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You know, yesterday at this time, I said,

when will the monkeys

of the GOP and the DNC just start heading down to the Senate floor and just start throwing feces at each other?

Well, I think they started yesterday.

We have some amazing audio from Susan Collins throwing feces

at another senator.

We have the

feces

smear of Jeff Sessions, and apparently Senator Sessions is a little angry about it, as I would imagine he does.

The senators, however, are backing Jeff Sessions on this.

By the way, yesterday they They voted to talk about repealing health care.

What a victory.

I will tell you why it was imaged the way it was yesterday, and you'll begin to understand how our politics works in Washington a little bit more.

Also, we passed a measure to put sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Why is the EU mad at us?

We'll tell you about that and

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I now have to worry about my vacuum.

Enough is enough.

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I will make a stand.

I will raise my voice.

I will hold your hand.

Cause we have won.

I will beat my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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All right, let me start with healthcare.

Here's what happened yesterday with healthcare.

The GOP got together and they voted to discuss healthcare out in the open.

That's all that happened.

Now, why would you have the president speak right after?

Why would you fly fly John McCain back for this historic vote and have him give a stirring speech right after?

Because

this is the best the Republicans can do.

Now, let me explain this.

Let's say that

we all went to a company and we said,

You guys have to hire us because we're going to build an amazing car.

Just, I mean, we can fix the car industry.

You think self-driving cars are great?

Wait until you see what we have and we're going to be able to make it at half the price.

So a company hires us and all we do

is spend seven years

arguing about nothing.

We first say we can't make that car.

You know what?

Boss,

shareholders, we want to make that car, but Ted in accounting keeps stopping us.

We need Ted out of accounting.

So they fire Ted.

And then you're like, well, it wasn't just Ted in accounting.

It's also Bill in product.

He is crazy bad.

So they fire Bill.

And you're like, okay, it wasn't just Ted and Bill.

We also

need to be on the board of directors.

Okay, all right, you're on the board of directors.

Okay, now we can get something done.

Then everybody in the company watches for something to come out of that factory.

No car, no car, nothing going in, nothing going out.

Maybe it's like Professor Potts when he bought that car in chitty chitty bang bang.

Yes, I had to throw that reference in.

Where nobody went into the barn and all of a sudden this great flying car came out no it's nothing like that nobody's been doing anything in the warehouse nobody's been doing anything to build a new car so finally everybody gets so angry

that the the board of directors comes in and says you know what

guys

We've had enough.

You haven't built anything.

And so what do the people who said they were going to build the car do?

They say, you know what?

You're exactly right.

And this time, this time we're going to do something.

You know what?

Call the press because we're going to show you exactly what we've got planned.

We're going to change the world tomorrow.

Call the press.

And the head of our division is going to give a speech after the press conference.

This is going to be a big day.

So the press comes.

Everybody's waiting with bated breath.

This is going to be the day we find out all about this car.

And they get everybody who has said that they were going to build that car together.

And they say, we're going to have a historic day.

All in favor of talking about

some kind of car that would be great and half the cost.

Say I.

I.

The eyes have it.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have just witnessed a historic event.

No car has been built.

No car has even been proposed.

But what this team of amazing people have just done is they have voted, they've opened up the doors.

They've been talking behind closed doors.

They've opened up the doors.

And now they're going to talk about

talking about passing something that will possibly get that car built.

They don't even know what it looks like, but pay no attention to that.

And then the CEO of that division steps to the plate and says, you know, all these people who are standing away of this car being built, wait a minute, you got everything you asked for.

Those people have got to go.

Standing in the way of progress of this amazing car that we have absolutely no idea what it will look like, what it will cost, what it even is.

We're just going to vote on talking about a car that's all that happened yesterday so why would you do that why would you do that

because if you build up enough of a an event if you make a circus

everyone will remember the time the circus came to town

They won't remember exactly what happened because nobody's paying enough attention to it.

Everybody has to juggle 400 different things in their life.

My wife, I came home last night and she said, did they pass a health care bill?

And I said, no, honey, they didn't.

She said, they voted it down.

I said, no, they voted to talk about it.

To talk about it.

She rolled her eyes and she said, you've got to be kidding.

And I said, no.

And that's what will happen.

The average busy person will think the GOP just did something miraculous.

This is a procedure.

Those votes happen all the time.

This is just a vote to proceed about talking about it.

Why was this a global event?

This is like, hey, Bill, can you come on over to my office about maybe an hour?

We got to talk about building that car.

Sure.

That's all it was.

So don't get excited

because really that platform, more importantly, was a launching pad for two other things that do not help your life.

You were interested because you have a very high deductible.

You were interested, by the way, hopefully by the end of the week, we have somebody who's going to help you on that.

You were interested yesterday because you can't pay the premium.

You lost your doctor.

You lost the health care you love.

You're on the edge.

You care.

But that's not what yesterday was about.

That yesterday was about convincing the

everyday person that the Republicans actually did something when they did nothing.

Two,

it was a launching pad for two attacks.

John McCain

against talk radio.

and Donald Trump against Jeff Sessions.

Let's start with Talk Radio, shall we?

Here's John McCain.

The problem-solving our system does make possible the fitful progress it produces and the liberty and justice it preserves is a magnificent achievement.

Our system doesn't depend on our nobility.

It accounts for our imperfections and gives us an order to our individual strivings.

that has helped make ours the most powerful and prosperous society on earth.

It is our responsibility to preserve that.

And even when it requires us to do something less satisfying than winning, even when we must give a little to get a little, even when our efforts manage just three yards and a cloud of dust while critics on both sides denounce us for timidity, for our failure to triumph.

Stop first as a second.

I hope you can.

Before we get any further on this,

the three yards and a cloud of dust, by the way he's saying we got to compromise we've got to work together and it's very noble on what he's saying unfortunately he has said he won't he won't compromise on a clean

repeal bill he's not compromising he's saying everyone else has to compromise to this level not him

Everyone else has to compromise to this level.

But then he goes on.

Again, rely on humility, on our need to cooperate on our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the internet to hell with them

wow

so

those loud bombastic loudmouths on radio, television, and internet.

You know what?

In some regard,

in some ways, I agree with that.

In some ways, I agree with that.

Unless those voices are

not a parabolic dish, but an actual mirror of the American people.

If that is the message of the American people, but I don't think...

I don't think a lot of

what is happening in the news is a reflection of the American people.

But I certainly don't think that the people in Washington, D.C.

are reflecting the people.

They're the ones that created this healthcare nightmare.

They're the ones who said, we've got a crisis.

When most of Americans said, we don't have a crisis, remember, before this past, and I know it's been so long, before this past, 70%

were against it.

They were like, we don't have a problem.

They took and used a problem of, hey, these people don't have health care.

They got to have health care.

Okay.

Instead of fixing that, they destroyed the health care we have because they want a single payer system.

If I may quote, some people think this is a Trojan horse.

It's not a Trojan horse.

It's right there.

End quote.

They were trying to get to a single payer system.

So these people in Washington went and they took and destroyed our health care under the guise of being able to help these people.

Have they helped those people?

No.

They have not.

In fact, more people have died per year

under the ACA

than didn't.

Now I am not tying that directly because I don't know.

It's too early to tell.

But 80,000 people a year

more

are dying with the ACA.

I don't know what's caused that, but it certainly hasn't helped and it has hurt a vast majority of Americans who are now struggling and they think they have their finger on the pulse of America.

If that is true, John McCain, then why do you have, and I'm not exaggerating, I believe it is one point above or one point below the ratings of cockroaches.

Because America loves loves cockroaches because we think cockroaches are a benefit to us

believe me if any of these guys scampered out from underneath our refrigerator I wouldn't be surprised and I can tell you I would spray him with whatever I had or hit him over the head with a broom

They are cockroaches in many ways.

They better listen to somebody and not themselves because they are completely lost in Washington, D.C.

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Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Holy cow.

So I noticed through that opening monologue on healthcare and John McCain that Pat was about to explode.

Pat is the get off my lawn guy.

And

I thought I would throw it to Pat with, I think

I saw the aneurysm begin to form on the outside of your head when John McCain said, and that'll leave you with three yards and a cloud of dust.

Yeah, let me just remind you what he said yesterday.

