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What a wild ride today. I mean, we had Charles Murray on talking. I mean, in an unbelievable way, this guy is an absolute legend. Legend. I mean, he's like Thomas Sowell. Would you put him in that category? Sure, yeah. Yeah. And he was talking about his new book about, you know, religion and finding religion and how important God is. And we went, we had him on. And then at the same, on the same podcast, we had Sebastian Gorka on fascinating interview where he was talking about turning people into red mist. So you'll find something between those polls on today's program and also the Ice Master Tracker, I got a few things to say about that. And the lies that Donald Trump was talking about, you know, the lies that people are talking about Donald Trump as he's destroying the White House. All of that and more on today's podcast. First, there was a time when choosing a cell phone carrier was just about coverage and price. It's about something much, much bigger now because every company you support, every monthly bill you pay, every statement you know is something. A statement about what you value. The big cell phone companies have decided your money should help fund causes that undermine many of our values. And Patriot Mobile is the only Christian conservative wireless provider. And they're putting principle back into a business that a long time ago lost its way. Same reliable coverage, same reliable network, but unlike the others, they donate a portion of every dollar to organizations that are fighting for your religious freedom, your First Amendment right, your sanctity of life. And you deserve to know that the money you spend every month isn't being used against you. Patriot Mobile, if you sign up, you are getting excellent service, fair pricing, and something far more powerful, the ability to stand up for what you believe in. Take a stand today. Go to patriotmobile.com patriot it's promo code beck. Get a free month of service patriotmobile.com beck or call 972. Patriot. Make the switch today. 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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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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When somebody is doing an incredible job, it is our responsibility and only the right thing to do, to pause for a moment and go, wow, look at this. And the person is doing an unbelievable job and most people don't know about it is Sebastian Gorka. He is the deputy assistant to the President, National Security Council, Counterterrorism senior director. And what has been announced recently, I mean, Sebastian has been working behind the scenes quietly the whole time, making a list and checking it twice. And over 300 jihadists. I think the number is 370. 370, I think jihadist have been neutralized in the last nine months. It is an incredible pace. And Sebastian Gorka is here to tell us about the operation. Sebastian, how are you, sir?
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I'm very well. I'm very well. Mr. Beck, I will have a correct you live on your own show. I am, I am honored to be here to talk about these incredible stories that you're absolutely right. Every American needs to know about and all evildoers around the world need to know. So they get even more worried. But it's not up to me. It's not my accomplishment. It's President Trump and the amazing team I have in my counterterrorism director of the National Security Council. It's the members of the intelligence community who are hunting these bad guys down and giving their locations to our tier one operators, to others in our military, who are bringing eternal justice to these evildoers and turning them into red mist. So it is a team effort in the spirit of the Commander in chief. And we have only one challenge. It's the hardest thing we do every day here, and that's keeping up with the commander in chief, President Trump.
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I know that. I know that. And it's amazing. Every single. I just talked to Marco Rubio last week. He said the same thing. I said something to the vice President and he said, no, no, it's not me, it's him. I know who's in charge, but I also know he selected each person for a reason. And I know people that you selected to be on your team, and they are. They're the best of the best. And I just want to thank you.
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They're all, they're all rock stars. They're all Rock stars. And they make my job very easy.
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Yeah. So let's start. Who. Who has been on this list that in the last nine months is no longer, you know, taking air?
