The Glenn Beck Program - You Know You've Made It When the EU Tries to Sanction You | Guests: Gina Carano & Alan Dershowitz | 2/8/24

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

The European Union is calling for sanctions and travel bans for Tucker Carlson in retaliation for interviewing Vladimir Putin. Glenn explains the thought process behind his latest Blaze News article r...egarding freedom and fascism. Glenn and Pat react to the fact that America spends $1 TRILLION every 100 days. Glenn and Pat listen to the arguments before the Supreme Court regarding Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot. How can Trump be removed from ballots, using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, if he hasn’t been charged with insurrection? Glenn speaks with Todd and Krista Kolstad, whose daughter was taken from them allegedly because they refused to provide transgender medical treatment. Actress Gina Carano joins to discuss her lawsuit against Disney, funded by X owner Elon Musk. Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz joins to analyze the argument before the Supreme Court regarding Trump’s ballot eligibility.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:05:39 goes in and gets the other side, you put them on a kill list. Don't you? Hmm. Don't you? I mean, I think it's great. Nobody's even seen the interview yet. They don't even know what the questions were to Putin. It's not posted until what.
Starting point is 00:05:54 But five o'clock tonight, I think. Yeah, but wait, wait, wait. But does it matter, Pat? Does it matter what the questions are? No, it doesn't. And does it matter to you? I mean, he still has a right to go. Oh, of course you.
Starting point is 00:06:07 It matters to me personally. I mean, I'm hopeful that he's going to ask some tough questions of Putin. But should he be able to as a journalist go over there and interview him? Yes, a million have done that. Why is it okay for Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters and all the rest to have done it? But now all of a sudden, it's off limit. to Tucker Carlson. It's unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Members of the European Parliament are calling for sanctions against Tucker Carlson. Man, I mean, that's real accomplishment there. You know what I mean? And the European Parliament's coming after you. Carlson posted a video on X announcing that he was going to do the Moscow interview with Putin. And the former prime minister of Belgium said the bloc should consider imposing a travel ban for serving as a mouthpiece for Putin. He doesn't know that.
Starting point is 00:06:54 They don't know that yet. You haven't heard the interview. And he's a journalist. My gosh, where were you when everybody was hyping up Hitler? So it drops tonight. And here's how I'm going to watch it. And I would like to get your opinion, Pat, on what to look for in this interview. First of all, we know Megan Kelly has talked about.
Starting point is 00:07:21 And you know this going in and talk. are smart enough to know this. Putin is very good at propaganda. And he's a KGB guy. Okay. So he knows how to manipulate people. And he knows that there are people looking for an American dictator in America. They're tired of, I told you this. This is how communists take over.
Starting point is 00:07:45 They infiltrate the government and then they activate the people that are on the streets, grassroots, to cause all kinds of problems. until the people in the middle are like, somebody has got to stop this, and that's when the top comes down. So there are people that are looking for a dictator just to make all this stop. I am not one of them. I think this is the worst possible scenario. But Dugan would be pushing, Alexander Dugan, if you don't know who he is, listen to some of the old shows or just look him up. Very dangerous guy.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Very, very dangerous. he would be pushing Putin to talk about our immorality, transgenderism, our loss of faith. Tucker has got to keep this on the rails. This is not about America. We could talk about that all day long, but I don't want to hear that from Vladimir Putin. We're here to talk to you about the American involvement in this war in Ukraine,
Starting point is 00:08:47 not our internal policy. But I, I, Tucker will have. have lost control of the interview if he allows Putin to go on about America's immorality more than once. You can let him say that once and then you got to say, Mr. Putin, this is not about America. We have our own problems. But I don't think it's appropriate to talk to you about our internal policy. I'm here to talk to you about NATO, even the American War machine, if you want to call it that. I want to hear why you're in Ukraine. Are you willing to look for peace? What would that look like? So look for Putin to spin this whole thing into transgenderism and what's
Starting point is 00:09:37 happening in our schools. Because that then is propaganda. We know who Putin is. We know how he stops drugs on the streets. We know how he treats media members who speak out about him in a negative way, they usually fall from their apartment window, or they go up to a higher floor and then jump from that wall, or I'm sorry, fall out of that window. Happens all the time. He has to talk about a peace deal, even the drones that have come from Ukraine, from us, NATO, all of that. Tucker also says, we've been lied to.
Starting point is 00:10:13 I want to know about what. We know our problems. now let's hear solutions to the war and what the truth is on war. That's what I'm looking for tonight from Tucker. I hope that's what he does. If he keeps it on track like that, it'd be a great interview. It'd be a great interview. Because nobody's ever heard from Putin why the invasion took place in the first place.
Starting point is 00:10:45 why did you invade at this time? What are you talking about, the Nazis that are involved in Ukraine? Explain that to me. Who's a Nazi in Ukraine? Are you saying Volatimir Zelensky is a Nazi? No, there is, you know, because we did this, when Trump was being impeached, and remember that huge chalkboard I did, Pat, it had all of this in it. There are Nazis, and the Ukrainian government.
Starting point is 00:11:15 has been funding them on the border for security. There are some really, really bad guys. There's nobody that's good in this. I mean, nobody. Nobody that's a good guy in this. Either side, Zelensky or Putin. I personally just, they should work it out. The reason why I think Putin did this is because we refuse to say,
Starting point is 00:11:43 no, we've made a promise from the very, beginning, it wasn't written down, but we're people of honor. We will not allow Ukraine into NATO. We won't let Ukraine be overrun by you, but we're also not going to let them into NATO. That's all that Putin was asking for at first. And that was violated. I mean, that's just a fact. That's just a fact. And so they went back on that promise that we weren't going to allow them into or invite them into NATO. And we did that. So that was that was a problem of our making. So there's a there's an article out by me, an op-ed out by me on Blaze Media about being a fascist. If you're on the side of freedom, you cannot be a fascist. Let me explain this.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Fascist is the label of choice from the left to silence any and everybody. You're a fascist. You're a fascist. And when you hear fascist, you think of concentration camps, as you should, because those are usually a product of fascism in the end, because you have to get rid of your political opponents because they are standing in the way of progress. So unless you're in a free state, you can't have people who disagree with you. That's really important. What's happening with Tucker Carlson in the EU? What's happening? What do they want to do to Tucker Carlson? You're in a free state. You have a First Amendment right to be able to have unfettered access to press, and the press can ask whatever it is they want. The first definition of freedom is being able to speak your mind. So the first thing that you'll notice about fascism is it has to silence the voices that disagree. Okay. I will invite and have invited anybody and everybody on this program. They're choosing not to.
Starting point is 00:13:48 That's fine. That's up to them. But don't try to silence me. I'm not trying to silence you. If there is fascism in the country, it is coming from the left. And you should not throw the word fascist around. It's never really fit in the United States up until. recently, maybe in the last 15 years, we've started moving towards that. First, I thought we were
Starting point is 00:14:16 moving towards communism, but we're not moving towards communism. The difference between communism and fascism, communism is collective. So it's, we're all in this together and the individual doesn't matter. We have to do its right for the collective. But communism takes that a step further and says, therefore, the state shall own and run everything. And they'll tell you where you're going to work, what you're going to do, all of it. Fascism is different. Fascism allows the people to own their own property, own their own things with the illusion of running them. Okay. And so the state gets involved every step of the way. And this is why fascism eventually falls apart. because you start to get into price controls and everything else,
Starting point is 00:15:10 and you start just telling these companies what they can and cannot make. And the government can't central, centralized power never works. You can't have central command for, you know, some sort of capitalism, if you could even call that. Now, the reason why I'm bringing this up is because yesterday, Janet Yellen was asked by Iona Presley, she asked Janet Yellen's secretary of the treasury if racism posed a threat to the American financial system. Well, yes, of course, said Secretary Yellen.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Financial institutions perpetuate and benefit from racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, Yellen said it could be, and it is one of the factors that Dodd-Frank told us to take into account considering designations. So what her point was, why Presley brought this up, was because is racism a problem that the Treasury is looking at? The Treasury should not be looking at racism. The Treasury should be looking at basic laws for finance. So Presley said there's a drugstore in Walgreens. And Walgreens in Roxbury, Massachusetts, they closed and they said it was because of crime. but that's life-threatening, and it's based on racial discrimination and economic grounds.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Okay? So what she's saying is Walgreens, even though they said they cannot open their doors because they're robbed every day and no one can have business, Presley says the government should consider that racism. and therefore tell Walmart or Walgreens exactly what to do. I'm sorry, you're not closing down there. You have to keep it open. That's fascism, gang. That is fascism.
