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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

A lot of things going on.

By the way, yesterday, an update, we were talking about Tom Hanks

and the possibility of Tom Hanks running for president.

And we get off the air yesterday and we find that Tom Hanks has sent a new espresso machine to the White House press corps.

And he wrote

yeah, really nice of him.

And he wrote a note and he said, keep up the good fight for the truth, justice, and the American way, especially the truth part, Tom Hanks.

To me, that's not a move of an actor.

Maybe it's just me.

I mean, one of the theories, too, about Trump and his success throughout the campaign was that here's a guy who's been in everybody's living room once a week, being in control of every business situation and making every correct decision.

And people watch The Apprentice and they believe he was that guy.

If that's true, and that is part of the reason Trump won, imagine what it would be for Tom Hanks.

The guy's just been rescuing people, surviving amazing things, being the good guy in every situation.

We were talking yesterday, I think on Patton Stew, about the idea of

what roles has he been in where he was the bad guy.

And you're like, you run through him, and it's like, someone brought up Road to Perdition, which I sort of remember as being a decent movie, but he was.

Yeah, but nobody saw it, and nobody right, but that's but that's it, right?

Every one of his big movies.

He's a good guy.

He's the hero.

He's the guy on what you're doing.

He saved everybody on Apollo 13.

Sully.

He was sully.

He was sully.

I mean, this guy, if he decided to run,

he could make a big dent.

But he's got to weigh, as we talked about yesterday, he's got to weigh, you go, you run, you lose,

you're no longer that guy.

No, it's

over.

It's over.

You are now the political guy, and nobody will ever see you as anything else.

So it's the end of his career or the beginning of a new career for him

should he decide to do that.

But I thought the espresso machine, I thought we should bring that up.

I thought that was really interesting.

It's an interesting move.

I mean, if you're just an actor, why are you sending the White House press corps?

Yeah.

I thought that was really interesting.

Just being nice.

Just likes it.

And look, he enjoys the message.

I mean, I agree with him.

They should keep up the fight for the truth.

I wish he would have sent the espresso machine eight years ago.

Yeah, exactly.

It would have been nice eight years ago, but apparently not.

Apparently, now is the time the truth matters.

It is amazing.

I mean, I kind of

hit you with this right before we went on the air.

This is terrifying.

But what percentage of Republicans would say freedom of news or organizations to criticize leaders is very important to democracy?

I mean, might.

100%.

100% is the right number, right?

Of course.

I mean, our founders, of course,

they put freedom of the press in there for a reason.

And number one.

Number one.

That's a big deal.

Freedom of press.

What percentage, let me just make sure you understand.

What percentage of Republicans say freedom of the press to

question

leaders

is important.

That should be 100%.

100%.

You know, in every poll, there's a few people who either jokingly or otherwise pull the lever the other way.

So maybe it's 95, 98, 97.

Right.

That's what it probably should be.

The actual number from Pew of Republicans that say freedom of news organizations to criticize leaders is very important to democracy.

49%.

Now,

this is crazy because you could have taken taken that poll eight, nine months ago, a year ago.

And it would have been where it should be.

It would have been 100%.

It would have been everybody saying, oh, you have to question the president.

Now, they don't want the questioning of the president.

We have to be tethered to principles or we lose our constitution.

But I mean, you know, and you're right.

They took it during the heat of the campaign when Trump was being beat up a lot then, and it was very similar numbers.

If you go back to 2000, you know, let's go back to 2010, 2012, it would be almost 100%.

I mean 100% is a little bit of exaggeration.

I mean even Democrats now is only 76%.

How is that possible?

How is that possible?

I mean, of course it's very important.

Of course it is.

You have to have freedom.

Freedom is freedom of the press.

Here is the problem.

If you look at the

set of, what are those five pillars that we've been talking about?

The

moral foundation.

Yeah, the moral foundation theory.

You look at the moral foundation theory, and one of the moral foundations that is very high with Republicans and conservatives is loyalty.

And you're seeing that played out there.

I can guarantee you in 2012, that number was at least 75%.

And you're seeing that drop down to 49 because of loyalty.

We feel, conservatives feel an extra pull to loyalty, and it's a good trait.

Sometimes it can be applied in the wrong way, but we feel this, we got to be loyal, loyal to the country, loyal to the president, loyal to the party, loyal to our guy, where instead we should be finding our loyalty on the principles.

of the Constitution and the free press.

Then, once you have the loyalty to the free press, then you have the credibility to go to the press and say, we believe that in the free press, but you're doing it wrong.

You're applying it selectively.

We lose because we also apply things selectively.

You can't be the person that stands for the Constitution, that stands for freedom of speech, stands for the right to protest, stands for the right for your church to say what it wants, but then come back with 49%

and say, well, you can't question this leader.

You have to be consistent.

Your loyalty must be towards the principle and not to the party, not to the person,

and not even to

Congress or the White House.

I would hope

that we wouldn't be loyal to a president

And I'm guessing it will be a progressive that will do this again, and it will happen again whether whether it's in our lifetime or not, I don't know.

But we wouldn't be loyal to a president or a party who said, let's go scoop up all of the Americans and put them in, or Germans and put them in internment camps.

That happened under Woodrow Wilson.

Let's go scoop up all of the Japanese and put them in internment camps.

That happened under FDR.

And because people were afraid and loyal to those presidents,

they violated the Constitution Constitution of the United States we can't do that we have to find our loyalty in the principles

that's a terrifying number I mean less than half the I mean a lot of it is just you know tribal and you're right loyalty and but a lot of items but a lot of it also is

they suck

They have so violated, and so we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Right.

They're saying, you know, I don't like the way the media is criticizing my leader.

And so they're pushing back against it.

And they have reason to think.

It's legitimate.

I mean, it's totally legitimate.

I mean, they don't, that number would not be that way if the press would come out and do a mea culpa and say, you know, we've really done some soul searching.

Because it's not hard.

You can do the research and find out what people think about you.

You just have to be man enough to say, okay,

right or wrong, that is the perception and perception is reality.

So, what are we going to do to ensure that we don't do that anymore or don't appear that way anymore?

And if they would come out and do a front-page editorial in the New York Times and say, you know, we've done some research and then we did our soul searching, and America is right.

America is right.

We have appeared to be soft on one side and extra hard on the other.

And then we are going to correct that by hiring more people that have a different point of view or doing it right down the middle.

I mean, I know large companies right now that are looking at how do we just tell the facts?

You know, there's in Silicon Valley, they're starting to do

working on something called like a truth Wikipedia to where a story comes out and

you can go in and add the truth to it to make sure that that story is exactly right.

Now I don't know how that works because Wikipedia is very skewed.

Yeah, though, I mean it does it does a pretty good job.

Pretty close.

Yeah.

Pretty close.

Now, do you technically have to have a soul to do soul searching?

Because that could be an issue here.

Yes, that is

actually a problem there.

But I mean, we said, you know, when you

are trying to say Donald Trump is this terrifying person, and what you do is spend multiple days hyperventilating about Kellyanne Conway

is kneeling on a couch.

It's difficult for anybody to take you seriously.

Especially since you have the other picture.

Yeah, there's a zillion pictures of Donald Trump of Barack Obama doing things like that.

No, no, no, but wait.

It's not only that.

The reason why she was kneeling on the couch.

It's because she was taking the picture.

She was taking the picture.

And there is a picture of her kneeling on the couch.

It makes total sense.

It sure does.

What was she looking at?

I've actually heard press people say, what was she looking at?

What was she viewing the picture?

She was so bored.

That's exactly right.

They were all lined up for a picture that she took.

She positioned herself on the couch like that to take it.

And then the press, they know they have the other.

That's darn right they know.

That's the problem.

I mean, I just really want to know what was going on there because I mean, I won't tell anybody.

And you can just explain to me that that circumstance because she really looked kind of familiar there in that position there.

Oh, my God.

But, you know, I don't want you to refer back to the 90s.

By the way, that wasn't me saying that.

That was a Democratic congressman.

talking about Kellyanne Conway saying, quote,

she really looked kind of familiar in that position there on her knees on the couch in the Oval Life.

Again,

a maya culpa from the press saying, we get it, and because we get it, we're going to hold that Democrat as responsible for that misogynistic kind of talk as we would hold any Republican.

Yeah, and I mean, this is less of a story than Kellyanne Conway actually being on her knees on the couch.

Yes.

They are making this, which is an elected official saying basically she likes to be on her knees in a sexual manner to a woman who

for no reason.

She didn't do anything to him.

Just a picture of her on her knees in the Oval Office.

And she was on her knees in the Oval Office to take a picture.

That's why she was on her knees.

And they have the photograph of her taking the picture.

Cedric Richmond, by the way.

Democrat Louisiana.

Deserves his name to be out there.

Unbelievable.

But that one, I mean, that will be a blip, if it's a blip,

on the news today.

And that's why

Blood influences his polls.

That's right.

That's right.

And nobody's calling that a war on women.

Nobody's saying that about that.

Can you imagine that?

