Best of the Program | Guests: Elizabeth Johnston, Dr. Grazie P. Christie & Gregory Wrightstone | 2/13/19

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What a podcast for you today.

We start with this heartbreaking story out of West Virginia about a mom who had a child of special needs who was terrified to go to school.

She put a recorder in her child's hair and came home after one day with just a horror story that you have to hear.

Also, we talk about the high-speed train and why Gavin Newsom is actually

now pulling out of something on the week of the Green New Deals.

Yeah, that

makes sense.

It's strange, and it's just fun to look back at how bad of a project this was, how much it's costing, how destructive it's been to their economy.

I mean, it's a complete disaster.

We also had a couple of great guests.

Grazy Christie, she's a woman who has a video that has gone viral.

She's a doc.

She's a doctor in Miami.

She has more to say about what abortion is really, what's really going on with this argument of health of the mother.

But she also has

very good insight on why the women were wearing white, what they were trying to do at the State of the Union, and speaking right into Latin America and a little bit on Venezuela as well.

Yep, we have Gregory Whitestone on the client, Whitestone on the climate.

We also have Elizabeth Johnston is on today with her activist push and a new event about abortion.

So much good stuff on today's podcast.

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I want to talk to you a little bit about Home Title Lock.

Stu,

what is that story that you read from the New York Times

yesterday?

It's actually Fox News.

The Fox News.

Around the U.S., deed theft has emerged as one of the most sophisticated and devastating frauds ever to menace homeowners.

Think of that.

Think of that.

To ever menace homeowners.

Why?

Yeah, I mean, now they're saying scammers are no longer content with stealing $5,000.

Now they want the whole house.

That comes from the New York Attorney General's office.

Okay, so this is really bad.

And the people that have been on this, but we heard about this from these people, Home Title Lock, and we actually heard about it in an ad.

And Stu brought it in, and he was like, look at this.

Pat jumped on the bandwagon.

We talked to the people.

I'm in.

Stu's in.

This is really a problem, and you need to protect yourself.

I want you to go to hometital.com, home titlelock.com, read all about it, do your homework, get a free title scan and report.

It's $100 of value when you sign up.

You have to do this for you.

If you have parents, make sure they're doing it.

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I want to get to the school in

school in Florida, but I want to start with something that I read that is just so sickening.

And we have audio

to show you what's happening in this school in West Virginia.

Now,

Amber Pack is a mom, eight-year-old special needs girl.

And her girl just kept saying, I don't want to go to school, mom.

I don't want to go to school.

I don't want to go to school.

And so Amber thought, there's something going on.

Somebody's doing something to my daughter because

she's never been like this.

So she didn't know if it was a classmate picking on her, the teacher, or whatever.

So she actually put a recording device in her daughter's hair

and

then recorded absolutely everything that happened to her

and tried to figure out what was going on.

Well, it wasn't too hard to see why her daughter did not want to go to school.

Let me just start by playing some of the audio.

This is what she got.

These are teachers at

this special needs

class.

These are teachers.

Cut one, please.

How's that for anxiety?

I'm going to punch you in your face.

Okay, so the first thing he says,

she has anxiety.

Well, how about if I just hit you in the face?

How about if I punch you in the face?

How will that be for your anxiety?

Okay.

And you hear the girl whine.

Then,

cut two.

Well, you gotta go pee pee?

Peeky?

Or do you not have to go pee pee and you just want to go drop off here?

Do you want to just go into the restroom and masturbate?

Uh but she didn't say it that way.

Um cut three.

I'm gonna pull your hair until you stop crying.

Don't throw it.

Don't throw.

Animal, you.

Yep.

You animal.

You winch.

You winch.

You're like a piggy.

Oh my god.

Okay.

This is not, by the way, this is not the same teacher.

Cut four.

How your tears dry up so quickly, crocodile.

And then she wants to destroy everything in sight.

I'm gonna knock you out.

I'm gonna knock you out.

How quickly your tears dry, you crocodile.

Cut five.

I'll beat your butt.

For sure.

You know, and you're gonna get one just

cups.

Now listen to how severely handicapped the child is, obviously.

Listen to the reactions of this child.

Now it's lunchtime.

Cut six.

Growl at me.

I dare you.

And you won't get one.

Go ahead.

There's nothing says I have to give you a snack.

Nothing.

Looks like you get nothing, One.

Starving.

Do you understand what that was?

It was lunchtime.

Or snacks.

You keep whining at me like that.

You're not going to get any.

There's nothing that says I have to give you food.

What the hell?

I mean, geez.

So the teachers involved have been suspended.

Suspended?

Suspended?

What more do you need?

Sincerely, what more do you need?

If these teachers can't be fired immediately for something like that, what else do you need?

Seeing that they resigned, however, it seems.

They tendered their resignation soon after the story came out, which would make a little bit of sense and something that should be accepted, I suppose.

I wonder if that resignation still allows them to get any kind of,

you know,

pay.

Obviously shouldn't be accepted if that's the case.

What the hell are you doing in this business?

What are you doing with your life if that is the way you're going to treat people?

To live your life and have the way you're making your money be with special needs kids, you have to be a pretty special person.

You have to be someone who's patient and understanding and trying to do something.

That's not even a job, right?

That is a

calling.

It's a calling.

And if you don't have that calling, what are you doing working in that world?

I mean, that is inhuman to treat treat someone like that.

Anybody, let alone a special needs kid.

What's interesting is all of those cuts, all of those,

that's the same day.

