The Glenn Beck Program - Boris Johnson’s Blowout Victory | Guests: Daniel Hannan, Bill O’Reilly & Cam Edwards | 12/13/19

Episode Date: December 13, 2019

A woman and her abusive ex both went to jail: him for attacking her and her for not having a concealed carry license. And her bond was MUCH higher. Boris Johnson won big in the British election! Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan calls in to describe what this means for Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and America. Bill O’Reilly lists his important takeaways of the week: The FBI is out of control, the British election is devastating to Democrats, and Bloomberg proved the media’s corruption even at the highest levels. “Kindness and Wonder” author Gavin Edwards discusses why Mr. Rogers has become such an icon. “40 Acres & a Fool” podcast host Cam Edwards has the latest updates on Virginia’s battle over the Second Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, I appreciate you calling me Mr. Beck. I'd prefer Dr. Beck. I mean, I worked very hard for that. Yeah, you showed up an event to get that title, didn't you? But it was in Virginia, and I wasn't living in Virginia at the time. I had to fly. I had to sit there and listen. listened to speeches of people graduating that I didn't really care because I didn't know.

I didn't go to school with them. No. And then I got to listen to somebody going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he's a doctor. And I'm like, of course I am. Give me the certificate so I can start doing some foot surgery. So you can do some doctoring. Right, right. Exactly right.

That's what, you know what the most important thing to me in the world is, Glenn? What is that? Licensing. Licensing. That's how you prove your value in the society. Well, as a doctor, I'd have to agree with you. Right. As a Kentucky colonel, I would have to agree with you.

That's right. You're also a colonel, aren't you? I'm a colonel. I'm a colonel, doctor. I'm actually a reverent. Oh, my gosh, I am reverent Dr. Colonel Beck. I want that from here on out. That's how you address me.

Not Mr. Beck. It's Reverend Dr. Colonel Beck. So if you call 888727 B.ECK, you don't have to put the Reverend Colonel Dr. Beck in the phone number. No, but you think it. you're dialing it. You should think it. And then when you call up and Glenn answers and says, you know, Bill, you're on the air, Reverend Colonel, Dr. Beck, how are you today? Yeah. And that order, too. Reverend God is first. The hard work I did on my, my doctorate.

And then a little bit of Kentucky, you know. So is Reverend Dr. Colonel or Reverend Colonel Doctor? No, it's Reverend Dr. Dr. Colonel. Okay. Okay. You got it? Reverend Dr. Dr. Colonel Beck. Reverend Dr. Reverend Dr. Colonel Beck. Please, from here on out. In fact, I might be changing Glennbeck.com to that, Reverend Dr. Kernelbeck.com. Someone's out there registering that right now. Probably someone from media matters. I redirect it. All right.

So, you know, licensing is important, and I think it's important. I mean, if you're a hairdresser. Right. God forbid you try to do anybody's hair without a license. You know what I mean? If you are, if you are a, uh, painter of some sort. God forbid you paint somebody's house without a license. Right. And I would throw another one in there. Let's just say you wanted to stay alive. Yeah, you have to have a license,

right? Because you don't have the right to defend yourself. Of course not. Of course not. You have to make sure you have a license. Correct. And that's where this is really important. Yes. And we learned this story in Illinois recently where a woman was in her car and was attacked by her ex. Now, what do you do when you're attacked by your ex? I guess you could just, you know, let him kill you? I think that's option one. Well, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you licensed?

Well, see, this is the issue. Okay. Because if you have a license, you could do his hair. You could paint his nails. You could paint his nails. There's all sorts of things you could do. You could give him a massage. Right.

Yeah. So you have to have a license, and that's what really lets you know what you can do. Right. What is your value as a human being? Correct. The government should tell us with a certificate. Correct. Exactly right.

Here's a thing. Her thought was, maybe I should try to stop this person trying to murder me. Well. Now, that's an interesting thought, but obviously that's not enough information on the story. Sure. Sure. She took out a firearm. Oh, my gosh.

And decided to use it to stop him from killing her. Now, it was a legally owned firearm. Yes. Okay, so that's part of it. She had a license to own it. Oh, she knew. Yeah, she was totally licensed to own it. The problem, however.

She didn't have a license to use it. She didn't have a license to carry it. Now, it's a huge difference between the owning a gun or is it in her car? She had it in her car. In her car. Some states, you can have it. Like, Texas, for example, you don't need a concealed carry to keep it in your car. However, in Illinois, that's a different story.

You know, probably in Illinois, it's a lot like New York and New Jersey, where you have to keep the gun. in the glove box, but all the bullets in the trunk. Right, which is really helpful in these situations. Oh my gosh. In this situation, somebody comes and trying to kill you in your car. You're like, hang on just a second. I've got my firearm. I just need a second to get out to my trunk, get the box of bullets, load the gun, and then can we pick it up from there? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Now, one minor issue here, of course, no, look, this is good. An attacker, she's able to fend off the attacker, police come, and they put the attacker in jail. and that's good stuff. I mean, you know, look, he's an attacker. Now, obviously, they had to talk to her, too, because she did break a rule. She didn't have a concealed carry license. She was able to sure utilize her

God-given right to defend herself and her constitutional right to bear arms to do so. However, you know, she didn't have that license. So, obviously, she had to go to jail, too. Well, that's only common sense. It's only common sense.

That you'd put the woman who was just almost murdered by her ex. in jail. Yeah. And now he went to jail and had a $10,000 bond. Oh my gosh. For trying to kill her. For trying to kill her.

$10,000 bond. Wow, that's hard to raise. He probably is still in jail? Oh, no, he was able to raise the bond. He was out. Okay, he's out. He's out. He's out of jail.

There's a little bit of a wrinkle. A wrinkle. Here in the story. Hang on. Let me see if I can iron the wrinkle out. Ah, there it is. There it is. Okay, good.

I got it. She's also in jail. And her bond is $75,000 and she can't pay it. 70, 75, 700. 75,000. 75,000. So she's, well, she's a dangerous individual. She used a gun.

She used a gun. And she used it without a license. That's like walking into a hairdresser and just somebody saying, now, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me cut your hair. And they don't have a license. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Right. You can't have that.

You can't have that. Scissors are sharp. They're very sharp. If you don't have a license, who knows? Are you running with them? You might be running with those scissors. never gone to school. Who's going to teach you?

And taking the test. Exactly. The government can't. You just can't run around like that. Thankfully. The government and the state of Illinois has protected us. It's this dangerous woman. And kept her in jail.

So. And look like, hey, men and women are exactly alike. There's no difference between their size, their weight. There's nothing. No. He may have been identifying that day as a woman. And if there were, was any difference. Some people would

suggest that the gun is the great equalizer. No, but there's no difference between them. There's no difference. Women should not have the right to do. I mean, that's not cool. And you know what? Neither should men. No one should be able to defend themselves. You should just let what happens to you happen to you. Unless the government decides to license you to change that outcome.

And in this case, they did not. So she's in jail and he's free. The guy who is beating the crap out of his ex is free running around, free to beat up anybody else he wants to. But she's in jail. But she's in jail. Protected. protected from him. Right. For maybe 20 years. This is for her own good.

Amen to that, brother. I feel good about the outcome. May I say as a reverent, also a doctor and a colonel. But the reverent part, may I say, give me an amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. And thus endeth the lesson, sayeth the Lord.

You know what's crazy about this? is well everything so let's just leave it at that it's all crazy does she have a go fund me page that's a good question

I don't know the answer to that let's make one for her oh yeah if she needs $75,000 I think this audience can come up with that pretty quick by the way do you know who do you know Dr. Recktonwald

yeah Michael Recktonwald sure is he a colonel or now he's just a doctor Just a doctor? Just a doctor. That's embarrassing. It really is.

Anyway, so he's a friend of ours who has been just hammered. He lost his job at NYU because he, I mean, he was on the left side. And then he was like, this is crazy. What's happening right now is crazy. So he's lost his job. He can't get another job anywhere. He's looking for another teaching job at some university that might take him. him. Please, if you work

at a university, please look into him. Can you go to GoFundMe and see if Michael Recktonwald is up there? Sure. I would love to do that. Reverend Dr. Colonel. He is a thank you. He is a, I think he's about to lose his house and everything else. Really?

