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00:01:04.400 Well, hello, America, and welcome to the program.

00:01:08.480 Glad you're here.

00:01:09.580 A little on Justin Amash and those Republicans that are standing against this new Republican budget,

00:01:17.340 saying it's the worst that they have ever seen.

00:01:20.700 We'll get into that a little bit.

00:01:22.480 Also, inauguration this week.

00:01:24.820 We have John Lewis, who is not going, along with 40 other Democrats that have decided to not attend the inauguration.

00:01:35.900 I can't start the next four years.

00:01:39.320 I'm not going to say this every day.

00:01:40.840 But can you imagine, had the roles been reversed?

00:01:47.480 We, there are many of us in America who were gravely offended by the current president when he said,

00:01:55.780 it's people like that that have an antithope towards people who are of different color.

00:02:01.820 He said, we get scared.

00:02:04.060 We cling to our God and our guns.

00:02:06.040 He was talking about socialist policies.

00:02:08.620 He was for single-payer universal health care.

00:02:13.260 Things that were, we were deeply, deeply disturbed about.

00:02:18.020 A reversal of the Constitution, in his own words, reversing it from a charter of negative liberties to a charter of positive liberties.

00:02:27.180 That scared the hell out of us.

00:02:30.260 Can you imagine if anybody would have gone and said, I'm not attending his inauguration?

00:02:36.860 There is something to be said about each of our roles of coming together.

00:02:45.000 Each of our roles in saying, let's give the man a shot.

00:02:51.760 We did.

00:02:53.380 It didn't last long.

00:02:54.780 And yours might not last long.

00:02:56.500 But starting out this way, with 40 people walking, disrespecting the office of the President of the United States, is disappointing.

00:03:08.040 Somebody said to me on Twitter this weekend, Glenn, you know, trying to bring everybody together isn't going to work.

00:03:16.440 They don't want to compromise.

00:03:17.620 First of all, I'm not talking about compromise.

00:03:20.320 Never compromise your principles.

00:03:23.460 I'm not talking about compromise on the principle level.

00:03:26.920 I am talking about, is there a way to find ideas and ideals and principles that we can all join around?

00:03:37.660 Respect for the office of the President of the United States is one of those ideals.

00:03:42.860 Whether we can get there, I don't know.

00:03:47.380 They'll never compromise.

00:03:49.000 Great.

00:03:50.920 We know what we're doing isn't working.

00:03:53.460 So what do you suggest?

00:03:55.600 We begin there right now.

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00:04:27.240 I'm going to start with the press.

00:04:29.780 Because the press has a decision to make.

00:04:35.080 And I fear they're making the wrong one.

00:04:38.240 Let me start here.

00:04:41.680 Press think.

00:04:42.380 Winter is coming.

00:04:43.360 Prospects for the American press under Donald Trump.

00:04:45.800 Now listen to this first paragraph.

00:04:47.860 How bad is it?

00:04:49.260 Pretty bad.

00:04:50.060 For a free press as a check on power, this is the darkest time in American history since World War I.

00:04:57.240 When there was massive censorship and suppression of dissent.

00:05:01.660 I say this because so many things are happening at once to disarm and disable serious journalism or to push it out of the frame.

00:05:09.320 He's not even president yet.

00:05:11.960 He's not even president yet.

00:05:14.780 Now, should you be concerned?

00:05:17.300 Should every American be concerned about the First Amendment?

00:05:20.140 Yes.

00:05:20.620 But you should be consistently concerned about the First Amendment.

00:05:26.740 This is the darkest time?

00:05:28.720 He's not even president.

00:05:30.660 The actual darkest time in any presidential term since Woodrow Wilson is this president.

00:05:39.700 I can't believe you just said that story and waited a good 30 seconds to mention Woodrow Wilson's name.

00:05:45.080 Well, no, it was in the first.

00:05:46.060 It was said since World War I.

00:05:47.580 I was like, I got to give it.

00:05:49.380 I mean, too easy.

00:05:50.720 Too easy.

00:05:51.560 Since World War I, that was Woodrow Wilson.

00:05:54.940 This president, Barack Obama, has done more against the press than any other president beside Woodrow Wilson.

00:06:05.000 This is a trend.

00:06:06.740 This is not something new.

00:06:07.860 This is a trend, and we begged you over and over again.

00:06:12.280 Is there no one in the press that actually cares about the First Amendment?

00:06:15.420 Is there no one that sees the handwriting on the wall?

00:06:18.100 No.

00:06:18.980 Why?

00:06:19.900 Because it was your guy.

00:06:22.460 So you thought your guy would only silence the people you thought were crackpots.

00:06:28.720 And at the same time, we warned.

00:06:31.100 We said, at some point, there's going to be a guy in that you don't like.

00:06:36.480 You can't give the president this much power.

00:06:40.900 Remember, when will the press wake up to the fact that because it was their guy, they were fine with it?

00:06:48.580 Just like because it was our guy, so many of us were fine with the Patriot Act.

00:06:56.800 No, the Patriot Act is bad.

00:07:00.040 You can't give a government that much power.

00:07:03.480 Look what's happening this weekend.

00:07:06.180 What did Barack Obama sign in in his executive order?

00:07:09.580 Yeah, he locked in the executive order.

00:07:12.980 And it'll never go away.

00:07:14.200 Triple three, I believe it is.

00:07:16.540 Yeah.

00:07:17.380 Only days until Trump takes office.

00:07:19.520 The Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant.

00:07:25.200 But new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad Reagan-era executive order that gives NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad.

00:07:36.860 Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.

00:07:43.580 They no longer have to do that.

00:07:45.300 So the names and irrelevant data are all included with the supposedly relevant data.

00:07:50.000 And if you think Donald Trump is going to repeal that executive order, he's not going to.

00:07:54.400 He's not going to.

00:07:55.620 He could.

00:07:56.640 He could, but he's not going to.

00:07:58.480 He's not going to.

00:07:59.680 No, no.

00:08:00.820 It will take an extraordinary George Washington kind of president to reverse the information that is coming to the president and to the government.

00:08:10.700 They will all say the same thing.

00:08:13.480 They will all say, well, everybody else is doing it.

00:08:16.040 Every other country has this information.

00:08:18.380 We can't be the only one without it.

00:08:20.000 I asked the, remember when we had the NSA whistleblowers on everything that was going on at the, with the press at that time, we brought the NSA whistleblowers in.

00:08:33.800 Nobody was listening to them.

00:08:35.040 And I said, so how do we reverse this?

00:08:37.440 You don't.

00:08:38.780 Well, no, that's not very optimistic.

00:08:40.680 How do we, how do we, you don't.

00:08:43.540 Well, what do you mean we don't?

00:08:45.020 You don't because no president will have the balls to do it because once they're in power, they'll say, I need this information.

00:08:53.740 What's amazing is that this happened at the highest levels.

00:08:57.900 This goes to what George Bush told me at the highest levels, they all play exactly the same game.

00:09:04.220 This isn't giving him more power.

00:09:06.900 This is giving Donald Trump more power.

00:09:09.280 So at the highest levels, as George W. Bush told me during the campaign with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John McCain, don't worry.

00:09:25.340 It doesn't matter who gets in, whoever sits at this desk will get the same advice that I have gotten and realize that their hands are pretty much tied.

00:09:37.600 Whoa.

00:09:38.900 Who's controlling the overall picture?

00:09:41.240 Who are, who are the advisors that keep giving the same advice?

00:09:45.300 That's not good.

00:09:46.780 And to Obama's credit too, it's, it's a, it's a principle here, right?

00:09:50.080 Like Barack Obama realizes that his principle is to grow government, even if the Trump administration might use it in a way he doesn't like it.

00:09:57.300 He's willing to lock in the increase in executive power so that the next president, so that Michelle Obama can use it in four or eight years.

00:10:06.880 And, you know, they remain dedicated to those principles in these moments where Republicans do the exact opposite.

00:10:15.480 They, they, they, they're all principled until they get power, then they forget about all those things.

00:10:21.240 You know, I mean, look at, look at, I mean, Obamacare is a good example of that.

00:10:24.440 They pushed through a million things that a Republican would not push through to get that thing passed, including getting no bipartisan support and having to, you know, do all these tricks and, and, and, and poll vaulting as they talked about it to get it done.

00:10:37.580 But they got it done knowing that in the end it wouldn't expand government.

00:10:42.080 And you might say, well, why no, they're going to repeal it.

00:10:44.200 But even the things they're talking about repealing it with are, are keeping large parts of Obamacare.

00:10:50.560 You never get rid of it.

00:10:51.800 You never get rid of it.

00:10:52.780 And that's what we said in the beginning was once this is ingrained, it's going to be almost impossible to get rid of it.

00:10:58.820 Social security and Medicare, Medicaid, you don't get rid of them.

00:11:02.040 No.

00:11:02.580 Government programs do not go away.

00:11:04.840 People are too dependent on it now.

00:11:06.080 Yeah.

00:11:06.280 Uh, and you can kind of see why, when you, when you see how many things we have that we just kind of take for granted hospice, for instance, they just come and they take care of things.

00:11:20.480 They, they, who pays for that?

00:11:22.440 I keep asking who, why don't we pay for any of this?

00:11:24.760 Who pays for this?

00:11:25.900 Uh, it's all, it's all, it's all free.

00:11:27.540 No, it's, it's not all free.

00:11:29.660 Somebody's paying for this.

00:11:31.080 How is this coming to our house every day?

00:11:33.240 I had no idea that you didn't have to pay for hospice.

00:11:35.580 Don't have to pay for it.

00:11:36.700 They, they, they come and they bring whatever your relative, your, your dying loved one needs.

00:11:42.060 I mean, you know, serious drugs, all the like beds.

00:11:47.600 Uh, they brought us a hospital bed.

00:11:49.580 I'm like a hospital bed.

00:11:51.200 That's gotta, how much are we paying for that?

00:11:54.100 Uh, nothing.

00:11:54.800 It's free.

00:11:55.740 Is it through Medicare?

00:11:56.400 I'm sorry, but people, I guess it's through my, my mother-in-law's Medicare, but people

00:12:01.740 like you should pay for it.

00:12:04.320 Yes, we should.

00:12:05.960 Yeah.

00:12:06.480 Yes, we should.

00:12:08.020 We should be paying for it.

00:12:09.040 Unless it's in your insurance.

00:12:11.000 Right.

00:12:11.260 Or her insurance.

00:12:11.720 Or hers.

00:12:12.500 And I think her, it is through her insurance, but it's, it's Medicare.

00:12:16.000 It's a, it's a government.

00:12:17.060 It's a government.

00:12:17.560 It's a government.

00:12:17.980 Yeah.

00:12:18.260 Right.

00:12:18.620 Yeah.

00:12:18.840 Program.

00:12:19.180 So one that actually makes business sense.

00:12:21.500 Yeah.

00:12:21.980 One that I'm not paying for.

00:12:23.340 But absolutely.

00:12:24.080 We should be paying for it.

00:12:25.160 I mean, somehow.

00:12:25.920 And I've, I've asked all along, well, how much is this?

00:12:29.160 I'm not that I'm trying not to pay for it.

00:12:30.960 I'm, I'm curious.

00:12:32.140 Or wouldn't, wouldn't get it for my mother-in-law because we would.

00:12:35.800 But I'm, you know, I, I just can't believe all of that care is free.

00:12:41.420 Nurses come in three, four times a week.

00:12:43.420 Then they'll come at the very end and do 12 hour shifts and are there full time, 12 hours.

00:12:50.900 And then the next one comes in 12 hours.

00:12:52.560 So they're there 24 hours a day, administering drugs every hour and all that stuff.

00:12:56.640 And I mean, it's, it's unbelievable to kind of care.

00:13:00.040 Your mother-in-law at that point yet?

00:13:00.980 Yeah.

00:13:01.220 The 12 hour shifts.

00:13:03.100 She's, they just came yesterday and, and they were like, she's sleeping most of the time.

00:13:09.100 So you don't need to.

00:13:10.380 And, but yeah, eventually this week, they'll, they'll be there 24 hours a day.

00:13:15.420 So sorry.

00:13:16.240 It's hard, it's hard, it's been tough.

00:13:21.080 Well, on that happy note, let me, let me, let me, let me go back to the press because

00:13:26.780 I saw this yesterday in Buzzfeed and I tweeted something and both sides came out guns a blazing.

00:13:34.880 Okay.

00:13:35.800 Let's have a reasonable discussion here.

00:13:39.720 This is from Buzzfeed.

00:13:42.980 We logged is a Buzzfeed colon help us map Trump world.

00:13:53.120 We logged more than 1500 people in organizations connecting to the income, the incoming administration.

00:13:58.940 We want your help to understand them and to add more.

00:14:03.220 No American president has taken office with a giant network of businesses, investments, and corporate connections like that amassed by Donald J.

00:14:10.600 Trump.

00:14:10.980 Trump, his family and advisors have touched a staggering number of ventures from a hotel in Azerbaijan to a poker company in Las Vegas.

00:14:19.120 So we compiled a list as many of them as we could keep track and we can't keep track of them at all.

00:14:26.360 We wound up with a diagram that you see above blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:30.180 We hope it will help you, the public, better understand the new administration.

00:14:35.120 But Trump's web is so sprawling that surely there are things that we missed.

00:14:38.820 We need to help capture as many connections as we can.

00:14:42.280 Okay.

00:14:43.460 I want to have a discussion about this.

00:14:48.300 Because the left doesn't understand.

00:14:51.600 I haven't moved.

00:14:54.940 They have.

00:14:56.980 They're now turning into me.

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00:15:03.120 Yeah.

00:15:03.480 That's just wrong.

00:15:04.780 That's mean.

00:15:06.000 That's mean.

00:15:06.180 That's a mean accusation to make to the media.

00:15:08.860 They don't deserve that.

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00:17:57.640 All right.

00:17:58.860 So a couple of hard questions.

00:18:00.820 Some for us.

00:18:01.840 Some for the media.

00:18:04.300 BuzzFeed.

