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Well, hello, America.

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We have a lot to talk to you today about.

I want to finish up on what happened over the weekend, what happened yesterday, day before on Ukraine, Russia.

Looks like things are moving positively.

Also looks like the press is just having a full-fledged meltdown.

I don't know what we're doing.

I don't know how to call him a dictator and a death match for us because it looks like things are kind of working out from time to time.

Deny, deny, deny.

It's crazy what they're doing.

But I want to explain America First.

I had a guest on yesterday from England.

And, you know, she said, you know, Donald Trump is an isolationist, yada, yada, and he's got a lot of isolationists around him.

No, he's not an isolationist.

And he might have some isolationists around him, but that's not what America first means.

That is what America first meant during the Second World War, because that movement was going around before we got into war and declared war.

And it was, hey, we got to stay out of everybody's business.

I know Hitler's over there.

I know everybody's fighting.

I know we're about to lose Europe, but we don't want war with anybody.

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Mind our own business.

That's not what Donald Trump is.

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Glenn.

Glenn, how are you?

Oh, my gosh.

I'm just fabulous.

Just fabulous.

I'm actually in a really good mood.

Last night we cut the first

special that we're doing.

It's a first podcast, very different than anything we've done before,

you know, in my career.

This was a podcast.

It'll be one of the first ones on the torch that launches in January.

And it was with Emma Nissen.

who is this new singer-songwriter.

And she is amazing.

She's 25 years old and

just really, really humble.

She's like, I don't know.

I'm 25.

She's like, you know, people are asking me, what do you think about this?

What do you think about that?

And she's like, I have no idea.

I'm 25 years old.

I'm just, I don't know anything yet.

I'm, you know, I think I might know a thing or two, but don't ask me.

I don't know.

I'm still figuring it out.

Really humble, really fascinating, very funny.

And she was up at the ranch yesterday and she sat down at the piano and it was like, I mean, Jason, you were there and you said it was like old days of MTV.

Back when MTV was cool, like Stu will remember this, like unplugged was must-watch TV.

Do you remember Nirvana where they sing all apologies?

That was like this, but for entire podcast length.

I was like fascinated.

It was really good.

It was really good.

Anyway, so.

Let me talk to you a little bit about America First

and what America First really means.

I have always said that we have to protect our borders and stop letting people in because if we don't, we're going to end up like California.

California is out of money.

It's out of control.

They can't control their streets.

They can't afford their schools.

They can't afford their hospitals.

And so what happens?

California falls apart.

Well, California is a very important state.

It's like the eighth largest economy in the world.

You can't just let that fall apart.

But that's what's happening.

And they do it by making bad decision after bad decision after bad decision.

and many of those are because they're not putting Californians first.

In this case, they're putting foreigners first.

They're putting politicians first.

America first doesn't mean you don't like immigrants.

America first means let's have some order as they're coming in.

Because, you know, if it's why...

It's why the lifeboats on the Titanic, some of them were half empty because they had to get away from the boat as it sank.

Early on, you could have filled the boats, but everybody was like, I don't know if I'm going to, it's unsinkable.

I don't know if I'm going to get on it.

And so they were launched and half the boats were empty or, you know, half empty.

And they couldn't go back once everybody was in the water because they would have been swamped.

People would have rocked it and turned the boat over and then everybody would have died.

You have to take care of the lifeboat.

We are the world's lifeboat, always have been.

You know, when push comes to shove, Americans show up.

When nobody's showing up to help feed people, we're the first to show up.

We're a lifeboat.

You're not going to help anyone who is truly in need if we swamp the lifeboats.

But let me explain America first because you just saw it in action this week with Donald Trump and the way I believe he interprets America first.

In 2008, what was America hoping for with Barack Obama?

What were we sold in 2008?

We were sold hope and change, right?

And what was that?

We were tired of the endless wars.

We were tired of being lied to, because remember, it was, we were lied to about Iraq and, you know, the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had, et cetera, et cetera.

We were tired of the cabal running everything.

And so

Barack Obama says, hope and change.

I'm going to be transparent.

We're going to stop all of these wars and everything else.

And then what did we get?

He didn't stop the wars.

He didn't stop the wars.

Instead, he started droning people, you know, killing people in drones from the sky.

And he just had a kill list.

Literally, that's what it was called, a kill list that he would go over.

And I think it was Brennan that actually was in charge of that kill list, but that's a different story.

Then we also had Clinton and Soros.

Hillary Clinton and George Soros,

they

got together, started media matters,

and then they were

selling us out.

They were doing the NGOs that we now know about.

They were overthrowing governments at the time.

And it was all secret and secret deals and CIA operations and the Arab Spring and Ukraine, the Maidan revolution.

That was us.

If you've watched any of my specials on Ukraine over the years, you know the whole story.

That was us that did that.

Then we flipped the Smith-Munt

Modernization Act and we made it legal to do propaganda on the American people.

That thing has to be overturned again.

That's not transparency.

That's not hope.

That's not change.

And then it just started getting worse and worse.

Edward Snowden comes out.

He says the deep state and the deep state, the NSA, is spying on you and they're collecting all of your information.

And the press, no hope and change there, no transparency there.

The press makes him into a monster and you could still argue whether he did the right thing or not.

But the information was critical.

And then we find out later that they were changing, the FBI was actually changing documents to get it past our last line of defense on privacy, and that is the FISA courts.

So they were lying about it.

Clinton was making money with Gazprom and Uranium One.

And then we had global warming.

And global warming, all that was, was again about more money and more power.

ESG, the great reset, the COVID cover-up, the U.S.

labs that were involved in this.

And Fauci coming out and saying that's a conspiracy theory.

And all of the media saying it's a conspiracy theory.

Why?

Because all of their sources in the government, which we now know were liars,

they were telling them, no, no, no, that's a conspiracy theory.

They cared more about their plan than they did about humans, not just Americans, humans.

Now we have

the

immigration problem on our streets.

Now we have crime on our streets.

We have crime.

And what's happening again?

Is there transparency there?

Is there hope and change?

No, the hope's been taken away from many minorities and youth because you're either going to burn to death in global climate change or the white man's going to keep you down and you're never going to be able to make it.

Where's the hope in that?

Where's the change?

in all of this.

You can't say that it's, you know, replacement theory.

They're trying to replace new voters and bring new voters in and replace us.

Okay, can't say that because that's racist.

Well, no, I mean, I guess you could make it racist if you go back and you look

in

the

historical use of that.

It's clear now they're even saying it.

Over in Europe, they're saying it.

The elites are saying it.

Or you can call it an invasion but you can't call it that either instead it's just poor downtrodden people that all happen to be in their 20s and men that are coming from the middle east

coming from marxist countries coming in with gangs

what

how is this helping america

because it's decaying and rotting everything you know when gavin Newsom said this week that it was Donald Trump's fault, because back in 2016, he let that, you know, he let that immigrant in.

Well, yeah, in 2020, he was supposed to leave and he never did.

And they were going to go after him.

But then Donald Trump lost the election and Joe Biden made it fine.

And then Gavin Newsom, the guy, the guy can barely speak English.

How did he pass his commercial driver's test?

How?

He didn't recognize over half of the

road signs.

How did you get a commercial truck driver's license?

How?

Well, you live in California, which is anything but America or Californians first.

Okay?

It's not even humans first

because they're killing people.

This guy killed three people.

There's a story today about

in, where is it?

In

here it is.

In Baltimore.

Kid has a crime spree in Baltimore.

18 felony arrests.

18.

He keeps being released.

Why?

Because he's 13 years old.

Spree of armed

carjacking, robbery.

Do you think if I walked into Maryland and Baltimore and I was caught with a gun, do you think I would be in prison or here behind the microphone today?

I would absolutely be in prison.

This kid 18 times, but he's 13, so we got to give him a chance.

You used your chances.

Now he's out again.

His punishment, he's got to have an ankle monitor on him.

Violent crime spree.

How is that helping the people of Baltimore?

How?

They don't care.

Drugs, crime.