That's not, that wasn't an ongoing investigation.

That's what, when the child got home, mom took the recorder and replayed it all, and all of that happened on that one day.

Imagine why that child of special needs did not want to to go to school

when the government runs everything

who do you run to?

If this were

a

um

if this were a a private school

people would be clamoring, and it would end immediately, immediately.

There would be things in place because the corporation that ran it, if it wasn't in bed with the government or press,

would have to stop it.

They would stop it before it started.

I'm sorry, but these teachers resigned.

What I loved was the school administrators that were horrified by this.

Excuse me, hang on.

It's not just one teacher.

How is this

going on in your school and you don't know it?

If it's one teacher, you're like, okay.

But it wasn't just one.

So how is this happening without you knowing it?

How have you created an atmosphere where this kind of thing could go on?

We have lost touch with humanity and common sense.

Look at the heat that the school in Florida is getting.

The school in Florida that actually is doing the right thing.

I mean,

what is the right thing?

What is the right thing?

Protect your children, right?

Do you not, would you not do everything you had to do to protect your children?

Of course you would.

Of course you would.

If there were people outside of your house and you knew they wanted to come in and kill you and your family, I don't care how you feel about guns.

When all was said and done, you would get a gun or you would do something to protect your family from somebody coming into that house.

You would do it.

Because in the end, it's either them or your kids.

And what do we argue about?

We argue about whether we should have a mall cop.

We argue about, well, we don't want somebody with an automatic weapon around my kid.

I do.

If my kids are in danger, I do.

If that will stop somebody from coming in and shooting up a classroom, yeah, you park a tank out front.

I don't give a crap.

I don't care.

Keep the bad guys away.

So here's a school that's making sense and saying, you know what?

We have all these veterans that have come home.

They have made a difference.

And now they feel like they don't make a difference.

Put them at our school.

We are so short-sighted that

we don't even recognize the threat of Beslan.

That was a horrible, horrible, game-changing situation that happened in Russia about 15 years ago.

When this thing happened,

terrorists took over a school on the first day of school and they slaughtered children and parents.

Just slaughtered them.

Held on to the school.

The story is horrific.

Military had to come in.

I don't know.

I'd rather just have a couple of vets.

Just to say, hey, we've hardened our school and yeah, they've got an automatic weapon.

And if you come on school and you are going to do something, we're going to kill you.

Because it's better that we kill you than you kill anybody else.

Did you see what happened in Portland a couple of weeks ago?

Press didn't cover it.

School shooting.

Guy comes in.

The police happen to be there.

They happen to notice this guy, and he just seemed off.

And so he

start questioning him, and he gets a little aggressive.

He's in the school.

They push him outside of of the school.

They push him through the doors.

They start to tackle him.

He grabs his gun.

He shoots at the deputies.

He shoots, I think, five or six times.

Nobody is killed, thank God.

But he's discharging his weapon.

Well, that's not really a story.

That wasn't a school shooting.

Why?

He was in with a gun shooting.

He wanted to shoot children.

The cops stopped him.

Why isn't that a story?

The best of the Glenbeck program.

Now what the hell is the Green New Deal?

What is that really?

You have all the Democrats signing on.

Now Mitch McConnell will see how real it is,

but they're all signing on.

All the Democrats, they have, what, 70-some co-sponsors for this program?

About 70, yeah.

You have most of the Democratic presidential candidates signing on.

And what is it in reality?

It is the abolishment of the car industry.

It is the abolishment of the combustion engine car within 10 years.

It is the grounding of airplanes within 10 years.

The abolishment of air travel.

It is building of a high-speed rail, which, by the way, Gavin Newsom just pulled out of the high-speed rail in California.

Said it's a boondoggle.

They always are.

So you want to build a high-speed rail.

You want to get rid of cars.

You want to get rid of airplanes.

Plus, you're going to ban all

oil,

natural gas, and nuclear energy.

In 10 years.

So by 2029,

you're going to do all that.

Now, remember that Bain Capital said, just because of new technology, we are going to have a 30% unemployment rate by 2030.

Okay?

Now, that may change,

and it may change because we always are pessimistic.

You know, what happens when we start building cars?

What's going to happen to all the blacksmiths?

Well, the blacksmiths are going to go away and there's going to be some pain, but we're going to have mechanics.

So there'll be new jobs created.

Now, people that understand technology, and I tend to agree with them,

say that those jobs are not, there's no new job that's going to be recreated because you're going to have robots that are going to be able to do it.

And I know that sounds like sci-fi, but we are now living in that time where science fiction is becoming science fact.

Now, how it all shakes out is going to be up to us.

So we have all this displacement coming just from technology.

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So, Stu, what are the things that you have been on, I mean, you've done so much with the wonderful world of Stu,

where you kind of took on all of these topics.

You know, my son,

he just started watching Adam.

What is it?

Adam Destroys.

Ruins everything.

Yeah.

And I was proud of my son.

He came to me and all of a sudden he starts quoting all this stuff.

Dad, did you know?

And I'm like, what?

In fact, that may be where I got the fingerprint thing and thought, I've got to look into that.

But he starts quoting all this stuff.

Did you know, Dad?

And I'm like, no,

what are you reading the encyclopedia?

What is going on?

And he said, I've been watching this show.

And I said, uh-huh.

And he said, and it's all footnoted, which I was happy to hear him say.

And I said, have you followed any of those footnotes or links?

No.

Well, just because it says it was footnoted doesn't mean that it's accurate.

