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Glenn Beck
Has anybody ever said to you, can you imagine what would have happened if Kamala Harris would have won? You don't need to imagine. You can see it. And the House Oversight Committee dropped the hammer on Minnesota and Waltz in particular. He would have been our vice president. I take you down. What we now know and why we are so lucky. We dodged a bullet and we can. We've got to clean this up. That's how we begin. Also, Graham Platner, you are who you excuse. And Democrats are excusing an awful lot. Also Carmelo Anthony and Black justice and the check that Martin Luther King. Find all of this and so much more at the full podcast today. Here's the best of Keeping yourself and your family safe means being prepared for situations that can, you know, put you or them in danger. It means being prepared for all the situations, you know, even those situations where deadly force is not needed. In fact, it's a real problem. There are more of those than you think. And if you're a gun owner, it's unfortunately easy to think a gun will provide you all the safety it needs. But you never pull a gun unless you're prepared to kill somebody. And I'm, I'm not in all situations, you know, but they can go bad fast. There is a tool for this. It's the Burner launcher. It's a non lethal alternative to safeguarding your home. That will teach somebody a very painful non lethal lesson. It's legal in all 50 states. No permits or background checks required. Required. And it can be used by all age groups over 18. My kids carry them in their backpacks. You'll be confident that you are prepared to defend yourself against potential threats. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more about it. Try before you buy at a sportsman's warehouse located near you. You can find that location at burnaby r n a.com Glenn hello America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing. You want more people to wake up? Help us push this podcast to the top rate. Review, Share. Together we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work.
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Podcast Narrator/Host
You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Glenn Beck
All right, I want to walk you through two stories that ran this week side by side, because together they'll tell you something about one of our, you know, major parties. And, you know, let's be honest, it actually tells us where any of us will end up if we decide that the cause is bigger than the principles. So let me tell you first the story about Graham Platner, Democrat, front runner for the United States Senate in Maine, taking the seat of Susan Collins. And they're calling him Maine's Mamdani. That's enough to throw me off the path. But if you like that kind of stuff and you're a Democrat, fine. He sells himself as a working class oyster farmer. He is a regular guy, anti establishment, but it turns out regular guy went to an $80,000 a year boarding school and comes from a family with a lawyer father and a world famous architect grandfather. So not the average guy. And the average guy, if the average guy is a communist that says billionaires just shouldn't exist. He's talked about deadly violence against political opponents. He calls all police officer officers bastards. And he has said rural white Americans are actually racist, racist and stupid. Oh, and then there's a little thing about that tattoo. He's got a tattoo on his chest used by the Nazi ss. It's inked on his body. He says, I didn't know what that was. That's a, everyone knows what that is. Now, on top of that, the New York Times reported that several women who dated him described him as disturbing and, and intimidating with one of the ex girlfriends saying he was rough with her. The reaction inside the party, well, not a lot. Senior Democrat aide has come out and said everyone's apoplectic about it, but I haven't seen it. His own supporters, Congressman Ro Khanna, said that his behavior is wrong and toxic. There's a second story I want to talk to you about and it's the same story, kind of. This is about a woman named Genev McDonald. Now, she is a former Maine state representative. She's a Democrat. She was the political director of Platner's own campaign. She wrote an op ed in the Washington Post blowing the whistle on the man she was hired to elect. Will anyone hear that whistle? She said when she asked him about the tattoo he said, ah, it's a military thing. A little problematic, but nothing to worry about. She believed him. Then the call started coming from Washington. Have you read about his opposition file? Have you seen it? She hadn't. What she learned was that he absolutely understood exactly what the SS symbol meant. Then there were the old post where he downplayed sexual assault. It disturbed her personally. She was running. Disturbed her so deeply she quit. And here's those who are desperate for power want you to skip past. After she left, she was offered $15,000 to sign a non disclosure agreement to go quiet. She, thank God, turned the money down. And when she watched the giants of the progressive movement, Bernie Sanders among them, wave the whole thing away with a shrug and a line about how, you know, nobody's a saint, she wrote one sentence that I think is the most honest sentence spoken in American politics this year. We have learned to excuse what we should condemn. And then enough is enough. So those two stories, who this guy says he is, what she says he is, hold these two stories in one hand, okay? At the same time. Now let me play a clip of what Democratic voters are saying. Cut five. Well, I think candidly, the Democratic Party's come up short in a lot of
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Podcast Narrator/Host
ways in terms of, like, whitewashing our
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Glenn Beck
candidates and being so morally elitist and kind of entitled at times. We have to be willing to get dirty. His baggage is nowhere near their baggage. We're talking about people that are felons and people that take bribes.
