Biden vs. Private Business | Guests: Sen. Ted Cruz & Bill O’Reilly | 5/28/21

May 28, 2021 2h 3m

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The price of plywood is at an all-time high, and yet Biden wants to double the tariffs. Highways are now apparently racist, and there are talks to have them removed. Sen. Ted Cruz calls in to discuss a new bill he introduced called the “No Vaccine Passports Act” and Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal. Bill O’Reilly gives his take on the week’s news and he argues that Biden is trying to strangle private businesses. Bill also talks about the origins of COVID-19. Rishi Sharma, host of Legends of WWII, joins Glenn to talk about his mission to interview World War II veterans and share their stories. Philanthropist Adam Sandoval joins to describe his journey to raise awareness of our military veterans.
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Well, President Biden has just proposed a new budget, which a round of applause.

That's the first time we've had a budget proposal in, well, I think it's kind of an old-fashioned thing we used to do before Obama,

but I'm glad to see it.

Now, when you're thinking, hey, maybe the government is spending too much, you're thinking wrong.

You're thinking wrong.

That's wrong think.

President Biden is proposing a $6 trillion

budget that is,

that's about double what we are spending now, even though we'll have like a trillion dollar

deficit on that budget.

that goes right to the debt.

He's saying, let's double it.

Let's double it.

And he said,

I don't want to make anybody uncomfortable, and I don't want to say their names, but I do have a list of all those who are against and held up the list of all the people in Congress that voted against this.

Another scare tactic, another veiled threat?

What is that?

I mean, just start building the gulags.

I talked to somebody the other day.

They're like, just go.

Just start.

Just, I'm tired of this windup.

Just

you revealed who you were, that you're really actually Marxist.

Now just go.

And I'm like,

let's slow down on that one.

I don't think that's a good idea.

But anyway, $6 trillion budget.

This is the highest sustained level of federal spending since World War II.

But we've got to fight climate change, and they're almost as bad as Nazis.

Almost.

Now, some other things just to help the economy out.

Joe Joe Biden, the administration, is now moving to double tariffs on Canadian lumber.

Oh,

oh, so the plywood that has already gone from $13 to $70 a sheet, plywood, crappy ass plywood is now $70 a sheet.

And he wants to double the tariffs on lumber coming from Canada, which I think that's, you know, I just, God bless him.

I think that's,

just

great.

He is

today,

he's going to be talking about doubling the price of lumber from Canada.

Oh, and another story I think you're going to love, this is from the New York Times.

The New York Times is running the headline.

Wait until you hear the story.

Can removing highways fix American cities?

Now, Stu, I want you to listen to this.

I want you to listen to this.

The cities now are thinking about removing

highways

because the highway system has destroyed the city and it has cut black neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods in half by putting these highways right there.

I'm quoting from the New York Times, the growing movement has been energized by support from the Biden administration, which has made addressing racial justice and climate change major themes in the debate over highway removal.

Now,

I really only have one question.

Did anybody know we were debating removing our highways?

Because I've been left out of that debate.

And I think I should say something about it.

I got an opinion.

How about you?

Yeah,

you hear this complaint every once in a while that,

you know, wonderful neighborhoods get destroyed by highways.

And, you know, I mean, maybe there's some examples of that.

But generally speaking, highways are pretty good, I've noticed, because I don't want to be going 14 miles an hour everywhere I go.

You know, I have to tell you, have you ever driven Route 66?

No, I've never have.

Yeah, okay.

I have.

It's not as good as the song promises.

It's slow.

There are stoplights.

Once is more than enough.

More than enough.

I mean, you'll, once in a while, you'll hit these old tiny places and you're like, oh, wow, look at this.

Must have been a great little town of six shops and four of them are gas stations.

This must have been really cute in the 1950s.

And then you hit a stoplight and you're like, and this is why it's gone.

Didn't you live in a city, was it Phoenix when you were younger that didn't have any highways?

I did.

It It was great.

So back in the 80s, I lived in the beautiful town of Phoenix.

