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00:03:08.860 hello america there is quite a bit to talk about uh what happened at the white house yesterday

00:03:21.680 was historic now does anything come of it i think there's a good chance i think there's

00:03:28.080 there seemed to be real progress yesterday we'll talk about that coming up in just a second first let

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00:04:25.080 all right hello stew how are you wonderful glenn how are you oh my gosh i was with uh prager you

00:04:36.840 yesterday we were doing uh i guess i'm i'm i guess if prager you is the new pbs that doesn't take

00:04:43.180 any money from the u.s government which i think is the big big problem with pbs was it was taking

00:04:49.760 money from anyway uh uh i guess i'm the new big bird um but uh i was recording with him all day

00:04:57.280 yesterday up until you know uh yesterday evening and i missed seeing a lot of this stuff live and

00:05:03.760 it is one of the most what happened yesterday i is one of the things that i wish i would have been

00:05:09.580 able to watch live jason i know you were there watching it live the whole time stew did you get a

00:05:15.320 chance to watch it all day i watched a good chunk of it not all of it but most of it let me hear your

00:05:22.000 takeaway stew i think it's really encouraging that there's a chance right i mean i you know i don't

00:05:28.440 know what to make of a final um uh you know wonderful unicorn land where there's peace and vladimir

00:05:36.320 putin doesn't do anything wrong again um but the bottom line is uh the possibility of improving the

00:05:43.380 situation is there and i'm excited about that um you know i i'm sure the ukrainians have their ups and

00:05:49.500 downs with this they want the war to be over but don't want to lose land which is what's going to

00:05:53.360 happen here quite clearly um but at the end of the day what our interests are is what is important to

00:05:59.460 me uh and our interests are getting this over so it doesn't spiral into world war three so i am

00:06:05.920 excited for the possibility but you know you're of course always hesitant when trusting vladimir putin

00:06:12.620 as part of the puzzle jason your takeaway oh wow i i didn't know what to expect uh based off of news

00:06:23.280 coverage leading up to this i have expected there to be a bunch of european leaders that all weirdly

00:06:30.680 look like evil accountants that were going to be charging through the halls of the white house and

00:06:35.560 we're just really going to give trump a piece of his mind to protect poor zelensky to be well

00:06:40.600 protect him they were because he was going to be bullied remember that oh yeah right but what we

00:06:45.640 got was a european love boat within the white house they were all just heaping praise upon praise

00:06:53.840 on president trump now did you see the new york times response to that today no new york times wrote a

00:06:59.640 story today that the only reason i mean who learned more on how to how to handle uh uh donald trump

00:07:08.060 putin or the european leaders because they all just bend the knee to him now and uh they're only

00:07:15.080 doing that because they have to well wait a minute wait a minute you only have to bend the knee to him

00:07:21.720 because what he's completely irrelevant uh he's he's not making a difference in the world why would

00:07:29.800 you bend a knee to a man who is a dictator who's all the things the left always says and i didn't get

00:07:36.360 that impression now i didn't see it yesterday i only saw the clips but i didn't see anything other

00:07:43.180 than what i thought was actual respect for moving the ball down the field no touchdown but he's moved

00:07:52.360 the ball down the field yeah 100 and there were other diplomatic moves that led to this like bend the

00:07:57.920 knee to a dictator uh putin friendly i i tell you in my opinion the only reason that putin has

00:08:04.840 come to the table and is really taking this seriously right now one of the reasons why i am

00:08:10.400 very optimistic are the other foreign policy moves that trump has maneuvered just to get to this point

00:08:16.420 let's talk about azerbaijan and armenia i mean that is a huge shot across the bow of the russians

00:08:23.500 huge it's something there uh their um uh you know proximity to the caucuses and wanting to exert

00:08:30.060 influence down in that area that was a huge move right there that people are not even talking about

00:08:35.620 something that led to this but i tell you what glenn at when i saw this go down as i saw them say

00:08:41.660 you know you broke the stalemate direct quote three and a half years we got nowhere more movement in the

00:08:48.380 last two weeks that is all president trump that is all him and i thought at that there was one moment

00:08:54.040 where they were like you know breaking news you know the meeting has stopped briefly um president

00:08:58.840 trump is immediately calling uh vladimir putin there was a collective within the entire world

00:09:03.960 and we thought is he gonna get this done you know he said because i heard him speak this morning he was

00:09:11.240 on fox and friends this morning and he said you know they said did you really just stop the meeting

00:09:15.580 you call him put him on speakerphone he said no i wouldn't do that to him he said but i promised him

00:09:20.780 i would give him an update and he said as soon as we were done i was going to call him and he said it

00:09:25.000 was already like 1 30 in the morning over in moscow yeah so he said i just uh i called him up and gave

00:09:30.980 him an update of of where we were this is a guy who i think is feeling the pressure of 20 000 people

00:09:39.200 you know dying every couple of days um and uh and wants this thing done uh and seems to have a good

00:09:48.880 relationship with now europeans and also vladimir uh i mean sorry and also uh yeah vladimir putin

00:09:57.000 um let me just give you some of the quotes here's zelensky if you look at the silver lining of where

00:10:02.940 we stand right now we found a solution in 1944 and i'm sure we're ever going to be able to find a

00:10:08.040 solution in 2024 or sorry 2025 uh president trump's efforts have reignited the dialogue that's zelensky

00:10:15.760 emmanuel macron um he praised him earlier for calling for a 30-day ceasefire said it was a

00:10:23.120 positive step in diplomacy and then he said president trump's effort to stop the killing in ukraine

00:10:29.620 and russia's war of aggression and achieve a lasting peace he has moved the ball uh down the field

00:10:36.740 keir starmer emphasized that any deal has to include ukraine and not allow russia to dictate terms

00:10:43.180 uh the joint statement uh we welcome president trump's efforts which have paved the way for

00:10:50.080 ukraine's security guarantees um the leaders uh were flattered uh they flattered trump to keep the

00:10:59.300 movement going now that's that's the spin from the press that they flattered him i think there was

00:11:04.780 actual respect from most of them for what donald trump has done they had completely

00:11:12.640 stalled for three and a half years there was no movement for three and a half years um they

00:11:19.400 couldn't get anything done putin won't talk to any of them you know um president trump is is doing things

00:11:29.640 he's doing things that i don't think that i expected him to be so good at you know in his first term

00:11:41.820 we didn't really talk about the art of the deal

00:11:44.260 and and i think it's because everything was so combative everything was combative this time the

00:11:52.700 art of the deal is happening in almost everything he is becoming that deal maker

00:11:58.020 everywhere everywhere um yesterday he whispered into uh uh uh into macron's ear which is weird

00:12:08.160 i think your wife is a man uh and then he and then he said um i think i think putin wants to make a deal

00:12:18.320 i think he wants to make a deal for me understand that as crazy as it sounds now everybody went crazy

00:12:24.960 on that but i think that's true i think donald trump has this way of bringing you into the fold he can

00:12:32.900 push you out but you want to be in his circle you know what i mean and i think every european leader

00:12:41.920 and vladimir putin is feeling the same way he'll push you out but he can bring you in and then he

00:12:49.480 makes you feel like you are the center of the universe you know um and nobody wants to be a global pariah

00:12:57.920 not even vladimir putin wants to be a pariah he wants to look good to the rest of the world

00:13:02.540 i think he also wants to win in the eyes of his own people so does uh zelinski president trump has this

00:13:11.760 way of of moving people and i and maybe he's done this with putin maybe not but maybe he's done this

00:13:20.640 with putin to get putin to the point to where he does want to be

00:13:26.020 friendly to the united states and donald trump when he said you know i it's weird but i think he wants

00:13:34.980 to make a deal for me i think donald trump the one thing he is good at is reading a room and i think he's

00:13:43.380 possibly right about that also the security guarantees stew it looks like they they all came

00:13:52.840 together and and verified that not a nato article 5 but an article 5 like agreement is on actually on

00:14:04.180 the table and putin seems to be somewhat accepted accepting of it yeah i'm hopeful that that comes to

00:14:11.740 it gets there i think i think i don't know let me let me i'm not 100 sure i like the idea of us being

00:14:20.020 in a nato like agreement in ukraine but i i like the idea that the there would be a threat there to

00:14:26.160 stop them from doing this again so you know again devil's in the details on this stuff for those for

00:14:32.360 those who feel like you do and i i include myself in that i kind of look at this a little like the

00:14:38.440 taiwan deal yeah we're not gonna go help i mean it's not gonna happen it is sad i don't know what

00:14:45.380 to say about it but like at the end of the day if russia invades them again we're probably not

00:14:50.420 stepping in with troops i mean the one thing that you could see as a potential um uh legitimate um

00:14:57.860 i don't know offset here or two well actually there's two things one is we in the process of

00:15:04.260 this whatever time where they're not you know killing each other whatever long that lasts before

00:15:08.780 putin decides to do this again if he does you can build up the defenses of ukraine right you can do

00:15:14.120 a good job making a much harder border that's something we can actually i think move but with

00:15:19.140 weapons sales and such and europe can help with that as well the other one is potentially having

00:15:23.540 troops uh in in that area you know a uh you know like a few troops right like some that would say hey

00:15:30.140 you know don't don't invade we have some of our guys there uh sometimes that is enough to offset

00:15:36.320 an invasion from a country that doesn't want to get involved with us one of those two is a possibility 1.00

00:15:40.980 you know i've heard that maybe that that possibility is not going to happen we'll see on that but one

00:15:47.600 other thing i wanted to bring up briefly glenn on on the reaction from the european leaders whether

00:15:52.680 they were sincere or not obviously we can't read into their thoughts um but i would argue it doesn't

00:15:57.960 really matter it doesn't matter if they're sincere in giving trump credit over this in reality that's

00:16:03.820 a personality thing and i don't really care about it um one of the things trump is really good at

00:16:08.480 though in these situations and this is something that's totally different than uh past presidents

00:16:12.960 is projecting american power like last time zelensky was here he was arguing they were bickering they

00:16:21.260 were fighting they were you know this time the guy shows up in a suit he is complimentary every

00:16:26.880 single step of the way every european leader there sounds like they could be at a maga rally

00:16:32.800 like that is not a coincidence right that is donald trump saying look if you want us to be on board with

00:16:39.360 any of this you'll come here you'll be respectful you will acknowledge how much the american people have

00:16:46.280 given to you most of them not only acknowledge that but also personally thank donald trump over and

00:16:51.680 over and over again for that i mean you could argue oh donald trump loves that attention i don't think

00:16:56.360 that's what it is i think he's trying to project uh american power and saying hey if you want us to

00:17:02.860 be involved in this if you want us to be doing these things that you really need then you will

00:17:09.160 understand the the way these countries are stacked and by the way we're at the top of that

00:17:14.160 and i don't think that's a bad thing for american president to to be pushing out into the world

00:17:18.720 and uh i i think that's part of the reason why you you see there's a chance at success

00:17:24.500 again i don't know where how this turns out but you know before trump started doing this we didn't

00:17:30.440 even have a lottery ticket for it there was literally no way this was gonna end and everyone's

00:17:36.100 been mocking in this entire time and they will all claim this wonderful victory if this war goes on

00:17:42.640 as if they were right and they had this wonderful thing at the end of the day though you have to try

00:17:47.240 you have to at least attempt these things or there's no chance for success so i i just think that like

00:17:53.160 the media and the left is going to get all hung up on on this nonsensical detail but the bottom

00:17:57.740 line is we have i think a lot more than a lottery ticket here to solve a really bad problem so let

00:18:03.720 me take a quick break and i'm come back and i'm going to tell you the two things that i think are

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00:19:37.500 so there's two things that i think are the real outcome that should be noticed at this point

00:19:56.380 you know when donald trump uh first uh came on the scene um we knew he was going to change things

00:20:05.940 when he won the second term he made it very clear he was going to send a message to the world

00:20:13.120 that uh he's changing things he's changing the order of the world since the 1940s since breton woods

