The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 2/5/26
Aired: 2026-02-05
Duration: 43:42


=== High Interest Debt Solutions (01:51) ===

[00:00:00]  On today's podcast, I have noticed something with Donald Trump.
[00:00:04]  I think he is changing and maybe, I don't know, softening is the right term.
[00:00:10]  He is becoming more relatable.
[00:00:14]  He is, the guy's a genius at reading the room, I believe.
[00:00:18]  And I talked about that on today's show.
[00:00:20]  Also, what are you interested in talking about today?
[00:00:24]  We took phone calls and messages and notes from the insiders.
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=== The Unifier and the Peacemaker (11:52) ===

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[00:02:48]  Where do I begin on this with Donald Trump?
[00:02:53]  I think he's shifting gears.
[00:02:56]  And I'm going to play just a real quick clip from Donald Trump.
[00:03:04]  Let me see where it is.
[00:03:06]  Where he is, he's talking about, we have it.
[00:03:10]  Maybe we don't have it.
[00:03:12]  Is it cut five?
[00:03:14]  No, no, no.
[00:03:16]  Let me just explain it to you because I don't know where the clip is.
[00:03:20]  He was asked on this NBC News interview, what did you learn by your actions in Minnesota?
[00:03:27]  Okay, now it wasn't a hostile question.
[00:03:30]  I read it hostile because it might have been in the reporter's mind as a really hostile question.
[00:03:35]  But I've heard that asked of George W. Bush.
[00:03:38]  And George W. Bush didn't answer it well.
[00:03:43]  Barack Obama was horrible.
[00:03:45]  What did you learn in your first year?
[00:03:46]  What did you learn in, you know, this or that?
[00:03:49]  That, you know, people just are dumb and they don't understand.
[00:03:53]  I'm getting talk back, please, in my ear.
[00:03:59]  You know, they don't understand.
[00:04:01]  I, you know, I don't know what I should have learned from that.
[00:04:07]  Basically, I didn't learn anything.
[00:04:11]  Biden did this.
[00:04:12]  Trump kind of did this too.
[00:04:13]  What did I learn?
[00:04:14]  And he didn't have a really good, humble answer to it.
[00:04:18]  Biden was even worse.
[00:04:19]  You're just too stupid.
[00:04:20]  You know, I didn't say it loud enough.
[00:04:21]  I didn't say it enough.
[00:04:22]  I didn't, you know, whatever.
[00:04:24]  Here's how Donald Trump answered this.
[00:04:26]  And I haven't seen this in 25 years.
[00:04:36]  So here's what he said.
[00:04:42]  What did I learn in Minnesota?
[00:04:46]  I learned that maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch.
[00:04:50]  We still have to be tough.
[00:04:52]  These are criminals.
[00:04:52]  We're dealing with real hard criminals.
[00:04:54]  But look, I've called the people.
[00:04:56]  I've called the governor.
[00:04:57]  I've called the mayor.
[00:04:58]  I spoke with him.
[00:04:59]  We had great conversations.
[00:05:01]  And I see people ranting and raving out there, literally, you know, as though those calls weren't made.
[00:05:07]  But I learned that if I had a little softer touch, that's huge for Donald Trump.
[00:05:14]  And let me tell you why that's so huge.
[00:05:16]  Donald Trump is a guy that doesn't, he thinks, how can I say this?
[00:05:28]  I have seen the president do things personally that I have had to sign non-disclosure paperwork on that show him on who he really is, this soft, giving, kind, unbelievable guy who just is not the guy you see on television.
[00:05:52]  He's got this entire other side.
[00:06:01]  And I asked him at one point, as I'm signing this release form or this non-disclosure form, I'm like, I looked at him and I said, why?
[00:06:09]  Why?
[00:06:10]  Nobody needs to know that.
[00:06:11]  No, Mr. President, that's exactly what they need to know.
[00:06:15]  This is such an important part of you that nobody ever sees.
[00:06:19]  Nobody needs to know it's weak.
[00:06:22]  It's not weak.
[00:06:23]  But he is from this older generation and he's the president.
[00:06:27]  He knows he needs to look strong, et cetera.
[00:06:30]  And he doesn't ever show his softer side.
[00:06:32]  Rarely do you see his softer side.
[00:06:36]  And I think that's, I just think that's a crime, you know, in a way, because without seeing who he actually is on that side, you don't understand the full picture of Donald Trump.
[00:06:50]  So here he is softening and saying, oh, yeah, I still have to be tough, but I need a softer touch.
[00:07:00]  That's a really huge deal.
[00:07:03]  Then he goes on and says, you know, the good shooting and the pretty shooting.
[00:07:09]  Look, they weren't angels, but their actions didn't justify fatal shootings.
[00:07:14]  Have you heard anyone on the left say the opposite of that?
[00:07:18]  Look, ICE made a mistake here, but they're not all bad.
[00:07:24]  Here's Donald Trump saying good and pretty, they weren't angels, which is true, but they shouldn't have been shot, which is also true.
[00:07:37]  That is not the strong man that everybody says.
[00:07:40]  Okay.
[00:07:41]  Then he's asked about, you know, President Clinton and being investigated and having a subpoena from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as they look into the Epstein files.
