The Press Has Become Glenn Beck? 1/17/17

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Glad you're here.

A little on Justin Amash and those Republicans that are standing against this

new Republican budget, saying it's the worst that they have ever seen.

We'll get into that a little bit.

Also, inauguration this week.

We have John Lewis, who is not going, along with 40 other Democrats that have decided to not attend the inauguration.

I can't start the next four years.

I'm not going to say this every day.

But can you imagine have the roles been reversed?

There are many of us in America who were gravely offended by the current president.

when he said it's people like that that have an antithy towards people who are of different color.

He said, we get scared, we cling to our God and our guns.

He was talking about socialist policies.

He was for single payer,

universal health care, things that we were deeply, deeply disturbed about.

A reversal of the Constitution, in his own words, reversing it from a charter of negative liberties to a charter of positive liberties.

That scared the hell out of us.

Can you imagine if anybody would have gone and said, I'm not attending his inauguration?

There is something to be said

about each of our roles of coming together.

Each of our roles in saying, let's give the man a shot.

We did.

It didn't last long, and yours might not last long.

But starting out this way with 40 people walking, disrespecting the office of the President of the United States is disappointing.

Somebody said to me on Twitter this weekend, Glenn, you know, trying to bring everybody together isn't going to work.

They don't want to compromise.

First of all, I'm not talking about compromise.

Never compromise your principles.

Not talking about compromise on the principle level.

I am talking about, is there a way to to

find ideas and ideals and principles that we can all join around?

Respect for the office of the President of the United States is one of those ideals.

Whether we can get there, I don't know.

They'll never compromise.

Great.

We know what we're doing isn't working, so what do you suggest?

We begin there right now.

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Cause we are won, I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome,

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I want to start with the press

because the press

has a decision to make.

And I fear they're making the wrong one.

Let me start here.

Press think.

Winter is coming.

Prospects for the American press under Donald Trump.

Now listen to this first paragraph.

How bad is it?

Pretty bad.

For a free press as a check on power, this is the darkest time in American history since World War I, when there was massive censorship and suppression of dissent.

I say this because so many things are happening at once to disarm and disable serious journalism or to push it out of the frame.

He's not even president yet.

He's not even president yet.

Now,

should you be concerned, should every American be concerned about the First Amendment?

Yes.

But you should be consistently concerned about the First Amendment.

This is the darkest time.

He's not even president.

The actual darkest time in any presidential's term, any presidential term since Woodrow Wilson is this president's.

I can't believe you just said that story and waited the good 30 seconds to mention Woodrow's name.

Woodrow Wilson's name.

Well, no, it was in the first, it was said since World War I.

I was like, I got to give it.

Too easy.

Too easy.

Too easy.

Since World War I, that was Woodrow Wilson.

This president, Barack Obama, has done more against the press

than any other president beside Woodrow Wilson.

This is a trend.

This is not something new.

This is a trend.

And we begged you over and over again.

Is there no one in the press that actually cares about the First Amendment?

Is there no one that sees the handwriting on the wall?

No.

Why?

Because it was your guy.

So you thought your guy would only silence the people you thought were crackpots.

And at the same time we warned, we said,

at some point there's going to be a guy in that you don't like.

You can't give the president this much power.

When will the press wake up to the fact that because it was their guy, they were fine with it?

Just like

because it was our guy, So many of us were fine with the Patriot Act.

No, the Patriot Act is bad.

You can't give a government that much power.

Look what's happening this weekend.

What did Barack Obama sign in in his executive order?

Yeah, he locked in the executive order to

triple three, I believe it is.

Yeah.

Only days until Trump takes office.

The Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant.

New rules to allow employees doing intelligence work for agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad Reagan-era executive order that gives NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad.

Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.

They no longer have to do that.

So the names and irrelevant data are all included with the supposedly relevant data.

And if you think Donald Trump is going to repeal that executive order, he's not going to.

He's not going to.

He could.

He could, but he's not going to.

He's not going to.

No, no.

It will take an extraordinary George Washington kind of president to reverse the information that is coming to the president and to the government.

They will all say the same thing.

They will all say, well, everybody else is doing it.

Every other country has this information.

We can't be the only one without it.

I asked the, remember when we had the NSA whistleblowers on?

Everything that was going on with the press at that time, time,

we brought the NSA whistleblowers in.

Nobody was listening to them, and I said, so how do we reverse this?

You don't.

Well, no, that's not very optimistic.

How do we, you don't.

Well, what do you mean we don't?

You don't because no president will have the balls to do it.

Because once they're in power, they'll say, I need this information.

What's amazing is that this happened at the highest levels.

This goes to what George Bush told me.

At the highest levels, they all play exactly the same game.

This isn't giving him more power.

This is giving Donald Trump more power.

So at the highest levels,

as

George W.

Bush told me during the campaign with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John McCain, Don't worry, it doesn't matter who gets in.

Whoever sits at this desk will get the same advice that I have gotten and realize that their hands are pretty much tied.

Whoa.

Who's controlling the overall picture?

Who are the advisors that keep giving the same advice?

That's not good.

And to Obama's credit, too, it's a principle here.

Right?

Like, Barack Obama realizes that his principle is to grow government.

Even if the Trump administration might use it in a way he doesn't like it, he's willing to lock in the increase in executive power so that the next president, so that Michelle Obama can use it in four or eight years.

And

they remain dedicated to those principles in these moments where Republicans do the exact opposite.

They're all principled until they get power, then they forget about all those things.

I mean, Obamacare is a good example of that.

They pushed through a million things that a Republican would not push through to get that thing passed, including getting getting no bipartisan support and having to do all these tricks and

pole vaulting, as they talked about it, to get it done.

But they got it done knowing that in the end, it would expand government.

And you might say, well, what?

No, they're going to repeal it.

Even the things they're talking about repealing it with

are keeping large parts of Obamacare.

You never get rid of it.

You never get rid of it.

And that's what we said in the beginning, was once this is ingrained, it's going to be almost impossible to get rid of it.

It's Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid.

You don't get rid of them.

No.

Government programs do not go away.

People are too dependent on it now.

Yeah.

And you can kind of see why when you see

how

many things we have that we just kind of take for granted.

Hospice, for instance.

They just come and they take care of things.

Who pays for that?

I keep asking, why don't we pay for any of this?

Who pays for this?

It's all free.

No, it's not all free.

Somebody's paying for this.

How is this coming to our house every day?

I had no idea that you didn't have to pay for hospitality.

You don't have to pay for it.

They come and they bring whatever your relative, your dying loved one needs.

I mean, you know, serious drugs, all the like beds.

They brought us a hospital bed.

I'm like, a hospital bed?

That's got to.

How much are we paying for that?

Nothing.

It's free.

Is that through Medicare?

I'm sorry, but people,

my mother-in-law's Medicare.

But people like you should pay for it.

Yes, we should.

Yes, we should.

We should be paying for it.

Unless it's in your insurance.

Right.

Or her insurance.

Or hers.

And I think it is through her insurance, but it's Medicare.

But it's a government program.

It's a government

program.

It's one that actually makes business sense.

Yeah.

One that I'm not paying for.

But absolutely, we should be paying for it.

I mean, somehow.

And I've asked all along, well, how much is this?

Not that I'm trying not to pay for it.

I'm curious.

Or wouldn't get it for my mother-in-law because we would.

But I'm, you know, I just can't believe all of that care is free.

Nurses come in three, four times a week.

Then they'll come at the very end and do 12-hour shifts and are there full-time, 12 hours.

And then the next one comes in, 12 hours.

So they're there 24 hours a day.

administering drugs every hour and all that stuff.

And I mean,

it's unbelievable the kind of care.

Her mother-in-law at that point, yeah.

Yeah.

The 12-hour shifts.

They just came yesterday and they were like,

she's sleeping most of the time, so you don't need to.

But yeah, eventually this week, they'll be there 24 hours a day.

So sorry, Pat.

Yeah, it's hard.

It's been tough.

It's hard.

It's been tough.

Well, on that happy note,

let me go back to the press because I saw this yesterday in BuzzFeed, and I tweeted something and both sides came out guns ablazin.

Okay,

let's have a reasonable discussion here.

This is

from BuzzFeed.

We logged,

A, BuzzFeed,

colon, help us map Trump world.

We logged more than 1,500 people and organizations connecting to

the incoming administration.

We want your help to understand them and to add more.

No American president has taken office with a giant network of businesses, investments, and corporate connections like that amassed by Donald J.

Trump.

His family and advisors have touched a staggering number of ventures from a hotel in Azerbaijan to a poker company in Las Vegas.

So we compiled a list as many of them as we could keep track, and we can't keep track of them at all.

