Over the Christmas holiday, ICE dropped off hundreds of migrants in El Paso, Texas. We ll talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying Jesus was also a refugee, and the President saying he has no idea how long before the government will reopen, and it s not going to reopen until we get a wall. All of those things coming up today on The Glenn Beck Program.
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00:00:09.360Over the Christmas holiday, ice drops off hundreds of migrants in El Paso, Texas.
00:00:14.000We'll talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying Jesus was also a refugee and the president saying he has no idea how long before the government will reopen.
00:00:23.740And it's not going to reopen until we get a wall. All of those things coming up this morning.
00:00:28.260My name is Mike Broomhead and this is the Glenn Beck program.
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00:01:56.400Over the Christmas holiday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off about 124 people at a Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas, with no notification of the community.
00:02:07.120They say they should have notified them.
00:02:08.840There was really no place for any of those people to stay.
00:02:11.120Another 200 to be dropped off additionally after that.
00:02:14.180This is the fallout from the current laws in America.
00:02:17.740And this is why this is such a sad state of affairs.
00:02:21.220Again, if you've heard my show or heard me in for Glenn before, I live in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:02:26.400I've been there for almost 24 years, grew up in Southwest Florida, and transplanted to Arizona, which I absolutely love.
00:02:34.540But Arizona being a border state, we deal with these unique issues as well.
00:02:38.200A few weeks ago in the city of Phoenix, they were notified, the Phoenix Police Department was notified, that the same thing was happening.
00:02:44.780And they, at the time, gave no number.
00:02:46.580They said a number of people, without giving specifics, a number of people were going to be just dropped off in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:02:54.540Many of them wearing monitoring devices or ankle bracelets.
00:02:58.620The Immigration and Customs Enforcement is so overwhelmed with people seeking asylum right now.
00:03:04.240And the laws are such that they have to be processed in a timely fashion.
00:03:09.640If they're not processed, we are in violation of the law.
00:03:12.500So they are giving an arraignment, so to speak, and then a hearing date about the legitimacy of their claim for asylum.
00:03:20.200So people are being given monitoring devices, and then they are just being released into the streets of America with dates for their hearings, sometimes two years down the road.
00:03:31.860In the meantime, we know what's going to happen.
00:03:34.240And we'll, that's, just give me a minute for that.
00:03:36.920But this is what's happened in the city where I live.
00:03:41.040Hundreds of immigrants dropped off seeking asylum, dropped off wearing monitoring devices.
00:03:46.200The Phoenix Police Department was notified and told, these people have not necessarily committed any crime.
00:03:52.600Normally, when a law enforcement officer comes in contact with someone wearing a monitoring device, they are going to ask them certain questions.
00:03:59.600They are either released as a part of probation or parole, or they're being released, you know, waiting for some other sentencing or something else.
00:04:07.520But it usually shows that they are being monitored as a part of a sentence.
00:04:10.660They question them, most of them, if they are on probation, you have, you can stop them and question them as to what they're doing.
00:04:17.520Are they, is this a time of day when they are supposed to be out, or are they supposed to be confined to their homes?
00:04:22.640That's what that monitoring device normally indicates to a law enforcement agency.
00:04:27.100So not only was the police department in my hometown notified that most of these people haven't committed any crime whatsoever.
00:04:33.520Now the police are charged with trying to figure out, is this someone that's just on a hold or on a release from custody of ICE, or is this someone that's a criminal that is living out a sentence outside of the walls of jail or prison?
00:04:47.240And it adds one more layer of difficulty to the job of police officers.
00:04:51.260They also were notified, again, don't forget, that you're not supposed to interact and do the job of the federal immigration enforcement.
00:05:00.620And there are certain rules that you have to live by as a city police officer versus a federal employee, which again, a little side note, is the odd, is the strangest thing to me.
00:05:12.300Anyway, every other federal enforcement agency that I know of works hand in hand with local law enforcement all the time.
00:05:22.680DEA, drug enforcement, does task forces and does sting operations and enlists the help of local law enforcement all the time.
00:05:35.000There's never a controversy in the U.S. when the DEA partners up with a local law enforcement agency, whether it's a city agency or a sheriff's department, to do drug interdiction.
00:05:46.980They use them all the time for the help of manpower, for surveillance, for intelligence work.
00:05:59.380Recently in Arizona, we had a U.S. Marshal, first time in decades, killed in the line of duty down in Tucson, Arizona.
00:06:06.960And then there was a shooting right before Christmas where a violent offender task force for the Marshal Service had to kill a suspect, shot and killed a suspect in a shootout.
00:06:19.460Those happened just a week or so apart.
00:06:22.400But the U.S. Marshal Service enlists the help of local law enforcement in apprehending suspects all the time.
00:06:29.380By the way, if you're on the list of people that are being chased by the Marshal Service, you might as well give up because that is an agency that does a phenomenal job at chasing down fugitives.
00:06:42.500But there's not another federal law enforcement agency that I know of that doesn't enlist the help and work hand in hand with local law enforcement.
00:06:49.920Every FBI bureau in every state in this country has a JTTF or Joint Terrorism Task Force.
00:07:01.600They work hand in hand with the state police, local city agencies and the sheriff's department across the state where the JTTF is located in every field office that the FBI has.
00:07:19.740Less than 20 years ago in the where I'm where I live now, the city of Phoenix Police Department, the Border Patrol used to monitor the city of Phoenix Police Department radios channel.
00:07:30.480And if there was a need for an interpreter, a Spanish speaker, or if a police officer came in contact with someone that they thought might be in the country illegally, they simply got on their radio because Border Patrol used to monitor that channel.
00:07:45.820And Border Patrol would show up and either interpret if necessary or take someone into custody if necessary.
00:07:51.260Now, all of a sudden, it's the one federal law enforcement agency that local law enforcement is forbidden from working with.
00:08:03.580But this is the state of American politics.
00:08:08.300So the president says we aren't going to open the government until we get some kind of a wall.
00:08:15.440Now, for whatever reason, the Democrats are, well, we know the reason, the political reasons behind not giving the president a victory on this.
00:08:53.600So you are going to see in a city like Phoenix, a couple of hundred people can be absorbed by local charitable organizations that can take people in and give them some kind of of housing or some kind of refuge until something else can be done for them.