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Well, as you said, it's more than 370 leading jihadis around the world in all the operations who've either killed Americans or who were plotting to kill Americans. Like the number two, Abu Khadija, the number two of ISIS in Iraq. But whether it's Iraq, Syria, Somalia, or elsewhere, these are the best of the best of the global jihadi movement. That their loss to their respective terrorist groups makes it very hard for them to continue in the ways that they did under the Biden administration. An administration that really watched these people and didn't want to kill them. This is, you know, this is, as I say, the bumper sticker for what we're doing is this administration. America is back in the business of counterterrorism also. It's not just the ones we kill. But I got to tell you a story because this is, you know, this is when you do this, you say to yourself, okay, I'm done. There is no higher my career can go. When I walked into my scif, my Secure Compartmented information facility, because we work in these classified environments in the White House when I walked in day one, because thank the good Lord I'm not Senate confirmed I could start working at 1201 as soon as the President was sworn in for a second time. I'm old school. I think we're about the same age. And I said, okay, it is the 21st century, but I'm going to get a whiteboard. I found a whiteboard, took it to my skiff, and I wrote five things on that board which were priorities for the President in terms of counterterrorism. The top one was a then classified nom de guerre, and it was Jafar. And our number one priority was to bring to justice the man who was responsible for the murder, the massacre of 13 of our war fighters during the rout of Kabul at the Abbey Gate massacre, that ISIS suicide bombing. And I'll be honest with you, Glenn, I thought, you know, this is going to be a heavy lift. He's hiding out in a very difficult part of the world, a hard target region. This is going to take us a year at best, maybe six months if the whole intelligence community, you know, re pivots to this. 41 days later, Glenn, I'm standing on the tarmac at 3am at Dulles Airport. The President has just given his speech to Congress, his first new address. In the new administration. And I'm standing there in the cold with Tulsi Gabbard, John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi. And why are we standing there at 3am in the cold? Because the DOJ jet is about to land from Pakistan with Jafar, his real name is Sharifullah, on board in handcuffs. 41 days into this administration, we put him behind bars because President Trump during the campaign made a promise to the 13 families of those who were murdered. We will bring him to justice. So this is when you say America first is real and President Trump is keeping his promises.
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So I have to thank you for this, Abby. Gate is personal to me as well. Many of the people that were going to the gate, were we. My charity had shepherd them to the gate. Yeah. You know, and it was just. It was horrible. And I honestly wish you could go after some of the people in the State Department for what they did, played. The role. The role they played.
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But what about the Defense Department back then, the Department of War now? What about, you know, Lloyd Austin, that disgrace to the uniform he once wore, who said, we have no regrets in the manner in which we left Kabul? That was the last administration.
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I know it was.
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That was a year ago.
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I know it was. Is it true when you. When he first came in, you went in and said, look, we've been tracking this person under the Biden administration for 18 months. And what did the president say to you?
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So this is amazing. So I spent the first eight days of the administration going around the Department of War, the intelligence community getting a lie of the land. How bad have the last four years been in counterterrorism? And everybody said the same thing, as if they had talking points. Can we please be allowed to do our job and get back to killing jihadis? Can we quote, return to the rules of engagement of the first Trump administration, which meant if a combatant commander in CENTCOM or AFRICOM saw leading jihadi, he could pull the trigger and take that guy out. Under Biden, every HVT target, every high value target had to be sent to Jake Sullivan, the propagator of the Russia hoax, the then acting clown of a national security advisor, who would then wake up Joe Biden from his nap and say, sir, would you want to kill this jihadi? And of course, nothing ever happened. Well, day eight, the then national Security advisor, myself, and one of my team members walked into the Oval, this with a big map and a big photograph. And we said, sir, this is a leader of isis. He's hanging out in a giant terrorist training camp in northern Somalia. And we've been tracking him for the last 18 months under the Biden administration. This is all declassified now. The President looked up at us from the Resolute desk, and he said, what do you mean we've been tracking him? Kill him. And he got out his iconic sharp. You know what he's like. I mean, you're in the Oval region.
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I do.
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Right.
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He grabbed that iconic sharpie and he ticked the go box on the operational orders. We left the Oval. My. My team member called up a certain part of the US Military. The green light was given. And literally, Glenn, less than 28 hours later, I'm back in the Situation Room underneath the West Wing. It's like a Tom Clancy movie, but it's real. The OP order said, 8:45, we go hot, and we watching this guy blithely walk around terror complex like he has no care in the world. And like a Swiss Watch, at 0845 on that Saturday morning, he turned into a cloud of red mist. And we watched it live with the National Security adviser. That was 11 days into the administration. And since then, we've added another 369 jihadis who have seen the hammers of hell come down on their heads.
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Why. Why did we bring the Aby Gatekey back into the United States to try him? Why didn't we just kill him?
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Well, look, we are bound, where possible, to capture them. We use lethal force when capturing them is not possible or would put our forces and civilians at too great a risk to do so. So we're not cowboys. We do this in a circumspect fashion. We are authorized to use deadly force given circumstances. And also, look, I think this gives even deeper closure, not full closure, because you'll never get closure for losing your daughter or your husband, you know, in a suicide bombing. But to see this man stand in a federal dock in a federal court in Northern Virginia gives a little bit more closure, I think, potentially to those families than saying, yes, he was killed 8,000 miles away, and you'll never be able to see the video.
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Let me. Let me ask you. You know, there we are now, hunting down people. I've heard you talk about terror cells here in the United States. How bad is that situation?