And one of the places I never went to, I think it was Mesa, because there were no

highways.

The founding fathers of Phoenix, in their great, great wisdom, said, we don't want to turn this into another Los Angeles.

We don't want all these highways, and we don't want to be driving across the desert

forever.

So they didn't build any highways.

And it was wonderful because I could live in one town and the next neighboring town I never went to because it would take you four hours to get there it was wonderful it was wonderful yeah I mean it's it's

it does seem to be one of these ridiculous things like you I'm sorry this is news for everybody if you have a really poor downtrodden area of town and you remove the highway what you will have is a a poor, downridden area of town without a highway.

It's not exactly right.

People are not just going to build our mansions now.

No, no.

Poor people are going to move back in and they're going to make it nice.

Pete Buddhajudge, who heads the department, has expressed support for removing highways and other barriers that divide black and minority communities, saying, there is racism physically built into some of our highways.

Oh, man, we should get rid of those racist highways.

Yeah, by the way, are you?

What are they doing?

We could build them all out of lumber.

No, that will be too expensive because the price of lumber is going to be doubled today.

So I don't know.

What should we do?

It's interesting.

I lived in a, I grew up in a very middle-class sort of town, and it was divided by a highway.

I now live in a nicer area of the state, which is also divided by a highway.

It doesn't seem to have much of an impact on

the communities at all.

You know what's running through my town, which is a very nice town?

A highway.

Okay.

You get an underpass, an overpass.

You do things like that.

And yeah, it's divided.

It's divided the town, but nobody really seems to have a problem.

Pat was riding with me.

He was from the West.

He had never been out east.

And

we were taking Amtrak from Washington, D.C.

to New York.

And I'll never forget, he was looking through it and he's like, man, the train tracks, they were built in the worst part of towns.

There's nothing going to these cities.

I said, Pat, these tracks were laid a long time ago.

Nobody wanted to upgrade or build.

Who wants to live next to the railroad tracks?

Yeah.

It's not like they were saying, gee, where are we going to lay the?

Are there any blacks over here?

Because we'll just build it here.

No, no, no.

And I which came first.

I kind of had this idea that maybe the goal was to not have poor neighborhoods.

Like, I don't want people living in poor neighborhoods if we can all avoid it.

We want to upgrade those neighborhoods.

But what happens, Glenn, when you upgrade neighborhoods and you put in nicer homes and nicer places, then you get the complaints in the 15,000-word think piece from the New York Times about the gentrification of our cities.

People who have lived here all their lives in such, I'm sure, complete happiness.

Well, that's why you can have

rent control, rent stabilization.

You can, I mean, that's what New York is doing now.

They are now going in and they're increasing their subsidies so they can get.

more minorities and low-income people to live in the city.

Well, you got to do something because nobody's living in the city anymore.

They've destroyed New York.

COVID and

what's his face, the Marxists, completely have destroyed

de Blasio, New York.

It ain't coming back anytime soon.

And so now,

now what are you going to do?

Wait, you can't afford the police.

You're now going to tax people more to pay for housing that they can't even pay for their own housing.

Where are you getting all of this money?

Well, I guess you just defund the police and then you use that cash.

Yeah, defund the police.

Well, no, no, no.

Don't defund.

Reimagine.

Oh, okay.

Reimagine.

Sorry about that.

And let's today, because I didn't even know this was a debate,

but let's all spend the day reimagining an America without a highway system.

Wow.

What a pleasure.

And like they seem to want,

I'm putting all these pieces together, but they seem to want no highways, but more train lines.

Like, what do we think,

where do the train lines go, first of all?

Exactly right.

And secondly.

And if if you want a train, it's going to split the town just like the highway.

What they'll do is they'll rip down the highways and then build more trains.

And then.

You know, can I tell you something honestly?

Walt Disney, if he wouldn't have died, we wouldn't have been here.

Walt Disney had the answer.

It was called Epcot.

And it is the most ingenious city I've ever seen.

It was not an amusement park.

I've spent years studying this, and I just think it's absolutely genius.

