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00:02:41.660 And it is the last show before we celebrate our 250th birthday as a nation.

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00:04:11.380 we're in washington dc it's the 250th birthday of america and i was complaining yesterday because

00:04:24.720 nobody knows about these fireworks that are happening this is the largest firework show

00:04:29.040 ever attempted by man on earth on saturday 10 times the largest firework show

00:04:37.060 America has ever seen. You'll never see anything like this. It is absolutely incredible what is

00:04:43.260 being planned. And I said, you know, nobody knows about the state fair. Nobody knows about what's

00:04:48.400 happening in Washington, D.C. And the streets are empty here. And it's sad. It's really sad.

00:04:52.600 And then the Washington Post decided to cover it. And I have had it. I've had it. I drove by

00:05:02.100 the Washington Post here in Washington, D.C. And I thought, oh, wow, I wonder why half of the

00:05:06.120 building's lights are out. Because you're going broke, and I can't wait until you're entirely broke.

00:05:14.020 America has survived 250 years. We've survived 250 years. And that is fabulous.

00:05:25.200 But I have to tell you, I've had it with the reflex from the press, the automatic impulse to

00:05:32.620 search every American moment for the dark cloud instead of the sunlight. Think about what is

00:05:38.300 happening this week. Not next year. This week, this week, the United States turns 250 years old.

00:05:45.720 Do you know how remarkable that is? We have the same constitution. The average constitution lasts

00:05:54.180 17 years. No one living has ever seen anything like this. No one living will ever see it again.

00:06:02.620 This is not another 4th of July.

00:06:05.020 This is the 4th of July.

00:06:07.920 I saw as a kid the 200th.

00:06:10.380 This is the 250.

00:06:11.820 I'll be long dead, and my kids will remember, oh, I saw the 250.

00:06:18.560 And they'll remember it when it's the 300.

00:06:24.540 Grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, will read about this in history books.

00:06:28.540 and one of the nation's most influential newspapers

00:06:32.260 looked at this moment and said,

00:06:34.080 Gee, Bob, how could we cover this today?

00:06:37.620 I don't know.

00:06:39.300 Have we covered the fireworks?

00:06:41.380 Nah, are they really worth it?

00:06:43.400 Well, have we thought about how much pollution

00:06:47.140 the fireworks are going to cause?

00:06:49.060 That's it, Bob.

00:06:50.160 Let's run to the press.

00:06:53.320 You've got to be kidding me.

00:06:54.620 That's your front page instinct?

00:06:56.740 pollution not the greatest experiment in self-government no not that god god not that

00:07:04.580 no the astonishing fact that a republic born in the age of kings has survived invasions civil

00:07:11.160 war world wars depression terrorism every prediction of collapse not the millions of

00:07:18.020 families gathering to remember where freedom came from this weekend not the veterans who carried

00:07:24.620 that freedom, bled and died for that freedom. Not the children seeing the Capitol for the very first

00:07:29.720 time. No. Smoke. Smoke. That's what the Washington Post chooses. Smoke. Now before some liberal

00:07:44.700 tweets, some angry tweeted me, let me say I know. Yes. Fireworks produce smoke.

00:07:54.620 Okay. I've known that the very first time I saw fireworks. It's kind of like, don't tweet me.

00:08:03.560 Fireworks cause smoke. Water is wet and the sun is hot. I get it. People with asthma should know

00:08:11.900 that large firework displays can temporarily affect air quality. Now, if you think that that

00:08:18.840 is news to anybody? Report it. Maybe on page A-17. But if your first instinct on America's

00:08:27.420 250th birthday is to warn people about the smoke instead of reminding them why fireworks exist in

00:08:34.840 the first place, then somewhere along the line, you've really forgotten what news is supposed to

00:08:38.980 do. Have we alerted them that there's going to be smoke? Maybe they should stay away from the

00:08:43.760 nation's capital because there's a lot of fireworks. There's got to be a lot of smoke.

00:08:48.840 oh god i have no use for these people anymore i really i so they're just such a source of

00:08:57.720 frustration journalism is not just about facts it's also about judgment

00:09:04.880 every editor tells you what matters by what place they put above the fold whatever they place above

00:09:14.440 the fold. That's what matters. Every headline is a declaration of their values. Every front

00:09:20.300 page says, this is what everybody should talk about and think about today. So on the most

00:09:24.980 extraordinary independence week in American history, they decide what matters most, not

00:09:31.280 liberty, not history, not what's actually happening, not gratitude, but particulate

00:09:37.780 matter. You know, when I got up this morning, I thought, what is the particulate count today?

00:09:43.480 I'm wondering, you see why people are exhausted?

00:09:48.120 You see why nobody reads the crappy Washington Post anymore?

00:09:52.560 I mean, honestly, do you see why trust has collapsed? 1.00

00:09:58.400 Because you're morons. 1.00

00:10:01.260 Every American achievement arrives with a lecture. 1.00

00:10:05.240 Hey, there's going to be smoke in the air.

00:10:07.380 And did you know you're standing on stolen ground?

00:10:10.220 celebration now comes wrapped with guilt every flag needs an apology i got a firecracker i'd like

00:10:19.040 to shove up every victory requires a disclaimer it's relentless and we're done with it

00:10:28.780 but just know it has consequences everything you're doing today has consequences

00:10:33.960 because the people who are taught to roll their eyes at their own history

00:10:37.200 will eventually stop defending it people who cannot celebrate can't get past themselves

00:10:43.860 to celebrate what their nation did has forgotten themselves i walked in the national mall

00:10:49.540 i saw children staring up with wonder at some of the monuments yesterday i saw veterans standing

00:10:57.140 quietly before the monuments built for friends who never came home i saw families from every

00:11:02.440 corner of the country. That's the story, Washington Post. That's the headline. That's

00:11:08.520 what deserves to be remembered. You don't have to pretend America is perfect to love her.

00:11:14.280 The founders didn't. Read their letters. They argued constantly. They knew this nation had

00:11:22.080 sins to confront and promises yet to fulfill. I wait until you hear what I say with Thomas

00:11:26.460 Jefferson, the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Let me tell you what he wrote

00:11:31.260 about that declaration, but they still pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their honor

00:11:37.700 to her because they understood something. Too many people in our elite institutions have

00:11:43.520 completely forgotten. Love does not require perfection. Do you go home at night, Washington

00:11:49.480 Post reporters, do you go home at night and just keep reminding your wife, you know, you once were

00:11:54.940 really fat. You know, I love it when you're skinny. I love it when you're healthy looking,

00:12:01.320 but you remember when you were pregnant, how fat you were? I don't know. Cause I keep thinking 0.67

00:12:06.840 about all the fatness in your history. Is that love? Love requires gratitude.

00:12:17.920 So let me say something here that apparently has become controversial.

00:12:21.480 America is worth celebrating without apology, without caveats, without the fricking stolen land, without embarrassment, without an asterisk.

00:12:35.380 And if that offends you, the problem is not with the fireworks. The problem's not with the country. The problem is you.

00:12:41.620 The problem is somewhere, somehow, you lost the ability to be grateful for the greatest inheritance of liberty ever handed from one generation to the next.

00:12:52.160 And that is far more dangerous than a little smoke in the air.

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00:14:32.260 so i went uh i went down yesterday to the mall and i went to the state fair and most people

00:14:45.040 don't even know what the state fair is uh the state fair just sees its collection of these

00:14:50.300 uh buildings it really is kind of like a world's fair except with crappy state collections where

00:14:57.340 half of the states were like, that's a Donald Trump thing. You know what? We're California.

00:15:04.840 Send them an orange crate. And so they have this, California has this display. I swear to you,

00:15:10.280 it just says inside a big sign that says California, a couch and a desk. I don't know

00:15:15.920 what you're doing there. You go into New York. I didn't because I felt like if I go in, it's a rat

00:15:21.720 and it smells like urine. I don't, I don't know what New York has in there. Very few states actually

00:15:26.840 took it seriously. And it's sad. Some states didn't even show up because that's a Donald

00:15:31.360 Trump thing. It's an American thing. By the way, congratulations to Pennsylvania. You did a great

00:15:38.240 job. I went into the Pennsylvania one. It was really, really great. They took all of these

00:15:44.380 flags from American history. I mean, it's Philadelphia, it's Pennsylvania. So Gettysburg,

00:15:49.540 they had flags from Gettysburg. They had flags from the, uh, the revolutionary war. It was,

00:15:55.600 it was really a stirring display it was really really neat but most of the states didn't take

00:16:01.720 it seriously at all and it's sad and so people are walking around and they're going to the mall

00:16:07.200 and there's going to be a lot of stuff going on this this afternoon uh but i was i was a little

00:16:14.400 disappointed because nobody knows what's going on here and if you if you know the fireworks i talked

00:16:20.340 to you yesterday largest fireworks times 10 largest

00:16:24.340 firework display ever ever in the history of the world guinness

00:16:28.220 world record stuff air force one is going to do a flyover

00:16:31.940 it's i mean you've never seen anything like this and you never

00:16:36.240 will see anything like this and nobody in the press is even talking about it

00:16:40.240 i walk by two broadcast booths beautiful broadcast booths

00:16:45.000 empty dark nobody's in it

00:16:47.760 and they're like why why why is no one why is no one in there why aren't the networks here

00:16:54.200 covering anything anything

00:16:56.760 they'll just cover that nobody's here because nobody knows about it that's the problem nobody

00:17:05.320 knows about it i mean it's really and then i walk down a little farther i see you know there's music

00:17:14.220 going on on the stage. There's museums all around you. There's the state exhibits, the Lincoln

00:17:20.040 Memorial on one end, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, all of this stuff. Greatest

00:17:25.080 collection of American history on earth. You know, the NASA has displays out on the mall. You

00:17:32.440 could see the world's largest jet engine. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. Like it could

00:17:37.880 put two of me on one standing on my head could fit inside of this engine. It's amazing.

00:17:44.220 And at the end, right in front of the Capitol, there was a giant screen and it was showing the

00:17:47.640 World Cup. And there were thousands of people there, thousands, shoulder to shoulder, standing

00:17:52.400 there, watching, laughing, chilling, cheering, celebrating. I thought it was great.

00:17:58.000 But then I thought, you know, where's everybody else on this? Where's everybody going to the

00:18:02.820 American? And maybe it's going to change because tomorrow, most people are not going to be working.

00:18:08.000 And maybe if you're in the Washington, D.C. area, you're planning on coming there. And it is hot.

00:18:13.120 it is hot but people were willing to stand in the sun for something they believe is worth standing

00:18:18.060 in the sun for and that is the world cup and i i tossed and turned last night i'm gonna be

00:18:24.760 interested to see how i feel after the weekend you know when i was growing up fourth of july

00:18:29.920 belonged to everybody fourth of july in dc apparently now only belongs to mega people

00:18:35.940 and i'm hoping this changes i hope i'm wrong but that's what it feels like

00:18:40.520 you know aren't my neighbors didn't vote the same way i knew that my dad used to say it i don't agree

00:18:46.440 with that guy on anything we don't vote the same way doesn't matter but we all went to the same

00:18:50.640 church we didn't agree on taxes or foreign policies or even who we voted for for president

00:18:55.240 but we agreed on one thing america was worth celebrating not because she was perfect but

00:19:01.920 because she was ours millions have sacrificed to hand her to us and every and every generation has

00:19:10.160 inherited a country that was built by people that we'll never

00:19:14.240 ever meet. I want you to remember that this 0.98

00:19:18.180 weekend. That used to be enough. Somewhere along the way we

00:19:22.140 began treating patriotism as it belonged to one party or tribe

00:19:25.920 instead of the other. It doesn't. It doesn't belong to the Republicans. It doesn't

00:19:30.200 belong to the Democrats. History is not controversial. The

00:19:34.060 flag is not controversial. Celebrating our country's

00:19:38.040 birthday? How is this controversial? And when I say that, I want you to be concerned about that.

