The Glenn Beck Program - Supreme Court REJECTS Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban, but the Fight Is NOT Over | Guests: Franklin Camargo & Rob Buchert | 6/30/26

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

Texas is coming under fire after the Texas State Board of Education recently approved a mandatory statewide requirement for the Bible as required reading for all grades. Glenn lays out how this move i...s not unconstitutional, despite the cries coming from the Left. Glenn speaks about the importance of remembering and teaching the founding principles of the Declaration of Independence that were fought for in light of recent SCOTUS decisions. Glenn gives a historic breakdown of what the men in Philadelphia in 1776 were going through when, after a year of fighting in a war, they risked everything to escape tyranny and gain independence. Glenn reacts to the breaking decision of SCOTUS striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship ban in a 6-3 decision with multiple conservative justices siding with the Left. Glenn lays out what birthright citizenship was intended for and why SCOTUS is wrong in upholding it today. Glenn lays out the steps America must take in light of SCOTUS upholding birthright citizenship. PragerU political commentator Franklin Camargo, who fled Venezuela in 2019, joins to discuss the importance of assimilation for immigration to work. Artist Rob Buchert joins to discuss what he has learned by making historically accurate replicas of the Declaration of Independence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:26 Oh, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We are glad that you're here a lot on our plate today. We are going to find out if the federal government and SCOTUS is going to allow birthright citizenship. And I got a lot to say on that. Also, men and women's sports. That's the other case that is being decided today. There is so much going on, including yesterday, striking down the big state.
Starting point is 00:02:47 Quite honestly, that's how it appears to me. The president has the right to fire people that work in the... administration. What a concept. We'll talk about that a little later on and show you how this is an undoing of Woodrow Wilson. Quite honestly, there is a lot going on. We have made great, great progress. There's a lot going on that is, oh, dare I say it, the fundamental transformation of America. Now, things could go horribly today. We don't know, but we'll see. But we'll bring that to you also. The part one of the story of the writing of the Declaration of Independence happens today and so much more.
Starting point is 00:03:24 We begin with the bubbles in schools in Texas. Oh my gosh, lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Wait until you see how the left is freaking out and what this actually means. We'll give that to you here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. If you're really
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Starting point is 00:04:57 will the second case will be announced. And these are big ones, big ones. But let me start here. If you turn on CNN or the BBC or the Guardian or PBS, NBC, any of them, honestly, you'd think Texas had just crowned Jesus, king of Texas, and ordered every public school child to genuflect before a Bible on their teacher's desk.
Starting point is 00:05:20 The headlines scream. Texas State Board of Education votes to require millions of students to study Bible stories. Oh my, lions and tigers and bears. Bible stories become required reading for Texas schools, sparking a row about separation of church and state, which doesn't exist, but I digress. Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students. Oh, wow. Maybe they'll spend less time on what part you're not supposed to put your part into the backside of somebody else's part.
Starting point is 00:05:58 You know what I'm talking about? Maybe they'll spend less time on that. Anyway, critics call it unconstitutional. I love that one. It appropriate. You know, I think you've lost the license on the word inappropriate. I do. I do. When it comes to school, you've got the dancing drag queens. I don't think you know what inappropriate means. Religious favoritism and part of a dark conservative plot to infuse, and I'm quoting, infused Christian teachings into American classrooms. The hysteria. Oh my gosh. Now let me tell you the truth, because the truth is not that. Okay. The Texas State Board of Education, Republican controlled, yes, nine to five votes.
Starting point is 00:06:45 that's one of the perks of living in Texas, I guess, approved a required reading list for English and literature classes across K through 12. And yes, they do include specific Bible passages and stories as literature right alongside with Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, and other classics. Example. There's a picture book version of David and Goliath for younger kids. Sections from the book of Exodus for fifth graders. The Shepherd's Psalm for seventh graders.
Starting point is 00:07:15 of the prodigal son and the beatitudes. Not the beatitudes. We were taught to love one another. Lock your children up. Now, this list doesn't take effect until the 2030, 2031 school year. By the way, I just want to say, because I know some of the things
Starting point is 00:07:36 that are going on with the school board in 2030. And Texas, you're going to be a very, very great place to educate your school in 2030. But more on that much later. Now, there is no mandate to put a physical Bible in every classroom. There's no statewide requirement for devotional prayer
Starting point is 00:07:57 or force religious exercises. Most districts have already declined those opt-ins anyway. What is mandatory are the Ten Commandments posters in classrooms, but that is a separate policy entirely. This one is just academic.
Starting point is 00:08:13 It's literacy, and historic study. Now, let me ask you, how do you understand anything without understanding the Bible? I mean, at least knowing it exists. The Supreme Court back in 1963, in the very case that banned devotional Bible reading in school-sponsored prayer, said that objective study of the Bible for its literary and historic qualities is perfectly constitutional when presented as part of a secular education. program. So this doesn't violate the Supreme Court. It doesn't violate the
Starting point is 00:08:49 Constitution at all. Justice Clark wrote plainly, quote, it certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. What historic and literary qualities? Oh, don't tempt me, because I got a list. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or religion when presented objectively as a part of secular program of education may not be effectively affected consistently with the First Amendment, end quote. Okay. So Texas is not becoming a theocracy. They are walking through a door the Supreme Court left wide open and that our founders walk through with conviction.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Let me take you back to 1782. This is something that is currently on tour from my collection and the collection of American Journey experience with the White House. They've put together a truck with Prager University, A.J.E. And currently on the road is my Aiken Bible. There are only, I think, seven of these left, and our library happens to have three of them, because they are very important. Revolutionary war is still raging. Importing Bibles from Britain is the only way. We cannot print a Bible while we're under the crown. And it's nearly impossible to get them. So a Philadelphia printer named Robert Aiken, he's a devout man. He's been a very important.
Starting point is 00:10:13 working on the first complete English Bible ever printed in America. He petitions the Continental Congress because he wants to produce it, quote, for the use of schools. Congress appoints a committee, including the founding fathers. They have the congressional chaplains examine it for accuracy, everything else. Then on September 12th, 1870, or sorry, 1782, the Congress of the United States passes this resolution, quoting, resolved that the United States in Congress Assemble highly approved the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aiken as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country, and being satisfied from the above report of care and accuracy in the execution of the work, they recommend this
Starting point is 00:11:06 edition of the Bible to inhabitants of the United States. That Bible, is a bit of the United States. That Bible is the Aiken Bible. It is the only Bible printed with the congressional endorsement in it on page one. And they did it because they needed it for religious study.
Starting point is 00:11:24 And dare I say it again, schools. So one of the very first things that our representatives did, they violated the Constitution. They were the ones who wrote it. While they're fighting for their lives and their liberty was to put the Bible
Starting point is 00:11:39 in the hands of American families in schools. That's not Christian nationalism. That's the actual founding character of our republic. For most of American history, the Bible was not controversial in schools. It was central. Go look up the McGuffie readers. Right now, homeschooling moms are like, he's got to talk about the McGuff. Oh, talk sexy to me, man. The McGuffie readers, these are the textbooks that educated generations were saturated with scripture and biblical morality. Okay, children learn to read from the Bible. They learned character from the Bible.
Starting point is 00:12:17 That was normal. What happened in the 1960s, that was the radical break, not Texas 2026. All right. So why does any of this matter? Because Texas is right. You cannot understand Western civilization without the Bible, period. Try to read Shakespeare without it. You won't understand it.
Starting point is 00:12:40 He weaves in over a thousand biblical allusions. Salt of the earth. Apple of my eye. Feet of clay. A thorn in the flesh. Out of the mouths of babes. The powers that be. All of these come from the Bible.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Macbeth is drenched in the language of the fall and guilty conscience. Merchant of Venice is a meditation on mercy versus strict justice. The Tempest is a story of forgiveness. and redemption. Remove the Bible and half of Shakespeare goes dark. Try reading Milton's Paradise Loss. What the hell is that? Oh, just Genesis retold in an epic poem? That's what it is. Try to understand Dante's Divine Comedy. It's the architecture of hell. What's hell? Purgatory, paradise. Oh, I don't know. I didn't me read Bible. You cannot understand Pilgrim's Progress, Moby Dick, the Scarlet Letter,
Starting point is 00:13:37 Doskevsky's novels of sin and redemption, any of this, any of it, you can't understand it. You can't understand the art that defines the West. Michelangelo, who's that guy in the middle? I don't know. Who's he reaching out to touch? I don't know. The creation to the last judgment, Leonardo's Last Supper.
Starting point is 00:14:00 What does that mean? The cathedrals, the stained glass, the piatas, You can't understand Handel's Messiah or Bach, Beethoven, none of it. You can't understand the laws that shaped us. The Ten Commandments are woven into the Western legal codes. The idea that every human being has inherent dignity, because they're made in the image of God, that's not a secular invention, it's biblical. You don't understand the Declaration of Independence if you don't understand the Bible.