The problem-solving our system does make possible the fitful progress it produces and the liberty and justice it preserves is a magnificent achievement.

Our system doesn't depend on our nobility.

It accounts for our imperfections and gives us an order to our individual strivings that has helped make ours the most powerful and prosperous society on earth.

It is our responsibility to preserve that.

And even when it requires us to do something less satisfying than winning.

Even when we must give a little to get a little, even when our efforts manage just three yards in a cloud of dust while critics on both sides denounce us for timidity, for our failure to triumph.

Oh my gosh.

Okay.

You know what's the problem with that analogy?

The three yards in a cloud of dust?

Look out, here he comes.

What does that leave you with, douche?

Fourth down and one.

And now you have to punt again.

Again.

And you're the New England Patriots because you have the House, the Senate, and the executive branch.

And you're playing against the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception College.

It's the New England Patriots against the Sisters.

And you still have three yards and a cloud of dust.

And you still, let alone win the game, you can't even score.

In fact, you can't even get a first down because it's always three yards and a cloud of dust.

Why not pass the ball, get a first down, move down the field, at least kick a field goal?

Please.

By all that is holy, give us one victory.

I mean, we never get anything out of them.

And then we're the bad people because we expect them to get something done.

We got Gorsuch.

We did get Gorsuch, but it had nothing to do with Congress.

Well, it had something to do with him because it had at least the senators confirmed him.

You could have confirmed him easily.

You know,

the

majority, what do you call it?

The 60-vote.

The supermajority.

you know they're going to violate that.

It's only a matter of time.

And so we could have gotten Gorsuch.

I'm glad we got Gorsuch, but that's

the bare minimum.

Now, what are you doing to help the American people on the other promises?

And here's the problem.

They continue to be

three yards in a cloud of dust.

Eventually, very soon, before you've scored a touchdown, even one, or a field goal, what happens?

The ball goes to the other team, and the sisters are playing,

they're playing hard to make a touchdown.

And somehow or another, they always make one.

And even though we're the Patriots, we can't stop them.

How?

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Okay, I want to give you, again, the three reasons why this happened yesterday, why they voted on a procedural thing and made a huge deal out of it.

They made a huge deal out of this for three reasons.

One, to make the GOP look like they've actually done something.

They haven't.

They've agreed to talk about something.

We've had talk since the country was created.

We don't need much more talk.

We need them to do something and act.

The second reason that they've done it is to give John McCain, I think, a graceful possible exit.

The Democrats did the same thing for Kennedy.

Yeah, I mean,

it was, you know, it's a nice exit.

You know, they can, if, if God forbid he dies, they'll make this all about a remembrance of John McCain and let's get this done because on his last speech, he did this.

I'm not saying that he's going to die, but that

you don't think that that didn't cross somebody's mind.

So they gave him him this time to speak his mind and launch an attack against

talk radio, the internet, and television.

Then Donald Trump used the occasion yesterday to go out after Jeff Sessions.

This is not sitting well with his cabinet.

This is not sitting well with the senators.

Jeff Sessions...

Jeff Sessions is a guy who has kept his head down and has worked his whole career.

If you're a conservative, you've liked Jeff Sessions,

at least on a few things.

He's been really, really good.

It was surprising to see Jeff Sessions come out and really bet his career, using his own words: if this doesn't work, I'm finished.

He bet his career and stood up for Donald Trump long before anybody else.

What did Donald Trump use

yesterday's

press conference to do to come out again against Jeff Sessions?

Wondering if he's even going to be there very long.

And I'm very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.

You can fire him.

Look, Jeff, I could, but we'll see what happens.

But

I was,

I appointed a man to a position.

And then shortly after he gets the position, he recused himself.

I said, what's that all about?

Why didn't you tell me that you were going to do that?

And I wouldn't have appointed you.

But I appointed him, and shortly thereafter, he recused himself.

Well, he couldn't have told you that because the timeline,

I mean, I hate to go all timeline for you, but for those of you who are functioning on an alternative timeline, let me bring you back to the original timeline of 1985, Professor.

The flux capacitor, once you go off the original timeline, everything changes.

But if you stick to the original timeline, you will see

that he was appointed attorney general.

Then the Russia thing happened.

And that's when he said, I can't, I have to recuse myself from that.

I can't be a part of it.

So there's no way he could have told Donald Trump that he wouldn't be a part of the Russia thing.

Now,

here's what's happening.

Because at that time, they said there was no Russia thing.

Exactly right.

So he didn't know.

He would have to have been in on some Russian plan.

He'd have to know that they were in trouble when he took that.

Hey, listen, if something comes up about the Russia stuff, I'm going to have to recuse myself.

I mean, that's the only way this timeline works.

He's jumbling the timeline, and he's doing it for the same reason that the GOP held an important important historic vote to talk yesterday.

Because most people,

there's so much coming at them they don't know.

And you repeat a lie enough, it becomes true.

That's a lie about Jeff Sessions.

And every single person who cares about the border

should care about

what is happening to Jeff Sessions.

Because now you've lost him from the Senate and you're losing him as Attorney General.

And why?

Why?

Not because

of

the other spin that the president is giving.

He's saying

he's recusing himself from the Russia deal.

Well, he should be looking into the Russians with Hillary Clinton.

Why aren't they looking into all of the things with Hillary Clinton?

That's been the big drum.

He himself, if we go to the original 1985 timeline, Marty McFly, we would see

that

he himself said, we're not going to pursue Hillary Clinton.

We're not going to go after the Clintons.

It was a very tough battle.

You know, we said things during the campaign.

I don't want to hurt him.

I don't want to hurt him.

So we're not going to go after him.

He knows he's not going to go after them.

He himself have instructed the Justice Department not not to go after them.

He's using that to get rid of Jeff Sessions to be able to put somebody in that will replace or fire the special counsel

looking into Russia because he can't do it.

And I guarantee you, when he gets in,

whoever replaces Jeff Sessions will fire the special prosecutor, which will make things much worse.

He'll fire them, then we'll have another controversy that we have to deal with.

And they will not pursue Hillary Clinton.

They will just leave it alone.

Don't be played by what is happening at,

I would say, three-dimensional chess, but it's not even two-dimensional checkers.

Don't be played by this.

Interesting, too, that the former Speaker of the House yesterday

told the truth.

He basically said

the Republicans aren't going to do anything about Obamacare.

Sarah, so listen to this.

This is John Boehner.

Listen to this.

Here we are, you know,

seven months into

this year,

and yet they've not passed this bill.

Now,

they're not going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

It's been around too long.

And the American people have gotten accustomed to it.

Governors have gotten accustomed to this Medicaid expansion.

And so trying to pull it back is really not going to work.

What they can do, though, is move it away from government control, where the states have more control over what happens, and individuals have.

They want to do that.

So when it's all settled down, here's what's going to happen.

You're not going to have an employer mandate anymore.

You're not going to have the individual mandate.

The Medicaid expansion will be there.

The governors will have more control over their Medicaid populations and how to get them here.

And a lot of the Obamacare taxes will probably go.

But they've had a tough time getting there.

But if they can't do health care reform, I don't know how they would ever do tax reform.

Okay, so there's John Boehner telling you, they're not going to do it.

They're not going to do it.

Because,

look, it's too entrenched.

And the governors love it.

And people are getting used to it.

So it's just not going to happen.

That's the truth.

That is the truth.

And he's only saying that because he's not in power anymore.

Okay.

So this is the conversation that they're all having behind closed doors.

Guys, look, it's not going to happen.

Yep.

So it's just not going to happen.

I know, but the American people are expecting us to do something.

And Donald Trump needs a win.

Yeah, but it's not going to happen.

So what do we do?

Play the game.

All the world is but a stage.

You are watching a stage show.

If you think somebody in Washington actually cares about you,

with a few exceptions, you can forget about that.

And you know that.

How do we fix it then?

You get on the phone with your representatives?

I think, I mean, you've got to get rid of the leadership, but they're going to be replaced by the same leadership.

You have to cancel.

You have to drop out of the GOP.

You just have to drop out of the GOP.

Just get out of it.

Get out of the DNC.

Get out of the GOP.

Stop giving them money.

Stop.