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Starting point is 00:18:03 monitored on what you do. You do have a right to privacy. If everybody is tracking what you do, what you look at, AI can put together, well, for instance, if you're looking up a bunch of different drugs, AI can put together and go, oh, he's making crack cocaine, or, oh, he's trying to find out where he can buy this to kill his wife and barrier in the backyard. And you'd say, that's good. But if you're in fascism and you have giant overlords that are watching over you on everything, you can't come up with a better mouse trap. You can't have government watching your every move.
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Starting point is 00:21:10 First thing. And it was all about LGBTQ because the people in Germany were like, all of our, you know, everything that made us a German republic is being destroyed by the Weimar Republic. And these morals and changing men into women, it's got to stop. well, the Nazis answered that question with book burnings. And so it usually starts that way. And we have to be really, really careful. Europe is already up in arms because Donald Trump got us out of the Paris Accords.
Starting point is 00:21:47 So we are a few years behind Europe. But farmers in France and Germany all over Europe, Sweden, Italy, they are all en masse rising up. And it's all because the price of diesel fuel, the idea that you can't use insecticides or you can't use fertilizer anymore. And you have to reduce the herd size that you have of animals for meat. They know they can't survive. The government is offering handouts to, you know, no, we'll help you survive. to reduce the size of their food input. If you get rid of fertilizer, you reduce the crops by 40 to 50%.
Starting point is 00:22:37 People are going to starve. Farmers are going to lose their farms, and we'll get a bunch of experts in a giant corporation to run them then, huh? You need to watch last night's TV show. It's available everywhere, including on the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck. Or on blazTV.com, come and support us, watch last night special on what's really happening.
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Starting point is 00:25:09 but he keeps, I mean, he's got like, not nine lives. He has the lives of nine cats. And he just keeps chugging along. This has been a very, very frightening one. He has been in the hospital since last week, and they're taking him off life support today in hopes that his body will be able to function. But he's on 24-hour dialysis and, you know, heart medicine to keep his heart going and none of those can be you know you can't walk around with a dialysis machine um and uh and so we're taking him off today and then i think it's tomorrow
Starting point is 00:25:54 he'll have the regular three hour dialysis which is a real shock to your body i mean it's you know taking all your blood out cleaning it and pushing it back in in a three hour period and it's been it's been screwing up his heart and his liver. I mean, it's just the body is such an amazing thing. And when you see what it takes, what kind of machinery it takes to, you know, clean your blood, which a small little organ does in your body,
Starting point is 00:26:22 two little organs, your kidneys, it's incredible how people don't go, yeah, you know what, I think there's, you know, it's not Lincoln logs. And when one thing goes wrong with your body, it just starts to cascade. And it's amazing.
Starting point is 00:26:38 So I'm going to be dealing with that this weekend. Please keep him and the family. As we also heard, the kid's aunt, who has been fighting cancer, was just put into the hospital. And this may be her last weekend as well, just in another hospital down the street. Yikes. So it's, yeah, it's going to be, hey, happy birthday, Glenn. It's my 60th tomorrow. You know, it's almost like God is saying, you get the point yet.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Do you understand the point yet? Yes, I do. Okay. I get it. So. Well, it's good that we've got surprises and planned for your birth. Oh, shut up. Celebration tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Pat, what is this really? Seriously. I can't tell you. I've been hearing from. I can. But I told them, you know, your producers came to me and they're like, what? We're going to do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, he doesn't like surprise.
Starting point is 00:27:33 surprises on the air. You know that, right? I like surprises off the air. Yeah, not on the air. Not on the air. Right. They usually don't go well is what I told them. So, but they think this is going to go really well. So I'm excited about it. Oh, no. Do you know what it is? I don't know exactly precisely. I know some. I know some people and some things. But not everything. Nobody cares. Honestly, nobody cares. Lots of people are having their 60th birthday. You know, I'm not alone in that. And nobody cares. If you want to do something, did you tell them this?
Starting point is 00:28:15 If you want to do something, what would I like, Pat? What would I like on the air? If you're going to do something marking my birthday? A roast. Yeah, a giant wrecking ball on me. I would love that. I would love that. Right.
Starting point is 00:28:30 But, mocking you, making fun of you. Mocking me, you know, putting me in a wheelchair for the day. You know, Jeffrey and I can handle that part of it. Well, could you, could you balance this out if it's going to be. I think I think I could do that. And keep it, keep, as my uncle Leo's used to say, keep it short. Yes. But a short.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Yeah. Okay. So that's tomorrow? So that's tomorrow. Mm-hmm. What if I suddenly get sick? Oh, that would, you know, we'd have to do it without you. I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:29:02 It might be better. All right. So let's see. There's a couple of other things that are going on. The U.S. debt on a pace now to top $54 trillion by 20, 30, what would it be? It was 10 years. So that's not bad, right? It's not a quad trillion yet.
Starting point is 00:29:28 No. Come on. long way from a quadrillion. It's a long way from a quadrillion. So that's a good thing. I love the stat and repeat this often, that it took us from George Washington to Ronald Reagan in 1980 to accrue one trillion dollars in debt. Now we do it every 100 days. A trillion more every 100 days. You remember when a trillion used to mean something? Yeah. Honestly, I cannot, when I look at, you know, $50 million, a government just wasted $50 million. You're like, you don't even think about that anymore.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Yeah, you're like, so big deal. Why is anybody talking about $40 million? Oh, big deal. If it's billion, you even kind of think. Yeah, you barely pay attention to that. Wait, you're only talking about $60 billion to go to U-Train? Man, why am I opposed to that? Right.
Starting point is 00:30:26 I mean, we do that all day. We've wasted that. by this afternoon. Yep. What do you, you know, do you remember, Barack Obama did, what was it, 700, I can remember the number, I think, 787 billion dollar stimulus package. Wasn't that the number?
Starting point is 00:30:44 Yes, that was the number. You know me. I don't remember numbers. I don't remember facts like that. Yeah. 787 billion. That was in 2008 after the collapse and it was so, it started the Tea Party. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:57 Because everybody said seven. $7877 billion. That's crazy. That's almost a trillion. Yeah, right. We're doing a trillion dollars every 100 days. There's over 300 days in a year. It's madness. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It's crazy. Madness. So that's more than $3 trillion a year. Three and a half trillion a year. And still, you know, the things that America should be in the streets revolting about. We don't even, we don't even bat an eye at. So why is that?
Starting point is 00:31:34 Why is that? Are we, I've been thinking about this a lot. I think we've beaten down for one thing. I think we've just been beaten down and we don't think that anything works and nobody listens to us. And it doesn't matter. And why are they working so hard to silence all of us? I know.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Seriously, if it doesn't work, why are they working so hard? Look at Tucker Carlson went over and did an interview. the EU wants to ban his travel all across Europe because now he's an enemy of the state. All he did was go over and talk to Putin, put it on film, and bring it back and show it. Are you kidding me? That makes you an enemy of the state, A, fascism. B, it should tell you why they are trying to silence voices and your voice, quite honestly. they're trying to silence everybody.
Starting point is 00:32:29 They are afraid of you. I don't know why we don't get that. I really, I don't. I don't. And, you know, there's a story from the AP News today. Millions of Americans are juggling costs. They pay rent or swim team fees for their kids. Rent or school supply, rent or groceries.
Starting point is 00:32:56 What do you pay for? most Americans cannot afford their a record number of Americans can no longer make ends meet and afford their rent. The latest data from the Harvard Joint Center of Housing Studies found that a record 22.4 million renter households, half of the renters are spending more than 30% of their income on rent in 2022. The number of affordable units, which rents under 600, also dropped to 7.2 million that year, 2.1 fewer than the decade earlier. So there is a record number of eviction filings, a record number of people becoming homeless. What do you think is causing this? God, I just get so frustrated with people. What is causing this?
Starting point is 00:33:52 Capitalism. No, it's not. capitalism, especially when it's not crony capitalism, which isn't capitalism. That's the beginning of fascism, okay? Man, what is wrong with the left? What are wrong with all those Democrats who used to say, you can't be in bed, the government should not be given corporate welfare. They're doing so much more than corporate welfare now.
