The Glenn Beck Program - 'Wars We Can't Win'？ (Bill O'Reilly & Adam Foss join Glenn) - 3⧸2⧸18

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00:00:17.340 All right, so America is afraid right now.

00:00:21.660 America is afraid in two different ways, and we need to understand the fear on each side.

00:00:29.100 One, there's a group of people in America that is legitimately afraid of guns because they didn't grow up around guns.

00:00:36.420 They don't understand guns.

00:00:38.520 They see these weapons on television, and they look very, very frightening.

00:00:42.980 You have television saying, you know, what do you use as a sporting rifle?

00:00:47.100 Well, that is a sporting rifle.

00:00:48.960 In fact, it wasn't a weapon of war.

00:00:51.480 It was originally designed in the 1950s as a sporting rifle.

00:00:55.920 But it happened to be more rugged, and so Colt had the license, and they made them for the military.

00:01:04.080 So this was a hunting rifle that then was adopted by the military.

00:01:09.560 Well, you can't have high-capacity magazines.

00:01:12.580 High-capacity magazines have been in rifles since 1911.

00:01:18.020 High-capacity magazines, some say, were invented in either 1820 or 1840, but we know that they came to market in 1893.

00:01:30.620 So they've been around for a very long time.

00:01:33.660 But people are afraid because they don't have any experience around them, and we have to understand that if you're a gun owner or you're a member of the NRA or you're into the Second Amendment.

00:01:52.340 You have to understand people's fear.

00:01:54.500 Now, let's flip this around.

00:01:56.200 The left has to understand our fear, and our fear is you're coming after our guns.

00:02:05.200 No, we're not.

00:02:06.560 No, we're not.

00:02:07.080 We've heard that for years.

00:02:10.500 We're not coming after your guns.

00:02:12.800 And yet we have had the whispers of Democrats who have then said, well, yeah, we're going to start here.

00:02:20.760 But that's always been brushed off as conspiracy.

00:02:26.440 This is why the right does not want to have a conversation with anyone in Washington about common-sense gun legislation.

00:02:37.660 Because we don't believe that you're not going to take all of the guns in the end.

00:02:42.600 When President Obama said we want to do what, you know, look at Australia.

00:02:46.880 Well, let's look at Australia.

00:02:48.540 It was gun confiscation.

00:02:52.720 Well, look at what happened in England.

00:02:54.900 It was gun confiscation.

00:02:59.100 So those are the two fears.

00:03:01.280 So now what do we do?

00:03:03.480 Well, now we look at how this is playing out.

00:03:07.080 Democrats are now gearing up for a gun-grabbing jihad.

00:03:12.240 Now, how can I possibly say that?

00:03:14.400 Well, with real authority, because you can look at the bill that they are developing.

00:03:21.820 The Washington Examiner reported yesterday that Democrats are proposing a weapons ban and gun confiscation powers.

00:03:30.580 And the inspiration didn't come from anyone on the left.

00:03:34.400 It came from their new muse in the White House.

00:03:38.000 After his comments on Wednesday, they were emboldened.

00:03:42.900 And they believe they have the power to begin the war on guns.

00:03:46.480 Now, we don't know for sure what is in the upcoming proposed bill, but they are floating things now.

00:03:54.960 Democrats are beginning to talk just enough for us to get a clue as to what we're looking at.

00:04:00.160 The details include expanded background checks, the banning of certain kinds of weapons, and a plan to temporarily confiscate anybody's guns if they're deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.

00:04:15.680 Okay, those all sound like common sense, don't they?

00:04:19.100 But let's take it line by line.

00:04:21.760 Expanded background checks.

00:04:23.620 What does that mean?

00:04:24.560 Currently, only 38 states require for everybody to put in all of the stuff for the background checks.

00:04:34.020 Only 38 states.

00:04:36.360 Well, let's just make sure that everyone is required to put, you know, domestic abuse and things like that into the background check.

00:04:44.480 That's not what we're talking about.

00:04:47.360 We have a background check system, but Democrats are now worried about private sales.

00:04:53.240 Okay, what does that mean?

00:04:56.280 Well, if I'm going to sell my gun to a neighbor, you can do that without a background check.

00:05:02.440 Okay, well, maybe we should be able to have a background check if somebody, if I'm advertising my gun in the newspaper or whatever, and somebody says, hey, I want to buy your gun.

00:05:15.260 If it's a neighbor and I know them, do I have to have a background check?

00:05:20.020 Well, we have to have background check.

00:05:21.980 Okay.

00:05:23.360 How?

00:05:24.520 Do I go to an FFL?

00:05:26.480 Are they the ones that are going to keep all of the records?

00:05:29.720 Or do I somehow or another have to keep all of the records?

00:05:34.440 By the way, does a background check involve a transfer?

00:05:39.160 My problem here is if I want to give my Henry rifle to my son, does he have to have a background check?

00:05:48.260 These are the little details that never get disclosed, and I can guarantee you that the Democrats aren't even going to try.

00:05:55.940 Second, the bill is rumored to contain a ban on, quote, certain weapons.

00:06:01.280 Now, Democrats are all up in arms over assault-style weapons.

00:06:06.220 Well, what are assault-style weapons?

00:06:09.920 Well, even though the vast majority of people in Washington have no clue as to what they're even talking about,

00:06:16.980 Debbie Wasserman Schultz went on CNN yesterday as the poster child for the clueless liberal on guns, 1.00

00:06:22.120 and she said, we have to keep, quote, high-capacity rapid-fire magazines out of the hands of civilians.

00:06:34.960 Well, I think that's going to be pretty easy because I don't know what a high-capacity rapid-fire magazine is.

00:06:44.220 They're also talking about any gun with a detachable magazine.

00:06:48.520 Okay, if anybody doesn't know, a magazine is what you load all the bullets in,

00:06:55.420 and then you put it at the, you know, the bottom of the gun, and it loads the gun.

00:07:00.480 Well, that detachable magazine also includes handguns and pretty much everything that isn't from the 1860s.

00:07:12.740 Now, I've never heard of a magazine that can fire its own ammunition, let alone at a high rate of speed.

00:07:22.880 But we should look into this before it's suddenly banned.

00:07:27.340 She then went on to say that military-style weapons should be available only to the military.

00:07:31.660 Okay, but that doesn't include the AR, because the AR was designed as a hunting rifle in the 1960s

00:07:42.120 and only was taken in for the military.

00:07:46.700 I'm sorry, designed in the 50s and taken in by the military during the Vietnam War.

00:07:52.740 Armalite sold the plans to the military, who then adopted it with burst and rapid fire.

00:07:59.480 The civilian models do not have that.

00:08:03.220 It's actually more correct to say that the military is using a civilian-style weapon.

00:08:09.840 But these people have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

00:08:14.360 Democrats want an all-out ban on semi-automatic weapons.

00:08:18.680 That eliminates 80% of the market.

00:08:23.320 80%.

00:08:23.480 That will leave you with bolt-action hunting rifles and, you know, Wyatt Earp six-shooters.

00:08:34.160 And finally, gun confiscation.

00:08:37.900 Democrats are proposing a program where family and law enforcement could petition a court

00:08:43.440 to have someone's gun taken away if they're deemed mentally unstable.

00:08:47.100 Okay, all right.

00:08:51.400 If the family can petition that, okay.

00:08:55.600 But let's look into this a bit and ask, does this extend to anyone on medication?

00:09:03.080 Will simply being on antidepressants now be enough to label you fully on mentally unstable?

00:09:10.720 Let me ask you this.

00:09:12.020 Because I begged, I begged veterans, when this first started to break, how the government

00:09:20.320 was pressuring the veterans, just sign and say you have PTSD.

00:09:25.580 You've never had a bad dream?

00:09:27.280 Just sign.

00:09:27.980 You get extra money for it.

00:09:30.620 Will this include veterans?

00:09:33.880 What about ADD medication?

00:09:36.040 We are headed down a dark, dark path.

00:09:42.440 Yes, we need solutions.

00:09:44.800 But this bill is definitely not one.

00:09:48.660 Let's hope that the president puts it right where it belongs. 0.94

00:09:54.360 In the trash.

00:09:55.260 It's Friday, March 2nd.

00:10:05.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:10:07.600 So, yesterday, Condoleezza Rice was on The View, and she was saying, well, we don't need

00:10:14.160 these assault-style weapons.

00:10:15.660 And Megan McCain stepped up and said, wait a minute, my brother, my dad have these weapons.

00:10:26.340 And it's not a problem.

00:10:27.840 This is hunting.

00:10:28.940 And she said, I know everybody makes fun of us when we say we hunt with an AR, but that's

00:10:34.080 what you do.

00:10:35.680 This is a modern sporting rifle.

00:10:39.740 That's what it was designed for.

00:10:42.320 So, then we had Joy Behar.

00:10:48.520 And Joy Behar chimed in, and she said, well, what did you use when there was a weapons ban

00:10:54.960 on these?

00:10:56.640 Joy, let me respond.

00:11:00.100 The same weapon.

00:11:02.300 It doesn't have any idea what that bill did.

00:11:04.540 She had no idea.

00:11:05.540 Unbelievable.

00:11:05.960 It doesn't take away.

00:11:07.360 This is the problem.

00:11:08.280 What they're going to do is, at first, they will say, we're going to ban the sales of

00:11:13.280 all these weapons.

00:11:14.360 You can't buy them.

00:11:16.020 Okay.

00:11:17.020 Well, that leaves about 320 million guns out in the system.

00:11:23.220 And what they'll do is they'll say, you can't sell those kinds of guns.

00:11:28.900 Anything with an attachable magazine on it.

00:11:32.980 Okay.

00:11:34.140 Well, all of those guns are already out in the system.

00:11:36.880 There was also something, almost becoming an epidemic in what's called ghost guns, because

00:11:48.220 you can buy all of the pieces or make all of the pieces now with 3D printing of guns.

00:11:56.800 You can assemble them.

00:11:58.340 You can buy pieces online and assemble them yourself.

00:12:01.500 Now they're not registered.

00:12:02.700 Who do you think is going to get that? 0.99

00:12:04.520 Who do you think is going to be doing that?

00:12:06.880 Law-abiding citizens?

00:12:10.600 By the way, in all of the shootings, all of the mass shootings in our country, never has

00:12:17.660 there been an NRA member.

00:12:20.640 No NRA members have ever been a part of that.

00:12:23.520 I just want to let you know.

00:12:25.000 So she says, what is it that they, what is it that they used?

00:12:31.840 They used the same weapon that was just banned.

00:12:36.660 What you have to do if you really want this to reduce the number of these weapons is you have to then go door to door and confiscate all of them.

00:12:52.760 Oh, but you've promised us already.

00:12:56.780 That's not what you want to do.

00:12:59.540 By the way, out of the, uh, out of all of the shooters, what is it?

00:13:06.680 Seven of them or nine of them were under 21.

00:13:09.600 And out of all of those shooters, I believe only one of them purchased their gun.

00:13:17.200 Every other gun they got their hands on because of someone else.

00:13:23.360 They're not going out and buying them.

00:13:27.460 Oh, hang on.

00:13:29.060 One other thought, Democrats.

00:13:32.100 Because I know discrimination is horrible, right?

00:13:38.060 There are laws to prevent discrimination.

00:13:42.880 So now you have stores who are going out and they are saying,

00:13:50.240 this is a constitutionally legal weapon to sell.

00:13:57.200 And I will sell it.

00:14:00.620 I will sell the AR, but I will not sell it to someone under 21. 1.00

00:14:08.420 Yet, that's not what the law says.

00:14:11.980 The law says that at 18, you can buy the weapon. 0.99

00:14:17.160 Isn't this age discrimination by dicks? 0.99

00:14:22.120 If I, if dicks decided to say, you know what? 0.99

00:14:25.340 We're really having a problem in the inner cities of Chicago with these weapons. 0.99

00:14:29.680 So we're not going to sell these to any black people.

00:14:33.880 Do you think that would be called discrimination? 0.81

00:14:37.100 Because you don't trust people under 21, you are deciding that you aren't going to sell a certain item. 1.00

00:14:50.000 You'll sell it, but just not to these people.

00:14:54.100 My gosh, what kind of discrimination?

00:14:56.640 Sounds almost like a wedding cake issue, doesn't it?

00:14:59.920 But I provide that service, but I'm not going to sell it to them.

00:15:06.260 And it's specifically banned in several states.

00:15:09.360 I mean, discrimination based on age.

00:15:12.420 California is a big example of this.

