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Episode Date: December 25, 2018

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. And of all of the stories that we should pay attention to, there is a story out of Alabama that is an absolute must hear and must think about. That's coming up in a minute. Also, the president of the NRA, I would say icon at this point, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North joins us next in one minute.

There are only a couple of organizations that I belong to. I'm not really a joiner, but I joined my church. And I joined the NRA. Those I think are the only two clubs, if you will, are only two things that I have real membership in. And it's because I believe deeply in both of them. And the president of the NRA, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, joins us now. Hello, Oliver.

How are you? I'm glad to be with you, brother. I'm glad you're a member. So I want you to take this month's magazines and tear out that right after my column on page nine, and tear those out and give your best friends on the planet Earth membership. in the NRA for Christmas. Merry Christmas, buddy. I think I could do that.

Thank you very much. Okay, so we have you on because you're starting a new show on NRA TV. Yeah. And the first one is done by a guy who I'm not sure people really know. The average person, they just don't know who this guy is. And he is one of the greatest heroes of our lifetime, I believe. All true. Dave Eubank is a former U.S. Army Ranger, a special,

forces officer, a missionary, and the founder of Free Burma Rangers. And I had covered him when I still worked for Fox, made him part of one of our documentaries up in Kurdistan, and went back out there because this man has such a great story. He is an American hero, thus in the name of the show, and he's one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met. He is out there with his family. In fact, he was in Syria yesterday with a congressional delegation. He lives. He lives, in Burma. He has a home in Washington State. He has the kind of of courage that is so remarkable. It just had to be our first story in this. We'll be a long series. He really truly believes that he's on a mission from God to help people and that, you know, God will protect him for as long as

God needs him to do his thing. And he brings his family with him. And he has, he's been been in some of the worst places in the world trying to save people who are being oppressed? Well, we were out there with him in Mosul, and I can tell you, that was the worst place in the world. Thankfully, it's getting better now. But what he does is he takes his family with him, his lovely wife, and his two gorgeous daughters and his son.

How old are his children? Oldest of 15, 16. She's the only 16-year-old I know that can drive a Humvee. Thank God she can because she saved a lot of lives by just putting that sucker on the road and going out and picking up casualties and bringing them back to a field hospital that they had set up. You know, there's a lot, as you and I both know well, there's a lot of groups out there that will provide medicine and food and water and the essential supplies. There's very few that will deliver them to the front lines of a conflict like this. And that's what makes this guy so remarkable. Dave walked right up to me one day.

We're up in the berm right around Mosul, getting ready to go into the city. And a casualty load came in from across the berm, helped by the Kurdish soldiers, the Peshmerga. And every one of these folks was badly wounded. And Dave raced out there in the middle of no man's land to bring him back. We've got one very remarkable scene in it. In fact, it's part of the tease for the show where he spots a little girl who's the only survivor of one of these men's. massacres by ISIS. And she's wrapped in her mother's clothing.

And what Dave does, only Dave could do. Because he knew who to call on the telephone. He calls an Iraqi general. And the Iraqi general eventually loans him a tank. And Dave races up behind the tank right up to where the kid is. Can't get out because he has to cross an open space of about 50 yards. And he gets on the phone with a U.S. Army officer and a Marine artilleryman. and they drop smoke in between Dave and this hospital that ISIS had taken over,

and it's an enormous fortress. It's got any aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons, lots and lots of guys with guns. And with just that tank to protect him, goes right up to the edge of this battle, races out, grabs the little girl and brings her back. And the prayer he says just before he goes is as powerful as anything I've ever seen. And he says, you know, afterwards he said, I said, you're a hero. He said, nobody ever wants to be a hero. Nobody tries to be a hero.

And what, of course, a hero is is a person who puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others. That's clearly what Dave does every single day. He does it in Burma. He's done it in South Sudan. He's done it in Iraq. He's done it in Kurdistan. And he's done it in Syria. And without him, scores of people would have died that he saved.

So if you are a listener of this program and you are involved with the Nazarene Fund, you know that the Nazarene Fund now is in Burma. and the guy who is working for the Nazarene Fund in Burma is the guy who had the rifle behind the tank and stepped out in front of the tank and started laying down fire. So he could go run out and get the child. And they're amazing people, and this guy is one of the most amazing heroes around.

You can find it now on nRATV.com. That's nrATV.com. So Oliver, can I ask you something? Because you are such a, you are such a piece of history now. And you have been for a long time. But now that we have distance from things and we see the world, as you, as you see what you went through in the 1980s and how the world worked, how do you view that period of time compared to what we're going through now? and what you're seeing happening in our country? Well, frankly, I'm disappointed.

I'm disappointed to see that I was blessed to work for a great president. His goal right from the very beginning of his eight years was to end the evil empire, and he did. And, of course, that had finished in the administration of the guy we just buried here, George Herbert Walker Bush. I look at what we went through back in those days to eliminate one of the greatest threats to mankind. it ever was, which is the evil empire of the Soviet Union, it's all its satellites. And I look at what's happening today with terrorism. I look what's going on

on our border. And I say to myself, the polarization in the city where I have to go to work, Washington, D.C., the polarization is so great that a president, this president, cannot get the Congress to do what the Congress ought to do to protect our borders.

And a nation that has no borders is not a country. I mean, the meeting with Pelosi and Schumer and the president in the Oval Office is an example of how incredibly left-leaning our Congresses today. That's a shock to me, quite frankly, because I would have thought the American people did not want this kind of thing to be happening. As I look at what's happening on our border, and I've been watching it for a while, and I've been comparing it to what's happening on the borders of Israel. I believe that we are at the beginning of, you know, almost a Palestinian little mini state there on our border where we are going to be used just like the Israelis are used by the media. They're just they're going to attack.

They'll do things just to continue to bring America down to her knees. I think we're in a I think we're in a really bad place to where you can't. can't even recognize truth. I mean, there are people who are refugees that should be allowed in, but there are also people who wish us ill that should not be let in. Well, and what you just point out, the Israelis did solve that problem. They built a wall. And doggone it, you can't argue with the effect of it. And it stopped the kind of terrorism that Israel was experiencing almost every day. It just eliminated it. And at some point, they're probably going to have to build a wall around Gaza.

Look, at the Iranians are stirring up trouble in that part of the world, the likes of which should never have happened, all because the last administration in Washington, D.C., let them get away with it. In fact, helped pay for some of it. Gave money back to them that they use for that very purpose. What's going on, and our southern border is not the direct consequence of that, but you've got to know that they're taking advantage of it. And everybody that knows what's going on on the border.

You've been there, I've been there, many of our lives, listeners have been. That open border is an abscess in the health of America. And what we saw happening before the tear gas was used with rocks and bottles and PCs being thrown at U.S. Border Patrol, it's an outrage, and it should not be happening. My hope is that the president sticks with his guns. Mine too. The, you know, everybody is talking about Cohen and Flynn and everything else today. You've been at the eye of a hurricane like that before. What does it, what does it feel like to be in that position? And it must be very lonely. Well, I was, I was always certain of the outcome. It was just a matter how long was going to take and how much it was

going to cost to get there. I, I never once doubted what my attorney, Brendan Sullivan, told me repeatedly, it's going to turn out okay. It's just going to be a long, hard slog to get there. It took five years. I was indicted in March of 1988. The trial was over in 1992, went all the way to the Supreme Court, and I was eventually vindicated. The challenge today is they'll never do what they did to me. They'll never put a hearing together like that. They should never have brought back to special prosecutors.

I mean, it's the entire opposite of justice. In justice, you have a crime committed. You find the person who perpetrated it. and you give them justice. In this case, you find a person, and then you go trying to look for a crime that they committed. And that's just the opposite of what justice really is. And unfortunately, I said this to the president at the time.

Don't let this happen. And unfortunately, they allowed the appointment, and you're going to get what you're always going to get with these circumstances is they've got a person. Now they're going to have to find a crime for which they're going to convict them. And, of course, that's what Flynn's going to. through right now. Wow, great perspective on that.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, President of the NRA and the host of American Heroes now on NRATV.com. Always good to talk to you, sir. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas. God bless. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. I'm Glenn Beck.

Stu is with us today. I want to talk to you about this story out of Alabama that is just killing me. Nine-year-old girl has committed suicide. A nine-year-old girl. This story should be everywhere. She committed suicide. She's from Alabama because she was being bullied.

She's in fourth grade. She was being called names, made fun of, mocked. The bullying came from her friendship. with another little boy, and they weren't the same color. It's in Alabama. And you can't be friends with a little boy that's not the same color in Alabama, apparently. Things haven't changed except the color. This is a nine-year-old black girl who befriended a little boy who was white.

