The Glenn Beck Program - Praying for Asteroids？ - 6⧸22⧸18

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00:00:06.660 Glenn Beck.

00:00:09.120 Okay, um, I have some bad news, okay?

00:00:14.320 But, I think this bad news actually is kind of good news.

00:00:18.360 Alright, now just hear me out.

00:00:20.240 Giant asteroids are coming towards the Earth, and they're going to destroy us all and kill us all.

00:00:25.980 NASA has created a plan to stop it so we don't all die.

00:00:29.360 Anyway, um, the plan does not include Bruce Willis at all, you know, and a crew of roughnecks, you know, landing on an asteroid and blowing its smithereens with a nuke.

00:00:42.700 Which begs the question, if that's not part of the plan, what's a potential space force actually for?

00:00:48.800 I mean, I'm just saying.

00:00:50.640 Are we preparing for an invasion?

00:00:53.620 Because that would be fun to just think about now.

00:00:56.020 I mean, it wouldn't be fun when it actually happened, but wouldn't it be fun?

00:00:58.320 I mean, we're starting to hear all of the stuff being released, you know, by, uh, by the Pentagon, about all of the, about all of the aliens that have visited us for a while.

00:01:08.140 And maybe that's what the space force is for.

00:01:10.680 Because we're all going to have to unite against an alien race. 0.77

00:01:15.940 That is just fun to think about.

00:01:18.440 I don't want to live through it, but it's kind of fun to think about.

00:01:21.360 Anyway, yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report titled, The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan.

00:01:34.760 Well, I love the catchy title.

00:01:37.980 So, it does sound like government bloat.

00:01:43.020 Sure, sure.

00:01:43.820 But let's actually look into it.

00:01:46.260 Besides the title being an enormous waste of words, let's just call it Armageddon.

00:01:53.280 The Armageddon Report.

00:01:54.880 Okay?

00:01:55.540 The report is 18 pages of steps for NASA and FEMA to take over the next decade to prevent big asteroids from clanking into the Earth.

00:02:04.760 Now, you might ask yourself, why FEMA?

00:02:07.140 Well, you know, in case the NASA part falls apart and they don't, you know, stop the asteroid.

00:02:15.660 Then we got FEMA, you know.

00:02:18.420 FEMA is the, holy cow, looks like Cincinnati just got squashed. 1.00

00:02:25.640 And that's when FEMA comes in to unsquash as much as possible and make everybody feel good. 0.57

00:02:32.500 So, step one in the NASA plan is better asteroid detection and tracking.

00:02:38.900 Now, it kind of seems important, you know, because we can't really dodge.

00:02:44.220 You know, we need to see this one coming really early.

00:02:47.540 Second is improving our ability to predict where an asteroid might hit.

00:02:52.200 So, FEMA can show up at the right place. 1.00

00:02:56.280 Now, third, this is the awesome part, is the asteroid deflection systems.

00:03:01.780 So, if NASA's not using tough oil drillers to land on and kill the asteroid, how do you do it?

00:03:09.360 Well, the plan would be to launch a spacecraft towards an asteroid that would change the asteroid's trajectory just enough to give us Earthlings a good scare and a really good show.

00:03:22.480 However, we all live to talk about it.

00:03:25.980 Now, NASA has plans to experiment with this deflection technique with a spacecraft launching in 2021.

00:03:33.480 It's called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.

00:03:38.000 I love it when they come up with clever little names like that.

00:03:41.580 Currently, astronomers have only found 8,000 asteroids in space that measure at least 460 feet across.

00:03:49.960 Now, that would be big enough to pulverize an entire state if it hit the U.S. 0.62

00:03:55.940 But not to worry.

00:03:57.420 That's, you know, something that size.

00:04:00.240 It's only one-third of all of the near-Earth asteroids.

00:04:04.400 Now, I told you that, you know, I had good news and bad news.

00:04:08.020 And the bad news is, wow, asteroids are coming.

00:04:11.720 The good news is, when I read everything else in the paper and I watch our society and everything else, the good news is, hey, asteroids are coming.

00:04:28.020 It's Friday, June 22nd.

00:04:30.420 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:32.440 Still, I don't think I can start with the border today, even though I need to.

00:04:39.940 I need to address the press and what they're saying about Melania Trump.

00:04:48.840 I need to address that.

00:04:50.100 And I need to address Time Magazine and what's happening with Time Magazine.

00:04:55.080 Two amazing, amazing stories.

00:04:58.360 But I also have some, I have a good story that doesn't involve asteroids.

00:05:06.400 This is an actual good story.

00:05:08.260 Okay.

00:05:08.820 That will just make you feel good because you've never heard it before.

00:05:14.680 Do you know a show you're on?

00:05:16.120 Hmm?

00:05:16.400 Do you think you're hosting a different program today?

00:05:19.320 Well.

00:05:20.500 You just prayed for an asteroid to destroy us all and now you're going to tell us you have good news?

00:05:24.260 Well, it's not necessarily good news.

00:05:27.020 It'll just make you feel good.

00:05:28.740 It's a feel-good story about the Supreme Court.

00:05:30.860 All right.

00:05:31.300 Okay.

00:05:31.820 So this is from Slate.

00:05:33.540 You know Slate.

00:05:34.540 Yeah, not a conservative source.

00:05:36.420 No, not a conservative source.

00:05:38.480 So here's the story.

00:05:40.600 What is Justice Elena Kagan doing?

00:05:44.480 So far this term, the liberal justice has crossed ideological lines at least three times to join the Supreme Court's conservatives.

00:05:51.320 Most recently on Thursday, Kagan authored the majority opinion in Lucia v. SEC, a huge case that threatens to erode the political independence of multiple federal agencies.

00:06:06.380 Tearing down the administrative state is supposed to be Justice Neil Gorsuch's pet project.

00:06:13.160 But in this case, it was Kagan who took the lead in undermining the civil service, authoring an opinion that prompted sharp dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who accused her colleague of making legal and factual errors.

00:06:27.860 So what is happening with Kagan?

00:06:32.360 Why is she playing nice with conservatives? 1.00

00:06:36.000 What, to put it bluntly, is in it for her?

00:06:40.920 Given her overall voting pattern, which remains progressive, it seems unlikely that she's politically drifting.

00:06:48.840 It is possible, though, that these defections are tactical maneuvers, efforts to build a moderate coalition and keep the court from veering rapidly to the right.

00:07:01.140 Keep believing that.

00:07:02.360 Kagan isn't losing the battle to win the war.

00:07:07.000 She's wrestling the court's far right justices to a draw in order to forestall disaster. 1.00

00:07:13.220 And so far, she's been surprisingly successful to the occasional annoyance of her usual allies.

00:07:20.460 Now, this goes on and on and on and on and on.

00:07:24.560 And it shows what she has been ruling and doing.

00:07:28.720 And it's not good for the liberal side.

00:07:33.800 And it just makes me happy.

00:07:37.960 Oh, because this never happens.

00:07:41.080 Well, it never happens.

00:07:42.380 It never happens to conservatives.

00:07:44.980 Of course not.

00:07:46.660 It's always the liberals that drift.

00:07:49.220 It's always us that become liberal on the Supreme Court.

00:07:52.980 Always.

00:07:53.840 It never has happened.

00:07:55.580 Go back to, I mean, even NPR featured this meltdown of mine in the middle of it.

00:08:00.520 When the Obamacare decision came down, we were live on the air.

00:08:07.360 And all the conservative sites started saying, oh, we won, we won, we won.

00:08:12.640 And I was like, wait a minute.

00:08:13.260 I'm reading the ruling.

00:08:14.980 And it's like, no, we did not win this.

00:08:17.580 Obamacare was not overturned.

00:08:19.140 And then I read that it was Roberts.

00:08:20.760 Remember this?

00:08:21.420 Yes.

00:08:21.540 And I started screaming, this never happens to them.

00:08:26.600 Yeah.

00:08:26.680 It's always our guy who looks conservative.

00:08:29.200 And then all of a sudden turns into someone who lets you down all the time.

00:08:32.360 Okay.

00:08:32.500 So wait.

00:08:32.960 So wait.

00:08:33.380 But if you remember that same show.

00:08:35.260 Yeah.

00:08:35.660 What happened right after people started calling and saying, let me quote this.

00:08:39.600 It's possible that this defection is a tactical maneuver.

00:08:44.860 Oh, my God.

00:08:45.440 Yeah.

00:08:45.560 We got hit with that over and over again.

00:08:46.800 Right?

00:08:47.200 Yeah.

00:08:47.360 No, no, no.

00:08:48.080 He has a plan.

00:08:49.100 He's tricky.

00:08:49.960 That's right.

00:08:50.260 He's good.

00:08:51.340 This just makes me so happy.

00:08:53.620 At least finally something like this happens to the left a little bit.

00:08:56.740 Now, again, the same thing with Roberts.

00:08:58.420 Roberts' general voting record is relatively conservative.

00:09:02.640 He's just let down conservatives on multiple massive cases.

00:09:06.420 And, you know, I don't think Kagan's to that level yet.

00:09:11.180 No.

00:09:11.640 But we've noted it several times.

00:09:13.660 Kagan has sided with relatively sane principles a few times.

00:09:19.540 And this is much better than you normally get from the left.

00:09:23.600 The Democrats never miss on these picks.

00:09:26.280 Listen to this.

00:09:27.700 In the masterpiece cake shop in Colorado's Civil Rights Commission, Kagan performed a similar sleight of hand.

00:09:34.600 They're just going with it.

00:09:35.880 They're just going with, she's tricking them.

00:09:37.860 I'm telling you, she's tricking them. 0.59

00:09:39.340 The case revolved around same-sex couples, blah, blah, blah, Supreme Court 7-2 decision.

00:09:44.220 Duck the question entirely, ruling instead that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, I'm sorry, I just, oh, my gosh, have you listened to me?

00:09:52.600 Have you listened to me?

00:09:53.380 I'm boring myself to death.

00:09:55.220 But they had expressed impermissible hostility toward religion while handling the case.

00:10:03.160 Kagan, along with Justice Stephen Breyer, joined the court's opinion in full.

00:10:08.780 Kagan also deployed a spin on this technique in Gill versus Whitford, a challenge to partisan gerrymandering.

00:10:18.920 Not all of Kagan's right-leaning votes reflect an obvious behind-the-scenes compromise.

00:10:24.540 Look, I mean, I am more receptive to this analysis with someone on the left because I don't believe nice things happen.

00:10:35.660 So it's hard for me to actually internalize the idea that Elena Kagan is going to wind up to be a moderate justice, let's just say, on the Supreme Court.

00:10:44.160 I don't really think that's going to happen, but it is nice to see them struggling through this moment a little bit.

00:10:50.180 It is nice to occasionally see it.

00:10:52.260 I think they're struggling.

00:10:53.340 I think this is why they're all so desperate.

00:10:56.100 I think, you know, what you're watching in the media and, oh, we're going to get to the First Lady's coat in just a minute. 1.00

00:11:07.300 And we're also, oh, going to get to Time Magazine.

00:11:12.040 But all of these things, it's desperation.

00:11:17.740 It's absolute desperation.

00:11:20.960 Why would you go after her coat?

00:11:23.580 Why would you Photoshop a cover of Time Magazine, exploit a kid, and then within two days, no, it's revealed that that's absolutely not true.

00:11:36.840 That child was never separated.

00:11:38.680 That has nothing to do with the story.

00:11:41.060 Incredible.

00:11:41.400 Okay, why would you do that?

00:11:43.520 Why would you do that?

00:11:44.980 Because you're so desperate.

00:11:49.160 They are throwing everything.

00:11:51.800 And I got news for you.

00:11:53.540 He's going to survive this.

00:11:55.620 He's going to survive this.

00:11:57.280 And he may come out stronger in comparison because the media is going to come out much weaker, much weaker because they are not playing fair.

00:12:12.500 Fair.

00:12:12.940 And I don't mean fair.

00:12:14.140 I mean, because they've never been fair.

00:12:15.940 No.

00:12:16.120 They're just not.

00:12:16.560 This is a line.

00:12:17.320 There's a line here.

00:12:18.000 They're crossing.

00:12:18.580 They're crossing a massive line.

00:12:21.420 I mean, this is a good example of it.

00:12:22.820 We talked about how there's these certain issues where they just cross this line and they become advocates.

00:12:27.520 Yes.

00:12:27.720 An advocate makes a mistake like this, right?

00:12:30.400 Yes.

00:12:30.600 You know, a media matters, a think progress.

00:12:33.800 They make mistakes like this all the time.

00:12:36.020 And they don't care.

00:12:36.760 Because they're an advocacy group.

00:12:38.040 Correct.

00:12:38.420 Right?

00:12:38.700 Correct.

00:12:38.880 CNN is not supposed to tell you that this, here is the ultimate example.

00:12:44.800 Here is the Vietnamese girl running away from the napalm of what's happening right now.

00:12:49.720 This is the iconic photo.

00:12:51.920 And then we find out from the girl's dad that the iconic photo is of a girl who was not separated from her parents.

00:13:00.760 That the dad didn't want them to go.

00:13:03.920 That the mom seemingly abandoned the other kids back at home.

00:13:07.540 And that nothing of the sort happened.

00:13:11.460 You know, kids cry over all sorts of reasons.

00:13:13.720 When I want to leave Chuck E. Cheese, the kids cry.

00:13:17.160 Yeah.

