Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Harmeet Dhillon | 6/17/26

Summary

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program (June 17, 2026) offers a sweeping look at current American political and cultural issues. Glenn Beck is joined by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) to discuss the Save America Act, Senate procedures, FISA reauthorization, and national security issues including a foiled domestic terrorist plot. Later, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, details major reforms to the Department of Education, parents' rights, and legal battles around identity politics, reparations, and school transparency.

Glenn’s signature wit, candor, and skepticism run throughout, especially regarding government overreach, civil rights, and threats to American institutions. The episode is broken up by hard-hitting interviews, in-depth analysis of breaking news, and a few moments of dark humor.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Save America Act & Senate Procedure

• Main Topic: Senator Mike Lee explains the procedural obstacles facing the Save America Act and gives insight into Senate traditions that could still allow it to pass.
• Detailed Points:
  • Current belief is that a simple majority cannot overcome a filibuster without cloture, but Lee asserts there are other, older ways (e.g., extended debate and negotiation).
  • Quote: "There are other ways. You have to exhaust those who are delaying the bill. You put the bill on the floor and you debate it until it passes." — Sen. Mike Lee [04:56]
  • Lee likens the struggle for the Save America Act to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, suggesting public pressure and exhaustive debate could tip the scales.
  • Senate Majority Leader holds key procedural power, not just individual senators like McConnell.
• Memorable Moment: Ongoing banter about "The Balless Rhino" song lampooning Sen. John Thune, with Beck poking fun at staff interruptions. [04:17, 06:53]

2. FISA 702 & Surveillance Reform

• Main Topic: Tension over reauthorization and reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), especially Section 702's warrantless search powers.
• Detailed Points:
  • Lee: FISA 702 can be useful, but needs a warrant requirement for U.S. person queries.
  • Both Beck and Lee believe there is bipartisan public skepticism about continued warrantless surveillance.
  • Quote: "All we're asking for... You've got to require the government to get a warrant from the FISA court before they start doing what we call US Citizen or US Person queries..." — Sen. Mike Lee [10:46]
  • FISA collection technically continues into 2027 due to a sunset extension added in 2018 late at night.
  • Political dynamics: “Weasels” in Congress will likely try to slip FISA reauthorization into an end-of-year spending bill.

3. Foiled Domestic Terror Plot at the White House

• Main Topic: A domestic terror attack planned for the White House lawn was stopped, thanks to the vigilance of a mother.
• Details:
  • Five young American men plotted a multi-stage attack using drones and snipers.
  • The leader’s mother noticed troubling changes, enabling law enforcement to act before tragedy.
  • Quote: "She did the single hardest thing a parent can ever do... She picked up the phone and she said, I think something's wrong with my son. I think he's going to hurt people. You know how hard that is? That woman saved lives this week." — Glenn Beck [19:30]
• Key Concept: Accelerationsim — The idea that worsening chaos can “rebirth” society. Beck draws parallels to ideologies like Dugin's Eurasianism and various far-right groups.
• Insightful Summary: Beck’s warning: Understand that real grievances can serve as a gateway to nihilistic, violent ideologies. The solution is not destruction, but reformation.
• Quote: "The grievance is real. The conclusion, the cure is demonic." — Glenn Beck [20:48]

4. Department of Education Shakeup and Parents' Rights

• Main Topic: Glenn interviews Harmeet Dhillon about Trump's DOJ reassigning much of the Department of Education’s authority—enhancing parents’ rights nationwide.
• Key Points:
  • The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will now handle federal education civil rights enforcement, cutting out education department “middlemen.”
  • Quote: "We’re taking it all in house for the Department of Education and doing that work for them from soup to nuts... 99% of the work is going to be done here..." — Harmeet Dhillon [30:04]
  • FERPA opt-out protections for parents are emphasized, especially against “stealth” sexual/gender curriculum in schools.
  • Dhillon discusses cases where schools hide gender transition info from parents — now actionable federal violations.
• Action for Parents:
  • Review curriculum, attend meetings, push for transparency; more conservative legal help is emerging.
  • Quote: "Parents are the ultimate authority of what their children are taught in the schools." — Harmeet Dhillon [35:57]

5. DEI and California’s “Gay Certification”

• Main Topic: Scrutiny of California’s programs requiring government contractors to be “gay certified,” part of a broader spectrum of DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) requirements.
• Critique: Dhillon sees these as likely unconstitutional, amounting to illegal economic discrimination.
• Quote: "I don’t know how who somebody sleeps with is relevant to their provision of utility related support services... It’s nonsense and it needs to stop and it’s illegal." — Harmeet Dhillon [38:03]

