Former President Bill Clinton accused of paying hush money to cover up a sex scandal involving Donald Trump. Should he be prosecuted? Glenn Beck answers that question and much more on this episode of the Glenn Beck Show. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show and is a frequent contributor to conservative media outlets such as Fox News and the New York Times.
00:00:01.480Stu's been on vacation, so he's been, you know, just kicking back, relaxing while those Americans working hard to make sure this economy keeps going, that we keep business here in America, that we have labor forces here in America that can help the country.
00:07:03.960Because in normal times, when we would gather together, we would come with our families.
00:07:09.120Now, people don't want to bring their families to things like this because, I don't know, you could have a crazy man or Ray Apps next to you.
00:07:24.220I don't want to march with a bunch of people.
00:07:38.600That, yeah, they'll do this to the president of the United States and they'll shut you up because they're just letting people languish in jail or in prison.
00:07:49.800For January 6th, you saw what happened with a shaman.
00:18:22.720Masking the pain only makes things, you know, that's just telling your body, oh, yeah, turn off that car alarm because nobody's going to look anyway.
00:20:47.320You know, I love that because the insinuation is if a layperson might think it's important, a smart person, a person in the know, would realize, of course, it's not important.
00:21:31.780I mean, that I didn't say to you, well, it looks bad to a lay person, but we're smarter than you here in the press and the really smart people in Washington.
00:22:07.400And now, once again, well, it looks bad that checks were written to, you know, the daughter in law to a lay person, but a non lay person, an expert knows.
00:26:37.020This is having real consequences on Americans.
00:26:38.860And now you're pointing out, rightly, that we've got a two tier or multi tier justice system where you've got a radical Manhattan D.A.
00:26:48.140clearly doing the bidding of leftists in New York to basically trump up, so to speak, and go, you know, find a charge to levy against the former president because the feds passed on it.
00:27:01.340I mean, think about that for a second.
00:27:02.600The feds passed on what we're talking about here, probably because they looked at Michael Cohen as being kind of a dubious witness.
00:27:10.480But now they're going to go try to back into this thing with some sort of business records thing and try to turn this into a felony when at most it's maybe a misdemeanor.
00:27:20.820I mean, look, at the end of the day, you cannot walk away from the fact that the former president clearly paid a porn star off to hush up right before an election.
00:27:31.420Correct. That occurred. But when the prosecutors are trying to turn that, which seems to be a very personal thing that he wanted to deal with just to get, you know, off the table and turn that into a, you know, cause celeb to go after the former president.
00:27:48.300Now you've got the politicization of the justice system, the rule of law, and you're turning into a banana republic.
00:27:55.080This is why people don't understand how Chip Roy, who supported the America First agenda, but had issues with some of the things the president said and done, and that I support Ron DeSantis.
00:28:05.360But yet this weekend I was blasting the Manhattan DA because they're politicizing the district attorney's office.
00:28:12.780Look, man, we're all going to be dead and gone in 20, 40, 50 years.
00:28:16.240We've got to save this republic for our kids and grandkids, and the rule of law matters, and the rule of law can only be supported if you're not politicizing it.
00:28:23.480And again, I'm not brushing aside what could be a misdemeanor. I don't know. I haven't seen the indictment. It's not out yet.
00:28:29.580But it's clearly a politicized effort to target the former president. That's wrong, and it should send chills up the spine of every American about our justice system.
00:28:39.220Because if they can do it to him, they can go after anyone, you know, for some breach of some of the thousands of statutes out there that have been passed wantonly for decades.
00:28:49.880Well, what concerns me here is that, you know, the president said, you know, I hope that people are out in the street protesting.
00:28:58.640People aren't going to be out in the street because if they're doing this to the president, we know what they did to grandmas who, you know, spent time in jail for parading was the charge on January 6th.
00:29:13.620I want the bad guys of January 6th to go to jail. I want the people who weren't part of some conspiracy or revved up by people like Ray Epps to, you know, go free.
00:29:26.120We have a system here where, quite honestly, Chip, I don't think the GOP is standing up for our rights enough.
00:29:36.440I just don't see the understanding that our republic is over if we don't stop the administration from just making up new laws, bailing out banks because they decide they can and others they don't want to.
00:29:58.680We have no law. And for the feds to pass on this, for this district attorney to originally pass on this and now come back to it as a I got the guy.
00:30:12.260Let me find the crime. We got nothing left. Where when when will the GOP come together and say this is a real problem and we've got to stand up for the bill of rights?