[00:07:57]  And he said, quote, it bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton.
[00:08:02]  See, I like Bill Clinton.
[00:08:03]  I still like Bill Clinton.
[00:08:05]  I liked his behavior towards me.
[00:08:07]  I thought he got me, understood me.
[00:08:10]  He was the one who said very famously, you don't want to run against Trump when there are 18 people.
[00:08:14]  And Hillary sort of laughed at him.
[00:08:18]  Okay, I always liked him.
[00:08:20]  Her, well, she's a capable woman who's better at debating than some of the other people.
[00:08:24]  I'll tell you that.
[00:08:25]  She was smarter.
[00:08:25]  She's a very smart woman.
[00:08:27]  But I hate to see it in many ways.
[00:08:28]  But then I look at me.
[00:08:31]  They went after me.
[00:08:32]  They wanted to go after me and put me in jail for the rest of my life.
[00:08:35]  And it turned out I was innocent.
[00:08:37]  I shouldn't feel this way, but I feel badly that they have to go through that.
[00:08:41]  Empathy.
[00:08:44]  Real empathy from Donald Trump.
[00:08:49]  He's always been empathetic, but he's never let you see it.
[00:08:53]  He's never let you see that.
[00:08:56]  He is changing.
[00:08:58]  And let me just be really cynical because the guy had the best gut.
[00:09:05]  I've met two people who have a gut as good as he, as he has.
[00:09:09]  Roger Ailes was one of them.
[00:09:10]  Roger Ailes was a dirtbag.
[00:09:12]  But when it came to reading the American people, he's the guy who started Fox.
[00:09:16]  He was the best guy I've ever seen at being able just to go right to the gut.
[00:09:21]  I'd ask him about a question about something that was happening.
[00:09:25]  And I'd say, what do you think of that?
[00:09:26]  And he'd say, well, let me tell you what I think people in Ohio will think.
[00:09:30]  And it was always just rooted in common sense.
[00:09:33]  And I said to him at one point, my gosh, if you were on the air every day, you would be the most powerful voice in the world.
[00:09:42]  And I think he thought to himself, I already am the most powerful voice in the world.
[00:09:46]  I don't have to be on TV.
[00:09:48]  But that was kind of maybe the dark side of him.
[00:09:51]  But he understood.
[00:09:53]  He had this great gut to him.
[00:09:55]  Donald Trump has the same.
[00:09:57]  And I think he is seeing we're not going to win if we look like we're the big bully on the street.
[00:10:04]  We have to, we have to win the hearts and minds, which is fantastic.
[00:10:12]  He also said yesterday, look, we're doing a good job.
[00:10:16]  We just don't have good PR behind it, which is I've been saying, please, please, just let me bring the chalkboard in front of the White House and just I'll set up right there out in the snow and let me tell people what they're doing.
[00:10:29]  And you can just look at it and go, nope, that's not it.
[00:10:31]  Or yep, that's it.
[00:10:32]  You need to tell a better story.
[00:10:35]  And he gets that.
[00:10:37]  There's something happening.
[00:10:40]  And if I may, and I could be way off base on this.
[00:10:45]  But if you saw the movie Melania, there was one scene that, now I've seen them in person.
[00:10:54]  So I know their relationship.
[00:10:58]  He really, she's very smart.
[00:11:00]  He really respects her.
[00:11:03]  She really respects him.
[00:11:05]  They like each other.
[00:11:06]  They're in love, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:11:07]  But there's real respect there as well.
[00:11:10]  And at one point in the movie, he is rehearsing for the inaugural address.
[00:11:15]  And she opens the door and she's like, oh, sorry.
[00:11:18]  And he's like, no, no, no, hon, come in, sit, sit for a minute.
[00:11:21]  So she sits down and he starts delivering his address.
[00:11:26]  And gosh, I looked this up earlier today.
[00:11:28]  What was it?
[00:11:29]  What was it he said?
[00:11:30]  He said, my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.
[00:11:34]  And she said, she said, and a unifier.
[00:11:38]  She's in the movie and he says, my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.
[00:11:44]  And then she's sitting in the, you know, in the room with the writers and she said, she looks at him, points to him and said, and a unifier.
[00:11:53]  And he looked at her and he went, yeah, that's good.
[00:11:56]  And a unifier, write that in.
[00:11:58]  Then the next scene is him at the Capitol giving the speech.
[00:12:04]  And what's amazing is we didn't understand it at the time.
[00:12:07]  I didn't understand it until I saw the movie, Melania.
[00:12:11]  He says that line.
[00:12:12]  And the most thing I will, you know, my most proudest, my proudest accomplishment will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier.
[00:12:20]  And everybody starts to applaud.
[00:12:21]  And he turns around and he points to Melania and smiles and shakes his head.
[00:12:27]  And she just gives the faintest smile of recognition.
[00:12:31]  She keeps him anchored, I think, in the softness.
[00:12:39]  And I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't had a conversation.
[00:12:43]  I mean, I also wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have a conversation with anybody because he has the best gut of the American people I've ever seen.
[00:12:51]  But she is a softening, a softener for him.
[00:12:57]  You know, she was like unifier.
