The Glenn Beck Program - 2/1/18 - 'Reagan Like Convictions' (Kyle Olson joins Glenn)

Episode Date: February 1, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. Man, it's like the fight club. Washington, D.C., we've got three fighters. Devin Nunez, Adam Schiff, and the FBI.
Starting point is 00:00:35 All in a steel cage match. They've been trading punches and dropping bombs over the last 24 hours. You know, and everything rides on this memo. Why? Why does everything... Does anybody else have the feeling? Do you remember when George Bush said, we're going to release the full might and power of the U.S. military? It's happening Tuesday at 2 o'clock.
Starting point is 00:01:01 Watch it. And we all watched it. We're like, that's the full power and might of our military. Do you remember that? Is it just me? What did they call that? It was a shock and all. Shock and all, yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:14 Shock and all. a great phrase. Right. I mean, it really built you up to the beginning of it. It did. And then it was like, I have a feeling this is what this memo is going to be. It's been built up and everybody's fighting over it's going to be like, yeah, he didn't do it.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Wait, that's it. It's got a Post-it note. Right. Look, it's right here. It's a Post-it note. It said, definitely don't talk to FISA. That's what it said. Why do you?
Starting point is 00:01:42 The document is, is, is, got everybody hot and bothered and allegedly shows the abuses by the FBI and the DOJ. But we don't know. And it was written by the Republicans. The Democrats have their own. The FBI came out swinging yesterday, saying they have, quote, grave concerns over the accuracy of some of the information in the memo. Oh. I wonder if you had those same grave concerns over the dossier.
Starting point is 00:02:11 you know, did you put as much thought into the dossier as you did to the credibility of this memo? I'm just asking FBI. What the FBI was saying yesterday, if I may translate, you know, bull crap into English, no, don't pay attention to this memo at all. We did nothing wrong. Devin Nunez immediately threw back a counter combination saying, having Stonewalled Congress demands for information for nearly, a year. It's no surprise
Starting point is 00:02:43 to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to the surveillance abuses at these agencies. Boom! So basically the FBI said, don't believe the memo.
Starting point is 00:02:59 We didn't do anything wrong. I think they're maybe doing something wrong. I'm not sure. We're still looking into that. And Nunez comes back and says, yeah, well, you just don't want people to know the truth. For a while. Well, all was quiet on the Western front. The fighters seemed content.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Then they began to circle the ring, looking at each other. And at 9 o'clock last night, Adam Schiff, with all of his credibility, came out of nowhere with a flying Superman punch. Boom! An official statement that he also tweeted, and as all official statements are, Schiff accused Nunez of showing an edited copy of the memo, to the White House without consulting the rest of the committee. Oh my gosh. So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:03:51 The committee approved the memo. And then Schiff went in because the first part of his name is Schiff. Hello, T, Y, Schiff, D. So, so Nunez goes in and he takes that memo and then he changes it. and the white ass had no idea. So what does Nunez say? Nunez says, dude, I added some commas and dotted the eyes,
Starting point is 00:04:24 crossed a few T's, I fixed a few minor things. You know that the FBI suggested. This is what our great republic has turned into. An official of the Trump administration has said the memo will likely be released sometime today. So we're either going to see the mother of all political bombs or, you know, something that's like, huh. And then we all move on. Whether this memo is partisan or not, it is by definition.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Whether the Democrats are scared of political blowback, which they are. And whether the FBI is nervous about losing credibility. Not much left to lose, guys. what we now need is full transparency of transparency on all sides. So by all means, release the Nunez Moab, but also release the Democrats' rebuttal memo, and the FBI should do the same. Wouldn't it be refreshing to have actual transparency?
Starting point is 00:05:37 I get the feeling that all of the political back and forth over this memo is nothing more than the trash talk that fighters do is, you know, you know, two weeks when they're still trying to, you know, drum up ticket sales. The louder they are, the more they try to build up the hype, it usually reveals a really boring fight when it's all said and done. But we're all about to find out soon. White House says perhaps today. It's Thursday, February 1st. This is the Glenn Beck program. So we're confusing at all? I'm doing a chalkboard on this today.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Oh, good. I'm doing a chalkboard on this today. Because, I mean, I'm having a hard time following all of this. And so, I mean, I know there's people going, I don't really know. The memo thing, I thought I understood it. I don't know if I understand. Who are all these people? We're doing a chalkboard today.
Starting point is 00:06:40 So you can just, you can have an intelligent conversation with people on what the hell is going on? One of the, I think, most interesting parts about this that people aren't talking about is Adam Schiff writes this note about that Devin Nunez altered the memo that was approved in the committee and then went to the president. And what that is, it's hard to kind of explain this, but the big takeaway from that is if Adam Schiff was writing a memo, that was at least 30 seconds a minute that he wasn't on television. which has never before occurred. That is, you know, I never thought of it that way. I had to break, unless he wrote the memo while he was on television, which I would not put past him. Could have been that while he was at CNN, he said,
Starting point is 00:07:28 I'll do some television here. Why don't you write something in this memo? It's possible he just signed it. I mean, I think if you look back at his recent CNN appearances, you may see his hands out of screen typing. Yeah. And that may have been the moment where he was. where he was doing the memo.
Starting point is 00:07:44 I've never seen a guy who is on television. I mean, you're a host. And I'm on television. You're way less than Amshift. This guy cannot be actually doing the job of a congressman. But it's so crazy because this memo has become such a big thing. And it's really, it really is pretty meaningless. It might be.
Starting point is 00:08:09 We don't know what's in it. Wait, wait, wait. Yes. We don't know what's in it. But it also is not the smoking gun. It might say, and there's a smoking gun over here, and we've all seen it, and it has big blacked out bars. And it also says big blacked out bars.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Right. You know what I mean? Could easily say that. So it is something that describes as much as they can for national security describes something that someone, all Republicans, have seen. Well, okay, that's good. That's good testimony. May I cross-examine, Your Honor?
Starting point is 00:08:45 And the answer to that is, at this point, no. No. They don't want any cross-examination of it. I mean, if you think about this from the typical law and order episode, it's like you're seeing only one side of the case here. Yeah. And of course, as you know, in law and order, whatever case you hear lasts is the one you believe. It's important to hear both of them, though. I think the Republicans, the Republicans point is, yeah, well, all we keep hearing on television is totally.
Starting point is 00:09:10 And I totally agree with that. And let's mean, I just, I don't want to become them. I don't want to become them. No, and look, I don't think necessarily it's bad that this gets released. Again, we don't know what's in it. I hope that there are adults making some sort of decision based on national security rather than their political futures. I'm not particularly optimistic about that on either side. But the idea that this is, it's not going to be a smoking gun.
Starting point is 00:09:36 It should give us some information on the way that they're thinking about this. is going to give you the Republican case here. You're going to be able to at least know where one side stands with some of their evidence. But again, Nunez hasn't seen the evidence. And the president can just declassify the underlying evidence if he wants to. Probably not a good idea for him to do that because... No, especially... I mean, this is my biggest problem with this memo.
Starting point is 00:10:01 It's not that it's, you know, created by a committee of, you know, politicians. my biggest problem is if it is accurate, which, I mean, Nunez has credibility. Yeah. If it is accurate, does this hurt the investigation? I mean, don't do something for the short term for your political ratings. Don't do it. Wait. If it is true, then wait for the investigation and make sure that you,
Starting point is 00:10:36 You just keep picking. You know, real power comes from having information people don't know you have. That's where real power comes from. That's a great point. Yeah. Do not play all of your cards. Don't play all of your cards. Why would you do that?
Starting point is 00:10:50 I don't know. I mean, you know, maybe they think they're getting out in front of something. But I will say this, because we have the Democrats who are good at this and Donald Trump, who is good at this. Which, by controlling the media cycle and kind of winning a hype cycle here. Republican Congress has actually done that here. I mean, the release the memo thing, whether you think there's something legitimate in there or not, it's obviously nonsense.
Starting point is 00:11:16 They, the Republicans could vote to release it. The Republican president could vote to release it. When they were saying release the memo, who were they saying it to? Themselves. Themselves. And the fact that they've been able to create hype around a partisan memo is pretty amazing.
Starting point is 00:11:33 And it's worked well. I will tell you this. we have become everything we've despised in many ways. We're playing the same game that they have always played. And it looks like it's working for us. So is that a good thing? I mean, no. Generally speaking, it's not a good thing.
Starting point is 00:11:53 However, we shouldn't just because it's written by a Republican. And just because they put a fake sort of hype around it, which they did. They packaged it, right? They packaged this into this big thing. that doesn't mean that the information inside of it is faulty. It doesn't mean that the information inside of it isn't valuable. It very well might be, we just don't know yet. I will tell you that I mean, I'm going to be really, really disappointed if it's like,
Starting point is 00:12:19 and the FBI is doing some bad stuff. The buildup has been pretty significant. It's been significant. And the pushback has been significant, which, which, you know, if there wasn't anything in it, don't you think the Democrats would be like, release it, man? Right. No, you think there's something probably in it. Yeah, there's got to be. And the FBI pushing back against it, I mean, that was made into a big deal yesterday. Is it, is it rare for the FBI to make a public statement like that? Yeah, it is. But they're the ones being accused, essentially.