00:30:27.420Yeah, Glenn, you're you're you're preaching my language, brother, and I mean it.
00:30:33.060You know, I have been pushing my colleagues that we have got to be aggressive, aggressive in going after how the bureaucracy in Washington and generally in government is being weaponized against the American people.
00:30:47.940You brought up January 6th. You can be an American and believe what you just said, which is exactly right, Glenn,
00:30:55.040that there were people there who made some really stupid mistakes and should be punished for it.
00:31:00.660And there were some people there who are being railroaded by politicized, quote unquote, justice, shoved through a system, left in jail, targeted for, you know, parading and so forth.
00:31:12.380And you can you can believe two things at the same time. You can believe that the president made a mistake and, you know, is, you know, having to deal with that by paying off again a porn star for a tryst or an alleged tryst right before an election,
00:31:26.560but not believe that you should have a Manhattan DA, as you just said, who is now going after a, quote, falsifying business records, which is a misdemeanor under New York law and trying to turn it into a felony by trying to connect it to saying it was in committing another crime,
00:31:42.980but trying to use essentially the federal crime as the other crime, which is the federal crime, the federal law enforcement chose not to pursue.
00:31:51.620Look, this is banana republic stuff. We have an obligation to save this country and defend the rule of law.
00:31:58.580That is why I took the path of saying that we should actually stand up and accept the electors two years ago.
00:32:05.320That was hard to do because a lot of my Trump supporters were like, hey, why are you doing this?
00:32:10.280You know why? Because I had 50 sets of electors and I had an obligation to process 50 slates of electors.
00:32:17.400I believe that you've got to objectively try to go fight for the rule of law if you want to save this republic for our kids and grandkids,
00:32:25.120no matter what the political ramifications and realities are.
00:33:03.220Look, we need to shake the whole system as Republicans.
00:33:06.580We need to get out and say we're not going to spend another dollar.
00:33:09.760We're not going to borrow another dollar.
00:33:11.420We're not going to spend another dollar unless we stop funding crazy.
00:33:15.560We're going to take back this system right now.
00:33:18.420And my message to Republicans is good luck getting something to the rules committee with me on it.
00:33:22.820We're not blasting them from here to kingdom come if they don't stop funding the very things that you and I are talking about, undermining our freedom.
00:33:32.920Stop funding this woke, weaponized garbage.
00:33:35.940Undermine and, you know, let's make the FBI, you know, feel like they've been, you know, totally undermined and lost their power rather than getting a new $400 million headquarters in Maryland.
00:33:54.500And I knew that's what you would say because you have been blasting the GOP.
00:33:58.800But I am urging my listeners to call every member of the House and the Senate and everybody they know that's in with the GOP from the local level all the way to the top.
00:34:10.460Say, I'm done with you if you don't start defending the Constitution of the United States.
00:34:24.300Governments are instituted among men to protect these rights.
00:34:29.560When I don't feel comfortable marching in the United States of America, I don't feel comfortable that I wouldn't be swept up into some sting operation or trumped up charges.
00:34:46.000This is supposed to be the freest nation.
00:34:48.080When France can have demonstrations and they go ugly and you have the people who are being arrested, the ones who were causing the problem and the other people go free and we don't feel we have that here.
00:35:03.660There's a real problem, a real problem.
00:35:06.840And Glenn, here's the question that every Republican should be asked when all of your listeners call in.
00:35:11.840Just literally ask them, why on earth should they fund the expansion of the IRS to the tune of $80 billion?
00:35:18.960Why should they fund the continued payment of welfare to people not working and expansion of Medicaid to people not working?
00:35:25.680Why should they fund the new $400 million headquarters for the FBI?
00:35:28.960Why should they fund COVID vaccine mandates and discrimination still going on as we speak at DOD?
00:35:35.880Why should they fund a VA that is changing its motto to eliminate the President Lincoln quote, which said to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and for his orphan.
00:35:46.980They want to, you know, politically correct that and take the his out.
00:35:50.740Why are we funding the World Health Organization?
00:35:52.880Why are we funding gender transition and other similar programs?
00:35:56.060Why would we fund the Manhattan D.A.'s office to politicize the prosecution of a former president?
00:36:01.980Why would we continue to fund the massive Department of Homeland Security that is literally ignoring the law and exposing American people to 72,000 dead fentanyl Americans and actually killing migrants in the process?