00:15:14.060 I don't think Walmart or dicks are going to be able to implement this policy.

00:15:18.820 Well, I certainly hope somebody, I hope somebody sues them for discrimination.

00:15:23.640 They should, because they're breaking their own laws.

00:15:28.220 Yep.

00:15:28.860 Again, I, you know, I think there's a, and again, the left is again, showing themselves as, and I, and I say this, please, if you happen to be somebody on the left, I say this, knowing what the right looks like now as well.

00:15:43.660 I wish we had some moral high ground, but we don't.

00:15:46.900 But the left has exposed themselves of, you don't really care about discrimination.

00:15:52.260 You will discriminate if you want it bad enough. 0.51

00:15:56.760 You'll discriminate. 0.97

00:15:58.440 You're doing it here with weapons.

00:16:02.900 How?

00:16:04.420 Remember some of these states that will not allow ladies' nights at bars because you can't give cheaper drinks to women or free drinks to women and not to men or free admission to women and not to men.

00:16:15.080 You can't do that because it violates these discrimination laws.

00:16:19.000 How this, you know, bill by, or this move by dicks and others doesn't violate that.

00:16:25.880 I have no idea. 0.54

00:16:27.020 Well, there is one, well, there's one way that it will be heard in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is wrong more than any other, is over, their, their decisions are overturned more than any other court in the land.

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00:17:49.280 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:17:53.420 Glenn Beck.

00:18:00.240 All right.

00:18:02.300 So we have some more good news.

00:18:04.840 We have a trade war starting.

00:18:08.280 President announced yesterday that he was going to take steel and aluminum and protect our nation.

00:18:17.780 And so we've started a trade war.

00:18:19.600 And this morning he tweeted, can you give me the exact tweet because it's pretty remarkable and I don't want to, I don't want to get it wrong.

00:18:28.400 Yeah, it's probably a good thing.

00:18:29.860 I mean, because we're talking trade wars here.

00:18:31.840 It's a very, it's an interesting, interesting proposal here.

00:18:37.600 When a country, parentheses USA, end parentheses, just in case you weren't sure what country he was talking about.

00:18:44.860 Okay, sure.

00:18:45.200 When a country USA is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country he does business with, trade wars are good and easy to win.

00:18:54.420 No, they're not.

00:18:55.460 No.

00:18:55.800 And they're not good.

00:18:56.860 And let me just give you a little page of history.

00:19:01.680 Smoot-Hawley, it was a, was the beginning of a trade war.

00:19:05.780 The Smoot-Hawley bill barely passed the Senate, passed the populist House in 1920s.

00:19:13.220 And President Hoover, even though he was, they begged President Hoover, a thousand economists came out and said, please don't do this.

00:19:21.760 Trade wars are easy to win.

00:19:23.540 Let me just read this.

00:19:24.480 Smoot-Hawley contributed to the early loss of confidence on Wall Street.

00:19:29.880 Hey, what happened yesterday?

00:19:31.740 Stu, did you hear about Wall Street?

00:19:33.340 It was a really good up a zillion points, I believe.

00:19:36.080 Yeah, either that or over two days of trading between up and down.

00:19:39.800 It's a thousand points spread.

00:19:42.700 Thousand points.

00:19:44.180 At one point yesterday, it was down 550 points.

00:19:49.400 Anyway, so first, it was the early loss of confidence on Wall Street, you know, 1929, 1930, and it signaled to the markets isolationism.

00:20:01.360 By raising the tariffs by some 20%, it also prompted retaliation from foreign governments.

00:20:08.900 Later, overseas banks began to fail.

00:20:13.860 Gee, other countries, two dozen countries, then joined in the war.

00:20:19.340 This is a trade war, and you don't win them.

00:20:24.500 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:37.920 Okay, so the Dow's only down another 248 points at the opening bell.

00:20:43.360 But, you know, that's no big deal.

00:20:45.500 It's no big deal.

00:20:47.280 It has nothing to do with the trade war that we're going to win, because you always win trade wars.

00:20:53.040 Look, the president has done some really good things.

00:20:57.540 He has done some really good policies.

00:21:01.200 His policies on judges have been really good beyond Gorsuch.

00:21:07.080 He has done some good things.

00:21:09.300 Universally praised, I think, by conservatives.

00:21:11.200 Yes, I'll take the tax cut.

00:21:13.360 It's not what I wanted, but I'll take it.

00:21:15.260 It was good.

00:21:16.040 It's better than going the other direction.

00:21:18.520 Jerusalem was great.

00:21:20.040 There are some policies that he has done.

00:21:22.640 The EPA, the reduction of all of these, you know, all of the regulations.

00:21:29.280 Really good.

00:21:30.220 And I support him on that.

00:21:32.260 And we have to support him when he's right.

00:21:34.700 When he's wrong, we must call him out.

00:21:39.480 Trade wars are not winners.

00:21:42.500 No one wins.

00:21:43.220 No one wins.

00:21:44.040 Neither side.

00:21:44.640 Let me just let me just finish this from let me just finish this from the from the history books here.

00:21:51.500 In 1928, the campaign for the Republican was Herbert Hoover.

00:21:57.020 He promised to increase tariffs on agricultural goods.

00:22:00.240 But then when he took office, lobbyists from other economic sectors stepped in and said, you know, there needs to be a broader increase on just about everything.

00:22:08.900 So he he passed it and signed it smooth.

00:22:13.760 Holly, this is smooth.

00:22:14.880 Holly trade bill.

00:22:16.320 It contributed to the early loss of confidence on Wall Street, signaled the U.S.

00:22:20.460 isolationism by raising the average tariff by 20 percent.

00:22:24.080 It also prompted retaliation from foreign governments and many banks began to fail.

00:22:29.660 Within two years, two dozen countries adopted similar beggar thy neighbor duties, making worse and already beleaguered world economy.

00:22:40.100 Now, good thing we don't have a beleaguered world economy and reducing global trade.

00:22:46.900 U.S. imports and U.S. exports to Europe fell by two thirds between 1929 and 1932.

00:22:59.660 OK, those years are good years, though.

00:23:02.400 Twenty nine to thirty two.

00:23:03.480 Those were great.

00:23:04.620 Great.

00:23:05.140 Those were great years.

00:23:06.520 And, you know, and that didn't help push, you know, Hitler over the edge or or anything. 0.76

00:23:13.320 It did nothing.

00:23:14.960 Everybody won, especially our side.

00:23:18.060 Let me just let me just recap.

00:23:20.660 Let me just see if I have this right.

00:23:22.300 So there was a Republican candidate.

00:23:26.540 Who was Herbert Hoover and Herbert Hoover was known as this great capitalist, this great industrialist.

00:23:33.760 He was a he was a builder of things. 0.99

00:23:35.820 Hoover, damn. 1.00

00:23:36.720 He was a he was a builder. 1.00

00:23:38.180 He was a great businessman and industrialist.

00:23:41.440 And so everybody thought, well, he's got he's he's got a handle on things.

00:23:46.340 And he was a big believer in trade war.

00:23:48.940 And so he he campaigned on trade war.

00:23:51.620 Then he got into office and his second year in office.

00:23:57.340 He passed a trade bill and he got he started the trade war because we can win a trade war.

00:24:04.180 When he announced it, the stock market took a nosedive and then other countries started to retaliate and then it went horribly wrong.

00:24:18.000 We were in the Great Depression, which led then to a socialist progressive movement where they were accusing the Republicans and the conservative movement for not understanding how an economy works.

00:24:36.220 And they were blamed for the economy, which led to 15 years of progressive socialist kind of economics and kept the United States in a depression until there was a global war.

00:24:54.460 I don't see the good thing is I don't see any similarities at all.

00:24:58.880 I don't see any similar similarities.

00:25:01.160 I think we're OK.

00:25:02.300 Really?

00:25:02.620 Because what you just said has a lot of similarities to what we're facing.

00:25:05.020 I don't see any of really.

00:25:06.280 I don't see a single one.

00:25:08.100 It's incredible.

00:25:09.180 I mean, this is you know, there's a couple of ideas of how this was going.

00:25:13.140 Yeah.

00:25:13.380 With the president, because I think everybody, even most of the supporters of Donald Trump recognized that he had some really good ideas and some really bad ideas.

00:25:22.500 And so the idea was year one.

00:25:26.020 Was it a he decided to the people around him and him decided to do the things that were his good ideas?

00:25:34.300 Mm hmm.

00:25:34.740 And wait until year two to do the bad ones.

00:25:37.440 In other words, the people around him talked him into prioritizing the things that they liked.

00:25:41.620 Right.

00:25:42.840 Is it is it that or was it the optimistic side?

00:25:47.280 Trump gets into office, realizes sort of the realities of the situation, maybe throws away some of the worst rhetoric about trade and some of these other issues that would be damaging and just decided not decides not to do them.

00:25:59.200 We still don't know what the real answer to that is, because he's he's hasn't done a lot of the trade stuff.

00:26:05.060 He's announced these tariffs are not in effect yet.

00:26:06.800 He has done other tariffs.

00:26:08.660 I mean, if you want to be optimistic, you hope that he doesn't actually follow through with these things.

00:26:13.940 Maybe he sees the thousand point stock market drop.

00:26:17.700 And again, he likes to win.

00:26:18.940 He doesn't he's not going to want to he's he's not going to like the idea of a falling stock market.

00:26:22.280 Maybe he changes.

00:26:23.140 It really hurt him.

00:26:24.060 It really hurt him.

00:26:25.280 By the way, you know, I as you were talking, I thought, OK, I know why Stu is starting to see some similarities.

00:26:32.860 Oh, OK.

00:26:33.420 OK.

00:26:33.820 But it was a different time, Stu, a different time.

00:26:37.640 It was a different time.

00:26:38.360 OK, for instance, back then there was this big movement by one party to say that, you know, Russia is fine and it's good and there are friends.

00:26:50.440 And then there was the the other group.

00:26:52.540 They were all saying that national socialism isn't Nazism, but even Nazis were starting to to grow up all around the all around the country.

00:27:03.460 And the world.

00:27:05.340 So there was.

00:27:06.000 Oh, yeah.

00:27:06.520 So there was an embracing of Russia and and also national socialism.

00:27:12.000 So big time asterisk.

00:27:13.220 Yeah, there's it's right.

00:27:14.740 Totally different.

00:27:15.560 Totally different.

00:27:16.640 Yeah.

00:27:17.600 Wow.

00:27:18.140 It's scary because it's, you know, protectionism breeds more protectionism.

00:27:22.160 It's one of those things.

00:27:23.080 It's like spending on schools.

00:27:24.780 Oh, well, we don't we're not spending enough on schools.

00:27:27.660 Then you increase the amount you spend on schools and you realize that hasn't improved the situation at all.

00:27:31.540 That's because we're not spending enough on schools.

00:27:34.080 And so you spend more on schools and then you say, well, that's not really doing anything.

00:27:37.140 That's because we're not spending enough on schools.

00:27:39.380 Wait a minute.

00:27:39.920 Now we're spending more on schools than any other nation in the developed world.

00:27:43.520 Yeah, but we're not spending enough on schools.

00:27:45.520 That's the answer.

00:27:46.340 And that's what happens with these trade situations.

00:27:47.840 So isn't it interesting?

00:27:48.780 The tariffs aren't high enough.

00:27:49.500 Isn't it interesting, too, that that Vladimir Putin came out yesterday and said that he's got a new he's got a new weapon.

00:27:58.460 Have you heard about this?

00:27:59.320 Yes.

00:27:59.600 It's indestructible.

00:28:00.760 It's indestructible like the Titanic.

00:28:02.920 It's like it's and it's it sounds like scramjet technology, which we've never been able to develop scramjet check technology because because all alloys melt at that speed.

00:28:15.780 OK, it just it just can't hold up at that speed.

00:28:19.540 So if if we had that technology, we could we could do things where you could be on the planet, you know, anywhere in the planet in 20 minutes, you know, you could be anywhere in the planet in five minutes.

00:28:32.700 If you have scramjet technology, they apparently have that.

00:28:37.120 It's amazing.

00:28:38.320 And so he did an interview yesterday with Megyn Kelly where he said, yeah, we have it.

00:28:42.940 Of course, they're only showing there.

00:28:45.240 They're they're they're only showing, you know, animation.

00:28:50.160 Yeah, they're not.

00:28:51.280 They're not showing any of the footage of it, which makes some skeptics say he doesn't really have it.

00:28:59.200 Now, this is entirely different.