They were friends. The white kid, his parents would drive him to school, and so they would stop by her house and pick her up, and they'd drive to school together. And all of her black friends said, why are you friends with a white person? You're black. You're a sellout.

You're ugly. You're stupid. What's wrong with you? All over her friendship. If the role was reversed, I'm sure people would try to exploit this. And it would be everywhere. And this little boy would be remembered as a hero who just couldn't take it anymore. This little girl is a hero.

Her name was Mackenzie Adams made fun of every day. because she befriended a person who was white. I prefer to tell this story because she befriended someone who was different than she was. Racism doesn't know color. Hatred doesn't know color. It doesn't know nationality. It doesn't know religion. Hatred just is.

and hatred is inside all of us. You know, we each have a good side and a bad side. And if you deny that, well, then you're a liar and probably pretty dangerous. There's a good side and a bad side in all of us. And what started out, I think, as trying to help people know that the bad side was maybe too strong in them has turned out to be a force for evil itself because it was arrogant and wrong

to say that racism is a white problem. Racism is a human problem. It's not a black problem, white problem, yellow problem, brown problem. It's a human problem. The family members had transferred had transferred McKenzie to another elementary school

because she was bullied at her school in Linden. They had talked to the school about it. Children were writing nasty notes in class. I don't know how she did it, and I don't want to know how she did it. But I want you to remember the name Mackenzie Adams. You know, we all have our low points.

We all have our bottom. I'm wondering when America's going to hit her bottom. When is America going to say, you know, we've got a problem. It's just out of control and everything I try to do won't stop it. And so I surrender everything that I thought. I surrender. I'm not going to fight it this way anymore because this isn't working.

In fact, this is making it worse. When is America going to be humble enough to say, we all have a problem and I play a role in it. When? When will the press? When will the politicians say, we each play a role. We each need forgiveness. You know, why are we banning each other?

Why are we deplatforming people? Because there is no forgiveness. Somebody wins the Heisman trophy. Might take it away because, well, look what he said when he was 14. There is no forgiveness. There is no decency, no forgiveness, no kindness. Restore that this holiday season and do it in the name of McKenzie Adams. God bless you, McKenzie, and God bless your family.

The best of the Glenn Beck program. Well, I've got a whole bunch of really important stuff to talk about Stu. I don't know what you have. If you had to pick out of all of the stack of stuff that you have, and the huge stack I have. I've got one story. It has to be done today. Okay.

Yeah, I've got a pretty important one as well, I think. So I have the Nigerian president is denying that he died and has been replaced by a clone. He's denying it? He's denying it. Despite the fact that they look identical? Identical. You look at the pictures side by side of him, now, the clone. And the real guy, you cannot tell the different.

I mean, maybe. That's just unbelievable. So they say that he died on a medical vacation in London last year after he received treatment for an undisclosed illness. But then he went back. And because he's running for re-election, he couldn't do it because he was dead. Right. He's dead. So they had to. So they made a clone. And he's now saying, no, this is a quote, it's the me, I assure you. Well, that's exactly what a clone would say. Exactly right.

That's what I was thinking. That's what I would say, and I'm a clone. Oh, no. You wouldn't say that if you were really a clone. If I were really a clone, here's what I would say. You genetically engineered me and I look and feel like this. Cure some stuff while you're in there. If this guy is the Nigerian president and he's a clone, he's pissed because they cloned him

and genetically engineered him to be exactly the same as the 76-year-old guy who is about to kick it anyway. Now, if you are looking for another part-time job, and I don't know if this would be you exactly. Now, this is the story that you think is really important. I think so. This is what we do for a living. Inside the underground breast milk market. Oh, my gosh, it's finally been exposed. The underground breast milk market.

It actually is kind of a fascinating story because there's a market, and a lot of times, a lot of places will ban the idea that you could pump your own breast milk and sell it to someone else to feed to their child. That is what we're talking about. Now, wait a minute, hang on just a second. This is this in the United States? In the United States. Of course it is. Yes. Why, of course it is.

Because that's where I'm involved in it. Okay. I've been pumping these. No milk is coming up, but I've been pumping like crazy. It hurts. They look of size. So they, it's an interesting regulation question. Because I think there's a, there's at some level, there's a feeling I think

among people that it just doesn't feel. right? Right? Like it just doesn't feel right that you should be doing that. That's what a wet nurse was. You ever read things like Mary Poppins or whatever and they're like, oh, it was my wet nurse. That's what a wet nurse was. Right.

And so that doesn't happen very often anymore. Well, I mean, it does. But the idea here is that you're actually selling for profit, right? Oh my gosh. Right? No way. And that's, of course, where all these things get nasty. Because if someone was doing it for free, you might look at and say, oh, well, that's, that's okay.

It's charitable. They're helping. If they're really, if breastfeeding is that. important to a mom and this is the only way that they can get it done. Okay. Well, see, I have to tell you, I'm a little uncomfortable, you know, with the term breast milk black market. I mean, if it is like, pst, come here, I've got some breast milk for you.

I wouldn't buy it. But if it was somebody that I knew and somebody was a friend of the family and then they said, you know, I can provide real breast milk and you knew them and you're like, you know what, I'll pay you for that. What's the problem? Well, I mean, you know, that is the, that's. the issue here, I think, does come down to the exchange, right? It becomes, can you make a profit off of this?

Because so many places have said, no. Now, there's a black market only because plate people have outlawed the idea that you could sell it to someone. It's not like they're actually people like in trench coats. I don't think pumping in the back alleys. This is like, this is a situation where. It's a slave flavor. It's a situation where people want to share their, they want to be able to sell their breast milk. And the government's stopping them.

Why? As long as it does. doesn't, as long as there's not somebody behind them going, keep lactating, right? You know? Well, I mean,

there are risks, right, with disease, potentially, someone could have it. But you can easily make this so it's safe. You could, if you,

yeah, if you allowed it, right? If you allowed it in front of everyone to do. You let it in the, in the light of day. I mean, this is the,

you always have this argument, you know, this is a libertarian sort of position for sure. But it's like, you know, when you come to selling organs, right? That's,

those things become controversial. I think because it's, kind of just grosses us out in some way. It doesn't feel right. Organs are a little different. Yeah. Organs are a little different. And by the way, if the Nigerian president is selling his breast milk as a clone, I want to know about it.

I want to know about it. All right. So we're going to move on. Clone milk is not currently allowed to be to share. So yesterday, yesterday, we can't do clones yet. I don't know if anybody knows that. Yesterday, we told you about a World War II veteran. his name is

Lauren Kisick and he landed at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and the thing that caught my eye is this guy, he was 19 years old, he's always wanted to go back. He is the only survivor now of the 453rd, which was out of Fort Knox, Kentucky.

He was a machine gunner on D-Day. his wife never really wanted to travel, and he would just never leave her side. They were married for 71 years. She, unfortunately, has just passed away from leukemia, and the two daughters now are trying to save up enough money to bring dad to the D-Day 75th anniversary over in France, which happens next summer. So they were trying to raise $12,000, and I think, I don't remember how much they had, yesterday, but now they have $19,000. And so I don't know if they've told dad yet, but we have Lori and Julie, the two daughters on the phone now from Tacoma, Washington.

Hi, Lori. Hi, Julie. Good morning, yes. How are you? Very well. Thanks to you. It's good to talk to you. You know, I was thrilled to read what you were doing for your dad. Have you told him yet?

Are you saving it for Christmas? No, he knows. We told him that we were working on this. And so, no, he is aware. And he is quite ecstatic to be able to go back. And I think he's in a little bit of disbelief right now. But, yeah, thank you so much for your help. We never would be here without you.

And it is just absolutely overwhelming to see how the kind of thoughts that people are sending and donation. It's just so encouraging and so heartwarming. Well, first of all, it wasn't me. It's this audience. This audience is really remarkable. It's incredible. I've read the comments and I cry when I read them. I have an 18-year-old daughter and we were reading them and we were just all choked up about people giving $10, $5. It just, it's overwhelming. I mean, it just went from 4,000 to over 18,000, and left 24 hours. We're just dumbfounded and so grateful. Thank you.

Now, you could take that extra and maybe fly in first class and really, just really treat your dad for something remarkable. Or we could take a cut of that and spend it on something useless. Thoughts, thoughts? What do you think? It's a tempting offer, isn't it? Tempting offer. So, yeah, several people had mentioned that, you know, since we were going over goal, that maybe we could get him a first class flight. So we're going to try to do that.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to. He will love it. Is he healthy enough to really appreciate all of it? Yes, he is. He's quite mobile and he's very alert. You know, I mean, he's with it. He's still driving.

You know, maybe shouldn't be, but he is. but he, yeah, he's very active socially. And, yeah, so there is no issues. You know, he's quite mobile. He can get around great. In fact, we have a hard time keeping track of him. We tell him to check in and we can't find him. That's great.

