2/13/18 - 'The Next Biggest Scandal'? (Michael Malice & Jonathon Dunne join Glenn)

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Courage.

So imagine for a second, last day of your job, new boss has been hired.

You decide, you know, it's time to move on to greener pastures.

You and your old boss had a pretty good working relationship.

The two of you collaborated on several projects together.

And, you know, you even saw your way through a few different scandals.

Possibly, possibly the biggest potential scandal was after learning of your boss's imminent forced departure, the two of you gathered those most loyal and planned to undermine the next boss.

But on your way out the door, you had a creepy feeling of something was growing inside of you.

Have I done enough?

Did I do everything to complete the plan and cover our tracks?

So just before you lose access to the corporate email server, you compose yourself an email.

You know it's going to be found by the incoming regime.

You can't access it in just a couple of hours, so there's no reason to write this email, except you know it's going to be found.

It's a last-dish effort at undermining the new boss, but more importantly, it applies that you did nothing wrong.

You hit send, you get up, you walk out the door for the very last time.

This is what, in a nutshell, appears to be what Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor, did just before she walked out of the White House on Inauguration Day.

Yesterday, Senators Grassley and Graham sent a letter to Susan Rice asking her to explain, quote, an unusual email, end quote, that they found was sent by her on her last day of work.

The email was sent to herself via the NSC's official server on January 20th, but it was explaining a meeting that took place on January 5th.

The email describes an interaction between Obama, law enforcement, and the intelligence community and how the outgoing administration was considering withholding information regarding the Russia investigation from the incoming Trump team.

Forced in not once, but twice were comments that her former boss allegedly made that he stressed the need to do this absolutely by the book and that he was absolutely, definitively, and definitely, absolutely, positively not trying to insert himself into law enforcement activities.

Whew, glad we have a record of that.

First of all, why did Obama feel the need to tell the FBI to, quote, go by the book twice in such a short time?

Aren't the FBI's investigations always done by the book?

Isn't that implied?

Why did Rice write that Obama made it clear that he's not trying to influence the investigation?

Could it possibly be that Obama, Rice, and the entire outgoing administration were engaging in an off-the-books operation to smear Donald Trump?

Well, here's something that the rest of the press, including the New York Times, will not tell you.

We found it in the New York Times.

We're just going to bring these two pieces together.

We found a story that ran March 1st in the New York Times.

We happen to remember the headline, Obama administration rushed to preserve intelligence of Russia election hacking.

This is a pretty damning article that was released back in March, and it implied that the Trump team was in danger of scuttling valuable information that would prove Russia interfered in the election.

The article goes on to explain that the Obama administration proceeded to launch an operation of leaks to Congress, leaks to other agencies, leaks all over the place.

But that story ran in the New York Times almost a year ago.

I'm sure the reporters have, you know,

better things to do than read old news and maybe see if it ties into new news.

Unfortunately for them, we have plenty of time on our hands.

If you reread the article, the vast majority of information that is in the Times claims that Obama was leaking, and it sounds like it came from the same place.

what we now know as the steel dossier.

Was the former president and his staff engaging in a leak operation of opposition research paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC?

Did the FBI know about this?

Was this email from Susan Rice a last-ditch effort at covering their tracks?

If just one of these questions

is yes, we'll forget Watergate.

This will indeed be the biggest scandal in our nation's history.

It's Tuesday, February 13th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So, Stu, I'm trying to find

a better answer

than

she's covering tracks.

Can you come up?

Have you heard anyone come up with a legitimate reason on why she would have written this memo?

No,

though, I think that's always a risky way of looking at a story.

Sure.

I'm not saying that we condemn her.

I'm saying that we look into it.

I'm trying to, I have not been able to find an innocent

reason.

Yeah, and I think the suspicion is super high.

I mean, I think you read that email.

It just reads as a terrible attempt to cover your ass, is what it's saying.

It's horrible.

Do you happen to have the whole...

Let me see if I have it.

But I mean, I think...

We have to,

as we do here,

as we've all engaged in this many times over the years, we want to hear what her side is.

I want to know.

I'm not going to jump to every conclusion.

Though it feels very easy in this case.

Do you think she might have written this because of a YouTube video?

Yes, I do think a YouTube video must have been involved.

I mean, look, she's not a trustworthy source in the first place.

She was someone that has been criticized

correctly, by the right, for her role in that particular cover-up in the Benghazi thing, you know, blaming it on a video.

That was her, if you don't remember.

And she knew the truth.

But she has been blamed for other things.

That she she didn't do.

That she didn't do.

For example, the unmasking situation, which was she was, she got a lot of heat from conservative media, seemed really bad.

And then the Trump administration said, no, she didn't do it.

It was actually not bad.

She followed protocol.

The Trump administration said that.

So, you know, again, you want to step back.

You want to look at this and take all the information in.

But this is a first sign of something that looks particularly bad.

Okay, so this is the memo.

Let me read the memo to you.

On January 5th, following a briefing by the IC leadership on Russia hacking during the 2016 presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval.

Vice President Biden and I were also present.

President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligent and law enforcement communities, quote, by the book.

The president stressed that he is not asking about, initiating, or instructing anything from law enforcement perspective.

He reiterated that our

law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

Wow, that's an incredible first paragraph, isn't it?

It was a by the book first paragraph.

I'll tell you that.

From a national security perspective, however, President Obama says he wanted to be sure that as we engage

with the upcoming team, incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.

President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks, that it should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team.

Comey said he would.

Now, let me ask you a question.

Why did she write to this memo about a meeting that happened on January 5th two weeks later she writes it as she's leaving the office her office

she's not coming back she leaves it on her servers which she will no longer have access to

I mean this is the worst this is the worst cover-up I've ever seen if it is a cover-up I mean it's it's so obvious Wait, you wrote yourself a note?

Well, why?

You couldn't get on the servers within the hour.

You were off the servers.

Why did you write this note?

It's like you didn't show up for work one week, and then you decided to just write in and say, By the way, I remembered, I have to remind myself that I didn't clock in to work for the past three days.

But

I got to make sure when I go back in, I tell my supervisors that there was an error of me clocking in.

Why would you even

do that?

Especially if you had no access to your email after.

I mean, you're not reminding yourself of anything.

No.

you're obviously leaving this as a breadcrumb trail for somebody right and it seems to be specifically designed to make sure Obama is clear right like Obama he was the one saying it was by the book so if someone let's just say let's just say let's just say a Susan Rice or someone else is seen to be doing something that doesn't look so great

On record, you have Barack Obama with contemporaneous notes, and we know how important it is.

Yeah, they're very important.

Very important.

It would have,

there would be record of he was the one that wanted to do it right, and we went through the direction.

Darn it.

How did we do that when he was so darn clear with us?

Here's the other thing.

Again, if we go back to the New York Times a year ago,

what that story was saying was that

Obama and the Obama administration were leaking information, information, specifically leaking information that members of the Trump campaign were meeting over in Russia.

They were having secret meetings in Russia.

Well, there is no other source that we know of other than the steel dossier for that one piece of information.

Now, when this came out in March of last year, nobody tied this together.

But now,

when we see that

she is saying,

you know, we have to do everything by the book and we have to make sure that we are careful on which information we share,

the New York Times said that the Obama administration was sharing with people information

about secret meetings.

So was the administration using the steel dossier

to leak to the press stories that could hurt Donald Trump?

I think the answer to that one is probably yes.

In seeing that the New York Times verified that they had leaked some information,

they were leaking the steel dossier, because that is the only place where you find that piece of information that we know of.

Right.

And there's different parts of that that we've discussed.

And that, you know, you might say, if you, let's say, don't like Donald Trump, you might say, okay, look,

the Steele dossier, we've seen parts of that look that look really shady, but Steele was a respected intelligence source.

And the fact that they would look into something that he suggested they look into is not actually all that crazy.

The problem with it is when it's something that's funded by the DNC and it's something that comes in as opposition research, that you're weaponizing the intelligence services at that point.

Because if you're following up those things, imagine how that could be abused and may have been abused here.

But I mean, can you imagine setting a precedent where it's okay that a Democrat could or a Republican could could fund research that

goes to the sitting president and then they use that BS to go open up investigations to catch God knows what, even if it has nothing to do with the initial tip.

That's a really bad precedent to set.

It feels very banana republic, right?

Oh, it's look, I've never understood why

Ford pardoned Nixon Because it makes everybody look like there was some more stuff to it.

And so why don't we do that?

Why are people like Mike Lee, because this is a question I asked Mike Lee, Mike, why are you not pushing for jail time

for presidents if they really violate the law?

And he said, it's a really, it's a scary balance, Glenn.

And I didn't understand this at first until he really sat down with me.

He said, here's the problem.

If you set that precedent, then what will happen is the other side will then try to do it to your guy.

And then you fall into the banana republic.

You, you cannot use,

you have to be very, very careful that we don't send people to jail unless it is truly high crimes and it is so clear.

Otherwise, it's going to look like every other place that you have a challenger.

Oh, well, look at this guy.

I'm going to investigate him because I've heard X, Y, and Z.

He needs to go to jail.

You get rid of your challengers and you get rid of your ex-presidents.

And he said,

we've got to be very careful on that.

So I agree with him that

there are people that will weaponize our government.

That's what this is.

That's what this looks like.

It could be.

is the government had been weaponized by the Obama administration.

The only thing I can think think of with the Susan Rice memo that would clear her at this moment, and again,

we don't have to think of every reason.

