The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Tucker Carlson & Carol Roth | 3/8/23

Episode Date: March 8, 2023

Former investment banker Carol Roth joins to discuss the economy's future as a recession creeps around the corner. Fox News' Tucker Carlson joins Glenn to take a deep dive into the Jan. 6 footage he r...eleased, his intentions behind releasing the footage, and the backlash he's received from both sides of the political aisle for daring to question the elites’ narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:18 Tucker Carlson. We had them on for the hour, the last hour of the podcast today. They brought back a lot of memories. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, good.
Starting point is 00:00:30 We've kind of been in his situation. And it's not a good situation that he's in. He is really truly fighting it alone. And there's a lot to be gathered from the interview. And he sets things straight. I mean, my first question to him was, was this a violent, despicable protest with some good people in it? Or was this a mostly peaceful protest,
Starting point is 00:00:58 like they used to say about the George Floyd riot. And he was very, very clear. And don't be confused. I kind of break it down in the first hour of what the mix-up is here with the media, what they're intentionally trying to do. And no knock on Tucker, I'm not saying it wasn't a good interview. But we did talk about a guy who's over a trillion years old. I mean, I don't see how that would not be more notable than...
Starting point is 00:01:20 Well, you are right. You're right. I believe it's $100,000 or $109 trillion. I don't know. Something like that. A trillion years old. And that doesn't happen. Kind of a bigger deal.
Starting point is 00:01:31 And he is directly connected, in fact, on the payroll of somebody in Congress. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. And he can also create earthquakes with his anger, turquains with his mind, and he'll give you some good gardening tips so you can stay away from the Jews. Yeah. All that and so much more on today's show.
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Starting point is 00:03:34 Listening to the best of the Glenbeck program. We have one of my favorites. In fact, I think the best person on the economy is Carol Roth. She's the author of Warren Small Business. She also has a new book. Do you know when it's coming out yet? July 11th. July 11th.
Starting point is 00:04:00 7.11, lucky roll of the dice. Right. And it will be, it is called, you will own nothing. I don't think you're going to like it, but you will own nothing. You'll love the book, and it comes out July 11th. Can you pre-order it yet? Not yet, but I will come back to you soon. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:19 Well, actually, you can pre-order it, but we don't have the pre-order bonuses. So we want to get everybody those bonuses. Okay. So, Carol, I want to talk to you a little bit about what I see in the news that I don't understand. I don't understand. And I'll listen to some people talk and they will say, we're done. I mean, recession and worse is coming our way. It's right around the corner.
Starting point is 00:04:46 I see things like no one is working at places. You can't hire the people to do the jobs now. And where did they go? Because the unemployment numbers seem to be good. inflation around the world is the in Britain, the food inflation is up another 18%. Are we dodging a bullet here? So it's a really good question, Glenn, and I think the reason why you are confused about this, and frankly, so many economists have gotten this wrong is everybody's looking for benchmarks
Starting point is 00:05:28 and we are in unprecedented times economically. You know, we've never had a period in history where they decided to keep interest rates suppressed and frankly near zero for 15 years, just completely suppressing and creating this easy money policy. We've never had a period in time where the people who are in charge of the most robust economy in the world said, hey, we'll just shut down a third of it
Starting point is 00:05:58 for a little while and then try to turn it right back on and assume there's going to be no problems like we're power cycling a modem. We've never had a point in time where we've had the Federal Reserve print so much money that they then have $9 trillion on their balance sheet. So all of these things have caused massive disruptions to every piece of the economy, not to mention, you know, looking forward to your special tonight, you know, the crazy energy policy that has created this under supply throughout the economy in oil, in labor, you know, in food and in housing, all of these areas where the Fed, you know, can't print
Starting point is 00:06:39 those things like they print oil. So a lot of people are saying, you know, why is it that the Fed is raising rates and, you know, we're not seeing the immediate effect of it? And a lot of it is, I call it the recession being late to the party. It's not that they're not going to show up. They're just being fashionably late because we have so many weird things that we're working through where there are no benchmarks. You know, if you've had cheap capital for 15 years, if you are a business, you have plenty of capital that you have locked down at low interest rates. So you probably anticipated this and don't necessarily need that, you know, today to work through whatever it is you're working through. a lot of consumers have locked in those interest rates. So when we see the Fed raising rates, it's going to take a little while for people to run out of that debt capacity and to say, okay, I need more.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And so we're really just seeing that timing issue that's going on because of all of these central planning mistakes, or perhaps you believe it was intentional. You can make a good case either way. But the central planning messing with the economy. Okay, so I see things like car repossessions going through the roof. Okay, so that's happening. But at the same time, I keep seeing these labor statistics that show everybody's got a job. It's great. And then I hear, well, no, they fudged the numbers.
