00:09:44.860Remember, it takes the gospel from a personal salvation goal to a collective salvation goal.
00:09:54.140God doesn't save us collectively. He saves us individually. And when you get this, when you get liberation theology, the kingdom of God collapses into a five-year plan and the gospel is reduced to a means and a political ends.
00:10:09.400okay you knew that a faith bent into a weapon for the class struggle struggle had to it had
00:10:18.820already stopped being faith and it had to be stopped because it's not faith even the vatican
00:10:24.760said so cardinal ratzen uh ratzeninger himself warned that you can't borrow you know categories
00:10:31.800of marks um and still be preaching christ you can't so you are right you got liberation theology
00:10:39.760Hold on to that clarity for one more minute because you're going to need it.
00:10:43.160Because the same offer has just come back around.
00:13:04.380And this new theology that is coming out, extraordinarily dangerous, is going to capture a lot of people, including people like you and me, because it's grievance.
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00:49:19.320Listen, what I said to you when we were together,
00:49:21.900wherever that was. I set out to write a definitive book of the story of the American Revolution.
00:49:30.120That was my goal. People kept saying, what's your angle? I said, I have no angle. I want to tell the
00:49:35.140story because the story doesn't exist in one volume, one book. There's tons of books on the
00:49:40.820Revolution, but most Americans don't know the story of the Revolution. How do I know that?
00:49:46.940Because I didn't really know the story. I forgot most of what I learned in fifth grade or eighth
00:49:50.920grade, it is vital, vital. It could not be more important that we all know the story. If you know
00:49:58.640the story, you know the details, you know the heroes, you know the background, it will change
00:50:04.040you and America will be able to sustain ourselves as a free people, period. So this is not, knowing
00:50:11.000this information is not extra credit. It's not for history buffs. If you're any kind of American,
00:50:16.840You need to know this. And if you stuck a microphone in anybody's face in Main Street of America in 1960, everybody knew this stuff. It's gone out of the culture. So I said, I just want to write a very compelling, very readable, fun gallop through our history, you know, the run up to Lexington and Concord.
00:50:37.260So, you know, starting with the Stamp Act and all that crazy stuff and Lexington Concord and Bunker Hill and all the way through to Yorktown.
00:50:44.060And in the course of doing that, Glenn, as I told you, I was astonished, astonished at what I discovered everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked.
00:50:54.180It's been hidden from us, OK, because the secular nonsense narrative that's been pushed and pushed and pushed that all the founders were deists, baloney, folks.
00:51:03.060Baloney is the only polite word I could think of on such short notice.
00:55:07.260on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
00:55:09.220Speaking to Congress, what does he say? He says, we have this day restored the sovereign, capital S, the sovereign. We have declared independence from the earthly king, the monarch, King George III, and we have declared dependence on the sovereign, capital S, God. That's how we govern ourselves.
00:55:30.220And the reason the book is titled Revolution and not the American Revolution is American is redundant.
00:55:35.960There's only been one successful revolution.
00:55:38.500The French Revolution is a joke that ends in a bloodbath and a dictator who crowns himself emperor.
00:58:09.840they go into uh uh kind of chaos for a few minutes which allows us to escape so we're saved by a
00:58:17.880black man and then i mean one of the stories and i know we won't have time today maybe you can have
00:58:23.600me back because one of the things that blew my mind was the boston puritans okay john adams uh
00:58:30.960samuel adams james otis jr uh adams says that his argument in court in 1761 was the opening scene
00:58:37.320the revolution. They were all so dramatically anti-slavery that it just blows your mind that
00:58:44.400we kind of act, oh, the founders were pro-slavery. They were so anti-slavery. That story, I mean,
00:58:50.620again, my book's not about that, but I mentioned that. It is incredible. The Christian nature of
00:58:56.080the ones leading this is so dramatic, and they were so bitterly anti-slavery. They had to swallow
00:59:03.400that the evil pill in 1787 of, okay, if we want a union, I guess we have to allow this,
00:59:09.860but we hate it. You know, that you've talked about that a lot, but that's, people need to
00:59:14.640know this stuff. It's why I wrote the book and I will shamelessly beg people. This is the opening
00:59:19.360week. Please, if you're thinking of buying the book, please buy it immediately because there's
00:59:24.560some other books out there. I don't want to mention their names written by people. I don't
00:59:28.640want to mention their names, Jill Biden, that are at the top of the charts. By God's grace,
00:59:34.860I would love to make it too big to rig so that my book is at the top of some of these lists.
00:59:40.680And I say that shamelessly because this is America's story. You'll see when you read it.
00:59:45.620Eric, you're one of my favorite writers. Your books have really changed the course of my life,
00:59:50.040and it is always an honor to talk to you and have you on. Thank you so much.
00:59:53.320It's my honor. God bless you, my friend.