That congressman, if that was said by a Republican, they would have been run out of office.

They would not, that would be the only story today.

Definitely.

How dare you say that about a woman?

But see, it's also not the press's fault

entirely

because a lot of that stuff is driven by like the National Organization of Women.

The National Organization of Women would have been all over that because they're a political machine.

And so the National Organization of Women pushed that story so it's reported once.

Then the National Organization puts out a bunch of press releases and has calls all the reporters and say, we're outraged by this.

And so then the coverage comes from, hey, there's more dust up about the Kelly and Conway comment from Cedric.

And here's what the National Organization of Women said.

So part of it is that they have a machine that we don't have.

I mean, when Hillary Clinton said, imagine this, imagine this.

Remember, we were people who were trying to disrupt and stop the government.

Just disrupt.

We were the party of no.

That's all that we were.

If I heard that from one liberal friend, I heard that from every liberal friend.

You guys are just becoming the party of no with the Tea Party.

No, we're not.

We're not.

We're saying no to things that are unconstitutional, but we do have our own ideas.

They're now touting.

that they are going to be the party of no.

And nobody seems to have a problem with that.

Not a story.

And not a story.

On top of that, Hillary Clinton saying disruption

is the Democratic Party at its best is terrifying.

It's terrifying.

It's absolutely true,

but terrifying.

That, again, is why the press covers these stories, because she's right.

The Democratic Party at disruption is at its best, throwing tire irons, just throwing accusations, getting the machine all wound up to stop somebody is what they do best.

It's not what we do.

At least it's not what we do well.

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How much are those spines that you see in like chiropractors' offices?

Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks sent an espresso machine to the White House Press Corps.

I'd like to send him a box of spines.

Great.

That'd be great.

Great.

Yeah, and people are noting that he has actually sent them in the past first in the bush administration uh then in obama and he did do it in obama yeah 2010.

i guess every time the the last one breaks he sends a new one which is kind of cool i mean that's cool you know it's uh so it does uh not not a partisan situation apparently does he even know that the coffee machine breaks he's tom hanks he knows everything

Yeah, well, he did know how to fix Apollo 13.

That's true.

Yeah.

And he's an actor.

He's not even an astronaut in real life.

Yeah.

But he still was able to fix it.

He still was able to fix Apollo 13.

People don't know that.

He built a raft and floated in the ocean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He knows when the Express is.

It took balls, too, to do that.

Just get out on that raft with Wilson.

I felt so bad when he lost Wilson, but he apparently has recovered and is now buying a espresso machines.

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Can I ask,

are the Republicans, are we going to hear a Republican say you're going to to have to find out what's in it after we pass it?

We have to pass it to find out what's in it.

We're going to poll vault.

What they're doing with Obamacare is exactly what we complained about with the Democrats.

They're not being transparent.

Rand Paul yesterday, we have the audio.

This is audio.

This is

him, another thing he's doing about.

Do you have this pan at

Rand Paul will not support Ryan's Obamacare plan?

He went on a Twitter rant

yesterday saying, where's the transparency?

Well, because he wants to basically try to find this information.

He'd want to go find the bill and read it, which is seemingly a logical thing for a senator to do, considering he's eventually going to have to vote on it.

Right.

And went to go find it, and they would not let him in the room.

He apparently brought his own photocopier to try to kick off me.

I mean, he's I will say he's playing it up a little bit.

Good.

Good, Good.

Bring attention to it.

And

I don't know why this wouldn't be a little bit more transparent, especially when Republicans have control of all three branches here.

I mean, there's no reason, you know, let's push some.

This is your time to get something really conservative through.

You think in the future that there will be progressive control over or Democrat control over one or more of these branches.

They're going to erode whatever you do now.

So you better go as far as you can now because they're going to erode it and erode it and erode it as they've been doing for a century.

The repeal needs to be complete repeal because if you do partial repeal, I think the situation gets worse.

I think the insurance companies may well go bankrupt under partial repeal.

Okay, if you get agreement on repeal outright, will you compromise on the details of its replacement?

The replacement has always been open to discussion.

What I did is I took together the market replacement, not big government replacement.

So Paul Ryan's idea that he's going to give everybody a check in the country for their health insurance, whether they pay taxes or not, he's going to give them more money than they pay in their taxes, is an entitlement program.

It's a subsidy by another name.

It's Obamacare with a Republican tax credit name attached to it.

Yep.

Where did the Republicans go?

I don't know.

Why is this happening?

It's like when Trump was elected,

Republicans turned into Democrats.

It's really a weird phenomenon.

And like all the supporters are just okay with every single liberal and progressive policy that this guy promotes or the Congress promotes.

It was weird to have the Drudge Report report that Dreamers,

the Dreamers Act, which was like, wasn't that like a hot poker in the eye?

The reason Marco Rubio probably didn't win the nomination because that was what they beat along the way from the bottom.

And Donald Trump was saying, you know, you're for the DREAM Act and you're for the Dreamers and

everybody, every when he would say no everybody would go all over him that was a Trump supporter now the drudge report said

Donald Trump compromises the dreamers dream under Trump he's accepting and not doing anything about the DREAM Act and when I posted something and I just said honest question

If you voted for Donald Trump, because I was remembering people saying that he'd never do that.

Honest question.

If you voted, do you, how do you feel about that?

Oh my gosh, of course I was the devil for even asking the question.

But the answer was, well, we knew he was going to do that anyway.

What?

For nine months.

For nine months, you yelled at me when I said he would do that and you told me he wouldn't do that.

Hello.

Now we have Obamacare.

We want a repeal of Obamacare.

They're not going to repeal it.

They're going to replace it with another kind of Obamacare.

Where were we marching for that?

I don't remember those signs saying we want a different kind of Obamacare.

I remember us marching saying it's unconstitutional.

I don't understand it.

I really, this is an honest plea.

I don't understand.

Help me understand.

Well, I mean, the easiest explanation is that the policy is not important to a lot of people.

I mean, to many people in this audience, it is, but a lot of, you know, generally speaking, it is just not a part of this process.

The problem is, is that

Trump has hijacked the party.

Okay.

That's something that a lot of people want.

And to be fair on this, before we go on, Trump has not done the illegal immigration thing yet.

They have hinted towards it.

I'm getting that from the Drudge Report.

I'm not getting that from the left.

Right.

I'm getting that from the Drudge Report, which is all Trump, all positive news all the time.

And the health care bill, there's been a lot leaked.

There's been a lot talked about.

However, Rand Paul hasn't even seen the bill yet.

So we don't know what it is.

However,

we know Paul Ryan and these guys, many of them are progressives.

And we told you this under Obamacare.

They did this under Bush.

With prescription drugs.

They want the big government systems because it gives them power.

We don't want the government systems.

We don't want the government bailouts.

We don't want the subsidies.

The Constitution doesn't allow for those things.

And that's what we marched for.

Now, I'm not blaming this one on Trump.

I'm blaming this one on the GOP.

The GOP was supposed to be hijacked by Donald Trump.

I'm not sure it was hijacked by Donald Trump.

I think it was co-opted.

One has co-opted the other.

And

we're looking at a big, progressive medical system.

And it will, if you don't repeal all of it, it will collapse the insurance companies.

And when the insurance companies collapse, then you only have the choice of a single-payer system.

That was the plan under Obama that we all talked about, called conspiracy theorist for it.

He wanted a single payer system.

So what do you do?

You design a crappy replacement that is designed to collapse.

When it collapses, they say, see, this hybrid doesn't work.

Didn't go far enough.

Didn't go far enough.

And that's what they do.

So we will repeal

and replace with a hybrid that's even weaker than this one,

or we won't do anything about it.

Either one of those leads to a collapse and a democratically controlled Congress and probably White House, and then what?

You're going to get a single-payer system.

I get frustrated by these same things,

clearly.

And I think when you say this is what we marched for, you're right, technically, because you're talking to us and you're talking to this audience.

Yes.

However, this audience of 10 million is large, but it's not the whole country.

And I think what the truth is, is that most people were marching not because they cared about this healthcare policy.

They were marching because they didn't like losing.

And their team kept losing, they felt.

And now

the process to get there now that they're winning, they're happy to cheer on their guy because they feel like they're winning.

And like, I am happy to cheer on, by the way, Donald Trump when he picks Neil Gorsuch.

And I am happy to pick it when he passes tax reform.

I'm going to cheer him on all of these things.

So there's a lot of cheering to do.

And many of these things are going to be a lot of fun.

There's been a lot of cheering this week.

Yeah, there's been a lot of positive things to see.

And I don't blame this one on Donald Trump.

Yeah, no, it's not.

I blame this one on the GOP.

The criticism here is not on Donald Trump.

It's on a lack of engagement.

You know, the fact that you see, you know,

we've done all of these polls.

The approval rating for Russia among Republicans goes from 8% to 40%.

For what reason has Russia been just this collection of just such amazing guys over the past year?

Oh, I don't know.

Boris and Natasha took us out to dinner.

They're fantastic.

