Obama: Don't Be a Sycophant 1/19/17

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There was something that was said by Barack Obama in his press conference yesterday that

I had a hard time with.

His last press conference yesterday,

he gave the press some advice

and said, and I quote, you're not supposed to be sycophants.

You're supposed to be skeptics

and you need

to keep that up.

Which the sycophant part, because that's what they've been doing,

I couldn't believe the lack of self-awareness.

And it continued.

There's like 12 stories today

of the left

doing

all the things that the right did, if not worse.

And there's no, like, hey, gee, wow, you know what?

This is what we were just complaining about with the right.

No self-awareness at all.

We begin there right now.

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

Let's see.

Let me just, let me just read some headlines.

We'll get to these stories as we go.

Let me read some headlines and just see how this makes you feel.

How does this make you feel?

Trump's name removed from church prayer list to keep from traumatizing liberals.

Let's see.

Barack Obama

at his press conference yesterday,

quote, you're not supposed to be sycophants.

You're supposed to be skeptics.

Artists protest Trump by painting with human blood.

It's art.

Let's see here.

GOP Senate hopefuls warned to ingratiate themselves to Donald Trump ahead of time.

Let's see.

Federal judge has to order DHS officials not to destroy emails.

I love this one from the HuffPo.

How the Trump presidency will change America.

HuffPo contributors make their predictions.

In an epic final speech, Joe Biden warns that the democratic world order is at risk of complete collapse.

That's the headlines in that stack.

I think we have enough there.

I can't, I want him to start making a list, Stu,

of all of the things where they are lacking self-awareness.

For instance.

Somebody wouldn't have shown up for Barack Obama's

inaugural address and his inauguration.

There'd be an issue with that?

I quoted Jake Tapper yesterday and tweeted back to him because he did a story yesterday on one of the Kennedys,

one of the new young ones, who is going to the inauguration.

And the spin on the story was, he's still going.

Here's why.

And I wrote to Jake, Jake,

had the shoe been on the other foot, which it has been for the last eight years,

every story would have been,

I can't believe these guys aren't going.

What's wrong with them?

They must be racists.

How is it there's no self-awareness?

That it's suddenly okay

to not go to a president's inauguration?

I don't know if I'm throwing a party, the less Democratic congressmen who show up to it, the better.

No, I.

How is it suddenly okay

and not fear-mongering, selling fear, trying to get a leg up on fear?

How is it suddenly acceptable?

And everybody on the left goes, yep, he's right.

He's right.

When Joe Biden says the democratic world order is on the, uh, at risk of catastrophic collapse.

Because they're always justified in what they do with whatever it is, like in this case, racism, or he's a,

you know, he's a chauvinist pig.

But here, here's the thing.

So they're always justified.

Here's the thing.

And I did a poor job because I believed that Barack Obama would be the catalyst of that collapse.

but the media did a very poor job of

explaining that the collapse is not coming because of Barack Obama.

I've never believed that the collapse was coming because of him,

that the collapse would be used by him, and we were making other moves that would, for instance, adding another nine or ten trillion dollars to the debt that would add to the collapse

and make it worse than it had to be.

He doubled the debt, by the way.

Yeah, he doubled the debt.

And we also printed $4 trillion.

Now, that's not Barack Obama that printed the $4 trillion.

That's the system that allowed $4 trillion to be printed by the Fed.

So

the catastrophic collapse that I saw coming, I still see coming.

And when I've said said that to them recently, they laugh at me.

Well,

okay,

you're gonna just talk your way out of it.

No, no,

no.

In fact,

you didn't see catastrophic collapse.

Now, who's a bigger fear-monger?

The person who thinks the United States is

has done so much damage over the last 100 years that these wars are not caused now by what George Bush did, but by what we were doing in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

That we've done so much damage to ourselves around the world in the last 100 years.

We've done so much damage to the free market over the last 100 years.

We've done so much damage to the dollar over the last 100 years.

We've done so much damage to international banking over the last 100 years that it's only a matter of time before that chicken comes home to roost.

Is he a fear monger, or is the one who says, everything

is fine on Thursday,

but the moment the guy I disagree with raises his hand and says, Now I'm taking over, the world is on the verge of collapse because of one man.

Which one is logical?

Which one,

which one can back it up with facts?

The one who said everything is sunshine and lollipops.

We're on

the road to recovery.

There are no problems?

We've doubled the debt in eight years and it's not a problem, but this guy in the next four years will be the sole reason for collapse.

Outrageous.

Absolutely outrageous.

To say that, to say now that NATO is in trouble because of Donald Trump and only Donald Trump,

no,

no.

NATO is in trouble because NATO has screwed itself and screwed, quite honestly, I think, the United States of America for a very long time.

And Russia has been planting the seeds of anti-NATO sentiment in our country and in Europe for quite some time.

While we were saying, George W.

Bush, I look into Pootie Poot's eyes and he's a friend.

And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying

they want their, the 80s just called, they want their foreign policy back.

Russia is a friend of ours.

We've ignored them.

Now, all of a sudden, now today,

Russia, and this one I love, today

Russia is okay.

Tomorrow, when he raises his hand, Russia is a problem.

And to parse that one even more,

Wikileaks

was not a problem.

Until WikiLeaks took down Hillary Clinton.

Then they are traitors.

And yet, when Manning is released, who supplied

WikiLeaks with the information,

that's a heroic move.

I don't know how to solve all of that.

How

does anyone, and by the way, if you're on the right,

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself, as I like to say from Nancy Pelosi, if I could quote her.

Don't say that ever again, please.

No, I'm quoting Nancy Pelosi.

She's the coolest.

You should stop quoting.

No, no, no, she's not.

All the kids are saying it.

All the kids are saying it.

All the kids are saying it.

They're all saying it.

People like Nancy Pelosi are saying it.

You know all the hip kids are saying it.

Well, but then you make a good point when you're not saying that particular phrase.

Because every time we talk about hypocrisy all the time and largely on the left, it's where we find it constantly.

It's obvious to us.

However, you have to make sure that you did not take the opposite position of the left on the two issues you're discussing.

Yes, because that means you've also changed your mind.

Russia, for instance, and Wikileaks.

Great examples.

I mean, it's unbelievable.

And it is wild.

It's unbelievable.

People ran to new chairs so fast that those of us who have been sitting exactly the same place at the table the whole time, we now find ourselves surrounded by people who don't believe what they're saying now.

And the people who we thought believed what they said then are sitting at the other side of the the table and saying, you've changed.

You're with other people.

No.

No.

You've just occupied their chairs and they've just occupied your chairs.

We're still sitting here.

And it's, I mean, look, this has been around forever, right?

I mean, we've played the clips of Harry Reid from like the 1990s, where he's like the hardest budget hawk,

border hawk, wants to audit the Fed.

I mean, he sounds like Rand Paul at times in his days

back in the 90s.

And he's changed.

And that sort of stuff does happen over time.

Now we're seeing it, it's not 20 years,

it's 20 minutes.

I mean, I don't know.

I guess we've just, everything's been accelerated, but man, I don't want to live in that world.

I don't want to live in the world where you make up whatever opinion fits the political political.

I don't want to live in the world where the Dixie chicks say, how dare you boycott us for our political opinion.

And then all of Hollywood and the music industry boycotts the inauguration.

Yeah.

I mean, wait a minute.

Hold on just a second.

You're boycotting the Trump, Trump, but we can't boycott you.

And again, we're un-American.

We're wrong because we say we're going to boycott you.

You're the American.

The interesting part of that, too, is

there was no Dixie Chicks boycott.

Right.

that's the other little aspect of that yeah they just if we could not play into that lie there was no Dixie Chicks boycott by Clear Channel it never happened I worked for the company at the time the country stations that I worked for were playing the Dixie Chicks there was no Dixie Chicks boycott it didn't happen Now, certain program directors might have gotten pissed and said, I'm not going to play the Dixie Chicks, but that was not a company-wide decision.

But this seems to be a Democratic Party decision to boycott this man

at the inauguration.

And beyond that, these are people who all did business with him when he was the same guy.

But I'm not running somebody to go find the pictures of Donald Trump with all of the celebrities because you know they all played at his casinos.

Yeah, they played at his casinos.

Oh, he doesn't have no questions.

And

he is such a

star lover that you know that he.

Yeah,

he is such a star lover that you know he has pictures with all of those people.

Oh, of course.

So

the time to release

all of those pictures is right now.

Oh, really?

You loved him when he was paying you, but now he's the most evil man in the planet.

And by the way, his opinions on any of this stuff and the things he's been saying has not really changed.

I mean, some of his politics have changed, but the thing he's always been this vocal about women.

I mean, he was vocal then.