That's why they footnote it.

That's what I'm trying to follow up on.

Right.

And you're also, they footnote it also because it's like, nope, that's fact.

No, Washington Post said it's fact.

Right.

And that's what they do in political ads, even.

Correct.

He's an absolute communist.

And then you look at the link and it just says it's like an ad in the

Satan Walker Tribune.

Yeah.

What is that?

So

he said, I've been saving a couple of them because I want to watch them with you because I want to know what you think.

That's a lot of people when I was doing Wonderful World of Stew would compare that that show to Adam Ruins everything.

Except he had a very large budget.

He has actors acting out every city.

I mean, it's pretty, and he's also liberal.

I mean, generally speaking, although sometimes I do find him to be right on social media.

So

I had to tell my son, we watched the one on About the Border, and I said, okay.

He said, so is that right?

Is that accurate?

We stopped all the way along.

And I said,

let's watch the whole thing and then we'll go back.

And so I said to him, I have to tell you i would say 90 of it maybe 98 of it is is accurate however it's only half the story so its inaccuracy is is in what it leaves out so i can't dispute the facts that he's saying although some of them i can but i can dispute easily Well, yes, but he's only giving half the story here.

Okay.

And so I've been trying to get him to watch Wonderful World of Stew.

I just wish I knew there was a place where they all lived where you could just get online and watch them.

At least you can get every episode on blazetv.com slash Beck, promo code Beck, and watch all the back episodes.

So one of, that's convenient.

I should write that down.

So

one of the episodes you take on these high-speed rails.

Yeah, a couple of them, actually.

One in particular, we did an interview with a guy, Eric Christian is his name.

He

was kind of leading the fight against this train system in California that they were trying to do.

And he actually got thrown out of like public hearings because he would ask questions about the cost and how feasible these things were

and how the exploding cost really had,

I mean, it was mesmerizing how fast it, this is the case with every one of these things.

We did, you know, another, light rail is another big, one of, one of my big pet peeves in the world because there are light rail systems all over the country and everyone likes to defend their own light rail system.

Everyone says, well, mine is pretty good, but I think overall they're

all terrible.

The best case scenario for a light rail system is that no one ever steps foot on it because every time it moves, it costs you money.

And it costs money to the

100% of taxpayers when 5% of people actually ride on the thing.

It's almost always really inefficient.

It's always subsidized.

It's one of those things where they'll be like, well, it only costs a dollar from go to X to Z.

No, it doesn't.

It costs you a lot more than a dollar because you're paying for it in another way.

This is something that we all understand when it comes to taxes and healthcare.

But for some reason, we just had this nostalgic thing about trains in the United States.

I mean, trains were a big part of our history, and they were something that was really important to the foundation of this country.

And

that's all true.

But we have this weird nostalgia as if this technology needs to exist anymore.

There are things as far as shipping where it's valuable because those lines are already laid.

There's a reason.

There's no reason to build a new set of train tracks in the United States of America today.

And every time a new light rail proposal comes through, it is an absolute boondoggle every time.

And every time it is a thing where you wind up paying more and more and more, the budget always doubles and then triples, then quadruples.

And people want to see it through to the end because politicians make these promises.

And then at the very end of the game, you have a light rail system that does something

that is in a very limited way, in a very inefficient way.

It goes too slow.

It doesn't go as fast as you can get there when there's a car in almost every single situation.

And at the end of the day, you have something that goes from one place to another

when we, as we all know, population centers shift constantly.

If you 100% knew two things would stay the exact same way for a very long period of time and people wouldn't move and people wouldn't have different priorities, you could maybe make an argument for it.

But these things change all the time.

People move from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Some neighborhood decides to be, it's no longer trendy.

There's no stop in the place where all the new restaurants are.

It is not an efficient way to travel, which is why we moved on, by the way, from trains to cars to planes.

But people don't understand that because, in the power centers, for instance, mainly in New York, the subway is so critical to people.

I mean, it changes, it changes the value of property because if you're on the east side, the train does not, the Second Avenue train has has it been completed yet?

I know

it was supposed to be completed forever.

And it actually affected property values because you wanted to be near a subway stop and there wasn't one there.

The problem is

that that's New York.

Right.

That's New York.

When you get out of the major population centers, you're not going to take a train because you're already driving.

You would be driving from, you know,

20 miles to go get to the train and then park and then get on the train and then wait and then go another maybe 20 miles.

And then what do you have on the other end?

There's no car.

There's no Uber.

I mean, it's not like it is in the major cities.

Right.

And the other thing, too, about the subway system, even in New York, New York, first of all, is obviously the best possible example for this because it's very, you know, it's very congested and very contained in this small area it's an island there's nowhere to expand all the things that aren't don't apply to any of these other projects yes everyone will bring up New York however if you were bringing if you were making New York today you would not put a subway on it the fact that the subway exists from a long time ago doesn't mean you wouldn't stop using it right there's nowhere else to build roads there's no way to do it that way you wouldn't build New York the way it is today if you started today and that's the problem you would put the traffic underneath you probably put the traffic you might put the traffic underneath but you probably don't build it all on that island the way it is.

Oh, no, right?

You're going to make less, you're going to make more room for cars to go because you know cars are there.

When they built New York, they were like, you know what, we need more horse space, right?

So, yes, you use technology that you had at the time.

If something's already built, you don't just abandon it because it may, you know, the infrastructure is such a large part of the cost.

But 92% of its costs of light rail across the country are paid by people who never use it.