They're fantastic.

We see it with the media.

We see it with all of these things.

And it's so tribal.

And it's so much about my team needs to win.

Who cares about the process?

It's only people who sit around listening to talk radio and studying these things 15, 20, 25 hours a week that wind up caring about the details of these policies.

And it's, you know, what it's very interesting to me

because

it is the same thing that's happening on the Democratic side.

The Democrats, they should be loving all of this stuff.

They should be loving all of this.

And they're not.

They've whipped themselves into a lather.

Do you have the BBC

lady?

Listen to this lady describing and telling the liberal

or progressive America to sit down and relax about Donald Trump.

Listen to this.

Stop the hysteria hysteria around Trump.

The fear and fury that has followed Trump's election obscures an understanding of what is happening.

Too much sounds like childish name-calling.

The rest like a condemnation of democracy.

Too much misses what is unexceptional about his words and his deeds.

Plenty of presidents before Trump behaved with impunity.

Who lied to the public?

Nixon and Clinton.

Who declared a war without congressional approval?

Truman.

Bush declared an open-ended national emergency.

Obama continued it.

Trump is obnoxious.

He lacks statesmanship.

But the elegant statesman Obama deported more illegal aliens than any other president.

This isn't to engage in what a battery,

more to illustrate the limited critical response to past presidents in contrast to the frenzied response to Donald Trump.

Amid all the outrage, we misunderstand that Trump's win was a reaction against playing the game.

He appeals to ignored millions sick of stage-managed politics.

He is the product of profound changes in politics and the economy.

Progressives should expend their energies on tackling serious social problems rather than screaming abuse at Trump and his voters.

Trump was elected in a mature democracy with a free press, the rule of law and an independent judiciary.

It is a far cry from 1933.

We need to stop panicking and regain historical perspective.

That way Trump's decisions can be subject to democratic debate and we can find ways to repair the fault lines in our societies.

I mean, how fantastic.

That's from the BBC.

Again,

England, the reporting in England, always giving us better perspective than we have here.

It happened under Obama, and I think it's happening in some degree under Trump.

They were the only ones that were actually asking tough questions.

It was the foreign press that asked the questions of Obama.

It's the foreign press here that says

he sent back home more illegal aliens than any other president.

If you ask that question of any American, which president sent more illegal aliens home in the last 20 years, let alone any other president.

It would have said Bush.

Would have said Bush.

It was Obama.

It's not a bad thing, by the way.

No,

did you even know that, though?

No, I mean,

I know that they claimed that.

I'm not sure.

I I didn't believe it.

There's some, and I'm trying to remember what it was, but there's some distinction with his deportation numbers that makes it a little bit different.

But still.

Still, you would think that he was not sending anyone home.

Right.

And

why do we not know that?

We don't know that because

the left didn't like that.

So let's keep that quiet.

I'm not saying that the press kept that quiet.

The press may not have reported on it, or I mean, they may have reported on it, but we didn't believe it because it was so opposite of what the left wanted.

And when you have La Raza not kicking up a storm and saying this president is doing this to illegal immigrants, you just assume it's not happening.

But why didn't La Raza do it?

Because La Raza was happy it was their side doing it.

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Rand Paul, I got to give you a clip of another speech.

Rand Paul gave a speech a couple weeks ago on the budget that is way out of control from the GOP.

Here's what he said.

Listen.

The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same.

Republicans won the White House.

Republicans control the Senate.

Republicans control the House.

And what will the first order of business be for the new Republican majority?

To pass a budget that never balances.

To pass a budget that will add $9.7 trillion

of new debt over 10 years.

Oh, my God.

Is that really what we campaigned on?

Is that really what the Republican Party represents?

Our first order of business will be a budget that never balances a budget that adds 9.7 trillion dollars to the debt and they tell us oh but it's not a budget

yeah he goes on to explain it's not a budget these numbers don't matter is what people keep telling him he's like well if they don't matter why don't we make the budget good

let's just put out something that we actually want to happen where where was that guy during the election well maybe we weren't listening to him i don't know but thank goodness for massey and a few people in the house, the Freedom Caucus and

Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz.

Keep pushing.

Keep pushing.

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Jeff Sessions

has recused himself from the investigation into Russia.

There's more on that.

Pepsi is going to lay off about 100 people in Philadelphia.

Why?

Because of the soda tax.

I can say this now because Stu is not in the room.

Who would have seen that one coming?

Who would have seen that one coming?

Colin Kaepernick is reportedly going to stand for the national anthem all next season.

Too late, Colin.

We'll give you that here in just a second.

And the GOP, accused of playing

hide-and-seek with the Obamacare Repeal Act, we are going to have Representative Massey from the Freedom Caucus on in just a few minutes.

We begin there right now.

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Hello, America.

Got a lot to talk about.

I want to talk to you about this amazing video that came out of a Tesla self-driving car that I think think saved at least one life on the freeway.

It's an amazing video and shows you,

A, that the technology is not ready to self-drive.

They say you got to keep your hands on the wheel.

Yeah, it's not ready to self-drive and just

watch a movie.

This guy's like dead asleep at the wheel.

But instead of a massive pileup on the highway, This the car runs into the pile, you know, the, what are those called?

Pycrete pylons?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And hits that concrete pylon, but it just adjusts.

It doesn't overreact and spin out.

It doesn't go into the next lane.

It just adjusts, comes out, and then slowly, safely stops.

While it puts on the emergency flashers.

Right.

Immediately puts on the emergency flashers.

The guy in the next lane who would have been dead would have been dead.

I think if the person was driving, he would have been dead.

They didn't even swerve.

It didn't even come out of his lane.

I mean, it's...

It didn't come out of his lane.

It's amazing what is happening.

And I would say it's being promoted more of like a negative, right?

Like, look, a Tesla crashed.

Yes.

Oh, no.

It is.

And Tesla,

if you've seen the construction going on in the Dallas area, you would know that.

Did this happen here in Dallas?

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, so it doesn't make sense.

The lane changes.

I mean, the Tesla is going along fine, and then all of a sudden there's no lane there.

There's a concrete barrier.

And so it was supposed to merge over, but it didn't because it's not ready for that yet.

So it's slammed into the, it sideswiped the concrete.

And it's, it's really, it's really, truly amazing.

It's going to change everything.

We have to talk about that sometime in today's show.

Yeah.

Oh, we have Congressman Massey on the phone now.

Thought we were going to, um, I thought he was going to be on a little later.

Let's grab him while we can.

Um, Congressman Massey is

traveling.

He is one of the good guys in Congress, Freedom Caucus,

and

can tell us maybe what the heck is happening

with

Obamacare and this mysterious bill?

Congressman, welcome.

Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

Sure.

Let me tell you what the problem is.

It's not that this is going to cost us an election because we all got elected running on repealing Obamacare.

The problem is it's going to cost a lot of people money in Washington, D.C.

because the insurance lobbies have given so much money.

In fact, the committees that are playing hide and seek with this bill right now, they're the committees that receive the most money from the health insurance lobby.

How interesting.

So are you saying, Congressman, that it's the insurance companies that want Obamacare to remain?

Absolutely.

I discovered this three years ago.

For instance, John Boehner came into a private meeting with us once.

We were out in the news, and some of us may have even been on your show talking about getting rid of these risk corridors.

Wouldn't that be a great vote to make the Democrats vote for a corporate bailout, like put the risk corridors back up for a vote in Congress.

John Boehner came into the meeting and said, shut it up, shut it down.

I've got the insurance companies breathing down my neck.

I don't want the heat, so just quit talking about that, taking that vote.

We're not going to take it.

So

they probably don't want to lose the mandate that you must have their product or pay a fine.

Yeah.

That's right.

And think about what's happened here in Kentucky with the Medicaid expansion.

See, for a while, I couldn't figure this out.

I thought, why would the private health insurance companies go along with the deal that took their customers away and put them into Medicaid?

But then I found out when you sign up for Medicaid in Kentucky, you pick either Blue Cross and Blue Shield or Humana because they run the Medicaid.

They got the best.

That's fascinating.

Wow.

So you're not real popular with Humana there in Kentucky.

Yeah, well, I've got so many enemies going on.

I know.

So,

so what, yeah, us two?

You're talking to least popular people this time.

You think you're not popular.

Try us on.

The

GOP,

do they understand

that

by

repealing pieces of this, it's going to

hasten the collapse of the system?

I don't know if they understand.

You know what I realized is facts oftentimes don't matter very much in Washington, D.C.

because these politicians are under different constraints, money raising constraints and whatnot.

So what do you think?

What are we going to come out with?

What is it that you believe is in this bill that they, I mean, I can't believe they might as well say, they might as well put Nancy Pelosi out as the spokesperson.

You have to pass the bill to see what's in it.

And that's what I've been saying that it sounds like.

Look, they've got a euphemism for their new entitlement program.

It's called monthly refundable tax credits.

What is a monthly refundable tax credit?

It's a cash payment every month.

