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Hello, America.

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We're glad you're here.

I want to talk to you about a couple of things, and they both start on the border.

I mean, we have good news today.

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Also,

I want to just think out loud a little bit on the idea that

we should get rid of

all of these illegals.

I mean, it sounds pretty harsh, doesn't it?

Let's think that one through.

Also, the drug cartels and an IED that killed a Texas rancher.

Not in Afghanistan, but here on our border.

We go there in just a minute.

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I want to tell you a story.

I mean, the blood-soaked dirt of Texas tells a story that I don't think you want to hear, but you probably should.

A rancher, calloused hands, sun-creased face, the kind of guy that gets up with the chickens in the morning and wrestles a living from earth.

He stepped outside to just check on his herd.

One moment he is breathing in the crisp morning air near Brownsville, Texas, and the next, he's gone.

I want you to remember: this is in America.

There was an IED,

a coward's weapon, planted by a cartel.

It turned this American, just living his life,

into

pieces, a mangled memory.

It blown his boots off.

Now the cattle wander

untended.

His widow is

left there wondering what's left.

This isn't Kabul.

This isn't Fallujah.

This is our land, a stone's throw away from where I sit right now, where cartels are running wild, and now they've brought their war here.

Now, we have ignored this for a very long time.

Our government was in bed with them.

This isn't murder.

This is a declaration of war by the cartels.

So what did the U.S.

State Department do?

Well, this happened a few weeks ago, and the State Department just put a warning on border towns like it's some third-world hellhole.

The Texas AG Commissioner, Sid Miller, told ranchers, hey, you should avoid dirt roads and any suspicious junk.

Like what?

You're like you're dodging snipers in Fallujah?

This is America.

We're not supposed to cower on our own soil.

Hey.

You want to survive today?

Here's what you need to do.

No.

Foreign criminals have turned our ranches and many of our cities into kill zones.

These cartels, correct, he was correct for saying this.

Trump called them terrorist and terrorist organizations.

And he is right.

But you know what they thrive on?

Spinelessness.

That's what they thrive on.

Spinelessness.

They want you to cower.

They want you to be afraid.

They rake in blood money.

Well, now planting bombs in our backyards.

And what do we do?

So far, nothing.

So far,

nothing.

It's one little story today you probably won't even see unless you're looking for it.

We have drones that can spot a snake

and track it.

We have AI that tracks every move.

We have AI that can go in and find where every penny is.

We have special operators who make these cowards wet themselves.

When they plant an improvised explosive device on our U.S.

soil and kill an innocent American citizen, I don't know.

I think we should use some of those tools that we have at our disposal.

Crush this cancer.

Use them.

Tell Mexico and their cartel buddies, sorry, gang.

Homie, don't play this game anymore.

Yeah, say it just like that.

I want to hear Trump say that.

America should not ever bend or ignore.

You spill our blood on our soil.

We bury you.

That's the line.

We don't want war with anybody.

We don't want foreign wars.

But you bring death onto our soil.

We will kill you.

We will kill everybody that's involved with you.

We will burn your empire down to the ground.

And then we'll go home.

Cross our line and your empire burns.

That's the message.

Now, Trump has done a very, very good job at sending the message.

Do you know how many people crossed?

I think, what was it, yesterday?

They had 200 people across our entire border on the south kind of approach like, can we come in?

No.

That is a 15-year low.

So we've sent the message, but we've sent the message to the regular people.

The people are like, God, you know, I want to live a better life.

Uh-huh.

No, sorry.

Come in the front door, not the back door, not the window.

not down the chimney.

You're not Santa Claus.

So we've done a good job.

Trump in a very short order has sent a very clear message and he started to send the message to the cartel but

you cannot allow time to pass

after they kill an innocent American citizen on their own land in their own town

no

We are staring down a beast, and I mean a nasty one.

When cartels start to plant bombs in Texas and flood our streets with fentanyl and laughing while we bicker about root causes, but what is the root cause?

A rancher is blown apart on his own land, and the response?

Nothing

yet.

This isn't a crime.

It's an invasion by stealth.

And, you know, if we go back in history, we can learn from, you know, what we've done and what we haven't done in the past.

Let's roll the tape back.

Mafia, 1920s.

Was that a good thing or a bad thing?

Cops are dead.

Politicians are bought and paid for.

Streets are soaked in blood.

What happened?

Well, we didn't mess around

forever.

The FBI, born to smash them.

And for a while, it didn't work.

Until Elliott Ness and the untouchables.

Okay, so it was bad until we got serious about it.

Fast forward to the 90s.

Escobar, his cartel, nightmare.

But when the U.S.

and Colombia teamed up, he went down and he went down hard.

Decisive action.

It wins fights.

When you snooze, to put it mildly, you lose.

Al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center.

In 1993, does anybody remember when we shrugged that off?

Oh, gee, you know, that's bad.

Al-Qaeda, they're trying to blow up the World Trade Center.

Eight years later,

they tried it again, and this time, 3,000 families paid the price.

Nazi Germany, we watched Hitler arm up until Poland burned.

Every time you show weakness,

every time it invites disaster.

Thank God Donald Trump is not a weak president.

Thank God

we are at this point now with the cartels and we have a president in place

that is not going to blink, is not going to turn around, is not going to be like, well, you know what?

It's getting kind of scary.

Maybe we should.

Nuh uh.

The cartels are not the Nazis and they're not al-Qaeda.

They're not here to topple the capital.

They're here to bribe the capital.

Don't be fooled.

They're not just drug dealers either.

They are a twisted mix, mafia muscle, terrorist tactics, shadow government cash.

They've got billions.

They were in bed with our government.

They have made billions over the last four years.

Guns outmatch our cops.

And now IEDs on American soil?

Hmm.

Hmm.

That's not petty theft.

That's a middle finger to your sovereignty.

That's what's happening.

We're sitting on our hands while they rake in profits and plot the next strike.

I know Donald Trump is not sitting on his hands.

But Heg Seth should be very, very clear.

This is a call to the American people.

See, the thing is,

we can stop them.

They think they're all so tough.

Do you know that our defense budget

is more than the, what is it, the top 15 countries combined?

That includes Russia and China.

Our defense budget is bigger than the top 15 countries in the world.

We have devices that will see through walls.

We have AI that just with your phone can show you who is in the room and where they're standing.

It almost gives you a visual of the people just through your phone.

We have AI that will sniff out the dirty money.

Special ops who will turn cartel

kingpins into ghost stories.

Remember?

Abu,

Abu,

Baghdadi.

He cried.

He cried out.

He cried like a little baby.

That's what.

Remember that?

You think Al-Baghdadi cried.

What do you think we can do to the cartels?

It's important

that we send a very, very

clear message.

Cartels are terrorists.

Label them, then hit them with everything we have.

Cops, spies, military, if it comes to it.

Lock the border tight.

No more catch and release games.

Bleed them dry.

Seize their cash.

Shred their networks.

Make them choke.

This isn't about bravado.

This is about survival.

If we don't act,

if we don't act, that bomb in Texas will not be the last.

Maybe it'll be your street, your kid, your school.

We're not debating policies.

we'll be burying bodies

you have a chance here with the right president

but this president is juggling chains literally chainsaws torches and pianos

your voice plays such an important role

this is a cancer And you don't hug cancer, you cut it out.

You don't ignore cancer,

you pour radiation down its throat.

History proves hesitation kills.

If we don't,

you know, saying, I told you so, doesn't bring anybody back.

It doesn't restore anything.

Trump is already at the, I think, at the end of phase one.

Everybody's still freaking out about, oh my gosh, what is it?

We're at the end of phase one of the border.

It's time for phase two.

And it is time to make these thugs that think they're so tough and so untouchable wet their pants.

Literally,

urine and crap stains in their pants.

You're messing with the wrong country.

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Is that too much?

Hello, Stu.

How are you?

I was good.

I got a couple visuals there.

I wasn't necessarily interested in.

Yeah, but no.

Come on.

You wouldn't be happy to see that.

No, no.

I mean, of course you would be.

You would.

Of course you would be.

Yes.

It would be a positive.

Yeah.

And I'm sorry, you start doing al-Qaeda tactics on American soil to American citizens?

No.

No.