You had highways in levels that went under every city and every city was shaped like a it was all shaped around the town and the neighborhoods were all part of the town and and it came out in like a giant you know spoked wheel and it was brilliant and everything had

you know what he called the wed walkways that went into the town and then right into the houses which were each separated in the front of the house by a park.

The back of the house was an alley but it was the only place where cars were driving.

So you could drive right up to your house and park in the back.

You had no backyard but your front yard was a park trying to get everybody to come out of their houses and be a part of the neighborhood.

He saw the breakdown of the cities.

He saw what was happening and he saw what highways and everything else were doing.

And that's why he put trucks and things that were going through the city, not having to stop in the city, they went down underground on one level, so it was like an express lane.

You just bypass all of this crap.

Then, those trucks that had to service the town went on the level above that.

There were no trucks up above because all the trucks would be below, and they would feed all of the stores, all of the restaurants, everything else from down below.

All the loading docks would be below.

Then you would have the city traffic would be be one level,

it would be the top level of the highways, and all of that stuff you could go wherever you needed, but the streets were below and you would take elevators up.

And then the last one was public transportation.

And there was trains and stuff like that on the bottom, but just up above, they also had this really great, he called it the people, Wedway People Mover.

And you could go from your house to your business on the people mover.

It was, it was fantastic.

Nobody, nobody, nobody is even thinking like that.

I was in a town here in Texas the other day.

Color, is it color?

Do you know, Rob?

Color, right?

How do you, do you know, color?

It's, anyway, it's a small little town.

I had never been there before.

It's great.

And what it is, is, try this out for size.

A small old city.

It's like a little town.

that has the downtown and the housing and everything right there around a central green, you know, like our founders built.

And I saw it and I thought, this is a beautiful little town.

It's got little specialty shops in it and everything else.

You want to go to a big box store?

Go to the big box store down there.

All the big box stores are right down there, but they're not in town.

And it was this community.

The art center was right in the center of town.

It was really great.

In Texas, these towns are starting to be built.

That's good.

That will restore community and everything else.

It'll be great.

But until we actually start to buy in it, can we...

Again, the headline from the New York Times, can removing highways fix our cities?

No,

unless you remove them and have a plan on what you're going to do with all the traffic that's going through and around your city.

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Stu, you're going to love this.

There's a new cereal out.

New cereal out.

Kellogg's

is releasing a breakfast cereal designed to support the community

that have other pronouns.

So whatever pronoun you use, kids, I mean, I know I want my six-year-old sitting around the table going, I'm a them.

I think that's a great, healthy thing to do.

Good for their English class, too.

That's going to work out well

for the grammar test.

No, the grammar tests are going to be great.

So on each box of the new together cereal,

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I wish this actually was about real pronouns, not saying I'm an it,

you know, but I think this is great because as the slogan goes,

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Wow, that's wonderful.

Also, genitals are for cereal.

I don't know why, why sexuality

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I don't

generally like thinking about genitals

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But this

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it's incredibly wonderful.

I also saw that they have gay Legos now, which is, I thought, pretty nice.

Or gay goes.

They have, wait.

No, that's not serious, is it?

They're not called gay goes.

That was the term I came up with, I think.

It is fantastic.

However,

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They came out with a set of Legos where they're all rainbow-colored.

And then they, of course, have the, they had to add black and brown because you couldn't have an actual, rainbow is not inclusive enough, obviously.

So they added black and brown.

And then they very back, you could see the white.

It's the pink.

So the women and the white people are in the back of the line.

May I just say, Stu, you haven't heard anything until you hear about the new stamps from Spain.

To solve racial equity, they have flesh-colored stamps.

The least expensive are the black.

The most expensive are the white.

So the bigger the package, the more black stamps it needs, showing that there's more power with black power.

Uh-oh.

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was met by a bunch of

kind of angry parents,

and they have

moved to

remove the word

from their new mission statement of redistribute to just distribute.

This is being spun as

the parents demanded that they dismantle white advantage teachings with critical race theory.

