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So, right now, as we speak, there are major violent demonstrations in Lebanon, Chile,

Spain, Haiti, Iraq, Iraq, Sudan, Russia, Egypt, Uganda, Indonesia, Ukraine, Peru, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Colombia, France, Turkey, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Brazil, Algeria, and Ecuador.

Oh, and this is the week of Brexit.

Oh, and Trudeau was just elected, but he can't form a coalition government.

Wow, that's kind of like Boris Johnson, which is almost like Benjamin Netanyahu, who also can't form a coalition government, which reminds me of how our president now can't govern because there's no coalition there.

Wow.

Let's kind of put all of these together and see what's happening in the world in one minute.

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My only real skill skill in life, I think,

is to be able to see a bigger picture.

I want you to look at the demonstrations in Lebanon, Chile, Spain, Haiti, Iraq, Sudan, Russia, Egypt, Uganda, Indonesia, Ukraine, Peru, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Colombia, France, Turkey, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Brazil, Algeria, Ecuador, and what's happening in England.

Now, what happened last night in Canada?

And I want to break these up into two different categories.

Usually, when you have riots or you have violent protests, it's because of one of two things.

Either the people are hungry and they can't afford the things that they need and they see the government as a problem

or

the government's not listening to them,

and the government's not responding to them.

Both of those things are happening, but there's a third new one that is also being injected.

So, let's look at some of these.

For instance,

you have fuel subsidies

that have been cut.

So, the price of fuel has gone up.

In places like Haiti,

they can't afford it.

In Lebanon, there's a new tax levied on the use of WhatsApp.

That's the social media thing.

That's also one of the causes for Uganda.

They're starting to put taxes on social media.

Now, why would you put a tax on WhatsApp?

And why would that cause a riot?

This is really important.

We'll come back to that here in just a second.

In Sudan, it's the cut to fuel and food subsidies.

In Chile, they're protesting subway fare hikes.

Now,

this is where WhatsApp comes in.

You'll notice these aren't striking workers like we have with GM.

These are just average people getting together on the streets.

Now, how is that happening?

That's happening now because we used to have to have labor unions because

it was the only way to get the message out, and we could all come together against the man.

And so, you had a labor organizer come in and he would organize everybody.

But now you have WhatsApp, now you have Facebook, now you have the internet.

And so,

if you're upset about gas prices, you can find other people that are upset about gas prices that you would have never met before.

This is why the governments are starting to crack down on social media and start to tax them and everything else.

Because just like Facebook admitted to, and so did Twitter, they were greatly responsible for the uprising in Egypt.

And they actually helped push Egypt.

So you don't have to form unions anymore as long as you have the app.

Now,

let's switch to other places.

There is a shortage of gasoline, there is a shortage of food.

Okay, we understand that.

But here's where something new is happening.

In France, one of the original demands of the yellow vests was, and I'm not kidding,

free parking in Disneyland, Paris.

They, one of the things, one of the demands they wanted was free parking at Disneyland, Paris.

Now, if you don't understand, if that seems crazy to you, which it does me, it is crazy.

If it seems crazy, it's because you haven't really fully understood what kind of changes are happening to our world.

And there's a reason for it.

People have very high expectations

in these successful countries,

and anything that will help them cut their expenses

or give them free stuff is being pushed.

Just give me free stuff.

And the more free stuff that is out there, the harder it is for, for instance, a government to be able to pay for all that free stuff.

It's an overwhelming of the system.

People are now just starting to say, well, I own that parking lot too.

That parking lot wouldn't be here if it wasn't for us.

I mean, it's in France.

Should be free parking at Disneyland for everybody.

Also, at the same time in France, something else is happening.

Farmers are upset at the climate change plans.

Climate change, if you think it's unpopular here,

climate change with anyone in the socialist-leaning countries

is growing really unpopular with farmers and people, but only people, who consume food

because it's jacking the price of food up.

When the government says we have to cut these programs to save money, nobody wants to hear that.

It's starting to set people on fire because they're also jacking up things like things for climate change.

So here's what we have.

We have the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with the most dysfunctional politics, Haiti.

And it's seeing protests because the situation is bad.

But in the same hemisphere, we also have Chile.

It's the wealthiest country in Latin America, and it has falling inequality.

So why are they protesting?

Let me give you one other thing.

I told you 10 years ago, in the future, the operative word will be chaos.

And anything that causes chaos, get away from.

Because

we know who the author of chaos is.

So

get away from anybody who's trying to cause chaos.

Let me show you one other thing.

Governments cannot work.

Governments fail

when the gears get jammed.

This is what saboteurs were during the war.

Saboteurs were people that would put a monkey wrench into the gears.

That was an actual thing.

In the Industrial Revolution, somebody would take a wrench and they'd throw it in the gears and it would break the gears and jam the machine up.

So it would stop the factory from producing things.

That was a saboteur.

Do we have saboteurs in our midst now?

And I don't mean just here, I mean all around the world.

Because the gears of the machine is stopping.

Let me just give you a couple couple of stops here.

Benjamin Netanyahu looks like he's going to have to quit.

He's been re-elected, but he cannot put together a coalition.

Coalition-style parliamentary governments only work

when there's goodwill.

There is no goodwill.

Everybody is standing their ground.

Everybody is saying, my way or the highway.

So Benjamin Netanyahu looks like he's going to retire and quit.

And hopefully they'll find somebody else that can put a coalition government.

But don't count on it because look what's happening in England.

You have Boris Yeltsin, or Boris Yeltsin, Boris Johnson, who is just trying to follow the dictate of the people.

They voted Brexit.

The extremists in parliament are saying no, Brexit

at any any cost.

So screw the people.

Monkey wrench.

Boris Johnson can't put together a coalition.

There is no coalition left.

Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau won in Canada, but he doesn't have a margin big enough to put together a coalition government.

So now the machinery in Canada is also stopped.

And I would say that while we don't have a parliamentary system here, look at our machinery here.

Because one side refuses to work and listen to things that they themselves four years ago said they wanted,

because they won't act on those things, because they will stand against those things, because they're against one person and putting that one one person ahead of the whole country,

you don't have a coalition, you don't have good faith, you have nothing that will work.

Congress cannot get anything done, the administration cannot get anything done because they're fighting over things that honestly nobody in the country cares about.

Everyone in the country wants us to move forward.

So, let me just ask you a question.

And this is an honest question.

Is this really a coincidence?

Now it could be because everybody seems to have just been violating their social

contract with

the people all over the world.

So it could be.

But it's interesting how no no one seems to be learning the lesson.

Things just keep getting worse and worse and worse.

And what do people do?

While Barcelona burns?

Ah, we've got models out there twerking in the streets.

What?

Is anyone taking this seriously?

Is anyone seeing what's happening to the entire world?

It might be a coincidence.

But then again,

it might not be.

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All right.

So I want to, I'd like to

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Democrats 2020 race has a new shadow,

Hillary Clinton.

Some Democrats are putting caution signs up for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting a 2020 candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, as a Russian asset, mocking President Donald Trump's dealings with foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both.

Bernie Sanders

wrote yesterday, people can disagree on issues, but it is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.

Larry Cohen, one of Sanders' top supporters, was conciliatory, but warned in an an interview that Clinton could harm the eventual 2020 nominee by weighing in against specific candidates.

And now they're thinking that maybe,

maybe,

she's thinking about running.

Of course she is.

I mean, there's no chance of winning, but of course she's thinking that.

You think, really?

Boy, yes.

I mean, she's thinking about it.

Yeah, no, I'm not saying anyone else is thinking about it.

She is thinking about it.

She's thinking about it all the time.

Oh, they'll come crawling back to me.

They will.

I mean, when she went with the double stack conspiracy theory yesterday that it was Dulcie Gabbard was a Russian agent and Jill Stein was a Russian agent.

At that point, you kind of thought she's a little desperate and certainly obsessed about this.

But you don't think she's actually jumping in, do you?

I think she is waiting for the moment where they're just going to come and ask me.

I know they'll come and ask me

to leave because that's what people are asking her.

She is delusional.

She is delusional.