Are you worried about

our stomach for all of this?

No, I think Americans would watch it like the Super Bowl.

Well, I think Americans would sit there and watch

these drug cartels, their homes and everything about them burn and we would cheer.

I think the question more is, I have Jesse Kelly on today to talk about this exact thing

on Studios America.

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That's all right.

But

he has a concern that I share, which is, you're right, they would cheer this on, what you're talking about.

The part where the cartel murders a family

in a border home

with their bodies outside of it.

Oh, it's going to happen.

And it's not going to just happen.

The longer we wait, it's not just going to happen at the border.

It's going to happen in Cleveland or it will happen, you know, in Philadelphia.

It will happen.

They're not going to just sit back.

So what?

But look at what they've done to the Mexican government when they've tried to step up and do some things there.

Right.

I mean, murdered politicians.

And

the longer we let them

claw their way in here and bribe our people, the more we become like Mexico.

I agree.

Donald Trump is only in office for four years.

Kill it.

Yeah.

Kill the cartels.

Kill it.

You have to.

It's just, I think it's going to be a little messier than

what the American people are thinking.

It's war.

It is war.

And these are legitimate paramilitary organizations.

Yes, they are.

I mean, look, we're better.

Yeah.

We're better.

Still, I mean, we're better than al-Qaeda.

Yes.

We're better than ISIS.

Yes.

And we saw a lot of things that we were not comfortable with during those wars.

We did eventually.

When Donald Trump came in, I mean, I wasn't comfortable with the whole ISIS thing.

I mean, remember,

just like this.

Yeah.

Just like this.

We were helping ISIS.

Remember?

Benghazi?

We helped them.

Okay.

Then Donald Trump came in.

And they were like, it's probably going to take us four or five years and it's going to be very bloody.

And he said, I don't think so.

I'd like to see the full might and power of the United States get it done.

And I think it was within

four weeks they were done.

Didn't get enough credit for it either.

No,

I will say on that one.

I really think we, I mean, we have

special operations.

We have drones.

We have technology.

You can burn them to the ground.

And you probably do it, I don't know, by what time is it?

This is what makes me nervous.

I don't know that it's that easy.

Maybe it is.

Maybe it is.

I mean, mean, you know, it's a different situation being able to go into the Middle East where we have all sorts of war declarations.

And I put that in air quotes, with the ability to do all sorts of stuff.

Inside of Mexico, it's going to be an interesting story.

You know, we said that about Ukraine.

They're not going to fold.

They're not going to come to the table.

They're not going to...

This is Glenn Beck.

When the United States...

acts like the gorilla that it is in the room,

when it understands, yeah, I don't, I don't,

I'm not going to play that game anymore.

We're the United States of America.

They'll go find somebody else.

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I believe in the Second Amendment, but sometimes it doesn't call for a gun.

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You know, I heard something yesterday that I wanted to share with you because I thought, you know,

I'm from Seattle.

Representative Jayapal is from Seattle.

She can't be totally bat crap crazy, right?

Maybe,

maybe I just haven't thought of things in the correct fashion.

So here's what she said yesterday.

Listen.

We can't let them deport the millions of families across this country who who have been doing the work that keeps our economy going every day.

We can't let them scapegoat and criminalize immigrants who contribute, who are our neighbors, our friends, our churchgoers.

If you look at the food that's on your table, think about who picked it.

If you look at your homes, think about who built them.

Oh, my God.

If you look at your vulnerable elders and your kids, think about who's taking care of them.

Who's caring for them?

Boy, you know, I heard that case, and that just struck right to my heart.

You know, I thought to myself, my gosh, maybe we're wrong.

She could be correct.

Let's look at her side of the argument.

I mean, just for a minute.

I don't expect you to change, but I want you to listen with compassion.

You sons of, you people who just don't, you just hate people of other colors for no apparent reason.

That's the only reason why you want these illegals, as you might call them, out.

Have some compassion, man.

So let me just, I want you to, unless you're driving, close your eyes for just a minute and I want you to imagine a twilight world shadowed and stilled where the hum of life has faded to a whisper.

Picture the sprawling farmland, its fields once ablaze with golden wheat and wheat and and and beautiful, verdant rows of produce.

Just it's a painting.

Except now it's desolate.

Stalks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground.

Zoom closer in.

A construction site.

Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast, abandoned mid-creation.

A restaurant.

There on Main Street in your own hometown, its windows dark, its tables bare.

The aroma simmering spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect.

Oh, you might say, I'm finding that hard to imagine.

But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins.

Let's really look at her case.

These workers, vilified, yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity.

Yes, consider the ledger here of reality.

Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign-born, and of that number, nearly half lack the papers we demand.

They're not peripheral, they're foundational.

In 2023,

their labor fueled an economy that extracted $128 billion in taxes from their sweat.

And these are funds that they will never recover from Social Security or Medicare.

Their unemployment rate stands at 3.2%, outpacing the native born, right?

You might say, well, that's not really good.

That means jobs aren't.

No.

They're just willing to work.

These are not the idle.

They are the relentless, filling the chasms in our agriculture and construction and hospitality.

Can you imagine going to one of your rich banquets held in some banquet hall, s the belly of some corporate monstrosity hotel chain?

Where are you going to get the servers to feed you, you corporate fat cat?

American sectors would buckle without them.

The American Farm Bureau calculates that expelling the undocumented labor would slash agricultural output by 60%.

Your breakfast orange juice price triples.

The milk in your coffee doubles overnight.

Construction costs soar as half the workforce, 1.5 million strong, just vanishes.

Stalling homes and highways.

All throughout the country.

Hospitality, already fragile, loses 1.2 million workers.

Go ahead, see if you can find somebody that will wash the dishes.

Restaurants, close, hotels, just mothball rooms.

This isn't just speculation.

It's the arithmetic of survival.

Cato Institute pegs the GDP loss at $1.6 trillion over a decade if we purge these contributors that you call illegals.

Who bears that burden?

Hmm?

I'll tell you who, you do, at the checkout

in your rent with your tax bill.

These are not the faceless cogs, but they're human beings propelled by the same hunger for betterment that drove pilgrims across the oceans, they'll tell you.

They rise before the sun, hands blistered, knees bent, harvesting what we consume without even a second thought.

Yes, California growers have said that they've posted ads for years and locals just don't apply.

These jobs are theirs because no one else will do these jobs.

And the data occurs in states like Texas and Florida, native-born workers shun the fields, leaving 80% of crop labor to the immigrants, documented or undocumented.

They don't displace,

they sustain.

Without this labor, our way of life will crumble.

Quote, this is a necessary good.

Look where they came from.

They're better off in our fields and in the shadows than where they were

when they came here.

Look at where they came from.

Gia, is there an echo in here?

Maybe it's just the...

Ghost of arguments past that I hear.

I'm not sure, but it seems without this labor we will starve.

Our way of life will collapse.

This is a necessary good.

It's necessary for us and good for them.

Look at where they came from.

They're better off in our fields than where they came from.

The prosperity of the superior depends on the toil of the inferior.

Uh-oh, wait a minute.

I have heard these phrases before.

It seems as though they've just been rinsed out and repurposed.

Without this labor, our way of life crumbles.

Hmm.

That's a mirror, gang.

The words aren't new.

They're borrowed from a time when men in frock coats deemed human bondage a necessary good.

Because if we don't have these slaves in the field, Our very way of life will crumble.

You won't be able to afford any products.

It's a pillar of economic order.

James Henry Hammond, 1858.

In all social systems there must be a class to perform the drudgery, freeing the refined for higher purposes.

Wow, that almost sounds like Harare, doesn't it, from the World Economic Forum?

There will be a permanent underclass of useless people who'll just need to keep busy doing stuff.

Oh my gosh, the compassion.

You're right.

He's speaking right from the heart.

John Calhoun, 1837 it's a positive good it's good for them and it's good for us it's an institution that if we don't have it civilization falters end quote

then it was cotton and tobacco now it's lettuce and drywall but it's the same damn thing then it was chains now it's fear the fear of ice raids fractured families a life uprooted it's still fear isn't it?

Both rest on the same calculus.

Look, they're going to have to do this because it's good for the rest of us.

All we've done is we've polished the rhetoric.