00:29:02.280 I want you to understand historically, this is entirely different than when in the 1980s, Russia was mired in a never ending war and they were on the economic brink and they were doing all this crazy stuff and their their ruble and the and the banks.

00:29:22.280 And they were starting to lose face with, you know, all the rest of their allies.

00:29:26.880 And then Ronald Reagan came in and said, I've got Star Wars technology lasers, which will shoot things out of the sky.

00:29:37.480 And of course, we didn't have that technology, but it started an arms race.

00:29:44.340 Oh, oh, oh, it's entirely different.

00:29:47.260 Yesterday in the interview with Megyn Kelly, Vladimir Putin said we're in an arms race now.

00:29:54.100 So the best thing we can do if we learn from history is engage in that arms race and just spend like crazy. 0.89

00:30:04.240 Well, then now you've really blown it up because Reagan's dead.

00:30:09.220 So it can't be the same.

00:30:11.740 And let me just say it again.

00:30:12.980 Reagan's dead.

00:30:15.680 Dead.

00:30:16.280 That doesn't really sound optimistic.

00:30:18.380 Dead.

00:30:18.980 I was trying to be optimistic.

00:30:20.760 Dead.

00:30:20.880 You're not.

00:30:22.480 Very, very dead.

00:30:25.720 Stu, help me out here.

00:30:27.860 We can sit.

00:30:28.440 Friday, help me out here.

00:30:29.720 You know, look, we just you have to hope that he doesn't do these things.

00:30:32.680 Right.

00:30:32.920 I mean, you have to hope that he has one bad experience with these tariffs.

00:30:35.220 You're never going to admit it was a mistake.

00:30:37.440 But you hope that after he sees the results of these things, maybe he decides not to go out on a limb because all of his economic advisors.

00:30:45.840 I mean, Larry Kudlow is hammering on him.

00:30:48.340 He's one of the guys who designed the tax plan for Donald Trump.

00:30:51.740 You know, Gary Cohn, they're talking about him potentially leaving the administration over this.

00:30:57.620 He does not have with the exception of a couple really anti-trade people in that he's put into the administration.

00:31:05.440 Most people in the administration don't agree with him on this.

00:31:07.520 Well, here's the good thing.

00:31:08.940 Completely unlike 1929, where a thousand, a thousand economists said, don't do this, Mr. President.

00:31:18.320 And the scary thing is Trump really believes this one.

00:31:20.780 Oh, yeah, this this this one is him.

00:31:23.380 This is yeah, this is one is him.

00:31:24.560 This is the one that we were really afraid of.

00:31:28.200 I mean, we're afraid of a lot of things and he's come through on a lot of things.

00:31:31.580 Yeah, this one we were really afraid of because we I remember saying, I guarantee you this will happen because he believes this.

00:31:39.720 This is something that he has.

00:31:41.360 He's rooted himself on and he he believes to the depth of his soul.

00:31:45.740 And I can give you all the numbers on the other times we've tried this,

00:31:48.900 that the best case scenario is over three hundred thousand dollars per job.

00:31:53.540 That's the best one we've been able to accomplish.

00:31:55.740 They go a lot worse.

00:31:56.720 The worst one was two point three four million dollars per job saved in the steel industry.

00:32:04.640 And these are much smaller tariffs.

00:32:06.460 Let's just write a check for a million dollars for all the people that might lose their job in the steel industry.

00:32:11.240 Yeah, I mean, it would be it would certainly save us a lot of money.

00:32:14.080 But I mean, forget that even think about it from a conservative ideological level.

00:32:18.860 Let's say Obamacare take take tax hikes that are going to fund programs.

00:32:23.960 Why don't we like those?

00:32:25.640 Because they're redistribution of wealth, right?

00:32:27.720 The government's getting involved in the middle of this process and saying, hey, I'm going to take from Group A and give to Group B.

00:32:34.500 Remember, Joe, the plumber, right?

00:32:36.040 It's a redistribution of wealth.

00:32:37.700 We're taking from Group A and we're giving to Group B.

00:32:40.180 We as conservatives don't like when the government makes those decisions.

00:32:44.280 Now go to tariffs.

00:32:45.700 What is that?

00:32:46.780 A tariff is the government adding a tax on consumers taking from Group A and distributing it to Group B, the favorite industry of the moment.

00:32:58.900 Steel, aluminum, washing and washing machines, whatever the product is.

00:33:03.300 It is a redistribution of wealth.

00:33:06.960 Forget whether it works, which it doesn't.

00:33:09.900 But it is a fundamental violation of everything we've argued about over the past 30 years.

00:33:16.340 Whatever.

00:33:16.820 If you.

00:33:17.540 That is the attitude.

00:33:19.440 Yeah, whatever.

00:33:20.080 Whatever.

00:33:20.500 I mean, if you were right, the Dow would be down 320 points.

00:33:24.540 Oh, my gosh.

00:33:25.080 It's down 320 points.

00:33:27.280 That's weird.

00:33:28.960 We have to watch the watch Wall Street.

00:33:38.940 Wall Street has broken some psychological barriers and it could find it could fall between three and five thousand points in the in the next few days.

00:33:52.340 And that becomes a bear market.

00:33:55.200 Many people believe we are now we've entered as of yesterday, a bear market.

00:33:59.640 But the technical number to watch for is to see if the Dow closes at 23,860.

00:34:11.160 If it's declined, if it declines below that number, that's a psychological barrier and into a bear market.

00:34:19.700 We're at 24,276.

00:34:21.820 So we got a long way to go.

00:34:24.780 Don't worry about that.

00:34:26.320 All right.

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00:35:57.220 So I'm anxious to talk to Bill O'Reilly because there are days that Bill and I don't agree on anything.

00:36:04.440 And I'm not sure where he stands on tariffs or...

00:36:07.980 Oh, no.

00:36:09.840 I'm not sure.

00:36:11.140 He likes the politics of it, though.

00:36:12.580 He does.

00:36:13.140 I guess that's what he likes to dive into.

00:36:14.680 I don't.

00:36:15.960 I really...

00:36:17.140 I'm tired of looking at politics as a sport.

00:36:21.000 There's too much at stake.

00:36:22.420 It's not like, oh, my team didn't win.

00:36:24.500 Oh, well, next year.

00:36:26.100 My team is the country.

00:36:28.460 You know?

00:36:29.880 Yeah.

00:36:30.380 No, I mean, it'll be interesting.

00:36:32.300 I think, you know, look, we're joking about the Dow being down at some level.

00:36:36.260 Like, you can't judge these things immediately by them.

00:36:39.640 The Dow may be up in a week and replace all these gains.

00:36:43.040 There's a hundred things that can happen.

00:36:44.440 It's just a bad policy.

00:36:45.720 Yeah.

00:36:45.780 This time next week, we should know about the Dow.

00:36:47.680 And, you know, it took a couple of years for protectionism to really destroy the global economy.

00:36:58.540 And there may be no retaliation over this, if it's limited to this.

00:37:03.940 I don't know.

00:37:04.100 Have you seen what China has done?

00:37:05.460 They've just made, you know, they've just made an emperor out of their president.

00:37:11.680 He's a great leader, though.

00:37:13.140 Yeah.

00:37:13.560 And he did ban.

00:37:15.040 I'm not kidding you, Stu.

00:37:16.640 He did ban the letter N this week.

00:37:20.860 The letter N has been banned in China.

00:37:23.680 Wait until you hear the reason.

00:37:24.920 It's crazy.

00:37:28.640 Glenn.

00:37:29.520 Back.

00:37:30.600 Mercury.

00:37:35.460 Love.

00:37:36.540 Courage.

00:37:38.220 Truth.

00:37:39.960 Glenn.

00:37:40.920 Back.

00:37:41.740 President Trump made the biggest blunder in his presidency yesterday.

00:37:45.640 Bigger than the NRA meeting that he had.

00:37:48.340 Because this one will actually affect the economy.

00:37:51.740 And the economy is what keeps him afloat.

00:37:54.200 Trump announced yesterday that his administration will impose a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminum.

00:38:02.340 The move has been debated inside the White House for months, and advisors have been split, but Trump is going for it.

00:38:10.380 He sees this as a way of helping struggling industries in the U.S., but it almost never helps.

00:38:17.860 For decades, the U.S. steel industry has lobbied the government to help them compete with foreign steel.

00:38:24.040 But the data is clear, protectionist policies only make things more expensive for consumers, with few benefits for the protected industry.

00:38:33.800 Past presidential attempts to give the steel industry a boost has not gone well.

00:38:39.440 In 2002, President Bush placed tariffs ranging from 8% to 30% on steel products.

00:38:46.060 One year later, there was so much international backlash and bad economic consequences that he got rid of the tariffs.

00:38:54.120 Top advisors warned about retaliation from other countries.

00:38:57.180 The Defense Department warned about how this will affect close allies.

00:39:00.940 But Trump was eager to make the announcement anyway.

00:39:03.780 In a room full of steel and aluminum executives at the White House, he said,

00:39:07.840 You know, when it comes to a time where our country can't make aluminum and steel, you don't have a country.

00:39:14.720 Stock market didn't take kindly to this announcement.

00:39:17.200 The Dow dropped 500 points.

00:39:19.060 They are now saying that we are approaching a bear market.

00:39:24.100 Some people are saying that in the next few days, the bears will take over and we could drop anywhere.

00:39:30.420 I've heard the the kindness drop of 2000 additional points all the way to 5000 points.

00:39:38.720 Companies that make products with steel and aluminum are not happy already warning about losses of jobs in those industries and increased prices for consumers.

00:39:49.720 Increased prices for consumers.

00:39:51.260 Wonder where they got that idea.

00:39:52.900 Oh, that's right.

00:39:53.900 That's right.

00:39:54.420 History.

00:39:54.940 Ben Sasse had a surprisingly strong reaction in a statement saying, let's be clear, the president is proposing a massive tax increase on American families.

00:40:05.020 You'd expect policy this bad from a leftist administration, but not a supposed Republican one.

00:40:12.060 Why now?

00:40:14.020 Perhaps Donald Trump thought it would end his week of bad press on a more positive note.

00:40:19.580 I'm doing something for the American workers.

00:40:21.560 But if that was his strategy, it is going to backfire.

00:40:31.340 It's Friday, March 2nd.

00:40:34.100 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:36.460 Bill O'Reilly.

00:40:37.440 This has not been a pleasant week to be in the White House.

00:40:41.840 I kind of feel bad for Donald Trump.

00:40:44.540 His advisers all around him, the ones that he has trusted, are leaving.

00:40:48.440 And now the long knives are out for Kushner.

00:40:54.560 And he's kind of left there in a tough spot this week.

00:41:01.640 Beck, I think, number one, you should be the Secretary of Commerce.

00:41:06.060 I definitely think you should get that job.

00:41:08.200 Okay, good.

00:41:08.800 Thank you.

00:41:09.460 Number two, I'm about six blocks away from Mar-a-Lago right now.

00:41:15.040 All right, sitting here in South Florida, beautiful weather, looking at lots of boats on the intercoastal waterway, all made of steel and fiberglass.

00:41:27.180 But I got to tell you and your audience that I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to tariffs or any of that business stuff.

00:41:36.540 You're much smarter than I am in that area.

00:41:38.600 Perhaps the only area that is okay.

00:41:43.060 As far as Jared Kushner is concerned, I don't know him.

00:41:47.300 I met him one time in a dank New York City bar after the Saturday Night Live show that Trump did.

00:41:56.620 I don't think Jared Kushner is going to affect the U.S. government one way or the other, whether he's there or he's not there.

00:42:05.900 But, you know, look, Trump is a gambler kind of guy.

00:42:12.040 He's rolling the dice that his bellicose style is going to back people down overseas, and then he'll quickly make deals that are great for America, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:42:23.680 That's what this is all about.

00:42:25.640 So you don't think that he'll actually do this?

00:42:28.300 He's still spooking the stock market.

00:42:30.920 No, I don't think.

00:42:33.440 He very rarely carries through on these kind of extreme actions.

00:42:38.400 He puts them out, and then people get nervous, particularly in China, and then they come to some kind of accommodation.

00:42:47.640 So if I had to predict, but again, I don't know anything, I would say that would probably be the case this time.

00:42:55.740 So President Xi was, in China, was made, I guess, emperor.

00:43:01.500 I mean, I don't know what you call it now, totalitarian ruler for life.

00:43:06.900 And, I mean, here's a guy who's literally this week banned the letter N from the alphabet.

00:43:16.280 It doesn't, I mean, he doesn't sound like, you know, a guy who's going to take kindly to a trade war.