He's vocal.

He was on Howard Stern for the love of Pete.

And the left loved him for it.

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Do we have an update on George and Barbara Bush?

I know she was hospitalized yesterday, which was

really concerning,

but he has been, he was really sick.

He had to have an operation yesterday to remove

something from his throat, a blockage in his throat.

Supposedly doing well.

She is just in as a precaution because she was coughing a lot.

I'm sure she was just, I mean, that happens a lot.

Husband and wife come in like that and she's really concerned and starting to get a lot of people.

They're the kind of couple too, though, that I think love each other so much and been together for so long that they're the kind of couple that dies together.

You know what I mean?

I said that to Tanya.

She said, because I hadn't heard that Barbara Bush was in the hospital.

She had just gotten a text alert.

And I said, no, it's George H.W.

Bush.

And she said, no, Barbara has just been put in, too.

And we were talking about it.

And I said, that's the kind of couple that they die together.

They're just this sweet pair that go together.

And she said,

I don't know.

I think maybe they'd do anything.

to not have to comment on why they're not going to the Trump inauguration.

What do you think?

Is this a giant scam?

I don't know.

His letter seemed kind of.

I didn't read the letter.

I didn't read the letter.

I mean, he said, like, if my doctors tell me if I go outside in January, I might wind up six feet under.

Yeah.

That's what Bush said.

I mean,

it's interesting that really, until the election,

the Bushes really did not show any love at all to Donald Trump.

Instead, they have really respected the process.

And I think everybody.

That's what we're supposed to do.

We're supposed to do that.

You can disagree with the policies.

Say what you want about the Bush family, but they respect the office of the presidency.

I think H.W.

did.

George W.

Bush, as much as I'm not a fan, he did and does.

Jeb,

I truly believe that

the Bush family is one of.

I would say probably the most honorable family in politics today.

Do you think of a family?

I mean, there's very few, but I mean, they definitely respect the office, and I think they do those things well.

I mean, you'd expect it.

It's the only family that I can think of off the top of my head that's had two presidents.

Yeah.

Two presidents.

Name another guy, though.

Name another man who would have put up with the bashing he's received over the last eight years where everything has been blamed on him.

It was it was absurd, the things they blamed on him.

He said nothing about it.

He never said anything.

You never heard George W.

Bush say, not, I didn't do that.

That's not my fault.

It's a bomber.

You never heard any of that coming out from him.

I can't think of one example.

He just took it.

I mean,

Cheney was a little bit more outspoken.

I can't remember.

And you'd expect that from Cheney.

Yeah.

But George Bush said to me right at the end of his time in the Oval, He said, I am prepared.

I did what I felt was right.

And I am prepared to be the most hated man in the next 50 years.

Let history, once everybody involved in this, is gone, let history judge.

I'm prepared.

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I

tore.

Again, no self-awareness.

Stephen Colbert ridicules Donald Trump for taking off his first weekend.

So

he raises his hand on Friday.

He says he's going to go to work on Monday.

And Stephen Colbert is already saying, how much time does this guy need off?

Oh, my gosh.

Don't, no, don't.

Don't.

Please don't go there.

The man Obama

has about 500 golf courses around the world, yet I can guarantee you right now he will golf less than Obama.

He will will not golf as much.

I believe that.

I believe

it's been, what, 83,000 times for Obama.

I don't know how

many of them are.

It's literally over 1,200 times.

There's no way Trump goes golfing that many times.

Woodrow Wilson

knocked him into the dirt.

No, that's

a golfer.

He's the

presidential golfer.

I think Trump likes the lifestyle of golf more than he likes golf, even though he does play golf.

But he likes the lifestyle of golf.

He likes a country club lifestyle, obviously.

You know, he basically lives at a country club.

But still,

I don't think he'll golf as much as Obama.

I think there's a possibility that Donald Trump puts the people around him to run things,

and then he gets bored in the first year, and he starts to go play golf and give speeches and be with the people.

I think that's a real possibility.

We had a boss like that who was very hands-on at the beginning of

his tenure at the radio station.

I mean, he was there

almost 24 hours a day.

That's right.

If his family wanted to see him,

they had to come to the station.

Right.

And they'd bring a change of underwear and he'd change in his office.

Yeah.

And he'd eat there and you'd get there early in the morning for the morning show.

And he's painting the walls.

He'd be there at 3 o'clock in the morning.

And he was never away.

But soon as that thing was, he thought, set,

you could never find him.

Never find him.

Never find him.

He might show up on Friday to pick up messages.

Yeah, maybe not.

Yeah.

Well, you got to

see it.

All that goes smooth.

What do you want?

No, but I'm not sure.

What I'm saying is

that could be a very

Donald Trump could be bored very quickly.

And so, and this is interesting because we certainly had this pitch to us many times during the primaries, which was, look, he, and from big, high-level, insider Washington people, some of which have been elected, who said, look,

if he wins, don't worry about it because what he's interested in is fighting and battling with the press and tweeting and making big noise.

And he will, because he doesn't care about a lot of these things, will let his advisors select people, right?

And then those people will do the work.

And Trump will support those positions.

It was one of the selling points.

It was one of the selling points.

And I admit,

I did not believe it.

There is, I think, some evidence that it could be coming true a little bit.

And it's kind of

interesting.

I mean, you know, some of this is a little sweet talk.

I mean, I, you know, I will say.

Are you hearing the martini music?

Are you hearing

a cocktail love song from Donald Trump's?

No, but I mean, because he's...

It's interesting.

I think Trump, so far, and take this for what it's worth, he's been in office zero days.

Okay, but I will say, and I said this before,

his

overall, his appointments were better than I expected.

Okay, can I tell you, I know people in his cabinet, I know people around him, I know people who are advising.

Yes.

A lot of them.

Yes.

And they are all saying the same thing.

Glenn, you would not believe this.

I don't even want to say it out loud because I'm afraid it's going to jinx it.

But this is

better

than our wildest dreams, not expectations, wildest dreams.

One person said to me, they were sitting in a room, I don't want to get specific, they were sitting in a room and they said, A,

nobody like me would ever be in the room before.

I'm die-hard, constitutionalist, blah, blah, blah, just

bottom line thinker.

And was in a room with the Trump people and with the people in Congress that make the decisions.

And at one point,

they all looked at him and said, what do you think?

And he said, first of all, nobody would have ever asked me what do I think

openly in the room.

And he said, I said, well, what needs to happen is Congress needs to do X, Y, and Z, and then that just stops all of these problems.

And he said the room stopped.

They looked at the attorneys, and the attorneys said, yeah, that would work.

And then the leadership went, okay, let's do it.

He said, he walked out going, what the hell just happened?

So, I mean, I am hearing tremendous reports.

Now, I am still skeptical because

I am gravely concerned about the First Amendment.

I am gravely concerned about are we going to rule constitutionally?

Are we going to put the power back in Congress?

or will this be a guy who writes edicts?

Well, I've got to worry about it.

Good things done.

For example, Jeffy, on that point, you know, Trump said that they're going to,

the administration said they're going to start building the wall via executive order.

Now we don't.

No, they're not going to pass any legislation in Congress.

I will say legislation is already in place.

Already in place.

So I think it's

already in place.

Right, but then there was legislation after that that said that we're not going to do that.

Now they may have found I don't know that they specifically said we're we're not going to do that.

The K David Hutchinson thing

sort of derailed it, but they could have gotten it back on track.

Yeah, I think that just said we're going to do it this way.

Which was the weirdest.

I mean,

it just shows how

Republicans are conservatives.

But still, he could do it.

Why would you need an executive order to do something that already?

I'd like to read into that one.

Let's just hold that one off.

You know, I mean, I think, like, the interesting thing with the Trump administration, from my perspective, is

that he's going sort of all out on everything.

And so the things he connects with me on,

he goes further than a Mitt Romney would.

And it's really exciting.

It's really exciting.

Give the example.

Today's examples, listen to this.

Yeah, this is a story in the Hill, and they're talking about spending cuts.

This is the proposal.

This has not been passed or even proposed yet, but this is what they're talking about.

The departments of commerce and energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

That's great.

The departments of transportation, justice, and state would see significant cuts and program eliminations.

Good.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

Oh, my God.

And this one speaks directly to my heart and soul.

NPR would be privatized.

Yes.

Let's get back to that in a second.

Yeah, you got to love that.

While the national

I almost want to say it with the Barry White voice.

You're going to make me cry.

I think I know what you're going to say.

You're going to make me cry.

Just think about this for a moment.

The National Endowment of the Arts would be eliminated entirely.

Oh, can you imagine what Hollywood will do then?

Oh, God,

that is the dagger through their heart.

