Texas AG Defends Investigation into Muslim City Development | Guests: AG Ken Paxton & Salena Zito | 4⧸9⧸25
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On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the tragic loss of a beloved family pet, the tariffs, and much, much more. Glenn also talks about how he and his family are dealing with the loss of another beloved pet.
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program
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welcome to the glenn beck program we're glad you're here there is a ton to talk about including
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um did we just land a very big military plan a plane at bagram remember where bagram is
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yeah um that's in afghanistan that's the base where we left everything uh for the taliban and that's
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the base the taliban was going to give to china what what what's happening we just landed a c-17
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there uh and we don't know much about it but something is happening uh and i have a feeling
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it has everything to do with china we'll talk about that also there's a big huge city being considered
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now here in texas uh a a new muslim city uh what does that mean what exactly does that mean ken paxton
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is going to be joining us uh to talk about that on what he can because there's lawsuits that he's going
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to be having to you know be involved in but we're going to talk to him about that also more on the tariffs
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and where we're headed so much to talk about we'll begin here in just a second first let me tell you
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about rough greens um this weekend i'm gonna have a hard time talking about this this weekend um
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and if you have a dog you know what that feels like and i have to say can we just stop the music
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here for saying this should be less of a commercial and more of just a kind of personal note here um
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i feel horrible i feel absolutely horrible every time this is the third dog we've had to put down
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and it's honestly it's like lord can't you just let them die please take them you know tanya has a
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a sweet aunt who's oh gosh almost a hundred now and she gets up every day she's still very very a
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ton she's like god why why am i still here um she's she's got all of her faculties and everything else
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but she's like i'm done i'm done living take me why am i still here uh and i i kind of feel this way with
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so we trust them we we our dogs are different than just the dog that you have as member of the
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family these dogs are members of the family but they also
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you know uno at one point when we were traveling a lot was you know sniffing for bombs in audiences
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before they would you know before the audience would come in i mean they do different
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and now i kind of feel like who am i to say and you you you get to this place with your dog
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to where you see them suffering and i don't want him to suffer you know i walk into a room now and he
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just he does what he used to do sometimes when he was younger when i would walk in the room
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anybody else would walk in the room he'd get up
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and he'd be happy uh i'd walk in the room and once in a while he would just
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his eyes would just dart up to me like what what do you want now i'm sleeping
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um and it was always funny now he's doing that with everybody
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i don't know has anybody else had to deal with this you wonder
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is now the time i don't want to wait too long i don't want to take him too early
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uh on saturday and we're putting putting him down on on saturday but i to finish the commercial
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sorry i know you are the same way oh i'm just a wreck it's the worst if you don't have dogs you
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don't have any idea yeah i mean you remember president miles oh yeah um we got to that point
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with him i mean he couldn't even like walk it was really he was really at the end of it and we
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waited too long with ella because she was like that yeah i i know i'm we've talked about this
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off the air like i'm like i'm a wait wait wait wait wait guy uh and uh you know got to the point
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where basically my wife was like we have to do something and uh we called the uh you know the
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place that was going to yeah to do to assist with this process and uh he they're supposed to come at
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like 8 a.m literally he died at like 3 in the morning oh that would be such a blessing it's such a
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blessing although one of our best memories with uno is when uh not uno uh victor was when we were
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all together as a family you know and we just laid a blanket out on the floor and yep i i man i this is
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a tough week for you i'm sorry that's there's there are things that are worse but it feels like there's
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nothing i know i know it's it's so weird and then you think gosh you're gonna i mean you do you feel
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that way about your own loved one when they get old you know i feel that way about some of my teenage
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children at times can i put them down now right i mean it would be an end of the pain mine not there
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how many trimesters is too many when you get into the triple digits it starts to feel bad yeah it feels a
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little wrong it feels a little wrong um but uh you know you then you look at it and you're like
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how how do you make that decision with other people did you see what's happening in uh in canada
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exactly what we predicted you're they're loosening the they're loosening the reins on made you know
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medical assisted um medical assisted i don't remember but it's medical suicide yeah you know
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with doctors euthanasia yeah and uh it's i mean this is a really bad line to cross when you feel bad
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about with your dog you know i guess you could play it two ways you because it does it plays on you both
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ways when you you look at your dog and you're like i don't want to put him down too early but i don't
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want him in pain you start to feel like oh man you know and you know greta she was in so much pain
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you hate to see her in pain you're gonna put your dog down because of that but your your aunt greta is
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not a dog you know it's just is it just me i mean where you where that starts to play in your head on
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how do you feel about this with humans if you're this concerned about your dog
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i kind of go it's interesting you bring it up that way i kind of go the opposite way
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of that like i oh no no no i i always end there okay but i but it plays on me both ways yeah you
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know what i mean yeah i i tend to think you know when i think about life you know when someone brought
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up it was there's some anniversary of terry schivo remember that of course you remember the terry
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schivo case to the audience and making sure that they do it's been it's been about 25 years right
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because it was 2000 if i if i remember right my daughter learned about it in school and she said
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dad have you ever heard of terry schivo and i was like excuse me what very involved in that case for
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those who were not around at that time it's a long time ago now yeah it was a we were deeply involved
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in that case and we know the family and terry and everything else we were great people and we were
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very involved in that case and she said this is just a horrible case i just don't know what to
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think about it and i said well and allow me to illuminate her mom said well you know you're
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going to the right person to ask because your father was very involved and she's like what
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yeah but i mean that's you know that case sort of helped form my viewpoint on these types of issues
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and me too you know i just i you know god makes a lot of decisions and i don't want to necessarily
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get in the way of them um so uh i tend to very much lean in in all these cases towards you know
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like letting it go until it's absurd i mean again i don't want you don't want someone to be in
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in utter pain um uh obviously uh but you know you start saying terms like quality of life it makes me
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really uncomfortable no because of that i mean largely because of that case that we dealt with 20
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years ago life is life life is life life is life it's not your decision necessarily to make quality
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of life decisions i mean there are some cases where things are hopeless and and you know maybe
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there's a different choice to be made but i i don't even like i like waiting as long as possible
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if you have to be put in those positions and it's it is a difficult thing for every family when it comes
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to a pet or god forbid a loved one and you know gosh you'd all know everyone knows you're going to go
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through this so many times it's really depressing when you stop and think about it because it's it's
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the worst moment of your life and you're going to repeat it a lot of times yeah unfortunately throughout
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your life uh 2016 canada introduced medical assistance in dying made it allowed somebody uh to be eligible
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for medical assistance uh if they were terminally ill they could be assisted by medicine by 2021 the need
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to be terminally ill has been removed now and uh they are now they just updated it to made by 2027
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can be used by people suffering from mental illness and no physical illness oh my god i mean quite
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obviously one of the big problems with mental illness is you are unable to process the information
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to make proper decisions uh and let's let's not forget uh right now we say trump derangement syndrome
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is a mental illness and i believe that uh and the other side says you're voting for donald trump
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you're mentally ill yeah let's not go down the mental illness thing that's a very bad thing no and
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especially for people who are massively depressed like obviously the right decision is not to kill
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yourself in that situation however the problem the reason why this the situation is a problem is because
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you're not able to process that information properly right you are you're making you you see things in
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a way that they aren't and so to give that person the legal right i mean obviously they already sort of
