The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Tommy Robinson & Steve Hilton | 5/11/26
Aired: 2026-05-11
Duration: 58:35


=== FCC Investigation and ABC (14:05) ===

[00:00:00]  Lots of stuff on today's podcast.
[00:00:02]  I don't know exactly how we're going to get all of it into a best of, but we have gerrymandering and the Virginia Supreme Court.
[00:00:07]  We also have Tommy Robinson on because I'm in London this week talking about a big Unite the Kingdom rally.
[00:00:14]  He speaks directly to Americans today.
[00:00:17]  The FCC and ABC, and also, if we can squeeze him in, Steve Hilton.
[00:00:22]  We had him on for a few minutes today.
[00:00:24]  He is currently polling number one, number two in California for GOP governor.
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[00:00:32]  All of this and so much more on today's podcast.
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[00:02:30]  You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:02:34]  Okay, here we go.
[00:02:35]  We're going to die a little inside.
[00:02:38]  Let me give you a story first.
[00:02:40]  Disney's ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that, quote, threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.
[00:02:51]  The issue involves an FCC investigation into whether talk show The View qualifies for an exemption to the agency's equal time political rule.
[00:03:01]  But ABC argues that implications are broader than just a single TV show.
[00:03:06]  Earlier this year, the FCC initiated enforcement proceedings of what Trump appointed Chairman Brendan Carr, that's so funny, alleged were violations of the equal time rule involving political candidates by The View, daytime talk show for appearance of James Talrico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in the state of Texas.
[00:03:26]  All right.
[00:03:29]  Hear me out on this.
[00:03:32]  I have done FCC regulated radio for 49 years.
[00:03:37]  I know the FCC rules and regs better than probably anyone else on the air.
[00:03:44]  I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure I'm right on everything, but I know it by gut because I was 13 when I had to take my first FCC, calling it the third phone license on what you can and cannot do.
[00:04:01]  Let me go over that first paragraph again.
[00:04:03]  Disney's ABC firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that threatened to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.
[00:04:13]  Okay, decades of law, yes.
[00:04:15]  Everything changed in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan.
[00:04:18]  It is the reason why the Rush Limbaugh show could come on.
[00:04:22]  Nobody wanted to do political talk back in the day because you had to balance absolutely everything, and it was just too much of a headache.
[00:04:31]  Okay, the other way to balance it is if you combined MSNBC and Fox and every other hour.
[00:04:38]  It was a leftist and then somebody on the right and then a leftist and then their right.
[00:04:41]  Nobody would listen to that.
[00:04:43]  And so radio just did not engage, generally speaking, local radio just did not engage in any of that stuff.
[00:04:50]  Okay?
[00:04:51]  The issues involve an FCC investigation.
[00:04:54]  Now listen to this it involves an FCC investigation into whether talk show The View qualifies for an exemption to the agency's equal time political rule.
[00:05:09]  That's totally legitimate for the FCC to launch an investigation to see if it fits.
[00:05:16]  What is the rule?
[00:05:18]  The rule is equal time.
[00:05:21]  You have to have, if you're not a political show, if you're not, I'm sorry, not a political show, if you're not a news program, the law stipulates if you're a broadcast person, this is not involving anything on cable or on the internet, but on broadcast radio or television.
[00:05:40]  You, if you are a news show, you don't have to have both sides on because it's news, it's breaking every day, it's changing every day.
[00:05:49]  We have a hard enough time booking guests for a subject.
[00:05:52]  Imagine having to book a guest that has the opposite view of everything you just are covering, it would stop news from happening.
[00:06:01]  So that's the rule.
[00:06:03]  Now, ABC claims that The View is a news show.
[00:06:11]  I don't watch the view.
[00:06:12]  I never have watched the view.
[00:06:14]  I have only watched the clips of the view because, for the love of everything that is good and sacred, little baby Jesus cannot save my soul from darkness if I watch that thing every day.
[00:06:27]  Okay?
[00:06:27]  I just couldn't take it.
[00:06:28]  My head would explode.
[00:06:29]  So, I don't know for sure.
[00:06:31]  But from the clips that I have seen over the years, I would say that's a news show.
[00:06:39]  Is Glenn Beck supporting ABC?
[00:06:41]  No.
[00:06:41]  I'm supporting the truth as I understand it.
[00:06:45]  Now, I could get new facts and change my mind.
[00:06:49]  But as I understand it and as I understand the view, which I despise, that's what they do.
[00:07:00]  They see what's in the news and they talk about it.
[00:07:03]  Now, If I have a skewed view of the view, because I only watch the clips, and they're spending 60% of the time talking about, I don't know, how beautiful Whoopi Goldberg is, you know, at the latest movie premiere, well, then that's not a news show.
[00:07:19]  But if what they talk about most of the time is the news of the day, I would consider that a news show.
[00:07:27]  And here's why I say that.
[00:07:30]  While I am not a hard news show, I talk about the news every day.
[00:07:36]  That's what we do.
[00:07:37]  We bring newsmakers on to discuss what is happening in the world.
[00:07:43]  That's what we do.
[00:07:45]  If I'm, if the view, if I have the balance right, and I could be wrong, that's why the FCC investigation is the right thing to do.
[00:07:53]  What is the balance?
[00:07:56]  You know, it's my understanding, and ABC could correct me on this, but it is my understanding that Jimmy Kimmel is also considered a news program.
[00:08:05]  I don't need to have an investigation on that.
[00:08:07]  That's not a news program.
[00:08:09]  I did one search.
[00:08:11]  How many politicians has Jimmy Kimmel had on his show in the last 60 days?
[00:08:17]  And the answer was one.
[00:08:20]  What is the balance of his show?
[00:08:21]  The balance of his guests are Hollywood.
[00:08:25]  It's an entertainment show, not a news show.
[00:08:28]  That one clearly doesn't qualify.
[00:08:30]  If ABC is defining that one as a news show, which would then stop him from having to have the other side on, that's wrong.
[00:08:43]  Let me back up and tell you why you're supposed to have both sides on.
[00:08:48]  It's not because of news.
[00:08:50]  It is because this was one wise decision the government made.
[00:08:54]  Remember, this is only for public airwaves.
[00:08:57]  This is not cable or internet.
[00:08:58]  This is only for shows that are on public television, you know, the channels and also radio.
[00:09:07]  The reason why they knew if a show, let's Let's say Friends was still on and Friends was really popular, and they decided we're in New York City and at the coffee, at the Central Perk, it would be cool if Mamdani was always kind of at the Central Perk.
[00:09:27]  And so, every couple of weeks, Mamdani would be on and it would be written so he's a very funny and likable character.
[00:09:35]  They knew that if you were using public airwaves and you were writing them into entertainment shows or you were having them in entertainment shows, you could sway the public's opinion.
[00:09:45]  Because you could craft that and you could make people like that person.
[00:09:52]  And it would be unfair to the other candidates because friends would not be making the other candidate into a likable person.
[00:10:01]  And so they said only news shows get this exemption.