6. Reparations and Equal Protection

• Topic: DOJ steps in to halt Evanston, Illinois’ program giving payments to black residents and descendants of past victims of housing discrimination.
• Argument: It’s unconstitutional to provide race-based benefits for historical, not current, discrimination. Legal remedies should target direct, present-day harms.
• Quote: "It's fundamentally at odds with our Constitution to treat people differently on the basis of race. That's what's happening here." — Harmeet Dhillon [41:57]

7. Religious Freedom and Sports Uniforms (Listener Q&A)

• Listeners ask whether MLB players can put Bible verses on uniforms in protest of required Pride attire. Beck admits it’s likely not protected speech since uniforms are workplace property.
• Quote: "If you're wearing an officially sanctioned uniform at work, you don't have that right." — Glenn Beck [45:24]

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Memorable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Senate Procedures and Hopelessness:
  "Yeah, I'm kind of losing hope on this one, you know..." — Glenn Beck [06:53]

• On Accelerationism and Parental Sacrifice:
  "She did the single hardest thing a parent can ever do... That woman saved lives this week." — Glenn Beck [19:30]

• On Education and Parental Rights:
  "Parents are the ultimate authority of what their children are taught in the schools." — Harmeet Dhillon [35:57]

• On DEI and Economic Discrimination:
  "I don't know how who somebody sleeps with is relevant to their provision of utility related support services... it's nonsense and it needs to stop and it's illegal." — Harmeet Dhillon [38:03]

• On Reparations:
  "It's fundamentally at odds with our Constitution to treat people differently on the basis of race." — Harmeet Dhillon [41:57]

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• Opening, Show Preview [00:01]
• Sen. Mike Lee on Save America Act [03:53—14:57]
• Domestic Terror Plot/Accelerationism Monologue [18:09—27:08]
• Harmeet Dhillon Interview — Dept. of Education and Civil Rights [29:52—43:47]
• Q&A: Religious Freedom and MLB Uniforms [44:05—45:24]

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

Glenn Beck upholds a combative, skeptical tone toward government overreach and progressive policies, punctuated by moments of humor and earnest warnings. Both guests are straightforward, legalistic, and sometimes blunt, offering urgency and optimism for conservatives seeking change in American institutions.

Listeners are left with in-depth, jargon-free explanations of how major policy changes are unfolding, reinforced by a strong appeal to citizen vigilance and personal involvement.

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Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

Well, it might be the last episode that has Mike Lee on it because of Sarah, not me, because of Sarah. He was on talking about the Save America act and Sarah refused to not play Thune the Balless Rhino. And I don't think the senator appreciated it. I know I did. You might, you might. But also there is a, there was an attack that was planned on the White House, a severe terrorist attack attack and it was done planned by Americans. And you need to know about it because one of them, the leader, was a 19 year old kid who was turned in by his mom who saw him change over the last few months. You need to hear this story because you, your family members, your kids can fall into this trap easily if you don't know what it is. And from the doj, the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon talking about what's happening with your kids in school and what the DOJ and the Department of Education just did to help shut down the Department of Education under Donald Trump. All of that and so much more. On today's podcast,

[Harmeet Dhillon]

You're listening to the

[Glenn Beck]

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[Senator Mike Lee]

How are you doing? Great. Thank you very much, Glenn. And happy. Semi quincentennial, which is the other way, but it just makes you sound smart.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Yeah, it does. Or weird. You know what I mean?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Or weird. Mostly weird. Like the kid.

[Glenn Beck]

Like the kid that gets beat up on the, in the, in the playground.

[Senator Mike Lee]

