The Glenn Beck Program - How to End the Russia-Ukraine War | Guest: Marissa Streit | 8/18/25

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

President Trump's anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska was either significant progress or world-ending, depending on which side of the media you tuned in to. Was there a... meaning behind the B-2 bomber that flew overhead as Trump and Putin walked the red carpet? Glenn's chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the type of leader Putin is and what President Trump has to navigate in his efforts to bring peace to Russia and Ukraine. Glenn gives a history lesson on the last time a country was forced to give up its land in exchange for peace. Peace requires sacrifice, and Glenn outlines why sometimes securing peace is more important than holding on to land. MSNBC is undergoing a rebrand, dropping the NBC and becoming MSNOW. Glenn and Stu discuss how MSNBC has made itself worse than it already was. A recent New York Times opinion piece called for abolishing the Senate, ending the Electoral College, and packing the Supreme Court. Glenn explains how our system operates and how the Left refuses to participate in it. PragerU CEO Marissa Streit joins to explain how PragerU aims to create entertaining educational content that teaches children about America's history, both the good and the bad. Is PragerU becoming the new PBS?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:58 Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. The Glen Beck. Well, I'm trying to decide if I were in the press today, how would I handle the news coverage today on Donald Trump and all the world leaders? One, I guess I could run with a headline. Donald Trump is a fascist.
Starting point is 00:03:17 He's forced all of the world leaders to come and bow to his feet. I could also say, uh, let's say, Trump. Let's say they just leave, you know, and they don't have a deal, but progress has been. See, I told you he would never get it done. I mean, the guy can't win, and I'm so sick and tired of it. Can we just talk about what actually is happening? And if he gets a peace deal done, not today, but in a couple of weeks, if this leads to peace, give him the Nobel Prize. If it doesn't lead to peace, he tried. And can we please, just. Move on with our lives.
Starting point is 00:03:58 Now, let's talk about what actually happened over the weekend because it was stunning and what is happening today, I think, is even more stunning. Like him or hate him, the world is coming to him because it seems as though he's making progress on this. We'll talk about that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Our sponsor is Leaf Filter. Ever notice how every gutter cleaning starts the same way?
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Starting point is 00:05:25 Hi, Stu. How are you? He's great. I hear he had a great weekend, and that's pretty much all we care about. And then we have Jason Buttrill here, who is our chief researcher and travel companion lately. He's almost like a Viking cheerleader for me lately. Well, let's not go that far. Come on.
Starting point is 00:05:47 He's off to the side. You go, go. Just keep going, girl. Anyway, Stu, I'd love to hear. I've been waiting to hear your response to what's happening with Donald Trump and Putin. And then we'll get into the meeting that's going to go today. But what was your take on Putin in Alaska? Can I start with the media?
Starting point is 00:06:08 Sure. Before the meeting, the take from the media that I received for every single hour until we got to the meeting was that Donald Trump loves dictates. loves Putin, is being taken by Putin, is going to give Putin whatever he desires, and we're going to make some terrible deal that is going to show the, you know, the American way is gone. He's just a, he's just a sort of a fully owned subsidiary of, of Mother Russia, right? Sure. So then they come out and he has the press conference and he, and Putin says we have a deal. and then Trump says, well, we don't have a deal until we have a deal and goes through multiple times during his,
Starting point is 00:06:58 well, he's very complimentary to Putin, as both sides were, goes through several times where he specifically points out that we do not have a deal. And then I go back to the coverage. I'm listening to, I don't know, one of the, maybe it was CNN, one of the cable news networks covering this. One of the things that nobody watches anymore. Yes, go ahead. And they are immediately and have immediately switched their position to, can you believe this, Trump organized this big meeting with Putin and then couldn't get a deal done. It makes a failure.
Starting point is 00:07:32 We don't know what's going to come out of this, but we can't say he failed. He wanted to get a deal. He didn't get a deal. And it's like, you can't have both of those positions. You can't say he's going to get a deal no matter what because he loves dictators and he loves Putin. He's going to give him everything. He's going to hand over all of you. brain. And then the second that doesn't happen, you switch to the exact opposite position,
Starting point is 00:07:53 which is he didn't give enough, he didn't know how to negotiate the deal, he didn't come up with the deal. You can't have both of those positions. And the most frustrating part about this is at some point in the next six months, there will be another story which makes them take the first position again as if it didn't already completely fail. And then they will not acknowledge any of the switches that they've made. It's infuriating to me. I am so glad to hear you, because that
Starting point is 00:08:21 was the biggest thing to me. The guy cannot win, no matter what happens. No matter what happens. Nobody could say one nice thing about anything. Did you hear the argument about the red carpet? He rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Well, we didn't have a green one. Okay? We didn't have one of another color. I'm sorry. Which carpet would you like to you? We have won. It's red. I mean, I just cannot take all of this. And, you know, to say that Vladimir Putin, he won on the world stage. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Go ahead, Vlad. Use those videos of you and Donald Trump walking down the red carpet. It looked like you and Dorothy. You know what I mean? And you were a munchkin. And Donald Trump was Dorothy. He looks like a giant compared to Vladimir. Putin. And then I just, I know everybody has played this. It was just so satisfying. Could we
Starting point is 00:09:19 please play the B-2 bomber flyover? I mean, I just, this, and you know Donald Trump planned every bit of this. Every bit of this was under his direction. Play the B-2 bomber. So there they are walking on that red carpet. And here they come screaming across the sky. Now, in my head, is how I see this. Donald Trump's planning this whole thing. He's like, yeah, and I want the podium there. We're going to be walking from the plane to the podium. And at that moment, before we get to the podium, I want that B2 bomber.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Is it B1B? B2. B2. I want that B2 bomber just flying right over our head. And you know, the military was like, oh, thank you, Mr. President. Yes, we can do that. And Putin kind of stumbles a little bit and looks up at it. I mean, you know, it's cool.
Starting point is 00:10:18 He knows he's not being bombed. But if that wasn't a, by the way, welcome to Alaska. You're on our territory. Did you also notice what the podium said at the bottom? Alaska, 2025. Not the U.S., not, you know, bilateral media, nothing. Alaska, 2025, in red, white, and blue. I don't think Putin won on this one.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Now here's Putin in the meeting. Here's Trump and Putin. Putin teasing an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Cut two. Me and President Trump have built a very good business-like and trustworthy contact. And have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come and the sooner it better, to the end of the conflict, Ukraine. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Trump follows it. Would cut three, please. I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on. Most of them, I would say. A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal. I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate. And I'll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting. It's ultimately up to them. They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here,
Starting point is 00:12:01 Scott and John Radcliffe. Thank you very much. First of all, can I just say, you know, he got on the plane and in the middle of the night, he's calling the world leaders. After all of this, he's calling and the world leaders. I'm tired just watching the guy. Can anyone else give him credit for just he's like a nuclear power plant. The guy never
Starting point is 00:12:26 ever stops. I've never seen a president work this hard. I mean, I know other presidents and I'll give it to, you know, Barack Obama and everything else, but I have never, and if you're honest, and you don't vote the same way I do, but you're honest,
Starting point is 00:12:43 you would say the same thing. I've never seen anyone go this hard all the time. He doesn't seem to sleep. So he gets on the plane and he starts calling the world leaders. Now, today, Germany, Maloney, Prime Minister from Italy, France, England's Prime Minister, who else is coming in? And Zelensky. Has anybody ever seen that happen before?
Starting point is 00:13:13 the president of the United States says, hey, by the way, guys, I think we should all meet at the White House. Come to my, come to my house, we're going to have a little meeting, and they all show up. I mean, again, you have to just, if you're honest, recognize the history here. This is historic. I have never, maybe since FDR, I have never seen the United States call war. world leaders together and say, hey, we all have to meet the UN. I can see them all meeting at the UN. But this is the United States taking her position in the world back.
Starting point is 00:13:57 This is the United States saying, yeah, we don't follow anybody else. We don't follow the UN. We don't need the UN. We don't need anything else. We're the leader in the world, and we're taking the leadership position. So why don't we all get together? Now there's this, the press again saying, well, you know why?
Starting point is 00:14:19 They're all coming because he's going to be a bully on Zelensky. Oh, God, would you shut up? It is honestly, it is like the press, it's if we hired Mrs. Olson's third grade class to be the press, the charges are so infantile over and over, over and over again, that I just can't take it. So what does he say? Now, it was interesting to hear what he just said in that clip where he said,
Starting point is 00:14:53 we've come up with some things. We don't have a solid deal yet, but we've come up with some things that if we can get him done would be very, very good towards peace. One of those things, and I think it was, was it Besson, who was it that said that we have an Article 5 like agreement, Whitkoff.
Starting point is 00:15:14 So Whitkoff was on, I don't know, one of the Sunday shows, and he said, we have an Article 5-like agreement. Well, that is game-changing. Let me just explain what Article 5 means. Article 5, in case you don't know, Article 5 is part of the NATO Treaty.