[00:10:05]  If you're an entertainment show, you have to have both sides on, which the effect was no one had guests' politics on because they didn't want to have to do both sides.
[00:10:17]  And so it was chilling, yes, but the other was to let them take one side.
[00:10:24]  They wouldn't be for this if conservatives were really good at entertainment shows and we could write characters on our side into lovable people and just make them funny and mainstream them that way.
[00:10:36]  That's what the left does.
[00:10:38]  They mainstream people all the time because they're good at writing and producing, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:10:44]  That's what that law was for.
[00:10:49]  The FCC is right to investigate the balance and ask, what is this show?
[00:10:56]  If this show, The View, is mainly daily news, ABC should win this battle.
[00:11:05]  Oh, can you hear my soul dying?
[00:11:09]  Oh.
[00:11:10]  ABC should win this battle.
[00:11:13]  If it is 60% or more entertainment, ABC should lose this battle.
[00:11:19]  Giving ABC the benefit of the doubt, which I wouldn't accept as an example in this monologue, from the clips that I've seen, that looks like a news show.
[00:11:30]  But I'd have to see the whole balance of every show.
[00:11:33]  And if the balance on balance is mainly daily news, ABC would win.
[00:11:39]  On balance, if it's not, ABC should lose.
[00:11:43]  And that's important because you don't want anybody to be swayed one way or another through entertainment.
[00:11:49]  That's only right and fair on public airwaves.
[00:11:54]  But it means less today than it used to.
[00:11:58]  This is why they say, after decades of settled law and practice, They were not for this back in the 1980s.
[00:12:07]  They were absolutely the opposite direction in the 1980s.
[00:12:12]  These companies were fighting.
[00:12:15]  What?
[00:12:16]  Everybody on the left.
[00:12:17]  You can't deregulate.
[00:12:18]  You can't deregulate.
[00:12:19]  What are they saying now?
[00:12:20]  Deregulate.
[00:12:21]  Why?
[00:12:21]  Because they're good at it.
[00:12:22]  They figured out a way around everything.
[00:12:24]  And so they're good at it.
[00:12:26]  And the other reason, the FCC never enforced the law.
[00:12:31]  This isn't something new that Donald Trump is making up.
[00:12:35]  This is.
[00:12:36]  Most likely, and I could be wrong, I'd love to have Brendan Carr on.
[00:12:39]  Most likely, this is the president calling up and going, Do we not have laws for this?
[00:12:45]  And Brendan Carr saying, Yes, but we haven't enforced them in 20 years.
[00:12:49]  Well, enforce them.
[00:12:50]  If there is a law on the book, enforce it.
[00:12:53]  If you don't like the law on the books, then change the law.
[00:12:57]  But if it is on the books and it's never been enforced, that's not upending anything other than the government was lazy.
[00:13:07]  So, your argument on the government's been lazy is that's a stupid law.
[00:13:12]  Let's reverse that law.
[00:13:13]  Let's get rid of that law.
[00:13:15]  With all of this said, here's my position I would love to abolish the FCC.
[00:13:23]  I don't like the government having a say in anything we see, say, or do, unless it's somebody inciting violence, unless it is something that is.
[00:13:36]  Treasonous.
[00:13:38]  And I don't want an interpretation of what is treasonous.
[00:13:42]  The Constitution already says what that is.
[00:13:44]  I don't want somebody's interpretation of what this speech can do.
[00:13:49]  The Supreme Court has already lined that out.
[00:13:53]  I think Hassan Piker fits the violent speech thing.
[00:13:58]  He is trying to incite.
[00:14:02]  Now, that's a really high standard to prove in court.

=== Ruling Ourselves Without Government (03:26) ===

[00:14:06]  I personally think you can do it.
[00:14:08]  But you'll notice nobody's going after him.
[00:14:10]  No one is going after him.
[00:14:13]  I'm going to tell you about him.
[00:14:14]  If I don't have time today, I'm going to tell you about him tomorrow.
[00:14:18]  But that's a legitimate question, not a target, a question.
[00:14:25]  Is this what we allow?
[00:14:28]  And here's the problem with both of these stories.
[00:14:33]  If you're a student of history, our founders said over and over again, and nobody on the left likes to hear this, our system of law is wholly inadequate for an immoral or irreligious people.
[00:14:49]  And everybody's like, I don't want it there.
[00:14:51]  You can't force religion.
[00:14:52]  That's not what they said.
[00:14:53]  That's not what they said.
[00:14:55]  They knew.
[00:14:56]  This is why they were pretty smart guys.
[00:14:59]  They knew because they studied all of the failures and successes of governments from the beginning of time.
[00:15:06]  They studied them and they looked at what worked and what didn't work.
[00:15:11]  And they found one thing that worked.
[00:15:15]  And that is a society that put restraints on themselves.
[00:15:20]  And the only way that that ever worked was it was a religious people that were answering to something higher than government.
[00:15:28]  They were answering something higher than man.
[00:15:31]  They were answering to God, and they knew God will hold me accountable and he sees everything.
[00:15:36]  So I should be responsible for my own life.
[00:15:40]  I need to be a good human being.
[00:15:42]  And they believed that religion was the only thing that actually held people in that position.
[00:15:49]  Remember, the experiment of Washington was.
[00:15:51]  Can man rule himself?
[00:15:53]  The answer was yes, if he answers to God.
[00:15:57]  If he doesn't answer to God and answers to himself, he'll start making all kinds of exceptions for himself, and that will force government to make all kinds of laws to govern him, and then you have an out of control government.
[00:16:11]  So the answer is rule yourself.
[00:16:14]  Answer to something, I don't care what religion it is, I don't care what it is, as long as it makes you a better human being that wants to serve your fellow man, that holds you in place of.
[00:16:26]  Instead of a place of everybody else is doing it, so will I.
[00:16:28]  No, I don't do that because it's wrong.
[00:16:32]  Anytime there is a set of absolute, eternal rights and wrongs, hey, Ten Commandments, can you give me eight of those?
[00:16:41]  How about seven?
[00:16:42]  How about seven out of the Ten Commandments?
[00:16:44]  Don't covet, don't kill, don't have sex with your neighbor's wife.
[00:16:48]  Just give me seven of the top ten.
[00:16:51]  If you can do that, we can rule ourselves.
[00:16:53]  If not, we have to have government.
[00:16:56]  So, really, the choice for Americans today is can you rule yourself?
[00:17:01]  Can you behave yourself?
[00:17:03]  Or do you have to have daddy, big brother, come and monitor everything you do because you're just too irresponsible or you're too stupid or too stubborn and you just want your way because the whole world's against you, whatever it is?
[00:17:17]  Can you rule yourself?
[00:17:19]  Because if the answer to that is no, I make my own way, well, then you're going to have to have a big government.
[00:17:27]  And that never leads to anything good.

=== Overcoming Division to Rule (05:52) ===

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[00:18:48]  You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:18:51]  Let's say hello to Jason Buttrill and Ricky, who is our executive producer.
[00:18:56]  She is with us now in London.
[00:18:59]  Hello, Governor.