00:19:44.000 That should concern all of us because a nation that loses the habit of celebrating itself

00:19:48.620 eventually loses the desire to preserve itself. History is like a photo album. If you stop opening

00:19:56.120 that photo album for your children, your children will eventually forget who the people in the

00:20:01.240 pictures were. Once they forget who those pictures are, it doesn't matter. And they stop wondering

00:20:07.360 where they came from or who they are.

00:20:11.380 So let me just make a request.

00:20:13.840 If you're in the Washington, D.C. area at all,

00:20:16.600 bring your children, bring your families,

00:20:19.080 bring your grandchildren, walk the mall,

00:20:21.640 stand in front of the Capitol,

00:20:23.420 read the words carved into the Lincoln Memorial,

00:20:26.000 visit the museums, talk to your kids

00:20:28.980 and your grandkids about who built this country.

00:20:30.840 Yes, it's hot.

00:20:31.880 There's tons of free water everywhere.

00:20:33.920 They're handing it out like it's water.

00:20:37.360 But stay for the celebration.

00:20:40.680 Every public indication, the fireworks display has been planned at an extraordinary scale.

00:20:47.780 Unlike anything you've ever seen, not just here, but in the world.

00:20:51.440 And you'll never see America's 250 ever again. 0.95

00:20:55.320 Never.

00:20:56.220 Once in a lifetime.

00:20:58.680 So don't let somebody else tell you what America is.

00:21:02.600 Don't do it.

00:21:03.920 Come see her.

00:21:04.580 if you're in this area if not go to a firework show go to a celebration that's actually celebrating

00:21:11.100 not born in the usa with fireworks behind it from some i mean just stop that stop it

00:21:21.280 don't go to some firework celebration that is you know somebody with their yahoos hanging out

00:21:29.720 singing some popular song

00:21:31.860 has no idea

00:21:32.900 what Independence Day

00:21:34.340 is even about,

00:21:35.240 go celebrate the country.

00:21:39.200 If we don't show up

00:21:40.220 for our own history,

00:21:41.040 somebody else is going

00:21:41.700 to write it for you.

00:21:43.720 America's not a place

00:21:44.900 just on a map.

00:21:45.740 She's an inheritance.

00:21:46.740 She's a promise.

00:21:48.560 She's a story

00:21:49.360 that is only kept alive

00:21:50.580 if each of us

00:21:51.820 decides it's worth remembering.

00:21:55.480 Learn it.

00:21:56.600 Celebrate it.

00:21:57.120 Protect it.

00:21:59.720 Because what we inherit without gratitude, you're not going to keep for very long.

00:22:06.420 I want to thank everybody who was watching last night, our special on the Golden Door.

00:22:13.560 I mean, Ricky, we had some amazing people and it even trended.

00:22:19.000 History never trends.

00:22:20.560 It was even trending last night because of Alexander Hamilton, what I said about Hamilton.

00:22:26.560 Nobody knows that about Hamilton.

00:22:28.020 How many listeners did we hear from Jason last night that were watching it and they were like, I didn't learn any of this stuff.

00:22:34.620 I didn't know any of this stuff.

00:22:37.580 It was all in the chat last night.

00:22:39.840 It was so cool, too.

00:22:40.520 They said they never learned any of that stuff in school, which I thought was a big point.

00:22:44.380 And it wasn't hard.

00:22:45.460 That stuff is out there.

00:22:47.440 You just have to look for it.

00:22:48.660 It was the proudest I've ever been of one of our specials.

00:22:52.140 And we've done a lot.

00:22:52.940 And we've done a lot of big explosive specials.

00:22:55.720 This was the proudest I've ever been.

00:22:57.060 Nathan, Bowie, Michaela, I mean, everybody involved did an awesome job on this thing.

00:23:04.300 But it was a great special.

00:23:06.100 But the progressives were a little stunned to learn, wait, wait, Alexander Hamilton?

00:23:12.660 He was far, far, far to the right of Donald Trump on immigration?

00:23:18.220 Ah, yeah, yeah, he was.

00:23:20.640 Yes, he was.

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00:24:47.540 hello america welcome to the glenbeck program if you happen to be uh watching today um we've

00:25:06.360 had several comments on where'd you get the 250 flag i don't know where you can get it i got it

00:25:10.740 at the mall yesterday which i have to tell the mall story at some point i got it at the mall

00:25:16.360 yesterday, meaning the national mall, uh, you know, where they, all the monuments are. Uh,

00:25:22.520 this is the official 250th, uh, celebration flag. Uh, and I, I might even, I might auction this

00:25:29.480 off for charity when I'm done. I'll fly it over the ranch and then, uh, sign it and auction it

00:25:34.400 off for, for charity at some point. But it's, I think it's a beautiful flag anyway. Um, you know,

00:25:39.980 all of us I've been thinking about, I've been thinking about what we've been talking about

00:25:43.220 here. And I want to inspire you to reach deeper than we have reached before in our lives. I know

00:25:50.960 I am trying to, you know, every one of us are born holding things that we did nothing to earn,

00:25:56.680 nothing. If you were born in this country, you started your life already holding freedoms and

00:26:01.000 protections, a voice, a vote, a standing in the world. And we didn't do anything to deserve it.

00:26:07.740 We just, it was handed to us, just handed to on the day we arrived.

00:26:11.860 And it was handed to us just like it was handed to our parents, the person before you and the person before them.

00:26:18.340 Millions of people will spend their entire lives reaching for what we were given for free.

00:26:24.620 And most of the world will never be able to touch it.

00:26:28.360 And it's tempting to call something like this a possession, but it's not.

00:26:32.160 It's not something we own.

00:26:33.660 Okay.

00:26:34.100 it's something that's just yours

00:26:37.560 kind of

00:26:38.680 because I think that's the first

00:26:41.480 and most dangerous mistake

00:26:42.560 a person can make about it

00:26:43.700 because an unearned privilege

00:26:45.960 is not a possession

00:26:47.780 something that you own

00:26:49.120 it's closer to a debt

00:26:52.020 it's something that you have to earn

00:26:56.360 after the fact

00:26:57.740 earn backward

00:26:59.180 and how do you do that?

00:27:04.100 by carrying the responsibilities that came attached to it.

00:27:07.600 You might wonder what those responsibilities are.

00:27:11.720 I know I was mentored by one of the best broadcasters alive in his day,

00:27:16.780 Michael O'Shea.

00:27:19.860 And he mentored me when I was very young.

00:27:22.440 And I did nothing to earn it.

00:27:25.240 And when I first went on to be my own,

00:27:30.260 I said, why did you do this?

00:27:32.060 And he said, because you owe it to me now.

00:27:34.100 to pass this on to somebody else.

00:27:37.020 We don't teach, and we need to teach.

00:27:41.580 And that's how we pay it off.

00:27:43.220 We show up.

00:27:44.540 We pay it in.

00:27:45.980 We tell the truth when a lie would be easier.

00:27:49.320 When we treat the people that we disagree with

00:27:52.340 as a fellow citizen and not as an enemy,

00:27:56.580 looking after the parts of the common thing

00:27:59.680 that nobody is forcing you to look after,

00:28:02.740 that's the work

00:28:04.720 do it

00:28:07.700 because when you do something quiet and remarkable

00:28:11.500 happens

00:28:12.100 the privilege that we were

00:28:14.960 handed by accident actually becomes

00:28:17.500 a privilege

00:28:18.320 you hold by right

00:28:20.640 you earn it in arrears

00:28:22.720 you convert an accident of birth

00:28:27.720 into something that is

00:28:29.300 genuinely, finally yours

00:28:31.580 but stop doing the work decide that the privileges are simply yours and the responsibilities belong

00:28:39.660 to somebody else and now that thing begins to hollow out and that's the part that makes it so

00:28:44.160 hard to see you know um in time privilege that no one is keeping up doesn't get revoked nobody

00:28:53.020 comes to take this they don't it just stops being real underneath while it still looks completely

00:29:00.380 intact from the outside. That's why we feel so hollow right now. Freedom is still written down.

00:29:06.060 It's still there. It's still in the books. It's still in the archives. But the living thing,

00:29:10.740 living thing that it pointed to quietly has gone out. It's like a house with the

00:29:17.140 lights still on, but nobody is home. It's empty. Our country is nothing more than this exact bargain.

00:29:30.380 And it runs through all of us, every single one of us living here at the same time.

00:29:37.080 Millions of unearned inheritances, each one made real, only by the carrying of it.

00:29:47.320 And that tells you exactly where a country breaks.

00:29:51.880 It breaks at the point where enough people on every side decide the privilege, that privilege is mine, by right.

00:30:00.380 and the responsibility belongs to somebody else.

00:30:04.760 That's the other side's problem.

00:30:12.520 The dangerous part is that nobody ever believes

00:30:14.940 that they're the ones who stopped paying.

00:30:18.820 Everyone is certain that the debt belongs to somebody else,

00:30:22.320 and that's what keeps this whole deadly hollowing out

00:30:28.760 so dangerous

00:30:30.540 right until the moment

00:30:31.980 the thing

00:30:33.140 it was holding up

00:30:35.200 gives way.

00:30:36.460 You can watch it happen

00:30:37.560 in the plainest of places.

00:30:41.900 Look how we're treating 0.96

00:30:42.900 our own laws. 0.99

00:30:46.100 A city decides

00:30:47.380 which federal laws

00:30:48.340 it will bother to enforce.

00:30:50.320 Which federal official

00:30:52.380 decides what court order

00:30:54.300 he's going to bother to obey.

00:30:56.260 And both of them

00:30:57.040 are doing the same

00:30:57.700 identical thing

00:30:58.680 They're keeping the authority, but they're setting down the duty that that authority was supposed to carry.

00:31:04.060 There comes rights and responsibility.

00:31:06.180 There is a duty to what we have been handed. 0.98

00:31:10.200 Look at immigration, the whole of it. 0.99

00:31:12.340 Honestly, look at this. 0.86

00:31:14.120 A person crosses outside the legal door because the legal door is slow.

00:31:20.680 And my, my, my, my, my need is real.

00:31:23.200 and a business hires that same person off the books

00:31:27.000 because it's cheap and it's me, me, me.

00:31:29.000 I've got to get more wealthy.

00:31:31.380 And it cheapens it even more.

00:31:33.160 And both of them are taking the benefit of a country

00:31:35.860 while declining its rules.

00:31:40.580 Neither one is comfortable to say out loud,

00:31:43.220 but both are true.

00:31:49.620 Look at the fraud, the waste,

00:31:52.740 the abuse of public money the contractor who pads the invoice the public servant who signs it without

00:31:59.340 looking they're not opposites they're the same partners in the same theft each one trusts the

00:32:06.280 other one to keep treating the common purse is as nobody's in particular like that money just

00:32:14.080 doesn't come from anywhere and look the hardest of all the oath of office the most naked version

00:32:26.880 of this entire bargain that exists you're asked to stand up raise a hand put your hand on the

00:32:35.280 bible and swear to god and all those out loud that can hear you in front of everyone you are

00:32:42.640 naked making a promise to carry a specific responsibility in exchange for a specific power.

00:32:52.280 That oath doesn't care what party administers it. It's supposed to bind the person who swore it

00:32:58.700 from the first day to the last, and it's broken the moment that person decides the power was the

00:33:04.720 real prize, and the oath was just the words you say to get to that power. The words didn't matter,

00:33:09.700 It's the power that matters.

