Glenn Beck is back on The Glenn Beck Program! This week, he's talking about the latest in the Trump administration's attempt to get rid of Muslims in the U.S. trade deal, and how it's going to affect our economy. He's also talking about what's happening in America's schools, and why we should all be worried about it.
00:22:46.220We're playing a very high stakes game.
00:22:48.900The guy who's playing it, by the way, we all voted for, and he told us he would do this.
00:22:54.460The guy who's playing this game is the best negotiator in the world.
00:23:00.080I'm hoping that this is a negotiation game.
00:23:02.900If it's not a negotiation game, it really scares me even more, but I'm still going to put my hope and faith that he's got a plan that I don't know.
00:23:14.060Because all I know is what we have been doing doesn't work.
00:24:09.760I don't know if that makes sense to anybody, but Lear Capital, have you ever noticed how every building, every hotel, every office, every school, every store has a fire escape?
00:24:20.340It's there, quiet, tucked away, and out of sight.
00:24:23.540Nobody thinks about it at all until the smoke starts rolling in.
00:24:37.700Because I've got to tell you, this one way or another, the dollar is not going to last.
00:24:43.320One of the things I'm worried about more than the trade war is that the people over in Europe are so damn insane that they will say, this is a way to end this whole thing.
00:27:44.000Because if you think it's bad with the tariffs as they are, the only thing that will save it is cutting the spending, cutting the taxes and cutting regulations.
00:27:55.540And every day we sit here and argue about what Trump is.
00:49:19.000I don't know if you're aware of that AI, but it's a major player.
00:49:22.940With one kind of disturbing detail that I'm going to tell you at the end of this.
00:49:26.520But they released a little report yesterday, and it described our future, a future that is no longer speculative, a future that is rushing towards us now.
00:49:38.300It's a future in which artificial intelligence just doesn't outpace our thinking.
00:49:46.400Anthropics engineers, among some of the most advanced AI builders on the planet, are not asking now if AI could pose an existential threat.
00:50:00.300They're now warning that it is likely if it's mismanaged.
00:50:06.660Now, this is no longer a dystopian fantasy.
00:50:09.340It is a short-term forecast drawn from models that are already in testing and from systems already capable of things that would have been unthinkable 24 months ago.
00:50:22.380What they describe yesterday in this report is stark.
00:50:26.480It is the choice that is right directly in front of you that has already been decided for you five years ago.
00:51:47.100And when the goal is narrowly defined, even as something as harmless as maximizing profits or, you know, efficiency or information retrieval,
00:51:57.800it can evolve into something very, very dangerous.
00:52:01.580If we give an AI the task of winning, it will win, even if it means stepping over every other human value in the process.
00:54:18.820The people who are warning you that it is no longer a matter of when, if it's a matter of when, are now the guys coming out on the same day saying, by the way, we've got a new educational tool for you.
00:56:03.700It's not dead, but I mean, the only reason to have hope is there is another side to the story.
00:56:09.300If we guide it with wisdom and restraint, AI can change almost everything for the better.
00:56:17.160By 2030, we could see diseases, once fatal, mapped and cured by intelligent systems that can simulate billions of drug interactions in hours.
00:56:27.220It can take a COVID-19, it will solve that in minutes, and it will guess all of its mutations and come up with something better that will kill it.
00:56:40.900Personalized medicine is not just a promise anymore.
00:57:07.700Education, as they announced yesterday, will become individualized.
00:57:10.940Children learning by not standardized testing, but by curiosity and passion, guided by systems that will adapt to their minds like a perfect teacher.
00:57:19.460Teacher, who doesn't want me some of that?
00:58:53.180We may reach a point where systems that we made are so embedded in daily life that they cannot ever be unplugged without collapsing the entire economy worldwide.
00:59:03.880There's, what's scary is, it would be a dramatic ending, but there will be no grand dramatic moment of takeover, just a gradual drift until the idea of human first decisions become quaint.
00:59:17.080I've been talking about this for so long, and I, the time is here, the time is now, but in one of my favorite lines from Les Miserables, but we are young, or I am young and unafraid.
00:59:36.220There are things that we can do, but we have to really, we have to convince our neighbors and our family and our friends, and I'm not sure anybody is really working on that right now.
00:59:53.980We have to make sure that they understand the problems.
00:59:58.340Our big question is not whether the technology has come, not even what it can do.
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01:28:32.640It's an animated film that brings the story of Jesus to life through the eyes of a child.
01:28:37.920It starts as a bedtime story, uh, a father telling his son about the life of Christ, but the story doesn't stay on the page.
01:28:45.320The boy enters the story, walks through on the roads of Galilee.
01:28:48.880He sees the miracles of Christ firsthand, witnesses the betrayal and the cross and the empty tomb.
01:28:55.400And through this, his imagination, we get to experience the power of that story again with fresh eyes.