Starting point is 00:08:15 And I don't understand what's happening with the labor numbers. Okay, so let's unpack this and I'm going to use both retail sales and labor to sort of explain this. So as Mark Twain said, three kinds of lies, right? Lies, damn lies and statistics. So anytime you're looking at data, most people who work with it try to normalize it to throw out things that are unusual to make more sense of it and to make it easier to understand and interpret and predict from. So if you had things that are crazy highs and crazy lows, you might throw that out. What they do in terms of things like retail sales and the labor force is they do a seasonal adjustment. And so the best way for you to understand this is, you know, during the holiday season, lots of people decide to do their shopping in November's December. And then that falls off a cliff in January when people are returning things and are all tapped out.
Starting point is 00:09:11 So they make a guess based on historical benchmarks. like what should that look like on a normalized basis based on everything that we've seen? And we're just going to make those adjustments, which sounds great until things don't behave like they did historically. So for example, if you think about retail sales, Morgan Stanley says normally we would have a 20% drop between December and January in retail sales. But what happened this year is people started shopping early. December wasn't quite as robust as they planned. So January didn't look quite as bad because December wasn't quite as good. So those sales only came down 16.2% when they were projecting them to come down 20. Oh my God, retail sales are great. The same thing happens when you look at the hiring numbers because
Starting point is 00:10:04 we don't have as many people in the labor force. If you think about all of those retail employees who are working, right, they're expected to be laid off in January, but now they didn't even have enough people to hire. So they expected that there would be three million jobs cut in January, but there were only 2.5 million. Oh, my God, what a great difference between December and January. So this all goes into them trying to adjust the data and, you know, use it, you know, seasonally adjusted. And again, you can say that this makes sense or is nefarious.
Starting point is 00:10:37 I think there's a case to be made at both sides. I mean, I, I, that's why you have this divergence that is difficult for everyone to get their arms and their heads wrapped around when you see what's going on out in the real world. So when it comes to inflation, the Fed is raising the interest rates, but the government is spending money unlike ever before. No matter what Joe Biden says, we are just pouring money out of the door. the idea of raising interest rates is you slow the engine down. You start people can't buy things. They have to kind of scrimp and save so they're not going out and buying things. They're not buying new houses, new cars, et cetera, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:11:22 And that sucks the interest rate sucks the money in to be destroyed. But if you're doing that and you're spending more money than you could possibly take in, why are we still relatively okay? Well, so you've sort of explained it, right? Is that the Fed is trying to destroy demand. They're trying to slow things down. And one of the ways they do that is they send a signal to the government. They've given the government the permission through easy money for, as we said,
Starting point is 00:11:57 about the last 15 years, to be able to spend and finance that at a low rate. Now, as they're raising rates, that's supposed to. to send a signal to the government, hey, it's become really expensive for you to borrow. You need to slow your rate down. And the government has said, too bad, we're just going to spend like drunken sailors, no disrespect meant to drunken sailors. So that basically means that component of the GDP is going to stay very solid. It does another thing, though, psychologically, if you think about it, Glenn, if you had the government practicing austerity, if you said, we need to slow things down, then all of a sudden you as a consumer went, oh, well, maybe things aren't as great as they
Starting point is 00:12:40 possibly are. The government's practicing some austerity. I'm going to practice some austerity, too, because I'm worried about what's going on. That's not happening. The government is sending a signal that everything is fiscally sound, that it's okay for you to spend. And that signal is going through the rest of the economy as well. So you have consumers saying, well, you know, they're not going to pull back.
