Glenn Beck joins me on The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss the recent rioting at the U.S. Capitol and calls for Trump supporters to vote for secession from the United States. He also discusses voter fraud and the media s reaction to it.
00:00:00.520Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
00:00:12.020Hey everyone, it's Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:15.280Today on the program, we've got Glenn Beck, one of the best known and most talented media personalities in the world.
00:00:22.300Now he's a media mogul too, having founded The Blaze, where he hosts The Glenn Beck Show.
00:00:27.420We taped with Glenn a couple of days ago, discussing the fissures in this country right now, and his call for secession, though perhaps not exactly in the way you're thinking.
00:00:40.080So we're going to get into it. Is that where we are? Is that the point at which we find ourselves?
00:00:44.520Now that discussion was before the riots at the U.S. Capitol. So first, a word on that.
00:00:50.480Those rioters breaching the Capitol building on Wednesday, who terrorized the lawmakers and the others inside, that was deeply disturbing.
00:00:59.440They endangered themselves, they endangered our lawmakers, our elected leaders, not to mention the law enforcement officers who were there to protect the facility and all of those people inside.
00:01:09.240As you know by now, a woman died trying to breach one of those doors after she was shot by a cop and at least three others were killed reportedly from health emergencies during the thing.
00:01:21.600I was ashamed. I was ashamed. I was ashamed of those rioters, of their lawless behavior, and I was angered by it.
00:01:30.180Each of those lawbreakers should be arrested, tried and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
00:01:36.120And no right wing equivalent of Justin Timberlake, remember him during the BLM riots, should bail any of these people out of jail and give them an ethical pass.
00:01:46.140Let's make them stand up for what they did and face the judgment of the legal system.
00:01:52.580But let's be honest, the preening by the Democrats and the media the day of the riot and since about how ripe they'd been from the start, about Trump and his supporters all along was insufferable.
00:02:07.960Media personalities who had no problem with the Black Lives Matter riots.
00:02:11.660I speak not of the protests that were, in many instances, peaceful.
00:02:15.900I speak of the riots we saw over the summer.
00:02:18.180And those who had no problem with what happened in Seattle, the autonomous zone, suddenly grew a conscience about riots.
00:02:27.660The same anchors who had zero care for the small business owners whose shops were burned or looted or for the cops who were shot dead,
00:02:36.060trying to protect people during those lawless melees, suddenly found their outrage when it was Trump supporters breaching the people's house.
00:02:47.300And by the way, these criminals did not represent the vast majority of Trump's 74 million supporters.
00:02:52.480The same as the rioters over the summer don't represent the vast majority of people who would like to see us address racial inequities.
00:02:59.720Well, the truth is, both events, both sets of riots were disturbing.
00:03:04.400Those by the BLM activists and Antifa and this one.
00:03:08.300Both sets of criminals were wrong and ought to be charged.
00:03:11.020And the Johnny-come-lately's to the riots are bad narrative?
00:03:14.360Better stick to it the next time said rioters are pushing a democratic cause.
00:03:19.300Because the more of that you see and give a pass to, the more people get it in their heads that it's not so bad.
00:03:25.000It's not such a bad idea or a big deal.
00:03:26.980Well, the people who terrified lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week did serious harm to the American psyche.
00:03:35.080We haven't seen something like that in this country since 1812.
00:03:38.080And frankly, to the honest questions about voter fraud that large portions of the electorate still have, according to the polls.
00:03:47.640Contrary to the media lecturing that now all such allegations, any talk of voter fraud absolutely must be abandoned forever,
00:03:54.400or those raising them will have blood on their hands.
00:03:57.540Not all of those questions actually have been addressed.
00:04:00.420And not everyone is ready to say there's no there there.
00:04:27.920The lawyers wouldn't say it before the judges.
00:04:29.840And that's because there are real ethical consequences to lawyers who mislead judges.
00:04:34.100It's different from misleading reporters.
00:04:36.940I have said from the beginning that the legal arguments being advanced by the president's team in no way appeared robust to me.