00:43:25.420 They're already starting to, you know, to rattle the trade war sabers all around the world.

00:43:32.180 Do you know of a time in history when this has paid off?

00:43:36.640 Because Donald Trump tweeted this morning, it's easy to win a trade war, and I can't find one where we've won.

00:43:41.920 No, I don't.

00:43:43.820 But I got to tell you that I do know China's got some economic problems.

00:43:47.760 Yes.

00:43:48.740 And they're more inclined to try to work things out to give Trump, you know, a at least symbolic victory than they would be if that was a country that was running on all engines go ahead.

00:44:03.560 They got problems over there in China.

00:44:05.260 That's why this guy had to be made emperor for life or whatever, and that's a joke.

00:44:10.140 Right.

00:44:10.600 I mean, it's the military that basically tells the Chinese people who's going to run and who isn't going to run.

00:44:16.740 Right.

00:44:16.960 But, you know, again, there's a lot of stuff that happens that we don't know about, we the press don't know about.

00:44:25.440 I'm not, I'm agnostic on this.

00:44:30.020 Okay, so let me change the subject.

00:44:32.360 Let me go to Russia for a second.

00:44:33.420 We're going to get to guns because I can't wait to hear your take on what's happened this week.

00:44:38.780 But let me go first to Russia.

00:44:40.400 Yeah, Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he's got a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

00:44:49.100 It sounds like scramjet technology, which is mythical technology, at least at this point.

00:44:57.160 There is no alloy that can hold up on the heat for that kind of that kind of speed.

00:45:03.240 But he he says they now have it.

00:45:06.060 They've tested it.

00:45:06.820 It works.

00:45:07.220 They're only showing us animation.

00:45:08.820 And then in an interview with Megyn Kelly, he said, we're in a we're in another Cold War.

00:45:15.560 And it started a while ago.

00:45:17.800 Is this Ronald Reagan and Star Wars?

00:45:21.280 Are they bluffing?

00:45:22.360 Do they have it?

00:45:23.480 And what what does it mean either way?

00:45:27.180 I have no idea on any of those questions.

00:45:30.160 Holy cow. 0.89

00:45:30.660 What are you doing?

00:45:31.420 I mean, are you just at the beach this week?

00:45:34.280 What are you doing?

00:45:34.980 I know, I'm you know, again, the physics back you're you're impressing me, the economic grasp you have.

00:45:44.180 I mean, this is like I'm going to a tutorial.

00:45:50.920 OK, all right.

00:45:52.020 OK, so so forget it.

00:45:53.320 Forget about forget about this.

00:45:55.840 Let me answer.

00:45:55.940 Let me.

00:45:56.300 Here's what I know about Russia.

00:45:58.200 I know this for sure.

00:45:59.980 All right.

00:46:02.000 Vladimir Putin wants to adopt Megyn Kelly.

00:46:04.920 OK, that's number one.

00:46:06.760 The papers have already been filed.

00:46:09.100 He wants her as his, you know, his adoptive daughter. 0.88

00:46:13.800 Number two, Vladimir Putin would like to kill me because in the interview I did with Donald Trump shortly after he was elected, 0.99

00:46:22.380 I scolded Trump for dealing with Putin, who I described as a killer accurately. 0.97

00:46:28.300 So if I see anybody with a Russian accent, I'm very nervous. 1.00

00:46:33.600 Number three, the animation, I believe Disney is now going to put that out with the voices of Ellen DeGeneres.

00:46:42.860 Right.

00:46:43.620 And Glenn Beck.

00:46:44.440 Right.

00:46:45.240 And it's going to be called it's going to be called missiles over Disney World.

00:46:51.320 Right.

00:46:51.840 And it's going to be really a big hit.

00:46:53.580 So so is he just is this are we want to do is is shake the cage.

00:47:00.280 He wants to frighten everybody.

00:47:02.380 Big bad Vlad.

00:47:03.960 I have a giant missile in my garage and I'll show it to you.

00:47:09.800 Maybe.

00:47:10.640 But first, you got to watch a cartoon.

00:47:14.340 I don't know.

00:47:16.640 I mean, we should we should not talk to you while you're on vacation.

00:47:20.580 No, I'm not on vacation.

00:47:22.000 I'm working.

00:47:23.620 OK, so then.

00:47:24.840 But you got to look, whatever Putin does, you have to you have to step back and say the guy is doing Putin's like Trump.

00:47:32.520 This is what people don't understand.

00:47:34.660 It's all about showbiz, all about presentation.

00:47:38.560 It's all about attention getting Putin and Trump are like the same person. 1.00

00:47:44.080 Although, you know, Putin's a killer. 0.99

00:47:45.920 I don't know. 0.98

00:47:46.280 Yeah, I was going to say there's a big difference. 1.00

00:47:48.660 Putin's a killer. 1.00

00:47:49.640 All right. 1.00

00:47:50.520 But but they're just showmen.

00:47:52.680 This is P.T. Barnum.

00:47:54.480 So when Putin sits down with Megyn Kelly, you know, I'm not sure Putin's going to say anything.

00:48:02.900 And he does.

00:48:03.980 So he does.

00:48:05.320 So, Bill, let me ask you this.

00:48:06.980 Two things we talked about.

00:48:08.320 International instability, world world problems and financial potential problems, as we're seeing with the stock market and things like this.

00:48:15.940 There's two theories that go on with Donald Trump, where you have his base level of support at 30, 35 percent, something like that.

00:48:23.360 And there's the idea of are these people super loyal and will stick with him through anything?

00:48:29.300 No.

00:48:30.300 Or is the economy, if he loses the economy, what happens to his approval rating?

00:48:36.440 Finished.

00:48:37.640 He's at 18 percent.

00:48:39.600 So that's why you got to figure that Trump knows that.

00:48:43.480 The only way he's going to get reelected is if the economy continues to be good.

00:48:50.140 OK.

00:48:50.420 So he knows it.

00:48:51.880 It's a simple equation.

00:48:53.360 All right.

00:48:53.640 So let's let's let's take a break and come back, because I really I've been waiting to hear what you have to say about Donald Trump's comments in the White House this week.

00:49:03.580 The Democrats and their bill, their their new gun bill that that appears we don't we haven't been able to see it yet, but it appears to just only ban 80 percent of all guns sold.

00:49:17.520 And I'd I'd like your your thoughts on this and where America is really headed when we come back.

00:49:32.820 Bill O'Reilly dot com is the place to go to get Bill's analysis in which he on his site.

00:49:38.460 He answers all the questions.

00:49:39.940 Yeah, he comes here and he says he doesn't know.

00:49:41.900 But then he goes away.

00:49:43.400 He has all he has all the answers on his site.

00:49:45.540 So you go to Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:49:46.680 The answers are subscription based.

00:49:48.180 Once you sign up for Bill O'Reilly dot com, then he answers your question about trade in Russia.

00:49:51.840 Well, he's you know, he's not going to give away, you know.

00:49:53.940 Right. 0.90

00:49:54.520 Well, why why throw pearls in front of pigs? 1.00

00:49:56.920 You know what I mean?

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00:51:33.340 It has been quite a week for gun sales in America.

00:51:41.620 The Second Amendment is under attack.

00:51:45.220 And let's let's start with what happened this week with the with the televised White House meeting with both the left and the right.

00:51:55.280 What happened there, Bill?

00:51:57.640 Again, it's the same thing with Putin.

00:51:59.620 It was a TV show, reality based show, says whatever pops into his mind.

00:52:06.140 And then three days later, he contradicts himself.

00:52:09.120 But you guys are mocking Bill O'Reilly dot com subscriptions, which are 50 bucks a year.

00:52:15.200 The best money you've ever spent.

00:52:17.260 We did an investigation on shootings, mass shootings.

00:52:23.120 And did you know they're down 50 percent from the 1990s in the USA?

00:52:27.000 It really is an incredible stat.

00:52:30.020 I mean, even those people who look at this all the time are amazed by that.

00:52:33.380 And the school shootings are so rare.

00:52:36.520 So rare.

00:52:38.400 Car accidents, killing kids are way, way ahead of mass shootings.

00:52:45.720 Now, that's not to diminish what happened in Broward County at all.

00:52:48.940 But this whole gun thing, here's what's going to happen.

00:52:52.500 All right.

00:52:52.780 I'll just tell you what's going to happen so that your audience doesn't have to listen to all the BS.

00:52:59.760 You know.

00:53:00.720 Yeah, I know.

00:53:01.720 I think our audience I think our audience has stopped listening to the BS on the news channels a while ago.

00:53:07.660 But because if you look at their ratings, particularly for Fox, they're in trouble.

00:53:13.480 Yeah.

00:53:14.960 Okay.

00:53:15.820 So 21 is going to be the age to buy a firearm in the United States.

00:53:20.760 That's going to happen.

00:53:22.380 All right.

00:53:22.760 And I think it should.

00:53:24.640 If you look at the insurance for cars between 18 and 21, you pay more.

00:53:30.180 Because you're not fully formed as an adult with 26, if that, if you ever make it.

00:53:34.740 Okay.

00:53:35.040 So I'll agree with you on that.

00:53:36.940 Hang on just a second.

00:53:37.540 But how do you, how do you square I'm sending an 18 year old to war, but here at home, they're not fully developed enough to be able to protect themselves.

00:53:47.440 The 18 year old who volunteers to go to the military is then trained and is doing a job of protection.

00:53:55.180 So if you do have a law that 21, certainly military personnel will be exempted from that law.

00:54:01.040 And as other people will as well, there'll be exemptions, not everybody.

00:54:05.360 But generally speaking, it's going to be 21.

00:54:07.900 Okay.

00:54:08.180 All right.

00:54:08.400 The second thing that's going to happen is increased background checks because the technology is there now for a database that shows that certain people shouldn't have guns.

00:54:19.580 People involved in violence and people involved in domestic abuse.

00:54:25.080 Psychiatric situations.

00:54:26.260 Okay.

00:54:26.460 Wait a minute.

00:54:26.900 Wait a minute.

00:54:27.320 Let's wait, wait, wait.

00:54:28.320 Let's stop there with psychiatric evaluations.

00:54:31.760 What does that mean?

00:54:33.000 It means that each state, and that's going to have to be done state by state, not on the federal level, each state is going to have a database of people that they put on a no-buy list, like a no-fly list.

00:54:45.980 There's a no-fly list now.

00:54:47.960 Certain people around the world cannot buy a ticket on an American airline because the government deems them to be threats.

00:54:54.560 The states are going to do the same thing.

00:54:56.540 So if you have a person who's been taken into custody five times by the local police, maybe not even with a conviction, all right, that person is going to be on a no-buy list at the state level.

00:55:09.020 Now, the person can appeal it, can certainly appeal it.

00:55:12.820 You've got to give people the chance to do that.

00:55:15.020 But those increased background checks are going to happen.

00:55:18.060 Okay.

00:55:18.280 So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:55:19.960 I can't get past this, Bill.

00:55:21.540 You've said that, I mean, basically you're saying you're not convicted, and I understand that.

00:55:28.580 You're not convicted, but we're going to take your right away anyway.

00:55:32.640 You're not going to take the right away.

00:55:37.280 You're going to have to appeal the state's determination that you're a threat to public safety.

00:55:44.260 Is that backward, though, with the constitutional right perspective, Bill?

00:55:49.620 I assume there'll be challenges to that, but I think the states are going to say we have the right to regulate in our boundaries, all right,

00:55:59.960 who has access to dangerous weapons.

00:56:04.840 So is that not infringement?

00:56:09.960 Well, in D.C. they tried to ban all guns, remember, and then the courts ruled against them.

00:56:15.820 Okay, so will this include, for instance, all those veterans that came back, and many of them, you know, said,

00:56:24.380 yeah, I've, because they were encouraged, encouraged by the government to say PTSD because you'll get extra benefits.

00:56:33.640 If they marked PTSD?

00:56:35.380 No, I don't think so.

00:56:36.640 I don't think that would be, I mean, if I were the governor of a state, and again, this is a state-by-state thing,

00:56:43.760 all right, I wouldn't, certainly, anybody who goes for therapy is not going to be on the list.

00:56:49.480 It's people who have been taken into custody, all right, who have been interacting with the authorities

00:56:58.040 on a level that the authorities are worried about them, not people who are trying to get help for a certain malady.

00:57:06.980 But I do believe that that's going to happen.

00:57:09.180 I find this, I find this, I've only got 30 seconds, so I will wait for your third thing.