00:13:17.340 Well, this one was because mom was with human smugglers on a boat taking her little child in the middle of the night.

00:13:28.400 And the Border Patrol pulls up next to them in their boat.

00:13:31.780 Of course that child is crying.

00:13:33.800 Of course.

00:13:34.720 Of course.

00:13:35.140 It's a really bad situation.

00:13:36.800 You know, a kid crying in and of itself is not a news story.

00:13:40.940 Happens all the time.

00:13:41.840 If you have kids of this age, you've seen it.

00:13:43.660 You see it every day.

00:13:44.880 Right?

00:13:45.280 The issue here is who's to blame.

00:13:48.300 It's not just getting a picture of a kid crying.

00:13:50.400 Anybody can do that.

00:13:51.440 The point is it's supposed to tell a story about how evil the U.S. government is.

00:13:54.820 It told the exact opposite story and they ran with it for multiple days until now they can move on to the coat when we find out the truth about it.

00:14:04.760 Now they can start talking coat.

00:14:06.340 They can go fashion talk for a few days until we find out the truth about that, whatever that is.

00:14:10.600 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:14:13.260 They are in full-fledged panic.

00:14:15.160 And I'm telling you, I do not believe that the Democrats are going to have a good midterm election.

00:14:23.080 They're not.

00:14:23.800 They're going to have all of their anarchists and all of their Marxists and everybody else turn out.

00:14:28.960 But I will tell you, the average American, I think, is growing weary of this.

00:14:36.140 And here's why.

00:14:37.280 It's beginning to be too close to home.

00:14:41.040 It's happening in your schools.

00:14:43.660 You're seeing it with your kids.

00:14:45.620 You're seeing what's happening on the college campuses.

00:14:48.580 You're seeing what's happening with Twitter.

00:14:51.340 You're seeing it happen where everybody is just at each other's throats.

00:14:57.340 The people, the average person, does believe there is truth.

00:15:02.660 They do believe.

00:15:03.920 What is it?

00:15:04.480 70% of Democrats believe there is a limit on abortion.

00:15:10.660 Well, there's no limit on anything anymore.

00:15:14.120 And the press is dishonoring and discrediting itself.

00:15:18.880 The American people, usually it's their arrogance.

00:15:25.820 And I think it still is the arrogance of the press and the arrogance of the Democrats.

00:15:32.460 But it is the panic that is happening now.

00:15:37.360 This just panic.

00:15:38.660 We've got to stop this at all costs.

00:15:42.700 And it's beginning to slip away from them.

00:15:46.780 And they feel it.

00:15:48.860 Now they're going to get dangerous.

00:15:50.900 And we're seeing that the press is.

00:15:53.360 Once the press crosses this line, which they have crossed now.

00:15:57.800 Think of the lines that they have crossed just this week.

00:16:01.160 Two weeks ago, they started putting out a photo.

00:16:06.020 We found out quickly that that photo was not real.

00:16:10.340 But they saw how fast that lit up the Internet.

00:16:14.220 That's the only reason.

00:16:16.680 The only reason why they started looking into this story.

00:16:20.240 Because they saw and they were humiliated that this was an old photograph of children in cages.

00:16:29.260 Okay.

00:16:29.720 They were humiliated.

00:16:31.040 And they were like, oh, yeah.

00:16:32.160 Well, go find it.

00:16:33.380 Because those do exist.

00:16:34.800 They did.

00:16:35.660 They did it because they were humiliated.

00:16:38.020 And they saw that this was a wildfire waiting to happen on their side.

00:16:44.100 So, they went and they did their job.

00:16:49.520 But the problem is, their job should have been done five years ago, six years ago.

00:16:55.180 They never did it.

00:16:56.920 Now they are just dogpiling.

00:17:00.200 And it is incredible to watch.

00:17:03.300 You are watching history.

00:17:05.320 It is the bonfire of the vanities.

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00:18:41.480 Charles Krauthammer died yesterday.

00:18:44.520 Charles, um, Charles is a, is, he was just an amazing, amazing man.

00:18:56.540 Um, do we have the clip from, uh, from Fox News and, and what he said about how he wanted to die?

00:19:05.100 Listen to this.

00:19:05.680 Charles Krauthammer, columnist, author, and Fox News commentator, lived his life telling others exactly what he thought.

00:19:18.140 You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think.

00:19:21.280 And you don't say it honestly and bluntly.

00:19:23.780 Do you think you'll ever stop writing?

00:19:25.900 No.

00:19:26.420 I intend to die at my desk.

00:19:28.440 Really?

00:19:29.360 I would like to.

00:19:31.460 I'm not sure I can arrange it.

00:19:32.960 Yeah.

00:19:33.300 He was, um, he was really, truly remarkable.

00:19:41.780 Um, he fought against all of the odds and stood straighter.

00:19:47.080 A man in a wheelchair that stood straighter and had more spine than almost all of us in conservative media combined.

00:20:03.300 I want to cut through all of the smoke and the outrage and everything else about what is, what the media is telling us is important about what's happening on the border and, uh, and get away from all of that.

00:20:23.020 And give you maybe a, uh, and give you a, another perspective of why we need security.

00:20:32.580 And it's, God help us.

00:20:35.900 It's not because of the people.

00:20:37.880 It's because of what's going on in Mexico right now that we refuse to look at. 1.00

00:20:45.000 And it's happening every day.

00:20:49.680 It's three o'clock in the morning and the air is a little chilly and bitter as Pamela Tehran leaves Bar Yardin.

00:21:01.420 It's a restaurant and a bar in the middle of the town.

00:21:04.460 She steps out into the empty plaza.

00:21:07.420 The sun isn't going to begin rising for about three hours.

00:21:10.700 And Pamela is enjoying a festive night before the elections bring higher tensions.

00:21:16.840 She's running for the town council as the member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

00:21:23.040 She feels at home here in Mexico in a, in an indigenous little town on the southwest corner of the country.

00:21:30.140 A brief car ride from the ocean.

00:21:32.000 Pamela has black hair, kind-hearted smile, bracelets adorn her arm, and she wears a modest, hand-stitched dress in an elaborate and colorful design.

00:21:43.700 A design you really could only find right there.

00:21:47.840 She's with her friend, photojournalist Maria Del Sol, and a man, her bodyguard, who is also her driver.

00:21:54.960 The world around her is mostly quiet.

00:21:57.940 Tree frogs whistle, croak, ribbit, and grunt.

00:22:03.660 In the distance, a spider monkey wails out its strange call.

00:22:08.900 In the daylight, this place is paradise.

00:22:14.280 Cornfields weave into forests.

00:22:16.480 Ancestral homes sprawl to the railroad, past the farm with cows and pigs and goats and chickens.

00:22:22.160 Last year, the region was struck by one of the earthquakes in Mexico, one of the most deadly in the last century.

00:22:31.380 Pamela, at the time, appeared on television, asking for volunteers.

00:22:36.420 The video is eerie, with her standing in the dark as floodlights shine into the rubble.

00:22:42.840 People frantically searching for life or bodies as she looks into the camera.

00:22:46.980 Please, we need more people to help us, she said.

00:22:51.480 Please.

00:22:52.940 She was a doctor by profession.

00:22:56.120 She was also an activist who ran organizations for the dispossessed.

00:23:01.060 Two years ago, she was a candidate for mayor. 0.79

00:23:04.800 Maybe.

00:23:05.960 Maybe she's thinking about all of this as she crosses the plaza to her car,

00:23:11.500 unaware of the cloaked figures waiting for her in the darkness.

00:23:15.700 Inside the car, they pause, stung by a strange feeling, something ominous and sudden.

00:23:25.440 But before they can react, the gunfire begins.

00:23:28.680 The killers empty their clips and then shove in another.

00:23:32.240 They make sure no one is left alive.

00:23:35.020 And then, they vanish.

00:23:37.720 Back into the darkness and night.

00:23:40.800 On Monday, the military helicopters watched over the funeral.

00:23:48.120 At least a thousand people attended.

00:23:50.960 The details of Pamela's death are still spare.

00:23:54.980 Officials admit that it may have been gang-related,

00:23:58.100 as her father, Juan, has a criminal record and led relations with the local cartel.

00:24:03.100 But either way, her death is a far more ominous trend taking over the country just to our south.

00:24:12.080 Since last September, over 110 electoral candidates have been murdered throughout Mexico.

00:24:18.940 In the 24 hours before Pamela's death alone,

00:24:23.120 armed civilians murdered two women politicians a few hours northwest.

00:24:28.080 The two women had been rammed into a ditch late at night and executed. 0.95

00:24:34.140 In the morning, police uncovered the bodies.

00:24:37.600 The vehicle had been abandoned and nothing had been stolen from the women or the car,

00:24:42.060 so police realized it wasn't a robbery.

00:24:44.320 Mexico is on the verge of presidential elections.

00:24:50.100 They begin July 1st.

00:24:52.080 And the drug gangs have been murdering their way into the race.

00:24:56.240 From City Hall all the way up.

00:24:59.040 Crime bosses have implanted their own batch of politicians.

00:25:02.980 People who can be paid enough to stay out of the way.

00:25:06.500 Criminal gangs rove the country, eliminating any reformers or any dissenters.

00:25:11.620 Journalists in Mexico are now dying at alarming rate.

00:25:16.000 A historical high.

00:25:18.000 So it's often hard to tell for sure what happens.

00:25:21.760 Because now, people just vanish.

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00:25:27.700 At night.

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00:25:34.360 But the warring drug cartels are growing in strength and getting bolder by the day.

00:25:43.080 Bringing their culture of death to every corner of the country. 1.00

00:25:48.420 And we sit here, oblivious.

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00:25:57.520 We need to have adult conversations.

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00:26:19.900 And start paying attention to what evil is just across our border.

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00:26:30.660 There's several reasons.

00:26:33.740 Some of it is just because of the chaos.

00:26:36.060 Others, because they can cause chaos here.

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00:28:31.480 There's a couple of things.

00:28:34.000 You're going to find this surprise.

00:28:35.540 Surprise.

00:28:36.260 California is full of psychopaths.

00:28:38.260 Ranks second in the nation of psychopaths.

00:28:41.820 Who would have seen that coming?

00:28:45.020 Let's talk a little bit about the jacket.

00:28:47.800 And Melania Trump. 0.76

00:28:49.100 There's just a lot to say here.

00:28:54.260 First of all, I believe it's a $30 jacket.

00:28:57.600 I don't think it means anything.

00:29:01.440 If it means anything, it is a message to the press.

00:29:07.020 She only wore it going up and down the stairs in Washington.

00:29:10.580 She didn't wear it in Texas.

00:29:12.240 She wore it in Washington.

00:29:13.360 And those are both their explanations.

00:29:15.980 A, it didn't mean anything.

00:29:17.360 B, it meant something to the press.

00:29:19.200 They've said both of those things.

00:29:20.500 Correct.

00:29:21.000 It doesn't help the messaging.

00:29:22.460 And those are the only things that make sense.

00:29:24.640 The only things that make sense.

00:29:26.720 So let me ask you this, because you're Mr. Fashionista over here.

00:29:29.760 You're basically a Kardashian.

00:29:31.520 No, I'm not.

00:29:32.260 Like, the case they were making on the news about this is Melania Trump's a model. 1.00

00:29:40.920 Fashion very important to her.

00:29:43.240 There's no way that this was just a jacket she put on.

00:29:46.700 It had to be a message to someone.

00:29:49.140 Had to be.

00:29:50.180 It couldn't have been something that she just threw on.

00:29:52.460 Is that possible?

00:29:53.160 I actually believe that it is not a jacket she just put on.

00:29:57.560 But I believe it goes to nothing to do with the border.

00:30:02.380 It has everything to do the last time she flew Air Force One or whatever they call it whenever the president's not on it.

00:30:09.920 When she flew to Texas, it was for the hurricane.

00:30:13.660 And what did the press do?

00:30:15.180 They went after her for her shoes.

00:30:17.560 They've gone after her on absolutely everything.

00:30:20.900 They have treated her abysmally, treated her just, it's awful what they have done to her.

00:30:30.020 They would have never done this to any other first lady.

00:30:34.000 She has stayed out of it.

00:30:35.340 She hasn't talked politics.

00:30:36.960 And when she has, she came out against her husband on this.

00:30:43.720 Okay, she's been the invisible woman.

00:30:45.560 They called her all kinds of names because she wouldn't come out. 0.63

00:30:48.640 So she does come out and say, look, you know, I'm an immigrant.

00:30:53.820 You know, we've got to change this policy.

00:30:56.380 So she stands against her husband.

00:31:00.140 And the last time she went down to Texas, they mocked her for her shoes. 1.00

00:31:04.660 I happen to believe she's not a stupid woman.

00:31:10.160 The people around her are not stupid.

00:31:12.860 Nobody said, hey, Melania, don't wear that. 1.00

00:31:15.540 That is possible.

00:31:16.340 That is possible that she's like, let's just go and just grab this jacket. 0.77

00:31:20.680 There's a green jacket upstairs.

00:31:22.100 Just grab it.

00:31:22.660 She wasn't thinking.

00:31:23.460 Just grab it because it's raining in Washington.

00:31:25.860 I need just a jacket so I can go from car to the plane.

00:31:29.780 Okay.

00:31:30.780 That happens.

00:31:31.660 She wasn't thinking about it.

00:31:33.580 That is logical and reasonable.

00:31:36.160 But it is also logical and reasonable that she got on that plane with her butt facing the press.