00:09:08.640El Paso, I don't know if they have what, you know, if they have the availability of doing that.
00:09:16.860But you are just have people because the system is overwhelmed.
00:09:19.460This revolving door of what's happening because the laws have not been changed are just cranking people out through the system, giving them a hearing, giving them an arraignment, so to speak, and then sending them out.
00:09:32.560And while we watch the two political sides of this argument, fight it out, the reality is there are communities now being very severely hindered as far as their ability to give charity in helping people.
00:09:54.720It really is a shame that it's come to this, but there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
00:10:03.280You look at what's going on politically with the left and their 180 degree shift on illegal immigration.
00:10:12.080And you have to wonder where the politics ends.
00:10:18.260Because to be honest with you, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
00:10:21.940There is a humanitarian aspect to all of this.
00:10:24.840And to be very fair, the people like myself who are saying there's a rule of law we must abide, and I believe that, that that's a part of the problem here is that people are doing things the wrong way.
00:10:36.360We also on our side of the political aisle should be admitting that there are real people being put in the middle of this.
00:10:43.220There are people being told in Central America, it's very simple.
00:10:46.580You just come to the border of the United States, you file for asylum, they let you in.
00:10:50.240There's work, it's the land of milk and honey, and you just go to work and you're going to be just fine.
00:10:56.440Many of the people in the caravans at Tijuana are finding out that it's not as easy to get into the U.S. as they thought.
00:11:03.060They were told something that's not true.
00:11:05.260There are people, real people in real life situations caught in the middle of all of this.
00:11:14.160But the argument from the people on the opposite side of this, the ones that don't feel as if there's any rule of law that needs to be abided by, are being hypocrites in all of this.
00:11:23.660In a moment, I want you to hear, there's a guy named Raul Reyes, he's an attorney, he's a journalist, he's been on every network there is.
00:11:33.020He used to host a show on MSNBC, and he is an advocate for illegal crossers.
00:11:40.800Reyes gives such an odd defense for such a brilliant man that graduated from Harvard and from Columbia Law School.
00:11:47.320The defense he gives of not wanting any kind of a physical barrier is absurd.
00:11:53.980Coming up in a moment, I want you to hear what Raul Reyes says, and we're going to discuss the Christmas message from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying, remember, Jesus was a refugee.
00:12:04.780All of that happens here in just a couple of moments.
00:12:06.600My name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:14:37.480I do think one other thing, just in terms of the facts as we know them, that should be sort of something that people should think about and possibly even worry about going ahead is right now.
00:14:47.620I mean, these are isolated incidents and we don't know the circumstances, but right now our U.S. government has a record number of migrant children in their care, 15,000.
00:14:56.820And, you know, worlds away in Washington, politically, the president keeps talking about the wall and how he wants to build a wall and what it would do.
00:15:03.760It would likely not prevent tragedies like this because people, the families of Jacqueline Call and these young men and this child, they were coming over the border to present themselves for asylum.
00:15:15.320So even if the wall were in place, we would still likely see horrific, horrific outcomes like this.
00:15:22.300So we shouldn't build a barrier because it wouldn't prevent all of the tragic things that happen is the answer.
00:15:30.260It is the silliest defense I've ever heard.
00:15:36.360Everything in life is risk and reward.
00:15:38.860Why don't people cheat on their taxes?
00:15:41.080They don't cheat on their taxes because everyone is terrified of the IRS.
00:15:44.600We've all gotten a letter from the IRS and it's like waiting for test results from a doctor.
00:15:55.420You know you have to see what's in there, but no one's looking forward to a letter from the IRS.
00:16:01.280You don't cheat on your taxes because it's not worth the risk.
00:16:05.660People don't rob banks because of the minimum sentence for robbing banks.
00:16:10.980Everything in life is risk and reward.
00:16:13.200And when you start taking away the reward, the risk isn't worth it.
00:16:19.100Part of it is the difficulty of crossing the border.
00:16:21.880The people coming across the border, again, more in this anecdotal evidence as it is, we know that the dreamers have all been categorized as road scholars and the next people that are going to cure cancer.
00:16:56.580But we also know that under the DREAM Act, there are MS-13 gang members and really bad people that fit the criteria to be DREAMers that are hiding behind the DREAM Act.
00:17:06.740But we are good enough to be able to fix those problems.
00:17:12.780MS-13 gang members, child sex offenders arrested at the U.S. border.
00:17:19.000U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two convicted sex offenders and two MS-13 gang members just this week.
00:17:25.920All of them were previously deported from the U.S.
00:17:28.560The arrest happened during four separate incidents near the border in Arizona and Texas, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
00:17:38.840One of the men, a 46-year-old Mexican national, was convicted in 02 of unlawful sexual contact with a minor in Mesa, Arizona.
00:17:46.940He was apprehended after he illegally entered the U.S. on Wednesday near Lukeville, Arizona.
00:20:22.840All we have to do is close the loophole.
00:20:25.380There is not an acknowledgment from the left that there's a problem, because then they would be charged with fixing the problem.
00:20:33.320They pretend as if people like you and people like me are heartless, xenophobic isolationists that don't want people crossing our border for any purpose.
00:21:02.440Spinning off of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's statement and just coming off of the Christmas holiday, spend a few minutes coming up talking about the assault on Christianity around the world.
00:21:16.220Christians at risk of extinction in the land where Christmas began is one of the headlines.
00:21:20.620We're going to talk about the assault on that and what one government in the world is now taking issue with the assault on Christianity.
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00:22:51.480Happy New Year. Merry Christmas on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:22:59.600My name is Mike Berman, and for Glenn all week, or the rest of this week, what's left of it.
00:23:06.400Headline caught my eye about Christianity being attacked, Christians at risk of extinction.
00:23:10.120And the reason why you caught my attention is it seems like in America, the attack on Christmas, which we joked about, the war on Christmas, to me is pretty laughable because it's a Christian holiday.
00:23:22.560But to think about the only groups of people that it is politically correct to attack would be people of faith.
00:23:28.820But it's only specific people of faith.
00:23:42.680You know, Americans are very good because of the diversity in our country with religion, where we are familiar with people of different faiths and of no faith at all in our country.