Yeah. He's written a book. And if you can just buy his book, that would be helpful. But he is really having a hard time because I think there are some bad guys on the right that would love to pay him lots of money and he's taking pretty much any job he can get right now

and he doesn't he's you know he's working for piecemeal but here's a guy who his whole life has been turned upside down and all of his networks, all of his friends, everything is now gone. Do you see him on the site? Yeah, we want to make sure that we can confirm It's the right...

It is. It is. Well, you don't know what I'm looking at. Well, let me see it. You know what? No. I'm a reverend doctor. I demand you see.

The colonel in me says, uh, see it. It's $5,000 goal. Is that right? Uh, no. There's another one that's... See, this is why? I didn't just blurt this out. I think there's another one that's a 15.

Why don't we look into this and give us a lead time? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? This is the kind of incompetence. I ask for a scalpel and by number one nurse. That's me

He has me a hammer This is the kind of incompetence That this hospital Will not put up with another day You should know if you're listening on radio I am dressed in a sexy nurse outfit And that has nothing to do with this particular segment I just like it

You know it's comfy But I am dressed that way Just to keep the visual going Yeah no I think it's very nice It's professional Thank you It's professional for you know for what we do And I and I do

have to tell you, I will miss it. But you are on suspension as of about two hours and 40 minutes for two days. You have a two days suspension. I don't want to see you again in this operating room after this show ends. I don't want to see you in here again until Monday morning. Well, I hope after next week you don't suspend me for multiple weeks because that would be really bad. I would hate that. I won't. No, do. Please do. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It goes right to the woman who, you know, doesn't have a license. And look, I'm for, you've got to have a license if you're carrying a gun.

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As a doctor, as a reverent, as a colonel, I have to tell you that all three of those professionals that live deep inside of me, also a Marconi award-winning broadcaster. I think I could say that as well. So all of those people, is that why? All of those people live inside of me. You see the movie split? Anyway.

So I was celebrating and I couldn't stop watching the BBC yesterday. Oh, that was satisfying. Oh, wasn't it? It really is. I mean, you know, there was a thought that a really, really bad guy could get in charge of England. Jeremy Corbyn, who is absolute anti-sense. semi- You know

This one really fits these days Pals around with terrorists That one from from the old Sarah Palin days 100% fits

Jeremy Corbyn He makes He makes Bernie Sanders Look like George Washington It's true He really does Because he does not like

Freedom He does not like Great Britain He loves the former Soviet Union I mean He is a very bad guy

Very bad guy. And it seems like, shockingly, the UK kind of figured that one out. Britain figured that out. And they gave an gigantic win to Boris Johnson and the conservatives in a way to the level that they didn't even expect. Conservatives didn't even expect to win at this level. It is bigger than Margaret Thatcher and about the size of Winston Churchill in World War II. And he was pretty popular after that. You got that Hitler thing, right?

Yeah, I think we should go with him. Yeah. I think that's good. They lost, the left lost seats that have been held since like 1930. I saw one that was 84 years. It had been held by Labor, the Labor Party, which is, you know, essentially their left. And, you know, conservatives over there now have it. And Boris Johnson, I mean, he's, you know, he's great.

he really, he comes off as sort of aloof and a little silly and his hair is messed up and, you know, he's kind of a goofball. You know, by design, I think, you know, but in reality, he's incredibly smart. He comes out. He comes out before, before he walks out in public, he musses up his hair. I mean, he is, he's much more calculated. Yeah. You know, Donald Trump is just like, hey, he just goes for it. He just pulls the six shooters out as he,

feels. Corbin is Johnson. Johnson is really, really, really an intellectual and is more of a show. I mean, Trump is a show too,

but Johnson I think knows when he's mushing up his hair. Sure. And, you know, a lot of this one around Brexit. And it's an interesting thing here because you know, half the country voted for Brexit. Half of it voted against. It's a pretty close vote, but Brexit won out and it was supposed to go through. It's been three years now where we've been waiting for this to happen. And the government

has done everything to screw this up and stop it. And it's interesting that a lot of people who voted to stay, remain voters, came around and voted for the Conservative Party because they said, you know, this is ridiculous. Like, I don't even want to, I don't even want Brexit. I voted against it. But what you're doing here is you're not even honoring our vote. Like, I lost and I'm willing to lose because we need to honor the things that went on here. I heard

a Labor Party member yesterday and I just thought, hmm, I wonder what's going to happen here in America next election. But he was saying, you can't do this. You can't and this goes to the GOP as well.

Hello, Obamacare. You can't ask people to vote, let them vote, and then just overturn it and just say we're not doing any of those things. Any parallels to the United States you can think of right now? None. It's like, you know, you guys lost. Trump

won. I understand you wanted a different result there. You got a chance to do it in 2020. We're in the middle of an election, go out there and if you think he's been a bad president, defeat him. Well, the I just love this

from New York Magazine, the idea that Many people on the left here in America were looking at Corbyn and saying, yeah, you know, what's going to happen in Great Britain is going to be a precursor of what's coming. And today I'm like, uh-huh, it is. You're exactly right. He was so far out of the mainstream and he was pushing for the things that people felt were unfair and wrong. People that voted for labor before. They saw this and one of the labor leaders said, you can't ignore democracy. You can't ignore the people.

Now, this was a labor leader. This is what's happening with the media and with the left. They are just, they think that they are in the majority and they are not in the majority. And the Democratic Party is learning something. They're terrified by this result because this is essentially, if you think about it from our perspective, if Boris Johnson is Trump, Jeremy Corbyn is there, Elizabeth Warren, is there Bernie Sanders. And so the Democrats today are trying to say, wait a minute, we can't. run somebody like that because the same thing is going to happen to us that happened to labor in the

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So we have Daniel Hannan coming on. We're trying to connect with him now. And an overseas transatlantic cable connection. We had him on 10 years ago after he gave this great speech in the EU, where he's like basically saying Europe, England. you should fire me. I don't want this job anymore. We shouldn't be here.

And it was such a compelling speech. And then, what, three years ago, we had him on and we're like, congratulations. You did it. You did it. And he was like, yeah, well, we think so. But they tend to be a little sticky. And now we're having him on after the second referendum.

This was just a full election. And Boris Johnson swept. And you can give the credit to Boris Johnson, but really it's Daniel Hannan. This is his movement. The Brexit movement is his. Now, there's two sides of this. Daniel Hannan is the guy who really, we should talk to him about this. There's this great show on, I think it was Amazon, where, who's, what's his name, Cumberbun?

Benedict Cumberbatch? Yes. He played. Who was it? Wasn't Hannon. No. Hennon was portrayed in the movie. I thought it was like a Showtime or HBO show originally.

I think called Brexit. Called Brexit, yeah. And it, I don't know any of the, I don't know any of the, you know, politics over there, but it seemed pretty fair and good. And they portrayed Daniel Hennon really well. Really well. And in fact, at least, I mean, I'm sure for him, there may have been issues with it. But generally speaking, it was one of those.

From here, it looked pretty good. Yeah. They actually treated him with respect. Hang on just a sec. Daniel's on the phone. Daniel Hannan. Hey, Glenn, how you? Very good.

Congratulations, sir, for a second time. Thank you. No, no, don't congratulate me. Congratulate the country that can still hold its head high, having rejected Marxism and anti-Semitism. I mean, it is crazy. It is crazy. I heard one of the Labor Party leaders yesterday say, you know, you just can't go against democracy. You can't just not listen to the people.

I'm like, huh, what an idea. Maybe we should think about that here in the United States. I actually think you have just. unerringly put your finger on what the single biggest sentiment behind this vote was. You know, we voted to leave the European Union three years ago. We voted to leave in bigger numbers than British people have ever voted for anything. And I think a lot of the kind of pro-Brussels elite thought we didn't mean it. Yes.

But it was a kind of a joke. And that if they hecticed us and lectured us, we would do as we were told by our betters. And I'm very glad that I live in a stubborn, stiff-necked country where people just, Don't react like that. And if I'm not mistaken, there were people that voted to stay in the EU last time that were voting this time saying, you know what? No, you've got to listen to the people. Is that true? Yes.