It's like literally my number one cut in the entire government.

You know what?

I am.

Because of the fact that it's so stupid.

It's like people love art.

It's the one thing everyone will donate to all the time.

They will all do it for free.

They don't even need funding to do art because everyone likes doing art anyway.

Yet we still dump money.

It's a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things, but it's such a stupid government role that I would love if they eliminated it.

I will tell you that

I've never been for the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting,

for NPR, PBS.

I do not believe, because I've been, you know, we've been in competition with them forever, and it's unfair competition, and

it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous the amount of money they spend.

No broadcast corporation spends anywhere near the money that NPR and PBS spend.

And they can just continue to spend it because it's federally funded.

Right.

Can you imagine if our business was federally funded, what we could do?

And the argument has always been: well, where are you going to get quality TV?

Well, Netflix and Amazon.

Yeah.

Right now.

BBC.

Every case.

But BBC, BBC is funded by

the British, but I don't care because I'm not British.

Right.

But let me tell you something.

PBS will be funded by

Amazon and they will be funded by Netflix.

My problem is right now, NPR has entered into the commercial realm.

Their Netflix, I mean, I'm sorry, their podcasts.

on on Apple

are always number one.

They're way beyond anything commercial.

And they're making all of that money.

Well, we have to make it on the money we make through that.

I don't get a government subsidy.

They need to live.

They can live on that money now, and they need to.

Before it was like, well, you know, they get the licensing for Big Bird.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

Now you can make money because you can go directly to the people.

You don't, it's not the same world and they are raking money now.

Remember the controversy with

Big Bird with Big Bird when Ross Nutty said he was gonna he was gonna stop the funding for for PBS back in 2012.

They went into a tizzy fit over it.

But in 2012.

Nobody makes more money than Sesame Street does.

And

it's not even the world that it was in 2012.

No, I know.

2017, it's a different world.

They can make money and are making money hand over fist.

Definitely.

Now, they will probably show that they're barely squeaking by, but I will take you through the studios and the production houses of every other radio and television company in the country.

And then I'll take you to NPR and PBS, and I will show you.

how they spend their dollars.

It's nice to have a clearance at every single market guaranteed.

Oh, that's a nice little little

radio network, isn't it?

Yeah.

But I mean,

again, they're saying that

the blueprint being used by Trump's team, which was kind of thrown out there by the Heritage Foundation,

would cut $10.5 trillion of spending over the next decade.

Now, that's $10.5, to keep it in perspective, $10.5 trillion of future projections.

So it wouldn't really be $10.5 trillion, but it's still a hell of a lot better is what we're looking at.

And the question here is, like, will we get these things?

Will they actually happen?

Will we get the new tax plans?

And if that stuff starts happening, we will go into that area, which a lot of callers told us that they thought would happen with Trump and many people inside are watching, which is you're going to get a mixed bag.

Here's what's going to happen.

He is going to, he is, in my opinion, because he's a populist, he is going to go after all of the things like

that.

PBS is on the fence, all the things that the average person doesn't use, doesn't want, thinks is wasteful, and he'll cut it.

And

then he will do the socialist programs on healthcare where the things that everybody gets, and he will ensure that.

So he's going to get the average person who wants their perk, but doesn't want the perks that

they don't use.

And the National Endowment of the Arts is not going to be bemoaned by anybody but the elite.

I don't know.

I mean, that's one I bet the polling on the National Development of Arts is actually pretty positive because people are like, art?

I like art.

Art is good.

That's not how you're supposed to judge a government program, but that's how they do.

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Hello, Bill.

You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

Hey Glenn, how you doing?

Very good.

I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your sincere message to the Bush family.

For a long time,

I had some problems with the things you were saying about President Bush when he was in office,

but I understand it was just a policy thing.

It wasn't personal.

For sure.

Serving under him for, you know,

I just retired from the Air Force last year

after 21 years.

And serving under that man, I'm meeting him,

the things he did for the troops, the things he's still doing,

the generosity you said he respected the office, the respect he had for the troops, and the love that we have for him is really immeasurable.

I have never seen anybody with more love for our troops than George W.

Bush.

No question.

Have you seen his painting series he's doing now?

He's getting really good.

He's getting really good.

And he is now painting the faces of the wounded in the war.

He takes that personally.

Yeah.

And they're like family.

And

he is a truly, truly honorable man.

Truly honorable.

Yes, sir.

And I just want to say one last thing.

I actually had.

I was a recruiter for a short period of time in the Air Force, and I met the chaplain that counseled him at Camp David.

And he said, if every American did not believe that he was

taking both wars to bed with him every night, they were sadly mistaken.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And I know that you didn't agree with us in Iraq,

but I was there twice.

I was on the ground.

And

the people appreciated us there.

And to see what Obama did to us and throw all of our victories away there and hurt the troops like you have no idea.

No, I do.

Phil, I have said to my

friends who were in the service and who fought in Iraq, I am sorry that we have just pissed away everything that you've done and all the friends that you have lost.

I can't say anything, but I'm sorry.

We took victory, and as we always do,

we snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory every single time.

Thanks for your service, Phil.

Thank you.

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How the Trump Presidency will change America.

Oh my, it's a bleak picture they paint.

I think, you know what, we're going to start there because

we have

how the Trump presidency is going to change America, a list of the things that he says he's going to do and is already being placed in action, and a warning about his Supreme Court pick.

We begin there right now.

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to the program.

Stu, give that list again that you gave just about 20 minutes ago on the things that apparently are now in the pipeline with Donald Trump and his presidency.

It's a report from the Hill,

and here's what they say.

The Departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies.

The Departments of Transportation, Justice, and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized.

And the internet page I'm reading just refreshed.

Okay, and while the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment of Humanities would be eliminated entirely, it's from the Hill.

Obviously, lots of things that that we like.

$10.5 trillion over 10 years, a Heritage Foundation blueprint.

$10.5 trillion.

That's unbelievable savings.

Again, that's on projected.

Let's not forget that's on projected spending.

Yeah, but still, that's a massive number.

It would be great.

That's a lot of money.

That happened.

Most of our, you know, most of our

deficit is in projected spending.

Yeah, and what they usually talk about cutting is well, we might be able to nip 1%

of the future increase.

Right.

And they don't even do that.

So this is really significant.

And it's going to happen because, I mean, if he wants it to, it will happen.

And I look forward to Hollywood going to war with the guy because they'll lose.

Donald Trump will win that battle every time.

Go ahead, fight him on this.

What about Meryl Streep?

He will lose.

Meryl Streep will lose to Donald Trump.

If there's one thing I've turned around on, on this guy, it's that, yes, he will win.

I don't know why.

I have no idea why, but I do know this: he will win.

He's never lost.

There is no beating him.

No, he went to war with the handicapped and won.

Who does that?

Who does that?

No one.

So don't take him on.

I mean, they will.

Hollywood will, because they think they're superior to everybody, but they're going to find out they're not.

I will tell you that I just think this

the end

of this politically correct nonsense

is here.

Yeah, I mean, that's what got him.

To some degree.

To some degree, it is.

To some degree.

Yeah.

And he's bringing it on because he's winning.

Well, I mean, that's what got him elected, right?

Yes.

But where?

And where does it...

What does he perceive as politically incorrect?

Like the,

you know, sending people, anybody can use any bathroom.

Sending men into a girl's bathroom, you know, with my 17-year-old daughter, that's beyond political correctness.

That's just no common sense.

But oddly, that's he supports that.

I know.

Which is a weird idea.

But he reversed himself on that.

Did he?

I don't think so.

I thought he did.

No, I think he said, look, it's been this way for a while.

Why play with it?

Was kind of his answer.

You know,

it's not a big issue.

This is a great jumping off point for I have had several people say this to me, and I have said,

you need to bring this up.

Now, these are Trump supporters, big Trump supporters.

You need to bring this up.

Yeah, well, I can't.

What do you mean you can't?

Well, it would be better if you did.

Yeah, I bet.

For you.

Yeah, it would be great for you.

For me, right?

It's because they're not going to be able to do that.

They know they don't

they know they won't win.

That's right.

And this article

kind of alludes to that, but just saying that nobody, they're all talking about it internally and no one will say it out loud.

I love that.

It would be better if you did.

Yeah, thank you.

Well, but it wouldn't because there are a lot of people who say Glenn Beck's just anti-Trump.

Right, yes.

So it's not.

But it isn't.

I've waited and waited and waited and no one will say anything.

Is it about a Supreme Court?

It's about the Supreme Court.

Let me give you this article.

Two religious liberty cases have sparked an internal war among conservatives over Judge William H.

Pryor.

Stu?

Is Pryor one of the

main considerations?