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have the right they can do it anyway um but the legal right to encourage it to help it along
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is this is a psychotic instinct by human beings is psychotic did you hear about the the parents that
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were with their child who was wildly depressed um and uh up in canada and they went to lunch down in
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the cafeteria the doctors came in talked to their child into made had them sign made so now it couldn't
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be reversed uh and the parents come back from lunch and they're like uh we're gonna administer
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doctor made is well i'm sorry what and the medical profession could talk them into it and
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you know because they didn't talk them into they just gave advice they just they just gave their
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professional opinion now in canada two medical professionals have to agree oh two wow the standard
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even germany had three germany had three canada just thought you should know that wow it's crazy
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this is why abortion stuff everything is so important yeah life life life life life life life
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uh there is a new housing development being proposed here in the dallas texas area it's sort of a mini
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city and the governor of texas has recently used words like sharia law and that the organizers might
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be trying to quote circumvent the law the texas rangers have now been directed to investigate
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what the heck is going on uh it's called epic and there is a slick video produced by epic
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that is the east plano islamic center epic uh here's the video and now we embark on a new chapter
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of vision of harmony where homes and hearts unite
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welcome to the future of living welcome to epic city
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so kind of the uh blueprint of a planned community heart of josephine texas
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okay uh yeah you know look you want to build you want to build a christian town i don't i don't
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really care as long as the concept let me put it this way i'm a member of the church of jesus christ
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the latter day saints otherwise known as the mormons i am not for a mormon government in utah
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i'm not for a mormon government in salt lake city i'm for an american government okay you want to bring
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your church and your people together that's fine that's fine but you don't at any time say you know
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what but our church takes care of these things so we're going to have our own little court
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now i'm not saying that that is going to happen there that's what's being vantied around that
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it'll have sharia courts and everything else not sure that's for the you know texas to figure out
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but you know we have a court of israel that if there's let's say there's abuse in a family
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then the court of israel comes in our church comes in
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and they deal with the spiritual side after we have alerted police okay we let the police take
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care of the criminal stuff the church takes care of the heart stuff that's okay but once you start
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crossing the lines of the church or here possibly an islamic uh center or a mosque now starting to say
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yeah but we have our own laws that's an absolute no-go zone in america no-go zones should mean the
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exact opposite than what they do in europe you want to put people together that's fine but this is america
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period so we're going to show you what is really happening over in europe tonight with the spineless
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politicians um but we're also going to show you from the people that live there the police tasked to
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enforce the law over in europe i'll show you the direct statements from the people involved not
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the weak elected officials this is how the no-go zone started in europe is europe's fate america's
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tonight you don't want to miss it do you remember the do you remember the show we did years ago stew
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when i had the two imams and we were talking about sharia law because there was rumors that they wanted
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to do this right here in our area and there were rumors that they were going to do sharia law and i said
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let's let's bring in let's talk to them let's bring in the imams and i brought them in and you know it
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a very comfortable conversation uh and i wanted to make it very comfortable uh for one if they had
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anything to hide maybe they would have a conversation about those things because they'd feel comfortable
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otherwise i don't have a problem with you you don't want sharia law i'm totally cool well one imam said
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no sharia law no no no and then the other imam in a moment of ultimate comfortability do you remember
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this said well i mean we all agree that your hand should be cut off if you're stealing and i was
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like wait wait a minute what and we just pursued that for a while and the other mom sitting there
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on the couch with him was like shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up and he just he went uh and you
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know kind of revealed and that kind of put a stop to that particular uh area in texas and going down
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the sharia law is this another one i don't know but ken paxton is going to be on with us to talk
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about that here in about half an hour from now now when we come back i want to talk to you about
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bagram air force base what is happening at bagram we're landing c-17s there we don't own it this is
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all right welcome to the program tonight we've got our uh special our wednesday night special if
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welcome to the glennbeck program uh i'm probably going to talk about this tomorrow as steven moore
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is going to be on with me in about an hour from now and we're going to touch on this i just want
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you to know that if you are you know if you pay attention to what's happening in the markets
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uh you'll see the uh you'll see the fed the treasuries are going up that's the opposite of
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what should be happening right now and that is because of something called basis trade uh and
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it's a very very big deal if it's not turned around the hedge funds playing fast and loose and
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now they got their foot caught in the door and it's almost a 2008 kind of thing if it if it doesn't
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get under control quickly um it's it's really not a good thing uh not caused by the tariffs but
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kind of pushed over the edge because of the tariffs the unwinding of this thing that has been
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a problem for a long time and uh and i just want you to know we're aware of it and we're watching
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it for you and i'll have more on that tomorrow i might be able to get to some of it uh uh later on
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in the program today uh let me go to uh uh jason buttrell he is our he's former defense department
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of defense um intelligence analyst and he is also uh our head writer and head of research here at the
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glenn beck program uh and jason there is something that i did not expect to read and maybe ever
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a a c-17 aircraft from ours took off in doha on our military base and arrived at bagram on sunday
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uh it was said to be carrying senior u.s intelligence officials including the cia deputy chief
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uh military equipment etc etc now there's rumors that the taliban handed the base over to us
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which i don't think that happened just because of the kindness of their hearts and i have a feeling
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this i don't know what kind of if this is true i don't know what kind of deal we had to make with
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the taliban to get that base back because that base is strategic like nobody's business uh if you're
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going into any kind of war with with china jason can you fill us in on this what's true what's not
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what do you read from this yeah so none of this is uh is official uh this news report came out because
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there's people on the ground that are watching flight trackers they saw this flight take off they
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saw it land and then the rumors spread from from there from you know the whole thing about you know
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the taliban handing over bagram to us is probably a complete and total pipe dream at the moment i don't
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know where it goes eventually it could but of course the taliban denied it like they can't be seen you
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know handing over facility in their like that's what sparked off al-qaeda you know in saudi arabia
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having us and you know at their military bases they're not going to admit that right but i i do see
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we have to look at the state of the world and kind of think about during the cold war can you imagine
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if during the cold war the media landscape was how it is now so that i mean like who are these
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contra people like what are we dealing with or who are the sandinistas like this news would be
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everywhere non-stop and we're going to start seeing that with this trade war that's going on right now
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and by the way you're going to by the way i i think it's important for us to say i think it's
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official we are in a trade war china just retaliated again a second time what was it number this time
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54 they added another 50 so they're up to 84 now and we're up to 104 104 so we're at a trade war
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and then europe as well europe just retaliated with 25 as well so this is not a good thing you don't
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like trade wars trade wars are not a good thing um steven moore uh art laffer have been advising the
00:29:58.100
president and uh steven's going to be on with us here in uh about about 45 minutes
00:30:02.960
oh not confirmed yet okay he will i we've been chatting this morning on text all morning since
00:30:10.240
about 4 a.m both of us wide awake going what's happening in the world uh but anyway we are at a
00:30:15.580
trade war so why does that play a role in with bagram well we're going to start seeing activity not i mean
00:30:23.240
beyond tariffs tariffs are the are the main lever but you're going to see some clandestine activity and
00:30:28.400
other moves from like our intelligence services maybe even military movements in in the middle of
00:30:32.860
this because right now between the united states and china is a very you know big and competitive
00:30:38.160
world and issue between the both of them and i think this is squarely about china i really think
00:30:43.580
it does that's what was so scary about handing over bagram uh to begin with because that's a major
00:30:49.520
part of their silk road initiative so one of their major trade objectives is to get to be able to