[00:19:00]  Hello.
[00:19:01]  Hello, Ricky.
[00:19:03]  So, we're in London for an event on Saturday, and I'm just going to touch base on this.
[00:19:08]  We're getting right to Virginia, but we're here for an event on Saturday.
[00:19:12]  I'm going to be speaking at the Unite the Kingdom rally with Tommy Robinson and a whole bunch of other people.
[00:19:17]  Last time he had a rally here, there were about a million people that showed up.
[00:19:21]  They're expecting more this time in London.
[00:19:24]  It's going to be right in front of Parliament, and hopefully it will be very, very peaceful.
[00:19:32]  However, the Prime Minister, Starmer, who is, I say this with all the loving kindness to all the British people who happen to be in the room, he's nuts.
[00:19:44]  He's just a king himself.
[00:19:46]  The guy is, I don't know how.
[00:19:47]  Anyway, he said this just a couple of hours ago about this rally here in London.
[00:19:52]  Listen to this.
[00:19:54]  Other parties will draw different lessons.
[00:19:58]  In fact, they already are.
[00:20:00]  They want more grievance politics, more division, more pointing at Britain's problems, looking not for solutions, but for someone to blame.
[00:20:10]  Now, that's fine if it's me, if it's politicians.
[00:20:14]  That's the.
[00:20:16]  These politicians drive me out of my ever loving mind.
[00:20:20]  They're all progressives, and here are their Fabian socialists, progressives in the United States, and they always say, Look at the division.
[00:20:27]  The other side is always trying to divide, divide, divide.
[00:20:30]  Who is the one that is dividing everybody into race?
[00:20:37]  You're a lesbian, you're a lesbian with handicaps, you're a non binary who is also handicapped, who also has a little bit of age.
[00:20:48]  I mean, they're dividing us into every single category they could possibly find.
[00:20:53]  And then they say we're the ones for division.
[00:20:55]  I don't care what color you are.
[00:20:57]  I don't care who you have sex with.
[00:20:59]  I don't care about any of that stuff.
[00:21:02]  Any of it.
[00:21:03]  Can we just agree on some principles?
[00:21:06]  They use the division to stop you from looking at their principles.
[00:21:10]  They say they are the ones that are for fairness and everything else.
[00:21:14]  There's no such thing.
[00:21:15]  First of all, life is not fair.
[00:21:17]  Do any of these people, did they all hatch or did any of them have a mother?
[00:21:21]  I'm serious because my mother used to always say, Life isn't fair.
[00:21:25]  Life isn't fair.
[00:21:25]  You're going to have to get over that.
[00:21:26]  Life isn't fair.
[00:21:28]  It's what you do with your life, it's how you deal with the things that set you back.
[00:21:32]  I think they all hatched because nobody in their life said, Life isn't fair.
[00:21:37]  But so now he's talking about how nobody has any solutions, they just try to divide us.
[00:21:44]  That's us he's talking about.
[00:21:46]  Go ahead.
[00:21:47]  Next.
[00:21:49]  That's fine if it's me, if it's politicians.
[00:21:52]  That's the job.
[00:21:54]  But increasingly, it's not.
[00:21:57]  It's other people in this country.
[00:22:00]  And I don't think that's British.
[00:22:03]  That is not the decency and respect that we are known for.
[00:22:08]  But it's here that politics is with us now.
[00:22:13]  And you'll see it again on Saturday at a march designed to confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country.
[00:22:23]  That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event.
[00:22:29]  Because we will not allow people to come to the UK to threaten our communities and spread hate on our streets.
[00:22:39]  You know, it's amazing.
[00:22:40]  I didn't come here because I hate any of them.
[00:22:43]  I love Great Britain.
[00:22:44]  I love the English people.
[00:22:46]  I think I like the English people more than the people who are over the English people right now.
[00:22:51]  I don't know.
[00:22:52]  I mean, they don't seem to like the average person.
[00:22:54]  It's exactly the same in America.
[00:22:56]  Our ruling class doesn't seem to like the average American.
[00:23:00]  They're always smarter than them, they're always telling us exactly what to do, and they don't really want to hang out with the average person.
[00:23:05]  That's the thing that Donald Trump has down in spades.
[00:23:08]  He likes the average person, he doesn't mind the average person.
[00:23:11]  You know what I mean?
[00:23:12]  He actually wants to serve the average person.
[00:23:15]  These guys will say it during campaigns, but they don't actually mean it.
[00:23:19]  So, somehow or another, this hater got through.
[00:23:22]  But I will be there on Saturday.

=== Revolution Against the Ruling Class (15:24) ===

[00:23:24]  Hopefully, you'll be able to watch it on Torch.
[00:23:28]  If you are not a member of the Torch, make sure you join us, especially this week.
[00:23:31]  We could use your support.
[00:23:33]  But we'll be covering the rally, and I will be speaking at it.
[00:23:36]  It's probably going to be about 10 o'clock.
[00:23:38]  I'm going to be speaking maybe 10 or 11 o'clock Eastern time.
[00:23:41]  Yes, if we're able to carry this rally stream, which.
[00:23:45]  Not sure.
[00:23:46]  Not sure yet.
[00:23:47]  I don't know how these far right agitators got in, but if we are, it will start at 9 a.m. Eastern until 1 p.m. Eastern.
[00:23:53]  And we're working on getting that to torch.
[00:23:55]  On Saturday.
[00:23:56]  We already have permission to do it.
[00:23:57]  We just, it's, you don't have no, you don't want to ask.
[00:24:01]  It's getting complex.
[00:24:02]  But so we'll see you on Saturday.
[00:24:05]  Okay, let me go to Virginia now, because we have the same kind of people who just think they are kings.
[00:24:12]  And.
[00:24:13]  You know, when you look at what is happening with gerrymandering, it is disgusting.
[00:24:20]  In Massachusetts, 36% of the people who live in Massachusetts vote for Republican.
[00:24:27]  How many Republican representatives do they have in the state of Massachusetts?
[00:24:33]  Zero.
[00:24:35]  Connecticut, 42% Republican.
[00:24:39]  How many seats are Republican?
[00:24:41]  Zero.
[00:24:43]  Maine, 46% Republican.
[00:24:46]  No Republican people representing.
[00:24:50]  New Mexico, 46% Republican.
[00:24:53]  No Republican seats.
[00:24:54]  How is that possible?
[00:24:57]  The answer is gerrymandering.
[00:24:59]  And they have been gerrymandering forever, forever.
[00:25:03]  And now that somebody has the courage to say, you know what, if you're going to do that, we're going to play the same game.
[00:25:08]  Or we could just all call it off.
[00:25:10]  I would like that.
[00:25:11]  Let's no more gerrymandering.
[00:25:13]  Let's just call it all off, shall we?
[00:25:16]  No, they won't.
[00:25:17]  And so.
[00:25:18]  What happened in Virginia, the Supreme Court said this was a very poorly worded law.
[00:25:26]  You swayed it just by the way you worded it.