Starting point is 00:12:47 So, you know, I'm not surprised the FBI would say, hey, you know, we don't think this is accurate. It's the, the rumor is at least, that they're saying the FBI really screwed up. So I wouldn't be surprised that they're fighting back. But remember, the guy. The guy running the FBI now is not Comey. This is a guy that Donald Trump nominated and was past, what was it, 98 to 2 through the Senate. So this is not a controversial figure.
Starting point is 00:13:13 It's not a holdover from Obama. This is Trump's guy who is saying he thinks there's problems with the accuracy of this memo. Now, maybe he's just defending his guys in the FBI. You can make that argument, I guess. But he's always been a very, known as a
Starting point is 00:13:29 very credible guy. And it's why, think about this, a Donald Trump nominee sailed through the Senate. That's not common. You know, I mean, people like to push back against Trump. I mean, there's been people who have been incredible judges and nominees that he's had trouble getting through because he's Donald Trump. Ray, there was no problem with getting, uh, getting through. Well, maybe it's because maybe that's why.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Because he was deep state the whole time. He was deep state the whole time. Oh. Yes. It's what they want you to think. But sometimes they want you to think. opposite. I'm only, I'm only whispering because they can't hear me when I whisper, because they're listening everywhere. Right. Alexa. Simply safe. The home security company that is, is really changing
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Starting point is 00:16:05 Glenn Beck. There's a couple of cool science stories. One is, have you heard about the big void in the pyramid, the Great Pyramid of Giza? Yes, I've heard of it. All right. So there's the grand gallery, which is you can walk through this grand gallery that goes up to, I don't even know. I think it's the burial chamber or whatever the hell it is. And right above it is this, what they're calling a big void.
Starting point is 00:16:39 It's this gigantic room in the middle of the pyramid that they didn't know was there, and they've only found it through new techniques of being able to scan the pyramid, and they can see this huge void, but they don't know what it is. And it's at an angle. It appears to be at an angle, which would mean it's another great gallery, another staircase, which would lead you into yet another void, which might be something else that we don't know what is in there. There's two of these rooms.
Starting point is 00:17:11 To find it, you'd have to take the pyramid apart. Here comes cool science. They're taking a blimp, a little blimp, and they're rolling it up. They're taking a teeny digital camera, high-definition camera, and a teeny, teeny light, and then a blimp, and they're wrapping it around like a pole. They're going to drill a hole up into the void. they're going to shove that blimp up, fill it with helium, and then it will take off, the light will go on,
Starting point is 00:17:47 and it will survey this whole thing with high-definition camera, so we don't ever have to go into it. You'll be able to see what's in it. Plus, whatever's in there can't escape, because that's the more important thing. Right. Unless, of course, it can a teeny little sneak out of a little drill hole. Or it might have, you know, maybe what's left in there is,
Starting point is 00:18:08 a little teeny blimp pilot. Be terrible. That's the last thing you'd want in there would be a tiny blimp pilot. Just waiting. Just waiting. For some idiot culture to stick a blimp up there. He's been walking around for like 5,000 years going,
Starting point is 00:18:27 nobody's this stupid. Like there's a blimp going to show up all of a sudden. The worst thing would be tortured because he would be able to fly the blimp, but there'd be no whole big enough to get it out. So you just be able to pilot. He'll be bumping up against the side. I'm going to ram it really hard this time. All right.
Starting point is 00:18:47 So. Probably wouldn't work. Probably wouldn't. No. But we'll see him. We'll see him. He'd be like a little kebler elf. I mean,
Starting point is 00:18:55 we all know what's going to be inside there, right? Which is nothing. There's going to be a giant bunch of nothing in there because whatever's been there. Maybe we could put Geraldo Rivera in there for some other culture to find. It's just a collection of Geraldo Rivera's selfies with his shirt off at 70. What do we find out he's not 70? He's like 5,700. He escaped from a little drill hole in the other pyramid.
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Starting point is 00:20:01 But it happens about every 300,000 years. Well, it's been 780,000 years since that has happened, so we're well overdue. Scientists are now saying that polar shift is beginning to happen. And if it does, with solar winds and everything else, we could be out of all power worldwide for several months. Panic everybody. No, don't. Just recycle. Just recycle.
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Starting point is 00:21:36 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil is wrong that was the evil empire speech by ronald reagan i remember it i remember it clearly because i was working in washington dc at the time at w pgc and uh i remember seeing the the top of the washington monument the the blinking light
Starting point is 00:22:32 and thinking, I think I'm in the blast zone. I'm 19 years old. I'm waiting for the teletype every time the bells ring. It's an old news thing, but the teletype would deliver our news, and it would have up to 12 bells,
Starting point is 00:22:57 and 12 bells meant war. And I remember waiting, counting the bells. Because I really thought we were, going to war. Ronald Reagan was a master at playing the communists. And perhaps Donald Trump is the same. I hope he is. Because what I heard in the State of the Union dress, and we spoke about this a little bit yesterday, was a little frightening because we are dealing with something that we haven't seen in our lifetime. If there is war, it will not be like the war is now. My daughter, Mary and I were watching the State of the Union, and I heard this whole layout of North Korea.
Starting point is 00:23:53 And I said, I think we're being prepared for war. And my daughter said, well, dad, we're already at war. not like this. This is entirely different. This is a million dead, perhaps in the first opening hours. Now, I'm hoping that everything that is going on right now is positioning. I've always wanted a president with a twitchy eye. Not a twitchy eye internally, just a twitchy eye for our adversaries, you know. When he says, yeah, I've got my nuke buttons.
Starting point is 00:24:35 bigger than yours, I want them to go, holy cow, he's just crazy enough, he just might do it. That's the best kind of thing you can have. A stable leader that has convinced everybody yeah, I'm not afraid of it.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Because then they know they don't have any power. And if they're bluffing, you win. It's what happened with the Soviet Union. Is this the same with Kim Jong-un? I'm not sure. Now there's some things that I want to point out that I think show that this is a masterful bluff on the part of the Trump administration.
Starting point is 00:25:19 There is a story that came out, let me look here, when did this come out? A couple of weeks ago. And it came out on a website called the Aviationist. and the aviationist was reporting that they heard unusual activity in the skies of Missouri, and B-2 bombers were practicing a bombing run. And one of the guys who apparently has some credibility said, I heard the bombing run, and I recorded it. And he said, I missed the part where they were talking about the North Korean leadership.
Starting point is 00:26:04 He said, but that's what they were saying on an open channel with the B2 bombers. Here's a bit of the bombing run as recorded by the aviationist just a few weeks ago, bombing run that sounds like it's a trial run on North Korea. Listen. Okay. So they were doing a mock run on a command post. the guy who recorded this said, I just missed when they were talking about the North Korean post.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Now, this is spooking a lot of people. But if you're in the military, you ever flew for the military, and I know because I have military pilots on staff, so I know this stuff, there's something wrong here. and what's wrong is this was recorded on a civilian UHF AM band. Well, the military doesn't use that. If the military was using that, they were using that for a reason.
Starting point is 00:27:57 There are two boxes in the cabin of a flight deck. And there is the civilian band. and that is the band that you can listen to where the pilots are all talking to each other and you're hearing all pilots in the sky and you're hearing ground control talk to everybody and you have to wait and you're just listening your whole time for your tail number and you pop in when there's quiet and you talk to the tower that's that is a crowded ban as it is and you know all the time that there's approaching because you're able to hear the approach, you're able to hear the pilot talk to the
Starting point is 00:28:43 tower or control, ground control. And so you know everybody where everybody is. Well, I could have fighters on the back of a plane. And if they're cloaked, I'm not seeing them. If they're not showing up on my radar, I'm not seeing them. And I'm not hearing them. Because in a military plane, there's another box on top. And all of the military stuff is encoded and secure. And only the military is communicating with the military. No one can hear what they're saying. And if they want to communicate,
Starting point is 00:29:22 if they're coming up on the back of a commercial airliner and they're saying, you know, there's trouble. And, you know, a terrorist has control. They pop down off of their band into the civilian band. And they say, you know, American Airlines 23, this is the U.S. Air Force. We are on your tail. Land. So there's no chance of them pressing the wrong button or having the dial on the wrong.
Starting point is 00:29:52 No way. They're two separate things. They're completely separate boxes. So for this to pop down onto a UHF AM band is intentional. So the thought is, if I'm reading you right. here. Thought is that they intentionally got this out there so that word would get to North Korea that they're serious. Potentially. Potentially. But I'm sure North Korea has the same situation. They're not communicating on a civilian band. I don't know. But this is not an error.
Starting point is 00:30:28 There's just no way this is an error. You just don't make that error. Could it be a civilian impersonating a You know, military exercise? Maybe. Maybe. But from what I understand, the military did confirm that there were runs over Missouri at this time. So maybe somebody's doing that. But of course, this aviation expert would probably know that.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Would probably know that. Would probably know that. I only bring this up because we have to watch what's happening in North Korea. And there is an awful lot of posturing. and it may be real, it may not be, but I just want to keep an eye on North Korea and what's happening with North Korea because it's much more serious than anything else. You have to mentally prepare that war with North Korea is not anything like the wars that we have seen even Vietnam.