It's a problem. After 71 years of marriage, you had to be worried about him because usually, I mean, people like that, they just, they grow into. one and it's beautiful to see. How's he handling that? He's handling it. We're, you know, we see him and talk to him every day. We're both really close. And so we're just making sure that he's eating properly. He's taking his blood pressure medicine as he's supposed to and just kind of keeping up with that. And as my sister said, he keeps himself very busy. And it is hard to track him down sometimes because he won't turn his cell phone on.

So he can't hear it. His hearing isn't so good, but everything else is great. Everyone loves him and they spend a lot of time. The neighbors, my sister spends a ton of time. He spends a couple nights a week at my house with my husband and my daughter and I. He'll just hang out. So he's a very much of people person and loves to be around people. Well, two things. A, I want to put you in touch with somebody who is trying to record all of the remaining voices of everybody who fought in World War II.

That would be awesome. Great. He's making an amazing archive, and so I'll put you in touch with him. But I want to ask you a favor, will you take our audience with you? So when you go, alert us and then make some videos and take some pictures so we can follow your dad and you guys on this trip. You know, absolutely. In fact, some of the comments had been that they looked forward to hearing about the trip, and that sort of triggered in me that we needed to chronicle this. We needed to make it so that other people could share in the moments that we're sharing with him. And so absolutely, we will make that a priority to do. And we'd love to talk to him either before you go or after you go, if that's appropriate.

Oh, yes, that would be appropriate. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Lori. He'll probably talk your ear off. That's fine.

That's fine. I tell you, we had 100. What was he? 103? We had a guy here. He was a big fan of ours, and he just passed away because he was hit by a truck. Oh, you're kidding. No, it was awful.

Yeah. He was out riding his bike, and somebody hit him. He was 103 or so. The guy could. He's a lot. sat there and he told us about what it was like the day the stock market crashed in 29. It was incredible. We love hearing stories from these people. Yeah. He has some fabulous stories. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Okay, guys, thank you so much. Congratulations. And we will.

Yay. So much for everything. Merry Christmas. Okay, we have something really exciting to share with you. When we were in Florida, a gentleman came up to me. And he said, Glenn, I just won a car. His name is Rick Rudolph. And he told me the greatest story ever. He entered into the Mercury One Raffle for brand new Mercedes. How are you doing, sir? Good.

Thank you. I'm so glad to see you here. That's great being here. Okay, so Rick, first of all, what do you do for a living? I have a twin brother and we run a chemical distribution business. Okay, so you're a drug dealer. I'm a drug dealer. I have a brother who are in chemical distribution.

Okay, all right. And you brought your daughter with you. Yeah. Paige. Hi, Paige. How are you? Good. Good.

Good. So, Rick, tell me the story that you told me in line. When you came out and said, I'm the one who won the car for Mercury 1. Well, every year I've entered the raffle. I don't know how many years it's been now, but several. And my daughter was in a bad car accident and pretty much messed up her car. And I called her a couple weeks before I sent the money in for the tickets and said, I'm going to win you your new car.

I just get the year off to, well, we'll end the year in good fashion. Right, right, right. And we were traveling, and I was somewhere, and the phone rang, and I got great news. And I just held the phone up in the kitchen and went, let's back. What the car? So you call your daughter right away? I call my daughter. he said, got your new car.

She said, no. So Paige, congratulate. Are you giving her the car now? It's in her name. It's in her name. It's in her name. That's fine. Because you totally could have backed out of that.

I mean, it was a joke. It was totally a joke. I totally needed to join the Mercedes family. I wasn't going to say no. He's one of the most kindest and generous. That is so cool. So cool. So first of all, how are you after the accident?

Were you okay? Yeah. Earlier in the year, my. my right lung had collapsed and the car accident recalapsed it, but they did lung surgery. So after, I don't know, five days in ICU, I'm healed. I ran an awesome half marathon at Joshua Tree in the desert. So, yeah, I'm feeling good and strong. Totals your car.

It didn't total my car, but I'm pretty sure Geico should have. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah. But the collapse lung didn't have anything to do with her MMA fighting. No, it was an M. No. I have nothing to do with that.

Are you an MMA fighter? No, I would kickbox. I had a couple of kickboxing fights, but no MMA for me. I have a feeling. I have a feeling dad doesn't like the kickboxing. Um, I, well. Why is that, Dad? Have you seen that?

Yes, I have. Does you have a clap slug? Well, when the foot comes in here about 40 miles an hour. Yeah, that might do it. Yeah. Yeah, that sucks. although your daughter can defend herself. Oh, don't mess with her.

Yeah. Don't mess with her. So congratulations on the car. Thank you so much. I'm really excited. Are you guys flew in? Flew in last night. On the way on the airplane, I emailed the dealer, and I said, you know what?

I think we better pick that up tonight because we're going over to the studio tomorrow to see Lisa. And I don't think of what time. And, of course, we weren't expecting this. Yeah. And so you guys are going to go. going you guys get in the car driving home today what a great christmas yeah absolutely thank you congratulations thank you very much you're welcome and thank you for supporting mercury one and i'm so glad you one love what you guys are doing love it it's great god bless you thank you all right this is the best of

the glenbeck program the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program so i don't know about anybody else and it's partly the holidays. It's also partly because who has credibility on anything anymore. This, this Trump, Mueller debacle, who do you trust? Cohen? Who do you trust? Mueller? Trump? What's really happening? Well, there is one guy that I trust. Annie McCarthy. He's a contributing editor of the National Review. And he is a, is a former federal prosecutor in New York. And he came out and he's a Trump supporter. And he said, just reading what they're putting out.

And I worked in those offices. I wrote those kinds of things. And I'm telling you, they're going to indict the president. And it's a felony. But it also, there's more to this story. And so we are going to talk to Andy McCarthy in a minute. All right, we have Andrew McCarthy on with this contributing editor of the National Review. Andy, I was, you are one of the only voices that have penetrated my world when it comes to what's happening with the Trump investigation because you have credibility.

And I know that you're a Trump supporter so you don't have an axe to grind. And so when you say, I think he's going to be indicted because this is the way this is being. written, it carried some weight and I wanted to talk to you about it. How are you, Andrew? I'm doing just great, Glenn. How are you? I'm great. I've been, and I don't know if other people feel this way, but I've been really confused with

all that's going on because it's all leaks or speculation. And, you know, I'm just waiting for the thing to, just when the shoes drop, then we'll talk about it. But you are a federal, a former New York federal investigation, sorry, prosecutor. and so you used to write the things like you just read from Cohen's what do you call it? The sentencing memorandum. So you used to write it and those things and you say this is very telling. Can you explain?

Sure. I think, Glenn, you're right to be suspicious when you hear the leaked information because obviously the people who leave. are telling you they're sort of mining the parts of the story they want you to hear and holding back other stuff. Whereas when they do these court filings, this is a 40-page document that is customarily filed about a week or two in advance of the imposition of sentence by the court. You get a full flavor of what the government's theory about the cases and where they're going with the investigation. And it seemed to me that this sentencing memo is more directed at President Trump than it is at Cohen. Sentencing memos are interesting in terms of legal filings because they're not kind of dry legal issue-oriented submissions. They're almost like jury arguments, except they're meant to persuade the sentencing judge.

So they tend to be more forceful and colorful and sort of filled with their prosecution theory. And here, this one reads in the part of it that deals with the campaign finance laws as a testimonial to the importance of those laws to the integrity of the system and how they are meant to make sure that the rich and the powerful don't usurp all of the power in the power. system and designed to fight against public cynicism about money in politics. I mean, it almost seemed to me like it was drafted with the president in mind more than Cohen. And then I look at the other attendance situations or attendance circumstances that you have here. Number one, they didn't really need these campaign finance counts on Cohen.

His sentence is really driven by the bank fraud and the tax fraud. accounts, these add negligibly at most to his case, but they're obviously critical in connection with Trump. At the guilty plea allocution, they gratuitously had him say that he was directed by Trump in connection with these payments. That is not something that was necessary to the factual basis for Cohen's own plea. And ordinarily, prosecutors in public proceedings do not go out of their way to implicate uncharged people in felonies. So it seemed to me they were sort of reaching to do that. And it doesn't, I don't see that they have any other purpose of doing that,

except that they want to lock Cohen in on this version of events, and this is their chance of doing it. And then the other thing I would point to is they have given immunity, I believe, to four different people. people in this campaign finance investigation. Campaign finance is not a very serious felony in the greater scheme of things. They've given immunity to two people connected to the National Enquirer, and I believe two people connected with the Trump organization, which relates to the structuring of the reimbursement payment to Cohen. I don't think they gave four people immunity to tighten up the case on Cohen that they didn't need.