00:33:11.360 And every one of these things, the shape is the same.

00:33:15.280 The shape is the thing to see.

00:33:17.740 The privilege is kept, but the duty is set down.

00:33:22.300 Each person is privately certain that the one who broke faith wasn't them.

00:33:29.420 It was somebody else.

00:33:35.060 There's one more turn on this.

00:33:39.700 We're not the last people who will ever live here.

00:33:46.620 We hold these things that were self-evident in trust for people who do not exist yet. 0.53

00:33:54.100 So when we fail, when we treat our citizenship as a possession instead of responsibility, 0.56

00:34:00.440 when we stop being moral and a principled people because it's inconvenient,

00:34:05.560 we're not just spending down

00:34:08.520 our own inheritance

00:34:09.660 we're handing our children

00:34:12.700 a much much smaller one

00:34:14.520 the rights we pass forward

00:34:19.520 are diminished

00:34:20.720 by exactly the amount

00:34:23.660 we failed to keep up

00:34:25.360 a little less freedom

00:34:28.160 that

00:34:28.440 anybody ever bothers

00:34:32.260 to defend

00:34:32.920 a little less truth

00:34:34.540 that anyone insists on.

00:34:37.020 A little less trust

00:34:38.140 holding strangers together

00:34:40.040 as one people.

00:34:42.620 And it compounds,

00:34:43.840 and it's the compounding interest

00:34:45.100 that matters.

00:34:47.280 Each generation

00:34:48.080 that inherits less

00:34:49.720 has less to pass on.

00:34:55.660 And it also passes on

00:34:57.300 that feeling that

00:34:58.960 less is normal.

00:35:01.120 until one day, someday, I don't know when

00:35:06.480 hopefully far enough down the road

00:35:08.920 that we never see it

00:35:12.660 but people begin to wake up and discover

00:35:15.260 that they're no longer living in the country

00:35:16.960 that they inherited

00:35:18.740 not because anyone invaded it

00:35:22.260 not because anyone repealed it

00:35:24.760 but because link by link

00:35:27.420 payment by missed payment

00:35:29.400 we stopped earning the thing

00:35:32.460 that we were quietly given

00:35:33.860 and we quietly let it become

00:35:36.440 something smaller

00:35:37.360 than what was handed to us.

00:35:43.680 That's the whole of it.

00:35:47.820 That's the hard part.

00:35:49.500 Privilege comes first.

00:35:51.360 It's unearned.

00:35:52.640 It's a gift we didn't deserve.

00:35:56.000 People feel guilty now

00:35:57.280 and they try to make you feel guilty.

00:35:58.480 do you know your privilege do you know your privilege do you know your privilege

00:36:03.100 it's not what the woke is saying do you know your privilege do you know how blessed you are for

00:36:10.780 living here so don't feel bad about it pick up the responsibility because that's the payment

00:36:17.600 that makes that privilege real it keeps it real it passes it on whole or god help us expands it

00:36:25.320 We were never owners of this privilege

00:36:29.440 We were only

00:36:32.060 The current trustees of something

00:36:34.760 We're obligated

00:36:36.080 To pass forward

00:36:37.820 And not in worse shape

00:36:41.360 But at least as strong as we found it 1.00

00:36:47.920 Every generation 0.99

00:36:49.180 Has to answer this question 0.80

00:36:51.560 And it's a question that we're answering right now

00:36:54.880 whether we mean to or not

00:36:56.260 we're answering it

00:36:58.360 and it's simple

00:36:59.100 are we

00:37:04.160 paying for what we

00:37:07.220 were given

00:37:09.240 do we realize that comes with a price

00:37:15.260 did we pay for what we

00:37:19.060 feel we were owed

00:37:21.380 or are we just spending it down

00:37:26.820 we're not too far gone

00:37:37.700 some people are wondering that now

00:37:40.780 are we too far gone

00:37:41.420 we're not too far gone

00:37:42.280 we're not

00:37:43.240 I don't think God is done with us

00:37:45.080 and I'm not willing

00:37:48.680 to ride off in the sunset

00:37:50.580 and say, well, I got mine because I want my children and my grandchildren to inherit something

00:37:56.700 even grander. Celebrate Independence Day this week, and happy 250, America.

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00:39:47.040 kexy is celebrating america's 250th birthday this year and while some people mark big occasions

00:40:00.320 with speeches or fireworks kexy decided cookies were the way to go i think they're onto something

00:40:06.400 uh right now uh right now they've got the biggest sale of the year going on 25 off standard cookie

00:40:11.320 boxes if you've got uh like if you're looking for a gift or something to bring to a gathering

00:40:15.300 Kexi's a huge hit every single gathering. Maybe just an excuse to stock up on really good cookies.

00:40:20.180 This is a great time. They've released a 4th of July cookie box created specifically for America's

00:40:25.700 250th anniversary. And they're only making 250 of them, not 25 zillion, not limited like the way

00:40:32.740 companies usually lie to you about that. They're just making 250 boxes. So once they're gone,

00:40:37.140 they're gone. They also have a brand new Hawaiian coconut loaf from Kexi available this summer.

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00:41:06.500 It's one of those things that, you know, you can get cookies from other places, but, like, it's not going to be special like Kexi.

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00:41:22.600 oh man there is so much going on especially on torch this weekend for 250 if you're traveling

00:41:41.940 the country just listen to all the stuff we have the american story that is going on um we have the

00:41:47.940 first two chapters in uh chasing embers which is a great history story big announcement on chasing

00:41:54.320 embers coming out next week next week uh tomorrow july 3rd i did a speech on the uss midway which

00:42:01.740 i've been told don't follow children and don't follow animals no one ever said don't follow a

00:42:10.100 fireworks show they had to run because the city was like we're gonna shut this thing down unless

00:42:15.200 you do the fireworks now we're like we have one more speaker it's glenn beck so they did the

00:42:18.880 fireworks and then i had to give my speech thank god it was great it was um the midway speech on

00:42:25.140 torch uh that comes out tomorrow on saturday the american story special on radio um and the

00:42:32.100 midway speech wherever you get your podcast so you'll be able to get that on the podcast

00:42:36.120 But the American Story special, it's on, I don't even know, 400 and some stations all across the country.

00:42:42.420 And you're going to love it.

00:42:44.520 On Monday, I'm at CUFI, the Christians United for Israel, a night to honor Israel.

00:42:51.420 That's in Washington, D.C.

00:42:52.740 I think I'm doing something with the vice president.

00:42:55.180 Is that done?

00:42:56.320 You know, am I doing an interview?

00:42:57.480 It's not confirmed.

00:42:58.480 Then Vegas is next Saturday.

00:43:01.460 I'll be in Las Vegas at Freedom Fest.

00:43:03.580 and then I think I should take a trip

00:43:06.520 to the hospital

00:43:07.360 I think you'll fit it in sometime in between

00:43:10.820 probably

00:43:11.380 but we will

00:43:14.580 see you this weekend and we'll be here

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00:43:24.620 say hello

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00:43:30.760 and with your family hopefully

00:43:32.320 and we'll see you.

00:43:33.400 Okay, the final chapter on the actual writing

00:43:36.380 of the Declaration of Independence.

00:43:39.020 Jonathan Turley, also Anna Paulina Luna,

00:43:45.120 is also coming up.

00:43:46.640 Stand by.

00:43:56.720 We're living in a time where it's really easy to forget

00:43:59.400 what this country is actually about, how it came to be,

00:44:02.620 and we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history,

00:44:06.060 but that's not how it happened.

00:44:08.420 That's why I think young George Washington is so important right now.

00:44:12.760 This is a film that takes you back before he was president,

00:44:15.620 before the revolution was won,

00:44:17.340 before George Washington was George Washington, that symbol.

00:44:21.300 And it shows you the young man he really was,

00:44:23.580 not perfect, not polished,

00:44:25.240 but somebody who is shaped by failures, hard decisions, and courage.

00:44:29.400 and by a sense that there was something bigger than himself at work.

00:44:32.920 Great leaders are not created in comfort.

00:44:35.000 They're forged when things are hard, when stepping forward costs you something.

00:44:39.580 With the 250th anniversary of America right around the corner,

00:44:44.180 this is a powerful way to market.

00:44:46.020 Take your family, take your kids, your grandkids,

00:44:48.000 and connect them to the story that started all of this.

00:44:51.180 See Young Washington in theaters July 3rd.

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00:44:59.400 We'll be right back.

00:45:29.400 The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment.

00:45:46.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:50.780 Glenn Beck is on.

00:45:53.580 Hello, America.

00:45:54.640 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:56.760 It is the last show before we celebrate America's 250th birthday.

00:46:02.700 We're live from Washington, D.C.

00:46:04.260 Jonathan Turley is going to join us here in just a second.

00:46:06.880 We're going to talk a little bit about the Supreme Court and a little bit about the founding of the nation.

00:46:11.140 Yesterday, I gave you part two of the writing of the Declaration of Independence,

00:46:15.560 and I told you about Thomas Jefferson.

00:46:17.480 He was grieving his mother.

00:46:18.780 He was terrified for his wife because he thought she was going to die.

00:46:22.440 She had a miscarriage, and those were really bad for her.

00:46:24.860 He was homesick. He was sick himself. 17 days. He shut up, you know, with the weight of this thing and his little folding desk pressing down on him.

00:46:36.780 And I told you yesterday, he scratched out the words. We hold these truths to be self-evident, but that's actually not what he scratched out at first.

00:46:45.140 I'm going to give you part three, take you through.

00:46:47.940 Now it's getting ready to be butchered.

00:46:51.500 Now it has to go in and they have to decide what stays in, what is not in.

00:46:57.060 And Thomas Jefferson never forgives the people in this room for what happens to the Declaration of Independence.

00:47:03.100 Part three, the mangling of the Declaration of Independence.

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00:48:15.460 realestateagentsitrust.com. Okay. So Thomas Jefferson has been for 17 days eking out this

00:48:24.080 draft of the Declaration of Independence. And now comes the part of the story that will tell you

00:48:29.280 more about what america actually is than any firework show ever could i don't know this

00:48:37.080 firework show on saturday is going to be pretty amazing but that's i digress the declaration of

00:48:41.720 independence was not handed down from heaven on a golden tablet okay it was argued over it was cut

00:48:48.700 it was compromised it was mangled jefferson's own friends used that word mangled in a hot

00:48:57.800 sealed frightened room of really flawed men and i promise you the true story is a thousand times

00:49:04.880 better than the myth or anything that they ever taught you i don't even know i don't even know

00:49:09.320 what i learned about the declaration of independence in school but i can tell you what i know now it's

00:49:13.820 completely different but first you have to understand the air in that building congress

00:49:20.160 was seated in philadelphia in a sworn oath of secrecy the members had to take a pledge

00:49:25.900 not one word of what was being said inside leaves this room not one word so the doors were shut

00:49:34.120 and the windows were closed remind you this is in philadelphia in july it's super hot it is like

00:49:43.140 what it is now here in washington dc it's like 90 or you know 100 degrees and then you add the

00:49:49.780 humidity then add think of this they're sitting in this room closed off they're wearing wool jackets

00:49:57.120 wool socks wool vests heavy wigs there are no fans there's no ice air conditioning would have

00:50:05.360 to wait for the guy in san antonio texas to invent it in the 1950s and there was no deodorant

00:50:11.420 deodorant had to wait almost well over 100 years 1888 it was invented in philadelphia oh i know

00:50:18.900 this it was mom's deodorant okay but again i digress no deodorant for now no open doors or

00:50:25.800 windows because every sentence spoken in that chamber was hanging it was a hanging offense

00:50:31.520 if it reached the king's ear you would be drawn and quartered so there's no press in the room no

00:50:38.180 public no record of the debate for the world to see just a few dozen men sweating through their

00:50:43.220 shirts, deciding whether to commit treason with the windows nailed shut against spies.