I mean, basically, what we've done is we've conceded to the Liberals and the Democrats, if we pass this bill, that every American deserves or is entitled to a subsidy.

There's your basic minimum income.

There's your universal basic income.

Yes.

It's a refundable monthly tax credit.

I've never heard of such a thing.

What kind of expense does it take to start something up that is giving people a monthly stipend?

Well, that's why it goes into the Ways and Means Committee and away from the Energy and Commerce Committee because it's going to take one hell of

a tax reform to pay for this.

Look, here's what I would do, Glenn.

You know, Rand Paul's got a bill out there, and if you go through the elements of his bill,

most of the elements have 80% report, or sorry, support.

And so let's put them one at a time on the floor for a vote in the House and the Senate.

For instance, should you be able to buy health insurance across state lines?

Put that on the floor.

Just standalone.

You know, if we got gummed up repealing Obamacare, let's put that on the floor next week, see who will vote for it, and make the Democrats vote against that.

Or, you know, the health insurance companies have an exemption from the antitrust laws.

The doctors don't.

The hospitals don't, but the health insurance companies do.

Take away their antitrust exemption.

Put that on the floor.

See if Democrats will vote for it.

You know, how about tax deductibility?

If you're a farmer here in Kentucky and you have to buy your health insurance, why shouldn't you be able to deduct it?

So, Congressman Numassey from Kentucky, the Freedom Caucus, and one of the good guys that are standing up,

what does the average American do?

And are you hearing any outrage from your constituents?

It seems that a lot of people that were part of the Tea Party are just falling into lockstep and saying this is okay.

I think the outrage is coming.

I mean, this is why they've kept it under wraps.

It's hard to attack something that doesn't exist.

But when they roll this sucker out, I think you're going to see a backlash.

Who's going to be the backlash?

Going to be the Democrats or the Republicans?

The Republicans.

The Democrats, by the way, with this indivisible and whatnot, they're so wound up they don't even know what they're mad about.

They're just protesting whatever they can protest.

But the backlash is going to be from the people who voted for Donald Trump for a change.

For instance, by the way, Glenn, I was the only Republican this time to vote against Paul Ryan for Speaker.

So,

you know, and I tweeted when I did that, I said, Americans vote for change and Congress votes for Paul Ryan.

Unbelievable.

So that's the dichotomy you've got going on here.

You voted against the spending bill, did you not?

Yes, I did vote against $9.7 trillion.

They said the numbers didn't matter.

They were imaginary.

And I said, well, why don't we imagine numbers that balanced in?

That's great.

Oh, that's great.

Gosh.

Wow, that sounds like Democrats.

The numbers don't matter.

They're imaginary.

The trillion,

the president gave his speech this week, which was widely liked.

I mean, I thought the tone was spot-on.

I really liked the tone of it.

But there were a few things things in there that, I mean, my eyes were bleeding.

One of them was a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending.

Yeah, I listened to that and I parsed it very carefully.

He didn't say that the federal government would spend a trillion dollars.

The wording was very careful, and he was reading it off the teleprompter, something to the effect that it would cause to be spent a trillion dollars on infrastructure.

But let me tell you where he was.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Sorry.

How does the federal government cause the private sector to spend a trillion dollars?

Yeah, I think maybe through public-private partnerships, which by the way, I'm not always a big fan of.

Sometimes that's a euphemism for cronyism.

But

let me tell you where you could find $100 billion.

Because there's a guy who's been in Washington, D.C., trying to get anybody to listen to him, and nobody will except a few of us.

We've spent $100 billion rebuilding Afghanistan.

And when somebody says, oh, there's not much money in foreign aid, it's such a small percent of the budget, they've taken this money for Afghanistan and put it in a different light item than foreign aid.

It's so huge.

And we're on the hook for another $10 billion in Afghanistan.

This is not military spending.

This is infrastructure spending in Afghanistan.

And to prop up their government,

if you brought that back home, that would be another $100 billion over the next 10 years.

Talking to Congressman Thomas Massey.

Congressman, one of the things we keep not hearing about is the tax reform.

We keep hearing about Obamacare.

We keep hearing about a lot of these other big

maternity leave and all these other programs.

We don't hear that much about tax reform.

Where does that stand and what are we going to get out of it?

Again, when we go into the meetings, it's sort of a hand-wavy thing.

There's not a particular bill that we can talk about right now because it hasn't come out.

I hope we do get tax reform.

What we need desperately is to simplify the tax code and i told people when i campaigned i said my wife and i graduated from mit and we can't do our own taxes there's something wrong with the tax code

that does seem problematic yeah

it's a problem it's a problem what about the barney frank tax or a banking reform not frank yeah and uh sarbane oxley um

you know the the stock market is priced in that that's all going to be repealed Is that going to happen?

You know what?

If I give you one glimmer of hope, it would be in repealing regulations

like that, because I think Trump's agenda overlaps with Paul Ryan's agenda and conservative agenda in the form of repealing regulations.

And we've been doing a lot with the Congressional Review Act, but we can do so much more.

They're thinking too small in Congress.

We can defund all of these regulations.

You can name the chapter and verse of the regulation you want to defund, and you just put that in the appropriations bill.

And it doesn't defund it permanently.

It will only defund it for that year.

And so presumably we would have four years of reprieve.

But it's still, I mean, you can go after every regulation.

See, here's the 60 votes.

Here's the problem with that, Congressman.

You know,

I'm concerned that we're not doing these things the right way.

So four years or eight years down the road, the Democrats take control and it all comes roaring back.

We have to get off of this seesaw.

Yes.

How do we do that?

Is anybody thinking about that?

We haven't even moved beyond the pen and phone stage of the results of this last election.

I mean, we do need to get to work in Congress.

That's part of what's happening with the Congressional Review Act.

I do have to give credit to the leadership, the Republican leadership, for using the Congressional Review Act.

For instance, we just undid a rule that prevented four million Social Security recipients from owning a gun.

Obama just threw them all into the NICS database and said, if somebody else collects your check for you because you're not competent enough to manage your own funds, then we're going to decide you're too

unstable to own a gun.

And so he basically, with his pen and his phone, prevented 4 million people from owning a gun.

And we got that repealed with the Congressional Review Act.

And it's gone forever.

They can't pass the rule again.

That's the way the Congressional Review Act works.

Once you blow it up, it's blown up until it has to go through Congress.

Real quick, because I'm out of time, but can you tell me where do you stand on Jeff Sessions?

I support him 100%.

I mean, this is a crazy witch hunt, in my opinion, going after the Russians.

It sounds like McCarthyism.

I met with Russians three weeks ago.

Does that make me

complicit or some kind of subversive?

Right, right.

And I believe the ambassador that they were talking about was in the Senate chamber or the House chamber during the State of the Union.

Nobody will admit who invited him,

but apparently he was in the crowd that night.

You know, we have to vote on foreign policy issues and whether to go to war or not in Congress.

And this is part of our job to talk to other countries.

Yeah, right.

Congressman Massey, thank you so much.

Thanks for making time this morning for us.

I appreciate it.

Thank you, Clint.

Congressman Thomas Massey from Kentucky, Louis Gomer, is going to be joining us in a little while as well.

And our Texas independence final of the series coming up in just a second.

Why are people moving to Texas?

You'll understand in just about 10 minutes.

Now, this, what do you hold most dear, and how do you protect those items?

Now, I'm talking about items.

I'm not talking about people.

In case of a disaster, what happens to your marriage certificate?

What happens to all of your pictures?

What happens to all of your valuables?

Mine are in my Liberty Safe.

Well, now you've blown the.

That's where mine are.

All right, so, Stu,

let me do this with you.

There are no money.

So, what happens to all of your pictures?

Nothing happens to all of you because I put them in.

I got it.

I got it.

Put them in my Liberty Safe.

What happens

with you, Stu?

I don't have any valuables, sadly.

Okay, that's just shut up.

What happens to you, Jeffy?

I think with my Liberty Safe, Glenn.

He's got the fat boy.

I have the fat boy.

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I was talking to a guy who

called the Asian contagion back in the 90s, then called in 2006, the bubble of eight,

and asked him, you know, how do you feel about what's happening now?

Tell me about the stock market.

And he said, it's way overpriced.

And I said, I'm talking to stockbrokers and they say it's, and he said, of course they're saying that.

He said, but every good thing that could possibly happen with donald trump has been baked in a big tax cut a repeal of sarbane oxley i noticed congressman massey just blew by the sarbanes oxley it's actually

it's a really big deal you repeal that

You repeal that, and money is available now through financial institutions that they're spending on regulation.

However, everybody has already baked that in.

Every corporation, everybody has baked in all of these things happening.

So if they don't, if one of them, if the tax cut isn't as big as

thought, or the stock rates will come down,

they start to not do some of these things, then

all those,

that stock, that jump from what, 17 to 21 goes away.

Right.

And there's no reason for them not to do these things.

They've got the power.

They've got the numbers.

Oh, my gosh.

Get it done.

How many times do we have to go through this?

And we always make the same excuse.

We did it under George W.

