The Glenn Beck Program - 6/13/17 - Why Glenn loves the audience so much.(Bill O'Reilly and Jim Demint Join Glenn)
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It is truly an honor to be with you every day.
This, I think, is, I go back to this audience is going to be the one that saves the Republic in the end.
I'll tell you why, right now.
Entertainment and Enlightenment.
This is The Glen.
Megan Kelly is getting hit for this.
piece that she has done with Alex Jones. Now, what's happening? Well, the families of Sandy Hook
are complaining that you're legitimizing Alex Jones. No, the President of the United States has
legitimized Alex Jones. Roger Stone, by being a fill-in host for Alex Jones, has legitimized
Alex Jones. Donald Trump Jr., who has been on his show
several times, has legitimized
Alex Jones. Alex Jones is not this fringe character.
The New York Magazine, New York Times,
the New Yorker, they have also done profiles
of Alex Jones. And nobody wanted to shut them down.
Nobody wants to shut them down. But NBC
and Megan Kelly,
Megan does an interview where we played the audio
comes up on Sunday. We played the audio for you yesterday.
She's not doing a puff piece. She's not grabbing him by the throat and squeezing,
but she is holding his feet to the fire,
and she is allowing himself to hang himself with the American people,
if that's even possible anymore.
In the interview, he says, you know what story you're not covering?
is the animal-human hybrid story,
where the government is breeding animals and humans together.
Okay, thank you.
He also says in this, and this is what is causing the controversy,
that he has done, you know, he's played devil's advocate
and said that, no, Sandy Hook victims,
they weren't real victims, they were actors.
But he says on the show that he was just playing devil's advocate,
Right. Let's play the actual audio of what he said.
They have staged events before, but then you learn the school had been closed and reopened
and you got video of the kids going in circles in and out of the building and they don't
call the rescue choppers for two hours. And then they tear the building down and seal it.
And they get caught using blue screens and an email by Bloomberg comes out in the lawsuit
where he's telling his people, get ready in the next 24 hours to capitalize on a shooting.
Yeah, so Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured.
I couldn't believe it at first.
I knew they had actors there clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids.
And it just shows how bold they are that they clearly used actors.
I mean, they even ended up using photos of kids killed in mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in Turkey.
Let me tell you something.
That is not playing devil's advocate.
That is not devil's advocate.
That is his opinion, and he's pushing that theory forward.
If I were a family member, and I don't know if you could do this for a public shooting,
but I would be mad enough that I would be with an attorney saying, can we sue him?
Can we sue him?
My child is dead.
My child is dead.
And you're accusing me of faking him.
of faking it.
That my child doesn't exist?
That's absolutely incredible.
That's not playing devil's advocate.
That is saying, well, let me give you what else he has said,
because he's now asking NBC,
who is getting heat from both the right and the left and the families,
getting heat for running this interview.
Alex Jones.
He's demanding them to not run it.
Alex Jones himself is.
demanding that they don't run it. Which is evidence
why you should run it. He
says that they need to cancel it because
it's a hit piece because
he's been taken out
of context. Well, there's the context.
Right there. That's what he said.
In context. Okay. He's also
said, 100%
chance that the mass murder committed in
Aurora, Colorado was a false flag,
a mind control event. So it's not just the
shooting. Quoting. 1999
Columbine. School shooting was
quote, extremely suspicious event.
that had globalist operations written all over it, end quote.
Quote, Columbine, as we know it, was a false flag, I'd say 100% false flag.
Tucson shooting, quote, the whole thing stinks to high heaven, end quote.
San Bernardino, shooting a false flag because governments want to, quote, blame the Second Amendment, end quote.
Orlando, false flag to take your guns in speech.
Boston Marathon, this thing stinks to high heaven, hashtag false flag, end quote.
quote. He said that Obama had married a man, Michelle Obama, because he's obsessed with transgender
rights, end quote. If you take vaccines, quote, you'll become disabled or you will die, end quote.
The government has, quote, a weather weapon that can create and steer natural disasters, end quote.
You're not pretending you don't believe that.
He claimed Las Vegas cop shooting was absolutely staged by the government, quoting.
Globalists caused the space shuttle Columbia disaster to serve as, quote, a distraction from Iraq.
And, of course, his old-time classic, 9-11 was an inside job.
Popular mechanics debunked it, but they only debunked it, quote, because they are part of the CIA.
He also believes that the Bilderberg people go to the Bohemian Grove, quote,
to eat gold-wrapped, roasted babies.
He actually offered a cop $10,000 if he could disprove that.
Uh, pizza. How would you, how would you disprove that?
I don't know.
Pizza place.
They have the gold all over their lips after they do it.
Right.
It's impossible to disprove.
What was the name of the place?
Comic ping pong pizza.
He said, quote, has a labyrinth of tunnels where children are used as sex slave.
He's had to apologize for that one.
The latest is Chobani Yogurt is importing racists.
A rapist.
He had to pay a settlement on that.
He said fluoride is poison and it's killing us all.
The Oklahoma City bombing was, quote, an inside job and a total false flag.
The Gulf of Tonkin is a false flag.
Of course.
It all starts there.
And my favorite, Pepsi has tested new flavorings of fetuses.
Well, I listen to his case, though.
You haven't heard his case.
I know that there are fetal tissues in a lot of the.
the medical treatments in the vaccines, and they are in a lot of the cosmetics.
That's confirmed.
That's confirmed.
We know Pepsi's involved with companies that do use the fetal parts, and we do know that
it's been tested in flavor enhancement.
Because there's nothing more delicious than a fetus.
That's pretty well known.
No, when you have an aborted baby, you think to yourself, I wonder if we could mix this
in a drink to make it taste better.
That's what you think.
I combine this with some nutmeg.
That's going to be delicious.
Again, he said in there, because they're training us to be cannibals.
Now, how can you do an interview with this guy and normalize him?
How can you do when the president has been on his show, the president's son has been on his show,
the president's advisors have been on his show.
You're not normalizing.
You're not normalizing.
You're exposing him.
Of course. I mean, we have gone, this is a country that has its journalists go and interview Assad and Ahmadinejad and Putin.
And Putin. She just interviewed Putin.
They go to prison and interview people on death row who have murdered.
Charlie Manson has been interviewed multiple times.
Why? I mean, look, Alex Jones, I think is terrible for the country.
Okay.
But I mean, why on earth can he not?
Because I have an answer.
I have an answer to this and it goes to why I am thrilled to have this audience and to be able to talk to you every single day.
Because there is something different about this audience and this audience is growing.
This hunger is growing.
And I'll tell you what it is coming up in a second.
The Glenn Beck Program.
Mercury.
Program.
So I started the hour with, I want to thank you for being here every day.
I want to thank you for listening to this program.
And it's an honor to serve you.
And here's why.
I have said, I think, almost since 9-11, haven't I, Stu?
That this audience is going to be the one that rescues the free world, the rescues the country.
And I've always believed that.
And I don't know why.
Let me give you two reasons.
And I'm going to give you the first reason is, has direct correlation to what is happening right now with this argument in the country about Alex Jones.
Alex Jones in this interview on NBC with Megan Kelly, they're now pulling sponsorships.
J.P. Morgan Chase has now pulled.
their sponsorship from that show on Sunday.
I don't know if they've officially pulled.
They were asking to be moved, though, I think, out of it.
Okay.
Are you kidding me?
Time Magazine made Hitler the man of the year.
What has happened to our country where we are...
And please, hear me out.
Please explain this to your friends this way.
this way.
What do you think of safe zones and schools?
I think they're ridiculous.
I think they're absolutely, that's hogwash safe zones in schools.
Then why can't you handle an interview with something that you don't like?
Why can't you handle the news that exposes you to things that you don't necessarily agree to?
Question with boldness.
Thomas Jefferson
Even the very
existence of God
Pat
1774
when he wrote that
Was there a more
dangerous thing
to question than God?
No. I mean that was
insanity. Nobody
questioned God. Question with boldness.
Even the very existence of God
for if there be a God he must
surely rather honest
questioning over blindfolded fear.
Now, the key is honest questioning.
That's the real problem.
There isn't anybody in journalism that is doing honest questioning.
I'm sorry, that is too much to say that.
There are fewer people than we have had in the past.
And there are more voices that are just throwing out red meat.
and quite honestly, in the past, mine included,
that's not going to get us anywhere
because we're all starting to go into our caves
and here's what's going to happen.
If these boycotts continue
where they are affecting NBC
and a real journalist
sitting down with a controversial newsmaker,
then you won't have any news.