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Interviewee/Community Member
I really kind of think that we all have skeletons in our closet and we've all made mistakes, especially when we're younger.
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Glenn Beck
And that was really a refrain we heard time and time again, this kind of redemption arc. We can, you know, have faith and forgiveness. Stop. We can have faith and forgiveness. Let me ask. This guy has not asked for forgiveness. This guy has been denying all of these things, okay? To give forgiveness, you have to have somebody who is looking for forgiveness. He's not. He's denying. Let me ask you this. How does the party that built its entire moral identity on three pillars, Fairness, ending racism, and believe all women line up to nominate a man accused of frightening women, the women who loved him, a man who downplayed sexual assault, and a man wearing in, you know, an SS image from the most racist regime in human history. And. And then he lied about knowing what it was. This is the hashtag. Me too party. This is the party that told us we should always listen to women when they come forward. This is the party that told us correctly. Symbols of hate are never just symbols. Okay, yeah, but the Senate seat is online. Those same people are looking at a Nazi tattoo and credible accusations for women who, who loved him, worked for him, and were frightened by him. And the response is, well, I don't know. Too many saints. That's a problem. And that, that is a human problem. This is not just a Democratic problem. This is a human problem. It's going to come for all of us if we let it. And here's the lie at the very center of it. The lie is this. The ends justify the means. They don't. Well, yes, Glenn, we have to flip the Senate. We have to stop the other guy. We have to save democracy. And if you have to swallow a Nazi tattoo and look away from frightened women and offer a whistleblower hush money to do it, and that's just the cost of winning. And it's the winning that matters. Well, I'm, I'm telling you that's not how it works. That's never been how it works. Because the ends don't justify the means. The means become the man. The means make you into the very thing you set out to fight. Think about what you're actually doing. You pick up the cause of anti racism, and to keep their candidate, they're now rationalizing an SS symbol that the guy put on his body. They picked up a cause of believing women. And to keep their candidate, they're now explaining away the women. Did you see how the New York Times treated these whistleblowers? They pick up the banner of fairness and transparency. Democracy dies in the darkness. They love to say that, but to keep their candidates. Somebody reaches for an envelope with $15,000 in it to buy somebody silence. I don't know. That's not defeating darkness. That's becoming a franchise of darkness. Here's the problem. When you set out to slay a dragon, if you, if you live your life one excuse at a time, nobody's a saint, you will wake up before very long and notice, oh my gosh, I have scales. You're the dragon. That's the warning that everyone should hear and know for voting for somebody like this. And it's bigger than his communism, which is enough, isn't it? Isn't it? It's bigger than his communism, bigger than the math on Medicare for all, a plan that would cost the entire state budget. I mean, bigger than any single policy. It's bigger than that. The real danger is not what he can do to, to the state or to the country. It's what he does to you. Your own moral immune system. Because the first time you train yourself to excuse in your guy what you would scream about in the other guy, you haven't just made one exception. You've reset the floor. And I can hear people right now. I can hear them. You are such a hypocrite. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. I spoke out about all of the things about Donald Trump. I spoke out about all of them. I continue to speak out about the things that bother me about Donald Trump. I don't blindly accept them. I just don't buy the fact that you think he's such a horrible guy. I don't buy it. I know him personally. You don't. So I can excuse you. I know him personally. I know his children. I know the way he treats people. I know all of his coworkers. They don't walk away. They all. They work for him forever. They don't walk away and say, the guy is doing this at night. The guy's got a Nazi tattoo. You've told yourself your principles are all important. You've told us you gotta live by these principles. You force people. But they're never. They were never principles at all. They were just weapons that you used when it was convenient. And you put those. Those weapons down when it's not convenient. That's not a principle. That's a weapon. And people who can't tell the difference between a principle and a weapon is a people who will follow anyone, anywhere into anything. Let me ask you if. If it's all. If it's. If he starts to say, you know what, we need to round people up. He's got the Nazi tattoo. He's got. We got to round people up. We got to stop listening to Israel or we have to stop listening to these MAGA people. We need reeducation camps. Will you follow him there? Because the ends justify the means. What is your line if you don't know what your line is? I won't vote for a Nazi. I won't do it. I won't do it. I know that sounds crazy that I have to say that, but for half the country, apparently, you do have to say it. I won't vote for a Nazi. Won't do it. I wouldn't have voted for Robert Byrd if you don't know who he was. Old timey days in the 1990s. The Democrats voted. He was a grand wizard or grand dragon or