You know what I mean? It's been known to happen, especially if you say words like that.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. All right. I want to talk to you about what John TH Is doing here with the. No, no, Sarah. No, Sarah, I did not. Stop it. Stop. Sarah, I did not ask for th. The Balless Rhino. I am sorry, Senator. Stop it. Sorry, Senator, that's wholly inappropriate and unprofessional. And Sarah, shame on you. I want to. I want to talk to you about the Save America act. And John Thomas still not. Doesn't seem to be willing to save America. He's still saying that we just can't pass it in the Senate, which is not true, is it?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Well, it's true if you assume that you have to have cloture in order to break through a filibuster. The truth is, you don't now most of the time, that's the way it happens these days. It wasn't always the case. It used to not be the norm at all in the Senate. Cloture votes used to be relatively rare, but they've become the default norm and now increasingly assumed falsely to be the exclusive way to break a filibuster. There are other ways. You have to exhaust those who are delaying the bill. You put the bill on the floor and you debate it until it passes. And that can't happen with every bill, partly because it takes a lot of time to do it. And partly because not every bill will work like this, because not every bill has this much support from the American people. We're talking somewhere between 70 and 80% of Americans cross party lines, depending on which poll you listen to. Either way, it's a vast super majority. The only place where you can't get a super majority for it is here in Washington, D.C. then that's the problem. But if we put the bill on the floor like they did the Civil Rights act of 1964, they were down about 30 votes. 30 votes away from being able to achieve cloture in 64. When they did that, and over time, what they saw was that the bill became more popular and those who were opposing it and trying to delay it with a filibuster became less popular. So they started negotiating the terms of their exit ramp. They started negotiating face saving and perfecting amendments, and eventually they got the bill to the point where they could vote for it. That's exactly what we need to do here with the Save America Act. So to say that because we've only got a simple majority support, we're about 10 votes shy of cloture. It doesn't mean the bill can't pass. It just means there's got to be another way to do it. I won't advocate this on every bill, but this is a rare, unique circumstance where it's important to America's future, our election security, and. And where the American people overwhelmingly support it. This would work, but it does take time and I. I hope we'll get there.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I'm kind of losing hope on this one, you know, I know Mitch McConnell. The good thing we don't have a song about Mitch McConnell. Yeah, because I think Mitch McConnell is also trying to do their. No, Sarah, I was talking. Stop, Sarah, I was talking about Mitch McConnell, not th. The Ballist. Rhino, please. This is wholly inappropriate with the Senator on the phone. Please, I mean it.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Stop.

[Glenn Beck]

So it looks like he's doing everything he can to torpedo this on the way out as well. Is that just my. Just me.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Look, there is one person and one person alone who can make this judgment. Called the way the Senate works, the way our schedule is set up, if the Senate Majority Leader is willing to give this a shot, it'll work. Whether Mitch McConnell wants him to or not, whether any one member wants him to or not, he could do it. At this point, we're not counting on Mitch McConnell's vote anyway. But we do have a simple majority of Republicans who support the bill, and we also have an American population that I believe will continue overwhelmingly to support this. And it won't really smile all that fondly upon those who are filibustering the bill and eventually they'll negotiate their way out of it. So we got to give it a shot. Just because it's difficult and time consuming doesn't mean it's not important. This one's especially important. As we approach this election year, I

[Glenn Beck]

feel like the Republicans have just walked into a trap. You know, if that fish face guy from Star Wars. It's a trap, I would. That's all I'm hearing right now. When it comes to the FISA thing. They came after the temporary appointment for the dni and, you know, then Congress said, well, we're not going to pass fisa. And I said at the time, please, please take, take them at their word on that one. Just actually hold them to that. Tell them, no, no Save America act, no fisa. And it looks like that's what he's doing. That didn't work.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Look, well, first of all, Save America and Pfizer, I like the idea of looking for creative ways and creative avenues for passing Save America. I've never been confident that attaching FISA to Save America would do anything other than tank both bills. They've got the areas of overlap, coupled with the degree of popularity makes those two bills a likely mismatch.

[Glenn Beck]

But hang on. But, Mike, what I'm. But. But what I've been thinking is there's no way. There's no way these weasels in Congress or in the Senate are going to let the FISA thing go burning down in flames. They love it, all these weasels. Like, I'm not even going to say his name, but tvr. No, no, stop. These guys absolutely want fisa and they're not going to let that thing. They're not going to let that go by, do you think?

[Senator Mike Lee]

No, that's right. But they do have until March 16th of 2027 to continue normal FISA 702 collection under the existing orders of the FISA court because of language they slipped in in the dead of Night in 2018. They can continue collecting till then. So they're in the catbird seat. They're fat, dumb and happy right now. I suspect their plan is to sort of rope a dope this thing for a while until they can attach it to a spending bill at the end of the year and hope they can slip it in that way. That's why I don't see them panicking a lot on FISA 702, even they were publicly purporting to panic before then.

[Glenn Beck]

FISA, given all the deep state stuff that Trump knows is going on, what. I mean, why do you think he wants this so badly?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Well, look, FISA 702 serves a useful purpose. I've never disputed that it does good things for the American people when it's used properly. The problem is that it's too easy to abuse all we're asking for. We're saying go ahead and reauthorize it, but if you want our support for it, you've got to require the government to get a warrant from the FISA court before they start doing what we call US Citizen or US Person queries, where you're searching for a particular person's private communications that were incidentally collected on this FISA 702 database in connection with a foreign intelligence investigation. That's a type of backdoor warrantless search that Americans are increasingly skeptical of. And that's what they need to do. Now, what baffles me is that they're unwilling to even negotiate, that this is a very reasonable request. It wouldn't be nearly as difficult even as an ordinary court warrant because it's a different context and it can be substantially narrower than that. But this does need to happen. And if they would do that, there's a huge group of us that would help them pass it tomorrow. What's stunning to me is how defiantly unwilling they are to listen to the American people who increasingly are skeptical of FISA 702 without a warrant.