00:20:22.560 um he is he is doing that while we have had every other president since maybe reagan

00:20:33.160 start bowing a knee to the global world order remember it was george uh h w bush that said you

00:20:40.900 know there's a new world order and the world has been marching to that drum that america is its time

00:20:48.900 has passed we're not in the driver's seat anymore we need to have deference to everybody else stop

00:20:55.380 leading the world what americans have always wanted was stop being the policeman of the world

00:21:01.600 we don't want to be the policeman and we are not being the policeman in the world that donald trump

00:21:08.660 is designing right now what we are is the leader of the world and you saw that yesterday if you saw

00:21:17.760 any of those pictures uh of all of the world leaders in his office it was like he was the principal

00:21:23.720 and he is calling all of the kids in or the teachers in because it's time we have a little

00:21:29.480 conference here and i need to tell you what's going on in your own classrooms that's what it felt like

00:21:35.080 yesterday that is the projection of global leadership it is clear there is one person that

00:21:45.080 is running the world for the first time in a long time i feel like you know the left keeps saying

00:21:52.620 oh you know he's just an embarrassment where we don't have any credibility we didn't have any

00:21:57.480 credibility with the last guy and you couldn't say this about donald trump in the first the first term

00:22:05.020 because the the tide hadn't turned on him yet you know it was still so split but the world

00:22:14.140 is behaving differently because of him now this term and he has become the world's leader

00:22:23.440 and he's doing it by making peace he's not doing it by threatening he's doing it by by just exhibiting

00:22:31.600 leadership getting up in the morning and saying this is what has to be done let's go do it you know

00:22:37.440 and i'm going to get to this part here in a second that phone call that he made with zelinski

00:22:42.820 is all telling all telling not zelinski but vladimir putin when is the last time you saw

00:22:53.740 any world leader without the un just say uh i need all of the big countries i need i need how

00:23:03.520 what are there six yesterday i need the big european big six to come on over and sit in my office for a 0.97

00:23:10.340 while we're going to spend the day together when's the last time i don't think i've ever seen that

00:23:15.840 in my whole life i've never seen that and then when he was sitting in that room and they were coming

00:23:23.100 to a conclusion and the things were wrapping up for the day he just gets up and says hang on just a

00:23:28.940 second i just got to call vladimir putin none of the people in that room could have made that call

00:23:33.560 none of them could have made that call but he didn't wait for somebody to tell him to do it

00:23:39.340 he just did it he went into the other room out of respect calls vladimir putin up and gets it done

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00:25:14.540 so i want to give you uh i want to give you the two things that i think

00:25:37.140 are the two messages that we should take from all of this um

00:25:43.640 america

00:25:48.240 is truly once again in charge

00:25:52.060 that's number one

00:25:54.240 we are leading the world and we're not leading the world through military force

00:25:59.820 we're not leading the world through um just words and projection of power we're leading the world

00:26:09.860 because donald trump is actually going places and leading the world you know when you when you look

00:26:16.000 at um he's been saying here um over the last couple of days you know i stopped six wars

00:26:24.160 uh well yes and no i guess you could say um you know we could quibble over were these wars or were

00:26:36.760 these just flare-ups but i don't know anybody who has done more for world peace as a president

00:26:44.560 um in just the last couple of months in a two-month period i don't know of a president who has done more

00:26:52.020 for world peace than donald trump name name anyone who is close if they're lucky they'll solve one

00:27:00.040 thing he has gone in six different times now and not all of them are you know we're all having our

00:27:08.220 fingers crossed that the middle east and iran is at least peaceful for a little while same thing

00:27:16.760 with uh ukraine and russia it's not done yet but hopefully when it is done it will last a while it's

00:27:24.840 not going to be a forever peace um but look at what he did he he stopped pakistan and india

00:27:31.320 from having a nuclear war he is he is bringing peace to the world like i've never seen before

00:27:41.840 and again as i said maybe for the first time in my lifetime america is the global leader

00:27:49.200 and and i think i say that because well i mean ronald reagan was the global leader

00:27:57.540 uh in the 1980s that's the last time that i think that would even be close but ronald reagan still had

00:28:06.980 his detractors and they never came to the table you know uh ronald reagan his power came from

00:28:14.960 uh just the political prowess that he had here in america um and his just strength of will that he

00:28:25.580 just wouldn't give up and then he also had margaret thatcher and the pope on his side

00:28:29.520 this president really has not had anybody on his side nobody on his side but you'll notice they're

00:28:36.800 no longer taking him on and calling him a thug a clown a dictator or anything else they're not calling

00:28:42.820 him any of those things at least the world world leaders the european leaders are no longer saying

00:28:48.380 those things they're taking him seriously because he's actually getting things done so a america is in

00:28:57.240 a leadership role now why is that one worth really um standing back and admiring for a minute

00:29:08.980 because every president every president has tried to reverse that every president has been working on

00:29:19.160 this new global coalition you notice he's not talking about let not this what you hear from every

00:29:25.380 president we have a global coalition we're cobbling together all these you know uh states of the

00:29:32.460 willing all of these people who are coming together and they're willing to stand together

00:29:36.460 well that's happening but donald trump is not setting out to get a global coalition he's leading the

00:29:46.020 world and a coalition is forming around him and he's really not part of the coalition he's leading the

00:29:54.220 coalition he's saying we're not going to do this we're not doing this ourself but let me show you how

00:29:59.760 it can be done now you guys go and do it we're not providing the arms we're selling ammunition we're

00:30:07.540 selling arms to the europeans they want to do it they can do it so again it's a different kind of

00:30:14.880 leadership we are not the ones paying for it we're not the ones carrying all the weight on our shoulders

00:30:22.820 he's saying look i can get this done but then it's your job to do it it's not ours it's yours

00:30:29.580 that is unlike anything i have ever seen before okay so while he is building coalitions he's leading

00:30:39.440 them he's not just another one of the coalition that's true leadership especially in a time when the

00:30:47.920 whole world has said for a long time now and many of us believed the era of america's leadership is

00:30:56.720 over is it because it sure doesn't look like it to me now and that is and that has been done in six

00:31:06.400 months finally a guy who knows how to wield the power of the united states without being a bully

00:31:15.960 now the second thing and i don't think anybody really understands this

00:31:26.520 i was in during the was it 2007 2008 election i went to the white house because i was called on the

00:31:40.740 carpet by george w bush because i was not happy with the with the war and the way it was going

00:31:47.280 and i had made some comment about i don't remember even what it was but i made some comment on the air

00:31:54.280 that you know hey left you want to impeach him here's the thing you impeach him on because this is

00:32:01.100 actually impeachable and uh that didn't sit well with the bush administration they didn't like that

00:32:07.680 and i get a call on the way home from the studios and it's the white house and this is the first time

00:32:12.720 the white house had ever called me without me reaching out first and uh and i get a call and

00:32:20.140 it's a 202 number and i'm like it's 1414 202 i can't remember 458 or something 1414 and i remember

00:32:27.940 202 that's uh washington dc and 1414 i remember that's the number of the white house

00:32:34.880 and i look at it for a while i'm like i think that's the white house and i pick it up mr beck

00:32:41.020 yes the president would like to see you in the oval tomorrow morning at 10 now i'm on the air at 10

00:32:47.480 o'clock in the morning uh do you think you could make that i didn't even know what to say i i literally

00:32:54.480 held the phone away from my head and i looked at the i'm driving and i look at the phone and i look at

00:33:00.400 the road and i don't even know what to say and i just you know i said well hang on let me check let

00:33:07.620 me check and i put the phone back up next to my ear and i'm like okay it looks good yeah i can be

00:33:13.620 there hang up the phone i it was freaky i get there and the first thing the president says i sit in the

00:33:23.420 chair in the zelinski chair and uh the first thing the president says to me is and laced with

00:33:31.520 profanity you know a lot of people think they know how they can be the effing president well they have

00:33:37.040 no effing idea how to be the effing president and i'm like oh my gosh this is going to be the longest

00:33:41.260 hour of my life and he read me the riot act

00:33:46.200 after that was all over and he had that out of his system we stood up at the end and um it was the

00:33:56.740 day that barack obama had said that if he were president he would just fly our planes over the

00:34:03.940 border into pakistan and he would just bomb pakistan well this is at the point where pakistan

00:34:09.960 is kind of helping us okay they're not our friends they're more frenemies but they're kind of helping

00:34:17.640 us at this point and he says uh barack obama says you know and if he would have done that the whole

00:34:24.240 the whole coalition of the willing all of that crap would have gone right out the window and so i

00:34:30.800 said to the president as i'm walking out and he's standing by the oval or by the uh resolute desk and i

00:34:35.620 said um mr president i said uh i don't know if you heard this but today barack obama and he said

00:34:42.540 oh i heard that don't worry about that don't worry about that and i said okay and he said trust me glenn

00:34:49.120 whoever comes into this office no matter what party they're in they're going to sit behind this desk

00:34:54.800 and they're going to realize because they're going to be advised by exactly the same people that have

00:35:00.860 been advising me that they really have no choice this is what they have to do and he said have a

00:35:09.220 good day and i'm like holy cow i walked out and i do you remember me calling you after that still yes

00:35:15.880 um and i was freaked out i was like this is not good the president isn't really the president the

00:35:24.040 president is just listening to all these advisors who were in advising the last president and the

00:35:30.500 president before that and it's all state department stuff and they're just they're just executing a

00:35:36.320 long plan what difference does it make who we have in the office if that's true yeah remember that one

00:35:41.600 specific part of that that you didn't mention was because he was very angry at you but that part of the

00:35:47.340 conversation was meant to make you feel good right it wasn't like an angry thing it was a hey it's okay

00:35:55.800 calm down all the decisions will remain the same and it's like that didn't calm you down much

00:36:01.920 no it made it worse yes and so why do i bring this story up which i've told before why do i bring this

00:36:11.240 story up i bring this story up because when donald trump sat at the table and said just gonna get old

00:36:20.420 vlad on the phone and he stands up walks out of the room with all the world leaders and he just

00:36:27.480 picks up the phone and calls vladimir putin says hey i just want to keep you up to speed what's going

00:36:32.240 on he didn't ask for permission he didn't have anybody whispering in his ear he didn't he's leading

00:36:38.680 the state department he's leading the world he's keeping his own counsel that hasn't been done by a

00:36:47.360 president in i don't know how long and it's why we're once again the leaders of the world

00:36:53.420 because these these advisors all of these doctors and professors and you know uh people who have been

00:37:02.980 in the state department their whole life and no better than everybody donald trump has said to them

00:37:07.740 shut up i've seen your record it doesn't work we've been doing it for a hundred years we're losing 0.97

00:37:14.680 credibility we're losing money we're losing uh power and influence i don't want to hear it

00:37:20.860 this is the direction we're going and he didn't have the juice to be able to fire all of those people

00:37:28.900 last time and he put the wrong people in position now at the state department is rubio and i gotta tell

00:37:36.360 you rubio is one of the last guys i would have picked i would have thought rubio was a big globalist

00:37:42.620 look at who rubio has turned out to be

00:37:45.180 so the two things that are happening are really are really based on one thing and that is the

00:37:55.460 president of the united states is in charge of his administration the president of the united

00:38:02.460 states keeps his own counsel the president of the united states listens to the gut his own gut for the

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00:38:22.280 what anybody said donald trump is doing this in in example after example after example he's keeping his

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00:38:53.020 he's not listening to him if it doesn't make sense to him he's not listening to him and he is not

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00:43:13.300 world their their intelligence agencies everything have done their best to crush this guy and haven't

00:43:20.560 been able to get it done have they then they worked as a group to crush him oh the world is against him

00:43:27.420 the world is against him the world thinks he's a bully blah blah blah meanwhile what are they doing

00:43:31.300 they're bullying him and he stands alone and then he meets with them one-on-one negotiates hard with

00:43:39.960 tariffs each one of them fall because he's just smarter and better and negotiating than they are

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00:46:02.800 We'll be right back.

