The Glenn Beck Program - Even Hillary Clinton Had to Admit Trump's Peace Deal Is Historic | Guests: Gov. Greg Abbott & Leland Vittert | 10/13/25

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

For the first time in generations, guns have been laid down and sirens are silent as Israel and Hamas have signed a potentially miraculous ceasefire and peace agreement. Glenn lays out the history of ...the conflict in the Middle East, showing how important this U.S.-brokered ceasefire truly is. Glenn and Stu discuss President Trump's leadership as he led the effort for this miraculous peace deal. When was the last time America had a president who ended conflict, rather than starting it? Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) joins Glenn to discuss a judge blocking the Texas National Guard from being activated in Illinois after being sent to "safeguard" ICE officers. It took President Trump nine months to do what past leaders couldn't do in years. Glenn shares that the FBI visited his home to request the research that was featured in his special exposing Antifa. "On Balance" host Leland Vittert joins to discuss the concerning rise of anti-Semitism within the Republican Party. Leland also shares his life story, which is outlined in his book, "Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism." Glenn plays some highlights of BlazeTV host of "Relatable" Allie Beth Stuckey's recent appearance on Jubilee's "Surrounded" series.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:19 What a historic day. President Trump has just greeted all of the hostages. They all have been returned, anyone alive. They are still getting the bodies of those that they say they know where the bodies are, but they haven't been able to check. them. They are still checking for bombs in the coffins, etc., hopefully nothing is there, and we can have real peace. The hostage square is what they call it in Tel Aviv. It was a crazy, crazy scene. People were, I mean, they were booing Benjamin Netanyahu and cheering Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:04:06 they were a lot of them wearing maga apparel holding up signs with you know Donald Trump's image and Nobel Peace Prize it is it's quite a scene in Israel now the president is on his way he just spoke to the Knesset we'll give you some highlights of that he's on his way to Egypt to sign this peace deal that includes the entire Middle East what the president has done is nothing short of miraculous and I want to give you the kind of a background so you understand how historic this is will give you pieces of the president's speech and how it all came together in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about relief factor. Ever notice how your car runs better, you know, when you keep up the maintenance?
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Starting point is 00:06:22 And for the very first time, not in decades, but perhaps a millennia or two, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have signed something. that might resemble more than just a ceasefire. You have to understand, before we start, how significant and how impossible it is to reach this point. This is not like anything we've ever seen before. The conflict did not begin in 1948. It didn't begin with the British mandate and the creation of the state of Israel. The story really begins with the ancient people of Israel,
Starting point is 00:07:03 sands of Canaan where the people of Israel and the people called the Philistines clashed over the same spot of earth called Gaza. The Bible records Gaza as one of the five cities of the Philistines. And this is the place, Gaza is the place where the Philistines gathered their strength. It was in Gaza that Samson, the judge of Israel, was betrayed, captured, blinded, and paraded through the streets as the Philistines mocked him, much like you saw on October 7th. It was in Gaza that he brought the temple down on them, one man against the empire.
Starting point is 00:07:50 History has a very long memory in that land. We call it the Gaza Strip today, but it has seen conquerors come and go, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Ottomans, British and yet somehow or another the one rivalry that is from you know two thousand three thousand years ago remains the one between the children of Israel and those who dwell along the sea that's an important thing Palestinians of the ancient world in biblical context are or
Starting point is 00:08:24 different than the Palestinians they were the group they were not Semitic they weren't Jewish and they concentrated on the coast of Israel, Gaza. The modern Palestinian identity came, you know, a millennia later. And that was shaped by the Arab Islamic and historic developments in that area. It's not directly connected to the Philistines. However, Philistine and Palestinian both mean people that dwell on the coast. the word Hamas is an acronym which means
Starting point is 00:09:05 you know in their language the Islamic resistance movement but in Hebrew Hamas means something altogether different it means violence and this is in Hebrew in Genesis 611 the earth was filled with Hamas violence corruption wickedness it was because of Hamas
Starting point is 00:09:24 that the rains came and Noah had to build the ark because of Hamas. So when you hear the word Hamas, understand what it means to the Israeli ear compared, you know, to the Palestinian ear. It's not just an enemy. It's a biblical echo, a spiritual warning from deep, deep time. So for 75 years, they have been trying to make peace between these ancient adversaries. Everybody has tried to do it.
Starting point is 00:09:56 In my lifetime, the Camp David Awards or Accords were in 1978, the Oslo Accords in 1993, endless roadmaps, summits, UN resolutions, and nothing. Every single one of them hailed as historic, and each one declared a new chapter, and every one of them failed. And it's not because the diplomats lack skill, but because too many on one side, the entire Arab world, didn't believe Israel had a right to exist. And everyone was looking for a political solution. Then comes Donald Trump. Donald Trump didn't approach this, you know, as a professor of Middle East studies.
Starting point is 00:10:41 He didn't approach this with the hundred years of expertise from the State Department. In fact, he looked at the State Department expertise and went, You guys aren't really experts at anything. You haven't solved anything. And he keeps trying the same thing. What are we doing? He took a business approach. He knew all of the players because of business.
Starting point is 00:11:02 He knew all of the big players. And so he got in with all of the players and found out what do you really want? And what they really want is stability. If you look at what's being built in the Middle East, they are these incredible modern cities, incredible modern cities. They want prosperity. The Middle East does. Hamas doesn't.
Starting point is 00:11:32 He saw a region, Donald Trump did. He saw a region that was addicted to U.S. aid, endless negotiation. And so he just tore up the whole rule book. And he recognized Jerusalem, first thing, as the capital of Israel. A move every single president before has been told by the State Department. You can't do that. it'll cause war. And you know what? It didn't. He moved the embassy. He then walked away from the Iran deal and he told the world that America is no longer going to apologize for standing with the only
Starting point is 00:12:05 democracy in the Middle East. And that's where all of the anti-Semitic stuff comes. Because now, see, Israel is controlling our foreign policy. Israel is controlling Donald Trump. Donald Trump is doing the bidding of the Jews. No, no, no, he didn't. No, he wasn't being controlled, and no, they weren't controlling him. It was actually seemingly quite to the opposite, because he did something extraordinary. He took the entire region and brought them together. First, he did it with the Abraham Accords. That is the first genuine realignment of the region in a generation, or maybe two.
Starting point is 00:12:49 and it wasn't about ideology. It was all about survival, prosperity, and the shared fear of Iran's growing shadow. When we drop the bombs on Iran, Americans and people in the West and people who have been educated in our universities and been indoctrinated with all this garbage, they looked at that and said,
Starting point is 00:13:13 oh my gosh, look at he's doing Israel's bidding. No, he was actually doing Israel's bidding. He was doing Saudi Arabia's bidding. He was doing Turkey's bidding. He was doing a bidding of Egypt. Everyone in the Middle East, everyone in the Middle East hates Iran. They know how dangerous Iran is. They wanted somebody to put Iran in its place.
Starting point is 00:13:39 So when Donald Trump did, the Middle East, the Arab world, celebrated. Now, not obviously not all of it, but a lot of it, the ones that are now at the table, he did something else. He proved himself to be an honest broker and not doing the bidding of just Israel. And I would love to hear all of the people who are now standing up and saying, see, we're just a puppet. I would love for you to understand. I would love to hear your explanation of this. when Israel went after Qatar, which I don't have any love at all for Qatar, but they went after Qatar, and that was going to blow this whole thing up. What happened? Donald Trump went to Benjamin Netanyahu and said,
Starting point is 00:14:35 you need to apologize to Qatar. Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel is not going to apologize. They ended up apologizing to Qatar. It won't happen again. That gave Donald. Trump, the image in the Middle East of not being the little boy toy, but the other way around. He has some control of what Israel is going to do. He can tell them, knock it off. Then when everybody came to the table, the Middle East all came to the table and said, okay, we'll handle Hamas, you handle Israel. So they got Hamas to the table and said, you're going to take this and we're going to guarantee the peace. And Donald Trump went to Benjamin Nett Yahoo and
Starting point is 00:15:21 said we have to finish the job. We have to finish them off. And Donald Trump said, no, you're going to take this deal now. And Benjamin Nattahou said, no, we have to finish them off. And he said, I don't think you hear me. You're going to take this deal. That's how this happened. That's a miracle. He didn't try to make them friends.
Starting point is 00:15:46 he tried to make them partners. They all want prosperity. And now we are looking at the fruits of the labor that started with the Abrahamic Accords. The Arab states signed it to enforce peace rather than to sabotage it. For the first time in 4,000 years, the blood-soaked sands of Gaza whispers something today that has been forgotten for 4,000 years, and that is hope. If it holds, even if it holds for a year, five years, 10 years, it means centuries of hatred has been overtaken by something stronger than hate.
Starting point is 00:16:44 And even if we just start with survival, that's good. it means that the children of Abraham, which is both the Arab and the Jew, the descendants of Abraham, long divided by faith and pride, have decided choose life over death trying to prove your right. It means the biblical land of Gaza, where Samson fell, where violence has filled the earth, might finally learn the meaning of peace. but if it doesn't and the rockets return and the lies reawaken and this will just be another tombstone in the desert of broken promises
Starting point is 00:17:29 but the Bible says blessed are the peacemakers the Lord hates the hands that shed innocent blood so if this holds if this holds if courage triumphs over chaos let's remember
Starting point is 00:17:51 that peace is not the absence of war. It's the presence of righteousness. And righteousness, true moral clarity, demands that we call evil by its name. And we stand with truth even when it's costly.
