The Glenn Beck Program - The Media's Frankenstein？｜ Guests： Bill O’Reilly, Amb. Samuel D. Brownback & Dave Isay

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00:00:08.960 Glenn Beck.

00:00:10.840 All right, here's some of the questions that we should have our president asked today.

00:00:16.300 He's, you know, he's in Argentina at the G20.

00:00:18.880 Mr. President, Mr. President, how was your meeting with China's president?

00:00:23.020 Mr. President, Mr. President, have you ended the trade war?

00:00:25.600 Mr. President, Mr. President, insert anything relevant here that might show that we've solved any problems that actually will affect us.

00:00:34.160 But that's not going to happen.

00:00:35.640 Instead, we're going to have, Mr. President, Mr. President, can you tell us what you said to Robert Mueller?

00:00:42.100 Mr. President, Mr. President, you told the American people that you've never had any dealings in Russia,

00:00:48.100 and now yesterday you came out and said, yeah, I was trying to build a Trump Tower in Moscow at the time.

00:00:54.340 What? No problem with that.

00:00:56.260 Oh, dear God.

00:00:58.340 Mr. President, Mr. President, can I ask you this?

00:01:01.140 Why do you make it so tough?

00:01:03.600 Why do you do this to your supporters?

00:01:06.280 Stop it.

00:01:07.680 Stop it.

00:01:09.120 You make it really hard to defend.

00:01:12.760 Because what we have to say is, no, it doesn't matter.

00:01:16.020 And we all know that lying matters.

00:01:18.720 We all know that.

00:01:19.660 But we don't say that because by saying that, then the press has more ammunition to come after you.

00:01:28.540 But it hurts us because we have to say, what?

00:01:32.540 It doesn't matter.

00:01:33.360 Of course it matters.

00:01:35.720 Of course it matters.

00:01:37.000 You say you care about us.

00:01:39.160 And I believe you.

00:01:43.120 Can you just not lie to us?

00:01:45.560 Just don't lie to us.

00:01:48.380 Since he was president, how many times?

00:01:50.260 11 times?

00:01:51.340 15 times since he was president?

00:01:53.960 Did he say, I have no dealings in Russia?

00:01:56.500 I was never.

00:01:58.040 Nobody, to the best of my recollection, had any dealings with the Russians?

00:02:04.580 About 14.

00:02:06.620 14 times.

00:02:07.600 I mean, why?

00:02:09.560 Why?

00:02:09.800 We have now the signed document where you signed off on a letter of intent to build a Trump tower in Moscow.

00:02:20.260 While you were saying there was nothing going on.

00:02:23.820 Why?

00:02:25.100 Nobody's going to, nobody, nobody, nobody would have had a problem if you would have just come out and said, yeah, I'm trying to build a Trump tower.

00:02:31.560 What?

00:02:31.740 I'm a businessman.

00:02:32.600 I try to build them all over the world.

00:02:33.760 Right.

00:02:34.320 Everyone knows that.

00:02:35.200 That's his business.

00:02:35.760 That's your business.

00:02:37.600 Why would you do that?

00:02:41.240 So now we've got really, really important meetings.

00:02:47.180 The President Xi is, this is one of the most important meetings.

00:02:52.280 This could decide whether or not the world goes to war in the next two years.

00:02:58.520 Literally, it's that important.

00:03:01.700 Meeting with the President of China.

00:03:03.960 Now, the President said last night, you know, that he's not sure he even wants to do a deal with President Xi.

00:03:12.640 Why?

00:03:14.000 Because of all the tax revenue coming in from China for because of the trade, you know, embargo or the trade tariffs.

00:03:22.800 Come on.

00:03:24.180 Now, I'm hoping that that is just hyperbole getting ready to meet.

00:03:31.620 That's, you know, that's what you do.

00:03:32.940 Well, I'm not really interested in that car over there that I've been drooling over for the last two years.

00:03:40.160 I don't know.

00:03:41.400 I'm not really in the market for the car right now.

00:03:44.800 Or I just happen to be, well, I live across town and I drove 45 minutes in traffic to get to your car lot, but I'm not really that interested.

00:03:55.560 Hopefully, it's that kind of thing.

00:03:58.880 Hopefully, it's just a negotiating tactic.

00:04:01.240 But the one thing that I have learned is absolutely nothing, nothing this President said or says or tweets should be discussed.

00:04:13.580 Just what he does, just that, just that.

00:04:18.860 If we were just looking at what this President does, he'd be pretty popular.

00:04:25.920 He'd be pretty popular.

00:04:28.000 He wouldn't be having all of these problems.

00:04:30.600 But because of what the President says, people get their panties in a bunch.

00:04:39.140 Look at how much, look at how much, every time he tweets, the press goes crazy.

00:04:46.300 And you know what?

00:04:47.100 What's so infuriating about this is the way the press reacts every single time.

00:04:52.320 Once again, I read two stories from two people at CNN that said, you know, this is the first time that I felt we really have him here.

00:05:05.220 They always feel bad.

00:05:06.300 Really?

00:05:06.520 You said that every time.

00:05:08.800 It's always the first time for them.

00:05:10.700 This is really the first time.

00:05:12.720 Really?

00:05:13.160 When he was on the bus talking about, you know, touching women?

00:05:15.980 You didn't feel that?

00:05:17.320 It's like a prostitute constantly, over and over, losing their virginity.

00:05:21.680 That's what happens with the press.

00:05:23.020 Every time.

00:05:23.860 Every time.

00:05:24.480 Every time it's brand new.

00:05:25.980 Yeah, every time.

00:05:28.140 I think Madonna wrote a song about that at one point.

00:05:30.760 And it's amazing the press can continue to do it.

00:05:33.220 You're right.

00:05:33.580 I mean, and the thing is about what Trump says and tweets, he himself says over and over again that he's negotiating.

00:05:43.160 Right?

00:05:43.260 We're not supposed to, you know, talk like people will talk when we were complaining about tariffs.

00:05:46.600 A lot of people will say, well, he's just negotiating.

00:05:48.580 And, you know, I mean, I think that one he has implemented.

00:05:51.140 So that no longer is really a talking point.

00:05:53.300 But the point is, he says he's negotiating all the time.

00:05:56.240 So if he's negotiating, he has some, right, some agenda to win some battle he's trying to do behind the scenes or whatever.

00:06:04.260 Well, there's no reason to listen to those words specifically.

00:06:07.880 And, you know, look, it's a double standard because I would not have accepted that from Barack Obama because when he said things, I wanted to hold them to them.

00:06:17.000 But, you know, Trump makes an art a form of it.

00:06:19.720 He's not even – I mean, this is a great point in that his supporters should not have to deal with trying to defend these things.

00:06:28.700 Look, I know this.

00:06:29.720 Because he didn't even do anything wrong trying to build – his business is building towers in other countries.

00:06:34.760 This is what he does for a living.

00:06:35.780 Do you remember – do you remember how many times when I was at Fox and we were at the very height of all the controversy around me, how many times I came on the air and I said, I'm really sorry because I know it makes it hard to defend me?

00:06:49.840 Oh, yeah.

00:06:50.440 Okay?

00:06:50.820 I used to say that all the time because I would say something stupid and it would be taken out of context or whatever or it was just plain stupid.

00:06:58.580 And I knew that it caused you trouble to defend me.

00:07:03.660 And you'd be like, oh, thanks, Glenn.

00:07:05.260 Thanks.

00:07:05.720 Now you've added that to the pile.

00:07:07.740 Okay?

00:07:08.440 And I know that.

00:07:10.240 And that's what I'm – I'm begging the president.

00:07:12.540 Please, please, if you look at Trump's policies, he's a good president.

00:07:20.920 Some of them are really good.

00:07:21.920 But, I mean, I think the best example –

00:07:23.000 The trade thing is kind of a big one that's starting to really scare the hell out of me.

00:07:27.560 But the best example of this is Russia.

00:07:29.760 If you look at what he says about Russia, you would think, oh, well, he's way too friendly with Vladimir Putin.

00:07:35.740 A lot of people believe – you see that and it's notable.

00:07:38.300 I mean, I know –

00:07:39.000 Because it is notable on what he says.

00:07:41.860 Right.

00:07:42.140 But if you look at what he does, his policies are pretty hawkish against Russia.

00:07:46.480 Very hawkish.

00:07:47.080 The administration has taken a lot of major steps against Russia through this period.

00:07:52.240 This has not been a presidency that has kissed the butt of Vladimir Putin.

00:07:55.980 Just because he said a few nice things in press conferences does not mean that the actions of the administration go down that road.

00:08:04.980 And I think if you realize that Trump is a guy who – he's a big talker, right?

00:08:09.220 He's saying that, you know, I have the best of everything in the world.

00:08:12.220 And, you know, for years when he was back in the entertainment days, people would know, okay, he's saying that, but it's bluster.

00:08:18.340 He's talking big.

00:08:19.180 We get that.

00:08:19.680 We're not really going to pay attention.

00:08:20.540 We know he's not actually meaning it's the biggest or best in the world.

00:08:25.300 And this is the thing here.

00:08:26.660 It's like he – because he says something in public or he says something to the press or he's fighting with the press and says something defensive like I have absolutely no business with Russia, you can't take it seriously.

00:08:37.080 Because you don't know what the truth is until – that's why we've been saying the Mueller thing.

00:08:40.620 Let's just wait for it to come out and we'll read it.

00:08:42.080 And here's what liberals and the press don't understand.

00:08:45.800 They look at us, and this is what's so frustrating is because there's – look, 70% of this nation sick to death, sick to death of this crap.

00:08:55.580 I think it's actually 80% that they're exhausted by this.

00:08:59.740 They don't want to play this game anymore.

00:09:01.280 They don't want to fight.

00:09:02.160 They just want everybody just to shut up and do their job, okay?

00:09:07.140 And what the press doesn't understand is that there are many people in America that are so tired of the lies of the press, not just the Trump lies, but the lies that have gone on forever and the double standard forever.

00:09:26.480 Trump – I mean Bush hates black people.

00:09:30.120 They didn't care.

00:09:31.140 They didn't care.

00:09:34.120 How can you possibly say that?

00:09:38.680 What's his name?

00:09:40.140 Dick Cheney blew up the levees.

00:09:42.900 George Bush knew about the towers when 60% of Democrats believed that in 2005, that George Bush had something to do with 9-11.

00:09:55.440 Now, of course, they deny it and say we're not into conspiracy theories.

00:09:59.760 Well, the evidence is there, okay?

00:10:02.780 And that came from a press not being a bulldog on that stuff.

00:10:08.500 They were at best neutral.

00:10:11.340 It's why I went on the air and said we're going to get to the bottom of the FEMA camp thing.

00:10:19.300 I'm going to find out if they're happening or they're not.

00:10:22.020 I'm going to go in with an open mind and I'm going to say, are they happening or not?

00:10:28.360 I get bashed as a conspiracy theorist because I said, are they happening or not?

00:10:34.920 We're going to tell you next week.

00:10:37.180 And the answer, by the way, was no.

00:10:39.120 It was no.

00:10:40.400 And quite honestly, I was pretty sure the answer was no, unless Dick Cheney had been building underground camps.

00:10:50.160 Right.

00:10:50.380 But look at the way the press approached the birtherism stuff, right?

00:10:54.060 They went out and they did segments on it, debunking it every day.

00:10:59.720 They'd show you all the documents.

00:11:01.000 They'd go back and show all the history, the reports in the newspapers.

00:11:03.340 They did such a thorough job debunking that they did not do that with Bush.

00:11:08.680 They did not.

00:11:09.740 They did not try to debunk.

00:11:10.820 They don't try to debunk the crazy conspiracies against Trump.

00:11:14.460 They don't do it.

00:11:15.260 They just let them sit out there and don't really answer them.

00:11:18.300 And, you know, at times with him, in fact, they spread them through speculation.

00:11:24.740 They just spread them and then they don't correct them afterwards.

00:11:27.880 And they never apologize for saying, you know what?

00:11:30.480 We were wrong on this one and make a big deal out of it.

00:11:34.180 Nobody cares about your apology that happened one time, two o'clock in the afternoon after you've spent three weeks saying it.

00:11:41.180 Yeah.

00:11:41.260 And it's not universal there.

00:11:42.280 I mean, I've heard Jake Tapper specifically go after conspiracy theories even against Trump.

00:11:47.960 And Jake Tapper, I think, is in a different category.

00:11:50.220 Right.

00:11:50.440 Most times.

00:11:50.920 It's not universal, but it's common.

00:11:53.020 It is way too common.

00:11:54.180 And so it's why it's why so many people agree when he says, you know, the enemy of the people, because it feels that way a lot of time.

00:12:00.620 Right.

00:12:01.040 So look at the border.

00:12:02.340 So when you're when you're sitting here, media, you're like, how can these people?

00:12:07.940 How can they just keep putting up with the president lying about this?

00:12:12.680 Because in our minds, this is what happens.

00:12:18.240 Hey, I know the president lies.

00:12:21.140 I get it.

00:12:22.200 What?

00:12:22.760 I thought I was I was I was voting for the pope.

00:12:25.840 I was voting for Mother Teresa.

00:12:27.960 Please.

00:12:28.540 I've baked all of this crap in a long time.

00:12:31.360 You really thought we thought Cohen was a good guy?

00:12:36.240 Come on.

00:12:37.380 We knew he was a slippery fixer.

00:12:40.560 That's who he was.

00:12:41.660 So we've already baked that in.

00:12:43.680 Now, are we happy about this?

00:12:47.280 No.

00:12:48.220 But here's what we think.

00:12:51.300 If Donald Trump would have said during the election.

00:12:55.900 Yeah, well, I'm trying to build Trump Tower, which there's nothing wrong with that.