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Well, look, there's a thing in the US Military called red teaming, where an officer is tasked to think like the bad guy. So if you're in the. In the PAYCOM aor, if you're in the Pacific, you think like the. You know, Commun. Yeah, if you're in centcom, you're trying to think like ISIS or iq, let's you and your listeners think like the bad guys for a second. If you know that the President of the United States, Joe Biden or your putative president and Kamala Harris, his fake borders are literally have dismantled the southern border and you can clear yourself to enter into the United States with an app that is paid for by the US Taxpayer where you put in your fake name and say yes, I'm a refugee and that's all you need to step into America to get your $5,000, your Obama phone and your ticket to wherever you want to go in America. What are you going to do if you're isis, Al Qaeda, North Korean intelligence, whether you're, you know, the SVR of the of Moscow, whether you're the irgc, what are you going to do? Of course you're going to flood the zone. Now I can't go into the classified details of our response, but I'll tell you one thing. Bad guys are afraid of hardcore individuals. And it starts with the alpha male behind the Resolute Dec and it goes all the way to Tom Homan straight out of central casting, Governor Noem Stephen Miller, the genius behind our immigration policies in securing the southern border. Just the figures alone, that of those we have physically deported, the worst of the worst, the gang bangers, the people related to inimical regimes. More than half a million Glenn have self deported the since January tells you that. Yeah, you don't want to mess with Tom Homan. Governor Noem Stephen Miller President Trump so you know we have the crosshairs on the bad guys and we're getting them out of the country so you can sleep far more soundly at night because the A team is on the job whether it's smoking the jihadis outside of America or whether it's getting the internal threats out of the United States.
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Sebastian, can I ask you, and this may be out of your purview to comment, comment on, but is the doj, are we, are we really truly serious? And because I know we've been tracking, we could tell you everybody who attended a Latin mass in the last 20 years. But you can't tell me anything about the Tides foundation or Antifa or whatever. We are so far behind on our intel on that. Are we taking it seriously enough? Do we have the resources on it? And are we going to go after people who are funding a color revolution here in America?
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We are taking every threat to America, especially those that are Subverting or attempting to subvert our republic from the inside as seriously as a heart attack. I can guarantee you this hand on heart. Cash Patel is a friend of mine. Dan Bongino is a friend of mine. Scott Besant is a friend of mine. When Scott Besant, one of the, you know, one of the surprise rock stars, gives public statements saying we will follow the money to any organization that is funding unconstitutional actions in the United States. Whether you're firebombing a Tesla dealership or plotting to kill friends of mine like Charlie Kirk. When Scott Bessant says that a man who literally doesn't sleep to revivify our economy when he says we're going to follow the money, you can bet your bottom dollar that we will get to the bottom of Antifa. And look how historic is it that we have designated Antifa as a terrorist organization. That's not symbolic. I can tell you right now we are working this day and night. Stephen Miller's team, the intelligence community, the FBI, the Treasury. So yes, none of this is play acting. None of this is pablum. This is real.
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Yeah, I didn't think it was, but it's nice to hear that. Sebastian, thank you so much for everything you're doing and thank you to your team. Please pass on our gratitude to everybody on your team for all of the work that you guys have been, of course, appreciate it.
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Of course. Thank you for telling the truth and for, you know, saving with, with Mr. Barton, the relics of our past so that we will never forget. We are the greatest nation on God's green earth.