00:23:51.660We can differentiate between good and bad in every religion.
00:23:55.020I said before, I was raised Catholic, and then I attended and taught adult Bible studies at a Baptist church for about 10 years.
00:24:09.020But I did teach at a church for over 10 years, and it was at the time was identified as a Baptist church.
00:24:15.180Well, there's an organization in America called the Westboro Baptist Church, which has no similarities whatsoever to any Baptist church I've ever been to.
00:24:24.600The fact that they claim to read from the same book that I did shocks me.
00:24:28.760So I can see how one group of people can misinterpret and steal ideas from and use a religion as an excuse to mete out horrible things, although they weren't murdering anybody.
00:24:41.400To be honest, I don't know the Muslim faith, but I can understand there are a billion Muslims in the world, not all of them.
00:24:50.580And I would say the vast majority of them are not terrorists, but I can differentiate between radical Islam and someone who is just of the Muslim faith without, you know, insulting the entire religion.
00:25:03.060It's like saying the Westboro Baptist Church is a horrible organization.
00:25:06.460I'm not I am not insulting Baptists across the country because I said something about this specific group of people.
00:25:15.840But there is the British government that is now going to be looking into the assault on people of faith of Christians.
00:25:22.000And it's fascinating to me how people want to want to cherry pick their ideas.
00:25:29.500Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now wants to say Jesus was a refugee.
00:25:34.120And then people on the left to demonize anybody of faith.
00:25:39.220I'm talking about the far left, the very vocal left demonize anybody of faith.
00:25:44.060You've got Maisie Hirono and Kamala Harris.
00:25:50.140Kamala Harris is one of the leading candidates for the Democrats to be president, questioning whether or not a judicial nominee going through the United States Senate could actually be a fair judge because this judge is a member of the Knights of Columbus, which is a Catholic organization.
00:26:06.340So can people of faith be members of the United States government?
00:26:43.240It's the brilliance of everything in life is a double edged sword.
00:26:46.920It is a double edged sword that we can change course in America.
00:26:49.780It's the brilliance of our Constitution.
00:26:51.800The people through the people we elect as legislators and as president can change course in America.
00:26:57.980But we should never lose sight of where we've come from.
00:27:00.460And for anyone to say that our founding fathers were at best deists.
00:27:05.540And not people of faith and not every single one of them either, but a majority of them has never read George Washington's farewell address.
00:27:15.400Or when George Washington institute a national day of prayer or Thanksgiving when Thanksgiving was instituted by our government.
00:27:23.720You've never traveled to Washington, D.C. and seen the overtly faith-based history in our country.
00:27:32.340To go into the halls of Congress, into the House of Representatives chamber and see the overtly religious landmarks there.
00:27:44.220All along the walls are profiles of great lawgivers throughout history.
00:27:48.540But the only one that's full-faced, the only one that's not a profile, is the one dead center of the room looking down on the podium where the House Speaker stands and where the president delivers the State of the Union address is Moses because he was the original lawgiver.
00:28:02.260It was a tribute by the founding fathers and by the people that built the United States Capitol years later that put that there as a remembrance of where we've come from.
00:28:10.820There are three kinds of countries when it comes to faith in America.
00:28:13.740There are theistic nations, which we are.
00:28:23.680And there are theocracies like Iran that run through a religious book where the Ayatollahs are the supreme leaders, whether there's a government or not.
00:28:32.660We are not a theocracy, but we're a theistic nation.
00:28:36.600We've expressly given the right to people to practice their religion, although that's been completely overrun in the First Amendment.
00:28:43.740I'm not trying to give a sermon on any level.
00:28:46.520But for those of you that have a faith, but you don't want to talk about it because you're not supposed to do it in public, you've been duped.
00:28:54.500The First Amendment protects your right to practice your religion or to not practice a religion.
00:28:59.560The assault by people saying that people of faith should not be involved in government used to be a very small, vocal and laughed at minority of people.
00:29:08.240Now you've got Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono questioning whether a member of the Knights of Columbus can be a federal judge.
00:29:15.600Now, these are not just unknown people.
00:29:22.160One of them is one of the front runners to be the Democratic candidate for president, questioning whether someone can be a fair judge as a member of the Knights of Columbus.
00:29:32.740That should scare Democrats as much or more that your party believes that.
00:29:42.540That there are leaders in your party that believe somehow you are more fair by trying to take people of faith and wipe them out.
00:29:50.360And I'm not talking about you don't have to be an evangelical pastor somewhere to be a person of faith.
00:30:01.300There are people that have a very solid foundational belief in a creator.
00:30:08.640Those are the people that used to be most influential in government.
00:30:11.860Now it's questioned whether or not they have a place.
00:30:14.780They have chased the American people inside the four walls of their churches and said, you can say whatever you want there, but don't you dare leave that building and say those things outside those four walls.
00:30:39.660But no one will ever shake my faith, nor will anybody ever stop me from saying my faith forms the decisions I make in many cases.
00:30:49.440That's exactly the way our government was designed.
00:30:54.840And anyone who tells you differently is you can't win that argument.
00:31:00.080I am someone who is not an expert and I can win an argument with anyone on that level.
00:31:05.780And I know there's been a frequent guest and friend of Glenn's wall builders, David Barton.
00:31:14.060If you've not been to the wall builders website, I don't think there's another person in America that is better than David Barton at explaining the Christian history in America.
00:31:24.380That doesn't mean that we are going to turn into a theocracy, nor should we.
00:31:28.540We should never advocate for one faith over another.
00:31:31.320That's the brilliance of our of our country.
00:31:33.480But when you've got Great Britain now looking at the assault on Christians simply because they're Christians and asking the question, should we be doing something about this?
00:31:43.140You know, we have hate crimes here in America.
00:31:45.120And if you you commit a crime against someone based on their sexual orientation or color of their skin, there is a harsher punishment for you because you have you have committed what we call a hate crime, which is such a an oxymoron to me.
00:31:59.180If you beat somebody over the head with a baseball bat, that's a hate crime.
00:32:03.560The reason why you did it is into dental.