00:30:54.920
have a land uh route through places like afghanistan so i think that there's look there's
00:31:01.800
there's a big issue that both us and the taliban can agree on if you can believe that and that is
00:31:06.440
the elimination of isis-k in afghanistan that's their affiliate in afghanistan the taliban doesn't
00:31:11.680
like them uh i believe they've worked with them in the past but now it's a completely different uh
00:31:17.240
uh state of the game for them between the two groups so so i can see them making concessions to
00:31:22.600
allow us to let's say operate some intelligence assets out of there or use it in some way i think
00:31:28.700
we are seeing the beginnings of the uh of that negotiation right now with this that's my opinion
00:31:33.640
can you believe after all those years at war with them there's the possibility that we're going to need
00:31:41.060
their help with china i mean that that's insane that's insane and when none of this would have
00:31:47.060
happened had we not just handed them the base that was the dumbest thing i've ever heard we paid how
00:31:53.380
many billions for that base oh gosh i mean a lot too many yeah too many billions of dollars in that base
00:32:01.040
uh and we just handed it to them just handed it to them what and we left all our equipment there
00:32:07.280
now there's a couple of other uh region uh reasons that you know you can speculate on
00:32:13.820
uh are we doing counterterrorism or intelligence operations uh in that area maybe not with just
00:32:23.000
china or not against china but also you know you've this is a central place to be for russia
00:32:28.880
and china for the united states make sure we have a foothold in that what what do you think we would
00:32:34.820
have to do you think we would have to offer the taliban to get this well i think that i don't think
00:32:43.020
we'd be giving them anything but i do think that we would you know you know offer our services like
00:32:49.800
i don't know what call it offer our services but show that we are we both have the same enemy
00:32:54.780
in in isis k and i don't think that we'd be sharing anything with them but i mean if you look at the our
00:33:01.440
relationship with afghanistan while the taliban pre-2001 was in place we didn't have a major
00:33:08.360
foothold in afghanistan we had intelligence operatives if within the country clandestinely
00:33:13.620
and without outside the country that's how we managed the terror threat before i think we're
00:33:18.400
moving into a more aggressive phase where that is our stance in that area we have some intelligence
00:33:24.160
assets in the country we have some intelligence assets in places like pakistan and other places
00:33:28.440
not a major military footprint i don't think that's going to happen again i really don't i don't think
00:33:34.020
bagram will ever be fully turned over to us again that's i don't think that's going to happen but i
00:33:38.260
see i could see some kind of accommodation to allow let's say and this is very dangerous like a
00:33:45.120
a la benghazi like a compound or something like that that we do operate out of like a handful of
00:33:51.220
intelligence assets extremely dangerous but i can see them moving in that direction and so what does
00:33:57.400
that give us glenn that lets us attack terrorists which is what we want to do we don't want them to get
00:34:02.520
larger groups within afghanistan that benefits the taliban as well but it also lets us keep an eye
00:34:09.200
on who is using that air base also are the chinese there are the russians there more importantly are
00:34:15.260
the chinese there that's what i think is going on what is the chinese relationship with afghanistan
00:34:20.420
because they've got to i mean chinese need afghanistan too chinese absolutely the afghanistan
00:34:26.780
for silk road and i mean look what they've done in places like africa they move in and offer the
00:34:32.340
world we'll build this super highway we'll build up this infrastructure this infrastructure this
00:34:37.160
infrastructure eventually the way they structure those deals afghanistan becomes a slave to china
00:34:42.600
because then they're on the hook for a trillion dollars in infrastructure payback that's how china
00:34:48.380
exerts force so that's what that's china's stake in this game and that's probably what they're
00:34:53.520
maneuvering to do we would want to stop them from doing that in this overall trade war looking down
00:34:59.080
the road a decade two decades from now you know everybody i've talked to everyone uh has said to
00:35:06.120
me glenn in a trade war with china if we get into a city if this doesn't back off we're both in real
00:35:14.240
trouble uh china has got to have us and we really have to have china for our medicines and everything
00:35:21.160
else and uh i said so which which which which which which which which one of us wins in the end
00:35:27.860
and it's like any war you don't know um whoever can stomach it the longest uh i guess is the answer
00:35:36.380
your thoughts on what we're entering and how europe is now responding you know history teaches us so
00:35:45.600
much and if you if you look at the world post-world war ii it was very similar to who was that that japanese
00:35:53.000
geopolitics person or philosopher i can't remember where he said that this was the end of history
00:35:57.460
um but he was talking about i think war was he talking about war one or two camera one i think
00:36:02.060
but um he's he said this is the end of the history because the world is so interconnected we're not
00:36:05.940
going to want to go to war again well that's complete bullcrap um you know you look at you know
00:36:11.620
books like the clash of civilizations that pointed out that well actually you know people are just going
00:36:15.860
to move into their own you know racial or race or race or identity and that will be the new
00:36:21.800
you know um you know spark for war going forward sure um but this is but the solution to that
00:36:27.860
thinking that this is the end of history was to fully interconnect all these countries the entire
00:36:32.540
world so that if we go to war or you know whatever it's mad we all suffer for it so we won't do it so
00:36:39.160
it's the end of history right well that system that we built made it to where we are dependent on
00:36:45.060
all these other countries we're dependent on china for our you know our our all of our like
00:36:50.620
was it 75 i believe of our medicines 75 we depend on this country for all of these rare earth minerals
00:36:57.680
we compare you know we're dependent everywhere that is the system they built they never thought it
00:37:03.080
would turn around and bite people even though we saw in covid that that was completely wrong
00:37:08.820
we are in bad shape and it's not sustainable so now you know hang on just a second that is the
00:37:14.600
scariest thing because when you when you fully understand that then you understand what the
00:37:21.220
president is doing and then you're looking at it going geez but that doesn't give us relief right away
00:37:28.220
this this this is going to cause a lot of temporary pain and maybe i don't know what temporary even
00:37:35.400
means it will be temporary but it's going to cause a lot of pain and i'm not sure that the american
00:37:42.380
people even understand truly what's going on they think it's just about the economy it's not it's about
00:37:49.880
changing everything yeah and people rightly point out that change doesn't happen overnight
00:37:55.500
and that's exactly right i mean how many billions of dollars does it take to sit for a company to
00:38:01.320
to set up a plant or manufacturing facility within the united states it's billions of dollars how long
00:38:06.660
does it take to build those what three to five years once they finally pull the trigger we're only in the
00:38:11.460
negotiation stage i know so we're talking about a long far you know uh far off in the distance plan
00:38:17.920
that we're just negotiating right it has to be done it's unsustainable and it's but we are
00:38:24.520
seeing the beginnings of the pain now and it's only going to get worse if we don't do anything
00:38:30.840
uh but we have to understand the pain may be uh maybe a long time this is a hundred year plan
00:38:36.780
longer than that now uh being turned overnight uh and it's it's not going to it's going to cause
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and it wasn't that long ago you kind of did it because you thought you were supposed to do it
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and uh the message was solid there's nothing wrong with that the production
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i gotta not so much i actually invite my friend to see this is i really feel like it's an important
00:40:30.960
message and then you get in there and you're so uncomfortable because the message is all the movie
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angel studios really has changed that and they're doing it again this weekend
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welcome to the glenn beck program uh we have the guy who's going to run against john cornyn in texas
00:42:00.100
excited about that ken paxton going to be joining us in just a little while we're going to talk about
00:42:05.380
something that is called uh what was it epic uh the a town here right right down the street here in
00:42:13.320
in dallas texas that is going to be a new islamic town uh and the governor is investigating everything
00:42:20.260
else we'll have more on that tonight on our wednesday kind of like wally world it's a little
00:42:24.620
different but it's similar yeah wally world if they cut your hands off uh so i hope that's not it
00:42:31.000
hopefully that's you know anyway yeah uh lawrence summers yeah you know him uh he was yeah he was
00:42:38.420
big obama guy but also was a big guy warning um of the biden inflation so he's not generally fair
00:42:45.800
yeah even i don't agree with all of his policy prescriptions but he is concerned about something
00:42:51.200
you brought up off the air this morning about this divergence of uh the stock prices which are going
00:42:58.120
down uh the market's going down and interest rates going up one of the kind of like secondary
00:43:03.360
justifications of this policy that i was hearing from some people on the right we're like well what
00:43:06.880
he's doing is he's trying to lower rates yeah right and you know i even said monday that's not what
00:43:12.500
i don't think that's what he was intended but that is one of the benefits however that's not what's
00:43:19.500
happening no the opposite is happening he points out long-term interest rates are gapping up even as the
00:43:24.220
stock market moves sharply downwards this highly unusual pattern suggests generalized aversion to
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u.s assets in a global financial market we are being treated by global financial markets like a
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problematic emerging market like how you'd look at like one of these yeah there's something going on
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it's the the economy's being upended in you know yeah rwanda rwanda and like so countries want to stay
00:43:48.420
away from it he's seeing that type of thing here now he could be wrong obviously but that is uh
00:43:53.660
concerning because of all of our debt and all the other things built up over you know stuff that
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trump had nothing to do with going back years and years and years and years again i will bring you
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:45:57.600
How can this unchecked immigration change entire communities?
00:46:09.760
Well, one thing that is changing in Texas, possibly, is a new community, a very large Islamic community.
00:46:18.240
And as I said, you know, last hour when we were talking about this, okay, you want to build an Islamic community.
00:46:24.100
I don't have a problem with an Islamic community as long as you also, you know, are digging the United States, you know, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
00:46:34.660
You know, I, you know, Mormons crossed the mountains and started their own community.
00:46:39.240
But the first thing they did that first, I don't know, a few days that they were there, they had a parade in the middle of desert.
00:46:45.100
Nobody was there. Everybody was in the parade where the women were carrying the Constitution and the men were carrying the Bill of Rights or something like that.
00:46:51.940
And Brigham Young said, remember, don't take it out on the people.
00:47:00.560
You're going to get that in this new Islamic community.
00:47:05.840
We're going to be doing a special on this tonight to get down to some of the facts.
00:47:10.660
Ken Paxton and the governor have put a halt to construction and it's being investigated.
00:47:18.760
Also, he's announced that he's going to be running against John Cornyn.
00:47:30.720
We'll talk to Ken Paxton here in just a second.
00:47:32.900
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I'm very excited to talk to you about your Senate candidacy.
00:49:01.760
Yeah, but first, let me talk to you a little bit about what is happening here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with EPIC.
00:49:19.220
And let me just play some of the video as we're talking about this.
00:49:22.740
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I mean, they crossed the mountains and started their own community in Salt Lake.
00:49:46.820
It's all based on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
00:49:50.360
And it's not going against everything that the country was done.
00:49:56.500
You want to start any religious community, not a problem.
00:50:10.520
First Amendment is like clearly First Amendment.
00:50:13.840
And you can believe whatever you want to believe in this country and still be free.
00:50:20.360
I mean, we have laws in this country and those laws matter.
00:50:24.740
And if you're not following the laws of our country, then we're going to have some some controversy and some contention.
00:50:31.420
So in the end, you have whatever religion you want and believe whatever you want.