[00:25:29]  So they say you can't pass this gerrymandering law, which would have given Republicans zero representation in Virginia, if I'm not mistaken.
[00:25:36]  One.
[00:25:37]  Okay, one.
[00:25:39]  But again, I believe it's like 45% of the state is Republican, but it would have given you one representative in the state.
[00:25:47]  So the Supreme Court comes in, and now.
[00:25:51]  The left is saying what?
[00:25:53]  The left is saying that now we have to have mandatory retirement at 54 years old.
[00:25:59]  Can I ask you, in what other business is there mandatory retirement at 54?
[00:26:05]  You want to talk about ageism.
[00:26:09]  54 is not old, especially if you're an attorney and then a judge and then a Supreme Court judge.
[00:26:15]  How do you gain any experience before 50 years old?
[00:26:19]  The only reason why they're doing that is because the youngest judge on the Supreme Court.
[00:26:22]  So this is Venezuela.
[00:26:24]  They want to flip the entire Supreme Court now and make it their Supreme Court.
[00:26:30]  They'll pick people for it.
[00:26:32]  Amy, you don't, a country does not survive this.
[00:26:34]  Once you start screwing with the Supreme Court, it's over.
[00:26:39]  But I guess that's okay.
[00:26:41]  Jason, your thoughts?
[00:26:44]  I don't think that even Hugo Chavez would have gone this far.
[00:26:48]  I think he obviously just would have just said, ah, you know, just screw it.
[00:26:51]  We're just packing the court, putting in as many as we want.
[00:26:54]  But to do it in this manner, to attach this, you know, age limit and the way that they did this is just absolutely insane.
[00:27:05]  I want to look at how it's being reported on the New York Times, the way the New York Times reported it.
[00:27:11]  This is a quote from the Times.
[00:27:12]  The most dramatic idea they discussed, which would involve an unusual gambit to replace.
[00:27:19]  Okay, I'm just going to stop right there.
[00:27:21]  An unusual gambit?
[00:27:23]  That's what you call taking the Constitution of the state and ripping it apart?
[00:27:28]  This is insane, Glenn.
[00:27:32]  An unusual gambit.
[00:27:33]  Yes, it definitely is.
[00:27:36]  And by the way, Spanberger, before she became governor, when she was running, she said, and I'm quoting, gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy and weakens the individual voices that form our electorates.
[00:27:50]  That's what she said about gerrymandering.
[00:27:53]  And as soon as she gets in, she's now saying we have to flip the whole Supreme Court to make sure we can gerrymander.
[00:28:00]  I mean, look how, guys, if these guys get into office, it's going to get much, much worse.
[00:28:07]  In 2027, 2028, When these guys take over, if they would win, you can look at an entire new Supreme Court.
[00:28:16]  Because they will do, they're showing, they're willing to do and say anything.
[00:28:21]  Would you rather, Glenn, inexperienced judges under the age of 54 or a revolution?
[00:28:28]  Hassan Piker?
[00:28:29]  So, what's worse, though?
[00:28:31]  What they are proposing legally, I suppose, through their Virginia legislature, or Hassan Piker, who's calling for revolution.
[00:28:37]  The Virginia Supreme Court denied the results of the redistricting.
[00:28:40]  Redistricting referendum, say that three times fast.
[00:28:43]  SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act and Tennessee carved up the last dim district destroying black voter power in the state.
[00:28:50]  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
[00:28:56]  So if that is the case, that would be like me saying to the left, you can have a third term of Donald Trump or revolution.
[00:29:04]  And everyone on the left would say, it is your responsibility to say no to a third term of Donald Trump.
[00:29:11]  And I would, I do.
[00:29:13]  No, you don't get a third term, period.
[00:29:16]  That's not what the Constitution says.
[00:29:18]  But notice they're giving you this false choice.
[00:29:22]  Well, let's give them that false choice back.
[00:29:24]  Third term of Donald Trump or revolution?
[00:29:26]  No, both of those are wrong.
[00:29:28]  Both of those are wrong.
[00:29:29]  This guy, I'm going to talk about him in a little while.
[00:29:31]  This guy is so incredibly dangerous.
[00:29:34]  And notice no one is rejecting him.
[00:29:36]  No one on the left is really rejecting him at all.
[00:29:39]  And he is.
[00:29:41]  Can you name somebody more?
[00:29:44]  Prone to violence that is this big on the left than Hassan Piker.
[00:29:50]  I don't know anybody who is calling for revolution anywhere close to this, anywhere close, and not a peep out of these guys.
[00:29:59]  This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:30:02]  Welcome to the program, Mr. Tommy Robinson.
[00:30:07]  How are you, Tommy?
[00:30:09]  I'm good, Glenn.
[00:30:10]  I'm surprised you got in just before it seems the current ban because they're not just banning our speakers, they're banning journalists.
[00:30:20]  Who are they banning?
[00:30:21]  Because I saw a couple of people and they looked like, okay, I mean, I know who they are, but you could look at them and go, okay, well, that's not so great.
[00:30:30]  That person's not so great.
[00:30:31]  If you're just an average person and you're not thinking and realizing freedom of speech, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:30:37]  Who are they banning?
[00:30:39]  And how did I get through it?
[00:30:41]  In the next 24 hours, Glenn, I don't want to put the names out there, but there have been journalists who are simply that journalists who have faced this ban, who are currently appealing the ban and trying to appeal the ban.
[00:30:54]  But I know of three journalists, as I said, journalists, nothing else, journalists who have been prevented now from coming from other countries to cover this event.
[00:31:04]  Now, have you listened to Keir Starmer's speech today?
[00:31:06]  Have you listened to what he said?
[00:31:07]  Yes.
[00:31:08]  I did.
[00:31:09]  He sits in the Oval Office, he talks to Donald Trump, he talks to JD Vance, and he talks about Britain and its free speech, and at the same time banning journalists from coming to cover.
[00:31:20]  And the way he described our event, you'll experience the event yourself on Saturday, Glynn.
[00:31:26]  We unite the kingdom.
[00:31:27]  We have huge diversity here.
[00:31:29]  We have a celebration of British identity, a celebration of everything.
[00:31:33]  And it's just lies.
[00:31:35]  It smears its lies.
[00:31:37]  And this is the result of.
[00:31:38]  Yes.
[00:31:40]  Tommy, wasn't it.
[00:31:42]  If I'm not mistaken, when you first arrived on the scene, part of your problem, because you come from a diverse area.
[00:31:49]  I can't remember the name of your town that you grew up in.
[00:31:52]  But yeah, Luden, it is black and white.
[00:31:57]  And if I'm not mistaken, in your first.
[00:32:00]  Speech or your first appeal, it was, hey, blacks are being affected.
[00:32:06]  Whites are being affected.
[00:32:07]  It was not a color thing at all.
[00:32:09]  How did you become this racist?
[00:32:12]  It's never been a color thing.
[00:32:14]  It's not a color thing.
[00:32:15]  None of the public know it's not a color thing.
[00:32:19]  They just label and smear you as a racist if you talk about open border mass immigration, because open border mass immigration is groups like Keir Starmer importing voters and loyal voters and replacing us as in the working class.