00:18:04.840 Help us map out Trump World.

00:18:06.460 What they've done is BuzzFeed has taken all of the business ventures that are connected to the Trump organization.

00:18:18.880 So it's basically seven degrees from Kevin Bacon.

00:18:23.320 So anybody who is in direct business and then who is the next jumping point from them.

00:18:30.600 So Donald and then who's connected to his sons?

00:18:35.880 Who's connected to anybody else in the organization?

00:18:38.960 Including his cabinet positions too.

00:18:40.800 Right.

00:18:40.940 The people that are in his cabinet, they've also diagrammed them.

00:18:44.640 And so you're going to have all of the, you know, the Goldman Sachs people and that's going to be a tangled web too.

00:18:50.740 Right.

00:18:50.860 So, so it's, it's an interesting thing.

00:18:53.760 It is.

00:18:54.400 And, and so here's a very interesting thing.

00:18:57.920 Have you ever seen anything like this before?

00:18:59.860 Yeah, I have.

00:19:00.580 When, when have you seen that?

00:19:01.600 I think.

00:19:02.420 Uh, oh, that's for you.

00:19:04.540 Yeah.

00:19:04.840 Uh, with the Tides Foundation.

00:19:06.460 With the Tides Foundation.

00:19:07.620 Why would I do that?

00:19:08.600 And George Soros.

00:19:09.160 And George Soros.

00:19:09.880 Why would I do that?

00:19:11.540 And the labor unions.

00:19:13.140 I remember SCIU.

00:19:14.720 We're trying to show the.

00:19:15.620 I remember the AFL-CIO.

00:19:17.220 And no president was more connected to all of these community organizing organizations.

00:19:21.720 So I was, I diagrammed AFL-CIO, SCIU, ACORN, the Tides Foundation, and George Soros.

00:19:32.980 And why did I do that?

00:19:34.920 Because I don't like these, these community, these harmless community organizing groups.

00:19:41.740 And none of them are harmless.

00:19:42.940 We all know they're all social justice, socialism.

00:19:45.640 Correct.

00:19:46.360 Organisms.

00:19:46.680 Most of them are open borders, one world government, socialist, Marxist leaning.

00:19:54.060 Yes.

00:19:54.360 Okay.

00:19:55.460 Um, not the, not the pillar of American, uh, constitutionalism.

00:20:00.160 So what I did was I spent two years diagramming all of the connections.

00:20:06.100 For that, I was mocked, ridiculed, and called a conspiracy theorist.

00:20:11.200 Now, here's the mainstream media who is afraid of business connections saying we ought to know

00:20:20.660 exactly who he's connected to.

00:20:22.480 But this, remember, is not a conspiracy theorist.

00:20:25.380 This is the news media.

00:20:26.980 So they're not into conspiracies.

00:20:28.940 They just want to know all the connections.

00:20:31.340 Do you remember when Twitter, how did I first use Twitter?

00:20:33.600 When Twitter first came out, remember, we used it for, uh, watchdogs.

00:20:38.480 Oh, right.

00:20:41.200 Just bark, let us know.

00:20:43.660 And that is what BuzzFeed is asking for.

00:20:45.960 That's exactly what they're asking for.

00:20:48.080 They've turned in to me.

00:20:51.000 How does that make you feel, BuzzFeed?

00:20:53.060 How does that make you feel, mainstream media?

00:20:55.380 Now, I'm going to do what the mainstream media and BuzzFeed wouldn't do to me.

00:21:00.800 I think this is valid.

00:21:02.920 I think we should look at every single president and everyone who is around him.

00:21:08.740 Because if we would have, we would find social justice warriors that were 9-11 truthers and

00:21:16.940 communist sympathizers like Van Jones.

00:21:21.260 But you don't have a problem with Van Jones.

00:21:24.380 So that's, that's why it's a conspiracy to even talk about him.

00:21:29.300 They do have a problem with Goldman Sachs.

00:21:31.820 Correct.

00:21:32.300 And every connection that leads to.

00:21:34.140 Correct.

00:21:34.620 They have a, they have a problem with businesses.

00:21:37.040 They have a problem with Exxon Mobil.

00:21:39.600 We don't have a problem with that.

00:21:42.180 Now, the, the thing is, can we find a balance that we look for the bad guys in business and the bad guys in, in, uh, community organizing?

00:21:54.280 Can we do that?

00:21:57.760 The answer should be yes.

00:22:00.700 But are we doing it?

00:22:02.560 The answer is clearly no.

00:22:04.960 Because there's no self-awareness from the media.

00:22:08.900 Fix that first.

00:22:10.680 Physician, heal thyself.

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00:22:21.160 This BuzzFeed thing is, is incredible because the guy spent two months working out this web of interconnected businesses with Donald Trump.

00:22:31.780 Two months.

00:22:32.760 Now this is.

00:22:33.380 Did they spend two minutes on Barack Obama's connections?

00:22:36.020 No.

00:22:36.180 No.

00:22:36.940 No.

00:22:37.480 So don't you go to Barack Obama.

00:22:39.640 Did anybody spend two minutes on the connections of the Clinton Foundation?

00:22:44.620 No.

00:22:45.300 No.

00:22:45.580 No, they didn't.

00:22:46.040 BuzzFeed has just been.

00:22:47.080 Even though she ran for president, just like Trump did, uh, they didn't, they didn't spend

00:22:51.840 it.

00:22:51.940 Do you think BuzzFeed would have done this with Hillary Clinton?

00:22:54.900 No.

00:22:55.020 No.

00:22:55.080 They seemingly started this after he won, but still, still, you can't imagine they would

00:22:59.340 have.

00:22:59.680 I mean, I mean, no way.

00:23:00.680 Maybe they would have.

00:23:01.100 No way.

00:23:01.540 That, that thing has been a scandal in the brewing forever.

00:23:05.840 By the way, they've cut down, they've cut out the global initiative.

00:23:09.500 The Clintons have decided to close it down.

00:23:12.460 Interesting.

00:23:13.720 Yeah.

00:23:14.120 That's really interesting.

00:23:15.180 Isn't it now that they don't have access to power, right?

00:23:18.960 Nobody's nobody donating.

00:23:21.160 The big dollars, the big countries don't seem to be interested in donating.

00:23:24.600 Is that what it is?

00:23:25.380 Or it's really, it has nothing to do with it.

00:23:29.220 Fascinating.

00:23:29.880 It is absolutely fascinating.

00:23:31.880 I wonder if anybody's looked at where the donations to Haiti went.

00:23:35.560 Cause it was what?

00:23:36.420 $2 billion.

00:23:37.300 You guys are there.

00:23:38.180 It was like four billion Disney world.

00:23:39.500 Oh my gosh.

00:23:40.420 It's fixed like you can't believe it is.

00:23:43.060 So if there was a dollar, I mean, I didn't see anything.

00:23:48.000 No.

00:23:48.160 In fact, some of the rubble is still laying on the ground eight years later.

00:23:52.260 Yeah.

00:23:52.360 Like the, the capital is still just a mess.

00:23:54.520 It's just gone, gone.

00:23:56.980 The capital is gone.

00:23:59.380 The roads are a mess.

00:24:01.100 I haven't seen total man.

00:24:03.140 Anything that looks like it has been rebuilt.

00:24:07.060 And it's horrible.

00:24:08.640 What was, what was the thing that was for sale that was donated to Haiti?

00:24:12.080 And then somebody took it and is selling it now.

00:24:15.160 And they were supposed to be free items and they're selling them on the road.

00:24:18.000 Oh yeah.

00:24:18.420 I saw bags of rice with the American flag from the United States.

00:24:23.080 They were in stores.

00:24:23.700 We sent there for them to eat.

00:24:25.380 And they're on sale now from some merchant on the side of the road.

00:24:28.720 And they, and Haiti, I mean, if they gave $2 billion to Haiti, that's a problem because

00:24:34.860 right now, giant corporations, I think Apple is one of them, have come to Haiti and said,

00:24:41.480 we want to build plants here.

00:24:44.980 We'll help you, but we're not running it through the government.

00:24:49.400 We'll help.

00:24:50.420 We'll build it.

00:24:51.800 We'll provide the jobs, but we don't trust the corruption here.

00:24:55.440 So you got to stay out of it.

00:24:58.140 No, we're not giving the money to the government.

00:25:01.040 We'll build it ourselves.

00:25:02.840 Oh no.

00:25:03.940 Nope.

00:25:04.460 Nope.

00:25:05.900 Nope.

00:25:06.880 So if they did give $2 billion to Haiti, they did it and they knew that it was going to the

00:25:14.200 leaders.

00:25:16.320 Horrible.

00:25:17.320 Just horrible.

00:25:18.440 Somebody got really rich while the people continue to starve.

00:25:21.920 Literally live in slavery.

00:25:23.480 Slavery, slavery, some of them are living in slavery, literal slavery.

00:25:29.000 It's, um, it's amazing to me that Buzzfeed and it's good.

00:25:33.580 I celebrate the fact that Buzzfeed did this.

00:25:35.980 They should do this with every person that is in office, but Buzzfeed is taking an ax and

00:25:43.380 grinding it because they don't like the, the right and they don't like Donald Trump.

00:25:49.600 And so they decide we can be heroes.

00:25:53.160 We will lead.

00:25:54.220 Wait a minute.

00:25:54.920 Are they just, oh my gosh, are they just doing this for money and ratings or do they

00:26:02.420 actually believe some of this nonsense that they're saying?

00:26:06.480 Are they just doing this to stir up fear and hatred?

00:26:10.360 I think that's what's happening and get clicks and get clicks.

00:26:13.560 They're only doing this to get clicks.

00:26:15.480 Wow.

00:26:15.880 And these are all things that were said obviously about you when you were doing these things

00:26:19.240 with Barack Obama.

00:26:20.500 So I'm going to take Buzzfeed and give them the benefit of the doubt and say, no, they

00:26:25.380 would have done this for the Clinton global initiative.

00:26:28.460 And to be fair, this is their, the first president that has taken office while they were a serious

00:26:33.440 journalistic organization.

00:26:34.600 Correct.

00:26:34.940 Right.

00:26:35.100 I mean, you know, that's not, they weren't doing these types of things in 2000.

00:26:38.560 I don't even know if they existed in 2008 or nine.

00:26:41.020 I don't think so.

00:26:42.180 But I mean, if they did, it was, it was listicles.

00:26:44.940 Now they're, they've been doing a lot of this for a while and, and good.

00:26:47.640 Like that's a lot of freaking work and you know what, it's good.

00:26:51.360 I, I'm sure they will draw conclusions out of it that I don't agree with.

00:26:54.680 And I'm sure that they will report on things that I, and pull things out of that, that

00:26:59.260 make me say, come on, that you can't possibly think that's an issue.

00:27:02.240 However, it's good that the information is out there so we can look at it and examine it,

00:27:06.420 see where they've made mistakes.

00:27:07.520 I mean, that's a good thing for journalists to do.

00:27:09.520 When we did this, I, that's what the chalkboards were about.

00:27:12.580 Remember every chalkboard at, um, at, uh, John, uh, John Stewart show, every chalkboard

00:27:19.940 John Stewart did of mine was a, uh, a conspiracy theory.

00:27:24.700 Remember Van Jones is collect is connected to the president's heart.

00:27:28.900 And you know, he did the, remember the intestines and he had all these things and acorn was up

00:27:33.880 there and Marxists were up there.

00:27:35.540 All, all he was mocking was that I was saying, this guy is connected to this guy who is then

00:27:42.880 connected to the president.

00:27:43.920 Now, if you don't have a problem and remember, I used to say the most unlucky guy on the planet

00:27:49.860 because all of his people that were his satellites were connected to Marxists.

00:27:57.060 And as I said, this is either a pattern or he's the most unlucky friend on the planet.

00:28:08.100 That was, that was the whole thesis of my Fox run.

00:28:11.580 What are they doing here?

00:28:15.280 Look at the businesses that he's surrounded himself.

00:28:18.560 Look at the business people he's surrounded himself with.

00:28:21.880 Now, so far, they're not saying anything nefarious, but it took us a while before we said, wait a

00:28:28.720 minute, Richard Trumka is in this circle.

00:28:32.440 He's connected to here, here, and here.

00:28:34.740 He's connected to these people.

00:28:36.640 They all believe in universal health care.

00:28:41.460 The president says he doesn't want universal health care, but Richard Trumka and SEIU, who's

00:28:48.040 connected to these Marxists who believe in universal health care.

00:28:52.380 Those are the top two visitors to the White House.

00:28:55.040 And Andy Stern was a huge universal health care guy.

00:28:57.680 And what did the president say?

00:28:59.160 When I'm looking to health care, who do I talk to?

00:29:01.860 Andy Stern from SEIU.

00:29:03.200 It was all that stuff.

00:29:04.860 And I remember saying, if that's what the president says, then we should take that and

00:29:10.920 look at Andy Stern and then see who has Andy Stern been consulting with.

00:29:17.260 That's the same exact thing that BuzzFeed is doing.

00:29:21.980 Now, it was either wrong then.

00:29:24.620 And wrong now or right then and right now.

00:29:31.320 And you shouldn't be, as well, defending you doing this back in the day and now opposing

00:29:36.080 BuzzFeed doing this now.

00:29:37.760 I mean, again, you can pull conclusions out of it that are different, but you should, the

00:29:42.220 effort as a whole is something that you support.

00:29:44.460 Although, again, this is anti-capitalist.

00:29:46.620 What we were doing was not anti-capitalist.

00:29:48.960 And to me, anti-capitalist is anti-American.

00:29:51.720 But it shouldn't be.

00:29:53.260 OK, so that's the thing.

00:29:55.200 I was not anti-Barack Obama.

00:29:57.860 I was anti-Marxist.

00:30:00.300 Yes, for sure.

00:30:01.580 I was anti-Marxist.

00:30:02.580 There was a time in this country and in my circle of friends, it's still cool to be anti-Marxist.

00:30:09.100 Yeah.

