:52:57.400 It's hard only because Washington is organized to avoid it.

01:53:02.600 But there's not one federal program that isn't broken.

01:53:05.940 Correct.

01:53:06.320 Even the ones that have good, the reason they're broken is because nobody goes back and adapts

01:53:11.020 them for unintended consequences.

01:53:12.520 The special ed law for special needs kids, we needed that law.

01:53:19.020 We weren't taking care of those kids.

01:53:20.800 That's fine.

01:53:21.500 But nobody intended it to become a bureaucratic nightmare that uses up 25 to 30 percent of

01:53:28.000 the total K-12 budget in this country.

01:53:30.360 Wow.

01:53:30.740 But now it has this constituency of people who make money on it and the parents, and nobody

01:53:38.000 will change it.

01:53:38.640 So we've got to actually have a big reboot system, every program.

01:53:43.440 Appoint recodification commissions with the job of proposing new codes in each area.

01:53:49.740 This one kind of makes me nervous because, you know, you know what happened under FDR, and

01:53:54.520 it's what's happening now with Facebook and Google.

01:53:57.340 They want to be at the table creating new regulations.

01:54:00.540 That's right.

01:54:01.460 But the point of these, so I'm big on giving people responsibility but not power.

01:54:08.460 So I would give these committees, I was talking to a congressman today about it, I would give

01:54:12.940 these committees the job, and personally I want to run the committee, so I trust myself,

01:54:18.760 but the job of simplifying regs pursuant to these principles.

01:54:23.860 So the whole point would be not to add to regulation, but to subtract it and make it more human and

01:54:30.180 understandable and such.

01:54:32.200 But the commissions only propose it.

01:54:36.480 Congress still has to pass it.

01:54:38.060 Congress.

01:54:38.780 Yeah, Congress.

01:54:39.560 I mean, that's the job in our constitution.

01:54:41.660 Congress still has to pass it.

01:54:43.240 So, so the only point, but Congress can't write them because you can't negotiate with

01:54:48.860 535 people, each of whom has their special, you know, constituency they want to help.

01:54:54.760 It'll just end up being this, this, this complete tangle, right?

01:54:58.760 So you need to give it, it's the way it's always been worked.

01:55:01.080 We have something called the Uniform Commercial Code in this country.

01:55:04.220 That's contract law that applies to all the states and all the states adopt.

01:55:07.820 It's very simple so that if you're doing business in all the states, you kind of know what

01:55:11.620 the rules are, they're the same, basically.

01:55:14.300 Well, that was written by a small committee of five people and then it got adopted by

01:55:19.200 the different states.

01:55:21.040 That's the way it works.

01:55:22.440 Okay, so I'm going to have to, because we're going to run out of time, I have to go through

01:55:25.040 a couple of these quickly.

01:55:26.900 Courts must defend boundaries of reasonableness.

01:55:29.020 I think that's self-explanatory.

01:55:30.780 Give communities ownership of local services.

01:55:33.200 Sounds great.

01:55:35.420 Move agencies out of Washington.

01:55:37.260 Been saying this for a long time.

01:55:38.520 I want to move Congress out of Washington.

01:55:39.920 There's no reason that we have to have them all in one place.

01:55:43.240 Washington is toxic.

01:55:44.280 Yes, it is.

01:55:45.980 But you have two here that I want to talk about.

01:55:48.600 Litmus tests for public choices must be the common good.

01:55:54.520 This worries me because Google is trying to do the common good.

01:55:59.560 Others try to do, once businesses try to do things for the common good, they start to social

01:56:10.780 engineer.

01:56:11.460 Yeah, yeah.

01:56:11.820 No, no, no.

01:56:12.580 Yeah, I'm not for business doing things for the common good.

01:56:14.760 It's just that a law, when you use state power, the only justification in my view for state

01:56:22.000 power is you're going to make freedom better.

01:56:24.700 You're going to enhance freedom.

01:56:26.960 You're going to enhance services.

01:56:28.640 But right now, the way law is being used is to benefit this group or that group.

01:56:34.260 Correct.

01:56:34.980 And so what I'm saying is, if you can't justify it as being better for everybody, then you

01:56:41.860 can't do it.

01:56:42.580 The last one I wanted to go to is reorganize Congress.

01:56:50.680 Now, I'm a big mission statement guy.

01:56:55.480 The first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, that's our mission.

01:56:59.960 Our instruction manual on how to build that, it's clearly, it's been run by guys forever

01:57:07.100 because we don't read our instruction manual, which is the Constitution, and we haven't read

01:57:10.960 that forever, when you say reorganize, you mean reorganize based on these principles.