[00:32:32]  So, you'll see the diversity of our support base on Saturday yourself, Glen.
[00:32:37]  We have more diversity than them clowns in power.
[00:32:41]  But it's a weapon that's used against us.
[00:32:43]  And this is what happens when you have the apathy of the public.
[00:32:47]  Keir Starmer was elected off 9.7 million votes.
[00:32:51]  Twice as many people were registered to vote and didn't vote.
[00:32:54]  So, 20 million people didn't vote.
[00:32:56]  So, he has no mandate.
[00:32:58]  We have a government who are destroying our nation, who are working against the interests of the majority.
[00:33:05]  But the majority of people just Sat at home for the vote.
[00:33:08]  The majority of people didn't get out and get voting.
[00:33:11]  So, we had a vision two years ago when we set up the United Kingdom movement, which was to create a cultural revolution in Great Britain on the streets, to shift the Overton window, to shift the discussion, and to really create a movement for people and to politicise people because that 20 million who didn't vote, they're from the background like me, Glenn.
[00:33:30]  I'm from a town 30 miles north of London where white English are a minority.
[00:33:35]  My town is one of the most poverty stricken towns in Britain.
[00:33:38]  It's a rough town.
[00:33:39]  But people are that disillusioned with politics.
[00:33:41]  They don't vote.
[00:33:42]  They don't care about politics.
[00:33:43]  But they care about culture and they care about identity.
[00:33:46]  So, if we can't get them through politics, we'll get them through culture and identity.
[00:33:49]  And you're coming Saturday.
[00:33:51]  I'm glad you're here, Glenn.
[00:33:52]  I'm grateful that you're here because, as you can see, our government don't want the world to know what's happening in this country.
[00:33:58]  And you will be able to show your supporters the biggest event and patriotic gathering in British history.
[00:34:05]  That's what's coming this Saturday.
[00:34:08]  Yeah.
[00:34:08]  So, tell me, do I have it right that the average person feels disconnected from the.
[00:34:16]  Because it seems like there's.
[00:34:19]  Two Britons.
[00:34:20]  There's the elite where everybody is, you know, really crazy wealthy.
[00:34:26]  And then the average working stiff that is becoming poorer and poorer every year.
[00:34:33]  And it doesn't seem like the elites actually ever care about the common man.
[00:34:39]  Not just that they don't care, they just attack us.
[00:34:41]  And when we try and speak out, because remember, when they're importing these men into our country with totally alien cultures and hostile views towards us, hostile views towards our daughters.
[00:34:52]  Many of us now, our daughters can't walk the streets in most city centres and most towns.
[00:34:57]  So, whilst our daughters can't walk the streets, we're taxed through the roof, through their green energy, through all their nonsense policies.
[00:35:04]  They're taxing us through the roof, taxing us through the roof whilst we're having to pay for these Syrian, Eritrean, Somali, Pakistani, Afghani, Iraqi migrants to be housed in their hundreds of thousands across the UK in hotels at the end of all of our estates.
[00:35:23]  And now they're moving them from the hotels into HMOs.
[00:35:26]  So, we're facing Hostility, attack, finance problems, and we're having to pay for it.
[00:35:31]  And anytime you try and talk about it, which is what's happened over the last 24 months, you're then attacked by your government as far right racists and extremists.
[00:35:40]  When in reality, as I said, you will witness yourself, Glenn, on Saturday, not an extreme crowd, not a racist crowd, a beautiful British patriotic audience of loving people who are sick to death of the betrayal of our people.
[00:35:56]  We're sick to death of them looking down their nose upon us.
[00:35:59]  Putting their feet upon our throats.
[00:36:01]  And that's what's happening.
[00:36:03]  And what you just saw last week in our local elections is the start.
[00:36:09]  You've seen what Labour get wiped.
[00:36:12]  They're at 6%.
[00:36:14]  The government leaving this country are at 6%.
[00:36:17]  And yet he still maintains his power, still doesn't change any of his policies, still doesn't address any of the fears of the nation, the fears of the public.
[00:36:26]  He still doubles down in attacks, which is what he's done today.
[00:36:29]  He's probably just added another 10% of the crowd to our support base on Saturday.
[00:36:35]  You know, it's funny.
[00:36:36]  If Kamala Harris would have won and then Kearney in Canada and Starmer, you would have had three leaders of the West all in lockstep.
[00:36:46]  And with Kearney and Kamala, they would have really been chosen and selected.
[00:36:52]  Tommy, I'm sure most people in England don't know or care who I am at all.
[00:36:58]  What is the best thing I can do to help the situation when I'm speaking on Saturday?
[00:37:06]  Give them hope.
[00:37:08]  Hope is contagious, and we have hope.
[00:37:10]  We have hope because you elected Donald Trump.
[00:37:12]  So Britain has hope.
[00:37:13]  We have hope because Elon Musk bought X and he gave us back a platform for free speech.
[00:37:17]  So, everything you're about to see on Saturday, none of it would have happened without America.
[00:37:23]  So, what's happening, do you know, since you elected Donald Trump and to see Marco Rubio and JD Vance lecturing our politicians and defending us as people and defending our rights and our freedoms and lecturing the European Union, we know we have friends.
[00:37:37]  We know we have allies.
[00:37:38]  So that has given real momentum to a movement of people who see this is our moment.
[00:37:45]  This is our moment.
[00:37:46]  The fight back is well and truly on.
[00:37:49]  Are you concerned at all about security?
[00:37:52]  I mean, the government allows a pro Palestinian rally happening the same day, and I think they're marching kind of close to this rally.
[00:38:02]  Are you concerned about clashes?
[00:38:05]  So we asked them to keep them away.
[00:38:08]  We went through our negotiations for the last 12 months.
[00:38:10]  We said we'll move anything we need to move.
[00:38:12]  And then last minute, they put them right near to Trafalgar Square, which is near where we are.
[00:38:17]  I will have to say, In the last two years of liaising with the police, we've entered a new relationship with them as patriots, and we've had a great relationship with them.
[00:38:24]  And we've managed to keep disorder at its minimal at each one of these events.
[00:38:29]  So we are hopeful that our supporters know look, we know that they would try and antagonise us, and we want to win.
[00:38:36]  We don't want them to win.
[00:38:37]  And our supporters understand that.
[00:38:39]  So we don't allow face coverings, and we try to police our own supporters.
[00:38:44]  So, but again, this country is angry like I can't explain.

=== Historic Rally in Trafalgar Square (14:27) ===

[00:38:49]  The public, the shift in the last 12 months in anger.
[00:38:52]  It's huge.
[00:38:53]  Yeah.
[00:38:55]  When Obama was in, I did a large rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
[00:39:00]  And at that time, Secret Service, the park police, and everybody else that we had to get security from and get permits from, they were not necessarily in favor of this as the administration.
[00:39:13]  And we had a heck of a time.
[00:39:15]  And they secured it in the end.
[00:39:17]  We had to pay for it, but they secured it in the end.
