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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by State Department spokesperson Heather Bartsch to discuss the $4 Trillion Debt Ceiling and the Iran Deal. Glenn also talks about the latest in the Iran deal and why we should all be worried about it.
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Hello America. I have some concerning news, but I have also some very good news. I'm going to start
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with the State Department, something that is happening in the State Department, but I want
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you to listen to what they're now saying publicly to the rest of the world. It's very different than
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it has been in the past. We begin there in 60 seconds. We're also going to talk about
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the $4 trillion debt ceiling going up, the fact that now we have more judges up in New York that
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are like, you know, the President, he can't do that with tariffs because we don't see
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the emergency. Oh, oh, you don't see the emergency. Okay, well, thank you, but we didn't elect
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something before we get into all of this about something that we probably learned and then forgot
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about in school. And I'll give that to you here in a second. But, you know, liberals are freaking out.
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I mean, they freaked out over, you know, J.D. Vance when he went to Europe and he said, look,
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you got to stand for freedom of speech. Wait until they read the substack now from the State
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Department. This is something really, really amazing. Something remarkable is happening and
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it's really happening at the last place I would expect it to happen. And that is the State Department
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because that thing, oh my gosh, that has taken our country and steered it into the wrong direction
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for so long. And for the very first time in a very long time, the United States Department of State
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is speaking not like a globalist think tank, but actually as a sovereign nation that finally
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remembers what it's all about. And it's done it in just over a hundred days. Marco Rubio is doing an
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incredible job along with the president on the State Department. We are no longer bowing to
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international consensus. We're not apologizing for American strength. You know, we're not managing
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our own decline. Instead, we have clarity. Clarity about who we are, what we'll defend,
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and what we will no longer tolerate. Now think about this. Just a few months ago, we had a State
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Department that was all tangled up in woke ideology. You know, we were outsourcing our American
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foreign policy to NGOs that were constantly undermining our values. We had a government that was handing
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out billions of dollars in aid while our borders were wide open and enemies like China were buying up
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influence in Panama, buying up farmland in Peoria. I mean, it was crazy. And that's all over now.
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Rubio has hit the brakes on the Belt and Road madness. We have now, did you know that we fixed Panama,
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the Panama Canal? He secured Panama's exit from Beijing's grip. He told Latin American leaders,
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you want a relationship with the U.S.? Then stop sending your people across the border and start taking
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responsibility. That's not a press release. This is leadership. And it's happening at the State
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Department. And most shockingly of all, I think he shut down the Global Engagement Center, that
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Orwellian outfit that was, you know, masquerading as a disinformation watchdog, but was actually
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a censorship mill from the U.S. government. Gone. That alone, we should be standing, give him a standing
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ovation for. Now, it's still the State Department, so, you know, but you can feel the gears turning
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differently now. The agency is being gutted of its dead weight, of its activist layers. They're all being
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peeled back and rebuilt on this simple idea. The United States of America must speak clearly,
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act decisively, and defend its own citizens and values first. I mean, look what's happened.
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Terrorists? Yep, they're called terrorists. They're on the run. Cartels? Now, designated as
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terrorist organizations. Watch what happens there. Visas for criminal aliens, revoked. Students who
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abuse our generosity to promote jihadist propaganda, you're out. I mean, this is not just a shift in
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policy. It is a shift in philosophy. This is really good news. And what it is saying to the world is,
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we are no longer confused on who we are. We're not here to play international babysitter. We're not
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here to sign treaties that handcuff our economy or finance global instability under the banner of
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aid anymore. We're here to defend American interest and nothing else. Now, you contrast that with the last
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few years, you know, embassies flying the rainbow flags, you know, Iranian proxies blowing up oil
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tankers, bent over backwards trying to, you know, kiss the butt of Tehran. I mean, that chapter is over,
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and it couldn't have ended soon enough, but I can't believe that that chapter is over. You have to read
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the substack from the State Department. We are now saying loud and clear, America is no longer a
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doormat. America is no longer a cash machine. America is no longer ashamed. Yes, we've made
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mistakes, but you made them too. Now, is this making some foreign policy people very uncomfortable? Oh,
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yeah. Oh, yeah. The Davos crowd, they hate it. WEF, they hate it. The UN, oh, my gosh. The think tanks,
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they're screaming right now. And the New York Times is going to talk about tribalism and isolationism
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and authoritarianism. But you know what? That's how you know it's working. That's how you know we're
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on the right track. Because for once, we're not admiring the problems, we're solving them.
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And if this continues, we might just remember what it feels like to lead and be free again.
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I want to give you some of the words that Rubio is releasing now under the substack. You have to
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read some of it. It's amazing. Let me give you the latest. It was posted, I think, yesterday. It's
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the Clash of Civilizations, the need for civilizational allies in Europe. And it builds
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on what Marco Rubio, I'm sorry, what J.D. Vance said when he was over in Germany. Look, guys,
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there are certain values that we can't abandon anymore. And there are two rules of thought
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here. And this is what we probably learned in school and then forgot. The Clash of Civilizations.
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This is a thesis that the people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source
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of conflict in the post-Cold War world. This came from Sam Hutchinson. He was a political theorist
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and political scientist. And he argued the future would be fought not between countries,
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but between cultures. And we couldn't, I don't think we could really get our arms around that
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because the Western culture was winning. And it was proposed in 1992 at the American Enterprise
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Institute. And then in 1993, it was an article. And this is what gave birth to Francis Fukuyama's
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book, The End of History and the Last Man, where it was a completely different philosophy.
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And that's the one that the State Department of the rest of the world went with.
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We're going, what we're seeing actually is the Clash of Civilizations is right, that the Western
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way of life is under attack. And it's under attack internally and externally. Let me, let me give
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you this, because this is worth really listening to. Because this is a message that our State
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Department just said, sent to the rest of the world, and every American should know it as well.
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The need for civilization, civilizational allies in Europe. Let me read it verbatim here. The close
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relationship between the United States and Europe transcends geographic proximity and transactional
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politics. It represents a unique bond forged in a common culture, faith, familial ties, mutual
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assistance in times of strife, and above all, shared Western civilizational heritage. Our transatlantic
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partnership is underpinned by a rich Western tradition of natural law, virtue ethics, and
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national sovereignty. This tradition flows from Athens and Rome through medieval Christianity to
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English common law and ultimately to America's founding documents. Our declaration's revolutionary
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assertion that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights echoes the
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thoughts of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas and other European heavyweights who recognized that all men
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possess natural rights and that no government can deny or arbitrate any of those rights. America
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remains indebted to Europe for this intellectual and cultural legacy. This connection between Europe and
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the United States is also the reason that we now speak honestly when we disagree or have concerns and it is why the
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Trump administration is sounding the alarm in Europe. You know, if if their press hadn't made Donald Trump look like
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Hitler, this would be such a powerful message. Imagine being over in a country, you know, in the Netherlands or
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Germany or whatever, you're seeing your country overrun and you're seeing your friends being called terrorists exactly like what was
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happening here in America. And nobody on your side is standing up in Europe. There's no leadership.
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When Vice President Vance addressed this year's Munich Security Conference, he made the reason clear stating,
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what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
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In the aftermath of two devastating world wars, European nations sought to prevent future catastrophes by creating
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supernatural structures that would bind nations closer together and allow for more substantial diplomatic and economic
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engagements. This is from the State Department. Proponents of this new order, including well-meaning Christian and
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pro-democracy parties, sought a grand transformation to a world that would transcend the divisiveness of nationality and
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creed to usher in an era of unprecedented peace. By overcoming the anchors of nationhood, culture, and tradition, global liberalism
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promised what Francis Fuqua, whatever, famously called the end of history, the ultimate innovation of political life.