I mean, I think we all anecdotally know people like that. We all have friends and neighbors in that category and the figures bear it out. This was a pro-democracy vote. And it was also, I think it's really important to stress this. it's a remarkably kind of mainstream and moderate vote, because although his opponents have tried rather unconvincingly to paint Boris Johnson as some kind of fringe or far-right figure, he's actually very much in the political centre.

The only way you can call him extreme is if you regard Brexit as extreme, if you're calling a majority of the electorate extreme, in other words, if you think that it's extreme for any country to want to live under its own laws and its own institutions, you know, something that the rest of the world takes for granted. So the real extremists here with the socialist revolutionaries on the other side, and the country politely said no to them. Because he is really more of a populist.

I mean, he kind of goes where the people are, does he not? Well, I mean, so Boris is politically very much in the mainstream. He's, you know, his character is very large. He has a very florid and colorful way with words. he has a brilliant intellect, but his politics are fairly traditional conservative politics. Jeremy Corbyn, who is a much more kind of normal kind of guy in terms of his background and his appearance and so on, is absolutely from outside the mainstream, something we've never really had, an unapologetic Marxist leading one of the main.

Right. He's a Marxist. He's a virile anti-Semitic figure. It seems to really hate Great Britain and what it stood for forever going way, way back with him. I don't think he personally, I want to be as fair as I can. I don't think he personally is anti-Semitic, but he is so self-righteous that he could not acknowledge or accept that his party had a problem with anti-Semitic. which comes out of this bizarre alliance between the extreme left and the Islamic jihadi types. And because he's so convinced that where the lefties, where the good guys, he just couldn't bring himself to accept that the problem existed. So who is, boy, that's very gracious of you to say that about him. How much of this was about him as well, as the British people saying, we don't want what he is selling beyond Brexit? Yeah. I think it was very, I think that was a very large part of it. Britain is unusual in two respects compared to Europe politically.

In modern times, we have never had an anti-Semitic party anywhere near power. Of course, we have had individual anti-Semites around the years, just as you have, just as every other country in the world has. But they've never before infiltrated one of the major parties. That is new and was outside our experience. Second, and again, this is very different from almost every country in Europe, we never had any significant Communist Party. There was never any parliamentary movement that was Marxist in its orientation until now. And those two things came together in the last couple of years under this Labour leadership. And, you know, I'm happening here.

A country which deep down is a commonsensical, level-headed, fair-minded country, just thought, you know what, that is not the kind of people we are. So I'm very glad that we've kept our record intact as a country that has nothing to do either with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories or with revolutionary services. What should Washington and those in our parties here take as the lesson for America? Well, people are wiser than their leaders, and people want representatives, legislators and elected representatives who remember that they are servants and. not rulers. When we voted Leave, you know, it wasn't in the inner spirit of light banter. We really meant it. And for three years, we've been told by our supposed intellectual elites that we didn't understand what we were voting for, we got it wrong and so on. And we can see, first of all, that all of their predictions of disaster have conspicuously felt.

I mean, the British pound, the pound sterling and the straight line up beating the dollar. the minute the BBC said looks like it's going to be the conservatives in a landslide. I mean, it was straight line up. Right. And that proves something which up until now I was only able to argue, but I

can now point as the rest of us can to some evidence, which is that the real problem, holding back our economy and holding back, we've done okay, but we could have been doing even better, was not Brexit. It was fear of a Corbyn-led government.

And now that that fear has been removed, I think that there will be a flood of pent-up investment into the UK economy because businesses that were holding back, not to, you know, do you open a restaurant, do you buy a house? You know, no one wanted to make those decisions as long as there was a prospect of a communist prime minister who was prepared to expropriate private assets. And now that that has been removed, I think the UK economy is now poised to take off. Are you going to actually leave by the end of January? Yes. 2020. Yeah, to be absolutely clear, I guess. Fair, fair point.

Yes, we will leave at 11 p.m., 6 p.m. Eastern Standard time on the 31st of January. Daniel, the two main factors here, at least from the outsider perspective, are Jeremy Corbyn's an excremist, and the British people wanted to say, you know, democracy counts. We know this vote happened, and we need to honor it. If you had to give a kind of a split, what was the bigger factor there? Very, I mean, you're quite right. Those were the two main factors. And they're very linked because, you know, the refusal to acknowledge democracy kind of confirmed all the negatives people have. about well hang on is this a party that would ever behave constitutionally there's one third factor though in this which I think is is only fair to nod at which is the personal popularity of Boris Johnson and his ability to connect with voters in seats that had a cultural hereditary or tribal affiliation with labor which almost made it impossible for them to look at at a conservative candidate because of

all the connotations that they've grown up with. And Boris has swept all of that away. And the whole electoral map looks different now. We had a better vote for the Conservative Party than we've had since Margaret Thatcher at her height. Is he Thatcher or is he more like Churchill? I mean, he is politically much more within the Churchill tradition of sort of, you know, moderate, patriotic, tourism. You probably know that Boris wrote a book about Oh, it's one of my favorite books. Right. It was written off by a lot of the critics who sneered at it.

And what they said was Boris has kind of refashioned the great wartime leader into a prop in his own drama. So the Churchill, who emerges from the pages of his book, is this right-wing journalist and witty after-dinner speaker who is kind of cruelly overlooked by the party elites until the moment of crisis. Now, I actually don't think that criticism was entirely fair. Boris is not comparing himself to Churchill, but I think it is probably true that he was inspired by elements of Churchill's story, and in particular by the way in which the great man put all of the kind of the boozing and the un seriousness and the silly friends behind him and rose to the occasion. And I think he very much sees this as his moment to rise to the occasion. All right. So speaking of silly friends behind him, if you were in America, you were wondering when you heard him, speak last night, why Elmo and a weird Darth Vader was standing behind him and why you allowed Elmo to take his head off.

Isn't it just glorious? Isn't democracy just the most wonderful thing? What? It was like... When you are the sitting prime minister, you've got to go and defend your constituency against challenges by Elmo and Lord Buckethead. What a fantastic reminder in practice as well as in theory that we are all. equal before the law and the politician is the servant of the

So quickly can you tell us was that Elmo and who was the guy in the bucket? We have a, we've had a tradition here going back about 50 or 60 years that a number of eccentric and choke candidates stand against the main party leaders in their constituencies when there is a general election. Shut up. And yeah, yeah. And one, in fact, there is a party. the guy you're calling Darth Vader, who's changed his name by deed bold to Lord Buckethead,

he is the leader of quite an old party in Britain that began in the early 60s called the official monster-raving Looney Party. And it has contested every by-election, and its leader has stood against the incumbent prime minister at every election since the mid-60s. So they're actually older than our liberal Democrat. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. One last question.

the Scottish National Party did very well. And it's funny because the people were like, hey, democracy means something and we're we want Brexit. Well, that's really the message of the Scottish National Party. And I think it's been the same one since Mel Gibson put blue paint on his face. Leave us alone. We don't want a queen. What's going to happen with that?

And how's Boris going to be able to. With the difference, of course, that when that was put to a referendum, unlike with Brexit, it was defeated. Oh, it was? So why did the National Party do so well in Scotland? Well, this is interesting. So a lot of their voters are, in fact, against independence for Scotland, but they vote for the Scottish National Party as a way of maximizing Scotland's weight in the Union, if you like, where I mean. sending a message to London that they need to be taken seriously. It's a very common thing.

You get it in other places where there's a separatist feeling. I can't see there being another referendum in the short run because we had one five years ago and everyone said that that was it and it was going to be it for a lifetime and so on. But I do think that we need to acknowledge the advance in the elections of the Scottish National Party. And it seems to me that, The fairest thing to all sides, given that Scotland voted to stay in the UK, but not by a huge margin in 2014,

the fairest thing would be to try and come up with some compromise where there is more devolution for Scotland, including tax-raising powers, fiscal autonomy, but that stops short of actually having separate embassies and so on, which I think is what the vast majority of people in Scotland say they want. They want more autonomy, but not complete breakaway. Daniel Hannan, I have literally 10 seconds, and I'm being screamed out of my ear, 10 seconds. Does this mean, does this push France closer to Brexit themselves or not? I just need a yes or no question for an answer.

