The Glenn Beck Program - Glenn's Trump Administration Hope 1/18/17
Aired: 2017-01-18
Duration: 01:57:50


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[00:01:05]  Boy, there is a lot to talk about today.
[00:01:09]  The president has pardoned about 1,600 people, prisoners.
[00:01:17]  So you know, usually the president pardons around 20 people.
[00:01:22]  1,600 people.
[00:01:26]  And oh, by the way, they always pardon the most controversial almost during the time of the swearing in.
[00:01:38]  The last thing the president does as he's walking out of the office.
[00:01:43]  So who will we find out about tomorrow?
[00:01:48]  The press is focusing in all of the wrong places on this.
[00:01:54]  Also, Disrupt J20.
[00:01:58]  Disrupt January 20th.
[00:02:00]  The people who want chaos on the mall tomorrow.
[00:02:04]  Chaos in America.
[00:02:06]  As he raises his hand to take the oath of office.
[00:02:11]  An exclusive interview from the Blaze with one of the organizers of Disrupt J20.
[00:02:17]  We go there right now.
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[00:02:46]  I guess we are two days away.
[00:02:48]  I was thinking it was Thursday.
[00:02:50]  I kind of like the three-day work week.
[00:02:53]  I think we should push for that.
[00:02:55]  Universal min come and uh and um two-day work weeks.
[00:03:01]  Yeah, one-day work week.
[00:03:03]  We'll call in.
[00:03:04]  First of all, if it's a makeup, why work?
[00:03:06]  Thank you.
[00:03:08]  Thank you.
[00:03:09]  Boy, what a slippery slope we just hit pretty quickly.
[00:03:14]  We have Doc Thompson with us.
[00:03:15]  He does mornings on the Blaze Radio Network.
[00:03:19]  And you have been kind of taking my approach of Hey, let's listen to people.
[00:03:26]  Right, right.
[00:03:26]  And it is paid off in a big way.
[00:03:30]  Tell us how.
[00:03:31]  I was following your other approaches in life, and those weren't working out so well for me.
[00:03:34]  So I decided this wouldn't work.
[00:03:36]  So a couple weeks ago, we found out about this J-20.
[00:03:38]  This is the Disrupt J-20, where they're organizing all of the different little factions, anybody who is opposed to some of our ideals for whatever the little issue, abortion, gun control, whatever, to bring them all together in D.C. and do whatever they can to actually disrupt the inauguration on some level to stop him from becoming president, which is a little nutty to me.
[00:03:59]  We found out about it, my producer, Chris Cruz, said, okay, let me try to get them on.
[00:04:03]  And he amazingly got a lady by the name of Lacey McCauley to come on.
[00:04:07]  Apparently, she doesn't have access to the internet to find out about me.
[00:04:11]  So she actually agreed to the interview.
[00:04:12]  Yeah, but you did, you were honest with her.
[00:04:15]  I was.
[00:04:15]  I was.
[00:04:16]  Yeah.
[00:04:16]  A lot of people think that, you know, by asking tough questions or that I am satirical over the top at times that I'm going to treat them that way.
[00:04:23]  And we didn't.
[00:04:23]  We heard her out.
[00:04:25]  She said some things that the audience objected to, some things I did as well.
[00:04:28]  I didn't debate every issue, but we talked about the Disrupt J-20.
[00:04:31]  And she said it's nonviolent.
[00:04:33]  They just want to disrupt civil disobedience, use phrases like that.
[00:04:36]  And I said, listen, I will stand with you for your right to express your First Amendment rights.
[00:04:42]  I will stand with you, but not for violence, not for breaking the law, anything like this.
[00:04:47]  So then James O'Keefe and Project Veritas released their first video that seems to show that they want something a little more than just civil disobedience, possibly some things that are pretty dangerous.
[00:04:56]  Is she in the video?
[00:04:57]  She is not in the first one, but they mention her in the second one, which was released late yesterday.
[00:05:02]  So after the first one was released, the day before yesterday, we interviewed her yesterday morning, and she said basically that the people in the video that were calling for stink bomb acid, I can't remember the type of acid it's called, to be put in the ventilation or the sprinklers off, that they knew, and I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially they knew that the person that was talking to them was not one of them.
[00:05:25]  And she said, we knew it was some sort of scam.
[00:05:27]  We didn't know who it could have been, police, it could have been.
[00:05:30]  So you make it worse?
[00:05:31]  That was my question.
[00:05:33]  I said, why would you incriminate yourself?
[00:05:34]  They can use this as evidence.
[00:05:36]  And she really didn't have a great answer for that.
[00:05:38]  But she stuck to that this was all just a big ruse that they were putting on for whoever was interviewing them, essentially.
[00:05:44]  And then the video came out yesterday that seems to show a little bit more.
[00:05:48]  So I have a clip, if you want to hear it, of yesterday's interview with her where she mentions a couple of things like that, and that also talks about James O'Keefe.
[00:05:55]  Okay, here it is.
[00:05:56]  Once again, I'm going to offer you the opportunity to condemn any acts of violence or anything that would get anybody hurt this week in DC.
[00:06:05]  Well, thank you very much, Doc.
[00:06:07]  This is absolutely something that we articulate and reaffirm at every single one of the meetings of Disrupt J20.
[00:06:15]  And, you know, this is a commitment to harming no one.
[00:06:18]  You believe James O'Keefe is working on behalf of Nazis or he's doing the work of Nazis, white nationalists?
[00:06:26]  Well, he basically is attacking our group, the DC Anti-Fascist Coalition, and our targets are the people who are modern-day Nazis.
[00:06:36]  They voted for Trump.
[00:06:37]  They're looking for something different, but they don't necessarily stand with the Nazis.
[00:06:40]  I mean, you understand the difference.
[00:06:43]  Well, you know, I think it's pretty clear to me that he is attacking a group that protests Nazis.
[00:06:49]  So that puts him on that side.
[00:06:52]  President-elect Trump until Friday.
[00:06:53]  You don't think that he supports Nazi issues, do you?
[00:06:57]  Well, I think that there's basically a reason that these groups have been so celebratory of his policies.
[00:07:05]  Unbelievable.
[00:07:06]  Glenn back your thoughts on that.
[00:07:10]  Quite clearly misguided.
[00:07:14]  I mean, I stand against fascism.
[00:07:17]  I stand against Nazis.
[00:07:20]  To tie Donald Trump, actually tie him to Nazis is ridiculous.
[00:07:29]  To tie Steve Bannon to the Nazi movement is not.
[00:07:36]  But there is nothing in Donald Trump's history that shows that he is racist.
[00:07:44]  Maybe the thing, Stu, that, you know, he went for the casino thing, that's probably the biggest mark of racist.
[00:07:55]  But other than that, in his history, is he, does he have that tendency that it would show that he was a Nazi?
[00:08:04]  Nazi?
[00:08:05]  No, God, no.
[00:08:06]  I mean, you know, I mean, even, you know, you're talking about Steve Bannon.
[00:08:08]  I mean, he, there are obviously a lot of people in the alt-right that embrace those values and send people, you know, pictures of them in gas chambers and such.
[00:08:17]  But I mean, there's, I mean, there's most people.
[00:08:20]  Even Ben Shapiro, who is an ardent critic of Steve Bannon's, has said he doesn't think he believes those things.
[00:08:27]  I don't think so either.
[00:08:28]  He's using them.
[00:08:29]  And I think that there is a case to be made that Steve Bannon is connected and using them.
[00:08:36]  And Donald Trump was taking advice from Steve Bannon, but I don't think he's a Nazi.
[00:08:42]  It's funny, though, there's so many subtle levels of this.
[00:08:44]  Yes, clearly there are people in America that identify with Nazis.
[00:08:47]  These people are crazy, right?
[00:08:49]  And then there's literally people, but there's many, it's not everybody automatically in the alt-right, the right or whatever is a Nazi just because we disagree.
[00:08:56]  There's many, many levels that get you closer and closer to that.
[00:08:59]  Even a lot of the Nazis weren't Nazis as we think of them today.
[00:09:02]  Right, they were just, you know, I got to do this, right?
[00:09:04]  Yeah, I mean, again, that's horrible, but I'm not even talking about like there are people who were in the party who didn't do all of those things even back then to assign it's true, it's true.
[00:09:17]  No, I know it's true.
[00:09:18]  You and I are both, you know, we're more well-read on the Nazi movement than 99% of the Nazis.
[00:09:26]  Right.
[00:09:26]  And there's no reason to draw gray areas about the Nazis.
[00:09:30]  My point, though, they're all obviously horrible.
[00:09:32]  The point, though, is that even people who would today identify themselves that way weren't people who've killed six million Jews.
[00:09:40]  This is why everyone gets so frustrated with Nazi comparisons.
[00:09:43]  We all know how that ended up.
[00:09:45]  So therefore, everyone jumps to the end point of that.
[00:09:49]  However, there was a lot of stuff early on that wasn't, so it wasn't so clear they were going to wind up killing six million Jews, even though Hitler was very clear about his intentions.
[00:10:00]  Again, people not taking him literally, but taking him seriously.
[00:10:04]  Yeah, point is, though, you can't compare.
[00:10:06]  I mean, obviously, a comparison like that, where you're just throwing everyone to half this freaking country in the boats of Nazis, is just completely absurd.
[00:10:15]  And to disrupt the inauguration destroys the main thing about America, and that is we have a peaceful transfer of power.
[00:10:30]  That is one of the most stabilizing points that we can make to the rest of the world.
[00:10:37]  Look, we strongly disagree, but we always have a peaceful transfer of power.
[00:10:44]  Even though, I mean, we can compare this, you know, the Secret Service was not in effect with Abraham Lincoln.
[00:10:54]  We didn't have a Secret Service.
[00:10:55]  Abraham Lincoln did not understand how divided this country was until he made it to Baltimore.
[00:11:02]  Most people don't know this, but there was a plot against his life coming in for his first inauguration from Illinois.
[00:11:10]  And he took the train to Philadelphia.
[00:11:14]  And he was supposed to then take the train to Baltimore the next morning.
[00:11:20]  What people didn't know is he actually took a train, he got into Philadelphia, and instead of staying, he went out the back door and in the cover of darkness, went to, I want to say it was like Hershey or someplace in that area, and then took another train in the middle of the night to Washington and completely bypassed.
[00:11:44]  Actually, no, it wasn't Philadelphia, it was Baltimore.
[00:11:46]  He made it all the way to Baltimore, and it was the next morning they were going to kill him at the train station.
[00:11:50]  So he took another train out and then rerouted to Washington.
[00:11:56]  But it was in him walking down the street to get out where he heard all of the anti-Lincoln and anti-North sentiment on the streets, and he couldn't believe it.
[00:12:12]  He said later, I didn't understand how divided we were as a country, that there were people willing to kill the people in the North.
[00:12:24]  It wasn't just me.
[00:12:28]  I think we're close to that point again, to where we are so divided, and the extremes on both sides have been so wound up by politicians that they think now is their moment.
[00:12:43]  Imagine if they get what they want on Friday.
[00:12:47]  It's like the dog that catches the car.
[00:12:49]  What are you going to do now?
[00:12:50]  What do they think is going to happen?
[00:12:51]  We disrupted it.
[00:12:52]  He didn't get inaugurated.
[00:12:54]  Everyone's just going to go back to their life.
[00:12:55]  Obama stays president.
[00:12:57]  All hell breaks loose if they disrupt that.
[00:13:00]  And he's inaugurated anyway.
[00:13:01]  And he gets inaugurated anyway.
[00:13:02]  And he'll just go inside and inaugurate it.
[00:13:04]  That's right.
[00:13:05]  But that's what happens.
[00:13:06]  That's what people want.
[00:13:08]  There are a great number of people now that want a crackdown.
[00:13:13]  They want the chaos because they want the crackdown.
[00:13:18]  She says she's anti-fascist.
[00:13:20]  Well, what do you think?
[00:13:22]  How are fascistic states created?
[00:13:26]  They're created by crackdowns because crackpots went and burned down the Reichstag.
[00:13:32]  I thought it was with marshmallows and rainbows.
[00:13:34]  I thought that's how it was created, wasn't it?
[00:13:35]  Yeah.
[00:13:36]  Something like that.
[00:13:36]  Yeah.
[00:13:38]  It's really frightening to see the left.
[00:13:42]  And again, the media has called a whole group of people Nazis.
[00:13:49]  Not what I said.
[00:13:51]  These are brown shirt tactics.
[00:13:54]  And they are, there's a difference between brown shirt tactics and Nazis.
[00:14:00]  While they were both Nazis, one is describing a person and a group of people.
[00:14:07]  The other is saying, you're using the same tactics here.
[00:14:12]  Did you see the second James O'Keefe video, the Project Veritas one?
[00:14:15]  No, no.
[00:14:16]  In it, at one point, one of the guys talking, he's like, well, you know, let me, let me, this is one of the Disrupt J20 people.
[00:14:21]  Let me call my comrade and see if he can blah, blah, blah.
[00:14:24]  So you anti-fascist people.
[00:14:26]  I call it communists.
[00:14:28]  So the communists.
[00:14:29]  And you think that's better.
[00:14:31]  These are people that believe that they are opposite ends of the spectrum.
[00:14:34]  I do not believe that.
[00:14:35]  No, they're not.
[00:14:35]  That's total government.
[00:14:36]  Right.
[00:14:37]  Doc, thank you so much for being here.
[00:14:38]  Thanks for having me.