92% of the costs are paid by people who don't ride the train.

That is completely insane.

That is just a

feel-good project for a politician to say, look what I'm doing for this community.

And how much is the American people paying for Amtrak?

Oh, God.

I mean, it's billions.

And that really only is for the elites that are going to Washington, between Washington and New York.

That's how they travel.

You know, that's for the government officials

to move.

I mean, a lot of regular people use it as well.

I mean, you do use that train if you're going from Washington to New York, but that's what that's for.

That's a Washington, New York thing.

If you're not going to Washington, New York, I mean, you're generally driving.

If you're not on business, you're generally driving.

Yeah, no, of course.

And that makes sense, right?

I mean, I think it's 4% of people in Dallas commute by public transport.

4%.

That doesn't even include the suburbs, but in Dallas, 4% of people.

So they build this light rail and it goes all over the place.

Every time someone steps on the Dallas light rail system, we have to pay them $4.21.

Oh, my gosh.

So the best thing in the world would be no one rides it and we just park it somewhere.

Because every time somebody steps foot on it, and it's rare, if you ever see the

pass by.

It runs empty all the time.

All the time.

Of course, if it's running empty, that's even worse.

Right.

But it would be better if they just stopped all the cars.

$4.21 every single time.

There are 96,380 passenger trips on the Dallas Light Rail every weekday.

Most of them are, obviously, round trips, so about 48,000 passengers.

We could buy all of those passengers a new Prius for about $1.2 billion,

which is the cost of just one of the four lines that make up the Dallas Rail system.

So we could buy everyone who uses it.

There's four lines.

The whole thing is $7 billion less than how much taxpayers have already invested in the train.

And we could buy everyone who rides it a new car.

That's how bad these systems are.

And Dallas is not an outlier here.

All the thing, when you're saying, well, my town's not like that yet.

Yes, it is.

I promise.

Yes, it is.

It's a debacle.

I've lived all over this country and every city always says, you know what we're going to do?

We're going to build light rail.

We're going to be light rail.

You know what we're going to do?

We're going to build a high-speed rail between Tampa and Orlando because we're going to get all those people that are in Orlando.

They don't want to really be there for Disney World.

They'd rather be on the beach of St.

Pete.

Really?

Really?

Would they?

Would they?

They tried to build it.

Hmm.

Disaster.

Disaster.

Disaster.

And you could make the case that people would want to go on vacation and spend a few days in Disney and then go to the ocean or to the Gulf and be on the beach.

You could make that case that you're in Disney and you want to take a high-speed rail to go see a space shuttle launch.

You could make that case.

No.

Disaster.

Cost-benefit analysis.

Disaster.

Not just benefit analysis.

Now.

so did Gavin Newsom wake up and suddenly recognize the free market system and go, you know what?

This is a debacle.

This doesn't work.

What a waste of money.

Really?

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome, Elizabeth Johnston.

How are you?

Hi, Glenn.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm great.

I'm trying not to wet my pants right now.

I did the math.

I did the math, and I've been listening to you for 18 years.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

Oh, my gosh.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I haven't cured you of that yet.

No matter how hard I try, Glenn back is too much.

Back when you were doing moron trivia every Friday.

That's how far back I told you.

Okay, so Elizabeth.

Tell me about yourself first, quickly.

Who you were before

you snapped?

Yeah, I am a homeschooling mother of 10 children.

My obsession.

My obsession these last 20 years have been my children, my husband,

educating my children.

And

really, really, we've been very active in the pro-life movement for 20 years.

But what really was the turning point for me was when Kim Davis went to jail for not being able to, according to her conscience, sign a same-sex marriage license.

And then when Obama issued his transgender bathroom directives, and I knew that our little daughters were going to be submitted to having men in their dresser rooms and locker rooms, I no longer recognized my country.

I was extremely alarmed and I said, I have got to get off of the sidelines and get onto the front lines of culture.

That's when I filmed my first video and the rest is history.

Lo and behold, there was a huge hunger for a bold and when necessary, even confrontational response to the outrageous moral and social issues of the day.

So tell me about

some of the place, because I want to get into what you've paid.

it's come at a high price um but tell me you know teen vogue for anybody who doesn't remember your involvement in that

yeah we uh dealt teen vogue a black eye that they were never able to recover from by the grace of god when teen vogue was teaching little children in a fashion magazine, teenagers, how to have anal and oral sex with one another.

We had had enough, and we built a bonfire in my backyard, and I burned the magazine, and

video was viewed I think about 15 million times and we started Operation Pull Teen Vogue.

I don't have a fund, I don't have you know money or anything to work with.

When I say grassroots this is as grassy and as rooty as it gets what we do and and we started Operation Pull Teen Vogue and started calling their advertisers and

of course the editor of Teen Vogue responded to us on Twitter by posting a picture shooting a bird at us with his rainbow

fingernail and a picture of him kissing his lover.

But we didn't, as parents, appreciate that that was how Teen Vogue responded to us.

They're not concerned at all about the sexualization of our children.

And so five months later, they shuttered their print edition.

They were the only, only magazine of all of Condé Nath's magazines, Vogue, Glamour, Brides.

They were the only ones who had to shutter their print edition that year.

So I want to talk to you about abortion abortion because you cover this in your new book.

You cover all of the issues that every parent is dealing with now.

But I want to talk to you about abortion because I think that

we've approached the cliff and we are looking into the abyss right now.

And if we don't pass this test,

if America doesn't stand and say, Okay, you know what?