And the Democrats know that they're in trouble mainly because of the split in the party.

I mean, I don't know if you've seen the headlines in the last 24 hours, but

because of Ocasio-Cortez, they're now saying, is the Democratic Party, as we know it, over this election?

And I think so.

I mean,

you mean it changes into something

that was

a Casio-Cortez and the squad endorsing Bernie rips that apart.

Well, they're setting a pretty clear signal.

I mean, you know, think about this.

You have, we're in a moment where Warren is arguably the frontrunner, right?

Warren's going to give you 95% of what you want out of your socialist candidate.

95%.

Okay.

Why now?

Do you pick now to endorse Bernie Sanders, a guy who can barely walk across the stage?

Now, I want you to listen to this because I think this is spot on.

Now, listen.

Remember, Bernie Sanders just had a heart attack.

Yeah.

Okay.

He's falling in the polls.

She's rising.

Biden is falling in the polls.

Warren is clearly the one to rally around.

And again, Sanders just had a heart attack.

And they pick that moment to endorse.

Why?

Why?

Number one, she's saying, this is my movement.

As soon as Bernie's gone, I'm in it.

It's me.

I'm the head of this socialist movement.

I am the one

to bring the torch forward.

And this is not something that's going away.

And number two, there is no compromise when it comes to socialism.

There is no 95% of what we want from Elizabeth Warren.

We want 100% of it.

We're not satisfying for someone who still says they're a capitalist despite all evidence.

We are the people that are going to say, no, we want them to say they're socialists.

We're not embarrassed about it.

And we're going forward.

And going forward, when Bernie does decide to stop running, it's my game.

Yep.

She will take the torch up.

And all you have to do is know what party she was actually working for.

It's not the Democrats.

And go back and listen to what Sank said the night of the last election.

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All right, so you know, when Pat walks into the studio with a bullhorn, you know that the Reverend Al Sharpton is going to be making an appearance on this program.

Welcome, Pat Bray.

Thank you.

Good to be here.

Tremendous interview from Al Sharpton.

And a lot of people say, wait, Al still does interviews?

I honestly, didn't he move to the weekend?

Because that's the only thing I can think of.

I think he's on Sunday nights or something, right?

I had a literally in the morning on Sundays.

I had no idea he's still at a show.

Yeah,

until yesterday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He does.

That's on MSNBC still, too.

Wow.

Wow.

They just can't

find it in them to fire him, huh?

Apparently not.

No.

Shocking.

It's really easy to to fire Al Sharpton.

There's 500,000 people outside your front door the second you do.

He'll be out there with a bullhorn

instantly.

That's how he keeps jobs.

Yeah.

And that's the only reason he keeps jobs.

It's the only reason he gets jobs.

He can't even speak.

Can we, like, the man cannot do it?

It's hard for him.

It's really hard for him.

And he shows that again.

He proves it every time.

And it's hard to decide who's crazier here in this interview between Al and Betto.

It's really close.

All right.

But here it is.

All right.

Now, how do you view the president?

Two-part question here.

How do you view the president reversing on saying he's going to have the

G7 conference

at his hotel and resort, the Doral in Florida?

Pause for a second.

Already he's starting to stumble all over it.

How do you do the GC, the G-Spot, the G7?

Why was traffic problems email sent?

So you're already off.

To a really good start.

All right.

Here we go.

Gozamore.

Saying he will not.

And how do you deal with what is clearly

a, in my opinion, empty five-day

ceasefire commitment from Turkey to Secretary Pompey and Vice President Pence when we're seeing actual fighting going on?

You know, President Trump, perhaps inspired by Goebbels and the propagandists of the Third Reich, seemed to employ this tactic that the bigger the lie, can I stop for just a second?

Oh, God.

Remember when this was wrong to do?

This was out of bounds to do.

The ADL jumped all over you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

At what point, is he going to be allowed back into the state of Texas?

Or will people be meeting him at the border with pitchforks and torches?

I mean, this guy has gone from a kind of crazy Texan that everybody's like, ah, it's better.

To this.

I mean, this guy has gone nuts.

Nuts.

Stark gravy.

Go ahead.

Seeing the injustice, the more dizzying the pace of this bizarre behavior, the less likely we are to be able to do something about it.

And so I'm so grateful that not only

is the House moving forward with impeachment, but that the public really began to rise up when the president sought to enrich himself by hosting the G7 summit at one of his own properties.

This administration, rife with corruption, is finally coming to a reckoning with the public will of this country.

So I think it's a good sign that he was caught, that he was stopped, that he can no longer normalize the behavior that we've seen so far.

When it comes to Syria, this is just one of the most tragic, embarrassing moments in American history.

To turn our backs on our allies, and Reverend Sharpton, I heard what you said earlier.

These Kurdish fighters literally laid down their lives for this country and made it possible for us to send fewer U.S.

service members over there to do the job of defeating ISIS and protecting our interests.

So, not only have we dishonored that commitment, we made it far less likely that we will be able to bring other potential allies in the future to our cause and to fight alongside U.S.

service members.

Can you pause it for a second?

And also, isn't it fascinating that he's arguing a pro-war position here now?

Yeah, because

they are all about the war now, all of a sudden.

I know, we have to have those troops there in Syria.

And

they have to do that because the reason, I mean, I know we were on record clearly.

We shouldn't be in bed with these people.

Absolutely.

We shouldn't be in arming these people.

These people are really, really bad.

You know, people hear the word Kurd and you think of the Iraqi Kurds.

These are not the Iraqi Kurds.

These are guys who were not fighting for our country.

They are Marxist communists.

They were fighting alongside us, though.

And they were fighting kind of the battle that we didn't.

So they did it really, so we're not.

Because it's their country.

Yes.

It's their country.

They didn't want anything to do with ISIS.

They wanted to run it.

Right.

And it's not.

Fighting for our country is...

There's no question that's false.

They're not fighting for the freedom of America.

No.

They're doing what they believe is right, and it happens to align with what we believe is right, which is not a bad thing.

I mean, you've talked about these people for months, the Syrian Kurds, and how they are different.

That doesn't mean that

it wasn't great that they were fighting along with us.

I mean, I'm glad we didn't have to send more of our troops there.

I'm telling you, it's exactly like the Soviet Union.

I'm glad the Soviet Union was on our side

in World War II.

I'm glad that.

But as soon as it was over,

we made it very clear: okay, these guys are bad guys.

I mean, that's exactly the same thing.

Can I point out my most annoying historical point?

Is there time for this?

Because

Betto does this thing and it drives me freaking crazy.

The whole way people use this Hitler big lie thing.

Okay.

The Hitler big lie thing is used as if Hitler said, look, if I lie with a big enough lie, people will remember, will

believe me and they'll go after the Jews too, right?

Like that's the way that's always used.

That is not how Hitler used it.

Hitler was talking about the Jews.

He was saying they were lying.

It is an anti-Semitic comment.

It was Hitler saying, you know what?

I got to say, the Jews are such liars.

And the bigger they lie, the more people believe them.

They try to make people believe they don't run the world.

It was that sort of horrible analysis is the point he was making.

And people run it out there over and over again like it's this acceptable thing.

And it's not.

When you listen to the rest of this rant from

Betto, he's kind of doing that to Trump.

I mean, he's lying.

As he's accusing Trump of being the liar, he's lying about what Trump has said in the past.

Unbelievable.

He is.

He is.

The desperation and the spectacular collapse of Betto O'Rourke.

I mean, it's remarkable.

Like, if you compare it to,

you know, like a major company collapsing,

it's like Enron, right?

It's a level of like, not only is it one of the, like, he was, what, third place, second place in this election at one point

and now we're talking about a guy who's who his own party is saying guys you got to stop what are you doing you're destroying the party it's like Enron when it collapsed like really hurt the economy right this is like meadows like taking down the party with him he's going through every every horrible proposal that we all believe democrats want to do but they never say he just keeps endorsing them all because he's getting more and more desperate and he wants to stay on television on Al Sharpton's show for one more freaking week so he can hold on to whatever relevance he believe he believes he has and hopefully can turn it into, if he's lucky, the show that comes on after Al Sharpton on Sunday or whenever that thing airs.