00:32:07.180If a straight couple walks out of a restaurant and they get mugged and beaten or a gay couple gets bugged or beaten, why should the punishment be any more severe?
00:32:19.960But we have set aside groups of people in America that have been classically or have been they say have been abused or have been put upon because of who they are or what they are.
00:32:35.800Well, how close are we to those things here?
00:32:37.960I don't know that people in America are getting beat up for their faith, but they sure are getting verbally beat up for their faith.
00:32:45.800Go take a look at how they're mocked by anybody who who exhibits any expression of faith, how they are mocked by the political left.
00:32:53.900You look at how it's handled in movies, how it's handled on television shows and and how it's changed dramatically in our lifetimes.
00:33:01.440And it's because people of faith have bought into the idea that we're supposed to keep our mouth shut about what we believe in public.
00:33:11.640And I can make I can make a sound argument for the for the it's called apologetics.
00:33:17.420I can defend my faith with anyone, but I don't expect anyone to believe the way I do.
00:33:22.040But I'm certainly not going to back down based on my faith.
00:34:00.480The story that caught my that made me get down this path to begin with Christians around the world celebrate the nativity of our savior.
00:34:06.780We gather in churches and hear the story of a Middle East where the holy family as a religious minority in the Roman Empire witnessed the birth of Christ far from their hometown.
00:34:15.000So they say 2000 years later, the Christian communities in the Middle East, descendants of the first Christians, persevere in their faith in Christ.
00:34:22.660They live in an era of violence, unrest and persecution.
00:35:26.480Next hour, we're going to talk about what would happen, what's going to happen in the next session of Congress as the Democrats getting behind the biggest increase since the New Deal.
00:35:34.460We'll talk about that coming up just after the top of the next hour.
00:35:38.640Before we close this one out, I thought this was a great story.
00:35:41.020A young kid, the Kansas City Royals first round pick.
00:35:59.500If you follow me on Twitter, at Broomhead Show, it's something I just retweeted this morning.
00:36:03.700It's his parents reading a letter that he wrote them.
00:36:06.120And for a young man to be this grateful in this, I would say, mature beyond his years was terrific.
00:36:14.780He said, my smile and appreciation for both of you has never stopped and it never will.
00:36:18.980You can watch this video as his mother reads this out loud and you can see the tears in his father's eyes.
00:36:23.160He said, the money you both spent traveling, gear, hotel, food, and all those Gatorades I drank is much more than I could ever give you.
00:36:29.980But there's something I do want to give you.
00:36:33.620He goes on to say, I am paying off the loan from the bank.
00:36:37.520Also, I paid off all of your debt as well.
00:36:40.680Now, instead of trying to save money every weekend to replace the savings account you drained on traveling to see me play baseball, you can spend it on yourselves because you deserve the very best.
00:36:52.560I thought that was a phenomenal story.
00:36:54.820And what a dream that would be for all of us to be in a position to repay the people that have been so good to us in our lives, that have been able to, that have sacrificed so much for us to get us to where we are because none of us get there alone.
00:37:12.040Well, most of us are fiercely independent, but we realize that no one gets anywhere by themselves.
00:37:19.600This young man doing a great thing for his parents.
00:37:23.200I just thought it was a little bit of good news after Christmas as we head into the new year and look at some of the good that is still in people.
00:37:31.000Even a young man like this got the world in front of him, $4 million signing bonus, and yet still had the presence of mind to do something kind like that for his parents.
00:38:42.780Coming up this hour, we're going to talk about the economy because the Democrats signing up for possibly the biggest expansion of government since the Great Deal.
00:38:51.020They're calling it the Green New Deal.
00:38:53.480So we're going to talk about that in light of the fact that the economy is booming in spite of the stock market sell-off, unemployment way down, consumer confidence way up.
00:39:17.740More shopping online, more booking travel, more using websites to find the perfect gift, and all of that activity is happening on your device.
00:39:25.960Sometimes sketchy websites that you don't think are sketchy.
00:39:28.600Using your phone or your tablet could expose more of your personal information, and if that exposed information ends up in the hands of cyber criminals,
00:39:35.540you could have a bigger problem than an online store running out of the gift that you promised your oldest.
00:40:28.520I am in for Glenn the rest of this week.
00:40:30.560We appreciate you spending part of your day with us.
00:40:34.320The Democrats are gearing up for quite possibly the biggest expansion since the New Deal.
00:40:39.200They're calling it the Green New Deal.
00:40:40.600This has a lot to do with social justice and with climate change and the things that they're trying to change and fundamentally fix in America.
00:40:47.920Let's start with the principles at work here.
00:40:50.920The president, I think, was right about the tax cuts in many different ways that are driving people crazy.
00:40:56.180And as you know, for a long time, we kept hearing that it wasn't doing anything to fix the economy on any level.
00:41:01.640It wasn't benefiting anyone but the ultra-rich in America.
00:41:04.400Except statistics don't lie and eventually even the left had to shift their thinking about this or at least their messaging about it.
00:56:51.020National Institute of Health, $2.4 million to study daydreaming.
00:56:54.880How do I get involved in one of these studies?
00:56:59.280I'm just trying to look at some of the other highlights here.
00:57:04.460Taught female entrepreneurs in India how to vlog, video blogging for $50,000.
00:57:10.680Supported asset seizure programs in Paraguay for $400,000.
00:57:15.660To the tune of $114.5 million to the American taxpayer.
00:57:21.820So when the government complains or when we talk about, when we hear the Democrats say that we have an income problem, we need to raise taxes.
00:57:31.840There's two fronts we should be fighting on.
00:57:34.060Number one, there's record revenue under the Treasury.
00:57:36.900We do not have an income problem in the United States.
00:57:39.840We have a spending problem in the United States.
00:57:44.000And the example that I use most often, and I mean no disrespect to Elton John, the singer, Elton John was very, very vocal and very honest about his filing bankruptcy.
00:58:00.260And he filed bankruptcy because even at the millions of dollars he made with his music and continues to make with his music, he spent more than he made, if you can imagine that.
00:58:08.780That's what the American government does.
00:58:15.740So now the Democrats want to do something called the Green New Deal.
00:58:20.360And this Green New Deal calls for creating a House committee to draft legislation to fight global warming, turn the U.S. economy into something to what Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders envisions.