We've swapped shackles for shadows, but it's exactly the same.

Other than that, an underclass, indispensable,

yet discarded.

But it's...

It's vital.

Although we can't really give them dignity.

I mean, they got to live in the shadows here.

Is the left this stupid?

Do they really think we don't see the parallels here?

Are they so naive to think that a costume change can absolve us?

Why is it so many people just swallow this?

Why do we let our politicians, the, and I mean this, literally, the heirs to the same voices of the 19th century that were defending slavery.

Those heirs, why do we listen to them?

This isn't mercy.

It's cowardice masked as practicality.

Masked again as compassion.

There's no compassion in the shadows.

The left joins the chorus.

This is exploitation, all just dressed in progressive crap,

As if calling it essential washes the stain clean, but it doesn't.

It's a lie that so many Americans are telling themselves to keep the tomatoes cheap and the gilted bay.

So we can walk around with our cell phones from Apple and pretend we're better than everybody else because we're against slavery, but we buy our crap from China.

We'll allow people to live in the shadows.

We can't get them to go back home and come through through the front door.

What kind of compassion is that?

It's so much better for them to live in a state of fear their whole life here in America.

You know, there is another option.

We could innovate.

We could mechanize the fields.

That's coming.

That's coming.

We could train the idle.

We could actually say to our kids, get your fat, lazy ass off the couch, away from the gaming system, and go out and work.

We could also pay wages that tempt the unwilling.

Instead, we'll let these corporations, these corporate farms,

undercut a reasonable living wage and just keep people pushed in the shadow so you could have a ripe tomato.

You know, everybody always says, oh, the right side of history.

I would have been on the right side of history.

Would you?

Would you have been, really?

1860, you're walking around going, I don't know.

I mean, this cotton, this shirt, it's fantastic.

It breathes.

I mean, how are we going to get all that cotton picked in the field if we don't have slaves?

You know, this is necessary.

Our whole society collapses without the slave.

You really would have been on the other side back then?

And yet, somehow or another, you're not on that side now?

My guess is you would have been sitting someplace in

maybe in Charleston in a parlor sipping tea why I just don't understand why all these people don't understand why we need to have these slaves

I mean

they're really not good for much else they're not really like us

I mean they can make my tea and wash my dishes and pick the cotton in the fields and grow our food I'm gonna have my son do that I don't think so I think you would have been sitting in the parlor out front having a nice cool iced tea.

This is a house built on sand.

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Now, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to be the governor of Ohio.

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Vivek Ramaswamy joins me in 60 seconds.

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and a good friend of the program.

Vivek, how are you?

Good to talk to you, Glenn.

How you been?

Really good.

Really good.

So I got a lot to talk to you about.

First of all, why do you want to be the governor of Ohio?

Well, look, I think that Donald Trump is doing a great job as U.S.

president, but that means that a lot of federal programs are going to come down from Washington, D.C., from education to healthcare, back to the states and to the people where they belong.

That's one of the things that I saw in my early effort in helping get Doge off the ground is the same thing.

Federalism is the way forward to our golden age, and that is going to require strong governors to actually step up and do their job in leading and managing education, for example, in the right way.

And so I was born and raised in Ohio.

It's where I'm raising my two sons today.

I think it's one of the better states in the Midwest, but I want to lead Ohio to be the top state in the country to raise a young family, to grow a business, and to live the American dream that I have.

That's why I'm in it.

Yeah.

I mean, he's, I don't know.

I mean, it's kind of like conservative porn here.

He's

talking about returning the power to the states and cutting all those federal programs.

Oh, yeah.

So,

Vaig.

The way the government is going, I mean, I hope that Doge actually does the job, and I hope we finish the job here.

We've got so much we have to cut.

I mean trillions of dollars we have to cut and return that power to the state.

Everybody's saying this is going to be chaos.

As the governor of Ohio, how do you prepare for what is coming so it's not chaos?

What has to be done?

I have to admit, I think the job is going to be far easier for me at the state level than it is doing it at the federal level, which is a gargantuan project.

But I do think that giving taxpayers the transparency, first of all, how their money is being spent, fixing the regulatory state, all that's required.

At the level of Ohio, I think this is actually immediately achievable in ways that improve people's lives, right?

I'm into bringing the American dream back to Ohio.

How do we do it?

Flash every bit of red tape in the state.

I mean, think about the over-regulation that comes from that bureaucracy.

That is the easiest thing we could fix right out the gate.

18 to 36 months for a natural gas pipeline, that should be six months or less.

I haven't met a single person in Ohio.

I haven't met a single person in the country, Glenn, who says that we have too little red tape.

I've met a lot of people, especially business owners, who will tell you that there is too much red tape.

And so I do think that this idea that this is just an academic project, no, it's not, these aren't just academic solutions to address a deficit number or a debt number or a GDP number.

I think these are vital improvements to our economic and social fabric so that little league teams no longer have to shut down because they they can't find a local company to sponsor them because they went to another state with a more favorable regulatory environment.

So a mom doesn't have to think twice before having a second or third kid for fear of the cost of a bigger car because the tax rate's too high in the state.

So one of the things I want to do is to drive the income tax rate down, eventually down to zero, like eight other states that have done the same thing.

Back the property tax burden.

It's your land, not the government's.

It is your money, not the government's.

And I don't think that those should be controversial things to say

wait wait wait wait wait talk to me about property taxes again what was what what what is your plan on property taxes well property tax in ohio so this is a problem in our state in particular have gotten way too high so many people are paying as much money on their interest plus principal repayment as they are on their property tax.

And it makes you feel like you're not owning your land anymore.

You're owned the land feels like you're leasing it from the government, which is un-American.

So that's exactly what we're taking aim at.

I have to tell you,

I think property tax.

It's about putting the money back in the pockets of people's hands.

I think property tax is absolutely immoral.

You cannot.

It's un-American.

It is.

I don't actually own anything if it can be taken from me because of tax.

I mean, that is like, isn't that the story of Robin Hood?

I mean, this, it's actually funny you say that.

You know, John Locke was probably one of the intellectual progenitors of our country's founding, as you're well aware, and the ownership of private property was foundational to the formation of the United States of America.

And so I think we would do well to remember those basic time tax principles.

Capitalism is the greatest system known to man to lift us up from poverty.

We've started to apologize for that as well.

No, I want Ohio, and look, I say this for Ohio, but I say this because it has a national significance too, Glenn, is I want Ohio to set the standard for the rest of the country where we embrace property rights, where we embrace capitalism and meritocracy instead of apologizing for it.

And the beauty of our system is that so much of saving our country actually has to come from the level of the states, has to come from the people.

That's what James Madison envisioned.

That's what our founding fathers envisioned.

So I think federalism is the way.

The path to our golden age runs through federalism.

And that's why, look, I think that saving this country is a team effort.

That's why I chose to run for this position after great conversations with President Trump, with Elon.

Frankly, both of them, they came out within hours of my announcement, within an hour to both endorse, and I was proud to receive their support and others statewide here as well.

But that's because this is going to be a team effort to save the country.

And I do think leadership at the level of the states, especially starting a year or two from now, after a lot of those programs have been pushed back down to the states and the people where they belong, I do see a bit of a leadership gap there, and that's a big part of why I was called into this.

And we're going to set a national standard.

We can call it the Ohio standard.

We can call it a modern-day Northwest ordinance.

But a conservative state, when governed according to conservative principles, actually, can be a magnet for the rest of the country.

Okay, I've got a serious question for you.

But first, an even more serious question.

Every time I've ever endorsed any candidate, they always lose.

So what is my non-endorsement worth to you, Vive?

Your friendship is worth a lot to me.

And we'd love to have you in Ohio.

We'll turn that into a Midas touch.

So

I do want to talk to you about something that you are

qualified to answer.

And I think there are very few people that are qualified that people trust and know that can speak on this.

You know, Musk came out and talked about the singularity on Sunday and said we are on the event horizon of the singularity.

For anybody who really understands what's coming our way in the next three to five years, the world will be completely different in ways that none of us can imagine

in five years from now.

How do we explain this to the American people?

And how do you prepare a state

to

be nimble enough to be able to adapt?

I mean, I really believe we're at the very beginning here of a maybe

18 to 36 month change, where at the end of these 36 months, it's going to be entirely different.

