The Glenn Beck Program - 1/12/18 - Too Busy To Care (Rand Paul & Bill O'Reilly join Glenn)

Episode Date: January 12, 2018

Hour 1  FISA fiasco...Choose the Constitution or nothing ...We are all too busy to pay attention  ...Why did President Trump cancel his trip to London? ...Are President Trump’s comments about third-world countries really that big of a deal?...Glenn has an analogy that shows his viewpoint ...Sen. Rand Paul joins the show to discuss FISA and the neighbor who attacked him…how many broken ribs? ...like being mugged twice?... ‘Mike Lee and I are leading the way’ on FISA...any chance it doesn't pass?...Stop spying on private citizens...legal immigration vs. illegal immigration   Hour 2  The gatekeepers have changed…Be your own social media...Social Media Platforms ...Bill O'Reilly Friday...Is the president losing support for being too ‘bombastic’?...Bill’s ‘word of the day’...the media now back to the white supremacist narrative... ‘the president is tired and angry’ and ‘not disciplined enough’...boosting in a bombastic way... ‘Barack Obama is behind Oprah’...the word is that Barack Obama is furious with President Trump? ...Flashback to 1980: What President Reagan had to say about Haiti    Hour 3  Banning best friends while going potty with Nancy?...how long until our kids are just all chained together?...life will find a way...Hoping for dinosaurs? Glenn’s pterodactyl solution...Greenpeace periodic table pansies ...Callers share their thoughts with Glenn ...Lacking 'emotional intellect' ...Somebody get the duct tape? ...'Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot!’? ...Start listening with our heads, hearts and to each other   The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere, Weekdays 9am–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Courage. Truth. Glenn. Back. Well, it's another day, so a whole new set of outrages. The government has just expanded its ability to unconstitutionally spy on you.

Happy Friday. Yesterday, the House renewed the FISA surveillance program that collects data, email, text messages, photos without a warrant for another six years. This is on American citizens. The bill was originally approved by Congress in 2008 under the promise of protecting Americans against the big bad terrorists. But that's a flawed platform. There will always be terrorists. So we are going to now violate everyone's rights in order to keep our country safe? Yes, we have to. This is why Justin Amash offered up an alternative bill, the USA Rights Act, which would have required federal agents to get a warrant to search through data that was

secretly collected. So it's a crazy old-fashioned idea. You have to have a judge say, yeah, according to the evidence that you have now given me, I'm going to let you go ahead and look through data. It failed, of course. Now, Trump was against the FISA extension, tweeting House votes on controversial FISA Act today. This is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump campaign by the previous administration and others. But that was so 733 in the morning. Two hours later, he flipped his position,

tweeting, Today's vote is about foreign surveillance and foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it. Get smart. Oh. Okay. The bill is now going to the Senate. It is expected to pass.

Rand Paul, who will be with us in 30 minutes, is already talking about filibustering the vote, as is Mike Lee and others. In fact, a few Democrats might join, because here's our e pluribus unum from many one. We used to melt into each other. There used to be something we could agree on. And what was that something? Things like the Fourth Amendment. You know, you need a search warrant. You can't just go, you can't just go gather evidence against every single America. You have to have a reason, a warrant. We used to agree on the Bill of Rights. Do we do we any more? We either choose the Constitution or we don't and we have nothing. Our representatives,

our Senate, our president, from both sides of the parties, both sides of the parties, both sides, of the aisle, they continue to make the wrong choice. The real question is, will Americans follow them down that path? It's Friday, January 12th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. I want to hear from you today. Boy, do I want to hear from you. We have Rand Paul in half an hour.

We have Bill O'Reilly next hour. And in hour number three, I hope to be able to be able speak to me a love because she's one from one of those crap hole countries you know there uh i'm i i really want to talk to you because uh i was outraged last night i really was and i have you know what i've given up on the whole outrage thing and i've given out up on the certainty thing i don't want to be certain of anything anymore i don't want to be absolutely convinced that i am right anymore because that doesn't get us anywhere.

Certainty is a flaw in us. You know, even Jesus, as he's hanging on the cross, he wasn't certain. Oh my gosh, how dare you say that? See, I told you, Glenn Beck, wasn't a Christian. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? If that's not doubt, I don't know what is. even Jesus had a moment of doubt. He wasn't forsaken.

It was part of the plan. But as he has nails driven through him, the human side comes out and he doubts. If the most perfect human being ever to walk the earth doubted, even for a fraction of a second, who am I to be certain? And once I enter a conversation with somebody when I am absolutely certain, well, then they're idiots. They have nothing to offer.

They're part of the problem. And I don't listen. And today I find myself getting close to being certain again. Mr. President, there are millions of people that support you. And there are millions of people that don't. That's a fact of life. It'll always be that. But there are millions of people who want to like you, who want to support you.

There are millions of people who defend you every single day. And every single day, it's like you get a punch in the face because, oh, crap, what? I'm a very stable genius. Shut up. Shut up. Who says that? FISA yesterday. How do I know who you are, sir?

How do I know who you are? Your tweets yesterday. This is very dangerous on FISA. This is what was used to get me. And you were right. Two hours later? Oh, I've, I've installed. I've put the fix in myself.

Oh, you did in two hours? Wow, that's really, you're efficient. How do I defend? How do I even know who you are? How do I do it? This week,

if you are a Trump supporter, you have had to spend your credibility. You have had to go to friends and you know, you know, I'm a very stable genius. You know nobody who is very stable or a genius would ever say something like that. Okay, all right. Well, it's Donald Trump.

Okay. How many times, Mr. President, are you going to make us say, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. But it's Donald Trump. In the last week, 10 days, we've had to defend. And my button is bigger than yours. We've had to defend all of the stuff with Bannon and Fire and Fury, which led into us having to defend, I'm a very stable genius, which led people into defend your moving of the most dishonest fake news award show that apparently you're doing. you're the president, man, which led us into having to defend DACA. Wait, are you for it, or are you against it?

Were you lying to them or were you lying to us? When you said, you trust the people in the room, the slimyest people of Congress, the leaders of Congress, were in your room and you said in front of them, God and the country, you trust them. And no matter what they send you, even if you disagree with it, you will sign it. Because you trust them to do the... Well, none of the other people in America trust them. Well, I didn't mean that. Well, I don't know because everything is, I didn't mean, I didn't say, I don't know anymore. Also this week, we've been so busy defending other things. we didn't even see this.

He's canceled his trip to London. The president has canceled his trip to London. Now, let's just do the math on that. Why do you think he cancel it? Because the streets of London will be on fire when he comes. Our greatest ally. The streets will be on fire. Well, they're just stirring things up.

Okay, okay, all right. They're stirring things up. So why doesn't the president just come out and say, not going to London today you know I'm the president I'm dealing with other things no what he says is this quote the reason I cancelled my trip to London

is that I'm not a big fan of the Obama administration having sold perhaps the best located in finest embassy in London for peanuts only to build one in an off location for $1.2 billion bad deal wanted me to cut the ribbon no bull crap.

I'm at dinner last thing. And the dinner conversation is about FISA. I'm having dinner with really smart people. And we're having a conversation about FISA. And people at the table are doing their best, doing their best. You know, let's like give people the benefit of the doubt. It's like Pat said yesterday on this program. You know, if you look at his policies,

You know, the tax cut wasn't great, but at least we have it. The mandate is gone. I don't know what happens now because of that, but at least it's a step in the right direction. He did the Jerusalem thing. There are many things, Mr. President, that I support. But I am embarrassed to say I support his policies because everything else that goes around. it. I'm sorry if I'm being too honest on how I feel, because maybe you don't feel this way at all, but, man, I am, I don't know how, I don't know how you're doing it and, and having any credibility with your friends, because we would go crazy. We'd go crazy if the president of the United States was a Democrat and doing the things that he has been saying. I'm not even talking about his policies. Just shut up.