00:50:49.140 That's the pressure cooker these sacred words came out of.

00:50:53.660 So Jefferson, who trusted their judgment most, didn't show his draft to the whole committee

00:51:01.100 first.

00:51:01.660 He just slipped it to the two men whose opinion he valued above all others.

00:51:06.200 And that was Benjamin Franklin, who was so crippled by that summer, he could barely climb

00:51:11.820 a staircase.

00:51:12.320 and john adams and the two of them only made a handful of small changes and they're marked

00:51:18.160 on our copy the original engraving uh from 1826 uh of jefferson's first draft we have it and you

00:51:26.920 can see it there's just a word here and a word there and they're signed b franklin j adams

00:51:31.960 but one of the small changes i'd argue is one of the most important edits in the history of

00:51:38.080 the English language. Jefferson had originally written that these truths were sacred and

00:51:44.620 undeniable. Sacred and undeniable. And we think it was Franklin who crossed it out and

00:51:54.100 wrote self-evident. Why? Sacred means you have to believe it. You can't really question

00:52:04.480 It's sacred. It's scripture. It rests on your faith. It asks you to bow. Self-evident means

00:52:11.360 you only have to think for a minute. It rests on reason. It's available to every human being

00:52:18.160 who can look at the world and see it plainly. It's self-evident. It's right there. With one

00:52:23.640 stroke of the old man's pen, the most important sentence in the document was thrown open to all

00:52:29.640 of mankind, believer and skeptic, Christian, Jew, deist, doubter, all of it. So you don't have to

00:52:36.360 take it on faith that you were born free. You only have to open your eyes. That is an edit that

00:52:43.620 changed the world. And the man who probably made it thought he was just tidying up the pros a bit.

00:52:51.140 So it's June 28th. The committee lays the draft before full Congress, and that's when the knives

00:52:58.100 come out okay not the committee's gentle trims but congresses over the first few days of july

00:53:06.420 they fought their way towards a vote itself the whole body went through jefferson's draft line

00:53:12.180 by line and then they cut a quarter of it a quarter and jefferson had to sit there the whole

00:53:18.800 time in the room sweating silent he couldn't bring himself to defend his own work out loud

00:53:27.580 he would sit there and he would watch them carve up his words in front of everybody can you imagine

00:53:32.380 imagine being a genius sitting in a room and watching a committee carve up everything you

00:53:37.820 anybody who's ever poured their soul into something and then watched a committee

00:53:41.360 you know redline it you know exactly the particular agony that that guy was going through

00:53:49.500 and then comes the most human part of the story part i never heard before

00:53:54.300 Ben Franklin is sitting next to Thomas Jefferson the whole time and he's watching that kid suffer

00:53:59.800 he's watching him flinch at every cut they make so Franklin leans over he says Tom I want to tell

00:54:10.540 you a story a story about a young hatter and he's opening up a new shop and he was so proud of what

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00:55:37.580 Tom.

00:55:39.080 Let me tell you a story.

00:55:44.580 There's this guy named John Thompson.

00:55:46.220 he was a store he was he was a hatter and he wanted to open a shop and he wanted to make the

00:55:51.820 best hat shop ever and he wanted this grand sign and he said he's gonna say john thompson hatter

00:55:58.060 makes and sells hats ready for money and it would have a picture of a hat on it

00:56:02.880 and he shows it to his friends and tom looks over at ben franklin smiling painfully most likely

00:56:12.560 and his friend says hatter that's redundant you have right there on the sign makes hats

00:56:24.820 why do you need hatter cut it and the next one says makes why do you need makes nobody cares

00:56:32.240 who made them cut it and the next guy says ready for money of course it's for money cut it on and

00:56:38.560 on friend by friend until all that was left on the sign was john thompson and a picture of a hat

00:56:45.200 franklin winked at him i know what you're going through and so does john thompson the hatter

00:56:53.240 don't take it personally

00:56:55.600 that's the wisest comfort an old man ever gave a wounded young one i think

00:57:04.600 but one of those cuts wasn't small and you need to hear this part clearly and squarely because

00:57:10.340 it's the hardest and most important truth in the whole document jefferson's original draft

00:57:16.140 contained a long blazing furious paragraph laid out the entire atlantic slave trade and he put

00:57:24.160 it right at the king george the third right at his feet he called it a cruel war against human

00:57:31.300 human nature itself the king was violating the most sacred rights of life and liberty

00:57:38.320 and he was keeping this this piratical warfare he's calling him a pirate who was the pirate

00:57:45.240 who were the pirates at the time the pirates at the time were the barbary pirates they were 0.89

00:57:49.900 the muslims they could just take people if you weren't muslim he could they could take you and 1.00

00:57:55.280 they could kill you they could rape you they could sell you into slavery because you're not really a 1.00

00:57:59.200 person because you're you're an infidel thomas jefferson says this piratical warfare is the 1.00

00:58:10.140 warfare and then he prints the christian king and underlines it mocking saying how dare you call 0.93

00:58:16.860 yourself a christian and he is determined to keep an open market where men are to be bought and sold

00:58:24.400 capitalized men are to be bought and sold because he wants the king to see it and remember

00:58:29.300 i said men all men are created equal and i count slaves as men but wait a minute didn't thomas

00:58:37.400 jefferson say didn't he have slaves why didn't he free why would he say that and then have slaves

00:58:44.400 Because in Virginia, in 1767, in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson proposes an Emancipation Proclamation.

00:58:55.700 Did you know that?

00:58:57.140 In the state of Virginia, long before he writes the Declaration of Independence, he authors an Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves must be freed.

00:59:12.240 You know who stopped it?

00:59:15.380 King George III.

00:59:18.560 That's why he was so passionate about this, because he goes on and he says,

00:59:22.740 you have stopped every attempt to stop slavery.

00:59:27.820 It was the most radical, most morally explosive passage in the entire declaration,

00:59:33.540 a whole paragraph, half a page.

00:59:37.480 Now, this doesn't let anybody off the hook in either direction,

00:59:40.160 because the truth cuts both ways, and you should hear all of it.

00:59:43.240 the contradiction is staggering and it is real. The man who wrote the searing condemnation of

00:59:48.460 slavery owned more than a human beings himself, freed almost none of them, even at his death,

00:59:53.500 because he couldn't. He was in debt and they were property. That's why he didn't include

00:59:58.060 life, liberty, and property. But you have to hold on to all of these things, both good and bad.

01:00:04.940 Don't flinch from it. That anti-slavery paragraph was in the document.

01:00:13.240 It was written. It was written by Thomas Jefferson. That's important. The Committee of Five, Franklin, Adams, all of them left it in. They didn't cut it. It was for the full Congress that had to strike it out. And Jefferson told us exactly why they did it and who did it. He wrote it down because he never forgived the Congress for doing this.

01:00:35.620 The clause condemning slavery, he said, was struck out, quote, in complacence to South Carolina and Georgia, the two colonies that have never once tried to restrain the importation of slaves and who fully intended to keep right on, end quote.

01:00:51.680 Two colonies.

01:00:53.100 That's who would not abide it.

01:00:57.940 It means 11 colonies said no to slavery.

01:01:01.160 A hundred years. 0.96

01:01:02.180 We were the only one saying this.

01:01:04.020 and we're still the only ones that feel bad about it.

01:01:08.240 And they did it to keep all 13 colonies in the same boat,

01:01:11.280 to keep the unanimity that if we didn't,

01:01:14.020 the whole thing would have died.

01:01:15.500 The bravest paragraph in the Declaration was thrown overboard.

01:01:18.300 It was replaced with a vague watered-down line

01:01:21.480 about the king stirring up domestic insurrections among us.

01:01:25.440 The thunder is gone.

01:01:27.320 The compromise was made.

01:01:29.260 And that unpaid debt would come due.

01:01:32.880 four score and nine years later

01:01:36.060 to be paid in a sea of blood

01:01:38.920 at places called Antietam and Gettysburg.

01:01:48.040 So how confident were these men

01:01:50.080 in what they had just done?

01:01:55.960 It depends on the man, really.

01:01:58.280 John Adams was certain it was monumental.

01:02:00.540 He wrote home to his wife.

01:02:01.880 tomorrow is the anniversary 250 years ago that he wrote to his wife abigail and said boy what

01:02:08.500 we did yesterday on july 2nd will be remembered forever it'll be celebrated down through the

01:02:13.640 generations with pomp and parade and bonfires and illuminations in the sky from one end of

01:02:19.500 the continent to other to the other july 2nd he wrote will be remembered forever

01:02:26.740 he just bet on the wrong day

01:02:30.420 he thought the day of the actual vote

01:02:34.740 not the fourth

01:02:36.520 the fourth is when we announced it

01:02:40.360 to the world

01:02:41.240 I think he might have been baffled to learn

01:02:44.520 that we light up the skies

01:02:46.120 two days late

01:02:47.600 at least at the beginning

01:02:48.800 and Jefferson

01:02:51.160 Jefferson never made peace with it

01:02:54.420 never

01:02:56.560 The cuts wounded him for the rest of his life.

01:03:01.020 In the days right after the 4th of July,

01:03:04.240 everybody else was celebrating, and he sat down,

01:03:06.620 and he quietly made clean copies of his original draft.

01:03:11.420 His director's cut, if you will, the version,

01:03:14.180 before Congress took the knife to it.

01:03:16.400 And he mailed them to his friends,

01:03:18.000 like Richard Hendler E. Lee and George Wythe.

01:03:21.860 And he sent them each a note.

01:03:23.540 one of them is almost funny in its wounded pride you judge for yourself he told lee

01:03:29.700 whether the thing is better or worse for the critics did the critics do the right thing

01:03:36.000 lee wrote him back and said no no no they mangled it tom they mangled it

01:03:41.320 another friend pendleton wrote thomas jefferson back after he sent them the original draft and

01:03:48.360 he said they changed it for the worst. Jefferson spent decades convinced that Congress had damaged

01:03:54.960 his masterpiece. I want you to decide for yourself because both versions survive. It is so easy.

01:04:03.720 Look up Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Do you know it's

01:04:08.880 this audience that is making this famous? I found this about eight years ago and no one was talking

01:04:15.760 about it. The Department of Education has announced it's going to be taught in schools

01:04:20.320 beginning in 2030 now. We showed the Department of Education this original draft and I explained

01:04:26.600 it to them. They were like, wait, what? How is it no one knows this? Because it answers

01:04:33.080 all of the questions. You can find it online. Read that to your children. Read the first

01:04:39.380 draft and then explain what happened.

01:04:46.540 Here's what I want you to leave with.

01:04:49.200 I want you to leave with the truth.

01:04:51.320 I want you to leave with the argument because it wasn't a parade.

01:04:55.040 It was a fight.

01:04:56.140 The finest words ever written down about human equality sit inside the very same document as deafening silence.

01:05:04.840 About the millions of human beings that equality did not yet reach a silence who.

01:05:11.440 That those men chose with open eyes.

01:05:14.320 they knew what they were doing

01:05:16.400 but they felt at the time

01:05:20.140 we won't make any progress

01:05:22.760 if we don't first

01:05:23.980 get free of the king

01:05:26.720 because he will never change

01:05:28.400 they knew it was a compromise

01:05:31.560 and they knew it was both

01:05:33.540 more than they could live up to

01:05:35.820 at the time

01:05:36.500 a hundred years before anybody else was

01:05:39.040 and a promise their grandchildren would be measured against

01:05:41.660 and found wanting

01:05:43.500 But they signed it anyway. Let me ask you, put yourself in their days. What would you have done?