=== Unseeable Truths (03:35) ===

[00:14:39]  Have a great day.
[00:14:39]  And, you know, your mom can fix those pains.
[00:14:42]  I'm flying immediately after this segment to DC.
[00:14:46]  And these are my TSA pants because, yes, it makes me uncomfortable when TSA touches me.
[00:14:51]  But with these, because I make them pat me down as part of my civil disobedience, it's ripped in the butt.
[00:14:56]  Yes, they are right here.
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[00:14:57]  Yeah, they are.
[00:14:58]  It's definitely going to make them uncomfortable.
[00:15:00]  Thank you for sharing that with me.
[00:15:01]  Yeah, here you go, Pat.
[00:15:02]  Wow.
[00:15:02]  Thank you.
[00:15:03]  That's for you, Pat.
[00:15:04]  Rump Shaker, baby.
[00:15:05]  Rum Shaker.
[00:15:06]  All right.
[00:15:06]  Thank you.
[00:15:07]  You've got to go off the set now.
[00:15:09]  We're never going to get there.
[00:15:11]  Don't you need to hit a flight?
[00:15:12]  I do.
[00:15:12]  I got to go.
[00:15:13]  I'm going to get honored.
[00:15:13]  I'm glad you said that.
[00:15:14]  There are some things you just can't unsee, and that's one of them.
[00:15:17]  Yikes.
[00:15:18]  I mean, but Tanya and I were in Vegas this weekend.
[00:15:22]  And I would say, somebody would walk by, and I'd be like, you can't unsee that one.
[00:15:27]  And she was like, oh, you know, but you can replace it.
[00:15:31]  Replace it with that one.
[00:15:33]  And these people were.
[00:15:35]  Oh, there was a woman that I saw at a really nice restaurant dressed as a very nice hooker, I think.
[00:15:46]  And Tanya pointed out she might be.
[00:15:48]  And I'm like, well, okay, yes, I did see Pretty Woman.
[00:15:51]  Maybe she is.
[00:15:52]  But I don't think she was.
[00:15:53]  You know how women go to Vegas and they dress like hookers?
[00:15:56]  This woman was.
[00:15:57]  That's actually their city slogan.
[00:15:59]  Yeah.
[00:15:59]  This woman was plump.
[00:16:02]  And she honestly had a dress on, and she was probably 40.
[00:16:08]  And she had a dress on where I could see the cheek come down.
[00:16:15]  Okay.
[00:16:15]  I could see the cheek meet the leg.
[00:16:18]  Now she was standing with her butt towards me, and I said to Tanya, I'm torn because I want her to turn around to see how this works on the front.
[00:16:31]  Because I said, just draw a mental line around.
[00:16:35]  So I want to see how this works in the front, and yet I really don't want to see that.
[00:16:43]  You have to see that.
[00:16:45]  No, no, don't.
[00:16:45]  Don't go to Vegas.
[00:16:46]  Again, there are things you cannot unsee.
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[00:19:31]  Okay, I have a few things to say today about Barack Obama and about the release of prisoners.
[00:19:44]  Everyone is paying attention to who is being called Chelsea Manning.
[00:19:49]  I'm sorry, it's Bradley Manning.
[00:19:52]  You can identify, but that doesn't mean I have to identify.
[00:19:56]  It doesn't mean I have to play into your madness.
[00:20:00]  You want to have the surgery, have the surgery, and I will say you're a woman.
[00:20:04]  But until you have had the surgery, and even then I'm giving you a gift, you're still biologically a man.
[00:20:14]  But I'll go with it.
[00:20:17]  But I'm not going to go over the cliff with the rest of humanity and deny science.
[00:20:24]  Don't call me a science denier.
[00:20:26]  I am not going to deny science.
[00:20:30]  So anyway, Why we're even talking about that is irrelevant, except I think that's why the president released Bradley Manning because he's struggling with his sexuality.
[00:20:43]  Is that why we released him?
[00:20:45]  Why did we release this guy?
[00:20:46]  Seriously.
[00:20:48]  That was not part of their justification for the move.
[00:20:50]  Okay, good.
[00:20:51]  I'm glad to hear that.
[00:20:52]  The op-eds I read about it yesterday or last night were all saying, you know, they thought that's what played the big role.
[00:21:01]  I can't believe that.
[00:21:03]  I don't want to believe that.
[00:21:04]  Oh, I absolutely would believe that.
[00:21:07]  I don't want to believe that.
[00:21:08]  Wouldn't you believe that?
[00:21:09]  That makes perfect sense.
[00:21:10]  That makes perfect sense in this mad world of Broadway.
[00:21:13]  I don't think it does.
[00:21:14]  I don't think that's what played.
[00:21:16]  Because the other guy that we'll get back to Bradley Manning because that is offensive.
[00:21:25]  Even Democratic senators are speaking out against that.
[00:21:28]  Could.
[00:21:29]  And we'll play some.
[00:21:30]  The other guy that he released at the same time, not the general, the Marxist terrorist from Chicago.
[00:21:41]  And nobody's talking about him.
[00:21:44]  And I want to have a conversation with those on the left that now fear Donald Trump, that say you can't compare the two.
[00:21:56]  I want to show you why you're wrong.
[00:22:01]  Next.
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[00:22:14]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:22:17]  Okay.
[00:22:18]  I want to have a talk with those in the media and those on the left that have lectured me over and over again that you can't compare what we're saying about Donald Trump to Barack Obama.
[00:22:32]  You can't compare what we're doing to what you did.
[00:22:35]  No, you can't compare.
[00:22:36]  What they're doing is a lot worse.
[00:22:39]  They're saying, no, Barack Obama, you know, he wasn't a racist.
[00:22:44]  He wasn't a danger.
[00:22:47]  He wasn't a fascist.
[00:22:50]  No.
[00:22:55]  Hang on.
[00:22:56]  I'm not going to make any accusations because I want the people on the left to hear this.
[00:23:10]  I understand why you're making now on BuzzFeed a list of all of Donald Trump's connections of businesses.
[00:23:19]  I understand that.
[00:23:20]  And here's what I think you're feeling.
[00:23:25]  When it comes to the businesses, you're seeing guys like Rex Tillerson.
[00:23:29]  And you're saying, well, Rex Tillerson, he's an oil guy, and all he's going to do is he's going to play footsies with Russia and the Middle East and everybody else so we can get oil contracts and he'll make money and it'll be business as usual and it'll be all of the rich getting richer.
[00:23:51]  Okay, I understand that.
[00:23:54]  That's the way I felt with Hillary Clinton and her speeches in Wall Street and Goldman Sachs.
[00:24:01]  It's the way I felt with the bailouts of GM and the bailouts of the bank under Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
[00:24:13]  We might like capitalism, but we haven't done real capitalism in a very long time.
[00:24:19]  We're doing crony capitalism, which is just corruption.
[00:24:25]  So you're trying to make the connections now through BuzzFeed on all of the things and all of the people that he is attached to.
[00:24:33]  Okay, I understand your fear.
[00:24:36]  I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I do understand your fear.
[00:24:43]  Can you give us the same respect and admit, you don't have to say that Barack Obama is, but would you admit that the connections that Barack Obama has with Marxist radical family members,
[00:25:07]  his grandfather, his mother, his father, and all of the people that he has seemingly surrounded himself with, including Jeremiah Wright and things like that, who are for Marxist liberation theology, his stated theology that there is no personal salvation, it is only a collective salvation, which is Marxist liberation theology.
[00:25:32]  That's where that came from.
[00:25:35]  For those of us who believe Marxism is wrong, flawed, and no matter how many times it's tried, it will end in millions of murders.
[00:25:49]  Will you at least give us the benefit of the doubt and say, ah, okay, I see why you were concerned?
[00:25:59]  Now, the reason why there was so much, why the birther thing lasted, why it took root, is because the left and the media refused to look into legitimate connections.
[00:26:16]  They dismissed every connection to anything with Barack Obama.
[00:26:25]  They would not say things like, wait a minute, what's happening with Bradley Manning?
[00:26:31]  That's just not, that's crazy.
[00:26:34]  What's happening with the giving of three really bad guys for Manning?
[00:26:44]  What is it with putting, and I know you have a love affair with Van Jones.
[00:26:48]  I do not.
[00:26:49]  I think he's a chameleon, and he has personally stated that he is a chameleon.
[00:26:55]  He is a 9-11 truther, which you have a problem with Alex Jones.
[00:27:00]  Well, so do I.
[00:27:02]  And one of the reasons is because he is the birthplace of the 9-11 truth project.
[00:27:09]  Okay, so is Van Jones.
[00:27:13]  You don't have a problem with that.
[00:27:15]  Why?
[00:27:17]  He's a stated Marxist.
[00:27:19]  You don't have a problem with that.
[00:27:21]  Okay, but will you recognize that I have a problem with that?
[00:27:27]  Now, to say that Barack Obama is a Marxist requires a leap because he's never said it.
[00:27:37]  But his policies of reversing the Constitution, his stated problem with our Constitution, in his own words, is that it is a document of negative liberties where it should be a document of positive liberties.
[00:27:53]  Well, that's what the Soviet Union Constitution was, a document of positive liberties, the things the state must do instead of what our founders did, the thing the state cannot do.
[00:28:07]  It's fundamentally different.
[00:28:11]  Its foundation is 180 degrees out of whack.
[00:28:15]  That made us nervous.
[00:28:17]  To say he doesn't have a problem with taking something from you and giving it to somebody else, that's redistribution of wealth.
[00:28:26]  He talks about healthcare and has said that, or I'm sorry, one of his people, the people he appointed, the head of his healthcare movement, one of the architects, said that wealth redistribution must be the centerpiece of any healthcare legislation.
[00:28:49]  Okay, that's a problem.
[00:28:53]  Yesterday, everybody's talking about Bradley Manning, Chelsea Manning.
[00:28:57]  There's another one that was released, and this one, and by the press ignoring it, downplaying it, dismissing it, is the reason why we have such distrust for the press and is the reason we have worried so about President Obama.
[00:29:16]  It's not his words.
[00:29:17]  With Donald Trump, so far, it's his words.
[00:29:21]  And his words can be frightening.
[00:29:23]  What are the actions behind the words?
[00:29:26]  We're going to find out, and I hope we find out good things.
[00:29:29]  Yesterday, the words say one thing, the actions say another.
[00:29:35]  Yesterday, the president released Oscar Lopez Rivera.
[00:29:41]  Who is he?
[00:29:41]  A Puerto Rican nationalist and one of the leaders of FALN, F-A-L-N.
[00:29:47]  In 1981, Lopez was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy, the use of force to commit robbery, interstate transportation of firearms, conspiracy to transport explosives with an attempt to destroy government property.
[00:30:06]  He was also in 88 sentenced to an additional 15 years for conspiring to escape from Leavenworth.
[00:30:12]  He's one of the 14 convicted FALN members offered conditional clemency by Bill Clinton in 99, but he rejected the offer.
[00:30:21]  Why?
[00:30:21]  First, let me tell you how bad of a guy this guy is.
[00:30:24]  In about 1980 in Chicago.
[00:30:27]  Chicago.
[00:30:28]  Huh.
[00:30:29]  Another connection to Chicago and that circle of friends of Barack Obama that exists.
[00:30:35]  I'm sure he knows about this guy because of his connections to the circle of old Marxists in Chicago.
[00:30:44]  I could be wrong.
[00:30:46]  But that is something that if the media took serious, we could dismiss.
[00:30:52]  So in 1980, a robber breaks into an apartment.
[00:31:00]  He's so freaked out by what he finds, he goes to the police and says, hey, I want to tell you something.
[00:31:08]  I was trying to rob this guy's house.
[00:31:11]  You guys need to know what I found.
[00:31:15]  Now that takes something, doesn't it?
[00:31:18]  So what did he find?
[00:31:20]  He found an apartment full of explosives, high-end explosives, and plans of government buildings in Chicago.
[00:31:31]  This is a group that is a communist, Marxist, radical group that wants freedom for Puerto Rico to become a communist state.
[00:31:43]  Cuba.
[00:31:45]  And this is one of them.
[00:31:47]  He's one of the 14 convicted members.
[00:31:51]  He was tied directly to the bombing of one federal building and to the explosives and the plans in that apartment.
[00:32:04]  He said he's a freedom fighter.
[00:32:06]  He's an avowed communist.
[00:32:08]  He's an avowed, I would call him terrorist, but he says everything that he has done, he has done and was justified.
[00:32:17]  He said, this is an illegal court.
[00:32:21]  I'm not going to participate in this trial.
[00:32:24]  He didn't participate.
[00:32:26]  He's admitted it.
[00:32:27]  He has stood on that he was right and that he would do it again.
[00:32:32]  In 99, will you take the deal and say you don't have anything to do with it?
[00:32:38]  You're not going to be involved.
[00:32:40]  No.
[00:32:42]  In 99.
[00:32:46]  He has been an avowed Marxist communist terrorist since the 1970s.
[00:32:55]  And Barack Obama decides to pardon him.
[00:32:59]  Now, what are the details of this?
[00:33:06]  Who is this guy?
[00:33:07]  Why is this guy so important to pardon?
[00:33:11]  Who is influencing the president to bring him up on his radar?
[00:33:16]  Why does he even know about this guy?
[00:33:19]  I don't keep track of the Marxist terrorists that are in prison.
[00:33:25]  Who is?
[00:33:28]  They obviously influenced Bill Clinton because Bill Clinton, I don't think, was hanging out with Marxist revolutionaries.
[00:33:35]  Maybe he was.
[00:33:38]  But he didn't have a history of it.
[00:33:41]  Barack Obama does.