01:57:16.700 Yes.

01:57:17.080 Okay.

01:57:17.420 How do you reorganize it?

01:57:18.980 Well, you go back to, right now, Congress doesn't do its job.

01:57:23.140 It doesn't oversee the regulations that the agency's write.

01:57:25.900 It never goes back and fixes old laws.

01:57:27.800 All those programs are broken.

01:57:29.400 It sees its job.

01:57:30.320 It's just passing more and more new laws.

01:57:32.560 So we don't have a code of law.

01:57:35.180 We've got a junk pile.

01:57:36.280 We have a junk pile of stuff that's piled up for a century.

01:57:38.820 Mm-hmm.

01:57:40.320 So what I think most people recommend is you give much more authority to committees so

01:57:48.700 that you know who is, it's just a small group of people who are making decisions about how

01:57:52.980 to fix it.

01:57:53.520 They can be accountable.

01:57:54.800 Mm-hmm.

01:57:55.160 And I would give them more authority to fix old laws by saying, if they come up with an

01:58:02.680 amendment and it's approved by, let's say, two-thirds of the committee and the minority

01:58:07.280 leader, so there's some bipartisan indicia, everybody else will vote for it.

01:58:11.700 So you can actually start cleaning out the stable.

01:58:15.720 And this is not just adding to the laws.

01:58:19.580 This is weeding the garden.

01:58:21.560 It's all about weeding.

01:58:23.140 No, my rule is all about weeding.

01:58:25.240 It's not about, they can't do it with new laws. 0.53

01:58:27.400 It's all about weeding.

01:58:28.680 There's no weeding that's gone on in our lifetime.

01:58:31.580 I am, I'm thrilled to meet you and I'm thrilled to know that you have the ear of very prominent

01:58:40.960 people and you have worked with the president on his corporate board and thrilled that somebody

01:58:48.480 is talking about this because a reboot is coming whether we like it or not because if

01:58:54.180 we don't do it, just the laws of nature are going to force a collapse on this because

01:58:59.900 it's not, it doesn't work.

01:59:00.980 It wasn't built to do this.

01:59:02.960 Change is here.

01:59:04.200 You know, the voters, your listeners, there's the incredible wisdom in the people who are

01:59:08.660 listening to you.

01:59:09.580 They know that the system is broken and no one's giving them, as you said earlier, a coherent

01:59:14.220 new vision about how to fix it.

01:59:15.860 And so what we need to do is bind, come together behind a principled vision that is based on

01:59:22.900 constitutional framework that relies on the American character and the idea of responsibility

01:59:32.760 and self-reliance and accountability.

01:59:34.900 Those are timeless.

01:59:36.640 You are, and I know because I rewrote Common Sense, I don't know, 15 years ago and I did

01:59:46.560 it arrogantly, I think in some ways as an ode to Thomas Paine and I say arrogantly because

01:59:53.960 who can do that?

01:59:55.900 But this is what you're doing.

01:59:57.100 That's why it's try common sense because this is Thomas Paine.

02:00:01.760 These are the problems.

02:00:03.040 Here are the solutions and they all make sense.

02:00:04.800 Yes, it's good to have you.

02:00:07.380 I'd love to have you for a podcast so we can spend more time.

02:00:09.960 Let's do it.

02:00:10.800 It's great to be with you, Glenn.

02:00:12.220 Thank you so much.

02:00:12.980 Appreciate it.

02:00:13.760 All right.

02:00:14.240 Back in just a second.

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02:01:36.960 Jeffrey Epstein.

02:01:38.320 We haven't had a chance to talk about this.

02:01:40.360 I think Donald Trump looks really good in this.

02:01:44.320 The minute he found out years ago, this guy had a proposition to a young underage girl

02:01:50.240 at one of his clubs, he banned him from the club right away.

02:01:53.780 And now new story from the woman who's been following this and been the catalyst of this

02:01:59.020 story.

02:01:59.580 She now says that Acosta has a reason for the plea deal.

02:02:04.180 Jason, she says she's been a few people are catching on to this.

02:02:07.520 She said, quote, Acosta said, I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.

02:02:12.500 And I mean, whoa, I mean, that's interesting.

02:02:17.340 Yeah.

02:02:18.240 Who said that?

02:02:19.340 And that's the kind of stuff that a well-connected man could have said in his behalf.

The Glenn Beck Program - July 11, 2019

Nobody Wants War ｜ Guests： Lt. Gov Ken Paxton, Andrew Wilkow, & Philip K. Howard ｜ 7⧸11⧸19

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