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her crisis of meaning. She is she is one of the saddest figures, I think, in public today. How dare you? Exactly right. Apparently she had an eating disorder. She was depressed.

She had no friends. She hated school. By her own telling of the story. Yeah. It's so sad. And then she found climate justice and that's her whole life. She said the entire meaning of her life.

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the Constitution has been so violated. The Fourth Amendment does not exist anymore, at least for the FBI. They want to get you on charges. They want to phone tap you. If they'll do this to the President of the United States, what chance do you have against this government? Outrage that should be heard from coast to coast, from the liberals, the Democrats, the independents, the conservatives, the Republicans,

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So I'm on now. It's my turn. It's your turn, yes. Excellent. Excellent. Welcome. The biggest story that I took out of all the chaos this week, there were actually two very important stories for Americans that have implications. The first one is that it is clear to me. that the FBI was out of control. So the most powerful investigative agency in the world, not just in the country, was basically running a... Remember those old detective shows? So Jack Whip Bunko scheme.

Denying it that they basically colluded, love that word. What did I hear that before? Colluded? The FBI colluded, with quotes around get, Donald Trump? So before and after the 2016 election and should be very unsettled about. Go ahead, your follow up question. So my son said to me, now he's 15.

And we were talking about it. He said, Dad, what happened with the FBI? And I told him. And he sat there for just 30 seconds. And he said, well, the real question is, and I was shocked to hear this come out of his mouth, who organized that? Who is at the top of that? Who allowed that to happen?

Who was calling the shots on this? Yeah, a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if you remember. Stu may remember, but he might have been off because Stu's off a lot. I told you about a K Street group called the Bonner Group. Do you remember that? I do remember that. I do remember. Okay.

So Americans do don't know anything about this because it'll never be reported on in the media. So every morning, There is a conference call that comes out of this group. They have offices. And they are basically attached to the Democratic Party, but far more than that. They are adherence of the secular progressive movement funded by George Soros. Now, as soon as you mentioned Soros, then you're a paranoid nut or you're anti-Semitical. You know what the media does.

All right, but this is a true – everybody in Washington who works in all of the agencies, and all of the departments know about this crew. And they know that this crew, they're activists, and they tried to advance agendas. And the agenda, of course, in 2016, was keep Donald Trump out of the overall office, right? That was the agenda of the Bonner Group. Before that, it was Destroy Fox News.

And the reason I know about this is I got caught up in this. All right, they hurt me. So that's how I know so much about them because we put our investigators and found out. But anyway, the sole agenda in 2016 was hurt Donald Trump. In that campaign, McCabe's wife, you'll remember, ran for Congress as a Democrat. The infamous mistress guy with the text, get Trump, and that's our policy. That's not what they do. It's implied, implied.

And when the opening came from the bar conversation in London between Papadopoulos and the Australian guy, That was the opening that the FBI needed. Aha. Now we have a legitimate way to go in and try to surveil the Trump campaign because we believe they're dirty. It's like, you know, they know who all the organized crime people are. They know they sell narcotics, but they need an opening to get in and tap them. This was the opening. And then from there, it cascaded into illegality, where they made stuff up.

They falsified texts between the CIA. and the FBI, do all kinds of things to get the FISA warrant. So that's what happened. So let me ask you this. Why did Horowitz, the IG, come out with this, I think the headline is Mambi Pambi, because he calls them inaccuracies. But listening to his testimony, he knows those aren't inaccuracies. He knows that is forgery, a setup, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, live.

lying outright to the FISA court? He knows that. Why was the language? You and I, back in O'Reilly, two of the few who have pointed out that Horowitz was disingenuance, word of the day, in his testimony. And the reason he was is he doesn't want to be attacked by the Washington Post, which is uber powerful in D.C. But Horowitz did tell you what you just raised. He did say that, but he said it in such an oblique way that you'd have to be right into that swamp to know. He said there was never an explanation for the FBI's conduct.

What he should have said was, in all my years of being in the Justice Department, I have never seen anything like this. And it strains credulity, you know, the word of the day, was an. accident to think that these mistakes, all 17 of them, it's impossible. It's not only impossible to have 17 or 19 mistakes all fall in the one direction. The actions of changing an email and reversing it, you know, cutting out language. The black guy is referred to be charged. Right. He will be charged, all right, that FBI agent who did that now. Did he do it on his own? Again, why would FBI agent put his whole career and life at stake.

Why? Why? It doesn't make any sense. No. So Mike Lee. None of this makes any thing, but what your audience has to understand is that this Horowitz, powerful man, Inspector General of the Justice Department, did not want to put himself at risk by telling the American people what really happened. So he did the dance. He told you, but he didn't really say it. The dance is what they all do. It's getting frightening because as Ben Sass said, he said, I was ashamed that I have to sit two people down from Mike Lee because I've had this argument for four years.

And I believe in the FISA system. I believe in the FBI. And he said, I told Mike for five years this doesn't happen. And he said, now I have to hear this that it is happening. And it's happening in a case where they knew. this would get sunlight. They knew this would be seen. So if they're doing this now,

what does the average American have in store with a FISA court? I mean, Mike Lee came out and said... I don't think that they knew they were going to get caught because the press covers for them. So you've got to understand the big picture. The only way you get caught doing corrupt activities at the federal government, level is if the press uncovers it because the watchdogs aren't going to do it.

You saw Horowitz. I know. He's not Elliot Ness. Right. All right? So when you have the press in the tank, whatever harms Donald Trump is good, and we don't really care whether you break the law to do it, this is the American press, all right? The FBI, they didn't fear exposure.

Who's going to expose them? So this is so terrifying. It is. That's the right word. Mike Lee said we should suspend all FISA courts until we know exactly what's going on. IG Horowitz said that they are conducting an investigation in all of the FISA warrants. But this should terrify people. And it goes so far beyond Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.

this is a this is the fourth amendment does not exist today in America but buying into that the whole system system what gives you we should remind we should remind your audience the reason this was put into place was to protect americans from foreign terrorists coming here and blowing us up all right that's the reason that this was um put into place during bush the younger's administration to give the agencies, FBI, CIA, NSA, more latitude to surveil people who might harm us. But Bill, this is the same kind of thing that Schiff was doing when he went into the skiff and said, hey, I'm going to do these three phone numbers. Well, those were...

Well, that's AT&T. I know, but... AT&T could have said no, and Schiff would have lost in court. That's AT&T, and who does AT&T own? CNN. Okay, so what's happened here is corruption, number one. But I believe the corruption was directed by James Comey and Andrew McCabe. And I believe they will be indicted when the Justice Department wraps up its investigation, Durham.

But between now and Durham Bar putting people in handcuffs, which will probably be in July, okay, you're going to see attacks on both Barr and Durham like you've never seen by the press, which wants to harm Donald Trump. All of this, and I don't even know if Trump knows it, I think he does, is going to help him get reelected, Donald Trump. Because even the dimmest of Americans know the fix was in. All of this stuff was contrived. It was based on nothing but getting,

President Trump. And when you have an apparatus, a federal apparatus, do president, that's corruption beyond anything that we've seen. Okay. I want to take a quick break. We're with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. You can watch his show and get all of his opinions every day at bill o'Reilly.com. I want to pause here because I want to come back and ask you about what do you think the Senate is going to do? going to investigate because people do belong in handcuffs and people need to pay a high price because

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All right. So, Bill, what is the, I saw a story just a few minutes. ago that looks like Lindsay Graham's not going to call any witnesses for the impeachment trial. I think they're just going to just dismiss this, which I guess would be a good legal way to do it, because, you know, as Mike Lee said, when you've won the case, sit down and shut up. However, I think that's really bad for the country because we have to expose all of this. You know, it's a very hard call. I understand that if the Republicans put on a trial in the Senate, the Democratic Party will be embarrassed. You'd have a lot of court fights. They'd subpoena shift. He'd say no. They'd subpoena Biden. He'd say no. Then they'd go to court and it goes on and on and on and on. But I think the strategy that Mitch McConnell, and you have to assume Donald Trump is involved with this.