Starting point is 00:13:03 I'm not going to pull back. And another thing, that you have things like the cost of living adjustment that happened because of inflation that hit almost 70 million Americans, you know, starting in December into January of this year, that's effectively more stimulus into the economy. So you still have all of the stimulus going on. What the Fed should be doing here is saying, you know what, we're out. We don't have the tools. Government, this is on you. you are overspending, you are creating the policy that is keeping people out of the labor force, that is keeping oil prices high, that's putting up barriers to create more housing.
Starting point is 00:13:44 This isn't something we can fix. This is something you fix. We're out. You do it. Unfortunately, nobody has the Cajonis to do that. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. Hey, Tucker. How are you, man?
Starting point is 00:14:02 Hey, Glenn. How are you? Good. I couldn't be better. Luckily, I'm so cut off. This is, we were talking about it earlier today. I recognize what you're going through right now. I know you do.
Starting point is 00:14:21 You're one of like three people in the world you understand. It is crazy. It is crazy to watch it from the outside. So Tucker, first of all, can we just get this out of the way? are you saying that this was a peaceful event or are you saying this was of course not no no no i'm just we were i tried to be pretty i wrote those scripts myself so any you know any overstatement or errors of fact or my fault um but i tried to keep it specific we focused on a couple of individuals three and there jacob chansley the qanonan shaman brian sick nick the capital police officer who died
Starting point is 00:15:05 after January 6th, and Ray Epps, the mysterious figure on camera promoting violence, who was for some reason not indicted, put on the FBI's most wanted list, then pulled off and thanked by Democrats for his service. And we assessed each of those stories on the, you know, in light of the new tape that we reviewed. And in the first case, I merely made the point that here's a guy, Jacob Chanseley, a Navy veteran who's doing four years in prison for some species of domestic terrorism, but none of us have ever been shown what he did. deserve four years in prison. And now we know. And there's videotape of him being led around by Capitol Police into the Senate Chamber. And at one point, they try one door. It's locked on his behalf.
Starting point is 00:15:45 They're trying to get him into the Senate Chamber. Then they lead him in. It's on tape. And he goes into the Senate Chamber and immediately says a prayer out loud of Thanksgiving for the police officers who let him in. Okay. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He is, he is being escorted by the police, but the captain of the Capitol Police said just last night that this was to de-escalate the situation. And I'm sure there was a lot of de-escalation going on. I'm speaking of a very specific case where this was not de-escalation. It was something else, and I can't really guess as to what it was.
Starting point is 00:16:27 I merely put the video up and drew my conclusions, but of course viewers are, welcome to draw their own. But here you have a guy who's walking alone. There are no other protesters in the frame. And there are nine armed Capitol Hill police officers around him. They do not stop him. They don't try and slow him down. They don't try to bring him to an exterior exit. They bring him, they lead him, trying different doors into the Senate chamber, at which point, as I said, he says a prayer justly of Thanksgiving for them and their assistance. Now, I don't, and again, I can't even guess as to what motivated them what we're looking at here, but I know what we're not looking at, which is an act of violent terrorism. And yet, this guy's doing four years in jail. And I'm trying not to use
Starting point is 00:17:09 profanity on your show, but like, what the heck is that? I mean, for real, like, what is that? And don't tell me it's something that it's not. And so the main conclusion that I drew is that Chuck Schumer and the horrible Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, filthy man, and Mitt Romney and Tom Tillis and Senator Kramer of North Dakota. They're all lying. They're all lying. And a lot of them are Republicans. Why are they lying about what we can see plainly and why didn't they want us to see it?
Starting point is 00:17:39 And again, I can't fill in that blank. I can't answer that question. But I know deception when I see it. It's demonstrable. It's proven. And they should, I think, be asked to explain themselves. Like it's not enough to say, oh, it was the worst violent insurrection since Gettysburg or something.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Okay, fine. Stop with the overstatement, the hyperbole. and just explain to me what I'm looking on the screen and seeing, you know? Tucker, because I've been in this situation before, let me ask you, if I came to you and I gave you some edited footage of something, and I said, no, Tucker, this is what it is. You're not going to believe this. I mean, I'm going to show you some stuff, but this was an armed insurrection.
