The Glenn Beck Program - What Do Hunter Biden and Claudine Gay Have in Common？｜ 12⧸22⧸23 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program

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00:01:00.000 If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then I gotta tell you something, the president of Harvard University is on track to be the most sincere flatterer in the history of the Ivy League.

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00:02:24.600 It is the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:31.920 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:02:34.580 Oh! 0.60

00:02:36.000 So, I know we're all here, and we're expecting words of wisdom from Glenn, and then this Jeff Katz character pops up, and even though I'm Jeff Katz, I'm thinking, but it's me.

00:02:48.420 So I thought, you know what I'm going to do?

00:02:50.480 I just wanted to be inspired.

00:02:52.580 I did.

00:02:53.060 I wanted to be inspired by someone who is so much smarter than I am, and so much more talented.

00:03:00.600 No, I'm not talking about the president of Harvard University, but that's where I'm drawing my inspiration.

00:03:04.480 I just thought, if it's all right with you, what I will do is simply read a transcript of one of Glenn's programs, and then it's just like Glenn is here,

00:03:18.420 with, of course, the obvious exception of the talent and the skill and all that good stuff.

00:03:24.640 Would that work?

00:03:26.460 I mean, because that's what this Dr. Claudine Gay has apparently done at Harvard University. 1.00

00:03:32.020 I've never written a doctoral dissertation, and looking at my calendar and the way my life is tracked out so far, the chances of me ever writing a PhD dissertation and having to defend it are somewhere between slim and, are you freaking kidding me, slim.

00:03:51.360 So I'm thinking I'm not going to have to go through this, but I did write a few papers in school, and I can remember, even as a little guy, third grade, by the way, best teacher I had in my entire life, Phyllis Gerson.

00:04:08.520 I remember Mrs. Gerson to this day, I kept in touch with Mrs. Gerson for years and years and years, and she passed away a couple of years ago, but I compared every single teacher that I ever had, teachers in elementary school, junior high school, high school, college, specialized training and instruction and courses.

00:04:33.640 I have compared every single teacher to Mrs. Gerson my entire life, because she was the best teacher that I ever had, and I think when I stack things up and I look at these things, I probably did learn more in third grade from Mrs. Gerson than I did anywhere else.

00:04:53.420 Close second, Dr. Sheldon Brown.

00:04:56.700 He was my first ever psychology professor, just a brilliant guy and one of the nicest human beings.

00:05:03.840 That I ever met.

00:05:06.160 But it was clear to me, even in third grade with Mrs. Gerson, you got to do your own work.

00:05:11.340 You cannot copy off of anybody else's paper.

00:05:14.740 Didn't we all learn that?

00:05:17.240 Has that been lost?

00:05:18.540 Because I don't think it has.

00:05:20.400 I asked both of my sons last night, and it was a quick interaction because, you know, they're home on vacation from college, so they have a lot of really important stuff to do,

00:05:30.840 and it doesn't usually involve chatting with dad about anything unless it's like, well, I need an airplane ticket somewhere.

00:05:37.220 Can you help me out?

00:05:39.220 Sure.

00:05:40.020 You know, I'm like a living, breathing ATM.

00:05:43.020 That's what I kind of figured out years ago.

00:05:44.500 But I asked them both, and they go to very different colleges.

00:05:50.200 Harry is finishing up at Stanford.

00:05:54.200 Stanford University, one of the most exclusive institutions of higher learning anywhere.

00:06:00.400 And he's a bright kid.

00:06:03.800 I'm wearing one of my Stanford sweatshirts because I keep thinking with all the money I send to Stanford, they should actually send me a sweatshirt.

00:06:11.780 Dear Mr. Katz, thank you so much.

00:06:13.960 We understand you only have one more kidney to sell, but luckily he's in his last quarter, and it'll all be good.

00:06:18.620 And then I keep thinking, if I keep mentioning that he goes to Stanford, can I deduct his tuition from my income?

00:06:30.780 And a number of people, none of whom, thankfully, associated with the IRS have said, yeah, that's not going to work.

00:06:36.940 But I asked him, where I just have to imagine that the academic standards are pretty rigorous.

00:06:42.600 What would happen if you plagiarized work?

00:06:48.760 And he said, well, you just can't do it.

00:06:51.040 And he didn't realize that I was asking him with this background of this Dr. Claudine Gay at Harvard.

00:06:56.180 He just thought I was making conversation.

00:06:59.940 I said, so you can't?

00:07:01.060 He said, no, of course not.

00:07:02.600 I said, well, what happens?

00:07:04.140 What if you're in the midst of doing some really, really, really in-depth work, far above my pay grade?

00:07:11.540 Stuff I couldn't understand.

00:07:13.700 And you're looking at books and reports and files and all this other stuff put together by other egghead, brilliant people like you.

00:07:22.820 He liked that.

00:07:24.420 And so what if you didn't mean to, but you're going through all this stuff and you got a million tabs open on the laptop and maybe you've actually got stuff printed and you've highlighted.

00:07:34.740 And for whatever reason, you just, you write two or three lines and you honestly forget, honestly forget to note somewhere in your thing.

00:07:49.800 I called it a book report.

00:07:51.240 And he's like, Dad, I'm not in elementary school.

00:07:54.100 So I guess the whole idea of the shoebox diorama is totally off the.

00:07:57.440 Anyway, he said, well, you would probably, if that's the only thing that you did, the professor to whom you were turning it in would say, hey, I was taking a look at this.

00:08:08.960 What happened there?

00:08:10.720 And you could honestly say, oh, my gosh.

00:08:12.860 That is absolutely, I don't know, Dr. Huckenschmutz's statement.

00:08:19.640 And I just forgot to note it.

00:08:21.740 And if the professor likes you or at least has respect for you and knows that this is not the way you operate, you're not trying to get your degree via chat GBT or some other nonsense.

00:08:33.640 He or she would say, OK, well, just you got to go back and and fix that and you could fix it.

00:08:38.640 And that's it.

00:08:40.000 OK.

00:08:42.300 And I asked Joe.

00:08:43.720 Joe goes to a very different school.

00:08:44.920 Joe goes to Ithaca College.

00:08:48.220 And it is a good school.

00:08:50.780 He's a good kid.

00:08:51.520 But it's, you know, it's not an Ivy League institution.

00:08:54.720 And that's OK.

00:08:55.860 I mean, it was the right school for him.

00:08:57.940 And it all works, I think.

00:09:01.060 And I asked him the same question.

00:09:03.320 What if you're in the midst of doing some work and it just whatever reason,

00:09:08.020 you accidentally, inadvertently included a couple of lines.

00:09:14.760 And you did not note somewhere in your thing, your paper, that that was actually someone else's comments or statement or work or what have you.

00:09:26.340 And he's only been there for for one semester.

00:09:30.620 But he's I think he's finished up five, of course, right?

00:09:34.080 Yeah.

00:09:34.220 Five courses of your typical undergrad course load.

00:09:36.980 And he said essentially the same thing as Harry did.

00:09:41.600 Hey, well, you know, if you made a mistake, you made a mistake.

00:09:45.700 Says, now, just remember, I'm a freshman and it's my very first semester in college.

00:09:49.920 They might they might be more forgiving.

00:09:54.220 Or they might go in the opposite direction and be really, really tough because they think you're trying to get away with something.

00:10:00.560 He said, but I think and I haven't done this, of course.

00:10:03.580 This will good.

00:10:04.900 He said, he said, I think what would happen is they would say you need to go back and and fix that.

00:10:11.740 So it's clear to both of those boys you can't do this.

00:10:15.300 But Dr. Claudine Gay, who I'm told, is just one of the most brilliant women to have ever.

00:10:26.780 Did I say woman?

00:10:27.900 I did.

00:10:28.420 Oh, you know me.

00:10:29.760 And the Supreme Court says, I can't define what a woman is. 1.00

00:10:32.880 Yeah, actually, I can.

00:10:33.840 OK, so she is one of the most brilliant women ever. 1.00

00:10:36.360 But she somehow, some way did not understand that.

00:10:46.420 Or did she think she was going to get away with it?

00:10:48.440 Or had there been some indication throughout her academic career and her professional academic activities that said to her, hey.

00:10:58.960 You can do what you want.

00:11:01.320 You don't have to worry about this.

00:11:03.140 You just, yeah, you can copy other people's work.

00:11:07.680 No worries.

00:11:09.500 This is a problem.

00:11:11.460 This is a big problem.

00:11:13.840 The latest report, that's the New York Post, says there are now more than 40 allegations of Dr. Claudine Gay at Harvard University plagiarizing other people's work.

00:11:26.060 I mentioned to you yesterday.

00:11:27.720 She'll probably get away with it, but not necessarily because of the reasons that a lot of people automatically assume. 0.77

00:11:37.000 Jeff, she's a black woman. 1.00

00:11:38.800 She'll get away with it. 0.99

00:11:39.560 No, that may play into this.

00:11:41.960 Now, maybe that played into it during the course of her academic career. 0.97

00:11:45.900 And she has built, by all accounts, a DEI empire at Harvard University.

00:11:54.380 Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:11:58.560 Now, under the whole DEI rubric, I think you can do any of this stuff so long as you come from a group that is, quote, marginalized or oppressed.

00:12:09.920 You got a free pass, apparently.

00:12:12.280 But believe it or not, those are not the reasons, in my opinion, that she will get away with it.

00:12:20.420 The real reason behind all of it is that the Harvard Corporation, which fundamentally acts as the board of directors for Harvard University, oversees their billions of dollars in endowment.

00:12:32.260 They just hired her.

00:12:33.560 And if, in fact, they pressure her to resign, yes, there will be a backlash related to race. 1.00

00:12:44.700 There will be a backlash related to gender. 1.00

00:12:47.040 But there will be a bigger backlash against them that says, how flippin' stupid could you be? 1.00

00:12:56.260 Did you not investigate any of this before you gave her one of the most incredibly attractive jobs in all of academia? 0.98

00:13:03.500 So I'm not sure that even the brand-new allegations, more than 40 of them, related to plagiarism will really stick.

00:13:15.080 CNN had a little something to say on this, and we're going to listen to that in just a moment.

00:13:18.600 I want to remind you, yes, I am thrilled to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:13:23.720 It really is.

00:13:24.740 It's always an honor.

00:13:25.580 It's always a pleasure.

00:13:26.280 And I always use the opportunity to remind people, stay in touch on social media.

00:13:31.360 I've got all of this posted on everything.

00:13:33.420 If you would, I'd appreciate a follow.

00:13:36.260 Jeff Katz Show over on X, formerly known as Twitter.

00:13:39.360 Jeff Katz Show on X, formerly known as Twitter.

00:13:43.280 The Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

00:13:45.980 The Jeff Katz Show on Facebook.

00:13:48.200 And yesterday, a bunch of people said, hey, don't you have a website?

00:13:50.260 And the answer was yes.

00:13:51.880 I had forgotten about it.

00:13:52.860 I'm not in charge of that stuff, but it's jeffkatz.us, jeffkatz.us.

00:13:59.440 It is Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

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00:15:07.200 It is the Glenn Beck program.

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00:15:21.420 Always enjoy the opportunity.

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00:15:28.060 Now, I've got a clip from CNN, and it's a little long.

00:15:32.280 If you will indulge me, and we may get to a point as you and I are listening to where we go,

00:15:36.220 okay, well, that's enough, that's enough, and then we'll just stop it.

00:15:38.300 But CNN is doing, well, they're doing what CNN normally does,

00:15:44.080 which is covering for their fellow leftists, their fellow agenda item box checkers.

00:15:53.440 So I want you to take a listen to some of, cut number seven, please.

00:15:56.520 You might recall Dr. Gay, along with the presidents of MIT and Penn giving,

00:16:01.480 generally seen as disastrous testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this month,

00:16:05.760 if they failed to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews on campus

00:16:10.100 would violate their campus' codes of conduct.

00:16:12.680 Now, that, as well as Gay's commitment to progressive policies,

00:16:15.660 have made her many right-wing enemies who have recently raised issues about her scholarship.