He's so desperate for the public.

Think about the, to further the theory that you just had about Ocasio-Cortez.

She is picking up the torch of

Bernie Sanders and she did it in a

very, very clear way, taking that torch, that Bernie Sanders torch, away from Elizabeth Warren.

So she becomes the party leader when that party is in real power of the Democratic Party.

And so she's saying, we're radicals and we make no compromises.

Well, isn't that what he's saying?

So isn't he just a useful idiot for the AOCs?

I think he might be, because what is his future?

Seriously.

He can't run against the Party.

I don't think he has a political future.

Right.

Unless he finds somebody that believes all the crazy things that he's been saying.

Do you have the let's play the audio of him in where was it, Alabama?

And listen to what the Alabama Democrats were applauding when he was on stage.

Do you have that?

This country, though we may not be in El Paso, Texas, is still racist at its foundation, at its core, and throughout this system.

Stop.

Stop.

Listen to that.

We're racist to the core.

No matter where you are, you don't have to be El Nel Paso.

This country is racist to its core.

And he's just trying so hard.

You know, it's like a, you know, it's a, it's a six-year-old trying to push a car down the road.

It's like, it's pathetic.

He just, there's no chance of it working, and he keeps trying.

It's sad.

I mean he deserves every little bit of it because he's terrible.

He has no principles.

Remember the profile, the campaign profile we did on Bedouin Work?

It wasn't that he was super liberal.

It was that he was anything, anything you wanted him to be.

He even says he said it.

He said, what kind of candidate you want me to be?

I'll be that candidate.

I mean, it was almost that quote.

Do you remember that?

No, I think it was.

I mean, did somebody say, we want you to be the candidate of psychosis?

Does that make some exception?

Apparently, somebody.

Can you be the psychosis candidate?

Sure, I can do that.

And he's proving it right now.

I mean, he's psychotic right now.

He's completely unhinged.

I can't believe if this was a Republican that he'd be drummed virtually out of the race, he would be getting so much bad press.

But I will say the Democrats are drumming him out of the race.

I don't even think he's going to make the next debate.

I mean, the media doesn't seem to be hostile to him, really.

No, the media is not hostile to him.

They don't mind him.

You think the media is hostile?

They'll bring him on.

But I mean, look, he's not connecting with the voters.

The voters are completely rejecting him.

Yeah, he's at, what, 2%?

And I don't think I think he has to get...

I want to say the next hurdle is 5%.

5% of those three.

The last one was 3.

Okay, yeah.

So the next debate.

Which he barely made.

I think the next one in November is 5.

He's not going to get there.

He hasn't had a 5% poll in months.

So I don't know where...

I mean, maybe he lucks out and squeaks into this debate, but right now there's only eight candidates that have made it.

If you were a Democrat, put yourself in

the typical Democrat category.

If you were a typical Democrat living someplace in the middle of America, would this not be scaring the hell out of you?

Because you'd be like, oh,

I've always been a Democrat and I don't hate America.

I don't believe in...

socialism.

I kind of like the free market.

I don't believe that we should kill babies after they're born.

I don't think we should take everybody's guns away and have police show up.

I mean, listen to that.

What a tree-limb position that is.

I don't believe we should kill babies after they're born.

What are you supposed to do?

Whoa, you're out there on a limb.

Whoa.

Can you imagine, though?

What would you be thinking?

That's why you are seeing stories now saying that this is the end of the Democratic Party.

If I was Al Sharpton, I'd be thinking, We march

and we must and we will march

about

that

be be committed.

That sadly is a quote.

Exact quote.

Thank you, Pat.

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I just want to ask you, what does this headline make you believe?

There is a definite hanky-panky going on, the fantastically profitable mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades.

What does that say to you?

What do you think this story is about?

I mean, to me, it says, okay, here, people know something's coming from Trump.

He's causing intentional chaos and profiting, you know, from creating profits for his friends.

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.

I want to read the story to you, tell you the story.

It's not that at all,

but it looks like something is going on, but I don't know if this means anything.

We have the guy who was the guy who went into the Pentagon after the 9-11 attacks and tracked those mysterious trades and found that, yeah, that was a sovereign fund.

Somebody dumped

a lot of money into our market or pulled a lot of money, shorted our market and made a bunch of money on September 11th.

It's happening again, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Donald Trump.

I'll give you that story in one minute.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

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okay here's the story from Vanity Fair

in the last 10 minutes of trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday September 13th someone got very lucky that's when he or she or a group of people sold short 120,000 S ⁇ P e-minis their electronically traded future contracts linked to the Standard Poor's 500 stock index.

When the index was trading around 3,010, that's when this purchase came in to sell it short.

The time was 3:50 p.m.

in New York, and it was nearing midnight in Tehran.

A few hours later, drones attacked a large swath of Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure, choking off production in the country and sending oil prices soaring.

By the time the CME opened for pre-trading Sunday night, the S ⁇ P index had fallen 30 points, giving that very fortunate trader or traders a quick $180 million in profit.

Now, does that sound like something that Donald Trump or one of his people are doing?

And does that sound like the chaos he's creating?

It was not an isolated occurrence.

Three days earlier, in the last 10 minutes of trading, someone bought 82,000 SP E-minis when the index was trading at 29.69.

It was nearly 4 a.m.

on September 11th in Beijing, where a few hours later the Chinese government announced that it would lift tariffs on a range of American-made products, as has been the typical reaction in the U.S.

stock markets as the trade war with China chugs on without any perceptible logic.

When the news about the potential resolution

seemed positive, stock markets go up.

The news was viewed positively.

The SP index moved swiftly on September 11th to 2996, up nearly 30 points.

That same day, later, President Donald Trump said he would postpone the tariffs on some of the Chinese goods, and the SP moved even higher, up 47 points.

The person that bought the 82,000 e-minis just before the market closed on September 11th

saw a movement up.

An e-mini contract worth $50,

just moving up 47 points, is now worth 2,350.

That person or persons made $190 million.

Now that sounds to me like that one was coming maybe from China, somebody that knew China, or they were just extremely lucky.

A week earlier, Three minutes before the CME closed on September 3rd, someone bought 55,000 e-mini contracts with the index at about 29.06

around 9 p.m.

New York, 9 a.m.

Hong Kong.

Market started moving, kept rallying for six hours, then reaching 29.36 around 2 p.m.

Hong Kong, 2 a.m.

New York.

Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong leader, announced that she would be withdrawing the controversial extradition bill that had been rolling the city in protest for months.

Somebody there made $82 million.

But then, somebody who bought 420,000 September e-minis in the last 30 minutes of trading in June 28th, That was 40% of the day's trading volume.

They made a trade that no one could ignore.

President Trump was already in Osaka, Japan, 14 hours ahead of Chicago, on his way to a roughly hour-long meeting with China's President Xi.

As part of the G20 summit, Saturday in Osaka, the market had closed, blah, blah, blah.

Trump emerged from the meeting with Zi and announced that

their intermittent trade talks were back on track.

That person made a profit of $1.8 billion.

When this happened on September 11th,

a financial expert who now does a show on Blaze TV

was called in by the Pentagon and said, can you do the forensics on this?

And he found that indeed somebody shorted the market and it looked like it was a sovereign fund.

Kevin Freeman was that guy, and he's on with us now.

Hi, Kevin.

Kevin, are you there?

I am, Glenn.

How are you doing?

I'm good.

So

this story is presented as if it is Trump that is

possibly

involved here, but this looks like it would be sovereign funds or investors that have inside information outside of the U.S.

and not about U.S.

movements on things.

Is this just a string of coincidence, or does this look like a pattern to you that we should be looking into?

Well, there's no question it's a pattern, number one.

Number two, it is not President Trump.

He wants to see the market go up every single day, all day, every day, during the period of his presidency.

He has no desire whatsoever to manipulate the market during this.

His trades would be noticed.

There's no way he's behind it.

But foreign governments are behind it.

It's what I wrote in my book, Secret Weapon.

It's what I talked about when you first first uncovered my research from the Pentagon.

It's what we've talked about on the show all the time.