Starting point is 00:15:35 And that's the part of the treaty that says an attack on one is an attack on all. That's the reason why Russia does not want Ukraine to be part of NATO. Because if there's ever a skirmish at the border and Russia attacks, that means it's world war automatically. Now, we've never had to invoke Article 5. I don't know at this point if Article 5 means all that much means what it used to mean, but at least it is an official treaty.
Starting point is 00:16:11 This is why Putin did not want NATO there because it's a gateway right into Russia for NATO. So he's like no NATO countries. I want a buffer between NATO and Russia. If Donald Trump did indeed get Putin to agree to Article 5, that means the peace is guaranteed by us. this last five years and then all of a sudden there's war. We have this Article 5 hanging around our necks. I'm not thrilled about that. But that is a huge concession that everyone should recognize.
Starting point is 00:16:51 If Putin gave that up, that's enormous, enormous. Here's my guess on what Donald Trump has. He's given, he said, you have to accept an Article 5. I'm going to try to convince them to say Crimea is over. Okay. And, you know, except for Israel, this is the way the world works. You win something in war, and they take it, and then it's yours. It's yours.
Starting point is 00:17:22 The winner gets that land. Only the United States has given the land back that we have conquered, because we're not a conquering nation. Russia is a conquering nation, okay? they won that in the war. Barack Obama did nothing. That's over. Was it a mistake? Yes.
Starting point is 00:17:42 You want to complain? Don't complain to Donald Trump. Call Barack Obama. So I think that's off the table. And the Dunbos area, the Dunbos area is right now, and if you listen to them, what Putin has been saying is
Starting point is 00:17:59 he wants all of this all the way into Crimea, into Kiev. he wants all this territory. But if you listen to the language now from both sides, what Putin and Zelensky are both saying now, which is new, is maybe just the occupied territory goes to Russia. So not anything new, not anything in dispute, just where they have their troops and it's occupied.
Starting point is 00:18:30 That's about half of the Dunbos reason, correct? Jason? About half. So that's about half, which would be the buffer zone that Putin has been wanting. He wants a buffer zone between NATO, Article 5, and Russia.
Starting point is 00:18:48 So you give him that, the rest of it goes to Ukraine. It's a reasonable ending to this thing. Now, we could just go with the press and say that's either too much for Russia,
Starting point is 00:19:03 or not enough for Ukraine or, you know, we have to have all of it back. None of those things are going to work, which means you're just going to have more and more war. Do you know that there were 20,000 Russians, 20,000 Russians, according to the U.S., that were killed last month? 20,000 people died. So if you remember, Vietnam was, what, 55? thousand people died, 55,000, 20 last month. I don't know. I think it might be in the best interest of all of us as humans to end this war. If we can come up with a reasonable thing that both sides agreed to, but both sides are going to have to give stuff up. Pray for peace. Pray for peace.
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Starting point is 00:21:51 Cut four. Here's cut four. Listen to this. Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstances, pomp and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake. The President Trump simply lost that. That Putin gained there just by being on the world stage and walking down a red carpet with the president.
Starting point is 00:22:10 your reaction to that? Well, I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize. You don't even pay attention to it anymore, but I will tell you this. Putin is already on the world stage. He's already on the world stage. The guy's conducting a full-scale war in Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:22:23 He's already on the world stage. He has the world's largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage. When I hear people say that, oh, it elevates him. Well, all we do is talk about Putin all the time. All the media has done is talk about Putin all the time for the last four or five years.
Starting point is 00:22:40 That doesn't mean he's right about the war. That doesn't mean he's justified about the war. Put all that aside. It means you're not going to have a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's just common sense.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I shouldn't even have to say it. So people can say whatever they want. Ultimately, at the end of the day, we have to get the Russian side to agree to things that they don't want to agree to if we're going to have peace. If not, they'll just be a war. They'll keep killing each other. And life will go on in America
Starting point is 00:23:09 and in the rest of the world. rest of the world, but not for Ukraine. Can I tell you something? We're going to continue our conversation in a minute, but when did little Marco become this guy? He is doing an incredible job. I am stunned by Marco Rubio. Every time I see him, I'm like, wow, look at this guy go.
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Starting point is 00:25:29 or butts. I think he's a guy who looks at the Cold War and says, well, that ended the wrong way. I mean, he has said those words. He believes in, you know, the former Soviet state. He is a dictator. He is bloodthirsty. He is a killer. So I want to make sure that everything that needs to be said about Vladimir Putin is said because he is, you know, is a rattlesnake a good pet? The answer is no. That's what everybody says. The actual answer is, yes, as long as you never forget, it's a rattlesnake. The minute you start treating it as a pet like a puppy dog,
Starting point is 00:26:14 You're dead. So is Putin somebody you can negotiate with? Yes. As long as you always remember, he's Vladimir Putin. But I think, well, Jason, give me your view on Vladimir Putin and this whole situation. Vladimir Putin, I believe, I mean, I agree with you. I think that it's very rare in the world to have someone that sees the interest of their country and they're willing to take certain steps
Starting point is 00:26:46 to ensure that their country is taken care of. And what I mean by that is willing to just invade a country over it, willing to be a bloodthirsty killer over it. That's rare. It's even more rare to have the cartoon villain as a leader like... Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un is a total cartoon character. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:10 It's also very rare for a country to ignore geopolitics. political laws and rules like a Hitler and go off and just try and, you know, conquer an entire continent. That is also very rare. Most of the people fall in line of someone like, I don't know, I'm not sure the type of leader, basically pick 90% of the leaders out there. They're willing to go so far. Putin is willing to go those extra few steps, but he's not a cartoon character. So what you can always expect from Vladimir Putin is he is willing to do the things to ensure the safety of his country from how it and him and him which is also a dictatorial regime correct willing to correct so that that's you there's ways that you can predict how this is going to go based off of those
Starting point is 00:27:57 rules so that's always in my mind when you're looking at this how do you think this is going to go what do you think we end up with if anything so i i think that um vladimir putin initially wanted to just take all of ukraine because that solved most of their issues yes that that that keeps NATO out. If you look at a map, you know, the border of Ukraine and Russia is just a couple hundred miles from Moscow. So for us, in our own perspective, that's like accepting nuclear weapons in Havana. No, it's not even that. It's like New Jersey. Exactly, right. Right. So it was a geopolitical, you know, paramount for him to take Ukraine. He failed at that. So now what he's looking at, I need some kind of buffer so armies can't go through Ukraine, NATO Army,
Starting point is 00:28:44 He's can't go through Ukraine and get to Moscow in an hour. He's got to do that. So what he's building here, I think, is that now he's established a buffer. Now, what he's looking for is an excuse to give to his people. Look, he'll say the special military operation. That's what he loves to call it. It succeeded. We have our buffer zone.
Starting point is 00:29:03 I can claim victory for you his people. Now, he also has to leave open for the Europeans and for Ukraine is a way to also say, we won. We stopped him. He did not take Ukraine. If both sides can do that, and I think we're getting hints that we're getting close to that. The Article 5-like security. If it's real.
Starting point is 00:29:23 If it's real, that's big. Yes. Zelensky saying, you can't have territory that you haven't already conquered, as you pointed out. Yes. That's an interesting hint. That means that he might be willing to accept Crimea going their way and other those areas providing that buffer zone needs to Ukraine. And there's a new pullout that shows from Ukraine that the Ukrainians, don't want to give any land back, but Stu, who is so good at reading polls, that's not exactly
Starting point is 00:29:49 what it says, is it? Yeah, the poll actually is they don't want to give up more land that has already been occupied. That's where the 78% comes in. And I think that's going to be a problem because, I mean, Putin seems to want additional land, including like these two cities that are central to the defense of Ukraine. So that is going to be a real problem in the negotiations. I don't think so. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:30:15 If they're not occupied, I think that's where Trump is trying to push them. I agree. You keep the land you already have occupied. And that's where Trump is trying to push him. I think that's where the people is. I think the Ukraine. I think Ukraine would, you know, a lot of different parts of this negotiation have to go a specific way, but I think there's a world in which Ukraine accepts that.
Starting point is 00:30:45 The problem is, at least at this point, Russia seems to be asking for more than that. They seem to be asking for multiple cities and areas that they do not currently occupy. They want that entire Donbass region, which would include land that's reasonable. I agree. And that's absolutely what Putin wants. If you look at a map, he wants the area from Bel- where you see Belarus and Ukraine connect. He would love to have that area all the way down the coast.
Starting point is 00:31:11 to Crimea because that's the full buffer zone. That's what he's going to push for it. Right, but I don't think that's reasonable to add. That's where Marco Rubio's like, everybody's going to have to give up something. And, you know, I think if Ukraine can live with, they conquered this land, they're in this land, and we're just drawing a line there. I think Putin should be willing to accept that. It's not what he wants, but he would be willing to accept.