00:31:45.540 And that message, I don't care.

00:31:48.880 I don't care about what you say.

00:31:52.880 I don't care.

00:31:53.780 I think that's reasonable.

00:31:57.540 What's not reasonable is a woman who comes out for the very first time as first lady and speaks about policy and takes on her husband and is an immigrant herself. 0.99

00:32:11.840 What's not reasonable is that she wore that jacket to make a statement about how she doesn't care about the people on the border.

00:32:20.640 It's the one thing we basically know is true.

00:32:24.120 We know that you could you'll never know the heart of somebody.

00:32:28.320 So I'd have to say it's ninety nine percent.

00:32:31.020 Sure.

00:32:31.280 But there's just no way she's not that person.

00:32:35.860 Right.

00:32:36.020 Because if she you have to be a despicable human being to do that.

00:32:39.860 Yeah.

00:32:40.080 And if you're that despicable human being, you're certainly not making the trip to the border.

00:32:43.500 Correct.

00:32:43.760 There's no reason for she doesn't get involved in this stuff.

00:32:46.080 So why would she stick her neck out? 1.00

00:32:48.040 And if you are a person who can't stand immigrants, the last thing you do is wear a shirt that says you can't stand immigrants.

00:32:54.800 Right.

00:32:55.140 I mean, it makes absolutely no sense.

00:32:56.720 Her being an immigrant anyway.

00:32:58.420 None of it makes sense.

00:32:59.400 But yet the media is completely embracing it.

00:33:03.060 Their idea is they think they've got them.

00:33:07.660 And look at this huge faux pas.

00:33:09.580 She wore a jacket that said she didn't care.

00:33:12.080 And it just shows what the administration is.

00:33:14.480 And she obviously just doesn't actually care about this.

00:33:17.320 And it's like, come on.

00:33:19.200 They're all pretending.

00:33:21.480 They're all pretending to believe that's what she wanted to do.

00:33:25.380 Yeah.

00:33:25.600 And they know she didn't actually mean that.

00:33:27.680 You can say it's a bad for optics.

00:33:30.020 You can say those sorts of criticisms are fine.

00:33:32.260 But I mean, we all know she didn't mean she doesn't care about immigrants.

00:33:36.600 We all know that.

00:33:37.600 And they're all on television pretending.

00:33:40.320 Yes.

00:33:40.660 That they think it was true.

00:33:42.380 Now, here's here's what you could say.

00:33:44.600 And this would be a reasonable thing to say on the other side.

00:33:50.440 This is the problem with the Trump administration.

00:33:55.520 They go to do something and it can be a clear victory.

00:34:00.740 And it is always followed with a bullet in their foot.

00:34:06.020 If there are several times that Donald Trump has done something, it's good.

00:34:10.240 And then he goes on TV the next day and says something stupid or he tweets something stupid.

00:34:14.700 You're like, what?

00:34:15.500 Just take the victory lap, man.

00:34:17.840 Take the victory lap.

00:34:18.960 Here was something where she was compassionate.

00:34:23.940 She was on the right side.

00:34:25.560 She's she's going to the border. 0.72

00:34:27.820 She's sitting with the kids.

00:34:29.300 There's nothing you can say.

00:34:31.280 It's all good.

00:34:33.460 And they give you that.

00:34:34.620 Yeah, and it's funny because the claim is, if she didn't wear this jacket, all we would

00:34:43.900 have been doing is praising her.

00:34:45.820 You know what?

00:34:46.580 No, you would have found something else.

00:34:47.660 You would have found something else you didn't like about it or you would have ignored it.

00:34:51.060 This one was easy.

00:34:51.800 Yeah, there's no there shouldn't have been there shouldn't have been a loss here.

00:34:54.480 They would have just ignored it if she went down there and saw the or they would have

00:34:58.680 said, look, she's going and Donald Trump won't even go like they would have come away

00:35:03.760 to be critical.

00:35:04.740 So it's not we can't act as if it would have been a huge win in the media, because, of

00:35:08.460 course, there are no wins in the media for the Trump administration.

00:35:12.220 That being said, it is there's a silly sort of I don't know.

00:35:17.040 I mean, you should see that coming, right?

00:35:20.260 Someone should should say, hey, this is there's going to be a problem here with optics.

00:35:25.280 But why give why hand this to them?

00:35:27.680 But if but think of it this way, think of it the way the press and Donald Trump look at

00:35:32.080 this right now.

00:35:32.700 This is a zero sum game.

00:35:34.800 There's only going to be one of them standing at the end.

00:35:37.040 I think they both feel this way.

00:35:38.840 It's either us or him.

00:35:41.000 It's either me or them.

00:35:43.980 And they both think they're going to win.

00:35:48.000 And and so they are just they're just each of them just going for it.

00:35:56.440 Who actually wins here?

00:35:59.180 Who actually wins here?

00:36:07.320 I'm not sure.

00:36:09.180 I'm not sure.

00:36:10.480 I mean, with the regular people, I think Melania wins because I think regular people, reasonable

00:36:18.160 people who are not all ratcheted up.

00:36:20.440 Yeah.

00:36:20.620 Look at that and go.

00:36:21.700 There's no way she meant that.

00:36:23.300 Stop it.

00:36:24.160 There's no way she meant that.

00:36:25.880 They don't like the first lady to be taken on like that. 1.00

00:36:30.000 And I think the average person knows that's an unfair, you know, an unreasonable assumption

00:36:36.820 to run to.

00:36:38.840 So I think that Donald Trump actually wins.

00:36:42.560 But what they're trying to do here is just polarize us in our camps and keep us apart.

00:36:50.060 Glenn Beck.

00:36:51.000 Glenn Beck.

00:36:52.940 Can't wait.

00:36:53.500 Bill O'Reilly is coming up in just a second.

00:36:55.040 We're going to talk to him about everything that's been going on.

00:36:57.020 I'm really excited to hear his point of view.

00:36:58.940 But I want to talk to you here just about sports.

00:37:02.180 You know, because that's what you tune in to me to hear about sports.

00:37:04.440 The NFL is practically three berets away from a socialist revolution.

00:37:10.340 Now, maybe that's just me, but they seem more concerned with dismantling social norms

00:37:14.960 and protesting than with actually playing football.

00:37:18.580 The Minnesota Vikings announced yesterday that they're going to hold a summit and a fundraiser

00:37:23.580 for the LGBTQI inclusion in sports.

00:37:28.640 Now, the Inclusion Summit includes speeches, interviews, panel discussions with a variety

00:37:35.180 of athletes, coaches, and activists who are homosexual or transgender and will be hosted

00:37:39.860 by the team's recently completed TCO Performance Center.

00:37:43.960 The summit marks the latest in the NFL's continued advocacy for LGBTQI rights and initiatives.

00:37:51.620 Last year, the league launched NFL Pride in a bid to heighten sensitivity to the LGBTQI community

00:37:59.900 and reinforced a commitment to an inclusive environment to which all employees are welcome.

00:38:06.240 That's fair.

00:38:06.760 That's good.

00:38:07.260 That's what we should all be striving for, right?

00:38:09.360 I don't want anybody harassed or discriminated against in the workplace or anywhere, really.

00:38:14.840 But is that what this is really about?

00:38:16.620 Because it seems like there's a kind of a political or ideological slant to this.

00:38:21.620 At the very least, it's virtue signaling.

00:38:24.860 So what is it really about?

00:38:26.600 Well, the summit is, quote, part of a settlement agreement with the Vikings that they made after

00:38:32.300 the former Vikings punter Chris Clue, who is straight, filed a lawsuit against the team

00:38:36.480 in 2014 for allegedly creating a hostile work environment for homosexual and transgender people.

00:38:42.220 OK, so it's a settlement.

00:38:43.840 This is, you know, this is what happens in corporations, I guess.

00:38:48.360 Ultimately, the NFL is a private business.

00:38:51.300 And, you know, as we saw with the national anthem kneelers, they can conduct their business

00:38:55.980 however they like.

00:38:56.960 And, you know, in turn, the consumers can decide whether they're not going to keep giving them

00:39:01.380 money or the time of day.

00:39:02.780 What really bothers me here is this is just strange.

00:39:09.260 I mean, at what point, at what point does, you know, being LGBTQ or I come into sports?

00:39:17.860 When?

00:39:19.220 I mean, if you want to create a better environment inside your company, then you should do that.

00:39:25.540 But why are you lecturing me about it as well?

00:39:27.960 We've we've landed in this place where politics and gender and race are are the lead story on

00:39:35.600 no matter what we're talking about.

00:39:37.980 What do you want for a birthday cake?

00:39:39.660 Do you want vanilla or chocolate?

00:39:41.340 Well, I don't know.

00:39:43.280 I'd like chocolate.

00:39:44.420 But is that just because I'm white?

00:39:46.440 Shut up. 0.95

00:39:47.700 Shut up. 0.95

00:39:48.920 It's also worth mentioning here that most people don't care if you're gay or straight,

00:39:54.560 with the possible exception of transgendered athletes.

00:39:59.520 But that's another topic entirely.

00:40:02.500 This tolerance has actually been confirmed by studies and surveys throughout all kinds of sports

00:40:08.140 in various countries throughout the world, even countries with, let's, shall we say,

00:40:13.400 a far less tolerant view of the LGBTQI community than we have here in America.

00:40:20.420 Even people in those countries believe it doesn't matter.

00:40:26.460 Why?

00:40:27.160 Because people are coming to see a game.

00:40:31.480 They watch sports to see athleticism, to enjoy the unpredictable fury of sport at its finest.

00:40:39.860 Overwhelmingly, regardless of the sport, people don't care about your sexuality.

00:40:44.180 Get over yourself.

00:40:45.820 Most of us would rather not know.

00:40:47.340 I don't need to imagine you doing whatever you want to do when you're doing it with whomever you want to do it with.

00:40:53.680 Nobody's watching golf to amuse the social significance of gender norms and sexuality. 0.94

00:41:00.760 We're watching golf.

00:41:02.520 Put the little ball in the cup.

00:41:04.440 That's it.

00:41:06.020 We don't go to a baseball game to meditate on the evils of the patriarchy and the terrors of cultural appropriation.

00:41:13.220 If an athlete is good, I don't care.

00:41:17.900 I don't care.

00:41:18.620 If they're bad, I still don't care.

00:41:22.020 It's certainly not a new idea that LGBTQI can perform in sports.

00:41:28.740 Typically, what sports fans care about is, are they any good?

00:41:35.720 I can guarantee you this, if Liberace rose from the dead, sequins and candelabras and all, and he suddenly was able to play basketball as a dead, flamboyant piano player, still in the sequins, but he was as good as the 90s era Michael Jordan.

00:41:57.380 I don't think Chicago Bulls fans would complain that he joined the team.

00:42:00.720 I think they'd be happy.

00:42:01.960 I think they'd be happy.

00:42:02.820 And I think you'd see a lot of fans that would just be wearing the sequins as a sign of support, not for his lifestyle or for him being dead and risen again somehow or another, just because they're showing their support because he's a great player.

00:42:18.300 I think it's fair to say that most people like sports better when politics aren't involved.

00:42:24.720 Keep the politics out of it.

00:42:28.580 It's near impossible to escape the increasing intolerant politics of the left.

00:42:34.400 Perhaps we could learn a lesson or two from our friends, the ancient Greeks.

00:42:37.360 It's no secret that in ancient Greece, the ancient Greeks liked to engage in all kinds of things that included, I'm guessing, more than LGBTQI.

00:42:48.180 It had the entire alphabet.

00:42:50.060 They were very fond of various activities, but they also built a civilization of tremendous importance to humanity as whole philosophy, art and yes, sports.

00:43:03.300 When they charged off to war or to the Olympics, they didn't slap a rainbow flag bumper sticker on the back of their chariot.

00:43:11.880 Their sexuality didn't define their identity.

00:43:15.380 They were multifaceted human beings able to go to war or to the theater or to the town hall as a citizen because the citizenry was what is what mattered.

00:43:26.440 They lived in a time when people cared about self and tribe over sexuality and gender identity was not selfhood or identity was selfhood.

00:43:44.660 It was not sexuality.

00:43:46.080 And let me just tell you, I believe we've heard once before from somebody, judge me not by the color of my skin, but the content of my character.

00:43:57.220 When it comes to sports, can we now all just say, judge me on how often I score and not on who I score with?

00:44:07.460 We have so much to talk to Bill O'Reilly about, author of the new book that is out this fall, Killing the SS, which I can't wait for.

00:44:24.260 Bill O'Reilly, let's let's just start.

00:44:26.820 This has been an incredible week, and I think a lot has been revealed on the press.

00:44:32.540 They have crossed so many lines that I just don't think you come back from.

00:44:38.980 Let's start with the latest Melania and her jacket. 0.65

00:44:48.720 You know, let me see where I want to start on this.

00:44:52.780 Number one, she should not have worn the jacket because why would you wear the jacket? 0.97

00:44:59.120 You know, you're going down to show sympathy to children who are confused and dazed and deserve attention.

00:45:11.280 And you are a very powerful person.

00:45:14.300 So I don't know why you would want to wear a jacket that has a message on it.

00:45:20.900 And I don't I don't think the message is bad because I think that the Trump family has been attacked this week and in horrible ways.

00:45:31.640 Peter Fonda.

00:45:33.860 But I don't know why her advisers would say, you know what, let's just play this neutral and concentrate on the kids and not bring any attention to ourselves.