whatever the hell they are in the clan. I wouldn't have voted for him. This is the oldest trap in human history. Every moment, every. Every movement in time, that has turned into a monstrous movement or moment started out certain that they were the good guys. The Bolsheviks were there to free the worker. The terror in France was going to perfect liberty. Everybody believed the cause was so righteous that the rules no longer applied to them. And the cause is exactly what gave them permission to become everything they claimed they hated. Show me a man who tells you the ends justify the means, and I will show you a man who is about to do something he would have called evil a year ago. I don't want to end with a villain here. I want to tell you a story of a hero. Because there is a hero and it's a Democrat. Genev McDonald, a Democrat. She had every worldly reason to take the money and stay quiet. She could have taken the $15,000. She could have probably had a great bright career with the Democratic Party. She could have held up her own side, her own career, her own team shot at power. And she looked at it and said, no, enough is enough. And she walked into the daylight and told the truth about her own people. That is a Democrat I love. That is a Democrat I celebrate. That's what moral courage looks like. That's the antidote. Not tribe over, over truth, but truth. Especially when it costs your tribe. So anyone in Maine, anyone anywhere who is about to step into the booth and you're telling yourself that the cause is worth holding your nose on? A guy with a Nazi tattoo, Remember her? Remember that the ends never justify the means. The means are the only thing you actually get to keep. You own them in the end. Your means, that's your character. They become your party. They become your country. Choose them like your soul depends on it. Because I have news for you. It does. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So a House oversight committee has just come out with a report and it's dropping the hammer on Minnesota governor Tim Walsh and Attorney General Keith Ellison. This report now exposes they both knew about the taxpayer fraud programs, the welfare programs as far back as spring of 2019. That's $9 billion. That's billion with a B lost to Medicare fraud alone in one state since 2018. Another $300 million stolen from federal child nutrition programs meant for kids. Feeding our future and its cronies feasting while the system was looted. Now here is the worst part. They didn't just fail to stop it. They had the authority. They had the clear authority to suspend payments, investigate and shut it down. But instead they chose political protection over people's treasure. Question is why? They say fear of political retribution from certain activist communities. Fear of being called racist or Islamophobic. So instead of guarding the taxpayer's money, they guarded the fraud machine. Now, I want you to hear this. There is one thing about not catching it. There's another thing to turning a blind eye. And then it is an entirely different category when you, when you take the whistleblowers, the public servants with integrity trying to expose it and you retaliate against them. And the retaliation was vicious. Private investigators were sicked on these people and were told to dig into their lives. Photos of their cars in their homes, monitoring of their phones and their computers, Questions about their school kids. You know, when I say questions about their, the school and the kids, it's like this, you gotta, you got a kid going to Roosevelt Elementary. Don't you be ashamed. Something happened there, huh? That's the kind, that's the kind of retaliation check ins from the top. Threats of military style surveillance. Warnings to stop digging or be labeled digging bigots. They had hotlines that were supposed to be anonymous and it would expose who was calling. They blocked the tip lines. They shamed and punished anyone who dared to speak the truth. Wow. Now that's a different category, isn't it? That's totally different than I didn't know it was going on. Totally different than, okay, I knew what was going on, but I didn't say anything. This is, I knew what was going on. Quote, I'm afraid so I'm going to make others very afraid and I'm going to use every tool in the tool book. That is, that's crazy. Turning a blind eye to billions vanishing and then actively silencing those who are sworn to protect the system. Public officials, elected, appointed, betraying their oaths, Betraying the people of Minnesota and betraying you and me. Tell you, if this is proven in a court of law, because here in America, you are innocent until proven guilty. They should face the full weight of justice and the full power of the federal government. You swore to protect the people. You swore an oath to protect the state, the constitution, the public treasury, not to play politics while people are enriching themselves, Turning a blind eye to rampant theft, malfeasance, obstructing justice by intimidating whistleblowers. That's a crime against the republic. That is that you should face the harshest penalty. Not the death penalty, but the harshest, the harshest penalty a public servant can ever face. You should go to life in prison for what you've just done. Removal from office, not enough fines, not enough. But no one is above the law. Not governors, not Attorney General, not their enablers. You know, and we don't do show trials. We don't do political revenge. We're not supposed to. I'm not advocating that we do justice. Blind, impartial justice rooted in evidence and the rule of law. But make no mistake, accountability is not optional on this one. If you are a leader and you loot the public