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[00:33:43]  And then when he does things like this, it makes people who think that Marx was wrong, always wrong, and every time it's tried, it ends in violence and massive graves were concerned.
[00:34:02]  And because everyone on the left dismissed it, mocked, and ridiculed, we started to think, gosh, everybody is.
[00:34:11]  Everybody on the left, everybody who's a Democrat must be a Marxist because they don't care.
[00:34:19]  I don't believe that's true.
[00:34:24]  But as you're trying to figure out why, why does nobody trust the press?
[00:34:31]  Why was everybody so freaked out about Barack Obama?
[00:34:35]  And Donald Trump, you know, he's clearly a bad guy.
[00:34:40]  This guy had nothing.
[00:34:41]  He was just a great guy and a hero and an all-American guy.
[00:34:45]  No, there were many things he said and more things that he did that verified concern that he has serious Marxist tendencies and surrounded by bad people.
[00:35:01]  I can understand why you fear the next guy.
[00:35:05]  Please, if we're going to make progress, you have to understand why we feared the last guy.
[00:35:14]  If you can admit that and say, ah, I see and your fears are valid, just like I say, I see and I can validate your fears.
[00:35:27]  I may not agree with them, but they're valid.
[00:35:31]  Then and only then can we make progress.
[00:35:35]  But somebody on the left has got to step forward and say that.
[00:35:42]  But it'll take massive, massive cojones because you're not going to be popular with your side.

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[00:37:22]  Hello and welcome to the program.
[00:37:25]  I think today we are in for substantial problems.
[00:37:31]  I have said in the past that I wouldn't put it past Barack Obama to pardon on his last day.
[00:37:39]  Do you have any of the, there has to be predictions that pop up this week.
[00:37:43]  The two that are popping up are the blind sheik that you mentioned, which could happen.
[00:37:48]  And the other one.
[00:37:49]  The other one, Mumia Abu Jamal.
[00:37:51]  I would bet that would be more likely to be a lot of fun.
[00:37:53]  That too that one happens.
[00:37:54]  Now that one's interesting in that one, it does appear that it would be difficult for him to do because he was convicted at the state level.
[00:38:03]  Not federal.
[00:38:04]  He usually does federal.
[00:38:05]  He could theoretically get in some battle to get that done, but it would be very difficult.
[00:38:10]  But the sheikh was federal, right?
[00:38:12]  Hell yeah.
[00:38:13]  So the blind shake, those were my two, the blind shake and Mumia Abu Jamal.
[00:38:17]  I'd like to add another one.
[00:38:19]  Is it possible that the president pardons everyone who's in prison for marijuana charges?
[00:38:28]  Oh, yeah, I think so.
[00:38:32]  They said today substantially more people are going to be pardoned, and he's already pardoned 260?
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[00:40:01]  Hello, America.
[00:40:02]  A lot to say on the president, the people that he has pardoned, and the people that are remaining.
[00:40:11]  He has already let over 200 people out of prison, some really bad guys.
[00:40:20]  We're, as a country, having a bizarre conversation about Bradley Manning, Chelsea, as some like to call him.
[00:40:32]  And some on the left are celebrating, yet they were the ones who are also saying that WikiLeaks in Russia are bad.
[00:40:42]  And here's the guy who leaked all this information to WikiLeaks in Russia.
[00:40:48]  I don't, it's a surreal world, a world that if we were being pitched this around the Hollywood pitch table for a movie, all of us would say, it's not believable.

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[00:41:02]  But that's the world we live in.
[00:41:04]  The White House is saying the 200 are nothing.
[00:41:09]  Substantially more are being released tomorrow.
[00:41:14]  Who could that be?
[00:41:16]  Also, I was asked, what are my hopes for the Trump campaign?
[00:41:23]  I answer with what is inside of this protective shield, a document that Mercury won, that David Barton and Glenn Beck dream of an independence museum.
[00:41:39]  as it becomes more and more a reality.
[00:41:43]  We purchased a document yesterday that I don't think many people even know exists, and it is something really cool.
[00:41:54]  What do I hope?
[00:41:56]  What are my hopes?
[00:41:57]  What are my dreams for a Trump administration?
[00:41:59]  It's in this document, and I'll share it with you next.
[00:42:06]  I will make it stand, because I will raise my voice.
[00:42:10]  I will hold your hand.
[00:42:12]  Cause we have won.
[00:42:14]  I will beat my drum.
[00:42:17]  I have made my choice.
[00:42:19]  We will overcome.
[00:42:21]  Cause we are the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:42:27]  This is the Glenn Beck.
[00:42:37]  For everybody who doesn't understand why many of us on the right were so upset at Barack Obama was because he could talk a good game about law and order.
[00:42:54]  but he didn't do it.
[00:42:56]  And the same thing can be said about Donald Trump.
[00:43:01]  He talks a great game about law and order.
[00:43:04]  Now, how will he perform that duty?
[00:43:07]  For instance, he talked about law and order recently in Chicago and said, don't worry, Chicago, you want to solve this?
[00:43:16]  We'll send in the feds.
[00:43:17]  No, Mr. President-elect.
[00:43:21]  That's not what we do.
[00:43:22]  We don't federalize the police force.
[00:43:26]  We don't do that.
[00:43:28]  We help cities police themselves.
[00:43:33]  We use the Constitution.
[00:43:35]  The Constitution is not a charter for a corporation.
[00:43:42]  You're not the CEO of America.
[00:43:44]  You're the president.
[00:43:45]  And it's a very different role.
[00:43:49]  But I think, I'm hoping that when Donald Trump has constitutionalists around him, he will understand that and he will play along with the Constitution.
[00:44:03]  And we won't do the things that we have done under George W. Bush and in a massive way under Barack Obama.
[00:44:13]  And anybody who is intellectually honest at all will say the things you worried about under George Bush, that it was going to be crony capitalism, got worse under Barack Obama.
[00:44:27]  That anybody who worried that the government was spying on people got worse under Barack Obama.
[00:44:36]  The constitutional liberties got worse under Barack Obama.
[00:44:40]  The press asks what?
[00:44:42]  I don't know.
[00:44:43]  Ask your own fellow colleagues that found themselves harassed or jailed by this president or threatened to jail by this president on what you would call First Amendment rights.
[00:44:58]  This president is the worst president for the press since Woodrow Wilson.
[00:45:05]  I offered many times to stand with those on the left in the press if they would stand up for themselves first.
[00:45:16]  I said you would have plenty of people on the right that would stand with you.
[00:45:22]  And you better do it now because you don't know who's going to get in next.
[00:45:27]  And the next guy could be worse.
[00:45:31]  Now you're afraid the next guy might be worse.
[00:45:34]  But you're saying it in a way where you don't recognize that your guy was really bad.
[00:45:41]  It doesn't help.
[00:45:43]  You have to have intellectual honesty and you have to have an underpinning of something.
[00:45:50]  Where do you get your principles?
[00:46:00]  What is my hope for the Trump administration?
[00:46:12]  It's really pretty simple, and it's actually kind of depressing how low the bar is for anybody in office now.
[00:46:20]  It is that maybe they'll take the Hippocratic oath and first do no harm.
[00:46:25]  Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody go to Congress and first do no harm?
[00:46:33]  But this document, which was just purchased over the weekend, I have never seen it before, and it's pretty amazing, is my hope for this administration.
[00:46:53]  This is from Ronald Reagan.
[00:46:56]  This was given to his wife, Nancy, afterwards as a gift.
[00:47:03]  And he wrote in his own handwriting to Nancy, who brightens the corner where we are, Ronald Reagan.
[00:47:11]  He then, like his, like checks, like we used to do with checks, he forgot to make it 81.
[00:47:17]  He made it 12080.
[00:47:19]  It was actually 12081 when he was sworn in.
[00:47:23]  Okay?
[00:47:24]  This is the actual card that he held in his hands when he was taking the oath of office.
[00:47:32]  And you can see he marked with a black marker, swear, execute, ability, and Constitution of the United States.
[00:47:41]  So he could see it at a distance.
[00:47:44]  He knew exactly the oath, and he wouldn't screw it up.
[00:47:48]  I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
[00:48:05]  So help me, God.
[00:48:10]  My hope for the last president is the same hope for this president.
[00:48:18]  That when he raises his hand, he will actually mean these words.
[00:48:24]  This isn't just something that you say.
[00:48:28]  This is a swearing to God and to the people that you will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States.
[00:48:41]  What does that mean?
[00:48:43]  You're going to do your job.
[00:48:46]  Here's the job description.
[00:48:47]  You're going to do your job.
[00:48:49]  Now, I haven't seen a job description.
[00:48:51]  I wonder if there is one.
[00:48:54]  Can somebody go online and see if there is an official job description for the President of the United States?
[00:48:59]  It'd be interesting.
[00:49:02]  It'd be interesting for us to know what the job description is.
[00:49:07]  And it'd be interesting.
[00:49:09]  You should have one when you walk into the Oval Office.
[00:49:12]  These are the things you can do.
[00:49:14]  These are the things you can't do.
[00:49:16]  I would bet that the job description is in the Constitution of the United States, and that's it.
[00:49:23]  Article 2, Sections 2 and 3.
[00:49:28]  322 words.
[00:49:32]  Can you just marry?
[00:49:34]  Here's our short job description.
[00:49:36]  It covers only five areas.
[00:49:37]  The president is commander-in-chief of the military.
[00:49:39]  President is responsible for ensuring that the laws passed by Congress are executed and enforced as written.
[00:49:44]  Man, that one was certainly violated the last eight years.
[00:49:47]  The president is allowed to grant pardons for crimes other than impeachment.
[00:49:51]  I mean, that's in the Constitution.
[00:49:53]  So a lot of people will say, I can't believe they're pardoning these people.
[00:49:55]  It is part of the role.
[00:49:56]  It's part of the job of this country for the president to be able to pardon people.
[00:50:01]  They're doing it for any reason that they want.
[00:50:03]  Right.
[00:50:03]  Nobody has ever done it to this extent.
[00:50:05]  The average is about, what, 18?
[00:50:07]  I know Bush did 19 on his last day of pardons.
[00:50:11]  I think 23 is the largest.
[00:50:13]  And they all do more than that during their terms.
[00:50:16]  But there's usually a last day where they do the sort of last act.
[00:50:21]  Kind of the controversial one.
[00:50:22]  They usually hold them off to the end because they don't have to deal with it.
[00:50:25]  Right.
[00:50:26]  Then you have the president can also make treaties, but only if two-thirds of the Senate agrees to the terms of those treaties.
[00:50:31]  The president can nominate ambassadors, Supreme Court justices, and other officers, most commonly cabinet secretaries and federal judges, but he can only nominate them again.
[00:50:38]  The Senate has final approval on any of the nominations.
[00:50:40]  Everything else is not part of the job of the president.
[00:50:45]  I will create jobs.
[00:50:47]  Not part of the job.
[00:50:49]  Not part of the job.
[00:50:51]  Be nice, but that's not your responsibility.
[00:50:54]  Who has made that the responsibility of the president?
[00:50:57]  The press.
[00:50:59]  What about jobs?
[00:51:02]  Not my job.
[00:51:02]  That's what the president should say.
[00:51:04]  Would be a death knell if he did, but not my job.
[00:51:07]  Not my job.
[00:51:08]  My job is to faithfully execute the office to make sure that the laws of the land are enforced.
[00:51:18]  Now, I have the bully pulpit to say this law is wrong.
[00:51:24]  But I don't have the right to what this president did and say I'm not enforcing that.
[00:51:30]  That's not faith, quote, faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States.
[00:51:36]  That's not faithfully executing it.
[00:51:39]  But the most important part, will to the best of my ability, will to the best of my ability.
[00:51:46]  How many of us had conversations either as children with our parents or have had this conversation with our children or both?
[00:51:56]  Dad, I did really poorly in this subject.
[00:52:02]  First response from my parents and to my children.
[00:52:09]  Is that your best work?
[00:52:13]  Is that to the best of your ability?
[00:52:15]  Is that the best you could do?
[00:52:18]  If they answer yes and I believe them, not a problem.
[00:52:23]  Good job.
[00:52:25]  You did your best work.
[00:52:28]  Now, how can we help you do better next time?
[00:52:32]  If they say no, there's trouble.
[00:52:35]  Are you not like that with your kids?
[00:52:39]  I did everything I could.
[00:52:42]  There were some things that were out of my hands.
[00:52:47]  And that would mean if I see the Constitution being violated, I ring the bell at the bully pulpit.
[00:52:56]  I tell the American people there is a violation of the Constitution and I can't stop it.
[00:53:04]  Isn't that, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States?
[00:53:17]  I don't believe this president, and it may be, maybe to the best of his ability, because his ability may be gravely hampered by what he believes.
[00:53:32]  He believes the Constitution, in his own words, is a flawed document.
[00:53:38]  So if you raise your hand and take this oath, you really are not qualified to take this oath if in your own admitted words it is a flawed document.
[00:53:53]  Because I can't preserve that document.
[00:53:56]  I can't defend that document.
[00:53:59]  And I mean mentally defend.
[00:54:01]  When somebody comes into your office and says, hey, we have to do this, but it's really not constitutional, you say, find a poll, and I don't care if you have to poll vault over it.
[00:54:14]  That's a flawed document.
[00:54:16]  Don't worry about it.
[00:54:19]  You're in violation of the Constitution.
[00:54:24]  What does Donald Trump think about the Constitution?
[00:54:27]  I don't know.
[00:54:28]  I've never heard him talk about it.
[00:54:30]  I heard him recently in an interview, an old interview, but they just released it, talking about the Declaration of Independence, where he said, I've never understood the all men are created equal.
[00:54:43]  Some aren't.
[00:54:45]  All men aren't created equal.
[00:54:46]  Some have ability, some don't.
[00:54:48]  Some have looks, some don't.
[00:54:51]  Well, that's not what that means.
[00:54:54]  And that shows, to me, that shows somebody who has read that document and has not put any serious thought into it.
[00:55:03]  He's seen the document, he's read it, and he's thought, well, no, all men are not created equal, but has never really talked about it out loud, never had a serious discussion, because a man as smart as Donald Trump will come to the correct conclusion quickly when he thinks about it.
[00:55:18]  It's not that all men are created equal.
[00:55:20]  It's that they're all created with equal, an equal chance under the law, that they have no standing before the law, any less or greater than anyone else.
[00:55:36]  And if it was an old interview, hopefully he's, you know, taken the time in between.
[00:55:40]  Correct.
[00:55:41]  But what does he believe?
[00:55:43]  I don't know what he believes about the Constitution.
[00:55:45]  I have not heard him talk about it.
[00:55:47]  But I'm hoping that the president-elect has spent his time talking to people, and I know he has talked to Mike Lee about the Constitution.
[00:55:56]  So hopefully he has done his homework.
[00:55:59]  And when he raises his hand tomorrow, he can say to the best of my ability, I will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
[00:56:09]  So help me, God.
[00:56:11]  And mean it.
[00:56:14]  Because I don't believe the last one meant it, at least in the way that most of us would, because in his own words, he said it was a flawed document.