[Glenn Beck]

I think it's changing, Mike. I think you look at the elections and what's happening, I think these guys who are not listening to the American people, I think they're going to find themselves in real trouble with the base. But maybe that's just me. Last question. Any comment on the. I mean, I know you don't know the deep. Well, maybe you do the details of the, you know, peace deal. And I don't want to speculate because everybody is speculating and it's just a waste of time in my book. But is there anything that you can tell us that you know, that, you know, you can share?

[Senator Mike Lee]

I really don't know any details about what this deal has in it. But what I do know, Glenn, is that when Barack Obama made a really bad deal about 10 years ago with Iran in the form of the JCPOA, that moved from a standpoint of American weakness. It resulted in us giving an ungodly sum of money to Iran without any real concessions on Iran's part. And that's how we got to the awful mess where we are today. I know that President Trump has every ability and every intention and every desire to make things better for the American people rather than empowering our enemies. So I look forward to seeing what's in there. I haven't seen it. I don't know its contents, but I look forward to doing so later this week.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I talked to JD Vance yesterday, and he seemed very optimistic that we were going to get the things that the American people. I mean, you know, most of the things that the American people want, the things that President Trump said he has to have. And Trump said that not a dime is going to be given to Iran unless they are playing, playing ball. I asked him the question, you know, can you trust them? And he said, no, you can't trust them, but you can trust yet verify.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's the name of the game. And I hope and expect and pray that that's what we'll see out of this deal and look forward to seeing it hopefully as soon as Friday.

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Mike, is there anything the American people can do to help with the FISA thing? I mean, are they listening to phone calls or letters or anything?

[Senator Mike Lee]

I always think it's a good idea if you agree with something to use letters, use phone calls, social media, op eds, ikea, any way you feel comfortable expressing yourself to make sure that, you know that your senators and your representatives at the federal level are aware of where you stand. That can't hurt. And sometimes it can do some real good. You never know exactly the moment at which stuff like that will make a difference. So you have to assume that in this circumstance it might, and I believe this could be one of those moments.

[Glenn Beck]

He just said, however you feel comfortable expressing yourself, you know, which I think is I'm going to take as a, you know, kind of a. Kind of an endorsement of the song about John Thune. I, I mean, I could be misreading that there, but. No, Sarah, stop. Okay, Mike, thank you very much. Thank you very much.

[Senator Mike Lee]

I appreciate.

[Glenn Beck]

All right, you'll never be on the show again, but thank you very much, Senator Mike Lee for the great state of Utah. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We have a lot to talk about. Who is leaking things at the White House. This is getting dangerous because it's now being leaked out of the Situation Room, which is really bad. Also, want to touch base a little bit more on Rupert Lowe's Rape, gangs. The details coming out of England now are just absolutely shocking and horrifying. What the government of England has just overlooked, refused to look at it, and told everybody else, you're the problem. Wait until you hear this story. Also, I want to talk about this story that came out yesterday about starter homes and how expensive they are in America. It's true, but it's half true. It's half true. And I want to give you the full picture because I think this is yet another attempt by the press, probably a Marxist writer that hates America, that is just trying to depress you and convince you nothing is good. There is a lot of stuff that is good and including in homes and buying homes. And I want to share that with you here. Coming up a little in a little while, but we got more details from a breaking news story that happened yesterday while we were on the air. On the South Lawn of the White House during the cage fight, there was somebody that literally wanted to start a civil war. And thank God we caught him. I don't know if you heard how we caught them, but it is a remarkable story of a. Of an American hero. Really, truly an American hero. Stopped it and. Okay, so this last Sunday, on the lawn of the White House, there was a cage fight. UFC June 14, President's 80th birthday, America's 250th, right around the corner, thousands of people are standing on the lawn of the People's House. And five young men that we know of wanted to turn that lawn into a slaughterhouse. Now, here is the plan. According to the federal complaint that was unsealed yesterday. Drones, small ones, commercial ones, loaded with explosives, flown over the arena and detonated to start panic as the crowd would run, as it was supposed to be kind of herded, it would be herded and run through certain gates where they had sniper teams ready. This was the plan then. A second wave was going to try to storm the gate of the White House itself. So set off some explosions, get everybody to run through a certain gate, just start killing people through that gate, and then storm the gates of the White House.

