On today's show, Glenn and Sarah take a look back at the events of January 6th, 2019, and reflect on the impact it had on the country. They also discuss the impact Joe Biden's speech that day had on our country.
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00:54:18.000Now, you and I are screwed sitting here with high health care costs, letting insurance companies run our health care system.
00:54:23.860And instead of actually having a health care freedom, we empowered Anthony Fauci to screw Americans.
00:54:28.440How many things do you have to fail on to then go around and say what a great president you were compared to a governor who's literally delivered on every single measure on the report card?
00:54:38.200This is why President Trump will not debate Governor DeSantis.
00:54:41.660Because Governor DeSantis would actually clean his clock if he compared his batting record with the former president.
00:54:48.440So, let me go back to the budget, the border, everything that is happening in America now.
00:54:59.860Americans are starting to cancel all of their streaming services.
00:55:02.980There's a great story in my show prep today about the restaurant owner that has broke down the math that causes him to charge $16 for a BLT sandwich.
00:55:15.760And when you read it, at first you're like, $16 for a BLT.
01:00:09.020And then, you know, if they don't, then I can I can assure you there's going to be then reactions.
01:00:14.240As Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said in Texas, I think even Governor Sanchez has brought it up like we start saying that, you know, Joe Biden needs to be pulled off the ballot because he's been a complete abomination, violating our laws, violating his oath to the Constitution, endangering American people, aiding and abetting our enemies in the cartels who are flooding our country.
01:00:32.160So how is that not in violation of the 14th Amendment that, you know, aiding and abetting your enemies?
01:00:37.980That's the language in the 14th Amendment.
01:00:39.460So we're going to play that game and adjudicate that based on the whims of whatever a state wants to decide, as opposed to some actual conviction after a civil war, you know, a demonstration of insurrection after a civil war as was intended in the 14th Amendment.
01:00:53.240Then what's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
01:00:55.500We're going to have to fight fire with fire right now.
01:00:58.200Let's let's hope and pray the court gets this right.
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01:05:10.180I mean, it's – I mean, they've given you – I mean, it'll be a full 35 minutes to debate the good side of Franco, which should be pretty easy because there's a lot of people in America who are like, you know, Franco wasn't so bad.
01:05:32.200We want to make sure that, you know, we really give Franco his due.
01:05:38.380We actually have done some research on the things that people are saying that are good about Franco and then the truth about Franco.
01:05:47.680And I don't think they balance out, but maybe that's me.
01:05:54.680But for those conservatives that are on the Franco bandwagon, you might want to listen up next hour because I think you're going to learn a lot.
01:06:57.100We've been following, if you've been following the show, you know that I was down in Houston about a month ago for the filming of one of our Blaze originals about Colony Ridge.
01:07:08.680Colony Ridge is the fastest-growing development in Texas.
01:07:17.480Because I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of people are moving to Texas.
01:07:22.200So, what does it take to be the fastest-growing development in Texas?
01:07:27.320It's 30 minutes right outside of Houston.
01:07:31.260And I got to experience firsthand not only the vast size of Colony Ridge, which is 50% larger than Manhattan, but I also got to see it from the sky.
01:08:30.880And if I told you that Colony Ridge could fundamentally change the political landscape of Texas and the nation forever, would you believe me?
01:08:46.520And I'll prove that to you on Thursday with the Blaze original documentary team.
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01:09:54.480Okay, I want to play a little clip of this.
01:09:56.720Now, what's interesting is Colony Ridge growing, I don't know, a little fast, 200 lots per week.
01:10:05.300The overwhelming percentage seems to be illegals.
01:10:10.720Maybe we don't know because nobody checks, but it's predominantly non-English speaking.
01:10:30.780When the U.S. has opened its borders, where do these people go to live?
01:10:35.500We have 8 million people inside of our country now that weren't here before Biden took the oath of office.
01:10:43.380There will be 10 million by the end of next year, and this is changing everything in Texas, and it will change everything in the voting of Texas.
01:10:54.560I mean, even if you say, well, not this generation, but the next generation, it will.
