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00:00:00.000 All right, coming up this morning, we're going to talk about the suspect in the fatal shooting

00:00:15.040 of a California cop is in the country illegally, adding to the rhetoric about illegal immigration

00:00:20.280 and the need for a wall, all that coming up this morning.

00:00:23.560 We also talk about the incoming freshman class of liberal Democrats that say they did not

00:00:28.420 come there to play. All of that coming up this morning. My name is Mike Broomhead. Happy Friday.

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00:01:39.300 Hey, happy Friday. Happy New Year from the Glenn Beck program. My name is Mike Bermitt. And again

00:01:51.400 for Glenn today and Monday, we hope you're having a great weekend planned as we roll into this Friday

00:01:55.980 edition of the show. Horrible story out of California, a police officer killed in the line

00:02:02.700 of duty, and it now has found out that the suspect in this is an illegal immigrant, someone in the

00:02:08.060 country illegally. And it's adding to the rhetoric for the need for border protection, the need to

00:02:13.180 stop illegal immigration. It's anecdotal evidence, and it adds fuel to the fire. I have been an

00:02:19.260 immigration advocate for my entire life. I see the benefits of legal immigration. The problem here 0.69

00:02:26.440 is the one we always face, and this is what I don't understand. Nothing about the conversation

00:02:32.440 about illegal immigration makes any sense to me whatsoever. First, let's talk about the senseless 1.00

00:02:37.100 death of police officers. There's an increase in death in law enforcement, on-duty deaths for law

00:02:43.080 enforcement this year, year over year. It's interesting to hear the attitude toward police

00:02:50.040 officers, how it's shifted in the last, I don't know, eight years or so during the Obama administration,

00:02:55.120 10 years plus. There seems to be a more vocal minority of people that have zero respect for what

00:03:01.280 law enforcement does. I will be honest with you. I've mentioned many, many, many times about my family

00:03:05.860 in law enforcement, but I'm blessed to have a lot of people in law enforcement as close friends. It is

00:03:10.500 a close-knit community that doesn't let outsiders in very often, and I've been blessed to be friends

00:03:15.880 with many members of our Highway Patrol or DPS, local law enforcement in the state of Arizona where I

00:03:22.420 live now and have family members. It's a dangerous job, and these are just people like all of us. They

00:03:28.780 draw police officers from the same flawed pool of humanity that every other career field is.

00:03:34.140 It is a noble profession. As a vocation, I think it is a noble profession. We talk about men and women

00:03:40.700 who serve our country in the military and the sacrifice, and the same thing is here. You're

00:03:46.280 talking about people that will run into a horrible situation as everybody else is running out, and it

00:03:51.920 is a very dangerous profession. How many professions are there that you put on weapons in a bulletproof

00:03:58.740 vest to go to work every day? And the families that share those officers with us, the husbands and

00:04:02.780 wives and family members that realize that this literally could be the last kiss goodbye as they

00:04:10.140 go to work each day. I don't want to get to a political argument by jumping off of and making

00:04:15.980 light of or not making a comment about the death of a law enforcement officer just doing their job

00:04:21.580 and the devastation that they leave behind. Have seen far too much of this in the last, you know,

00:04:29.480 in the last few years, a complete disregard for human life. But it isn't just we shouldn't just pay

00:04:35.780 attention to this when officers are injured or killed in the line of duty. They deal with a traumatic

00:04:43.000 career. They are dealing with children that have been injured by parents, neglected children.

00:04:48.860 Sometimes they feel helpless because, you know, they're bound and can only do so much and they're dealing

00:04:56.200 many times with the dregs of society. I have a friend who just retired from law enforcement and she spent

00:05:02.480 years working in a local agency with the Internet Predators Bureau where she was posing as children

00:05:07.260 online to catch Internet predators. I can't think of a more depressing job, a more a job that scares you more

00:05:13.460 where seemingly normal adults with normal lives are trolling the Internet, preying upon what they

00:05:19.500 believe are young children, boys and girls, and how it must devastate you and have you leave you with

00:05:24.980 no trust for anybody in humanity. So before we get to the political argument of this, what are we

00:05:31.240 doing? Why don't we just take a moment and think about the job that people in law enforcement do?

00:05:37.560 If you're driving anywhere now, as many of you are when you listen to talk radio, I want you to imagine

00:05:45.960 when you get to the next traffic light, how stressful it would be for you if the person in front of you

00:05:52.980 had, I don't know, something hanging off the bottom of their car. They closed their some woman closed her 0.89

00:05:57.660 skirt in the door, whatever the reason would be that you would have to get out of your car and approach 0.98

00:06:01.860 the car in front of you to say something to that person in front of you. How stressful it would be that

00:06:06.520 you're worried they're going to you're going to scare the heck out of them or they're going to

00:06:09.060 whatever. And to knock on their window, even with like, hey, wait a minute, you did this or this

00:06:13.340 happened. It's stressful. And officers do this every single day. There is no such thing as a

00:06:19.580 routine traffic stop. And so I will tell you that, you know, and I've been pulled over more times than

00:06:25.220 I want to admit to. When I get pulled over right now, I have a vehicle that's got four doors on it and

00:06:31.140 the windows are tinted, not black, but tinted. So if I'm at a traffic stop, I put down all the

00:06:36.380 windows. I put my hands on the door jam where a cop can see them. I'm always armed. I tell an

00:06:40.860 officer where the gun is in my vehicle. I don't grab for anything until the officer tells me to.

00:06:44.960 I want them to feel safe when an officer approaches your vehicle. They are on edge. They have no idea

00:06:50.340 what they're walking up to. One person, multiple people, angry person, civil person. They have no

00:06:56.160 clue what they're walking up on. So I want them to feel as safe as possible because it's a stressful job.

00:07:02.440 But when you think of the segment of humanity that would murder a police officer, they have a

00:07:13.260 disregard for every human life. There is no boundaries for people like that. Absolutely

00:07:18.180 no boundaries for someone that takes the life of a law enforcement officer. That's why it's such a

00:07:23.920 a horrible crime against humanity. And for this person to be in the country illegally just adds 1.00

00:07:32.700 fuel to this fire about illegal immigration. And it should. It absolutely should. You see, 1.00

00:07:38.860 when we get on an airplane, and I'm going to be doing that in a few days to fly back home,

00:07:42.740 they don't know which people are good or which people will be bad. So everybody gets screened.

00:07:47.200 You know, we've we've learned that because of 911, we put up with things that are inconvenient for

00:07:53.480 the sake of everybody's safety. Screening your bag, sometimes your bag is pulled out to be searched

00:07:59.800 and, and, you know, take your shoes off and, you know, put your laptop in a separate bin and walk

00:08:05.940 through the body scanner, all of those things, because we just aren't sure. We know that 99% of

00:08:12.420 humanity is good, but all it takes is that few people that are willing to trade their lives,

00:08:16.780 and they can take down an entire airplane. So they do everything they can to prevent that from

00:08:20.540 happening. But then for whatever reason, this argument has gotten so out of hand that the

00:08:27.440 same argument doesn't apply when it comes to this. First of all, it's called illegal immigration for a

00:08:32.360 reason. People are crossing our borders illegally at the very basis of all of this. It is a slap in

00:08:40.820 the face to legal immigrants, the people that have done it and are doing it the right way. 0.55

00:08:46.060 I mean, that's just a very foundational part of it. It's a slap in the face.

00:08:49.940 And you will see news publications that are sympathizers that will put out stories. There's

00:08:56.020 a story out that the eight year old that died in the custody of the US that now we know the father

00:09:01.240 refused medical treatment. And the question was asked by me and others have asked, why would you do

00:09:06.100 that? Why would you bring an eight year old? Why would you bring small children on this dangerous

00:09:10.240 journey to the border and try to sneak in this way? They talk about desperate situations.

00:09:16.120 And you'll see the stories of desperation. This family, by the way, said, and I'm kind of jumping

00:09:21.180 off topic, but just for a moment, this family said they brought this child because they knew they were

00:09:26.900 told it would be easier to cross with a child. That's not parenting. That's not parenting.

00:09:34.140 So we hear about these people and their plight and you can come up with any kind of of analogy

00:09:40.600 you want to. You know, you're going to go to what you're at. You are at a an amusement park.

00:09:46.460 You're at Disney during the height of the season when lines are two hours long. You're standing

00:09:51.480 there. It said you're awake from this spot is approximately an hour and 45 minutes. And you wait

00:09:56.120 in that line to get on an amusement park ride. And then a family of four people jumps to the front

00:10:01.300 of the line. And people justifiably say, what are you doing? And somebody that works for the park

00:10:07.740 comes up and says, well, you know what? It's always been their lifelong dream to come to Disney

00:10:12.340 World. So we're going to let them jump to the front of the line. Nobody would allow that to

00:10:16.320 happen. We understand it's everybody's lifelong dream to go to Disney. Sometimes it's a once in a

00:10:21.380 lifetime and they want to experience everything. So they're going to jump in front of everybody else

00:10:25.380 and everybody else is no. Get in line like everybody else. Welcome to Disney, but get in

00:10:31.120 line. Silly analogy. Absolutely. But you wouldn't let somebody jump a line. You've been waiting in 0.93

00:10:36.420 for an hour and a half. And when it comes to illegal immigration, we have politicians that are now saying

00:10:41.420 that because these people are in a desperate situation, they can circumvent the law and jump

00:10:46.420 the line instead of doing their jobs and fixing the law, fixing the process.

00:10:54.980 Now we've got an officer killed by an illegal alien. Yes, it matters. It absolutely matters. 1.00

00:11:01.540 It certainly matters to that family. It adds insult to injury, put salt in the wounds, pick a cliche.

00:11:08.120 How many times have we heard about criminals being caught with multiple deportations? People that

00:11:16.600 have been convicted just recently at the border. Someone who had been convicted here in the U.S.

00:11:21.080 as an illegal immigrant of child molestation, gone to prison, deported back to their country, 0.80

00:11:25.560 back across the border, caught on our side of the border again.

00:11:30.420 Not everyone that's crossing the border is a criminal looking to do harm. Some of them are coming

00:11:34.480 for noble reasons, but all of them are doing it the wrong way. The president's getting the blame

00:11:40.580 for all of this. That's politics. I understand the politics of blaming the president, but the fact

00:11:46.000 of the matter is there's one group of people that's at fault, the Congress, both parties, both parties.

00:11:54.000 Someone should be talking to Chuck Schumer, the border hawk of years past.

00:11:57.480 One of the surprises in all of this to people has been that the Hispanic voters are still being 1.00

00:12:08.000 loyal to Trump, which I don't see as, as, as, as odd because it has nothing to do with race.

00:12:14.000 Illegal is illegal. Legal immigrants don't like illegal immigration either, but it's led to a 0.87

00:12:18.760 shutdown. Well, now we're starting to see some of the effects of the shutdown and it's going to start

00:12:23.400 affecting a lot of the, the, the working poor in America. What shift will this make? In a moment,

00:12:29.800 we'll talk about the effects that are coming because of the shutdown. What's being said by

00:12:34.440 the media, all of that coming up here in just a moment. My name's Mike Broomhead. This is the

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00:13:42.380 Hey, happy new year. Thanks again for joining me for part of the morning. I'm Mike Broomhead in for

00:14:08.760 Glenn Beck. The shutdown is going to cut the office overseeing federal food stamps programs by 95%.