Starting point is 00:18:08 And we defend the innocent even when the world looks away. And now it is our job. As long as this holds to rebuild. I am so happy to we are not being asked to rebuild, not our money. The Middle Eastern money is coming in now to rebuild the region, as it should be.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Men haven't suddenly become good, but for once, maybe they are choosing life over death and survival. Or perhaps they've remembered and seen God's warning and chosen mercy over their rage. All right, we're going to give you some of the sounds from the Middle East here in just a second. First, let me tell you about LifeLock. Our online footprint is bigger than you think. It's in your banking, it's shopping, it's your health information, your taxes, your kids' school accounts, databases you've never even heard of. And it's there. And it's not just you.
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Starting point is 00:20:38 did not think was possible. And I mean, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to bring up questions about what comes after this. And I think those are totally legitimate. But the bottom line is the hostages that are alive are back. This isn't something we have to predict anymore.
Starting point is 00:20:52 This isn't something we have to, you know, cast doubt on, worry about. It's occurred. The families are all over social media hugging their relatives. That's actually happening today. Which is incredible. After two years.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Two years of just, you know, the guy who famously we saw him digging his own grave, like he's back. Imagine that. I mean, I can't even imagine. Certainly over two years, you have to be resigned to the fact that you're never seeing them again. If you're a family member, you're sitting there and you go on TV all the time and plead for them to come back and hope and pray and work and do everything you can. But there has to be part of you, certainly a dark moment. where you just realize, you're never going to see them again. And then here we are, this is happening.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Miracles obviously start from a higher place than Donald Trump, but he was used as a conduit here, and I'm glad that this has occurred. You know, it's amazing. I'm watching Air Force One getting ready to take off from Tel Aviv because it's now heading over to Egypt, which is about a 20-minute trip, I think. It is, this is leadership.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Remember everybody said, Oh, there's going to be a laughing star of the world. We're just going to be a war all the time. Look, this is leadership. This is America and our president leading the world to peace. I've never seen anything like this. This is beyond what Ronald Reagan did with communism. I really believe that.
Starting point is 00:22:27 This guy has solved eight wars. Now, communism, well, I can't say communism. Communism affected more. more people than this did to some degree. You know what I mean? But this is crazier. This is 4,000 years. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:46 I mean, that's interesting. That's an interesting, I'd have to put a little bit more thought into that if I was going to rank them, but it's really, really important. It's really important. Yeah. I mean, you could go, you could argue either way. Sure. But I think like, you know, there's a lot of stuff you can talk about there.
Starting point is 00:23:01 I think one of the things that's fascinating about this moment is Donald Trump loves this. Like, this is by far his favorite part of this job. He's a deal maker. Yeah, yeah. He's a deal maker. If you like Donald Trump and you want to see Donald Trump at his happiest, watch this speech today.
Starting point is 00:23:21 He is so in his element. He is so thrilled to be talking about this. He's busting on the people in the Knesset. He's, he's, you know, roasting his relatives. He is thrilled and deserves this moment of adulation and credit. Everyone's laughing at all of his jokes. Everyone's clapping for everything he says. It's because it's an incredible achievement.
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Starting point is 00:25:14 Sign up now at glenbeck.com. Welcome to the Glennbeck program. Quite an incredible day. And, you know, I would just like to hear from those people today that have been saying, you know, Donald Trump is going to get us in all kinds of wars and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, apparently not. You know, the real problem is, is that people, when George W. Bush told me in the Oval Office back in 2007 or 8, he said, don't worry, Glenn, the next person that gets in here, no matter what party they're from, they're going to realize they're going to have to do pretty much the same thing because they'll have the same advisors and they'll know that their hands are really tied as president. And that scared the hell out of me.
Starting point is 00:26:19 I mean, he was trying to make me feel better, but I didn't feel better. Wait a minute. The president really doesn't have any power to do anything. We're going to continue to go down this road, even though it doesn't work. That's why when Obama got in, nothing really changed. He didn't shut anything down or do anything big because he was going for the same advisors. And so all these advisors that are like, you know, we've got 100 years of experience. We've been working on these things and it's going to pass.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Donald Trump came in and said, I don't agree with any of this stuff. We're going to try something different. And so he got rid of those advisors. He's like, who'd you just marry? Honey? Yeah, okay. Bring him over here. We're going to send him to the Middle East.
Starting point is 00:27:02 I mean, he just, he broke all of the rules. And he's a negotiator. And he's a business guy. And he's a builder. So he thinks differently. And look at the difference. I mean, if you want to look at the way he has changed the world, he has greatly changed the world.
Starting point is 00:27:27 We're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. But he is greatly changing the world. He is breaking everything that the State Department and the years of the guys who have been thinking exactly the same way, what they've been building, he's breaking all of that. And he's like, no, we're going to build it a different way. We're not going to be a global community where everybody is answering to, you know, the United Nations. We're going to be our own states, and that's the way it should be.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Now, if you don't like that, if you want to be a global community, that's fine. But that doesn't mean we all go to war with each other, as you're seeing. If you find a way for everybody to work together, if you find a way where everybody wants to be successful and have some peace, now there are going to be some people like Iran. I don't know what's going to happen with Iran, but I'm hoping. that there is some sort of mutual agreement between the Arab states that, you know, if Iran starts something, it's not going to just be, you know, it's not just going to be Israel that has to respond or the United States. It's time for the Middle East now that they're together to take that on themselves if there is trouble there, because that one hasn't been solved yet. but he reached out and said, look, Iran, we don't have to be enemies.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Now is the time for you to come to the table as well. It's so clear that this is how he actually sees the world. He does see the world. Peace through strength is something that he really believes in. He talked about it quite a bit in the speech about how this is, this didn't happen because he was decided to let everyone have what they want or to be super nice to. everyone. This happened because they have really big weapons that are really powerful that hit the targets they want to hit. And many of them, he shared, as he pointed out, shared with Israel,
Starting point is 00:29:24 many of which that they have themselves to use when needed. And he didn't, that is the approach here. This is not a, it's so weird because I think the left and the media see Donald Trump as a guy who is either this maniacal hawk that is going to go just blow up everything all the time. That's one of the worries that they said. And we said at the time, none of his history points to this. Nothing is history. What are you talking about that? But back to when he was 20 years old, he talked about this stuff. He hates war. Yeah. And I think some other establishment criticism comes to him because, you know, you look at like what Russia did with Ukraine, right? And you say, okay, well, Russia invaded Ukraine. And there's a lot of people like on the hawkish,
Starting point is 00:30:09 you know, right, who would say, okay, like, they're in the wrong here. What are we going, why are we to go and do anything with them and say that he's too weak on these issues. He's constantly trying to give everyone what they want. He's always negotiating. And like neither of those are really true. Like there are elements of those. Like Donald Trump will attack a country he believes is in the wrong if he needs to. You've seen it with Soleimani back in the day. He'll do the things he believes he needs to do. But he's not ideologically committed to doing that all the time. The same thing with negotiating. He's also limited in his scope. Yeah. Usually. limited in a scope. Same thing with, but like not limited in his scope when it comes to ISIS.
Starting point is 00:30:50 No. Right. Like he came in and was like, he talked about that in the speech too. He's like, I talked to General Raising Kane and everyone told me it's going to take four or five years. He told me it would take four weeks, but we'd probably have time left over. And he was right. We went in, he did it his way. He found a general who was on the ground who said, look, I don't want to talk ill about my superiors, but here's what I think we could do. And he picked him and he said, we'll do it your way because your way makes sense. And then it was over in a month, right? Incredible.
Starting point is 00:31:16 That is a totally different way of looking at these things. And because he just doesn't have that, he doesn't, he's not involved in that world where there's just calcification over ideas. Like exactly what we talked about when it comes to George W. Bush, right? Like, you know, this is kind of where we are. And the same advisors advise the same things. And it doesn't always mean that it works out perfectly. It doesn't always mean he's always right. He is a guy, I think, with that type of stuff, at least, when it does go down the wrong road,
Starting point is 00:31:46 oftentimes he'll reconsider. I mean, I think that's what happened with Russia. He went down that road with Russia. He really, and again, he talked about this in the speech, believed he could solve that immediately. He said it before the election. He said, we could get that done in a couple days. He said, I called over and Whitkoff was in there talking, and it was 15 minutes in,
Starting point is 00:32:06 and I called him like, what's going? Why is this taking so long? And they're like, he's still in there. and he talked to him for five hours, and it didn't happen. And he admitted it didn't happen. And you saw the change that he had there, where he was all of a sudden saying, well, you know what? Maybe Russia isn't serious about this, and we should start doing more to put pressure on them in other ways.
Starting point is 00:32:25 But, like, that's oftentimes just mocked his failure, right? He went in there with this big approach and it didn't work. Well, he's trying something else. He's trying things that he believes will end these conflicts, and that is consistent with who he's been for a very long time. I mean, you can come up with criticisms. Donald Trump, but this stuff has been pretty successful. The stuff that he's done particularly in the Middle East has been incredibly successful.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Name the president that has not moved us closer to war or brought us into war in the last, you know, five where we've had troops on the ground. We're sending troops everywhere. Name the last president that didn't do that. I mean, you know, I guess you could say, you know, Joe Biden, who's, withdrew a bunch of troops from Afghanistan. That didn't work out very well. It didn't get us just slaughtered.