[Senator Mike Lee]

They.

[Glenn Beck]

This is a coordinated massacre designed in tears with assigned roles. Shooters, shooter locations, even escape route down the Potomac. Now, I'm going to give you the names. You know, they're presumed innocent, and I honor that. But they are charged and the names are important. Tyson Proper, 19 years old, out of Danville, Ohio, Daniel Eskridge out of Missouri, Abraham Alvarez out of Nebraska, Brian Rowe and Michael Thomas out of California. All sound like Americans to me. That's important. Now. Behind them, a chat group of around 19 people. What stopped it? How did we find out about it? How did we stop these guys? You ready? You want to talking about American hero? The leader's mom, Tyson proper's mom. She called the police on her own son. She had been watching him. She watched him spend $3,000 of his graduation money. Graduation money. He bought a shotgun. He bought body armor, ammunition, and extra magazines. She watched him as he kind of disappeared into his phone. And then she did the single hardest thing a parent can ever do.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Do.

[Glenn Beck]

This woman is a hero. She picked up the phone and she said, I think something's wrong with my son. I think he's going to hurt people. You know how hard that is? That woman saved lives this week. Remember her when the rest of this fades because she is really the hero. So how has he turned? Because it took three months. Group that called itself. And I want you to. I want you to hear this. The name of the group that approached him was vanguard of the old. It started on TikTok back in March. That was three months ago. Then it moved to encrypted apps, and then it was Signal and Simple X. And all of it is wrapped in religious language. See if we find any patterns here. Now, it was full of real grievances. And what do I say about grievances all the time? What is the thing that I say that most people who just hate the grievance culture like I do refuse to say? You cannot, you will not solve any of these problems if you will not say these words. A lot of these grievances are absolutely true or based in true facts. Okay, The Epstein files. I don't know what the truth is there, but I know we don't have it. Government corruption. Yep. In spades. We have that data centers eating up our power and our towns. That is more perception than reality. But perception is reality a lot of the times. So I've stood at the chalkboard and talked to you about these things over and over and over again, which is exactly why I have to do this monologue right now. Because the grievance is real. The conclusion, the cure is demonic. Now, here's what the FBI says. This group believed in their own words that the United States, and I'm quoting, needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt. One of them said the whole point of the attack was to jumpstart a revolution. That is. That's John Wilkes Booth, gang. That sentence, torn down so it can be rebuilt also has a modern name because it's an ideology, and it's called accelerationism. Now, I have mentioned this before on a chalkboard a couple of times, but I've. I've never stopped. I wanted to put it up on my chalkboard today because it's really important. This is the thing that I've been trying to warn you about from three or four different directions for the last two or three years. What is accelerationism? There's a problem. Okay, well, the way to solve that problem is pour gasoline on it and burn it down. It's simple. And that's what makes it so dangerous. It says the system is so corrupt, so far gone, so irredeemable, that the most moral thing you can do is make it collapse faster. That sounds like the Twelvers. Don't reform it, don't repair it. Pour gasoline on it and burn it to the ground. Because only out of the ashes, only out of the chaos, can the real thing finally be born. Now, this comes in a lot of flavors, and I've talked about all the flavors. There's a violent neo Nazi version, groups you may never have heard of, Adam Waffen. Then there's the base, whose whole strategy is to provoke a race war by making society ungovernable and whose Bible is a book literally called Siege. Then there's the tech version, far less violent. It just wants to slam the gas pedal on AI and AGI and ASI and just let the chips fall where they may. And then there is the philosophical version, going back to a man named Nick Land. He took a fringe academic idea and turned it pitch black, dark as night. But you strip away the Baskin Robbins 32 flavors of this, and. And it's the same rotten core in every single one of them. The world and society is not worth saving. Burn it as out of the ashes, something better will rise. Okay, that's not true. And that never happens that way. But if the logic sounds familiar to you, it should, because I have been warning you for the better part of a decade, and especially in the last three weeks of the Russian named Alexander Dugin Dugan does not wear the accelerationist label. He has his own label. It's fourth political theory, Eurasianism. But if you listen to the music underneath the words, it's exactly the same song. Dugan List looks at the liberal Western order. Everything that has been built since the Enlightenment, since people said, no, I have. I have my own independent right, and I was endowed with certain inalienable rights. He says, this is decadent. It's finished. It deserves to die. And chaos is the womb of the new world. He does not want to fix the West. He wants to destroy it. And he is patient. He is sophisticated, and he is laundering that idea into Christian language, into conservative language, into anti establishment language, until good people who are angry for good reasons start nodding along to a man who wants their entire civilization in the grave. And that is happening. That is who these kids were. The vanguard of the old just wrapped their nihilism in religious phraseology. Dugan wraps his in philosophy. The neo Nazis wrapped theirs in race. The grievance changes, the wrapping changes, but the core never changes. Tear it all down. That's why the ends never justify the means, because it always ends in chaos. Now here's the terrible genius of it. Accelerationism. It almost never starts with a monster. It starts with somebody who is absolutely right about something. Right? Yes, yes, yes. You get it. Look at the corruption. Yes, Epstein's friends, they did get protected. Yes, you're right. It is broken. And I can't see a way out. The lie is not in the grievance. The lie is in the leap from yes, you're right, it is broken, to this is irredeemable. Burn it to the ground. 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.