00:14:15.880 So coming soon, they're saying that whether it's WIC or SNAP or any of the food assistance programs

00:14:20.780 through the federal government are only going to be as long as resources hold out, which means soon

00:14:26.440 those resources may diminish and funds won't be available for families that qualify for food

00:14:31.760 assistance. I think this will be a game changer because it will be then when those groups of people

00:14:36.520 are beginning to suffer that we will start seeing some pushback on all of this. Who ultimately will

00:14:41.500 be blamed for this and how will it happen? And, you know, we can continue to blame the media. We can

00:14:47.180 and pout and whine. There's ways to overcome a lot of things. And, you know, this president was able to

00:14:52.400 win an election that was almost an impossibility that he could. So there's ways to message things

00:14:58.360 differently. When it comes to the illegal immigration thing, they're finally doing some of the things that

00:15:03.360 we had hoped so hope they would do. There was a tweet by Barack Obama a long time ago that said,

00:15:09.340 we need to seriously address illegal immigration, which was retweeted by the president with three

00:15:14.100 words. I totally agree. And that's it. Start pointing out the hypocrisy of the argument.

00:15:22.340 In the end, the issue of illegal immigration, most people are on the side of saying we need border

00:15:27.900 security. It's not about being inhumane. It certainly isn't about being heartless. It's about

00:15:32.440 being just. It's about doing the right thing. If the system is broken, let's fix the system. No doubt

00:15:38.300 about that. If the system is broken, let's fix it. The president's plan has not been solely building a

00:15:44.380 barrier. The president's plan is included revamping our immigration system. For whatever reason, the

00:15:50.300 pushback is coming from the left. And we can argue about why that might be. There has got to be a

00:15:55.620 resolution to this. And part of the resolution, well, I should say the resolution begins with

00:16:02.900 border security. We haven't taken it seriously since the 80s. We've talked about it many times.

00:16:09.180 Reagan was promised border security in exchange for amnesty. He gave amnesty. There was no border

00:16:14.300 security. There still isn't. I've seen it firsthand. I've seen it in my state. I've seen it in the state

00:16:20.100 of Texas. The evidence is very clear. The amount of drugs that are coming across the border, how easy it is.

00:16:25.160 If families are able to get here, I mean, let's be honest. If men, women, and children are able to

00:16:32.660 make the journey and get across the border, how hard can it be to cross the border?

00:16:38.400 When you're talking about young children being brought across on the journey, it can't be as

00:16:43.440 difficult as people are trying to make it out to be when it's politically expedient for them to say

00:16:47.420 there's not really an issue. There is a huge issue. We should be having a very honest and vocal debate

00:16:55.640 about this. So now when we're going to see families that are considered to be the working poor in

00:17:00.780 America that qualify for food assistance program, being told that the money is about to run out and

00:17:05.920 they'll have to look elsewhere, you are going to start to see some movement by people.

00:17:10.440 One of the things we're going to do coming up 930, just after the bottom of the hour, we will talk

00:17:19.160 about the incoming freshmen, the progressive caucus in the House of Representatives. These are people

00:17:27.380 that are no joke. We I am not going to complain about their motivation. I will be honest with you.

00:17:33.580 How many of us wished that the Republicans in the House of Representatives would be

00:17:38.480 one joined at the hip group, loud, vocal and saying, we've been elected to come here to do a job.

00:17:44.920 This is no joke. We didn't come here to play because that's what these groups, this group of freshmen,

00:17:49.740 incoming freshmen are saying, led by as far as of visuals are concerned, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:17:56.940 They are going to hit the ground running. They didn't come there to step and fetch. They didn't

00:18:03.500 come there to sit down and wait their turn. They didn't go there to be told you vote the way we

00:18:08.080 tell you to vote. Sit there until you learn how this game is played. So it's not going to get easier

00:18:14.820 for the president's agenda moving forward. And here's the trade in all of this. And this is the

00:18:19.200 part where I've if you've been listening, I apologize for being so repetitive. The media is not doing their

00:18:25.380 job in telling you. How things should be or how things really are, because if they were.

00:18:37.800 We would be talking about what should be happening from both perspectives. 0.95

00:18:44.160 How is it that the Democrats can be such hypocrites on illegal immigration, spending all the years that 0.94

00:18:50.000 they have being border hawks and demonizing illegal immigration? If if President Trump were to rip and 0.98

00:18:56.820 read the words of Bill Clinton in the State of the Union address, Senator Obama denouncing and this was

00:19:03.260 before he was president, Senator Obama denouncing illegal immigration and how it's a slap in the face

00:19:09.260 to legal immigrants. And Chuck Schumer saying we shouldn't even call them undocumented.

00:19:14.520 They don't even designate. Now, I don't know if you've noticed, but it's gone from illegal immigrant.

00:19:24.620 To undocumented migrant to just migrants.

00:19:31.480 They're no longer called illegal on any level. They are lumped in with every other immigrant altogether. 1.00

00:19:38.460 You're either doing it the right way or you're the wrong way, but you're all migrants. 1.00

00:19:41.520 Most Americans understand the need for this. It just needs to be articulated and fought for.

00:19:54.500 This shutdown now is going to cost people that need it with food assistance.

00:19:59.560 Now, it's my personal belief that the federal government shouldn't be issuing food assistance

00:20:03.700 program. It should be held at the local level. And I also think that the private sector is much

00:20:08.020 better, better at charity than the than any government entity is. I think that when you work

00:20:12.820 in the private sector and at home in Arizona, I work closely with St. Vincent de Paul. And I know

00:20:18.180 there are a lot of great worthwhile organizations across the country. But the the Arizona St. Vincent

00:20:25.200 de Paul is the most comprehensive, well thought out, well practicing money managing charitable organization

00:20:34.260 I've ever been associated with. They squeeze every penny out of every dollar. They are in every facet

00:20:39.060 of need for people and not just homeless people, but the working poor in America. That's the way we

00:20:43.820 should do things from my perspective. But you want to start seeing changes. You want to start seeing

00:20:48.960 demands. It's going to begin with something like this, where you have people that are struggling

00:20:56.760 that are not going to get their food assistance. Then you'll start seeing some pressure politically.

00:21:02.920 Just after the bottom of the hour, the freshman class, the progressive caucus, who some of the

00:21:08.100 people are, what their agenda is, and why it's going to be much more difficult for anyone to get

00:21:12.660 anything done because of the power trade off that's happening in Washington. It really is what the

00:21:18.520 core of why we're not getting anything done on illegal immigration. So all of that coming up here in 0.95

00:21:23.120 just a few moments. Once again, my name is Mike Broomhead. This is the Glenn Beck Program. I'll be back.

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00:22:56.500 Hey, Happy New Year from the Glenn Beck Program. My name is Mike Broomhead. And today and Monday for

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00:23:22.060 Arizona. Always happy to be in for Glenn. Difference, of course, in narrative. Difference

00:23:27.400 in coverage, of course. But listen to this. They're young. They're female. They're clear-eyed about

00:23:32.680 upsetting the apple cart in Washington. This is the incoming group of freshmen in the House of

00:23:38.740 Representatives when the Democrats take over. You want to know why there's been no deal cut

00:23:43.160 on the wall? Do you want to know why there's been no movement whatsoever? This is why. The

00:23:49.060 large number of very left-leaning progressives, as they call themselves, coming into the House.

00:23:55.740 Nancy Pelosi had to cut a deal with them to get the votes that she needed to be Speaker of the House. 1.00

00:24:00.400 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a bunch of the other freshmen said it's time for some new,

00:24:04.140 fresh, younger blood. Nancy Pelosi wanting the job back, just like she did with Obamacare, 1.00

00:24:10.000 making backroom deals, arm-twisting, whatever you want to call it, to make sure that what she 1.00

00:24:14.620 wanted, she got. So is that political acumen? Absolutely. That's the way things get done.

00:24:22.560 So as much as we would say it angers us to see this, it angers me more that we don't see this kind

00:24:29.500 of enthusiasm, this kind of willingness to get things done when we see Republicans in charge.

00:24:40.320 But this new group of incoming freshmen are going to be far more liberal. These are not just the

00:24:46.400 kind of we don't want a wall crowd. These are the abolish ICE people. These are the ones that want to

00:24:52.960 get rid of immigration and customs enforcement. This is the group of people that compares ICE,

00:24:59.240 to Nazis, or to the Klan. Kamala Harris, if you remember that line of questioning, to the incoming

00:25:10.940 head of ICE, trying to get the incoming head of ICE to admit that there's people out there that compare

00:25:21.000 the Klan to ICE. And this is the people that are coming in. Now they don't have full power, but they

00:25:30.660 are going to be the largest demographic of Democrat voters, which is the progressive caucus. On the

00:25:38.340 other side, on the House Republicans, there's the Freedom Caucus. Now the Freedom Caucus does

00:25:45.100 phenomenal work. They are conservative, especially very fiscally conservatives. They stick together.

00:25:51.480 They've grown in numbers. They've built coalitions. They've done what they're supposed to do. Have you

00:25:56.500 ever heard anybody say anything nice in the traditional media? Maybe you've never even heard of

00:26:00.660 the Freedom Caucus. But they certainly aren't writing, they're young, they're clear-eyed about upsetting

00:26:06.680 the apple cart in Washington. This was a group that was helpful in the ouster of John Boehner.

00:26:14.280 And they believe that when the Republicans say they're small government, cut the budget,

00:26:18.180 cut spending, they should stick to those principles. I know some members of the founding members and

00:26:24.580 members of the Freedom Caucus very well. These are good people that are small government, stick to the

00:26:30.280 conservative principles of the Republican Party, Republicans. So you don't see the kind of coverage.

00:26:36.920 I mean, this now is young, fresh, energetic, again, like we saw in the Obama administration.

00:26:42.280 When you had a president that said, I don't need Congress, I have a cell phone and a pen,

00:26:46.380 they didn't call him a dictator. They didn't call him a tyrant. They didn't say that guy wanted to be

00:26:51.100 king. They said, here is a president that wants to get things done. And when we see the dysfunction in

00:26:56.540 Congress, this is a president that's going to do what he has to to get something done. If Trump came

00:27:02.420 out now and said, I've got a cell phone and a pen, just like Obama did, and we're going to get this

00:27:08.100 done with or without the Congress, they would call him a dictator. They would say he's circumventing

00:27:13.360 what the Congress is supposed to be about and the separation of powers. And so we can complain all

00:27:20.780 we want about the coverage. But the fact is, this group of incoming freshmen realize that even

00:27:26.460 in a body as big as the House of Representatives, they're strengthened numbers when you are one

00:27:32.060 group and they have already formed voices. They're being covered very positively. Good

00:27:36.980 for them. You know, we can weed through that. We can see what they're up to.

00:27:43.260 But what they are going to do is make demands and they're going to make demands by the power of their

00:27:50.100 vote and they're going to stick together and they're going to do that no matter what happens.

00:27:56.100 Nancy Pelosi wants to desperately to be the Speaker of the House again. And in order to be the Speaker 0.99

00:28:04.340 of the House again, she needed the votes of those incoming freshmen. Well, this is the abolish ICE 1.00

00:28:09.740 crowd. You want to know why there's no movement? It's because Nancy Pelosi needs the job and she needs 1.00

00:28:15.660 their votes to get the job. So they are wielding the power that they have of their vote.

00:28:22.500 So it's not about what's best for America.

00:28:29.420 Nancy Pelosi, and there's a to me, there is always a silver lining. I truly am a glass half full type of

00:28:35.640 person. The brilliance of what we're going to see over the next couple of years is we are going to

00:28:40.620 hear a lot more from Nancy Pelosi. And it's great fun. You know, how hard did we laugh? It was sad.