Starting point is 00:31:41 that because it does give him the buffer zone, does it not? If he just keeps the conquered land. That he has now? Yes. It's not the full buffer zone that he would like, but it is a buffer zone. Nobody's going to get everything that they want. And I think the polling shows that that is seemingly acceptable to the Ukrainian people that if you don't, if you're occupying it right now, you're going to keep that.
Starting point is 00:32:07 We can live with that. and then Ukraine gets the Article 5, which is what they said. That's what started this whole thing. They wanted protection from Russia, and they wanted to join NATO. The reason why they wanted to join NATO is because they wanted the Article 5 protection. If Russia comes in, then that triggers NATO to come in and fight the war against Russia. That keeps them at bay. So Ukraine at a very high cost gets that.
Starting point is 00:32:40 Russia at a very high cost gets most of what they want in the buffer zone. That's a reasonable ending. Agree or disagree? No, no, I agree. And it also sets, I mean, and this is far from over. So let's say there's some guarantees that last for five, ten, whatever years, how many ever years. Both sides are going to be looking to play the Chinese perspective on this. And I say Chinese perspective, because if you look at how they treated Taiwan, the China,
Starting point is 00:33:05 The Chinese reluctantly gave up Taiwan. And we were involved providing security guarantees, providing weapons, things like that. That's how both sides have to be looking to play the long game. You give this up, you make concessions now. In the long run, the discussion is still open. Things may happen. You can play your little games, all that.
Starting point is 00:33:26 You can look towards maybe taking back that land in some way in the future. But this is what you accept now and set up this game of chess for, for longer. And now at least you're not losing 1.5 million people. Still. First of all, two things. First, can we ask a question? Are you guys, do you guys believe, are you confident in the idea that Vladimir Putin has accepted this pseudo-Aricle 5 opposition?
Starting point is 00:33:58 I just, I have not heard him say that until I hear, because I've heard Trump officials say it. but I am skeptical that he's actually agreed to this. I just haven't heard him until I hear him say it. So when I played, could you play that Trump sound that we played cut three? Listen to what he says carefully. I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on. Most of them, I would say.
Starting point is 00:34:23 A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway. Stop. I think that's the Article 5 thing. we've made a lot of headway we have some things where we've made agreements and then we've really made some headway we haven't really gotten there yet i think that's what he's talking about is the article five and then one of his spokespeople come out and say it's article five we're willing to do the article five thing because that's trump speaking it into existence he didn't say it with vladimir putin standing next to him because they're still
Starting point is 00:35:01 working on it, and I'm sure Vladimir Putin or somebody else is going, no, I'm not really sure about that. And so he has one of his people floated out there to see the reaction and speak it into existence. Because I think that is, if he can get that done, if he can get Russia to accept that, that's enormous, enormous. Yeah, I would be enormous. I'm of the opinion. Yeah, it would be. And I'm of the opinion that Putin has agreed to that in some way because Putin is very quick to put these things down, especially to his own people, especially if he thinks that he's going to lose public opinion within Russia with ordinary Russians. And he has not done that yet. So that's a huge signal to me. Plus, I think that I personally think that a line from Donald Trump is about territorial concessions.
Starting point is 00:35:51 I think that is the major sticking point on this. And that's what he's going to have to go back and forth with the Europeans today, and Zelensky on. What are you willing to concede territorial? Do you know enough about where everybody's going to come down? I mean, I'm sure Maloney is going to come down with Trump. Germany probably will come down with Trump? No? Probably not. It's very hard to predict on the European side because they have more skin in the game on this.
Starting point is 00:36:20 It's very different argument with them. But you get, if you can get the Article 5, that's what they've been wanting. Yeah. So, I mean, that, that is such a huge concession. You know, it's weird because you know what the press is going to say. If he gives up land and we have the Article 5 and he gets that deal done, the press is going to call him Hitler and Neville Chamberlain at the same time. I don't know how that works.
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Starting point is 00:40:54 I don't think, because we are indeed members of the press, members of the press, I don't think we can leave it there. I think we need to figure out what exactly he was doing there. You know, what Bella? What does that, what does he mean by that? Well, I went to work early today while you were still asleep. It's a given name of a Hungarian composer. Bella, somebody or other, Bartok, I think.
Starting point is 00:41:23 He's a composer. And maybe he's making something about Hungary and composers. I don't know. It also, in some Slavic languages, Bella means white. Now are we getting a little closer? mainstream media. It's white in the feminine form, which, look at his wife,
Starting point is 00:41:46 Slavic, right? Feminine. Maybe this was secret code. Unleash the hounds. Let her write the letter and send that. I don't know. Portuguese, it means beautiful. Now, it could also be, maybe he was, maybe he was like,
Starting point is 00:42:08 And then he stopped writing. And he was like, no, you know what? I'm going to wait. We'll do that later. So maybe he was going to do belated. And maybe he was going to mention, you know, who else is B-L-A, B-E-L-A, B-E-L-A, Bella-L-L-A, B-L-A, B-L-A, B-L-A, it might have been, hey, belated condolences on Belalances on B-L-E-L-L-A-on there and everybody will figure it out.
Starting point is 00:42:32 I'm just, I'm just saying, where's the press on this one? where's the press on this one? Stu, can we go back to that poll that you had just a few minutes ago? Sure. Where do they stand on Crimea? Where do the people in Ukraine stand on that? Well, I mean, they are, the people of Ukraine are not excited about of anything, making anything official, right?
Starting point is 00:42:59 Like they, like, so the poll shows that, okay, what we were talking about before, the idea that Russia would get lands, they don't currently. even occupy, right? That's what's what Putin wants. The Ukrainian people overwhelmingly opposed to that 78 to 15. When it opens up to what they do occupy, which would include Crimea and include these other regions, the lines of the war right now, official occupation, they are overwhelmingly still against, though less so, 68 to 24. So they oppose officially recognizing Russia has these territories. When it comes down to whether they're okay with it de facto, like not admitting that it's happened, but it kind of like the way Crimea is right now, essentially, where Russia
Starting point is 00:43:43 runs it, but they don't necessarily admit it. That they're pretty split on. It's 4843. That seems to be the line where they are, at least as far as the people. That's a big nuance on that. And would Putin accept a non-official agreement? Let me tell you a little bit about Ammo Square. You remember the great Ammo shortage of 2020. You go to stores all over the place and the ammo shelves were pretty much bare. There were nothing there. I remember that. Even the online options were wiped out.
Starting point is 00:44:12 Still, you remember that? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I mean, I remember going into major, like, gun stores and there would just be nothing. I mean, there was like, you know, just smatterings of things that you didn't need. It was impossible to get for a while. It's a little bit better now, but you can't just depend on that. You can't depend that it's always going to be there when you need it.
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Starting point is 00:46:22 I pray and I would hope that every American is praying and not looking at this as a political thing. Look, if he can get it done, God bless him. I mean, even Hillary Clinton said, if he can get this done, I'll nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, I don't believe she actually meant that. But that's where we all should be. If we can get peace, we should all celebrate. This is a really big deal. But let's see what happens.
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Starting point is 00:48:23 when has any country been asked to give land up? up that it won in a war. And you can say that it was, you know, their fault and everything else, but you want to make sure that you're very careful on punishment for those transgressions. Remember, the aggressor, really bad aggressor in World War I was Germany. And the world decided to punish Germany. And Germans didn't like it. And that led right directly to World War I. I think without the Versailles Treaty being done the way it was done, we wouldn't have had
Starting point is 00:49:06 World War II. We may not have ever seen Hitler rise to power. It would be a good thing. But you also have to set a standard in saying, hey, bad guys, you don't win when you do these things. So this is a really tough balance. But there's only one country in particular in the history of the world that has faced this burden where the whole world is turning on and saying, you've got to give this back.