Starting point is 00:18:22 It was really bad. Let me show you, and I've edited some tape and given it to you. if that turned out that I edited out the things that you found, would you just kind of go quiet or would you come out and blast me to smithereens? I'd feel deceived. And as you know, you've worked in television most of your life. You've worked around pictures. You know their power.
Starting point is 00:18:52 And you know their capacity to deceive. nothing is more fleeting than pictures. You think you're seeing the whole story, you're not. And all of us who work in this medium know that. And so I think TV people, above all in movie people, anyone who works around pictures is very aware of their power and their capacity for deception. And so we're suspicious. Okay, you show me those pictures.
Starting point is 00:19:15 You whip me into a lather. But is there something you're not showing me? Did you edit that? And so from the very first day, I wanted to see all the video. And I don't understand why other, why is MSNBC and CNN and, you know, NBC News and CBS and like, why is no one else interested? Well, I don't know. It's beyond not interested. They, if they were innocent of this, if they were just saying, hey, we're just reporting what we have been told and what we were given, I would feel very deceived.
Starting point is 00:19:49 And I would be the loudest in the room saying, release all of it to me. because what I just saw doesn't match what you gave me. Why aren't they standing up and defending their own honor and integrity? Well, that's it. That's it. Oh, God, I'm so grateful you said that because that's the core of it. It's not even, thank you for saying that. It's not even about politics, partisanship, power.
Starting point is 00:20:15 It's about dignity. Yes. About your own self-respect. I'm an adult man. I'm 53. I have four grown children. I pay my taxes. I'm a citizen lifelong of this country.
Starting point is 00:20:24 You can't lie to me. You diminish me when you do that. And if I participate in that, if I allow you to lie to me, then I'm no longer a free man. I'm a slave. And that has to do with me. It's not even about you. I have self-respect. And I cannot allow that to continue without me saying something about it because I respect myself.
Starting point is 00:20:44 I hold myself to higher standards. I'm not, you know, I'm not Mahatma Gandhi or something. I don't, I don't want to overstate my virtue. I'm not very virtuous, actually. But I do have some standards. of self-respect, and they don't, and it's shocking to me. You called the January 6th committee members liars. Besides suggestions that, you know, Sitnik was murdered, not even suggestions of
Starting point is 00:21:10 claiming that. Do you make the case that they're liars? They didn't just, you know, fib a bit and eat around the corners. These are full-fledged liars. Well, that was the stunning part to me. I've been in Washington my whole life and my dad worked for the government. So I had a kind of root level trust in government or a trust in government. But like the whole thing can't be fraudulent because I know the people who work there.
Starting point is 00:21:39 My dad is one of them. Like this is, you know, I'm very much from that world. I guess that's what I'm saying. So my default setting is not they're lying about everything. I've never assumed that. And so I was shocked to learn that they were lying intentionally. And the way that we know that, we have a very specific way of knowing that, which is when January 6th committee researchers looked at video, they bookmarked it. They left an electronic mark on the video they watched.
Starting point is 00:22:03 So we know what they watched. And then we watched it. And so there is video of Chansley, of Ray Epps, and of Brian Sicknick, that we know they watched that was not included in the report, was never mentioned in the hearings, a year and a half, a thousand witnesses. 850-page report, and this video, which overturns the story they were telling, proves it was a lie, they saw, but hid. So, you know, I'm always hesitant to go to motive because who understands people's motives? You know, you can only really guess about them, but in this specific case, we know that they lied. And that just blew my mind. I mean, you know, some of these guys have Adam Schiff lies. I think Adam Schiff, there are spiritual forces surrounding Adam Schiff.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Like, I think he is a force of darkness, and I mean that. But is Benny Thompson evil? Like, I have trouble believe. You know, like, is, I mean, I've known Liz Cheney for 25 years. Is Liz Cheney, like, actually a liar? I just assumed she just disagrees on the issues with me. No, it turns out Liz Cheney is actually affirmatively a liar. She knew information.
Starting point is 00:23:10 She withheld it because it challenged the lie that she was telling to the public. And that just completely, I mean, call me naive. I guess I'm sure everyone listening is like, how stupid are you? Well, I guess kind of stupid. because I was blown away by that. So I know you don't want to go into motivation, but this is a pretty large lie. I don't want to use big lie because that's what Schumer used and Hitler used. But it's a pretty large lie.
Starting point is 00:23:38 What is the motivation? Well, if you, you know, again, I can only speculate, but I know the effects of the lie and they're not small. This is an event that was a complex event with many facets, and they simplified it immediately into a good versus evil tale, as they do with everything, partly because they lack nuance and imagination and sophistication, but partly because this was a tool they were using for a purpose. It was a cudgel they were using to beat down their opponents and grab more power for themselves. And in effect, what it did was change the definition of terrorism from something that, you know, exists in other countries and is aimed at us to Republican voters, populist voters. I shouldn't say Republican because Bernie Sanders, voters, Trump voters, anybody who questions the legitimacy of the current powerholders is now redefined not as a political opponent, but as a terrorist. And that has very specific consequences. it means all of a sudden you can harness the world's largest law enforcement organization,
Starting point is 00:24:49 the FBI, and the intel agencies, CIA, NSA, defense intelligence, all of them. And you can harness them against your political opponents. And that's exactly what they did, not just in the hundreds of people who went to jail and the almost 100 who were still in jail without trial, as political prisoners 26 months later. But all the other people who are just political activists who have views, honestly, people like you, like they can read your text messages. They did read mine.
Starting point is 00:25:15 NSA read my text messages and then threatened me with them. And, you know, I brought this to members of Congress. They had a hearing on it. NSA admitted they did it. And then nothing happened. You know, the director of the NSA is still in office. Like, nothing happens. And you realize, wow, the largest organization in human history, the federal government,
Starting point is 00:25:34 has been harnessed as a political tool. It's like the one thing you can't allow. And we have allowed it. It's happened with the complicity of Republicans. certainly with Mitch McConnell's complicity. And that's just mind-blowing. And then it's like, well, what do I do now? You know, I'm not going to leave America.
Starting point is 00:25:52 I'm from here. I love this country. I have four kids. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here. But you really start to feel like I've always thought I was a very patriotic person, fly the American flag, believe in the country. And all of a sudden, it's like the power centers in the country,
Starting point is 00:26:07 the government, which is supposed to be nonpartisan serving all of us equally as citizens, that's turned against me like I'm some al-Qaeda member from Balukistan or something like what? It's very bewildering, I will say that. I think part of it is because we forgot what Washington said, which was, you know, government is like fire. You control it. It's fine. If it controls you, it'll burn everything down. And we confused our love of the principles of our country with the love of and trust of our government. Trust the principles, not the government.
Starting point is 00:26:46 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So, Tucker, what is it that, what if, if, you know, I think you're making points that I understand, but the left intentionally is misunderstanding them and trying to direct the conversation into places that you're not, you're not suggesting. What is the, what is the, what is. the message that you want people to walk away with this week? What's the point of what you're doing? That you're being lied to and that you deserve better. Your government's not allowed to lie to you. That's against the law. They're not allowed to lie to you. It's your government. And you should
Starting point is 00:27:34 demand better. And I would say in a very specifically, I've alluded to it a couple of times, that for people who are not, you know, supporters of President Biden who think the system needs reform, that it doesn't represent them, it doesn't serve their interests. Those people are Republican voters because they have no option. They vote for the Republican Party. There's no third party, a meaningful one. And so very specifically, they have to demand more from their own representatives or else democracy isn't real. It's a representative democracy. That means your will is expressed are the votes of the people you vote for to go to Washington on your behalf. And that is absolutely not happening. Their priorities are in a different universe from the priorities of their voters.
Starting point is 00:28:18 You don't see that on the left. Democratic politicians make some effort to represent their own voters. Republican politicians do not. Mitch McConnell has zero interest in what you think about anything. And that is a, that's a structural problem with the party. And I don't know what it, like, what the fix is. I think part of the problem is that Republican voters don't like the donors don't like Republican voters. They clearly don't, you know, and the biggest donors to the Republican Party think Republican voters are disgusting. And that's a huge, huge problem. That's not true on the other side.
Starting point is 00:28:52 So I don't know, but I, you know, there's kind of nothing you can do about Merrick Garland if you're your average voter. But if you're, if your member of Congress is like not even bothering to listen to what you care about, you have a way to replace them. It's called a primary. And I don't know why that never happens. I mean, I really don't understand. I mean, Adam Kinsinger would still be serving in the Congress if he wasn't redistricted out of his seat. And like, what is that? You know, were the majority of Republican voters in his Illinois district on his side?
Starting point is 00:29:23 No. But he would have gotten reelected. So there's a problem with our system. And I hope that can be there. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. We're with Tucker Carl. talking about what he's been talking about on television this week
Starting point is 00:29:41 with the January 6th commission. You know, there's, you know, when you watch the Josh Holly segment where they made fun of him in the January 6th, you know, hearing, and everybody's laughing at him, that is so incredibly petty to selectively edit. when you know everyone was running out and he was one of the last to run out, you just edit that sliver. Why would they go do something that? I mean, why would they do that? Because that's who they are and they can't help themselves. And by the way, if it's just going to be like small ball, Twitter level political theater and they're just generating memes out of the Congress, okay, that's, you know, whatever, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:30:33 but don't tell me it's 9-11 then like both things can't be true do you know what I mean if it's like pissing on Josh Hall he's a coward he's not really a man and like the party of gay rights is going to smear him by implying he's gay like the whole thing is so weird anyway but whatever that's who they are they're low okay fine but then you have the attorney general standing up and telling me that this was an assault in our democracy and the FBI is to get involved Like, no, that's not allowed because you're degrading our core institutions when you do that. The Attorney General of the United States got on television yesterday at a hearing and said five capital police officers were murdered on January 6th. Well, that's not true.
Starting point is 00:31:17 No capital police officers were murdered on January 6th. And what were their names? And where are the autopsy reports and like, how exactly did they die? Why don't you tell us this is the Attorney General? This is not Eric Swalwell on MSNBC. This is not Joy Reed, you know, freeballing into. a commercial break. This is the Attorney General who commands the FBI. Like, you can't talk like that. That's crazy. In February 21, you, I think, were the first report that Bank of America was sharing
Starting point is 00:31:44 private customer information with federal law enforcement agencies regarding the banking activity surrounding January 6. Well, now we find out from a whistleblower, it appears as though Bank of America volunteered this information and even went so far as providing gun purchases dating back to 1991. Bank of America, I guess they think they're too big to fail. Maybe they are. They ignore all questions from the media, including us. I mean, at what point, as you said when they were reading your texts, nobody's paying for any of this. At what point does the system just collapse into some sort of a fascistic gulog? Well, that's obviously their goal. I mean, I don't, you know, and I hate overstatement. I engage in it regularly because I get mad, you know, and I get over my skis,
Starting point is 00:32:46 and my wife's always telling me, just, you know, calm down, say a prayer, don't say things you don't mean, and that's a very fair criticism. But at some point, you have to kind of make rational judgments on the basis of available evidence, and I don't see any limit to their designs. I don't, what is the limiting principle here? They don't believe in God. They think they're God. They are the final word in everything in their view.
Starting point is 00:33:11 And so there's really no limit to what they can do to people who oppose them. And honestly, there has not been. I mean, I guess the limit would be killing them, but taking away a man's freedom is tantamount to killing him and they've done that at scale. So look, what they're doing is, I mean, one of the many effects, none of this happens in a vacuum, is to turn kind of responsible
Starting point is 00:33:30 systems supporting people like me into jittery paranoids. Right? You're going to have a lot of people buying pallets of 7.62 steel case with Krugerans. Like, I'm almost there. Like, why wouldn't I be at a certain point? The banking
Starting point is 00:33:46 system, like Bank of America? APG and Eni's Bank from San Francisco, the town of my birth, is now turning you in for buying a gun legally? What? Like, it can really, and I feel like I'm, I've been married to the same girl for 32 years. I'm pretty stable in my personal life. I'm not, you know, subject to flights of fancy. And even I am feeling very kind of jumpy. What about someone who isn't married and doesn't have kids and has got nothing to lose? Like, you're creating crazy people by acting this way. That is true. And no one ever says that. I'm surprised we don't have more horrifying acts.
Starting point is 00:34:20 of mass violence. I know. Like, we're creating Tim McVeigh's. And I say that with deep sadness, I don't want that. I have to tell you that, you know, they keep talking about conspiracy theories. The reason why there are conspiracy theories is because what they tell us continues to turn out to be untrue. And then they silence everyone from even asking.
Starting point is 00:34:42 So, of course, that the psychological result of that is, I got another theory that fits better. Only transparency, only transparency heals that. Let me ask you, when you got all the tapes, did Fox News, the news department, can they have access to that? Would they get access to that? Do you think, I mean, what do we do with these tapes now? Because now it's your word against. You know, that's a good question.
Starting point is 00:35:18 I can, you know, we work independently. we work for the same company you've worked here, you know. I know. But they really are in different silos. I can say that no one from any news organization that I'm aware of, I can't speak from my producers, but as far as I know, no one has ever, no one ever asked. Can I ask right now?
Starting point is 00:35:37 Can I get access to those? But as far as I'm concerned, you can have access to whatever you want. I mean, I personally think that everyone should have access to them. I'll put you in touch with my producer who's been dealing with the speaker's office for sure. I mean, why... Wait a minute. So nobody, nobody from the news department, any news department,
Starting point is 00:35:59 contacted and said, hey, Tucker, what do you, what do you see in? What do you got? Not one working journalist has texted me directly and everybody in the world, including my UPS delivery guy, has my text. Nobody doesn't have my text. I mean, I should just announce it on your show. Everybody has my text. So I am the easiest person.
Starting point is 00:36:18 to get in touch with. I've had the same phone since 1995, the same phone number. I never change it. I respond to every text every day. So I am not hard to get in touch with at all. I'm not Colonel Kurtz up to Mekong, okay? I'm just sitting in my backyard. And nobody has reached, and I was in mainstream journalism for 25 years, so I know everybody. Nobody has asked me. And instead, I'm getting all these texts like, I'm Sarah Ellison from the Washington Post. Is it true that you suck? The White House is speaking to Damon today saying you're a white supremacist Nazi which you care to comment
Starting point is 00:36:52 And I just said I respond to every text every day I'd not respond to Dara Ellison Or like all, you know, Gilling beers Or whatever his name is from Puck Whatever that is like You know, the only text I've gotten It been after they reveal that I'm Satan And then like, what's your comment?
Starting point is 00:37:09 Can you comment on your moral decrepitude, Mr. Carlson? That's amazing. Amazing. Tucker, I know that there has to be times that you feel very alone. You're not. There are millions, and people used to say this to me, but I'm telling you, I know because it happened to me. There are millions of people that are hearing what you're saying and getting the message, and you are certainly not alone. Don't ever feel that way. Well, thank you, Glenn. I feel blessed by that. I feel that. And I feel I feel. I feel. that. Yeah, I do feel that and I feel people's prayers and I do, and I feel like there's all, it's like a physics principle, you know, there's always a reaction to, to, to a force. And I do feel a lot of honesty and a lot of love, not named it me, but just in the atmosphere. Like, there's something good happening even as something bad has happened. There is. I really feel that wrong. Can I, now can I
Starting point is 00:38:09 flip this around to just a bit? I know that if I were you, I, would have thought, I mean, I got them dead to rights here. This is, this is going to blow this whole thing up. And there's, there's going to be a lot of people, not everybody, but there will be a lot of people who may have been on the other side and were like, wait, now, wait a minute, wait a minute, because this is so critical, you cannot live in a free society where the justice department is corrupt, the judges are corrupt, the media is corrupt, and And the politicians are corrupt. You cannot have a free society.
Starting point is 00:38:50 So everyone should be concerned about this. Are you surprised at all that the reaction from everyone, it seems, in power? I'm surprised, but I also think this is foundational. I mean, you know, we talk about a lot of different topics on the show. And some of them, I think, are really important and interesting. And they get no response and nobody cares. you know, I always say this to my staff. Like, we could get on the air tonight and say, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:23 we really should invade Belgium because those Walloons are just like, they're loathsome people and we should just put them all in camps. And nobody would say a word. If you say a word about Syria, holy smokes, like they come to your house. I don't know why is Syria like so essential to the system, but Belgium, a NATO ally in the middle of Europe isn't, I don't understand it. All I know, I know there are priorities by their reaction.
Starting point is 00:39:48 and January 6th, I came at it very ingenuously. Like, wait, this wasn't an armed white supremacist insurrection? You know, like, why are you saying that? And the second I said that out, wow, they went freaking crazy. So I'm not, look, I can only guess. There's so much I don't know. I'm like feeling the outlines of something in a dark room. But I know that if you, this is an open wound for them.
Starting point is 00:40:11 And if you press it, all of a sudden you have all these Republicans attacking you. It's like, what is that? aligning with Chuck Schumer. Like, all of a sudden, you've got Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer saying exactly the same thing. Well, then that tells you, just through inductive reasoning, that this is the foundation of something that they're colluding on. What is it? I don't know. I'll leave it to bigger minds to speculate, but it's demonstrably real, right?
Starting point is 00:40:37 I mean, like, why would they buy? I'm a freaking talk show host on a cable channel. Like, who cares what I think? And all of a sudden, they're spending all this energy attacking me, but of course, it's not, about me. It's about the story. That story is at the center of what they're doing and what they're planning, obviously. And this is why the White House, this is just breaking. They are making it about you. In comments shared first with Politico, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders who a day earlier assailed Carlson's broadcast of selected assault footage as being filled
Starting point is 00:41:17 with offensive and misleading conclusions. We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented violent attack on our Constitution and rule of law, which cost police officers their lives. We also agree with Fox News's own attorneys and executives who have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law that Tucker Carlson is just not credible. Oh, well, it does sound, Glenn, like everyone's against me. But I don't, you know, from my perspective, it's really not about me.
Starting point is 00:42:06 It's about what actually happened. And I continue to think that. I'm, you know, I've always been, not always, but as I've aged, I've been willing and I've want to be willing to admit my own flaws and my own sins, you know, my own inherent crappiness as a person, I'll admit that. I think it's important to admit that. I agree. But I, but in this case, it's not about me. It's about the lies that they're telling. And that's just true. And I have no, look, obviously this isn't helping me. I know. Why am I doing this to get richer? I mean, I know a lot I know all the talk show hosts. I know everybody right in our business, as you do too.
Starting point is 00:42:53 And a lot of them are just like, I'm going to take a pass on that and just like, get mad about tax rates or whatever, whatever it is, whatever the story that you can safely push and play the partisan, the silly partisan game. But this is not about partisanship. It's not about parties. It's not about ideology even. It's about power. And I just feel like for the short time I'm on earth and for however long I have my current job, I should be as honest as I can possibly be and focus on the issues that actually matter. That's how I feel about it. And I really mean that. Well, obviously, I mean that. You know, how is it going to end for me? What you think I don't know? I know. So, Tucker, listen to me. Listen to me. You are doing amazing work as long as you continue to
Starting point is 00:43:47 stay tethered in reality and with God and you speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, you are going to have, I think, divine protection around you. And as someone who has been literally in your place, I will always have your back. Thank you, Glenn. I'm grateful for that. And it's funny, as soon as this stuff started to happen to me, I mean, even years ago, I was like, you know what? I have a very different opinion of Glenn Beck. Like, I got it. No, I'm serious. Thank you. In a good way.
Starting point is 00:44:20 Yeah. Thank you. God bless. God bless. Talk again. You bet. Bye-bye. When you were
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