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Today, this promise lies in tatters. This is so important. Today, this promise lies in tatters. What endures instead is an
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aggressive campaign against Western civilization itself. Listen to that again. What endures is an aggressive campaign
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against Western civilization itself. Across Europe, governments have weaponized political institutions against their own
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citizens and against our shared heritage. Far from strengthening democratic principles, Europe has devolved
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into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on
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democratic self-governance. These concerning trends have only increased in recent years. In the United Kingdom, police are
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arrested for arresting Christians for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic. In 2023, over 12,000 British citizens were
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arrested for online posts, including comments critical of Europe's migration crisis that authorities deemed to be grossly
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offensive. In Germany, the government has established elaborate systems to monitor and censor online speech under the guise of
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combating disinformation and presenting offense. When the German citizens expressed legitimate concerns about the
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economic and social impacts of globalization or criticized politicians, they now risk being fined, labeled as radicals, or even
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having homes raided by law enforcement. The European Union's Digital Service Act, billed to protect children from
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harmful online content is instead being used to silence dissident voices through Orwellian content moderation.
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Independent regulators now police social media companies, including prominent American platforms like X, and threaten immense
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fines for non-compliance with their strict speech regulations.
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So Secretary Rubio is going on and he talks about what's happening in Germany, what's happened in
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England. And then he says, Americans are familiar with these tactics. Indeed, a similar strategy of
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censorship, demonization, and bureaucratic weaponization was utilized against President
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Trump and all of his supporters. What this reveals is that the global liberal project is not enabling
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a flourishing of democracy. Rather, it is trampling our democracy and Western heritage along with it in
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the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people. Our concerns are not partisan,
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but principled. The suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of
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religious expression, and undermining of the electoral choice threatens the very foundation
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of the transatlantic partnership. Do you hear this? We are now putting Europe on notice.
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And good, this is critical that we do this. And you know what? If you're a Democrat, you would have
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been for this. You've changed. Okay? I've changed. I used to be for much more of this globalist crap.
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It's wrong. It doesn't work. Most likely, if you were a liberal, you were against it. You were against
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all these endless wars. Why are you? What new information have you gotten that changes your point
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of view? I can tell you what information changed me from that globalist to somebody who is now looking at
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this and going, look, they're violating all of our constitutional rights. And both parties are
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engaged in it. One's worse than the other, but both parties are engaged in it. I can tell you why I
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changed. Why did you change? What new information took you away from those eternal truths?
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Anyway, a Europe that replaces its spiritual and cultural roots, that treats traditional values as
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dangerous relics, and that centralizes power in unaccountable institutions, is a Europe less
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capable of standing firm against external threats and internal decay. To this end, achieving peace in
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Europe and around the world requires not a rejection of our shared cultural heritage, but a renewal of it.
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Secretary Rubio has made it clear the State Department will always act in America's national interest.
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Europe's democratic backsliding not only impacts European citizens, but increasingly affects American
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security and economic ties, along with free speech rights of American citizens and companies.
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Our hope is that both Europe and the United States can recommit to our Western heritage,
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and that European nations will end the weaponization of government against those seeking to defend it.
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We will not always agree on scope and tactics, but tangible actions by European governments to
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guarantee protection for political and religious speech, secure borders, and fair elections would
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serve as welcome steps forward. The United States remains committed to a strong partnership with
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Europe in working together on shared foreign policy goals. However, this partnership must be founded
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upon our shared heritage rather than globalist conformity. Our relationship is too important,
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our history is too valuable, and the international stakes are too high to allow this partnership to
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be undermined. Therefore, on both sides of the Atlantic, we must preserve the goods of our common
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culture, ensuring that Western civilization remains a source of virtue, of freedom, and human flourishing for
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generations to come. That came from our State Department. You have got to check out what Rubio and the State
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Department are doing on their new substack. You can just follow them on X, or just go to the State
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Department. We are sending strong messages and actually standing up for our values.
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Welcome to the GlennBeck program. It's Thursday. There's a lot going on. You know, I was haunted by
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something we talked about yesterday, this Whoopi Goldberg clip where she was like, you know,
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they were talking about, you know, the original sin book and why we need to know, you know,
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who was actually running the White House. And she said, what difference does it make now? Oh my gosh,
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you're so stupid. I just, I have a really hard time being nice. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said
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that. Jesus wouldn't have said that, but Jesus wasn't around with Whoopi Goldberg. Anyway,
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and I just, I want to just set this next story up with this. Does the truth matter? Okay. I asked
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Grok this morning, why does truth matter in a civilization? I want you to listen to its answer.
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Because truth is the foundation of trust, justice, and progress. Now, let's see if you can check any of
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these boxes. Without truth, societies fall into confusion. Yep. Corruption. Yep. And conflict. Yep.
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Shared values enable informed decisions. Not happening. Accountability. Not happening. And
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cooperation. Not happening. When truth is devalued, manipulation thrives. Yep. And institutions collapse.
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Yep. So Whoopi, that's why the truth matters. Okay. That's why we have to solve things. Which brings me
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to another story that is breaking today and was out yesterday. The newly declassified FBI document
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that Nellie Orr, do you remember her name? She was up on our chalkboard for a very long time,
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her and her husband. She was the contractor for Fusion GPS, the firm that was hired by the Clinton
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campaign to dig up opposition research on Donald Trump. Now it shows in a newly declassified documents
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that she likely lied to Congress. Well, I am just shocked. Well, I think I have a case of the
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vapors after hearing that. She denied knowledge of the Justice Department's Russia investigation.
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She distanced herself from the creation of the Steele dossier. She downplayed her interactions with
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federal officials. But the FBI's own internal analysis contradicts all of her sworn testimony. Okay.
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So we've had this for a while, but the Justice Department didn't do anything. I mean, this is not
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speculation. This is documented. An analytical error in the Steele dossier matched the one found in her
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own research. So how did that happen? Is that just a wild coincidence? Emails also showed awareness of
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ongoing investigations. She handed her DOJ-connected husband, Bruce Orr, a thumb drive of all of the
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research that fed directly into the FBI's Russia probe. The Bureau identified multiple times when
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she gave false testimony. So we've known this for a while. The classified documents were declassified.
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We've known this for a while. All of this was up at the DOJ. No charges, no accountability,
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absolutely no consequences on any of it. Does the truth matter? Yes. Why? Because civilization is
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built on the truth, and without it, everything begins to collapse. So the Department of Justice
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handed a criminal referral. They did nothing. The FBI itself acknowledged the likelihood of perjury
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there and yet didn't do anything. So is that justice? Is that justice or is that a cover-up?
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It's the same DOJ that launched an aggressive, sweeping investigation into Donald Trump based
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on the Steele dossier, which we know now was completely bogus, and the investigation proved
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ultimately nothing. And then they turned a blind eye to those who created and promoted that dossier
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under false pretenses. The same agency that surveilled American citizens now refuses to prosecute its
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own. Bruce Orr, her husband, was a senior Justice Department official, maintained an official back
00:30:19.360
channel with Christopher Steele, even as the FBI said he's not credible, and cut ties with him for
00:30:26.360
unauthorized leaks. That was in 2016. He was in his position still at the Justice Department in 2020.
00:30:34.040
Nellie Orr, meanwhile, told Congress she took a ham radio class before her employment with Fusion GPS.
00:30:40.700
Why? Why is that important? What? Oh, now they want to know if she took a ham radio class. Oh, it's her hobby.
00:30:47.200
Is it? Consider that ham radio provides a way to communicate internationally without leaving any
00:30:53.900
digital traces. Records show she took those classes during her time at Fusion GPS, something she said
00:31:03.480
the opposite of. This is not incompetence. This is obstruction.
00:31:11.960
Here's the point that has to be made for anybody who says, ah, it doesn't matter. There was a time
00:31:19.460
when American justice was the envy of the rest of the world. And not because it was perfect. It wasn't.