[00:12:59]  He meant peacemaker as somebody who's going to make peace all around the world, which he did.
[00:13:05]  And she understood, and you're going to unify everybody in the country.
[00:13:10]  And that's exactly what he's trying to do now.
[00:13:12]  He's softening to unify because he knows the only other option is civil war.
[00:13:18]  I mean, did you see what the radicals are doing on the streets of Minnesota and Minneapolis?
[00:13:24]  They're putting their own checkpoints up.
[00:13:27]  I got news for you.
[00:13:28]  You have a checkpoint in Minneapolis and you try to stop my car as a civilian.
[00:13:35]  I'm blowing past you.
[00:13:36]  I am not stopping my car.
[00:13:38]  And somehow or another, they also have access to the license plates.

=== Minneapolis Checkpoints and Relief Factor (02:46) ===

[00:13:44]  Hmm.
[00:13:45]  How'd they get that?
[00:13:47]  Now, Homan has just said, I mean, Homan, remember, I said when he made this deal in, you know, he said, you know, I'm going to fire, what's his name, from Border Patrol, and I'm bringing Homan in.
[00:14:01]  Everybody's like, I think he caved.
[00:14:03]  That's the white flag.
[00:14:04]  No, it's not because he brought Homan in.
[00:14:06]  Homan is the toughest of the tough guys.
[00:14:08]  It's like the only step up from Homan is raising Kane.
[00:14:12]  Okay.
[00:14:13]  And then Donald Trump himself.
[00:14:15]  So he didn't surrender.
[00:14:17]  But Homan said yesterday, we're now going into the jail.
[00:14:23]  We have complete compliance with Minneapolis and Minnesota.
[00:14:30]  Wait.
[00:14:31]  So Donald Trump got everything that he was asking for?
[00:14:35]  What a surprise.
[00:14:36]  Again, win.
[00:14:41]  But how'd that happen?
[00:14:43]  How'd that happen?
[00:14:45]  Now, you could be really cynical and say maybe some sort of a deal was cut.
[00:14:50]  I hope that's not true.
[00:14:51]  I doubt that's true.
[00:14:53]  I think that is Donald Trump knowing exactly how to play the game.
[00:14:59]  Remember, he's a negotiator first.
[00:15:01]  He's a negotiator.
[00:15:03]  He can read the room.
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[00:16:20]  Now back to the podcast.
[00:16:22]  This is the best of the Glen Beck program.
[00:16:26]  This is the Glenbeck program.
[00:16:28]  Welcome to Thursday.
[00:16:29]  It's the 5th of February.

=== Thune's Voter ID Stance (15:51) ===

[00:16:30]  There's a lot going on.
[00:16:31]  I'm going to take your phone calls here in just a second.
[00:16:34]  I want to, I just have to play a couple of play a couple of things.
[00:16:37]  First of all, can we play this weird Kamala Harris X thing that came out last night?
[00:16:42]  I think it's trending.
[00:16:44]  It is just a, you know, Kamala HQ, and it's a sign-in and, you know, your, your, your login, your login name, and your, your code.
[00:16:58]  Yeah.
[00:16:59]  And play it here.
[00:17:01]  Let me just show you what it says.
[00:17:02]  So you have it there.
[00:17:05]  So she's typing it in.
[00:17:07]  And she types in the first, the first code is two online.
[00:17:14]  Then it's the babysitter is weird.
[00:17:16]  And then what's the last one?
[00:17:22]  The last one, I'm looking for it here.
[00:17:24]  Headquarters.
[00:17:25]  Yeah.
[00:17:25]  She just writes headquarters.
[00:17:27]  And then it says tomorrow.
[00:17:31]  Please tell me you're this is today, by the way.
[00:17:33]  Tomorrow is today for her.
[00:17:36]  So please tell me you're running for president.
[00:17:40]  That's what they're starting to say that she's going to run for president.
[00:17:42]  Oh, please, please make that.
[00:17:44]  Please be Gavin and Kamala.
[00:17:47]  Wouldn't that be fabulous?
[00:17:49]  Way too online means, you know, oh, we're just too cool.
[00:17:52]  The babysitter is weird is a slam on Trump, I guess.
[00:17:55]  Project 2025 is real, is also another slam on Trump.
[00:18:01]  And Kamala's headquarters today, going to be making an announcement.
[00:18:05]  Oh, I cannot wait.
[00:18:09]  By the way, I'm going to talk a little bit about body cams because I've been hearing this thing about body cams on ice.
[00:18:16]  We've got to have body cams on ice.
[00:18:19]  I like to put body cams on politicians, and I'm going to explain that coming up in just a minute.
[00:18:24]  First, let me go to Tom in Albania.
[00:18:27]  Hello, Tom.
[00:18:30]  Hello, Glenn.
[00:18:31]  How are you?
[00:18:32]  Good.
[00:18:33]  How are things in Albania?
[00:18:36]  Well, I'm watching a beautiful sunset over Ivanka's Island.
[00:18:42]  I'm in Valora, Albania.
[00:18:45]  And I don't know if you know it or not, but Alvanka Trump bought an island right off the coast here.
[00:18:51]  And they're going to build a Trump resort there.
[00:18:54]  And I'm looking at it.