Starting point is 00:14:31 You don't understand the abolition movement in Britain and America. It was driven by men and women who read their Bibles and could not reconcile slavery with love thy neighbor as yourself. Lincoln, the second Nagel address. What is that other than one giant biblical meditation on sin and judgment and mercy? Martin Luther King, was he talking about? I don't know. let justice roll down like the waters.
Starting point is 00:15:03 That comes from Amos. His whole dream is rooted in Scripture. Trying to understand Western civilization, the art, the literature, the music, its laws, its ethics, the very language. Without the Bible is trying to understand the Middle East, without the Koran. It is the foundational text.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Remove it and the culture becomes incoherent. The morals drift. The art loses meaning. The law loses anchor. and most importantly, and don't the progressives know it, the people lose their story. That's what's been happening for 60 years in American education. We have raised generations who are strangers in their own civilization.
Starting point is 00:15:46 They don't know the book that built the house they live in. And we wonder why everything feels so untethered, why our culture is fracturing. Young people are anxious and adrift because they don't know where we came from. They don't know why any of us or how, any of this was built. Texas is not forcing anyone to believe.
Starting point is 00:16:08 They are doing what they must do, simply refusing to continue the lie that the Bible is irrelevant to who we are. You don't have to like it, but that's the truth. They are giving children back a piece of their inheritance
Starting point is 00:16:23 so you can actually understand the world that they inherited. Media's in full panic, because they know what happens when people rediscover the source and rediscover their story, all their work is gone. The same people who lecture us about diversity and inclusion lose their minds when the most influential book in the history of the world is treated with just basic cultural respect. But let me leave you to this, the good news. Bible is outlasted every empire, every ideology, every attempt to bury it. It survived Hitler. It survived far worse than a few hysterical
Starting point is 00:17:03 headlines and the American people, especially parents, are waking up. You don't need to turn our churches into schools, I mean, our schools into churches, and I don't want to do that. We just need to stop pretending our civilization sprang from nowhere. Wait a minute. I was a tadpole, then a monkey, and now me? Our civilization just appeared from nowhere, from pure secular reason alone? No. None of that is true. Give your children the tools to read their own story. Texas just took one careful legal, long overdue step in the right direction and the hysteria will fade, but the truth will remain. Back in a minute, sponsor this half hour's rapid radios, ever tried to set up a new printer?
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Starting point is 00:20:47 I think we're about to. Woke capital, I think there's, I think it's going that direction. I think they are making moves. Yeah, I haven't seen a lot done on it, but it is moving in that direction. Serious strike against the left power centers in education. Eh,
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Starting point is 00:21:43 There are some big things that are happening right now. If we could get another term, and I don't mean that Donald Trump needs to run for another term, I mean somebody who thinks like him, somebody who's going to continue these policies, if we can get one more term, two would be perfect, one more term, and we can turn, we can really turn this ship in a way that they're not going to be able to do except for going full-fledged communist and, you know, roll in the Soviet tanks from across the border. And believe me, the Soviet tanks will be there in Canada if they're not there already. But roll the tanks across the border, you know, and just disband the Supreme Court or packet or whatever they have
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Starting point is 00:26:34 And I'm going to be teaching the Declaration of Independence. Speaking of that, let me tell you what happened yet. with the Supreme Court. Supreme Court yesterday made a few major rules expanding presidential authority over independent regulators while protecting, you know, a few constitutional limits, including requiring warrants for broad location data sweeps by law enforcement. Whoa, warrants. That's the Fourth Amendment.
Starting point is 00:27:00 You know, the agencies and the global pressures constantly pushing for more control and nuanced compromises in our founding liberty. it's got to stop. It absolutely has to stop. This is the living battle for sovereignty and independence, and it's playing out right now. And refusing to let the pressure dilute the fundamental structures that protect American liberty is our job. It's the same spirit that always is to find this country when we're at our best. We've always had our vices. We've always had foreign and domestic problems. and it always urges us to soften the court, to add just a few more conditions, make independence a little more palatable to the world or to the factions inside the gates.
Starting point is 00:27:46 But independence was never meant to be negotiated down into something comfortable. Never. Freedom is uncomfortable. Freedom was meant to be declared and defended without apology or amendment. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both fulfilled their goal of living to see the 50, anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence. They both died on the same day, July 4th, 1826. John Adams was 90, Jefferson was 83. Both of them had failing health. Jefferson and Adams, each declined tons of invitations to attend the July 4th celebrations that year because they were both really sick. And Adams sent a letter to be read aloud at the 50th Independence Day celebration in his local town of Quincy Mass. And he wrote that the declaration, and if I may, I want to
Starting point is 00:28:35 quote, he said, the declaration is a memorable epic in the annals of human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind. It's remarkable how the founders understood human nature and what could happen to the United States. they knew it.
Starting point is 00:29:06 Less than a century after Adams and Jefferson dies, the most serious attempt to undermine the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution came from our 28th president. Woodrow Wilson, I hate that guy. He wrote, and if I may quote, some citizens of this country have never gotten beyond the Declaration of Independence, as if that's a bad thing. On July 4th, 1876, when Wilson was a 19-year-old,
Starting point is 00:29:33 college student, he wrote in his diary, quote, 100 years ago, America conquered England in an unequal struggle, and this year she glories over it. How much happier she would be now if she had England's form of government instead of the miserable delusion of the republic. A republic too founded upon the notion of abstract liberty. I venture to say this country will never celebrate another centennial as a republic. Oh, please make it to 2076, please. We made it to 1976. In 1911, a year before he was elected president, Wilson said in a speech, and again, I quote, I do not find the problems of 1911 solved in the Declaration of Independence.
Starting point is 00:30:19 It's the object of government to make those adjustments of life that will put every man in a position to claim his normal rights as a living human being. See what he does here? He completely inverts the declaration. He says, you don't have inherent rights until government. puts you in a position to claim them. That is the heart of the disease called progressivism, which is now known as democratic socialism. In a later speech, Wilson said, and again, I quote,
Starting point is 00:30:49 we are not bound to adhere to the doctrines held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence. We are as free as they were to make and unmake governments. We're not here to worship men or a document. Every Fourth of July should be a time for examining our citizens. standards, our purpose, for determining afresh what principles, what forms of power we think most likely to affect our safety and happiness. That and that alone is the obligation of the declaration that it lays upon us. So at the opposite end of the spectrum from Woodrow Wilson's disdain for the declaration, Lincoln loved it. And Lincoln pointed the nation back to the declaration
Starting point is 00:31:27 as its mission statement. Unlike Wilson, who recommended leaving out the preamble, Lincoln considered it the most vital part. To Lincoln, the self-evident truths were universal and timeless. He wrote that these truths are, quote, applicable to all men at all times, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression. He gave a speech in 1861 shortly after his first elected president. He said, quote, I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied by the Declaration of Independence. I've often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept the Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland.
Starting point is 00:32:19 It was the sentiment of the declaration, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but I hope the world for all future time. in his Gettysburg address, which is brilliant, and it's a renewal of the declaration, he says that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from this earth. We can't assume that this radical idea of freedom
Starting point is 00:32:48 will always be embraced by Americans, because we're losing it now. We're seeing it slip by. The Declaration's principles have to continually be defended and rediscovered. and it's not alarmist. It's not a quaint history lesson. It's reality. It's the reality right now. The fundamental principles of the declaration are under attack from the left. They want you to forget about it, which makes it so important that you learn it. Shortly before his death in 1826, 90-year-old John Adams asked to recommend a toast that could be given in his honor on July 4th. He didn't hesitate. He suggested just this. independence forever. Small group of visitors silently glanced at each other for a moment before somebody asked Adams if you'd like to add anything else and he said,
Starting point is 00:33:40 no, not a word. That's the spirit we need today. The recent court rulings and the ongoing defense of religious liberty and the executive authority can show how we still push back overreach without fatal compromise. But the deeper the war is the one against the timeless truths of the declaration itself. It is a deep, deep war. Choose truth over the inversions of the modern left. Stand firm. Feed hope daily.
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Starting point is 00:37:22 You're in the right place. Glenn Beck will be right back. Immigration is not a suicide pact. Watch the brand new documentary, The Golden Door, from Ellis Island to the White House, July 1st on Torch. So Elon Musk has a political action committee. He called Ameripak. The other day, their ex-account tweeted, immigration without assimilation is invasion. Well, that created a little debate, as you might imagine.