Doesn't seem like the left seems to care at all.

Put Americans first.

The gerrymandering.

What is that all about?

Why,

how can the left see what's going on and then make their whole thing, we've got to pack the courts?

They're talking to us about how there's a threat to democracy because of fascism.

You want to pack the courts.

You want to add states.

And what was the other thing?

All so they never ever lose again.

That's a dictatorship.

That's not democracy.

So the whole time this is going on, who is speaking for the average American?

Now, so Donald Trump comes in, and that's why he won, because he actually speaks to the average American.

Everybody in the press wants to make fun of him.

Why?

Well, he talks funny.

You You know,

he's like your uncle.

It's in the bar and just talking to everybody.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just like your uncle, just like your dad, just like a friend that you know, he's speaking the language of the average person because he's recognizing, look what's happening in Washington, D.C.

He's recognizing that crime on the street is not just about crime, and it's certainly not about putting black people in jail.

Who are the ones that are saying there's no problem?

The white elites in Washington.

The black population, they're the ones who are saying, thank, thank you, thank you.

Because it's not just crime, it's quality of life.

So now, how does this wrap into America first?

How does this wrap up into the weekend?

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So yesterday, around this time, I told you that American leadership is back.

That was very clear when you saw all the leaders of Europe sitting around, like they were called to the principal's office, sitting around the resolute desk in the Oval Office.

And I told you that the president now is keeping his own counsel.

He is counseling with others.

But when it comes time, he knows his own mind and he moves forward on things, which is very important in a president.

Let me talk to you now about America first.

America first, everybody says, oh, we're isolationists.

We don't want to get involved.

It's everybody else's problem.

Keep us out of it.

Well, yeah, that is part of it.

But Donald Trump also is taking a leadership role.

Right?

Is there any doubt he's taking a leadership role?

How is that America First?

It's clear.

America First does not mean we don't get involved.

It means we lead.

Yes.

We sit down at the table when we can.

But what is he doing?

He's putting a coalition together where all the other presidents, and this last one included,

they would have just given money to Ukraine.

They were doing it, bleeding us dry.

When you guys in Europe, you're closer to the problem.

It's more of a problem for you than it is for us.

Why are we footing the bill?

Why are we the ones that would have to send our troops in?

It's closer to you.

Every time we have had a coalition of the willing, it's a bunch of flags.

But we're doing all the heavy lifting.

France sent four soldiers as part of the coalition of the willing.

Donald Trump is building a coalition and he's leading the coalition, but it's not our treasure and it's not our people that are doing all the work.

So that's America first.

Take care of the homeland.

Take care of our budget, which is another problem that we have to talk about.

Take care of our budget.

Take care of our streets.

Take care of our crime, our schools, make sure our borders are secure.

Pay attention to those things first so we can be very healthy while at the same time be healthy enough to be able to lead the rest of the world.

If anyone thinks that Donald Trump is not engaged in the rest of the world,

were you watching anything that happened this weekend?

Have you seen him flying all over the world and stopping and making peace in places that haven't had peace forever?

He's leading

and he's saying, this is good for America as well.

But what we can add is to sit down and talk to you.

We can sit down and try to broker the deal.

We can be the trusted third party here.

That makes America safe.

It makes the world safe.

It saves lives.

And that, indeed, I believe, is America first.

Take care of your problems at home so we can help others with theirs, but not doing it for them.

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And the crime spree just keeps coming.

Now we know Brett Baer,

Saturday, pulled over in Georgetown.

Why?

He was talking on his phone, and he wasn't supposed to be on his phone while he was driving, which he pointed out clearly.

His Mercedes G-Wagon.

That's my wife's car.

That's my wife's car.

That was more, he was a, yeah, I got a ticket, whatever.

Yeah, I probably had some blow on me, but that's my wife's car.

That's definitely my wife's car.

Because it was a white G-Wagon.

And And

I mean, it's clearly a girl's car, Brett.

Clearly.

I mean, G-Wagon, girl wagon.

That's what it is.

You take it in, you park it in the same parking spot every day.

It's the G-spot.

You don't need a real big map on this one.

It's a chick car,

at least in white.

I had so many additional jokes to add on to that.

I'm going to stop.

But yeah, that was funny.

That did seem to be the focus of his statement.

I guess he was

on the phone and he got bed that he wasn't supposed to be, so he got a ticket.

That's illegal in D.C.

Yeah.

And, you know,

you know, good for them, pulling over Brett Baer and giving him a ticket.

Good.

I'm glad to see it.

I mean, you know, not that I want to see everybody, you know, you know what I mean.

Everybody, if you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you get a ticket.

And it's good to see that

everybody is getting that.

They had

56 arrests on Tuesday night.

Don't have the number today, but it's probably about another 50,

including an illegal MS-13 gang member, which, by the way, has MSNBC, you know, they're renaming it to MS Now,

right?

Yeah.

Have they thought about

MS-13?

We give you the news headlines 13 times a day.

We are MS-13.

We could be more accurate, really.

Really, it's pretty close.

It's pretty close.

That would be

might be better.

It might be an actually better name than MS Now.

Right.

So

the stats in Washington, D.C., this seems to be working.

Robbery now is down 46%

versus the previous seven days.

So a week ago,

the robberies have gone down 46%.

ADW

aiding dumb whites.

What is ADW?

Assault with a deadly weapon.

Okay, okay.

Down 6%.

Carjacking, down 83%.

Car theft, down 21%.

Violent crime, down 22%.

Property crime, down 6%.

Now, here's what I don't get.

After all of those stats, all crimes,

down 8%.

How do you have these huge numbers and then it's all crime is only down 8%?

Yeah.

Maybe, you know what?

Maybe,

you know, people like Brett Baer with this phone is up like 45%, and that's offsetting it.

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe that's what it is.

Maybe that's what it is.

You know, of course, I don't know because I'm sure there's a law in Washington, D.C.

You know, you can't hitch your horse to like a lamp post.

Right.

You know, I'm sure that's still on there.

Yeah.

And that's probably gone through the roof.

I was talking to Drew Holden yesterday,

writer, and he lives in D.C.

And he was talking about the crime problem.

And he described a situation near his house where a park was closed, one of their local parks that you could go and take a walk and walk your dog or whatever, and it was closed.

Why was it closed?

Because several hundred teenagers decided to schedule a quote-unquote fight in the park.

So there was a massive brawl that broke out in this park, which meant they had to close the entire park.

Now, that's not going to be 200 crimes, right?

That's not how that's going going to be.

No, it's probably maybe one or two.

However, it totally disrupted the lives of the people who lives around this park.

See,

that's what people are missing.

You know, Ricky told us that a friend of hers was robbed.

Somebody came up, took their wallet.

He didn't even report it to the police.

He's like, what are they going to do?

They're never going to find my wallet.

I'm not going to waste my time.

So he didn't even report it.

I don't know what crime this would be, but I've told you the story.

Last time I was in Washington, D.C., my wife and I are just walking down the street, and a guy on a bike, a big black guy who looked insane.

And I think he was seriously disturbed.

But he rides his bike around.

He's like, today's the day I'm going to kill me a white guy.

I'm going to kill me a white man today.

And he's pointing at me.

And I'm like, well, too bad you don't see just behind me about 20 steps are two armed security guys.

So give it a whirl, Jack.

But I didn't report that.

Right.

And I think that kind of stuff happens to people all the time in Washington, D.C.

It's a quality of life thing as well.

You just become used to it.

Right.

Like, you know,

New York is a good example of this.

New York's murder rate, by the way, is one-seventh of Washington, D.C.

But we did live and work in New York.

One-seventh.

One-seventh.

We did live and work in New York for a while.

And there's just, it becomes part of your life to ignore things that everyone else in the country would never ignore, right?

Like you.

I'll never, the best example of this, Stu, is you and I on the subway.

Um, we were waiting for the subway, and you and I were just talking about something, and uh, we didn't realize we stood there for maybe three or four minutes, and I think you said, I think the big one's gonna win.

And I'm like, I have my money on him, too.