purse and punish the righteous, Americans need to demand that those politicians answer for it. And I mean. I mean demand it. You have a right to assemble. You have a right to petition. If this one goes down and these guys walk away, it's the end. It's the end. Glenn, what do you think the Republic would be like today if Kamala Harris would have won? You tell me. Look at what this guy was doing. Look at what he was willing to do to protect himself. First thing, none of this would have seen the light of day. All of this would have remained covered. Tim Walsh would have been Vice President sitting right there in the White House with all of the machinery of the federal government behind him. Imagine the same corruption, billions stolen. Whistleblowers crushed not at a state level, but scaled up to the entire country. Can you imagine the damage that they could have done at the federal level? It would have been catastrophic. Trillions potentially funneled away under the COVID of equity or political fear. The house of cards just would have kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. The lies deeper, the grip tighter. Imagine. Thank God the American people saw through this in 2024. Thank God we had a chance to root this out. Let me. Let me say that again. We have a chance to root this out. Chance. And I believe we have one chance. The job isn't finished. If I read another one of these reports that go absolutely nowhere, I'm going to lose my mind. We have a chance to root this out. This has got to stop. And this isn't just about Minnesota. This should be a warning to every politician. I don't care. Republican, Democrat, Independent. Every politician should be put on notice. And all of us should demand we root this out. This rot in our system, no matter the place, the party or the person. No sacred cows, no protected classes. No more blind eyes because it might offend the wrong voters. Every voter should be offended by what has just been done. This is spiritual darkness. Idols of power. Idols of. Of political survivor. Survival over truth and stewardship. This bad. And it happens in history. Empires, they always fall from the inside, not from the outside. Leaders who forgot that they were servants, not masters. I Read a book once. What did it say? Something like, woe unto those who call evil good and good evil. We're living it, gang. We're living it. Let me say something to the whistleblowers. Thank you. Thank you. You should sue. The state should pay you a buttload of money, and you should sue. Not just the state. You should sue Walsh and the attorney General and anyone else that was involved. They put you through hell. You're the remnant. You're the Watchman. Stand firm. Thank you. Thank you for doing it. And know that you are now an example that the truth always wins. Eventually, the truth comes out. And to every leader, Fear justice. Fear God, not the mob. Honor your oath or you will be exposed to those. To those who are going to try to take this and cover this up again, fear God, not the mob. Fear God and justice. Because come hell or high water, the American people are not going to take it much longer. We're not going to have you steal from us while we're trying to feed our children. You're stealing from us. We're the ones working. We pay your salary and you're stealing from us. I'm telling you, when the American people, when that really, truly connects and they stop playing stupid politics, you are in trouble, my friend. Stop playing this game. To the people. This is our republic. Reclaim your republic. Demand transparency. Support real oversight. Build a strong family. Build a strong community, strong character. Feed hope every day. Reject all of the lies. Choose right, right now. Choose who you are going to serve. The God of truth or the failing gods of this age? Because only one of them is going to stand. The gates of hell are raging right now. They're not going to prevail. Because good always wins in the end. Even if I don't see it in my lifetime. Good will win in the end. Darkness will. Darkness will not conquer us if we stand as free men and women under God. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. All right. I pray that you listen to this story and really listen, not just hear it. Listen. Because it is not just about one tragic day, you know, at a Texas track meet. It's about who we are as people and what we're allowing ourselves to become. I know I knew when I sobered up that I knew who I wanted to be. But all I was left with was who I allowed myself to become. And I became that man with a series of small compromises. And most people don't notice it until there's a problem in their life. And then, even then, I Dismissed it a lot because I was like, how come these things keep happening to me? Before I realized, wait a minute, maybe that's because life is trying to teach me something that I refuse to learn. The problem is not other people. The problem might be me. So I want to talk to you about who we're allowing ourselves to become. Let me tell you the story. 17 year old Austin Metcalfe. He's a high school athlete. He's a kid with his whole life ahead of him. And he was at a field event in Frisco, Texas, just outside of Dallas last April. This kid comes in, wants to seat, wants to sit in this one area, it is a team tent. He was told, you can't sit here, blah, blah, blah. Words were exchanged. The kid, 19 years old, his name is Carmelo Anthony. He was asked by multiple witnesses. 