00:46:32.800 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:46:39.120 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:46:46.100 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:46:48.820 Last hour, I told you the two things that you need to pull from yesterday's meetings at the White House.

00:46:54.440 And that is that, one, America is in the leadership role again in the world in a way that I have not seen maybe since Reagan.

00:47:04.140 But if it's not Reagan, never before like this in my lifetime.

00:47:08.260 And it comes from the president keeps his own counsel.

00:47:13.020 He is not listening to all of the advisors and the State Department experts and all the experts.

00:47:19.120 He keeps his own counsel.

00:47:20.800 And he's not waiting for permission to act.

00:47:23.640 He just acts.

00:47:25.700 Those are the two things that you really need to pull from yesterday.

00:47:30.700 But this hour, I want to talk to you about a couple of things.

00:47:33.860 The rest of the program, I think it's going to take me a while.

00:47:36.140 One, the president spoke today about going to heaven.

00:47:39.100 And I think that's an important thing that we have to just stop and look at and analyze here for just a minute.

00:47:44.080 But also, hope and change.

00:47:48.180 Remember that?

00:47:50.120 It is finally being delivered.

00:47:53.000 It's just called America First.

00:47:56.120 And I'll explain what America First actually is.

00:48:00.460 Because it's not what everybody thinks it is.

00:48:03.820 It's not the beating of the chest or anything else.

00:48:06.500 It's not some selfish idea of,

00:48:10.700 Get out of the way. 0.53

00:48:11.540 We're here for the buffet first.

00:48:13.200 That's not what it is.

00:48:15.120 You saw it demonstrated yesterday.

00:48:17.840 So let me explain what America First really means.

00:48:21.480 And be able to do it with what happened yesterday.

00:48:24.020 Coming up in just a little while.

00:48:25.200 Also, Eric Schmidt is going to join us in about 60 seconds.

00:48:29.100 He's put together a book called The Last Line of Defense.

00:48:32.380 And it's really about the court system.

00:48:36.160 And, you know,

00:48:37.760 they are taking Donald Trump on in the courts.

00:48:41.440 And the way to beat him is to take them on in the court.

00:48:44.780 The last line of defense.

00:48:47.200 How to beat the left in court.

00:48:49.300 It comes out today.

00:48:51.340 Eric is a good friend of the program.

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00:48:55.400 He still is from Missouri.

00:48:56.220 But he was the AG in Missouri and was one of the best AGs in the country.

00:49:01.440 And now he's the senator from Missouri.

00:49:04.000 We're going to talk to him about his new book, Last Line of Defense.

00:49:07.240 But also I want to talk to him about Trump trying to eliminate mail-in ballots.

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00:49:13.520 We're going to talk to him in 60 seconds.

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00:50:34.160 Well, let's say hello to one of America's best senators, Eric Schmidt.

00:50:39.180 Hello, Eric.

00:50:39.680 How are you, sir?

00:50:40.740 Senator.

00:50:41.180 I'm great, Glenn.

00:50:41.840 How are you?

00:50:42.120 How are you doing, my friend?

00:50:43.960 I am really good.

00:50:45.040 I'm really good.

00:50:45.940 Excited for your new book.

00:50:46.960 I haven't had a chance to read it.

00:50:48.080 I'm sorry.

00:50:48.980 But I want to talk to you about it.

00:50:50.740 Last line of defense.

00:50:51.640 How to beat the court and left.

00:50:53.080 Beat the left in court.

00:50:54.800 Because that is truly, you have it right, the last line of defense.

00:50:59.720 Their last line of defense and our last line of defense, which is why I've been saying

00:51:04.440 for a while the AGs are so, really, so important.

00:51:08.120 Before we get there, can I ask you about the thing that's trending in the news today is

00:51:13.340 Trump trying to eliminate mail-in ballots.

00:51:16.740 Can he do that legally?

00:51:19.720 Because I thought all voting was done by the state.

00:51:23.760 Can he eliminate mail-in ballots?

00:51:25.680 Well, I want to see kind of what the specifics of the proposal are.

00:51:29.700 But yeah, typically elections are run by the states.

00:51:35.640 And the Democrats have tried to federalize elections before.

00:51:41.220 I think what he's talking about is providing leadership with states.

00:51:47.840 And he referenced, I heard the clip before I came on, that Jimmy Carter talked about.

00:51:52.800 There was a Carter-Baker commission about 20 years ago that came out with 10 things you

00:51:57.380 can do to secure the elections.

00:51:58.820 This was not partisan then.

00:52:00.300 This was really kind of a bipartisan effort of what are the things that, you know, rationally

00:52:04.440 or reasonably you can do to protect elections.

00:52:06.360 One was to severely limit the ability to have mail-in ballots.

00:52:10.760 In fact, in Missouri, in order to do that, you have to sign an affidavit.

00:52:14.760 Typically, it's somebody with disabilities.

00:52:16.260 It's only a caregiver or a parent or a son or a sibling or a daughter can even help with

00:52:23.400 that.

00:52:23.700 So it's very restricted.

00:52:25.020 I think what President Trump's getting at, and I actually talk about it in the book,

00:52:28.160 The Last Line of Defense, it's a chapter, because we took on Mark Elias in Missouri during

00:52:32.340 COVID times.

00:52:33.220 He tried to upend these laws across the country that protected the integrity of elections.

00:52:38.240 And he was successful in certain places.

00:52:40.500 Think of Pennsylvania.

00:52:41.780 Think of Georgia.

00:52:42.500 And what they did was they just mailed out, Glenn, ballots to everybody, everybody across

00:52:49.020 the state.

00:52:49.580 Then they had drop boxes.

00:52:51.500 That's the real problem with mail-in balloting is there's no real verification that that's

00:52:55.360 actually a person.

00:52:56.240 They do ballot harvesting, illegal immigrants vote. 1.00

00:52:59.100 You saw that kind of in the lead up to the 2024 election.

00:53:02.100 The RNC this time was very well prepared for that.

00:53:04.780 It went to court ahead of time to beat it back, whereas in 2020, a lot of people were caught

00:53:09.700 flat-footed.

00:53:10.300 I know we're going to talk about the book in detail, and I wasn't planning on talking

00:53:13.840 about the book in that way, but we do talk about that.

00:53:16.200 The left was hell-bent on using this pandemic as a reason to undermine all the election integrity

00:53:22.380 laws we had in 2020.

00:53:23.780 And in some places, they were successful, and it certainly affected the election.

00:53:28.420 So it's good to do it in the states like you did.

00:53:30.980 You took on Mark Elias, and I didn't know this was in the book.

00:53:34.400 I'm so glad to hear that it is in the book.

00:53:35.940 You took him on, you battled that in Missouri, you held the line, but what we're going to

00:53:44.380 have is what we already have.

00:53:46.100 I mean, look at what Gavin Newsom is doing right now, the three people that just died

00:53:51.180 in Florida.

00:53:51.960 This is one of the worst stories I have heard.

00:53:56.460 And Gavin Newsom is like, hey, Donald Trump's administration let him in.

00:54:00.960 Well, no, wait a minute.

00:54:02.060 Hang on just a second.

00:54:03.000 They had already said by 2019 that this guy needed to be removed.

00:54:07.780 It was Joe Biden that led him.

00:54:09.320 But none of that matters.

00:54:11.400 Why would you give him a truck driving license?

00:54:14.480 Why would you give him a commercial license?

00:54:16.380 The guy can't even speak English.

00:54:18.740 And what we're getting to is this country that is split in two.

00:54:22.520 We've got states that are using common sense and the law, and the other states that are just

00:54:28.400 going into crazy town.

00:54:32.000 Yeah, no, but here, let me, I guess, offer, yes, and this is the problem with mass migration.

00:54:38.180 Illegal immigration, mass migration, what it does to communities. 0.99

00:54:41.900 The Democrats made a bet.

00:54:43.720 They made a bet that if they open up the borders and you bring 20 million people in here, that

00:54:49.200 they would have political control.

00:54:51.020 They will win elections.

00:54:52.140 They would eliminate the filibuster in the Senate.

00:54:54.620 They would pack the Supreme Court.

00:54:56.100 They would add D.C. as a state.

00:54:57.540 They would federalize elections.

00:55:00.120 They would do all the things that they did in one fell swoop to aggregate power and exercise

00:55:05.140 it ruthlessly.

00:55:05.880 Here's the good news, though, that in 2024, in November, I think the fever broke.

00:55:11.560 We lived through this fever dream of sort of the woke left.

00:55:14.620 And it's hard to, you know, I think people forget how to, what a grip the woke left had

00:55:18.860 on this country.

00:55:20.060 And it's honestly, Glenn, it's one of the reasons why I wrote the book Last Mind Defense

00:55:23.740 that's available on Amazon now is because during those dark days, President Trump was out of

00:55:28.140 office, right?

00:55:29.300 His allies were out of power.

00:55:30.540 It really kind of fell.

00:55:31.740 And you talked to some of the Republican AGs.

00:55:33.660 It sort of fell to this relatively unknown group of people.

00:55:37.040 I happen to be one of them that fought back.

00:55:39.760 And so you've got to remember, take the DeLorean back in time here.

00:55:43.580 This was a time of lockdowns, compulsory COVID shots, deliberately open borders, DEI struggle

00:55:50.980 sessions, ESG requirements in a censorship enterprise so vast that the Biden administration

00:55:57.360 created.

00:55:57.900 It's the biggest affront to the First Amendment in American history.

00:56:00.360 And so what I decided to do in that moment, I mean, I didn't think that was going to be

00:56:03.900 my role, but my role ended up being trying to hold the line until the cavalry came and

00:56:07.880 the cavalry came in November.

00:56:09.320 So we fought vaccine mandate to the Supreme Court.

00:56:11.680 We won.

00:56:12.220 We fought the student loan debt forgiveness scam at the Supreme Court.

00:56:14.600 We won.

00:56:15.220 We brought the Missouri versus Biden censorship case and we exposed this vast censorship enterprise.

00:56:19.940 And so what the book does, it's kind of a behind the scenes look, Lynn, which you'll

00:56:23.880 appreciate, your audience will appreciate.

00:56:25.160 What was it like to take the deposition of Anthony Fauci?

00:56:27.920 What was it like?

00:56:28.680 What did we learn from Elvis Chan, who was the FBI guy in Northern California, who was pre-bunking 0.85

00:56:33.580 the Hunter Biden laptop story?

00:56:35.260 What did CISA have to do?

00:56:36.480 This agency dedicated to cybersecurity infrastructure.

00:56:39.700 Why were they involved with silencing Americans? 0.90

00:56:42.520 Why were they involved in the election integrity project meant to silence Americans and affect

00:56:46.540 the 2020 election?

00:56:47.980 All these things that were going on, this landscape that I saw in that role, we fought back and

00:56:53.300 we won.

00:56:53.980 And that's the playbook.

00:56:55.320 That's the blueprint moving forward.

00:56:56.760 And the key element of all of this is courage.

00:56:59.640 You have to be willing to stand in that arena and fight back when all the slings and arrows are

00:57:03.940 coming at you, I'll tell you, when I sued 50 plus school districts in Missouri for their

00:57:08.780 mask mandates, that kitchen was hot.

00:57:11.420 There were reporters interviewing me with masks on in their cars because they weren't in, they

00:57:16.380 weren't allowed in their studios.

00:57:17.620 And they're interviewing me saying, why are you trying to kill the kids, basically?

00:57:21.320 And I was saying, look, there's no science behind this.

00:57:24.020 No kids are dying from COVID.

00:57:25.760 Your kids are twice as likely to die from a dog attack in COVID.

00:57:30.380 And these adults who should know better are, you know, abusing their power and somebody

00:57:34.800 had to stand up to them.

00:57:35.860 And so that's really what this book is about.

00:57:37.820 It's, hey, in the darkest times, you need courage.

00:57:40.660 Now we're on the other side of it.

00:57:42.120 We have to continue to fight and win because they're coming for our freedoms and our liberties.