Starting point is 00:34:18 What is wrong with you, people? What happened to you? And they're just ignoring. laws all over the country. You see what's happening in Atlanta right now? Over 1,200 homes have been taken over by squatters. Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods. Police response to evict them is so slow.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave. They pay the people to please leave my house. And the cops are telling them, yeah, there's nothing we can do. We can't remove them. So when? because this is what will happen in rich neighborhoods. Well, it already happens. You know, they throw a wall around and put a gate out front,
Starting point is 00:35:00 and then they hire their own personal security. Right. How long before neighborhoods that can afford it? See, this is why it hurts the poor first. When you get rid of the police, it hurts the poor first. Yes. And it almost never goes away because the poor cannot, afford to have their own security. The rich will get their own security in their neighborhoods.
Starting point is 00:35:30 You already pay for that. And quite honestly, rich people pay for that in your, in your neighborhood as well. Most people in very poor neighborhoods are not paying taxes. So who pays for the cops? The rich people you're trying to get rid of. Oh my gosh. I, I, uh, you ever think you've lived too long? Oh, man. I mean, how many years, Pat, did we spend just being so stupid? And I have a feeling if we could live another 30 years, we'd look at ourselves today and go, oh my gosh, we were so stupid. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:11 Don't you think? Oh, I do. I mean, yeah. Look at all of the things. And this is another frustrating thing. look at how far we've come towards the traditional ACLU kind of person. You know what I mean? I don't hate America and I'm not for communism.
Starting point is 00:36:29 But I am for, you know, standing up for the people who are just being railroaded. I'm standing up for people who can't get an attorney. I'm for an end to all of these crazy wars. Oh, yeah. I'm totally against all the corporate welfare. Totally. I no longer think, oh, you know, corporations, they can't ever get that. But yes, they can.
Starting point is 00:37:00 And they are. And I'm actually becoming very, in a way, very anti-rich. And not rich, I guess, elite. I mean, when I see Mark Zuckerberg tell everybody. And there's a big difference there. There is. There is. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:37:17 You know, when I see Zuckerberg tell everybody, hey, you can't eat meat. And then he starts a ranch where he's feeding his beef macadamia nuts. So they'll be so expensive that only the elite will be able to buy them. I just, I about lose my mind. I'm about lose my mind. Okay. Back in just a second. First, there is an enormous economic upheaval that is headed our way right now.
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Starting point is 00:39:46 It's so bad for the average American. We're even being priced out of McDonald's right now. McDonald's CEO admitted the Burger Giant sales have taken a hit because of their jacked-up menu prices that are turning off their core customers. and it signals the chain's plans to focus on affordability this year. Huh. They've taken a little bit of heat over a Big Mac combo meal priced at about $18 in certain places. Like Connecticut, for instance.
Starting point is 00:40:21 It's hurt their sales, as you can maybe imagine. McDonald's CEO, Chris Kambinsky, said, I think you're going to see going in, into 2024, probably more attention to what I would describe as affordability. Yeah, that would be nice. Because what they've realized is income, low-income customers, people making less than $45,000 is how they define that, have largely stopped ordering from McDonald's because it's more affordable to eat at home than it is at McDonald's. last week, McDonald's Outpost in Connecticut
Starting point is 00:41:03 was slammed for its outrageous prices after customers were charged $7.29, $7.29 and $29 for an egg McMuffin and almost $6 for a side of hash browns. A quarter pounder with cheese and bacon that came with fries and a soda, $19. At McDonald's. Yeah, that's an issue.
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Starting point is 00:42:19 like the own own own oner. Hello, America. Well, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in just a few minutes
Starting point is 00:43:15 in Trump v. Anderson. The appeal from the president of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision, finding him ineligible to appear on the state's ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This will have ramifications if the Supreme Court is not careful.
Starting point is 00:43:38 For the rest of the Republic, shall it live very much longer? We're going to listen in on the oral arguments as they happen live. We also have the two parents that claim to have lost their children to the state, their daughter, to the state because their daughter is saying she's a he and wants to transition. And they say that goes against everything we believe in. The state took the daughter away. But the state says, no, no, no, not because of that. Well, is there corruption in a department of, you know, child and filth
Starting point is 00:44:18 Family services. Is that possible? We've seen that before because the governor, a Republican, is standing against the parents. We want to hear their side, and we've invited the governor on to come on and tell us his side, too. I don't know what exactly is happening in this case, but something doesn't smell right. We'll get into that as well. Court case begins. 60 seconds. Stand by. First, let me tell you about our sponsor at this half hour. It's real estate agents. I trust teamwork. Teamwork makes dream work people. Come on people, let's do dream work. That's a phrase that, you know, could apply now in the real estate game. Buying and selling a home is difficult enough during the normal economic times. And I think we can agree these are not normal economic times.
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Starting point is 00:45:52 Stubergear, who seems to be on some sort of, I don't know, French schedule or something, but glad to have you here, Pat. Good to be here. Yeah. Very excited. So, we're just, I was just talking Pat off the ledge during the break.
Starting point is 00:46:10 He was, I mean, I thought, I thought, you know, if Putin was behind him, he could push him right out the window, right now and Pat would be dead because he was on the ledge. I was. And saying there's no hope. Well, we were just watching Molly Hemingway to speak about the things in her book rigged, how the media, big tech and the Democrats seized our elections.
Starting point is 00:46:33 Right. And here's what we were listening to for Blaze News at the top of the hour. Listen. Instead of having election administration that is rigorously nonpartisan and impartial under the law, we have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by partisan oligarchs and their armies of activists who use those offices and their authorities to tilt the election toward favored candidates. Instead of voters being able to vote for the candidate of their choice, powerful interests backed by wealthy oligarchs are working to remove the most popular candidate
Starting point is 00:47:09 and the ruling party's chief opponent from the ballot in a move for, reminiscent of Soviet Russia. And if that weren't enough, instead of the top candidates chosen by the people being able to fully engage in a vigorous campaign heading into an election, we have one side actively attempting to throw its opponent in prison
Starting point is 00:47:29 and bankrupt his family. Again, reminiscent of Soviet Russia. Hmm. Mm-hmm. So Pat wasn't feeling real optimistic after that. No. No, because what she said is true. True. That is happening. Yeah, it is. It is happening.
Starting point is 00:47:45 But here is the thing. First of all, it hasn't happened. If the election is close, you can throw it. One way or the other, you could throw it. If the election is, you know, five to ten points out, you can't throw that without being very, very obvious. This is this. What we're looking at is an election. We don't even know if this is going to be the election.
Starting point is 00:48:11 We don't know if Joe Biden. is even going to be the candidate. I think there's growing evidence that he's not. And the oral arguments that are being heard right now in the Supreme Court. In fact, can we bring this up? By altering the Constitution's qualifications for federal office. This is live in the Supreme Court. It is no different from a state residency law that requires members of Congress to inhabit the state prior to election day, when the Constitution requires only that members of Congress inhabit the state that they represent, when elected. In both situations, a state is accelerating the deadline to meet a constitutionally imposed qualification and is thereby violating the holding of term limits. And in this situation,
Starting point is 00:48:59 a ruling from this court that affirms the decision below would not only violate term limits, but take away the votes of potentially tens of millions of Americans. I welcome the court's This is the president's attorney, President Trump. You didn't spend much time. Clarence Thomas's voice. With respect to whether or not Section 3 is self-executing. So would you address that? And in doing that, your argument is that it's not self-executing, but then in that case, what would the role of the state be?
Starting point is 00:49:35 Or is it entirely up to Congress? to implement the disqualification in Section 3. It is entirely up to Congress, Justice Thomas. And our argument goes beyond actually saying that Section 3 is non-self-executing. We need to say something more than that, because a non-self-executing treaty or a non-self-executing constitutional provision
Starting point is 00:49:58 normally can still be enforced by a state if it chooses to enact legislation. The holding of Griffin's case goes beyond even that by saying that a state is not allowed to implement or enforce. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment unless and until Congress enacts implementing legislation allowing it to do so. So under Griffin's case, which we believe is correctly decided, the Anderson litigants disagree with us on that point. But if this court were to adhere to the
Starting point is 00:50:22 holding of Griffin's case, there would not be any role for the states in enforcing Section 3 unless Congress were to enact a statute that gives them that authority. Counsel. Okay. So let me explain what they're talking about. They're talking about, and by the way, I want to get back to Pat's hope. First of all, there's hope here. Second of all, more importantly, I do know the one thing I know about God is that there is no waste in his doings. There's nothing wasted. I wasted most of my life, but he took all the bad things that I did and turned them around on me to where it's actually helped me now that I'm on the right track. So there's no waste.