00:16:21.200 But regardless of the provenance of these allegations,

00:16:24.960 there is also the matter of whether or not they're true.

00:16:27.520 Harvard's top governing body said a review revealed, quote,

00:16:31.860 inadequate citations by Dr. Gay in a few instances, but, quote,

00:16:35.960 no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct, unquote.

00:16:39.880 Now, Harvard's guide on sourcing says this on plagiarism, quote,

00:16:44.240 in academic writing, it is considered plagiarism to draw any idea or any language

00:16:48.480 from someone else without adequately crediting that source in your paper, unquote.

00:16:52.960 Now, critics of Dr. Gay and Harvard's review of the allegations say that there is

00:16:57.500 a double standard going on here.

00:17:00.200 CNN's Matt Egan is calling this.

00:17:02.160 What exactly is Dr. Gay accused of here?

00:17:04.900 Claudine Gay's career is under a microscope,

00:17:07.220 and now she's facing accusations of plagiarism.

00:17:10.720 Now, Gay recently submitted corrections to two papers

00:17:13.420 that she wrote as a professional academic in 2001 and 2017.

00:17:16.500 However, there are clear examples of plagiarism that occurred in the 1990s

00:17:22.000 when Gay was studying for her Ph.D. at Harvard.

00:17:25.060 And in one example, Gay's 1997 dissertation lifted one paragraph

00:17:29.340 almost verbatim from another source without citation.

00:17:34.000 That offense appears to go against Harvard's current guide on plagiarism,

00:17:38.120 which you stated earlier, Jake.

00:17:39.700 Harvard's plagiarism policy says that students who submit work

00:17:43.300 without clear attribution to sources will be, quote,

00:17:46.840 subject to disciplinary action,

00:17:48.560 up to and including requirement to withdraw from the college.

00:17:52.080 Now, the first publicly identified instance of plagiarism by Gay

00:17:55.640 comes from a failure to properly cite sources in a 1993 essay.

00:18:00.740 Now, Harvard's top governing body said in a statement last week

00:18:03.640 it became aware of plagiarism allegations against Gay in late October.

00:18:08.740 An independent review found a few instances of missing citations,

00:18:12.100 but no violation of Harvard's standards.

00:18:14.820 However, it's not clear whether that review included Gay's 1997 dissertation.

00:18:20.300 In a previous statement, Gay said, quote,

00:18:22.920 I stand by the integrity of my scholarship.

00:18:25.980 Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure

00:18:28.080 my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.

00:18:31.860 Now, we should note that the plagiarism allegations against Gay

00:18:34.660 were first circulated by conservative activists.

00:18:37.680 One of those activists has also criticized Gay

00:18:40.180 on Harvard's diversity policies.

00:18:42.260 Gay's most outspoken critic has also highlighted the plagiarism charges,

00:18:46.220 and he's argued, without evidence,

00:18:48.900 that Harvard only hired Gay to fulfill diversity requirements.

00:18:53.100 Now, plagiarism experts that CNN spoke to

00:18:54.960 stressed that this is a very complex issue.

00:18:57.720 These experts were divided on whether Gay's omissions warrant any punishment,

00:19:01.680 but none of them called for her to be fired,

00:19:03.740 and they noted it's quite rare for academics to be fired for plagiarism.

00:19:08.140 Jake?

00:19:08.400 What else are critics and plagiarism experts saying

00:19:10.820 about Harvard's review of these plagiarism allegations?

00:19:14.640 All right, that's enough.

00:19:17.100 All right, go away.

00:19:18.120 Although, I got to tell you,

00:19:19.780 Jake Tapper, in the last couple of weeks or so,

00:19:23.040 seems like he, I don't know, got an early present,

00:19:26.080 like he got a backbone in the spine,

00:19:27.980 because he has legitimately been asking some tough questions

00:19:31.360 and diving into things,

00:19:33.000 so hat tip to Jake Tapper.

00:19:35.440 Who's the guy going,

00:19:36.320 well, you know, it's a very complicated question.

00:19:38.700 It's not a complicated question.

00:19:40.280 Is that your work?

00:19:41.260 No.

00:19:41.680 Thank you.

00:19:42.300 Move along.

00:19:44.000 Did you write it?

00:19:45.080 Yes.

00:19:45.560 Did you point out to us that somebody else wrote it first?

00:19:48.220 No.

00:19:48.780 Okay, thank you.

00:19:51.040 I mean, honest to God,

00:19:52.020 unless you are Mike Barnacle

00:19:53.900 and you wind up on MSNBC,

00:19:54.980 I'm telling you,

00:19:56.240 most people do not get away with this sort of stuff.

00:20:00.940 It's just, it's insanity.

00:20:03.540 It really is.

00:20:04.460 If it is so clear that even I understand it,

00:20:08.200 man, it's got to be crystal clear.

00:20:11.720 I'm sitting here in my home studio.

00:20:16.180 Sounds very impressive, doesn't it?

00:20:17.860 All right, but I know it's not really a shed.

00:20:21.440 People say that.

00:20:22.440 It's not.

00:20:23.060 It's not a shed.

00:20:24.080 It's the plaque shack. 0.95

00:20:25.700 But I'm sitting here.

00:20:27.860 It's just me and my senior executive producer,

00:20:32.000 Pixie the Wonder Dog.

00:20:33.280 She's a 10-pound chihuahua, rescue, four teeth. 1.00

00:20:37.460 It's just the two of us in here.

00:20:39.060 I'm still not the smartest guy in the room.

00:20:41.220 And you know what?

00:20:42.140 I still understand.

00:20:44.020 You cannot copy other people's work

00:20:46.660 and claim that it's yours.

00:20:49.260 CNN chatted with people who are plagiarism experts.

00:20:52.740 Tell you who you need to ask.

00:20:55.880 Stop going out and getting your left-wing plagiarism experts

00:21:00.020 and ask any kid in elementary school.

00:21:04.520 Now, it won't be as fancy.

00:21:07.580 It won't be as colorful.

00:21:09.340 It won't be as filled with left-wing, woke talking points.

00:21:13.440 But the answer, at least, will be pretty easy to understand.

00:21:17.220 And that child will tell you,

00:21:20.760 you cannot copy off of somebody else's paper.

00:21:25.320 That's what this boils down to.

00:21:27.520 Simple as that.

00:21:30.860 Jeff Katz Show over on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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00:22:58.620 More Glenn Beck in a moment.

00:23:04.840 It is the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:27.000 Jeff Gantz happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:23:30.220 Years ago, gosh, it's 20-some-odd years ago,

00:23:34.140 now that I think about it,

00:23:35.400 Heidi and I lived in Las Vegas, Nevada.

00:23:38.360 Very, very interesting experience.

00:23:40.240 Very interesting experience.

00:23:41.780 I loved it out there.

00:23:43.660 It was right as the terrorist attacks

00:23:47.680 of September the 11th, 2001, were unfolding.

00:23:51.100 And it was a really bizarre, bizarre sort of a thing.

00:23:58.720 We had just had our first son.

00:24:02.620 I told you moments ago,

00:24:03.760 Harry is now finishing up at Stanford.

00:24:06.800 And I do mention Stanford all the time

00:24:09.200 in hopes that something will happen for me.

00:24:11.420 I'm telling you, a baseball cap would be nice

00:24:13.220 for those people to set.

00:24:14.220 I'd love to open a box, postmark Palo Alto,

00:24:17.240 that just says, Dear Mr. Katz,

00:24:20.000 thank you so much for every single solitary cent

00:24:23.900 you've ever earned.

00:24:25.300 Here's a baseball cap.

00:24:27.360 Nothing.

00:24:28.980 But Harry was a newborn.

00:24:31.340 And we had just brought him home from the hospital.

00:24:35.000 And it was, well, it was bizarre.

00:24:37.440 He was the first child, the first grandchild.

00:24:40.960 My dad, with his ever-impeccable sense of timing,

00:24:44.840 died five days before Harry was born.

00:24:48.700 My dad was an interesting character.

00:24:50.160 I may share some of that.

00:24:51.400 But we brought him home.

00:24:53.340 And we're all sitting around, all of us,

00:24:55.480 the two of us, just looking at him,

00:24:57.780 amazed by him, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

00:25:01.660 So it's a long time.

00:25:02.820 And we haven't been back to Las Vegas in a long time.

00:25:07.600 But I came across a story today from Las Vegas,

00:25:09.820 and I thought, oh, my Lord.

00:25:12.300 Please tell me this isn't true.

00:25:14.820 Because Las Vegas was always an interesting place.

00:25:17.440 People didn't understand Las Vegas.

00:25:20.780 People from outside of Nevada thought,

00:25:23.260 well, you live in one of those hotels, right?

00:25:26.620 No.

00:25:27.600 No, we live in a house.

00:25:29.220 We lived in a beautiful house, in fact.

00:25:31.860 What do you, you get paid in those poker chip things, right?

00:25:36.620 No, no, no, no.

00:25:37.740 I get a paycheck like everybody else.

00:25:40.260 Oh.

00:25:42.060 Now, I did have to explain to them that there were slop machines everywhere.

00:25:47.880 You went to the supermarket.

00:25:49.540 Smith's was the supermarket we used to go to.

00:25:51.840 Slop machines.

00:25:52.480 Big line of slop machines.

00:25:53.720 You'd go to a gas station.

00:25:58.280 Slop machines everywhere.

00:26:00.360 And the worst, oh, God, it was so painful.

00:26:03.520 There used to be older folks who were clearly down on their luck.

00:26:08.680 And they would be playing these nickel slot machines at the terrible Herbst gas stations.

00:26:16.540 But it's been a long time since we've lived there.

00:26:20.420 And I, as I think about it, I haven't been back in 20 years.

00:26:24.040 But I still kind of sort of follow some news out there.

00:26:28.640 And this story jumped out at me.

00:26:30.660 And I thought, oh, please tell me it's not true.

00:26:34.040 The Clark County School District, which is Las Vegas and a few of the little surrounding areas.

00:26:41.100 That's Clark County.

00:26:41.940 Clark County School District is now the target of a formal complaint over an incident that we're told happened earlier this year with a special education student who's Jewish.

00:26:56.880 So I got three things right away to jump out to me, right?

00:26:59.500 Las Vegas.

00:27:00.060 Hey, I try and keep up with the stuff in Vegas.

00:27:01.760 I kind of miss Vegas.

00:27:04.160 Special ed student.

00:27:05.340 Well, I told you about Julia.

00:27:08.080 That jumps out at me in Jewish. 0.96

00:27:09.780 Okay, so I'm three for three on this one.

00:27:13.700 This special education student, according to this lawsuit, came home from school in Clark County with a swastika carved into their back.

00:27:24.700 Now, there's an organization.

00:27:25.920 It's called the Law Fair Project.

00:27:29.740 And it advocates for Jewish people through legal action.

00:27:33.320 They announced they have filed the complaint against the Clark County School District.

00:27:37.160 They did it yesterday.

00:27:37.920 The complaint accuses the school district of state and federal civil rights violations on behalf of this student who attended a high school when the suspected hate crime was reported in March of this year.

00:27:53.360 So this is before the Hamas attacks of October the 7th, right?

00:28:03.620 Yeah.

00:28:05.600 Attorneys with a couple of law firms out in Vegas joined the action.

00:28:10.420 And their allegation is that this student did not receive the special education support that he was entitled to under federal and state regulations.

00:28:19.660 That's a nice, fancy, legal way of saying, what the hell happened here?

00:28:25.180 How can we send a child to school and have him come home with a swastika carved in his back?

00:28:29.620 Now, if it were a typically developing child, you would ask the child, correct?

00:28:40.180 Hey, what the heck happened to you?

00:28:42.720 What's going on here? 0.99

00:28:44.560 You and some of your knucklehead friends get into a dust-up?

00:28:48.200 Or, seriously, what's going on here? 0.90

00:28:50.620 And your son or your daughter would tell you, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:28:58.440 And it might be nothing.

00:29:00.140 I mean, it's a terrible thing, but in their mind, it might be nothing.