00:58:32.720The Green New Deal could be a preview to what the policies of the Democratic Party will back in 2020.
00:58:39.320Will the American people enlarge the size of an already bloated government?
00:58:44.580If they are already spending at a deficit of $22 trillion, why would any American, Republican or Democrat, give them more money to waste?
00:58:55.340Think about you as someone who has lines of credit, whether it's credit cards, loans, whatever it is.
00:59:02.820At some point, the bank says to you, we're not giving you any more money.
00:59:09.100And they don't give you any more money because you haven't been responsible with the money they've given you.
00:59:15.460At what point do the American people in mass, the independents and the Republicans, if not the Democrats, stand up and say, you've mismanaged everything you've gotten so far until you get your affairs in order.
00:59:36.340What we're going to do next half hour, New York Times reporter are advocating for tracking gun purchases made with credit cards because some mass shooters have used credit cards to buy weapons.
00:59:51.280We're going to talk about your Second Amendment and how to fight for those rights, why it's important.
00:59:56.160First Amendment, Second Amendment on the docket coming up here in just the next half hour.
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01:01:36.300The New York Times printing a story insinuating that credit card companies have some responsibility in mass shootings because they allow purchases and finance them.
01:01:49.280So some maniac decides that it's time to end their own life usually and they're going to take a bunch of people with them, whether it is people they know or in some cases people they've never met before in their lives.
01:02:02.260And so because of that, a credit card company that allows you to purchase a firearm using their credit card is somehow responsible when you use that firearm to kill somebody.
01:02:15.960This is one of my favorite conversations to have with people because it is normally good people, reasonable, rational people that have lost their minds.
01:02:27.160There has got to be a shift in how you and I have a conversation with people because the narrative belongs to us and we give it away.
01:02:34.880I refuse to have this conversation with people that begins with me having to defend myself by saying I care about dead children.
01:02:47.440If you tell me if you're coming from a position that either I care about dead children or I'm willing to give up some of my rights, you're wrong.
01:02:56.540The way you're looking at this is 100 percent wrong.
01:03:00.360This isn't just about my right to keep and bear arms.
01:03:02.620This is about you fixing a problem and you're not fixing the problem.
01:03:06.860If you go to a doctor because you're not feeling well and you're sick and the doctor misdiagnoses your problem and puts you on a treatment plan for the wrong thing, that is horrible.
01:03:18.760And it's usually a big mistake that's very costly because now the real problem has not been addressed and has not been fixed.
01:03:27.440And you falsely believe you're on the road to recovery.
01:03:32.080So you're no longer worried about addressing the problem because you believe you fixed it.
01:03:40.420So according to this New York Times article written by a guy named Andrew Ross Sorkin, credit card companies should be tracking people that make firearms purchases with their credit cards.
01:04:44.540But, man, the concerns there, what do you need all that booze for?
01:04:49.780No one's ever said that before in their life.
01:04:54.800You go into a firearm store and you buy some bulk ammunition because one of the things your family likes to do on holidays is shoot to target practice.
01:05:03.980Whether you're in Arizona where I am and you go out in the desert in the great weather and do it there, you go to a firing range and range and you shoot.
01:05:10.840You walk out with a couple of cases of ammunition.
01:05:15.000There's a segment of our society that wants you followed because now you're potentially a murder spree.
01:05:24.080Do you understand how misdiagnosing a problem is the issue?
01:05:32.500There's no doubt that the ignorance of people that have no idea why the Second Amendment was written, what the purpose of the Second Amendment was and is, and this living, breathing document.
01:05:42.040The people that argue that the Second Amendment, that the founding fathers never had any idea that we would have the firepower that we do right now, it doesn't matter what they understood, the firepower to be.
01:05:56.500There's a reason why the citizens in this country have a right to be armed just like the government has a right to be armed.
01:06:03.860There's a reason for the Second Amendment.
01:06:05.660That's like saying the founding fathers had no idea that we would have smartphones, Twitter, which is, you know, where the biggest fights about the First Amendment happened is Twitter and other social media outlets.
01:06:21.260At the time, there was the hand crank printing press, so they had no idea the First Amendment to lead to where it is right now.
01:06:28.380They want to control your hate speech.
01:06:30.660The funny thing is, who gets to define what's hateful?
01:06:39.020The First Amendment protects the most controversial of speech, and it should.
01:06:45.840I believe burning the flag is quite possibly the most disrespectful thing you can do to your country and to veterans who have fought and bled and watched their brothers and sisters die for that flag.
01:06:57.780I think it's an immensely disrespectful, despicable thing to do, but you have a right to do it.
01:07:05.100The American flag has been used in art exhibits as a doormat pouring out of a toilet.
01:07:09.580It's been desecrated, and they say that's to invoke an emotional response.
01:07:14.320That's protected by the First Amendment.
01:07:16.180But those very people that would put a crucifix in a jar of urine and call it art that is meant to exude or to invoke that kind of drastic emotion would also tell you that you have to watch what words you use because it's hate speech.
01:07:32.820And by not using or by using gender pronouns, you're being a hateful person, and you should be thrown out of college.
01:07:39.200That's why the First Amendment is there to protect people's speech, because who gets to define what's hateful?
01:07:45.940Well, the Second Amendment protects all the other ones.
01:07:52.080And the worst part is when they believe they're curing a problem, they're not.
01:07:58.040Nancy Pelosi said we are going to get reasonable background checks.
01:08:02.680I don't know what that's going to solve, and neither does she.
01:08:06.360But it sure feels like they're doing something, doesn't it?
01:08:09.200After Sandy Hook, which was a horrifying experience for me, and for everybody else who had to try to discuss this, talk about it, imagining family members being told their children were murdered at school.
01:08:27.580I can't imagine a more devastating thing to have happen to a parent.
01:08:33.220And after that happened, the anti-gun people said we want background checks for any gun transaction with the exclusion of immediate family members that you wouldn't have to get a background check.
01:08:49.940The kid that committed that horrible crime, Adam Lanza, he got those guns from his mother.
01:08:57.600Now, first of all, A, he was too young to have them, so he already broke one gun law.
01:09:02.260When I say he got them from his mother, he murdered her in her sleep with them, so he killed his mother, another violation of the gun laws.