That has a chance of actually

helping,

defunding the GOP and defunding the DNC.

When they start to see people really, really flee in mass numbers, which they already have, and it spooked them a bit.

But, you know, of course, every four years, possibly every two years, we join on that bandwagon again because they convince us, if you don't have us, you've got nothing.

And just get out, defund the GOP, defund the DNC.

That's the one thing you can do.

Two, one thing we can do is introduce you to somebody who is actually doing something that I think will help you with your health care, that you can actually reduce the cost of your health care.

We'll get to that later this week.

We'll tell you about that.

And the third thing is start to

recognize

what principles are important.

For instance, Jeff Sessions.

If Jeff Sessions leaves,

you've destroyed a guy who was on our side

for much of his life, did a lot of things that most of us have agreed with.

So he's done.

He leaves the AG.

It'll be the first time that we've had an AG for six months and then the first six months of a presidency and then he's gone.

But if he's gone, he's done now, and you've destroyed an advocate that we had.

Two,

what happens to the rest of the cabinet?

If the rest of the cabinet can see that Donald Trump could come out and say the things that the cabinet members know are not true, you're going to see more things like Rex Tillerson.

Rex Tillerson is just taking a few days off because he's tired.

Uh-huh.

He's tired of

what?

Apparently, over the weekend, Rex Tillerson almost had an aneurysm over this Jeff Sessions stuff and said, if they can do, if he can do that to him, a guy who's been most loyal, what's he gonna do to the rest of us?

He's also having a problem because you'll notice Rex Tillerson keeps getting hammered for he hasn't even filled some important posts.

He's incompetent.

I can guarantee you the former CEO of ExxonMobil is not incompetent.

He can fill some jobs.

I can guarantee you.

What's happening is, according to sources around Rex, is that the president is demanding that everyone kiss his ring.

And

Rex cannot get independent-minded people that he wants on his team to kiss the president's ring.

And so Trump is blocking the people that he wants to appoint.

And so he's got the frustration of that.

And then on top of it, he has the frustration of somebody, a good man like Jeff Sessions

being railroaded here.

If we get to a place to where Rex Tillerson leaves, and I don't believe, I think Rex Tillerson would leave, it would have left already had it not be that the world is in such a precarious place and we cannot show cracks.

But if

these things are true and Rex Tillerson is in the turmoil that he is in, and believe me, Russia knows, he's in turmoil.

Jeff Sessions, our Attorney General, is on his way out or under siege.

Both of them under siege from the press, from the Congress, and from the White House.

You do that job.

You do that job where no one is giving you rest.

No one's saying, it's okay, keep fighting, you're doing a great job.

You do that.

Now,

hit us with another 9-11

with a Secretary of State in turmoil and an Attorney General in turmoil, or, God forbid, both of them gone.

This is not good.

This is not good.

Pray for peace

outside of our country.

Pray for Sessions and

Rex Tillerson.

Pray for the President.

Pray for Congress.

But hold people's feet to the fire and hold them accountable, even if they are on your side.

You're seeing two people now possibly being destroyed that we all cheered when they got in.

Even people who were against, people who were for and against

have done anything wrong.

Nothing.

Nothing wrong.

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Mercury.

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So I'm just sitting here thinking about, so

what gives you hope that things will work out?

Well, history does

in some regard.

The last time that we were at each other's throats like this, I hate to say, was just before the Civil War.

However,

it doesn't have to end that way.

And remember, the good guys won on the Civil War.

And they won because they had a righteous cause.

There are enough people now, I think on both sides, that are getting fed up with all of this, with all of it.

And remember in 1852 or 53,

it was

a group of mainly Democrats, because theirs was the really corrupt

Southern slavery party,

but some Whigs as well,

that stepped out in front and started calling out their own party.

And finally, about 20 of them got together and just said, we're going to start a new party.

But they were calling out their own party.

It just took 20 to stand up and say, you know what?

My party is not serious about solving slavery.

That's what needs to happen.

We need about 20 patriots to step up and say, you know what, I'm not going to talk about their party.

I'm going to talk about my party.

My party is not serious about helping people who really need help.

My party is not serious about actually fighting

Islamists.

My party is not serious about the serious issues of the day I am.

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You know, earlier this week, we started the week with this tragedy

in San Antonio.

And here in Texas, it's gone back and forth.

Was is this a problem with not just letting everybody in?

Shouldn't we have all of these sanctuary cities?

Or is the problem the sanctuary cities?

I know the driver said

he didn't have any idea what was in the back of his truck.

I don't believe him.

Now, I'm not a judge and a jury, but a judge and jury should listen to the evidence.

And if he is guilty, Personally, I think people like this should get the death penalty.

These sanctuary cities are dangerous because they are magnets and they are telling people who are in dire situations, just make it here and you're safe.

Well, what is it that we're telling these people to do to make it to their sanctuary city?

We begin there right now.

I will be my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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San Antonio says that it is not a sanctuary city, but it filed onto the lawsuit against Greg Abbott trying to stop all sanctuary cities.

I tried to think about what were the last few minutes like in that trailer that got stuck in San Antonio.

You want to know why sanctuary cities are bad?

It was awful and difficult to imagine,

but I tried.

And here's what I imagined.

At first, we didn't realize the dead bodies were at our feet because we couldn't see anything.

In total darkness, we couldn't help each other.

We were all trapped.

Maybe after an hour, a sudden stop in the squeal of truck brakes, we fell over each other and people groaned in pain.

The trailer doors burst open and flashlights blinded us.

A few smugglers jumped into the trailer and rushed about mashing different colored tape onto our sweat-soaked shirts.

Something about needing to identify us when we arrived.

The rush of air from the open doors was hot and wet, but it was still a godsend.

A few near the back tried to jump out, but the smugglers beat them back inside and slammed the doors shut.

The complete darkness returned.

We were moving again, and my head was throbbing.

Through the pain, my mind wandered deliriously to the strange events of the last couple of weeks.

My home is in a village in central Mexico, and

it's where we worked hard, but we couldn't afford food or rent.

Our Our streets are violent, drug lords battling for control of our town.

Our family knew we had to leave, but where?

North to America?

Maybe Texas or Arizona?

We knew Texas would turn us around, but if we could just get a foothold in a sanctuary city.

We heard about a service that guarantees passage to America for a price.

The service is run by a criminal gang.

They're dangerous.

They're very expensive.

But what options do we have?

$700 just to get us across the Rio Grande, and then another $5,500 so the smugglers could get you to a sanctuary city.

$6,200 for a chance for the whole family to survive.

It took our family five years to save enough money just to send one family member.

My father chose me.

I'm 18.

I have a stronger body, he said.

Once I could get to a sanctuary city, my father said that I could work hard.

I promised him that I would, and I would save my money and send it home.

So eventually, the whole family could have a better life in Mexico.

Two days on our rusty bus to the Rio Grande.

Then, waiting for nightfall to cross the river.

There was only one raft for the crossing.

There were 20 in our group.

Took three trips just to get everybody across.

I was on the last trip.

Every sound terrified me as I expected floodlights and sirens at any moment.

When we reached the American side of the river, two pickup trucks took us to a stash house is what they called it.

Someone said we were in Laredo, Texas.

Finally, after 11 days confined to this filthy, cramped stash house, a tractor trailer arrived in the middle of the night.

We all were hurried outside.

They herded us into the cave-like trailer.

It felt like stepping into a furnace.

The night doesn't cool down in Texas.

My eyes adjusted enough to glimpse a hundred or more people before they closed the doors and the lights vanished.

Confusion, murmuring, whimpering.

None of us knew each other.

I leaned against one of the trailer walls as the truck began moving.

I wiped some of the burning sweat from my eyes and blinked them open.

Still nothing to see, it was too dark.

I wanted to ask other passengers how long they had been in here and where we were going, but I couldn't even make out faces of people on either side of me.

I knew they were there only because I felt their wet arms and faces slide across mine as the truck jostled us down the road.

Just get to the sanctuary city.

After a while, we started beating on the walls for help.

The driver didn't even

hear us or he ignored us.

Feeling along a sidewall near the floor, someone found a hole no bigger than a bottle cap.

We all tried to take turns at the hole, sucking in what air they could.

It wasn't nearly enough.