Foreign governments have interest in manipulating our market, or traders associated with foreign governments, they want to both profit, but they also want to destroy the American economic system.

So is this the beginning?

Has this been going on forever?

Because, I mean, if I'm Turan and I'm really struggling for cash, And I'm going to launch some things, I immediately short the markets because I know it will affect, and that will just give me more money for whatever it is I'm trying to do.

Well, there's no question.

In fact, Osama bin Laden was found to have manipulated the markets prior to 9-11.

And, you know, they dismissed it in the 9-11 Commission, but there are several collegiate university studies that came back afterwards and said, no, there was unusual trading activity in United Airlines and in reinsurance companies and so forth before 9-11.

This is a path to profit if you don't mind manipulating, causing harm to people and so forth.

Of course, you it's an old mob technique.

You know, you take out insurance on a warehouse and then and then you burn down the warehouse.

So absolutely it's a way to make money and it's a way to manipulate the global system.

So what has stopped people from just making money like this in the past?

I mean is this is this something new that we're dealing with?

No, it's not entirely new, but it certainly has ramped up recently and certainly with the Iranians.

I mean, we gave, for example, during the Obama administration, we gave the Iranians something like $150 billion to play nice and be good and so forth.

But now they're desperate for capital.

And under the Trump administration, we're really locking down in a lot of areas.

And so this is their way to lash back and to access capital.

So

the market should know who's making these transactions, right?

Is there a way to track them?

No, you can do a lot of this in secret through dark pools and other places.

And keep in mind, we just assume that every trade is economic.

That's something that we're born and bred into.

So where a trader says, well, somebody's trying to make money, this is economic.

And so we assume that they're acting nice and being legal and appropriate.

It's not always the case.

So what we say in the economic warroom is what we see as a marketplace, our enemies view as a battle space.

And there's no real way to track down some of these foreign trades.

You can say they're unusual, where is it coming from, but there's no real way to trace and understand what happened in 2008, for example.

We looked at the short selling on the banks, and you had to go through like seven layers before you found out where it came from, which was a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East.

It took, you know, they were trades placed by traders, placed by dart pools, placed by, you just keep going back until you finally found where it was.

And it takes a while to do that forensic analysis.

Are you concerned at all?

You know, we've talked on this program about the, I think it's $50 trillion

that China has just printed.

And 24 of that looks like it went to offshore accounts and was invested in stocks, bonds, et cetera, et cetera, here in the United States and in the West.

That really I mean, that is a staggering amount of money that if somebody wants to collapse the market, you know, $20 trillion, $15 trillion,

makes the market move dramatically, does it not?

Yeah,

it would.

You normally wouldn't be concerned because a major nation would realize that the blowback if you destroyed the global financial system would be so severe.

The frightening thing to me is that China has, along with Russia and other nations, created virtually an alternative economic system that doesn't use the Western system at all.

So they may not use the swift transaction system they've created their China payment system.

They may not use the International Monetary Fund.

They may use the Asia Development Bank.

And so normally, you'd say, well, no sane nation that's not collapsing would

collapse the world economy because it would just damage them too much.

But we're fast approaching the point where they may have an alternative system.

If they wanted to pull the plug on the West, they could restart very quickly, and they would be winners from this.

And this is something that's actually out in the literature.

It's something they've talked about in unrestricted warfare, and it's also something that the Russians talked about more than

20 years ago now.

Well, but they've also taken action steps on those.

They're both stockpiling gold,

and they both have negotiated with Saudi Arabia to get off of the petrodollar.

And so

they've already taken those steps to

show us that they are moving towards getting away from the Western standards.

Absolutely correct.

100%.

Okay, and it never makes me feel good when I talk to you, Kevin.

I mean, I always am glad because I know you know these things, but I guess there's part of me that's like, I don't know if I really want to know these things.

What should we be looking for, Kevin?

Well, one of the signs would be

an issue that we're dealing with is the thrift savings plan, where the Chinese are still seeking to access Western capital.

And so in the thrift savings plan of the United States, which is all of our pensioners and retirees and veterans and so forth, that's going to be invested in the MSCI International Index, which is heavily weighted to China, much against the patriotic veteran who doesn't want his money going into Chinese stocks.

As long as they continue to access Western capital,

they're probably not pulling the plug yet.

They're just preparing for it.

And that is a massive push to take billions and billions of dollars from our thrift savings plan and put it into Chinese companies.

It will be very painful when they switch over.

It will be more painful for us than them if they succeed.

Their economy,

fortunately for us, their economy is not the powerhouse juggernaut that it once was.

They are struggling.

And President Trump, as the first president in my lifetime, actually stood up to the Chinese.

So this is a war, and we are finally beginning to recognize it.

There is no other signal we need to realize that they're fighting an economic war against us.

We've seen everything we need to see and what you're mentioning here about

currency that they're pushing around the world to the tune of trillions just boggles my mind.

Kevin, I've got to take a break and I want to hold you if you know an answer to this question.

Do you have any idea what is causing the banks to have to be, you know, get those loans every night from the Fed?

Do you have any idea?

Yeah, it's just extreme stresses on the system.

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, you don't know what the cause is.

Okay, hang on.

Hang on just a second.

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Kevin Freeman is with us from the Economic War Room, and I've been telling you about this.

This thing that has not happened really since 2008.

And it's really complex.

And let me just summarize it this way: the banks have been having extra stress, and at night, they've been going to the Fed to get these gigantic loans to be able to

meet all of the regulations.

It's very unusual

on what is happening.

And we're talking about, I think it was as high as $215

billion.

$215 billion

a night for a while, and it's happening again.

Nobody knows

what is causing this, but how concerning is it to you, Kevin?

Well, it's very concerning, and it's becoming increasingly so.

Initially, they told us that it was having to do with tax payments and so forth, very temporary.

But it's expanded.

It's gone from an average $20 billion to an average $60 billion a night.

And then a J.P.

Morgan fixed income analyst just wrote that with year-end coming up, this is all likely to get much worse in our view before it gets any better.

This is a sign of stress on the economic system.

But what is the stress?

Is it possible that the stress is the government is spending so much money and somebody has to buy those bonds and they're kind of being strong-armed and they don't have the money for the bond?

What is the

crowding out theory?

You know, we are clearly, when we're having having to spend $1.2 trillion beyond what we are taking in, which is a huge percentage, there are all kinds of stresses globally.

When you add the trade war, when you add

the need to keep the stock market high, we have negative interest rates around the world, all of those things.

It is such a big pile of mess, it is hard to understand how people don't see potential tragedy around the corner.

And yet, we have been drugged into this lull, and the Fed is drugging us even further with these overnight repo.

The market's not able to clear itself.

I haven't seen the news today on Brexit.

I don't even know if the news even matters at this point.

But if they do get out, are you worried about that dislocation?

Well, everything is a dislocation, but they just keep covering it over.

The problem is when the central banks are no longer able to solve the problem, and then they have to be bailed out, who bails them out?

And that's where we're almost to that point.

And that's a Jim Rickards argument is the you know the last tragic happening is when the central banks fail well that's why Norway I think it was Norway the central bank said it's time to get back into gold because there's a reset coming it's like um how come nobody's talking about that that's a central bank saying something that is very very different than everybody else

absolutely John Malden's been talking about the great reset from the 2020s and that's something that we'll have to face and that that is when you have these massive dislocations, when people are paying people to borrow money, that's a signal there's a problem.

And we have that $17 trillion or something around the world is at negative interest rates.

Kevin, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

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So we have the most central piece of how Elizabeth Warren is going to pay for all her plans: the wealth tax.

Is it constitutional?

We answer that question coming up next.

Okay, so we've been hearing a lot about wealth tax, and I don't even think most people even know what a wealth tax is.

And they stop listening because it's only going to affect, they say, only going to affect those people making, you know, or have a billion dollars or more.

But it's going to be a tax on everything they own.

So their art, the money they gave to their kids,

you know,

all of it, all of it.

And so it doesn't seem to be constitutional at all,

but everybody is loving it because it doesn't affect them and it's going to raise all this money.

But it's unconstitutional.