00:28:46.560 The whole thing was sad. But there was laughter when Nancy Pelosi smiled and told the entire House

00:28:53.420 of Representatives, while looking at that huge pile that was Obamacare, you have to vote for it

00:29:00.340 to find out what's in it. Nobody was going to question her on it. Nobody was going to call her

00:29:05.400 a buffoon for saying it. So she's at least got cover by the media. But she said those words. 0.96

00:29:10.840 She was questioned about the wall. And a reporter said to her, you signed a piece of legislation that

00:29:19.300 gave 12 billion dollars for border security that included funding for the fence. And her response

00:29:26.580 was, well, now you're talking about a fence and not a wall. She said it. The semantics game that

00:29:34.700 she's going to try to sell is hysterically funny. But Nancy Pelosi had to kind of cater to this 0.97

00:29:45.300 incoming group, this progressive caucus, which is adding in great numbers. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:29:52.560 is a self-affirmed socialist. She said, call me whatever you want, socialist. But they are

00:29:59.220 they are they are trying to get single payer health care. They want a socialist system where

00:30:04.840 the the rich are taxed at a much higher percentage than they were before. It doesn't matter what the

00:30:09.400 results of our economy have been. It doesn't matter that the working class is benefiting more than 1.00

00:30:14.220 anybody else by these tax cuts, even the corporate tax cuts in the form of raises, benefit packages and

00:30:20.060 bonuses. None of that matters. Three three point seven percent unemployment, the lowest that we've seen in

00:30:26.660 50 years, that doesn't matter either. The ideological argument of punish the rich, the bourgeoisie and

00:30:37.360 the proletariat, that us against them class warfare fight that they're waging is all that matters to 0.93

00:30:44.060 them. The results of what they want don't matter unless they're the one solving the problem their way.

00:30:49.380 If they're saying our goal is to make life better for the working poor in America and what

00:30:56.120 President Trump has done with the Republicans in tax cuts shows a great improvement in the consumer

00:31:02.840 confidence of the working poor in America, which it has. They're seeing the biggest benefit from the

00:31:08.020 tax cuts, both individually because of the doubling of the standard deduction and the pay raises they've

00:31:14.220 received. The one thing that's happening that's bad is inflation, which getting that under control and

00:31:20.840 making sure there's not great inflation where your dollar doesn't get you as much is important.

00:31:26.120 But their lives, the lives of the working class in America, especially the working poor, has benefited the 0.97

00:31:33.980 most. The highest level of consumer confidence in any demographic are the working poor in America, are the

00:31:40.060 working class family in America. They're keeping more of their own money. They're getting more back in their tax 0.59

00:31:45.420 returns. They're getting raises and bonuses and they're finding it easier to find jobs in every demographic.

00:31:50.520 So if their goal was just that, just the improvement of the lives of the working class, they would be

00:31:56.580 applauding what's happening right now. But it's being done with less government, not more. It's being done

00:32:03.100 with less in taxes to the rich, not more. And that goes against what they stand for. This incoming freshman

00:32:10.580 class, smart, I'm going to give them a lot of credit for being smart. They're wrong about what they want to do,

00:32:18.420 but they are going to do what they need to by sticking together to find a common goal. It's the

00:32:24.420 difference between a team player and an individual. And they are doing, they realize they've got strength

00:32:31.880 as a team. As scary as it might be to some people, they have strength as a team.

00:32:37.100 I want to talk more about that strength. I want to talk more about this because this is really the next couple of

00:32:45.100 years. Are we going to see this government shutdown last into the State of the Union address where the president

00:32:49.840 can bring his case to the American people? What does the government shutdown mean? Who ultimately gets blamed?

00:32:55.540 Who's running in fear and who's standing up boldly because of their vote?

00:32:59.180 All of this is an important discussion because the next couple of years are going to shape the 2020 election.

00:33:04.500 That 2020 election is going to shape a long period of time in America. So all that coming up here in

00:33:09.920 just a few moments. Once again, my name is Mike Broomhead. I'm from Phoenix, Arizona, filling in right here

00:33:14.680 on the Glenn Beck program.

00:33:23.220 Hey, once again, happy new year from the Glenn Beck program. My name is Mike Broomhead. I'm in for Glenn

00:33:27.240 today and Monday. Appreciate you joining us.

00:33:30.240 The political struggle is like anything else, and we know that the ebb and flow in politics is viewed by

00:33:40.660 the extremes or we at least see the extremes. And in a primary, that's what matters. When you look at

00:33:47.140 the numbers, let me explain something I think is going to happen in the future. And people have been

00:33:51.260 emailing me and asked me about this. I am in Phoenix, Arizona. I do my show there morning drive Monday

00:33:56.820 through Friday. And we had an election that was watched nationally, and it was between Martha

00:34:04.480 McSally and Kyrsten Sinema. And Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat, won the race. And many people wondered,

00:34:09.860 what does that mean? It hasn't been since Dennis Deconcini. And I've been in Arizona will be 24 years

00:34:15.300 in February. And my entire time there, the senators have both been Republican. It was John McCain until

00:34:21.620 he passed away. It was John Kyle until he left the Senate and then replaced John McCain after his

00:34:26.760 passing. And then after that, it was Jeff Flake who vacated the seat. And that seat was won by

00:34:33.380 Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat. And so many people are saying, now look at the shift. Arizona's turning

00:34:38.920 blue or purple or whatever. And I don't believe that that's true. Here's what happened in that race, 0.99

00:34:44.740 in my opinion. Kyrsten Sinema is a very liberal Democrat. I know Kyrsten Sinema. I've been friendly

00:34:50.020 with her, worked on some veterans things with her in the past. She was a member of the House.

00:34:55.000 But when she was in the Arizona State Legislature, she was a communist. I mean, she would say to

00:34:58.980 people she was a communist, but you can't get elected even in the Democratic Party by calling

00:35:02.800 yourself a communist. All the things that you had heard about her were absolutely true. The way she

00:35:07.300 protested, the way she demonized the military, she invited witches to a protest. She had a coven of 1.00

00:35:13.820 witches come to a protest. All of that was 100% true. But Kyrsten Sinema and the Democratic Party

00:35:21.120 in Arizona is still in the minority. The biggest demographic of voters is the Republican Party in

00:35:26.540 Arizona. Secondly is independent voters. And third is the Democratic Party. So Democrats have to be

00:35:33.440 team players. So in the governor's race, one person runs normally. Didn't happen this time around.

00:35:39.920 The guy named David Garcia ran. David Garcia had to sprint left to win his primary. Abolish ice.

00:35:47.640 Don't build a wall. All these very far left things. He got beat by the incumbent governor. He would have

00:35:52.580 got, in my opinion, Governor Ducey is an excellent governor in the state of Arizona and would have

00:35:58.000 won anyway. The economy is going very well. Things were going well in Arizona. I think he would have

00:36:02.480 won anyway. He won by double digits, 15, 18 points, because in the primary, David Garcia had to show

00:36:09.760 his liberal colors to win the primary. Kyrsten Sinema had no opposition in a primary. So while Martha

00:36:16.540 McSally was battling Joe Arpaio, quite honestly, the most famous sheriff in America, and a woman

00:36:24.300 named Kelly Ward, who had been the race the longest, it was a battle. And during the primary process,

00:36:30.200 while three Republicans were beating the hell out of each other, Kyrsten Sinema was running ads 1.00

00:36:35.360 across the state of Arizona, making a statewide name ID for herself, calling herself in. I'm independent

00:36:41.460 just like Arizona. No one really cares about party. No one really is concerned about political parties

00:36:47.540 anymore. She said, I'm a Democrat. I wouldn't call myself a proud Democrat. I don't think anybody cares

00:36:52.560 about party anymore. So she built herself to be this very moderate. She dressed like a librarian. She was 0.97

00:36:58.740 very demure. It was a great strategy. And she never wavered from it. No matter how much of her past was

00:37:04.300 brought up, she wouldn't address it. She stuck to the mantra of being independent and moderate. And it got

00:37:10.020 her elected because there was no way she didn't have to show her liberal colors to win in a primary. I 0.96

00:37:15.620 mentioned this election in Arizona because I believe the strategy will be copied across the country. Beto

00:37:22.220 O'Rourke gave Ted Cruz everything he wanted in that fight and didn't waver from being far left. Had Beto O'Rourke

00:37:29.320 moderated his tone a little bit, it may have been a different outcome. You are going to see them vote

00:37:35.520 one way and speak a different way. They won't put Democrat in Republican states. If you're in a

00:37:41.000 Republican state, they are not going to put Democrats on their sign. It will be with a small d.

00:37:46.040 They'll downplay liberalism. They'll downplay their party. They'll call themselves independent.

00:37:50.800 They will say that they are they will cross party lines. Kyrsten Sinema promised that she would not

00:37:56.860 vote for Chuck Schumer in leadership, that new blood and new leadership needed to come in.

00:38:01.060 Three days after the election, she was in D.C. laughing it up with Chuck Schumer and supported

00:38:05.280 him. And then she said it's because nobody opposed him. I think this strategy will be played across the

00:38:11.420 country. No opposition, no need to sprint to the left, no need to show those colors. Call yourself

00:38:19.600 independent and moderate. It's a very interesting ploy. I think it's going to be modeled other places.

00:38:25.980 Coming up, we'll talk about Michael Cohen. Was he in Prague meeting with the Russians? That's a big

00:38:32.720 story that's out. He denies it. But it's a big story about the Mueller investigation. All of that

00:38:37.260 happens in the next hour. I'm Mike Broomhead. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Stick around.

00:38:41.740 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:53.740 Cell Signal puts Michael Cohen in Prague, maybe meeting with Russians. He denies the whole thing.

00:38:58.800 What does all of this mean? We also talk about Hispanic voters still supporting Trump,

00:39:03.020 much to the dismay of the media. All of that coming up this morning in this hour.

00:39:07.460 Also, we'll talk about the cop shooting in California. My name is Mike Broomhead. Welcome

00:39:13.260 to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:17.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:40:33.460 you spending some time with us today. Michael Cohen's cell phone, a cell phone traced to Michael

00:40:39.300 Cohen, and they make sure they put at the very beginning of the story, the phone traced to

00:40:44.080 President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, briefly sent signals ricocheting

00:40:48.880 off cell towers in the Prague area in the summer of 2016, giving credibility to the story that

00:40:55.720 Michael Cohen somehow was meeting late in 2016 with the Russians, talking about colluding with them

00:41:00.980 and trying to win the election for Donald Trump. Michael Cohen says, not true, says it never happened,

00:41:08.580 and that Mueller knows everything. So Cohen tweeted a denial hours after the story was published,

00:41:17.600 saying that I hear Prague and the Czech Republic is beautiful in the summertime. I wouldn't know.

00:41:22.340 I have never been. Mueller knows everything. Cohen cooperated with Mueller in the investigation.

00:41:28.580 He pleaded guilty on August 21st to bank fraud, tax fraud, campaign fineness law violations.

00:41:33.460 He later pleaded guilty to one count of lying to Congress, was sentenced in early December to three

00:41:37.780 years in prison. Now, everyone has said from day one that everything that happened was going to be

00:41:48.960 the demise of this presidency. I will tell you where I've stood on this all along. I will admit when

00:41:56.400 somebody on my side of the aisle or so I don't I don't like talking about the things that I don't

00:42:00.740 like talking about. I would much rather laugh about some of the insanity and the idiocy that happens on 0.98

00:42:05.920 the left. It isn't so funny when it happens on my side of the aisle, but I would much rather be 0.99

00:42:10.980 intellectually honest and call it out when I see it and be disappointed. It's not fun to talk about.