A brief stop, the rush of hot outside wind, yelling, and the colored tape to label us.

Then, back on the road, and the heat tightened its grip vice on my chest, I heard a woman's panic breathing, then a long, slow exhale, as if she had died.

A strange, dreaded feeling surged through me.

I thought,

this is where I'm going to die.

I thought of my mother.

I have to stay alive for my family.

They didn't scrimp and save for all those years for their son to die like a pig in a trailer.

I tried to concentrate on each slow, careful breath.

My mouth was so dry it felt coated in sand.

Beside me, someone slumped against my shoulder and then crumpled to the trailer floor, their heads slamming into the wall.

A child sobbed nearby.

There was no sanctuary here.

This is hell.

Another hour passed.

I felt myself I was about to faint a couple of times, but one more turn at the air hole kept me barely conscious.

I am going to die in here, I thought.

Then the truck stopped again.

After a few more excruciating minutes, the doors mercifully swung open,

and groups with certain colored tape were allowed out and shoved into black SUVs, not my my group.

I opened my mouth to protest, but my mouth was so dry my words got stuck in the sand in my mouth, and the door shut closed again.

We used our remaining strength to yell and bang against the walls and the doors, but no matter how hard we pounded, we couldn't break through the back door.

Finally, the door creaked open once more, and this time, thirty or more people poured out of the back, knocking a gray-bearded man to the ground.

Was he the driver?

I don't know.

I started to surge out with the rest,

but I nearly fainted.

I slumped to the floor.

I heard a man say he was going to get help

as he climbed over me.

Were we in

the sanctuary city?

I wondered.

How dare people

who fight for sanctuary cities

tell us

we don't care about people

by holding out

a carrot

and saying, just make it here and you don't have to go home

allows these criminals,

coyotes,

and and killers

to make thousands of dollars.

A quarter of a million dollars was what they paid the people in that truck.

That was worth between a quarter and half a million dollars of precious cargo.

They couldn't even put a stack of bottled water in the back.

And why are they coming here?

Because we're unclear about our policies.

Why are they coming here?

Because,

honestly, if our towns were run over by drug lords,

if our towns promised absolutely no way to escape the poverty,

And you as a mom and a dad could escape the poverty with your family or pick one person from your family and say, go,

go and make money and send it back here because that money is worth so much more here.

It will feed the family.

It will help the family educate.

Wouldn't you do it?

I know I would.

If the situation was was reversed and Mexico was a paradise

and I was living and my family was threatened and Mexico was like, just come here, you get to Mexico City, you're good, I do it.

But think of the crime ring that that Mexican, that sanctuary city in Mexico

would build.

Think of the criminal element that didn't care about anything but money, how they would cash in and treat people exactly like the Germans treated the Jews on the trains to Auschwitz, like cattle.

These sanctuary cities need to be stopped.

Our friends who think they are doing right by people

Think think that we don't hear the cries of the people who are living in abject poverty

and grave danger.

We do.

We do.

We recognize the human suffering on the other side of our border.

But everything has order to it.

And if it doesn't,

if there is no order, if there is no rule of law,

there won't be anything left for people to strive and swim and

risk their lives to come here for.

Many

on our side of the argument

never articulate the

human suffering on the other side of the border.

We talk about policies.

But I charge and condemn those on the other side of the argument for doing exactly the same thing.

You see the poverty in their home.

I see that too.

But you don't see the death and destruction on getting to your precious sanctuary city

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Welcome to the program.

So glad that you are

here.

There's a great

Blackboard lesson, chalkboard lesson that I did last night at five o'clock.

You can find it on my Facebook page.

Find it at Glennbeck.com because at Glenbeck.com, it also has a story that goes with it about the things you need to know about the economy and things that you need to

understand and what you can do about it.

You can find that at glenbeck.com.

And last night I did a chalkboard, probably, I mean, it's the closest to an old Fox chalkboard thing that I've done in a long time.

And I was just, I was working on this chalkboard and there happened to be two Chia Pet

heads on the desk in front of me.

One was a Trump and one was a Clinton Chia Pet head.

And I explained asset bubbles with the Chia Pet heads.

And

obviously, I mean, that's very standard Harvard business school practice.

Exactly right.

You use what you got in front of you.

And

I think you'll enjoy it.

It's a blackboard.

You can find it at Glennbeck.com.

Okay,

so, you know, Donald Trump, and I'm not going to go through the

Twitter feed this morning, but this is his maximum time of tweeting, right?

Yeah, sure.

Right?

In the morning, this is the maximum.

Yeah, he's got a couple of big things that have happened this morning.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

I really think he gets up,

sits on the John, tweets a few things,

maybe, you know, washes his face, has some breakfast, gets a briefing, tweets some more things, gets dressed, watching the news, tweets a few things.

That seemed like to rundown today.

Is it?

That was a schedule today because about four hours ago, he did a couple, he took a little break, and then

about an hour or so ago, he hit a couple, took a little break, then he hit again for about another 20 minutes.

So

he gets that break in there.

Yeah, and then he goes to work.

Did you cover the actual tweet?

I mean, there's another sessions, anti-sessions, one today?

A couple of them.

Why didn't AG Sessions replace acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation, but got big dollars, $700,000 for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives, Drain the Swamp.

That's two tweets.

Now, of course, first of all, he asked Comey to stay on.

So him being a Comey friend wouldn't necessarily be a negative at that point.

Additionally, the $700,000 is very misleading.

McCabe,

McCabe's wife, ran for a Democratic position

and she did receive money from not the Clintons, but Terry McAuliffe and his organization and another Democratic organization for that run, which she didn't win.

Now, there is a separation there.

However, I think it's a very thin

veneer.

But it was before any of this stuff happened.

Yes.

He didn't have these roles.

He wasn't involved in the investigation.

Yes.

So, I mean,

and again, he's still there.

He's acting FBI director right now.

He really needs to.

He's amazing in that he just doesn't.

he doesn't.

I mean, these things keep happening to him, and he just keeps calling these people out.

And he keeps rewriting the timeline.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yes.

He's doing that.

He's doing that to Sessions, and Sessions is doing it now with this McCabe thing.

So what do you, if you're Sessions,

what do you do?

Probably leave.

You know, your job is over.

I mean,

you took that job.

Get in the private sector and start making some serious money.

Yeah.

Well, but that's not what he's about.

I mean, he's always been about let's let's let's curb the crime for illegal aliens.

Let's let's actually enforce the law on illegal aliens.

I mean, that's why he's in there.

I think that guy knows he can do more good as the attorney general, but he doesn't know how long he's going to last.

I think you just put your nose to the grindstone and ignore Twitter.

If he wants to come fire you, let him come fire you.

But I mean, he could sit here and blab all he wants on Twitter.

Can you imagine?

Come and fire me then.

Can you imagine having a boss like that

who kept threatening, wants you to quit, but just makes your life a living hell?

I mean, holy cow, by the way, Jeff, go get out.

I couldn't imagine

one second.

I'll shut the pothole.

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Joe in Texas, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

Good morning, Glenn.

How are you?

Good, brother.

How are you?

All right.

I'm a truck driver.

I lives in Texas now, originally from Jersey.

And, you know, there is no way that he did not know who was in there because I know when you get to like a delivery stop and they unload your truck, they will sometimes bang on the side of your trailer from the inside.

And you can hear that.

And that's just one person banging on the truck.

So

this truck driver who pulled into San Antonio and is now testifying, he had absolutely no idea those illegals, 100 of them, were in the back of his truck, some of them dead.

No, if they were banging on the truck, you could hear that.

And another thing that's funny, if he came out of Laredo, I mean, a normal truck driver, okay, they say the trailer's empty.

You always check to make sure it's empty.

And if he came out from Laredo, he had to go through a border checkpoint right on 35, way down there.

There's no way that he did not know what was in that truck.

Like I said, you can hear one person banging on the truck.

If there's four or five or six people banging on an empty truck, you're going to hear that.

There's no way.

So, all right.

So, Joe.

So, Joe,

what has to happen to these truck drivers that are doing this?