Kyle Salmon is the senior contributor for The Federalist.

He has a podcast.

He's a co-host of Conservative Minds.

Welcome to the program, Kyle.

How are you?

Good.

Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

You bet.

So you wrote a very good article in The Federalist about why Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is completely unconstitutional.

But

can you explain it in simple layman's terms

why and what a direct tax is?

You know, just kind of break this down for us.

Sure.

And the distinction, I mean, between direct tax and indirect tax is one that doesn't come up very much.

But

it was something discussed at the Constitutional Convention because the Founding Fathers,

The government they were living under, the Articles of Confederation, did not have the power to tax.

They had to just ask the states for money and hope they got it.

So a lot of times they didn't get it because the states didn't want to pay it.

So when they wrote the Constitution, they thought, well, okay, we need to be able to tax directly.

So Congress can levy a tax and we can pay for the Army and the Navy and everything else we need to pay for.

But they didn't want to give them too much power to tax.

They didn't want them to overwhelm the states and take away all of the people's money and

put themselves in a worse situation.

So they split the difference and said

that Congress could tax, but they couldn't do any direct tax unless it would be apportioned by population.

So,

what does that mean?

At the Constitutional Convention, Rufus King of Massachusetts asked, what is the precise meaning of direct tax?

And according to Madison's notes, nobody answered and they moved on.

Okay, good.

So, even in the beginning, it was sort of a compromise language.

But as we moved on, it kind of took on the idea that a tax on people or property is a direct tax.

A tax on sales or imports is an indirect tax.

So Congress always has taxed imports or had the ability to tax imports.

I mean, that's tariffs, and we've had that since the beginning.

And

Alexander Hamilton came up with the whiskey tax, which caused a little stir in the West, but it was definitely constitutional because it was a tax on the sale of whiskey.

But they could not tax property directly was the idea,

unless they apportioned that tax among the states, so that each state paid its share according to population not according to property effectively this made property taxes impossible because it wouldn't make any sense

why if you had two states that had the same population say

but one of them was rich and one of them was poor they'd both have to sit pay the same amount of property tax to the government

but what effectively means is that each poor person in the poorer state had to pay the same amount as the rich people in the richer state.

sort of the opposite of how taxes, even in those days, were meant to go.

So it had to be apportioned by the state, meaning California and South Dakota would pay the exact same rate

as a state.

Yes.

But if one was California that had all the rich people there and South Dakota had none of the rich people there, they're screwed.

Yeah, and that's why Congress never really imposed a tax like that because it would have made no sense and everyone would have been angry.

So

that worked for about a hundred years, and then we get down to the first permanent income tax getting imposed in the 1890s.

And people said, Hey, isn't this the same thing?

You know, you're taxing income, that's a direct tax.

And the Supreme Court agreed, and they said you have to apportion this, which basically meant they were going to repeal it because of the same problems.

Then we passed the 16th Amendment a few decades later that says you can do direct taxes on income, but all the other direct taxes are still not permitted unless they're apportioned.

Well, what is the difference between my income

and my stuff?

Well, that's what the court said in Pollock, the case that struck down the unapportioned income tax in the 1890s, because they said, look, if you have property and we can't tax that directly, now you get income from that property and we can.

It doesn't make sense.

It's the same thing.

Right.

Right?

Where you can't tax a person directly, but you can tax his income.

That doesn't make sense.

So

that's what that was struck down, and it's only legal now because of the 16th Amendment, which carved out this one part of direct taxation.

And left everything else closed.

So it's only about income tax.

And they had to change the Constitution to make it that direct tax could only be income.

Right.

And it's pretty broad.

It's income on, you know, any kind of income you get, they can tax, and they do.

But it's got to be income.

It can't be just property.

And that's why there is no federal property tax.

I mean, we have, you know, in your state or your township or whatever, your school district, you might pay a property tax.

but there's no federal property tax, and this is the reason, because it, you know, without going through these weird math computations to make it fit the Constitution, it's not constitutional.

So how is Elizabeth Warren, I mean, besides getting away with it with the American people because they just don't know, how is she planning on pulling this off?

She hasn't had a good answer for that.

I mean, that's that's kind of John Delaney brought it up in the last debate that he was allowed to participate in, and they kind of just moved on from it, but he raises a very very good point.

This is something that, you know, we've had 100 plus years of direct tax jurisprudence that says you can't just tax property directly.

The one thing that, I mean,

one thing that's kind of confused the issue is in the Obamacare case,

you remember that

they struck down the insurance mandate, but said it could survive as a tax.

And in the dissent,

Justice Scalia brought up this direct tax question.

He said, wait a minute, if if you're saying this is a tax,

this is a tax on a person not having insurance, that sounds a lot like a direct tax, not an indirect tax.

And Justice Roberts kind of shrugged this off and said it's he listed a bunch of direct taxes that existed in the 1790s the first time the court looked at this and said it's not one of these so it can't be a direct tax

but that's sort of sort of a backward reasoning because of course it's not one of those they didn't have they didn't even have health insurance in the 1790s right

right not having health insurance right

so that kind of muddied the waters a little bit, and perhaps Warren thinks she could, you know, if the Democrats succeed in court packing, just, you know,

so tell me the ramifications, because people, it's people with a billion dollars.

They have it.

They won't miss it.

Tell me the ramifications of it.

Well, I mean, that's part of it, too.

It's not just the billionaires.

It actually starts if you have 50 million, which is still, it's more than I'll ever have.

But it's, you know, it's a lot closer.

And the problem is, that's what Warren says.

She She said it's 2%.

It's on the, only the very rich are going to pay it.

You know, who cares, right?

But that's exactly, even down to the percent, what they said about the income tax in 1895.

They said it was a 2% tax, and it was only on people making $4,000 a year or more, which in today's money is about $116,000.

You know, it was less than 1% of the population.

And they said,

if I remember right, they said it would never go above 7%

and it would never be paid by anybody but the uber rich.

Yeah, this was just a rich man's tax, you know, and then people got behind it and they said, well, yeah, look at these guys.

This guy owns 100 factories.

He can pay 2%, right?

But

it never stops at that.

Once they get access to a new form of taxation, it always creeps in and goes more,

especially because something like a wealth tax

and Lauren Summers, Clinton's Treasury Secretary, brought this up more than once in response to Warren's plans.

It's not going to take in as much money as she thinks.

They've tried it in Europe over the decades, and it never brings in this much because people hide their stuff.

Or then you have things that, like, the things that regular folks own, you know how much they're worth, you know.

But the things that rich people own are sometimes hard to value.

And then what that turns into is just an audit every year because this is an annual tax where she wants 2%

every year of all your stuff.

Which doesn't that over time just delete, just deplete your stuff?

Yeah, I mean, that means you have to earn 2% on all of your investments just to keep them.

And some things aren't owned as investments.

I mean, sometimes you might, you know, people own a house.

It might not go up 2% every year.

I think most don't, you know, but you don't own it necessarily for an investment.

You own it because it's the place you live, you know, or other things.

You know, I mean, things you, you know, art, it can be an investment, but that market is very up and down.

And art collectors don't always buy because they want appreciation.

They buy because they they think it's beautiful and they want it on their house.

So keeping, yeah, this basically says if you don't earn 2%

on these investments every year in a way that you can pay to the government, like you earn 2% cash, really, because if you, you know, if your house goes up 2%, it doesn't mean you have that 2%.

Yeah,

you have to have the 2% in cash, which might require you selling an asset to be able to hit that.

Right.

So it's, it's a very, and then, you know, I mean, we have we have estate taxes where audits go on for years and these big estate taxes.

I mean, I I began my legal career as a trust and estates attorney, and there's a whole lot that goes into those, and they only happen once a generation.

This would happen every single year.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

All right, Kyle, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

All right, thank you.

You bet.

We wanted to have him on.

He's podcast host, Conservative Minds.

Wanted to have him on because he took this very complex thing and made it pretty simple in the Federalist.

And there's just no way to do it.

And the ramifications of stuff like this, it fundamentally changes.

If they can get away with, it's like Obamacare.