01:05:55.640 They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a promise they knew they

01:05:59.500 were already breaking, and they trusted us, the people standing here 250 years downstream,

01:06:05.840 to finish what they could not. So go find it. Go read the original. Cut passages and all.

01:06:12.100 lay George Mason's Declaration of Rights beside it.

01:06:15.700 Read the flawed, frightened, brilliant, compromised, magnificent men

01:06:19.940 who actually wrote it with a rope in plain sight and the windows nailed shut.

01:06:25.340 The version they hand you in a school book is a statue.

01:06:28.540 It's cold, it's finished, it's safe, it's wrong.

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01:08:02.720 they don't want you to know this story about trump the golden door from ellis island to

01:08:15.760 the white house a new documentary now streaming on torch so we just did this documentary its

01:08:22.260 premiere was last night on the golden door we talk about the 14th amendment and somali fraud

01:08:28.120 Here's a clip of it in case you missed it last night.

01:08:30.840 And now we're arguing about birthright citizenship.

01:08:34.520 Why all these suicide packs? 0.90

01:08:41.500 The 14th Amendment was specifically written for the children of freed slaves, not for 0.86

01:08:48.120 people who fly in, have a baby and claim instant citizenship for the child while the 0.65

01:08:52.960 parents stay illegal.

01:08:54.020 That's insanity.

01:08:55.040 That's not what the authors intended.

01:08:57.580 and pretending otherwise is madness and wildly dishonest.

01:09:02.620 We're also not the destination of import for false and dangerous ideologies,

01:09:10.120 nor corruption from people who come here fleeing corruption. 0.92

01:09:16.440 The Somali fraud cases. 0.97

01:09:18.480 People were brought here under the promise that they would strengthen America. 1.00

01:09:22.820 And what happens?

01:09:23.660 With some of our own politicians' help, they set up massive welfare scams, ripping off the very taxpayers that welcomed them here.

01:09:32.300 We brought you in to make America better, and now you're stealing from us? 0.81

01:09:38.300 That is not the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

01:09:41.600 uh jonathan turley is uh with us a professor at georgetown university fox news contributor

01:09:50.380 and author of a tremendous book that everyone everyone uh should read jonathan turley the

01:09:58.460 author of rage and the republic welcome sir how are you thank you very much good to see you glenn

01:10:03.780 good to see you um i want to talk about uh some stories from your book here in a sec first can

01:10:09.540 we just comment on the 14th amendment i did this special last night that's not a suicide pack and

01:10:14.820 this is so dangerous this isn't we're not even facing the same kind of things that we were facing

01:10:19.980 30 years ago we are facing enemies of our country putting birth citizenship tourism in here how do

01:10:28.440 we stop this because congress isn't going to stop it yeah i've been a great critic of birthright

01:10:34.380 citizenship for many years. I think we're a ship of fools by embracing this practice. We're one of 0.96

01:10:41.160 a small number of countries. We're one of the outliers. Virtually all of our allies have

01:10:46.440 rejected this. Many of our allies had this practice and rescinded it because it was such

01:10:52.220 a bad idea. And so you have these, for example, Chinese companies that are virtually mocking us.

01:10:58.920 You know, they they have an open business to bring people over for this purpose. 0.99

01:11:03.240 Now, how do we proceed from here?

01:11:04.800 There's a couple of possible avenues.

01:11:06.900 The most obvious is a 28th Amendment to go ahead and have this debate.

01:11:11.560 It's now resolved in the courts.

01:11:13.660 It's not resolved in the country.

01:11:15.680 We have the ability to amend the Constitution, as our allies did with their own systems.

01:11:22.940 A lot of people say, well, that'll never pass, perhaps.

01:11:25.880 But we've never had a national debate on birthright citizenship, and maybe we need to have that.

01:11:31.920 The other possibility was laid out by Justice Kavanaugh in his concurrence.

01:11:37.120 This was a razor thin margin.

01:11:39.160 It was a 5-4 decision, was closer than some of us thought was going to happen because it was very clear that Roberts was going to vote for birthright citizenship.

01:11:50.080 Many people thought Kavanaugh would go with him.

01:11:52.580 Kavanaugh did not.

01:11:53.440 Kavanaugh said, I don't think that birthright citizenship can be found in the 14th Amendment.

01:11:58.360 But he said, even though the court has said that, we could still see Congress put limits on it.

01:12:05.180 Now, that's a debatable point.

01:12:07.240 I'm not confident that Roberts and Barrett will change their position.

01:12:11.960 But people in Congress are now moving to criminalize birth tourism, which should have been done decades ago.

01:12:20.560 Long time ago.

01:12:21.840 And the interesting thing about that, Glenn, is if we take both paths, we could have the

01:12:29.500 constitutional amendment debate going on, but then the legislation could be working

01:12:34.120 its way back to the Supreme Court.

01:12:36.700 There's a feeling among some that we left money on the table here, that this was a close

01:12:42.720 vote and that maybe the court would reconsider what it said, particularly if it's a narrower

01:12:48.520 question dealing with birth tourism, uh, we'll have to see, but there's a good reason to do both

01:12:55.240 tracks. Jonathan, um, I'm here in Washington DC. I know you live here. Um, and I've never seen the

01:13:03.080 city look better. I, I, I mean, the parks look beautiful. The monuments are beautiful. What is

01:13:08.220 happening on the mall is remarkable. And because of our press, I'm afraid nobody's going to see

01:13:14.560 this. I mean, it's remarkable what is happening in Washington, D.C. Can you give me any hope that

01:13:21.280 we haven't become, at least in Washington, D.C., a city where if you believe in the flag or the

01:13:26.860 Constitution or the declaration that you have to be MAGA? Do you see hope that we can come back

01:13:32.800 together on these principles? I do, Glenn. You know, the city looks gorgeous. You know, I was

01:13:40.060 here during the 1976 celebrations when i was a young congressional page this is far more grand

01:13:46.700 and it's gorgeous uh and i've talked to people including national guardsmen who are on the mall

01:13:52.520 they're having a ball i mean the national guards for snell are really loving it uh people who have

01:13:58.460 come down to the mall love it they had a they had a rodeo on the mall for god's sake i mean that

01:14:03.560 it was it was so cool they're doing it every day i saw it last night it's crazy yeah and even in

01:14:09.720 this heat it's like 100 degrees and people are still going out there but you know there is a

01:14:15.420 real crisis of faith in this country you know i just wrote uh this morning on my blog about

01:14:20.520 a guy who's going to be making it to congress he's unopposed who just trashed the declaration

01:14:26.420 of independence and said that fascism is written into the fabric of our country that's now in vogue

01:14:34.020 on the left uh but we can't have you know these are voices that have been around since our founding

01:14:40.100 and now there's more of them now but we shouldn't pretend that they're the majority most americans

01:14:47.680 are deeply patriotic most are celebrating the fourth yeah yeah donathan is it is it i mean

01:14:56.640 because i look at you know you you write the story of thomas paine and it's such an amazing guy he's

01:15:02.800 19 years old these were not old guys in powdered wigs that we think of just these old crotchety

01:15:09.260 these were young men that did it what is the difference why is this why is this idea of freedom

01:15:18.380 real true freedom that was birthed for the very first time here in america why did it attract the

01:15:25.560 people like thomas paine or um uh nathan hale or any of these guys it wasn't uh it wasn't thomas

01:15:33.420 pain that was 19 i think it was nathan hale um right who was the one that said give me liberty

01:15:37.780 or give me death right and i think and so you you have i you definitely have what's the difference

01:15:45.120 well the you know the difference is that this was a different place at its time uh you know you had

01:15:54.440 John Locke once said that in the beginning, all was America. And he was talking more than just

01:16:02.980 it's an unexplored territory. This was a place that people could begin anew, new things could

01:16:09.900 happen. And the world was fascinated by us. There was a Frenchman who wrote a book that I talk about

01:16:15.860 in Rage in the Republic. And he asked, what then is this American? They viewed us as a virtual new

01:16:21.660 species. And when you talk about figures like Patrick Henry and others, we were incredibly

01:16:27.660 lucky to have them with us. But Thomas Paine is a focus on the book. And some historians have asked

01:16:34.900 me why, because he's often dismissed. But Thomas Paine may be the quintessential American.

01:16:43.680 He was incredibly courageous and principled. He was also obnoxious and reckless. And he didn't

01:16:51.140 have many friends, but he was a genius. And he came to this country after failing in everything

01:16:59.060 he'd ever attempted. You know, I spoke to some young students not back, not long ago. And I said,

01:17:05.800 you know, you should think about Thomas Paine. Here's a guy who every business he started ended

01:17:11.220 in bankruptcy. Every job he held, he was fired from. His marriage has collapsed. He ended up

01:17:17.980 in London standing in front of a man as a heaping smoking pile of human wreckage. Nobody thought

01:17:25.580 anything would come of Thomas Paine except that one man in London, and that was Benjamin Franklin.

01:17:33.900 And he saw something in that wreckage and paid for him to come to the United States.

01:17:39.100 Two years later, Thomas Paine would write Common Sense and be called the Penman of the Revolution.

01:17:44.940 he sums up what it is about this country that this is a place where you can pursue your own

01:17:53.160 manifest destiny you can be that person that person that you have dreamt of becoming and

01:18:00.920 it's it's in the eyes of people like Thomas Paine it's in the eyes of people that come to this

01:18:05.860 country today you know when Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense he wrote it anonymously and John

01:18:13.520 Adams' wife wrote him and said, people think you wrote it. And he wrote back, and this was an

01:18:18.260 interesting letter, in my view, because John Adams was not a fan of Thomas Paine later in life.

01:18:24.640 But John Adams wrote back and said, I couldn't have written that book, but I think I know who did.

01:18:30.360 I met a man named Thomas Paine, and he had genius in his eyes. Well, it is, as you say, Glenn,

01:18:37.640 an amazing fortune that we have in this country.

01:18:42.400 We had these incredible individuals coming together

01:18:45.760 at just the right time, at just the right place.

01:18:48.980 Keep in mind, this is the world's first major

01:18:52.000 Enlightenment revolution.

01:18:53.400 The Enlightenment writers have been around for a while.

01:18:56.020 John Locke had written for a long time ago.

01:18:58.720 And that's why Europe really were fascinated

01:19:01.560 that this people, these groups, this group of people

01:19:05.720 came together at some point on the globe. They had no contact, no connection with each other,

01:19:10.940 no real connection to the land, no stratified institutions. And they created the first

01:19:19.580 Enlightenment revolution. And they wanted to know, who then is this American? So the question I ask

01:19:26.240 in the book is, can we answer that question today? Who were we then? And who are we now?

01:19:34.460 We have to answer that question, or we won't have another 250th anniversary.

01:19:38.960 We'll not be here for the 500th.

01:19:42.100 But there's a lot of...

01:19:44.400 Go ahead. No, finish.

01:19:48.700 This crisis of faith is being fueled by people who want to condition us,

01:19:54.120 who want to break that spirit, who want us to accept that on the 250th anniversary,

01:19:59.400 we should trash the Constitution.

01:20:00.760 law professors, law deans, saying the Constitution has to go, that we have to pack the Supreme

01:20:05.660 Court.

01:20:06.460 They're trying to condition voters to accept radical change in the world's oldest and most

01:20:13.080 successful democratic republic.

01:20:17.380 So, Jonathan, I only got about 90 seconds, and I know you're talking about a different

01:20:22.240 kind of faith.