Starting point is 00:49:29 Back in 1967, it was Israel. They were surrounded, encircled, and threatened with destruction by every single neighbor. Every country in the region decided together they were going to attack on multiple fronts. Now, their intention was to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. But Israel not only survived, it turned the tide. In six days, it gained territory so dramatically that the map of the Middle Middle and East had to be withdrawn dramatically. They occupied huge swaths of territory in Jordan and in Egypt all over the Middle East. All of a sudden, they had all this territory. And then something extraordinary
Starting point is 00:50:16 happened. They said, and you don't see this, and Russia listen carefully to this, you don't see this very often. They said, we don't want all this territory. We want to be left alone. And we really just want a few buffer zones. We don't need all of this land in Jordan. We don't need all of this land in Egypt. We just want to make sure that this can't happen to us again. Well, that's what Russia is saying. Now, whether that's true with Vladimir Putin or not, that's up for you to decide. But what they're saying is they want just a buffer zone away from NATO. And what Ukraine is saying is we want to be part of NATO because we don't trust Russia, nor should they. So we want to have, we want NATO partnership. Basically what they want is if Russia attacks us, then all of NATO,
Starting point is 00:51:14 Europe and America, need to go in and fight that war with them. That's what they really want. Well, Donald Trump, his, his allies came out this weekend and said they are very close to an Article five kind of agreement. Article 5 comes from the NATO charter, which means it was for Europe against Russia. Anybody who attacks a NATO country, it's an attack on all of us, and we all band together. Now, does that happen? Well, kind of it did after 9-11. Not everybody was involved, but it wasn't, you know, it wasn't like it was intended to be. But that's fine. that's what that's what ukraine wants what russia says they want whether it's true or not i don't know but what they say they want is a buffer zone if if russia can give up and look instead at the
Starting point is 00:52:13 israeli example of voluntarily they gave most of it back uh the sinai gaza and parts of the west bank. They wanted to keep as part of a buffer zone, but they were in there because it was a buffer zone to them, okay? But land
Starting point is 00:52:35 four times its own size, paid for in blood on an attack that they didn't do, others did to them. They gave all of that back in pursuit of peace. And they said, look, we don't, we're not
Starting point is 00:52:52 here for more land. We just want our land and to be left alone and have the right to exist. Now, you've done this to us several times. So we want just exactly what, you know, Russia could say, we've been attacked by the West over and over again and they come through this door of either Poland or now they're worried about Ukraine. So we want a buffer zone. Well, the world didn't give them that buffer zone. It's the disputed territories, the occupied territories. But that's why Israel wanted it. And then they gave everything else back. A nation smaller than New Jersey carved out just this little buffer zone. So they had a way to protect themselves in case this would ever happen again. Now, compare this with Russia and Ukraine. Crimea was taken in 2014. They invaded
Starting point is 00:53:45 Ukraine outright in 2022. And they hold huge swaths of land under the occupations. patient. So what's the path forward? Well, either continued bloodshed, and I just, I think it's important that we put this into perspective. 20,000 Russians, according to the U.S., 20,000 Russians died last month. How long did the Vietnam War go on? That was a total of about 55,000 Americans. In one month, you're almost half of the entire Vietnam War. There's a lot of bloodshed and a lot of bloodshed that is
Starting point is 00:54:29 happening on the other side as well. How many have the Russians killed month after month after month? So to stop this, is there something we can look to from 1967? You know, a recognition of the reality on the ground,
Starting point is 00:54:45 and then some hard choices on both sides, but anchor it all in peace. Marco Rubio said this weekend, and he's right, peace demands sacrifice. And Israel proved that by returning Sinai to Egypt in exchange for recognition and an end to the hostilities. It wasn't perfect. It didn't solve every grievance, but it worked. And Egypt and Israel haven't gone to war in half a century.
Starting point is 00:55:17 Again, it's messy, it's ugly, but we haven't had a lot of. a war between Egypt and Israel in half a century. Survival outweighs pride. And here's the challenge for Russia and Ukraine. Both claim history in that, deep, deep history in that area. Both claim injustice. And Ukraine, I think you have a much more solid claim on injustice against the Russians than they do the other way.
Starting point is 00:55:51 But the question is not whose parchment, who owns this land. Who has the oldest deed here? The question is, are you willing to trade land for more lives? Are you willing to give back or give up enough to stop the killing? And that's not just on the Ukraine side. That is also on the Russian side. No other country has done what Israel does. Nobody.
Starting point is 00:56:15 There's no example like this. No other modern country has been attacked by multiple names. survivors survived, expanded, and then voluntarily gave all that land back, and then it's still being judged for not giving all of it back. And the closest comparison is probably from 1971, India took some land from Pakistan in a war, and then they gave it back. After World War II, we didn't occupy. We gave the land back.
Starting point is 00:56:46 But neither one of those examples have the double standards that Israel has to live through. But if Russia and Ukraine are serious about ending the war, they might want to look to Sinai. They might want to look back because that's the model, not endless battles, not shifting borders by force, but the humility to give back what you can and the wisdom to keep only that in what you have to have for your own security. And then Russia has to do that. And Ukraine, and Ukraine, has to be willing to swallow that they have lost some of these things, but it's in trade for their security. And if Donald Trump can get Russia to accept an Article 5-like security agreement,
Starting point is 00:57:37 that in and of itself is miraculous. And we could actually all go home and say, well, avoided nuclear war on that. Because remember where we were. Remember, in 2022, Joe Biden was saying, this is nuclear war. If these things happen, this will be nuclear war. Remember how freaked out we all were? We were like, wait a minute, wait a minute, nobody's been talking about nuclear war in 50 years.
Starting point is 00:58:05 What do you mean nuclear war? We could avoid that. I don't know who you voted for, nor do I care. I would hope that we are all praying for cooler heads to prevail because this one now comes down to how many more innocent lives that are not involved in this who are being drafted on both sides being forced to fight this war on both sides how many more people are we going to kill or allow being killed
Starting point is 00:58:44 because of what? Because of pride? I don't want to see Putin rewarded for anything that he did. Nothing. But war is war. You know, you don't, you know, and if you're willing to continue to fight, but Ukraine's not going to be able to win this war against Ukraine, I mean, against Russia. Would you agree with that, Jason?
Starting point is 00:59:09 Jason Buttrill is with us. Would you agree? They're not able to fight, unless we all get involved in its world war. That's the thing. depending on how many people get pushed into this. There's some crazy developments in this war. Technological advances. Ukraine or drone warfare has escalated out the roof on this.
Starting point is 00:59:31 I mean, have you seen that some of the videos coming from? And the crazy thing is Ukraine is actually leading, I think, in just ingenuity as far as like drone warfare. But you can watch videos on X right now that show some of these first person, drones chasing down Russian soldiers across the battlefield. And it's going back and forth. I don't, to answer your question, though, more specifically, no, it's basically a war of, you know, attrition and numbers. The Russians have more. And the only way that Ukraine can effectively over time win is if we get involved, other NATO countries get involved. That's where things spin out of control. And here's another thing. While we're talking about new technology,
Starting point is 01:00:11 you know, let me go back to the B-2 bomber flying over Donald. Trump and Putin. And everybody in the media was like, he's on the red carpet and he saluted him with, you know, a flyover. No, no, that was intimidation. That was clearly intimidation. What was the message? Why did he say fly the B-2 bomber? Back in 1940, Jack Northrop dreams up the flying wing.
Starting point is 01:00:40 And it's radical. It has no tail. It was the YB-49. and it was really futuristic. Now, the Germans were working on the flying wing as well, but nobody could get it to stabilize. And, you know, the testing, they killed it by 1950 because they just couldn't get it stabilized.
Starting point is 01:01:01 Now, fast forward to the 1980s. Under Ronald Reagan, doing the same thing. Remember, this bomber came out in the 1980s. What else was happening in the 1980s? It was Ronald Reagan meeting. with the leader of Russia and Gorbachev, and Ronald Reagan was playing the heavy. It's an evil empire, and we're going to end it.
Starting point is 01:01:26 And everybody's like, he's going to get us on a nuclear war. And he's like, would you calm down? I have a strategy here. Back in the 1980s, when that was going on, all of a sudden, Northrop Grumman, the aerospace company, they came up with the B-2. Now, it was first flown for people to see in 1989, but we had it before then.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Those things were always out before. It's a UFO. There's just like this flying wing flying. Well, why was this such a big deal? No one has been able to make a flying wing except us. It's precision. It can drop those bombs in Iran. can hit a bomb, 50,000 feet, he can drop a bomb, and it will drop a bomb and hit the top of a Pepsi can.
Starting point is 01:02:23 That's remarkable precision, okay? And it's unseen with radar. It's untouchable. But here's the thing. It was a message to Putin. We dreamed it up in the 40s. We perfected it in the 80s. And still, in 2025, nothing comes close. this is who we are Putin's radars didn't even blink but I can tell you he felt the shadow of that wing this is why that flyover was such a big deal. It was
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Starting point is 01:04:33 This is so unfair. Stu, do you have the president's schedule handy? You just rattle off what time all this starts? I haven't seen this at what time. I think I heard the meeting was supposed to start. Obviously, that could be moved. And who knows, there's so many things with all these different leaders coming in and all of that. but that is the, that's what they were talking about for today.
Starting point is 01:04:57 Zelensky has come out and said this is a historic decision. The United States is ready to take part in security guarantees for Ukraine. Security guarantees as a result of our joint work must really be very practical, delivering on protection on land in the air and in the sea, and must be developed with Europe's participation. Since the territorial issue is so important, it should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at the trilateral of Ukraine,
Starting point is 01:05:22 United States, and Russia. So far, Russia gives no sign that trilateral will happen, and if Russia refuses, the new sanctions must follow. So that's Zelensky's latest. And I don't know why, I mean,
Starting point is 01:05:37 Trump has obviously, you know, remember, when was the last time that the president met with Putin in a way like this? U.S. president? U.S. president. Without being a U.