No, we do not do what they're proposing in New York.

This state,

this law is immoral and wrong.

We have gone from, let's have an argument and we're making some progress to they have gone to the insane lines where the Nazis were

and even the German people stood up.

If we don't pass this test, I think we fail as a nation.

Glenn, I agree.

I believe that this is not just a horizontal problem, a policy problem, that we have a very serious vertical problem between us as a culture and God.

We do not have God's heart on this issue.

And that is why we are organizing something right now that is the most important thing I have ever done.

And I know that you and your listeners are going to love this.

This is the day of mourning.

It is just a week and a half from now.

On February the 23rd, we are asking Americans to wear black, to not shop, to close down your businesses, and to repent with with us for the sin of abortion.

This is just a week and a half away.

On February 23rd, if you go to dayofmourning.org, you will get all the information you need, a toolkit there.

We are asking Americans to stand in solidarity with the pre-born.

You know, we've tried a lot, Glenn, over the years.

We've tried a lot of different, you know, compromised pro-life measures, just taking scraps from under the table from these politicians.

We've tried so many things over the years.

Can we try for a day as a nation to get on our faces before God and plead for him to change our hearts and have mercy on us?

And maybe he will hold back the judgment from us that we very much

deserve right now.

So I'd ask your listeners to go to dayofmourning.org.

We're going to have a huge rally in Albany, New York.

The Benham brothers are going to be speaking there.

Black conservative David J.

Harris Jr., an eight-year-old abortion survivor, will be sharing with us.

It's not going to be a pep rally.

It's not going to be a fundraiser.

It is going to be a sober time of repentance and praying for God to send revival to us, which I know that you know so much about times in history where we've had a massive spiritual awakening.

Guys, we've got to admit that that is what we need more than anything right now.

And so if your listeners could get behind us and be at our Albany, New York rally, this thing is going viral and spreading now to over 10 cities that are going to be live streaming our event.

Again, with no money, This has become an expensive event, $20,000 for this venue in Albany.

I had to borrow $2,000 from my 16-year-old son a few days ago so we could buy plane tickets to get some of our speakers there.

But I just, God has put this on our heart, Glenn.

And we really believe that this is the call to action right now, the day of mourning.

So please go to dayofmorning.org, and I hope I can meet some of your listeners in Albany, New York on the 23rd.

Where is it being held in Albany?

The venue is awesome.

The venue is actually the Empire State Plaza Convention Center room.

And listen to this glance.

It is literally underneath the ground where Cuomo and the radical feminists signed and celebrated and cheered like they had won a Super Bowl game when they signed that infanticide law.

It's like Satan thought he had crushed us, but he didn't realize that we were just seeds, and we're going to be the seeds under the ground who are going to rise out from under the ashes of this terrible infanticide law.

And we are going to see an end finally to the child killing, I believe, as a result of this.

You know, it's interesting.

And sorry to go, you know, religious on you here

more than we already have.

But in my faith, all of our baptismal fonts are underground

because we believe that it is

dying.

and being

cleansed and rising again.

So we, all of our baptismal fonts have to be in the basement level or

at the ground level underground.

And

it's striking to me that

you are holding this underground as you are

as you're mourning death and coming back up out from under the ground, hopefully renewed.

I'd like to talk to you more about this myself.

I'd like to help you in any way I can.

You are

facing pushback, and it's pretty extreme.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Dr.

Grazy Christie

is from Miami, and she gave this great talk at the Right to Life March, and it's gone viral.

You might have seen it, and I'm going to ask her about that.

But she's, because she's from Miami, she also

has, you're from Latin America, or your people are from Latin America, Grazie?

I am from Cuban parents.

My parents are Cuban, and I grew up in Mexico.

Okay.

I've got it from all sides.

Okay, all right.

So you have this, just this great understanding of what is happening.

I think I just want to start with

what the white really signified, because I just read a story two days ago from the New York Times that the Democrats are concerned about Trump's stance on Venezuela because the Venezuelans could be like Cubans.

They could become conservatives and not vote for Democrats because the Democrats look like they're wrong on the Venezuelan policy.

And

so

they wear white.

just by happenstance.

At least that's what I think.

Tell me the significance of the white that they were wearing

during the State of the Union.

So, the women in the State of the Union and Democrats, they were referring to suffragettes,

the old suffragettes of

women were wanting the vote.

And those women wore white when they demonstrated, or sometimes they did, I guess.

But when you're watching this from Miami and from other parts of the country, the optics are very different because to us here, the wearing of white is done by women, especially, who demonstrate peacefully for human dignity and women who are being,

who live under an oppressive authoritarian system like the one in Cuba or the one in Venezuela.

So many years ago, women demonstrated in white in Argentina when their children were being disappeared by the government.

And so they demonstrated asking for information on their children who had been kidnapped and tortured.

In Cuba, women in white dress every Sunday they walk to church in Havana.

And on the way to church, these are women of political prisoners, their wives and sisters and mothers.

On the way to church, they're harassed by Castro's forces.

So here in Miami, dressing in white

just looks stupid because

it signifies there is something called the

what is it, the Damas di Blanco.

That's it.

That's what they're called in Spanish, the ladies of white.

Okay.

And they stand against oppression, and they stand against the oppression of government.

And so it is a it's a

not too subtle in the his in the Cuban or Venezuelan world or Latin American world, it's a not so subtle tip of the hat of, hey, we're we're standing against those who want to oppress, but do they do they realize that the oppressor is the big government, the big Marxist government usually

yeah, but what what's horrible watching it from here and understanding is that we know what real oppression looks like.

