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Down the road where shadows hide. Tail the dark on every side. Stand your ground when times get dark. Gotta face the dark and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn BECK program. Hello, America. Welcome to the GLENN BECK Program. There's a lot to talk about. We have actually several really good news stories. Some positive things that are happening I want to share with you this hour. Also, cbs, too little, too late or is this the right track? CBS News is making some big changes. Bari Weiss looks like she's going to be running CBS News. I want to get into that and also show you a little bit about trust that Americans have for news organizations. Now. It's, I mean, I thought it was shockingly low before. Wait until you see the new poll and the government being shut down. What is actually happening for people who just don't know or you kind of know? Let me clear this up, what it is all about. We'll do that in 60 seconds, so stand by. 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So at the heart of the shutdown is just the simple truth that the Democrats are demanding health care for millions of people who are in this country illegally. That is the main sticking point. People who under federal law should not be here. I'm going to get into that because there's a little bit of nuance as always, but I think you'll, you'll see right past that nuance. Republicans have drawn a line in the sand and they say no. Now here are the facts and I urge you to check these out for yourself. Do not take, you have to own the truth yourself. You can't just say, I heard it on Glenn Beck show. You have to own the truth yourself or you'll never be able to share it with, with others and convince others. We have many stories in our show prep today where you can begin all of it, all the facts are laid out in two or three different stories. You can get that for free@glenn beck.com now these people who shouldn't have been here, they shouldn't be having healthcare. Democrats say, oh no, they should. Let me explain. For decades, immigration law has been very clear. If you cross illegally, you are to be detained and deported. Now the law allows rare exceptions, parole, but only on a case by case basis and for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant Public benefit. So significant, urgent humanitarian reasons. How does this play into today? Well, here's what Biden did. You knew that he was opening up the gate states. You might have even known that he was also flying people into our airports all across the country. They didn't have to go through customs, immigration, nothing. They just, they just came in and said, I'm here as a, as a refugee. Okay, come on in. When they did that, especially with four different countries, I'll get into that here in a second. They then mass paroled 3 million of them. That's Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. They flew those people in from their countries into the center of our country and then said, okay, you're here as a refugee because you're from one of these countries and we're giving you parole. That's not something we've ever done before. Okay? It's not legal. We granted them a ticket past the border, past the background checks and straight directly into benefits. Each month, up to 30,000 have been flown directly into our country and received a two year parole. That's not a loophole. In my opinion. That is an abuse of power. That's executive amnesty without Congress. Now here's what Biden knew that we never even talked about. What he knew is once they were paroled, they become lawfully present on paper. And that magic phrase means they can now access the federal health care programs. These programs, as you can imagine, were meant for citizens, lawful immigrants, refugees, those who come through the front door. Biden turned inadmissible aliens into beneficiaries overnight. Why? This is, I'm going to give you my opinion here, but I'm going to back it up. Was it compassion? Was it compassion? Because there are so many people fleeing because they are somehow or another refugees and they just can't live because they're under siege in their own countries. I don't know how you make that case with the number of people that come across the border. But let me ask you, instead of making the case here, let me ask you to look at what's happening all over the world. Because this is not just an American thing. This is happening all over the world. It's not a Democrat versus Republican. This is a Western civilization versus a new world order problem. Canada, all of Europe, the uk, South Korea, now all overwhelmed on their borders. May I ask, where are all of these refugees coming from? Where are all of the wars? We didn't have this kind of a refugee issue during World War II and half of the world was in active war so how do we have this problem when there's not an active global war? But for the minute, just for a minute, let's remain here in America. What are the ramifications of this open border, or in this case, actually flying non citizens into our country directly passing all border stops, and then having them go directly into our system to gain benefits? Well, one of the ramifications is the cost. Between 2017 and 2023, the government spent $27 billion on emergency Medicaid services for those ineligible because of their immigration status. 18 billion of that was paid through your federal tax dollars. The rest of it came from your state and local taxes. Democrats now want to go further. Let me back up. What was the big beautiful bill about? Remember how big and beautiful and important it was? And everybody's like, we gotta sign it, we gotta sign it, we gotta sign it. This is the one case where there was, you know, all bills are jammed with stuff none of us really heard about until it's too late. There's the one section of the big beautiful bill that I'm like, wait, I'm surprised by the. Wow, that's really good. And what it did is it ended health care for illegal aliens. They knew what Biden was trying to do. They knew that we had to change the law and end the health care status for illegals. So when they passed that law, the big beautiful bill stopped all that. Well, Democrats didn't like that. And so what they're demanding on this shutdown is that Congress repeals that part of the big beautiful bill. Well, you just passed it. Everybody voted for it. You didn't vote for it, but it passed. And now you want, as a negotiation, you want to repeal that. How is that even possible? That's one of the things that Donald Trump was