Starting point is 00:31:31 This is a war that will happen quickly. Lots of people will die quickly. Our air superiority is not going to be like it was over Baghdad. These are people that have prepared for war against the United States, against us for 50 years. Their surface-to-air missile defenses, we have never come across anything like this. And I'm not saying that we're not going to, you know, we wouldn't dominate, but it will take time. You know, as we're carving out a path through their air defenses, they are starting to shell soul. And if they start to shell soul, we're not going to be able to, we're not going to be able to do it because our air defenses are elsewhere.
Starting point is 00:32:23 And, you know, in the end, we're victorious. but what does victory look like at the end, especially if Kim Jong-un is nuts and knows, I'm dead anyway, does he push a button that launches ICBMs and can we knock every one of them out of the sky? Or does one hit Seoul? Does one hit Japan? Does one hit us? What does one nuclear device that we couldn't knock down? What does that mean? We're all going to be praying that the magnetic shield just reverses. I just want you to know that we're watching it so you don't have to, but we're not dismissing it.
Starting point is 00:33:08 And I think it's important that you keep that in the back of your head, that this is real. Well, it's a, and it's also, I would say, a very subtle and only potential indication that there's real strategy going on right now and that our country wants to send a message, but also wants to avoid war if it's possible. We don't necessarily, this is not, we're not rushing into it.
Starting point is 00:33:34 There is not a military mind. The one thing that I think that Donald Trump does do, he listens and respects the voices at the Pentagon. When it comes to war, I just don't think he's like, you know what, you guys get away. Let me figure, let me draw this out. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:33:52 I don't think he's doing that. He has always respected the military minds. He loves these guys. His generals. He talks about him highly all the time. All the time. And he has good generals around him. And I don't know a single military man that says, oh, yeah, war with North Korea, that's a cakewalk.
Starting point is 00:34:09 We should do that. There's no one that I know that says that. Every single military man that I know says that's a nightmare. We'd win in the end, but that is an absolute nightmare. You talked about this last night on the TV show as the old New Coke and Coke classic. Yeah. And New War and War classic. Unlike Coke, you don't want the classic version.
Starting point is 00:34:33 You do not. No. You don't. No. Like the New War is frustrating, right? Because we don't make the progress we should and we don't treat it seriously at times. And we make too many crazy lines that... And we're at war and we don't even know it because we're not really feeling it.
Starting point is 00:34:51 Right. On the other side. Yeah. A lot of these old wars cost millions and millions of lives. Yeah, and you really, really felt it. Yeah. That's the one where you say to the Coca-Cola company, I like New War. I like that one.
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Starting point is 00:37:10 Glenn, Beck. This is about as much as I like sports. Stu is gone tomorrow. He's on his way to the Super Bowl and he's wearing an Eagles sweater and he's got a little white spot on it. That's true. was with paint and this is the reason why I like football and sports and I've always liked the NFL because they always fostered this. Is that your sweater?
Starting point is 00:37:37 No, it is not. It's my grandfather's sweater. He passed away fairly recently. But this was his sweater from back in the day. And part of me thinks that this is the reason I like the Eagles. I don't have any idea why I like the Eagles actually. But he used to wear this sweater all the time. and it's an old school sweater.
Starting point is 00:37:55 I don't know if it's officially licensed merchandise either. I would say it doesn't seem to be. It's not the Eagles. The sweater maker was like, no, no, no, not those Eagles. This is the bird. We just really like Eagles. It's funny, but he used to wear, he had a bunch of these different teams. As a huge sports fan, I can't imagine wearing different team shirts all the time,
Starting point is 00:38:18 but that's what my grandpa did. Go Patriots. Glenn, back. Mercury, courage, truth. Glenn Beck. Well, House Republicans are going to have to find a new favorite prosecutor yesterday. Republican Trey Gowdy of South Carolina announced he's not going to run for re-election this fall. That's a bummer.
Starting point is 00:39:03 He has been a representative since 2010. He was a Tea Party guy. And I think it's just Gowdy has had enough of Washington, D.C. He came in. He really gained prominence. in 2012, he was chairman of the special House panel that investigated the attacks on Benghazi.
Starting point is 00:39:21 He found a lot of fault with the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the way she handled the crisis. Through the Benghazi investigation, the House panel discovered Hillary's extra special private email server, which she used for government business. The email server that, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:38 one is one of multiple excuses. Democrats used to explain a way Hillary's impossible loss to try. Trump, it was Trey Gowdy. Republicans in Congress, like the cross-examination skills that Gowdy has brought from his background as a prosecutor. He is one of the best. He knew how to ask tough questions, precise questions, and questions that drilled down and got to the truth. Most recently, as House Oversight Committee Chairman, Gowdy has been concerned with the integrity of the FBI's investigation into possible Russia collusion.
Starting point is 00:40:14 He is particularly concerned about the text messages between the two FBI agents who were close to the investigation that reveal their anti-Trump bias. That FISA memo may come out as early as today. Speculation now is that Gowdy is leaving Congress for a possible federal judgeship, which would be fantastic. So far, his office maintains that he's just going back to his private law firm in South Carolina. the national Republican congressional committee chairman says Trey Gowdy exemplifies the persona of a public servant. On the other hand, you know, the Democrats said he made a mockery of the congressional oversight process. That's probably, that dichotomy is probably why Gowdy is leaving.
Starting point is 00:41:00 He's not a game player. Yesterday, he said, I enjoy our justice system more than our political system. And as I look back on my career, it's the jobs that seek and reward fairness. that are the most rewarding. Seeking and rewarding fairness. Yeah. That's what politicians always say they're trying to do. However, they end up just dishing out unfairness.
Starting point is 00:41:26 This is why Gowdy is leaving it all behind. It's Thursday, February 1st. This is the Glenn Beck program. Kyle Olson came into town yesterday. We spent some time yesterday. if you remember the book that we put out called conform. It was about Common Core and Public Education. Kyle was the co-writer on that,
Starting point is 00:41:58 and he has just started something new called Lumen Student News. He had been, he's the founder of EAG News, right, EAG News, which is an education website that just goes into the problems of education. and he has exposed so much in our educational system and has done so much good on exposing. But then I think, Kyle, you kind of fell into where I am. You're like, okay, I've exposed it. Now what?
Starting point is 00:42:31 Now what do you do? We would hear from parents. And the reason we started D.A.G. was to inform parents and wake them up about what was going on in the system. What kids are learning, where the money is going, what unions are doing, all of those sorts of things. And we can only do that for so long. I mean, you're still doing it, right? Right.
Starting point is 00:42:48 Yeah. But we can only complain for so long. Yeah. At some point, we have to offer solutions. We have to take action. And so what we did was we started Lumen Student News as an alternative to CNN and Channel 1, which are in schools today. So if you're my age, we didn't have this. But I say to anybody who's, you know, 35 and I say Channel 1 and they all know, oh, yeah, I used to watch that every day.
Starting point is 00:43:14 What is it? So both of those, CNN and Channel 1 are 10-minute video news services in schools today. And Channel 1 is like MSNBC and CNN is like CNN. And there is no news service, current events news service that has a pro-America, pro-individual rights, pro-American exceptionalism viewpoint. And so that is what we're offering. And so we're talking about American history. We're talking about capitalism.
Starting point is 00:43:45 We're talking about the importance of work. We're highlighting newsmakers that are doing incredible things to get kids informed about their country, about their history, and why we are the most exceptional country in the world. That has to be difficult on multiple fronts. First of all, you're not going to break the NBC or CNN dominated world of the major cities. There's no way they're going to take an independent. independent voice that is, you know, hey, let's look at this from even a libertarian perspective. And let's not say Marxism is good. Let's explain capitalism and why capitalism has gone awry and how to fix that. You're not going to get that in the major cities? No, but what we have seen is, but we also
Starting point is 00:44:34 heard from the major cities that there's no way Donald Trump would ever be elected president. That's true. And yet America elected Donald Trump. Right. And so what we have seen around the country is that there are people who love their country all over the country. And they're saying we want to impress those values on our kids, on our students. With still journalistic integrity. Absolutely. It's still journalism. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:45:00 Yeah. There's no question about that. But we're doing, you know, we have lots of things playing. For example, we have a almost a 20-minute special on free speech and the battle of free speech over. free speech. And we're telling kids the history of free speech, why the First Amendment was created, why it needs to be protected, and who's attacking it, and what their motives are. So in true libertarian fashion, you're not a 501c3. I mean, the left would do this and they would make it a 501c3. So, you know, they could just have, you know, Bill and Melinda Gates pour money into it and, you know,
Starting point is 00:45:39 change education. This is, this is a for-profit. it so you don't have to keep asking people for money. Correct. We're doing this based on subscriptions. And so we're asking people to subscribe. We're asking parents. We're asking teachers. If you don't have kids, buy a subscription for your grandkids.
Starting point is 00:45:57 But we just, we feel like this is so important. Yeah, we don't have millions of dollars. We are bootstrapping this. And so anyone that will subscribe, we're asking them to subscribe. So I, in fact, we do have a, we have a coupon. on code. Glenn. If you use Glenn, then you will get 20% off.