00:31:25.720
It was horrible. But for the most part, it was incorruptible. Courts could not be purchased. The
00:31:35.720
truth did matter. The law applied equally. Again, not saying this was forever, and I'm not saying it was
00:31:43.480
it was applied equally, especially in the South. We know all of those problems. But we were trying to
00:31:50.360
get better at that. We weren't rejecting the whole thing. We were saying, this is what JFK came in and
00:31:57.840
did, NARFK. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We see what's going on down there, and that's against
00:32:03.500
the Constitution. And so the federal government will step in and correct that. Because the foundation,
00:32:10.220
the principles of blind justice, is the foundation that separated us from the regimes that, you know,
00:32:18.680
where the power dictated the outcomes, you know, and the powerful always walked free. It didn't
00:32:23.780
happen here in America. But that foundation is cracking badly. And justice in America cannot survive
00:32:33.760
if lying under oath, manipulating intelligence, politicizing federal power are tolerated when
00:32:41.380
it's done by the right people. The justice system does not exist to protect a narrative. It exists to
00:32:50.300
uphold the law. And without any accountability, there is no justice. And without justice, there is no
00:32:56.760
republic. This is why the truth matters. This is why we must still pay attention to these things
00:33:04.440
and punish the people who did the wrong things. And I don't care who they voted for or what they
00:33:10.020
believed in. If they did wrong, they should be punished after a free and fair trial where the judges
00:33:17.420
are not corrupt, where the judges aren't bought off to some political theory, but they are beholden to
00:33:24.220
the Constitution. And the reason why I bring this up is because, I mean, we spent a lot of time with
00:33:30.640
the oars and, and, and they spent a lot of time on our chalkboard, you know, because they were very
00:33:37.060
involved in the corruption there. But it matters also, I bring it up now and use them as an example
00:33:43.360
because they are, it's not isolated. Okay, this is, this, this is, these two are just symptoms of a much
00:33:53.560
deeper problem, a dual system of justice, where your political affiliation, or the courtroom you're in
00:34:01.120
because of the judges of political affiliation, determines the outcome. This is not lawful, it's not
00:34:08.880
sustainable, and it is definitely not American. And to use the language of the left, this is a danger
00:34:15.260
to our democracy. Justice must return. And it has to return through fair trials based on facts. Those
00:34:26.720
in government, especially those embedded deep within its institutions, who broke the law, who lied, who
00:34:34.140
covered up their actions, must be prosecuted with a full force of the law. No exceptions, no delays,
00:34:40.460
no deals. And you'll say, well, Hillary Clinton got away with it. Yeah, she did. And I don't think we're ever
00:34:47.580
going to go after her. And that's wrong. We should, no matter who they are, no matter what walk of life, or
00:34:54.020
social status they're in, everyone should be under the same law. But you can start here. Because if you send a
00:35:03.700
very strong message to the people who are in the government, when the people like Hillary Clinton
00:35:10.180
come to them and say, hey, just do this, and don't worry, you're going to be protected. No, no, Madam
00:35:15.740
Secretary, I won't be protected. You apparently will be, but I'm not doing your dirty work. You want to do
00:35:22.440
it, you do it. I'm not involved. That is what has to happen. No exceptions, no delays, no deals. And if it
00:35:31.220
doesn't happen, we are going to slide into the same kind of corrupt system and decay that defines every
00:35:37.580
third rate government all around the world, where courts are all for sale, the laws are just for their
00:35:43.740
enemies, and the power protects itself. Do you want to live in that kind of an America? I do not.
00:35:52.100
So you may not like the other side. You may not like the person you didn't vote for. But can we
00:36:01.260
can we more ourself in values and principles again? This is what Marco Rubio was doing with the State
00:36:07.720
Department. And it is right. Can we root ourselves in principles and forget about politics for at least
00:36:16.060
a little while? This is not about an enemy's list. This is about the last line of defense.
00:36:26.220
Because that's what justice is. It's not a principle. It's the last line of defense. And if it fails,
00:36:33.360
everything else will fail. So we got to find a way to each other and stand up for justice, real blind
00:36:42.580
justice again. It's what we fought for. It's what Martin Luther King died for. It's what we've always
00:36:50.100
said. Yeah, okay. All right. All right. You're right. You're right. It's bad. It's it's an injustice.
00:36:56.840
There is an injustice everywhere, right? We have to fix that. Now what you're being told is scrap the entire
00:37:05.400
system. No, fix it. And it is fixable. It's not that complex. You want to fix the justice system?
00:37:14.920
Easy. Stop playing politics with the truth. The truth is the truth. It doesn't matter who said it.
00:37:23.660
It doesn't matter how it all unfolded because they were voted this way and they voted that way. No,
00:37:30.080
it's the truth. No matter who did it. If we can get back there, we will do our country and our
00:37:41.280
children and our children's children a giant favor because we'll be able to handle a hand over to
00:37:48.860
them a stable country. And in that, what we all want, I mean, you know, the left always says,
00:37:57.320
you know, Hamas mothers, they just, they want the same thing that every mother wants. No,
00:38:02.580
they don't. No, they don't. Hamas mothers, not Palestinian mothers, blanketly, Hamas mothers,
00:38:10.360
Islamist mothers want their sons to die in jihad. Okay. I'm not expecting everybody to jump on the
00:38:21.080
bandwagon with all mothers just want their kids to live in peace and grow and prosper. Nope.
00:38:25.960
They, some don't, but do you still feel that way? Do you still feel that, you know, I forget politics.
00:38:34.920
I wish all these politicians would be sucked up into a giant tornado in the sky because it's
00:38:41.720
politics that's killing us. But if we can just find our way to each other back to our principles,
00:38:47.780
we'll make it. All right. Back in just a second.
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yesterday I talked about, um, why the president, uh, and Congress cannot cut quickly, um, out of
00:43:13.820
our budget, but that does not mean a $4 trillion, uh, you know, new debt ceiling that that's insanity
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and they have to cut. And there's some really good news. Unfortunately, the politicians are only doing
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it because of politics. They want Elon Musk's money. It's so grotesque. Is there anyone, anyone
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with an ounce of dignity left in Washington? Yeah. And the answer is yes, there's a few of them,
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but a few of them. Um, we have to understand the place that we are in history right now with the
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debt ceiling. And I'm going to explain what all of this means. I read something from Goldman Sachs and
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advisor at Goldman Sachs yesterday afternoon. And I saw that and I was like, Whoa, wait a minute.
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Wait a minute. That's not good. If I understand it correctly, I did some homework on it. I do
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understand it correctly. And I'm going to explain it to you because my grandfather used to always say,
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Yesterday I talked to you about the big beautiful bill and the one thing that is tucked in there is debt.
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And I told you why we can't move quickly on cutting the debt.
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I told you to call your senator in Congress and I urge you to do this.
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You know, they're right now, they're more open to it because Elon Musk said, you know, I'm turning off the spigot of funding politicians.
00:47:06.420
And now they're all like, wait, we could cut some of that doge stuff that we were for that the whole time.
00:47:12.400
But I want to talk to you about what we can do to get them to cut the debt because they have to send a signal to the rest of the world and anybody who is buying our debt.
00:47:26.220
Otherwise, we may hit the death spiral this time around when they raise the debt ceiling.
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And if it's not this time, it probably will be the next time.
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So I don't know if you saw that all of a sudden there's this big interest in cutting the debt and going with the doge cuts, and I saw these headlines come across yesterday afternoon, and I was like, whoa, wow, that's good news.
00:49:30.680
It's just more of the same from these weasels in the Republican Party.
00:49:37.060
Elon Musk announced that he is not going to be spending money in the elections.
00:49:44.260
He said, I think I've done my fair share, and I don't know if it really even makes a difference.
00:49:49.780
So all of a sudden the Republicans who have been getting money from him are like, whoa, whoa, wait, Elon, we love you.
00:50:00.420
Those doge things you were doing, my gosh, we want more of that.
00:50:05.240
Were you thinking we weren't going to include that in the bill, in the big, beautiful bill, because we're including a lot of that, right?
00:50:16.260
But if that's the way they get to cuts, I'm all for it.
00:50:19.940
The doge cuts are the easiest cuts to make, and we must send a signal to the rest of the world that we are serious, because there's something coming that most Americans just don't understand, you know, and not because it's hidden.
00:50:41.580
It's right there in plain sight, but it's, you know, like all financial crimes, it's all dressed up in fancy acronyms and things that people half understand, and it all sounds like it's going to be good.
00:50:55.020
And eventually you start hearing the word that is the most important word, debt.
00:51:01.100
I've been hearing about a debt crisis since I was a kid.
00:51:12.860
Yesterday, I read something that came across my desk about, it was from an advisor at Goldman Sachs.
00:51:27.080
Funding conditions remain easy, but can tighten meaningfully once the debt limit is raised.
