The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Larry Elder | 7/29/21

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

Radio host Larry Elder calls in to discuss his gubernatorial run in California and what he would do to fix the state. Glenn digs into the Biden administration’s concerning new definition of “domestic terrorism” and how the Treasury Department, IRS, and private banks could go after your finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We talked to him for about an hour today. Could he be the next governor of California? it looks like there's a good chance. That's an amazing development for California. They might go into shock. But we talked to Larry Elder.

Also, we, Chip Roy, what an unbelievable rant in the house yesterday. We cover that and all the things that are going on with COVID. Also, a look at what I talked about on last night's television program as well that is so important. This is the most critical information you could know. What the Biden administration is doing that puts everyone that disagrees with them in a box. All on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenback program. Every Elder Show.

And now a California gubernatorial candidate. Larry Elder, welcome to the program. Oh, yeah. I mean, Larry, I have to tell you, when I first saw, I just said this to Stu on air about 10 minutes ago, when I first saw that you were running, I was like, that's not going to work out well. Because, I mean, you could be Ronald Reagan, but you're in California. And then I start to see the poll numbers, and you're ahead, almost double ahead of anybody else. you're out, you're out raising funds for anybody else who is in the race.

And you have a legitimate shot here. And that would be game-changing for not only California, but for all of America. I think it will be game-changing for all of America for a number of reasons. You know, this critical talking about training white kids to believe they're oppressor, victims, people around saying, good enough, you have to. Elder, what is your experience? Lieutenant Governor for eight if and when he became, as we've seen, a rising crime, rising homelessness, declining quality of public schools, and the draconian way this man shut down the state

while violating the mandates with the very same professionals who drafted the mandates when he was sitting at that famous French laundry restaurant, not engaging in social distancing, not wearing a mask. Ronald Reagan came out of Hollywood. He didn't spend 27 years, as I have, up and down the state, broad-caged your market in California from Sacramento down to San Diego in 1998. It's carried in the largest newspaper in the valley here in L.A. It's carried in the largest newspaper in Orange County. I've been talking about issues like crime and homelessness and the outrageous cost of living for years.

Ronald Reagan came out of Hollywood. Now, he, of course, reading National Review, and at one time, he was a left-wing guy. I was never a left-wing guy. So you could make the argument that I'm even more prepared to do this with Ronald Reagan. Well, I will tell you this, Larry, that Ronald Reagan started to write radio minutes. if you will, just like Paul Harvey. And that was explaining his philosophies. And I think that really helped sharpen him and also prepare the way. You've been doing it in a three-hour format every day. And my dad came here in 1945 right after the war. He worked two full-time jobs cleaning toilets.

Believe it or not, was able to save his nickels and dimes enough to have a stay-at-home mom, my stay-at-home wife, my mother. And she stayed at home until the youngest of us was in middle school, and he saved up enough money to move in black family in the neighborhood. Looked up on Zillow, it is... No one with an eighth grade dropout education could follow my father's path to the middle class here in California. If he or she worked three jobs, let alone two, and that's because every housing project in California is stopped by the environmentalists who claim it's going to have an adverse environmental impact. That's why there's a shortage of housing in California. That's why for the first time about people making

between 50 and 100K are leaving California because they cannot get that first house. There's a magazine called the CEO magazine. It's been around for 17 years. And for 17 consecutive years, out of all the states, California has been determined to be the worst state in which to do business based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the anti-business, down the throat of the American people. Haney, and he's a, now for a past... So what is the biggest, what is the biggest problem that you see the first thing that you would have to tackle in California? You go under a freeway over-pedaline reason why people on the streets in the, and why are they on the streets in the first place?

Being a danger to them so they need to be safety of the rest of the homeless population. And put where? And put where? And the, you don't know how many, I think it's relatively small, people that just don't want to work. They're going to go to jail as a vagrant or you're going to get a job who have drug problems. They too need to be treated. In addition 47, I think the voters were duped into doing it. And the idea was that some people who are stealing are stealing in order to support their meth habit or their heroin happened. Under $950

bucks, you don't go to jail. You're not a felon. You've committed a misdemeanor. You get a ticket if you get caught. Well, what the of L.A. County tells me, his name is Alex Viannaway, but one of the people that I interviewed before, I got pulled off. Either you dry out in jail or you dry out in rehab, one or the other, they're going to go to jail, because they're not going to go to jail. And you've seen all these videos

of people literally stealing in front of people in front of... Walking, walking out. Not running, not running, walking out. Mental illness party involved in that. Government can't solve this. We have missions in Orange County for example, were they getting people off the street, trying to give them some spiritual, and that's what needs to happen.