00:30:09.340 I know that's not popular with a lot of people in this country, but that's where I was.

00:30:14.200 I understand if you're a Marxist and you're anti-business and you put this together.

00:30:19.840 I don't know if that's the thing behind BuzzFeed.

00:30:23.680 What you should be is, we should be looking for...

00:30:27.620 They're pretty good capitalists if they're anti-capitalists.

00:30:29.440 Yeah, but some of the best capitalists.

00:30:30.840 Yeah, some of the biggest Marxists are that.

00:30:33.240 George Soros, for instance.

00:30:34.640 What we should be for is for transparency, who's actually advising, what is their goal,

00:30:45.040 who is actually benefiting from these things.

00:30:48.600 We knew SEIU and the AFL-CIO wanted it because of their failing retirement packages.

00:31:02.500 We know those are not going to work.

00:31:03.960 So anything they can pass off to the government, they want to and need to.

00:31:10.400 There's their motivation.

00:31:12.240 So when you look at Trump's thing, you start to see him go a certain way.

00:31:16.000 Who in his circle of friends may be benefiting?

00:31:18.760 Is there evidence that they are?

00:31:21.280 Are they advising him on a specific topic?

00:31:25.620 If they are, what do they have to gain?

00:31:28.520 If nothing, great.

00:31:30.280 If something, we should know it.

00:31:32.220 It doesn't mean that it's wrong.

00:31:34.480 It should be transparent.

00:31:37.160 One.

00:31:38.200 And if there is corruption, you should care about it.

00:31:42.320 The media never cared about the connections or the corruption.

00:31:47.020 Never.

00:31:47.220 And look, their criticism of you was just naked partisanship.

00:31:53.000 I mean, they've always loved these connections.

00:31:56.280 Go back to the biggest documentary film of all time, Fahrenheit 9-11, Michael Moore's movie during the Bush administration,

00:32:04.000 is nothing but a giant web of connections that's supposed to make you believe that George W. Bush was the worst guy in the universe.

00:32:12.560 You know, they all love that when it's on their side.

00:32:15.840 Correct.

00:32:16.140 And they all hate it when it comes against them.

00:32:17.160 That's why I'm bringing this up.

00:32:18.200 I'm not bringing this up to defend.

00:32:20.180 I'm not bringing this up about me.

00:32:21.800 What I'm trying to do is say, it is the drumbeat that I'm sorry you will hear over and over and over again.

00:32:28.460 I just wrote some of my media friends this weekend with messages like this.

00:32:34.520 Huh.

00:32:35.480 Have you thought about comparing these two?

00:32:38.180 Because it's time for self-awareness.

00:32:42.480 If they want to heal, if they want to survive, they must have self-awareness.

00:32:50.860 Why does half the country not trust you?

00:32:54.460 Because you don't see this.

00:32:58.460 If I were on here bashing BuzzFeed today because of their connections,

00:33:06.060 and somebody on the left said, this is exactly what Glenn Beck did.

00:33:11.340 And I said, no, it's totally different.

00:33:13.460 He was a Marxist.

00:33:14.360 This is a capitalist.

00:33:15.900 And left it at that.

00:33:18.360 You would know that I was a fraud.

00:33:20.920 You would know that I was a fraud.

00:33:22.660 That I didn't, that I was playing only one side.

00:33:26.040 That's what the media is doing.

00:33:29.220 And I really don't think they've even thought of it because they're not surrounded by one dissenting voice.

00:33:36.840 They're dissenting voices.

00:33:38.620 Like, what's his name?

00:33:39.460 That fake conservative that's in the media that is, that they love.

00:33:43.860 Brooks.

00:33:44.360 Yeah, David Brooks.

00:33:45.500 That's the dissenting.

00:33:48.480 That's not.

00:33:49.820 Yeah, I agree.

00:33:51.060 Just not as strongly as you do.

00:33:52.920 I mean, that's crazy.

00:33:54.860 That's crazy.

00:33:55.720 And they don't know anybody.

00:33:57.680 And so they never hear it.

00:33:59.140 So they never question it.

00:34:00.600 They have to hear it.

00:34:02.280 Now, Politico has an article on making journalism great again.

00:34:11.260 And it gives the worst advice to the media I have heard.

00:34:17.500 If this advice to the media is taken by the media, and I think it will be, the media doesn't have a chance.

00:34:28.200 In eight years, you think things are bad now?

00:34:30.200 In eight years, it'll be horrible.

00:34:31.460 Well, wait until you hear the advice that many in the media are touting saying, oh, yeah, we got to do that.

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00:36:33.380 So, this is the recommendation that the press is starting to kick around and think is a really good idea.

00:36:42.240 Donald Trump and his forthcoming presidency may be the greatest gift to Washington journalism since the invention of the expense account.

00:36:47.940 His unorthodox approach to politics and governance has vaporized the standard useful yet boring script for reporting on the new administration's doing.

00:36:57.140 In a news conference last week, Trump began the process of washing the press completely out of his fake hair as he castigated CNN and BuzzFeed for reporting on the OPPO research dossier compiled against him.

00:37:07.580 But fake news, said the man who has appeared on InfoWars and commended the outlet's efforts.

00:37:13.560 Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich took to Sean Hannity's program to assist the maiming of the media.

00:37:19.720 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:37:21.440 Now, what do you think the press is going to say?

00:37:26.420 What do you think they're going to do?

00:37:27.320 What do you think their recommendation on how to handle the next four to eight years?

00:37:35.640 Oh, it's unfair because I already know what the answer is.

00:37:38.440 So.

00:37:39.580 In his own way, Trump has set us free.

00:37:42.620 Reporters must treat Inauguration Day as a kind of Liberation Day to explore news outside the usual Washington circles.

00:37:50.720 He has been explicit in his disdain for the press and his dislike for press conferences, prickly to the nth degree about being challenged and known for his vindictive way to those who cross him.

00:38:02.560 So forget about the White House press room.

00:38:04.720 It's time to circle behind enemy lines.

00:38:07.500 What a surprise.

00:38:09.140 Washington reporting is long dependent on a transactional relationship between sources and journalists.

00:38:13.780 So, in other words, we like to sleep with each other.

00:38:16.160 The White House press dinner is obscene and grotesque.

00:38:21.740 Journalists groom sources, but sources also groom journalists.

00:38:25.960 There is nothing inherently unethical about backscratching.

00:38:29.200 When a reporter calls an administration source to confirm an embarrassing item, the source may agree to confirm as long as the reporter, at the very least, agrees to listen sympathetically to the administration's context, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:38:39.780 So, they're now suggesting that the press just go openly hostile to the president.

00:38:49.380 Because he's hostile to them.

00:38:50.980 Right.

00:38:51.440 So, just go back at it.

00:38:52.740 Right.

00:38:53.520 Like he started it was ever a good argument to do something.

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00:40:21.480 Hello, America.

00:40:22.640 Welcome to the program.

00:40:24.080 So as the Democrats are debating what is a legitimate way to protest the president or disagree with the president, we have anarchists now who are saying they're going to shut this president down before he can do anything.

00:40:42.180 We have 40 Democrats that are going to walk out on the inauguration.

00:40:48.460 I don't know.

00:40:49.880 It doesn't sound like something the press would have supported under this current president.

00:40:56.420 But maybe that's just me and my foggy memory.

00:41:00.520 We do want to talk about this president and his legacy.

00:41:06.960 His legacy, especially after Martin Luther King Day.

00:41:11.040 What is Barack Obama really, what has he done for the black community?

00:41:17.140 How will he be remembered?

00:41:19.520 We go to Burgess Owens right now.

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00:41:47.060 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:51.800 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:54.860 As we enter the final days of Barack Obama, let's take a few minutes and look back.

00:41:59.580 And we wanted to do so with Burgess Owens, an NFL great, friend of the program, author of the book, Liberalism, How to Turn Goodmen into Whiners, Weenies, and Wimps.

00:42:08.580 And, Burgess, we wanted to take a look at Barack Obama and ask this question.

00:42:15.200 Did he miss the biggest opportunity this nation has ever seen when it comes to healing the divide?

00:42:28.440 Good morning, Glenn.

00:42:30.720 I'm looking forward to chatting with you about this topic.

00:42:33.320 And the answer to that is absolutely.

00:42:37.380 Let me just start off by saying that one of the things that I was very fortunate to do as I grew up in an era where we really had strong, visionary, good, confident people moving forward.

00:42:49.820 And for anybody out there who wants to see what I talked about in my book, look at the movie Hidden Figures.

00:42:55.240 You see a community that Americans would love to be part of.

00:42:59.720 What has happened over the last eight years is that the black community, those who believed and trusted and gave all their hope to this man, has done so much worse than they have in my memory.

00:43:11.720 One thing we've always had, even when things were tough, is we had hope.

00:43:15.980 We were taught that we can educate ourselves.

00:43:18.000 We can believe in the American dream.

00:43:19.900 We can work hard enough to overcome all obstacles.

00:43:22.860 And Hidden Figures, that movie, shows you what happens when people believe that.

00:43:26.640 We have now a community who is more hopeless, more miserable, more angry, and less educated,

00:43:36.100 and really believe that they've elected a man just because of his color doesn't take care of him.

00:43:41.720 So we have a lot of making up to do now.

00:43:44.760 And the great thing about our nation is we can do it.

00:43:47.380 Does the, and I know, you know, the black community, you know, can't be lumped together as much as the, you know, the white community can't be.

00:43:55.300 Any community can't be.

00:43:56.220 It's not monolithic.

00:43:57.620 However, in its vote, it is pretty monolithic.

00:44:01.740 Does the black community believe what you just said?

00:44:06.260 Well, what's happening, and you hit it on the head, we've been very monolithic.

00:44:10.120 The great thing, the president, the president of Obama is that we're beginning to think now as a group, as a race.

00:44:17.360 We're beginning to peel ourselves away and wonder about results now.

00:44:21.200 You have liberals and Democrats like Jim Brown, who I have a lot of respect for, Steve Harvey, who I have a lot of respect for,

00:44:26.920 because they're putting their race above their ideology.

00:44:29.320 When you have Americans beginning to do that and looking at Americans first, Martin Luther King III made a very strong point the other day.

00:44:38.680 How in this nation can we have between 40 to 50 million people in poverty is ridiculous.

00:44:45.720 We're now beginning to think and ask those questions why.

00:44:48.300 And that's the one thing Obama has done for us.

00:44:50.980 He's put us in such – he's failed in so many different ways that we're beginning to wonder if in case his ideology is truly the best for us or not.

00:44:59.060 And that's a great place for us to be.

00:45:00.260 So, are we worse off today or better off?

00:45:07.400 That's a good question.

00:45:09.040 We're worse off in terms of statistics.

00:45:11.300 We're better off in terms of the future.

00:45:13.000 We're better off because we're finally asking those questions, and we're finally beginning to talk like we hadn't talked in a while, opening ourselves up.

00:45:21.260 And we're having a dialogue with people about people like John Lewis.

00:45:25.680 John Lewis is a good example.

00:45:28.140 When I talk about my book, The Royalty of the Black Class, he is the type of individual that has been the worst for our race because he lives in the past.

00:45:37.960 He lives in what he did 60 years ago.

00:45:40.020 And meanwhile, 60 years later, people are living in misery, and he sits there and allows it to happen with total silence because of his allegiance to an ideology of socialists versus his race.

00:45:52.240 So, in a way, our future is brighter because we're having these kind of dialogues, and we're having black men and women standing up finally and speaking against the group thing.

00:46:04.120 And we're having white Americans beginning to stop apologizing for themselves, and I think that's a good place for us to be.

00:46:10.400 Burgess, if anybody else says that, if a white person says what you just said about John Lewis, oh, my gosh.

00:46:15.700 Oh, the humanity.

00:46:16.660 What a racist.

00:46:17.840 You know, what's amazing about John Lewis is this weekend, the two sides were so split, he was either a god or he did nothing ever in his life.

00:46:29.160 I mean, I heard, I read so many posts and tweets that said, John Lewis is a nobody and never really played a role in the civil rights movement.

00:46:40.260 I don't think that's true at all.

00:46:43.380 Why do we have to destroy everything?

00:46:45.820 Well, what we have to do is we have to be honest about this process.

00:46:50.420 And let me just use an analogy, guys.

00:46:52.220 Since I played in NFL, I can use this and be very confident with it.

00:46:55.800 I played with two great quarterbacks in my career, the end of Joe Namath, the last three years with him, and then Jim Plunkett.

00:47:01.200 Both the most valuable players in the Super Bowl that they played at.

00:47:04.660 Great athletes.

00:47:06.020 But guess what great athletes do?

00:47:07.880 Lee Alcocca, what he did as a great CEO.

00:47:09.940 When you get to the point where you cannot perform anymore, that you're no longer of value, you retire.

00:47:15.440 Now, what's happened with John Lewis is he should have retired a long time ago because he has not been doing the things for the black community.

00:47:22.380 He sits over a community that's been going downhill fast and being very quiet.

00:47:27.500 I look at something like, just an example, there's 2,000 black kids the very first year that Barack Obama came into office that were taken out of great schools

00:47:37.040 and put back into his failing schools because they decided to get rid of choice.

00:47:41.400 That's 16,000 black kids impacted.

00:47:44.520 John Lewis said nothing.

00:47:46.140 So, yes, 60 years ago, he did a great thing.

00:47:48.400 He was very courageous.

00:47:49.740 But leaders either maintain their courageous acts or they stop being leaders.

00:47:54.680 He has stopped being a leader for a long time.

00:47:56.340 We need to be honest about this.

00:47:57.840 And we can't charge somebody being a racist and Uncle Tom because we're telling the truth.

00:48:02.100 So, yes, he did a great thing 60 years ago.

00:48:03.960 So, 60 years later is when we need him, and he's not available.

00:48:08.280 He has not been for a long time.

00:48:09.480 Matter of fact, he's done everything he can to hurt our race.

00:48:14.020 More abortion, less education, less jobs.