Shut up. This crap hole comment. I am at dinner. I'm at dinner. I had just worked all night on the FISA thing, worked on all of the other things that are going down. I get into the car with my wife. And I go on Twitter and I said, no way. no freaking way.

She said what? And I said, I don't even want to tell you this. I cannot be true. But of course, oh, the president has denied it today. Do you really believe that? You know what? Let me.

Here's what he said in case you don't know. While he was talking about, you know, immigration reform. Why do we have all of these people coming from these, and I'm cleaning it up? Craphole countries. First of all, first of all, Mr. President, you ever been to Haiti? Doubt it. It's really not your speed.

Not enough golden faucets in the country. Haiti is a crap hole country. You know why? Because of people, quite honestly, like the Clinton Foundation. because of our government supporting the crap hole administrators and government of Haiti, because of people like the Red Cross who will not put strings on the money over there and say, no, I'm sorry, we're going to spend it. We're not going to give it to your corrupt people.

You know what Haiti is? Haiti is a country that is filled with misery. It is a country filled with slavery. It is filled with people, human beings, moms, dads, children that are suffering, suffering stuff that we should have eradicated in the 1500s. And we didn't because of politicians being corrupt. It's full of misery. And it's full of people just like you. You and just like me who just want a chance.

Why are all these people coming from crap hole countries? Because we didn't used to be a crap hole country. And they think that they could have a chance here. I want those people. Yesterday, yesterday people were defending this from six ways to Sunday. And I'm sorry, but I don't understand it. Well, he wasn't talking about the people. Okay, put yourself in 1938.

President says, why do we have to take all these Jews from that Nazi country? Is he talking about the Nazi country? Or is he talking about taking all the Jews? That is clearly an anti-Semitic phrase. Why do we have to take all these Jews from that Nazi country? Yes, he may be against the Nazis, but he's also making a comment about all those Jews. Don't try to defend it. You know what made this worse last night?

Is Mercury 1 and Operation OUR was on the ground in Haiti last night? They were on the ground in Haiti last night at the request of their new president to try to get some of the worst offenders of sexual slavery off. the street and I thought to myself, how is Tim and our team facing their president tonight who's trying to do the right thing? How is he facing them when our president calls their country a crap hole? Mr. President, we want to support you. We thank you for the things that you have done that we didn't, some of us didn't think you would do. But please for the love of God, shut your mouth and just do the job.

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The phones are ablaze right now, and I want to take your phone calls today. I really want to hear your voice, but I don't want to cheat anybody out of time. And so we're going to wait until the next break to take some phone calls, so you have a chance to speak. Also, I have Rand Paul coming up in just a few minutes. He's going to talk about the renewing of the FISA bill, which is a disgrace. is it has been made worse. It is expanding now. And we have to choose constitution or no constitution.

We're going to talk about facts. And then we'll talk about feelings as well. Glenn. Coming up. Mercury. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Senator Rand Paul is joining us now. A friend of the program, or we're a friend of his at least.

And glad to have him on and glad to hear that. he is able to continue to do work and to be on the phone with us. Rand, we have been really concerned. This audience has been very concerned about your health. How are you feeling? You know, I'm starting to get better every day, and I appreciate that, and appreciate really people from the past the country being concerned about my health. You know, I have only had a bruised rib.

What do you have three broken ribs? I actually had six broken ribs. Three of them displaced, meaning that that's the character actually not really aligned anymore. And I had fluid on the line. I had pneumonia twice. And sort of, you know, I mean, five or six weeks, just a really excruciating pain trying to even sit up. I had to have assistance just to sit up. So, so, Senator, this has been bothering me.

I mean, since this story broke, first it was like, no big deal. Then it was like, oh, maybe a little. little bit, and then the details started to trickle out. Why? What happened with the media where we weren't getting the story? It was, I mean, did you not know you had those broken ribs right away? I think the media was obsessed with sort of trying to make it my fault somehow. So the major liberal rag in Kentucky, the Louisville Courier, printed stories said,

Rand Paul apparently not a good neighbor, sort of had it coming, deserved. what he got. And so it's really, it's the kind of stuff that the left seems to have great sympathy for victims until the victims happen to be conservatives. I've never seen, I've never seen anything like it. And I don't know why this guy, I don't care it. I mean, I do care if you're a senator. To me, it makes it much, much worse, especially if it was politically motivated at all. But I don't care if you were just a guy living on a street. That's a major attack. Why isn't this guy having major legal problems? I think in the end there will be legal consequences.

The machinery of justice sometimes is slant, but I think in the end there will be a just outcome and some punishment for this. But I guess the thing is, is, and I don't know if you remember, but about a month ago, my wife finally just had enough, and she said, I can't stand them attacking every day. I can't, I'm sorry, your phone is kind of weird. I'm sorry, you said, she said what? She just couldn't stand them attacking me every day.

I was like, I got mugged once, you know, in the yard, and then I got by the media every day implying somehow that I sort of had it coming and that violence was justified. And I guess they don't really quite realize this. They snicker and smile and think it's kind of funny. But, you know, I was on the ball field being shot at by a guy who shot over 100 shots at us, almost killed Steve Scalise, and then six months later, I had an attack to my yard. And so really it's just not that funny. I cannot believe, I mean, we were on the air.

if this would have happened to anyone on the left, the country would have stopped. And the media just kind of took it like, yeah, well, you know, it was a lawnmower thing. No, it's not. And even if it was, there's a problem here. Anyway, yesterday, the president tweeted that the FISA thing that was going through the house was the kind of stuff used with the, he said, bogus dossier from, a fusion GPS to surveil him and spy on him, and it was horrible. Two hours later, he says, well, I put the right language in there, so it's all good, and it's patriotic, and you've got to do this.

Let's get smart. I think this is a nightmare. Yeah. People in the swamp, I think, try to convince the president, and the swamp kind of pushes back, Paul Ryan and others, they push back and they say, well, we're putting reforms in there and all the problems where people abuse the system to go after you, the Strokes and their mistress and that guy, Bruce Orr with his wife doing the Opho research. We fixed all that, and it's sex now.

And it really isn't at all. They did fake reform. There really isn't going to be a warrant requirement. So really, here's this program. It's supposed to be collecting information on foreigners and foreign lands. And actually, I agree with that. Mike Lee and I are the two biggest advocates for getting a warrant. and both of us have said, we're fine with the program,

as long as the millions of Americans that are caught up accidentally and incidentally in this program, the millions of Americans who are in the database, as long as we don't go trolling through that database, you know, looking for IRS problems or looking for, you know, finance problems, or looking for it as they're the opposite party. And that stuff happens. It's been, you know, Senator Lee mentioned this the other day. He says, since FDR, every president has used to,

his intelligence community against their opponents all right through Nixon right and really Obama did it to attack the uh tea party with the IRS and uh they're still doing it now but they're not doing to trump's behalf they're actually doing it to attack Trump so uh is there a chance that you and Mike Lee and I understand there's some uh you know good Democrats that are talking about joining you guys is there a chance this doesn't pass in the Senate we had the we had the initial vote and we had four Republicans and 23 Democrats. So we're Mike Lee, myself, Jerry Moran, and Steve Danes. Those are the only four Republicans so far that have shown any interest in trying to stop this.

So we really, you know, if you ask the American people, if we ask your audience, I know what kind of answer we get, but let's just say we ask everybody, even those out there listening to public radio, we say, do you think that the government should be able to look at your personal information, listen to your phone calls without a warrant? It would be a hell no from everybody. Everybody. 80% of the public. You know, they just don't list. It's very common in Washington is they do fake reform. They do some stuff. And so we fix the problem.

In reality, this bill is worse than the current law because under this bill, collected on foreigners that accidentally gets Americans can be used against American in a court of law. So imagine this. Imagine they just feel like they can fall through there. And they say you'd have to come and painted your house, which would be a tax violation. because you deducted the paying for business. All of a sudden, they can figure out some kind of incidental tax thing.