01:20:22.860 You're talking about a faith in America, the faith in the experiment itself and the

01:20:28.320 documents itself.

01:20:29.200 but there's also another faith and you know it kills me when people say these were all deist

01:20:33.200 no deist will ever talk about miracles and they all almost all of them talk about the miracles

01:20:38.980 that they witnessed to bring this whole thing about um and i went wondering you know we're

01:20:46.200 having this crisis of faith of who we are and then i see fifa come and i see all of these people

01:20:51.860 online saying how great america is and it has touched so many americans it's renewing our

01:20:59.200 faith it's like wow we're not the bad guys we're not wrong we we do have something to be proud

01:21:03.800 about um and it has given me such a boost this summer on our 250 and i i wonder if that's not

01:21:11.500 kind of a smile from divine providence again on when we really need it providence is smiling

01:21:19.380 down and saying, you know, listen to what these people are saying. I think it is, Glenn. And the

01:21:24.740 fact is that what made us an Enlightenment revolution is a core principle that our rights

01:21:30.420 come from God, not from the government. That's what John Locke wrote about. That's what they

01:21:35.180 embraced. And it's no really, you know, error or oversight. You know, in France, they went after

01:21:44.660 of the clergy first they rejected organized religion they rejected the protection of faith

01:21:51.140 in the united states we didn't we embraced it and the two revolutions turned out quite differently

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01:28:58.820 Anna, welcome.

01:28:59.960 Thanks for having me back, Glenn.

01:29:01.000 It is so great to have you.

01:29:03.240 Thank you, yeah, especially on the 250th birthday weekend.

01:29:06.260 I know, it's nuts.

01:29:07.260 I know, it's nuts.

01:29:08.700 I don't remember what congressman, I'm sorry to change this subject,

01:29:11.300 but i just noticed your congressional pen there and i had a congressman walking with me at one

01:29:17.060 point or maybe it was a senator and he took it off the minute he got off the capitol grounds he

01:29:21.220 took it off and he said this is the ring he's like this is i feel like i think it's massey

01:29:27.880 it was massey yeah he's he's right um i like to wear it during press interviews for speech and

01:29:32.440 debate clause because people try to sue you oh as long as you're wearing that well you know

01:29:37.920 Because you've invited me as my official capacity.

01:29:41.100 So, you know, when I'm talking about people's insider trading and stuff, yeah.

01:29:44.620 Wow.

01:29:45.560 Wow.

01:29:46.080 Yeah, he took it off.

01:29:46.880 He said, I don't like it because he's like, it's the power of the ring.

01:29:50.240 It's like, it's my precious, my precious.

01:29:54.060 He's not wrong.

01:29:55.060 He's not wrong for a lot of people, you know, especially right now with the political climate, too.

01:29:59.900 You don't want to wear it unless you're, you know, on the hill because it's a target.

01:30:06.180 Scary?

01:30:07.500 It's definitely changed, especially after Charlie.

01:30:10.020 But what's even crazier is that, you know, there's this sentiment of assassination culture

01:30:14.740 where people are actually pushing it and embracing it.

01:30:17.500 And I mean, we can probably do a whole segment on what just happened in New York with a lot

01:30:21.800 of the DSA candidates getting elected.

01:30:24.160 But, you know, there's been a lot of anti-white rhetoric, a lot of, I believe I saw one comment

01:30:30.860 specifically that said gas and it was um referencing a group you know of predominantly

01:30:36.540 jewish americans and so you know that type of stuff is is really horrifying to see because

01:30:41.660 these people say oh well communism or socialism just hasn't been done correctly yeah and we know

01:30:45.760 that that's when when when i mean how many times do we have to go through this it's the same it's

01:30:50.360 the same thing it just doesn't work um generally speaking you you you hopeful well yeah so last

01:30:58.120 time i was talking with you i think we were talking about the neville roy singham and the

01:31:01.060 network and um you saw that the department of justice has a massive investigation and has been

01:31:06.440 working on investigating him going after him criminally so yes absolutely hopeful so i had

01:31:11.160 jason was with me i had the fbi call how long ago is that three months ago jason oh yeah easy yeah

01:31:17.720 easy maybe maybe six months ago uh the fbi called and said we'd like to talk to you and i'm like do

01:31:23.520 I need to come. Is there a problem? Always bring a lawyer. Jason, what did you do? Yeah, yeah, I did.

01:31:30.420 So I said, sure, come on over to the house. So a couple of agents came over to the house and they

01:31:34.300 were actually, you know, gathering information and they said, you know, so much about these

01:31:38.960 networks. And I said, well, tell me what you guys know. And it was almost nothing. Yeah, they're

01:31:43.940 new. A lot of them, you know, you'd figure that the criminal aspect, this gets in too far. So I

01:31:49.440 actually have the legislation already back. I'm writing it with Derek Van Orden, who's another

01:31:54.840 member of Congress. And so it's specifically to force influencers to kind of actually go after

01:31:59.720 these networks also for taking money from foreign governments. So we know that with the Singham

01:32:03.740 Network specifically, he's getting a lot of funding from China. But now that the Department

01:32:07.060 of Justice is actually doing their job instead of going after, you know, people at abortion clinics

01:32:11.900 that are simply protesting or, you know, Catholics, it's crazy what happens when the government does

01:32:17.000 their job and it was crazy to me as they sat down jace and i they left and jace and i were like oh

01:32:22.600 my gosh i mean and it makes sense you know obama biden they're not investigating any of this stuff

01:32:28.200 they don't want any investigation on this stuff um and it was amazing to me how little they knew

01:32:34.260 at the time because these are advanced networks and if the those networks are put on notice

01:32:41.640 oh we're coming for you some of it will go deeper into hiding but a lot of it will just stop because

01:32:48.600 it's right on the surface well a lot of these people to include the individuals that were

01:32:54.580 knowingly engaged with taking money from foreign governments are now also under investigation

01:32:58.780 but you can't just do investigations there has to be punitive action to it and so that's going to

01:33:03.580 happen wait wait wait say that again because that's like conservative yeah you don't hear

01:33:08.560 that all yeah so it's going to happen they're not just investigating to investigate they are going

01:33:12.880 after these people and so i have known about the investigation for some time i just can't talk

01:33:19.580 about it until the doj actually does their announcement but you know this goes back to

01:33:24.180 yeah even with the pin even with the pin um senator i think the pin gives you permission

01:33:28.560 to say it here well yeah depending on who's who's interpreting the rules right right um

01:33:34.000 Senator Rubio at the time, when he was on Senate intelligence, actually had written a letter, was following the Stingham Network.

01:33:41.360 Senator Rick Scott actually also just did a letter to say, hey, some of these organizations like Code Pink, we need to remove the 501c3 status of them.

01:33:50.060 Also to Senator Jim Banks.

01:33:51.860 So we have a lot of good conservative senators that are following this.

01:33:54.240 But, you know, I mean, can we please go to the Senate?

01:33:56.740 Because I got a lot to share.

01:33:58.100 Yeah, yeah.

01:33:58.600 OK, so let's go.

01:33:59.680 Yeah.

01:33:59.860 So, you know, I want to just be really clear about something.

01:34:03.160 we're on america's 250th birthday right now our birthday celebration basically this entire year

01:34:08.320 and we control the house the senate and the white house and yet you have a group of four republicans

01:34:16.580 in senate and really john thune who has every ability to enforce the talking filibuster and

01:34:23.120 just doesn't want to do it mike lee is beside himself well but the thing is is that you cannot

01:34:28.160 like if you're going to continue the cycle of insanity then you can't complain about it but

01:34:32.620 that's why i'm taking such a hard line position on what i'm doing right now with by the way other

01:34:38.480 members of congress this is not just my fight i mean you have members of the freedom caucus

01:34:41.720 representative tim birch at max miller all these members are saying hey hold up we have the ability

01:34:47.700 to in the text of the national defense authorization act put the save america act and yet why are we

01:34:54.300 not doing it and so i'm not voting for the rule they're not going to vote for the rule and the

01:34:59.280 excuse that i got from leadership actually i got a call from steve sclease and he said we can't put

01:35:03.600 it in because it's considered not germane that means it has nothing to do with the bill um first

01:35:07.280 of all there's been many cases this year in the 119th congress where they've done other legislation

01:35:12.220 that you could argue was not germane and they stuck things in and secondly as a veteran if you're

01:35:18.240 telling me that voter id and proof of citizenship and everything else in stephenberg is not important

01:35:22.940 to national defense and security maybe you haven't been paying attention it is and so we have especially

01:35:28.380 with especially with what's happening with china especially with with what's happening with iran

01:35:33.700 it's not just china and iran it is chuck schumer saying that he wants to give citizenship to

01:35:40.540 millions of illegal people here it is the fact that it doesn't matter if it's one or a hundred

01:35:46.800 or a thousand cases of voter fraud why would you not want to secure that it is the fact that you

01:35:52.080 have you know i call them blue annons but these democrats that are saying oh the you know the

01:35:56.980 Trump machine is going to steal the election. You hear this crazy concept that they stole the last

01:36:01.780 election. Well, let's play devil's advocate. If you really think the election is going to be

01:36:05.260 stolen, don't you want voter ID? But like, even aside from that, even aside from party politics,

01:36:10.300 black, white, Hispanic, Democrat, Republican, independent, men, women, we all want voter ID,

01:36:16.100 period. And so I'm not going to, I don't care if they go on television and trash me. Everyone

01:36:21.200 who's paying attention knows that if we don't stick this in the NDA, if we don't stick it in

01:36:25.580 If we don't try everything, if we don't try reconciliation, it will never become law.

01:36:29.380 And that's not that's not an option.

01:36:31.140 Is the president for you on this or against you?

01:36:34.260 Because I I won't speak for the president.

01:36:36.720 But what I will say is that I have been one of President Trump's very few from the beginning protectors and defenders.

01:36:44.820 And I was with him in New York City and I will continue to have his back.

01:36:48.560 And there are some members of Congress that are using this fight right now for some personal reasons and gains.

01:36:57.220 I think he's addressing them, not me.

01:37:00.140 Can you tell me what the hell is wrong with Thune?

01:37:04.560 People ask me all the time, why won't they do it?

01:37:08.500 What are they gaining by not doing it other than just continuing to play the game?

01:37:15.280 You know, John Thune's GOP went to censure him. Then they said, well, if we censure him, it's going to give the Democrats a win. I would argue that, you know, when you have someone that's failing to deliver on one of the promises that the Republican Party made to the American people, then that's a failure in itself.

01:37:34.520 And when you in the military, you learn when you have poor leadership, you don't blame the enlisted.

01:37:39.260 You take responsibility as a commanding officer.

01:37:42.220 So where is the responsibility taking of the Senate?

01:37:45.580 Then you have these other members that don't care.

01:37:48.280 So this idea in the Senate is and you can see it.

01:37:51.280 They were more concerned about putting the automatic wind for some of the lawsuits that they had for their cases.

01:37:58.940 Then they were debating Save America.

01:38:00.620 They're more concerned about dog parades than Save America.

01:38:03.700 they all went on recess and vacation and then they're attacking Mike Lee behind closed doors

01:38:08.480 and Senator Scott because he's fighting. I don't care. I don't want to be in Senate.

01:38:13.520 And what I will tell you is part of the freeing part of, I think, my mentality in this is that

01:38:17.780 I don't care if I'm here for 10 years or not. So I can do what's right and necessary.

01:38:23.800 So let me tell you something. When you actually don't care, because that's what terrified people.

