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This is what I would have him come out and say: My fellow Americans, today we stand together at the dawn of a new chapter in our nation's history.

This moment is not just about a new administration.

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I'm going to ensure that justice is blind.

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It has no place in a free society.

We're going to restore common law in our courtrooms, common sense in our schools, and common decency in our public discourse.

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A nation without borders, a nation without laws is a nation that does not exist.

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Lives, this is not compassion, this is chaos, and it ends now.

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Domestically, this is a moment of healing.

Our wounds and division have scarred our nation.

They haven't broken us, but they've scarred us.

To those who have felt forgotten, I want you to know today I see you.

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Welcome to the Glen Beck Program live from Washington, D.C.

The Blaze News senior editor for politics and Blaze Media Washington correspondent and overall good guy and also the author of the Beltwig brief at theblaze.com slash Bedford, something you should read every morning when it comes.

Chris

Bedford is with us now.

And,

you know, Chris, I said something about the Capitol earlier, and I said it just to make sure that everybody was listening.

I was wondering.

That's what that was?

Yeah, that's what it was.

I was just making sure.

Actually, correction here on

the outdoor inauguration.

Yes, Ronald Reagan did move the inauguration, and he did it in a populist direction.

He's the first one to move it to the west side of the Capitol, facing the National Mall with that big, beautiful shot.

So you've seen outdoor inaugurations before.

You can see the old photograph of Lincoln's second inaugural with Trump's booth is in the crowd.

All right.

Calvin Coolidge, but it was always facing East Capitol.

It was even harder to get a ticket back then.

Now, is the East Capitol indoors?

Shut up.

Dome over it.

Is that what a shut up?

Yes.

Yes.

An iron iron dome.

An iron dome.

An iron dome.

Yeah, I should have.

I should have.

I mean, we were just talking about a William Henry Harrison is the guy who caught cold and died 30 days because didn't he speak for like two hours?

He just kept going on and on and on.

And they're like, oh, I wish he would die.

And 31 days later, he died.

And his doctors were called incompetent for that.

And I think the responsibility really was his.

quite honestly.

Well, it doesn't really have anything to do with cold, right?

That's not true.

Shut up, Stu.

Are you a doctor?

Are you a doctor?

Well, you know, his hair was wet.

When it's cold indoors, you can get it that way.

I think like when he was on the other side of the Capitol.

The dome.

All right.

So, Chris, how are things?

What are you expecting today?

What has the weekend been like for you?

What have you seen and witnessed?

The weekends, I mean, people have still descended on Washington, D.C.

Even though so much has been canceled of the public events, non-refundable Fortnites and hotels in D.C.

have not been canceled.

So a lot of people decided to instead pack out the bars and restaurants, go to these brunches, go to the concerts.

And it's been such an incredible shift in the vibe from 2017 when we were told that nothing was...

I mean, now you've got designer brands advertising that they're dressing the second lady.

Unbelievable, isn't it?

Snoop Dogg performing at these events.

It is...

The whole thing has changed.

And actually, for the first time,

the first inauguration I attended in person, also very cold, was George W.

Bush's second inaugural.

And the big difference here is how hard it's been to get a ticket to anything.

D.C.

thrives off of free tickets.

People at D.C.

don't like, they spend your money on a million.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lord knows they're not spending their money getting to the party.

This year they can't because Silicon Valley, corporate America, everyone's ponied up.

$200 million raised for a $50 million event that's been canceled.

All of those tickets have evaporated.

They've gone away and they've gone to people who've paid for them, which, you know, it's a wonderful thing to have a sold-out event, but it is tough for us

guys here in D.C.

who just like a free beer.

Right.

I have to tell you,

the change is absolutely remarkable.

I attended

the YouTube,

I don't even know what they call it, get-together.

There's about 30

YouTubers that were influencers that were invited.

And I'm standing there, and the CEO of YouTube comes up, very nice guy.

But he tells me about, you don't know how hard it's been to hold the line, you know, there at YouTube to keep, you know, keep things going.

And you guys are really important.

And I thought to myself, wow, everything has changed.

I'm hearing the president of YouTube tell me about how hard it was to hold the line on freedom of speech.