00:57:45.480 They're just out of power, but we have to, you know, kind of maintain this hold on the

00:57:49.660 high ground.

00:57:50.080 And I think we can do it.

00:57:51.840 We're talking to Senator Eric Schmidt about his new book, The Last Line of Defense.

00:57:55.820 It's out today.

00:57:56.720 I urge you to get it.

00:57:58.260 I think Senator Schmidt, Eric, if I may call you that, has been on the front lines and is

00:58:06.440 one of the most important leaders and voices when it comes to how to fight the left and how

00:58:13.440 to do it legally, how to make sure we're keeping them in check by using the law.

00:58:20.080 You know, the Frederick Douglass once said that the Constitution was the greatest affront

00:58:26.680 to liberty and it was a slave document until he was urged to read.

00:58:34.080 And somebody came up to him and said, hey, would you read this book about it, The Unconstitutionality

00:58:39.000 of Slavery?

00:58:39.540 He did, and he completely flipped and said, no, this is the greatest freedom document because

00:58:45.300 the laws can be used to set people free.

00:58:49.180 And that's what we have to understand is that the laws, when we actually know them, learn

00:58:56.720 them, and apply them, we can set people free again.

00:59:02.540 And, you know, we have to have smart, brave people actually doing those things.

00:59:08.580 You know, one of the things on the mask mandates, you fought it in Missouri, but it doesn't feel

00:59:14.340 to me that we've really learned our lesson from that.

00:59:17.400 And it's scary.

00:59:18.680 The, the, these vaccine mandates and everything else, it doesn't feel like that's never going

00:59:24.060 to happen again.

00:59:24.900 That feels like that could happen again in a heartbeat.

00:59:27.580 That's right.

00:59:28.960 Because the playbook that they had was you have an emergency, real or imagined, created,

00:59:35.260 aggregate power, other people, the othering of, of your fellow brothers and sisters, and

00:59:41.380 then you silence dissent.

00:59:42.600 They were executing that code was a bit, a bit of a trial run.

00:59:45.540 They couldn't believe their luck that the left could move something like this.

00:59:49.600 And, you know, it's interesting because you and I, you and I, I think first met in person

00:59:54.040 in Utah, and this was in 2021 and RFK actually, RFK Jr. was actually there too.

01:00:01.180 I don't know if you remember this.

01:00:02.220 And we had a conversation and I, and I, and I recount this in the book.

01:00:06.100 Um, he, he reminded me of something that I hadn't read or even thought of in years was

01:00:11.180 something called the Milgram experiment.

01:00:12.660 So in the 1950s at Yale, they did this experiment where people would come in, there was a guy

01:00:17.980 in a white coat and a clipboard and you'd come in and there was somebody paid on the

01:00:21.500 other side of the wall.

01:00:22.360 So this wasn't actually being hurt.

01:00:24.300 But when the other side person on the other side of the wall gave a wrong answer, the

01:00:28.300 guy in the white coat would instruct the participant of the experiment to turn up the pain gauge.

01:00:33.020 Right.

01:00:33.740 And so he would do it.

01:00:34.720 And then, you know, another wrong answer, they'd ask him to crank it up, crank it up more, crank

01:00:39.400 it up more.

01:00:39.860 Even if like, they were told that somebody might die on the other side.

01:00:44.440 If I remember right, if, if I remember right, they kept cranking it up and the, the, the

01:00:51.120 screams of pain eventually stopped.

01:00:53.960 And there was no sound that the other person that was cranking could hear.

01:00:58.940 And the doctor would say he didn't answer meaning, you know, like the guy could be dead.

01:01:04.380 He didn't answer, crank it up again, give him another shock.

01:01:07.440 And they would still do it.

01:01:09.020 They, they might've killed the guy in their mind.

01:01:12.600 And you, and what that, that haunted me, that story, it haunted me during COVID and gave

01:01:17.200 me strength because what I knew was, you know, you had Fauci on TV and in this just acceptance

01:01:23.760 of that kind of authority.

01:01:25.420 In many ways, you need courageous people who are going to stand up and say, no, you're wrong.

01:01:30.920 Um, actually these five-year-olds shouldn't be forced to wear masks all day long.

01:01:34.460 Um, people shouldn't, you know, the guy's working overtime to, to feed his family, shouldn't

01:01:38.620 lose his job if he chooses not to get a COVID shot, but they were trying to lead people along

01:01:44.300 here down this really dangerous path of petty totalitarianism.

01:01:48.300 And so I think it's, it's easy for us to kind of forget about that.

01:01:51.780 Glenn, like, you know, I think in, in some ways, you know, watching tiger King was fun

01:01:56.180 and the last dance with, with Michael Jordan.

01:01:58.600 I'm, you know, I, I, you know, played, you know, a lot more with my kids at the early

01:02:02.080 days, but that became a terrible experiment, a terrible experiment.

01:02:05.600 And so really what the last line of defense was, what did we do in those moments?

01:02:09.580 What did we do?

01:02:10.260 And I chose to stand up and fight back.

01:02:13.300 And, um, there, I wasn't the only one, but I think those lessons learned, um, you know,

01:02:18.340 uh, there's a, a check, check writer, uh, Milan Kadir once said something like, you know,

01:02:24.060 the struggle against power is, is man's struggle, um, of memory versus forgetting.

01:02:29.760 And we can't forget that stuff.

01:02:31.540 And, um, and, you know, think about what they were trying to do with president Trump with

01:02:34.400 lawfare.

01:02:34.820 So I think for a long time, conservatives viewed the courts as a place where they didn't want

01:02:40.040 to play.

01:02:41.220 And, you know, that there were so many people telling us the constitution is a living document

01:02:46.240 and, you know, the, you know, um, you know, the, the left kind of controlled the courts that's

01:02:52.960 changing.

01:02:53.500 And thanks to president Trump, we actually have real judges who believe in law and order and

01:02:58.000 what the law is, not what they want it to be.

01:03:00.180 And so we can be in that arena, we can fight back and we can win.

01:03:03.120 And I think those important lessons as we fight to hold onto this constitutional Republican,

01:03:07.200 you know, as you were citing history and Ben Franklin, who walks out of the convention

01:03:11.800 says, what do you, what do you have?

01:03:13.120 He says, a Republican, if you can keep it.

01:03:14.820 So we have to be willing to fight on all fronts.

01:03:16.680 Um, we're talking to Eric Schmidt.

01:03:19.360 He's Senator from, um, uh, Missouri.

01:03:22.220 He was the AG of Missouri and, and I believe the top two, uh, AGs.

01:03:28.100 I don't want to get into a fight between some of the AGs who are all my friends, but one

01:03:32.280 of the top two AGs.

01:03:33.520 Um, and, uh, and his new book that is out last line of defense came out today.

01:03:39.300 Um, Eric, I got to take a one minute break.

01:03:41.020 Would you just talk to the producer?

01:03:42.160 Tell me how long you have.

01:03:43.180 Cause I've got a ton of questions for you.

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01:05:26.320 We're talking to, uh, Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri.

01:05:37.080 He has the book, uh, last line of defense.

01:05:39.800 Uh, I don't think people really understand, uh, the machine that the left Mark Elias is

01:05:47.060 really a big part of this, that the machine of the left has really built, uh, to take

01:05:53.420 on, uh, everything that we are doing, everything we believe in, in the courts to try to destroy

01:05:58.840 Donald Trump.

01:05:59.540 Um, they just came out recently and said, if we win the house, it is impeachment.

01:06:05.760 And it's, they're talking about impeaching Tulsi Gabbard, everybody.

01:06:09.820 I mean, their, their whole plan is just to gum up the machine and just grind everything

01:06:17.500 to a stop and, and use the courts against us.

01:06:20.780 Can you explain Eric a little bit about, um, the plan that they have and how vast this

01:06:27.500 thing is?

01:06:28.020 Yeah, I mean, they, they, they are willing, um, to use all levers at all times for their

01:06:35.580 purposes.

01:06:36.420 And the things that conservatives kind of hold onto is providing structure guardrails,

01:06:40.720 but they want to eliminate.

01:06:42.140 I mean, they, if they had it their way, like I said, they would just simply be adding states

01:06:45.500 to the union to get to a number in the Senate.

01:06:47.920 Um, did you, and by the way, did you see the, did you see the, the article in the New York

01:06:52.700 Times yesterday, the, the pack the courts, I mean, it was, and by the way, it was think

01:06:58.980 about how scary.

01:06:59.960 Yeah.

01:07:00.740 Yeah.

01:07:01.060 And think about how dangerous of a road this is.

01:07:02.720 Like, let's just take, let's just play this out.

01:07:04.680 Let's say that.

01:07:05.280 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

01:07:06.140 Wait, wait, wait.

01:07:06.680 I don't want to cut you off in the middle of it.

01:07:08.140 So hang on before you start.

01:07:09.600 Let me take a quick, quick stop break.

01:07:12.200 Uh, and we'll come back with that and so much more last line of defense is the name of the

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01:08:43.800 More with Eric Schmidt next.

01:08:44.860 We're with, uh, Senator, uh, Eric Schmidt.

01:09:01.720 He is, uh, from Missouri.

01:09:03.140 He was the AG.

01:09:04.540 He's got a new book out called the last line of defense.

01:09:07.480 These are really stories from the front line, but also stories that we need to learn from,

01:09:12.880 uh, and, and make sure we are voting for the right AGs and, and all of us need to grow

01:09:19.000 a spine.

01:09:19.640 I know you have a spine, but maybe there's somebody in your family that needs to grow a

01:09:23.480 spine, uh, or maybe somebody that is an AG in your state that needs to grow a spine.

01:09:27.580 You know, as we were just talking, um, Eric, before the break about how the, uh, the left,

01:09:33.480 the New York times just ran an op-ed about, you know, packing the courts, uh, you know,

01:09:38.840 adding States.

01:09:39.940 I mean, everything that they could do to undermine the constitution and the rule of law, they're

01:09:45.700 now openly saying gotta do it, which would completely destroy the United States of America.

01:09:51.960 It's not a refounding of America.

01:09:53.860 It's, it's the founding of an entirely new country and system.

01:09:58.840 That's right.

01:09:59.500 I'm, I'm generally very optimistic guy, but I do think you'd have a bit of a shot clock

01:10:03.640 start on the Republic if they got their way and they're not hiding it.

01:10:07.100 They're not, they're actually saying, uh, Democrats are campaigning on it.

01:10:10.780 I mean, this is not like a secret.

01:10:12.120 So if you played it out, like if they really wanted to do this, the way, what it would look

01:10:17.360 like is, you know, they win the house, they get the Senate, they eliminate the filibuster in

01:10:21.540 the Senate, they pack the Supreme court to get their way. 0.94

01:10:24.040 They add four justices.

01:10:25.240 And by the way, if you do that, of course, the response would be then a Republicans ever

01:10:30.600 have the same thing.

01:10:31.400 Well, you added four, why don't we add 10 and why not 50?

01:10:34.940 And then all of a sudden you end up with a banana Republic. 0.98

01:10:37.900 It doesn't resemble this constitutional Republic.

01:10:40.540 That's supposed to have a federal government of limited powers and these kind of, you know,

01:10:44.160 really kind of guardrails that our founders created to protect against the sort of ambition

01:10:48.440 from the other side here to upend everything.

01:10:51.040 And that's why I think it's really important to stand up and fight.

01:10:53.920 You got to have the right people there.

01:10:55.400 And again, why I wrote the book, Glenn, I just, I just saw it in that role.

01:11:00.220 I saw it.

01:11:00.840 And so, you know, the last line of defense, how to beat the left in court.

01:11:03.340 I think the easiest way is people on their phone just go to Amazon and over right now,

01:11:06.340 but it is like the book takes you through.

01:11:08.800 It's kind of wild to think about this time.

01:11:11.020 It was defined by social unrest, a writing.

01:11:13.540 We had Soros prosecutors.

01:11:14.780 We talk about how we took that on the COVID wars.

01:11:17.000 We talk about protecting sovereignty and these deliberately open borders.