And some of the parents, I mean, I'm telling you, the parents have gone from zero to 100 in no time.

People know now what critical race theory is.

There is no science behind it.

Period.

It came from the Frankfurt School.

You don't know what the Frankfurt School is?

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Luckily, a lot of people are understanding that.

I'll give you the rest of that story probably on Tuesday because Florida, look out.

They are.

You can never count that you have won with any of these people because they'll do it behind your back.

Senator Ted Cruz is

with us now.

And

Ted, welcome to the program.

I liked what you announced last night.

Glenn, good to be with you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

The No Vaccines Passport Act.

I think this is one of the more important things.

Can you explain why it's important?

Well, sure.

this week I've introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit vaccine passports.

My view on vaccines, I believe in vaccines.

I've gotten the COVID vaccine myself.

Heidi's gotten it.

My parents have gotten it.

I'm grateful that we have the innovation that led to the vaccines that has enabled for so many of us, us, to return to normal life and the freedoms that we cherish.

That being said, I think the decision whether or not to get the vaccine is a personal decision.

It ought to be up to you.

You ought to make it for your life, for your health situation.

And the federal government shouldn't mandate it.

There shouldn't be a federally mandated passport.

And we should protect your civil rights, your individual liberty.

So, what my legislation does, it prevents the federal government from requiring a vaccine passport, and it also prohibits discrimination based on whether or not you choose to get the vaccine.

We're seeing employers across the country who are firing their employees if they don't get vaccinated.

I think that's not right.

You ought to have the same civil rights protections you have for other things in the workplace.

And it ought to be your individual choice based on your individual liberty.

I have to tell you, Ted, this has become all about politics, 100% about politics.

People have lost their reason entirely.

I haven't gotten a vaccine because I had it in December, and I had a bad bout with it.

The research all shows, if you you want to follow the science, if you've had it, you have the antibodies.

And all of this crap that they were saying for the last year about, yeah, but it may not last very long.

They say that if you've had a good case of COVID, that

you have the antibodies and they could last up to years.

And I go places and I'm not wearing a mask and I'll say, I had it.

Oh my gosh,

it's like all of a sudden your gerbils or something.

There's so much politics about this that it's bizarre.

I mean, my view,

I've never understood the extremes on either ends of this.

There are some folks who never wear a mask and say wearing a mask is terrible.

I don't get that.

Look, it was a contagious disease.

It's dangerous.

In vulnerable populations, it could be deadly.

You know, I wore a mask.

I still wear a mask on an airplane.

And I think taking reasonable steps to limit the spread of an infectious disease, I think that makes sense.

But on the other side, the folks that are just virtue signaling that a mask shows how righteous they are, I think is bizarre.

You know, when you're driving down the road and you see someone in a car alone wearing a mask or a double mask, I just laugh out loud.

It's like, you know, what the heck is wrong with you?

I know.

It's really bizarre.

So the vaccine.

I will say, Glenn, I got in trouble with my team because I did tweet out.

I said, wearing a mask in a car alone

is like wearing a condom in bed alone.

Very true.

What exactly is the point here?

So, Ted, the problem with the vaccines, or not the vaccine, but the problem with the vaccine passport.

The government is going to say, we're not going to do any vaccine passports.

You know, if the private industry wants to do that, but they are making an end run around our Constitution on almost everything with the coddling of these giant corporations.

I've never been a guy who's been against

corporations.

I'm a free market guy.

But when the free market becomes an arm of the government and they are the ones spying on people because the government can't, but we'll share that information with the government, that's just an end run.

Is there anything that's going to stop these corporations from doing this?

Well, part of the legislation I've introduced prohibits discrimination based on vaccine status.

And so what it does is it adds it to the existing civil rights laws.

And so the Americans with Disability Act, for example, requires that you make a reasonable accommodation for an employee that has a disability.

Now, reasonable accommodation doesn't mean that

you always

allow, you know, look, someone who's blind, you wouldn't hire to be an airplane pilot.

I mean,

there are some instances where there are disqualifying medical conditions.