[Senator Mike Lee]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Harmeet Dhillon]

Thanks for having me back, Glenn.

[Glenn Beck]

You bet. So tell me exactly what you did. What was the problem you were trying to solve? What you did that made everybody so upset?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Well, this is certainly above my head in terms of the decision making, but really excited to be part of bringing it forward. And the plan Was of course all along to wind down most of the functions of the Department of Education in terms of day to day work and hand them over to the subject matter experts. A significant part of the Department of Education support portfolio has gone over to HHS and Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is taking over the legal investigative functions that help enforce some of our important federal civil rights laws that yes, protect America's children from abuse, from exploitation and from discrimination. And you know, since that's what we do here at the Department of Justice, we investigate, we prosecute, we bring people to accountability. And because we were usually the endpoint of the process all along, now we've cut out the middleman, which is Department of Education investigators and lawyers doing the investigations and then handing over the results to us. We're taking it all in house for the Department of Education and doing that work for them from soup to nuts. Of course they have the ultimate authority at the end of the day by statute, but 99% of the work is going to be done here on that. And that includes enforcing an important statute called ferpa. And FERPA protects children and parental rights from illegal gender ideology being forced down their throats and requires them to have opt outs. And you know, I could talk about some of the important challenges that we're facing with the different states that are simply ignoring this law and abusing children.

[Glenn Beck]

Why don't you go there? Because I think this is really important. Because they're going to say this is hurting children. No, this is protecting children and the relationship with their parents and the parents rights. To be able to say what that because people will go into schools now and you can't even have access to what they're learning in school. What are you teaching my child? None of your business. This actually helps solve that, doesn't it?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

100%. This law has been on the books for a while, but here's what's really happening with it. So Glenn, under natural law, of course, parents have the ultimate authority. They're the ultimate sort of government, if you will, over the family. And the United States Supreme Court has recognized this. A couple of recent cases, the Mirabili case and the Mahmoud case, reinforce that parents have the ultimate authority of what their children are taught. And specifically with these sensitive issues like sexual activity and sexual orientation, gender identity stuff. And schools are just blatantly ignoring this federal law and natural law, of course, and they're just doing it behind parents backs. So first of all, many school districts, like the entire California system and a couple of other states they claim that so called sogi sexual orientation gender identity instruction is not sex education. And so it doesn't fall under the opt out provisions of ferpa. Not so, according to us, and we believe very clear Supreme Court precedent. And so what they're doing in addition to that is even if a state allows an opt out, like technically out of sex education, they're permeating this LGBTQ instruction into English classes, into other forms of instruction, so that it's under the radar. So you may think that you're opting your child out sex education, but in fact, by law in Illinois, for example, they're being taught the history of LGBTQ activism in this country. They're being taught, no doubt in English classes and other areas, other forms of sexually inflicted programming. I don't know why they can't just sort of be straightforward about it. We know why, because they're trying to do this behind parents backs. Some schools, like in California, they maintain separate records for parents and then separate records privately for the children if they're going through gender transition, so to speak. So they're hiding that from children. It's illegal. And before I came to this job, Glenn and Department of Justice, I sued school districts in California for doing this. This is not a myth. This is happening to thousands of children. And so when you read these cases of these parents who wake up one day and they have a meeting with the school and they're told that their child is transitioning. And you blame the parents. Don't blame the parents. This was happening behind the parents backs and then it was sprung on them. And so children have separate wardrobes they're keeping at school, separate names, separate identities. Grooming is occurring of these children during lunch sessions as opposed to after school. So the parents don't need to sign permission slips to know about it. And it's outrageous. It's causing an epidemic of grief and harm and putting these children in more suicidal risk, not to mention being completely unnatural in a violation parental rights. And so we're standing up for these rights. We are the right place to enforce these federal statutes. And we're so pleased to work with Linda McMahon and the others at the Department of Education to help improve the enforcement of these federal civil rights laws and fast track it.