00:45:43.600 So, Bill, I always put my position in back as an advisor like you.

00:45:48.280 I advise you and do myself in that position.

00:45:52.680 My advice would be don't wear that jacket.

00:45:54.520 OK, so let me give you a let me give you a couple of scenarios and and how realistic you think they are.

00:46:00.240 One, she was walking out.

00:46:02.580 It was going to be raining, possibly in Washington, D.C., either when she was going or she was leaving.

00:46:08.120 She said, you know, just grab a jacket.

00:46:09.740 Somebody just grab a jacket for me and I'll just I'll just wear it in the car.

00:46:13.720 She put it on.

00:46:14.480 Nobody really thought about it because she was just getting it in the car and up on the airplane in Washington.

00:46:19.820 How likely is that scenario?

00:46:21.520 Possible possible possible possible.

00:46:23.440 The next one that she was she's she's she has a reason to be pissed off this week. 1.00

00:46:30.920 She has been treated horribly by the press from from the get go.

00:46:36.420 They have treated her horribly.

00:46:38.760 They would have never treated any other first lady like this, with an exception, possibly of Mary Lincoln.

00:46:45.700 So she has had her son under siege this week.

00:46:51.400 She has been under siege.

00:46:52.960 Her husband is under siege.

00:46:54.200 Her daughter has been, you know, her stepdaughter has been under siege and she grabs the jacket and she's like, you know what?

00:47:02.400 I don't really care.

00:47:03.160 I'm going to I'm going to wear this one because I just want to send a press.

00:47:06.280 I don't care.

00:47:07.000 I don't care about you.

00:47:08.880 The press also also possible, but not wise.

00:47:12.940 Correct.

00:47:13.560 Correct.

00:47:13.920 Not wise.

00:47:15.100 However, this is the kind of thing that the Trump administration does that is frustrating for his for his fans.

00:47:22.620 And for his supporters, because, you know, they had a they had a good they had a good thing that could have been really good.

00:47:32.340 And he always just tweets or says something.

00:47:34.540 And it just kind of it takes that moment of sweetness away.

00:47:38.960 So they do kind of make these mistakes.

00:47:42.280 Yeah.

00:47:42.680 I mean, I don't know whether you're aware of this, but on Monday I did a big thing that I said Donald Trump himself should go to the border.

00:47:48.800 He should get on Air Force One, not announce it, just show up with the Secret Service cadre, talk to some of the children and show that he does care about the kids.

00:48:01.620 So I know this to be true.

00:48:04.620 They actually debated that.

00:48:06.260 But the determination was made that it would show weakness if Trump went down there because it would show that he was caving into the vicious press coverage.

00:48:18.740 So they decided to send Melania and Melania went down. 0.97

00:48:22.820 So all of that is smart.

00:48:24.660 I mean, I don't know about the caving to the weakness part about I agree.

00:48:28.800 If I were if I were president, I'd say I'm going to do what I want.

00:48:33.240 I want to do this.

00:48:34.100 Yes, I agree.

00:48:35.260 So wait a minute.

00:48:36.360 I've got one more scenario.

00:48:38.260 Yeah.

00:48:38.560 What are the out of those two choices?

00:48:41.620 Which one do you think is more likely?

00:48:46.480 The former that just grabbed.

00:48:48.740 Yeah, that they didn't know.

00:48:51.200 But OK.

00:48:51.660 All right.

00:48:51.980 Hang on.

00:48:52.460 She has it on.

00:48:53.660 They have people.

00:48:54.760 Right.

00:48:55.080 Right.

00:48:55.220 Right.

00:48:55.340 I know that.

00:48:56.020 I know that.

00:48:56.620 You're looking at your makeup, your hair.

00:48:58.800 Yes.

00:48:59.100 You're wearing.

00:48:59.960 I got anything's falling.

00:49:01.160 That's how he looks.

00:49:01.680 I got every day.

00:49:02.360 Yeah, I know.

00:49:03.040 So I know.

00:49:03.820 So there's one more scenario.

00:49:05.860 How likely is it that she was going on a plane to meet with the kids and she was sending a message after taking on her husband and speaking publicly about politics?

00:49:18.740 For the very first time.

00:49:21.520 And she agrees that this should be stopped.

00:49:25.980 Breaking up families should be stopped.

00:49:27.680 And she's an immigrant. 0.91

00:49:29.520 How likely is it that she was saying, I really don't care about these kids?

00:49:35.880 Zero.

00:49:36.940 Thank you.

00:49:38.180 Zero.

00:49:39.000 Zero.

00:49:40.500 Melania Trump came out before anybody and said this policy of separation disturbed her. 0.98

00:49:46.360 She was one of the first people and was the first person inside the Trump administration to voice that concern.

00:49:53.240 So there's no way that she had that message pertaining to the children.

00:50:00.380 There's a slight way that it was directed to the press, maybe 25%.

00:50:06.520 But I don't think anybody's thinking there.

00:50:09.340 I agree.

00:50:09.800 I just don't think they're thinking.

00:50:11.040 I agree.

00:50:11.980 Okay.

00:50:12.360 So it's a side note mention at best.

00:50:17.700 Would you agree?

00:50:18.720 Yeah.

00:50:19.000 But, you know, in our climate now.

00:50:21.740 No, no, no.

00:50:22.400 I'm not talking about our climate.

00:50:23.640 Our climate is so screwed up.

00:50:24.880 I'm talking about in a real world.

00:50:27.820 But when you're framing your questions and you're framing your opinions, you have to take care, that's the word, to define to your audience and to everybody that this is a totally different press than we had three years ago.

00:50:46.500 Oh, I know.

00:50:47.120 Oh, I know.

00:50:48.040 Oh, I know.

00:50:48.640 You know, it's totally different.

00:50:49.820 I know.

00:50:50.260 This is seek and destroy.

00:50:52.800 So I want to build a case here with you, Bill.

00:50:55.300 So far, we're on the same page.

00:50:57.020 I want to I want to take a break and then I want to come back and I want to talk about the other outrageous thing that the press has done.

00:51:03.160 And they've done a lot this week.

00:51:05.260 And that is time.

00:51:06.340 That is time magazine and the cover of time.

00:51:09.120 And we have new information on that.

00:51:10.820 Oh, I know.

00:51:11.440 During this break, I'm booking a trip to Greece, by the way.

00:51:15.440 I don't.

00:51:16.920 I'm not sure what you're saying there, but, you know, more power to you.

00:51:20.720 I'm not going to judge.

00:51:22.140 Bill O'Reilly breaks news every time he comes on the program, doesn't he?

00:51:24.700 He does.

00:51:25.100 All right, let me we'll be back with Bill O'Reilly in a second.

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00:52:45.320 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, the press.

00:52:49.500 This is the case I'm I'm I believe that we can make by the end of this hour.

00:52:54.740 The press has crossed so many lines this week that it is it's astonishing to me.

00:53:05.780 We've just gone over the Melania Trump, which is just a line of, you know, just common sense and decency and all of that stuff.

00:53:14.600 Um, with Time magazine, they put a young kid on the cover who was crying and it looks like they're looking up to Trump.

00:53:26.140 That's all Photoshop, obviously.

00:53:28.560 But we find out now that it wasn't it wasn't only exploitive and misleading.

00:53:34.400 This child was never taken from their mother, in fact, taken from the father.

00:53:41.440 And the mother took this child unbeknownst to the dad and abandoned three other children.

00:53:48.800 Any comments on this one?

00:53:50.820 Well, it's a Honduran story.

00:53:52.500 Um, and you got to be careful when you are in those precincts.

00:54:01.660 But I think you're right on the on the overarch that Time magazine, which is bankrupt and will never again be any kind of a force in America.

00:54:12.960 And at one time, Time magazine was the most powerful weekly news organ in the country.

00:54:19.200 And it's it's and, you know, you can pinpoint their downfall when they put me on the cover.

00:54:25.080 Yeah.

00:54:25.660 I mean, after that, people went, is this mad magazine?

00:54:29.160 Yeah, this is craziness.

00:54:30.420 This is craziness.

00:54:31.820 Yes.

00:54:31.980 Right.

00:54:32.480 Right.

00:54:32.880 But Time magazine destroyed itself by ideology, as so many of them have.

00:54:38.160 And now is in the realm of we don't really care what's true.

00:54:45.240 We feel Donald Trump is a threat to the nation.

00:54:47.460 So we can justify anything.

00:54:50.040 Dishonesty, distortion, because we feel he's a villain.

00:54:54.320 But even more important than that was the story about the special counsel, Robert Mueller, putting in writing in his report that both The New York Times and The Washington Post fabricated details of the raid on the

00:55:08.160 home of Paul Manafort and Mueller himself was so outraged by this and didn't pull any punches at all.

00:55:17.240 So basically, those news agencies lied.

00:55:21.200 We did not pick any locks.

00:55:24.100 We did not do what they said we did.

00:55:26.520 And it's outrageous.

00:55:28.520 But did you hear anything from The New York Times and Washington Post saying, gee, we're sorry we made the mistake?

00:55:34.140 No, because they don't care.

00:55:38.160 So, Bill, has the media, I mean, we've watched them just disintegrate before our eyes.

00:55:47.720 The media is it's strange.

00:55:51.200 Every time they think we got him.

00:55:54.260 I don't think this is going to affect Donald Trump.

00:55:57.800 I don't think this is a knockout punch on him at all, especially when you look at the facts.

00:56:03.020 This has been going on since the Clinton administration.

00:56:06.420 On BillOReilly.com yesterday, I said that now this is a campaign issue.

00:56:13.260 That Donald Trump has decided to run for re-election.

00:56:16.020 He's using the border and his hatred of the press and vice versa as campaign issues.

00:56:22.100 He believes, and his people believe, that the American public loathed the media so much that the more the Trump administration can attack the media, the more votes they will ultimately get.

00:56:35.880 Right.

00:56:36.140 So now it's become a campaign issue.

00:56:37.940 I happen to agree with you.

00:56:41.620 Now let's go and turn what that means next.

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00:57:06.700 The next time you go, maybe they didn't put it together that well.

00:57:09.420 And that's just at the McDonald's level.

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00:57:46.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:51.080 We have Bill O'Reilly on from billoreilly.com, and Bill, I want to get your opinion on this.

00:57:56.440 This started a few weeks ago when people started posting a photo from 2014 of what was happening on the border, and it went viral quickly until a few of us who were actually on the border in 2014 saw it and went,

00:58:13.260 no, that's from 2014.

00:58:15.200 That's your guy.

00:58:16.560 But they quickly withdrew it.

00:58:19.480 Nobody apologized, really.

00:58:21.260 They were just like, oh, yeah, well, my kids distracted me.

00:58:25.000 That's editor of the New York Times.

00:58:27.940 But they saw how passionate people had become quickly on that one photo and realized we got him.

00:58:35.040 We've got something here because we can go down to the border now, and surely if it was happening then, it's still happening.

00:58:40.820 They're supposed to hang on.

00:58:43.920 They're supposed to be reporting facts, why things are happening, giving us context, telling us what it means and why it matters.

00:58:50.800 But I believe that they have finally crossed the Rubicon of where it is.

00:58:56.180 It is extraordinarily apparent to any fair-minded person that they are nothing but advocates, and they either don't see it or they don't care.

00:59:05.520 People have priced in to Donald Trump the Rafael Cruz killed JFK.

00:59:11.660 They've priced that in, and they don't care.

00:59:14.040 The press thinks, well, two can play at this game, but they can't because they're not Donald Trump,

00:59:20.920 and they are going to absolutely put the last nail in their coffin.

00:59:27.660 They think they're going to win.

00:59:29.200 They don't.

00:59:30.280 What do the folks do, as you like to say?

00:59:33.500 Well, folks are angry.

00:59:34.540 Unfortunately, on both sides, the press is not going to have much of a role in the midterms coming up in November or the presidential election of 2020

00:59:45.660 because everybody knows now, as you just said, that the fix is in.

00:59:51.380 And they know.

00:59:52.480 I mean, the editors of these newspapers and the producers of these television programs, they're taking their orders from corporate.

00:59:59.920 And that goes the other way, too.

01:00:02.220 And corporate is basically telling them, look, we want you to destroy Donald Trump or we want you to support Donald Trump.

01:00:10.840 And outside of a very, very few people, Charles Krauthammer being one of them, the lemmings say, okay.

01:00:21.460 And, you know, that doesn't, in the New York and L.A. precincts, they're all thinking the same way anyway because that's what they do.

01:00:31.900 It's a social thing as well.

01:00:33.700 So it's easy for them to say, okay, I'm going to justify any kind of bad stuff I can put in the paper on TV about Donald Trump.

01:00:40.480 And that makes Trump sympathetic in some quarters and will, I believe, help him go on or more votes.

01:00:48.820 You brought up Charles Krauthammer.

01:00:51.840 What are your memories of him?

01:00:53.300 I just finished writing my tribute to Charles for BillOReilly.com and Newsmax.

01:01:01.280 And what strikes me about Mr. Krauthammer, and I didn't really have a personal relationship with him.

01:01:09.620 I did spend a little time with him at a Washington Nationals game.

01:01:13.460 He was a big baseball fan.

01:01:14.860 But life dealt Charles a very cruel blow.

01:01:20.900 He's in Harvard Medical School.

01:01:22.560 He's a brilliant man.

01:01:23.540 And he dives into a pool, and he hits his head and neck, and he's paralyzed.