[00:18:55]  The sun setting over it at the moment is gorgeous.
[00:18:58]  So do you live in Albania or are you visiting?
[00:19:02]  No, well, we moved here.
[00:19:04]  We moved here in December.
[00:19:05]  We're now living here, yes.
[00:19:08]  Why did you move to Albania?
[00:19:12]  Well, because I have a condo on the right on the Ionian scene, Adriatic Sea, across from Ivanka's Island.
[00:19:23]  That's your wife.
[00:19:24]  That's a good man.
[00:19:25]  You just keep listening to your wife, brother.
[00:19:27]  Just keep doing it.
[00:19:28]  Whatever she says, you repeat.
[00:19:29]  I got it.
[00:19:31]  That's right.
[00:19:31]  We're right on right on the beach looking at Ivanka's Island, and it's 700 euros a month to pay for it.
[00:19:37]  So my house, the last house I had in America, was over $2,000 a month, and that was not a very nice house.
[00:19:43]  This is gorgeous.
[00:19:47]  You were one of the first, if not the first, insiders, I'm told, from Europe.
[00:19:52]  First torch members?
[00:19:53]  Probably the first.
[00:19:54]  Yes.
[00:19:57]  You know, you should have waited for me to make the long distance call.
[00:20:01]  But I was, yeah, I know.
[00:20:06]  I was shocked at, we have like, we have torch members now in 40 different countries and like lots and lots of them all over.
[00:20:17]  And I actually want to call some because I assume they're all ex pats or I mean, I don't know how else you find us.
[00:20:25]  I can't imagine that, you know, you're in, you know, Switzerland and you're like, you got to hear this guy.
[00:20:30]  He talks about chocolate all the time.
[00:20:31]  It's great.
[00:20:34]  No, I've been listening to you since you started.
[00:20:36]  I was actually, I listened to Rush's first national broadcast.
[00:20:41]  Wow.
[00:20:41]  So, I mean, I've been talk radio for ever since I was, you know.
[00:20:46]  Wow, wow.
[00:20:47]  What's your wife saying?
[00:20:48]  Again, we should just talk to your wife.
[00:20:49]  She's just put her on.
[00:20:50]  Stephanie, go ahead.
[00:20:51]  Hi, Glenn.
[00:20:54]  I have an upper respiratory virus, so excuse my hoarse voice.
[00:20:58]  Oh, sorry.
[00:20:59]  Have you talked to Dr. Fauci about it?
[00:21:02]  No, I'm not going to talk to Fauci about it.
[00:21:05]  Okay, good.
[00:21:06]  Good, good.
[00:21:06]  Then you'll survive.
[00:21:07]  It's a pleasure to chat with you.
[00:21:10]  Well, thank you.
[00:21:11]  Thank you.
[00:21:11]  It's good to know that you guys are in Albania.
[00:21:14]  If I ever need a place to hide out, you'll be getting a call from me.
[00:21:17]  Yeah, we moved here because mostly because we started planning this last year, the cost of living in the United States has become astronomical for us, and we could actually live here quite comfortably on my husband's retirement and both of our Social Security.
[00:21:39]  Wow.
[00:21:39]  Oh, that's great.
[00:21:41]  If I'm ever in Albania, I'll look you up.
[00:21:44]  Thank you so much.
[00:21:45]  God bless you both.
[00:21:47]  I'm sure you're going to become to Rhode Island, right?
[00:21:50]  Oh, of course I'm going to already have plans for that soon.
[00:21:56]  Yeah, next month.
[00:21:57]  Thank you so much.
[00:21:59]  Jason, Thursdays are the days that I try to keep open for phone calls, and I've got a lot of phone calls, but I want to check with you because you are monitoring all of the socials and everything else.
[00:22:14]  What is the big topic of conversation that I should know of or address?
[00:22:18]  There's not really one big topic.
[00:22:21]  It's a bit of barrage in the insider chat today.
[00:22:24]  A ton of comments.
[00:22:26]  I've got about 50 of them here save for you that I'll have to, if we don't get to the majority of them, I'll have to show you.
[00:22:32]  But it really is kind of all over the place.
[00:22:34]  I wanted to show this one.
[00:22:36]  There was a ton of people saying the song is beautiful, the Lady Liberty song.
[00:22:40]  Tons of people talking about that.
[00:22:42]  And then this was a, I think this was a consensus that people said, I'm going to read this one from Lauren.
[00:22:48]  Lauren said, okay, Glenn, I'll give it to you.
[00:22:51]  You should do it this way with you telling the story over the music in the background.
[00:22:55]  That's what they want to see.
[00:22:57]  It might wreck the song a bit.
[00:23:01]  You know, people, you know, it's in French.
[00:23:04]  And the reason why it's in French is because my original concept is, what would the French say to Lady Liberty today?
[00:23:12]  They gave it to us.
[00:23:13]  So you're standing there up on our shore and you're looking up at her.
[00:23:16]  What would you be saying?
[00:23:17]  And so the lyrics in French are, you know, you're a mother.
[00:23:22]  You're a mother.
[00:23:23]  Wake your children.
[00:23:24]  Remind them who they are.
[00:23:25]  Tell them, stand up, be brave.