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=== National Security Risks (12:12) ===

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[00:59:01]  The Glenn Beck program.
[00:59:03]  Let's go to Josh in Utah.
[00:59:05]  Hello, Josh.
[00:59:06]  You're on the Glenn Beck program.
[00:59:08]  Hi, Glenn.
[00:59:09]  Hey, how are you?
[00:59:11]  I'm doing well, thanks.
[00:59:12]  Good.
[00:59:13]  What's on your mind?
[00:59:14]  Hey, I just find the current conversation fascinating regarding the powers enumerated to the president in Article 1 of the Constitution.
[00:59:22]  And I recall that years ago when Ron Paul was running for president, he specifically stated on many occasions that he would not do more than what the Article 1 of the Constitution gave him powers to do.
[00:59:34]  And some labeled him as an isolationist and also someone who would be a jellyfish of a president, because he would sign no or veto almost every bill that came his way, because he knew that most of the bills that were written were not within his power to pass as president, or things that were.
[00:59:52]  That's an interesting, it's an interesting um way to view um why people thought he was an isolationist.
[01:00:01]  Um, because that's it's not on the presidential powers that uh made me think that he was uh an isolationist.
[01:00:09]  It was um his, his view on withdrawing from the world, and I happen to agree with redrawing from the world, not perhaps as quickly as he would um, because it's taken us a hundred years to get into this mess, but I don't know.
[01:00:24]  There were other issues with yeah, I don't think that has anything to have you ever heard that it was about article one, that he was restricted by the constitution for his powers?
[01:00:34]  No, neither have I interesting uh point of view.
[01:00:36]  Thank you very much, Josh.
[01:00:37]  Back in just a second.
[01:00:43]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:00:47]  Mercury, this is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:00:54]  So let's look at the people now that uh Barack Obama has pardoned uh, first of all, let's start with uh uh, Manning.
[01:01:06]  Didn't Julian Assange say that He would allow himself to be extradited to the United States if we pardoned Manning?
[01:01:13]  Yes, that is what he promised.
[01:01:14]  And of course, I think a lot of people didn't believe him at the time.
[01:01:17]  Now that it's happened, he is saying that he will follow through with that.
[01:01:21]  The issue, of course, now is he has said that he will follow through?
[01:01:25]  Yes, he said he's going to follow through with that.
[01:01:26]  Now, who knows if he actually does.
[01:01:28]  The other part of that is obviously he is smart enough to realize that Donald Trump is about to be president, who's kind of a big fan.
[01:01:34]  So if he were to come here, I think it's likely that Assange would get pardoned by Trump, not by four or eight years.
[01:01:43]  I don't know.
[01:01:43]  I mean, maybe right away.
[01:01:44]  Oh, I can't believe that.
[01:01:46]  Why?
[01:01:47]  I mean, they've called him basically a hero.
[01:01:49]  I mean, you know, people like Sarah Palin, who were saying he was a huge criminal, have now completely turned around and said he's a hero.
[01:01:54]  I understand that.
[01:01:55]  But that's different.
[01:01:56]  Why?
[01:01:56]  That's, I don't know.
[01:01:57]  Why?
[01:01:58]  I don't think it's different at all.
[01:01:59]  I don't think Trump cares either.
[01:02:00]  What does he care about the fallout?
[01:02:01]  Yeah.
[01:02:02]  That never affects him one iota.
[01:02:04]  He doesn't care.
[01:02:05]  That's a good point.
[01:02:06]  Right.
[01:02:06]  And he believes that.
[01:02:06]  Not one iota of a crack.
[01:02:08]  No.
[01:02:10]  And the other one is in that same sort of group as Snowden, people are talking about.
[01:02:13]  And I think in the same way, like this, it's unlikely that Obama would pardon Snowden or Assange because it plays against the narrative he's trying to build, which is, you know, Trump is obviously tied with Russia.
[01:02:26]  There was the hacking of the election and all of these things that, right, as of today, the Democrats are suddenly concerned about.
[01:02:33]  So pardoning him, I don't think does anything.
[01:02:35]  Where I do think Snowden and Assange would have a great chance of being pardoned by Trump in that he's outwardly said their actions were really positive and heroic.
[01:02:44]  So you'd think that those two would have real possibilities.
[01:02:48]  And obviously working as closely as he wants to work with Russia, there's a lot there.
[01:02:52]  So those are a couple of people.
[01:02:54]  There's a few others that they've been talking about as potential big name pardons.
[01:02:59]  Now, we mentioned Willie McCovey, who was pardoned for some tax evasion thing from a million years.
[01:03:04]  But he didn't even go to prison.
[01:03:06]  No.
[01:03:06]  Right, no, it was a minor thing.
[01:03:07]  But, you know, he wanted his name back.
[01:03:09]  And I can understand that.
[01:03:10]  He's a Hall of Fame baseball player.
[01:03:12]  And, you know, that's what the media is focusing on.
[01:03:14]  However, he pardoned 209 people, or excuse me, 209 just commuted and 64 pardons.
[01:03:21]  Yeah.
[01:03:22]  So 64 pardons, 209 commutations in one day.
[01:03:24]  And there's more coming tomorrow.
[01:03:27]  Substantially more.
[01:03:29]  Substantially more was.
[01:03:30]  That's what the White House says.
[01:03:31]  Substantially more.
[01:03:32]  Yes.
[01:03:33]  So who are the people, the big names?
[01:03:35]  Because they did pardon a lot of people you've never heard of.
[01:03:38]  But who are the big potential names?
[01:03:40]  Hot air came up with a list, and they mentioned Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, which we just talked about.
[01:03:44]  I don't think either of those would happen.
[01:03:46]  David Petraeus is one they mentioned.
[01:03:48]  Now, Petraeus obviously has been aligned with the Trump administration.
[01:03:51]  However, was under, served Obama for a while as well.
[01:03:58]  Obviously, it kind of went down the wrong road, but would you pardon?
[01:04:01]  I think it's a good pardon if he were to do that.
[01:04:06]  And EP has paid a penalty certainly for that.
[01:04:09]  Bo Bergdahl.
[01:04:11]  Bergdahl.
[01:04:12]  Oh, yeah.
[01:04:13]  I mean, that one seems to fit pretty well with the Manning thing, right?
[01:04:16]  I mean, they've already traded a bunch of terrorists for him.
[01:04:21]  He comes back and he had the charges.
[01:04:23]  You know, I have conflated Bergdahl and Manning together.
[01:04:27]  Yeah.
[01:04:29]  So Manning was, no, I think you did mention that at one point earlier.
[01:04:33]  Yeah, because Bergdahl was the guy who traded the terrorists for.
[01:04:36]  Okay.
[01:04:36]  Yes.
[01:04:37]  I thought that's who he pardoned.
[01:04:39]  I conflated.
[01:04:40]  I forgot they were two separate people.
[01:04:41]  Yes.
[01:04:42]  Manning was the guy.
[01:04:44]  What?
[01:04:44]  To the point they're three.
[01:04:45]  Right.
[01:04:46]  Three.
[01:04:46]  Oh, yeah.
[01:04:48]  So Manning is the guy who went in, gathered all of, intentionally gathered all secret documents and then gave it to WikiLeaks.
[01:05:00]  Yeah, and the excuse, let me give you their justification in case you're interested.
[01:05:04]  Blindline is the one who deserted and went allegedly with the Taliban for a while.
[01:05:10]  So he's still taking away.
[01:05:11]  Bergdahl definitely is going to be.
[01:05:12]  I mean, I was thinking Bergdahl took a bunch of documents, gave them to WikiLeaks, then left and went with the Taliban.
[01:05:20]  I could put the two of them together.
[01:05:21]  That's all right.
[01:05:22]  So Josh Ernest said Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing.
[01:05:32]  At her court martial, Ms. Manning confessed in detail to her actions and apologized, saying she had not intended to put anyone at risk and noting that she had been dealing with a lot of issues at the time she made her decision, which obviously have manifested itself quite publicly since.
[01:05:46]  So that is why they weren't.
[01:05:47]  But if you're dealing with issues, I mean, obviously.
[01:05:50]  I know, but I'm just saying that's their justification.
[01:05:52]  So that's being a traitor to your country.
[01:05:54]  If you're dealing with issues.
[01:05:56]  Well, those types of issues.
[01:05:57]  Right.
[01:05:58]  I mean, if they're gender issues, then sure, then you got to.
[01:06:01]  It's important.
[01:06:02]  Unbelievable.
[01:06:02]  Here's another one I could definitely see happening: Leonard Peltier.
[01:06:06]  Now, this is a guy, we've talked about him before over the years.
[01:06:09]  He is too.
[01:06:10]  So many names, so many charts.
[01:06:12]  I know.
[01:06:14]  So he's a very big Hollywood cause.
[01:06:16]  He murdered two FBI agents many years ago.
[01:06:21]  I'm getting warmer.
[01:06:22]  He was in a Native American sort of group.
[01:06:28]  And they went to go capture someone on their compound.
[01:06:32]  He shot two FBI agents.
[01:06:34]  They know for a fact he was shooting at FBI agents.
[01:06:37]  There was 120 some odd shots at FBI agents.
[01:06:41]  Basically, their defense is: well, it was somebody else who actually hit the FBI agents.
[01:06:45]  He was apparently though shot at point blank.
[01:06:48]  These two guys were shot at point-blank range.
[01:06:50]  Really tragic and horrible story.
[01:06:51]  For whatever reason, this has become a big cause for the left over the years.
[01:06:55]  Bill Clinton was rumored to be considering pardoning him at the end of his term, but was eventually did not do it.
[01:07:04]  He's been in prison for a long time.
[01:07:06]  Ran for president of the United States under, I think, the Peace and Freedom Party.