00:13:01.040 As long as it's disclosed, there's nothing wrong with that.

00:13:06.500 That's his job.

00:13:07.920 I was shocked when he denied it so vehemently because I'm like, of course, he's trying to

00:13:13.080 build.

00:13:13.260 He's trying to build one in my backyard.

00:13:15.860 He's trying to build them everywhere.

00:13:17.520 What do you mean?

00:13:18.000 In all of in all of Russia?

00:13:19.880 He doesn't want to put a hotel.

00:13:21.520 Of course, he does.

00:13:22.860 Every businessman wants to do expand and make more money.

00:13:25.380 Correct.

00:13:25.880 And that's one of the reasons we like.

00:13:26.860 So we knew that.

00:13:27.840 However, him saying, yeah, I've got business dealings in Moscow right now.

00:13:33.300 What would the press say?

00:13:34.560 He's in bed with Moscow.

00:13:36.800 So if he would have admitted it, they would have made it into exactly what it is.

00:13:43.180 Today.

00:13:43.960 Not what it actually was, but what it is today.

00:13:47.000 A big scandal.

00:13:48.620 They would have used it against him.

00:13:50.060 So what happens, and let me explain this one more time as simply as I can to the media

00:13:58.080 and to people on the on the left, not to the left, people who are Democrats.

00:14:04.200 Look.

00:14:05.620 We don't like this either.

00:14:07.820 We don't like this either.

00:14:08.980 But what is he supposed to do when you've got a when you have a media that will take anything

00:14:18.100 and everything and turn it into a massive scandal when the media, the media created this

00:14:27.340 guy.

00:14:28.400 They created him in two ways.

00:14:32.820 Donald Trump, if we trusted the news during the Obama administration.

00:14:38.980 If they were actually telling us what was really going on and did investigations when

00:14:47.180 when the government was out of control and when Obama was clearly lying about things like

00:14:54.640 Obamacare, that was a third of our economy.

00:14:58.720 That's the greatest health care system the world has ever seen.

00:15:03.420 And he lied $2,500 back for every family.

00:15:07.600 No, that's not possible.

00:15:08.980 The math shows that's never possible that you can keep your doctor.

00:15:14.780 No, here is the documented evidence that that will not happen.

00:15:19.180 happen.

00:15:19.780 But you let it slide until what, a year after we lost our doctors and were paying higher prices?

00:15:28.100 Because we didn't trust you at all.

00:15:32.220 We needed somebody like Donald Trump to tell you, shut up.

00:15:39.020 That's not healthy.

00:15:40.820 And you created him in another way.

00:15:43.360 Because you thought he was going to be the easiest candidate to beat.

00:15:47.740 You took down everyone else in his path, but you just loved him for ratings and you thought he was going to be the easiest one for Hillary to beat.

00:16:04.840 Well, you were wrong now, weren't you?

00:16:07.340 And you can't live with yourself.

00:16:10.180 You'll never admit to that.

00:16:12.700 But he is your creation.

00:16:17.420 So now you don't like it.

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00:18:00.020 So I just want to let you know that the, well, Albert wrote to me and he said, Glenn, I brought

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00:18:12.460 I never in my life have spent so much money to see anyone.

00:18:17.840 I also don't like crowds.

00:18:20.140 I haven't attended a show of any kind in I don't know how long.

00:18:25.280 My wife and I talked about it and we're going to give you a shot.

00:18:29.660 Uh-oh.

00:18:30.180 I expect a great show and nothing less.

00:18:33.840 Oh, my.

00:18:34.340 But I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

00:18:37.700 Okay.

00:18:38.420 All right.

00:18:39.060 All right.

00:18:39.920 We are.

00:18:40.440 There are metal detectors at the show, right?

00:18:42.740 And maybe, Albert, there may be refunds.

00:18:46.460 Let's be reasonable about this.

00:18:49.060 It does seem like there could be a little threat inside of that.

00:18:52.780 An implied threat.

00:18:54.500 Yeah.

00:18:54.780 It's going to be great.

00:18:55.380 Yeah, it's going to be fun.

00:18:56.260 It's going to be a fun show today.

00:18:57.620 Should we give away a pair of tickets?

00:18:58.800 Yeah.

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00:19:50.180 Yeah.

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00:20:07.620 I got a lot of email in regards to yesterday's program in this hour.

00:20:20.140 And they all pretty much were summed up like this.

00:20:25.120 And they were mainly from females.

00:20:27.320 This one's from Carly.

00:20:28.820 She said, Glenn, I realize that you receive tons of email every day.

00:20:35.100 I hope this one finds its way to you.

00:20:37.020 I'm just writing to say simply thank you.

00:20:39.360 This morning, Thursday, I was simply doing my normal routine, drinking coffee, checking email, getting ready to tackle a day at work,

00:20:46.700 and listening to your show on my local conservative talk station, KSGF 104.1 out of Springfield.

00:20:54.120 Around 9 o'clock in the morning, you began reading a story about a young woman who found out at an early age that she was unable to have kids.

00:21:02.180 She shared the story about her adoption.

00:21:04.200 Listeners around the world, like me, were able to hear the compassion in your voice as you shared the story.

00:21:09.960 But you said something that stuck with me.

00:21:12.820 You explained how something happens to a woman when she finds out she can't have kids.

00:21:18.160 Thank you for being so real and so transparent for a few minutes and sharing this very real reality.

00:21:24.540 I'm a young, ambitious 23-year-old conservative who can't have children either.

00:21:28.920 She goes in to talk about she's had just she's just really had a tough, you know, few years.

00:21:37.740 She said, but today I'm back to work.

00:21:39.840 I'm back living my new normal life.

00:21:42.720 I'm a survivor who will one day be called mama by a child I adopt.

00:21:48.620 She said, I am a firm believer that Jesus wasn't ready for me to be home yet.

00:21:52.700 And I cannot wait to see what he has planned for my future as an adoptive parent.

00:21:57.480 Thank you for sharing your story.

00:21:59.080 Thanks for being so real.

00:22:00.480 Glenn, I'm proud to be one of your longtime listeners.

00:22:03.340 Carly.

00:22:03.900 Carly, thank you so much.

00:22:05.280 And for all of the women that wrote yesterday.

00:22:09.440 I cannot relate.

00:22:10.760 I have a hard time.

00:22:11.740 I had a hard time during the whole, you know, trying to get pregnant thing.

00:22:16.440 And there is nothing more fun than when you and your wife are trying to get pregnant.

00:22:21.940 Oh, super romantic.

00:22:23.340 Oh, my gosh.

00:22:24.500 Come home right now.

00:22:26.480 Yes, dear.

00:22:27.580 It's just super great.

00:22:29.660 It's what, you know, I never thought this would happen to me.

00:22:33.220 Um, but, uh, uh, so it's hard to, it's hard to understand what happens, but there's a piece

00:22:43.960 of a woman that just seems to, they think that they're not complete and they, I think men

00:22:52.980 have somewhat of an equivalent there with like, when you lose your functions that you, you know,

00:22:58.100 kind of think of yourself that make you a man, right?

00:23:00.160 I mean, yeah, I guess that's true.

00:23:01.460 I guess that's, yeah, yeah, you know what?

00:23:03.100 You're right.

00:23:03.680 You're right.

00:23:04.220 There's a guttural sort of thing that I think happens, you know, that we're like, it's your

00:23:09.000 function.

00:23:09.600 Wait a minute.

00:23:09.980 I can't do it.

00:23:10.640 And it's, that's not a rational way of thinking, of course.

00:23:12.660 Like it's, it's a, oh, I wasn't even thinking that I was thinking, I was thinking, for instance,

00:23:16.820 um, you know, I've, I've, it's no secret that, um, you know, I've had some medical issues.

00:23:22.180 I mean, look at me.

00:23:23.760 Um, you basically are a medical issue.

00:23:25.900 Yeah, I know.

00:23:26.160 It's like, oh, that's medical issue.

00:23:28.000 What's that?

00:23:28.500 What's his medical issue?

00:23:29.620 Glenn Beck.

00:23:30.220 Uh, but, uh, you know, there was, there are many times that, uh, my wife, uh, has had

00:23:37.220 to get up in the, in the morning to button my shirts or tie my shoes.

00:23:41.580 And she always says, honey, this is no big deal.

00:23:46.260 And it really is to me.

00:23:48.340 Yeah.

00:23:48.620 Because you feel like I'm just, I'm nothing.

00:23:51.860 Yeah.

00:23:52.100 I remember you telling the story of, I think it was your grandfather who got to a place

00:23:55.720 where he could no longer drive a car and it, it ripped him apart and he wanted to, and

00:24:01.500 then he wound up driving his, his lawnmower to town, right?

00:24:04.540 Yeah.

00:24:04.720 Well, he drove, well, first he drove his truck to Denny's and then, uh, when he was backing

00:24:10.500 out, uh, he went the opposite direction really fast.

00:24:13.920 So he went through the front window.

00:24:15.720 Okay.

00:24:16.000 So we had to take the keys of the truck away and then he decided he was going to take the

00:24:21.540 tractor to Denny's.

00:24:23.020 Uh, and so they had to stop him taking the tractor.

00:24:25.760 So we had to take the keys away from that.

00:24:27.500 And then we caught him literally on the highway on his little riding lawnmower trying to get

00:24:34.420 to Denny's.

00:24:35.060 And he was just like, first of all, the ultimate commercial for Denny's.

00:24:38.940 Like, I mean, I like Denny's too.

00:24:40.680 I don't know if I'm going to those lengths.

00:24:42.080 Yeah.

00:24:42.300 Um, but, uh, it's, it's true.

00:24:43.940 Like you lose those things and you know, you feel like you're no longer.

00:24:49.800 Well, but you have two ways to, you have two ways to go.

00:24:52.900 Let's be honest.

00:24:53.460 Let me kind of, may I, may I share a story with you from the news?

00:24:56.160 Okay.

00:24:57.460 Now imagine you're in line at the dollar general store.

00:25:00.960 Okay.

00:25:02.200 And the person in front of you is passing gas.

00:25:05.660 And I, and I, I don't mean passing gas like, Ooh boy, I, I, you smell something.

00:25:10.140 I mean, ripping them.

00:25:12.300 Okay.

00:25:12.520 Okay.

00:25:12.760 It's a woman in front of you and she is just.

00:25:27.760 Okay.

00:25:28.420 That one.

00:25:28.960 That one.

00:25:29.500 Okay.

00:25:30.380 She's just ripping them.

00:25:31.420 We've all had that moment.

00:25:32.160 We've all had that moment.

00:25:33.700 Wait a minute.

00:25:35.020 Okay.

00:25:35.520 I'm done.

00:25:35.900 Um, okay.

00:25:36.780 So she's just ripping them.

00:25:38.840 And this, this guy, you would, what would you do?

00:25:41.480 You would expect the person to go, Oh my gosh, I am so sorry.

00:25:47.040 But she didn't.

00:25:48.160 And, uh, she's like, yeah, okay.

00:25:51.400 And I need one of these.

00:25:55.120 And the guy standing behind her is backing up.

00:25:59.460 You know, there could be a fire.

00:26:00.860 Can we open a door here?

00:26:02.580 Um, and he finally says something.

00:26:05.580 Cause she's just crass about it.

00:26:09.120 And, um, so she, uh, she, uh, she turns around.

00:26:15.300 She said, you have a, you have a problem with what's happened.

00:26:19.780 Um, and he's like, well, I mean, it is just, I mean, can you, I mean, can you at least say

00:26:27.120 excuse me?

00:26:28.660 And she reaches into her purse and he pulled, she pulls a knife and she pulls a knife on

00:26:33.980 the guy and he starts to back away.

00:26:36.700 And she said, you, you say another word and I'm going to gotcha.

00:26:44.640 She threatens to gut, gut the guy.

00:26:47.680 Okay.

00:26:48.880 Now.

00:26:49.320 Unrational reaction to the situation.

00:26:51.680 Now, the one reason why this caught my eye today is guess which state this story is from.

00:27:00.180 I mean, I, we, I would probably guess the one we're sitting in right now.

00:27:05.080 Florida.

00:27:05.840 Yes.

00:27:07.040 Yes.

00:27:08.040 This state is the, this is the home of the craziest news up until probably 2007.

00:27:16.260 Then all news became like Florida, but Florida, I think the reason why Florida is so chill is

00:27:23.400 because they watch the news.

00:27:25.360 They've been seeing that stuff go on for a long time.

00:27:28.000 Yeah.

00:27:28.260 It's like, that's Florida.

00:27:32.060 So when you got a president who's up there, look, I didn't, oh crap.

00:27:38.220 I had a bowl of chili.

00:27:40.220 That was fantastic.

00:27:42.420 You know, nobody's nobody in Florida is like, oh yeah.

00:27:46.040 Yeah.

00:27:46.520 I got a neighbor like that.

00:27:48.440 I, that is, I think the way they digest this information.

00:27:51.220 I think so too.

00:27:53.000 Now I don't have the answer to this one, but I do, there is a problem with this story.

00:28:02.500 A woman gets onto a plane with her five-year-old daughter and she gets on the plane and the,

00:28:13.860 the flight attendants make fun of her daughter's name and then they go an extra step.

00:28:20.360 And this was, this part is way over the line.

00:28:22.160 They post a picture of the boarding pass and a picture of the daughter online.

00:28:27.860 Okay.

00:28:28.860 Well, yeah, I don't think that's cool, but they're making fun of her because she told ABC news that her daughter, ABCD.

00:28:37.860 ABCD, it was, it was not right.

00:28:43.700 I'm sorry.

00:28:44.160 It's ABCD E.

00:28:46.180 It's not right to make fun of her name.