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We care about people that we don't even know sometimes on the other side of the planet. And Americans have always felt that this comes from the Western civilization. It comes from that moment going into the promised land. Choose life. It's why we don't leave people behind. It's why we offer aid to those people. If we're in a war and everything calms down and the battlefield is there and all the injured soldiers, we offer aid to our enemies. We don't just shoot them in the head because we choose life. We are losing this quickly. We are losing it in. Canada is leading the world in choosing death. I mean, what is happening with Maid up there is truly frightening. Truly frightening. It is, I think, the second leading cause of death now, assisted suicide. And they're offering it for babies, you know, teenagers who are depressed. You can just get they, they can't keep up with the number of people that they're counseling to die. That is a very bad sign. We see it, we saw it this weekend with those who are at the no Kings rallies. The, the flippant attitude of, yeah, I'm glad he's dead. I'd kill him myself if I could. There's something deeply disturbing about that. And it's also deeply anti Christian and deeply anti American. We choose life. If we disagree with each other, we argue it out and then we go to the ballot box. We don't kill each other. Let me tell you about a school teacher now, I warned in 2008, I was sitting next to Linda McMahon. What? Saturday night, we were at a dinner and Linda McMahon is sitting next to me, and I Said, we were talking about the teachers unions. And I said, I don't know if you remember this, Linda, but I remember in 2008, there was a little story in, I think it was in the Los Angeles Times. And I read this and I thought, oh, my trouble is coming. The teachers unions in California had decided to remove one of their restrictions on teachers. And one of the restrictions was, you could not have ever been a part of the Communist party or anything that had. You could have never been involved with any group that had tried to actively overthrow the United States of America. And they removed that plank. And I thought, why on God's green earth would you remove that? Now, this is before anybody thought, oh, there's lots of communists and radicals and revolutionaries, okay? This is right at the beginning of the Obama administration and before anybody really understood what we were facing. And I saw that, and I remember going on the air and saying, something's really wrong with the teachers unions. Look out. Why would you do that? Well, we know why you did that. I mean, that's what brought Bill Ayers in and everybody else, and you can just do whatever it is you want. And it was in California. I've told you about this teacher in California three times now. I think the first time I talked about him was in 2010, and he was at Fox. I was at Fox and he was with Laraza, aka the race. And I showed you something that he was saying. He was saying at the time, this is not about immigration or immigrants. This is about the global struggle against imperialism and capitalism. And I said, how is this guy teaching in high school? How is this guy a teacher in high school? I then showed you. Showed you him last year or earlier this year. Time is just gets away from me now during the LA riots. So within the last nine months, the LA riots, and he was one of the organizers of Union del Barrio. And he was one of the guys who was out saying, we got to stop ice, we got to track ice, whatever it takes on the streets. These are our streets, okay? Revolutionary. He's just won from the California Teachers association the Human Rights Award. Why am I bringing him up again? Because it's not about that. I just want to show you that the. The teachers unions are embracing him, okay? He is now in the news today because he was at an anti ICE protest where he stood in front of cameras and microphone and said, we want the ICE agents to know you're not the only one with guns. You are threatening the lives of civil servants. You are embracing a culture of death. You are saying, I don't agree with the law. And so I will take the law into my own hands and I will start shooting civil servants, husbands, boyfriends, fathers. I'll just shoot them because I disagree with them. And this man is still teaching in California. Now, let me take this a step further. Representative Robert Garcia at a press conference announced with Democratic lawmakers their intention to create a master ICE Tracker. Listen, over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a master ICE tracker where we can. We're going to be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will send, be able to send us information on. So I want to remind you that the killer or the. The guy who attempted to kill ICE agents here in Dallas just a few weeks ago was using a tracker exactly like that. Now, this is our Democratic representatives from the Democratic Party that are now saying they are putting a tracker together for ICE agents. This is assisting premeditated murder. I believe this is treason myself. You are going against the law and you are now tracking federal civic civil servants. You just like saying, I'm going to put a tracker on every police car. No. Try this. Would you be allowed to put a tracker on every Democrat in Congress and show where they are? I know it's verified they're at this restaurant. I verified that they're eating at this restaurant. I verified they're at their house right now. I verified they're going to this meeting and they're going to go through this door. Would you be able to do that? Of course not. Why? Because insane people would try to kill them. Could I put a tracker on Air Force One? Could I put a tracker on Donald Trump and tell you his every move and where he's going to be at what time? All the time. I mean, we get close enough to that, but you would not be able to put a tracker on the plane. Why? Because people could shoot it out of the sky. And if you think he's Hitler, why not shoot it out of the sky? This is lawlessness. Can the President send in the National Guard to these cities? Yes, by request of the governor.
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Or.