Starting point is 00:38:16 I think Americans have been conditioned to believe that it's impolite not to want absolutely everybody in the country. And that's just stupid, honestly. I mean, I'm sorry, but dare I say, you might be retarded. You just don't let anybody into the country. That's not what this is about. You know, if your entire neighborhood was transformed by Somali flags and your local Kroger is now suddenly full of women in hijabs, and the call to prayer is playing on loud speakers, but you're not allowed to hear your church bells. I mean, I suppose you could celebrate that America is a melting pot, but let's not
Starting point is 00:38:54 pretend it's the same as Little Italy. It's not. It's not. That's not a melting pot. And I know that people, like when we had Little Italy, they didn't melt in, but they were trying to. They were trying to, and they eventually did. This is going the other way. They tried to pretend they're melting in, but they're actually going the other way. They are building a Sharia state. Okay. And the other thing that we have adopted that is absolutely 100% wrong is that all cultures are equal to one another. No, they're not. If the culture that brought the United Kingdom, the rape gangs, you know, if that's equal, then, hey, Kentucky, what a great addition for you. Huh? No. And if you disagree, it's because you have eyeballs that can see what happened in Europe.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Not because you're a xenophobic, but because you can see the results. We're so worried about looking good instead of actually being good. If it wasn't for the, you know, it wasn't good for the UK to fill the streets with lower classes of Pakistani men who leave young girls to fend for themselves. but then made the government look good somehow or another? No. Their own daughters need to be safe. And that's all the people were saying over in England, is I want my daughter to be safe.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Isn't that compassion? All it cost of ignoring that was 250 girls. I'm sorry, 250,000 girls, a quarter of a million girls that we know of. And I'm sorry, if you come from that culture, you either assimilate right now or you can't be here.
Starting point is 00:40:41 Get out immediately. You know, it's not the same as like, I'm going to open up an Italian restaurant. No, no. You know, having spaghetti and raping a little girl is not the same. So not the same. I can't believe I have to explain that, but apparently you do.
Starting point is 00:41:00 We're going to take you through immigration, what it's really all about, and what happens if you don't get it right. And that is all happening tomorrow night. It is tomorrow night, right? Wednesday. Tomorrow night, July 1st. If you're a Torch member, it'll be on your app. You can watch it live or immediately after the broadcast. It will be posted. But it's out tomorrow night, Torch 250, live from Washington, D.C., the home of our 250th anniversary party. It's called the Golden Door from Ellis Island to the White House. It is really good, really good.
Starting point is 00:41:36 I saw all of the elements the other day. What was it, Sunday? I think I watched all of them. And, I mean, my producers are so good. Jason and Nathan and Bowie and Ricky and Nick and all of the people who are off to the sides. I know I'm not going to name everybody, but all the other people who are making it possible, this is such a great team that we're all on the same page. We all believe in our country.
Starting point is 00:42:03 And we don't necessarily come at it from the, the same place. We have discussions and dialogue all the time. What does that mean? What, what are you sure that's right? And it's all of us coming together and them honestly making me look really good that allows this documentary to go out. And it is one for your whole family you are going to love. It is tough. It says some things that are controversial. Get over it. You may not agree. Get over it. I think you will. Some won't. Some will absolutely say, This is xenophobic hate mongering. No, it's not.
Starting point is 00:42:38 No, it's not. It's the truth. And it's inspiring as well. What we should be. That's tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. All right. By the way, join us at torch250.com. That's torch250.com.
Starting point is 00:42:51 It'll be, if you're already a member, it'll be wherever you get all your stuff for Torch already. Ricky, we are just a few minutes away from SCOTUS making a ruling on anchor baby citizenship. What's your guess? Yay or nay. Does it stay or not? It's going to be good. There's no fence outside the Supreme Court like there was after the Roe v. Wade ruling. So this means it's probably either John Roberts is going to find a way. John Roberts is doing his thing, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:21 Yeah, John Roberts is going to do his thing. We'll find out that and men and women's sports. That's decided next hour as well. And the Declaration of Independence history lesson number one, three-day series next. Hello America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it.
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Starting point is 00:47:02 They just announced. They said, the states have a right to ban men in women's sports. They are not making this a blanket for everybody. They're saying the states get to decide. That means the 23 states, I think, that are already doing this. You get to continue to ban men in women's sports. This is really good news.
Starting point is 00:47:24 If you believe that, bad news for the left. But again, it's not a blanket. It is, again, states get to decide. Okay, so now we have got one more, and it's coming out in about a half an hour, and that one is a big one. We're going to give you all the coverage on that in about 30 minutes. As they announce it, we'll try to give you the best analysis we can on it. They're going to announce the next ruling,
Starting point is 00:47:49 and that ruling is on Anchor Babies. Do you have brinkered? right citizenship or not. This one, I'm not expecting this one to go well, but we will see all of that coverage. And part one of our three-part series on the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence, the real story. We begin that in 60 seconds. First, Burn a launcher. You got two seconds to react. He's coming at you. Who, you don't know. But he's angry. He's shouting. He doesn't stop when you tell him to stay back. Suddenly, you've gone from thinking about whatever it was that you were just thinking about to, geez, am I going to get out of this safely? You reach for your burner.
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Starting point is 00:49:02 Find the right launcher for your family. That's berna.com. Okay. Let me take you to a room in Philadelphia. I want you just to, it's Independence Week, and it is imperative that we learn what actually happening, happened in the summer of 1770. So I want to take you back there. And I want you to leave everything you think you know about our founders at the door. Leave the parade, leave the fireworks, leave the fat, comfortable, settled feeling of a thing that already happened and turned out fine. Because none of those men in that room knew it was going to turn out fine. What happened in that room was not a celebration.
Starting point is 00:49:49 It was the most frightened, most courageous act grown men will ever, make. You'll never read about something like this ever again. And we've buried it under 150 years of bunting until we can't feel it anymore. We understood it maybe for the first hundred years and then it just started to go away. And I want you to feel it again. So start with this. The war was already a year old. Did you know that? The war was already a year old. A year. blood had been spilled in Lexington and Concord back in April of 1775. Men had already died on Bunker Hill that June. Washington had taken command of the army and chased the British out of Boston.
Starting point is 00:50:30 There had already been a year of killing. And because we have not changed at all, even though we were already engaged in it, Americans wanted to stop the war. They were like, no, no, it's going to cost us too many people. We don't want independence if it's going to cost us our kids. Nothing changes. A year after their sons coming home in boxes, the majority of colonists still wanted to patch it up,
Starting point is 00:50:57 still wanted to be Englishmen. And I understand, they still walked across the ocean at a king and thought, surely, he's going to come to his senses. He's going to protect us from his own corrupt ministers, right? People think that now, when our government goes truly corrupt, we still think, well, we used to, they're going to fix this. Somebody's going to go to jail for this. This is not really what's happening. That's common. That's what humans do. And that's how badly they wanted to stay and stay at a war. And the king knew it. And he spat on it. The year before, we wrote the Declaration of Independence, this Congress had sent him what they called the Olive Branch petition. Have you ever heard of that? I need you to understand the tone of that document because it shatters the cartoon of the angry rebel. It was not. It was not. not a list of demands. It was not, I want reparations. It wasn't that. It wasn't a threat. It was a plea on
Starting point is 00:51:51 their knees. Please, we are still your loyal subjects. We love you. Stop the bloodshed and we're yours. And they sent it across the ocean with a man named Richard Penn. He was a descendant of the founder of Pennsylvania. And that name meant something. And George III wouldn't even take the document into his hands. He refused to touch it. And before he'd even technically rejected it, he stood up in front of parliament and declared the whole of the colonies in open and avowed rebellion. Every man in that room in Philadelphia, he declared a traitor officially by the name of the crown. And then he kept going. Because in December of 1775, Parliament passed and the king approved the thing that just slammed
Starting point is 00:52:37 the door and threw the bolt. It was a prohibitory act. this is what it actually did. Listen to this. It banned all trade with the colonies. He was going to strangle us to death. It declared that every American ship on the open sea forfeit, fair game. You can take it, belong to any open enemy. And in the language of nations, a blockade like this is not a policy.
Starting point is 00:53:07 It's an act of war. With one signature, the King of England, took three million of his own people and threw them outside of his protection and said, rape them, take them. He stopped being their king, and then he started being their hunter because he went shopping right after this. He went to Germany,
Starting point is 00:53:27 and he looked for soldiers. Hesians, soldiers. He was looking for mercenaries. They'd never set foot in America. They had never a problem with America. They'd never been here. They were paid in gold to cross an ocean and kill his own subjects out in their own fields.