I think what they have done is looked at the polls. And the polls, which are push polls, which means that Quibiak and Monmouth and all of these polling agencies, they wanted a certain outlook. And what they wanted was that the majority of Americans want President Trump removed from office. But it didn't turn out that way in both polls. even though if you look at the methodology, which of course, Bill O'Reilly.com does for every poll, you see far more Democrats poll than Republicans, which in a case like this is not fair. But even then, only 45% of the respondents want him removed because of this stuff. So that McConnell and Trump basically said we won.

And we can use this to demonize a Democratic Party. Yeah, we might get a little bit more in a Trump. trial, but we have enough now. I mean, Joe Biden himself, even though he's come up in the Democratic polls, I mean, my God, they can just bludgeon him with this Ukraine stuff. And so I think that's a strategy, and that was the decision that was made. So is any of the actual corruption in Ukraine with the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, and what is happening with our State Department and what is happening with our FDI and Justice Department. Is that going to be exposed and corrected?

Because I don't see that happening unless you have, unless Donald Trump has a trial in the Senate with the Supreme Court Justice and Donald Trump is tweeting all the time, I'm going to sit in the gallery and I might just blurt things out. Because then people will watch it and they will see it. I don't think Trump has ever sat in a gallery and his life. I know, I know, I know. Look, the only chance that we, the people, have, of really knowing the extent of the corruption in a 2016 election is John Durham.

That's it. Now, Barr is a pretty feisty guy, the Attorney General. He has made it quite clear that he is appalled by the corruption in the American press and the corruption in the Democratic Party. Is he a partisan? Yes, he is. Is he a Trump supporter? No doubt about it now. And that's why you saw Stedman. I mean, I mean, the former attorney general. He doesn't look exactly like Oprah's boyfriend, by the way. He does kind of, yes. Come out yesterday and attack him. And as I said, you're going to see Barr. But Barr can take this investigation anywhere he wants to take it. So Barr himself believes it was massive corruption. Ukraine in 2016, that'll find its way into the Final Justice Department report. But that's really the only hope. I don't like it. I don't like it.

Unless you go over there back learning how to speak Ukrainian and shake them out. You know, hey, tell me what happened over here. I would like to. And we're working on that. I just, I tremble for my country to quote Thomas Jefferson. this is so corrupt and so unjust on what's happening right now and the ramifications are so big. It must be exposed. And I think Donald Trump is the only one that can make that happen

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Bill O'Reilly is with us now from Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill, let me go across the water here for a second. I think there is a real lesson to be learned from Brexit and from this vote. It was really a referendum of, do the politicians have to listen to the people or not? Yesterday, do you know I tweet, Beck? Did you know that? No, I didn't.

I didn't. I, man, I missed that. I don't know. I have the full disclosure. I have no idea how to do that. Right. I have people. I have people that tweet in my, uh, Corgi. My Corgi, Holly, the Taradogas, 3,000 265,000 Twitter followers.

Wow. So yesterday, I tweeted that the election in Britain, may forebode bad tidings for the Democratic Party here. And the reason is that there's not a lot of difference between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. I agree. Not a lot of difference. Neither one is a rational politician. They are both emotional men.

They both. And Johnson kicked some serious. tail. Labor Party butt over there. Right. And there's not a lot of difference between the extreme on the left here and the extreme on the left of the Labor Party there. Over there.

I mean, Jeremy Corbyn, I mean, my God. But the real takeaway for Americans who really don't care what happens in the British Isles, most of us, is that there comes a point where the folks, the regular folks, not the ideologues, not the really politically involved people, but just the people, they reach a point where they go enough. And I think the Democratic Party, and I believe that the chieftains know this, are seeing that happen now. Enough of Adam Schiff, enough of Nancy Pelosi, enough of Gerald Nadler, enough of the fawning press, the corrupt press, CNN's ratings

and rock. And it's amazing. These are the biggest stories. and they have three-year lows and ratings. That's a repudiation of the outfit, all right? And I think that's where we're getting. Now, if Donald Trump, he could harness this, a 16-year-old girl out of Sweden who wants it to be cooler. Yeah, you know, I'm saying to myself, this is not where you should be focusing. That is the difference between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

Boris Johnson is much more calculated in his moves. I don't know that Boris Johnson is brawling outside a pub, so I'm not sure that's accurate. But as far as Donald Trump is concerned, I mean, why? Why? Don't take your eye off the corruption. I agree. You know, you can win the election. Did I tell you I had supper with Trump?

Yes. Okay. Too many times. I don't want to be redundant. or repetitive on the Glenn Beck program. And in that supper, I basically said, I would say this to Barack Obama or to anybody. I said, look, if you want to win,

all you have to do is say one simple thing. You may not like me, but do you really want them? That's it. That's all. And most Americans, I believe, at this point in history, say, no, we don't want them. We don't want the New York Times. We don't want Me Too. We don't want all of this PC crap where you can't say anything.

We don't want it. And therefore, we'll vote for the guy who opposes it. That's what it's going to come down to. So the media is, I mean, Chuck Todd on Meet the Press and, and, and, you know, And then MSNBC and CNN, you know, not really covering the Horowitz testimony and the reaction to the Horowitz testimony. It is, I've never seen anything. I am willing now to say that the press on the whole is an enemy of the Constitution of America. They are a danger and a detriment to our basic.

Bill of Rights. But let's get more right than the press and the media. We can demonize them all day long. And just so your audience knows, in the opening of the Horowitz report, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsay Graham, gave a statement.

MSNBC, which is run by NBC News, which is run by Comcast, refused to take Lindsey Graham's statement. However, when the minority ranking member, Diane Feinstein came. They were there. MSNBC took it. Now, they news a comcast. Now, the most important soundbite in the last two weeks from a politician was Michael Bloomberg, who told the CBS Morning News that, hey, yes, I ordered my news agency not to cover me or any of the

Democrats running for president, while at the same time gave them the, green light to hammer Donald Trump as much as possible. And the woman on CBS said, well, that doesn't seem right. And Bloomberg looked at her and said, I sign the checks. And if you accept my checks, there are restrictions on what you do. That was the most important soundbite that anybody could digest. Bloomberg basically telling the American people, I am going to control the news flow in my agency, and that's what they do in every other agency.

So you're saying it's important because he actually is telling the truth? He's telling the truth, and the corporations are dictating the coverage, not what's his name, on Meet the Press, not these people, are taking orders, all right? They are ordered to do things, and sometimes it's explicit, and sometimes it's implicit. But they are not going to go against their corporate masters who signed their checks. So there's a new, well, it's not new. They're calling everything now, including the Horowitz stuff, a conspiracy theory.

Yes, right-wing conspiracy, absolutely. But you know what? It's not getting any traction. It's not. And that's the good news. I don't want, you know, it's Christmas time, and I have a plug I need to make every week. I got it. But it's Christmas time, and it's goodwill toward men, and I don't want people to be depressed.

The turnaround is coming, and the turning around is not political. It's cultural. People are starting to understand that their rights are being threatened. On a number of different levels, we talked about the FISA warrants. You've talked about the Second Amendment. I do that on Bill O'Reilly.com all the time. We've talked about the First Amendment freedom of speech. Okay.

People are starting to say, you know what, this totalitarian left that is on display during every democratic debate, this is a threat to me and my family. Economically, it's a threat. Socially, it's a threat. And my basic freedoms would be eroded if these people get power. That turnaround, all right, is here. Now, again, you're not going to see it reported. You're not going to hear it. But I have an advantage in life back because everybody knows me.

About 50% people know you, but everybody knows me, all right? So wherever I go, people engage. And because I'm 6'4-215, they're not nasty because, you know, is an Irish guy who knows what he's going to do. They're nice, but they ask questions, and then they offer opinions. And almost 100% of them, I've had enough of this. I have had enough. And again, Trump may blow it.

He may not understand the wins. Well, this is what I wanted to ask, because it goes right to that. I think he has the clearest path to victory since Reagan and Mondale. However, he could blow it. And what people are saying is that, his paranoia is increasing, et cetera, et cetera, which you would understand. You just had dinner with him. You didn't see it because you just had dinner with him.

Not true? I don't know if it's true or not, but I didn't see it, all right? And I believe me, I've known a man for 30 years, so I can put him into perspective. He was the same, although he is very well aware that he's president of the United States, so I can't just go, hey, you pinhead, you know, like I could when he wasn't. Sure. Well, you can't. But he was essentially the same when I was speaking to him alone as he had been when I went to the Yankee game with him and the Nick game with him way back.