Starting point is 01:05:50 sponsored event, 2007. 2007. So he's been pretty much ignoring us since then, showing no deference to the United States. We were PNG to them. PNG, person Nograda. And so he is, he's now showing deference, but now Trump has to get the three of them to the table. Is that, is that absolutely necessary? Jason, do you think?
Starting point is 01:06:22 Get all of them together? The three of them. Sure. Absolutely. To sign some sort of a deal. Yes. I can't imagine that happening. I cannot imagine that happening, but we should know a little more by the end of the day.
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Starting point is 01:08:27 he's going to be a little busy today. He's got some photos he's got to take around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It sounds like Biden's schedule. He first meets with Zelensky, I think, at one for one-on-one bilateral talks. Then he's going in and he greets the leaders in the state dining room. And then I think he takes some pictures with their families, et cetera, et cetera. And then they go into serious meetings about that around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. afternoon. Of course, you'll get all of it covered on MSNBC later today.
Starting point is 01:09:02 I don't know if it'll be covered on MSNBC. I guess today that might be true. That might be true. But soon it will no longer be true, Glenn. MSNBC is changing its name. They're changing their name. American institution of MSNBC. It's jarring to lose that close working relationship, which is how it started between Microsoft and NBC. Right. MS for Microsoft and NBC. Yes.
Starting point is 01:09:33 And Microsoft has been out of this for a long time, haven't they? Yes, they've been out of it for a long time, but they kept the MS in there. Why? That I don't know. I can't explain many of the things they do. Right. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 01:09:46 Okay. I think most people would be, you know, that wouldn't remember it, would be shocked to realize that Microsoft was once a big part of this. It was supposed to be, I think it was the first embrace of digital. at that level, right? Like, it was a big deal at that time. Didn't last all that wrong. And there's nothing that says credibility more than the mainstream media and Bill Gates. Right.
Starting point is 01:10:09 When you put those two things together, you know, you got something special. You really do. So is NBC suing MSNBC? Like, hey, we even can't have our name on that. They're spinning them off. So NBC is spinning off MSNBC into its own separate company. They're apparently hiring right now because they're losing access to the NBC, news room.
Starting point is 01:10:30 So they need to hire a whole new batch of horrible journalists that make a mockery of the profession to bring over there. When does this happen? When does this go through? The official change. I don't know. This is the first date they're announcing the new name. Let's see if I can find when that actually happens. It launched, by the way, in 1996 in case you were wondering how long this thing's been around.
Starting point is 01:10:55 It seems like it's been 1896 or 1796. but, I know. So, I don't know that they had some credibility at the very beginning. Yeah. I think Lester Holt started on MSNBC. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:08 And back in the 90s. It was seen, and it was still left leaning, but almost, it's left leaning the way you'd expect every other piece of crap, you know, mainstream broadcast to be. It was like CNN.
Starting point is 01:11:20 Like, it was like left leaning, but not necessarily completely insane. Now, both of them since then have gone completely insane. And, you know, they went through the key.
Starting point is 01:11:28 Eith Olberman period. And I mean, they've gone so far off the rails, obviously, at this point. But we know that the new name is. Do you want to, do you want to guess? Do you have any idea? Have you seen this? Crapcan. It is crap can.
Starting point is 01:11:40 Yes, crap can news. You're right. No, that's C. That's C-CN. It might be. Yeah, a different one. Might be too confusing. All right.
Starting point is 01:11:48 Go ahead. What is it? It is MS now. So let me see if I have this right. MS hasn't been a part of MSNBC since the turn of the century. Years and years and years and years, yeah. Right.
Starting point is 01:12:09 Yeah. But they're going to keep the MS part. Right. Mm-hmm. And the N. And the end. And the end. They're only changing two letters.
Starting point is 01:12:17 That's what it is. They're like, we can just, we can just cut those two letters out of everything and just put OW there instead of BC. Now, other than the fact that MS now sounds like, sounds like a plea for multiple sclerosis. Do you... Do you...
Starting point is 01:12:38 Do you want to take a venture, a guess, as to what this actually stands for? Each letter stands for something. Oh, it stands for... It's an acronym. Yes, MS now. News? You're skipping MS, but yes, news.
Starting point is 01:12:58 News is correct. You got that right. So that one's right. Right. So you got to get the MS to it's not Microsoft. I have no idea. Do you want me to tell you what it is? I do, because I think it's going to be highly entertaining. Yeah. My source.
Starting point is 01:13:16 News. My source. Opinion. World. So we have, do they have cavemen working at their ad agency? My source, news. Opinion. World.
Starting point is 01:13:35 World. Mm. Fire. Good. I mean, I will say the IQ level is about there. Yeah. My source news,
Starting point is 01:13:50 opinion and world. Yes. Now, you're a guy who's done this, right? You've, you, the blaze,
Starting point is 01:13:58 you came up with the name of that, GBT TV before that. The torch. The torch. The torch coming soon. to you. You also have many radio stations that you programmed back in the day where you would look at what they were presenting. And so if you're looking at all of that as an expert in this field, how would you grade this rebrand for MSNBC? Does zero count? Usually it's 10 to 1. You know, 1 to 10. Can I include zero or negative numbers? That is the worst rebounding I've ever heard. Yeah, it's really bad. You just start fresh from the very beginning, come up with something good.
Starting point is 01:14:38 Yeah. But they're trying to obviously bridge that gap to, hey, this is what we've always been. So you get the MS, gives you a little bit of familiarity. The logo... So it's going to be... Wait, wait, wait, wait. So it's not MS now. It's good.
Starting point is 01:14:50 They're going to call it MSN-O-W. I think they're going to call it MS now. I think they're trying to keep the MS as something, you know... Again, that only people think of multiple sclerosis. Nobody thinks. Nobody thinks of Microsoft. Nobody thinks of multiple sclerosis. They don't want anybody to think of Microsoft.
Starting point is 01:15:10 They haven't been involved in forever. They'd rather have you think of a debilitating disease. Yes. Than Microsoft. That is better than their reputation. Yeah. It is. The other thing you could look at it if you wanted to, they could go the feminist direction and call it Miz now.
Starting point is 01:15:30 Oh my gosh. That could be something they can try. Oh my gosh. That sounds like something they would love because it indicates to me it's an absolute guaranteed flaming
Starting point is 01:15:47 just ball of death as it hits the ground. Miz now. That just sounds like something that would be, yeah, we should do that. We should do that. And everybody else is like, no, you're going to crash this plane into the side of the mountain. It's going to be a fiery ball of record.
Starting point is 01:16:03 It's not good. To be clear, the plane has only been flying like two feet off the ground for many, many years. But yes, they might actually crash it this time. I could see Ms. now actually being the way they go, which would be even more comical. Though it would require them, I think, in theory, to define what a woman is if they went with Ms. now. No, that might not work either.
Starting point is 01:16:27 This is a tough one. And when is this happening? I have not seen the exact. exact date. It is supposed to be soon. The spinoff was announced last winter. They initially said they would be keeping its name, but then during the transitional period, they decided that they needed a new separate identity. So can I ask you, why, why, who's making these decisions in hiring? NBC? Is NBC like, you know what? We're going to staff and design our competitor. Yeah, kind of.
Starting point is 01:17:04 I mean, because it does. Why would you do that? One of the statements I saw said NBC Universal decided. So I guess because they haven't fully spun off yet, they actually are making these decisions. Maybe they have a bet. So they're just spinning it off, but they're keeping, are they keeping it in the Universal Comcast world? I don't think it's a separate company. I think it's going to be sold separate company.
Starting point is 01:17:28 Why wouldn't you just sell the position? Why wouldn't you just sell the cable access, you know? like Current did. Remember when current sold it to... Right. They couldn't sell that. They wouldn't sell... Al Gore would not sell current TV to Glenn Beck
Starting point is 01:17:43 because I was so un-American, in his own words, that he sold it to Al Jazeera. Right. I remember this. You know, the company that bought it with oil money from Al Gore. So that made a lot of sense to him. So why wouldn't... Why wouldn't they just sell that position?
Starting point is 01:18:05 Why wouldn't they just go, it's up for sale? Why would you buy something that NBC created that, I mean, so wait a minute, you hired everybody, but you hired them because you couldn't give anybody on NBC a role there. So you were like, why would you have hired, you find anybody good? You'd be like, yeah, save those guys for NBC. This guy belongs at Ms. Now. That's what we're calling it from here on. Stu, that's good.
Starting point is 01:18:34 Miz now. Miz now. Now is just too good. Now, remember, too, at one point, Elon Musk contemplated the potential purchase of MSNBC. They're smarter than that. Yeah. Why would you want a cable news company? What is he in a time machine?
Starting point is 01:18:52 He got back into a time machine. You know, I'd like to do that, and I'd like a printing press, too. That's a fair point. I just, I will say, and the color scheme and like the logo is really basic. It looks terrible, honestly. And this is going to go, I think, poorly, Glenn. Poorly. That's saying something.