I didn't expect that one.

uh coming and i didn't i don't think anybody in the room expected to be sitting in the room with youtube i don't know,

and hearing praise just six months ago.

But here we are.

And it's wonderful.

And in 2017, I went to a party with Facebook that we threw with the Daily Color for the inauguration.

And it was a grim, even though it was a great success as far as any kind of event goes, it was a grim atmosphere for the employees.

And it was the last thing that they did with conservatives for years and years after

because of the revolt.

And one of the things that Trump will hopefully be able to accomplish, and Bill Barr gave a hint of this at the end of Trump's first term, which is penalizing and going after companies that discriminate against white men as calling that racial discrimination.

No need to change any laws.

These things are already on the books.

And a lot of these CEOs, they're just, they're risk averse.

So when they're faced with an angry HR department run by

woke college graduates,

they just kind of run away.

This sort of thing, this sort of action will give them the legal tools to say no.

And they don't have to be the bad guy.

They can say, it's not my fault.

And I don't think they would have wanted to say no a few few years ago, but they now see that

they're running with a pack of revolutionaries.

They're not afraid of Donald Trump as much as they're afraid of their own employees and what those employees can do to their companies.

And they're trying to, you know, run for cover as much as they possibly can.

But again, you know, I really don't think that

I think people like Mark Zuckerberg, I hate to say this, but

I think he's a coward and he's using the cover of Elon Musk and others to go, hey, hey, the world's changing.

The world's changing.

He's got to get away from these revolutionaries that are in his company, but they're the ones who actually run it.

And

I think they're afraid.

He wants to be liked.

That's his whole thing.

That's Facebook's whole thing.

He wants to be liked.

And even during the darkest days of Facebook censorship, he was always trying to get up ahead and blame other people for it.

So he set up the whole outside fact checkers department.

So he would say, unlike early Twitter, I'm not going to to do the fact checking.

It's not my fault.

Someone else did it.

Some nonprofit funded in Europe is fact-checking American articles at the blaze and trying to shut them down for printing entirely true things.

And he's kind of maybe like a techno-libertarian futurist in a way.

He's not ideological like Jeff Bezos might be.

He's someone who's just trying to thread the needle.

And because of that and the cowardice with it, he's ended up making everyone upset.

Yeah.

So

let's just talk just for 30 seconds about TikTok.

TikTok is the president has now said a delay on the implementation of a law that was passed by Congress.

I don't know how you do that through executive order, but he's delaying it.

How do you feel about TikTok?

I mean, I think that TikTok is generally brain rot, and I would love those sorts of things to not be allowed in general.

But what the law that Congress passed is so narrow, it just says, hey, you can have TikTok.

It just can't be controlled by the Chinese military.

And that seems like a pretty basic thing.

And so many people have been obfuscating on that.

But at the same time, Donald Trump got more impressions on TikTok with his videos and the things he put out than on any other social media platform.

It's something that he said, all right, fine, it's a weapon against the American people.

It's spying on them.

All of big tech is spying on the American people and weaponized against them, as we've learned.

But he's going to try, and

I suspect he'll try to thread the needle on doing the art of the deal here, where he gets someone to buy TikTok, to take his hands off it.

He says, look, I've preserved TikTok.

I've allowed it.

But you have to force that sale.

Congress and Supreme Court have backed it.

So let's turn to what happened just this morning.

I mean, Joe Biden, even if he knows he's still president of the United States and knows what the name of shoes are,

it would surprise me.

But

again,

in just shocking news, he

pardoned everybody part of January 6th, all of the police officers that testified.

He pardoned Fauci.

I mean, everyone just this morning.

Say involved in January 6th.

You mean the January 6th committee?

Yeah, the committee.

No one was involved.

Yeah,

nobody was actually in parading

all those

grandparents and all those old ladies.

They should rot in jail.

But

anybody that was on the committee.

And like their aides.

Yes, everybody.

He went deep on this.

Again, there's no real reason to believe something like this could even hold up.

I don't think it holds up to scrutiny.

I don't think you can just pardon people for.

Yeah, I think you can.

I think the president can.

There's real questions on that.