Starting point is 00:53:43 When John Adams heard about this, he didn't rage. He almost relaxed. He said, well, now the die is cast, because the question had been answered by the king. And right in the middle of this, in January of 1776, a pamphlet hits the streets. It was 47 pages. If you've never read it, you should. It's amazing. It was made by a failed corset maker from England who had been in America for barely a year
Starting point is 00:54:10 and kind of been adopted almost as a son by Benjublj, Benjamin Franklin. His name was Thomas Payne. And he called this pamphlet common sense. And it was common sense because he said, I'm saying the things out loud that everyone has been too frightened to say. But the pulpits had not been too frightened to say it. All of these things had been said from the pulpits over and over and over again for the last couple of decades. And he just comes out and he says, it's absurd. How is this continent being ruled by an island? There's something rot and the very idea of a king. And the time for asking about it is over.
Starting point is 00:54:49 And he sold 100,000 copies in just a couple of months. Now, imagine that. That's 3 million people, total, man, woman, child. Everybody. Do the math on that. It was read aloud in taverns around campfires to men who couldn't read it themselves. And it was pain to put the match to the kindling. And by the spring of 1776, the ground under that Congress had moved.
Starting point is 00:55:12 So understand what the question actually was when the men actually sat down. It was never should we rebel. The king had already declared war. They had already named them traitors. He had already hired men to kill them. The only question in that room was whether 13 really jealous, squabbling, distrustful colonies would have the nerve to stand up and say out loud, that which was already true.
Starting point is 00:55:48 To say it was to die. You know, the word treason, I don't know, it's like a debate club term now. Treason. What does it even mean? Treason against the crown was punishment by death and not a clean death. You know how they killed William Wallace, right?
Starting point is 00:56:06 They tied a rope around his arms and his legs and then tied a horse to each end of those ropes and they drew and quartered him, tore him apart in the square, because he was a traitor. The traditional sense of sentence was create horror. So every man who signed his name to that declaration, that was it.
Starting point is 00:56:33 He was a traitor. He's signing his own death warrant. Betting that an army of farmers could win before the king's men got to him. And here's what we forget. These were not men who had nothing to lose. That's the lie that makes them sense. and small. John Hancock was the wealthiest man in New England. There was already a bounty on his head.
Starting point is 00:56:59 The British wanted him personally to be drawn and quartered. Benjamin Franklin was 70. The most famous American on earth. That man could have lived out his days in comfort and glory anywhere. He could have gone over to France easily. They loved him in France. And his own son, Benjamin Franklin's son, William, was the royal governor of New Jersey. loyal to the crown, about to be arrested and never truly speak to his father ever again. Imagine that. A revolution that ran a fault line straight through the most famous family in America. These men had farms and fortunes and businesses and libraries and wives and children and grandchildren. Every single one of them was about to wager all of it, the entire inheritance, on the longest odds on earth.
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Starting point is 00:59:10 A new Bill of Rights song is out at Torch250.com. With lesson plans for all ages so your family can learn how to defend our freedoms. So on June 7th, we're in. part one of our story of telling the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I'm going to break it up into three parts this time tomorrow, part two, and then this time on Thursday, part three of the Declaration of Independence. So let me take you to June 7th. Richard Henry Lee, he's of Virginia. Virginia is a must-win state. It's one of the reasons why Tom Jefferson was picked to write it, because Jefferson and the state of Virginia were way ahead of everybody else
Starting point is 01:00:04 on working on freedom. So Henry Lee of Virginia, he rises. He doesn't hedge at all. He puts a motion on the floor plainly. He says these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states absolved by all allegiance to the British crown. I told you yesterday, the first state to do this was just the month before and it was Rhode Island.
Starting point is 01:00:26 John Adams stands up and he seconds it instantly. And the room doesn't erupt. The room does not cheer. The room goes silent. and cold and scared because half of it still hoped. Leading that half was a man that we really need to respect, not boo. His name was John Dickinson. He was in Pennsylvania.
Starting point is 01:00:49 The history books needed a villain, so they cast him as the coward who just wouldn't sign. But he wasn't anything like that. Dickinson may have been the most genuinely principled man in that room. He looked at the 13 really disorganized colonies. We didn't have a Navy. We had no treasury. We didn't have any allies. No army worth the name.
Starting point is 01:01:10 We were farmers. And then he looked at the most powerful empire the world had ever seen. And he said, these guys are going to get our kids killed for nothing. And he wasn't wrong. He wasn't wrong about the odds, at least. He was only wrong about the men. It took more courage to stand alone against the rising tide of that room than it did to ride it. Remember that the next time somebody tells you the brave thing.
Starting point is 01:01:34 and the popular thing is the same thing. It's not. Now, here's the strategic genius. The thing that really nobody appreciates. It had to be unanimous. Why? Why not just let all the eager colonies go and leave the cautious ones behind? Because a declaration that some colonies signed and others didn't was not a country. It was a suicide note with a partial signature. A half-united America would be picked apart one,
Starting point is 01:02:04 colony to time and hung in pieces. There was a deeper reason. Across the ocean was France, and they were watching us, the one power that could tip this war. And France would not spend a single soldier or a single dime betting on a house that was already split down the middle. They were like, if you guys can't do that and come together on this, one voice or no voice at all. Total unity or total surrender. There wasn't a third door. So Congress did some something quietly brilliant. They didn't force the vote on June 7th and watch it fail. They said, you know what? Why don't we give it a month? Let's postpone this. Give it a month to give the frightened delegates time to ride home, take the temperature of the people and come back with a permission,
Starting point is 01:02:52 permission to leap. Okay, so they bought time. And in that bought time, they hedged the most consequential bet in all of human history. If, if we are going to do this, this is how they reasoned. we better not be scrambling for words on the day we leap. We better have the document already written, already polished, already to fire the instant the vote clears. So on June 11, 1776, they appointed five men to a committee. They draft,
Starting point is 01:03:21 they said, you guys draft the declaration, put into words the thing on which the punishment is rope. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, who was the engine of the whole revolution, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, kid, he was a shoemaker turned statesman, and Robert Livingston of New York.
Starting point is 01:03:39 And they needed a fifth. And they decided the 33-year-old red-headed lawyer from Virginia who had sat through nearly the entire session without saying a word. A man most of them barely even knew. Not a person in the room understood they had just made one of the most important decisions in history, in the history of the human race. hold Jefferson and his mind in your mind for a second because that's exactly where the next part of this story begins tomorrow and it is not the story you were told tomorrow i'm going to tell you
Starting point is 01:04:19 what happens when he gets into the room he's alone he does not want to be there he thinks this is just a document that anybody could write he doesn't think this is going to be something he thinks he's just writing like a committee report and then they'll come after that and they'll and it caused a riff between him and almost all of the other founding fathers for the rest of their lives he barely got over what happened in the next few days so tomorrow i'm going to take you to that hot and sweaty room you know i was getting ready for this this week i watched john adams uh remember that old HBO movie You should watch it again.
Starting point is 01:05:05 It is so good. And I watched the scene where they are debating this. And they're showing, you know, Thomas Jefferson going into the room. And they missed so much. One of the things they missed is they showed everybody in the room with just one little piece of paper. Then they were like fanning themselves. Have you ever been to Philadelphia? I know.
Starting point is 01:05:26 It sucks, right? Now imagine Philadelphia in the summer. Have you ever been there in the summer? It was kind of like it's going to be in one. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., they wanted the capital to be in Philadelphia, not in Washington, D.C. Benjamin Franklin said, let him have it the first year in Washington, D.C. It'll come back because nobody wants to live in that swamp. It's literally a swamp and horrible in the summer. It's hot, it's humid, but so is Philadelphia. These guys go in, and the temperatures are like
Starting point is 01:05:58 they are this week in Philadelphia, except a lot like Europe, they didn't have air conditioning. and a lot and not like Europe, they only wore wool. Oh, and they all wore a big hat, like a wool cap, except it was called a wig. And they also didn't have deodorant. And they had to close all of the windows and doors. And they sat in that room stinking and sweating for a month. I mean, that's the part where I think I would have been. I would have been like, guys, I can't do this.
Starting point is 01:06:39 I mean, the war and everything, I guess I'll go out to war and, you know, lose a leg or an arm or whatever. But I can't sit in this room because you guys all stink to high heaven. Tomorrow I'm going to take you into that really smelly, stinky room and take you to Thomas Jefferson and the words that he scribbles out. And it is a story you have not heard before. That's tomorrow, part two. Okay, we get to the SCOTUS decision. on birthright citizenship. It's going to be announced here while we take a break
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Starting point is 01:08:36 What would the founders think about birthright citizenship? Join Torch to watch The Golden Door at glenbeck.com's tomorrow, 8 p.m. Eastern. Live Q&A with Glenn After. Immigration is not a suicide pact. Watch the brand new documentary, The Golden Door, from Ellis Island to the White House, July 1st on Torch. Well, that's not what the Supreme Court just ruled. Apparently is a suicide pact. The Supreme Court just struck down Donald Trump's executive order, barring birthright citizenship if you're born here in the United States. This is a misreading of the 14th Amendment, but the Supreme Court has chosen.