01:10:59.660And if we lose Texas, we lose our country.
01:11:03.620Now, you would think that our governor would be all up in arms about this.
01:11:07.420You would think that, you know, he's doing everything he can to help the border.
01:11:11.380But he received $1.4 million from the developers.
01:14:42.080The Berna launcher is kind of a powerful deterrent.
01:14:46.280Now, it's not going to kill anybody, but I kind of like that.
01:14:50.740I mean, I carry a gun, but if I'm in a situation and I'm seeing, you know, a robbery in the convenience store, if I've got a clean shot, okay.
01:15:00.240If I don't, and it's really clear on what's going on, but with Berna, you don't have to have that.
01:25:34.320And maybe we should start, though, with why.
01:25:37.600Why would we be debating the positives and negatives of Franco?
01:25:42.420What would be the purpose of that, and why would that occur in 2024?
01:25:47.360A week before the Iowa caucuses, why are we talking about Franco, of all people?
01:25:52.260Well, Francisco Franco, you might remember him, he was the head of the Spanish state.
01:26:00.480He was what you might call a dictator, and a lot of people now, it seems, in America are starting to say, you know, we should have somebody like Franco that just comes in and, you know, stops all this nonsense.
01:26:16.280And I'm thinking to myself, no, no, we shouldn't have somebody like Franco.
01:26:20.640Unfortunately, a lot of the people that are debating this, and who are cozying up to the idea of an American Franco, are conservatives.
01:26:32.740And I don't, you either don't know who Franco is, or I wouldn't classify you as a conservative.
01:27:59.740Okay, but I mean, is that maybe, I don't know, significantly understating the badness of extermination camps, or genocide, or crimes against humanity?
01:28:27.140You've got that really tough task to make Franco look bad, so I'm going to give you all the lead-up you need.
01:28:32.820Okay, so now both sides of the debate, both good and bad, Franco, they will admit that he committed massive atrocities during the Spanish Civil War.
01:28:45.280His nationalists raped Republican women and shaved their heads.
01:28:49.220They rounded up half a million people and put them in 60 concentration camps.
01:28:54.440A large portion of these prisoners did forced labor or made to fight in Franco's army, and then, you know, he executed another 100,000 people during the war.
01:29:05.840So, right off there, I think, I don't think I'm on the Franco train.
01:29:16.500Yeah, well, but as you, again, I will attempt my best here, but Franco did, at least, when you're thinking of the Spanish people, or at least half of them, specifically, he did keep them out of World War II by kind of remaining neutral.
01:29:30.560Now, some might note that you didn't get invaded, and you were less likely to be invaded by Hitler when you did things that Hitler didn't mind all that much, which is not, you know, necessarily a positive.
01:29:43.380But I'm telling you it's a positive that, hey, he remained neutral in World War II and didn't get invaded.
01:29:51.740You know, but he was busy there for a while in his own civil war, and the public affairs officer for Franco's forces told an American reporter, quote,
01:31:36.520So, I mean, I noticed you didn't point that out when you – because, I mean, imagine how high it would have went if we could still go to outhouses.
01:31:43.820Probably could have doubled that number.
01:31:45.220Well, let me just – I hate to throw a monkey wrench into the deal, but I wasn't really concentrating on the tourism because after the war, Franco was responsible for the torture, murderer,
01:32:00.380and covert burial of an additional 114,000 Spanish citizens, he just targeted people, Republican loyalists, atheists, Jews, intellectuals, liberals, academics, Protestants – I mean, but you didn't see the Protestants.
01:32:18.580I mean, you know, anarchists, Freemasons, socialists, Catalan and Basque nationalists, communists, homosexuals, and trade unionists.
01:32:33.280So – and they just – they opened up mass graves all around Spain, and relatives, you know, couldn't mark the grave or anything else.
01:32:41.600They just dumped them in and just covered them with dirt.
01:32:43.720Well, I have to say what you want, but we wouldn't have this Basque nationalist problem if it wasn't for all this indoor plumbing.