00:29:03.580 We all got into this thing, and I don't know, people were scratching each other.

00:29:08.680 But that's not what this is.

00:29:11.180 This is a young man who is autistic, and he is nonverbal.

00:29:17.720 Well, that's a problem.

00:29:21.720 That's a huge problem.

00:29:24.060 For those of us with special ed kiddos who are nonverbal, this is a nightmare come true.

00:29:38.200 Earlier today, I put Julia on the school bus. 0.87

00:29:43.860 And I don't ordinarily get to do that.

00:29:47.640 That's normally my wife that takes care of that. 1.00

00:29:50.020 But Heidi got a shoulder replacement three weeks ago. 1.00

00:29:55.240 A whole brand-new shoulder.

00:29:57.980 And, you know, because they're closing out the model year.

00:30:00.620 And the 2023 shoulders, beautiful shoulders, great mileage, you know, lots of chrome and all that stuff.

00:30:06.680 So for 90 days, she cannot lift anything heavier than a coffee cup.

00:30:13.660 And she was trying to get the doctor to say coffee cup or wine glass.

00:30:18.580 So I have had the duty, and will have it for another, I don't know, 60, 70 days, of getting Julia ready for school in the morning, which can be a challenge.

00:30:30.600 Again, 20 years old, chronologically, developmentally, 18 months old.

00:30:35.820 But I also have to get her on the school bus.

00:30:38.740 And putting her on the school bus has actually become a rather enjoyable thing.

00:30:44.760 Because there's a young man on that school bus, another student in special ed, who every morning, every morning sort of pops up from his seat with his big smile and says,

00:30:56.340 Good morning, Julia's dad.

00:30:59.680 And I say, Good morning, Julia's friend.

00:31:03.100 And he says, You have a fabulous day, Julia's dad.

00:31:07.260 I say, Well, you have a fabulous day yourself, Julia's friend.

00:31:11.760 But Julia can't say anything.

00:31:14.000 Julia doesn't speak.

00:31:16.140 And my fear from the day we realized that Julia was never going to speak was that something terrible could happen to her.

00:31:25.560 And we would never know.

00:31:28.420 And I can guarantee you, these parents in Las Vegas who are dealing with this, that's their nightmare.

00:31:36.820 It's challenging enough to have the special needs child.

00:31:41.640 Believe me when I tell you that.

00:31:44.280 And then you add in this component of nonverbal.

00:31:50.140 It's a huge problem.

00:31:51.460 Now, in fairness to the Clark County School District, let me tell you that they said they did a full investigation and that their investigation, which included interviews with the staff at the school and a review of available camera footage, quote, found no evidence that would indicate the origin of the injuries.

00:32:13.460 And it will obviously be playing out in the courts, and I will stay on top of it because there's so many things there that interest me.

00:32:34.200 And if you're hearing the story and you're thinking, oh, my gosh, I worry about that with my son as well.

00:32:43.840 I worry about that with my daughter as well.

00:32:46.100 I just want you to know you're not alone.

00:32:47.820 There are a lot of us who are concerned about this, who care about this.

00:32:55.220 And hopefully, hopefully, somehow, some way, we get the full story as to what happened.

00:33:04.520 I do have that posted.

00:33:06.460 If you want to take a look at it, it's the story.

00:33:08.280 Now, the family is not named.

00:33:09.960 The child is not named.

00:33:11.620 The teachers, I mean, you know, it's an ongoing lawsuit.

00:33:14.880 But there is a photograph of this young man's back.

00:33:19.100 And, again, people are saying that it would appear that what was carved into his back is a swastika.

00:33:27.380 You can take a look at that, and you can let me know.

00:33:30.540 You can tell me, hey, Jeff, come on.

00:33:32.460 It doesn't even look like it.

00:33:33.580 He must have rubbed up against something on the wall.

00:33:36.360 Because I'm sure there will be people who say that.

00:33:38.420 And there will be others, including me, looking at it who are saying, yeah, it definitely, definitely looks like a swastika to me.

00:33:48.940 Horrible, isn't it?

00:33:49.740 Just absolutely, positively horrible.

00:33:54.600 Something else?

00:33:55.480 A new attack on Christians?

00:33:58.460 Oh, it doesn't stop.

00:33:59.880 But we'll talk about it in a moment.

00:34:01.760 If you want to jump ahead, you want to take a look at any of this, again, social media, the best way to do it,

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00:35:51.920 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:36:07.920 Do you want your children involved in sexual activity? 0.97

00:36:13.340 No, of course not.

00:36:15.720 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to answer for you, but the answer is no, of course not.

00:36:19.560 You have a 13-year-old daughter?

00:36:23.860 Do you want your 13-year-old daughter thinking about involvement in behavior that, let's be honest, is for adults?

00:36:35.540 I would say no.

00:36:36.700 Why, then, is ABC News huffing and puffing and jumping up and down because they have allegedly, according to them, suddenly unearthed an old German television profile that featured Mike Johnson?

00:36:58.220 You remember him?

00:36:59.160 Speaker of the House?

00:37:00.040 And his then 13-year-old daughter, Hannah.

00:37:06.500 They were at a purity ball.

00:37:12.940 I don't know if, in fact, you have seen any of the footage of things of this sort or if you've been involved with them.

00:37:20.320 The purity balls took place, and I would assume they still take place, right?

00:37:28.480 I don't see them as much, the purity pledges.

00:37:31.240 Sometimes folks got these little purity rings.

00:37:34.840 And the idea was really very simple.

00:37:36.560 While you're a teenager, and we who are not teenagers but live through our teenage years, we know how teenagers act and think, and we know that we've got to put up some guardrails.

00:37:48.740 There's got to be some acknowledgments of the real world as well as a focus, a focus on what is really, really important.

00:38:00.120 And so, these purity movements, which I think are absolutely perfect, spot-on, amazing, said, we're going to help you through a rather difficult time.

00:38:19.820 But our ultimate focus here is saying to you as young people, be aware of what's going on in every sense of the word.

00:38:36.260 Every sense of the word.

00:38:37.700 But Mike Johnson and his daughter and anybody and everybody else, apparently, as part of this ABC report, is attacking anybody and everybody who was involved with it.

00:38:53.160 And it's from 2015.

00:38:59.860 It's old.

00:39:00.900 They apparently got somebody who had been involved in this and said, well, you know, it's really, it's kind of creepy.

00:39:11.240 It's creepy.

00:39:14.080 And I thought, what exactly is creepy about it?

00:39:18.160 What is the message here?

00:39:19.800 Is the message that you should never grow up and get married?

00:39:24.960 No.

00:39:25.320 Although that's the allegation of trying to keep these girls as girls their entire lives. 1.00

00:39:30.900 I don't see that in anything that I've studied or researched on this.

00:39:35.280 I don't see it at all.

00:39:39.300 What I see is a movement that said, we would love for you to remain abstinent until marriage.

00:39:52.380 Well, I know for a lot of people, it's unbelievable heavy lift.

00:39:56.920 And others are thinking right now, well, yeah, that's the way it's supposed to be.

00:40:00.900 But there was nothing abusive about this.

00:40:04.120 There was nothing terrible about this.

00:40:07.280 I would dare say that this was quite useful for young people.

00:40:13.880 It was wonderful guidance.

00:40:15.700 And because it was wonderful guidance and probably helped prevent teenage pregnancies and gave rise to healthier marriages, the left has to attack it.

00:40:25.280 Remember, we've got all of this Jeff Katz show on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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00:41:56.000 So the Colorado Supreme Court says we know better than everyone.

00:42:00.040 And is Hunter Biden about to get a get out of jail free card?

00:42:04.360 The smartest lawyer on God's green earth addresses both of those issues next.

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00:43:20.400 Glenn Beck program.

00:43:22.380 Jeff Katz.

00:43:23.320 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

00:43:26.740 The Colorado Supreme Court said, we don't like Trump.

00:43:31.740 Well, let me rephrase that.

00:43:32.860 Four of the members of the Colorado Supreme Court said, we don't like Trump.

00:43:36.920 The other three, I don't think they like Trump either, but they didn't bother voting on this thing.

00:43:41.060 And we're keeping them off the ballot.

00:43:44.560 Okay.

00:43:45.460 And Hunter Biden, I think, might be poised to get like a big time get out of jail free card.

00:43:52.260 There's a lot of legal stuff going on.

00:43:53.980 And when it comes to legal issues, I have exactly one person I go to.

00:43:57.520 Let me give you a brief look at Joe Moreno's resume and attorney.

00:44:04.320 ACPA.

00:44:04.840 He is part of the Judge Advocate General Corps in the United States Army.

00:44:11.120 He is admitted to practice law in England and Wales, in addition to the United States.

00:44:17.180 For some reason, he's got something against the Scots.

00:44:19.240 I don't know what it is.

00:44:20.760 And he is the father of nine amazing children.

00:44:25.680 He and his wife are just wonderful, wonderful people.

00:44:28.080 Beautiful family.

00:44:28.820 And he is, indeed, a former federal prosecutor and, without question, the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:44:36.440 Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Moreno.

00:44:37.880 Counselor, how are you, my friend?

00:44:40.180 Jeff, good morning, sir.

00:44:41.340 Great to be with you.

00:44:42.420 It is great to have you here.

00:44:44.600 Before we get into the whole Colorado thing and the Biden, look, I just refer to them, as you know, as La Josa Nostri.

00:44:51.560 Because I think there's a whole Rico thing going on there, but that's just me.

00:44:56.540 I've got a legal question that has been bugging me for decades, and I'm hoping you can answer it.

00:45:02.560 Okay, I'll try.

00:45:03.980 All right.

00:45:04.820 Amicus or amicus?

00:45:09.120 I like amicus.

00:45:11.000 I like the former.

00:45:12.800 But, you know, there's a difference of opinion on that.

00:45:14.940 But I'm sticking with my Latin, as best as I know it, from Catholic school many years ago.

00:45:21.720 Okay, so we're going with amicus.

00:45:23.120 Okay, thank goodness.

00:45:24.120 I appreciate that.

00:45:24.700 I'm not going to ask about the second word in that phrase.

00:45:26.980 All right.

00:45:27.960 Let's talk about Colorado for just a second here.

00:45:31.620 The four members of that state Supreme Court said,

00:45:35.540 we hate Donald Trump so much, we're not going to let him on the ballot.

00:45:40.520 Oh, and by the way, we think he led an insurrection.

00:45:43.680 Did they get any of this right?

00:45:47.000 Jeff, I think this is a, forget about wobbly.

00:45:52.240 I think this is an absolutely laughable decision.

00:45:56.460 I had some hope, because remember, there's about 25 of these 14th Amendment cases that are out there.

00:46:03.180 The first seven that got to verdict already, including several very blue states,

00:46:09.440 including Michigan and Minnesota, all shot this down.

00:46:12.800 Saying, nope, this does not apply for various different, multiple different reasons.

00:46:17.500 I had some hope that maybe some courts out there had some sanity.

00:46:22.700 And then we get Colorado, number eight, which through this twisted set of logic, including just a bare majority,

00:46:34.080 a four to three majority, said, we know better than these other states.

00:46:38.720 We know better than Congress.

00:46:41.420 We know better than the voters.

00:46:43.420 And we're just going to say, yeah, Donald Trump engaged in insurrection, even though he's never been charged with that.

00:46:50.400 We're going to say, forget his presumption of innocence.

00:46:53.760 We're just going to basically declare him guilty.

00:46:55.780 And we're going to use this tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to say he is not eligible to be on a ballot.

00:47:04.960 It's wild.

00:47:05.960 And then to make matters worse, New York and California jumped right on board and said, you know what?

00:47:11.620 We're going to do this, too.

00:47:12.800 So we're going down a path here of just absolute insanity.

00:47:19.140 There's nothing legal about it, though, right?

00:47:21.500 I mean, is there anything I read through the 14th Amendment?

00:47:24.240 And as you know, I'm not an attorney, but I and I didn't craft the Constitution.

00:47:29.160 I didn't know any of the founding fathers or anything like that.

00:47:31.100 But I read through it.