00:28:49.420 A, B, C, D, E.

00:28:51.040 Is that a print, a pronounceable name or is it?

00:28:53.780 Of course it is.

00:28:55.020 It's a, ab, C, D, ab, C, D, ab, C, D, ab, C, D, ab, C, D, ab, C, D, but it is spelled A, B, C, D, E.

00:29:06.360 Okay.

00:29:07.820 So if I had to ask you what state the parent was from that would name their kids, A, B, C, D, E.

00:29:21.400 E.

00:29:22.240 Ab, C, D.

00:29:22.980 Ab, C, D.

00:29:24.180 But see, that sounds normal-ish.

00:29:27.220 Ab, C, D, could be a name.

00:29:28.420 Ab, C, D, could be a name.

00:29:30.440 This is A, B, C, D, E.

00:29:33.360 Okay.

00:29:34.560 It's the alphabet.

00:29:35.240 In case anybody is not following this closely.

00:29:40.000 If I had to ask you what state would a parent be most likely to name their kid A, B, C, D, E, what would you say?

00:29:48.380 I would guess the one we're sitting in right now.

00:29:51.220 Florida.

00:29:51.580 I would have said Florida or California.

00:29:54.700 Okay.

00:29:55.920 No chance it's any place other than Florida or California.

00:30:00.960 Texas.

00:30:01.700 Ah, really?

00:30:03.020 Now, I believe this parent is a transplant.

00:30:07.600 We need a border wall.

00:30:08.460 We do.

00:30:08.800 I think this is a case why we need a border wall.

00:30:13.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:13.400 The president can build it on the south side.

00:30:15.800 I would like it on the west side of Texas because they're swarming in these Californians.

00:30:24.540 And only a...

00:30:25.240 No Texan, no self-respecting Texan would ever name their child A, B, C, D, E.

00:30:33.060 Never.

00:30:34.660 That is an immigrant.

00:30:36.220 A Texas immigrant?

00:30:38.860 Like from another state?

00:30:40.120 Yeah.

00:30:40.440 Okay.

00:30:40.680 That's somebody from California that's like, I kind of like that country of Texas.

00:30:46.660 No.

00:30:47.880 You're going to name your kid after fruit, after space rocks, or any part of the alphabet.

00:30:56.180 I know my name is also part of the alphabet, but it's arranged in a name.

00:31:02.240 You're not allowed in Texas.

00:31:03.700 I want somebody on the staff of The Blaze to take 20 minutes out of their day today.

00:31:09.060 They don't even have to write a story, but I'm the boss.

00:31:12.360 I want to find out if this is a California immigrant.

00:31:16.660 I want to find out.

00:31:18.020 I suspect she's a white person who's a social justice warrior from California.

00:31:25.700 I cannot stand white people.

00:31:28.620 I am just...

00:31:29.280 Right?

00:31:29.460 They're just so irritating.

00:31:30.260 The only person that hates white people more than you is probably the white person

00:31:37.040 that names your child A, B, C, D, E.

00:31:40.540 All right.

00:31:42.640 Imagine all the problems every time you put your name in for the rest of your life.

00:31:45.960 Again, I know you think it's this cute thing, you're naming your kid this funny thing.

00:31:48.900 It's not.

00:31:49.080 Every time they put their name on a form, the person's going to be like, oh, I think you

00:31:52.200 screwed this up.

00:31:52.780 You just put the alphabet.

00:31:53.500 No, that's my name.

00:31:54.620 I mean, I feel bad for Rafe.

00:31:56.300 I feel bad for Rafe because he's always there.

00:31:59.400 I was like, is that Ralph?

00:32:00.880 Is that Raphael?

00:32:02.960 What?

00:32:05.080 Raph.

00:32:05.900 Raph.

00:32:06.400 What is Raph?

00:32:07.540 No, it's Rafe.

00:32:08.840 And, you know, it's a common name, I guess, over in England.

00:32:13.060 And I guess it's not here.

00:32:16.080 And I apologize to my son.

00:32:18.320 Well, I don't think there's an apology needed for a name.

00:32:21.100 I think it's the only apology he's ever going to get.

00:32:24.920 And you're only doing it publicly, never privately.

00:32:26.780 Yeah, never privately.

00:32:27.900 Okay.

00:32:28.100 He flew in last night with us.

00:32:30.460 We got in late.

00:32:32.420 He's actually in the studio, dead asleep.

00:32:35.640 You can check the Twitter feed.

00:32:37.300 He's dead asleep right now.

00:32:38.980 So, this is the only apology he's ever, ever going to get.

00:32:44.940 Son, I apologize to you many, many times.

00:32:48.100 You were just asleep.

00:32:50.460 All right.

00:32:50.820 Our sponsor this half hour.

00:32:52.920 What's crypto, what is crypto world doing right now?

00:32:55.420 It's about four.

00:32:56.400 Four thousand.

00:32:57.120 This is crazy.

00:32:59.220 This is crazy.

00:33:00.360 I've been starting, I'm getting to the point now where I'm starting thinking, when do I

00:33:03.180 just go back into this?

00:33:04.960 I'm hitting that point.

00:33:06.260 I did that too.

00:33:07.600 I haven't done it yet.

00:33:08.440 I did that too.

00:33:08.600 I mean, I do have some.

00:33:10.580 If it hits three, I'm going to.

00:33:12.100 That's your number three?

00:33:12.900 Yeah.

00:33:13.200 There's a certain number.

00:33:14.060 I don't know what it is yet.

00:33:15.780 I need to keep thinking about it.

00:33:16.820 But there's some number where I'm like, jeez, this is crazy not to get back into this.

00:33:20.260 Did you see Litecoin?

00:33:21.400 It's like, what is it, $100?

00:33:23.240 It was.

00:33:23.840 No, it's way less than that.

00:33:25.900 31.

00:33:27.060 31 for Litecoin.

00:33:28.440 What's Ethereum at?

00:33:30.320 112.

00:33:31.220 That's the one I was thinking, 112.

00:33:32.680 That was like $1,400.

00:33:34.300 Yeah.

00:33:34.800 I mean, for a very short time.

00:33:36.180 But still, it was $500, $600, $700 for a long time.

00:33:38.060 For a long time.

00:33:38.640 Still.

00:33:39.120 So, I mean, it's like, it is at that point to where, because here's what's weird.

00:33:44.620 Normally, I would say, done.

00:33:47.340 Done.

00:33:48.060 Get out of it.

00:33:48.760 It was a tulip bubble.

00:33:50.560 Done.

00:33:50.880 But Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, all of these, all of these huge, huge trading firms and

00:34:00.760 financial services, they've spent millions of dollars to prepare for a trading desk for

00:34:07.840 cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.

00:34:09.060 Yeah.

00:34:09.380 I mean, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange just said, Bitcoin and digital assets are

00:34:14.540 here to stay.

00:34:15.680 Okay.

00:34:16.320 And it's like, oh, if they're here to stay, this might be a good time to-

00:34:19.440 I know.

00:34:19.660 I mean, it's ahead of the New York Stock Exchange.

00:34:21.620 Right.

00:34:22.120 And they've all built these things.

00:34:24.720 New York Stock Exchange has just built something for Bitcoin use.

00:34:28.960 And it hasn't been unveiled yet.

00:34:33.100 And once it's-

00:34:34.180 First quarter of next year, they're saying.

00:34:35.500 It has been unveiled, but it hasn't been in use.

00:34:38.200 And the theory is, is that the rich get richer by talking all of this stuff down.

00:34:42.940 And then when it gets really low, that's when they open the floodgates and they've bought

00:34:47.300 all of it at the lowest possible price.

00:34:50.120 I don't know what that low price is, but you're right, Stu.

00:34:55.060 I'm getting it.

00:34:55.880 I'm starting to convince myself.

00:34:57.440 Yeah.

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00:35:28.260 There's a couple of things coming.

00:35:34.840 By the way, Bill O'Reilly is going to be joining us in just a few minutes.

00:35:38.100 You do not want to miss Bill O'Reilly.

00:35:42.220 He's got a lot on his mind today as well to share.

00:35:45.440 Also, 217 migrants have been found dead on the Texas border area and ranches in 2018.

00:35:56.540 They just found another person dead on the ranch.

00:36:00.280 I mean, these people who live on the border, it's, you know, if you're living in New York

00:36:04.520 and you're like, I don't understand, you know, OK, I mean, so you got some immigrants coming.

00:36:08.740 You don't know what it's like living on the border.

00:36:11.120 Some of these some of these ranchers, I don't know.

00:36:14.840 We had somebody that tried to give us a huge ranch in Texas.

00:36:22.480 Just give it to us.

00:36:24.820 And we were like, oh, my gosh, that's amazing.

00:36:27.260 But when we realized, you know, they were trying to give it to us because they couldn't offload it.

00:36:33.360 And it had all kinds of issues.

00:36:36.020 You know, if you're owning it, you you have all kinds of issues.

00:36:39.660 They they could not.

00:36:41.160 It was like a family ranch that they could never go to anymore because it was too dangerous.

00:36:47.920 It's like, no, no, thank you.

00:36:50.460 I know.

00:36:51.640 Thank you.

00:36:52.200 You have no concept unless you live in a border state.

00:36:57.580 Glenn Beck.

00:37:01.840 Centers for Disease Control.

00:37:04.680 Preventive and prevention, because you want to control the disease and prevent the disease.

00:37:09.580 They released a new report yesterday.

00:37:13.900 CDC says 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017.

00:37:19.360 An all time high.

00:37:21.080 Higher than the peak number of car crashes of deaths in 1972.

00:37:27.760 The higher than the peak number of HIV deaths in 1995.

00:37:32.260 Higher than the peak of deaths from guns in 1993.

00:37:37.300 Opioid deaths.

00:37:41.140 One of the chief causes of these insane numbers is the sharp spike in deaths related to synthetic opioids called fentanyl.

00:37:50.500 In 2013, the U.S. had 3,000 fentanyl overdose deaths.

00:37:55.380 Last year, 28,000.

00:37:58.340 That is a 45% increase of fentanyl deaths in one year.

00:38:04.300 However, if you don't know what fentanyl is, if they ever try to give you fentanyl, don't do it.

00:38:13.560 I mean, it is an end of life drug.

00:38:16.600 And so if you are at the end of life, go ahead.

00:38:19.500 Take it.

00:38:20.120 This is your medical advice.

00:38:21.360 It is my medical advice.

00:38:22.500 I have to make sure because you are a doctor.

00:38:24.220 Yeah, I am a doctor.

00:38:25.040 Yeah, you are.

00:38:25.420 Yeah, a doctor of humanities.

00:38:26.700 I can I can diagnose anything in the human body.

00:38:29.120 So anyway, but seriously, I've had it.

00:38:33.360 I didn't know that I because I was in surgery.

00:38:36.000 I woke up on the table.

00:38:38.120 They couldn't keep me out.

00:38:39.340 They couldn't keep me out of pain.

00:38:41.200 They gave me fentanyl and another cocktail on top of that.

00:38:45.040 Oh, my gosh.

00:38:45.580 I had it for like three or four days and I was addicted to it already.

00:38:49.380 It's horrendous.

00:38:51.380 It's wonderful, but it is horrendous.

00:38:54.600 It's made for end of life use only because they know once you start taking it, you're not going to stop.

00:39:01.000 The steep rise in the drug overdose deaths has reduced our life expectancy rate for the third year in a row.

00:39:09.120 That hasn't happened since World War Two.

00:39:12.540 Now, the leading death for adults under 55 is drug overdose.

00:39:17.960 Federal crackdowns recent years have focused on the opioid prescription, and those are down overall.

00:39:25.280 Yet overdose deaths keep rising mainly because of fentanyl, synthetic opioids.

00:39:30.740 They're deadly because literally it says on the box, if you buy, you know, if you buy a real real doctor prescribed says on the box, do not touch their patches.

00:39:41.680 Do not touch the patch.

00:39:43.340 If it wasn't it wasn't prescribed for you, it may kill you just touching it.

00:39:50.100 Unfortunately, there was also another CDC report released yesterday.

00:39:53.220 This one about suicide rates, which rose three point seven percent last year.

00:39:58.020 Rural America saw the largest increase in suicides since ninety nine.

00:40:02.580 The suicide rates for males and females has increased every single year.

00:40:06.760 But the rate remains highest for men.

00:40:09.340 Does anybody care?

00:40:10.620 Gee, I wonder why men are worthless men are bigots men are haters men are misogynists men have no value.

00:40:21.940 Let's focus all on women.

00:40:23.700 Let's focus on girls.

00:40:24.900 Never the boys.

00:40:25.760 Gee, I wonder what that could mean.

00:40:29.060 Calling this the opioid epidemic is not hyperbole.

00:40:33.580 With the numbers as high as they are, you probably know somebody who is affected by this.

00:40:38.980 You have to ask yourself what's happening to us.

00:40:42.840 Our economy is booming.

00:40:44.380 Unemployment is at low.

00:40:45.980 Yet there is so much despair in this country.

00:40:52.200 America is hurting right now.

00:40:56.600 And politics can't ultimately do anything about it.

00:41:00.620 It might not seem like a lot in the big picture, but it is everything.

00:41:15.980 It is everything, especially to that one person that you can affect right now.

00:41:23.900 Let me go to Bill O'Reilly.

00:41:35.620 Hello, Bill.

00:41:36.340 I wanted to start with this because I know that your column is about another epidemic that you say nobody's really paying attention to.

00:41:45.340 Yeah, and there's a correlation to the rise of drug addiction in the hard drug arena to the massive amount of Internet addiction.

00:41:58.060 We're seeing not only in the United States, but the world.

00:42:00.440 There's a correlation to it.