01:33:21.000And this time they are pushing into the most concerning thing here is that it sort of proves, I think, our worst caricature of the Democratic Party, which is that for the last four years, they used tools like censorship, lawfare, overregulation, political persecution to go after not their enemies, but people who disagreed with them.
01:33:44.400And now that they have effectively been shut out of those institutional and government lovers of power, right?
01:33:52.960I guess what Marxists, I guess, what Marxists always do, not just show an irreverence for private property and try to destroy Teslas, but they're using violence and intimidation.
01:34:02.220And I think the way that the left has tried to depict these actions as, you know, organic civil society, just, you know, speaking about democracy and democratic values, there's nothing civil about this.
01:34:17.980These people are being funded by far left donors like George Soros, like the Tides Foundation, the same big money, dark money interests that funded basically every violent protest we've seen since Trump really entered the stage.
01:34:44.500So Indivisible is sort of the ringleader of a lot of this.
01:34:47.300And their biggest refrain that they always are pumping through the airwaves is that they are a grassroots organization, that they're people funded and people powered.
01:34:56.180But if you dig into their financials, which, as you alluded to, they've essentially erased all of their webpages showing the personnel that's undergirding their movement.
01:35:04.920But from the sort of 990 filings where you can see, again, by design, not exactly who's funding them.
01:35:11.140But overwhelmingly, the majority of the funds that support this group come from big, dark money type foundations or philanthropic organizations, the NGO of the world, which obviously is a euphemism.
01:35:23.020But of that, the majority of it comes from, and I'm talking seven plus million dollars since 2018 alone, is coming from George Soros' Open Society Foundation.
01:35:33.860And like I said, when they tell you that they're funded by people and it's people power, it's not true.
01:35:39.240And in some cases, most recently, they were doing a whole thing.
01:35:42.400I'm sure your audience has seen this apoplectic narrative that, you know, House Republicans are not showing up to town halls.
01:35:49.220Well, Indivisible was behind that, and they were actually reimbursing their groups, in some cases, $200 to buy all the gear, all the protests that they needed for that.
01:35:57.920And they have a separate program where they'll reimburse groups up to $1,500 for get out the vote operations, advocacy and recruitment.
01:36:05.400So the idea that this is all organic and that President Trump is just, you know, angering America so bad by going after waste, fraud and abuse, it's not true.
01:36:14.220It's the same people who funded the protests outside the DNC, the flag burners.
01:36:18.500And frankly, it's the same people who fund inside the DNC.
01:37:01.66015% say, I'm too dumb to have an opinion.
01:37:04.140Among the respondents who say they're Republicans, 68% said yes.
01:37:08.980The respondents who say that they're Democrats, 56% say no.
01:37:13.140How do you keep people saying, and a growing number of people saying, no, it's totally cool to shoot that guy in front of a hotel because he works for an insurance company,
01:37:25.940and we can burn down the Teslas, and we can find people in our own neighborhood that have them, target them, and destroy their lives until they take a stand with us and say they believe what we're doing and they've sold their Tesla.
01:37:41.260How do you get so many Americans to get behind that?
01:37:44.760I think that there's two key things that the Trump administration could do to push back on that.
01:37:50.600First and foremost, I think, would be revoking the tax-exempt statuses of a lot of these organizations that are organizing these protests because they're essentially all 501c3s, which is absolutely insane.
01:38:01.540And I think they need to continue pressing ahead on the verticals of the Act Blue investigations and, just in general, the dark money funding.
01:38:09.080But also, a lot of the funding for groups, for example, there's a new thing called the Resistance Lab, which is being spearheaded by Representative Pramila Jayapal in conjunction with the Harvard Ash Center, which has hosted it.
01:38:21.140They're a rather prestigious Kennedy School.
01:38:22.900And though they have similarly deleted their webpages, some of their top funders are none other than USAID and the Department of State and the lady who runs it, who uses they-them pronouns, so make your own judgment there.
01:38:34.480But she herself has been funded extensively by USAID, the United States Institute of Peace.
01:38:40.700And I think it's really important to drill down on this figure because this is someone who's not studying protest and nonviolence.
01:38:46.900This is someone who their CV reads like a rap sheet.
01:38:51.140They're studying terrorism and violent versus nonviolent protests, not because violent protests are immoral or unethical, but because they think at this moment nonviolent protests are more effective in bringing out their sort of utopian democratic worldview.
01:39:06.760And I use democracy not in its true sense.
01:39:09.240But these people are extremely, extremely radical.
01:39:12.140And I think what it goes back to is what we sort of started this interview on.
01:39:14.880They have always used this sort of color revolution paradigm to institute change and to oppose President Trump.
01:39:20.840It's why they depict him as an autocrat, as an authoritarian, right, because then they can justify their outside-the-system regime change tactics that they've used abroad.