00:48:17.520 You go through the litany of what socialists do to black people, and he's been at the very head of that as he continues to get elected and lives like a king.

00:48:25.920 So I don't have a lot of respect for what John Lewis has done today.

00:48:29.000 He did a great thing 60 years ago.

00:48:30.500 But now in the seventh grade, also demonstrating, along with thousands of other Americans over the country.

00:48:36.160 A lot of us demonstrated.

00:48:37.200 A lot of people got bloodied.

00:48:38.520 But we moved on with life and tried to make an impact and help our race in the future.

00:48:43.620 Burgess, you said that in some ways, statistically, we're not better off.

00:48:48.820 You were talking about the black community.

00:48:50.800 Let's talk about the community at large.

00:48:55.920 Tensions are at, I think, record highs since the 1960s.

00:49:03.400 I've never seen it like this.

00:49:05.720 We do have a great opportunity, but this window will close.

00:49:10.280 How do we, if the Democrats decide to sharpen the knives and go after this president and have no self-reflection and the Republicans take this win without any self-reflection and they just sharpen their knives, we're not going to come together.

00:49:38.380 Do you see hope for us on the horizon coming together?

00:49:43.620 Are there enough people who say, I'm tired of this game?

00:49:47.040 Well, yes, I do it.

00:49:48.240 I think the key to it is this.

00:49:50.200 First of all, the Democrats will sharpen their knives.

00:49:53.080 That's what they do.

00:49:54.140 That's part of their nature.

00:49:55.940 Now, it's going to be up to the Republican, the conservative branch of the Republican Party to do very simply, keep their word.

00:50:01.820 One thing that I'll say, and when you have people who I respect, Jim Brown, Steve Harvey, again, totally different ideology.

00:50:10.160 But we're sitting now with Donald Trump and talking about how to work with the inner city.

00:50:15.420 At the end of the day, it's all about people.

00:50:17.580 If we allow and focus as a middle-class country that so many of us are and use the empathy that's always been part of the middle class, we're going to start focusing on having our kids in the inner city and other poor kids around the country to become educated.

00:50:36.860 Education is the strongest tool to keep a country free.

00:50:40.900 You're going to have kids and young people getting jobs, having a job, and understand the work ethic and the pride that comes to that is one of the greatest things to keep a country free.

00:50:51.720 We're going to start putting the value of life once again, having a debate about Planned Parenthood and what they came from and where they are, educating people.

00:50:58.600 So, yes, we have a tremendous opportunity.

00:51:02.160 And I personally believe that American people will step to the plate once again.

00:51:06.780 We voted for – we voted against Hillary for a reason.

00:51:10.040 We voted for our future and self-empowerment for a reason.

00:51:15.640 And I believe we're going to step to the plate and demand that these guys keep their word and the poorest of us and those that are most vulnerable will be taken care of, and we're going to feel good about ourselves and move forward with that.

00:51:25.060 The Democrats will never have that power over us again.

00:51:28.480 What is your sense of Donald Trump?

00:51:30.220 What are you hoping for and what are you expecting over the next four years?

00:51:34.120 It's been a very pleasant surprise.

00:51:35.500 I was not a Donald Trump fan initially, but I tell you that that morning, November 9th, I did wake up more hopeful than I had been in a long time because at least we have a chance.

00:51:46.560 I believe at that point that having a father hadn't given up on us, that he said, give us a little more time for us to get ourselves together.

00:51:51.720 And the people that he's surrounding himself with right now, I'm very, very excited about.

00:51:56.040 So the most important thing – and, you know, I grew up – my great hero was Ronald Reagan.

00:52:02.280 He was the first conservative that really got my attention, that I really understood, and he was a great articulator.

00:52:07.720 He was a great way – he had a way of getting around the media.

00:52:10.600 It is scary at times to see Donald tweak, but I'll tell you what he's doing.

00:52:14.320 He's getting around the liberal media like no one else has ever done before.

00:52:17.580 And it's actually what had to happen for us to be able to connect and for those – to get away from the messaging that's been done in the last decades.

00:52:28.860 We need to find a way for us to get some truth, and hopefully we can get that done with.

00:52:33.320 So I'm hopeful.

00:52:34.500 In the end of a short, long answer to a short question, I'm very hopeful for what's going to happen in the next four years.

00:52:39.980 Burgess Owens, author of the book Liberalism or How to Turn Goodmen into Whiners, Weenies, and Wimps.

00:52:45.460 This is an extraordinarily brave book and a look into the things that need to be said in America to all races.

00:52:58.560 Burgess, as always, it's good to have you on.

00:53:00.760 Can I say this real quick?

00:53:01.760 Yeah.

00:53:01.960 It's all about team.

00:53:03.260 All about team.

00:53:04.120 It's all of us like we're doing right now, Glenn.

00:53:05.920 We take what we have, the talents we have, and together, message, debate, think through, and just make sure that we get the very best out of the whole process.

00:53:14.480 We don't have to all agree.

00:53:15.700 We just have to, first of all, believe in our country, love our country, and try to do our very best as individuals.

00:53:21.200 We'll make this thing happen.

00:53:22.120 Thank you very much, Burgess.

00:53:23.140 Appreciate it.

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00:55:55.700 His commentary on John Lewis was pretty powerful.

00:56:23.820 Intense.

00:56:25.500 Intense.

00:56:26.120 Really intense.

00:56:27.120 And as Pat pointed out, you know, you are not allowed to say that.

00:56:31.900 Right.

00:56:32.740 Our society says you're not allowed to say that depending on your skin tone, which is a bizarre place to be.

00:56:37.720 Isn't it amazing?

00:56:38.480 The press can take the words of the president and look at him and say he's a racist.

00:56:48.860 But you weren't allowed to take the actual words of the president and ask and ask, not make the statement, ask.

00:56:57.220 Is this guy a racist?

00:56:58.180 I think this guy might be a racist.

00:56:59.300 And if you go back to that statement you made in 2009, you were questioning the whole time.

00:57:04.940 You were trying to figure it out aloud, which was maybe not the best thing to do.

00:57:08.500 Trying to figure it out.

00:57:09.760 Trying to figure it out.

00:57:11.220 But you can, nobody, you say that Donald Trump is a racist.

00:57:16.600 How do you, how do you come to that ironclad conclusion?

00:57:21.360 Yeah.

00:57:21.680 To where the press feels comfortable just banting that around.

00:57:25.180 It's terrible.

00:57:26.040 And I think a lot of it's based on his stance on immigration, which that's not, it doesn't have anything to do with race because he just wants the border protected.

00:57:36.040 I think 80% of Americans want the border protected.

00:57:39.780 And I don't care if they're white people or Hispanics or Chinese or from the Middle East.

00:57:45.220 We just want the border protected.

00:57:46.840 You got to know who's coming into your country.

00:57:48.820 I don't care.

00:57:49.980 There's terrorists from everywhere.

00:57:52.080 There's people that, I mean, even if they're not terrorists.

00:57:54.940 When we worried about this in the Second World War, we're, what, we're anti-German?

00:58:03.480 And yes, the government was afraid that their policies would be called anti-German.

00:58:11.040 Even back then?

00:58:12.020 Even back then.

00:58:12.720 So this has been going on a long time.

00:58:14.680 We don't care.

00:58:15.780 I care about safety.

00:58:17.080 I was never anti-German.

00:58:18.220 I'm anti-Nazi.

00:58:19.600 At least that part has changed.

00:58:20.880 You can be anti-European all you want now.

00:58:22.920 Yeah.

00:58:23.080 That's not an issue.

00:58:25.060 Well, unless Germany was against America.

00:58:27.280 Yeah.

00:58:28.440 Or remember, it's not cool to be anti-French.

00:58:33.920 You're not anti-French.

00:58:35.580 Can't be anti-French because French are against America.

00:58:37.900 French don't like Americans.

00:58:39.320 Yeah.

00:58:39.540 You want to be more like the French.

00:58:40.920 So anyway, I am, I'm interested to see how this week shakes out.

00:58:51.200 Have you guys heard anybody in the press say a disparaging thing at all about one of the 40 people that are just walking out and not attending this?

00:59:01.360 No.

00:59:02.640 I've just heard it reported matter-of-factly.

00:59:05.440 That 33, it was the last time I heard, 33 and now it's 40 members of Congress are just not going to show up.

00:59:12.200 They've just chosen not to.

00:59:13.540 They're conscientious objectors.

00:59:15.480 Yeah.

00:59:15.600 And we don't want to say this every day, but it will apply every day.

00:59:19.680 If this was happening during Obama, they'd be apoplectic about it.

00:59:23.120 Apoplectic.

00:59:23.740 How dare they?

00:59:24.520 They'd be out of their minds over it.

00:59:25.400 How dare they?

00:59:25.980 Even though he said enough stuff that would make a constitutionalist go crazy.

00:59:31.880 They would say it was because of the color of his skin.

00:59:33.380 Color of his skin.

00:59:33.880 They didn't want a black president.

00:59:34.660 Correct.

00:59:36.280 What?

00:59:37.960 Can you not give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt that he's at least going to be everyone's president?

00:59:49.220 Now, I think the only ones that have the case to say that he's not going to be their president are members of the press.

00:59:56.900 The press didn't want to show up.

00:59:58.660 I kind of understand it.

01:00:00.320 You could say he's not going to be, he's not friendly to us.

01:00:05.140 Okay.

01:00:06.540 But what does anybody else have?

01:00:09.360 He met yesterday with Martin Luther King and apparently Jr., and I guess it went really well.

01:00:15.040 Yeah.

01:00:15.620 We've got some audio we should play eventually.

01:00:18.020 Do you have the audio?

01:00:18.760 Do we have time?

01:00:19.800 Let's see.

01:00:20.460 I don't know if we have.

01:00:22.040 It's a little over 30 seconds.

01:00:23.580 Go ahead.

01:00:23.940 Yeah, we have time.

01:00:24.640 All right.

01:00:25.340 What do you think your father's message would be to president like Trump?

01:00:27.860 This is the final answer I'm going to have because I'm going to reiterate what I just said.

01:00:31.220 I think my father would be very concerned about the fact that there are 50 or 60 million people living in poverty, and somehow we've got to create the climate for all boats to be lifted.

01:00:41.540 In America, with a multi-trillion dollar economy, $20 trillion almost, it's insanity that we have poor people in this nation.

01:00:49.600 That's unacceptable.

01:00:50.560 And when we work together, we know we can roll up our sleeves.

01:00:54.100 There's nothing that we as Americans can't do.

01:00:56.200 That's a uniting message.

01:00:57.660 Sure is.

01:00:58.680 That's a uniting message.

01:00:59.540 And he didn't mean it this way, but could be a statement that is a little clarifying for the outgoing president.

01:01:10.100 Here's Martin Luther King Jr. saying this is unacceptable.

01:01:15.680 We are one.

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01:01:29.660 Hello and welcome to the program.

01:01:31.120 Glad you're here.

01:01:33.120 I want to tell you about the woman who's built a house from scratch just using YouTube.

01:01:40.900 We'll tell you about that.

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01:01:43.700 She didn't know how to.

01:01:44.720 No idea how to build a house.

01:01:46.260 No idea.

01:01:46.680 She's not a builder.

01:01:47.340 And figured it out.

01:01:48.380 Figured it out.

01:01:49.800 My daughter does that on a lot of stuff.

01:01:52.280 Who does?

01:01:52.660 My daughter.

01:01:53.460 Yeah.

01:01:53.720 Who's 16.

01:01:54.440 If she wants to do something that, like she felt like making Play-Doh from household items,

01:02:00.140 looked it up on YouTube and did it.

01:02:02.600 I mean, all kinds of stuff like that.

01:02:04.460 A lot of photography stuff.

01:02:05.960 There is no reason.

01:02:06.780 She looks up on YouTube.

01:02:06.920 You heard, did Camille say this on air?

01:02:11.020 Camille Ravikant was with us last week, last Friday.

01:02:14.080 And he is one of the, you know, he's known in Silicon Valley as Silicon Valley royalty.

01:02:19.980 You know, principal investor.

01:02:22.600 He and his brother in some of the biggest startups in Silicon Valley.

01:02:27.520 And I asked him about education with my son.

01:02:31.860 You know, what do we do?

01:02:33.360 What do we do?

01:02:34.240 My son's next for the college routine.

01:02:37.280 I don't want to put him in college.

01:02:38.620 And he said, no.

01:02:41.080 Shouldn't.

01:02:41.760 He said, in many ways it works against them because it puts you in a box.

01:02:46.500 They start to learn how to think, not what to think, how to, no, sorry.

01:02:51.180 They learn what to think, not how to think.

01:02:53.920 And that's disabling them.

01:02:57.220 Tanya and I, you know, we're, Pat is closing down his school,

01:03:01.180 just couldn't make a go of it, couldn't get enough students.

01:03:03.200 And it's too bad because it's, it changed people's lives.

01:03:06.520 It was such a great school.

01:03:08.500 And so at the end of this year, Pat has decided, oh, I got to keep my money.

01:03:13.600 And yours.

01:03:14.420 And mine.

01:03:14.940 And, and, uh, so shutting down the school.

01:03:18.200 And, um, uh, I talked to Tanya this weekend, honey, take three to six months.

01:03:25.760 Go travel the world with the kids.

01:03:28.760 Go, go learn about Asia in Asia.

01:03:32.800 Plus you have the house for yourself.

01:03:34.660 If she does.

01:03:35.560 I mean, that babes are pretty awesome.

01:03:37.100 Crawling all over the place.

01:03:39.120 It's funny.

01:03:39.780 That didn't even cross my mind that you would use it for any interesting purpose.

01:03:44.320 Yeah, I know.

01:03:45.000 It didn't cross my, my, my wife's mind either.

01:03:46.860 Because she knew it wouldn't cross my, um, but, uh, the, the idea of that education, the

01:03:57.300 way it is done is keeping, is keeping our kids in this really dangerous place.

01:04:06.900 It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's not useful anymore.

01:04:09.900 It's, you're not trained to be an office worker anymore.