00:37:22.580Now, I'm going to give you I'm just running late already, but I'm going to give you a perspective on what's happening with the banking situation.
00:37:34.720And I'm not telling you something that I I'm not doing myself.
00:37:38.440I told my wife last night, honey, we've got to go to Costco and we just got to stock up on food, because if this, God forbid, is the moment, you better be prepared.
00:37:53.100Luckily, my Patriot supply, we have enough food for anything that we would would happen to us.
00:38:00.620You know, in a long term situation, we want you to be prepared with my Patriot supply as well.
00:45:19.300So, I was, I was up at the ranch over the weekend and saw the cows and the cattle and some of, it's been a bad, bad, really bad winter in some areas of the country.
00:45:32.820And some of my neighbors have lost 40% of their herd because of the weather.
00:57:15.460He was denied the opportunity to graduate, even though he was a top student, because he went to the Capitol to legitimately protest patriotically and peacefully.
00:57:24.020And then he was waved into the Capitol by police.
00:57:29.240And yet he's being prosecuted for a felony, whereas the people who destroyed property and hurt people in various parts of the country following the George Floyd murder weren't being prosecuted and were being honored in some ways.
00:57:44.220And so you can't have a double standard of justice.
01:01:15.740But the proof has to be beyond a reasonable doubt that it was.
01:01:19.460I mean, you can make the argument that, yeah, they were hired not because they had this brilliant talent, but because they were well-connected.
01:03:35.300I don't always agree with him, but I will tell you, I always expect to hear the Constitution from him and a protection of civil liberties and rights.
01:03:48.840Even though we can disagree with each other greatly, he is very, very rare.
01:03:56.180And we need more people like that on both sides.
01:04:15.720If the left spent half as much energy fighting for good causes in this country as they do fighting to maintain the murderous institution of abortion, they'd be heroes of the republic.
01:04:27.160I just think they're on the wrong side.
01:05:28.880If you're a longtime listener of this program, you know that I am always concerned about the financial crisis.
01:05:47.760It stems back to 2008, which I thought at the time, back in 2006 and 2007, I was telling you this, a big one, could cause a depression.
01:05:59.440What I didn't foresee is that the federal government would, what was it George Bush said, violate the free market system to save the free market system.
01:06:07.500Instead, we did not save the free market system.
01:06:12.300What we did was make the problem bigger.
01:06:15.400At the time, in 2008, our banks were too big.
01:09:21.220But what I do know is in 2008, we were trying to stop a depression.
01:09:27.040Remember, they said the entire banking system was about to collapse, and it would have put us in a depression.
01:09:34.720There's $23 trillion in the U.S. banking system today, and everything is interconnected.
01:09:41.780The contagion, meaning one bank falls, then it's dominoes, it goes across the water, and it will collapse everything unless you're disconnected.
01:14:10.280And it will force everybody into a digital currency, which will ultimately control absolutely everything you do and a lower standard of life.
01:14:23.140But a lot of people will be happy because there's some normalcy.
01:14:27.420It also would mean, most likely, a war.
01:14:33.760All of these things are beyond possible right now.
01:14:42.320The financial and the reset to a digital currency is not just possible.
01:15:32.500And when you have, especially in some areas, when you have a breakdown of trucking or supply chains, you're going to have a hard time getting things.
01:15:41.000So I would just recommend, do not hoard, but grab some extra things and have them ready.
01:15:51.680This may not be the time, but I like to sleep at night.
01:16:06.140Back in just a second, how do people continue to have faith in socialism after it has failed over and over and over again and caused so much pain and suffering?
01:16:15.900I mean, we can chart all of this stuff to the violation of the free market principles.
01:16:22.920As it turns out, if you create a coordinated propaganda machine that infiltrates the mainstream media, entertainment, and your educational system,
01:16:31.040kids grow up thinking socialism and Marxism is neat and compassionate.
01:16:37.000Many families have turned to the Tuttle Twins to help fight back and teach their kids about personal responsibility, about free markets, entrepreneurship, limited government.
01:16:54.420They've sold over 4 million books so far because people like you who are awake to the truth and you want to pass that truth on to your children.
01:18:26.540A woman who asked not to be named at the Daily Mail says she rushed her mother to Mount Sinai Hospital on Madison Avenue, which is a really nice place in New York, on March 8th, because she suspected the 67-year-old was having a stroke.
01:18:41.320This was ruled out by a CAT scan carried out within 10 minutes.