Now, I'm not at all saying that 100% of people on the streets can somehow become computer software programmers at Apple. I don't believe that whatsoever, but you cannot allow people to stay on the streets, health and safety of everybody. They have no low-cost housing. The environmental regulations I just now mentioned. So the private sector need to be unleashed, not by the public sector. Housing, which is what Gavin Newsom and the different people there in the first place,

A, B, you can. And C, you're inviting other people to California where they're going to be treated I should treat every human being, and I might even tell me to lay a whole bunch of people, even from California. We've incentivized people from the other states to come here. So I'm involving the churches. One of my mentors is a guy named Pastor Jack Hibbs. And he said, Larry, let us do it. Let us adopt a block, adopt a street, adopt an area.

Let them that they need, while the privacy just now mentioned, I can eliminate this problem. So, Larry, one of the things that I think we all learned from Donald Trump was the system is so incredible. incredibly corrupt, that there are career people that are just not, they don't care who the president is. And they will work to thwart and destroy everything. The people elect somebody and put them in. They'll work to destroy that person. How are you going to deal with a, with a Californian system of, of progressivism, socialism that is just bred now into the system? And I'm not deluding myself about that. We have super majorities in the lower chamber of government called the assembly, supermajorities of Democrats in the upper chamber called the Senate, and talk about a deep state. Particularly, we have term limits. And I know a lot of Republicans like term limits. What it does is just strengthen the staffers and strengthen the special interest groups. The politician comes in and knows that he or she's only going to be there for a few years and is given a lot more power. What I intend to do, essentially allows anybody of time, somehow, some way, Glenn, they're way different.

that down and go to these homeless places. Prince Show High School, that was a school that was featured in the movie Boys in the Hood. High School can do math. At 5% of all they cannot read. Did you say, what was that percentage? 75%. Oh, my gosh. 50% of third graders, Glenn cannot read at state.

100,000 public school teachers in California. Minimum, 5% of them are incompetent. That's 15,000 teachers. Any given year, you know how many are fired? 10 officers who are engaging in racial profiling. We wouldn't put up with it. but I declare a statewide emergency, and I get rid of more incompetent California after just two years. And it takes almost an thing that they care about.

Gavin Newsom shut me behind while his own kids were enjoying insom. Outrageous. And the teachers who know the schools the best of Philadelphia have their own kids and private school. Here at the L.A. district. Yes. Nobody that works here eats here ever. All right. Larry, I'm going to push back on one thing.

and I really do believe this is the only way you're going to be able to get things done, but it makes me very, very uncomfortable. You say I'm going to declare a statewide emergency. That suspends all kinds of laws. Now, I personally think a lot of those laws should be suspended. How do you rectify that or how do you balance that in your head being a conservative that I know believes in constitutional law? First pandemic, enough homes in order for young people to buy that first home. That's why they're leaving California for the first time in our nation's history.

Can you give me some of those stats, Larry? About crime. Well, let me give you one that'll be jaw-dropping. Since the coronavirus pandemic has started, now what could possibly go wrong when statistically, Barbara Boxer gets mugged for her cell phone in Oakland? And two days early, where he complained about the defund, the police movement, and how many millions were being diverted from the, from the Oakland Police Department. I'm in Los Angeles.

The $50 million from its funds for so-called youth programs, why don't they have fathers? Because the new vo-liberal named Lyndon Johnson launched the so-called war on poverty in 1965. At that point, 25% of blacks, what we've done, the left has done, is incentivize women to marry the government

and incentivize men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility. And forget about elder, there is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in jail. a way of young people. Let's have a youth program for them.

They destroy the family. They're destroying schools. They're going to, and one in LA, both of whom got there because George Soros funded them, and both are facing recall elections because they're not from California. So what could possibly go wrong when you reduce the chance of a bad guy being caught, being convicted of being put in prison, crime goes up, and the people who are the very black and brown people living in the inner city that the left claim that they care about? So I'm going to declare a public emergency on crime, on housing, on doing their jobs,

and that are causing the cost of living to go so high because you cannot build anything. We had a 10,000 housing project. I got sued. I cut it down to 5,000. I got sued. I cut it down to 1,000. I got sued. Finally,

they approved 250 houses after 22 years. Oh, he got so fed up, he went to another city. Another guy told me of giving a speech about some examples, and somebody yelled out, I had to spend $25,000 to get rid of the kangaroo rat. $25,000 to hire an expert to find not just the can't,

even more money to give them a new habitat. Now, as far as I know, left are real people not to work or not to work on the end. I don't want to cut you off in the middle of this story. So we're going to start back there in just a second. More with Larry Elder in just a couple of minutes. He is running for to be governor of California. If you would like to help him out and donate to his campaign,

just go to his website, electelder.com. elect elder.com. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. We were talking business in California with Larry Elder, and I had to interrupt him on a story that he said in Ohio. Can you begin that story again? Sure. I practiced law, a big law firm in Ohio.