00:47:32.700 And then I looked at former President Trump.

00:47:34.840 And I thought, whether you like him or dislike him, whether you hate his tweets or his hair or whatever,

00:47:40.040 I just I didn't see him leading, quote, an insurrection anywhere because that's a legal term.

00:47:47.080 You know, I mean, Jeff, as you know, we lawyers can we can twist ourselves into pretzels and we can argue just about anything.

00:47:53.620 Right. I mean, there's got to be people arguing both sides of any issue.

00:47:56.760 But as with with most things, this is common sense, a common sense reading of the amendment,

00:48:04.080 a knowledge of the history behind it and a sense of fairness.

00:48:08.560 Right. Yes.

00:48:09.380 Insurrection is a very specific term.

00:48:12.400 It is not defined in the Constitution, but there is a law that's been passed by Congress called insurrection.

00:48:19.760 People can be charged with it.

00:48:21.640 People can go to jail for committing it.

00:48:24.600 And yet Donald Trump was not charged with insurrection.

00:48:29.140 All the thousand people right here in Washington, D.C.

00:48:32.540 that have been prosecuted related to the January 6th riot.

00:48:36.380 None of them have been charged with insurrection.

00:48:38.720 And yet the Colorado Supreme Court thinks it can make its own definition and then make its own determination that not only are we going to define insurrection,

00:48:51.700 but we're going to say Donald Trump is guilty of it without ever having been charged or having a criminal trial.

00:48:58.040 Are they are they just trying to do away with that pesky due process situation?

00:49:06.220 Because it takes so much time to have these charges and trials, Joe.

00:49:10.120 Can't you just give them a fair trial and then take them out back?

00:49:12.660 Isn't the same logic?

00:49:13.580 You would think, right?

00:49:15.660 Due process, presumption of innocence, right?

00:49:19.520 Some basic, basic tenets of our entire 200-year-old legal system.

00:49:25.720 And yet four out of the seven members of the Colorado Supreme Court think they know better.

00:49:31.220 I would also point out, too, the three dissenters, all of whom are Democrat appointed, they virulently disagreed with their majority colleagues, including the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

00:49:45.400 And I think the dissent is actually worth reading.

00:49:48.300 They tear into the majority and said, this is completely wrong.

00:49:52.160 We would have dismissed this, as have the other seven states that have so far ruled on this.

00:49:58.580 And yet those four and forget about there's the legal insanity about it.

00:50:03.980 Then there's the undemocratic insanity that these four people are now going to prevent millions of Colorado residents to be able to vote for the person of their choice.

00:50:16.340 So it is not just legally wrong.

00:50:18.760 It is condescending and it is undemocratic.

00:50:22.160 Wow.

00:50:23.500 Joe Moreno is joining us.

00:50:25.160 Joe is a former federal prosecutor, absolutely brilliant guy.

00:50:30.560 And you probably, I hope you read his recent piece in the Washington Examiner.

00:50:36.160 You were talking about Joe Biden and his gang of grifters.

00:50:40.460 My term, not yours, just so, you know, in case the folks from the bar are listening.

00:50:43.900 But your advice, I mean, your legal advice is basically, hey, get out while the getting's good.

00:50:52.160 Well, I mean, Jeff, I would say if you're going to come out guns blazing and use your Justice Department against your political opponent, you really should have clean hands of your own.

00:51:05.120 And yet the millions of dollars, we're up to twenty four million dollars we know about now that has flowed into the Biden family in the last six years.

00:51:14.320 We have Hunter Biden's legal problems, which are not unserious.

00:51:19.280 You're talking about over a million dollars of unpaid taxes, plus his drug and gun case issues.

00:51:25.040 Right, right.

00:51:25.580 Then you have Biden's own mishandling of classified documents, which he had in his garage, apparently for years.

00:51:32.660 You would think with all of this in his own background, he would say, you know what, let me just quietly leave the legal system alone and I'll beat Donald Trump or anybody else the old fashioned way, you know, through campaigning and voting.

00:51:46.620 Yeah.

00:51:47.060 So the nerve that he's have of not only coming after Trump, using his legal system as a basically a political weapon while just ignoring his own problems and hoping, I guess, they're just going to go away.

00:52:02.040 And that really takes some gall.

00:52:03.560 Yeah, he has I'm going to use a phrase that so many others have, and I'm not pulling a Claudine Gay and copying them.

00:52:12.100 I'm just saying they're right.

00:52:13.820 He has weaponized the Department of Justice.

00:52:16.340 He's using it as as a cudgel against his political opponents.

00:52:20.120 And I I don't know about you.

00:52:22.140 I think that Merrick Garland is the most political agey we have seen since John Mitchell.

00:52:30.520 Oh, gosh, yes.

00:52:31.680 I mean, I think that it's fair to say these cases and I only two of them are from the federal government.

00:52:40.080 The others are from various states.

00:52:41.480 But these cases range from shaky to nonsensical.

00:52:46.120 And you would hope that if you're going to do something as historically unique as bringing charges against your political opponents, they would be absolutely airtight from both a legal and a factual perspective.

00:53:02.600 And the fact that Biden, through Merrick Garland, hides behind this special counsel and says, you know what, I have nothing to do with this.

00:53:11.720 This is all Jack Smith. 0.93

00:53:12.940 That's ridiculous.

00:53:13.640 All any prosecutorial power at the federal level emanates from the office of the president. 0.65

00:53:20.320 It flows through the attorney general to the various federal prosecutors that are out there.

00:53:25.760 But they all roll up.

00:53:27.620 And so, again, not only is Biden allowing this to happen, he doesn't even have the courage of his conviction to look the American people in the eye and say, I believe in these charges.

00:53:38.300 This is why these charges are justified.

00:53:41.120 Instead, he hides behind the special counsel.

00:53:44.560 He gets, let's face it, he gets no hard questions from the mainstream media about any of this.

00:53:50.480 And we're all supposed to just go along like this is normal.

00:53:54.460 Two quick questions, Joe.

00:53:56.160 And I want to remind everybody, Joe Moreno is joining us, former federal prosecutor and just an absolutely brilliant, brilliant legal mind.

00:54:04.040 Two things.

00:54:04.820 The indictments that just came down, the recent ones against Hunter Biden, people say, oh, see, this shows the DOJ is on the case.

00:54:11.880 Doesn't that just provide him with cover if he does show up in front of a congressional committee to say, hey, I can talk about that?

00:54:19.820 Sure.

00:54:20.260 I mean, so they want us to believe after five years of dragging their feet on this and then giving Hunter Biden an absolutely sweetheart deal that by Hunter Biden's own arrogance, he lost, it blew up.

00:54:35.500 Now they're telling us, believe us, we're serious this time around, right?

00:54:39.100 We're serious about these gun and tax charges that we tried to sweep under the rug just six months ago.

00:54:44.500 But absolutely, it drags things out.

00:54:47.340 It gives Hunter Biden now the excuse that, well, I can't testify before Congress because I have Fifth Amendment rights and I'm exposed.

00:54:55.540 So I can't possibly testify.

00:54:57.700 And it just drags it out.

00:54:59.000 And look, I think we all know where this is going, right?

00:55:01.540 Ultimately, I don't I can't imagine Joe Biden is going to let his son go to prison.

00:55:05.500 So either he torpedoes the prosecution at the last minute or he pardons his son.

00:55:11.020 I could be wrong, but that's my prediction.

00:55:13.540 Oh, well, now you just answered the question I was about to ask.

00:55:17.100 So, yeah, this is this is headed for Joe Biden pulling one of those handy dandy pardons out, whether he wins or loses the next election.

00:55:25.460 Hunter Biden gets the presidential pardon and he can go back to being whatever the heck it is this week.

00:55:31.260 Most likely, I mean, Biden is pretty shameless, so I don't know why he would stop now.

00:55:36.640 And sure, I mean, if he gets reelected, then no one can really touch him.

00:55:40.220 And if he's if he loses, well, then sure.

00:55:42.460 I mean, why not do this as you're going out the door? 0.94

00:55:45.000 So I expect, you know, again, we're all sort of being taken for fools here.

00:55:48.940 I mean, we're supposed to go along and pretend this is a real investigation.

00:55:52.980 I, frankly, would have more respect for the guy if he just stopped in his tracks and pardoned his son now instead of making us go through this charade.

00:56:00.460 But again, here we go.

00:56:01.900 And he has a very obedient media that just goes along with it.

00:56:05.000 Oh, my God.

00:56:05.660 The laptop media.

00:56:06.680 You're right.

00:56:07.100 Hey, Joe, I'm hoping folks read your stuff in the Washington Examiner.

00:56:11.140 They're seeing you, I know, on CBC and BBC and all over the place, Newsmax and Fox and all the rest of it.

00:56:17.360 But your Web site, you want to send people there?

00:56:21.260 Sure.

00:56:21.840 W.W.Joseph Moreno dot com.

00:56:24.880 I do my best to post things up there.

00:56:27.240 And again, look, keep the dialogue going.

00:56:29.380 I mean, don't believe the talking head legal so-called experts that are out there.

00:56:34.700 Use your common sense.

00:56:35.840 I encourage people and, you know, really think about these issues and don't just accept what's being said to you.

00:56:41.640 I love it.

00:56:42.600 Joe, a very, very Merry Christmas to you and that beautiful family of yours.

00:56:46.380 And I always appreciate you making time.

00:56:49.520 Jeff, it's an honor.

00:56:50.540 Happy holidays and bless you, my man.

00:56:53.120 Thank you, sir.

00:56:53.680 That is Joe Moreno, and he really is the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:56:59.060 It is Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

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00:58:16.860 It is the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:18.600 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:58:21.580 And if you are just hearing my friend Joe Moreno, please, you can follow him over on X, formerly known as Twitter.

00:58:30.000 It is his website.

00:58:31.520 He's just a brilliant guy.

00:58:32.720 And he is calling attorneys to account.

00:58:36.380 And I do love the fact that he lets us know right up front, listen, lawyers can argue over anything and everything, right?

00:58:44.280 And everybody's got a side and everybody's got a position.

00:58:47.700 But here's the reality that you know and I know, and it's common sense. 0.95

00:58:51.660 The Bidens are just as dirty as the day is long.

00:58:57.400 Yesterday, I apologized to Ric Flair.

00:59:03.620 Look, I love Ric Flair.

00:59:06.160 I really do.

00:59:07.200 I didn't grow up watching him.

00:59:11.040 I grew up in Philadelphia.

00:59:12.420 We had WWWF.

00:59:14.260 We had Bruno and Pedro.

00:59:15.560 But every once in a while, we get the wrong tape.

00:59:18.340 And then all of a sudden, we'd have this NWA stuff, you know, Georgia Championship Wrestling or Florida Championship Wrestling.

00:59:23.680 And there'd be this Ric Flair character.

00:59:25.000 I only see it in the in the books.

00:59:26.640 It's like, oh, my God.

00:59:27.680 And he always said he was the dirtiest player in the game.

00:59:30.620 But with apologies to Ric Flair.

00:59:33.440 It's Joe Biden who is the dirtiest player in the game.

00:59:36.500 And he has been forever and ever and ever.

00:59:42.020 I said it's common sense to see that something's wrong here.

00:59:45.440 Joe Moreno said it.

00:59:46.580 You just have to use your common sense.

00:59:48.220 Do you remember a lesson?

00:59:50.360 It was years ago that Glenn shared this lesson on the air.

00:59:53.680 And I have I took it to heart.

00:59:58.380 I heard him tell this story.

01:00:00.640 And I said, well, I believe Glenn.

01:00:03.400 I'm still going to go and look into it.

01:00:05.860 It was all about common sense.

01:00:07.660 Why do we call it common sense?

01:00:11.140 And there was this thought that most of us had, including me.

01:00:14.160 Well, it's just, you know, it's common.

01:00:15.780 It's amongst everybody.

01:00:16.640 And the answer was no.

01:00:17.480 That's not really what it is.

01:00:18.780 The term common sense derives from a time when the vast majority of the populace was illiterate and uneducated.

01:00:31.860 There were a handful of people who knew how to read.