Starting point is 00:46:17 Okay. But we just... Where do you go? You go to L-U-M-E-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-com. Okay, so this is made, really targeted at what age? Middle and high school students. See, and this is the thing is, you know, the battle over free speech is playing out on college campuses.
Starting point is 00:46:35 And people are saying we've got to, we have to change colleges. But the reality is, no, we need to be changing middle and high school. school because that's where kids are forming their opinion about their country, about our economic system, about our history. And when they're only being exposed to a CNN or a Channel 1 that believe in multiculturalism, that believe that, you know, America is to, is the problem in the world and is to blame for all of the ills, those opinions of their country are being formed when they're teenagers, not when they're in college. So how does this work in the schools?
Starting point is 00:47:13 Schools can sign up for it. If you're in a school district, you may not even know. You should ask. There's Channel 1 and what's the other one called? CNN. Okay, and CNN. So CNN is doing one. And your kids are watching that for 10 minutes in school.
Starting point is 00:47:32 You may not even know that. They're watching it every day for 10 minutes. if it's not them, it's literally NBC and MSNBC that is doing Channel 1. And they're the ones that are programming that 10 minutes. And those are your two choices. NBC or CNN. If you think, I don't really think either of those are really good, you can encourage your school.
Starting point is 00:47:58 If you're a homeschooler, you can get this and get the News Digest every day for middle school and high school students. Go to Lumen, L-U-M-E-N-N-N-N-N-A-N-N-A-N-A-N-com and sign up for it. How much is it? It's $799 for an individual, or it's $1.49 for a classroom. And is that for a month? $7.99 a month. Okay. $79.99 a year for an individual. And how much does it cost of school?
Starting point is 00:48:27 $149 per classroom for a year. It's cheap. Nothing. I mean, it's... What is CNN charging? CNN is free. and then Channel 1 is significantly more. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:39 Yeah, NBC. I mean, they only have GE behind them. They can't do that for free. And it's five days a week or it's three days a week now, right? We do five days a week. Five days a week. Ten minutes per day. The first five minutes is headlines.
Starting point is 00:48:52 So we do a headline segment. And then the second five minutes is a topical segment where we focus on Awesome America is Tuesdays. Work matters is Mondays. We're putting a special emphasis on skilled trades. I got to get you in touch with Mike Rowe. That would be great. I'm sure he would join your, you know, your force here.
Starting point is 00:49:11 We would love to work with him because the education system wants to perpetuate itself. And so what the K-12 system does is drill into kids' heads that you have to go get a four-year degree. And because they want to perpetuate the system. But the reality is there are many rewarding, good jobs, well-paying jobs where you don't need a four-year degree. your degree and you don't need all of that student debt. And so we're putting a special emphasis on that to get kids to think about that. And no, you don't necessarily have to go get a four-year degree and have all of that debt. I am subscribing myself today and I actually have one of the administrators of my children's school in today. And they're going to, I know it, they're going to ask me for a
Starting point is 00:49:58 donation. I know they're going to ask them for $149 per classroom. as well to start the, thank you, start the day. Listen, thank you for everything that you're doing. Thank you for being so true
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Starting point is 00:50:43 If you are somebody who has an extra $7.99 a month, and you know, you're one of those rich people that just won't ever afford, you just won't even miss it. If you believe that we've got to get to the kids, this is an organization that is, not out beating the bushes and asking for free stuff. They are doing, they're trying to provide a really good product and they are fighting an uphill battle with CNN and NBC.
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Starting point is 00:54:26 And you didn't know about Channel 1 or CNN? I mean, you know, I knew about CNN. No, no, no. But yeah, not in schools. We did not watch TV broadcast every day in school, no. See, I didn't, I wasn't aware of this. And I've talked to people who were in their 30s and they're like, oh, yeah, we used to watch CNN every single day. Anderson Cooper did the morning, you know, news.
Starting point is 00:54:50 We would, you know, start the day the bell would ring and our home room would watch CNN for 10 minutes. minutes and it would give us the news of the day. Here we are, where a group of people are like, we don't agree with CNN. Our kids are watching it every single day. Every single day. And if it's not that, it's Channel 1, which is an NBC product. And this is, is this the one that Anderson Cooper was on when he was a kid?
Starting point is 00:55:16 I don't know if he was a kid. I don't know. I don't know. He was younger, but I don't know. He does a stage show that I saw Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. And they do a show together. They're good friends. And they go around and do like, you know, stories and stuff. And they showed footage of Anderson.
Starting point is 00:55:31 It seemed like he was like 10 years old hosting news reports on some channel. And I, maybe that was it. It probably was. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting thing because where I always think about this is at airports. Yeah. CNN has, owns the TV broadcast of like every airport in America. CNN pretty much owns all of the schools too.
Starting point is 00:55:52 That's pretty amazing. That's something that. Can you imagine if Fox News said, hey, you know, know what we want to do? We want to put... You imagine the outcry? CNN and NBC have done it. And you probably don't even know it.
Starting point is 00:56:04 I didn't know it. I honestly didn't know that it happened at all. Also, why are, you know, that's the... Yeah, I know. That's one of those things that you wouldn't think of as a real target to influence the culture. But they thought of all of it, haven't they? Yeah, they have. Really have. Yes, they have.
Starting point is 00:56:20 And we're playing catch up. And that's what I like about Lumen News. If you're a homeschooler, please subscribe. to Lumen News. They give you the news for, you know, middle school and high school age. The perspective from, you know, a perspective that, you know, I grew up with. That America has done some bad things, but it's not a bad place. It's a great system. Even though it's horrible in many ways, it's still better than everything else. You come up with something else better, good. This is a libertarian point of view. This is not
Starting point is 00:56:56 big state point of view. And they give you the news and then history and put it into context. And it's about 10 minutes every single day. And it's for schools and homeschoolers. And it's $7.99 a month. And I just urge you to support this and spread the news. Please support this and spread the news. And go go to your school and tell them to subscribe.
Starting point is 00:57:21 Is homeschooling having a bit of a moment? I mean, a lot of people have been doing homeschooling. for a long time, but it seems to be even, it seems to be breaking through, uh, the divide that I think used to exist with it, which was people who were, you know, either religious or really concerned with the constitution or really engaged civically, um, would have their kids homeschooled because it was a way to, you know, go around the public education system and also make sure the values, um, uh, you know, were instilled in their children, not to mention incredibly high performance, right? I mean, study after study has showed kids that are homeschooled,
Starting point is 00:57:58 outperform kids that go to public schools. But it seems lately like, and I don't know, this is just me, and it's totally anecdotal, but it just seems like a lot of people who I wouldn't necessarily put in the category of hyper-engaged individuals have been considering homeschooling and this hybrid thing that seems to be around now. That's what we're in a hybrid. A hybrid where your kids go to school like a couple days a week
Starting point is 00:58:23 and are homeschooled a couple of days a week. Yeah. It's a pretty cool. There's a lot of innovation going on in that sector. There is. There is. And you can get a better education. Yep.
Starting point is 00:58:33 Through that. And, and Pat Gray has been, you know, doing this with his kids for a really long time. Yeah. And he's talked about how back in the day, it was impossible.
Starting point is 00:58:42 You didn't know where to make it all up yourself. What are your kids, Laura and Mary Ingalls? Right. Home school. Now there's a lot of tools to use. Yeah, really good.
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Starting point is 01:00:24 Use waxrx.com. Promocode radio. It's use waxrx.com. This is the Glenn Beck program. Stu, I just, I don't know if you've heard the new ISIS song. Have you heard the new ISIS song? I have not. I have their back collection.
Starting point is 01:00:43 You have their back collection. Yeah, the box set. Did you get the box set? No, it's really good. I only have this one. Some people are reporting when you open the box set it explodes. Really? Yeah, just a word of warning.
Starting point is 01:00:53 Okay. So anyway, they, um, They've got a new song out. Good. What? No, I'm glad. I've been waiting for the new single. Wait to hear it.
Starting point is 01:01:03 You're going to love this. They're recruiting new people, and here's their new song. Listen. I'm holding up the flag. I am seeking paradise and my brother stays strong. Victory won't belong. Holding up the flag. I am seeking paradise and my brother stay strong.
Starting point is 01:01:19 Victory won't belong. Together we will stand out. That's when a big man. Who is a big ball. They're rising the world. I want to read some of the lyrics here. Because it's in English. I'm surprised. Go and answer the call. Don't spare none.
Starting point is 01:01:37 Kill them all is one of my favorite lines. Well, I shouldn't say that. Go answer the call. Don't spare none. Kill them all. It's time to rise. Slit their throats and watch them die. Obviously. Yeah. The Islamic State stands. It stands in demands that you worship the one. whom beside there is none. We are the grandsons of men who gave all they can
Starting point is 01:02:01 to rule the lands with the law of Islam, holding the flag high, seeking paradise, oh, my brother stays strong, victory won't be long. Well, it might be a little longer than ISIS think, seeing that they're almost out of business. But that's the reason why they have the song, you know, because... Well, you've got to get new people in.