Bush.

Yeah.

Well, now, wait a minute.

We don't have to.

I don't want to steamroll the minority.

Look what they did.

So they don't want it.

Look what they did.

Steamrolled the minority.

It is March 3rd, however.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, we're only, what, six weeks into this?

I have very little confidence in the Republicans in Congress and the Senate.

Let's see them go to work.

Do it.

See them go to work.

Do it.

Back in just a second.

Texas history, final chapter.

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There were two men.

that made an enormous impact in the history of the Republic and the state of Texas in just the very short time that they each had there.

The men Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie.

Davy Crockett was born in 1796.

He was hardworking and an adventurous kid from an early age.

He was just about 12 years old when his father indentured him out to Jacob Seiler to help pay huge debts that his father had built up.

Seiler took young Davy on a 400-mile cattle drive to Virginia.

When he finished, the 12-year-old Davy made his way all the way back home on his own.

Upon his return, his father enrolled him in school where he got into a fight with another student and he skipped school the next day.

And when his father found out, he set out to whip Davey.

But Davey outran his father and just kept going, joining another cattle drive.

He would find work on various cattle drives and as a ranch hand out on his own over the next four years.

At 16, he wondered if dad had finally put the belt away.

He returned home to Tennessee.

When Davy got back to the tavern,

it was nighttime and the evening meal was being served to the herders and teamsters.

He moved unannounced into the tavern and sat down amidst the other men.

I had been gone so long and had grown so much that the family did not at first know me.

And another and perhaps a stronger reason was they had no thought or expectation of me, for they had all long given me up for finally lost

davy crockett

so he got inside a tavern sat amongst the other travelers at the same table with the family finally one of his sisters looked at him recognized his features and discovered she had just found her long-lost brother david After staying to work off more of his father's debts for two other debtors, Crockett set out on his own again, this time for good.

Soon after leaving his family, Crockett met and married the love of his life, Polly Finley.

David and Polly started their family and moved around the state frequently.

Then, during the War of 1812, war broke out in parts of the South with the Indians who had sided with the British.

And at an outpost called Fort Mims, the Creek Indians, supplied by the British, massacred 400 men, women, and children.

This incensed the citizens of Tennessee and surrounding states.

So, Crockett, and of course, many others, joined the fight.

The warriors came yelling on and continued till they were within shot of us.

And we fired and killed a considerable number of them.

They broke and ran across our line where they were fired on.

And so we kept them running under heavy fire until we had killed upwards of 400 of them.

Davy Crockett.

Davy Crockett became an instant hero.

Davy took his new family west

to Lawrence County, Tennessee, and settled along fast-moving Shoal Creek.

The Patton family was a prosperous one, and Elizabeth had some money.

And Davy used this inheritance to set up a grist mill.

Crockett would eventually be elected to three terms in the United States Congress, representing his district in Tennessee.

And he took his duties seriously.

To him, taxpayer funds were sacred and they weren't to be used in any way outside of the constitutionally mandated ways.

Can you even imagine somebody actually believing that?

He was so committed to the principle that he even voted no on an act to Congress that would give $100,000 in federal funds to the widow of one of the biggest heroes in American history, Navy Commodore Stephen Decatur.

Decatur was revered in the United States and helping his widow after he was killed in a duel by another Navy Commodore was wildly popular.

Crockett wouldn't cave in to popular opinion.

His no vote was so unpopular with his constituents that he lost his bid to be elected to a fourth term and had to be sent home to Tennessee, where he famously proclaimed, since you've chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you can all go to hell.

I'm going to Texas.

By the way, Decatur had left his wife with a fortune of $75,000, which is the equivalent of $1.8 million today.

And that's before Congress gave her $100,000, which would have more than doubled her fortune.

Crockett left with 30 others the next day, bound for Texas.

Initially, his intent was to scout out a place to bring his wife and children to live, but upon his arrival, his fame preceded him and he was met by crowds of admirers.

Crockett was quickly caught up in the cause of Texas independence and he swore an oath to the new provisional Texas government.

Always up for a good fight, he decided to join Colonel William Travis in San Antonio at the Alamo.

During the 13-day siege, Colonel Travis wrote that Crockett was everywhere in the Alamo, animating the men to do their duty.

It was also reported that he killed at least five Mexicans in succession as each of them tried unsuccessfully to reach a Mexican cannon that was right outside the Alamo, each of them trying to fire it.

Accounts from the few survivors of the Alamo on how Crockett died during the final battle vary.

Susanna Dickinson said that Crockett died while firing at the oncoming Mexicans from outside of the Alamo.

Travis's slave, a man named Joe, the only male Texan to survive the slaughter, claimed that Crockett died in a room inside the Alamo, surrounded by 16 dead Mexicans that he had killed with his rifle, pistol, and knives.

But whatever the truth about the way Davy Crockett lost his life on March 6, 1836, like the state itself, he was a legendary larger-than-life figure.

Another larger-than-life figure, a native Kentuckian, Jim Bowie, also sealed his fate at the Alamo.

In 1814, at the age of 18, Jim and his brother headed to New Orleans to answer Andrew Jackson's call to fight the British in the War of 1812.

But by the time that they arrived, the fighting was over.

But Jim decided to stay in Louisiana.

In 1819, he joined an expedition to liberate Texas from Spain.

No, not Mexico, Spain.

And arriving in Nacogdoches, Texas, they encountered very little resistance and declared Texas an independent republic.

They went home to Louisiana before the Spanish troops arrived to reclaim the area.

Bowie had become nationally famous while attending a duel between two doctors in Mississippi.

He was there as a friend and an ally of one of the the doctors, and the sheriff of the Louisiana township where he lived, Norris Wright, was an ally of the other doctor.

Well, Bowie and Wright had been at odds ever since Bowie had supported Wright's opponent for sheriff.

The duel began and the doctors fired at each other twice, each missing on both shots.

So, they dropped their weapons, they met in the middle, and they shook hands.

However, those gathered to support them and witnessed the duel began an outright brawl.

Bowie was quickly shot in the hip, but he got up, drew his massive soon-to-be nine and a quarter inch long, one and a half inch wide knife.

He charged his attacker who hit Bowie over the head with his empty pistol, breaking the pistol and knocking Bowie to the ground.

Sheriff Wright joined the effort and shot at Bowie while he was laying on the ground, but he missed, and Bowie returned fire, hitting Wright.

Wright then drew his sword cane and rammed it through Bowie's chest, impaling him.

As Wright attempted to retrieve his blade by placing his foot on Bowie's chest and yanking it out, the badly wounded Bowie pulled him down to the ground with him and disemboweled Wright with his huge, what we now call, a Bowie knife.

Wright died instantly and Bowie, with Wright's sword still protruding from his chest, was shot again and stabbed by another member of the group.

Incredibly, somehow or another, the doctors who had started the whole thing by deciding to duel in the first place removed the bullets and patched Bowie's other wounds.

Shortly after the now famous sandbar fight, Jim Bowie, now 35 years old, headed for Texas.

There, he recuperated from the multiple serious wounds that he had received, and while mending, he met and married the 19-year-old daughter of the vice governor of Texas.

They moved into her parents' San Antonio Palace and had two children.

While Bowie was away on a business trip, he heard that there was a cholera outbreak in Texas.

Fearing that it would hit San Antonio, he sent his wife and his children to his parents' estate in Monclovia, Mexico, as the epidemic was headed to San Antonio.

Sadly and ironically, the entire family fell victim to the cholera epidemic in Monclovia, and all of them, including her parents, died.

This tragedy sent Bowie into an alcoholic frenzy and was the beginning of ill health for him.

With Mexico clamping down and oppressing Texans, Bowie decided to join the fight for independence and defend the Alamo.

He and Colonel William Travis were in command.

However, during the 13-day siege, Bowie became gravely ill and bedridden.

When the Mexicans stormed the mission, He is said to have emptied his guns into the soldiers who entered his room.

Laying in his bed, leaning up against the wall, finally, out of ammo, the Mexican soldiers got through and bayoneted James Bowie.

This is a time where I guess men were men and things were crazy.

These are just a few of the people and the events that we have shared in this last serial that have made Texas the unique liberty-minded haven that it is.

There has always been a sense of pride and independence and a little bit of fight in the residents there.

Today, Texas has its very own electrical grid.

It boasts the 11th largest economy in the world, and having no state income tax may be part of the reason that more Fortune 500 companies are based in Texas than anywhere else in the nation.

Unlike other states that have been devoured by the federal government, over 90% of the land in Texas is still privately owned.

Texas' freedom and economic success have made it America's growing state at over 28 million residents and counting.

Three of the top five fastest growing cities, Houston, Dallas, and Austin.

And over the past 20 years, more than 4 million Californians have made the move to Texas.

Those of us in Texas still aren't sure that's a good thing.

The spirit of Sam Houston, Stephen F.

Austin, Davey Crockett, and Jim Bowie, alive and well, and pushing the residents of the state to continue to fight for independence and freedom.

