The Glenn Beck Program - 'Principles Over Personalities'？ (David French joins Glenn) - 3⧸1⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.640 I cannot wait to talk to you today.

00:00:18.540 I want to take, we have a couple of guests, I have David French joining us here in a second.

00:00:22.680 I want to hear from you today.

00:00:25.380 Do you feel a little manipulated, betrayed, used?

00:00:30.440 You think this is some grand master strategy?

00:00:33.460 How are you feeling today?

00:00:35.520 If you're a fan of both President Trump and the Second Amendment, how are you feeling?

00:00:41.500 I'm sure the NRA feels a little used.

00:00:45.240 Yesterday, the President sat down with Congressional Democrats and Republicans to discuss ideas on how to prevent more mass shootings, something we should be doing.

00:00:54.480 But how do we describe this other than an absolute constitutional nightmare?

00:01:00.000 Trump took an extreme, just an extreme hard left against the Second, the Fifth, the Fourteenth, and I believe the Fourth Amendment.

00:01:11.360 I mean, this is what we expected from other presidents, from the last president, right?

00:01:19.080 That's what we expected.

00:01:21.800 He didn't do it.

00:01:23.480 In fact, what happened yesterday made President Obama look like Calvin Coolidge.

00:01:27.560 This is an actual quote from the meeting.

00:01:31.620 Take the guns first, then go through due process second.

00:01:38.580 End quote.

00:01:39.280 The president then proceeded to dump on the NRA, shoot down any idea of national concealed carry repricosity.

00:01:48.260 Say it for me.

00:01:49.340 I can't.

00:01:49.900 Reciprocity.

00:01:50.500 How did I ever get on the radio?

00:01:51.820 I have no idea.

00:01:53.200 No one else does either.

00:01:54.140 If you're a gun owner or if you're a fan of the Constitution, this was the worst thing you would expect a U.S. president to say.

00:02:02.680 Again, we expected this from Obama, but never expecting him to say it out loud in public.

00:02:10.760 This guy did.

00:02:12.100 And the reason why President Obama would have never said this in public, if he believed that, is because he knew every single person in the conservative media, every Republican, many NRA members who are Democrats, would have called for his impeachment.

00:02:30.200 Oh, let's just skip due process.

00:02:32.960 Let's see.

00:02:33.920 Mussolini comes to mind.

00:02:35.820 China comes to mind.

00:02:37.920 Where else do we have this system?

00:02:39.980 North Korea has a good system.

00:02:41.660 Well, just forget about due process.

00:02:45.940 Now, here's the thing.

00:02:48.720 Some people believe and some people are making excuses.

00:02:51.880 Some people are saying, yeah, but he was talking about the mentally ill.

00:02:56.680 Okay.

00:02:57.140 Do you remember when we all went to bat for the president when the headlines in the New York Times said things like Trump just made it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns?

00:03:07.660 No, no, that's not what happened.

00:03:09.260 What they were referring to was an Obama era regulation mandating that people receiving disability payments from Social Security, which doesn't make you mentally ill, or receiving assistance to manage their benefits.

00:03:22.220 Their benefits, not their checkbook, their benefits, would have been reported to the federal gun background check system.

00:03:28.480 It locked out tens of thousands of people, elderly people, from buying guns, not based on their mental capacity, but on the basis of being classified by the government in a certain way.

00:03:39.560 Now, I don't think that was the original intent, but you can see how handling the issue of who is mentally ill and who isn't is a very slippery slope.

00:03:49.920 Mike Pence yesterday was right.

00:03:53.400 We have to figure this issue out.

00:03:56.140 Nobody wants guns in the hands of mentally ill people. 0.97

00:04:00.260 Nobody.

00:04:01.800 Everybody that I know, every NRA member that I know, thinks that the sheriff should have taken the guns away, I don't know, maybe on the third call.

00:04:13.100 We have to figure this out, but eliminating due process and neutering the Constitution is not the way to do it.

00:04:25.400 You can't seize someone's property.

00:04:28.760 You are guaranteed due process.

00:04:32.800 Well, it takes a long time.

00:04:34.640 That's the point.

00:04:36.780 So we just aren't a lynch mob.

00:04:39.080 Forget for just a second that this is all about guns.

00:04:45.860 Replace guns with literally any other issue and read back the words.

00:04:51.080 Take action first and then go through due process second.

00:04:55.860 Throw him in jail.

00:04:57.380 We all know he's going to murder.

00:05:01.080 That's not who we are.

00:05:03.340 That's how tyranny is born.

00:05:05.440 I guess the good news here is that Trump has said just bat crap crazy things in the past.

00:05:19.120 Oh, I want a clean DACA bill, but it never materialized.

00:05:23.220 So either Trump is pulling off some extreme master negotiating strategy, combining the art of war with his own book, The Art of the Deal.

00:05:31.320 Or he doesn't know what he's talking about, and his gut reaction is not based in the Constitution.

00:05:41.920 He was giving Democrats in the room what they wanted to hear.

00:05:45.180 Either way, whether he's, you know, playing, I saw this online last night, he's playing four-dimensional chess.

00:05:54.460 Please, please.

00:05:58.740 We're not going to see anything come of this, but this should be a huge red flag.

00:06:04.140 If Obama would have said this, we would have been organizing ourselves in the streets.

00:06:12.780 We either stand for the Constitution, stand by the rule of law, or we do not.

00:06:19.180 We either call people out when they are wrong, no matter what side they're on, or we have no principles.

00:06:27.720 So, you know, the Second Amendment is not going anywhere.

00:06:35.300 But everybody should be calling the President out on this today.

00:06:38.320 Support him when he is right, but call him out when he is wrong.

00:06:43.480 And yesterday, he was very, very, very wrong.

00:06:47.680 It's Thursday, March 1st.

00:06:58.200 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:07:01.040 David French, who is a senior fellow of the National Review, is joining us now.

00:07:08.960 Hello, David. How are you?

00:07:10.860 I'm good. How are you doing?

00:07:12.400 Well, I've been better.

00:07:15.100 I've been better.

00:07:15.980 Yesterday had to come as kind of a surprise to you, because you're a guy who is authoring some of the bills they were talking about yesterday.

00:07:26.520 Well, yesterday, it was one of those moments when somebody takes an idea that you've been talking about, twists it, distorts it, misstates it in such a grotesque way that it's unrecognizable.

00:07:41.300 It was really an amazing moment.

00:07:43.600 So you had Mike Pence talking about, in a very responsible and sane and sober way, the concept of a gun violence restraining order, which allows people to seek an order from a court and with due process, with a hearing, when someone is exhibiting dangerous behavior, to allow a temporary seizure of their guns when there's red flags.

00:08:09.340 And in the vast, vast majority of these mass shootings, there have been red flags.

00:08:14.700 And a lot of times people haven't had the tools to do anything about it.

00:08:17.700 Right, right.

00:08:18.460 This changes that.

00:08:19.440 And then Trump stepped in and said, no, no, no.

00:08:22.640 Take the guns first, then due process.

00:08:25.620 And you just, you know.

00:08:28.180 He did say, he said, you know, there is a different system.

00:08:33.320 Take the guns first and then due process.

00:08:36.180 And I believe that system is fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, communism.

00:08:43.920 I mean, there is another system, David.

00:08:46.060 Right.

00:08:47.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:48.680 I mean, well, you know, his views on due process are really interesting.

00:08:54.040 So if you're a credibly accused wife-beater in the White House, well, then due process.

00:09:01.160 But if you're a law-abiding gun owner, then no due process.

00:09:05.920 So it's a very strange system, a very strange strain of constitutional thinking there.

00:09:14.240 But yeah, you know, look, the bottom line is he's not drafting a bill.

00:09:20.060 He's not proposing the bill.

00:09:21.600 He doesn't really know about any of this in any detail.

00:09:26.600 I mean, when he was saying that Toomey was afraid of the NRA, it shows you have no idea.

00:09:34.040 You have no idea.

00:09:35.560 Yeah.

00:09:36.100 Well, you know, the thing that was stunning to me about you, well, you know, I am on record many times

00:09:42.540 for having low expectations of this president.

00:09:45.220 Yes.

00:09:45.380 But he underperformed even my low expectations yesterday.

00:09:50.380 And the reason is that the NRA has been probably his most loyal conservative friend.

00:09:59.260 The NRA has been relentless for him.

00:10:02.260 A lot of people have criticized the NRA for taking a perceived turn towards Trumpism, where

00:10:08.020 they're putting the president as much as they're promoting the Second Amendment.

00:10:13.100 And so the NRA has been ferociously loyal to Trump.

00:10:16.940 And yesterday, he not only said, hey, take the guns first.

00:10:19.900 Second, he essentially said, no, no concealed carry reciprocity.

00:10:26.460 He made fun of a senator for being in the pocket of the NRA or being scared of the NRA.

00:10:32.920 And then he fought through the idea of an assault weapons ban, all in the space of about 30 minutes.

00:10:38.040 And my jaw hit the floor.

00:10:39.860 It was, you know, it was an amazing thing to see.

00:10:43.580 So, David, a lot of people will say, nothing's going to come of this, so don't worry.

00:10:51.580 This was so jaw-dropping that, I mean, I've said this for years, long before Donald Trump.

00:10:58.100 You have to have a guy in the Oval Office whose natural first instinct is constitutional.

00:11:07.820 That it is freedom-based.

00:11:10.440 For instance, when you have a problem, you know who also didn't get due process?

00:11:16.380 The Japanese, as they were put onto a bus for an internment camp.

00:11:21.680 I mean, when there is a trouble, when there's trouble, and you are not based in the Constitution,

00:11:28.300 that is a moment that could go horribly awry, as it has in the past here in America.

00:11:35.720 When the president says, well, I'm not really afraid of the NRA, I don't think in 2021 he'll be afraid of anybody.

00:11:47.320 And if we have trouble, this is a giant red flag.

00:11:52.720 Right, and, you know, so not only is it a red flag on pure policy grounds, in other words, how does the president exercise the powers of his office?

00:12:03.440 It's also, look, the bully pulpit matters.

00:12:07.280 You know, this is a novel theory on the part of many parts of the conservative public that what the president says doesn't really matter,

00:12:15.440 which is just a rationalization and an excuse.

00:12:19.840 The bully pulpit matters when you're talking about the person with perhaps the greatest public platform in the world,

00:12:28.740 and they're indifferent at best to the Constitution.

00:12:33.440 They're obviously here seem to really not care about the Second Amendment all that much.

00:12:38.240 Those things matter, especially when the other side is locked in.

00:12:43.060 I mean, the other side is locked in on messaging.

00:12:45.940 It is locked in, has extraordinary party discipline right now.

00:12:49.820 I believe it was, what, 156 of the 193 members of Congress signed on,

00:12:55.600 Democratic members of Congress signed on to the assault weapons ban legislation that was just introduced.

00:13:00.880 So the other side is focused and locked in, and, you know, when the bully pulpit is occupied by somebody who is not as focused,

00:13:10.020 focused, not as locked in, and apparently indifferent to core constitutional values, that's a problem.

00:13:17.480 We want to talk to, we're talking to David French.

00:13:19.180 We want to talk to him about a story that he wrote in The Atlantic,

00:13:21.800 what critics don't understand about the gun culture.

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00:14:45.300 Glenn Beck Mercury

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00:14:56.140 David French, who has just written an article for The Atlantic,

00:15:02.020 what critics don't understand about the gun culture.

00:15:04.140 And he really tried to reach out to the other side and say,

00:15:06.920 look, I know there are people that don't understand guns or the gun culture.

00:15:11.860 Let me try to demystify this a little bit so you can at least understand the other side.

00:15:17.180 David, can you take us through this rather quickly?

00:15:21.740 Yeah, absolutely.

00:15:22.820 So what I wanted to do was talk to folks.

00:15:25.740 The Atlantic readers are mainly progressives.

00:15:28.900 And I wanted to walk them through how a person enters gun culture 0.74

00:15:33.260 and how it begins often with an actual threat or a perceived threat

00:15:37.740 where you realize that the police can't protect your family.

00:15:41.860 And how actually walking through that process of buying a gun, learning to use the gun,

00:15:47.740 going to concealed carry permit class, getting training,

00:15:51.060 actually brings you into a new community of folks

00:15:54.440 and also changes your outlook on life in a significant and a positive way.

00:16:00.300 And so I wanted people to understand that this isn't a product of like NRA lobbying

00:16:04.700 or congressional actions.

00:16:06.800 It's a product of people's lived experience and how they respond to threats to their safety

00:16:12.440 and their family's safety.

00:16:14.220 I just wanted to connect people with sort of the real story of people's lives.

00:16:19.480 Yeah.

00:16:19.640 You know, I just had a friend of mine say yesterday,

00:16:22.660 Glenn, I mean, I'm not worried about my family and I don't,

00:16:27.100 it's just not part of anything.

00:16:28.620 I don't worry about any of this.

00:16:30.300 Well, some of us do.

00:16:31.880 And some people, mainly Hollywood and people like me,

00:16:35.860 have the money to be able to have an armed security guy with him the whole time.

00:16:41.180 But that's not the average person.