Starting point is 01:09:45 I bet you it was led by John Roberts. Ricky, do you have anything on this yet? Still waiting. We'll give it to you as soon as I know. Yeah, give it to me. let me let me just because they ruled this way does not make this reading correct um they're just leaving a distortion in on the reading of the 14th amendment and um it's one the people who drafted this would never have recognized never let me take you back to why the 14th amendment exists in the
Starting point is 01:10:16 first place okay after the civil war the democratic party the democrat party had a terrorist arm. And it was started by the Democrats. And it was called the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan. And they were waging a campaign. They were murdering. They were lynching. They were intimidating, not just black Americans, but any Americans who believe black should be free. And so a third, a third of the lynchings happened to white people. They were white Republicans, the party of Lincoln. Anybody who stood with them were lynched. Okay. And they used every weapon at their disposal. This is the Democrat Party used every weapon at their disposal. They used poll taxes, so-called literacy test with just absurd questions like how many windows are in the
Starting point is 01:11:06 White House. I don't know how many. You can't vote. And then when that didn't work, just outright violence. Because put the black man in its place. Okay. And I said its place intentionally because That's the way the Democrats thought. Then they took citizenship and tried to twist it. The slaves had not come here of their own free will. What a surprise. They were taken from their homes. They were put on ships.
Starting point is 01:11:39 And if they survived, they spent their lives as property. It's why we don't have life, liberty, and property. We have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. because if Thomas Jefferson would have left it as property, then you'd have slavery being property, and the South would never let it go because it's in the founding documents. So the racist South said, no, no. You know, the blacks have been freed,
Starting point is 01:12:11 and they and their children, born on American soil, should have, they are citizens and should have the right to vote. And then the racist Democrats in the state, South said no. So Congress had to go back and pass yet another amendment, the 14th Amendment. And it was passed by the Republican Congress and it was the direct answer. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens. That phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof, that was there for a reason. Why? What does it mean? it meant to cover the people who owed full allegiance to this country,
Starting point is 01:12:53 not children of foreign diplomats, not members of invading armies, which, by the way, are banned from this, and not people whose presence here was unlawful or temporary. They are not under or subject to the jurisdiction thereof. That's what the Supreme Court got wrong today. This amendment was targeted as a round, for the specific evil of slavery and the Democratic South's refusal to accept its end.
Starting point is 01:13:25 It was never written to create automatic citizenship for children born to parents who enter the country illegally or come here on tourist visas just to give birth like the Chinese are. That's suicide. It was never meant to turn our constitutional compassion after slavery into a magnet for lawbreaking or a tool for demographic transformation without the consent of the American people. It makes no sense to do that. Our own laws, born of justice and mercy, that's one of the best things we have going for us. People will say there's a new pullout. What's the best thing about America? Number one is independence or freedom. Number two is the people. Why? Because we're decent people. We want to be good people. We want to be good.
Starting point is 01:14:14 people and that want or need to be good is being twisted against us once again. But if we were illiterate in the Bible, maybe we would know because the Bible warns us about this kind of deception. In Isaiah, woe to them who call evil good and good evil. Do you think that's happening right now? That put darkness for light and a light for darkness. Jesus told his disciples, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. You can be a dove, but you better be wise as a serpent. We are not called to be blind to evil. We are not called to let our kindness and our constitution be used as a weapon against the rule of law
Starting point is 01:15:02 and the sovereignty of the country that offers that kindness to the world. That's not compassion. That's being played for a fool. while evil advances under the cover of good intentions. The court stands with it. It stands with this distortion. That's too bad. It's a loss.
Starting point is 01:15:40 However, that's the text and the history remain unchanged. And so the work now, oh God, I hate saying this, falls to Congress and to the states and to the people. See, what I'm not going to do is tell you, we need to pack the court. I'm not going to tell you. I mean, I know John Roberts is worthless. He is worthless.
Starting point is 01:16:08 But that's fine. That's fine. We don't get anywhere by talking about packing the courts and violating the very system that we set up for justice. I vehemently disagree with this. They are wrong. Okay, so let's pass legislation that restores the original meeting to subject to the jurisdiction thereof. continue to secure the border and make that incentive go away
Starting point is 01:16:36 teach the real story of the 14th Amendment so this next generation understands why it was written we have to remain doves but wise as a serpent we must remain vigilant and we must do America's corrected its course
Starting point is 01:17:02 when principles were at stake, and we can do it again. You have to speak the truth without apology. Demand clarity. Don't go soft. Don't go dark. Don't grow weary. Speak the truth. The Republic is really worth the fight.
Starting point is 01:17:22 So it matters what they did. It slows things down. But Donald Trump has already said, doesn't matter. He hasn't been sitting there twiddling. his thumb. He's not surprised by this. I mean, you and I both know when we got up this morning. We heard this was coming up today. We knew, okay, we know exactly where that's going. Donald Trump knew it too. And you watch, there will be announcements, maybe even today, of a new effort. But they struck down his executive order today with the Supreme Court. So it is a
Starting point is 01:18:01 victory for the left. It is not constitutional. In my opinion, it's not. It's not. It's not. constitutional. The jurisdiction thereof. You can't just come. This was talking about people who are already here, already loyal to the country. Everything was already here. And it was only meant to be to stop. Isn't it crazy? When you really know American history and you know the history of the parties, it is crazy how they haven't changed from the beginning. They really haven't changed. Well, I can't say that. Republicans have changed.
Starting point is 01:18:41 They used to be good. The Republicans, you know, during the 1800s, they stood on principle. And now I don't know what they stand for exactly. But I will tell you this, the Democrats are exactly the same as they were in the 1800s. Exactly. Antifa is the new clan. They'll deny it. They'll say, we don't have anything to do with it.
Starting point is 01:19:03 You know they do. They bail the people out. They make excuses for them. them exactly like they did with the clan. They didn't, they didn't, the Democrats were like, the clan, these are just outlaws. We don't know who they are. They're wearing masks. We don't know.
Starting point is 01:19:17 It was started by them. They haven't changed at all. And they're doing everything they can to, you know, just like they were back in the 1800s, they were doing everything they could to destroy the union. They didn't agree with it because they wanted it their way. They wanted slaves, and they wanted it their way, and nothing was going to convince them or change their hearts that slavery was wrong. And so what did they do? They did every, after the war, after half a million plus people died, 10 times the amount that died in Vietnam.
Starting point is 01:20:03 After all those people died in the civil war, they still decided we're going to have it our way. I don't care how we get it. We'll do it our way. Through intimidation, through terror tactics, exactly what's happening today. We won last time and we'll win this time. But we just have to remain calm, be really, really wise, be very, very peaceful against people who are very, very violent. nothing will help if we decide to say, we're going to pack the Supreme Court. We're going to get violent in the street. We're not going to do that. But that gets us nowhere.
Starting point is 01:20:46 In fact, we lose the Republic if we do that. We have to take the approach that Abraham Lincoln took, which was strong, very strong. But, you know, he was not popular because he said, we've got to love our enemy. He was following the dictator. of Christ. That's what we need to do. But this is a bump in the road. This is not the end. This is the bump in a road. And by the way, the Supreme Court ruled the right way earlier this week on a couple of things, dismantling the deep state. And just a few minutes ago, they also ruled that no men in women's sports should your state decide. So all in all, it's a good day. This was a bad ruling.
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Starting point is 01:22:36 Let me tell you about the International Fellowship. There's something encouraging about knowing that certain friendships can stand the test of time. They survive changes in leadership, changes in culture, and even times of great uncertainty because they weren't built on convenience in the first place. They were built on shared convictions. And that's how I think about the relationship between the United States and Israel. For generations, our two nations have been connected by a belief in freedom, faith, and democracy. We come from the same Bible. We come from the same God. And we inherit dignity, the dignity of every human being in the likeness of God.
Starting point is 01:23:12 And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been a living manifestation of that relationship for years now. They go into the Holy Land and provide love and care for those most in need. They live out the message of Christ every day, helping countless people who need food and shelter. as we celebrate our 250 years of independence, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews turns to God in prayer asking for his wisdom that would guide elected officials and lead America and Israel to moral clarity and unity.