00:51:34.640
Four trillion increase is likely included in this latest bill, as bill supply will drain bank reserves by several hundred billion.
00:51:42.760
I mean, it was like, I don't, now you've given me homework.
00:51:47.600
I don't want to, I need to understand that, but I don't want to do all the homework on it.
00:51:51.940
So, if you're hearing that, I know you're thinking the same thing, so I did some homework on it.
00:51:57.500
And if I may quote Admiral Ackbar, the debt, it's a trap, okay?
00:52:09.700
Congress is about to raise the debt ceiling, four trillion dollars.
00:52:14.320
And they're arguing about it, they're bickering back and forth, and you're going to see a press conference or two.
00:52:24.680
And the media will do what the media always does.
00:52:32.220
Because every time we raise the debt ceiling, it adds to the crisis, okay?
00:52:38.340
And this is the moment where maybe the final, we're maybe in final approach here.
00:52:45.600
And if it's not this landing, it might be the next landing.
00:52:49.060
But it's going to be one of the landings very, very close to now.
00:52:53.720
Now, here's why raising the debt ceiling actually affects you.
00:53:04.620
And this is something that no politician is going to tell you, or very few of them will tell you.
00:53:09.980
Nobody will really explain it in a way that I think you can then use.
00:53:22.200
They raise the debt ceiling and say, okay, the debt ceiling was we can't borrow any more than this because we're out of control.
00:53:38.180
And then they raise the debt ceiling and they borrow all of that money.
00:53:47.280
And the reason why they're saying we can't borrow more than this is because it's sending a message to the rest of the world.
00:53:54.320
And who specifically, I don't think people that are, you know, you know, average workers in England are thinking about this.
00:54:08.860
The major investment funds are thinking about this.
00:54:13.940
That's why they say, okay, this time we mean it.
00:54:17.200
Because all of those people with the big money to buy our debt are saying, you guys aren't serious.
00:54:27.360
The government has to print a bunch of T-bills, treasury bills, which is basically an IOU.
00:54:39.400
But we're going to give you this IOU and we're good for it.
00:54:45.960
And the less people believe that, the less that they think, oh, no, they're serious, the higher the interest rate.
00:54:56.240
Eventually, you've got such bad credit, you can't go anywhere else.
00:54:59.720
And so you have to just keep raising the interest rates.
00:55:02.560
And before you know it, you're talking to a veto who's going to break your legs.
00:55:19.320
Banks, pension funds, money market accounts, countries.
00:55:27.780
Well, they don't just have that money lying around.
00:55:30.540
It's cash they have already sitting someplace else.
00:55:37.040
So when they buy government debt, that cash leaves the banking system and moves over to the treasury so the government can have it and spend it.
00:55:48.280
And what's left in the banking system is a big IOU.
00:55:58.460
But hang on, because you're going to understand how this is going to affect your life personally in just a minute.
00:56:12.320
Because it sucks up all of the money, all of the oxygen, all of the, quote, liquidity that nobody understands.
00:56:20.460
Well, liquidity, we're having a liquidity problem.
00:56:25.180
My gosh, they can't tell you who the president of the United States is.
00:56:45.200
Because you need cash from the bank in the form of a credit card or in the form of an auto loan or a loan for your small business.
00:57:03.060
Tighter credit means loans are going to get harder to get.
00:57:10.280
If you have a loan, God forbid you have a variable loan, your interest rate on your house is going to go up.
00:57:15.800
Which means you're going to pay more for your house.
00:57:17.540
Which means you're not going to get a raise at work because businesses are drying up.
00:57:38.100
Well, because the government has all of that money.
00:57:47.740
But they're taking the tank and not giving you the oxygen you might need.
00:57:51.920
Okay, so this also, when they raise the debt ceiling, affects you because it affects inflation.
00:58:08.040
But it goes to the, all they've done is transferred you were going to spend that money to they are going to spend that money.
00:58:15.560
So they just shifted it from banks and households to politicians and federal agencies.
00:58:21.920
From the real economy to the administrative state.
00:58:36.340
We are running a system right now that is mathematically unsustainable.
00:58:41.480
And every time we raise the debt ceiling, we are not solving a problem.
00:58:48.560
The more we borrow, the more cash we suck out of the real economy.
00:59:00.100
If they pass this, you're going to see business investment slowing down.
00:59:24.620
And as this is all happening, you're going to be told, this is all normal.
00:59:31.360
How long can a man live if every breath he takes is harder than the last breath to get oxygen?
00:59:37.100
Eventually, the oxygen runs out, and you're done.
00:59:41.060
No family, no business, no nation can survive if it spends more than it produces forever.
00:59:48.340
The clock is ticking, and you're going to be left holding the bill.
00:59:53.520
Higher cost, fewer opportunities, and no one in Washington willing to tell you the truth.
00:59:58.520
You know, we used to measure our wealth now, or then, in what we made, what we built, what we grew.
01:00:07.260
Now we measure our wealth, I guess, and how much debt we can sell before the system buckles.
01:00:23.860
I want you first, before we get into that, I want you to call your senator, call your congressman, and demand the doge cuts.
01:00:33.860
At least send a signal to those who are buying our debt that we have some responsibility.
01:00:47.460
The White House said they're sending them next week.
01:00:53.240
Now, there are other things you need to do for your own personal survival and your own personal economy.
01:00:59.580
And I'll break that down here in just 60 seconds.
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Not either side is not saying, we need a stimulus package.
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They're saying, usually it's tax cuts and a stimulus package.
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We can't afford it, and it will only drive inflation up.
01:01:36.320
So, history is full of people, full of people who say, it can't happen here.
01:01:47.880
Over a long period of time, and then all of a sudden.
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So, three judges from New York, two of them were Republican.
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One of them was appointed, I believe, by Donald Trump.
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And then they also went into, you know, we're looking at that emergency.
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We don't see how these tariffs are, you know, hurting the drug cartels, et cetera.
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Yeah, well, you know, I didn't elect you, okay?
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And what the law says, and Stu, you're better at this than I am, is that these are too broad.
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And there are specific, you know, the president was given the power by Congress years and years
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However, there are specific things that he has to do, and he's just been too broad on it.
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I mean, like the, you know, it's the way that, as you point out, the Constitution specifically
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says this is Congress's responsibility to do tariffs.
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So in the moment where, you know, and I don't like this at all.
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You know, the Constitution shouldn't just be overridden by Congress saying, well, we
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That's not what they're addressing specifically here, although they do hit that.
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The way Congress gave that authority up to the president was to do it under very specific
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And what they're saying is, you know, Trump overstepped his authority, if you will.
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And the reason for that is the way the law is written.
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The law gives this court the power to delineate these matters, to figure out whether he did
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Yeah, this is not something that's hearing divorce court tomorrow.
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And so one of the thing, one of the standards you have to hit is an extraordinary and unusual
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Now, there are two different parts of the tariffs that they overturned.
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One was the tariffs that were like the Liberation Day tariffs, right?
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The widespread tariffs over every country, you know, on Earth.
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And those, it's sort of difficult to come up with a justification for an extraordinary
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or unusual emergency on every single country on Earth.
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And that was why one of the reasons they're saying it's too broad.
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Now, he was kind of trying to justify that under the trade imbalance.
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Of course, some of the countries he put these tariffs on, we have trade surpluses with, right?
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I think I've made the case for him on this program better than he's made the case for him.
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And whether I agree with it or not, I think I understand what he was trying to do.
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The emergency is Western civilization and the Western world is collapsing.
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And we've got to change it dramatically, quickly.
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And so he's using tariffs to call these countries back to common sense.
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Now, beyond that, you know, he thinks it's going to bring in all this taxes.
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But, you know, he thinks we can just tax our way out with tariffs.
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And again, like, this is sort of like a nerdy court, too, right?
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Like, it's not really designed for, like, these sort of large moral or, you know,
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It's like, hey, you know, does this particular industry affect this particular industry or
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this product and this tariff hit this industry?
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And that one, I'm not at all surprised it was overturned.
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And that bothers me, again, because if you're just looking at little teeny specific things
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and I can't make a broad case to you, then what am I doing?