00:16:43.360 I mean, my daughter, you know, if she had a stalker,

00:16:46.720 she would want a gun. 0.97

00:16:48.300 And I will tell you this, I am somebody who felt I was not responsible enough

00:16:56.580 to own a gun, what, 20 years ago.

00:17:00.240 And I had to, you know, I had to have serious threats in my life.

00:17:04.660 And the gun was the last step that I took myself.

00:17:08.360 And then I really took it seriously and became responsible enough to own a gun.

00:17:13.260 And, you know, I know everybody isn't like that, but they should be.

00:17:16.800 And in your article, you point out that we were, as gun owners,

00:17:23.200 were horrified by the killer in, you know, at the high school having these guns

00:17:31.660 and all of the warning flags and the system failed.

00:17:34.080 And we were horrified here in Texas when the system failed.

00:17:38.560 Right.

00:17:39.400 Right.

00:17:40.060 Exactly.

00:17:40.840 You know, there's this perception, odd, strange.

00:17:43.800 I mean, how evil do you think your fellow citizens have to be to believe that you're

00:17:49.580 indifferent to what happened in Texas?

00:17:51.700 But you get that rhetoric all the time, that people who belong to the NRA have blood on

00:17:56.120 their hands, that they belong to a terrorist organization.

00:17:59.100 And the fact of the matter is, as I related in my piece, I'm not somebody who can afford

00:18:03.040 armed security around my family.

00:18:05.580 A guy came to our house.

00:18:07.620 He blocked our driveway.

00:18:08.860 He walked straight up to my wife and kids when they were in the backyard.

00:18:13.540 And I was, and the police and I were, were many minutes away demanding to see me.

00:18:18.880 He had this, oddly had an empty holster at his hip.

00:18:21.540 He was, he had just been driving slowly through my kid's school.

00:18:25.440 I mean, this is, so this thing, this kind of thing focuses the mind pretty, pretty intense,

00:18:31.960 intensely.

00:18:32.440 And, and that's what, you know, it's those kinds of things.

00:18:35.600 And, and look, you know, there's a lot of people who are not in the public square, who

00:18:39.620 are not out there tweeting and writing and doing TV appearances that, you know, maybe

00:18:44.320 it's an ex-boyfriend.

00:18:45.560 Maybe it's, they live in a dangerous part of town.

00:18:48.240 Maybe, you know, there's all, there's a lot of reasons why people quite reasonably say,

00:18:52.880 you know, when the police can't be there instantly and the police can't be there everywhere,

00:18:57.440 I, I kind of need a first line of defense.

00:18:59.840 So that is not unreasonable at all.

00:19:01.980 I've, I've got about 45 seconds here, David.

00:19:04.240 Can you tell me, have you, what is the response been from those who read this?

00:19:09.320 I would say overwhelmingly positive.

00:19:13.480 Of course, some people have been very angry.

00:19:15.440 One person said it was like white privilege on steroids, something like that.

00:19:19.520 Whatever.

00:19:20.620 Yeah.

00:19:21.160 But overwhelmingly positive, not so much that they say, oh, I want to join, you know, I

00:19:25.360 want to go buy a gun, but it's okay.

00:19:27.280 I get this.

00:19:28.280 That's all, that's all we have to do.

00:19:30.220 And look, we're never going to, we're never going to convince, nor do I think we have to

00:19:34.620 really make the effort to go after the most staunch, you know, people who are against it

00:19:39.500 because they're never going to change their mind.

00:19:41.160 But we have to try to reach people so they at least hear the reasonable, rational argument on the other side.

00:19:51.120 And we can learn from them.

00:19:53.560 They can learn from us.

00:19:55.040 And maybe we can pursue, you know, truly common sense things that will, will protect our families and protect our children in school.

00:20:04.460 David French, thank you so much.

00:20:05.740 Appreciate it.

00:20:06.980 Thank you.

00:20:07.460 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:25.240 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:34.840 You know, to, to be able to advance, we need to reach out to each other.

00:20:43.720 I, you know, talking to David French, David French has not changed a single point of view of, of his, in his principles.

00:20:55.600 He's a constitutionalist.

00:20:57.440 He's a small government freedom guy.

00:21:02.620 And, um, he's getting heat from, from some people for reaching out, just like I get heat.

00:21:08.440 Look at what he's, look at what he's, look at what he's just done.

00:21:11.520 He's tried to frame and tried to reach out to reasonable people.

00:21:16.460 Now people would say, well, the Atlantic, that's not reasonable.

00:21:19.480 Well, maybe the Atlantic isn't.

00:21:20.820 I don't know the people at the Atlantic, but perhaps some of the readers are.

00:21:26.420 We must change our, our, our thinking.

00:21:31.600 We are not believing in anyone.

00:21:36.560 We don't believe in anyone, let alone people on our own side.

00:21:41.440 I don't believe in anybody anymore.

00:21:43.200 I don't have faith in anybody anymore.

00:21:46.340 Well, we, we have to have faith in our neighbors.

00:21:49.600 Uh, and, and we either believe that there is no one on the other side that actually cares about rights, that actually cares about the constitution and the country and the founders.

00:22:06.480 We either believe that there is no one on the other side that believes that, uh, and that leads us to what, to where does that lead us?

00:22:16.760 A split country, uh, how do you win with that?

00:22:21.320 Extermination camps.

00:22:24.120 We either believe that, and that doesn't lead any place good, or we believe that, you know what?

00:22:30.080 There's a, a lot of misguided people out there.

00:22:33.080 There's a lot of people that I don't understand.

00:22:36.340 There's a lot of people that probably agree with me, but I haven't talked to them.

00:22:42.340 Or, you know, and on top of that, there's maybe 20%, 10%, 20% that just really do not care about the country.

00:22:55.140 You know, when, when, when you're talking about the left and the right, I think there's 10%, but let's be, let's be really pessimistic.

00:23:03.760 There's 20% on both sides that don't care about the constitution.

00:23:08.720 They only care about winning their way.

00:23:11.180 They take totalitarianism if that's what it takes.

00:23:14.640 I don't believe there's 40% of America that believes that, but let's just say that leaves 60% of us who are now watching this, this, this cartoon and saying, this is ridiculous.

00:23:28.160 This is what, what, what, we, there's common sense things we can do to protect our children.

00:23:34.960 And you know what?

00:23:36.080 One of them is to make sure that crazy people don't have guns.

00:23:42.920 So we could do due process and do what the Americans always do. 0.96

00:23:48.240 And that is, Hey, if family members think that there is a problem, you can go to court and have their guns temporarily taken away because there's a problem.

00:24:00.260 There's domestic abuse abuse, or there's a situation like there was in Florida.

00:24:04.040 And you can go to court and say, look, that we believe this guy is a danger to himself and to others.

00:24:08.940 We need to make sure he has no access to guns that he does not have guns.

00:24:14.780 And then the court says, okay, for six months or whatever it is.

00:24:18.700 Yes.

00:24:19.300 Then you have to come back and renew it.

00:24:23.340 Otherwise his guns come back.

00:24:26.960 That's called due process.

00:24:29.100 I believe everybody would be for something like that.

00:24:33.500 It would, the devil is in the details, but we're reasonable.

00:24:38.940 But how are you going to get there if we're just yelling at each other?

00:24:41.640 If we're not trying to reach out?

00:24:45.100 Do you want to live in a world where you believe the worst of the other side?

00:24:51.300 Think of this with us.

00:24:54.380 Stop thinking about, yeah, but.

00:24:56.720 Just think about this with us.

00:24:58.000 Are you the person they describe on television?

00:25:02.000 Because I'm not.

00:25:03.660 And I don't think you are either.

00:25:04.860 So why do we believe that they're the ones that we hear people describe on television as well?

00:25:14.800 I just want to read a couple of comments that came in because I read a letter yesterday on the air from a guy who said, look, I don't agree with you at all, but you've given me hope that this can go beyond politics, that there are reasonable people who are just as disgusted by what's going on in Washington as I am, even though we're on the other side.

00:25:37.720 Here are some of the comments.

00:26:07.720 What's the solution?

00:26:08.720 What's the solution?

00:26:10.720 What's the solution?

00:26:14.740 It has to be either we divide the states or we conquer them somehow or another.

00:26:24.620 And how are you going to conquer them?

00:26:27.080 Well, you can conquer them through force.

00:26:30.220 Or you can reach out and try to understand and try to build a relationship that we had.

00:26:38.860 These are the neighbors that we used to love and cherish and trust 10 years ago.

00:26:44.440 You know, people say to me, you've changed my principles haven't changed at all, not one bit, not one bit.

00:26:55.720 But my understanding of how to navigate in this world has changed dramatically.

00:27:00.740 And if you haven't changed in the last 10 years, I just want to know how.

00:27:07.260 Because everything around you has changed.

00:27:10.160 How have you not changed your outlook on how to solve this problem?

00:27:19.160 Because what we were doing, you know, eight years ago isn't what wasn't working.

00:27:25.580 It wasn't working.

00:27:27.980 Okay, so are we just going to keep doing the same thing?

00:27:30.960 Are we just going to keep shouting people down?

00:27:34.180 And I know that's what people say the left did.

00:27:37.280 And then the left will say that's what the right did.

00:27:39.300 I don't care anymore.

00:27:40.520 I don't care who started it.

00:27:41.800 I don't care.

00:27:43.760 I just want to solve it.

00:27:46.380 And I won't solve it by, you know, going back on my principles.

00:27:53.060 If you don't have principles, you have nothing.

00:27:57.120 If we don't have the Constitution, we have nothing.

00:28:05.580 I was reading these comments and people were like, here, one liberal argument against the Bill of Rights, I often hear, is that the Bill of Rights was just an afterthought.

00:28:17.220 And it was only approved because they were tired of hearing about it.

00:28:20.300 Seriously, they're all that ignorant to believe it.

00:28:22.960 Well, first of all, there's a little bit of truth in that.

00:28:25.560 We had the Constitution, and then, because everybody was afraid the government was going to violate these rights, they decided, let's put them down on paper.

00:28:34.500 Let's show people, let's demonstrate to them that the government will never do these things.

00:28:42.100 So there is some truth to that.

00:28:45.240 Now, maybe it's just a miscommunication, the way you've heard it phrased.

00:28:51.720 But that is generally true.

00:28:55.440 But it doesn't mean that it's not valuable.

00:28:58.200 It was self-evident at the time.

00:29:02.520 Everybody knew that, yeah, we're not going to take away guns.

00:29:05.960 We're not going to do, you know, you have a freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, everything else.

00:29:10.620 And people said, I don't know.

00:29:12.000 I don't trust you.

00:29:12.840 Okay, fine.

00:29:14.540 Then I'll write it down.

00:29:15.660 And it's a good thing they did.

00:29:17.760 Because it was James Madison that put in the Sedition Act.

00:29:22.900 Our second president said, by the way, you say anything bad about me or the government, and you're going to jail.

00:29:30.520 Thank goodness we had written it down.

00:29:32.600 Because it isn't always self-evident when people get into power.

00:29:37.920 How could James or John Adams, of all people, one of our patriots, how could he violate the Constitution with the Sedition Act?

00:29:51.940 Because when you get power, you suddenly believe, I know better than everybody else.

00:30:01.100 I know.

00:30:01.960 I know how to fix this.

00:30:03.860 I know better than everybody.

00:30:07.620 I'm here to tell you, I don't have any talent on loan from God.

00:30:11.520 I struggle with the same problems that you struggle with, of my family, raising my children, how to deal with the internet in my life with my children, how to deal with me, struggle with my job, struggle with money, all of it.

00:30:31.220 It's the same.

00:30:32.280 The problem comes when people think they know, when they have power and they become arrogant.

00:30:45.520 We have become arrogant in another way.

00:30:48.660 We've become arrogant.

00:30:49.820 We think we know who the other side is until we talk to them.

00:30:56.320 Now, I'm not talking about, I'll give you 20% of both sides.

00:31:02.180 I ain't talking to Nazis and I'm not talking to communists because they are sad.

00:31:08.640 Now, I will, I'll reach out and say, hey, you know, this really is not right.

00:31:13.400 You're open.

00:31:14.320 I'm open to talking to you about it.

00:31:16.500 I'm not going to compromise my principles, but I don't think you're going to either.

00:31:20.820 We may be two ships that are just never going to meet.

00:31:26.740 But I'm not going to write off 60% of America.

00:31:29.540 I'm not.

00:31:30.240 I'm not.

00:31:30.580 I think it's 80%.

00:31:31.700 I'm not willing to say that my friends and neighbors who vote differently than I do don't understand.

00:31:39.780 Government just can't come in and seize something.

00:31:43.380 The government can't just say, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to take away this or I'm going to put you in jail without due process.

00:31:51.120 You know, when you really talk to people and you say, okay, so let's talk about background checks.

00:32:00.920 Background checks.

00:32:02.340 97% of Americans say, yeah, we should have background checks.

00:32:06.280 97%.

00:32:07.400 However, those numbers start to fall apart when you, when you get down to the nitty gritty on what is included in that.

00:32:16.080 Should that background check have access to your doctor information?

00:32:20.040 So if you're seeing a psychiatrist, should that show up on your background check?