[01:07:11]  It was one of those socialist parties.
[01:07:14]  He is ran from prison.
[01:07:16]  I believe that you're going to see the worst of the Marxist people out.
[01:07:20]  And he's a big one.
[01:07:23]  This is an interesting one.
[01:07:24]  Has Bill Ayers' record been swept clean?
[01:07:28]  I don't know.
[01:07:29]  That would be an interesting pardons and cleans the record of Bill Ayers.
[01:07:36]  A couple of others.
[01:07:37]  Ethel Rosenberg.
[01:07:40]  Now, I think it's pretty much wide knowledge that, first of all, she's gone.
[01:07:46]  She's lost her.
[01:07:47]  We lost her.
[01:07:48]  She's sick.
[01:07:48]  She's willing to make fun of it.
[01:07:50]  What?
[01:07:50]  We lost her.
[01:07:51]  However, their family is trying to get her pardoned.
[01:07:55]  And the idea is that her husband was much more a part of it.
[01:07:58]  She wasn't really that much of a part of it.
[01:08:01]  And so it's another Hollywood cause for a long time.
[01:08:03]  And then they also list, I think, maybe tongue-in-cheek, Hillary Clinton as a potential someone.
[01:08:10]  But again, she's been in these FBI investigations and in effect would probably destroy your legacy, not help it if she gets an actual pardon.
[01:08:20]  Are they talking about maybe a pardon for John Wilkes Booth?
[01:08:23]  Is it time yet?
[01:08:26]  No, it's sad to say.
[01:08:29]  We're joking about it.
[01:08:30]  It's time.
[01:08:31]  It's time.
[01:08:31]  But Mudd was pardoned in the 70s.
[01:08:35]  You know the phrase, your name will be Mudd around here.
[01:08:39]  That's because of Dr. Mudd, who was pardoned like 100 years later in the murder.
[01:08:46]  And I have to tell you, I disagree with it.
[01:08:50]  I mean, the...
[01:08:51]  You disagree with the pardon?
[01:08:52]  Yeah.
[01:08:53]  Yeah.
[01:08:53]  Mudd is the reason why they grabbed Mudd is because John Wilkes Booth broke his leg or his ankle when he jumped from the stage, right?
[01:09:06]  Okay, so he is going across.
[01:09:09]  He's trying to get across the river, trying to get away.
[01:09:14]  He can't make it anymore.
[01:09:15]  He hides in the bushes or whatever for a long time.
[01:09:19]  He goes to see this doctor, Dr. Mudd, a confederate of Booth says, this is a safe house.
[01:09:29]  He goes in.
[01:09:30]  That's where he is caught, if I'm not mistaken.
[01:09:33]  He's caught on the property of Mudd.
[01:09:35]  And Mudd helped fix his leg.
[01:09:39]  He said he had no idea it was John Wilkes Booth.
[01:09:42]  First of all, kind of hard to believe because John Wilkes Booth was like Leonardo DiCaprio.
[01:09:48]  He was a big star, right?
[01:09:49]  He was a huge, huge star.
[01:09:51]  So pretty much everybody knew who John Wilkes Booth was.
[01:09:54]  Okay.
[01:09:56]  But the reason why they nabbed him and didn't believe his story is because Booth's boots, which he was wearing when he came in, were sitting there at the end or by the chair where Booth was sitting when he first came in.
[01:10:14]  And they said to the doctor, what happened?
[01:10:16]  He said he came in.
[01:10:17]  He said he had broken his leg or his ankle.
[01:10:21]  And he sat down on this chair.
[01:10:23]  And his feet were swollen and his leg was swollen.
[01:10:27]  So I had a hard time getting his boots off.
[01:10:30]  And he said, those are the boots.
[01:10:32]  And the agent picked up the boots, looked at him, and said, really?
[01:10:38]  And you didn't know it was John Wilkes Booth?
[01:10:40]  No, I would have reported him immediately had I known.
[01:10:43]  He said, tell me exactly how you took the boots off.
[01:10:47]  And he said, well, I was down here on my knees and I took one boot off like this and another boot off like this and I set them right there.
[01:10:56]  And he said, huh.
[01:10:59]  Can everybody come around?
[01:11:01]  Look at the top of the boot.
[01:11:03]  And right inside of the top of the boot where you cannot miss it, it says in both boots, John Wilkes Booth.

=== Stock Market Crash (05:27) ===

[01:11:11]  And so it's like, there was no way.
[01:11:13]  Doctor, how did you miss that?
[01:11:15]  So that was kind of the evidence that got him.
[01:11:19]  But he was later pardoned, you know, by, I think, Ford.
[01:11:24]  Was it Ford that pardoned him?
[01:11:26]  And Ford also pardoned Tokyo Rose, which was right.
[01:11:32]  By the way, there's a disagreement on the Your Name is Mud thing related to him.
[01:11:37]  I think it was definitely recorded before this doctor.
[01:11:42]  However, a lot of people think it was popularized essentially.
[01:11:44]  Because I guess back in the day, it was used as a modifier.
[01:11:49]  So as fat as mud or as sick as mud or as rich as mud is the ones that are just for whatever reason, like, you know.
[01:11:56]  I hate Google.
[01:11:57]  Yeah, I know.
[01:11:57]  Google can direct everything.
[01:11:59]  However, if it probably popularized the name part of that.
[01:12:03]  So like your name is Mud after that.
[01:12:04]  Obviously, people tied it to that later, but it does seem like it predated it.
[01:12:09]  So for whatever that's worth.
[01:12:11]  And thank you, Google.
[01:12:12]  Mumi Abu Jamal is the other one that we talked about briefly that's on this list.
[01:12:16]  It looks like that wouldn't happen because it was a state conviction rather than a federal conviction.
[01:12:21]  Unnamed here is the blind sheik, which you have brought up in the past as a potential part of the.
[01:12:26]  And who was the other one I said?
[01:12:27]  Mumi Abu Jamal were the two.
[01:12:28]  We're the two main ones that we mentioned.
[01:12:31]  We also haven't even focused on the group of terrorists.
[01:12:34]  I mean, you know, we could all complain about, you know, Chelsea Manning.
[01:12:39]  We could complain about, you know, these people.
[01:12:42]  And I would like to mention Oscar Lopez Rivera.
[01:12:45]  Oscar Lopez Rivera.
[01:12:46]  He is a Marxist communist terrorist that was pardoned yesterday.
[01:12:51]  Unrepentant.
[01:12:52]  And we are not the only ones complaining about the Manning thing either.
[01:12:54]  I mean, we have audio from Democrats, senators who are.
[01:12:57]  Can you play the Democratic senators, please?
[01:12:59]  Before we get into the other terrorists, here's some of the Democrats that are against it.
[01:13:03]  Your reaction, and how do you think the Intel community will react?
[01:13:06]  I think it's dead wrong.
[01:13:07]  Absolutely dead wrong.
[01:13:09]  This is treason.
[01:13:12]  What the private manning done, what Chelsea did, is absolutely found guilty, 35-year sentenced.
[01:13:18]  We're going to give a green light to people basically with all the hacking going on now and all the cyber attacks we've got going on.
[01:13:24]  My goodness, you got Snowden out there, and you've got a solid police people.
[01:13:28]  It's just wrong.
[01:13:29]  We're not going to, I'm, for one, not going to be supportive of these types of commutes whatsoever.
[01:13:35]  And this is Bob Menendez.
[01:13:37]  Why do you think he did it?
[01:13:38]  Did he do the right thing?
[01:13:41]  Well, I don't know why he did it, and so I'll look forward to hearing his reasoning because I just heard about it.
[01:13:46]  But the reality is, I have serious concerns about equivocating sentences when national security is at stake.
[01:13:54]  What happened here is that literally hundreds of thousands of documents were released.
[01:14:01]  It put national security at risk.
[01:14:03]  It put individual operatives at risk.
[01:14:06]  It put our national interests at risk with other countries.
[01:14:10]  And at a time that we are seriously questioning what Russia did as it relates to our recent elections and the role that Wikileaks and a different iteration has played in that regard.
[01:14:22]  I don't know that I've ever heard Bob Menendez disagree with Barack Obama.
[01:14:26]  So let me think.
[01:14:27]  Let me ask you this.
[01:14:28]  How do you get it?
[01:14:31]  How do you get there if you are somebody who is saying, you know, Russia is really bad.
[01:14:39]  Wikileaks is really bad.
[01:14:41]  They're responsible for giving us Donald Trump, which I don't believe.
[01:14:45]  But if you're saying those things, how do you get to this is a good thing?
[01:14:53]  The left.
[01:14:54]  How are you getting to the guy who gave Wikileaks a lot of this information?
[01:14:59]  How do you get there?
[01:15:01]  And anybody on our side, how do you get to, I have a problem with this.
[01:15:08]  It's just such a great thing of how meaningless this nonsense is.
[01:15:11]  Sarah Palin's coming out and saying how terrible Julian Assange is.
[01:15:16]  He's a traitor and everything else.
[01:15:18]  And now he's the best guy in the world.
[01:15:20]  For the exact same reason here, the left loved when Manning did some of these things.
[01:15:27]  They loved when the Bush administration got targeted earlier.
[01:15:31]  Yet now they're on the opposite side of that.
[01:15:33]  Now, this recent economic reports from both the World Bank and the IMF suggest that the proposed tax cuts will boost economic growth.
[01:15:42]  World Bank, however, is warning that the tariff proposals by Donald Trump could also trigger protectionist retaliation.
[01:15:51]  One way or another, we will pay for the sins of the past.
[01:15:55]  And the president is not going to have the power.
[01:15:58]  This is all the Fed.
[01:15:59]  The president is not going to be able to do anything except deal with the aftermath.
[01:16:04]  And that's what we don't want the president to do.
[01:16:06]  We want us to be able to do that.
[01:16:09]  We want to be able to survive.
[01:16:11]  I am convinced if you have your money in the stock market, it's 1929.
[01:16:16]  One of these days, soon, it's going to crash.
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=== Intelligence Community Secrets (03:21) ===