You know where you get your news?
NPR and PBS.
They will nationalize the news.
Congratulations on that.
Because they will say we can't afford it.
So the government needs to underwrite it.
You want to know where the boycotts lead.
It leads to the BBC.
Wow, we'll have our own voice.
Will you?
Will you have your own voice?
Will you have your own voice online?
Because what will the national news media say about the voices online?
I can tell you right now.
Fake news.
Ted Koppel.
says fake news, we should license people to be able to put their opinions online.
That's the crazy world we're entering in.
Now, what we're feeling is chaos.
We are feeling disruption happening in the old world and in this new world, and it's
going to be tough to get through.
But because you are who you are and you understand honest questioning, you understand
there are no safe zones in life.
you understand the First Amendment to mean no infringement on the press,
no infringement on the press.
Because you know what that means.
And you know that when that was written, there was no licensed press.
That's anybody who wants to write a story.
And then you hold yourself to honest questioning.
You are going to be the audience that says,
saves the world because every other audience is starting to run and hide from the things that make
them uncomfortable. We all should be doing one thing every week that puts us in an uncomfortable
position. You should be challenging yourself, your friends, challenging yourself to meet new people,
to get new experiences at least once a week. You should say, I can't believe I just did that.
That was cool.
That was a little scary, but that was cool.
We're calcifying.
Break that up.
Liberty isn't freedom, as they say, isn't free.
Liberty isn't free.
Liberty takes work.
Mind work.
It doesn't take guns.
It takes nimble minds.
Let me say this.
Right now, we're living in a world where,
You cannot define right and wrong.
Can't define it.
What is right and what is wrong?
People in school are being taught that there is no right or wrong.
2 plus 2 equals 5 if you can show me the work.
The same time we are taking apart every single truth that we know.
We are now entering a world where we are programming AI.
Well, we have to have certain axes.
that we know are true as we program AI.
Human life is paramount.
If we don't teach it that truth,
if we treat it all truth is subjective,
what do you think is going to happen?
When AI is asked, can you solve these problems?
Sure I can.
Humans are a virus.
Humans are causing the problem.
how can we possibly
wrestle with the questions that we need to program AI
if we can't decide on truth
if we can't even have a conversation
that explores the truth
I mean and that doesn't even address the problem
of animal human hybrids
it doesn't even touch it doesn't the half fish people
the half fish people who are like when you go to a zoo
it doesn't and you see a turtle and you see a turtle
you feel for them because they're scraping out the
sides. I mean, that's, I guess, a very natural
human emotion. They're looking at you with the big eyes. Yeah.
I would say puppy dog eyes, but they're a little childlike eyes.
And you can see a tear just begin
to drip down its...
It's usually because it's wet, actually. It just got out of the water.
Yeah. Yeah, their tear ducts have been sealed by
DHSA agents with cocking.
Now, we don't usually tell that story on the air because it's too fantastic.
Too fantastical. Right.
But sometimes he tells the story.
You know, the new Miss USA is a nuclear
scientist a kid oh okay thank you he's a high-pitched voice in some much higher yeah yeah normal
yeah which is kind of weird yeah it is a little weird oh oh I was told by a genetic engineer
that was so good about a project they were on in England once and I never told the story on air
because it's so fantastical they had in tanks people with gills their little babies they were in
They're just gulping, clawing at the sides.
You see a turtle at the zoo.
It once out and you feel for it.
Right.
Uh-huh.
They got humanoids crossed with fish and stuff.
Okay, so he's on Megan Kelly this weekend saying that's real news that you guys aren't covering.
Yeah.
Megan Kelly, thank you for not going over the cliff with the rest of humanity.
And this audience, same for you.
Thank you.
The Glenn Beck program.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
Jim DeMint in his first interview since leaving the Heritage Foundation.
How did that go?
Why did he leave the Heritage Foundation?
What happened?
There's stories going both ways.
We'll get right from the horse's mouth coming up in just a little while.
And also he's going to tell us about his new job, which I think is fantastic.
And next hour, about an hour from now, we're going to give you some.
new news about
Russia hacking.
This is really
critical that you understand
because we're not talking about today
or any American players.
What we're talking about is 2018,
2020, 2024.
Russia, the evidence
is now out
and the story
has broken today in one
place. I don't think that you have seen it.
It just broke about 40 minutes ago.
and it is pretty darn compelling
and a conversation that we have to have as Americans
without any of the politics
because it has nothing to do
with Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
Nothing. It has everything to do
with what I believe is an act of war.
If they would have done this at any other time,
it would have, you've seen the results,
you've seen the story today.
Act of war, Pat?
Oh, absolutely.
Act of war?
Entirely.
Active war, Jeffrey?
You have to...
Yeah.
It has to be.
I mean, any other time, it would have been an act of war.
It is really shocking and important stuff.
But I want to go back here to the Megan Kelly story.
Alex Jones is now asking that they don't run the story of him,
and I'm sure he's saying that because I'm sure, well, we know it.
He said to Megan Kelly, it's in the promo.
Yeah, well, you won't do real story.
fake news. What real stories haven't we covered, Alex? You know, animal human hybrids.
Oh, okay, all right. Got me on that one. Yeah, I haven't covered that at all. At all.
At all. You're the exclusive on that one. And you can have it. So he's now asking for it to be
pulled. I don't know if NBC has the guts to run this because they're afraid of the parents.
And I understand you don't want to re-inflict wounds on those parents.
And here's the problem with her being at NBC now.
Fox News is used to this nonsense.
NBC's not.
NBC that nobody's calling for them to take interviews off or shut them down or boycott them.
I am telling you now that every single person, Bill O'Reilly, I've given him this advice a million times.
Bill, do what I did and go and start your own thing online subscriptions.
Now, if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it much different than I did now.
We were the first.
If you remember right, wrestling hadn't gone online yet.
I don't think HBO had gone online.
It was us and Netflix.
Netflix are certainly there.
Netflix and Major League Baseball.
So we were the first to do it.
Now, everybody's thinking, well, maybe I should do it.
Yes, because these boycotts are going to lead to either a collapse of the news system,
a resetting into national news like the BBC,
and or people like me coming in and doing their own thing online only,
and maybe doing something and feeding it out to Netflix or Amazon or,
or whoever is online.
But the advertising thing is over.
It's over, at least for a time period.
It's going to be over.
We're killing our food source.
It's so bizarre, too.
I mean, no one on earth would think that J.P. Morgan Chase agrees with the things that Alex
Jones is going to say in this interview.
No. Nobody. Nobody would associate them.
Oh, wow. You know what? J.P. Morgan Chase, I'm going to pull my money out because they ran an ad on an ad.
adversarial interview with a conspiracy theorist.
Why did that, why was there a single ad in Time magazine when Adolf Hitler was named the
man of the year?
Because he should have been named man of the year.
He was absolutely the most influential person in the book in the world.
Wasn't Osama bin Laden named the man of the year?
I don't remember, maybe.
Because that is not a positive award.
And if not, if not, he should have been.
And I think that he wasn't named the man of the year.
if he wasn't, most likely because everybody's like,
I don't know, we don't want to make him the,
we don't want to make him bigger.
He was the guy who changed the course of the country.
Right. I think that's completely legitimate.
Now, if Megan Kelly did an interview in which she said,
wait a minute, I have not heard.
You're saying that Sandy Hook didn't happen?
This evidence is overwhelming.
I can't believe people aren't talking about this.
Tell me more.
If she did that interview,
I would at least understand it from these advertisers.
personally think she is... She's obviously not doing that.
She is going to be the Barbara Walters of this generation, and I don't mean that with all the
political ramifications now. I mean that the way we used to mean Barbara Walters 30 years ago.
She's going to be the one that will get all of the big interviews, and she will sit down,
and she will make these people feel comfortable, and they will spill their guts to her,
and she'll let you decide.
Yeah. And, I mean, can we...
we stop with this idea that if you don't like the thing you're hearing, you pull your
advertising.
Please stop.
Why can we not be comfortable?
I am getting, and I know I'm cynical, but I'm getting to the point where outside of the
people listening to my voice currently, I have no faith in humanity.
If you can't, the only the people that show up to this show are the only people I'm
competent in that actually don't mind hearing opinions that are different than the
own. Don't mind being challenged. Want to wake up every day and have something that challenges
their worldview. I want you to know that as an audience member, wear this as a badge of honor.
Yeah. You know that this show and you are not going to go over the cliff with the rest of
humanity. Not going to do it. Not going to do it. I don't care what the rest of humanity does or says.