00:32:26.400 Well, I don't know.

00:32:27.200 Now, wait a minute.

00:32:27.760 That's starting to get a little dicey.

00:32:29.540 We, we really need to have conversations with each other.

00:32:40.340 And we need to understand that they feel the same way about us.

00:32:51.580 They feel the vicious vitriolic attacks.

00:32:57.560 We've seen it.

00:32:58.840 We've lived it.

00:32:59.900 We've lived it on their side. 0.62

00:33:02.280 Well, you may not be attacking them.

00:33:05.180 You may not be saying those things.

00:33:06.980 But others who are, you know, wrapping themselves as I'm a conservative Christian to those.

00:33:14.460 And I've seen them.

00:33:15.780 You've seen them.

00:33:17.360 Conservatives, just vicious and nasty and rumor mongering.

00:33:22.200 You see it too.

00:33:23.500 That's not who we are.

00:33:25.540 But that's who they think we are because we also think they're nasty.

00:33:31.540 And they can't understand.

00:33:33.060 I'm not like that.

00:33:33.940 I go to baseball games with my kids just like everybody else.

00:33:37.900 I'm not like that.

00:33:44.740 Let's have, let's start having adult conversations.

00:33:46.900 Let's start having hard conversations where, where there were a little uncomfortable because it's out of our comfort zone.

00:33:54.660 We have to start having those if we want to be able to fix, fix reason in her seat, find reason. 0.99

00:34:03.960 We have to start having those conversations with people that make us a little uncomfortable.

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00:34:26.380 And you don't have a lot of time usually.

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00:35:35.120 Loads of ammunition and a powerful AR-15.

00:35:38.200 Assault rifles out of the hands of people.

00:35:40.520 I want this to be the end of the Second Amendment.

00:35:43.660 The latest school shooting has ignited the gun debate.

00:35:46.660 Now more than ever, you need to know the facts.

00:35:49.020 Get control.

00:35:50.480 Exposing the truth about guns on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

00:35:54.180 I really want to take phone calls next hour.

00:35:56.320 Let me take Joe quickly in Massachusetts.

00:35:58.580 Hello, Joe.

00:36:00.600 Hi, Glenn.

00:36:01.480 Hi.

00:36:01.740 The 20% on either side, throw them out the window. 1.00

00:36:07.780 You're right.

00:36:08.120 It doesn't matter.

00:36:08.880 The problem with the 60%, and I live in Massachusetts, I know, they don't want to be educated. 1.00

00:36:15.280 They're ignorant and they don't have the time.

00:36:17.780 They don't care, whatever.

00:36:18.880 But they just run to whoever says what they want to hear.

00:36:21.220 And it's not an issue of taking a side.

00:36:25.480 It's an issue of them just, they want to have their life and they're so used to the government being involved that it just is the way it is anymore.

00:36:33.680 So, Joe, could you say that they probably feel the same way, that there are some in that 60% that feel the same way about the Republicans?

00:36:44.800 Because I can tell you that I think there's a lot of Republicans that fit in that category as well as Democrats.

00:36:51.500 Well, I agree.

00:36:52.520 I agree.

00:36:53.340 So, I'm saying just the average people in the middle, I don't know how you reach them.

00:37:00.480 Because I try to, I mean, I know a lot of people, there's a lot of people in Massachusetts who aren't rabid leftists.

00:37:05.420 Right.

00:37:05.540 But they're so used to the government, it's just, oh, that's the way it's always been.

00:37:08.520 Sure.

00:37:09.080 But the only way to be able to make an impact, the only way is to be able to live your life with principles, credibility, and stability,

00:37:18.420 and then reach out and be friends with people and talk to people.

00:37:24.780 Not everybody's going to jump on the bandwagon.

00:37:27.340 We just have to start believing that there's worth in every individual.

00:37:38.520 Love.

00:37:39.720 Courage.

00:37:41.460 Truth.

00:37:43.220 Glenn Beck.

00:37:44.780 She was never a Washington girl.

00:37:49.040 Never.

00:37:49.820 She didn't even care about politics. 0.98

00:37:51.640 And yet, she became one of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C.

00:37:55.120 Her name is Hope Hicks.

00:37:57.200 She was Trump's communications director.

00:37:59.420 She was one of the longest serving advisors and arguably Trump's most trusted aide.

00:38:04.380 She had often had the challenging job of talking him down from an angry tweet or redirecting his attention elsewhere.

00:38:10.960 She corralled the press to, you know, get on message when they were at odds with each other, which was all the time, apparently, in the White House.

00:38:19.880 And she would bring them together.

00:38:21.540 Hey, press department, come together.

00:38:25.080 Many of the staff viewed her as a protector against Trump's outbursts.

00:38:29.880 You know, like an older sister shielding her little brother from the father's wrath.

00:38:36.860 But yesterday, Hicks appeared to have had enough.

00:38:40.940 She told the president that she was resigning.

00:38:43.360 Now, was this an angry thing?

00:38:45.320 I don't know.

00:38:46.500 I don't.

00:38:47.040 I mean, I've read things.

00:38:49.120 Yes.

00:38:49.740 And I've read things.

00:38:50.700 No.

00:38:51.500 I don't know.

00:38:52.560 Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee.

00:38:59.200 She told a panel that in her job she had been occasionally been required to tell little white lies.

00:39:05.320 But she had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

00:39:13.340 Now, were people at the White House happy about that?

00:39:16.660 I'm sure not.

00:39:18.060 But she's not a Washington politician. 1.00

00:39:20.620 Her revelation to the panel isn't really shocking.

00:39:25.280 And I don't think it was the impetus for her leaving the White House.

00:39:28.900 She's a 29-year-old former model who wanted to work in fashion. 1.00

00:39:32.980 I doubt she had any aspirations of becoming the communications director.

00:39:36.520 Then I'll rule the world.

00:39:39.520 By all accounts, it sounds like she just took a job, her job, in stride.

00:39:43.980 It didn't seem like it was her dream to be there.

00:39:47.480 She thought she could serve. 0.70

00:39:49.000 She did.

00:39:49.460 The limelight and the scrutiny of the House Intelligence Committee and her relationship with Rob Porter, made public, appeared to have pushed her to end something she really never wanted to start.

00:40:01.880 When she leaves the White House in a couple of weeks, she's going to escape relatively unscathed.

00:40:08.120 She, by all accounts, did a good job.

00:40:10.280 She didn't stay to see her reputation get dragged through the dirt like so many before her.

00:40:18.380 Trump has stated many times that Hicks is very smart.

00:40:23.420 And I believe he's telling the truth.

00:40:25.480 It's Thursday, March 1st.

00:40:39.440 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:44.180 Hello, America.

00:40:47.540 I'm glad you're here.

00:40:48.700 I want to hear from you today because yesterday was a crazy day constitutionally, a crazy day politically.

00:40:57.740 I've I've I mean, I expected the kind of words that came out of Donald Trump's mouth yesterday on live television.

00:41:07.860 I expected those coming out of the mouth of President Obama behind closed doors, something that he would have never said.

00:41:15.500 But I never expected to hear them from a president who was on the Republican side and had the backing of the NRA and and is is is heading the supposedly the party that cares about the Constitution.

00:41:32.980 It was.

00:41:34.980 Pretty unique.

00:41:36.260 It's interesting to the defense seems to be that he doesn't really mean it.

00:41:41.580 He just says these things in these moments, and then he winds up ending up in the right place,

00:41:45.140 which, you know, has has been true in the past and hopefully is true here again.

00:41:49.340 You know, we're going to be critical of of his words when he says says these things about the second we have to be.

00:41:55.100 You are listening to a show that cares more about the second amendment than any politician.

00:42:00.040 We care more about the second amendment than the feelings of any Republican or Democrat.

00:42:05.580 I'm going to go.

00:42:06.540 I care more about all of the Bill of Rights and the amendments than any politician.

00:42:16.180 All of them.

00:42:16.740 Yeah.

00:42:16.940 I mean, that's this is a show that that cares about principles more than personalities.

00:42:21.860 You know, that's if you don't like that show, there's plenty of shows that do the other thing.

00:42:24.880 Yep.

00:42:25.040 So, but I think there's a good chance that Donald Trump, who's not, he's never been a gut aficionado.

00:42:35.440 He's not, he doesn't live in that culture.

00:42:37.100 He has, I mean, you could tell.

00:42:38.600 More constitutionalist.

00:42:38.720 Do we have the, we have some of the audio here.

00:42:40.880 Should we go through some of this?

00:42:41.580 Yeah, quickly.

00:42:42.060 I mean, he clearly doesn't have a, an idea of what the, what has happened in the debate

00:42:48.920 for, let's say, the past five years.

00:42:50.580 The biggest, probably the biggest thing in the past five years after Sandy Hook was the

00:42:54.440 Manchin-Toomey amendment that they tried to push through, which would have tightened gun control.

00:42:59.860 It's basically the reason why Pat Toomey is not considered a big Tea Partier anymore.

00:43:03.880 He was basically kicked out of the Tea Party movement, even though the rest of his record

00:43:08.340 is pretty darn good.

00:43:09.340 I mean, Toomey's been a pretty good Senator with the exception of guns and the right, rightly,

00:43:14.860 I think, took him on and said, I don't like the way you're trying to compromise here.

00:43:18.060 You're pushing too far.

00:43:19.200 We can't let these rights be infringed.

00:43:22.580 So they pushed back on that pretty hard.

00:43:25.560 Yesterday, Trump talking to Pat Toomey, who he seemed multiple times to have no idea that

00:43:32.680 Pat Toomey proposed a gun control measure in the very recent past.

00:43:37.240 Yes.

00:43:37.520 He actually thinks Toomey is afraid of the NRA.

00:43:41.400 Listen to this exchange.

00:43:42.220 Mr. President, you're absolutely right.

00:43:44.260 You can lead on this in a way that nobody else can, because for all of those Americans out 0.99

00:43:49.000 there that the Second Amendment is so critically important to them, they believe you, that you're

00:43:54.400 not going to go into their home and take their firearms.

00:43:57.000 So you have a credibility that nobody else can bring to this.

00:43:59.680 That's why you can lead.

00:44:01.280 Maybe you've heard my call.

00:44:02.860 You act when you see an opportunity to save life.

00:44:05.580 We're all, I mean, yeah, I'm going to lead, but we're all going to lead.

00:44:08.460 We're going to get this done in a bipartisan manner.

00:44:11.400 I'm not even worried about 60 votes.

00:44:12.880 I really believe that 60 votes, 60 percent meaning, should be so easy.

00:44:18.480 It should be 100 percent.

00:44:21.220 Chris, did you have something?

00:44:22.080 No, no, no, I just, I think you underestimate the power of the gun lobby.

00:44:24.980 No, no, I'll tell you what.

00:44:26.120 The reason I had lunch with the NRA on Sunday, I called them.

00:44:30.280 I said, you've got to come over.

00:44:31.200 I said, fellas, we've got to do something.

00:44:33.040 And they do have great power.

00:44:34.180 I agree with that.

00:44:34.820 They have great power over you people.

00:44:37.340 They have less power over me.

00:44:38.800 I don't need it.

00:44:39.440 I don't, what do I need?

00:44:40.660 But they, but I tell you, they are well-meaning.

00:44:43.100 And I said, they're very nice.

00:44:44.620 I said, fellas, we've got to do something.

00:44:46.700 We can't keep restricting and we can't keep, we have to do what's right.

00:44:51.840 When it comes to mental health and other issues, I said, we have to do what's right.

00:44:55.740 And I'm telling you, I think they're there.

00:44:58.420 I think they're there.

00:44:59.540 Some of you people are petrified of the NRA.

00:45:02.100 You can't be petrified.

00:45:03.800 They want to do what's right and they're going to do what's right.

00:45:06.140 I really believe that.

00:45:06.980 That was another time where he said, you know, he was taking on the senators for the NRA and congressmen.

00:45:11.480 But again, Trump is, I'll defend Trump on this point quite a bit, which is, you know, the NRA has been incredibly loyal.

00:45:18.540 David French pointed that out last hour.

00:45:21.840 You pointed it out as well.

00:45:22.860 And it's true. 0.56

00:45:23.500 The NRA has been incredibly loyal to Trump.

00:45:26.400 That being said, I have absolutely no problem with a president taking on an advocacy group that has sided with them in the past.

00:45:32.540 That's exactly what I want out of a president.

00:45:34.520 Me too.

00:45:34.900 I mean, if Trump really believes that we should have, you know, more gun control and things that the NRA is comfortable with, he should take on the NRA.

00:45:44.480 I mean, he should.

00:45:45.320 You got to be your own person.

00:45:46.820 Of course.

00:45:47.080 So I have no problem with him taking on the NRA.

00:45:48.980 I have the problem with the substance of what he's taking them on for.

00:45:52.040 Yes.

00:45:52.220 Which is, I mean, I don't think he seems to know it.

00:45:54.600 That was, let me play the Trump tells senators he's a fan of NRA, change age to 21.

00:45:59.120 This is about, you know, the idea of changing the age of purchasing firearms to 21 for long guns.

00:46:06.260 Listen to this exchange.