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You know, you're fixing the defibrillator on the car when it's actually not just the defibrillator.
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So should we, should I have fixed the defibrillator or tried to, you know, replace the engine?
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I mean, you know, let me look at the defibrillator.
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You have to actually have to go through Congress and pass a law.
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This particular power that has been assigned to the president is not designed to deal with
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that type of thing, which is what their point is.
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Now, again, you know, maybe this gets overturned, you know, somewhere else.
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I mean, I know this particular court has this power, so there's not necessarily the normal
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court process to go through here, but we might find out later on that something else changes
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on this or that this court is, you know, somehow ruled unconstitutional.
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The other part of it, though, I think is more arguable for the president, which is the tariffs
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when it relates to fentanyl and it touches Canada and Mexico.
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The reasoning there was more called on that he should have put these on particular items
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So their argument basically was like, hey, the cartels, you're saying that there's a big
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And another test is that the country isn't doing enough to stop it.
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And I think you can really make that case pretty specifically with Mexico.
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A little bit more difficult, perhaps, in Canada is that there's not as much flow of fentanyl
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coming across the border there, but still you could make those arguments, I think, in
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Their argument there was you can't just put tariffs on every single product coming out
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Again, because you don't understand the bigger picture or you won't look at the bigger picture.
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They may understand it, but they'll say we can't look at it because we have to look
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You've got to hit China with massive tariffs on everything.
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You want to get control of the border and fentanyl and human smuggling and everything else?
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You could hit a few industries, but what difference does that make?
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Because the entire government of Mexico is corrupt.
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You have to make the entire thing hurt so badly that they have to look and finally, even
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if they call us in the middle of the night and say, I never made this phone call, but
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Yeah, and I think you're, because a lot of that I agree with.
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I think the, and I don't know that necessarily tariffs are the answer to that.
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But I think your problem here is with Congress, right?
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Like, the Congress needs to, if it wants the president to have powers to do all these
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Now, I would argue they also could just take them back and do it themselves, which is what
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Congress should be doing as specifically listed in the Constitution.
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You know, Congress deserves the blame for almost all of this stuff.
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The growth of the government, of the administrative state, it's not the president's fault.
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But what Congress did was they just decided we're not going to, we're just going to let
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And, you know, the secretary is making those decisions.
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You know, if you put your child in charge of something and they farmed out all of their
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responsibilities and said, you know, Dad, I gave that responsibility to my friend Bill
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and my other friend Steve is part of that as well.
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I told them they can make their responsibilities.
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You would never say, oh, well, let me go talk to Bill and Steve.
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But for some reason, the American people will not close that loop.
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But it's like they don't even know why they hate Congress.
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Because there's nobody with a spine there that will stand up and say,
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They'll just, like this, they'll just let the court do it.
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I think, you know, we always talk about the people who just continually get reelected,
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You know, this one in particular with the fentanyl issues with Canada and Mexico,
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one of the other things they cited was, you know,
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they weren't even necessarily saying it wasn't an emergency.
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What they were saying, there wasn't enough, there wasn't enough support in the case that
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For example, they didn't get, let's say, backing from the DEA to say that Canada was doing a
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Can they get, can Donald Trump's DEA get a report that says that?
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So they probably could just resubmit this in a different way.
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I mean, a lot of this has to do with these decisions are made, you know,
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A lot of times they're just kind of like put out there in a quick fashion and they're sort
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of the people around them or hustle around to kind of try to make the case through the
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If they go through that normal process, they can probably get these done.
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I do not want to just say, well, you know what?
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And if they are saying, well, you've got to get your own administration to produce this
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and this and this, you know, then it would be legal.
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I mean, Trump is going to come back and he's going to reassert these.
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The markets went up yesterday because the rich people, you know, the corporations, the
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giant corporations are like, oh, well, we'll be able to do trade all over the world
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And maybe inflation will come down because of the fear of what is going on.
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So the futures and the stock market and everything went up yesterday.
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But, you know, don't look at that as any real sign other than the fact that the markets don't
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But they also are looking at, oh, good, the pressure is off of us and we're going to be
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able to, you know, do business as usual, which I don't think is a good thing.
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And don't get too excited because Donald Trump is not done.
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Legally, I don't, I do not want to infer that, oh, just find a way to do it.
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If you believe in it, then it's worth doing it the right way.
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And if there's no legal way to do it, then you have to change the law.
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And if you can't change the law, then you don't do it.
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You know, I got to tell you, I don't know what happened.
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You know, they say that when you're older, you don't need as much sleep.
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You know, I would like to have some sleep for the love of Pete.
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You wake up a little groggy and not really rested and confused about, you know, why you
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were holding a TV remote in your left hand and a bag of pretzels in your right hand.
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But you figured, you know, I'm just part of getting older, I guess.
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Religious persecution in conflict zones around the world is one of those stories that often
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gets overlooked, and there is now a documentary that deals with all this.
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It's called A Faith Under Siege, Russia's Hidden War on Ukraine's Christians.
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This is a film that looks at a region once known as the post-Soviet Bible Belt.
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This is, you know, it was rapidly growing at one point, and look, war turns a lot of this
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stuff around, but this has been a specific threat against Christians in particular.
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And when you have this occupation going on that has spread, you know, and continues to
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expand, this situation gets worse and worse for the people who are victimized by it.
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What the documentary captures is seized churches and tortured pastors and abducted children.
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And like, you know, you can look at these governments and say, oh, I don't like this,
01:22:51.940
We're talking about just people who have nothing to do with these decisions, right?
01:22:55.800
We're talking about people who are just trying to keep their faith alive in what now needs
01:23:01.820
The film recently gained exposure at the Museum of the Bible, and it's something that I think
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they have advocacy tools there as well, all options are available.
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I have some exciting things we're going to be announcing revolving around history in
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One of them is I've partnered with PragerU on some projects.
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I've been close with PragerU for a long time, but there's some projects that we're working
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on together, but I just did something, one of their PragerUs, and this was for the graduating
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It's the commencement speech, and I want to play just a little bit.
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I know, I know that's not the usual, go chase your dreams spiel that you usually hear at
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a commencement, but I'm not here to fluff reality.
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And what someone found inside of those clay pots.
01:24:38.420
Picture this, it's 1947, Judean desert near the Dead Sea, dusty spot called Qumran, a bored
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goat herder, takes a rock and chucks it into a cave, expecting an echo.
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So he climbs in and he finds clay pots stuffed with linen-wrapped scrolls, and not just any
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scrolls, the oldest surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible from 300 B.C.
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For centuries, the Jewish people faced invasions and atrocities, the Babylonians, the Romans,
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Then in 1947, right after the Holocaust and just before Israel's rebirth, the scrolls surface,
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All because someone over 2,000 years ago hid those pots in a cave.
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We have got to preserve it, the highs and the lows, all of it, in our own clay pots.
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It's all going to be about history and education.
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I mean, clay pots is what I heard in 2008 that, in my prayers, I didn't understand for a long time.
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And it's what got me to start collecting American history and our American story.
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And then, you know, it's turned into what will be soon a brick-and-mortar museum of the American story.
01:26:40.160
We have to learn our history, both the good and the bad.
01:26:46.720
I mean, you know, I didn't know anything about my family's history.
01:26:50.400
And, you know, it's just full of a bunch of losers that, you know, there's no king or queen anywhere in my family tree.
01:26:58.500
But, you know, my great-great-grandfather and great-great-uncle both were in the Civil War.
01:27:06.100
And immediately, because they're back, you know, were captured and held in Andersonville.
01:27:10.400
But what happened in Andersonville for them makes a difference to me today.
01:27:14.220
And it is important that we preserve our family history and our country's history and learn as much as we can.
01:27:29.880
I want you to sit down for just a few minutes and make a list of the if-onlys.
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You know, the things you wish you had on hand before the emergency, like a generator.
01:27:47.840
Most likely what's at the top is medicine, medication.
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Because if-only you had that, maybe things would be a lot different.
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This is essential medicines, antibiotics, and everything else.
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And it's customizable to you that you can have on hand at your house.
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Well, hello America. I've got some good news. There's a lot of good news actually today.