And what we were talking about, we had not discussed it before, we had been sitting there talking to each other, but both of us, while talking, were watching two rats

fight over us like a like a hot dog rapper or something

and it just had begun and i looked at stu and i said we have been here too long yeah we got to get out when that's just normal we've got to get out yeah i and i think that is actually part of this

if you want to give a little bit of a break to the crazy people who are defending

you know washington dc as this bizarre disneyland you almost start to uh to delete these terrible experiences from your mind it's the only way you you can deal with them.

Like, I saw one guy actually post, he's like, you know, I'm sick of all these Republicans and Trump and MAGA people saying, you know, how terrible this city is and how much crime there is.

You know, sure, I've been mugged.

And yeah, I had my car broken into, but this is a great city.

It's like, he had like really just disjointed himself from those experiences as if they didn't happen and as if that's normal for people.

Yeah, everyone goes through those things.

No, they don't.

Like nowhere, no one ever lived.

Did I expect that to occur?

But But that's not the same, you know, which rat's going to win thing.

No.

Where you just get used to it.

That's politics.

If you're mugged, if it were reversed

and, you know, and crime was going out of control and Donald Trump was not doing anything about it and this guy gets mugged, he'd be like, of course, what do you expect?

The Republicans are in.

They don't care about us.

They don't care.

I mean, that's politics.

That's not just getting used to it.

Getting used to it is having to step over the homeless person or the drug addict or, you know, walking down the street and seeing people that are all hunched over because they're on, what, fentanyl or whatever it is.

That, that's the kind of stuff you kind of get used to and you just don't see it anymore until somebody comes to visit you and then they're like, you live here?

And you're like, oh, yeah, you get used to it.

You don't get used to being mugged.

No, no.

That's politics.

No, but

you know,

like the person, it was

a friend of Ricky's talking about how the wallet was stolen.

Like, it's an experience that you remember.

I mean, it doesn't necessarily ruin your life.

Like, it's an inconvenience.

It's a terrible thing to go through.

But you kind of just work it into that city experience at some level, which is terrible.

Like,

I have friends who used to always talk about the city and they appreciated the grit.

The grit sucks.

Okay.

I don't want the grit.

The grit is nonsense.

It is like, it's a justification for

what you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Oh, it's a gritty city.

Yeah, getting mugged is, there's nothing, there's no charm in that.

I'm sorry.

You want to have

a dive bar that you like attending?

That's grit, I suppose.

You know, going to a place where you're getting things stolen from you or you get beaten or you get some weird fluid thrown at you and you you don't know what it was.

Like that's the type of stuff that happens in these cities all the time.

I know.

And

it's awful.

I know.

And that is the kind of stuff.

You know, I was just, I just moved my daughter in.

I'm not going to say the town, but I just moved my daughter into a town.

It's a college town.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have said it.

And

it's this really nice, quaint, seemingly crime-free.

I mean, it has other problems, but I walked down down the street with my wife.

We were going to pick something up at a restaurant and bring them back to the apartment as we were all, you know, unboxing.

And

I'm walking down the street and I said, this is what my childhood was like.

This feels like when I was, you know, late 1970s,

you know, as I'm coming of age, this is the way the country.

kind of felt.

It was generally safe in areas where I grew up.

it was generally safe you know it was clean people respected one another generally speaking and I know that you know New York City was a hellhole at the same time that I was experiencing that on the West Coast but you don't see that very often anymore and you forget until you go to one of these small towns and you're like is

Are they piping in the sounds of birds and stuff?

Because it's like perfect here.

No, it's just a small town, you know, that hasn't gone to hell.

And you forget about it.

You really forget on how great that can be.

And you think about the people who are leading this country all live and work in a place where they are justifying these terrible things occurring.

They're not living a life that

so many other Americans are living, where their towns are sane and they don't have to deal with murder rates seven times the rate of New York City.

So I like, you know, and this is the trouble with this, of course, in some way is that Washington has tools that no one else has, right?

Like they can call in the federal government to take over their town and bring a bunch of troops in and do all these things that really, that's not an option for a lot of cities.

They're stuck with the Mom Danis and the guy in Minnesota

who is now taking over their city and going to run it in the ground further.

It's going to get much worse.

Yeah, one of the things that I think back to your story from Washington, D.C., just how prevalent crime was there, that guy that said that.

Because you were there.

I was there.

I was standing near your security.

And you can tell they're so used to that's just the norm.

They can intimidate you through crime.

No fear.

No fear.

And what cracked me up, maybe you didn't notice, is because we kept watching him.

He gave us that crazy eye, went across the street, looked back, and we were still glaring at him as if we're not intimidated by this.

And he actually had this look for a couple seconds like, did I not deliver the line?

Did it not work?

And it just, it stuck out in my mind because if you refuse to be intimidated by this, like the administration of Donald Trump is now, refuse to be intimidated by this.

And that is what they were doing right now, essentially.

And their power goes away.

So in Washington, D.C., I don't carry a gun.

You know, I'll travel when I'm in a city like that.

I travel with somebody who has a badge and they can carry a gun.

And that was the reason why I wasn't really intimidated.

Other than, you know, go ahead.

But bring me

the sweet silence.

The sweet, bring me

the sweet relief.

Wouldn't it be bad if you get up to heaven and he's like, great, glad you're here.

There's an election next week.

What?

But,

you know, the the average person doesn't have that.

Imagine, you know, you're walking your kids to school in the morning and they see that.

Did you see that guy?

Where was he?

That came up and he was homeless and clearly nuts.

I mean, that's part of it.

It's not just crime.

It's, we have really sick people on the streets as well.

And

this guy comes up to a mom pushing a baby carriage on this, just on the street, just walking by neural business.

And he gets in front of her and

blocks her from moving.

And he's like, this is my baby.

Give her to me.

Give her to me.

And tries to take.

And luckily, living in a town where others see what's going on and race to the woman's defense.

I don't know if that would have happened in New York City.

I don't know if that would have happened in New York

or Washington, D.C.

You know, it's you

don't dismiss the quality of life.

And I'm really anxious to see what happens in 30 days, because in 30 days, this is going to, Trump loses the ability to do this without Congress acting.

And I'm anxious to see

what happens if he doesn't get that ability and it goes back to the way it was.

I think the people in Washington, D.C.

are going to be really pissed at the Democrats.

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I want to talk to you about something that's right on our doorstep that

I don't think a lot of people are watching.

I think it was Sunday, Saturday or Sunday, I read an article and I just kind of skimmed it quickly.

And I filed it away, and it was, the United States is moving like a battle group to Latin America.

And I'm like,

what?

We're moving a battle group?

What do we, what?

moving, we're, we're moving cruise missile ships, uh, like 4,000 Marines.

I mean, this is what you have when you have an invading force, you know, when you're worried about something, you want to keep calm in some area.

You know, we send them over, I don't know, off the coast of Africa because there's somebody doing something.

And we send this group over, and we're like, hey, knock it off.

What are we doing?

Okay, well, it's not just to Latin America.

It's someplace very specific,

Venezuela.

What's happening now is not some distant strongman.

This is

battle lines are being drawn right now between

freedom and chaos.

Okay.

This week, Nicholas Maduro,

who was indicted by the Trump administration, I think in 2020, and then Biden didn't do anything about it.

He was indicted by our own Justice Department for narco-terrorism.

He just responded to us and mobilized four and a half million civilian militiamen.

So he's now

just kind of drafted four million men and said,

you're a citizen, but you're also a soldier right now.

And he says it's to defend sovereignty against America.

Here's what it is.

He's trying to protect himself.

He's a dictator and he's

conscripting an entire nation

because he knows the United States is after him.

Why?

Why?

Well, we have warships, three Aegis destroyers, and they're anchored right off his coast.

And we just doubled the bounty on his head from $25 million to $50 million.

And you know,

at first blush, you're like, can we, what are we doing?

What?

What's happening?

I mean,

we've lived in a time my whole life where we're like, you know, the government can do two things at once.

It should be able to walk and chew gum.