01:09:11.060And then he went and committed that heinous act.
01:09:14.340So a background check system, an enhanced background check system would have never stopped that crime.
01:09:22.660We continue to look at the Second Amendment differently because in the minds of people on the left, the anti-gun people, a gun has one purpose, and that's to kill.
01:09:32.800And therefore, it's evil, and therefore, there is no good use for a gun, and we should get rid of them all.
01:09:38.740And you can give them all the evidence in the world of reasonable citizens that have protected their lives and the lives of the people that live in their homes and their property and done the right thing with guns in stopping crimes from happening against them or other people, and that evidence doesn't matter to them.
01:10:05.540I've never brandished a weapon on a human being in my life, and it's one of the things that terrifies me the most would ever be to have to point a gun at another human being and pull the trigger.
01:10:17.600But can you imagine being in a scenario where you need to protect the people you love or someone else, and you're not able to?
01:10:24.880That is the worst-case scenario for me.
01:10:29.380This assault on the Second Amendment is insulting because it demonizes people like you and I.
01:10:38.780More on this, and we talk about General Mattis and what a good man he is, as I believe he is a huge loss to the Trump administration as he leaves early.
01:10:47.520You're going to hear what he said to the men and women that are serving in our United States military in his address over Christmas.
01:10:53.460All of that coming up in just a few moments.
01:10:55.540Again, my name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.
01:11:05.040And for Glenn, the rest of this week, coming up next hour, we go back to and talk about ice dropping off hundreds of people in El Paso.
01:11:11.140It's happening in cities across the country because of the overwhelmed system with the asylum seekers.
01:11:16.260So we'll get to the fallout of all that, and what happens next is the president says there's no end in sight necessarily to the shutdown until we get a barrier, whether it's a wall, fence, whatever you want to call it.
01:11:26.280So all of that will be coming up in the next hour.
01:11:28.560We're going to get to this General Mattis in a moment, but I want to finish up this thought about the Second Amendment and the narrative.
01:11:34.800The two things I talk most about are the narrative because we allow it to be stolen from us, whether it's the Second Amendment issue, the abortion issue, First Amendment rights, whatever it is.
01:11:44.120We end up defending ourselves instead of making a point.
01:11:47.160But also, I've been hammering the media for the way they cover things, and a big part of that will be coming up in the next hour how the media is covering the caravan in Tijuana
01:11:56.920and this issue of asylum seekers and what the truth and the real truth of this is and where journalism in America is letting the American people down by not giving both sides and fitting into and fitting everything into the narrative they want you to hear and see.
01:12:15.960General Mattis shows you what a great man he is.
01:12:21.340The defense secretary will be sorely missed, I believe it is.
01:12:24.360This is a big hit to the Trump administration.
01:12:26.340I think the president is going to miss him sorely, whether he realizes it or not, what a good man General Mattis is.
01:12:32.940In his Christmas address, I want you to hear just a little bit of what he had to say to those men and women that are serving.
01:12:44.220Since Washington crossed the Delaware at Christmas in 1776, American troops have missed holidays at home to defend our experiment in democracy.
01:12:54.220To all you lads and lasses holding the line in 2018 on land, at sea, or in the air, thanks for keeping the faith.
01:13:04.400Merry Christmas and may God hold you safe.
01:13:19.000I think he's done a great job as defense secretary in the years of service.
01:13:22.460I think that the greatest asset that this president brought to the table at the beginning of his presidency was surrounding himself with great people.
01:13:27.940And there have been people that have come and gone.
01:13:30.480There will be people that come and go.
01:13:53.180Robert Gates resigned in 2011, criticized Obama's role as commander in chief in his memoir.
01:14:01.780All too early in the administration, suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials, including the president and the vice president, became a big problem for me.
01:14:10.460I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders.
01:14:14.180So this isn't always about everyone else.
01:14:18.940But again, the idea of the narrative and what you're being told in the severity, I think this is a big hit because of the good man that General Mattis is.
01:14:28.000I think that it's a mistake for us to pull troops out of Syria.
01:14:31.020But to act as if this is some kind of dysfunction we've never seen before, that this level of of rebuke from military leaders against the president is unheard of.
01:14:42.020President Obama is still looked at by the people on the left as a great American president.
01:14:46.760As commander in chief of the military, he decimated the United States military.
01:14:51.160It was not a priority for that administration, the reduction in size of the military, the not renewing or revitalizing any part of it after we had been at war for such a long time.
01:15:02.260The focus not being on the military has us in a place now where we are in deep, deep trouble.
01:15:09.240There is a report made by a bipartisan group of people that says that we could actually lose a war with not only the Chinese, but with the Russians, possibly.
01:15:21.160That the increase in spending that we've done in the military in the last year is only the tip of the iceberg.
01:15:25.960That needs to be maintained for at least 10 more years to make sure that we are the world's superpower, that the principle of peace through strength continues.
01:15:35.320That we have allowed our military to go unrepaired.
01:15:41.660We still have the greatest fighting force in the world.
01:15:44.100The men and women, the volunteers of our military are still the greatest in the world, but we don't have enough of them.
01:15:49.180And we are not giving them the equipment that they need to do the jobs that they may need to do, according to this report.
01:15:56.860One member, Senator John Kyle, was a part of that group before he went back to the Senate to replace John McCain when John McCain passed away.
01:16:03.960On my show in Arizona, talking with Senator Kyle said, this is a real issue that the United States Congress had better address.
01:16:11.640What are the chances that addressing the need for increases in military spending is something that will be taken seriously.
01:16:19.240By the next administration, by the next Congress, especially by the House of Representatives.
01:16:27.300But General Mattis has been a great leader in American military and has been a great asset to the Trump administration.
01:16:34.220Exactly, exactly what will happen next is now the concern.
01:16:42.580Coming up, ice dropping off hundreds of people in El Paso.
01:16:46.440Asylum seekers, it's happening all over the country.
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01:24:54.220But if you're going to put your reliance in this country on an individual, at some point, you're going to be disappointed.
01:25:01.240But the fact remains that what's happening right now has been going on for a long time.
01:25:07.120Our government has done nothing to stop it.