00:04:45.160But enough proof was put forward in the limited time they were given that we we should be taking a hard look at how to improve this system going forward.
00:04:52.220Why wouldn't we if for no other reason to restore some of the voters lost trust, which is considerable, again, according to the poll, something like 75 percent of the Republicans don't believe this was a fair election and a large portion of Democrats, too.
00:05:10.020More importantly, probably the most important point is that we need to take a hard look at how this erosion of trust in our systems was born, because it's not just it's it's writ large.
00:05:24.040I mean, it's just it's across institutions now.
00:05:27.280What why were so many Trump voters willing to believe the Kraken was coming despite weeks of them not being able to produce it?
00:05:35.340You know, why why is QAnon getting so much support with their conspiracy theories?
00:05:40.880Why why were so many people motivated by a seemingly unstable for the moment, at least, president to mob the Capitol at great risk to themselves and others for a cause that was utterly futile?
00:05:53.960The woman who breached the door trying to get into I think it was the House chamber who was shot and killed was a service member.
00:06:17.140And there's no doubt that his core, core supporters that that sort of small but incredibly loyal group can really be moved by his words.
00:06:25.760And I've been saying from the beginning, he has an extra responsibility, given this cult like relationship to use those words carefully, judiciously.
00:07:01.660There are real consequences to the Democratic overreach on Russia, on Ukraine, and to treating every single little thing President Trump did from the moment he took office as a catastrophic outrage.
00:07:13.160We are seeing the fruits of that right now.
00:07:18.360There are also real problems to Trump's repeated lies, his untethered relationship with the truth.
00:07:25.440So how do we begin to start clawing this back?
00:07:51.360But based on his comments about Hunter Biden, his dodges and so on, and the help he's gotten from Twitter and Facebook, etc., I'm not so sure.
00:07:58.200I'm not so sure we're about to get that.
00:11:44.700You know, again, I take people at their word.
00:11:48.760And when they say they want to transform something, they mean it.
00:11:53.320And every indication is they look at a very different America that doesn't really reflect our founders, our founding principles, or our Constitution.
00:12:05.540And I think the radicals are in charge, and I think they mean everything they say.
00:12:14.140And if the Democrats do win, I think you're looking at the end of America as we know it.
00:12:23.080And if not, you're looking at a split nation and possibly a civil war.
00:13:43.260You're not wrong that they want the far left, the AOCs of the world, want a total reformation of America as it was intended to be and as it has been for the better part of 244 years.
00:13:55.240She wants to remake the entire experiment.
00:13:57.140And there are a lot of people on her side who feel the same.
00:14:01.240And with Joe Biden, I realize Joe Biden's not the same as AOC, but that wing of his party is growing and they're powerful.
00:14:08.160And they've taken over so many cultural institutions, Glenn.
00:14:11.340I really worry about where we'll be four years from now.
00:14:15.060I don't think we're, gosh, I hate saying this, Megan, but I just don't think we are in a safe place.
00:14:29.320You know, as we were battling COVID, China marched across the Hong Kong border and we've lost Hong Kong because we didn't pay attention.
00:14:38.460Imagine an America that is so divided, that is in civil war or just is is so crippled on the inside.
00:14:48.680The world changes four years from now.
00:14:51.680We're living in a very different world.
00:14:54.080And obsessed with navel gazing on issues like our lady parts or our skin color or I mean, it's like so there are real things happening in the world that need our attention.
00:15:07.060And yet we're obsessed with with things that we cannot control, that we were reducing to afterthoughts in a very positive way.
00:15:17.060And we've now decided to prioritize them over things, as you point out, like the loss of Hong Kong or what China is doing to the Uyghurs, you know, an actual genocide happening in the world that we once might have stood up to.
00:15:27.000Even though Trump's done amazing things on China that no other president would have done, we seem to have lost our appetite for attention to those things instead to focus on the extremely myopic and ultimately meaningless issues like gender.
00:15:43.960I don't think the average American is there.
00:16:37.580But I just and maybe it's just the the optimist that is always screaming to get out that allows me to believe still that that's not who America is.