Well, we're not just walking and chewing gum.

We're walking, chewing gum, putting out, you know, the fire of a burning house, juggling flaming bowling pins, stopping a nuclear war, dancing the macarena because everybody in Washington is like 8,000 years old.

We're building a death bot army at the same time, fighting people that want to behead us.

Oh, and the Islamists, and redistricting Texas.

And we're doing it all at the same time.

Why?

I mean, we're living mission impossible, except our Tom Cruise is 78 years old, which I want you to think about this.

I think Donald Trump is exactly who Tom Cruise will be when he's 78.

Just not stop.

He's still running that weird run that he's doing.

Anyway, so Donald Trump is

going after Venezuela for two reasons.

One, drugs, fentanyl and cocaine.

Much of it laced, much of it deadly, and

it is being trafficked here in the United States by people who are directly tied to Maduro's government.

And it's the so-called cartel of the suns.

MS-13 gang members.

All of this stuff is coming from

Venezuela and they are poisoning Americans.

And this is not just a foreign, you know, a foreign security thing or a foreign policy issue.

This is homeland security.

This is actually affecting us.

The second one, and I think this is the bigger reason of the two, I mean, they're probably tied, but this is a big one that most Americans don't know.

Venezuela is not some backwater place,

it's full of oil, and it is a staging ground now for Russia, China, and Iran.

Hezbollah, it has some of the worst people.

It's a beachhead for those people who want to see the United States taken down.

Oh, Glenn, literally a beachhead.

This is insane because I didn't even know a lot of this.

We mentioned this maybe a couple months ago.

Yeah, we did a, we did a, it was in part of another story.

The Trende Agua stuff.

Yeah, that's what it's coming out.

And we were like, wait a minute, what is Hezbollah doing in

Venezuela?

Oh, my gosh.

So I actually dug through congressional testimony to get some of this information.

Now, this is information the American public doesn't really know, but the government knows.

So check this out.

This is from congressional testimony.

In 2011,

Congress testified what Hugo Chavez was doing.

Listen to this.

Just the year before in 2010, Hugo Chavez hosted something called the Secret Summit.

Like literally, it was called the Secret Summit.

Guess who showed up to Secret Summit?

The Supreme Leader of Hamas, the chief of operations for Hezbollah, and the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Oh, I thought you were going to say Satan.

I might as well have.

I mean, this is absolutely nuts.

Nobody was talking about that.

How can that happen right off our shore?

Glenn.

And nobody's talking about it.

Glenn, it gets so much worse than that if it can.

So Iranians right now with connections to Hezbollah are on an island off the coast of Venezuela.

It's called Margarita Island.

Everyone should Google this right now and check it out.

Is Jimmy Buffett involved?

Jimmy Buffett would be nowhere near this Margarita Island.

All right.

The whole world is about to crash.

Yeah,

it's not 5 o'clock anywhere on this Margarita Island.

These are some of the things they're doing here.

Again, with the...

involvement of the Venezuelan government.

They are, quote, running money laundering operations, establishing para, excuse me, paramilitary training centers.

They are recruiting Venezuelan gangs.

And listen to this, sending those people, this is like Trenda Agua, sending them to Iran for follow-on training.

This is happening right now.

Our government knows about this.

This is the only time I've actually seen them doing something concrete to combat it.

They've known about it since 2010.

2010.

Known it since 2010.

You didn't know that.

Nobody's saying that.

When, you know,

we've argued that, you know, Venezuela and communism and, you know, they were eating the zoo animals.

That's what happens, gang, when you go communist.

And full-on democracy.

They wanted full-on democracy.

And that's what you get.

That's, you know, hello, Maduro.

So

when Maduro took over, he was kind of the mamdani, if you will, of Venezuela.

He's just a simple bus driver.

And look what he's done.

That's the part we've heard about.

Then when the border crisis happened, we started hearing about, oh, well, they're sending gangs in and

they're sending fentanyl and everything else in.

We still are not talking about their connections to Iran and Hezbollah and how they have been training people and sending them here.

This is really not good.

So Donald Trump clearly knows all of this stuff.

And that's why he's offered $50 million for anybody that will turn him in or can tip us off to lead to the capture.

And now, the reason why we're doing that is you got to remember, we've done this before.

Norri Yeaga was a guy that we, you know, was a drug lord

and he was running a country, and we said, we got to get him.

And we finally did

get Nori Yeaga, and he went to prison for what he did.

But the other times we've done that, Saddam Hussein

and even worse, Muamm Qaddafi, that was a Hillary Clinton and

a Barack Obama nightmare.

And they drug his body through the streets because we assisted the collapse and it became a vacuum.

And now Libya is just a nightmare, just a nightmare.

So is Iraq.

We can't let that happen to Venezuela.

So we have to be very careful.

You can't just say, go get him.

We have to be very careful.

Unless the people themselves rise up against Maduro,

unless the people themselves do it,

this is going to be a really tough one.

But we have to stop pretending that this is somebody else's problem because it is our problem.

It really is our problem.

Those people are already here.

And we are also,

you know, this one reason why I don't like it when people blame their problems on others.

I'm an alcoholic.

Now, everybody says, well, that, you know, that's a familial thing that runs in your genes.

I don't know.

I don't think they've ever found that.

There's no evidence of that.

But you can make a good case.

I mean, we're riddled with alcoholism in my family.

So, yeah, maybe, maybe.

But I'm the one who makes the choice.

Okay.

Yeah, maybe I have that extra gene that's working against me.

Maybe, but I went into the bar, I went into the store and bought the booze.

So

we have to start taking responsibility for some of our problems.

It's easy to say Venezuela is shipping all this fentanyl into the United States.

We have to recognize that Americans are buying it.

Now,

There's one thing to say about addiction.

Once you start buying it, then you're addicted to it.

And it is a nightmare.

I mean, the first time I had fentanyl,

I wake up, I've woken up on the operating table two times.

They cannot keep me down.

My body just processes stuff like so fast.

It's a fast, high-functioning liver.

And I was in pain.

You might remember this if you've listened to me for a long time.

I was in New York, and they put me under, and then I got out, and they were giving me morphine,

I think Percocet

and

fentanyl patches and my doctor after said why would you let somebody do this to you and I'm like well I was a little high and my wife didn't know I mean we listened to the doctor that's that that's when we really learned don't listen to the doctor they don't always know but they had good intent they were just trying to keep me out of pain

But the box fentanyl, I don't know if it still does, but if you get a box of fentanyl from the drugstore, it says black box, you know, warning for end of life use only.

Why?

Because it is so incredibly addicting.

You take it for a day or two and you're done.

You're addicted to it.

So addiction is one thing that we have to deal with.

But we also have to say Americans are buying this stuff.

We have to change our culture and start prosecuting people who are buying this stuff

and treating those who are addicted to it and understanding with compassion, yada, yada, yada.

But we have to also, if you're selling drugs, you're involved in selling drugs, you should have a very, very long sentence.

Very long sentence.

You know.

Don't tell Donald Trump this, but you know, China does not have a drug problem.

Because if you sell drugs, you're executed.

I don't even think you get a trial they just kill you let's not tell Donald Trump that because he might like that idea but

it'd fix it quickly it'd fix it quickly

but we we have to take responsibility ourselves we have to be resilient as people and our communities we have to have strong families We have to have a citizenry that knows the difference between liberty and tyranny.

We have to understand that freedom does not come when you're on drugs.

It doesn't.

That is the worst tyranny.

You're a pharmaceutical tyranny.

You are a slave to whatever it is that you're putting into your body.

That's the real battle.

But there is another one off our shore that could heat up.

What do you think is going to happen, Jason?

Because this is a significant battle group, isn't it?

It's significant.

I mean, including 4,000 Marines.

I was on a battle group like that, where this is the same kind where we would go and just sit off the coast of like a Middle Eastern country and just wait for something to happen.

When you were in it, weren't you off the coast of like Australia?

You were one of the first in after 9-11.

Yeah,

in one of these battle groups doing exercises in Australia, we got the call, went straight to Afghanistan right after that.