Starting point is 00:33:16 It made everything worse. Yeah. No, you're right. I mean, I, it's not his, he has a priority for this not to occur. It's very important to Donald Trump, I think, quite clearly. And he believes he can get it done. And in, in some circumstances, it's worked. By the way, nothing else we try typically works.
Starting point is 00:33:38 You know, sometimes war will end the, the thing you're dealing with at that given moment. We have seen that happen, but oftentimes does turn into something worse in the long term. And to be clear here, you know, one of the problems that if we were going to poke holes in this at all as to what happens so far, there is always a completely ridiculous ratio of how many Palestinians get released compared to how many Israelis get. 20 to 2000. To 2,000. It's 100 to 1 in this case. And it's always 50, 100, 150 to It's always something like this. And you look at the guys who are coming back from Israel and they're all healthy and well-fed,
Starting point is 00:34:16 look like they've just been at a resort. And then you look at the hostages coming back from Hamas and they just look horrible. You know, they look either bad to horrible. Yeah. And the issue here is all of the people that were taken hostage by Hamas will return back to life in Israel, hopefully be able to adjust to life with their families, going to church, living at as they were, or at least as close as they can get to that. It would be weird if the Jews started going to church.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Well, you know, whatever. I don't know if they're all Jews. I mean, there was people from other countries as well. But the opposite will happen likely with the 2000 Palestinians. Many of these were hard-core terrorists. Many of them were real criminals. Many of them were either involved or suspected. to be involved heavily in the October 7th attacks?
Starting point is 00:35:13 What do these people do in the future? There's a lot to come here. So there's a difference though. They're releasing, many of them that are being released did not have charges against them. They were scooped up and not charged with something. So, you know, they were holding these to keep combatants off the battlefield, but they were not necessarily charged. They didn't have them. They were the on-video murdering children.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Correct. Right. Like it wasn't them. Correct. But again, some of them were suspected. They believed they had planning possibilities. They were in groups with the people who were doing these things. And there is certainly a risk, as we've seen after 9-11, that when you take terrorists and you put them in Guantanamo for a few months and then you release them back, they become the heads of ISIS.
Starting point is 00:36:00 Like this stuff does happen. So there's a long road ahead. This is not a – it's a victory lap for a very small piece of this, but a very important piece of it. If they can keep the peace between the Arab world, forget about Hamas, you keep the peace and you hold together a coalition of the Arab world with Israel, that's worth all of it. Massively important. Massive. And while it might not necessarily solve Hamas or Hezbollah or any of these other groups, if we have a place where Israel and many of these Arab nations are in a. good place together.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Trading with each other. And maybe some of these countries are actually overseeing Gaza. Yeah. And they are the ones that need to come in and be the bad guys when Hamas does these things. It's a totally different dynamic. There's no way to turn against Israel if that situation is true. If that relationship can maintain, and that'll be difficult.
Starting point is 00:37:03 There will be times where that's going to be really difficult to maintain. But again, it's a path. It's like a possibility of success. We were in a situation. I mean, as long as he's done the show together, Glenn, 100% of the time, I was convinced this was never going to occur, where there would even be a chance where Arab nations and Israel would be buddy, buddy, or at least something close to it.
Starting point is 00:37:25 I would say 99.9% of the time, because the Arab Accords were so historic. You're like, wait, what just happened? Yeah, the Abraham Accords. Yeah, I agree with that. And, of course, there's always the possibility of a miracle. That's the only thing really I held out hope for. This might be it manifesting itself. And that's great.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Here's what Hillary Clinton said. I really commend President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders in the region, for making the commitment to a 20-point plan and seeing path forward for what's often called the day after. It's going to take a lot of work. It's going to take a lot of coordination. But the U.S. took advantage of an opening that was available, and we were able to be successful. That's great. Good for her.
Starting point is 00:38:06 not what Biden's the Biden administration is like Donald what? Who? Duck? Are you? I don't know what you're talking about. But congratulations Hillary Clinton for at least being honest which you know who's honest today. If you're not saying, wow, good job Donald Trump. Well,
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Starting point is 00:43:06 All right. Something else I wanted to tell you about. Barry Weiss, the reporting over at CBS is remarkably different. Sorry to change already. Yeah. Before she got there. I had heard that she was just demanding employees tell her what they do. Like some sort of tyrant.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Yeah, authoritarian. Here's before the reporting from CBS News before. Hospitals and health clinics in Gaza City are on the brink of collapse. Nearly two weeks into the offensive, two clinics have been destroyed by airstrikes. Two hospitals shut down after being damaged with medicine equipment and food and short supply, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. This is after she arrives. Israel retaliatory war in Gaza against Hamas.
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Starting point is 00:46:47 And I think he's the man who really broke the back of the Biden-open border debacle by sending busloads of border crossers to New York City. A brilliant, brilliant move. And then he sent the National Guard, the Texas National Guard to the border, which made them the perfect people when the phone rang with the governor last week. And Donald Trump called and said, we need the Texas National Guard. And his response was, where do you need them?
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Starting point is 00:48:21 promo code Beck, 972 Patriot or PatriotMobil.com slash Beck. Governor Abbott, welcome to the program. Hey, Glenn. Hey, how are you? Man, I'm doing great. How you doing? I'm good, I'm good. I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. First, any thoughts on the peace deal in Israel and the Arab world today? It's just remarkable. I have been anything like this before. As you know, the Middle East is one of the most complicated areas in the entire world. And to see President and Trump be able to go in there, work with other countries across the entire region,
Starting point is 00:49:03 as well as over in Europe and other places like that, to galvanize countries literally across the globe and say, this is what we have to do. We have to have peace there. We have to stop the shooting, stop the killing. We have to release the hostages, all of that. And to do that in such a short period of time. And to see, the effectuation of it began overnight
Starting point is 00:49:26 is just stunning. And so I would say so far, so good with the relief of the hostages. The test will be tougher when we get to the next stage, where Hamas actually has to step down from running Gaza, controlling Gaza, and we have to see them live up to that component of the peace deal. If they're able to pull that off, and if international troops will be the ones who will be ensuring the safety,
Starting point is 00:50:03 but ensuring that it's not U.S. international troops, but from other countries that will be stabilizing Gaza as opposed to Hamas, then it may be an extraordinarily valuable deal. Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed on that. I wanted to talk to you because Pritzker and the courts have just said to the National Guard, to the Texas National Guard, you can't do anything. Now, last week, I think they said you couldn't deploy them there. You did because of what the Constitution actually says. But now you've got a hold on them protecting ice. What's the status on this?
Starting point is 00:50:42 All right. So let's go back to fundamentals here because what I have found is everybody in the country does understand the fundamentals. I'll rip through it real quick. One is they are obviously, be quote, national guard. And the president has the authority under the Constitution, under federal statutes to be able to call up the National Guard and to deploy them under certain circumstances, one of which is to deploy the National Guard to prevent interference with
Starting point is 00:51:09 execution of federal law. And that's exactly what the president has done in Illinois, in Oregon, in California, and places like that. And as you kind of pointed out, and this is detailed, you've got to be kind of a lawyer to figure out what these courts said. But very importantly, the Federal Court of Appeals in California, the Federal Court of Appeals in Illinois, all said that the President is fully authorized to call up these National Guard for purposes that were articulated by the President
Starting point is 00:51:43 of why they were needed. What happened, and this actually occurred, before the National Guard were even sent to Illinois because the trial court judge there said, the trial court wanted to hear evidence about whether what was actually going on the ground satisfied the criteria of preventing interference with execution of federal laws.
Starting point is 00:52:07 And so that's all that's going to happen. You have to prove that that's exactly what they are for because if they do that, they will be allowed not only to be discharged there, which they are allowed by the course to do, but they will also be able to be there to carry out the function of protecting ice as ISIS trying to perform its duty to enforce federal law.
Starting point is 00:52:31 Now, listen, Glenn, we've all seen on TV screens across the entire country. The way that people in communities, it could be protesters, it could be assassinators in these communities across countries, are interfering with ICE performing their jobs. And so this is fundamental. And I know whether it be these federal court of appeals or when it gets to the United States Supreme Court, President Trump is going to be judicially authorized to fully enforce talent of the federal law to make sure that these National Guard troopers are going to be able to be deployed and protect ICE members who are coming under assault in states across the entire country.
Starting point is 00:53:17 He's not allowed to have them do police duties, though, right? I mean, that's the difference. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, and that's the deal. And that's one of the evidence issues. The trial court wants to hear. So he, he, he, the president doesn't have the authority to call up National Guard to act like police officers there. But that's not what he's doing. He's never even said he's trying to do that. But of course, that's the bogus arguments being made by Prisker and by people like Gavin Newsom. And, and you know as well as I do. Prisker and Gavin Isam, they, they are sanctuary city governors. And they are more than happy having chaos in their communities.