It can be used in domestic court now. That's what this new law says. And, you know, I think it is worth filibuster. I think that the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment, your right to privacy is something so sacred, so important. It's really what John Adams said was the sport that led to the revolution, was James Otis fighting against General Lawrence, fighting against excessive and overbearing governor. Yep. I will tell you this, that I think, you know, I've been, you know, been asking for a while,

e pluribus unum, what's our unum anymore? Our unum really is the Bill of Rights. It, those common sense things that, that you ask yourself, you know, should the government be able to just spy on you and listen to your phone calls? The unum is, no, no, we all agree. I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, independent, left, right, 90% of Americans would say, no, they don't have a right to do that. That's our unum. And we have taken our unum, our bill of rights, and we're just dismantling it to have a group of Republicans and Democrats stand up in the Senate and filibuster on that right, on that unum,

I think we'll connect. And here's a good way to look at. A lot of people get sort of, they get caught up in this, and they're not sure which way to think, because they think, gosh, I know my local policeman. I know my local FBI agent and they're good people. I would say exactly the same thing. Every individual FBI agent I've met out in the field has been a good person who I think that tries to apply the law.

In fact, I think the local FBI agents and the local police understand the Fourth Amendment much better than they do in Washington. But what should scare us all is when we see someone like Strach, his girlfriend, his mistress, talking to somebody named Andy, which is probably the second in command of the FBI, and plotting at work on their work phone on how to stop Donald Trump from being president and then talking about some kind of insurance policy. And then you flip over the Department of Justice, and a guy, Bruce Orr's wife worked for the opposition research

and hired a British spy that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that all of these men and women are angels and that they're not going to spy on us if we don't have extra scrutiny on what they do. There are so many distractions now that it's hard to concentrate on the important things. We had another one yesterday.

A lot of people said that, you know, what the president was doing two days ago when he was sitting down with members of Congress and saying, I trust you guys to come up with a plan. A lot of people who supported him said, well, he's just playing Congress and he's playing the media and he's going to play, you know, good cop. Well, he just flushed all that down the toilet last night with the comments being released, you know, why do we let all these people in here from crap hole countries? I personally am just disgusted by that. Any comment on that, Senator? Not not in particular, but I would say that I think something is going to come out of this. And I've always blamed any kind of progress forward on immigration, whether it's border security or whether it's figuring out who can come to the country

on the Democrats' unwillingness to compromise. So right now there's a bunch of kids, and I actually do have some people that are the doctor kids, and I will vote for a compromise. But the Democrats do have to compromise. They're going to have to vote in favor of additional border security. They're going to have to vote in favor of having a more merit-based, where we admit to people to the country who we need want and will work. And then I think the chain migration has got to be in.

Is there a, you know, that is the defenders of Donald Trump on the crap hole country thing, which I'm sorry I don't buy into any of the excuses of it. But what they'll say is, hey, we need to know if these people are any good. because they're coming from a crap whole country. Well, you know, you can come from Denmark and still not want to work and still want things for free. And, I mean, Denmark is giving away things for free much more than 80. Yeah, yeah, I don't. But is there a way to justify that?

I'm just saying that we have 700 million people that want to come to our country. Yeah. Can't have all 700 million. And so the thing is, and here's the thing about merit-based is that we need people who are software engineers and people who need workers. So, for example, if we had no immigration into our country, if some of the people who want to close the borders, we'd have no tomatoes, we'd have no vegetables, we'd have all of the things that have to be picked in the field. Unfortunately, we have destroyed the work ethic in our country. And so the people who couldn't do that in our country are sitting at home getting a government wage for non-work.

But really, our country would come to a standstill without allowing some immigration. And immigration can be a strength to a country. it needs to be done legally and appropriately. And so I've always said I'm actually for more legal immigration and less illegal immigration. So I agree with you on that. And I wanted to kind of point out that I think what you were saying was that the Democrats will have to compromise on merit-based, which every country on the planet does, except for us. And do you think that they will actually go and look, I mean, we need AI visas. We need a Manhattan project, quite honestly, for safe ASI.

We need the greatest minds to come here so we can develop that, and it's not developed over in China or elsewhere. But that requires merit-based stuff. Would the Democrats ever do it? I think part of merit-based also implies, and one of the things we need to do that we used to do, is we should link it to work and sponsorship. So when my wife's grandmother came over here from Ireland in the 1920s,

She came over and she was required to work, and if she didn't work, she was sent back. So we had some tough rules, but people knew they had to come, and people did. People were hungry for work, and even the hardest work that the lowest wage was better than our country than another country. Because there was always the hope of progress, the hope of success in moving up the socioeconomic ladder. Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, we're glad that you're feeling better if there's anything that any of us can do to help you. please let us know besides our prayers. We appreciate the hard work you're doing, and thanks for joining us.

God bless. Thanks, go in. By the way, just want to point out, he said his grandmother in the 1920s came from Ireland. At that time, many said Ireland was a craphole country, and why are we letting those people in? Well, because some of them turn out to be really,

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What are you thinking? Good morning, Glenn. Just thinking on the issue with Trump saying that he is a crapphole of rights. But yet you agreed with him that he, that it is that way. You said that it is and you gave your explanation why. Yeah, okay. The government has made it into a crap hole. However, that has nothing to do with the people.

And that was what he was questioning. Why are we taking all of these people from this crap hole? You know, well, we take those because those are the poor, you know, tired masses, yearning to breathe free. But we should see, you know, make sure that they have something to offer and want a better life and not bring that attitude with us. but that happens even in Denmark. There will be people there are more people that get free stuff from the government in the,

in the Netherlands than there are in Haiti. Right. Well, I mean, my, you know, my thing is I don't, I don't understand, you know, I understand, but I thought you were more upset with him calling them, you know, calling that place that. I, I am upset because I don't believe that he was calling that place alone. He was questioning the people. And the reason why is because if I said, what are we doing, why are we bringing all these Jews in from Nazi Germany?

Yes, I'm recognizing that Nazi Germany is a bad place, but I'm questioning the people. And then to follow it up and say, we need more people from Denmark. No, why? Why? Those people understand more socialism than the people of Haiti do. Glenn, back. Mercury. Courage.

True. Glenn Beck. Here's the reality. 200 million Americans now consume their news via social media. That's 75% of the country. You get your news off of Facebook or Twitter or something like that. The gatekeepers of information have now evolved. They were the local paper, then radio, then TV.

Now they are social media. I'm going to go against the narrative here for a second. What a surprise. We've heard a lot. lately about the power of the internet and, you know, how it's given power to those who want to spread fake news, whether it's the Russians or the Nazis or the radical leftists, whatever. They all now have the ability to push their narrative more easily to whomever they want. But here's the flip side of that coin.

Never in the history of mankind has so much information been available to the average person, no matter where they live on planet Earth. in this day and age, there is no excuse for people falling and falling down into this wormhole of lies because they failed to be their own fact checker and truth finder. A bot. A bot will tweet a meme. It should not be able to pull the wool over your eyes. If this were 100 years ago, maybe, but this is the age of.

of information. Take the next step. Check it out. So with all that's being said, why are social media platforms looking to block certain points of view? I am not a fan of Project Veritas. I shouldn't say this. I admire what they try to do.

I don't admire how they've gone about it. But they released an undercover video yesterday that if it is what it purports to be, showed Twitter employees talking about plans to filter a certain quote, way of talking. A Twitter engineer explained how the algorithm works. He said, quote, yeah, you look for Trump or America, and then you have like 5,000 keywords that describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all of the messages and the pictures, and then you look for stuff

that matches that stuff. He continues on, quote, I would say the majority of it are all for Republicans, end quote. Wow. Is that true? We don't know because it came from Project Veritas and they have no credibility because of the way they've conducted themselves in the past. Now, I get censoring violence, but ideas are absolutely off limits. The real question now is, who is telling Twitter what kind of talk is acceptable? in a leaked media matters memo they called for this exact kind of work.