So this is like the firepower that could do that.

So it's very intimidating.

I would assume that is the reason for this.

I don't think they'll actually be doing actual, you know.

you know, conflict type kinetic stuff, but I bet that it's just supposed to be, it's supposed to mean to be intimidating.

I'm curious if it's supposed to lend support to maybe some of the, you know, ground people in Venezuela to finally tell them, look,

we've got your back.

If you want to do something about this and finally take your country back, now would be the time.

Yeah, maybe we'd be a peacekeeper.

Yeah.

You know, maybe it would be a peacekeeping force.

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It's Wednesday, our Wednesday night special tonight.

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Tonight we're tying a few things together even further than we did last week on the Russia, Russia, Russia and why it really matters tonight.

You don't want to miss that.

And especially with everything that has happened over the weekend, I can't take the press anymore.

I just, that's what we lead with tonight.

We have a little collage of how the press just said,

you know, Donald Trump, he just loves Russia and nothing's going to happen.

It was they were rooting for nothing to happen nothing good to come about um and i

you know it's one thing to get a story wrong it's one thing to um misunderstand or whatever but it's it's an entirely other thing to intentionally take things out of context, intentionally leave things off the table, intentionally paint a picture that you know is not true.

The Smithsonian story that came out yesterday, this is a prime example of that.

Yes, this one really annoys me.

And this is a certain thing that mainstream media does a lot, particularly with Donald Trump, in that they it's

a certain form of resistance journalism, if you will, where they don't come out and say Donald Trump believes slavery is good.

That's not the headline.

The headline today was, this is the New York Times.

Trump says Smithsonian focuses too much on, quote, how bad slavery was, end quote.

Now, that headline is very specifically crafted to present

a couple of thoughts in your head, right?

You're supposed to think, wait a minute.

Trump thinks that Smithsonian is focusing too much on how bad slavery is?

Well, what he must mean is he thinks it's good or there were good aspects of it that they're not for a while.

It wasn't as bad.

It wasn't as bad as everything, right?

Right.

Like he's making some excuse for the horrors of slavery.

And of course, if he did do that, it would be a story, right?

Like it would be a story if Donald Trump came out and said, you know what?

Slavery actually wasn't that bad.

It was pretty good.

Overall, a positive.

That's a real story.

Of course, he didn't say anything like that.

And we know that, you know,

if you have a couple of brain cells, you know this for multiple reasons.

Number one, you might note that politicians don't say things like that.

Nobody says things like that.

But he says everything.

He just says it.

That's right.

He's the worst guy in the world.

And of course, that's the person.

This headline is designed to lead that horse to water.

That resistance warrior who already believes everything terrible about Donald Trump.

This is another thing for them to make them hate him more because they're the only people who

could possibly believe the spin you're getting from the times.

That water, they're the ones that are going to drink after they're led to that water, right?

Those people are the targets.

We know that politicians, even if politicians believed something like that, which of course most people don't, almost no one does, but even if a politician did believe that, they don't just blurt it out.

That's not the type of thing people do.

So you're supposed to think

in the parentheses of your mind, you're supposed to say, oh, well, he just let that one slip out.

He does believe it.

He normally wouldn't say it, but he just lets it slipped out.

Another reason you should obviously know this is the spin is wrong.

Donald Trump has said slavery is bad over and over and over and over and over again, like all other human beings in 2025, right?

He said it over and over again.

Now, in parentheses, you're supposed to think all those times were false.

So he was lying all the other times, but this one time he let the truth slip out, which is that he thinks slavery actually isn't all that bad.

Now, both of those things are insane to believe, but of course it's not the main thing that should convince you.

It's

the context of how he was talking about this.

He wasn't saying that slavery wasn't bad.

What he was saying quite clearly was the Smithsonian, an American institution, was focusing too much on the negatives about our history rather than the positives of our history.

And that we should instead have more focus on the positives.

We know this because he actually said it.

He said, quote, his complaint was, nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

In other words, this American institution should talk a little bit more positively about America, not erase everything negative about America.

It's like if you went to

the New England Patriots Hall of Fame and Museum and every display was about Eli Manning and Nick Foles, it's like, yeah, they did have a couple of Super Bowl losses.

Sure, that's part of their story.

But if you looked at it and everything was about, you know, the Eagles and the Giants winning those games, you'd have no idea that they had a dynasty in there, right?

Like that they're one of the best football teams of all time.

You would totally lose that.

And that's the real story of America.

I know you focus on this, Glenn, because you in your museum do have a lot of things that are bad about American history.

No, I collect.

David Barton has collected so much of the good stuff and I collect the dark stuff.

Because if you don't, if we don't teach our kids that these dark things happened in this country two things happen one

uh they don't believe us on the good things when they hear those dark things and they didn't come from us they just automatically think well you don't you're lying to me right the country you never told me about any of this stuff okay so you have to tell the worst parts of it you have to

the second uh reason uh it is really important is if you don't teach that you will repeat it

even if you teach it, we generally repeat it.

But you have a better chance if you can teach it.

You know, history,

here's the problem.

The Smithsonian and everybody else is trying to make history

about

now.

Right now.

What does this mean right now?

I'm going to judge it through the eyes of right now.

Well, history is about the past.

It's about the past.

How did people think back then?

Why did they think that way back then?

Who fought against that at that time?

What was the real argument?

I mean, there are people now,

scholars, who will tell you that Frederick Douglass never,

never said a good word about the Constitution.

Well, that's just absolutely dishonest.

Frederick Douglass was a guy who said the Constitution is a slave document.

And then he was told by, I can't remember who, but he was told by, because we have the book at the library at our museum.

He was told, read the unconstitutionality of slavery.

When he read that and then went back and read the Constitution in that light, he was like, oh my gosh, this is the greatest freedom document of all time.

But people want now in academia and in our museums, they want to say no

because

their goal is to get rid of the Constitution.

My goal is to make sure we don't make these same kinds of mistakes again.

I want to know the truth.

Let me be the judge.

Tell me the good and the bad.

Tell me honest history.

That's what I want to know.

They don't do that.

I was up at the portrait gallery.

Tanya and I had to go to the White House for something.

Oh, it was the interview.

And so we had a couple of hours before the interview with Donald Trump, and so I went to the National Portrait Gallery.

And now,

Stu, tell me what you think might be in the National Portrait Gallery.

I would maybe guess that they're portraits of important figures in American history.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Portraits.

Okay.

First of all, it was the dirtiest, most filthy museum I have been in.

It was filthy.

It's like, I mean, we walked in.

I thought we were walking in like some sort of employee door.

Honest to God.

You were with me, weren't you, Jason?

Yeah.

It was like we walked in like the back door.

I really thought we were in the wrong place because it was filthy.

Nope, that was the front door.

So we get in and we start seeing, and there's portraits and they've got some really great art.

But you start to notice things like, wait a minute, this is the National Portrait Gallery.

Why do you have a 1970s girls swinger bicycle with Cuban flags and stickers of che on it?

What?

What is that all about?

Okay.

And there was a good portion of the portrait gallery that was like that.

They had one room.

And

if you've ever been to like a science museum and they have a big dinosaur, you know, and they have all the bones up there.

Okay.

It was about that size.

And correct me if I'm describing this incorrectly, Jason, you'll remember it.

It was in the last room, this big, huge gallery, and it was, it was, it looked like bones, like a vertebrae, okay?

And it came out and it was across most of the room, probably 70% of the room, had this in the center of it.

Agree with that, Jason?

Yep, perfect.

And it was bronze or gold or something, and they were fists.

Well, what are those fists?

That was the black power fist given at the 68

Mexico City Olympics.

Okay, black power.

Hey, what did that cost us?

What did that cost us to install?

And what does that say?

What is that?

Again,

completely for no reason.

You want to do a deal where you're talking about, for instance, not maybe in the portrait gallery, but you're doing an exhibit on

pushback, on rebellions, on people who have moved the civil rights for whatever it is.

That's where that belongs.