01:01:29.420 Well, rather than folding, Charles completes medical school, does amazing work in bipolar disorders,

01:01:40.320 then pivots into journalism, which he always loved, was a radical leftist at one point.

01:01:49.320 But then, because Charles was not a zombie, he began seeing what Ronald Reagan was trying to accomplish,

01:01:55.740 and then moved on over to the conservative side based upon his admiration of Reagan.

01:02:03.260 So this is a life that should be studied by Americans, that you can overcome adversity,

01:02:07.720 that you have to roll with bad things that happen to you,

01:02:11.140 and that you can accomplish an amazing amount of things, even if challenged the way Charles Krauthammer was.

01:02:17.920 So that's the essence of my remarks.

01:02:20.020 I think there's a lot of people that watched Fox for a long time that may not have even known that he was in a wheelchair.

01:02:26.180 And Charles never wanted that.

01:02:28.080 He never wanted a reference to it.

01:02:29.860 He never wanted people feeling sorry for him.

01:02:32.600 He never wanted any of that.

01:02:34.360 He really was a man that people should emulate.

01:02:38.360 And that's the message.

01:02:40.160 And he was so disgusted by the press, I can't tell you how angry he was about,

01:02:45.480 because he did write for the Washington Post.

01:02:47.300 Now, he never bad-mouthed them.

01:02:49.100 But I know that he was just sickened by the corruption,

01:02:52.700 and that's the only word you can use that the American media has descended into.

01:02:58.060 We now have a corrupt institution in this country.

01:03:01.680 It's horrifying.

01:03:03.900 And, I mean, I personally experienced it.

01:03:07.120 And it is just, I feel that America is really in trouble if you cannot get honest information.

01:03:16.040 So we can't get honest information.

01:03:18.920 Yes, we can.

01:03:20.140 I think your program and others on talk radio are essentially honest.

01:03:24.120 What I'm doing on BillOReilly.com is absolutely honest.

01:03:27.580 There are vehicles.

01:03:29.660 But when we do that, when you and I separate ourselves from the corruption, what happens?

01:03:38.500 The corruption comes after us.

01:03:41.200 Because the corruption knows that exposition is going to harm them.

01:03:48.580 And so the few people who do that exposition are under enormous strain and in danger.

01:03:55.820 So I said something earlier, and Stu said, you could talk me into this, but I'm not sure I agree.

01:04:03.880 And that is, I think what we're seeing now from the press is just a flailing.

01:04:11.900 They don't understand the damage that they have done over the last few decades.

01:04:19.460 They don't understand that the people don't need them, nor do they want them to tell us what to think.

01:04:26.660 And they don't, they're used to being on their, you know, in their ivory tower and controlling the conversation in the world.

01:04:35.220 Um, and they are panicked and they, each corner, it gets worse because around each corner, they think, uh, well, this is going to put us rightfully back into our, into our seat.

01:04:49.260 And as we are tried, you know, they try to destroy us as we get out and others join us on the, uh, on online and in internet and, and, uh, elsewhere, they become more and more desperate.

01:05:04.780 And it's only accelerating their demise.

01:05:07.500 Well, I think that we can back your analysis up with facts.

01:05:11.940 CNN has become, uh, the most virulently, uh, anti-Trump, even worse than MSNBC because CNN covers itself with, well, we're journalists.

01:05:23.080 You know, MSNBC, they're just puppets.

01:05:26.140 It's a puppet show over there.

01:05:27.920 Um, CNN and well, no, all, you know, we're worldwide, uh, you know, there isn't one prime time program on CNN that gets more than a million viewers.

01:05:38.260 Not one.

01:05:39.660 All right.

01:05:40.420 Um, that Jake Tapper, despicable human being.

01:05:44.000 Oh, wow.

01:05:44.780 He's down in 600,000, 700,000.

01:05:47.560 Wait, why do you, I happen to disagree with you on Jake Tapper.

01:05:50.460 I know you do.

01:05:50.840 We just talk about this, but I know him.

01:05:53.380 And so trust me on this.

01:05:54.980 All right.

01:05:56.300 I'm not going to, but okay.

01:05:58.600 All right.

01:05:58.840 No, I'm going to come back.

01:05:59.980 And you know, I, you look, if you want to go camping with him.

01:06:03.020 No, I don't.

01:06:03.740 There's a place in the Adirondacks I'll get you in this weekend.

01:06:06.120 No, I don't.

01:06:07.000 I'm not taking my trip to Greece.

01:06:09.760 I get it, but I'm not.

01:06:11.440 Right.

01:06:12.080 I'm just saying I'll make up my own.

01:06:14.060 The circulation is down.

01:06:16.380 Uh, ratings are down.

01:06:18.800 Um, people are fed up.

01:06:21.320 They have other options that they didn't have five years ago.

01:06:25.100 Bill O'Reilly.com, the blaze, you know, and you're right.

01:06:29.280 They're killing themselves and they don't know it because they hang out with themselves.

01:06:36.000 They don't know anybody in Ohio or Idaho or Arizona.

01:06:40.740 And those people are furious.

01:06:43.500 Even the people who don't like Trump, particularly, they know the fix is in.

01:06:50.320 Yeah.

01:06:50.480 They know that Barack Obama got, got unbelievably phony coverage and they know the hate directed

01:06:57.600 at Trump.

01:06:58.260 Trump could better, if he would just control himself and discipline himself a little bit

01:07:03.620 more, he could better harness that.

01:07:06.280 Yes.

01:07:06.500 Uh, Bill, let me, let me try to tell you, I'm, I think the distinction I'm trying to

01:07:09.900 make here, which is I agree with you that, you know, the media, it's collapsing and it's

01:07:14.740 flailing.

01:07:15.680 Um, but I think that what we're seeing now, particularly with stories like this, and I

01:07:20.220 would throw Parkland into this, I would throw Charlottesville into this.

01:07:24.360 There's a difference in the coverage when they think they've got them this time.

01:07:27.380 Yes.

01:07:27.640 They think they now are running downhill rather than running uphill in trying to sell America

01:07:32.640 on how bad this president is.

01:07:34.420 And I feel like the problems that we're seeing now are more a problem with overconfidence.

01:07:39.920 They think this time the people are with them.

01:07:42.620 They see the polls, they see the, the optics and they think if they can just, this time

01:07:47.800 they'll get it over the hump this time they can, this time, finally, everyone will come

01:07:52.020 along with them and realize what a terrible person Donald Trump is.

01:07:55.420 And when that happens, they seem to overplay their hand.

01:07:59.320 Well, I, I, I'm not sure whether maybe some people feel that way, but if you look at the

01:08:04.100 job approval numbers after a North Korea and the inspector general's report, they came

01:08:10.100 up pretty dramatically.

01:08:11.680 Now it took three days.

01:08:13.420 It should have taken three hours for Donald Trump to sign that executive order.

01:08:17.880 Those of us who were following the news, honestly, I did it right away.

01:08:22.700 I suggested that this was not going to stand.

01:08:25.420 It shouldn't stand.

01:08:26.540 You can't have children harmed in any way.

01:08:30.140 And if a president can mitigate that, he should.

01:08:32.560 We put that out hours after this was exposed.

01:08:35.680 How is it going to play?

01:08:36.700 Their, their latest attempt is to show the abuse that happens, um, you know, under Donald

01:08:42.580 Trump.

01:08:42.820 I think the executive order took the story away.

01:08:46.460 All right.

01:08:47.200 Now the story will pivot into the Republicans in chaos.

01:08:50.500 Can't get any immigration plan.

01:08:52.140 While the dishonest press says that there isn't one Democrat who will vote for any kind of

01:08:57.680 immigration compromise because Schumer and Pelosi have basically said to them, if you

01:09:02.960 vote for any Republican compromise on immigration, we will cut off your funding for your reelection

01:09:10.140 campaigns.

01:09:11.000 All right.

01:09:12.140 Where is that story?

01:09:13.900 Where is that story?

01:09:15.800 So therefore you have an entire party in Congress, no matter what they come up with, the Republicans

01:09:21.820 aren't going to support it.

01:09:24.500 That's a hell of a story.

01:09:28.720 Bill O'Reilly.

01:09:29.640 Talk about little kids in danger.

01:09:31.780 Talk about poor migrants in danger.

01:09:34.440 And let me lay this on you back.

01:09:36.440 I sent you a column and I'm sure you read it about the industry of people smuggling.

01:09:41.000 Yes.

01:09:41.820 About how much money is involved in it.

01:09:44.160 About Mexican authorities being bribed to do it.

01:09:47.680 Where's that story?

01:09:50.620 These children and poor people are being used by organized crime cartels who will cut their

01:09:58.800 throats in an instant.

01:10:01.080 Where is that story?

01:10:03.000 I think the American people, I could be wrong.

01:10:08.140 I've been wrong about the American people before, but I think the American people are

01:10:12.900 fair and decent.

01:10:14.500 They, they look at this story and they know something is wrong.

01:10:19.320 They also know that this, this is an ongoing issue and they just want it solved because

01:10:28.840 they do actually care about the kids.

01:10:31.240 Absolutely.

01:10:32.080 And absolutely.

01:10:33.100 They want it solved.

01:10:34.480 Right.

01:10:34.900 And when you have one party that for political reasons will not compromise, despite overwhelming

01:10:42.300 evidence that this is chaos and children are being harmed, but we are not going to do anything

01:10:49.060 to stop it.

01:10:50.940 That's corruption.

01:10:52.200 Well, one last, that's what we have.

01:10:54.020 One last question for you.

01:10:55.520 Yeah.

01:10:55.740 I think the Democrats are going to be very, very surprised if they keep on this course

01:11:01.640 at the midterm elections.

01:11:02.760 It's not going to go well for them.

01:11:05.620 I agree that most Americans want a fair immigration plan.

01:11:12.900 And I think most wall, if you expire, the wall was necessary, which hasn't been done, which

01:11:18.280 is why I want everybody to read my column on billoreilly.com.

01:11:21.580 That's the essence of why the wall is needed.

01:11:24.080 But the problem with the Republicans is they don't have an articulate spokesperson to get

01:11:31.940 these messages across so that a lot of people who might be persuaded to do the right thing

01:11:39.660 never hear a cogent argument from the Republican Party.

01:11:43.780 Yes.

01:11:44.820 Bill.

01:11:45.600 That's the problem.

01:11:46.860 Always good to talk to you.

01:11:48.020 Billoreilly.com.

01:11:49.180 His new book comes out this fall, The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History, Killing

01:11:55.620 the SS is the name of it.

01:11:58.300 We don't know who he's going to be killing next, but Bill O'Reilly on his killing spree.

01:12:02.900 It continues this fall.

01:12:04.460 Bill, thanks a lot.

01:12:07.300 All right.

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01:12:10.520 And I don't know about you, but holy cow.

01:12:15.500 What is it like at your house?

01:12:17.440 Because at my house, it's the fires of hell hot outside in our studios.

01:12:24.280 It's the fires of hell hot outside.

01:12:27.480 Keeping them cool means we've got the air conditioning running on overload, which means we have to take

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01:12:36.660 Um, you got to change your filters because the filters, especially with all the pollen

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01:13:36.400 Glenn Beck.

01:13:40.820 There is just so much going on this week.

01:13:45.000 Um, there was some really big, important legislation that was going through the Senate, uh, and, uh,

01:13:51.280 that all got squashed, um, at the last minute by the Republicans.

01:13:55.300 And it was, you know, to reign the budget and get the budget into control.

01:13:59.860 Um, there's been some very big court cases, uh, that have, have happened, including one

01:14:06.220 that, uh, though there's a few of them that really concern me.

01:14:09.500 We're going to get into those probably, uh, hopefully on Monday.

01:14:12.560 Um, but we also have Mike Lee, uh, joining us next, uh, a good friend, an honest guy, uh,

01:14:19.880 and a, uh, friend of the constitution as well.

01:14:22.360 We're going to talk a little bit about what happened in the Senate with the budget and

01:14:26.300 also, uh, immigration.

01:14:28.740 Is anybody really working to fix this problem?

01:14:33.020 Glenn Beck.

01:14:34.540 It's Friday, June 22nd.

01:14:36.900 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:14:38.920 Senator Mike Lee, um, one of the, uh, greats in our, uh, Senate right now that is, uh, he

01:14:45.780 stands by the constitution in common sense.

01:14:48.160 I can't even imagine what it is like to live your life right now, Mike.

01:14:52.180 Uh, welcome to the program.

01:14:53.740 Thank you very much.

01:14:54.660 It's good to be with you.

01:14:55.400 So, uh, Mike, I want to talk to you about the border.

01:14:58.020 I also want to talk to you about a couple of things that happened yesterday.

01:15:01.040 Um, uh, and, um, and just get your, just get the lay of the land.

01:15:06.760 And first of all, on the immigration front, the media is going crazy on this.

01:15:13.140 It is so irritating.

01:15:14.880 Um, I believe you were down at the border, uh, or you were going to come to the border.

01:15:20.040 Um, when we went down in 2014, were you there, Mike?

01:15:23.520 I was not there then.

01:15:24.920 I've spent a lot of time there.

01:15:26.120 In fact, I spent two years living down there and working among poor people, immigrants 1.00

01:15:30.620 and others as a missionary.

01:15:32.300 Right.

01:15:32.820 Quarter century ago.

01:15:33.640 And so I'm very familiar with the lower Rio Grande Valley where a lot of this is happening.