Starting point is 01:19:18 When MSNBC is designing something that you think might be worse than MSNBC. Shocking. But maybe you could do it. You know, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything, Glenn, including making MBSBC even worse. I mean, that's like if we designed it. Honestly, it would be like, okay, all right, let's hire a bunch of lefties. We're going to call it Ms. now.
Starting point is 01:19:43 We're going to lead with, oh my gosh, look at that. We're going to lead with guy cheerleaders and communism. It's going to be big. I mean, that sounds like something I would design for them to. to either make fun of them or just to be, let's see if we can. Do you remember when I told you I went to that opera called the nose? I took my daughter to the opera.
Starting point is 01:20:11 She loved opera. And it was, honestly, it was, I don't even know what the story was, but it was, the main character was a nose. So it's a giant nose with feet coming out of the nostrils. And I said, at the time, I said, this has to be,
Starting point is 01:20:28 this was written by somebody who, who was like, you know, these opera snobs, I'm going to write this whole thing. It makes no sense. It's awful. But I'm going to say, oh, no, you just don't get it. You don't get the nose with the feet coming out of it? You don't get it? Well, I guess so.
Starting point is 01:20:44 And they sold it just because opera snobs didn't want to say, I don't get it. Okay? You had to get it or you weren't cool. I think this is what, I think this is what might be. This is just might be a play on like, how bad can we make this thing to see if we get these lefties and go, you don't get Ms. now? You don't understand that? All right, well, whatever.
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Starting point is 01:22:58 Well, I don't think that the New York Times could be, you know, any more clear than their opinion piece abolish the state, electoral college, and pack the court. What do you think they mean by that? what do you think their point is on that? Wow. Well, that's a way to go. At the same time that they are promoting all of these
Starting point is 01:23:25 communists and communist Islamists and illegals in our state in our country. You know, at the same time they're promoting all of that, now they're coming out with, they're doing a, they're running an editorial from O.C. to no want of a view
Starting point is 01:23:46 want to voo but N-W-A-N-E-V-W that's not a word I would definitely buy a consonant not a vowel yeah yeah I mean it's wow okay
Starting point is 01:24:00 but the the article is based on the right of the people democracy in the case for a new American founding Hmm. New American...
Starting point is 01:24:15 Haven't we heard about a new American founding elsewhere? Jason, do you remember that? Isn't there somebody on the right that's also talking about a new American founding? Comes to mind. I think, yeah, both sides are now. Yeah, are now talking about a new American founding.
Starting point is 01:24:29 Yeah. No, what do you say we go back to the original founding? You know, I think the original idea would be good. You know, you've got this GTO. You know, you've got this great old classic car. And everybody's like, you know what? I think we should completely, we should swap the engine out. You know, what we should do is we should change the body.
Starting point is 01:24:51 How about we just restore it to the coolest car ever? You know what I mean? Why is everybody talking about how we can make this great by completely changing it? You know, that's, again, going into an art museum, that Mona Lisa is good. Now we could restore it or we could get all that paint off of that thing and put something new, there. A new Mona Lisa. No, no. Let's restore this. There's a reason why the average constitution runs for 17 years and ours is approaching 200 and what? For this is Glenn Beck. We've got an incredible hour coming up for you. Let me tell you about Jace Medical. Imagine you're packing for a
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Starting point is 01:28:21 Also, the New York Times, here's a great article. And I'm not sure there's a lot that we have to read into it. Because I'm not sure what they mean when they say, you know, pack the courts. But there's a new article out from the New York Times. It's an op-ed piece where they have a plan. They have a plan for America.
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Starting point is 01:30:19 let's change the Constitution. Let's change. You want to give me a quick, I just lost the story. Can you give me a quick update on this one? The title of this, kind of like you hinted, speaks for itself. The title is thus, abolish the Senate in the electoral college and pack the court. It's a discussion on what, I mean, it's almost like they're doing a 1619 project. No. But instead of focusing that, now they're just trying to change the history of, why the founders created our government the way they did. And it's a complete abomination. I mean, the founders pretty much saw government as an evil, a necessary evil,
Starting point is 01:31:01 but they did everything in their power to limit it as much as they could. Now, this article, this opinion, whatever this is, seems to argue exactly the opposite. And what's really amazing to me is they actually have the balls to mention things like the Federalist Papers and then turn around and title this thing, in the electoral college. I mean, it's argued specifically not only the need for an electoral
Starting point is 01:31:25 college, but why? So, you know, what's amazing to me is they make several points in this article where they are, like, the electoral college, trying to say that it's only a democracy if we have no electoral college.
Starting point is 01:31:41 Well, we're not a democracy. We are a republic. And democracies fail every single. time. There is no such thing as a true democracy where everybody is voting on every item.
Starting point is 01:31:57 They fail every time. You have a democracy. And the reason why the left likes it is because you can convince look at New York. You can convince people of something like communism and then that's the last election that you will have
Starting point is 01:32:13 in country after country. That's what happens. The people are voting, they vote in and they're like, you know what? this is the answer to all of our problems is the answer to cancer and then you don't have another vote again you don't you don't have it it doesn't you don't have the republic first of all you can't vote on every single thing you can't because you don't know all the ins and outs of everything so you have to elect somebody that is as close to you as possible and you elect them first in the house of representatives
Starting point is 01:32:48 The House of Representatives, the reason why there's only a two-year term on those guys, is because that's the closest to you. The Congress is the one that is supposed to control the purse strings. But that's not true anymore. You want to know why our spending is out of control? Because Congress no longer does its job. Congress no longer controls the purse strings. So they've given that up because they haven't done any of a budget or anything else, and nobody's holding anybody responsible for the spending. what you're supposed to do is every two years, when they get out of control on spending,
Starting point is 01:33:24 you can vote them out and say, nope, don't want any of that. It's the closest to the people. That's why they have to run every two years. Then the Senate, which the progressives have already changed, and he makes a case in here again in the New York Times editorial, that we haven't done enough to the Senate. In 1913, the progressives underwerews, Wilson, they decide they're going to change the Senate from the way it was originally in the
Starting point is 01:33:54 Constitution. The way the founders did it was, remember, they want the people, but they also were really concerned about the federal government. So they wanted the states to make sure the states were representative. So no one, everyone knew that no state, Texas is not going to vote for something because New York wants it. And it's not. good for Texas if Texans are elected by the state and they only represent the state. Right now, you have Chuck Schumer. Why does he raise money in California? Why is he, why are these people running around, even on our side, all around the country? Why do we care? Here's why we care, because they no longer represent the state.
Starting point is 01:34:45 It's just another higher level, I guess, of Congress. We already have that body. Now we're supposed to have something that protects the individual states. Well, the progressives didn't like that because they need a democracy, and they want an all-powerful federal government. And so they abolished that from the Constitution. the 17th Amendment changed the way that we vote for senators. So they've already screwed it up once. This is what progressives always do. They'll fix
Starting point is 01:35:22 health care. And then they'll say, and it's so broken. Now it's even worse. So let's fix it again. No, you guys should be left out of it. Okay. You guys should not be fixing anything because you don't know your butt from your elbow. So they've already changed that. Now they're saying that that has to be changed even more because it's not representative. Well, no, because it's supposed to equalize the reason why we have 400, what is it, 434 representatives is more than that now. That number changes as our population grows. So the population grows, you get in your area, you'll get more Congress people because it represents the people. The Senate only has two senators from Delaware or California.
Starting point is 01:36:12 and this article is saying that's not fair because there's more people in California than there are in Delaware. Well, if you do that, then you completely erase the states. Then Delaware, Wyoming, Idaho, all of these other states that have small populations. The only ones that matter will be California, Texas, New York, Florida. That's it. They'll make all the decisions. Now, you in Nebraska, do you want? Want New York and California and even Texas making all the decisions for you?
Starting point is 01:36:48 Of course not. Of course not. That's why the Senate has two senators. Not 50 senators for California. Two, the same as your state. They've already undercut the state power one time. Now they want to cut it completely and make it into another representative body of the people. That's not what it was for.
Starting point is 01:37:14 They knew that Congress would react quickly. The House of Representatives would be so connected to the people that they would act quickly and they could do really stupid things because when there's a panic, these elected officials want to move because their constituents are yelling at them. And it wouldn't necessarily be the right thing. So they wanted to balance that with the state power. the state those senators were elected by the legislators in that state which i don't love but it might bring things back into play where we don't care about chuck schumer anymore unless you live
Starting point is 01:37:56 in new york you only care about your senator because they were the balance from the public saying we've got to put the patriot act in no the senate should be aligned to say nope that takes power away from the states and gives an all-consuming federal government, all kinds of power to them, no. And then when those two houses, both the state and the people's living in the states, could agree, then it goes to the president. And the president is only supposed to veto when he feels it's unconstitutional. Not because he doesn't like it, not because his party tells him, but because it's
Starting point is 01:38:40 It's unconstitutional. You don't have the power to do that. However, Congress can say, Mr. President, I'm sorry, you're wrong. And they can with three-fourths, they can vote again and pass it in the House with three-fourths. Or they can take it to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court is only supposed to decide whether it's constitutional. Look at the damage that the left and the progressives have done to this system. It was brilliant.