00:57:15.380 But I find this extremely disturbing because we have this problem, not in all states,

00:57:19.340 but certainly in places like Massachusetts, where you have to prove to the state that you are,

00:57:26.480 that you should have medical control over your child, and the state will come in and take children away,

00:57:34.260 and we have seen it over and over again, to where the burden of proof is on you.

00:57:39.420 No, wait a minute.

00:57:40.540 That's the reverse of the American system. 0.71

00:57:43.740 Back in a minute.

00:57:46.960 Glenn Beck.

00:57:48.900 Mercury.

00:57:49.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:04.240 So, Bill O'Reilly says there's three things that are going to happen with increased gun control,

00:58:09.220 and the first one was you won't be able to buy a gun unless you're 21.

00:58:14.460 Bill, does that mean that I can't give my 20-year-old daughter a gun?

00:58:18.360 Can she carry a gun if Dad gives it to her, or is it only she can't buy it?

00:58:24.900 No, you can still carry it, and you can go hunting and get a hunting license and all of that.

00:58:31.580 You just can't go into the store and buy it.

00:58:33.880 Okay.

00:58:34.600 The second thing you said is that we're going to have increased background checks, depending on what that is.

00:58:41.300 I mean, there's 38 states.

00:58:42.920 Only 38 states are required to report everything to background checks, which is a real problem.

00:58:48.360 But depending on what that means, that may be okay.

00:58:52.400 And you said the third thing is?

00:58:54.660 You've got to have armed security guards in every public school.

00:58:58.340 And again, that's a state thing.

00:59:00.400 And it's easy to do because you just put the guards on salary like you have teachers and coaches.

00:59:05.980 And it's based on population of the school, how many you have.

00:59:10.280 And that would go a long, long way to providing protection and security to the nation's kids.

00:59:16.420 Why hasn't any state done this already, where they've made a big deal and come out and say it?

00:59:21.660 I don't know.

00:59:22.480 I mean, I used to teach high school down here in South Florida, where I am now.

00:59:27.260 And I got into a few physical scrapes with students, gang people who intruded on the campus.

00:59:36.380 And I wish there had been armed security way back then.

00:59:40.340 So I can't answer that question.

00:59:42.340 It just seems logical in this crazy age we live in.

00:59:45.200 But I want to tell all your listeners that, you know, the banning of certain guns, like the AR-15s, that's not going to happen.

00:59:52.780 Trump would never sign that, ever, in a million years.

00:59:55.880 So the Democrats, they can put forth their bill that want to ban everything, this, that, and the other.

01:00:00.800 That's never, ever going to happen in this country at this point.

01:00:04.920 Now, if the Democrats take both houses of Congress and the presidency, you know, they try.

01:00:11.580 But I think it would be ruled unconstitutional as well.

01:00:14.000 If you're a rancher and you're living in Star County, Texas, or you're living near Bisbee, Arizona,

01:00:21.840 and you know that every night there are scores of people coming through your property and you have no idea who they are.

01:00:30.700 They shouldn't be in this country.

01:00:32.020 And some of them are armed.

01:00:33.400 You're telling me you can't have an AR-15 to protect your family?

01:00:37.080 That's insane.

01:00:38.940 So, I mean, I think the AR-15s have to be licensed.

01:00:41.960 I think you have to go through training to have them.

01:00:45.420 I think the government's going to have to know you have them.

01:00:47.920 But you can't ban them.

01:00:50.640 And that's exactly, and Trump would never, ever sign a lawsuit.

01:00:55.200 Well, the problem is, is the bill that they're talking about is now, you know, anything with a removable magazine.

01:01:01.100 Well, that's almost every handgun.

01:01:03.700 It's not going to happen, but it's not going to happen.

01:01:05.880 Right, okay.

01:01:06.400 I'm just saying.

01:01:07.300 So here's what's happened, though, Bill, is the left, and I'm talking about the reasonable left.

01:01:14.640 I'm not talking about the political left.

01:01:16.480 I'm talking about the people who are, you know, your average Democrat, hardworking person in the, you know, wherever, okay,

01:01:23.040 that is not involved in politics and is reasonable.

01:01:27.760 Those people who don't have any access to guns, they are afraid of guns because they've not grown up around them.

01:01:36.520 They've not seen them.

01:01:37.560 They're not trying to gun grab, but they are frightened by them.

01:01:41.940 On the other side, the other side is frightened by the gun grabbers.

01:01:47.240 And when people say, we're not coming for your guns, but then you propose a bill that would affect all handguns and about 40% of all rifles, that is coming for the guns.

01:02:00.640 Because when you have a president say, you know, we'll just, I want to go get the guns and then do process, that's frightening to people who believe in the Second Amendment.

01:02:13.160 Certainly.

01:02:13.980 But, again, Trump just says whatever is on his mind, and the reality shows that he creates, and then three days later he goes, well, I didn't really mean it.

01:02:22.520 I know a lot about what his capacity is, and I know that that's all the Democrats and their seizure of weapons is never going to happen.

01:02:34.620 However, I would carve out in Illinois, I would carve out an exception that you can seize the weapons from all the gangsters who are killing innocent people by the hundreds in the Windy City.

01:02:47.620 Those weapons you can seize. 0.93

01:02:49.840 All right, you know, the hypocrisy here is just insane.

01:02:54.080 But you need an eloquent spokesperson, and the NRA, you know, their problem is they're too entrancient. 0.95

01:03:00.440 They have to bend a little bit, because we are living in an age where there's a lot of insane people running around.

01:03:08.740 Why do they do it more than ever before?

01:03:10.080 I have to tell you, Bill, I don't think that the NRA is being unreasonable at all.

01:03:14.300 They are.

01:03:15.580 No, they don't want 21.

01:03:17.840 They don't want the 21 age. 1.00

01:03:19.380 There isn't any accommodation that I've seen that the NRA wants.

01:03:24.220 Oh, no, no, no, no.

01:03:25.300 They did bump stocks there, fine with, and background checks if they're in line.

01:03:33.020 You can't just say, we want universal background checks.

01:03:35.740 Wait a minute.

01:03:36.240 What does it mean for the veteran?

01:03:37.520 What does it mean for the guy who has a son or daughter who's depressed on antidepressants or been deemed a danger?

01:03:46.140 Does mom and dad now, can they have a gun in the house?

01:03:50.180 I mean, you know, there's a lot of questions to be answered on that.

01:03:55.200 But they're willing to look at those things, as I think most reasonable people are, as long as it's not one more step that gets us closer to a gun grab.

01:04:04.580 Yes, I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but the NRA needs to basically put forth a very, very specific viewpoint and convince people who think they're the devil.

01:04:20.100 We're talking to Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com, who is a bit of a Trump whisperer, I would say.

01:04:26.900 I mean, I will say that these conversations help me translate some of the moments from the week from Donald Trump.

01:04:32.360 They do.

01:04:33.080 Stu, that's why I'm really here on the planet, to help you and to guide you through the maze that our society has come.

01:04:43.260 What a sad existence.

01:04:46.640 I mean, it may not be your goal, but it does happen.

01:04:50.960 I'm like a Franciscan missionary.

01:04:53.400 I'm reaching out to the Lendback program.

01:04:56.800 I have my sandals on.

01:04:58.180 Right.

01:04:59.520 And I want to tell, on that note, I want to tell everybody that this week we've released Killing Jesus in paperback first time.

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01:05:22.000 We had to rely on the Roman records and the Jewish records, and it was really a slog. 0.89

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01:05:32.340 But first time in paperback, Killing Jesus, and apropos to the time that we're in.

01:05:38.440 Okay.

01:05:38.780 So let's switch gears here and help us understand one more thing.

01:05:43.900 Jeff Sessions.

01:05:44.800 Yeah.

01:05:45.380 I don't understand it.

01:05:47.140 I mean, he's calling him Mr. Magoo, reportedly, behind closed door.

01:05:50.820 Yeah, but that's a bad nickname.

01:05:52.040 Sessions' nickname should be Rip Van Sessions.

01:05:55.880 The guy is napping throughout the day.

01:06:00.260 No, no, no.

01:06:01.920 No, here, Stu, again, this is my mission.

01:06:05.380 This is why you're here.

01:06:06.000 I want to clarify for Stu.

01:06:07.220 You ready?

01:06:07.620 Yes, I'm ready.

01:06:08.340 If you're Al Capone, are you afraid of Rip Van Sessions?

01:06:14.180 Are you afraid he's coming for you?

01:06:16.160 We need a tough guy in that job.

01:06:19.360 And, you know, Senator Sessions, he's just not cut out for it.

01:06:24.420 I put him somewhere else.

01:06:26.500 I bring in Rudy Giuliani or something like that.

01:06:29.480 Hold on just a second.

01:06:30.340 No, come on now.

01:06:31.460 Rudy Giuliani.

01:06:32.520 I like Rudy Giuliani.

01:06:34.160 But Rudy Giuliani, listen, if I'm president and he's my attorney general, he'll be in my office and I'll be like, hey, what happened to that gang?

01:06:45.620 And somebody in the room will just look at me and go, don't ask that question right now.

01:06:49.760 I mean, yeah, is he a tough guy?

01:06:52.040 He's going to get things done for you.

01:06:53.860 But, you know, maybe not necessarily the way everybody wants to read about it or hear about it on television.

01:07:00.700 Jeff Sessions is hard-nosed but constitutional.

01:07:06.160 And that's kind of what the fight was about this week.

01:07:08.140 Oh, baloney.

01:07:09.380 He's so political. 0.76

01:07:11.760 He's so CYA. 1.00

01:07:14.480 Oh, you're crazy. 0.98

01:07:16.560 He's not a tough guy. 0.98

01:07:18.440 If he were a tough guy, he would have gone in against the FBI because it's clear the FBI booted the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

01:07:29.440 And that's going to be proven.

01:07:30.860 He would have gone in against them a long time ago.

01:07:33.720 So why not use the inspector general?

01:07:39.480 That's what the system says.

01:07:43.280 Yeah, but they already know what that report is.

01:07:47.460 That's why McCabe got booted out of the FBI, the second-in-command.

01:07:51.560 They already know that.

01:07:52.820 But Rip Van Sessions is trying to play it, you know, like, oh, what should I do?

01:07:56.620 Am I going to get in trouble?

01:07:57.820 He's out of there anyway.

01:07:59.080 Trump doesn't like him.

01:08:00.900 They just have to do it in a way that's not going to, you know, blow the country up because once Sessions goes.

01:08:08.040 And remember, Sessions was demonized as being a racist, as being this and being that.

01:08:12.620 Remember all that?

01:08:13.680 Yeah, but he was demonized.

01:08:14.400 Well, when they fire him, CNN is going to canonize him.

01:08:17.880 Oh, the greatest guy.

01:08:19.540 How could you let him go?

01:08:20.180 Oh, yeah.

01:08:20.500 No, you're totally right.

01:08:22.020 No, you're right on that.

01:08:23.020 Right on that.

01:08:23.400 But, I mean, when he came into office, he came in from Trump's, obviously, you know, big-time Trump supporter, one of the earliest.

01:08:31.060 In fact, the first senators to support him, a guy who, to his own words, put his entire career on the line to go against the rest of the Republican field.

01:08:38.840 And I think was a turning point for Donald Trump.

01:08:40.700 Yeah, I think in a positive way for his campaign.

01:08:42.820 He didn't put his career on the line because Alabama was going to go for Trump no matter what.

01:08:48.160 So, again, come on.

01:08:49.240 But he was an early supporter of Trump, and when he got appointed, I was more than willing to give him a chance and say, okay, you've got to go against the sanctuary cities.

01:08:59.660 You've got to go in.

01:09:00.440 Look, this mayor of Oakland should be in cuffs today.

01:09:03.980 You know what she did?

01:09:05.420 She tipped off all the criminal illegal aliens, all the felons out there that ICE was coming in to grab him, and they all split.

01:09:12.780 I mean, why isn't she arrested? 0.97

01:09:15.540 I'll give you that.

01:09:17.380 I'll give you that.

01:09:18.260 I was talking about the internal Washington stuff, but you're right on that.

01:09:22.220 You're right on that.

01:09:23.080 Yeah, well, okay, so Rip Van Sessions, somebody wake him up and say, that woman obstructed federal justice. 1.00

01:09:30.080 Arrest her. 1.00

01:09:31.580 You think he's got the cojones to do that? 0.99

01:09:34.520 Do you? 0.99

01:09:36.080 Probably not.

01:09:36.940 Probably not.

01:09:37.800 You're right on that one.

01:09:38.860 However, he was known as a very...