Starting point is 01:02:19 Yeah. You know, it's been a tough recruitment. You're not going to be able to get that out of your head all day. No, can we hear it again? Slit their throats end, watch them. dying. It kind of sounds there's some
Starting point is 01:02:29 Broadway-ish aspect to it almost. No? No, maybe you're going to a different Broadway. Usually the Broadway shows I go to end in decapitation.
Starting point is 01:02:39 Does that not happen at year? No. Okay. This is reminiscent, however, of the Kurdish song. The Kurdish song
Starting point is 01:02:46 that they released a while ago, which I loved. It was a Kurdish parody of ISIS, and they were trying to insult the ISIS members and the big insult in there. and I, it's almost too harsh to say.
Starting point is 01:02:58 Okay. But they said, should you? Should you? Look, I think it's a, all right. All right. This is science. They said, because political science. We are ISIS.
Starting point is 01:03:07 We are ISIS. And then they would say things that ISIS would say. Right. Like we invaded the town of Sinjar, which is like that. Wow. First of all, that's a good lead insult. Right. It's not the end.
Starting point is 01:03:16 It's not the closing line. No. Like, we're ISIS. We invaded the town of Sinjar. Right. Okay. But then you go with, we're ISIS, we're ISIS. We milk the goat.
Starting point is 01:03:25 even if it's male. It is a fantastic insult. We milk the goat even if it's male. This is why the Kurds are the best. Yes. I love the Kurds. They're awesome. I love the Kurds.
Starting point is 01:03:43 Now, I would like to talk to you a little bit about hostages. Normally that involves the Middle East, but this time, uh, no. This has something to, to do with the State of the Union. Here's Representative Joe Crowley on MSNBC with Chuck Todd. Listen.
Starting point is 01:04:04 What do you tell that heated activists that I'm sure you see at a town hall that says don't work with them at all? Well, I think the president continues to take additional hostages. Initially, it was the roughly 800,000 Dreamers or DACA recipients. He's now expanded it to 1.8 million
Starting point is 01:04:20 people who may be eligible for DACA. He's also included into that day. Are you calling the fact that he, You're calling the fact that he increased the number of people he would make eligible for citizenship more hostages? Oh, I think so. He's actually increasing the number. He's also increasing the number by including those who are in TPS, temporary protective status. He didn't have to do any of this.
Starting point is 01:04:40 He's actually adding these folks to the equation. Yes. And all in an attempt to end certain aspects of legal immigration into the United States. So the president is taking willful and knowing actions to increase the number of people. that he will either allow to stay in the United States through legislation or forcibly deport through legislation or lack thereof. It's a solid job by Chuck Todd calling him out there. I'm going to give him credit because that's ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:05:07 Do you think if I would have gotten on with Chuck Todd and said, well, you know, I think what President Obama is doing is just increasing the number of hostages. Do you think he would have said that's a little rough? Well, at least he called him out. Yes. I mean, think about this. Barack Obama didn't have the DACA program for what, the first six years of his presidency? So was he?
Starting point is 01:05:31 He didn't need the hostages. Right. And then when he passed DACA, and when I say past, that's a really generous. Yeah. When he just did it by his edict. Right. Of DACA. That meant he was taking 800,000 hostages.
Starting point is 01:05:45 Yes. Okay. And now that Trump is offering a pathway to citizenship. So beyond what Obama offers. Hostages. This is him taking more hostages. This is a great example of how, what a wonderful gift we have as conservatives. This gift that we are given, I don't know where it comes from. I think straight from God, maybe that he just said, you know what, let's make Democrats so incredibly stupid that conservatives can actually have victories on occasion. Because if Democrats had any intelligence, hang on just a second, change that. Democratic politicians in Washington.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I know. You know what I'm talking about. But I think that it's really important because I think they're losing the Democratic base in the center of the country. Totally. I think those people are watching the people in Washington going hostages. Well, this is a great point. I mean, again, what was it? Half of Democrats, almost half of Democrats approved of the president's speech the other night, which is, you know, again, they're looking at this and taking it seriously. Right. They're actually analyzing and they know it's not hostage taking. Because the average person, if Donald Trump, Donald Trump did something that the average person wants, can we just, look, we have to do something with compassion and we also have to fix the border. Can we just, can we just compromise and come together on this?
Starting point is 01:07:09 That's what he offered. Yeah, he's, and he's taking hostages. It's taking hostages. He's giving the left something that Jeb Bush didn't offer, that Marco Rubio didn't. offer that Lindsey Graham didn't offer, that John McCain didn't offer, a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million people that were, that are currently illegal immigrants. He is, this is a reach across the aisle with two hands and one leg. Okay. And what do they do? Instead of saying, wow, Mr. President, look, we have some questions with you about the border, but, you know,
Starting point is 01:07:44 this is, what this president is doing is he's taking a bipartisan approach seriously. And, you know, this is, we should show, they could lavish praise on him and then go behind closed doors and just torpedo it. They could easily do it. But instead of doing that and taking advantage and getting this giant thing, this giant olive branch that the president is offering them, they instead go on on TV and call him a kidnapper. They call him racist. They call them basically Hitler. And this is, it's so counterproductive to these Democrat politicians if what they actually want is to help. illegal immigrants. Now we of course all know
Starting point is 01:08:22 that they're just using them as a tool and they don't actually want. You want to talk about hostages. Exactly. They want them to be, they want the stress. Tell me what the inner city is if it isn't a group of people that they have enslaved and taken as hostage. They don't
Starting point is 01:08:38 want to help. They don't want to help. They don't want to help. They don't want to help. They want to keep them the biggest example I keep coming back to, it's so simple. If you care about the cost of minimum, wage and the people who live on minimum wage, then what you do is you pass it and fix it to inflation.
Starting point is 01:08:58 And never to talk about it again. Then you never have to deal with it again. But you don't want that. That's not what they want. That's not what they want. They want a political issue to come back and say, we need to raise it again every two years. Right.
Starting point is 01:09:08 And so the idea that, you know, talking about getting a conservative policy out of this White House, it's such an interesting path because if Trump comes out and says something that we all used to call liberal, a pathway to citizens. for illegal immigrants. That used to be a liberal thing. I don't know what it is now, but it's a liberal thing. And the president comes out and suggests that. The Democrats are, and these politicians in Washington are so stupid that they, instead of embracing him and furthering that instinct, they come out and call him Hitler and then Trump gets so annoyed and pissed off. He goes the other way and we get something really conservative. And here's, here is for Democrats and for honest people in the
Starting point is 01:09:49 press. Yes, I am talking about you, that one. Anyway, you over there. The one hiding. One that just lost your job. Let me ask you this. And I ask this as an honest question. It's not rhetorical. So, Stu, help me out.
Starting point is 01:10:07 Okay. Can you think of a single example where Barack Obama looked to the right and said, I'm going to give you something that you really, really want.
Starting point is 01:10:24 I will sit down on the table and I will give you something that you really want. I can tell you that I heard eight years of, you can sit in the back of the car, you drove this thing into a ditch. We're going to listen to you now. That's what I heard and I think many, half of the country heard from Barack Obama. We weren't even wanted at the table. Here's this guy saying,
Starting point is 01:10:48 your number one request, a pathway to citizenship, something the Republicans would never, ever, ever, ever, ever give you. I will give it to you. But you have to meet me halfway. You have to do common sense border security. We just have to know who's coming in. The average American understands that. That average American is screaming for that.
Starting point is 01:11:18 And I can understand they still don't want that. I mean, the Democrats don't want border security. However, we don't want the pathway to citizenship, right? I'm talking generally here. But I mean, like, the idea that the Republicans don't want that, they've never wanted it. So this is a compromise. It is reaching across aisles. It's everything the left and the media says that they want.
Starting point is 01:11:39 But in reality, we know they don't. And when you ask your question, your non-ritorical question about Brock Obama, I can't think of one example. I can't think of one thing. I can think of one thing. in the audience, please let me know. One major thing that the president said, you know what,
Starting point is 01:11:53 let me talk to them. Just let me talk to the Tea Party people. Here's a huge thing you want. Here it is. I'm giving it to you. And here's the thing. I don't want this. I don't think this is necessarily something that my part... It's not going to make me popular with my party. But in the spirit of coming together
Starting point is 01:12:09 and getting something done, I'm going to give you this big thing, but you have to give me this. And I'll put your priority as pillar number one and my priority is pillar number two. I cannot think of a single
Starting point is 01:12:25 thing. Let me give you one example. Barack Obama, the individual mandate, the thing that the Tea Party hated, T party hated the individual mandate. We fought against it all the time. We said, get rid of just this individual mandate. It's the worst part of Obamacare. We said it all the time. Unconstitutional. We fought against it constantly.