01:25:09.940You cannot lay this problem at the feet of Donald Trump as much as the media would say that they are going to.
01:25:17.680The need for border security goes back to the Reagan administration when the Congress let him down there.
01:25:22.780The Bush administration, it happened there.
01:25:24.640I mentioned when I was in the other day, Bill Clinton authorized.
01:25:28.900It was during that administration where it was Duncan Hunter, a staunch Republican, Duncan Hunter Sr., that got the funding for a two-tiered wall at the southern border of California.
01:25:39.560Well, if a two-tiered wall or fence was working then in southern California and it's working now and it was approved by Bill Clinton, who was a border hawk, how is it that now Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrats can demonize the Republicans that want a barrier now?
01:25:57.940Fence, wall, fence, wall, two-tier, single-tier, 30 feet tall, whatever it is, how do you demonize them for wanting this when it was fit then when Bill Clinton let it happen and wanted it to happen back in the 90s?
01:26:10.560Fence, this is an absurd argument based on politics and instead of all of us, Republicans like myself, I'm not leaving the Republican Party, at least not now, but I don't argue with those that have.
01:26:31.780The registered independents that still think as conservatives that believe the Republican Party abandoned them, it's kind of the difference between a Puritan and a Pilgrim.
01:26:40.140You're a Pilgrim. You've left the party to go find something better. I would rather stay and purify it within. I think the fight needs to be inside still. I don't want to abandon that yet.
01:26:51.100But Republicans and independents and Democrats should all be together in one thing, and that is having a healthy suspicion on the behavior of those we've elected to lead us.
01:27:02.420And we don't. They keep us divided along political lines. They keep us divided in such crazy ways that we fight with each other instead of pointing the finger at all of them collectively.
01:27:13.680For all of you Democrats, there is truth in the fact that Chuck Schumer is never going to give 60 votes necessary for real border security, and you should be very critical of him for that.
01:27:25.220As Republicans, we should be critical of the Republicans that haven't taken deficit spending seriously like they promised.
01:27:34.140That when Obama was in office, we watched the huge increase in deficits. It hasn't stopped yet. It hasn't even slowed down.
01:27:41.400But when it comes to this issue, we should be very critical of a government that's done absolutely nothing about it.
01:27:53.500El Paso, Texas, 124 people and then 200 more dropped off at a bus station. Just dropped off.
01:27:59.680They have a right to be here. They're awaiting asylum hearings, and they're just in the community.
01:28:05.820No job, no food, no housing, no place to live, no place to go, no future, no nothing. Just dropped off.
01:28:13.120Same thing happened in the city I live in, in Phoenix, Arizona. It's happening in cities all over the country.
01:28:18.740Do you blame ICE? Well, they have a mandate, and they have to follow the law.
01:28:25.620An update on really what this is about.
01:28:28.180What's happening with all of this, how it's affecting our communities, and what should we be doing as American citizens about it?
01:28:37.400Ultimately, the power of the vote and the influence we have over those we elect really is in our hands if we collectively will do something about it.
01:28:45.420What needs to be done? An update on what's going on.
01:28:48.780All of that's coming up here in just a moment. I promise you that.
01:28:51.600Again, my name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.
01:31:27.680ICE admitted they dropped the ball Sunday and not giving notification to the community.
01:31:32.260They were going to release 214 people at a Greyhound station.
01:31:36.400Then they told us to expect 200 more people the next day.
01:31:42.620So they are at least giving the community the opportunity to be getting shelters, hotel rooms, food, medical supplies ready for those that are coming to the community.
01:31:51.180This according to the new darling of the Democratic Party, Beto O'Rourke.
01:31:55.340In a statement to CNN, ICE suggested they were limited in what they could do.
01:32:01.840They said to mitigate the risk of holding families until past the time frame allotted by the government or to the government, ICE had to curtail reviews of post-release plans for families apprehended along the southwest border.
01:32:14.280However, they continued to say ICE continues to work with local and state officials and non-governmental partners in these areas to prepare to provide assistance with transportation or other services.
01:32:27.280They didn't specify in this address why they chose to drop the immigrants off in El Paso over the Christmas holiday without alerting local officials.
01:32:37.280In Phoenix, Arizona, they were notified a few weeks ago that a number and they did not specify what that number was.
01:32:45.540A number of these people would be dropped off.
01:32:47.600And it was sent to the Phoenix Police Department because a number of those people were going to be fitted with with monitoring devices or, you know, whether they'd be ankle bracelets or otherwise.
01:32:57.120And they were telling the police that just because they were wearing the ankle bracelets doesn't mean they had necessarily committed crimes.
01:33:03.220So not necessarily committing crimes, the Phoenix police were also notified, be very careful what you do.
01:33:13.200Because, again, as a local law enforcement agency, you're not supposed to deal with federal immigration laws.
01:36:40.140And I'm going to the humanitarian side of this for the conservatives out there that hate the appearance that we don't care about the humanity.
01:36:49.200Let me tell you what I know about the border because I live in a border state.
01:36:52.500When caravans of people are brought by the coyotes across the border, when the cartels are bringing people in illegally into this country and they're leading them on these horrible, sometimes paths to their death where it gets to be 115, 118 degrees in the desert.
01:37:08.060And people literally are dropping dead.
01:37:10.140They have makeshift stores before they get to the border itself, very close to the border where they can buy supplies that they hopefully can carry to get them home or get them across the border into America on the trip.
01:37:22.300Do you know that one of the things that's available in those convenience stores are the similarity to I think it's the morning after pill or something very similar?
01:37:31.500And every woman that crosses the border buys it because every woman that crosses that border expects to be raped on the trip.
01:37:53.460That by allowing a porous border and allowing an industry that illegally trucks people across the border, we're a part of letting this happen to women crossing the border.
01:38:04.140We have infants being dropped at a Greyhound station living in a bus.
01:38:10.380Because we don't demand that our government do something about this.
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01:40:06.740It's the biggest increase in government.
01:40:09.600The scope and size of government fixing to increase.
01:40:12.900If the Democrats have their way with something called the Green New Deal, named after the New Deal, which was a huge increase in the size and scope of government.
01:40:20.180Is that what the American people want?