We know what it's like when the country, when the governing, the dictatorship destroys your life and takes your children and your husband and just explodes the country.

So much suffering, so many years of suffering in Cuba and now Venezuela.

And then we just look at these women, these democratic women who are elites, who have everything on their plates.

Especially they have the right to protest their government without being afraid of being imprisoned and tortured.

So it just looks really bad from here.

We're talking to Dr.

Grazie Christie.

She is from Miami.

She is

with the CatholicAssociation.org,

the CatholicAssociation.org.

She spoke at the

right to life

rally, and you talked about abortion and the fallacy that a woman's life is in danger, and that's why we would perform a late-term abortion.

Can you address that?

Yeah, so I did a very short little Twitter video explaining that when a woman is in her third trimester of pregnancy and

her life is in danger, which is a very rare occurrence, but it does happen, there is no need to abort the child.

That what can happen and what should happen is that the child should be delivered.

So, a late-term abortion for the mother's health is never medically necessary.

The preferential option should always be to try to preserve both the life of the mother and the child.

I want to make sure that I have this right because I had a doctor tell me the other day that the right thing to do, if the mother, the health of the mother is really in jeopardy, it usually means cesarean section right now.

Get the child out of her right now.

Correct?

Exactly.

Exactly.

And that's a six-minute procedure in skilled hands.

So if there is a real urgency to end the pregnancy, the way to end the pregnancy is through a C-section, not an abortion, which destroys the child.

And And

the other case is in destroying the child, that's a three-day process.

So if the mother's health is in danger, that would mean

we've got to move.

But this is a three-day process to kill and then actually give birth to a dead child.

Right.

And so when those women in white at the State of the Union address, when President Trump spoke out against third trimester, late trimester abortion, and they just sat there with their sour faces,

you know, this is what they're advocating.

They're advocating this crazy procedure where the child ends up dead versus a quick cesarean section where at least the child gets a chance of life and the mother will do just fine.

Your parents, being from Cuba, and you growing up in that community,

I know Cuban refugees or

kids of the refugees from Cuba,

And they all, they know exactly what's coming.

How are your parents dealing with this right now, watching their new country now going through this?

What are they saying at night?

Well, what really astounds Cubans and other people who've lived through socialist nightmares is the way that the Democratic Party is embracing socialism.

That just flips us out.

We're just sitting here going, what?

This has already been tried and found disastrous and caused so much human suffering, so much pain.

So

there's a lot of that going on down here.

How can we help the Venezuelan people?

You know,

we can't get into Venezuela.

The people that we have in Venezuela, they don't want to talk to us because they're afraid that they will be found and disappeared.

Maduro

has blocked all of the aid.

He knows whoever

controls the food wins.

I mean, in the last election, which was totally rigged,

you know, he just

arrested people who are running against him.

But in the poorest areas, he, I can't remember what the slogan was in Spanish, but it translates to

you give, I give, meaning you give me your vote, and I'll give you the food.

You just have to vote for me.

He's blocking all the food and humanitarian aid because he knows he who has the food has control.

What do we do?

Well, he's got to be treated as the pariah that he is by the entire world, the entire political community of the world.

Also,

especially the United States.

And also, we have to remember that it's Cuba.

It's the dictatorship in Cuba that's keeping Venezuela going.

Right.

So I think also there has to be a big crackdown on our relations with Cuba because there's a lot of help coming over there from us in the way, well, lots of different ways, but even just tourism so we're helping to prop up the Cuban economy and the Cubans are spending a ton of money making Venezuela a hellha

also Mexico Mexico is the president of Mexico is one of the only in this hemisphere there's only two other countries Cuba and I can't remember the other one maybe Chile

that are not

that they're still siding with Maduro Mexico this guy do you know anything about the new president because I don't know much other than he is a he's a die-hard Marxist.

But his...

All I know is my Mexican friends here, and there's a lot of Mexicans here in Miami again.

Everyone in Miami is from somewhere else, as you know.

But they're really destroyed by the new president.

They really think he's going to be

another Venezuela, another, yes, yes, it's a very distressing thing to have a Marxist at the helm of that good country.

Doctor, I appreciate it.

I appreciate your strength and willingness to speak out.

How's your career doing now that you're

being so outspoken on abortion?

One of the things that's scared me a little bit is the amount of hate that's been poured on me over this,

especially my little Twitter thing that went viral.

And I'm surprised at how much personal animus

people think is appropriate to throw, but I I guess you're not surprised.

No, no, I'm not surprised.

I'm not surprised.

It is a, it's an honor to talk to you.

Thank you so much.

The best of the Glenn Bank program.

Al Gore made a movie called The Inconvenient Truth.

And I remember when Stu went,

or when I went, Stu was holding his breath.

He had already seen it, and he knew, oh man, if Glenn gets his teeth into this one, and he's swayed by the, you know, whatever.

And I walked out of it and I went, that was a powerful movie.

And I called you from the lobby of the movie theater and I said,

give me all the other side.

I want to hear all the other side.

And we debunked it piece by piece and it led to a book, An Inconvenient Book, which had inconvenient facts, but that was only part of that book.

There's a new book out now called Inconvenient Facts, The Science That Al Gore Doesn't Want You to Know.

And the author, Gregory Whitestone, is a Rightstone, is with us now to go over some of it.

How are you, Greg?