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This one comes from the HHS. It's a huge victory announced yesterday and I'll tell you all about it here in just a second.
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It's showing up for God's people when it counts.
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All right, let me give you some good news here.
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It came from the Health and Human Services Department.
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HHS sent a letter to health care providers, risk managers and state medical boards urging immediate updates to treatment protocols for minors with gender dysphoria
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based on HHS comprehensive review that found puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries have very weak evidence of benefit but carry risk of significant harms including sterilization.
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Providers should no longer rely on discredited guidelines that promote these dangerous interventions for children and adolescents based on ideology and not evidence.
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Welcome to the return of common sense in medicine.
01:31:53.520
Now, RFK wrote that providers should avoid relying on the World Professional Health Association for Transgender Health.
01:32:02.100
Remember, we talked about that years ago when it first started coming out, and it was insanity.
01:32:07.220
So now health care providers should not rely on that from HHS.
01:32:11.860
It was one year ago we did a special exposing them for being ideological fraudsters, WPATH, and, you know, they were doing, I mean, this is Frankenstein.
01:32:24.520
This is Frankenstein-like experiments on children and the mentally ill, all done with the support of the medical community in the name of science and gender-affirming care.
01:32:40.780
Kennedy's letter warns providers to avoid relying on guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on Care and Transgender and Gender-Diverse People.
01:32:49.760
These and other guidelines based on so-called gender-affirming model of care should not be relied on for harm of our children any further, the letter says.
01:32:59.020
Kennedy says it's time for our doctors to now update all of the protocols.
01:33:07.780
This is the first big step pulling us out of this death cult.
01:33:12.660
I mean, when you are chemically castrating our children in America and the doctors are calling that a good step forward, that's a spiritual disease.
01:33:22.740
And a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to see an end to this.
01:33:29.720
And I hope this means that there is an end to it.
01:33:33.780
Dr. Oz is working on this, too, again, from CNN.
01:33:36.300
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also announced Wednesday, that was yesterday, it was launching an oversight initiative into hospitals that performed experimental sex trait modification procedures on children.
01:33:49.400
Administrator Dr. Oz said CMS will not turn a blind eye to procedures that lack a solid foundation of evidence and may result in lifelong harm.
01:34:01.620
We're not turning a blind eye to the children anymore.
01:34:04.840
We're saying this is wrong to do, and we're taking the right steps.
01:34:11.380
Now, all of this can be changed in the next election.
01:34:16.060
I mean, I hope not, but so much can change between now and 2020, 28, when we elect another president.
01:34:30.180
I know that a majority of Americans, for the first time since, can you tell me when, Stu, do you remember?
01:34:35.340
We looked this up when Americans said we were on the right track, wrong track.
01:34:39.640
And we looked at it and we're like, wait, we haven't thought we were on the right track since when?
01:34:49.500
And that's not, to be clear, not in every poll.
01:34:55.740
Like, the Gallup polls are still very much in the negative.
01:35:01.460
Yeah, and those pants do make your butt look fat, okay?
01:35:08.000
I mean, for sure, even in the polls that show it's still negative, it's still going in the right direction.
01:35:17.200
I'm glad to see that we are, you know, maybe catching up to Europe on this one.
01:35:26.160
In this one particular instance, oddly, we kind of do.
01:35:31.200
Usually, they're far to the left of us, and we're always tracking toward their left-wing positions.
01:35:36.500
It seems like they have actually kind of woken up before us, which is, I think, stunning, but I'm glad to see that, you know, certainly, you know, Trump is not on this bandwagon, and now that he's in office, he can start reversing this nonsense.
01:35:51.960
You know, what's amazing is, you know, we've had so many discussions on this, we've had so, but how many of them have actually been based in science?
01:35:59.280
Most of it is based in, you know, shouting you're a hate monger, or you just want to, you know, kill people, or you just hate transgender, all that crap.
01:36:08.220
Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
01:36:14.480
Yeah, you could probably help me with a better definition, but my remembrance of it is, like, people who know very little about a topic tend to be the most confident at the beginning, and then it kind of goes way down in their confidence as they learn more, and only when they become experts that they kind of say, hey, you know, there's a lot of nuance in the way they speak.
01:36:37.020
And it's, I mean, it carries another part to it, and my grandmother knew this, I mean, I think all of our grandmothers knew this, stupid people just don't know they're stupid.
01:36:52.380
And we are either living under the, you know, the Dunning-Kruger effect, or we're living under the Freddy Kruger effect.
01:37:02.240
I don't know which our society is embracing, but stupid people just don't know they're stupid, and they get just a little bit, and I mean, I'm not talking about, oh, I forgot to cancel my free trial, stupid.
01:37:15.620
And, you know, when you're stupid, you feel like a genius.
01:37:21.940
And when you know a lot, you feel like an imposter.
01:37:28.100
Like, I'm sure, do you notice this, Glenn, sometimes when, you know, you're out at a party or something, and you're talking to people, and they probably come to you and bring up topics they think you, you know, talk about on the air, because they know who you are.
01:37:41.800
Or, like, they'll bring up, you know, they'll bring up something about, I don't know, the Great Reset, right?
01:37:49.060
And they'll say things, and you're like, oh, yeah, I know, sure.
01:37:54.620
Well, I mean, that's not exactly it, but I know what you're saying, and it's like, because you've studied it for a long time, they probably haven't, they've heard bits and pieces, maybe they've seen a little bit on social media.
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But a lot of times, what carries with that is certainty, right?
01:38:08.140
Like, they've read a couple things on social media, they're sure they're right, and they bring it to you, and you're like, ah, you know, sure, I know what you're saying, you know?
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Let me address this on the air when I can tear you apart.
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You remember what I said, everybody was making fun of me, Glenn Beck's on his apology tour when I left Fox, and because you do a lot of thinking when you go from one of the most, you know, beloved people, invisible people, to a fat person that, you know, is now hated by most people.
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You know, you tend to think a lot, and so what I was saying at the time.
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What I was saying at the time was, you know, I was so certain of things, and that doesn't mean that I was wrong.
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It was just that my approach, I was so certain of things, and the only thing I'm certain of now is that I'm not certain of anything.
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And that's kind of the mantra of my life now, and it's really hard to do this job and say that, but it is what I believe.
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The only thing I'm truly certain of is I'm not certain of anything.
01:39:27.660
And that doesn't mean you don't try to get to the truth.
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It means that you're constantly reexamining what you believe.
01:39:35.100
I think that's where some of the social media world in this era of media has kind of lost the plot, and that you should constantly be pushing yourself, right?
01:39:48.340
Like, when you think you know something, you should constantly be pushing yourself the other direction just to make sure, like, get the best arguments from the other side.
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You know, there are policies that I agree with, and I want to hear the best policy arguments from the other side to see if my opinion should change.
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You should be thinking that way, even if, you know, you're not going to necessarily change your viewpoint all the time.
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You should be thinking about how to best challenge not only to see if you're right, but also to strengthen your argument for what you currently believe.
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You know, I did an interview with Ro Khanna last week, and it was on the podcast.
01:40:24.740
I don't agree with him really on much of anything except fundamental principles of our country and what we were founded on.
01:40:31.340
But, you know, he's a big government guy and everything else, and he's a guy who's probably going to run for president, and that's why I did the interviews, because you should know where he stands, who he is, et cetera, et cetera, because he's probably going to be one of the guys running for president in the Democratic Party.
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So I do the interview, and I read all of these leftist responses on this and saying, look, even Ro Khanna can even get on Glenn Beck's program because he's so reasonable.
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I do like to have reasonable people on, but I really don't have a problem talking to anybody.
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If you can have a conversation, if you enter the conversation with absolute certainty, well, then I can't have a conversation with you because all it's going to end up being is a bash fest.
01:41:48.160
I mean, you know, this is where it gets uncomfortable.
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Statistically speaking, someone in the room here is the dumbest person.
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And since it's just you and me, I got some bad news for you.
01:41:59.380
You know, and nobody, nobody, you know, everybody thinks that way.
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And they don't think, well, maybe, hang on, let me listen because I might learn something from somebody.