00:42:01.780 And it's a very complicated issue, as you know, Beck.

00:42:09.440 By the way, I appreciate you guys labeling me Father Christmas.

00:42:13.880 Oh, you're so joyous.

00:42:15.740 Because, as you know, I saved Christmas for the United States of America.

00:42:18.940 Yes, I know you did.

00:42:21.100 And you've got rosy cheeks.

00:42:22.700 And no spin elves on Bill O'Reilly.com working around the clock.

00:42:29.340 That's right.

00:42:29.720 All right.

00:42:30.560 But now, back to addiction.

00:42:32.460 So, it's a very complicated situation because you are dealing with individuals who make a decision.

00:42:43.920 And the decision is, I'm going to take hard drugs for recreational purposes.

00:42:50.420 You know, there are people who get addicted because of medical reasons, but not that many.

00:42:55.660 All right.

00:42:55.940 And I'm going to do it despite knowing I might die and I might become addicted and destroy my family.

00:43:03.200 But I'm going to do it anyway.

00:43:06.340 So, you're starting with a person who's troubled.

00:43:09.540 Because rational people, they don't make that decision.

00:43:12.240 And therefore, all of this pie in the sky about, well, all we need is more money for rehab and the government's fault because they don't provide whatever to these people.

00:43:26.620 I mean, it's just a lie.

00:43:27.560 The second thing is, the society itself, with the legalization of marijuana and the basic glorification of drug use in the media in Hollywood, sends a message to young and mature people that, you know what?

00:43:41.580 It's cool.

00:43:43.160 It's cool.

00:43:43.660 Look at Snoop Dogg.

00:43:46.200 Look, it's cool to do it.

00:43:48.660 All right.

00:43:49.100 And, you know, getting intoxicated when you're 14, that's a good thing.

00:43:53.400 You go right ahead and do it.

00:43:55.980 Okay.

00:43:56.340 So, you have that, that massive wave of, oh, inebriation is good.

00:44:03.360 And if you do it, you'll be accepted and you'll be one of the cool kids.

00:44:07.800 Absolutely happening everywhere.

00:44:09.960 All right.

00:44:10.300 So, this is like a wave that comes in.

00:44:13.020 And the final piece to it is, and we're looking at it now, well, if you're a seller of fentanyl, you know, it's a nonviolent crime.

00:44:24.160 Yeah, you might be handing people poison and they might die, but no, it's not that bad.

00:44:34.080 You shouldn't really be spending a lot of time in prison.

00:44:36.900 Oh, we need to rehab you.

00:44:40.560 So, all of this is why the CDC comes out with this, you know, and by the way, more people died last year of drug overs than in the entire Vietnam War by a lot.

00:44:54.260 But, so, there you go.

00:44:57.280 There's the analysis across the board.

00:44:59.220 It's pretty bleak.

00:44:59.860 Well, but there's also something else that you talk about, and that is the addiction to devices and the Internet.

00:45:07.400 Yeah.

00:45:07.560 Now, there is this actual term.

00:45:11.440 What did you say it was?

00:45:12.680 I just, I heard about it just a couple of days ago, and then I read it in your column.

00:45:16.580 Yeah.

00:45:17.020 It's Internet addiction.

00:45:18.400 It's a disorder.

00:45:19.420 Yeah.

00:45:20.740 Disorder.

00:45:21.420 Disorder.

00:45:21.760 So, now there are rehab clinics, of course, capitalism.

00:45:26.720 You're going to have four kids, mostly kids, ages 11, if you can imagine, to 23, 24, and it costs a fortune, because insurance is not going to handle it, to go there and try to, you know, pry their iPhones out of their hands.

00:45:45.780 But every parent and grandparent knows about the addiction, and there are plenty of adults addicted to it, too.

00:45:51.280 They don't pay attention to their kids.

00:45:53.140 They don't pay attention to their pets.

00:45:55.340 I mean, nobody talks about that, but pets used to be, you know, brought in, and you pay attention to them, and you walk them, and you nurture them, and now the pets look at me, how come nobody's paying attention to me?

00:46:06.600 Because everybody's texting or Snapchatting.

00:46:09.940 No, that's why.

00:46:10.580 I mean, I know.

00:46:11.560 That's why I got my dog an iPhone and an Instagram page.

00:46:14.740 I mean, that's a good move.

00:46:16.020 Very good, Ben.

00:46:16.620 Yeah, yeah.

00:46:17.480 All right, let's go into politics.

00:46:19.680 Let's talk a little bit about Cohen and what happened yesterday, what you think it actually means, and then what you think it politically means.

00:46:30.900 Okay.

00:46:31.380 I don't know what it means, and no one else does either.

00:46:39.080 Therefore, all the pundits who are telling you on television and in the newspaper, op-ed pages that they do know are lying.

00:46:48.540 Beck.

00:46:49.960 Okay, well, wait a minute.

00:46:50.820 Hang on.

00:46:51.200 Hang on.

00:46:51.560 Let's just go over what we do know.

00:46:53.080 He came out and said that.

00:46:56.960 This is Cohen.

00:46:57.940 He came out and he said.

00:46:59.320 I lied to some congresspeople under oath about a Russian condominium project.

00:47:10.000 Okay.

00:47:10.560 Now, he is already, you know, not a credible person.

00:47:15.140 He's never been credible in my book.

00:47:17.380 However, he made that claim.

00:47:19.940 Then Trump, who has been saying the whole time, 14 times since he's been president, that we've had no business dealings at all over in Russia.

00:47:30.240 Yesterday he came out and he said he's weak and pathetic.

00:47:33.180 Don't believe it.

00:47:33.800 Then he came out later and said, yes, okay, so I was trying to, of course I was.

00:47:39.140 I'm a businessman.

00:47:39.960 I was trying to build the Trump Tower, but there's nothing wrong with that, which is true, with an exception of the denials, but not under oath.

00:47:48.760 We do understand, we think, this coming from Rudy Giuliani, that the president answered honestly in his deposition, so there's no, if Giuliani is telling the truth,

00:48:01.140 there is no perjury trap here for him, so there doesn't look like there's anything, that there was any laws broken.

00:48:10.260 It's just about Trump lying about it.

00:48:13.940 But he didn't lie about it because he said quite clearly, I don't have any business with Russia.

00:48:23.020 This was all pie in the sky.

00:48:25.240 Maybe we could do it.

00:48:26.840 Oh, Bill, don't cut that one.

00:48:30.160 Are you really cutting that line?

00:48:33.160 I'm telling you in a court of law.

00:48:34.240 No, no, no, I'm not talking about court of law.

00:48:35.800 I'm not talking about court of law because we don't, as far as I'm concerned.

00:48:39.920 Trump and his lawyers can say, as they have said, we didn't have any business dealings with Russia.

00:48:47.120 Correct.

00:48:47.620 And I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about the law because I don't think there's any laws broken here.

00:48:52.160 I don't think there's any laws broken.

00:48:53.440 He's going to say, Beck, and you can disagree with it and disparage him if you want to, but he's going to say, I didn't have any business dealings with him.

00:49:02.080 A conversation about maybe someday we'll build a condo in Moscow is not a business dealing.

00:49:08.860 He did sign a letter of intent.

00:49:11.160 I can say that.

00:49:11.700 And you can't say.

00:49:13.360 He did.

00:49:14.620 He signed a letter of intent.

00:49:16.860 I mean, his intent was to do business.

00:49:20.860 I don't know about this letter.

00:49:22.020 He signed a business and he formally engaged them.

00:49:25.300 Who?

00:49:25.780 The letters, I mean, obviously, you know, it's been reported on if it comes out.

00:49:30.700 Yeah, I haven't seen any letter.

00:49:32.660 And until I see the letter, I don't believe it.

00:49:35.620 So if there is a letter.

00:49:37.700 And he did sign it.

00:49:38.380 Does it matter?

00:49:40.000 Yeah, that would matter.

00:49:41.220 Because if there's a letter of intent to build a condominium in Moscow, that's a business dealing.

00:49:50.340 So that would matter.

00:49:51.420 Okay, so even if he, because see, this is interesting because I buy into the letter and I don't think that anybody's, I don't think it's going to come from.

00:50:03.320 Seen it in several places.

00:50:06.680 October 28th, 2015 was the date.

00:50:10.860 It was the date of the third Republican presidential debate.

00:50:13.460 And I think this is an interesting one, Bill, because it's one of those things.

00:50:16.520 Everyone can throw out these accusations.

00:50:18.020 This one should be provable.

00:50:18.980 Well, if they have the letter, they should be able to show it, right?

00:50:22.340 Yeah.

00:50:22.520 If they have the letter, it should be in the Mueller report when it comes out.

00:50:24.940 It would have been leaked a long time ago.

00:50:25.780 It would have been leaked a long time ago.

00:50:27.900 If Cohen had a letter and Cohen would be the guy.

00:50:32.260 But he was the guy just yesterday, he just yesterday came out and said, okay, yes, I did lie about this too.

00:50:39.200 So here's the thing.

00:50:40.540 I don't want to even, I don't really care.

00:50:42.820 I get to the point on this when, when the facts are out, then we'll be able to comment on it.

00:50:48.280 I'm not, I'm not holding the letter out as, because I'm not talking about, I'm only talking about politics here.

00:50:57.080 Don't use the word lie and fall into the trap of all of the hate Trump media.

00:51:03.780 Look, listen to Father Christmas.

00:51:07.120 It's the season of joy.

00:51:10.320 You sit on a throne of lies.

00:51:12.920 Man, lie, don't use the word.

00:51:15.760 Well, this would be proof that you would, you, you are saying it would be proof if this letter existed and he signed it.

00:51:22.900 If you have a letter of intent to build a condominium in Moscow, that is a business dealing.

00:51:31.200 Okay.

00:51:31.640 So what does that mean then?

00:51:34.500 If that did exist to you?

00:51:36.480 About what his contacts with Russia were.

00:51:41.360 That's what it would mean.

00:51:42.940 I got it.

00:51:43.680 So then what would that actually mean?

00:51:47.360 Because it's not illegal.

00:51:49.460 No.

00:51:50.140 So, so is anybody, is this going to change anything?

00:51:53.980 Well, unless.

00:51:54.680 I don't think so.

00:51:55.300 That under oath in his deposition.

00:51:57.220 Right.

00:51:57.800 Right.

00:51:58.600 Then it would.

00:51:59.760 And no.

00:52:00.540 If it didn't, it would just be, it would just be another thing that the anti-Trump people could say, the guy's not trustworthy.

00:52:10.860 That's all.

00:52:11.420 Right.

00:52:11.920 Okay.

00:52:12.200 So now let me ask you this question.

00:52:14.340 Yeah.

00:52:14.780 Because if you, Sue and I were talking about this earlier.

00:52:18.080 If you listen to what the president says, you have a good chance at one point or another during your day of getting pissed off.

00:52:25.840 Okay.

00:52:26.480 But if you don't listen to what he says, you just watch his actions like on, on, on Russia.

00:52:33.120 He's very strong against Russia.

00:52:35.740 He is.

00:52:36.560 He has taken real sanctions to, to Russia that we have not seen before.

00:52:41.300 When, when you watch his actions, they don't match the words.

00:52:46.740 Cause he's a guy like, this is the most beautiful sink ever built.

00:52:50.840 And you're like, okay, it's a, it's a sink, man.

00:52:53.360 You watch your hands on it.

00:52:54.300 Um, so you, you have to, you have to not look at his, his language, but when you, when you actually listen to him, um, you have to defend it.

00:53:05.660 And, you know, we're, we're put into a role to where, um, we have to somehow or another say it's okay that he said, I had nothing to do with paying those girls off.

00:53:19.000 And we know now that he did, um, if he, if this happens with Russia and there's a, there's a couple of other things that are like this.

00:53:25.740 That you have to make a decision, whether his policies override his personal behavior.

00:53:36.220 It's the same thing with Bill Clinton.

00:53:37.940 And I think the American people, same thing with Bill Clinton as the Republicans are doing with Trump.

00:53:44.160 Right.

00:53:44.540 And I think, and I think everybody has already made their decision on that.

00:53:48.060 Right.

00:53:48.500 I'm not sure because if Trump needs, if he wants to be reelected, he's got to win over about 7% more votes, uh, than he has now in the polls.

00:54:01.420 All right.

00:54:01.940 So let's, let's persuadable people, depending on who runs against him.

00:54:05.320 All right.

00:54:05.940 So let's pick it up there.

00:54:07.040 And our conversation continues with Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:54:15.140 We are so pleased to be at WFLA in Tampa.

00:54:18.920 Uh, tonight we're in Tampa.

00:54:20.380 Tomorrow we're in Orlando, Florida.

00:54:23.020 Uh, we would love to see you.

00:54:25.020 Uh, tickets are available.

00:54:26.140 You just grab them online at glennbeck.com slash tour.

00:54:29.380 I am not leaving this city without Kojaks.

00:54:33.020 I am not leaving this city without the House of Ribs.

00:54:39.100 This was your favorite place.

00:54:40.020 Oh my gosh.

00:54:40.640 I love this place.

00:54:41.480 I wanted to move into the House of Ribs.

00:54:43.560 It is so good.

00:54:44.700 Before we get back into the politics, can I ask Bill O'Reilly a question?

00:54:48.260 Yeah.

00:54:48.780 Uh, Bill, uh, are you aware of what happened with your Gettysburg Address bid the other

00:54:55.600 day?

00:54:56.220 No, I'm not.

00:54:56.940 I was waiting.

00:54:58.660 What happened?

00:54:59.500 Patiently.

00:55:00.100 Yeah.

00:55:00.340 Yeah.

00:55:00.460 Because you bid $20,000 for a copy of the Gettysburg Address.