01:00:34.360 There were a handful of people who had some degree of education.

01:00:38.680 Right.

01:00:39.180 The land of gentry, some of the clergy.

01:00:41.500 That was it.

01:00:42.260 So if something involved, quote, common sense, it was so clear, so blatant that even a mere commoner could understand it.

01:01:00.220 You see where I'm going with this?

01:01:01.840 You don't have to be an attorney to understand how dirty the Bidens are.

01:01:11.940 You don't have to be a member of any state Supreme Court anywhere to figure out that the people, the people have the right to nominate and then vote for the candidate of their choice.

01:01:31.840 It's not your role.

01:01:34.400 These are things that smack of common sense.

01:01:41.480 And if we're going to give that up, if we're simply going to say, yeah, we're going to leave it to the judges in Colorado to decide for the rest of us, then we've got a problem.

01:01:52.400 And I love the fact that Joe Moreno addresses the three justices out there, Democrats, they're all Democrats, they're not a Republican anywhere in the Colorado judiciary at this point.

01:02:04.640 But the three Democrats on the Colorado State Supreme Court who disagreed with us said, this is baloney. 0.65

01:02:13.660 This is nonsense.

01:02:15.000 We would have dismissed it.

01:02:17.300 It is such an egregious, appalling overstep.

01:02:21.880 Even the commoners can understand that it's wrong.

01:02:27.480 If you get a chance, check that out.

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01:04:29.620 Thanks so much to the folks who are here in my home of Central Virginia.

01:04:36.860 Folks who ordinarily are listening on News Radio WRBA in the afternoon.

01:04:40.460 They get to hear me mid-morning, which I love.

01:04:43.320 This is great fun.

01:04:44.260 Great fun.

01:04:44.700 Now, I, like everybody else, getting ready for the holidays, blah, blah, blah, Christmas

01:04:50.480 coming up.

01:04:51.160 Got it, got it, got it.

01:04:52.340 But I still have an obligation to people who are kind enough to listen to me.

01:04:57.300 And I do something so, well, frankly, so that you don't have to.

01:05:01.140 I watch MSNBC so that you don't have to.

01:05:05.660 No, no, no.

01:05:06.600 It's okay.

01:05:07.060 It's okay.

01:05:07.440 You're welcome.

01:05:07.820 And I was watching the other day, right after this Colorado Supreme Court thing, right?

01:05:12.680 We, these four justices on the Colorado State Supreme Court, as I said, where the air is

01:05:18.600 thin and yet it's heavy with the odor of weed.

01:05:22.180 I don't know.

01:05:22.900 Go figure that out, right?

01:05:25.220 But they said we're kicking Donald Trump off this ballot.

01:05:28.840 A couple of things happened after that.

01:05:32.820 Vivek Ramaswamy said if you're kicking him off the ballot, then I'm taking my name off the

01:05:37.780 ballot. 0.90

01:05:38.140 This is ridiculous. 0.98

01:05:40.420 The Colorado Republican Party said, hey, you know what? 0.99

01:05:45.380 Blank you and the gavel you rode in on. 0.99

01:05:48.080 We're not going to be part of the Colorado primary election.

01:05:51.000 We're going to hold caucuses, which means you're not involved, which means this doesn't

01:05:54.060 mean anything to us.

01:05:57.020 But on MSNBC, there was delight, actual squeals of delight.

01:06:02.700 I mean, they could not have been happier.

01:06:04.300 We are going to protect democracy, doggone it, by, well, taking people off the ballot

01:06:11.140 that we don't like.

01:06:11.760 But I'm telling you, we're doing it for the right reasons.

01:06:13.720 Just trust us.

01:06:16.240 The MSNBC people were just thrilled with this, with one exception.

01:06:22.340 Mr. Mika.

01:06:23.800 No, no.

01:06:24.400 Mr. Mika said on that show, no, no, taking Trump off the ballot this way is just wrong.

01:06:35.280 Well, it would appear as if Mrs. Mika said to Mr. Mika, if you want to sleep in the main

01:06:43.380 bedroom, you better go and reconsider because what was it?

01:06:47.680 24 hours later, and here is Mr. Mika in cut number four, flip-flopping.

01:06:54.940 We all saw it with our own eyes.

01:06:56.960 This is one of those moments where, what, are you going to believe me?

01:07:00.560 Are you going to believe your lying eyes?

01:07:03.060 Americans saw this with their eyes. 0.97

01:07:04.960 They understand that Donald Trump did, in fact, take part, lead, encourage an insurrection

01:07:12.800 to take place.

01:07:13.660 They know that he told people that they needed to storm the Capitol.

01:07:17.220 They needed to stop the count.

01:07:19.220 He got extraordinarily angry with the Secret Service when they stopped him from going up

01:07:25.340 there because he wanted to march on the floor.

01:07:27.640 He wanted to be in the center of the insurrection.

01:07:31.880 So, yeah, yeah, he committed insurrection.

01:07:34.940 Yes, if there were justice already, he'd be a lot more concerned about things than just

01:07:40.580 not being on the Colorado Republican ballot.

01:07:43.400 He'd be concerned because he should be in jail.

01:07:47.040 We either have a Constitution or we don't have a Constitution.

01:07:51.660 Here's the factual question.

01:07:53.920 Did Donald Trump commit insurrection?

01:07:58.040 Yes.

01:07:58.400 If Donald Trump committed insurrection, then, as Judge Liddick said yesterday, it's not

01:08:06.600 anti-democratic to follow the Constitution of the United States and Section 3 of the 14th

01:08:15.120 Amendment.

01:08:15.400 That's, in fact, the most pro-democratic thing that can be done.

01:08:20.760 Stay with me.

01:08:22.100 Because if, in fact, he committed insurrection against the United States, this is the ultimate

01:08:29.460 protectorate of that democracy. 0.96

01:08:33.500 I understand it's sad and it's pathetic that people will say, oh, Trump derangement syndrome, 0.95

01:08:39.160 oh, this, oh, that on other networks. 0.96

01:08:41.500 They're going to be trying to confuse you.

01:08:44.100 They're going to be trying to move the ball.

01:08:45.420 They're going to be trying to confuse their own viewers, which they do quite regularly,

01:08:49.220 quite often.

01:08:49.820 The fact is, the Constitution is crystal clear.

01:08:55.040 If a court finds, as a Colorado court found, Donald Trump committed insurrection against

01:09:00.540 the United States government, then you either follow the Constitution or you don't.

01:09:04.740 And you can talk about democracy all you want.

01:09:06.600 I'm sure people that were following Hitler were talking about democracy a lot.

01:09:09.800 I don't know.

01:09:10.660 Mooseley, everybody can, I guess they can go and wave the banner of democracy around when

01:09:15.840 it's actually the opposite of democracy.

01:09:19.820 Actually, the opposite of democracy.

01:09:22.200 Committing insurrection against the United States Constitution, trying to actually steal

01:09:26.680 a presidential election, the antithesis of democracy.

01:09:31.380 You see what's going on right there?

01:09:32.820 These people would want you to believe that if the Constitution of the United States is

01:09:39.220 followed, that's anti-democratic.

01:09:41.940 They want you to believe that the 14th Amendment is anti-democratic.

01:09:46.860 They want you to believe that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which is crystal clear,

01:09:53.400 is anti-democratic.

01:09:55.040 The fact is, what it does is the 14th Amendment, Section 3, protects us against those people 1.00

01:10:03.380 and protects us against the thug that sent those people to Capitol Hill.

01:10:09.260 Oh, my God!

01:10:12.020 Now, it goes on.

01:10:14.140 It's like another, I don't know, 12 hours or something.

01:10:17.300 All right, it felt like 12 hours.

01:10:19.800 But, you know, the payoff, and I guess we didn't get to this part.

01:10:22.780 I think the payoff is when he looked lovingly into Mika's eyes and said,

01:10:26.580 Well, is it okay now?

01:10:29.500 Can I come back to the big bad, please, Mika? 0.69

01:10:34.600 Oh, and the one guy to pipe in after Mr. Mika said,

01:10:38.040 Well, did he commit to insurrection, who said yes, was Mike Barnacle.

01:10:43.160 And any time you hear Mike Barnacle speak, you have to ask yourself,

01:10:46.320 Huh, wonder who said that first?

01:10:48.120 No, seriously, because Barnacle's columns in the Boston Globe just were not the same

01:10:52.260 after Mike Royko died.

01:10:53.760 It was a terrible, terrible situation.

01:10:55.360 I know, well, what are you going to do?

01:10:58.080 But there are passes all the way around in all of this.

01:11:00.760 Not to worry.

01:11:01.400 Everybody's fine.

01:11:03.800 You don't have to like Donald Trump.

01:11:06.020 In fact, now, here's the weirdest part about it.

01:11:08.900 You do remember, and it was former President Trump who pointed this out,

01:11:13.320 that Mr. and Mrs. Mika, well, they used to be friends.

01:11:17.940 Right?

01:11:18.400 They used to like going to Mar-a-Lago when they were invited to Mar-a-Lago.

01:11:23.600 I've never been to Mar-a-Lago.

01:11:27.020 Oh, I would absolutely love to go.

01:11:28.940 I would love to go.

01:11:31.120 And you know what else I would do?

01:11:32.760 I actually had this conversation with Heidi the other day.

01:11:34.920 I said, in the event, in the event that President Trump is re-elected and I were asked to serve in some capacity,

01:11:47.140 Lord knows I'm not going to be secretary of anything.

01:11:49.880 But I don't know.

01:11:50.640 I might.

01:11:51.220 Right?

01:11:52.060 Possibly.

01:11:52.460 I said, I would have to go.

01:11:54.040 I would have to go.

01:11:54.980 I mean, I love Central Virginia.

01:11:57.060 And it would be a commute.

01:11:58.960 I could take the train.

01:12:00.040 I mean, I'm working through all these things and she's looking at me like, well, she's married to me for 25 years, so she knows.

01:12:07.740 But she did ask, did anybody actually ask you to go work in D.C.?

01:12:14.280 No, but it could happen.

01:12:18.080 And if former President Trump were to be re-elected and he said, hey, I need somebody with exactly your skill set, which would presume there's a skill set.

01:12:29.660 But yes, I'd like you to come somehow, someway work in the administration.

01:12:33.000 I would be there in a second.

01:12:36.600 Absolutely, without hesitation.

01:12:38.520 Why?

01:12:39.080 Because it's the right thing to do.

01:12:39.900 I cannot bring myself to say that for Joe Biden.

01:12:47.800 I've always tried to place the office of the presidency above any sort of politics.

01:12:53.860 And I can remember after Barack Obama was elected and there were friends of mine, very, very sincere, hardcore conservative Republicans who said, well, he's not my president.

01:13:06.500 And I said, yeah, he is.

01:13:08.200 He's the president of the United States.

01:13:09.800 Now, you may not like him.

01:13:11.860 And I know you didn't vote for him, nor did I, but he's the president of the United States.

01:13:18.800 And if Barack Obama had asked me to come to Washington, D.C. to serve, my answer would have been no.

01:13:25.180 But if I would have been invited by him for some reason to the White House, I would have said yes.

01:13:29.600 If Joe Biden, for some reason, somehow, someway, were to invite me to the White House, I would have to say no.

01:13:40.840 Now, I look at some of the cool things that happen when you get one of these little radio shows.

01:13:48.120 Like, over the last couple of weeks, I've been at the executive mansion here in Virginia twice.

01:13:54.320 Once for a Hanukkah party that Governor Glenn Youngkin and his lovely bride, First Lady Suzanne Youngkin, threw.

01:14:02.840 And then for a Christmas party that they threw at the executive mansion.

01:14:08.060 And it's very, very cool.

01:14:12.240 And I can only imagine what it must be like to go to the White House for some event like that.

01:14:18.660 Because I've not been invited to those either.

01:14:21.080 But that's okay.

01:14:21.780 But this guy who's currently in the Oval Office, I'm just telling you, he's a bad dude.

01:14:29.300 And he always has been.