01:09:40.820 I'm right on every single thing I said on this program.

01:09:44.400 Yeah, which included twice, I don't know.

01:09:46.820 I was right on that.

01:09:50.780 You were right on that.

01:09:52.200 So wait a minute.

01:09:52.800 So what happened to Sessions then?

01:09:54.640 He's always been known as, you know, a storm trooper when it comes to illegal aliens. 0.84

01:10:02.440 He hates them.

01:10:03.640 That's the big reason he supported Trump.

01:10:04.780 You're the mayor of Oakland, and then you're the storm trooper, right?

01:10:07.840 So what happened?

01:10:08.780 What changed?

01:10:09.460 That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

01:10:11.160 Then what changed?

01:10:14.200 Because you've got to understand, there's a difference between rhetoric and action, all right?

01:10:20.260 I mean, all these, oh, I'm going to do this.

01:10:22.260 And then they don't do anything because there's always blowback.

01:10:24.700 But if you put out an arrest warrant for the mayor of Oakland, all hell's going to break loose.

01:10:30.460 And you are going to be, you know, the people on CNN are going to start melting down.

01:10:37.540 You know, and then he doesn't want to take the heat.

01:10:41.560 He doesn't want to take it.

01:10:43.140 It's clear that Sessions doesn't want to take the heat.

01:10:46.300 So why do we have him then?

01:10:47.920 We need a tough guy attorney general in this country.

01:10:50.200 All right, Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much.

01:10:52.840 Appreciate it.

01:10:53.500 Always good to talk to you.

01:10:54.820 Even when you're in your Franciscan monk sandals, it's still good to talk to you.

01:11:00.340 Bill, listeners are pointing out that earlier in the program, you said the word bellicose,

01:11:04.640 but did not identify it as the word of the day.

01:11:06.640 Is that, would you say that?

01:11:07.840 It is.

01:11:08.200 It is.

01:11:08.700 Okay.

01:11:09.020 Word of the day, bellicose.

01:11:10.680 Bellicose. 0.98

01:11:11.340 Bill O'Reilly, billoreilly.com and killing Jesus. 0.96

01:11:15.040 Just another one on his, you know, on his, just another notch on his belt. 0.87

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01:11:24.640 Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com.

01:11:26.080 Thanks a lot.

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01:12:59.140 Glenn Beck.

01:13:02.140 Frank in Washington.

01:13:03.480 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:13:05.840 Good morning, Glenn.

01:13:07.000 How are you?

01:13:07.600 Talk to you.

01:13:08.640 I'm well.

01:13:10.020 Say, I'd like to raise with you a topic that I've been aware of for a good 15, 20, 25 years,

01:13:16.140 maybe even as long as I've been active in the gun rights issues, but it cannot get an

01:13:21.820 honest hearing before the NRA can't even get an honest hearing before, quote unquote, pro

01:13:25.920 gun Republicans.

01:13:27.160 What is that?

01:13:27.880 That is the blind.

01:13:28.640 It's the blind identification database system known as bids for short.

01:13:33.560 It would be an alternative to NICS.

01:13:35.580 And the prime selling point about it is that rather than the database of prohibited persons

01:13:43.300 residing at a cube farm in Washington or Virginia or wherever, that database resides at the point

01:13:54.200 of sale.

01:13:55.360 So all federal firearms licenses have a database of prohibited persons.

01:14:00.400 When they want to, when somebody comes in and wants to buy a gun, they're checked against

01:14:04.160 the database and they're either approved or denied.

01:14:06.880 If they're approved, the federal government does not know that a transaction took place

01:14:11.300 other than the records that the federal firearms dealer keeps.

01:14:15.560 And furthermore, if I want to sell a gun private party, we can both go down to a federal firearms

01:14:21.480 license, licensee, and pay him the 15 or $20 fee, whatever it is for his services.

01:14:27.080 And I can check my buyer against the database.

01:14:31.220 So this idea has been around for a long time and it was floated back in the days of floppy

01:14:36.440 disks.

01:14:36.920 Okay.

01:14:37.720 Nowadays, we've got blockchain.

01:14:39.720 So Frank, I have to tell you, I don't know anything about it, but let me look into it over

01:14:44.720 the weekend.

01:14:45.440 We'll do some research and I'll get back to you on Monday.

01:14:49.300 Sounds like a good idea on the surface.

01:14:52.000 We'll look into it.

01:14:53.620 Glenn Beck.

01:14:55.460 Mercury.

01:14:57.080 There is nothing better than lifetime appointments to power.

01:15:12.780 Okay.

01:15:13.500 Just keep track.

01:15:14.820 We want to, we want to start a list.

01:15:16.620 George Orwell's Animal Farm, Winnie the Pooh, and the letter N.

01:15:21.800 What do they all have in common?

01:15:25.720 Well, they're just the beginnings of things that have been banned in China this week.

01:15:31.880 Why?

01:15:33.120 Because they, you don't know.

01:15:35.460 They promote the criticism of Chinese president, Xi Jinping.

01:15:40.940 Right?

01:15:42.380 The letter N.

01:15:43.580 Hello.

01:15:44.460 It does?

01:15:45.080 He is, believe it or not, it does.

01:15:47.760 He has announced that he is extending his presidency into a lifetime appointment.

01:15:53.020 He's the first to do so since Mao.

01:15:55.780 And, you know, he's worried the reading animal farm will make citizens question communism.

01:16:01.140 And, you know what?

01:16:02.840 When the Chinese get a lifetime ruler, it always works out well. 1.00

01:16:08.100 Winnie the Pooh, apparently, is a problem because there is a specific image of the bear clutching honey, you know, next to the quote, find the thing that you love and stick with it.

01:16:20.600 It must have some other meaning in China.

01:16:26.900 Apparently, he is spouting cynical commentary about President Xi's indefinite position.

01:16:32.420 Now, the letter N apparently, I'm not sure on this, but apparently is used as a code letter if you're printing something that is against the government.

01:16:48.360 So, you can't use the letter N anymore.

01:16:52.420 That caused some real problems, you know, online.

01:16:56.220 For instance, this would be the Glebeck Show.

01:17:01.460 And, you know, on the Internet, you know, the use of all the letters of the alphabet is probably needed.

01:17:08.840 So, they unbanned that one pretty quickly.

01:17:11.760 Now, this isn't new to the Chinese people.

01:17:15.180 President Xi has been, you know, periodically censoring specific things for years.

01:17:19.960 He controls the media.

01:17:21.220 He controls the government and almost every aspect of Chinese citizens' lives. 0.78

01:17:26.220 But it's about to get much worse because he's now a lifelong dictator.

01:17:33.280 And as I said before, that usually doesn't work out all so well for the people.

01:17:46.740 It's Friday, March 2nd.

01:17:49.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:51.560 Adam Foss is a new friend, and he's the founder and executive director of Prosecutor Impact.

01:17:58.900 He is a juvenile justice reformer.

01:18:01.420 And he is somebody who will challenge your thinking and I think is an honest, open guy that wants to really have a dialogue.

01:18:12.740 And I called him earlier this week and asked about what was happening in Parkland High School.

01:18:19.500 Because the last time Adam was on, we talked about how we needed to be able to get kids so they are not going into the justice system.

01:18:30.560 What can we do to keep kids out of the justice system?

01:18:33.480 I read about Parkland High School had The Promise, which was kind of along those same lines.

01:18:40.600 And I wanted to know from Adam, is this the same kind of program?

01:18:44.360 And if so, what's gone wrong here in Florida?

01:18:47.960 Welcome to the program, Adam.

01:18:49.000 How are you?

01:18:50.340 Glad I'm doing well.

01:18:51.180 Thanks for having me back.

01:18:52.200 It's good to talk to you.

01:18:53.740 All right.

01:18:54.000 So as somebody who believes that the justice system is flawed and that we are putting just we're just we're just putting people into a system that just is broken.

01:19:04.580 However, I want to make sure that the bad guys, the people who can really do damage, also aren't giving aren't given so many chances like this kid was in Florida.

01:19:15.540 Can you tell me what you know about the system of The Promise and where it failed if you think it did?

01:19:23.100 Sure.

01:19:24.000 The rhetoric right now about this having anything to do with the failure of school discipline policies is, to me, politicizing something that started back at Columbine, where in the wake of Columbine, we instituted zero tolerance policies to prevent mass shootings in schools.

01:19:43.960 What those zero tolerance policies did a really good job of was creating the school to prison pipeline, which is one of the many things that have contributed to mass incarceration, but certainly disproportionately affects young people of color and poor kids, kids with special needs and disabilities in school.

01:20:00.560 Because it gave teachers and administrators the tool of arrest as opposed to other things that we grew up with to discipline school kids.

01:20:10.420 That's not what happened here.

01:20:13.840 In fact, Mr. Cruz was suspended and expelled from his schools.

01:20:19.980 There was it wasn't the reticence of teachers to discipline this kid.

01:20:23.460 It was the failure of people to to see what was going on when he was out of school on social media and his home and in the FBI.

01:20:30.800 So can you do you have any idea being a prosecutor?

01:20:38.400 You know, the sheriff has said, well, you know, we couldn't do anything.

01:20:44.040 Was this because there's speculation that the the school district was trying to, you know, not have their record tainted, et cetera, et cetera, and not have these problems and sort of sweep them under the rug.

01:20:57.540 Does that seem logical to you or does that seem like what, you know, does that seem like that could have happened and do prosecutors have a right to go in with this particular kid and say, OK, there's something going on here.

01:21:11.380 We need to make sure he's away from guns, et cetera, et cetera.

01:21:16.140 Prosecutors don't have a right to do anything. 0.62

01:21:17.920 The government doesn't have a right to do anything unless there's, you know, reasonable suspicion or probable cause or somebody makes a complaint.

01:21:23.480 And to me, there are several people making complaints long before Parkland.

01:21:29.240 He was suspended or expelled from two different private schools.

01:21:33.120 He was 19 when he was in this school.

01:21:35.520 People knew who he was coming in.

01:21:37.820 And from the investigation, it looks like there was plenty of evidence on social media of his intention.

01:21:43.980 It was literally this kid crying, crying for I don't want to say crying for help, but there were plenty of red flags that were missed somewhere along the line.

01:21:53.480 What's ironic to me is that being a prosecutor in an urban city, we use social media all the time to target, quote unquote, at risk youth for their behavior on social media.

01:22:05.460 I don't think that this is much as much as a school district trying to sweep something under the rug.

01:22:10.820 I think it is the disparate treatment of children from different socioeconomic and different racial backgrounds coming to to a really tragic end.

01:22:21.120 Could that be just because of the different communities?

01:22:25.340 I mean, this, you know, this is a community that, you know, cares about their image a great deal.

01:22:34.440 And so they're they're not looking at the social media as they as they should.

01:22:39.580 Or is this you just do believe that it's just race?

01:22:42.660 I don't want to say that it's just race.

01:22:46.820 I see lots of kids who are not black or brown getting swept up into the system because they have special needs.

01:22:52.540 They have disabilities.

01:22:53.560 They're they have behavior problems in school.

01:22:56.200 I certainly think it's more of a socioeconomic and and a race issue.

01:23:02.100 With regard to the image of the community, we know that lots of things go on in wealthy or more affluent communities that don't get reported.

01:23:09.980 Yes. And so this is just opening a wider conversation about a cost benefit analysis.

01:23:16.400 How much do we care about the way that we look and what are we going to do to sacrifice?

01:23:21.300 To me, this to me, that's what this that's what this feels like, that it's a community or some some leaders in the community or school or sheriffs.

01:23:30.340 I don't know what, but some reason they had to, you know, let's just kind of sweep this under the rug.

01:23:36.460 Let's not we don't need this kind of image. And that's a real problem.

01:23:41.620 Yeah. The thing that I've been sort of like chewing on about this is what if what if it swings the other way?

01:23:50.360 And now every time a kid says something on social media that is concerning, every time a kid is acting in a way in school, what is the other side look like?

01:23:59.520 So we have to be really careful. But certainly there must be middle ground to come up with interventions that are short of arrest or short of suspension and expulsion because of what we know happens to kids when they're suspended one time.

01:24:12.060 And there must be something, some middle ground to take care of young people who are expressing these these things and stop mass shootings from happening before they start.

01:24:22.200 Isn't there, Adam, a it seems like there's a line here because, you know, what you what you're doing, what this program is trying to do, a lot of this is come along with really positive results and certainly really positive intent where you're taking people instead of, you know, they make one mistake.

01:24:38.740 You're not throwing them in jail or they're not having to necessarily interact with the with the legal system.