I don't care if they want to tell me and throw me in jail until I say two plus two,
equals five, it's four.
And I am not going to go over the cliff with the rest of the humanity.
I will go to my dying breath.
Long live the Republic.
It's four.
It will always be four.
That's how you have to be.
And that's who this audience is.
Let me tell you another story.
I was, this weekend, as we were coming home from vacation, we stopped.
at a labor for labor of love
event. Now, we've
talked about labor of love before.
They were the people that went to
Israel. They were all
on the bus together, red bus
A, I think, and they were
all on this bus together.
And I put up the challenge
of, you know, you've got to serve.
You got to get out and you've got to
do something. You have to be the change
that you seek. They're awesome.
They're awesome. So they made
this six years ago. They made this pledge
to each other. They came home. They didn't know
each other before. They all live all over the country.
I went to an event
this weekend. 50 families
showed up. They will not
take donations.
And none of them are rich. They're
all fairly living on the edge.
And
they won't take donations.
They have each family pays
what they can
and saves themselves
to go. There were people that had
driven there from Kentucky
from Indiana
Ohio. I know I'm going to leave some out.
Arizona, Texas,
Florida,
California, Utah, and Idaho.
And where was the event?
It was in Idaho. Idaho.
No, it was in Utah.
And they came from all over the country
and they do this. The next one I think is
I don't know for sure, but like they've done
them all over the country.
And these people drive or fly,
some of them by themselves for days.
So I went there and my kids got a paintbrush and we were this old couple that we saw,
the first house, was this old couple.
He was a Korean War veteran and his wife.
He had told me he was great to talk to.
He lives in this little town called Lewiston and there's probably 40 people that live in town.
It's a little teeny 10 block town.
He said, I said, how long you lived here?
He said, well, I've moved four times in my life.
I said, really?
Where did you move?
And he said, and he kind of looks past a tree and he says, well, I lived over there.
And I said, so you've lived in Lewiston, your old time?
He said, oh, yeah, I've moved four times, but never out of Lewiston.
It's 10 blocks.
Okay.
And he was a sweet old guy who they just don't have the energy to do anything.
Their barn was coming down.
Their trees were not trimmed.
Kids grab paintbrush.
They're 50 people, most of them with kids, teenagers and just below.
And they're all doing service work.
They go to this other house and this wheelchair ramp.
This lady had, she could only afford when they built it.
They built it out of not press wood.
What do you call that?
Particle board.
Imagine with snow and rain how long that lasts.
It was like cardboard.
She got a wheelchair.
So they went out and they bought all the stuff themselves.
and they rebuilt this ramp for the lady.
This audience is unlike any other audience I've ever met.
This audience is spectacular.
This audience is the best of us.
It really is.
Recognize that.
Revell in that.
Wear that as a badge of honor.
You're not going to shrink away
from the tough news,
you're not going to shrink away from the truth.
You're going to explore the truth.
You're going to share the truth.
You're going to be the one that says,
I'm sorry, but I am not going over the cliff
with the rest of humanity.
Come this way. Come this way.
Remember, I've told you that for years.
You're going to have to know what the truth is.
So when everybody starts to go, you say, stop.
Come this way.
Don't go there. Come this way.
Now is that time.
And you are those people.
That's why I started the show today with,
it's an honor to serve you.
It really is an honor to serve you,
because I know who you are.
And we're in it together, and it's going to be good.
This is the Glenn Beck Program.
Mercury.
Glenn Beck Program.
Hello, America.
Glad you're here.
There is an update.
Do you have the update from North Korea,
they have just released
one of the students
I think
Otto Warm Beer
Does that sound
Yes
Is that the student
Yes
Yeah he took the poster
And he wanted a souvenir
And they were on some kind of
Trip to North Korea
With his group or something
The singing group I think
And so he removed a poster
From the wall
And was imprisoned
And they gave him a sentence
For 15 years
And he served
Yeah I think he served a year
And a half hasn't he?
At least.
released that.
Yeah. Whatever it was, it was too long.
So they finally released him.
Yeah, Tillerson announced today that they have released him.
He's on his way back to the United States.
Thank God for that.
That's so great.
Now, how many others do we have?
We have that professor that they just took.
I think we have two professors that they just took.
It seems to me like there's three or four.
I have to tell you.
I mean, do you take a job as a professor in North Korea?
No.
Yeah, I don't.
I mean, there's two reasons to do it.
You're either a spy, or you really believe that you can make a change there somehow or another.
Yeah, this happens with the doctors.
I mean, you know, they have these very basic ailments that any country on earth can fix incredibly cheaply.
But because North Korea is so insulated and they won't allow anyone else inside, generally speaking,
they won't allow capitalism at all.
these people wind up being, for example, blind their entire lives
with cataract problems that can be easily with an easy surgery repair.
So these doctors go in on their own volition.
I mean, it's really incredible stories.
And they go in there and they'll go through and they'll fix, you know,
a hundred people on one trip with these surgeries.
And now they can, they were blind and now they can see.
And you know, it's amazing.
We've seen the video.
They thank the chairman.
They open their eyes.
They don't thank the doctor.
They go find the picture of Kim Jong-il,
and they kiss and thank the picture of Kim Jong-il for saving their sight.
It's crazy.
But that's how screwed up they are.
But my point is, you either go there because you're a spy,
or you are on some mission of some sort yourself.
You believe it that much.
You believe that you can help the suffering, relieve the suffering.
And if that's you, then you got to know,
I got a chance of being in jail or whatever
because, you know, it's
a paranoid nation.
Of course, the third scenario being if you're
Dennis Rodman, who is also on his way
there, I believe now. He's already there. Is he there?
Does he have something to do with the release of the kid, of the
student? I'm just going to say yes
because it's interesting. Yes. Yes. Yes, it's true.
Yes, he did it. It was Dennis
Rodman who did it. So he's a good rebounder.
Great defender. A great
hostage
negotiator. That's Dennis.
What is his deal over there?
Does he get paid for that?
Well, he's wearing his big sponsorship.
I mean, he's thanking his big sponsorship
and wearing the t-shirts of
potcoin.com.
Pot coin? What is pot coin? I have no idea.
That's who you think.
It's probably his own. It's like
Bitcoin or something? Yeah, or pull pot
t-shirts.
Very well, could be.
I don't know what.
It's Dennis Rodman.
Could be.
It makes it more interesting.
So, yes, I think it's, let's go with that.
Let's go with that.
It's something to do with pole pot.
Back in a minute.
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We were really excited when Jim DeMint
went to the Heritage Foundation.
Jim DeMint, if you remember right, in the day, was the only guy in the Senate.
This is before we had Mike Lee.
This is before we had Rand Paul.
This is before we had anybody.
He was the lone guy back in 06, 07, and 08.
And then the wave election happened.
And then he left.
Went to the Heritage Foundation.
I hated losing him in the Senate, but he thought he could make some real difference at the Heritage Foundation.
I think he did, but they didn't like the direction.
So he left.
Where is he now and what happened at the Heritage Foundation?
His first interview since leaving begins right now.
Enlightenment, the Glen.
Let's go to Jim DeMint now.
Jim DeMint, formerly the former senator from South Carolina,
and then with the Heritage Foundation for, I think, four years or so,
and made a real impact there.
Jim DeMint, welcome to the program.
How are you, sir?
Glenn, I'm doing really well,
and it's good to be back on your show.
Thank you, sir.
Jim, I know you, you're such a southern gentleman.
You're not going to want to, you know,
say anything bad about anybody,
and I'm not looking for the bad stuff.
But can you tell us what happened at Heritage?
Because there's been these stories that, you know,
you were too conservative, that you were taking it,
too conservative, I don't know what that means for the Heritage Foundation,
but trying to take it too conservative,
and they wanted to be more GOP-centric.
Glenn, frankly, I don't know.
And the board just decided they wanted to do something different in the future.
And frankly, I feel like Lord knows what he's doing
and where I am right now, realize that I'm in a place where I can make a much bigger difference.
There's some great people at Heritage, but I'm ready to leave that chapter behind and get back to work on two fronts.
I realize, and I'm sure you see it from where you said, that we can't just work in one area.
It's not enough just to be a senator or elect a senator.
We have to do a lot of things if we're going to stop this out of control federal government.
and the two things I'm going to continue to work with conservatives on the hill
and try to equip them and support them
because as you mentioned when you started the show just a minute ago
is a lot of times it's just one or two people working to try to do the right thing
and the system tries to take them apart.