01:32:50.380And I think Franco nailed that, by the way.
01:33:19.900Of course, I don't want to point out some of the other figures in Europe at the time who also hit that standard and maybe are not thought of so positively.
01:34:08.780That's the only way we could save our society today.
01:34:11.180Yes, and Franco is one of the few people who knew that, and I'll tell you this, Glenn, he did promote strong Spanish national identity and culture.
01:34:25.540And this seems to be honestly what people...
01:34:53.560He did love Spanish culture, and he did not like people undercutting that.
01:34:58.060And so, he used the centralized power of the state that he held for 36 years, he used that power to enforce some things that maybe you might like.
01:35:13.640And if he did that, shouldn't we just embrace it?
01:35:16.600But, wait, beyond having martial law for 10 years, while he was, of course, busy talking about how great Spain was, he was also dumping bodies in a massive grave.
01:35:32.740He was stealing babies and taking children, killing their parents, and then taking the children and adopting them into pro-Franco families.
01:35:52.220If you had a good name, then maybe you'd change your opinion once the government assigned you your new name, which was much, much better than your old name.
01:36:03.700I will say, though, you know, Glenn, once he aged...
01:36:24.480And once he aged, he did release and relax some of those rules.
01:36:31.780Police, you know, beating people over the head for no apparent reason, declined by, like, I don't know, 13% or something.
01:36:38.820And he did allow some free market reforms.
01:36:42.200Now, some would point out, hey, maybe you just put the free market reforms in because they're good and you don't just wait, you know, for 30 years of a dictatorship before you do some of those things.
01:36:52.220But, hey, later on in life, you know, he aged and he calmed a little bit.
01:36:59.140Well, still didn't allow any freedom of the press.
01:37:01.800But also, he, I mean, employment, if you were unemployed, you could get a job if you were a Franco supporter.
01:37:12.460But people were required to get a certificate of good behavior from local officials so you could get a job, which kind of sounds like what we don't want to happen here.
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01:39:47.920Look, we had we had a lot right, I think, in this country, you know.
01:39:53.160And I feel like we're at the point where we want to throw a lot of the things that we did correctly out the window because we perceive this as a period of things not going our way.
01:41:58.580People are overthinking all of this stuff.
01:42:01.920I mean, you're going to need a very, very unpopular president or a president during a war.
01:42:10.440That's why everybody wants a war so much that is able to do things under a War Powers Act, which is terrifying to me.
01:42:17.500I would much rather have a president come in and just say, I'm a one term president, but I am going to put everything on the table and I'm going to get rid of.
01:42:29.520This huge administrative state is gone.
01:44:01.400The great news is the market for homeowners' interest rates have dropped and are now back in the fives, which is a lot lower than they were last year.
01:44:10.960You've been buried in high interest credit card debt.
01:46:12.760I think that's where people see the real contest taking shape.
01:46:15.840But I think that's partially why it does matter what happens in these early states, because the second-place primary is important when you have one of the two major parties trying to throw the other guy in prison, right?
01:46:37.120We haven't, it's been, we haven't really done much of that.
01:46:40.520So, I started a kind of a new morning update podcast called State of the Race, which is on the Stude's America feed, if you go there and wherever you get your podcast.
01:46:49.420And we're going to go through all of this every day, because I think, you know, in a few weeks we might find out that Trump runs away with this, and there's nothing to worry about about going to prison or being thrown off ballots, and that stuff all clears itself out.
01:47:00.560We don't have to worry about this, which would be great, you know, I mean, if you don't have to worry about democracy crumbling in front of your eyes, that would be a positive.
01:47:07.900It'll be surprising, but it would be great.
01:47:11.080Yeah, and you have a situation where, look, DeSantis is, do you think it's a, would you say it's a must-win Iowa for DeSantis, or do you think he can show a strong second and, you know, stay, stay together enough to keep the race going?
01:47:26.140I don't know, I mean, I mean, I would say, yeah, because he's, it doesn't look like he's going to win in New Hampshire, does it?