He's the main.

He's a leading candidate.

Yeah, and he's been talked about in Republican circles for a long time for a Supreme Court seat.

I've heard...

problems from libertarians with him, although the problems you're describing here are not really from that angle.

Right.

Federal Society and Heritage Foundation put him on the list.

Both of them did.

However,

there is a problem,

and

the problem was found by the Federalist Society, and it started to ripple around that community, and they're like, oh, crap, we put this guy on the list.

And members of the Federalist Society were like, yeah, I know you did.

And now the ripples are going through the Heritage Foundation, and no one is willing to say anything about it.

But you you need to know about it.

Everybody loves him because his judicial record, 2003 Senate confirmation, he said Roe versus Wade is the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.

Big.

Love that.

Okay.

That's great.

Now.

Let me see.

No one in the conservative movement or the religious movement care to say anything about this except James Dobson and the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins.

They have now circulated and are

persistently open about their concerns with Pryor.

One of the cases that concerns them is Keaton versus Anderson Wiley.

It involved a Christian counseling student whom a state college expelled after she refused to agree to a remediation measure.

Such as one of her choices was she could attend a gay pride parade intended to change her views on on homosexuality.

Oh my gosh.

When she said no,

she was suspended from school.

A three-day, or I mean, sorry, a three-judge panel, including prior, ruled the school did not discriminate against the student because the school would treat anyone with her belief the same way.

Well, then they discriminate against anyone.

Yeah, they discriminate against anyone who believes that.

That's unbelievable.

Right.

More problematic

is the majority opinion in Glenn v.

Brumby, a case involving a biological male fired after he wanted to dress as a woman and begin medical treatments.

Pryor again concurred with the Circuit Court's liberal former Judge Rosemary Barkett, ruling the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution protected the employee from discrimination based on sex, which the court interpreted to include gender identity.

So now he is saying that sex is whatever you decide it to be.

Slate.

Slate called the opinion absolutely revolutionary for transgendered

employment rights.

How did this guy get recommended by the Heritage Society?

Various Obama administration agencies, including the Departments of Justice, Labor, and Education, began citing Glenn as their justification, as their justification

for advancing transgendered litigation and regulations.

So he's the guy who wrote

the current law

that

allows them to say bathrooms.

Now, you know, look,

those are a couple of cases, and, you know,

there is a lot of good with Pryor.

He is, you know, I mean, here's, this is from.

It's what they said about Stephen Breyer, too.

Yeah, but I mean, when you have hundreds of, and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cases, can you find a couple that that are that are going to

be but let me give you this.

This is from Scotus blog talking about religion.

Pryor has consistently, although not uniformly, ruled in favor of parties raising religious liberty claims.

And, you know, so that's...

He is.

We cannot afford to have anyone chip away on religious liberty claims.

Yeah, exactly.

Can't afford it.

Especially when there are people on that list that you probably could say have uniformly corrected.

You've got the Lee brothers.

There's so many guys on there who

have 20.

There are three that are unacceptable.

Prior is one of them.

You think unacceptable is the right term for prior?

I feel like that's going to fall.

I think when you have

scalia, you're replacing scalia.

Okay.

You have.

In that context, he is unacceptable.

He's unacceptable.

You have no one holding the benchmark.

It's like if you're replacing Ginsburg,

you would replace Ginsburg.

I mean, I wouldn't, you wouldn't, but they would replace Ginsburg.

And if it was the only one, they would not roll the dice.

We have no one.

And they would replace her with someone more radical than she is.

Yes.

We never

do that.

We never do it.

We never do it.

If this is what this, this is what religious people said, this is about the Supreme Court, then prior should be unacceptable.

And the only, I am told, and this is the why,

well, why don't you come on the show and talk about it?

Because it will add more credibility.

It would just be better if you would just do it.

So what they want is they want people to learn about this guy and make a decision and stand up.

And this is the religious community and the deepest conservatives that are in the Trump team.

It should mean something that James Dobson is opposed, right?

Yeah, Dobson is opposed to the same thing.

And Tony Perkins.

That's

really good ones.

That's General Boykin's firm.

Oh, yeah.

I will say, though, however,

they were big Trump guys.

Trump gets to choose who he wants.

And remember, let's take this in context.

Donald Trump enters the presidency as the most pro-gay and LGBTQ rights president that has ever taken office.

I know.

Remember, Barack Obama took office opposing gay marriage.

I know.

Donald Trump is the first president that has ever taken office without opposing it.

Yes.

In our history.

Yes.

So I think, and you look at his history of comments,

that would be a consistent move from his particular standpoint.

It would be.

It would be.

But what does that mean in Independence Liberty if we're not careful here?

You know, if I'm a business business and I have, I've hired a guy to be the Maitre D

and he's going to start wearing a dress, I have to be able to fire him.

If, I mean, that means that Pat all of a sudden could start wearing a dress and wanting me to call him Carol.

Well, I didn't hire Carol.

Right.

And that would destroy my business.

No.

I would be fine with that, Pat, by the way.

Would you?

I can't.

You'd be okay.

You are so open-minded.

Thank you.

I think that would be adorable.

Thank you.

Does that seem reasonable to anyone that Pat becomes Carol and I cannot fire him?

And that's insanity.

Would that be all right?

And I am, and

I would still be Pat's friend.

Of course.

And if it would destroy my business, I have a right to say no.

I'm sorry.

You've changed the conditions.

If I've hired a black guy and all of a sudden I realize, realize, wait a minute, he's black.

Yeah, he's always been black.

He's not changed the conditions at all.

Pat's changed the conditions.

I hired a man.

He's now a woman.

That's not good for me.

You should be able to take that into consideration, right?

I mean,

for instance, if you're on an assembly line, And Pat becomes Carol,

but it doesn't affect anybody but Carol.

You know, maybe some of the other people are uncomfortable with Pat becoming Carol.

Okay, well, guys,

get over it.

But

if I'm Ford and I hire Mike Rowe to do Ford Tough and he becomes Michelle Rowe,

and he's like, Ford tough,

Ford has a right to fire him.

Not in this environment, though.

No, not in this environment.

Not according to this.

Well, I think in entertainment, it's a tough realm.

I mean, you can get away with a lot of stuff in entertainment.

You can't get away with it.

I'm not even talking about entertainment.

I'm talking about anyone who works with the public.

You're running a bakery and the person behind the counter.

I don't think it would be best for my business necessarily, might scare the kids to have a guy, and I'm not talking about this.

I mean, look,

there are times when you look at women and you're like, is that a dude?

There are other times when it's clearly a man in a skirt and it's a little unsettling to the children and everybody else.

You're kind of like, what?

Okay, okay, hey.

Okay.

Do I, as a business, have to have some of my customers go in and go, hey,

Pat, in a dress,

hey, how are you?

Yep.

I'm Carol now.

Well,

in public-facing industries, I mean,

this is similar to what happened with Hooters, right?

When guys would try to get jobs at Hooters.

And generally speaking, the courts have

sided with Hooters to say, yes, you don't have to employ Jeffy at Hooters in short shorts and a tank top.

And Hooters is a great example, because what if one of those buxom, beautiful women wanted to become a man?

And I think that they'd wear that outfit.

Hooters wouldn't want that.

And neither would their customers.

I think the courts would side with Hooters in that.

Now, Hooters' public relations might blow up because of it, but I mean, the courts, I think, would side with

to me.

This is not the disturbing one.

The disturbing one,

this is not a clear-cut case, in my opinion.

The disturbing one is if I believe something, she's a Christian.

Yeah.

So she believes something.

That's her religion, her faith.

If she won't go through indoctrination that is designed by their own words to change her opinion,

she can be kicked out of school?

That's clear religious discrimination.

Yeah, I don't understand that.

The name of the judge, and he's the number one pick for Donald Trump, is Pryor.

Do your own homework, spread the word.

Maybe we should do a more extensive profile on him

because those cases are important, but he's done a lot.

And let's look at all of it.

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Hello, Nadia.

Hi, how are you today?

Very good.

How are you?

I'm good, thanks.

I just want to say it.

You don't sound it

really, Nadia.

I'm just a little nervous, I guess.

Okay.

Well, don't be.

It's only me and millions of our friends.

I just wanted to talk about your point earlier with, for example, transgender people and their place in the business world today and talk about how that translates back into the 60s where people were nervous about hiring black people to represent their businesses.

And my opinion as a conservative voter, but non-religious conservative voter, is that as long as the person is capable of doing the job and representing your business, they come in in a dress, but shaven and not just well groomed.

As long as they're well representing your business and capable of doing the job,

it's one of those changing times where people are going to be accustomed eventually in 10, 20 years to seeing this.