00:46:07.080 This is with Pat Toomey.

00:46:08.320 And I'm a fan of the NRA.

00:46:09.860 I mean, there's no bigger fan.

00:46:11.160 I'm a big fan of the NRA.

00:46:12.500 They want to do it.

00:46:13.080 These are great people.

00:46:13.840 These are great patriots.

00:46:14.880 They love our country.

00:46:16.740 But that doesn't mean we have to agree on them.

00:46:19.000 It doesn't make sense that I have to wait until I'm 21 to get a handgun, but I can get this weapon at 18.

00:46:24.240 I don't know.

00:46:24.860 So I was just curious as to what you did in your bill.

00:46:28.040 You don't address it?

00:46:28.540 We didn't address it in the present.

00:46:30.320 But I think...

00:46:30.840 Why is your friend of the NRA?

00:46:32.440 To Toomey.

00:46:33.700 Go to the NRA.

00:46:34.460 Five years ago.

00:46:35.020 To Pat Toomey.

00:46:36.980 But again, he's asking Pat Toomey what is in his bill.

00:46:40.600 This was the biggest piece of the gun debate in the past six years.

00:46:45.880 Why is he walking into a meeting on national television to ask Pat Toomey what's in the bill?

00:46:51.300 I mean, how can you possibly be having this meeting in public if you don't know what Manchin Toomey is?

00:46:58.240 How can you possibly be talking about that?

00:47:00.560 Well, it probably is the same reason why he said what he said about, you know, let's take the guns first.

00:47:07.020 Listen to what he's saying with Mike Pence.

00:47:12.260 The due process.

00:47:13.180 Due process.

00:47:13.640 Well, in the category, you spoke about it, Mr. President, gun violence restraining orders.

00:47:18.820 They're called.

00:47:19.480 California actually has a version of this.

00:47:22.180 And I think you, in your meeting with governors earlier this week individually and as a group, we spoke about states taking steps.

00:47:31.820 But the focus is to literally give families and give local law enforcement additional tools if an individual is reported to be a potential danger to themselves or others.

00:47:43.660 Allow due process.

00:47:45.240 No one's rights are trampled.

00:47:46.400 But the ability to go to court, obtain an order, and then collect not only the firearms but any weapons in the possession of that individual.

00:47:54.740 Or Mike take the firearms first and then go to court because that's another system because a lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court.

00:48:03.440 It's Chinese.

00:48:03.820 To get the due process procedures, I like taking the guns early.

00:48:08.460 Like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida, he had a lot of firearms.

00:48:14.720 They saw everything.

00:48:16.080 To go to court would have taken a long time.

00:48:17.540 So you could do exactly what you're saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.

00:48:22.360 Oh, my gosh.

00:48:24.460 That's not how our system.

00:48:25.560 So here's what's another system.

00:48:27.080 Here's what happened yesterday.

00:48:29.340 This is, you know, the world according to Glenn.

00:48:31.400 Donald Trump walks out with Mike Pence at his side.

00:48:34.620 He says, Mike, that was a great meeting.

00:48:37.260 Great meeting.

00:48:38.220 I think we made a lot of progress.

00:48:40.040 Sure was, Mr. President.

00:48:41.280 How about that one time, though, when they were trying to lure you into voting for all the gun control measures that they've been pushing for for a long time?

00:48:48.160 You really read that out.

00:48:49.420 And I saw what you did there.

00:48:50.720 And that was fantastic.

00:48:53.220 Why don't you tell me?

00:48:54.280 Why don't you tell me, Mike, what do you think I was doing?

00:48:56.480 Oh, like when the point when Dianne Feinstein was smiling giddily next to you because you seem to agree to an assault weapons ban.

00:49:02.740 We know you didn't do that.

00:49:03.740 And I know what you were doing with her trying to try to show her true colors.

00:49:08.400 You should prove that.

00:49:09.880 And that's why we're going to get to you that bill that we talked about earlier.

00:49:13.180 Remember the one that doesn't violate the second event?

00:49:15.560 We're going to get that to you here in just a couple of minutes.

00:49:17.320 Really?

00:49:18.100 And and and that's the one you want to back.

00:49:20.580 Right.

00:49:20.840 That's just like we talked about before that meeting.

00:49:22.700 Right.

00:49:23.040 Like you're still on that band.

00:49:23.920 Yeah, I'm still there.

00:49:25.920 OK, I thought so.

00:49:26.560 You really I mean, you've outsmarted them.

00:49:28.180 What happened was that you show the true colors.

00:49:30.560 This is what I think happened.

00:49:32.060 Yeah.

00:49:32.420 And now you see this morning, Trump is tweeting as if that conversation happened.

00:49:36.220 He's like, well, we got to respect the Second Amendment.

00:49:37.720 And, you know, he's he sounds a lot more like a Republican president today than he did yesterday.

00:49:43.080 And if that's the outcome of this, it's scary because one of these times is not going to work.

00:49:48.520 But if that's the outcome, then we're all going to be fine in a couple of weeks.

00:49:51.720 And it just it certainly has to make you nervous that he has his instincts are take the guns first.

00:49:58.560 And his knowledge level is I don't know about the biggest issue in this area as I stand in front of the entire nation in a public meeting talking with the guy who sponsored the bill that I don't know anything about and accusing him of being afraid of the NRA.

00:50:13.940 Right. Like that is it's so incredible.

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00:52:48.240 Let's go to Richard in New York.

00:52:49.660 Hello, Richard.

00:52:50.840 How are you?

00:52:51.540 Hey, Glenn, how are you doing?

00:52:52.360 Very good.

00:52:52.740 Hey, Glenn, how are you doing?

00:52:53.480 Very good.

00:52:55.180 Hi.

00:52:55.780 I'm giving you a call because I think the narrative needs to change from gun control to people control.

00:53:00.640 I don't think that the government's got it right on this one.

00:53:04.600 I also think that I have two proposed ideas that I think would resolve a lot of the issues.

00:53:09.220 I don't think anything will ever fix 100% the issues of gun violence or any type of violence for that matter.

00:53:15.000 But I think the issue should be if we ask our police departments and people in the police department to take a psychological evaluation, a written one, prior to being hired to be on the police department, I think that in order to purchase a firearm, you should have to go through the same exact exam.

00:53:34.780 Why is that?

00:53:36.120 I think that would take care of the mental illness issue with people who are mentally ill.

00:53:42.800 It will also resolve the issue of temporary insanity.

00:53:46.160 What stops a person who has, you know, who's 50 years old, gets fired from their job and goes by as a weapon and goes on a mass shooting at their job?

00:53:55.120 You know, the only thing that would stop them is if they had to take an exam that would test their temperament and to see if they're eligible to purchase a firearm.

00:54:04.880 All right.

00:54:05.060 Well, a couple of a couple of thoughts with this, Richard.

00:54:08.620 First of all, temporary insanity is not insanity.

00:54:11.340 So there's no test for temporary insanity.

00:54:13.720 It's it's something that you you snap.

00:54:17.100 That's why it's called temporary insanity, because something extraordinarily emotional just happened to you and you snap and you wouldn't necessarily be able to test for that in advance.

00:54:26.920 The second thing is, is you're talking about applying a standard that is given to the police department.

00:54:33.280 Well, the police, it's not a right to be a police officer.

00:54:38.400 OK, that's a privilege.

00:54:39.800 That's a job.

00:54:40.840 It's not a right.

00:54:41.920 And and you said something that I thought was it was disturbing.

00:54:47.360 I think I understand what you're saying.

00:54:49.280 But the key word here is control.

00:54:52.080 You said we got to go from gun control to people control.

00:54:56.340 Well, that's really the same thing.

00:54:58.180 That's why the Second Amendment exists. 1.00

00:55:00.560 So someone cannot control the people so the people can control themselves.

00:55:06.260 So if if if we if we if we look at this and say.

00:55:11.000 Is it a right?

00:55:12.220 See, this is the this is the problem that we're having is we're dancing around the issue.

00:55:17.000 Is my owning a gun a right?

00:55:21.000 If it is a right, then I automatically have it.

00:55:25.680 I've been endowed by my creator.

00:55:27.760 So anything that stands between that right and me is unnatural and wrong, according to the Constitution.

00:55:36.320 Anything that happens after I receive that right.

00:55:40.540 Then you can do that.

00:55:42.360 So, in other words, I have the right to own a gun and I want to you want to test me before I get the gun.

00:55:50.860 No, you you want to say that there are things in place that if I start to have erratic behavior, you can go in front of a court and constitutionally for my Fourth and Fifth Amendment have due process.

00:56:03.840 Yes, you can't just take my gun, but I have due process.

00:56:08.060 Then you can do that.

00:56:10.140 But it's either a right or it's not.

00:56:12.980 It's the same as voting rights.

00:56:15.160 It's a right to vote.

00:56:17.360 So anytime you want to put a poll tax anytime this was a problem with African-Americans, let let well, you got to pass this test to see if you're really able to vote.

00:56:26.780 No, I don't.

00:56:27.700 It's my right to vote.

00:56:29.520 And I agree with that to a certain extent, but I think if we can put parameters on different events of life to test you, to figure out if you're qualified to do certain things, qualified to be a lawyer.

00:56:43.880 Just because I go read the law books tomorrow doesn't qualify.

00:56:47.040 There's a parameter.

00:56:48.220 It's not a right.

00:56:49.200 It's not a right to be a lawyer.

00:56:50.040 It's not a right to be a lawyer.

00:56:51.040 You could do this.

00:56:51.520 You just have to you have to get rid of the Second Amendment. 0.80

00:56:53.340 Yeah.

00:56:53.600 Yeah.

00:56:53.760 I mean, look, Richard, this may be what, you know, we end up doing.

00:56:58.780 I hope to God not.

00:57:00.400 And but I and I see your reason.

00:57:03.280 However, you to get there, you must deny that owning a gun is a right.

00:57:10.580 And that's where, you know, half of the country is that it's not a right.

00:57:15.260 Well, it is.

00:57:17.100 And the only way around it is to abolish the Second Amendment, which can be done. 0.97

00:57:24.380 We've done it to the what is it?

00:57:25.620 The 18th Amendment, which was the prohibition.

00:57:27.800 Right.

00:57:28.040 Yeah, I don't know.

00:57:29.220 You can abolish the Second Amendment. 0.56

00:57:31.800 I highly recommend against it.

00:57:34.720 But the only way is to say it is no longer a right.

00:57:40.800 Then you can have all kinds of litmus tests, but not while it remains a right.

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00:58:19.860 And your phone calls as well.

00:58:21.540 I want to go I want to go off the last phone call that we had, because I think this is really important to to have this conversation.

00:58:30.360 And that is, what is a right?

00:58:34.320 What does it mean?

00:58:36.500 What does the Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean?

00:58:40.780 And the Bill of Rights and the Constitutional Amendments are really clear.

00:58:45.240 And most people, most people don't think of it this way.

00:58:49.300 But let's start with the 13th Amendment, Stu.

00:58:51.880 That abolished slavery, did it not?

00:58:54.160 No, it did not.

00:58:55.080 Wait a minute.

00:58:55.700 No, it no.

00:58:56.620 The 13th Amendment said all indentured servants and all slaves.

00:59:02.640 No more.

00:59:03.400 No more slaves.

00:59:04.520 Yeah, I could kind of say that.

00:59:05.820 However, it left an exception out.

00:59:07.900 An exception.

00:59:08.420 An exception if it's only it can you are prohibited from putting someone in involuntary servitude or slavery except for a punishment of for a crime.

00:59:18.220 We've seen people on the side of the road collecting trash.

00:59:20.800 You've seen this in every, you know, prison movie going back the past 100 years.

00:59:25.040 Chain gangs.

00:59:25.500 Chain gangs.

00:59:26.100 Right.

00:59:26.320 I mean, this is that is essentially involuntary servitude.

00:59:29.800 Right.

00:59:29.880 It's a form of slavery.

00:59:31.040 If you will.

00:59:31.840 You're a slave to the system.

00:59:33.140 You will do and work as the system says, because so the 13th Amendment says there's no slavery or involuntary servitude unless or accept this.

00:59:45.740 OK, we all know the third, third, third Amendment, right?

00:59:49.720 Nobody knows the third.

00:59:50.820 It's my favorite amendment.

00:59:52.000 It is mine.

00:59:52.620 It is mine, too.

00:59:53.640 I don't know why.

00:59:54.360 You shall not be required to quarter soldiers in your home.

01:00:00.480 That's what the amendment says, right?

01:00:01.680 No, it doesn't.

01:00:02.900 No, it says unless unless it's wartime and they pass a law saying they can put quartered soldiers in your home.

01:00:09.740 So, in other words, you can say you're not quartering these soldiers in my home and you can hold up the the the third Amendment and say, absolutely.

01:00:19.780 That's against the Constitution.

01:00:21.280 They say, no, actually, we're at war.

01:00:23.480 And here's the law we passed.

01:00:25.840 OK, so there are exceptions and they're written into the Constitution.

01:00:30.760 Now, most of them don't have the unless, but there is only one that says, and there is no unless.

01:00:40.340 There is no exception and you will not infringe on this.