But I've also realized that no matter what happens,
no matter who we elect,
Congress is never going to stop spending,
that they're going to keep spending and creating
debt until we have some kind of crisis or meltdown. And our founders knew that that was a
possibility. They gave us the fire alarm on the wall where it's to break the glass and pull the
lever. And that's an Article 5 of the Constitution where they said the states could come together
and propose amendments to the Constitution. In this case, we have to get the states to force
the federal government to have fiscal restraint to limit its jurisdiction and hopefully even to turn
limit, members of Congress and maybe even the judiciary.
Okay, so you are now going to the Convention of States.
What role of Convention to States project are you going to play there?
I'm what they call a senior advisor.
I'll be working with Tom Coburn and a good team around the country to work with state
legislators because the secret here is to get 34 states to pass essentially the same
call to convention.
This is not a constitutional convention.
It's nothing about a free-for-all, the rewrite the Constitution.
Article 5 is clear that states can propose amendments.
And we want to propose particular amendments that will help force the federal government
to not only balance its budget but limit taxes, but also limit what it can do.
Because the 10th Amendment is clear that whatever is not prescribed to the federal government
and the Constitution should be left to the states and the people, and the federal government has
just run all over that. And so I look at my fight is I'm just fighting on two fronts. I'm not going to
give up on helping conservatives, and we've started a new nonprofit to do that, but I'm working
with the Convention of the States, hoping that the states will call a Convention to propose amendments
to limit the power and the spending of the federal government. So, Jim, the Convention of the States,
I think has new life to it.
And a lot of it is coming from places like California, of all places,
to where liberals are saying, you know, the government's out of control.
Yeah, because now your guy isn't in control.
And California had a real movement to actually secede from the union.
I think this is a real opportunity,
but it also could be used to exploit.
the framework of Article 5.
Are you reaching out to the people on the left who are more libertarian-minded,
and are you concerned at all about a hijacking from the traditional left?
Glenn, that is one of the arguments that opponents of this use,
but frankly, there is literally no chance that you're going to have a convention that
proposes some kind of crazy amendment that in 38 states ratify. I feel much more comfortable
in that check-in balance than I do with what the courts could do in Washington or even what
Congress can do. But you mentioned something that's very insightful, actually, because
liberals, once they understand this concept like it, at least a lot of them do, because they
understand that what we're trying to do is not tell people what to do or to tell California they have to do
something and South Carolina does something else. What we're talking about is where things are
decided. And that's the difference here. The thing that creates disunity all over the country now
is you've got so many things being decided in Washington about what we should do and how we should
live our lives. What we need to do is let states and local communities and people themselves
make more of their own decisions. As long as power keeps gravitating to Washington, the
the more, I think, disunity we're going to have in America.
So let me take this now.
I went for the liberals.
Let me take to this to conservatives.
Do you think that the conservatives fell asleep on Article 5 after Trump was elected?
And has that changed?
No, I don't think so because I think, I believe most of what President Trump is trying to do
are things that we agree with.
But we see that ever since he was elected, that they have made this big deal.
of Russia. If Russia did anything, that's on Obama. I mean, he would, Obama was supposed to be
watching our country and our, uh, uh, security systems and stuff like that. But I, I think what we've
seen is despite the, the strong personality of Trump and he's put some good people in the
agencies, they're still making it almost impossible for him to get anything done. And even with
Republican majorities, we see in the budgets they pass that we're going to keep, keep spending
and keep growing the government.
Hopefully we can have some small successes.
But I don't think the country has fallen asleep
and I see this as a mission that the grassroots,
that folks who are involved with the Tea Party,
who are discouraged now,
that people can see this is a very focused idea
that if we come together,
this is maybe the only way we can restrain
and out-of-control federal government.
Jim, who are you more disappointed with
Congress or the presidency, because I have to tell you, Congress is, in my opinion, absolutely
shameful, shameful the way they're acting and spending and, you know, the way they dealt
with Obamacare is just, is mind-boggling.
Yeah, I agree.
No, I'm disappointed in Congress.
I frankly think the Trump administration.
has done a lot of good things that they can do on their own. But they're in a box canyon.
Everybody's shooting at them, including some Republicans. You go over the White House. This is
surrounded by tents of media people who every day are looking for something they're doing wrong.
But one of the things I want to do on the hill is work with conservatives to try to make them more
effective. Because once you get there, whether you're in the House or the Senate, you're in your own
little foxhole, everybody's firing at you. Every time you try to do something right,
they try to throw you off a committee or gets you back home with your constituents.
We can do a lot better uniting and equipping conservatives once they're elected.
And that's what I'm going to try to do along with a small team is to get them to work more
closely together and try to protect those who are trying to do the right thing.
More with Jim DeMint, who's now one of the senior advisors of the Convention of States project.
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Former Senator Jim de Mint
is with us now
he's with the Convention of States
just left the Heritage Foundation
Senator let me ask you a couple of questions
as a former senator
it came out last night
in a very weird sort of way
the head of Newsmax
left the White House at 530
went over to PBS to do the news hour
and said that President Trump is considering letting go of Bob Mueller
and shutting down the independent counsel.
Paul Ryan said today he has confidence in Mueller.
The White House has since denied that that is happening,
but has said that he's at least thinking about it.
What would that, what would your reaction be if,
if you were a senator to something like that?
Well, I think now that he's in place,
it would probably be a mistake for the president to terminate that.
I think it was a mistake to appoint a special prosecutor,
because if you look at how they've worked over the years,
they almost have to find something,
and if they can't find something that they were supposed to be looking,
that they'll look at something else.
And I was hoping when it happened that maybe it,
would settle the Russia thing and Trump could go on to leading the country, but apparently they're
not going to let that happen.
So I just think now that he's in place, they're going to have to ride it out for a while,
at least until there's some testimony that proves that Trump has not only never been
under investigation, but there has been no evidence since all this started that Trump or his
team had anything to do with it.
So some more testimony like that, I think it would be good.
good if members of Congress, particularly in the Senate, call on a resignation and the termination
of a judicial prosecutor.
But the president needs some help with this, and so if other Republicans are taking cover,
it's going to be hard for him to do it himself.
Jim, there is evidence that came out today.
We're going to share it in about five to eight minutes.
there is real disturbing evidence now that has nothing to do with Clinton or Donald Trump
that the Russians did target our election in in incomprehensible ways
and hit and actually broke into 37 of our states
and got into the polling numbers in 37 states did not luckily affect the election
but that is the one thing that I got out of the testimony last week
that I don't think the media or anybody else is paying attention to
because we're so busy playing politics.
The Russians are not just coming, they're here.
Exactly, Glenn.
We've known for years, Russia has the most sophisticated propaganda machine in the world
been interfering in elections for decades.
It's one of the problems we've seen in Ukraine
and the former Soviet republics.
They're constantly destabilizing.
stabilizing governments and being engaged in elections.
Everyone in the Obama administration knew that this was a risk.
And the fact that it was not addressed, that more was not,
is a gaping hole in our security.
So it does concern me that our cybersecurity for our U.S. government and our country is the weak.
We've lost carry secrets, and now they're in our election booths.
We were talking about this earlier today.
I think at any other time in American history,
with what they did, what I believe they did with WikiLeaks,
you know, how they hacked into the DNC,
and now we have stark evidence that they hacked into 37 states.
I think at any other time in history,
that would be akin to an act of war.
Am I wrong or right historically?
It's definitely the new type of warfare,
and we've lost billions of dollars and military secrets,
It's not only to Russia to China.
We need to do a whole – I know I worked on it, some, in the Senate, to build a better cybersecurity system.
But the government is always 10 years behind, and they've been hesitant to use a lot of the private sector sources that have figured out what to do there.
But we need to catch up on that because lives are at stake on our intelligence system.
And certainly if our whole democratic system now is in jeopardy, that that's a huge problem.
We're in Texas, Jim.
I know 12 states now have called for the convention of states.
32 other states are considering it this year.
I didn't think Texas was going to, I mean, first I thought it was insane that Texas wouldn't pass it.
Then I thought, oh my gosh, the Texas legislature, they're just not going to do it.
They eventually did.
How are the other states shaping up?
And did Texas make a difference in momentum?
Texas always makes a difference.
It's one of the reasons we're working now with Texas' own school choice.
The more they set a pattern for the country in a positive way,
the opposite of what California often does.
But it's the grassroots strength of the conservative movement in Texas
that made the difference with your legislature there
because there were a number of people trying to block it or hide from it.
And that's what's happening around the country.
The Convention of States Project is building a grassroots network
of millions of people who come to understand that this may be the only way to save our country.