I'm good.

Thanks for having me on today.

Yeah, you bet.

You bet.

Okay, so we were just talking off air about forest fires.

Let's talk.

Let's start there on

what climate change is doing to the state of California.

Yeah, it's just awful.

Did you know that forest fire, the number of forest fires actually are declining in California?

According to Cal Fire, that's the source of all fire-related data in California.

According to Cal Fire, the number of fires have declined by almost 50% over the last 30 years.

Now, granted, the area burned has increased, but the area burned has nothing to do with global warming or climate change, but rather poor, poor forest management.

Well, Greg, it has everything to do with there's no water in California, and it's getting hotter in California.

Well, the dirty little secret is with fires, there's three things we need for wildfires and forest fires.

You need an ignition source, you need fuel, and then you need arid conditions.

And you know what we're doing?

Man's actions are actually contributing negatively to all three, but it's not because of global warming.

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy says there are four to five times as many trees per acre today

than what a normal, healthy forest should have.

Four to five times too much.

And what that means is, of course, more fuel.

That's easily understood.

But what it also means is the second largest source of aridity of loss of soil moisture is the moil that's sucked

out of the ground and the soil.

From the trees.

From the trees.

So now you've got...

four to five times too many trees competing for that same scarce soil moisture.

When you think about it now, it's leading to the aridity.

And there's estimated a 1,000% increase in the last 40 years of people living in fire-prone areas.

So now we get ignition sources up, we got more fuel, and we got more aridity, and it's not due to climate change or global warming.

Of course, that causes a lot more damage when the fire actually happens, too.

We've got a lot more homes to burn.

Intensity, area burned in California has increased.

So necessarily

each fire is about twice as big as it used to be.

But the good news, Glenn, that goes unreported is that worldwide fires, the number of fires is declining and it's the experts.

Well, but it's probably those fires are put out because of all the hurricanes that are happening.

Yeah, but that would be area burned.

They're talking about number of fires.

Once that fire ignites, they count it.

So even if it's put out, it's counted.

So what we find is soil moisture across the world is increasing.

And the fire experts tell us it's because of climate change, increasing precipitation.

And the climate alarmists will say, well, that'll lead to flooding, and it might in some cases.

But the good news is we're seeing increased soil moisture around the world.

And then, because of increased CO2 fertilization effect, plants need less water.

Okay, all right.

But I mean,

you're such a denier.

Let's go to the real facts.

Let me take you to the real facts.

The polar ice caps are melting.

The polar bears are having to move

down into civilization because

it's just, they have no ice.

They have no more ice.

And at the same time, you see how hot it's getting and at the same time, how cold it's getting all around the world.

Answer that one.

Yeah, well, sea ice is diminishing in the northern polar ice cap.

Just as an aside, before we go any farther, you may not realize you could melt the entire northern polar ice cap.

and it would have scarcely any effect on sea level.

And the reason is it's ice that's floating on the ocean.

So as it melts, it displays.

So

it's only land-based glaciers that cause sea level rise.

But what we have, and in my new app, I've got

a chart showing the decline of sea ice and then comparing it to the increase in population of polar bears.

So as sea ice has been diminishing, polar bears are increasing.

Now, granted, part of it's because we stopped doing trophy hunting,

but certainly the loss of sea ice hasn't hurt them to any measurable extent.

And the study related in the book, they compared bears in a high ice loss area along Russia to the areas of bears that didn't have much.

And those bears where there was a lot of ice loss,

man, they were fat and happy.

They were much, much heavier, more successful than the bears where there was a lot of ice.

I would say, too, I also have an update on a stat that we talk about all the time when it comes to polar bears.

I mean, back in the 60s, it was about 5,000 polar bears that existed.

And we talk all the time, Glenn, we said this just the other day, that it's up to about 25,000.

And that number had come from the mid-2000s-ish.

So I honestly hadn't seen an update in quite some time.

You have an update in the book.

Yeah, it's 2017.

Susan Crockford's probably the top polar bear expert.

And I communicated to her.

I wanted to get the best data.

We published the book about a year ago.

We've got a new app that's come out.

I contacted, we were back and forth.

I said, what's the best data you have to date?

And that's what's incorporated in the app confirmed what i have in the book there and the average now bear in mind it's dangerous and pretty tough to measure polar bear populations because uh they teach you

yeah apparently americ people taste a lot like seals because we're on the polar bear match right and uh but but uh her average she estimates is 28 500.

so it's increased since that that because i remember the first time i heard 5 000 to 25 000 i i thought it was impossible bear in mind there's an there's an error bar like this.

So it might be off by a couple thousand because, again, it's pretty tough to bottom line is we haven't seen a significant decrease.

Oh, no, it's definitely been increasing.

It's just how much?

That's the question.

When it comes to the fires, let me back up a little bit to that.

One of the things that people will say when it comes to these fires getting worse is we just have had so much drought.

There's more drought now than there's ever been before, and that's causing all of these problems to get worse.

Yeah, again, again, what we're being told flies in the face of the science and the facts.

I think at this point, it might be, might be interesting for your viewers to find out that I didn't set out to write a book.

I set out to seek the truth.

And it was that search for the truth that led me to this.

And that was one of the stunning things about drought and forest fires.

When I found out that actually droughts were in a slight decline,

and especially the big droughts were declining, I just, I said, wow.

And I said, no one knows that.

No one knows that.

Yeah.

Everyone knows that.

So there might be droughts here and there, but overall.