01:04:12.900 And that's what this schooling does.

01:04:16.000 Train you to be an office worker, train you to do a job that no longer exists.

01:04:21.440 What are we doing?

01:04:23.500 Best thing you can do is, is homeschool and take them and teach them, follow the trail

01:04:31.140 wherever it might lead.

01:04:32.400 I meet these, I meet these kids who, you know, their parents would take them all summer long

01:04:38.020 on a, on a vacation and they would, and it wasn't a vacation.

01:04:41.440 They would take them or the mom would take them and take them all across the United States

01:04:45.320 and teach them by showing them the places where things happened and, and bringing them

01:04:52.160 to, you know, the CERN.

01:04:54.340 What is a super collider?

01:04:56.420 What does it do?

01:04:57.220 What is it going to answer?

01:04:58.300 What, what, what, what is it?

01:05:00.340 Explore that.

01:05:02.480 Imagine the education that you would, you, you, you could have.

01:05:07.280 And I believe you can do that now on YouTube.

01:05:10.640 Well, I mean, you were talking about taking these, what was it?

01:05:12.900 The great courses, which is something you probably have seen advertised if you've been

01:05:16.920 online at all.

01:05:17.740 Yeah.

01:05:17.980 Things like take writing class from the guy who wrote the West Wing.

01:05:21.760 What's his face?

01:05:24.000 Yeah.

01:05:24.400 Aaron Sorkin.

01:05:24.920 Aaron Sorkin.

01:05:25.440 Thank you.

01:05:26.060 Oh, you know, it's like these, isn't there acting with Dustin Hoffman, right?

01:05:30.420 Like teaching you how to act with Dustin Hoffman and like there's a fee associated with it,

01:05:33.640 but it's not like 75 bucks or a hundred bucks, something like that, something like that.

01:05:36.560 Yeah.

01:05:37.020 So it's not like this, you know, it's not a college, right?

01:05:39.640 Yeah, but it's not, but it's not even that, but it's not even that you can do great courses.

01:05:43.800 Hang on.

01:05:44.220 I want to make sure that I have this right.

01:05:45.680 You do great courses online.

01:05:47.860 I think I have them through Netflix, but you don't have to get them through Netflix.

01:05:52.080 Let's make sure it's the one that I'm thinking that it is great courses on Netflix.

01:05:56.560 It's either on Netflix or on, I actually, I think it's on Amazon, Amazon, and I'm taking

01:06:01.820 stuff through Amazon.

01:06:03.380 Yeah.

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01:06:38.580 Does Jeffy teach the food history?

01:06:40.000 Yes, he does.

01:06:41.120 The food is history.

01:06:42.340 That's it.

01:06:42.740 Put it in front of me.

01:06:44.020 It's history.

01:06:44.960 It's history.

01:06:45.600 I'm not the man I was.

01:06:47.380 But there's no, I mean, you don't have to.

01:06:52.840 I was talking to somebody today.

01:06:54.580 What was it about the concept of 10,000 hours, that you're an expert after 10,000 hours.

01:07:01.540 That's a Malcolm Gladwell thing, isn't it?

01:07:03.420 Yeah.

01:07:03.760 You do anything for 10,000 hours and really concentrate on it, really try to master it.

01:07:09.260 10,000 hours makes you an expert in it.

01:07:12.100 Yeah.

01:07:12.300 There's some disagreement on whether it's more of a generalization, but yeah, it's an

01:07:15.220 interesting concept.

01:07:16.240 Generally speaking, I mean, if you're really trying to master it, if you're just like,

01:07:21.560 you know, goofing off and whatever, that's not the same.

01:07:25.040 Yeah.

01:07:25.220 No, it's an interesting, it's like an interesting standard, right?

01:07:27.760 I'm not an expert at sleep, but I'm pretty good at it.

01:07:31.560 Yeah, you are.

01:07:32.400 You are.

01:07:32.860 I've slept more than 10,000 hours.

01:07:35.440 But up until recently, I have said to my wife, I want to get, I want to get an art teacher.

01:07:44.060 I need to get an art teacher.

01:07:45.180 I need to learn how to paint.

01:07:46.220 I need to learn how to paint.

01:07:47.100 I need to learn how to paint.

01:07:47.880 I've said that to her for years, and every time I say it, she says, make time.

01:07:53.800 Tell me where you'll put it in the schedule, and then we'll hire an art teacher.

01:07:59.900 We go have lessons.

01:08:00.780 I know where they are.

01:08:02.140 We can do that.

01:08:03.040 They exist.

01:08:03.740 They're humans.

01:08:04.300 Make time.

01:08:05.740 So I've never had the schedule to where I can guarantee Thursday night, I can go do X,

01:08:11.360 Y, and Z.

01:08:11.940 Never had the time.

01:08:13.320 Still don't have the time or the schedule that I can do that.

01:08:15.780 But I have decided to make the time, whether it is on the weekend or whether it is in the

01:08:21.260 middle of the night.

01:08:22.180 It's all about priorities, Glenn.

01:08:23.520 What?

01:08:23.880 It's all about priorities.

01:08:24.680 It is.

01:08:25.160 I'm just going to paint.

01:08:27.040 And I have been, I've been watching YouTube and learning how to draw, learning how to paint.

01:08:32.760 And the difference between me painting six months ago and me painting now, and I don't

01:08:39.140 have formal lessons.

01:08:40.360 And now I just hired somebody here in the studios to help.

01:08:43.800 Raf comes down and he'll look at my painting and go, that's crap.

01:08:46.820 And then he'll leave.

01:08:48.460 That's not helpful.

01:08:49.280 Do that again.

01:08:51.000 No, but he's been helping me.

01:08:53.020 But mainly everything has been on YouTube.

01:08:56.800 Why are we waiting around?

01:08:58.300 Why do we think we need an expert?

01:09:02.940 We don't.

01:09:03.860 Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, a lot of that is you're learning from experts, right?

01:09:07.720 So you do need the knowledge.

01:09:09.100 It's just not necessarily, do you need to pay $45,000 a year?

01:09:11.960 Right, but it's not really necessarily.

01:09:13.160 Some of these things are not necessarily from an expert.

01:09:15.520 They're from people I've never even heard of.

01:09:17.160 Right, but they're people that are better at it than you.

01:09:19.160 Correct.

01:09:19.740 You're learning from, and now there's so much knowledge out there.

01:09:23.180 But to the point of, like, these big, even the big colleges that are asking $45,000, $50,000 a year to take their courses, dump a lot of their material online for people to utilize.

01:09:35.480 Look at MIT.

01:09:36.720 Yeah, MIT.

01:09:37.700 There's no, why go to MIT?

01:09:39.480 You can audit every single course that's online.

01:09:44.680 Why do you need the certificate?

01:09:46.120 Now, maybe you need, you know, you want the interaction, maybe you want the, you know, being able to sit and talk to the professor or whatever, use their library.

01:09:57.340 Why would you use their library?

01:10:00.120 Why?

01:10:01.460 I mean, surely there is some benefit of taking, I mean.

01:10:05.120 Oh, of course there is.

01:10:05.800 We all know there are benefits of being in person.

01:10:08.140 But for the average person?

01:10:09.420 Yeah.

01:10:10.100 And again, like, it's one of those things of, like, you could play, golf is an example of this, in that you could start playing golf, and you go from the worst golfer in America to...

01:10:23.240 The world.

01:10:24.220 To the world.

01:10:25.640 To a bad amateur golfer.

01:10:29.700 That's a huge leap, right?

01:10:31.060 Like, you know, like, you can play with your friends on the weekends.

01:10:34.440 That experience, you can do in a year, right?

01:10:37.920 From the worst to, I can play with my friends and keep up.

01:10:42.340 The difference between that and being good at golf takes 30 years, and it's almost impossible.

01:10:49.200 Like, and it's so frustrating.

01:10:50.940 Yeah, but no, wait, wait.

01:10:51.520 Not necessarily good at golf.

01:10:53.200 You're talking about, like, PGA Tour good.

01:10:56.500 Yeah, or, yeah.

01:10:57.340 So there's, so 90% of everything we do is time.

01:11:03.420 It's the 10% that puts you in the stratosphere.

01:11:06.480 So if you're just looking to paint, you're just looking to golf, you're just looking to cook, you're just looking to, you don't need to be certified as one, you know, in the best cooking.

01:11:16.640 Why go to the Culinary Institute if you want to cook?

01:11:20.620 Why?

01:11:21.480 I can learn it now, most of it on TV.

01:11:24.380 Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know.

01:11:28.420 But if you want to be really, really good, you go to the Culinary Institute.

01:11:32.400 Or watch a, no, I don't think so.

01:11:34.860 I think, yes, I think if the degree is important, sure.

01:11:39.680 But what can't I find online now that I could?

01:11:43.620 Yeah, almost nothing.

01:11:44.460 Almost nothing.

01:11:45.220 And who's judging, what restaurant are you going and saying, well, I was from the Culinary Institute, stand in line with everybody else.

01:11:51.160 What's it taste like?

01:11:52.560 And if the guy makes it taste better, I mean, I've seen the documentary, you can have a rat in your hat, and as long as he's pulling your hair so you put the right ingredients into the soup, you get the job.

01:12:05.140 I mean, to use an example of my life, Blue Apron, they're one of our sponsors.

01:12:11.220 I freaking love them.

01:12:13.140 And you can do, I am terrible at cooking, terrible.

01:12:17.080 They send me this box of stuff, it's all in the right amounts, the right ingredients, and with a very easy to follow recipe.

01:12:24.580 And I go through it, and I make meals that taste as good as, you know, any restaurant I've been to.

01:12:31.220 And, you know, I don't know what the hell I'm doing at all.

01:12:33.920 Could we put this to the test?

01:12:35.940 Yes.

01:12:36.720 We could?

01:12:38.540 Sure.

01:12:39.200 So you have the, are you good at putting it together?

01:12:43.420 I mean, I would say I'm not, there's probably a million people who do it much better than I do, but they come out really good.

01:12:49.920 Okay.

01:12:50.360 I'm adequate.

01:12:51.420 I mean, what's the best thing that Blue Apron, well, don't even do that.

01:12:54.820 Let's do this.

01:12:55.900 Let's put you, who has the instructions on how to make it, and something that you've made a few times, that you know I make this really well.

01:13:04.320 Let's do that.

01:13:04.800 Okay.

01:13:05.160 Okay?

01:13:05.360 And put you against the Mercury chef, Matthew.

01:13:10.900 Tell him that he has to go make something from scratch that is the same thing that you have to.

01:13:18.940 Right.

01:13:19.300 Put it in front of somebody and see if they can tell the difference.

01:13:21.680 And by the way, he's not trained at the Culinary Institute.

01:13:23.840 He was trained by his father, who was a food and beverage director.

01:13:28.100 He grew up in the kitchens and learned from chefs just as an apprentice.

01:13:32.260 And now he's a professional private chef.

01:13:33.960 Yeah.

01:13:34.160 And he's really good.

01:13:35.640 Really good.

01:13:35.820 And I will bet you, I mean, he's the quintessential not having a degree and successful.

01:13:43.760 But the show, I think, I bet you.

01:13:47.480 I would even do it right.

01:13:48.520 Honestly, I would take one right out of the box, never made it before, and do it.

01:13:52.700 Like, that's how, I mean, every single one of them comes out the same way, which is really good.

01:13:57.240 And, I mean, I wouldn't even, I don't even have to have made it before.

01:14:00.300 All right.

01:14:00.900 I'll take one right out of the next box I get.

01:14:03.140 So, ask Matthew if he'll do that.

01:14:05.720 No, I mean, he's a professional.

01:14:06.660 Like, I, you know, I don't know what the heck I'm doing.

01:14:08.940 Oh, you can't back down now.

01:14:09.960 I'm not.

01:14:10.380 I'm just saying that, like, surely his years and years and years of experience is going to make, you know, he's going to make something amazing.

01:14:17.580 But, I mean, that's the thing.

01:14:18.360 Like, you can get there.

01:14:20.500 As you're pointing out, like, you don't need to go anymore.

01:14:23.660 With the way that we're pushing information out there.

01:14:26.820 You can do these things in amazing ways quickly.

01:14:30.360 And that's it.

01:14:30.960 We've never been there before in society.

01:14:32.780 So, this all started with the picture of this house.

01:14:36.700 This house is the house that this woman built with her boys.

01:14:41.000 Wow.

01:14:41.660 Wow.

01:14:42.160 It's big.

01:14:43.460 Online.

01:14:44.100 Wow.

01:14:45.540 She built it.

01:14:46.540 Does it say what it cost?

01:14:48.360 Well, I'll go through the story.

01:14:49.940 It says how long it took her to build, too.

01:14:51.840 But all, all from scratch, never before built anything.

01:14:56.380 Including electric?

01:14:57.220 Everything but the electric.

01:14:58.640 She had to have licensed electric and plumbing.

01:15:00.460 Yeah.

01:15:00.600 So, besides what the city required for her to have licensed people do, she did everything

01:15:05.220 herself off of YouTube.

01:15:06.640 Which is almost nothing.

01:15:07.460 It's amazing.

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01:16:47.100 So, a single mom, no training, builds a house from scratch.

01:16:52.840 According to The Blaze, single mom, four young children.

01:16:55.720 Kara Brookings is no stranger to perseverance.

01:16:58.220 Her first marriage ended as a result of her husband's extreme paranoid schizophrenia.

01:17:02.040 She sought to protect her children from a dangerous situation.

01:17:05.660 She met and married a man who was strong and protective, something she felt her and

01:17:08.880 her family needed at the time.

01:17:10.540 However, maybe he was too strong.

01:17:12.260 It developed into a physically and mentally abusive situation.

01:17:15.460 And she soon found herself having to start over and put her life back together once again.

01:17:19.380 But with four children, ages 17, 15, 11, and 18 months, she found herself with nowhere to go.

01:17:25.780 She could only afford a place big enough for her kids to all share one room.

01:17:29.600 Her 17 and 15-year-olds weren't thrilled with a plan.