Starting point is 01:12:41 He would never give one inch for that. And what was amazing about it is he ran for press. opposing the individual mandate. He actually shared the position with the right on the individual mandate when he was going against Hillary Clinton. And Obamacare included it. And because Obamacare included it, he wouldn't even give up something he ran against
Starting point is 01:13:03 to try to bridge that gap. And here's the president going now, the President Trump going the exact opposite way, giving a huge chip up. He's starting a negotiation by giving them exactly what they want. And they still call him Hitler every 10 seconds. It's amazing because the reason why we always lose, and this is the reason why I had a problem with this deal, one of the reasons why I had a problem with this
Starting point is 01:13:25 is because it was our border security was pillar number two. I'll talk to you about road to citizenship after pillar number one, our pillar number one, security, because we keep making this compromise and you never do it. They're not even taking the opportunity to screw us by being shifty. they're just openly saying nope we don't want it because you said so it's going to push Donald Trump away from the Democrats and you're not going to get jack from him because he doesn't usually offer you know the sweet very often more than once you reject him you
Starting point is 01:14:11 pound him like this call him all kinds of names a kidnapper holding people hostage he's not going to, he's not going to keep reaching out. And this is foolish. And this, by the way, is good for us. Because the Democrats acting that way, I don't, you know, I don't like it societally. I don't like it. But when you're talking about policy, it makes Donald Trump a lot less likely to go along with this. I also think that it really hurts the Democratic Party to the point to where they're just going to, you know, they're going to be a fringe.
Starting point is 01:14:42 They're going to be a fringe party. Both of these parties are so fringe now. Both of these parties are in so much. The Democrats are in much bigger trouble than the Republicans are. Volatility in the stock market, wild swings in Bitcoin, the constant turmoil in Washington. I don't know if you notice this, but gold came off its best year since 2010. It's up almost $100 since mid-December with lots of room to run. I told you at the beginning of the year that we are going to start seeing inflation and possibly bad inflation.
Starting point is 01:15:24 the stock market is in a melt up right now where everybody, you remember what Bitcoin felt like? And then Bitcoin fell apart. That's kind of what the stock market's going to feel like. When these things happen, that's when gold, everybody goes all in on gold. Now, I'm not an all-in guy. I don't recommend a guy. The gold line doesn't recommend an all-in. What gold line recommends is spreading out your risk, diversifying, Long term. That's what gold is. Gold is, to me, an insurance policy against the insane. And the insane and insanity is the key word of the world today. I mean, we're in chaos. That's when people look for stability. And it is the hedge against inflation. And inflation is coming. And that's why gold is rising as rapidly as it is. I want you to call Gold Line Now and find out about their product. Find out if gold or silver is right for you. great prices on gold, best prices they've ever offered. 866 Gold Line, 1-866-4-65-35-46.
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Starting point is 01:16:53 Glenn Beck, Mercury. Stop, stop. This is unbelievable. No, stop. Glenn Beck. You're going to enjoy this coming up. You're going to enjoy it. Courage.
Starting point is 01:17:40 Truth. Glenn back. Something big happening in the Meriden Township in the police department. Today, this is up in Michigan. They're going to publicly abolish. to one person today, even though the apology is 14 years too late, they are apologizing. They're apologizing to Brianne Randall Gay. She filed a complaint with the police department many, many, many years ago against the disgraced USA gymnastics doctor, Larry Nasser. This is in
Starting point is 01:18:08 2004. They heard her complaint, but did really nothing about it. She said he touched her inappropriately during a routine exam. The police department investigated and they talked to Nassar and they took his word because he's a doctor and he claimed she's 17 she doesn't understand the medical treatment. She's not comfortable
Starting point is 01:18:35 with her own body and they believed him and they dropped the case. If someone would have believed Rianne that day instead of the doctor, how many assaults would have been prevented? If it could have stopped it could have stopped more than decades' worth of emotional and physical torture for so many girls. But no one stood up for Brianne, and Larry Nasser went on to sexually assault more than a hundred girls under the guise of medical treatment.
Starting point is 01:19:04 For the last couple of weeks, famous faces have lined up in the courtroom, patiently waiting to speak about their assault at the hands of Nassar. He was ultimately sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison, and I hope he gets every day. of the 175. Let's keep him alive. He pleaded to criminal sexual assault involving the girls under the age of 16. He is a despicable human being that deserves his sentence.
Starting point is 01:19:36 But the biggest tragedy is how many people were aware of this situation? Why didn't somebody speak out? And hats off to the press. if it wasn't for investigative press that actually cared, they would have never gotten to the bottom of this. I think the biggest lesson we can learn from this story and from the so many people that have come out in the hashtag Me Too movement
Starting point is 01:20:07 is what Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, not to speak is to speak. Complicity in evil acts is evil itself. That's why the First Amendment is so important. And it's not about stupid, foolish things. We all have to do a better job at being brave. And speaking up and speaking out, no matter what the consequences are, when we know something isn't right.
Starting point is 01:20:38 It's Thursday, February 1st. This is the Glenn Beck program. Yesterday, I had my research team go in and look at the couple of stories that the president told during the State of the Union address. because I thought they were really powerful. And he told two stories of illegal immigrants. Two stories. And the press and everybody else yesterday spent all day yesterday,
Starting point is 01:21:10 you know, talking about how he is racist because he thinks that all dreamers are gang members. That's not what he said. He didn't even get anywhere close to saying anything like that. Now they're saying, oh, he's taking all these people as hostages. as hostages, he is offering you a pathway to citizenship, which is what you've all said you've wanted.
Starting point is 01:21:36 So I asked the researchers, I said, could you give me a little, give me a little bit more on two of these stories? And I want to show you, this is what America understands that the press and the parties refuse to. It's not that they can't. It's self-imposed. They're smart enough. but they refused to recognize the difference.
Starting point is 01:22:01 Let me tell you two immigrants, illegal immigrant stories. The first one involves the two girls in Long Island. They were best friends, and it was September 13th. It was 2016. It involved Kayla Kueva, she's 16, and Nisa Mickens, she was 15.
Starting point is 01:22:29 They were hanging out one night in September, and they were hanging out at her house, Kayla's house. It was an ordinary Tuesday evening. They were students at a place called Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Long Island. And Kayla had been having some troubles with the local MS-13 gang. Not something that you mess with. And while she was having problems, Nisa always had her back. They had exchanges on social media with MS-13, that they were speaking out because something
Starting point is 01:23:01 was wrong. So they're over at the house. It's 8.30 at night. They decide to go for a walk and I'm sure they do what all girls do at their age. They talked about boys. They talked about school. They talked about basketball because Kayla was getting ready to try out for the varsity team. I'm sure they talked about Nisa's birthday plans because she was turning 16 the next day. As they're walking down the street, behind them, the car pulls up. And it's MS-13 gang members.
Starting point is 01:23:35 And they call in to the head of the gang and they say, hey, we just spotted these two. Can we take care of them? And the gang leader says, yeah, absolutely. So they pull up right behind them. The car stops. And these guys jump out and they have baseball bats and machetes. Now here are these two 15 and 16-year-old girls all by themselves.
Starting point is 01:24:01 They grabbed niece. first. They bludgeoned her repeatedly with the baseball bats and the machetes. Police show up later and said, we couldn't even, they beat her face so badly that we couldn't even recognize her. Kayla runs. She escapes. She hides in the woods behind a house. She's 50 yards away from her friend who is just now laying dead in the street, beaten to death.
Starting point is 01:24:34 the guys are faster they overtake her they grab her throw her to the ground and they beat and then hack her to death it took six months but these guys were finally arrested three of them were illegal immigrants Kayla and nisa's parents were at the state of the union and it was cala's mom who said i am not here for anybody's political gain i just want what's right to be done everyone should put their political agenda aside and think about what's going on in our country. Now, what's going on in our country? We have open borders. And we don't want people coming here illegally. We need to make sure that we know who's coming into our country. That has nothing to do with hating Hispanics, saying that all people
Starting point is 01:25:30 who are immigrants are gang members, you're living in the 1900. if you think that's what this story is about. That's not what this story is about. We don't want criminals. We don't want gang members coming over here and killing our children on the streets. It's pretty simple. That has nothing to do with dreamers. These guys were not dreamers.
Starting point is 01:25:53 They were killers. Now let me give you a second immigrant story. This was not billed as an immigrant story, but another story from the State of the Union. This one was about a 13-year-old. old boy named G Song Ho. The year was 1996 and he was living in North Korea. He was living just, actually I didn't even say living.
Starting point is 01:26:18 He was trying to survive the famine in North Korea. The famine, he lived with his parents, his younger brother, his sister, his grandmother had already died from starvation. We found out later that Kim Jong-il actually starved this whole region of his country, kind of like the Russian, did. Communists like to do this. They just starve people
Starting point is 01:26:42 to death. They cut off all of the food. And death was closing in on this kid's family. They were living off of corn stocks, not corn, corn stalks and roots. His family spent most of the day just lying on the floor. They were too weak to stand. But he was in charge of going out and finding food or finding something that they could possibly trade for food. And he would wait in the middle of the night in freezing weather. And he would wait for the right time to raid the coal train.
Starting point is 01:27:19 The only time the trains weren't guarded by armed police was the pre-dawn hours. And so when the train would move out of the station at night, all of these starving people would run out of the shadows and they would crawl up on top of the coal car. And they would bring these little bag. And they would bring these little bags or whatever they had and they would put a couple of handfuls of coal in and they would throw it down off the track to somebody who was part of their family and they would take that coal and they would exchange it for food. That's the only thing that kept them alive. Well, he got up and he grabbed his sack. He tossed it down and then he fell. He actually, he didn't just fall. He fainted from hunger.