[01:16:38]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:16:42]  Mercury.
[01:16:43]  The Glenn Beck program.
[01:16:48]  We're just talking about, in some ways, I love Google.
[01:16:51]  In other ways, I hate Google.
[01:16:53]  Because a good story is great to hear, but everyone takes out Google and then they nitpick every bit of the story.
[01:17:04]  So Mudd, it wasn't Ford.
[01:17:06]  It was Johnson.
[01:17:07]  So that was a big one.
[01:17:08]  A hundred and fifty.
[01:17:09]  And that was a big one.
[01:17:10]  I got sooner than you.
[01:17:11]  But this is off the top of my head.
[01:17:13]  It also comes around, right?
[01:17:14]  What happened with, because he was going after Carter and Reagan.
[01:17:17]  Yeah, they tried to clear his name and they published what it was.
[01:17:21]  Carter, Reagan.
[01:17:24]  So anyway, but the good thing about it is once you hear a good story, you can Google it and it just takes you down a wormhole of history.
[01:17:34]  It is a great thing for history.
[01:17:36]  It is.
[01:17:39]  Glenn Beck.
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=== Liberty Safe Vault (14:57) ===

[01:20:00]  Hello, America, and welcome to the program.
[01:20:04]  Some fake news that I think is just poisoning the well that we need to address.
[01:20:14]  And we want to hear from you.
[01:20:17]  And there is yet more on the pardons that Barack Obama has done as we get ready in this transition of power.
[01:20:27]  Will it be peaceful?
[01:20:29]  We go there right now.
[01:20:32]  I will make a stand.
[01:20:34]  I will raise my voice.
[01:20:37]  I will hold your hand.
[01:20:39]  Cause we have won.
[01:20:41]  I will beat my drum.
[01:20:43]  I have made my choice.
[01:20:45]  We will overcome.
[01:20:48]  Cause we are one.
[01:20:50]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[01:20:53]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:20:58]  All right.
[01:20:59]  A few things that we want to discuss.
[01:21:03]  There is a really, to me, a disturbing story that is going around that the press needs to prove or disprove right now.
[01:21:15]  My feeling is the reason why the birth certificate thing had legs with so many people.
[01:21:24]  Again, not us.
[01:21:25]  We didn't agree with that.
[01:21:27]  But why it had legs with so many people is because the press just decided to ignore it.
[01:21:34]  And they ignored it for a very long time.
[01:21:38]  They didn't tell the truth of where it started.
[01:21:40]  It started with Hillary Clinton's campaign.
[01:21:43]  They fired somebody that started it, but then it morphed and went to somebody else, just like what's being done with Trump right now.
[01:21:53]  It started with a Democratic operative?
[01:21:58]  No, it started with a Republican operative.
[01:22:01]  They sold it to a Democrat operative, and that's how it got to the president and got it in the news.
[01:22:09]  Same thing happened with Hillary Clinton.
[01:22:13]  Hillary Clinton, her campaign, somebody said that.
[01:22:18]  Then it jumped over after she finished a campaign, and it was Barack Obama.
[01:22:23]  Then it jumped over to the Republican side.
[01:22:27]  And everybody ignored it.
[01:22:29]  It'll just go away.
[01:22:31]  Well, in the old days, things like that would go away.
[01:22:36]  But you can't ignore things.
[01:22:37]  That's why Snopes is so important.
[01:22:41]  Disprove these things or prove them to be accurate, but do it quickly.
[01:22:48]  I believe that there is a war going on with the intelligence community right now.
[01:22:56]  And Donald Trump and his surrogates are fighting a war with the intelligence community.
[01:23:02]  And if we let this get out of control, it's why I said when this story broke, what, last week about all of the things, you know, Donald Trump and Russia, we need to find out.
[01:23:15]  We need to answer those three buckets.
[01:23:19]  Remember I broke the story up into three sections?
[01:23:22]  The last section was, do we trust the intelligence community?
[01:23:27]  Well, the answer to that is no, because the intelligence community has been politicized.
[01:23:32]  But that doesn't mean you don't trust any of the intelligence community.
[01:23:37]  It means Clapper, for instance, when he said that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular, that was a political answer.
[01:23:45]  There's no way anyone in the intelligence community believes any of that.
[01:23:51]  That was a political answer.
[01:23:55]  Here's the latest that needs to be disproved or needs to be exposed as the truth.
[01:24:03]  I don't believe it at all.
[01:24:05]  I did something unusual today.
[01:24:08]  I clicked on a headline on the Drudge Report, and I only clicked on it because it was red at the top of the page.
[01:24:16]  And it was, Trump operative Roger Stone survives assassination attempt.
[01:24:22]  That's huge news.
[01:24:25]  If indeed it's true.
[01:24:27]  We search.
[01:24:30]  Nobody who is legitimate is reporting this.
[01:24:34]  This is the Drudge Report taking an InfoWars story and putting it up to the front.
[01:24:41]  The other one is WorldNet Daily.
[01:24:43]  And, you know, Daily Mail also picked up.
[01:24:45]  But again, it's all coming from Roger Stone tweeting about it.
[01:24:49]  That's the source.
[01:24:49]  Okay.
[01:24:50]  He's saying it happened.
[01:24:51]  All right.
[01:24:52]  So I'd like to see the documents that go with this.
[01:24:56]  Renowned Republican operative says he's usually very healthy, but he became violently ill unexpectedly several weeks ago.
[01:25:03]  I'm generally a healthy person.
[01:25:04]  I've been a runner and a weightlifter.
[01:25:06]  I'm careful with my diet.
[01:25:07]  I'm a user of the InfoWar supplements.
[01:25:12]  He hugs the supplements in the middle of his poisoning confession.
[01:25:18]  Everything.
[01:25:20]  There's a safe guideline when Roger Stones speaking.
[01:25:23]  He's lying.
[01:25:24]  Yeah.
[01:25:25]  That's my guideline.
[01:25:27]  Okay, but this is going to be believed by many people.
[01:25:31]  Not if you believe my guideline.
[01:25:32]  My guideline solves this problem.
[01:25:34]  Whenever Roger Stone speaks, he's lying.
[01:25:36]  Correct.
[01:25:36]  Period.
[01:25:37]  That solves all of these issues.
[01:25:38]  Okay.
[01:25:39]  I ultimately went to the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach and my own personal physician.
[01:25:44]  They conducted extensive blood tests.
[01:25:47]  Those blood tests were passed on to the CDC.
[01:25:50]  The general consensus is I was poisoned.
[01:25:54]  The general consensus?
[01:25:56]  Do you remember when I was going to the doctor and we never talked about it on the air because we didn't believe it?
[01:26:01]  We never believed it.
[01:26:02]  Do you remember when I was first going to the doctor and I went to Columbia University, I went to, gosh, what was the other one?
[01:26:10]  New York, NYU.
[01:26:12]  And both doctors said, is there a chance that someone would want to kill you?
[01:26:22]  I'm like, of course there's a chance that somebody wants to kill me.
[01:26:25]  Yes.
[01:26:25]  My name is Jeffy.
[01:26:27]  We're looking into poisoning.
[01:26:28]  You may have been poisoned.
[01:26:30]  It describes everything that's happening in your body right now.
[01:26:34]  Well, we never talked about it.
[01:26:35]  We did all kinds of testing for poison.
[01:26:37]  We never found anything like that.
[01:26:40]  Yes.
[01:26:41]  Is it possible that he went and said, and he's having some symptoms?
[01:26:46]  And they said what they said to me.
[01:26:48]  Is there a possibility somebody wants to kill you?
[01:26:51]  Yes.
[01:26:52]  Well, we're looking into, poisoning would describe your symptoms.
[01:26:56]  Well, I guess we've come to a consensus.
[01:26:58]  We've come to a consensus.
[01:26:59]  Well, especially if you're taking Infowar supplements.
[01:27:02]  I mean, you know, because then you know how healthy you are.
[01:27:05]  Okay, so I guess that's the source of the poisoning.
[01:27:09]  So listen to this.
[01:27:11]  So listen to this.
[01:27:12]  Tell me that this doesn't become a federal case.
[01:27:19]  I'll bet you that there are guidelines that if this happens, you have to report it.
[01:27:26]  I was poisoned with, they now say.
[01:27:30]  They.
[01:27:31]  All right.
[01:27:32]  They was poisoned with, they now say, a substance that may have been polonium.
[01:27:39]  Why are we?
[01:27:40]  Had the characteristics of polonium.
[01:27:42]  I'll tell you why here in a second.
[01:27:44]  Okay.
[01:27:45]  If you had, if you were poisoned with polonium-210, it's a radioactive substance.
[01:27:51]  There are only two places that that can come from.
[01:27:54]  The United States government or the Russian government.
[01:27:58]  We're the only ones that have polonium-210.
[01:28:02]  And the Russians did this with What's His Face?
[01:28:06]  Correct.
[01:28:06]  It is the sign of Russia.
[01:28:08]  They've done it a couple of times.
[01:28:10]  It is the sign of a Russian hit.
[01:28:13]  But here's why I bring this up.
[01:28:15]  KGB has used this, blah, Stone went on to contemplate who might have been behind the possible assassination attempt.
[01:28:25]  He fingers Democratic opposition.
[01:28:28]  So now somebody who is a Democrat is ordering the military, because that's who would have access to it, the military to go in, steal the polonium, and get it into his body.
[01:28:47]  A Democratic opposition and, quote, the Intel community.
[01:28:53]  Roger Stone is the dirty tricks guy.
[01:28:57]  That whole phrase, dirty trickster, came in regards to Roger Stone.
[01:29:04]  He is the dirty trickster.
[01:29:06]  He was Richard Nixon's dirty trickster.
[01:29:09]  He is now poisoning the system again and injecting into our system a lie about the intelligence community.
[01:29:20]  Now, I believe it's a lie.
[01:29:22]  It's important that the press doesn't just let this poison sit there because if it is not disproven, it will sit there.
[01:29:33]  And in the conspiracy world, another lie will be built on top of it and another one on top of it and on top of it.
[01:29:41]  And you'll never find the truth because you didn't dismiss the initial lie.
[01:29:48]  There is a war against our intelligence agencies.
[01:29:52]  And against information.
[01:29:53]  And information.
[01:29:55]  An info war.
[01:29:57]  Just wanted to point that out.
[01:29:59]  Really good point.
[01:30:00]  Thank you.
[01:30:00]  There's an info war going on right now against information.
[01:30:06]  What if they didn't have polonium-210?
[01:30:07]  They only had like 105.
[01:30:09]  Polonium 105.
[01:30:11]  That's actually delicious.
[01:30:13]  That's like one of the things that's why he's airspray.
[01:30:18]  Remember that VO5?
[01:30:19]  Yeah, that's the airspray stuff.
[01:30:21]  They just didn't have 210.
[01:30:23]  They just had VO5.
[01:30:24]  Yeah, not quite.
[01:30:25]  It's all the way up to 210.
[01:30:29]  Obviously, I mean, a Roger Stone story broken by InfoWars.
[01:30:34]  There is absolutely no reason to think that any of it is actually.
[01:30:39]  And the headlines are not.
[01:30:40]  It's Todge story.
[01:30:42]  Drudge is unravelable.
[01:30:44]  It's not double what he's coming to.
[01:30:45]  It is.
[01:30:46]  Undrudge is a laundromat for crazy stories now.
[01:30:51]  A lot of people don't understand that Matt Drudge has gone off the deep end.
[01:30:59]  You cannot go to a source that is using InfoWars.
[01:31:04]  What was the first thing you did when I said, here's a story, it's from InfoWars?
[01:31:08]  What's the first thing you did, Stu?
[01:31:09]  To check to see if anyone else is reporting it.
[01:31:11]  Let's find this story from a legitimate source.
[01:31:14]  There's no legitimate source that is reporting this unless they're doing what we're doing, reporting that they reported it.
[01:31:26]  Right.
[01:31:26]  I mean, Stone tweeted it.
[01:31:28]  So people are reporting on the tweets because that's what reporters do these days.
[01:31:31]  They write stories about tweets.
[01:31:33]  However, the story isn't that he was assassinated.
[01:31:38]  That story is that he tweeted that he tweeted that he was.
[01:31:42]  Now, stunningly, he says he was assassinated, or the assassination attempt happened because he was going to expose the truth about the Russian hack that no one will tell you, which just happens to be the focus of his new book.
[01:31:55]  Those are all huge coincidences that just happened to play to the benefit of him selling that particular book.
[01:32:02]  It's a total coincidence.
[01:32:05]  One does not have anything to do with the other, just in case you were worried about that.
[01:32:10]  However, this used to be something you could laugh off.
[01:32:13]  I think at this point, I mean, with his connection to the president of the United States, who knows where this goes, right?
[01:32:18]  I mean, you know, the guy's been a long-term best friend type of guy to Trump.
[01:32:24]  So if he's in there, and, you know, who knows?
[01:32:26]  Trump, I think, is smart enough to know that when you get into the Oval Office, you distance yourself from morons like this.
[01:32:33]  Whether he continued, I don't know.
[01:32:35]  I mean, I don't know.
[01:32:36]  He did distance himself during the campaign from this guy.
[01:32:38]  However, it was apparent they were still working together at some level.
[01:32:41]  But this is not about Trump.
[01:32:43]  I mean, it's much worse.
[01:32:45]  It's not treated, right?
[01:32:46]  Yeah, it's much worse if Trump is still listening to this guy.
[01:32:50]  However, this is about the media.
[01:32:54]  And you cannot let these things just sit there anymore.
[01:32:59]  You can't ignore them.
[01:33:01]  You can't ignore them.
[01:33:02]  I agree with that, but I think there's more to it in this particular case from the perspective of Stone, Drudge, Infowars throughout the entire campaign, and I would assume as we go into the presidency, have been vehicles for things that the campaign didn't want to say but wanted to say.
[01:33:19]  Yes.
[01:33:20]  The National Enquirer is another example of this.
[01:33:22]  So when these guys do this, it becomes news because of those connections.
[01:33:26]  Is it possible that Trump is trying to further the narrative of the intelligence community standing up against him and fighting against him everywhere?
[01:33:38]  And Stone, maybe not connected to Trump, but is trying to further that narrative for Trump.
[01:33:44]  And if that is a narrative that Trump wants, which it does seem like he has, he said it publicly several times, including referencing, obviously, the Nazi Germany thing about it.
[01:33:53]  You know, it is, it does become something of interest.
[01:33:55]  And you have to, you have to, you have to know it, and you have to know the truth about it.
[01:33:59]  Okay, now this.
[01:34:00]  If you haven't had a chance to catch the last two episodes of The Vault, you need to.
[01:34:04]  Last two episodes of The Vault, we took a look at the principles of the 912 project.
[01:34:10]  We showed you some of the artifact, and the conclusion tonight is the conclusion of this three-part series.
[01:34:19]  What are the 12 principles that I said in the 912 project we have to concentrate on?
[01:34:26]  And why did I pick those?
[01:34:28]  And what objects from history do we have in the vault that show you this is why it's important?
[01:34:36]  It's a fascinating series, three-part.
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=== Executive Orders (02:22) ===