01:11:20.460 And we held that off for a while, dismantling the administrative state, fighting for the

01:11:25.740 second amendment.

01:11:26.260 And there's woke ideology, these DEI struggle sessions and CRT in our schools.

01:11:30.060 We fought back against that.

01:11:31.240 But I do think perhaps the culmination of all of it, Glenn, was the Missouri versus Biden

01:11:36.820 lawsuit where we uncovered the censorship enterprise.

01:11:39.560 It really laid out in full view what they were willing to do.

01:11:44.360 And you kind of go back to Russiagate.

01:11:46.900 This was their impetus.

01:11:48.240 I think their foundation that they laid, everything was Russian misinformation, disinformation.

01:11:53.360 It gave them license to try to undermine President Trump's first term.

01:11:56.520 They tried to, again, affect the 2020 election.

01:11:59.340 And then when Biden's in, this apparatus that was created was supercharged.

01:12:04.700 And so when we took the deposition, say, for example, of Elvis Chan, who was the FBI guy

01:12:08.760 in Northern California, I mean, he didn't hide from it, they were having monthly, then weekly

01:12:13.960 meetings with the biggest companies in the history of the world, these big tech giants,

01:12:18.180 and saying, look out for this Russian hack and leak operation.

01:12:22.020 Yoel Roth, who's this guy from Twitter, who's an integrity guy, testified or wrote an affidavit

01:12:26.300 that said, he specifically said the Hunter Biden laptop story was going to be a Russian disinformation

01:12:31.840 campaign.

01:12:32.580 The FBI had it.

01:12:33.600 They knew it was real.

01:12:35.000 In 2019, they had the laptop, they verified it.

01:12:38.200 It was Hunter Biden's, yet they were still trying to affect things by saying this was

01:12:43.080 fake.

01:12:44.160 And so it's just, it's totally crazy.

01:12:46.920 You look, and then you get into the COVID era.

01:12:48.640 We took Fauci's deposition.

01:12:50.640 He sends his chief deputy over to China.

01:12:52.620 He's a big fan of the lockdowns.

01:12:54.300 He's telling friends masks don't work.

01:12:55.960 He tells the American people that you have to wear masks or you can't go to school.

01:12:59.220 What they were willing to do to control the narrative and to get what they wanted, to

01:13:04.680 oust President Trump, to get the American people to be part of this left-wing movement

01:13:10.640 that they really believed in and bought in, the culmination of that, of course, is the

01:13:13.920 things that we're talking about, packing the court, having a permanent majority, all

01:13:17.040 those things.

01:13:18.140 But uncovering all that as AG and seeing it was just really eye-opening.

01:13:22.980 It certainly affects my service now in the Senate.

01:13:25.100 I've seen it all, and I'm trying to fight back against that stuff.

01:13:28.100 Anyway, what was the moment in probably that case, but in any of the cases where you couldn't

01:13:37.460 believe what you had just uncovered?

01:13:39.880 Was there a moment like that?

01:13:41.980 Sure.

01:13:42.580 So when we filed the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, go back in time again, hop in the

01:13:48.420 DeLorean and go back. 0.96

01:13:49.400 This is in May of 2022.

01:13:52.160 No one knew.

01:13:53.500 Elon Musk had not bought Twitter yet.

01:13:55.180 James Comey and Jim Jordan weren't having hearings yet.

01:13:58.860 We were watching, I was watching Jim Psaki at the podium talk about, hey, we're flagging

01:14:03.480 posts for Facebook for misinformation about vaccines or masks.

01:14:08.620 And then remember, they floated this idea of a disinformation governance board with that

01:14:12.200 Mary Poppins person, you know, talking about it, whatever.

01:14:16.480 And I couldn't believe, I thought like the Orwellian term, Ministry of Truth, must have already

01:14:22.000 been taken to come up with this term in America, that the government was going to decide what

01:14:27.380 the truth was and what you could see and hear.

01:14:29.900 And so there was enough there.

01:14:31.440 We filed the lawsuit and we sued everybody under the sun in the federal government, all

01:14:35.440 these agencies.

01:14:35.980 And one strategic decision that we outlined in the book, Last Line of Defense, is we sought

01:14:40.480 discovery first before we sought a preliminary injunction, because I knew there'd be a lot

01:14:45.100 of focus on this.

01:14:46.140 People would call it a crazy conspiracy theory.

01:14:48.920 And we got the discovery.

01:14:50.540 And that was the moment, Glenn, when we got the documents, the emails, the text messages

01:14:55.720 from high-ranking government officials to senior executives at the social media companies about

01:15:02.220 take this down.

01:15:03.560 And this started three days into their administration.

01:15:06.560 On day three, they began this censorship enterprise that was this leviathan of government agencies.

01:15:12.780 This wasn't just one or two people.

01:15:14.260 This was the CDC telling the social media companies, these are the words and phrases that we want

01:15:20.720 you to censor.

01:15:21.380 And they did it.

01:15:22.620 So, you know, RFK Jr. was affected.

01:15:25.420 A guy by the name of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who's now, by the way, the head of the NIH,

01:15:30.440 he was one of the plaintiffs in our lawsuit.

01:15:32.620 He was, they tried to, Fauci tried to destroy this man because of the crime of saying natural

01:15:37.700 immunity is still a thing.

01:15:39.300 Like they tried to ruin his career, his life.

01:15:41.920 And so, again, I think it's easy to kind of forget about this stuff, but I don't forget

01:15:47.540 about it.

01:15:48.060 And that's why I wrote the book, because we can't let it happen again.

01:15:51.480 So we're talking about the book, The Last Line of Defense, available everywhere now.

01:15:55.040 You know, I have not gotten a good answer from anybody on this.

01:15:58.920 Why have we not repealed the Smith-Munt Modernization Act that in, what, 2008 or 2009, Barack Obama put

01:16:11.960 through, and it allowed propaganda to be done on citizens in the United States?

01:16:18.860 We banned that right after World War II.

01:16:21.120 It's wildly dangerous.

01:16:23.700 And yet, why haven't we repealed that?

01:16:26.980 Why hasn't anyone stood up and said, no propaganda on the American people?

01:16:32.260 Yeah, no, you're right.

01:16:33.140 And here's the thing.

01:16:34.320 One of the things that I'm very focused on, and so I handled the rescissions package in

01:16:38.300 the Senate.

01:16:38.740 So this was the thing that pulled back.

01:16:41.420 You know, we defunded NPR.

01:16:43.200 Thank God.

01:16:43.680 I think it was on your show talking about we covered $8 billion for all this nonsense,

01:16:47.380 these NGOs.

01:16:48.000 Because here's the nexus.

01:16:49.460 There's something called the National Endowment for Democracy.

01:16:52.140 And one of the things we talk about in this book is we have to dismantle not just this

01:16:56.040 big government to big tech collusion that happens, but what the government has decided to do in

01:17:01.880 many instances is outsource this stuff.

01:17:04.320 They outsource some of the censorship to Stanford and University of Washington to flag stuff so

01:17:08.140 they could say, well, that's actually them doing it.

01:17:09.780 They're working with the social media, but they were funding it just like we're funding

01:17:13.000 a lot of these NGOs that do two things, principally more than that, but two big things.

01:17:18.000 They were the ones, these NGOs, funded by your tax dollars, fueling mass migration through

01:17:23.100 our southern border and working on censoring American speech.

01:17:27.080 And we have to get rid of that all together because it is what became very clear to me

01:17:33.600 in writing this book and reflecting on it, but in the moment was I couldn't believe, I

01:17:38.920 mean, most Americans, these alphabet soup agencies that exist, they've never heard of many of them

01:17:44.440 unless they're out to ruin their lives, which sometimes happens, but they were all in, like

01:17:48.720 they were all in weaponized.

01:17:50.700 And some of the high profile stuff, of course, was the FBI going after Catholics and parents

01:17:54.480 who show up to school board meetings.

01:17:56.220 But again, also, I would say to Glenn, one of the things that lay out in the last line of

01:18:01.240 defense is I saw from the highest levels of government to then the local superintendent at

01:18:07.040 a school district, how does a superintendent in Springfield, Missouri, become so infatuated

01:18:12.800 with this DEI and CRT agenda?

01:18:14.920 Well, these organizations, these think tanks are funded.

01:18:18.160 They bring people into Washington.

01:18:19.320 They say, here are the training materials for your teachers and staff.

01:18:22.160 So when people say, well, CRT is not a class in a grade school, it doesn't need to be a class.

01:18:27.180 If everybody's trained to divide the classroom by oppressor and oppressed, you have now affected

01:18:33.540 instruction for everything.

01:18:35.120 And they are very serious about all of this stuff.

01:18:38.240 And that's why President Trump, and I start the book by saying in November, 2024, the fever

01:18:43.420 broke, because I think now we're on the other side of it.

01:18:45.980 We have to be vigilant.

01:18:47.340 Part of what I like about this administration, it's a team of disruptors that we so desperately

01:18:52.560 need.

01:18:52.980 We can't fiddle around the edges anymore.

01:18:55.080 We have to go at the heart of the beast.

01:18:57.180 And the left is playing to win.

01:18:59.220 And we have to play to win also.

01:19:00.860 And we have to be willing to do that in the court system as well.

01:19:03.540 The name of the book is The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court, which

01:19:10.340 is literally the last line of defense.

01:19:13.200 I'm thrilled to see what President Trump is doing.

01:19:15.860 He's changing so much.

01:19:17.320 But they're not going to give up.

01:19:18.820 They're doubling down in court.

01:19:21.160 Can you tell me, what do you make of the Andrew Bailey being named the deputy director

01:19:27.400 of the FBI with Dan Bongino?

01:19:29.460 What do you make of that?

01:19:30.700 And by the way, I don't like taking him out of the AG role in Missouri.

01:19:35.220 He was really doing a great job there.

01:19:38.200 Yeah, no, Andrew's great.

01:19:40.060 He will do a great job in that role.

01:19:42.860 And I think, you know, the call to service, it's an important position.

01:19:47.180 And I think, you know, he's a guy that served in the military, served as AG.

01:19:52.380 I think he views it as a way to serve now in an agency that, you know, needs a lot of

01:19:56.380 reform.

01:19:57.140 And I think he'll do a great job.

01:19:58.960 So, you know, it's a loss for Missouri, for sure.

01:20:02.200 And my successor, Andrew, you know, done a great job on some of his own cases, the cases

01:20:06.780 that I filed and all that.

01:20:07.880 And I think he'll do a great job at the FBI.

01:20:12.440 You know, we're looking at all of these things coming out.

01:20:16.260 And, you know, you say how to beat the court, how to beat the left in court.

01:20:22.360 But they have to get to court.

01:20:24.080 And with all of the things that are coming out now about Russiagate, and, you know, I

01:20:29.480 just saw Tulsi Gabbard talking about Andrew Fauci again, and how, you know, there's new

01:20:40.320 stuff on him.

01:20:42.180 The Senate has not opened up and confirmed the new U.S.

01:20:47.640 attorneys, which is really hurting the DOJ.

01:20:50.220 I don't know why the Senate's not doing that.

01:20:54.120 And are you convinced that we are doing enough to get these cases into court?

01:21:01.000 Are we going to see any justice in the court system?

01:21:04.640 Yeah.

01:21:04.860 So two things.

01:21:05.560 First is, I'm actually in a working group right now, today in September.

01:21:11.280 We're going to change the rules in the Senate, and not in a way that affects the Senate like

01:21:15.460 the Democrats would.

01:21:17.320 This has never happened in the history of the country.

01:21:19.460 So think of this.

01:21:20.860 The Senate has three calendars.

01:21:22.240 There's a legislative calendar, an executive calendar, where we do confirmations, and then

01:21:26.220 an impeachment calendar.

01:21:27.220 There's only three things we do in one of those three calendars.

01:21:30.880 Usually what happens is, on the executive calendar, for the history of the Republic, there's

01:21:35.240 no roll call votes on the ambassador to Uruguay.