They should go to jail, or and if he's found guilty, I believe that he should get the death penalty too I mean this has got to stop I mean yeah the people should not have came into the country illegally but they shouldn't be in the back of a trailer just literally cooking to death because I've been in trailers helping to unload in the summertime with the back doors open and I'm still sweating like a pig

and especially in the heat in Texas I mean it's it's that's an oven in Texas that's an oven I can't even imagine what a closed truck in Texas would feel like.

130 degrees, 140, probably.

You don't want to.

Like I said, I lived down here now 12 years, and sometimes I wish that I was back in Jersey because it can get so hot in Texas.

Oh, my God.

Especially in the trailer.

We all long for the beauty of New Jersey.

We all do.

We all do.

And the governors up there.

Hey, Joe, one last question.

How are you guys, as truck drivers, are you talking about or preparing at all for the revolution in self-driving trucks?

No, because hopefully by the time that happens, I'll be retired.

But if that happens, I don't care.

But, you know, I look at it this way.

It's progress.

You know, if it happens, it happens.

There's nothing I can do about it.

I hope it don't happen because, yeah, I want to keep the roof over my head and

make the wife happy.

But you know what?

If it happens, it happens.

Not much I can do about it.

Thanks, Joe.

I appreciate it.

God bless.

It is going to happen.

The only thing that will stop it is rural America.

But in the cities and on the coastlines,

you'll have automated trucks.

But when you get down to the small towns, you've got to have a driver because most of that's just not mapped.

And, you know, it's just, it's just not like it is in the cities where they know everything.

In some countries, they actually don't have maps.

Yeah, we found that out a number of years ago.

In fact, a lot of U.S.

Americans don't have maps.

Okay.

You're going back to like the, what was it, this 2007?

Yeah, 2007.

But what do you mean they're not mapped?

Have you ever used the GPS?

Of course, they're all mapped.

No, they're not mapped like they are in the cities.

If you do any research on,

for instance,

Uber is wanting to spread out.

Well, first, people aren't calling for cabs generally out in the middle of the country.

But second, Uber says their biggest stumbling block is it is not mapped the way the cities are.

Not every single square inch is mapped.

And some of these are farm roads, et cetera, et cetera.

And it's just not going to happen.

You see that in Google Street View when you try to get super close on a rural area and you can't necessarily get there.

Right.

However, with trucking, I mean, it's passing through these areas on highways all the time.

Yeah, the highways are fine.

The semis are fine.

Yeah, the highways are fine.

So then you could just, you can do it.

You can do it at a distribution point easily.

And that's just a short-term thing, right?

If there's desire for local deliveries,

they're going to map whatever they need to do.

That's a short process

compared to changing the entire transportation system.

So, I mean, I don't see how that doesn't happen.

There's no way that doesn't happen eventually.

I mean, it might take 10 years.

It might take 40 years.

Or three.

Yeah, they're talking five years.

Or three.

They're talking five years.

we're now talking about automated trucks in five years they're already on the road on the road yeah they already are on the road yeah i mean you're saying like i mean because there's a percentage of business right i mean no it takes i think it's i think it's 15 years let's say we go to automated drivers okay it takes 15 years to turn a fleet over the every car on the road generally it takes 15 years to turn everything over so if they started automated driving today and they didn't mandate that everybody had to buy an automated car it'll take 15 years before you start to see almost every single car except that cool antique car it'll take you 15 years to totally change over the fleet to an automated car and the bottom line is this is it's gonna

like it more they're gonna like it and that's the problem it will have to be mandated because uh

you'll have human error mixed with automation and they won't tolerate that So they'll take human error out of the equation and they'll just say it's too dangerous for you to drive with these other vehicles on the road.

You can still drive.

You can still drive.

But they're going to have to turn it over to the automation for everybody, right?

Otherwise, you're going to have chaos.

Did you see that

the EU just banned gas and diesel engines by 2040?

Yeah.

No gas or diesel engines anymore by 2040.

Yeah.

They got rid of the AM radio, the FM radio, and now

the combustion engine.

We just saw

terrestrial radio still by far number one.

92%.

By far number one.

People tune into

terrestrial radio

92% of people every week.

Where I think we looked at podcasts as well, and it's 24% every week.

Unbelievable.

In fact, I think it was only 40% of people have ever listened to a podcast.

So, what you're saying is radio is dying.

40%.

40% have ever listened to one.

Now, of course, that's an incredible increase from years and years ago when it was 0%.

But I mean, people forget that this medium is still really freaking powerful.

And its demise has been predicted since TV was invented.

Yeah.

And if you wanted to have a note of how powerful it is, ask John McCain,

who was up there railing about it just yesterday.

And John Boehner.

John Boehner was out doing the same thing.

He was talking about the evils of talk radio and how talk radio, you can't get anything done.

When he was in office, he couldn't get anything done because talk radio stopped him

every time.

Good.

Good.

I hope that's true.

Good.

It's funny.

It's like if you don't think you have an impact, wait till these guys get out of office and they all start talking about the impact you have.

They don't admit it when they're there.

Oh, yeah.

But they are very frustrated about it beforehand, which is, I don't know, I take it.

Well, they all love talk.

They loved talk radio when we were friendly.

But

as soon as we caught on to their weasel ship, we were like, ah, okay.

Then they hated us.

Then talk radio has to be either co-opted or destroyed.

And fortunately, neither has happened.

By the way, would like to take just a second and say thank you for listening to this program.

Thank you for telling friends about this program.

We just saw a new ratings period and we are up 11%.

We were all kind of surprised by that.

But double-digit growth at a time when almost everybody else is going down, we really appreciate it.

So thank you for listening to this program.

On tomorrow's program, an author of a book who I think this book is game-changing.

It is called friction

and you can't buy it digitally.

You have to have the book sent to you.

And they do it for a reason, and I think it's a very good reason.

I was just thinking, that's my conjecture.

We'll have to ask him when he's here.

But I think they use the philosophy of the book on the book.

And I don't know if you would connect with it the same if it is not a printed book.

Would you agree with that?

Probably, yeah, probably not.

Yeah, because it's done in the style, sort of, of an inconvenient book and um arguing with idiots arguing with idiots yeah and it's really easy to read uh-huh um you pick it up i was just talking to somebody last night one of the managers of our of our company and um he came into town he said glenn the friction book he said i saved that for last because it's a really thick book and he said i didn't flip through the pages And he said, I thought, oh, geez, I got one more long book to read.

He said, I started reading it.

I finished it in, you know, two or three sittings.

And he said, it was the easiest book I've ever read.

It was a fun read, too.

I really enjoyed it.

Yeah.

Anyway, it's about

building the companies of tomorrow.

And

I think it's about really building the family, the company,

the person.

of tomorrow and and how to do this.

This is so far beyond what they talk about in the book,

but it helps you understand where the world is and where the world is going and what perhaps the problem is if you run a small business.

These guys have done commercials for Ford and Apple and everything else.

And

it's really kind of an excoriation of our business

of commercials.

And I called them up and I said, okay.

All right.

I've got a platform of commercials.

Help me redesign the commercial.

And he said, oh, I haven't thought about it from your angle.

I'm like, oh,

what?

You're the friction guy.

I love your, what do you mean?

You have to think about it from our angle too.

But

it's how to connect with people in a truly authentic way, in a way that

has never really been done before until now.

And now it's the natural way people are connecting.

And it's really exciting.

But he'll be on with us tomorrow for a few minutes.

And then I'm doing an hour with him on television.

The name of the book is Friction.

And I think it's

something well worth your time to read.

I think we bought a good portion of the books that put him on a New York Times bestseller because

everybody, I assigned it to everybody in this company to read.

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Speaking of the economy,

what happened in

the Great Depression?

What did FDR do with the giant companies to save the economy, to help, right?

How did he help them?

You guys remember?

He called all of the big three automakers.

There was Auburn,

a great,

great car.

There was Cord.

They were great cars that were being built in America at the time.

And he said, look, the economy is in trouble.

Let's bring the three automakers in.

Well, the three automakers said, oh, we can help.

But they made all kinds of regulations that boxed out the little guy.

That's why you've never heard of Auburn or Cord.

These were

unbelievable cars.

They're still unbelievable cars today, but they don't make them anymore.

Because the Great Depression put them out of business because the big three were the ones called to Washington.

Now, listen to this.