00:59:54.940You bet. The name of the book is Revolution. I urge you to buy it now. Go online and buy it right now. Revolution. Eric is one of the best historians, best storytellers that I know, best researchers. This is a dynamic book that should be in every single person's home.
01:00:16.600It's called Revolution by Eric Metaxas.
01:05:18.180But there were many times in our marriage, it would have been easier to walk away.
01:05:22.540But when you get married, you make a commitment and you stay married and you get through it because all things will pass and it's worth it and it's right.
01:05:35.420And I was like, oh my gosh, grandma didn't talk to me.
01:05:39.620I don't know if she didn't talk to me or I just didn't want to call her for a while because she, I mean, she just read me the riot act.
01:11:16.820For the first time ever, or at least in a very long time, I actually will look at stories from CBS News, and I'll at least give it a read, where before it was just like, I don't believe anything they say.
01:11:31.180And I don't agree with everything, but I don't expect to agree with everything that a journalist is going to write.
01:11:35.720i just would like fair um you know reporting so she um the story is she just appointed a new
01:11:43.780producer for 60 minutes and scott pelly who you know one of the lead guys there um he said you
01:11:52.100this guy's gonna kill 60 minutes blah blah blah there's a big showdown you know i guess in the
01:11:57.960newsroom and he's fired and now pelly is upset and making a big deal the left is upset about
01:12:05.320all of this i mean uh ben rhodes came out and he was like i can't believe this is just this is
01:12:11.140incredible ben talk to your brother your brother took pelly off of uh the anchor job because
01:12:17.620apparently i mean i don't know this but at least david rhodes had real issues with pelly as well
01:12:24.100do you have any insight on any of this i do i mean scott pelly was not a popular anchor in terms of
01:12:32.440his skill as an anchor, as well as his personality. And I can't explain why he persisted in the chair
01:12:39.500for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level
01:12:46.700above David Rose that they were trying to fix what they call the Scott Pelley problem. And I don't
01:12:53.660know what keeps somebody in place when they think there's an issue. But one of the issues they had
01:12:58.500with him was, as it was told to me, he takes his managing editor role too seriously. He was
01:13:04.880interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive, and the veterans
01:13:10.800were complaining, and longtime CBS names that you would recognize were complaining to the
01:13:16.400high executives about this. My experience was when they named him, I was told by higher-ups,
01:13:22.620this new show without Katie Couric with Scott Pelley is going to be all about what you do,
01:13:27.480your investigative reporting, even more so, I was already having a great career there,
01:13:32.000but they said, now with Scott Pelley there, boy, this show is going to be all about what you do.
01:13:37.540And the very first week, the very first investigative piece, one of the best ones I
01:13:41.820think I ever did that I offered them, he censored, never aired. And that was the pattern
01:13:47.140and the story for me, at least, of Scott Pelley at the anchor desk.
01:13:52.100Was that the Boeing story, the Dreamliner story?
01:13:55.080No, Boeing was one of it. That came later.
01:13:57.980The first one was a story at Expo's A.I. did on the travel group called People to People
01:14:03.960that, as it turns out, was luring high school students into, it was nothing more than a
01:14:09.540travel agency out of the auspices of a nonprofit using the Dwight Eisenhower name and his
01:14:15.580daughter or granddaughter's reputation to convince children in high school that they
01:14:22.800had been chosen to be ambassadors on these amazing global trips when in fact they were just
01:14:29.100using lists these kids weren't honored or nominated by their teachers as they claimed
01:14:34.580and they were getting kids to go on these trips and the kids were getting injured some of them
01:14:40.120were getting killed um it was all a big bait why was it why did he did he say why he canceled that
01:18:04.480I think the name 60 Minutes is bigger than any personality that's been there in recent years.
01:18:09.000It hasn't been the 60 Minutes that we knew, Glenn, since they lost all the originals.
01:18:14.460So it's always been something that's in transition in the past 10, 20, 25 years.
01:18:19.700And yes, I think the name survives the personalities.
01:18:22.700And they still do some, as I heard someone note, many of their stories that are unrelated to these political slants that you're talking about are great stories.
01:18:32.180They still do good stories and can continue to do great journalism with other people, you know, other producers and other reporters.
01:18:38.940There's not a short supply of people who want to do great journalism.
01:18:43.400They're just not allowed to do that the way they used to be at the networks.