01:17:33.080 As Brookings and her kids drove past a tornado-ravaged house, she was able to get a look at the bare-bones structure.

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01:19:26.580 Hello, America, and welcome to the program.

01:19:31.240 Just reviewing Rand Paul on the State of the Union yesterday.

01:19:37.480 He was talking about the repeal and replace.

01:19:39.500 And Justin Amash went on a tweet storm about what are we going to do with Obamacare.

01:19:46.140 He is voting against not the repeal.

01:19:49.500 He's voting against the way it's being done.

01:19:53.520 And it's a conversation that we need to have right now.

01:19:56.540 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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01:20:26.540 Mixed bag of Republicans vote against Obamacare repeal vehicle.

01:20:32.680 That is the, that's the story.

01:20:36.100 And most Republicans are saying, well, because there wasn't a replacement.

01:20:40.820 There was just a repeal.

01:20:42.180 Well, but there wasn't a repeal.

01:20:44.540 There wasn't a repeal.

01:20:45.800 This was just a, this was just something that said, we can later vote to repeal it when we're ready.

01:20:54.760 But they tucked it inside of this massive spending package.

01:21:01.680 It is the, it's the latest budget.

01:21:04.600 And it is the worst budget, some claim, that we have ever passed.

01:21:11.960 It adds $9 trillion to the debt.

01:21:17.060 $9 trillion.

01:21:19.440 And I believe it, the number is $9.7 trillion, which you're at, you're just little summary there, just left off $700 billion.

01:21:27.240 Unbelievable.

01:21:27.840 When you get to these numbers, it is incredible what you can just round away as a rounding error.

01:21:34.260 It's incredible.

01:21:35.380 Okay.

01:21:35.580 So Justin Amash went on a tweet storm.

01:21:37.460 I'm going to just give you the tweets.

01:21:38.960 Confused on what the House voted on today?

01:21:41.140 You're not alone.

01:21:42.200 I hope you'll find this explanation in the following tweets helpful.

01:21:46.340 Two, there's been a lot of crazy or lousy reporting and intentional misrepresentation from the partisans on both sides.

01:21:53.640 Today, we voted on the most massive budget in U.S. history.

01:21:57.120 It's been misleadingly described as the Obamacare repeal vote.

01:22:02.360 It is actually a budget resolution that proposes adding more than $9 trillion to the debt over the next decade.

01:22:10.140 Does that extra debt come from repealing Obamacare?

01:22:13.460 No.

01:22:14.340 The budget doesn't even mention Obamacare and it doesn't repeal it.

01:22:18.780 Six tweet.

01:22:19.700 Think about that.

01:22:20.700 It doesn't mention Obamacare.

01:22:24.760 And it doesn't repeal it.

01:22:26.040 And yet it's known as the Obamacare repeal vote.

01:22:30.360 Patriot Act.

01:22:32.320 Later, budget includes reconciliation instructions to allow Congress to bring later a bill to repeal part of the Obamacare plan with a simple majority.

01:22:44.200 But these instructions can be included in any budget.

01:22:48.080 It's not necessary to pass this particular budget, a.k.a. worst budget ever.

01:22:54.080 Partisans of both parties like to describe the vote as an Obamacare repeal vote rather than the budget vote for obvious reasons.

01:23:00.180 Republicans don't want their voters to know that they voted for the most massive budget ever.

01:23:04.960 Democrats want their voters to think it's all about stopping Republicans from repealing Obamacare.

01:23:10.520 Reporters are fixated on the sexy angle, which is the misleading angle that most of the politicians are talking about, Obamacare.

01:23:18.260 So, my no vote does not mean I oppose repealing Obamacare.

01:23:23.480 Sorry, Democrats.

01:23:24.260 That's not what today's vote was about.

01:23:27.020 My no vote was about standing up for limited government and fighting for the next generation.

01:23:31.680 It was about stopping a never-balanced budget.

01:23:35.200 We can't afford more spending and more debt, regardless of whether it's demanded by a Republican president or a Democratic president or a Republican president.

01:23:45.800 Pretty strong.

01:23:46.860 How do you argue with that?

01:23:48.740 I know.

01:23:49.080 I mean, and it is amazing that it is, that is how it's being reported.

01:23:52.740 It's not talking about the $10 trillion of extra debt.

01:23:55.460 It's talking about that they could theoretically repeal Obamacare in the future.

01:24:00.980 How is that the most important detail of a $10 trillion budget?

01:24:04.520 Massey said he would vote against the budget resolution because of the estimated $9.7 trillion it would add to the national debt.

01:24:11.340 He said his fiscal conservative colleagues who voted yes because they only saw the budget as a vehicle to get Obamacare repeal will regret it.

01:24:19.080 We have a Category 5 hurricane coming in when you have to reduce to practice the differences between Donald Trump's agenda and Paul Ryan's.

01:24:31.460 I think there's going to be some very confusing votes in here.

01:24:36.020 And then Amash said what he said.

01:24:38.280 A lot of people fell for what I call, we have to have dinner tonight in Paris, France, or we're going to starve.

01:24:45.600 No, you can have dinner someplace else.

01:24:47.520 Have you seen the replacement?

01:24:52.320 Where else could you have dinner other than Paris?

01:24:54.320 I don't even know if they have food anywhere else.

01:24:56.540 No, the rest of the world is a food desert.

01:24:58.620 I mean, yeah.

01:25:00.040 Or not good food, at least.

01:25:02.560 Paris is the only place with really delicious French food.

01:25:06.600 So, it's totally misleading.

01:25:11.320 What are the replacements look like?

01:25:13.380 Well, quickly, what we're seeing here, there's obviously some comments that were made this weekend talking about more larger government health care.

01:25:20.800 Look at the difference that has happened.

01:25:22.220 This is from March 2016 to January 2017 among Republicans.

01:25:28.080 The support for the idea that it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.

01:25:40.180 This pisses me off.

01:25:41.040 Was 19% last year.

01:25:43.600 Can't take it.

01:25:44.260 And it's gone up to 32%.

01:25:45.920 I can't take it.

01:25:46.680 So, close to doubled in support in one year.

01:25:50.180 Among low-income Republicans, it was 31%, and now it's 52%.

01:25:57.380 Guys, the majority of low-income Republican voters believe the federal government, it is their mandate to make sure every American has health care coverage.

01:26:09.860 That happened in one year, one freaking year.

01:26:14.040 Yeah, the lead guy of the party was an advocate for it.

01:26:19.100 Yeah, so is that Republicans or does that include independents?

01:26:21.780 It is Republicans and Republican leaners.

01:26:25.480 Jeez.

01:26:25.720 And, you know, the amount of people who believe it's Republican or it is the government responsibility among all voters has gone up from, you know, 40s to 60.

01:26:39.000 I mean, it's increasing, which is amazing because people don't, like, I mean, there's a lot of opposition to Obamacare specifically.

01:26:44.700 However, and this has been reported by some sources, some of that opposition is they don't think it went far enough.

01:26:49.740 And we're seeing that much more among Republicans now, where before it was sort of isolated to the Democratic side.

01:26:58.300 So, I don't know if these...

01:26:59.040 You've been a little ray of sunshine today.

01:27:00.840 Yeah, you really have.

01:27:02.000 You really have.

01:27:03.260 You've been Debbie Downer.

01:27:05.160 You used to call me, what, Little Black Rain Cloud?

01:27:07.060 Yeah.

01:27:07.500 You're a big black rain cloud now.

01:27:09.360 Yes, I'm trying to be.

01:27:10.420 You have to say, though, why stop at health care?

01:27:13.660 Why isn't it even more important to eat?

01:27:16.660 Why is it not the government's responsibility to provide food for everybody who can't afford it?

01:27:22.780 Well, shelter for everybody who can't afford it.

01:27:25.420 Why aren't we doing the Soviet Union's constitution now and being a nation of, with a charter of positive liberties?

01:27:34.540 Why don't we say yes to health care?

01:27:37.300 Yes to government provided minimum wage.

01:27:41.040 A minimum income, not just a wage, but at least $30,000, $35,000 a year for everybody because you can't live on anything less than that.

01:27:50.580 Got to have the minimum income.

01:27:51.440 And you're...

01:27:52.100 That's crazy thinking that we'd be the Soviet Union, but yes, I agree with everything else.

01:27:56.060 Right.

01:27:56.640 I know.

01:27:57.400 It's amazing.

01:27:58.180 And look, it goes back to what we've talked about for a very long time.

01:28:01.060 You have to have a foundation or the whims of the moment will move you by 20 points as a society over a one-year period on an issue.

01:28:11.340 You have to actually know why you think the things you think, or this stuff will happen to you all the time.

01:28:18.060 No, those aren't popular.

01:28:20.520 You're right.

01:28:21.000 Those things aren't popular.

01:28:21.400 They aren't.

01:28:22.060 They sure aren't.

01:28:22.660 I'm just being you.

01:28:23.460 Off air today, all day long, you've been like, we're doomed.

01:28:26.860 Well, you said...

01:28:27.220 There's no way...

01:28:28.060 Well, you said little black rain clouds.

01:28:29.580 Most of that was off air, to be fair.

01:28:31.040 I didn't expose that to the poor audience and beat them into the ground.

01:28:33.740 What was it you said about an hour ago?

01:28:35.140 I don't know.

01:28:35.700 We all want to go out and hang ourselves.

01:28:37.000 It was...

01:28:37.420 Nothing I said off the air should ever be on the air.

01:28:39.920 So...

01:28:40.240 Well, you were saying something about stuff like this, that people don't care.

01:28:45.440 People don't...

01:28:46.180 We used to think that half the country was against stuff like this.

01:28:50.680 Well, they cared about principles.

01:28:52.580 They cared about, you know, constitutional principles.

01:28:55.820 Right.

01:28:56.000 They don't.

01:28:56.480 They don't.

01:28:56.940 They don't.

01:28:57.320 And there's just a lot...

01:28:58.240 There's a larger societal thing going on in that forever, as long as I've been alive,

01:29:03.480 there were punishments to individuals in politics and public life for taking one stand

01:29:10.200 six months ago and completely reversing yourself six months later because the tides have changed

01:29:17.520 or whatever.

01:29:18.220 Now, obviously, there are things where information can change that, but that's not...

01:29:22.280 Government healthcare didn't become a wonderful idea in the last six months.

01:29:25.940 And there used to be a punishment for all those activities.

01:29:31.900 And I think, you know, my theory is a lot of it is sort of social media related in that

01:29:37.520 now everyone is on social media and sees 12, 15, 20 times a day you see someone post a politician

01:29:47.040 or a host's old tweets and then they're saying the exact opposite today.

01:29:50.940 And I think we've just been beaten with that for so long, it's no longer notable for someone to be a complete hypocrite six months away from another opinion.

01:29:59.860 I mean, an example that we all can love and cheer on was Paul Krugman, who throughout the Obama administration wrote at least four columns entitled...

01:30:11.320 Let's see if I can just bring it up here real quick.

01:30:14.060 Entitled Debt Doesn't Matter Anymore, I believe was the name of it, as I'm trying to find it.

01:30:19.140 And I know we talked about that at the time.

01:30:22.200 That all of a sudden, what was, under George W. Bush, treasonous.

01:30:28.040 It was treasonous.

01:30:30.660 I believe that was Barack Obama who said that.

01:30:34.260 Treasonous to have this kind of debt and not care.

01:30:38.740 And say that it wasn't a problem.

01:30:41.020 And then when he doubled the national debt in eight years, nobody cared.

01:30:47.000 Now, all of a sudden, people like Paul Krugman are freaking out about the debt.

01:30:52.220 Yeah, it was, you know, no one understands debt and we need more debt.

01:30:55.980 More debt.

01:30:56.460 I believe it was five months ago he said, no, we need more debt.

01:31:01.420 Time to borrow was the title of the column.

01:31:04.360 January 5th or January 9th, 2017, his column entitled Deficits Matter Again.

01:31:12.120 Again.

01:31:12.580 Again.

01:31:12.780 So they didn't matter throughout the entire Obama administration.

01:31:15.940 And then a week before Donald Trump takes office, they now matter again.

01:31:20.980 That used to ruin a career.

01:31:23.940 That used to be something that you'd never recover from.

01:31:28.240 John Kerry, you know, one of the big moments in his campaign was I voted for it before I voted against it.

01:31:33.820 That doesn't matter to anybody anymore.

01:31:36.960 I mean, that is not something that even registers with the American people.

01:31:41.000 Why do you think that is?

01:31:41.320 I, you know, again, I think the social media thing has something to do with it in that it's the same thing with why people are so rude at times.

01:31:48.560 It's it's it's lost its impact.

01:31:50.660 You know, people are you get so many death threats on Twitter.

01:31:54.140 Death threats don't make news to you anymore.

01:31:56.300 You know, and I think the same thing happens with this.

01:31:59.380 I can go online almost every day and find a dozen examples of some smart blogger or reporter going through and finding a tweet from some major public figure where they were saying the exact opposite of what they said today.

01:32:14.540 And it happens so often it has lost its impact.

01:32:19.020 And I think to some at some level has convinced people, well, that's just what people do.

01:32:23.700 There aren't any people who believe in anything anymore.

01:32:26.400 There isn't anyone who cares about principle.

01:32:28.720 The society has stopped rewarding principle behavior and has gone the opposite direction.

01:32:34.960 How do you think you turn the society off and then you go home and never think about it again?

01:32:39.220 And then at some point you die seeing that's not that's good.

01:32:43.340 The best idea is beautiful.

01:32:45.340 It is an idea.

01:32:46.220 And I appreciate that idea.

01:32:47.580 And I feel you feel that idea and your feeling of that idea is valid.

01:32:53.440 Oh, thank you.

01:32:54.280 Wow.

01:32:54.660 Now I feel much better about the now you're about to hit me with.

01:32:57.140 That's a stupid idea.

01:32:59.760 So how so seriously, how do you how do you repair it?