01:00:47.060 The Second Amendment is the strongest right.

01:00:50.720 Because there is no unless.

01:00:53.400 There is no ifs, ands, or buts.

01:00:55.620 Yeah.

01:00:55.880 I mean, even if you look at the First Amendment, it just talks about Congress making laws.

01:01:00.620 You know, it prohibits Congress from making laws that will any law respecting an establishment of a religion.

01:01:06.320 Right.

01:01:06.640 But as we know, you know, the states still had state Massachusetts had a state religion when this thing was passed.

01:01:12.820 Right.

01:01:13.720 It there are all sorts of exceptions.

01:01:15.580 The second one is really clear.

01:01:17.280 They seem to make that one really important.

01:01:19.420 Hey, you can't infringe on this one.

01:01:22.020 So the reason why you have to understand that this is a right, this is a right.

01:01:29.380 And not a suggestion.

01:01:32.020 It is something that according to our system of government, you are born with certain rights.

01:01:39.720 And they can't ever be taken away from you unless there's an exception.

01:01:47.120 But there is one right that says shall not be infringed.

01:01:53.200 So this is a God-given right that nobody can take away.

01:01:57.160 If you understand that it is a right first, then you can understand and tie it in other things.

01:02:05.440 For instance, voting, voting, poll taxes.

01:02:13.100 We all know that that was that was an infringement on a right.

01:02:18.540 You wait a minute, because I'm African-American, I have to pay a tax because I'm African-American.

01:02:24.020 I have to take a test.

01:02:26.180 No, I don't have a test that I have to take.

01:02:28.020 I have a right.

01:02:32.460 Unless it's taken away because I'm a criminal and that's a new addition.

01:02:38.400 So you have a right to vote.

01:02:41.960 We all know.

01:02:44.580 They don't spy on you as the default.

01:02:48.620 Well, I mean, now they do because we're violating the the the Fourth Amendment.

01:02:52.420 But they don't we all know the government does not have a right to spy on you.

01:02:59.300 What they have is a is no right to spy on you unless they can go to a court and get a warrant because they've proved there's enough here that we need to follow and spy you spy on you.

01:03:15.440 So there is an unless in that right there isn't with voting.

01:03:22.640 There isn't an unless there's just age.

01:03:27.180 There isn't an unless in the Second Amendment.

01:03:30.660 You want all of your rights.

01:03:33.120 Rights are yours by default.

01:03:36.280 What people are talking about now is no.

01:03:40.340 Well, let's make the default.

01:03:41.800 You don't get one unless you do this.

01:03:44.980 No, no, no.

01:03:46.720 Rights mean you have that unless you do these things. 0.99

01:03:52.200 Yeah, I mean, it goes fundamentally.

01:03:54.280 It's the constitutionalist argument is you're innocent unless you're proven guilty.

01:04:01.780 Right.

01:04:02.300 And the current way of looking at this from the left and others is you're guilty unless you can be proven innocent.

01:04:09.820 Right.

01:04:10.340 That's a huge, massive.

01:04:12.320 It's 180 degrees different.

01:04:14.280 That is no longer a right.

01:04:16.540 That becomes then a privilege.

01:04:19.300 Now, with this, we have to talk about responsibilities.

01:04:22.460 If you are not responsible, you lose your rights.

01:04:28.960 And quite honestly, that's why we are losing rights now, because we have shown ourselves irresponsible with those rights.

01:04:36.980 Everybody always says, I have rights, you know.

01:04:39.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:40.260 I know.

01:04:41.060 But you also, dude, have responsibilities.

01:04:43.440 Let's go to Mike in California.

01:04:47.260 Hello, Mike.

01:04:47.700 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:04:49.820 Hey, Glenn and Stu.

01:04:50.960 How are you guys doing today?

01:04:51.940 Good.

01:04:52.120 How are you?

01:04:53.160 Good.

01:04:53.800 Hey, I just wanted to say the whole thing about the psychological background checks.

01:04:58.880 Yeah.

01:04:59.080 I, for one, don't trust psychologists.

01:05:02.460 And I think a lot of Americans feel this way.

01:05:05.140 The APA has been completely politicized.

01:05:08.260 Their votes on transgenderism and homosexuality and all that proves it. 0.69

01:05:12.540 They were political votes not having anything to do with actual data and studies.

01:05:17.020 And I've known, I mean, I've known a lot of people who are messed up people who went into psychology to try to figure themselves out.

01:05:25.260 And then they came out with a job, you know.

01:05:27.680 So, I mean, I thought I had, I knew one marriage and family therapist who was bipolar and manic.

01:05:34.240 So, you know, there, we have to be as much.

01:05:39.440 You're exactly right, Mike, on this, that we have to be really careful about anything having to do with.

01:05:47.020 A psychiatric being a default because everything is being politicized.

01:05:52.640 Now, that's why the proposal that the right is proposing is that we have a system to where your family, just like committing people, where your family can come in and say, look, Your Honor, we need to make sure that he doesn't have these guns because he is a danger.

01:06:12.160 And that's, that could have, that could have stopped the shooting in Florida.

01:06:18.780 Would have stopped.

01:06:20.160 Would have stopped.

01:06:21.260 The parents called and said, can you come, please take the guns.

01:06:25.520 Thanks, Mike.

01:06:26.440 Jamal, North Carolina.

01:06:28.000 Hello, Jamal.

01:06:29.680 Hey, Glenn, what's going on this morning?

01:06:31.300 Hey, Stu, let me say this real quick.

01:06:32.660 When President Trump did what he said about the due process, what he was saying was also was, you have liberals that have come out the due process for everything else.

01:06:42.880 This whole Me Too movement was a tack on due process.

01:06:45.600 So what he was basically saying is, when CNN, MSNBC, and all the mainstream media come out to him, whenever he says something, they come out to him.

01:06:53.800 So if he get Democrats in the media over and say, okay, fine, President Trump is against due process, well, we are supporting due process.

01:07:02.560 So now, by them doing that, by them going against him and saying, well, he's against due process, he can't do that.

01:07:08.480 Well, here's the thing.

01:07:09.340 Now, what they have done, now they have shut down the Me Too movement.

01:07:14.200 They have shut down Black Lives Matter trash. 1.00

01:07:16.800 They have shut down some of their main liberal agendas because their main liberal agendas are against due process.

01:07:25.480 So, Jamal, you are way ahead of the game.

01:07:31.240 You are right on the money on how due process anybody who is against this, but for the Me Too movement in the way it's, I mean, to its nth degree, you're exactly right.

01:07:44.220 But I believe beyond that, you are a little wishing and hoping, kind of like people were when Justice Roberts said, no, I'm cool with the whole tax people, you know, just to be an honest citizen.

01:08:00.700 This is like 67,000 dimension chess we're talking about with Joel.

01:08:06.540 Well, Glenn, I'm going to tell you this.

01:08:08.140 The Republicans, we play chess is why the Democrats play chess.

01:08:11.540 The liberals play chess.

01:08:12.280 I am a Trump fanatic.

01:08:13.380 I love President Trump.

01:08:14.880 I love you guys, too.

01:08:15.840 But here's the thing also.

01:08:17.420 When they have been attacking the Second Amendment ever since 1934, when they passed the law against the cops and submachine gun, that's when they first started doing it.

01:08:27.700 They've been eroding the Second Amendment more and more.

01:08:30.260 They found more reasons to deny you the right to have the second than they do for voting.

01:08:35.900 I support voter ID, okay?

01:08:38.020 Let me tell you this.

01:08:38.540 I support voter ID.

01:08:39.640 I believe it is.

01:08:40.520 The failures in the black community is the failure of the black church. 1.00

01:08:43.860 And every time you turn around and come about with voter ID, they always want to make it look like it's racism in the poll because the Democrat Party sees that.

01:08:50.620 Now, if they want to sit there and they want to say about the Second Amendment, this is why they can always run to the argument, Glenn, where you can't have an automatic.

01:09:01.000 You can't have an automatic.

01:09:02.140 The liberals and the communists, what they did long ago, what they set up a chess board because I love chess.

01:09:08.640 They put a pawn in a certain place where you can't bring your knight, you can't bring your bishop, you can't bring your queen out at all.

01:09:19.520 You can't do that because that pawn sits right there.

01:09:22.440 So they've been attacked the Second Amendment long ago when they passed in the 1934 when they said you couldn't have to talk to some machine gun.

01:09:30.420 Well, they said, well, no, no, Americans couldn't be trusted.

01:09:32.780 Then they kept finding ways to chip away with it.

01:09:35.540 Glenn, on my page, I have to debate people all the time because I'm out of Jamal. 0.65

01:09:39.940 I have a conservative page.

01:09:42.280 I do videos.

01:09:43.000 But, Glenn, I have to debate people and explain to them.

01:09:45.180 Driving a car is not a right.

01:09:47.660 Yes, I know.

01:09:48.220 The Second Amendment is a right.

01:09:51.360 I know.

01:09:52.120 Well, they don't think the forefathers, Glenn, they don't think the forefathers knew about automatics.

01:09:59.880 But if you do history, they had the puckle gun.

01:10:02.960 The forefathers knew about automatics.

01:10:05.580 Yeah, that's right.

01:10:06.140 Jamal, you are spot on.

01:10:08.980 And like I said at the beginning, way ahead of the average person.

01:10:14.040 I will correct one thing.

01:10:15.560 It didn't start with the Tommy gun.

01:10:17.760 It started with Reconstruction.

01:10:21.420 That's when the Democrats first came after the guns.

01:10:25.380 And they came after the guns of the African-American community for their own protection.

01:10:29.660 That way they could ride in with the Klan at night. 0.60

01:10:32.660 Thanks, Jamal, for your call.

01:10:33.740 Dick, quickly in California.

01:10:36.980 Yes, good morning.

01:10:38.220 Hey.

01:10:38.840 Sir, thank you for taking my call.

01:10:40.580 Sure.

01:10:40.740 Can we ratchet this back to the original stimulus for the conversation, which happened to be the comments by Vice President Pence and President Trump yesterday?

01:10:52.040 Sure.

01:10:52.180 This whole discussion has come into what I call a plate of spaghetti as compared to a waffle.

01:10:59.780 The idea here seems to be, and let me tell you where I'm coming from.

01:11:05.720 I flew in the Navy.

01:11:06.660 I carried weapons.

01:11:07.600 I'm a lifer with the NRA.

01:11:09.560 But not because of any extreme sensibility to the Second Amendment, which I support.

01:11:16.860 But there are also many other amendments that support the rights of other people that are to be protected against someone who has violated the Second Amendment, which this guy did.

01:11:29.100 He violated the Second Amendment.

01:11:30.640 And if we were to look at the comments by Vice President Pence, he says, you know, go through the due process to the courts, and President Trump comes in and says, take the guns away.

01:11:46.880 Well, in order for us to take the gun away from that man, we would have had to get a search warrant.

01:11:53.720 Is that not true?

01:11:55.320 Well, how do you get a search warrant?

01:11:57.260 Do you go to court, or do you go to a judge, which is not a court officer, but it's not going to court?

01:12:05.100 You can get a search warrant in a heartbeat, and that's, I think, where President Trump was coming from.

01:12:11.840 You get that search warrant based on all of the red flags that came through for, what, two years previously with this guy?

01:12:19.080 So if you're going to do that, President Trump is saying shortcut that system to the law, which is a search warrant, and not go through the due process, which takes a lot of time.

01:12:31.540 No, there's a difference between a search warrant, because that is saying that I can violate the Fourth Amendment, and I can search because we have reason to believe there is something on the premises that will convict you of the crime,

01:12:46.980 that we have enough evidence that we've brought to a judge to say, we think we can find this here.

01:12:52.020 That's not to take it, to take your possessions away and violate another amendment.

01:12:58.760 For the Second Amendment, you need another procedure, not just a judge.

01:13:03.440 I think we have enough secret courts, quite honestly.

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01:14:31.960 Really exciting news.

01:14:33.200 Something, something that will make you feel good.

01:14:35.480 Aren't you in a mood once in a while just to feel good?

01:14:37.660 Just to be like, okay.

01:14:39.100 No.

01:14:39.400 We're making some progress some places.

01:14:44.340 And your phone calls are around the corner.

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01:16:06.020 President Trump is criticizing the Attorney General Jeff Sessions again.

01:16:10.100 And yesterday, he wrote a, well, I was going to say a memo, but it was more of a tweet, just calling him disgraceful.

01:16:18.020 The situation was disgraceful.

01:16:21.320 That Sessions is using the Justice Department's Inspector General to investigate the potentially massive FISA abuse in the Russian investigation.

01:16:32.060 Wait, it's disgraceful that we're using the Inspector General?

01:16:35.640 That's the system.

01:16:36.740 Trump apparently didn't like that the Justice Department lawyers were not used for the probe instead of the IG.

01:16:44.740 The Inspector General is looking into whether FISA standards were abused when the FBI first started investigating Trump and his campaign associates and their possible ties to Russia.

01:16:55.180 The Nunez memo alleges that the FBI misled the FISA court to obtain a warrant to monitor Carter Page.

01:17:02.300 Referring to the Inspector General, Trump wrote, isn't the IG an Obama guy?