[Glenn Beck]

So what do parents need to do?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Well, parents need to be very hands on as to what their children are being taught at school. They need to review the curriculum. They need to show up at parent Teacher association meetings. They need to be very active about it, and they need to watch for any Signs that their children are acting weird or hiding things from them. And they need to go to these schools and insist on knowing what is being taught and frankly being willing to make some noise. Now the good news is since I've been in the field, there are a lot more conservative lawyers out there who are willing to stand up for parents and parental rights. And so there are resources out there. They have to be prepared to make noise and file lawsuits if necessary. And this is what is making change in this country. That's how those lawsuits came about. Occasionally teachers will stand up and say, I refuse to hide things from parents. And the Supreme Court has said very clearly it's illegal for schools to hide from parents what's going on with respect to any of these sexual type issues or frankly any issue. Parents are the ultimate authority of what their children are taught in the schools.

[Glenn Beck]

If the, if teachers are hiding or administrators are hiding stuff, will they go to jail?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Well, jail is, is probably not the place that happens for as an outcome, unless there's sexual assault or something like that involved. But certainly.

[Glenn Beck]

So what is the punishment that would

[Harmeet Dhillon]

firing civil liability for school districts? You have to understand that what's happening in some of these cases is entire states, like where I'm investigating Illinois, Michigan, California, entire states have state laws that put teachers kind of in an awkward position. State law requires them to do X, Y and Z. We say that's illegal. So we're taking the burden off of those teachers by doing Title 9 investigations that look at risks of girls having boys in their locker rooms and so forth and in the sports as well as this FERPA that I just mentioned. And ultimately there's going to be litigation in some of these jurisdictions and ultimately a court will force these schools to stop doing what they're doing. But make no mistake, what's happening is these liberal states, you know, the states I mentioned, you can add to that mix. Minnesota, Washington State, Oregon, some of these other jurisdictions are bent on forcing this sexual material on children. Children in Illinois as young as 5 to 7 are being taught about gender identity. 11 and 12 year olds are being taught about anal sex. You know, none of this is appropriate without parent sign off. And I argue it's not appropriate at all for those ages. But you know, that's up to parents, but it's being hidden from parents. And so we're putting a stop to it.

[Glenn Beck]

Let me ask you, let's switch gears here. There was a story came out from Chris Rufo yesterday, I'm quoting, California has hired teams of bureaucrats to run the state's gay certification program. I don't even know what that is. Making lists and pressuring utilities to spend 1.5% of their supplier budgets on gay certified companies. Is this legal? I mean, that sounds. I don't care if it's gay or straight or white or black or whatever. That doesn't seem legal in America.

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Okay, so I agree that it's illegal. You know, the question is who can sue and what's the statutory basis? So this is something I'm looking at, but I want to put it in context. It's actually a much bigger problem than what you just described everyone's kind of lampooning. You have to get three friends to sign up and agree that you're gay and then get certified as gay. But actually this is part of a broader DEI initiative where they have minority set asides based on race, based on gender, based on other factors. And this was the vogue in California. If you wanted to be a law firm, for example, getting work with Public Utilities Commission or PG&E or one of these other Southern Cal Edison, you had a big leg up if you could prove that you have partners in your firm who are black and they're going to be doing the work. They were giving away bond underwriting to the tune of billions of dollars based on minority identity of bank and law firms. Same for gender. And I mean, how does that help the taxpayer get the best services? How does that help the rate payer? Everybody who consumes utilities in the state of California get the best rates. It doesn't. Obviously when you have set asides and special contracts like that, you have inflation because people are, you know, know that, that their status is a commodity that they can actually sell, sell because it's being forced on the state and on the ratepayers. So I think this is illegal. So we're definitely looking into what can be done about it by the Department of Justice. But the other people who could do something about it in some instances can be private parties who weren't picked for a contract because they don't have the correct boxes checked. I don't know how who somebody sleeps with is relevant to their provision of utility related support services. That's rhetorical. I think we know it isn't. It's nonsense and it needs to stop and it's illegal.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. One last being reported. DOJ trying to halt the first US reparations program for black people. Federal government said they asked a judge to halt the United States first reparations program offered black people in a small Illinois City, $25,000 for 20th Century race based housing discrimination. Joining an existing lawsuit, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Is the first and only of its kind in the US allotting $20 million. Black residents, their direct descendants who lived in the city between 1919, 1969 suffered housing discrimination because of city ordinances, policies or practices. The city has already distributed over $7 million. Blah, blah, blah. Why is this, why is this illegal? Or why do you hate black people so much?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