01:47:35.420No, he's currently in fourth in the polling in New Hampshire.
01:47:38.480Yeah, and he's probably not going to win in South Carolina, so, yeah, I would say he's got to win one of them.
01:47:47.740Yeah, now, if he wins Iowa, right, that's where you depend on the bump to change some of these secondary states.
01:47:54.380But if, you know, if, and we just really, it's interesting because we all complain about the polls.
01:47:59.800Everybody, you know, the polls are annoying, and they don't always tell us the truth, and we know that, we know that situation.
01:48:04.820However, in a world where we have a lack of polling, which is this one, we have nothing, really, right now, from these states that's updated.
01:48:12.660We have the situation with the RealClearPolitics average, which is what people throw out all the time, and RealClearPolitics does a good job.
01:48:19.940Averaging polls is a good idea rather than taking one individual poll.
01:48:48.660We don't have anything updated at this point.
01:48:51.100So in this world where we don't know, even the basics, it seems like, it would be, it's one of those situations you have to watch these other indicators.
01:49:00.140You're seeing Nikki Haley's upping the spending all over these early states.
01:49:11.580I mean, it really is happening where she's taking a ton of money and dumping it into these races, now really leading the spending in a place like Iowa, which has not been the case for most of the campaign.
01:49:22.380And DeSantis, like, again, we've talked about DeSantis a lot.
01:51:28.260And while it would be an unprecedented thing for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley to be able to unseat Trump in Iowa in this short of a window, we have seen massive surprises before.
01:51:43.060I mean, Howard Dean was up by, you know, 20 and 30 points.
01:51:47.180Rick Santorum was way, way back in this race.
01:51:50.740You know, Ted Cruz, even going into the polling, going into election or caucus day in Iowa, still showed that Cruz was not going to win in 2016.
01:51:59.920And then he wound up winning, you know, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards were all really tight in the Iowa caucuses leading up to that day.
01:52:10.980So there are surprises and they happen pretty frequently in Iowa late in elections.
01:52:16.000This is just a different situation, right?
01:52:17.700You have a president running who's an incumbent, basically.
01:52:20.820A guy who is running as the standard bearer for the party and has been for eight years, this is different than a Howard Dean who is kind of coming out of nowhere, right?
01:52:33.280This, the only way that Iowa becomes a surprise on the GOP is if people were saying they were going to vote for Donald Trump because they didn't want any backlash from the right.
01:52:45.940But they actually go in behind closed doors and they vote for somebody else.
01:52:50.440I don't see that happening, but that's the only, that's the only thing I could imagine.
01:52:56.400If you were to say, how does Ron DeSantis have a success in Iowa where you would say, let's just say he wins or loses by two points, right?
01:53:06.600A very, very close race that comes down to the, to the wire.
01:53:12.000That I think would be seen as a real over-perform for where our expectations for DeSantis and that might propel him forward.
01:53:20.440If he's down now by, on the average of, you know, 30 some odd points, if he's in single digits, is that enough to make a big statement for DeSantis and maybe propel the campaign forward?
01:53:33.100Or does he need to get closer than that?
01:53:34.680Well, if he's the big winner of the night and he's, you know, eight points behind, that is huge.
01:53:43.000That would change the dynamics, I think.
01:53:45.900Be better if he were closer or actually won.
01:53:49.340If he actually wins, that will be a big thing.
01:53:58.900And, you know, and New Hampshire's interesting as well.
01:54:01.600Haley is closer in New Hampshire than DeSantis is in Iowa, if you believe the polls.
01:54:09.920And again, they're not really updated.
01:54:12.140One other interesting thing is one pollster has shown very close results between Haley and Trump in New Hampshire.
01:54:19.340Now, this isn't shown everywhere, you know, most of the other polls are not nearly as positive, where you see, you know, at best, low double-digit leads for Trump.
01:54:32.620If you're Haley and you're, you know, like one poll showed a 14-point lead for Trump over Haley, 44 to 30, which is closer than it's been for a while.