Starting point is 01:28:11 And he fell down in between the cars and onto the tracks. And the train was moving. He said he woke up to the sound of his sister screaming in horror for help. All of these starving people that were on the train just to get food, they all came to his aid. He said he felt the warmth of his blood spilling out. The train had taken an arm and a leg. as it ran over him on the tracks.
Starting point is 01:28:40 But it wasn't clean at all. These starving people picked him up. They could all barely walk. They were so weak. And they brought him to a doctor in the town. It's not a hospital. It's just a guy. He had no medication at all.
Starting point is 01:28:59 He couldn't dull the pain and he said, I've got to saw your arm and your leg off cleanly. he said he could feel his spine rattling with the teeth coming across. He somehow or another survived, and his weak father fashioned two wooden crutches. And he depended on those crutches just to beg in the streets. He couldn't do anything. When he was 17, he managed to illegally cross into the border in China.
Starting point is 01:29:34 He found an underground church there where Christians gave him food. He said, the animals are fed. better in China than North Koreans are. You'd think he has a chance to escape. He's with people who will feed him and care for him. He's missing an arm and a leg. He took that food back over across the border so he could feed his family. That's when they caught him.
Starting point is 01:30:05 They took him into prison for 20 days and they tortured him. That's when he realized there is no life. no future for North Korea. He waited six years, and G and his younger brother escaped again, and they made it into China. They planned to travel to South Korea, but he said, I'm going to slow you down and we're going to get caught. Please go in front. Just go. He went by himself. He wound his way through China. He found Christians there that would help him. He had to go through the jungles of Laos on crutches. He finally goes into Thailand. He makes it.
Starting point is 01:30:49 He finds his way to the South Korean embassy in Bangkok where the officials say this ghost-like appearance of a man just showed up. They transferred him to Seoul, where he spent time in the hospital and then they fitted him with an artificial arm and leg. He was reunited in Seoul with his brother. A few years later, they managed to smuggle out their mother and their sister. but G's father was caught escaping and they tortured him to death in prison. He's an illegal alien. He crossed the border in China.
Starting point is 01:31:37 He crossed the border of Laos. He crossed the border of South Korea. He was there illegally. Do you think the South Koreans were talking about him as an illegal alien? Do you think if he would have made it on a boat to our shore? Do you think we would have said to him, Get out of here. There's nothing here for you.
Starting point is 01:31:59 You got to come through the front door. We would have embraced that man. Because that man was escaping a horror. There are people that are trying to get to America from South America, from Mexico, that are trying to escape the horror of whatever is happening in their town because it's absolute lawlessness. Do you really think Americans want to shut the door on those people? We don't. Do you see there's a difference between a guy like G
Starting point is 01:32:36 and the two guys that were gang members from MS-13? Don't you think? Can't you see a difference between those two? Can't you see a difference between somebody even coming here illegally who were just trying to escape poverty because they had no opportunity for their kids back where they lived. And so with an open border and with administrations time and time again,
Starting point is 01:33:03 basically encouraging people, we're not going to do anything. You don't think you would cross that border if your kids had a chance to better themselves and actually live like Americans do. Conservatives and liberals. we're not heartless. Americans have a bigger heart than just about anybody else. We just want to know who's here.
Starting point is 01:33:35 That's it. And if you are trying to come, if you are one of the poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free, we will give you a chance. That's the only promise America gives. A chance to prove to yourself and to others, I am not what the last place said I was. There is something in me that is special.
Starting point is 01:34:07 That's who we want here. And I think America is tired of the games. And I do not think that the average Democrat in the middle of the country is looking at these two guys, these three people, these two stories, I don't believe that they just, think, look at that. He's calling all immigrants gang members. No, he's trying to show compassion for both the people that live here in America that are killed, slaughtered in our streets by people
Starting point is 01:34:46 who should not be here, and showing you an immigrant with great progress that is being slaughtered in his own country. Homeowners are refinancing in droves, and you should be. according to the L.E. May Origination Insight report, mortgage refinances accounted for 40% of all closed loans in December alone. I will tell you refi right now. If you have any kind of an adjustable mortgage, refinance right now. The money is going to start moving a little faster because of the tax reform. It's really good.
Starting point is 01:35:39 People are going to start spending money. again, they're going to have more. The businesses are going to start spending more because they have more. And that means too many dollars chasing too few goods, which is the definition of inflation. When inflation happens, you have to erase the interest rates. We're expecting four Fed rates, four Fed rate hikes this year. That could put some people out of their home because they could afford it with the low, mortgage rate. Please refi right now, and it's really easy. Make a 10-minute phone call to the
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Starting point is 01:36:59 That's an interesting point you made with the two stories from the State of the Union. I don't think I've heard anyone talk about the one from North Korea being an immigrant story. It's an illegal immigrant story. And there was a moment there, I will be honest with you, where I was like, is Glenn about to say that he thinks we should allow
Starting point is 01:37:16 illegal immigrants to stay here? What is that? But in reality, it shows the truth, which is, it's not that we're against people coming to our country. It's not that we're against people from other cultures joining us. We like that. We love that here in America. But we want to have the ability to make a determination between the guy escaping North Korea and the guy who's in MS-13. We need to have that ability. We need to have some process there. They're both. They both are illegal immigrant stories. I don't want the gang members. I do want the guy with one arm and one leg
Starting point is 01:37:52 who's never really going to do anything except remind us how great freedom is. Trust is an important thing. It's something that we do a lot more as human beings than I think most people realize. I mean, you drive down the road and there's a little yellow line between a car coming at you at 50 miles an hour
Starting point is 01:38:13 and you're on your side of the road and they're on their side of the road, and we just trust that they'll stay on their side of the road. Their self-interest will do it, whatever it is. We don't die most of the time when we're driving, and this is a positive thing. It's hard, though, to find people you can trust when it comes to really complicated transactions like real estate.
Starting point is 01:38:31 I mean, what do you do? You're talking about your biggest investment in your entire life, and you're trusting this to someone, because you don't understand what any of those forms mean. I never do. No one does. You don't even, half the people don't even read them. You need someone who can walk you through a big transaction like buying or selling a home
Starting point is 01:38:50 and make sure there are people that you can trust that have been screened that aren't just some random person you're looking up on the phone book. Real Estateagentsitrust.com is a company that Glenn actually started because he was trying to sell his house and had some issues. And basically what they do at real estate agents,itrust.com, it's a network of 1,200 agents. And Glenn and his team have gone through and kind of gone through and found the best ones in each area. and you go and you put in your address and you put in your area where you are and you find an agent you can trust. It's your biggest investment.
Starting point is 01:39:21 You need to take it seriously. Go to real estateagents.itrust.com. It's real estate agentsitrust.com. Give it a shot. Real estate agents I trust.com. This is the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the program. I'm glad you're here.
Starting point is 01:39:40 I want to try to get to this. I don't know if we're going to get to it today, but the Clark County, coroner has refused to release the coroner's report on the Las Vegas shooter. This was a court order release. And they said they're not releasing it because it hasn't been finalized. Well, okay, first of all, it's been five months. How are you not, what do you mean? You haven't finalized the coroner's report,
Starting point is 01:40:10 especially since it's been, I think, four months since they cremated the body. What are you doing? Putting the ashes back together? How do you not... How is that not done? There's nothing new you can look at. You burn the body up. If you had enough flex seal tape, maybe you could do that. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:40:28 By the way, I saw on Pat Gray on leash yesterday. They did an attempt to see if the flex seal commercial can be recreated with the actual flex seal products. Which you knew it wasn't possible. It went exactly the way I pictured it would go. Yep. What did you do? What did you do? Well, you've seen the flexi-com commercials, right?
Starting point is 01:40:46 Yeah, that's the one where they take a screen door and make it into a boat. I saw this boat in half. Yeah, right, okay. So we decided to test it not on a boat, but we just did the, we did the bucket test where they have that massive hole in it and the water gushing out the side. And he takes one, you know, maybe a two-inch square piece of flex-seal tape slaps it on as the water's gushing out instantly sealed. Like, that can't happen.
Starting point is 01:41:11 That cannot happen. Please tell me you didn't do this in one of my studios. Oh, I didn't do it in one of the radio. You did it in that outside area. Remember Pat? Yes. Oh, that was... It's called electrocution place outside in the grass.
Starting point is 01:41:25 Right. So we took a, we took a garbage can and I put a knife hole in it. Just a knife hole. So, you know, real thin slice. Is this a garbage can that you paid for? Yes. I have since paid for the garbage can. All right.
Starting point is 01:41:38 Okay. So it's got this little leak in it. We slap on flex seal, continues to leak. Put on another piece of flex seal. Continues to leak. leak. Slap on another one continues to leak. And then we saw the container, we saw the
Starting point is 01:41:50 container in half. And we taped it back up with Flexile and it completely leaked. The whole time. Every single test they tried. Every single test failed. Was a big giant failure. So you're saying one of those commercials that says, but wait,
Starting point is 01:42:04 there's more. Isn't honest? Isn't quite honest. But they keep showing it. Over and over and over. And I think to myself, they're showing the tape stop the gushing. It has to work. Can I tell you something? You guys are missing something big here. I think you have, I think you did it wrong because I don't know if you've read this, but Chip Gaines is leaving the show. Oh my God. That's right. Well, he's doing his wife. He's made, no, she's doing some face cream thing.