01:14:31.800 And he's gotten away with so much because he's got this, oh gosh, that's just Joe sort of thing working.

01:14:39.220 And man, everybody's working for him.

01:14:41.800 Oh, you know him. 1.00

01:14:42.640 He's always said stupid stuff. 1.00

01:14:43.940 Well, then maybe he's stupid. 1.00

01:14:46.600 Oh, you know him. 1.00

01:14:47.540 He always says something that's this, this, or that.

01:14:49.540 Well, maybe those are things that, you know, do you not pay attention to these things?

01:14:53.960 I would.

01:14:56.260 And now with that shuffle.

01:14:58.600 Oh, God, you see that same shuffle in the hallways of senior living facilities.

01:15:07.020 He just should stop with the charade at this point.

01:15:10.900 Put on the terrycloth bathrobe and the slippers and just shuffle along.

01:15:17.160 But I think it's part of something else.

01:15:20.380 I do.

01:15:20.760 I think it's, he's running the same game that that mob boss did, that godfather guy did at one point.

01:15:27.600 Remember the guy in New York used to shuffle along in his bathrobe?

01:15:33.060 You remember that? 0.97

01:15:34.800 And the whole idea was to make people convinced that he was nuts.

01:15:38.540 While behind the scenes, bad stuff was happening.

01:15:41.720 Sound familiar?

01:15:43.300 Don't forget, social media.

01:15:45.380 Man, I would love to have you with me on social media.

01:15:47.300 No, I don't have anywhere near the following of Glenn, obviously.

01:15:50.260 And that's why I'm asking you to, you know, throw a little love my way.

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01:17:41.780 Jeff Katz.

01:17:42.880 Happy, honored, thrilled, excited as always to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:17:47.500 Just one of the best guys out there.

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01:17:55.000 I know everybody spends a lot of time on TheBlaze.com, as you should.

01:17:58.140 You need to subscribe and do all the rest of that stuff.

01:18:00.520 There's just such great reporting and writing and everything else, analysis.

01:18:04.720 But GlennBeck.com, I think, is also a tremendous resource.

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01:18:12.380 Get in touch with both of them.

01:18:15.800 Make sure you're following both of those.

01:18:17.220 All right?

01:18:17.420 GlennBeck.com and TheBlaze.com.

01:18:19.540 It's not often.

01:18:20.580 In fact, I've never said this.

01:18:23.400 No, no.

01:18:23.760 No, I don't think I've ever actually said this out loud where other people could hear me.

01:18:28.720 John Fetterman is right.

01:18:32.840 Well, there you go.

01:18:33.860 I know.

01:18:34.880 You may have driven off the road.

01:18:36.440 You may have dropped your coffee.

01:18:37.360 But he's right.

01:18:38.500 He's actually right about two things.

01:18:41.300 I'm not crazy about his choice of sweatshirts or the way he dresses or the way he acts or a whole bunch of stuff.

01:18:48.380 A lot of problems I got with John Fetterman.

01:18:51.320 It's almost like, well, tomorrow's Festivus.

01:18:53.320 I got issues with John Fetterman.

01:18:56.060 Airing of the grievances.

01:18:56.980 But you know what?

01:18:59.320 He was right in standing up to his own party, to the despicable Hamas caucus inside the Democrat Party, 1.00

01:19:08.780 and saying to them, you're wrong.

01:19:11.540 You're completely and totally wrong.

01:19:13.620 And if you're not with Israel, then you are with evil. 0.88

01:19:17.860 But he's right on something else.

01:19:19.500 U.S. Steel is apparently going to be sold to a Japanese company.

01:19:29.320 It's called Nippon Steel Corporation.

01:19:31.780 It is a $15 billion deal.

01:19:35.520 So I know most of us look at $15 billion and say, wow, that's like almost real money there, isn't it?

01:19:45.060 But do I want U.S. Steel owned by any company outside the U.S.?

01:19:53.800 There are going to be those who say, well, Jeff, you're either in favor of the free market or you're against the free market.

01:20:00.580 We believe in private ownership and we don't want people involved except for the people who are involved in that business.

01:20:07.960 But I believe that there is a very real concern, and I'm not the only one who has this,

01:20:19.920 that if the United States of America does not protect businesses in the United States of America,

01:20:26.360 we're going to see exactly what we saw during COVID.

01:20:30.280 We couldn't get anything because we didn't manufacture anything.

01:20:32.780 And we've thrown our lot in with some of the crazy people when it comes to these electric vehicles,

01:20:37.700 which, by the way, do not save the planet and actually involve more petroleum usage in the manufacturer

01:20:44.240 than just standard internal combustion engines.

01:20:49.320 But we need to do something about this.

01:20:52.200 And I want you to peel off any animus you might have directed towards John Fetterman.

01:20:58.180 But we, as decent people, have to acknowledge he's right on this.

01:21:03.680 John Fetterman is right on this.

01:21:06.180 And U.S. Steel should be owned by a U.S. company.

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01:22:16.640 Make no mistake, there is not a single solitary person on planet Earth

01:22:23.140 who should ever be offended if they hear the words Merry Christmas.

01:22:28.180 I'll explain in a moment.

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01:23:38.140 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

01:23:43.380 Jeff Katt's so happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:23:46.840 We're a couple of days out from Christmas.

01:23:50.760 And you know what's happened over, what, the last 20 years?

01:23:55.540 I think it's about 20 years.

01:23:57.680 People all of a sudden have decided, well, you shouldn't say Merry Christmas.

01:24:02.220 Say Happy Holidays.

01:24:03.040 Well, you know, there are a lot of holidays going on, Jeff.

01:24:05.520 And each of those holidays is the same as the other holiday.

01:24:08.680 And so, therefore, if you say Merry Christmas to someone who's not celebrating Christmas,

01:24:11.680 then they're going to be offended and terrible things will happen.

01:24:14.760 And so we just don't say Merry Christmas.

01:24:16.960 And this has been examined and reviewed and literally litigated throughout the years, right?

01:24:25.940 Well, I'm one of those guys who is thrilled, absolutely delighted when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas.

01:24:35.100 And I would share my words on this, and I promise you this is not a Claudine gay sort of a thing. 0.60

01:24:44.440 This is not a duplicative language or however they excused that plagiarism.

01:24:49.860 I'm going to tell you exactly who wrote this.

01:24:54.280 And I am going to read it to you.

01:24:55.600 It's only a couple of lines, but I think it sums up exactly what I have felt for a long time.

01:25:00.140 There is a cantor in the Philadelphia area.

01:25:06.060 His name is Scott Borski.

01:25:08.540 And Cantor Scott has what he calls a synagogue without walls.

01:25:13.640 He helps with life events, right?

01:25:18.140 Births, deaths, marriages, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs. 0.68

01:25:23.420 And he doesn't have a brick-and-mortar synagogue.

01:25:28.280 And he and I are friends on Facebook.

01:25:34.140 And you know how that is.

01:25:35.380 You're friends on Facebook, and sometimes you think,

01:25:37.360 I don't know if I actually even know this person,

01:25:39.980 because I have 5,000 friends on the one Facebook page,

01:25:44.440 and then there's 6,000 people following that page.

01:25:47.320 And then the other Facebook page has like 20,000 people.

01:25:51.420 And I swear to you, I try to be nice.

01:25:54.760 I think I'm a relatively good person, but I don't have 5,000 friends.

01:25:59.180 But Scott and I are friends on Facebook, and I'm trying to rack my brains,

01:26:04.000 trying to remember how I may very well have known him from my time in Philadelphia.

01:26:08.660 But we are friends on Facebook.

01:26:10.280 And he had a post a couple of days ago, and I thought, wow, this is so spot on.

01:26:17.580 And it just, it was exactly what I was feeling.

01:26:21.900 It's exactly what I am feeling.

01:26:23.160 So I just want to share this with you.

01:26:24.940 And again, full credit, Cantor Scott Borski from the greater Philadelphia area.

01:26:29.260 I think he's in South Jersey, as memory serves.

01:26:31.540 It says, his post says,

01:26:33.140 This is certainly the week that Merry Christmas greetings have begun in abundance.

01:26:38.060 I've already received a handful on this rainy Monday.

01:26:41.060 Wrote it a couple of days ago.

01:26:43.240 He writes,

01:26:44.100 I'm Jewish, and I'm absolutely not offended when people wish me a Merry Christmas.

01:26:51.220 In fact, I love it.

01:26:52.920 I take no offense.

01:26:55.040 I never correct people who wish me a Merry Christmas.

01:26:57.800 They mean well and are blessing me and are being gracious and kind.

01:27:02.340 I thank them for their well wishes, and I wish them a very Merry Christmas in response.

01:27:08.260 I do not make any PC statements, tell them that I'm Jewish, or embarrass them in any way.

01:27:15.780 Part of being Jewish and American is understanding that this country is mostly Christian.

01:27:24.420 So, if you don't know that I'm Jewish, a Merry Christmas greeting is just fine with me and welcomed.

01:27:30.660 I can never have too much merriment in my life.

01:27:36.860 Is that not spot on?

01:27:39.080 My gosh, that is perfect.

01:27:42.320 I want you to understand something.

01:27:47.100 The vast majority of people who you are told will be offended are not actually offended.

01:27:55.360 We have a handful of people in this country who are not happy

01:27:59.940 unless they are flippin' miserable. 0.70

01:28:02.460 And the only way that they can be even more happy is to make more people more miserable. 0.80

01:28:09.920 How could anyone of any religion, any faith, any lack of faith, anything at all,

01:28:17.500 be offended or hurt or insulted?

01:28:20.000 If somebody took a couple of minutes to wish them a Merry Christmas?

01:28:27.840 I'm certainly not offended.

01:28:31.140 I think about friends.

01:28:33.920 And again, I'm not talking about 20,000 people on Facebook.

01:28:36.300 I'm talking about legitimate friends.

01:28:39.380 You know, friends, those are people you can call and say,

01:28:41.620 Hey, listen, I've got a little situation here, and I don't want you to ask any questions,

01:28:49.340 but I'm going to need you to meet me in the middle of the woods with gloves and a shovel.

01:28:57.980 That's all I'm going to say.

01:28:58.740 Don't ask any other questions.

01:28:59.800 They go, okay.

01:29:01.700 That's a friend.

01:29:02.440 So, I have friends, and I'll tell you what, I value their friendship.

01:29:10.140 And because we are friends, I know the personal faith of the person or the lack of faith.

01:29:21.620 I've got some friends who are agnostic.

01:29:25.920 I've got some friends who are atheists.

01:29:27.580 I still don't understand that.

01:29:28.740 And honest to goodness, here I am, I'm five decades into my existence here.

01:29:34.680 And as I gaze out my window, I see grass and trees.

01:29:42.480 Right now, clear skies and sunshine.

01:29:45.140 And for the life of me, I just can't figure out how you can look at that and say,

01:29:48.120 Yeah, I don't believe in God.

01:29:49.160 But another story for another day.

01:29:51.400 But I respect their opinions.

01:29:54.780 And so, I love Christmas cards.

01:29:58.740 I love sending Christmas cards.

01:30:00.840 And I love getting Christmas cards too, but I love sending them.

01:30:05.180 And I send them in a variety of different ways.

01:30:10.340 I have some folks I know who are more business acquaintances, if you will.

01:30:16.980 And I have Christmas cards designed for business interaction.

01:30:21.440 And I have some friends who are actually friends, but they kind of, they think it's kind of cool that they're friends with a guy who's on the radio.

01:30:30.960 And so, I will send, in many cases, cards that have things that say, like, the Jeff Katz show or the website.

01:30:38.160 You know, stuff like that.

01:30:39.200 Because it's cool for them.

01:30:40.540 And then I have friends who don't really care what it is that I do for a living.

01:30:49.580 But they, I think, like me as I like them.

01:30:52.920 And so, I write out Christmas cards.

01:30:54.700 And my Christmas cards every year are the first ones that people get.

01:30:57.300 I don't know exactly when it started or how it started or why it started, but Thanksgiving is the day that my Christmas cards go in the mail.

01:31:09.540 I always want my Christmas cards to be the first ones received.