01:15:37.140 And it is a nightmare and it has been a nightmare for a long time.

01:15:40.900 And, uh, people are trafficking in children, um, drugs, all kinds of horrible things.

01:15:48.800 Um, but nobody seemed to care until Donald Trump came along.

01:15:52.420 I think the average American just would like this fixed.

01:15:56.840 Is there anybody that is trying to fix it in the Republican party, um, that can get something

01:16:05.420 past the Democrats, which are just kind of a, I hate to use the term Mexican standoff, but

01:16:11.760 that's where they're at.

01:16:13.140 Yeah.

01:16:14.360 Um, look, immigration has been a very thorny topic.

01:16:17.940 I was talking to a colleague in the House of Representatives yesterday who said that every

01:16:23.580 proposal that one group would support is diametrically opposed by the other group and that there are

01:16:29.700 so many different factions of people that there is no one proposal that they can see that can

01:16:34.120 get a majority.

01:16:34.780 There are glimmers of hope out there from time to time.

01:16:37.060 It's been legislation introduced by Senator Cruz, uh, and separate legislation introduced

01:16:41.780 by Senator Tillis this week that would address this Flores problem and would address the problem

01:16:46.620 of, um, uh, migrant families being separated while their applications for asylum are pending.

01:16:53.260 So that's why my view has long been, Glenn, that with immigration, our best, uh, step would 0.99

01:16:59.280 be to start very narrowly.

01:17:01.340 Uh, let's pass a number of narrowly targeted bills.

01:17:04.180 It's each dealing with a very discreet corner of the problem.

01:17:06.640 We can start making progress.

01:17:08.740 So explain the Flores case.

01:17:10.700 That's Reno versus Flores, right?

01:17:13.060 Yes.

01:17:13.500 Yes.

01:17:13.920 Explain this.

01:17:15.040 Yeah.

01:17:15.180 This was a decision that ended up making it impossible, uh, illegal for the federal government

01:17:21.600 in some circumstances to allow, uh, for families to remain together while, while their asylum

01:17:27.840 applications were pending, at least, uh, as was the case with families that entered the

01:17:34.180 not through one of the lawful points of entry, uh, but through an illegal smuggling channel

01:17:40.000 or the, in some other point along the border that wasn't a lawful point of entry.

01:17:45.640 Now, keep in mind, this, this has been going on for years.

01:17:48.120 This occurred under democratic presidents and not just under Republican presidents.

01:17:52.480 It's just that it got more attention of late in part because there's been more border enforcement

01:17:56.720 of late.

01:17:57.540 One of the real problems for this, Glenn, is that some of the drivers of illegal immigration,

01:18:02.100 some of the drivers of families flooding across the border under desperate circumstances,

01:18:06.580 and it had to do with a signal sent in previous administrations, including under the Obama

01:18:12.020 administration, go ahead, come on over, come on over.

01:18:14.600 Uh, uh, and, and this idea that we would have almost open borders has created a flood of

01:18:21.720 people coming up and has led to a lot of women and children being assaulted, being sexually,

01:18:27.020 uh, assaulted and exploited along the way.

01:18:29.960 It really is a humanitarian crisis and one that I think our government sadly has contributed

01:18:34.180 to.

01:18:34.460 And it is, it was horrible is, I mean, one of the reasons why, you know, we, we have to have

01:18:42.140 paperwork or now DNA testing is because a, some of these kids that are released right away

01:18:49.400 are being conscripted by the drug lords to do, um, you know, child trafficking and smuggling

01:18:56.840 kids in across the border because they know that they're going to be released.

01:19:01.000 Um, so that was part of the Wilberforce, uh, law that, uh, Bush signed in to try to stop

01:19:07.280 the, the drug trafficking, but there is all kinds of things that are happening where we

01:19:13.860 don't know if these kids belong to these, um, parents and nobody is, everybody's pointing

01:19:19.860 fingers, but nobody's actually looking at the human price of just allowing kids to come in 0.97

01:19:29.140 across the border by themselves.

01:19:32.200 That's right.

01:19:32.940 And that human price is very substantial, especially when you consider the long journey that

01:19:37.220 people are making.

01:19:38.260 And when you consider the fact that in many cases, the children coming with adults are

01:19:43.420 not necessarily their children.

01:19:44.840 Sometimes they're traveling with smugglers or, or with someone else.

01:19:48.920 And along the way, they are subject to all kinds of horrors.

01:19:53.900 This is one of the reasons why, what I wish we would do is figure out a way to establish

01:19:58.140 an asylum process that can begin in Honduras or, or in, uh, some of the other Central American

01:20:04.080 countries.

01:20:04.880 Well, doesn't it exist?

01:20:05.860 Don't you just have to go to the consulate?

01:20:07.980 That's, and that's the way it should happen.

01:20:10.480 Rather than people coming up unlawfully, uh, we would prefer that they apply for asylum

01:20:15.800 there rather than here.

01:20:17.720 And it's one of the reasons why it's so dismaying when people refer to those of us who think that

01:20:24.080 it should be an orderly process, describe us as somehow unpatriotic or unkind.

01:20:28.840 Uh, the, the most unkind thing we can do is to facilitate a process that leads a whole

01:20:35.080 lot of people to be harmed along the way.

01:20:37.120 Mike, you were there on the border.

01:20:38.640 You spent time.

01:20:39.280 It is a dangerous place for anyone, but for children and, and women, or just vulnerable

01:20:46.920 families, even with the men that are not prepared to deal with these drug lords and other nefarious

01:20:54.060 characters getting across the, the water.

01:20:57.080 It's he, he, you're blessed if you see a border agent in comparison to what's on the other

01:21:02.440 side.

01:21:03.380 Yeah.

01:21:03.880 Yeah, that's right.

01:21:04.580 That's right.

01:21:04.980 And another point that's related to that, that often goes on looked, there is a racist

01:21:09.120 assumption that a lot of people use a lot of America's elites use, which is that if you

01:21:15.340 have a last name that is similar to the last names of some of, some of the people coming

01:21:19.080 across the border, uh, illegally or seeking asylum that you necessarily are going to want

01:21:24.860 uncontrolled immigration by other people with your same last name.

01:21:28.800 And that isn't true.

01:21:29.640 One of the things I learned living and working among people, uh, along the border is that

01:21:34.360 regardless of their national origin, regardless of their citizenship, their U S immigration

01:21:38.980 status, they were concerned about their own safety, their own security, their own employment

01:21:43.640 here.

01:21:44.420 That's why they came here.

01:21:45.860 The chaos in their own country.

01:21:48.280 Why would they want chaos here?

01:21:49.980 Unless you're nefarious and most of them are not.

01:21:53.300 Exactly.

01:21:54.000 Exactly.

01:21:54.480 Which is why it, it impuriates me when, um, liberal elites in the United States try to

01:21:59.660 suggest that this is, um, uh, this is a race issue that everyone of one ethnicity feels

01:22:07.380 one way.

01:22:07.980 And, and a lot of people of another race feel another way.

01:22:11.020 It simply isn't true.

01:22:12.660 And it is often true that those most harmed by uncontrolled open borders, immigration are 1.00

01:22:18.760 recent immigrants themselves.

01:22:21.640 All right.

01:22:22.380 Let me switch gears.

01:22:23.160 Some things happened yesterday that nobody was paying attention to.

01:22:26.340 Um, and I'm, I'm glad that there are people like you that are trying to cut the waste in

01:22:33.260 government and the spending, but also regulation.

01:22:36.500 You were close to a bill yesterday that would have cut a whole buttload of, uh, wasteful spending.

01:22:42.880 Um, and you looked like you had the votes and at the last minute it didn't pass.

01:22:48.260 Can you tell me, tell me what it is and what happened?

01:22:50.800 Sure.

01:22:51.700 Um, this one was actually the day before yesterday.

01:22:55.760 The Senate had an opportunity to vote on president Trump's rescissions package.

01:23:00.900 Uh, this is the roughly $15 billion package.

01:23:04.320 You might remember that president Trump identified as, as wasteful spending.

01:23:07.500 And it, this came up on what's called a privileged motion, meaning we could have gotten it to

01:23:12.900 the floor and gotten a final vote without any kind of super majority vote to end debate.

01:23:17.360 The House had already passed it.

01:23:19.380 Uh, it was teed up.

01:23:20.900 Uh, we knew the vote was going to be close.

01:23:22.880 We knew we were going to lose Susan Collins, which meant we would end up in the best case

01:23:27.260 scenario with the tie vote.

01:23:28.900 Mike Pence was coming over as the vice president to break the tie at the very last minute.

01:23:33.500 Another one of my colleagues decided to vote against it.

01:23:36.340 And as a result, it failed.

01:23:38.120 And it was Burr that voted against.

01:23:40.000 Yes.

01:23:40.300 Yes.

01:23:40.540 Senator Burr from North Carolina voted against it.

01:23:43.480 The sad thing is, uh, he had never even spoken to me until about 15 minutes into this vote.

01:23:50.820 Uh, the thing that he was concerned about could have been dealt with in a different way.

01:23:54.480 There was no good reason why he had to vote against it.

01:23:57.400 But as a result of this, there was no opportunity for the vice vice president to come over to

01:24:00.740 break the tie because there was no tie to break because at that point we had lost.

01:24:04.360 Now, this is a Glenn, this is a rounding error on a rounding error.

01:24:07.720 $15 billion is a lot of money.

01:24:09.820 It is a small amount of money compared to what this government spends.

01:24:13.360 But if we can't even start there with something that modest that this president has asked

01:24:17.560 us to cut, I really worry about where we're going.

01:24:20.940 And I'm terribly disappointed that we missed this opportunity.

01:24:23.660 Well, he said that he didn't do it because, um, it would have cut, uh, money from the land

01:24:28.340 and water conservation fund, which isn't that the one that's trying to buy up more land for

01:24:33.340 the federal government?

01:24:34.640 Yes.

01:24:35.140 That's, that's what I'm told was that it was out of concern for the land and water conservation

01:24:39.540 fund that this would have taken $16 million away from that.

01:24:42.500 So first of all, this is a very small amount of money compared to the $15 billion that we're

01:24:46.780 dealing with.

01:24:47.340 But yeah, the land and water conservation fund is an entity that among other things buys

01:24:52.400 up additional federal land.

01:24:53.960 This in a country where the federal government already owns about 30% of the land mass in

01:24:58.160 the United States, in some States like Utah, where I live, it's two thirds of the land.

01:25:02.580 And so as I look at that, I, I, I become very, very frustrated, uh, with the fact that we

01:25:09.220 sometimes Republicans end up defending the status quo, end up defending, uh, this practice

01:25:15.540 of uncontrolled spending within Washington.

01:25:18.640 Okay.

01:25:18.740 There was the waters of the United States repeal amendment also that was shot down.

01:25:22.320 Tell me about that.

01:25:23.360 Yes.

01:25:23.620 So this one occurred yesterday.

01:25:24.800 Uh, yesterday I brought up an amendment, uh, to an appropriations bill that the Senate's

01:25:30.560 been working on.

01:25:31.480 It was, um, completely teed up.

01:25:34.740 It could have been passed onto this appropriations bill with a simple majority because it was germane

01:25:39.200 to the topic we were discussing.

01:25:40.740 This would have taken down.

01:25:42.240 It would have eliminated the waters of the United States regulation issued by the Obama administration.

01:25:46.740 Now, is this, this is, this is the one where they regulate even large puddles and things,

01:25:52.240 right?

01:25:52.680 Large puddles, dry washes, ditches, even plots of ground that are sometimes wet puddles that

01:25:58.980 are slow to dry.

01:26:00.180 These are things, these are, these are things that Republicans were incensed about when Obama

01:26:06.300 put them in.

01:26:07.320 And we went, I mean, I remember the shows, we went nuts on this because it controls all

01:26:14.220 water in the United States.

01:26:15.900 Right, right.

01:26:17.100 Uh, all water and some non-water, some just sort of soggy ground that is, uh, wet for

01:26:22.820 a few hours or a few days at a time.

01:26:25.080 And so, and this wasn't just Republicans, Glenn.

01:26:27.460 These were, uh, a number of Democrats were upset too.

01:26:30.280 This, this wreaked havoc in areas of agriculture, housing, the economy, generally our court system.

01:26:36.160 And so in 2015, we voted to take this down.

01:26:39.500 The Republican Senate and the Republican House voted to take down this regulation.

01:26:44.680 President Obama being in office at the time, his administration having issued this, vetoed

01:26:49.700 it, and we didn't have the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override it.

01:26:53.820 So we had a shot with this appropriations bill to add an amendment to it that would have taken

01:26:58.500 it down.

01:26:59.740 And unfortunately, we lost.

01:27:02.660 We lost.

01:27:03.680 We got, I think it was 34 votes.

01:27:06.200 Twenty-nine of them were Republicans.

01:27:07.820 So fortunately, most Republican senators voted for it.

01:27:11.680 Uh, we picked up, I think, four or five Democratic senators.

01:27:15.940 But there were 20 Republican senators who voted against it, voted to table it, to set it aside.

01:27:22.200 And that was disappointing.

01:27:23.360 Why?

01:27:23.620 Why did they, why would they do that?

01:27:25.100 You know, I am always cautious to speak for someone else, but I believe if they were here

01:27:29.320 with us today, they would say that they felt they had to table it because they were worried

01:27:34.700 that it would jeopardize the appropriations bill that we were working on.