Republicans want the CEOs of Facebook, Google, ATT, and Comcast to testify to Congress about solving net neutrality.

What the hell do you think they're going to say?

Good golly.

Facebook, Google, AT ⁇ T, and Comcast, they're going to write it in such a way they'll help Congress and they will block out every single little guy, every single startup, everybody who has a new creative idea.

Stop it, Republicans.

We already went down that road.

We already went down that road.

Oh, my gosh.

We got to beat this back again?

Yep.

By Republicans now?

Yep.

Yep.

I mean,

that's frustrating.

Can we get Chairman Pai on, the FCC commissioner?

He was great when he was with us last time.

Yeah, let's get him to give us an update on net neutrality and find out what the heck is going on because he'll understand the Great Depression.

That's what happened last time.

You don't go and ask the big three, or in this case, the big five: hey, how do we make it safe for people who want to have internet?

Yeah, let's go ask those guys:

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IQ

is now costing some parents their kids in Oregon.

We are just headed towards fascism everywhere.

Oh, and some really good news,

especially if you live in Illinois, Illinois is in trouble.

It is teetering on junk bond status.

So, what does that mean?

That means the state's about to collapse.

Why is it in trouble?

Oh

my gosh.

We'll show you the stats of Illinois.

And we begin there right now.

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OpentheBooks.com has done some research.

It's on Forbes now.

Why Illinois is in trouble.

Well,

as they are flirting with junk bond status, and the states,

the courts have said you have to pay all of the pensions.

Let me tell you about some of the expenses that are not the pensions.

These are current expenditures.

Right now, they have 63,000 government employees bringing in six-figure and higher salaries.

Openthebooks.com, went Illinois, consistently one of the worst offenders.

They have an Auto Pound supervisor in Chicago, guy who runs the Auto Pound,

making $144,453.

Wow.

If you want to be a nurse in a prison, that's just where they impound vehicles?

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Well, he's a manager.

Wow.

That's a good gig.

Well, that's no big deal.

That's only $144,000.

Listen to this one.

How about a nurse?

If you're a nurse at a state corrections facility,

you're earning up to $254,781.

A nurse.

Junior college,

junior college presidents making $465,420.

There's university doctors.

Okay, remember the nurses were $254.

How much are the doctors?

University doctors earning $1.6 million.

And 84 city managers or mayors outearning every single U.S.

governor.

Wow.

But that's nothing.

But they have to do an entire city.

They have 20,295 teachers and school administrators

that are paid like this.

Superintendent Joyce Carmine, 398,229.

Park School District

teacher, 384.

Wait, just for a teacher?

Uh-huh.

These are

$384,000?

$20,295 teachers and school administrators.

Amazing.

The top five salaries are in the south suburbs and not the affluent North Shore.

10,686

rank-and-file workers and managers in Chicago, including

$216,200 for Rahm Emmanuel, $400,000 for Ginger Evans.

Commissioner of Aviation

includes a $100,000 bonus on top of their $400,000 salary.

A deputy police chief made $240,917,

and that's with $146,860 in overtime.

Ramona Perkins, police communications operator,

pulled down

police communications operator, $121,318

and overtime

of $196,726.

Almost $200,000 in overtime.

Her salary is $121.

Her overtime is $196,000.

Wow.

And by the way, she's an operator,

police communications operator.

That's what she's doing.

That's an important job.

You have 9,567 college and university employees, including the Southern Illinois Junior College Power Couple, Dale Chapman and Linda Chapman.

The pair combined make $682,000 for working at Lewis and Clark Community College.

Doing what?

What do they do?

I think they run it.

I think they run it.

Then you have Fadie Charbel,

who's making $1.58 million.

Constantine

Slavin.

These are college and university employers.

I'm sorry, employees.

So you have...

1.58 million.

1.58.

You have Constantine Slavin making 1.04 million.

These are the doctors.

Yeah, these are the doctors.

University of Illinois.

You have 8,640 state of Illinois employees, including a contractual worker, contractual worker at the newly created Department of Innovation and Technology, making $258,000.

You're going to love this one.

If you're a barber

in the the prison,

you make $100,000.

Well, I mean, wait, wait.

I'm sure they give really special haircuts.

Wait, wait, wait.

You know, it's very hard.

Yeah.

They're very hard.

Okay.

And you want the inmates to be stylish, right?

You do.

You want them to look good.

So you have a hundred thousand dollar barber at the prisons making a hundred thousand dollars.

That's crazy.

But you have also

at the prisons the

quote teacher of barbering who also makes over $100,000.

Well, how are the barbers going to know how to cut hair if they don't have the barber teacher?

How can a barber barb without a teacher, right?

So here it is.

I mean, I'm not usually shocked by this, but those are shocking statistics.

That is in total.

They're big numbers.

There is roughly $12 billion in cash compensation flowing to six-figure government workers when counting the 9,031 federal employees based based in Illinois.

And then they're saying,

why are our finances so bad in this state?

How do we go bankrupt?

Well, and then it goes even deeper than that because after these people retire with $185,000 salaries, they get pensions based off of those salaries that carry them for the rest of their lives.

Yeah, they'll get three-fourths or two-thirds of their salary for the rest of their lives.

That's a heck of a lot of money.

Some Illinois K through 12 schools are spiking salaries and padding pensions.

Data reveals nearly 30,000 teachers and administrators earned $100,000 plus.

However, 20,295

only

just so 20,295 out of the 30,000 are actually employed.

The other 9,305 are retired and receiving their six-figure pension.

This is absolutely unbelievable

how, and it's not going away because all of them have unions.

And so the state is saying you have to pay the pensions because the unions made the deal with the government.

They're still making those pensions.

They're still paying those pensions.

They're still making new covenants with the guys coming in now,

saying, okay, yeah, I'm going to pay you $100,000 now, but I'll pay you $196,000 in overtime to get your pension up so you'll have a six-figure pension for the rest of your life.

Oh, and you only have to work here 20 years.

I mean, think about how

a lot of conservatives will say pensions are okay and a good idea.

And, you know, look, you enter into

a situation where that's part of the deal.

And I honestly understand that.

But what they're doing is telling you, you know, I'll pay you Thursday or Tuesday for a hamburger today.

What does this say?

I'll pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

They're just saying,

we're not going to pay you what you're worth now.

What we're going to do is we're going to send this out over a long, long period of time.

So you get paid for a lot of years that you do nothing.

That is not a good philosophy.

So, you guys, do you guys know the story?

I think I got this out of Friction, the book whose author is with us tomorrow.

The Cadbury story?

Was that?

Yeah, I think it was Friction.

This is a fantastic story.

So, back around the turn of the century, Cadbury, an English chocolate company, all of the

big businesses were getting hit.

Socialism was creeping in and everybody's saying socialism and communism is the way to go.

Cadbury had a different philosophy.

They believed in capitalism, but they believed in taking care of their workers.

So what did Cadbury do?

Cadbury shut down their chocolate factory.

Then they found some oompa lumpas, reopened, and they didn't hire any people.

No.

What they did is they shut down their chocolate factory and moved to a small rural area.

They bought up a whole bunch of land, built up housing all the way around their chocolate factory, provided doctors and health care, grocery stores, et cetera, and moved all of the Cadbury workers over to this new city and said, look, You work for us, you get housing, you get health care, you get a great pay.

Well, people had real loyalty to Cadbury.

Where are those companies now?

Where are the companies that say,

I really want to take care of my employees, and we're going to show you how

capitalism is done?

You could make a case Google does that, right?

And Facebook with their...

with their palaces that they have, that they house that.

They're trying to.

And

they also provide food and recreation for them and all that stuff.

Jeff Rosenblum, who joins us, the author of Friction, has a bunch of examples in that book that we should go through tomorrow of companies that are trying to do that.

And it helps your company over the long term.

You bet it does.

I mean, it doesn't seem, you know, it's hard to draw that direct line on the balance sheet of how it benefits you, but it does.

I mean, obviously, over a long period of time, if you do it right, if you treat people right, if you make their lives easier, if you take the friction out of your employees' lives, it winds up really helping in the long term, and your business benefits from that.

You're going to love tomorrow's show.