01:24:44.720 And there is a there's possibly a risk where people running a school might overlook someone who or or I guess not overlook, but punish within the school system instead of taking them to through the legal system if there was a real problem.

01:25:01.420 But in this particular case, isn't just the number of incidents enough that it would overwhelm any rational idea that you should only deal with this person with in school sort of punishments.

01:25:14.860 And it had to blow up into something bigger because of the scale and also the types of things he was doing, things like bringing weapons to school and things like that.

01:25:22.500 Absolutely. And I don't understand how it got to the point that it did where, you know, even the day before the shooting happened, the kid was posting on his social media that this was happening.

01:25:34.260 This is crazy. I didn't get a report.

01:25:35.700 But this this this is such an aberration, such an aberration, both in sort of like the level of detail that the kids sort of like laid breadcrumbs to the fact that he's going to do this and to obviously the carnage that he wreaked that I'm I'm reluctant to politicize it in any way to say we need to make stricter school discipline because we again.

01:25:59.640 Yeah, I mean, and we've been trying to undo that the construction of the school difference pipeline because of that.

01:26:05.860 So I have to tell you, Adam, I am right with you.

01:26:08.680 I think this is such an aberration of of just a just a series of missed, not red flags, gigantic car flags.

01:26:20.600 You know what I mean? Those those flags that car dealers have.

01:26:24.120 They were such huge flags.

01:26:25.600 The one I heard about just the other day was when he was walking out, he had changed his clothes, got rid of the guns and he's walking out.

01:26:32.660 One of the students said that she looked at him and said, oh, my gosh, when I heard there was a shooting, I just thought it was you.

01:26:40.960 And I thought it was so prevalent in the school that that some classmate thought, oh, I know who's doing it.

01:26:48.880 That's incredible. Yeah.

01:26:51.880 And the irony is in places like that, in places where, you know, we really should be thinking about where are these shootings happen?

01:27:02.160 What kind of schools are they happening and what kind of communities are they happening?

01:27:04.580 And you go into those schools and there aren't metal detectors at every entrance.

01:27:09.700 There are police lining the hallways.

01:27:11.280 There aren't, you know, cruisers waiting out back to take kids to court because they've thrown a pencil in the classroom.

01:27:18.620 But in in inner cities and in other poor communities that I've been to around the country where there have been zero mass shootings,

01:27:26.040 there are metal detectors at every single entrance to prevent kids from bringing weed and and slingshots into school.

01:27:35.160 So and so, again, I think this goes back to your point about imaging and what we're really talking about in this country is much larger than school different pipeline.

01:27:47.540 It is. It is exactly what you're driving at.

01:27:49.680 We're we're talking to Adam Foss, founder and executive director of Prosecutor Impact.

01:27:54.500 Adam, I am gravely concerned that our country is not having a dialogue about kids that are feeling, I don't know, alone, worthless, meaningless.

01:28:10.400 There's there's something happening and it has nothing to do with guns or school or anything.

01:28:16.080 There's something happening with kids and we're not having that conversation and we better have that conversation or it's going to get worse.

01:28:23.420 Well, you just you think about when I was a kid or when you were a kid and you got picked on at school, you could just go home and you're and everything would be OK.

01:28:34.960 You know, you'd be sad and and and, you know, you're you might not have a lot of friends at home,

01:28:40.380 but you could shelter yourself from sort of the inundation of reminders of how little you matter in this world.

01:28:46.280 And I can't I can't ignore the fact that there's been an uptick in this and in suicides and in hate crimes in the wake of sort of what social media has done to our planet where you literally cannot escape all the bad things that kids feel about themselves and all the ideas about what to do about it.

01:29:06.280 Adam, thank you for having a reasonable conversation with us.

01:29:10.920 I appreciate it. I was happy to do so with you, Matt.

01:29:13.120 I saw I saw this about the promise and I thought, I know that's going to start getting blame on it.

01:29:19.300 And it's it's not what you're talking about, because this is there were there were too many warning signs.

01:29:24.960 Thank you so much, Adam. I appreciate it.

01:29:26.980 Thanks, Glenn. You bet. You can follow him on Twitter at Prosecutor Impact with no A or Adam John Foss on Twitter as well.

01:29:36.560 I mean, that's the thing you can't incompetence doesn't.

01:29:41.800 And this is a good idea underneath. Right. And it's just because there's a lot of incompetence doesn't mean that the idea goes away.

01:29:47.140 The bottom line here is that this is the most preventable mass shooting in U.S. history.

01:29:51.020 I think so, too. You know, the idea that this is the one inspiring a gun debate is strange.

01:29:56.220 Just in fact, there are so many breadcrumbs, so many ways to stop this.

01:29:59.260 Yeah, it just didn't happen.

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01:31:45.440 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:31:54.840 Glenn Beck.

01:31:55.680 I want to play a bit of this Matt Bevin answer to a woman who was in Washington, D.C.

01:32:03.320 He had just spoken to the president with the governor's conference and this woman asked him, you know, we've got to do something.

01:32:12.880 Listen.

01:32:13.620 How do you reconcile the children's lives are most important with the comments you've made to the media about it's naive and premature to talk about gun control and that it's culture.

01:32:25.500 And not guns that is causing these these horrible things.

01:32:28.860 I'll tell you exactly how I reconcile that.

01:32:31.020 First of all, a month ago in Kentucky, we had a very similar situation.

01:32:36.420 We made a very concerted effort to make sure that we removed the media circus from the healing process.

01:32:43.880 So within 24 to 48 hours, you're probably not even aware, most people aren't, that I had a 15 year old come into a school in Kentucky last month and shoot 16 children at point blank range, two of whom died.

01:32:57.300 A set of twins were both shot and taken to a level one trauma center.

01:33:02.480 They lived.

01:33:04.000 This is very real to me.

01:33:05.140 I've sat with these families.

01:33:07.060 You also probably are not aware of the fact that I buried my oldest child.

01:33:10.540 Died under different circumstances but went to school and didn't come home.

01:33:13.600 She was 17 years old.

01:33:14.720 I know exactly, not exactly, it's not possible to know exactly what another person's going through, but I know exactly what it feels like to bury your oldest child.

01:33:24.840 I know what the impact is on a family.

01:33:27.720 I don't come at this with a sense of sympathy, but empathy.

01:33:30.780 The point that I've made that's been largely misconstrued, I'll reaffirm with you and tell you exactly where it comes from.

01:33:38.500 This idea, just as solving this issue is able to be solved with a single law or rule or change, is naive and delusional.

01:33:49.620 And so we shouldn't allow ourselves to entertain naive and delusional thoughts.

01:33:53.540 It is part of a broader construct, just as this issue is.

01:33:58.780 And the point that I made that I'll reiterate is that if we think that a part of what we are seeing is not a cultural problem, we're kidding ourselves.

01:34:08.500 And the point that I've made is this.

01:34:11.260 What has shifted in the last 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years?

01:34:17.260 Not the percentage of guns that we find in homes.

01:34:20.660 And you can give me a statistic that there's now more guns.

01:34:23.620 Fair enough, I'll submit that that may be true.

01:34:25.300 I'm not going to argue with you.

01:34:26.740 But the reality is there's fewer homes that have guns in them than there were 50 years ago when children didn't walk into schools and shoot themselves and shoot each other.

01:34:36.480 That's a fact.

01:34:37.140 You can confirm that.

01:34:38.960 But I'll tell you this.

01:34:40.640 When I was a kid, kids brought guns to school.

01:34:43.100 Kids brought guns on the school bus.

01:34:44.900 Kids brought guns to school in their own vehicles.

01:34:49.420 Kids didn't shoot each other with them.

01:34:51.900 So some things have not changed.

01:34:53.380 What has changed?

01:34:54.620 We as a culture, as a society, and it's very germane to this topic as well.

01:35:00.260 Stop.

01:35:01.800 Let him get to this point when we come back.

01:35:04.740 What has changed?

01:35:07.760 He makes a list.

01:35:09.100 Next.

01:35:09.200 Glenn Beck.

01:35:10.880 Mercury.

01:35:11.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:21.720 So Matt Bevin was in Washington, D.C.

01:35:27.220 By the way, welcome to Pat Gray on the program.

01:35:30.780 Matt Bevin was on.

01:35:33.980 And he was talking to a woman who said, you know, how can you possibly say that this doesn't have anything to do with guns?

01:35:41.500 And he says, how could you possibly say this doesn't have something to do with our culture, with something that is happening inside of our kids?

01:35:49.660 And he talks a little bit about guns.

01:35:52.900 And then he says, here's what's really going on.

01:35:56.360 What has changed?

01:35:57.420 There's not there's there are more guns, but but not more guns per household.

01:36:03.500 You know, there are more households without guns than ever before.

01:36:07.700 So the kids when I was growing up, when he said when he was growing up, kids would come to school with guns.

01:36:14.260 We did.

01:36:15.160 I mean, kids would go hunting and then they would leave their gun, you know, in their truck and it would be unlocked.

01:36:20.700 They always had gun racks, always, always had gun.

01:36:23.740 There was always a rifle in it.

01:36:25.100 Right.

01:36:25.560 And this is just the way things were.

01:36:27.840 So what has changed?

01:36:29.560 Listen to what he says.

01:36:31.200 What has changed?

01:36:32.440 We as a culture, as a society, and it's very germane to this topic as well.

01:36:38.680 We don't value human life like we did.

01:36:41.960 We remove increasingly respect for the dignity of other people.

01:36:47.760 You look at how rampant pornography is.

01:36:50.700 The degradation and disrespect for women and for human life in general.

01:36:55.860 It is so systemic.

01:36:57.820 People of our age have not been exposed like our children have been.

01:37:01.840 There's not a child in America that hasn't been exposed to pornography.

01:37:05.440 I guarantee you if they're above the age of 12.

01:37:08.060 That's a fact.

01:37:08.980 It is so systemic.

01:37:10.180 It's horrific.

01:37:11.220 And it desensitizes us at every turn.

01:37:14.600 And so we're desensitized to the value and dignity of human life.

01:37:18.260 We're desensitized through, and this is to the heart of what I said that you seem to take exception with,

01:37:22.760 is that through violent video games, where literally you are encouraged,

01:37:28.140 and you can roll your eyes all you want, man, but I will say this.

01:37:31.040 You explain to me the value of a game that encourages somebody to go back and finish them off,

01:37:38.300 where you get points for kill counts, and you slaughter people.

01:37:42.480 We're desensitizing people to the value of life.

01:37:46.600 So he goes on, and check it out on The Blaze.

01:37:50.460 It's amazing.

01:37:52.180 He goes on for another four minutes, and he talks about different things.

01:37:54.640 And this woman keeps rolling her eyes and is not open. 0.80

01:37:59.920 And he says at the end, you know, I don't understand how you can say you're open-minded,

01:38:05.380 and yet you will reject everything that I'm saying here and blame it all on guns.

01:38:11.740 I don't understand it.

01:38:14.000 Yeah.

01:38:15.380 We're broken.

01:38:16.840 And it's interesting because President Trump yesterday met with video game industry leaders,

01:38:22.800 and most people just dismiss that already.

01:38:25.520 They've moved on past that discussion where that's nothing to do with it.

01:38:28.300 And I was really impressed that he took the time to talk to these guys

01:38:32.420 about exactly what Matt Bevin's talking about.

01:38:35.740 Is there some correlation?

01:38:37.800 Now, a lot of research says no.

01:38:39.900 I just don't believe that.

01:38:41.200 A lot of research says yes.

01:38:43.040 Yeah.

01:38:43.220 A lot of research says yes.

01:38:45.020 Your brain is not formed fully and stable until you're 25.

01:38:51.820 Now, you know, there's also research that shows that the brain internalizes that,

01:38:58.300 as an actual event.

01:39:00.820 So you can say, my kid knows the difference, and they might, but the brain itself does not.

01:39:08.520 It internalizes that as something real.

01:39:11.420 And especially, the more and more real these games become, the more real the brain is saying it is.

01:39:19.680 Yeah, and you're first person shooting now.

01:39:21.860 You know, it's you.

01:39:22.920 It's walking through there.

01:39:24.060 And I tend to be on the opposite side with you guys on this.

01:39:27.160 But I mean, I think part of the problem when people talk about these things is it's a much more narrow issue than is usually discussed.

01:39:37.700 Like, we talk about this with guns all the time.

01:39:39.060 There's more guns in America than there has been ever, right?

01:39:41.620 There's 320 million guns.