01:18:47.420if you got a call today from barry or the new producer and they said we want you to come back
01:18:55.800to 60 minutes or why don't you come back to cbs and to do 60 minutes would you even consider it
01:19:02.000i couldn't now because i'm in contract i'm doing at least one more year of my tv program number one
01:19:09.460number two i did get a call about a year ago asking about my availability for a leadership role
01:28:46.260The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment
01:28:54.940this is the glenn beck program hello america welcome to the glenn beck program i wanted to
01:29:08.120get vicki paladino on because she was on with me when i was in new york city and i just absolutely
01:29:13.080love this woman she has she doesn't care she just doesn't care anymore she uh is uh a councilwoman
01:29:20.380in the new york in new york city and you got to be tough you got to say it like it is and she does
01:29:25.740uh she has come out and said this adam hasham uh hum uh amawi is the guy who has just been
01:29:35.380won the primary at least for the 12th district in new jersey she said this guy cannot serve
01:29:43.180this guy he cannot serve um he's been tied to terrorism etc etc and she said
01:29:48.740we can't have this we can't have this and she's right i don't know how you're going to give this
01:29:54.920guy a security clearance at all she says he can't be allowed to be a congressman i'm going to talk
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01:31:32.040Vicki? Good morning, Glenn. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Great. I just absolutely love it.
01:31:37.960uh so uh so vicky i i read this story earlier this week and i said this guy can't be in congress
01:31:48.060how is he going to get how are we going to give him any kind of security clearance
01:31:52.660because of his past fill us in on what you know of him and what your thoughts are all right i'm
01:31:59.560going to read a little if you don't mind i want to run down only because i want to be extremely
01:32:03.900accurate uh this guy is known to al-qaeda as an al-qaeda associate has a long relationship as the
01:32:12.080mastermind of the 1993 world trade center bombings both before and after the bombing he worked with
01:32:21.300the blind sheik okay including defending him in court he traveled to bosnia in the 1990s
01:32:29.960and worked with an al-Qaeda front group after the October 7th attacks.
01:32:40.300He traveled then to Gaza where he worked in a hospital
01:32:44.940which was above a tunnel where the leader of Hamas was found.
01:32:50.480Now in a sane world, this would be totally disqualifying.
01:32:54.520then he joined the united states army and he worked as a surgeon how is this possible
01:33:02.120all right so now blend we've got a democratic party who has totally given up
01:33:08.840on on this for so many different reasons uh first of all they're weak second of all did
01:33:16.280they adapt the attitude that why fight it we may as well join it uh but this guy is in the
01:33:23.92012th district in new jersey that's the princeton district that is where my ivy tower i call them
01:33:30.960ivy tower liberals that's where they live there's a very very wealthy part of new jersey and uh and
01:33:38.500he won it and because it's so blue chances are he's going to maintain a seat in the united states
01:33:46.080congress but there's other things i want to talk about let me give you some time it's your show
01:33:51.280good no no i i just want to know so what do you do about that well i think we could start first
01:33:58.760with the republicans making this an extreme uh serious case while they run for these midterm
01:34:04.640elections republicans need to understand that this needs to become part of the everyday
01:34:10.740conversations we are allowing terrorists into the congress into our our uh congressional body
01:34:19.480And are you aware, and I'm sure the listeners are not aware, I wasn't aware until yesterday, that if the Democrats succeed in taking over the House in the midterm elections, they will appoint this guy.
01:34:36.220If the Republicans maintain their, by one or two seats, if we hold this, we do not have to appoint this guy.
01:34:45.460He does not have to come in and sit in Congress.
01:34:47.980I don't think many people know that, but we have the ability not to cede him.
01:34:55.880I have to tell you what, you know, I just got back from Europe and I saw how this is happening to Europe where, you know, you have these Islamists that are just taking over the cities, taking over, you know, the parliaments.
01:35:11.120And everybody's just turning a blind eye to it.
01:35:13.880I can't believe on the year of the 25th anniversary of 9-11, New Jersey, Todd Beamer's home district.
01:40:08.680they're not people who are going to put their roots here and stay here we've got a vested
01:40:14.200interest in this city uh this guy won this young man has won uh and much to our dismay
01:40:22.240he puts on that big stupid grin and he's winning over people every single day every single day
01:40:30.060he's winning over people well i hope you're right i can't understand how
01:40:36.360you know the blue dog democrat the person that was the average working guy
01:40:41.740cannot relate to your average college professor and the republicans have always been seen as well
01:40:49.180they're in with big business big business is a piece of cake compared to the college professors
01:40:53.840if you want to talk about people of that are in and out of touch um but the big business is now
01:40:59.940all on the left all big special interest is on the left uh and you have uh you know all the elites
01:41:06.700all the eggheads on the left and i don't understand why more people don't see no no this is the
01:41:13.740working class this is the average person against the elites and they're pretty much all on one side
01:41:20.440right now you know we also have a media this is media driven propaganda just like in communism
01:41:28.860You know, they don't hear the other side, our side. They're focused on one thing. Orange man bad, Trump bad, Republican bad. They're going to do this to you. They're going to do that to you.
01:41:42.720And now when you back up that propaganda with the gazillions of different forms of media that people have to watch, and you've got the likes of Hassan, what's his name?
01:46:06.940Hey, just a programming note on a couple of things.
01:46:09.520I am joining Moms for Liberty aboard the legendary USS Midway, and you are invited to come as we celebrate 250 years of America's freedom and honor the heroes that made it possible.
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01:46:34.180It's happening this weekend, this Saturday.
01:59:00.860Yeah, it shows that there is a definite plan to combat the United States, but not just the United States, but the West in general. And by and large, that plan, this is something they've been working on, I would say, probably since 1979, how they continue this.
01:59:15.920and they know our system just just as much as we are they feel like as long as they stretch it what
01:59:20.920he was saying was as long as we stretch this out for as long as possible due to politics and public
01:59:25.820opinion we'll eventually win because americans in the west have no appetite to keep this up to
01:59:31.940continue it to see it through and that's have we been baited
01:59:35.800um yes and no donald trump hasn't been baited i just think that he thought he could
01:59:47.620win it faster than he he is um and now
01:59:52.540uh now he's seeing we can't collapse these guys economically we can't collapse them from the
02:00:02.400inside at least quickly um and so now he's sitting here with an enemy saying this and it's a
02:00:10.620different ball game entirely it's a different ball game and look at what they just said at that
02:00:15.240chalkboard everything he was writing up on the chalkboard is what's happening right now an
02:00:21.040election is coming that presidential power could change um the congress he said that they would
02:00:28.500start to get weak first um the people would get weak because of the economy they wouldn't want
02:00:34.120any bodies you know piling up etc etc i mean they know us we don't we don't know them they know us
02:00:42.000i think one of the things that's really fascinating it's fascinating and i i think one of the things
02:00:47.620he was not talking about back in the 90s is how bad public opinion within iran would be uh you
02:00:53.040know in 2026 it's it's awful it's been that way since the obama administration it's just it's
02:00:58.260been on, you know, the very, very brink of explosion and their people are not happy with
02:01:03.980them. The economic situation is disastrous. I don't know if they could have predicted how bad
02:01:10.180it would get as it is now. Their vast majority of their military is just gone. Did I tell you
02:01:17.140that I actually spoke to a Iranian defector when I was on my vacation in Italy? And I asked this
02:01:25.180person straight up i said and this person was uh young uh probably around maybe 20 years old i said
02:01:31.860what do the youth feel like how are the people feeling how are the youth feeling and they said
02:01:36.400the vast majority of the country 90 plus were against the regime not only that but think the
02:01:43.200regime is evil and they are backing the crown prince that shocked me probably the most they
02:01:50.920said yes the vast majority of them are backing the crown prince that this is something they did
02:01:57.080not plan for in the 90s guaranteed and that's still a big factor in how this turns out in the
02:02:02.860future i was in the um the czech republic i was in prague and i'm standing there in the center
02:02:13.560square of the capital and uh these people start setting up a a booth that uh has an american flag
02:02:24.380an israeli flag and an iranian flag the flag with the lion on it the you know the real iranian flag
02:02:32.860not the islamic republic flag and i thought oh boy this is going to be interesting because i knew
02:02:38.900that in just a few minutes what was coming through that square was a bunch of palestinian protesters
02:02:44.520um and i thought what the hell is going to happen and me with my american passport i'm going to go
02:02:53.180stand over off to the side and just watch the palestinians left those guys alone what they did
02:03:00.640though was really they didn't win any friends they were kind of a pain in the ass to all of
02:03:08.000the tourists and all everybody else that was, was there in the square. Um, but there was no violence
02:03:14.040or anything else. So they leave. Um, and it was pretty pathetic, but they left. And then I went
02:03:20.060over to, I said, which one of you guys is Iranian? Um, and a couple of them said, we are. And, uh,
02:03:28.500I said, so what do you think about what's happening there? What are the people thinking?
02:03:32.000and oh my gosh they became so animated and they were like we are going to win we all know this
02:03:40.740is our only chance this will never come again maybe for another 50 or 60 or 70 years we cannot
02:03:49.220fail everyone that we know that are on the streets in iran knows this is our only chance this may be
02:03:56.060the last chance for freedom. Please. Are you an American? Yes. Please don't stop. Please don't
02:04:01.880stop. Please don't stop. And I'm like, well, I'm not the one making the decisions on that one.
02:04:08.160But, you know, good luck. Good luck. So that seems to be the sentiment that I have heard as well,
02:04:15.040but I don't see them on the streets. But the consequence of being on the streets now is so
02:04:20.300extraordinarily high. I'm going to show you a completely different view of all of this. It's
02:04:25.920not just Iran. It's Russia. It's Europe. It's all of our allies overseas. It is us. It's what's
02:04:33.720coming our way. And it revolves around a clock and a DeLorean.
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