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We want to welcome a broadcasting friend, Jerry Agar.

He's the host of the Jerry Agar Show up in Canada, in Toronto.

He's also a columnist for the Toronto Sun.

And he just happened to be by, and I wanted to talk to him about what's happening in Canada because

as he'll explain, Americans should care what's happening in Canada right now.

Things are really,

really,

they make as much sense as they do here in America.

You have a scandal going up in Canada that I think most people in America haven't paid attention to, and that is

these unmarked graveyards of these state schools for you call them First Nations, Native Americans.

Yes, residential schools.

They were called.

Canada and the United States both have that history.

Right.

In Canada, it didn't end until 1996.

This is a case of children who were taken by force from their families.

In fact, one woman who was in one of the schools, because it ended only in the 90s, there are lots of people who were in the school as children, and there are lots of people still around who administered the whole thing from the government and church levels as well.

The churches were running the schools.

And one lady testified, my family took me to the school because it was your daughter goes to the school or one of you, two parents, goes to prison.

Wow.

Yes.

That happened in both countries.

And the reason that I say this is something that Americans should be paying attention to is

the history of the schools has been known.

And the fact that numbers of kids died and parents sometimes weren't even notified.

They were just buried out behind the school.

That's been known to some degree, but not as much.

But all of a sudden, people started actually looking for bodies.

And they went out with ground-penetrating radar and they found over a thousand of them.

Now, there are native leaders who are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's be careful here because this is not necessarily a mass grave.

This is the local cemetery.

In some cases, you've got adults buried there, you've got other people.

So an investigation has to continue.

But that hasn't stopped people from burning down churches.

Oh, well, why wait for an investigation, Glenn?

Yeah, okay.

Let's burn down churches.

Yeah.

Okay.

Both our countries, tragically, and many countries have people who that's what they live for, is to just go, let's, because we burned down Portland, so now let's see if we can burn down Canada.

Right.

You know, it's that kind of thing, right?

Okay, so

we don't know if

any of these graves are from children that just disappeared, or do we know that?

I don't think we do know definitively.

But we suspect.

Yes, that's what the investigation is about.

Look, let's start with this.

It was a racist policy on the part of both nations.

The concept was

kill the Indian, save the child.

And as a friend of mine who didn't go to the schools, Art Wanich is his name.

He's indigenous, he's native, but family members did.

And as he said, it was kill the Indian, save the child.

They forgot about the save the child part.

But as if that is even any better.

It's interesting that you say, kill the Indian, save the child, where the policies here in America in our schools now is a lighter version of that.

Make the child the most unlike their parents as possible to stop the furthering of that

kind of thinking.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, sure.

That's what they were trying to do.

They were trying to Canadianize or Americanize Native Americans.

Right.

They had to learn how to assimilate into society or be forced to assimilate into society, to forget their native language, their native cultures, and, of course, be saved from

their heathen nature and be Christianized.

The amazing thing is that the vast majority of Native people in Canada are Christian.

And it's their churches that are being burned down in some cases.

These are churches that were built by Native people.

And so, but see, none of that matters to activist types who, by the way, are not necessarily individuals in ratty t-shirts and jeans in their mom's basement who go out and cause trouble.

The civil liberties people in Canada, the bar association of one of the Eastern Canadian associations, was speaking, well, you know, this was terrible, and we understand why they're burning down the churches.

And one activist even went so far as to say, well, look, this is not a hate crime.

It's not like burning a mosque, which, you know, as the New York Post wrote, well, it's kind of like saying, you know what, the Catholic Church had in common.

And there's been that kind of an apology, too, for Black Lives Matter and

anti-faw activists in the United States when they caused damage.

Okay, so

they're burning down the churches and they're condemning

something that should be condemned.

And we would all condemn the actions like that of our governments in the past.

However,

they're going after the past.

They're not actually going after the people who are still alive who may have done it.

Yeah, that's an amazing thing.

And the Prime Minister wants to blame us all.

He wants every Canadian to kneel down and be embarrassed.

And there's one he won't mention.