00:50:36.780
But you still have to follow our laws, our state laws and our federal laws and our Constitution.
00:50:40.860
So the the developments attorney says that any investigation is just racial profiling.
00:50:48.080
I'm so sick of that stuff because I don't think that it is racial profiling.
00:50:57.460
And we can't let that happen here in America, especially Texas.
00:51:01.620
Well, yeah, countries are being taken over and the Sharia law is taken over whatever country they're in.
00:51:11.720
And that's certainly we can't let that happen here.
00:51:14.460
I mean, the rule of law, our Constitution, what what our founders put together is so beautiful and wonderful, given us freedom for so long.
00:51:22.300
We're not going to sacrifice that for Sharia law.
00:51:28.460
And so we're going to be very focused on that and make sure they're following our laws.
00:51:32.680
And at the same time, as you said, we want to be cognizant that people have a right to have their own religion.
00:51:41.100
So where do you how do you possibly because everybody involved is going to say, well, of course, you're not going to have Sharia law.
00:51:46.400
Of course, this isn't going to be a no go zone.
00:51:48.620
But that's what has been said now for a few decades over in Europe.
00:51:54.480
How do you if you can't find, you know, a smoking gun with how to bring Sharia law into Texas, you know, you're not going to find that pamphlet.
00:52:04.340
How are you going to be able what what could you possibly find that would be solid enough to say no?
00:52:11.840
Well, so it's what you say is different sometimes than what people actually do.
00:52:16.600
So we're going to be looking at what people are actually doing out there.
00:52:22.860
Are they are they discriminating based on whether you are a part of a certain religion?
00:52:29.400
Because that would create issues with, you know, fair housing laws.
00:52:33.120
And so we're just going to be looking at what is the actual practice?
00:52:38.840
Not what is your promotional material, you know, lawed, although the promotional material may tell us something.
00:52:44.860
So it's actually what is actually happening on the ground out there.
00:52:51.220
So multiple state agencies are involved in this.
00:52:56.580
And are we talking about fines, injunctions, something bigger violations are found?
00:53:03.540
So so, you know, I can't issue fines, but I can certainly sue over it and get, you know, if there's a reason, get an injunction to stop it.
00:53:12.260
But if it's doing imminent harm, Julie, what you have to show, you have to show imminent harm that you win on the merits.
00:53:17.820
Otherwise, you know, we would sue him over some type of consumer law violation or if if the governor had other violations through some of the agencies that he's directing, we could we could represent those agencies and lawsuits.
00:53:31.020
So there's all kinds of different ways to address that, depending on what we find in our investigation.
00:53:37.860
So when you were under investigation here in Texas, your attorney that represented you in the impeachment hearing, which was all cleared, is now representing the developers.
00:53:51.000
Does that cause a conflict of interest with you at all?
00:53:55.080
Look, I certainly didn't know about that until recently.
00:53:58.100
And I would say obviously a little concerning that I wasn't made aware of that.
00:54:04.660
And, you know, there definitely could be an argument that there's conflict because I'm still being represented by him.
00:54:11.120
And he's representing clients that we are investigating.
00:54:25.200
I think when I found out we were together, I gave you we hugged it out.
00:54:30.380
Anybody anybody who is standing against Cornyn?
00:54:43.540
Is he going to stand against Cornyn and stand with you?
00:54:49.140
I mean, obviously, what I have noticed about President Trump is typically he waits till later, closer to the election.
00:54:56.200
He likes to see how things are going, whether people are doing doing what they said they were going to do and whether they're performing.
00:55:02.600
So I mean, I part of the reason I decided to get this over with, I think there was a big effort by John Thune.
00:55:08.860
And some of the the swamp to get John an endorsement before I got in or somebody else got in.
00:55:16.100
And I wanted to make sure I was in the game before, you know, all these things got done in Washington.
00:55:21.260
In my opinion, one of the frustrations I have is it feels like sometimes that Washington wants to decide, oh, well, Ken, you can't run because we haven't picked you.
00:55:32.380
It feels like they think that they get to decide, well, we picked John.
00:55:38.240
Well, I'm just not into that decision making and never will be.
00:55:43.520
It should be the voters of Texas that decide, not John Thune and a bunch of Republican senators that think they should run the world.
00:55:49.880
So for anybody who hasn't been paying attention for the last 400 years, what would be different between you and Cornyn?
00:56:14.700
And that translates into him wanting to be happy and satisfied in D.C.
00:56:20.920
So he fights to pass gun restrictions on Texans and All-Americans.
00:56:30.820
President Trump, on the other hand, said, no, this is your rhino.
00:56:36.400
And so not only did John pass legislation that hurt the rest of the country, but he also enabled the ATF to then have angles to try to expand their control over gun ownership.
00:56:52.000
It seems like the amnesty that he suggested he's for.
00:57:00.860
He's been unsupportive and critical of Trump when he ran both times, calling him an albatross.
00:57:06.080
So fundamentally, John and I are very different.
00:57:17.400
And he doesn't look out for the interests of individual Texans.
00:57:21.360
He's thinking people in Washington are his people.
00:57:26.960
Ken, part of the establishment in this particular case is, I would say, an understatement.
00:57:30.600
And one of the benefits of being part of that establishment is you've got a lot of friends who have a lot of power, a lot of money.
00:57:37.500
They are going to come after you really, really.
00:57:45.640
They told me that I should not run, that I was not picked, and that I should not run, and that they would spend, I was told, $120 million to make sure that they kept John Cornyn.
00:57:55.820
And I said, hey, can you tell me why John Cornyn is running?
00:58:03.840
And there was like, well, you know, we told him not to run.
00:58:08.000
We told him not to run, but he's our friend, so we're going to support him, and we're going to spend the money to beat you.
00:58:14.320
And I said, so you're telling me, you don't even know why John Cornyn's running, and you can't explain why he should beat this, and you do think he's already been there too long, but yet you're still going to support him.
00:58:23.560
And the answer was yes, and we will spend a lot of money to make sure it's not you.
00:58:28.360
$120 million that could go to defeating people on the left.
00:58:31.940
Yes, and look, I don't know what the real number is.
00:58:34.440
$120 million in the primary, I don't think that's the real number.
00:58:48.160
I mean, part of this has to be separate with super PACs, but I am anticipating that I will be very competitive on the fundraising side.
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But, you know, $20 million to $40 million, that's doable for me.
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You know, it's going to be whether – just getting your name out and making sure that people understand what John Cornyn has done.
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Who are your friends in the Senate that would be your PAC?
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So I doubt, you know, those senators, most of them, they all kind of stick together.
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Behind the scenes, there are several telling me they hope I win.
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The only one that I think that would, you know, openly support me is Tommy Tipperville, who said, I'll support you.
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And I think he's obviously leaving to go run for governor.
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I think Ted, because he's – I don't think he'll say anything.
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Yeah, he's got to work with whoever wins, I guess.
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Look, and I'm just happy, you know, that's a win for me.
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If Ted just stays out of it, that's the message, right?
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If he doesn't endorse him this time, it's helpful.
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And by the way, I'm a benefit to Ted because I'll be supportive instead of disruptive to what he wants to do because I am a fan of Ted Cruz.
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I think he's the kind of senator that Texas deserves and should have.
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And I've supported him ever since he ran the first time.
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I mean, as I think I heard you say, he'd be fine in Vermont if we had him as a Republican.
01:00:58.300
Can you – if you can hang on for 60 seconds, I want to ask you about the district judges and where you stand on what's happening with these district judges and what should be done.
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More with Ken Paxton, who is running for Texas Attorney General.
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He's running for the U.S. Senate against John Cornyn.
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There is an awful lot that feels broken in this world, and it's easy to feel powerless.
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You know, like you'd love to do something to help, but you just don't know what to do.
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In the end, you'll just end up shaking your head and walking away from it all, and that's not the solution.
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You can do something to bring good into the world.
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You can be part of a change that we all want to see.
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Right now, across the country, there are women facing unplanned pregnancies.
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And they're buying into the lie that, you know, the best thing they can do is have an abortion.
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My daughter, Mary, gave to me for one of my birthdays, and I read it just this morning before I went on.
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It says, you are good, but it's not enough just to be good.
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The world must be a better place because you lived, and the good that is in you needs to be spread to others.
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In this world filled with so many problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise against mediocrity, above indifference.
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You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.
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This is your opportunity to do that with Preborn.
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Uh, it's going to be, uh, ugly, uh, the, the Cornyn campaign response, uh, is Ken Paxton is a fraud, uh, so it's just going to be, it's going to be an ugly thing here in Texas, uh, but, uh, nobody deserves it more than John Cornyn.