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And, you know, look at the arrogance on the doctors, going back to the original story, which brought this up.
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But the doctors just started touting things they didn't actually know because the science did not back it up.
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The ones that weren't arrogant were the ones, honestly, in Sweden and the Netherlands that actually looked at the science.
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And then they looked at the science and they looked at the studies and they were like, you know what?
01:42:50.100
But we continue just to double down and double down.
01:42:55.140
That's why I asked earlier today, what was it we were talking about?
01:42:59.580
Oh, we were talking about the new approach by the State Department, which Marco Rubio is just killing it.
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And they're starting to put out these, you know, they've got a, you know, sub stack.
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And I read one of them at the beginning of the podcast today.
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And it was really, really amazing that it was coming from our State Department.
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And it should be something that everybody agrees with.
01:43:25.140
And quite honestly, every Democrat I know would agree with it, would have agreed with it.
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But now that it's coming from the Trump administration, they won't agree with anything.
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And I am a different person than I was 20 years ago.
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But I don't think Democrats are the same people either.
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And what I'd like to know is what new information did you get that has allowed you to abandon the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, all of that?
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What got you from a place that these endless wars don't work to, yeah, we've got to go in and kick some ass in Ukraine and we've got to topple Putin?
01:44:20.480
And I'd like to just say I would have liked to meet you in the same room here because this is the room I always thought you were wrong on.
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I really want to know what new information came to you that made you go, you know, I'd have been wrong all these years.
01:44:41.480
You know, what new information came your way that's saying drag shows in, you know, first grade is good for children?
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Because you would have said anybody who did that should be arrested.
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That doesn't belong with, you know, first graders.
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We shouldn't be doing these things, what we're doing to our children.
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But you did change, if you're on the other side, as an average Democrat.
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Please specifically tell me why, what new information.
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Those are conversations I think America would love to hear.
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So did you see the Politico writer that came up with a shadow cabinet for everybody to take on the Trump administration?
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Can we stop talking about shadow cabinets while you're denying the deep state exists?
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We need a shadow cabinet to fight for democracy.
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We need people who are in the shadows, pulling the strings and thwarting things without actually being seen so we can save our democracy.
01:48:19.740
That goes right in the same book of George W. Bush saying, I had to violate the free market to save the free market.
01:48:31.760
So anyway, so Politico comes up with, like, the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, they say should be Jon Stewart because he can just, you know, he can take that on.
01:48:51.220
I don't even know who Nikki Glaser is as the administrator of the Small Business Administration.
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Bill Nye, the science guy, to be the shadow cabinet for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Secretary of Commerce, the guy who just sold the Dallas Mavericks for half price and then was told he was going to run the franchise for multiple years, and then they immediately pushed him out and traded Luka Doncic?
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I have a list for the Democrats of, you know, other possible names they could put in his shadow cabinet that make just as much sense.
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I think I put him as the Secretary of Labor because who knows labor and unions and, you know, tough jobs more than Homer Simpson.
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You ever watch a dog try to hide a limb that's hurting?
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It'll limp for a second, then it'll snap to attention like, nope, nope, totally fine.
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Um, you do things like that sometimes pretending my body isn't falling apart, you know, and you have zero, you have zero to say about it.
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01:51:18.460
So last night on the Wednesday night show, I talked about why the, you know, why this thing with Joe Biden, uh, and who is actually running the white house and the auto pin and everything else, why that matters.
01:51:46.700
Um, and I had Ed Martin on, I don't know if you know who Ed Martin is, but he's a, he is the U S pardon attorney.
01:51:59.620
So he's the guy who knows, um, about these pardons, if they're going to be valid, et cetera, et cetera.
01:52:06.200
And, uh, I asked him last night and this has gone really viral.
01:52:10.940
What, what are the potential, uh, laws that were broken and the laws in the coverup, um, about his health and abuse of the auto pen.
01:52:22.700
There's many, many laws that I would say apply to this.
01:52:26.120
You know, they can, someone brought up forgery.
01:52:29.940
I think fraud, um, you know, there's all kinds of aspects of fraud that could be done.
01:52:34.300
If somebody is making money, big money off of it.
01:52:36.560
Um, you know, there's, there's many things I, if president Trump used in a truth, social post about treason.
01:52:41.560
And I think I'm, uh, as a member of DOJ, I'm going to tread carefully towards what I would describe as the likely crime.
01:52:48.000
But, but there's a lot, if, if this was an abuse, like people are worried, there's a lot of crimes that were committed.
01:52:54.040
And there will be, if the facts show that it was happening, the DOJ will pursue aggressively justice.
01:53:06.460
The only way I know to do it is being aggressive, Glenn.
01:53:10.620
So yes, I mean, uh, we're going to get to the bottom of the facts.
01:53:13.420
We're going to apply it to the law and we're going to go, uh, uh, like hell against the people that did this to the country.
01:53:18.760
And, uh, you know, this is the biggest scandal I could ever imagine in, in our lives.
01:53:22.500
This, there's never been anything like this at this point.
01:53:24.840
And so I hope it's the less, I hope it's a lesser scandal than it looks like, but it's headed towards one of the most, uh, egregious things we've ever seen.
01:53:32.780
So yes, people will be held accountable and yes, they will be held accountable by prosecutions.
01:53:43.180
It, I hope it's less, but it's headed towards the biggest scandal we've ever had.
01:53:50.540
Um, and that's from a guy who's very, very reasoned and measured.
01:53:53.600
Um, and he is, you know, he's the guy who does the pardons.
01:53:57.160
And I asked him, you know, are these things even valid?
01:54:00.960
You know, if it gets proven that other people, you know, uh, use the auto pen without the president's knowledge of, of approval or any of these things valid.
01:54:14.340
But let's just do it as a hypothetical to be a little bit more, uh, a little bit less specific to this.
01:54:20.120
If, uh, if I can, if you and I go and enter a contract and, and it turns out that you were not capable of entering into the contract, right?
01:54:27.940
Depending on how I relied on it, you know, if I went and did something and I was paid for it, you know, I might make the argument that you have to honor that, but in general, that's not a valid contract.
01:54:36.960
So, you know, the validity of these things, whether they're pardons or other, uh, actions is going to come into question.
01:54:43.920
And I think there's some, some details and legal questions that are going to be a little bit harder, but, um, but you can see that it's, it's, um, and, and here's, what's more troubling, uh, to me is if some of these pardons were issued
01:54:56.340
because they were being engineered, you know, for, for example, to, to, to, to, for Fauci or for the, the select committee on January 6th to, to buy someone who's taking advantage of, of Joe Biden in order to cover things up.
01:55:10.160
Well, you know, I can't be the, what the system contemplated.
01:55:14.260
And, and so, uh, I think that's all going to come into question.
01:55:24.820
I, I don't think I need to even point out, you know, his history on who he is.
01:55:32.380
I mean, I did the fact that the DNC is always going to be like a campaign arm of the president.
01:55:36.680
Ultimately, the bigger issue was like the inner circle that was without Biden.
01:55:44.340
Like Jill Biden's chief of staff, like had an enormous amount of power.
01:56:03.320
He's just like a, he's like a shadowy, like wizard of Oz type figure.
01:56:07.120
That's what made him so like, I knew how he looked, but I'm like the general public wouldn't
01:56:12.380
But he wielded any, like an enormous amount of power.
01:56:16.780
And I can't just see how much power he had in the White House.
01:56:21.740
Uh, that was on a project Veritas, uh, hidden video.
01:56:25.760
I mean, what these guys knew and, uh, how they just all dealt with it and just said, you
01:56:32.900
Can you imagine, uh, Jill Biden was running the White House, her, you know, her chief
01:56:43.200
Anthony, Anthony Bernal is, is he's by the way, one of the central characters in the
01:56:47.440
Jake Tapper, uh, Alex Thompson book, uh, original sin as well as seen kind of described almost
01:56:53.600
exactly that way, uh, as a guy who everyone was afraid of.
01:56:57.640
And that was, uh, making a lot of the decisions around the White House, one of four or five
01:57:04.060
people, but, uh, he was one of the main ones, which is again, you know, you, you think about
01:57:09.560
we didn't elect Anthony Bernal president of the United States.