But aren't you drawing an arbitrary line at grooming?

I mean, uh, you're just not accepting another one of their choices.

That you're saying that I don't, the grooming choice is one that I can accept, but I can accept others.

As a business owner, you should be able to make those choices on your own.

And over time, when we all stop using deodorant because it's bad for the environment,

I mean, we'll all be used to the smell.

I mean, why won't you go there now?

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I think it's appropriate to say we are one day away from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

And if you happen to be on the other side and that makes you feel nervous,

now you know how we felt when Barack Obama said it.

Of course, the temptation was to say, tough.

Right.

We won't say that.

We won't say that.

When you say we, you're referring to...

I won't say that.

Thank you.

I won't say that.

And

I won't

mean that with my silence either.

I mean, but the same thing happens because we've been trying.

I mean, we've gone through several things here where we generally are speaking positively of the things Trump has done.

As I've said, he's exceeded my expectations so far, zero days through the presidency.

That's not a high bar to clear, but I mean, I'm glad I want him to.

There's been a lot I've complained about and a lot I don't like.

And I think, you know, you look at this, when you talk about fundamental transformation of America, do I want it transformed from what Obama wanted it to be?

Absolutely.

However, some of the things he's doing are concerning

from constitutional grounds,

from

the Fourth Amendment grounds specifically.

First Amendment grounds.

First Amendment grounds, really.

The Russia stuff is really concerning to me.

There's enough there, and I don't want it transformed in that direction either.

I like America.

I think it's a pretty cool place.

People have been asking me over and over and over and over again: what do you hope that you'll get from this administration?

Easy.

I hope he raises his hand and he says, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

And he means it.

All I want is a restoration of the constitutional powers.

That's what I want.

That is our fix.

Nothing else will fix us.

Everything else is a nice little band-aid or a showpiece, but that's not going to fix us.

Getting rid of NPR, which is, you know, one of your, the National Endowment of the Arts, which is one of your

pet issues.

Yes, you love that idea.

I do.

That's not going to fix us.

No, that definitely is.

It's not going to fix us.

It's small potatoes when it comes to the numbers, but I see it.

And

it will also, in some ways, divide us.

One of the most important things.

I don't mind that because I happen to agree that the Constitution doesn't say that we are paying for the National Endowment for the Arts.

But I want and we must have the fix on the restoration of the proper powers of each branch.

Have to.

And if he violates those things, I'm going to have a really hard time.

One of the critical issues is what they do with Obamacare.

And some of the directions they're talking about going are not good.

They're just not good.

I will tell you, you're not going to get rid of Obamacare.

You're just not.

And I really believe that they're not.

I mean, truly, they'll say they are.

They'll say they've done that.

They'll have Trump care.

I mean, several GOP.

That's what they're working towards is something

at least as bad or worse than what Obamacare is.

So here's, I really believe that what I said earlier today is

right.

He's going to go after those things

that

will

affect the

average person in a positive way.

For instance, that's why he's going after the press.

This was an election, not against Hillary Clinton, but against the press, and he said it himself.

This is an election against the mainstream media.

So

that war is happening because it makes his supporters feel good.

So he's going to go for that.

He's going to go for other things that will not affect the average person unless it's intellectually like the National Endowment for the Arts and NPR, all funds cut.

They're closing that division.

If he does that, that's going to make conservatives very, very happy.

It will make the uber liberals and the Hollywood elites very, very unhappy.

That will be a win for him.

And then he will go and he will look to the, and I hate to use this word, and it's not because

I'm a racist, because he's white and I'm white.

Actually, both of us a little orange, but

he is going to go after

those smaller socialist things that the average person will like.

You will see him,

I think,

nationalize the police force in Chicago or send in a nationalized police task force to help them fix it because it will be seen as doing something

and it will be seen as a good thing for the inner city.

You will see him do health care, Trump care, because it'll be seen seen as making sure that those 40 million Americans are taken care of and we're not evil conservatives.

And so he will do those things that the average person and the just below average person will love.

Which is why he wants to build up the military and march it through the streets to show off our

military strength.

If you were reading Defying Hitler, you would see that those things were really important

because, and if you watch what's happening in the media, and Barack Obama did it too,

the National Socialists knew that you had to have things to celebrate.

And so they were constantly celebrating small victories and making them into a very big deal

because they knew that people wanted to feel good.

And if you watch the the

arenas that Donald Trump did when he was going around, And everybody said, well, he can't get the votes because, you know,

sure, he can fill 20,000 people, but he can't, really?

That's infectious.

That's infectious.

Yeah, I mean,

especially when people are worried or scared, they want to be around people who are hollering and yelling and cheering and happy.

When they asked in one interview how he was going to

let us know that he was making America great again, I'll tell them.

But isn't that what Ronald Reagan did?

And isn't that the opposite of what Barack Obama did?

He told us that we weren't good.

We were constantly told we're no good.

Under Carter, we really were.

And under Obama.

Yeah.

We're told we're no good.

We're racist.

We're this, we're that.

And we started to believe it.

We've given up on ourselves.

That is the job of the president.

He's right on that one.

How are we going to know we're great?

I'm going to tell you you're great.

Yeah, Reagan did do that.

Reagan did it.

And certainly that seems to be a high interest point, considering the red hats.

It seems to be a high interest point for the president.

It seems to be what he's interested in to do.

Well, and look at the Drudge headlines every single day.

Great again.

And then some headlines.

No, I'm not.

No.

No, I can't.

I'm not going to look at it.

Great again.

And I can't compare that to what Reagan did.

You have to back it up with something meaningful.

Well,

for example, we have the plans, several of the plans plans that have

been rustling around to replace Obamacare.

For example, start with the one that was proposed by Tom Price, right?

Logical place to start.

He's the HHS guy.

However,

some of it's really good.

Cadillac tax goes away.

Subsidies are replaced with less expensive tax credits.

Now, again,

that's still a government funding of these areas that were not funded before.

It would be less expensive.

Increase in health savings accounts, which I do like.

I love.

Previous, but again, this is a note.

This is from Forbes, by the way, wrote up these proposals.

Note that while the proposal purports to repeal Obamacare, some of the consumer protections granted by Obamacare remain intact.

Specifically, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan, denied coverage through a new plan, or charged higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

Great again.

I mean, that is

a pretty big deal, right?

I mean, that is.

Is anybody talking about undoing the mandate?

Repealing the mandate

would go a long way.

Not the full thing.

I think this does repeal the mandate, though I don't know for sure.

We'll go into another one in a minute that kind of addresses that.

Also, they're going to put $7.5 billion per year in federal funding into high-risk pools that would increase annually by 3% that number.

So again, that's $7.5 billion into another different type of entitlement program for health care.

It's a high-risk food.

It's affecting the market to grow it.

Right.

So, this would be better than Obamacare.

I mean, straight out, it's better than Obamacare.

However, it does not repeal Obamacare completely.

And it does, it is.

It's a fix for Obamacare.

Yeah, it does things that would repair a lot of the problems with Obamacare, but it is not a repeal of Obamacare.

Another one is interesting.

This is from American Enterprise Institute, which is a good think tank, does a lot of really good things.

And this is the most expensive thing, would save a lot of money, and has really interesting aspects to it.

But let me focus on one that might

make you think a little bit.

Because you talked about the individual mandate going away.

One of the features of this plan is not individual mandate.

but automatic enrollment.

Now, those are totally different things, right?

Now,

the Obamacare

law says you got to buy insurance.

If you don't buy insurance, you're going to get a fine.

What this does is it says, we're going to give you a tax credit for insurance.

If you don't buy insurance, you already have insurance with that tax credit.

We're going to automatically enroll you into

a cataclysmic health plan, a high-deductible health plan.

So you will have coverage whether you want it or not.

It will be automatically enrolled.

Whether it's automatically benefited or not.

Yeah, no, because you pay for it with the tax credits they're giving you.

Now,

that is, it would insure more people than Obamacare.

They believe the difference, I mean, the difference is radical.

It would basically insure everybody.

How do I pay for it with the tax credit they're giving me?

I think

you get a tax credit if you buy insurance and

they just keep your tax credit as your enrollment

if you haven't.

And they pay your premium, essentially with the money they would theoretically.

That's going to be weird.

Right.

But the deal is.

Well, the deal is the government is not going to write a check to something else.

They'll write an IOU to that fund.

Of course, yeah, the money doesn't actually exist.

The money doesn't exist.

That exists.

Do we have to include that in the conversation?

Well, of course the money does exist.

We do if it was a corporation because you would go to jail for that.

Right.

That is absolutely true.