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Um, Ken, uh, let me ask you about the, what the district courts are doing in trying to stop the president and all of his policies.
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They've obviously been overturned now by the Supreme Court, but they are going to have lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit.
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So, first of all, let me just comment on what, about me being a fraud is so funny that this is a strategy.
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If you haven't done anything for 23 years and you don't have anything to talk about, which he doesn't, and all the things you've done that are highlighted, his big accomplishment being the gun restrictions, uh, I mean, he does.
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He's going to have to spend his money to attack me and bring my numbers down because he's in serious trouble and he's way behind in the polls.
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So he will run a very negative, nasty campaign on, it'll be personal because it's not, it can't be on the issues because he, he loses.
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So as far as nationwide injunctions, look, it, it, we, we sued Joe Biden 107 times.
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We got a few nationwide injunctions that were very sparingly given out, uh, on issues like immigration.
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When he tried to stop deporting, he said, we're not going to deport anybody.
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Federal law requires this and it doesn't just require it for Texas because if we only get an injunction for Texas, well, then they just sent him to New Mexico and California and up in Texas anyway.
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So in some cases, if you can show that you have standing, what the injury will be, and then it's an injury to the whole nation, there is some, I think, benefit to being able to stop an illegal action.
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However, these liberal judges have gone crazy and they give it for everything.
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You don't even have to have a standing, which means that you have to show that you're affected by it.
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And what business is a federal judge having stopping what president Trump is doing as he's trying to cut the size of government,
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or he's trying to send criminals back to ends of the way.
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And, you know, I just hope that it does, the reaction isn't so overwhelming that we can't stop Joe Biden next time, right?
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We have no way to, but they, that Congress makes it so restrictive that then Joe Biden can do whatever he wants and no judge can stop, you know, completely unconstitutional action.
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I mean, they've granted, I think it's a ridiculous number of injunctions, nationwide injunctions.
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And so I understand, and I agree, something has to be done because president has to be able to do his job and the courts can't just micromanage everything that he does without their job.
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Supreme court can, if it's unconstitutional, but the federal judges can't stop what the president of the United States is doing at every, at every, uh, every step of the way.
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It's got to go to the Supreme court, in my opinion.
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God bless Texas attorney general also now, uh, announced candidate for U S Senate against John Cornyn.
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So she didn't think that would ever happen to her, not in her own neighborhood, not on a Tuesday morning, not before she even had her coffee, but there she was standing in the driveway in her robes and in a robe and socks, watching some dude try to break into her car.
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She yelled, the guy looked up, but he didn't run.
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She didn't want to hurt anybody, but she wasn't going to stand there in her robe and slippers and just try to negotiate either.
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She hit him with a couple of rounds from a burner launcher.
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Uh, she was down, or he was down, sorry, on the ground in pain, out of commission for a while.
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Uh, he started to get up and then she hit a, uh, CO2 cartridge full of tear gas and, uh, he didn't move again.
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Well, he rolled around the ground going, my eyes, my eyes, that was a problem.
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You know, police came, they gave him a washcloth.
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Uh, I've given it to all the members of my family as soon as they turned, uh, 18 because it's legal in all 50 states.
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Well, it's blaze tv dot com slash Glenn to get Glenn to get 30 bucks off your annual subscription.
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Um, Steve Moore is going to be on with me tomorrow.
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Um, I want to just, I want to touch base on, on just one thing, uh, just to make you aware of it.
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Uh, and that is, uh, what's happening right now on the, um, on something that is happening with the, the markets, the, you know,
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as we're trying to sell our treasuries, our debt, uh, with everything that was going on this week, the, the treasury, the yield or the interest rate should have gone way down.
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So in other words, we have to pay more money to get people to buy our bonds, but because the stock market has been so crazy, that should have gone way down because everybody's rushing into us treasuries.
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And people are wondering, uh, why, why, why, why, why, why isn't that happening?
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Uh, and it's, there's a, what's called a basis trade panic that is going on.
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And I'm going to try to explain this as, as well as I can.
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We'll talk about it in depth in the next few days, but I want to make you aware of it because it could become a very big problem.
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Imagine that you're at a lemonade stand, uh, and you notice that lemons cost a dollar each, but across the street, somebody is selling lemonade made from those lemons for a dollar 50.
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Maybe I can make 47 with the sugar and the water, but I'm going to buy lemons cheap, make lemonade and sell it for a profit.
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You don't have enough cash to buy tons and tons of lemons.
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So you borrow money from a friend promising, look, I'm going to make, I'm going to make 47 cents, you know, for every lemonade that I sell.
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And I'm going to be able to make more than one glass of lemonade with a lemon.
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And you borrow the money and say, look, I'm going to pay you back later.
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Um, so I can buy these lemons today and then sell the lemons and make just a few cents on every, every glass of lemonade.
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That's what hedge funds do in the financial world.
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They're betting on a tiny price difference between a couple of things.
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Um, U S treasury bonds, super safe IOUs from the government.
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So we're going to give you, uh, an IOU, a bond.
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We're going to give you an IOU and we're going to pay you interest, but because nobody really wants their money in, in that, because it's longterm.
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And you're going to sit there and you're going to make, you know, a couple of, uh, interest, uh, points on it.
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Uh, nobody buys them unless the market becomes very, very unstable.
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Then all of that money gets out of risky things and runs into treasury bonds.
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That's what should have been happening this week.
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The difference here, uh, when you, you have these IOUs from the government, then these hedge funds, they take futures contracts and agreement to buy those IOUs later at a set price.
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The difference is usually really, really thin, but that's what these hedge funds do.
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So they borrow tons of money, sometimes 20, 50, or even a hundred times of what they actually have.
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And they make big, big, uh, gains off of those small, tiny little gaps between what they bought and what they're going to sell it for in the future.
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It's like borrowing a hundred dollars to make a dollar of profit over and over and over and over again.
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This is almost the same kind of story with the derivatives of the CDOs.
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You just borrowed a mountain of cash to buy lemons, but suddenly a storm hits and, uh, and it's cold.
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And there's nobody who wants lemonade out on the street anymore.
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So you're stuck with all these lemons that you can't sell.
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And your friends are like, Hey, dude, I need my money.
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That is what's happening right now with the basis trade.
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Something, maybe Trump's trade war threats, China selling our treasuries, just bad luck, whatever.
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However, some, this has been a problem for a while, but it has been under the surface.
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Something has pushed it over the edge and probably the trade war that's going on now.
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So the prices of treasuries and futures aren't lining up like they used to.
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And the hedge funds are losing billions of dollars fast.
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They're selling the lemons and they're selling in a panic to be able to, uh, to pay back their loans.
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Interest rates are shooting up by 50 points in two days.
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And the whole market is getting shaky because it's like a crowded amusement park where everybody's running for the exit at once, trampling everything in their path.
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If, if, if you don't calm the crowd, this is why the president tweeted early this morning.
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It's like a roller coaster breaking down mid ride.
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You know, the track is starting to come a little bit loose.
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The market chaos that this will cause the panic selling is making it hard for anybody to buy or sell treasuries, treasuries smoothly.
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Nothing happens good when you're in your lizard brain.
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This is, I think maybe one of the reasons why I felt so calm and at peace this week when I see everything on fire.
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And it might just be that I'm kind of resigned to, you know what, it's going to happen.
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Whatever's going to happen is going to happen and we're not going to stop it.
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And maybe part of that is because, I don't know, maybe the Lord is blessing me to say to you, don't panic because nothing good happens in a panic.
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And that's what's making everything it's it's it's like the lemonade stand shutting down, leaving everybody thirsty, confused.
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Treasuries are a cornerstone of the financial world.
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The banks, the companies, regular people through pensions or savings.
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And if they become unstable, that messes the entire economy up.
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All the rides are stopped, except that ride with a roller coaster that runs on gravity.
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That's already going down the track and the track is broken.
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OK, it we could need two trillion dollars of a bailout for these stupid hedge funds.
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OK, that's, you know, filling a swimming pool with thousand dollar bills and, you know, still having, oh, a ton left.
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I want you to know that that is I don't say this, you know, panic is not good.
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But I saw this yesterday and started doing my homework on it.
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And, you know, when red lights are flashing and nobody's really talking about it, those are the kind of red lights that I kind of see all the time.
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I see kind of the big ones that could cause catastrophic damage and and it might be a lower probability.
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I've talked to quite a few people in the last 24 hours about this and they're like, it's nothing to panic about.
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Now, but by the end of the week, if this continues, it could start to be a real problem and the Fed will have to step in.
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And if the Fed steps in, what are they going to do?