[00:23:28]  And that's why it's in French.
[00:23:30]  And besides, my lyrics kind of suck if they're not in French.
[00:23:34]  This is me.
[00:23:35]  A lot of people talking about the Save Act and what it means.
[00:23:38]  And a lot of people are worried that nothing is going to happen, especially through like pressure from the administration.
[00:23:44]  And Shane said his biggest concern is Trump applies pressure wrong domestically.
[00:23:48]  He's great doing it with foreign policy, but he's not doing it right with people like Jon Thune.
[00:23:53]  He will get crushed in the midterms if nothing in Congress changes.
[00:23:58]  I will tell you the one thing that I know about the SAVE Act with Donald Trump is he has said to me several times one way or another in different conversations, if we don't get control of the corruption of our elections, if we can't verify we know who's voting, he said, we'll never win another election again.
[00:24:22]  And so I know he is on this.
[00:24:27]  The one thing that bothers me is his fallback, which he announced right off the bat almost, is let the federal government take over the elections.
[00:24:37]  That's unconstitutional.
[00:24:38]  That cannot happen.
[00:24:39]  That's a really, really bad thing because they will love that.
[00:24:46]  Oh, if the federal government can do all the elections, they can change that easy.
[00:24:52]  The Constitution specifically says all of the elections are local and state, and they're in charge of all of the elections.
[00:25:01]  And I think that is really important now.
[00:25:03]  The federal government can say we need voter ID.
[00:25:08]  You've got to have a valid face ID so we know who you are and that you're a citizen.
[00:25:14]  And everybody is for that.
[00:25:16]  I don't know why Thune is saying, well, we've got things like the Transportation Act that we got to pass.
[00:25:23]  Really, I don't care.
[00:25:25]  Honestly, I don't care if airplanes are grounded for two weeks.
[00:25:32]  What's more important?
[00:25:34]  A two-week stall on our airplanes, which is not going to happen.
[00:25:38]  A two-week stall on airplanes?
[00:25:40]  Or voter ID for the rest of our lives?
[00:25:44]  Which one's going to destroy the republic?
[00:25:47]  If we don't have voter ID, you have no republic.
[00:25:50]  That's why they're fighting so hard to keep all of these illegals in the country.
[00:25:55]  They know.
[00:25:56]  I gave you the stats last hour about what's happening with the census.
[00:26:01]  These states are going to lose electoral votes.
[00:26:06]  And once they lose electoral votes, when New York and California are not controlling the swing anymore, well, that's a problem for Democrats.
[00:26:17]  That's a real problem.
[00:26:18]  That's why they have all of these people in, because they've got to have those votes.
[00:26:23]  They've got to have the congressional and the congressional seats.
[00:26:27]  And they've got to have the Electoral College.
[00:26:29]  By saying, no, no, no, we don't count people that are not here legally, and you can't vote unless you have a valid ID.
[00:26:37]  That changes absolutely everything.
[00:26:40]  And I think because, as I said, Trump is such a good read of people.
[00:26:47]  Almost, I agree with the caller.
[00:26:53]  Domestically, he's not as good as he is internationally sometimes.
[00:26:58]  I think of the Epstein thing that was so mishandled, and he didn't get what that meant beyond Epstein.
[00:27:05]  That was a trust thing.
[00:27:06]  That was not just Epstein.
[00:27:08]  That was a, wait a minute.
[00:27:10]  This was something that all of us were bothered by, and now it just kind of goes away.
[00:27:15]  And, you know, I think the positioning on that one was poor.
[00:27:21]  This one, I just think he cares an awful lot about.
[00:27:24]  I hope that he pushes Thune because it's all going to come down to Thune.
[00:27:29]  One guy is going to stand in the way of voter ID, and that will be John Thune.
[00:27:34]  Because John Thune has to say, okay, go ahead, filibuster.
[00:27:39]  But it's a standing filibuster, meaning you have to talk your way through it.
[00:27:44]  And here's how that works.
[00:27:46]  Thune is saying we don't have time for that because all, what do they have, 49 senators?
[00:27:52]  So 49 senators can speak on the same subject in a filibuster two times.
[00:27:58]  So a senator can get up and she can start talking about it.
[00:28:04]  And then when she's tired, she passes it to another Democratic senator.
[00:28:07]  So you have, you know, 100 speakers, just under, you know, 100 speakers that are going to speak, just 49 people twice.
[00:28:18]  And once that's done, you can't speak a third time.
[00:28:21]  Once that's done, once they go through all those people, then it goes to a vote.
[00:28:26]  What the Democrats want is the new kind of filibuster where it's not a standing filibuster, where they say, we're filibustering that.
[00:28:35]  And then it takes 60 votes to get to cloture.
[00:28:38]  Well, they'll never get 60 votes for the SAVE Act.
[00:28:42]  And Democrats know that.
[00:28:44]  John Thun just has to say, well, go ahead, talk your socks off.
[00:28:48]  Because when you're done in 30 days, guess what happens?
[00:28:52]  We vote.
[00:28:53]  And all I need is a simple majority.
[00:28:55]  So we win.
[00:28:56]  So go ahead, talk all you want.
[00:28:58]  And they're not going to want to talk for 30 days on this because everybody's going to go, wait, wait, you're standing against votes.