I mean, I know the Brookings Institution wrote back when they were, you know, again, when they were talking about Trump doing it for his family, all these places came out and said, actually, you can't do it like that.

I don't know.

Well, he did it for Hunter.

He's done it for a while.

I know, but I don't think that's.

I don't think those are legal.

That would be fantastic.

If that's true, I think the easiest thing to do is to call all those people back in front of Congress.

Exactly.

Here's what you...

You can't plead the fifth.

Yes.

You can't be implicated.

Investigate.

I'm not really interested in putting some of these people.

Some of these people obviously deserve to go to prison, but that's not the main goal here.

The main goal here is to find the truth, that the American people know it.

There's no more pleading the fifth if you've got a blanket pardon.

So get your butt in front of Congress or you will be arrested because the last administration set the precedent that

if you defy Congress, you are under arrest and going to prison.

Put them out

in front of the committees and get to the bottom of it.

Yep.

And I wonder how well that would go.

All right.

We're going to continue.

You're going to stick around, be with us for the broadcast a little later.

I want to talk about the executive orders that are coming through

right now that we're beginning to know.

He's going to sign kind of an omnibus of

executive orders.

Up to 200 executive orders are happening today.

That is an extraordinary number of executive orders.

I do not like executive orders being

the way of governing, but he's mainly undoing everything that has been done to this country by Joe Biden.

That makes me feel a little bit better about it.

Like, I think you could, because you could go back and find clips of both of us certainly saying how bad executive orders are.

They are.

And they are.

I don't like, that's not our system of government.

All this stuff cannot stand just through executive order.

Or if, God forbid, we lose the next term, this president will just, the next president will just reverse all of those orders.

You cannot run a country like this i do feel like it would be worth pursuing some of these changes in with congress but

when when a bunch of really egregious things happen in in this previous administration the the only way to quickly reverse the damage is to do it by executive order and if it was put in by executive order yeah you can do it that way when it's a law you have to go through congress um so that's a different story but most of this stuff isn't these aren't laws these are just terrible things that that Biden's done.

And so I'm excited.

It's going to be a fun day today.

We're going to have a lot to report on.

I mean, they were saying there's maybe as many as 200 executive orders today.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

I've got some of them.

I've got a list of quite a few of them, and they are stunning.

Can we add some?

Can we just like, is there a place to submit them?

Can we just like, you know, maybe just write them up on like post-it notes and see if we can just give them to the president before he walks up there?

Back in just a second with more.

Our Blaze TV coverage of the inauguration begins at 11 a.m.

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Why?

Why?

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There you go.

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And you were in the.

What Hall of Fame was it?

Was it the Baseball?

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Baseball's Hall of Fame.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

All right.

Hello, Stu.

Glenn, how are you?

Oh, my gosh.

Exciting.

It's an exciting day.

Oh, it's so exciting.

It is, really, though.

No, it is.

I actually am optimistic.

I said this last night to several people.

Came up.

How are you doing, Glenn?

What are you feeling?

And I'm like, I'm optimistic since the first time since 9-11.

So

it's been a long time since I've been optimistic.

Wait, you were optimistic on 9-11?

No, no, no.

No, I was.

Ahmed Atta we're talking to?

Yeah, from midnight till 8 a.m., I was optimistic and then it went away.

Okay, you got it?

Jeez.

Give me a break.

I'm operating out of like two and a half hours sleep, and it wasn't good sleep either.

This is why I'm taking advantage of it.

I can tell you have no sleep.

I have no sleep.

Every mistake you make, I'm going to call you a terror.

Thank you.

That's a wow.

That's kind of a hard lie.

Yeah, it is.

Kind of a hard time.

Julio is here.

He's Blaze Media National Correspondent.

Hello, how are you?

I'm excited too.

Are you?

I'm excited too.

Although, I wouldn't say since 9-11, because I think I was in like first grade or something.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you for that.

That makes you even feel old.

Imagine how I feel.

So you're going out, and now I'm kind of glad we're sending you into the dangerous one after that comment.

But you're going out, and you're going to be

mixed in with the protesters today.

Have you been here this weekend and been kind of watching them a little bit?

Yeah, and I mean, and we were talking about this before.