19 leave the tent, it belongs to the opposing team. He refuses. He swears at them, he taunts them. He reaches into his backtack backpack, grabbing something apparently and repeatedly saying, you touch me and you just see what happens. At one point, he pulls a knife out. Okay. Austin by all accounts, stays calm, not looking for a fight. When Anthony pulls out a semi serrated folding knife, he just turns around and he just dives it, drives it deep into Austin's chest, pierces bone, punctures his heart. A gaping fatal wound. Yesterday, the jurors saw the autopsy foil of photos and some people gasped, put their hand. One woman put her hand over her mouth. Oh my God. It's horrible. Horrible. Anthony. The accused just looked down. He didn't look at the photos. That's what happened. Young life full of promise cut down in a moment of rage. Another kid who had his whole life in front of him, full of promise, drives the knife into that kid. Now he's standing trial for murder. His claim is self defense, but it's completely falling apart. Witnesses, including some called by his own attorney, have painted a very different picture. Anthony as the aggressor, the defiant one, the threatening one, the one who escalated everything again. Even witnessed yesterday was a witness called by his own attorney. It was like, that's not what happened. He was the aggressor. Okay? So that's just the way things happen in court. Okay? And this is a story. Men have been murdering men forever. Let me show you what happens to this story and what is old but also new that needs to be changed. What happens when that story hits the wider world? Well, there are people that don't want you to see, you know, the truth. They don't Want. They want you to see not the dead boy and the knife and even the testimony. They just want you to see color. They want you to see a black defendant and a white victim. That's it. Now, let me prove this out, but I want to play two pieces of audio here that came out yesterday. The first one is not his mother, but a black mother. She says this about her standing in at the courthouse watching this whole thing.
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Interviewee/Community Member
Listen, if evidence does come out that Carmelo was not, in fact, fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalfe, do you think that the black community will accept that
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Black Mother
if evidence shows that he did not? No. We gonna stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. We gonna stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there. I'm an African American mother, so I have to put away my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain. So I do want to send prayers to Austin, Austin Metcalf. They're their family. But at the end of the day, I gotta think like, okay, what did you do to him? Or whatever to cause this to happen? The reaction, we gotta start taking accountability for our kids. Because then again, if my kid. That's why I said catch 22. If my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, well, I'm gonna tell you straight up, better mind than yours. Better mind than yours. So either way it go, everybody loses. A black boy allegedly ordered. And I say allegedly heavy on the. Allegedly allegedly earned somebody. You see what I'm saying? So, yeah, this is. This. This is about race.
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Glenn Beck
I can't even make heads or tails of that. Okay, if it was proven he was not defending himself, but he was the aggressor, she says, yes, because of race. I will stand with him because they stand by theirs. That's the worst thing you can do. My mother would have said, if everybody's jumping off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge? No, it's wrong. You don't do that. Then she brings in motherhood. Now, this is what a mom should do to some degree in this way, a mom or a dad, I told. I've told my kids, I don't care what you do in your life. I don't care. I will always love you. What that means, at the extreme example, the extremes is my daughter goes out and does what Anthony Carmelo is alleged to have done. That means I sit at the table with her. I go to the prison with her. I don't defend her, but I love her and I'm with her. But you cannot expect society to change if you don't hold. You know, she says we got to stand by our kids. No, no, we stay by our kids side, just as God stays by our side when we screw up. And he loves us, he's with us, but he requires a penalty. Okay. And if you don't get it here on earth, you're going to get it with him. So we look to our heavenly Father and say, how would he deal with it? Well, he would not abandon us. He would not disown us. He would love us, he would counsel us, he would see to the punishment, but he would do it with love. And he would always be there. That's our responsibility as a parent. Now let me show you a minister and what he said. Listen to this. Cut seven.
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Podcast Narrator/Host
I come out here every Thursday and we pray for people going to court because this, we know, this is the final frontier of racism and is legalized here.
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Interviewee/Community Member
It was announced yesterday that there's no black jurors that were chosen. What are your thoughts on that?
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Podcast Narrator/Host
That's why we need God. That's why we need God. And that's why he's going to show who's in control.
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Interviewee/Community Member
And would you be open to giving us your personal insights into the Carmelo Anthony trial and what your thoughts are on it?
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Podcast Narrator/Host
I just want justice done, you know, we know.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, stop.
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Podcast Narrator/Host
Nope.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, stop. So he just wants just. But this is the. This is where. This is all about race. He starts it there. It's all about race. Now, I believe he's got a good heart. I just think he is misguided, if I understand him correctly. He's misguided here because people want you to believe that this is just an endless American morality play of systemic racism over and over again. They want you to ignore that Anthony was asked to leave 15 times. That he put his hand into the bag and dared them. He said, I'm not leaving. F you all. They want outrage. They don't want evidence. Division, not truth. I. We have to love him, Carmelo. We have to. We as people. And you know, we. It's easy for us. Be hard for the family, but we as people have to forgive him. But there must be justice. And look at how the press just plays along. No blacks on the jury. As if. As if justice requires a racial quota. Here's what they left out. There are minorities on that jury. It's not all white people. There's just not Black minorities. Okay. And the one prospective juror who was black, who got herself disqualified, how? Was it because she was. Because the, the prosecution was racist? No. Can you be fair? Can you be blind as a juror? And she said, I don't think I could put another brother in jail if he's guilty. Well, then you can't be on, you can't be on the jury. She removed herself because she couldn't promise fairness. That's not the system failing. That is a human being in a moment of honesty admitting she couldn't live up to the blindfold. And so the system worked. And a jury of your peers doesn't mean people who look like you. It never has. It does mean this. Citizens who can set aside their bias, racial, political, cultural, and weigh the evidence with integrity. This has been hard for whites to judge blacks and blacks to judge whites, but that's what it requires if you're on a jury. Now, perhaps we think that the juror needs to look like us because we don't think the people of other color hold the same values. And that is terrifying if that is true. And these, these voices here that I just played for you make me think that is true. But that can't be fixed by putting more whites or blacks or, you know, anybody based on race in the jury box. That's only fixed when we all understand and hold the same self evident truths. We need jurors in every case who can see the defendant as a man and not a symbol. We are judging the individual, not the symbols, not culture. Good, bad, guilty or innocent. That is the American promise and it is imperfectly kept. It's been betrayed. But the North Star we have always tried to steer toward, and this is not steering toward. Do you remember O.J. simpson? O.J. simpson walked free not because the church. The jury believed he was innocent. They said that at the time. But later in interviews, years later, they've all admitted it. They wanted to send a message to the man to stick it to the system. They played politics with a murder trial years later, some of them express regrets because the blood on those gloves told its story and they knew it. But they wanted to make a political point at the time, and so they let a killer go free. We always get in trouble when we turn a courtroom into a billboard for our grievances instead of a sanctuary for truth. I want fair trials. I want. If the, if the evidence shows that this is not the story that I just told you, then he should go free. But not because of something political or racial. Moral boundaries of Our society are cracking, and they're cracking because we are prioritizing the narrative over reality. It's amazing. They're trying to destroy our story of who we actually are and replace it with a story of who we should never, ever become. When we teach young people that justice is about racial score settling rather than right and wrong, when we allow race hustlers to poison the well, white or black, before a piece of evidence is even heard, that's not progress, that's regression. That goes back to tribal blood feuds. And it's all dressed up in modern university language. And it spits on the grave of every American, black, white, anyone who bled for a system where the arc bends towards justice, not vengeance. The American justice system is supposed to be blind. Not colorblind in some naive slogan sense, but truly blind to politics, to pressure, to wealth or social status or the mob or headlines. And we've never achieved it. We've never fully achieved it. It's like a tide. That's why our founder said a more perfect name. We are gathered to build a more perfect nation. It's a tide. It rolls in and then it goes out. And right now the tide is so far out, I can't even see the water anymore. The rhetoric is so loud now. The temptation send a strong message is so strong. I'm not sending a strong. This message that needs to be said is this kind of crime, any kind of crime will not be tolerated. That's the only message you get. Justice for the family of the person that was hurt or abused or killed. You then try to teach this personal lesson that that is outside of polite society. You have no place doing this in society. So cool off, think about it and try to reform yourself. And then the third is a message to those who want to commit these crimes. Don't do it or you'll get the same. The activists and the activists are there and they are desperate for another narrative to fuel the fire. But it is our job, yours and mine, to push back, to see past the race baiters and the. And the selective outrage and demand that juries and judges and citizens look for the whole truth and nothing but the truth, guilt or innocent, based on evidence, not identity. That's not just the legal way. That's the American way, the way all men are created equal, the way of a republic that dares to say character and content matter more than the color of your skin. Austin didn't deserve to die in a seat in a tent. And Carmelo deserves a fair trial, truly fair, without the circus and you and America deserve better than to let another generation be taught that justice is whatever serves the narrative. Stand firm. Demand the truth. Reject the evil, the easy tribalism. Because if we lose the blindfold, we lose everything worth preserving.