So those are the tea leaves. Okay. So what does that tell you they're going to do with Trump? Well, it seems to be they're going to indict him. One of the things, Glenn, that I should have said was that I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what these two campaign finance counts allege. Most people, I think, believe that because Cohen had a $2,700 limit, as a normal contributor, that these payments were way above that limit, and that's why he had to plead

guilty. But very interestingly, the first of the counts is not that Cohen made an illegal payment. It's that he caused a third party, namely the business entity that controls the National Enquirer, to make a payment that was illegal. for the National Enquirer to make. And the point here is, the theory is, even if a transaction would be legal as to you, if you did it yourself, it is still illegal to cause a third party

to do something that would be unlawful as to that third party. And it seems to me that that answer is directly what Trump's lawyers, have been saying about this, which is that the president, because he was the candidate, did not have a limit on what he could spend on his own campaign. Now, I've always thought that was kind of a flawed explanation because there's two parts that are important to campaign finance. One is the limits, but probably the more important one is reporting.

So even a candidate has to report what he spends. but for our narrow purpose here, if Cohn is being directed by Trump and they have Cohn plead guilty to causing a third-party entity to make an illegal contribution, it seems obvious to me that Trump also has to be guilty of that. So it seems it at least looks to me like that's the case they're trying to make. Right.

Okay. So let's pursue this. a bit more. Let me just take a quick break and then we're going to come right back to Andy. Do you have any outrage-addicted people in your life? Oh, you know what pisses me off about that?

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And it's more fun. Addicted to Outrage, the new book from Glenn Beck, available everywhere books are sold. Contributing editor of the National Review is Andy McCarthy, and we're talking about what the Democrats, or I should say, what the prosecution in New York is planning on doing with Cohen and Donald Trump. Andy, never for one moment in my entire life have I found Michael Coeck. going to be credible about anything he's ever said. This goes long before he was, he turned on Trump, and now the media seems to find him very credible. Is there more to this than just Cohen saying Trump told him to do these things?

Or is there, do they have additional evidence that makes you believe they know this really happened? Stu, I think you're entirely right to be suspicious of anything this guy says. and the prosecutors know that. I should point out that the guy who's running the investigation in the Southern District is Rob Kuzami, who was my partner or one of my two partners on the Blind Shay case. You know, he's a whip smart lawyer, and he's handled plenty of cases where you have people who are not exactly upstanding members of the community who are our main witnesses. And what you generally do with those cases is you look the jury in the eye at the beginning and say,

you know, look, we're not going to trust this guy anymore than you should. And if somebody tells you that, you know, that we're asking you to rely on his word and nothing else, then you should just not believe that. You should reject it. But look at where he's corroborated and see how his testimony stacks up with the stuff that you know is true. And I think what they're doing here to try to tighten up the case with respect to him is twofold. One, they have given immunity to these guys from the National Enquirer, which would help them corroborate him on the agreement that they apparently had to try to purchase and bury stories that would be unfavorable to Trump. And then I think on the back end, Stu, what they would do is prove up how Cohen was paid.

And this is where the Trump organization comes into the equation. After he did these payments, what happened in, I think the payments were in mid to late October of 2016. And he only paid one. The National Enquirer does one. He does the Stormy Daniels one, which is 130 grand. And what they do with that is he ends up being reimbursed by the Trump Organization, which is odd, because they don't seemingly have anything to do with this, right? And what the Trump organization does is they tell him,

we're going to do this as part of a retainer agreement, and they double the amount that he paid. so that for tax purposes, it looks like it's, you know, 260,000 so that he gets reimbursed for the full 130,000. And then they, on top of that, gave him a $60,000 bonus. And what they told them to do was, we're going to have this look like a retainer agreement. And then every month, you give us an invoice for 12 months, and we will pay you 35,000 a month, think was the amount they settled on. So that it looks like he signed the retainer to do legal work for them beginning in January of 2017. And then he bills them once a month for $35,000. So it looks

like a forward-going legal contract when, in fact, it's reimbursement for something that happened in October. So I think from the prosecutor's standpoint, what they would say is if Trump hadn't known about this and Trump wasn't controlling it and it wasn't exactly the way that Cohen said, first of all, why on earth would Cohen be shelling out his own money to cover up Trump's affairs, but also look at the way this was paid. It was paid by the Trump organization and they did it in a way that was designed to conceal what it was actually about. Okay, so we're talking to Andrew McCarthy. He is contributing editor of the National Review. He all. also was a former federal prosecutor in New York.

So can you compare this, Andrew, to anything else? I mean, is, I mean, I find this a big deal because the president looked at us in the face and said, I know nothing about it. I had nothing to do with it. And it's clear that, well, you can't say he did. I think he's actually admitted that he did now at this point, didn't he? So it's clear that he did know about it, and it looks like there was some level to make it go away and kind of a cover up. Can you compare this to anything?

How big of a deal is this if you take politics out of it? Yeah, I think, Glenn, it's all about politics, actually. Legally, I must tell you now, and now I kind of feel with this thing like I'm the weatherman, right? I'm here to tell you it's going to rain. Don't blame me for the rain. Right. I don't think this is a good case legally. I don't think that this is an in-kind campaign contribution.

The one case that we have that's close to it is the John Edwards case, which had a very ambiguous result. I mean, basically it's similar facts. The Justice Department charged as felonies. The court let it go to the jury. When a court lets a case go to the jury, that means the court has found that a rational juror could convict. But in the end, the jury acquitted on the counts that were decided, and then the Justice Department thought the case was so weak that they decided not to retry the counts that the jury hung on. So we have a very ambiguous situation as far as, you know, what the law is here.

I always think these regulatory things, they're not really meant for the criminal law. That's why they're usually handled as administrative fines with the Federal Election Commission. And the thing I don't like the aspect of this where I think they could get you coming or going. So what I mean by that is let's say Trump agreed with them and that these were campaign expenditures, right? if the campaign expenditures, what if he had taken campaign funds, people contribute to his campaign, and he had used campaign funds to pay hush money payments? I think the same people who are screaming felony now would be saying if that was what he had done, that he had diverted campaign funds for his personal use.

So I just think this is one of these things where no matter what he did, they were going to say that it was a violation of the campaign laws one way or the other. And if that's the situation you're in, that to me underscores that this is not appropriate for the criminal law. We want our criminal statutes to be very clear so that the average person can understand what the law is. I mean, you said that one of the things that they want to do is restore public trust. But trust is getting worse and worse and worse because Rosie O'Donnell didn't pay a price for doing something much. worse than Dinesh D'Souza did. Barack Obama had $2 million in campaign finance irregularities, which is much bigger than this one.

And yet they just told him to pay a fine. So it's not really clearing things up. If we were going to apply the law equally, it would. But I don't think we do. Yeah, I think that's a great point. Prosecutorial discretion is something that's necessary for the system to function. to function, you know, as an overarching matter. But I think if you have prosecutorial discretion that's so elastic that the prosecutor can arbitrarily say, based on politics or whatever else,

that the same conduct is handled in one case as an administrative fine and in another case as a felony prosecution. I mean, what they did with Dinesh D'Souza was a disgrace because that was not only a trivial violation, they actually charged it not as one felony, but two, because they tried to lop on to that case, a false statement's case that you can't, if you're going to commit the campaign finance violation, that causes the filing to be inaccurate, so you have to make a false statement. So they turn something that Congress made a two-year crime into a seven-year crime. Andrew McCarthy, thank you so much. Contributing editor, National Review, will check in again as things progress.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, he's got very high moral standards for his platform. And it's totally a free speech platform for most people, as long as you agree with Jack. If you don't agree with Jack, well, then it's not free speech, but you don't really deserve free speech because he's better than you are.

So Jack Dorsey has decided to take a dream vacation and just get in touch with his inner self. And so he's decided to go to Burma. Burma. Now, Mr. Dorsey knows a ton about virtue signaling by banning certain users who don't adhere to his progressive tenants. But when it comes to real life virtue, he may be the Beethoven to tone deafness. Dorsey, very proud of his recent 10-day meditation vacation. and last week he let the world know how virtuous it really was.