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By the way, you want to hear the whole serial, go to glennbeck.com slash serials.

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The downfall of Texas is going to come from Austin.

It is going to come from that, because that's where the that's where Californians are really flocking.

And they always take over the state capitol.

And it's the one like-minded city in Texas, really, for California.

Austin is, I'm going down there for South by Southwest in, I don't know, a week.

And

there are a lot of libertarians there.

So that is possibly helpful.

But

it's a great city.

Yeah, it is.

But 4 million Californians bringing California mentality to Texas is

not helpful at all.

Not helpful at all.

Now this, by the way, we have to, on the other side, we have to talk about Jim Bowie.

That is the greatest story.

He's phenomenal.

He is a phenomenal

story.

He is the Navy SEAL.

He is SEAL Team Six all in one man.

Amazing.

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This is the Glenn Veck program.

Mercury.

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Cut one.

We have

Rand Paul.

Rand Paul talking about the missing Obamacare repeal.

Listen to Rand Paul.

I think what they're putting forward is Obamacare Light.

It has a new entitlement program in there, which we're having trouble affording what we have now without creating a new entitlement program.

It has a Cadillac tax, similar to the Obamacare bill.

I thought we were for repealing the Obamacare taxes, not keeping them.

And then it also has the individual mandate.

Instead of paying a penalty to the government, if you don't get insurance, you'll pay a penalty to the insurance company when you go to buy insurance.

But it's an individual mandate, just simply different.

And what I object to in the House leadership bill is I think these are Democrat ideas dressed up in Republican clothing.

Thank you.

So

listen to what he said when he went and tried to find the bill.

It's amazing.

You know, we were looking for the Obamacare repeal bill.

No, no, no, no, that's a good thing.

We've been talking about it for six years.

We thought we that's the same one?

That's the same cut you just did.

Yeah.

All right.

I think what they're putting forward is Obamacare light.

Oh, no.

Yeah, you're right.

You were right.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, sorry.

My fault.

You know, we were looking for the Obamacare repeal bill.

We've been talking about it for six years.

We thought we ought to see it.

So we heard it was in a secret room and that it was under lock and key with guards.

And sure enough, when we got there, there were policemen posted at the door, and we were not allowed to see the Obamacare repeal bill.

Wow.

We know it exists.

It's probably hundreds of pages long, and we didn't get to see it.

And we're upset about that.

In my state, in Kentucky, it's against the law to have closed meetings where the public's not allowed to see the process of the bills.

Is that not incredible?

Well, you're not in Kentucky anymore, Toto.

Thank you.

Thank you.

By the way, thanks to Michael Opelka from Pure Opelka for

sending that to us.

You can hear Michael Opelka on weekends on the Blaze.

Yeah, you can hear Michael Opelka Monday through Friday.

Oh, yeah.

Evenings.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

That's right.

Oh my gosh.

If you're on weekends, we're going to step with Jeffy show.

Yeah, which is listening to you.

Pure Opelka on nights now on the Blaze.

I forgot we expanded.

That's right.

Meanwhile, welcome back, Rand Paul.

Yeah, it's great.

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Oh man, there is an argument starting up right now.

We're trying to take gender identity seriously.

The cat won't hear about it.

There's a huge controversy.

I'm not making this up.

Garfield, the cat, male or female?

Don't know.

How does the cat identify?

Don't know.

We do know.

We know darn good and well.

It was a boy.

How do you know that?

Because it was a boy.

How do you know that?

Did you ever see him?

You ever hear him?

You listen to him?

Oh, okay.

Okay.

So there's a certain certain way men sound as opposed to women yes uh well jim davis said by virtue of being a cat really he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality young or old oh geez well

but by being a cat

cats don't have gender as we cats do have no they do not have gender no they do they don't they don't both give birth and they don't both give milk.

After all, it is a cartoon.

One is the.

Now, saying that, that he's a cartoon cat,

I would say that's true.

But,

boy, is that incredible.

Well, Jim Davis did clarify and ended the controversy finally that had actually been raging for months.

I know, I know, I know, I know.

Quote, Garfield is male.

Thank you.

Somebody who took a stand.

Somebody who actually took a stand.

All right, we're going to talk about MS-13, some horrible stuff that's happening in Houston you need to know about.

And Louie Gomert joins us right now.

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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and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Good friend of the program and good friend of mine, Louis Gomert, joins us now.

Really, truly one of the good guys in Congress from the great state of Texas.

But Louis, I have to tell you, I was watching the State of the Union, and you were practically licking the president's face.

That's a fact.

Glenn, you got to understand that, you know, that night of the election, I already come to grips.

You know, the U.S.

Commission on Civil Rights says, you know, that Christians are the biggest hate group threatening America, in essence.

And, you know, you had Hillary who wants to make it a crime to say anything negative about radical Islam.

And, you know, Red Lynch, we're in favor of a crime to question man-made global warming.

No, I understand, but let's not lick the president's.

I told Kathy that night, look, if this does, I think Trump's got a better chance of saying, but if it doesn't go well, I'm probably going to be in jail within four years because I'm going to be part of the Christian-loving group that they say is hateful, up as down, right as well.

So, anyway, so it's just been such a relief that she didn't replace Scalia.

I really don't know the judge he's appointed.

I don't know how that's going to go, you know, if he's confirmed, but I'm still relieved.

And okay, so Lily, let me get to some people in a lot of trouble uh we're still in a mess glynn right i know so i love you had thomas massey on while i go he is truly a great guy so let me

let me ask you let me ask you a couple of questions first of all uh let's start with obamacare i understand that obamacare is uh the repeal is locked in some room according to ran paul uh and nobody can see it

i don't know where it is but i haven't gotten a chance to see it.

And there were a few of us that pointed out this week again in our conference.

Look, you remember 2010

when we all said if you give us the majority, we will read the bill.

But I got to tell you, back three years ago, right before Boehner went out, he demanded to know how many were going to vote for a bill.

And I got up and said, I've got to see the bill.

And

we were supposed to vote on Thursday.

This was Tuesday.

and probably half of the conference booed me for saying i can't tell you if i'll vote for it i got to see it and so it's it's an amazing battle and then you got these indivisible people out there saying i'm a coward they have no idea what it is to stand up well in fact massey told me that in after the november 2012 conference when i stood up and nominated newt just trying to get somebody besides boehner i didn't even have a second.

Thomas said, Yeah, Bridenstine and I were talking, you got to be the craziest guy in all of Congress.

And then within six months, we were going, He's the only really smart guy in Congress.

We had no idea.

So, Louis, anyway,

we've got a problem.

Are you?

Is it true that you've been asked to be a part of the caucus?

And

are you going to become a part of the Freedom Caucus?

Yes, yeah.

I was initially

hesitant for you know to to even asking or I've been asked, but they had a rule that if 80% agreed on a position, that 100% had to vote that way.

Well, I don't give my card to anybody, not

nobody.

And that was my big holdup.

But Jim Jordan and

Mark Meadows have assured me that if it's something, you know, that...

People like me have a real bum on, they won't take an official position and that

you get a couple of passes even then.

But if it comes down to it, well, and probably most of the Freedom Caucus voted for Boehner.

And if 80%,

if there had been a Freedom Caucus in January of 2015, then, and I'd been part of it, then under that original rule, I wouldn't have been able to vote against Boehner.

And getting 24 votes against him cast the die that he wasn't going to make it two years before he'd be gone.

But on Obamacare, let me tell you, Glenn,

they keep,

some of our leaders keep telling

the Trump administration, we can't repeal it like, you know, originally was thought because we're doing it under reconciliation.

But, Glenn, 2015, nobody was saying that.

And so many of us have been saying, just pass the 2015 bill.

We did that under reconciliation.

So why aren't we doing it, Louis?

What is happening?

I don't know.

I keep asking, is it because the rumor is true that we have Republican leaders that see the money that comes in from all the penalties and taxes and fees and half a trillion dollars is just too much to let get away from us?

I'd heard that rumor, but I don't know.

It doesn't make sense.

But let me tell you, you know, you and I have been talking about this for years.

We have had a few chances to get rid of it.

And under Boehner, we wouldn't do what potentially would eliminate it.

One, for example,

it didn't originate in the House.

And the Constitution says, you know, all bills that raise revenue have to originate in the House.

So what the Senate did, since they knew that, they took Bill 3590 that was a first-time tax tax credit for first-time homebuyers who are veterans in the military, and they stripped out, it was like 25 pages, so stripped out every word in the title, and all they left was the number.

So that truly didn't originate in the House.

And there were lawyers that filed suits to bring it down, and they had contacted me, people like Joe Schmidt, and said, Louie, if you guys could just pass a resolution saying it's the sense of the House.

that 3590 Obamacare did not originate in the House, the number was not enough to say it originated, Then we can take that into court, use it as solid evidence.

It doesn't require a vote by the Senate or President Obama signing.

And this should give us a slam dub.

Okay, so Louis, we have.

We wouldn't even take that vote.

We wouldn't even take that vote.

I know.