I mean, it is certainly a stark difference from 2016, 2017.

I mean, because everyone was so shocked.

I mean, I was shocked when Trump won, right?

And so that's why there was that initial outburst.

And actually, that's what got me to go into journalism full time because, like, I remember on election night seeing protests from students in California after the results were called since it wasn't too late for them and just realizing in that moment that we were about to enter like a whole new set of craziness.

And then, of course, you know, then 2020 happened, which, you know,

blew everything off its doors.

And so

I will say I'm a little bit shocked at how low energy the street resistance has been since the election.

I was expecting a little bit more on election night and nothing happened.

I'm not expecting too much craziness.

Again, like 2017 today, because it is so cold.

I mean, it feels like 10 degrees outside.

But I think once, you know, like with the executive orders, with the border and immigration and then the legislation that will come after that, I think that's going to kind of reincentivize people to get back out there because we just saw this, I mean, even just like last week over in Bakersfield in California, where there was reports of ICE raids and a lot of, you know, immigration, pro-immigration protesters showed up and just started protesting.

It didn't get, you know, violent or anything, but it kind of shows that, you know, now you put that on a national, you know, scale where it's front and center.

Trump is going to be, you know, sounding the horn on that again and again.

He's going to hit that over and over.

I think people are going to start to get back out into the streets again.

And I'll be sure to be there for what happens.

Good for you.

So we don't have to be.

You're going to be out there.

Isn't it surprising, too, that it was the women's march in 2017?

They added all the other 93 genders.

It's now the People's March.

Same organization.

And there's fewer people.

And some non-people, people who

describe themselves as non-people.

It's sad.

Oh, it's now no one's out there.

And I think they've already put the litter boxes out for.

You know, that's the nice thing about these protests.

They get a permit.

Usually you have to have

porta potties, but they just put a box with

a litter box in there, and then they can scratch and poop right there in the little box.

It's very nice.

Scratching posts are a nice box.

Yes, yes, yes.

So

what do you think is

how much of this is real?

How much of this is people that

are like, you know what, I've seen the light.

I'm not going to go protest.

And how much is I'm going to keep my powder dry?

And

we're planning and plotting.

I think it's still very much in the planning and plotting stage because, I mean,

that's one of the kind of the big polls that they're kind of dancing around in terms of what they're going to be out there for is immigration.

I mean, they're saying, you know, refugees are welcome here, you know, all of that.

And so I think once then the media hype around that where, you know, they're going to try to have their own narratives around.

These kids are being taken from their parents that don't look like a parent, but they look more like they're selling those kids into sla sex slavery yeah i i understand that's coming yeah so i think that's going to kind of reinvigorate people i mean i think that's kind of like kind of the word for today is for at least for the leftist side is that they're just kind of waiting and seeing what actually because i think i think some of them are hoping that oh well oh trump didn't follow through the first time so he's not going to follow through the second time but i mean a lot has obviously changed i mean the guy got shot at for pete's sake oh yeah um so i i don't think I don't think on the big stuff, because also just because, I mean, he, I mean, he can't, he can't, Republicans, the gop as a whole they can't fail on this issue

this was i mean the fact that the border and immigration was essentially number two behind the economy which the economy was affected by the out-of-control immigration border i mean that is a big that is a big deal and the fact that we've saw you know latino heavy districts and big cities and states like pennsylvania go towards trump i mean this is a layup this is a layup for the republican party here in washington um so let's hopefully they they take that right i will tell you,

the people I talked to in the last couple of days, they're all cautiously optimistic.

Anybody who has spoken to the president in the last few weeks, and I would agree with this over the last few months, but anybody who is as he is getting ready to go into the White House, they say he is laser-focused and he is going to complete this mission.

And top priority is to secure the nation and its borders.

Yeah, and so I think ⁇ so once that starts to happen, I think then we're going to see the ⁇ because there's precedent with the first Trump administration.

I mean, in the Pacific Northwest

in 2020, the ICE facility,

even though it was mainly a local police thing, they targeted the ICE facility there just because it's Trump's

ICE.

And in Washington, they had that Antifa guy try to firebomb and try to set on fire the ICE station there.