01:54:42.920However, American Research Group, which isn't a terrible pollster or a great pollster, somewhere in the middle, has shown two polls in a row with Trump up only by four in New Hampshire over Nikki Haley.
01:54:56.860The most recent one is December 27th through January 3rd.
01:55:01.000So, the most recent poll we have in any early state, and that shows Trump at 37, Haley at 33, Christie at 10, DeSantis 5, Ramaswamy 4, Hutchinson actually showing up at 1%.
01:55:39.340Look, New Hampshire's a moderate state.
01:55:40.880Maybe isn't as in love with the conservative credentials of a Ron DeSantis.
01:55:44.480That's not entirely surprising, I suppose.
01:55:48.940However, you know, you feel like if New Hampshire's taking the Haley route as the non-Trump option, where Christie is still in the race as well, doing, you know, okay, I guess, double digits in this poll.
01:56:02.460You wonder if Iowa is going to be very competitive, does that translate into support for DeSantis in South Carolina?
01:56:09.220I mean, I think he's basically skipping completely New Hampshire in his mind.
01:56:13.540His path to victory doesn't matter what happens to him in New Hampshire.
01:56:18.420He's going to go right to South Carolina and hope a bump from Iowa translates there.
01:56:22.340We have a more conservative voting base, but a pretty pro-Trump voting base and a voting base who has Nikki Haley as their former governor.
01:56:32.340So, it's a very complicated path forward for DeSantis, even with a good showing in Iowa.
01:56:38.420Not impossible, but really a tough hurdle to clear.
01:56:41.360With a great track record, which DeSantis has, and a great conservative message, which he has, he hasn't been able to convince the American people yet that he's better than Trump.
01:57:12.340If you are looking for a house, whether it's across the country or across the street, the people that should sell your house are the people that live in the area, know the area, have been doing it for years and years and years, and know what the best practices are.
01:57:35.420Yeah, you know, that kind of, and has to be somebody who is, it can listen and relate to you.
01:57:44.760If you're a person that has, you get greatly offended by master bedroom, none of the real estate agents are going to probably call it a master bedroom because you can't now, according to, I don't know, the gods of the real estate industry.
01:58:00.960But they're not going to freak out if you say master bedroom.
01:58:04.740They're like, I'm taking around these bigots to look at houses, and they called it a master bedroom.
01:58:11.840You want to sell your house for the most amount of money, least amount of time, and get into your new house with the least amount of money?
01:58:51.600You know, we've been talking about where this goes in the last weeks as we get to the Republican fight for the nomination and a big Democratic battle between Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, and Dean Phillips.
01:59:08.100I think, are you at the same place I am where it just feels like anything could happen?
01:59:13.040Like, I feel like we could go anywhere from Donald Trump winning the election easily to Donald Trump is in prison, from Joe Biden somehow winning the election to Joe Biden not even being the candidate.
01:59:29.280And someone else, like we discussed earlier, maybe Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama or who knows who could be the candidate.
01:59:38.320I feel like it's changing on a day-to-day basis.
01:59:40.860This is why we kind of started this new podcast, State of the Race.
01:59:44.620It's on the Studos America feed if you, wherever you get your podcast, you can get it every morning, you know, with like a 10-minute or so update on just the things that are happening that you need to know about that the media is not going to tell you.
01:59:55.880I'm trying to give you some perspective on that because you constantly get this information from the mainstream media and you know it's not true.
02:01:07.880And we go way back to those days just doing the show together and watching this all develop.
02:01:14.140This is the strangest one we've ever covered because, you know, I think half the people are just uninterested in it because they feel like it's a foregone conclusion.
02:01:22.680Some people are passionately interested and it's turning them completely insane.
02:01:29.320We're going to try to go in between those two here over the next couple of weeks and just give you what actually matters.
02:01:35.980So check it out on the Studos America feed and right here on the Glenn Beck program.
02:01:39.580Glenn's back tomorrow and we will have more for you on not only the election, but everything else happening in the world, which at this point seems to be completely upside down.