[00:29:06]  You're stopping all of these things.
[00:29:08]  You're stopping the government because you think that people shouldn't have voter ID.
[00:29:13]  71% of Democrats believe in voter ID.
[00:29:18]  71% of Democrats.
[00:29:20]  This is so against their own voters.
[00:29:24]  Their own voters want this.
[00:29:26]  Let them talk, John.
[00:29:28]  Let them talk.
[00:29:30]  Save the Republic.
[00:29:31]  And let me just speak to you just, you know, politically.
[00:29:36]  Save yourself.
[00:29:37]  Save the GOP.
[00:29:39]  Your party is nothing if you can't stand for something this important.
[00:29:46]  This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:29:50]  Let me start with China Biolabs.
[00:29:54]  You know, this story is really, really disturbing.
[00:29:57]  China is buying up farmland.
[00:29:59]  They're buying up land all over America.
[00:30:02]  And they're buying up land near our bases, our military bases.
[00:30:09]  Anybody notice where this bio lab is?
[00:30:14]  It's not very far from a military base, like a stone's throw from one of our big military bases.
[00:30:22]  Hmm.
[00:30:23]  You know where else it is?
[00:30:25]  It also is in a major city where tourists come from all over the United States and the world.
[00:30:33]  You know where else it was?
[00:30:35]  In an Airbnb where people are coming to Vegas.
[00:30:39]  They're staying in this Airbnb.
[00:30:42]  Then they're going to hotels and conventions and to the floors of the casinos and to all of the shows.
[00:30:49]  Then they're getting on an airplane and they're flying elsewhere.
[00:30:52]  This is crazy.
[00:30:54]  This is crazy.
[00:30:56]  And this is not the first time we have found it.
[00:30:59]  You want, I mean, you know, the Chinese wrote something you should read.
[00:31:03]  In fact, we did a show on it.
[00:31:07]  Soon, the entire library of Glennbeck.com is going to be up and you'll be able to search for things like this.
[00:31:13]  You'll be able to go to, you know, Torch and just type in, you know, unrestricted warfare, and it will bring you everything that we've done on unrestricted warfare.
[00:31:22]  But that is what they call what they're doing.
[00:31:24]  China calls this unrestricted warfare, where it's not soldiers anymore.
[00:31:29]  It's unrestricted.
[00:31:30]  They'll just do whatever they have to do to win.
[00:31:33]  And part of that very likely is, hey, let's put biolabs near, you know, U.S. military bases.
[00:31:43]  Let's put biolabs in, you know, major cities that are tourist destinations because we can get people, if we want to, we need to.
[00:31:51]  We can get that whole country sick overnight.
[00:31:55]  We can shut down their military overnight because that'll spread into the military base.
[00:32:00]  And by the time it gets, by the time people figure it out, it'll be in all of our military bases.
[00:32:04]  That's unrestricted warfare.
[00:32:07]  That, I hope, I mean, I have, I trust my president and I trust our Defense Department.
[00:32:13]  I'm not sure I trust a lot in the Intel and justice, but I do trust my president.

=== Cops Wear Cameras (11:19) ===

[00:32:22]  This is something that's real.
[00:32:25]  That's absolutely real and we should be watching for.
[00:32:31]  But let me talk to you about watching.
[00:32:35]  Everybody is saying that ICE needs to have cameras on their vests.
[00:32:41]  I'm all for that.
[00:32:42]  I think the best thing that ever happened to the cops is we put cameras on their vests because everybody before was like, oh my gosh, look what they, you know what?
[00:32:49]  He broke my arm.
[00:32:50]  Your arm doesn't even look broken.
[00:32:52]  Do you have it in a cast?
[00:32:53]  Have you had an x-ray?
[00:32:54]  No, he broke my arm.
[00:32:54]  I'm telling you, broke my arm.
[00:32:56]  Cop wasn't even around.
[00:32:58]  Whatever it was.
[00:32:59]  Put cameras on cops.
[00:33:00]  That's great.
[00:33:01]  Put them on ICE.
[00:33:03]  Great.
[00:33:04]  We'll know the story.
[00:33:05]  It keeps them true and it keeps the lying liars away from the press because we improve that didn't happen.
[00:33:15]  Okay.
[00:33:16]  But I got to thinking, everybody wants this on the cops.
[00:33:22]  Well, you know, you know, politicians are kind of, you know, cops in suits.
[00:33:27]  You know, they're the ones that are supposed to be policing our laws, policing our Constitution, make sure there's no enemies, foreign or domestic.
[00:33:36]  That's what they're sworn to do.
[00:33:37]  They take an oath to protect that and to serve that.
[00:33:40]  What do the cops take?
[00:33:41]  They take an oath to protect and serve, right?
[00:33:45]  So why is nobody watching the watchers?
[00:33:50]  My local cop has to wear a vest.
[00:33:52]  ICE going to have to wear a vest.
[00:33:54]  The gas station, the grocery store, the front porch, dogs have cameras now.
[00:34:01]  But the people with the most power, the ones who have the, who operate that power, operate the systems, they're on the honor system.
[00:34:13]  Honor in Washington, D.C. is two words, not one.