01:21:39.140 You know what I mean?

01:21:39.560 Like, it's just, it's unanimous consent.

01:21:42.520 If somebody wanted to object, there would be.

01:21:43.820 But there's no objection to that person.

01:21:45.560 But the Democrats have objected to every single appointment that President Trump has made

01:21:50.320 since he came into office.

01:21:51.280 That's historically unprecedented.

01:21:53.680 And so we're going to put an end to it.

01:21:54.980 We're going to say, look, you don't have to wait, you know, for multiple hours for every

01:22:00.820 one of these votes.

01:22:01.600 We're just going to shorten the time frame.

01:22:02.920 If that's the game you want to play, we're going to get President Trump's team in place.

01:22:06.380 And so I think that's coming.

01:22:07.940 And I think that'll, you know, the Democrats are competing to be who the chief resistor is.

01:22:11.840 As far as the other cases go, I actually think, and I have an op-ed out yesterday, about a

01:22:17.280 path for indictments in Russiagate.

01:22:19.100 There is a path to do it.

01:22:20.500 I think it should happen.

01:22:22.240 And I think Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, you know, ought to be lawyering up here.

01:22:28.320 Because now, Obama, ironically, has presidential immunity because of what they did to President

01:22:35.420 Trump.

01:22:35.780 And actually, my Solicitor General, John Sauer, is the Solicitor General of the United States

01:22:39.720 now, and was President Trump's lawyer in that case, and won.

01:22:43.560 So basically, Obama might have immunity for the time he was in office.

01:22:47.820 I don't know what he did after.

01:22:49.420 I don't know.

01:22:49.860 Was he part of this ongoing conspiracy?

01:22:51.920 We'll find out.

01:22:52.780 But I think that the indictments are coming, and they should be on Russiagate.

01:22:56.960 And as far as the U.S.

01:22:58.060 attorneys go, I think that's sort of the next thing to move to get his team in place to

01:23:02.100 go out and just protect our cities, you know?

01:23:04.280 I mean, more than anything else, but there's a lot of corruption that I think they're still

01:23:10.220 uncovering in a lot of these agencies, and there ought to be accountability.

01:23:14.340 Senator Eric Schmidt, it is always good to talk to you.

01:23:17.360 Thank you for all of your hard work over the years.

01:23:19.500 I really appreciate it.

01:23:20.280 You're really, truly one of the good guys fighting the valiant fight.

01:23:24.060 The latest book is The Last Line of Defense.

01:23:27.280 It's an inside look at what he has done and what we need to do to be able to win against

01:23:34.540 the left in the courts.

01:23:36.600 Senator, thank you so much.

01:23:37.780 God bless.

01:23:38.700 Thanks, Glenn.

01:23:39.440 Take care.

01:23:40.260 You bet.

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01:28:20.140 Hello, America.

01:28:21.020 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:28:22.340 I want to show you, uh, this hour, America first in action.

01:28:25.840 It's not what the progressives say it is.

01:28:28.800 Um, it is actually, well, I'll get into that here in just a second.

01:28:32.280 And also Melanie Phillips is going to join us.

01:28:34.320 She's one of my, she's one of my favorite thinkers in the world.

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01:29:33.800 Uh, you know, the, the New York times was saying today, well, they were just kowtowing

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01:31:14.200 From the Times of London, a columnist there, Melanie Phillips.

01:31:17.340 Hello, Melanie.

01:31:17.920 How are you?

01:31:20.020 Hello.

01:31:21.000 I'm very well, thank you.

01:31:22.280 Very nice to be speaking to you again.

01:31:25.400 Yeah, thank you, Melanie.

01:31:27.320 I'm a big, I'm a big fan of yours and I want to get into liberal mindset here in a second,

01:31:30.680 but I wanted to first touch on, if you had any thoughts, I don't know if you had a chance

01:31:34.240 to really sit down or even had a chance to really process it yet, of what's happened

01:31:39.080 just over the weekend with President Trump meeting with Putin and then calling all of

01:31:44.460 the world leaders to the White House.

01:31:46.820 I've never seen that happen before.

01:31:49.480 What was the real message or the impression that you took away from all of this?

01:31:55.100 Well, it was very comical to see all these leaders who really can't stand President Trump

01:31:59.460 all lined up, like schoolchildren with a headmaster.

01:32:03.340 I thought it was a really thing.

01:32:05.860 Because, you know, he is the most consequential politician of our lifetime and in the world

01:32:10.180 today, and they have no option but to try and manage this presidency and get on with

01:32:18.160 him.

01:32:19.100 But they were there for obviously, you know, a particular reason.

01:32:22.160 They wanted to support President Zelensky, support his cause to the president and to plead

01:32:32.720 his cause, really, that President Trump should not rule Zelensky over and basically hand him

01:32:41.220 over, as they would see it, to surrender to President Putin.

01:32:46.420 And I think, I don't know whether those leaders had any particular influence, I suspect very

01:32:52.560 little.

01:32:53.420 But something has changed in President Trump's attitude, I think.

01:32:57.920 I think he's a bit chafened.

01:32:59.840 I mean, it seemed to me he was a little bit down after he had his meeting in Anchorage with

01:33:06.820 Putin.

01:33:07.800 He was not in Bullion.

01:33:09.060 He didn't have a press conference.

01:33:10.300 And I thought, you know, here he is coming up against the dead end of his President Trump's

01:33:17.280 world view, which is basically that every world leader is capable of being either threatened

01:33:25.020 or bribed to do the deal.

01:33:28.560 And there are some leaders who cannot, who will not do that.

01:33:31.260 And there are some leaders with whom President Trump, I think, is going to find, is finding

01:33:35.080 it very, very difficult.

01:33:36.200 And I think that was better to one.

01:33:37.420 And so in that mood, we saw, when he met the world leaders and President Zelensky, we

01:33:45.760 saw a bit of movement.

01:33:47.380 It may not amount to very much, but in a kind of mood music, first of all, you know, there

01:33:52.280 was a great sort of show of amity, obviously very different from the last time President

01:33:56.640 Zelensky was in the White House, which was disastrous.

01:33:59.640 So all sides were off their best behavior and all was kind of sweetness and light.

01:34:04.600 But the more consequential thing was that President Trump said, you know, understand that the

01:34:12.120 Europeans want to defend Europe against Putin.

01:34:15.820 And if push comes to shove, America will help them do it.

01:34:20.080 Now, that's a very big change from President Trump's previous position.

01:34:24.480 It may not amount to very much in the short or medium term.

01:34:29.040 But nevertheless, it was a change of mood music.

01:34:32.120 Now, we'll see how President Putin responds to what's being offered.

01:34:36.600 I would have thought that President Putin would not be very keen on NATO stroke, the Europeans

01:34:45.820 being involved in the military defense of Ukraine at all.

01:34:52.900 He made it very clear that he won't put up with that.

01:34:55.380 So I would be surprised if he were to actually, you know, be enthusiastic about this kind of deal.

01:35:01.940 But we'll see.

01:35:02.860 It's obviously a high-stakes poker game, isn't it?

01:35:08.020 Yeah, it really is.

01:35:09.200 So it's weird that you would say this because I didn't catch the downbeat, but you may be right on that.

01:35:15.220 But did you – is it just American wishful thinking in a way that – I've never seen a president or really any world leader like this

01:35:28.320 call for a meeting like this and get everybody to sit around the desk exactly like, you know,

01:35:35.580 a principal calling, you know, the teachers in and having a sit-down with all of them.

01:35:40.260 I've never seen that.

01:35:42.860 And the image that I came away with is that America is leading again, but not in the way where we are, you know,

01:35:56.560 threatening bombs and everything else, but we're just – we're being the facilitator in a way of making this happen

01:36:05.640 and bringing people together that I don't think would have ever come together, you know, for anybody else.

01:36:09.920 I just don't think it would have happened.

01:36:11.480 Is that wishful thinking on the American side?

01:36:15.180 On my side?

01:36:16.200 That's absolutely right.

01:36:17.880 No, I think that's absolutely right.

01:36:19.700 I don't mind.

01:36:20.520 It's certainly unprecedented.

01:36:21.920 None of us has ever seen anything like that before.

01:36:24.320 But I think it's a testimony to President Trump's power.

01:36:29.340 And, as I say, you know, he's the most consequential politician in the world today.

01:36:37.260 And people feel they have to, you know, foreign leaders who don't like him even, feel they have to dance to his tune.

01:36:45.300 They're all working out ways in which to manage him, mainly through slashery.

01:36:52.320 Sir Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, I think is particularly adept at this.

01:36:57.480 He seems to have made a friend of President Trump in the sense that President Trump has said warm things about him.

01:37:02.860 He seems to take a bit of a shine to him.

01:37:04.960 He's found a way, I think Keir Starmer found a way of, you know, getting treated on a personal level.

01:37:10.960 All that amounts to, in the end, you know, probably not more than a hill of beans.

01:37:16.720 But it doesn't really impress me very much that all these world leaders are dancing attendance upon him.

01:37:25.720 I mean, it's interesting.

01:37:28.440 I found it quite comical in a way.

01:37:31.940 But the important thing is, you know, what is President Trump going to do about President Putin and his attempt to destroy the integrity of Ukraine?

01:37:43.260 Does President Trump now believe that it is in America's interests for President Putin to be pushed back?

01:37:54.040 Or does he still think that it's nothing to do with America?

01:37:57.200 And if Europe wants to do this, well, that's Europe's affair and it can jolly well get on with it.

01:38:02.180 It seems there's been a bit of a change, but I don't know.

01:38:05.500 It would be a very big change.

01:38:06.980 But this is the question of, you know, when Putin basically turns around and says to President Trump, you know, you can go and shove your beast deal, as he may do.

01:38:19.240 What is President Trump going to do then?

01:38:21.140 That's what matters to me.

01:38:22.580 Not this spectacle of all these pathetic prime ministers and presidents.

01:38:28.220 You know, it's funny that you would say this because I read this slightly different in that I think President Trump was changing the systems that had been set up since World War II.

01:38:45.200 And when he was saying, you know, NATO, you know, I don't know if NATO really matters anymore and, you know, you can do whatever you want.

01:38:52.000 We're not going to be involved.

01:38:53.280 I think that was to tell Europe we're not paying the bill anymore and we're not going to be the first to rush in and be the world's policeman anymore.

01:39:04.220 You've got to carry your own bags.

01:39:06.120 And when they started to carry their own bags, I think I think that's he was doing that to get them to carry some of the weight in their own bags.

01:39:15.180 And he does believe in a world order that, you know, that we help each other out on our allies.

01:39:21.080 So I think it's not as much of a change as it's a completion of the strategy.

01:39:28.180 Do you see any reason in that?

01:39:29.900 I think you're entirely right that he was trying to gee up the reculcitrant Europeans to stop just riding on America's coattails. 1.00

01:39:42.920 And I think he's entirely right to do that.

01:39:44.580 I think, you know, for decades, the Europeans have just relied upon America being there to support them militarily and in the defense of the free world

01:39:57.080 without feeling that they have to step up to the plate themselves.

01:40:01.100 And I think I personally entirely agree with him.

01:40:04.260 That's entirely wrong.

01:40:06.640 But you know much more about American politics and culture than I do.

01:40:11.300 But it seemed to me that when he became when he was elected and reelected as president,

01:40:18.860 he was surrounded, as he still is, by a number of people who I would call real isolationists.

01:40:25.380 Who really do believe that what goes on in Europe is of no concern to America.

01:40:32.200 It's not in America's interest to get involved.

01:40:34.020 The last thing they want is to expend blood and treasure on anywhere in Europe because it has nothing to do with them.

01:40:39.840 And this troubled me because I think that this kind of isolationism in America has a long tail, a long historical tail.

01:40:50.480 And I think that, you know, yes, America has got to put its own interests first.

01:40:56.300 But it is in America's interests to refrain Putin.