If they can get away with this, if they can start to say, no, we can have direct taxes like this.

They're going to go after everything because they have to.

They have to.

If they are wanting to spend an extra $50 billion

to $100 trillion dollars in the next 10 years, they have to have access to everybody's stuff.

That's still not going to be enough.

No, still not.

But I mean, they're talking about if you think that it starts at 50 million and it stays at 50 million, you're nuts.

It's going to be, do you have 50,000 in your bank account?

Well, then we need a percentage of that too.

And what do you have?

What about your stocks?

What about your retirement funds?

You don't come after all of that.

You don't own anything.

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So we are on the verge of

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We're on the verge of losing our country to socialist, Marxist radicals.

That's what they are.

That's what Elizabeth Warren is.

She is a socialist, Marxist, socialist, Democrat

radical.

She's not radical enough for the likes of OAC.

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Democrat for AOC and the squad.

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You're listening to Glenn Beck.

You know, I'm listening to this news, and I was so glad she started with some good news of the day.

And

I was thinking about how

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And looking at this garbage every day is so hard, you know.

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And I want to talk to you a little bit about happiness with Max Lucato.

I heard somebody, somebody said to me the other day, I said, How are you?

And their answer was the best answer I have ever heard.

And it made me reevaluate everything.

Everything.

And I want to share that with you.

And we have Max Lucato on.

He's got a book, How Happiness Happens.

Let's find out how it happens and do more of that in a minute.

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So, how are you?

Somebody asked me that question and I said, fine.

And

I said, how are you?

And they gave me the best answer I've ever heard.

And it totally reframed everything.

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That's absolutely right.

When surveyed, only 35% in America say they are happy.

That's not good.

By some estimates, clinical depression is 10 times more rampant than it was a century ago.

Depression is going to become the second leading cause of disease worldwide.

What's happening to us?

And how do we fix it?

Max Lucato in one minute.

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He is New York Times multi-time best-selling author.

He has a new book out, How Happiness Happens.

We talked to him a couple of weeks ago for a few minutes, and I wanted him back because he's on to something.

And I think this is the biggest problem that we face in the world today: a lack of finding happiness.

And Max, somebody said to me the other day,

when I said, How are you?

They said,

I am

fantastic.

And I said,

Really?

And they said, yeah, you know,

nothing in my life is

has gone wrong today.

And nothing, my family is doing pretty good.

I mean, we still have our problems, but it's pretty good.

My business is pretty good.

My health is pretty good.

And so you would think that he was going to say, so how are you?

Pretty good.

He's like, if everything is just kind of like status quo, I should celebrate because one of those things is going to go wrong.

This is the best time I've had in a long time.

I'm fantastic.

What a different perspective.

That's a great perspective.

It is.

So many times I think we sacrifice our happiness on the altar of high expectations.

Yes.

You know, that everything has to be just perfect.

Right.

Everybody has to agree with us.

The traffic has to be just right.

And we entered the day with such high expectations.

And high expectations can be the enemy of gratitude.

It can cause us to not be grateful for the very many good things that are happening in our lives.

And you know, when you look at it differently, because I started thinking about that, and I thought, okay, well, my son is struggling in school.

I have other family members that are battling with depression.

One that's about to go in for brain surgery, and one was just diagnosed with epilepsy.

And

those are my kids.

And I was like,

but you know what, Max?

I thought, but you know what?

We all get along.

We're all having really good time in our relationship.

Yeah,

those things are happening, but we're really fantastic.

It's amazing.

And really, perspective matters the most, doesn't it, Glenn?

It does.

I mean,

anybody can find reason on any day to be downcast and downspirited.

and then that

we run into that person who has so much less than we do.

Just like last night,

I was a little bit cranky.

My wife and I took my granddaughter out to a restaurant, and the guy who was serving us dinner was just, you'd have thought he, I don't know.

He was a Super Bowl winner.

He was just so happy to be there, so happy to be there.

And I thought, and he and I are about the same age.

You know, I'm in my mid-60s, and I thought, would I be that happy?

Would I be that happy

to be working as hard as he is?

And he loves his work.

And

here I was sitting in a restaurant that's very affordable for me, but for most people in the billion people and billions of people in the world, they could not afford it.

You know, it was a perspective, just a wake-up call.

Come on, Lakato.

Be grateful.

Don't let your day be sucked out to joy.

I mean, sucked out to sea.

Don't let your joy be sucked out to sea by just a rotten, rotten perspective.

And my point in the book, Glenn, we're paying a high price for this.

We are.

Where there's a lack of happiness, there is

an abundance of health issues.

Happier people have healthier marriages.

Happier people make more money.

Happier people are more

commonly and quickly promoted.

And so, really, the pursuit of happiness is more than a phrase in our founding documents,

but it's a moral obligation that we have to those around us.

We're better people when we're happy.

So, there's several things that come to the top of mind on what is causing us to have this lack of happiness.

And can we just tick some of them off and

tell me

what role these play?

But I think of

being self-absorbed

and absorbed in your problems and not seeing your problems as

blessings.

I mean, my father taught me, you know,

long story short, he taught me that there is no real bad that happens to you.

It's only how you relate to it that makes it bad.

And when you have trust that there is something above you bigger and there is no such thing as a coincidence and that it's going to be okay in the long run.

You don't get that job.

This thing doesn't happen.

It doesn't destroy you.

Your kids get sick.

It doesn't destroy you because you know it's all going to be right.

It's going to take me to the place I'm supposed to be.

How much of that has been lost now because of our faith?

That's huge.

That's just huge.

You know, the $2 term for that in theology is sovereignty.

Sovereignty is the belief that,

and I remember a professor told me once that the understanding of sovereign is found in the word itself, R-E-I-G-N, reign, solve, reign tea.

You know, sovereignty is the belief that there is a king.

There is a king, somebody who reigns over the affairs of our lives.

And I just, boy, I just, I don't mean to sound like an old religious stiff-necked person.

I'm not, but I do believe that secularism is taking its toll on our day.

Uh when we raise up a generation of people that are taught uh that prayer is bad, it's not permissible, it's not something we turn to, it's not a go-to response, uh, and when we and when we uh

when it when it's it's unpopular to be a person of faith and our role models deride faith, faith.

We're going to pay a price for that, I think, Glenn.

And as a result,

people don't know where to turn.

They think that

all of life is wind

on a windmill, you know, or a weather vane.

It's just however the wind kind of blows.

And some people are lucky, some people aren't.

And that leads to

just a gloomy, sad, small view of life.

Whereas what your father taught you, that

there's a being in charge, and this being really does care for our well-being.

We don't have to all agree on the nature of that being, how even to access that being, how that being

has been revealed to us.

But what's essential is the belief that there's somebody in the cockpit and somebody's in charge of getting us to where we're supposed to go.

You know, it's amazing because so many people who are atheists,

some of them are real militant, just like some Christians are real militant, but

it bothers them that you believe in God.

And I've had conversations with people, and I've said, why does that bother you?

If it makes me happy and makes me a better person, makes me a better father, makes me a better citizen, and it works for me.

I'm not trying to jam it down your throat.

Why is this such a bad thing?

Even if

there is no man in the sky,

fine, this belief made me into a much better person.

And I don't know why our society doesn't look at people who practice their faith, not who claim, but people who practice their faith, they are happier on the whole.

Yeah, they are.

I think you're making such a great point.

Every comment you've made there, we could, you know, what you were saying there, those who practice their faith,

those who claim to have a faith but don't practice it, that's always been the challenge, right?

Even the teachings of Jesus, his hardest words were reserved for those hypocrites who like to stand out on the street corner and pray loud prayers just so they'll be heard.

I mean, if that's a turnoff to Christ, it's going to be a turnoff to us.

And we pay a high price for that.

But there is in our country such a massive population group that would say, my faith has made me a better person,

made me a better wife, a better husband, that they are a resounding chorus to the power of a heartfelt and genuine faith.

You're absolutely right.

It makes us better people.

Max, I'm going to take a one-minute break and then we come back and let me talk about those people because are they...

The numbers seem to say that they are disappearing, that they are more and more people are saying, now I don't really believe in anything.