[00:39:20]  But they also allowed things like we had.
[00:39:23]  We had people for blocks and blocks and blocks.
[00:39:26]  It was the largest gathering of people called by a single individual in the history of America.
[00:39:33]  And Al Sharpton, I don't know who he was, but Al Sharpton and the Black Panthers marched inside of our rally.
[00:39:45]  And they cut across our rally and they were taunting our people.
[00:39:49]  And I had told the crowd beforehand, I said, don't, whatever they do, just love on them, just love on them.
[00:39:54]  And they were, our people were going, join us, join us, we love you, we love you, join us, come on.
[00:40:00]  And when they realized they couldn't get anybody mad, they literally turned around and walked out.
[00:40:06]  It was incredible to watch.
[00:40:08]  Incredible.
[00:40:09]  Yeah.
[00:40:10]  I've done 15 years of national organizations, I've witnessed every trick in the book.
[00:40:14]  I know how they infiltrate, I know how they mask up, I know that that's why we don't allow faith coverings.
[00:40:21]  We're not going to have a January 6th tomorrow on Saturday because we're not going to allow.
[00:40:25]  Undercover agents to be wearing face coverings within our crowd.
[00:40:28]  Anyone who wears a face covering is seen as a hostile member and seen as an undercover, so we remove their face coverings.
[00:40:33]  And our crowd knows that no one is to cover their face at our events.
[00:40:37]  We do not allow it.
[00:40:38]  That's why we don't want to get on in the streets.
[00:40:40]  That's exactly what we did with signs.
[00:40:43]  I wouldn't allow anybody to carry a sign because I was absolutely convinced somebody's going to put some pro Nazi thing on a sign and they're not part of us.
[00:40:52]  You know what I mean?
[00:40:53]  How many people are you expecting on Saturday?
[00:40:56]  And why should Americans care and watch?
[00:40:59]  Americans should care and watch because it's coming to America.
[00:41:02]  Because if you didn't win your last election under Donald Trump, you'd already be having the boot against your throats like you did after the previous four years.
[00:41:09]  They controlled big tech.
[00:41:10]  They took control of the speaking place.
[00:41:12]  They censored Republican voices.
[00:41:14]  You may think you've got free speech.
[00:41:15]  What?
[00:41:15]  Because you can go out on the street on your own.
[00:41:16]  They don't care if you're on the street speaking on your own.
[00:41:19]  They care when you've got influence.
[00:41:20]  So anyone who had influence over those four years of Joe Biden was removed from social media and was censored.
[00:41:26]  That's the reality.
[00:41:27]  You elected Donald Trump.
[00:41:28]  There's a fight back now for your free speech, for our free speech.
[00:41:31]  There's a ripple coming from America.
[00:41:33]  We're very grateful for that election.
[00:41:35]  You elected Donald Trump not just to save America, but to save Western civilization.
[00:41:39]  We are on the front line of that.
[00:41:41]  And if Europe falls, which is your closest allies, trust me, the people of Europe are not the leadership of Europe.
[00:41:47]  So, Keir Starmer, who refused to stand by America in the recent conflict, is a traitor to our country.
[00:41:52]  We still see you as our closest allies.
[00:41:55]  We love the United States of America.
[00:41:57]  You're going to see a huge tribute to America at our event.
[00:42:01]  You're going to see a beautiful tribute and a beautiful song being sung in honour of Charlie Kirk.
[00:42:07]  But Americans should care because the same intention and the destruction they've done to our country is what they want to do to every Western nation.
[00:42:16]  Tommy, it's great to know you.
[00:42:18]  I'm glad to be here, and we'll talk to you later this week, and we'll see you Saturday.
[00:42:22]  God bless you.
[00:42:23]  Great, mate.
[00:42:23]  See you soon.
[00:42:24]  Thanks.
[00:42:24]  Bye-bye.
[00:42:24]  All right.
[00:42:25]  Bye-bye.
[00:42:25]  Bye-bye.
[00:42:26]  You bet.
[00:42:26]  Tommy Robinson, the Unite the Kingdom rally, last time he did something like this a couple of years ago, there was a million people that showed up.
[00:42:36]  They're expecting more than that this time, and we'll be covering it.
[00:42:39]  I have to talk to Tommy, make sure we get all of the technical stuff done here in the next couple of days, but.
[00:42:45]  We're planning on carrying the entire rally on the torch.
[00:42:48]  It will start about 9 a.m., I think.
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[00:43:41]  Live from London, England this week, I am here for the Unite the Kingdom rally.
[00:43:49]  Tommy Robinson.
[00:43:50]  It was about a million people that showed up.
[00:43:51]  They're expecting a bigger crowd this weekend on Saturday.
[00:43:54]  He's asked me to speak, so I'll be speaking.
[00:43:58]  It's historic in its nature and timing.
[00:44:03]  The entire West is in trouble.
[00:44:06]  Europe and England are in deep trouble.
[00:44:10]  I honestly don't know how you pull out without some miracles and some people seriously waking up quickly.
[00:44:16]  I don't know how you pull out of the trouble that Europe is in and England.
[00:44:21]  I mean, England.
[00:44:23]  They don't have industry left anymore.
[00:44:26]  Their politicians have just gutted this country and just they don't have industry.
[00:44:34]  And now, with all of the people coming in and all of the.
[00:44:38]  I mean, I read in the London paper today that if you come here, you not only get welfare and everything else, but if you have two wives, both families get that.
[00:44:50]  Well, you have to have immigrated here with a couple of wives first.
[00:44:55]  Yeah, okay.
[00:44:55]  Well, you know what?
[00:44:56]  I don't think I want you here if you have two wives.
[00:44:58]  I'm sorry.
[00:44:59]  I don't.
[00:44:59]  I mean, this is a Western.
[00:45:02]  We don't condone that.
[00:45:03]  We don't condone that.
[00:45:05]  I actually think it's unfair.
[00:45:07]  Why can't the people who started here, were born here, have two wives and get benefits and the folks who emigrate from Pakistan?
[00:45:14]  You know what?
[00:45:15]  That will be the argument eventually, someday.
[00:45:19]  But anyway, so it's the Unite the Kingdom rally.
[00:45:21]  It is happening on Saturday.
[00:45:23]  I'm going to be there.
[00:45:24]  We're trying to.
[00:45:25]  We have permission to do it.
[00:45:26]  Now we just have to get it all done and we're having problems with.
[00:45:30]  You know, the English side of the equation right now, carrying the stream on Saturday on Torch, but it will be live.
[00:45:39]  And if not, we will direct you to where it is live, but it should be live on Torch.
[00:45:44]  And I'm going to be speaking probably around 10 o'clock Eastern time at, you know, once you get to the rally.
[00:45:50]  They're planning a large march.
[00:45:52]  I mean, there could be up to 3 million people.
[00:45:54]  I don't think that, but I've heard that number.
[00:45:57]  But even a million people marching for a couple of miles down the streets of London, that is, that will be remarkable.
[00:46:06]  And then what is the message?
[00:46:08]  Because this country is waking up.