And so they're engaged in every state, and during the next legislative cycle, you're going to
probably see 10 or 20 states in play with a lot of grassroots support.
So that's what I'm going to do all over the country, call on people who've been trying to
elect good people who've worked in the Tea Party, who've been active, to come help us call this
article for the convention of the states.
And it is, I really truly believe this is the fix.
This is the founder's fix.
I wish we would have thought of it when the Tea Party was roaring
because we could have really gotten things done.
But we need people to be involved in the Convention of States.
The things that you want to and believe you can get done
if the Convention is called.
It's in three categories.
And the thing that interests me most about how we're doing it
with the Convention on the State project is we're not proposing the specific amendments
because we found, for instance, if you're working on term limits,
then everybody wants term limits is going to disagree whether it's six, eight, or 12 years.
But what we're doing are three areas that we will pass amendments that restrict
physically what the federal government can do to borrow money.
Generally, it will deal with an balanced budget, but also tax spending restrictions.
The other is jurisdiction and authorization.
It was what the federal government can do on the regulatory front,
on what it can do, for instance, controlling education, health care,
give states much more latitude there.
The third subject is to put term limits on federal officials,
congressmen, senators, and perhaps even federal judges.
What do you say to people who say, and I've got about 30 seconds for this answer,
what do you say to people who say, you know, you put term limits on,
then it's going to be the bureaucrats that are running everything.
That's just not true.
Every time you have a new wave of people come in, they bring a lot of their own people.
They won't get something done.
They know they have a short period of time, and they're not going to put up with much of this.
Let's do it after the next election.
So it's a way to clean the place up and get people to think about the country rather than a political career.
It is always an honor to talk to you, Jim.
Thank you so much for your service of the country.
Thanks for what you did at Heritage Foundation.
and now joining the Convention of States Project.
If you want to get involved with the Convention of States,
how do you do it, Jim, quickly?
Do you just go to the website?
You just go to the website.
You'll be right there on our side.
The Glenn Beck Program.
The Glenbeck Program.
Bill O'Reilly is going to be joining us at the top of the hour.
We also have some commentary on this Megan Kelly stuff.
with Alex Jones,
she has just been disinvited
to be the host
of a Sandy Hook
charity.
What?
That's supposed to happen
next Wednesday.
Because she was exposing
the, listen to the logic of this,
because she's exposing the guy,
just like the New York Times has,
just like New York Magazine has,
just like we have,
exposing Alex Jones to be
the lunatic,
that he is that says he's he's by the way asking for this not to play on NBC because he said he
was taken out of context on Sandy Hook. I want to play the context of what he said on Sandy Hook.
Here it is. They have staged events before, but then you learn the school had been closed and
reopen and you got video of the kids going in circles in and out of the building and they don't
call the rescue choppers for two hours. And then they tear the
building down and seal it and they get caught using blue screens and a email by Bloomberg comes
out in the lawsuit where he's telling his people get ready in the next 24 hours to capitalize
on a shooting.
I haven't seen that.
Yeah.
So Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors.
So stop.
So far as I know, Megan Kelly has been the only one that has really pushed him on this.
everybody else has done profiles
but they have not pushed him on this
she pushed him on this
so far a sponsor has been
asked to be moved off of the show
for what
for Time magazine putting Adolf Hitler
on the cover and saying he was the
man of the year in 1938
yes he was the man of the year
in 1938 to be able to
have a logical
rational discussion
with the irrational
is important, not when he's a nobody,
but when the president of the United States
has given him press credentials
and made him into a legitimate guy.
I don't have White House press credentials.
He does.
He does.
Shouldn't that guy be examined?
I mean, this exact show
with this exact host
two weeks ago, interviewed Vladimir Putin.
I can't stand Alex Jones
other than the fact that he's hilarious
I never want to hear a word from him
but he's certainly not as bad as Vladimir Putin
Yes
Why on earth would you want to move your advertising out of this one
Clearly and in her statement she's really
This is her statement from being disinvited
We're going to get to the Russia stuff here in a second
Listen to this
I understand and respect the decision of the event organizers
But of course I'm disappointed
That I won't be there to support them on Wednesday night
I find Alex Jones suggestion
that Sandy Hooks was a hoax as personally revolting as every other rational person does.
She has done a lot for Sandy Hook.
Yeah.
It left me and many other Americans asking the very question that prompted this interview,
which is a completely reasonable question.
How does Jones, who traffics in these outrageous conspiracy theories,
have the respect of the President of the United States and a growing audience of millions?
President Trump, by praising and citing him,
appearing on his show, and giving him White House press credentials,
has helped elevate Jones to the alarm of many.
Our goal in sitting down with him was to shine a light
as journalists are supposed to do on this influential figure
and yes, to discuss the considerable falsehoods
he has promoted with near impunity.
How could you possibly pull out of an interview
with a person who's taking that approach to Alex Jones?
I mean, unless you're an Alex Jones fan,
I mean, is J.P. Morgan Chase,
are they just huge fans of Alex Jones?
And they're just like, well, I don't like that they're attacking
his Sandy Hook conspiracy that we really believe?
Because that's the only reason you'd want to pull out of that interview.
No, the only reason, that's the logical reason.
The emotional reason is the families are against this interview,
and nobody wants to stand against the families.
But the families, it's the reason why we have a jury of our peers
and the reason why we have a judge give the sentencing to the criminal
and not the victim.
In other countries, the victim gets to sentence.
That's all emotional.
There has to be a line of separation.
We'll get into this with Bill O'Reilly here in a second.
First, let me tell you the breaking news today about Russia.
Now, this is, I said this yesterday when we got back,
and in the think tank last night at 5 o'clock on the Blaze TV,
I made a point again.
this is the most critical point
that we're getting on this Russia thing
everything else is he said she said
everything else is well we don't know
there's an investigation going on
or well Clinton did it and well then Trump did it too
and all of that's nonsense
it's nonsense pay no attention to it
it does not impact your life
this does
and this has nothing to do with politics
and everything to do with the security of our country.
Quote from Bloomberg, breaking today, exclusive story.
Russia's cyber attack on the U.S. electoral system
before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread
than has been publicly revealed,
including incursions into voter databases and software systems
in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
Now, understand, this story goes on to say,
it made no impact in the election.
So this is not a, well, the Russians got him elected.
They weren't even, according to this, they're not even trying to do that.
According to this, they were only trying to cause, what a surprise, chaos.
In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data.
The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day,
and at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.
Details of the wave of attacks in the summer and fall of 2016 were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter.
In all, Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states.
The scope and sophistication so concerned the Obama administration that they took an unprecedented step
complaining directly to Moscow over our modern-day red phone in October.
The White House contacted the Kremlin on a back channel to offer detailed documents of what it said was Russia's role in election meddling and to warn that the attacks risked setting off a broader conflict.
New details buttressed by classified national security agency documents recently disclosed by the intercept show the scope of alleged hacking that federal investigators are scrutinizing as they look into whether Trump campaign officials may have colluded in the efforts.
But they also paint a worrisome picture for future election.
Listen up.
The newest portrayal of potentially deep vulnerabilities
in the U.S. patchwork of voting technologies
comes less than a week after former FBI director James Comey
warned Congress that Moscow isn't done meddling.
Quote, they're coming after America and they will be back.
So what this article is saying is they did spearfishing campaigns
and they went in and they tried to see if they could hack in to first, like the
DNC and RNC. They got into the DNC. Then they went in and they tried to penetrate the companies
that made the voting machines. I believe in two of those companies they got in. In 39 states,
39 states, they got to the county, was it the county level, Stu? No, they went to the state
level. The state level. And this actually is one of the things that protected us against it.
Because the Russians, I mean, and you'd think with their mindset, how does the, how does the world work?
It's top down.
It's centralized government, right?
In their mind, that's how the world works.
And, of course, with us, we have a federalist society.
We have lots, one of the things that made it difficult for them to hack in and do more damage.
She's all these little towns.
All these little towns with all their different voting systems.
And what happens is in these states, the localities feed the information up to the states.
So if they were able to delete all this, the voting rolls,
in the states, it wouldn't have necessarily made a difference
because it's the localities that actually house the information.
Here's what's interesting. Did you notice what
Bloomberg said? Did anything stick out
to you in this on
anything?
I mean, a lot of it. What are you looking for?
Okay, so
this line, this is the newest portrayal
of potentially deep vulnerabilities
in the U.S.'s patchwork
of voting technologies.
What that alludes to
is what that's leading the
reader to believe is we got
a patchwork, it's a hodgepodge.
No, that saved us.
That saved us.
So that patchwork is not a vulnerability.