But it seems as though everything

is telling us it's a bad nation and communism is neat.

This is our governments pay for.

Our tax dollars pay for this museum.

People come from all over the world to learn about America.

And all they hear about America is we're a bad place and communism is neat.

What the hell is that?

That all should be, I mean,

I'd give my right arm to be on the council of the art museum.

It would drive them out of their minds, out of the art museums and the Smithsonian.

I would be.

I'd give my right arm and maybe part of my left arm to be able to do that because it's everywhere.

It's everywhere.

And I'm a guy who wants to tell the dark side of America.

But that's like if I said to you, I want to tell the good side of America.

We beat the Nazis.

And so every museum, the point of every museum always led you back to, we built the Nazis because of the, we broke the back of the Nazis because of the greatest American generation.

That's one story of America.

That's not the story of America.

That's one story.

You want to tell slavery?

Tell both sides of slavery.

Not just the horrors of slavery, but the miracle of those who were white who stood up and tried to stop it.

Tell the story about how our founders sent out an armada.

This is

early 1800s.

We sent out an armada because we stopped the slave trade in America.

We said there's no more slave trade.

If you're born here, then that's fine.

But it was a compromise.

It was a progressive move.

Take it a little bit at a time.

And so what they did, because the slave trade was still going on,

our Navy sent ships off the coast of Africa.

And they were there for, I don't want to say because I'm going to get this wrong, some of you fact-check me, but a long time.

And all they were doing was if there were slave ships that were coming out, they'd turn them around and say, go back to Africa.

Okay?

Do you even know that story?

Do you know the story about our pilgrims arresting the captain, our pilgrims arresting a captain of a slave ship and then taking up a collection amongst themselves, restocking that ship with more food, cleaning it up, taking everybody out of chains, hiring a new captain with their poor people, with their money, and sending them back home to Africa.

Do you know that story?

Why?

Why isn't our museum telling that story?

I absolutely want the story of slavery told, but I want it to be told in context.

And it's not the story of America.

It is one of the stories of America.

That thank God we fought, we're the only country en masse where one race of people fought and died for the freedom of

another race of people.

We're the only ones.

So please, give it a rest.

So dishonest.

So dishonest.

You know what?

I want to come back to the New York Times on this in just a second.

Gee, Stu, you got me all riled up now.

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And the New York Times has made their readers into that.

We know it's because that's why they fire anybody who has a different opinion.

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Stu, do you know who Jesse Owens is?

Sure.

And if so, who was he?

Olympian?

Yep.

American hero?

American hero?

Why?

Why was he up against, I mean, he won in the Hitler Olympics, if you will.

Okay.

Can you tell me who Tommy Smith and John Carlos are?

Tommy Smith and

what was it?

John Carlos.

John Carlos.

I cannot.

I think you're exactly like most Americans.

And I want to show you why

our lack of knowledge, because I couldn't remember, I know of them.

You'll know what they did as soon as I start telling the story.

But you don't remember their names.

Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

It proves the point.

Everyone knows Jesse Owens, but not these two.

And it goes right into what we were talking about with this smear on Donald Trump about the Smithsonian from the New York Times.

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Summarize real quick, Stu, if you will, the New York Times article and how they are presenting this story about Donald Trump with the Smithsonian.

Their headline is, Trump says Smithsonian focuses too much on how bad slavery was.

And the controversy, of course, you know, I mean, that's specifically make you designed to make you think a specific thing, right?

Like, you're supposed to think he's complaining about how they're saying slavery was bad?

Well, what is he saying?

He doesn't want them to talk about it at all?

Is he saying that it was good?

Are there good aspects of slavery, Don?

That's what they want you to do.

And of course,

there is a selection of our country that will dutifully do exactly that.

And it is really weird that a section of our country, much of it, has been led by the New York Times.

The New York Times is supposed to be the bastion of thought.

It's supposed to be the fair.

It's supposed to be all the news fit to print.

What they just printed is not fit because it's not news.

That's a lie.

It's not news.

Period.

What he is saying is there should be balance.

Balance.

Why are we pushing this narrative that America is such a bad place and that we enslaved our people and that's the story of America?

That's not the story of America.

And it's not.

It's a part of it.

It's an important part of it.

But it's not the story.

So that's what he was saying.

That's the story they didn't want to print.

And they can get away with it because they know their readers

want

that hate on Donald Trump.

Okay.

And instead of having the backbone, the spine, and the integrity to say, I don't care what our viewers or our readers want.

I mean, how many times have we done this, Stu?

And it's caused us real problems.

I mean,

we've lost millions of dollars.

over the years at different times because I have had a point of view and I know it's out of step with you and I've said it and I've said, you know, I know you're going to disagree with this, but this is, this is where I am because I believe that's what you come here for.

You don't, I'm not here to feed you what you want to hear.

You come here because you want to hear my opinion.

And it's just that, my opinion, my view of the world and its happenings and what it all means.

I don't expect you to agree with everything.

And the minute I want you to agree with everything, or I want, I'll change my view so you will agree with everything,

I have nothing left.

I have nothing left.

And that's where the New York Times is.

Yeah.

What is the point?

Yeah.

That's where the New York Times is.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, I

we obviously care about the country.

We care about these issues that we talk about every day.

And

those are like, I don't know, macro concerns, right?

These are the high-level stuff everybody thinks about, you know, oh, oh, gosh, what's going to happen with the economy?

What's going to happen with our freedom?

What's going to happen with religious freedom?

Whatever the big issue we're talking about of the day is.

But there are also like micro things that you do that are part of your job.

And like

one of the things that keeps me up at night is the idea of somebody in this audience

walking into work.

and having a conversation with a coworker and repeating something that they heard on our show only for that coworker to say, what are you talking about?

That's not true.

And then prove it.

Like, that is a nightmare.

I've had a thousand times working on this show.

Yeah, me too.

I do not want to put our awesome audience in that position.

I hate that position.

I want them to know.

I want them to be the one who says, actually, you're wrong and here's why.

And then having them prove it because they have the facts and they have it backed up.

And like,

and that's honestly why I have said over and over and over again, A, don't trust.

Don't take it from us.

Don't trust.

I don't want your trust.

I don't ask for your trust.

Your trust is nice.

I appreciate it.

I am honored by it.

But I'm telling you, I'll get it wrong.

And don't trust in men.

Men will always let you down.

Trust, trust in God.

Verify everything else.

And the only way that this truth, the only way you can fight for this truth is if you know it yourself.

So you might hear me tell a story and go, wow, is that true?

And then hopefully my

ultimate view of what I do is I'm a gateway drug.

I get you interested in a story and you're like, that can't be true.

Or wow, that's really true.

And you start going down this wormhole of history and you start looking at things and going, wow, you know what?

I didn't even know this.

Glenn, did you know this?

Because that's when life becomes exciting is when you're on a constant road of discovery and it becomes yours.

When people say, Glenn, I wish you were with me because I was talking to my friends and I couldn't remember.

You shouldn't have to remember.

And I know there's so much going on that you, you know, you need us to do shorthand for you.

But, you know, the ultimate goal is to get you so you know it so well that you don't have to remember.

You'll know how to get on your phone and go, wait a minute, hang on just a second.

You get on your phone, you can find the facts.

You can find the story.

You can prove it, as Stu just said.

Not with my words, but with the actual facts, with the documents, et cetera, et cetera.

And the New York Times is not expecting that from their audience anymore.

They're, in fact, expecting them not to do homework.

And it's doubly insidious because they are playing to their audience and they've sold their soul to that audience.

But then they also know that the New York Times sets the table for everybody.

Anybody who is a journalist, they look to the New York Times.

Is it in the New York Times?

Okay, then it must be.

Also, the New York Times,

whatever they print, especially if it's got a catchy headline like that, it will go out and become very, very viral.

So they're not only scooping up the intellectuals that they've already scooped up that are, that just want to hear that one side and point of view, they're not really intellectuals anymore, but also they're getting the dummies on the street that only read that headline, who go, Yeah, well, he's a racist.

He likes slavery.