[00:46:12]  And I think it's waking up too because, I mean, I've seen stuff coming out of their parliament that just is shocking to me.
[00:46:19]  Wait, hold it.
[00:46:20]  You know that these groups are kidnapping and raping these children, and you're fine with it, and you're not going to investigate on who was doing what and why this wasn't prosecuted.
[00:46:33]  I mean, that's insane.
[00:46:36]  That's insane.
[00:46:38]  And what Tommy is asking for is a return to Western principles and to not be ashamed of our countries.
[00:46:47]  It's really bothered me for so long that we're all made to feel like we're ashamed of our country.
[00:46:53]  And now they won't let you fly the flag of England, which is different.
[00:46:57]  It's a white flag and a red cross on it because that was the flag of the Crusades.
[00:47:02]  So you can't fly the flag of England.
[00:47:05]  In many countries in Europe, you can't fly your national flag.
[00:47:08]  You have to fly the EU flag.
[00:47:11]  No, excuse me.
[00:47:12]  No.
[00:47:13]  I mean, even in the United States of America, where, quite honestly, except for Texas, And now Florida.
[00:47:20]  Well, that's the difference between those sort of things.
[00:47:24]  You know, you had Delaware.
[00:47:25]  Oh, I just went into Delaware.
[00:47:26]  How come they're not?
[00:47:27]  Is anybody in Delaware going, I got to fly the Delaware flag?
[00:47:30]  No, he's proud of Delaware.
[00:47:32]  But in all of our states, you can fly your flag, your state flag, and be proud of it.
[00:47:36]  Not here.
[00:47:38]  Not in Europe.
[00:47:39]  And I'm sorry.
[00:47:41]  This was the very beginning of this route.
[00:47:44]  People, and they call it nationalism and everything else.
[00:47:47]  It's not.
[00:47:48]  I am proud of my country.
[00:47:51]  It doesn't mean that I want to destroy every other country or every other country stinks on ice.
[00:47:56]  If I were in England, I'd be proud of England.
[00:47:59]  You walk around in London, this is a beautiful town.
[00:48:02]  I was just standing on the street, and I said to one of the guys with me, I said, My gosh, look at this sign.
[00:48:08]  And it said, On this spot in 1611, Oliver Cromwell declared, you know, and I'm like, That is insane.
[00:48:15]  The history here and the culture here is different.
[00:48:19]  When I was in.
[00:48:21]  Sweden, I think it was Sweden.
[00:48:24]  I mean, everything looks like a gingerbread house.
[00:48:26]  It does.
[00:48:27]  It is so beautiful.
[00:48:28]  So beautiful.
[00:48:30]  They don't think there's a difference.
[00:48:31]  They've been taught there's not a difference.
[00:48:32]  There is.
[00:48:33]  Now, with all of that being said, one state you could tear apart and say you have no reason to have any pride is California.
[00:48:39]  What a transition.
[00:48:40]  Because I have Steve Hilton on.
[00:48:45]  He is running for the governor of California.
[00:48:48]  Sorry, we were stalling until he could get on with us.
[00:48:51]  And Steve is joining me now.
[00:48:53]  Hi, Steve.
[00:48:53]  How are you?
[00:48:55]  Oh my God, I'm so excited to be with you.
[00:48:57]  You have no idea.
[00:48:58]  You know, it's the first time we've spoken.
[00:49:01]  You're the legend that I've been looking forward to speaking to for so long.
[00:49:04]  What an incredible honor.
[00:49:05]  Here I am, leaving that country that you were so beautifully describing there.
[00:49:10]  Although I have to say, England's a total disaster.
[00:49:13]  I still have the accent, just to be clear with you.
[00:49:16]  I'm not only a proud American now, a proud US citizen.
[00:49:20]  I've officially renounced my UK citizenship because I don't want to have anything to do with what's going on over there.
[00:49:25]  But I got to let, sorry to be late, but it's a true honor to be with you.
[00:49:29]  No, that's all right.
[00:49:30]  Well, thank you, Steve.
[00:49:31]  So, you know, I'm looking at the poll numbers, and you're either number one or two in the poll of 61 candidates running for governor.
[00:49:41]  What's happening?
[00:49:42]  What is happening?
[00:49:44]  Well, what's happening is change may be afoot.
[00:49:48]  As you say, I've been leading in the polls for most of the year, actually.
[00:49:51]  And this state is a disaster.
[00:49:54]  I mean, what's really interesting about California, if we just take a step back from the daily atrocities committed against the people of California by.
[00:50:02]  The Democrats who've been in charge.
[00:50:04]  If you think about what's been going on, it's 16 years now in California, one party rule.
[00:50:08]  They've had all the statewide offices governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, all the elected offices statewide.
[00:50:14]  They've had super majorities in the legislature, two thirds majorities in both chambers of the legislature.
[00:50:20]  They've controlled all the big cities, all the big counties, the state Supreme Court, 6 1 Democrat majority.
[00:50:27]  It's a very political Supreme Court.
[00:50:29]  And so California today is what you get.
[00:50:32]  When Democrats get everything they want, when they have a completely free reign to do whatever they want year after year after year without any check or balance, and let's look at the results.
[00:50:43]  Just the facts are so damning.
[00:50:45]  We have the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, the highest cost of living by far, highest gas prices, electric bills, insurance, housing costs, highest housing costs, lowest rate of home ownership.
[00:51:00]  Every single thing you look at, more qualitative measures, US News and World Report.
[00:51:04]  Does these annual rankings of states?
[00:51:06]  California is ranked 50th out of 50 states for opportunity.
[00:51:10]  Just think about that.
[00:51:11]  When you think about the image of California as the land of opportunity, we're 50th out of 50 states.
[00:51:16]  Wallet Hub, we're ranked 50th out of 50 for affordability.
[00:51:20]  Chief Executive Magazine does an annual survey of business conditions.
[00:51:23]  We are 50th out of 50 states for business climate 10 years in a row.
[00:51:27]  I mean, literally, the joke I make on the campaign trail, we all remember that movie that won the Oscar a few years ago.
[00:51:33]  When you think about what exactly have the Democrats messed up in California, Everything, everywhere, all at once.
[00:51:40]  It's insane how bad their performance has been.
[00:51:44]  So, you've been on the campaign trail and you're promising California's $3 gasoline.
[00:51:49]  That's nuts in California.
[00:51:51]  Electric bills cut in half, the first $100,000 of income completely tax free.
[00:51:57]  Democrats are still going to control the legislature.
[00:52:00]  I mean, you're going to have to open up the power plants again.
[00:52:04]  You're going to have to build power plants.
[00:52:06]  You're going to have to build refineries.
[00:52:08]  How are you going to get that done with the Democrats in the legislature?
[00:52:11]  Well, you got it.
[00:52:12]  I mean, that's the way to do all this.
[00:52:15]  But the thing is that, Glenn, these are not outlandish, impossible dreams.
[00:52:18]  This is just what happens in other states.
[00:52:20]  I mean, if you look at just before the Iran war, you had 40 states, right?