01:39:43.120 Guns have doubled in the past 20 years.

01:39:44.960 At that time, the crime rate has gone in half, right?

01:39:49.020 So the correlation, I think, societally, because the rise of violent video games has been in that same period, right?

01:39:55.100 We went from almost no violent video games to all the ones that we have now in the same period where the crime rates have dropped by half.

01:40:01.520 The issue, I guess, is more of a focus on that one kid, right?

01:40:06.480 The one kid who is borderline.

01:40:09.200 Does he decide to cross a line because of something that he's affected with playing these games?

01:40:16.240 And, you know, whether you can actually manage that out, I don't know.

01:40:19.340 I think it's a great – there's no reason to risk it if you're a parent.

01:40:22.680 I mean, I don't know why you'd want your kids to play these games if you're a parent.

01:40:26.460 It's the sum total, I think, of everything.

01:40:29.080 I want you to listen to this.

01:40:30.140 This is what Dr. James Knoll, the director of forensic psychiatry at State University of New York's Upstate Medical University said, okay?

01:40:39.220 He's a guy who's been studying these killers. 0.97

01:40:43.400 Listen to what he said because people are like, these killers are crazy. 0.91

01:40:47.020 He says, no, they're not. 0.96

01:40:48.200 No, they're not.

01:40:49.680 Massacre killers are typically marked by what are considered personality disorders.

01:40:54.720 Grandiosity, resentment, self-righteousness, a sense of entitlement.

01:41:02.300 They are collectors of injustice who nurture their injustice with narcissism.

01:41:10.540 They preserve their egos.

01:41:12.640 They exaggerate past humiliations and externalize their anger, blaming others for their frustrations.

01:41:19.160 Now, let me ask, let's take this list one by one.

01:41:23.140 Are we seeing in our society grandiosity?

01:41:28.560 Sure.

01:41:29.740 Self-aggrandizement?

01:41:31.240 Of course.

01:41:31.900 We're seeing it everywhere.

01:41:34.100 I love the phrase collectors of injustice.

01:41:36.760 What a right.

01:41:38.060 So perfect.

01:41:38.860 Are we seeing a society that is dwelling on resentment?

01:41:43.340 Yes.

01:41:43.840 Are we a society that is dwelling on self-righteousness?

01:41:47.740 I'm right.

01:41:48.500 You're wrong.

01:41:49.340 I'm so right.

01:41:50.440 You're so wrong.

01:41:51.280 I won't even be your friend anymore.

01:41:54.420 How about a sense of entitlement?

01:41:57.880 How about collectors of injustice who nurture their wounded narcissism?

01:42:05.000 I can't.

01:42:07.020 I'm being inflicted.

01:42:08.480 Pain's being inflicted on me every day because of this statue.

01:42:10.940 It's all about me.

01:42:13.920 Me, me, me.

01:42:16.720 Collector of injustice?

01:42:18.660 We are all talking about the injustice of things now.

01:42:23.460 And to preserve their ego, they exaggerate past humiliations.

01:42:29.740 This might as well be our constitution at this point.

01:42:32.260 Yeah, it is.

01:42:32.980 And externalize our anger.

01:42:37.220 Case closed.

01:42:38.960 First, we are a society that is becoming killers.

01:42:44.480 And you can't cure that with taking guns away.

01:42:47.440 You can't cure that with taking video games away.

01:42:49.300 You can't cure that with any of these things.

01:42:50.800 You can ban all of it.

01:42:51.820 And it's not going to change that fundamental problem with society.

01:42:54.600 Can you imagine a classroom?

01:42:57.860 And this is in a really nice area of Dallas-Fort Worth, where in a high school, a fight breaks

01:43:06.080 out.

01:43:06.340 A pretty violent fight between two kids.

01:43:08.500 So what does the teacher do?

01:43:09.860 Does he jump in there and separate them and tell them, stop it, knock it off?

01:43:13.640 No.

01:43:14.040 He's standing over on the side with his phone, filming it, recording it, smiling.

01:43:20.640 I think we have the actual, yeah, look at him.

01:43:22.480 We have him.

01:43:23.660 Yeah, look at him.

01:43:24.120 I mean, they're really wailing on each other.

01:43:26.400 And the teacher is just, eh, he's standing there, filming all things.

01:43:31.200 He's smiling.

01:43:31.740 He's kind of enjoying it.

01:43:32.820 This is great.

01:43:33.600 Look at him beat the crap out of each other.

01:43:35.560 Everybody else is, I don't know, Snapchat.

01:43:39.380 Filming him periscoping or Snapchat.

01:43:41.080 Even teachers record fights only at McKinney High School.

01:43:45.420 I mean, that's despicable.

01:43:47.640 That's a broken society where a teacher doesn't intervene.

01:43:51.600 Instead, he records it.

01:43:53.280 I'm going to post this later on.

01:43:54.420 This is awesome.

01:43:55.000 In my...

01:43:55.500 It's crazy. 1.00

01:43:57.600 You say to anyone in the class that takes their phone out to record it, put your damn 1.00

01:44:04.240 phone down and help. 1.00

01:44:06.440 Yeah.

01:44:07.240 But the problem is we live our whole lives through the phone now, right?

01:44:10.460 We don't experience anything.

01:44:12.000 And we don't intervene in anything because we just want to see it later.

01:44:16.260 Things we usually don't even look at later, but we want to record it and post it.

01:44:21.060 We just want to show, hey, I was here.

01:44:23.600 That goes to the narcissism, I think.

01:44:25.520 Like, I was here and this was really cool.

01:44:27.720 Look at how cool this was.

01:44:29.580 It's crazy stuff.

01:44:30.440 It's true.

01:44:31.080 We just live on these things.

01:44:32.660 My wife is currently on a kick of some reorganizational effort in her life in which one of the people,

01:44:39.760 she's got these gurus she listens to, and one of them talks about how, and I think this

01:44:44.020 is completely true, that when you wake up and the first thing you do is check your iPad,

01:44:48.420 check your cell phone for your emails, and her point is essentially you're immediately

01:44:53.700 going on someone else's agenda.

01:44:55.520 Like, the day starts with you essentially taking orders from your phone rather than

01:45:00.340 you planning out your day and doing the things in the order and priority that you wish they

01:45:04.560 should be done.

01:45:05.580 And it's a real, it is a real, it's a real problem.

01:45:09.200 I mean, because...

01:45:09.800 It's just changed us.

01:45:10.640 It's just, it's totally changed the way.

01:45:13.000 And again, it's all in a big experiment, right?

01:45:15.140 I mean, we can get too excited about these things and believe, you know, cataclysm is coming

01:45:20.240 from every one of these technological changes, and societies have always done that.

01:45:23.700 But it is a real, fast change that might not cause cataclysm, but really should be something

01:45:30.360 that we understand and think about.

01:45:32.880 But it's changed us, and should we at least talk about it?

01:45:33.060 Yeah, talk about it, yeah.

01:45:33.760 Let's talk about it.

01:45:34.860 Let's just not dismiss it out of hand.

01:45:36.840 And you certainly don't dismiss the gun control out of hand, so why should we dismiss the

01:45:42.480 psychological things that are happening to us in our society?

01:45:46.200 And you can't say, you know, first of all, you cannot stop technology.

01:45:49.880 I don't want to censor anything.

01:45:52.040 Yeah.

01:45:52.580 And it's not one thing.

01:45:55.320 It's the entire thing.

01:45:57.620 It's, we've gone from a society that was basically gentle, decent, good, had real problems, you

01:46:08.020 know, it's never a wonderland, but generally we all agreed, we all saw each other as part

01:46:15.120 of the solution, not part of the problem.

01:46:17.320 We trusted people.

01:46:18.620 There was authority.

01:46:19.980 There were standards.

01:46:21.620 Those are all gone now.

01:46:23.900 All of those are gone.

01:46:25.040 And so the things that kept us moored even a little bit are gone.

01:46:32.480 And you add on top of that, the emptiness of people's lives.

01:46:38.700 There's what has value in kids' lives?

01:46:42.560 What, what, what do they do that has value?

01:46:46.540 And like no other time in our history, our kids are under, are on antidepressants.

01:46:51.260 Why are they so depressed all the time?

01:46:52.540 Can I tell you something?

01:46:53.220 When did that start?

01:46:53.960 I don't remember anybody on antidepressants when I was growing up.

01:46:56.680 But I tell you, Pat, there's nothing that impresses kids.

01:47:00.800 There's nothing.

01:47:01.620 No, I know.

01:47:01.920 You go on a car ride.

01:47:03.160 If they have electronics or a movie in the car, they're not looking outside.

01:47:07.640 They've seen it.

01:47:08.740 They've done it.

01:47:09.880 They, there's, there's not, there's no quiet time.

01:47:13.060 There's no time to think.

01:47:14.440 There's no time to just look.

01:47:17.060 There's no time to be bored.

01:47:19.620 You know what I mean?

01:47:20.620 Right.

01:47:20.980 Those are important parts of your life, especially in childhood.

01:47:26.640 It gives.

01:47:27.520 Great point.

01:47:28.080 Because I mean, kids don't even say that anymore.

01:47:30.320 Why?

01:47:30.660 Because you're continually entertained by your phone or your iPad.

01:47:33.940 There's no opportunity.

01:47:35.260 If you're bored.

01:47:35.980 If your kids have electronics.

01:47:38.080 If your kids have electronics.

01:47:39.740 Think back.

01:47:40.280 When's the last time they said, I'm bored.

01:47:43.920 It's a good question.

01:47:46.260 Well, the second they didn't have the electronics, they all say that.

01:47:49.140 Oh, yeah.

01:47:49.540 So it's like, oh, yeah.

01:47:50.860 If you put a time limit on it, then, then you'll hear that.

01:47:53.320 By the way, by the way, Silicon Valley parents, Silicon Valley parents are raising their kids now tech free.

01:48:01.400 More and more.

01:48:03.820 And there was a whole study in the Business Insider from the tech world.

01:48:11.060 You know, the current CEO of Apple, of Microsoft, many people at Facebook.

01:48:17.900 They're saying there's no electronics in the house.

01:48:20.900 Kids do not have access to them.

01:48:22.640 Weird.

01:48:23.340 What do they know that we don't know?

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01:50:16.260 Okay, so there are a couple of things from the mass shooting of Governor Matt Bevin.

01:50:23.380 The audio we played just a few minutes ago.

01:50:25.300 Fantastic.

01:50:26.180 Top pops, right?

01:50:27.800 Most concise, accurate explanation I've seen.

01:50:30.040 Well done.

01:50:31.220 Bevin's good.

01:50:31.960 Bevin's, he's good.

01:50:32.960 Chris writes in, if he's as serious as he sounds, the guy should be president.

01:50:36.900 And Daniel wrote in, you say people fear guns because they didn't grow up with them.

01:50:41.280 Well, that same concept applies to video games.

01:50:44.320 Violent crime has gone down at the same time game sales are up.

01:50:47.280 And that's a fact.

01:50:48.000 And Daniel, you're right.

01:50:49.460 You're right.

01:50:49.960 There are studies, however, that show that it is impacting some people.

01:50:56.760 And I'm not calling for a ban of video games.

01:50:58.740 And I'm not blaming this on video games.

01:51:00.600 I'm saying that we are devaluing life and some people can be affected by that.

01:51:07.780 We have to look at all of the pieces.

01:51:10.240 And again, I am not for banning anything.

01:51:14.220 I don't believe in that.

01:51:15.720 Are you going to talk maybe next week about the struggles, if is the right word, in your household when it comes to such technologies?

01:51:27.280 I am.

01:51:28.020 I've been wanting to talk about it for a while.

01:51:30.600 And it has gotten worse in my family.

01:51:33.140 And that's why I haven't been talking about it because it's causing some real problems in the family.

01:51:40.620 And so I would like to I want to talk about it generally next week because it is a struggle for parents.

01:51:47.360 I think, too, like part of this is just it's not about banning video games.

01:51:50.300 But I think there is a there's a good chunk of people who just assume that it's OK for their kids to be playing and they haven't looked at what these games are.

01:51:58.940 And it's it's just a parental thing.

01:52:00.580 Like, make sure you're making the decision that you think it's OK.

01:52:02.820 Yeah.

01:52:03.420 So we'll talk about that.

01:52:04.320 Maybe we'll maybe we'll do that Monday.

01:52:06.940 Keep promising that.

01:52:07.960 But this is an important one.

01:52:09.820 We'll talk about that and other solutions next week.

01:52:12.180 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:52:16.420 I'll see you next week.

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