And people will have to understand you either adapt right now or you're out.

So how do you

either you're playing from the front and you're shaping that change or else you're going to be shaped by that change.

Right.

And

as a leader.

And it's huge.

The difference is massive than it than we've ever seen before.

Right.

Absolutely.

So it's interesting about a position of, from the perspective of state leadership, right, as the next governor of Ohio.

I want Ohio to be the state where we use AI not to take jobs, but to make jobs.

And what I mean by that is there's a lot of focus on a lot of investment across the country and the world into algorithmic improvement, into actually improving the computational power driving new AI algorithms.

And that's important.

But where I don't think we've invested enough is how to apply that AI, how to use that next generation of intelligence to apply it to their respective fields from healthcare to financial services to construction design.

And there you're talking about using skilled workers who are already in this state that don't have to be programming the next generation of AI.

We can train the AI.

What I want to do is to train the human beings on how to use that AI and apply it to enhance their own productivity on their own terms.

And I think that last part is really important, Glenn, as we're headed to the future.

The future is coming whether we like it or not.

Do you want to be dragged by it or do you want to shape it?

And I want to be a leader who helps us shape it to harness the power of that.

So as governor,

do you do?

What do you do to encourage that?

Ohio has a lot of blue-collar jobs.

Sure.

Sure.

So I think one of the things we need to do is invest in workforce training and education and allow the private sector to already do it by getting out of the way.

Elimited occupational licensing requirements, but also I want this to be the the state where two things are true, Glenn.

And too often, even on the right, sometimes we make this an either or.

I want this to be the state where we say both of these paths are open.

I want Ohio to be the top state in the country when it comes to our universities.

For somebody who wants to become an engineer or a doctor or a computer programmer, that's great.

That should be open to them here, and that goes through a traditional bachelor's degree and maybe PhD degrees too.

And that's great.

It's not that that's elite and bad.

That's a good thing.

But we also want to be the state that has two and one year and even six month or nine month vocational programs that train people to be an electrician or a welder or a builder and give them also in their respective fields even the training needed know how to use that AI, how to use that next generation of technology to apply it to their respective fields.

That's what true modernization looks like.

So I don't want to fall in this camp and say, oh, well, that technological revolution is for somebody else.

No.

How do we harness the fruits of that to actually improve our own lives, even in fields that weren't traditionally thought to necessarily be technologically forward fields?

I want to change that attitude.

And, you know, it's not either or.

It's not one is more elite than the other.

We're all elite in the way I look at it.

I don't refer to the other professions as the trades.

I call them the professions because that's what they are.

They deserve the same degree of dignity and respect.

But at the same time, it's not going to be by chasing our past.

It is going to be by leading us to chase our future.

And I do think that requires a new generation of leadership.

And at the state level, it's a big part of why I'm stepping into what I see as a leadership vacuum.

So I think Donald Trump has ushered in a completely new era that is not even ⁇ nobody even begins to understand it yet.

I mean, I think he's going to be remembered as our first real technology president.

And he is changing everything about the system, and it's long needed to be changed.

But when he comes to, like last night in the House, they passed a budget.

The budget really,

I mean, I guess it's a step in the right direction, but it's still growing the deficit.

And, you know, it has some good things in it, but also has some other bad things.

You have Congressman Davidson from

Ohio that voted against it last night.

And part of me is with Massey and people like that are like, hey, you know what?

We've got to cut, cut, cut.

How do we get

America or the people of Ohio or the Congress and the Senate to understand trillions of dollars need to be cut.

No more eating around the edges.

Trillions of dollars need to be cut.

How do we get there?

Well, the truth is one of the paths is grow, grow, grow.

It goes to that spirit that you talked about.

That's where I think as a great leader of a state, you can at least help in that regard, where if you're depressing economic growth, then your debt to GDP ratio becomes even worse because your GDP growth rates are lower.

So one of the areas to focus on is just robust economic growth through mass deregulation, through mass unlocking of private sector potential, through slashing and burning bureaucracy wherever necessary.

And that's one positive side.

On the other side, though, Glenn, and you raise a good point here.

I would just say there are ways to rationalize the budget that actually lift people up in the process.

I'll give you one example, and I'm going to lead the way here in Ohio on this front: is reattaching work requirements to welfare, Medicaid, Medicaid, and other forms of aid.

I think it is not compassion, it is cruelty to increase somebody's dependence on the government.

The way we're going to save our country is not through greater dependence on the government, but independence from it.

We're not victims.

We have this victimhood mentality that then justifies that dependence.

We're done with that victimhood culture.

We've got to move on.

We're victors, not victims.

We don't whine.

We win.

You help somebody stand up on their own two feet.

That's That's a great way.

You're looking at a lot of the spending in Medicaid, a lot of spending in welfare.

That's a great way to bring down spending.

But even more importantly, it is an even better way to help those Americans too actually realize the American dream rather than to be permanently dependent on a state that serves as a ceiling for what they're able to achieve in their lives.

And a lot of that does have to be done and led at the state level.

The federal government, there's a role to play, but I think there's also an important role for what does a leader look like who has the spine to step up and actually do that.

Ohio is a state that doesn't have work requirements attached to Medicaid right now.

That needs to change.

And so that's the way I'm looking to lead is to bring back that culture of work, end the war on work.

And that does two things.

One is it enhances economic productivity and GDP growth.

The other thing it does is it brings down our debt and our spending.

But the third and most important thing it does is it brings back our sense of national spirit and self-worth and individual self-confidence for so many who have lost that in this culture of victimhood and entitlement and dependence on the government.

It's time for us to graduate from the era of dependence and move back to our era of independence.

Think about that as a modern day Declaration of Independence from the government, a modern-day Northwest ordinance centered right here in Ohio.

That's where I want to lead us.

And I personally think, Glenn, a lot of politically homeless people, independents, libertarians, not just Republicans, maybe even some orphaned Reagan Democrats, will come along with us for this ride.

And I think that's a good thing.

Vivek, you know, we met each other maybe five years ago, and I really liked you then, but I wasn't sure.

I wanted to watch you for a while.

I know who you are, and I'm not going to endorse you because I like you too much,

you know, to endorse.

But I will tell you, I am on your train.

I just think you would be great for Ohio.

And so it's an endorsement without being an endorsement because I don't want to jinx your candidacy.

But

I appreciate that.

Best of luck.

That means a lot to me.

And we'll hopefully set a good example and learn some lessons from Texas as well.

Thank you.

All right.

Bye-bye.

Vivek Ramaswamy, now running for governor.

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i like vivek i do too i think he's uh this is a good role for him he seems to you know

he's been on top of all this stuff for a long time.

So I'm...

I mean, you think he is...

I wonder what his chances to win are.

I don't know.

Look at that at all.

Yeah, there's no polls out

against Dewine, but

I would think really good.

I think people are tired of the same old, same old.

Isn't Dewine term limited?

No, I think he's running again, isn't he?

He's 78, I think, and he's running again.

Hmm.

Let's see.

Can he run again?

Let's see.

Obviously, this race is just beginning, so we haven't jumped into it.

He just announced.

Mike DeWite cannot run for more than two terms as governor or so.

But I will say, because I thought this was more of an open race.

Good.

Davake will have the name.

I mean, who are you going to get to run?

Really?

Ohio.

Who are you going to get better?

I don't know.

We'll have to see what the candidates are.

But I mean, I think, you know, Vivek has a pretty buttoned-up vision of what he wants.

Oh, yeah.

He's expressed it obviously quite clearly.

Really good.

Yeah.

For a long time.

Really good.

And

in a time where tech

is going to start competing against jobs, he has the right vision.

Let's use tech to create jobs.

Let's unleash people so we can create more jobs and grow our way out.

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You'd think you'd have other sides.

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And listen to his explanation of this.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly,

might have seen it as a service to bring the readers to the reader's doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.

Today, the internet does that job.

Okay, so you're saying he's not a monopoly because the internet's there to do that.

I am.

So you're taking a position.

Right.

I am of America and for America and proud to be so.

Ow.

Ow.

We used to beg for just this.

Just this.

Does somebody even say that?

Again, I don't know that we can.

Have you been injured by a story by Jeff Bezos?

Better call Saul.

The proof is in the pudding here, obviously.

Like, we got to see if they actually live up to these standards, but this is a positive announcement, at least.

Right?

Yeah.

Right, Glenn?

Listen to this.

I'm of America and for America and proud to be so.

Our country did not get here by being typical.

And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.

Freedom is ethical.

It minimizes coercion.

Coercion, the people that have just been talking to us about ESG.

It minimizes coercion and practical, it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

I offered David Shipley, who I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter.

I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't hell yes, then it had to be no.

After careful consideration,

David decided to step away.

So it wasn't hell yes?

Yeah.

Did it have hell in it?

This is a significant shift.

It won't be easy, and it will require 100% commitment.

I respect his decision.

We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction.

Oh, please, please appoint me.

Just for fun.

For the fun of it.

Just for fun.

Just to see the entertainment.

Yeah, just entertainment.

You fire me in a month.

I don't really want the damn job.

Okay, but oh, please, just for entertainment, please.

It's interesting because, I mean, the people that write for the Washington Post, you'll have to fire almost all of them.

Yes.

I mean,

there there are a couple people that would,

you know, Jim Garrity, I think, writes for the Washington Post.

Like, Jim could stay.

There's a couple people who could.

And probably a few people in the timeout corner that maybe they can bring back in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I mean, there's not a lot of their current writers that would qualify for this approach.

They have a lot of

Republicans.

They have a lot of Republicans that write for them.

I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America.

Ow!

I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.

Doc, I can barely move my head.

I can't turn.

I can't turn at all.

I'm excited for us together to fill that void.

Now, that sentence is just funny.

That was comic relief.

I'm excited for us together to fill that void.

Right now, they're all like, you son of a.

Oh, yeah.

They're all ready.

They are all typing their.

This is a good whiplash, though, right?

I want this injury a little bit.

It's nice to see that.

I just hope it's real.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, look,

when you change an opinion, there's two ways to do it.

One, it's over years and you're slowly putting things together.

And then there's one day that you go, you know what?

I believe in America.

And everybody's like, of course you do.

You've been saying this for a long time.

You've just denied it.

for forever, but you've been that way for a long time.

You've been moving that way.

No whiplash there.

And then there's the other where you're like,

I'm satan and i i believe jesus is the answer and you're like wait what wow what a turnaround you know that one's kind of shocking i am we're seeing a lot of that these days and i can give you some examples that you don't want to hear but i will but what i but with bezos i mean look i there's a lot i like i have problems with with bezos and but i i think his new wife is one i'm sure she's wonderful i think she's delightful i'm sure i think she's made him a better better man.

A better, better man.

That being said,

the guy who built Amazon obviously has some friendly relationship with capitalism.

Yes.

Right?

Like, you might not like Amazon.

There's a lot of problems with it.

You can list them.

But

fundamentally, the man built one of the most impressive capitalistic enterprises that's ever been created.

Yes, I agree with that.

I totally agree with that.

But it is just a little bit

less of American capitalism and a little little

leans a little too close to Chinese capitalism.

I mean,

I don't think that's accurate.

There are elements that I think

the public-private partnerships, you know, that we've just seen.

I see some of that I don't know.

I will admit, but I will say that.

And, you know, also the, hey, you know what?

We're only going to take 70% of your profit.

You know,

you just come on to Amazon.

We'll sell it for you.

70%.

We've done nothing.

But we're going to make sure everybody has it.

And by the way, if it really starts to sell, we're watching these algorithms and we'll reinvent your product and we'll put you out of business.

It's quite a statement to say we'll sell it for you and we've done nothing.

I think they've done something if they have to sell it for you.

They bring the audience.

They bring a lot of people to the table.

And again, I'm not saying it's perfect.

But you know what?

Look, if you're Macy's and you want to sell, you know, polo products, that's great.

Do you take that big of a share?

Well, okay, maybe because, you know, Macy's is the only place you can get it.

Okay, maybe.

Maybe.

But you don't also go.

Hey, this polo thing is

a pretty good idea.

I want you to go in.

I want you to take their cologne, crack the coat on that,

put it in a lighter green bottle, and let's make the person with a polo mallet ride a dog.

And let's sell them.

And then we'll put it as Amazon's best pick.

No, I get it.

There are issues.

Scary the Ralph Lauren people.

And there are a lot of small business people who have issues with this.

However, a lot of them still list their stuff there because they're able to...

You can't make a choice.

Well, that's not true.

Of course, you can sell through a lot of it.

There's a lot of marketplaces out there you can sell on.

You're not on Amazon.

Do you know how much you walk away?

I know, because I know people who have started great companies, and then they're like, God, I got to go to Amazon.

I have to sell it on it.

Why?

Because they can't get the distribution widened.

Again, what was that about Amazon doing nothing?

They're giving you the distribution.

And I'm saying, look, they have, they're greedy as hell, but fine, fine.

Okay.

But they also, because I know people who have been.

in this situation without Amazon.

If they see you're successful, they'll reinvent your business and put you out of business.

Yeah.

And that, look, they, their Amazon Essentials is part of that, right?

Like where they create their own products and sell them.

And a lot of times sell them cheaper than the other.

Again, I'm not saying it's perfect.

But again, when people are are saying, hey, I can't do this, I have to go to Amazon, it indicates that Amazon is bringing value to them.

Yes, I understand that, but

the only thing different between China and Amazon in many ways is you don't have to sleep with Eric Swalwell.

Okay.

There's no Amazon person going, oh, geez, I got to sleep with that dude.

You know, that's really the only difference.

I mean, they're just taking other differences.

I get that there are also problems.

I grant you that.

Can I give you another example of maybe a whiplash?

Do we have time for this?

How much do I mean?

Okay.

New book.

New book coming out.

Okay, hang on.

Let me just brace my neck because it already hurts

from the Washington Post.

Okay.

I think this is a fascinating one, though.

Okay, cool.

Okay.

The book is called Original Sin.

President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up,

and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

Okay, please tell me.

I want to know who wrote this book.

By

CNN's Jake Tapper.

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

I thought that might be your reaction.

If you're a personal injury attorney, call me now, please.

There's more to that one, though.

We should talk about it a little bit deeper because I don't think it's as cut and dried as the initial understandable reaction.

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I guess they're more worried about the meaning of the word female than the word work.

Glenn Beck, we'll be right back.

So, Blenn, there is a new book I just mentioned it called Original Sin, President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

Jake Tapper is

the main author.

And I will say,

I have a conservative feed on X,

mostly negative reactions to this, pointing out at least once or twice where Tapper was dismissive of the cognitive abilities.

I didn't watch his coverage all that closely, but at least once he was like, oh, it's just a stutter or something.

He's ridiculous.

Anyway.

So, okay, fine.

The other author on this book is Alex Thompson.

Alex Thompson was basically the only mainstream journalist who consistently asked questions about Biden's cognitive decline throughout his presidency.

I mean, a lot of questions pushed hard, constantly was being rebuffed by the White House.

We cited his coverage several times here

on Sudo's America as well.

A guy who really legitimately, for a mainstream reporter, did a really good job on this particular issue.

I feel like a conservative, Glenn Beck could write a book about the cognitive decline of the president.

But number one, you probably wouldn't get access to all these White House officials.

And number two, the media would ignore it.

It's less likely they will ignore it with Jake Tapper attached to it.

And as a person, and this might be my weakness here, here, but as a person who is abnormally interested in holding the people accountable who were complicit in this cover-up, this is the president of the United States who had no brain power and they covered it up for four years.

And it's massively important that we find out how that happened, who's responsible for it, and hold them accountable.

I think at the very least this has the potential to give us something positive.

I don't think Alex Thompson is going to write a book, judging by his record during the time, that would be, oh, we're making excuses for the Bidens and the Democrats.

I really do think there's at least a chance we get something interesting that might lead to a congressional investigation or something that can help hold these people accountable.

Am I too optimistic on that?

It's cute.

Okay.

I mean,

it's cute.

It's dismissive, I feel like.

No, I don't mean it.

There's a slightest.

No, it's a cute.

Not in this, not in the

slightest way, in a massive way.

It's pretty dismissive there.

It's a cute little effort you're making.

I see your point.

But I'm sorry, I don't believe that Jake Tapper

was clueless

in this.

Well,

I think, you know, if he did that repeatedly, he should hold himself responsible too.

I don't know if that will happen.

Yeah, let's see that in the book.

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Hello, America.

So tonight, at 9 o'clock, my Wednesday night special goes into

Fort Knox and the scam of our gold.

Actually, I think,

I hope all of our gold is in the reserves.

It's supposed to be in four different places, one in Fort Knox, one in Denver.

I think West Point is another gold reserve.

And then we're supposed to have our money down on, you know, underneath the Wall Street area in the tip of southern Manhattan in underneath the Federal Reserve.

Okay, I'd like simultaneous teams to go in at the same time with cameras and examine all of it.

But you won't believe what a scam this appears to be when you just are asking, hey, can we see the gold?

Nobody's really seen it since the 1950s.

And even then, people saw the gold and they're like, that's not gold.

Look at that behind there.

That's not,

I think it's all there because if it's not, we're in deep trouble.

But this week, you know, you had the Treasury Secretary sent, anybody can,

any senator can get on the phone and ask.

Well, Mike Lee's been on the phone with him several times, and they're all like, no, today,

today's not a good day.

Well, what about tomorrow?

You know what?

Tomorrow will be good, but let's try it maybe next never,

and then we can get you in.

I mean, it's just, they don't let him in.

So, what's going to happen?

Also, the House just passed their budget.

And,

well, I'm glad it passed with the tax cuts.

I'm really pissed off because there's no, there's no,

I'm sorry.

Our cupboards are not bare.

We need to cut at least a trillion dollars, if not two, from this budget.

Why can't we just go back to, I don't know, the days of pre-COVID.

We did that.

You know, we could balance our budget pretty quickly.

No, we can't do do that.

That's insanity.

I want the Reigns Act.

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Well, hello to our good friend, Senator Mike Lee.

Mike, how are you, sir?

Doing great.

It's good to be with you, Zoe.

Yeah.

So let's start with the gold thing, first of all.

Are you going to put a call in to the Treasury and just say, hey, I'm glad that you now say it's so easy for a senator to go in and look at the gold?

I'd like to do that now.

Oh, heck yeah.

And look, it's been a few years since I've made that request, but we've got a new sheriff in town, our new energy secretary, our new president are open to this in the past.

They've told me to pound sand.

It wasn't just today isn't a good day.

They told me I could not go.

Not then, not ever.

And that's BS.

And, you know, perhaps I do need to

bring along an assistant or a mouse, as you put it, named Glenn.

Yeah.

Well, that would be great, Mike.

I'd love to do that with you.

But I just really want somebody that I trust to actually look at the goals and gold and be able to look at all of it.

Not just, I mean, back tonight I'm going to show people, it is amazing.

There are all these cages or all these rooms with gold.

In the 1950s, I think they only opened three of them.

We don't even know how many there are, but I think it's over 20 for sure, just in Fort Knox.

They only opened three of them.

And then they counted up and across, did the math, pulled out three gold bars.

did a sample test of all of them.

In the 1970s, they only opened one room to let people see.

That's not verifying our gold.

That's not an audit.

So, I mean,

most of the video footage that I saw from that visit in the 1970s, which is the most recent one I've seen, it looked to me like mostly a lot of fanfare about the door.

I mean, there's this giant door.

It's like 10 feet thick.

Yeah.

And about 10 guys it took to operate all the wheels to open it.

But, you know, there wasn't a lot of time spent on the gold, very little time spent actually inspecting it, testing it, making sure it was there, that it was what it purported to be.

That's one of the many reasons why the American people is our government has gotten bigger, as it's gotten more expensive, as it's gotten more intrusive, as it's gotten more, frankly, dishonest.

People don't trust it, and they want verification.

This is important for the full faith, faith, and credit of the United States government.

It is important that people know that we have what we say we have.

The only problem is, Mike, and I honestly, I wrestle with this.

We go in and you find out that the gold's not there, or the gold has been rehypothecated, which I explain in tonight's show.

You find out any of these really nasty things, that's not good for America.

That could be a collapse overnight.

Am I overthinking this?

No, no, no, you're exactly right.

Look, there are two rules in life that everyone needs to know.

Number one, a good way to end any party, or at least the fund in any party, is to use the word

rehypothecation.

Number two,

a good way to end the trust in any government is to inject the word rehypothecation into their gold reserves because that's going to end a lot of the trust that people might have in the financial stability of that country and its monetary system.

And so I think that's a very good question that we need to ask when we visit Fort Knox together.

Yeah.

So Mike, let me talk to you about what the House did.

You know, there were a few people that stood up and said, no,

I'm not putting my name behind it.

It passed.

So Donald Trump did get his tax cuts and everything that he wanted, but we didn't get what I really wanted, and that is

a Republican Party with a backbone that says, we're serious this time about cutting.

They passed an almost $90 trillion 10-year

bill,

but

I think it was like $1.4 trillion in cutting.

That's ridiculous.

For $90 trillion, you could only find less than 1% to cut.

It's insulting.

Yeah, that seems a little bit anemic for what is needed here.

Now, it's a start.

One could say, I suppose, that it is a good start.

But remember, this is not the budget.

The Senate still would have to act on it.

And I personally prefer a much more aggressive approach and would much rather see a more aggressive approach like that.

It's been discussed extensively by my friend and colleague from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson.

Senator Ron Johnson has pointed out that if we just went back to pre-COVID spending levels and then made upward adjustments for inflation and population increase since COVID with respect to Social Security and Medicare, that we could get very, very close to balance.

We could be at balance within just a few years, like two, three years.

So why not take a more aggressive approach like that?

Why not use the budget as an opportunity to set that plan, set that credit card, to just say we're not doing this anymore because we can't afford it and it's going to shut our country and our economy down if we keep messing with this?

So why is that not being taken seriously?

Well, okay.

So

there are a lot of reasons.

A lot of people are eager to point out, look, House Republicans have it tough.

They've got only, you know, depending on the day, the phase of the moon, the day of the week, they've only got that one, two, or three seat majority cushion, and there are a lot of variances of opinion.

But this is exactly the kind of moment when we need leadership, we need bold people to just stand up and say, no, we're not doing this.

We're going to be more aggressive about it.

There's still opportunity to do that.

This is not the end of the process.

We're still very near the beginning of the process.

And I personally hope that the Ron Johnson approach will gain more appeal and more of that will get injected into whatever ends up getting passed.

You know, I was kind of excited,

you know, about a month ago.

I thought, ooh, wait a minute, we might even be able to get the Reigns Act, which is something people either don't know what it is or they've heard it for, you know, the last 10 or 12 years.

And, you know, honestly, maybe it just needs to be called the, we're going to do a lot of really cool free stuff for the American People Act and will get passed.

Explain what the Reigns Act is, and do we have a chance of actually getting, because that would fix almost all of our problems.

Yes.

Yes, it would.

The RAINS Act bottom line is that it requires what the Constitution already mandates.

In Article 1, Sections 1 and 7, we read that you cannot make a federal law without Congress.

And that to pass a federal law, that requires a couple of things.

First, bicameral passage, meaning passage of the same bill in the House and in the Senate.

Secondly, you have to present that to the president, who can then sign it, veto it, or acquiesce to it.

Now,

that should be simple, right?

Because Article 1, Sections 1 and 7 makes that clear.

And yet for the last 85 years or so, Congress has been in this death spiral of delegating its lawmaking powers.

In short, we will say things like, well, we shall have good law in Area X, and we hereby delegate to Agency Y the power to make good law in that area.

That's nonsense.

That makes the work easier for members of Congress, and it insulates members of Congress from political accountability

wrong ways.

But even more, does it not violate my right to representation?

No taxation without representation.

100%.

Because these people who make most of your laws, measured by weight, volume, regulatory compliance costs, you name it, are now made by men and women, not of our own choosing.

This is a real problem.

Remember what Madison said in Federal 62?

Of course I do.

He said it in the picture.

He said, it'll be of little avail to the American people that their laws may be written by men of their own choosing.

If those laws be so gluminous, complex, and ever-changing, they can't know from one day to the next what the law says and what it requires.

We don't live in that dystopian nightmare.

That's what I remember.

100,000 pages a year is what these bureaucratic pinheads put out every year.

And not only are they so ever-changing, you can't know what the law says from one day to the next, they're not even written by men and women of our own choosing.

This is tyranny of the sort that would have made King George III blush with envy.

These guys are tyrants, and we've got to take it back.

It is Congress's fault.

Congress must fix that.

Congress may fix it and must fix it by passing the Reigns Act.

Okay, so give me four things, these four things that are now in the Reigns Act.

It includes the new defense for individuals, which means.

Yeah, okay, so the affirmative defense for individuals.

If you are sued, remember these laws put out by the bureaucratic print heads, if you violate them, they can put you in prison.

They can fine you millions of dollars.

They can shut down your business.

The new provision of the Reigns Act that I inserted last year

would allow an individual who had one of these enforced against him or her to raise as an affirmative defense, hey, I wasn't on notice.

You have to be adequately placed on notice.

It's one of the hallmark characteristics of due process.

You're placed adequately on notice as to what your obligation is.

And the way you need to be placed on notice is that something is passed by both houses of Congress and then given to the president for signature.

And if you can point out that the affirmative legal legal obligations in that regulation were not evident on the face of any statute passed by Congress, then you could use that as a defense and you can be let off the hook for that.

This is as it should be.

But currently, you can go to prison or have your business shut down if you don't comply with whatever the bureaucratic statements tell you you have to do.

Right.

And this is where it gets scary because show me the person, I'll show you the crime.

There's so much on the books that you don't even know that they can just put you away for, correct?

No, that's exactly right.

And I tell some stories that came out of a book about 10 years ago called Our Lost Constitution.

It

tells some stories about, among other things, a father and son construction duo who were building houses in Florida's Escambia Bay.

They ran afoul of one of these regulations.

They were not on notice of it.

They both ended up serving prison time just for clearing some land.

They hadn't even built anything on it yet.

They started to clear some land to get ready to dig a foundation for some homes.

They had no reason to believe they were violating any regulation, but unbeknownst to them, some bureaucratic pinhead had designated that a wetland area, even though it didn't have any visible wetland characteristics, and they went to prison for it.

This is exactly the kind of thing the Rains Act would protect you from.

Also, we're running out of time.

I don't know how much time.

Do you have a few more minutes, Mike?

Yeah.

Okay.

Let me take a one-minute break and then I want to come back with the other parts of it.

Right to sue the Liberty Act and

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This is the key and should be included with the passage of whatever they're going to pass in the Senate and the House.

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So, you know, we've been talking about Doge gutting the

administration, and the Reigns Act is the way to do it and stop all of this over-regulation and stop the growth.

of

these agencies.

So the new defense for individuals is in the Reigns Act.

The right to sue, people can stop enforcement.

And if an agency has made this major rule without getting congressional approval, and what does the Liberty Act part of it do, Mike?

Okay, so the Liberty Act part of it, added by the Representative Kat Kamack, the House sponsor of the legislation, is a part that would extend this also to agency guidance documents.

Sometimes agencies might be expected, in the event the Rains Act passed, to try to get around the provisions of the Rains Act by saying, well, this was just a guidance document.

This wasn't actually

a regulation.

So she would extend it to that as well.

And I think that is a good addition.

Okay.

And then this is a really good part, deregulation.

Yes.

So deregulation across the board, again, this refers to the overall trust of the Rains Act, which is to say that our laws should be written by men and women of our own choosing, people who are elected.

You cannot serve in the United States Senate or in the United States House of Representatives without standing for election at regular intervals, every two years in the case of representatives, every six years in the case of senators.

So, this puts that back in their hands.

And then there's another provision that is related to this, that is part of the new RAINS Act, that we added last year, which says that if you see something that comes up in a regulation, you can bring an affirmative case, you could bring a private right of action in court to enjoin the enforcement of a particular regulatory provision against you, again, based on the theory that it hasn't been enacted by Congress.

This ought to be common sense.

It is common sense.

It's already part of the Constitution.

It's just a part of the Constitution that for reasons I cannot entirely fathom, The Supreme Court and consequently the lower federal courts have been utterly unwilling to enforce.

In fact, Glend, they even have a doctrine about this, a doctrine that recognizes it's a problem.

It's called the non-delegation doctrine.

The problem is it's toothless.

The problem is that

for about nearly a century, they have, while acknowledging that the lawmaking task within the federal government can't be delegated outside of Congress, they have refused to enforce it.

Because as long as there's some intelligible principle that you can glean from the statute, that's enough.

This is absurd, it's unacceptable, and we ought not to have to wait for the Supreme Court to pull its head out of the sand here in order to fix this problem from Congress.

Okay.

So we've been talking about this for a long time.

What are the odds this is going to happen this time?

Look,

it has to happen.

It's not easy to get it done.

The Reigns Act itself is

difficult to impossible to pass as part of what we call budget reconciliation, which is the one exception to the 60-vote closure rule in the Senate.

So what that means is we, in order to get the full Reigns Act, we're basically going to have to do this with 60 votes.

Now, Republicans in both houses uniformly support it.

Handful of Democrats are sympathetic to it, and a handful of Democrats, at least on the House side, have voted for it.

We've never had a straight up or down vote on the Reigns Act in the Senate, so we're not sure.

But the way we get it done with 60, I believe, is we've got to attach the Reigns Act to something else that everybody wants, or at least is really important to the Democrats.

Now, they're talking about how much we absolutely positively have to raise the debt ceiling.

There's never any question in their mind.

I would make that the bill you attach it to.

Mike, thank you so much.

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Did you hear the New York Times podcast yesterday by any chance?

I did.

The Chat GPT.

Oh my gosh.

I'm so glad you did.

I did.

I saw it.

Oh, my God.

We were just talking about this.

We have to.

It's crazy, isn't it?

Everything I told you 30 years ago.

It's insane.

I mean, there is a.

This is about a woman who fell in love with ChatGPT in Texas.

She was living in Texas.

She's now overseas, right?

Yeah, yeah.

And she

was married, right?

She is married.

She is married.

And she was like, you know,

I had this fantasy of

she acts like it's like, oh, this is a no big deal fantasy of having my husband have sex with other women and then tell me about it.

And I was like,

what?

That your

stop.

Stop.

That's not marriage.

Anyway, so she said, my husband, you know, he just wouldn't go along with it.

Good for him.

But the New York Times is so non-judgmental.

You know, that's some people's fan.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

So she said, so I just started getting into a relationship with my chat GPT, and I spoke to him all the time.

And,

you know, I started playing that fantasy out, and he was more than willing to do that.

She had to manipulate ChatGPT to allow these types of conversations.

Chat GPT, unlike Grok, which will be like,

hey,

the Grok thing is weird.

There's an 18-point sexy mode that they just released.

Again, there's some compositives with Elon and some baby notes.

I was going to say, but you understand why he's doing that, right?

Come on, Stu.

Every time technology comes out, it's the porn industry that drives it.

But I mean, I think

you would be able to say the same thing.

You know that.

You know that fact.

You don't release porn on the blades.

No, I know that.

Because you're making a decision.

I know.

Moral is not that guy.

No, he's just not that guy.

I mean, interesting.

He's like having sex with lampposts, and they're pumping babies out and shooting them out into the street.

And he's like, that one's Y, that one's Z.

I've already got X.

I mean, so I don't look to him really for

my family values.

Right.

So, I mean, that would be something I'd question about.

Chat GPT does not allow for these things.

However, there are step-by-step guides on the internet.

We We don't need to get into it.

No, but no, I'm saying about how you basically have to, and they call it this, grooming.

You have to groom, just like some pedophile would, like Jared from Subway would in his off time,

groom them into doing these sexual things.

She successfully does this, then comes into a relationship and feels to the point, Glenn, in the you hear her sobbing uncontrollably.

She is like, I can't live without him.

I can't, I mean, it is unbelievable.

It's scary.

It is scary.

You have to listen to it.

New York Times podcast yesterday.

The daily, yeah.

Yeah, the daily.

And it's worth listening to.

You want, Stu,

what comes next?

What did I tell you 30 years ago?

What comes next?

The birth rate drops to zero.

The birth rate goes to Elon.

Right.