00:42:18.520 I'm taking heat from my friends. I'm a sports fan and I have a lot of friends that are just

00:42:22.760 driving me wild this morning because, well, let's be honest, my Miami Hurricanes didn't show up last

00:42:29.040 night against Wisconsin. They got beat thirty five to three. So you have to take the good with the bad.

00:42:34.240 I didn't enjoy the game and I certainly didn't enjoy responding to those messages by my friends.

00:42:39.180 But if I'm going to celebrate when I'm victorious, I've got to take the lumps when I lose.

00:42:45.260 If anyone associated with a Trump campaign broke the law, they should pay for it. If they broke finance

00:42:50.640 laws, they should pay for those finance laws. If they colluded with the Russians, the American people 0.89

00:42:54.720 have a right to know. No problem with any of that. My problem is with the hypocrisy from the other

00:43:00.220 side. That bothers me. I'll call that out every day. You know, I'm not condoning anything that we 0.73

00:43:06.780 know about the extracurricular activities of this president that happened 12 years ago, whether

00:43:12.200 it's a porn star or a Playboy model or otherwise. I get all of that. But who was shocked by a billionaire

00:43:19.460 that paid one hundred and something thousand dollars plus to somebody to keep their mouth 1.00

00:43:23.960 shut? Nobody was surprised by it. It happened years ago. If this president were doing this kind

00:43:29.700 of a thing in the White House now, I'd be calling for his resignation just like everyone else.

00:43:36.360 That's why the difference between the way they're handling this with this president and the way they

00:43:40.700 handled it with Bill Clinton are two vastly different things. Isn't it odd that NBC

00:43:46.460 had four different stories in the can about Juanita Broderick? Four different stories already to air

00:43:54.340 and they never aired them during that time. You know why? You know what their reasoning was?

00:43:58.860 The reasoning was they didn't want to damage the reputation of the office of the presidency

00:44:03.240 worldwide. That even though they didn't condone what was happening, they didn't want to damage the

00:44:10.440 office of the presidency. And if you remember, this was the day in that era, none of the

00:44:16.440 local or none of the national news organizations wanted to run with the story about Monica Lewinsky.

00:44:22.320 Do you remember who broke that story? It was Drudge. And once that story was broken by Matt Drudge

00:44:30.040 and the Drudge Report, then the other stories came out immediately. They already had them written.

00:44:35.180 They just didn't want to be first. So now what happened happened 10 or 12 years ago,

00:44:42.880 and this disqualifies this man from being president. I'm pointing this out because it shows you what

00:44:49.560 levels they go to. There were people, prominent elected Democrats and otherwise saying this,

00:44:56.760 what happened with Bill Clinton in the White House with an intern, had nothing to do with his ability

00:45:02.700 to do the job as president. It was between him and his wife and they should stop and leave it alone.

00:45:07.320 Now, all these years later, the president they don't like did something 12 years before he was

00:45:15.080 president. That was grounds for disqualification for the office. That's politics. But during this

00:45:23.180 Mueller investigation, look at the look at the idiocy of how this investigation has gone. Now, I don't 0.99

00:45:29.760 know, Robert Mueller. I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy. I just know that this has been a

00:45:33.780 flawed investigation from day one. Look at who's been gone in this administration. The FBI director

00:45:41.240 fired. Well, they say, well, that was, you know, that was a obstruction of justice. Trump shouldn't

00:45:46.120 have fired him. How about the second in charge at the FBI, Andrew McCabe? Why was McCabe fired?

00:45:52.220 McCabe was fired because he used subordinates to leak information to the media to create evidence,

00:45:58.360 to create evidence to use in a FISA court. His actions were deemed so egregious by an internal

00:46:07.220 investigation within the FBI that they fired him a couple of months before he was set to retire.

00:46:14.460 He wasn't even working anymore. He was using sick and leave time, biding his time until he reached

00:46:20.720 the age for early retirement and he was going away anyway. They could have just let him go away.

00:46:25.640 His behavior was so egregious that they wanted him fired and they fired him. Their chief

00:46:34.320 investigator in the Hillary Clinton emails, Peter Stroke, fired for his behavior with his

00:46:41.040 girlfriend and the way he was acting with his messages and saying he was going to take Trump

00:46:45.240 down and make sure he never became president. So you've got three of the highest ranking officials

00:46:50.980 within the FBI. By the way, maybe someone can look into this. I know this for a fact. We'll see

00:47:00.200 if a legitimate and when I say legitimate, I'm not a news agency. Let's see if a news agency can do some

00:47:06.560 digging. Peter Stroke earlier in his career had committed some violations so egregious within the FBI

00:47:15.200 that he was recommended for termination. Why has that never been brought up? And why has nobody

00:47:21.200 ever asked the question, how does the guy that earlier in his career was was recommended for

00:47:26.480 termination ascend to one of the highest anti-intelligence or counterintelligence position

00:47:32.220 in the FBI? How does he get to that degree and how does he become the chief investigator of anything

00:47:37.020 if his career had been so tainted that he was recommended for termination? Someone just take a look.

00:47:45.200 You could do some Freedom of Information Act work on that, couldn't you? And if I'm a liar,

00:47:51.780 then call me a liar. But this investigation stinks from the beginning. Peter Stroke moves over to the 0.94

00:47:58.880 Mueller investigation and then is fired when the tweets start coming out and the text messages with

00:48:03.680 his girlfriend, I mean. So did they ever go back and relook at the evidence that he looked at?

00:48:11.620 No one's going to believe this. If Mueller comes out and says, we know we got Michael Cohen doing

00:48:17.740 this. We had Michael Flynn doing that. We had Paul Manafort doing this.

00:48:23.700 But we have really nothing that connects the president directly to any of this. It doesn't

00:48:27.740 appear that the president colluded with anyone or had any knowledge of any collusion with anyone.

00:48:31.740 No one on the left is going to believe that. And certainly no one on the right is going to

00:48:37.340 believe anything out of this report as tainted as this investigation has been. Take what Andrew

00:48:42.700 McCabe did and you tell me how any of this survives anywhere else. Andrew McCabe leaked information

00:48:50.980 to the media through subordinates. The subordinates gave this to the media. The media then wrote news

00:48:59.360 stories saying, we have informants telling us that these are the rules and the laws that were broken.

00:49:07.760 Andrew McCabe then took those news stories and put them in the pile of evidence to take to a judge

00:49:12.860 and said, even the media is reporting on independent sources. He created the evidence.

00:49:17.840 How many of you are aware that his counterpart over at the Department of Justice

00:49:24.960 wife worked for Fusion GPS? Fusion GPS are the ones that hired Christopher Steele to write the

00:49:34.880 dossier. What was her job with Fusion GPS? She was the Russia expert and helped with the dossier.

00:49:43.040 The FBI fired Steele as an informant for inappropriate contact with the media. They

00:49:50.380 fired him as an informant. The FBI has three classifications for an informant for an informant

00:49:56.400 reliable, unreliable or unknown reliability. Steele was of unknown reliability and they took

00:50:06.140 that dossier, never verified any of it and took it to the court as evidence. Does anybody realize how

00:50:15.260 horrible that is?

00:50:16.520 If I say my neighbor next door is running a prostitution ring out of his house, so the 1.00

00:50:29.140 police kick down his door and take him to jail and the evidence they give the judge is the guy next

00:50:34.500 door said he did it. It never sees the light of day. Why? It was never investigated by the police.

00:50:40.840 The FBI never verified any of this. The FBI and I know some people that are spent over 30 years with

00:50:52.880 the FBI. It's a close fraternity. They keep an eye on the new, the existing FBI. Their character has

00:51:01.280 been damaged and it should not have been. This case should have never been investigated from headquarters.

00:51:06.540 It should have been out of a field office. Michael Cohen's cell phone and what this really means and

00:51:13.200 more about this investigation and how dirty the whole thing has been from the beginning and it's

00:51:17.120 why nobody's going to believe any of it. We'll do that here in just a couple of moments. My name's

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00:52:31.300 Hey, thanks for joining me. I'm Mike Broom, heading on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:52:48.140 Talking about Michael Cohen's cell phone, which he denies ever being in Prague, said he never went

00:52:52.020 there, says Mueller knows everything. This investigation has been mishandled from the

00:52:56.720 beginning, maybe not by Robert Mueller, but it may have just been, it's so tainted to begin with.

00:53:01.600 The evidence to begin with, with the structure of how the dossier was used to get a FISA order,

00:53:08.980 a surveillance order on an American citizen named Carter Page. When you look at the incestuous

00:53:13.380 relationship between the high-ranking members of the FBI, the DOJ, the wife of the DOJ agent or DOJ

00:53:20.580 in charge, the DOJ lawyer in charge of all of this, it is, it stinks. It always has. I did a

00:53:30.280 storyboard on Facebook about it because it's so hard with the names and the pieces. But in order

00:53:35.020 to get a FISA order, the reason why the vast majority of FISA orders are approved by the courts

00:53:40.280 is because they're so difficult to get and you have to go jump through so many hoops to even get it on a

00:53:45.200 judge's desk. So from the beginning at a local, let's say at a local field office, a field office

00:53:51.500 for the FBI, an agent wants to obtain and believes they have a reason to obtain a FISA order.

00:53:58.520 They have got to go through all of, jump through all of the hoops within their command inside the

00:54:04.040 field office. It then goes to their attorneys at the field office. It gets stamped with approval there.

00:54:09.540 It then goes from the field office there up to headquarters nationally for them to put their

00:54:15.120 stamp of approval on it. And then it goes through the same process through the Department of

00:54:19.720 Justice, where the Department of Justice locally and all the national level has to sign off that

00:54:24.380 there are grounds here for this to happen. Once all the I's have been dotted and all the T's have 1.00

00:54:29.500 been crossed, it then goes in front of a secret judge and for approval for surveillance. Every 30,

00:54:36.420 60, 90 days, you've got to go back and show the fruits of your investigation to show that there's

00:54:41.660 reason to continue with the FISA order. Well, when you've got the deputy director of the FBI

00:54:51.320 and the ranking member of the Department of Justice working on this together, they're supposed to be

00:54:56.620 the checks and balances from their underlings and making sure that everything is legit before it goes

00:55:01.540 to a judge's desk. So by the time they presented to a judge, the judge relies on that evidence as being

00:55:07.260 true because they swear that it's true. James Comey even admitted they didn't vet big pieces of that

00:55:15.180 and big pieces of the dossier still haven't been vetted. The evidence used as far as media reports from

00:55:21.780 independent sources were made up by Andrew McCabe, which is why he was fired. You've got the wife of the

00:55:30.600 DOJ lawyer working on writing the dossier. If you don't see the incestuous relationship there and

00:55:40.060 why if this were any other normal American citizen, it never sees the light of day. Most people believe,

00:55:48.080 including myself, that OJ Simpson was guilty. But when you watch that trial, his lawyers were able to

00:55:55.340 create reasonable doubt in the handling of evidence that because that the blood evidence and some of

00:56:01.900 the evidence would have been tainted or could have been tainted, if because Mark Furman was shown to

00:56:08.700 be, whether he was or he wasn't, he was shown to be a racist. He was the only cop that jumped the fence

00:56:15.680 and found the glove. It was possible he planted it there. There was enough of a doubt in the way that

00:56:23.240 the evidence was handled, that the jury had no choice but to find him not guilty.