Their memo was called the Strategic Plan of Action. David Brock's Progressive Hit Squad detailed how they were going to operate in the new era. And it talks very specifically about how they have already begun working with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Under the heading, collaborating with social media platforms, the media. the Media Matters memo states, quote, social media platforms need help in identifying vulnerabilities and crafting solutions. To this end, Media Matters will serve as their partner, speaking to them in their language of big data and encouraging changes based on what we see happening in the landscape, end quote. So who really are the modern day gatekeepers for information?

social media companies like Twitter? Not really. Apparently, liberal progressive smear artists like David Brock and media matters because they are the ones telling them what is and what isn't acceptable. In this day and age, you must do your own homework. You must be your own fact checker. It is never more important than right now. January 12th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Well, you haven't had a chance to talk to

Bill O'Reilly here for a few weeks to see what's up. Hello, welcome Bill O'Reilly. Beck, and how did you get through that period of time? I mean, I'm usually kind of your muse guiding you in the right direction. How did you do it? I was happy. I was content. And then suddenly today, it looks like the world is on fire. And I'm like, oh, Bill O'Reilly. So they must be connected somehow or another. Some of your staff told me that you were on Bill O'Reilly.com every day. And I ate it, so therefore you knew which way to go. So, Bill, you and I, I have a feeling may disagree on this because I have, you know, I like what the president has done in some of his policies. Gorsuch, you know, the Paris Accords, the tax bill.

Thank you for relief on tax. It's not what I would have wanted, but I'll take it. Congratulations. Thank you for that. I can't think of it. There's like six or seven really big things that he's done that I'm really happy about. But I can't take him talking anymore. I just, I can't.

I'm tired of, I'm tired of defending. I'm tired of. defending the stuff, and I'm not a big defender, but I'm, I'm, me, I can't imagine what the average American who voted for him is like crap whole countries. I believe he's losing support because he is too bombastic. Word of the day. So we don't disagree on this. In fact, I just finished writing a column for the Hill. It basically says, look, the president's going to undo all his successes if he continues. the excess of rhetoric.

You know, I understand Trump probably better than anybody in the country, I say humbly. So I've known for so long. He doesn't think about the unintended consequences or repercussions of what he says. So he's talking like he's still a real estate magnet. And that's how real estate magnets talk. Oh, why do you want to get involved with that s-whole place? That's how they talk. So there were a lot of people.

lot of people on Twitter last night. They're like, that's why we like him. He talks like the guy at the end of the bar stool. No, well, it's not a bar. That's what Waters said on Fox. Yeah, but it isn't a bar. It isn't a bar. I didn't hire that guy. Okay. Look, the supporters are going to be the supporters. They're going to sit, rationalize and say whatever they want to justify what Donald Trump does. So whatever they say, okay, let's consider it, but let's all get together and say what's good for the country right yes so is it good for the country to call ad el salvador and some african countries asshole no no do we all have

agreement there are there any dissenters there so that's not good for the country for a president to do it now i make the point that ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire all right but when he was criticized and he was immediately criticized by the Reagan haters they made the point what we're not calling the Russian people evil we're saying the system is evil therefore Reagan got

very you know he won that he won it but here Haiti didn't done anything to us or El Salvador or the African countries and they're copulated by people of color and the narrative already is that Trump's a white supremacist so basically Donald Trump goes over to media matters and David Brock and says hey, I'm going to give you another one. Here. Exactly right. I'm going to give it to you.

Exactly right. So that all of the accomplishments of the African American employment, which is now the lowest it's been in 45 years, are gone. Yeah. He obliterates his own... His own good. Accomplishment. He had people this week when he went and sat down with the Republicans and Democrats on DACA,

and he said, look, I'll sign anything, just give it to me. I trust you guys. there were a lot of people who were Trump supporters who weren't surprisingly outraged by that. They said, you know what, he's playing them. He's going to explain them. Well, I don't believe that. But, okay, so, all right. So if that were true, he's just blown all of that.

If that was his big strategy, he's just blown all of it. I don't know if he's blown it or not because I think that there's so much desperation on the part of the Democratic Party to get some DACA relief so they have something to campaign on this year that I think they can still forge a deal, but part of the deal has to be the wall. And he's not going to back away from that. He can't. But look, I don't understand why after a year of getting his face kicked in

by his opponents to hate Trumpers, why he just doesn't pull back and be the guy that he was in that meeting. You know, that was an orchestrated meeting where he had the Democrats and Republicans. He was in charge. He was measured. He didn't say anything bombastic. Well, if you can do it there, then you've got to do it in other places. I don't know if he's fired.

I think he gets angry. I think his motions rule and all of that. I don't think he's disciplined enough. He's not disciplined enough. No, he isn't. So what do you, you know, people, people want to say, well, he wasn't talking about the people. Okay. Well, he wasn't.

Yes, he was. No, he wasn't. Yes, he was. No. Bill, Bill, Bill. If you look at the, no, you've got to bring context to the. No, I will bring context. Like, why are we bringing all these Jews in here from Nazi Germany?

No, no, no. No, no, no. This was a debate about Norway. Okay. as opposed to Third World Nations. He campaigned, Trump campaigned

on the fact that all immigrants coming here should be self-sufficient and immediately help the country. I agree. So Denmark and Norway, you think those citizens know how to be self-sufficient when they have free everything?

All right. I would rather... No, I'm not getting into the weeds. No, I'm not getting into the weeds. One, educated people, look, Norway and Denmark have one of the highest educated populations in the world. Their skilled workforce is top-notch. If you look at the context of it. Bill, let me give you some context.

Let me give you some context. Quote, from Donald Trump Jr., quote, shoot, now I just, ah, stupid internet. Hang on just a second. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Yes. Okay, here it is. Like him, he's talking about his dad. Here it is.

Like him, I'm a big believer in the racehorse theory. He's an incredibly accomplished guy. My mother is incredibly accomplished. She's an Olympian. So I'd like to believe that I'm genetically predisposed to be better than average. This is eugenics and this is disson. credited, but the Trump family believes it. He believes in this. So when he's talking about Denmark and the Netherlands, because they're predisposed genetically, it is part of his fabric.

I can't say that's not true. You can't prove the disproven negative. But in the context of what the discussion was in the White House, all right? The context was Trump wants people who are educated and skilled to come in, and the Democratic Party, they go back to give me your tired and poor. That's a huge gulf. And I have to tell you something. I have to tell you something. I go back there. Because wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Bill, let me say. These are almost with you. Let me say something. Bill, uh, uh, the give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. The Democrats always read that like, oh, give me the worst of the worst and I'm going to hold them them. No.

That whole thing is. a challenge. Give me the people that the world says is worthless. And I'm telling you that there's enough in them that they want to succeed, that they want to be better, that they don't want to live in a crap hole country. They want to succeed. I'm going to give them a chance by getting out of their way. So I go right back to that same poem and say, yeah, I would rather have people who are hungry to learn, hungry to change their station in life than a bunch of people from, Sweden that have just as great a chance of saying, well, I want more government to give me. How come I didn't, how come we're not taxing the rich more here?

Okay. And then my sympathies are probably more toward you than getting the fat cats in here. But that's the debate. All right. And if you look at the context of the debate that the Republicans and Trump say 50% of immigrant families in America are now receiving entitlements from the government. Right. And that is... We got to stop that.

And that is... That's the debate. And yes and no. It is the debate. It is a separate debate that we need to have standards. But you don't say that there's no one in crap hole countries. Why are we taking all these crap hole country people? No.