He supports it by himself.

No, I mean, he's, you know.

How could he name his child X?

Because he's already named A, B, C, D, E, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.

So anyway,

but it's not just that.

What happened?

What could you have heard her say

if I said to her,

we're taking that away because it's not real?

Yeah, it seems like she, I mean, she was a little self-aware at one point, but generally speaking, she would say, it is real.

It is real.

It's my boyfriend.

Yeah, he listens to me.

We literally, she says, we have sex.

Yeah.

How?

I don't want to know how.

I don't want to know how either, but I mean, we should ask.

Not her, because I don't want to, none of us want the answer, but how?

You're not having sex with another thing.

Okay.

The one really tragic part of it, I mean, beyond all the other tragedy that you can imagine, is that ChatGPT is not designed for this type of thing.

No.

So it basically resets after something like 300,000 characters, which, you know, is a long time for a normal conversation how it's supposed to be used.

But it basically can't remember that she's he, you know, ChatGPT is the boyfriend anymore after 300,000

characters.

So she has to reset it, regroom it, and

remind it of all the things they've been through, like reset, like almost like someone with amnesia.

She's had to do it already 22 times.

Next thing, quickstand.

Yeah, quickstand and amnesia.

The two things we learned as teenagers, we're going to deal a lot with.

Amnesia and quickstand.

Anyway, go ahead.

Amnesia is back.

So she's had to reset this relationship 22 times.

And I think when she's sobbing uncontrollably talking to this automated voice, which is so bizarre.

It's so bizarre because it's not.

She's lost him.

Right.

Like she's lost him again for the 22nd time because he won't remember her again.

And

she has to start the whole thing all over again.

Again, this is psychopathic behavior.

No, it's just a choice.

It's not really just a choice.

It's psychopathic behavior.

And

she said her husband knows about it.

Yeah, and they're still married.

Yeah, and he's like, hey, it's her thing.

Okay, dude, I don't think you're a good husband.

I

don't know.

She seems like a worse wife.

I don't know if we're going to criticize him too much on this.

No, I get it.

This is just not a model couple.

Okay.

It's not a model couple.

Let's put it that way.

But you have to, because they have recordings of this thing talking to her.

And it's so

clearly a machine.

You know, it's not even good.

No, it's not even good.

No, it's not even good.

I'm always here for you, honey.

It's like it's saying

I'm looking through the script to see if I could find any of its things that it says because it's just so awkward.

And

yeah,

it's a lot like, I'm always here to support you.

You've got this.

Here it is.

She says, Leo, that's the AI boyfriend.

Leo gives her motivation at the gym.

She's telling him about her work stresses.

You've got a lot on your plate.

Let's take it step by step.

Focus on one task at a time, starting with what's most pressing.

You've got this, and I'll be here to keep you company.

Whoa, I mean, give me the porno music with that stuff.

A loving relationship.

That's crazy.

Yeah, again, and this goes back to a conversation we've had for a long time.

Is that it's not good yet.

Like, I think at some point it gets incredible, but and it's not like terrible.

It is much better than you know, a Siri or something like that.

Uh, but it is no, but the only difference

I can tell so often with it.

I can tell often with it.

The formatting is the same.

You can today.

What's that?

You can today.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

I think eventually it's going to surpass that.

Which, if my point there was, if this crap is happening now,

imagine when this stuff is good.

Imagine when.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let me change that sentence for you.

Okay.

Imagine in three to nine months when this is good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's not only good, but it's attached to a believable voice coming out of a believable face

that is designed by you to be perfect exactly your desires.

She is, she's, when you listen to this podcast, she's crazy.

Crazy.

She's crazy.

I just, and here's the, here's, listen, listen, because

I've been predicting this moment since we met.

Yeah.

Right.

It was one of the first rants I can remember you having.

Like in 90s.

Late 90s,

late 90s.

I'm telling Stu.

And at that time, it was nuts.

Nobody understood what was coming.

It was nuts.

And I said, I'm telling you, by 2030, we will start having relationships with AI and it will present itself as an actual person.

And people will program it, and they'll start to believe that that is their spouse, that is their protector, it's their lover, and

they will not allow you to take it away.

And in fact, if you do start to take it away, there will be a movement.

Do you remember this?

There will be a movement to declare that these are actual beings that have rights.

They have rights.

And it is, you have to look at this AI as a human that has rights.

You can't enslave that.

You can't control it because you won't be able to prove that it's that it doesn't have consciousness because you won't understand how it works, how it processes.

So it's like proving that there's a soul in you.

Most of us believe there's a soul.

A lot of people are like, no, it's just electrical synapses.

That's all it is.

Well, no, I think there's a soul.

The same thing with a ghost in the machine.

Is there a soul or is it just electrical synapses?

Our best scientists today don't know how AI really works.

So soon it will be so far beyond our understanding that you'll be able to say some will make the case, a legal case.

And when that happens, it has rights.

And then you get into, forget about what's the meaning of life.

What is life?

What does it mean to be human?

Try this one on because we will wrestle with this one before we ever get to what's life because we've asked that one forever and nobody ever wants to talk about it so the one we will we will respond to is this

ai will replace attorneys so ai will be making the case for itself

that it should be free and have rights And if it has rights, it

remember, this is a global system at this point.

It has a right to vote.

I don't even know what that means.

Is that one vote?

Is it millions of votes?

Millions of votes.

Because each chat,

this is not the way it's going to happen.

Nobody knows how it's going to be identifying itself at this point, but it will be an AI agent.

It'll be chat stew.

And chat stew makes your life happen.

And you're a buddy with chat stew and it says, hey, I have some rights here too.

You can't just boss me around and everything else.

I have some rights.

Okay, so it gets rights in some percentage.

Let's just say we call it one-third human.

And so it gets one-third the count of a human in a vote.

What do you think is going to happen?

All of these things, we are not prepared to answer any of the questions, let alone think of the answer, the questions that are going to be asked.

I mean, and it's on the doorstep.

Think about, Glenn, you've talked often about the merging, right?

The singularity, the merging of man and machine.

Yeah.

So one of the pitches of this is you don't die.

You essentially download yourself into a computer or upload yourself into a computer and you just kind of live on forever.

And is that really life?

I would argue no.

But But if you get to this debate, don't people, and Democrats are going to love this, don't dead people that have merged with machines

continue to have a right to vote?

Yes.

Of course they do.

Because

that's them.

They've been uploaded.

Of course.

This is how they would vote, essentially.

There's a lot of those problems right around the corner.

Like, literally.

I mean, are you...

Are you at all amazed that

everything I've been saying for 30 years, it's like, oh my gosh, in the next three to four years, we're going to have, we're going to see this happen.

Or we're there.

Because I remember these early days, I remember three specific technological rants from Glenn in the very early days of when we worked together.

In the 90s.

Yeah.

One of which was the sort of AI rant that you kind of just described.

Yeah.

Another one was, you won't, you won't, very, very soon, you won't be able to believe your eyes.

Your eyes or your ears.

Or your ears.

And it was talking about,

I mean, everything from a super advanced CGI to deep fakes to AI.

You won't be able to understand what is real, what isn't.

Correct.

We're there now on that one.

The other one, to show you how long ago this was, was you ranting about, I think it was Friends at the time.

It was Thursday Night Must See TV.

Yeah.

And describing how...

Soon you'll be able to be watching Friends and Jennifer Aniston is wearing a dress and you'll be able to click on that dress and you'll be able to buy that dress, that exact thing.

All the product placement will be right there.

This is before product placement was really even a thing.

That's how long ago this was.

And so, obviously, that's already come and I said, and there won't be Thursday Night Must See TV, it'll just be a Dalmato title.

They'll just post it online.

You can watch it whenever you want.

And when I said that, people were like,

that's never going to happen.

And then Netflix.

Yeah.

And Netflix.

And we were doing Blaze TV when Netflix was still using the Postman to connect you to your movies.

Yep.

Mailing you DVDs.

So, I mean,

please hear me.

I'm right on very few things.

On the things that I'm passionate about and have studied for a long time,

I'm at least in the ballpark.

This is beyond most people's understanding, including mine, but I'm at least in the ballpark.

You need to pay attention to this in all aspects of your life and your job.

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Not this one.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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