Starting point is 00:51:06 every loss is another step closer to his vision being executed. And you have to remember that because at the end, you'll look at this and go, how did that happen? How did that happen? And the answer will be God. Okay. Now, Section 3, this is the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. No person shall be a senator, representative of Congress, or elector of president and vice president. or hold any office civil or military under the United States or under any state who has previously
Starting point is 00:51:44 taken an oath as a member to Congress or as an officer in the United States or as a member of any state legislature or as an executive or judicial offer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. but Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each house remove such a disability. So the Constitution says if you have given aid and comfort or you've engaged in an insurrection. And they're saying that Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection. However, nowhere, nowhere in any law in the United States, are you guilty until proven innocent.
Starting point is 00:52:31 You have to, you can make the charge, but that doesn't. make it true. And of all of the litigations, everything that is being filed in court, how many of them? Seven thousand different court cases coming against him. Not one is charging him with insurrection. Not one or rebellion or giving aid and comfort. Not one. Why? Because they know they can't win that. So the argument, one of the arguments is the state can't say this. This, first of all, has to be charged and then the Constitution says that if that's who he is, if that's what they did, then he can't serve. But Congress can vote to remove that should they care to. This was all because of the Civil War.
Starting point is 00:53:21 This is an old-timey law that has never applied since the Civil War. Just want you to know. It was set up for the Confederacy. Yes. So they wouldn't retake power in the United States. states and they're trying to use it against Donald Trump, a guy who they just throw out the word insurrection about, and then that's supposed to scare all the states to take him off the ballot. But it's not to scare the states.
Starting point is 00:53:50 This is all coordinated. There's a billion dollars at least behind all of this stuff, and it's very well coordinated. They're trying to cause chaos. That's the first thing. They're trying to challenge everything to make it impossible to be a supporter of Trump or to be Donald Trump or to ever want to be like Donald Trump and stand against the machine. They're trying to make it absolutely impossible and teach everyone, we are going to tie you in court until you're either in jail, dead, or broke. But we'll break you. That's what the state is trying to do right now.
Starting point is 00:54:33 And when I say the state, I actually mean the leftist organizations and the, and Molly had it right, the oligarchs that, that are part of this, this cabal to change the way America works. And this is going to have far-reaching ramifications. This is not good. Not good. That's why. It's why the Supreme Court needs to rule correctly on this for a change. I mean, it's been tough. Even with the so-called conservative court, some of the decisions they've made are far from conservative.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Right. So they're arguing now Trump should be removed from the ballot because of his alleged role in recruiting, inciting, inciting, and encouraging a violent mob. Wow. Wow. Then they told the Supreme Court in the brief, the former president fails to even acknowledge the most damning. evidence against him. Take me into a court of law. So Trump, his counter is officer of the United States. He did not engage in insurrection. Only Congress can enforce Section 3. That's what he was saying, just making that case a minute
Starting point is 00:55:50 ago. The amendment only prohibits holding office rather than appearing on the ballot. and that the ruling violates Colorado's election code. So it says he can't serve. It doesn't say he can't run. No prosecutor has attempted to charge President Trump with insurrection under the U.S. Code in the three years since January 6, 2021. They don't think that this is going to be the strongest case. I think it is, but I'm not an attorney. but they think that it will be on
Starting point is 00:56:27 the Section 3 the Amendment only prohibits holding office not running and being on a ballot. They think that that's the one that they're going to do because they want to make it very, very narrow so it doesn't affect anything but this case. Can we listen in a little bit more? It did away with it later, but that has nothing to say
Starting point is 00:56:48 with respect to what Section 3 is. So do Mayor. Can we get to the issue which is, I think, one that I go back to that I started with, and very briefly, what sense does it say that states can't enforce Section 3 against their own officials? I mean, I think logically those are two separate issues in my mind. Can states enforce the insurrection clause against their own office holders, or can they enforce it against federal officials,
Starting point is 00:57:27 or can they enforce it against the president? Those are all three different questions in my mind. And the answer to all three of those questions turns on whether this court agrees with the holding of Griffin's case. If Griffin's case is the proper enunciation of the law, then a state cannot do any of the things Your Honor suggested unless Congress gives it authority to do so. So a non-precedential decision that relies on policy doesn't look at the language, doesn't look at the history, doesn't analyze anything than the disruption that such a suit would bring, you want us to credit as presidential.
Starting point is 00:58:07 Because Congress relied on Griffin's case when it enacted the Enforcement Act of 1870 and established... So Mr. Mitchell, if I may interrupt, but just to clarify, I mean, this sounds like your reply brief. where it sounds like you're not making a constitutional argument, you're really making a statutory preemption argument. And is that what you're doing here? You're not saying that the Constitution gives you this rule. It's the kind of combination of Griffin's case plus the way Congress acted after Griffin's case
Starting point is 00:58:40 that gives you the rule? That's exactly right, Justice Kagan. Because we have implementing legislation, Congress took up the invitation provided by Griffin's case and established Ritz of Quaranto in the 18th,000. in the 1870 Enforcement Act. Later repealed them. The only enforcement legislation that's currently on the books is the insurrection criminal statute, Section 2383. And when Congress made all of these decisions, the initial enactment of the Enforcement Act in 1870, the repeal of the Coruarto provisions in
Starting point is 00:59:05 1948, all of those were made with Griffin's case as the backdrop. Please. Well, the understanding was that these congressionally established remedies would be exclusive of state court remedies. So there's not an express statement of preemption in these statutes, but there didn't need to be because Griffin's case provided the back. And if I could just understand the argument a little bit better, suppose that we took all of that away. You know, suppose there were no Griffin's case
Starting point is 00:59:27 and there were no subsequent congressional enactment. What do you then think the rule would be? So just as a matter of first principles without Griffin's case, it's a much harder argument for us to make because normally, I mean, every other provision of the 14th Amendment has been treated as self-executing. What we would argue, and that's hypothetical that Your Honor has suggested, is that there are practical considerations unique to Section 3 that counsel in favor of a rule similar to what Chief Justice Chase spelled out in Griffin's case.
Starting point is 00:59:54 And it goes to, I think, the policy concerns he talks about where this was a case, Griffin's case involved. So they really seem to be pressing. Now, again, we've heard the two liberal judges, but they are pressing the Trump lawyer is quite hard. I'm reading about the Griffin case. I can't make heads or tails of it. a quick shorthand, but we do have after the court case, which should last near her and end by,
Starting point is 01:00:23 and in at least probably an hour, we have, we have Alan Dershowitz on with us just a second, and he's watching it right now, and he's going to be giving us his notes on what he thinks it all means coming up in just a little while. Stand by first. Please let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour,
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Starting point is 01:02:34 This is Samuel Alito. You must have been free from this disqualification at an earlier point in time than second. Section 3 specifies. I think the answer to your question, Justice Alito, depends on how you interpret the word enforce in Section 5. And some members of this Court, such as Justice Scalia, thought that enforce means you can do nothing more than an act legislation that mirrors the 14th Amendment self-executing requirements, and you can't go an inch beyond that. That's not the current
Starting point is 01:03:04 jurisprudence of this Court. Well, all right. You must decide whether it's congruent and proportional, and we would get into the question of whether that would be congruent and proportional. Well, let me shift here. What are you thinking? I don't understand why nobody's talking about the fact that how can you enforce this clause against someone who hasn't been tried, let alone convicted of insurrection? How is it even an issue? I don't even know.
Starting point is 01:03:30 I don't understand that. Why aren't they arguing that? Because I think that goes back to the Griffin case. The Griffin case was about this person that was in a conspiracy. you know, for the Civil War. Yeah. Upheld the federal conviction no matter what happened at a lower case, I think. But we're going to get Alan Dershowitz on in a minute.
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Starting point is 01:05:13 to get $30 off your subscription, BladesTV.com. The Krista and Todd Colstad family in Glasgow, Montana, is accusing the state of Montana, the child protective services, of kidnapping their teenage daughter after the girl began to identify as a transgender boy. The child's stepmother, Krista, explains the nightmare began August of 23 after they received a call that their 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer, had expressed suicidal ideations while at school. Later on the same evening, a caseworker with a Montana child and family services showed up at the Colstad home to speak with Jennifer and do an inspection of the home. During the interview with CFS, Jennifer claimed to have consumed toilet bowl cleaner and painkiller medications that day in an effort to commit suicide. Krista said that it immediately struck her as being highly unlikely. Not only did Jennifer not have access to other substance, you know, these kinds of substance unmonitored, but Jennifer had expressed no symptom. of imminent illness that day.