01:41:01.840 The British mother way, if Putin were to take over Ukraine,

01:41:07.900 I'm absolutely certain that he would see that as the gateway to make further incursions into the old Soviet Union empire. 0.84

01:41:22.400 Because this man, Putin, believes that he's a kind of reincarnation of Peter the Great.

01:41:28.600 He believes in the restoration of the old Russian empire.

01:41:33.020 And if America's isolationists really do believe, if they really do believe that if that were to happen,

01:41:44.080 a resurgent Russian empire run by a man like Putin and the Communist Party would be of no,

01:41:52.680 would not put America in greater danger than it now is.

01:41:57.900 They must be living in a wild cookie land.

01:42:00.200 And that's what I think President Trump was kind of leaning towards in his earlier weeks or months.

01:42:06.840 I will tell you, I will tell you, Mellie, I'm going to give a monologue here in just a minute,

01:42:12.400 if I have time today, about America first.

01:42:15.840 And it's exactly on this.

01:42:17.580 I think that's a misreading of what Donald Trump was moving towards.

01:42:23.840 I think you're right, he is surrounded by isolationists.

01:42:28.140 But I think he was going for something different because he does believe America needs to play a leadership role.

01:42:36.340 And that means you're actually engaged in things.

01:42:39.580 We're going to run out of time, and I don't want to do that.

01:42:41.240 Let me take 60 seconds and come back because I want you to explain what I heard you talk about the liberal mindset.

01:42:47.040 It is so clarifying and so spot on that I wanted you to share it with the audience.

01:42:52.440 We'll do that in 60 seconds.

01:42:53.700 Yesterday, it was with Prager University.

01:42:56.060 Last two days, they were up here at the ranch, and we were filming some stuff.

01:42:59.320 You know, the New York Times is saying, oh, they're the new PBS, which I guess makes me the new Big Bird.

01:43:04.680 But we're doing some things for kids and really trying to teach history, and it's going to be in all of the schools through the Department of Education for the AP history classes.

01:43:17.980 And it's really, really good stuff.

01:43:19.920 And I can't say enough good things about Dennis Prager and what he has built.

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01:44:19.540 All right, 10 seconds.

01:44:20.560 We're back with Melanie.

01:44:21.220 So, Melanie, I've been so frustrated by the progressive left because of their self-righteousness.

01:44:36.360 They just are just, they're just better than us.

01:44:38.420 They're just good people, and they know they're good people, and they're good people because they're liberal.

01:44:44.700 And it's so frustrating.

01:44:46.740 And I saw you speak on this.

01:44:49.000 And the way you set it up and the way you explained it, it was helpful for me to understand why I'm so frustrated at times.

01:44:59.200 Can you explain the liberal mindset?

01:45:03.020 Sorry, which particular aspect of the liberal mindset are you talking about?

01:45:06.200 Well, you were talking about, you were talking about how they view themselves as good, and that's what makes them a liberal, because liberals are good.

01:45:16.720 Yes, yes, yes.

01:45:19.680 So, okay, so they believe in things like the betterment of humanity.

01:45:25.380 They believe in things like compassion and standing for justice and for standing up against women at home and abroad and for standing against racial bigotry and prejudice and all those sorts of things.

01:45:40.400 And they believe in the brotherhood of man.

01:45:43.420 Now, many of those things I believe in, but they believe that because they believe in those things, that makes them liberals.

01:45:54.120 Because they actually think that the world will be a better place if they weren't Western nations, that the West is fundamentally evil and wrong and bad.

01:46:05.540 And so they believe in the brotherhood of man.

01:46:07.880 But because they believe that this is their badge of moral identity, they believe that believing all these things makes them good people.

01:46:16.700 Anyone who challenges any of that is written off as not just wrong, but evil.

01:46:25.460 And because they're evil, they won't listen to a word that you say.

01:46:29.280 So if you produce facts and evidence and say, well, you know, you would think X, but actually you're wrong because look at all these facts and evidence.

01:46:36.120 They say, I can't possibly believe that because it's coming from a tainted source.

01:46:41.820 I mean, frankly, if I were to say, you know, today is Tuesday, they would say, well, I did think today might be Tuesday.

01:46:48.140 But on the other hand, now that she has said it, since she is a neo-Nazi or fascist or ultra right-winger or whatever, whatever epithet they decide that they're going to give me on that particular day.

01:47:00.180 But because she said that, it can't be Tuesday, it must be Monday.

01:47:05.400 And that's the way they think.

01:47:06.640 And it sounds bizarre, but you can't really get through that.

01:47:10.200 And that's the insufferable moral self-righteousness.

01:47:14.640 And they don't actually believe in the things that they think they believe in.

01:47:18.180 You know, the idea that they believe in the wretched, you know, they have compassion for the wretched of the earth.

01:47:23.280 When you look at, for example, their support for the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza.

01:47:27.320 Right.

01:47:27.540 If they really supported the wretched of the earth, if they really supported the Arabs of Gaza, they would be out on the streets demonstrating against Hamas for locking them up, for killing them in great number, for persecuting them.

01:47:45.160 They say nothing about that.

01:47:47.200 They say nothing about people who are being persecuted all over the world.

01:47:51.300 They say nothing about the women who are so dreadfully abused and raped and tortured and stoned in the Islamic world.

01:48:02.660 They don't care about any of the people they purport to care about.

01:48:06.760 What they care about is their own sense of themselves as wonderful, good, righteous, upright, morally wonderful people.

01:48:17.700 Their image to themselves as their image to themselves in this respect and their image among similar people.

01:48:25.000 It's a kind of echo chamber of self-righteousness.

01:48:28.420 And if you puncture that, if you try and puncture that by giving them facts, such as look at all the women who were not just raped but sexually mutilated in the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 2023, they won't even think about that.

01:48:47.060 They won't even acknowledge that it even happened.

01:48:49.680 Melanie Phillips, thank you so much from the Times of London.

01:48:55.740 We always run out of time with her, and it's so frustrating because she's so good.

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01:50:17.660 We have been so backed up today.

01:50:34.540 I need a full three hours again today just to get to all the stuff that I wanted to get to.

01:50:40.600 I'm not going to be able to get to really defining America first and using yesterday as an example.

01:50:50.740 One of my favorite lines from the Princess Bride, it does not mean what you think it means.

01:50:56.100 I do not think it means what you think it means.

01:50:59.060 It was in full view yesterday, and I haven't heard anybody talk about it.

01:51:04.080 And I want to really explain that, but I want to have enough time to do that, and we'll do it on tomorrow's show.

01:51:09.400 Also, if you missed earlier today, there were a couple of lessons that, again, I think is unique that I laid out in hour number one of today's podcast,

01:51:22.300 and that is the lessons from the summit yesterday.

01:51:26.540 And to summarize, one, America is back, leading without wars, building coalitions, but putting America first without disengaging.

01:51:37.700 We are leading the coalition, we are building the coalition, but unlike other coalitions in the past where we built the coalitions,

01:51:47.340 and basically all it was was a bunch of flags behind the president so he could say,

01:51:51.840 we got a coalition of nations, and they didn't really do anything.

01:51:55.520 This time it's different.

01:51:57.520 He's building the coalition, and then ours is the flag behind them as well,

01:52:02.900 and we're not really doing anything other than the second point that I brought up earlier today is our president keeps his own counsel.

01:52:14.600 You know, he hears counsel from others, but he keeps his own counsel.

01:52:18.080 He's calling the shots.

01:52:19.420 Like Babe Ruth used to do, he'll go, you know, to home plate, and as the picture is winding up, he'll point and say, it's going there.

01:52:30.160 Every other president that I've seen except for Ronald Reagan in the Soviet Union battle has always been counseled to do X, Y, or Z,

01:52:45.140 and it was just another line from the State Department that just got us into all of these endless wars.

01:52:52.120 This guy, and it was evidenced yesterday by the phone call that he made where he just got up from the table with all these world leaders and was like,

01:52:59.880 I've got to call Vlad, and he went in the other room and called Vlad.

01:53:02.940 Nobody whispered into his ear, hey, you have to call Vladimir Putin.

01:53:06.300 He did it, and he didn't ask for anybody's permission.

01:53:10.140 This is a president that is actually a leader in America, a leader in every room, and America is leading again.

01:53:19.940 And don't tell me that we don't have respect of the world.

01:53:23.980 You know, you can get two kinds of respect.

01:53:26.300 You can get respect because you have the biggest stick, which we do, and I think that was, in some ways, the first term of Donald Trump.

01:53:36.360 But the second term, he is much more focused, and he is using that stick,

01:53:43.480 but he is also bringing them to the table as a leader because they're seeing he can do things that nobody else has been able to do.

01:53:52.400 The other thing I wanted to talk to you about today was this piece that I heard right before I went on the air today.

01:54:00.100 Donald Trump called in to Fox and Friends, and he said something really interesting.

01:54:05.520 Listen to this.

01:54:06.400 I just want to end it.

01:54:08.240 I want to end it.

01:54:09.020 You know, we're not losing American lives.

01:54:10.820 We're not losing American soldiers.

01:54:12.440 We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers.

01:54:16.260 Some people, as missiles, hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev and towns.

01:54:22.620 But, you know, if I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty—

01:54:29.360 I want to try and get to heaven if possible.

01:54:31.240 I'm hearing I'm not doing well.

01:54:33.140 I am really at the bottom of the totem pole.

01:54:35.380 But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.

01:54:40.680 Wow.

01:54:41.880 So there's a couple of notes, and I'd like to hear, Stu, your thoughts, and Jason Buttrill is with us, our head researcher.

01:54:47.700 I'd like to hear your thoughts, but the couple of things that came to mind was, one, again, and I've made this point over and over again,

01:54:56.700 he actually cares about people.

01:55:00.580 He cares about the lives that are being lost in war.

01:55:03.740 I talked to George W. Bush during the Afghanistan war and the Iraq war, and I can tell you firsthand, think what you want about the war, think about whatever you want about him.

01:55:16.700 But the one thing I do know about George W. Bush is he cared about every soldier that was fighting.

01:55:24.080 He deeply cared.

01:55:26.160 He knew the names of everybody that was wounded the night before.

01:55:30.400 That's the first thing he would do is he would get the names of the dead and the wounded from the day before,

01:55:36.240 and he started his day by making phone calls to parents, and he carried that with him.

01:55:42.360 It bothered him.

01:55:43.780 He carried them with him.

01:55:47.120 Afghans, I don't know.

01:55:48.680 Donald Trump, we're not involved in this, but Donald Trump deeply cares.

01:55:53.620 That's why he's so focused on stopping these skirmishes and these wars is because he deeply cares about human life,

01:56:00.740 which is fascinating to watch.

01:56:04.680 The second thing is his use of self-deprecation.

01:56:09.520 He, I think, actually is thinking about heaven.

01:56:13.440 I think he has this new understanding of God, and he's coming to the end of his road, probably with him.

01:56:21.120 He'll be 150 before he dies.

01:56:23.160 But, you know, he is at that age where you think about those things,

01:56:27.620 and notice he's not thinking necessarily about his legacy.

01:56:31.920 I do believe he's being self-deprecating and humorous here, but he does care about that.

01:56:37.460 That, I think, is the legacy that is becoming more and more important to him.

01:56:41.400 Where am I headed at the end?

01:56:44.100 Jason, you brought this clip up to me when it was playing.

01:56:49.340 We were both listening to it, and he was like, wow, listen to that.

01:56:51.540 Why?

01:56:52.060 Why did you say that?

01:56:53.100 Well, it's kind of what you just said.

01:56:54.740 I feel like there's, I don't think, I don't think he's expecting anything,

01:56:59.840 any help as far as his legacy is concerned here.

01:57:03.040 I mean, I think he absolutely just, I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

01:57:07.200 just based off of what he's already done.

01:57:08.940 I agree.

01:57:09.800 I think that if he gets this done, it's a shoo-in. 0.99

01:57:13.160 No, no, it's not.

01:57:14.160 It's a shoo-in for anybody else.

01:57:16.040 It should be.

01:57:16.980 He won't get it.