Okay?

So it's just an insidious business that they're in.

Now,

I just told you a minute ago what Donald Trump was saying, and I happen to agree with him.

The Smithsonian is a garbage can right now.

An absolute garbage can.

It's taken everything, and it has its own perspective, and that's what it's going to tell the world who America is.

I want to go to a museum where I learn something.

I learned something about the bad and the good.

We got it.

Slavery was bad.

We got that.

Tell me something else that maybe I don't know, okay?

Jesse Owens.

Jesse Owens, a hero.

Everybody loves Jesse Owens.

Why?

Well, it wasn't always that way.

You know, Jesse Owens, he didn't want to go to the Olympics.

He pissed everybody off because some people said he should go to the Olympics to show a black man can beat the, you know, the white god of the Germans.

And they wanted him to go to do that.

Others said he shouldn't be used as a tool of our government to do that.

And so when he decided to go, he really didn't want to go because

he just didn't want to go.

He wasn't, you know, he's like, I'm not a symbol.

I'm an athlete.

But he went.

And when he went, he became a hero to those who saw that and said, see, Germans, white supremacy, really?

Look at that.

Look at Jesse Owens.

But when he came back, he wasn't greeted.

All the Olympic winners were brought to the White House.

Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by

Roosevelt.

Franklin D.

Roosevelt, the god of progressives.

He wouldn't have that black man at the White House.

So he was rejected.

He goes over, he proves to the world that he is.

that whites are not superior.

And then he comes back and he's rejected in his own country by his own president.

It's an incredible story.

He led a very tough life, but as it went on,

he became more and more a

hero.

We recognize him now as a hero.

By the 1960s, the guy was absolutely known as a hero.

He was very patriotic.

He became

an attaché or spokesperson or something for the State Department.

And he would go around the world talking about America.

And yeah, America has its problems, but look at the progress we're making.

Okay?

That's what Donald Trump is saying.

Yes, look at the problems we have.

We should know that Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time, but he now works for the State Department.

And he's spreading the message that, yes, we did those things, but we're getting better.

Now let me tell you about Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

I told you that I was in the portrait gallery, which is a garbage can.

Not the art, but the building.

They have turned it into a garbage can.

It's disgusting.

And then some of the stuff is not about America.

Why I told you, why is there that girl's bike, you know, with a Cuban flag and a Chase sticker sticker on it?

What the hell is that?

And it's not just that one bike, because I could go into that room and go, okay, well, there's that bike, and so let me figure out the context of it, et cetera, et cetera.

But by that time, I was so sick of all of the propaganda, I didn't care to learn about it.

And I went into one of the last rooms right before the bike.

And

like the vertebrae of a dinosaur, there was these hanging from a ceiling.

They had taken the cast of,

I think, Tommy Smith, who held up his fist.

It was one of them, maybe it was both, but they held up their fist in 1968, say black power, okay?

Black power, that's Panthers.

They were terrorists.

So they hold up black power.

So some artist took the cast of both of their fists and their forearms and made it into this art sculpture where it's just an arm and that fist over and over and over again.

And they laid it out like a giant vertebrae of an animal.

And it takes up a good portion of this huge room.

It is the main feature of that room.

But you don't even know their name.

You don't even know their name.

Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

Why?

Well, I think you don't know their name because they weren't effective.

Why?

Because they were promoting Black Power, Black Panthers terrorism.

That's not America.

That's not America.

Let me tell you another story that you don't know.

And if you want to put that vertebrae up, great, put that vertebrae up.

But I want this story told in the same room and prominently displayed next to the vertebrae.

So Owens was not part, Jesse Owens was not part of the 1968 Olympics.

He was traveling around the world, but he was in Mexico City, and I think he was at that moment in the stadium for the Black Power.

Okay.

And in Mexico City, here's what I, let me just say what I can verify.

I'm not going to tell you what I, the story I think how it worked.

Let me just say what I can absolutely verify.

After the protest, Owens met privately with Smith and Carlos in Mexico City.

Multiple accounts say he tried to counsel them, and his message was very different

from theirs.

Owens urged them to avoid confrontation and to think how their actions would be perceived internationally.

He reportedly told them that they could accomplish more by working within the system rather than defying it so dramatically on the world stage.

Now, that sounds like let's have a cup of tea and just talk.

I don't think that's the way it happened.

This is my opinion.

I don't think this is what happened.

Because there are other accounts that said

while he understood the anger of the black American, because he had lived it unlike they lived it, he had lived it decades before.

So he understood what they claimed they were going through.

In comparison to him,

Really not so much.

He was very upset that that they embarrassed the United States and undermined the Olympics.

Remember, he's an athlete.

That's why he didn't want to go to the Olympics in Berlin.

He's an athlete.

He's not a politician.

He's not a symbol.

And he's like, you're undermining the purpose of the games in the first place.

It's the games, and it's a unifying thing where we bring all nations together.

And that's not what the Olympics are for.

They're not for political protests.

Okay, let me tell you the rest of that story here in 60 seconds.

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So in 1968,

Jesse Owens was seen as a model of racial progress, and progress had been made.

He was the African-American who humiliated Adolf Hitler in the Aryan supremacy narrative in 1936.

He then made progress from a guy who could not even go to the White House to now being part of the government, preaching patriotism and patience in the civil rights struggle all around the world.

Patience.

Patience.

This is what really hacks me off on this story.

Patience.

Why are progressives historically from the early 20th century, why are progressives called progressives and not communists?

Because you could call them communists or fascists.

In the early 1900s, that was the model they were going for.

Why aren't they called those things?

Because back in those days, that wasn't deemed a bad thing.

We didn't know yet.

They're called progressives because communism and fascism required a bloody revolution.

And so these guys were sane communists, sane fascists, if you will, that said, we don't want to have a bloody revolution.

We want to take it step by step, bring people along, have patience, and we will finally get there.

So that's the way to win, according to the progressive of the era.

What does he do?

He's saying, you can't do this.

You're embarrassing.

You're setting us back.

You're dividing.

Stop it.

Patience, which is a good progressive trait.

Hmm.

Which one won in the end?

Which one actually furthered civil rights?

The communist Black Panther Black Power guys that you don't remember?

Or Jesse Owens?

Because it's the same choice we have to make today.

Revolution or work within the system.

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I want to play some audio from Stephen A.

Smith.

We ain't going to act like he caused this now.

It's Democrats in office.

It was Biden in office when a full-fledged war against Ukraine took place, courtesy of Russia's instigation, no matter what they try to say to Trump.

It was Russia that invaded Crimea, and that was under the Obama administration.

It was Clinton in office when you made a deal that disarmed Ukraine

and therefore weakened them, leaving them dependent on the United States.

And now here they are having to beg for support that they're old

because of what we promised them as a nation.

We promised them this.

I am so taken aback by

the approach of the left right now.

I mean, here's Stephen A.

Smith.

He's a Democrat.

Is he not still?

Yeah.

And

he's just

losing his mind over the press.

What are you doing?

What are you saying?

Like, this is his fault.

And you don't want him to do well.

It's happening over and over again.

And I think we're coming to an end to this.

I really do.

Let me play cut three, please.

This is, geez, Joy Reed.

Listen to this.

They can't fix the history they did.

Their ancestors made this country into a

slave hell.

But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.

They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.

They got Prager U that can lie about the history to the children.

They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.

We black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, RB, jazz, rock and roll.

They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king

because they couldn't make rock and roll.

So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

It's like racist GPUs.

I don't think.

this is crap.

This is the most race.

Stu, you've always said this, and it's so right.

Take the same phrase and just change the races, and you'll know immediately if it's a racist statement.

Black people can't originally invent anything.

Yeah, I'm pretty clear.

That's racist, right?

That's racist.

Can you imagine making that statement?

Absolute racism.

She's just made it about white people, and she can get away with it now in this culture.

This is not going to age well because this is all over.

It's such a bastardization of who Elvis Presley was.

I mean, Elvis Presley hung out with B.B.

King all the time.

I mean, some of his best friends, his musical friends, were black.