Why are we taking people who don't have something to... offer and want to live off of the sweat of other people's brow. Those people come from all different countries. I contend the Western countries are probably giving us some of the worst people because they want universal health care, universal daycare, universal housing, universal food, universal hugs. I mean, those people are used to that. Well, I think we can have a fair system here that take achievers and people who need a hand up. I think it's possible to do it. But right now we have two separate camps. And if you do, if you look at the context of the remarks, Trump was just boosting in a bombastic way, his point of view. Why are we taking people who are going to come here

and we're going to have to support them for 10 or 15 years until they get up to speed? That was what he was talking about. He wasn't making judgments about how good or bad the people were. But that's not the Christian point of view. And I suspect that maybe some of your, some of your opinion is taken from as Christian, Judeo-Christian ethic, we have an obligation to help the downtrodden. Yeah, no, okay, hang on just a second. I'm going to come back to that here in a second. No, not really. I mean, yes, we have to take care of people, but the best way to take care of people is to be a strong lifeboat and that doesn't help. You can't just keep taking people in that you have to help. I want to take people who maybe are disadvantaged, maybe or not, but have something to offer. And that could be

from their brains to their hard work ethic. And that you can't judge from which country they're coming from. That is judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin or what part of the world he comes from. Back in just a second with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. Fresh New Year has begun, and if you're setting new goals for your business, you've got to reach them by hiring the right people. ZipRecruiter has transformed how you go about finding the right people. You could post on 100 different job sites yourself, but that's not what ZipRecurter does. It not only makes it really easy, you can post on 100 of the world's leading job boards with a single click, but that's not all. ZipRecruiter then actively goes out and searches the internet for the most qualified candidates and says,

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Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill, I think we've covered everything we need to cover on the, on the, uh, crap hole countries thing. I think we both agree that it was wrong to say. Um, I think equally agree on that. And, uh, we both can see that what the, what the policies are, I think we agree on. It's just can we, is there anything we can do to get him to shut the pie hole? Just shut up.

Shut up. No, I don't think so. I mean, I just think he is a guy who reacts off the cuff emotionally, and as you pointed out, doesn't really have the discipline to pull back on it. You know, you go from one President Obama, who was unbelievably disciplined, supremely disciplined. Yes. And some of his views and what he tried to do as president were really destructive for the nation. Yes. But you'd never be able to lay it on him. Now you go the opposite.

Yeah. You go the opposite. I was actually getting stuff done in some areas. I mean, the ISIS story is one of the greatest, let's see, one of the greatest scandals of American journalism. ISIS was defeated in less than a year by the United States primarily. And you would never know it by the report. It was ignored. It's just all of a sudden like they didn't exist.

Yes. It's all of a sudden they didn't exist. So for eight years, they ran wild under Barack Obama, killing tens of thousands of people in heinous ways, causing all of this migration to Europe, which has disrupted the whole continent. And in the last of the year, they're out. They're out.

And you don't care about it. Yep. Back in a second with more from Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. Glenn Back, Mercury. This is the Glenn Beck Program. So last 10 minutes with Bill O'Reilly. And Bill, we have so much to cover. I'd like to just do kind of a quick list here with you and just get your quick thoughts on things.

All right. Things that have happened since the last time we talked. First of all, let's start the closest FISA yesterday, the FISA bill. What are your thoughts on the renewal of this and the expansion of being able to not only eavesdrop on Americans, but use that information against the future? Americans, even if we don't have a warrant? You know, I really don't, is, and all that, and I don't have it in front of me. You know, my basic thing is that you need a judge to sign off on these warrants, that I don't trust the FBI or the NSA stuff on their own.

That's my basic philosophy. Okay. Next, Steve Bannon, and the whole debacle, well, let's start at the beginning, fire and fury. I wasn't impressed. I was bored throughout. The first chapter basically says that Trump really didn't want to win the election and, you know, told his wife that, okay, based on no sourcing. This is very little sourcing in the book, except for Bannon. Except for Bannon. But I covered that campaign as closely as anyone, and I can tell you that Donald Trump campaigned as hard as any human being on this earth.

Yes. Okay, so why, if he didn't want to win, would he do that? Why would he do five appearances the last day, the last one at midnight in Michigan? Yeah. You know, it doesn't stack. Yeah. So, you know, you want to read it, read it, but I didn't get much out of it. I thought, you know, that's not even worth talking about.

I will tell you this, that I found the book the opposite. I found it intriguing, and it found it exactly the same way you did. There's not a lot of sourcing here except for Bannon. So I strip everything out and go, well, an interesting story. Who knows if that's true. Right. And, you know, it was, it's basically an essay by the author. Right.

That's all. Right. It's an essay. Correct. So, okay. You want to believe it, believe it. You don't. Don't.

Correct. What I found interesting, though, was that this was on the record with Bannon. And Bannon was trying to separate himself and say, look, Trumpism is really Bannonism, which I disagree with. And here's what it really stands for. I don't know if Wolf knew that he was being used by Bannon, but the hero always seems to turn out to be Bannon, and the bad guys always seem to be Bannon's enemies.

And I think Bannon miscalculated, because I think he thought Roy Moore was going to win, and this would come out and show that he's really the brains, and it's done the opposite. it. Yeah, I've never been interested in them. You know, Bannon, I think, is a smart guy, but he trusted this author, and the author made him look foolish. So you like Bannon?

I don't know him. I don't know him. I just think he's a smart guy who trusted this guy to do a piece in the book that, as you say, would put Bannon in the image of being the kingmaker. Yes. And it didn't work out. I mean, because the king didn't like the book. It's so bad. It's gone. So he's fired from Breitbart. Can Brightbart restore itself to what Andrew?

I don't know. You know me, Beck. I'm not involved with this ideological stuff. I don't know. I don't know how many people are angry about it. I don't live in that world. Okay. You know, my world is an observation of what is happening in trying to find the truth.

not Oprah's your truth, but the truth about what's happening. All right, so then I hesitate to ask you about your truth on Oprah Winfrey and her running in 2020. She'd win. I shouldn't say she'd win. She'd win the nomination if Oprah Winfrey wants to be president. And again, I wrote, as I'm sure you know, a column for the Hill and I'm going to O'Reilly.com. Barack Obama is behind Oprah Winfrey. Okay? This is a return to power for Barack Obama if Oprah Winfrey decides to run.

They're very close. That speech was not written by Oprah. It was written for her by professionals, I believe, supplied by the Obama's. And Barack Obama is furious about Donald Trump in every way. Sure. That his policies are being dismantled, that he's being made a look as like he wasn't competent. He wants to return to power. What better way than to have Oprah Winfrey run, and he's the king, the real king behind the throne. So that's what's happening. So I will tell you this.

That's the truth. So here's what I find interesting. I really believe that if Oprah announces, just give her the nomination because she'd win the nomination. And then just, and the next day hold the election because no minds are going to be changed. Oprah's not going to swing any Trump voters. Trump's not going to swing any Oprah voters. So wouldn't you like to see. But yes, I would.

I wouldn't you like to see some good interviews with Oprah about public policy? Oh, my gosh. I would love that and I'd love to see a debate. The question is, in the imaginary debate between Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, who ends up winning those with the public, do you think? You know, it's hard to say that Trump, he has 35% of the people behind him. I don't expect that's going to go down. If the economy continues to do well, he'll add another five to seven.

So that's 40, 42 percent. So he's competitive. It's competitive. But Oprah, you know, is going to bring the minorities to the four. Everyone will vote. Just like they do for Barack Obama, it's the same constituency. So she's got a real chance. Yeah.

But do you think there's a real chance? Really on his game to expose what's behind. the throne not one not one journalistic outfit made my point that I just made to you not one that Barack Obama is behind this they will they know it but they won't say it and that's another you know unbelievable deception that's going on in this in this country do you believe she will run it's hard to say I don't I've never seen I know her a little bit but on her program she loves adulation.