01:31:15.520 That's kind of my game plan.

01:31:19.580 And I'm pretty good at it, actually.

01:31:21.940 I think I've done pretty well with that.

01:31:23.580 But I love sending those Christmas cards.

01:31:26.740 And I love getting notes from people saying, oh my gosh, Jeff.

01:31:30.100 I got your Christmas card.

01:31:31.380 It was the first one I got.

01:31:34.200 Thank you.

01:31:36.680 You're welcome.

01:31:37.600 Right?

01:31:37.920 That's the whole exchange.

01:31:38.860 It doesn't need to be more than that.

01:31:41.360 Do I send Hanukkah cards?

01:31:42.700 You betcha.

01:31:44.000 Absolutely, I do.

01:31:45.820 And I send them to people with whom I am friends.

01:31:48.840 And I know they're Jewish as I am.

01:31:50.480 And they're always the first Hanukkah cards that are received.

01:31:56.000 And that could be a little dicey because, you know, we're on the whole lunar calendar.

01:31:59.540 So Hanukkah could be the end of the month.

01:32:02.800 It could be at Thanksgiving.

01:32:04.700 I mean, we got a lot of options with that one.

01:32:06.640 But nonetheless, they are always the first Hanukkah cards that people get.

01:32:11.480 And it's the same thing.

01:32:12.600 Oh, Jeff, I got your Hanukkah card.

01:32:15.040 Thank you.

01:32:16.440 You're welcome.

01:32:17.000 I love opening up the mailbox, getting Christmas cards.

01:32:26.300 I know some have moved to the virtual Christmas card stuff through email.

01:32:31.180 So it's just maybe it's an age thing.

01:32:34.460 And after my generation, maybe people don't even think about writing out cards anymore.

01:32:39.840 I don't know.

01:32:41.500 But to me, it's not the same getting it online.

01:32:44.920 It's not the same getting it virtually, no matter how fancy it is or how you, quote, have to open it or any of that stuff.

01:32:51.400 It's just not the same to me.

01:32:52.600 But I want you to know that I, just like Cantor Scott Borski outside of Philadelphia, I appreciate everybody who wishes me a Merry Christmas.

01:33:05.200 I appreciate every single solitary person who takes time out of their day to say to me, Merry Christmas.

01:33:14.340 Whether I'm celebrating Christmas or not is irrelevant.

01:33:19.240 They could just as easily have said, hey, you, here's your receipt.

01:33:23.600 Get out.

01:33:24.740 Okay.

01:33:25.120 They could have said any number of other things that I've heard through the years.

01:33:32.760 But Merry Christmas is about as pure and kind and gracious and polite and caring as you can possibly get.

01:33:45.020 I cannot think of very many phrases that are more heartfelt, that are more meaningful than Merry Christmas.

01:34:02.500 You know, I am a Northerner by birth, but a Southerner by choice.

01:34:08.920 I got here as quickly as I could.

01:34:13.260 And I just want you to know, if you're not from the South, if somebody says to you, well, bless your heart, it does not mean what you may think it means.

01:34:21.640 So if they say Merry Christmas, you are good to go.

01:34:25.080 If they say bless your heart, you might be Joe Biden.

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01:36:27.460 Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

01:36:31.100 A couple of days before Christmas.

01:36:33.660 Yesterday, right?

01:36:34.660 Yeah, yesterday I said, we try and do experiences now.

01:36:39.240 That's the thing that Heidi and I have tried to figure out for ourselves.

01:36:42.020 And I would invite you to do that.

01:36:43.620 Not that you have to provide an experience for me, but provide an experience for yourself.

01:36:46.880 Invest in yourself.

01:36:47.700 I talked about some of the things that I've done over the last year or two.

01:36:51.860 Hey, I love speaking and coaching and helping people.

01:36:56.700 And I said, I've got to get some real credibility there.

01:37:00.120 I need some training.

01:37:00.860 I need some insight.

01:37:01.660 And so I've done things with Zig Ziglar's organization and John Maxwell's organization.

01:37:07.520 Signed up for this great program with Dr. Jordan Peterson.

01:37:11.100 And the thing I want to do this year, 2024.

01:37:13.940 Well, I have two things I want to do this year.

01:37:16.540 This new year coming up.

01:37:18.440 May or may not be crazy, but I thought I'd share them with you.

01:37:21.200 Number one, I am trying to help a friend of mine who is a local sheriff here in Central Virginia.

01:37:29.600 Guy's name is Carl Leonard.

01:37:30.680 He's a sheriff of an area called Chesterfield County.

01:37:34.000 And Carl is just like, he's like three of the best people that I know.

01:37:38.220 And every year, he raises money for Special Olympics with the Polar Plunge.

01:37:43.420 And they do Polar Plunges all over America, right?

01:37:45.920 Now, the one for us in Virginia is held out at Virginia Beach.

01:37:50.780 And it is cold when they go in that water.

01:37:54.300 Carl is originally from Buffalo, New York.

01:37:56.400 So I don't think he even is aware that it's cold here.

01:37:59.400 It's all relative.

01:38:00.840 But every year, he takes a team of his deputy sheriffs from Chesterfield County.

01:38:06.260 And he goes with them.

01:38:07.680 They call themselves the Super Sickles.

01:38:09.540 And they head out to Virginia Beach.

01:38:11.680 And they go in the water.

01:38:13.180 And they raise money for Special Olympics.

01:38:15.000 They do an amazing job.

01:38:16.800 So Special Olympics is kind of near and dear to my heart.

01:38:19.960 I love Special Olympians.

01:38:21.660 I love what Special Olympics has been able to do through the years.

01:38:25.100 And so I said, you know, I think I should probably be on your team this year.

01:38:29.120 If you would take an outsider, right? 0.79

01:38:30.640 I'm not a deputy sheriff in Chesterfield County.

01:38:33.400 Well, not a deputy sheriff anywhere.

01:38:34.740 But could I be on the team?

01:38:38.540 And he said, yes, you absolutely could.

01:38:40.400 We would love that.

01:38:42.180 So I said, okay, well, count me in.

01:38:44.060 And then here's what happened.

01:38:46.600 Heidi got herself a brand new shoulder.

01:38:52.100 So for 90 days, I'm kind of sort of housebound helping her.

01:38:57.380 And so I can't do this polar plunge.

01:39:01.840 But Carl came up with this idea.

01:39:04.180 And it was a little crazy when he first pitched it.

01:39:06.540 But then I thought, no, this is this is good.

01:39:09.820 Carl said if he was able to raise $10,000, he would get the Special Olympics logo tattooed on himself live.

01:39:20.440 Like on a Facebook live cast.

01:39:22.160 Last year, he ate some, oh, some bizarre twisted hot pepper thing and raised a lot of money.

01:39:30.680 So I said, yeah, well, that is so cool.

01:39:32.980 I said, well, you know, I'll get one, too.

01:39:35.700 He said, you will?

01:39:36.720 And then I thought, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get one.

01:39:39.980 But we got to raise $15,000.

01:39:42.500 So that's one of the things I would like to do this year.

01:39:45.760 I would like to help him raise that money.

01:39:47.940 I really would.

01:39:48.820 I'd love to help raise that kind of money for Special Olympics.

01:39:51.540 And if he does it, then at $15,000, I, too, will get a Special Olympics logo tattooed on me live on a Facebook live cast.

01:40:03.840 So if that's something you want to help me make come true, then by all means, find Carl Leonard on the Special Olympics Virginia page.

01:40:11.720 And you can help us out.

01:40:13.060 That'd be great.

01:40:13.460 The other thing I want to do in 2024, talking about experiences, and I talk about these things, you know, Ziegler and Maxwell and Peterson and all that sort of stuff.

01:40:28.100 I've become something of a Tony Robbins fan.

01:40:31.160 And I haven't done as much with the Tony Robbins stuff as I've done with the others.

01:40:36.540 But I thought, well, yeah.

01:40:38.700 Now, I think 2024, God willing, is the year I want to do one of those firewalks.

01:40:47.340 And I will have to find some way to tie it in with a charity, because even I'm not crazy enough just to do the firewalk.

01:40:55.380 But I've been looking at that.

01:40:57.640 You ever get hooked on something?

01:40:59.040 Because that's how I feel about that.

01:41:01.520 I've been watching the videos going, huh.

01:41:04.400 They seem to be having a good time.

01:41:06.700 Their feet have not burst into flames.

01:41:10.100 Oh, well.

01:41:11.200 All right.

01:41:11.400 Most of their feet have not burst into flames.

01:41:14.840 And then you do a little research.

01:41:17.020 And there's all this science as to why it does work or it doesn't work or anything else.

01:41:22.700 And then, I don't know.

01:41:24.660 But that's just one of those things I'm thinking in the year 2024 I would like to do.

01:41:31.240 I've got a story I've got to share with you.

01:41:33.140 And your head is darn near going to explode.

01:41:35.220 There is a student in Seattle, Washington, who failed an exam in school because, well, he said that only women can get pregnant.

01:41:48.400 In other words, in the year 2023, telling the truth is against the rules.

01:41:55.500 Telling the truth is darn near against the law.

01:41:58.080 Telling the truth will get you a failing grade on a biology quiz.

01:42:07.080 He marked two statements as true, including one that said only women can get pregnant.

01:42:15.600 The teacher marked that wrong. 0.99

01:42:20.440 He marked another one that said men have penises. 0.95

01:42:24.200 The teacher marked that as wrong. 0.98

01:42:26.440 Well, as well.

01:42:28.380 And I thought, well, that's a problem.

01:42:31.240 But that, whether you and I realize it fully before now, that is exactly what is going on in high schools, in middle schools, in elementary schools, and, Lord, we know, in colleges as well.

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01:44:35.320 A couple of days on front of Christmas Day.

01:44:38.200 You know what happens?

01:44:38.940 We're all wrapping up the year.

01:44:42.080 And we're all thinking about what we've done.

01:44:44.540 What do we accomplish this year?

01:44:46.200 What are we going to do next year?

01:44:47.980 Of course, the first two weeks of January, the best time ever to stay away from gyms. 1.00

01:44:55.320 When I had an active gym membership, I was there just about every morning.

01:45:00.480 And the first two weeks of January, I just took off.

01:45:04.620 Why?

01:45:05.260 Because the first two weeks of January, it's just crowded with everybody.

01:45:08.020 Oh, I'm going to lose 100 pounds this week, and I'm going to march 82 miles today.

01:45:12.640 You know, I just got to get new sweats, and I'll be all good.

01:45:16.440 And they'd all be in the gym, and they'd be there for, well, one day, for the most part.

01:45:23.220 By two weeks out, just about everybody had left.

01:45:26.020 And then you'd go back.

01:45:26.800 But you look back on the year as well.

01:45:31.660 What did you accomplish this year?

01:45:32.860 What did you achieve this year?

01:45:34.080 Did you do this?

01:45:34.780 Did you do that?

01:45:35.780 Well, there was a question that was asked of Admiral John Kirby.

01:45:41.800 Kirby is what?

01:45:42.940 The national security spokes flack for the Biden administration.

01:45:47.360 And Kirby, I think, is an interesting guy, because during the entire war that has erupted as a result of Hamas, despicable, bottom-feeding terrorist thugs, slaughtering 1,200-plus innocent Israelis on October the 7th, 0.95

01:46:05.140 John Kirby has actually stood up and called reporters out for being nitwits and explained what the term genocide means and tried to explain what war involved.

01:46:17.760 So I don't know that I'm going to be sending him a Christmas card next year, but I do have a little more respect for him having taken those positions and said the things that he said.

01:46:29.320 Well, he was asked, he was just asked to name the biggest foreign policy achievement, just one, just one, just name the biggest foreign policy achievement for the Biden administration in the year 2023.

01:46:49.440 And as Cut8 illustrates, he's got a little trouble with that.

01:46:53.380 Since we don't get to ask about ourselves, we would have last night maybe if he'd stuck around a little while, what would the president say is his foreign policy achievement of the year?