Starting point is 00:53:59 And the last thing they want to do is to push down that chaos and allow some National Guard soldiers to come in and make the communities more safe. And it's just disgusting that we have governors in this country who actually promote crime and chaos in their own communities. Now, these are governors who are promoting endangering federal officials who are trying to carry out the functions of their office. And I'm telling you, Glenn, if any of these people, any of these ICE agents or any federal employees, if they're injured in any way whatsoever, then Governor Piskar and Mayor Johnson of Chicago, they are an accomplice in the crime that would injure one of our National Guard or one of the ICE agents trying to carry out the functions of federal law. Tell me why Donald Trump chose Texas, because I know he always does, everything he does is for a
Starting point is 00:54:55 reason. Why did he choose the Texas National Guard? President Trump knows that the Texas National Guard is the most elite national guard that we're having the United States, whether it be serving on our homeland or serving on foreign lands. He knows that they have the expertise of dealing with civil riot control. They have done that on the border in the harshest developments and the toughest of times. they have been deployed around the state of Texas by me to deal with situations like this, where we needed the National Guard to have the back of our law enforcement officers during the George Floyd protest, during other protests.
Starting point is 00:55:40 And so these are proven and tested National Guard, who we have a very large number of them. And he knew also that if we seen our guard there, we would still have plenty of Guard, thousands of them on the border as we do right now, as well as plenty of other National Guard to be able to perform whatever other function that I as governor would need them to be able to provide. And so this is just easy math for him and coming from a state that has the kind and quality and training of National Guard that President Trump respects. The rules of engagement, I've always concerned about, you know, the National Guard. guard kind of just being sitting ducks that can't really do anything. What are you going to do, shoot?
Starting point is 00:56:28 What are the rules of engagement? It's very simple and great, great question, but there are rules of engagement that our guard have been very well trained on for literally years. And then when they arrived in Illinois, they went back over the rules of engagement. And that is, they don't go proactively and shoot somebody or anything like that. Uh, if their, their mandate, uh, is to protect the ice agents, but in, uh, protecting ice agents and other federal employees, uh, if they come under assault, uh, they have, uh, certain tactics and strategies that they can use, uh, to make sure that
Starting point is 00:57:09 they're going to maintain safety around them. So many examples, uh, they would, and, and I've been told exactly what they are down there, but I'm going to tell generally what they do. Uh, they, they would have, tear gas capabilities, flashbang capabilities, pepperball capabilities, less than lethal force capabilities to make sure that they're going to be able to maintain crowd control in ways that will protect the safety of the federal officials while at the very same time not doing any physical harm to anybody in the community who is threatening them.
Starting point is 00:57:42 But also, Glenn, remember this. It was just a few weeks ago where, you know, guard nearly. to be there, but they were not there at the time of the shooting in Dallas, Texas, when there was an assassination attempt by a gunman trying to kill murder. The National B, I'm sorry, the ICE agents there. And, you know, are you supposed to just stand back and say, yeah, have at it. Take your best shot. Of course not.
Starting point is 00:58:13 They would have been in charge of trying to eliminate that shot. shooter before that shooter shot what turned out to be two illegal immigrants who were in detention. You know, there's, that's the second incident here in Texas. And I know the first one, the first one, I think everybody but one has been arrested. And that was, that's, you know, quite a, quite the accomplishment on that. Make sure you get everybody involved. Let me, let me switch to the board. here real quick. I read a story today about how the drug cartels have, at least in Baja, have declared war on Americans. Are we seeing anything, any upswing in dangerous engagement from the drug cartels on our border? Well, it depends on where you are, because, you know,
Starting point is 00:59:13 the border runs from the Gulf of America to the Pacific coast. And you were talking about in the California area. And we have not yet seen in Texas anything exactly like that. We are prepared for it in Texas, which is why we still have thousands of National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety Officers on the border. And it's also why we are working in a very close collaboration with the Trump administration to make sure that we're going to be able to push back
Starting point is 00:59:43 on anything like this. But I'll tell you about two things further in response to this. one, remember, Trump has publicly stated, what is also privately stated, and that is, he is looking to take out the heads of the cartels in Mexico, and he is not backed off of that in any way whatsoever. The other thing is that we all know that we need to be prepared in every region of the border about a new form of engagement by the cartel. and that will be active drone warfare. And I know in Texas we're prepared for it, and we're gearing up.
Starting point is 01:00:25 The other thing, something that knew that just came out over the weekend, but they've been working on in a couple of weeks, do you remember back when Biden was president and I was doing everything I could to protect the border? Yeah. And I deployed those big orange buoys into the water, into the real grand that prevented people from across the border. There was an announcement made by the Trump administration
Starting point is 01:00:47 that they are putting down about 80 miles of those big orange buoys, especially in the Eagle Pass area, that would prevent people from being able to cross, and they're looking at other spaces where they would be adding in the aggregate more than 100 miles of those buoys. One thing about those buoys, they are fully effective at preventing people from crossing in those areas, but they're about, I don't know, about a tenth of the cost of a border wall. And so it's a very effective tool for the federal government to continue to deny illegal entry. But there's also, there's also, we know the commitment of President Trump to make sure that we're going to have zero people crossing the border during his administration. But what I told President Trump is, listen, we want to work with you for the next three years to make sure that we stop the flow coming across the border.
Starting point is 01:01:40 But we need to do it in a way. So it's effective for more than just three years for the next third. for the next 30 years is what we need to do. And those buoys on the border, the border wall that he's building, some other things they're doing in the state of Texas, is ensuring that what he has done during this term in presidency is going to have a lasting effect to deny illegal entry into the United States of America. Governor Greg Abbott, I know you need to run,
Starting point is 01:02:08 but I do want to congratulate you on what you've done with Epic City, and, you know, you immediately sprung into action. And the minute we started hearing about these Muslim Sharia laws that he's possibly springing up. And I want to thank you for that. And we'll keep our eye on the attorney general to make sure that he enforces those laws. Thank you. You got it. You got you busy, Glenn.
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Starting point is 01:03:54 on Gaza's future. The plane just landed. His car is now driving down one of the central avenues in Egypt to meet with the leaders of Egypt and sign the treaty. It is, it is a remarkable day. I got an invitation over the weekend to be with the president on Tuesday. That's tomorrow. He's going to be back in Washington doing something entirely different. I'm like, I'm tired. I'm tired just watching you. I'm tired. What are you doing? is an amazing man of energy. Just incredible what he's doing. But we'll see.
Starting point is 01:04:31 Now he's at the Middle East Peace Summit following the release of all of the hostages from Hamas. Just this today is remarkable. Yeah. We don't know where it goes from here. But this is something that I think we all considered to be really a remote possibility without really. real divine intervention because, you know, Hamas, if you think about their position here, they have now put themselves in a place where they, whatever leverage they felt they had with hostages now it's completely gone.
Starting point is 01:05:08 And, you know, the rest of this arrangement for them doesn't look all that positive. It seems to allow them to potentially escape to a third party country and avoid the imminent death that they're facing, but it does not allow them to reconstitute as a government, to rule this land at all, to govern this land at all, to be armed at all. And there's a lot coming. A lot coming. That they're not, they obviously would not like, but also now don't have any leverage with hostages to even negotiate.
Starting point is 01:05:46 Right. And they don't have any place to go because the entire Middle East, except for Iran, is not happy with them. No, that's true. They don't really, they're not going to get cover anymore from members of the Middle East. Yeah, I mean, part of the agreement seems to hint to some path for them to be able to leave. You know, you think about like when a dictator falls and they go to a third party nation. It seems to indicate something like that.
Starting point is 01:06:17 That's, of course, very risky because they could start a new organization. they can, you know, build back up. And I'm sure, honestly, some of these people, I'm sure those people are going to attempt that. One of the things I think is interesting, though, is these are not, you know, this is not the A team. We're dealing with Hamas anymore. No, it's not a B team or C or D.
Starting point is 01:06:36 We're like the, you know, L team. I don't know. We're way down the list because a lot of their leadership has been killed already. Over and over and over again. Yeah, so you don't know. Some of these people might be, they might have been involved in this. They might have thought it was a good idea on October 7th. There might be now thinking, hey, if I can get out of this without getting killed, this will be incredible.
Starting point is 01:06:53 Everybody I know is dead, right? Everybody in my organization's dead. Maybe we can get out of this. So, again, winning the war has a good path to help you to get a path to peace. When you actually execute the war with intent, this stuff tends to happen. This is Glenn Beck. NMLS-18234, NMLS Consumer Access.org. APR for Rates in the 5 starts at 6.799% for well-qual.
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Starting point is 01:08:30 Head over to glenbeck.com and sign up for the free email newsletter. You can get it now at glenbeck.com. Remarkable president is, you know, just landed in Egypt. He was just in Jerusalem. I mean, it is, I find myself saying this. every day. Didn't expect this to happen. Never expected this to happen. Never seen this before. We live, we are so blessed to live at these outrageous times. I mean, I mean, honestly, think about, you know, it's not that you want to live in times like this, but if you actually face up to what we're dealing with. What an honor to be selected to live at this time and then to know who you really are.
Starting point is 01:09:40 You live in times not like this. You're not thrown up against the wall. You don't know. You're not a defender of the faith. You don't have to be a defender of the faith, you know, because you're not anything to defend. I mean, everybody's okay with it. Everything's cool. Look at what we're going through.