Okay? She loves it, just like Trump, loves it. But criticism, she does not like. And you know if she runs, they'll tear it to pieces. She'll never be the Oprah Winfrey that she even was in the 80s or the early 90s. Does she want to

go through that for a year being attacked every single day? That is a question. Yeah. Quickly, Joe Arpaio running for Senate in Arizona. Don't run, Joe. Come on, man. You know, it's another Roy Moore situation. Don't run. What is he, 80 now? Come on. Just let the regular Republicans run. I just think that's not a good thing. Okay. Feinstein, can you explain what happened with her release of the Fusion GPS in under two minutes? Yes, I can.

The Democrats fear this scandal more than any other. It's going to be shown that Hillary Clinton's campaign was behind the funding of the Fusion GPS fraud. I don't know whether it's going to be shown, but it's certainly possible that once the Obama administration got the phony info, they brought it to federal judges and they got warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. That's enormous. If that's proven to be true, the whole Democratic Party gets. hammered in a way that probably hands the election to Trump. So what Feinsteinstein wanted to do was get out in front of this thing

and to create doubt in the minds of people that maybe there was some validity to the Fusion GPS. That's why she did it. How about that for an explanation? How about that? That's really good. She said that she was pressured to release it. She later said, no, I didn't really mean pressure to release it. I think she did mean that.

If so, who was pressuring her? Um, we have to assume Schumer and Pelosi are running the party now. And Schumer would be the only guy that could really put pressure on her. So, I mean, it's a guess, but I would say those precincts are the ones to look at. Okay, one recommendation. And then one last question. Recommendation. If you haven't seen darkest hour, you need to see it.

It was good. I haven't seen it yet. You have to. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. next predictions for 2018 anything that you think nobody's seeing this one coming but i'm telling you you it's right around the corner well i think there's going to be some uh some action on the hillary clinton foundation front i i think that that that you know that they use that foundation

for political purposes yeah and enrich themselves at the same time so that i keep your eye on that and as i just said the fusion GPS And I would say that, you know, thousands of Americans are going to enjoy killing England in 2018. It's a terrific book. Wow, you are good. You are good. Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com and the new book, the latest Killing England. Thank you, Bill.

I appreciate it. All right. Thanks for me, England. Happy New York. Bye. Did he just call me Glenn? I think he just called me Glenn. That was the first.

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I had a lot to say today in the opening of the program, and if you missed it, you can find it at glenbeck.com or the blaze.com slash TV. But it was about, you know, empathy for Trump supporters. Empathy for anybody who says, I like the policies that are being enacted. I like Orsitch. I like all of these things that he's doing with with taxes and the environment and, you know, and regulating government to some degree.

I like the things that he's doing. For the love of Pete, I tired of, it's one thing after another in this crap hole comment, which I'm sorry. And it may be personal because last night there was an operation going on in Haiti with Mercury 1 and Operation OUR. And it was at the request of the president of Haiti as far as I understand. And I know I'm praying for that happen in Haiti. And I know what this president of Haiti is up against.

And then our president says this. And I'm like, oh my gosh, our team is there right now. What is the, how is this going to work? So it just kind of struck a little close to home. And I've been to Haiti. And if you've been to Haiti and you don't have compassion for the people who are there, I don't, I mean, whew. So I want to hear from you now.

The next hour, I want to open up the phone. and I want to just take a ton of phone calls on how you're feeling. It's been, you've been put through the ringer this week. And I again am finding myself in a strange position of not necessarily being a supporter of the president, but then being pleasantly surprised on how many things he has done, you know, declaring Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. That's a really big deal. I'm for you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But then all of the stuff that makes it impossible for me to tell my friend, you know, no, look, but he's got some good things that he's done. They won't listen to that. I'm not going to listen to that. He's making people's jobs impossible who want to support him. You know, he's been quoting Reagan or been comparing himself to Reagan a lot lately. So we did a search today, Reagan in Haiti. And we found out what Reagan said about Haiti.

Can we doubt that only a divine providence placed this land, this island of freedom here as a refuge for all those people in the world who yearn to breathe freely? Jews and Christians? Jews and Christians enduring persecution behind the Iron Curtain, the boat people of Southeast Asia, of Cuba and Haiti, the victims of drought and famine, the freedom fighters in Afghanistan. I'll confess that I've been a little afraid to suggest what I'm going to suggest, but I'm more afraid not to,

that we begin this crusade joined together in a moment of silent prayer. That's a president. That's a president. And by the way, that was the end of his speech accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in 1980. Glenn, back. Mercury. Courage. Truth.

Glenn. You don't want to, let me, let me speak to the left here for a second. Do you want to know why so many people support Donald Trump? And that doesn't make sense to you because they have to put up with all kinds of crazy things, right? That doesn't make sense to you. How could you possibly? Let me show you why. In today's America, having a best friend is not inclusive.

And that's a huge problem. now an emerging trend in American schools is banning kids from having best friends because it's not inclusive enough. Hmm. Why are we letting all the people a crap hole come into our country? Yeah, really bad. Banning our kids from having best friends. Hmm. That one affects my family today.

I think I'm going to have to stand with the guy with a crap hole nation statement. Man, I don't want to, but this is crazy town. Do you ever reach a point where we're just too inclusive? Just asking for a friend? Yes. Does inclusiveness just keep going until our kids in a classroom are chained together all day? That way no one is ever left out. Let's handcuff all of our children together every day.

Everyone goes everyone. Nancy has to go potty. Well, we can all go potty, and there is no men's or women's restrooms anymore. We're all comfortable going potty with Nancy. Lunchtime, chain together, recess, chained together, playing Red Rover. Going to be tricky, but it's okay. It's inclusive. Here's Dr. Barbara Greenberg.

She's a child psychologist. She writes, quote, there is, in my opinion, merit to the movement to the ban of having best friends. She says, the phrase best friend is inherently exclusionary. Yes, it is. It implies a ranking system which creates conflict. Yes, it does. And somehow or another,

For the whole history of mankind, we've all made it through it. She goes on to explain that kids throw the best friend label around so irresponsibly that many end up with their feelings hurt. Oh, no, no, somebody's going to have their feelings hurt. No! In some sane cultures throughout history, that's called, um, life and growing up. This trend is so bizarre on so many levels, but one of the main problems is with the left's attempt to change the language in order to change reality is that it doesn't

change anything. Handicap, don't say handicap. They're not handicapped. They're handicapable. Oh, you're right. That is not a handicap ramp. That's a handicapable ramp, which means that the handicap in the old day, the handicap would use that because they have to use a wheelchair because they're not capable of

navigating stairs because they don't have legs that work they have wheels okay but that's handicapped handicapable means something entirely different handicapable means that we have to build a ramp because some people's legs don't work and they can't use the stairs they instead have wheels and they need a ramp oh it's entirely different. Did we learn anything from Jurassic Park? Man, I at times hope that a giant pterodactyl will swing down from the sky

and just, if it won't pick others up, just pick me up and eat me because I can't take it anymore. What was it in Jurassic Park? Life finds a way. Let's apply that to just this. Kids will always find a way to have best friends. And yes, some will get their feelings hurt.

And yes, somehow they will survive. Patrick Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace. I think he's the first one to say, Where are the pterodactals to take me and eat me? He helped grow the organization for several years, one of the founders of Greenpeace, until he started to realize, quote, science and logic no longer holds

sway at Greenpeace, end quote. The final straw for him came when his fellow directors decided that Greenpeace had to ban chlorine. They started calling chlorine the devil's element. Moore said, are you, do you guys realize that chlorine is on, you know, is one of the elements on the periodic table? and that adding drinking chlorine to drinking water was one of the greatest

advances in the history of public health, but beyond that, you can't ban chlorine because it's on the periodic table of elements. He left Greenpeace and never looked back. Why? Because they were trying to change basic elemental things of life. Having a best friend, it's on the periodic table of life.

It just is. You're not going to change it. I don't care what you call it. You're not going to change it. And it goes against nature to change it. You don't ban it. No matter how hard you try, it won't work. Stop trying.