01:57:17.640 I mean, Obama was granted it just on basically just good thoughts.

01:57:20.560 Yeah, I know.

01:57:21.040 Pretty much.

01:57:21.460 Yeah, what I'm going to do.

01:57:22.780 But this was literally something that everybody else at the table yesterday could not have done.

01:57:30.460 They couldn't have done it.

01:57:31.440 Vladimir Putin would not speak to them because of everything they've been doing.

01:57:35.120 He was able to, at the end of the meeting, just say, yeah, I'm just going to call him.

01:57:38.340 They couldn't do that.

01:57:39.320 If they called Vladimir Putin, he would hang up or not even pick up.

01:57:43.740 I mean, this is all based off of his efforts.

01:57:47.400 And when I heard him talk about, you know, I want to save the lives.

01:57:51.080 You know, I want to get to heaven.

01:57:52.700 He's always bringing up, you know, he even did yesterday, you know, the assassination attempt.

01:57:58.160 He said that was a very bad day.

01:57:59.400 We know that's always in the back of his mind.

01:58:01.260 We know that the lives are in the back of his mind.

01:58:03.760 He also made a comment yesterday about how some people were saying, well, you know, well, we'll get the two of them, you know, Zelensky and Putin together, you know, maybe in a couple months.

01:58:12.420 And he said a couple of months, that's measured in not days, but lives.

01:58:19.620 He said it's, he didn't say that directly, but he said that's like 40,000 lives.

01:58:23.740 He's thinking about the lives lost on this, which is something that we're not even really used to hearing, you know, from some of these leaders.

01:58:31.200 It's always so cold.

01:58:32.400 It's always so, what do we get in return?

01:58:34.520 It doesn't even really sound like he's, you know, looking at that or thinking about that.

01:58:38.560 So, I mean, it's just amazing to what we are living through history right now.

01:58:43.580 And if it goes the way I hope it's going to go, I mean, I'm just glad that I was here to watch it.

01:58:50.480 Still.

01:58:52.640 First of all, I love the self-deprecation.

01:58:54.660 I think it's the most likable version of Trump where he's just like, yeah, I mean, I'm on the bottom of the totem pole.

01:59:00.440 I don't know.

01:59:01.220 Like, I don't know.

01:59:02.500 He's so engaging that way, and I think he should do that more when it's possible, just because I think it's super likable and funny.

01:59:12.740 I mean, as you've said many times, Glenn, he's just a really funny guy.

01:59:15.900 He knows how to do this, and I think when he leans into that, it's really successful.

01:59:20.840 The other part I just mentioned is that, you know, there's a lot of guesses about his motivation on this stuff, right?

01:59:27.540 Like, the left is always guessing that he just wants to be friends with Vladimir Putin or he wants to be a dictator.

01:59:33.320 You know, some people who are just skeptical of Trump are saying, well, he knows how good this will look for him, and he's doing it for politics and everything else.

01:59:41.600 I think you guys are both right and hit on this.

01:59:44.900 He really, A, believes this.

01:59:47.400 This is one of his central core beliefs.

01:59:49.480 It's one of the things he's been consistent on since the 80s, right?

01:59:53.300 Like, this is –

01:59:53.940 Yes.

01:59:54.200 He really does want to end this war, and, like, there's not a super direct line to American advantage or Donald Trump advantage for getting this done, right?

02:00:05.660 It's more of something he actually just really believes in, and I think that's laudable.

02:00:11.700 And, you know, it's funny because, you know, I think part of it is legacy, right?

02:00:17.760 You mentioned, you know, the shooting, like him getting shot on stage.

02:00:22.560 That tends to change a man.

02:00:24.180 Tends to change a man when you're about to go on the ninth hole and there's a gunman in the bushes.

02:00:29.060 Yes.

02:00:29.400 Tends to change a man when someone from Georgia was arrested for saying, quote,

02:00:33.860 so there's only one way to make America great, and that's putting a bullet in between Trump's eyes.

02:00:38.820 I'm going to kill Donald Trump.

02:00:40.460 I'm going to put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead.

02:00:43.900 I'm going to watch him bleed out and watch him die.

02:00:46.480 I'm going to do that.

02:00:47.520 That – he was arrested yesterday.

02:00:49.640 That's a new story if you didn't hear that.

02:00:52.400 Another U.S. attorney announced arrest of a New York woman who traveled to D.C. and threatened to kill Trump.

02:00:58.920 That came out yesterday.

02:01:01.060 So, like, when you are in a moment where you're – this is happening to you constantly,

02:01:06.860 where people are trying to murder you on a daily or weekly basis,

02:01:12.660 you're damn right you're going to be thinking about these things.

02:01:16.400 He has to be thinking about these things, and I do – I find it pretty – I don't agree with every Trump policy,

02:01:23.660 but I find it really hard to understand the people who just come at this and look at it as, like,

02:01:27.920 well, his motivations for these things are bad.

02:01:30.560 Like, I think he really does want to end this.

02:01:33.300 Yeah, he's not Hitler.

02:01:34.040 Yeah, you're saying he's Hitler.

02:01:35.060 So, you – I mean – but, I mean, when people say he's Hitler, I mean, you have to go to – he can't have any good motivations.

02:01:41.940 Yeah.

02:01:42.060 Right, right.

02:01:42.680 That's true.

02:01:43.120 You can't assign anything good to Hitler, and you have every right to want to kill him and watch him bleed out in the streets 0.96

02:01:49.060 if you think the guy is Hitler.

02:01:51.200 That is the problem, and the left knows exactly what they're doing.

02:01:54.520 And, you know, it's interesting to me that neither of you brought up low man on the totem pole

02:01:58.280 because I think the frog and maybe the killer whale is a little lower on the totem pole than he is.

02:02:05.080 He might be ahead of the bear, which is a symbol of protection.

02:02:10.520 Sure.

02:02:10.960 Right.

02:02:11.240 You know, and the – you know, either the raven or the thunderbird at the top.

02:02:17.880 I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

02:02:19.180 I know my totem poles.

02:02:20.940 You know, that's – the thunderbird is the sky and the power, and I don't think he – you know, he's definitely under that.

02:02:26.900 But might be above the – might be above the bear, might be below the bear.

02:02:30.160 I'm not sure.

02:02:30.620 But definitely, definitely the frog and the killer whale on the bottom.

02:02:36.340 Theologically speaking, Glenn, how tall is the heaven totem pole?

02:02:40.160 How far does that get up there?

02:02:42.260 Does it go all the way?

02:02:43.400 The high totem pole?

02:02:44.940 The heaven totem pole?

02:02:46.020 Yeah.

02:02:46.520 I mean, I assume it's got to be pretty tall.

02:02:48.840 Well, I don't think that – I'm not sure that – I'm not sure heaven is even involved with the totem pole.

02:02:56.780 Really?

02:02:57.940 Yeah.

02:02:58.340 Even after your very detailed analysis of it just moments ago?

02:03:01.600 Yeah.

02:03:01.860 Wow.

02:03:02.440 I'm not really sure that heaven, seeing that it's a completely different system, you know.

02:03:08.940 It does seem to be a different system completely.

02:03:11.520 Yeah.

02:03:11.800 It is a little different.

02:03:12.820 It is a little different, you know.

02:03:14.520 It's – you know, I guess it's kind of like – maybe it's like a Catholic Native American thing.

02:03:20.860 You know, they took the Catholic.

02:03:21.760 They have the statues of, you know, hey, Mary's over here and St. Joseph is over here.

02:03:26.880 They just have the orca and the frog.

02:03:30.060 I don't think it's as powerful as the Catholic thing, you know.

02:03:34.800 But, you know, it works for some.

02:03:36.740 It works for some.

02:03:37.480 And you speak as a man who's received a doctorate from a religious university.

02:03:42.840 Oh, yeah.

02:03:43.980 Yes, I have.

02:03:44.960 Not one that involves totem poles, strangely.

02:03:48.660 No?

02:03:48.940 Strangely.

02:03:49.240 I don't think I'm going to get one of those.

02:03:50.360 But anyway, I found it – I find so much to be learned just from yesterday.

02:04:00.780 And tomorrow I want to share with you – but I just needed the time and didn't have the time today.

02:04:05.020 I want to really share with you what America First really is because it was on full display yesterday.

02:04:13.540 And, you know, Melanie Phillips was with us just a second ago, and she was like, you know, and that's isolationism.

02:04:19.740 No, it's not.

02:04:20.900 No, it is not.

02:04:22.980 And I'll explain all of that tomorrow.

02:04:26.100 Okay, coming up.

02:04:27.260 First, let me tell you about the Berna launcher.

02:04:29.640 I made a decision not long ago.

02:04:30.860 I'm carrying my Berna launcher with me all the time because it gives me something that I know I will pull.

02:04:36.880 You know, if I'm in the – if I'm in a, you know, if I'm in a Waffle House and people are starting to fight over pancakes, I'm not going to pull my gun.

02:04:47.980 I'm not going to pull my gun.

02:04:49.460 But if people are in a Waffle House and they're fighting over pancakes and syrup and they're throwing things and people are getting hurt, I will pull out my Berna launcher.

02:04:57.580 And I'll hit them gleefully with tear gas, okay?

02:05:02.280 And then just – can somebody call the police?

02:05:05.360 They'll get there in 45, you know, 45 minutes sooner if you live in a red state. 0.92

02:05:10.980 But police will come.

02:05:12.760 You're not going to jail because you didn't kill anybody.

02:05:14.560 But you did stop the Waffle House, you know, nightmare from happening.

02:05:19.040 My daughter, I told her, I said, daddy's cutting you off unless you have this in your purse and with you all the time because daddy needs to know you're safe.

02:05:31.480 And so, you know, we worked with it and trained with her and she's coming up here in a couple of weeks to train again with the Berna launcher.

02:05:37.800 It's really, really easy, but it is something that you can use for self-defense that doesn't put you in jail, depending on where you are, because you killed somebody.

02:05:47.380 It doesn't force you to put yourself in that situation where you have to choose life or death, theirs or yours.

02:05:54.160 And it's legal in all 50 states.

02:05:55.940 You don't need a permit or anything else.

02:05:57.360 It's Berna, B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Glenn.

02:06:00.460 Go there now.

02:06:01.000 You get a good percentage off right now at Berna dot com or you can try before you buy at Sportsman's Warehouse.

02:06:07.460 Just find a location near you by going to Berna, B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Glenn.

02:06:14.800 This is Glenn Beck.

02:06:31.000 Here's Hollywood star Chris Pratt with Bill Maher.

02:06:40.560 And so I don't know what to believe because it's not like I sit with Bobby and I go, so, hey, let's talk about this.

02:06:45.660 Let's talk about it's like we're just playing cards or playing mafia or having fun or having dinner.

02:06:49.040 I'm not going to pick his brain to find out exactly which of those things are true.

02:06:51.600 I just kind of assume that none of them are.

02:06:53.700 And for the most part, I wish him well, man.

02:06:55.920 And I hope there's certain things that he oversees that seem to be supported in a bipartisan way, like getting terrible, toxic stuff out of our kids' food.

02:07:05.800 I think that's a great thing.

02:07:07.200 And so, like, just if you just do that, that's amazing.

02:07:10.340 I'd hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I'd be having an allergic reaction to.

02:07:17.700 To be like, oh, well, if they do it, I don't want it to happen.

02:07:21.160 I'll feed my I'll put Clorox in my children's cereal myself.

02:07:24.420 Or, you know, I'd say, come on, have some, be reasonable.

02:07:27.840 There's certain things that would be a good thing to have.

02:07:29.920 I want them all to be successful.

02:07:31.820 I wish every Hollywood A-lister would be like Chris Pratt.

02:07:35.380 Few and far between, unfortunately.

02:07:37.340 See you tomorrow.

02:07:41.700 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 19, 2025

Trump's Peace Talks Prove We FINALLY Have a World Leader Again ｜ Guests： Sen. Eric Schmitt & Melanie Phillips ｜ 8⧸19⧸25

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