Starting point is 01:10:00 It's an amazing time to be alive. And President Trump, I mean, say what you want about the guy, but boy, if he wasn't built for these times, you know, I've always said ever since I was a kid, why don't we run this more like a business? And here we have a business guy who is in and look at the peace deals. He's brokering. It's incredible. Can I give you a choose your own adventure here for a second? Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 01:10:27 Which one is the right take? for us to talk about, for a conservative to feel today. Number one, the president deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is obviously the guy who achieved this, and only the dumb left wing and the stupid, you know, Nobel committee that it has nothing to do with actual peace
Starting point is 01:10:50 wouldn't give it to him. Number two, we shouldn't want him to get the Nobel Peace Prize because these organizations are, an element of the past, and we should leave them behind and stop praising them or want their stupid awards. We should want them to give it to some other crazy person that doesn't deserve it.
Starting point is 01:11:13 We should want the organization to go away and we shouldn't kiss their ass and hope that he wins. What's the right to? I don't really care if he wins or not. It is nice that they have to bow the knee. You know, they have to like, all right, I got to give it to him. Because you know how much they don't want to do it.
Starting point is 01:11:32 Right. So it's satisfying in that way. But, you know, who cares? I mean, it lost all credibility. You know him better than I do. Yeah, I think those things care. I think he would like to win this. Yeah, I think.
Starting point is 01:11:46 That's how he views it. Yeah, you know, I saw an interview with him just recently and, you know, what are your goals? What are your goals? He said, well, my goal, you know, was to be president. And what are your goals now? You know, what do you want to accomplish now? I want to be a great president. And so, you know, I think, you know, these are milestones that happen, you know.
Starting point is 01:12:09 And especially in his era, the Nobel Prize meant something. Right. You know, my era, it meant something. Now, it doesn't really mean anything at all. But it's still a milestone. And it is recognition of what he has done. that is, you know, nobody thought was possible. Nobody thought was possible.
Starting point is 01:12:32 Yeah, I'm going to do a terrible job on my own, choose your own adventure to say that, like, I kind of want, I think both of them are right. Yeah, I do too. You know, I mean, it's like I really,
Starting point is 01:12:40 I want him to win. But I don't care. Yeah, I kind of want him to win because I want to just go through the cycle to see how people would react. Yeah. Like, yeah, like how people are reacting today. Like, let's say you're on the Nobel Prize Committee.
Starting point is 01:12:52 And you've decided, you know, everyone, you know the talk. Everyone's talking, hey, Donald Trump should get this. And they even said, like, we don't give this award to these terrible people. Like, they had some statement like that. And so you're not giving it to Donald Trump under any circumstances in your own mind. And then you decide instead, we're not giving it to Donald Trump. We're going to give it to this Venezuelan woman.
Starting point is 01:13:11 And then she comes out and she's like, I want to dedicate this award to Donald Trump. It immediately happens, which is great. And by the way, again, another good example. Is that one of the eight that he cites? I don't remember. But Venezuela, because he's taken a really strong stance on that, you know, the people who are fighting for freedom there see him in an incredibly positive light. He's been, you know, dedicated to cause. I'm anxious to see who he inspires, you know, who comes out of this in the next 20, 30 years.
Starting point is 01:13:44 Who is inspired by him? And they go, you know what? I learned a lot here. And this is the way to deal with things. Because he's changing everything. And, you know, he is teaching people a lot. Yeah. A lot about courage, you know, a lot about just suck it up.
Starting point is 01:14:07 Just do it. It's funny because I was thinking about his, as I was talking to somebody this weekend, about just the presidency of Donald Trump, particularly the second term. And I was thinking about how much has happened. I mean, there's been so many things that have occurred. Like nine months. Yeah. And that's where I landed.
Starting point is 01:14:27 I was like, holy crap, we're not even a year into this yet. And it's funny because I think the first term of Trump was, I'm like there's a lot of good things or some things I didn't like as much, you know. But there was a lot that happened then too. I think one of the reasons why Biden won in 2020 was because some people looked at that and just said, oh, there's too much chaos. There's too much stuff happening all the time. There's a tweet every day and things are changing all the time. This seems like the first term times 10. But I don't mean in chaotic sense.
Starting point is 01:15:00 It's just that how much is happening. And you know, you look back at this. And I think after the first term, there was a thought. And there's some reason to agree with this. If you're looking back historically of like Trump coming in at a very unique time and winning a race that most people didn't think he could win, including me. I didn't think he was going to beat Hillary in that election. He takes the presidency.
Starting point is 01:15:23 He has four. four years, they're like totally unique. You know what I mean? Like he's a totally different personality. And then, you know, he doesn't win in 2020. And I think there's a, there's a thought, maybe you look back at Trump historically as like, wow, that was a crazy thing that happened. Right. Like, you know what I mean? Here's a guy who came in and I was a celebrity and he just won and, you know, he had a term and a lot of stuff happened and wow. I don't think there's any way, just after nine months of the second term that you don't look back at Trump as one of the most significant presidents of all time. And you might not like, you might say that in a negative way. I mean, if you're on the
Starting point is 01:16:03 left, you might look at this and say that it was a terrible outcome. We didn't like a lot of the things that happened in that period. But like the same way I would look at Barack Obama and say, very significant president in a bad way for me, I think you have to look at Trump. And you have to say it's even more than most important. I would say Barack Obama was like Woodrow Wilson. Nobody really knew all of the things that he did. Yeah, right. I think Donald Trump is now at least FDR.
Starting point is 01:16:35 That's incredible. FDR, again, I look at him as a massively negative influence in almost every way. Over 20 years. He's done this in nine months. Because he's changed one of the two parties. in focus. You know, some of the things are the same,
Starting point is 01:16:55 but like, there's a real change in the, in the right. I think you, I don't think anyone would argue that. In fact, Trump would, would brag about that.
Starting point is 01:17:02 Like, you'd say, this is, you know, what I wanted to do. And that, you know, just that is a really significant thing to happen. And I don't think it had happened fully at the end of his first term,
Starting point is 01:17:12 especially when, you know, he wasn't able to do two in a row. Coming back for this next term, after everything that happened, and then him adding on to this with all, All of this stuff here in just the first nine months, God knows what's happening in the next three years.
Starting point is 01:17:26 You know, the significance of this presidency is, I mean, it's changed the country. Change the world. Yep. Let me tell you something else that's changed. Let me start with this. Cut five here. Here are the new talking points for the media on Antifa. Listen to this.
Starting point is 01:17:44 There's no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. Like, I don't even know what Antifa is. There is no group. not even like far right groups like the proud boys and oathkeepers compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited. It isn't an organization.
Starting point is 01:18:00 It is a, it is in many ways, mythology. It's not like the proud boys or the oathkeepers, you know, sort of defined terrorist organizations with leadership that led, that, you know, leads violence. It's not a highly organized movement. It's a moniker. She's literally reading it. It's not a unified group like the proud boys are. like Antifa are things that are thought up. It's all in the guise of going after Antifa, which is nothing.
Starting point is 01:18:27 There's no organization called Antifa. Nobody's a number of Antifa because it doesn't exist. They are just declaring into existence something that doesn't exist. There is no Antifa organization, so maybe that's good for social media, but it really is non-existent. They exist on the internet and chat rooms and in full, Chon and Discord in places like that where they run discussion boards, trade tactics, documents, things like that. But none of them are called Antifa.
Starting point is 01:19:02 What? I don't even know what they're talking about. I mean, you want to talk about living in a different world, but that's what's going around. Now, let me just tell you this. Last week I did a TV show that apparently got the FBI's attention. The topic was. was initial investigation, a jumping off point, shattering the myth that Antifa just, you know,
Starting point is 01:19:28 it's just leaderless and decentralized. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We thought, no, it's really not. So we dove in headfirst and we analyzed the Antifa network. And we went from the street thugs to the support groups, eventually to the funding. Okay.
Starting point is 01:19:46 to say the FBI was interested in this might be an understatement. Let's just say the FBI is turning over every single stone. It is so clear to me that they are exploring all angles of this, and they are talking to anyone and everyone that can give them any kind of information. How do I know? Saturday, I get a phone call. the director would like to send over some agents to speak to you, Glenn. And I'm like the FBI agents?
Starting point is 01:20:27 Yes, you said some things that they need to talk to you about. And I'm like, well, good things are bad. They'll be over. So they sat in my living, three agents sat in my living room on Saturday afternoon for almost two hours. And I immediately called Jason. And I'm like, Jason, you're the researchers. Your fault. I'm going to throw you under the bus.
Starting point is 01:20:47 You better get your put over here. So Jason was there. And my wife and Jason and I sat there. And it was surreal at one point. I talked to him for about 15 minutes just going over the Tides Foundation and saying, if you understand tides, you'll understand how difficult your job is going to be. And this is information that I first gave on Fox years ago. Let me just say this.
Starting point is 01:21:11 Finally, we have an administration. and an FBI director that is willing to go in deep, not surface, but deep. I can only imagine what we could have avoided if anyone in an administration would have done this in 2011. But if I were in that imaginary group of Antifa, which by the way has imaginary leaders leaving the country to go maybe to imaginary countries outside of the U.S. right now, I would be very concerned. If I were part of anything that was sending money their way or assistance their way, I don't know. I might be a little concerned because the FBI is dead ass serious.
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Starting point is 01:24:06 It was unbelievable. Really? I saw the crowd. It's incredible. Yeah, she did a great, great job. I'm so proud of her. She just is killing it. But we'll try to get to some of those clips because they're really, really good.