01:17:06.740 Later, House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy released his own statement defending the Inspector General.

01:17:14.080 Gowdy says he, quote, has complete confidence in him and hope he has given the time, the resources, and the independence to complete his work.

01:17:23.220 End quote.

01:17:24.440 Trump has taken issue with Jeff Sessions on and off for almost the whole time since he's been in office.

01:17:29.360 Rumors that Sessions will be fired seem to surface at least once a month.

01:17:33.640 Usually Sessions keeps his mouth shut and absorbs the blow, but not this time.

01:17:37.740 He issued a statement, not a tweet, a statement that said, we have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary.

01:17:49.880 As long as I'm the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.

01:17:55.140 And this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner, according to the law and Constitution.

01:18:02.040 End quote.

01:18:02.800 I think that sounds like he might have been a little irritable when he wrote it.

01:18:08.500 Maybe Sessions is finally getting tired of the abuse.

01:18:12.280 Ever since Sessions recused himself heading the Russia collusion investigation, he has been Trump's punching bag.

01:18:18.520 It's strange because Sessions has been a staunch Trump supporter from the very beginning.

01:18:24.640 It's also weird because Sessions has even offered to resign, but Trump hasn't taken him up on it yet.

01:18:32.260 At this point in the marathon Russia investigation, what President Trump's think what President Trump thinks he stands to gain by tweeting criticism of Sessions and the inspector general is anyone's guess.

01:18:44.820 But regardless, it's just not helpful.

01:18:52.060 It's Thursday, March 1st.

01:18:54.700 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:57.240 We come to you with good news and partial good news.

01:19:01.660 I know I thought we were going to announce something else.

01:19:04.740 We have a couple of good things, but I thought we were going to announce something else today, an accomplishment.

01:19:09.260 But it has led us down a deeper rabbit hole that we need to hold our cards close to our vest here.

01:19:14.820 For a little while, but I want to welcome Tim Ballard.

01:19:17.600 He is the CEO of the Nazarene Fund, founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, and Dave Lopez, who's the director of operations for the Nazarene Fund.

01:19:27.200 Hello, gentlemen.

01:19:27.740 Welcome back.

01:19:28.640 Thanks, Glenn.

01:19:29.140 Hi, Glenn.

01:19:29.600 Thanks for having us.

01:19:30.160 So let's start with the good news.

01:19:33.440 Well, last week we talked about the movement of 320 Christian Yazidi victims of ISIS who we were moving out.

01:19:45.100 And I think that, Dave, didn't that include like 20 slaves that we were in?

01:19:48.860 Yeah, 25 former slaves of ISIS is in that number.

01:19:52.540 Okay.

01:19:53.220 And how are we?

01:19:54.820 We are great.

01:19:55.400 We are over 80% done getting them out.

01:19:59.240 And these stories are amazing because we get to interview them, and we have an interview that we're going to show that you're going to be able to actually air in a couple days.

01:20:07.500 Okay.

01:20:08.100 But the people that are out and the ones that are ready to start talking, I mean, unbelievable stories.

01:20:14.020 There's this case of one girl who was passed around, sold 16 times, different ISIS fighters, different ISIS commanders, just horrifying things.

01:20:24.440 She actually tried to kill herself at one point, jumped out of a window.

01:20:28.560 A slave trader who had mercy during one of these exchanges told her to go to this Christian group, which they ended up bringing her to the Nazarene Fund.

01:20:40.280 God, are you kidding me?

01:20:41.620 It's unbelievable.

01:20:42.820 A slave trader?

01:20:44.840 I mean, you wouldn't think that he would have mercy.

01:20:47.580 Something happened.

01:20:48.540 Who knows what happened?

01:20:49.380 But he said, you know what?

01:20:50.220 Run that way.

01:20:51.540 Wow.

01:20:51.800 And so now we have her, and with these other hundreds that we're bringing over, we're preparing the way for them to go into Australia, as you know, and we're so excited to take you out there and see them as they get into their new homes and hear these stories.

01:21:08.420 I've heard that.

01:21:08.740 Is it true that I've heard a television show is, and don't say the name of it because I don't know if it can be, but that there's a television show, a major television show that's going to be going to Australia to welcome them.

01:21:20.600 Unrelated to us and everything else.

01:21:22.380 Have you heard that?

01:21:22.960 No.

01:21:23.580 Oh, okay.

01:21:24.260 Yeah, there's a major TV show that has heard about the Nazarene Fund and said, I want to know about this, and I want our audience to know about it.

01:21:31.860 It's really cool.

01:21:32.500 It's great.

01:21:32.780 It's going to be great.

01:21:33.780 Great.

01:21:34.120 Great.

01:21:34.440 These are just amazing stories.

01:21:36.300 You remember the story.

01:21:37.300 You've told this one about the Christian fighter who was killed and left behind four daughters, his wife.

01:21:44.340 Yeah.

01:21:44.920 And they put his body and displayed it behind the church, ISIS did, and the Nazarene Fund went in and extracted this family in the dead of night, got them into safety.

01:21:55.360 They're safe now, and they are about to make their trip into Australia.

01:21:59.820 And so they're just all, it's just amazing.

01:22:02.260 It's just so much light and hope.

01:22:04.340 So we have, and I know this is radio, but you have footage from, we were, last time we were here, and I don't want to get into all the dark stuff, but we were talking about what ISIS is doing with organ harvesting, which is terrifying.

01:22:16.860 And they're just snatching these kids.

01:22:19.680 It's my understanding that this video, and you'll describe it on radio, but this video was taken because we were actually, we were doing reconnaissance on one of these makeshift hospitals, Dave.

01:22:32.940 Is that right?

01:22:33.220 That's right.

01:22:33.900 We were in the area looking for, we were having interviews with witnesses, people, eyewitnesses, accounts of organ harvesting.

01:22:41.720 We're also looking into a few different areas where it was being done.

01:22:45.560 That's the whole point of what's going on up and around Raqqa, and the devastation that you're going to see in this video is immense just from the war.

01:22:52.880 And then you're going to also see what happens after this explosion goes off and how brave our people are.

01:22:58.820 Okay.

01:22:59.020 So these are Nazarene Fund operators.

01:23:02.420 Operators.

01:23:02.740 Yes, correct.

01:23:03.200 Okay.

01:23:03.420 Go ahead and roll this and describe it here.

01:23:05.860 What are we seeing?

01:23:06.520 Okay.

01:23:06.760 So these are our guys, and they're just scanning the area, showing the territory, having no idea what was about to happen.

01:23:12.900 Any child in this area is exposed and vulnerable to being taken for organ harvesting, and they know that.

01:23:18.380 And they see a child right there.

01:23:19.740 You see the mom and the child holding, they're holding hands.

01:23:22.100 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:23:22.600 And they're watching this scene like, I hope they get out of here.

01:23:25.160 This is not a safe place for them to be.

01:23:27.160 Now, what you're going to now see is that they walk behind a building, and there's an explosion, an improvised explosive device that was just sitting there.

01:23:38.120 It could have been a leftover, unexploded ordinance probably from the Syrian government that when the shelling was going on.

01:23:46.360 There it goes right there.

01:23:46.640 Yeah, there we go.

01:23:47.580 There's the explosion.

01:23:48.380 The child is instantly killed.

01:23:50.700 The child, who's about six, seven years old, is not, is hurt, and now extremely vulnerable.

01:23:59.160 This is the exact situation that the organ harvesters are looking for.

01:24:02.480 Don't be afraid.

01:24:03.300 There's nothing serious.

01:24:05.300 Is there anybody inside?

01:24:06.560 Where?

01:24:08.020 That's the child?

01:24:09.820 That's just the child.

01:24:11.060 Yeah, they're just talking to the child right there.

01:24:12.880 Don't be afraid.

01:24:13.540 Now, these are our operators who see this, and far from running away, they run right into

01:24:18.340 the danger, snatch up that child. 0.99

01:24:19.620 This is our guy.

01:24:20.500 That's our guy right there holding the baby and taking that child out, because this child

01:24:25.120 is now completely alone and vulnerable to the organ harvesters, and we now, that's our

01:24:29.380 guy getting them out, getting her into a safe place, and she's safe, and she's healing.

01:24:34.260 She just lost her mother. 0.79

01:24:35.500 Oh, my gosh.

01:24:36.300 And to catch that on camera was just, I mean, they were just, they had obviously no idea

01:24:40.040 this was about to happen.

01:24:40.820 Oh, my gosh.

01:24:41.340 It's hard for people to understand just how difficult the situation is and what our people are doing

01:24:46.040 there on the ground and how brave they are.

01:24:47.600 And not just to be able to do what they're doing there, but the logistics, to be able

01:24:51.540 to have the relationships with the Australian government, to keep the vetting process for

01:24:55.600 getting people out.

01:24:56.500 Australians have been remarkable.

01:24:57.600 Amazing.

01:24:57.920 Amazing.

01:24:58.580 Amazing.

01:24:59.300 They're really remarkable.

01:25:00.280 So amazing.

01:25:00.900 I mean, people just don't know this.

01:25:02.880 These countries have taken a lot of heat because they're taking in, you know, the EU, especially

01:25:09.780 over in Europe, the EU is just pushing everybody and saying, you have to take refugees.

01:25:14.340 There's no vetting or anything.

01:25:16.140 That's right.

01:25:16.560 These are all vetted.

01:25:18.160 They're Christians in new cities that have been coming under attack.

01:25:21.060 And the reason that it's working is because the Australians trust the Nazarene Fund because 0.82

01:25:27.600 the Nazarene Fund, we are in there vetting every single person to make sure they have

01:25:32.220 background checks done.

01:25:33.100 We know who they are, what their background is, what their history is.

01:25:36.380 The last thing we want to do is send a threat into another country. 0.85

01:25:41.760 And these guys are not there to change Australia or anything else.

01:25:45.180 Some are going to stay, but the majority that I know of, and tell me if you find this true,

01:25:51.220 want to go back home.

01:25:52.880 They don't, they are literally the Christians of the Bible. 0.98

01:25:57.160 They're the first ones that you saw the apostles go and convert.

01:26:00.300 Um, these were the ancient Jews that became Christian and they know we're, we're that legacy.

01:26:08.540 We can't leave that part of the world.

01:26:11.300 And we are encouraging them to go back.

01:26:13.920 Uh, now that, now that ISIS has been pushed out, so many want to go back.

01:26:18.120 We are facilitating not only moves to Australia, but we're facilitating the transportation of

01:26:23.920 these people back into their Christian communities to rebuild.

01:26:26.900 So we are doing that as well.

01:26:28.420 That may sound confusing to some people that don't understand.

01:26:30.840 That's a geographical situation.

01:26:32.680 So there's certain areas where people still need to be getting out.

01:26:35.940 There's other areas where they're able to start going back.

01:26:38.600 It might be confusing to the listener, to someone that doesn't understand some of these things,

01:26:41.640 but it is a very intricate situation.

01:26:45.540 But these are a very, these people are very prideful of, of, in a good way of where they're from.

01:26:49.720 Um, and they're not, you know, that even though it's been devastation, it's been, it's been

01:26:54.280 torture, it's been war, it's their homeland.

01:26:56.860 And so I don't think the majority of these people, even in, in, you know, in Australia,

01:27:01.640 wherever they've gone, they see this as temporary and that they want to go back.

01:27:05.400 Where's that little girl now? 1.00

01:27:06.900 She's in, she's in our, one of our shelters or healing centers.

01:27:10.820 So she's getting, she's getting therapy?

01:27:13.740 Everything.

01:27:14.320 We're getting, we're getting everything she needs to, to be able to fully heal from that

01:27:18.220 experience.

01:27:19.940 Yeah.

01:27:20.580 I mean, she was just, I mean, just to watch them, there was a mom and daughter.

01:27:23.620 Just a foot away from her mom.

01:27:25.500 Yeah.

01:27:26.280 And to get a sense of that, that area too, before anything happens, it's just the entire,

01:27:31.460 it's like a flattened city of cement.

01:27:33.720 It's just, I mean, there's almost nothing standing there before this happened.

01:27:38.140 How much of Iraq and Syria are like that now?

01:27:41.980 Many parts, many parts of Syria.

01:27:44.080 Syria has some, I mean, Iraq and Syria near the border.

01:27:47.540 There's tons of cities that are just devastated.

01:27:50.320 And we know that in Haiti, the biggest problem, I mean, you know, they're picking, I think it's 1.00

01:27:55.180 avocados, right?

01:27:57.140 You know, you get the avocados and the bananas from the Dominican Republic.

01:28:01.540 A lot of those are, are picked by Haitian slaves, kids who are labor slaves now. 0.57

01:28:06.760 And it's because mom and dad were killed in the earthquake.

01:28:10.720 Yet another reason to not eat avocados.

01:28:13.340 I know.

01:28:14.100 Like I needed another reason.

01:28:15.620 They're terrible, squishy things.

01:28:17.100 But you know, the same thing is, the same thing is, is happening here in, in, in Syria and

01:28:22.800 Iraq.

01:28:23.140 These kids are so vulnerable.

01:28:25.140 I mean, I don't even know as a kid, what would you do?