00:55:04.000 Um, and then there was an auction at the charity event and it went back and forth and you were

00:55:08.420 outbid.

00:55:09.460 Right away.

00:55:10.180 Pretty quickly.

00:55:10.820 Pretty quickly.

00:55:11.440 Unfortunately for you.

00:55:12.780 Um, I will like to tell you that the person who outbid you was this, a blonde woman who was

00:55:17.720 up in the front row.

00:55:18.540 Uh, she seemed very nice.

00:55:20.580 Her name was Tanya Beck.

00:55:23.700 You were beaten by my wife, Bill.

00:55:27.100 By my wife.

00:55:28.640 Well, it's bidding on his own things.

00:55:29.920 What charity does it go to benefit?

00:55:31.640 Uh, that particular piece went to do the Abraham Lincoln Museum.

00:55:37.280 Uh, but the, the entire event was, uh, my charity Mercury One, which is, uh, if I had

00:55:43.360 to lose to somebody, um, Tanya is, is a person that I would want to lose to.

00:55:49.040 She's so, it's such a nice woman.

00:55:51.520 She is.

00:55:52.320 Well, I don't know why she's with Glenn, but you're right.

00:55:54.060 Then it was me that you lost to.

00:55:55.500 Then it was me.

00:55:56.920 Mercury.

00:56:01.640 Florida, where we are performing tonight, uh, in concert.

00:56:06.800 Uh, I believe Stu is, uh, you're going to try the cello tonight, are you not?

00:56:09.640 Yeah, I've never tried it before, but I think it looks pretty easy.

00:56:12.040 I mean, your arm goes back and forth.

00:56:13.320 It's basically the whole thing.

00:56:14.500 Yep.

00:56:14.520 And I am on the electric guitar and electric piano, which I've never played either one

00:56:19.300 of them.

00:56:19.460 And there's no electricity.

00:56:20.600 Uh, yeah.

00:56:21.720 It's unplugged.

00:56:22.340 Yeah, it's unplugged.

00:56:23.120 So anyway, uh, that's tonight and tomorrow.

00:56:25.840 Tonight in Tampa, tomorrow in Orlando, glenbeck.com slash tour.

00:56:30.200 Bill O'Reilly is with us.

00:56:31.740 Bill.

00:56:32.040 Wow.

00:56:32.480 You know, I wish I was down there.

00:56:34.120 I would really like to see Stu play the cello.

00:56:37.340 That would be exciting.

00:56:38.840 Thank you, Bill.

00:56:39.360 I appreciate it.

00:56:39.740 A lot of people feel the same way.

00:56:41.060 Yeah.

00:56:41.320 I know.

00:56:41.760 So, uh.

00:56:42.220 And if you get the steel drum going, I mean, hey, can Father Christmas just get a quick

00:56:47.540 plug in so we don't have to do it at the end?

00:56:50.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:50.900 Sure.

00:56:51.380 Sure.

00:56:51.500 All right.

00:56:52.260 The, uh, internet addiction is killing the book industry.

00:56:56.320 All right.

00:56:57.380 Because people don't want to take the time to read a 300 page book when they can just

00:57:02.540 text their brains out or Snapchat or whatever they're doing.

00:57:05.640 If you look at the Amazon 100 top 100 books, there are actually 10 books, 10 in the top

00:57:14.000 100 real books.

00:57:15.420 Killing the SS is actually the second, uh, bestselling book next to Michelle Oh in the

00:57:21.380 country right now.

00:57:22.220 It was first last Sunday, but the wonky donkey and dragons love tacos are outselling me on

00:57:31.920 Amazon deck.

00:57:33.000 And it's an outrage.

00:57:34.760 Oh, dragons love tacos.

00:57:36.480 Sounds like dragons love tacos.

00:57:37.980 I love tacos.

00:57:38.940 We have a lot in common.

00:57:39.900 I got a lot of tacos.

00:57:41.200 All right.

00:57:41.620 So the whole, how do you know that you were the one saying, unless you have a confirmation

00:57:46.640 of a lie, don't call it a lie.

00:57:48.360 Don't call it a lie.

00:57:48.860 No dragons don't love tacos.

00:57:50.860 They don't love tacos.

00:57:52.600 How do you know that people they don't need, they don't anyway, killing the SS those are

00:57:58.080 that's a, that's an old charge on dragons.

00:58:00.780 Anybody who likes history will love killing SS for the holiday thing.

00:58:05.040 And then the O'Reilly.com premium membership spec.

00:58:07.840 You have one.

00:58:09.020 Um, everyone should have one.

00:58:10.600 So that's it.

00:58:11.140 Father Christmas is done.

00:58:12.520 Go right ahead.

00:58:14.120 All right.

00:58:14.520 So let's talk about, uh, the G20, uh, meeting.

00:58:18.740 The president said, the president said yesterday, which, uh, you know, I love the way he negotiates.

00:58:26.400 He's got a twitchy eye and everybody's like, I don't know.

00:58:28.920 He just might fricking do it.

00:58:30.820 Um, he said, I don't really even know if I want to make a deal with China because we're

00:58:35.640 getting so much money from him now in this, uh, uh, tariff war.

00:58:39.660 Um, but you know, he does, but, uh, he is threatening all kinds of stuff.

00:58:46.600 What do you think is going to happen, uh, with the G20, any progress on the trade with

00:58:52.640 China?

00:58:52.980 I think there'll be a breakthrough because China, and I have this very good authority

00:58:58.200 is going to slap a tariff on dragons love tacos, not going to be able to ship that book to

00:59:06.320 China.

00:59:06.660 And that's going to be the deal breaker and Trump will give in and then everything will

00:59:10.840 be good.

00:59:11.820 Um, I, I have heard, um, that this deal with China, uh, has already been made and this is

00:59:23.000 usually the way they do it.

00:59:24.300 People should know this.

00:59:25.160 They don't just show up to Buenos Aires.

00:59:28.100 All right.

00:59:28.820 And then they talk in a room and come out with a deal that never happens.

00:59:34.220 It's always by minions, um, or the secretary of state or whatever.

00:59:41.160 And then they have a framework.

00:59:43.420 So they know now whether they're going to have an adjoined announcement on a Saturday or Sunday,

00:59:50.120 which I believe they'll have some kind of breakthrough.

00:59:52.840 I do believe that will happen.

00:59:54.520 So will the trade war, because this is the one, this is the one thing that I know president

00:59:59.620 Trump really believes in.

01:00:01.000 He believes that he believes that trade wars are good.

01:00:05.300 Um, he believes that, uh, tariffs are good.

01:00:08.960 Um, a lot of people in his administration have been hoping that he's just using this as a

01:00:13.620 negotiation tactic so far with Canada and Mexico.

01:00:17.260 No, well, he got his deal with Mexico and then he never changed the tariff.

01:00:21.540 So is he good?

01:00:24.720 Huh?

01:00:25.240 He will.

01:00:26.020 His over door is coming in this weekend and they will do that.

01:00:30.000 But Trump is smart.

01:00:31.460 He's not going to do it until over door gets in the new president of Mexico.

01:00:35.800 And he sees how he's going to handle a caravan.

01:00:38.060 He sees how he's going to do a whole bunch of other things.

01:00:40.100 So it's fair, but it'll, when it comes, when it, when it comes to Mexico, I'm not in any

01:00:45.820 hurry to lift it on Mexico just because of the caravan.

01:00:48.840 I want to see what they're doing.

01:00:50.140 Right.

01:00:50.700 Um, because this guy's a socialist over door and you got to see how crazy he's going to

01:00:54.460 be.

01:00:55.120 Yeah.

01:00:56.200 All right.

01:00:56.600 So, um, you think that he's going, we are going to solve this deal with China.

01:01:02.440 I don't know if you're going to solve it, but Trump is a deal maker.

01:01:05.920 That's his whole life makes deals.

01:01:09.080 All right.

01:01:10.140 And so he wants to put forth to the American people that he's tougher, smarter, and stronger

01:01:17.100 than China.

01:01:18.340 That's what he wants to do.

01:01:20.200 Now, China, they're basically saying, we're not going to take a lot of garbage from Donald

01:01:25.060 Trump.

01:01:26.040 Um, but our economy is listing word of the day, Stu, L I S T I N G listing.

01:01:32.260 All right.

01:01:32.780 And it is.

01:01:33.780 So we're going to have to do something to get investment back into China.

01:01:40.300 That's what China wants.

01:01:42.000 So both sides have big gains to be made if they can, you know, be nice to each other.

01:01:49.300 And that's what I think will happen.

01:01:51.380 Let's talk about, uh, Putin, uh, yesterday president arrived.

01:01:55.720 He was going to meet with Putin.

01:01:56.920 And he said, no, I've got to look at, uh, I, you know, I, I, I'm not happy that they

01:02:01.700 haven't released the, uh, Ukrainian sailors yet.

01:02:04.700 Um, and, uh, you know, so, so what do you think is going to happen with Putin?

01:02:09.860 And you never know what Putin put a different character than, you know, China, China has

01:02:15.580 to, um, deal with the United States.

01:02:18.720 They have to, because the, their economy is so fragile.

01:02:22.260 It's a billion and a half people, many of whom don't have electricity, uh, they don't have

01:02:27.660 a lot of choice.

01:02:28.520 Putin can do whatever he wants.

01:02:30.920 I mean, Putin's like Stalin in the sense that he runs that place.

01:02:34.580 You don't like it.

01:02:35.700 I'll put a bullet in your head.

01:02:37.240 And, and so Putin, you can't predict what he's going to do.

01:02:40.660 I think he's just bored over there.

01:02:43.040 It's 14 below zero every day in Moscow.

01:02:45.680 He goes, ah, let's have a little fun with Ukraine.

01:02:48.680 We'll take one of their boats.

01:02:50.280 You know, that's what he is.

01:02:52.400 He's a provocateur.

01:02:54.140 So Trump can't handle him because Trump's got nothing over him.

01:02:58.260 And, and Trump was smart not to meet with him.

01:03:00.900 And now, you know, if Trump had his way, wouldn't meet with anybody.

01:03:03.240 He wouldn't even go there.

01:03:04.420 He doesn't even know where it is.

01:03:06.240 I mean, come on.

01:03:10.660 Uh, last topic, the border, your thoughts over the week.

01:03:16.020 Well, we've done some excellent reporting on billoreilly.com,

01:03:19.240 tracing the big money, uh, that's come from Washington to Chicago,

01:03:23.620 to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to fund this whole, um, ruse, R-U-S-E.

01:03:31.680 And, you know, we don't ever look those up.

01:03:33.360 This is a very well orchestrated, organized, and funded campaign to break

01:03:38.440 the U.S. asylum system, break it down, break the border, have open borders.

01:03:46.360 And if you go to billoreilly.com, we've listed all the agencies,

01:03:50.360 all the people running the agencies.

01:03:53.280 Gee, George Soros.

01:03:55.160 Oh, wow.

01:03:56.080 In the past, he's got a lot of money to these organizations.

01:03:58.920 So, that's what this is.

01:04:01.860 You don't have 6,000 people in Mexico City get on buses and drive to Tijuana

01:04:07.340 unless you have millions of dollars to charter those buses.

01:04:11.880 So, it's all ruse.

01:04:13.240 But the real thing is, why on earth does the U.S. media ignore the real story here?

01:04:20.300 You know, I mean, what, do you idiots in Black Rock and Manhattan want open borders?

01:04:25.900 Is that what you want in Hollywood?

01:04:28.200 Is that what you really want?

01:04:30.260 Because that's what you're playing into.

01:04:32.780 I mean, these are, I'm now thinking that the people running the media agencies, Beck,

01:04:37.480 you know, with the exceptions of you and me, are just stone-cold stupid people.

01:04:44.660 You know, we know they're corrupt.

01:04:46.560 But now I'm thinking, you guys are just stupid.

01:04:49.660 This is so horrible for the country.

01:04:51.480 The, you know, perspective of open borders and chaos on our border with Mexico.

01:04:56.840 The narcotics that you talked about at the beginning of the hour.

01:04:59.900 Coming across that.

01:05:00.780 Where do you think the fentanyl is coming from?

01:05:03.100 Mexico!

01:05:05.020 So, Bill.

01:05:06.440 You know.

01:05:06.740 So, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:05:07.780 It's annoying me.

01:05:08.380 It's annoying me, Stu.

01:05:10.420 So, I think.

01:05:11.540 Spell it out so we can look it up.

01:05:12.980 Bill, I agree with you that they are, they're just blind, just blind.

01:05:21.380 And it may be blind stupid on several things.

01:05:25.840 But when you, I think that the press has, you know, done what Fonzie did, what, in 1976

01:05:33.260 and jumped the shark, I think that they have, they've now entered a rule, into a room where

01:05:41.220 they are literally asking us to deny what our eyes can see.

01:05:47.460 And, and, and also deny, to look at what was happening.

01:05:53.000 You know what the crusher was?

01:05:54.040 The crusher was for the press that they showed these pictures of the tear gas with the kids

01:06:01.040 and, and the mothers, right?

01:06:02.940 And they went wild, did they not?

01:06:05.500 Yes.

01:06:05.640 And then, all of a sudden, the next day, well, President Obama used tear gas 500 times on

01:06:13.020 the border during his eight years.

01:06:15.420 No, no, no, 1,600.

01:06:17.680 Oh, it's not.

01:06:18.920 Okay.

01:06:19.460 Yeah, it's 1,600.

01:06:20.560 So, did you hear a word of that?

01:06:22.760 No.

01:06:23.180 A word of it in the New York Times, Washington Post, you know, and so you're right.

01:06:29.320 Like, Americans go, you know what, we're not believing anything you say now, because you

01:06:35.580 don't deserve to be believed.