His father.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister, during the time of the residential schools.

But apparently nobody in the Liberal government wants to mention that.

He can't even say, you know, I'll start it by apologizing on behalf of my own family.

That would be kind of helpful, wouldn't it?

We can't do anything about Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

He's dead.

But I identified for my listeners and readers in Canada,

a number, a handful of former ministers of Indian and Northern Affairs.

That's what it was.

called at the time.

They're still alive.

One of them is a former mayor of the city of Toronto.

He's probably not happy with me.

His name is David Crombie.

And there are prime ministers still alive who were in position as prime minister while the school system continued.

No, I'm not saying they should be jailed, but they should be brought to an investigation.

Stop lecturing me as an average Canadian and bring these people in as part of the investigation.

What were you thinking?

So there's two classes of people now.

Gosh, who was I talking to yesterday that was talking about this?

May have been Laura Logan, that there's going to be two classes of people.

Those that are monitored and those that aren't.

So those who are in the right class, they're the leaders, the globalists, whatever, they're not going to pay for any mistakes.

No.

But we will.

We will.

But they won't.

When David Crombie, this is my prediction, when David Crombie dies, his eulogy will be former mayor of the city of Toronto.

The nickname was the tiny perfect mayor.

Order of Canada recipient.

Order of Ontario recipient.

All of these good works that he did.

Oh, by the way, helped run the residential.

No, no, no, let's not talk about that.

Let's just burn some churches down instead.

What advice do you have for us?

Because I can't imagine being on the radio in Canada.

Why not?

You've got your own issues you deal with.

You could deal with it.

You're farther along, aren't you?

Well, here's why I say Americans should care about this.

The Secretary of the Interior has ordered an investigation of residential schools in America to get out there with the ground-penetrating radar, I think is what they want, and start looking for bodies.

Well, they're going to find them.

And if that happens, do you start to see the churches burned down here?

Glenn, you know very well there are people who want to burn churches down anyway.

Yeah.

So this is just the, you know, the go signal, the flag.

Go burn some churches down.

But are they burning the churches down that were involved with these schools?

What is the church connection?

They were the leadership of these schools?

Well, they're Catholic churches.

And the Catholic church ran not all, but a higher percentage of the residential schools.

So they've decided, and the Catholic Church is a handy target, right?

First of all, because they're so big.

And secondly, because of everything they went through years ago here with

the other controversy.

And so they're an easy target.

And, you know, you don't have to be a talk show host or a columnist for very long to know there are some virulently anti-religious people.

I have not encountered them.

Yo,

that's my warning to you, Blen.

Wow, let's write that down.

Somebody make a note.

Yeah, because those people are just waiting for a chance, and that's what's happening here.

You know, should there be an investigation?

Yes.

There are Native leaders who are coming out and condemning the burning of the churches because, in many cases, they are churches built, run, and congregated by Native people.

It's amazing.

The people who are, I just said yesterday, we were talking about Black Lives Matter and

how African Americans are getting screwed again, again.

Black Lives Matter marches in the streets.

They get the police to go away.

Who's paying for all of the cleanup?

How are these businesses faring now without police?

The ones who are crying out for help

are the people who are left behind in that community.

They are being slammed again.

The same thing is happening over and over and over again.

When you have these churches that are being burned down in the Native American community, who's suffering?

The Catholic Church or the people who would go to that church?

The people who want to go to church and maybe pray about the situation at hand.

The investigation that needs to happen is necessary.

And whatever comes out comes out.

I heard you speaking to some young people on Monday, not on the air.

You were speaking speaking to some young people.

And,

you know, you talked about how sometimes the truth is irrelevant.

People get that tiny little kernel of thing that

they want to seize on, like the anti-religious people, and they're going to go 100%.

Let's start burning down the churches.

Even the native people saying, could we have an investigation?

Could we all calm down a little bit?

No, no, no.

And

look.

This would, I don't make many predictions of what I think will happen in the future, and I would be, I'll make one, and I'd be happy to be wrong about this.

But I think you're going to see the same thing here.

That we will start to see

bodies being found, searched for, and then the eruption that will happen.

Because if they do find some bodies, why wouldn't that eruption happen in America?

Well, that sounds completely reasonable.

Reasonable.

And something we can blame Canada for.

Thanks a lot for sending that across the border.

Oh, if you

hardcore leftist activism, open up the border.

No, thank you.

We already have that.

Jerry Agar, the host of the Jerry Agar Show.

He's also a columnist for the Toronto Sun.

And you can find him on the website, newstalk1010.com.

Also, follow him on Twitter at Jerry Agar1010.

I don't know if you care about this sort of stuff, Jerry.

I don't know if you're a big sports fan, but are they going to let the Blue Jays play in their own country anytime this year?

Is that going to happen?

That's still under consideration, and they keep trying.

They're playing in Buffalo.

I'll tell you something really quick because it's funny.

There was a picture in the paper of a guy, they're playing in Buffalo at what was a AAA facility, still is, I guess.

And the Maple Leafs NHL hockey team tanked in the playoffs, and a guy in Buffalo held up a sign and it said, sorry about the Leafs, and we stole your baseball team.

Thank you so much, Jerry.

Appreciate it.

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Governor Great Abbott, Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas, welcome, Governor.

How are you, sir?

Doing great.

How are you doing, Glenn?

I'm good.

I'm good.

So what a week.

What a week you've had.

The Democrats walk out, and let's set the record straight.

What exactly we know what they're saying is in the bill.

What is actually in the bill that they walked away from?

Great point, because what is in the bill is completely different than what they are saying, what Kamala Harris is saying, what President Biden is saying.

What's in the bill actually increases the number of hours that people have to vote in the state of Texas.

In the state of Texas, we have at least 12 days of early voting, and we are adding hours to those days.

And on top of that, we are giving people time off from work to be able to go vote.

Bottom line, we are making it easier to vote in the state of Texas.

By the way, in comparison, Delaware, the state that President Biden votes in, has exactly zero hours of early voting.

If anyone wants to go after a state that's engaging in voter suppression because of lack of time to vote early, it should be people going after Delaware, not the state of Texas.

That said, Glenn, there is one thing that we are doing in the state of Texas, and that is we are making sure that we tighten the reins on mail-in ballots that can lead to voter fraud.

And it's not me saying that.

It is a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama in Corpus Christi, Texas, who wrote in a legal opinion that voter fraud occurs, quote, in abundance as it concerns mail-in ballots.

We know, Texans know, there is fraud and mail imbalance in the state of Texas.

It must be fixed, and that's one thing that we are trying to do.

But that said, all of these claims, and oh, we're denying people the right to vote, yada, yada, yada, are completely false.

I have to tell you, Governor,

I don't know what to do with the lies anymore.

You know,

it used to be, you got to watch their language carefully.

They're just out and out lies now that are being said.

And most Americans agree with even Democrats, voter ID.

Most people agree with, hey, let's just make sure that all of the real ballots count and we make sure no fake ballots or distorted ballots are counted.

Every American should agree with that.

And that's exactly what Texas is achieving.

But let's go back to the first point that you made, and that is the lies.

When Democrats do not have truth on their side, they resort to one single word, and that is racism.

They say that Texas is being racist by doing this.

And you talked about voter ID.

So Texas implemented voter ID almost a decade ago.

And when we went through that fight,

what word did they use?

Racism.

That Texas is engaging in racism.

This is going to hurt people of color, yada, yada, yada.

Guess what?

After Texas imposed voter ID requirements in the state of Texas, there had been more people vote, more people of color who went to vote.

Voting didn't get harder.

It got easier and more abundant in the state of Texas.

And so once again, Democrats have absolutely no legal standing other than to say, oh, racism, racism, racism.

And what they have done, because they use the term so much, it means that there really is no substance to the term anymore.

And it's sad because real racism does exist, and we should do everything we can to fight real racism.

But if somebody is always crying rape, you don't, you stop hearing, it's like car alarms.

When car alarms first started, I mean, everybody, car alarm would go off, everybody would look.

Now, car alarms look, there could be a guy standing there with a hammer, and nobody looks at it.

They're like, oh, whatever.

It's somebody's car alarm.

The thing you said this week was that you were going to go in and you will arrest them when they come in, when they come back to Texas.

A,

is that a real promise?

Will you really arrest them when they come back into the state?

Yeah, let me explain how this works.

And so whenever there is a break of quorum, which is what has happened now, meaning that there is not a sufficient number of people who are showing up to the Texas House of Representatives for the Texas House to engage in business, whenever there is a quorum break like that, the House issues what's called a

call on the House.

And when that happens, the sergeant-at-arms is authorized to work with the Texas Texas Department of Public Safety to, you can call it arrest, apprehend, whatever you want to call it, any of the members who are not in the Texas House of Representatives and bring them to the Texas House where they will be cabined in the Texas House with no ability to leave the Texas House chamber without a permission slip from the Speaker.

And this is exactly what will happen.

The only limitation to it is, one,

the fact that Texas law law enforcement officers do not have jurisdiction authority beyond our state boundaries.

And that's exactly why they're not up there in Washington, D.C.

putting these Texas Democrats who are on the run under arrest and bringing them back to Texas.

However, once they do return to Texas, if they fail to show up to do the duty that they ran for, and that is to go to the Capitol and cast votes, if they don't show up to the Capitol,

the Texas Department of Public Safety will be sent out to bring them back in.

So

it's not an arrest as people think of an arrest.

It is they will pick you up and take you to the Capitol, and you can't leave the Capitol until your job is done.

Right.

It's not an arrest for a crime.

Got it.

It's an arrest to bring them back to the Capitol, to force them to do their job.

Now, think about that.

Are you being forced to do your job?

Are your listeners being forced to do their job?

What would happen to your listeners if they decided, well, you know, I don't like the way things are going here, and I'm not winning at my job here.

I'm going to walk off the job and still expect to get paid.

That's exactly what these Democrats are doing.

And just like your listeners, if they walked off the job, they would be fired.

They would lose their paycheck.

And that, mark my words, that's exactly what's going to happen to these Democrats who have fled the state of Texas because Texans do not approve of people, especially the people they voted in office, walking off the job and not doing their job.

Have you seen any polls on this at all?

I mean, I can't believe, I mean, I would be really angry if the Republicans walked out of Congress right now.

I mean, they're not getting anything done.

They can't pass anything.

But

if they walked off the job, I'd be really pissed at them.

Have you seen any polling?

How is this going to work out for these guys?

So we have seen polling.

There's an organization in Texas called the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

And they did a poll on this within the last week,

showing that

members who walk off the job, there is a great disapproval rating among all demographic groups.

So I have it in front of me right now.

It's TexasPolicy.com.

And the title of it is Texans Oppose Walkouts to Avoid Votes.

And that's why I know for a fact that these members, when they return and ask their constituents for support again, it's going to look very, very bad for them.

We saw this once before.

There's history for this in the state of Texas because when we were going through redistricting a decade or so ago, the Democrats fled the state once again.

They first went to Ardmore, Oklahoma, then they went to Albuquerque, New Mexico to evade being arrested in the state of Texas.

And things turned out bad for them at the ballot box.

And this time it's even worse because there are so many issues that we have on this special session call.

In addition to election integrity, we have property tax reform.

we can reduce your property taxes in texas if uh the democrats in the texas house showed up there's bail reform uh senator joan huffman said that uh since the democrats uh left uh and broke quorum initially in late may there had been five people in the state of texas murdered by people who were out on bail we've got to fix a broken bail system in the state of texas so there's going to be blood on the hands of the democrats who failed to show up and do their job

governor Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, thank you so much, sir.

We'll talk to you again.

Keep up the good work.

Take care, Glenn Beck.

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I want to bring on Mercedes Schlapp.

She is

a Latina or Latinx, I think is what they're called now, Mercedes, a Latinx.

So, yeah, see, Latinx.

They love using that.

And let me tell you something.

The Latinos, we don't like when they change the Spanish language.

We like to keep the L and the law in our Spanish language.

So it's not very popular despite the fact that

President Biden loves to use it.

Yeah.

So anyway, Mercedes Slapp, she is a senior fellow, American Conservative Union Foundation.

She was the host of America on Canceled

at CPAC and former White House Strategic Communications Advisor.

I wanted to bring you on because you are also somebody that really understands Cuba because your father

was put into prison by Fidel Castro.

That's right.

And he served, he was thrown into jail for six years.

He had a 13-year prison sentence.

And, you know, I got to tell you, Glenn, you know, he was one of these guys, self-made businessman in Cuba.

And when he saw the Castro regime come into power and start taking away their liberties, taking away their guns.

I want to make that very clear.

He knew that this was a country going in the wrong direction and he really had a choice.

He was either going to stay quiet and play along or fight back.

And he chose to fight back and join a counter-revolutionary group.

And, you know, sadly, they were exposed by what I would say a mole in the group.

And several of his friends actually were executed.

And he has very sad, sad stories about the lives that were lost.

And

some of these individuals actually had a prison sentence of about 20 years.

So he has seen it firsthand of the human rights abuses, of the torture, of what happens in the Cuban jails, as well as the fact that the Castro regime and the communist regime have cracked down on the Cuban people.

And now he lives here in the U.S.

He's 85 years old, and he's very worried about the state of affairs here in America.

I bet he is.

He's lived it.

He's seen it.

Let's talk specifically here about Cuba, because we are seeing the beatings on the streets now.

These guys all dressed in black, I assume they're paramilitary or military

or police force of Cuba.

They're coming out all in black,

black uniforms, and they are beating people within an inch of their lives

on the streets.

You know, they have their version of Antifa, quite frankly.

And what the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel,

basically said to the Cuban people,

he basically said it to the Cuban communists.

He says, to take it directly to the Cuban people, and you need to stop this, and you need to be courageous in stopping the Cuban people who are fighting for freedom.

So he's sending out the thugs, the communist thugs, out beyond just the Cuban military to create even more chaos on the street.

And just my sources also say that the Venezuelan military, they've reached the island.

So they're definitely part of helping the regime in implementing these horrific practices and tactics.

And they're going into people's homes.

I mean, our sources, as we're seeing, is that they're going into people's homes, shooting people point blank.

It's a lot of young people.

This movement that's been in place for quite some time in Cuba, it's led by artists,

by young young people that are the ones driving what we're seeing happen on the island.

You know, it's so strange, Mercedes, is

the people who always get us into these are also the ones who get us out.

It's the,

look at what's happening now.

It's the artists, it's the creatives, it's the, you know, the students that buy into this communist bullcrap, and then they go through horrible, horrible nightmare years, and then it's those same people or their children that lead back out.

Well, you know,

it's been 60 years, over 60 years of a dictatorship.

And these are, you know, these individuals don't have economic opportunities unless you join the military or the intelligentsia or government in essence, where they basically are pretending like nothing's happened.

But then you have those individuals who are saying, look, I can't get a good meal.

You know, my food is rationed.

I can't even speak up because I'll be thrown into jail.

And we have no liberties.

And so

for the Cuban people, I mean, they have just had it.

And really, this is about a cry for freedom.

And it drives me crazy when you have these leftists who say, oh, it's about the trade embargo.

Like Black Lives Matter said, oh, we have to blame the U.S.

government.

Or they say, this is about a food shortage or a vaccine shortage.

No, people.

It's about freedom.

It's a very simple fact.

Yes, do we know that they've had economic stress, that tourism has gone down, that there is a vaccine shortage and a food shortage?

Absolutely.

But the bigger fight here is vibratás patria idida, freedom, homeland, and life.

And many of these people have said, I'm willing to give up my life for freedom.

So Mercedes, how is this?

I mean, we saw this in Tokyo, and there was, not Tokyo,

Hong Kong.

And there was this great hope, and then COVID happened, and America America turned a blind eye because we were busy with our own stuff.

Once we took the eye off the ball, China rolled in with tanks, and these people just disappeared.

We have word now that 100 people at least

have been disappeared,

probably dead or in prison now.

And we have

in a crazy turn of events, we have an administration that

is spending like there's no tomorrow, but they're pulling funding from the American broadcasts that go into Cuba.

And

as we have everybody flooding our border, we now have

the director of Homeland Security coming out and saying,

If you get on a raft, you will not make it to America.

What are we doing?

I know.

And actually,

if you know a thing or two about asylum, really, these individuals in Cuba, that's

going through political persecution.

They're the ones that actually qualify for asylum, unlike many of those who cross the border just simply for economic reasons.

But look, we're facing a very difficult challenge.

And I tell you, it's heartbreaking for me to watch because I do feel like the Cuban people are defenseless and it's going to take a miracle.

I really do believe that.

But I do think that

what I hope to see is that there's someone in the military or even like three or four of them that say, we've got to stop killing our own people.

And that's the problem.

Well, isn't that why they're bringing?

Isn't that why they're bringing Venezuelans in?

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, this is just, this is why you have not only Venezuela, but the Russians and the Chinese basically ensuring that the U.S.

does not get involved in any sort of way.

And they're obviously part of propping up this regime in Cuba.

It is about a national security issue issue for America as well, because the reality is that Russia and China are heavily invested in Cuba.

And for them, that's a strategic place to be, 90 miles from the U.S.

Absolutely, they want to be involved.

So look, for the Cuban people,

it is very difficult when you know that the Castro regime back in the early 60s basically told them, hand over your guns because we're going to need them to fight the foreign influence of the United States of America.

They confiscated their guns.

These people have no way to defend themselves.

And so this is going to be about fear and oppression.

And the Cuban regime is probably hoping that somehow the U.S.

decides to lose focus.

The reality is the difference this time around, which is, I think, a little different than Hong Kong, is that the Cuban-American vote in Florida is so critical and we're very loud.

And they are standing up, demanding the Biden administration to to take action.

And so that's why you've seen the Biden administration be trying to figure out what their next steps are.

Quite frankly, I don't think it's going to be enough to change things in Cuba.

Is there something that we as people can do to support them?

Well, I think first it starts with prayer.

I think that it really, again, like I said, is going to take a miracle.

And I know that there's a lot of these brave young men and women in Cuba who are putting their lives at risk to take over and try to

take over and overthrow the Cuban government, but it's going to take a lot more than that.

I mean, we have to put the pressure on the Biden campaign.

I think, for example, one of the things that Senator Marco Rubio and several other Cuban leaders are pushing for is internet access.

And basically encouraging these private companies to get involved in allowing for internet access.

in Cuba.

That's important because that keeps the different regions in Cuba and the different provinces in Cuba connected.

Hang on just a second.

You know, it is very easy for them to do.

Excuse me.

They orchestrated, as we know now, they helped orchestrate the Arab Spring, these social media companies.

They had a whole team working on that.

Where are they on Cuba?

That's a great point.

That's a great point.

And if there's anything we know is that our American intelligence community knows exactly what they would need to do to penetrate Cuba and give them what they need, the support they need.

And secondly, I mean, we really need President Biden to mount an international effort that would call for free and fair elections, for a peaceful

democratic transition.

But again, you know, this is not the type, this president is not the type of guy that I can envision being the strong guy.

to really push for change in Cuba.

It took him four to five days to even say that communism is a failed ideology.

And obviously he has his progressive friends on the left who are silent, who are blaming everything on the trade embargo on Cuba.

And so, you know,

it's a tough one.

I got to tell you, Glenn, it's really tough to watch, but we'll see what happens.

Mercedes-Schlap, thank you so much.

God bless.

Thank you, Glenn.

And I just want to say that your speech at CPAC was the very best, and everyone needs to go watch it.

You can go to conservative.org.

You've made me cry twice in the last two times that I've seen you.

You're an inspiration and an American treasure, and we thank you, thank you for what you're doing every day.

That's kind of you.

Thank you very much, Mercedes.