Starting point is 01:39:11 The power is in the house with the people. The power, they always say when there's a problem, follow the money, right? The money is the power. So they've taken that power to create laws and given it to the executive branch, to the presidential branch. They've stopped passing a budget. We haven't had a budget since George Bush. They've stopped passing a budget. So they have no real power left in them anymore.
Starting point is 01:39:40 Then they gutted the state with the Senate. And then they made the president, they made him into the veto power into whatever his party says. They've completely revamped this thing already. And it's not working. Why? Because they've bastardized it. if the president, they can't get it done in the House, they can't get it done in the Senate,
Starting point is 01:40:08 and they can't get it done by the president, then they've expanded the power of the Supreme Court. And now the Supreme Court can legislate from the bench. They can say, well, you know what, I think what they meant was this. No, that's not your job. That's not your job. Your job is to say, this is constitutional, this is not constitutional. To give you an idea of how weak the Supreme Court was supposed to be, when the designers of the Capitol put together the three branches of government,
Starting point is 01:40:41 they didn't include a space for the Supreme Court. You know where the Supreme Court, until FDR, the Supreme Court used to meet in the basement of the Capitol. They didn't have any space. They had the basement of the Capitol. But FDR wanted to make sure that the Supreme Court could rule the Constitution. country. And if he couldn't get it passed in the House and the Senate, he'd get it through the Supreme Court. That's why he put them on a pedestal. And that's why he tried exactly what this
Starting point is 01:41:17 article is saying to do, pack the Supreme Court. What does that mean? That means what we're going to do here is we're just going to load up on Supreme Court justices. We have nine Supreme Court justices. That's not in the Constitution. You can have seven, you can have 12, it's not in the Constitution, but our tradition is there has been nine Supreme Court justices.
Starting point is 01:41:43 So we all accept that. When you start, imagine lefties, how would you feel if Donald Trump said we're going to pack the Supreme Court? I'm going to add five more justices right now. What would you do?
Starting point is 01:41:58 What would you do? you'd lose your mind. Why? Because you know he would pack it with the people that would just agree with him. That's not what the Supreme Court is supposed to do. That's why if Donald Trump said he was going to pack the Supreme Court, I would be against it and I would be a leading opposition voice of Donald Trump on that if that's what he wanted to do. But you're suggesting that as something that would be good for the country. It would not be good for the country. And by the way, once you pack the Supreme Court, you'll get up there. There are some countries that have like 47 Supreme Court just keep putting them in until they can absolutely control it. Once you pack a Supreme Court, you destroy the country.
Starting point is 01:42:46 That is the last gasp of a republic or of a country. You pack the Supreme Court. So they've changed absolutely everything. And in this op-ed, he's also suggesting that, you know, another thing we should do is we should just add states. We just add states. We'll just keep adding states, again, packing the Senate. What, when you say we want to, what is the thing they want to reimagine America, refound America, you're not refounding it.
Starting point is 01:43:22 You're working on something completely different. That's not America. The under headline on the main headline is why the left can't win. I'm adding my own ellipsies here, dot, dot, dot, without a new constitution. That's how radically they're thinking on this. Just insane. I mean, but it's true. They don't like the outcome.
Starting point is 01:43:47 They don't like the fact that they almost had us. They almost had us. They have taken and twisted education. They took and twisted the media. They made these all just groups that are marching at their orders, teaching and using propaganda and brainwashing techniques, to teach these twisted views and then reinforce them in the media. They had that.
Starting point is 01:44:15 It wasn't enough. Before they had music. They had the movies. It wasn't enough. They just keep gobbling and gobbling and gobbling. and the reason why they're now at this point is because we're on to them. We figured it out. The people will always, you know, we will always be late, but we'll always figure it out and then we'll do the right thing.
Starting point is 01:44:39 They're trying to take away all of the escape doors, all of the exit doors. They're trying to lock them all down so you can't get out of this nightmare hellhouse that they're building for us. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about Z Factor. You can power through a lot of things in life, work, deadlines, families, responsibilities, even a few aches and pains, but there is one thing you cannot outrun, and that's the lack of sleep. When your body doesn't get the deep restful sleep it needs, it starts to show up in everything. Your energy drops, your mood sags, and, you know, your focus fractures.
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Starting point is 01:46:15 All righty. Welcome to Steve Bregere, otherwise known as Stu, for some reason, an assumed name he's been living under for old time, mainly because I think he's a Canadian spy, which everybody used to laugh at. Now, not so funny, is it Canadian? Brighier. I know you are.
Starting point is 01:46:34 Someone would say that. Someone say that I'm hiding my association with you. That would be another way to look at it. It all started with you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Ella M. Hoff, the stepdaughter of the former vice president,
Starting point is 01:46:51 Kamala Harris, took to TikTok on Thursday to express her deep anxiety about climate change. She has, a deep, deep fear about the current state of the environment. And she said, the feelings about climate anxiety have made her feel very, very heavy. It could be the cake that also makes you feel heavy.
Starting point is 01:47:15 I don't know. I have not seen a picture of her, so I don't know. But she said, like everyone, I feel disgust at what's going on in the world. No, no, it's not everybody. Genocide, the loss of lives, the loss of health care, and the general fear that everyone has surrounding. affordability, their lives, their livelihood, like everything. It's just feels so big. I think everything with the environment is really getting to me. And it's the one I experience a lot of
Starting point is 01:47:45 climate anxiety. It's not funny. Well, it's not. It's actually a, it's a huge tragedy that you feel that way. And I would blame your parents and everybody else in the media and all of your teachers. All the people that you kind of really support for doing this to you. And then you being an adult and not being able to figure out this climate change thing is a scam. This is Glenn Beck. Every financial commercial seems to be starting the same way. Sorry, wrong commercial.
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Starting point is 01:49:29 Bennings is cozy earth.com promo code Beck. The media lies to you all the time. Get the truth at glenbeck.com. It's the free email newsletter, glenbeck.com. Oh, in the belly of the beast. I'm sitting here with the CEO of Prager You, which we all know if you watch, you know, CNN or, you saw anything from Vox. They are the new PBS.
Starting point is 01:50:07 They're, which I think, because Marissa Strite is the CEO, She's up here at my ranch because we're filming some stuff for Prigger you kids, right? And does that make me Elmo? I think you're more of a big bird. Big bird. Okay. Okay, good. All of a sudden it doesn't feel so great.
Starting point is 01:50:26 So they're claiming that you are becoming the new PBS because you're going after our kids. Can you just, first of all, do you get any money from the federal government? We won't take a dollar from the government. That's in our mission. Well, Stu, help me out. Doesn't that automatically disqualify you from being PBS? It does. I would say it does.
Starting point is 01:50:54 Yes. I mean, I think the big thing about PBS is they're taking our federal dollars and using it in ways that I don't necessarily agree with, and they can make money on their own. So I think the press misses what the problem is with PBS. So tell me about what you are doing right now, because there's several things. First of all, let's start with the 250th anniversary. What are you doing on the 250th anniversary?
Starting point is 01:51:22 So Prager You uses edutainment. And so in some ways, they're comparing us to PBS because of that, because we believe that learning should be fun and it should be entertaining. And that oftentimes when you're entertained, you can learn. And so in that way, we are somewhat similar to PBS. Yes. But what we are doing is we're celebrating America. America has never been perfect, but it's the greatest country on God's green earth. And when we are teaching kids to grow up and not love their country, it is causing so many problems. It's a national security issue. It's a mental health issue for our children. And so we are taking this opportunity for America's 250th birthday to just
Starting point is 01:52:06 reignite patriotism and give some perspective that, yes, America has its blemishes. Of course it does. But America is a great country and has been a leader in greatness for so many years. And we want to teach that. And so what we are doing is we're creating content for every single learner, four years old, all the way through 104 to remember what our country is about, what our DNA is. And the nice thing is that it is, it's actual history. I mean, we caught something yesterday or working on several of these videos that are going to be used in AP classes, right?
Starting point is 01:52:48 So this is AP history in high schools. Yes. I mean, look, so many Americans are learning history through the lens of Howard Zinn. For those who don't know who Howard Zinn is, I think he categorized. destroyed the history classes in America, right? Teaching a perspective, not all of it was a lie, but it's the footnotes. It's without the greater perspective of what America is. And so we are taking American history and we're making it fun and engaging.