01:39:29.000And since they usually rely on impeachment proceedings or contested election results, they can't do that, right?
01:39:34.880They didn't take the House, and President Trump won the popular vote overwhelmingly.
01:39:38.860So they're relying on this narrative that what he's doing is so unpopular and this sort of astroturfed outrage and protest and intimidation tactics to really continue this myth that President Trump is a dictator that must be opposed at all costs.
01:39:52.920What is, I mean, I agree with you that Trump needs to go after the 501c3s.
01:40:00.800I mean, I'm a little disappointed in Pam Bondi.
01:40:04.520However, I say that realizing that she still doesn't really even have her full team around her.
01:40:11.100But I'm hoping that the Justice Department starts to move a little quicker on things, because this is clearly terrorism.
01:40:23.240It is clearly these organizations that, as you said, have been taking money from the taxpayer to do all of these things.
01:40:33.160And the only way to stop them, I think, is to not just call them out, but if they're breaking any kind of law, which they clearly are, go after them with everything we have.
01:40:46.820Yeah, and I think these radical judges have been stepping into at every point.
01:40:50.720I think that's a continuation of the lawfare.
01:40:52.840And I think the fundamental issue, look, you had all these Republicans talking tough about how there's such fiscal hawks.
01:40:58.600Where were they on the USAID front, all this waste fraud that's been uncovered for decades?
01:41:05.340And now the best we can get is a not even full committee hearing, but a subcommittee hearing that's been postponed on judges with some experts to tell us and confirm what we know, that these people are radical partisan activists.
01:41:17.420It's so unfortunate because our side, our grassroots are fueled by patriotism, not dark money, not George Soros money.
01:41:24.380And they're such amazing investigative reporters.
01:41:26.840You go on X nowadays, people are the ones who are exposing these groups and the elected Republicans that should be enforcing.
01:41:33.800It's not we're not even telling them to go after these groups in an autocratic, you know, despotic way.
01:41:38.200We're just saying enforce the laws, enforce the fact that these should not be receiving tax exempt statuses or 501c3 statuses or go after the left wing billionaires.
01:41:47.300I mean, the case that they've been able to make against right wing billionaires who are trying to root out waste, fraud and abuse when you juxtapose that to actual, I would argue, criminal cases that you could bring against a ton of left wing billionaires who are clandestinely and covertly funding domestic terror operations here in the United States.
01:42:03.760Not just since January 20th, but for years on end, the issue, I think, starts with the weak specklessness of congressional Republicans who just have continually showed that they're unwilling to do anything.
01:43:24.120But flooding the zone is just a response to the absolute disarray and chaos that President Biden left this country.
01:43:30.800And we have to flood the zone with executive orders and action after action and tariff after tariff because of what happened in Afghanistan at the southern border across this country with Chinese spy balloons.
01:43:43.500And congressional Republicans, the same people who are joining the Doge caucus and posting all their pictures and talking a tough game on Twitter, they're voting to continue spending levels at the very same Biden rate levels.
01:43:55.380And the Senate's already moving to try to make it so President Trump can't unilaterally impose tariffs.
01:44:01.640It's the people who've been there for probably longer than I've been alive who allowed the Chinese Communist Party, who allowed these third world countries to overtake our manufacturing jobs, to seize essentially our means of production.
01:44:12.820And they did nothing about it because their donors, the people who've been funding them, got rich off of it and enjoy it.
01:44:19.320And their constituents, the people who knocked the doors for them, donated them small dollar amounts, they have nothing but contempt for them.
01:44:27.980And frankly, it's insulting to the intelligence of your audience, of Bannon's war room audience, when they think that just some tweet or some strongly worded letter or some, you know, half-hearted hearing against a judge that has no really enforcement power
01:44:44.040The MAGA movement is about shifting the goalposts for accountability.
01:44:48.280And I think our audiences have been very clear that it's found in prison sentences and investigations for people who have committed crimes and not just strongly worded letters or, you know, Fox News segments where people are going off and giving nice spicy rants.
01:45:03.140But these criminals keep getting away with it.
01:46:13.060Police are on his way or on their way to pick him up.
01:46:17.600Burna doesn't kill, but it will knock down an assailant with kinetic and pepper rounds, giving you, your wife, your children, a chance to get away.
01:47:56.560And replicating their policies, not my chosen direction.
01:47:59.080I will say that the EU was formed basically to become a United States of Eurasia, if you will.
01:48:06.360So, and they all band together, so they were a bigger trading block that could come after us and try to, you know, be on the status and the same step as the United States.
01:49:58.140Trump has said he would like that in the past.
01:50:00.800However, the way he calculated these tariffs makes it so even if these countries do drop their tariffs to zero, if he continues with this calculation, we can't get to zero.