I would beg to differ with you, and I am not making this up.

This is absolutely true.

When I worked at CNN, they had a deaf sound engineer.

So please don't give me your non-woke descriptions of what people can and cannot do.

That's crazy, but that's what they did.

Wow.

Yes.

Wow.

Was the guy any good?

Could he do his job?

Well, I only know that he was deaf because I had to ask about

some issues.

And they were like, yeah, don't ask.

He's deaf.

And I'm like,

excuse me?

Anyway, anyway.

So, but the point is, we have an existing legal structure.

that protects your civil rights and with respect to disabilities requires reasonable accommodations.

And what my legislation does is it puts your choice of whether or not to get a vaccine with the same protection

so that the Blaze doesn't fire you, Glenn, because you chose not to get a vaccine.

Now, given that you control the company, I think you're pretty safe there.

But, you know,

well, I mean, I could be schizophrenic at some point.

Let me, is there any chance of this passing

in the House and the Senate?

I don't know.

So I just introduced it.

The question obviously is going to be, will Democrats be willing to support it?

The Biden administration has at least said publicly

that they do not support a federally mandated vaccine passport.

Now, I think you and I have reason to be skeptical of that claim.

And so it will be interesting to see.

So I have not yet, and I will in the coming weeks be reaching out to Democrats and seeing if any Democrats are willing to come together and support it.

If no Democrat supports it, then no, it won't pass in a Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi Congress.

If Democrats are willing to support it, and they should,

then it has a chance of passage.

We'll have to see what they're willing to do.

All right, Ted, a couple of other questions just to sweep up on some things.

The January 6th Committee, I have no problem with a committee looking into what happened on January 6th, which I think was disgusting, and what happened all around the country on the other side all through the summer.

But that's,

they're only doing January 6th.

And

you just said, and I had a hard time not speaking out about it when you just said, you know, we have a system that protects people's rights.

Well,

as you are well aware, the Justice Department is going through every cell phone record if you were even in Washington that day.

There's no warrants, nothing.

They are just going through everyone.

If you were GPS tagged for Washington, D.C., they're going through everything.

What the hell happened to civil rights?

Well, look, I think civil rights are always in peril, particularly when you have

too big government and over-vigorous criminal prosecution.

My view,

let's start with first principles.

Violence is wrong.

Violence is always wrong.

If you carry out an act of violence against someone else, if you assault someone else, if you injure someone else, if you attack a police officer, you should be prosecuted.

You should go to jail.

100%.

And that's true regardless of your politics, whether you're right.

You have a left wing or you have no wings at all.

I think the guys who broke into the Capitol...

I think the people who broke into the Capitol put their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk or whatever.

I think they should all go to jail.

That was wrong.

No questions asked.

I don't care who you were for or who you were against.

It's wrong.

Go to jail.

Look, that's exactly right.

And there were a lot of police officers who were assaulted, who were injured, some injured badly that day.

And I think if you hurt somebody else, if you hurt a cop, you ought to do serious jail time.

And so I support prosecuting anyone who committed a crime of violence.

Now, there were thousands of people in Washington that were peacefully protesting, that didn't break into the Capitol, that didn't hurt anybody.

And I don't think they should be persecuted for standing in the national mall and singing, God bless America.

There's a difference between peaceful protest and committing acts of violence.

As you noted as well, January 6th is not the only day on which acts of violence occurred in America.

We just came through a year where for almost an entire year we saw riots across the country.

We saw peaceful protesters, yes, and they have a First Amendment right to do so, but we also saw violent criminals that were firebombing police cars, that were looting stores, that were assaulting and, in some instances, murdering police officers.

Every one of those violent criminals should be prosecuted and go to jail early.

Amen.

So is the January 6th Commission going to pass in the Senate?

I don't think it will.

We're likely going to vote on it later today.

It will take 60 votes.

So the question is, are 10 Republicans going to vote for it?

I think the answer is probably not.

And part of the reason is we already have multiple investigations going on.

We have multiple

committees investigating.

We have the Department of Justice.