01:33:04.860 I mean, these are the conversations that the mainstream media should be having about their

01:33:09.280 careers right now.

01:33:10.940 How do we repair this?

01:33:12.740 Not, well, it's their fault.

01:33:14.280 That doesn't matter.

01:33:15.340 They're not because they don't see the problem.

01:33:17.720 I don't think they see this problem yet.

01:33:20.080 Oh, they know they're they have no credibility.

01:33:23.120 They just do.

01:33:24.540 I don't know if they do.

01:33:25.420 Oh, I think they do.

01:33:26.640 I think they know they're in trouble.

01:33:27.900 I'm not convinced they they think they have a problem.

01:33:30.860 No, I know.

01:33:31.700 No, wait, wait, wait.

01:33:32.140 They see the problem of their credibility.

01:33:36.100 They just so far are blaming that problem on everything else.

01:33:40.160 They're not taking any of the blame.

01:33:41.880 Right.

01:33:42.100 So you can't help an alcoholic who's like, I'm only drinking.

01:33:45.400 Daddy's only drinking because you cry, kids.

01:33:49.360 You stop crying.

01:33:50.780 Daddy would stop beating you.

01:33:54.020 I honestly think, first of all, you can't care about the societal aspects of this.

01:33:58.980 Really, you have to do it on your own.

01:34:00.280 I mean, you've talked about this a million times about changing yourself and caring about

01:34:04.040 your family rather than giant society.

01:34:05.660 But it's I used to a long time ago date a girl who had a bunch of tattoos.

01:34:09.740 And at one point I asked her, I said, you know, when you get old, like these tattoos,

01:34:14.140 you're going to have it's going to be wrinkled tattoo fest everywhere.

01:34:16.640 You realize that.

01:34:17.320 Right.

01:34:18.100 And what she said was, yeah, but by the time that I grow old, lots of people are going

01:34:22.760 to have wrinkled tattoo fest and it won't be a big deal anymore.

01:34:24.900 And I think that she's right.

01:34:27.040 There's a there's truth in that in a weird way that like I'll send you a link.

01:34:31.580 No, no, I don't want to see any of the links, any of the pictures.

01:34:33.780 But I think that there's a I think there's a true probably have a link to that.

01:34:37.180 Oh, absolutely.

01:34:38.160 Really old, creepy people with tattoos.

01:34:40.160 You know, he does.

01:34:41.040 Yeah.

01:34:41.320 A link.

01:34:41.720 He's got several sites.

01:34:42.900 He's developed based on that.

01:34:44.460 I saw a picture.

01:34:45.480 I don't know where I was.

01:34:46.360 I saw a picture of a really, really old guy who must have lost a lot of weight and

01:34:51.480 he must have been in his 80s and he had tattoos that may have one time been up as his bicep

01:34:57.740 that were no longer really at his bicep.

01:35:00.620 It was creepy and weird.

01:35:02.380 I just want to say you're probably at Jeff.

01:35:04.780 You came across my line.

01:35:05.660 Yeah.

01:35:05.700 Just saying.

01:35:06.200 Yeah.

01:35:06.420 Okay.

01:35:06.800 Anyway.

01:35:07.100 But I think that's the I think that's you have to the only way I can get through the

01:35:10.960 day going through social media is that I don't care about it.

01:35:13.440 People are like, oh, I bet I got you on that point.

01:35:15.460 I never care if you get me on some point that you think you've you think you've changed

01:35:19.180 my life and my perspective based on your tweet.

01:35:21.080 I promise you I don't care about it.

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01:37:38.560 Stu was just talking about you have to not care anymore.

01:37:42.980 To be able to manage online, you have to not care.

01:37:48.960 This weekend, somebody wrote, or maybe it was early last week,

01:37:52.060 somebody wrote about this Tucker Carlson interview that I did.

01:37:54.920 Apparently, Tucker wrote me this weekend and said it was the most watched or most downloaded video clip of the week.

01:38:01.500 Oh, nice.

01:38:01.960 He said, by far, on FoxNews.com.

01:38:04.560 Great.

01:38:05.400 I'm happy.

01:38:05.920 Some people took his interview as hostile, that he was asking really hostile questions.

01:38:15.220 Oh, who could have thought that?

01:38:17.300 You did.

01:38:17.960 That's interesting.

01:38:18.640 And in the old days, you know, I might have thought that, too.

01:38:22.560 Fascinating.

01:38:23.000 And I thought to myself, because somebody said, hey, what really nice handling.

01:38:27.000 Well, huh?

01:38:27.560 It was an hostile question.

01:38:28.720 And I thought to myself, huh?

01:38:31.000 Yeah, I guess they were.

01:38:32.440 I guess you could perceive it that way.

01:38:34.440 But I didn't, because I don't care.

01:38:36.960 I was willing to answer every question and not defend myself.

01:38:41.560 Just, yeah.

01:38:43.680 Yeah, for sure.

01:38:44.400 Yeah.

01:38:44.880 And that you weren't worried about losing.

01:38:46.240 That's how it came off, too.

01:38:46.940 Yeah.

01:38:47.440 Yeah.

01:38:47.960 So that's good.

01:38:48.460 And so there was no fight.

01:38:49.900 Right.

01:38:50.260 If he intended, and I don't think he did.

01:38:52.500 I mean, he's written several times.

01:38:54.060 I've written to him several times.

01:38:56.100 You know, I don't know if he was looking for a fight, but it didn't happen.

01:38:59.380 And it was good.

01:39:02.040 And it worked out good for him, worked out well for me.

01:39:04.460 And the secret is, and I know that everybody has always said this to me, Glenn, just, why

01:39:11.920 do you care?

01:39:13.060 Why do you care?

01:39:13.760 I don't know, because I do.

01:39:15.980 I think I've finally gotten into a place to where, nah, I really don't anymore.

01:39:21.380 Don't care.

01:39:21.860 Uh-uh.

01:39:23.200 No.

01:39:24.080 Yeah.

01:39:24.580 Someone tweeted me the other day and said, there's Russian proof that Glenn Beck is a

01:39:30.400 gay prostitute, and that Pat and Stu are his gay pimps, to which I responded, and I said,

01:39:38.720 are you, just for clarification, are you saying that we are both gay, or pimps, and that just

01:39:45.560 happened to be gay, or are you saying that we're pimps that only, like-

01:39:49.320 Traffic in gay people.

01:39:50.600 Exactly.

01:39:51.440 No clarification on that, unfortunately, came.

01:39:54.120 But when you don't care, those things don't bother you.

01:39:56.900 You have to Bill Belichick it a little bit.

01:39:58.480 Bill Belichick, of course, as you know, Glenn, great coach of the New England Patriots.

01:40:03.500 New England Patriots, yeah.

01:40:04.160 But there was this controversy about using social media among players, and he just said,

01:40:08.980 yeah, as you know, I'm not on Snap Face and all that, so I don't really get those.

01:40:13.020 Snap Face.

01:40:13.840 I'm not really worried about what they put on Instant Chat.

01:40:18.220 I don't know what those things are, but he doesn't care.

01:40:20.580 Amen.

01:40:21.080 And better for him for it.

01:40:22.100 Yep.

01:40:22.600 Yep.

01:40:25.400 Snap Face.

01:40:28.480 The Glenn Beck Program.

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01:40:40.960 We're just sitting here bitching about Apple and Apple products.

01:40:46.260 Pat will not switch over to Apple.

01:40:48.640 Not for the computer, huh?

01:40:50.040 Yeah.

01:40:50.940 I mean-

01:40:51.720 I was that way for a long time.

01:40:52.980 Me too.

01:40:53.240 And then I eventually just like, all right.

01:40:54.720 Me too.

01:40:55.080 And I like it.

01:40:55.860 I love Apple products.

01:40:57.060 I had so many problems with my PCs over the years.

01:40:59.060 I like the iPhone and the iPad, but for the laptop, it just, it doesn't work for me.

01:41:04.200 Just because of what I do.

01:41:05.620 And first of all, I am set in my ways, and I don't want to learn a new system.

01:41:09.060 And every time I use my wife's computer, which is Apple, everything's upside down to me.

01:41:12.920 And I-

01:41:13.440 Yeah.

01:41:13.960 Totally understand.

01:41:14.460 I just can't.

01:41:15.160 I did that too.

01:41:16.780 You have to force yourself to say, I'm going to take three months of hell.

01:41:20.320 Yeah.

01:41:20.640 And I don't want to.

01:41:21.600 I don't want to.

01:41:22.980 I think it's worth it, except for the chords.

01:41:25.220 And you can't get, like, I still like the CD player in it.

01:41:29.240 I still like that feature in the PCs.

01:41:34.140 And it's not compatible with the audio system here.

01:41:37.740 I like record players in mind, but-

01:41:39.920 I know, you know, I know, but I can't, I can't tell you how many, how many words that

01:41:48.180 I should not use, that I used on the Apple cord system this weekend.

01:41:53.100 The Apple cord system?

01:41:54.420 Yeah.

01:41:54.780 The, you know, the system that they have where they make a three foot cord and nobody sits

01:41:58.980 three feet.

01:41:59.420 Well, you may not sit, I think this is federal law.

01:42:02.000 You may not sit more than three feet from a wall.

01:42:04.800 Well, no, you have to sit up against the wall because it has to be three feet up to your

01:42:09.520 lap.

01:42:10.260 So you have to have your back against the wall.

01:42:12.840 If you really do.

01:42:13.520 No, I see these people in the airport who apparently love to sit on the floor near the outlet.

01:42:19.160 I'm not one of them.

01:42:20.160 Me neither.

01:42:20.760 And I don't have a problem.

01:42:22.540 Here's my real problem.

01:42:24.560 Apple won't sell me a damn Apple cord.

01:42:27.340 There's no option.

01:42:29.300 Would you like a longer cord?

01:42:30.660 Can you imagine how much a longer-

01:42:31.160 Would you like to be a real human being?

01:42:33.220 What would a longer Apple cord cost?

01:42:36.280 $900?

01:42:37.440 And I'd pay it.

01:42:38.920 I know.

01:42:39.680 I'd pay it.

01:42:40.500 I am so sick and tired of buying cords that don't work with, sorry, not, I've purchased

01:42:46.440 a cord at Apple and then had it come up.

01:42:48.920 This application not available on the, I bought it from Apple.

01:42:53.000 Yeah.

01:42:53.500 I can't take it.

01:42:55.140 I can't take it.

01:42:55.880 I've originally purchased a long cord from the Apple store, which yes, I paid approximately

01:43:01.020 $875 for it.

01:43:03.060 But it's really long.

01:43:04.600 It's really nice.

01:43:05.740 But again, it's an investment.

01:43:06.820 It sounds like he's, it's like Donald Trump describing the cord.

01:43:10.240 It's the greatest cord of all time.

01:43:10.980 It's really great.

01:43:11.880 It's long.

01:43:12.820 I got it cheaper than what Pat said.

01:43:14.480 It works.

01:43:15.500 It's a beautiful cord.

01:43:16.260 Beautiful cord.

01:43:16.780 It's like, it's a, it's like rope almost.

01:43:19.320 Like the material is almost like it's like a rope.

01:43:21.400 It's weird, but it's very, you can walk halfway across the room.

01:43:26.040 Oh, you're kidding.

01:43:26.620 And it works.

01:43:27.600 It actually works.

01:43:28.660 Cause a lot of times you go on an Amazon, for example, and by, I purchase a lot of long

01:43:33.320 cords to fit Apple products for Amazon.

01:43:35.260 And then you go back, you plug them in and they either don't work or they work for a week

01:43:38.980 and stop.

01:43:40.380 You know, you get, I feel like with Apple, they're so weird.

01:43:43.900 You have to actually go inside the store and purchase it from them.

01:43:47.540 And even then it's only about 75% chance it's actually going to work.

01:43:50.320 Yeah.

01:43:50.440 I did that.

01:43:51.140 It didn't, it didn't work.

01:43:52.140 It did not work.

01:43:53.220 And I, I can't take it.

01:43:54.560 So, cause I read in bed.

01:43:55.680 And so I, I, I read if I'm not, if my, if I don't have an outlet in my pillow, I can't

01:44:04.960 plug it in.

01:44:05.600 I can't plug it in.

01:44:06.400 I look to solve that.

01:44:07.420 It's solved.

01:44:07.800 Oh, so I will give you, I want to know the name of the cord.

01:44:11.200 I want to, and I want your personal guarantee.

01:44:13.380 Is it under $900?

01:44:15.160 A little bit.

01:44:15.960 He said it'd be five.

01:44:17.060 We took out a second mortgage to get it paid for.

01:44:19.980 Do you know that, do you know that Steve Jobs was not a billionaire because of Apple?

01:44:25.680 That's cause he didn't invent the, uh, plug in a pillow.

01:44:28.640 Yeah, I know.

01:44:29.380 I know he could have been, he could have been, he, that's not where he really made his money.

01:44:34.140 We had to make some of it from there.

01:44:35.800 I mean, a lot.

01:44:36.600 He did.

01:44:37.280 At the end.

01:44:37.520 But he took his investment, he took, he got $50 million in Apple stock, uh, when he left.

01:44:44.980 I know he invested in Pixar.

01:44:46.700 And he took it and put it all in Pixar.

01:44:48.980 Yeah, I knew that.

01:44:49.660 So he made $50 million from Apple.

01:44:51.980 He checked out and he invested it all in Pixar.

01:44:56.260 When he died, he was the largest shareholder of Disney.

01:45:01.820 Wow.

01:45:02.880 Think of that.

01:45:03.720 Wow.

01:45:04.020 Jeez.

01:45:04.580 Think of that.

01:45:05.160 It's a couple pennies.

01:45:06.120 I mean, that's, that's absolutely amazing.

01:45:07.800 We have a special, this is a, by the way, a toy, uh, this is a Woody doll signed by John

01:45:12.180 Lasseter.

01:45:13.520 Um, uh, we were doing a special on John Lasseter is John Lasseter is the managing partner.

01:45:22.140 He is the, he is the heart behind Pixar.