01:06:39.120 And that helps Mercury, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, BillOReilly.com, because people go, you know

01:06:44.380 what, we're going to look for something that we could at least have a semblance of trust

01:06:48.920 in, not you.

01:06:50.860 I know.

01:06:55.320 Bill O'Reilly.

01:06:56.280 That analysis was a little speechless.

01:06:58.060 No, it was, it was beautiful.

01:07:00.620 Yeah, I just couldn't, uh.

01:07:01.840 Brilliant always leads to speechlessness.

01:07:04.220 It's really, it's, it's quite amazing, uh, your performance.

01:07:09.200 Thank you.

01:07:09.220 I want everybody to go see Beck and Stu tonight playing the cello.

01:07:12.500 It's going to be just a blast.

01:07:14.100 I want everybody in Florida.

01:07:14.980 I've written a song about you.

01:07:16.120 Yeah.

01:07:16.460 He's written a song about you.

01:07:17.800 Yes.

01:07:18.500 Yeah.

01:07:18.740 All right.

01:07:19.360 Bill, great to have you.

01:07:20.980 BillOReilly.com and Killing the SS is his latest bestselling book, which is, uh, which

01:07:26.720 is really, truly tremendous.

01:07:27.840 If you're a history lover, uh, or you, you, you really just want to delve in and know the

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01:07:39.720 II with Killing the SS, Bill O'Reilly's book is tremendous.

01:07:43.140 Thanks so much, Bill.

01:07:43.880 Talk to you soon.

01:07:44.300 Okay, guys.

01:07:44.980 See you soon.

01:07:45.540 All right.

01:07:51.980 I don't know why I like him.

01:07:57.120 It's a, it's a very broad statement in question, but an interesting one.

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01:08:30.340 What do you air condition four days out of the year?

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01:09:58.260 I got to tell you, I, I love this priest priest who has been an exorcist for 40 years has, uh,

01:10:13.740 has come out and said that Celine Dion's new gender neutral clothing line is satanic inspired by Satan himself.

01:10:22.700 Uh, he said aside from the clothing being hideously ugly.

01:10:30.320 Oh, how many Hail Marys do I have to have for laughing at this?

01:10:33.680 Um, aside from, uh, the clothing being hideously ugly, occult themes on children is disturbing.

01:10:39.940 Babies who look, uh, sullen, who would pay $77 for a baby blanket with skulls on it?

01:10:46.040 Um, uh, anyway, so it's, um, it's a satanic and I, and I, I say, I say we should have known that with her music, uh, that anything really comes from her has been inspired by the devil.

01:10:59.300 Um, it's a strong stance there.

01:11:02.760 Well, it is Celine Dion and my heart will not go on another second longer.

01:11:08.000 Ugh.

01:11:08.860 Was she still doing that Vegas thing?

01:11:11.240 That's the new, uh, that's the new thing if you were like a big artist and, and now you could just go to Vegas and have a residency and just do those shows every day.

01:11:18.620 That's got to be the best life in the world.

01:11:20.000 Yeah.

01:11:20.220 I'm trying to get that gig, but like the Vegas deli.

01:11:23.960 Yes.

01:11:24.560 Yeah.

01:11:25.080 You know, it's got like 12 seats.

01:11:26.760 Yeah.

01:11:27.400 Three tables.

01:11:28.260 But it's sold out.

01:11:29.140 Sold out.

01:11:29.360 Well, almost.

01:11:30.180 Sometimes.

01:11:30.780 Sometimes.

01:11:31.500 Usually people are eating and not necessarily paying attention to your show, but they're like, shut up.

01:11:35.020 Who is this guy?

01:11:35.660 Can you get him to shut up?

01:11:37.680 Um, but, uh, I don't know if she's still doing it, but boy, I hope she is.

01:11:42.020 Cause I just, you know, that you didn't seem to really express a.

01:11:49.120 Yeah.

01:11:49.280 So we have, uh, ambassador Brown back on, um, coming up in just a second.

01:11:54.680 He was the governor of, of, uh, Kansas and Senator from Kansas as well.

01:11:59.020 Right.

01:11:59.200 Yeah.

01:12:00.280 Um, thank you, Stu.

01:12:01.700 Uh, and now he is the ambassador at large for the international religious freedom.

01:12:06.360 Um, sworn in as ambassador at large.

01:12:09.180 I don't know what that means.

01:12:10.300 Is that a fat joke?

01:12:11.520 I don't think Sam is fat.

01:12:12.820 No, he's not.

01:12:13.560 So I don't know what it means.

01:12:14.800 I just know this, that we wanted to talk to him about religious freedom,

01:12:18.640 but because he's in the role he's in, he can't talk about, uh, a couple of the stories

01:12:24.860 that we were talking about this week.

01:12:27.000 So, uh, I don't want to put him in an awkward position.

01:12:29.940 So if you're listening, you're like, why aren't you talking to him about this issue and that

01:12:33.620 issue?

01:12:34.360 Uh, cause I can't put him in an awkward position cause he's an ambassador at the time, but

01:12:38.440 we do want to talk to him about, uh, religious persecution and religious freedom around the

01:12:44.200 world.

01:12:45.140 Uh, Senator or ambassador Brown coming up next.

01:12:48.560 Back Mercury.

01:12:52.540 Hey, it's Glenn.

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01:13:17.160 Glenn Beck.

01:13:19.320 20th anniversary of the international religious freedom act.

01:13:22.900 20 years.

01:13:23.960 This has been in, and I'm not sure that religious freedom is getting better.

01:13:27.580 Uh, at all.

01:13:28.980 We have the ambassador at large, uh, Sam Brown back.

01:13:32.480 He was a Senator and governor of, uh, Kansas, uh, and now the ambassador at large, which

01:13:38.840 I think means he's either on the lamb or they don't, or they, or they don't give him a cool,

01:13:44.860 you know, residence to live in.

01:13:46.640 I'm not really sure.

01:13:47.840 Uh, let's ask him.

01:13:49.040 That's an important first question.

01:13:50.320 It really is.

01:13:51.060 Ambassador Brown back.

01:13:52.040 How are you, sir?

01:13:53.280 I'm doing well.

01:13:54.340 How are you guys today?

01:13:55.800 Very good.

01:13:57.060 Uh, I'm, I'm sure that at large means that you're not on the lamb, right?

01:14:01.100 Uh, that's correct.

01:14:02.820 It means you cover the whole world.

01:14:04.780 It's what the at large is not a religious freedom for, uh, you know, a particular country,

01:14:10.440 Bulgaria or Iran or something like that's on covers the entire world.

01:14:14.620 So, you know, we work on the issues around the world.

01:14:16.800 I'm stationed out of the state department, but I do do a lot of traveling, uh, the different

01:14:21.180 countries and work around the administration on religious freedom topics that, uh, yeah,

01:14:25.940 you're right.

01:14:26.460 It, the, the situation has gotten worse over the last 20 years.

01:14:30.100 Uh, but this administration is serious about what we can do to, to try to change that trend

01:14:35.860 line, get it going back the right way.

01:14:37.840 Now, I know you're a ambassador.

01:14:39.720 So if, if we ask anything that we shouldn't be asking, I know, I know we want people to

01:14:44.920 be free and I don't care about, you know, I don't care about the interview or anything

01:14:49.340 else.

01:14:49.580 I just want people to be free.

01:14:50.520 So feel free to say, shut up Glenn at any time.

01:14:53.100 Um, but can we, um, can we talk a little bit about, um, the Middle East, uh, and, and

01:15:00.720 start with the Middle East on what's happening, what's happening there.

01:15:06.160 We are, you know, Mercury one has done a remarkable job on bringing thousands of Christians out of

01:15:15.360 the Middle East and the lion's share really now at this point has gone to, um, uh, Australia.

01:15:22.260 And these are good Christians who were marked for death in the Middle East.

01:15:27.360 We've got one, one, not family, one person into America.

01:15:33.360 How come America is not embracing the persecuted Christians, uh, like some, uh, other countries

01:15:42.820 around the world?

01:15:44.840 Well, we historically have, uh, you can, uh, look at a number of people that have fled the

01:15:50.380 Middle East, particularly religious minorities over the last 30 years and a number have come

01:15:55.340 to the United States.

01:15:56.020 And I don't know why the recent, uh, situation has changed where they're not coming into the

01:16:00.900 United States, uh, cause we've, uh, we've always been a haven for religious minorities.

01:16:06.000 One of the new things that we're trying to do more is though, to make the situation safer

01:16:11.240 in the Middle East for religious minorities to stay.

01:16:14.420 Uh, and that's the, well, I know that's what a lot of them, yeah, a lot of them want to.

01:16:19.280 So what are we doing to, to secure that?

01:16:23.560 Northern Iraq is probably the best example where a number of them are moving back.

01:16:27.980 I toured there first of July, uh, we're rebuilding homes, rebuilding, uh, churches, institutions,

01:16:34.840 hospitals.

01:16:35.400 Uh, and the key long-term is to get a better security environment, uh, so that people don't

01:16:41.740 feel threatened, but they're, they are moving back.

01:16:44.920 Uh, and now we're starting to focus on that security agenda, uh, to be able to tell people

01:16:52.060 that, you know, yes, you can leave you, you can seek asylum status in other places, uh,

01:16:57.120 and people grant it, but we really need you to stay.

01:17:00.240 Uh, we, we don't want to see these historic religions, particularly Christianity, but also

01:17:06.320 the Yazidis in that region, just get, continue to get pushed out of the Middle East like they

01:17:11.040 have for the past 30 years.

01:17:12.740 Well, I tell you, they, they, most of them have reluctantly left, um, the ones that we

01:17:19.140 deal with, they don't want to leave because they, they, they all say the same thing.

01:17:23.560 If we leave, we are the original people that you read about in the Bible, the ones that were

01:17:28.820 persecuted, the, you know, the ones that the apostles first went to talk to, that's us.

01:17:33.940 And if we leave it completely, it leaves a vacuum.

01:17:38.440 And so they don't want to leave most of them.

01:17:42.200 I agree.

01:17:43.200 I agree.

01:17:43.740 And that's why I was happy to hear that a number of them are moving back now, uh, into

01:17:49.140 these communities.

01:17:50.120 I, I, we just held, I had some meetings every week at Tuesday from 11 to noon, Washington,

01:17:56.320 DC, usually on the Hill, we do a religious freedom round table with outside groups and

01:18:01.200 a number of outside individuals then that have been persecuted or represent persecuted

01:18:05.520 communities come in and tell their story.

01:18:07.900 Uh, and recently I was at one of those where people say, no, we, our community, Northern

01:18:12.820 Iraq, about 55% have moved back now, uh, to the community.

01:18:17.280 The homes have been rebuilt.

01:18:18.440 The churches have been rebuilt.

01:18:19.660 Uh, and they're, they're happy to be able to move back home, but the security situation

01:18:26.200 is still tenuous at any time.

01:18:28.560 A new ISIS type variety could, could build up.

01:18:31.960 And so, you know, they're, they kind of sleep with a bag packed, uh, ready to flee to Erbil

01:18:38.940 or somewhere else in the region where they can get to near term safety.

01:18:42.540 But that, that's the situation we've got to correct where they don't have to, to sleep

01:18:47.960 with a bag packed, uh, to, to leave at any, at a moment's notice.

01:18:52.360 So, um, you know, the, the Saudi Arabia situation with Khashoggi was, uh, an absolute nightmare.

01:19:01.340 Um, and you know, they're not the, uh, friendliest, uh, place, uh, to visit, especially if you're

01:19:07.280 Christian and open about it.

01:19:08.760 However, I have heard that things are dramatically changing there and, you know, they, the, there

01:19:17.060 are some areas in the Middle East that are even now openly embracing Israel.

01:19:22.920 Are you sensing something happening in the Middle East more than just an opposition to

01:19:29.880 Iran?

01:19:31.260 No, I, I am.

01:19:32.680 I am.

01:19:33.400 I'm headed to the UAE, uh, United Arab Emirates next week, uh, speaking to a major, uh, mostly

01:19:40.740 Muslim leadership, uh, conference, uh, and going to talk about, uh, uh, ending, uh, violence

01:19:49.360 between the Abrahamic faiths, uh, and talk about, uh, that, that what we, uh, need to do is

01:19:56.300 have a respect, uh, for each other, uh, that these are different faiths.

01:20:01.340 They have different beliefs.

01:20:02.360 There's no question about it, but people, we should have a respect, uh, for that, uh,

01:20:07.540 and that there should not be, and that, and that the theologians should say that our religion

01:20:13.220 does not support the use of violence in the promotion, uh, the propagation of the faith,

01:20:19.880 that to, to renounce that use of violence.

01:20:22.560 Now that, uh, that seems, that seems, uh, you know, that, that seems just like something

01:20:29.340 that people are going to say and they don't really mean it because that's the way it has

01:20:33.460 been.

01:20:33.900 But I have again heard, uh, that in Saudi Arabia, they are now arresting and closing down many

01:20:42.300 of the extremist mosques, the Wahhabist, um, clerics that they're 15, 1500 to 3000 that have,

01:20:50.320 have, uh, have lost their mosque, uh, and have been, and, and have been, uh, stopped because

01:20:56.900 of their view.

01:20:57.680 Is that true?

01:20:58.820 Do you know?

01:20:59.800 I, I can't verify that particular, uh, thing, but I can tell you, uh, that things are changing,

01:21:07.580 uh, just that, uh, you are seeing, uh, a, um, leadership at the governmental level, uh, in

01:21:17.080 these countries that, uh, is more open, uh, respectful.