Some of the consumer, again, previously covered households cannot be dropped from their current health plan, denied coverage through a new plan, or charge higher premiums on the basis of health status in the individual market.

Households with coverage through an employer can transition to the individual market with safe protection.

All of the same protection.

All of that means that rates continue to go up and coverage continues to get worse.

No, coverage.

That's what that means.

So all these other plans, the price plan, the other ones that we have in the pile here, would decrease coverage slightly.

projected.

So, you know, obviously you're not individually mandating people in some of these plans, so you're going to

back it off a little bit, right?

There's going to be 1%, 2% drops in the coverage of Americans, at least as a projection.

This plan projects 16 million more insured persons relative to current law.

We're talking about, so they've already gone,

what, down to, they've already taken off, what's the number that Obama always throws around?

10 million, 20 million, I can't remember what the number is.

20 million

here.

What they're saying is like a lot of these plans would make it, instead of 20 million, it would be 17 or 18 million.

Here, this plan would actually increase it from 20 to 36 million covered.

So it would cover a lot more people.

It also goes into major Medicaid,

Medicaid changes.

So there's a lot may go into.

May I suggest we have the conversation.

The BBC yesterday said,

well,

if you get rid of Obamacare, you've got, I think they said,

26 million people that are on Obamacare that didn't have insurance.

You're just going to put them on the streets.

I mean, it's been very good.

Well, if you want to just use that stat, it has been very good.

But it has also been horrific for the majority of Americans because we were told we would save $2,000 and our prices of

medicine have gone through the roof.

We haven't had the doctors that we want.

We don't have the care that we want.

We don't have the insurance programs that we want.

It's destroyed the average person and business.

That's it, though.

But those 20 million Americans, if they actually exist in the number of 20 million,

maybe they're better, but you could have walked into a hospital and had treatment.

It's not like we've ever left anyone behind.

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He is one of

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Some might celebrate that this is the last day that we have to hear this.

But a piece of audio from a press conference yesterday with Barack Obama that made blood shoot directly out of my eyes.

And we begin there 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 home.

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck

program.

I don't even know where to begin,

except for the audio, and I'm not sure I'm going to make it through a commentary on it.

Here it is.

Barack Obama yesterday in the press conference.

That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship.

You're not supposed to be syncophants.

You're supposed to be skeptics.

You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

You're not supposed to be complimentary,

but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power

and make sure that we are accountable to the people who sent us here.

And you have done that.

And you've done it for the most part

in ways that I could appreciate for fairness, even if I didn't always agree with your conclusions.

Wow.

Does that count as making it all the way through?

Yeah, we did.

I mean,

I didn't think I could make it through the commentary about it.

Oh.

Play his thanks and warning.

Because what he was doing yesterday

was he was warning the press how they have to behave under Donald Trump.

And I just, I did.

Yeah, because they did it with him.

They were skeptics skeptics with him, not syncophants.

He just listened.

In fact, he said syncophants.

I don't know what the hell that is.

That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed.

But that's the point of this relationship.

You're not supposed to be syncophants.

You're supposed to be skeptics.

You're supposed to ask me tough questions.

You're not supposed to be complimentary.

Like that, what about being enchanted?

What's the thing that's enchanted you the most?

What a tough question that was.

Oh, my God.

Howdy, what was the

the thing about your first year as president?

What was the thing that you're most proud of?

That kind of tough question.

That's tough.

Yeah, I was actually hoping that whoever that reporter was that asked him how he was enchanted by the office would come back on the last press conference and ask the exact same question.

Did not happen.

However, he did use the word enchanted during the press conference, though.

So he brought it back around a little bit.

But it was, you know, look, there were some moments there that maybe that could frustrate you.

But I mean, you know, you're

mister Bring Us Together, I thought.

I thought that wasn't you anymore.

I thought that was the old Glenn Beck, you know?

I didn't say anything about that.

I was just pointing out what the president was.

I could tell.

I could get your tone.

I got your tone.

And sure, you can look at that and you'd say how, you know, they're like, well, you guys helped my feet to the fire in a lot of ways.

I guess those ways were invisible ways.

But I guess he did.

You could certainly look at that and be critical.

However, what have we done today?

I mean, we've been obviously skeptical of Donald Trump's presidency, but we've outlined a few things that we have liked about the Roman Twins inauguration.

David Bob Lerliner, you mentioned, you know, there's some very positive things there.

I want to come back to the David Lerdner thing.

That's a great thing.

Yeah.

And I think we can also,

people say you can't say anything positive about Trump.

We've done that today.

People say you can't say anything positive about Obama.

I think we can do that too.

I think we could.

Did I miss something in his press conference?

He outlined something I think we really, really agree agree with.

And listen.

I want to do some writing.

I want to

be quiet a little bit.

Oh, my God.

I don't want to hear myself talk so darn much.

Oh, my God.

We must too.

I

absolutely agree with that.

I also don't want you to talk at all.

I don't want to hear him at all.

Yes,

we can go even farther than we can.

We come across lines and we're holding hands with the president in his last day.

He wants to be quiet, and he doesn't want to hear himself talk so darn much on the same topic either.

Wow.

There is so much, and that's a basic fundamental principle of mine.

Right.

You know, not hearing him talk so much.

More quiet time.

More quiet time for Obama.

We agree wholeheartedly.

Right.

Less time with a pen and the phone.

Yes.

And we're going to get that too.

That's nice.

Can I just take a moment here and just say

we made it?

Well, it's not tomorrow at noon.

It's tomorrow.

It's tomorrow.

Tomorrow at noon.

Relax.

Slow your roll.

He's still in office.

Oh, you're right.

He's still about to

suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and not go through with the inauguration.

That's why, because I've heard that from a lot of people.

A lot of people.

And I don't believe that part of it.

However,

there were a dozen or two dozen new regulations that were pushed through today.

I don't have the list of them yet, but something in there could be quite terrible.

We still expect him to pardon dozens and dozens and dozens of people who could be dangerous criminals.

You don't put dozens of regulations through on your last day that are controversial.

No, and you don't pardon the really controversial.

Remember, this is a guy who a couple days ago pardoned a

terrorist who was targeting the overthrow of the government from

Puerto Rico

and bombed government buildings here in the United States and was planning on bombing several places in Chicago.

They found his apartment stuffed with C4 preparing for these actions.

Unrepentant and an avowed communist who still wants the communist state.

And that was the opening act.

So today

it's going to be substantially more of pardons and commutations.

He's already done 209.

That was the other day.

He's done 1,597 by far commutations and pardons during his presidency almost 1600 and it'll certainly surpass that and it was 273 just the other day 290 commutations 64 okay so 209

um and they said it's going to be substantially more today it's kind of like what is a few is a few three or is a few five

What's substantially more mean to this president?

Because the way it was written, in theory, it could mean there will be a significant amount more, right?

So like you had 273.

It's substantially more.

It's substantially more.

So it could be another 50.

Like that's a substantial amount, right?

That's in addition to the 273.

The way I read it was substantially more than 273.

Right.

So I don't know which one it's going to be, but

I think it's more than 273.

I think substantially more.

The way I read that.

I'm expecting a thousand.

You know what I was expecting?

I was thinking about yesterday because you made the great point yesterday yesterday: let's say in theory, he just decided to

everyone who had a marijuana only

conviction that was in prison, he could just say, let him go.

And

I thought that was an interesting point.

I don't know how you could do that

pragmatically.

Like, I don't know what this, if you could come up with that.

You'd have to do them all individually.

Federal law.

Is that federal?

Are you in federal prison for marijuana?

You can be, yeah.

Yeah.

So theoretically,

you know, that could happen.

But again, like, you'd have to do them all individually.

He'd have have to be preparing for this for a long time.

The other one that popped into my head on that same

road, though, was what about immigration?

He knows that Donald Trump has been running on,

we're not going to get rid of any of these DREAM acts, any of the executive orders Obama has pressed.

Couldn't he go through and pick whatever his 20, 50, 100, 1,000 best cases are as far as immigration law and exempt them from prosecution on those things?

Because they're not citizens, there might be a weird line there.

But in theory, he could probably do that to a lot of people before he walks out and implement his law.

And that would not be one that Trump could reverse.

It would, no, because he can't, because it's not executive order.

This is presidential privilege.

Yeah, presidential pardon.

It's in the Constitution.

He's allowed to do it.

And there's the Hillary thing.

Will he pardon her in advance of any sort of prosecution?

Because nobody's going to go after.

Nobody's going to go after that.

Yeah, but Trump has pretty much said that.

I don't want to hassle the family anymore.

It's pretty much what he's saying.

No, she's done.

She's gone, and

they're not going to do a thing about it.

I will say somebody polled the New York mayoral race, and Clinton was up by something like 20 points over de Blasio.

So if she wants, I mean, that's still a big gig.

If she wants a role like that, she might be able to get it.

She might not be gone.

Head New York.

Take her.

She'd probably be better than de Blasio, to be honest.

Oh, yeah, she would.

She would be.

I mean, de Blasio's a rich.

They're both nightmares, but she'd probably actually be better for New York.

And the crime families would like her, too.

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So

an update on the Roman Polanski debacle we had yesterday.

We were talking about who the president might release.

We think

there's a chance that he just effectively closes down Gitmo and just releases the remaining 40.

What he does with them, I don't know, but

he might already have a deal worked out with Oman or Yemen.

Who knows?

That's

very important.

They just took a big group of people in Oman recently.

So they might who knows?

They'll be able to have this problem again.

And then he can say, I closed it.

I didn't close it the first year, but I did get it closed.

Yep.

I think that's very likely because that was very important to him.

Yeah.

You know, there's still others that

I think the blind shake

might be a guy that he considers letting go.

It's possible, but I don't think so.

I hope not.

That's a big one.

I mean,

that would hurt his legacy.

I agree.

Yeah.

I think that's too big a risk for him.

I mean, that's

everybody knows he's responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.

How long do we have to hold him?

Forever.

The guy was 1988.

And the only reason we all knew.

The only reason we did it is because we were doing things that were oppressive.

Right.

I mean, I could make the case that he'll release him in a heartbeat.

I don't think he will.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

He does care about his legacy.

And that's maybe the only reason.

That's the only thing that would stop him.

What made me say that?

Because that was a few years ago that I said that.

And there was something else that he released.

Remember, he released and he made a deal with somebody, and these people wanted the blind shake out.

And we got some,

I don't remember what it was, but there was something that happened where he was dealing with the people on the blind shake.

And I was like, he's not going to do it now, but I bet he does it on his last day.

I don't think he will, but it would be interesting to watch.

The other is Mumia Abu Jamal, which Stu says can't happen, or it would be very difficult because it's a gate creation.

Right.

Wouldn't be beyond him to say, I'm doing it, deal with it.

If that were a federal issue, I think for sure he would do it.

He'd do it.

He would do it.

The other is Roman Polanski.

Stu brought that up yesterday.

The Pelletier.

The Pelletier guy.

Yeah.

Impossible.

Yeah.

Roman Polanski's in the news.

He has been named the

president of the Caesar Awards.

The Caesar Awards.

So that's kind of, what I gather, it's kind of like

the Oscars.

Yeah.

In France.

In France.

And luckily, there are some artists in France who are like, are you kidding me?

Really?

Yeah, we're holding up this guy, a pedophile, as they call him over there.

We're holding him up.

Which is why President Obama needs to just wipe this.

Make that go away.

Is a pedophile a person person who has a file of pita bread?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Or they enjoy it a great deal or enjoy it.

Okay.

Under P,

PETA, in the file cabinet.

Okay.

Probably not.

David Galertner brought this up last hour.

Now, this is the new science czar.

To be discussed.

Discussed.

Not guaranteed yet.

We hope so.

I hope.

I mean, he's good.

Okay, now remember, we're replacing his Obama's that went flying through.

Everybody loved John Holdren, a guy who in the 1970s said we should poison the drinking water and we should put sterilants in drinking water for population control.

That's just academically.

He was just academically talking about that.

Okay, so that's the guy we had.

He's a good idea.

That makes everything okay if you do it in his academic setting.

Just academic.

You can talk about murdering entire populations of people.

That's fine.

Don't even worry about that.

I will say, though,

it does not clear you from being conservative.

If you're conservative in an academic setting, that doesn't count.

So here's David Glertner.

If you don't know who David Glertner is, David Glertner is a friend and

absolutely one of the greatest minds I've ever met.

And I've met some really sharp people.

I think this guy would knock Pendillette into the dirt.

Yes.

Glertner is is the kind of guy that you talk to and you're like,

okay, I didn't understand any of that.

He's really bright.

Do you think this Yale computer scientist could

even out-talk the magician?

Have you talked to Penn Galerton?

I've never had any guys.

He would laugh at that description, though.

He's one of the smartest people I've ever seen.

He would laugh at that description.

I'm sure of that.

No, he would.

He would.

But don't

be one of the smartest people.

Yeah, don't

dismiss the magician.

So David Galertner, a computer scientist, mathematician at Yale,

you know him or you know of him because of the Unabomber.

The first victim of the Unabomber was David Galertner.

And David is a futurist on par with Ray Kurzweil.

I've wanted to put those two together in a steel cage match for a very long time because Galerdner believes everything that Ray Kurzweil believes,

except he believes it's immoral to do some of these things without talking about it first.

And

so he wrote a book about technology, and this was in 1980s or 1990s.

I don't remember the name of it.

And he wrote it about technology.

And the first half of the book was, here's what's coming.

And he's right about all of it.

And he talked about transhumanism and everything else.

And the second half is a warning.

We can't just go take that on.

Warning.

Well, apparently Kaczynski only read the first half of the book and said, I got to kill this guy because look what the world he's creating.

And so he was the first mailbomb went to David Galertner.

And he opened up the mailbox.

And there was something, there was something in the way or he, I don't remember how it happened, but he opened up the mailbox and it didn't kill him.

It blew his hand up and blew him up quite a bit, damaged his internal organs and his arm that he was holding the mailbox with.

He now kind of looks like Darth Vader in a way.

He wears a black glove on one hand.

He's in a great deal of pain all the time,

but has continued on.

He invented the code that I think, the code and the algorithm that I think Twitter and maybe Facebook uses.

He was working on code for Apple.

They just took it from him.

He sued, won like, I don't even know what, like $10 million or something from Apple.

Brilliant guy.

I personally would rather have him in the education department because

he believes that education...

formal education as we know it is a thing of the past and should be.

From his job at Yale.

Yes, yes.

And thinks it should be.

And can

he he says he has the system that could replace it?

And I believe him.

He wrote a book on it, didn't he?

Yeah, he's absolutely brilliant.

To have him as our science czar is great.

Now, the reason why the left doesn't like him and calls him fiercely anti-intellectual is because he questions global warming, doesn't deny it, questions global, a scientist that still questions

Unbelievable.

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So Tanya and I were talking last night.

What is President-elect Trump's life like in these two days tonight?

Imagine you're going to be the president of the united states the next day

do you have a moment or hopefully the whole day oh the whole week i don't i don't know what

i boy i was singing last night talking to tanya and i said

i would

be

so

on my knees begging for help.

It would almost be like, what the hell have I done?

Tomorrow, I'm the guy.

That was the dumbest idea I've ever had.

What have I done?

And walking into the Oval Office

and it's yours, you walk on and they say, Mr.

President, would you like a few minutes alone?

And close the door.

What is that like?

I don't know.

I think every president, because you read, every president said that they had that moment of walking in going,

holy cow.

Best description I've heard is from

Harry Truman.

He said he felt as though the moon, the stars, and the sun fell on his shoulders.

Imagine.

I really think Trump would view that as weakness.

I think so, too.

I think he would view that he could now hold up the sun, the moon, and the stars.

I mean, it would be scary.

He ran on a platform of saying, like,

I can do this.

This is easy.

He's already run incredible businesses.

Incredible business, beautiful businesses.

To fix up this dump.

And I think you could say, too, I mean, obviously it is a huge responsibility and it is important, but I mean, I think, I don't think he likes to think of things that way.

You know, I think he, I think he, he wants, part of his confidence comes from not allowing himself to go down those roads.

Yeah, I saw an interview with him

where he said, yeah, where he said, I don't like to

think about, yeah, I don't like time to reflect.

I don't want to reflect because it will bring up too many things.

Don, that's not healthy.

That's not healthy.

But I mean, I think that's true with him.

I do too.

And, you know, so I don't think he'll have that moment.

I think he'll want to jump into it.

And, you know, hey, I mean, you know,

it's what he ran on, and I think what he was elected for.

And I think he should execute that, right?

I mean, that's what he got elected for.

Okay, so it's not always been this way where people looked at this as, you know, we, at least, I think that people in our audience look in this as this is not,

for instance, you remember when Clinton left and they took all the W's off of the typewriter keys, you know, off the computer keys?

And I just thought, how petty is that?

And it's the Oval Office.

It's the White House and just such respect for it.

But I think we're kind of in the minority on this.

I don't think a very large population feels this way.

And many of the politicians have not felt this way.

GlennBeck.com in our inaugural coverage, we have the seven weirdest inaugurations in history.

Let me give you two of them.

One of them was Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, vice president of Abraham Lincoln.

And you've heard me tell the story where Johnson is up going, get him,

right?

It's the second inaugural address, and Johnson is coming in, and he wants to rape the South.

And

he is talking about,

you know, how the North is victorious and how we're the best and

the greatest and the most terrific.

Anyway.

That didn't work out well.

So anyway,

he was bragging about how the North was the greatest and has crushed the South.

Lincoln was horrified, because remember, his speech is with charity toward all and malice toward none, let us heal the wounds of the nation.

Johnson is just ripping them apart.

So before the inauguration, the vice president has to do what the vice president just

did with the Senate.

earlier, and that's swear all the senators in.

Well, he's up there and he's just tearing the South apart.

He's in front of all the senators, all their wives, everybody, and he is going on and on and on and on.

And then they

start doing the swearing in and he's like, okay,

so

repeat after,

ooh, it's hot in here.

He is so out of control, he doesn't remember what he's doing and everything else.

Lincoln has to stand up and say, please leave.

And they escort him out the back door for him to sleep it off.

So that's Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural.

Andrew Jackson.

By the way, Johnson went on to be the first president ever impeached and the only one

up until Clinton.

He was very bad.

1829.

The White House has seen a lot of parties, but in 1829, March 4th, Andrew Johnson had an open house.

Andrew Jackson?

Andrew Jackson, open house, sparked a mob scene that almost destroyed the White House.

He was known as a man of the people,

and he was a rough man.

And so he had a rowdy crowd.

And he was like, hey, everybody,

come on, let's party at the White House.

Open to the public.

And

by the way,

it's B-Y-O-B.

So it was a party with the president.

Anybody who wanted to party with this rough riding, rough-talking

man of the people, I'm going to show him.

I'm going to take it back.

That kind of guy.

The people who are like, yeah, come and they're all drunk.

They destroyed furniture.

They were breaking plates.

And

they ground cheese into the carpet.

So I don't know exactly how they did that.

Sounds like my kind of party.

But finally, to close it down, what they had to do is the White House officials had to go out and say, hey, everybody, there's free liquor out here.

And everybody came out for the free liquor and they locked the doors.

So no matter what happens tomorrow.

Good times.

Good times.

Good times.

Good times at the White House.

Yeah.

Those times aren't coming back.

Well, maybe they are tomorrow.

Who knows?

Who knows?

I don't know.

No, they're not.

No.

You don't think he'll swing the doors open and let everyone come in and go?

No, but I'm not convinced that the left isn't going to do something to cause problems.

Try to derail it.

Yeah.

Can we talk about one other thing we have not touched on today, which is important with the transition, this Rick Perry story from the New York Times?

Oh, this is so agonizing.

This is one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen.

And you know what?

I just yesterday read a story from the New York Times where they pointed out Barack Obama lecturing the press about how they have to be fierce on the president and not fold.

And they pointed out, the New York Times pointed out there has been no president since Woodrow Wilson, I'm quoting,

that has been more

antagonistic with the press and used, it's not the Sedition Act.

It's the,

what is it?

The thing that Woodrow Wilson came up with.

Espionage Act.

Nobody that has used the Espionage Act more than Barack Obama.

In fact, he's used it more than all other presidents combined, where he's saying, you're a member of the press.

You shouldn't have leaked that secret.

And the reason why they brought it up was because

now he's pardoning Manning,

a guy who leaked some of the most important secrets, and he went after the press.

That's a really good point.

Really good.

I hadn't even thought of it.

And I thought to myself, wow, the New York Times is really, maybe they're changing.

And then they write this point.

Well, two things on that.

Number one, the New York Times, I mean, I know it's not popular in these circles to talk about.

The New York Times does some really good work.

Really good work.

It's just that they also do things like the thing I'm about to read.

This one will make your eyes bleed.

Which is really

bad.

The other part about this, though, on your point, Glenn, is the only time the press consistently stands up against a Democrat or liberals is when they are the targets.

Yes.

When the press is in trouble themselves, they actually do take stands

occasionally.

Occasionally.

They didn't under Obama.

No, I mean, they did.

They talked about that Espionage Act a lot.

And they did.

There were a lot of reporters who stood up and said that what he's doing is wrong.

We couldn't stand Bush.

He did it too much, and now Obama's doing it more.

It wasn't lockstep.

I wouldn't say it was lockstep, but it did not.

It will be lockstep the minute if Trump tries to throw them out of the press room.

Oh, yeah.

which is not the using the Espionage Act no it's just being

he wanted to move it to a bigger room yeah want to move it over to Blair House if if he did that they will have they will be in lockstep and have a coronary

so here's the New York Times headline learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job he initially misunderstood

when President-elect Donald Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago mr.

Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.

In the days after, Mr.

Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing, that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about.

What is the source on that one, Stu?

Caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States nuclear arsenal.

Two-thirds of the agency's I didn't give you an answer on the source thing yet, did I?

Two-thirds of the agency's annual $30 billion budget is devoted to maintaining, refurbishing, and keeping safe the nation's nuclear stockpile.

If you asked, oh, here it is.

Here's the source.

If you asked him on the first day, he said yes.

He would have said, I want to be an advocate for energy, said Michael McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who advised Mr.

Perry's 2016 presidential campaign and worked on the Trump Transitions Energy Department team in its early days.

Seems like a really good source.

Yeah, and he also did leave that at one point.

Quote, if you asked him now, he'd say, I'm serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.

It's been a learning curve.

Wow, so they're quoting

a very good article.

Now, I will say we could read the entire thing, but that's the source for the story.

They have one guy, one guy, saying it's been a learning curve.

from when he thought he was going to be talking about energy, and now he's talking about the nuclear.

Well, at least he backs it up and he's...

And it was a good source, obviously.

Good source.

One minor problem with that comes from the Daily Caller.

The former transition official quoted in the New York Times story, Michael McKenna, told the Daily Caller Wednesday that the Times misinterpreted him, and Perry, quote, of course, end quote, understood that a key role of the Department of Energy is caring for the nation's nuclear arsenal.

Hang on, the DOE,

the agency was started for the nuclear projects?

I'm surprised.

He knew that.

He knew that.

Wow.

Now, this is also a guy who's.

He's a governor because he's worked with the DOE on all of the energy projects, not just oil and gas, but like all of the electricity and the coal and

any nuclear plant

he would be aware of because of DOE.

The largest nuclear plant in America, by the way, is in Texas.

So he knows that he knows

the elections.

So, yeah.

He ran for president twice when he was possible when he knew about that.

Well, but nuclear power.

Okay, so we have a guy who was quoted, but I'm sure

Perry had said something stupid.

Yeah, yeah, he did.

He did.

Okay.

I will say he did say something stupid.

Like, what did he say right after it was announced?

December 14th, 2016.

So the day it was announced.

Okay, so it's going to be like,

I'm excited about energy.

Gas, I got gas.

I got gas and oil because I'm from Texas.

Nuclear what?

What is it?

Nuclear what?

So here's his statement, and it's embarrassing for Rick Perry.

It's a tremendous honor to be selected to serve as Secretary of Energy by President-elect Trump.

He was deeply humbled at the nomination.

As former governor of the nation's largest energy-producing state, I know American energy is critical to our economy and our security.

I look forward to engaging in a conversation about development, stewardship, and regulation of our energy resources, safeguarding our nuclear arsenal, and promoting an American energy policy that creates jobs and puts America so low.

Right.

Dope.

She didn't even know we had to safeguard the arsenal.

Except he said it right there.

This is a disastrous.

So would you read the New York Times headline again?

Because this is what I'll tell you what I believe happened here.

Go ahead.

Learning curve.

And that's in quotes, by the way.

That's from Academic.

Learning curve as Rick Perry pursues a job he initially misunderstood.

Okay.

I believe the author of this article didn't know that.

And it was actually a learning curve for him.

And he just assumed that, yeah, he probably didn't know because I didn't really know it myself, but I can make Rick Perry look bad.

The only learning curve there there is for the

writer of this.

And if the writer did know this, then he's just a bad writer that needs to be fired.

That's a journalistic disaster.

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Mercury.

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Big day tomorrow.

The inauguration is tomorrow.

Do I have time real quick?

How much time do I have, Natasha?

We have to start with Greg in Connecticut tomorrow.

First thing on the show, tomorrow.

He's...

They have grief counselors for students tomorrow in school.

Yes, he's a public school teacher.

He says it's happening in Connecticut.

We'll get the scoop from him tomorrow.

They have grief counselors

in school.

Did anybody think about that when Romney lost?

Or?

No, that's right.

Because you were only against Obama if you were a racist.

So

they probably just had classes on racism

back then.

Unbelievable.

We'll begin there tomorrow.

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