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Bail the hedge funds out to make sure that, you know, we keep the economy stable, which means they're going to have to print the money, which means what?
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There are no good solutions here unless people stop panicking.
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I mean, I think the Fed can do it without the president, can't they?
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And Bush was very involved in that in the 2008.
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I mean, the Fed's doing so much stuff right now.
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We don't look at the Constitution anymore for guidance, apparently.
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And this is maybe an uncomfortable question when I ask it anyway.
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Now, there is a bill being floated in Congress currently.
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The bill is being supported by a lot of people you do not like.
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Many, many Democrats, along with a slew of Republicans, some of which are you're okay with,
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but most of which seem to be like Mitch McConnell types.
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However, the bill, and let me just give you the devils in the details.
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The bill would require when the president puts on new tariffs, they would have to, within 48 hours,
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come to Congress and present a justification for those tariffs.
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And then, within 60 days, Congress would have to approve or disapprove of that tariff.
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This is, by the way, Congress's job in the Constitution.
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Actually, they're supposed to be just doing it, but this would be a regaining of the power
01:19:44.180
given to Congress in the Constitution to deal with tariffs, specifically.
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And it's like, I look at that bill, and I have been begging for many, many, many years
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for Congress to take back this power, because, first of all, I think it's unconstitutional
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But secondly, these things, I think, should move slowly.
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I think tariffs should be something that moves slowly when at all possible.
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They gave emergency power to the president to do what he's doing here.
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He's declared an emergency and has used it to do these tariffs.
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Whether you're for these tariffs or not, though, the Founding Fathers were clear of what they
01:20:19.120
wanted, where they wanted that power to lie, which is with Congress.
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The Reigns Act would do something similar, although more expansive.
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And, of course, the Democrats aren't adopting that.
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So, now that we have this bill in front of you,
01:20:39.100
Because I'm conflicted about it, because the people who are supporting it are not people
01:20:43.880
However, it is something that I do think is the appropriate power of Congress.
01:20:59.460
Everyone likes to talk about getting ahead financially, but how do you actually do that?
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You do your best to save where you can, yet month after month, it seems like money just
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Otherwise, you've got to get a second job, maybe a third job.
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I mean, you're looking at things like credit cards, which now have an interest rate in
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Every dollar you lose to those kinds of expenses is a dollar you're not investing.
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The money you're not going to be able to pass on to your children someday.
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It's time to let American Financing in and let them help fix this with you.
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I've been talking about them for years, and that's because they've proven themselves to
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Honestly, there's so many people on my staff that have done business with American Financial,
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And they don't say, hey, I'm on Glenn Beck's staff.
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They really don't care that they're on Glenn Beck's staff because they work for you.
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They're not incentivized for the bank, so they don't treat us any differently than they
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I mean, obviously, you don't want people stealing your money, but it's more than just
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Yeah, there's a bill supported by a lot of people we don't care for all that much that
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I wind up supporting because it is essentially enforcing Congress's constitutional power on
01:25:13.440
I would support that because I'm for the Constitution at all times.
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I don't care if I'm sitting here and I'm like, Charlie Manson, you're on my side on this.
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If it is the way to protect and defend the Constitution, I'm for it always, no matter who
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To be clear, in this situation, it's much worse than Charlie Manson supporting it with you.
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With that, on this particular issue, comes a real problem.
01:25:38.240
If Congress, you know, the president can say, I'm enacting these tariffs.
01:25:43.600
And then within 60 days, Congress has to say yes or no on that.
01:25:47.920
OK, everybody will just wait you out for 60 days because they know Congress is such weasels.
01:25:54.540
OK, however, the way to fix that is the RAINS Act.
01:25:59.480
So you can restore the treaty or the tariff responsibility back to Congress and all of the
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Congress doesn't become spineless when we hold their feet to the fire.
01:26:12.920
They've given away all of these duties, all of these powers because they don't want to
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So I'm for the RAINS Act, which restores their responsibility because that has to happen.
01:26:31.060
Congress has to be responsible for what the Constitution says Congress is responsible for.
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However, there's a caveat on this, something that they can already do without enacting anything.
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I want to talk to you about King of Kings starts out as a bedtime story.
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The story, the story is his dad tells him right before he falls asleep.
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Something happens and he doesn't hear the story.
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He just enters into it and he walks beside Jesus.
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He witnesses the betrayal, the cross, and and then he sees the empty tomb.
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It's a new animated film from Angel Studios, the same people who brought you Sound of Freedom.
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The story of the life of Christ is never supposed to be dry.
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It is meant to be alive, full of meaning and the kind of hope that still speaks to us today.
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If you ever saw the, what was it, the Moses story that Steven Spielberg did years ago, you know, the animated cartoon Prince of Egypt, it's that good.
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Intact of what Bruce Beasley means to do what Bruce Beasley means to do what Bruce Beasley means to do.
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and I think one of the best reporters in the nation,
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The first one was about Donald Trump and his first win.
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She's got a new book coming out this summer called Butler.
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But she just wrote a story about being, you know, in Pennsylvania
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Have you ever noticed the world doesn't really want you to sleep?
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I mean, whether it's the demands of your job, your work,
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And then when you finally do slow down, your brain doesn't.
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You lie there in the middle of the night and you're replaying the day.
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Jumps ahead to tomorrow, keeps you staring at the ceiling
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and you're living somewhere between tired and wired.
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and it helps your body do what it's supposed to do.
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but on those nights when the world's got me by the tail,
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I can't wait to talk to you, Selena, about Butler.
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But can we just talk about your story that you wrote a couple of days ago?
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What I learned about America first in Pennsylvania in a steel mill.
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You know, so this is a special correspondence to the Washington Post.
01:31:52.820
And they reached out to me after the election to do this kind of work.
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And I really wanted to get in there and tell the people's story,
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not only about how they feel about this sale to Nippon,
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And it is, you know, walking into that steel mill,
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I have to tell you it was a thrill of my career.
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I have wanted to go inside that mill for 30 years
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Is it like the pictures where the sparks are flying?
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I have my hard hat on, earplugs, the sound, everything like the sound,
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the smell, the visuals, everything about that place screams work, right?
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You just felt, and you felt like you were in a place
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And that is how these men and women see what they do.
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It makes your appliances, it makes your cars, it makes your roads,
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it makes the vehicles and the instruments that protect us.
01:33:28.060
So they are part of something bigger than self.
01:33:46.020
And what are some of the things that took it down?
01:33:53.900
And these guys have been just hanging on by a thread,
01:34:00.200
trying to keep this very important thing still made and produced in America.
01:34:07.980
Now, when the Nippon deal first came out in December of 2023,
01:34:13.140
the union guys, the management, they were, like, against it.
01:34:23.420
Their grandfather, their great-grandfather, they all worked in it.
01:34:26.780
So the images of the 70s where Japan was selling the deal,
01:34:36.400
But they're also, you know, they had grandfathers and fathers
01:34:54.220
But then, as they realized that U.S. Steel was never going to reinvest in their mill,
01:35:01.480
if people take a look at the story, they can see the rolling mill in action.
01:35:07.740
I put a free link up in my Twitter account, Zito Selena.
01:35:14.020
But that rolling mill that you see there, which is like this awe-inspiring, powerful thing,
01:35:24.360
It's really, really difficult to be competitive with any other company or country
01:35:33.780
And it cost a billion dollars to make a new one.
01:35:39.900
And the U.S. Steel has said, yeah, we're not going to do that.
01:35:44.260
And so Nippon comes in and says, we're going to rebuild it.
01:35:48.760
Not only are we going to rebuild it, we're going to invest in several other billion dollars
01:35:55.380
And it took a lot of talks, a lot of understanding, a lot of getting more investment from Nippon,
01:36:03.500
where these steelworkers, by the way, they are not aligned with the international.
01:36:10.700
These are the local steelworkers, the guys that show up every day, not the suits, the guys
01:36:26.500
And it won't turn my community into places like McKeesport or Aliquippa, which are now
01:36:32.800
just shells of what they once were because of steel mills left in those areas.
01:36:38.340
So I just said, Selena, this week that, you know, when Donald Trump talks about bringing
01:36:43.640
jobs back, he's he's not talking about and hear me carefully, not talking about going
01:36:50.800
back into Pittsburgh and saying, we're going to open up all the steel mills.
01:36:53.900
He is talking about steel mills, but they will be smaller and different, closer to the needs,
01:37:01.660
There are things everything is going to change.
01:37:05.120
But it is it's different kind of jobs and different kinds of things.
01:37:09.300
We're not talking about this nostalgic, you know, rebuilding of Pittsburgh the way it was.