It's Friday, January 12. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. I don't know if I need duct tape to wrap my head so it doesn't. explode. If I wrap my head in duct tape tight enough, it won't, it won't stop my head from exploding, but at least have all of the pieces. So then when I go to the hospital and they see me with all the duct tape all around my head, they'll go, oh, he was reading the news. I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was. Good thing he had the duct tape when his head exploded. Because we can at least try to stitch it back together. I don't know if you can. And I think I'm beyond the duct tape.

I think I want the Jurassic Park Teradactyl to come down, swoop down out of the sky, pick me up, I won't scream. I won't scream. I won't kick. I really won't. It'll swoop down from the sky.

It'll pick me up by the shoulders. It'll take me to its nest. Maybe I have a few minutes of like, hey, this is kind of cool. Look at these giant eggs. And then it eats me. Or maybe I just die as it sticks its beak through me, you know, really.

And eats me slowly while I'm alive for a long time. even if that happens, I don't think I scream. I really don't. What I do is I think of the news of the day. And then I'm like, yeah, but soon, blessed relief from that. At least I'm not thinking about what Donald Trump said, what the Democrats are doing, what's happening in the media. I don't have to think of any of that because I'm being eaten by a pterodactyl. And I think I'm good with that.

I think I'm actually, I'm at that point. So I'd like to see if you were at that point. yet today. And open up the phones now. 8 at 8-8-727-B-E-C-K. Let me go to Don in Virginia. Duct tape, teradactyl, or are you good, Don?

I'm good, Glenn. First, I want to say, listen, you. And I've been a listener ever since. Thank you. You got a trial we did, but I think we're behind. So I know them. I knew guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I went in there. Oh, I'm sorry for it. I'm trying to get them to Ross. Yeah, yeah. I understand the Clinton thing. Yeah. watching TV going, I can't believe it is. Right, right.

Okay. Right? And I'm with you. I'm with you. Don. So I came up with you, Logan. Hang on just a second. I don't know if it's good or bad.

Hold on just a second. I just want to admire that moment for a minute. Just this week on this program in this hour, we were like, man, there are so, we listed a whole bunch of stuff. There's so many good things that he's done. I wish he would just cut out all the rest of the stuff that's just so horribly agonizing. I really want to support him at this point. He's done some good things.

Right. And after I, because I watched his speech where he opened up the comment. Yeah, yeah. And I just one of my costs first. He does. He sits up and seated. He comes across as a leader, as a business. You know what, Don, hang on just a second.

What you said there is true about how I viewed it. I viewed that press conference. You probably missed this. I viewed that conference where he was talking about DACA and stuff. and I watched part of it with the sound off. And I said, I actually said to my wife who was in the room, I said, wow, look at how presidential. This is going to, this is going to be good.

And I turn it on. And then I start watching it. And I'm like, okay, this is really good. This is good. Listen to him. And then he just started spouting things like, you know, hey, I trust you in the room and, you know, all that crazy stuff. And then after I had to do, right.

Yeah. I hope he is just playing. Right. Because the police, they're horrible. I don't know what the right adjective is, but ever. Ever. Ever. Yes.

I agree with you. can bring that over to my side a little bit. Yeah. Even though I'll never go to that side. Yeah. Yeah. But so for, because those two things alone, I lose it. I jump off board.

You know what? I can't do this. Don, I think you're exactly right. As long as I don't have to listen to him, look at him, read his tweets. If I can just look at the things. I don't do tweets on, you know. Right. If I can just look at the things that has actually been done.

Just look at the things that he's actually done. I'm there. I'm there. I just wish I'd give you one more quick thing where I get a little bit of faith, you know, like the logical exposition is a dumb stone. So the guy's got something going on. I'm not so sure of that, Don. Don't count, don't count yourself out.

I mean, don't count yourself out. There's a lot to be said for, you know, know the intellect, but there is there is also a lot to be said about the, the heart. And maybe he's smarter than you. Maybe he's not. I don't know. You know, there's lots of dumb things that have been said that you sounded, you know, quite lucid there. And there are times that he does too and times that he doesn't. So I don't know about that. But you also have to have an emotional intellect as well. And I think I think that's where he drops the ball. I don't think he has an emotional intellect.

I don't think he he doesn't see the pain in others. It's why he's so awkward, you know, at times of trouble. He doesn't know how to relate to that. He doesn't know how to relate to the poor and the downtrodden and, you know, people who are just struggling. And you just kind of feel that. And that's not necessarily bad unless you're, you know, you're a psychopath and you're like, well, there's no pain for anybody.

It's just about me. Then then it's trouble. But he, he needs to up his EQ as well. Thanks for calling. Let me go to Allen in Maine. Hello, Alan. Welcome to the Glembic program. Hi, Glenn.

Hi. What an honor to talk to you. Thank you, sir. My wife's a big fan. My brother-in-law is a big fan. I mean, I hold you up to such a, such a high standard. And to talk about this with you, I don't want you to think I held any candles for Trump. I still have a Trump.

I still have a stick around my truck. Alan. Alan. We're all different. I don't, at this point, it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter to me on. I know, but I just respect you so much. I just want you to know.

Thank you. I'm pulling my hair out. I might need the duct tape, Brian. Okay. Because I'm one of these Christians that have been here, pulling my hair out for a while. I mean, I have to go home every night and make sure my kids aren't watching the family guys. the American dad. I know. I mean, I don't see anybody out there worried about the Christian. I don't see anybody out there worried about the next family and what they're going to do.

I mean, everybody seems to be worried about Trump today. You know, I mean, what about Bill Clinton when he had that dress, that stain on his dress? You know, when he came out and lied and said, yeah, I didn't have sexual relations with that woman. Or Obama, when he came out and said, get off your high horse Christians. You know, those things affect me every day. Yes. I still hold those. I mean, I still hold those right tight. I agree. But for Trump to come out every day and be unpresidential, I mean, I have to go back and defend him to the people that know where I stand.

You know, I have to defend him. But I hope he thinks about people like me that have to defend him every day, the little guys, because without his base, I don't know where he would be today. Because right now, this country is totally upside down. And there's no other place to escape to. There's no other America. No. That's what scares a lot of us. I know.

I mean, I mean, you have more money than I do, but when it comes down to it, I mean, we're all human. We bleed our blood's red. Our hearts are soft, and they can be needed very easy. And what bothers me is this media that just needs our hearts, like it's a pile of Plato. And it just, it just manipulated today, just like it was just like we're watching the soap opera. I mean, there's men out there, like that guy that was just on. I mean, a brick mason. I mean, I'm a, I mean, I pound nails for a living.

I live up here where it's colder than it. I mean, I don't want to talk about it. You live down there where it's harder than, you know what. But, I mean, to talk about Haiti like the way he did, I mean, come on, Trump. Come on. I'm getting sick of carrying this bucket of water for you, buddy. Alan, you are very well-spoken. And thank you for speaking from the heart, I think.

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So Pat Gray is joining us. And I just want to go over. Kind of my stream of consciousness last night as I'm reading about what the president said. I wrote, really? Asshole countries? Really? Come on. Stop shooting yourself in the foot.

This week, Potus supporters had to defend him on very stable genius. Even if I disagree with it, I'll sign it. Yes, a clean DACA first. And now this, please stop speaking. It's been a bad week. Then I started getting attacked by people who were defending. And I said, please do not try to defend the asshole countries to me. I've been to Haiti.

My charity is currently on the ground doing work there tonight. If you go there and that's all you see in the people, then you're blind. These people are trapped by a corrupt government, which many in the U.S. government have enabled. then people were like, no, he wasn't talking about the people. My next tweet was, what's wrong with you? Seriously, what's wrong with you? He specifically was talking about the people. Why do we have to take all these people from these asshole countries?

Let me phrase it this way. Why do we have to take all of these Jews from Nazi Germany? That would be about the Jews, not the government. One last thing. The latest excuse. Last night was, this is just the way the average American talks. You know, the guy who sits down at the end of the bar. Well, he's not the average American.