Starting point is 01:06:31 Despite the doubts, Krista and Todd agreed to take Jennifer to the local hospital on an emergency basis. They found, in all the blood work and everything else, she had not consumed any of these things. Copies of the medical paperwork to substantiate their claim that Jennifer had not consumed
Starting point is 01:06:47 any of the dangerous substances confirms that there were no abnormalities detected in her system. Her physical health was good. However, they consistent. mentioned that Jennifer identifies as a male and wishes to be called Leo. Krista says she and Todd immediately made their objections to the hospital staff known.
Starting point is 01:07:08 They're supposed to call her by her birth name. We were very clear in the emergency room that this goes against our values, our morals, our religious beliefs. They told me to call a lawyer if I have an issue because they're going to do what the patient tells them to do. Then she said we came in and our daughter was talking about having top surgery. and being non-binary. She took her complaint to the on-duty doctor who dismissed her.
Starting point is 01:07:34 He told me, why are you not more concerned that your daughter trying to harm herself than what the aid is talking about with her? They then tried to switch her out of state to Wyoming. There are six facilities in Montana that she could go to. They had a facility in Wyoming. The family looked it up. Looked like kids were allowed to have procedures done and hormones without parental consent. So when the hospital called, they said we have an opening in Wyoming and she needs to go there.
Starting point is 01:08:04 Quote, she has to go. She's not doing any good here, end quote. The parent said, not on your life. That's when things got ugly. They showed up, CFS showed up at their home to serve us with papers to take Jennifer out of our care, according to Krista. They told me the reason was we were unable or refusing to provide medical care. that's not true. Now the Republican governor has come out against the family and honestly I don't understand this. They keep saying well we're you know we don't take you know children out of the
Starting point is 01:08:39 home if it's just a transgender thing. But yeah I get that but I'm looking at the document immediate threat to danger. There's nothing checked except child needs medical attention and parents are unwilling to perform parental duties. So that's the loophole. Is this an out-of-control state agency or what's happening? We have both of the parents on with us now. I can't imagine being you guys. Krista and Todd Kohlstad. Thank you for coming on the program. Thanks for having us. We appreciate it. So, Krista, what do you, why did the governor come out in defense of this? You know, I don't have an answer for that.
Starting point is 01:09:28 There's no reason for him, too. It's not hard to say, I made a mistake or this shouldn't have happened and apologize. I really don't know why he's coming out against us. Todd? Todd, are you there? Yes, I am. Yeah. Is there any idea in your mind?
Starting point is 01:09:50 Is there anything that is happening or has happened in your home that we don't know about? Absolutely not. It's as simple as that. that we keep going back to what the guardian ad litem said that they sent to our house. She saw that everything was fine. We have a very nice home, a very comfortable life. And she flat out told us, she asked if we were going to be willing to raise our daughter as a boy with the transgender care. And she said if we aren't, then she said we're not going to like what she has the same court.
Starting point is 01:10:23 And that is exactly how it went. now you got a call just recently that she's not in Montana she's in Canada so they moved her across state lines and then out of the country to her mother who if I'm not mistaken and please correct me if I'm wrong there's been some issues with mom as well in the past is that true That is true. There is some documents that we submitted from counselors and whatnot supporting our claims. And then also, you know, her birth mom just wasn't really involved in her life in the last seven years. Never called her, never visited, or anything like that.
Starting point is 01:11:08 So this is really a stranger to her. And so we do have some great concerns. That and the fact that I believe Canada, you know, operates on a whole different system as far as transgender care. So we have some great concerns about her being there. Did you have joint custody or you did have joint custody? Okay. You were going to say, Todd? There wasn't, oh, there was no custody battle with them.
Starting point is 01:11:34 We were on speaking terms with them. So there was no problem with that. There was CPS is the ones that initiated the contact with her in Canada and then started pushing the sender there. So what do you have remaining to? to do? What can you do from here? Well, we're getting more lawyers involved. We're challenging the gag order based on our First Amendment for you speech rights.
Starting point is 01:12:03 And we're continuing to speak out. We just want other families to be aware. And by bringing light to our situation, we're hoping that we can help others. And this doesn't happen to another family. So, you know, we've, I've seen the documents from the state, and the state and the governor say that's not the reason why she was taken out of the house. So this is, and, you know, I'm really uncomfortable because we can't find anything bad on you guys. And the state kind of, it feels kind of like they're saying, well, we got something else here. And we just can't tell you.
Starting point is 01:12:46 And I mean, it makes it hard. Have you, have you guys tried to engage some of these, you know, law firms that are out there to help parents like you? Why do you have a public defender still? We're interviewing lawyers currently. So, yes, we are engaged with these lawyers and trying to get different legal representation. So to better answer that, to better answer that, the world has changed drastically when it comes to finding an attorney. when you blindly look at Googling areas, family law, you have to find an attorney that can practice in your state. Almost all of them are scheduling first consultations like eight months out.
Starting point is 01:13:30 That's how busy they are. And then when they hear that the state, they don't want to get involved. So it's far. This one is, I mean, the Thomas More Society. I mean, there are places that you can call. And maybe you just didn't know about them. But there are big organizations that take. these cases and they
Starting point is 01:13:49 move rapidly when it comes to children because, you know, seven months is a long time with a child. And so I'm wondering, have you been contacted by anybody or can, you know, we'll give you the phone numbers because that's...
Starting point is 01:14:04 Go ahead. I was going to say, I have not heard at the Thomas Moore Society, so I will definitely look them up and get in contact with them. But several agencies have contacted us and we've from what I understand, And I'm not a lawyer. So from what I understand the way it works,
Starting point is 01:14:20 is if they don't practice in Montana, then they have to find a lawyer that does practice in Montana, and then they become the co-counsel. So the issue is they're having a lot of time, a hard time finding lawyers that practice in Montana that are willing to take this on with them. Pat is from the great state of Montana. Pat, what do you know about this governor?
Starting point is 01:14:40 Almost nothing. You know, I haven't lived in Montana for 40-some years. I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know virtually anything about him. You know, Montana is perceived to be a Republican state, but they elect Democrats on a fairly regular basis. Yeah. And so maybe this guy has rhino tendencies? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:15:05 How do you guys feel about your governor? We're very disappointed in the way that this is being handled. He's never reached out to us. the um oh christend jurist i think her name is the one that he tasked into looking into our case she called me personally and she just said i'm going to look at your case and then i never heard from her again so i don't feel like there's a lot of action on their part well we have uh asked the governor to come i think we have if not he's invited now and our producers will be reaching out again uh we have been in touch with the the governor's office um and
Starting point is 01:15:43 you know, there was a, there was something here that I was sent that talks about that you are, because you guys said no, to sending her to Wyoming, which I think I would have too. Yeah, well, state of Montana is limited in disclosing the specifics of cases involving minor children in its care. Due to the sensitive nature, broadly speaking, the state does not remove minors from homes to provide gender transition services. or to use taxpayer funds to pay for those services while a minor is in the custody of the state. But your child's not in the custody of the state. Child protective services. Furthermore, the governor has asked the Department of Public Health and Human Services
Starting point is 01:16:29 to codify a formal policy and develop regulation to clarify and ensure the definition of abuse or neglect does not include a parent's right to refuse to provide gender transition services to his or her minor. So he's suggesting policy, but we also have, you know, I have seen the Department of Health CFSD does not investigate nor remove children based solely on allegations that parents oppose and will not allow their child who has gender dysphoria to transition genders. So I think that's very consistent with what they're telling you, but I feel that that's a massive loophole. They're leaning on that. Yes. You would like me to comment on that? Yes, go ahead.
Starting point is 01:17:20 Okay, so right from the get-go, from day one at the hospital, they immediately had a nurse saying that, talking about getting top surgery in front of our daughter, they immediately started calling her a boy immediately. And they started, we turned in complaints, but it was immediate. And there was, when they said that they were going to have a bed for her in Billings, we knew immediately before that that that was not going to happen because they kept looking at her daughter with an unspoken language like almost assuring her was going to be Wyoming. So we knew they were going to pull that card.