I did a little bit of workers' compensation from the defense side representing companies that had been sued by workers. And the burden of proof was, of course, on the claimant to make the client trying to get money from who runs a bunch of different restaurants in California. claimed that he was owed $65,000 in unpaid wages. And he found out the guy wasn't even in the state, $1,000. Oh, my gosh. So many employers just settle.

And after a while, they offered to settle for $50. He said, no. A, more money than $65,000 that this employee was claiming. But it was the principle of the thing, A, and B, he felt that there will be other. Point is the burden of proof it on the employer to disprove the claim. So tell me, talk to me a little bit about, you know, I know big business. A lot of them are moving out of California, and they're coming to Texas, and I swear to if these people, California, my Texas, I'm going to be really pissed. But you can't do business there.

But there are so many small business owners that are just dying, just dying because of the COVID restrictions. And it is a hostile environment. What is the name of that restaurant? Yeah, cronies. Pineapple Hill. Pineapple Hill. No, it's Crony's restaurant. They are being boxed by their little community, their little city council.

And just being forced out of business because they didn't do everything that little city council said they had to do to stay safe. Well, they couldn't and keep people employed and keep their restaurant. Right. I mean, what is happening for the small business owner? Because that's the backbone of society. They're being slaughtered. And Glenn, I'm not just a lawyer. I also ran a small business for 14 years.

At my peak, I had about a dozen employees, and it didn't go bankrupt. I didn't liquidate it when I relocated back on for a number of years. My point is, most margins off the payroll to California, just now reopening and are processing the claims. All I know is that the average state, two-thirds of jobs have been restored. Here in California, only 50% of jobs have been destroyed. How many lives were destroyed by this man, who, by the way, excuse me, telling other businesses to shut down. Wow.

This is why one guy told me he's a tire guy. He buys outlets. Yeah. He wanted to build another one out here, started another shop out here. And four months trying to open one here in California. Very. Larry, I, it took me two years to build a radio studio in New York City. I built the studios here in Texas in two weeks.

And based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the power of the public sector unions, unfunded pension liabilities, the degree to which the business climate is friendly or unfriendly. CEO magazine for 17 years of existence has rated California the word that is why again, middle and K, are leaving California for the first time in our nation's history. Can I say one more thing about the school system? Yeah. The largest contributor to Gavin Newsom is the case called the United Teachers of Los Angeles. And I gave an interview to a black newspaper, Mark Ken Glenn, and I can just tell by their body language, okay, it's the guy's a Republican. And I said, aren't you, Reiner, who some years ago,

stop a housing development county adjacent to LA, 9,000 units. At one time, was pristine. The article about the between these rich housing here and started to try to buy a house. After a year, after year for Democrats that don't give you choice in school, even though black and brown parents, based upon the polls, say, you're trying to get that first house. And I'm the bad guy. I'm the Uncle Tom.

I'm Reagan Republicans. I know that all of a sudden they were beginning to rethink some of their assumption. And that's why I believe they're so afraid of me. I'm from the hood. I'm from Crenshaw High School. I can talk about the connection between what these liberal people. And every time there's a gang injunction filed, the ACLU files a lawsuit to either trim it in for the very people in the inner city that people like that claim that they care about. Tupac Shakur once said, we need the police more than anybody else because of all the criminal element that's right there.

I said, who's on your side? Larry Elder, the uncle Tom, or people in the ACLU, living up in the hills, they have private security, and they tell that for the first time they're hearing stuff, they never heard before. And unlike the typical Republican here in California, I can talk to black and brown people about what the left is doing to them. in ways more safe. I will tell you, Larry, I think it is going to take a black man or a black woman to turn us around because you are the only ones that can really break through with any kind of credibility. And it takes somebody who is not a bomb thrower and is eloquent enough to be able to get people

to rethink their assumptions. Larry, I wish you the best. And we'd love to have you on again. could I ask you, how does this work? I mean, you go in and you say, I want him recalled or I don't want him recalled. Right. And then if you say, I want him recalled, you can vote then on who you want to replace. On the ballot, and that's it.

Some replaced. And if 50% plus one says yes, the second question is, who do you want to replace them? Now, you won't know the 50% plus one until they, of course, count the ballots. But what you can either vote to replace them or so of the vote, almost all. All mail in, the ballots go out on August 14th. It's going to be anti-climactic because by then most people will have voted. And that's why I need money. Believe it or not, I have a $9 million.

It's something I can raise that amount of amount of money. And most people speculate he'll spend at least. Good heavens. How come you have the restrained that he doesn't? A legitimate question for us. No sense. Makes no sense. It gives me huge.

And when it was clear, I was going to run, Glenn, all of a sudden, the SEIU union gave this guy number one contributors. They want more than. the bad teacher. Person that hates bad teachers more than anybody else are good teachers. But the unions are the ones that give all this money to left-wing costs. The sector unions need to be broken. Tucker did. Recall that. He had to face a recall election. To only bargaining over wages, not on benefits, not on automatic deduction for dues.

And if you've got to raise a first time, I need to do some sector unions in California. And believe me, they will come as... No, I worry and will begin to pray for your security, Larry. and for a shield of protection over you. You can go to elect elder, elect elder.com. Newsom has a war chest already going into it of 30 million. They believe that it's a $30 million war chest already. And you know if Larry is the guy, they are going to do everything they can.

They're raising money. Just Larry's raising money for them. Can we get Larry to raise money for Larry? It would be nice to have Larry Elder as governor and you can help. Everybody always says, what can I do to help? What can I can't do anything to help? How about five bucks? Ten bucks, hundred bucks.

Anything that you have. This, he could win with 20%. Electelder.com. Electelder.com. Larry, thank you so much. I hope to talk to you again. God bless. Anytime, Glenn. You know where to find me. You got it. Thanks, man.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program for an update here from you on a big story that was breaking yesterday that... Oh, my gosh. You... I'm trying to get to the White House strategy on how we're all screwed. Yeah. And that's something we can get to after we hear the update on how you're feeling about your art show. You're such a jerk. Well, you said you were like... I was ready to vomit yesterday.

It's got to be closer today. You're a day closer to it. A day closer and I'm very vomitous. Very vomitous. You could vomit at any moment. I could vomit at any moment. And I hope I could vomit on you. So what's your biggest fear here?

Is it that people won't show up? Is it that people won't buy it? Is that people come in and they do show up, but they laugh at your hard work? What is the thing that most? Thank you. All of those. Thank you very much. Could you order them and describe how you?

If you'd like to go to the art show, it's up at Park City, at Park City, fine art you can find them at park city fine art dot com and and get all the details by the way you can come up and and see the art and there's also affordable art really for for everybody i believe i believe i think we're we're supposed to have to have we're supposed to have limited editions and and some copies of the of the work that we will be selling on saturday And you can call the Park City Fine Art for more information if you want. Okay, can I get back to business now? Listen to this.

In the White House strategy, remember, all of this stuff is already going on. The Department of Treasury, in coordination with law enforcement and other interagency partners, is exploring ways to enhance the identification and analysis of financial activity associated with domestic. terrorist. How do we define domestic terrorists? We can't. It's always evolving. Oh, that's right. It's always evolving. As well as enhancing engagement with financial institutions on domestic terror financing through existing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act. So if you are deemed a danger or a domestic terrorist, they can cut you off.

They're working with the banks to stop your financing. Okay? The White House doesn't say exactly how the government is going to use the Treasury Department to spy on Americans in its war on domestic terrorism. But we have some context clues. Earlier this month, as we talked to Tom Fitton yesterday and found out, Judicial Watch filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI to view records of communication between the FBI and several banks. Bank of America reportedly gave the FBI financial records of customers who made transactions in Washington, D.C. on January 5th and 6th. Normally you need a subpoena to do that. Here's a guy. We think he was involved. Can you get us the records to prove that he was there, yada, yada? That wasn't this. Give us everybody who was at a cash machine or spent any money on the three days around January 6th. That's unheard of. Yeah, that's such a wide net. Exactly right.

Exactly right. So they are not getting, they're not getting any information, even though we have FOIA. But remember, the Capitol Police can't get a Freedom of Information Act request because they're from the legislative branch. So this is Nancy Pelosi's force. Judicial Watch complied when the FBI said, you know, we, you know, we. need more specifics. What exactly are you looking for? And then they said, ah, what you guys did about January 6th. They will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any such records. That's how your government is responding to a redress. I would like you to give us the answers.

That's constitutional. You have a right to do that. Nope. Last month, Wells Fargo shut down the bank account of Lauren Witsky, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2020 is Delaware's Republican candidate. Now, you may disagree with her. I don't really know much about her. She seems a little loopy, but you don't have to agree with people. And there's going to be a lot of people that say crazy things. Well, she was in Florida and they decided to shut down her bank account.

Wells Fargo did. And they said they just did it for business reasons. What business reason? You just shut me out. I'm in Florida. I have no credit card. I have nothing. I can't get back home.

My credit in my account says zero. What do you mean you shut me down? In June, as you know, somebody at the IRS leaked 15 years' worth of tax returns of thousands of Americans who are really wealthy to ProPublica. It's a nonprofit investigative news outlet. The IRS says it's investigating the leak. Okay, wait a minute. What? What? They just leaked all this.

The press printed it. It's all secret stuff, never supposed to be exposed. And you're like, yeah, we're looking into it. And at the same time, in this bill that Biden is trying to get passed the new spending bill, there's $80 billion of a budget raise for the IRS. $80 billion. So you know, the budget for 2021 is $11.9 billion. This will increase their budget by one third.

What are they going to do with it? They want more auditors. Who do you think they're going to be shaking down? The IRS is now going to be weaponized once again. These are the things that they are doing. You know that they are doing all of these things. Let me give you one of the other pillars. By the way, watch all of this.

and you'll see all of the documents, all of the quotes, this is nothing that is a theory. This is the fact. This is what they're doing in their own words. If you don't believe me, go to whitehouse.com and just look for White House's national strategy for countering domestic terrorism. How do we define domestic terrorism again? It's always evolving. Yeah, okay, that's right.

That's right. Okay. So one of their pillars is to understand and share domestic terrorism related information. This one, they are working with high tech. Now, as soon as they release this, it's interesting, Facebook began doing something else. They began, if you were on Facebook, you might have received one. a warning extremist content. If you go on to certain Facebook or you, you know, just click on something, you might get extremist content. And then it asks, are you concerned someone you know is becoming an extremist?

What, what big brother? What are you doing? Then another message from Facebook, you may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently. Violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment. You can take action now to protect yourself and others. To protect myself from what? Thought crime prosecution? I mean, desperate people do desperate things. Desperate people are used and

manipulated online. And a lot of them are manipulated online by people who are seeking power in the different parties or Facebook. And don't talk to me about manipulating people because that's what your algorithm does. Now the Democratic National Committee planning to work with SMS carriers to dispel information about COVID vaccines. Are they reading our messages? If you're an unvaccinated right winger, to many on the left, you're a threat to national security that should be locked out of public places. Now, the U.S. Surgeon General didn't go that far, but how long is it going to be before the surgeon general has a warning label on things that I believe or things that you believe.

How do they define misinformation? See, can we play the Nancy Pelosi audio from yesterday? Listen to this on science. Just to clarify something from earlier, is Kevin McCarthy a moron and if so, why? I said earlier in my comment, science, science, science, and science. On almost every subject that you can name, science is the answer. Whether it's a climate crisis, whether it's a health crisis, whether it's our preeminence in the world and technology, science, science, science, science.

To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think is not wise. Okay, stop. Stop. It's not based on science. It's based on somebody's opinion who happens to be a scientist today. Because you've changed it over and over and over again. If we're going to listen to science, do we have to listen to science? You know, I don't mind listening to science when they say, butter is bad for you. And then 10 years later, they're like, you know, butter has some good things. Okay, this is like every other week. They're flip-flopping. That's not science. That's an opinion.

And that's misinformation. Me saying that will be deemed at some point, if not now, misinformation and dangerous. The National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. How do we define domestic terrorism? It's always evolving. It's always evolving. Okay, good. This is from the White House.

Their next pillar is clear consequences for account. that repeatedly violate platform policies. Okay. All right. Now, here's the thing. They want to prevent individuals from being drawn into the grip of domestic terrorism in the first place. So they're going to punish you if you were part of misinformation. But they also, if you've been exposed to misinformation, they want to make sure that they are there.

Like clockwork, after the strike. strategy was released, the FBI posted a curious tweet saying, Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence. Help prevent homegrown violent extremism. Visit this link to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the FBI. Oh, I don't know. That's a little George Orwell. Especially when they're taking over our schools.

Let me just quote from 1984. The children were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become, in effect, an extension of the thought police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately. Let me give you this comparison here, a little nugget from the White House strategy. even as we augment our approach to domestic terrorism under existing authorities, the Department of Justice is examining carefully what new authorities might be necessary and appropriate. New authorities, well, we already have the Postal Service doing intelligence operations.

We have the White House senior staff flagging people's Facebook posts. We have the FBI urging family members and peers to report on each other. do you see the apparatus that they have built? It's not building, it's built, it's here. Na, no, no.