So what I'm asking,

so wait, what I'm asking you is: President Trump campaigned on saying that he would have universal health care.

Is it the GOP or is it coming from the White House that says, we're not dismantling this.

We want universal health care?

Well,

the way I understood what Trump had said is, you know, yes, he wanted to completely repeal it.

And then Sean

would follow up and ask leading questions.

He would say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we want to repeal it.

But then he would say, but we want insurance for everybody.

Well, who's going to pay for it?

Well, the government.

Well, that caused a lot of us a lot of grief.

But I don't get the impression this is coming from the White House.

I get the impression they're telling him we're going to do what we repeal what we can when we need to get rid of it.

And I keep hearing people say

we've got to be able to buy across state lines.

Well, that'll help for a little while, some, but you know the way market forces are.

If you're in California paying huge premiums and you buy a Texas policy, your policy from Texas will be cheaper.

But as you pay higher claims, the Texas policies are going to go up.

The most important thing we've got to do, and we finally took it up in the judiciary, and now I hope and pray they'll bring it to the floor, is to eliminate the exemption that health insurance companies have from the antitrust laws.

They're allowed to monopolize.

Well, as I've said in conference a number of times, and Massey and a number of people have pointed out, look,

if we don't eliminate the exemption under

McCarran Ferguson, then you won't have 50 monopolies like we currently do.

You'll have one.

And there won't be a free market.

You have got to force them to comply with antitrust laws.

So that's a biggie that we have got to have pressure on Congress to make sure we do that.

That's more important than buying across state lines.

But it's, you know, this battle isn't over.

Yeah, we got the House and the Senate and the White House, but I'm glad you're bringing it up because if the pressure doesn't continue, then we're going to have a pretty wimpy so-called repeal.

And you know that's going to be devastating, and we could still end up with single payer.

And by the way, you were talking to Thomas about the trillion dollars.

You know, I go back to Afghanistan because Thomas brought that up.

We talked about $100 billion over there for infrastructure, not just fighting the war.

But in 2001, in October, when we realized that's where the Taliban was, they helped plan this thing,

we provided the Northern Alliance weapons.

We gave them bombers flying overhead.

We had about 300 special ops in there.

We didn't lose a single American.

And by the end of February, the Taliban was gone.

There was no organized Taliban.

And then we start moving toward that trillion dollars of spending over there

by becoming occupiers.

We won the war, but we lost the occupation.

And now we're just throwing good money after bad.

Okay.

Louis, I appreciate all the hard work that you're doing in Congress.

Louis Gomert, thanks for the update on Obamacare and

fight hard.

And

keep pushing this because we're not out of the woods by a long shot.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.

Louis Gomert

from the great state of Texas.

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All right, let's talk about what happened in Houston.

MS-13, in case you don't know, is one of the worst gangs anywhere.

Take the Chinese mob and the Russian mob and combine them, you have MS-13.

They originated in El Salvador and they're incredibly brutal.

I mean, they're ISIS brutal.

They're bad, bad guys.

And it's been a problem in the southern states.

But the fact is, they've spread throughout the country.

They're in like 28 different states now.

So it's not just a border problem anymore.

What a surprise.

Well, yeah, no, I mean,

according to

officials here in the U.S., it's the largest criminal organization.

It's the largest criminal organization in the U.S.

So

this is one of the people.

These are some of the people that help people get across the border.

And

you have an indentured servant.

You'll have a parent who will be trying to get across the border.

And MS-13 will approach and say, well, we'll help you.

Otherwise, we're going to kill your family, but you're going to owe us for this favor.

And they put them up in northern states, and then those people are doing some of the really bad, dirty work for

MSNBC, MS-13.

So these two

illegal immigrant gang members from MS-13 in Houston kidnapped two girls and brought them to their Houston apartment.

This is so reminiscent of what happened in 1993.

Yep.

And they received the death penalty, and George Bush fought against it.

Right.

It was the Medellin.

Yep.

Does that sound familiar?

Yep.

And they were trying to give him the death penalty.

Bush joined Mexico to protest and wound up losing, thank goodness, and he was executed.

But

in the same circumstances, illegal alien MS-13 gang members doing it, in this case, a satanic ritual

murdered another.

They don't even know how old she was because they can't identify her because she was so badly

messed up.

So she was somewhere between 14 and 25.

And apparently she fought them.

when they kidnapped her and she knocked over their satanic ritual.

And the guy said, so now

the evil one demands a soul sacrifice.

So they took her out and killed her.

Yeah.

After she'd been raped repeatedly.

Horrible.

And tortured.

Then they shot her in the head, the neck, the torso.

And so it's happened all over again.

And they're doing court all over again.

They were in court yesterday, laughing.

I mean, no, they were in court.

They were doing that laughing.

They were doing smiling, same stuff.

The other guys were doing that.

No, these guys are Charlie Manson,

but they're organized Charlie Nansen.

It's all over the country.

These are really bad guys.

These guys, the same

group, MS-13, in Long Island, I mean, there's 13 members right now that are going in front of the judge.

They face offenses including seven murder charges, racketeering, attempted murder, assault, obstruction of justice, arson.

That's just a tad of what they do.

And that's in Long Island.

And by the way, these guys are of the age to be the so-called dreamers that we always hear.

Yes, they are.

These could be the dreamers.

Most of these are illegals, right?

They're all illegals.

They're all illegals.

Yeah.

This is one of the things that

one of the things that Operation Underground Railroad is working on.

We're asking for your help and your donation.

It helps stop things, and they're things that we can't get into on the air, but it helps stop

some of these situations where people are kidnapping children.

And in fact,

I'm going overseas again.

Again, we don't tell you some of the things that are happening around here

because it's extraordinarily dangerous.

So just

understand.

But we're going over to Uganda to stop this very thing from happening.

These cults, these satanic cults,

are kidnapping children and then using them as child sacrifice.

And

we're going over there, I think, in the next couple of months to

try to stop that and to free

some of these kids.

Good.

It's bad what's happening.

Bad what's happening.

And

this is all swept under the rug.

People should have known about MS-13.

I can guarantee you.

Most people in America don't know about MS-13.

And it is all over America.

And

when we were talking under George W.

Bush, I remember Pat and I saying, if we don't get the border under control,

these guys are going to start, they were only in Texas.

They're going to start moving north.

And now they're in New York.

They're Long Island.

They're all over the country.

And it's because we have an open border.

And we do nothing about those that are here illegally because we, well, they're here.

So now we have to take care of them.

And that's why they laugh in court, because they think that they can just usurp all of our laws.

Well, they're not all over.

According to the government, they have a presence in 46 states and the district.

Oh, it's only 46 now.

And

D.C., so that's it.

Oh.

Well, that's no big deal.

Right.

When we first started warning, they were only in one state.

Yeah.

So unbelievable.

It's not like it's spreading like a plague.

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Oh my gosh.

Pat gets me all excited about this Green River.

Oh my gosh.

I look it up.

It's in Catalonia.

I don't even know where Catalonia is.

You don't care about it just because I don't know in America.

Right.

I see.

I'm an American.

I know, me too.

I mean...

I care about people elsewhere.

No, you don't.

No, you don't.

Pat tells me, you know, I said, what?

Yeah, I saw that.

What is it caused by?

He said, it's a plant.

And I'm like, what?

An automobile plant?

No, no.

It's a bottling plant.

A bottling plant.

A water bottling plant.

Yeah.

Automotive plants are.

What exactly?

It's fluorescent green.

Oh, yeah.

No, it's spooky green.

It's amazing.

So, can I ask you what

they're putting in the water?

I'd love to know.

Are they putting in the bottle?

They say

the plant says it's entirely harmless, non-toxic, and biodegradable.

Oh,

what is

it?

They don't say the green dye was intentionally red to the river.

So it's entirely harmless.

It was intentionally added?

What the mayor said?

St.

Patrick's Day every year.

It could not be on the tank.

Yeah, right.

But I mean, hang on.

Because this says the Emerald Green Tint was not an early early celebration of St.

Patrick's Day, as seen in Chicago every March.

No, they're saying that they put the dye in to help identify another contamination.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Here's one in France.

I guess several rivers are turning this way in France.

Is Catalonia survived?

I don't know.

It says this.

At least rivers in 12.

departments around France have all fallen to the same mysterious fate.

The rivers are turning fluorescent green in recent days.

The move, however, is not some kind of pollution.

It is the work of environmental workers in a bid to wait, oh my gosh, to raise awareness about a lack of funding in their sector.

This action is an alarm signal.

What?

Wow, that we want to alert the public about the need to preserve and strengthen this public service.

We've got to create some jobs.

Oh, my gosh.

So, how do they get the brilliant green color?

We used colorant

called

fluorescent fluorescene it's totally harmless it's to show the path pollution takes in water it's a strong visible a visual but it's completely safe the fish don't even notice can you imagine

you did that say the it's not can't harm the fish it's just a colorant

oh can you imagine what they would say

they'd go ape they'd go

out of their mind.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, here it is where it's just starting to be poured into the river.