Starting point is 01:24:17 We'll get to some of those a little later on in the program. You know, Stu and I were just talking about how Antifa doesn't exist. And, you know, that's like saying, honestly, it's like saying Al-Qaeda doesn't exist. well you're right there is no you know 5-01 Broadway you know where you go to al-Qaeda's office that doesn't happen but it does exist and it's an it's an ideology and while they may not they may not take their direction from the same person at the office I don't know I there's no HR so they don't exist they exist and they're loosely affiliated and sometimes they are getting money you know.
Starting point is 01:25:01 And for the press and everybody else to say, when you're watching them all over the country and they're doing exactly the same thing, same tactics, every everywhere, you know, to say they don't exist is just infantile. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:25:17 it's like a, it's a real, it's, I don't know what the word, there should be a word for this if there isn't, but it is a, a real point used in an intentionally dumb way to mislead.
Starting point is 01:25:28 Is that, malinformation? Yes. Is that what that is? Because it really is like, yeah, there's a real point there that they are disengaged from a centralized thing. This makes them more dangerous. It's how you had to deal with terrorist cells back in the day. However, they're using it in a way to make it seem like it's not a threat, which is not accurate.
Starting point is 01:25:44 And they know it's not accurate, and they're trying to mislead people with a piece of true information. Why would you support? Why would you try to brush Antifa under the rug? I mean, it's just perplexing. This is Glenn Beck. Let me tell you about Jace Medical. There are certain things you can put off until tomorrow. Mowing the lawn for sure, fixing the squeaky, you know, stare on the staircase,
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Starting point is 01:28:53 He was a foreign correspondent from 2011 and think until about 20. He's now the host of On Balance, the News Nation Chief Washington anchor. But there is so much you don't know about this guy that is remembered. remarkable, just remarkable. Can't wait for you to hear his story. Leland Vitter joins us in just a second. First, the promise God made to Abraham, the covenancy established, the law that reveals his character,
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Starting point is 01:30:30 story is so great. Before we get into that, tell me your analysis, because you were foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem forever. What is your take on what's happening right now over in Egypt and also in Israel? That we don't understand right now, and that's fine in real time, how historic and seismic the shift in the Middle East is right now. Because Trump turned 50 years of conventional wisdom on its head.
Starting point is 01:31:04 Jared Kushner understood and explained to Trump that the root of all the problems in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is Iran. And I think what we saw over the past eight months, and to be fair over Trump's first term, but it culminated in the past eight months, is the isolation and degradation of both Iran's ability to act militarily on its own and its proxies. And thus is allowed a total sea change in the power dynamic of the Middle East away from Iran and totally, towards the Gulf countries and towards Israel. So that has totally changed everything.
Starting point is 01:31:46 And we're seeing, I think, the beginning of it, not the end of how much is going to change in the Middle East for the good. What does it mean? What does today mean in five years or ten years? The one thing I learned about being in the Middle East is if you want to predict the future in the Middle East, okay, you must be a profit himself. Okay, you will be proven of pool.
Starting point is 01:32:08 And here's why is because things change. If two years ago I had told you after October 7th, Hezbollah and Hamas would be destroyed, Iran's nuclear program would be in ashes. But the real threat, both in Europe and in the United States, would be this wild rise of anti-Semitism and radical Islam terror, now calling for the death of Jews and attacks on Jews around the world. you would have called me crazy because everybody was going to rally around Israel. It's the exact opposite of what has happened. So I can't predict the future. What I can say is that for the first time, I think, since the Iranian Revolution, 1979, there is a realization of where the real evil in the Middle East is and a willingness by the United States to confront it honestly.
Starting point is 01:33:00 There are people on the- Seeing how quickly things are changing. There are people on the right, Leland, now, that do not recognize. recognize Hamas as evil. They, they are so down this rabbit hole of the Jews controlling the world and Donald Trump and, you know, all of this stuff that they, they don't, I don't think they actually see the, the evil in the Middle East. They see it coming from Israel. It's, it's bizarre, and I'm trying to get my arms around it to understand it and understand where it's coming from. But have you noticed it in the right? And what is the solution here?
Starting point is 01:33:45 What's the solution, Glenn, is exactly what you're doing, which is calling it out for what it is, which is it's not some new age critical way of thinking. It's rank anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. There's a difference, you would agree with me that you can dislike what Israel, how Israel fought the war. You can say, I don't want to fight their wars. I don't want anything to do. do with it and I disagree with them. That's different than the message of I'm for Hamas or Israel has to be destroyed because they're just the source of all the problems in the world. Yeah, and I'll go one step further. It's different than saying Hamas is anything other than an evil terror organization. there is good and evil in the world.
Starting point is 01:34:41 Yes. There is a difference between the two. And I don't necessarily like the term moral clarity, but I don't have a better one for what is required in these situations. And this sort of Hamas adjacent talking points or agreeing with these talking points, it's no different than Mamdami. who sort of, it's like, well, Hamas may be bad, but they have legitimate grievances. No, they don't. And I'm sorry, once you start raping and pillaging and waging war against civilians, I don't care what your grievances are.
Starting point is 01:35:16 You must be destroyed. And then we can deal with whatever the other issues are later. So what do you think happens to this Palestinian movement here in America now that this is over? I don't know, but it scares me, number one. And I think number two, what we've seen is it's not really a Palestinian movement. It was an anti-Jew movement. It was the sort of graph on of BLI, of the neo-Marxist oppressed oppressor worldview that just grafted on to the pro-Palestinian movement.
Starting point is 01:35:50 But at their core, they're neo-Marxist anti-Semites. And we know that because now that there is a peace deal in Gaza, okay, and ceasefire. And if anything, it's going to help the Ghazan people who they said were starving and so, you know, terribly oppressed. Right. Well, they're not anymore. But yet, these people are still marching around calling for the death of Jews, right? You know, when we knew a peace deal was happening on October 7th, there were thousands in the streets of New York saying we needed another October 7th, this one even stronger. So that's who we're dealing with.
Starting point is 01:36:23 And I appreciate you calling it out from the right because I think there is an element of the right. But thank God there are people like you, Glenn, who on the right are saying this is crazy and this is wrong and this is despicable. That doesn't happen on the left. You've got Kathy Hokel endorsing Mamdami in New York City. That's the governor of the second or third largest state in the country endorsing a guy who is Hamas adjacent. That doesn't happen in the Republican Party or on the right. Can it though? I mean, on the left, can it?
Starting point is 01:36:54 I mean, they have let this go for so long that it is really. powerful. And those are the kinds of people that do kill people. And so it is so empowered on the left, can the politician expect to live if they go against this? I think when it requires politicians with actual moral courage. And people can take from that what they will. But if you are, if you're more concerned, if you're so concerned about your own political future, as so many on the left are, that you are unwilling. to name, shame, call out, whatever you want to use the term as, people who are Hamas
Starting point is 01:37:36 adjacent and those who endorse people who are Hamas adjacent, that pretty much says everything about who you are and what you care about. I'm not sure it's just about your career politically, though, anymore. I think we're, you know, we've entered, you know this, we've turned a page and the violence is real now. And there are people that are unhinged that will, they'll take you out. They will take you out. I think that's very true.
Starting point is 01:38:08 And I think where we are seeing the most of that language is from the left. But that is a different discussion. Yeah. Let me take a one minute break because I don't want to introduce. I don't want to interrupt you when you start on your story. Because I don't think people understand what you've gone through to get. where you are. It is remarkable. So we'll begin that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about my Patriot Supply. Every year, winter reminds us that our comfort is incredibly fragile, one bad storm,
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Starting point is 01:39:45 Mypatriotsupply.com slash Glenn. Do it now. MyPatriot Supply.com slash Glenn. 10 seconds, station ID. Leland has a new book out that is called Born Lod. And you wouldn't think that when you actually hear his story. And I didn't know this about you, Leland, at all. And you are a, you're an amazing success story.
Starting point is 01:40:21 Well, go ahead. No, I was just going to say thank you. You know, I think what you're talking about is the fact that when I was five years old, I was diagnosed with what we now know to be autism. And born lucky is the story of my dad adapting. me to the world rather than the world to me. And the reason, you know, we debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at number four and we sold out three times on Amazon back in stock now is not because of me. You know, Glenn, I'm a television anchor, but I'm not that narcissistic to think
Starting point is 01:40:52 it's about me. It's about this story. And born lucky is proof for every parent of a kid who's having a hard time. Doesn't matter if it's autism, anxiety, ADHD, ADHD, anything. It is proof for every parent of a kid who's having a hard time, how much power they have, how much agency they have, what they can do, and it's not anything that the experts tell you. So when you were in fourth grade, you did an IQ test for the school, and your spread was 68 points. You were borderline retarded on the low end when it was your verbal test, but nonverbal, you were in the genius category. That's phenomenal.
Starting point is 01:41:30 Well, now, my wife would tell me I'm probably, still borderline many things right now. So you pick up on this moment in the book where my parents are told they need to get me evaluated, which is what no parent wants to hear, right? And I was having terrible issues in school. I never got invited to a birthday party anything like that. But if a kid touched me in line, I would turn around and hit them. You know, kids would make jokes and I would try to be serious.