It's a strength.
The last thing we should do
is nationalize and
standardize everything
because then there's only one system
that they have to figure out.
Yeah, and that really did help us in this
video instance. And what they were trying to do, again,
this has nothing to do with influencing the outcome of the
election. But what they were trying to do was, for example, delete Pat Gray's name out of the voter
rolls. So Pat Gray shows up to vote and they say, you're not a registered voter. Can you imagine that
times 39 states with thousands in each state the amount of chaos that would cause on election day?
What would people say? They would all think that they were being blocked from voting from somebody
and they, you know, technically were, but that would cause mass chaos if they were successful. Now,
luckily, they weren't. But that does not mean they won't be next time.
And these steps...
We should be doing something about it.
They said that it went to 7,000 jurisdictions.
One person with classified briefing said 7,000 jurisdictions.
Wow.
Also, a contractor who works for two or three days a week at a state board of elections,
detected unauthorized data leaving the network.
According to the council for the general board of elections,
the hackers gain access to the state voter database,
which contain information such as names, dates of birth,
genders, drivers license,
Social Security numbers on 15 million people,
half of whom were active voters,
as many as 90,000 records were ultimately compromised.
So they took 7 million people,
and what they were trying to do,
can you imagine in Illinois,
I'm here to vote?
I don't have record of you here.
What would have happened if 7 million voters in Illinois
all of a sudden had their,
You imagine what people would have complained.
You imagine who they, in Illinois,
who would they have blamed that on?
They would have blamed that on Donald Trump.
They would have blamed that on Russia and Donald Trump
trying to get the people of Illinois.
And imagine the riots we would have had in Chicago.
And it's worth saying there's no evidence in this article
that at all points to Donald Trump
who's being responsible for any of this.
That's not even the accusation of the article.
But I mean, think about this from the,
from the political perspective for a second.
If you're a Hillary Clinton fan,
in the article, it goes to great lengths
to describe that Barack Obama
had this information during
the election, not after.
Before the election happened, he had all the
hotline. Yeah, he knew that this
was going on and chose
not to make a big deal
about it to the public. Now, his excuse
and the insider's excuse on that is,
well, we didn't want to make chaos in the election.
We didn't want to give them what they wanted,
which may be part of it. The other part of it
Of course, they thought they were winning.
So, I mean, they probably didn't want to necessarily change the focus on a massive breach of security that happened under his watch, right?
I mean, that's not going to help Hillary Clinton.
So there's, I mean, so that's kind of a big deal there.
And, you know, he could have come out and said those things before the election.
He could have alerted the American people that Russians were going after that.
And for whatever reason didn't, whatever reason you believe didn't.
We did.
And we didn't have any information other than our own intelligence,
meaning we can read their words.
You always take psychopaths at their word.
Always.
Always take psychopaths at their word.
The psychopaths in and around Putin have all told us exactly what they're going to do.
Osama bin Laden told us exactly what he was going to do.
In 99, I said,
blood bodies and buildings will be on the streets of New York.
within the next decade if you don't get this guy.
It's also when you were talking about the caliphate where you got that from.
That wasn't a magical theory you came up within your mind.
They said they wanted it.
That's why we have been telling you for two years the Russians are coming because they're
telling us this.
Now, if you want to make a difference, you stay on course and you make sure that you talk
about the Russian hacking scandal that has nothing.
Let me see if I can say this more clearly.
Nothing to do.
Nothing at all to do.
With Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
It has everything to do with Russia.
You understand that.
We're good.
Back in a minute.
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So Deputy AG Rosenstein and Sessions
going to testify today.
anxious to hear what Bill O'Reilly has to say with that.
Anxious to hear what Bill O'Reilly has to say about the Russia deal as well.
Yeah, and the Megan Kelly thing too, honestly.
The Megan Kelly and the Morgan, the what's his name, Mueller story.
There's a lot of, gosh, it's every day.
There's a lot of big stories that are happening today.
And Bill O'Reilly will be joining us here in just a couple of minutes.
And he'll be greeting me warmly.
You guys are just to see
I mean, you're almost too close
to each other. It's too warm.
It is. It is too warm.
It is. I have to tell you a story sometime
about when Bill and I
went out and we did a
you know, we used to do these tours together.
We did meet and greet.
And the difference between the way people
behaved around Bill O'Reilly
and the way they behaved around me was
night and day.
It was hysterical.
Maybe we get to that.
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The one the only, Mr. Bill O'Reilly. Hello, Bill.
Beck, you back to work, huh?
After what?
Eight-week vacation, how long are you are?
Wow, I was going to start with something nice, but you go right for the throat.
No, no, everybody missed you, Beck.
People were just stumbling around here in New York City going, where's Beck?
Yeah.
Right, right.
So how have you been, Bill?
How's your summer going?
Hello?
That was it this week.
That was apparently.
Oh, there is.
Wait, wait.
There you are.
There you are.
We lost you for a second.
How's your summer been going?
Everything is good
Just a lot of stuff going on
I got to deal with every day
And
You're like you gotta take the dog out to walk
I mean
You've been on quite a vacation
And tweeting
And tweeting makes me nervous
Because I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing
But this is amazing
Yeah
We do live tweets
We're going to do them today
In a session's hearing
And we did it with the Comey
Hearing you heard about that
On your vacation
Yes I did
I watched it
Yeah I did
more than 3 million people were following my tweets.
And I don't even know what tweets are.
Right, right.
So, Bill.
I have the machine in my hand, and I'm watching, and then I write little comments, like he's lying, or this is ridiculous, or this is a pinhead right here, whatever.
Three million people.
And then I understand that one of the Trump sons then was retweeting what I was tweeting, what I was tweeting,
which I don't know what that means either.
Right, you'd have to check the machines.
And there was all avalanche of stuff that happened.
Yeah.
So that's my life back back.
Right.
Okay, well, sounds, sounds, sounds good.
So today, so today,
you're going to be doing this with sessions.
And what should we expect?
Less on the tweets, more on the actual sense.
He's going to have his wrap down.
Number one.
He knows what's coming.
So he's got to explain the three meetings that he had as a senator.
with the Russian people.
So you've got to do that.
That's easy.
And so number one, you're looking at a predictable set of Q&A at the top.
But then it'll get interesting because he has to then say, okay,
what did you know about Comey's firing?
What did you know about that?
And that's where it gets interesting.
Because, you know, you figure Sessions was in on the discussion.
to sack Comey.
You figure that.
And how he phrases that, how he puts that,
you know, why was he fired,
what was the real reason,
then you get into interesting territory.
Would you pull out of Comey's testimony last week?
Give me two highlights that you thought
people didn't really understand
or the news media didn't get right.
Well, the amazing thing was
when he dropped the bomb,
and it certainly was that,
that he is a little,
leaker that he took notes that he wrote on an FBI computer and gave him to the New York
Times because, you know, that's what he did.
He did it to an intermediary friend of his.
But, you know, if you looked at the senator, they didn't even follow up on it.
I don't even think they were paying attention.
It was like they were some nambulant.
And I'm bolted up.
My head bolted up.
And I immediately tweeted, that's huge.
That's enormous.
He just admitted he's a leaker, the head of the FBI,
going to the New York Times, a paper that hates the president.
So there's got to be vitriol there.
He didn't go to some neutral boys.
It did show that he wasn't the innocent little boy scout.
No.
He's a political player.
He's a political player.
He knows exactly how that works.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
A sense of nobility that he might have had because he was trying.
And every senator, oh, you're the biggest patriot.
Paul Revere is nothing on you.
All this crap.
All right.
And then, oh, by the way, I'm a leaker.
I did a leak that I wanted the president of the United States to look bad and hurt him.
And I went, whoa.
So that was the biggest thing.
What was this?
The second thing was he called Trump a liar, straight out.
And he did that because he was truly insulted.
Comey, that Trump said the FBI's chaos, that it was mismanaged.
So, look, I understand the emotion there.
But, you know, that was a pretty big thing for an FBI chief to do.
So, again, you didn't pull what I pulled out.
And this is the biggest thing of all, especially with the news that's coming from Bloomberg today.
And that is, the Russians are coming.
We spent all last week with everybody talking about Comey and Trump and Hillary Clinton when we should have been talking about the Russian hack.
I don't know if you saw the report that came out today from Bloomberg.
It's an exclusive.
39 states.
Now, it didn't affect the election.
But as Comey said last week, it will affect 18 or 20 if we don't do something.
They got into 39 states.
That's double the amount that has been previously known.
And they got into the actual county, or sorry, statewide systems thinking that it goes statewide up instead of at the grassroots.
That's the only thing that saved us was they were thinking like Soviets and not thinking like Americans.
And they hacked in as many as 7 million voters in Illinois could have had their registration wiped clean.
that's significant.
Absolutely.
That's a huge thing.
The reason I believe that that didn't get more attention.
It's not sexy.
I don't think the Bloomberg thing is going to get a lot of attention either,
but you're very smart to point it out because it is frightening
how dependent we are on this technology
and how the technology can be used by criminals,
and that's who these Russians are,
to, you know, harm a nation.
Right.
But people, I think, know that.
I think they know that espionage was...
Yeah, but Bill, this is different.
They were not...
There's no evidence that they were trying to work for Trump or for Clinton.
They were just trying to cause chaos.
Chaos.
That is...
Don't you think most Americans know that?
Yeah, I do.
Don't you think they know?
I do.
But I think we need to stop all this political nonsense
and start focusing on, okay, wait a minute.
it. Tell me
me during Ronald Reagan, that wouldn't have been called
an act of war. The world now.
It is a different world.
The primary goal of the opposition party,
the Democrats, and the media,
the national media, their primary
goal is not holding
Putin accountable for anything.
It's destroying
Donald Trump.
So anything that doesn't play into that
narrative is shunted aside.
So then shouldn't we, as
you know, defenders of
of what we believe is true,
shouldn't we then be saying,
okay, stop, watch the other hand.
Don't pay attention to this.
Pay attention to this,
because this is going to actually affect our republic,
where the nonsense of, you know,
did Donald Trump, was he in collusion?
That's nonsense.
This is important.
It's a problem with a story like that.
So you don't have put out in what Putin in his,
as you put it,
house as possible in our election. Is that an act of war? You could say it's a hostile act. I mean,
I don't know whether it rises to the fact that we start to, you know, lob. You know, I'm not saying
that we do, but I know that in any other time period that would have been an act of war.
I'll see that point, too, back, and it pains me to do it.
You seem, you seem like getting, can I, may I say something? Getting away from, you know,
the grind every day, you seem happier than I've possibly ever even suspected you could be.
Yeah, you seem almost, dare I say it, less morose.
I don't have to commute into New York City every day, so that is enormous.
Yes.
The rest of it I'm not going to comment on, although I will tell you that over 20-year period
at Fox News, I worked as hard as a human being could possibly work.
And I don't have to work now.
No, I saw you.
I saw you.
I saw you arrive and I saw you leave.
You know, those things make you a little more buoyant.
Yes.
Boyant, we'll say it with you.
So another good observation from Beck after an eight-week vacation, he's refreshed and ready to go.
And more buoyant.
When's your vacation up, Bill?
I never thought.
I mean, I have somebody.
he's got to keep an eye on this country.
Right, right, right.
Okay, so let me go here.
It came out last night that Donald Trump may be considering,
may be considering dumping the special counsel Mueller.
What do you think of that idea and what will happen if he does?
Well, number one, gossip, and that's what that is.
It would be a bad move.
Trump did that.
very. I don't think he will. I think there's mischief afoot. Mischief afoot. I think that these
kinds of things get out there for a reason. Well, okay, hang on. Here's how it came out. Last night,
I know how it came out. Yeah, the head of Newsmax met at the White House, left, went to PBS, set it on the air.
So somebody in the White House was talking to him. But he, but he, but he was clear.
We're ahead of his Max Christopher Reddy.
I know him, you know him.
He's an honest man.
He was clear that nobody told him that.
He just surmised it.
Or he took something, you know, or this is a deduction of his.
So I've been to hang out just a second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
I've been to the White House.
I've been in the Oval.
You've been in the Oval.
That's a condition of even being in the Oval.
You can't ever quote the president.
Yeah.
You can say, I felt that this might have been what he was thinking.
Even if he said it to you, that's the way you have to phrase it.
I just don't analyze gossip.
All right.
Stuff like that.
To me, if there is a official announcement, there's something going on because Spicer dealt with it too in a coy way.
Coy, another word of the day, C-O-Y-C-O-C-Y.
Spicer, who is a zombie of the greatest order, you know, he needs to play those kind of games.
Well, we didn't really say that, but, you know, let's see what happened.
You know that they're trying to create mischief, which is what the Trump White House does.
It plays like a cat in a ball, plays, you know, and throws these things out.
I don't think that's a good thing for President Trump.
I think he probably disagrees with me on that.
But they do this, you know, to be provocative.
I don't know why.
But right now, I don't think Mueller is going anywhere.
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Who is you killing this time, Bill?
You, Beck.
I'm going to miss you probably more than anyone.
Oh, I feel like the end of Wizard of Oz.
That is so sweet.
Why are you going to miss me?
Are you going away?
No, but in the book, if you get it, you know...
Oh, if I get off.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, all right.
Well, at least we know how it ends.
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Bill O'Reilly. He used to do some TV show.
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And now he is on the radio with us.
and we are thrilled to have him twice this week.
Usually he's on Fridays.
We're thrilled to have him.
Welcome back to the program,
Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com.
I'm ready. What do you have for me?
Okay.
So let me go over the Megan Kelly thing.
When did journalists stop being journalists?
When did it become controversial
to have someone on television
who is a flaming nutcase
and hold his feet to the fire and say, really?
When that person has White House press credentials
and has been normalized by the president's son,
by being on there, Roger Stone is on his program,
actually co-hosts his program or fill-in hosts,
why is that controversial for Megan Kelly to have him on?
You know, I don't follow this guy,
and I had to actually ask,
does he have a radio show?
Not really.
He's on the internet, right?
Yeah, I think he's on some small stations.
But, I mean, be careful of making fun of people
who are only on the internet right now.
I mean, I'm just saying.
Well, I'm not making fun of it.
I didn't know where he was
or what his distribution was.
He's got a quite successful.
He's got a quite successful internet following.
And again, I'm not an expert.
in this guy at this level.
I haven't followed him.
But the people up at Sandy Hook
in Connecticut
were when he came out and said
that the killings up there
the children may not
have been done by
the nut that did it.
No, he didn't say they may not be done.
He said it was a state
that none of those children are dead.
It was fake. It was
it was shocking what he has said.
And he stood by that.
Well, kind of.
What can I tell you?
I mean, it's, I understand why the parents and the families of the children are.
Right.
So I understand the families 100%.
100%.
I would not have done the interview because I know not to do it.
So would we have not done an interview with Osama bin Laden?
No, you would have talking about policy.
You're talking about policy.
got a guy who has power who.
How about Charlie Manson?
Should we have ever done an interview with Charlie Manson?
That's an interesting question.
I mean, I just don't.
I think you have to do an interview with a guy like Manson because you're doing it as a crime story.
Yeah, but this is a guy who actually has White House access and is making, is making an impact with crazy stuff.
Does that make it right?
I don't care if the guy is vice president.
Does it make it right?
See, I'm going on a personal level.
I make decisions like this all the time.
I would not give him a forum.
Now, you've got to assume Kelly's going to kill him, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to cut him up and make them look bad.
But I say any same person knows that that's crazy what he did and what he said.
So why are we legitimizing crazy?
But one person who doesn't seem to know that is the president.
Yeah, one group that doesn't know that seems to be the people around the president
as they've given him a White House press credential and continually appear on his show.
We'll be back more with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com in a second.
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We think it's more of a chore to have Bill O'Reilly on twice this week.
at bill o'reilly.com where you can hear his podcast every day and hear what he's talking about
and the news of the day you can follow him today on Twitter uh i would assume it's at bill o'reilly but
he doesn't know seeing that he referred to his phone as a machine
um yeah i think it is at bill o'reilly uh if you want to email me or anything it's
uh bill at bill o'rerily dot com but i appreciate that we're going to tweet live
uh as sessions gets out there and as southern drawl and uh
I think he'll, I think Sessions, the canny guy that he is, he's, you know, he's been around forever.
He's going to, he's very surprised if they get him off his game.
Bill, first of all, you're calling your phone a machine.
You do have a book out called Old School.
We should probably point out.
So it actually ties it very well to your book.
Can I follow up on the, this is Stu, by the way.
I want to follow up on the, on the Alex Jones thing for one more second with Megan Kelly.
Because your point on don't give this guy a form is completely valid.
In fact, we had the same conversation about this guy a couple years ago because we find him very entertaining and funny in a weird way.
And so we would...
He's accidentally funny.
So we would try to play these clips and we would go back and forth.
Do we give this more?
And I would always say, don't give him any daylight.