Maybe if there's something we're not thinking of, but if she was the type of person, and this is something that they've talked about with Comey, that he was very intent on doing notes every day, if she sent herself that type of email every day that just outlined all of the meetings that she had, it might not be out of the notes.

But she didn't do this on the day.

She did this the last day she was in office.

Right, but two weeks, two weeks after the meeting.

The question, though, is, does she do this

routinely?

Is this a routine thing where she's constantly like for the record, emailing herself notes from specific meetings?

I don't know that it clears her, but it would make it, you know, that might be a defense, a potential defense.

Though we've heard no word of that yet.

So, you know, that's still down the road.

But that's the only thing I could even come up with.

Why would you email this?

And again, two weeks after the fact still doesn't explain it.

Yeah, well, it does if you found out.

I mean, at first you thought it was a problem, and then you found out that it was really just a YouTube video.

Oh, okay.

Well, yeah, that's true.

And yeah, because then you'd have to make sure you updated

two weeks later.

Right.

Just a couple weeks after when you remember, because a lot of times you'd forget for a couple weeks.

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Welcome to the program.

It's Glenn Beck and Stu, our executive producer.

Who's very sad today?

Very sad?

Very sad.

Why very sad?

There's a terrible news coming out of the Washington Post.

Oh, boy.

Mohammed Quais,

he fled his home in in the United States in 2015 and headed to Islamic State territory in Syria and Iraq because he was ISIS?

Well, yeah, he was curious about life in the group's self-declared caliphate.

Curious.

Quote, I would see people from all around the world leaving their countries and going to live in this state.

It was kind of interesting.

I bet it was.

That's how I looked at it.

Hey, crucifixions are interesting.

However,

this is where it gets sad.

Oh, boy.

Because the sad part is not an American going over and wanting to kill a bunch of people and behead Christians.

The sad part is this.

What he found did not live up to the hype.

Oh, my gosh.

There were fewer executions?

No, nothing.

No, it wasn't.

Surprisingly, no, not that.

He was tasked with running errands.

such as grocery shopping,

taking out the trash at his Islamic State House.

He's not an American.

And caring for wounded fighters.

Oh, my.

He eventually became, quote, frustrated with waiting, end quote, for military training, according to FBI special agent who testified during the trial.

He ended up fleeing and was captured in Iraq.

The headline, Glenn, is devastating for all of us.

Oh, boy.

A study has found that Americans who join ISIS are disappointed by the experience.

Oh, my.

Oh, my.

If you can't trust the excitement of a nice little ISIS vacancy.

I am sad.

I am sad.

I wonder if we should put them down out of their misery.

You know,

I mean, I'm just saying.

They came over.

They were going to fight against us.

They were, you know, they were disappointed in that.

I say we give them the chance to face our military.

Because they want a military training, and that's part of the military training.

That's part of the military training.

I tell you what, we're going to put you down on the ground someplace, and

we'll give you a gun.

Run.

And

don't.

Or don't.

You can fight back, but I'm just going to.

Good luck with that.

Yeah.

Glenn, many of the Americans who traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS wound up coming back because, quote, life in the jihadist-held territory did not live up to their expectations.

Oh, man, I thought it was a paradise.

I thought it was a paradise.

Are we letting them back in?

Does the story say that?

Are we letting them back in?

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Oh, my God.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Time for a racist update.

We have yet found another racist in the Trump administration.

What a surprise.

It's Jeff Sessions.

I mean, who didn't see that coming?

Include his middle name, Jeff Racist Sessions.

Thank you very much, Stu.

Bastard.

You would not believe what he said.

If I may paraphrase, he said, I think we have to take all of these N-words, round them up, and set them on fire.

Direct quote.

Except we didn't say N-words.

He used the whole thing.

Yeah, well, I wasn't going to say that.

And not the AS at the end.

He went all the way.

Really?

All the way.

That's how I took it.

Okay.

Now, he didn't say that word.

Well, it was a dog whistle.

Right.

Yes.

It was a dog whistle.

I translated it.

Which is weird because because dogs can only hear that whistle, but dogs are so racist.

So racist.

Well, we learned about it.

Black Lab.

Hello.

We learned yesterday that they don't believe in equality.

Yes.

Doggy equality.

Yes.

But this is, so he said

the office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage

of law enforcement.

Hello, Mr.

N-word.

Hello, Mr.

Klansman.

And luckily, Brian Schatz, a U.S.

Senator, was able to explain what that means.

Do you know anyone who says Anglo-American heritage in a sentence?

What could possibly be the purpose of saying that other than to pit Americans against each other?

For the chief law enforcement officer to use a dog whistle like that is appalling.

Best no vote I ever cast.

Okay, so now here's the thing:

people who are racist want you to understand the context of that

and understand, try to understand what Jeff Sessions, who by all measures is clearly a racist,

here's their excuse.

And we should point out, at this point,

the word context is a dog whistle.

Anyone who's trying to add context to an accusation of race

automatically is a whistleblower.

Amen.

I just want to put that out there right away.

And probably a pedophile.

Yes.

Yes.

I was thinking the same thing.

And I'm not judging pedophiles.

I mean, hey, whatever you do is in your own time.

It's a choice.

We all have to.

Okay.

All right.

So Charles C.W.

Cook, who I was just going to throw this out here, is British.

He's British.

That's something you might want to know for this.

Okay.

All right.

He says this to the Brian Schatz comment.

Let me put this impolitely.

This is moronic and not just a little bit moronic.

This is so moronic, so dim, so utterly and incandescently stupid.

that I frankly worry for the future of the Republic.

I have been reading through these reactions for a few hours now and i can still scarcely imagine the rank historical and legal illiteracy that it takes to hear anglo-american in such a context and to assume it's a racial reference sessions could not have been more clear if he had tried his talk was to sheriffs about sheriffs

His subject was the historic office that most of his audience filled.

Okay, wait.

Wait.

So he's talking to sheriffs about sheriffs, but more importantly, about the historic role and genesis of sheriffs.

Yes.

Okay.

His point, literally, was that, quote, since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has played a, quote, critical role within a law enforcement system that developed in England and then was adopted in America.

Sheriff derives from a combination of the word shire and the word reeve.

In order to make that point at the talk, he said the office of the sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement.

It's hard to overstate just how commonly used this phrase is in this context.

Within the law, Anglo-American does not mean white.

It does not mean the KKK.

It is not a dog whistle.

No, that's what he wants you to believe.

It's fundamental.

It is used, shock, to refer to those institutions, ideals, structures, and customs that are common to England and the United States.

That is,

to the common legal heritage the two countries share.

Most basically, it means common law.

There is

an identifiable Anglo-American conception of due process, which is distinct from, say, the Napoleonic system.

That someone also used the word Anglo to mean white has no bearing on this.

You know who has read a history book, or at least read a legal book?

President Barack Obama, who like Jeff Sessions, but unlike Senator Schatz, is a lawyer.

Here's Senator Obama in 2006.

He says, the world is watching what we do today in America.

They will know what we we do here today, and they will treat all of us accordingly in the future.

Our soldiers, our diplomats, our journalists, anybody who travels beyond these borders.

I hope we remember this as we go forward.

I sincerely hope that we can protect what has been called the Great Writ, a writ that has been in place in the Anglo-American legal system for over 700 years.

And he goes on and on and on with more explaining from Barack Obama.

Yeah, but what does he know?

Well, first of all, he's a racist.

He used context.

Right.

So we know that right now.

So we should dismiss him immediately.

We should.

Oh, my gosh.

The stupidity of people.

At this point, it is self-imposed stupidity.

It really is.

Especially if you're a U.S.

senator.

Now, I can understand the average DOLT, right?

That's on Twitter.

Oh, this is an insulting answer.

Do not go here because this is an insult to the average DOLT.

If you're going to say the average DOLT, you know, doesn't know this, but senators should, I'm sorry.

Well, you know, you don't commonly, if you're not a lawyer and you have no legal background, you don't commonly hear the word Anglo-American tossed around all that often these days.

However, if you're a U.S.

Senator and you're about to make this the basis of your big racial attack against the administration, do you not take a moment to ask a lawyer to look it up to see if Barack Obama maybe uttered it multiple times?

Do you do any research, any thought put into it before you just start typing?

No.

And again, we

is not the only person, the only politician who tweets things that they should think about before they tweet them.

I'm not saying

it is amazing that you would not take that step.

But do you know why people tweet things that are like this?

I do not.

Because they know that we won't look it up.

The average American doesn't care.

If you agree with that politician, whatever they say is absolutely right.

I suppose, but when

the last president of your

the last president of your party said he wanted to create a balanced process that, quote, adheres to the rule of law, habeas corpus, and basic principles of Anglo-American legal, the Anglo-American legal system, but doing it in a way that doesn't result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up, end quote.

You think that with a guy who is supposedly this constitutional genius who is just in office,

you think maybe you look into it for a second.

For a second.

I'm not saying you you have to understand you don't have to go to law school just take a moment to think about what you're doing because i know

senators be any different than the rest of us well i mean i guess they shouldn't we all should do it though we all should take time this is why people get annoyed with us and we did this the susan rice thing just a few moments ago susan rice look i i that the email looks terrible to me But I want to take time and make sure I understand why she sent it.

I want to hear her side of it.

I want to hear

because I don't want to just go run out and accuse people of things until I have the information.

Isn't it cute?

Isn't it cute?

Do you remember when the world was like this?