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If it is impossible because of the local community and local governments, state governments, if it is impossible for the federal law enforcement officers to enforce the law, you are giving him no other option. And they want it that way. They want him to send in the federal troops. They want him. They need him to do that because that will prove to all of their lackeys, all of the people who are not thinking at this critical time, in our country. It will give them proof. See, he is a dictator. He's taking over law enforcement. No, he is protecting the lives of civil servants who are just doing exactly what the law is enabling them to do and demanding that they do. And you're targeting those fathers and mothers and sons. You're targeting them. What option does he have? The. The left is creating this culture of death. And if you honestly think. I mean, remember, look at. Look at what they did when. If you got out of line with the left, they cancel you. How many people were big on the left? And then suddenly you think Bill Maher is going to parties with everybody. They cancel you. You're dead to them. What do you think is going to happen? You're on their side today. You get out of line with people who are building a culture of death. You read about the French Revolution. It started all noble. Let's get the king. And before you knew it, they were turning on themselves. You've betrayed the revolution. You're a traitor to the revolution. And they started putting their own people into the guillotines and chopping their heads off. And I'm telling you right now, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the. The weasels in Congress, the people who allowed these radicals in in the first place in 2004. I said, you cannot let Michael Moore into the presidential box at the Democratic Convention. You can't do it because they will eat you in the end. That wasn't a fat joke. Well, it might have been at the time, also a fat joke, but people didn't see it coming. And I'm telling you right now, Chuck Schumer is afraid of a literal guillotine being rolled in front of his office or his house. Why are they not doing all of this with, you know, with the shutdown? Why are they just absent and they're like, yeah, yeah, we're just going to keep going. Why? They're terrified of their own side because they know their own side will kill them. And they just keep encouraging it. They want a color revolution. I did this show last night on this. I've been talking about color revolution forever. Oh, that I'd have the voice of an angel and I could shake the earth. I wish more people could hear the warnings and pay attention, but that is not my concern. My concern is just to speak to you. Please, please listen. Color revolution is the plan. Civil war is on the horizon. Unless we live like Christ and we stand for the truth. Our own side is. Is starting to fracture because you're buying into all of these crazy conspiracy theories. It's not this difficult. Restore the eternal principles. Stop going down these roads of conspiracy theories that just divide you from me and me from that person. We must stand together. Let's just agree on the Bill of Rights. Let's just agree on a constitutional republic. Let's just agree. God lives. God loves us. We have to serve him. And the best way to serve him is by serving our fellow man with love and choosing life. If we get lost in all of the other stuff, we are done. Please hear me. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right, so let me give you some perspective on this White House nonsense. Nonsense, Nonsense. Every time a president dares touch the plaster or paint of the White House, the press loses its collective mind. And seemingly, unless the name is Obama, we have seen this happen over and over and over again. So let me give you some history. When FDR built the east and West Wings, okay, Those were not there before fdr. The east and West Wings built by fdr. Washington reporters acted as if he were erecting a palace while the people starved. I looked up the headlines. These are fabulous. Now, I think you could probably make the case with the East Wing because it, it, it included a swimming pool that was just for fdr and it was all paid for by the taxpayers. And at the time, America was in the Great Depression and bread lines were circling the blocks, families lived on ration books, and the government was picking up the tab for the President's expansion of the White House, which included a giant pool for him. Yet history has been kind to him. And now the East Wing is revered. All of the buildings, the press cried outrage over them. They are the same buildings that they're now crying outrage over now, except this time, the East Wing is just too historic to change. It's just. How dare him do this? So let me give you a first of many huge differences here. What Trump is doing will not cost the American people a dime. Not a dime. Even when the press and those on the left admit that it is private funding, they say, yes, but it is a grotesque waste of money. Wait a minute. From the people that just took $294 million for billion. From billionaires, Over a quarter of a billion dollars for the no Kings movement. You're lecturing me on what people should do with private funds? Please give it a rest. Okay, so not a cent of taxpayer money is going into this. It's privately funded by him and those friends that he has called and said, can you help us out on this? Okay, Privately Funded. The second difference is it's not for his use. There is no swimming pool, there's no tennis court. You know, there's no Obama basketball court. It's not for his use. And even, you know, even if it had things that the President would use in it, it's not gonna be completed until after he leaves office, after he's gone. So it's not private. It's being funded privately. It's a state dining room and ballroom. The only thing private about this is the funding. We should all be celebrating this. America's getting an upgrade and we're not paying for it. And don't get me wrong, if this was done by really anybody else, including George Bush or any of the Republicans presidents that have passed, I'd probably have a bigger problem with this. But I am, I am under an agreement that I cannot share all the things that I know about what the President is doing and has done to the White House. Not for any other reason of. He just. He's not like that. He does not want credit for really great things. I can tell you. No, no, no. I know who we talk about here. It's weird. No, it's weird. This is. He doesn't like, like that softer side of him. It's weird.
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So. Yeah, so let's clarify that. He absolutely does want credit for really great things. He takes it all the time and a lot of times deserves it.
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Right? But not, but, but not in this.
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This is a different type of thing.