01:47:06.200 There's a lot that we've achieved in foreign policy, and Karine's already made sure that you know that we're running late, and I don't want to belabor this, so this answer could go on for like 20 minutes.

01:47:18.580 But, I mean, from the Indo-Pacific and the Quad and Aka Steel to get Australia nuclear-powered submarine capability to what we've done with supporting Ukraine, pushing back, they clawed back more than 50 percent of the territory that Russia took in the early months of the war.

01:47:34.020 You think they, you know, obviously they did that through courage and bravery on the field, but they certainly did that with the United States support.

01:47:39.280 Look at what Israel's been able to do to put pressure on Hamas in the wake of the worst terrorist attack that they've ever succumbed to.

01:47:46.660 I mean, I could go on and on.

01:47:48.740 There has been, I think if I had to bucket into one thing, one of the most important things he's done on the foreign policy front is shore up and revitalize our vast network of alliances and partnerships.

01:48:00.680 No other nation in the world has that kind of a network at their disposal the way the United States does.

01:48:05.800 And our leadership on the world stage is stronger because he took the time to invest in those relationships, many relationships that had been let lapse by the previous administration.

01:48:14.740 So, because he's like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party and their friends over in Ukraine, Burisma et al., that's his accomplishment for the year?

01:48:27.500 Man, you know, that's the sort of stuff I wouldn't talk about.

01:48:32.020 Jeff, how's the diet going?

01:48:33.540 Hey, put on 36 pounds last year.

01:48:36.380 It's going great.

01:48:38.500 It's the sort of thing you avoid.

01:48:39.980 Joe Biden and his reign of error have resulted in in more conflicts around the world than we saw during the four years of President Trump.

01:48:53.280 Did you notice what didn't happen while Donald Trump was president?

01:48:59.040 Wars like this.

01:49:00.340 Do you think that Vladimir Putin just decided that he wanted Ukraine?

01:49:07.720 Like in the last year or so, sitting around the Kremlin, picking the red, white, and blue M&Ms out of the bowl and then just putting the red M&Ms back in, right?

01:49:20.480 Going, you know what I want for, well, we don't celebrate Christmas.

01:49:23.840 Well, I want for something around this time of year.

01:49:26.360 I want Ukraine.

01:49:27.840 I've always wanted a vacation home there.

01:49:29.380 You think that's what happened?

01:49:31.540 Or do you think Vladimir Putin, who has been one way or another on the world stage for a long time, during President Trump's term said, yeah, I would love to take Ukraine.

01:49:44.460 And you remember when Obama was the president of the United States, Barack Obama, you remember him, right?

01:49:50.500 What did Putin do then? 0.85

01:49:53.880 Did any damn thing he wanted to? 0.99

01:49:55.800 Because he knew that Barack Obama and Joe Biden, that whole gang in the White House, they were weak people. 0.99

01:50:01.720 They weren't going to do anything.

01:50:03.280 And they didn't.

01:50:05.580 I think Barack Obama ordered the airlifting of blankets, as memory serves.

01:50:10.680 That was it.

01:50:11.160 So Vladimir Putin, for four years, looks at Donald Trump and says, man, I'm not going to mess around.

01:50:22.140 And you may think Trump was crazy because that was what a lot of people said.

01:50:27.500 You know that you heard it. 0.86

01:50:28.700 Same as I did. 1.00

01:50:30.080 People, he's just nuts. 0.99

01:50:31.660 OK, you know what? 1.00

01:50:32.380 I'll take nuts over a week.

01:50:33.780 I really will. 0.75

01:50:34.600 The perception of nuts, because I don't think Donald Trump is is nuts in any stretch sense of the word.

01:50:41.240 He's not a crazy guy at all. 0.91

01:50:42.580 I think he's pretty doggone smart. 0.97

01:50:46.960 But Vladimir Putin looked at him and whether Vladimir Putin said, well, he's really tough, so I don't want to mess around with him or he's really nuts. 0.88

01:50:54.500 I don't want to mess around with him.

01:50:55.800 Either way, he didn't mess around.

01:50:57.360 And Vladimir Putin behaved himself for four solid years.

01:51:00.420 As soon as Joe Biden shuffled into the Oval Office, man, Vladimir Putin said, oh, there we go.

01:51:10.460 Ukraine's going to have a going out of business sale and I want me some.

01:51:13.840 That's what he did.

01:51:16.080 What about over in the Middle East?

01:51:19.060 Do you remember what President Trump did?

01:51:22.340 Do you remember the Abrahamic Accords?

01:51:24.640 Now, you won't hear it from the the boot lickers and the bottom feeders in the ranks of the legacy news media.

01:51:32.840 But the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump brought peace to the Middle East in a way that has never, ever been done before.

01:51:43.680 And what happens when Joe Biden's in office?

01:51:47.160 Well, he continues the Obama policy of giving money to the mad mullahs in Tehran. 0.62

01:51:53.160 Six billion dollars.

01:51:59.020 Well, they promised not to use it for bad stuff.

01:52:01.840 Oh, OK.

01:52:03.340 Well, as long as you got the promise from him, I guess we're all good, right?

01:52:07.380 Yeah, they did.

01:52:08.000 They like the double pinky swear and everything. 0.58

01:52:10.420 They're not going to use it for bad stuff.

01:52:13.000 All right.

01:52:15.180 Six billion dollars to Iran.

01:52:18.760 Think about that.

01:52:19.520 And Hamas, which, in case you don't know, is the proxy army for Iran, decides they got a lot of money.

01:52:30.700 Oh, I know they didn't get any of that six billion dollars.

01:52:36.560 But they got six billion other dollars that were then replaced in the bank account by those six billion dollars.

01:52:44.720 That is called diplomacy.

01:52:49.140 And then they launched their latest war against Israel.

01:52:54.080 And Bibi Netanyahu said, no.

01:52:59.760 Because this is more than just a battle, a war with a nation and a proxy army and the rest of that.

01:53:10.740 This is a war for the survival of the Jewish people. 0.91

01:53:15.860 Now, that's what's going on now.

01:53:20.580 And I will tell you, Bibi Netanyahu, whether you like his personality or you like his politics or you agree with this or disagree with that, Bibi Netanyahu has on him right now.

01:53:33.600 One of the heaviest burdens that any man has ever had.

01:53:44.220 He has on his shoulders now a war for the survival of the Jewish people. 0.73

01:53:53.340 I can sit here in central Virginia surrounded by great people.

01:53:59.820 I can't tell you how many friends I have who have said, well, you know, Jeff, we've got your back.

01:54:05.620 We've got your six.

01:54:07.820 We're there for you.

01:54:09.680 I decorated our house for Hanukkah this year like I've never done in 50 some odd years ever.

01:54:16.700 Because I believe in the phrase never again.

01:54:19.100 I was a J.D.L. member when I was a teenager because I believe in never again.

01:54:28.180 Bibi Netanyahu has all of that on his shoulders right now.

01:54:33.700 And he's not getting helped by Joe Biden.

01:54:37.040 He's not getting helped by anybody in the Biden White House, but he's still doing because he has to.

01:54:42.820 It's an amazing, challenging situation.

01:54:46.100 Situation.

01:54:48.340 Should we pay tribute to St. Mary's College in Indiana?

01:54:53.040 St. Mary's College in Indiana has now announced that as a Catholic women's college, they will only be admitting women to the class, to the college, which, by the way, should not be news.

01:55:07.540 It's a women's college, however, well, you know where this started, right? 0.99

01:55:12.220 A couple of months ago, the college announced they would allow, quote, transgender women, which is a two-word phrase that means guy, into their college.

01:55:25.240 And then the women who attend St. Mary's College and the parents of the women who attend St. Mary's College and the graduates of St. Mary's College, who are women, and their husbands have all stood up and said no.

01:55:42.340 And now St. Mary's College has said, uh, whoops.

01:55:46.360 Don't worry about it.

01:55:49.240 We're calling a mulligan on that one.

01:55:52.160 So there you have it.

01:55:53.220 There is a solution to global warming.

01:55:55.080 I'm going to share that with you in just a moment.

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01:56:30.120 Ever since he tried the Rough Greens for the first time, my dog Uno has changed.

01:56:33.960 He's a completely different dog.

01:56:35.800 I hear from people all the time in the audience.

01:56:38.320 I mean, hundreds and hundreds of letters have come in who have had the same experience with their dog.

01:56:43.460 They've heard me talk about Rough Greens on the show.

01:56:45.240 They get some for themselves.

01:56:46.600 And as soon as they sprinkle it on the dog's food, the dog literally wolfs it down.

01:56:50.780 And it's really good for them.

01:56:51.940 It's not a dog food.

01:56:52.880 It's just chock full of vitamins and minerals and probiotics and omega oils that you sprinkle.

01:56:57.420 Your dog needs these things to be healthy.

01:57:00.220 My dog was easy.

01:57:01.220 From the first time he tried Rough Greens, Uno was in love.

01:57:04.260 Some dogs take a little bit to get used to the new flavor, though.

01:57:07.060 Dr. Dennis Black, the inventor of Rough Greens, was on the phone with me last week.

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01:57:37.060 It is the Glenn Beck program.

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01:57:45.860 There is a solution to global warming.

01:57:49.800 Even if you don't believe in global warming, and quite frankly, I call these things seasons.

01:57:56.400 Sometimes it's warmer, sometimes it's colder.

01:57:57.660 But there is a brand-new study by something called the Center for Ecology and Hydrology.

01:58:05.000 It's located in Edinburgh, Scotland.

01:58:09.020 It said that methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up 0.1% of the greenhouse gas emissions.

01:58:21.080 And that when you're accounting for flatulence and burping, human beings are fueling the climate crisis, the global warming, by also exhaling.

01:58:42.060 And you cannot overlook it, they say.

01:58:47.100 We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.

01:58:53.560 All right?

01:58:55.520 We report only emissions in breath in this study.

01:58:59.720 So they are telling you that burping and, you know, the other stuff, that's putting all sorts of emissions into the air and doing terrible things.

01:59:09.780 But just breathing, in fact, is increasing global warming.

01:59:16.720 And so let's not kid ourselves.

01:59:18.740 What is the message here?

01:59:22.300 Stop breathing.

01:59:23.840 If only human beings would stop with this selfish respiration.

01:59:30.680 My God, we could cure ourselves of this fictional climate change nonsense.

01:59:37.820 All you've got to do is stop breathing. 0.98

01:59:39.780 Why are you so selfish?

01:59:42.880 Please, think about the planet.

01:59:45.780 Think about Al Gore.

01:59:47.580 Think about something.

01:59:50.480 Did you watch Julia?

01:59:52.840 The first season I thought was a great show, for the most part.

01:59:57.460 It's about Julia Child.

01:59:59.540 It's one of those shows that Heidi and I can actually watch together.

02:00:02.280 Left to my own devices, all I would watch would be documentaries about prisons and crime sprees.

02:00:10.660 And left to her own devices, she would watch nothing but tedious costume dramas set in England.

02:00:17.480 But the Julia show, and I forget what network is on, is something we can both watch.

02:00:25.380 But here's the problem with it.

02:00:28.600 They have one main character who is purely fictional.

02:00:32.220 And as we've headed into the second season of Julia, it is now all, it seems, focused on this one fictional character who's responsible for Julia Child's success.

02:00:45.080 Everything that ever went right.

02:00:46.280 All of these great things with Julia Child.

02:00:48.160 Do I need to tell you that the fictional character happens to be a black woman? 0.84

02:00:59.860 How do we just start adding fictional characters to things that are supposed to be biographies?

02:01:08.240 That are supposed to tell the true story of someone.

02:01:11.220 But with your brand new woke view, you change everything.

02:01:18.820 And all the success comes from a fictional character.

02:01:21.860 Makes no sense to me.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 22, 2023

What Do Hunter Biden and Claudine Gay Have in Common？｜ 12⧸22⧸23 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 22, 2023

What Do Hunter Biden and Claudine Gay Have in Common？ ｜ 12⧸22⧸23 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program

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What Do Hunter Biden and Claudine Gay Have in Common？｜ 12⧸22⧸23 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program