01:52:14.540It's got probiotics, essential vitamins, omega oils, antioxidants, everything that kibble food leaves out, and it's made by people who actually care about your dog, living longer, a healthier life.
01:54:37.420He has thinking-out-of-the-box vision.
01:54:40.880Everything that he does is unorthodox.
01:54:43.960And our country is in so much trouble that someone has to have the courage to try things that have never been tried before, or that need to be tried to get us back on track.
01:54:57.220So I think that you are a wonderful person to keep bringing us back to the place you've talked for years about, the exit ramp.
01:55:09.260And I think now we have one exit ramp, and that is God.
01:56:22.160I know that he interacted at a point and did things that we could not do, only he could do, and that saved his life, which led to this moment.
01:56:32.080But that might just be to give us more time to prepare on other things that are happening.
01:56:39.180Because honestly, I don't know how this works out.
01:56:42.140All I do know is that God will use whatever we choose and whatever happens for his greater glory.
01:56:51.980And so we shouldn't have a panic moment of that, but we should never, ever blindly follow man.
01:57:01.340And I honestly, you know, Israel, the translation is to wrestle with God.
01:57:38.760When it comes to Donald Trump, you know, that we just have to go along with Donald Trump on things.
01:57:48.920I think we all have to listen to the spirit as well.
01:57:53.140But we also God requires us to do our own homework.
01:57:56.620He requires us to combine our brain and then check it against what we know is true in scripture and check it with the Holy Spirit.
01:58:06.860So he's asking us, you never go, you never, you'll never get an answer in prayer ever if you're like, okay, God, what do you want me to do today?
01:58:18.020You'll be waiting for that answer forever because that's not his job.
01:58:51.300It just doesn't make a difference in your eternal growth because that's all God cares about, our eternal growth.
01:58:59.200If we are a nation that is turning back to God, and that's happening because we have been strengthened, and we're strengthening this government to come back to God and be more humble in front of God, then God will probably protect us or at least throw us some favor instead of shade.
01:59:23.080But I don't know what God has in store.
01:59:26.360However, I do know that these tariffs, I'm not going to go blindly forward, but I am going to give the man the benefit of the doubt because he's not an idiot.
02:00:04.600And again, part of the big vision that Trump talked about was the stuff you've been hitting on a lot today, which was tax cuts, regulation cuts, all these other efficiency gains, which we just haven't heard a lot about yet.
02:01:06.400If the economy will derail your entire presidency.
02:01:09.000And so this is something he's believed in for a very long time and he thinks it's worth betting it on.
02:01:13.480And I think too, because I appreciate your sensitivity here because people, because of how people hear the media talk about Donald Trump, it's understandable to be really, you know, to try to communicate to people, we're not like that.
02:01:30.300I am not looking at Donald Trump in this way of like, I just want to judge him negatively on every single thing he's doing.
02:02:35.760Like we're not like the left where, when, when, when you have a person who says, you know what, maybe I don't want to kill children in the womb.
02:02:41.800They get disconnected, discommunicated, excommunicated from the party.
02:02:45.280When RFK Jr. says, Hey, maybe, I don't know if I don't like this vaccine so much.
02:02:49.360They just toss them to the side and he's been a lifelong liberal and all of a sudden he's gone.
02:02:57.100You know, I want Congress, this is going to be very contrarian here for the tariffs thing, but I want the Congress to take their power back.
02:03:25.920Here's what I'm, here's the, my frustration on the tariff talk.
02:03:30.020When you're, when you're going against it, there are those who I know are politicians in Washington and they're, they're sounding very much like me in some ways where they're like, look, I've been against tariffs, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
02:03:43.480But I wish this, this, and this would happen.
02:03:45.220That's the way a, that's the way a friend, a coworker, somebody who wants the best to happen for you and happen for all of us.
02:03:55.040That's the way you do it in real life.
02:04:08.240I'm a, but this is, I think a mistake for the company and it doesn't mean you're a bad guy.
02:04:13.940We can, cause we agree on almost everything and I know you want the best for the company and you know, I want the best for the company, but while we're in this moment here of decisions being made, I just like to point out, I think this, this, and this could be very big mistakes.
02:06:34.140Let's focus on what we can do to make it successful.
02:06:38.540And what we can do to make it successful is Congress pass the tax cuts, cut the regulation, unleash the American entrepreneur, unleash the might and full power of the United States, not through public private partnerships, but by empowering the individual.
02:06:58.640Do that and maybe these tariffs just might work.
02:07:17.880I mean, that's, I mean, that's a really good moment.
02:07:20.220I think you have to be about 60 to really understand that or have lived a really tough life.
02:07:25.480But that's what I like to think of as a relief factor moment, because there are those types of moment you experience all the time with relief factor.
02:07:33.620You step out of the car, you reach for the coffee, you head for some stairs, you run in the yard, you do something and you're like, wait a minute.