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And I looked at him and I had to sign this and I'm like, why? Why? Because you signed a non disclosure. And, and so I know what he's doing. I have seen what he has done up front, personal. And there is no one better to work on the White House than him. Okay? No one better. He is upgrading things that. That and he's doing it the right way. Yet the media, their outrage. It's identical to 1933. Only this time the facts don't fit the fury. Okay, Let me remind you of another scandal at the White House. Nancy Reagan and the White House China. Okay, let me give you the headlines from this one. Quote out of touch. Nancy spends $200,000 on plates while Americans starve. Americans were starving in the 1980s. Really? Reagan royalty dine in luxury as cuts hit the poor. This was for White House china. Now the press made her look like she was royalty and she just couldn't eat off of everyday plates. That's not the truth. And I know the truth because before the White House butler and this was Under George W. Bush. The butler, who had worked there since the Johnson administration, the White House butler is the head guy, okay? He oversees everything in the White House. I spent the day with him and just talked to him, as you know. I really wanted to do a, you know, a podcast or a video with him, but he wouldn't. And he has. Stories were unbelievable. And he told me a story about the White House china, because we went down and he was showing me all the china and everything else from all of the different presidents. And he said, you know, one of the best first ladies we ever had that I ever worked for was Nancy Reagan. And I said, really? Even with the China thing, huh? Because she was out of control, right? He said, no, let me tell you that story. He said Nancy came to him and said, what does the White House need? Because every president, most of them, some don't steal the furniture. Every president tries to leave the White House better than they. They came in. So she said, what is it that the White House needs? I'll raise the money for it. He said, we need a complete set of state china. We don't have enough, you know, matching plates for official dinners, so we have all this mismatched stuff, and it looks horrible. So she, again, didn't use taxpayer money. She raised private funds so the White House could have a matching set of china for, you know, foreign dignitaries when they come. Well, the press turned her into an absolute villain. And. And the butler told me. He said, I begged her. I begged her, please let me go public. Please let me defend. Let me tell the press this was me, not you. And she said, I'm a big girl. This comes with a job. No, you just do your job. This. I'll take the heat for this. Now, that used. That's the kind of strength that people used to really respect in America, but, you know, not if it's coming from a Republican. That's the kind of dignity that Melania showed when the press tore her apart recently on Absolutely Everything. But before I get to that, let me just. Let me stop here at Hillary Clinton, because she's one of the loudest critics of what's going on, okay? The ballroom. It's an outrage. This. The.
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The same first lady who, upon leaving the White House, carted off more than $250,000 of White House furniture. The only thing that got her to return it was the backlash in the press. By the way, her staff also, if you remind, and her husband, they left petty vandalism behind, prying all the W's off. All of the keyboards before George W. Bush's team arrived. So they. They vandalized and stole furniture. Let me show you the flip here. When Donald Trump arrived and he entered office the first time, what he found was a. A greatly aging White House and executive West Wing. Okay? The. All the doorknobs were mismatched. They were loose, they were cracked. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Worn carpets, almost century old. Bathrooms that desperately needed updating in America's most symbolic home. Can we have some nice bathrooms in here that just work that are not a hundred years old? You would want that in your house. He took out of his own pocket to restore these things in ways that were absolutely appropriate and beautiful for the White House. The doorknobs alone, he had them cast custom brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal. They are some of the most beautiful doorknobs I've ever seen. I can't imagine how much they cost him. Okay? They were not cheap, but you weren't billed for it. You might most likely don't even know any of these things, okay? Because it's the people's house. He's restoring the people's house and trying to make it nicer. With Trump, however, no good deed goes unpunished. Just the doorknobs alone. Beautiful and historic. Okay? Just that. But let me tell you, when Biden's team came in, those very fixtures, the doorknobs, some of them mysteriously just disappeared. Souvenirs for the adults who were back in charge. So I really want to focus on the press here. The same press that is now howling about historic preservation when Trump adds a ballroom to the White House or when Melania replanted a rose, stood absolutely dead silent about history while America's history was being destroyed. Let me start with Melania. She spent her time and their money to restore the White House rose garden. And the media erupted in mock outrage. How dare. She had. I'm quoting, Desecrated a national treasure. She had ripped out the roses and destroyed Jackie Kenneth Kennedy's legacy. So here's the truth, because I talked to Melania about it myself privately. What did she do when she replanted the rose garden? Melania went back to the original architecture and horticultural plans drawn. Drawn up by Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon. Okay? Those are the two that did the rose garden. She took those original plans, and she restored the rose garden back to its original 1962 design, the way Jackie had intended it before. Years of