All right. I didn't see him, you know, I didn't. And, you know, look, the man is under unbelievable pressure. Never seen anything like it. Redible. Right. Yeah. But that night, it was a three-hour dinner, Beck.

I was trying, I was looking away, I got to get out of here. I mean, but it was the White House. My God, you know, it's such a magnificent, majestic place. And I was lucky. No, I don't see him as being anything other than he has been. But the lack of discipline in his presentation on Twitter at the rallies going after the 16-year-old girl from Sweden, that could derail the whole thing. I agree. I agree.

Bill O'Reilly, thank you so much. What do you have on Bill O'Reilly.com and for Christmas? I want to tell you have had an unbelievable year on Bill O'Reilly.com, and a lot of that is thanks to Beck, where it gets out. So we're going to have the best election coverage next to Beck. He'll have the best. I'll have second best. I have to say that, or he'll cut me off. Unbelievable.

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I will. You'll take that free hour of. advertising. I have to say, I thought our discussion today was one of the best. Yes, it's one of the best. No, wasn't it? You know, I know it was one of the best students saying, a blanking word. No, I'd just let you go, Bill.

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So do you remember covering that? Yeah, it was before. No, I remember watching the coverage. Yeah, I remember covering it and thinking, this is crazy, what's happening? And I don't really remember how it all ended. Oh, this is the thing. This is like basically my favorite genre of movies, which is dramatic tellings of recent historical events. I don't know why I love these things.

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Just stunning. All right, we're going to talk about the Second Amendment and this big movement that is now happening in Virginia coming up in just a second. You're listening to Glenn. We have Gavin Edwards on in just a minute. This guy is incredible. He has written nine New York Times bestselling books. He's written for every magazine.

But that's what I like. He Moonlights as a game designer, photographer, and a demolition derby driver. I've actually thought about doing demolition derby driving. Really? I really have because we have it, you know, up, you know, up in Idaho where it's a small little town of 500 people. Every summer they do a demolition derby.

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You know, I only have one real memory of Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, and that is I'm 16 years old. My dad happens to come home early one day from work. and I'm sitting at 3 o'clock that we had four channels, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. And Mr. Rogers was on and everything else was a soap opera and I just sitting on the couch,

eating some, I don't know, corn flakes or something. And my dad comes in and he stops and he sees me and he looks at the TV and he watches it for a second. And then he looks at me puzzled and then he looks back at the TV. And he says, what the hell are you watching and what is wrong with you?

16 is a little out of the demo. No, but it was one of those things where you just were surfing. You had four channels and you're like, I'm just going to eat a bowl of cereal. I watch this. My dad, rightly, at 16, was like, turn the TV off. Mr. Rogers now is an icon, an absolute icon.

The question is, why and why now? We have the author of kindness and wonder. Why Mr. Rogers matters now more than ever. Gavin Edwards in one minute. This is the Glenbag program. Also, I don't think there's any relation. Cam Edwards is going to be talking to us about the Second Amendment sanctuary cities in about 30 minutes.

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lives in North Carolina in Charlotte. Welcome to the program, Gavin Edwards. How are you, sir? I'm very good. So, Mr. Rogers, he has always been an amazing man. Anybody who ever paid attention to him, he's been an amazing man. Now he's gone, and he is an icon, an absolute icon, surpasses anything

Sesame Street ever did this is this is the guy that you look at and go that doesn't exist why is he suddenly so popular and everywhere well a lot of good in the world if everyone knows that like

he was that authentic guy like if he was out on the edge of a room where he was having lunch from his meal he would walk over get down on one knee and talk to that kid and make sure that kid was okay so that was what he was about. So Gavin, at this point in our history, I don't

think that guy could exist because everyone would go, I think there's something wrong with that guy. There's something wrong with him. You know, people said there's something wrong with that guy when he came out. Like, there's people who said, you know, sort of like people would get she's

not as perverse necessarily, but kind of as an insult. You know, there's this guy in a Chicago newspaper who wrote, you know, any self-respecting father just wants to punch Mr. Rogers in the nose. You know, like, it really, you know, sort of his gentleness and his, but, you know, if it does, in fact, challenge you to do better to tap into your inner Mr. Rogers, then, you know, like, you're going to be better off. The show once a day. And, you know, sort of like, can I be a little more patient?

Can I get in touch with these very basic messages that, like, he taught me when I was a kid that I, like, forgot about and put away. Like, it improves my life. But he wasn't, I mean, he wasn't like Sesame Street. He wasn't a runaway smash. Was he? Well, he was, in fact, you know, sort of like he, you know, it was a show that started off on like a, you know, sort of like local, the public television in Pittsburgh. And then it went to other cities and they would, pretty soon, they would just be gained thousands of fan letters when there was early on, when they didn't necessarily have enough budget to do the show. You know, sort of they found out that, you know, sort of like money for the show.

and they would show up in like Boston, Chicago, in Los Angeles, and say, oh, like Mr. Rogers is making a personal appearance, and the stations would be overwhelmed because thousands and thousands of families. Pretty quickly, you know, sort of even if he's not on adults' radar, kids connected with him. They're like, oh, this is the guy who cares about me and is looking at me and telling me, you know, sort of like he's happy that I'm there and I made today's special. And that's just something magical. So you look at him and the way he spoke was just very different. And you'll hear people say, don't talk to your kids as if they're, you know, morons. Now, I know he was going for a younger, younger audience, obviously.

But was that tone that he spoke to the kids about? Is that the way he always was? With adults and natural Tom Hanks, like, who it does in many ways a very nice job. You can see he's fighting to slow down his natural. How most people speak, but that was what he did. And he was very comfortable with silence. He would take up the radio in his car because, you know, he just wanted to be alone with his thoughts. He, one of my favorite sequences on the show ever was just he fills up a fish tank with water.

It's about three minutes. Not much happens. But it's just like, you know, he's just hanging out with the kids in the camera and, you know, of like we're just going to be here and watch the fish tank fill up. He is a obviously very mentally healthy individual that likes silence. Very few people like and can handle silence. Nobody who is, you know, nobody who is struggling with things will take the radio out of their car. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a judgment.

It's not, you know, sort of quiet. time or like the counter people say that. So who owns the rights to Mr. Rogers? Does his family still own it? The foundation, which now does the Tigers neighbor. Okay, so somebody is paying somebody for all of these, you know, portrayals of him and everything else. Because I'm wondering, it's just, it's almost so far out of the blue.

And maybe that's why it's so successful, because he's the anti-today today. or was it kind of or was it kind of like you know it's a wonderful life oh there's no copyright on this where you just play this all the time a couple of years and i think you know like whoever you are or like you know like however you feel about like sort of politics in the world you can see things are getting louder and they're getting like nastier and crude television you look at how people interact with each other and it just feels like in our lifetimes it you know like the dial keeps going up and there's in the air than there used to be. Mr. Rogers, it's like, you know, you say, oh, it doesn't have to be like this all the time.

I can actually, you know, even if I don't control the mass culture, I can control what's going on, like, in my family and in my neighborhood and how I react to people. And that's, I think, why there's so much interest in him and, like, renewed love for him in the last couple of years. So he's a, he's a pendulum swing that we hope will catch on bigger than just going to see him at the movies or reading. about him in your book. He's a pendulum swing that we're, we hopefully will go, you know. You know, sometimes pendulum swing, not just because of like one big apoccal event, but because lots of people decide to push just a little in the same direction. You know, sort of if more people just like take a moment to, you know, sort of like be kind to, you know, sort of like slow down and like listen to their kid and stuff, we got to go, we got to go. Right. Do you think that show

could exist today. Like it was this weird, fluky thing that, you know, sort of like he got into public television did to be filled. There's nothing else. It's that. So I don't think you could ever get that show on the air right now. But I do think it could come on and they was such a natural communicator. He would find a medium and he would still find a way to connect with people.