01:38:29.500 when I was at the network level, that terrified them because I didn't care if I was on Fox for

01:38:35.300 another day or CNN. It didn't matter to me. I don't care. When you actually can say,

01:38:41.120 I don't care. And people believe you, the power that comes with that is remarkable because people

01:38:50.380 don't know what to do with you. There's no way to intimidate you. You're like, go ahead. I don't

01:38:55.960 care the best advice i ever got was from jim jordan two things the first thing he said is

01:39:00.340 always travel with your spouse because you know you're a young woman and they'll try to spread

01:39:03.700 rumors um which i do always travel to my spouse and my child as well um and then the other thing

01:39:08.920 was is if you promise to do what you said you were going to do on the campaign trail it's remarkable

01:39:14.240 how easy it will be for you at this job and i promise to do this to every single one of my

01:39:19.520 voters and you know what when people go to the press and they trash me i'm not going to bring

01:39:25.260 up their stock trades that look remarkably similar to insider trading. I'll let the American people

01:39:30.820 do that. But what I will focus on is my parliamentary tools in my toolkit. And guess

01:39:36.000 what? You want my vote? Put the text of the Save America Act in the National Defense Authorization

01:39:41.600 Act. Stop giving me excuses. Stop pulling parliamentary procedure. Stop lying to the

01:39:45.600 American people and saying that we're obstructing. We are fighting. You all promised to do this when

01:39:50.520 you guys got elected again i have to go back why won't they well there is some concern i think in

01:39:56.420 the house that senate would have to take a tough vote on the nda but i don't care oh my gosh let's

01:40:03.960 send it over let's help our frontline members that depend on this let's help them get elected

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01:40:17.960 if the Senate's going to then make the decision to strip that out, let them offer the amendment

01:40:22.760 to strip it out. Let them take that vote and let John Thune say, this is what my chamber did,

01:40:27.880 but it is not my job. And I refuse to run cover for the Senate. And I refuse to run cover for

01:40:33.420 those in the House that are trying to protect the Senate. Do you think the GOP, is anyone

01:40:38.060 learning the lesson from Cornyn and what happened, that the GOP voter is just done? We're not playing

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01:42:38.900 that rule when we get back so what is the plan from here so the plan is is that there was a

01:42:47.800 procedural maneuver that um the floor leader decided to do so he voted against the rule

01:42:53.180 um with us so that he could call it call up the vote again and potentially try to save it but

01:43:00.660 there's no saving the rule in the current form that it was written and i want to be really clear

01:43:04.360 about something the republican party leadership knew where they're at with this vote weeks out

01:43:10.380 and they didn't want to negotiate and so it's going to fail um i'm very comfortable with that

01:43:17.840 i've already made my peace with it so if they want the nda to go through they're going to have

01:43:22.740 to attach save america act to it by the way the national defense authorization act isn't actually

01:43:27.560 due till september and then i want to just argue this one point in that they're saying well we can

01:43:31.940 do stuff in reconciliation. I think we should do all of the above. Every single piece of legislation

01:43:35.700 going to the Senate needs to have Save America Tech. Force them to strip it out every single 1.00

01:43:40.340 time. Force them to take that vote. But also in reconciliation, there's only certain things that

01:43:44.600 we can do because reconciliation has to have a monetary tie to it. And so we can incentivize

01:43:49.760 states, for example, to purge their voter rolls. We can incentivize states to require voter ID.

01:43:54.420 But you really think that places like New York and California are going to say that they're

01:43:58.400 going to do that. They're just going to get their members of Senate to get the appropriations and

01:44:02.720 they'll go around it. How concerned are you about this 66% new poll out? 66% of conservative and

01:44:09.660 moderate Democrats have no problem with the socialists in their party now. That goes into

01:44:14.980 the foreign influence operation. If the DOJ continues doing what they're going to do and

01:44:19.740 brings criminal action, which I think they will against some of these people, and then we pass

01:44:23.320 legislation to prevent influencers from taking money from foreign governments and then you know

01:44:29.020 we meet with x um meta in in identifying at least accounts that are foreign run accounts so like x

01:44:36.460 did something brilliant where they were actually able to show where these accounts were being run

01:44:40.200 out of and you saw a lot of the biggest critics or even sometimes posing as right-wing accounts

01:44:44.920 were actually being run out of africa and asia and like just not not american citizens um that

01:44:51.940 will help but ultimately it's about whether or not you can articulate and debate those ideas and my

01:44:57.160 concern is that you have people that are so upset with the republican party but like what have you

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01:45:12.340 what i loved about charlie is while everyone was complaining he was doing he would go to the

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01:45:27.680 you know, but also to our country is still not as bad as what these people said is look at the

01:45:32.920 like the videos of the Europeans coming and they're like smuggling out ranch dressing and 0.85

01:45:37.300 I think this is divine. I think this is divine providence giving us hope when we were losing it.

01:45:43.700 Yeah. And it's, you know, you can track politics and it can be kind of negative, but like, look at us compared to other countries and it's amazing. And what I will say is that, you know, you have the administration. Some people didn't want the peace deal in Iran to work. That's too bad for them. It's going to hold up and we're going to get the peace deal with Russia, Ukraine, and that will be President Trump's legacy.

01:46:02.280 You think we're going to get the peace deal?

01:46:04.120 Why do you say that?

01:46:07.560 You're wearing the pin.

01:46:08.880 She's clutching the pin.

01:46:10.080 Do I?

01:46:10.820 My precious.

01:46:12.080 Yeah, I think that based on conversations.

01:46:16.500 And what I will say is that a lot of people are going to be upset about that in Congress

01:46:21.760 because they're not going to be making too much money anymore on their stock portfolios.

01:46:25.720 But it's too bad.

01:46:26.380 That's not what the plan is.

01:46:27.500 And so I'm happy that President Trump is at the helm.

01:46:30.080 And what I will say is that a lot of people can speculate, but they don't actually know what's happening with internal conversations.

01:46:35.580 I was talking to a prime minister over in Europe recently, and he said, you know, we were just having dinner, and he said—

01:46:41.280 Casually, just having dinner with the prime minister.

01:46:42.720 Yeah, and he said there were three mafias, the industrial—

01:46:50.220 Military industrial complex.

01:46:51.620 Yep, that one, the pharmaceuticals, healthcare industry, and the press.

01:46:57.500 he said they are actual mob families and they should be they should be treated as such yeah

01:47:03.100 and they're everywhere i noticed when i started engaging and saying like hey i support the

01:47:06.720 president's doing with the peace talk with russia ukraine and then a lot of um eu members were kind

01:47:12.100 of you know coming at me then i found out one was a convicted or like had some like child

01:47:16.900 conviction um and so i called him out for that he got quiet real quick on that but um you know

01:47:22.380 there's a lot of these people that you know you can just see it it's it's blatant and again you

01:47:27.200 have to be able to push back but you know is that really good for ratings on the news no it's not

01:47:32.280 people don't want to talk about a peace deal people want to talk about you know the stuff

01:47:36.040 that's going to get them clicks i do and i think americans really you do yeah you're different yeah

01:47:39.800 i think people would love to hear it oh so always so good to see you thank you for so much for

01:47:43.700 coming in making the time and happy independence week happy independence yeah thank you um congresswoman

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01:49:39.680 So, welcome back

01:49:41.080 it is uh our last uh half hour here before we go to celebrate and we'll be back on monday again

01:49:47.020 from uh from washington dc um anna paulina luna has decided to stay with us because jason had

01:49:55.040 roped her in for something wholly inappropriate uh thun the ballless rhino uh and uh so then we

01:50:02.480 started talking about you know ufos or uaps and are you happy with what the progress we're making

01:50:09.520 on this? Yeah, mainly because I under the last administration, we are being obstructed really

01:50:14.960 until President Trump gave the green light for them to start releasing stuff. We would not have

01:50:19.700 been able to talk about or share some of the investigations that have been conducted by the

01:50:24.800 federal government. We wouldn't have been able to talk about some of the footage that you're now

01:50:28.740 seeing. Do you can I ask you and I'm not asking you for details. I'm asking you, do you know

01:50:34.080 something that has not been released do you know things that you feel the american people should

01:50:39.720 know there will be an announcement soon on one other kind of factor to all this but it's nothing

01:50:46.220 that i i think it'll just be kind of give the assurance that people will understand that the

01:50:51.660 phenomenon is real um but no i mean for the most part everything that we have been able to discuss

01:50:58.220 in a skiff we can now talk about publicly and what i will say is without a doubt the phenomena is

01:51:04.420 real the phenomena is real and are you leaning one way or another foreign or not earthly

01:51:12.120 i think when you talk about these things i don't want to say not earthly because we don't know

01:51:18.440 yeah okay they're here or not but what i would say is that energy is real and a lot of these

01:51:23.940 you can see in some of them orbs. It can't explain it. And so I think that gets into

01:51:28.560 a deeper discussion. But when you are talking about this, when I first started kind of on

01:51:32.920 this journey with Representative Burleson and Representative Burchett, Representative

01:51:36.580 Jared Moskowitz and Representative Gates, a lot of people said, you are going to ruin

01:51:40.000 your career over this. It is one of the most widely questioned things now. And I think

01:51:44.900 this gets into a deeper issue of, you know, do you think that we're the only, are you?

01:51:49.280 So that's what I was going to ask you. Instead of saying, do you know something? Let me say

01:51:52.240 this is this a defense or is this a spiritual question which is the bigger question defense

01:52:01.940 or philosophical spiritual uh with pin on defense defense national security

01:52:08.480 okay with pin off i think what is pin on pin off oh okay okay

01:52:13.060 the ring okay i got it i got it yeah um pin off i think that it real really kind of

01:52:21.580 ask, make people ask the fundamental question of, do you believe that we, well, first of all,

01:52:26.420 do you believe in God or not? And then do you believe that we're the only creation?

01:52:30.580 I don't understand.

01:52:31.500 Not speculating on nefarious or bad.

01:52:33.660 I don't understand how people are saying that this is going to make everybody question their

01:52:37.820 faith. It's not going to, if I find out that there are other beings, why would it question faith?

01:52:41.860 There was a group of pastors. I don't even know who these pastors are that said that they had

01:52:45.720 been briefed and that was wholeheartedly not true. And Eric Burleson put out a statement

01:52:49.500 to actually say,

01:52:51.420 I don't know why my comments

01:52:52.720 are being taken out of context.

01:52:54.560 I think a lot of people

01:52:56.020 that knew the phenomenon was real,

01:52:58.660 and I'm not saying that these pastors do this,

01:53:00.120 but what I am saying is I have,

01:53:01.760 we have come across people in our investigations

01:53:03.700 that were knownly planting false information

01:53:06.680 to discredit it,

01:53:08.140 that were then stonewalling,

01:53:09.760 obstructive people that have lied.

01:53:11.180 I mean, if you've seen it on Reddit.

01:53:13.100 From inside the house?

01:53:13.900 From inside the government?

01:53:14.960 All over.