01:21:21.520 And then seeing too, Glenn, that when, when you decide as a nation, we are only going to

01:21:27.660 have one faith and we're only going to have one interpretation of that one faith in our

01:21:32.580 country and all else are not welcome, uh, and they can easily be, um, vandalized, terrorized,

01:21:40.120 killed.

01:21:40.500 You limit the growth of your own country.

01:21:43.840 You, you limit your potential and you actually increase extremism and terrorism.

01:21:50.020 And you almost, uh, authorize mob violence by doing that number of the governments in

01:21:55.980 the region are seeing, this is a bad strategy for us.

01:21:58.600 Long-term we can't grow based on this strategy.

01:22:01.840 We have to be open and, and let the faiths compete, uh, in a, in a, in a environment that

01:22:09.440 protects all faiths, being able to practice as they see fit, as long as they're peaceful.

01:22:15.220 So I'm, I'm, I'm sure you've seen what's been happening on our, our borders.

01:22:19.300 Um, and, uh, it has been a little agonizing, um, to many people to hear the, the refugee,

01:22:30.980 uh, word thrown around so much and, and asylum thrown around for people that, uh, many of

01:22:39.340 them are on record stating, uh, that they are here because they can't find a job or they

01:22:44.160 want to finish their education in America, et cetera, et cetera.

01:22:47.380 There, I'm sure there are qualified people that need asylum, uh, you know, that, that are

01:22:52.120 headed towards our, our border, but it's, it's in the vast minority, I'm guessing.

01:22:58.020 And it seems like we've lost touch with what a refugee really is.

01:23:02.780 When, when the United States opens, uh, its arms to say, we, we will provide shelter for

01:23:11.040 you, uh, it is for something vastly different than what we're seeing on the border.

01:23:17.140 Can you, can you define what a, what persecution looks like?

01:23:21.900 What a refugee or someone who needs asylum looks like in your world of religious freedom?

01:23:30.600 Well, I mean, there's, there are legal definitions and there are courts that make these

01:23:34.320 determinations and we have, uh, hundreds of thousands probably of people in the United

01:23:39.620 States currently seeking asylum status.

01:23:41.840 And I, I pulled that number out of the air, so I'm not certain, but I'm certain it's thousands

01:23:46.060 that are seeking and courts make that determination.

01:23:48.720 But generally the situation that has to prevail is that they were from or in a country where

01:23:55.000 in their set of beliefs, they could not, uh, function.

01:23:58.920 They were subject to terrorism, to arrest, uh, that they were not allowed to go to school,

01:24:06.680 uh, or to practice their, uh, freedom, uh, freely so that they had this level of systematic

01:24:13.180 persecution that was taking place at the hands of the government, uh, or that they had no

01:24:19.300 protection, uh, provided by the government.

01:24:21.600 And this was allowed to take place against them.

01:24:24.120 Those are the sort of factual situations that you're looking for on an asylum status, which

01:24:31.000 is, which can often be pretty hard to, to, uh, actually achieve to meet the factual setting

01:24:37.520 that we require to grant somebody a legal asylum status.

01:24:42.920 Is the, the increase of religious persecution, is it a factor of the governments of the world

01:24:50.460 getting worse, or is it a factor that the churches have pretty much fallen asleep at the switch?

01:24:58.940 Uh, you know, I ask this question of experts all the time, uh, because it seemed like to

01:25:05.860 me that we had a burst of religious freedom after the fall of communism.

01:25:10.320 Yes.

01:25:10.780 That those nations opened up, there was a, just, there was a freedom that happened that

01:25:14.980 they hadn't breathed for a long period of time.

01:25:17.160 It was more exclusive to there, but there was a nice push of it around the world.

01:25:21.000 And then the things have been constricting, uh, since that period of time.

01:25:24.460 And I was talking with an expert about that earlier this week, and he said, you know, it's

01:25:28.040 a series of factors.

01:25:29.360 It's government seeing religion and its importance, uh, and its impact, and then dabbling in it,

01:25:37.040 in some cases funding it.

01:25:38.640 But if you fund something by government, government's tentacles go into you and they tend towards

01:25:44.140 control, uh, of a means.

01:25:46.460 In other cases, it's a political move by government where a majority faith oriented people, uh, don't

01:25:53.340 like a new minority faith that's coming in and they want them kicked out, uh, limited,

01:26:00.140 and they'll pursue laws that, uh, that do that.

01:26:03.440 There's any number of factors, but it is probably really reflective as much as anything of the

01:26:09.060 growing importance of religion at a time when much of the world thought religion would be

01:26:13.740 in decline.

01:26:15.160 Uh, the, the impact and the importance of religion is growing around the world and governments are

01:26:21.580 active, uh, around that space, more active.

01:26:26.860 So let me ask you this, and it kind of goes to what you just said.

01:26:30.760 Um, as I travel the world and I am with persecuted people, uh, and persecuted for the religion,

01:26:40.140 I am struck by how shallow my faith really is.

01:26:48.280 Um, it is, it is, it is remarkable for the country that is known to be one of the most

01:26:56.740 religious, at least in Christianity, how shallow our faith is overall compared to those countries

01:27:04.360 where Christianity is being persecuted.

01:27:07.200 Those people, their faith is remarkably different.

01:27:12.120 Do you agree?

01:27:13.100 Oh, absolutely.

01:27:15.120 I, I, I'm around people weekly, uh, whose faith astounds me, whose beautiful faith.

01:27:23.880 And there's a, there's a calm peace, uh, and joy, uh, about them that you're looking this,

01:27:30.900 you, you can't make that up.

01:27:33.240 Uh, uh, I, I was, um, on the phone with Andrew Brunson, uh, and we worked his case.

01:27:40.220 The president got him out, uh, the president leaned in and got that done.

01:27:45.060 But that man, uh, Andrew Brunson has a remarkable calm and peaceful faith.

01:27:51.760 And he spent two years in a Turkish prison and had great difficulty and lots of spiritual

01:27:56.880 failures, but towards the end, getting successes.

01:27:59.960 And you're just going, yeah, yeah.

01:28:02.640 I, I, you just see the purified faith there.

01:28:05.020 And that's what I get to see regularly.

01:28:06.920 And, and people speaking clearly about miracles and signs and things that they've seen personally

01:28:14.720 that have caused them to, to make this bold proclamation of their faith.

01:28:20.460 It's, it's a gorgeous thing.

01:28:23.440 Ambassador, uh, Sam Brownback, um, you were a, uh, great governor and a great senator.

01:28:28.900 And, uh, and thank you for all of your hard work through the years and thank you so much

01:28:33.180 for your, your work as the ambassador of, uh, religious, international religious freedom.

01:28:38.940 Thank you, Sam.

01:28:39.740 Appreciate it.

01:28:40.680 My honor.

01:28:41.520 Take care.

01:28:41.980 Thanks, Glenn.

01:28:42.720 God bless you all.

01:28:44.000 God bless.

01:28:46.360 All right.

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01:30:40.340 Uh, if you have anybody wants to blame, uh, anybody for my career, uh, it would be WFLA.

01:30:46.160 And, um, and the, uh, program director here at the time was Sue Tricus, who is going to

01:30:52.020 see here.

01:30:52.440 She's still here at WFLA.

01:30:54.160 And I love this place.

01:30:55.260 I do too.

01:30:55.800 Just walking down the halls.

01:30:56.760 It brings back so many memories.

01:30:58.420 So many memories.

01:30:59.040 It's crazy.

01:30:59.900 This is the place it started.

01:31:01.100 I mean, you know, this is the mothership of the whole network.

01:31:03.340 And, uh, I would just walk by, I just walked by the studio where you and I had a conversation

01:31:08.260 and I said, uh, I'm telling you it's going to happen.

01:31:13.380 And you were like, Glenn, you've been saying that forever from the first day show that we

01:31:19.300 were going to replace Dr.

01:31:20.340 Laura.

01:31:20.600 And like three weeks, remember this, like three or four weeks later, we get a call

01:31:25.540 from premier and they're like, we want you for that nine to noon live thing.

01:31:30.520 Uh, I I'm a, just as much a fan of these stories as well.

01:31:33.460 Cause it's like, I'm seeing a new movie.

01:31:35.360 Uh, you know, it's like you were in theaters and here's a whole new brand new story that

01:31:38.400 you've never heard before.

01:31:39.260 Just like the audience is here.

01:31:40.620 Oh, you like to, you like to forget them.

01:31:42.680 You like to forget that one.

01:31:44.120 Oh, you do.

01:31:44.920 You like to forget that one.

01:31:45.460 I mean, I don't know what you're talking about as usual, but I do, I do remember, I mean,

01:31:50.540 it was a, this was a great time.

01:31:51.960 It was a lot of fun.

01:31:52.460 It was a great time.

01:31:52.880 You know, it was really exciting and the people here are awesome.

01:31:55.300 I just, I mean, every time we come back here, I love it.

01:31:57.160 I love this town.

01:31:57.860 I really do.

01:31:58.600 Tampa's just great.

01:31:59.540 It's a great place.

01:32:00.320 Um, and, uh, you're very excited about the barbecue, which is weird coming from Texas.

01:32:04.900 You're going from Texas to Tampa for barbecue.

01:32:06.840 I'm sorry, but I think the best barbecue ever is, uh, here at Kojax.

01:32:10.880 They're going to wall you out of the state of Texas.

01:32:13.560 They get so pick every barbecue in every part is different though.

01:32:18.660 Yeah.

01:32:18.960 It's just different.

01:32:20.180 They're different styles.

01:32:21.260 Yeah.

01:32:21.400 I mean, you know, Texas is one, there's Memphis, there's Kansas city is another big one,

01:32:24.660 right?

01:32:24.860 There's a bunch of people who, but they're all just Kojax.

01:32:28.000 Carolina has, has a big one too, right?

01:32:29.680 Bar for barbecue.

01:32:31.140 Yeah.

01:32:31.280 I don't know.

01:32:31.680 I, I only, I only like Kojax.

01:32:33.420 Everything else is.

01:32:34.440 Yeah.

01:32:35.520 So, so your first defense of it's just different was a lie basically is what you're saying.

01:32:39.480 For me.

01:32:40.100 For you.

01:32:40.620 Yeah.

01:32:40.800 For me.

01:32:41.400 No.

01:32:41.720 And when it comes to Texas, Texans are just like, no, it's Texas barbecue.

01:32:46.700 Well, there's a difference between Texas barbecue and Kansas city barbecue.

01:32:50.580 It is, it's just a different flavor and everything else.

01:32:53.580 When it comes to Kojax barbecue over any other barbecue, this is just the best.

01:33:00.460 Period.

01:33:01.760 You're that Texas.

01:33:02.500 Keep them out of the state.

01:33:03.760 We'd all be better off.

01:33:05.260 Come see the show.

01:33:06.560 You can buy your tickets.

01:33:07.320 I still may be at Kojax eating, but grab your tickets now for Tampa tonight, Orlando tomorrow,

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01:33:14.980 Yesterday on television, I got a call from a woman who said, Glenn, I need your advice.

01:33:23.600 I, I have a friend who's been a friend of mine since grade school.

01:33:27.300 We grew up together and we have been such close friends our whole lives.

01:33:33.900 And she said, I think the turning point was on my Instagram page.

01:33:38.960 I, I posted a picture of the new Jerusalem embassy.

01:33:45.400 And that on the day that it was open.

01:33:48.660 And I, yeah, I don't remember what she said, but basically, you know, I put emoji clapping

01:33:52.680 hand emojis.

01:33:54.600 And she said, I think my friend just went crazy at that for some reason.

01:34:00.480 She said, I don't know what else it could have been.

01:34:02.960 She said, but I just got a letter from her saying, I can't be your friend anymore.

01:34:06.420 I can't talk to you anymore.

01:34:07.420 And she said, I don't know what to do.

01:34:10.180 I want to, I want to write to her and tell her that she's wrong.

01:34:13.400 And so what I suggested to her was suggest, remind her of your friendship, remind her of

01:34:21.740 all of the good times that you've had, remind her, don't accuse her of anything.

01:34:25.560 Don't say anything that you're going to regret.

01:34:28.300 Don't try to win.

01:34:29.200 Just say, you are such a good friend and friends should be able to disagree with one another.

01:34:37.720 And I don't know what I've done.

01:34:38.920 And if I've done something, I please forgive me.

01:34:42.140 But I just want to tell you that I will always feel this way about you because we've, we're

01:34:47.840 more than just friends.

01:34:48.780 We've been together since we were in fifth grade or fourth grade, whatever it was.

01:34:54.480 Forgiveness is something that we all need to work on.

01:34:57.320 And I want to play a piece of audio from StoryCorps.

01:35:00.860 StoryCorps has, has really done some amazing things.

01:35:06.300 We're telling the story of, of America, but they're now looking to try to get people across

01:35:13.360 these political divides and come back together and just get to know each other again.

01:35:20.020 Forget about politics.

01:35:21.520 And there's been a couple of real healing things that I've heard.

01:35:25.500 One was a woman who was, um, uh, marching with, um, it wasn't Antifa, but it was a, it

01:35:33.720 was a, you know, a, a, a, a lefty kind of thing.

01:35:37.980 Uh, and there was another guy who was wearing a Trump hat and he was protesting the protesters,

01:35:44.840 you know, typical scene.

01:35:45.700 Well, the protesters start surrounding this guy with a hat and they tear his hat off.

01:35:51.000 Well, she's a Muslim and she was wearing a hijab and she all of a sudden felt like they're

01:35:57.860 attacking, like they attack me, like people attack me.

01:36:01.860 And she said, back off.

01:36:03.780 And they had this amazing breakthrough between two people who were on the other side of the

01:36:08.880 protest.

01:36:09.360 And StoryCorps got them together to tell their story.