01:37:20.280
And the amount of technology that they use there would blow people's minds.
01:37:24.460
They're like, there's so much stereotype of what you think happens in there that you often
01:37:29.840
And then you walk in there and you're like, oh, OK.
01:37:36.460
And to your point, this is a really important point.
01:37:40.960
Two weeks ago, the Homer City coal fired power plant was leveled.
01:37:45.780
It was very dramatic watching the highest smokestack in the country fall to the ground.
01:37:52.300
But 10 days later, thanks to Trump, thanks to Burgum, they are open.
01:37:58.680
They are putting in its place and nobody knew this was going to happen.
01:38:02.400
They're putting in its place the largest electrical gas power plant in its place that will not
01:38:10.700
only provide electricity to Pennsylvania, but also parts of Maryland, New York, Ohio, and
01:38:19.560
And more importantly than that, it is there are going to build an AI data center next to
01:38:37.480
And there are places like that all over the industrial Midwest that you can retrofit these
01:38:43.540
coal-fired power plants and make them power plants for AI.
01:38:49.500
You know, Trump, both Trump and Burgum have said, you know, it used to be the arms race
01:39:02.520
And these are the places where we'll build them.
01:39:05.100
So what is your feeling now that the tariffs, you know, everybody in Wall Street, everybody's
01:39:13.780
And I think it's starting to freak people out, the average person, you know, because
01:39:21.160
You know, it's like, you know, when the media doesn't talk about gas prices, nobody says
01:39:25.960
anything about gas prices, even though the average person feels it.
01:39:30.540
The media is just freaking out about all of this.
01:39:33.040
And maybe they have good points here and there.
01:39:38.400
But the last thing we need is to freak out about it.
01:39:41.980
What are the people like you meet in those small towns, the working class people, what
01:39:52.200
Well, you know, Glenn, we have had this conversation so many times before.
01:39:59.380
If I step on social media or if I put on the legacy news, it's a very, very different
01:40:10.260
Uh, and, and, you know, uh, for so long, the, the playing field has not been level for
01:40:18.100
And I know that sounds like a cliche, however, it is true.
01:40:20.880
Um, and, and they, and, and, and, and it's really interesting to me, to a person, they
01:40:28.740
almost, they are willing to have a short-term sacrifice for a long-term betterment for the
01:40:38.280
It's going to be in my upcoming story with my interview with Bergam.
01:40:40.960
Um, I was talking to Anthony, he is a PhD in chemistry, has traveled all over the world
01:40:49.940
And, and I said, so how do you, you know, feel about this?
01:40:54.100
He, and he said, um, I think it's the best thing for the country.
01:40:57.500
It's going to make the country better for my children and for my grandchildren.
01:41:05.740
We have been thinking in terms of satisfying wall street.
01:41:10.660
And, and I know I look my, he goes, I, you know, I'm, I'm 10 years from retirement.
01:41:17.340
However, I also knew what it looked like in 2008 and 2020 America rolls back.
01:41:26.240
And he said, we should have learned this from COVID.
01:41:34.960
And we haven't been able to because corporations see how cheaply it can be made in China, how
01:41:42.540
cheaply it can be made in Mexico or wherever, name a country, Vietnam or whatever country it
01:41:48.680
Um, and, and we need to be able to have our supply chain, be able to supply us.
01:41:55.740
And if that makes me take a haircut, I'll take a haircut because it's going to be better
01:42:01.120
I've got about a minute before I have to break.
01:42:03.200
Um, and I'm going to pursue something else, but, um, do you think that, uh, the average
01:42:09.820
person, uh, really understands that this is not about the economy today.
01:42:19.500
This is the great reset, not done by the elites.
01:42:23.420
This is the great reset saying, no, we're going to put our faith back into America and
01:42:33.120
It's just about what the elites have been doing is wrong and it's going to hurt, but we got to
01:42:44.100
I mean, to a person and, and it's really interesting because I don't lead into that question, right?
01:42:51.280
It's one of the first things that they say in particular ranchers, you know, talk to a
01:42:56.880
rancher in Kansas and they will tell you, you know, we haven't had a level playing field
01:43:04.360
We have been on the short end of the stick for decades.
01:43:07.260
You know, and, and, you know, this is the first time that, that we have a chance to
01:43:14.280
show what we have and show that we can compete so that our ranchers ranches for our kids and
01:43:20.340
our grandkids are, are better, stronger, more viable because they're not going to be, if
01:43:28.780
You know, the, one of the things that, let me just say this to anybody who's listening.
01:43:31.780
Um, one of the things I love about Selina, we've known each other for decades now and,
01:43:37.080
uh, I love, I love her because she does not drive the highways.
01:43:45.540
She stops at the coffee shops and the little stores in the gas station.
01:43:49.120
And that's, that's why I think you have such a good handle on the heartbeat of the average
01:43:56.140
So hang on just a second, because I want to come back and I want to talk to you about
01:43:59.100
your book, Butler, um, because I find this fascinating, uh, back in just a second.
01:44:11.680
Government's not going to make any move that puts your retirement at risk and all of that
01:44:18.960
You know, uh, I was just checking to see if my nose would grow.
01:44:33.840
Um, we don't know where the stock market's going to be.
01:44:41.280
We have history to look at, but is it going to play out exactly the same way?
01:44:50.140
The whole financial world is changing right now.
01:44:55.500
We have to start building a protective wall around your wealth, which is one of the things
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So Selena, Butler, Pennsylvania is in your neck of the woods.
01:45:45.000
Um, in fact, my family, when they first came here from Scotland and Germany, they settled
01:45:50.740
there in the 1750s, fought in the French and Indian War.
01:45:57.100
So, and I was there the day that, um, President, uh, Trump was shot.
01:46:03.640
In fact, I was very, very close to him all by happenstance.
01:46:08.080
None of what was supposed to happen that day happened.
01:46:12.700
Um, and if you want me to tell you a little bit about that, go ahead, go ahead.
01:46:16.220
Um, I began, I began the morning, um, I was going to have five minutes to talk with Donald
01:46:22.520
Um, and well, you know, anybody who knows Donald Trump, I knew it was going to be longer than
01:46:34.920
I think it hit 103, um, and, and so, uh, about, I get there at six in the morning and
01:46:40.760
about two in the afternoon, I get a text saying, Hey, we're going to have to move.
01:46:44.540
We're going to have to move the, um, the interview.
01:46:47.820
And I'm like thinking as a reporter always does.
01:46:53.800
How about, you know, uh, five minutes after the rally, like, fine, I'll do it.
01:46:58.360
And then I get another text about, oh, 15 minutes.
01:47:02.420
No, about an hour before the president goes on and Susie Wiles and she says, Hey, so how
01:47:07.420
would you feel like, um, flying to Bedminster from here with the president?
01:47:19.720
And, and about five minutes before he goes on to the stage, they come running back and
01:47:27.640
Like, oh my God, they changed their minds again.
01:47:30.660
So he went running backstage along with my daughter.
01:47:37.220
And, um, uh, you know, I'm standing there behind stage and I'm like, well, where am I
01:47:42.220
And the, the campaign aide said, I, I don't know.
01:47:46.340
And, and so he comes back rather sheepishly and said, uh, he just wanted to say hi to
01:47:52.700
And so he said, hi, he does his usual thing by saying, oh, Selena, you have the best hair
01:47:59.780
And then at that point, at that point, they, they couldn't get me back to the riser.
01:48:06.560
So he said, get in the buffer when he comes out, take some photos, you know, record it,
01:48:11.760
whatever you want to do, just make sure you're over on the right hand side so that you're
01:48:22.140
He, you know, I mean, you know, I follow along, I'm in the buffer, which is like a well between
01:48:28.140
It's usually for security and photo journalists follow.
01:48:32.960
I get to his right and he does two things that he never does.
01:48:47.160
And, and then the other thing he does is he turns and looks at it.
01:48:52.580
Now, if you've ever been to a Trump rally, it is very transactional between him and the
01:49:01.040
He may move his body to the left, to the right, but he never turns his head away.
01:49:04.900
And he does that within that moment, pop, pop, pop right over my head and the gunshots
01:49:14.020
Now, I see him go down, but I see he takes himself down.
01:49:22.180
The blood comes flying over in my direction and I'm still standing there.
01:49:27.040
And, and I see a sea of, uh, secret service men and women surround him.
01:49:32.780
And then I hear four more pops and then I get taken down because I'm not standing.
01:49:45.000
Um, and, and I get into that in the book, but what happens the next day, Glenn is powerful.
01:49:53.320
I didn't want to drag you across the bottom of the hour.