We have the author of the book Friction coming in, and he's really talking about,

you know, reducing the friction in your customer's life, reducing the friction in your own company, and I think reducing the friction in your own personal life too.

I mean, I think this philosophy is good all the way around.

And every single person, I made it mandatory that everybody read this book.

Every single person who I've talked to who has read this book says the same thing.

This is unbelievable.

This is so simple, and it's so clear and so clearly written.

I can't believe that

everybody isn't thinking this way.

And

once you read it and you really look at it, it just opens up so many doors.

If you're a small business person, go read this book, Friction.

You have to buy it from a bookstore on Amazon, but you can't read it digitally because I'll talk to him about that.

Why did he put that friction point in?

I think it was actually intentional, obviously it was an intentional friction point and a smart one.

But why did you put that friction point in?

If you're a small business person, don't miss tomorrow's broadcast.

Here's another company.

In Wisconsin, a company is offering its employees microchip implants that can be used to scan into the building and purchase all your food at work.

Whether or not to get the chip is up to the employee, but Three Square Market, a company that provides technology for break room and micro markets, has over 50 employees

who have had the implant

put into their hand.

It's a tiny chip which uses RFID technology, radio frequency identification, and it is.

Huh.

I've read this before.

It is implanted somewhere in the hand between the thumb and the fourth finger within seconds.

That's great.

Where have I read that before, Pat?

Popular mechanics?

It might have been popular mechanics, where you have a read or something that can just be scanned, and you can purchase food and some sort of mark or

something right in your hand.

That's really convenient.

Really, really,

really good.

Eventually, this technology will become standardized, allowing you to use this as your passport, public transit, all purchasing opportunities, your ID.

That's fantastic.

Convenient?

You bet.

You bet.

It'll make purchases in the break room, open doors, copy machines, logging into computers, unlocking phones, sharing business cards, storing medical health information.

And here's the problem.

Nobody thinks there's a problem with it because it's really convenient.

It's not presented as

you must have this because we want you to have the mark of the beast.

It's not presented that way.

It's presented, hey, this is going to make your life really a lot easier.

I mean, I just don't think it's convenient.

that's the same thing.

I don't think the mark of the beast is going to be marketed that way.

I don't think

that's going to be marketed.

I'm the devil.

It's not.

It's going to be marketing.

Have you seen my new convenient jet this much?

That's what I'm saying.

Yeah,

like this.

I know.

Same with Vidangels.

Remember that story?

It's been what?

15 years?

15 years.

This is the first time they were doing that.

And their big pitch was, hey, this is going to keep your children safe because if they're ever kidnapped, you're going going to have this GPS locator inside them.

And then when we asked, wait a minute, how, I mean, why not just cut off the hand or cut it out?

Because

it fuses with your body.

Yeah, you can't get it.

And you can't get it out.

That's good then.

Oh, it's so convenient.

It's so convenient.

Yeah, really.

Get the chip.

Now, this.

A new assessment from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency is shaving full two years off the consensus

forecast on North Korea's ICBM program.

Did you guys hear this?

Have you heard this news?

Yeah.

That's a problem.

Yeah.

Okay, so the reason why apparently we didn't act is because the missiles that they've been launching, not big enough to have the nuke.

So now

we have new intelligence coming in that says, oh, yeah, they might have that very, very soon.

Two years sooner than we thought.

Within a year, they said.

Yes.

As early as next year.

This projection now closely mirrors the revised predictions by South Korea and their intelligence officials as well.

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Mercury.

This is the Glen Beck Program.

Digital Angel, don't be scared.

It's not the mark of the beast.

See, this is what's great

about what Three Square Market is doing up in Wisconsin.

They're planting that little RFID chip in their employees,

and it's great.

You buy stuff in the lunchroom, and

it's definitely

But it's not the mark of the beast.

Definitely not.

Definitely not the mark of the beast.

It's a good slogan.

So I think so too.

People might be concerned about that, but then you immediately remove it when the slogan is that it's not the mark of the beast.

Right, right.

They explain it to you in the commercial angel.

And it's a happy jingle tool, right?

Happy jiggle.

It can't be evil.

Digital angel.

Because if they were the mark of the beast, I'm sure they'd tell you.

Well, they definitely.

They're not going to.

That false advertising.

Exactly.

By the way, have you guys heard?

I saw an interview with Satan, and

he was talking, and it was all going well for him until the interviewer asked this one question.

He went off script?

He went off script asking a question.

He asked, and Satan apparently is leaving the hell business to get into face cream.

What?

Yeah.

I don't even know that.

And Chip and Joanna didn't know anything about it.

Oh, my God.

And

they're getting into face cream.

He's getting into face cream.

Does that mean he's not going to be the purveyor of evil anyway?

No, and Digital Angel in Wisconsin?

Definitely not the market abuse.

So don't worry about any of it.

I got to try some of that face cream.

Everybody's doing it.

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The Texas man is the epitome of grit, devotion, and perseverance.

Oh, boy.

After dropping more than 200 pounds in an effort to recognize his dream of joining the U.S.

Army,

he has just made his dream a reality.

He was just sworn into the military.

Apparently, this began in February 2016.

He weighed 460 pounds.

He said, I looked into the mirror and I decided I'm just tired of being fat.

At 400 pounds?

I know.

I don't even, I haven't broken a sweat on being fat at that point, right?

You're still like, I'm a rookie.

He's a father of four.

He went to a nearby gym.

He worked with a nutritionist, started his stunning transformation.

He said, when I started losing weight, I was 456 pounds in 14 months without surgery or anything else.

Of course.

Wait, when I first started losing weight, I was 460, 456 in 14 months without surgery.

It just said when a journey began, he was 460.

So it took him 14 months

to lose 12 pounds.

That's not possible, right?

To lose four pounds.

Well, when you're 460, probably anything other than going up is an accomplishment.

It must be, I started losing weight.

I was 456.

In 14 months, I was 230.

Yeah, you go.

That must be what it is.

It's poorly written.

He said,

this is why I hate this guy.

All I did was eat right and go to the gym six days a week and become very active.

I knew that's what this was going to be.

Of course.

This was going to be the actual way to wait loose.

I don't want to hear it.

I don't want to hear it.

And he said, change is possible.

Shut up.

Okay,

do you guys remember the

fat guy from the Guinness World Records when we were kids?

He's right there.

Oh, not Jeff.

No, that's another hat.

That hurts.

That hurts.

Remember, does anybody remember his name?

All I remember is him

in the farmer farmer pants,

in the overalls.

In the overall farmer jeans.

Right.

Next to a piano case.

But I remember him next to the piano case, but he was buried in a piano case.

Yeah.

So do you guys remember that?

Is he still the world record fat guy?

I don't think so.

I imagine that.

I had respect for this guy.

I think the guy from Mexico, the Emmanuel or Michael, is the okay.

So

this guy, I mean, he still got up every day and put pants and shoes on.

It's not like our lazy, you know, our lazy fat people today who are just like, I've just been watching the kardashians and now my skin is melded with a couch this guy got up every day what happened to him was he when he was a baby he had whooping cough and it tore out his thyroid

and so he started gaining weight and he ended up being 1048 pounds

that's cheating that's half a ton he didn't he didn't do the work but he couldn't lose the weight and he traveled with the circus for a while um

uh and he was you know the world's fattest man blah blah blah blah blah so I start I started looking this up just a few minutes ago because I'm reading about the fat man you know okay I don't have to be fat anymore all you have to do is exercise shut up

this guy I'm thinking

what what was life like for him and they show pictures of him with people you know yada yada yada and they're talking to his family

I just want you to listen to just just this I'm going to hold this up to the microphone I just want want you to listen.

Now, this is his

son, okay, talking about, you know, when they used to get in the car and go to the circus with dad.

Now, listen to this.

So you had to keep the public awake.

We built this van so people couldn't get to him because

there's lots of, I'd call them smart.

LACA was burning with her cigarette to see whether he was real or not.

I just had to pull that out real quick.

I call them Smart Alex.

Oh, smart Alex.

You know, we used to think that people, you know, that wouldn't have ever happened back in the old days.

I mean, you know, people knew better.

No, they just called them Smart Alex.

And what did he do?

I couldn't.

The Smart Alex would come up.

They had to put their cigarette out on his

see if he was real.