overgrowth and disease ruined everything. Okay, so Melania restored it, revived it. It balanced it symmetry, sunlight. So the whole thing could flourish again. And what did they say? They didn't say thank you. They didn't say thank you for preserving history. They printed lie after lie and turned beauty into blasphemy. Why? Because the wrong person was holding the shovel. If that was Michelle Obama and she did exactly the same thing, they would have been fine with it. You know, these are the same people that have no problem watching actual history burn. When rioters were toppling statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, they said nothing. They didn't shed a tear or write an op ed about the loss of history, Nothing. When they burned St. John's Church, which is across the street from the White House, this is a church where every president since James Madison has worshiped. The press didn't call that burning, you know, some sort of a desecration. They actually called it, quote, an expression of grief. So forgive me if I don't buy into their outrage, because this is not about preservation. All of this is about politics. All of this is a distraction. And none of it is about history. It's all about hate. When they obsess over chandeliers and garden paths that you're not gonna pay for while our cities are crumbling with crime, their voices are silent on the cities. In fact, they say, that's beautiful. But look at the desecration here. Please. Federal officers are now under siege. They're being targeted. Congress is paralyzed with cowardice. The Democrats are playing this tired game of survival. Republicans are mumbling about fiscal restraint. But the Democrats are pushing for more spending and threatening a longer shutdown just to please the radical and dangerous left. Their base, by the way, I think Chuck Schumer's. I think the, the Chuck Schumers of the Democrats actually fear literal guillotines in the streets from their so called supporters on the very theft. They're cowards. So no, this is not about a ballroom or a rose garden or Donald Trump. Here's what this story is really about. It's a mirror. It's a mirror and the reflection is damning. What is being exposed now isn't excess or ego, but the pettiness of the ruling class that despises restoration, hates beauty, and cannot stand the idea that someone might build something lasting privately and with pride because they're serving the nation. The real scandal here is not in the White House or what's being done to the White House. The real scandal is what is happening every day in the newsrooms all across America where Truth was evicted long before the roses ever were evicted from the Rose Garden. The hypocrisy and the constant. Why do we listen to people who have been wrong every step of the way? Why are we listening to these people? I mean, Stu came in today and he said, what was it? You know, as a historian, I can't believe you're more upset guy runs a.
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Museum or, you know, like, I think because I'm the type that I think would. I think they look like real improvements. And it doesn't really bother me. But I'm surprised you a guy who. I mean, I think if they changed, you know, a piece of. I mean, you go in there and describe every single thing in the Oval Office, and you've talked to me at length for hours and hours and endless.
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1794. 1794. Not 1940, 1794. For you touch the interior or the exterior of the White House and you're not doing with preservation in mind. I mean, right. Truman certainly more. There were. There were boards in the White House from the War of 1812, the char marks. Truman took all of that and threw it away. Okay? He just took it to the studs of the White House. Now, all of it needed to happen. But nobody, nobody was saying anything about that during Truman.
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But you're.
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That's the White House itself and the War of 1812.
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Again, I tend to not really care about these things. But let me just. You're not at all surprised at the process. For example, we were told as of a couple of days ago that we have diagrams of it. We've shown them on the air that a small like the facade of the outside of the East Wing was coming down. And then just kind of offhanded in a press conference with a couple of reporters, Donald Trump says, actually, we're knocking the entire East Wing down.
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I restored.
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That's a surprising.
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I restored an 1821 home in Connecticut. Don't ever do it.
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I remember that.
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Remember that.
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So I'm restoring this home, and because of a slight change that I make, it's Paul Post and beam. A beam shears. And all of a sudden my ceilings are coming down and the house is splitting in half. When you are doing restoration, when you're doing construction on something like this, you can get into it and go, okay, this is a nightmare. This is going to cost us a lot more. It's not going to be worth it. Tear the thing down. It's 100 years old. Rebuild it to look exactly the same. Put modern engineering in it. Make sure that it lasts. Make sure that it stands. Let's just gut this thing. It's a lot easier to do. Rebuild it looking exactly the same while preserving the historic artifacts in it. And Doug, here we have the Limu Emu in its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug. Uh, limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us? Cut the camera. They see us. Only pay for what you need@libertymutual.com Liberty Liberty. Liberty. Liberty Savings Ferry Unwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates. Excludes Massachusetts.