So there is serious potential for things to get out of control from the left.

Have you ever seen anything change this much?

I mean, the polling is 80%

of the American people are saying send back, deport.

Have you seen the latest polls that came out this weekend?

I mean, it's stunning.

It has moved a lot.

A lot.

Whether that holds is interesting.

I mean, you do see, you know, there is a vibe part of this, right?

And that's, I think, what makes today feel really good.

Like the vibes feel good.

And I feel like it's been a long time since the vibes felt, you know, good.

I don't even think, I don't think the Trump maybe since 9-11.

Is that what you're saying?

You were the board in the plane that was.

You were the one that just said, really, 9-11, the vibes were good, huh?

I said it hasn't been a lot.

It's been a long time since the vibes were good.

Even in the first Trump term,

it had a different vibe, right?

It was like, ah, gosh, things are really, really bad.

And we need to change and we need to make America great again.

And of course, there's a positive strain in that as well.

Here, though, it feels different.

It feels like, whoa, this is really happening.

Something's really changing today.

Oh, there's, yeah.

I think we're on, I was talking to Patrick Bet David last night, and I think that guy really gets it.

And

we were standing there in a room full of people that were,

you know, just sucking up to those who are suddenly on their side.

And we're just standing there going,

These people are not going to have any idea what hit them.

I mean, really,

you're believing that these people are now suddenly.

Oh my gosh.

I have been such an admirer of yours for so long.

And thank goodness, Trump's in, and you're like, you are such a fraud and phony.

I can't take it.

But it's good that that happens.

It just

is a rattlesnake a good pet.

Yes.

As long as you always remember it's a rattlesnake.

As long as we understand YouTube and Facebook and all of these people that are now coming on board are rattlesnakes that have bit us several times before, treat them like a rattlesnake.

You are great.

You're going to stay in that little aquarium.

Whenever I'm around, I'm putting you inside of that aquarium.

We can knock on the glass and say hi to each other, but I know who you are.

And

Patrick and I were just talking about how there is real change coming beyond what you think is happening with Donald Trump.

There is

we are at a place where it's almost like

a change of an epoch.

It is it's a it's it we're entering a new time period, I really believe.

And that encompasses not only politics, but AI and everything else that goes with it.

Julio, who are the people that are here today?

Who's really actually funding this and running all of this stuff?

Well, so we have, I mean, it's kind of, it's always usually the same actors, right?

I mean, we have the Answer Coalition, Code Pink has been out and about, the Democratic Socialists of America.

I mean,

it is like

the left's machine because that has been in place since 2020.

Obviously, they've had that infrastructure for a long time and they had their, you know, their street, their street community organizers.

But 2020 2020 really saw the money really start to flow uh into into that because it was the it was the thing to do from you know from all different sectors of the country um and so even though yeah the riots stopped they never the that infrastructure stayed in place and we kind of saw that get reinvigorated uh you know kind of get restarted uh after october 7th um and um although i've i've noticed that even before the ceasefire uh came into agreement for months that that movement had really slowed down a lot maybe just because they their their popularity did not increase which is surprise surprise you block people going to the airport with you know their traffic right you're not going to make any friends although that's the point that's that's why they were doing that um so i think i think i'm i think the main thing that is going to get these people to do radical things beyond just street protesting um is going to be the issue of immigration and and that's why it's going to be such a it's going to be an uphill battle on certain areas just because like yeah you're right you know the polling is fine right now,

but

for better or for worse, Americans don't really have a stomach to do what's necessary because even with the action to take against the Mexican cartels, I mean, we've been doing the law enforcement approach for decades.

Oh, I think that's going to change.

Right.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That law enforcement approach is not working.

So something has to change.

And it seems the Trump administration says, all right, we're going to use the military.

There'll be a lot of people who would be like, whoa, wait a minute.

Like, what does this mean?

And so, but the war on drugs.

Right.

It's actually going to heat up and be, and look like a war.

Right.

And so it just depends whether the majority of the American people are going to be able to stomach that.

I kind of have some doubts about it just because of stuff that I've seen, stuff that I know about what happens in Mexico,

unfortunately.

But

the status quo can't, can't, something needs to be radically

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