And I think they are critical.

I've said just the other day, if we don't turn our face back to God, beg for forgiveness, and ask for his help and humble ourselves, we are toast.

And

that's nobody in mainstream media is saying that kind of stuff.

They deem that crazy.

And I'm wondering if these people are just quiet right now or if it is actually dwindling as people say it is.

Max Lucato, when we come back, the name of the book is How Happiness Happens.

And we're going to to get into that.

He outlines things that you can do and studies show you do these things and it actually helps

happiness.

We go back to him in one minute.

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All right, Max Lucato is here, and one of the reasons why I'm having him on, I'm just being transparent, is he's friends with Chip and Joanna Gaines, and they're my favorites.

And I'm a huge fan.

And

if you ever just want to pass my name out there and say, gee, you know, I have a friend, and he'd love to have dinner with you guys, feel free, Max.

I'm just saying, feel free.

Those two people, if you watch chip and joanna

they have a what seems to be a happy family because they seem to have fun with each other they laugh they love each other they support each other in your book you talk about how it's got to be a five to one ratio positive to negative

are you there max Yes,

and you talk about how you have to have, you know, you have to have more positive going out than negative.

Talk about families and relationships.

Yeah, yeah.

You're right about Chip and Joanna.

They're just splendid people.

I wish I knew them better, but I know Chip better than I know Joanna.

So you need to.

I mean, you know Chip enough to say, hey, you should get together with my friend Glenn, right?

I'll do it.

I'll do it.

I'll come in there right now.

Okay.

All right.

Anyway, Max, go ahead.

You know, this whole issue of happiness, the big idea is that

we can find happiness by making other people happy.

That's really what we cherish about people who have a genuine happiness.

They haven't found it because they won the lottery.

They haven't found it because they found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

They found it because they discovered that the secret to happiness is making other people happy.

And you cited some really fascinating research, and that is that healthy, happy marriages have a five to one ratio of encouraging words over negative wounds, negative words.

The truth is words can wound people.

Words can bless people.

Some people's words are like water on an oak tree.

Some people's words are like poison or some type of toxicity on an oak tree.

And so what I urge people in this book is look at the ways that you can make other people happy.

Because

you set out today to make five or ten people happy.

You just set out today to give them words of encouragement, to bless them, to compliment them.

And you'll be amazed how the clouds part in your own sky.

And

you really will find that it's more blessed to give than it is to receive.

You know, that sounds like such

dime store

advice.

It sounds too simple.

Right, but it is true.

I am convinced, Max, that

we are arguing so much about how bad things are in our past and everything else.

If we just said, you know what, let's put that on the table for a while.

Let's put that on a back burner for a while.

There are 50 million slaves right now enslaved in the world.

Let's work together to get those people out of bondage.

I think we would forget about all of our problems quickly, and the people we thought we were, you enemies with would soon become our friends because we were not focused on us.

That is absolutely the truth, and that's a biblical truth, and it's increasingly being borne out by research.

In the first chapter of the book, I talked about what I thought was really a fascinating piece of research

in which volunteers

were attached to an MRI scanner, and they were asked to imagine, Glenn, not even do, but just to imagine doing good things for other people.

And when they imagined it, that part of our brain that is called the pleasure center just lit up like Christmas trees.

And just a thought of doing something good for somebody generated the same response that a good meal or a hobby or a beautiful walk

on on a trail on a blue sky day.

It generated that level of happiness.

So the point is, you don't have to change your circumstances to find happiness.

That's the big lie.

And that is if I can get my circumstances right, then I'll be happy.

All we need to do is go from the posture of everybody take care of me to the posture of I'm going to try to serve other people.

I heard a speaker, actually, my wife heard a speaker just over the weekend bemoan what you were talking about, and that is the decrease in church attendance.

And I'd love to explore that with you.

It's a disturbing fact.

And he said, I wonder how much of that is the fact that we live in a society where if your coffee isn't exactly the way you want it, you walk it back up to the counter and they'll make you a brand new one and give you an apology.

Or if your pizza is not the way you want it,

they'll send a team to your house and bring you a new pizza.

And he said, I wonder if we've created an attitude in churches of all sorts that if you don't like the temperature or the song or something the preacher said, then

it needs to be fixed to serve me.

It's a consumer mindset

that is taken into churches, and consequently, no church is perfect, especially mine.

And so people are saying, well,

they're not meeting my expectations.

And

as a result, the attendance is at an all-time low.

I would like to actually explore that.

Let me take a break here.

But before we do, let me just throw this out.

My son said to me Sunday morning, we're getting up to go to church, and he said, Dad, why do we have to go to church?

I'm so tired.

Why do we have to go to church?

And I said, Because we have to say thank you for all the things that have gone right this week and all the blessings that we have.

We have a lot to be grateful for.

And

I wonder if we have

forgotten that this isn't our time to have things made right for us.

This is our time to go with gratitude and to hear what he's trying to tell us.

Okay, here's what you do next.

I don't know if we have that attitude.

Back in just a second with Max Lucato.

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Welcome back to the program.

Max Lucato is with us.

He has a new book, How Happiness Happens, and he has some steps that you can take.

We can get to those here in just a second.

I want to ask you,

Max,

the depression that is going on, especially with our kids, there's nothing,

nothing seems real anymore.

There's no real

true connection.

It's virtual connections.

I mean, touch is important to people.

You can't touch.

Families are not, you know, all together the way they used to.

How much of this virtual world is causing some of the depression that we are seeing now in youth?

Yeah, yeah, it's so disturbing, isn't it, Glenn?

The statistics are so, so saddening.

And,

boy, I just would be heartbroken if anybody thought I was in any way

downplaying this terrible, terrible trend.

Depression, I mean, not only depression, but suicide is up 33% since 1999.

And there's a difference between depression and clinical depression.

I mean,

that's a whole different level.

And clinical depression is when you're suicidal.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

And being able to interrupt that depression early on, get treatment

and seek help.

It seems to me we should ask the question, what's going on in our generation that's unique to this generation?

And it could be these be contributing factors.

Everything, though, Max, is unique.

It's unique.

Everything.

Things have changed more in the last 30 years than in the last 300.

Absolutely.

Think about so much has changed so fast that it's really, I think, contributing to all of our anxiety.

Our smartphones

don't allow us any downtime.

I mean, it's just, and I'll confess, during the break, what was I doing?

I was checking my smartphone.

I should have been taking my breath or offering a prayer or saying, Lord, give me wisdom.

But

I've bought into it as well.

There's no downtime.

And I think the young people are falling victim to thinking that's their community.

This internet community where they can text people, they can get online and just share ideas or even look at pictures.

But Glenn, that's not authentic community.

That's not where you really have the opportunity to open up to somebody and build a friendship with someone.

And so I think that's a factor.

So I think there's several factors that are coming into play.

But it's a very disturbing trend.

So let's go through a couple of the things that you recommend in the book that I think are fantastic.

You say, next time you're going through the airport,

look at everybody and

give them an intercessory prayer.

Explain that.

Well,

again, the big idea of the book is happiness happens when we give it away.

And the New Testament is packed full of passages that urge us to do things for one another.

They're the one another verses.

And so I took 10 of them and unpacked them in the book and said, here's some examples of things you can do.

And one of them is pray for one another.

Pray for one another.

And this is, like you say, on a kind of a casual level, as you're walking through an airport or a shopping mall or a grocery store, rather than get overwhelmed by your to-do list or the travel, take a moment and just say, Lord, bless that person over there who's on the computer.

Bless that little child who's been born into this busy world.

And what happens is, not only are we activating the power of prayer, which I think is just the greatest power there is, but we're getting our minds off of ourselves.

We're expanding our circle.

We're lifting up our eyes, and we're seeing seeing people all around us.

And then this is especially important with those for whom we have a deep concern that we know very well.

Parents

talk to me all the time about what can I do about my son who's a prodigal or my daughter who doesn't call home or what can I do?

There's nothing I can do.

And I'm trying to be quick to remind them and say, oh, there's a lot you can do.

You can pray.

And when we pray,

we give that person to God.

We place that person in God's hands.