00:56:32.060 Well, when you've got an order like this, when you've got a dossier written the way this was

00:56:37.360 written, by the way, paid for as opposition research, not as a police investigation into

00:56:42.480 evidence against a crime, but opposition research by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton,

00:56:48.320 there should be suspicion there from the very beginning. If a couple is going through a horrible

00:56:56.220 divorce and one of the divorcing couple accuses the other of child abuse, the officers involved in

00:57:08.720 the investigation are immediately suspicious. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but there is

00:57:14.880 obviously an ulterior motive possible with a custody hearing going on. Well, if you've got a dossier

00:57:21.820 that's been written and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party during a presidential

00:57:29.320 race, those investigators should have been ultimately suspicious of anything written in that dossier and

00:57:35.800 should have vetted every piece of that evidence before they presented any of it to a judge. And they never

00:57:41.020 did. They never did. Does that mean that Donald Trump or anybody in his campaign is not guilty?

00:57:48.100 It does not mean that at all. And if you believe that Donald Trump is guilty of something,

00:57:54.120 you should be furious at the investigators that mishandled all of this. Just like I'm sure

00:58:02.020 Nicole Brown Simpson's family is furious at the way the evidence was handled against OJ doesn't change 0.99

00:58:12.080 their belief in his guilt, but it certainly changes the way people believe about it or what people

00:58:18.180 believe about it. And I will say this, James Comey was not an FBI agent, nor was he an investigator.

00:58:23.640 He's a politician. That investigation should never be held out of headquarters. It should have been held

00:58:29.280 at a field office. The politicians run blocker so investigators can investigate. I don't care where

00:58:36.060 you live. If the state police were investigating the governor's office in your state and instead of it

00:58:43.120 being handed down to the detectives at some field office in the state, it's handled by the director of

00:58:49.340 the highway patrol and the management staff, you're going to be suspicious because they're not supposed

00:58:54.280 to be investigating anything. This is just how it is. You can believe the president or his people are

00:59:02.180 guilty of something. It changes nothing about the mishandling of this investigation. Nothing about

00:59:09.040 the mishandling of this investigation. Michael Cohen says he's never been to Prague, that Robert Mueller

00:59:14.280 knows everything. The story still says he was there. Do you think when it's proven that

00:59:19.000 nothing happened or do you think if this proves to be nothing that they're ever going to retract it

00:59:24.980 with the same bold headlines that they printed it in the first place? It's not going to happen.

00:59:35.820 Coming up in just a few moments, the Wall Street Journal shreds the media for their covering of the

00:59:44.740 president. They said it undermines the credibility of the press. We will give you some examples of

00:59:50.900 exactly what they're talking about. Some of the headlines are alarming. All of that coming up. We

00:59:57.360 also will talk about the number of Hispanic voters that still support the president, much to the dismay

01:00:03.420 of the media. Still a lot coming up on the show. Twitter, at Broomhead Show. Instagram, Mike Broomhead.

01:00:11.020 My name is Mike Broomhead. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Stick around.

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01:01:33.980 Hey, thank you for being here. I'm Mike Berman. And for Glenn, happy new year. Hard to believe

01:01:44.980 we're approaching the new year, but I hope you've got great plans this weekend. Wall Street Journal

01:01:52.180 shreds the Washington Post and the Trump coverage. They talk about just not about how they have just

01:01:58.400 gone insane and in the tank and it ruins, it undermines the credibility of the press.

01:02:03.980 Fascinating that this is starting to happen. My biggest mantra for at least the last six months

01:02:08.380 plus on my local show has been about the lack of accountability in the traditional media.

01:02:15.780 I am a lot more fair in giving both sides of the story than anyone in journalism seems to be these

01:02:21.900 days. They have lost their collective minds. They have the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old

01:02:27.800 when it comes to this president. And it shows from what used to be very credible sources. Anderson

01:02:36.100 Cooper never was, you know, and even he has gone totally in the tank in the other direction

01:02:42.120 with the enthusiasm that they wanted to report. NBC News wanted to report the president never visited

01:02:49.040 the troops at Christmas and a few hours later had to say that they did. Soledad O'Brien

01:02:55.000 criticizes the president for not going. Britt Hume tweets out, look how wrong you are.

01:03:04.980 She responds, it looks like shaming him worked. And Britt Hume says, yeah, he read it, then time

01:03:12.780 traveled back in time to show up in Iraq. It doesn't matter what happens, they're going to demonize.

01:03:19.420 It's going to, in my opinion, I think, in my opinion, they will eventually be an aid to the

01:03:30.700 president doing this because he becomes a sympathetic figure. I became a defender because of what the

01:03:36.100 media did to him. I am not by any stretch of the imagination, a blind follower of anyone.

01:03:45.500 Certainly not Donald Trump. I buck a lot of trends. I have my personal feelings that I will defend

01:03:55.560 very aggressively. I mentioned yesterday, and I got a lot of heat from it and emails from people

01:04:03.980 about my love for and my affection for and my friendship with the late Senator John McCain.

01:04:11.260 John McCain was very good to me. As a human being was very good to me. And what I loved about John

01:04:19.200 McCain was I disagreed with him about a lot of things that you disagreed with him about.

01:04:24.900 He treated me like a peer, which I was not.

01:04:29.220 And I, when, when John McCain passed away, it struck me very personally because he was a friend.

01:04:41.680 So I will take all the backlash from people and all of the emails from people that hammer me 99% of the

01:04:47.580 time. If you listen to this show, I am going to adhere to the same, at least principle that you do.

01:04:53.700 And we are going to agree on many things. Maybe you don't agree with me about John McCain. That's okay

01:04:59.660 for me. Maybe it's not okay for you. It's okay for me.

01:05:06.140 I've mentioned in the last few days being in here, it's an honor to be here, not because it's a national

01:05:10.960 show, but because I consider Glenn to be the older brother I never had. He has been more kind to me and

01:05:17.120 it has nothing to do with the radio career. If I was never allowed to fill back in on this show,

01:05:21.680 my love for Glenn Beck is because of the human being that Glenn Beck is. No one I know has ever

01:05:26.920 stuck to principles like Glenn. It's funny. One of the topics we're talking about this morning

01:05:32.040 and have been talking about for weeks now and months is about the treatment of unaccompanied

01:05:37.740 minors at the border. Does anybody remember who the first person that paid any attention to that was?

01:05:43.000 It was Glenn Beck. And this was back when he was getting bashed for going there on a humanitarian

01:05:51.100 mission and bringing food and supplies to these kids that were here illegally. 0.98

01:06:01.020 And it was Glenn that stood up and said, these are human beings. This has nothing to do with

01:06:05.160 politics. This is about feeding the hungry. It's about doing what we're supposed to do as human

01:06:10.400 beings. And there's nothing worse than when you face criticism from your people, from the people

01:06:16.360 that are largely in your camp. And he heard a lot of it. But it's that adherence to principle. It's not

01:06:24.120 about being a blind follower of Donald Trump. When if Donald Trump did the wrong thing, if his camp did

01:06:28.960 the wrong thing and colluded with the Russians, the American people have a right to know. My problem 0.83

01:06:33.720 with is the vitriol. It's this story, these stories about the media and how they are so vitriolic

01:06:40.260 that they're seething hatred is just about reversing the decision in this past election.

01:06:46.220 They beat the heir apparent. Donald Trump beat the heir apparent. That's why they hate him.

01:06:53.480 She was next. It was hers. It wasn't supposed to be an election. It was a coronation.

01:06:59.000 So what was the household name? Not in politics. Nobody hated Donald Trump. Nobody screwed. How did

01:07:10.460 that guy have all of the hit television shows, beauty pageants? How is he such an immensely popular

01:07:17.040 figure on national television if he was deemed a homophobe and a racist? He wasn't. He became a

01:07:24.640 Republican president that beat Hillary Clinton. Now he's a homophobe and a racist. Evil. 1.00

01:07:35.600 So the Wall Street Journal takes the Washington Post to task. But let's go a little further.

01:07:41.400 Headline today, if you go look at the top story segment on some websites, CNN, you look at their

01:07:46.680 top stories. One of them is this. Trump's year of chaos in 2018 promises yet another. It's an opinion

01:07:53.940 piece. It's an editorial listed in their top stories. CNN slammed for trashing Trump's visit

01:08:01.340 to the troops, criticizing soldiers for bringing MAGA hats. By the way, the Air Force threw, as the

01:08:08.100 headline reads, threw cold water on that. The Air Force said there's absolutely nothing wrong with

01:08:13.740 troops taking anything to get autographed by the president.

01:08:16.740 Do you remember when President Obama made a trip to Kuwait back in 08 before he was president?

01:08:31.840 He went to Kuwait, signed autographs.

01:08:37.540 But when Trump's in power, when Trump is the president, all of these things all of a sudden

01:08:41.920 become illegal. So anybody associated with this president, I think what happened to Brett

01:08:49.060 Kavanaugh was quite possibly one of the most despicable and disgusting things I have ever

01:08:55.480 seen. I couldn't have held up to the scrutiny. I've never assaulted. I've never sexually assaulted 0.99

01:09:05.040 someone. I can say that pretty confidently. If I had been accused like Brett Kavanaugh and they

01:09:10.340 started going back in my life to when I was 17 years old and looking in my high school yearbooks

01:09:15.440 and things I had written in high school yearbooks or things I had said with my friends or parties that

01:09:20.180 I had gone to when I was in high school or talk to ex-girlfriends of mine, ages 18 on in my life,

01:09:27.340 some of my exes, you're going to get a whole different picture of my past than you are of Brett Kavanaugh's.

01:09:33.300 I couldn't live up to the scrutiny. I couldn't have, I couldn't have undergone the scrutiny he did.

01:09:42.980 And yet they didn't care if he was destroyed. Why? He was a Trump nominee.

01:09:51.080 This was a guy that was so well respected on what was called the second highest court in the land,

01:09:56.220 the DC circuit. And all of a sudden, not only was he unqualified, he was a predator, a predator. 0.96

01:10:06.600 It was a horrible thing to do to a human being for your political agenda. And no one's going to

01:10:11.340 be held accountable. Dianne Feinstein won't be held politically accountable for the destruction 0.78

01:10:15.980 she did to that. And she did it. They could have done all of that behind closed doors. She made it

01:10:20.820 public because of the spectacle and the Hail Mary pass that they had to throw to try to stop him from

01:10:25.920 being put on the court. Kamala Harris, the way she interrogated him, Cory Booker, the way they did

01:10:31.640 all of this, they should have been held politically accountable and they never will be. Never.

01:10:39.320 If you're associated with this president, you're demonized. I blocked, this is, here's, here's the

01:10:45.520 level of how horrible my life is. I had to block somebody from Facebook. I know, I know you feel for

01:10:52.000 me. You understand the devastation in my life. Somebody, I don't mind disagreements. If you're

01:10:57.440 following me on Facebook, I love the conversation. When you come onto a Facebook page and you demonize

01:11:02.860 me or anybody on the political right, you call us names, you say that we're stupid and you say that 1.00

01:11:07.920 we're racist and you call us Nazis, you're gone. I'm done with you. But just because I defend this 1.00

01:11:14.560 president, I'm a Nazi, I am a racist, I'm stupid, I'm all of those things. So the Wall Street Journal 1.00

01:11:24.900 is 100% right in their criticism. 100% right. There's no doubt about it.

01:11:33.200 I'm going to talk about the, the roller coaster ride that is going on right now in the stock market

01:11:43.320 and what's being said about it. In the meantime, the real numbers that matter that are being largely

01:11:48.560 ignored. Is it just because again, it's the 24 hour news cycle and they need headlines or is this

01:11:54.200 part of a bigger agenda? I'll do that here just in a couple of moments. Again, I'm Mike Broomhead

01:11:58.500 and this is the Glenn Beck Program. Hey, thanks for being here. It's the Glenn Beck Program. I'm

01:12:08.220 Mike Broomhead. I'm going to talk about the, the shooting of a police officer in California that

01:12:14.740 is now of course, has thrown gasoline on the fire, the illegal immigration debate, all of that coming

01:12:19.700 up in the next hour. But the economy, we've watched the roller coaster ride. The largest one day gain in

01:12:26.840 the stock market's history happened a couple of days ago was largely ignored. Now it is a roller

01:12:32.060 coaster ride. And unless if you were somebody that is close to retirement, I would be watching it very

01:12:36.840 closely. I'd be nervous too. There's all, you know, your future and how many years, what you're going

01:12:41.480 to have is all on the line. I'm not close enough to retirement to worry about it. I'm watching what

01:12:47.220 happens. It climbs, it falls, it climbs, it falls, it climbs back. And it's, it's receded over the last

01:12:53.740 couple of weeks, but it was going gangbusters. And you look at consumer confidence. It's still

01:12:58.200 very high. So yesterday it dropped over 600 points and then finished up over 200. I couldn't do that

01:13:05.820 for a living. I'll be honest with you. I could not live and breathe with what's happening right now.

01:13:10.880 I understand why, you know, stockbrokers drink and mix it with Pepto-Bismol. You get it. I mean,

01:13:16.840 it's stressful, but overall, what stories are we being told and what's the truth?

01:13:24.900 Where is the picture coming from? It's back to this idea of the media selling you a narrative

01:13:30.520 about chaos and the number of workers filed for jobless benefits fell slightly last week,

01:13:40.660 despite the decline in stock markets, according to the Department of Labor. Why did that phrase,

01:13:48.660 despite the decline in stock markets, have to be added to that story?

01:13:53.960 Jobless claims and a drop in the stock market in the same week are never going to have anything to

01:13:59.660 do with each other. If there was a steep decline in the stock market and layoffs were going to happen,

01:14:05.660 it would be weeks down the road, not the same week. I mean, even I know that.

01:14:14.340 But they're not going to tell you good news unless they mix it in with bad.

01:14:21.980 The number of workers who filed for jobless benefits fell slightly despite the stock market.

01:14:29.640 Initial claims of the week ending December 22nd was 216,000. That figure was down by 1,000 from the

01:14:37.940 prior week. The previous week's level was revised up by 3,000 from 214 to 217. The four-week moving

01:14:45.180 average was 218, a decrease of 4750 from the previous week's average. The number of continuing

01:14:51.300 unemployment benefits claims fell by 4,000 in the week that ended December 15th to 1.7 million from the

01:14:59.620 previous week's level. The data showed there's a one-week lag in reporting these claims. So if

01:15:06.260 there is a one-week lag in the reporting of these claims, what would this week's numbers have to do

01:15:12.340 with this week's stock market? It wouldn't. The drop in financial markets and the Federal Reserve's

01:15:19.800 recent interest rate increase has some analysts concerned that the economy's growth could be halted.

01:15:25.360 So the US chief US economist said, I think people need to take a deep breath. The economy is going

01:15:32.800 to slow down over the next year, but collapse no way. So the growth is going to slow down is what

01:15:38.240 they're predicting. I don't see that happening. Neither does the president and neither do the people

01:15:44.240 that I see working. What's interesting is we're watching in where I live in Arizona, a need for manpower.

01:15:55.360 The biggest issue facing companies is manpower. That's a good problem to have. This is where if

01:16:02.720 you're an employee, it is now a seller's market. Your trade is now more valuable because there's

01:16:08.920 less of you to go around. I grew up as an hourly employee. I was an electrician all of my life until

01:16:14.680 I became a contractor and owned my own business. I had employees during the construction boom who were

01:16:22.680 making 13, 14, 15 dollars an hour that were making 17, 18, 19 dollars an hour. It was easier to hold

01:16:29.200 on to people at when the construction crashed. But now when it's booming again, it's difficult to find

01:16:35.320 employees. One of the reasons why we should be getting this immigration thing fixed is maybe 0.99

01:16:39.540 looking at a guest worker program in places where people can come easier to work and fill some of these

01:16:45.340 jobs Americans aren't doing. When employers are saying the biggest obstacle they face is finding

01:16:51.380 qualified people, it's a good sign for the American people. Lowest unemployment numbers in over 50 years.

01:16:58.500 But they got to remind you, the stock market dropped over the last couple of weeks.

01:17:03.620 It's funny how they have to do it. Coming up, we'll talk about the horrible shooting death of a police

01:17:10.700 officer in California, how it's throwing gasoline on the fire of the illegal immigration argument,

01:17:15.320 and what that means for all of us. All that right around the corner. Again, my name is Mike Broomhead.

01:17:19.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program. Stick around.

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01:17:33.260 The murder of a police officer in California, the suspect, an illegal alien, once again throwing 0.99

01:17:38.380 gasoline on the illegal immigration fire in America. Hard for me to believe that there's even a

01:17:43.620 discussion about the need for border security, but that seems to be where we are. Do we need

01:17:48.440 better border security or not? And it's silly to have that conversation. That's a big part of this

01:17:53.720 hour. We also talk about Hispanic voters supporting Trump, much to the dismay of the media. All that coming

01:18:00.440 up on this hour of the show. My name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:19:15.080 Hey, thank you for being here again. My name is Mike Broomhead. In for Glenn today. I'll be in

01:19:18.820 Monday as well. If you're a social media user, I'm getting a lot of action with people reaching

01:19:23.760 out on Twitter. I am at Broomhead Show. You can find me on Facebook, the Mike Broomhead Show fan

01:19:28.760 page. And if you're an Instagram user, I'm the king of bad pictures. I mean, blurry, not bad in that

01:19:34.720 way. Bad pictures. You can find me. Mike Broomhead, all one word, on Instagram. The murder of a police

01:19:42.780 officer is always something that's devastating to me. I come from a law enforcement family,

01:19:48.900 blessed to have a lot of friends in law enforcement. A law enforcement agent in California murdered and

01:19:55.760 the suspect is an illegal alien. It now adds more to the fire of this discussion. And I don't even 0.80

01:20:02.960 know why it's a discussion. The American people have a need for border security. That period.

01:20:10.080 The death of a police officer just rubs salt in an already very open wound. The borders in America

01:20:17.200 are not secure. And the reason why they need to be from the national security level or interest of

01:20:23.480 a terrorist attack to the simple fact that we need to know who's coming and going across our borders.

01:20:29.480 The demonization of people like me bothers me more than anything else.

01:20:36.020 There are a lot of things that I'm going to refuse to do, and I have been refusing to do with people.

01:20:40.260 I will have a discussion with anyone who disagrees with me, usually before I'll have one with someone

01:20:45.000 that agrees with me. I think it's more interesting to talk to someone that disagrees. But if you're going

01:20:49.820 to start the conversation about the need for border security by forcing me to defend myself that I am not

01:20:55.980 xenophobic or I somehow am anti-brown person, I'm not even going down that road with you. I'm not

01:21:02.720 going to waste my breath in giving you all the defenses that I can about the friends that I have

01:21:10.300 and the people that I've grown up with and the people that are closest to me that are from other

01:21:13.960 countries. I'm not doing it.

01:21:15.460 I don't want border protection because I'm anti-anyone.

01:21:24.900 Getting on airplanes has changed since 9-11. We've revamped and we've changed over time. We've changed

01:21:30.640 our tactics. Why? Because the terrorists have changed theirs. They were able on 9-11 to fly airplanes

01:21:39.920 into buildings with nothing more than box cutters. Why? Because our system was too easy.

01:21:51.600 There's no other explanation. They were able to board airplanes and take them down. We've gone, we've added

01:21:59.640 air marshals, we've secured the cockpit doors, we've armed the pilots, we've changed the way we do security

01:22:05.380 check-in. That's even morphed over time. When we saw that terrorists were trying to put bombs in

01:22:12.320 their shoes, we now take our shoes off. There are some places where you can't even take a laptop

01:22:18.180 in the cock or in the fuselage in the passenger compartment with you. It's got to be stowed underneath.

01:22:25.880 And they did this because of the change in tactics by the terrorists. It didn't say that we

01:22:31.360 were an untrusting country. We were just doing what we needed to do for security.

01:22:37.940 When the Syrian refugees were coming here, we have got a long history of giving people refuge in war-torn

01:22:43.820 countries. But when they were showing that terrorists with the ISIS members, Al-Qaeda, whoever it was,

01:22:53.540 these terrorists were posing as refugees to infiltrate America. When the president said,

01:22:59.840 we need to have a better vetting process to make sure that we are allowing in refugees only and 1.00

01:23:05.120 we're not allowing terrorists in, people called him a racist for it. And I don't know how that is

01:23:10.820 a racist statement because it just isn't a change in our security tactics to match and stay one step

01:23:19.600 ahead of the people that wish to do us harm. The border is different now than it was 10 or 20,

01:23:25.900 25 years ago. And now we have the death of a police officer, another death of a police officer

01:23:33.580 at the hands of an illegal alien. It doesn't make this officer's death any less tragic. It doesn't 0.58

01:23:39.020 make the loss any bigger to the family that lost him. But what it does is give you one more anecdotal

01:23:46.640 piece of evidence that we have got to make sure we know who's coming and going. And we have to have

01:23:51.860 the ability to keep evil people out, which we don't. They are capturing people that have already

01:23:57.820 been here and committed heinous crimes, did their time in prison and deported back to their countries 0.92

01:24:02.640 only to come back across our border again. And the president wanting a physical barrier where it's

01:24:10.760 prudent makes sense. I come from a border state where this isn't largely is not a political issue.

01:24:18.140 The issue of border security where I come from is about security. It's about the drugs that cross our

01:24:25.600 border. What has the opioid epidemic done to America? How many Americans are now dying at the

01:24:33.160 hands of legal and illegal opioids? The trend of the fentanyl deaths. What methamphetamines have done to

01:24:43.400 this country? In the 80s, it was marijuana. And then later on in the 80s, because of the drug cartels

01:24:51.540 and because of what we saw with Pablo Escobar, starting with him and then the other drug cartels,

01:24:55.780 the Cali cartels and the Cali cartel, and then went on to be the other cartels moving immense amounts

01:25:02.360 of cocaine into America because it was billions of dollars in that industry. And now we're seeing that

01:25:07.980 it's not just cocaine, that fentanyl, you can have such a small amount of fentanyl that could kill

01:25:12.380 so many people. It's packaged much smaller. It's harder to detect. Methamphetamines, easy to make

01:25:19.820 household chemicals trucked in, very potent. It's called ice, very potent coming across the border.

01:25:25.860 The need for opioids because people cannot get their hands on opioid prescription drugs as easily as

01:25:31.820 they used to. So they're turning to heroin and other opioids to satisfy an addiction that many

01:25:37.220 people never believed that they would have. And we as a country are allowing those things to cross

01:25:43.060 our border. The human trafficking element. I work fairly closely with some people in Arizona and the

01:25:49.700 anti-trafficking awareness. We host, we're fortunate enough in Glendale, Arizona to host the Super Bowl

01:25:57.580 every five or six years. And, you know, Vegas is known for its party atmosphere. And there are a lot

01:26:02.600 of times when the human traffickers are taking people from Phoenix to Vegas for big events because

01:26:07.420 that's where they're pimping out these young girls. And what's horrifying about it is during such huge

01:26:16.700 events like the Super Bowl, the direction happens to come in reverse and they're bringing human traffic.

01:26:23.060 They're bringing these these these girls, many times young girls to be, you know, to service customers

01:26:30.580 because that is where a big event is happening. And we are allowing things like this to happen

01:26:37.040 because we won't get a handle on an easy solution to a problem, which is better security.

01:26:43.220 All the evidence, I mean, all of the cute analogies we can come up with, and I do often

01:26:50.040 all make sense to all of us. The politics of what's happening in America. And I'm going to say

01:26:59.120 again to anyone out there in the traditional media that's listening, you have a responsibility to tell

01:27:05.480 both sides of a story. The border is not fixed. You want to talk about unaccompanied minors and

01:27:11.800 horrible treatment by Donald Trump and the people that work for him because you hate Donald Trump.

01:27:16.240 Those people are being treated just as horribly back during the Obama administration. It's a

01:27:20.880 systemic problem. Thousands of people are being turned out into the streets of cities in America.

01:27:28.100 Let's say for a moment, none of those thousands of people are dangerous. They're not here to commit

01:27:32.640 crimes. They're not sick and going to get us sick. These are just let's say they are people seeking

01:27:38.680 refuge. The system right now is so overwhelmed that a thousand people being turned out in the street

01:27:46.640 in the past week in El Paso, Texas with nowhere to go housed on empty buses for a while until something

01:27:54.340 can be done for them by the private sector. Ice is caught between a rock and a hard place. They are

01:28:01.320 legally bound to process people within 20 days and get them out. So they're giving them future hearing

01:28:09.040 dates. Sometimes they're equipping them with with monitoring devices and they're turning them loose

01:28:14.160 on cities and towns all over America. But when you when you point out, well, listen, a lot of the people

01:28:21.240 that are coming here are doing it under false pretenses. Over the last few days, the headlines have been

01:28:26.040 about an eight year old Guatemalan boy who died in the in the custody of America. Then we found out

01:28:32.620 the father refused medical treatment. Then we found out that the reason that the family brought this

01:28:39.480 child to begin with is because they were told if you bring a child, it's easier to get in.

01:28:46.860 Am I being complete completely heartless and politically incorrect when I ask what kind of a parent

01:28:53.680 puts their child in that situation? The left will tell you it's desperation and I will tell you,

01:28:59.940 no, it's not. It's encouragement saying that it's easy. How about the young men that are in the caravan

01:29:07.000 at Tijuana and how frustrated they were? Of all places, it was an MSNBC person that asked a reporter

01:29:15.400 that said most of these people in the caravan are young men. They're not talking about asylum.

01:29:20.720 They're talking about a better life. A lot of those young men got frustrated and went home

01:29:25.280 because they were told it's easy. You just cross the border. You seek asylum. They turn you loose

01:29:31.020 on the streets and you go get a job. And they're finding out that that's not true.

01:29:37.640 It's not just the death of a police officer, although as horrible a reminder as that is that

01:29:42.480 the system is broken. When are we finally going to, as Americans, demand that somebody fix it?

01:29:47.420 And that also means we're going to have to demand people in our own party

01:29:50.960 get stronger. More about this in a few moments because the incoming class of freshmen

01:29:56.860 are not only anti-wall, but abolish ICE advocates. And what does that do to complicate this problem?

01:30:04.180 That's coming up here in just a couple of moments. Again, my name is Mike Broomhead and

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01:31:33.240 One of the things that's confounding the media is that even though the president is talking tough

01:31:39.800 about the border and the southern border, and as long as the mantra from the left is that this

01:31:44.080 president is anti-brown, there is still a large number of Hispanic voters in America that support

01:31:50.200 the president, which is completely confounding the media, which shows you how out of touch many of

01:31:55.860 these people are with the people that would watch their shows or read the stories they write or listen

01:32:00.860 to what they have to say. This is conservative talk radio, as it's called, and I am as fiscally

01:32:09.300 conservative as a person is. I think I'm a lot more, as I get older, I'm becoming a lot more socially

01:32:14.180 libertarian. What I mean by that is there's a lot of principles that I adhere to personally when it

01:32:21.580 comes to morality, but I really don't need to know what's in your nightstand, and neither does the

01:32:25.920 government. So a lot of it is I may have a disagreement with you about right and wrong, but it's not my

01:32:31.820 position or the government's job to get involved in a lot of that. And to be quite honest with you, I'd

01:32:39.340 rather, I got my own backyard to clean up. I've got to fix my own moral compass before I worry about

01:32:43.900 yours on many levels, but I'm very fiscally conservative. This really never seemed to me to be about

01:32:50.140 conservatism. There is conservatism in politics and the size of government and scope of government

01:32:55.820 involvement. This never seemed to me to be an issue for that. I know immigrants. I know a lot of

01:33:03.100 immigrants. So the anecdotal evidence that I have is based on life experience. You've heard all the

01:33:09.280 stories about the South. I grew up in the South. I'm broadcasting from my hometown. I'm in Fort Myers,

01:33:14.840 Florida. And the South growing up, it had all the issues that other places had. Racism was defeated

01:33:21.520 for me here in the South. I watched living here in the 70s, in the late 70s, I watched the Mario

01:33:28.580 boat lifts. I watched the Cubans come here. I watched how they were brought into the port of Miami and how

01:33:34.680 they were put through Freedom Town and had to get their green cards and be vetted and then become

01:33:39.260 citizens. There are Cuban families, one I am so very, very close to still to this day.

01:33:44.840 And watch them struggle and get jobs and careers and their children and the entire family becoming

01:33:51.520 citizens at their very first opportunity. This couple raised four kids, one of them born in the

01:34:01.320 States, the three girls born in Cuba. They raised their family, worked very hard. Husband puts his wife

01:34:09.680 through college, she becomes a school teacher in the public school system. He's retired, volunteers and

01:34:15.900 works for the city that he lives in. They own their home. They are the American dream. That's what the

01:34:24.420 American dream is all about. You do things the right way. And you become an American. They speak Spanish

01:34:33.300 in their house. They speak English in public. They hold on to their culture from Cuba. They're proud of

01:34:39.640 the culture of Cuba, but they are proud Americans. They're not unique. They are the American dream. They

01:34:49.120 are the story of immigration. So when the media is shocked at the number of Hispanic voters that still

01:34:58.240 support the president or still support the Republican party, it's because they're out of touch, not the

01:35:04.200 Hispanic voters. You look at the cultures where you see from the country of Mexico, largely, not all,

01:35:11.440 but largely Catholic voters, very pro-life. Which principle, which party is that a principle of pro-life,

01:35:17.620 pro-family, hardworking, it is, it's amazing to be surprised that that many Hispanic voters, well, a lot

01:35:28.600 of them that are legal immigrants understand the difficulty of being a legal immigrant, how difficult

01:35:33.960 it is to do it the right way. And when you do it the right way, and then you see other people do it the

01:35:40.300 wrong way and then make demands, it is a legal immigrant that's more insulted because I was born here.

01:35:47.620 I was born into the land of milk and honey. I'm a proud American. I was born here. I'd never had to

01:35:54.700 live under an oppressive regime like the Castro regime. I didn't have to risk everything and climb

01:36:00.920 and leave every belonging I had behind except the clothes on my back to jump on a fishing boat

01:36:06.620 to go to another country to start over with three kids. But the people that did understand the need for

01:36:14.020 the rule of law and understand the need for orderly immigration, they're not anti-immigration, they're

01:36:19.420 immigrants. But they are fiercely anti-illegal immigration. So MSNBC stunned at new surveys showing how many

01:36:28.620 Hispanic voted for the Republicans in the midterms. A new survey appeared to stun progressive NBC news outlet,

01:36:35.300 MSNBC news outlet, when it showed that Latinos had not dropped in support of Republicans, despite what many saw as

01:36:42.260 racially insensitive rhetoric from the president. The only people that see it as racially insensitive

01:36:47.580 are the people that want to make him out to be a racist. Common sense is common sense and it crosses

01:36:54.260 racial lines. I feel bad for people that, you know, if you are, and maybe you fit into this, if you're

01:37:01.980 myopic, if you only see the world through the prism of conservative versus liberal, you're too myopic

01:37:09.700 for the same thing that a civil rights activist that only sees things in black and white or a gay 0.88

01:37:14.580 activist that only sees things by sexual identity. If you see the world through only one prism through

01:37:20.740 one lens, you're selling yourself short. This is not about racism. This is not about white versus brown.

01:37:28.940 This is not. This is about the rule of law and orderly immigration. This is about making sure that

01:37:35.200 people that want the American dream have an opportunity to get it the right way and you can't

01:37:40.080 do it the wrong way. So the surprise by MSNBC shows you how out of touch MSNBC is.

01:37:50.840 Hispanic voters in America, and I will say this to anybody out there that's listening that isn't,

01:37:55.360 that is an immigrant. If you are an immigrant, I believe you are going to save America.

01:38:00.000 If you are a legal immigrant, you know, the sacrifice it takes, you know, the oppression

01:38:06.220 you've left, and you know what this constitution really does for people's lives.

01:38:12.740 I do want to ask you to speak up about the evils of illegal immigration and how amazing legal 1.00

01:38:22.480 immigration is. You have to differentiate. Explain the difference and why illegal immigration

01:38:29.880 bothers you. The incoming class of freshmen in the progressive caucus say they didn't come here

01:38:39.880 to play. How does the agenda of abolishing ICE now put a new wrinkle and twist into any plan of

01:38:46.800 getting real border protection and ending the government shutdown? All of that coming up in the

01:38:51.420 next half hour of the show. I'm Mike Broomhead. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Stick around.

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01:40:13.380 Happy New Year. Thanks for being here. It's the Mike Broomhead Show. I'm sorry,

01:40:26.500 it's the Glenn Beck program. Mike Broomhead in for Glenn Beck. I got confused. I stole his chair for

01:40:30.560 a moment. I appreciate you being with me. Before I move on to anything else, I want you to hear

01:40:36.080 the way this goes. Some of the people that I kind of went on a rant yesterday about Joe Scarborough

01:40:42.500 and how he preaches to everybody about civility, and he preaches civility and says that Trump should

01:40:54.500 be more like John McCain was and more like George H.W. Bush was. That's what real leadership looked

01:40:59.540 like, and continued to say things like that. I want you to hear Joe Scarborough and a comment

01:41:04.960 Scarborough made about the president, and of course, it has to do with immigration.

01:41:10.000 Now's the time we need to take stock of everything. How are we doing personally? How are our children

01:41:17.100 and how are other family members doing? Are they thriving? Do we need more help in certain areas?

01:41:24.780 Are they doing great in others, but might need just a little push some other direction? How are we

01:41:30.780 doing as a country? And how are our leaders doing? You know, as we approach 2019, those of us who remain

01:41:40.560 eternally optimistic about this great republic of ours have reason to be concerned. Little children

01:41:47.900 continue to die in the custody of the U.S. government. And remember, friends, that's our government.

01:41:55.180 That's your government and my government that's allowing little children to die while they're 0.99

01:42:02.480 being incarcerated because of a policy that's supposed to discourage people from coming.

01:42:08.680 And thousands of children still remain incarcerated. And still, this holiday season, this Christmas

01:42:16.060 season, they're still separated from their parents. What would Jesus do? That's where Jesus would be.

01:42:24.280 That would be the issue. If you read the New Testament, if you read the Gospels,

01:42:30.020 that's exactly what Jesus would be concerned about. So go then, Joe.

01:42:39.020 Take the lead. Take the lead from someone like Glenn Beck. Take the lead from others that have

01:42:46.280 actually gone and put their eyes on what's happening because we did it years ago. No one seemed to

01:42:54.260 care years ago when the Obama administration was doing this. There's nothing. There is nothing here

01:43:04.940 that's happening that wasn't happening under the Obama administration. This is, again, a misguided,

01:43:14.480 I believe, intentionally misguided narrative to demonize somebody. And he asks the question, what would

01:43:25.300 Jesus do? I mean, it's very easy for them to do these things and to spew out this narrative that

01:43:32.980 somehow nobody on this side of the aisle cares. Let's say for a moment that the president of the United

01:43:39.140 States is everything that Joe Scarborough says he is. What is Joe Scarborough saying about the character

01:43:49.660 of the men and women that work for immigration and customs enforcement?

01:43:53.480 What is he saying about the people charged in their care?

01:44:00.160 I have ripped the Veterans Administration and the handling of what they've done to veterans over

01:44:05.360 these years and watched it where it blossomed and came to came to light where I live in the VA

01:44:11.480 hospital I've been to many, many times. I've never lost sight of the fact that there are many people

01:44:18.600 within the VA that were trying to fix it, that they were the good people doing the hard work

01:44:23.680 whose names were being dragged down by the bureaucrats and leadership that couldn't be moved and couldn't

01:44:28.960 be pushed out. Joe Scarborough makes the comments as if it is the employees

01:44:36.720 of immigration and customs enforcement that went from being these caring groups of people or this

01:44:45.180 caring group of people that took great care and concern for refugees when they were coming across

01:44:52.700 the border. The policies of the United States and the loopholes in our law are to blame right now for this

01:44:58.940 crisis, period. Blaming one president, blaming this president for a problem that is so easily denounced

01:45:11.040 by anyone with an ounce of intellectual integrity and honesty. Facilities housing unaccompanied minors 1.00

01:45:20.680 were built and filled during the Obama Administration.

01:45:28.460 Joe Scarborough knows that.

01:45:33.020 So he is either intentionally lying to you or he has amnesia.

01:45:39.040 No one cared during the Obama Administration that children were coming across the border. And even

01:45:47.700 then, even then, no one on that trip that I went with demonized our former president about it other

01:45:56.500 than to say the policy needs to change. We need to stop telling families south of the border that if you 0.99

01:46:05.780 come or send your children, they will be given lawyers and hearings for asylum.

01:46:15.140 We had to take away and should have taken away the incentive to break American law.

01:46:21.480 You know, a simple shift in the law that said, if you come across our border illegally and try to seek

01:46:30.040 asylum, you will be sent back across the border to seek asylum on the correct side of the border.

01:46:36.200 For Joe Scarborough to lay out that narrative that young children continue to die in U.S.

01:46:56.940 custody, you can't call him a liar. He didn't lie. That's true. That's what happened. Two children have

01:47:04.820 died in U.S. custody. The first parent doesn't hold the government responsible and said so.

01:47:11.080 The second parent denied medical treatment.

01:47:16.100 And the second group said, we brought the children because they said it would be easier to enter if we did.

01:47:22.760 When you see a 400 plus percent increase in the number of people coming across the border posing as

01:47:34.580 families when they are not, isn't that cause for a policy shift?

01:47:40.800 When the lawbreakers shift tactics, law enforcement has to respond.

01:47:46.000 It's in every law enforcement agency, every one of them, the overcome and adapt.

01:47:54.260 When law enforcement sees an uptick in burglaries in a neighborhood, they send in what would be an

01:48:00.080 anti-crime or what we would call in Phoenix a net or neighborhood enforcement team into neighborhoods

01:48:05.160 to try to stop those acts from happening. Prostitution, drug dealing, you go into those areas and you adapt.

01:48:11.620 When you see criminals morph in the way that they can commit their crimes, you find ways

01:48:18.200 to catch them.

01:48:23.640 And this should be no different. All of a sudden, it is this one issue of immigration

01:48:28.440 that changes all the rules. Local law enforcement is not allowed to work with federal law enforcement.

01:48:35.360 They are in every other aspect, but it's an act of Congress to get a local law enforcement agency

01:48:40.560 to do anything about immigration laws. They work hand in hand with federal.

01:48:45.820 Think about a fugitive. If you when you get pulled over and you give a driver, your driver's

01:48:51.540 license to a police officer anywhere in this country, they run your driver's license through

01:48:55.800 a computer, an NCIC computer. That national computer database tells them if you're wanted

01:49:00.800 anywhere. Can you imagine what would happen if a local police officer pulled someone over

01:49:05.980 today? And it said, this guy is wanted by the U.S. Marshals.

01:49:11.840 And that cop said, well, I'm not a federal law enforcement agent. Nothing I can do here.

01:49:17.920 And I'm not allowed to call federal law enforcement. So I'm going to have to let this guy go.

01:49:24.360 We would roll our eyes and wonder what kind of a lazy cop that is.

01:49:28.300 No. Well, he's wanted by the feds. Oh, I see. He's on the FBI's most wanted list.

01:49:36.180 Dang the luck. I'm just a sheriff's deputy. Nothing I can do about that.

01:49:42.120 Would anybody think that was the right thing to do?

01:49:44.720 And yet, when it comes to federal immigration laws across this country, whether you're a

01:49:53.000 sanctuary city or you're not, law enforcement's been put on notice. Immigration's a federal

01:49:59.660 law enforcement issue. You can't say this. You can't ask that. You better not take someone

01:50:05.520 into custody. You shouldn't do this. It's the only area where local law enforcement is not

01:50:11.500 working hand in hand with federal law enforcement. It's embarrassing.

01:50:18.220 Before we close out the week, I told you the young group of freshmen coming into the progressive

01:50:22.980 caucus led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They say that we didn't come here to play.

01:50:29.420 What does that mean for the future conversations about the building of a wall, the building of

01:50:35.840 some kind of a barrier, border security, and a multitude of other things? We'll talk about

01:50:40.460 that coming up in a moment. Once again, I'm Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:50:51.820 A happy new year from the Glenn Beck Program. I'm Mike Broomhead.

01:50:56.480 And here for just a bit more, and then I'll be in again on Monday.

01:50:59.840 The incoming group of progressives, as they call themselves, the progressive caucus,

01:51:07.280 is going to be the largest demographic of Democrats in the House of Representatives

01:51:12.000 in January when they take over. As I mentioned before, Nancy Pelosi had to cut a deal with them 0.99

01:51:18.100 in order to get enough votes to be elected Speaker of the House. That mattered more than anything else.

01:51:22.940 And I don't even necessarily know if I'm calling that a bad thing or not. I think the idea of not

01:51:28.480 fixing illegal immigration, not addressing the issue at our border is a serious issue for our

01:51:33.900 country. But Nancy Pelosi wants to be Speaker again. And to be Speaker again, she had to make a deal 1.00

01:51:39.600 with this large demographic. And in order to do that, there will be no movement on that side of

01:51:51.980 the aisle when it comes to a wall, any kind of barrier. I say that because Nancy Pelosi has decided

01:51:59.460 that there's a huge difference between a wall and a fence. So whether it's a wall or it's a fence

01:52:05.500 or it is whatever you would like to call it, it won't happen if they have their way.

01:52:11.640 Now, there is now a big monkey wrench going to be thrown in this because money for the food

01:52:18.420 assistance programs federally is going to start running out. And then you will see a large demographic

01:52:23.900 of Democrat voters that will not be receiving government assistance. Now, will they all solely

01:52:30.500 blame the president? I don't know. And I guess they're going to try to find that out

01:52:33.960 in their party. This is about leadership in the next two years and Nancy Pelosi's desire to be

01:52:40.980 Speaker. Therefore, she needed their votes. Therefore, she cut a deal. This is about 2020

01:52:45.840 and not giving this president any kind of a victory leading up to 2020 or the appearance of a victory,

01:52:51.180 even if the things that need to be done are the right things.

01:52:56.040 The president signed on to a prison reform bill that was truly a bipartisan effort.

01:53:01.900 And that is an effort to get things done. The president has said he will not sign anything

01:53:09.800 that doesn't have real border security in it. The Democrats have already said they are sticking

01:53:14.000 to their guns and there will not be funding that includes money for a barrier. The president has

01:53:19.120 other avenues, I guess, in which he can do it. Which side is going to blink here? Well, you have got

01:53:24.240 that I want. I would love for the Freedom Caucus on the right side of the aisle in the House and other

01:53:30.840 Republican members of the House to realize there is strength in your numbers. And this incoming group

01:53:37.040 of freshmen said, we didn't come here to play. We're not here to sit down and shut up and be told,

01:53:43.020 wait your turn. We were elected. We have votes. We're sticking together and we plan on making changes.

01:53:49.540 They're not going to stand for tax cuts. They're not going to. It goes against everything they

01:53:56.240 believe in. This is not just the we don't need a wall crowd. This is the abolish ICE crowd.

01:54:06.920 The American people should wake up. The political far right and the political far left have the voices

01:54:16.280 in a primary. The huge swath of independent voters that do not adhere to one party or the other.

01:54:26.580 They make decisions based on a person they think will represent them the best or on an idea they

01:54:30.940 agree with. And they have no problem crossing party lines when it comes to voting.

01:54:35.980 Are the very people that you need to be chasing for 2020 and beyond when it's strictly about elections.

01:54:42.280 The issue of the need for border security is a winner with those people. 0.97

01:54:50.060 Articulate it the right way and remember that there is now a unit, a cohesive group of people

01:54:56.880 that realize their strength in their numbers and they are much further left than most people in this

01:55:03.560 country. Allow them to expose who they are.

01:55:07.340 And speak about reasonable things to the American people.

01:55:12.900 Remember, the greatest example of this was Ronald Reagan. He didn't speak to political parties,

01:55:16.720 which he was able to do when he spoke at the Republican convention. He addressed Republicans.

01:55:22.100 But he was we are the shining city on the hill. We are the last best hope. He spoke to Americans.

01:55:27.880 That's why they called him the great communicator.

01:55:29.720 The Republicans need to start speaking to the Americans and say talking about the principles

01:55:35.320 that they win on every time.

01:55:39.420 I'll be back on New Year's Eve. I want you to have a great weekend. I hope you have a great weekend

01:55:43.440 planned. I know that I do. And if you want to follow me on Twitter, I am at Broomhead Show,

01:55:48.460 the Mike Broomhead Show fan page on Facebook or all one word Mike Broomhead on Instagram. That's

01:55:53.220 how you can reach out to me. I manage my own accounts. Would love to hear from you on social media

01:55:58.300 this weekend. Have a great weekend, everyone. I'm back. I'm Mike Broomhead. In for Glenn Beck. God bless.

01:56:10.540 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 28, 2018

'There's Always a Silver Lining' ｜ Guest Host： Mike Broomhead ｜ 12⧸28⧸18

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