01:36:13.140 And it's really remarkable.

01:36:14.100 I want to play another one for you.

01:36:15.540 This one is, uh, this one is, uh, Mary Johnson.

01:36:19.500 Her son was killed by O'Shea Israel.

01:36:23.160 They were in a fight.

01:36:23.980 They were teenagers in a fight.

01:36:26.180 Uh, and her son is killed by this guy.

01:36:29.140 She is, she's got so much anger and hatred in her heart.

01:36:32.960 She can't even speak of, of it for about 12 years until she goes to the prison and she

01:36:39.840 shows up at Stillwater prison and she sits down and wants to talk to him.

01:36:45.460 Listen to what happened.

01:36:48.260 Here is, uh, O'Shea Israel, the guy who killed her son and Mary Johnson.

01:36:54.440 You and I met at Stillwater prison.

01:36:58.320 And I wanted to know if you were in the same mindset of what I remember from court, where

01:37:04.740 I wanted to go over and hurt you, but you were not that 16 year old.

01:37:10.840 You were a grown man.

01:37:13.120 I shared with you about my son.

01:37:15.620 And he became human to me.

01:37:17.680 You know, when I met you, it was like, okay, this guy is real.

01:37:21.340 And then when it was time to go, you broke down and started shedding tears.

01:37:27.380 And the initial thing to do was just try to hold you up as best I can.

01:37:31.900 Just hug you like I would my own mother, you know.

01:37:35.900 After you left the room, I began to say, I just hugged the man that murdered my son.

01:37:42.200 And I instantly knew that all that anger and the animosity, all the stuff I had in my heart

01:37:48.660 for 12 years for you, I knew it was over, that I had totally forgiven you.

01:37:56.660 As far as receiving forgiveness from you, sometimes I still don't know how to take it

01:38:02.940 because I haven't totally forgiven myself yet.

01:38:07.320 It's something that I'm learning from you.

01:38:09.060 I won't say that I have learned yet because it's still a process that I'm going through.

01:38:13.120 I treat you as I would treat my son.

01:38:16.060 And our relationship is beyond belief.

01:38:20.180 We live next door to one another.

01:38:22.360 Yeah.

01:38:22.820 So you can see what I'm doing.

01:38:25.420 You know, firsthand.

01:38:26.920 We actually bump into each other all the time, leaving in and out of the house.

01:38:30.560 And our conversations, they come from, boy, how come you ain't called over here to check

01:38:34.840 on me in a couple of days?

01:38:36.560 You ain't even asked me if I need my garbage to go out.

01:38:40.180 I find those things funny because it's a relationship with a mother for real.

01:38:44.480 Well, my natural son is no longer here.

01:38:48.220 I didn't see him graduate.

01:38:50.720 You know, you're going to college.

01:38:52.140 I'll have the opportunity to see you graduate.

01:38:55.180 I didn't see him get married.

01:38:57.600 Hopefully one day I'll be able to experience that with you.

01:39:01.220 So just to hear you say those things and to be in my life in the manner in which you are

01:39:06.340 is my motivation.

01:39:07.980 It motivates me to make sure that I stay on the right path.

01:39:12.960 You still believe in me.

01:39:14.900 And the fact that you can do it despite how much pain I cause you, it's amazing.

01:39:19.400 I know it's not an easy thing, you know, to be able to share our story together, even

01:39:26.500 with us sitting here looking at each other right now.

01:39:28.880 I know it's not an easy thing.

01:39:30.760 So I admire that you can do this.

01:39:35.340 I love you, lady.

01:39:37.480 I love you too, son.

01:39:41.180 Think of that.

01:39:43.540 Think of that.

01:39:44.640 Dave Isay is the founder and president of StoryCorps, and he's working on a new project

01:39:51.200 called One Small Step, and we welcome you to the program and your friendship, Dave.

01:39:57.440 Welcome.

01:39:58.460 It's great to be back, Glenn.

01:39:59.500 Thank you.

01:40:01.060 So, first of all, that is one of the, I mean, you've got the greatest job in the world.

01:40:05.560 You really do.

01:40:08.820 That is just remarkable.

01:40:10.880 If you're sitting there and you're thinking, I just can't get over my hatred of it, are

01:40:16.600 you kidding me?

01:40:17.700 If you can't solve a problem, and these two, she just called him my son, I love you, my

01:40:24.460 son?

01:40:25.980 Wow.

01:40:27.320 What can't we get over?

01:40:30.640 So, Dave, one small step.

01:40:34.720 Tell me what the idea is and how people can get involved.

01:40:39.540 Sure.

01:40:41.480 And I really appreciate you having me back on.

01:40:44.780 And I agree with you.

01:40:45.740 You know, it's funny about O'Shea Israel and Mary Johnson, who I actually had, they recorded

01:40:51.900 this a couple of years ago at StoryCorps.

01:40:53.920 I just had the privilege of meeting them for the first time a couple of months ago, last

01:40:59.020 month, actually.

01:41:00.260 And I think, you know, a lot of people, when they hear StoryCorps stories, talk about,

01:41:05.580 you know, crying when they hear them.

01:41:08.080 And most stories, core stories, aren't sad.

01:41:10.980 I think what makes people cry is just as you said about Mary and O'Shea is that, yeah,

01:41:16.480 we're showing, first of all, it's authentic.

01:41:18.700 It's the opposite of reality TV.

01:41:20.600 You know, people aren't coming on to get famous or rich.

01:41:22.820 It's just this act of love.

01:41:24.540 And also, we're showing kind of a path that we can all take.

01:41:28.840 And when you hear humanity at its best, you're kind of walking on holy ground.

01:41:32.960 And there's something, you know, sacred about that.

01:41:35.360 And I think that's what even the funny stories, people just start crying when they hear them.

01:41:39.600 We've had half a million Americans participate in StoryCorps.

01:41:44.600 And it is an experience where two people come together with the help of a facilitator, or you can use our app.

01:41:51.540 We have an app and have a 40-minute conversation to talk about what's really important.

01:41:56.100 People think of it as if I had 40 minutes left to live, what would I say to this person who's so important to me?

01:42:01.760 And then at the end of the interview, you get a copy and another goes to the Library of Congress so your great, great, great grandkids can get to hear who your grandmother is or who your friend is through her voice.

01:42:12.780 And you know better than anybody the power of voice.

01:42:15.980 It's like the soul is contained in the voice, right?

01:42:19.100 So it really is, I think, in many ways, kind of the best expression of who we are as human beings, having these conversations as best as possible in 40 minutes.

01:42:27.520 We did start, and this is how I met you a few months ago, something completely different for us called One Small Step.

01:42:35.900 And we just launched it about a month ago.

01:42:38.480 And basically what we're doing is everybody who's participated in StoryCorps so far has known and loved each other.

01:42:44.720 And what we're doing now is putting people across the political divides, people who think they hate each other, think that they feel contempt for this other human being or want them dead or whatever it is that's happened to this country.

01:43:02.200 You know, I last talked to you a couple weeks ago, and it seems like the sky's just darkened by the week.

01:43:07.420 You know, it's worse now than it was then.

01:43:09.080 But we opened the show up and said, oh, jeez, it's been a rough week.

01:43:13.640 And we were talking about, we say that every week, and it gets worse every week.

01:43:18.640 So, you know, but there are some good things that are happening.

01:43:22.340 No, there are a lot of good things that are happening.

01:43:24.240 Yeah.

01:43:24.440 And, you know, the facilitators who travel the country in these interviews, when they come back, and we've had hundreds of them, and, you know, they record every kind of person.

01:43:37.560 The first thing they'll say when you ask them, like, what did you learn from this experience?

01:43:41.320 You're out on the road for a year or two years.

01:43:43.120 It's some variation of the Anne Frank quote that people are basically good.

01:43:47.020 You know, and that's everywhere.

01:43:48.660 You know, but our, you know, I was listening to something this morning about talking about how, you know, the brain, like we, the brain pathways, it's like we're building the muscle of fear because we hear fear, fear, fear all the time.

01:44:02.540 And you've got to build the muscle of the truth is that the basic goodness of people, and we've got to feel hope, you know.

01:44:09.160 I was just talking to a guy.

01:44:11.320 He was a very, very important and influential CIA station chief operator kind of guy.

01:44:18.920 And we were talking about how much is going on in the world.

01:44:25.160 And when we got to solutions, we both said, it's the human heart.

01:44:32.680 You're not going to be able to fix anything unless we soften the human heart.

01:44:38.140 And, I mean, I thought for a warrior to get that was pretty remarkable.

01:44:45.240 Yeah.

01:44:45.780 Well, you know, it's the people who have been through the hardest things that have the wisdom of humanity, right?

01:44:51.880 That's why at StoryCorps, there are a lot of times we work with people who are, you know, close to death or who have been through very difficult things because they're the ones, you know, forget the celebrities and everybody else.

01:45:03.000 You know, it's the people who have been through tough things that are the holders of wisdom.

01:45:08.460 And I think it's, you know, and one of the, you know, theories of StoryCorps, and I don't even think it's a theory anymore, is just the idea that how difficult it is to hate someone when up close, you know.

01:45:19.420 And we talked about this last time, but, you know, we've just, we've forgotten as a country that, you know, that we belong to each other.

01:45:26.400 And we've got to remember that.

01:45:28.040 So, Dave, you're setting out and you're looking for people, in particular, people from, you know, the conservative, you know, Trump world, et cetera, et cetera, because, you know, StoryCorps has heard a lot on NPR.

01:45:46.840 And so, you know, everybody on the left knows what StoryCorps is.

01:45:51.480 Very few on the right really kind of know what StoryCorps is.

01:45:53.940 I do.

01:45:54.400 I love it.

01:45:55.100 And you're looking for people that want to come together and figure out a way to each other without talking politics.

01:46:07.460 So tell me what the experience would be like for people.

01:46:11.160 Sure.

01:46:11.300 And you summarized it perfectly.

01:46:13.720 It's not about finding common ground on a political issue.

01:46:17.480 It's not about finding some middle resolution on abortion or whatever it is.

01:46:22.960 It's just remembering that a person who you disagree with is a living, breathing human being.

01:46:29.220 And what happens is every StoryCorps interview is a 40-minute experience.

01:46:33.260 You sit in a booth or you can use our app.

01:46:36.800 And we suggest questions for you to ask.

01:46:39.920 We have for One Small Step, which is this Across the Divides initiative, we have special One Small Step questions.

01:46:45.220 And those questions are just talking about your life, you know, and you can pick whatever you want to talk about.

01:46:51.440 A question like, who's been kindest to you in your life or who are your parents, you know?

01:46:56.600 And then it gets into kind of politics but not in a straight-on way.

01:46:59.820 Questions like, was there a moment in your life?

01:47:01.960 And at some point, I'd love to, you know, talk to you about this.

01:47:04.560 Like, what was a moment in your life that formed your political views?

01:47:07.020 So I tell you what, Dave, next time you're on, bring another story.

01:47:10.360 Next time you're on, let's go through that together a little bit.

01:47:12.580 Yeah, I'd love that.

01:47:13.840 And if you want to get involved, you can just go to StoryCorps.org.

01:47:18.820 StoryCorps.org.

01:47:20.680 And please, I urge you, everything's going to be recorded in the National Archives.

01:47:25.160 It's important that the good voices of real people are recorded for history purposes.

01:47:33.320 Thank you so much.

01:47:34.340 We'll talk again.

01:47:35.340 Have a great weekend, Glenn.

01:47:36.420 Thank you.

01:47:37.020 You bet.

01:47:37.520 Thank you.

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01:48:15.320 So it's when you're gone.

01:48:16.700 Now, opposite is happening, obviously, at your store.

01:48:20.380 So if you're a small business owner, get SimpliSafe.

01:48:23.360 You turn it on during the day at home and turn it on at night when you leave.

01:48:27.720 That's the way SimpliSafe works, the way you want it to, under your conditions, under your rules.

01:48:37.300 There's no strings.

01:48:38.500 There's no contracts.

01:48:39.760 You own the system.

01:48:41.020 If you want the monitoring, it's $14.99 a month.

01:48:44.880 That's a steep.

01:48:45.700 Well, I hate to use that word.

01:48:46.720 SimpliSafe.

01:48:47.280 That's a really good deal at SimpliSafe.

01:48:50.580 SimpliSafe.com slash Beck.

01:48:53.340 Right now, they're giving you great discounts on their products.

01:48:59.780 SimpliSafeBeck.com.

01:49:01.020 That's SimpliSafeBeck.com.

01:49:08.120 Welcome to the program.

01:49:09.400 It is Friday.

01:49:10.740 We have a very exciting program for you on Monday.

01:49:13.660 You do not want to miss.

01:49:15.360 If you're going to only listen to one show a year, well, you've already listened to this one.

01:49:20.160 But if you're going to listen to two, listen Monday.

01:49:24.760 You don't want to miss Monday's broadcast.

01:49:27.800 And if you're anywhere in the Florida area, tonight we're live in Tampa.

01:49:32.260 You can get your tickets to the show at GlennBeck.com slash tour.

01:49:36.140 Tomorrow, we're in Orlando.

01:49:38.480 GlennBeck.com slash tour.

01:49:41.020 Make sure you come and see us.

01:49:42.020 It's an awful lot of fun, and we'll see you back in Dallas on Monday.

01:49:46.780 Don't miss it.

01:49:50.160 Thanks to WFLA as well, still kind of our home station in Florida, 970 WFLA.

01:49:57.680 Thank you so much for your hospitality.

01:49:59.420 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 30, 2018

The Media's Frankenstein？｜ Guests： Bill O’Reilly, Amb. Samuel D. Brownback & Dave Isay ｜ 11⧸30⧸18

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