01:28:28.960 There's nothing there.

01:28:30.200 Yeah.

01:28:30.660 And it's, it's, whenever there's a national, a natural disaster of any kind of earthquake,

01:28:36.140 whatever, war, the kids are the ones who are forgotten.

01:28:39.520 And like you said, they are so vulnerable.

01:28:41.360 There's hundreds of thousands of children in Haiti, like you just pointed out, who came

01:28:45.920 from the earthquake.

01:28:48.640 The traffickers rushed in, harvest day for them.

01:28:51.620 They pick them all up.

01:28:52.660 They're, they're grieving over their parents' dead bodies as the traffickers are swooping

01:28:57.580 them up.

01:28:57.880 We just arrested one of them.

01:28:58.960 We, we talked about a couple of weeks ago who was doing that.

01:29:01.400 And we, we found her victims.

01:29:03.720 But this is the part.

01:29:05.220 Her victims.

01:29:07.160 Her victims.

01:29:07.800 This is, this is the, the, the kingpin trafficker.

01:29:10.920 Francian.

01:29:11.460 They call her Cho.

01:29:12.620 Oh, yeah.

01:29:13.400 Back in Haiti.

01:29:14.480 Back in Haiti.

01:29:14.880 Right.

01:29:15.280 Right.

01:29:15.500 Right.

01:29:15.960 Yeah.

01:29:16.180 But this is the thing we always, all of us, the world needs to be aware of when, when

01:29:20.220 these catastrophes happen, whether it's man-made wars or earthquakes or, or, uh, you know, storms,

01:29:25.880 this is when the traffickers come in and we have to be there to defend those kids right

01:29:30.900 away.

01:29:31.220 Can you give me any, any, any good news on the harvesting thing?

01:29:38.120 Is there any, or you, uh, when, when do you, when, when will you be able to tell us something?

01:29:43.200 We will, next time we come on, I believe it will be about two weeks out and we'll be able

01:29:46.620 to present, uh, some, some more, uh, footage, some more, uh, there'll be footage.

01:29:51.100 Um, there's been another, there's been another rescue that we're still waiting on releasing,

01:29:56.420 um, but our teams are busy.

01:29:58.460 Um, there's some, there's some very high stakes things going on right now because the, the,

01:30:03.320 the more you, you prod and poke this, this bear, the, the more dangerous it gets.

01:30:08.060 And so.

01:30:08.440 Do they know us yet?

01:30:10.060 Do the bad guys know us there yet?

01:30:12.340 We don't, you know, this is one of the things.

01:30:14.280 I know you're not wearing t-shirts over there.

01:30:16.620 You know, as far as our teams and our people, no, no, not at all.

01:30:21.200 And that's, that's the way we're going to.

01:30:22.460 They know that somebody's coming for them though.

01:30:25.580 It's, it's becoming more.

01:30:27.660 We're guessing that they're probably starting to get an idea of it, but that's some, that's

01:30:30.560 the part of the risk that we.

01:30:31.780 Yeah.

01:30:33.000 Guys, thank you very much.

01:30:34.400 Now, listen, here's how you can help.

01:30:36.160 If, if, uh, if you just want to get involved, you can pray and, you know, thoughts and prayers

01:30:41.760 don't mean anything.

01:30:42.620 Yeah, they do.

01:30:43.300 Yeah, they really do.

01:30:44.500 We'd like both your thoughts and your prayers, uh, and you can pray for the safety.

01:30:48.880 And in fact, I, I ask if you would pray every night as a family for not only the people that,

01:30:54.600 uh, are, are involved that we're trying to go and rescue, but also the rescuers themselves,

01:31:00.040 uh, because these are really brave people.

01:31:02.580 But also we would like you to be, uh, an abolitionist.

01:31:06.260 Everybody can say, oh, you know, the founders, they, whatever, whatever.

01:31:10.140 What are we doing right now?

01:31:11.800 What are we doing right now?

01:31:13.240 Please get involved and, uh, be a part of this heroic and historic movement.

01:31:19.100 And you can find all the information at, uh, the Nazarene fund.org, the Nazarene fund.org.

01:31:25.980 Also, uh, uh, our, give me your web address for, oh, you are rescue.org.

01:31:31.400 Oh, you are rescue.org.

01:31:33.060 Thank you guys.

01:31:33.800 Thank you.

01:31:34.200 Thank you.

01:31:34.480 Thank you.

01:31:35.380 All right.

01:31:37.940 Stock market going up and down, um, wild swings in Bitcoin, the turmoil in Washington.

01:31:43.340 If you are reading anything at all, uh, for the economy, you know, that two things are

01:31:49.360 happening and they, they coincide.

01:31:51.980 Uh, one, our dollar is losing value since 2016.

01:31:56.520 The dollar that you had has lost 11, is it 11%?

01:32:01.320 Yeah.

01:32:01.540 11% of its value.

01:32:03.480 That's incredible.

01:32:04.460 In the last 18 months.

01:32:08.800 So that's not good.

01:32:10.300 Why is that happening?

01:32:11.700 Inflation.

01:32:12.740 So how do you solve that?

01:32:14.340 Interest rates.

01:32:15.360 They got to go up.

01:32:16.440 What does that do?

01:32:17.580 That destabilizes the, the stock markets.

01:32:20.800 It also destabilizes the economy and slows things down.

01:32:24.940 So we're in this loop now that we knew was coming and it could get really bad.

01:32:29.900 Hopefully it doesn't, but this is why gold had its best year since 2010.

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01:33:19.600 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:33:29.960 Glenn Beck.

01:33:31.120 Well, this is helpful looking at CNN and the, the Chiron, the, the, the thing that they put

01:33:36.560 at the bottom of the screen.

01:33:37.440 Uh, Trump stuns on guns, says some quote in GOP are petrified of NRA.

01:33:44.960 Perfect.

01:33:45.880 Thank you.

01:33:46.680 That's helpful.

01:33:47.520 Uh, let me go to Wayne in Virginia.

01:33:50.160 Hello, Wayne.

01:33:50.840 Welcome.

01:33:51.820 Good morning, Mr. Beck.

01:33:53.520 And thank you for taking my call.

01:33:54.920 You bet.

01:33:56.160 I am a family who is very similar situation as what happened in Florida.

01:34:01.380 All the police calls, all the drop balls by the Child Protective Services, the whole entire

01:34:09.420 nine yards.

01:34:10.600 He's exactly the same age as that young man.

01:34:13.400 And there, there is absolutely nothing in the system.

01:34:18.240 And I know you care about due process as well as I do.

01:34:22.520 Gun owner, veteran, excuse me, where do we turn?

01:34:29.120 So, so the system, the system is not set up to protect my life.

01:34:37.660 Correct.

01:34:38.120 Okay.

01:34:38.260 So, so Wayne, so hang on just a second.

01:34:41.180 What I'm for is what has been proposed, uh, that is giving you the right, you and your

01:34:49.980 wife, a right to go in front of a judge and say, judge, you've got to protect us. 1.00

01:34:54.800 You have, uh, we, we have to have him, uh, uh, taken, uh, for psychiatric treatment or

01:35:02.400 the guns taken away.

01:35:04.360 You have to have that right as parents.

01:35:07.620 I'm for that, but that's still due process.

01:35:12.020 Okay.

01:35:12.820 Six years.

01:35:16.280 No, no, but we're not, right.

01:35:18.300 But I know the new, this is, this is a new, new proposal.

01:35:21.600 Uh, it's, you know, it's call, it's basically, um, something that they're discussing after

01:35:27.560 this tragedy.

01:35:28.160 It's something that they have a place in a couple of States that, that it can move a

01:35:30.980 lot quicker than this.

01:35:31.720 It's, it's definitely not supposed to be a six year process.

01:35:33.760 Yeah, no, no, no.

01:35:34.220 And Wayne, we're with you, uh, on being able to move this and move quickly.

01:35:39.420 I understand the process is screwed up.

01:35:42.060 I got that.

01:35:43.580 We learned that from Florida.

01:35:45.600 Look what happened.

01:35:46.540 How many red flags do you need?

01:35:48.480 So I'm for that.

01:35:49.800 There just has to be some sort of due process.

01:35:54.640 Uh, and it can't be a bunch of red tape.

01:35:57.540 It has to be an emergency red flag, like a restraining order.

01:36:02.260 I go in front of a judge.

01:36:03.500 I make my case.

01:36:04.540 I get that order.

01:36:05.820 We move on.

01:36:06.760 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:36:18.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:36:22.020 So in the last 48 hours, man, Donald Trump has got to be tired.

01:36:30.580 I mean, there is there, he has had a rough 48 hours, a white house communication director,

01:36:36.000 Hope Hicks resigned.

01:36:37.380 John Kelly, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump are fighting.

01:36:41.080 Uh, these are just the stories in the last 48 hours.

01:36:43.640 Robert, uh, Mueller is looking into Donald Trump's financial maneuvers.

01:36:47.380 Uh, Trump publicly attacked, uh, uh, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

01:36:52.520 Uh, then there was the whole gun debacle yesterday.

01:36:56.220 Hicks testified before House Intelligence Committee, uh, saying that she had to tell white lies in 1.00

01:37:01.740 service of Trump, which is really misleading.

01:37:03.500 We'll get to in a little while.

01:37:04.380 Well, Washington Post said four foreign countries had assessed Kushner was vulnerable.

01:37:10.180 Uh, Josh Rafel announced that he was leaving the White House.

01:37:13.700 It's a big loss, too.

01:37:14.480 Really big.

01:37:15.120 Really big loss.

01:37:15.980 Uh, Ben Carson, uh, has spent $31,000 to replace the furniture in his office.

01:37:21.560 There was a $5,000 or $6,000 chair.

01:37:26.020 Wow.

01:37:26.720 Well, you gotta spend $5,000 to get a decent chair.

01:37:29.700 That is a quote.

01:37:31.040 That's a quote.

01:37:31.540 A reported quote.

01:37:32.600 We don't know if it, you know.

01:37:33.320 Um, let's see.

01:37:34.420 The Interior Department resigned, um, because of a series of anti-gay, anti-Muslim comments.

01:37:41.240 Uh.

01:37:41.560 Not the entire Interior Department.

01:37:43.300 It was one member of the Interior Department.

01:37:45.440 But yes.

01:37:45.640 And I hope it's the one that said, this chair is beautiful.

01:37:48.500 Maybe.

01:37:49.200 Yeah.

01:37:49.520 Anyway, the list goes on and on.

01:37:50.860 It was a bad day.

01:37:51.800 Bad day.

01:37:52.860 Yeah.

01:37:53.060 Um, but when you ask Kellyanne Conway, no, it was another great day.

01:37:58.980 Another red letter day in the, in the stellar history of this administration.

01:38:03.140 And some of it is pretty stellar.

01:38:05.060 Here.

01:38:05.360 Yeah, no, that's true.

01:38:06.260 Some of it.

01:38:06.840 Yeah.

01:38:07.220 Can we play the audio of, uh, Kellyanne?

01:38:09.260 Here's, here's Kellyanne's.

01:38:10.260 What did the president mean exactly by that?

01:38:12.520 Is he ignoring the Constitution and taking someone's property before due process?

01:38:16.940 No, not at all.

01:38:18.500 And the president respects the Constitution, including the Second Amendment and the five

01:38:22.220 million or so members of the NRA who are law, law abiding, peaceful gun owners.

01:38:27.540 Um, what the president is saying is in light of Parkland, he made very clear that he said,

01:38:32.920 as we're talking about this person in Florida, in light of Parkland, everybody is so frustrated,

01:38:38.220 Maria, at the breakdown in the system and the fact that this individual was known to local

01:38:43.040 law, law enforcement, federal law enforcement.

01:38:45.400 This individual was all over social media, showing off his firearms, threatening to do

01:38:50.880 exactly what he ended up doing to many different, threatening, making the threats in the presence

01:38:55.420 of many different people.

01:38:56.980 And so with that as our backdrop, which let's be honest, is what spurred this conversation

01:39:00.960 in the first place for the last 15 days.

01:39:03.140 Let's be honest.

01:39:03.520 But that is a backdrop.

01:39:04.360 The president is saying that sometimes the processes take too long.

01:39:08.120 He's talking about a case such as this, which we hope is an extreme case, which I don't

01:39:12.520 understand what she's saying.

01:39:13.440 She's just agree is a very tragic, if not avoidable case.

01:39:17.120 Yeah, but I almost feel like yesterday he was trying so hard to appear that he is willing.

01:39:21.880 He's going to be in the middle of the road.

01:39:23.680 He's willing to make changes to answer the upset over the school shootings.

01:39:29.700 But doesn't he have to be careful not to step on due process?

01:39:33.720 This is America, the Constitution.

01:39:35.520 And what he said, I almost feel like maybe it was for the cameras.

01:39:39.200 And I mean, you're saying he didn't mean that.

01:39:41.900 No, I didn't say he didn't mean that.

01:39:43.240 No, no, Maria.

01:39:43.960 What I said is the third time I'm going to say it.

01:39:45.880 Blowing off due process.

01:39:47.640 It's the third time I'm going to say it.

01:39:49.380 This is in response to that shooter.