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Starting point is 01:24:51 of Wright's song is out at Torch250.com with lesson plans for all ages so your family can learn how to defend our freedoms. So I made a list here during the break of the things the president can do and probably should do immediately today. Strengthen border security, interior enforcement, visa restrictions, deportation priorities to reduce the number of births to non-citizens. It doesn't change citizenship, but it addresses the incentives. And speaking of that, limit federal or state benefits, welfare, education access for citizen children,
Starting point is 01:25:32 or for recent undocumented immigrants subject to constitutional limits. Visa and immigration policy, he can tighten the temporary visas, the H-1B, which I'd like him to do, but I don't think he's going to, student and tourist visas,
Starting point is 01:25:48 asylum rules, family-based immigration to reduce eligible births, increase the removal of non-citizens before they have U.S. born children, because I have to tell you, if I, if I were here and I found this ruling, honey, we've got nine months, make a baby, make a baby, make a baby, make a baby, make a baby. Data tracking, improve the tracking of immigration status for birth records through the states that issue birth certificates and federal citizenship recognition follows constitutional rules. the states have limited power over federal citizenship, but they could require proof of parental status for certain state benefits or driver's license,
Starting point is 01:26:29 et cetera, et cetera. But there are things that can be done. None of them is a fix, but the president needs to act on this. And I would imagine we're going to hear soon from the president on this one, because this is a big one. And he has told us, did he not, Ricky,
Starting point is 01:26:48 or maybe he just said it someplace and I heard him say it, that he was not sitting around on this. There were other things that he was waiting for this to happen. He knew that this was going to happen and was prepared for it. So we'll see what that means, probably most likely today, and I would imagine fairly soon. So, all right, we're going to talk a little bit about immigration
Starting point is 01:27:13 and why it is so important. Our big special is Wednesday, 8 p.m. Only on Torch. If you're not a member now, go to Torch250.com. Sign up. Make sure you see Golden Door. It's our live special on Wednesday. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is it can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself.
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Starting point is 01:29:47 Week. By the way, don't say happy July 4th or happy 4th of July. It's Independence Day. Happy Independence Week. But if you're concerned about America, you know we have to learn our history and you know we have to fix immigration. Well, that's what we're doing on Torch this week. this Thursday, or sorry, this Wednesday at 8 p.m., we're going to be talking about immigration, but we're going to give you the history of it and show you. And it's not going to be popular with everybody. I call for an end, a stop of all immigration right now until we can fix this and figure this out. We have got to restore the truth about what immigration is for in a country. It's, you know, we're never meant to be a hospital.
Starting point is 01:30:34 Boy, we have some stuff in this, in this documentary that almost made my head explode. But we're doing a live documentary. It's going to be happening from Washington, D.C. and New York. That will be tomorrow night, right? Yeah, tomorrow night from Washington, D.C. At 8 p.m. only on Torch. If you're not a member, join us at Torch250.com. That's Torch250.com.
Starting point is 01:30:57 If you're already a member, you'll get it, you know, on your app or wherever you go. to get all your torch stuff. But it'll be live tomorrow, 8 p.m. Eastern. Watch it with your family. It is a great history lesson and exactly what you need to know about immigration so you can continue this debate. I think the president is probably going to be speaking about immigration.
Starting point is 01:31:18 I would guess later today, sooner rather than later, but maybe it'll be tomorrow. We'll see. But he's going to have a lot to say about this. And I want to continue the conversation with a political commentator. Prager U. His name is Franklin Carmago and he is an actual political refugee from Venezuela. And an Oreo cookie changed his life. Wait until you hear this story and I want to talk
Starting point is 01:31:49 to him about immigration. What is the point of immigration and what is the point of assimilating? And I want to start also because he is from Venezuela. I assume he has family there. How are things in Venezuela? We'll begin there in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about my Patriot supply. One of the biggest mistakes we make confusing, you know, normal with guaranteed, for example. The power has always been on, so we assume that it's going to be guaranteed.
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Starting point is 01:33:05 Prepare with glen.com. Take advantage of their Independence Day sale. Prepare with glen.com. Let me start with a sneak peek into this live documentary that is going to air tomorrow on Torch250.com. Listen. Now on the base of the Statue of Liberty is a poem and it's called The New Colossus. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Starting point is 01:33:39 Send these the homeless tempest toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. For more than a century, Americans heard those lines as an invitation to the world's dreamers, the fighters, the people who looked at tyranny and said, I'm going to go to a place where a man can rise, where I can be who I was born to be. It was never intended to be a suicide pact.
Starting point is 01:34:07 And that's why I say this was zero apology. Zero new immigration until we can get this right. Because you can't understand immigration if you first don't understand its purpose. Well, we're going to correct that from New York City, where it all started, we'll take a tour through history from some of the historic sites that wrote the immigration story. the immigration story in our country. And speaking of stories, I'm going to tell you the story of a young woman who stepped off a boat from Scotland.
Starting point is 01:34:37 One generation later, her child achieved something I can guarantee you she could have never dreamt of. You think this kind of success happens in Somalia? A true political refugee, Franklin, you're from Venezuela. You left Venezuela because your family was under attack. What does immigration to the United States mean to you? Oh, immigration is everything. It saved my life.
Starting point is 01:35:13 But I also understand that for immigration to work, it needs to serve America. It needs to serve the American people. The comment I always get from the left when I criticize illegal immigration, the current system, is that just because I'm an immigrant, I'm supposed to support open borders. But the thing about immigration and what makes immigration and has made immigration for so many years, for so many decades, good for America, not anymore right now, of course, is that immigrants would assimilate to America and would put America first. What does this mean? That your concern is America. So if my concern is America, when I look at the immigration system right now, where it's no longer
Starting point is 01:35:54 necessarily a beacon of freedom or opportunity, but a beacon of free staff and welfare state, I'm concerned, and I understand that we need to change this. So first of all, You have family back in Venezuela, I'm sure. Is everybody okay after the big earthquake? Yes, I have family. I have friends. Thankfully, they're okay. They were impacted by it.
Starting point is 01:36:16 I mean, they witnessed it. We're talking about the worst natural disaster in Venezuela in over a century. Two earthquakes, one minute away from each other, 7.2, 7.5, very strong. I spokesperson from the United Nations said that we could be talking about at least 10,000 dead people. is a real tragedy. The government is not the one to blame for a natural disaster, but Venezuela right now is the poorest country
Starting point is 01:36:44 in Latin America. It's a story of mismanagement. It's a story of corruption. The buildings have no infrastructure. The rescue teams, Glenn, the rescue teams do not even have flashlights. When you look at that, of course, you need to blame the government for this.
Starting point is 01:37:00 Because the worst natural disaster in Venezuela is not just the earthquakes, is being socialism. So, you know, Venezuela, people don't know this. Venezuela back, even as early as the 90s, Venezuela was the richest country in the hemisphere, I think outside of us.
Starting point is 01:37:19 You guys have more oil than Saudi Arabia. It was really a great country. And then the socialist took over. And, you know, we've been debating. I've been watching this since the 90s. I've been on the air saying, Don't go socialist, don't go socialist. This is what's going to happen next.
Starting point is 01:37:37 This is what's going to happen next. And then it would all happen. And now you've had people eating zoo animals. Can you explain to people who think socialism is neat why they should pay attention to Venezuela? Venezuela is a great example. Not just because it's actually close to the United States. And we can find some similarities.
Starting point is 01:37:59 But it's also because Venezuela is a story of a country that used to be wealthy. and it's also the story of a country with a lot of natural resources. And it's also a story where Venezuelans, before I was born, because when Chavez took power, I was only one year old, really, Venezuelans said, you know what, we are a rich country, we have a lot of oil, we are a successful nation, we have our democracy, so we can try something different. Maybe the role of the government is not to protect our individual rights,
Starting point is 01:38:31 Maybe the role of government is to make our life better. In economic terms, free stuff, free education, maybe wealthy people, business people, they are too greedy, too rich. We need to go after them. And people were warning, hey, look at Cuba. Cuba right now is a poor government. They tried socialism and they are escaping to Miami on rafts. And Venezuelans said, no, that is not going to happen to us.
Starting point is 01:38:57 Well, it happened. And now when I talk to young Americans, you find, two type of leftist young Americans. One type of socialist would say that the reason why Venezuela is poor is because of the United States, the sanctions, they have that anti-American sentiment
Starting point is 01:39:13 that they have learned in schools, but you also find another type of socialist. And they would tell you, no, no, no, no. We don't want to be like Venezuela. We don't want to implement their policies. We want to be more like Norway. We want to be more like Sweden. What you find is that they are not promoting
Starting point is 01:39:28 free markets with some type of welfare state. No, they are promoting socialist policies that were implemented in Venezuela. How did a country like Venezuela that had the fourth largest GDP per capita in the 1950s, how did that country go from that to be a country where 90% of its population is poor or extremely poor? Socialism, the government taking control of businesses, expansion of the welfare state, government spending so much money because They promised that your life was going to be great. The government was going to give you everything, and the results are there.