We have the FBI.

And what Schumer and Pelosi want is they want a partisan kangaroo court to spend two years laying out the theory that Donald Trump is bad and Republicans are bad and it's all about the next election.

And so that's why I'm not going to support it.

I think most Republicans in the Senate are not going to support it.

Okay, one last thing, two-part question, but we only have about 70 seconds for an answer.

The $6 trillion, is it $6 or $8?

$6 trillion

budget proposal that came from Biden, and the, you know, we'll give you half a trillion dollars for infrastructure.

What's happening there?

Are the Republicans going to hold the line here?

I don't know.

I am worried about it.

You know, Biden has laid out,

it's actually about $7 trillion in new spending.

I've been joking, please, dear God, nobody tell the Democrats what comes after a trillion.

A trillion.

It is

the amount of spending they are rolling out is staggering.

It is a budget in excess of what we spent in World War II.

We're already seeing inflation taking off across the country, and I think we are on the verge potentially of a serious inflation inflation crisis.

I think we need to stop bankrupting the country, and that's what I'm fighting to do.

At least so far, Republicans have not been willing to go along with this.

It is always dangerous, though.

I mean, look, look, there has been historically a coalition of all the Democrats and a bunch of the Republicans who are willing to spend and spend and spend and spend.

Right, Republicans, Republican colleagues.

Yeah, go ahead.

No,

they're usually not as bad as Democrats.

Years ago, a friend of mine suggested a bumper sticker.

Republicans, we waste less.

That is a way.

I hope we hold the line.

Yeah, that's the quickest way to lose

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How are you?

No spin news, Deck.

That's what it is.

I knew it was something about sitting and spinning.

No spin news.

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Yeah, not a spin news.

Right?

Okay.

All right.

Good.

Here we are in Memorial Day.

Gas prices are the highest they are in seven years.

Nobody seems to be talking about that in the news.

And the Biden administration has just moved to double the tariffs today on Canadian lumber, even though lumber is skyrocketing.

Is the president, does he think

that

is this like golf where the way you normally keep score is just the opposite?

Because it

seems like he's trying to destroy us.

How is he thinking any of this is good for the economy?

Well, he doesn't think that way.

So there are two things going on.

Number one,

there's a difference now in the way corporate media is covering the news as opposed to during Donald Trump's years.

You may have noticed this.

During Trump's years, it was demonize and attack Trump every day.

So it was outrage du jour, I used to call it.

And now

it's ignore failures from the Biden administration.

Black them

out.

Do not mention the failures.

So it's going to shift.

And these are the...

Some of the most powerful companies in the world now.

We're talking Disney, Comcast, Viacom, CBS.

And the basic thrust is we backed Biden.

We know Biden is failing because anybody with any analytic capability knows the Biden administration is failing already after four months.

But we're not going to mention it because we don't want a big comeback by the Republicans in the midterm elections of 2022.

So that's what's in play.

Now, as far as Mr.

Biden himself is concerned, it is impossible for me

to know what goes on in the man's mind.

I can't.

No one could.

But I can tell you this.

He is totally disengaged

the middle of the last one.

No, I know.

All right.

He's totally disengaged in any problem-solving effort.

He's not trying to solve any problems.

That I can tell you with certainty.

Go.

Okay.

So I know this,

but the people around him know what the policies are.

And it, I mean, why would you put tariffs on lumber when we are having lumber prices go up 800 percent?

Why is the New York Times today reporting on something that apparently we all were aware of because they say, you know, this is in a continuation of the ongoing conversation about removing America's highway systems.

I didn't even know we were having that conversation, and I can't imagine what would be, what good would come from removing our highway situations, our highways.

But Pete Buttajudge, heads up the department, has expressed support for removing the barriers that divide black and minority communities,

saying there is racism physically

built built into our highway system.

Yeah.

I mean,

there's nothing here that is going for America.

None of this.

No, it's all about

tribalism.

And there are highways that have gone through minority neighborhoods and have adversely affected that.

Sure.

Yeah.

All right.