It should be like that.

Oh, in the old days.

Back in the old days when we used to take 14 seconds before we accused someone of being a racist.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As if you were supposed to make the plans?

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

And

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You know what I got yesterday was,

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Oh my gosh, really?

I got that, which I think means I'm about to get divorced.

I don't know what that means.

Exactly.

Get her a purse.

No, I can't.

That would break the first contract.

That would violate the first contract we've signed many years ago.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

That is, that is.

Well, let's not do anything.

Uh-huh.

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Well, this is the thing.

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So, Stu,

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I didn't.

I thought it was further away than PFL Changes.

No, it's actually PF Changs.

I learned that from WLS in Chicago.

Yeah.

They

were running the highlights of the Olympics live from PF Changs.

It's a problem.

Yeah, it is.

Somebody thought that was going to be funny, I think.

And I will say they were right.

Yes.

But perhaps not the best idea.

Right.

Not for the local news.

Is it true?

Which events are being held near the Great Wall of Chocolate?

Because I maintain that is the greatest name for a dessert in history.

I am trying to get my

seat there at the Olympics in PF Changs for tomorrow night.

Really?

It's a lot cheaper than I realize.

Yeah, everybody says it's such a big deal to travel over, and it's not.

It's not.

It's right there, right by the mall so so their excuse for this was pretty interesting too they said that someone had made a parody uh in a for private use and they mistakenly used that yeah they made it for something for the sports guy as a as a joke uh and then they just left it in the machine and so on monday morning they come in to do the update and they see the olympic uh you know they see the olympic oh oh you know the the uh the logo and nobody notices that it doesn't

it doesn't actually say the city that it's held in in North Korea.

It just says P.F.

Changs, 2012.

Which I guess is, I mean, the insinuation there is that that's racist or something because he just put it.

Oh, dear God, I didn't even go there.

Really?

No, really?

Really?

What did you think it was?

Don't try to add context because then you also will be a racist.

But

that's the belief is that, you know, someone, oh, they just did a, you know,

as close as they could get to being familiar with Asian culture was PF Chang.

So they threw that in there because they thought it would be funny.

Because it sounds, see, the word kind of sounds like PF Changs.

That's the idea.

That's what I was going for: was just that it sounds a little like PF Jangs, except it's a little easier to say.

It is a little easier to say.

Yeah.

But usually when this is, this is a rule.

This is a general rule, and I don't know that it's hard and fast, but when you take a foreign-sounding word and you simplify it to a nearby restaurant that serves similar food, you usually get in trouble.

That's just a generality.

Usually, you shouldn't, you shouldn't go that way because people take that as

the only thing you care about from that culture is the food or something.

I don't know.

This is everyone gets offended by everything.

This is why I like living my life.

Really?

When I think of

Korea, I think of two things: hate the dictator, love the food.

Yeah.

Are you on the Korean barbecue thing?

Oh, I love it.

Yeah.

I absolutely love it.

Have you gone?

It's not really going to be my thing.

I mean, how do you know?

Well, because I don't eat meat, so I don't.

Korean barbecue is going to be largely that made of meat.

I will say that they have at now talking about this.

This is authentic.

And this might be a little bit weird for the average person to understand because if you're not in the world of Korean barbecue, you may not understand this.

But I went to Cheesecake Factory the other day.

And Cheesecake Factory now has Korean cauliflower or something, fried.

I don't know what it is, but it's freaking really good.

It's really, really good.

Is it like cauliflower rice?

No, it's like cauliflower.

And I think they fry it and they put some sort of Korean seasoning on it.

I don't know.

And then you can put it over rice.

It's delicious.

And Cheesecake Factory is authentic Korean.

If you don't know that, a lot of people think cheesecake doesn't sound

like it.

No, it's not authentic.

But they have the cauliflower on the menu.

They don't think that's out there.

And it's actually directly.

I'll take you to an authentic, right down the street.

Because here in Dallas, we have a whole Korean section of town and the restaurants are unbelievable.

This is a wider conversation.

And that I like ethnic food from different countries of the world, but what I want is the American version of that food.

I don't want authentic.

No.

I want you to take your authentic food and I want you to hide it away from me because I go to, like, I've been to authentic Mexican restaurants and I love Mexican food.

I I love it.

But then I go there and I'm like, why am I not at Taco Bell again?

Because it's a lot cheaper than this.

So, wait, wait, you know what?

I want to go to Uncle Julio's or around the border.

No, that's not.

And that's what I want.

Yeah.

I want Americanized ethnic foods.

That is, I think, the real goal of America.

This is why it was developed here and it's become popular.

Like, you know, I'm sure if I went to Italy, the food would be good, but I like the food.

I like Italian food in America.

I went to a

Chinese restaurant

and I went with a friend who has a Chinese mother-in-law, okay, really Chinese.

And she was like, she had a restaurant.

And so she comes over to America and

they walk into, what is it?

Panda.

Panda Express.

Panda Express.

Authentic Chinese.

Authentic.

He walks into, they're driving across the country.

They see a Panda Express.

He's like, okay, we'll get some Chinese food.

She walks in.

He said she stopped at the door and was like, good God, what is this?

And she looked behind the counter and she said, there are no Chinese people here.

We are not eating here.

That's sad.

I think that was, I thought Panda Express was authentic.

I really.

If you go into the real, like the real, you know, hole in the walls in Mexico, what you will find there are the nacho fries

that they serve at Taco Bell.

That is authentic.

And the same thing goes for Panda Express.

Orange chicken all over the place

in Beijing.

That's

the main thing you can have is orange chicken.

I didn't know that.

You need to learn.

You need to learn.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn Beck.

Don't look now, but the Senate has begun an open-ended debate.

Now, I thought that's what the Senate was supposed to do, but apparently this is some sort of special thing.

Can you imagine if the company you work for or the business you run operated like Congress, can you even imagine the disaster, how fast you'd be out of business?

Our founders designed a great form of government, but over time it's morphed into this colossal slog where competence goes to die.

The latest example, Congress's inability to get anything done on immigration.

Specifically, what are we going to do about DACA?

The mainstream media story that you've been getting for months is this very simple narrative.

It goes like this.

President Trump hates immigrants, so he ended the DACA program so he can start personally deporting every last dreamer.

What this simple narrative forgets to include is that DACA exists only because President Obama spoke the program into existence completely outside of Congress and outside of the constitutional framework.

So DACA is the urgent problem now before Congress because it's a mess that was created by Obama.

Then Trump decided to end it because many of the states were suing the federal government.

And the deadline when DACA permits will start expiring is now just three weeks away.

But DACA was designed by President Obama to expire itself.

Trump didn't end it.

He just said

we're not going to renew it.

And every two years prior to Trump, you had to renew.

Congress has saved this issue to the very last minute.

We got to get closer to the election.

Their method for dealing with issues at hand is

a weird Hail Mary.

Yesterday, the Senate began to do what they call an open-ended debate to figure out what to do whoever gets the 60 wins said mitch mcconnell as if this debate thing is some form of uh a fun board game that they found in the senate closet and dusted it off just to solve immigration

Let's take a look at the history of the DREAM Act just for a second.

It was introduced in 2001.

It didn't pass.

It was brought up in front of Congress several times.

It never passed.

Not with the Republicans, not with the Democrats.

It never passed.

It had been 17 years without meaningful immigration legislation.

Why?

Because the Democrats need to use immigrants.

Immigration is a giant stadium beach ball that gets smacked around the stands of Congress year after year.

mainly, mainly, but not entirely limited to, election seasons.

And all of a sudden, the clock is running out.

We have to have an open debate.

The point of this open debate format is to try to build a bill from scratch on the Senate floor.

I guess

it's consistent with progressives.

I mean, I guess that's the way they think the universe was formed.

Utter chaos until the right particles just suddenly collided and out pops good old Mother Earth.

Yeah,

that's gonna work.

Regular Americans are held to a much higher standard of competence in our jobs.

If only we could find a way to hold our representatives in Washington to that same high standard.

It's Tuesday, February 13th.

This is the Glen Beck program.

So there's a great article at Glenbeck.com written by a friend of ours and a friend of the program, Jonathan Dunn, who is Irish, lives in Ireland, tried to come over here, had a job, and the government wouldn't allow him to come in.

We wanted to get his take.

And I'm going to take him through this article because it's really well done.

And you can find it at Glenbeck.com.

Hello, Jonathan.

How are you?

Top of the morning, brother.

How are you?

I'm very good.

So

let's take this piece by piece, if you don't mind.

Let's start where you do, international law.

Because you said I've been listening to the debate and there's so many things that really hack me off.

Um, and uh, and international law is one of them.

Go ahead.

So, one of the things you do that I've always liked is you use the language of the left and you use the analogies that they use.

So, let's start on that front.

Our democratic friends love the United Nations, they will promote the United Nations law, they will promote international law, usually to fit their narrative to say America sucks.

Well, let's actually use the same standards, let's actually use international law and international norms.

What is the oldest oldest international law and norm?

It is the right to state sovereignty.

What that means is a country has a right to control what happens in its borders.

The people have a right to elect people, to represent them, and to fulfill their laws.

Why that's relevant to the amnesty debate is this.

No one has a right to be an American.

As much as I love America, as much as I have done in my eyes to help America, to help share your foundational principles, I don't have that right.

The only people who have a right to be in America is Americans.

And that is something that we need to break down and explain to people.

So, but talk to me about compassion.

I mean, America, we should be compassionate.

Shouldn't we show compassion to people who are here illegally?

Sure.

America has always been a compassionate nation.

You cannot factually argue anything otherwise.

You look at the reports that are done year after year when it looks to America's giving their own time, America giving their own money.

They're right there.

You look at the amount of people who have some semblance of freedom right now in the world because of America.

You look at the millions who would have been enslaved behind the Iron Curtain if it wasn't for America.

You look at people like me who, if it wasn't for America, there's a chance we wouldn't be having this dialogue at all.

We'd be speaking German.

That is because of Americans.

But also the American innovation, the idea of America, which I focus on, that idea where you have the right to keep the fruits of your own labor, to innovate.

I always say this to anyone.

If you think today is 2018, you won't recognize the birth of Christ.

Take any sector.

Don't let me pollute you.

Whether it's food, whether whether it's transportation, whether it's medicine, whether it's standard of living, whether it's communication, whether it's agriculture, whether it's food storage, whether it's tourism, take any aspect of your life and look at how it advanced from 0 AD to 1800 AD.

And then look at it from 1800 AD in the last to 2018.

Why is it in that 218 years, we have advanced a million times, 10 million times more than the first 1800 years?

Why?

Because of the idea of America, where you can innovate, where you can dream, where you can make a better future, and you can keep the fruits of your labor.

And that is shared throughout the world.

That is what has made the world a better place.

So America has always been compassionate.

The question isn't should America be compassionate?

It's who you should be compassionate to.

To people who did things the right way or people who did things the wrong way through their fault or through not their own fault.

It's who you reward.

And who you show that compassion to.

But most Americans will say that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

That's a lie.

I'm sorry to tell you.

That is, it's nothing but a flat out lie, Glenn.

You have every law and the books that you need right now.

What you haven't got is the political will to enforce them.

You have every law, whether you enter America as a tourist, which I did last year, I had 90 days and I had to leave, whether it was a guest worker program, you go over there as a student, you know, for

three months during the summer, whether it's a casual worker, whether it's a full-time worker, or whether you're going through actually immigration process you have a system of government that has a visa for a certain period of time all the laws are in the books there that says you have that visa there's a process there you may not like the process because it is very time-consuming it is very expensive but there's a process there and you know when you go through that process if you overstay your visa and your visa expires you can be deported you admit that but also there's laws in the books that can stop you immigrate going to america again for up to three to ten years so there is laws on the system what you haven't got is the political will to enforce them.

Which just take a step back for a minute, which is, I always find this hilariously funny.

What politicians in DC are saying right now is, we have all these laws in the books, but we don't like them.

What we're going to do is what we need to do is you need to give us the power to write new laws, and we promise we'll follow these laws because we promise, we promise.

But what happens if someone down the road goes, you know what, I don't like these laws?

But also, as someone as an outsider, I get frustrated because you're talking about rewarding people who are not Americans because you don't have the political will to enforce them.

Can you imagine the outrage if there was a load of people, if the Tea Party actually got a load of power in DC and had the White House and said, you know what, taxation actually is tough.

The IRS is just non-avoid.

We're just not going to follow IRS laws.

Can you imagine the reaction to the mainstream media and the politicians?

But yet for a non-American, it's, oh, well, they're dreamers.

You have to fight for them.

Talking to Jonathan Dunn.

He's

a blogger and a friend of the program from Ireland who has wanted to be an American American citizen since how old were you, Jonathan?

We can never find out the exact age.

It was in the early 90s.

I got very fortunate to fly over to Florida to my aunt in Clearwater.

I think I was about seven or eight.

My mother thinks I was maybe eight or nine.

We can never find the exact date because you don't keep those type of details anymore, but it's at least 25 years.

And you have tried to come over here legally.

Tell me about your plight here.

Sure.

So for someone like me, I fell in love love 25 years ago.

I fell in love with the country when I went over there.

I fell in, you know, if you take an impressionable young boy from Ireland who had never really been outside the country, you put him in America with warm weather, beautiful women, beautiful accents, more foods, different sports, different culture.

It just, I fell in love.

And then with the advancement of the internet, I fell in love with the country, the idea of America.

And I always wanted to be part of it.

So ever since I've been a teenager, my only dream in life is to be an American.

That is the only dream I have.

And I wanted to get over there.

So there's two ways that people like me get there.

One is through the visa lottery program, which a lot of people have heard.

It's you put in your name, you pay a fee, and you hope your number gets called.

But for me, I always think that's a lottery.

That's that's luck.

And I've never been lucky.

I want to earn my way there.

So what I always wanted to do was I do a lot of work for free.

I've blogged, I've done, I do a show on your network, which I'm so thankful to still have.

I do work behind the scenes.

All I ever wanted was someone to come along and go, you know what, that guy is all right.

Let's give him a chance.

Last year, I had my dream come true.

You know this story.

You offered me a job with the thanks to Dom and Jonathan pushing me behind the scenes.

I had the chance to live in the greatest country in the world, greatest state in the union, and work for one of my personal heroes.

We went through the process.

We met with the lawyers, which you, Dom and all helped, and I found that I don't meet the standards.

I don't have a college degree, so I don't meet the college requirements, and I don't have the work experience, because while I know I could do the job you offered, I don't have any paid work experience in it so my dream is is dead so I'm left with three choices one is I accept my dream is dead I stay in a country that I don't have any emotional connection to I have no very much career opportunities because what I say isn't exactly popular and I struggle to put food on the table Option two is I go against everything I have ever stood for, every principle I have ever spoken against and go, you know what, everyone else says they're entitled.

I'm entitled.

America owes me.

Look at all the stuff I've done for you for free.

I've done speaking tours.

I've done shows.

I've done interviews.

I've done writing.

You owe me something.

It's payback time.

It's not true, but I could fall for that line and go illegally.

Or I could go against every tenant of my faith and say, you know what, just marry some girl for a visa and just get over there.

The ends justify the means.

Now, my choice is simple.

My principles are my principles, not because they're easy.

It's because you believe in them.

And you cannot go against your principles, even when it screws you personally.

So my choice is,

I got to accept this fact and accept my dream is dead.

However, what I would ask you is, and that story is how many other people who are the millions doing things the right way, how many other of those will say, I'm going to follow my principles?

Maybe they don't have those principles.

Maybe they don't share them.

You're making it easier for people to break the law.

And that is fundamentally so sad for me.

Jonathan,

I don't know if the audience could hear it.

I hope they could.

The crack in your voice

as you talked about things, and I can see it on your face now.

Let me just assure you that your dream is not dead.

I don't know how things work out, but we both have real faith in God, and

things always work out the way he wants them to, and in his time.

And

don't give up.

I am such a supporter of yours, and I want more people like you in our country.

And that doesn't mean from Ireland.

That doesn't mean white, that means people who would give their right arm to have what we'd so easily dismiss.

Absolutely.

And all of this thing, the thing that saddens me the most about this debate is that everything I've said, just scrap that for a minute.

Because for me, America is a country.

It is an idea.

And I've always believed, and people have always mocked me saying, John, America was never like this.

The America

you think exists is a fairy tale.

Okay, well, let's say that's true.

What America do you want to live live in going forward?

The question right now is not about anything about illegals or illegal immigrants.

The question is about what America do you want to live in.

I've always believed the narrative that if America was the only country, it was exceptional in the belief that if you did things the right way, if you worked hard and you played by the rules, there was a better chance and a better opportunity that you would be more successful than anywhere else in the world.

What country does the American people want to hand off to their kids and their grandkids?

Do you want to reward hard work and that ideal?

Or do you want to just go, well, you know what?

There's political will to reward those who didn't follow the law.

Let's just go with that.

This is the key essence to what you want to be.

What country you want to be and what country you want to hand over to your grandkids.

Because I will say this.

There is no other country.

The most distraught thing I can say to you is, I have no other dream.

I can't say, well, you know what, America rejected me.

I'll go to New Zealand.

I'll go to Australia.

I'll go to Europe.

I'll go to Russia.

Why?

Because there's only one America.

There's only one idea, which is about freedom.

This is not about people like me.

It's about you.

There's only one country that I say.

America is great because Americans are good.

It's about your people.

It's about your principles.

And you can still be that shining city on a hill for people like me to go, I want to be part of that.

Jonathan, thank you so much.

And God bless you.

Thank you.

God bless you too, sir.

You will find Jonathan at freedomsdisciple.com speaking to us from his home in Ireland.

If anybody has any ideas of how he can legally emigrate to America, please, please let us know or let him know.

He's got such a heart and he loves the principles of America and would be a very proud American, but he wants to do it the right way.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

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There's got to be somebody in this audience that knows how to help Jonathan.

We have tried and

we don't know how to get him to come in and do it the right way to become an American citizen.

And it's just, it's killing him, and it kills us every time we talk to him.

You know, the media and the left will tell you that conservatives don't want immigrants here.

And I can tell you right now, there's not one person in this audience that wants Jonathan Dunn out of this country.

Everybody wants him here.

Everybody.

Every conservative, hearing a guy like that speaking about America like that wants him here.

And it's not because he's white.

It's not because he's from Ireland.

There are people from every country on earth that are like Jonathan.

And he'd tell you that.

And those are the ones we want.

Yeah, of course.

And I think we have to be very careful as conservatives when we talk about illegal immigration to make sure it's about illegal immigration.

You know,

some people

in the immigration hawk movement are very much against legal immigration as well and reducing legal immigration.

That is not the answer.

The answer is to make it easier for people like Jonathan Dunn to get here.

And harder for the bad guys.

Right, exactly.

It's about a rule of law, which we need and we don't currently have.

And it's about a merit-based system.

And we've seen some good things that have been proposed on that front.

Someone who really loves America, who can do things here, and not people who, you know, who want to do the opposite, that want to use our resources and not offer things.

But I mean, that has nothing to do with color of skin.

It has nothing to do with country of origin.

It's about, do you feel the same way as Jonathan, as you just heard from Jonathan?

I don't think there's anybody in this audience that would say anybody who looked any way that had the same attitude as Jonathan that we would want to restrict them from coming to this country.

We want people like that.

Most of the people in this country don't even have near the passion for this country that Jonathan has.

I mean, you know, did you hear it in his voice when he said, My dream, my whole life dream has been just to become an American, and it's dead.

There's no way for me to do it.

I mean, we, you know,

we had attorneys.

We, I mean, we did everything we could, and we did it all the right way, and there was just no chance.

And it's just, it's wrong.

It's wrong.

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Let's go to Mark in Massachusetts.

Thanks so much for listening.

Mark, you're on.

Glenn,

thanks for everything you do.

And just as an aside, any day that you're feeling down about things in general, just know that you are churchill to millions of us.

Holy cow.

Is that a fat joke?

Is that a fat joke?

No, no, no, no.

Maybe you don't know what that is.

I appreciate it.

I really appreciate that.

Thank you.

Way too kind.

Thank you.

So I have a lot of expertise in this area.

And it sounds as if you guys were attempting to get an H-1B visa for Jonathan.

No idea.

Would certainly meet the education and experience requirements, but there's another type of visa called an L1.

It would take some time and some money, but what an L1 visa is, a multinational company.

So let's say, you know, Google, for this, you know, lack of, you know, just any company, if they have an office in another country and they have headquarters here, they can take someone who's an employee at that company at Google.

As long as they've been employed for one year, they can then be relocated and work at the headquarters, but they can only be employed by that one company only.

And so, if you were to establish some entity in Ireland under Mercury One or

the Blaze or whatever, and establish

you are a viable business entity and employ Jonathan there for 12 months, you would be able to bring him to the United States, and he could then be here living, working legally under an L1 visa.

And then from there, once he has an L1, then you could pursue all of the other legal channels that could get him permanent residence standing.

But it would just require the 12 months as an employee of your company to establish itself as an entity in Ireland.

That kind of sounds like a bogus marriage,

It's a very interesting workaround.

And also, it's a business interest, right?

I mean, if we, you know, there's no reason, certainly we'd love to have a branch of our company or Mercury One over in Ireland to spread that word.

We've talked about it many times, not just Ireland, but all around the world, Israel and other places.

It's an interesting thought.

Mark, thank you very much for your phone call.

It's a sad thought, though, because, I mean, why do we need to do that?

We need to open up a business in another country to get a guy who loves America and would help America.

See, here's the problem.

I was listening to him talking, and I thought, you know, if I'm sitting there and I'm at the immigration office, I'm listening to this guy, and I'm like, I want this guy.

I mean, listen to the way he talks about the country, and he's tearing up that it's his dream to be an American for all the right reasons.

But, you know, there are people on the, you know, people that would listen to him and go, he's exactly not the right guy to have on.

How do you create a system that is based somewhat on gut?

You know, well, I mean,

you can't.

You can't, right?

You can only do all the checking, you know, that you're never going to, you're not going to be able to create a system that's exactly like that, but you can create one that does base some of the process on merit, a higher percentage of it on merit, instead of family relations, right?

Like you could.

Well, but he is, I mean, he didn't make it for merit.

He has a hard time finding work in Ireland.

I mean, you know, it's not exactly a bustling, you know, place especially for somebody who doesn't i mean he doesn't really relate to to the irish anymore he's he's not he considers himself an american and he's sticking up for america all the time can you imagine saying about your own country what he said was which was i have no emotional connection to this country

You know, that's not, that's more than just liking America.

That's like, you know, he's, he's, he's so in love with America that he no longer, it's like he's like in he's he's got it he's had an affair he's he's no longer in love with his wife and he's had an affair and that's what he feels passionate about he's like in a in a passionless marriage with his country which is kind of sad you know I mean in a way and I can understand how that would make life difficult especially since he wants a divorce and his

you know spouse of a country won't give him one yeah yeah

Let me go to Pablo in Utah.

Hello, Pablo.

Hello, Glenn.

This is Pablo from Salt Lake City, Utah.

How are things?

Doing very good here.

This is the city of some good friends of yours, like Gordon B.

Hinkley and Thomas S.

Monson and other people.

Yes.

Good.

I'm an immigrant myself.

I am right now a permanent resident here in the U.S.

It took me seven years, $60,000, but I made it.

I'm going to be a U.S.

citizen in a couple of years.

And I just listened to Jonathan.

And I don't know.

I assume that he consulted with an immigration attorney, but there's some I believe, there's some path for him to become a U.S.

legal resident.

For example, the other person that spoke before me, he said something about what's called an H-1B visa, which is a visa that the immigration department issues to foreigners, aliens with college degrees.

Jonathan said that he doesn't hold a college degree, but even an associate degree or a bachelor degree would do, because immigration considers

one year of schooling out of every three years of work experience.

So let's say that this guy holds a bachelor's degree, which is not enough because it's four years of schooling.

But if he also has six years of work experience, that would adapt to six years, which would be considered as a master's degree by the immigration department.

So he should pursue an H-1B visa.

The two key elements here.

First, he needs to have some schooling, either master's,

bachelor's plus six years experience, or an associate degree plus 12 years of experience.

Second, he needs to have a job offer from a U.S.

company.

He has that.

He has that.

Well, schooling, I don't know, unless he only finished high school.

I don't know if he would be eligible with only a high school diploma.

Yeah,

I don't think he is.

He doesn't have the schooling.

It's not a good economic situation for Jonathan over there.

And so I doubt that he went beyond the high school level.

I know he graduated from high school, but I don't think he did any college experience.

Pablo, thanks for your call.

This is why the conservative focus should be making legal immigration easier and more rational.

It's not a hateful message, it's a welcoming message.

And border security is part of that, by the way.

But I mean, when you make it so impossible for people who are qualified to come here to come, then you wind up increasing the amount of illegal immigration.

If you were to make it more rational for people to be able to come here and not make it impossible, people would be coming legally more often.

You add in border security and you solve this problem pretty quickly.

Let me go to Cindy in Indiana.

Hi, Cindy.

Hey, I just want to marry Jonathan.

I mean, I know he'd have to lower his standards and his principles, but come on.

Yes.

Right, right, right.

Why?

Don't speak so negatively about yourself.

Who says he's lowering his standards?

Well, you know, I don't know.

He's probably cute and thin and young.

Not any of that.

No, he's young.

He's young.

He takes it.

You should know.

He interacts with us.

He's not going to be thin.

That's not going to be.

That's not.

We do not bring thin people into this atmosphere.

They may start thin, but they don't end thin.

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All right.

All right.

All right.

Let's

take a look at some of the news.

One of the pitches that really was just one guy's idea, and Trump said, put that in the budget.

I kind of like that.

Trump administration is proposing to save billions in the upcoming years by giving low-income families a box of government-picked non-perishable foods every month instead of food stamps.

The White House

budget director said on Monday, this is a pretty good idea.

It's a Blue Apron type program, which I don't think Blue Apron probably

does not quite send you that.

They send you really good gourmet meals that you have to, with fresh ingredients.

It's a little bit different, but I mean, it's a food delivery system, which is, I guess, as close as you can get.

The Department of Agriculture.

Sonny Perdue is the Director for Agriculture Secretary.

Apparently, this was his idea.

He's calling it America's Harvest Box.

It would contain 100% U.S.

grown and produced foods.

It would include items that are shelf-stable, like milk.

That's not really shelf-stable.

I don't know if

milk is not stable.

The shelf is refrigerated.

Yeah.

I mean, does it even even drink powdered milk anymore?

I grew up in a family.

We had to drink powdered milk.

We couldn't afford milk.

I've actually hated it.

We have all sorts of milk in our refrigerator, and none of them come from cows.

They come from nothing.

You cannot milk an almond.

It has no nipples.

No, it doesn't.

The chair that you have to get underneath it is so small.

Oh, I hate it, too.

With cashew milk, almond milk.

We have that too.

We've got the silk,

whatever that is.

I feel like I think, do people, I don't know.

The milk thing is changing oddly.

The only milk we have is we have the milk for like the kids' cereal, which is regular milk.

But I've come to the point I've had so much almond milk that I actually sort of prefer it.

I got to stop being friends with you.

I don't understand it.

I can't be friends with you.

It's fair.

It's fair.

I can't be friends.

It's not milk, obviously.

It's water mixed with almond dust, right?

I don't know what it really means.

I don't know what it is, but it's not milk.

No baby almonds are

snuggling up to the mother almond saying, oh, I need a little bit.

No, it doesn't work that way.

It's not milk.

Milk is something that comes comes from a teat that feeds the children.

That's not milk.

I don't know.

The teat thing is a weird, it's a weird delivery system.

I don't understand it.

I think they should ban it.

Ban all teats.

It's a new proposal.

I would say no.

I'm going to.

Anyway.

Okay, so it doesn't include fresh items like produce or meat, which is a problem.

Right, but I mean, they don't have to provide, they're not saying they're providing every single thing you're going to need.

They're just saying here's some, here are some basics, right?

Like peanut butter or milk, canned fruits and cereal.

The basics, right?

You get a certain amount of basics that the government could theoretically provide.

Now, I don't like this idea because I don't want the government getting into the food delivery system.

But wait a minute, wait a minute per se.

Yeah, no, it's bad.

But wait,

why not, Stu?

I mean,

it's not just a delivery system.

It is

they're picking what food is right for you.

But didn't Michelle Obama already do this?

And I never understood why the left would have any problem with this at all.

Yeah.

I mean, if you, if Michelle Obama is going to say that kids at school who are paying for food have to eat certain foods that are only healthy, why not?

If we're, if we're, if we're giving food stamps, why should they be able to purchase snack cakes?

And if, if I may say, she also says, especially those who are underprivileged, they don't have food, or if they do have food, it's not the right food.

It's not good, nutritious food.

So why wouldn't you be for food food stamps, just buying nutritious food or, you know, sending a box of what we, you know, what we as a people,

you know, a small committee in Washington decides is good food.

Yeah.

Well, and again, when you are on a government program, and let's say, let's say this world is designed the way it's supposed to be, which is a government program is the absolute last resort, right?

Like you're on the verge of starvation, a government program steps in.

It's not for people who are making $50,000 a year.

It's for people who are at the last, the last ditch effort to feed themselves and their children, right?

And at that point, all but the very hardest core libertarians will say, all right, in that particular circumstance, we will step in and try to help, right?

As the government.

So if you have that system, why should you have the freedom to go choose snack cakes?

In fact, you probably shouldn't, right?

Like you should be able, that that shouldn't be the thing.

If you're providing the minimum level in desperate situations, it shouldn't be at a hostess stand.

It shouldn't be.

My church runs what I believe is the largest global welfare unit in the world.

It's a terrible way of putting that.

I know.

It's second only to the United States government.

However, it has massive restrictions on it.

I mean,

you have to

go through classes on being able to figure out, you know, what is problem, what the problem is with

your job situation.

They may take you and say, okay, well, let's get you some further education to help you out in this situation, but you can't spend money like crazy.

I mean,

you have to show that you are good for it.

You know, we will help you if there's a problem, but you have to do certain things to be able to show I'm going to build my life in a much more stable way.

We can't even ask anyone that.

No, I mean, the conservatives have talked about this for a long time, making food stamps only available to buy healthy foods.

And there's pretty sensible reasons for that.

There's never been the political will to get that done, and it's pretty hard to implement.

And I guess the box situation would solve some of those issues.

I just don't like the idea that...

The government is sending you a box of food every month.

No, that does not sound like a good thing.

No, because

it'll be all kinds of crony capitalism.

And it'll expand.

The next administrations in there will make that thing cost three times as much.

And

it's going to be very difficult to deal with.

And

it's a gigantic program.

I mean, can you imagine just the resources that would go into well, they say that it's going to actually save a lot of money.

That's what they say.

Yeah.

You know,

I've heard that before from the head, actually, and I don't necessarily believe it.

Well, they did say this.

They said we think it will save millions of dollars every single year.

However, we haven't added in the actual shipping costs yet.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

So yesterday, some men clad in hazmat suits marched through Donald Jr.

and Vanessa Trump's Manhattan apartment yesterday.

They had to initiate decontamination procedures while Vanessa was taken to the hospital because earlier in the day she received a curious letter in the mail.

She opened it and white powder spilled out.

Does anybody remember this?

Does anybody remember after 9-11 when they started, they said that there was an anthrax scare and people were sending this to Congress and they were sending this to the White House?

Do you remember what we used to think?

Please don't let it be an American that did that.

Then the Obamas got in, and they were saying that, you know, the right was so dangerous.

And every time there was something like this, please don't let this be somebody who has any connection at all to the Tea Party.

And it never did.

Never was.

Yesterday, I didn't sense anybody saying that to themselves.

Oh, please don't let it be.

Vanessa instantly felt nauseous and started coughing uncontrollably.

Thankfully, the powder was found to be not hazardous.

Vanessa and the other two people who are in the house are doing fine.

I think...

I think if I opened up white powder in my house and I knew what was going on and what that could be, I think I would have been a little nauseous myself.

But this isn't the first time an insidious letter containing white powder has been sent to the Trumps.

In 2016, police investigated a similar letter sent to Eric Trump, and two letters containing the powder were sent to Trump Tower.

Can you imagine?

Who could possibly be doing that?

And who would condone fear tactics like this?

Well, we have our answer.

Many on Twitter, including the Socialist Party.

They tweeted from their official Socialist Party Twitter account: quote, disgusting people attract disgusting behavior, end quote.

Now I could pretend I'm surprised, but socialists have always condoned violence and underhanded deeds.

Look it up.

It's all throughout history.

So whether you hate them or you love them,

does the Trump family deserve this kind of a threat?

If you're saying, well,

may I just ask that you don't lose sight of humanity?

That we don't hate people just because they have a different perspective, or even if you think that they're haters themselves, why hate them and become what you claim they are?

Are there any things that we can stand united on?

If we can't stand united against the sentiments of the Socialist Party and say, I don't care what you did,

I don't care what happened.

No one deserves this.

Everyone is worthy of respect.

Well, then we might as all just go and join the Socialist Party because this is something that socialists have never understood.

It's Tuesday, February 13th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Yesterday, we started a new program on television where we get all of the hosts from

the Blaze and we gather around a roundtable and we just go through the news of the day.

What was the biggest story of the day and why?

And most of us agreed last night that the big story was the way the media was treating Kim Jong-un's sister

and how she was just, she won smile diplomacy, even though that's what the Japanese had warned the media, don't fall for, quote, smile diplomacy.

They all went, you know, with both feet.

They were all in.

Can we remind you who she is, who her family is, and what North Korea is?

We decided to have somebody on that's been on before who knows it firsthand.

Yeah, Michael Malice, who wrote the book, Dear Reader, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong-il, which is excellent, also spent time in North Korea and knows this regime and the whole family inside and out.

Michael joins us now.

Michael,

people know that North Korea is bad.

They know if bad things happen there.

They're kind of just becoming familiar with Kim Jong-un's sister.

Can you explain who she is and what she's done?

Sure.

The thing about the North Korean Kim family is even internally, they're very mysterious.

It's not like, you know, here where I can look at the State Department's website and figure out who the undersecretary is for something and look at the Wikipedia page.

Information in North Korea about the main family is tightly controlled to the point where you don't even discuss it in polite company.

And let me give you an example.

When I was in North Korea, we visited the grave of Kim Jong-un's grandmother, who was always referred to as anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong-suk.

And I asked my guide, I said, oh, did she have any other kids other than Kim Jong-il which you would think is a benign question and she paused and looked at me and it was the kind of thing where she had to answer but it was like she didn't want to talk about it is if I you know if I ask somebody hey have you ever had a drug problem it's like uh what do I do and she just pauses she goes yes and I'm like okay I'm sorry I didn't mean any disrespect because In North Korea, the worst thing you can do is to talk about the Kim family.

So you just repeat what you're told.

So it wasn't discussed in the media that

Kim Jong-il had a wife and had children because that's something that human beings do.

In North Korea, the family is regarded as almost supernatural.

So, she's a very recent figure to step out into the North Korean regime.

Women are not in powerful positions there, but her job is to be in charge of the propaganda and agitation department.

Now, this was the job Kim Jong-il had before he took over over as leader.

This is the job that Kim Jong-il used to build this personality cult around his father, the founder of North Korea, the great leader Kim Il-sung.

So it's her role to make sure that everyone in North Korea is brainwashed from the time they're born to the time they meet and unfortunately early grave.

And in North Korea, all art, all art, by law, has to have a propagandistic purpose and its meaning has to be clear.

So, not only does it have to be explicitly political, it has to be political and beat you over the head with it.

And there's a story that illustrates this, which I,

in my research, and I have in my book, where as a kid, Kim Jong-il denounces the Mona Lisa.

And I asked my mom, who grew up under the Soviet Union, I go, hey, why does Kim Jong-il hate the Mona Lisa?

And she goes, because she's got that Mona Lisa smile.

It's ambiguous.

Right?

So, real art, according to North Koreans, can't be ambiguous.

It has to be clear.

It has to have a political message.

And that message is we all think the thoughts of the leader by law.

So, Michael, help me out on this because I found it so despicable on how our media covered not only her, but the cheerleaders.

Oh, they were fantastic.

They were all in unison.

Nobody pointed out that 21 of those cheerleaders went to prison and are still in prison from the last time they performed outside of their country.

Well, and they're also not pointing out that everyone from North Korea who is allowed to leave the country, even temporarily, their family is held as hostages.

So if you get any ideas, your family is going to pay the price.

Are they literally taken while the family while the

literally there, but there's an eye kept on them.

So if you do anything wrong, they're going to be vanished.

And this is actually a big problem for people who want to escape North Korea because if you escape your family who's left back home, what they have to start doing now is they bribe

government officials to get death certificates.

So they pretend, oh, my daughter didn't escape to China.

My daughter died early.

So that

we won't be punished.

Well, the guy who

held up the crutches in the state of the union, his father, because he escaped and his sister escaped.

And his father was tortured to death because of their escape.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

And it's, I mean, this is, I mean, here's the thing.

I was emailing your producers yesterday at the same time you guys were saying, let's get Michael on the show.

Because I'm like, I knew that you and your audience would want to hear about this because it was so shocking to me.

You know, when I started writing my book and doing work with North Korea, so much of the media attention was on what a spectacle they are, what a sideshow they are.

And I'm like, I'm going to do something about this because this isn't really funny.

What you're watching is, you know, Glenn, if someone put a gun to your head, you're going to dance, you're going to be a cheerleader, you know what I mean?

Whatever it takes, just don't hurt me and my family.

You know what I mean?

And people weren't noticing that.

So I wrote to your reader and I did a lot of press.

And the media attention started focusing from, okay, how wacky they are to, this is barbaric.

You know, there's an organization called Reporters Without Borders.

North Korea is the worst place on earth in terms of press freedom.

So you would think that journalists, you know, having some kind of collegial responsibility would be pointing that out.

So to see what happened on Saturday when they're talking about her, you know, like she's on the bachelor and the fact that she's sitting there not doing anything.

She didn't say anything.

And they're acting like she's Lady Die.

I couldn't even wrap my head around it.

It felt like such a step backward to me.

Michael, the only thing we could come up with is that they despise Donald Trump so much that they are willing to look at anyone else and say, look at she bested Mike Pence.

Is that even reasonable to think that that might be their motivation?

I mean, why would they do this?

I think it's something else.

I think that they are so privileged that they have no idea what it's like to live in a country without freedom.

If you're looking at Trump and you could say a lot of terrible things about Trump and are comparing him to Hitler, right?

You don't know what tyranny is.

You don't know what a dictatorship is.

Mike Pence, what did Mike Pence, you know, compare to these,

say the worst thing you can imagine about Mike Pence to compare him to the dictators now and then is mind-boggling.

So I think they just really look at her like Angela Merkel or Theresa May from the UK, that she's just a foreign leader, and they had completely dropped context that this woman has blood, including the blood of her own family.

on her hands.

She had to be involved in the killing of her uncle and the killing of her brother, right?

Of course.

I mean, that's how these murder families work, you know.

So, and she's involved in the killing of many people now.

You know, propaganda is you have to smile and nod and repeat what I told.

Let me give you an example of what North Korean propaganda sounds like.

In kindergarten, they're taught Kim Jong-il

was in his own kindergarten class, and the teacher said, one plus one equals two.

And young Kim Jong-il said, no, that's wrong.

And the teacher goes, what do you mean?

And he goes, well, if I have one drop of water and I had another drop of water, I don't have two drops I have one giant drop and what this is a metaphor is we should eliminate individuality in North Korea and have one country where everyone is the same and they call it the monolithic ideological system you saw that picture where they all had those same masks Their point, and they brag about this, is we are a country where everyone thinks the same way, the way of the leader.

That is their goal to eliminate critical, independent thought.

This is not something they're ashamed of.

This is something they are proud of.

Now, you and I can disagree about some things.

Me and Stu can disagree about some things.

You go live your life.

I live mine.

The idea that you or anyone would want us all to think identically is barbaric and horrifying.

We're going to be back with some more.

I want to talk to Michael about

what's happening in South Korea, because South Korea seems to be buying into this, even though the Japanese prime minister said, warning,

don't buy into it.

So many people are.

Back in a minute.

MichaelMalis.com is the place you can go to get his work as well on Twitter.

He's a,

I don't know how he would, he'd probably admit to being an internet troll.

Very enjoyable to follow on Twitter.

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Michael Malice, the author of Dear Reader, the unauthorized biography of Kim Jong-il, an expert on North Korea.

Michael,

the propaganda game seems to be working

at least from a distance.

People are talking about, oh, how great it was that Mike Pence didn't stand for a united Korea.

Well, I wouldn't have stood for that either, but everybody seems outraged by that.

Yeah, and here's the thing.

You talk about the propaganda game, and this is the part I haven't seen people in the press discussing, which adds a whole other level of depravity.

You know, she gets to take those headlines and send them back to North Korea to the population and be like, look, all the Western media is praising us.

And she'll be telling the truth.

I mean,

they tell their population that the world's obsessed with them.

They tell the population that everyone in all these countries are interested in studying their ideology, the Juche idea.

But now she'll be telling the truth.

Here's the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN.

Look, I stole the show.

All eyes were on me.

And it's the truth.

These will be actual headlines.

So it's really, really sick to me.

So does South Korea want reunification with the North?

South Korea does, I mean, obviously, it's just like, like, see, the beautiful thing about a democracy as opposed to a monolithic ideological system like North Korea is that there's differences of opinion and we can discuss issues and come to a consensus or not.

So there is it's all over the map in South Korea.

Young people especially are not particularly interested in reunifying.

The North is regarded as this like rural kind of like hillbilly embarrassment country.

When refugees get to the south, they have to work very hard.

hard to lose their accents because they're treated extremely poorly.

They're also very ignorant.

They don't know what computers are.

And they're often malnourished and short.

And South Korea is very status-oriented.

But again, you know, what's amazing about the propaganda offensive, they were threatening to send missiles to Guam over the summer, remember?

And everyone's forgotten about that already.

Mike Pence is supposed to shake hands with the woman whose country is like, we're going to send missiles to attack U.S.

soil.

And it's like, oh,

that was last summer.

It's bygones.

Let's be pals now.

What?

I mean, it's mind-boggling.

But the other thing is, in the 90s, they did this already.

Kim Dae-jung, who was president of South Korea at the time, went to North Korea, shook hands with Kim Jong-il.

It was called the Sunshine Policy.

The idea was, let's get whatever they want, and maybe they'll be good people.

He got the Nobel Peace Prize as a consequence.

But the other consequence of it is North Korea maintained their hold on power and they starved their own population.

So this is not new.

They go through these cycles, and I can't understand how reporters who are covering this fall for it time and time again.

I mean, we've been there, done that many, many times with this despicable nation.

Michael, we have about two minutes.

I was amazed by

one of the things that they kept saying was, hey, we're looking forward to seeing our South Korean neighbors in Pyongyang, I think is the way they said it.

They didn't say South Korea because they don't typically say that.

Correct.

But the media seemed to take that as, look at this gesture.

They want to reunite and come together.

That's not what they're saying, right?

They're saying that eventually there will be no South Korea.

And then at that point, you'll be North Korean citizens or just Korean citizens, and you'll be able to go back to Pyongyang.

It was a threat.

It's mixed.

So their whole argument is that Korea is the only country that has racially pure blood since the beginning of time.

Korean was the first language.

Korea was the first government.

And Korea is indivisible.

So when they talk about North and South, it's lowercase N, lowercase S, because the South is not a separate country.

It's a region under U.S.

occupation, right?

So they are always obsessed with reunification.

The t-shirts fair, say Korea is one.

But this is something that they use as propaganda, because it's like, look, the only reason we're not reunified is because of those wicked U.S.

imperialists who have the South Korean puppets under their control.

So this is a mechanism to further

divide their population against the U.S.

But if they want to talk, I'd rather they be talking than building missiles.

But at the same time, these are not people who play fair.

These are not, you know, me and you are going to, you're going to try to sell me a house.

You want to have as much money.

I want to have less money.

And it's some kind of bargain.

These are shady people who will say what they need to do to get what they want.

How do you think this ends, Michael?

I hope this is the, I honestly think if this were the end of the North Korean regime, this is what the end would look like.

Because there is so much information getting to North Korea.

The fact that the UN is united against them, the fact that China has started even their own little way to turn their back on them, the fact that they have to leave Pyongyang and get on a plane to go to other countries.

It's like in Hollywood, it's like who goes to whose table.

So I'm.

Glenn.

Sorry, we're out of time.

Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

The Intel chiefs are testifying about national security threats to our country, and they are spending a lot of time today talking about Russia and what's happening with the election.

One of our security chiefs said earlier they're going to do what they did last time and worse.

We're not making any progress on this.

We're not doing anything about this.

That seems to be a problem, especially since the war seems to be heating up a little bit with Russia in a story that no one is paying attention to.

Are you saying that just because we just killed over 100 Russian troops?

I heard as many as wounded maybe 300?

I heard as many as 600.

Is that

confirmed?

It's not confirmed, I don't think, but there's...

I mean, it was major.

They attacked a U.S.

Kurdish base, and we wiped them out with artillery and jet fighters.

Russian troops.

I mean, that's...

Now, Russia claims that that was some rogue unit and that they didn't order the attack on the U.S.

base.

And

according to reports, we're accepting that as actually true.

Yeah.

I don't know that it it is.

We don't want to start another, you know, a giant escalation with Russia either.

So we may just be kind of ignoring what we actually believe.

It's a little unnerving, though, to think that U.S.

and Russian forces are

actually engaging one another and interacting like that, and that we killed so many Russians.

That's usually

not a good start to a wonderful relationship.

Usually.

The last time we killed a bunch of Russians was

never.

Yeah, never.

You try not to, never, just because it doesn't work out particularly well.

It's not a fun, not a fun thing.

And that's the biggest issue is like what this could escalate into if something goes awry, right?

We need to do some homework.

We'll do it before the TV show.

Maybe I can tuck this in.

Do some homework on how the Russian media back home is portraying this.

And if they're not portraying it, why?

Why are they not reporting on it?

If they are, how are they spinning it?

Because Putin has spent a lot of time recently trying to make the United States into the big bad wolf.

And if we've just killed a hundred of their soldiers, I can't imagine.

Can you imagine if Russians killed a hundred of our soldiers?

What?

That would be an incredible outcry.

Oh, my gosh.

Although

I will say, if the reason they got killed is because a bunch of rogue troops went and attacked a bunch of people in their in their base.

I think, you know, if that we knew that was true, I would feel a lot less sympathetic to our side.

Yeah, you know, you don't just go.

If we believed that they were rogue troops, what would it take for us to believe that those were rogue troops?

A lot.

Yeah.

I'm not sure I would believe it.

Yeah, I don't think I would.

I'm not sure I believe these Russians were rogue troops.

Doesn't sound reasonable.

It does seem, though, that the facts are agreed upon that the Americans were just hanging out and they came and started attacking.

Yes.

So they were not.

So

I do like the point that we kick their ass.

I do like that a lot.

I like that.

I do.

Yes.

Yeah.

That makes you feel good that we can still do that, that we're willing to do that.

Because it seems like under the Obama administration,

we would have said, oh, whoa, whoa, okay.

Well, maybe you can have half of the garrison and we'll keep the other half.

Maybe you take two-thirds and we'll, we'll just get away with that.

Montana out of your way.

Montana.

Yeah.

That's generous.

Yeah.

So what, so what is the, what was the rogue troops

excuse?

I haven't seen an excuse.

Because I haven't seen it.

It was, it was called unprovoked.

So they seemingly didn't have an excuse.

Have you seen them say any reason for why they attacked the U.S.

base?

I haven't seen one.

No, I mean, just it'd be interesting to see, again,

in their media,

because if we had rogue troops attack Russia, we would immediately disavow them and we would find out what were they thinking and we would be all over that.

If they're not saying that these are rogue troops, if they're not saying that

America killed a whole bunch, and if they're not saying, if they're reporting this story and they're not saying, well, we talked to them and this was their reasoning, I think that's trouble.

Putin saves this kind of stuff.

You know,

he pulls this kind of stuff out and makes it an issue when it is his time.

You have this coming up this week on the TV show talking a little bit more about Alexander Dugan, a guy from Russia, a really influential guy, and a guy who's collected many groups from around the world to try to change the way politics and ideology kind of works in the world.

He's got a whole book about it and everything.

But what is he doing with this information?

Because certainly, I can't imagine those types of groups in Russia are presenting presenting it that way.

And if you look, if you look at the certainly on social media, you'll see people aligned with those groups are coming up with conspiracy theories as to why this happened, that it wasn't, it's not the way they're telling us, that, you know, of course the Americans are the bad guys.

Yeah, I mean, basically, yeah.

So, you know, it's really interesting to me is

if you read the fourth political theory by Dugan, he's a terrifying guy, and he says that Hitler didn't go far enough.

And it's his philosophy that is so frightening.

He talks about the people of the sea and the people of the land.

And the people of the sea are the North Atlantic Sea Treaty.

And then the people of the land are Russia and the original motherland.

I've been reading a book called Hitler's Monsters and another one at the same time called Ordinary Men.

Wait, you're reading a Nazi book?

I am.

Shocking.

I am.

When does that wow dunning development?

I'm telling you, Hitler's Monsters is absolutely fascinating.

It's really scholarly, so it's a little dry.

But it is about how

the seeds were planted for the dark arts and for,

you know, what is it called?

Luciferianism.

long before Hitler came into power.

And it talks about all the things.

It starts with, Indiana Jones is not real.

However, there is a real guy that that's based on.

Now, let's get away from the cartoons and let's look at what they were really trying to do.

Anyway, there's this thing called the Thule Society that started in the teens and early 20s.

Hitler was a big, Hitler's,

you know, his council were big,

you know,

scholars in this Thule society.

That is

Atlanteans.

They believed that the people that were Germans and the Aryan race, they were Atlanteans.

They survived.

And they were this master race.

From Atlantis?

Yeah.

And that's pretty much what, you know, the people of the sea, people of the land, pretty much what Dugan is saying.

He's, he's using all of these old pagan, crazy kind of myths and knitting them all together.

And people will buy them when they're hungry or when they're afraid.

Mixed with some apocalyptic biblical things, too.

Like, yes, except in this in this book, and it's like the Antichrist coming from the sea.

I mean, that's that's Dugan, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dugan is and blaming NATO.

Yes, um, that's becoming more and more popular.

Yes, and what's frightening is if you look at what happened with Hitler, and in this book, um, uh, Hitler's Beasts,

it was written by a guy from Cambridge.

And

it's very scholarly.

And so it's not,

it's not hyperbole at all.

In fact, much of it is very dry.

But if you look at it, he's making the case, don't listen ever to anyone who says this was Christian.

This is not a Christian movement.

It is the exact opposite.

And he, yeah, and

he has documented in Hitler's own writing in books, all these books called like the magician and stuff, dark arts.

Hitler underlined certain things and wrote in the margins things like

the real leader

cannot truly be successful without demonic seeds inside of him.

I mean, they really were going for evil stuff and it's happening again.

Pretty spooky.

It's happening again.

And they actually believed that

they believed it.

They were the best of Atlantis.

They believed that they believed in

Thor.

They believed all of this.

They took all of these little pieces and put them together and then rolled it up into one, you know, in one demonic blanket.

It's fascinating.

We had the author of Hitler's Monsters coming on next week, I think.

Was it next week or the week after?

Yeah, it's coming out pretty soon, yeah.

Because that book is

fascinating.

Yeah.

I mean, that's crazy.

You could build

an entire entire series out of this book, it seems like this.

Oh, this book is,

it's a little difficult to read

because he uses,

there's so much language in there that you just, you don't know.

You have to do it.

I'm not doing three-syllable words or in the book.

Right.

Exactly.

There's only a few of three-syllable, mostly two.

So it's pretty hard.

When have you ever heard that theory before?

I've never heard of that.

He says Hitler.

He says, look,

he said, look, he said, that's just one theory.

That's just one part.

Okay.

That's not the overarching part.

That's just one part.

But he says at the very beginning, look, all of this stuff in Marvel Comics with the, you know, the red mask of death, that guy, and, you know, all of this stuff is in our popular culture.

But

that's all lies built on a true, truly frightening

platform that really happened.

And we have to understand that.

And as I'm reading it, I'm telling you, what was the group that we looked at last week, Stu, on the Russian 120 DB?

Yeah.

We're looking at this World National Conservative meeting or whatever it is, done by Dugan.

You look at what they believe and you read that book and you're like, oh my gosh, it's coming back.

Is he still a big Trump supporter?

Dugin?

Dugan?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm falling off that bandwagon a little bit.

Because I'm not sure.

Leading up to the election, he was all about Donald Trump.

But if you

look at this world national conservative movement, which is basically a global

national socialist party, it's the Nazis all over again.

It's in 66, it's there's 66 groups, and it's in over 22 countries now.

It's all financed by, including America, and it's all financed by Russia and Alexander Dugan.

And if you, if you, if you look at it, um, it's all the same philosophies.

It's Dugan and Hitler combined.

And then on top of it,

when you go and

look at what they're saying,

shoot, what did you just say?

I was just trying to make a point based on what you just asked, Stu.

Don't remember.

Do you remember?

The Trump part of the Philippines.

Yeah, yeah.

If you look, if you go into those groups and you start to look internally and what they're talking about on their own websites, Breitbart is everywhere.

Really?

It is everywhere.

In every country, every Nazi front group, it's everywhere.

It's amazing.

And chilling.

Totally chilling.

Wow.

Because it's going in two directions.

So, Pat, host of Pat Gray Unleashed coming up in just a moment.

Also, on the new program, The News and Why It Matters.

How did you feel about the first show, Pat?

I felt really good about it.

I thought it was maybe the best television program ever done.

Yeah, I think a lot of people were saying that.

A lot of people on the internet.

I saw a lot of people on the internet.

A lot of people were saying that.

Didn't see anybody saying that.

Best show ever done.

Best show ever done.

Well, that's because you were probably reading about your part, and that was not what they were saying about Glenn's part.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah, it was specifically about me and Stu.

Yeah, but that was us.

But yeah, I didn't pay that much attention to it.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

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So some millennials got into a boat.

They did.

This is a very sad show today.

Sounds like a joke.

First of all, we heard about

the Americans who joined ISIS are disappointed by the experience.

That was really sad.

That was a really sad segment.

If you missed that, you need to go back and watch this.

They did menial stuff.

They weren't beheading people.

Some millennials decided they wanted to leave the world behind because how can we live our lives when we're working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?

Oh, my gosh.

So they paid $14,000 to purchase a boat that's 50 years old.

They sold all their possessions, bought this boat, decided to embark on their journey.

But there was one problem.

Neither of them had bothered to learn how to sail.

Ah.

They also did not buy insurance.

Ah, okay.

All right.

Perhaps no surprise that you buy a bunch of people.

Well, once you buy a boat, the nice thing about boats, too, is once you buy it, you don't ever have to put another dollar in it.

No, no maintenance costs, no effort at all.

Those are easy.

Those are great.

Well, they capsized the boat on the first day,

stunningly, as they tried to go to Key West.

They were pulled into a channel, ran aground on a sandbar.

Neither were hurt.

They did save their dog, and they tried to get the internet to pay for their new boat.

They needed $10,000 to salvage their boat.

And they still don't know how to sail.

They still have not purchased insurance, but they have raised $13,181

because the rest of society is so stupid.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my God.

We'll see you tonight at five.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.