Starting point is 01:40:07 They are clear. And that type of leftism exists in America. I wish my disagreements with Democrats were just maybe slightly on immigration or some other topics. No, when we look at Mandani, we're talking about a Venezuelan type of leftism, a Cuban type of leftism, someone who is quoting Marx on Twitter, someone who is promising grocery stores, which, by the way, when you meet a Cuban, when you meet a Venezuelan, asking what was the most astonishing part of coming to the U.S. And I guarantee you that one of the things they're going to mention are grocery stores.
Starting point is 01:40:47 Because when the government takes control of grocery stores, you only see empty shelves. So tell me about the story of the Oreo cookie with your family. Yes. So the first time I came to the U.S. was on a family vacation. Venezuela was already doing bad. My dad had some small businesses. They worked really hard, and we were able to come to the U.S. on a family vacation. We were the exception, not the norm in Venezuela,
Starting point is 01:41:11 not because we're working for the government, but because we're working really hard. And I was six years old. I came to the United States on a family vacation again. We went to Orlando, Florida. And that trip changed my life entirely. I'm pretty sure that I'm talking to you right now, and I introduced myself into politics because of this trip.
Starting point is 01:41:27 And again, I'm a six-year-old kid. I didn't know anything about politics. I didn't understand economics. I didn't know the difference between capitalism and socialism. I haven't read Milton Friedman, but I went to a grocery store. And why would that be impressive for a kid? Because I saw the variety of cookies. And I couldn't believe it.
Starting point is 01:41:49 And, you know, this story is funny, but it's also, to me, is very impactful. because now that I'm of course older, I understand that the difference between a free society and an oppressed country, the difference between communism, communism, is so big that a kid can even witness that. Again, I didn't know what GDP was. I just saw the variety of stories and I was, okay,
Starting point is 01:42:15 they're doing something different here. I don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something different and I like it. So you were accused actually of terrorism. You're going to medical school and you were accused of terrorism, and that's why you had to leave. They kicked you out of medical school,
Starting point is 01:42:31 and you had to get out because the government's starting to come after you. What were they accusing you of? Yes, correct. So this is the price for free education. When they tell you it's free, it's not actually free. We pay through that with our taxes, with inflation, and also with a totalitarian regime. If the government has the power to educate you,
Starting point is 01:42:51 what do you think they're going to try to teach you? And what ideas and opinions are they going to tolerate? That's the question we always need to ask. In Venezuela, if you want to go to med school, you only have one option. You have to go to the public system. You need to be taught and indoctrinated by the state, by the government. So I had a debate with a professor, and by the way, long before that, I did a lot of political activism in Venezuela. I led peaceful protest.
Starting point is 01:43:17 I gave speeches in different colleges, campuses about capitalism, social, individualism versus collectivism. and I had a debate with a professor. You know, something normal that it should happen at a university. That's the place to debate ideas, to exchange opinions, ideologies. And of course, the professor didn't like it. They expelled me from college. My case went viral. It was even discussed in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.
Starting point is 01:43:47 And when the government held a press conference about my case, they said, yes, of course we expelled Franklin. But the reason why we did it is because he wanted to set our classrooms on fire. He wanted to attack our students. He wanted to attack our professors. He's a criminal that is being funded by foreign countries and foreign organizations and he's a threat to our schools. So I have a cousin who went to prison for more than two years.
Starting point is 01:44:17 Most of my friends that did political activism with me went to prison as well for political reasons. And I knew that was most likely my future and I could escape. And I made it to the United States legally. And that is why I love this country so much. Glenn, you're lucky that you were born here. But I'm even luckier that even though I wasn't born here, I had the opportunity to come to this country and be free and speak out and not being in prison or tortured.
Starting point is 01:44:50 So that is why we really need to preserve the values that make this country great. And we need to make sure that those who come here love this country as well. So Prager, you know, Prager, you and Donald Trump and the administration are in trouble because of what they're trying to do to preserve the country with legal immigrants. I want to share this with you and get your response in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about rapid radios. You've ever noticed that every family has at least one person who never seems to know what's going up. You know, where are you guys? Where are you? Where are you? I thought we were meeting in the front entrance.
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Starting point is 01:46:47 10 seconds. Glenn Beck is all. So Franklin, you came in the right way. You applied for asylum. You were heard and you have actual asylum because you were actually being persecuted in Venezuela and they were chasing you, accusing you of crimes that you didn't commit. Right now, the New York Times has just criticized Donald Trump for providing refugees and new arrivals with educational materials about America.
Starting point is 01:47:28 And part of those educational materials come from Prager You, but it's all about American history, our values, our civic culture, et cetera, et cetera. Did you get anything when you came in to teach you about America? Was there any kind of, hey, do you know about our culture or anything? No, I didn't. I didn't. I had to do it on my own. And we should expect immigrants to, of course, try to, do it individually, but of course the government also needs to make sure that those immigrants
Starting point is 01:48:00 who are coming into the country are going to embrace American values. Otherwise, it would be a self-destructive act. And organizations like Prager U are providing something very simple. An American flag, a Nikon, an icon and symbol of freedom, a beautiful flag, a flag that they must respect, an Android tablet, a copy of the Constitution and a copy of what I think is the best political document ever in the Declaration of Independence. For immigration to work, America has to choose its immigrants. And those immigrants need to embrace American values. They need to understand what made this country great. Why they chose America and not other country? Why is that important? Why is that necessary? 60 seconds. It is necessary if we want to preserve America, great country.
Starting point is 01:48:47 If you invite people who do not believe in the right to life, liberty, in the pursuit of happiness, if you invite people who do not believe in the idea of individualism or self-government, America is no longer going to exist. So, of course, America has been a generous country, but you need to be generous to those who are going to embrace the values that made America great. If we want to help people, if we want to be generous, if you want to provide freedom to those who do not have it, You also need to make sure that those are going to be people who are going to be grateful.
Starting point is 01:49:22 And people who are going to put America first, whose allegiance is going to be to this new country. That is the way to do it. Otherwise, you are committed to this. Thank you so much. Thank you for everything you do. I really enjoy watching you. I've enjoyed every time we've met. Franklin Carmago, he is with Prager, you a political commentator and a refugee from
Starting point is 01:49:47 Venezuela. And American citizen soon? Yes, correct. I'm about to apply for my citizenship. It's going to be the biggest privilege of my life. Yeah. God bless you. Thank you, Franklin. I appreciate it. By the way, don't miss our special. That's tomorrow night eight, the golden door only on torch. All right, let me tell you about Super Sure. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Here's some irony for you. The thing you buy to reduce risk to your business, insurance can feel like a risk all by itself. You know, you wonder whether you have the right coverage. You wonder whether something important fell through the cracks. You wonder who's supposed, who you're supposed to call if something changes in your business or if you have a question,
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Starting point is 01:51:50 catchier. Sing along at Torch250.com. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. The Supreme Court just ruled against the president in birthright citizenship. And it kind of feels like a kick in the gut today.
Starting point is 01:52:08 Let me just give you what alito just uh what alito just said it was it was pretty pretty stark and he's and he's absolutely right he was dissent on this he said in my judgment the court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country's future suppose that a person's only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mom who is present just long enough to give birth and then quickly return her to the native country suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Basically, he's talking about what's going on with birth tourism in China. But anyway, suppose the child never visits the United States while growing and was inculcated with hatred for this
Starting point is 01:52:47 country. According to this court now, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world in a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under the current precedent. That's what we're so worried about. We are worried deeply about the enemies of our country. We're not dealing with normal circumstances. We're not dealing with that at all. This is a kick in the gut, but maybe not. maybe not um i don't know how we're going to get around it because honestly the way to do it is to go through congress
Starting point is 01:53:42 congress congress has no intention of helping save america for the love of peace oh i was born yesterday yeah i still believe in congress um they are they're cowards uh their weasels and um you know there are many of them honestly there are lots of them now, more than ever before, maybe in my lifetime, that actually respect and believe in the Constitution and Declaration and really want to do the right thing, but they are still not the power. You know, as the left is arguing back and forth on this split between us, between the Declaration of Independence and socialism, the big split here.
Starting point is 01:54:35 And it's funny because the press tried to make the Tea Party look like revolutionaries, looked like we hated America. That's all they kept saying. The Tea Party, they just hate America. They just hate the government. No, we don't. We don't. We're asking for a reset to what our founding documents actually say.
Starting point is 01:54:57 And that we were asking that we, I don't know, respect those rules and those laws. And we said that it's the left that is the rebel, It's the left that hates America. And now we're seeing it. And now the masks have come off and they've announced that they are socialist. They're democratic socialist, which is basically common. You were talking about Cuba now. We're not even talking about Swedish socialism, which is a lie.
Starting point is 01:55:21 I told you I was going to say something today, but I ran out of time. I'll have to try to get it in tomorrow. But, you know, the radicals are on the left. The ones who hate America are on the left. and maybe America will start to see that. Maybe Democrats who have been trying to believe that, no, no, no, we're not communists, we haven't been taken over. You know, Chuck Schumer is, what is he polling at now with Democrats?
Starting point is 01:55:52 He's like at 40%. What a surprise. He's Jewish. You know, he's been very effective for New York, very effective as a senator, has done a lot of stuff. But, you know, because I think, I think because he's Jewish, that's just. that's no longer going to work. And you're getting more and more radical on the left.
Starting point is 01:56:12 We need to save the Republic. And the way to do that is to learn its history, revere its history, learn its documents. You cannot fight for rights. You don't understand. We're putting our, is it number four, isn't it? It's the warrants and search for warrants. Number four from the Bill of Rights.
Starting point is 01:56:34 That song is out. Do you have a little bit of that song? For kids, we're making this for families, and it comes with a lesson plan on what each of these bills, Bill of Rights mean. This is number four. Listen, you have it? Streetlight flickers, midnight air. Knock, knock, knock, someone standing there. Mind if we just look around.
Starting point is 01:57:08 Go now, slow down. Because there's a rule from way back when protecting women, children, men, respecting. space and property from detectives who might just want to lie. So if they want to search your pay or investigating you, show me the warrant signed by court of law, underscoring your probable cause, no foraging, no, we just thought. Number four protects my rights.
Starting point is 01:57:41 Do it right, or just leave me alone. So this is all about a warrant, getting a warrant, and what they can search and what they can spy on, and they can't. And it is something that we've tried to put together so your kids can learn their rights along with their responsibilities. So please join us at Torch 250. You can get all of them. We're up to number four now and we release a new one each week. And it is vital.
Starting point is 01:58:08 We are at a critical place. And actually, we're winning. We're winning. We really are. But it could go either way quickly. And I'll have more on this tomorrow because I've just run out of time and I have something really great to share because I don't want you to feel like you were kicked in the gut. Because it feels like it, but it's not true. It's not true. I want to introduce you to somebody. Rob Bukert is his name. I don't know him. I just saw something. A friend sent me some information on him and what.
Starting point is 01:58:47 what he is doing, he is the co-owner of, I think it's Trist Press, and he is doing something that I just think is great. In fact, I want to buy Rob, and I'll pay for them. I want to buy at least 10 of these. I might buy more of these from you because I think what you're doing is so good. And I want to give them as gifts because I think they're just beautiful. You are making the Dunlap Broadside reproduction of the Declaration of Independence. Can you tell me what it is, Rob, tell people what it is? The Dunlap Broadside
Starting point is 01:59:23 was the, it's the birth certificate of the nation. I think you could call it that. It's the document that was made on July, the night of July 4th, 1776, and then was sent the next morning from to all the colonies and to the people who who needed to be able to announce the formation of a new nation of our nation the United States of America that's where it's that's where we got our name it's there in the document so this is this is a broadside what a broad is it's like a poster and it was printed overnight in a hurry as many as they could and then they just started putting them up everywhere so people could read them. It's how you got the news.
Starting point is 02:00:12 And so they were put up and there's only a handful of these left. One guy bought one accidentally. He bought a frame with a picture that he thought was ugly. And he just liked the frame and I think he bought it for like $3. He gets home.
Starting point is 02:00:28 He's taking the painting out. Good thing he didn't use a knife. He's taking the painting out and as he pulls the painting off he realizes behind there is the Declaration of Independence. And I think the last time it sold, it sold for like three or four million dollars. So it was a good day at the, at the flea market or the garage sale. But this is the one, it doesn't look like the one you're
Starting point is 02:00:52 used to seeing. This is a printed broadside. And it's my understanding, the paper you tried to make just like it was, and that you're setting the typeset crooked and you're actually printing them with the same kind of ink and everything. So it looks exactly like the broadside. Is that true? That's correct. Have that right? That is. I have a strange set of skills.
Starting point is 02:01:16 As an artist, I'm a paper maker and I make books and I make the equipment to make paper. And a friend of mine came to me in January and he said, I've been talking to George Washington. This friend, Gov Allen, is a, he's in the reenactment community, the colonial reenactment community. And he said, I've been talking to George Washington. Yeah. And he said, and George Washington is running out of 18th century paper. And Gov said, well, I know a guy. And so he called me.
Starting point is 02:01:49 And I started looking into 18th century paper. For me, it's fascinating. And I don't remember quite how, but I stumbled on the Dunlap Broadside. And I thought, wow, I, you know, I have the skills to remake this. I'm going to give it a try. And then I realized the year, and I thought, boy, I better get on it and get working fast. So the paper, I made the equipment. It's very similar to the equipment the original paper would have been made on.
Starting point is 02:02:23 It's got the watermark that's the watermark in the copy that's in the Library of Congress. I thought about, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, go ahead. I'm listening. Oh, okay. I thought about just using the picture and cleaning it up, but then I thought by the time I've cleaned it up, I could have just redesigned the type.
Starting point is 02:02:46 And so I redesigned the type. And then in doing that, I was able to reset it exactly character for character on top of the original. So you could study this document and see the things that they did that night with the type. And then I printed it by hand. It's amazing when you have something, a piece of paper from that era, and I imagine yours feels the same.
Starting point is 02:03:12 I mean, it's almost like holding a piece of cloth. And that's why, you know, back, anything from like 1880, definitely after 1920, the paper changes. And it gets hard and brittle and it just turns to dust. This will last forever. That's why we have these documents and the things that they wrote because the paper just is not going to disintegrate. It's fabulous paper. How can somebody get them if they want to have one to frame it? Oh, we've got a shop.
Starting point is 02:03:43 Declaration250.com. So. And how much are they? How much are they? They're 75 right now, 76, sorry. Patriotic. Got to add that extra dollar. Patriotic, yes.
Starting point is 02:03:59 But they go up to 150. It's a. What's the difference? What's the difference between 150 and the 76? Oh, no difference. It's, you know, it's been a journey doing this. It's been a real eye-opener for me as I've dug into this document. And I understand that you're pretty, you've dug in pretty deep.
Starting point is 02:04:26 And so I'm following those steps. And I love it. And I thought, here's this opportunity that I have to, to, use my skills and talents to give a birthday gift, if you would. Well, and so... I think it's great. I think it is great. I'm out of time, but I just, please pull 10 off for me. I might buy more, but just pull 10 off for me.
Starting point is 02:04:50 And I will contact you and I'll give you my credit card number. But I just think they're beautiful, just beautiful and really great to hang in your home. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Happy for it. Declaration 250. Happy independent.
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Starting point is 02:07:04 So think of Twizzlers as a little pallet cleanser for whatever's queued up, which, by the way, should be coming very soon. Like any second now. Okay, Twizzlers, time to keep the fun going. Do you know the real reason for immigration? Glenn destroys the lies. in a brand new documentary streaming July 1st. That's tomorrow.
Starting point is 02:07:40 I'm hopping on a plane to get to Washington, D.C., where I'll be there tomorrow afternoon on the mall at, I think it's one or two, I think it's one o'clock, to give a speech right after the radio show. Two o'clock, two o'clock on the mall, thanks. And I'll be on the main stage. We're going to go over the Declaration of Independence. That'll be right after the radio show tomorrow
Starting point is 02:07:59 if you happen to be in Washington, D.C. And then after that, at, 8 p.m. tomorrow night. Jason and I are going to be in in Washington, D.C., and we're going to debut the new live documentary called The Golden Door. You really don't want to miss that. Jason, we have to shoehorn some information in about Iran tomorrow, too, on the radio program, because there's some interesting things that are happening in Iran that might actually be kind of like what we were hoping was going to happen, but I'm, the emphasis is on hoping. Yeah. Would you agree with me?
Starting point is 02:08:36 Yeah, I agree with you. I think the evidence is showing that that is happening. I guess the only question is how severe is it happening, but there is infighting happening right now very publicly. And I don't know if you have time now, but. No, I don't, but it's with the mullahs. Yep. And if the mullahs start coming apart, then the whole thing comes apart. And they're infighting on this, right? Some of them are saying, we want this deal and others are saying we don't.
Starting point is 02:09:04 Yeah, some of them are coming out and saying the Supreme Leader's not on board. Others are saying he is. Come on, guys, you know this. There's something going on over there. Yeah, there's something. Yeah, that's a really good development. Even though we've had kind of some bad development today with Scotus, it's certainly not the end.
Starting point is 02:09:23 And there's things that we can do. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. I'm going to give you a white pill on the SCOTUS verdict tomorrow on the program. We'll see you from D.C. The nation's capital, may God save the Republic.

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