He tweeted that his meditation was all about understanding the inner nature as a way to understand everything. It's this form of meditation that has been rediscovered by the Buddha 2,500 years ago through rigorous scientific self-experimentation to answer the question, how do I stop suffering? So you go to Burma and you're wondering how to stop suffering? Well, I mean, it sounds really cool, except the multi-billionaire went on that silent meditation vacation to look inside himself to figure out where he could stop the suffering and all he had to do is open your eyes because you're already there. The place where you're vacationing, you know, you tweet all those beautiful, precious moments in a, a place called Burma. A recent unprecedented U.N. report concludes that Burma's military regime has pursued a

campaign of genocide against the Muslim minority for the past year and a half. The regime is accused of mass rape and mass murder of over 720,000 people, Jack. Oh, yes, but I'm getting in touch with my inner self, because all of the the screams. They're all in the jungles, and so I can't really hear them from my hotel room. These people have fled their homeland for Bangladesh, creating the largest refugee camp in the world. But hey, the food in Burma, I mean, you know, it's great, according to Dorsey, he's tweeting pictures of his food. And he also mentioned the swell time he had listening to the music of Kendrick Lamar, you know, once the silent part of his retreat was over. He tweeted,

Mynamar is absolutely a beautiful country. The people are full of joy and the food is amazing. Yeah, so is the genocide. They're pretty good at that too. Some of the people are full of joy. Some of the other people are full of bullets. It's hard to understand why a seemingly intelligent billionaire CEO would choose to vacation in an oppressive regime like Burma.

But then again, I mean, it's kind of what he does to people too. And he chased people out of the square? Doesn't he just try to silence his? foes? You know, Jack, maybe you feel right at home in Burma. So you have the Google CEO testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and they said, well, you know, we don't have a political agenda. You don't have a political agenda, really? Did you watch your meeting the day after the election when you all got together and said, you know, hey, we think the world's going in a different direction, but there's more we can do.

What are you talking about? In some ways, I almost feel like they actually believe it in that it's not a political agenda. It's just right and wrong. Yeah, it's a religion. Right. It's like, you know, global warming is a good example of this, right? Like, it's not a political agenda to say that when you just spend $500 trillion to stop global warming. It's just we have to, we're all going to die.

Well, you know, what you're not seeing there is there is a political agenda that you're not. No, it's science and we're right. Well, yeah, but what you're saying your solution is, there's a lot of debate on that. But they don't see it that way. It's the same thing with like when they're talking about deplatforming people, right? They're taking, well, you said something that was bad about Sharia law or you said something that was bad about transgenderism. Well, they don't see politics in that because it's so obvious what's right and what's wrong. To them, they're in a bubble where 100% of the people around them agree.

So this is not a political issue. It's why Jack can go to Burma. They're killing Muslims. They're killing Christians. They're just, they're erasing the whole populations. And he's fine. He's fine. No, it's beautiful.

And I'm here for meditation because it's a perfect place to meditate and, and figure out what the next good thing is we can do. Well, here's an idea. Don't, don't, don't go to Burma. Go to Burma and speak out about the atrocities that are happening. How's that one, Jack? I mean, I don't need even to meditate on those ones. I got them pretty quickly. Ooh, that one just came to me.

Wow, and I'm still not meditating. We have Google testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee about what do they do? What is it they do? You tracking people? Are you banning people? You blocking people? Google employees sought to block Bright Part from Google AdSense less than a month after President Donald Trump took office. now this is this according to leaked emails

internal emails where they were just saying we got to stop bright part and that is that's goes right in line with what you know they were talking about in that Google meeting you know that big corporate meeting they were very open about it and it doesn't have to come from the top it can come from just a group of people and you know in a room

that just says hey turn this down turn that down change the algorithm a little bit nobody up in the upper end even needs to know. Not right, even if it's only one person, right? I mean, you know, we saw that with, what was it? It was on Twitter. Didn't they ban Donald Trump one person on their way out of the building because they were leaving?

Yes. And that's a minor example. They were able to turn it around pretty quickly. But of course those people exist. They exist in every organization. Both sides. Yeah, especially when you're told all the time that here's a guy who wants to kill all immigrants and gay people and all the horrible things, you know, that Trump and every

Republican is accused of. Of course you have to stop them. It's the only right thing to do. Right. And it would happen on both sides if we had a side. I mean, if we had a Google or Twitter or Facebook, I imagine that there would be people that would want to do that as well. To the other side, we got to stop and shut down the Antifa voices because it's just the right thing to do, right? So it's human nature.

And they just, like all progressives, they just deny human nature. it's in pretty critical places. Now, Facebook has just filed for a patent to calculate your future location. They have several patent applications for technology that uses your current location data to predict where you're going and when you're going to be offline.

The Facebook's post person says, just because we filed a patent doesn't mean that we have an, you know, an intent or is any indication that we want to follow you while you're not offline or predict where you're going. Might be a problem with our patent system, by the way, if that is a legitimate excuse. We all know that they do have some use for it,

but you shouldn't be filing patents if you have no intention on ever using them. It's like, oh, well, I came up with an idea that theoretically could be possible. Let me patent it so that someone when they actually come up with the idea in 20 years has to pay me a bunch of money or can't use it at all. Right. That's why so many, I mean, this is, that's just a separate issue, but it is a bad one in the United States right now. The application is called offline trajectories,

and it's a method to predict where you're going to go next based on your location data. Technology described in the patent would calculate the transition probability based at least in part on your previously logged location data associated with a plurality. Plurality. Plurality of.

users who were at the current location. It will also use the data of other people you know, as well as that of strangers, to make predictions. So it's going to be able to predict you based on what you've done before. It will also predict you because it will go out and look at your friends and what they've done, but also, if I'm reading this right, it will look at your friends and where they are. So if your friends are gathering at some place and you're driving in the general area, likely you're going there. Okay.

You're still not convincing me this is a good use of technology. What do you mean? It's just going to make it easier. It's going to make our lives easier. So you get ads and places where you don't even have the internet. That sounds horrible. I don't like when I get them when I do have the internet. No, they just need to know where you are at all times.

Oh, that's it. That's it. That's it. I mean, because a lot of this stuff is, I've noticed. this with like, you know, like Uber and Lyft type of apps and where they will, you know, you go a certain way, a certain amount of times. They say, oh, this must be your house. This must be your work.

The one that's really funny is the, we have the GPS in my wife's car and it now draws new roads on the map because if we go to a place where they don't have a road mapped a certain amount of times, it realizes, oh, there must be a road there and then draws the road on the map. It's actually remapping kind of in real time, which was very funny because one time I was, was driving down the street and I looked over and I saw this circle on the side of the road and it kind of looks like almost like a dirt road when they draw a new road on there. It was a circle.

It was like a well-defined circle and there was lines all around it. I'm like, what the heck is that? And I pull up and I realize it was crispy cream. It was where my wife had gone to Krispy Cream with a kid so many times it thought it was a road. Oh my gosh. It really happened, which is I don't think probably not good for the diabetes future of my children. No, but you know what? Seriously.

If that happened, think of the, think of the, think of the. implications. If that happened and you did have a problem with Wade or something else, and your health insurance would be alerted that you are going to Krispy Cream a lot. Too many times, yeah. That's a great point. That data is so valuable to them that they will do everything they can to give you things so that you will give that data to them. Right? Like, you know, there's a new Google phone service out. And I, you know, this struck me as interesting as you've been so. Don't do it. Don't do anything, Google. Don't have an Android. Don't use Google Chrome. I keep saying this. I've got to put it in my Google calendar remind myself to get myself off of Google.

Yeah, I know. But it's true. Like they have the phone service and it had like a cool feature to it. I think it was like there's like thousands of like Wi-Fi hotspots that you automatically get access to if you sign up to their plan. And I was thinking myself, you know, I use so much freaking data. It would be great to have just be able to hop on Wi-Fi when you're at some, you know, wherever these things are. It's kind of a cool thing. And you don't have to learn all the passwords. It just automatically does it. And you know what's great about that is Google pays for all of those access for your data. So they're just paying it out of the goodness of their heart.

They just want your life to be easier. And so this giant corporation is just paying those billions of dollars to give you all of those free Wi-Fi hotspots all over the world for everybody. Because they're just those, they're good. They're good people. or they found a way to make more money off of you because they'll have greater access to your information. Hmm. I think it's the second one, Stu.

Hmm. You're just negative. I know. I know. And it's true. I mean, like I think these things a lot of times do actually make your life better. And because of that,

we are losing. It's brave new world. Yeah. You said this before. when we were doing our stage tour, you know, China is doing 1984 and we're doing Brave New World. And it's true. We're doing this completely willingly. We're giving them all the technology.

We're giving them all the information so they can use with their technology. And, you know, it improves your life by like 187th of a percent. And we're like, eh, all right. So they know where I am all the time. Right. And now predictive technology? Remember I told you was yesterday? There was a new thing out now that shows that they can predict.

There's this new scan that can. can predict, they've only tried it on animals, where an animal is going to move next. And it's an incredible thing. Just look it up. Through brain waves, right? Brain waves. And so they're shooting this thing at an animal, and it can see their brain. And the way it sees it, it distorts the animal.

It actually, like, sees the movement of the animal before the animal moves. And they can predict all kinds of behavior on this. Well, this is here they're there. Here's Google saying, hey, we're going to have predict. technology too, just based on what we know about you and your friends, et cetera, et cetera, on where you're going. Just look at France. What's happening in France?

This is the closest to a revolution that France has had for a long, long, long time. This could end in actual revolution in France. You think with all this technology that the governments are not going to say, hey, we need to know where these people are? Of course they will. Of course they will. I mean, China's already. way down that road.

If you tried to have a revolution in China right now, especially in a major city, you'd have no chance of being able to pull it off. Now, again, like, revolutions are a lot of times not so positive. But most times. Most times. There's one example I can think of that was pretty good here in America. Yeah, American Revolution.

I think it's the only one that ended this way. Well, ends with the people who started, right? I mean, it's one thing to start. Ends with the original goal and the original people. And a lot of times we saw this in Egypt and, throughout the Arab awakening, where it was, it winds up being some other powerful group. That's not the first powerful group, but not the kids. The teenagers don't wind up taking over. And they're like, oh, we're really passionate about this this week. And then now we're being crushed by the new government next week.

We talked about this yesterday on the news and why it matters that this is what's happening in France could very well be what happened in Hungary. You know, it was top down, bottom up, inside out. And you want that. You want that. You want. that core of protesters to rise cause chaos in the streets to make everybody say to the government, you've got to stop this. And so the government does. Little do they know the government is not necessarily on their side. And it comes down, clamps down, and you have communist Hungary. So that's exactly how it happened in the 1950s.

They did not want to be a Soviet satellite. But there were riots in the streets and enough people in high places that said, You know, we've got to do this. We have to do that. And next thing you know, the Soviet tanks are rolling in, and they're a communist Soviet satellite. We could see this, except this time they have the technology to stop anybody who is even literally, even thinking that that's a good idea.

The best of the Glenn Beck program. The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment. is the Glembeck program. Mackenzie Adams. She was nine years old. She wanted to be a scientist when she grew up. She excelled in math. She was always bringing home hundreds in her homework.

She also liked to ride her bike, playing with dolls, PlayStation 4. She would record goofy videos with her cousins. But she just killed herself. The family is now having to bury McKenzie on Saturday. Her body was discovered at their home in Alabama by her grandmother. What killed McKenzie Adams?

It's not a new story. It's not a new story. We'll talk to McKenzie's family and see how they're turning a tragedy into possible. some sort of a blessing for others. We do that in 60 seconds. Mackenzie Adams, a little girl who she was nine and committed suicide. I don't even know how that happens to a nine-year-old. This story is so tragic on many levels.

Edwina Harris, the aunt of Mackenzie Adams, is with us now. First of all, Edwina, our deepest, deepest sympathies go out to you and the family. I cannot imagine what you guys are going through now. Thank you. It's been really hard. So, first of all, tell me a little bit about McKenzie. Tell me who she was. McKenzie was a very bubbly little girl, very smart, very funny.

She liked to tell jokes like a granddad. Love family. to travel, the zoo, go out to eat, the beach, you know, just a really sweet, fun, and energetic kid. So she was being bullied in school, and she was being bullied, if I'm not mistaken, because she was friends with a white kid? Is that true? It's more to it, of course. because, you know, of course, she was a cute little girl, you know, had a lot of love. You know, every jealousy is not just what you have, but it's who you have around you as well.

So that was some of it. And the family that she wrote would love her unconditionally as if she was theirs because they only have one child as well. So she was like his sister. They were really, really close. And they would pick her up for school sometimes and she would go in and, and was, Is it white kids or black kids that were, or both that were? It was both. That was bullying her.

It was both. Oh, gosh. Man, does it ever, does it ever get better in Alabama? So, so what was happening with the bullying that you can talk about? Like, what was being said? Basically what you guys have read, the, you know, the name called it a bee. and black digger and on papers. It would say, kill yourself, kill yourself, things like that.

Yeah. And of course, McKenzie, you know, we come, our home, we're Baptist. So she comes from a faith-based home. We go to church. We believe in God and faith and all those things. So what she did is not something that's taught. You know, that's not even something that's even brought up, you know, as far as suicide and killing yourself and death and things of that nature.

So she's taught to love everybody. But the bullying, of course, my mom is a respected individual in this community, which is something that has been lacking to be said because my mom has master's degrees. She worked for D.H.R. and the mental health center as well. So the people that's in the school system has worked with my mom in one form or fashion or another because my mom dealt in children's services. So the talks of bullying, my mom addressed because she knew about it. the talks of how to deal with it.

My mom was, these are the things that she's in her profession has always helped other people get through. So, so, it was a breaking point on that Monday that happened at school that had to have pushed her there because she had a loving environment that wouldn't have. We hear. Right. All she had to do is. Do you know, do you know what happened on Monday that pushed it over the edge? That is something we are still working on. I'm working diligently with Chief Austin to find that information out because, you know, kids have their cell phones.

And there's a lot of things that we're finding that we're still searching and trying to get final answers about. Now, I read that she was a great student, hundreds on all of her tests. But then recently that started to fall apart. So that was a warning sign. that was something was going on. And she did talk to your mother. And the mother did talk to the teachers, right? Absolutely.

My mom went to the school. My sister called school. My mom went up there a couple of times. And as I said, my mom worked with the schools in both cities because of her profession. And they were more so of colleagues. And so she talked to them and they assured her that they would make sure that she'll be fine. She can come talk to them anytime she wanted. If anything was happening,

McKenzie just should let them know. And that was to the assistant principal, to the counselor. And my mom was not able to speak with one of the teachers, but she was able to speak to another one. So, yeah, they assured my mom. And my mom wouldn't keep sending my niece back if she didn't get that assurance from people that she's worked with before. And the main bullying kid,

he was suspended for bullying. earlier, was he not? Now, I don't know about suspension, but I do know he was put in in school suspension. Well, you know, in school, the ISS, not completely suspended from school, which is what he needed to be expelled from school, but he was put in in-school suspension, yes. And with that came documenting documentation, which my mother does possess a carbon copy of that information where that incident took place when he was put in-in-school, suspension and my niece was rode up for standing up for herself.

So I can't, I just, I, you know, I have kids. And at nine years old, I mean, I'm worried about my, you know, my 14 year old son and my 12 year old girl. And I see the rate of suicide going through the roof and something is happening with our kids. But at nine, it's, it's, this is just, it's stunning. And I've been thinking about you guys and praying about you and your family. But I also feel so, I'm so worried about her friend who, I mean, how is, do you have any idea how the family is dealing with us?

So he doesn't feel like my friend just because I was white or just because we were friends or whatever, the reason that she's dead now. I just, this, this is such a tragedy. He's actually at the beach right now. They, I don't, I'm not sure if they're going to return him, which I highly recommend, and that's my recommendation for any parent that really feels in their heart that my mother did what she said, which was went to the school and reported it, that if you feel in your heart that my mother did what she said, because you know my mom, everybody knew there, knows my mom and my dad, their respective individuals.

in this county to move your kids. Because if this is what they want to say, what more will they do if it was your child? If your kids are feeling threatened at school, please move them. Please move them. Because sending your kids out of your home from your protection to give them to someone that will fail to protect them,

that is not a good feeling. I am a mother. I am also in the school systems in Atlanta as well. and I take what I do very seriously. When you have allowed your kids leave your home and come into my possession, they are now my children, and I'm going to protect them in every fiber of my being. I am not a punk educator. I am not scared of these kids that think that bullying is okay.

I stand up to these kids, just as I did in high school. When this happened, an outful of people that I had protected some, I honestly have forgot because it was my heart to do that. if I saw somebody being mistreated, I would step up for them. But I was also one of the popular kids. So I was in ban and chilly and different things like that. But that was my duty in my position just as I have one now in media, in Atlanta, to stand up and be this voice for those people that seem that can't do that.

And those individuals like they're doing, I don't know how this happened to your niece, when all you did was secure me all through high school, all through middle school, or whatever the time frame it was that I protected those individuals. And it wasn't just one or two, you know, 40, 50 different people that, and I was like, oh, my God, I said, girl, what are you? You know, I forgot because that's just who I am. That's just what my family, who my family is. And for it to happen to my niece, it was heartbreaking because nobody stood up for my niece. Nobody, the karma that we've done for people, the good, my niece had to suffer with this.

No teacher stood up like my mom and my dad and myself have stood up in the education school. my aunt that are teachers and professors and, you know, doctors and education. Nobody stood up for my knees. Nobody stood up for my baby. Nobody. Really? You have started a go-fund me page called the McKenzie Foundation. You can find it just by searching for McKenzie Foundation.

And you have a goal of $10,000. You've already gotten $3,000. And you want to focus not just. on the bullied, but you also want to focus on the bully him or herself. In what way? Well, when this happened, some of those guys that I did go to school with, and some people I didn't know, they said, well, when I just want to be honest with you, I was the bully. And the reason I'm telling you is because I trust you, but I also read where the person that I used to bully in school was stating a story how their life is still in turmoil because

they have been bullied for so long in school. So it doesn't stop when you're an adult. These things live with you for the rest of your lives. So said, so many people that I've been reading that have been inboxing me. So I want to bring in those people that have opened up to me and there was a bully. Right now I'm talking with them to see what was happening in your life at this time that made you feel that coming to school to bully someone else was okay. And the stories vary.

It's from things that happen with drug, addiction, it was a single parent home, other family members were bullying them, so they came to school and bullied someone else. So the bully has to heal first, because if we can target and help the bully, they couldn't, they won't bully someone else because it takes a bully for there to be bullying. Edwina Harris, the aunt of McKenzie Adams. my wife and I wish we could be at the funeral on Saturday. I don't know why. I just feel so attached to McKenzie and what she went through and the little boy as well. And I just want you to know that you're in our thoughts and in our prayers and blessings to you and the family.

And may this turn out to be in the long. run, something that will bring honor to McKenzie's name for a long, long time to come. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. If you would like to donate, you can go to GoFundMe. It's the McKenzie Foundation. They're trying to reach $10,000 to be able to have some of these former bullies come in and maybe make a difference.

It's worth a try. Gofundme.com. Right back into programming, this is the Glenbeck program. So up at glenbeck.com today, there is a flashback of something that we did. Stu, I haven't even seen it yet, but it's a flashback of me in 2008 talking about baby, it's cold outside, and saying, well, look how ridiculous this song is. Yeah, you basically predicted all of the terrible thing. that have been said about baby it's cold outside from back in the day. Someone actually speculated after we posted it that, you know,

someone from the left was going through to try to catch you on something from a million years ago, some horrible thing you said, and just thought that this was a good idea. You're mocking the idea that maybe it's cold outside is about date rape. But now that's a thing that's actually believed by every person who says they love social justice online. And you kind of predicted the whole controversy about 10 years ago. First of all, it's a very funny segment. Is it arable still?

Yeah, well, I don't know if it's arable per se. Go listen to it online. Because so much you say, like last week is no longer arable this week. No, I mean, certainly Kevin Hart is finding that out. 10 years old, that's not going to go well. No, but it was really, it's very funny. And you're mocking the idea that someone would think, you know, this is about date rape. But, I mean, if you want to read it that way, if you want to hear the song in that,

You can. You can. It is like, it's very funny in that it can have that meaning. Obviously, that was not the intent. You talked about this yesterday. The intent was actually the exact opposite. The intent was to say it was freeing for women at the time. Yeah, women could make their own sexual decisions.

Women could be coy and play hard to get and say, yeah, I'm going to stay. That was not a role of a woman back when that song was written. You didn't do this. This was a very empowering, a woman, empowering song. Context matters, right? It's supposed to. No, not anymore.

But if you go back and listen to this and it's a very fun Christmas listen, it's at glenbeck.com, we tweeted and put it on Facebook as well. It's worthwhile, especially because you see now today, people who are supposed to be, you know, trustworthy arbiters of culture are making all of the points you're making for real. They're saying these things are really offensive. It's really bizarre. All right, you find that at glenbeck.com. Let me talk to you about, have you ever heard of Jimmy Johns, the sandwich place?

Oh, heard of it. Yeah, okay. I've been there many times. This bastard, Jimmy Johns. Oh, he's just showing off. Oh, no, really? Yeah, he went into a Walmart in Illinois and paid off $81,000 worth of layaway goods, probably only to do it just to get his name in the paper and have everybody.

but he think good thoughts about him. These bastards. What a jerk. Yeah. What a jerk. Clearly not a Christian. You know. And Tyler Perry.

Wow. What a showboat that guy is. Yeah. This is seemingly going around. I think some, some, I guess, someone who sees themselves as a competitor of yours over, what was a daily caller or something. It's like, I never understand this. It's like, if we're all like kind of fighting for conservative values, you know,

I never understand why everyone gets so nasty with each other. always been a bizarre, a bizarre feature, but I guess, you know, it's media, whatever. And I guess they're, they're trying to, uh, to make your, your, your donation look bad. Um, well, because I should have been quiet. I, I did see a theory online. I love this one. That I am so broke that I'm only doing this to look like I'm not broke. Ah, it's brilliant.

That's brilliant. Yeah. If you're living under a bridge, work that magic tonight. Right. Uh, you know, look, I, I, I don't understand that. I mean, you know, Bono used to get beat up all the time, sometimes by conservatives who would say, oh, he's selling these t-shirts and a portion of them is going to, you know, some charity.

I always thought that was great. Yeah, you know, I don't think that was consistent. I don't think most people did because it's a celebrity and he's making a big deal out of it. And they put these in stores all over the country. It's a capitalist thing. And they went after, at the end, they were like, well, only 10% of the money, you know, for these shirts, winds up going to the charities. And it's like, well, that was kind of what was promised.

10% of the proceeds will go to charity and wind up donating millions and millions of dollars to charity through this. And if he didn't talk about it, no one would buy the shirts. If Tyler Perry would have kept this secret, it wouldn't have given me the idea. Or Kid Rock. Kid Rock.

Or Jimmy Johns. Or you, the thousands of people all around the country who heard these ideas and went, I'm going to do that. It's great. It's fantastic. Can we please? relax and just enjoy the holiday spirit. Please.

The best of the Glenn Beck program. So my staff of millennials are talking about adulting. I don't even know what adulting is. And a quarter life crisis. What the heck is a quarter life crisis? Well, we're about to find out. J.P. Pocluda is an author of a book called Welcome to Adulting. And it is taking millennials by storm. Welcome, JP. How are you? Hey, I'm doing so great. Thanks for having me on, Glenn. Appreciate you. You bet.

Okay, so, J.P., what exactly is adulting? Well, it is the practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of a mundane but necessary task. If that sounds like I read that from the dictionary, it's because I did. It's a new word. We just put that in the dictionary last year, and so it is official. So this is something that we used to just do naturally. When you were 18, you were, at least in my household, you were kind of expected

to go out and earn your own way and, you know, you're an adult now. Get out. And now we, why the breakdown of this thing that has always been natural? Well, I don't know that it's always been natural. I mean, I think hindsight is always 20-20 when we look back on, you know, our own development and how we've grown up. And I know what they're saying about millennials and young adults today, the delayed adolescence, they're lazy, narcissistic. I don't think that's entirely true at all. And, uh, and I appreciate, you know, it sounds like we may have a shared perspective on that because it seems like we've all we all need help growing up and exist in different times and whatnot and I when I look at the future I'm hopeful I think these

guys they they need leaders they need people to inspire them but I think they they want to do something great they want to change the world they want to do something bigger than themselves and I hope this is a resource that helps them do that okay so this is part of the this is part of the problem I think with suicides that are rising in millennials and it is that that people just aren't convinced that they can make a difference, that their life has no meaning, that there is no purpose to anything. Is this what the quarter life crisis is about? Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Glenn. I think people are looking for purpose. I think they're looking in the wrong places. I think they have a thousand friends on social media,

you know, a thousand Twitter followers, you know, whatever, but no real relationships, no depth and no meaningful conversations. They're not looking for hope in the right places. And so they despair. You know, they want to be their number one and number two goals of millennials are to be rich and to be famous. And when they hit the wall of pursuing riches and pursuing stardom, they're left despairing and they're looking for more. I will tell you that wealth and fame are gigantic impostors.

And what really led me to my awakening in my 30s was I, you know, I had accomplished a little bit of both and realized that's completely empty and then had no idea where to go and where to find it. Brad Pitt says the same thing. Tom Brady says the same thing. Jim Carrey says the same thing. Russell Brand just came out with a statement saying the same thing. They say my friend Todd says the rich are infinitely better off than the poor because while the poor think riches will bring happiness, the wealthy no better. And I think that's a true statement. and the same is with fame. I will tell you that I don't think there was this spread of misunderstanding between generations when I was a kid.

Maybe between my grandparents and me, because they grew up in the Great Depression, but not my parents and me. I mean, there was a misunderstanding, but things in the world have changed so much that when you talk to millennials now, and I'm 54, you talk to millennials. And it is a different world. They see the world differently. They speak a different language. They understand technology and the world as it's going to be much better. And, you know, I think they have a reason to be a little concerned. If they don't have somebody in their life that's, you know, an older generation going, it's okay.

It's okay. It's really exciting. What you guys are facing is really exciting. And you're going to be able to change the world if you keep your head on your shoulders. Yeah, I think you're right. You have to have someone to talk to. I also think you're pointing to the right challenges with the information age, the boom of technology, you know, carrying a mega computer in our pockets everywhere we go. That does change a person.

And so it's interesting what you say about the gap between you and your parents being smaller. I think that that's probably, I would share your perspective. And at the same time, I think that we all go through something I like to call kind of the younger brother, older brother, which comes, I picked that up from the biblical story, the prodigal son, where I think we're all kind of the older, I mean, the younger brother at some point, and someone is patient with us and, you know, embraces us and extends grace to us. And then, you know, we're with the father and all is right, and we grow up and we overnight become the older brother, and then we just look back with judgment and we don't want to be patient with anyone else. And so I try to, you know,

when I sit with someone, you know, who's young and naive and just like I was, and I'm sure am in ways I can't see right now, just to be patient with them, seek to understand their world, where they're coming from, what is their worldview, and, you know, point them to truth. So what is the number one thing that they are concerned about, and how can people who are listening help them? I think dating, right, at that point in your life, you graduated college and you're trying to figure out how you can convince someone of the opposite sex to spend. the rest of their life with you. Anxiety is a huge felt need right now as you talk about just growing suicide rates and depression rates. I think you have a generation despairing out of control. And so that's a huge felt need. But the biggest one you also touched on, Kingley, is just searching for purpose. I think they're trying to figure out, hey, you know, is there a God, first of all? And if there is, what is his desire for me? And how do I find my purpose in this world? And so

that is, I don't know that that's the felt need. I think the felt need can be more of the dating and anxiety, but the real need, the underlying need is, is, hey, what were you created for? And that's where I think this book, you know, the chapter two is all about purpose and finding your identity. I will tell you, the name of the book is Welcome to Adulting, by the way. And I'll tell you, JP, that I search for answers for a long time. And in my 30s, I had a complete crash. And I lost absolutely everything. And it was only then that I was willing to look at the real answer, which is God. And, you know, he had been just this distant kind of thing that I believed in, but it wasn't really a real relationship, et cetera, et cetera. And I, you know, it's not something

that is being encouraged at all in a large portion of our society now. And, you know, churches, seem so out of touch to so many millennials. I mean, it's different here in the South, but seem completely distant, and God is kind of this distant idea. And we were just listening to some audio from the wildfires in California. I don't think I've heard so many Californians

talk about God ever. You know, when you're, when you are really stripped down, that's when you start to find answers. That's when you, you know, in the midst of human suffering, That's where you find him. And they say there's no atheist in the foxhole.

And we've seen that. We almost saw a great awakening happen with when 9-11 occurred. Whenever tragic hits, we turn to the creator. I've seen the same thing in Haiti when the earthquake hit in 2010. You had the whole country coming around saying, okay, now, you know, turning from Satanism to, okay, we think there's a creator of God. And that's similar to my story, Glenn. I mean, 16 years ago, I was at a bar on a Saturday night and was kind of everything wrong with Dallas and a person was pretentious.

I wanted to be a millionaire before I was 30. You had the Jaguar and the Pinnhouse condo and was, you know, a girlfriend and another, you know, several girls and all of that just in one person. And I was at a bar and someone invited me to church. And I came to Watermark and I sat in the back row and I was hung over. I smelled like smoke for the night before, you know, at the club. And I was addicted to sex. addicted to porn. And I just began to wrestle with, you know, who is God? And really seeking that out. And I looked at all of the world religions because I thought, what are the odds? I'd be born to the right

country. You know, if I was born in China, I'd be Buddhist or India, I'd be Hindu and Iran. I might be Muslim. And so I started studying from scratch. I grew up in the church, but I was just like, really had a bias against Christianity. And as I continued to explore that, I was overwhelmed by the evidence that pointed me to Jesus Christ. And when I surrendered my life to him, just as that person that I described earlier, everything changed. What I did for fun changed, who I hung out with changed, the way I thought changed, the way I talked changed, and ultimately, you know, my profession changed. And so I'm so passionate about helping the next generation reach this generation, we'll call it Gen Y or Gen Z, Millennials, Young Adults. I want to see that goutherst. I want to see

that gap you addressed earlier become narrower and smaller so that, you know, we can raise up because all of us, we know we're going to leave this place and you want to leave a legacy. You want to leave people behind you that are seeking to, you know, live out their purpose in this world. J.P., I'm thrilled to have you on. It sounds like we have a lot of shared experiences and shared belief in the younger generation. I think they get a very bad rap. You know, I've met good and bad, but I've met good and bad in all generations.

This generation is looking. They just don't have anyone encouraging and anyone who is telling them truth. They've been lied to, I think, their whole life. And I have great confidence in them. So thank you so much for what you're doing. And the name of the book is Welcome to Adulting. Welcome to Adulting. Jonathan J.P. Pocluda.

Thanks for being on. We'll talk again. Okay. For the first time in 10 years, new rules on exercising. Remember, I think we're. word butter is okay again, aren't we? Butter was okay, then it was bad, then it was really bad, then it was okay, then it was bad again,

and I think we're back to butter is okay. I think you're right. Okay, so it's a little slower, but for the first time in 10 years, they've come up with new exercise guidelines. And when I say they, I would have had to read the story a little bit more deeper to know who they are,

but I think we all know that's what they want you to believe. And this is all framed as good news, okay? The new exercise guidelines, aren't increasing the recommended amount of exercise for teens and adults. Okay, that sounds like good news. That does sound like news. But they're not decreasing them either. Wow.

So that sucks. However, they do change the definition of exercise a bit, so it is easier to hit. This comes from the Journal of American Medical Association and the Department of Health and Human Services. And if you're not hitting the guidelines that were released in 2008, don't feel bad. Eight and ten people are like, I don't give them flying crap what they say. But here's this subtle but important change. They no longer define exercise as an activity that last at least 10 minutes. So now, how many minutes is it?

No, it doesn't, just any kind of, any kind of heart rate increase. You can count that time for any length of time. So now, if that's true, sex counts for most people. There you go. You know, you can. I will say, too, I'm not going to start exercising more. I am going to be closer to the minimum amount of exercise I need to do. Correct.

Because zero is closer to whatever they're saying now than 10. Yes. So if you just park a little bit further away from your office, that counts now as exercise. And that's a good thing to do if there are no spots that are closer than the one that you're going to. That's right. They say you don't have to go to the gym for 10, 15 or 30 minutes, which I don't have to worry about crossing that off my kids. calendar because I'm not doing it now. Although that will lower your exercise.

Now they're swiping. They. Calendar vent off. You're right. So I am exercising. Well, no, I can't cross it off. I could put it in and then cross it off and I'm doing double the exercise. They say it's still two to two point five to five hours of moderate intensity exercise or one point two five. No, this is per week.

Or one point two five to two point five hours of vigorous intensity exercise. exercise per week. Five hours. The seven day one, right? I know. I can watch five hours of television or Netflix, but I can't walk for five hours. That's just... They do keep...

I feel like I don't know if these studies are actually showing this or they're just dumbing it down. Like there was a study that came out a few years ago that said it's as effective to do 10 minutes of high intensity exercise as it is to do like 45 minutes to an hour of lower intensity exercise and that seems like like 10 minutes of course I can do 10 minutes and I mean I that's kind of makes some sense to me like

because it's high intensity but the other part of me just thinks they're just like well let's get them to do one minute if we say 10 maybe they'll do one they're just so round and blubbery can we at least you're not all Santa Claus guys despite

we just don't want to look like the cartoon Wally you know you don't want to look because I think that's what we're all going to turn into um so So when you're looking at the high-intensity exercise, do you remember when we first met Ray Kurzweil in 2006? Yes. Ray Kurzweil is a, you know, futurist. He's a transhumanist.

He takes like 600 tablets of different minerals and everything else a day. Yeah. Yeah, he's like, I mean, you'd be swallowing pills all day. Would you get full by that? I don't know. I feel like he wouldn't want to eat anything else. You'd just be filled with pills all the time. So he's taking all of these supplements.

every single day and he really watches everything. And he invented this exercise machine that is a total body workout. And I remember looking at it because he said, you do use it for five minutes a day and you got everything you need. And the guy's in really good shape. And when I met him in 06, he had just started looking at his five years before, started checking his actual physical age of his tissue. I don't even know how you do this. But he had gone back eight years in physical age when I had seen him the next time. This is the thing that's not like the Sky Mall magazine, isn't it?

It was like one of those devices where you're... It might have been one of those. But I think he came up with it and he uses it every day. And everybody then said, oh, no, that's nothing because you can't do it for five minutes and that won't help you at all. And he was a guy going, yeah, no, it helps a lot. Do it. So I'm only fat because the government said, I could. couldn't not be fat in five minutes.

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