None of us have big enough shoulders to carry everybody's problems.

We don't even have big enough shoulders to shoulder our own.

And so one way, one thing that takes our joy is we try to carry the burdens of other people.

Well, nobody can do that, Glenn.

And what we can do is we can carry those burdens to God.

We say, God, please, please help my child or please help this person.

And I think that that's

an avenue that everybody can take and end up happier.

A person doesn't have to have an advanced degree in theology.

They don't have to understand all the questions about faith.

They can just take their concerns and lift them up to God in prayer.

Pray for people.

And I pray.

personally with people.

I know I'm a pastor, so people might say, well, you're supposed to, but I don't tell people that.

I was just with a person day before yesterday.

I ran into them in a parking lot.

They were helping me with groceries, and they looked discouraged.

And I said, would you be offended if I just said a prayer for you?

And he said, I'm never offended by prayer.

And I just said, Lord, bless this person.

Lift their spirit today and help them to have a better day.

Well,

I don't know what God did for them, but I know what he did for me.

I got in the car a happier person.

And because I felt like I had done something something for that person, that that person's just simple things we can do.

It make all of us happier.

Doesn't it also help you start to notice people?

So many people feel unnoticed.

and alone.

And it helps you.

That's a great point.

It helps you notice people and look at people differently.

Because when you're just kind of looking around and you're focused on your own thing, you're just seeing people.

But if you're really looking at people, you'll see things in their faces.

You might notice their clothes.

You might notice their hands or something.

And you'll start to notice them.

And you'll start to not only just not focus on yourself, but you will see the struggles of other people.

And it will become a habit.

What a great point.

That is excellent.

That's excellent.

Glenn, I have a friend who saw an epitaph.

He saw it chiseled in a gravestone the phrase, I was born a human, but I died a grocer.

And I think what he was saying is, I just became a functionary in the world.

People saw me as the one who checked them out in the grocery store line.

We can all tend to do that.

We can pigeonhole people and say, that person runs the convenience store, or that's the person

who oversees the security at the parking lot.

When each person, every single person, is an idea of God, and God has no bad ideas.

Every single person.

And I think this is especially important in the world in which you live, Glenn, and you do such a masterful job at.

And that is not

our tendency is to say, that person

is with the donkeys, that person is with the elephants, that person has this position, that person, and we forget that that's, even though we might disagree with that person, they're still a human being.

And they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.

And so anything we can do to help us remember that we live

a society of living, breathing ideas of God is good for us.

And it's good for us.

It's hard

in a society that makes everyone who isn't exactly thinking the same thing that your team is thinking.

It's hard because everybody wants to make those people into enemies.

And

you have enough evidence that there are people that are actively trying to thwart what you believe is true that it it it's it's extraordinarily difficult

one of the things that's unique and it just seems like i've only experienced it in the last five or six years is something that we might call guilt by association um you know i'll i'll go on anyone's program and and i'll i'll i love conversations i love being interviewed i love to interview

but of the last four or five years i will get emails or people posting things on my Facebook saying,

you were on so-and-so's program.

Don't you know what she thinks about?

And then fill in the blank.

Are you on so-and-so's program?

Don't you know what they say about?

Are you one of them?

And it's just this, I bet you get that all the time.

Oh,

yeah.

There's no way to win.

There's no way to win.

There's no way to win.

You know,

we're just carrying on a conversation

and we're respecting one another.

That doesn't mean that you agree with everything everybody says.

And I don't know what happened.

There's some civility that got lost somewhere along the way.

It's arrogance.

I think we're, you know, I wrote about this in one of my books that the problem that I suffer with sometimes is

certitude, that I am certain.

that I am right.

And the minute I am certain that I am right, then the person with the other opinion doesn't matter to me anymore.

And so you don't listen to them.

You're just trying to tell them eventually just shut up because you don't get it.

Well, once you're certain, you're done.

There's no way to communicate.

Only if you look at somebody and go, there's something that is driving them.

There's something that I'm missing here.

There's something that they see that I don't see or they think they see.

And I want to learn that.

Until you are willing to go down down that road with people, and not all people are willing to

reciprocate, but until you go down there,

it's just an exercise in futility.

What a great point.

What a great point.

There's just a wonderful story in the New Testament about the time that Jesus was on his way to treat the daughter of the most important man in the village, and a woman reached up and touched him on the hem of his garment, and she was an outcast outcast because she had suffered for many years from

what was called an issue of blood, and she was marginalized by society.

But Jesus stopped because he knew he had healed her, and he asked her to come forward.

And there's a little phrase there in the gospel story that says, Jesus listened to her whole story.

He listened to her whole story.

And I thought, how long had it been since anybody had listened to her whole story?

I think there's a real balm that comes when we listen to people.

You know, you honor people, Glenn, because you listen to them.

You take time to,

you may not, I'm sure you don't agree with everything they say, but you listen.

You let them express themselves.

And this is something that all of us can do, and we can learn from it.

One of my friends says that the best question that any of us can learn to ask is, how does it feel to be you?

How does it feel to be you?

How does it feel to be a female in a gray-flanneled world?

Or how does it feel to be a teenager in this day and age?

Tell me, how does it feel?

How does it feel to be

a middle-aged white man in this day and age?

What's it like to be you?

That's a great way to start a conversation and to urge people to just tell me your story.

And I think there's some healing that happens when we do that.

Max Lucato, you can follow him at maxlucato.com.

The name of his book is How Happiness Happiness Happens.

And the thing I like about this book is that it actually gives you things that will turn into a habit.

The things that

long ago when I was trying to find my way, the things that I did like dismiss coincidence for 30 days.

changed my life.

The things that he talks about and the tips he gives you can change your life.

How happiness happens by Max Lucato.

Max, thank you so much.

We'll talk again.

You're such a delight.

Thank you, Glenn.

God bless.

It's great to talk to you.

Bye-bye.

Oh, he's going to get so much heat for just saying that.

That's not a word I've usually seen associated with you.

Yeah, delight.

Yeah.

Maybe in a dessert sense.

I was going to say there's some delight in desserts, but

you're sitting at the table, your favorite upscale French restaurant, when the waiter comes up, and he's got a t-shirt and ripped jeans.

And beneath the brim of his hard hat, he says, What'll it be?

You're like,

I don't,

I'm in a friend.

Yeah, I got a feeling for my cousin from time to time.

That is not the experience I want.

And that's not the experience I want in anything.

I want

what I kind of expect and what I deserve if I'm going to a great place.

If I am hiring a real estate agent, I know exactly what I want.

I want somebody who is going to be calling me, going to let me know what's going on,

going to be selling my house or helping helping me buy the next house, somebody that doesn't do it part-time.

You know, no cousin is filling in.

Yeah, so you want to sell your house, do yes?

You need somebody that is a pro at what they do and the right person for the neighborhood that either you're moving into or moving out of.

You can find that right person at realestateagentsitrust.com.

And they don't sound like this,

nor do they sound like the French Frenchman either.

They speak your language, realestate agents I trust.com.

That's realestate agentsitrust.com.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

Welcome to the program.

I'm so glad that

you're here.

Thanks.

Saturday, not you.

Saturday, we have

the M1 ball, and this is where we raise money to be able to hire the people that we need to hire so we can go and do these things.

Mercury won your charity, yes.

Yes, yes.

And,

you know, the things that we're involved in now with the Nazarene Fund and everything else is just crazy great.

I mean, you just heard Max Lakato talk about doing things for others.

I can't tell you how many people who have been involved with Mercury One, even just on the donation level, get such satisfaction out of it.

This ball we do once a year to pay for all the salaries and everything.

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And so the ball is happening this Saturday at the Dallas Omni Hotel.

We would love to see you there.

You can watch Saturday night if you can't make it the Mercury One Facebook page, live stream of the ball.

And we also have an auction going on now.

Yeah, there's a six-day, five-night trip to Florida.

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another, there's this trip to Burns Ranch, which I have to admit, The first time I looked at it, I thought I said the Bunny Ranch.

And I was like, that's a weird trip for Mercury One to be giving away.

But hey, maybe Jeffy donated it.

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