Starting point is 01:42:33 It's, uh, flexial. He's going to flexio. He's going to flexil. He's going to be building houses with flexial. So I'm pretty sure that's true. I will tell you. That came up on my TV history. I was, glued to it. No pun intended. I was sitting there watching that. I had to find out if Flex Seal worked. I was totally mesmerized by that segment. What's interesting is a lot of listeners were tweeting out that it was coming up and Flex Seal
Starting point is 01:42:56 actually liked the Oh no. And I'm like, and you don't want to like this because you don't want people looking at this demonstration. I know it's not going to work. And of course it didn't. It just didn't. You should get Flex Seal on. If they liked it, I would too. You should
Starting point is 01:43:12 tweet them and say, hey, Flex Seal. Come on. Did we do something wrong? Yeah, I'm definitely willing to do that. Definitely willing to do that. All right. So Pat Gray from Pat Gray on Leash is joining us. Pat, maybe you can help me out.
Starting point is 01:43:24 I asked us to do an hour ago, if you could come up with, I cannot think of any other president doing this. But let alone that, I cannot think of anything that I can compare with Barack Obama on what Donald Trump did at the state of the union. He took the number one. thing that the Democrats wanted, DACA, timesed it by, what, three, then offered a path to citizenship.
Starting point is 01:43:57 So he took everything they wanted, everything that they wanted. And he led with it and said, that's pillar number one. Over the wall. Right. Knowing that everybody who supports him, pillar number one should be the security, secure the border.
Starting point is 01:44:14 Then we can talk about that. He didn't do that. He put their priority first and said, now, I've just given you something that my side's not going to like. Now, you have to give us what your side doesn't like. Can you think of anything where President Obama reached out to the Tea Party people and said, look, okay, I want to talk to you about this constitutional thing. I want to talk to you about the one party in Obamacare that I agreed with you with when I was on the campaign trail that it's unconstitutional and it would cause all kinds of problems, the individual mandate.
Starting point is 01:44:57 I agreed with you. Now I'm in office. Everybody wants it. I'm going to give you one thing that is your hot button, but you're going to have to join me here. Can you think of any outreach at all? No. But I can think of the opposite when he told Republicans they had to get in the back of the car because you drove it into the ditch. Right.
Starting point is 01:45:19 And now you're saying you want to, no, you're not driving. We're not listening to you. You're going to be in the back of the, you're going to be in the back of the bus essentially. Right. Yeah. No, I can't think of anything. And I don't think you ever did. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:45:30 I don't think, I don't think it ever happened. But luckily we have a very large audience. And that audience had at least one person on Twitter who presented the opposing case. Okay. Give it to me. I'd like this. This is a story from real clear politics by a liberal author trying to prove that Barack Obama was bipartisan. So therefore, you would assume this is the best arguments you got.
Starting point is 01:45:52 Sure, right? It says, yes, Obamacare passed without any Republican support, but that's the single example of purely partisan legislation in the Obama era. Every other bill signed by Obama came with at least one Republican vote. Well, that's not. Wait. Wait. It's not. Wait.
Starting point is 01:46:10 at all. That's not the same standard. By that standard, by the way, the 20-week abortion ban was not only bipartisan, but three times as bipartisan. It was overwhelmingly by-partisan. Because they got three Democrats on that one. So, I mean, one vote from the other side is not a bipartisan bill. But again, that's not the standard here. The standard is, did he reach out to the right side? Yeah, did he reach out? Did he offer something that he knew his side would not like that was the number one priority of the other side.
Starting point is 01:46:46 And then went above and beyond what they were asking for. And they did three times as much. Right. Okay. So here we go. And put it first. Bipartisan thing number one from Barack Obama. The Recovery Act, the stimulus plan. Why? Because they reduced the size of the package by $100 billion
Starting point is 01:47:05 to try to make the compromise. Now, this is, of course, the right opposed the stimulus plan. Now, there were some moderate Republicans who went along with that. At the time, that's true. But it was a thing that started the Tea Party. It really was. It was the bailout and the stimulus that started the Tea Party. And again, let's look at the definition.
Starting point is 01:47:27 Is the number one priority of the right spending $787 billion on a stimulus project? Now, it's a bad question to ask right now, because the right seems to really want to $1.5 trillion. But certainly at that time, that was not their number one priority. And, you know, for this to be apples to apples, it would have to be he not only, he not only said, okay, we'll give up the stimulus package, the 787. But I'm going to give you two trillion dollars in cuts. Cuts, but you have to give me something else. But you have to give me health care. So absolutely does not meet the definition of what we're talking about.
Starting point is 01:48:00 Next up, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Bill is their big bipartisan. because it had Frank because it had three Republican votes now again the 20 week abortion plan
Starting point is 01:48:13 had three Democratic votes I don't see anybody calling that bipartisan other than the president who's trying to make that case and their other
Starting point is 01:48:20 part again Wall Street reform was not the number one cause for the right at that time by any means next up
Starting point is 01:48:28 a bipartisan surveillance reform law essentially an anti-Snowden law where they came up with the
Starting point is 01:48:35 extra spying and ability and they made small concessions to privacy advocates. Okay, no. Okay, so first of all, these are not... This has to be something that is the priority of the other side and something that you know you're going to get killed for. And something that's offered by the chief executive.
Starting point is 01:48:53 Yeah. So none of this stuff. He wouldn't even meet with anyone. He never sat down and met with a single person who was a constitutionalist and said, Mr. President, here's what we're. saying. Here's what we're saying. Never. Never. Never. He mocked us.
Starting point is 01:49:11 Yeah. Yeah. And so let me give you a couple more. These are big a good here. Now, the number one priority of the right. I think you'd all say. Yeah. Don't ask, don't tell. Because he worked with Susan Collins, who also wanted don't ask, don't tell. How is that even remotely close to what we're talking about here? Next up, a major food safety bill designed to give the FDA more power to recall tainted goods. If that was a number one priority to talk about that. We talked about if we could just give a federal administration. If we could just give federal agencies more power.
Starting point is 01:49:45 Yeah, that's your. And again, like, but again, it has to be something your side doesn't want. Correct. Right? So like, of course his side wanted the FDA to have more power. Of course his side wanted don't ask, don't tell. Here's what, here's what this would be akin to. I'm going to cut the corporate tax rate.
Starting point is 01:50:03 to 15 or 20%, 21%. I'm going to cut the corporate tax rate and I'm going to cut the capital gains tax. I'm going to cut both of those. My side is going to go crazy because they're going to say this is just a handout to big
Starting point is 01:50:21 companies. They're going to go crazy. But in exchange for that, I want you on board with health care. If he would have made that, we would not have been able, you know, I'm not saying that we would have taken that deal, but it's a legitimate offer. This is a legitimate offer. This is, this is, I'm going to take what you want,
Starting point is 01:50:45 and I'm going to times it by three and throw in something else that my side should kill me for, and I'm going to offer it, but you got to give me this border security and not even the whole wall. You just have to secure the border for me, and we have to know who's coming in here. That is perfect. That is how you negotiate. That's how you negotiate. Next up is the bill to reduce racially discriminatory disparity and mandatory prison sentences between crack and powder cocaine convictions. And this is true Obama-style bipartisanship because there were conservatives.
Starting point is 01:51:26 Mike Lee, I think, was one of them. I'm one. Who was very concerned about this issue. It was a ridiculous standard at the time. However, it is not something that his side didn't want. And this is, this is what bipartisanship to Barack Obama was, is I will allow you to vote for the things that I want. I want this prison reform.
Starting point is 01:51:49 And a few Republicans will come along with me and I'll call it bipartisan. But you're not changing what you want. That's not a negotiation. That's just you doing what you want and some people agree with you. that's totally different than what Trump is doing. Trump, unless you believe that Trump is a big time amnesty guy, which you might. But unless you believe that, he's giving up something that is crucial to his platform. Yeah, hang on just a second.
Starting point is 01:52:17 Even if he is a big time amnesty guy, that shows that he is willing to take on his own side. He's willing to take the hit because he believes. it's right. And he knows all of you've been in my office before before I was president. I know what you I'm going to give you what we've all talked about. I'm going to give it to you. But you have
Starting point is 01:52:42 to give their side, this side. You have to give them security. And it's perfectly reasonable to do that. And they call him a kidnapper now. They call him a hostage taker. It is unbelievable.
Starting point is 01:52:59 And what was it Obama always said, I'll listen to any reasonable, anybody reasonable from the Republican side. Reasonable to him meant agreed with him. But I'm not going to listen to your extreme points of view. Well, an extreme point of view was the conservative side, was just something constitutional. Constitutional. It's like you... And that happened every time. Yeah. An extreme point of view was we should not have the government mandate because that makes
Starting point is 01:53:26 it an incumbent on every citizen to be. remain a citizen to buy some product. That's not in the Constitution. That should never be in the Constitution. You know what? You have to buy this cell service to be an American. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
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