We wound up with a diagram that you see above, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

We hope it will help you, the public, better understand the new administration.

But Trump's web is so sprawling that surely there are things that we missed.

We need to help capture as many connections as we can.

Okay.

I want to have a discussion about this

because the left

doesn't understand.

I haven't moved.

They have.

They're now turning into me.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

That's just wrong.

That's mean.

That's mean.

That's a mean accusation to make to the media.

They don't know.

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All right.

So a couple of hard questions.

Some for us, some for the media.

BuzzFeed, help us map out Trump World.

What they've done is BuzzFeed has taken all of the business ventures

that are connected to the Trump organization.

So it's basically seven degrees from Kevin Bacon.

So anybody who is in direct business, and then who is the next jumping point from them so

Donald and then who's connected to his sons who's connected to anybody else in the organization

including his cabinet positions too right the the people that are in his cabinet they've also diagrammed them and so you're gonna have all of the uh you know the goldman sachs people and and that's gonna be a tangled web too right so so it's it's an interesting thing it is and And so here's a very interesting thing.

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Yeah, I have.

When have you seen that?

Let me think.

Oh, that's for you.

Yeah.

With the Tides Foundation.

With the Tides Foundation.

Why would I do that?

And George Soros.

And George Soros.

Why would I do that?

And the labor unions.

I remember SCIU.

We're trying to show you.

I remember the AFL-CIO.

And no president was more connected to all of these community organizing organizations.

So I was, I diagrammed AFL-CIO,

SCIU, Acorn, the Tides Foundation, and George Soros.

And why did I do that?

Because I don't like these

community, these harmless community organizing groups.

And none of them are harmless.

We all know they're all social justice socialism

organisms.

Most of them are open borders, one-world government, socialist Marxist-leaning.

Yes.

Okay?

Not the not the pillar of American constitutionalism.

So what I did was I spent two years diagramming all of the connections.

For that, I was mocked, ridiculed, and called a conspiracy theorist.

Now here's the mainstream media

who is afraid of business connections

saying we ought to know exactly who he's connected to.

But this, remember, is not a conspiracy theorist.

This is the news media.

So they're not into conspiracies.

They just want to know all the connections.

Do you remember when Twitter, how did I first use Twitter?

When Twitter first came out, remember we used it for watchdogs.

Oh, right.

If you see a connection that we might have missed, bark.

Let us know.

And that is what BuzzFeed is asking for.

That's exactly what they're asking for.

They've turned in to me.

How does that make you feel, BuzzFeed?

How does that make you feel, mainstream media?

Now, I'm going to do what the mainstream media and BuzzFeed wouldn't do to me.

I think this is valid.

I think we should look at every single president and everyone who is around him.

Because if we would have, we would find social justice warriors that were 9-11 truthers

and communist sympathizers like Van Jones.

But you don't have a problem with Van Jones.

So

that's why it's a conspiracy to even talk about him.

They do have a problem with Goldman Sachs.

Correct.

Every connection that leads to.

Correct.

They have a problem with businesses.

They have a problem with ExxonMobil.

We don't have a problem with that.

Now, the thing is, can we find a balance that we look for the bad guys in business and the bad guys in

community organizing?

Can we do that?

The answer should be yes.

But are we doing it?

The answer is clearly no, because there's no self-awareness from the media.

Fix that first.

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This Buzzfeed thing is incredible because The guy spent two months working out this web of interconnected businesses with Donald Trump.

Two months.

Now, this is.

Did they spend two minutes on Barack Obama's connections?

No.

No.

No.

So don't even go to Barack Obama.

Did anybody spend two minutes on the connections of the Clinton Foundation?

No.

No, they didn't.

BuzzFeed is just.

Even though she ran for president, just like Trump did,

they didn't see it.

Do you think BuzzFeed would have done this with Hillary Clinton?

No.

They seemingly started this after he won, but still

you can't imagine they would have.

I mean,

maybe they're not.

No way.

That thing has been a scandal in the brewing forever.

By the way,

they've cut out the global initiative.

The Clintons have decided to close it down.

Interesting.

Yeah, that's really interesting, isn't it?

Now that they don't have access to power.

Right, nobody's

donating now?

The big dollars, the big countries don't seem to be interested in donating.

Is that what it is?

Or

really

that has nothing to do with it.

Fascinating.

It is absolutely fascinating.

I wonder if anybody's looked at where the donations to Haiti went because it was what $2 billion?

You guys are there.

It was like a Disney World.

Oh, my gosh.

It's fixed.

Like, you can't believe it.

Dude, it is so.

If there was a dollar, I mean, I didn't see anything.

No, in fact, some of the rubble is still laying on the ground eight years later.

Yeah, like the Capitol is still just a mess.

It's just gone.

Gone.

The Capitol.

Just gone.

The roads are a mess.

I haven't seen

anything that looks like it has been rebuilt.

And it's horrible.

What was the thing that was for sale that was donated to Haiti and then somebody took it and is selling it now?

And they were supposed to be free items and they're selling them on the road.

Oh, yeah.

I saw bags of rice with the

rice from the United States.

They were to be sent there for them to eat.

And they're on sale now from some merchant on the side of the road.

And Haiti, I mean, if they gave $2 billion to Haiti, that's a problem because

right now, giant corporations, I think Apple is one of them, have come to Haiti and said, we want to build

plants here.

We'll help you, but we're not running it through the government.

We'll help.

We'll build it.

We'll provide the jobs.

but we don't trust the corruption here.

So you got to stay out of it.

No, we're not giving the money to to the government.

We'll build it ourselves.

Oh no.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

So if they did give $2 billion to Haiti,

they did it and they knew that it was going to the leaders.

Horrible.

Just horrible.

Somebody got really rich while the people continue to starve.

Literally live in slavery.

Slavery.

Some of them are living in slavery, literal slavery.

It's amazing to me that BuzzFeed, and it's good, I celebrate the fact that BuzzFeed did this.

They should do this with every person that is in office.

But BuzzFeed is taking an axe and grinding it because they don't like the right and they don't like Donald Trump.

And so they decide we can be heroes.

We will lead.

Wait a minute.

Are they just, oh my gosh, are they just doing this for money and ratings?

Or do they actually believe some of this nonsense that they're saying?

Are they just doing this to stir up fear and hatred?

I think that's what's happening.

And get clicks.

And get clicks.

They're only doing this to get clicks.

Wow.

And these are all things that were said, obviously, about you for you were doing these things with Barack Obama.

So I'm going to take BuzzFeed and give them the benefit of the doubt and say, no,

they would have done this for the Clinton Global Initiative.

And to be fair, this is the first president that has taken office while they were a serious journalistic organization.

Correct.

Right.

I mean, you know, that's not, they weren't doing these types of things in 2008.

I don't know if they existed in 2008 or 9.

I don't think so.

But, I mean, if they did, it was listicles.

Now they've been doing a lot of this for a while.

And good.

Like, that's a lot of freaking work.

And, you know,

it's good.

I am sure they will draw conclusions out of it that I don't agree with.

And I'm sure that they will report on things that I and pull things out of that that make me say, come on, you can't possibly think that's an issue.

However, it's good that the information is out there so we can look at it and examine it and see where they've made mistakes.

I mean, that's a good thing

for journalists to do.

When we did this,

that's what the chalkboards were about.

Remember, every chalkboard at

Jon Stewart show,

every chalkboard Jon Stewart did of mine was

a conspiracy theory.

Remember, Van Jones is connected to the president's heart.

And, you know, he did the, remember the intestines, and he had all these things, and Acorn was up there, and Marxists were up there.

All he was mocking was that I was saying, this guy is connected to this guy, who is then connected to the president.

Now, if you don't have a problem, and remember, I used to say, the most unlucky guy on the planet, because all of his people that were his satellites were connected to Marxists.

And so I said, this is either a pattern

or

he's the most unlucky friend on the planet.

That was the whole thesis of my Fox Run.

What are they doing here?

Look at the businesses that he's surrounded himself.

Look at the business people he's surrounded himself with.

Now, so far, they're not saying anything nefarious,

but it took us a while before we said, wait a minute, Richard Trumpka is in this circle.

He's connected to here, here, and here.

He's connected to these people.

They all believe in universal health care.

The president says he doesn't want universal health care.

But Richard Trumpka and SEIU, who's connected to these Marxists who believe in universal health care, those are the top two visitors to the White House.

And Andy Stern was a huge universal health care guy.

And what did the president say?

When I'm looking to healthcare, who do I talk to?

Andy Stern from SEIU.

It was all that stuff.

And I remember saying, if that's what the president says, then we should take that and look at Andy Stern and then see who has Andy Stern been consulting with.

That's the same exact thing that BuzzFeed is doing.

Now, it was either wrong then

and wrong now

or right then and right now.

And you shouldn't be, as well, defending you doing this back in the day, and now opposing BuzzFeed doing this now.

I mean, again, you can pull conclusions out of it that are different, but you should, the effort it as a whole is supporting is something you should support.

Although, again, this is anti-capitalist.

What we were doing was not anti-capitalist.

And to me, anti-capitalist is

anti-American.

But it shouldn't be.

Okay, so that's the thing.

I was not anti-Barack Obama.

I was anti-Marxist.

Yes, for sure.

I was anti-Marxist.

There was a time in this country, and in my circle of friends, it's still cool to be anti-Marxist.

I know that's not popular with a lot of people in this country, but that's where I was.

I understand if you're a Marxist and you're anti-business and you put this together.

I don't know if that's the thing behind BuzzFeed.

What you should be is

we should be looking for

capitalists if they're anti-capitalists.

Some of the best

Marxists are there.

George Soros.

So

what we should be for is for transparency.

Who's actually advising?

What is their goal?

Who is actually benefiting from these things?

We knew SEIU and

the AFL-CIO wanted it because of their

failing

retirement packages.

We know those are not going to work.

So anything they can pass off to the government, they want to and need to.

There's their motivation.

So when you look at Trump's thing, you start to see him go a certain way.

Who in his circle of friends may be benefiting?

Is there evidence that they are?

Are they advising him on a specific topic?

If they are, what do they have to gain?

If nothing, great.

If something, we should know it.

It doesn't mean that it's wrong.

It should be transparent.

One.

And if there is corruption, you should care about it.

The media never cared about the connections or the corruption.

Never.

No, they didn't.

I mean, and look, their criticism of you was just naked partisanship.

I mean, they were, they've always loved these connections.

Go back to the biggest documentary film of all time, time, Fahrenheit 9-11, Michael Moore's movie during the Bush administration, is nothing but a giant web of connections that's supposed to make you believe that George W.

Bush was the worst guy in the universe.

You know, they all love that when it's on their side.

Correct.

And they all hate it.

But here's why I'm bringing this up.

I'm not bringing this up to defend.

I'm not bringing this up about me.

What I'm trying to do is say

it is the drumbeat that I'm sorry you will hear over and over and over again.

I just wrote some of my media friends this weekend with messages like this.

Huh,

have you thought about comparing these two?

Because

it's time for self-awareness.

If they want to heal,

if they want to survive,

they must have self-awareness.

Why does half the country not trust you?

Because you don't see this.

If I were on here bashing BuzzFeed today

because of their connections and somebody on the left said, this is exactly what Glenn Beck did.

And I said, no, it's totally different.

He was a Marxist.

This is a capitalist.

And left it at that.

You would know that I was a fraud.

You would know that I was a fraud.

That I didn't, that I was playing only one side.

That's what the media is doing.

And I really don't think they've even thought of it because they're not surrounded by one dissenting voice.

Their dissenting voice is like, what's his name?

That fake conservative that's in the media that is

David Brooks.

David Brooks.

Yeah, David Brooks.

That's the dissenting.

That's not.

Yeah, I agree.

Just not as strongly as you do.

I mean, that's crazy.

That's crazy.

And they don't know anybody.

And so they never hear it, so they never question it.

They have to hear it.

Now,

Politico has an article on making journalism great again.

And it gives the worst advice to the media I have heard.

If this advice to the media is taken by the media, and I think it will be.

The media doesn't have a chance.

In eight years, you think things are bad now.

In eight years, it'll be horrible.

Wait until you hear the advice that many in the media are touting, saying, oh yeah, we got to do that.

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Donald Trump and his forthcoming presidency may be the greatest gift to Washington journalism since the invention of the expense account.

His unorthodox approach to politics and governance has vaporized the standard, useful, yet boring script for reporting on the new administration's doing.

At a news conference last week, Trump began the process of washing the press completely out of his fake hair as he cascaded CNN and BuzzFeed for reporting on the OPPO research dossier compiled against him.

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Now.

What do you think the press is going to say?

What do you think they're going to do?

What do you think

their recommendation on how to handle the next four to eight years?

Oh, it's unfair because I already know what the answer is.

In his own way, Trump has set us free.

Reporters must treat Inauguration Day as a kind of liberation day to explore news outside the usual Washington circles.

He has been explicit in his disdain for the press and his dislike for press conferences, prickly to the nth degree about being challenged and known for his vindictive way way

to those who cross him.

So forget about the White House press room.

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What a surprise.

Washington reporting has long depended on a transactional relationship between sources and journalists.

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The White House press dinner is obscene and grotesque.

Journalists groom sources, but sources also groom journalists.

There is nothing inherently unethical about backscratching.

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context.

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So

they're now suggesting that the press

just go openly hostile to the president.

Because he's hostile to them.

Right.

So just go back at it.

Right.

Like,

like he started it was ever a good argument to do something.

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So, as the Democrats are debating what is a legitimate,

a legitimate way to protest the president or disagree with the president, we have anarchists now who are saying they're going to shut this president down before he can do anything.

We have 40 Democrats that are going to walk out on the inauguration.

I don't know.

It doesn't sound like something the press would have supported under this current president, but maybe that's just me and my foggy memory.

We do want to talk about this president and his legacy.

His legacy, especially after Martin Luther King Day.

What is Barack Obama

really

done for the black community?

How will he be remembered?

We go to Burgess Owens right now.

I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one,

I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome,

cause we are one.

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As we enter the final days of Barack Obama, let's take a few minutes and look back.

And we wanted wanted to do so with Burgess Owens, an NFL great friend of the program, author of the book, Liberalism, How to Turn Good Men into Winers, Weenies, and Wimps.

And Burgess, we wanted to take a look

at Barack Obama and ask this question.

Did he miss

the biggest opportunity this nation has ever seen when it comes to healing the divide?

Good morning, Glenn.

I'm looking forward to chatting with you about this topic.

And the answer to that is absolutely.

Let me just start off by saying that

one of the things that I was very fortunate to do is grow up in an era where we really had strong, visionary, good, confident people moving forward.

And for anybody out there who wants to see what I talked about in my book, look at the movie Hidden Figures.

You see a community that Americans would love to be part of.

What has happened over the last eight years is that the black community, those who believed and trusted and gave all their hope to this man, has done so much worse than they have since in my memory.

One thing we've always had, even when things were tough, is we had hope.

We were taught that we can educate ourselves.

We can believe the American dream.

We can work hard enough to overcome all obstacles.

And Hidden Figures, that movie shows you what happens when people believe that.

We have now a community who is more more hopeless,

more miserable,

more angry, and less educated, and really believe that they've led to the man just because of his color doesn't take care of him.

So we have a lot of making up to do now, and the great person in our nation

can do it.

And I know, you know, the black community, you know, can't be lumped together as much as the, you know, the white community can't be, any community can't be.

It's not monolithic.

However, in its vote, it is pretty monolithic.

Does the black community believe what you just said?

Well, what's happening, and you hit it on the head, we've been very monolithic.

The great thing,

the president of Obama, is that we're beginning to think now as a group, as a race.

We're beginning to peel ourselves away and wonder about results now.

You have liberals and Democrats like Jim Brown, who I have a lot of respect for, Steve Harvey, I have a lot of respect for, because they're putting their race above the ideology.

When you have Americans beginning to do that and looking at Americans first, Martin Luther King III made a very strong

point the other day.

How in this nation can we have between 40 to 50 million people in poverty

is ridiculous.

We're now beginning to think and ask those questions why.

And that's the one thing Obama has done for us.

He's put us in such, he's failed in so many different ways.

that we're beginning to wonder if in case his ideology is truly the best for us or not.

And that's a great place for us to be.

So are we worse off today

or better off?

That's a good question.

We're worse off in terms of statistics.

We're better off in terms of the future.

We're better off because we're finally asking those questions and we're finally beginning to talk like we hadn't talked in a while, opening ourselves up.

And

we're having a dialogue with people about people like John Lewis.

John Lewis is a good example.

When I talk about my book, The Royalty Black Class,

he is the type of individual that has been the worst for our race because he lives in the past.

He lives in what he did 60 years ago.

And meanwhile, 60 years later, people are living in misery.

And he sits there and allows it to happen with total silence because of his allegiance to an ideology of socialists versus his race.

So

in a way, our future is brighter because we're having these kind of dialogues.

And we're having black men and women standing up finally and

speaking against

the group think.

And we're having white Americans beginning to stop apologizing for themselves.

And I think that's a good place for us to be.

Burgess, if anybody else says that, if a white person says what you just said about John Lewis, oh my gosh, oh, the humanity.

Well, let me say that racist.

You know, what's amazing about John Lewis is this weekend, the two sides were so split, he was either a god or he did nothing ever in his life.

I mean, I heard, I read so many posts and tweets that said John Lewis is a nobody and never really played a role in the civil rights movement.

I don't think that's true at all.

Why do we have to destroy everything?

Well, no, no, well, this is what we have to do is we have to be honest about this process.

And let me just use an analogy, guys.

Since I played NFL, I can use this and be very confident with it.

I played with two great quarterbacks in my career, the end of Joe Namot, the last three years with him, and then Jim Plunkett, both the most valuable players in the Indian Super Bowl that they played at.

Great athletes.

But guess what great athletes do?

Leon Coca, what he did as a great CEO.

When you get to the point where you cannot perform anymore, that you're no longer value, you retire.

Now, what's happened with John Lewis is he should have retired a long time ago because he has not been doing the things for the black community.

He sits over a community that's been going downhill fast and being very quiet.

I look at something like, just an example, There's 2,000 black kids the very first year that Barack Obama came in office that were taken out of great schools and put back into failing schools because they decided to get rid of choice.

There's 16,000 black kids impacted.

John Lewis said nothing.

So yes, 60 years ago, he did a great thing.

He was very courageous.

But leaders either remain their courageous acts or they stopped being leaders.

He has stopped being a leader for a long time.

We need to be honest about this.

And we can't charge somebody being a racist and Uncle Tom because we're telling the truth.

So yes, he did great things 60 years ago.

60 years later is when we need him and he's not,

he is not available.

He has not been for a long time.

Matter of fact, he's done everything he can to hurt our race.

More abortion, less education, less jobs.

You go through the liby of what the socialists do to black people.

And he's been at the very head of that as he continues to get elected.

and live like a king.

So I don't have a lot of respect for what John Lewis has done today.

He did a great thing 60 years ago, but now he's in the seventh grade, also demonstrating along with thousands of other Americans

over the country.

A lot of us demonstrated, a lot of people got bloodied, but we moved on with life and tried to make an impact and help our race in the future.

Burgess, you said that in some ways, statistically, we're not better off.

You were talking about the black community.

Let's talk about the community

at large.

Tensions are

at, I think, record highs since the 1960s.

I've never seen it like this.

We do have a great opportunity, but this window will close.

How do we,

if the Democrats decide to sharpen the knives

and go after this president,

and have no self-reflection, and the Republicans this win without any self-reflection, and they just sharpen their knives,

we're not going to come together.

Do you see hope for us on the horizon coming together?

Are there enough people who say, I'm tired of this game?

Well, yes, I do.

I think the key to it is this.

First of all, the Democrats will sharpen their knives.

That's what they do.

That's part of their nature.

Now, it's going to be up to the Republican, the conservative branch of the Republican Party to do very simply keep their word.

One thing that I'll say, and when you have people who I respect, Jim Brown, Steve Harvey, again, totally different ideology, but we're sitting now with Donald Trump and talking about how to work with the

inner city.

At the end of the day, it's all about people.

If we allow and focus as a middle class

country that most so many of us are, and

use the empathy that's always been part of the middle class, we're going to start focusing on having our our kids in the middle, in inner city, in other poor kids around the country, to become educated.

Education is the strongest tool to keep

a country free.

You're going to have kids and young people getting jobs, having a job and understand the work ethic and the pride that comes from that is one of the greatest things to keep a country free.

We're going to start putting the value of life once again, having a debate about Planned Parenthood and what they came from and where they are.

Educate people.

So yes,

we have a tremendous opportunity.

And I personally believe that American people

will step to the plate once again.

We voted against Hillary for a reason.

We voted for our future

and self-empowerment for a reason.

And I believe we're going to step to the plate and demand that these guys keep their word and the poorest of us and those of the most vulnerable will be taken care of.

And we're going to feel good about ourselves and move forward with that.

What is your Democrats?

We'll never have that power over us again.

What is your sense of Donald Trump?

What are you hoping for and what are you expecting over the next four years?

It's been a very pleasant surprise.

I was not a Donald Trump fan initially,

but I tell you that morning, November 9th, I did wake up more hopeful than I had been in a long time because at least we have a chance.

I believe at that point that Heavenly Father hadn't given up on it.

He said, give us a little more time for us to get ourselves together.

And the people that he's surrounding himself with right now, I'm very, very excited about.

So the most important thing, and you know, I grew up, my great hero was Ronald Reagan.

Now, he was the first conservative that really got my attention, that I really understood.

And he was a great articulator.

He was a great way.

He had a way of getting around the media.

It is scary at times to see Donald tweak, but I'll tell you what he's doing.

He's getting around the liberal media like no one else has ever done before.

And it's actually what had to happen for us to be able to connect and for those

to get away from the messaging that's been done in the last decades.

We need to find a way for us to get some truth and hopefully can get that done with.

So I'm hopeful.

And of a

long answer to a short question, I'm very hopeful for what can happen in the next four years.

Burgess Owens, author of the book, Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Winers, Weenies, and Wimps.

This is an extraordinarily brave book and

a look into

the things that need to be said in America to all races.

Burgess, as always, good to have you on.

Can I say this real quick?

Yeah, it's all about team.

All about team.

It's all of us like we're doing right now, Glenn.

We take what we have, the talents we have, and together message, debate, think through,

and just make sure that we get the very best out of the whole process.

We're not to all agree.

We just have to, first of all, believe in our country, love our country, and try to do our very best as individuals.

We'll make this thing happen.

Thank you very much, Burgess.

Appreciate it.

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His commentary on John Lewis was pretty powerful.

Intense.

Intense.

Really intense.

And as Pat pointed out,

you know, you were not allowed to say that.

Right?

Our society says you're not allowed to say that depending on your skills.

Isn't it amazing?

It's a bizarre place to be.

Isn't it amazing?

The press

can take the words of the president

and look at him and say, he's a racist.

But you weren't allowed to take the actual words of the president and ask and ask, not make the statement, ask.

Is this guy a racist?

I think this guy might be a racist.

And if you go back back to that statement you made in 2009, you were questioning the whole time.

You were trying to figure it out aloud, which was maybe not the best thing to do.

Trying to figure it out.

Trying to figure it out.

But you can, nobody, you say that Donald Trump is a racist.

How do you come to that ironclad conclusion

to where the press feels comfortable just banting that around?

It's terrible.

And I think a lot of it's based on his stance on immigration, which that's not, it doesn't have anything to do with race because he just wants the border protected.

I think 80% of Americans want the border protected.

And I don't care if they're white people or Hispanics or Chinese or from the Middle East.

We just want the border protected.

You got to know if they're from your country.

I don't care.

There's terrorists from everywhere.

There's people that...

I mean, even if they're not terrorists.

When we worried about this in the Second World War,

what?

We were anti-German?

And yes,

the government was afraid that their policies would be called anti-German.

Even back then.

Even back then.

So this has been going on a long time.

We don't care.

I care about safety.

I was never anti-German.

I'm anti-Nazi.

At least that part has changed.

You can be anti-European all you want now.

Yeah.

That's not an issue.

Well, unless Germany was against America.

Yeah.

Or remember, it's not cool to be anti-French.

You're not anti-French.

You can't be anti-French because French are against America.

French don't like Americans.

Yeah.

You want to be more like the French.

So, anyway,

I'm interested to see how this week

shakes out.

Have you guys heard anybody in the press

say a disparaging thing at all about one of the 40 people that are just walking out and not attending this?

No.

I just heard it reported matter-of-factly that the 33 or it was last time I heard 33 and now it's 40 members of Congress are just not going to show up.

They've just chosen not to.

They're conscientious objectors.

Yeah.

And we don't want to say this every day, but it will apply every day.

If this was happening during Obama, they'd be apoplectic about it.

Apoplectic.

It'd be out of their minds over it.

How dare they?

Even though he said enough stuff that would make a constitutionalist go crazy.

They would say it was because of the color of his skin.

Color of his skin.

They don't want a black president.

Correct.

Can you not give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt

that he's at least going to be everyone's president?

Now, I think the only ones that have the case to say that he's not going to be their president are the members of the press.

The press didn't want to show up.

I kind of understand it.

You can say he's not going to be, he's not friendly to us.

Okay.

But what does anybody else have?

He met yesterday with Martin Luther King and apparently Jr., and I guess it went really well.

Yeah, we've got some audio we should play eventually.

Do you have the audio?

Do we have time?

Let's see.

I don't know if we have.

It's a little over 30 seconds.

Go ahead.

Yeah, we have time.

What do you think your father's message would be to President-elect Trump?

This is the final answer I'm going to have because I'm going to to reiterate what I just said.

I think my father would be very concerned about the fact that there are 50 or 60 million people living in poverty, and somehow we've got to create the climate for all boats to be lifted.

In America with a multi-trillion dollar economy, $20 trillion almost,

it's insanity that we have poor people in this nation.

That's unacceptable.

And when we work together, we know we can roll up our sleeves.

There's nothing that we as Americans can't do.

That's a uniting message.

Sure is.

That's a uniting message.

And he didn't mean it this way, but could be a statement that is

a little clarifying for the outgoing president.

Here's Martin Luther King Jr.

saying, this is unacceptable.

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No, sorry.

They learn what to think, not how to think.

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Plus, you have the house for yourself if she does.

Right, I mean, a baby

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It's funny, that didn't even cross my mind that you would use it for any interesting purpose.

Yeah, no, it didn't cross my wife's mind either because she knew it wouldn't cross mine.

But

the

idea of

that education, the way it is done, is

keeping our kids in this really dangerous place that's not useful anymore.

You're not trained to be an office worker anymore.

And that's what this schooling does, train you to be an office worker, train you to do a job that no longer exists.

What are we doing?

Best thing you can do is

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Well, you were talking about taking these, what is it, the great courses?

Which is something you probably have seen advertised if you've been online at all.

Things like take a writing class from the guy who wrote the West Wing.

What's his face?

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Thank you.

You know, it's like these, isn't there acting with Dustin Hoffman,

And there's a fee associated with it, but it's not like...

It's $75 or $100, something like that.

Something like that, yeah.

So it's not like this, you know, it's not a college, right?

But it's not even that.

But it's not even that.

You can do great courses.

Hang on, I'm going to make sure that I have this right.

You can do great courses online.

I think I have them through Netflix, but you don't have to get them through Netflix.

Let's make sure it's the one that I'm thinking that it is great courses on Netflix.

It's either on Netflix or on, actually, I think it's on Amazon.

Amazon.

And I'm taking stuff through Amazon.

Yeah, the great courses, signature collection.

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Yes, he does.

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But there's no, I mean, you don't have to.

I was talking to somebody today.

What was it?

About the concept of 10,000 hours, that you're an expert expert after 10 000 hours it's a malcolm gladwell thing yeah isn't it yeah yeah you do anything for 10 000 hours and really concentrate on it really try to master it 10 000 hours makes you an expert in it yeah there's some disagreement on whether it's more of a generalization but yeah it's an interesting generally speaking i mean yeah i mean if you're really trying to master it if you're just like you know goofing off and whatever, that's not the same.

Yeah, no, it's an interesting, it's like an interesting standard, right?

I'm not an expert at sleep, but I'm pretty good at it.

Yeah, you are.

You are.

I've slept more than 10,000 hours.

But

up until recently, I have said to my wife,

I want to get an art teacher.

I need to get an art teacher.

I need to learn how to paint.

I need to learn how to paint.

I need to learn how to paint.

I've said that to her for years.

And every time I say it, she says, make time.

Tell me where you'll put it in the schedule and then we'll hire an art teacher.

We go have lessons.

I know where they are.

We can do that.

They exist.

They're human.

We make time.

So I've never had the schedule to where I can guarantee Thursday night I can go do X, Y, and Z.

Never had the time.

Still don't have the time or the schedule that I can do that.

But I have decided to make the time, whether it is on the weekend or whether it is in the middle of the night.

It's all about priorities, Glenn.

What?

It's all about priorities.

It is.

I'm just going to paint.

And I have been, I've been watching YouTube and learning how to draw, learning how to paint.

And the difference between me painting six months ago and me painting now, and I don't have formal lessons.

And I just hired somebody here in the studios to help.

Raph comes down and he'll look at my painting and go, that's crap.

And then he'll leave.

That's not healthy.

Do that again.

No, but he's been helping me.

But mainly everything has been on YouTube.

Why are we waiting around?

Why do we think we need an expert?

We don't.

Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, a lot of that is you're learning from experts, right?

So you do need the knowledge.

It's just not necessarily, do you need to pay $45,500?

But it's not really necessarily, some of these things are not necessarily from an expert.

They're from people I've never even heard of.

Right, but they're people that are better at it than you.

Correct.

You're learning from.

And now there's so much knowledge out there to the point of like these big, even the big colleges that are asking $45,000, $50,000 a year to to take their courses dump a lot of their material online for people to utilize.

Look at MIT.

MIT.

There's no, why go to MIT?

You can audit every single course that's online.

Why do you need the certificate?

Now, maybe you need, you know, you want the interaction.

Maybe you want the, you know, being able to sit and talk to the

professor or whatever.

Use their library.

Why would you use their library?

Why?

I mean, surely there is some benefit of taking.

I mean, of course, we all know there are benefits of being in person.

But for the average person?

Yeah.

And again, like, it's one of those things of like, you could play, golf is an example of this, in that you could start playing golf and you go from the worst

golfer in America to

the world.

To

a

bad amateur golfer.

That's a huge leap, right?

Like, you know, like you can play with your friends on the weekends.

That experience you can do in a year, right?

From the worst to I can play with my friends and keep up.

The difference between that and being good at golf takes 30 years and it's almost impossible.

Like, and it's so frustrating.

Yeah, but no, wait, wait, wait.

But you're not necessarily good at golf.

You're talking about like PGA tour good.

Yeah, or yeah, so there's so scratch.

90% 90% 90% of everything we do is time.

It's the 10% that puts you in the stratosphere.

So if you're just looking to paint, you're just looking to golf, you're just looking to cook, you're just looking to, you don't need to be certified as one, you know, in the best cooking.

Why go to the Culinary Institute if you want to cook?

Why?

I can learn it now, most of it on TV.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you know.

But if you want to be really, really good, you go to the Culinary Institute.

Or watch them.

No, I don't think so.

I think, yes, I think if the degree is important, sure.

But what can't I find online now that I could...

Yeah, almost nothing.

Almost nothing.

And who's judging?

What restaurant are you going and saying, well, I was from the Culinary Institute.

Stand in line with everybody else.

What's it taste like?

And if the guy makes it taste

better,

I mean, I've seen the documentary.

You can have a rat in your hat.

and as long as he's pulling your hair, so you put the right ingredients into the soup, you get the job.

I mean,

to use an example in my life, Blue Apron.

They're one of our sponsors.

I freaking love them.

And you can do, I am terrible at cooking.

Terrible.

They sent me this box of stuff.

It's all in the right amounts, the right ingredients, and with a very easy to follow recipe.

And I go through it and I make meals that taste as good as

any restaurant I've been to.

And

I don't know what the hell I'm doing out there.

Could we put this to the test?

Yes.

We could?

Okay.

Sure.

So you have...

I'm nervous now.

You have the, are you good at putting it together?

I mean,

I would say I'm not, there's probably a million people who do it much better than I do, but they come out really good.

Okay.

I'm out of here.

I mean, what's the best thing that Blue April?

Well, don't even do that.

Let's do this.

Let's put you, who has the instructions on how to make it and something that you've made a few times that you know I make this really well.

Let's do that.

Okay.

Okay.

And put you against the Mercury chef, Matthew.

Tell him

that he has to go make something from scratch that is the same thing that you have to.

Put it in front of somebody and see if they can tell the difference.

And by the way, he's not trained at a culinary institute.

He was trained by his father, who was a food and beverage director.

He grew up in the kitchens and learned from chefs just as an apprentice and now he's a professional private chef yeah and he's really good really good and i will bet you i mean he's the quintessential not having a degree um

and successful but the show i think i bet you

i would even do it right honestly i would take one right out of the box never made it before and do it

Like that's how I mean every single one of them comes out the same way, which is really good.

And I mean,

I wouldn't even, I don't even have to have made it before.

All right.

I'll take one right out of the next box I get.

So ask Matthew if he'll do that.

No, I mean, he's a professional.

Like, I, you know, I don't know what the heck I'm doing.

You can't back down now.

I'm not.

I'm just saying that surely his years and years and years of experience is going to make, you know, he's going to make something amazing.

But I mean, that's the thing.

Like, you can get there.

As you're pointing out, like, you don't need to go anymore.

With the way that we're pushing information out there, you can do these things in amazing ways quickly.

And that's it, and we've never been there before in society.

So this all started with the picture of this house.

This house is the house that this woman built with her boys.

Wow.

Wow.

It's online.

Online.

Wow.

She built it.

To say what it cost?

I'll go through the story.

It says how long it took her to build, too, but all...

All from scratch, never before built anything.

Including everything but the electric.

She had to have license, electric, and plumbing.

Yeah.

So besides what the city required for her to have licensed people do, she did everything herself off of YouTube.

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It's amazing.

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He was talking about the repeal and replace, and Justin Amash went on a tweet storm about what are we going to do with Obamacare.

He is voting against not the repeal.

He's voting against the way it's being done.

And it's a conversation that we need to have right now.

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Mixed bag of Republicans vote against Obamacare repeal vehicle.

That is the

story.

And most Republicans are saying, well, because there wasn't a replacement.

There was just a repeal.

Well, but there wasn't a repeal.

There wasn't a repeal.

This was just something that said, we can later vote to repeal it when we're ready.

But they tucked it inside of this massive

spending package.

It's the latest budget,

and it is the worst budget,

some claim, that we have ever passed.

It adds $9 trillion to the debt.

$9 trillion.

And I believe the number is $9.7 trillion, which

your just little summary there just left off $700 billion.

Unbelievable.

When you get to these numbers, it is incredible what you can just round away as a rounding error.

It's incredible.

Okay, so Justin Amash went on a tweet storm.

I'm going to just give you the tweets.

Confused on what the House voted on today, you're not alone.

I hope you'll find this explanation in the following tweets helpful.

Two, there's been a lot of crazy or lousy reporting and intentional misrepresentation from the partisans on both sides.

Today, we voted on the most massive budget in U.S.

history.

It's been misleadingly described as the Obamacare repeal vote.

It is actually a budget resolution that proposes adding more than $9 trillion to the debt over the next decade.

Does that extra debt come from repealing Obamacare?

No.

The budget doesn't even mention Obamacare and it doesn't repeal it.

Six tweet.

Think about that.

It doesn't mention Obamacare.

Obamacare.

And it doesn't repeal it.

And yet it's known as the Obamacare repeal vote.

Patriot Act.

Later budget includes

reconciliation instructions to allow Congress to bring later a bill to repeal part of the Obamacare plan with a simple majority.

But these instructions can be included in any budget.

It's not necessary to pass this particular budget, a.k.a.

worst budget ever.

Partisans of both parties like to describe the vote as an Obamacare repeal vote rather than the budget vote for obvious reasons.

Republicans don't want their voters to know that they voted for the most massive budget ever.

Democrats want their voters to think it's all about stopping Republicans from repealing Obamacare.

Reporters are fixated on the sexy angle, which is the misleading angle that most of the politicians are talking about, Obamacare.

So my no vote does not mean I oppose

repealing Obamacare.

Sorry, Democrats.

That's not what today's vote was about.

My no vote was about standing up for limited government and fighting for the next generation.

It was about stopping a never-balanced budget.

We can't afford more spending and more debt, regardless of whether it's demanded by a Republican president or a

Democratic president or a Republican president.

Pretty strong.

How do you argue with that?

I know.

I mean, and it is amazing that that is how it's being reported.

It's not talking about the $10 trillion of extra debt.

It's talking about that they could theoretically repeal Obamacare in the future.

How is that the most important detail of a $10 trillion budget?

Massey said he would vote against the budget resolution because of the estimated $9.7 trillion it would add to the national debt.

He said his fiscal conservative colleagues who voted yes because they only saw the budget as a vehicle to get Obamacare repeal will regret it.

We have a category five hurricane coming in.

When you have to reduce to practice the differences between Donald Trump's agenda and Paul Ryan's,

I think there's going to be some very confusing votes in here.

And then Amash said what he said.

A lot of people fell for what I call, we have to have dinner tonight in Paris, France, or we're going to starve.

No, you can have dinner someplace else.

Have you seen the replacement?

Where else could you have dinner other than

that?

I don't even know the rest of the world anywhere else.

No, no, the rest of the world is a food desert.

I mean, yeah, or not good food, at least.

Paris is the only place with really

delicious French food.

So

it's totally misleading.

What are the replacements look like?

Well, quickly, I mean, this is what we're seeing here.

There's obviously some comments that were made this weekend talking about more larger government health care.

Look at the difference that has happened.

This is from March 2016 to January 2017 among Republicans.

The support for the idea that

it is the government, federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage

was 19%

last year.

Can't take it.

And it's gone up to 32%.

I can't take it.

So close to doubled in support in one year.

Among low-income

Republicans, it was 31%, and now it's 52%.

Guys, the majority of low-income

Republican voters believe the federal government, it is their mandate to make sure every American has health care coverage.

That happened in one year.

One freaking year.

Yeah, the lead guy of the party was an advocate for it.

Yeah, so is that Republicans or does that include independents?

It is Republicans and Republican leaners.

And, you know, the amount of people who believe it's Republican, or it is is the government responsibility among all voters has gone up from, you know,

40s to 60.

I mean, it's increasing, which is amazing because people don't, like, I mean, there's a lot of opposition to Obamacare specifically.

However, and this has been reported by some sources, some of that opposition is they don't think it went far enough.

And we're seeing that much more among Republicans now,

where before it was sort of isolated to the Democratic side.

So I don't know if these...

You've been a little ray of sunshine today.

Yeah, you really have.

You really have.

You've been Debbie Downer.

You used to call me Little Black Rain Cloud.

Yeah.

You're a big Black Rain Cloud now.

Yes, I'm trying to be.

You have to say, though,

why stop at health care?

Why isn't it the isn't it even more important to eat?

Why is it not the government's responsibility to provide food for everybody who can't afford it?

Well, shelter.

for everybody who can't afford it.

Why aren't we doing the Soviet Union's Constitution now and being a nation with a charter of positive liberties?

Why don't we say yes to health care?

Yes to government-provided

minimum wage, a minimum income, not just a wage, but at least $30,000, $35,000 a year for everybody because you can't live on anything less than that.

We have the minimum.

That's crazy thinking that we'd be the Soviet Union, but yes, I agree with everything else.

Right.

I know.

It's amazing.

And look, it goes back to what we've talked about about for a very long time.

You have to have a foundation or the whims of the moment will move you by 20 points as a society over a one-year period on an issue.

You have to actually know why you think the things you think or this stuff will happen to you all the time.

No, those aren't popular.

Your things aren't popular.

They aren't.

It's just being you.

No, off air today, all day long.

You've been like, we're doomed.

Well, you said there's no way of.

Well, you said Little Black Rain Cloud.

Most of that that was off air, to be fair.

I didn't expose that to the poor audience and beat them into the ground.

What was it you said about an hour ago?

Maybe we all want to go out and hang ourselves.

It was.

Nothing I said off the air should ever be on the air.

Well, you were saying something about

stuff like this, that people don't care.

People don't.

We used to think that half the country was against stuff like this.

Well, that they cared about principles.

That they cared about, you know, constitutional principles.

Right.

They don't.

They don't.

They don't.

And there's just a lot.

There's a larger societal thing going on in that forever, as long as I've been alive, there were punishments to individuals in politics and public life for taking one stand

six months ago and completely reversing yourself six months later because the tides have changed or whatever.

Now, obviously, there are things where information can change that.

But that's not government health care didn't become a wonderful idea in the last six months.

And

there used to be a punishment for all those activities.

And I think

my theory is a lot of it is sort of social media related in that

now everyone is on social media and sees 12, 15, 20 times a day you see someone post a politician or a host's old tweets and then they're saying the exact opposite today.

And I think we've just been beaten with that for so long, it's no longer notable for someone to be a complete hypocrite six months away from another opinion.

I mean, an example that we all can love and cheer on was Paul Krugman, who, throughout the Obama administration, wrote at least four columns

entitled, let's see if I can just bring it up here real quick.

Entitled

Debt Doesn't Matter Anymore, I believe was the name of it, as I'm trying to find it.

And I know we talked about that at the time.

Yeah.

That all of a sudden, what was under George W.

Bush treasonous.

It was treasonous.

I believe that was, it was Barack Obama who said that.

Treasonous to have this kind of debt and not care

and say that it wasn't a problem.

And then when he doubled the national debt in eight years,

nobody cared.

Now all of a sudden, people like Paul Krugman are freaking out about the debt.

Yeah, it was, you know,

no one understands debt.

We need more debt.

More debt.

I believe it was five months ago he said,

no,

we need more debt.

Time to borrow was the title of the column.

January 5th or January 9th, 2017,

his column entitled Deficits Matter Again.

Again.

Again.

So they didn't matter throughout the entire Obama administration.

And then a week before Donald Trump takes office, they now matter again.

That used to ruin a career.

That used to be something that you'd never recover from.

John Kerry,

you know, one of the big moments in his campaign was I voted for it before I voted against it that doesn't matter to anybody anymore I mean that is not something that is even that even registers with the why do you think that is I you know again I think the social media thing has something to do with it in that it's the same thing with why people are so rude at times it's it's it's lost its impact You know, people are, you get so many death threats on Twitter.

Death threats don't make news to you anymore.

You know, and I think the same thing happens with this.

I can go online almost every day and find a dozen examples of some

smart blogger or reporter going through and finding a tweet from some major public figure where they were saying the exact opposite of what they said today and it happens so often it has lost its impact and I think to some at some level has convinced people well that's just what people do there aren't any people who believe in anything anymore there isn't anyone who cares about principle that society has stopped rewarding principled behavior and has gone the opposite direction.

How do you think so?

You turn the society off and then you go home and never think about it again.

And then at some point you die.

Seeing that's not

the best idea.

It's beautiful.

It is an idea and I appreciate that idea.

And I feel you feel that idea.

And your feeling of that idea is valid.

Oh, thank you.

Wow, now I feel much better about the now you're about to hit me with.

That's a stupid idea.

so now so seriously how do you how do you repair it i i mean these are the conversations that the mainstream media should be having about their careers right now how do we repair this not well it's their fault that doesn't matter they're not because they don't see the problem

i don't think they see this problem yet

oh they know they're they have no credibility

they just think they do I don't know if they do.

Oh, I think they do.

I think they know they're in.

I'm not convinced they think they have a problem.

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.

They see the problem of their credibility.

They just, so far, are blaming that problem on everything else.

They're not taking any of the blame.

Right.

So you can't help an alcoholic who's like, I'm only drinking.

Daddy's only drinking because you cry, kids.

You stop crying.

Daddy would stop beating you.

I honestly think, first of all, you can't care about the societal aspects of this, really.

You have to do it on your your own I mean you've talked about this a million times it's about changing yourself and caring about your family rather than giant society but it's I used to a long time ago date a girl who had a bunch of tattoos and at one point I asked her I said you know when you get old like these tattoos you're gonna have it's gonna be wrinkled tattoo fest everywhere you realize that right and what she said was yeah but by the time that I grow old lots of people are gonna have wrinkled tattoo fest and it won't be a big deal anymore and I think that she's right there's a there's truth in that in a weird way that

I'll send you a link.

No, no, I don't want to see any of the links, any of the pictures.

But I think that there's a

truth in that.

You probably have a link to that, too.

Oh, absolutely.

Really old, creepy people with tattoos.

Oh, you know he does.

Yeah.

A link.

He's got several sites he's developed

based on that.

I saw a picture.

I don't know where I was.

I saw a picture of a really, really old guy who must have lost a lot of weight.

And he must have been in his 80s.

And he had tattoos that may have one time been up as his bicep that were no longer really at his bicep.

It was creepy and weird.

Just want to say.

You're probably at Jeffy's.

Just saying, yeah.

Okay, anyway.

But I think that's the, I think that's, you have to, the only way I can get through the day going through social media is that I don't care about it.

People are like, oh, I bet I got you on that point.

I never care.

Can you get beyond some point that you think you've, you think you've changed my life and my perspective based on your tweet?

I promise you, I don't care about it.

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Stu was just talking about you have to not care anymore.

To be able to manage

online, you have to not care.

This weekend, somebody wrote, or maybe it was early last week, somebody wrote about this Tucker Carlson interview that I did.

Apparently, Tucker wrote me this weekend, said it was the most watched or most downloaded video clip of the week.

He said, by far on FoxNews.com.

Great.

I'm happy.

Some people took his interview as hostile, that he was asking really hostile questions.

Who could have thought that?

You did.

That's interesting.

And in the old days, I might have thought that too.

Fascinating.

And I thought to myself, because somebody said, hey, what really nice handling?

Whoa, huh?

It was a hostile question.

I thought to myself, huh,

yeah, I guess they, they were, I guess you could perceive it that way, but I didn't because I don't care.

I was willing to answer every question and not defend myself.

Just,

yeah, yeah, for sure.

That, yeah, and that you weren't.

That's how it came off, too.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's kind of fun.

And so there was no fight.

If he intended, and I don't think he did, I mean, he's written several times.

I've written to him several times.

You know, I don't know if he was looking for a fight, but it didn't happen.

And

it was good.

And it worked out good for him, worked out well for me.

And

the secret is, and I know that everybody has always said this to me, Glenn, just why do you care?

Why do you care?

I don't know because I do.

I think I've finally gotten into a place to where, nah, I really don't anymore.

I don't care.

No.

Yeah, someone tweeted me the other day and said,

there's Russian proof that Glenn Beck is a gay prostitute

and that Pat and Stu are his gay pimps.

To which I responded and I said, Are you just for clarification, are you saying that we are both gay and are pimps and just that just happen to be gay?

Or are you saying that we're pimps that only like traffic in gay people?

Exactly.

No, no clarification on that, unfortunately, came.

But I mean, you don't care,

those things don't bother you.

You have to Bill Belichick it a little bit.

Bill Belichick, of course, as you know, Glenn, Glenn, great

professional of the New England Patriots.

New England Patriots.

But there was this controversy about using social media among players, and he just said, Yeah, as you know, I'm not on Snapface and all that, so I don't really get those.

Snap face.

I'm not really worried about what they put on Instant Chat.

I don't know what those things are, but he doesn't care.

And better for him for it.

Yep, yep.

Snapface.

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We're just sitting here bitching about Apple

and Apple products.

Pat will not switch over to Apple.

Not for the computer, huh?

Yeah.

I mean, I was that way for a long time.

Me too.

And eventually just like, all right, me too.

And I like it.

I love Apple products.

I had so many problems with my PCs over the years.

I like the iPhone and and the iPad, but for the laptop, it just doesn't work for me.

Just because of what I do.

And first of all, I am set in my ways, and I don't want to learn a new system.

And every time I use my wife's computer, which is Apple, everything's upside down to me.

And

I just can't.

I did that too.

You have to force yourself to say, I'm going to take three months.

Yeah, and I don't want to.

And I want to.

I think it's worth it, except for the chords.

And you can't get, like, I still like the CD player in it.

I still like that feature in the PCs.

And

it's not compatible with the audio system here.

I like record players in mine, but I know.

You know, I know.

I know.

I can't tell you how many words that I should not use that I used on the Apple chord system this weekend.

The Apple chord system?

Yeah, you know, the system that they have where they make a three-foot cord and nobody sits three feet.

Well, you may not sit.

I think this is federal law.

You may not sit more than three feet from a wall.

Well, no, you have to sit up against the wall because it has to be three feet up to your lap.

So you have to have your back against the wall.

No, I see these people in the airport who apparently love to sit on the floor near the outlet.

I'm not one of them.

Yeah, me neither.

And I don't have a problem.

Here's my real problem.

Apple won't sell me a damn Apple cord.

There's no option.

Would you like a longer cord?

Can you imagine?

Would you like to be a real human being?

What would a longer Apple cord cost?

$900?

And I'd pay it.

I know.

I'd pay it.

I am so sick and tired of buying cords that don't work with...

Sorry, not, I've purchased a cord at Apple and then had it come up.

This application not available on the.

I bought it from Apple.

Yeah.

I can't take it.

I can't take it.

I originally purchased a long cord from the Apple store, which, yes, I paid proxy

$75 for it.

But it's really long.

It's really nice.

But again, it's an investment.

It sounds like it's like Donald Trump displays.

It's the greatest cord of all the stuff.

It's really great.

It's long.

I got a chance for electricity.

It works.

It's a beautiful cord.

Beautiful cord.

It's like rope almost.

The material is almost like it's like a rope.

It's weird, but it's very,

you can.

like walk halfway across the room and

it works it actually works because a lot of times you go on an Amazon, for example, and buy.

I purchase a lot of long cords to fit Apple products for Amazon, and then you go back, you plug them in, and they either don't work or they work for a week and stop.

Um, you know, you get, I feel like with Apple, they're so weird, you have to actually go inside the store and purchase it from them.

And even then, it's only about 75% chance it's actually gonna work.

Yeah, I did that, it didn't, it didn't work, it did not work, and I can't take it so because I read in bed, and so I do.

I read if I'm not, if my if i don't have an outlet in my pillow right i can't plug it in that is i can't plug it in i look to solve that solved oh um so i will give you i want to know the name of the cord i want to and i want your personal guarantee is it under 900 illusion

we took out a second mortgage uh to get it paid for do you know that do you know that um steve jobs was not a billionaire because of apple

that's because he didn't invent the uh plug and a pillow yeah i know i know he could have been.

He could have been.

That's not where he really made his money.

We had to make some of it from there.

I mean, a lot.

He did.

But he took his investment.

He got $50 million

in Apple stock

when he left.

I know he invested in Pixar.

And he took it and put it all in Pixar.

Yeah, I knew that.

So he made $50 million from Apple.

He checked out and he invested it all in Pixar.

When he died, he was the largest shareholder of Disney.

Think of that.

Wow.

Think of that.

It's a couple pennies.

I mean, that's absolutely amazing.

We have a special.

This is, by the way, a toy.

This is a Woody doll signed by John Lasseter.

We're doing a special on

John Lasseter is the managing partner.

He is the heart behind Pixar.

Anyway, so we have a special on John Lasseter and Bill Gates And tying the two stories together, or not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.

Tying the two stories together is absolutely incredible.

When you see where each of them were in their career, right time, right place, right message, it's unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

And what they built on really a roll of the dice that no one saw besides Steve Jobs.

The Pixar story is a great one.

It's an incredible story.

The Apple story, not so great because of the damn short short chord.

I mean,

it's like a woody doll.

I'm surprised that you didn't pull the string on the woody doll and say, reach for the.

I guess we should make the string a little longer, huh, Steve?

Anyway.

All right, what else do we have to sweep up on here?

Well, we could do, I mean, we've been.

You teased the story about the European Union already

giving rights to robots, which is they call them electronic personhood.

Electronic personhood.

Okay, so if you saw AI,

this has now happened.

Remember AI?

The iRobot was good.

Oh, yeah, that's what I meant.

iRobot.

iRobot.

iRobot had the three rules.

And the first one was you couldn't hurt a human.

You have to do everything to save a human, right?

Yeah, right.

You can't allow humans to get harmed.

Yeah, you can't allow humans to get harmed.

You can't harm yourself or allow yourself to be harmed unless it violates the first two.

Right.

You can't do anything that violates the first two or something.

Something.

And I thought, wow, I hope we're having that discussion someplace.

Well, we actually did.

The European Parliament voted last week to legally bestow electronic personhood to robots.

Electronic personhood.

Unbelievable.

This goes to Ray Kurzweil saying that there will be more attorneys for computers

by 2050 than

there are for men today.

Think of that.

You're going to be one of these days, you're going to be in court against the computer.

The status includes a list of rights, responsibilities, regulations, and a kill switch.

They voted 17 to 2 to a draft report, believes bots, robots, androids, and other manifestations of artificial intelligence will spawn a new industrial revolution.

They look to govern the AI behavior.

Here are the

robotic, the three laws of robotics from Isaac Asunov.

A robot may not harm humanity by inaction or allow

humanity to come to harm.

That's now part of the EU's law.

The rules also affect the developers who have to engineer the robots in such a way that they can be controlled.

This includes a kill switch, a mechanism by which rogue robots can be terminated or shut down remotely.

Yep, that worked good in iRobot.

Didn't it?

Unfortunately, there is a possibility that within the space of a few decades, AI could surpass human intellectual capacity in a manner which, if not prepared for, could pose a challenge to humanity's capacity to control its own creation and

consequently, perhaps its own capacity to be in charge of its own destiny and to ensure the survival of the human species.

That is in a government document now?

The report also notes the potential for increased inequality in the distribution of wealth and influence.

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.

Everyone can enjoy a luxurious, leisurely life if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth

redistribution.

So far, the trend seems to be towards the second option with technological with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

Oh boy.

We have so many things, so many new reasons

for

wealth inequality and wealth redistribution that are headed our way that nobody has even thought of yet.

Nice to see the EU leading the way on that, too.

That's always the only thing that's only better.

It leads to goodness.

The only thing that could be possibly better is if the United Nations did.

Right.

Then it'd be great.

A couple other things for the inauguration as we get closer.

Donald Trump,

they're putting together all the events and everything.

Workers for a Virginia company supplying portable toilets for his inauguration.

Yeah.

Please tell me they're not boarding.

They're not a little upset.

They were a little upset, and they noticed that the company name was being covered up on all the toilets.

What's the company?

Right.

The company name is Dons Johns.

Oh, my gosh.

So, like, it's completely unrelated to Donald Trump, but because the name was Dons Johns, they thought it would be kind of embarrassing at this really regal event that, you know, the guy on stage,

you know, that they kind of look like he just put a bunch of Johns out there.

I wonder if John F.

Kennedy did that with Porta John.

Yeah, probably

not.

Probably not.

And sadly, we are seeing a major entertainment collapse here for the president.

I know he's very upset.

However, this part is really bizarre.

The B Street Band is pulled out.

The E Street Band.

The B Street Band is pulled out of the upcoming performance.

It's not the East Street.

It's not the East Street.

No.

No.

The E Street band would not perform it.

I was shocked that they were going to and then pull out, but this is not the

E Street.

Who is the B Street band?

The B Street Band is a Bruce Springsteen cover band that they had brought in to actually play for the inauguration.

So

now, even that's how much they're alike.

they've covered the E Street so well that they're even doing a cover of their not playing the inauguration.

That's good.

That's exactly it.

So, yeah, I guess like they initially were going to do it for, you know, the office, we respect the office, but now they've been beat up apparently by their fans so much they've decided to pull out of the inauguration events.

So no Bruce Spring scene cover bands if you're going to D.C.

Do you see Toby Keith?

Yeah.

Toby Keith is like, look, I played for Obama.

I played for Bush.

I'll play for this guy.

It's a President of the United States.

It doesn't surprise anyone that he would play for Donald Trump.

Same thing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

I support the Mormon Tabernacle Choir going.

Absolutely.

It's President of the United States.

Why not?

Did you see the

woman who said she has to leave the Mormon Transpiration?

She quit the choir, which is a really big deal.

People,

people get there,

there's a waiting list.

Yeah, years, decades.

I mean, you just don't get that honor to sing with the choir.

And she was part of it, and she backed out.

She said, I can't live with myself

if I go.

I can't make this happen.

I can't put these two together.

And I don't think she's a fan of mine.

And I wrote her a letter and said, hey, look, I never heard back from her, but I wrote her a letter and said, you know, while I don't necessarily agree with you, congratulations for taking a stand.

And the same thing to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for going.

Congratulations for taking a stand.

Is this what we're supposed to do?

Why are we demonizing each other for this?

You know, the thing I don't like about the bands is it's all groupthink.

It's all groupthink.

How many of these bands, how many of these people, if they weren't living around all of the people that they're living around,

would still be doing this?

How many would go, oh, he's a president?

I think it's kind of cool.

I'll play.

Yeah, a lot.

You can answer that a lot.

Pretty clearly in the fact that Donald Trump hasn't always been president or president-elect.

And these bands all played in his places.

They all went to his mouth.

They all took his money when he was the same person that he is today.

They all were.

They all had their picture taken.

Absolutely.

Yep.

And then it's the second that now he's, you know, a Republican president-elect.

They all

release the pictures of him with all of these stars.

He should.

They should be just like him.

They should be.

That's the use of career.

Release all of the pictures with you with all of these stars that now hate your guts.

I think that's great.

You should do that all inauguration day.

Might cheapen the office a bit, sure.

Now this.

Last week, we discussed the World Bank's economic report.

This week, it's the International Monetary Fund.

Here's the headline.

IMF upgrades U.S.

growth forecast as Donald Trump reshapes global outlook.

Thanks to the president's, or the incoming president's plans to cut taxes and boost infrastructure spending, the IMF is saying, hey, there's some economic growth here for the U.S.

The output, according to the IMF, nearly half a percentage point faster than they thought this time last year.

Now, with that knowledge, what do you do?

Well, you also look at what does that mean.

When the economy starts to grow, we are going to have to raise interest rates to suck back all of this money.

This has never been done before.

Can it happen?

Sure, it could.

It's never been done before.

Has to be done exactly right.

And what does it mean if it doesn't?

Hyperinflation and a collapse of the system.

10% of your investment as a guard against hyperinflation or massive inflation that we're seeing now on the stock market, I think it's a pretty good idea.

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You know, I'm so disappointed in John Lewis and anybody else who's not going to the

inauguration.

If you're a member of Congress,

you go.

It's a president.

It is part of the peaceful transfer of power.

This is you're going because of the office, not because of the man.

I guess I can see that argument.

I mean,

you as a citizen may or may not go, okay?

But if you are a congressman,

do you not think you should go?

Yeah, I mean, I think as a congressman, you probably do for multiple reasons.

Peace.

Peaceful transition to power.

You don't want to deal with the fallout.

There's a lot of that.

No, I was actually talking about you said you were disappointed in John Lewis.

And at this point, I can't understand how anyone could be disappointed in him.

I mean, this is what he does.

This is what he does.

Like, you know, they said the same thing about John McCain.

No one had any trouble criticizing anything that John McCain did, even though he was a war hero.

You do something like that.

I'm tired of this.

It's not a shield.

Rand Paul said it best.

It doesn't give you a shield of protection, something you did 60 years ago.

I mean, it could still be great and you can still suck today.

Right.

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