01:18:44.760But then a nightmarish day for the cancer sufferer and her daughter began as they were left waiting in the ER in limbo, desperate to find out what was going on.
01:18:56.080Every corner was filled with people, she said, describing trash littering the floor, urine pots used by male patients kicked over, and homeless people seeking treatment but totally ignored by staff.
01:19:07.340It comes amid patient backlogs and staffing shortages after the pandemic that stretched New York hospitals to the breaking point and sparked strikes by nurses.
01:19:45.500Thousands of nurses quit the profession when COVID-19 forced them into working grueling hours while being exposed to the deadly disease.
01:19:56.420Also, people were fired because they wouldn't take the COVID vaccine.
01:20:03.640In addition to the lack of staff, many elderly and vulnerable people avoided doctors and surgeries during the pandemic created a patient backlog.
01:20:13.240Many of them are deadly, and they have gone undiagnosed and untreated.
01:20:17.360More than 7,000 nurses went on strike in January over work and pay conditions.
01:20:25.880However, the system remains under massive strain.
01:20:28.880A video taken by the woman on March 8 from Mount Sinai's chaotic ER ward showed an elderly woman complaining after being wheeled out of the room she was being treated in and into a hallway.
01:20:39.420I want to be in a room, not a hallway.
01:20:41.980I was in a room just now, she yells at the hospital staff.
01:25:36.040All right, so I've been very interested to hear what Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, other members of the GOP, people in Congress, any leader, what are you saying about Donald Trump?
01:25:53.500What are you saying about this district attorney coming after Donald Trump for a misdemeanor and trying to make it into a felony and possibly arresting a former president?
01:26:09.820Now, personally, I have always been for arresting of Nixon, arresting of Hillary Clinton, not the arresting of Bill Clinton because his was a lie.
01:31:29.640This is a way for you to protest and not be set up or not be, find yourself in a situation where somebody does something stupid or intentional or planned,
01:48:18.380So that's the consequence of this policy.
01:48:21.180So it's a little bit of what the Joe Biden administration keeps doing, which is taking care of the elites at the expense of folks in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
01:48:28.940I was talking to Alan Dershowitz about an hour ago, and I said, I mean, you have to have something written down.
01:48:35.460It can't be like, yeah, you know what, Bank of Omaha, we're not going to bail you out.
01:48:52.820And what's happened, there's eight trillion dollars of uninsured deposits.
01:48:56.380And we've certainly the policymakers have certainly set an expectation that those guys are going to be protected on uninsured deposits, too.
01:49:59.580We need to secure the country, but we also need to project that strength abroad in a way that makes complete sense and is in America's interest.
01:50:08.420And that's why we need to take on China in a very smart and thoughtful way to stop any aggressive behavior.
01:50:14.960So we are becoming, however, so weak and they know it.
01:50:19.000I mean, 2008, everybody said I was crazy.
01:50:21.460I said, there's going to come a time where you'll have communists, you'll have revolutionaries that are anarchists, you'll have Islamists, you'll have all these people who are against us all work together to drop us to the bat.
01:50:56.280If you're Saudi Arabia and you've been a longstanding ally of the United States and you see what's happened over the last two years, you say, listen, I need to look elsewhere.
01:52:08.600And so if I was Secretary of Defense or Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of Treasury, it starts with the top of bringing clarity to mission and driving out a whole progressive ideology that's deeply embedded in our institutions.
01:52:21.820We need to win elections and we need to have good ideas and we need to have great leaders who can win elections.
01:53:06.520We got to get the right people in the right spots and we can drive change.
01:53:10.020Do you see, I mean, I'm not asking you to endorse anybody.
01:53:13.240Do you see leadership either announced or unannounced yet?
01:53:17.060It's too early to tell, but I'm hoping.
01:53:18.920I'm hoping that the conversation that will take place in our primary will be mostly about the future.
01:53:24.380And when I say that, that doesn't mean we don't need to call balls and strikes on the terrible things we're seeing.
01:53:29.860But I'm convinced from my time on the campaign trail, we need to spend our time talking about how to bring back America and the people of Pennsylvania.
01:53:37.420And I think the people of the country want to hear that.
01:53:39.060I think that's what Ronald Reagan, why he was successful.
01:55:54.500I mean, listen, I'm just hearing it as you are.
01:55:56.360But I think any time our justice system seems like it's being highly politicized against anyone, including a former president, I think it further erodes our trust in institutions.