elected to do. The repeal would add another $1.5 trillion in spending. So, you know, that's 1200, sorry, $12,000 per American household. So you'll be on the hook for people who shouldn't have been here in the first place for their Medicaid. You'll be paying $12,000 per healthcare just this one time. Remember, it's going to continue if it doesn't stop. So let me ask you, is this shutdown from the Democrats, because that's what they want. They want that provision repealed when they say we're fighting for health care, yet they're fighting to have that repealed. $12,000 per household, this one budget. So is this really about government workers missing paychecks? Is this really about Donald Trump? Is this really about. We're defending the average worker? No, I think it's more about Democrats taking more out of your paycheck to give your money to people who are not citizens, have not paid income tax, people who should never have been here in the first place. More importantly, what this is, what the Democrats did and want to continue, is Cloud and Piven. The Cloud and Piven strategy, we talked about it years ago. Cloud and Piven, they were two socialist Marxist professors. They came up with a way to collapse a system, and they did it in New York. It's why, if you remember, New York City, back in the city, 70s, I think, went bankrupt. It was Clarid and Piven that designed that. They got everybody onto the. Onto the dole, and New York could not handle all of the promises that they had made if everybody is taking advantage of it. And so they collapsed the economy of New York and put them out. That's what's happening not just here in America, but it's also happening globally. This is a global power move. This is not about compassion. It's not about actual people on either side. This is a power move globally. You flood the border, you jam the courts, you overload our hospitals, you stretch everything until it snaps. Then Americans cry out for relief. And the left's answer is always the same. More spending, more programs, more control for them. Donald Trump is saying with this shutdown, no, no more. No more. We're not going down that road. Stop the spending on this. Enforce the law, send people home. Democrats say fund migrant hotels, keep the Medicaid rolls open and pretend parole equals lawful entry. It doesn't. It's not about compassion. It's not about children on the border. This is about whether America will survive as a nation of laws or dissolve into some borderless welfare state. Because you can't give welfare to everyone. You can't. Every family that is struggling to pay rent, every worker watching their taxes climb, every citizen told to wait in line while Washington prioritizes those who cut the line. This is a fight for you. This is the fight for you. We're not going to fund the lawlessness anymore. We're not going to keep paying for the collapse of our borders. We're not going to allow the cart to be stolen right out of the store. The question is, do we have the stomach? Will America have the stomach? Will it wake up to what this shutdown is actually about? Will. Will they continue to fight Donald Trump instead of looking at the global picture? Because it's happening in every country, and that's what we have to tell our friends. We have to be like a, like a clock striking every quarter hour saying, hey, this is a global thing. It's not about Donald Trump. This isn't about the Democrats or Republican. This is global takeover. That's what this is. It's not about politics, parties or even politicians. It is truly about the survival of the Western civilization. That's what this shutdown is really about. All right, back in just a second. In four days, October 7th, we're going to mark the anniversary of a day that changed countless lives, a day we still feel in our hearts and still see the echoes in the daily reality on the ground in Israel and all around the world. World the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has people working around the clock to get food, medical supplies, heat, emergency relief to Jewish families who are still suffering. They're delivering immediate aid, coordinating medical care, helping people rebuild lives that were torn apart. At the same time, the Flags of Fellowship movement is gaining some traction. Churches, synagogues, schools and communities are planting an Israeli flag in solidarity with the victims starting on October 5 as a public act of solidarity, remembrance, prayer this anniversary, it's a moment to remember, to pray and to respond to real suffering that is still happening among the Jewish people today. People on the ground need our hands, our voices and our support. Don't let this date pass without doing something that helps. At least stand up and show you're willing to stand. To get more information about how you can join this historic Flags of Fellowship movement, do it now. Visit the fellowship@ifcj.org ifcj.org, it's happening in five days, so please go there now. Ifcj.org 10 seconds station ID so now 7 in 10 US adults now say they have not very much confidence or no confidence at all in the American press. That's remarkable. It's down now to 28% of the American public. Trust the press. That's radio, television, newspapers, they don't trust it. Republicans are down to 8% trust. And I mean, you can't be surprised. Older Americans trust it more than anybody else. Over 65 express having faith in the media. But here's what Gallup said at the at the end, fewer than 3 in 10Americans now place trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, fairly and accurately. With confidence fractured among partisan and generational lines, the challenge for news organizations is not only to deliver fair and accurate reporting, but also regain credibility across an increasingly polarized and skeptical public. There is a chance one corporation is doing this and it's cbs. They haven't officially announced, but it looks like Barry Weiss is going to become the editor in chief of CBS News. That, I think, is remarkable. Barry Weiss is a remarkable woman. Started Free Press. She was one of the, you know, people that Elon Musk sent all the Twitter. Twitter files to. She has. She does not agree politically with me, but she. She will talk to people like me. She's been on this show before. I find her reasonable and thoughtful. And while we don't necessarily agree on politics, she knows. She knows common sense politics, and she does not play that game. She was fired from the New York Times. She was one of the most respected journalists around and she was fired or she fired or she quit?