01:27:37.980 In other words, even though this was bipartisan and that a handful of Democrats joined us,

01:27:45.240 they were worried that there might be some possibility that the appropriations bill to

01:27:50.040 which this was attached as an amendment might be put in jeopardy if it passed.

01:27:54.220 Well, how do we know that?

01:27:55.420 How do we know that before we try it?

01:27:57.460 Why on earth didn't we allow this to go up and say to the Democrats in the Senate, are

01:28:02.180 you really willing to take down this appropriations bill that funds, among other things, things

01:28:07.460 like veterans benefits, simply because you want to defend this unworkable Obama era intrusive

01:28:13.160 regulation?

01:28:13.820 I think not.

01:28:14.960 I think it would have been better to at least take a shot at it.

01:28:17.440 And I'm very disappointed that 20 of my Republican colleagues and the Republican leadership in

01:28:22.900 the Senate chose to table this instead of allowing it to pass.

01:28:28.280 Mike, there is a, um, there is a growing number of people that are done with both parties.

01:28:33.380 There is a growing number of people that just see these parties as playing nothing but games.

01:28:39.080 Uh, and they would like to see a group of people that are standing on common sense.

01:28:44.380 I think, I think that what's happening in today's world is getting closer and closer to the American

01:28:49.300 people.

01:28:49.740 They're feeling it now in their own life.

01:28:52.220 They are frightened by this post-modernism world where nothing makes sense and you can

01:28:59.200 lose your job for a tweet.

01:29:01.580 Uh, it's, it's not going to last and they're not going to go back to the Republicans because

01:29:09.040 the Republicans look ancient and like, they're not serious about anything.

01:29:13.020 Is there, is there any, is there any hope that, uh, a new, uh, almost Republican, uh, spirit

01:29:22.780 will, uh, will rise up the way it did in the 1800s and say, you guys, neither side is serious

01:29:31.320 about this.

01:29:32.080 We are.

01:29:33.300 Yeah.

01:29:33.820 Here's the only way it'll happen, Glenn.

01:29:35.480 And I assume you're in your mind when you, you say Republican, you're, you're referring to

01:29:40.000 smaller Republican, yes, smaller Republican referring to the principles of the Republic

01:29:44.320 on which our, our country was founded.

01:29:47.220 Yes, that really is the answer.

01:29:49.360 It looked at the twin structural protections in the constitution, federalism and separation

01:29:53.740 of powers.

01:29:54.340 Those that tell us that most power belongs at the state and local level, not at the national

01:29:58.760 level to begin with.

01:29:59.800 And then within Washington, we've got three branches of government.

01:30:02.680 Each branch has to operate within its sphere.

01:30:04.740 If we just return to those basic principles, which are not themselves, either distinctly,

01:30:10.000 distinctively Republican or democratic, they're just American principles.

01:30:13.140 They're constitutional principles.

01:30:14.380 They are small r Republican principles.

01:30:16.320 If we return to those, this would work.

01:30:18.700 I know.

01:30:18.940 We could turn this around.

01:30:20.100 It's not too late.

01:30:21.280 And your listeners can help.

01:30:23.380 How?

01:30:24.540 Your listeners can help by making sure that every conversation they have with any member

01:30:28.760 of Congress, any candidate for Congress, any candidate who ever runs for any federal office

01:30:33.540 ever, have them ask about what they're going to do to reduce the size and the scope, the

01:30:40.060 reach and the cost of the federal government.

01:30:42.360 What they're going to do to make sure that Congress, in fact, makes the law rather than

01:30:46.120 delegating that law to an entity like the EPA or the Army Corps of Engineers, as was the

01:30:51.820 case in the Waters of the United States.

01:30:53.400 See, what happens with that Waters of the United States regulation?

01:30:55.960 In effect, Congress passed something saying we shall have clean water and we'll let these 0.99

01:31:01.560 executive branch agencies like the EPA figure out what that means.

01:31:05.260 And then they write something that includes puddles and dry washes and ditches.

01:31:09.200 That's the problem, is that Congress has itself abdicated its own role as being the legislative

01:31:14.520 organ of the federal government.

01:31:16.120 This after taking over so many responsibilities that don't belong to Congress in the first place.

01:31:20.740 Mike Lee, thank you so much.

01:31:23.420 God bless you.

01:31:24.140 Thanks for all your hard work and remain standing unless you have to sit down because otherwise

01:31:30.700 you're going to walk out of the room and leave Washington.

01:31:33.320 Then you should sit down in the Senate and not leave.

01:31:36.800 Thank you so much, Mike.

01:31:38.140 Thank you, sir.

01:31:38.880 You bet.

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01:32:46.080 Well, it's Friday.

01:32:47.280 Have you seen Ocean's 8 yet?

01:32:49.120 I have not, no.

01:32:50.080 Did you like Ocean's 11?

01:32:51.680 I liked Ocean's 11 and then I'm going to put a period after that.

01:32:54.680 Yeah, right.

01:32:55.320 I'm with you.

01:32:55.940 And not expand past it.

01:32:56.880 Right.

01:32:57.140 I've never watched Ocean's 12 or 13 a second time.

01:33:01.540 I watched it at the movie theater and I'm like, yeah, okay.

01:33:03.620 It's not Ocean's 11.

01:33:04.540 Yeah, I think I probably have seen them a second time, but I have not felt good about

01:33:10.300 that experience.

01:33:11.180 Yeah, right.

01:33:12.320 Ocean's 8 is pretty good.

01:33:14.560 It's pretty good.

01:33:15.200 Where would you put it in the ocean if you had to rank them?

01:33:17.400 I would Ocean's 11, space, Ocean's 8.

01:33:21.940 No, Ocean's 11, space, space, ocean, 8, space, space, space, space, space, 13, page, page,

01:33:31.220 page, page, page, page, page, page, 12.

01:33:33.560 Yeah, it's such a take out the 8, which I have not seen, but that's how I would rank

01:33:38.600 the first three.

01:33:39.440 So I liked Ocean's 8, but it revolves around a piece of jewelry that supposedly Cartier

01:33:49.060 had made.

01:33:50.500 And I think in the movie they say it weighed like eight pounds or 10 pounds and it's 500

01:33:55.860 carats, this diamond, this diamond necklace.

01:34:00.380 It's absolutely incredible, but is it real?

01:34:07.140 The answer is even more incredible.

01:34:10.920 Yes, it is, but it's bigger.

01:34:16.120 I'll tell you that story when we come back.

01:34:18.220 A couple of things here I want to make note of.

01:34:24.040 The diamond necklace in Ocean's 8 is this gigantic necklace.

01:34:33.600 It's on the neck of Anne Hathaway and it is supposedly like 500 carats and weighs, I don't

01:34:43.660 know, eight pounds or something like that.

01:34:45.780 And it's amazing.

01:34:47.920 And I wondered, all right, is that, I mean, is that real?

01:34:51.740 Do they have that?

01:34:52.580 Because in the movie, what they have to do is they have to get that necklace out of the

01:34:56.700 safe of Cartier underground.

01:34:58.700 Yeah, because not all movie jewelry is real.

01:35:01.540 The diamond in the documentary Titanic actually was not the real.

01:35:05.660 I'm sitting on my office desk right now.

01:35:07.720 Right.

01:35:08.120 It's complete plastic.

01:35:09.320 Yes.

01:35:09.660 Anyway, but boy, was I surprised.

01:35:13.460 Anyway, so this is supposedly, you know, a real thing.

01:35:24.180 Well, you do a little research and it actually is, but there's something surprising about it.

01:35:28.800 So it's called the Jean Toussaint necklace, and it was named after the guy who was their

01:35:37.460 creative director for a long, long time in the movie.

01:35:41.620 I don't remember how it got back to Cartier's hands, but it did.

01:35:45.740 And so now it's so valuable that they can never take it out of the safe.

01:35:50.440 And so they leave it in the safe for insurance reasons, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:35:53.800 Well, this necklace actually did exist at one point.

01:35:59.060 It was, it was made in, I think, 1931.

01:36:04.920 And what's crazy about it is as big as it is in the movie, that's the scaled down version.

01:36:13.400 It was actually larger than that in real life.

01:36:16.920 And it was made for the Maharaja of Nanagajar or something.

01:36:24.200 I don't know.

01:36:24.620 I have a condo there.

01:36:25.460 You do?

01:36:26.900 And it was, Cartier at the time described it as the finest cascade of colored diamonds in the world.

01:36:35.020 It is, I mean, here it is.

01:36:38.820 Look at that.

01:36:40.820 Wow.

01:36:41.400 Yeah, that's a lot.

01:36:42.060 That's a lot of diamonds.

01:36:42.960 500 carats.

01:36:45.260 Now, what's crazy is the, the jewelry that, that is in the deal, it was made by Cartier.

01:36:53.840 They made that for the movie.

01:36:55.760 It took them because the movie company, I don't know why, said, hey, we've only got eight weeks before we need this.

01:37:01.360 Can you make this in eight weeks?

01:37:03.100 So they did.

01:37:04.600 It took 15 artists at Cartier to cut this and to assemble it.

01:37:10.920 It took 4,200 total man hours to make just for the movie.

01:37:19.760 Imagine what the real one would have been like.

01:37:23.420 Isn't that nuts?

01:37:24.500 That is crazy.

01:37:25.620 So wait, so did they make it out of actual diamonds again?

01:37:29.120 No, no, no.

01:37:29.720 No, no.

01:37:31.000 It's still costume jewelry.

01:37:33.120 It's still costume jewelry, but really good costume jewelry.

01:37:36.040 But at one point it was real.

01:37:37.740 It was 500 carats.

01:37:39.200 It was real.

01:37:41.020 It no longer exists.

01:37:42.820 I guess it was sold and cut up.

01:37:45.920 Cartier preserved in its archives a design and drawing and photographs of the piece and the owner.

01:37:51.900 The necklace for the film was made in Paris, France, taking eight weeks.

01:37:58.660 And here's, here's the actual design of it with the cut.

01:38:01.840 I mean, they didn't, you know, that's just the pattern.

01:38:05.000 It's crazy.

01:38:06.200 It's just crazy.

01:38:07.300 So overall, you liked the movie though?

01:38:08.940 I did.

01:38:09.640 I did.

01:38:10.220 It's not Ocean's Eleven, but very few movies are Ocean's Eleven.

01:38:15.780 It's not the exact same movie.

01:38:18.200 No, I mean, no, Ocean's Eleven is magic.

01:38:21.520 I mean, that's just a great, great movie.

01:38:24.340 And it's kind of like, you know, I see dead people.

01:38:27.760 Once you have seen that pattern, it's not as good the second time.

01:38:31.200 Right.

01:38:31.460 You know what I mean?

01:38:31.880 And then you add a really bad script to something you've already seen and you get Ocean's Twelve and Thirteen.

01:38:38.660 Twelve, they were like, you know what?

01:38:40.020 What if we make the same movie, but make it impossibly confusing and uninteresting?

01:38:44.500 And that was an interesting choice to me.

01:38:46.540 Right.

01:38:46.820 I mean, it was artistically an interesting road to go on.

01:38:50.340 And then Thirteen was like, hey, remember how people liked Eleven?

01:38:54.780 Let's bring it back like 10% that direction.

01:38:59.740 Right.

01:39:00.100 Let's put the same gaffer on this one and see if we can get it closer.

01:39:06.140 Maybe the same best boy.

01:39:07.920 Yes.

01:39:08.460 And that's it.

01:39:09.120 And that's it.

01:39:10.360 And they, yeah.

01:39:11.340 So, and this one is good.

01:39:13.120 Did you ever see Italian Job?

01:39:15.200 Yeah.

01:39:15.500 Oh, yeah.

01:39:15.900 Back in the day.

01:39:16.420 I love Italian Job.

01:39:17.020 Yeah, that was the one that they were running minis around.

01:39:20.360 I love that movie.

01:39:21.960 It's, you know, so Ocean's Eight isn't even that.

01:39:25.340 Okay.

01:39:26.040 But it's good.

01:39:28.180 It's good.

01:39:28.560 It's a good, fun movie.

01:39:29.600 The problem is because it's Ocean's Eight, you know, you have either exceptionally low expectations or high expectations.

01:39:40.760 And this one kind of comes in right in the middle.

01:39:43.220 And you're like, okay, well, it's not Ocean's, it's not Ocean's Twelve, certainly.

01:39:47.900 And it's not even Ocean's Thirteen.

01:39:50.500 It's better.

01:39:51.140 Do you think that this is an interesting phenomenon?

01:39:53.780 Because I believe you're right.

01:39:55.020 This goes back to horror movies.

01:39:56.860 The horror movie, the first horror movie is almost the best of the, almost always the best of the entire sequence.

01:40:03.520 Because you're trying to figure out who this guy is.

01:40:07.100 What does the guy look like behind the mask?

01:40:08.580 What does he do to people?

01:40:09.560 And once you get through the first one and you realize that towards the end of the movie, usually, the suspense is gone as to what he does.

01:40:15.980 And then it just becomes a chase movie, right?

01:40:18.020 All the rest, all the sequels are essentially this guy trying up new crazy things to do.

01:40:21.860 But it's basically the same concept.

01:40:24.160 Right.

01:40:24.440 Right.

01:40:24.660 And that's, I think, the same thing with every movie that comes in sequels.

01:40:31.920 There's something charming about discovery as you're finding out what these characters do and where they go and what their traits are.