01:57:16.320
At least we knew who Jill Biden was, uh, but no, we didn't, we didn't elect them.
01:57:20.620
We were, we have a constitutional system that says that he's supposed to be making these
01:57:25.280
decisions, uh, Joe Biden, uh, and he was not making them.
01:57:28.740
I think quite clearly at this point, at least it was being, uh, his access to information
01:57:33.860
and to even his own cabinet officials seems to have been, uh, being controlled by the people
01:57:40.580
And what is the, what's the, what's the book say about, uh, Hunter Biden?
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Cause I've heard that Hunter Biden was making all of the family decisions at the time.
01:57:48.820
Uh, it's basically talks about how, you know, and it talks about how Joe Biden was, uh, a
01:57:54.960
big part of his decline happened around the time that Hunter was dealing with all these
01:58:01.720
Um, you know, they described Joe in the book, I would say as crushed by his losses over the
01:58:07.820
years of, you know, he'd lost two children, obviously previously, and this was, he was worried
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about losing a third, uh, and for that reason, he was, uh, insanely loyal to Hunter and, and
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Now, again, that's talking a lot about motivation.
01:58:26.140
I don't know what the reason was, but yeah, that is exactly what it describes.
01:58:30.040
I mean, I think that, I mean, I, I've known that from the get-go.
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The guy was, the guy was crushed, um, by, you know, the death of his other son.
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And he was loyal to a fault to this son, um, and was doing more damage, you know, and when
01:58:46.340
you say that he, he really believed that he was a good guy, you got to remember, you're
01:58:50.780
talking about Joe Biden's version of a good guy.
01:58:57.720
With multiple layers on top of this, the corruption being, um, the one I think you're referring
01:59:02.140
to there, but also the senility and the elements of senility that had stepped, you know, into
01:59:07.680
his life, uh, you know, I don't think he was able to make those decisions anyway.
01:59:12.460
In the book, when do they say that he really kind of checked out?
01:59:20.640
They describe it as sort of a multi-phase process that began in 2015.
01:59:25.640
Um, now you might recognize 2015 as a time he was not president, but was still vice president
01:59:35.200
Um, but going back to 2015, they say it started there.
01:59:39.160
It wasn't constant then though, that people would notice he was having, uh, moments, bad
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moments, um, you know, bad days, but it started picking up in 2018.
01:59:50.780
Uh, and then, uh, again, before he was president, uh, they, some of it was noticed in 2020.
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They say the real collapse off, you know, uh, what were you saying?
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You said this earlier, when you, how do you go bankrupt?
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They, they say kind of the same thing about his mental capacity and that it was fading
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from 2015, but really fell off a cliff in 2023.
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Um, now I, obviously we all noticed stuff in 2020, 2021 throughout that period.
02:00:26.820
The, it was really noticeable, even to the people close to him, even to the people who
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were cheering him on and wanting him to succeed.
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The, it became so overwhelming in the year in 2023 and obviously into 2024.
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You, you know, that the ends justify the means, um, to these people.
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Um, if in 2018, they were spotting it and going, he is, he's going downhill because if
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you, if you really believed in the presidency, if you believed in the constitution and what
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the president was going to have to do, my God, carrying the nuclear football, just that
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And if you, if you really, truly understand that and respect that, there's no way you
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would say, yeah, let's go ahead and just run him anyway.
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Because you, you legally and constitutionally cannot stand in for him.
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If you're going to do that, say, cause he could win great.
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Then let's get the strongest vice president we can, because if he starts to really fade,
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we got to have a, somebody who can really run it.
02:01:37.720
Um, so maybe we use him to get elected, but you know, the first sign of real trouble we're
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They get the weakest person to be the vice president.
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It shows from the beginning, this was a puppet regime.
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They talk a little bit about that pick, um, and go through the moments of how they picked,
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Um, now again, Whitmer also would have sucked as a vice president.
02:02:06.980
I'm not saying, um, but, uh, that Biden wanted Whitmer.
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The family thought Whitmer would be a better pick partially because they, uh, Jill, because
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Jill saw, um, the actions that Kamala took during the debate and would not forgive her
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for that when she basically called her husband a racist.
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Um, and also interestingly, it wasn't just, Hey, you called my husband a racist.
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It was that Jill, I think, correctly diagnosed the idea that only a person with incredible,
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uh, uh, desire to rise in the ranks would do such a thing, right?
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Like only someone with all sorts of, uh, uh, uh, uh, of want and need for higher levels
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So she did not want Kamala according to the book.
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Uh, but, uh, and, and Whitmer was the one that even, uh, Biden wanted.
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However, they, uh, I mean, it came down to skin color.
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I mean, it really did come down to that where, you know, the, his allies, uh, particularly
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on, uh, the, the side of the, you know, people like climb, uh, Clyburn, uh, wanted an African
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American on the ticket, uh, that was believed to be his strength with, with, with voters in
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Uh, so they kind of just picked her because she, you know, checked those boxes.
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I mean, it's as, as, as bad of a DEI thing that we always talked about.
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I mean, litter, quite literally the president of the United States, according to this book
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did not want Kamala Harris to be vice president and instead picked her anyway, because of these,
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you know, uh, intersectional boxes that needed to be checked.
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And if you said that the press demonized you and said, you're crazy.
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And now it's all coming out that, yeah, that's absolutely true.
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I mean, it's real, it's really amazing what they put the country through.
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It's really the entire saga of this book too, right?
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Like all these things were things we were all saying, you know, there, there's not like
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there's tons of information we didn't know that is in the book, but it all supports things
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We weren't in the private meetings because even his own cabinet officials weren't in
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Uh, but you know, it was obvious to people just by the public stuff and the, the behind
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the scenes stuff, as opposed to what we heard on media, which was, Oh, she's sharp as a tack.
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Maybe we should film those moments if that's really what's happening.
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Uh, but in reality that safe stuff was going on and it seemingly was worse behind the scenes
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Well, if you're looking for a great father's day gift, uh, you know, you don't want to just
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In fact, they are, they're super comfortable, but they also have a way for you to carry
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your firearm in a way that is actually comfortable.
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And it's been figured out by, you know, these are people who, you know, uh, special ops people
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who really want to make sure they have their firearm with me, but they want it to be comfortable,
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It provides superior support for whatever dad might be, uh, bringing along with him as
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Uh, traditional holsters are basically designed for people who seem to hate comfort.
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They can announce to everyone that you're armed.
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Gunder pants, uh, minimizes all of that discomfort while keeping your weapon exactly where it belongs.
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Dad can chase the kids all around the house and endure marathon soccer tournaments without
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Most fathers abandon their protection at home because conventional carrying is uncomfortable.
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Well, the Rangers who developed Gunder pants actually understood this problem.
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They combined high quality materials built to last with fabrics that don't make you miserable.
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Gunder pants, like underpants with gun at the beginning.
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You couldn't have possibly seen this coming, but if you remember a week or two ago, uh,
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Caitlin Clark fouled Angel Reese, uh, and there was a sort of a scuffle that broke out afterward.
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Caitlin Clark just walked away and Angel Reese came after her and tried to start a fight,
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which is seemingly happens every time they play.
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Uh, afterward, we heard some very serious accusations that perhaps maybe there were all
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sorts of racial slurs being yelled at Angel Reese.
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Gosh, what a shocking development that this could happen, um, and be, uh, highlighted by
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the media constantly that these accusations had occurred.
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Uh, of course, uh, they went to a full investigation.
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The WNBA wanted to get down to make sure they understood what happened.
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We have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court during
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Based on information gathered to date, including from relevant fans, team, and arena staff, as
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well as audio and video reviewing of the game, we have not substantiated it.
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The WNBA is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive environment for everyone and will
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continue to be vigilant, enforcing our fan code of conduct.
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Now, it's interesting because everyone made a big deal about this in the media.
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They found absolutely nothing to support these accusations whatsoever.
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Do the fans, uh, of the, of the fever, do they get any apology from the media?
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Is there any report asking, hey, well, why did you say this happened?
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If there's no evidence of it happening, is there any follow-up?
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Do we get a book later on explaining what happened?