The Glenn Beck Program - Obama： Don't Be a Sycophant 1⧸19⧸17

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00:00:18.000 Hello America and welcome to the program.

00:00:21.260 There was something that was said by Barack Obama in his press conference yesterday that

00:00:27.400 I had a hard time with.

00:00:31.580 His last press conference yesterday, he gave the press some advice and said, and I quote,

00:00:41.700 you're not supposed to be sycophants.

00:00:44.420 You're supposed to be skeptics.

00:00:47.940 And you need to keep that up.

00:00:52.860 Which the sycophant part, because that's what they've been doing.

00:00:55.880 I couldn't believe the lack of self-awareness.

00:01:03.000 And it continues.

00:01:04.060 There's like 12 stories today of the left doing all the things that the right did, if not worse.

00:01:15.220 And there's no like, hey, gee, wow, you know what?

00:01:18.040 This is what we were just complaining about with the right. 0.95

00:01:21.980 No self-awareness at all.

00:01:24.120 We begin there right now.

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00:01:52.940 Hello America.

00:01:54.320 Welcome to the program.

00:01:56.080 Let's see.

00:01:56.680 Let me just read some headlines.

00:01:58.480 We'll get to these stories as we go.

00:01:59.680 Let me read some headlines.

00:02:01.420 Let me just see how this makes you feel.

00:02:04.700 How does this make you feel?

00:02:06.000 Trump's name removed from church prayer list to keep from traumatizing liberals.

00:02:13.700 Let's see.

00:02:20.140 Let's see.

00:02:21.380 Barack Obama at his press conference yesterday.

00:02:26.760 Quote, you're not supposed to be sycophants.

00:02:30.040 You're supposed to be skeptics.

00:02:33.220 Artists protest Trump by painting with human blood.

00:02:44.320 It's art.

00:02:46.100 Art.

00:02:49.680 Let's see here.

00:02:50.960 GOP Senate hopefuls warned to ingratiate themselves to Donald Trump ahead of time.

00:02:58.420 Uh, let's see.

00:03:03.880 Federal judge has to order DHS officials not to destroy emails.

00:03:08.860 I love this one from the HuffPo.

00:03:14.660 How the Trump presidency will change America.

00:03:19.460 HuffPo contributors make their predictions.

00:03:24.420 In an epic final speech, Joe Biden warns that the democratic world order is at risk of complete collapse.

00:03:33.660 Uh, that's the headlines in that stack.

00:03:40.380 I think we got it.

00:03:41.120 I think we have enough there.

00:03:42.260 I can't.

00:03:43.260 I want him to start making a list, Stu, of all of the things where they are lacking self-awareness.

00:03:50.820 For instance, somebody wouldn't have shown up for Barack Obama's, uh, inaugural address and his inauguration.

00:04:01.760 There'd be an issue with that.

00:04:02.760 I, I, I, I, racism, I, I quoted Jake Tapper yesterday and, and tweeted back to him because he did a story yesterday on one of the Kennedys, uh, one of the new young ones who is going to the inauguration.

00:04:18.960 And the spin on the story was, he's still going.

00:04:25.160 Here's why.

00:04:28.360 And I wrote to Jake, Jake, had the shoe been on the other foot, which it has been for the last eight years, every story would have been, I can't believe these guys aren't going.

00:04:44.280 What's wrong with them?

00:04:45.660 They must be racists.

00:04:48.960 How is it?

00:04:50.080 There's no self-awareness that it's suddenly okay to not go to a president's inauguration.

00:05:01.360 I don't know if I'm throwing a party, the less democratic congressmen who show up to it, the better.

00:05:05.340 No, I, I, I, how is it suddenly okay and not fear mongering, selling fear, trying to get a leg up on fear?

00:05:18.040 How is it suddenly acceptable and everybody on the left goes, yep, he's right, he's right.

00:05:26.000 When Joe Biden says the democratic world order is on the, uh, at risk of catastrophic collapse.

00:05:35.400 Because they're always justified in, in what they do with whatever it is, like in this case, racism, or he's a, uh, you know, he's a chauvinist pig.

00:05:46.220 But here, here's, so they're always justified.

00:05:48.180 Here's the thing, and, and, and I did a poor job because I believed that Barack Obama would be the catalyst of that collapse.

00:05:59.340 But the media did a very poor job of, of, um, of explaining that the collapse is not coming because of Barack Obama.

00:06:12.380 I've never believed that the collapse was coming because of him, that the collapse would be used by him.

00:06:19.960 And we were making other moves that would, for instance, adding another nine or ten trillion dollars to the debt that would add to the collapse and make it worse than it had to be.

00:06:36.640 He doubled the debt, by the way.

00:06:38.060 Yeah, he doubled the debt.

00:06:39.720 And we also printed four trillion dollars.

00:06:42.460 Now, that's not Barack Obama that printed the four trillion dollars.

00:06:45.760 That's the system that allowed four trillion dollars to be printed by the Fed.

00:06:51.420 So, it, the, the, the catastrophic collapse that I saw coming, I still see coming.

00:06:58.860 And when I've said that to them recently, they laugh at me.

00:07:04.480 Well, okay, you're, you're, you're gonna just talk your way out of it.

00:07:08.540 No, no, no.

00:07:10.560 In fact, you didn't see catastrophic collapse.

00:07:14.640 Now, who's a bigger fear monger?

00:07:20.360 The person who thinks the United States is, is, um, has done so much damage over the last 100 years that these wars are not caused now by what George Bush did,

00:07:34.780 but by what we were doing in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

00:07:40.040 That we've done so much damage to ourself around the world in the last 100 years.

00:07:47.040 We've done so much damage to the free market over the last 100 years.

00:07:51.580 We've done so much damage to the dollar over the last 100 years.

00:07:55.960 We've done so much damage to international banking over the last 100 years that it's only a matter of time before that chicken comes home to roost.

00:08:05.440 Is he a fear monger, or is the one who says, everything is fine on Thursday, but the moment the guy I disagree with raises his hand and says, now I'm taking over, the world is on the verge of collapse because of one man.

00:08:27.220 Which one, which one, which one, which one can back it up with facts, the one who said everything is sunshine and lollipops, we're on the record, the road to recovery, there are no problems.

00:08:46.980 We've doubled the debt in eight years, and it's not a problem, but this guy in the next four years will be the sole reason for collapse.

00:09:01.400 Outrageous. Absolutely outrageous.

00:09:05.540 To say that, to say now that NATO is in trouble because of Donald Trump, and only Donald Trump.

00:09:14.840 No, no, NATO is in trouble because NATO has screwed itself and screwed, quite honestly, I think the United States of America for a very long time, and Russia has been planting the seeds of anti-NATO sentiment in our country and in Europe for quite some time,

00:09:40.320 while we were saying, George W. Bush, I look into Pootie Poot's eyes and he's a friend, and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying they want their, the 80s just called, they want their foreign policy back, Russia is a friend of ours.

00:09:55.820 We've ignored them. We've ignored them. Now, all of a sudden, now, today, Russia, and this one I love, today, Russia is okay.

00:10:09.060 Tomorrow, when he raises his hand, Russia is a problem. 0.99

00:10:13.140 And to parse that one even more, WikiLeaks was not a problem until WikiLeaks took down Hillary Clinton. 0.99

00:10:27.240 Then they are traitors, and yet, when Manning is released, who supplied WikiLeaks with the information, that's a heroic move.

00:10:42.340 I don't know how to solve all of that.

00:10:47.280 How does anyone, and by the way, if you're on the right, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself, as I like to say.

00:10:57.500 Please, please never.

00:10:57.740 Nancy Pelosi, if I can quote her.

00:10:59.740 Don't say that ever again, please.

00:11:01.220 No, I'm quoting Nancy Pelosi. She's the coolest.

00:11:03.040 You should stop quoting Nancy Pelosi.

00:11:03.720 No, no, no.

00:11:04.080 All the kids are saying it, Stu.

00:11:05.180 All the kids are saying it.

00:11:06.400 They're all saying it.

00:11:07.300 People like Nancy Pelosi are saying it. You know all the hip kids are saying it.

00:11:10.480 Well, but then you make a good point when you're not saying that particular phrase.

00:11:15.460 Because every time, we talk about hypocrisy all the time, and largely on the left.

00:11:20.800 It's where we find it constantly. It's obvious to us.

00:11:24.420 However, you have to make sure that you did not take the opposite position of the left on the two issues you're discussing.

00:11:32.220 Yes.

00:11:32.420 Because that means you've also changed your mind.

00:11:34.900 Russia, for instance, and WikiLeaks.

00:11:36.720 Great examples.

00:11:37.680 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:11:38.880 And it is why people ran to new chairs so fast that those of us who have been sitting exactly the same place at the table the whole time,

00:11:49.420 we now find ourselves surrounded by people who don't believe what they're saying now.

00:11:54.560 And the people who we thought believed what they said then are sitting at the other side of the table and saying, you've changed.

00:12:01.780 You're with others.

00:12:02.300 No.

00:12:03.260 No.

00:12:04.680 You've just occupied their chairs, and they've just occupied your chairs.

00:12:08.680 We're still sitting here.

00:12:10.200 And it's, I mean, look, this has been around forever, right?

00:12:12.940 I mean, we played the clips of Harry Reid from, like, the 1990s, where he's, like, the hardest budget hawk, border hawk, wants to audit the Fed.

00:12:23.840 I mean, he sounds like Rand Paul at times in his days back in the 90s.

00:12:30.440 And he's changed, and that sort of stuff does happen over time.

00:12:34.460 Now we're seeing it.

00:12:35.360 It's not 20 years.

00:12:36.600 It's 20 minutes.

00:12:38.040 I mean, I don't know.

00:12:39.300 I guess we've just, everything's been accelerated.

00:12:41.740 But, man, I don't want to live in that world.

00:12:43.860 I don't want to live in the world where you make up whatever opinion fits the political push of the time.

00:12:50.200 I don't want to live in the world where the Dixie Chicks say, how dare you boycott us for our political opinion, and then all of Hollywood and the music industry boycotts the inauguration.

00:13:06.480 Yeah.

00:13:07.120 I mean, wait a minute.

00:13:08.280 Hold on just a second.

00:13:09.680 You're boycotting the Trump, but we can't boycott you.

00:13:14.860 And again.

00:13:15.240 We're un-American. 0.87

00:13:16.520 We're wrong because we say we're going to boycott you.

00:13:22.020 You're the American.

00:13:23.520 The interesting part of that, too, is there was no Dixie Chicks boycott.

00:13:29.320 Right.

00:13:31.000 That's the other little aspect of that.

00:13:33.000 If we could not play into that lie, there was no Dixie Chicks boycott by Clear Channel.

00:13:38.200 It never happened.

00:13:39.540 I worked for the company at the time.

00:13:41.300 The country stations that I worked for were playing the Dixie Chicks. 0.95

00:13:46.680 There was no Dixie Chicks boycott.

00:13:48.640 It didn't happen.

00:13:49.940 Now, certain program directors might have gotten pissed and said, I'm not going to play the Dixie Chicks, but that was not a company-wide decision.

00:13:56.000 But this seems to be a Democratic Party decision to boycott this man at the inauguration.

00:14:03.300 And beyond that, these are people who all did business with him when he was the same guy, but was not running for office.

00:14:10.540 He was ready to go find the pictures of Donald Trump with all of the celebrities because you know they all played at his casinos.

00:14:19.480 Yeah, they played at his casinos.

00:14:20.380 Oh, no questions.

00:14:21.440 And he is such a star lover that you know that he has pictures with all of those people.

00:14:34.300 Oh, of course.

00:14:34.740 So, the time to release all of those pictures is right now.

00:14:39.740 Oh, really?

00:14:40.440 You loved him when he was paying you, but now he's the most evil man in the planet.

00:14:44.800 And by the way, his opinions on any of this stuff and the things he's been saying has not really changed.

00:14:50.120 I mean, some of his politics have changed, but the thing, he's always been this vocal about women.

00:14:57.640 I mean, he was vocal then, he's vocal now.

00:14:59.360 He was on Howard Stern for the love of Pete, and the left loved him for it.

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00:17:38.380 We have an update on George and Barbara Bush.

00:17:41.420 I know she was hospitalized yesterday, which was really concerning.

00:17:47.080 But he has been, he was really sick.

00:17:49.660 He had to have an operation yesterday to remove something from his throat, a blockage in his throat.

00:17:57.660 Supposedly doing well.

00:17:58.960 Well, she is just in as a precaution because she was coughing a lot.

00:18:05.400 I'm sure she was just, I mean, that happens a lot.

00:18:08.180 Husband and wife come in like that and she's really concerned and starting to freak out.

00:18:12.560 They're the kind of couple, too, though, that I think love each other so much and been together for so long that they're the kind of couple that dies together.

00:18:19.340 You know what I mean?

00:18:19.780 I said that to Tanya, she said, because I hadn't heard that Barbara Bush was in the hospital.

00:18:25.780 She had just gotten a text alert.

00:18:28.100 And I said, no, it's George H.W. Bush.

00:18:30.680 And she said, no, Barbara has just been put in, too.

00:18:33.940 And we were talking about it.

00:18:34.940 And I said, that's the kind of couple that they die together.

00:18:37.960 They're just this sweet pair that go together.

00:18:43.240 And she said, I don't know.

00:18:49.040 I think maybe they'd do anything to not have to comment on why they're not going to the Trump inauguration.

00:18:56.020 What do you think?

00:18:56.980 This is a giant scam.

00:18:59.560 I don't know.

00:18:59.960 His letter seemed kind of, I mean, I will say.

00:19:02.920 I didn't read the letter.

00:19:03.460 I didn't read the letter.

00:19:04.080 I mean, he said, like, if my doctors tell me if I go outside in January, I might wind up six feet under.

00:19:08.400 I mean, it's interesting that really until the election, the Bushes really did not show any love at all to Donald Trump.

00:19:18.300 Very much opposed to him.

00:19:18.840 And since then, they have really respected the process and I think have been supportive.

00:19:22.480 They have to.

00:19:22.800 That's what, I mean, that's what we're supposed to do.

00:19:26.000 We're supposed to do that.

00:19:28.000 You can disagree with the policies.

00:19:30.640 Say what you want about the Bush family, but they respect the office of the presidency.

00:19:34.040 I think H.W. did, George W. Bush, as much as I'm not a fan, he did and does.

00:19:42.280 I have, Jeb, I truly believe that the Bush family is one of, I would say probably the most honorable family in politics today.

00:19:59.480 Do you think of a, do you think of a, of a family?

00:20:03.640 I mean, there's very few.

00:20:05.040 Yeah, I mean, they definitely respect the office and I think they do those things well.

00:20:08.720 I mean, you'd expect it.

00:20:09.660 It's the only family that I can think of off the top of my head that's had two presidents.

00:20:13.260 Yeah.

00:20:13.800 Name another guy, though.

00:20:15.560 Name another man who would have put up with the bashing he's received over the last eight years where everything has been blamed on him.

00:20:24.180 It was, it was absurd, the things they blamed on him.

00:20:27.400 He said nothing about it.

00:20:28.320 He never said anything.

00:20:29.600 You never heard George W. Bush say, no, I didn't do that.

00:20:33.600 That's not my fault.

00:20:35.200 It's a bummer.

00:20:36.760 You never heard any of that coming out from him.

00:20:39.820 Can't think of one example.

00:20:40.900 He just took it.

00:20:42.060 I mean, Cheney was a little bit more outspoken.

00:20:44.480 And you'd expect that from Cheney.

00:20:46.520 Yeah.

00:20:46.660 But George Bush said to me right at the end of his time in the Oval, he said, I am prepared.

00:20:56.640 I did what I felt was right.

00:20:59.280 And I am prepared to be the most hated man in the next 50 years.

00:21:03.440 Let history, once everybody involved in this is gone, let history judge.

00:21:09.440 I'm prepared.

00:21:10.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:21:19.760 I, boy.

00:21:21.660 Again, no self-awareness.

00:21:26.940 Stephen Colbert ridicules Donald Trump for taking off his first weekend.

00:21:31.140 So he's, he raises his hand on Friday.

00:21:36.760 He says he's going to go to work on Monday.

00:21:40.600 And Stephen Colbert is already saying, how much time does this guy need off?

00:21:45.200 Oh, my gosh.

00:21:46.160 Don't.

00:21:46.600 No, don't.

00:21:47.320 Don't.

00:21:47.860 Please don't go there.

00:21:49.900 I mean, the man owns about 500 golf courses around the world.

00:21:55.060 Yet, I can guarantee you right now he will golf less than Obama.

00:21:59.400 He will not golf as much.

00:22:01.680 I believe that.

00:22:03.140 I believe.

00:22:04.940 It's been, what, 83,000 times for, I don't know what the counter is at.

00:22:10.520 It's literally over 1,200 times.

00:22:13.360 There's no way Trump goes golfing that many times.

00:22:15.580 Woodrow Wilson knocked him into the dirt.

00:22:19.040 Now, Woodrow Wilson loves his golf.

00:22:20.580 He's the all-time presidential golfer.

00:22:22.640 I think Trump likes the lifestyle of golf more than he likes golf, even though he does play golf.

00:22:26.900 But he likes the lifestyle of golf.

00:22:28.620 He likes the country club lifestyle, obviously.

00:22:30.580 Yeah.

00:22:31.060 You know, he basically lives at a country club.

00:22:33.260 Right.

00:22:34.040 But still, I don't think he'll golf as much as Obama does.

00:22:38.560 I think there's a possibility that Donald Trump puts the people around him to run things,

00:22:45.840 and then he gets bored in the first year, and he starts to go play golf and give speeches

00:22:51.360 and be with the people.

00:22:52.480 I think that's a real.

00:22:54.300 We had a boss like that who was very hands-on at the beginning of his tenure at the radio station.

00:23:02.760 I mean, he was there almost 24 hours a day.

00:23:05.840 That's right.

00:23:06.300 If his family wanted to see him, they had to come to the station.

00:23:10.400 Right.

00:23:10.620 And they'd bring a change of underwear, and he'd change in his office, and he'd eat there,

00:23:15.660 and you'd get there early in the morning for the morning show, and he's painting the walls.

00:23:20.120 He'd be there at 3 o'clock in the morning.

00:23:21.860 And he was never away.

00:23:24.820 But as soon as that thing was, he thought, set, you could never find him.

00:23:30.120 Never find him.

00:23:30.860 Never find him.

00:23:31.920 He might show up on Friday to pick up messages, but maybe not.

00:23:36.100 Well, he's got to run it smooth.

00:23:38.460 What do you want?

00:23:39.660 No, but what I'm saying is that could be Donald Trump could be bored very quickly.

00:23:48.920 And this is interesting because we certainly had this pitch to us many times during the primaries,

00:23:53.820 which was, look, he, and from big, high-level, insider Washington people, some of which have been elected,

00:24:02.840 who said, look, if he wins, don't worry about it because what he's interested in is fighting and battling with the press

00:24:11.080 and tweeting and making big noise, and he will, because he doesn't care about a lot of these things,

00:24:17.020 will let his advisors select people, right?

00:24:20.280 And then those people will do the work, and Trump will support those positions.

00:24:26.120 It was one of the selling points.

00:24:27.020 It was one of the selling points, and I admit, I did not believe it.

00:24:32.140 There is, I think, some evidence that it could be coming true a little bit, and it's kind of, it's interesting.

00:24:39.200 I mean, you know, some of this is, it's a little sweet talk.

00:24:42.440 I mean, I, you know, I will say.

00:24:44.300 Are you hearing the martini music?

00:24:46.300 Are you hearing a cocktail love song from Donald Trump?

00:24:50.160 Again, no, but, I mean, because he's, it's interesting.

00:24:54.280 I think Trump, so far, and take this for what it's worth, he's been in office zero days.

00:24:59.440 Right.

00:24:59.860 Okay, but I will say, and I said this before, his, overall, his appointments were better than I expected.

00:25:07.680 Okay, can I tell you, I know people in his cabinet.

00:25:10.780 I know people around him.

00:25:13.200 I know people who are advising.

00:25:15.580 Yes.

00:25:15.920 A lot of them.

00:25:16.760 Yes.

00:25:17.200 And they are all saying the same thing.

00:25:19.920 Glenn, you would not believe this.

00:25:21.140 I don't even want to say it out loud, because I'm afraid it's going to jinx it.

00:25:25.800 But this is better than our wildest dreams, not expectations, wildest dreams.

00:25:33.860 One person said to me, they were sitting, or I don't want to get specific, they were sitting

00:25:38.320 in a room, and they said, A, nobody like me would ever be in the room before.

00:25:44.700 I'm a diehard constitutionalist, blah, blah, blah, just bottom line thinker, and was in

00:25:53.460 a room with the Trump people, and with the people in Congress that make the decisions.

00:25:58.720 And at one point, they all looked at him and said, What do you think?

00:26:05.500 And he said, First of all, nobody would have ever asked me what I think openly in the room.

00:26:12.660 And he said, I said, Well, what needs to happen is Congress needs to do X, Y, and Z, and then

00:26:20.260 that just stops all of these problems.

00:26:23.980 And he said, The room stopped.

00:26:25.760 They looked at the attorneys, and the attorney said, Yeah, that would work.

00:26:30.360 And then the leadership went, Okay, let's do it.

00:26:34.160 He said, he walked out going, What the hell just happened?

00:26:36.900 So, I mean, I am hearing tremendous reports.

00:26:43.840 Now, I am still skeptical because I am gravely concerned about the First Amendment.

00:26:51.000 I am gravely concerned about, Are we going to rule constitutionally?

00:26:56.240 Are we going to put the power back in Congress?

00:26:59.720 Or will this be a guy who writes edicts?

00:27:02.600 I don't worry about it.

00:27:03.640 Good thing is done.

00:27:04.580 For example, Jeffy, on that point, Trump said that they're going to, the administration

00:27:10.900 said they're going to start building the wall via executive order.

00:27:15.060 Now, wait a minute.

00:27:15.660 Now, they're not going to pass any legislation in Congress.

00:27:18.960 I will say the legislation is already in place.

00:27:21.040 Already in place.

00:27:21.700 2006, already in place.

00:27:23.720 Right.

00:27:23.820 But then there was legislation after that that said that we're not going to do that.

00:27:27.620 Now, they may have found.

00:27:28.480 I don't know that they specifically said we're not going to.

00:27:30.860 The Kay Bailey Hutchison thing sort of derailed it.

00:27:34.080 But they could have gotten it back on track.

00:27:36.080 Yeah, I think that just said we're going to do it this way.

00:27:38.500 Which was the weirdest.

00:27:39.680 I mean, it just shows how Republicans are conservatives.

00:27:44.680 But still, he could do it.

00:27:46.660 And why would you need an executive order to do something that already exists?

00:27:48.860 I don't know.

00:27:49.460 I don't know.

00:27:50.040 I'd like to read into that.

00:27:51.260 Well, let's just hold that one off.

00:27:53.020 You know, I mean, I think, like, the interesting thing with the Trump administration, from my perspective, is that he's going sort of all out on everything.

00:28:02.280 And so the things he connects with me on, he goes further than a Mitt Romney would.

00:28:09.460 And it's really exciting.

00:28:10.700 It's really exciting to me.

00:28:11.680 Give the example.

00:28:12.680 Today's examples.

00:28:13.580 Listen to this.

00:28:14.140 Yeah, this is a story in the Hill.

00:28:16.220 And they're talking about spending cuts.

00:28:19.020 This is the proposal.

00:28:20.640 This has not been passed or even proposed yet, but this is what they're talking about.

00:28:24.500 The Departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

00:28:33.080 That's great.

00:28:33.740 The Departments of Transportation, Justice, and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.

00:28:39.860 Good.

00:28:40.340 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

00:28:43.980 Oh, my God.

00:28:44.880 And this one speaks directly to my heart and soul.

00:28:48.420 NPR would be privatized?

00:28:50.120 Yes.

00:28:50.580 Let's get back to that in a second.

00:28:51.700 Yeah, you've got to love that.

00:28:52.980 While the National...

00:28:54.880 I almost want to say it with the Barry White voice.

00:28:57.460 You're going to make me cry.

00:28:58.480 I think I know what you're going to say.

00:28:59.880 You're going to make me cry.

00:29:01.140 Just think about this for a moment.

00:29:02.360 The National Endowment of the Arts would be eliminated entirely.

00:29:07.120 Oh, can you imagine what Hollywood will do then?

00:29:09.220 Oh, my gosh.

00:29:10.060 Oh, God, do I love that.

00:29:11.120 That is the dagger through their heart.

00:29:12.920 It's like literally my number one cut in the entire government.

00:29:16.680 You know what?

00:29:17.120 Because of the fact that it's so stupid.

00:29:19.820 It's like people love art.

00:29:21.700 It's the one thing everyone will donate to all the time.

00:29:24.520 They will all do it for free.

00:29:27.060 They don't even need funding to do art because everyone likes doing art anyway, yet we still dump money.

00:29:34.060 It's a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but it's such a stupid government role

00:29:38.700 that I would love if they eliminated it.

00:29:40.780 I will tell you that I've never been for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for NPR, PBS.

00:29:51.180 I do not believe, because we've been in competition with them forever, and it's unfair competition,

00:29:58.320 and it's ridiculous.

00:30:01.180 It's ridiculous the amount of money they spend.

00:30:05.280 No broadcast corporation spends anywhere near the money that NPR and PBS spend.

00:30:13.180 And they can just continue to spend it because it's federally funded.

00:30:16.340 Right.

00:30:16.880 Can you imagine if our business was federally funded what we could do?

00:30:19.960 And the argument has always been, well, where are you going to get quality TV?

00:30:23.180 Well, Netflix and Amazon.

00:30:24.960 Yeah.

00:30:25.240 Right now.

00:30:26.380 BBC.

00:30:27.320 Every cable.

00:30:27.760 But BBC is funded by the British.

00:30:31.640 But I don't care because I'm not British.

00:30:33.780 Right.

00:30:34.220 But let me tell you something.

00:30:37.060 PBS will be funded by Amazon, and they will be funded by Netflix.

00:30:43.060 My problem is, right now, NPR has entered into the commercial realm.

00:30:50.200 Their Netflix, I mean, I'm sorry, their podcasts on Apple are always number one.

00:30:59.340 Yeah.

00:30:59.640 They're way beyond anything commercial.

00:31:03.340 And they're making all of that money.

00:31:06.160 Well, we have to make it on the money we make through that.

00:31:10.300 I don't get a government subsidy.

00:31:12.660 Right.

00:31:13.100 They need to live.

00:31:14.680 They can live on that money now, and they need to.

00:31:18.060 Before, it was like, well, you know, they get the licensing for Big Bird.

00:31:22.080 No, no, no.

00:31:22.860 No, no, no.

00:31:23.920 Now you can make money because you can go directly to the people.

00:31:28.380 You don't.

00:31:29.360 It's not the same world.

00:31:30.960 And they are raking money.

00:31:32.960 And they make money.

00:31:33.380 Remember the controversy with Big Bird when Romney said he was going to stop the funding

00:31:41.400 for PBS back in 2012?

00:31:43.960 They went into a tizzy fit over it.

00:31:47.820 But in 2012.

00:31:48.520 Nobody makes more money than Sesame Street does.

00:31:52.620 And it's not even the world that it was in 2012.

00:31:58.800 No, I know.

00:31:59.580 2017, it's a different world.

00:32:01.820 They can make money and are making money hand over fist.

00:32:07.500 Now, they will probably show that they're barely squeaking by, but I will take you through

00:32:12.160 the studios and the production houses of every other radio and television company in the

00:32:19.160 country, and then I'll take you to NPR and PBS, and I will show you how they spend their

00:32:25.440 dollars.

00:32:26.000 It's nice to have a clearance at every single market, guaranteed.

00:32:28.680 Oh, that's a nice little off-perk of a radio network.

00:32:31.820 Isn't it?

00:32:32.160 Yeah.

00:32:33.460 Guaranteed.

00:32:34.060 Again, they're saying that the blueprint being used by Trump's team, which was kind

00:32:38.780 of thrown out there by the Heritage Foundation, would cut $10.5 trillion of spending over

00:32:44.860 the next decade.

00:32:45.720 Wow.

00:32:45.900 Now, that's $10.5 trillion, to keep it in perspective, $10.5 trillion of future projections.

00:32:51.680 So it wouldn't really be $10.5 trillion, but it's still a hell of a lot better as what

00:32:56.240 we're looking at.

00:32:57.240 And the question here is, like, will we get these things?

00:32:59.760 Will they actually happen?

00:33:00.960 Will we get the new tax plans?

00:33:03.040 And if that stuff starts happening, we will go into that area, which a lot of callers told

00:33:08.160 us that they thought would happen with Trump, and many people inside are watching, which

00:33:12.040 is, you're going to get a mixed bag.

00:33:13.560 Here's what's going to happen.

00:33:14.820 He is going to, he is, in my opinion, because he's a populist, he is going to go after all

00:33:21.440 of the things like that.

00:33:25.160 PBS is on the fence.

00:33:27.140 All the things that the average person doesn't use, doesn't want, thinks it's wasteful, and

00:33:33.240 he'll cut it.

00:33:34.520 And then he will do the socialist programs on health care, where the things that everybody

00:33:40.260 gets, and he will ensure that.

00:33:43.600 So he's going to get the average person who wants their perk, but doesn't want the perks

00:33:50.960 that everybody, that they don't use.

00:33:53.600 And the National Endowment of the Arts is not going to be bemoaned by anybody but the

00:33:58.760 elite.

00:33:59.160 I don't know.

00:33:59.640 I mean, that's one, I bet the polling on the National Endowment of Arts is actually

00:34:02.340 pretty positive, because people are like, art?

00:34:04.280 I like art.

00:34:05.400 Art is good.

00:34:06.980 That's not how you're supposed to judge a government program, but that's how they do.

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00:35:16.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:21.760 Mercury.

00:35:23.560 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:26.140 I go to the phone and Phil in South Carolina.

00:35:28.560 Hello, Phil, you're on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:30.920 Hey, Glenn, how you doing?

00:35:32.280 Very good.

00:35:33.580 I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your sincere message to the Bush family.

00:35:37.920 For a long time, I had some problems with the things you were saying about President Bush

00:35:46.080 when he was in office, but I understand it was just a policy thing.

00:35:49.860 It wasn't personal.

00:35:51.460 For sure.

00:35:52.200 Serving under him for, you know, I just retired from the Air Force last year after 21 years.

00:35:58.700 And serving under that man, I'm meeting him, the things he did for the troops, the things

00:36:03.980 he's still doing, the generosity.

00:36:06.940 You said he respected the office, the respect he had for the troops, and the love that we

00:36:10.980 have for him is really immeasurable.

00:36:13.820 I have never seen anybody with more love for our troops than George W. Bush.

00:36:21.540 No question.

00:36:22.140 Have you seen his painting series he's doing now?

00:36:24.860 He's getting really good.

00:36:25.980 He's getting really good, and he is now painting the faces of the wounded in the war.

00:36:32.540 He takes that personally, and they're like family.

00:36:39.420 And he is a truly, truly honorable man, truly honorable.

00:36:45.180 Yes, sir.

00:36:45.920 And I just want to say one last thing.

00:36:47.440 I actually had, I was a recruiter for a short period of time in the Air Force, and I met

00:36:52.160 the chaplain that counseled him at Camp David, and he said if every American did not believe

00:36:57.400 that he was taking both wars to bed with him every night, they were sadly mistaken.

00:37:02.100 Oh, yeah.

00:37:02.560 Oh, yeah.

00:37:03.420 Yeah.

00:37:04.140 And I know that he didn't agree with us in Iraq, but I was there twice.

00:37:08.800 I was on the ground, and the people appreciated us there, and to see what Obama did to us

00:37:17.080 and throw all of our victories away there.

00:37:19.080 I know.

00:37:19.460 Hurt the troops like you have no idea.

00:37:21.540 No, I do.

00:37:22.300 Phil, I have said to my friends who were in the service and who fought in Iraq, I am sorry

00:37:29.480 that we have just pissed away everything that you've done, and all the friends that you have 0.58

00:37:35.980 lost, I can't say anything, but I'm sorry.

00:37:41.220 We took victory, and as we always do, we snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory every single

00:37:51.320 time.

00:37:51.720 Thanks, Phil.

00:37:52.320 Thanks for your service, Phil.

00:37:53.320 Thank you.

00:37:54.280 Back in just a minute.

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00:38:36.800 How the Trump presidency will change America.

00:38:41.400 This, the contributors to the HuffPo have spoken out, and oh my, oh my, it's a bleak picture

00:38:51.880 they paint.

00:38:52.900 I think, you know what?

00:38:54.700 We're going to start there because we have how the Trump presidency is going to change America,

00:39:02.440 a list of the things that he says he's going to do and is already being placed in action,

00:39:09.120 and a warning about his Supreme Court pick.

00:39:13.180 We begin there, right now.

00:39:16.420 I will make a stand.

00:39:19.100 I will raise my voice.

00:39:21.360 I will hold your hand.

00:39:23.800 Because we are one.

00:39:25.640 I will beat my drum.

00:39:27.840 I have made my choice.

00:39:30.100 We will overcome.

00:39:32.500 Because we are one.

00:39:34.440 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:39:38.280 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:44.180 Welcome to the program.

00:39:47.060 Stu, give that list again that you gave just about 20 minutes ago on the things that apparently

00:39:53.680 are now in the pipeline with Donald Trump and his presidency.

00:39:56.820 It's a report from the Hill, and here's what they say.

00:40:00.180 The Departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs

00:40:04.440 under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

00:40:08.600 The Departments of Transportation, Justice, and State would see significant cuts and program

00:40:12.280 eliminations.

00:40:13.300 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

00:40:17.040 And the internet page, I'm waiting, just refreshed.

00:40:21.540 Okay.

00:40:22.160 And while the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment of Humanities would

00:40:25.420 be eliminated entirely, it's from the Hill.

00:40:28.940 Obviously, lots of things that we like.

00:40:30.520 $10.5 trillion over 10 years of a Heritage Foundation blueprint.

00:40:36.020 $10.5 trillion.

00:40:36.940 That's unbelievable savings.

00:40:37.980 Again, that's on projected.

00:40:39.020 Let's not forget, that's on projected spending.

00:40:41.400 Yeah, but still, that's a massive number.

00:40:43.940 It would be great if it happened.

00:40:45.880 Most of our deficit is in projected spending.

00:40:52.120 Yeah.

00:40:52.360 And what they usually talk about cutting is, well, we might be able to nip 1% of the future

00:40:59.360 increase.

00:41:01.060 Right.

00:41:01.240 And they don't even do that.

00:41:03.280 So this is really significant.

00:41:05.220 And it's going to happen because, I mean, if he wants it to, it will happen.

00:41:08.860 And I look forward to Hollywood going to war with the guy because they'll lose.

00:41:13.340 Donald Trump will win that battle every time.

00:41:16.840 Go ahead.

00:41:17.700 Fight him on this.

00:41:18.600 But what about Meryl Streep?

00:41:19.080 He will lose.

00:41:20.140 Meryl Streep will lose to Donald Trump.

00:41:23.140 If there's one thing I've turned around on, on this guy, it's that, yes, he will win.

00:41:28.700 I don't know why, I have no idea why, but I do know this, he will win.

00:41:35.020 He's never lost.

00:41:36.380 There is no beating him.

00:41:38.440 No, he went to war with the handicapped and won.

00:41:43.420 Who does that?

00:41:45.760 Who does that?

00:41:47.680 Right.

00:41:48.080 No one.

00:41:48.920 No one.

00:41:49.620 So don't take him on.

00:41:50.800 I mean, they will.

00:41:52.420 Hollywood will because they think they're superior to everybody, but they're going to find out

00:41:56.360 they're not.

00:41:56.960 I will tell you that I just think this, uh, the end of this politically correct nonsense

00:42:07.800 is, is here to some degree, to some degree it is to some degree.

00:42:14.260 Yeah.

00:42:14.640 And he's bringing it on because he's winning.

00:42:17.480 Well, I mean, that's what got him elected, right?

00:42:19.520 Yes.

00:42:20.360 Yeah.

00:42:20.720 Yes.

00:42:21.000 But, but where, and where, where does it, what does he perceive as politically incorrect?

00:42:26.200 Like the, the, you know, sending people, anybody can use any bathroom, sending men into a 0.95

00:42:35.760 girl's bathroom, you know, with my 17 year old daughter, that's beyond political correctness. 1.00

00:42:41.880 That's just no common sense.

00:42:43.440 But oddly that's, he supports that he, I know, which is a weird, but he reversed himself on

00:42:48.880 that.

00:42:49.220 I did.

00:42:49.600 I don't think so.

00:42:50.300 I thought he did.

00:42:50.740 No, I think he said, look, it's, it's been this way for a while.

00:42:53.040 Why play with it?

00:42:54.000 Was kind of his answer.

00:42:56.080 You know, what, you know, it's not, it's not a big issue.

00:42:58.640 This is a great jumping off point for, I have had several people say this to me and I have

00:43:04.580 said, you need to bring this up.

00:43:07.220 Now, these are Trump supporters, big Trump supporters.

00:43:11.200 You need to bring this up.

00:43:13.400 Yeah.

00:43:13.920 Well, I can't, I can't, what do you, what do you mean you can't?

00:43:19.520 Well, it would be better if you did for you.

00:43:25.500 Yeah.

00:43:25.980 It'd be great for you.

00:43:27.200 It would suck for me.

00:43:28.440 Right.

00:43:28.840 It's because they know they won't win.

00:43:30.300 They don't want to be, yeah, they know they won't win.

00:43:31.920 They know they won't win.

00:43:33.280 That's right.

00:43:33.880 And this article, um, kind of alludes to that, but just saying that nobody, they're

00:43:41.520 all talking about it internally and no one will say it out loud.

00:43:44.480 I love that.

00:43:44.980 It would be better if you did.

00:43:47.160 Yeah.

00:43:47.420 Thank you.

00:43:48.060 Well, but it wouldn't because there are a lot of people that'll say Glenn Beck's just

00:43:51.400 anti-Trump.

00:43:52.220 Right.

00:43:52.580 Yes.

00:43:52.960 So it's not, but it is.

00:43:55.280 I've waited and waited and waited and no one will say anything.

00:43:58.360 So is it about the Supreme court nominees?

00:44:01.000 Let me give you this article.

00:44:02.180 Two religious, uh, Liberty cases have sparked an internal war among conservatives over judge

00:44:08.460 William H.

00:44:09.560 Pryor.

00:44:10.780 Stu.

00:44:11.700 Is Pryor one of the, is he one of the main considerations?

00:44:14.260 He is the main.

00:44:15.300 He's the leading candidate.

00:44:16.280 Yeah.

00:44:16.480 And he's been talked about in Republican circles for a long time for a Supreme court seat.

00:44:21.100 Um, I've heard, uh, problems from libertarians with him.

00:44:24.860 Um, although the problems you're describing here are not really from that angle.

00:44:28.980 Right.

00:44:29.200 Um, federal society and heritage foundation put him on the list.

00:44:33.280 Both of them did.

00:44:34.840 However, there is a problem.

00:44:38.480 And the problem was found by the federalist society and it started to ripple around that

00:44:44.180 community.

00:44:44.520 And they're like, Oh crap.

00:44:45.640 We put this guy on the list.

00:44:46.880 And members of the federalist society were like, yeah, I know you did.

00:44:51.980 And now the ripples are going through the heritage foundation and no one is willing to say anything

00:44:57.260 about it.

00:44:59.040 Um, but you need to know about it.

00:45:03.220 Everybody loves him because his judicial record, uh, 2003 Senate confirmation.

00:45:08.480 He said Roe versus Wade is the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.

00:45:13.400 Um, big love that.

00:45:15.660 Okay.

00:45:15.900 It's great.

00:45:16.940 Um, now let me see.

00:45:21.100 Uh, no one in the conservative movement or the religious movement care to say anything

00:45:27.240 about this except James Dobson and the family research council, Tony Perkins.

00:45:32.760 Um, they have now circulated and are persistent, persistently open about their concerns with

00:45:39.100 Pryor.

00:45:40.040 One of the cases that concerns them is Keaton versus Anderson Wiley.

00:45:44.480 It involved a Christian counseling student whom a state college expelled after she refused

00:45:50.860 to agree to a remediation measure, such as one of her choices was she could attend a gay 0.93

00:45:56.960 pride parade intended to change her views on homosexuality. 1.00

00:46:01.100 Oh my gosh.

00:46:02.100 When she said no, she was suspended from school, a three day, I mean, sorry, a three judge panel,

00:46:09.940 including Pryor ruled the school did not discriminate against the student because the school would

00:46:15.680 treat anyone with her belief the same way.

00:46:18.620 Well then they discriminate against anyone.

00:46:20.940 They discriminate against anyone who believes that.

00:46:23.600 That's unbelievable.

00:46:24.440 Right.

00:46:25.600 More problematic is the majority opinion in Glenn versus Brumbury.

00:46:31.600 A case involving a biological male fired after he wanted to dress as a woman and begin medical

00:46:39.000 treatments.

00:46:39.320 Pryor again concurred with the circuit court's liberal, former judge, Rosemary Barkett, ruling the equal

00:46:46.720 protection clause of the United States constitution, protected the employee from discrimination based

00:46:51.560 on sex, which the court interpreted to include gender identity.

00:46:57.040 So now he is saying that sex is whatever you decide it to be.

00:47:06.440 Slate.

00:47:09.260 Slate called the opinion absolutely revolutionary for transgendered unemployment rights.

00:47:16.760 How did this guy get recommended by the heritage society?

00:47:19.800 Various Obama administration agencies, including the departments of justice, labor and education

00:47:24.540 began citing Glenn as their justification, as their justification for just, uh, for, uh,

00:47:31.160 advancing transgendered litigation and regulations.

00:47:34.640 So he's the guy who wrote the, the, the current law that allows them to say bathrooms.

00:47:44.660 Now, you know, look, that that's, those are a couple of cases and, you know, um, you know,

00:47:52.760 there's a lot of good with Pryor.

00:47:55.440 Um, he is, you know, I mean, here's the, this is from, uh, it's what they said about Stephen

00:48:00.060 Breyer too.

00:48:00.640 Yeah, but I mean, when you have hundreds of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cases,

00:48:05.700 can you find a couple that, that are, that are going to, those are pretty big, but let

00:48:10.380 me give you this.

00:48:10.780 This is from SCOTUS blog talking about, uh, religion prior has consistently, although not

00:48:16.520 uniformly ruled in favor of parties, raising religious liberty claims.

00:48:20.740 Um, and I, you know, so that's, he is, we cannot afford to have anyone chip away on religious

00:48:28.320 liberty.

00:48:29.060 Exactly.

00:48:29.380 Can't afford it.

00:48:30.100 Especially when there are lit people on that list that you probably could say have uniformly

00:48:33.700 correct.

00:48:34.560 You've got the Lee brothers.

00:48:35.540 You've got so many guys on there who you have, you have 20.

00:48:39.580 There are three that are unacceptable.

00:48:43.240 Prior is one of them.

00:48:44.840 And you think unacceptable is the right term for prior?

00:48:47.540 I, I feel like I think when you have, I think when you have Scalia, you're replacing Scalia.

00:48:56.260 Right.

00:48:56.960 Okay.

00:48:57.780 You have that context.

00:48:59.660 He is unacceptable.

00:49:00.280 He's unacceptable.

00:49:01.120 You have no, you have no one holding the benchmark.

00:49:06.040 It's like, if you're replacing Ginsburg, you, you, you would replace Ginsburg.

00:49:12.000 I mean, I wouldn't, you wouldn't, but they would replace Ginsburg.

00:49:15.700 And if it was the only one, they would not roll the dice.

00:49:19.380 We have no one.

00:49:20.700 And they would replace her with someone more radical than she is. 1.00

00:49:24.560 We never, we never do that.

00:49:27.320 We never do it.

00:49:28.300 We never do it.

00:49:28.960 This is what this, this is what religious people said.

00:49:32.800 This is about the Supreme court.

00:49:35.180 Then prior should be unacceptable.

00:49:38.760 But I mean, the only, I am told, and this is the why, why don't you come on the show and

00:49:44.240 talk about it?

00:49:44.820 Cause it will add more credibility.

00:49:46.560 It would just be better if you would just do it.

00:49:51.520 So what they want is they want people to learn about this guy and make a decision and stand up.

00:50:00.260 And this is the religious community and the deepest conservatives that are in the Trump

00:50:05.800 team.

00:50:06.980 It should, it should mean something that James Dobson is opposed, right?

00:50:10.960 Yeah.

00:50:11.280 Yeah.

00:50:11.460 Yeah.

00:50:11.580 And Tony Perkins.

00:50:12.740 That's those are two really, really good ones.

00:50:15.060 That's general, um, Boykin's firm.

00:50:17.820 Oh yeah.

00:50:18.220 I will say though, however, it's not, they were big Trump guys.

00:50:20.700 Trump, big Trump gets to choose who he wants.

00:50:23.260 And remember, let's take this in context.

00:50:26.020 Donald Trump enters the presidency as the most pro gay and LGBTQ rights president that

00:50:32.220 has ever taken office.

00:50:33.600 I know.

00:50:33.860 Remember Barack Obama took office opposing gay marriage.

00:50:37.440 I know.

00:50:37.860 Donald Trump is the first president that has ever taken office without opposing it.

00:50:43.080 Yes.

00:50:43.440 In our history.

00:50:44.240 Yes.

00:50:44.700 Um, so I think, and you look at his history of comments, this, this, that would be a consistent

00:50:50.000 move from his particular standpoint.

00:50:52.360 It would, it would be, it would be, but what does that mean?

00:50:56.740 I mean, look, you know, if I'm a business and I have, I've hired a guy to be the maitre

00:51:04.100 d and he's going to start wearing a dress, I have to be able to fire him.

00:51:10.740 If, I mean, that means that Pat all of a sudden could start wearing a dress and wanting 0.68

00:51:16.320 me to call him Carol.

00:51:18.100 Well, I didn't hire Carol.

00:51:21.080 Right.

00:51:21.280 And that would destroy my business.

00:51:24.780 No, I would be fine with that, Pat, by the way.

00:51:26.400 Would you?

00:51:26.680 I could be okay.

00:51:27.540 Well, you are so open-minded.

00:51:29.020 Thank you.

00:51:29.260 Right.

00:51:29.500 I think that would be adorable.

00:51:30.500 Thank you, Stu.

00:51:31.060 Does that seem reasonable to anyone that Pat becomes Carol and I cannot fire him?

00:51:38.400 That's insanity.

00:51:40.000 Would that be all right?

00:51:41.160 And I am, and I, and, and I would still be Pat's friend.

00:51:45.060 Of course.

00:51:45.400 But it would destroy my business.

00:51:48.460 I have a right to say no.

00:51:52.460 I'm sorry.

00:51:53.380 You would think so.

00:51:54.020 You've changed the conditions.

00:51:56.240 If I've hired a black guy and all of a sudden I realize, wait a minute, he's black. 1.00

00:52:03.520 Yeah.

00:52:04.000 He's always been black. 1.00

00:52:05.080 He's not changed the conditions at all.

00:52:07.620 Right.

00:52:08.340 Pat's changed the conditions.

00:52:11.140 I hired a man.

00:52:12.980 He's now a woman. 0.94

00:52:15.520 That's not good for me.

00:52:17.160 You should be able to take that into consideration.

00:52:20.220 Right?

00:52:20.640 I mean, is that logical?

00:52:21.840 For instance, if you're on an assembly line and Pat becomes Carol, but it doesn't affect

00:52:28.800 anybody but Carol, you know, maybe some of the other people are uncomfortable with Pat

00:52:34.240 becoming Carol.

00:52:35.140 Okay.

00:52:35.440 Well, guys, get over it.

00:52:37.280 But if, if I, if I'm Ford and I hire Mike Rowe to do Ford tough and he becomes Michelle 0.90

00:52:48.220 Rowe and he's like Ford tough, Ford has a right to fire him.

00:52:56.620 Not, not in this environment though.

00:52:58.760 No, not in this environment.

00:52:59.960 Not according to this.

00:53:01.620 Yeah.

00:53:01.760 Well, I think in, in, you know, entertainment, it's a tough realm.

00:53:04.840 I mean, you can get away with a lot of stuff in entertainment.

00:53:06.600 You can't get away.

00:53:07.060 I'm not even talking about entertainment.

00:53:08.680 I'm talking about anyone who works with the public.

00:53:13.480 You're, you're the, you're, you're running a bakery in, in the person behind the counter.

00:53:17.520 I don't, I don't think it would be best for my business necessarily might scare the kids

00:53:24.860 to have a guy and I'm not talking about this.

00:53:28.480 I mean, look, there are times when you look at women and you're like, is that a dude?

00:53:35.160 There are other times when it's clearly a man in a skirt and it's a little unsettling

00:53:41.840 to the children and everybody else, you're kind of like, what, uh, okay.

00:53:46.160 Oh, hi.

00:53:47.940 Okay.

00:53:49.060 Do, do I, as a business have to have some of my customers go in and go, Hey, Pat in

00:53:57.660 a, Pat, Hey, how are you?

00:54:00.960 Yep.

00:54:01.740 I'm Carol now.

00:54:03.280 Well, in public, in public facing, uh, industries, I mean, this has gone, this is similar to what

00:54:08.280 happened with Hooters, right?

00:54:09.300 When guys would try to get jobs at Hooters and generally speaking, the courts have cited

00:54:13.680 or sided with Hooters, uh, to say, yes, you don't have to employ Jeffy at Hooters and short

00:54:18.540 shorts and a tank top.

00:54:19.640 And Hooters is a great example.

00:54:20.800 Cause what if one of those buxom, beautiful women wanted to become a man and I think that 1.00

00:54:25.180 they wear that outfit, Hooters wouldn't want that. 1.00

00:54:28.040 And neither would their customers.

00:54:29.300 I think even the, I think the courts would side with Hooters in that.

00:54:32.560 Um, now Hooters public relations might blow up because of it, but I mean, the courts I think

00:54:37.160 would side with, and that's not the, to me, this is not the disturbing one, the disturbing

00:54:41.960 one.

00:54:42.520 This is, this, this is not a clear cut case in my, in my opinion.

00:54:46.660 The disturbing one is if I believe something, she's a Christian. 1.00

00:54:51.320 Yeah.

00:54:51.680 So she's, she believes something that's her religion, her faith.

00:54:55.320 If she won't go through indoctrination that is designed by their own words to change her

00:55:01.640 opinion, she can be kicked out of school. 1.00

00:55:06.760 That's clear religious discrimination.

00:55:09.320 I don't understand that the name of the judge.

00:55:11.120 And he's the number one pick for, for Donald Trump is prior, do your own homework, spread

00:55:17.920 the word.

00:55:18.340 Maybe we should do a more extensive profile on him because those cases are important,

00:55:23.240 but he's done a lot and let's look at it all of it.

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00:57:58.700 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:02.260 Nadia is with us.

00:58:04.800 Hello, Nadia.

00:58:06.240 Hi, how are you today?

00:58:07.520 Very good.

00:58:07.940 How are you?

00:58:09.260 I'm good, thanks.

00:58:10.660 You don't sound it.

00:58:13.460 Really, Nadia?

00:58:15.000 I'm just a little nervous, I guess.

00:58:16.860 Okay.

00:58:17.440 Well, don't be.

00:58:17.960 It's only me and millions of our friends.

00:58:20.060 I just wanted to talk about your point earlier with, for example, transgender people and their

00:58:27.720 place in the business world today and talk about how that translates back to the 60s where

00:58:33.460 people were, you know, nervous about hiring black people to represent their businesses.

00:58:38.640 And my opinion, as a conservative voter but non-religious conservative voter, is that as long as the person is capable of doing the job and representing, you know, your business, you know, they come in in a dress, but, you know, shaven and not, you know, just well, well-groomed.

00:58:54.760 As long as they're well-representing your business and capable of doing the job, you know, it's one of those changing times where people are going to be accustomed eventually in 10, 20 years to seeing this.

00:59:05.340 But aren't you drawing an arbitrary line at grooming?

00:59:07.900 I mean, you're just not accepting another one of their choices.

00:59:11.360 You're saying that I don't, the grooming choice is one that I can't accept, but I can accept others.

00:59:15.640 As a business owner, you should be able to make those choices on your own.

00:59:18.360 But over time, when we all stop using deodorant because it's bad for the environment, I mean, we'll all be used to the smell.

00:59:26.580 I mean, why won't you go there now?

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00:59:49.600 I think it's appropriate to say we are one day away from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

00:59:55.560 And if you happen to be on the other side and that makes you feel nervous, now you know how we felt when Barack Obama said it.

01:00:04.100 Of course, the temptation was to say, tough.

01:00:07.000 Right.

01:00:07.980 We won't say that.

01:00:09.420 We won't say that.

01:00:10.760 When you say we, you're referring to, thank you.

01:00:13.580 I won't say that.

01:00:15.220 And I won't, I won't mean that with my silence either.

01:00:19.100 I mean, but the same thing happens because we've been trying, I mean, we've gone through several things here where we generally speak or speaking positively of the things Trump has done.

01:00:27.680 As I've said, he's exceeded my expectations so far, zero days through the presidency.

01:00:33.400 That's not a high bar to clear.

01:00:35.280 But I mean, that's, I'm glad I want him to.

01:00:37.980 There's been a lot I've complained about and a lot I don't like.

01:00:42.380 And I think, you know, you look at this when you talk about fundamental transformation of America.

01:00:47.320 Do I want it transformed from what Obama wanted it to be?

01:00:50.360 Absolutely.

01:00:51.360 However, some of the things he's doing are concerning from constitutional grounds, from the Fourth Amendment grounds specifically.

01:01:01.320 First Amendment grounds.

01:01:02.180 First Amendment grounds.

01:01:03.000 Really, the Russia stuff is really concerning to me.

01:01:05.400 There's enough there and I don't want it transformed in that direction either.

01:01:09.680 I like America.

01:01:10.960 I think it's a pretty cool place.

01:01:12.920 People have been asking me over and over and over and over again, what do you hope that you'll get from this administration?

01:01:22.240 Easy.

01:01:22.600 I hope he raises his hand and he says, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

01:01:35.480 And he means it.

01:01:36.980 All I want is a restoration of the constitutional powers.

01:01:41.700 That's what I want.

01:01:43.260 That is our fix.

01:01:45.480 Nothing else will fix us.

01:01:47.240 Everything else is a nice little Band-Aid or a showpiece.

01:01:50.200 But that's not going to fix us.

01:01:51.620 It's getting rid of NPR, which is, you know, one of your, the National Endowment of the Arts, which is one of your pet issues.

01:01:59.740 Yes.

01:01:59.940 You love that idea.

01:02:01.040 I do.

01:02:01.620 That's not going to fix us.

01:02:02.920 No, that definitely.

01:02:03.680 It's not going to fix us.

01:02:04.220 It's small potatoes when it comes to the numbers.

01:02:05.940 But I still love it.

01:02:06.440 And it will also, in some ways, divide us.

01:02:09.340 One of the most important.

01:02:09.940 Now, I don't mind that because I happen to agree that the Constitution doesn't say that we are paying for the National Endowment for the Arts.

01:02:16.840 But I want, and we must have, the fix on the restoration of the proper powers of each branch.

01:02:25.800 Have to.

01:02:27.040 I agree.

01:02:27.260 And if he violates those things, I'm going to have a really hard time.

01:02:31.300 One of the critical issues is what they do with Obamacare.

01:02:34.720 And some of the directions they're talking about going are not good.

01:02:38.880 They're just not good.

01:02:40.220 I will tell you, you're not going to get rid of Obamacare.

01:02:43.460 You're just not.

01:02:45.340 And I really, truly believe.

01:02:46.620 I mean, they'll say they are.

01:02:47.400 They'll say they've done that.

01:02:48.620 Yeah, but they're not.

01:02:49.480 They'll have Trump care.

01:02:51.020 I mean, several of them.

01:02:51.840 They'll have GOP care.

01:02:52.480 That's what they're working towards is something at least as bad or worse than what Obamacare is.

01:02:58.640 Yeah.

01:02:59.160 So here's, I really believe that what I said earlier today is right.

01:03:06.120 He's going to go after those things that will affect the average person in a positive way.

01:03:17.820 For instance, that's why he's going after the press.

01:03:22.000 This was an election, not against Hillary Clinton, but against the press.

01:03:25.340 And he said it himself.

01:03:28.240 This is an election against the mainstream media.

01:03:31.820 So that war is happening because it makes his supporters feel good.

01:03:40.180 So he's going to go for that.

01:03:42.080 He's going to go for other things that will not affect the average person unless it's intellectually like the National Endowment for the Arts and NPR.

01:03:52.100 All funds cut.

01:03:53.760 They're closing that division.

01:03:56.060 If he does that, that's going to make conservatives very, very happy.

01:04:00.080 It will make the uber liberals and the Hollywood elites very, very unhappy.

01:04:05.120 That will be a win for him.

01:04:07.400 And then he will go and he will look to the, and I hate to use this word, and it's not because I'm a racist, because he's white and I'm white.

01:04:18.200 Actually, both of us a little orange, but he's going to go after those smaller socialist things that the average person will like.

01:04:33.480 You will see him, I think, nationalize the police force in Chicago or send in a nationalized police task force to help them fix it because it will be seen as doing something and it will be seen as a good thing for the inner city.

01:04:54.360 You will see him do health care, Trump care, because it will be seen as making sure that those 40 million Americans are taken care of and we're not evil conservatives.

01:05:05.280 And so he will do those things that the average person and the just below average person will love.

01:05:13.040 Which is why he wants to build up the military and march it through the streets, to show off our military strength.

01:05:20.820 Can I tell you something?

01:05:20.900 If you were reading Defying Hitler, you would see that those things were really important because, and if you watch what's happening in the media, and Barack Obama did it too.

01:05:32.720 The National Socialists knew that you had to have things to celebrate and so they were constantly celebrating small victories and making them into a very big deal because they knew that people wanted to feel good.

01:05:52.240 And if you watch the arenas that Donald Trump did when he was going around and everybody said, well, he can't get the votes because, you know, he can, sure, he can fill 20,000 people, but he can't, really?

01:06:07.960 That's infectious.

01:06:10.000 That's infectious.

01:06:11.020 Yeah.

01:06:11.260 I mean, especially when people are worried or scared, they want to be around people who are hollering and yelling and cheering and happy.

01:06:18.980 When they asked, in one interview, how he was going to let us know that he was making America great again, I'll tell them.

01:06:30.300 But isn't that what Ronald Reagan did?

01:06:32.460 And isn't that the opposite of what Barack Obama did?

01:06:35.680 He told us that we weren't good.

01:06:38.260 We were constantly told we're no good.

01:06:41.620 Yeah, under Carter, we really were.

01:06:43.240 And under Obama.

01:06:44.720 Yeah.

01:06:45.080 We're told we're no good.

01:06:47.040 We're racist, we're this, we're that.

01:06:49.300 And we started to believe it.

01:06:52.480 We've given up on ourselves.

01:06:54.800 That is the job of the president.

01:06:56.860 He's right on that one.

01:06:58.500 How are we going to know we're great?

01:06:59.960 I'm going to tell you you're great.

01:07:03.540 Yeah, Reagan did do that. 1.00

01:07:05.000 Reagan did it.

01:07:05.540 And certainly that seems to be a high interest, considering the red hats, it seems to be a high interest point for the president.

01:07:11.700 It seems to be what he's interested in to do.

01:07:13.320 And look at the drudge headlines every single day.

01:07:15.560 Great again.

01:07:16.820 And then someone just like, no, I'm not.

01:07:18.780 No, I can't compare.

01:07:20.500 Great again.

01:07:21.200 And I can't compare that to what Reagan did.

01:07:24.000 You have to back it up with something meaningful.

01:07:26.760 Well, for example, we have the plans, several of the plans that have been rustling around to replace Obamacare.

01:07:33.560 Obamacare, for example, start with the one that was proposed by Tom Price, right?

01:07:39.440 Logical place to start.

01:07:40.980 He's the HHS guy.

01:07:42.040 However, you know, some of it's really good.

01:07:46.060 Cadillac tax goes away.

01:07:48.220 Subsidies are replaced with less expensive tax credits.

01:07:51.680 Now, again, that's still a government funding of these areas that were not funded before.

01:07:57.320 It would be less expensive.

01:08:01.100 Increase in health savings accounts, which I do like.

01:08:04.740 I love.

01:08:06.260 But again, this is a note.

01:08:08.340 This is from Forbes, by the way, wrote up these proposals.

01:08:11.040 Note that while the proposal purports to repeal Obamacare, some of the consumer protections granted by Obamacare remain intact.

01:08:16.540 Specifically, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan, denied coverage through a new plan, or charged higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

01:08:27.540 Great again.

01:08:28.280 I mean, that is a pretty big deal, right?

01:08:31.660 I mean, that is.

01:08:32.500 Is anybody talking about undoing the mandate?

01:08:36.460 Repealing the mandate would go a long way.

01:08:39.940 Not the full thing.

01:08:40.720 I think this does repeal the mandate, though I don't know for sure.

01:08:43.420 We'll go into another one in a minute that kind of addresses that.

01:08:45.460 Also, they're going to put $7.5 billion per year in federal funding into high-risk pools that would increase annually by 3%, that number.

01:08:56.320 So again, that's $7.5 billion into another different type of entitlement program for health care.

01:09:04.880 It's high-risk pools.

01:09:06.000 And expecting the market to grow it.

01:09:08.040 Right.

01:09:09.280 So this would be better than Obamacare.

01:09:12.840 I mean, straight out, it's better than Obamacare.

01:09:14.640 However, it does not repeal Obamacare completely.

01:09:17.440 And it does, it is.

01:09:19.240 It's a fix for Obamacare.

01:09:20.700 Yeah.

01:09:21.280 It does things that would repair a lot of the problems with Obamacare.

01:09:24.920 But it is not a repeal of Obamacare.

01:09:27.060 Another one is interesting.

01:09:28.480 This is from American Enterprise Institute, which is a good think tank.

01:09:32.500 It does a lot of really good things.

01:09:34.200 But, and this is the most expansive thing.

01:09:36.700 It would save a lot of money.

01:09:37.980 And has really interesting aspects to it.

01:09:41.200 But let me focus on one that might make you think a little bit.

01:09:47.520 Because when you talked about the individual mandate going away, one of the features of this plan is not individual mandate, but automatic enrollment.

01:09:55.600 Now, those are totally different things, right?

01:09:59.140 Now, the Obamacare law says you got to buy insurance.

01:10:04.520 If you don't buy insurance, you're going to get a fine.

01:10:06.500 Okay.

01:10:07.020 What this does is it says we're going to give you a tax credit for insurance.

01:10:10.820 If you don't buy insurance, you already have insurance with that tax credit.

01:10:13.880 We're going to automatically enroll you into a cataclysmic health plan, a high deductible health plan.

01:10:21.900 So you will have coverage whether you want it or not.

01:10:24.440 It will be an automatic benefit of the government.

01:10:25.180 And whether you pay for it or not?

01:10:27.020 Yeah.

01:10:27.340 No, because you pay for it with the tax credits they're giving you.

01:10:29.800 Right.

01:10:30.540 Now, that is, it would insure more people than Obamacare. 0.98

01:10:36.500 They believe the difference, I mean, the difference is radical.

01:10:40.760 It would basically insure everybody.

01:10:42.880 How do I pay for it with the tax credit they're giving me?

01:10:47.180 I think you get a tax credit if you buy insurance and they just keep your tax credit as your enrollment if you haven't.

01:10:58.860 They pay your premium, essentially, with the money they would theoretically be wrecked.

01:11:02.480 That's a weird but interesting plan.

01:11:04.820 Well, the deal is the government is not going to write a check to something else.

01:11:08.920 They'll write an IOU to that fund.

01:11:11.340 Of course, yeah, the money doesn't actually exist.

01:11:13.040 The money doesn't exist.

01:11:14.200 Do we even have to include that in the conversation anymore?

01:11:16.320 Of course, the money doesn't exist.

01:11:17.700 We do if it was a corporation because you would go to jail for that.

01:11:22.360 Right.

01:11:22.920 That is absolutely true.

01:11:24.880 Some of the, again, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan,

01:11:29.720 denied coverage through a new plan, or charged higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

01:11:33.920 That households with coverage through an employer can transition to the individual market with the same protections.

01:11:38.060 All of that means that rates continue to go up and coverage continues to get worse.

01:11:42.460 No, coverage.

01:11:43.200 That's what that means.

01:11:44.000 So all these other plans, the price plan, the other ones that we have in the pile here,

01:11:47.840 would decrease coverage slightly projected.

01:11:51.780 So, you know, obviously you're not individually mandating people in some of these plans,

01:11:56.460 so you're going to back it off a little bit, right?

01:11:59.900 There's going to be 1%, 2% drops in the coverage of Americans, at least as a projection.

01:12:06.220 This plan projects 16 million more insured persons relative to current law.

01:12:13.660 So we're talking about, so they've already gone, what, down to, they've already taken off,

01:12:19.780 what's the number that Obama always throws around, 10 million, 20 million, I can't remember what the number is.

01:12:24.140 20 million is what I've been hearing.

01:12:25.580 What they're saying is, like, a lot of these plans would make it, instead of 20 million, it would be 17 or 18 million.

01:12:30.960 Here, this plan would actually increase it from 20 to 36 million, covered.

01:12:35.920 So it would cover a lot more people.

01:12:37.460 It also goes into major Medicaid changes.

01:12:41.720 May I suggest we have the conversation, the BBC yesterday said,

01:12:48.680 well, if you get rid of Obamacare, you've got, I think they said, 26 million people that are on Obamacare

01:12:56.520 that didn't have insurance, you're just going to put them on the streets?

01:12:58.580 I mean, it's been very good.

01:13:00.360 Well, if you want to just use that stat, it has been very good.

01:13:04.420 But it has also been horrific for the majority of Americans,

01:13:08.000 because we were told we would save $2,000, and our prices of medicine have gone through the roof.

01:13:15.280 Increased.

01:13:15.660 We haven't had the doctors that we want.

01:13:18.220 We don't have the care that we want.

01:13:19.620 We don't have the insurance programs that we want.

01:13:22.360 It's destroyed the average person and business.

01:13:25.900 That's it, though.

01:13:26.480 But those 20 million Americans, if they actually exist in the number of 20 million,

01:13:31.760 maybe they're better, but you could have walked into a hospital and had treatment.

01:13:38.700 It's not like we've ever left anyone behind.

01:13:41.480 And now this.

01:13:43.020 The best and new way for you to buy travel is called Upside.com.

01:13:48.500 I talked to the...

01:13:49.640 I heard about it.

01:13:50.320 This is crazy.

01:13:51.700 Is this real?

01:13:52.380 Okay, so I'll explain how it works, because that's what I asked.

01:13:55.840 I asked the creator, how does this work?

01:13:58.200 This is the guy who did...

01:13:59.320 What's the price line?

01:14:01.220 Oh.

01:14:01.600 And he's gone and he started this now.

01:14:03.540 And I talked to him for about 45 minutes.

01:14:06.940 This is unbelievable.

01:14:08.920 So here's how it works.

01:14:10.180 Every time you buy a trip at Upside, you're going to save a ton of money,

01:14:14.020 and they're going to give you an Amazon gift card worth $100, $200, even $300 every time.

01:14:19.760 Now, here's what happens, because I asked him.

01:14:24.020 Here's how it works.

01:14:25.320 They're bundling airfare and hotels together.

01:14:29.780 And so the more you save, the more refund you get.

01:14:36.160 Okay?

01:14:36.460 So you're encouraged to save more money for your company.

01:14:40.680 And then you get the gift card.

01:14:43.480 Here's how it works.

01:14:45.180 The airlines don't want to say they've cut their rate.

01:14:47.560 The hotels don't want to say they've cut their rate.

01:14:50.460 Okay?

01:14:51.420 But if you buy it in a bundle, the airline can say, I didn't cut my rate, the hotel did.

01:14:55.720 And the hotel can say, I didn't cut my rate, the airline did.

01:14:58.240 So they win.

01:14:59.180 They want people there in the hotels and to fill those seats.

01:15:03.040 He's found the way to get the lowest price, and it's unbelievable.

01:15:07.800 We've already used it.

01:15:08.620 You'll save a ton of money.

01:15:09.940 All you do is go to, where is it, Upside.com, Upside.com, use my name Beck, and you're guaranteed

01:15:19.600 this time, guaranteed to get at least $200 of an Amazon gift card for your first trip

01:15:26.160 absolutely free.

01:15:27.420 Do it right now.

01:15:28.500 You're going to save a buttload of money.

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01:15:31.540 That's Upside.com.

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01:17:11.540 Some might celebrate that this is the last day that we have to hear this.

01:17:15.880 But a piece of audio from a press conference yesterday with Barack Obama that made blood shoot directly

01:17:22.980 out of my eyes.

01:17:24.840 And we begin there right now.

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01:17:53.140 I don't even know where to begin.

01:17:57.860 Except with the audio.

01:17:59.280 And I'm not sure I'm going to make it through a commentary on it.

01:18:04.060 Here it is.

01:18:05.940 Barack Obama yesterday in the press conference.

01:18:08.700 That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed.

01:18:13.240 But that's the point of this relationship.

01:18:15.500 You're not supposed to be sycophants.

01:18:18.300 You're supposed to be skeptics.

01:18:19.960 You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

01:18:22.540 You're not supposed to be complimentary.

01:18:24.440 But you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power.

01:18:31.240 And make sure that we are accountable to the people who sent us here.

01:18:36.500 And you have done that.

01:18:38.240 You've done it, for the most part, in ways that I could appreciate for fairness, even if

01:18:47.420 I didn't always agree with your conclusions.

01:18:49.500 You've done it, for the most part, in ways that I could make it through the commentary

01:19:08.240 about it.

01:19:11.340 Play, play, play, play, play.

01:19:14.960 Play his thanks and warning.

01:19:17.900 Because what he was doing yesterday was he was warning the press how they have to behave

01:19:24.700 under Donald Trump.

01:19:25.960 And I just, I just...

01:19:27.180 Yeah, because they did it with him.

01:19:29.060 They were skeptics with him, not sycophants.

01:19:31.600 You just listen.

01:19:32.780 In fact, he said sycophants.

01:19:34.680 I don't know what the hell that is, but...

01:19:37.180 That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed.

01:19:41.400 But that's the point of this relationship.

01:19:43.560 You're not supposed to be sycophants.

01:19:46.400 You're supposed to be skeptics.

01:19:48.160 You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

01:19:50.860 You're not supposed to be complimentary.

01:19:52.620 Like that, what about being enchanted?

01:19:55.120 What's the thing that's enchanted you the most?

01:19:57.120 What a tough question that was.

01:19:58.220 Oh, my God.

01:19:59.100 How do you choose which is enchanted here?

01:20:00.920 What was the thing about your first year as president?

01:20:04.220 What was the thing that you're most proud of?

01:20:07.380 That kind of tough question.

01:20:09.020 Yeah, that's tough.

01:20:09.600 That's tough.

01:20:10.260 Yeah, I was actually hoping that whoever that reporter was that asked him how he was enchanted

01:20:14.400 by the office would come back on the last press conference and ask the exact same question.

01:20:18.380 Did not happen.

01:20:19.500 However, he did use the word enchanted during the press conference, though.

01:20:23.200 So he brought it back around a little bit.

01:20:25.920 But it was, you know, look, there were some moments there that maybe that could frustrate you.

01:20:30.800 But, I mean, you know, you're Mr. Bring Us Together, I thought.

01:20:34.260 I thought that wasn't you anymore.

01:20:35.600 I thought that was the old Glenn Beck, you know?

01:20:37.960 Oh, I didn't say anything about that.

01:20:39.140 I was just pointing out what the president was.

01:20:41.000 Oh, I could tell.

01:20:41.300 You could get your tone.

01:20:42.420 I got your tone.

01:20:43.760 And, sure, you could look at that and you'd say, you know, they're like, well, you guys

01:20:48.280 held my feet to the fire in a lot of ways.

01:20:50.640 I guess those ways were invisible ways.

01:20:53.500 But I guess he did.

01:20:55.200 You could certainly look at that and be critical.

01:20:58.020 However, what have we done today?

01:20:59.140 I mean, we've been obviously skeptical of Donald Trump's presidency, but we've outlined

01:21:03.040 a few things that we have liked about the run-up to his inauguration.

01:21:07.640 Very positive day for him.

01:21:08.920 You know, there's some very positive things there.

01:21:11.800 I want to come back to the David Glertner thing.

01:21:13.660 That's a great thing.

01:21:14.460 Yeah.

01:21:14.780 And I think we can also, people say you can't say anything positive about Trump.

01:21:19.160 We've done that today.

01:21:20.380 People say you can't say anything positive about Obama.

01:21:22.960 I think we can do that, too.

01:21:24.880 Did I miss something in his?

01:21:26.800 In his press conference, he outlined something I think we really, really agree with.

01:21:31.300 And, listen.

01:21:32.260 I want to do some writing.

01:21:33.020 I want to be quiet a little bit and not hear myself talk so darn much.

01:21:41.420 Oh, my God.

01:21:42.140 Us, too.

01:21:42.920 We are there.

01:21:43.580 I absolutely agree with that.

01:21:45.460 We also don't want you to talk anymore.

01:21:46.960 I don't want to hear him at all.

01:21:48.560 Yes.

01:21:49.140 We can go a little further than you.

01:21:50.900 Look at how we have 1,000% agree on that.

01:21:53.600 We have come across lines and we're holding hands with the president in his last day.

01:21:58.160 He wants to be quiet and he doesn't want to hear himself talk so darn much.

01:22:02.380 And we want the same thing.

01:22:03.560 We don't either.

01:22:04.580 Wow.

01:22:04.980 That's a good one.

01:22:05.580 There is so much.

01:22:06.660 And that's a basic fundamental principle of mine.

01:22:09.200 Right.

01:22:09.860 You know, not hearing him talk so much.

01:22:12.220 More quiet time.

01:22:13.240 More quiet time for Obama.

01:22:15.540 We agree wholeheartedly.

01:22:17.060 Right.

01:22:17.440 Less time with a pen and the phone.

01:22:19.440 Yes.

01:22:20.100 And we're going to get that, too.

01:22:21.920 That's nice.

01:22:23.000 Can I just take a moment here and just say we made it?

01:22:27.480 Well, it's not tomorrow at noon.

01:22:30.640 It's tomorrow.

01:22:31.080 It's tomorrow.

01:22:31.800 Relax.

01:22:32.800 Slow your roll.

01:22:34.860 He's still in office.

01:22:35.980 You're right.

01:22:36.480 He's still about to.

01:22:37.620 He's about to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law and not go through with the inauguration.

01:22:44.320 That's because I've heard that from a lot of people.

01:22:46.640 A lot of people.

01:22:46.900 And I don't believe that part of it.

01:22:48.120 However, he did.

01:22:50.460 There were a dozen or two dozen new regulations that were pushed through today.

01:22:55.100 I don't have the list of them yet, but something in there could be quite terrible.

01:23:00.000 No.

01:23:00.080 We still expect him to pardon dozens and dozens and dozens of people that could be dangerous criminals.

01:23:05.840 You don't put two.

01:23:07.780 You don't put dozens of regulations through on your last day that are controversial.

01:23:14.120 No.

01:23:14.720 And you don't pardon the really controversial.

01:23:17.060 Remember, this is a guy who a couple days ago pardoned a terrorist who was targeting the overthrow of the government from Puerto Rico and bombed government buildings here in the United States and was planning on bombing several places in Chicago.

01:23:37.060 They found his apartment stuffed with C4 preparing for these actions.

01:23:41.860 Unrepentant and an avowed communist who still wants the communist state.

01:23:47.900 And that was the opening act.

01:23:49.400 Yeah.

01:23:49.900 So today could be bad.

01:23:51.040 They said today it's going to be substantially more of pardons and commutations.

01:23:54.620 He's already done 209.

01:23:56.360 Well, that was the other day.

01:23:57.860 He's done 1,597 commutations and pardons during his presidency.

01:24:05.400 Almost 1,600, and it'll certainly surpass that today.

01:24:08.760 And it was 273 just the other day.

01:24:11.280 Just the other day.

01:24:12.400 209 commutations, 64 pardons.

01:24:13.200 Okay, so 209, and they said it's going to be substantially more today.

01:24:18.960 It's kind of like, what is a few?

01:24:21.200 Is a few three or is a few five?

01:24:23.080 Dave, what's substantially more mean to this president?

01:24:27.960 Because the way it was written, in theory, it could mean there will be a significant amount more, right?

01:24:34.620 So like you had 273.

01:24:36.280 It said substantially more.

01:24:37.020 It said substantially more.

01:24:38.060 So it could be another 50.

01:24:39.740 Like that's a substantial amount, right?

01:24:41.300 That's in addition to the 273.

01:24:42.860 The way I read it was substantially more than 273.

01:24:46.200 Yeah.

01:24:46.420 Right.

01:24:46.720 So I don't know which one it's going to be, but.

01:24:48.860 I think it's more than 273.

01:24:50.700 I think substantially more.

01:24:51.920 But the way I read that, I'm expecting a thousand.

01:24:56.980 You know what I was expecting?

01:24:57.840 I was thinking about yesterday, because you made the great point yesterday of, let's say

01:25:00.880 in theory, he just decided to, everyone who had a marijuana only conviction that was in

01:25:07.500 prison, he could just say, let him go.

01:25:09.500 And that was, I thought that was an interesting point.

01:25:12.020 I don't know how you could do that pragmatically.

01:25:15.380 Like, I don't know what this, if you could come up, you have to do them all individually.

01:25:18.020 Federal law, is that federal, are you in federal prison for marijuana?

01:25:22.400 It can be, yeah.

01:25:23.340 Yeah.

01:25:23.500 So, theoretically, you know, that could happen.

01:25:27.840 But again, like, you'd have to do them all individually.

01:25:29.720 He'd have to be preparing for this for a long time.

01:25:31.600 The other one that popped into my head on that same, you know, road, though, was what

01:25:36.320 about immigration?

01:25:37.720 He knows that Donald Trump has been running on, you know, we're not going to get rid of

01:25:42.840 any of these DREAM acts, any of the executive orders Obama has pressed.

01:25:46.900 Couldn't he go through and pick whatever his 20, 50, 100, 1,000 best cases are as far as

01:25:53.480 immigration law and exempt them from prosecution on those things?

01:25:57.020 I mean, because they're not citizens, there might be a weird line there.

01:26:00.120 But in theory, he could probably do that to a lot of people before he walks out and implement

01:26:05.020 his law.

01:26:05.680 And that would not be one that Trump could reverse.

01:26:08.300 It would, no, because he can't, because it's not executive order.

01:26:10.760 This is presidential privilege.

01:26:12.240 Yeah, presidential pardon.

01:26:13.240 It's in the Constitution.

01:26:14.240 He's allowed to do it.

01:26:15.760 And there's the Hillary thing. 1.00

01:26:17.760 Will he pardon her in advance of any sort of prosecution?

01:26:20.080 Because nobody's going to go after her.

01:26:21.780 Nobody's going to go after Hillary. 0.99

01:26:22.420 Yeah, I mean, Trump has pretty much said that.

01:26:24.040 I don't want to give that, I don't want to hassle the family anymore, is pretty much

01:26:26.920 what he said.

01:26:27.020 No, she's done, she's gone, and they're not going to, they're not going to do a thing

01:26:30.580 about it.

01:26:30.900 I will say somebody pulled the New York mayoral race, and Clinton was up by something like

01:26:35.580 20 points over de Blasio.

01:26:37.720 So if she wants, I mean, it's still a big gig.

01:26:39.760 If she wants a role like that, she might be able to get it.

01:26:42.480 She might not be gone.

01:26:43.700 Go ahead, New York.

01:26:45.180 Take her. 0.75

01:26:45.680 She'd probably be better than de Blasio, to be honest.

01:26:47.400 Oh, yeah, she would be.

01:26:48.740 I mean, de Blasio's a real girl.

01:26:49.660 Yeah, she would be.

01:26:50.340 They're both nightmares, but she'd probably actually be better for New York.

01:26:53.080 And the crime families would like her, too.

01:26:54.520 Now this, yesterday, Trump's nominee to head the Commerce Department, Wilbur Ross, gave

01:26:59.860 us a look at the next administration's likely direction on trade.

01:27:05.000 In his testimony before the Senate committee, Ross stressed stricter enforcement of existing

01:27:09.840 rules as a way to confront China and other countries.

01:27:13.380 What is China going to do?

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01:29:46.600 Are you for real as a Roman supporter?

01:29:48.780 So an update on the Roman Polanski debacle we had yesterday.

01:29:53.900 We were talking about who the president might release.

01:29:57.960 We think there's a chance that he just effectively closes down Gitmo and just releases the remaining

01:30:05.420 40.

01:30:06.040 What he does with them, I don't know.

01:30:08.100 He might already have a deal worked out with Oman or Yemen.

01:30:11.320 Who knows?

01:30:11.960 That's, I think, very likely.

01:30:14.360 They just took a big group of people in Oman recently.

01:30:18.320 So they might, who knows, he'll be able to say he kept his promise.

01:30:21.100 And then he can say, I closed it.

01:30:22.860 I didn't close it the first year, but I did get it closed.

01:30:25.160 Yep.

01:30:25.480 I think that's very likely because that was very important to him.

01:30:29.440 Yeah.

01:30:31.120 You know, there's still others that I think the blind shake might be a guy that he considers

01:30:38.880 letting go.

01:30:39.960 It's possible, but I don't think so.

01:30:41.980 I hope not.

01:30:42.680 That's a big one.

01:30:43.440 I mean, that would, that would hurt his legacy.

01:30:47.220 I agree.

01:30:48.780 Yeah.

01:30:49.540 I mean, I think that's too big a risk for him.

01:30:53.080 I mean, that's, that's, everybody knows he's responsible for the 1993 attack on the World

01:31:00.520 Trade Center.

01:31:01.000 How long do we have to hold him?

01:31:04.660 Forever.

01:31:05.220 The guy was 1988.

01:31:06.920 I mean, and the only reason.

01:31:07.580 And we all knew.

01:31:08.620 The only reason we did it, it was because we were doing things that were oppressing Muslims. 0.97

01:31:11.860 Right.

01:31:12.240 I mean, you could, I could make the case that he'll release him in a heartbeat.

01:31:15.000 I don't think he will.

01:31:16.060 I don't think so.

01:31:17.080 I don't think so.

01:31:17.860 He does care about his legacy.

01:31:19.220 And that's maybe the only reason.

01:31:20.820 That's the only thing that would stop him.

01:31:22.220 What made me say that?

01:31:23.700 Because that was a few years ago that I said that.

01:31:25.700 And there was something else that he released.

01:31:29.860 Remember, he released and he made a deal with somebody and these people wanted the blind 0.94

01:31:36.320 shake out.

01:31:37.760 And we got some, I don't remember what it was, but there was something that happened where

01:31:43.060 he was dealing with the people on the blind shake.

01:31:46.060 And I was like, he's not going to do it now, but I bet he does it on his last day.

01:31:49.840 I don't think he will, but it'd be interesting to watch.

01:31:53.100 The other is Mumia Abu-Jamal, which Stu says can't happen, or it would be very difficult

01:31:59.820 because it's a state commission.

01:32:02.140 Right.

01:32:03.080 Wouldn't be beyond him to say, I'm doing it, deal with it.

01:32:06.680 If that were a federal issue, I think for sure he would do it.

01:32:10.580 He'd do it.

01:32:11.020 He would do it.

01:32:11.400 The other is Roman Polanski.

01:32:12.920 Stu brought that up yesterday.

01:32:14.260 The Pelletier.

01:32:15.060 The Pelletier guy.

01:32:16.140 It's impossible.

01:32:16.800 Yeah.

01:32:17.100 Yeah.

01:32:18.840 Roman Polanski's in the news.

01:32:20.260 He has been named the, what is the French award?

01:32:26.700 The president of the Caesar Awards.

01:32:29.700 The Caesar Awards.

01:32:30.920 So that's kind of what I gather.

01:32:32.880 It's kind of like.

01:32:34.840 The Oscars?

01:32:35.420 The Oscars.

01:32:35.800 Yeah.

01:32:36.580 In France.

01:32:37.080 In France.

01:32:38.220 And luckily there are some artists in France who are like, are you kidding me?

01:32:43.640 Really?

01:32:44.200 Yeah.

01:32:44.420 We're holding up this guy, a pedophile, as they call him over there.

01:32:49.340 We're, we're holding, we're holding him up.

01:32:52.920 Which is why, uh, President Obama needs to just, uh, just wipe the slate clean for him.

01:32:58.780 Is a pedophile a person who has a file of pita bread?

01:33:02.380 Yes.

01:33:02.640 Uh, they, okay.

01:33:03.540 Yes.

01:33:03.820 Or they enjoy it a great deal?

01:33:05.320 They enjoy it.

01:33:06.340 Okay.

01:33:07.080 Under P, pita, in the file cabinet.

01:33:10.120 Okay.

01:33:10.400 Probably not.

01:33:14.720 David Galertner brought this up last hour.

01:33:18.500 Now, this is the new science czar.

01:33:21.340 Uh, maybe.

01:33:22.440 Discussed.

01:33:23.100 Discussed.

01:33:23.720 Not, not, not guaranteed yet.

01:33:25.100 We hope so.

01:33:25.900 I hope.

01:33:26.620 I mean, he's, he's great.

01:33:27.520 Okay.

01:33:27.700 Now remember, we're replacing the, his, Obama's, that went flying through.

01:33:33.400 Everybody loved John Holdren.

01:33:35.440 A guy who, in the 1970s, said we should poison the drinking water and we should put sterilants

01:33:42.700 in drinking water for population control.

01:33:46.320 Hey, that's just academic.

01:33:47.840 Yeah, just, he was just academically talking about that.

01:33:51.400 Okay.

01:33:51.980 So that's the guy we had.

01:33:53.580 He makes everything okay.

01:33:54.840 If you do it in an academic setting.

01:33:57.480 Just academics.

01:33:57.800 You can talk about what, murdering entire populations of people.

01:34:01.260 That's fine.

01:34:01.840 Don't even worry about that.

01:34:02.860 I will say though, it's not, it is not, uh, it does not clear you from being conservative.

01:34:07.340 If you say, if you're conservative in an academic setting, that doesn't count at all.

01:34:11.140 So here's David Glertner.

01:34:12.480 If you don't know who David Glertner is, David Glertner is a friend and absolutely one of

01:34:19.240 the greatest minds I've ever met.

01:34:21.420 And I've met some really sharp people.

01:34:23.400 I think this guy would knock Penn Jillette into the dirt.

01:34:27.700 Um, yes.

01:34:29.340 Glertner is the kind of guy that you talk to and you're like, okay.

01:34:32.860 Okay.

01:34:33.320 I didn't understand any of that.

01:34:35.780 Um, he's really bright.

01:34:38.420 Um, do you think this Yale, uh, computer scientist could, could even out talk the, uh, the magician?

01:34:46.360 Have you talked to Penn Jillette?

01:34:47.380 No, I haven't.

01:34:47.960 Yeah, he's Jim Jillette.

01:34:49.180 He would laugh at that description though.

01:34:50.640 He's one of the smartest people I've ever met.

01:34:52.220 He would laugh at that description.

01:34:53.380 I'm sure of it.

01:34:53.900 No, he would.

01:34:54.600 He would.

01:34:55.040 But don't, don't, yeah, he's one of the smartest guys out there.

01:34:57.580 Yeah.

01:34:57.600 Don't, uh, don't, uh, uh, dismiss the magician.

01:35:02.060 Uh, so David Glertner, uh, a computer scientist, mathematician at Yale.

01:35:09.000 Um, he, you know him or you know of him because of the Unabomber. 0.99

01:35:15.180 The first victim of the Unabomber was David Glertner.

01:35:19.640 And David is a futurist on par with Ray Kurzweil.

01:35:24.820 I've wanted to put those two together in a steel cage match for a very long time because

01:35:31.420 Glertner believes everything that Ray Kurzweil believes, except he believes it's immoral to

01:35:39.360 do some of these things without talking about it first.

01:35:43.520 And, uh, and so he wrote a book about technology and this was in 1980s or 1980s.

01:35:50.260 I don't remember the name of it.

01:35:51.660 And he wrote about technology.

01:35:53.320 And the first half of the book was, here's what's coming.

01:35:56.660 And he's right about all of it.

01:35:58.200 And he talked about transhumanism and everything else.

01:36:00.660 And the second half is a warning.

01:36:03.840 We can't just go take that on warning.

01:36:08.720 Well, apparently Kaczynski only met, only read the first half of the book and said, I got

01:36:13.620 to kill this guy because look what the world he's creating.

01:36:16.000 And so he was the first mail bomb went to David Glertner and he opened up the mailbox and

01:36:23.040 there was something that there was something in the way, or he, I don't remember how it

01:36:27.240 happened, but he opened up the mailbox and it didn't kill him.

01:36:30.700 It, it blew his hand up and blew him up quite a bit, damaged his internal organs and his arm that he was holding the mailbox with.

01:36:40.140 He now kind of looks like Darth Vader in a way.

01:36:43.520 He wears a black glove on one hand.

01:36:45.560 He's in a great deal of pain all the time, um, but has continued on.

01:36:52.100 He's, he invented the code that I think the, the code and the algorithm that I think Twitter and maybe Facebook uses.

01:37:00.740 Um, he was working on code for Apple.

01:37:04.260 They just took it from him.

01:37:06.160 He sued one, like, I don't even know what, like $10 million or something from Apple.

01:37:10.300 Um, um, brilliant guy.

01:37:13.900 I personally would rather have him in the education department because he believes that education, formal education as we know it is a thing of the past and should be from his job at Yale.

01:37:28.100 Yes.

01:37:28.840 Yes.

01:37:29.740 And thinks it should be.

01:37:31.180 And can, he says he has the system that could replace it.

01:37:36.560 And I believe him, uh, he wrote a book on it, didn't he?

01:37:39.280 Yeah, he's, he's absolutely brilliant to have him as our science czar is great.

01:37:45.040 Now, the reason why the left doesn't like him, uh, and calls him fiercely anti-intellectual is because he questions global warming.

01:37:53.200 Doesn't deny it.

01:37:55.240 Questions global.

01:37:56.740 A scientist that still questions.

01:38:01.020 Unbelievable.

01:38:09.280 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:12.260 Mercury.

01:38:16.540 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:19.380 So, Tonya and I were talking last night.

01:38:22.820 What is President-elect Trump's life like in these two days?

01:38:27.260 Tonight, imagine you're going to be the President of the United States the next day.

01:38:34.320 Do you have a moment or hopefully the whole day or the whole week?

01:38:40.400 I don't, I don't know what I, boy, I was thinking that last night talking to Tonya and I said,

01:38:46.040 I would be so on my knees begging for help.

01:38:54.480 It would almost be like, what the hell have I done tomorrow?

01:38:58.060 Tomorrow, I'm the guy.

01:39:00.280 That was the dumbest idea I've ever had.

01:39:02.640 What have I done?

01:39:04.740 Mm-hmm.

01:39:05.580 And walking into the Oval Office and it's yours.

01:39:11.520 You walk on and they say, Mr. President, would you like a few minutes alone?

01:39:16.060 And close the door.

01:39:19.000 What, what is that like?

01:39:22.700 I don't know.

01:39:23.840 I think every president, because you read, every president said that they had that moment of walking in going, holy cow.

01:39:33.020 Best description I've heard is from Harry Truman.

01:39:37.800 He said he felt as though the moon, the stars, and the sun fell on his shoulders.

01:39:44.080 Imagine.

01:39:44.880 I really think Trump would see, view that as weakness.

01:39:47.620 I think so, too.

01:39:48.380 I think he would view that he could now hold up the sun, the moon, and the stars.

01:39:51.700 I mean, seriously, he ran on a platform of saying, like, this is, I can do this, this is easy.

01:39:57.500 He's already run incredible businesses.

01:39:59.640 That's right.

01:40:00.440 Incredible business, beautiful businesses.

01:40:02.640 We've got to fix up this dump.

01:40:03.760 And I think you could say, too, I mean, obviously it is a huge responsibility and it is important, but I mean, I think, I don't think he likes to think of things that way.

01:40:11.900 You know, I think he, I think he, he wants, part of his confidence comes from not allowing himself to go down those roads.

01:40:19.560 Yeah, I saw an interview with him.

01:40:21.060 Where he said, yeah, where he said, I don't like to, I don't like to think about, yeah, I don't like time to reflect.

01:40:28.900 I don't want to reflect because it will bring up too many things.

01:40:34.360 Don, that's not healthy.

01:40:37.800 That's not healthy.

01:40:39.560 But, I mean, I think that's true with him.

01:40:41.560 I do, too.

01:40:42.420 And, you know, so I don't think he'll have that moment.

01:40:44.820 I think he'll want to jump into it.

01:40:45.920 And, you know, hey, I mean, you know, it's, it's the, it's what he ran on.

01:40:50.920 And I think what he was elected for.

01:40:53.160 And I think he should execute that, right?

01:40:55.920 I mean, that's, that's what he got elected for.

01:40:57.640 Okay, so it's not always been this way where people looked at this as, you know, we, at least, I think that people in our audience look at this as, this is not, for instance, remember when Clinton left and they took all the W's off of the typewriter keys, you know, off the computer keys.

01:41:14.880 And I just thought, how petty is that?

01:41:19.160 And it's the Oval Office.

01:41:22.340 It's the, it's the White House.

01:41:25.100 And just such respect for it.

01:41:27.980 But I think we're kind of in the minority on this.

01:41:31.780 I don't, I, I don't think a very large population feels this way.

01:41:35.580 And many of the politicians have not felt this way.

01:41:39.060 Glenbeck.com in our inaugural coverage, we have the seven weirdest inaugurations in history.

01:41:47.080 Let me give you two of them.

01:41:48.340 One of them was Andrew Johnson.

01:41:50.580 Andrew Johnson, vice president of Abraham Lincoln.

01:41:54.200 And you've heard me tell the story where, where Johnson is up going, get them, right?

01:42:01.120 It's the second inaugural address.

01:42:03.580 And Johnson is coming in and he wants to rape the South.

01:42:09.780 And he is, he is talking about, you know, how the North is victorious and how we're the best and, and the greatest and the most terrific.

01:42:22.060 Anyway, that didn't work out well.

01:42:25.340 So anyway, he was, he was bragging about how the North was the greatest and has crushed the South.

01:42:33.620 Lincoln was horrified because remember his speech is with charity toward all and malice toward none.

01:42:39.380 Let us heal the wounds of the nation.

01:42:42.420 Johnson is just ripping them apart.

01:42:44.300 So before the inauguration, the vice president has to do what the vice president, uh, just, uh, uh, did with the Senate, uh, earlier.

01:42:54.500 And that's where all the senators in, well, he's up there and he's, he's just tearing the South apart.

01:43:02.340 He's in front of all the senators, all their wives, everybody.

01:43:05.700 And he is going on and on and on and on.

01:43:07.880 And then they, uh, start doing the swearing in and he's like, okay, so repeat after, um, whoo, it's hot in here.

01:43:22.920 He is so out of control.

01:43:24.700 He doesn't remember what he's doing and everything else.

01:43:28.000 Lincoln has to stand up and say, please leave.

01:43:31.820 And they escort him out the back door for him to sleep it off.

01:43:35.620 So that's Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural Andrew Jackson, by the way, Johnson went on to be the first president ever impeached and the only one up until Clinton.

01:43:49.540 He was very bad.

01:43:50.380 Yeah.

01:43:50.660 Uh, 1829, the white house has seen, um, a lot of parties, but in 1829, March 4th, Andrew Johnson had an open house.

01:44:00.520 Andrew Jackson.

01:44:01.320 Andrew Jackson, open house, sparked a mob scene that almost destroyed the white house.

01:44:07.660 Uh, he was known as a man of the people and, uh, he was a rough man.

01:44:12.760 And so he had a rowdy crowd and he was like, Hey everybody, come on, let's party at the white house.

01:44:22.160 Open to the public.

01:44:23.800 And, uh, and, uh, and, and by the way, it's BYOB.

01:44:30.860 So it was a party with the president.

01:44:34.280 Anybody who wanted to party with this rough riding, rough talking man of the people.

01:44:42.300 I'm going to show him.

01:44:43.700 I'm going to take it back.

01:44:45.200 That kind of guy, the, the, the people who are like, yeah, come and they're all drunk.

01:44:53.960 Um, they destroyed, uh, furniture, uh, they were breaking plates.

01:45:00.440 Um, and they, they ground cheese into the carpet.

01:45:05.180 So I, I, I don't know exactly how they did that.

01:45:08.320 Sounds like my kind of party.

01:45:09.300 Uh, but what they finally to close it down, what they had to do is the white house officials

01:45:13.300 had to go out and say, Hey everybody, there's free liquor out here.

01:45:19.740 And everybody came out for the free liquor and they locked the doors.

01:45:25.820 So no matter what happens tomorrow, good times, good times, good times at the white house.

01:45:31.180 Yeah.

01:45:31.660 Those times aren't coming back.

01:45:32.820 Well, maybe they are tomorrow.

01:45:34.360 Who knows?

01:45:34.860 I don't know.

01:45:35.920 No, they're not.

01:45:36.420 No.

01:45:36.900 You don't think I'll swing the doors open and let everyone come in and no, but I don't,

01:45:39.500 I, I'm not convinced that the left isn't going to do something to cause problems.

01:45:44.400 Try to derail it.

01:45:45.120 Yeah.

01:45:45.540 Um, uh, can we talk about one other thing we have not touched on today, which is important,

01:45:49.640 uh, with the, uh, transition, this Rick Perry story from the New York times.

01:45:53.740 Oh, this is so agonizing.

01:45:55.020 This is one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen.

01:45:58.760 And you know what?

01:45:59.660 I just yesterday read a story from the New York times.

01:46:02.360 Where they pointed out Barack Obama lecturing the press about how they have to be fierce

01:46:10.260 on the president and not fold.

01:46:12.120 And they point out the New York times pointed out there has been no president since Woodrow

01:46:18.960 Wilson.

01:46:19.420 I'm quoting that has been more, uh, uh, antagonistic, antagonistic with the press and used.

01:46:29.340 It's not the sedition act.

01:46:30.720 It's the, um, uh, what is it?

01:46:32.780 It's the, um, the, the, the thing that Woodrow Wilson came up with espionage act, nobody that

01:46:37.980 has used the espionage act more than, uh, Barack Obama.

01:46:42.220 Obama.

01:46:42.780 In fact, he's used it more than all other presidents combined where he's saying, you're a member

01:46:49.320 of the press.

01:46:49.820 You shouldn't have leaked that secret.

01:46:51.280 And the reason why they brought it up was because now he's pardoning Manning, a guy who

01:46:58.740 leaked some of the most important secrets.

01:47:01.200 And he went after the press.

01:47:02.200 That's a really good point.

01:47:03.120 Really good.

01:47:03.720 And I thought to myself, wow, the New York times is really, maybe they're changing.

01:47:08.280 And then they write this one.

01:47:09.280 Two things on that.

01:47:10.120 Number one, uh, the New York times, I mean, it's not popular in these circles to talk about

01:47:13.660 the New York times does some really good work.

01:47:15.300 Really good.

01:47:15.700 It's just that they also do things like the thing I'm about to read.

01:47:18.820 This one will make your eyes bleed, which is, uh, is really, uh, bad.

01:47:22.760 The other part about this though, on your point, Glenn is the only time the press consistently

01:47:28.420 stands up against a Democrat or liberals is when they are the targets.

01:47:31.780 Yes.

01:47:31.940 When the press is in trouble themselves, they actually do take stands.

01:47:36.280 They didn't occasionally, occasionally they didn't under Obama.

01:47:39.680 No, I mean, they did.

01:47:40.640 This is this, they did do.

01:47:41.960 They talked about that espionage act a lot.

01:47:44.160 Um, and, and they did, there were a lot of reporters who stood up and said that what

01:47:48.020 he's doing is wrong.

01:47:48.780 We couldn't stand Bush.

01:47:49.860 He did it too much.

01:47:50.640 And now Obama's doing it.

01:47:52.020 It wasn't lockstep.

01:47:53.200 I wouldn't say it was lockstep, but it will be lockstep the minute.

01:47:56.540 If, if Trump tries to throw them out of the press room, which is not the using the

01:48:01.420 espionage act.

01:48:02.760 No, it's just, I mean, he wanted to move it to a bigger room.

01:48:05.760 Yeah.

01:48:06.040 I want to move it over to Blair house.

01:48:08.580 If, if he did that, they will have, they will be in lockstep and have a coronary.

01:48:14.260 So here's the New York times headline, learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job.

01:48:20.820 He initially misunderstood.

01:48:23.860 Oh boy.

01:48:24.420 When president elect Donald Trump offered Rick Perry, the job of energy secretary five weeks

01:48:28.320 ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador

01:48:33.960 for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.

01:48:38.400 In the days after Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor discovered that he would be no such

01:48:44.900 thing that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national

01:48:50.740 security complex.

01:48:51.680 He knew almost nothing about what is the source on that one, Stu caring for the most fearsome

01:48:57.400 weapons on the planet, the United States nuclear arsenal, two thirds of the agency's.

01:49:02.540 I didn't give you an answer on the source thing yet, did I two thirds of the agency's

01:49:06.160 annual $30 billion budget is devoted to maintaining refurbishing and keeping safe the nation's

01:49:11.000 nuclear stockpile.

01:49:12.360 If you asked, Oh, here it is.

01:49:14.360 Here's the source.

01:49:15.280 If you asked him on the first day, he said, yes, he would have said, I want to be an advocate

01:49:19.580 for energy said Michael McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who advised Mr. Perry's 2016

01:49:24.300 presidential campaign and worked on the Trump transitions energy department team in its early

01:49:29.340 days.

01:49:29.620 Seems like a really good source.

01:49:30.940 Yeah.

01:49:31.180 And he also did leave that at one point, a quote, if you asked him now, he'd say, I'm

01:49:36.880 serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.

01:49:40.120 It's been a learning curve.

01:49:42.740 Wow.

01:49:42.940 So they're quoting some very powerful source.

01:49:45.980 Now I will say we could read the entire thing, but that's the source for the story.

01:49:49.700 They have one guy, one guy saying it's been a learning curve from when he thought he was

01:49:55.080 gonna be talking about energy.

01:49:56.020 And now he's talking about the nuclear.

01:49:57.760 Well, at least he backs it up and he's big.

01:49:59.940 And it was a good source, obviously.

01:50:01.200 Good source.

01:50:01.620 One minor problem with that comes from the Daily Caller.

01:50:05.360 The former transition official quoted in the New York Times story, Michael McKenna, told

01:50:08.200 the Daily Caller Wednesday that the Times misinterpreted him and Perry, quote, of course, end quote,

01:50:14.320 understood that a key role of the Department of Energy is caring for the nation's nuclear

01:50:17.820 arsenal.

01:50:18.380 Hang on.

01:50:18.560 The DOE, the agency, was started for the nuclear projects?

01:50:24.080 I'm surprised he knew that.

01:50:25.720 He knew that.

01:50:26.520 Wow.

01:50:26.980 Now this is also a guy, of course.

01:50:28.020 He's a governor because he's worked with the DOE on all of the energy projects, not just

01:50:32.460 oil and gas, but like all of the electricity and the coal and any nuclear plant he would

01:50:39.200 be aware of because of DOE.

01:50:41.620 The largest nuclear plant in America, by the way, is in Texas.

01:50:45.260 So he knows the DOE regulations.

01:50:48.360 So, yeah.

01:50:49.100 That's actually he ran for president twice when he knew about nuclear power.

01:50:53.840 Okay, so we have a guy who was quoted, but I'm sure Perry had said something stupid.

01:51:00.160 Yeah, oh yeah, he did.

01:51:01.020 He did.

01:51:01.320 Okay.

01:51:01.660 I will say, he did say something pretty stupid.

01:51:02.780 Like, what did he say right after it was announced?

01:51:05.760 December 14th, 2016.

01:51:07.800 So the day it was announced.

01:51:09.220 Okay, so it's going to be like, uh, I'm excited about air and oil.

01:51:13.380 Gas!

01:51:13.860 I got gas!

01:51:14.860 I got gas and oil because I'm from Texas.

01:51:17.840 Nuclear what?

01:51:18.880 What is it?

01:51:19.580 Nuclear what?

01:51:20.400 So here's his statement, and it's embarrassing for Rick Perry.

01:51:23.440 It's a tremendous honor to be selected to serve as Secretary of Energy by President

01:51:26.600 Electrum.

01:51:27.600 He was deeply humbled at the nomination.

01:51:29.780 As former governor of the nation's largest energy producing state, I know American energy

01:51:33.540 is critical to our economy and our security.

01:51:35.940 I look forward to engaging in a conversation about development, stewardship, and regulation

01:51:40.200 of our energy resources, safeguarding our nuclear arsenal, and promoting an American

01:51:46.060 energy policy that creates jobs and puts America...

01:51:48.260 What a maroon!

01:51:49.960 Right.

01:51:50.360 What a dope.

01:51:51.280 So he didn't even know he had to safeguard the arsenal.

01:51:54.340 I mean...

01:51:54.820 Except he said it right there.

01:51:56.840 This is a disaster.

01:51:59.620 So would you read the New York Times headline again?

01:52:01.880 Because this is what I'll tell you what I believe happened here.

01:52:04.480 Go ahead.

01:52:04.800 Learning curve.

01:52:05.720 And that's in quotes, by the way.

01:52:06.760 That's from the quote from McKenna.

01:52:08.020 Yeah.

01:52:08.180 Learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job he initially misunderstood.

01:52:12.300 I believe the author of this article didn't know that.

01:52:18.740 And it was actually a learning curve for him.

01:52:21.760 And he just assumed that, yeah, he probably didn't know because I didn't really know it

01:52:25.440 myself.

01:52:25.860 But I can make Rick Perry look bad.

01:52:28.220 The only learning curve there is for the writer of this.

01:52:33.800 And if the writer did know this, then he's just a bad writer that needs to be fired.

01:52:37.880 I mean, that's a journalistic disaster.

01:52:40.860 Yeah, it's a hack.

01:52:42.340 And now this.

01:52:43.760 Told you about the illegal operation that conned 36 million people.

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01:53:58.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:54:02.120 Mercury.

01:54:02.640 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:54:07.340 Big day tomorrow.

01:54:09.280 The inauguration is tomorrow.

01:54:12.100 Do I have time real quick?

01:54:13.000 How much time do I have, Natasha?

01:54:14.740 We have to start with Greg in Connecticut tomorrow.

01:54:18.520 First thing on the show tomorrow.

01:54:21.780 He's...

01:54:22.340 They have grief counselors for students tomorrow in school.

01:54:25.900 No, I can't.

01:54:26.600 Yes.

01:54:27.140 He's a public school teacher.

01:54:28.340 He says it's happening in Connecticut.

01:54:29.840 We'll get the scoop from him tomorrow.

01:54:32.440 They have...

01:54:34.360 They have grief counselors in school.

01:54:40.980 Did anybody think about that when Romney lost?

01:54:43.860 No, that's right.

01:54:44.900 Because you were only against Obama if you were a racist.

01:54:47.540 So they probably just had, you know, classes on racism back then.

01:54:53.200 Unbelievable.

01:54:55.080 We'll begin there tomorrow.

01:54:58.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:55:02.000 Mercury.

01:55:02.680 Mercury.

01:55:13.380 We'll be right back.

01:55:14.980 You.

01:55:17.420 Let's go.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 19, 2017

Obama： Don't Be a Sycophant 1⧸19⧸17

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