[00:34:17]  Do you understand what I'm saying?
[00:34:19]  There's no honor there.
[00:34:22]  So here's a radical thought.
[00:34:23]  Why don't we flip this around?
[00:34:25]  Cops wear cameras because we say power requires accountability.
[00:34:28]  Great.
[00:34:29]  Let's finish the sentence here.
[00:34:31]  If you hold public office, you wear a camera.
[00:34:34]  And not at your speeches, not during your press conferences, all the time.
[00:34:39]  I mean, not all the time.
[00:34:40]  I mean, you're going to, you know, there are times you're not going to wear a camera.
[00:34:44]  Congressional body cams, cabinet-level GoPros, senators with a blinking red light that says, yeah, remember, Senator, we're watching.
[00:34:54]  You want to meet a lobbyist?
[00:34:56]  Great.
[00:34:56]  Smile.
[00:34:56]  You're on candid camera.
[00:34:58]  You want to negotiate, you know, a bill at midnight?
[00:35:01]  Great.
[00:35:02]  America's watching the uncut version.
[00:35:06]  You want to say, this isn't how the real world works.
[00:35:11]  Perfect.
[00:35:11]  Could you define the real world, please?
[00:35:14]  Because the one I live in has and demands receipts.
[00:35:18]  The one you live in, I don't think is the real world because it never demands receipts from any of you.
[00:35:26]  Yeah, but that's extreme.
[00:35:28]  Really, that's extreme.
[00:35:32]  I think we've already decided that extreme was acceptable, haven't we?
[00:35:39]  And if cameras are extreme, then why do we have them for traffic stops?
[00:35:45]  Why do we have them for classrooms?
[00:35:52]  We decided it for every American who doesn't have power.
[00:35:57]  Why does transparency suddenly become unreasonable the moment it reaches the top?
[00:36:01]  Why?
[00:36:02]  You're watched in everything you do.
[00:36:06]  Here's why.
[00:36:07]  Imagine what would happen.
[00:36:09]  Half of Washington would suddenly go, you know what, I'm too old for this job.
[00:36:13]  I should retire.
[00:36:13]  I'm going to let some of these youngsters in.
[00:36:15]  That's the first thing that would happen.
[00:36:17]  Another quarter would suddenly rediscover prayer.
[00:36:21]  And the rest would spend the first month just asking interns, is this thing on?
[00:36:28]  Corruption would need to be prosecuted.
[00:36:30]  It would die of embarrassment.
[00:36:33]  Here's the thing.
[00:36:33]  Corruption thrives in the shadows.
[00:36:37]  It hates daylight.
[00:36:38]  It hates context.
[00:36:40]  It hates time stamps.
[00:36:42]  You wouldn't need hearings anymore.
[00:36:44]  Just hit rewind.
[00:36:46]  I never said...
[00:36:49]  Here it is at 2.14 p.m., sir.
[00:36:51]  Remember, right after the lunch fundraiser, you said this.
[00:36:57]  I mean, protect privacy.
[00:36:59]  Sure, bathroom breaks.
[00:37:00]  No camera.
[00:37:00]  I don't want to say family time off camera.
[00:37:03]  But you're governing?
[00:37:05]  Red lights on.
[00:37:06]  You're doing deals.
[00:37:07]  Red lights on.
[00:37:09]  You don't get secrecy and authority.
[00:37:12]  Pick one.
[00:37:13]  What do you say?
[00:37:14]  Pick one.
[00:37:14]  I'll give you national defense.
[00:37:16]  But I would like to make sure that we define national defense because we've also redefined secrecy and top secret.
[00:37:23]  Top secret.
[00:37:25]  It says here that he used three napkins while he was in the congressional lunchroom.
[00:37:31]  Let's classify that as secret, please.
[00:37:34]  Everything's classified as secret now.
[00:37:37]  So let's look at what actually needs to be secret and what doesn't.
[00:37:42]  It's amazing, amazing how quickly behavior changes when you know you're being watched.
[00:37:49]  Do you know that most people, when they steal from their company, they don't steal because they're bad people.
[00:37:56]  Really, honestly, most people, when they start stealing from their company, it's not because they're bad people.
[00:38:04]  It's because no one's watching them.
[00:38:08]  And so something just happens to people when they're not watching, not being watched.
[00:38:13]  They think people don't care.
[00:38:14]  I don't know about you, but I care deeply about our country.
[00:38:17]  I care deeply about the Republic.
[00:38:19]  I care deeply about all of the crime that is going on.
[00:38:22]  And I'm not talking about on our streets.
[00:38:24]  I'm talking about the crime, you know, that's happening in daycare centers.
[00:38:32]  The crime that is happening in our government with our own money.
[00:38:35]  Why would you go steal money from a bank when the bank has limited amounts of cash?
[00:38:41]  Why wouldn't you steal it from the federal government and the taxpayers?
[00:38:44]  That's where the real money is.
[00:38:47]  You know, you look at Ocean's 11.
[00:38:49]  We're going to go in and we're going to rob all the casinos.
[00:38:52]  Rookies.
[00:38:54]  Did you see what they did in Minnesota?
[00:38:56]  What they're most likely doing in California, New York, and maybe even your state?