00:16:50.680They're just we've just put up with it.
00:16:53.240You know, there was a there was a piece in City Journal recently that was entitled A Wokeism is Silencing America.
00:17:00.640And the author was talking about how self-censorship is soaring, that Democrats and Republicans, both you would expect Republicans,
00:17:08.420but also Democrats, both worry about speaking their minds to the tune of about 40 percent of each party.
00:17:14.560They don't want to say how they really feel because they're scared, right?
00:17:19.520They're going to be demonized, called awful names.
00:17:21.160And the author's point was basically when honesty is out of fashion, we're at a dangerous point, because if you won't speak up against policies or groups or movements that you can see the fundamental risks of, then they become more powerful.
00:17:34.860Then more people throw their hats in that that basket because they think they have to and their power grows.
00:17:40.660And that is something that we've seen happen with Black Lives Matter, a group that has really troubling leanings.
00:17:45.540And I wonder about I wanted to ask you about them in particular, because I know at some point, I think it was 16, you came out and said, I support Black Lives Matter.
00:18:24.820And so when I said I I agree with those people who are marching with Black Lives Matter, some of them, because I spoke to them, they themselves said, we don't agree with the main organization.
00:18:38.020We don't believe in the destruction of the nuclear family.
00:18:41.820We don't believe in any of that stuff.
00:19:15.980And it is it is a truly frightening development in our society that something as toxic, as dangerous and as deadly as the real mission behind the organization Black Lives Matter can just be swept in.
00:56:56.520Got to interview Vladimir Putin, among many other awesome, like normal, regular, non-star type people on that show who really helped me learn about how to approach life, how to approach problems.
00:57:06.960There's one in particular who I'm going to put on the show at some point.
00:57:09.800And you're going to freaking love this guy.
00:57:11.980Anyway, so I think about it in terms of my first marriage, too, right?
00:57:14.860Like it didn't it didn't end in success, right?
00:57:19.360But I'm still friends with Dan, my first husband.
00:57:21.880And if I had never married Dan, there would never be a Doug.
00:57:24.900Honestly, I would never have been as good at marriage as I think I am if I hadn't tried it and not not really done that well the first time around.
00:57:40.960Right. And if you, again, pay attention and keep an open mind, you can turn it into a smash success, which thankfully my marriage to Doug is.
00:57:50.600And I actually don't think you build any sort of strength or resilience as a human being unless you have setbacks, right?
00:58:28.360And I hope you're not one of the employees who's been screwed by this weird law in California that says you can't work for DoorDash unless they make you a full-time employee and you can't earn your independent contractor.
00:58:37.640Anyway, I've just been reading up about that thinking this is such nonsense.
00:58:40.920In any event, thank you for the question, Max.
00:58:44.160I was on – well, I was just going on vacation when the story about Dalton, the Dalton School here in New York broke.
00:58:53.080But I have a lot of friends at that school.
00:58:55.080And for people who missed it, it's one of these elite private schools here in New York, K through 12, that already was very diverse, really committed to diversity long before the current push of the past summer.
00:59:25.720So this school, the push – in a letter signed by 120 teachers wants 12 new diversity officers.
00:59:33.860They want any black student who appears in an ad for the school, like his image is in a school publication, or if they participate in any anti-racism initiative, to get paid.
00:59:43.760They want required courses on black liberation and white supremacy for everyone.
00:59:48.140Yearly, yearly anti-racism training for employees, trustees, parent association, volunteers.
00:59:52.820They want all faculty and staff to produce individual, public, anti-racism statements of their own.
00:59:58.680In other words, they have to become advocates.
00:59:59.960They want to abolish tracked courses by 2023 if blacks and whites aren't at parity.
01:00:06.260They're talking about eliminating AP courses unless all of the black students get the same grades or better than all of the white students.
01:00:14.160They want equality of outcomes, Glenn, equality of outcome.
01:01:17.380And they said, oh, it's going to be a better world and everything else.
01:01:20.480After the First World War, he went and he spent the rest of his life going to grave sites of fallen soldiers from World War I and caring for them.