01:53:16.220 People within the sector on UAP investigations,

01:53:18.780 people within the chambers and intelligence etc um the former director of arrow very famously

01:53:25.300 attacked our witnesses and us and then the new director of arrow is 180 different and has

01:53:30.400 actually been doing an incredible job tulsi tulsi gabbard you i mean but she's heroic yeah heroic

01:53:37.120 what she's done yeah and i think a lot of people you notice that they're trying to attack her i

01:53:41.380 mean let's just like look at what she declassified on fauci that's insane literally fauci is dr

01:53:48.040 mangala i don't know how you can't compare it we're actually looking at doing a hearing on the

01:53:52.840 declassified files but that's what it is we just had a hearing on mk ultra some of the stuff on

01:53:56.840 that was explosive but even with what tulsi operation paperclip the worst mistake this

01:54:01.880 country ever made bringing these doctors in after the nuremberg trials they gave them they gave them

01:54:07.500 a pass but i mean that was you know so we're correcting historical wrongs here which is i

01:54:13.020 very important but if you better than tearing down statues better than that history correcting

01:54:17.940 the historical wrongdoings of the past to move forward in a good direction um but also to you

01:54:23.980 know with what tulsi just released on the russia collusion front and like think about this we had

01:54:31.200 such and we're going to tie this to the peace talk stuff right now up until really clinton and

01:54:35.880 bush we had open dialogue and discussion with the russian government which by the way we talked to

01:54:40.500 china china sends spy balloons over the country why would we not talk to russia another nuclear

01:54:44.440 superpower then people say oh this is russian propaganda no i'm sorry this is foreign policy

01:54:48.940 big difference and diplomatic talks um but then you see that obama put together the team to

01:54:55.720 legally spy on trump they use russia as a scapegoat fracturing permanently fracturing

01:55:01.740 and convincing half the country that we need to hate and basically try to bait us into a war with

01:55:07.820 Russia. And then you see that Tulsi declassifies that the funding that was supposed to go to

01:55:12.600 Ukraine is going to Joe Biden's reelection campaign on House Oversight. We find out

01:55:16.800 about the laundering of funds from Burisma, a Ukrainian company, to Joe Biden's family

01:55:21.180 directly. I mean, crazy corruption. We all knew this. But it's declassified now. We have proof.

01:55:27.280 And now, you know, this comes at an interesting time because President Trump is trying to get

01:55:31.280 the peace to negotiate. I'm not pro-Russia, pro-Ukraine. I'm pro-America. We can't continue

01:55:35.720 funding this war and by the way we should be leading with peace talks not tomahawks i mean

01:55:39.420 this is common sense so yes tulsi did incredible as odni and i hope that people can understand

01:55:45.740 that what she's declassified maybe people don't like her for personal reasons i like her i happen

01:55:51.780 to like her greatly what she did is a great service to this country and i hope that people

01:55:57.120 understand the magnitude of that you see how who is it's coming after the new uh dni no yeah hillary

01:56:03.960 clinton leading the today the story is she's leading this campaign to get him out because

01:56:08.900 he's just not qualified and i'm like i you know what since many of you had a problem with somebody

01:56:13.460 who is inept you know a problem that they're they're going to look for things you don't want

01:56:18.260 found i was at the deposition um for her with jeffrey epstein yeah and uh she could not be

01:56:24.800 more different than her husband because i was there for bill clinton and hillary and she's just

01:56:29.480 not a nice lady oh she's nasty he's not a likable person very and and truly truly just not a nice

01:56:35.620 lady yeah um bill i could see why he was president he like just interesting kind of seeing how he

01:56:41.560 kind of navigated everything but um you know her attacking pulte that's a badge of honor

01:56:48.460 i agree i agree congresswoman can i switch topics over to the memorandum of understanding really

01:56:54.540 quick um on iran on iran um there's i think our glenn and i have i think been on the same page

01:57:01.080 here as we've been saying let's just like take a step back and wait to see what they're doing on

01:57:04.380 this but the mainstream very smart approach imagine right i mean why are they going to tell

01:57:08.900 us they're not telling us i mean we're not in the rooms we don't know let's trust the people we

01:57:13.300 elected until they prove that they're not trustworthy and donald trump has not proven

01:57:18.040 to me at least to not be trustworthy correct and you're also seeing this effort to try to pit

01:57:22.480 Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance against one another, which is totally false. Marco's brilliant. J.D.'s

01:57:28.120 brilliant. And they work together well. They work together well. The president has a good team

01:57:33.500 going, but not to mention, no one also gives Kushner and Whitcoff enough credit because they

01:57:39.180 are also a part of those discussions. And what I would say is that going back to the kind of

01:57:42.660 foreign influence operation and really trying to destroy this country, first of all, no influencer

01:57:47.460 is going to be able to give you a scoop on what's happening with private negotiations. Secondly,

01:57:52.480 anyone who's ever going to advocate for war

01:57:55.000 is always on the wrong side of history.

01:57:56.720 It is literally in the Bible.

01:57:58.060 What does it say about the peacemakers?

01:57:59.820 Blessed.

01:58:00.560 Exactly.

01:58:01.260 So I'll take the biblical word over that.

01:58:04.140 But aside from that, what I would say is that,

01:58:06.760 you know, you have to change the method of insanity

01:58:10.140 with negotiation if it didn't work the first time.

01:58:12.500 And so they are trying a different approach

01:58:14.300 and I think it will hold up.

01:58:15.480 You're always going to have factions that are resisting.

01:58:17.660 But if you look at what's happened recently, 0.87

01:58:19.500 You know, there is incentivizing factors to get Iran to play ball. And if you look at what President Trump did with his Board of Peace, having countries like Russia involved, etc., you think that that's not a factor in making sure that the peace deal holds up?

01:58:34.540 I mean, do people not understand that President Trump has a very good, respected and respected as a keyword position on the world stage with these other global leaders?

01:58:45.100 And so what I will say is that I'm going to back him fully on this and I will take on the entire machine if I do.

01:58:52.220 Yeah, I'm with you on that. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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02:00:29.680 Hey, you don't want to miss, if you're anywhere in the DC area and you're looking for something

02:00:44.020 to do 4th of July, these fireworks are truly going to be once in a lifetime. You may never

02:00:50.060 see anything like this again. 3,000 to 8,000 shells is what a normal fireworks show is for

02:00:57.120 a large city these are 850,000 shells there will be as many as two to five thousand fireworks in

02:01:06.840 the sky at the end at the same time from eight stations nothing like this has ever been done

02:01:13.260 normally they spend about a hundred thousand dollars on the fireworks this through private

02:01:18.520 donations and everything else is 1.6 million dollars in a fight you will never it's a world

02:01:23.120 record firework show never been done you don't want to miss this is this going to be on the mall

02:01:27.800 i don't know what you're talking about okay so anna ponte luna luna loves you because she didn't

02:01:33.020 ask you the questions you're supposed to you got to tell us the mall story yeah we got four minutes

02:01:36.920 let's go i made it i want to preface this with i've never said this story out loud before because

02:01:42.760 it's so humiliating okay i'm i'm 18 years old i'm from seattle i've never seen a beltway i told you

02:01:49.160 that I'm on the, I have to go, I have to go into, you know, Maryland. I'm in Maryland. I just get

02:01:54.780 on to 495 North. All of a sudden it says, welcome to Virginia. I know that South. How am I on,

02:01:59.940 wait a minute. I'm on 495 South. I get off the exit. I turn around. I get back onto 495 North.

02:02:06.220 Then all of a sudden I see, welcome to Virginia, 495 South. What the hell is happening? Okay. So

02:02:12.560 I'm, I'm out of my element. I'm out of my element. I come for an interview here in Washington, DC.

02:02:19.160 And I'm going to work for WPGC and it's, we're snowed in.

02:02:23.400 And so I don't see anything where we pick us up at the airport.

02:02:26.800 The program director says we're going right to the studios.

02:02:29.140 We're going to probably have to sleep at the studios record snowstorm.

02:02:32.980 It's me, the afternoon guy, Bruce Kelly, and the program director were trapped in the studios for three days.

02:02:39.420 I'm on the air talking about a city.

02:02:41.700 I don't know anything about in the snowstorm and doing shows every six hours for three days.

02:02:46.680 so it starts to thaw and everything's opening back up and uh the program director says hey

02:02:52.880 before you leave you can't come to washington without going to the mall 0.56

02:02:55.400 now i'm from the west i'm stupid and i'm i don't say anything but i think to myself 0.79

02:03:03.620 why would i want to go to a freaking mall i want to see the monuments but he's like insistent you 0.95

02:03:09.800 got to go to the mall and i'm like i've seen a mall before i don't need to see macy's um and so

02:03:16.540 he takes me into Washington.

02:03:19.100 I'm really kind of,

02:03:19.960 I'm just stewing in it.

02:03:21.140 Why are we driving to the mall?

02:03:23.100 I've got an hour.

02:03:24.120 I want to see Lincoln.

02:03:25.580 So we get to the,

02:03:26.700 we get to the mall and we're standing there and there are all the monuments.

02:03:30.980 And he said,

02:03:31.660 here's the mall.

02:03:33.520 I start looking for an entrance.

02:03:36.000 Oh honey.

02:03:36.660 And I'm like,

02:03:37.580 what a great country.

02:03:40.100 We've built a mall underneath the monuments. 1.00

02:03:46.540 oh he looked at me like i can't hire you i can't hire you you are too stupid he gave me the job 1.00

02:03:53.740 because he was desperate but that what i love about this is that earlier you told us you were 1.00

02:03:58.260 19 now you say you're eight i think i was 12 i was 12 yeah i was 19 years old i was not 18 but

02:04:07.140 i want to believe i was 12 i mean i know i think of that i mean but you don't know that you don't

02:04:12.420 What else do you call the mall?

02:04:13.560 You don't call the mall.

02:04:15.080 Why do we call it the mall?

02:04:16.360 I don't know why we call it a mall.

02:04:18.160 You're Mr. History.

02:04:19.000 I don't know.

02:04:19.960 I don't have all the answers.

02:04:21.200 I barely knew it wasn't an Ann Taylor underneath Lincoln.

02:04:23.940 That's fine.

02:04:24.480 I had no idea.

02:04:26.280 An Ann Taylor.

02:04:27.300 Yeah.

02:04:27.680 Let's be serious.

02:04:28.540 18, 19-year-old Gledbeck was really looking forward to going to Sparrow.

02:04:31.820 Yeah, I was.

02:04:32.800 I was.

02:04:33.500 They are making pizza at a Sparrow underneath Washington's monument.

02:04:38.760 Do you think they had Hot Topic back then?

02:04:40.640 You know, back in the 50s?

02:04:41.820 um oh excuse me what did you just say we are right way running out of time

02:04:47.780 way running out of time are you guys staying for the fireworks yeah you are of course you are i am

02:04:52.640 i have waiting on my invite from you to watch with the family but uh having i don't know my

02:04:57.740 phone's been a little maybe myself so the person who just made me tell the mall story is now saying

02:05:03.560 watch with the family hmm i'm not sure i can make that happen help yeah if we can get you in because

02:05:10.160 i i think we have i think we're supposed to be in a i don't know i think we were invited by somebody

02:05:16.360 to go sit with them so i will make sure that we're sitting i want to watch it from a refrigerator box

02:05:21.500 oh my gosh i want to you know what the thing is it is i want to be up near the washington monument

02:05:26.900 because they say i mean wherever you are you're going to have a good view if you're over anywhere

02:05:32.620 in this area but you really if you're in this area please don't miss this this has never been

02:05:39.160 done before it's donald trump going nobody thought they could do a bigger thing than china

02:05:43.200 they've never china has never come close to this nobody has exploded this many fireworks

02:05:49.940 ever before it is 11 times bigger than the biggest fireworks show ever done in america

02:05:56.740 i can't even imagine the scope of that i've seen some big fireworks plays like disney or something

02:06:02.020 like that but i can't some of these fireworks they're saying i haven't don't have confirmation

02:06:05.560 but they're saying some of the big ones.

02:06:07.040 There's 16-inch shells, some of them.

02:06:08.780 They say they would be as big as four football fields across.

02:06:12.980 That's a quarter of a mile across for one.

02:06:16.720 And they say there will be thousands in the air at the same time.

02:06:20.600 45-minute show.

02:06:22.820 God bless America.

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