[00:39:01]  I got to tell you, bills would become a lot shorter.
[00:39:03]  Language would become much, much clearer.
[00:39:06]  Deals would suddenly make sense.
[00:39:08]  You wouldn't go, wait a minute, what happened?
[00:39:10]  How did that happen?
[00:39:11]  Why did they pass that?
[00:39:12]  That makes no sense at all.
[00:39:13]  Oh, no, it would make perfect sense.
[00:39:18]  Here you are at 101 a.m.
[00:39:20]  Okay?
[00:39:21]  Phrases like unintended consequences, I think would go extinct.
[00:39:28]  The only thing radical that we need is radical transparency.
[00:39:33]  And radical transparency doesn't require better people.
[00:39:36]  It just requires visible people.
[00:39:42]  This is the thing that people misunderstand.
[00:39:44]  When our founder said, you know, this constitution, this system of government is wholly and inadequate for a non-religious and non-moral people.
[00:39:57]  If you're not, if you're religious and if you're irreligious and not a moral people, you can't have freedom.
[00:40:10]  You just can't.
[00:40:12]  Because you're screwing things up.
[00:40:14]  You're stealing all the time.
[00:40:15]  You're cutting the line.
[00:40:18]  You're trying to get away with stuff.
[00:40:21]  But if you're a religious and moral people, all of a sudden you have a governor on yourself and you go, no, that's wrong.
[00:40:26]  I can't do that.
[00:40:26]  That's wrong.
[00:40:28]  We need that governor back.
[00:40:30]  But until we get that governor back, maybe cameras are a good way.
[00:40:34]  Our founders didn't assume that people would be angels.
[00:40:36]  They knew.
[00:40:37]  They knew the opposite.
[00:40:38]  They built a system designed to survive humans.
[00:40:44]  Humans, when they're left to their own devices, when they're left alone, when they're unwatched, when they have access to money and power, they almost always go bad.
[00:40:58]  What's broken in America is not the Constitution.
[00:41:01]  What's broken in America is the distance between power and the people.
[00:41:07]  Okay?
[00:41:08]  So I guess it sounds funny.
[00:41:09]  You know, politicians wired like cops.
[00:41:13]  You know, a Capitol Hill highlight reel.
[00:41:15]  Man, I'd watch that thing every night.
[00:41:18]  C-SPAN with teeth.
[00:41:19]  Can you imagine?
[00:41:22]  But I'm serious.
[00:41:24]  Nothing restores trust faster than letting people see the truth unfold in real time.
[00:41:29]  That's why, you know, what gave me this idea was I saw, I was watching the news a couple of days ago and I saw that they were saying, you know, body cameras for ice.
[00:41:37]  And I'm like, I'm fine with that.
[00:41:39]  And then I saw, you know, them arguing in Utah about having cameras in the courtroom for the Charlie Kirk trial.
[00:41:45]  And I'm like, what are you crazy?
[00:41:46]  You got to have it.
[00:41:47]  You have to.
[00:41:49]  You will create conspiracy after conspiracy after conspiracy.
[00:41:53]  That whole thing has to be wide open.
[00:41:55]  Absolutely positively.
[00:41:56]  And then I thought, wait a minute, cameras.
[00:42:00]  Why don't we have cameras on everybody?
[00:42:02]  Why don't we have, honestly, if you're a politician, that goes with a job.
[00:42:06]  I don't want a camera on me.
[00:42:07]  Then don't run.
[00:42:08]  I know a lot of people that would be like, you can put a camera on me.
[00:42:13]  Most likely until you put a camera on them.
[00:42:16]  Then there's going to be all kinds of exceptions.
[00:42:18]  No.
[00:42:21]  I'm tired of the spin.
[00:42:22]  I'm tired of the summary.
[00:42:27]  I'm tired of, wait, how did that deal happen?
[00:42:30]  Well, you know, they got behind closed doors.
[00:42:32]  No.
[00:42:33]  Sunlight.
[00:42:34]  Open the curtains.
[00:42:35]  Sunlight.
[00:42:36]  We have the technology to do it today.
[00:42:39]  And you know what?
[00:42:40]  Maybe the camera only goes on when you're near, I don't know, somebody who's a lobbyist.
[00:42:47]  You're out in the middle, you know, you're at a nice dinner with your wife or something, and then a lobbyist, AI detects, lobbyist, three feet from the table, boop, the red light goes back on.
[00:42:59]  Uh-oh, other politician, boop.
[00:43:02]  Uh-oh, reporter, boop.
[00:43:04]  You know what stopped them from sleeping with all the reporters?
[00:43:07]  Red lights.
[00:43:09]  I mean, red lights kind of define the district that reporters are in now, but I mean the red light of the camera.
[00:43:18]  That would stop them from sleeping with them.
[00:43:20]  AI is like, oh, you know what?
[00:43:22]  Seems like the proximity to this reporter is awfully close.
[00:43:26]  Seems to get farther away, then closer, farther away, then closer, farther away, and then closer, farther away, and closer.
[00:43:30]  I know what they're doing in there.
[00:43:34]  Cameras on corruption has to work a lot harder.
[00:43:38]  And here's the thing.
[00:43:39]  Most of the politicians are too lazy.