Right, exactly.

Droughts have always been with us.

They always will be.

The good news is the most severe droughts are being exacerbated mainly by that increase in soil moisture we talked about before.

And this increase in soil moisture alleviates those droughts.

I've got a chart in the book and on my app showing the most intense and significant droughts of the 20th century.

And if you look at those, those are the really bad ones.

Dust Bowl, the Sahel droughts.

There were a number, I think there were 28 that they recognized in the 20th century, but we find that most of those, almost all of them, were in before 1960.

So as CO2 has increased, as temperature increased, and yes, temperature, we're in a temperature increase, thankfully.

We have been for the last 300 years.

You say thankfully, and you actually show that pretty well in the book.

Oh, yes.

When it comes to

the amount of

greenery, we're able to grow.

I mean, it's increased almost everywhere in the entire world.

And also, it's fascinating.

If you look over

human history, if we look over the last 4,500 years, each of the warming trends that we've seen, the Minoan, the Roman, the medieval warm period, each one of these...

correlated to a benefit of civilization.

We see a great correlation between the rise and fall of temperature and the rise and fall of civilizations.

If you were Emperor Glenn in a warm period, you had it good because you could feed your subjects.

Food was bountiful.

People had time to dream, to tinker, to invent.

In the cold periods, just again, opposite of what we're being told, the cold periods were where bad things happened consistently.

Famine, crop failure.

pestilence, mass depopulation.

Cold is very, very bad.

And in the Little Ice Age, which was just recently, we started warming at the end of the late 17th century.

And it's that beneficial warmth that we're recognizing today.

Yeah, but if it stays on this worst-case projections, we'll be as hot as the sun in a thousand years.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's the problem.

Exactly.

Is they take these projections and then say, worst-case scenario.

Well, that's not happened to the world before.

And if you look back,

how many

hothouse and ice house periods have there been?

Yeah, there have been most of the Earth has been significantly,

going back to the pre-Cam, have been significantly warmer than we are today by as much as 15 to 20 times or degrees Fahrenheit.

Wow.

15 to 20 times hotter?

Significant.

It's called hothouse events or ice house events, which is what we're in now.

During ice house events, we have

ice at both poles or one of the poles.

During the hothouse, there's no ice on Earth.

Really?

but the the the key thing here is we look at carbon dioxide uh it's in the past up until now is consistently

temperature has caused carbon dioxide to change in other words when it warms the oceans vent carbon dioxide so carbon dioxide increases during cold periods it sucks up because I know it sounds counterintuitive but If you put a liter of ginger ale in your refrigerator, right, you open it up and it goes,

you put that out on your patio in August and open it up.

And man, it's like a volcano.

And what that's doing is spewing the carbon dioxide.

And we have that same event happen with the warming ocean.

So actually, the temperature change precedes changes in CO2.

When did CO2 become bad?

Because I remember being taught in school.

Were you taught this still?

Yes, yes.

That what you

said.

The miracle of the miracle of the circle of life

is poison to man.

Enough of that.

You breathe out what you can no longer use, but the trees breathe it in, and they breathe out poison to them, if you will.

Just the air that we can breathe, the oxygen that we breathe.

And it's this circle.

Is that even taught anymore?

I don't know about that.

I know you and I learned it.

Did you learn that?

I did learn it.

Yep.

You've hit on an important point here, Glenn, is that they need to demonize carbon carbon dioxide, and they need to demonize it terribly, because this drives all of these anti, the environmental people, the Keep It in the Ground movement, the anti-fossil fuel, the divestment movement on college campuses.

It's all driven by a demonization of carbon dioxide.

They're saying that carbon dioxide is driving dangerous increases in temperatures, and that those dangerous increases in temperatures will necessarily lead to catastrophic events.

Well,

what these predictions are, and they're predictions, they're based on failed climate models of what may happen 30, 50, or 80 years in the future.

What I've done in the book and in the app

is to say, what's actually happening today?

And we've been warming for 300 years.

We've been adding significant CO2 for, well, since the end of World War II.

Shouldn't we recognize something bad happening by now?

But yet, no, we see crops continue to increase, not entirely due to it, but a significant contributor is warming temperatures, lengthening growing seasons, and increasing CO2 leading to CO2 fertilization.

And we see these bad things that are predicted just ain't happening.

I mean, even the UN says the net benefit,

increased CO2 levels until I think it's about 2080 is a net benefit for the globe.

Which is

a statement you'd never hear said.

That doesn't mean they don't have negative consequences in some parts.

This is, again, the UN saying this.

But they say net net for the globe, it's actually a benefit until about 2080.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think the UN's a good person to use because they've got a history of failed predictions.

But you're right, but even if they're saying it,

and of course their intergovernmental panel on climate change is the UN

climate alarmist organization, things like there are things that they capture that they kind of say

tucked away here and there that I've publicized here as an inconvenient fact.

And so this, yeah.

Can you tell us about the app app here before we leave?

Yeah, real quick.

Yep.

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It's awesome.

It's powerful.

It puts this information in the palm of your hands.

It's well sourced, well-referenced, and videos linked to each one of these.

That's great.

So this is something that you can have in your pocket at all the time.

So when you meet a climate alarmist, you go to the app and it will help you with the charts and the graphs.

Everything is sourced.

Everything is triple-checked to make sure that it's exactly right.

And you have the argument.

So you're not going, geez, I wish I heard that guy.

I wish I would have listened or written it down.

Or I did write it down and now I don't have the paper.

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