[00:52:28]  Just before the Iran war, 40 states in our nation had gas at $3 or below.
[00:52:33]  Most of them don't have oil reserves.
[00:52:35]  Here in California, we have abundant oil reserves.
[00:52:38]  We used to produce most of the oil we use in California in state.
[00:52:42]  Now, thanks to their Utterly incoherent war on fossil fuels, which isn't really a war on fossil fuels, it's a war on California fossil fuels, because in fact, we're using about the same amount.
[00:52:53]  We're just now importing nearly 80% of it.
[00:52:56]  Our number one provider of oil used to be California, now it's Iraq.
[00:52:59]  So they're shipping oil halfway around the world on giant super tankers, spewing out carbon emissions all in the name of climate.
[00:53:05]  So we just need to get back to doing what we used to do before all this, which is produce the oil we use here that's much cheaper, keeps the refineries open.
[00:53:13]  We also need to reduce some of the regulations, which you can do through.

=== Fighting Taxpayer Fraud Schemes (04:37) ===

[00:53:16]  The executive branch, that's the real answer to your question about the legislature.
[00:53:20]  For example, opening up oil and gas production, to be really precise about it, there's an agency called CalGEM, the California Department of Geologic and Energy Management.
[00:53:27]  They're the ones that regulate the oil industry.
[00:53:29]  They've been refusing to issue permits to the industry for maintenance of their existing wells, for expanding wells, for drilling new wells in existing fields.
[00:53:39]  All those basic things, they've just shut it down.
[00:53:41]  You could open that up overnight just through executive action, through putting new people in there who are pro energy.
[00:53:47]  Same with electric bills.
[00:53:48]  We have a fleet of gas fired power stations that run on natural gas in California.
[00:53:54]  They are being used at 10 to 15% of their capacity because of this climate ideology, just as backup for wind and solar.
[00:54:02]  So the infrastructure's there.
[00:54:04]  By the way, we have abundant natural gas reserves in California.
[00:54:07]  We're importing 90% of that as well.
[00:54:10]  So we can make that change again through the regulatory machinery without the legislature, just literally opening up the gas plants and just using them at full capacity.
[00:54:19]  It will actually get us more than all the electricity we need.
[00:54:22]  And so on.
[00:54:22]  When you look at 100 grand tax free, no state income tax, that's a function of the budget.
[00:54:27]  The Democrats have doubled the budget of the state of California in the last 10 years, and everything's worse.
[00:54:32]  We've estimated, I set up a Operation Cal Doge a few months ago, as part of my campaign.
[00:54:38]  We think that our estimate of the fraud, waste, and abuse in California is $425 billion over the last five years.
[00:54:45]  That's about $80 billion a year, 20% of the budget, and so on.
[00:54:48]  It's just common sense things, many of which can be done directly through the executive branch.
[00:54:54]  Not all, but much of it.
[00:54:55]  So we can make some changes pretty rapidly.
[00:54:59]  So, how are you going to?
[00:55:00]  I mean, that's music to my ears, and I would think that every Californian would want that.
[00:55:04]  I mean, I cannot believe how people are just.
[00:55:08]  Meh.
[00:55:08]  When it comes to the fraud, just the fraud alone.
[00:55:14]  Every American should be.
[00:55:15]  If I pay taxes, I'm outraged.
[00:55:18]  Outraged by that.
[00:55:20]  And I don't know why more people aren't.
[00:55:23]  Well, you put your finger on it.
[00:55:24]  Funnily enough, it's one of the reasons I give when people say, look, how are you going to win?
[00:55:28]  California, Democrat for such a long time, it's a blue state and so on.
[00:55:32]  One of the reasons I give is the fraud.
[00:55:35]  Because it's all very well to make these political arguments, as I've done here today.
[00:55:39]  The highest poverty rate, whatever.
[00:55:41]  But there's something visceral about the fact that they're taking our money.
[00:55:45]  Everyone, we work so hard and they take our money and then they totally either steal it or it goes to these things that we've been documenting.
[00:55:54]  I mean, one example, just to give one among thousands, we found there's a scheme that's been operating for the last 10 years, which is this is from the gas tax money.
[00:56:05]  We have the highest gas tax in the country, of course.
[00:56:08]  And it's been going to one of the uses is this.
[00:56:11]  They call it a climate mitigation fund.
[00:56:14]  And it's been $1 billion over the last 10 years that was supposedly spent on installing solar panels on low income apartment buildings.
[00:56:23]  Well, we tracked it down.
[00:56:24]  The actual amount of money spent on that, 72 million, 928 million, nearly all of it, on Democrat political organizing, voter registration, environmental justice, all this stuff.
[00:56:37]  This is what they do, this is their business model.
[00:56:39]  I mean, we just saw one over the weekend.
[00:56:41]  That got a lot of attention.
[00:56:42]  I made a video on it that went pretty viral.
[00:56:44]  Gavin Newsom's diaper scheme.
[00:56:46]  I mean, we can laugh at it and say, well, this is just a sort of small thing, but it's an example of what's been going on.
[00:56:53]  $20 million to send diapers to 100,000 babies, 400 diapers each.
[00:57:00]  We did the math.
[00:57:01]  That's 50 cents per diaper.
[00:57:02]  We went into Target to have a look how much you could get them there for.
[00:57:06]  I mean, not even Costco, just Target.
[00:57:08]  You could get them for 16 cents a diaper.
[00:57:10]  In other words, Gavin Newsom's government diapers.
[00:57:13]  More than three times as expensive as you could buy them in the store.
[00:57:16]  Why?
[00:57:16]  Because actually, what it's doing is taking taxpayer money, is going into some nonprofit with his cronies and his family members' connections on there that they make the money, salaries, and rake off the top, and it builds their political machine.
[00:57:31]  That's what's been going on in California.
[00:57:32]  And it gets people crazy.
[00:57:34]  The analogy I make is with the.
[00:57:35]  Remember, 1978, the taxpayer revolt, Howard Jarvis, Prop 13 in California.
[00:57:41]  People were sick of the taxes, especially property taxes, and they called it the taxpayer revolt.
[00:57:47]  I think that we're going to see a taxpayer revolt.
[00:57:50]  Version 2 in California this year.

=== The Coming Taxpayer Revolt (00:41) ===

[00:57:53]  Boy, I hope so.
[00:57:56]  I'm up against a network break, so I have to break, Steve.
[00:57:58]  But I would love to have you back on.
[00:58:00]  And I'm not going to ask you this.
[00:58:01]  I just want to warn you.
[00:58:05]  I'm not accusing anything by any stretch of the imagination.
[00:58:08]  But when the Democrats will get into bed with the freaking devil, Swalwell, and they don't care if you've murdered somebody, but if you are a pain in their ass, you're going up against them.
[00:58:22]  I just, I pray that your record is clean.
[00:58:25]  If it's not, open it up.
[00:58:27]  Let everybody see it now because they will come after you with a vengeance.
[00:58:32]  But I hope, man, I hope you win.
[00:58:34]  That's great.