Starting point is 01:53:23 And so that students who would watch this course that we're creating together will not learn, not only learn the truth about America, but will have a perspective. and enjoy doing it at the same time. That's the edutainment piece of it. And it's really amazing because we're not avoiding the bad stuff. We're doing something today on slavery. Yes. And, you know, I saw somewhere I read, you know,
Starting point is 01:53:46 they were accusing you guys of, Prager You is dismissing slavery and saying it's no big deal. And I'm like, on what planet, in what parallel universe is Prager You saying that? Well, what they're saying is, we made a video that teaches about Christopher Columbus. And we basically paraphrased what he would have said to two young kids. And from Christopher Columbus's perspective, he probably thought that slavery was okay because that's what he did.
Starting point is 01:54:14 And so because we had the cartoon, Christopher Columbus, say, oh, I think slavery is okay. And then the kids responded back to him in this show that we made. Well, actually, slavery is abhorrent. It is a horrible thing. Right. We know today that it was a terrible thing that the world engaged in slavery. And then Christopher Columbus in this cartoon responds and says, oh, wow, I didn't have that perspective.
Starting point is 01:54:39 I didn't know. That is why we are being attacked because we are paraphrasing what Christopher Columbus would have said. And so what does the silly media do? I mean, it's completely cuckoo. They're claiming that Prager You is claiming that slavery was okay because the character in our cartoon, that character Christopher Columbus, said it was okay. You know, it's amazing.
Starting point is 01:55:04 I think this stuff is coming undone quickly, and they're panicking. I mean, look what you're doing with teachers. These teachers are moving from, you know, deeply blue states into red states. And the states, rightfully, you know, are saying, ah, we don't want any of that California crap in our schools. But if they're licensed to be a teacher, they can teach anywhere. but that's now changing because states are saying, no, you're coming from California, you're coming from New York. I want to make sure that you know the things that, you know, are true and we're not having any of this woke crap.
Starting point is 01:55:41 This test that you're giving now, and you've been asked by the states to develop this test, and it is so, to me, first grade kind of questions, I can't believe there is a problem with this at all. I mean, we're living in shocking times, Glenn. It's shocking. People can see the test. We've made this test available. They can go to our website. They can check it out. The test is so very basic. The fact that the media and the administrators of woke schools are squealing over this test is unbelievable. It is so very, very basic. But you're right. In California, teachers are required to take a course called the Prism test. I, I like to call it the prison test because frankly, I think teachers should go to prison. If you can't pass this. Yes. It's crazy. The prism test is given to California and teachers to, it's not a test. It's a course.
Starting point is 01:56:38 It's a six-part course that teaches a teacher how to not differentiate between a boy and a girl, how to actually bring all of the sexualization that we've been complaining about in classrooms. And so it's not just superintendents of education that have approached us. with questions, how do we help teachers do the right thing? It's also parents. Parents are coming to us and saying, well, we don't know if we can trust these teachers anymore. We're going to send our kids to our schools and have a teacher that can't pass a basic civics test, that can't pass a basic literacy test that can't pass a basic understanding of what a boy is and what a girl is. So, Superintendent of Education, Ryan Walters of Oklahoma, approached us and said, can you just do
Starting point is 01:57:21 something very basic because the complaints are coming in when parents are sending their kids to schools where teachers who have come in from California and New York are in charge of a classroom and are bringing in the woke indoctrination that they've received in California. Any idea how many teachers are failing this test? Well, we are launching this test now. So this is a brand new test, but I can tell you how many teachers have been forced to pass the prison test in California. almost every single one of them.
Starting point is 01:57:53 So listen to some of these questions, Stu, this is multiple choices. This is not a setup. This is multiple choice. So, I mean, you'll get everyone. What's the primary, this is the first question, what's the primary biological distinction between males and females? A, height and weight. B, hairstyle.
Starting point is 01:58:11 C, personal preference. D, chromosomes and reproductive anatomy. That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Leaning hairstyle. at birth, how is a person's biological sex typically identified? A, personal feelings, B, parental choice, C, online registration, D, visual anatomical observation, and chromosomes. It's a fascinating one. I mean, obviously the answer is D, but I would say a lot of people on the left would say B, right?
Starting point is 01:58:43 Like it's parental preference or something. Yeah, right. Or personal feelings. I mean, you know, this only gets, this only gets, this only gets hard if you are completely disconnected from science and reality. Well, you mentioned science and reality. I have spoken to pediatricians and doctors, frankly, from all over the country, who are forced to erase the question of whether they have a boy or a girl in the medical charts when they're receiving a new patient. So this is not just a problem in schools, but this is a problem in pediatric offices as well. So yes, sadly, we are living in the twilight zone. where teachers have to be taught, very basic common sense.
Starting point is 01:59:27 Listen to this. Name one reason the colonists fought the British. A, avoid working the land. B, higher social standing. C. Resist forced army service. D. Protest high British taxes without representation. I mean, honestly, fifth graders, in my day,
Starting point is 01:59:48 fifth graders would be able to take this, you know, a hundred years ago, first graders would be insulted by these. Who was the first president? John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Greg Washington, or George Washington? I'm pretty sure it was Greg. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Ended Prohibition, freed Confederate generals, freed the slaves in the North, freed the slaves in the South.
Starting point is 02:00:14 Honestly, you cannot be a teacher if you don't know these things. We agree. We agree. And as much as we're giggling about it and, you know, it sounds funny, but it's really not funny, Glenn. It's really sad and it's really upsetting. Part of what this test is doing is it's actually recalibrating what is happening in the classrooms. It's reminding teachers to focus on what matters. It's reminding teachers to actually look at the world through common sense, a lens of common sense. And sadly, the teacher indoctrination centers, which is basically the teacher seminaries,
Starting point is 02:00:49 the colleges for teachers have been turning the world upside down, and they're training these young teachers to go into our classrooms, and you're lucky if they know nothing. The problem is the Marxism that they're being taught. I know, I know. Talk to me a little bit about Hungary, because you just got back from Hungary. Didn't you last, weren't you there last week?
Starting point is 02:01:11 Yes, we were in Hungary last week. What is happening in Hungary? So what is happening now is the world is real, that there's a real attack on common sense everywhere, and there's an attack on values. And Prager You, through our edutainment model, has been successful here in the United States. I mean, as you could see, CNN, New York Times, are all upset that we're becoming the new PBS, as they call us. And we don't want to just create a system that helps America.
Starting point is 02:01:44 We want to create an industry that helps the world. We want the world to be a better. better place, Glenn. And so when other places, when other countries approach Prager You and say, hey, how do we do edutainment in our own country? Our answer is yes. And so we have created now a training system for other countries so that they can bring these wholesome, patriotic values to their own countries. So we flew to Hungary to train them. We've been training some folks in the UK. Canadians have come out to Prager You. We've done the same training. for them. For a very long time, I hate to say this, over the last 10 years, America has been
Starting point is 02:02:23 exporting some real bad ideas. USAID. U.S. Aid has been a huge problem. It's been propagating a lot of this gender blur stuff. Yeah. And to countries that were dead set against it, but we're starving. You can't get the aid unless you teach this. Exactly. And they did because they had to. We've been bribing other countries to do the wrong thing. It's awful. To sexualize their children. And so we feel that as an organization that is helping save America, we are trying to undo that damage as well. And if we can train other countries to undo the damage, then that's what we're there for. So do you base that on their stuff, or do you base that on like the American understanding of freedom? So our, we have a set of values at Prager You, which is the American, what we call the American DNA, our
Starting point is 02:03:17 understanding of freedom. We are not looking to export American ideas to other countries. What we are looking to do is teach the model of how edutainment works and to teach them a model of how Prager You follows its values. Now, many of them, and we do make sure that the folks that we're working with do honor and respect our values. We're not going to train a bunch of Marxists in doing so. and many of them are using some of our videos as a baseline for teaching. Well, you're doing God's work, and I am so proud to partner with you and to call you friend and Dennis the same. Can you give me a quick update? I've only got a couple of seconds. Quick update on Dennis. How is he doing? So Dennis had a very severe injury. For those who don't know
Starting point is 02:04:06 the background, he fell down. He hit his spinal cord. The spinal cord injury is at the top of his spine, and so it makes it very, very difficult for him to breathe. And that's why the recovery is taking so long. It's been already nine months that he's been laying down. His mind is there. His body is not there. But the good news is he just completed another book. So Dennis is living his values.
Starting point is 02:04:32 Yeah. Well, we pray for him all the time. Thank you so much. By the way, if you want to give to Prager You, Mercury 1 has given a Prager U. Tanya and I donate to Prager U. I mean, I really, I believe these guys really are saving the Republic. It's one of the most important movements.
Starting point is 02:04:50 This month they are doing a matching dollar for dollar. So you give a dollar. Somebody else will give a dollar to match it. So you double the effect. Please give to Prager You. Go to Prageru.com. Pregeru.com. Better you than the government. We don't take a dollar.
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