So I guess the Obid administration is going to tear all of them down because they want to spend $6 trillion.

They're going to announce that today.

But let me get to the lumber thing in Canada.

This is all about cheese.

It's not about lumber.

All right.

So the Trudeau government in Ottawa

slapped on restrictions on American dairy farmers sending cheese to Canada.

because they want to protect the Canadian farmers.

In return for that, the Biden administration has slapped tariffs on lumber.

Now you ask, well, why would they do that since we already have a lumber shortage and housing building materials have gone up 300% in four months?

Why would they do that?

Because they're not looking out for the folks.

This isn't about helping individual Americans.

It's about amassing as much power as possible in Washington, DC,

to basically change the whole economic system of this country.

That's what's going on.

It's not about Americans paying far more for gasoline and therefore paying far more for food because all the food has to be trucked in.

It's not about that.

It's about we're going to control the private economy.

We, the Biden administration in Washington, we're going to control the marketplace and we're going to break

the private marketplace.

We're going to break you.

That's what's happening.

So we have trillions of dollars now pumping into the system, and Joe Biden has just put forward a budget of $6 trillion.

That's more than we spent in World War II.

It's the highest spending we've ever had as a nation.

$6 trillion.

That's double, double the current out-of-control budget.

I don't know what everything is going to be spent on,

but

do we ever recover from all of this spending, Bill?

Well, the inflation is going to devastate Americans who have saved up for education or retirement.

That's certainly going to happen.

Oh, good.

So the

people who played by the rules, now let's screw them even more.

That's right.

Every American is going to get screwed.

Every single person is going to get screwed because the criminal justice system is collapsing and the economic system won't be far behind that.

And Missouri has already lost, Missouri has lost 26% of small businesses just because of

the pandemic.

You and I both know

jobs are created by small business people, and they're destroying those.

That's right.

But that's why Biden wants this massive spending so the federal government can take over.

from small business and provide jobs in the highway sector or the green energy sector.

But I want to tell you one thing about this.

If you watch the Nosica News back, which you do not, by the way, you do not, I'm going to tell everybody.

I don't even

do that.

You would have heard

what channel it's on.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's on every channel.

You can't escape it.

You go to billorilly.com and there's an internet.

Okay.

Those internet things are

the only reporter in the world to tell you that FDR tried the same thing in 1935

that Biden is trying now.

What Biden is doing now is a replica of what Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to do in 1935, take

over the private economy.

Okay?

Price controls, all of it.

Yes.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

What FDR tried to do in 1935 was unconstitutional.

All right?

Nobody knows that but me, Beth.

You don't know it.

Stuff.

Of course not.

FDR, you're going to have to back up and explain who he was.

So what I said last night, because I presented you the facts, and if you look up the case, you'll see it, all right, that the Supreme Court slapped down

FDR's budget.

and his vision of taking over the economy.

That could happen today.

So I suggested that the Attorney General of Texas

immediately, if this budget is passed, or it doesn't even matter, he can write up something today.

Sue

the Biden administration on behalf of Texas, and it'll be the same suit,

and they'll win in the Supreme Court.

What was the name of the case?

I don't have it off the top of my head.

Oh, my gosh.

Who is this?

All you have to do is Google, Google

FDR Supreme Court, 1935, and it'll pop up.

Okay.

And

what was the specific case?

Do you remember the specifics on that?

What was the specific case?

Who was making the charge?

Who was suing?

And why did they win?

The case was brought by private business owners

that said they could not conduct commerce, interstate commerce, because of all the restrictions FDR was putting on them.

That was the case.

Okay?

You can do the exact same thing now.

And you're going to have to, although I don't think this budget's going to pass, by the way.

But they're not going to stop.

See, what your listeners need to know is that this is a well-thought-out campaign to strangle private business, to put many

companies out of business so the federal government steps in and provides all the employment.

It's why the federal government did all of the forbearance.

And they own now between the federal government and the Federal Reserve about 90%

of all

low-income housing and 70% of all mortgages, period, in this country.

They are the ones who are the lender of last resort.

They're the ones that have bought up during forbearance.

So they're the guarantors.

I mean, you can't pay.

The government is the one that ends up with your house, your home.

They are owning everything through this.

Right.

Because that takes away

freedom and liberty and self-reliance from the people

and makes the people dependent on the Democratic Party in Washington, which will dole out the goodies, the jobs, the entitlements, the mortgages.

This is a well-designed plan that has been executed in every socialist country on earth.

That's what you're seeing.

But it'll never be reported by the corporate media or the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Therefore, 95%

of American voters don't know what's happening, and I don't believe Biden knows either.

My producers, I know you can do it on your own, but my producers can put you in direct

contact with

the Attorney General here in Texas.

He's a friend.

I know he'd come on the show.

You should ask him to do it.

You should explain this to him and see if he'd do it.

Because they love suing the federal government here in Texas.

They love it.

And they usually win.

I think they probably know Beck.

I think they probably know this.

If they don't, you can tell them.

And I'm happy to talk to them.

But my job is to report the news.

That's what it is.

And I'm so angry that the news in America is not being reported any longer.

And you know it.

Yeah.

You know it.

I know it.

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Bill O'Reilly is

with us now.

I want to change topics here to

international.

First, let's start with Iran because

it's the easiest one.

There is a

the ex-intel chief for the U.S.

Just told the Jerusalem Post that Biden is surrendering to Iran.

Have we surrendered to Iran and are we surrendering to China?

It's a complicated situation.

So the Biden administration

doesn't want to deal with anything in the Middle East at all.

Nothing.

All right.

So they basically say this is not worth our while because it doesn't advance our green environmental climate change agenda.

That's overseas.

That's 100%

what the Biden administration is interested in.

So they don't care whether Hamas shoots rockets into Israel,

Iran, Sinai.

Oh, oh, oh, the Center for American Progress.

These leftists, they love Hamas.

They love Hamas.

Beck, there's a difference between the leftists and the Biden administration.

Biden administration is the leader.

Really, what is it?

What is it?

What's the difference?

I don't think.

I don't see people that are.

I don't see people that are traditional Democrats running this administration and its policy.

No Democrat that I know that is a neighbor agrees with any of this crap.

Any of it.

But they don't care about it, back

all right so they don't care that it happened it's not that they're um trying to stop it or trying to negotiate anything they don't care it doesn't advance their green agenda and socialism agenda here in the usa so is that if iran wants to have a phony nuke deal all right they'll sign the phony nuke deal if iran wants to arm hamas The Biden administration is not going to do anything about that.

They don't care.

They don't want to do it.

All They don't want to be involved in it.

And then

if they only care about their green new agenda, then

why are they okaying the Russian pipeline?

I mean, it's a really dangerous thing.

They made a deal with the EU.

So we'll let you have all the natural gas from Putin in return for

more cooperation on a number of fronts.

It was a deal.

Again, do they care about Putin?

Does Biden care about Putin?

No.

He doesn't care.

You have to understand that.

In the past, most presidents did look out for the welfare of America.

And America was tied in morally with the freedom and the protection of Israel.

That's gone with the Biden administration.

They couldn't care less about it.

And then when you go into China, they're afraid of China.

Biden's afraid of them because they're way more aggressive than the Biden administration will ever be.

So he doesn't even want to deal with it.

So this is what you're seeing.

You're seeing whereas Barack Obama put forth that we are one of many.

We are not a superpower.

We are not anything special.

That was Obama's foreign policy, right?

Am I correct?

Yes.

Now, Biden's foreign policy is even more extreme.

It's, we don't want to get involved with anything over there because our agenda is to turn the economy socialist and to hype up the Green New Deal stuff.

That everything comes back to those two things.

And if it's not connected to those two things, the Biden administration doesn't want to hear about it.

That may may be absolutely on the money,

which is getting to be worth less and less as the seconds tick by.

More with Bill O'Reilly here in just a second.

I want to go to China and the Wuhan virus.

Can we say that now?

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