01:39:52.040 Oh, he's blowing off due process because it's in response to something.

01:39:58.840 Of course, we should excuse it.

01:40:00.380 So what he's saying is, is there is an emergency and let's not waste this opportunity to fix

01:40:06.220 something.

01:40:06.720 Yes.

01:40:07.040 A crisis.

01:40:07.680 The president made it very clear yesterday that he supports everyone's unique position

01:40:14.340 on the Second Amendment.

01:40:17.960 That's what Kellyanne, Donald Trump could say the earth is flat. 0.95

01:40:23.480 And you could ask Kellyanne if he said that.

01:40:26.220 And she'd say, no, absolutely not.

01:40:28.040 What the president was simply saying is that there are some flat surfaces on the earth,

01:40:32.960 like Kansas and the Bonneville Salt Flats.

01:40:35.440 But he didn't mention any specifics and the edges of the ocean.

01:40:42.680 It's agonizing.

01:40:44.220 But that's her job, right?

01:40:45.540 She just she has to.

01:40:47.380 Yeah, it's it's her job.

01:40:48.380 But I will tell you, you know what?

01:40:49.540 It was disturbing to me last night in reading.

01:40:52.380 I read both left and right.

01:40:55.340 And with an exception of a couple on the right, there was no discussion.

01:41:02.920 It was all about politics.

01:41:04.080 There was no discussion about the Constitution.

01:41:06.060 There was no horrified reaction, especially on the left.

01:41:10.640 No horrified reaction from the left on.

01:41:13.880 No, he's talking about a violation of the Bill of Rights.

01:41:16.820 Because I know not just Second Amendment.

01:41:18.480 Right.

01:41:18.660 Because we know they hate the second one, but it also violates the fourth and the fifth.

01:41:22.380 They should be at least be upset about that.

01:41:24.320 Right.

01:41:25.800 No, no, they're not.

01:41:27.680 No.

01:41:27.860 And so how do you expect this is the problem with the president saying things like this?

01:41:32.420 You know, that gets out into the system and then people think, well, there's he can do stuff like that.

01:41:37.060 I actually heard Republicans saying and Trump supporters saying, I like what he said.

01:41:41.480 Wait, what?

01:41:42.960 You like what he said?

01:41:44.620 That you got to take the guns?

01:41:46.100 I like to take the guns first and then we'll work out the questions later on.

01:41:50.540 It's the antithesis of our system.

01:41:54.040 That's a dictator.

01:41:54.700 Yeah.

01:41:54.880 There's a fair point, you know, to be made that perhaps he just didn't mean it.

01:42:00.240 Again, he's not well-versed in these debates.

01:42:02.080 No, but she just said, I had that hope until she just got on and said, no, he means it.

01:42:07.020 Like, there is nothing of less value in the universe than a sentence spoken by Kellyanne Conway.

01:42:14.280 Okay.

01:42:15.280 There is nothing you can tell.

01:42:17.080 Why she keeps going on television, why they keep putting her on television.

01:42:20.180 I mean, we all know.

01:42:21.360 And this is not even, it's not specific to her.

01:42:23.640 It's the same thing with any generic spokesperson.

01:42:25.800 No, but I, but I, but from any administration, of course, they're going to just say whatever

01:42:30.260 benefits their, you know.

01:42:31.700 But wait, that should not benefit.

01:42:33.140 That shouldn't benefit.

01:42:35.680 If we are, if the party is still the party, if it ever was, of the constitution and the rule

01:42:44.540 of law and due process and no dictatorships, then she, what she said is really important

01:42:52.860 because what she said was, no, no, no.

01:42:55.160 We've had time to think about it and talk about it at the white house.

01:42:57.840 And he meant that.

01:42:59.680 That's what's scary to me because you could the next day say what they used to say with

01:43:04.540 Obama all the time.

01:43:05.280 The president spoke in artfully in the heat of the moment.

01:43:07.560 Yes.

01:43:07.880 That's not what he meant.

01:43:09.020 What he meant was, you know, X, fill in the blank.

01:43:12.860 That's not what they're saying.

01:43:14.200 Yeah, but they can't say it.

01:43:16.180 They can't say that because.

01:43:17.320 I don't know why.

01:43:17.500 They used to, they said it all the time under Obama.

01:43:19.620 He spoke, he misspoke.

01:43:20.780 He spoke in artfully.

01:43:21.900 But I think the thing is that Obama is just a totally different guy.

01:43:25.820 If you say Trump made a mistake, you get fired.

01:43:28.440 That is true.

01:43:28.900 You get yelled at.

01:43:29.380 You get tweeted about.

01:43:30.300 I mean, look at the guy, the guy who, the person under Sarah Huckabee Sanders, I can't

01:43:34.160 remember his name off the top of my head, came out and did his first conference

01:43:37.060 right after, this is a couple, I'm trying to think of how many crazy events this was

01:43:42.400 ago, but came out and said, oh, it was the Porter thing.

01:43:44.940 Rob Porter, he came out and he, you know, had these domestic violence things and they

01:43:48.340 didn't catch it right away and then they caught it and they still didn't fire him and then

01:43:51.660 they came out and the pictures came out and then they blew him out of there, right?

01:43:54.640 So he came out and he's like, makes a very, very limited statement of like, look, of course

01:44:00.660 we could have handled that a little bit better, but this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

01:44:03.360 blah, blah, blah.

01:44:03.560 Got lit up for it, for saying, of course we could have handled it a little bit better.

01:44:08.140 You can't admit fault.

01:44:09.840 However, this goes against what you and I talked about that we speculate happened.

01:44:16.420 And that is, as soon as he got out of there, the same people that really know the policies

01:44:21.520 and everything else went, Mr. President, no, no, no, no, you don't understand yada, yada,

01:44:27.140 yada, and then, and then they always go back.

01:44:29.480 As they did on his stance on abortion.

01:44:31.620 And on DACA.

01:44:32.820 And DACA.

01:44:33.420 They came out and said, that's not what the president was talking about.

01:44:36.340 They're not saying that this time.

01:44:37.460 They're not.

01:44:38.500 They're not.

01:44:39.180 Which is truly chilling to me.

01:44:41.360 It should be.

01:44:41.920 And nobody this morning, though, indicated a step back.

01:44:45.980 For the Second Amendment, not due process.

01:44:49.100 Yes, that's true.

01:44:50.020 But he's never going to admit what he said was wrong.

01:44:53.100 There's never going to be a moment where he said, the due process thing, obviously, I

01:44:55.980 didn't mean it the way it was taken.

01:44:57.620 He's always going to stand by every position he's ever held.

01:45:01.140 So he has to find a way to navigate.

01:45:03.420 Even when they're opposite.

01:45:04.300 Yeah, even when they're opposite.

01:45:05.120 But I think the defense of Trump here is, don't listen to a word he says, wait for the

01:45:11.680 policy to actually happen.

01:45:13.020 Because when the policy actually happens, it'll probably be fine.

01:45:16.500 I think that is the defense of, if you're a Republican, if you're a Trump supporter, and you're

01:45:20.920 thinking, you know, how do I navigate through this?

01:45:23.800 It's not to just excuse every word he says, like Kellyanne Conway does, right?

01:45:27.660 It's just to find a path to.

01:45:28.800 If you believe, it'll turn out fine.

01:45:31.160 If you believe that.

01:45:31.800 If you believe that.

01:45:32.380 Let me take this call from Sandy, because I've explained this once today, and Sandy

01:45:39.300 would like it.

01:45:40.520 Well, go ahead.

01:45:41.160 Sandy, what are your thoughts?

01:45:44.140 Hi, thank you.

01:45:45.180 My thoughts are the call about the test that the police have to take to qualify to carry

01:45:50.320 a weapon, I think, is an excellent idea.

01:45:52.740 And the reason being is that I agree with you.

01:45:55.540 I am a big Second Amendment supporter.

01:45:58.240 I think that right is very important.

01:46:00.420 We're all born with that right.

01:46:01.720 But it doesn't mean we all qualify to have that right, as far as actually live it out.

01:46:07.080 No, it does.

01:46:08.380 We have physically and mentally handicapped people that don't have that right. 1.00

01:46:11.300 We have age parameters right now that qualify the right to bear arms.

01:46:16.780 I don't see anything wrong with giving a mental health test to people ahead of time to see

01:46:22.660 if that...

01:46:23.260 To every single person who tries to buy a gun?

01:46:25.960 To everybody?

01:46:27.080 I think we have to sit down and discuss how to handle that.

01:46:30.160 I think that's a good starting point.

01:46:32.020 Well, it's giving a lot of power to the government.

01:46:34.800 Sandy, first of all, you need to get a new phone, because you're beginning to sound like

01:46:39.040 Charlie Brown's teacher, who can barely understand you.

01:46:41.760 But if you want to have that discussion, that's fine.

01:46:46.340 But let's be honest about that discussion.

01:46:49.820 Because when you say, I'm a big Second Amendment fan, and I believe in rights,

01:46:57.040 what follows that does not match those statements.

01:47:00.960 You can say, look, I believe that you should be able to protect yourself, and you should

01:47:08.140 be able to buy a gun, but there's some things that you have to do.

01:47:12.140 That's different than our rights are given to us by God.

01:47:17.820 And unless you disqualify, unless you've done something to where the people say, no, you

01:47:26.000 should not have that gun, you start at the default of, a right means, you start at the

01:47:34.320 default of, this is my right, I get this.

01:47:39.400 For instance, that's why driver's license, that's not a right.

01:47:42.740 You have to take a test.

01:47:44.700 It's not a right.

01:47:46.400 But why do we do it with the police?

01:47:47.800 Then why do we put the police...

01:47:48.740 Because it's not a right to be a police officer.

01:47:51.500 No, they're carrying a weapon.

01:47:53.240 They're taking a psychological test to be a police officer, not to carry a weapon.

01:47:59.340 Well, but that's a big part of being a police officer.

01:48:01.460 No, but that's not why they have, you can carry a gun and have a concealed carry permit

01:48:08.080 and not be a police officer.

01:48:11.180 Yes, it is a big part of being a police officer, but the bigger part is knowing the law and being

01:48:17.420 able to arrest people and help solve and prevent crimes.

01:48:21.900 That's the bigger part, not the gun.

01:48:24.160 I've actually heard that point.

01:48:25.000 I think the right to have a gun, above all our rights, is this right, above all, that

01:48:32.680 has the ability to take away life, is something we need to really seriously look at.

01:48:36.460 Okay, so Sandy, then that's where you have to start your argument.

01:48:39.520 You don't start with, I love the Second Amendment.

01:48:42.500 Because that's not the Second Amendment.

01:48:43.920 Yeah, start with, I want to repeal the Second Amendment, and here's why. 0.61

01:48:46.080 Yeah, I want to repeal it, and we need to have a discussion on who gets guns.

01:48:50.920 By the way, it is not, above all, it's second.

01:48:55.080 It's second.

01:48:56.400 Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, that's our First Amendment.

01:49:00.960 Our Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms.

01:49:05.080 And our founders believed, if you abolish the Second Amendment, all other amendments and

01:49:12.200 all other rights will be lost.

01:49:14.880 You may not agree with it.

01:49:16.840 I happen to, I'm a student of history, and I see that the biggest, the biggest offender

01:49:23.860 of the misuse of firearms are governments out of control on their own unarmed populations.

01:49:33.140 No doubt about it.

01:49:35.520 How would that work, too?

01:49:36.460 Would you have a psychiatric clinic at every Cabela's?

01:49:41.140 Can you imagine how a psychiatric thing could be misused and manipulated?

01:49:48.560 Look at the military, people that would be counted out from being able to own guns when

01:49:51.840 they come back because they had PTSD or something like that.

01:49:54.020 You know, look, there were people that said, you know, you have a God-given right to bear

01:49:58.300 children.

01:49:59.480 You can bear children.

01:50:00.940 And, you know, there's a lot of people that shouldn't have children.

01:50:04.100 There was only one group of people that said we should test and make sure that we choose

01:50:08.800 as a society.

01:50:09.900 Canadians, right?

01:50:10.800 No, they were the progressives.

01:50:12.400 They were the progressives.

01:50:13.700 And that led to eugenics. 0.81

01:50:15.700 You know, you can make really good, quick cases that you should be the judge of what rights

01:50:22.280 people should have, but they never end well.

01:50:25.200 Pat Gray Unleashed coming up on the Blaze Radio and TV networks.

01:50:33.180 I mean, really, that's a it's an amazing because you can amend the Constitution and

01:50:37.320 not take away the Second Amendment.

01:50:38.480 Just add on a psychological test to qualify for that right.

01:50:43.540 I mean, you could come up with some way of crafting that, but it's it's you got to start

01:50:47.260 with a Constitution there.

01:50:48.120 Yeah, no, it's a constitutional amendment.

01:50:49.700 And I would I would say that you couldn't add a but if clause to the Second Amendment

01:50:56.680 because of shall not be infringed.

01:50:58.800 I think you have to repeal it and start over again.

01:51:01.100 But, you know, that's that's not even worth talking about.

01:51:04.820 We're not going to do that.

01:51:05.500 We'll be at war before we do that.

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