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[01:35:06]  That oath of office signed by him and given to Nancy, we just have it.
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[01:35:12]  It's not even on the set.
[01:35:13]  It's so rare and so valuable.
[01:35:15]  It's in a Liberty safe.
[01:35:17]  When I was driving in this weekend, we came from Las Vegas and I come in and we're having a tornado and the target is the studio area.
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=== Economic Regulations (15:03) ===

[01:37:20]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[01:37:24]  This is unbelievable.
[01:37:25]  We have to tell you about this $250 million house that is up for sale in California.
[01:37:33]  It is crazy.
[01:37:36]  And what's craziest is it's in Bel Air, the home of all of these Hollywood people who hate capitalism.
[01:37:45]  Well, and also Josh Prince.
[01:37:48]  Well, yeah.
[01:37:48]  That's where he's from.
[01:37:49]  Well, he actually was actually, Philadelphia is where he spent most of his days.
[01:37:53]  He was chilling, relaxing by the pool.
[01:37:55]  I think that was a TV show.
[01:37:57]  Let me go to Gary in Virginia.
[01:37:59]  Hello, Gary.
[01:37:59]  How are you?
[01:38:02]  Line one.
[01:38:03]  Gary, go ahead.
[01:38:05]  Hello?
[01:38:06]  Yes, go ahead, sir.
[01:38:07]  You talking to me?
[01:38:08]  Yeah.
[01:38:09]  Is your name Gary?
[01:38:10]  I'm sorry.
[01:38:10]  It's okay.
[01:38:11]  Hey, you guys are doing almost a reminiscence of a death pool, a relief pool.
[01:38:18]  You know, even though Betty White's going to death pool every year, bless our hearts.
[01:38:21]  He just had a birthday.
[01:38:23]  But I think one person y'all are forgiven who's going to get released is Roman Polanski, since he's such a Hollywood hot shot.
[01:38:30]  I think he would be one of the guys.
[01:38:32]  Roman Polanski.
[01:38:34]  Great work.
[01:38:35]  He's so pissed.
[01:38:36]  That's one of those stories.
[01:38:37]  Oh, yeah.
[01:38:38]  You told that story earlier this week.
[01:38:40]  We all know Roman Polanski.
[01:38:42]  He's much worse than you probably remember.
[01:38:44]  I mean, it's a really bad boy.
[01:38:46]  Would that be a favor to Hollywood?
[01:38:49]  Cindy in Pennsylvania, go ahead.
[01:38:52]  Hi, Glenn.
[01:38:54]  I just was listening.
[01:38:55]  Hi.
[01:38:55]  I was listening to the opening of your program about the president operating within the parameters of the Constitution.
[01:39:02]  And I agree with that 100%.
[01:39:04]  However, I agree with that only in the circumstances of normal circumstances, which we have not had with eight years of Barack Obama's lawlessness.
[01:39:14]  And so we are living in very much more dangerous times.
[01:39:19]  And it's going to take a lot to undo the damage that he has caused, particularly in this last 30 days where the quote-unquote.
[01:39:27]  So what unconstitutional thing are you suggesting in this emergency situation?
[01:39:36]  Well, I don't want to try to make it sound like it's an emergency.
[01:39:40]  However, a lot of the executive orders that Barack Obama has put in place will have to be undone via executive order.
[01:39:49]  That's not unconstitutional.
[01:39:50]  That's not out of his purview, though.
[01:39:51]  That's perfectly fine.
[01:39:52]  Yeah, it's equally constitutional.
[01:39:55]  It's equally constitutional.
[01:39:56]  I think to undo a not a law or anything like that, but to undo a president's executive order with executive order, I think is totally fine.
[01:40:09]  And it should.
[01:40:09]  Now, does he then add new executive orders that put new things in place?
[01:40:16]  Then that's going to be the problem.
[01:40:18]  I think it's going to depend a lot.
[01:40:20]  Again, we've seen a lot of seemingly sabotage in the past 30 days from Obama's, you know, what he would like to call a peaceful transition in words, but his actions speak something different.
[01:40:33]  And again, I think we're just living in a much more dangerous situation right now where I don't like being spied on either.
[01:40:42]  I understand where you're coming from as far as NSA and all of that.
[01:40:45]  But, you know, Trump is in a very bad position.
[01:40:50]  Cindy will address that when we come back.
[01:40:53]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[01:40:58]  Mercury.
[01:41:00]  The Glenn Beck program.
[01:41:02]  Quick clarification.
[01:41:03]  Yeah, I mentioned the Fresh Prince was born in Bel Air.
[01:41:06]  He's technically in West Philadelphia, born and raised.
[01:41:10]  Now, he was shooting some b-ball outside of the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in his neighborhood.
[01:41:16]  He got in one little fight, and his mom got scared.
[01:41:19]  He said, you're moving with your auntie and uncle to Bel Air.
[01:41:22]  Okay, shut up.
[01:41:23]  Okay, so Cindy just called us a few minutes ago.
[01:41:29]  She said that she loves the Constitution, but we're in an extraordinary situation, and Donald Trump is going to have to do what he's going to have to do to repair the damage that has been done.
[01:41:45]  No.
[01:41:45]  We all love the Constitution.
[01:41:49]  So I will share this with you without attaching names.
[01:41:54]  At one of the networks that I worked at, I sat down with management and I was told, quote, Glenn, listen, we all love the Constitution, but there are certain things that we have to do.
[01:42:16]  Thank you.
[01:42:18]  I disagreed with that then, coming from a network executive.
[01:42:23]  I disagree with it now.
[01:42:26]  No.
[01:42:28]  The Constitution is the Constitution.
[01:42:31]  You want to change it, then you amend the Constitution.
[01:42:35]  I mean, that's cute.
[01:42:36]  You didn't say that to the television.
[01:42:38]  Executive, did you?
[01:42:39]  I did.
[01:42:40]  It didn't make me popular that day.
[01:42:42]  You don't work for that.
[01:42:43]  Yeah.
[01:42:44]  Either one of them.
[01:42:45]  We're in trouble.
[01:42:46]  There's certain things that have to be done.
[01:42:48]  Right.
[01:42:48]  We've got to take care of some things.
[01:42:50]  And that is separate from what she suggested.
[01:42:52]  And I think you correctly pointed out.
[01:42:54]  If Obama creates an unconstitutional executive order and you can repeal that executive order by an executive order, then you do it.
[01:43:03]  I mean, to get it back to, I think that's fair.
[01:43:06]  Get it back to zero.
[01:43:07]  Right, exactly.
[01:43:08]  You don't pass a new executive order that does something unconstitutional in your favor.
[01:43:12]  Correct.
[01:43:12]  That's not the way that that works.
[01:43:13]  Correct.
[01:43:14]  But it's that attitude that has gotten us where we are today.
[01:43:16]  Yes.
[01:43:17]  With the emergency things that have eroded our freedom.
[01:43:21]  Right.
[01:43:22]  We've got to do this because of that.
[01:43:24]  No.
[01:43:25]  You either have principles or you don't.
[01:43:27]  And my principles are clearly spelled out in the Bill of Rights.
[01:43:31]  The government cannot do these things.
[01:43:34]  And we've got to go back to our founders who said you can't sacrifice your freedom for your security.
[01:43:41]  And that's too often what we're willing to do.
[01:43:44]  We're willing to say, okay, yes, the Constitution is great, but we're in trouble right now and things are scary and there are terrorists and they got to be caught.
[01:43:54]  And so look around for that.
[01:43:56]  So here's something that has anybody read Defying Hitler?
[01:44:00]  Not yet.
[01:44:01]  Not yet.
[01:44:01]  So one of the things that I found really interesting in that was it wasn't, as the author writes, and he was living through it in the 1930s.
[01:44:11]  It's a book that was written in the 1930s and then found later by his family and published in the 2000s.
[01:44:18]  He said, what made it so dangerous is that everyone dismissed everything that was going on by Hitler and prior to Hitler because first it was an emergency.
[01:44:35]  And we had to do these things because it was an emergency during the Weimar Republic.
[01:44:39]  And then it became settled.
[01:44:44]  Everything kind of settled down.
[01:44:46]  And Hitler came in.
[01:44:47]  And when Hitler came in, he said the argument for what Hitler was doing by everybody, the normalcy bias.
[01:44:58]  Everybody was looking for it to be normal.
[01:44:59]  And everybody was saying, no, he's doing it exactly constitutional.
[01:45:06]  He's doing it exactly the right way.
[01:45:09]  He's demanding that it be done the right way.
[01:45:14]  And so everything, every law was passed.
[01:45:17]  It was very important, Adolf Hitler, that it was done exactly right at the beginning.
[01:45:24]  Right.
[01:45:25]  Partially because he had already had so many legal problems and he tried to overturn the government earlier and went to prison.
[01:45:32]  Correct.
[01:45:32]  So he was kind of constantly trying to justify that his organization was legitimate.
[01:45:37]  It was legitimate and lawful.
[01:45:39]  And then, of course, in the end, everything was suspended and it became him.
[01:45:44]  And so he had his way.
[01:45:46]  So make no mistake, fascism and totalitarianism can happen through lawlessness or by controlling the government and passing all of the exact laws and dotting all the I's.
[01:46:02]  That cannot be done with our Constitution because of the Bill of Rights.
[01:46:09]  You cannot pass laws that spy on people, that round people up, that quarter people into your homes, that hold you without trial.
[01:46:19]  None of that.
[01:46:20]  The one thing that Hitler did not have was the Constitution of the United States.
[01:46:26]  No country on earth has the Constitution.
[01:46:30]  If we dismiss it now in easy times, when hard times come, it will for sure be dismissed.
[01:46:38]  And then all of your protections go away.
[01:46:41]  And it is the law that is doing it to you.
[01:46:45]  And believe me, we're going to be telling a story of a lawsuit that has happened to me recently that my First Amendment attorneys could not believe.
[01:47:01]  And it had everything to do with the United States government.
[01:47:05]  The things the government claims they can do and now do will astonish you to the point to where I said to my attorney, wait a minute, there's no way for me to defend myself because the government is holding all the cards and we have no access to any of those cards, even though they admit they have the cards.
[01:47:34]  Yes.
[01:47:36]  Well, why can't I get those cards to defend myself?
[01:47:39]  Well, the Constitution requires them.
[01:47:43]  If it is in your defense, you have to be able to have them.
[01:47:46]  So why aren't they giving them?
[01:47:48]  Because they claim they don't have to do it anymore.
[01:47:53]  Oh, okay.
[01:47:54]  I'm telling you, when it is you that is sitting across from the government and the government holds all of the cards and you no longer have power, you no longer work for you and the government no longer works for you.
[01:48:12]  You now answer to the government.
[01:48:15]  When they have that kind of total control, you're in trouble.
[01:48:19]  And we're already there.
[01:48:21]  They just haven't exercised it in any meaningful way.
[01:48:26]  But we're already there.
[01:48:28]  You cannot lose any more rights.
[01:48:32]  The Constitution.
[01:48:33]  We all love the Constitution.
[01:48:35]  Period.
[01:48:37]  No, but.
[01:48:39]  Period.
[01:48:40]  Mark, you're on the Glendeck program.
[01:48:45]  Hello, Mark.
[01:48:46]  Yes, go ahead.
[01:48:47]  Hello, I'm here.
[01:48:48]  Can you hear me now?
[01:48:49]  Yes, go ahead.
[01:48:51]  Okay.
[01:48:51]  Hey, hi to you and the guys there.
[01:48:53]  Hey, you know, when you get bureaucrats in office, especially when they're liberal, it's almost impossible to get rid of them.
[01:48:58]  I was reading an article a month ago.
[01:48:59]  There was 122 positions that were usually political appointees that the Civil Service Department has deemed 87 of them now as permanent jobs that Obama has filled.
[01:49:12]  So how do we go about getting those changed back so that way the will of the president can be done?
[01:49:19]  Usually, can he do it?
[01:49:20]  Yeah, the couple things, yes, because all of the departments are under the president of the United States.
[01:49:27]  So there's a couple.
[01:49:29]  How do you get rid of those bureaucrats who are entrenched who pass these quote-unquote mandates and laws?
[01:49:36]  You do this.
[01:49:38]  The first thing you do is you give the power back to Congress and you support, what is it, the Reigns Act, which actually gives the power back to Congress.
[01:49:48]  Nothing can be passed by these departments.
[01:49:51]  They cannot act on their own.
[01:49:53]  Congress writes all laws, which is a redrawing of the lines of the Constitution and just making the Constitution in bolder print and taking away the power of these.
[01:50:07]  you won't have to worry about anything future then the best way to and McConnell have the backbone for it I don't know, but I know that.
[01:50:17]  I think they might actually pass.
[01:50:18]  I mean, I think it might actually get through.
[01:50:19]  Obviously, Trump would need to sign it, but I think he would.
[01:50:23]  It is the number one agenda item for people in the freedom movement.
[01:50:29]  But Mike Lee in particular has led the charge on this, among others.
[01:50:32]  He says this will fix 90% of what is wrong with regulation.
[01:50:38]  Yeah, any big regulation that costs, I don't know, was it $100 million or more?
[01:50:41]  I think that's the number, has to go back and go through Congress.
[01:50:45]  You can't just make these things up where you're spending all this money and affecting our economy.
[01:50:50]  So it would be a really positive change if we can get that done.
[01:50:52]  Big, big.
[01:50:53]  And that would declaw things like the EPA.
[01:50:57]  The other way...
[01:50:58]  I know $100 million is a drop in the bucket to the federal government, but I think they should lower that a little bit.
[01:51:03]  I happen to agree with you, Mark.
[01:51:06]  But remember, it's $100 million.
[01:51:08]  It's an impact, a total impact of $100 million.
[01:51:11]  You get there quickly.
[01:51:13]  You pass one thing about a bakery, and if it's costing these bakeries $25,000 to do something, you're already at the $100 million mark.
[01:51:24]  So thank you very much for your phone call.
[01:51:26]  I think they should lower it as well.
[01:51:28]  The other thing that I've heard that Trump is considering that I hope he does is cutting through attrition.
[01:51:36]  The best way to cut some of these programs that everybody says are, you know, can't be cut is no more hiring.
[01:51:46]  Anyone retires, anyone quits, anyone is fired, goes away.
[01:51:52]  No more.
[01:51:53]  You could cut 10% every year.
[01:51:56]  No more hires.
[01:51:58]  And that is part of, that was a campaign promise from Trump as well.
[01:52:02]  That would be very good.
[01:52:03]  By the way, it is $100 million or more.
[01:52:06]  But to give you a sense of what these agencies do, just take one agency, the EPA.
[01:52:12]  Just the EPA during Obama's two terms have passed $750 billion of regulations.
[01:52:20]  $100 million is actually a pretty low bar.