Starting point is 01:17:56 And Wyoming allows the transgendering without parental approval on anything. Where Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, those states do not. We were able to stand right there and Google that. So let me, because I've only got a minute left. Let me read this statement. This came from the Valley County attorney. Had the motion been granted, Todd Coltsad's legal rights as a parent would have remained fully intact. The state of Montana would have no more involvement in his relationship with his child.
Starting point is 01:18:24 Mr. Colstad and his wife objected to dismissal and requested the state remain involved. Any statement made otherwise is false and inaccurate. Well, if we can respond to that, when we were in the courtroom that day, we asked that the birth mother's home be investigated as a safe place for because they said no matter what they're going to set her to Canada. And so we had asked that they investigate the birth mom and make sure that that was a safe place for a child to go. And we explained our concerns and we even had documentation supporting those concerns. So that's not exactly true. We would love to have children's services out of our life.
Starting point is 01:19:00 Our lawyers who are public defenders still at the time said this is let them investigate. the birth mom on the record. And so we were told that that's all that they were doing. We didn't understand that we were, you know, hanging out with CPS for another six months. Further, they've asked us to go to marriage counseling to accept our daughter's transgenderism. Okay.
Starting point is 01:19:26 All right, guys, we're going to follow this story. Thank you. We'll probably talk again. Thank you so much. And we're praying for you and especially your daughter that the right thing happens. Thank you. We'll be in touch.
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Starting point is 01:20:35 You're listening to the swinging sounds of Glenn. sit tight boys and girls will be right back after these messages so the you know the one that was in Carrano versus Chris Cyborg Strike Force
Starting point is 01:21:07 you know I could have taken both of them but I don't want to get into that when Gina gets on I don't I don't want to say oh that's a cute little fight women do because I could take you I mean I take you to the movies or someplace right but anyway Gina Carrano is on with us
Starting point is 01:21:23 next. She is now suing Disney and nothing could make me happier. So great. So great. I'm in love with that. I mean, she got fired from Disney for expressing her viewpoint on
Starting point is 01:21:39 Twitter. Right? And I mean, somebody had said the same thing virtually just against the other side of the political spectrum. The co-star. Yeah. The co-star. And she really was kind of the star of that. They were talking about...
Starting point is 01:21:54 She was really good in that. And they were talking about spinning it off and having her own show. Yeah. Her career was over because she said the same thing except applied to the other side as her co-star did. Who survived? Yeah. Didn't have a problem with that, didsy? Yeah.
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Starting point is 01:23:02 And the appellee-titititre Td and you're made to you. Georgia there right now. Hello, America. Welcome to the program. We are thrilled to have Gina Carano on with us to talk about her battle with Disney and Lucasfilm. And being partnered with the bankroll of Elon Musk, who I think is turning into, I don't know, a real-life Iron Man, honestly.
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Starting point is 01:25:51 I'm good. Thank you so much for having me. You bet. I have to tell you, I am so glad to see that you are standing up and fighting back against Disney and Lucasfilm for what happened to you. Can you just describe quickly that whole scene? Well, quickly. I know. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:26:17 No, it's okay. I actually was really interesting because for the longest time for the last couple years, I was just, you know, just distraught, you know, trying to rebuild my life, running into all sorts of, you know, problems of trying to, you know, recreate my career And finally, you know, I was like, you know, I had to just like give it to God and say, all right, you know, you've got me in life.
Starting point is 01:26:41 I'm going to keep going and I have to let this go and give it to you. And, you know, whatever justice I get, you know, I know you're working behind the scenes for me. And then it was almost as soon as I did that, I got a email from a lawyer that was hired by Elon Musk and X to, inquire about my case. And then I was just so excited and I emailed him back like immediately. And, you know, we started going through all of, you know, I just educated them and I sent them everything I have to date and I have a lot more to send them. And they are, they're wonderful and they are just excited and they couldn't believe.
Starting point is 01:27:23 They were kind of like dumbfounded about how this happened. So that's the quick version. So you, I mean, you've worked with everybody, Michael Douglas, Fastbentered, Chenny Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Robert De Niro, Ryan Reynolds, have you had any support from these people, or are they afraid to come out, or how would you describe your friends circle? I mean, well, that's not my friends. They're not my friends. You're co-workers.
Starting point is 01:28:03 They're incredible people that I've worked with. You know, I've never had an issue with anybody, with anyone whatsoever, you know, as far as actors go or crew goes, or for that matter, I've just not had an issue on set ever. I get along with everybody. But yes, to answer your question, there has been many people who I have worked with and who I haven't worked with that I've run into, not only just very, very, very, you know, well-known actors, but also very well-known producers. And actually, people who are still working in Disney and Lucasfilm actively, you know, have, you know, they all have shown so much support, everything the time I've seen, any of them.
Starting point is 01:28:47 And to be very honest, I've not had one person from this industry come up to me and say, you know, I deserved that. They're all saying the complete opposite. So it's just been kind of mind bending that Lucas Filman Disney couldn't see that as well. When they contacted you, I assume they contacted you with this, or maybe they just said, no, it's over for other reasons. But when you found out that you were being cut out of everything and your career was over because of a tweet, that was exactly the same that your co-star tweeted, except toward the other side. did you point that you had to have gone guys wait a minute hold it
Starting point is 01:29:31 they didn't contact me this is uh this is very interesting and i think it just shows what the company was at the time a couple years ago they they didn't even contact me to let me know they were letting me go they didn't contact me to let me know that um there was about to be paparazzi stalkers and people flooding outside my house that i found all of that out just like everybody else did over the internet. Oh my gosh. The fact that, you know, and it did, it was awful. It was, you know, I've been trying to put on a really brave face for the last couple years.
Starting point is 01:30:08 But, I mean, I cannot begin to even describe. I couldn't leave my house for seven days. I was being stalked. I was being harassed. I was, they were coming up to my, I had to keep all my blinds closed. And I had actually lost all hearing. I don't know. It's a very interesting, random thing.
Starting point is 01:30:28 I lost all of the hearing. As soon as I was canceled, my hearing got clogged, and I could only hear like 5%. Was that kind of like, I mean, this is a horrible name for it, but hysterical blindness, where you are in so much trauma. It felt like, is it?
Starting point is 01:30:45 Yeah, it really felt like that. Like, it felt like, you know, either that or God just put earmuffs on me. Wow. And I just was like, you know, and so I really had to sit there in my head. And I really had to sit there in my head and just go over things. And it was, it was quite, it was torturous until I finally was just like, okay, I just gave it to God. And, you know, I just, it's just, it was just such an intense time.
Starting point is 01:31:13 And, you know, for them not to even warn me, you know, I didn't have, I didn't live in a gated community. So I was out there. and that wasn't you know you think that somebody would have you know just call me and tell me hey thank you for all your work and everything and we're just no longer going to work with you and then they put out the statement about the denigrating people off of their religious and cultural beliefs and being abhorrent and I was just like this is I just it was just at the worst time possible they really kind of you know they definitely put my life in danger at that moment so What do you hope happens with this lawsuit?
Starting point is 01:31:54 I mean, I'd love to see the discovery on all of the emails going back and forth. That'll be nice. Yes, yeah. I hope that this makes a change. I hope that it makes a change in this industry, and it makes a change in people's heart. You know, the post that I got fired for originally, or what they said I got fired for, was never supposed to be what they, what the media and all of them twisted into. It was supposed to be, you know, do not demonize your neighbor.
Starting point is 01:32:28 You know, we need to look at each other as human beings because I, the internet is one thing. But when you get outside and you get around people, there's so much love and there's so much, you know, it's not the internet. The internet is false. It's a lot of people hiding behind, you know, brave ideas and false accounts. And when you get to be around people, there is, you know, we all bleed, you know, red. We're all just kind of on this earth together. And so I hope that the outcome for this case is just to make, you know, everybody kind of be a truly, truly inclusive industry in Hollywood and make it that much difficult to do what has happened to me to happen to the next person. Yeah, you know, it's people, I don't think people understand that, you know, it's happening to people like you and, you know, people all over the country who are in visible places.
Starting point is 01:33:29 And I don't think people really understand if they do it to people like you, why would they hesitate to do it to a nobody? And that's the scariest thing is they're not coming after the nobody's alone. they're coming after names like Elon Musk, who I think they're trying to do the same thing, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we definitely, when they try to smear him as anti-Semitic, I was like, that's exactly what they did to me. They try to smear you as all of these key words, racist, racist, anti-Semitic, transphobe. And, you know, it's just any, it's really, they're just trying to, you know, squash down anybody who has, you know, the ability to reach, people to just tell them, yeah, let's communicate, let's think, you know, critically.