Don't give him any daylight.
So I totally understand that.
So Beck is...
Let me get the straight.
Beck is agreeing with me?
He was agreeing with you.
Three years ago.
Three years ago.
Three years ago.
Yes.
Three years ago, but things have changed.
That has evolved.
Well, the conditions on the ground have evolved.
Yeah.
So let me, is there value?
Because as you pointed out, even you, someone who follows the news like crazy and one of the hardest working man in the news,
didn't know that much about this guy.
Okay?
You didn't know that much about him.
Is there value in exposing who this man is if for no other reason than to try to stop Donald Trump and the people around him from retweeating?
from retweeting his articles, from going on these shows, from giving this guy the expanding
sort of universe he's getting from the credibility from the White House, because that is what
is happening.
The president has been...
I got your point.
The president was on his show and said, you have a great reputation.
And I want to play.
This is what he said about Sandy Hook.
Listen to this.
They have staged events before, but then you learn the school had been closed and reopened
and you got video of the kids going in circles in and out of the building,
and they don't call the rescue choppers for two hours,
and then they tear the building down and seal it,
and they get caught using blue screens,
and an email by Bloomberg comes out in a lawsuit
where he's telling us people, get ready in the next 24 hours
to capitalize on a shooting.
Yeah, so Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake,
with actors, in my view, manufactured.
I couldn't believe it at first.
I knew they had actors there clearly,
but I thought they killed some real kids.
Oh, my God.
And it just shows how bold they are
that they clearly used actors.
I mean, they even ended up using
photos of kids killed in mass shootings here.
So is there a reason to expose him
to stop the administration from giving him credibility
and retweeting his stories?
Always the greater good that people, good people, fair-minded people should go for.
And the greater good is to not give him a forum, in my opinion.
Number two, the Trump administration tweaks.
They tweak the mainstream media because it's war between them.
This is a propaganda tweet.
I would not have done it.
I regret that any administration would credential somebody who says something like that.
but is it a central part of their presentation,
their presentation being the Trump administration?
No, it's a small offshoot that I would say most people aren't even aware of.
Well, it goes to fake news.
He's saying, you know, CNN is fake news.
Absolutely.
And that's why they're tweaking, you know,
whoever made this decision to credential the guy,
is, did it to, though, like, if you could play that game,
we can play it too. And look at this. We can make the theater of absurd and credential them.
But again, it comes down to the families for me. The pain that any parent experiences when their
child is killed overrides any political thing or any journalistic thing. And so I would not
put him on. Why do you think they're doing this back? Why do you think to put them on?
Oh, I think because it will...
One word, back. Begins with an R.
Yeah, I was going to say, it will garner ratings.
I think it will garner ratings.
Oh, you haven't lost your edge, even though you took a 10-week vacation.
Now it's 10.
That was 10.
That was 10.
So let me switch gears with you.
Let's go to North Korea.
Let me make one more points of course.
Oh, dear God.
Okay.
All right, go ahead.
All right.
It was a lot easier when you weren't there, and Stoo was running the show.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Kelly's opening with Putin got $6 million.
Please second with the sportscaster, Aaron Andrews.
This is a problem.
So they're hoping that this and the controversy it generates,
and it is, we're talking about it now,
will get her back up there.
Nothing wrong with wanting good ratings.
But again, you have to weigh the greater good.
Next question, please.
Couldn't disagree with you more.
But let's go to North Korea.
They just released, remember the kid who,
who stole the poster was sentenced to like 15 years hard labor.
They just released him.
However, the new news that is coming out, that was released this morning.
A couple of hours later, it was released that he's been in a coma for a year,
and he's going home for medical reasons.
They say he ate something that didn't agree with him and put him in a coma.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, well, that happens all the time in some fast food operations we know of.
Look, it's another situation where there's nothing you can do about these savages.
You have to contain them so they don't attack Japan with a missile.
But is anybody surprised that North Korea is a human rights violator?
I mean, they don't even feed their own people.
You know, their own people are in comas because they don't have any food.
I mean, this is how pernicious this thing is.
Now, I have to say Dennis Rodman is over there again.
Yes, he is.
You know, so there'll probably be a lot of cross-dressing going on right now in Yan Yang.
What do you think of, what do you think of Dennis Rodman going over there?
Ms. Rodman needs what, Beck?
Medication.
He begins with a P.
Publicity.
Publicity, because nobody's paying attention to him.
How do you get publicity?
You go to the only country in the world that wants you.
That's it.
Every other country, you go, look, you can't come here.
You have too many earrings in your face.
We don't want you scaring your children.
You can't come.
But North Korea will take you.
So you go.
Last topic, Teresa May.
She calls for a vote.
I mean, I keep thinking of the Wall Street phrase,
pigs get slaughtered.
She thought she was going to increase her power,
and it turned around.
It's great that you bring a dog to this.
It shows a real heightened professionals.
Does anybody want a corgi, by the way?
No.
I'll have her around.
All right.
So what do you?
The loudest dog in the world.
And I don't make any jokes about me and the dog.
No, I think you walking.
No, seriously.
I'm imagining you now in some like, I don't know, some shorts, house coat,
a t-shirt, slippers, and a little dog.
I have sandals and a t-shirt on.
You're right.
So.
There is, too.
So, Theresa May.
Theresa May.
What do you want to know about it?
I want to know what, what do you think is going to happen with Brexit?
And how stupid of a move was that?
Well, I don't follow British politics very closely, but Brexit is going to happen.
And it's a pure immigration play.
That's why the British subjects voted to leave the EU because they were tired of people coming into their country.
They had no idea who had no idea who,
people were, but that they had a EU passport, bang, they're in. And, you know, they were tired of it,
so that's why they're out. Now, as far as Mrs. May, she comes across to me as a rather
boring person, and I think that the British people are just say, she's just too boring. Let's
get someone else. I think it's all about boredom back. Wow, if you're boring Brits, that's really
boring. Yeah, she's really, you know, Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher, you know, she's great.
the hand grenades, she had the hair
that went up so high, you go,
how high is that?
But this one, you know,
hey, hello.
I didn't see that they've had enough.
Wow, just a, I mean,
like, deep analysis. I didn't think we'd
get a Theresa May impersonation. No,
I don't think so. And I mean,
come out, as you must be, no,
sit down and shut up.
Listen to Bill O'Reilly.
I mean, he is,
he is, he is cutting his hair down. He is.
He's got that one hair on the top, and he's letting it all the way down.
So, Bill, one last question.
I know you don't follow British politics, but this is a serious debate that I had on vacation
because I happen to be vacationing with somebody who is from Scotland,
and I said, what is the deal?
You have universal health care.
Why don't any of you have your teeth fixed?
Do you have any...
any
cultural thing.
Yeah, it's a cultural thing.
Remember they just like bad teeth?
He had the worst teeth
in a world when he was on a Ed Sullivan show
singing I'm Henry the 8th I am.
But then he's moved to California
and now he's got perfect teeth.
So you're right.
You know, in America
we want our teeth.
They don't care.
And he ate a lot of candy over there.
I lived in London for a year.
And everybody's eating Cadbury
like crazy.
of course,
you know,
that's what's going on there,
and I'm sure everybody
across the country
is very interested in that.
Yes.
Okay.
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Yeah, well, it's just really heavy on.
What are you doing for Father's Day?
I mean, are you going out anywhere?
They're taking you to do?
What do you eat?
I mean, do you go to brunch?
Is Beck go to brunch?
What do you do?
It's my day, and so I sell the kids, don't bother me.
What a great dad.
Yeah, well, that's the way I roll.
Ozzie Nelson.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't bother me.
My day.
Bill, it is good to, uh,
Good to hear you. Good to hear you.
So chipper and we'll be following you and talk to you on Friday.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, we'll see you Friday, Beck. Thanks for having you and as always.
Bye-bye.
Finally, somebody is going to talk about the Civil War.
I know.
Finally.
And we finally get some information about that war?
Seriously, I don't know if it's Prozac, lithium.
I don't know what it is.
But I like it.
Yeah.
He is really.
It's a new attitude.
Yeah, he's chipper and seems happy.
Yeah.
Which I never thought I would say.
about Bill O'Reilly. I used to call him up
and he'd answer his phone.
Back.
Hey, Bill. You know,
how are you doing? And he'd always answer the same way.
Miserable. Same way I always am.
And I never thought I'd hear him happy. He's happy.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, you get away from the stuff
and you just start living a real life
and it makes you happy. That's why we took a 12-week vacation.
That's right. I'm thinking about taking up
a 52-week vacation.
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