01:40:22.160And how is this going to be messaged to the American people?
01:40:27.040The Republican Party does a horrible job of messaging.
01:40:38.940And whether it's because they don't have the voice from most of the traditional media, I don't know.
01:40:42.900But they don't do a very good job of articulating what's really going on.
01:40:47.300And the one thing that Republicans and Democrats and independents have in common is they don't necessarily trust the government.
01:40:55.160The Democrats right now don't like the leadership in America because both houses of Congress are being held by, at least for a short time longer, by Republicans.
01:41:46.300They're terrified about the power of this president.
01:41:48.780Why would they empower this government with more of our tax dollars if we are already working at a twenty two trillion dollar deficit and climbing?
01:42:39.200So everything's got to be reduced down to simple terms for me.
01:42:41.880The average working family that has to watch every dollar in discretionary income along with their their their along with what their requirements are, what they have to spend their money on.
01:42:55.060And so a family that is able to go out once a week.
01:43:42.960So when gas prices go down, that's like found money.
01:43:48.860So you go from 225 or whatever the average is for a gallon of gas in the country right now to 325.
01:43:56.480That is cutting out people's night out.
01:43:59.380But when you go down to those low numbers, now you're freeing up income for some people to spend money on going out, doing some special things for their families.
01:44:10.060Now we can jump in the car and we can drive across the state to see family for Christmas or drive and go do something for the holidays.
01:44:17.880That's a reality for a lot of families in this country.
01:44:20.520So when you equate that to taxes in this country and you talk about a tax increase, everybody wants to pay attention to the wealthy business owner and say, oh, they can afford it.
01:44:40.300The biggest analogy I've had was when Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were controlling the last time she was Speaker of the House.
01:44:45.720And they said they were going to close the loopholes on big oil and the liberals and the media applauded it like this was some big deal in America.
01:44:55.800First of all, every one of you listening to me that has a retirement account of 401k or otherwise, and you have a financial advisor or someone that invests that money for you, you're invested in the oil companies.
01:45:10.420When you cost them billions, you cost your 401k money.
01:45:18.740And all it equated to was an increase in gas prices because closing that tax loophole meant it cost more money to produce a gallon of gasoline, which they passed on to the consumer.
01:45:33.200You didn't see them saying in what we're going to do is decrease the gasoline tax to offset.
01:45:40.780We know that the oil companies are going to increase your the cost of a gallon of gasoline.
01:45:56.480As a matter of fact, with all the fuel efficiency standards in the country, with alternative fuel vehicles, they now want to charge you by the mile to drive on the freeway because they're not collecting the taxes they have before.
01:46:12.960So now you've got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, by the way, when Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, says she's the future of the Democratic Party, I would love to have a conversation with honest Democrats that wonder how that could possibly be.
01:46:27.960She's a self-affirmed socialist and she knows nothing.
01:46:32.740She called it the three chambers of government, not three branches of government.
01:46:36.800And the three chambers of government, she said, were the House, the Senate and the White House.
01:46:41.080The Supreme Court justices, hey, what about us?
01:47:06.020The small number of people in her district that elected her, that she is going to be making decisions not only for her district, for the rest of the country.
01:47:14.680But she is one of the people that think this spending on global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it, this Green New Deal, which will immensely increase the size of the government and the power they have and the oversight they have over private industry, which is going to do nothing to solve any problem when it comes to climate change or anything else.
01:47:39.780And an increase in bureaucracy to the very government that the liberals in this country detest because it's being held by the Republicans.
01:47:53.040There is a pendulum that swings left and right in America, and it has my entire life.
01:47:58.020The fallout from Nixon gave us Gerald Ford, that then gave us Jimmy Carter, that then gave us Ronald Reagan.
01:48:09.300What happened with the Nixon presidency gave us Gerald Ford as president, which then gave us the very liberal and quite possibly the worst president of the 20th century, Jimmy Carter, for four years.
01:48:19.300The four years of Jimmy Carter then gave us Ronald Reagan for eight years.
01:48:22.940And we see the pendulum swing back and forth.
01:48:31.100And yet no one articulates to the independents and the left leaning people in our country.
01:48:36.140You continue to vote for increases in power by virtue of taxation and regulation of people in government to the very government that at some time you're going to detest because it's held by the Republicans.
01:48:47.260Why would you get you can't give them that power when you're in power and then magically take it away when you're not.
01:48:54.520When Harry Reid changed the rules of the Senate and invoked the nuclear option, which he at one time said would be the destruction of the Senate.
01:49:01.920When he did that, Mitch McConnell said, you're going to regret this sooner rather than later.
01:49:07.280He had no idea how quickly his prophecy was going to come true because of that rule change.
01:49:14.960It now only takes a simple majority in the United States Senate to approve a Supreme Court nominee.
01:49:26.500It would have taken 60 votes to get Kavanaugh in.
01:49:29.620And we never have the debacle we had because he never gets approved.
01:49:33.160If Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot continue on the court in the near future because of her illnesses and her age, there will be another Supreme Court nomination by this president.
01:49:47.940And if it happens in the next two years.
01:49:51.920This president will nominate somebody and only need a simple majority of Republicans to pass that nomination through.
01:49:58.020Why? Because Harry Reid changed the rules.
01:52:15.020I live in Arizona, not having a good year.
01:52:17.320But the owner of the Cardinals, Michael Bidwell, has done a great job with his team over the last decade of turning them into a winner.
01:52:23.580And the fans have come with an expectation of winning.
01:52:25.820And when it doesn't work out, changes.
01:52:27.820I imagine there's going to be big changes on that team at the end of this year because they haven't put a winner on the field.
01:52:32.760I imagine that there are going to be people in very high-level positions that will be switched out because there is an expectation in sports of success.
01:52:41.000And if you're not going to succeed, no harm, no foul, but we're moving on.
01:52:46.460You know, and the Philadelphia Eagles are a great example of that.
01:53:50.740There are lots of people that have control over it.
01:53:52.920If you're the boss, if you're the owner of a company, and there are departments within your control because you own the company that are wasting money, you end it, or those people get replaced.
01:54:49.400Collectively, all of us, like football fans, no matter what team you're a fan of, we make sure we want excellence or we'll go somewhere else.