Starting point is 01:41:57 I would run into kids on the playground. It just nothing worked. And it had really terrible sensory issues, you know, I have. my socks on the way I didn't like or a jacket or anything like that, I would completely melt down. And then obviously what was all these learning disabilities. So the parents take me to this medical office building for all this testing, linoleum floors, bad magazines, old coffee, whatever. They wait for two hours. They're terrified. I'm their son who's that my sister at the time was one or two years old. So they bring me back from all the testing and they say to my parents,
Starting point is 01:42:31 we really don't understand what's going on inside his head. You know, severe learning disabilities, terrible behavioral problems, awful sensory issues, all the things of what we now know to be autism. And my dad said, what do we do? And the woman said, there's not much. And he said, is there anything we can do? And she said generally not. And that began my dad's quest to adapt me to the world and to find things that I could
Starting point is 01:42:57 have self-esteem in and to help me earn self-esteem. rather than given. So wasn't going to be good at school, wasn't going to have friends, wasn't going to be good at athletics, but he started me at, you know, that age a little bit earlier, actually, doing 200 pushups a day, five days a week, hard work, effort equals achievement. It's something you can take pride in. Your character was a huge part of his lessons, something you can take pride in, and that was this process. And you write in the book about the push-ups. It was also so your dad knew you were going to need to protect yourself, right?
Starting point is 01:43:29 Yeah. No, look, my sister who plays a really important role in this book, and I think one of the things that people don't understand, and so many families are suffering silently right now and feel alone with their kid who's having a hard time, doesn't matter what the issue is, is how much the siblings are affected. I mean, my sister's a PhD in math
Starting point is 01:43:47 and professor at MIT in Harvard, and, you know, unbelievable in every way. But, you know, her first memories of me, and I didn't know this until we interviewed her for born lucky, is she was in kindergarten. I was in fifth grade. And I would come from my classroom downstairs to her classroom, pick her up,
Starting point is 01:44:05 and then we would walk home. It's about a quarter mile. And we would get to the back of the school where the PE fields were to the woods, which led to our house. And as we walked into the woods, Liberty said, the first memory of my brother ever was every day when he got to the woods,
Starting point is 01:44:21 he would start crying. And I would hold his hand as I walked home with him. And, you know, that was the, the bullying and the isolation and sort of the crushing issues that came not only from the kids, but from the teachers as I grew up because my dad never told anybody about this diagnosis. No teachers, no counselors, nothing. And so take me through some of the things that your dad did because I'm impressed with you and what you've accomplished, but your father is remarkable.
Starting point is 01:44:57 How did he come up with the things? things that he did because you are more than fully functional in today's society. You're a huge success. What did he do to get you there? Well, it's a great question. I would just tell you, and I'll give you a story a little later, that I still deal with this every day. You know, autism is not something they're ever cured of.
Starting point is 01:45:19 This is a daily, almost hourly discipline of seeing the world as others see them, is my dad taught me to interact and understand the social fabric. But one thing he did, he knew I wasn't going to have any friends. So as he said, I thought maybe I could be your friend. So starting in five or six, he and I spent hundreds of hours together every month. I mean, thousands of hours together. And he would take me to lunches with his friends. And I would have loved to have gone to a lunch like with Mr. Beck, right?
Starting point is 01:45:49 Because I was a mini meet of my dad. He talked to me about politics and news and events and on and on. and we would get to lunch and you would be talking about, you know, your family or whatever, you were doing that weekend or whatever. And I would interrupt like a thousand questions a minute where, you know, how do you pick your topics? How do you do your monologue? Where do you get your advertisers from?
Starting point is 01:46:10 How much you charge for ads? On and on and on. And my dad then would never say anything publicly to me, but he would tap his watch. And that was my cue to stop talking, number one, but number two to kind of bookmark that, right? And so now we're driving home in the car. And he says, okay, lucky, you know, when Mr. Beck was talking about his weekend plans or his lunch with, you know, whoever, whatever it was, and you interrupted and asked about his commercials, why did you think Mr. Beck wanted to talk about commercials at that moment? Well, gee, dad, I don't know. I thought it was interesting.
Starting point is 01:46:43 Okay. Well, what could we have talked about that Mr. Beck would have found interesting? That was, you know, with what he was talking about. How do you connect with him? and that was the basis of granularly teaching me the social and emotional connections of everyday life. And born lucky is that story of how my dad made me understand that he loved me, but that, boy, there was so much work I had to do to fit in in the world. At one point, you know, there was a kid, you was writing the book, a kid in middle school who kept pushing me,
Starting point is 01:47:20 both figuratively literally teachers wouldn't do anything, came home, told my dad what the kids had done, blah, blah, blah. I finally asked, can I hit him yet? Right. Tell that story. I understand the school situation that I was in. I've been pulled out of two or three schools before I get started in seventh grade. It was a seventh through twelfth grade school.
Starting point is 01:47:43 And two weeks into school, the principal calls my parents in. So my parents think they're coming in for like a normal, like, hey, how's two weeks going into school? and they're sitting there and the principal sits my parents down in the little office, looks across the desk at them and says, everybody at this school thinks lucky is really weird. So that's arrow number one through my parents' heart. And then she follows up and I do too. So I had no protection, right?
Starting point is 01:48:16 One minute. There was an eighth-grade art teacher who didn't think I was going to become Picasso and said in front of the entire class, hey, Vitter, if my dog was ugly as you, I would shave its bleep and make it walk backwards. So that was the environment I lived in every day. But there was this kid and he kept Malvin off and my dad had turned me into a pretty hefty little fellow. I was fat and kind of chunky and awkward, but I was pretty strong. And, you know, my dad had said, you know, the way you deal with bullies, you eventually just hit him in the nose. Great. And I didn't. I slammed just head down on the desk, but it was the beginning of me starting to fight back.
Starting point is 01:48:56 I think born lucky people will see how fighting back affected things. That was the last time you had to do that, correct? It was the last time I was allowed to. Okay. Bornluckybook.com. Bornluckybook.com. This is, you will love, love, love this book. Bornluckybook.com.
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Starting point is 01:50:41 You can subscribe now at glenbeck.com. Welcome. This is the Glenn Beck program. Allie Bass Stuckey had her women's conference this weekend, and it was fabulous. There was 6,000 women, you know, at a very large arena. And it was just so great, so great. And she's also on the surrounded, you know, Jubilee surrounded.
Starting point is 01:51:22 Oh. Any desire to do that, you know, where they put you in a room with all these people who disagree with you and they surround you and then one comes up to the table and then somebody else comes up to the table and you just have to keep going. I've seen the clips of this, and it is, it's interesting. Allie just did this one and she did a very good job. Very good. And I've seen some other clips where other conservatives have done good jobs on it. But like, Glenn, when I say to you that not only do I not want to do it, I really have a tough time even watching a clip of it. Thank you. I don't know what it is. Just me. I, hey, I think it's because with me, it's a brilliant idea. I grew up in a alcoholic
Starting point is 01:52:01 family where I and I was the one that would always try to make a joke so I could break the tension in the family you know and my gosh I just I hate it's so strange that I do this for a living because I hate conflict I hate it I can't make it through an episode I can't eat I don't know what it is it makes the whole setup makes me uncomfortable to watch and I don't you know some of the episodes like the one I saw I did see a clip of Allie's and she was she did a great job but she was up talking to someone who was making a in my view very wrong argument about abortion but also very civil civil and it seemed like someone who had some thoughts on the issue that were relatively well thought out even though
Starting point is 01:52:50 I thought they were wrong and that was a little bit better some of the other ones I've seen have just been like hey here's a white supremacist yeah it's like you're like I don't even know what I would get out of that but like there's something about the setup that is makes me very uncomfortable to watch. I don't like confrontation. It might be that. I don't know. Let me go to, you avoid that too.
Starting point is 01:53:09 You avoid confrontation. I do. I don't. I mean, I try not to. I know. Here's what you're talking about. That alley unsurrounded about abortion. My concern about the way that you present the abortion issue.
Starting point is 01:53:27 Okay. is you have claimed in the past that the liberal pro-choice position is that we don't give the whole truth about the abortion issue. That's probably true. As violent. You've described it here as killing. Abortion is violent. And painful. Yes, for the child, absolutely.
Starting point is 01:53:48 My problem. My concern is that you are doing the same thing by not telling women the truth that when the majority of abortions happen, which is in the first six weeks of pregnancy, that fetus has not developed pain receptors. That doesn't happen until maybe of the earliest 10 weeks, Alex. So are you saying that murder? Most experts say 22 to 24 weeks. Is killing only wrong if someone can feel pain? It's wrong for you to characterize it as violent and painful when it's not.
Starting point is 01:54:18 It is violent. Of course it's violent. Even when you take the abortion pill, you are starving that human being. If you want to call him or her a zygote or a fetus, that's all fine. Those are all stages of development that all of us went through, that all children go through. It is still the killing of a human being. And when you take the abortion pill, the two-part abortion pill, you are starving that human being of the nutrients that he or she needs to survive.
Starting point is 01:54:41 And that is violent. That they can't feel. Are you saying there are a lot of people who are murdered who can't feel it? Are you saying that that murder is justified because they can't feel it? No, we're talking about abortion. We're talking about more. We're not talking about something else. We're talking about abortion.
Starting point is 01:54:53 But I'm trying to understand your logic. You are saying that abortion. is okay because babies don't feel it. So I'm asking you, is killing another innocent person when they don't feel it? Is that justified? Abortion is health care for women who need it, who have unwanted pregnancies? In what other case is killing an innocent person? Who have been raped, who have experienced incest, Alley. That's less than one percent of all abortions. Can we agree. So most of the abortions happen within the first six weeks. If I said to you, okay. If I said to you, okay, this is not the clip I saw. We will only allow, which this is not my position, but if I said, we will only allow abortion in those 1% of cases in which it's rape or incest, would you agree with me to ban the rest of abortions?