And the Oval is not the bar. He needs to learn that. Pat, we were just talking earlier this week. We listed the things that we were like, I can't believe how good he's been on many things. things. And he, in policy, in the things that he's enacted, most of them I agree with. Yeah. And I want to like him. I want it. But you can't. You can't. Because if you do, if you're like, well, you know, Donald Trump, then you're immediately part of this kind of stuff. Yeah. It makes it,

I feel bad for everybody who supports him because he's making it impossible. It's incredible. It's incredibly difficult. And, you know, we've, my people have noticed that our tune supposedly has changed on him. But from the very beginning, we said, let's give him a chance. He's our president now. Is he, maybe he'll, maybe he'll prove us wrong. Maybe he'll do great things. Maybe he'll be more conservative than when he thought.

We said, if he does well, we're going to, we will admit it. And there have been a number of things. and we've rattled them off many times. Seven or eight or nine, really good policies. Really good. Especially, you know, something that I never thought would be done was declaring Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. Never.

And moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Well, let's not be hasty. It's not actually. It hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened. But he has done something that nobody else was willing to do it. Right. But then all of a sudden now, this week we're hit with all the stuff that we feared

and we found problematic during the campaign. And I mean, we're not blind supporters of a Republican president. We've said all along, let's see what he does. When we agree with him, we'll let you know. When we don't, we'll let you know that too. I mean, isn't that the way it should be? Isn't, but it's not for some of his supporters, they don't care what he says or what he does.

I think the most honest thing that a conservative could say right now is, look, I like the guy. I voted for the guy. I like what he's enacted. I like what he wants to enact. But he's a mess, everything else. He is just, he's not acting presidential. I'm embarrassed by him.

You know, these kinds of things. But I support his policies. To say that, that's honest. But to make an excuse for every crazy thing that comes out of his mouth is nuts. The other side of that equation is the mainstream media. Oh my gosh. Who he can do no right for them. And they are, they're insane in their criticism of this guy.

And Obama did as bad, if not worse than he did yesterday. And they ignored it completely. And you got swept up in that. Listen to this. Listen to what Jim Acosta said yesterday about Trump and Haiti and Africa. And we can tip-toe. around it, we can dance around it and not really put our finger on it,

but the president seems to harbor racist feelings about people of color. Huh. Does that sound familiar? Like somebody said something like that one time nine years ago about Barack Obama? Oh my gosh.

Play that again. And we can tiptoe around it, we can dance around it and not really put our finger on it, but the president seems to harbor racist feelings about people of color. That is almost exactly what you said about Obama. That is almost exact.

And that made you a racist, not him. Why is that not the case for Jim Acosta? Oh my gosh, Pat. And which is worse? Oh, my gosh. Seriously, and you and I agree on this. It was bad what Trump said. And I don't like it.

And I have to tell you. Ridiculous. I have to tell you, you know, because I know his racehorse theory. Yeah. I mean, Donald Trump does hold a eugenics, an old discredited idea of a superior breeding. Well, he's talked about it, right?

He's talked about it. His son talked about it. And his son says he agrees with it. Yeah. So he does believe those kinds of things. I think he does have a problem with breeding. And you can say that that is, I mean, look. why why is Haiti a crap hole and they're going to come here and they're not going to work and they're going to bleed us dry?

But think this through. But Denmark or Norway, which is all socialized, give me free everything, they're suddenly going to come here and go, no, I don't want to live off the government. No, they're going to vote for all of those same things. Definitely. So one way or another, you could say we have a chance that either one of these people could come and just live off of us. But I think we have a better chance the people of Haiti who have never had anything who just won a chance. A work. A work.

I mean, I'd rather have the Haiti people than the people who have lived on socialism their whole life. Yes. So all of that was not good. But which is worse? Why do we have people coming here from asshole countries? Or she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into her. I, one is stereotyping an entire race of people who are white.

That they are, they have a problem when they see a black person on the street, they're afraid of them. And they, and they make certain assumptions because that's been bred into them. Now, that's, that's the context into which you went into that statement on Fox News that morning. Yes, it is. Plus, the police acted stupidly.

They were white. was black. He didn't have the details and he just assumed they were stupid. Yes. And did the wrong thing. Yes. I mean, they didn't have a problem with any of that. They wouldn't look into any of that. They didn't care about any of that. Anything Barack Obama did was perfectly fine. Everything Trump does is the worst thing ever done. And, you know, to a certain extent, this is bad. But could we just get a perspective from the press. Sarah, could you get the, could you find the quote of me from Fox that morning that I said? Because I actually thought that it was really reasonable. I remember coming back. Do you remember that day? I didn't remember that. I would love to hear. I've never

expecting the firestorm that came. No, I came back and you and Stu were like, what the hell? And I remember getting off the elevator looking at you guys and like, what's wrong? And you were like, what's wrong? And I said, Yeah, I've had a really good morning. What's up? And you said, what you just said on television? And I'm like, what? Well, no, they'll understand that. They'll get that.

I mean, I'm looking at all the laid out the logical case and you both were like, no, they will not see that. They will not see that. And they didn't. And they didn't. To the extent that they still quoted today when a story about you comes up, Glenn Beck, who once called the president of the United States a racist. Will Jim Acosta be going through that in nine years?

No. Will Jim Acosta go through that in nine minutes? No. For nine minutes. No, he will not. No, he will not. And your statement was also, you were wondering. I think this guy has.

Yeah, I said, I'm not calling him a racist. Right. I just, there's something to it. There's something not right. I feel as though. Yes. And then you ended the statement with, I don't know, because we really didn't know. We didn't know. We were looking into it at the time.

There was something not right. And I will say the same thing. Look, I don't want to call the president Donald Trump a racist. I don't. But there is something in him that doesn't seem right that I think he has a problem with people who haven't had the right breeding. And it could be white people. That could be white people too. Yeah.

Could be. Could be. It might be non-successful. Well, yes, yes, it could be. Because he's a winner. And he respects winning. He sees Norway and Denmark. He may see that as a white nation, but he also may just see that as a successful nation.

Yes. And he sees Haiti as a black nation, but as a failure. I think more than Africa as a failure. I think he sees them failing. Yeah, I don't, I don't know, but we should be able to talk about that. And it's weird. Without hysteria. It's weird, Pat, because I have a feeling.

I have a feeling we should try this. I shouldn't say this on the here. But don't. No, I'm just saying if Stu are here today, he'd be saying, no, there's a big layer, there's a big, there's a big, there's a huge trap.

I'm not going to say it. We'll try it. Try it. Join me next week. Okay. All right. Yeah, good, good. Yeah.

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our head and our heart. And it's the balance between those two things that make us truly human. But with all the things that are going on, we have to be able to find a way back to our unum, e pluribus unum, from many one. We are now e pluribus pluribus. Pluribus. from many, many. And that's really the problem here. We're, we're arguing as a collective. We're arguing for diversity at the same time that we're arguing no other point of view. It's not possible. If you want to argue with diversity, I am with you. But I can't stand with you if you are also arguing no other point of view. if we want to be inclusive, then we can't at the same time be exclusive. I started the show today telling you that I pray for less certainty in my own life.

I think one of the problems that we have is we're all just so damn certain. I just know what. And if I know that I am right, then I all. also know that you are wrong. And so my job becomes just to teach you that you're wrong and not listen to you because you're wrong. And that's what's happened. The only time we listen to somebody who has a different point of view is either we're

listening for that space to where we can make our point and either prove them wrong or change their mind. That's not listening. that's starting to win. So we don't listen to each other. The only reason why the press would have somebody like me on now, because they despise me. They had me on? Because they think I can help them win.

And I have been frustrated because every time I'm on, I say, you guys don't get it because you're not listening. We don't get it because so many of us are not listening. This weekend, make yourself a little uncomfortable and listen to those who disagree and see if you can find just something, one thing, that is your unum that you can come together on. Glenn, back, Mercury.