Any explanation on the name Mr. McPhealy? Sometimes people raise their eyebrow and it's like, is that a double entendre thing? I mean, it's not, I mean, it's a kid's show. The guy is really soft-spoken, and the mailman who comes in and talks to the kids from time to time is Mr. McPhee. It's one of those things like when you look at Michael Jackson and you're like, keep it in the closet. Maybe we should have thought about that. So McFeeley was Fred Rogers' middle name. But more importantly, it was the name of his grandfather, grandfather McPhile, who, you know, sort of one of the reasons like Fred had such a connection with kids.

and was that he had kind of an unhappy childhood. He grew up in privilege, but he was chubby. He was asthmatic. He was awkward. You know, he was sort of just kind of like shy and in many ways unhappy. But somebody who just really showed him, like, would encourage him, you know, like, hey, you want to go have an adventure, go, like, climb these stones. You told him, you know, sort of you made today special just by being here so much to Fred when he was a kid and something they was able to pass on to kids. So when he needed to name.

and like it was a tribute to his grandfather. So what's his family like? Did he have children? What do they like today? Joanne Rogers, a concert pianist, who, you know, sort of like a human being, but less patient than Fred Rogers because who is as patient as Fred Rogers?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, nobody. She'll talk about like, oh, you know, sort of like out at the, you know, like getting the car fixed and the guy was just like no good at all. I don't think he knew what he was doing, and he would say, well, maybe he was having a bad day. Hey, and hey, what about me? The public eye, but they do an interview now and then in tribute to their dad.

And decent people, I mean, it seemed to work. Was he there for them? Yeah. I mean, he was, what people say is that he was like a very loving, attentive father, and sort of like in some ways he's been training to be a father all his life. He was not very good at disciplining them. that, you know, sort of like, you know, it's very good of communicating, but, you know, like, found it hard to be the authoritarian and that.

Gavin, thank you so much. Great talking to you. You can follow Gavin. I enjoyed it. Me too. Mr. Gavin Edwards is where you can follow him. The name of the book is Kindness and Wonder, Mr. Rogers. It is well worth your time to read, and I have not seen the movie.

I saw the documentary. I think I saw half of the documentary, and I haven't seen the movie yet, but I want to. and he is somebody that we should all be looking toward right now, because if we could just listen to each other, be a little kinder, maybe the world would be full of a little bit more wonder that we would notice. Thank you so much, Gavin. Appreciate it. Thank you, Glenn.

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And it is remarkable. And what's even more remarkable to me is this is something I have never even seen, even during the Tea Party, this is bigger than the Tea Party movement, what's happening in Virginia, the sanctuary cities. The people are turning out in droves to stand up for the Second Amendment. And, you know, obvious reasons. The media is not really covering it. We also had Daniel Hannan on earlier today. If you missed a minute of the show today, you've missed a lot.

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Daniel Hannan was on today. We talked a little bit about Brexit and what happened in England with the vote against labor. And it was a bludgeoning for the Labor Party. And a lot of people here on the left were looking at England and saying, ah, this is really going to be what it's going to be like for us in America. and if Donald Trump plays his cards right, I think that's exactly what's going to happen here in America. Have you been following this sort of back and forth between the Senate and the president

where they're talking about how this investigation is going to go forward? And what Mitch McConnell seems to be saying is basically they're letting the president take the lead here. What do you want to do? They should. Yeah, I mean, it's a little weird. I mean, supposedly this is a vote on whether he's going to be impeached or not, so normally you wouldn't necessarily.

Well, he's going to be impeached. I mean, they just voted for the articles. I mean, he removed. Yes, they did. Out of committee. And so now it's got to go to the floor. And next week, they will vote for impeachment. So he will be impeached.

The trial means will he be convicted and removed from office. So McConnell's basically saying, you know, he's trying to, I would say, lose the argument against the Senate that you might make, for example, if they come out and just. just get this over with quickly and don't go into all this depth. He's trying to say, look, we're following the president's lead. If he wants to do this, fine, if he doesn't, fine. He wants to call witnesses fine if he doesn't fine. That's the argument from the Senate. And the left is saying, wait a minute, you can't let the guy who's on trial design the trial.

You can't. So what you're telling me is the Republicans are shirking their responsibility constitutionally in the Senate. they are mealy-mouthed, they are spineless individuals who will just go along. That does seem to be the case. I agree with that. I'm shocked. At the very least, they shouldn't be publicly saying that. I mean, I don't think it's a good idea to let the president design the process.

They should do what they think is right. Right. But I think what they're trying to say is basically win over Trump supporters so they don't get blamed if Trump decides, well, I want to get this over with right now. he's trying to diffuse the argument to Trump supporters who are saying, wait, I want a big trial. I want this investigated. And the president might say and decide, I don't want to go through all this.

Let's get it over with and get on with the election. So what you're saying is the Republicans are only playing politics, not actually. Yes, but like, I mean, if it's the president's decision, you know, what do people say? I know, I know. that the Republicans should grow a spine and do the right thing. That's what I said two weeks ago

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Welcome to the program. I'm Mr. Cam Edwards, who's part of the podcast, the Blaze podcast network. We're glad you're here. Cam has been a First Amendment rights guy for ever since I can remember and has his podcast about it. And I really want to talk to him, a second amendment. And I really want to talk to him about what's happening in Virginia. And this movement in Virginia that is really getting very, little attention in the mainstream and that is the sanctuary cities movement cam the way i view this

now i don't i haven't been there so i haven't seen it i don't know if you have but i think this is more powerful uh than the tea party turnouts that were happening even at its zenith you know one i think that you're right and thanks so much for having me on the program and we now have 91 localities in virginia most of the which are counties that have adopted these second amendment sanctuary resolution And I have been to about eight of these county board of supervisors meetings where the resolutions have been discussed. And I've never seen anything like this. I mean, you have thousands of Virginians who are showing up with their neighbors, with their friends, with their family, to urge these supervisors to pass a measure that says,

we don't plan on spending any county funds enforcing unconstitutional gun control laws. And you say, you know, this has got more energy than the Tea Party movement. I think it has at least as much energy, and this is so hyper-local. This is, you know, not a top-down movement that it really is incredible to see. So what is the state of Virginia doing? What are the Democrats doing? First of all, is this a right versus left issue, or is this bipartisan, these turnouts? You know, I think it is largely a right versus left, but I do know that there are Democrats who are showing up

and Democrats who are voting in support of these resolutions, particularly in rural Virginia. I think it's a pro-gun, anti-gun split, honestly. And the Democrats in the state, quite frankly, they're flipping out. They don't know what to do. Congressman Donald McEachan, who represents Virginia's fourth congressional district, talked about how Governor Northam should send out the National Guard to enforce these new gun control laws in counties that they refuse to enforce gun bans or magazine bans. Governor Northam has promised that there will be some sort of unspecified consequences for counties that do not capitulate.

But so far, you know, that doesn't seem to be having any effect on the movement whatsoever. So what do you suppose the people of Virginia will do if they send out the National Guard to enforce something that is? I mean, it kills me. You know, sanctuary cities are known as cities that are breaking the law and saying, and defying the law. This one is saying, no, no, no, it's a bill of rights issue, and we're standing by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and not letting you in. What do the Democrats think would happen if they enforce it with some sort of National Guard?

I guess they assume that folks would comply, but I just don't see that. happening. There are so many county sheriffs. We're now seeing Commonwealth attorneys, which are local prosecutors in Virginia, that are also saying, you know what, we're not going to go out and we're not going to arrest anybody for, you know, having a 20-round magazine or we're not going to go out and seize anybody's guns. And ultimately, I think that's what this comes down to. The governor and these anti-gun lawmakers can put these laws on the books, but they've taught us, Glenn, how to resist over the last few years. And we're taking pages from their playbook were doing exactly what they've done. You know, even in the state of Virginia,

there was a Commonwealth attorney earlier this year in Portsmouth, Virginia, who announced that she would be dismissing every misdemeanor marijuana case that was brought to her office. Right. And Governor Northam didn't complain. He didn't threaten her with sanctions or said that there would be consequences for her ignoring state law. So why would it be any different if we're talking about, you know, not enforcing, quite frankly, a lot of these laws are unenforceable anyway, but not enforcing universal background checks or not enforcing a magazine ban. I just don't see the difference there, and I think the Democrats have kind of painted themselves into a corner. Look, everybody says that, you know, we have to have universal background checks.