Yeah, he was influenced by blacks.

And at the time, it was a very white country that really had a problem with black.

So, yeah,

he was the king of rock and roll.

And she's right.

I can't remember her name now, but it is, oh, shoot, I wish I could remember.

But she is, she's this amazing black woman who,

long before

Elvis, was

pivoting her hips, you know, and her pelvis and playing the guitar just like Elvis.

I mean, he really did get that from her.

But that's influence.

That's not stealing.

That's influence

and you know when you talk about

I mean

let me give you this how hard is it to say you know and you know they they couldn't even invent rock and roll black people gave them music gave white people music

doesn't that seem like a little racist itself that that's where you go it's like

they couldn't even get the ball in the hoop they needed black people to play basketball.

My gosh, really?

That's where you go?

Let me, instead of saying what I think she would want us to say, which is, do you know all the inventions of white people?

Let me show you.

Let me show you how significant blacks have been in America.

George Washington Carver, it's not just peanut butter, okay?

George Washington Carver,

sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans.

He's the guy guy who first really started to talk about soil restoration and rotate the crops, which we all know now we have to do.

That comes from George Washington Carver, a black man.

You want to know the guy who really changed America in the 20th century and changed things really forever?

Frederick McKinley-Jones.

Do you know who he was?

Frederick McKinley-Jones invented the refrigerated truck in 1935.

For the first time, we could transport food a long distance.

You couldn't do that with milk.

You had to have the dairy farm right here.

You could not do it without a refrigerated truck.

Traffic signal, Garrett Morgan,

let's see, Charles Drew.

He's the guy who came up with ways to have large-scale blood storage and transfusion.

He's the guy.

this is World War II,

he's the guy that saved all of the lives of people who have needed a blood transfusion and needed to have blood there on the battlefield or anywhere.

Otis Boykin, you're thinking elevator.

No.

He improved the resistor.

That gave us radio's television pacemakers.

The first home security system was developed by Marie Van Britten Braun, a black woman,

She's the one who came up with the video doorbell, the forerunner of the video doorbell.

That was a black woman.

The reason why we have light bulbs.

I hate Thomas Edison.

The guy was a thief, an absolute thief.

He paid people, but then he took all of the credit.

And I guess that's the way he did business.

If you did business with him, you just knew this.

But he's the,

but

Granville Woods is the black Edison.

He invented the railroad telegraph.

Was he he the guy?

No, it was Lewis Latimer that came up with the carbon filament.

Edison could not figure out what filament would last.

His light bulbs would last a minute, 20 minutes maximum.

Lewis Latimer, he worked with Edison and Bell, and he came up with a carbon

filament.

Dry cleaning, black man.

IBM engineer, co-inventor of the color PC monitor, Mark Dean.

Black.

Why is it,

why is it she feels it's necessary to go to music?

Why?

You're not going to, you're not even willing to go further than something that everybody knows.

And A, you got it wrong.

No, you didn't get it wrong.

Forerunners were were blacks.

However, you know, she also took credit for country music, blacks, country music, et cetera, et cetera.

I want you to listen to Appalachian music.

Listen to Appalachian music.

And I'm not stopping at Appalachian.

I'm not saying that's just, you know, influence of country.

No, no, no.

You want to go even more white than Appalachia?

Go over to Scotland.

Listen to the old Scottish music.

It's Appalachian, absolutely Appalachian music.

Okay?

That combined, so it's the white people in West Virginia, it's the white people over in Scotland mixed with the black people in the South of America that gave us this.

This is the melting pot.

That's the melting pot.

Have we completely given up on that idea?

Do we always just have to be pitted against each other?

Do we always just have to be, that's your class.

You can only talk about that group of people.

I can only talk about this group of people, but I can say things against you, but you can't say things against me.

This is no life.

This isn't what we were.

We were born to live this way?

No.

No.

Should we have just ignored black influence in music?

Would that have been a better solution?

I don't know why that would be.

Having influence from other cultures is an ultimate compliment, right?

Like that, that's an incredible compliment of saying

how good it is, how positive it is.

It is something we should recognize.

But like, again, categorizing it that way of like, as if the most important thing is what color invented this and what color invented that is just a horrible way to go through life.

And, you know, it kind of gives you...

That makes you angry and resentful.

And

you're not going to make any progress that way.

No.

You're not.

Well, maybe in the way that Joey Reed wants it.

I guess maybe you make some, but not in the real progress sense.

And can we do a quick tale of two hosts here for a moment?

The two hosts you played, Stephen A.

Smith and Joey Reed, is a fascinating side-by-side.

I should note, there are massive differences between them in that, you know, Stephen A.

Smith is a...

No, there's not.

They're both black.

They're both black.

That's all we should care about.

That's all we should care about.

Unless Stephen, yes, he votes Democrat, but he speaks out positively about

Republicans from time to time.

So maybe he's not really black.

I'm not really, we should ask the expert Joy Reid.

Right.

That's the only way we can get that answer.

Stephen A.

Smith is a very talented broadcaster, whether you like him or not.

He's very, very successful.

And Joy Reid is a talentless zero.

She is a giant zilch.

So there is a massive difference between them.

But what's interesting about it is, like, I would say Stephen A.

Smith shows up in our show prep

every six weeks or so right like every six weeks or so there's a stephen a smith clip that goes viral with him saying something and it's typically something like that where like he's a democrat but he's saying something like really truthful and he's just saying like let's let's just be honest about this let's just say state the truth here this is true whether it helps my side or it doesn't help my side and This is a sports broadcaster that occasionally delves into the world of politics that does that type of thing, I would argue, occasionally, right?

Like most of his opinions, I think, if you listen on a day-to-day basis, are going to be, you know, Democrat, you know, standards, right?

But he occasionally will say something like that.

The fact that he will occasionally, every six weeks, say something that's just honest, admitting the other side is actually right on this one, has elevated him to a possible presidential candidate.

Joy Reed is doing some podcast in a, I don't even think she has a basement, but like some room in her home where she has now been fired and has no career whatsoever.

Stephen A.

Smith is being considered and being polled in presidential races, not because he's great at sports talk, not because he's the greatest Democrat communicator of all time, because people see him as occasionally saying something honest and against his interests.

That is so rare in our society that we will embrace him and elevate him to a possible presidential candidate because of it.

That is quite a commentary on where we are in the world and where journalism is.

So you, you, I sorry, I went on to another track when you said that, you know, Joy Reed lost her job.

I didn't know that she wasn't working for MS-13 anymore.

I mean, MS-NBC, MS-13, I guess.

But I remember now she was.

So she's,

this is shocking to me.

She hasn't found a job.

You know?

No, their network is.

You're going to be surprised.

She certainly hasn't found a job of note.

How about that?

I don't know her entire daily schedule, but she seems to be just going on the same network with Keith Oberman.

Yes.

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I hope we have done something useful today and helped you make sense of the world a little bit.

I don't know if we have, but we try.

I want to play something before I go with Carolyn Levitt.

And,

you know, everybody said it can be done.

Here she is announcing Putin and Zelensky.

Listen to this, Cut Five.

Following the encouraging conversations yesterday, President Trump spoke with President Putin by phone, and he agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, a meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky, which would be followed, if necessary, by a trilateral meeting between President Putin, President Zelensky, and President Trump.

As the President said, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Special Envoy Witkoff will continue to coordinate with Russia and Ukraine to make this happen as soon as possible.

It's very important to remember that before President Trump's landslide victory last November, there was no end in sight to this bloodshed.

Now, there may finally be light at the end of the tunnel and an opportunity for lasting peace.

That's because President Trump is the peace president and American leadership is back on the world stage.

It should not be lost on anyone in this room that world leaders are coming right here to Washington, D.C.

for help.

While previous presidents have traveled halfway around the world to apologize for America, President Trump stands up for America and he has firmly restored America's status as the undisputed leader of the free world.

Amen.

And I'm sure that Hillary Clinton is busy today, you know, writing out and filling out the forum for the Nobel Prize.