Starting point is 01:55:36 The 99%? The denial of abortion health care to women is 100% harmful to the woman who absolutely needs it. And abortion is 100% harmful to the child. Physical health care. Killing an innocent person is not health care. Can you tell me another situation in which killing a person intentionally is health care? All right, listen to this one. Listen to this one.
Starting point is 01:55:56 This is Ali, unsurrounded, surrounded by Christians on LGBTQ. So I'm a pastor of a church that is growing and not just with straight individuals, not just people who look like me, but queer individuals that have some of like the greatest fruit of the spirit that I've ever seen. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control, all of those things. First, I just would love to hear your thought on how someone so sinful could produce such wonderful fruit. but I'm really happy to talk about this stuff, but I just want to hear that because you've given really interesting and good arguments, but that's
Starting point is 01:56:30 one that I have a hard time reconciling. Well, all of us sin and all of us struggle with sin, and I've met lots of people from all different walks of life that are joyful and kind, and God gives us what we call the gift of common grace, that there are people who are not Christians who might exude some of the characteristics
Starting point is 01:56:46 that we want to embody as Christians, but that doesn't mean that everything they do or everything they believe or everything they say is in alignment. with Scripture. And so that's what I would say there. I have no doubt that the people that you know who identify as LGBTQ are also really kind and really patient and really joyful and might have characteristics that we all want to emulate. But that doesn't mean that every part of their life is in alignment with what we see God say in His Word. And because of that, they wouldn't inherit the kingdom
Starting point is 01:57:14 of heaven like pretty much every one of those things. All of us, if we don't pick up our cross and follow Christ, by the way, it's not our own merit. None of us. bring. None of these individuals. Yeah, I'm with you. Nothing that we could do could ever deserve salvation. God gives it to us in Christ. But because of that grace, because of that love that he has given us, all of us are told to deny sin. All of us are told to repent. And so I think when we tell someone who says, you know what, this is how I identify, it's not in alignment with what God calls good and holy, that we are actually burdening them with more sin. Whereas we all need to be free of our slavery to send.
Starting point is 01:57:56 She's so happy. Yeah, well, that's the right approach. She's all right in those moments. And the questions were, I mean, again, like the first guy made a lot of bad points. And when he was called on the bad points, just stopped answering them and went down other roads. That's what frustrated to me about that show. That's what I see a lot on that.
Starting point is 01:58:12 Again, it's a brilliant idea. And it's huge. It's a huge podcast. People really like it. And she did a great job there. The clip that I saw was a very calm guy. And they went back and forth very calmly. that one was as well, I thought.
Starting point is 01:58:24 There's some good moments on it, but you feel the same way I do about it. I just can't, I don't know. I can't. So, you know what the tip off was in the first guy, and if you were watching Blaze TV, you saw it. His hands were shaking. The whole time, his hands were shaking. And that's not from nerves.
Starting point is 01:58:37 That's from, I think it's from anger. I think it's from anger. You're trying to withhold yourself. Yes. And because I've been, were you in the meeting with the communist, the very, very, very famous writer from Hollywood, comedic writer, you know who he is, written some of the best sitcoms
Starting point is 01:58:55 in the country, okay? Yes. Were you in that meeting with? Yeah. And remember he came in and his hands were shaking. And he's like, I hate you. I hate everything about you.
Starting point is 01:59:06 And I'm not going to fall for your traps. He's like, everybody who meet you, they end up saying, they're really likable and you're a nice guy, but I know it. I'm not falling for your traps. This was the beginning of a business. And he was just shaking. He was so angry.
Starting point is 01:59:23 And I said, we can't, we can't have a meeting with, we can't. You've got to get it off your chest. And so he went on for 20 minutes and just went on. And I just sat there and listened to him and, okay, all right. And anyway, and then he said, okay, we can do our meeting now. And I'm like, nah, I don't think so. It's not all out. And then he went for another 20 minutes.
Starting point is 01:59:41 We were 45 minutes into this meeting before, and I only had 15 minutes left. But we've written each other since. And he fell for the act. You tricked him. No, but I mean, we're not buddies, but we're not enemies. And when I saw that, I saw that guy's hands shaking. And you could see there's so much rage inside. I guess that's one of the things I can't handle is the rage that is in people now.
Starting point is 02:00:10 Yeah. Yeah, I think you have to be really mentally prepared and be a certain type of person. I think there's different roles for different people within the movement. And like, that's, that's Allie's role. She's really good at that type of thing. It was Charlie's role. Charlie, Charlie groomed her on that.
Starting point is 02:00:26 I mean, Charlie really taught her. Oh, yeah. I know she tweeted some of their conversations about preparing for this particular thing. You know, he was really good at that. Like, but that's not everybody. You know, you have to have different, there's different roles for different people. And I think sometimes with that stuff, I can't, it's not the type of content I want. Like, I just, I don't, I don't know.
Starting point is 02:00:49 I don't, I get more out of reading the best argument from some really smart person on one side and the best argument from some really person the other side. I love reading people who I firmly disagree with. You know what I mean? Yeah. I love reading the other side and really reading it. Yeah. Because there's no rage. There's no, it's just, I mean, if it's an honest argument.
Starting point is 02:01:07 Yeah. Um, I love that. Well, because there's something about that format. And it's the same thing with presidential debates, frankly. That boils down the, the policy and. structural arguments that are going on into a parlor trick of who can come up, who can access that information at the exact right time and express it the best way. That doesn't mean that they'll do it.
Starting point is 02:01:31 It doesn't mean they'll be the best president. Right. Like, you know, if Barack Obama, you know, beats up on, you know, whatever, you know, I can barely even remember John McCain as a candidate, it doesn't mean that he's a better president. It was just that, like, he might be a better debater or he might just be better at accessing that information in that moment or coming up. It's more of a, you see how good J.D. Vance is at it.
Starting point is 02:01:52 He would be incredibly frustrating to me if I were a liberal because he's so good at finding all of the good arguments in quick moments and saying them calmly and effectively. And like, you might say, well, nope, that's the wrong policy. It's the wrong thing for the country. But it doesn't matter in those moments because that format delivers not necessarily what is the best policy or best argument, but who's best at that thing? who's best at the debate, who's best at it? Allie, you know, I think wins all those arguments on its merit, but she's also very, very good at maintaining the proper tone and accessing that information and delivering it in the proper way.
Starting point is 02:02:29 She's good at both of those things. Don't know how she doesn't. No, she's great. I don't want to do that. Because she's a softie, although she's not. No, yeah, she's a softie. She scares me. She scares me.
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Starting point is 02:05:13 Glenn Beck program. Watching what is going on at the Mid-Aase Peace Summit right now, all the world leaders are coming up to Donald Trump
Starting point is 02:05:23 one at a time and getting their picture taken with him. It is bizarre. I've never seen anything like this again. Usually, you know, all the leaders get together
Starting point is 02:05:32 and take one big photo, but they're coming up one by one and greeting him and talking to him and then getting their picture taken. It's remarkable. Today has been a remarkable day. All 20 living hostages have been returned. The hostage crisis is now over. It's over. And he was in Jerusalem today in Tel Aviv.
Starting point is 02:05:55 And then he got back on the plane and flew to Egypt. and now he's in Egypt meeting with all of the leaders, except for, you know, I don't think Syria is there, and I don't think Iran is there. Obviously, Iran's not there. But Egypt, Bahrain, you know, Saudi Arabia, all of these, Turkey, all of these countries are together working on a peace deal that is just epic, just epic.
Starting point is 02:06:26 And I, you know, it's his business savvy that is, the difference here. He knows how to make a deal. And his objective, I think maybe like, unlike other presidents, some people wanted a two state solution. Some people wanted the Jews to win, the Palestinians to win, whatever. Trump just wants peace. Trump is like, look, we are all better off if we're not fighting. And so why don't we come up with some peace deal so we can have peace in the region and let's just keep working it until we get to solutions that everybody's happy with, which is remarkable. Remarkable. Yeah. And, you know, it's a tough process. The whole thing is, it feels like pie in the sky at some level, right? There's so much still more to come. But like,
Starting point is 02:07:12 what's, I think, fascinating about this quickly is just that this is done. This part of it is done. The hostages are back. They're not going to, they're not going to be returned. There's not like, no one's going to come over. Hey, by the way, the peace talks broke down. You got to come back to Gaza. None of that's happening. This part is over. And it was the biggest part we talked about and massively crucial. And no matter what comes forward from here, at least these families have their family member back home. And I think for the first time the Middle East is on the same page that they know who the enemy is. And the enemy is not Israel.
Starting point is 02:07:46 It is Iran. And because they've been saying that for easy, a decade, kind of openly, but for decades. but for decades behind the scene. You know, we knew who the real trouble was in the Middle East, and the Arabs just didn't want to fight with other Arabs. They were just like, leave it alone, leave it alone. They realized they can't leave it alone because it's becoming so toxic to everything. And that's what he brought together.
Starting point is 02:08:18 That's how he's cobbled this coalition together. And I pray that it lasts. I mean, at least as long as long as the Lord will let it last. I mean, we know how it ends in the end, but please, let it last for a while. This is Glenn Beck.

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