01:40:40.100 Right.

01:40:40.200 You're learning in that first one.

01:40:41.820 And then the other ones, you're just kind of seeing, I'm interested to see how this plays out.

01:40:45.060 But there are certain movie sequels, and I think Oceans is one of them, where the first one's so good and they can't even come remotely close to it with the sequels.

01:40:55.300 Another one is Hangover.

01:40:57.360 The Hangover, the first Hangover is so good as far as that genre of movies.

01:41:03.500 And the other two are so bad.

01:41:07.760 The Matrix.

01:41:08.820 Because once you have Hangovers that intense.

01:41:13.800 Yeah.

01:41:14.220 It's hard to outdo them.

01:41:15.360 It's hard to outdo them.

01:41:16.360 The sequel should have just been called Blackout.

01:41:18.960 You know what I mean?

01:41:20.120 They didn't even try it.

01:41:20.960 They're just not, their brains are not even on anymore.

01:41:25.200 It's just their bodies functioning.

01:41:27.200 Because once you've had that Hangover, if you're going to have another Hangover like that, I mean, you're probably an alcoholic, and so you're blacking out.

01:41:35.440 And you're doing even crazier things.

01:41:37.700 But then the movie ends with going, I had no idea.

01:41:40.420 I did what?

01:41:41.320 I killed who?

01:41:42.240 What?

01:41:42.380 It's not really a story here.

01:41:43.520 We're tired and we're driving home.

01:41:45.940 The Matrix is another one I would put in this category.

01:41:48.720 Where the first one, I mean, that is a masterpiece of a movie.

01:41:53.180 It really is.

01:41:53.980 The Matrix is a great movie.

01:41:55.600 And it's been now, it's so, it's become such a piece of pop culture now that red pills and blue pills are all part of, like, the lexicon.

01:42:03.500 But, I mean, that first movie is really good.

01:42:06.140 The second and third one, they're just terrible.

01:42:09.160 You know, I don't even think I made it to the third one.

01:42:11.920 Because the second one was pretty bad.

01:42:14.500 I think that one barely made it to Ocean's 13.

01:42:17.360 Because 12 was just punishing.

01:42:20.000 12 was like, it was.

01:42:22.160 It was, it was, it was like, we're going to punish you with this and see if you'll take it.

01:42:29.580 We're just going to hit you in the face for two and a half hours and see if we can make a third one and you'll still come back.

01:42:37.880 Yeah.

01:42:38.460 Oh, that was definitely what they did with Hangover.

01:42:40.100 They were like, we dare you to get back in this theater.

01:42:42.880 We dare you.

01:42:44.580 It is.

01:42:45.020 The Exorcist is another one.

01:42:48.820 Oh, my gosh.

01:42:49.500 Exorcist 2, The Heretic, is known as one of the worst movies of all time.

01:42:53.300 You haven't lived until you were part of the movie premiere.

01:42:57.760 I was at the movie premiere of Jaws 3D.

01:43:03.040 Ah.

01:43:03.620 Okay.

01:43:04.420 Wow.

01:43:04.760 So, you haven't lived until you've done that one.

01:43:09.040 That's true.

01:43:10.000 Because, I mean, there are movies where you can point to a really bad sequel, right?

01:43:14.440 You can say, okay, that, you know, people, a lot of people, like, I would certainly say, Indiana Jones, The Crystal Skull is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life.

01:43:22.300 Now, that was kind of a fourth one.

01:43:23.820 It was a throwaway, I would say.

01:43:25.420 A lot of people bash The Temple of Doom in that series.

01:43:28.520 And to me, The Temple of Doom, it's a little cheesier than the others, but it's okay.

01:43:32.180 It's okay.

01:43:32.660 It's not like this.

01:43:34.200 You can get away with Indiana Jones because it's a Saturday matinee kind of movie.

01:43:40.760 Right.

01:43:41.240 You know what I mean?

01:43:42.140 It's a fun, you know, just a crazy adventure kind of movie.

01:43:47.560 So, you can get away with it being a little cheesy.

01:43:51.500 But there's, yeah, you can.

01:43:53.120 It has a little bit more leeway.

01:43:54.660 But when it's a classic, because it can't just be a good movie.

01:43:57.040 Like, if National Treasure Part 2 was significantly worse than Part 1, which I don't even remember

01:44:03.220 if it was.

01:44:03.800 Like, it was in, both of them were, in my memory, mildly enjoyable.

01:44:07.780 Yeah, they were good.

01:44:08.380 They were fine.

01:44:08.680 They were good.

01:44:09.100 Right, they were fine.

01:44:10.280 But, like, when it's a classic, it's an all-time classic of the genre.

01:44:15.940 And then you just bomb so badly in every attempt at a sequel.

01:44:20.620 There's a...

01:44:21.920 Or even a remake, you know?

01:44:24.620 Yeah.

01:44:25.020 Like, The Wiz was, like, it was appropriately titled.

01:44:30.140 It really was.

01:44:30.760 It's like, we took this classic and we peed all over it.

01:44:33.800 It was great.

01:44:35.520 You know, it's like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Tim Burton.

01:44:42.600 Tim Burton needs to be told, stay away from children's stuff.

01:44:46.960 Just stay away from it.

01:44:47.820 Because you're too weird and creepy.

01:44:50.140 And you don't have...

01:44:51.760 You know, there's this weird thing about Tim Burton.

01:44:54.000 I think he's a genius.

01:44:55.300 I really do.

01:44:56.120 He's a genius that sees things entirely differently.

01:45:00.260 Edward Scissorhands is the closest he ever got to finding heart.

01:45:04.780 But he never can close the loop and have you go,

01:45:08.840 Oh my gosh, that was such a warm feeling.

01:45:14.060 I just feel so good about that.

01:45:16.280 You just walk away going, that was creepy.

01:45:19.180 Okay, that was really, really creepy.

01:45:21.240 And I'm not comfortable.

01:45:23.200 Tim needs to be checked.

01:45:24.240 Yeah.

01:45:25.840 He has signed on for the Dumbo remake.

01:45:28.360 That, I'm telling you.

01:45:31.300 I'm telling you.

01:45:32.260 I don't know who at Disney signed on.

01:45:35.160 I just saw that and it looks magical.

01:45:38.920 It looks...

01:45:39.360 And then it says from the mind of Tim Burton and I'm like,

01:45:43.680 Oh my gosh, this is going to be a disaster.

01:45:47.640 Because Dumbo is their biggest heart classic.

01:45:52.760 Yeah.

01:45:52.900 There is no movie that is more all heart than Dumbo.

01:45:57.920 And they gave it to the guy who doesn't...

01:46:01.540 I think he doesn't...

01:46:02.740 He's like, you know, the first living heart donor.

01:46:07.880 He doesn't have a heart.

01:46:09.800 He doesn't understand it.

01:46:12.540 He may not even have blood in him.

01:46:14.880 Yeah.

01:46:15.840 By the way, on a related note,

01:46:17.860 if you want a half hour of a bizarre journey this weekend

01:46:22.020 and you want to escape completely from the political world

01:46:26.200 and just dive into something crazy,

01:46:28.380 spend a half hour or so reading...

01:46:31.260 It's maybe 15 minutes...

01:46:32.540 Reading the Rolling Stone profile of Johnny Depp that just came out.

01:46:37.380 It is bonkers.

01:46:39.780 I mean, this guy is...

01:46:42.080 I'm on the verge of complete insanity.

01:46:44.860 And just because of his Hunter S. Thompson obsession,

01:46:49.520 it's a dangerous situation he's in.

01:46:52.080 He's in the middle of all these lawsuits

01:46:53.520 against the people who controlled his money,

01:46:55.980 including his sister and his family.

01:46:58.600 He's completely alone,

01:47:00.320 drinking drugs all the time,

01:47:03.120 obsesses...

01:47:04.280 Should get the writer on.

01:47:05.620 It was fascinating.

01:47:06.760 It would be a really interesting conversation.

01:47:08.720 They say he's made $650 million

01:47:12.020 from these movies over the year.

01:47:14.280 It's all gone.

01:47:15.720 It's all gone.

01:47:16.960 To what?

01:47:18.680 Well, let me give you an example.

01:47:20.300 There was a report

01:47:21.120 that when Hunter S. Thompson died,

01:47:24.040 he bought a cannon

01:47:25.500 and shot the cannon...

01:47:29.940 He shot the ashes into the air

01:47:32.880 to explode them in the air.

01:47:34.580 His ashes.

01:47:35.580 Hunter S. Thompson's ashes.

01:47:37.000 Yeah.

01:47:37.420 Cost reportedly $3 million.

01:47:41.060 In the story,

01:47:42.560 Johnny Depp disputes that,

01:47:43.780 as you might expect.

01:47:45.160 Except what he says is,

01:47:46.500 I wanted it to go high enough

01:47:47.760 so it was higher than

01:47:48.880 the tallest part

01:47:50.700 of the Statue of Liberty,

01:47:52.020 I believe.

01:47:53.200 And it actually cost,

01:47:54.680 in Johnny Depp's estimation,

01:47:56.060 $5 million

01:47:57.060 for him to shoot the ashes

01:47:59.220 of a guy he liked

01:48:00.460 into the air

01:48:01.480 and explode them.

01:48:03.040 And they go through...

01:48:04.280 I mean, the litany

01:48:06.120 of money wasting.

01:48:07.420 We need to go through this on Monday.

01:48:08.940 Yeah, it's fascinating.

01:48:09.520 Monday or Tuesday.

01:48:10.340 I know Monday.

01:48:11.000 We really have to go through

01:48:12.200 the Supreme Court decisions

01:48:14.040 because there's some

01:48:14.720 really disturbing things

01:48:16.360 that are possible

01:48:18.100 that, you know,

01:48:20.240 I'm not smart enough

01:48:21.380 to figure all of these out,

01:48:24.480 but I'm smart enough to go,

01:48:26.480 wait, that's kind of concerning.

01:48:28.560 Yeah.

01:48:29.520 On a few things,

01:48:31.080 the government is handing down

01:48:36.200 from the Supreme Court.

01:48:37.480 So I want to get into that on Monday,

01:48:39.040 but we should get this guy on.

01:48:40.600 Yeah, it'd be interesting.

01:48:41.140 I mean, think of that.

01:48:41.940 Think, how hard would it be?

01:48:43.640 You remember, what is it,

01:48:44.580 Brewster's Millions?

01:48:45.640 He has to...

01:48:46.240 I love them.

01:48:47.460 Right?

01:48:47.820 It's a classic.

01:48:48.540 Didn't he have to spend...

01:48:49.380 Spend $30 million in 30 days, Glenn.

01:48:50.940 Okay.

01:48:52.100 Imagine how difficult it would be.

01:48:54.800 I know people would think,

01:48:55.820 oh, that's not...

01:48:56.680 Oh, yeah, it is.

01:48:57.340 How difficult would it be

01:48:58.700 to spend $650 million

01:49:01.900 and not have anything to show for it?

01:49:07.100 All right.

01:49:08.200 Soros may be a sign 1.00

01:49:09.520 that more institutional investors

01:49:11.040 are starting to get interested

01:49:12.280 in cryptos.

01:49:13.200 Venture capital business

01:49:14.600 founded by the Rockefeller family,

01:49:17.200 Venrock,

01:49:17.740 also getting into cryptos.

01:49:19.440 Rockefeller has a rumored net worth

01:49:22.280 of a trillion dollars,

01:49:24.400 which is absolutely incredible

01:49:26.580 because they have given away

01:49:29.920 so much of their money

01:49:30.920 to be able to reduce it

01:49:32.360 so it didn't crush.

01:49:34.760 I mean, the family fortune story

01:49:36.520 is fascinating.

01:49:37.600 Maybe someday we'll get into that.

01:49:38.540 Anyway, really big institutional investors

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01:50:23.880 I'm glad you're here.

01:50:30.120 Really.

01:50:30.520 Thanks.

01:50:30.780 I appreciate it.

01:50:31.280 Not you.

01:50:31.800 Thank you.

01:50:32.500 Not a lot of people say that to me

01:50:34.060 on a daily basis

01:50:34.780 and thank you for saying that.

01:50:35.860 That's very nice.

01:50:37.200 I wasn't talking to you.

01:50:38.440 Are you going to join us

01:50:39.520 on Pac-Ray Unleashed today?

01:50:41.240 Want to come on over

01:50:41.780 and pop in for a little?

01:50:43.120 Yeah, I will.

01:50:43.480 That'd be fun.

01:50:44.060 Yeah, I will.

01:50:44.560 Yeah, come on. 0.77

01:50:45.000 Come on to the couch.

01:50:45.580 I will.

01:50:45.780 When I say it in that high-pitched voice,

01:50:47.680 it means not a chance.

01:50:48.960 Oh.

01:50:49.800 Yeah, I will.

01:50:50.140 No, I'll be there.

01:50:51.140 That was sincerity dripping through.

01:50:51.920 Yeah, no, I'll be there.

01:50:52.380 Yeah.

01:50:52.740 Yeah, I'll be there.

01:50:54.020 Yeah, because I really,

01:50:55.060 I love spending time with you.

01:50:56.820 I love it.

01:50:57.860 I love it.

01:50:58.760 Thank you.

01:50:58.780 Glad you're here.

01:50:59.720 Thanks.

01:51:01.380 Have a great weekend.

01:51:04.360 Glenn Beck.

01:51:05.620 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 22, 2018

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