=== Hiring Freeze (04:24) ===

[01:52:24]  The caller is correct in that.
[01:52:25]  It's a drop in the bucket for the government, and it seems like a big number.
[01:52:28]  But when it comes to economic impacts of these things, it's going to be tough for them to pass any regulation.
[01:52:33]  Any regulation that screws with the economy in any way is going to be very difficult for them to pass if this actually comes to fruition and is not ignored, which I would not be stunned to see a bunch of Republican senators pass this thing and then find ways to constantly ignore it.
[01:52:49]  However, that would come from these agencies.
[01:52:52]  And it's the one thing you can appeal to.
[01:52:56]  You could say to the senators, hey, you get more power.
[01:52:59]  House members, you get more power.
[01:53:01]  It's no longer out of your hands.
[01:53:04]  Of course, the left likes it being, likes the idea that there's no checks and balances.
[01:53:09]  So they're going to uphold it.
[01:53:10]  Because that way the government can do what it does.
[01:53:14]  When it's successful, they can take the credit.
[01:53:16]  When it's not successful, they can say that they're against it and they've got to clean up government, and that's why you need us.
[01:53:22]  I mean, it's the perfect foil for people in power is not having to actually write these laws and letting a faceless bureaucrat do it.
[01:53:34]  And it's why we never had that until the progressive era.
[01:53:37]  One more call quickly from Los Angeles.
[01:53:40]  Cornelius, go ahead.
[01:53:42]  Hey, Glenn and Jeffrey, Pat, and Stu.
[01:53:45]  I met you at Barnes and Noble in Shreport when you signed that book for Christmastime, but I like the, it's all about Islam.
[01:53:52]  Well, thank you very much, Courtney.
[01:53:53]  I should have known by the name Cornelius, but definitely the accent does not scream L.A.
[01:53:58]  It screams Louisiana.
[01:54:00]  I'm not in that L.A., the other L.A.
[01:54:02]  But old Brad Staggs with you and Ms. Beth.
[01:54:06]  I was the one that gave you that pardon paperwork and told you about Bobby Jindal.
[01:54:10]  Because I was trying to get my pardon too, but apparently President Obama doesn't have time for me.
[01:54:15]  We got a couple of days.
[01:54:18]  Hold your breath.
[01:54:19]  Look, look, he's part in a she and a it, so you know what that is.
[01:54:23]  So, you know, so he can pardon these terrorists, like you say, and all these other people.
[01:54:29]  But somebody that really needs a pardon and stuff.
[01:54:32]  And like I said, I'll be honest with you, I'm a Trump supporter.
[01:54:34]  I happen to be an African-American.
[01:54:37]  And I was one of the few African-Americans, if not the only one, at that book signing in Shreport at Barnes  ⁇ Noble.
[01:54:44]  And if you go over the tape, you'll see me.
[01:54:46]  And Pat and Stu, I talked to you.
[01:54:48]  I waited five hours to talk to Glenn.
[01:54:50]  No, no, I'm talking about.
[01:54:51]  No, this is years ago on your show.
[01:54:54]  No, I'm not going to be able to do it.
[01:54:56]  I want to hear how many minutes he waited to talk to Green.
[01:54:59]  I got to run now.
[01:55:00]  We're out of time.
[01:55:02]  I wish we would have gotten to the point, but thank you so much.
[01:55:05]  Now, this, we've talked about being prepared for hurricanes, droughts, and other natural disasters.
[01:55:11]  This is one reason why to have an emergency food kit.
[01:55:15]  Another reason is we've always had this.
[01:55:18]  As people, we have always had this.
[01:55:20]  72 hours, you could lose your electricity in a snowstorm.
[01:55:25]  You could have some sort of power outage for some reason or another.
[01:55:31]  The stores could close for some natural disaster.
[01:55:35]  You have an earthquake, hurricane.
[01:55:38]  You have three days' worth of food.
[01:55:41]  Most of us have ketchup packages and duck sauce.
[01:55:45]  If it's not in the refrigerator, I'll go to the store and get it.
[01:55:49]  72 hours is what the Department of Homeland Security recommends.
[01:55:53]  It is the most basic.
[01:55:55]  Right now, you can get a 72-hour emergency food kit for $10.
[01:56:00]  Pat, have you ever seen anything like that?
[01:56:02]  $10?
[01:56:02]  No, it's three days of food?
[01:56:04]  It's a great deal.
[01:56:05]  This has everything you need: breakfast, lunch, and dinner per person, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, all the drinks, everything for $10.
[01:56:12]  All you have to do is go to preparewithglenn.com.
[01:56:15]  That's preparewickglenn.com.
[01:56:17]  Call 800-200-9031.
[01:56:21]  I believe it is, yes.
[01:56:22]  800-200-9031 or Prepare with Glenn.
[01:56:25]  $10, limit five, or sorry, limit four per order.
[01:56:30]  Do it right now.
[01:56:31]  800-200-9031-preparewickglenn.com.
[01:56:38]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[01:56:44]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:56:46]  Well, I have about a minute left.
[01:56:47]  I have another phone call I want to take.

=== Time Is Running Out (01:01) ===

[01:56:48]  He makes a great point.
[01:56:50]  I want to take it.
[01:56:51]  We're tight on time, less than a minute left.
[01:56:54]  So, Pete, get right to your point.
[01:56:56]  Hi, Glenn.
[01:56:58]  Yes.
[01:56:59]  Glenn, hi, it's Pete.
[01:57:00]  Hi, Pete.
[01:57:01]  Yes, go ahead.
[01:57:02]  We only have about a minute left.
[01:57:03]  Get right to the house.
[01:57:04]  Just told your phone screener.
[01:57:05]  Yeah, Keith.
[01:57:06]  Right.
[01:57:06]  He's a Falcons fan.
[01:57:08]  I don't really like the Falcons.
[01:57:09]  I like the Green Bay Packers.
[01:57:10]  He has nothing to do with your point.
[01:57:13]  The Packers probably going to win.
[01:57:14]  But listen, hey, I'm a long time listener, and I've called 29 times.
[01:57:19]  Usually because you're good and you got right to the point.
[01:57:22]  21 of those times the line was busy and so I didn't get through but I've talked to you eight times the first of which I was in Bemidji, Minnesota on some business.
[01:57:31]  Okay, I sell computer well not can you get to your point we're about 20 seconds and I was watching you at the print shop right on a television they had behind Behind the desk, and I said to the person, Who's that guy with the great hair?
[01:57:44]  We're out of time, I said this.
[01:57:45]  This is the Glen Beck program.
[01:57:49]  Mercury.