Wow.

I mean,

that really does an effective job, though.

This

color.

Wow.

Yes, it does.

Boy, that's really bad, especially the way this is being reported because it's being reported on, like, what is that?

Yeah.

It's downstream from a bottling plant.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they're, yes, they're

making it out like it's accidental.

And it's environmentalists doing it on purpose.

Unbelievable.

That's awesome.

Unbelievable.

Hey, are you guys going to go see the movie

The Shack this weekend?

Anybody going to see that?

You really raved about it.

I think it's great.

You said it was one of the best movies you've ever seen that was faith-based, right?

Yeah, it's in the category.

I mean, you have to go with this in mind.

You know, Lord of the Rings and

so Tolkien and C.S.

Lewis had to do, you know, they had a bet who's going to make the best Christian-based movie

that will really get the message out.

He wrote Lion Witch of the Wardrobe, and Tolkien wrote.

And Tolkien thought that was way too obvious and overt.

Correct.

And so he wrote Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Which it's pretty hard to find Jesus in that story.

I'm really having a hard time.

No, seriously, can you tell me?

I mean, it's obviously a battle of good and evil.

But

other than that, I don't get it.

And C.S.

Lewis thought that Tolkien had won.

Tolkien thought that C.S.

Lewis had won.

C.S.

Lewis said Tolkien told the best story for Christ.

I honestly,

I don't know.

I mean, we should look into that.

We should look at the

symbols that are hidden there because I can't find them.

The Shack

is not a movie that, you know, if you're going to go from, let's say, you're going from your church meeting and then you're going to go to a church kind of movie and then you're going to go to church afterwards, this is probably not the movie you're going to love.

But if this is something that, you know,

you

are struggling with something in your life, or you just want a good movie, it introduces God into it.

It's not preachy.

It's not, it's, it's none of the things that I hate about

religious movies.

Now, it's an analogy, and people are having a hard time because God is played by a black woman.

Oh my gosh, how good God.

Jesus was a lion in Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, and there was a witch and Santa in that one.

Somehow or another, we're okay with that

only because it's C.S.

Lewis.

This one, I think, is just tells a great story.

And, you know,

I know I go to religious movies with friends who

are not religious and they have a hard time with those preachy kind of movies that are preaching to the choir.

This one is out there to find new choir members and it never

asks for you to do anything.

It doesn't even ask for you to believe it.

It just shows a loving God, which I like.

So

watch the shack, see it this weekend.

Um, also,

isn't Logan out this weekend?

I think it is.

Yeah, people are really raving about it.

Why is that rated R?

Uh, that's the first X-Men

probably the violins.

I mean,

it looks like it's much darker than the typical

well.

I read, and this is not a spoiler, I don't think, because it was just what I read was just about the, you know, the comic book series.

Wolverine kills all of the X-Men, right?

Isn't that how it happened?

What?

It could possibly be a spoiler.

Why would you consider that as being a spoiler?

Well, because I think everybody is dead in this one, isn't it?

Isn't that the premise?

Or is it way in the future or something?

It's 2029.

Mutants are gone, or very nearly so.

Okay, so

I think what I read, and

if I, you know, if I just spoil it, I'm sorry.

I just read it in

the worst.

Regardless of whether you say that.

They're saying, wait, wait, wait, wait.

It's such a huge thing.

I know, but they said, hang on just a second.

They said that

they hadn't seen the movie either.

And they said that

Logan is a very dark character in the comic books.

And that's why they're suggesting that this one is so dark.

And they didn't know if he was following the, if they were following the

path of the comic book on this, because I guess in the end of the comic books or at some point, but why would you do this?

You don't want to kill the X-Men.

I don't know.

It does say R for strong brutal violence and language throughout and for brief nudity.

So not enough for Jeffy, but a brief little.

Yeah, but you can sit through it.

I can sit through brief nudity.

It's like more.

Is Hugh Jackman in this one?

Yes.

Because on the clipboard scene, it doesn't look like him.

Well, because I think he's a lot older in this one or something.

And it's 2029.

This is the main description.

2029, mutants are gone, or very nearly so.

An isolated, despondent Logan is drinking his days away in a hideout on a remote stretch of the Mexican border, picking up petty cash as a driver for hire.

What is this movie?

His companions in exile are the outcast Caliban and ailing Professor X, who singular mind is plagued by worsening seizures.

It sounds like it's going to be

Hexmen in the nursing home.

Fun.

Fun.

But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy abruptly end when a mysterious woman appears with an urgent request that Logan shepherd an extraordinary young girl to safety.

Soon the claws come out and Logan must face off against dark forces.

It's getting incredible reviews.

I mean, 94%.

94%.

That's amazing.

Of critics or viewers?

Critics.

95% of audience.

Wow.

when you go to see Logan though you love well-reviewed I like Logan as a character I mean I think Marvel has done the best job of any film series

yeah ever they've done a really good job can you think of anybody else Star Wars sucks most of those suck

who's done a better job on sequels

You know,

the,

what's his face, J.J.

Abrams has done a good job with Star Trek, kind of reinvigorating that series.

Yeah, and the new Star Wars movies have been very good, I think.

Yeah, the new ones are good.

Name the bad Marvel movie.

I don't like any of them.

What?

Yeah,

I'm not a fan of that.

Stu's not into that.

I mean, which one of the Marvels?

Run through him.

I get him confused with the other company.

Marvel is all the X-Men.

Yeah, no.

Spider-Man?

Spider-Man, no.

I think.

No, Spider-Man is

not somebody else.

That's DC Comics at all.

Superman?

No, that's DC Comics.

Really?

Yeah.

Never mind.

Batman is DC Comics.

Come to think of it.

Pat doesn't like the Marvels either.

Come to think of it.

DC is pretty good.

No, DC is.

DC, the problem with DC is they keep rebooting the same stories over and over and over again.

Yeah, they're trying to.

You know, this one, when it comes to Marvel, they're releasing them and they're telling the whole story, and it's the same actors and the same theme.

And, you know, Spider-Man, if I have to see how Spider-Man was bit by the damn spider one more time, I'm going to lose my mind.

All right, here's Marvel movies, and I know all, I got it, all you people in the audience who are, oh, dare you say that!

I got it.

We know that you're very tribal on your Marvel versus I don't care about any of it.

Here are the movies: Avengers,

Guardians of the Galaxy.

Guardians of the Galaxy was great.

Great.

Ant-Man, no thanks.

Oh, Ant-Man was great.

The Captain America stuff, I haven't liked.

I know you loved it.

I like it.

I loved it.

It was okay, but you know, Iron Man, I could deal with Iron Man.

I like Iron Man because he's a capitalist, even though the message of the movie isn't really that capitalism is good.

He really doesn't turn good until he turns against capitalism, kind of.

But I like the fact that a rich guy is just saving the world.

Yeah.

That's so out of the norm of these movies.

The Hulk, The Incredible Hulk.

I didn't see him like that one.

Doctor Strange.

Loved it.

You like that one a lot.

More Avengers.

Thor, no.

Oh, Thor is fun.

Thor was fun.

Thor is fun.

It's not great, but it's fun.

They are saying amazing Spider-Man's, at least on on this list.

See, that's what I thought.

I thought Spider-Man was more X-Men stuff.

Oh, Deadpool I liked.

I liked Deadpool.

I could not get through five minutes of Deadpool.

You and me both.

Really?

Yeah, that was good.

I couldn't do it.

Fantastic Four.

Oof.

That was fun.

But see,

the Fantastic Four was before

Marvel got their crap together.

That's when they were like.

No,

that includes this new one, too, which was abysmal.

I didn't see the new one.

Abysmal.

I mean, really bad.

Fantastic 4, because Spider-Man, I know they had a deal out with somebody.

And so I think they're resetting Spider-Man.

They may have had the same problem with Fantastic Four.

Before Marvel took charge and said, we're going to do our own movies, they were selling the license out to studios.

And one of the studios had a license on Spider-Man that was about to flip.

And so they were like, We've paid all this money for it.

Quick, make a movie.

I remember Max told me about this.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

Now I'm down to your 40s.

No, Max.

No, Max, he's an expert on this stuff.

I let him tell me what he knows.

Yeah, so

there was a contractual thing on the Spider-Man, and I think they just got Spider-Man back.

And I bet it was the same on Fantastic Four.

Because everything I've seen the Marvel Studios make has been great.

DC,

you know, even with DC, they did, you know, Superman versus, come on.

Oh, that one was dumb.

They also did the Batman versus Superman thing.

It was awful.

Oh, our moms had the same name?

Now we're best as friends.

We like each other again.

Now we're best as friends.

And then for life.

And then what happens is we meet Wonder Woman because of that.

Awful.

Do a Wonder Woman movie.

That would be good.

Make it stand.

Well, because I've read at one point during that is that they just really really want the Avengers, like what they want is their Avengers, right?

So they're just trying to like mash all the movies together until they get to that point where it doesn't work

that way.

I know it doesn't work that way.

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