Starting point is 01:34:20 Let's, you know, not just listen to what the news is telling us and let's, you know, let's communicate with each other because we have to because everything is, everything is owned now by people who want to just grab more control. It's really crazy. It is, I've never seen, especially with Disney, I've never seen such a wrecking ball taken, you know, to their own corporation. like Disney has taken the wrecking ball to everything that they own and everything that they touch. I mean, this is just horrible.
Starting point is 01:34:52 It's truly a shame because we grew up with Disney, and it doesn't seem like it would be that hard of a fix. You know, it doesn't seem like, hey, you know what, we messed up here. You know, they're so good at telling everybody how to apologize and get on their knees and say, sorry. It's like, you know, lead by example in this case. It wouldn't be hard to be like to look at my case and say, hey, you know what? we did wrong there. Let's make it right. And, you know, and then let's start reaching out to, you know,
Starting point is 01:35:22 really inclusive, like all, all people. It doesn't mean that they have to follow any type of political, you know, side. They could just really include and appreciate the fan base that they had that has just been completely betrayed by them. So I don't understand in those meetings how it's just not like, You know what? We did wrong. Let's face up to it. Let's do something right here. And let's get, you know, let's get our, you know, our conservative viewers back. Right. It seems like it would just be a no-brainer. I don't know if they could at this point. I mean, once you've violated my family, I mean, beyond what they did to you, they, you know, they're trying to teach my children principles that I don't agree with at all. and they've lost that trust that parents had, oh, it's Disney, it's safe.
Starting point is 01:36:17 It's not safe. And that's going to take them a long time to recover that. And a good step forward would be to correct this with you and others that they have wronged. So, you know, when this happened to you... Nothing's impossible, though, you know, like... I know. If they keep going down this route, they're just going to be considered evil. You know, I have a massive ball to, you know, rock to push back up a mountain to get back a career.
Starting point is 01:36:50 But I'm not looking at that saying, okay, I'm at the bottom again. I'm not going to do it. You know, we have to constantly rebuild ourselves and so do companies. So if they started now, you know, they could, you know, start pushing that rock back up instead of it just tumbling. It's just tumbling down the hill. Yeah. Well, you are going to be, you are going to be, you're going to be fine. in the end, especially since, you know, when this happened, we weren't really ready as
Starting point is 01:37:17 conservatives. And I don't want a bunch of conservative films or, you know, films, but I just want good films, you know what I mean? And can we have them say decent things about society and try to help us be better people? But if you look at the films now, Angel is really, I think, leading the way on this. If you see some of the stuff that's coming, And I think we're right on the cusp. I started the Blaze, you know, before Amazon and HBO were online, we were doing digital streaming at the Blaze. And it was a nightmare.
Starting point is 01:37:57 Now, 12 years later, things are happening to where there is a community. You give it another five years, and we're not going to have to worry about Hollywood. You know, and it really just breaks your heart. You know, I feel like so many people have come before me and fought this battle and nobody was paying attention. So I really am honored to be in a position where people are paying attention right now and to give respect to those people that came before me, those actors and everybody that was trying to break down the barriers for so long. You know, it breaks my heart that, you know, they didn't get justice. And so, you know, yeah, I feel pretty fortunate, you know, to be in a situation to help with that.
Starting point is 01:38:46 Because, yes, in five years, it's going to be even better. And I'm excited to have just been at the beginning of this. Just how I was at the beginning of women's mixed martial arts. I feel like I get to be, you know, part of breaking ground here. And so I really hope this case is, I hope, I hope people pay attention to it. and blow it out of the water and just make sure that, you know, we're going to make it easier for the next generation and the people, the younger people behind me.
Starting point is 01:39:15 I have such great respect for you. Thank you so much for coming on. You're welcome here anytime. Thank you. Thank you so much, Glenn. You bet. Gina Carrano. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor.
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Starting point is 01:41:36 You know, she sounds really rooted in all. all the right things. She seems humble, humbled by God. Definitely. I really like her. Yeah. She's great. She's great.
Starting point is 01:41:48 Yeah. Do you see, by the way, the thing that Elon Musk tweeted out about Disney General Entertainment Content Inclusion Standards? No. What are he saying? An anonymous source sent him this from Disney. Mandatory institutionalized racism and sexism. Their standard A for on-screen representation. You have to meet at least three of these.
Starting point is 01:42:10 five following areas when you're assembling characters for a show on Disney. Characters must be 50% or more of regular and recurring written characters have to come from underrepresented groups. 50% of more of the actors of regular and recurring actors have to come from underrepresented groups. Three, secondary characters, meaningful inclusion of underrepresented groups as secondary or more minor on-screen individuals, including background characters. So you're talking about, you know, LGBTQ, you're talking about BIPOC people. Series premise, meaningful integration of underrepresented groups in overall themes and narratives,
Starting point is 01:42:58 and episodic storytelling is the last one, ongoing meaningful integration of underrepresented groups and episodic themes and narratives. Then they go through the same thing. The same thing for writers, the same thing for producers, the same thing for all of it. Yeah, it's just their propaganda. It's just they're normalizing and changing our society, essentially. It's amazing that it's Disney doing this. I know.
Starting point is 01:43:27 I mean, this is so against what Walt represented. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, Disney has been going down this road for a very, very, very, very long time. And they're a creative company. And creative company, they have a lot of artistic people and a lot of artistic people think differently than, you know, non-artistic people. And so, you know, you had a company full of this that just got more and more woke over the years. And now, I mean, it's everywhere. I mean, you would have to shut that company down and then rehire to get the woke out. And I don't know if you could do that. I don't know if you could do it. So, all right. Coming
Starting point is 01:44:09 up in just a second, we have Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus, a host of the Dershow and the author of Get Trump, Will Skotis rule President Trump is eligible or not to be on the 2024 ballot? We just heard the arguments back and forth in the last hour. Now, what does he think they'll decide? What did the questions by the justices lead him to believe, which direction are they going? Next. Tunnel to Towers Foundation, their mission is to do good and make sure to never forget the horrific events of September 11, 2001. For them, that means never forgetting the soldiers and first responders who put their lives on the line and ever since. The foundation is committed to helping
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Starting point is 01:46:28 That is exactly what's happening today. Supreme Court, get Trump. This one will decide whether or not states can take Donald Trump off the ballot because apparently he was in an insurrection but was never charged. I don't know what I was listening to last hour, but Alan Dershowitz can make sense of it all. Alan, welcome to the program. Well, I can't make sense of it. I have rarely seen two less able lawyers argue so important the case.
Starting point is 01:47:01 They have both missed the point. The star of these proceedings are the justices. They're the only ones who've made good arguments, and they've made very good arguments on both sides. But they've made the arguments for the litigants. Trump's lawyer just dropped the ball, made the law. wrong argument to the wrong justices. He didn't understand the room. He didn't understand the issues and the lawyer for Colorado. Same thing. I mean, these are, these are B-minus performances in an A-plus issue. How is that possible? It's shocking. They, they were, you know what they were like,
Starting point is 01:47:40 they were like, the lawyers who advised the presidents of colleges, Harvard and, and, and and at MIT, they was so taken up by kind of legal technicalities, but they didn't see the big issues. And it's shocking to me that these lawyers, both of whom are relatively experienced, and they had to both of them be rescued by the justices themselves. So what did you get from the justices on a lean? any indication of where they're going with this? Yeah, I think the leaning is in favor of Trump, despite Trump's lawyer. Not on the ground that Trump's lawyer argued, but on other grounds that I've been arguing for a long time,
Starting point is 01:48:34 that only Congress under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment has the authority to implement Section 3. That's the argument the justices seem to be focused on. That's the argument that I have written about over and over again. but I gather the lawyers didn't read my article. You know, they just argued the wrong provisions of the Constitution. So let me ask you on this, the one thing, and you know, this is just coming to you as a lay person who doesn't know squat about the law. But how can he be taken off for insurrection when he's got a billion lawsuits against him and not one has charged him with anything like. that. How can you be excluded for something nobody's even charged you with officially in court,
Starting point is 01:49:24 let alone proven? To show you absurd, Jason Murray's argument is he's the lawyer for Colorado. He said on January 6th, the minute the president engaged in the insurrection he did, he was no longer eligible to be president. So for the last 14 days of January, between January 6th and January 20th, We had no president, according to that argument. According to that argument, the country was without a president for 14 days. That is such an absurd argument. The justices, of course, folk told it immediately. They're doing it right now as we speak.
Starting point is 01:50:02 But I tell you, if I had students in my class that made arguments like this, I think I would suggest Divinity School of Business School. I just don't take these. are great lawyer arguments and and the public you know deserves great lawyers making great arguments in a case as great as important as this one this is such a disappointment from the point of view of advocacy but it's it's been very good from the point of view of the justice themselves they've asked the right questions what is the what's the ramification of the supreme court making too broad of a decision or getting this wrong?
Starting point is 01:50:49 I don't think the court's going to get it wrong. I think they're going to make a very narrow decision. They're going to say absent any congressional action under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, this is not self-enforcing. He wasn't disqualified from being president on January 6th. You have to have a process. He has to be charged with its direction. There has to be some process.
Starting point is 01:51:10 And that's what I would have argued. And that's what the judge. just wanted them to argue, but they just didn't do it. They just didn't do it. I want to keep this a little bit short today because I want to get back to listening to the argument. Yes, okay. But I think that the court will decide in favor of Trump narrowly on a technical issue without getting to the issue of whether or not he is disqualified or whether he committed an insurrection or anything like that. But this is a major disappointment from.
Starting point is 01:51:44 a guy who's been an advocate for 60 years, and it heard such good things about these lawyers. It was over-prepared technically, under-prepared emotionally and politically, and in any practical sense of the word. Common sense was missing today from the arguments of both of those lawyers. That is the theme almost of every show.
Starting point is 01:52:07 Alan Dershowitz, thank you so much. Host of the Dershow and Get Trump is his book. God bless you, Alan. Thank you. That's not what I expected to hear. No, no, but it sounds promising, though. He really thinks Trump's going to win this case, despite his lawyers. Consider this, too.
Starting point is 01:52:25 But this is really bad, man. If you are at the highest court making an argument on something this important, what the hell do we have coming towards us? You need to be better, a lot better. And, you know, we talked about it at the time. We were listening to them. how do you not make the case that this man hasn't even been charged with, tried for, or convicted of any insurrection? You know what? I have to ask that. We have to get somebody else on tomorrow because I wasn't satisfied with that answer, and I knew he was in a hurry, so I didn't push it.
Starting point is 01:52:58 But I wasn't satisfied with that answer, because there should not be anything that you are charged with, but haven't gone through a system of court to make sure that it's true. Otherwise, if you're in power, you can charge everyone with insurrection. Exactly. And then nobody could run for office. Correct. I mean, that doesn't make any sense. So I'm not satisfied with his answer. But apparently, according to the Constitution, maybe, it doesn't seem to matter that much. Which that would be something I would correct pretty quickly. That's definitely how they're treating it in this Supreme Court hearing.
Starting point is 01:53:36 Yeah. Consider this, too. This is kind of a side issue, a little sidebar to the trial. Alan Dershowitz is 85 years old. I know. Listen to the difference between that 85 year old and the 81 year old at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I know. Oh my gosh. I know.
Starting point is 01:53:58 You talk about a difference. Wow. Just look at what's happened with the president just in the last week. When was it? A couple days ago he was like, I want to choose my words. there's some movement, there's a response. And he stumbles around for a minute or so. And then the reporter says Hamas, helping him out.
Starting point is 01:54:18 Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, sorry. Then just a couple of days ago, Sunday, French president Macron, he said, was Mitteron. Yeah. He then called Donald Trump the sitting president. He also, I don't know if you're aware, he also called the German chancellor. Helmut Cole.
Starting point is 01:54:41 Okay, Helmut Cole has been dead since 2017, and he hasn't been Chancellor of Germany since 1998. He said that he talked to him, too. It's incredible. So, Meteoron, Francis Cole, he might have. Again, he might be talking to the dead. Well, either that are the dead people coming back to him going, Joe, come to the light, come to the light.
Starting point is 01:55:03 I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I know. But, you know, this is getting to the point. point to where it just can't be ignored by people. It can't be. And you know that the Democrats don't want this. I, you know, I said this yesterday, but I think that they are, I think they are exposing all of this stuff as much as they can instead of keeping him in a basement. Might be right. So people see it and go, you know, the Democrats, because they can't convince him.
Starting point is 01:55:32 He's got to say, I'm not going to run. And, you know, Dr. Jill. It's despicable. Good. It is despicable. That she's pushing him forward on this. Why would you do that? It's elder abuse. It is. Yeah. He should be home, if not in a rest home.
Starting point is 01:55:51 He should be at home in Delaware. Resting. I got to tell you, we've been with my father-in-law who is in critical condition, stable, the critical condition in New Haven. And, you know, the doctor came and talked. to us about, you know, the future and things. And we said, he's all there. It's, it's his decision on how to proceed on things. But we all just want the best for him. Nobody wants to see him suffer. Nobody wants to see, you know, let God take his course. And, you know, you, you wouldn't
Starting point is 01:56:31 want your dad or your wife or your husband walking around. looking like this. Humiliating himself all the time. Humiliating. It's humiliating. And more than just being humiliating to him. It's humiliating to the country. I mean, the rest of the world is watching this and no doubt mocking and laughing at us.
Starting point is 01:56:57 Can you imagine if you are Vladimir Putin, what you're thinking? Oh, my gosh. You've got an easy mark here. Oh. So easy. Go, go, go. Right now. Before somebody else gets in, now is the time to do it.
Starting point is 01:57:11 No doubt, it's why he went into Ukraine in the first place. Had Trump been in office, he wouldn't have done it. And he didn't when Trump was in office. And you know, he was absolutely a thousand times better back then. Oh, yeah. I mean, the decay of his motor and memory. It's been amazing lately. He is just, it's gone.
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Starting point is 02:00:12 drops He's now on a kill list And I did tweet him Or text him this morning And said Yeah he thanks a lot texting me. I don't know who this Tucker Carlson guy is. I have no idea. Stop texting me. But he's on a kill list now apparently with Ukraine. It's a list of enemies. I don't know if it's a
Starting point is 02:00:33 kill list. But the EU wants to ban his travel. Nobody's seen what he talked to him about. And I think it's really important that we all see it. Now, here's what I would be, if I were there, and I would have done that interview, maybe not in Russia, because I don't know if I could have gotten out, but here's what I would make sure that I was doing. The guy is going to try to appeal to people who are feeling our country is in chaos and wants an American dictator. And if Dugan has his way, Putin is going to talk about our immorality, our loss of faith, transgenderism, what's happening on our streets, what's happening. happening with drugs. Tucker, I think, could allow him one approach on that. And then he's got to say, but this is not about America. We have our own problems. This is not about internal problems of America. This is about what you are saying about this war. So we can talk about American war machine,
Starting point is 02:01:39 you know, NATO, but not internal policy. If it gets away from Tucker and, you know, NATO, but, not internal policy. if it gets away from Tucker and he allows Putin to really, then it's propaganda. And it will be bad. It will be bad. But I hope that Tucker is not going to do that. He's a smart enough guy. But Putin, as Megan Kelly said, Putin is really, really slick. He's a master manipulator.
Starting point is 02:02:08 Yeah. So Tucker needs to focus on the real issue. which of course is Taylor Swift and whether or not she's going to make it to the Super Bowl on time. And how many times are we going to show her up in the booth? I'm not sure that's really the real issue. But how many fans have come to see her? You know, does this increase the attendance and the viewership of the Super Bowl? I would love to have Tucker say to Putin, if we sent you Taylor Swift, could that solve this whole dispute?
Starting point is 02:02:40 Yeah, could it end everything? Get out of Ukraine if we send you Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of people. A lot of people don't like Taylor Swift, apparently being on their TV during football time. I myself don't understand it. I don't really care. Yeah. But I'm not, you know, a diet.
Starting point is 02:02:58 It's not as big a deal as people are making it out to be. No, please. But, you know, and besides, she's cutting her carbon footprint. She's selling her jet. One of her jets. One of her. Yeah, you're right. One of her jet.
Starting point is 02:03:11 Because, I mean, she can't do without a jet. Come on. Right. And she's going to her next concert because she's selling her dress. She's going just on a rented jet. So you're still, I don't understand. That's really slum in it. When you have to take a rented jet,
Starting point is 02:03:30 privately that's just really slum. Let me call an Uber. No thank you. The Glenn Beck Program.

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