I don't understand this. It's the most popular thing you can say as a Democrat. It's popular with the Republicans, the independents, and Democrats. Cam, we have those, don't we? We have those. We've got background checks on every retail sale. of a firearm. And what they want to do is they want to expand that to private transfers, even between family and friends. So even though, you know, I think you and I met for the first time back in 2003,

it would be illegal for me to even loan you a firearm if you came to visit me in Virginia. It's absolutely absurd. And you know, Glenn, as far as the practical effects go, it sounds good on paper. It polls really well. But if you look at states where these laws have been put on the books, Colorado, for example, passed their universal background check law in 2013. Violent crime is up more than 25% in the state of Colorado since that background check law was put on the books. So if this is about public safety, it doesn't work. If it's about targeting legal gun owners, and I think that's what it's really about, then that's enough for these gun control advocates to push it.

So if the governor decides to call out the National Guard, which I, do you think that's realistic? That's even a realistic? I don't. Okay. I don't. I would be shocked. I think it's much more likely that the government were, that the governor would try to use the Virginia State Police,

that the attorney general would maybe use his office to come in and prosecute in counties and take cases, you know, that the commonwealth attorney or not. But I would be shocked and really, really bitterly disappointed if the governor actually tried to do something like send out the National Guard. And I think that would fail, by the way. I think that, you know, again, the National Guard has made. made up in Virginia of Virginians. Yeah. And I don't think those members of the National Guard are any more enthusiastic about enforcing

these gun control laws than the county sheriffs and a lot of local cops. I mean, this is something that people have talked about for a long time. You know, if the army was ever turned against the American people, would they shoot? This is even harder to believe because, as you said, those are Virginians. And they would be enforcing a law on Virginians. And most of those people are probably Second Amendment right. people. And I just, I mean, that's a big test to, to lose especially. It is. But again, like I said, I think they've painted themselves into a corner here.

I mean, even if you get into prosecuting individuals for, you know, violating these new gun laws that they want to put on the books, you know, there were, I think it was Rockingham County. There were about 3,000 people who crammed into a high school gymnasium and about another 3,000 who couldn't fit who were outside the other night. I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, you know, are any of those people, if they serve in a jury pool, are they going to convict their neighbor? Are they going to convict the person who owns the hardware store that they visit on a weekly basis? I don't think that they will. And so whether it's through, you know, a jury nullification, whether it's through the Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions, whether it's through the discretion that law enforcement already has, I just don't see a way for the jury nullification, whether it's through the second amendment sanctuary resolutions, whether it's through the discretion that law enforcement already has.

I just don't see a way for these gun control laws to be fully enforced across the state of Virginia. I think they're going to be enforced in deep blue areas. I think we're going to see exactly what we've seen in places like New York State, for example, after they pass the Safe Act. The majority of prosecutions under that gun control package take place in two boroughs of New York City, the Bronx and Brooklyn. And the vast majority of people who are prosecuted are young black men with no violent criminal history who are sent to prison for three and a half years

for simply possessing a firearm without a license. And I think it's going to be young minority men in low-income neighborhoods who are primarily going to be impacted by these gun control laws in Virginia. And I don't know that that's the legacy that, you know, Governor Blackface Northam really wants to leave. Kim, have you heard the case in Illinois

of the woman who is trying to defend herself? She was in her car. She had a gun. She has licensed to have a gun, not licensed to carry, but she had it in her glove box. Her ex comes is threatening her life, trying to get into the car, trying to hurt her. She takes her gun out. She shoots.

He gets, what was it, a $10,000 bail? She has a $75,000 bail. Where is the common sense here? There is none, unfortunately. And, yeah, I'm very familiar with this story. I've actually learned a couple of additional pieces of information, including the fact that this guy, apparently has been convicted of battering this woman in the past on a couple of occasions. I did learn that the woman was able to bond out, thankfully, so she's back out.

But again, it's absolutely egregious that the state of Illinois and the state's attorney in Illinois would look at this case and decide that this woman who acted in self-defense, and police say she acted in self-defense, that this woman should face a higher bond than the guy who beat her in her car. It's the holiday, and I just want you to know we're praying for you and Miss E. How is she doing? She's doing okay. She's enjoying the holidays right now. She's actually not on any form of treatment at the moment. She was in a clinical trial for her non-small cell lung cancer, but she had some side effects,

so she had to get off of it. So her oncologist said, you know, look, let's take a couple months. Let's see if any clinical trials open up. and she's got an appointment next week, and hopefully, hopefully she'll be back getting some treatment soon, but her spirits are good. She's in the Christmas spirit. She's busy knitting and crocheting little corny goat critters

that she's putting up for sale in her Etsy shop, and we're just trying to enjoy the holidays. You know, we're trying to make every day count. How are you holding up? Most part, I'm good. I appreciate you asking. You know, it's my job to be her rock. So I let her, you know, put all of that on me,

and then occasionally I'll, you know, wander outside. Thankfully, we live on 40 acres, and my neighbors can't hear when I yell and scream at the moon or the sun or the clouds. And I get it out of my system and I go back and I do what I can to, again, make sure that her every day is as good as it can be. Cam, you're good man. Say hi to Miss E for us and blessings this holiday season. Thank you so much. Thank you, Glenn. Talk to you soon.

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This is the Glenn Beck Program. Thank you so much for joining us. Mr. Stu Begrier has joined us. Mr. Begir? Yes, yes, Glenn. Mr. Dr. Colonel, the master. Say it right. If you're going to say it, say it right, man.

I only ask for a modicum of respect. You've worked hard for these titles. I have. Dr. Colonel. No. What's first? Reverend. Reverend. Reverend Colonel.

No. Reverend Dr. Colonel. Reverend Dr. Colonel Beck. How dare you? I am a reverend, the Church of Universal Life, Modesto, California. I am a doctor of humanities, Liberty University. And I am a Kentucky Colonel, like Colonel Sanders. That's a real thing, Kentucky Colonel.

And is that just because your appearance, you look like Colonel Sanders? No, you don't have to look like Colonel Sanders to get it. You have to be given that by the governor of the great state of Kentucky. And that happened years ago in the 80s. I was made at Kentucky. Really, were you? Yes, I was. Did you look like Colonel Sanders then?

No, I didn't, and you can shut up now. But again, you can say it politely to me. Reverend Dr. Colonel Sanders Beck. Okay. Let's just play a little bit from Cuomo getting slapped down by the aforeme, a former attorney general about the coverage of CNN. But first, I want to remind you what Comey had said just a couple of days ago, last Saturday, about the FISA process.

Listen. A total confidence that the FISA process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by DOJ and the FBI. I think the notion that FISA was abused here is nonsense. It's nonsense. Well, that's not what the inspector general found and found that it was incredibly flawed and disturbing to all Americans is what he felt everyone should view this as. Here is a former AG for the Bush administration on CNN's prime time with Cuomo. Listen to this.

In terms of logic of thought and argument, why this insistence on denying what was pretty well established through the testimony by respectable people. about what happened here and why it happened. Why isn't the stronger argument for Republicans? Look, what he did was not textbook. Maybe that's because he's not a politician. It was even wrong in some ways. But they got the aid. He never got any dirt on the Bidens.

The election is safe. How can this be worthy of impeachment or removal from office? Why deny everything? That is. There's a lot more going on than just denying everything. number one, they're making the points that you made. Number two, there is still, I think, some legitimate question about whether what was happening at Burisma, which was a crooked operation, as a great deal of the Ukraine is, didn't warrant

some taking a look. Except to keep it away from the absurd, the country's watching this right now. It's about what is the standard of behavior? You have the Republicans pointing the finger at the left and saying, you guys are just purely political, you hate the president. That's gratuitous. person who uses hate, an animus, is our president. Oh, my gosh.

But they haven't made any good faith effort to do any oversight as the constitutional demands. As a duty, they took an oath to uphold. They've just been his defense counsel. Bravo for him, but bad for the process. Why not at least own what's obvious? What is the proper standard? This is an impeachment proceeding. Yes.

You don't remove somebody from office for not meeting the proper standard, for not displaying those qualities of mine, character and temperament that are appropriate to a president. I mean, I don't. Cuomo is so, they see the world through a fun house mirror. They're not reflecting reality at all. We are saying those things.