01:45:24.400 Right.

01:45:24.600 Um, anyway, so, uh, we have a special on John Lasseter and Bill Gates and tying the two

01:45:31.020 stories together, or not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, uh, tying the two stories together is

01:45:35.400 absolutely incredible.

01:45:36.400 When you see where each of them were in their career, right time, right place, right message.

01:45:43.340 It's unbelievable, unbelievable.

01:45:45.260 And what they built on really a roll of the dice that no one saw besides Steve Jobs.

01:45:51.520 The Pixar story is a great one.

01:45:55.340 I, it's an incredible story.

01:45:57.140 The Apple story, not so great because of the damn short cord, but I mean, it's like, you

01:46:05.260 know, it's like a Woody doll.

01:46:06.420 I'm surprised that though, you didn't pull a string on the Woody doll and say, reach for

01:46:10.440 the, I guess we should make the string a little longer, huh, Steve?

01:46:17.820 Anyway, uh, all right.

01:46:20.600 What else do we have to, uh, sweep up on here?

01:46:24.080 Um, well, we could do, we, I mean, we've been, uh, you teased the story about the European

01:46:29.880 union already giving rights to robots, which is, they call them electronic personhood, electronic

01:46:37.260 personhood.

01:46:37.960 Okay.

01:46:38.120 So if you saw AI, this has now happened.

01:46:41.940 Remember AI, the three robot was good.

01:46:43.800 Oh yeah.

01:46:43.920 That's what I meant.

01:46:44.580 I robot, um, I robot had the three rules.

01:46:47.460 And the first one was you couldn't hurt a human.

01:46:51.060 You have to do everything to save a human, right?

01:46:55.140 Was that right?

01:46:56.020 And then you can't allow humans to get harmed.

01:46:58.120 Yeah.

01:46:58.260 You can't allow humans to get harmed and you can't harm yourself or allow yourself to be

01:47:02.200 harmed unless it violates the first two.

01:47:04.440 Right.

01:47:04.660 Something can't do anything that violates the first two or something.

01:47:07.720 And I thought, wow, I, I hope we're having that discussion someplace.

01:47:13.740 Well, we actually did.

01:47:15.340 The European parliament voted last week to legally bestow electronic personhood to robots.

01:47:24.180 Electronic personhood.

01:47:25.800 Unbelievable.

01:47:26.280 This goes to Ray Kurzweil saying that there will be more attorneys for computers by 2050

01:47:34.960 than there will be, than there are for men today.

01:47:41.040 Think of that.

01:47:42.820 You're going to be one of these days, you're going to be in court against the computer.

01:47:47.660 The status includes a list of rights, responsibilities, regulations, and a kill switch.

01:47:53.500 They voted 17 to two to a draft report, uh, believes, uh, bots, robots, androids, and other

01:48:01.980 manifestations of artificial intelligence will spawn a new industrial revolution.

01:48:06.840 They look to govern the AI behavior array of the, here are the, the, um, uh, robotic little

01:48:15.300 three laws of robotics from Isaac Asim, Asimov, um, a robot may not harm humanity by inaction

01:48:23.140 or allow humanity, uh, uh, humanity to come to harm.

01:48:26.720 That's now part of the, um, EU's law.

01:48:32.680 The rules also affect the developers who have to engineer the robots in such a way that they

01:48:37.700 can be controlled.

01:48:38.580 This includes a kill switch, a mechanism by which rogue robots can be terminated or shut

01:48:44.360 down remotely.

01:48:45.620 Hmm.

01:48:46.860 Yep.

01:48:47.200 That worked good in iRobot.

01:48:49.000 Didn't it?

01:48:49.400 Unfortunately, there is a possibility that within the space of a few decades, AI could

01:48:54.900 surpass human intellectual capacity in a manner, which if not prepared for could pose a challenge

01:49:00.520 to humanity's capacity to control its own creation.

01:49:03.620 And consequently, consequently, perhaps its own capacity to be in charge of its own destiny

01:49:09.920 and to ensure the survival of the human species.

01:49:13.280 That is in a government document now.

01:49:21.940 The report also, uh, notes the potential for increased inequality in the distribution

01:49:27.300 of wealth and influence.

01:49:29.020 If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.

01:49:35.020 Everyone can enjoy a luxurious leisurely life.

01:49:37.780 If the machine produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor.

01:49:43.080 If the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth risk redistribution.

01:49:47.420 So far, the trend seems to be towards the second option with technological, uh, with technology

01:49:53.640 driving ever-increasing inequality.

01:49:56.420 Oh boy.

01:49:57.960 We have, uh, we have so many things, so many new reasons for wealth inequality and wealth redistribution

01:50:11.820 that are headed our way that nobody has even thought of yet.

01:50:14.800 Nice to see the EU leading the way on that too.

01:50:18.900 That's, that's, that always leads, that leads to goodness.

01:50:22.740 Yeah.

01:50:22.760 The only thing that could be possibly better is if the United Nations did.

01:50:25.660 Right.

01:50:26.460 Right.

01:50:26.960 Then it'd be great.

01:50:28.080 Um, a couple other things for the inauguration as we get closer.

01:50:30.800 Uh, Donald Trump, uh, he's, uh, they're putting together all the events and everything.

01:50:35.800 Workers for a Virginia company supplying portable toilets for his inauguration.

01:50:40.300 Yeah.

01:50:40.880 Um, please tell me they're not boycotting.

01:50:42.940 A little upset.

01:50:43.340 They were, they were a little upset.

01:50:44.800 Um, and they noticed that their, the company name was being covered up on all the toilets.

01:50:49.920 Um, what's the company?

01:50:51.860 Right.

01:50:52.300 The company name is Don's Johns.

01:50:54.540 Oh my gosh.

01:50:55.100 So like it's completely unrelated to Donald Trump, but because of the name was Don's Johns,

01:51:00.160 they thought it would be kind of embarrassing at this really regal event that, you know,

01:51:04.320 the guy on stage, uh, you know, that they kind of look like he just put a bunch of Johns

01:51:09.400 out there.

01:51:09.840 I wonder if John F.

01:51:11.660 Kennedy did that with Porta John.

01:51:13.520 Yeah, probably, probably not.

01:51:15.420 Probably not.

01:51:16.220 Um, and I, I, sadly, uh, we are seeing a major, uh, entertainment, uh, collapse here.

01:51:22.660 I know he's very upset.

01:51:23.880 Um, however, this part is really bizarre.

01:51:26.680 Uh, the B street band is pulled out.

01:51:29.280 Uh, the E street band.

01:51:30.640 The B street band is pulled out, uh, of the upcoming form.

01:51:34.180 But it's not the E street.

01:51:35.200 It's not the E street.

01:51:36.160 No, no.

01:51:36.800 Because the E street band would not perform it.

01:51:39.160 So I was shocked that they were going to, and then pull out, but this is not the E street.

01:51:44.620 Who is the B street?

01:51:45.900 The B street band is a Bruce Springsteen cover band that they had brought in to actually play

01:51:54.040 for the inauguration.

01:51:55.900 Uh, so now even that's how much they're alike.

01:52:00.420 They're there.

01:52:01.180 They're they've covered the E street so well that they're even doing a cover of their not

01:52:06.960 playing the inauguration.

01:52:08.840 That's good.

01:52:09.800 That's exactly it.

01:52:10.960 Uh, so yeah, I guess like they initially were going to do it for, you know, the office,

01:52:13.960 we respect the office, but now they've been beat up apparently by their fans so much.

01:52:17.880 They've decided to pull out of the, uh, inauguration events.

01:52:21.200 So no Bruce Springsteen cover bands.

01:52:23.380 If you're going to DC, you see Toby Keith.

01:52:26.100 Toby Keith is like, look, I played for Obama.

01:52:28.140 I played for Bush.

01:52:29.160 I'll play for this guy.

01:52:30.600 It's the president of the United States.

01:52:31.980 It doesn't surprise anyone that he would play for Donald Trump.

01:52:34.340 Same thing with the Mormon tabernacle choir.

01:52:36.440 I support the Mormon tabernacle choir going.

01:52:39.140 Absolutely.

01:52:39.680 It's the president of the United States.

01:52:41.580 Why not?

01:52:42.760 Did you see the, do you see the woman who said she has to leave the moment?

01:52:47.600 She quit the choir, which is a really big deal.

01:52:49.560 People.

01:52:50.020 Yeah.

01:52:50.380 No, you don't.

01:52:50.820 Once you get there, you don't do that.

01:52:52.320 There's a waiting list like.

01:52:53.920 Yeah.

01:52:54.140 Years and years.

01:52:54.960 Decades.

01:52:55.320 I mean, you just don't get that honor to sing with the choir.

01:52:58.600 And, uh, she was part of it and she backed out.

01:53:01.540 She said, I can't live with myself.

01:53:03.380 If, if, if I go, I can't, I can't make this happen.

01:53:07.360 I can't, I can't put these two together.

01:53:10.040 And I don't think she's a fan of mine.

01:53:13.380 Uh, and I wrote her a letter and said, Hey, look, I never heard back from her, but I wrote

01:53:17.800 her a letter and said, you know, while I don't necessarily agree with you, congratulations

01:53:22.860 for taking a stand.

01:53:23.980 And the same thing to the Mormon tabernacle choir for going, congratulations for taking a stand.

01:53:29.460 And this is what we're supposed to do.

01:53:31.100 Why are, why are we demonizing each other for this?

01:53:34.020 I don't, you know, the thing I don't like about the bands is it's all group thing.

01:53:38.580 It's all group thing.

01:53:42.120 How many of these bands, how many of these people, if they weren't living around all of

01:53:47.100 the people that they're living around would still be doing this?

01:53:51.340 How many would go, I use the president.

01:53:54.060 I think it's kind of cool.

01:53:54.880 I'll play.

01:53:55.620 Yeah.

01:53:55.860 A lot.

01:53:56.660 You can answer that a lot pretty clearly in the fact that Donald Trump, uh, hasn't always

01:54:00.380 been president or president elect.

01:54:02.340 And these bands all played in his places.

01:54:05.600 Yeah.

01:54:05.720 They all went to his casino.

01:54:06.760 They all took his money when he was the same person that he is today.

01:54:10.800 They all, they all had their picture taken.

01:54:13.360 Absolutely.

01:54:14.180 Yep.

01:54:14.460 And then it's the second that now he's, you know, a Republican president elect.

01:54:17.860 They all, he should release the pictures of him with all of these.

01:54:20.780 Should just like him.

01:54:22.340 He should.

01:54:22.820 This would be, that's that, that's, that's the use of Twitter.

01:54:25.620 Release all of the pictures with you with all of these stars that now hate your guts.

01:54:29.540 I think that's great.

01:54:30.780 He should do that all inauguration day.

01:54:32.900 Might cheapen the office a bit.

01:54:34.300 Sure.

01:54:34.500 Now this last week, we discussed the world bank's economic report.

01:54:39.220 This week, it's the international monetary fund.

01:54:42.020 Here's the headline.

01:54:43.140 IMF upgrades.

01:54:44.120 U S growth forecast is Donald Trump reshapes global outlook.

01:54:48.220 Thanks to the president's, uh, the incoming president's plans to cut taxes and boost infrastructure

01:54:53.900 spending the IMF is saying, Hey, there's some economic growth here for the U S the, uh, output,

01:55:01.060 according to the IMF, nearly half a percentage point faster than they thought this time last

01:55:05.860 year.

01:55:06.620 Now with that knowledge, what do you do?

01:55:09.240 Well, you also look at what does that mean?

01:55:11.740 When the economy starts to grow, we are going to have to raise interest rates to suck back

01:55:19.040 all of this money.

01:55:20.160 This has never been done before.

01:55:22.460 Can it happen?

01:55:24.080 Sure.

01:55:24.760 It could.

01:55:25.680 It's never been done before has to be done exactly right.

01:55:29.180 And what does it mean if it doesn't hyperinflation and a collapse of the system, 10% of your

01:55:37.020 investment as a guard against hyperinflation or massive inflation that we're seeing now

01:55:42.320 on the stock market.

01:55:43.280 I think it's a pretty good idea, but you do your own homework, read their important risk

01:55:47.060 information, find out if buying gold, silver, or platinum, which is cheaper.

01:55:50.180 Now, this is crazy than gold.

01:55:52.040 Call them eight, six, six gold line, one, eight, six, six gold line or gold line.com.

01:55:56.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:56:11.520 You know, I'm so disappointed in John Lewis and anybody else who's not going to the inauguration.

01:56:19.520 If you are a member of Congress, you go.

01:56:24.800 It's a president.

01:56:26.340 It is part of the peaceful transfer of power.

01:56:31.120 This is, you're going because of the office, not because of the man.

01:56:37.040 I guess I can see that argument.

01:56:38.660 I mean, you as a citizen may or may not go.

01:56:43.800 Okay.

01:56:43.960 But if you are a congressman, do you not think you should go?

01:56:52.400 Yeah.

01:56:52.540 I mean, I think as a congressman, you probably do for multiple reasons.

01:56:55.520 Yeah.

01:56:55.760 People transition to power.

01:56:56.880 You don't want to deal with the fallout.

01:56:58.560 There's a lot of that.

01:56:59.380 And I was actually talking about, you said you were disappointed in John Lewis.

01:57:02.140 And at this point, I can't understand how anyone could be disappointed in him.

01:57:05.260 I mean, this is what he does.

01:57:06.140 Like, this is what he does.

01:57:08.160 Like, you know, they said the same thing about John McCain.

01:57:10.180 No one had any trouble criticizing anything that John McCain did, even though he was a war hero.

01:57:14.640 You do something.

01:57:15.040 Yeah, I'm tired of that.

01:57:16.460 It's not a shield.

01:57:17.720 Rand Paul said it best.

01:57:19.100 It doesn't give you a shield of protection, something you did 60 years ago.

01:57:22.680 I mean.

01:57:23.400 It could still be great and you could still suck today.

01:57:25.280 Right.

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01:57:29.980 Mercury.

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