01:49:55.100
Cause I want to hear, I want to hear the rest of us.
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She is a author of a new book coming out this summer called Butler.
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We'll talk to her again this summer when it comes out.
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A coming book called Butler, The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and
01:52:14.660
That's the longest title, Selena, I've ever heard.
01:52:20.920
Anyway, you were talking about when he was shot and you said it was the next day that was really telling.
01:52:30.880
Let me ask you first before you go into the next day.
01:52:33.040
You were close enough to see when he was down on the ground.
01:52:36.860
I asked him recently, privately, what was going through your head?
01:52:42.720
And he said, honestly, Glenn, this is pathetic.
01:53:10.360
Pre-orders, you know how important that is, especially if you don't live in New York or D.C.
01:53:15.460
So, you know, we had that conversation, and I'll tell you a little bit of it, because I had the same.
01:53:26.420
So the first thing I think people should know is that he called me first thing in the morning the next day.
01:53:32.080
And before I could even say hello, he said, Selena, are you okay?
01:53:38.540
And I kind of swore at the president, and my mom's going to be mad when she reads this part.
01:53:50.420
But it was just so stunned that that was the first thing he was thinking of.
01:53:58.980
We proceeded to have about seven more phone calls.
01:54:03.620
And, you know, one of the things that he said to me was, one thing people don't know is before he said, fight, fight, fight, I could see him.
01:54:22.300
And then I see him turn and get up and say, fight, fight, fight.
01:54:32.020
And he said, well, Selena, at that moment, I wasn't Donald Trump.
01:54:35.740
I was symbolic, even though I wasn't president yet.
01:54:42.900
I had an obligation to show that the country is strong, that we will not be defeated, and that we are resolute.
01:54:51.780
I did not want to be the symbol of America being weak.
01:55:06.560
That is either in you or not in you, and it's in very few people.
01:55:16.100
There are some very gripping emotional moments that he and I have, not only that next day, but also I saw him probably a dozen times after that at different rallies that I covered.
01:55:30.240
But he believed in that moment, and I think he believes that always.
01:55:41.300
He always believes that you have a responsibility as the president of the United States.
01:55:48.300
You are a symbol of the country and everything that it stands for.
01:56:03.180
You know, there have been other world leaders that have had assassination attempts, and it makes them egotistical.
01:56:11.080
This assassination attempt actually humbled him and yet strengthened him.
01:56:22.120
You know, he could have easily gone up and said, it was the most beautiful bullet of all time, but my superpowers.
01:56:31.860
He was like, God save me, and doesn't use that as a, that's why you need to go stay at the Trump God golf course that I'm building.
01:56:47.420
And if people are wondering why he is so resolute on everything that he's doing and everything he is doing at such a warp speed,
01:56:54.980
it's because he believes, and he told me this, that God was there.
01:57:08.680
You know, like, outlaw, he's like, I don't know why I did that, Selena.
01:57:13.820
And the man you see today, and you see what he is projecting, and no matter who is sort of saying, this is terrible, you're going to break the country, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is.
01:57:32.560
And I don't think you're going to see him, you know, waver it.
01:57:43.940
There's also some, by the way, people will find out that Trump, in this book, in Butler, that Trump is not the only president to be shot in Butler and almost die.
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I didn't think George Washington was ever wounded.
01:58:42.320
That's the first chapter, George Washington running through Butler.
01:58:47.000
I think we need to make sure everybody knows you're running for president.
01:58:52.020
And Butler, the reason why Butler is also so important is that Butler is a symbol of everyday America, right?
01:59:02.700
This is a county and a city that is a great big mix of suburbs, but also industrial and farmer and ranchers, right?
01:59:16.360
This is, if you wanted to see like a melting pot of the country in one county, this is it.
01:59:21.820
And he goes to places like that, and he lets people know that they are seen.
01:59:26.940
Just like East Palestine, like that was the moment that changed the trajectory of his election, was showing up in East Palestine in February of 2023.
01:59:37.300
People might not remember he was down in the polls then.
01:59:40.440
This was before, you know, the primary process started.
01:59:48.220
One week after he went to East Palestine, he shot out above DeSantis and Haley and never looked back.
01:59:58.100
And that is that is that magic power that he has in that he makes places and people in those places feel seen.
02:00:06.120
And so the book will take you also through what nobody saw and heard during the election cycle.
02:00:15.880
Yeah, he also said to me the one thing that cemented where he knew.
02:00:24.080
And I think this is part of where he got his swagger back, where he knew the American people were with him.
02:00:29.860
He said, I get back up and I see the crowd is not a jumble of chaos.
02:00:37.660
I've never really seen the video of that moment from the crowd perspective.
02:00:45.960
What was it like in the crowd when that was going on?
02:01:02.200
And and after he was safely gone, they just quietly exited.
02:01:08.620
And and what is really profound, Glenn, is, you know, they kept me in the back for a long time.
02:01:15.980
They were trying to make sure I wasn't hit because I never got down.
02:01:21.180
And and, you know, because sometimes you don't know if you're hit.
02:01:25.260
And and so I go out and walk with my daughter and my son in law.
02:01:29.900
We walk to our car and there's you know, this is on a big farm.
02:01:35.320
And there's all all those cars are still there.
02:01:39.480
And instead of like people blowing their horn like this is an hour after it happened.
02:01:44.300
Instead of people freaking out, people were outside of their cars.
02:01:49.040
They were sharing like waters and food and helping each other, making sure everyone was OK.
02:02:00.220
And and I talked to people that were there in the book and it was absolutely I get chills even talking about it.
02:02:08.100
Because what you saw in that moment was was the way that people behave in in in a crisis situation can go one or two ways.
02:02:21.740
And and many people said to me that they felt the presence of something greater than self in that moment.
02:02:32.940
OK, Selina, the name of the book is Butler and it's coming out this summer.
02:02:42.240
I'm literally going to order my copy today because Selina is just she's a fan.
02:02:48.260
She's one of my favorite writers in the world and just really, really good.
02:02:54.740
Do you get into the who the shooter was and all of that?
02:02:59.700
Yeah, I mean, the shooter actually grew up maybe three miles from from my my home of 30 years.
02:03:10.260
There's there's not much to tell in terms of motive, but I really get into the family, the poor sportsman range where he went to.
02:03:23.440
You know, you know, this is a kid who, you know, I went and looked at the log of of when he went to the to the range.
02:03:37.740
You know, you're you're you're able to get more of a profile of of this of this gentleman.
02:03:44.840
But I also, you know, this is like this is a day that had the wind blown any other way.
02:03:52.520
You know, so many things could have been so wrong in that moment.
02:04:02.120
And and you saw it elsewhere throughout the election with with the president.
02:04:18.280
He thinks he thinks that I have the greatest hair in America.
02:04:31.240
I'm like, I don't I don't want my hair any bigger.
02:04:38.680
And so, yeah, there's some very humorous moments in the in the book as well.
02:04:43.060
But also just like really on the ground in Pennsylvania and really seeing what really was happening in that in that election, not just with President Trump, but also with Harris and Walt.
02:04:54.720
There are some stories there that that will blow people's mind in terms of how inept and unprepared they were.
02:05:01.440
We're going to we'll love to have you back, you know, when when the book is out.
02:05:08.220
I know you didn't plan on sharing it today, but thank you so much.
02:05:16.720
Dear friend and one of the best journalists out there, Selena Zito.
02:05:28.400
We'll we'll try to have her back on when the book officially comes out.
02:05:34.080
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I just want to give you a story that's from the New York Post.
02:07:32.960
It's in our show prep today just as a kind of a kicker story.
02:07:37.200
A woman was named November June by her parents, even though she wasn't married or she wasn't born in November or June.
02:07:47.140
When November June Brown was born, her mom, April, decided to carry on the family tradition of being named after months in the year.
02:07:57.300
November June isn't the only one in her family named after a month of the year.
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Her mom is called April and her sister is December.
02:08:16.540
December's birthday is in November and November was born in August.
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You might want to sink your calendars for this particular family.
02:08:27.700
They celebrate their birthday, even though that April born in January, April 1st, everybody calls April and says happy birthday.
02:08:38.800
So they call June and say that December's birthday is in November and November was born in August.
02:08:45.260
So August 1st, they all call and say happy birthday to November.
02:08:52.180
Is there any month of the year that's not a name?
02:08:55.060
I mean, pretty, pretty rare to hear November, right?
02:09:03.200
I don't know if I've ever heard anyone named October.
02:09:18.800
You got to do what Turkmenbashi did, the old former leader of Turkmenistan.
02:09:22.080
Who renamed one of the months on the calendar after his mom.