It's illegal. I love all Americans. All Americans are entitled to civil rights. And that is kind of our default position in this government. And that's. I people find it radical, frankly. What I'm saying that all Americans are entitled to equal protection of the laws and equal civil rights. So it's not that small a city. Evanston, Illinois is 75,000 population. And this law is talking about making people whole for stuff that happened five generations ago. Like I wish, like my mom was a refugee, you know, I mean, should I be getting reparations from the British for that? You know, arguably, perhaps, but it was a long time ago. And I think it is illegal in today's day and age to take tax dollars from all taxpayers and hand them to a protected class who did not suffer discrimination themselves. To be very clear, this law is like if your parents lived in this city during a time period 100 to 50 years ago or 120 to 50 years ago, we're going to assume that you suffer discrimination and we're going to pay you on the basis of that. That's ridiculous and it's un American. It's pitting people against each other. You can imagine what kind of record keeping shenanigans they're going to be for people to make these claims.

[Glenn Beck]

But what law is it breaking?

[Harmeet Dhillon]

It's breaking the Civil Rights act, it's breaking equal protection. It's fundamentally at odds with our Constitution to treat people differently on the basis of race. That's what's happening here. They're giving away money. If you are one black and two are a subset of black and can prove that your ancestors lived in the city during a time period, there's no rational reason for that. And any kind of race based classification system is subject to strict scrutiny under our constitutional analysis. This cannot survive strict scrutiny because it does not remedy some current issue where there's discrimination based on race currently. And all the Supreme Court precedents in recent years have moved away from this affirmative action DEI lens of looking at things based on past discrimination and the focus is on current Discrimination. So yes, if someone denies you housing today because you're black, you absolutely should sue. You should contact me because I'll be happy to take up that lawsuit for you. But if it happened 100 years ago, the clock has run on that. I'm sorry. It is time for people today to live on their own merits.

[Glenn Beck]

So, I mean, I gotta say, I love you. I think you're doing a fantastic job. Thank you for the announcement. Thank you to Linda McMahon for what she's doing as well on this. Don't get discouraged, keep fighting. I know you're not, but don't get discouraged, keep fighting because I, you can see in what they're doing, they have not changed course. And if anything, they have doubled down. This has made them only more, more insistent that they are going a different direction. And I think if we lose the next elections, we're in real trouble because they're going back with a vengeance. With a vengeance.

[Harmeet Dhillon]

Thanks, Rameen. Thank you, Glenn.

[Glenn Beck]

Appreciate it. You bet. The Bill of Rights has never been catchier. Sing [e-mail] Ricky I cover everything I needed to cover with Harmeet.

[Unidentified Caller or Guest]

Oh yeah, there was, there's the story that's trending right now that I am not quite sure the Civil Rights division is ready to pick up. But I wish they would. With the San Francisco Giants players who are Christians and their shoot light protest and having to wear a pride hat while they play baseball and they're just putting little Bible verses on the hat. They're getting threats from the MLB that they have to stop. This is in violation of their terms. So I'm, I actually wanted to ask you, since we didn't have time to ask her, is, is there a violation of their constitutional rights in the First Amendment to put the Bible verse on the hat if the MLB is a private organization?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I don't think so. They, they are at work wearing a uniform and you're not making changes to those uniforms at all. I mean, those uniforms, a lot goes into them. They sell positions on the uniforms, et cetera, et cetera. And it's, I guarantee you it's not property of the player, it's property of Major League baseball or at least the team. So I don't think they have a right to do that. You know, you have a right to express yourself, but I hate to say it. And Harmeen, I had it down on my list of things to talk to her about. I overlooked it for some reason, but I'm pretty sure they don't have a right to do that, and I hate saying that, but to be fair, I don't think the Constitution.

[Unidentified Caller or Guest]

What's the solution? Quiet like, don't play the game.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Don't pay to play the game. I mean, you're gonna pay for it one way or another, but it depends on how much you. You believe in it. So don't play the game. You know, call in sick, whatever it is, but you run great risk there. But do you believe in it or not? Do you think it's wrong? You don't have a right. I mean, I wouldn't want people to be able to have the right if it's my company. I wouldn't want people to take my uniform and put some political slogan or God slogan on there if it's not part of my uniform. That's something we can decide as a company. And so everybody's just going to have to decide what. What price are they willing to pay for their belief? And if it's. You want to do anything in your private world, you've got every right to do it. But if you're wearing an officially sanctioned uniform at work, you don't have that right.