If it said ouch, it was real.

So

we had to go.

We had to go to the carnival, and when we went to the carnival,

we'd have to put him in a special car to keep him away from the crowd because, you know, sometimes, well, I call them smart Alex.

That would be a smart Alec thing to do, I suppose.

Yeah.

I think the guy going, no, no, don't put your cigarette out on me.

So maybe the Greatest Generation wasn't that great.

They just had a higher tolerance.

They were just like, ah, that's just, that's just Billy Bob just being a smart Alec.

I paid to get in here to see the fattest guy in the world.

I want to try my cigarette butt on him.

Right.

Well, remember the Jimmy Stewart movie and it's Wonderful Life.

He crashes, the drunk guy crashes into the tree in front of their house.

Like, oh, you screwed my tree up, darn it.

Like, that was the complaint about the drunk driver that could have killed him.

People were just tolerant.

They were just like, ah, that's Billy.

He just goes around and just crashes into stuff every once in a while.

You know how old that tree is?

That was fun.

No.

So you guys ever watched Game of Thrones?

You guys ever watched Game of Thrones?

No.

No.

Okay.

Have you watched it, Jeff?

A little bit.

I'm not involved in it.

Okay.

It is, I've seen maybe five episodes.

And it is, if that's the way life was, I want to talk to an expert of the Middle Ages.

I want to just know, is that the way life really was?

Because it was.

I don't think there were any.

I mean, just kill yourself.

No, I know the flying dragons.

I got that.

I got it.

I got it.

But it's all like,

you know, hey, we're going for a picnic.

They come back.

Three of the kids are dead.

One's, you know, has a head on their pike.

And it's like, yeah, we lost two of the kids.

One of them fought back pretty good, but the rapist was just too strong for him.

Oh, well, what do we have on the schedule for the rest of the day?

I mean, it's crazy.

I read a book a couple of years ago on Pendillette's recommendation.

I cannot remember the name of it.

And of course, thankfully, I've just been logged out of my Kindle inexplicably when I needed.

And I'll get the name for you, but that's exactly what they describe.

They go through the whole thing and talk about that whole era, about that is just how society was.

It was part of your life to expect at any moment you could be killed, you could die of a terrible disease, you could get trampled by something.

Like that was life.

for basically all of human history until very recently.

And until we finally have hit that point where we've stopped acting like that that to one another, I mean, we've talked about this before in the air, that, you know, as crazy as the world is, you've got friggin ISIS, you've got North Korea, you've got Iran, you've got all this craziness, the deaths that go on from war have decreased immensely.

Yeah, I know.

But I mean,

what's amazing about it is I know about, you know,

so I know governments were like that.

You know what I mean?

You know, the torture chambers were real.

The people are people.

But what kills me is even the friendly people, they're like, there was one scene where

somebody has a dog or something, and they're looking for somebody's house

to help them.

And they're like, why should I help?

I might as well take out my sword and kill y'all now.

And the dog attacks and chews off two of the guys' fingers.

And he gets up and everybody's got their swords.

And he's like.

That dog is pretty great, huh?

And they all start laughing with the guy who's still spurting blood out of his hand.

He's like,

I love you guys.

Like, okay, I don't understand this.

I don't want to live like this.

Please,

can we recognize that human society and civil society is very fragile?

Let's not go back to those days ever, please.

It's the Better Angels of Our Nature is the book, Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker.

It's funny because I'm pretty sure they did a,

I mentioned one time on the air that, hey, you know, violence has gone down in wars and we got a politi fact fact check on it on my claim and so they went through and they actually to prove the claim true actually got the guy who wrote the book that i was quoting to actually say that it was true so to me i've had one fact check from politi fact and it was mostly true wow what has glenn beck done he's got like 9 000 falses and plants on fire yeah well it was clear i light my pants on fire just now just just to remember all those great politi fact checks My pants go on fire when I walk because they rush together and there's been a lot of friction there, which

we do have to bring up the fatness again because we were past it.

Oh, that's right.

I wanted to tell you this, too.

Fattest guy, 1,297 pounds.

Right now?

Until very recently, he lost 385 pounds to get gastric bypass two months ago.

So I don't have any update yet.

I hope he's doing well.

What's his name?

Wait.

So he's just

relinquishing the title.

You're in the world record book.

You got to just keep going at that point.

You got to be like, oh, honey, I don't care.

I will lose weight if I'm two pounds heavier than the other guy.

That's a simple guy from Mexico.

The wife was getting a little upset at him for having to wash him off so much and clean him.

So he was trying to lose some weight for that.

But I mean, first of all, his name is Juan Pedro Franco.

He is from Mexico.

Of course, Jeffy would be up on this particular topic.

But it's funny because he's lost 385 pounds, which would put him just under 1,000, which is basically the fattest person I've ever seen on my 600-pound life so he's lost weight to get to the high pounds i mean that's that's you know the hughes guy that we grew up with with him in the world record book and he was walking around i mean he was doing stuff well he was being carted around from city to city for the cart he could stand

i mean at least for the pictures

uh i mean you're a thousand pounds this guy in mexico Is he still walking around doing something?

Very difficult.

Who is the woman we read about?

He's standing.

He's barely standing.

Walker.

Yeah, I mean, at that time, you're very difficult to move.

Because you haven't moved in a while.

So that's what happens.

You lay down and you become so dormant that you can't move.

So who was the person, remember, that we read about, that was taken out of the side of her house

by the fire.

you know, in the crane,

but she was

her skin had actually fused to the couch?

Well,

there's been several reported stories of those.

Some of those are false.

Do you also remember?

This is in Baltimore, and we talked to the woman who was so fat, she dropped a tuna sandwich in her rolls of fat.

Oh, yeah, and it grew into her skin.

Yeah, and they thought they went and they had to surgically remove the tuna sandwich.

They thought it was a tumor.

They couldn't figure out what it was.

Oh, yeah.

And we actually had her on the air.

Yeah.

It was a, she in between tuna sandwiches.

It could happen to anybody.

She had lost a tuna sandwich and it had just grown in there.

And when they found it, they were like, oh, mom, you've got a nasty tumor.

They went to the doctor.

The doctor's my lunch.

I was wondering where that was.

They cut it out.

They did an analysis and said, good news, you don't have cancer.

You have a tuna salad sandwich.

That's a, you know, it could happen to anyone.

That's embarrassing.

Yeah.

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Welcome to the program.

One story that we haven't gotten to that I think needs more time than

what we have is the

Oregon couple who

have a low IQ

and a child, couple of children.

The state of Oregon just came in and said their IQ is too low and took the children from them.

It's an amazing story.

We'll give this to you tomorrow.

Also, that's got to send chills down your spine, Jeffy.

Wow.

I mean, that would be a shame if they took my children away.

I would hate that.

Seriously, though, how many of these kinds of stories have we heard lately where parents are losing their kids to the state?

Listen to this.

There is no sign of abuse and no neglect that has been found.

But each parent has a degree of limited cognitive abilities.

Does it say what their IQ is?

No, it doesn't.

They lost custody of their older son right after he was born, and five months ago, they took their second child directly from the hospital.

They're both now in foster care.

That is unbelievable.

In that awful?

Yeah.

The case has left the couple and their advocates heartbroken.

Can we see if we can get

to get these parents on the phone?

Get maybe their attorney on the phone?

This is awful.

It sure is.

I mean, what right?

I mean, you want to talk about progressive nightmares.

This is exactly what was going on at the turn of the century.

You're too stupid to have kids.

Defectives.

Yeah.

Got to take you away from you.

Yeah, got to take you away from your stupid parents.

Yeah.

Got to sterilize them.

Yeah, and they wanted to stop more stupid people.

What was it?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was a Supreme Court justice, said three generations of imbeciles is enough.

Yeah.

We let this

poor child's mother and her grandmother

procreate, and three generations of imbeciles in this family is enough.

Wow.

That's a Supreme Court justice.

What's the difference here?

They're just not sterilizing them.

Right.

But they have children.

No neglect, no abuse.

The wife or the mother has been around preschool and worked at preschools her whole life, been around kids, loves kids, and they take them away.

This is heartbreaking.

Heartbreaking.

We'll check that out in full tomorrow.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury.