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Progressives Killed Spirit Airlines. Now They're Blaming Trump?! | Guests: Harmeet Dhillon & Carol Roth | 5/4/26
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Glenn Beck
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Harmeet Dhillon
Just want to say thoughts to all
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Glenn Beck
you and your colleagues over there at the Bananas the next couple days unfold, man, we really appreciate that. Thank you. It's hard to believe this is it. Yeah, no kidding.
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Harmeet Dhillon
It's always a pleasure to talk with you guys on the radio.
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Glenn Beck
So hope you guys make it out okay.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Hey, Spirit from us guys at American. Good luck to y'. All. Sorry to hear what happened. Yeah. Is there any other Spirit flights coming in after us? Well, let me see. I don't see anything. So you might be the last one. Might be a repo flight.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I guess this is it. Probably last revenue flight.
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Harmeet Dhillon
This is it tonight.
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Glenn Beck
Well, it was a pleasure working with
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Harmeet Dhillon
you guys and I wish you the best. Thank you very much.
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Glenn Beck
And that was it. The end of Spirit Airline and all of those people unemployed. So let me ask Elizabeth Warren today, who's the winner here? Because it was a big Biden win, right? Who won? Because it wasn't the baggage handler, wasn't the pilots, wasn't the stewardess when it weren't the people working for Spirit. It certainly is not the single mom trying to fly with two kids. It's not the college student going home to see their parents. It's certainly not the lower income family that could only fly on Spirit because, yes, while Spirit may have been a little ugly and cramped and annoying, it was at least affordable. And I could fly someplace. And who won? The little guy. No, I just told you about the little guy who won. The big carriers, the people who can absorb the lost. The people who never flew Spirit, the people who say consumer protection from the first class lounge, like Elizabeth Warren. And that is the pattern over and over and over again. So now the progressives in Congress are suggesting that we raise the minimum wage and we do it nationally to $25. Let me ask you, let me ask you, big J's that makes burgers and tots in Preston, Idaho, how are they going to afford $25 minimum wage? They're not. Let me ask you, the guy who works at the deli in Manhattan, how can he live on $25? He can't. You see, it's different wherever you are. But because you are proposing a $25 wage and you're doing it without any kind of logic or any kind of. You don't. You're not ever asked to explain how it works. You just get the applause. And unfortunately, you may get votes. And what happens in the end? Well, what happened to Spirit Airlines? The worker gets fewer hours. You know, the University of Washington just did a study in Seattle. They found the $13 minimum wage increase reduced hours by roughly 6 to 7%. Even as hourly raise, the hourly wage rose about 3%. What did businesses do? They can't afford it, so they just cut back. And who gets hurt? The little guy. Your attack on billionaires in New York and Seattle and California. Oh, it feels righteous for about 10 seconds, doesn't it? Yeah, we got Ken Cochinelli or Ken Griffin. We got him. We got him. Citadel. Yeah, well, Citadel was in a $6 billion project. 6,000 jobs. Construction, 15,000 permanent jobs. Yes. May not happen now. Same is happening in Seattle. Starbucks, they're building another headquarters. They say they're not leaving Seattle. You're. I hope you're right. I mean, Seattle should hope that you're right. I mean, let me look here. Seattle, I just saw some numbers here. Washington state, 17% of all businesses 17% of all businesses in Washington state are thinking about leaving. Last year alone, 13,000 jobs in Seattle were lost. Ah, but you're standing up for the little guy, aren't you? Seems like every time you guys stand up, the little guy loses. Little guy's lost the flight, right? Little guy lost the hours, Little guy loses the job, little guy loses the ladder to climb out of his problems. Hmm. That is weird. That's weird because it's almost like you're consciously running a cloud and piven or W E F policy. Now I of course, am not saying that, but if you take their framework seriously, less carbon, you can't fly as much. People need to fly less. Less consumption, less flying, more government managed scarcity. Wow. It's almost like you are accomplishing everything that WEF wants. Right? I mean, WEF Aviation, it openly pushes net zero by 2050, major emissions reductions by 2030. And the only way to do that is to get people to fly less. And well, congratulations, you have just accomplished that. Oh, and cloud and piven, that. Let me see, what is that one about? Oh, yeah, that's about overloading the systems to force a new redistributive order. So get communism, because you'll collapse the system because you'll force too many people into the hospitals, into the schools, onto government welfare. Wow, that's weird because that's exactly what you're doing. Um hmm. And now our hospitals are overloaded, our schools are overloaded, our. Our cities are collapsing. Huh. It's almost as if the progressives are all in a room planning collapse. Even though they tell us they are, they tell us their end goals. Nobody seems to care. Nobody seems to notice. Why does every policy that you guys sell as compassion, make ordinary life, especially for the little guy, smaller and worse. Less mobility, less ownership, less opportunity, less cheap energy, less travel, less private choice, more dependency. Are Americans ever going to wake up. Or are they just going to keep taking signs handed out that were paid for by communist China, Money that say tax the billionaires? Are you just going to keep doing that and not ask where is that coming from? Where is that money coming from to print those signs? Spirit is not just an airline. Spirit was proof that the common man could still move. The common man could still get on a plane. He could still go where he wanted to go or needed to go. But they protected him from consolidation. They protected him from that evil jet blue. Well, now you've been protected from flying. And you have Elizabeth Warren and all of the progressives, the Democrats in your corner fighting for you every day. Congratulations. I guess you're one step closer to whatever it is their goal is. But I don't think their goal is to make life easier for you. More in a minute. Let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. There's a difference between hearing about something and responding to it. You can hear about crisis. You can see the images. You can understand it's serious. 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Prosecutors say he was angry. He was heartbroken over a failed relationship. He had no plans that night. He was ranting to other Uber passengers that he was mad at the world. He was. He was obsessed with fire. Fixated on Luigi Mangione. Free Magione. And Free Luigi searches all over his. All over his devices. He wanted to take down billionaires and capitalism. And that is the spark that started the fire that became, with winds 23,000 acres, 6,800 homes, a dozen dead, and $25 billion in rubble. That's what that became. Take down the billionaires. Free Luigi. Have you heard that story? Because, you know, maybe I've heard it. Maybe I've heard it once. Maybe. Why don't we know that story? Why is that just that? Why is that story just barely making the evening news? Why haven't we heard the wall to wall updates on this guy, his trial, his motives? Because I think most people think that it was just climate change and dry brush. Because that one fits the script, right? Now you add in a new layer. You have the race for the mayor and you have a guy who is running for mayor who lives in the. In the Pacific Palisades. I want you to listen to his commercial. Here it is. This is where Mayor Vass lives. You notice something? Or here, where Nithya Raman's three million dollar mansion sits. They don't have to live in the mess they've created. Where you live. This is where I live. They let my home burn down. I know what the consequences of failed leadership are. That's why I'm running for mayor, for my sons and the Rest of us Angelenos that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city, we are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back. Do you notice what he said there? They don't have to live in their mess. Mom. Donnie's not living in the mess. Elizabeth Warren's not traveling Spirit Airlines. She's not looking for another discount airline today. They don't have to live in the mess. Now, the. The mayor who was overseas in Africa while her city burned, already under fire for fire department budget cuts. She just went after Spencer Pratt. That guy. The guy who just did that. The guy who actually lost everything. She said he's exploiting the grief. Wait, what? He's exploiting the victims. Um, I don't know if you know this, but he's living in an. In a trailer parked in the rubble where his house, you know, Pratt is. Oh, I don't know. Maybe a victim is exploiting himself. Filming ads, standing there in the dirt where his life used to be. And next to Bass's mansion that didn't burn, saying, yeah, this, you know. Notice I'm living in the mess. You're not. That's the way all of these progressive politicians are. They all live the way they want to live, not in the mess they created. Uh, by the way, Karen, that's not exploitation. That's reality. So here's why you should care about all of this. Because I think all of these things are related. Okay? You show up every day, you go to work, you work hard. You're. You're just trying to live the American dream. You raise your kids the best you can. Can't buy a house right now. Prices are insane. Wages feel frozen. Groceries, you're stretching every single dollar. You're cutting back on meat. You're skipping the name brand milk. You're wondering how one more inflation spike is. Is going to break your budget. Your parents and your grandparents, they could afford a home now. Good luck with that. Meanwhile, the system rolls out the red carpet for everybody else, especially if you're in LA or in New York. Migrants, illegal aliens. They're handed hotel rooms, prepaid gift cards, debit cards loaded with cash. All the while, you wait on a wait list for the same help. Your tax dollar, your strained local budget. And if you speak up, you're a heartless bastard. You're just exploiting. What? Exploiting what? I feel like I'm the one being exploited here. Then you go home, you're fighting against the culture, your. Your kids, reality of gender confusion and everything else. The ideology over. Over over the basic things, basic principles, schools, keeping secrets from you, the parent fighting just for your right to raise your children. And then you're painted as a problem by the government, by the progressive government. Another win for the Biden administration. Every day, you're the parent saying no to the latest trend. You're the one driving in the carpool mountain, that you're the one now packing the lunch, trying to give them a shot at the American dream that you grew up believing in. And you're wondering now, really, is this. But it's not the dream. It. It's not the country. It's the politicians. It's the progressive politician. This is the country under attack. And it's not just under attack from one arsonist sickness or from the foreign threats. It's under attack from within. Unhinged people acting on rage because they've been fed a narrative. By whom? Media. Well, the media is playing a role in that. They're amplifying the grievance. You know, they move on when the story doesn't fit. But it's the politicians and the progressives, not just the politicians, I want to make that clear. Not just the politicians. It's the progressive educators, it's the progressive leaders around the world that are going to get theirs. They're going to get theirs. They know they're fine. They're fine. And it's the progressives that are going around fixing things. Really? Can you fix maybe some basics like fire response? How about fixing accountability? How about fixing your list of priorities? Because the hardworking majority gets the figurative or literal trailer every day? Every day. And the system seems to reward the chaos and the handouts and the progressive politicians that have just destroyed another $13,000 or 13,000 jobs with progressive airlines, hey, what do you say we do better? Real scrutiny of leaders who fail, then deflect policies that, you know, put the people paying the bills actually into hardship. Palisades don't lie. Trailer doesn't lie. Our politicians seem to not lie an awful lot. Good news is millions of Americans are waking up. Waking up. All right. You know, there are two ways to look at a problem. One is to ask, what's somebody going to do about this? The other thing is to say, what can I do about this? Ask not what your country can do for you. This is. This is why I started Mercury One. You know, my goal when I started this charity was to have every dollar go. Go to the things that we say. When I come on the air and I say, hey, I want to raise money for this problem, 100% of every dollar goes right there. Okay. And I wanted also to involve you. I wanted you to be the first responder in your area. If something went wrong in your area, we could help fund it. But we were going to go to your church. We were going to go to the people who are actually on the ground making the difference. We're not going to the Red Cross. Okay. That was the goal. And we have done an exceptional job of that. You are an amazing audience on what's happened. It's really knowing you're part of the response. You are the solution. Returning people to their responsibilities and the things that, you know, we're supposed to do as Christians. Would you join us in this effort? Mercuryone.org give $15 or more to our Maximum Impact Fund. It keeps boots on the ground and planes in the air and food on the table. Mercury1.org if you missed the live Ellis
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Ricky
island event, don't worry. It's on Demand now@glennbeck.com.
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Glenn Beck
Well, Saturday we were in New York at Ellis Island. It was an amazing event. Amazing event. Love for you to see it. We'll play some highlights. You can find it on Demand now@glenn beck.com torch and make sure you see it. It was, it was stirring. It was amazing to be there and celebrate America's 250th. We had several people that were supposed to be there because of security concerns. They didn't make it. One person who did make it was Harmeet Dillon and she's the one I want protected most in the government because I just, I absolutely love her. She is our assistant attorney general. She is running the Civil Rights Division. She's with us now and Harmony. Let me just start before we get into the news of the day, we thank you for coming and thank you for sharing your story of being an a legal immigrant in the nation.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Well, thank you so much for having me, Glenn, and for your warm introduction. It was a very moving event. And the stories you told about the president's family and your own family were also very moving and just demonstrate how important our history is and respecting it and keeping it legal. And so I'm really proud to be part of that here at the Department of Justice and generally in my law practice in life. And, you know, I could not love this country more.
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Glenn Beck
So you are part of the, you're running the Civil Rights division of the DoJ. And there's a couple of things that, I mean, I can't take the Jim Crow stuff anymore and the lack of people noticing how The DOJ was weaponized. The DOJ task force report came out last week. Anti Christian bias was real, systematic and pervasive. How deep? What was the thing that you saw? You were like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe this.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Well, I mean, I can believe all of it because we've been compiling this stuff for a while now. And I experienced this type of anti Christian and really anti religious bias as a lawyer in private practice over the last several years. I'll just give you one example. You know, our government, not just the doj, but, you know, various aspects of the government viewed people seeking religious accommodations to not have to get the COVID vaccination if they were government employees, right? As, you know, not legitimate. They basically internally labeled all of those accommodation requests illegitimate. The Biden DOJ continued the Obama DOJ's efforts to go after Little Sisters of the Poor and other Christian organizations like that. The Bostock memo that effectively took that Bostock ruling, which I disagree with from the Supreme Court about gay rights, and, and went way beyond that and basically made it illegitimate for any person employed by the government to have a Christian viewpoint on gay marriage and issues like that, which are very much spiritual and religious in nature. And so there was just a complete lack of respect for the Christian and
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Glenn Beck
more broadly viewpoint to the point of trying to get Christians off of juries,
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Harmeet Dhillon
screen them out to get Christians off of juries to. In the case of a companion report that we issued a few weeks ago, our Faith Act Weaponization Report, where disparaging remarks were made by DOJ prosecutors and my department, former prosecutors now in my department here, about a magistrate judge being a Catholic, keeping people of faith off of juries and going after. And seeking sentences that were more than double for Christian protesters outside abortion clinics than for really domestic terrorists going after pro life centers in Florida in one important case after the Dobbs decision. So these disparities were marked, they were open, they were written down in emails. And you know, thank goodness that we have a president today who is not just dedicated to changing that, but also documenting what happened so that people should feel ashamed to do this to other people of faith in our country, because our country is founded on faith and specifically on the Christian faith.
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Glenn Beck
We're not really good at shame right now. What steps are we taking? I mean, my biggest fear is we lose in 2028 and all of this stuff comes back with a vengeance. What is being done to make sure this doesn't happen again? Anything. Can anything be done?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Well, Glenn, it very much could happen again. I mean, you can count on it happening again. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries and the James Comey's and other prominent figures in the world are promising that punishment of conservatives will happen if the parties change and we don't do the opposite. But what I will tell you is that lawyers in this department who violated the rights of Americans, including Brady violations against defendants, you know, refusing to disclose exculpatory evidence in some of these weaponized faith related cases, they no longer work here. So yeah, sure they could reapply in four years or three years, but their careers would have moved on by then. And frankly, if they want to fight, we have records. But before anyone gets terminated here, there's a record of what they did and you know, that'll all be a public record. So I think that is an improvement. I mean, a lot of people have criticized me on the Hill and Democrats have criticized me for the fact that 75% of the lawyers in the civil rights division left after I became the Assistant Attorney General. That is absolutely a positive development. For one thing, most of those lawyers were biased and no one is entitled to a forever job here. What we have now, and we're building back up here, is second amendment lovers, is people who love liberty. Christians, Jews, people of faith, people of all faiths are welcome here if they are willing to respect the Constitution and commit to the civil rights agenda that's consistent with protecting all Americans, not just the favored few. And back to that weaponization report. This DOJ put out guidance that Christians could not possibly be the victims of religious discrimination because they're the majority. That's ridiculous. That's not what our Constitution says. The Roberts court, for all of its, you know, flaws, I disagree with some things the Roberts court has absolutely, all the way up to. Yes. Last week's opinion in Louisiana versus Calais has steered the ship regarding discrimination back to the center where it belongs.
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Glenn Beck
Let me switch to the SCOTUS ruling on gerrymandering. If I hear one more, say one more person, say Jim Crow, I think I'm gonna lose my mind. I can't even imagine how you feel. What is the effect of this? And, and are we going after the states? I know you said you're, you're going after enforce in every state that has, you know, radically rigged maps. You're going to enforce this. What is the plan? What does it mean?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Okay, so we're formulating what the plan means. I mean, I will tell you that the timing of this ruling is such that, you know, the closer you are to elections happening, the less leeway courts give you to make changes. A lot of these changes have to be made at the political level, and we're seeing that happen. And when I say I'm going to enforce the law throughout the United States, I mean that's not committing to any particular timeline, because we do have to respect some of these parameters, and we do have to look at the political situation. So where some states, mainly in southern states, but not exclusively, are committing to redistricting, you know, they're going to go through that process, which is a political process. And the Supreme Court has. Has ruled that political gerrymandering is acceptable. And so that's going to be happening throughout the country. You know, eventually, I think what you're going to see eventually over the next two, four, six years is there. There are going to be legal actions, if not by the Department of Justice, by candidates, bipartisan entities, just like happened in Louisiana versus Calais. NAACP forced the hand over there. They may be regretting that now. But instead of having one black majority district, they went for broke and went for two, and now there may be zero. Because political gerrymandering means that they can redraw the lines that fit the other criteria that are mentioned in the court. The jingles test that talks about compactness and, you know, communities of interest and so forth. And that isn't necessarily race in 2026 in America. I don't believe it's race. We have a number of people being elected from both parties, constituencies of all different races in America, and that's a beautiful thing in our country.
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Glenn Beck
So we saw last week our acting attorney general go after, you know, Fauci's number two. And I know this is not your area of expertise, but we're just days away from Fauci. I mean, he's already been pardoned, but we can't bring up charges pretty soon. Are all these. I mean, are we moving forward on these things? Harmeet. Are people gonna pay a price for anything?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Yeah, look, people are going to pay a price. You have to understand that the wheels of justice turn a little more slowly in the than they might in private practice. I certainly have been frustrated by that myself. But when I think you've seen my boss, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, blanket the news waves this past weekend regarding the Comey indictment and others. And, you know, what you see in public is just a fraction of the evidence that's out there. And so building these cases takes time. We have had turnover here. We have had weaponized justice in the form of judges who refused to let some of our cases go forward and, you know, and grand juries that refuse to indict, that's been a challenge. But I'm confident that you are going to see justice. I mean, people want it to go a lot faster than it has. That isn't my area. And civil rights. I'm very proud to say that in a year, we've accomplished a tremendous amount of justice within our areas of expertise. But, you know, the U.S. attorney's offices, I'm in touch with my friends in different U.S. attorney's offices, they're bringing cases regarding illegal voting. They're bringing cases regarding some of these massive fraud issues. Yes, there are pardons out there that cover a lot of the behavior that frustrate Americans. I think I'd love to see Fauci pay for some of the things that he did and others and, you know, can't promise you any particular results. But I can tell you that everyone here in this building is extremely dedicated to the president's agenda, certainly in our leadership here, and to getting justice for Americans who were wronged in the last several years.
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Glenn Beck
Can you go. Let me go back to the. The gerrymandering thing. Can you. Can you speak as the person that is running the Civil Rights division at the DoJ? Can you speak to those people, like the people on the View that say this is just. We're just silencing blacks and minorities and, you know, we're going back to the, I don't even know, 1950s or whenever to nightmare years. Can you. What would you say to them?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Well, first of all, I'm not sure they would listen. But what I would say to them is a woman who grew up in the Deep south and, you know, there was the Ku Klux Klan in my county when I was growing up in the 1970s in rural North Carolina, and that was scary. And guess what? It isn't there anymore. It is not mainstream. It is fringe. Our country has come so far. We had a black president. We have had so many people of power from all over. Look at Hakeem Jeffries as the minority leader. We have a diverse and beautiful society, and we should be proud of that. We should celebrate it, and we should stop putting our thumb on the scale. It's not fair to all Americans, and it is simply perpetuating a racist history that we should be proud to be able to have moved past in our country. And so I think some of these gerrymandered districts, I mean, it has consequences on both sides. What it does is it creates one Very liberal district. And then all the other districts become slightly more conservative. That's generally the pattern in a red state or a Southern state. And instead what you're going to have is more competitive districts eventually for everybody. And I think that's actually a really good thing. I frankly, even though of course I'm a Republican, I go on Capitol Hill, I testify, I speak to members of Congress sometimes. And I despair at sort of the difficulty one has in dislodging any of these people from their positions. Once they get elected, it seems almost impossible to replace them. We could use more change. We could use more fresh blood in politics. And I think all Americans should view this as an opportunity to get some better people elected to Congress.
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Glenn Beck
Harmeet, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Thanks for having me.
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Glenn Beck
Just want to say I wish you were our Attorney General. I'm just throwing that out there and not asking you to comment on it, but thanks. Harmeet Dillon, our assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights division. All right, you're at a gas station just off the highway. Slate enough that, you know, a lot is mostly empty. Just a couple of cars, nothing out of the ordinary. Car pulls in fast, stops a little too close. Two guys get out, talking low, moving with purpose, looking at you first, and then. And then pretending to ignore you. But they're not ignoring you. You know, you know, you feel, and you're saying to yourself, it's probably nothing. Nothing. They start walking your way. Not directly, just circling a little, figuring something out. Then one of them comes a little closer, close enough that you don't have to guess anymore. That's the moment. Do I wait? Do I say, oh, you know what? I'm safe here? Or do you pull out your burner and shift? The whole situation stops. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's fine. If not, just fire off around, just hit it at the ground right in front of them. It's tear gas. That'll stop them. That'll stop them before whatever could have been happens. You're safe. Gives you distance, control and a way to stop a threat without escalating to something you just never can take back. It's legal in all 50 states. There's no permit required. Right now, Burner is offering a hundred dollars off the Berna Le E Gen 2. This is their little compact gun. It's great. Burna B Y R N A.com Secure yours while supplies last. That's Burna B Y R N A dot com dividers can call us names
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Jason
of democracy Still a greasy Pig.
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Glenn Beck
We just call each other neighbor and friend. We'll be right back. Glam is our. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm in Florida for a week and then I'm off overseas. I'm going to be with Tommy Robinson in, in London next week. I would just ask you a personal favor if you would pray for my team, for guidance and spiritual eyes. I would greatly appreciate that. Speaking of keeping people in your prayers, Rudy Giuliani, I want to talk about this later, but, you know, Rudy is in the hospital and you can say whatever you want about Rudy, but I think the guy is a national icon. I mean, he was America's mayor, you know, until he got wrapped up with Donald Trump. And then all of a sudden, he just became just the worst monster ever. You know, he led an amazing life and, and did a lot of things. Keep Rudy Giuliani in your prayers as he is in critical condition. Stable but critical condition here in Florida in a hospital. All right, More in just a second. We're going to take on political violence, Trump being blamed for gas prices and so much more. All that coming up in just a minute. Stand by. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is it can. It can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room, you're still nodding along, still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. And sometimes you're guessing more than you'd like to admit and you're just hoping, don't ask me anything because I don't know what we're talking about anymore. What stops a lot of people from doing anything about it is not denial. It's the process. It's the doctor appointments, the multiple visits, the adjustments, the price tag that makes you go, how? What? So people wait and you shouldn't have to. Audien was built to remove those barriers. They have the Atom X. It is an over the counter hearing aid designed to be straightforward and approachable without prescriptions or complicated setups. 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But what about all the other money that's happening all over the country? Where's the federal government? More in just a second. First, mothers can bring out some of the most beautiful things, beautiful mother moments you've ever seen. We've been there, family together, maybe dinner, just maybe a normal gathering. And somebody stands up and says, next year there's going to be a new mom in this family. What? Everything stops because everybody knows they're watching a life change in real time. Somebody's becoming a mom. Here's the part we don't always see. Some women. Mother's Day isn't a celebration. It is a weight. It is fear and uncertainty. It's why prevent preborn matters, because when a woman sees her baby on the ultrasound, what she hears is a heartbeat and something changes. And often she'll choose life just because of that ultrasound. And $28 provides one ultrasound. That's less than a dollar a day and it could save a life. Or $140 reaches five moms. 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There's a, there's a couple of Stories in there about assassinations and what is coming and how bad it is. This president has been targeted officially now more than any other president in history. They have tried to kill him more than any other president in U.S. history. And what we're seeing is a progression. It's a pattern. Okay, let's start at the beginning. In 2016, a man at a rally in Las Vegas tried to grab a gun from a police officer and shoot the president. That's the old model. That's the. What was her name? Squeaky from. Remember her? Tried to kill Gerald Ford. It was impulsive, it's fast, it's rash. It's the old model, it's the old school. Back in my days, we tried to grab a gun. It's close range. It was desperate. 2017 comes along, things start to shift. A man tries to attack Trump's motorcade with a forklift. Now think about that. To me, this is the difference between planting a bomb in the basement of the World Trade center and then that not working, and then trying to fly airplanes into the side of the building. Five years later, the bad guys now are starting to think about disruption and spectacle. By 2020, we're not even in that room anymore. Letter arrives. 2020. Ricin, meant to kill through the mail. Distance now is entering the picture. You don't need access, you just need to find a way to get proximity. You need a system, a way to exploit it. And then everything begins to accelerate from there. Now, 2024, planned, well thought out. Strangely, seemingly very easy. Butler, Pennsylvania, back to the movie Assassin. You know, the story is one gunman, rooftop, and a rifle. And this time, it almost works. It almost works. A bullet hits Trump's ear. I mean, if that's not an act of God, I don't know what is. The supporter. One supporter is killed, others are shot and wounded. This is no longer chaotic. This is planned, well planned and calculated. Elevation. Elevation, distance, all of it. Here's the part that bothers me. There are lots of warnings here, lots of them. That particular case, people saw the shooter on the roof. No one stopped it in time. That was left. That roof was left empty and unguarded. Really? How? Two months later, two months after that assassination, Same. Same year, West Palm Beach. Man hiding in the bushes at the golf course with a rifle, waiting, watching. This is not anger anymore. Now they're stalking him. And behind the scenes, federal prosecutors uncover a plot tied to individuals linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guardians. This is two years ago. And not just Trump, but multiple US leaders are targeted. I want to say that again, it's important because I'm going to tell you the latest. Not just Trump, but several US Leaders are targeted by the Iranians. Now that's a different category. Again, that's not a lone actor. That's geopolitical. That's foreign terrorism. And yet the media is silent on that one. Nobody even brings that one up. Why is that? We're at war with Iran. You would think that that would be a layer. Okay, then we go to the Last 1. Washington D.C. man forces his way into a room filled with the most powerful people in government, armed. Let me say that again. Chi filled with the most powerful people in government and he was armed. He fires. Secret service agent is hit, survives. But I want you to think about the target. It's not a rally, it's not a golf course. It's a room full of the leadership of the United States. That's not an assassination. That's destabilization. Had it worked. That's destabilization. That's the, that is the constitutional order being disrupted. Okay, because who was in that room? That could have been a decapitation event of our government. Ok, it wasn't, but it could have been. And if that guy could get in, what's stopping people with real money and from Iran getting in? I mean, remember? Oh well, they can't do that. Who's going to fly planes into airplane, into buildings? Well, I don't know. And why is the media treating it like this? Because along the way there's been other lesser, you know, known pieces of this pattern, you know, in our man breaching Mar A Lago. When was that? Six months ago. A plot tied to ISIS sympathizers. Again, foreign directed attempts stopped before execution. But foreign funded. Some succeed in getting close, some never make it out of planning. But they're all signals. They're all signals. Why aren't we listening to the signals? Well, let me give you an example. Let me go to the, let me go to the audio from today, Sarah, if I can see if I can find my audio sheet. Let me play, let me play. Where is it? Here, Here's a Michigan Democrat, believe running for Senate. Yeah, running for Senate. Okay, here he is this weekend. Cut 1.
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Jason
Do you personally see parallels between Nazi
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Glenn Beck
Germany and what's happening under the Trump administration?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Yeah, I do. It is deeply concerning that we see an authoritarian slide. And as we talked about earlier, dividing people against each other to convince people that if you're not doing well economically, it's somebody else's fault is an Incredibly dangerous place for us to be in. I don't think that a lot of people would argue that there are shades of authoritarianism here that we need to be deeply concerned about.
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Glenn Beck
Stop. First of all, if you checked who you're running on, you're running with the Democrats. If you're not doing well, it's somebody else's fault. That is your entire campaign. That is the platform of the Democratic Party. What are you talking about? But again, let's just talk about authoritarian and let's just compare them to Nazis again. Also, you had another Senate candidate in this time in Pennsylvania that was arrested this weekend for making a threat about his Republican challenger, left voicemails saying the congressman and his daughter would have their throats slit and then also made threats against the President. So just this weekend you have two candidates for Senate in the Democratic Party saying this. Hmm. Now that's a problem. The media doesn't want to address that. Let me give you another one. How about this one? We're going to go to cut two. This comes from Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech. On Friday, a former Columbia professor did a tour stop there declaring his support for Hamas and he's talking about the term death to America. I want you to listen to this. We are in a war, a racial, religious war since 1492, as I'll elucidate in a little while.
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Harmeet Dhillon
But we are in a battle for
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Glenn Beck
hearts and minds and souls certainly. And so when we say death to America, we mean loud and clear, a total end to US Empire, the destruction of this crusading settler colony, her entire project, her capacity to meddle and intervene
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Harmeet Dhillon
in other nations, to wage war, to
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Glenn Beck
engage in coups, to engage in interventions, to continue her ongoing genocide. For anti blackness, for anti indigenous founding and structure, right here where we are, it means our reckoning. It means indigenous sovereignty, means black self determination. It means that we would be engaged in different ways of life according to indigenous traditions and spiritualities and ways of living with the land and not on it. Wow, that's amazing. He's so open minded and so great. Mohammed Abdu, by the way, the death to the Academy tourist stop spelled with a K. I guess that's kind of like America with a K. Or did they just have a leftover K? You know, because maybe they were printing signs that said KKKK and they had a leftover K and they're like, oh no, it's only three case. I'm not sure, I'm not sure. But it's so open minded of him, right? Wow. What could possibly Besides justice, what could Mohammed's reasoning be? To collapse and destroy the United States of America. What's happening here, America? What's changed? Everything. Everything. You know, it used to be one guy walking in behind President Lincoln and shooting him. One guy, Hinckley, coming up and shooting the president. One moment. Now, it's layered. You have the lone actors. You also have the ideological extremists. You have the distance attacks, the mail, the surveillance, the infiltration. But you also have something else. You have the failure points, you have the security gaps, you have the missed warnings. You have systems that don't seem to be adapting, or at least not fast enough. But you also have, on top of that, foreign intelligence plots. Let me ask you this. Did you notice the news this weekend about. About how we just need to end the billionaires? If we can just stop with all the billionaires, we'd just be free. Wait, what was that Democratic senator in Michigan saying that? You know, to say you're not successful because of somebody else. I'm sorry, I don't know how that works with ending the billionaires taxing the rich. Anyway, who funded all that foreign money? Millions and millions of dollars from Communist China and other hostile actors in the Middle East. Are we looking for any of that? Is anybody putting this together? The real story here, the real story. Connect the dots.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Connect.
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Glenn Beck
Real story is there've been multiple attempts. Multiple. And it's not that. It's how they're changing. From impulsive, those are still in play. To planned, to networked, to international. Now you got all of them. Now you have all of them. And yet the media and those tasked to protect the constitutional order, treating it like this, like nothing has really changed, we're just still dealing with a lone gunman? I don't think so. May I ask three questions here? One, why isn't our system blaring, flashing red lights everywhere? Why is this still happening? Why are we not hearing about all the additional threats? Two, has anybody asked, with this trajectory, what does the next version of assassination attempt look like? Not 10 years from now, the next one. And the third one, and maybe the most uncomfortable is, I think the President is traveling to China, isn't he? China has just spent millions of dollars on our streets trying to collapse our system. We know Donald Trump has hurt China a great deal. Of course, you'll never hear that in the media because they're all for China. You'll never hear anybody talk about it in universities because they're getting all that Chinese money. But let me ask you, as they are Funding Code Pink, and all of the others who are vowing to stop the President by any means necessary. Should the president meet in China with the Chinese leaders, or should maybe we meet in some, like, neutral territory and maybe perhaps, you know, make sure the President's not poked by an umbrella or shake hands with somebody? I'm sorry. I actually worry about the President. And I would be saying the same thing if it was a Democrat and the conditions were exactly the same. This is the President of the United States. Please, Mr. President, don't go to China. Don't go to China. And maybe our DOJ should start really stopping all of the foreign money that is coming in to kill you. Maybe they should spend 10 minutes on that. All right, let me tell you about Super Sure. There are things in your business that you check all the time, paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. You got to check your calendar, the pipeline, your numbers. You know exactly. You know where those stand at any given moment. But then there are other things that just kind of sit in the background because they're hard to pin down, hard to understand, hard to track. You just assume they're fine until you know one of them isn't. When something happens and you're trying to figure out, am I covered for this? What am I covered for? When you're trying to figure that in real time, it's already costing you money, that's backward. This is why I want to tell you about Super Sure. It gives you a clear, simple view of everything that you need for your business. All your coverage, what you have, what you don't, where the gaps are. So you're not guessing. You know, when it matters most. It's built to be easy. It means you're not adding more complexity to your day. You're just removing it and the friction. Right now you can go to super sure.com back and get a full report on your current policies. No obligation. Find out if you're overinsured or underinsured or somewhere in between. Go to super sure.com beckone Super Agency's 1 powerful platform and all of your policies in one place. Go to super sure.com beck. That's super sure.com beck 10 second station ID. Ricky, repeat what you just told me that the torches are saying.
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Ricky
One of our torch members, one with liberty, said, what do we do then? Do we pray? Do we lock and load?
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Glenn Beck
Joy, we don't lock and load. We definitely pray for the President. If you're speaking about the President. We definitely pray for the President. And we pray for all, all politicians, all of them, because I'm concerned about, you know, mayors and everybody else. You, you are. We have bred a generation of Marxist radicals and they are very well funded. And all you have to do is just ask rock. Generally speaking, historically, are Marxist radicals violent? I mean, I don't even. Just run that through Grok for me real quick, see what it says. I think the answer is probably pretty clear. Don't do it through chat GPT. Because chat GPT will say, well, I can't make any blanket statements and I think you're racist for even saying those things. What does it say?
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Ricky
Glenn's just looking at me while I type. You know, let's see here. Marxist ideology frames politics as irreconcilable class warfare, explicitly endorses revolutionary overthrow.
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Glenn Beck
Huh.
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Ricky
And later theorists, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao. Other names I can't pronounce treated violence as necessary or desirable to smash the bourgeois structures. By any means necessary.
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Glenn Beck
Right? By any means necessary, of course. So that's what we've bred. We have taken our kids, we've put them in these colleges. Stop paying for college. If your kid starts to drift, cut them off. Cut them off, get them out of that college. But we've, we've got our kids in these colleges where they're being indoctrinated and they are becoming Marxist revolutionaries. And it's, it's not just happening in the colleges, it's happening in some of our grade schools. Did you hear how many schools let their kids out on, on Friday for May Day and showed them how to protest? Protest for what? Communism. So we, we have, we've allowed this to grow in our midst. We have to take care of our own families. But we have to pray because they'll kill anybody that stands in their way if Elizabeth Warren isn't radical enough for them, look out, Elizabeth Warren, you're going to be on their target as well. I mean, I've said that for years. These people will eat their own in the end. Mark my words. You don't believe me? Read a little history. Most important thing to do is pray for the Republic. You ever think about how many companies in your life, you know, you, you never really chose? Kind of. You just ended up with them. Somebody recommended them, or it was a default option, or you signed up years ago and you just never questioned it. And then one day you realize, you know, I don't actually know anything about this company, you know, Verizon, I don't know, what do they support when I give them my money? Where does the money go? Well, if you're paying, you know, their full price, their full boat, boy, boy, oh, boy, they are making so much money off of you, and a lot of it is going to causes you don't like, okay? And that's with all of them. So I. Patriot Mobile stands out because this is the company you can actually choose on purpose. You know where your money is going. You know what they support. You know that it lines up with your values, your faith, your family, freedom. And here's the part most people, you know assume isn't true. You don't have to sacrifice to get that. They operate, operate on all three major networks, which means you're getting reliable coverage. Whether you're actually, you know, supporting something that you don't believe in, that that's a bad thing. This lets you support the things you do believe in. Get the Same great coverage. PatriotMobile.com/972 Patriot Get a free month of service.
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Ricky
Glenn's speech on Ellis island will give you chills. I'm not just saying that because he pays me to get it on demand now@glenn beck.com.
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Glenn Beck
So on Saturday, we were up at Ellis island and it was, it was such an honor. I don't think it really hit me until that night on what an honor it was to be a part of America's 250th birthday and to celebrate it at. At Ellis Island. You know, I walked on Friday a walk through Ellis island, and I just stood there in the place where all the baggage used to sit. And I thought about all the people who, you know, they came, everything they had is in one suitcase. And then they're asked, yeah, just put your suitcase down here. Thinking, I'm never going to get my suitcase back. I'm never going to see my suitcase again. Putting it down, you know, being afraid of everything because you don't necessarily speak the language. Going up the stairs and standing where we had dinner in this great hall, this just beautiful, beautiful hall. And I was a little overwhelmed by it on Saturday on the honor that it was to stand there and to talk about the history of the United States. During my speech, I told a story that I don't think people really, they didn't see coming until the very end. And I want to, I want to play this back for you. This is in the middle of the speech. You can now find it on demand@glenn beck.com torch I want to tell you a story of a young woman in particular that you probably have never heard of. Her name is Marianne. She was born on the remote island of Lewis in Scotland. This is a place of hard scrapping life. High winds. It was 1930. She was 18 years old. And she got on a boat to come to ellis island in 1930. On May 2, today is the anniversary. She arrived here 11 days later. She was bound for Ellis island and the United States of America. I want to show you a picture. It's a painting that I did. And then I ran out of time and talent. And so I asked a good friend of mine to help me, Mike Malm, who is an amazing portrait artist. This is how I envision her coming into the United States. She wasn't. She came here. She wasn't chasing fame. She wasn't chasing riches or power. She came just for the opportunity. Her sister was already here and found a job, and so she decided to come. She stood in this room and wrote her name down. Marianne McLeod. And next to it, what's your job? Domestic. She and her sister were maids. She came to America knowing that she would serve and clean the houses and the toilets of the wealthy families here in New York. And she roamed with her sister together. And they lived and worked hard through the worst days of the Depression. And she persevered. She's here for six years and she meets a man. She marries him. His name is Fred. He was the son of German immigrants. In 1942, she became a citizen. And Mary and Fred would end up having five children. Two daughters and three sons. And one of those sons, they named him Donald. Her son would become a real estate tycoon. Her son would change that skyline. That's the skyline that she saw. Look out that window and look at that skyline. Her son, a woman who came here as a maid, the lowest of jobs, would raise a son who would become a real estate mogul and the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America. Scotland. Give us your wretched refuse. Send them to us. See what the people you deem not worthy. See what happens to them here in America. I am telling you, there is no other country in. In the world on God's green earth where a woman can come here like that. And in one generation, her son leads the. The entire world. Where else could that happen? It was an amazing. You want to hear this whole speech? It was a. It was a good speech. And. And put immigration right in the place that it should have been. The truth about America. The truth about America and why Ellis island was so important. Why places like Ellis island are so important. Tracy, were you there? This weekend.
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Harmeet Dhillon
I'm here.
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Glenn Beck
Hi. And were you. Were you on Ellis Island?
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Harmeet Dhillon
I was on Ellis island, actually. Glenn, you gave me a hug and signed my hat from the Restoring honor rally in 2010. And I was just so honored to be a part of the whole weekend. It was amazing.
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Carol Roth
Yeah.
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Harmeet Dhillon
And I saw Jason, too, on the bus. But that speech that you gave just now that you showed absolutely had me in tears. I could barely hold my little phone because I was recording you from the side. I couldn't really hear you much from the back, so I moved up from table 23 to the side. Was that your son that carried out the painting?
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Glenn Beck
Yes, it was. Yeah. The one with brown hair was amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Well, thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you for going, Tracy. We've. I had a chance to meet so many insiders over the weekend and so many people. You did, too. And Jason, I mean, they're just. I mean, it's like family. Am I right?
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Ricky
Oh, yeah. I got so many hugs. So many people I didn't know yell, ricky, you're a hoot. And I'm like, cool. That's my legacy. I'm a hoot. But no, I mean, honestly, you guys, that whole evening was, like. It felt historic. It felt super, super special. And what I loved was seeing having a full circle moment. We had a torch, a surprise torch inside our meetup a few months ago in Jupiter, Florida. And there was a couple there who had been at your Restoring Honor event. She had all the things. And then. Do you look.
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Glenn Beck
She had been at every single event that I had done from Restoring Honor, man in the moon. All. All of them. She had been in all of them, her and her husband, except for Jerusalem, because it was way out of their price range. And she said to me at that meet and greet, she's like. And we just. We would love to go, but with the tickets are just. And she was totally cool. She was totally cool about it.
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Ricky
What is really cool is that in the moment, Glenn put me on the spot, and he's like, ricky, can I. Can I get them at my tables? I was like, yes, you can, but I'm gonna have to sit at another table now. So I got bumped, and it is my honor.
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Glenn Beck
Really? Is that why you were my honor
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Ricky
that Tom and Heidi got to sit at our tables? And. And that's okay. I got to sit next to Harmeet. It wasn't. I wasn't in. Yeah, I wasn't in lower.
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Glenn Beck
But the. But Chrissy, who sang the. The song for the statue Of Liberty. I didn't even. I meant to mention it all night. I don't know how she made her dress, who made her dress, but it was really, really beautiful. But she comes out now. This is a mom who had never done this before, Never done this before. And she tries out. And I wish you could see the video of her trying out, because she's trying out, and she is, like, holding onto the heads of her little children because they keep wandering in and going like, mom, mom, mom, mom, while she's singing. And she, like, keeps pushing them out of the frame with their heads. You've done this a million times. And she was just so. I mean, she just did not break with all these kids. Just, mom, mom, mom, mom. And so she comes. She's never done anything like it before. It was so. She got a standing ovation. Just so emotionally, unbelievably beautiful. Just, Just beautiful. She knocked it out of the park. And Derek and Grace, the same, exact same, same thing they do the. Both songs that, you know, I'd written the lyrics for. One was on the Statue of Liberty, and unfortunately, you know, the real America's voice didn't take the screen, so you couldn't see the lyrics on the screen in English. But, you know, the first story was about a woman coming from France, a mother knowing what's happening to her country and knowing the potential and the power of America and seeing that America is asleep. And it's a mom going to the mother of exile, saying, please wake your children. Please wake your children. Remind them who they are. They got to save the world again. And then Derek and Grace get up. You know, they came with pockets full of nothing. They came in. They came for the hope, and they were just. Just great. Just great. Grace. I met Grace's dad. She was so proud. He was so proud of her. Did you meet him?
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Ricky
Yeah. He was begging to meet you, but you were surrounded by a bunch of people, and he was like, no, no, no, it's okay. He's been following you since, you know.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, I didn't know that. He was so great.
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Ricky
He was. And I said, sir, he's. He's not. You can touch Glenn.
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Harmeet Dhillon
You can.
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Ricky
You can meet him. It's okay. He was so terrified to meet you.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, so nice. He was so nice. He was so nice. But we had just a great time. And if you missed it, we're going to be putting out a documentary. Our cameras were there and everything, and we want to thank Real America's Voice for covering it live. But our cameras were there. And we captured all of it and we captured all the behind the scenes and so much more. We did a documentary about lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty and Ellis island and what all of this meets. It's going to be a special that comes out in July 1st.
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Ricky
July 1st is what we're aiming for.
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Glenn Beck
And so sign up. This is going to be a history. This is going to be a summer of history with the Torch. We've got several things that we'll be announcing here soon, but it'll be a way for you to engage your kids in history and you can be a part of it. And you can help us build these things and tell these stories by joining us@glenn beck.com torch glenn beck.com torch you'll be able to see the whole speech, which I think was one of my better speeches. I mean, at least it felt that way.
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Ricky
I hate giving you credit. And honestly, I looked at you after and I just pointed at you because I didn't have any words. Was in my time with you, which has been about seven years, it was probably the best speech you've given in my seven years.
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Glenn Beck
It was, it just, it felt historic. And you don't want to miss it. You can see it@glenn beck.com torch all right, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor this hour is LifeLock. If you've ever had that moment where you get an alert on your phone, your heart skips for a second because you're like, what, what is this? You know, is it the bank email, random account? You're thinking, is this something I need to worry about? Because that's where we live in now. You know, it's like I just, just tell me if I need to worry about this right now or can I come back to it? We're moving through systems, our databases. Every. Everything is. Everything about us is online. And you're fine until something pings you. And now you're trying to figure out if it's nothing or if it's the start of something much, much bigger. And that's why LifeLock is there. They're watching for that stuff all the time, looking for signs that your identity or your personal information is being used in ways that it shouldn't be and alerting you so you can act before it spirals out of control. You can stop your data from being in the hands of the bad guy. A lot of it. You can't stop all of it, but you can stop a lot of it. But you can't stop your data from going around and just washing up on every shore. It's there. Protect yourself with lifelock. Join now and save up to 40% off your first year with a promo code back called 800LIFELOCK 1800 LIFELOCK. Or head to lifelock.com use the promo code BECK at 40% off. Terms and conditions do apply. It's lifelock.com promo code back. Too many people have forgotten that we're not enemies. We're Americans. Glenn Beck returns in a moment. So we were just talking in the break. Somebody asked if I have gotten the painting. So, yeah, if I've gotten the painting. Can you send that to somebody? If I had gotten the painting to the President yet, and I haven't, and it's not easy to move around with the painting. It's because it's enormous. It's a, you know, like almost two and a half. By what, five feet. Two and a half? Yeah, I think by five feet. Painting of his mother. As I envisioned her on the ship coming into the harbor across, you know, from the, from the New York skyline into Ellis island, she left. The anniversary of her leaving Scotland to get here was on Saturday. And the, you know, we had hoped that the president was going to be able to, to be there, but, you know, even Tulsi Gabbard wasn't, wasn't there. She was, she was also had security risks, so she couldn't be there either. But I haven't gotten it to him yet. I don't know when I'm going to. I only have a couple of days here and he's up in Washington. And this painting is not actually easy to move. And I want to be, I mean, I want to be there when I give it to him because I think you'll be amazed by it.
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Ricky
Yet you're coming back to Florida, though. Not that I want to tell where you're going all the time, but yeah, you are coming back to Florida. And we'll see if he's going to be at Mar a Lago. That way we don't have to ship that dang thing all over the country. It is, it is very heavy. I, I was terrified that Jeremy and Rafe were going to drop it.
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Harmeet Dhillon
Yep.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't, though. They're, they're both, both, they're both, they were both responsible. But I can't wait for him to see it. I've asked everybody, there's a few people at the White House that have seen it that I've sent it to, and I said, hey, please don't share this with him. I had to share it with his, with his daughter in law, actually.
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Ricky
They asked the entire family if you got the image correctly. So I'm sure at this point he knows.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, really?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Oh, no, no, no.
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Glenn Beck
There's no. I'm bombed, I'm bombed. No, I didn't know. They went to the whole family.
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Ricky
Yeah, they lost the whole family. And, and everyone was like, we don't actually know. So it's our best guess.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Because this is a, you know, this is based on old images of her. And, you know, I wanted to make sure somebody in the family had seen it. Like, is, I mean, does that do her justice? And apparently they, I don't know if they don't have a lot of photos from that time period. I mean, because she was poor when she came here.
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Ricky
She looks stunning. And I actually, I, I think I said she looks hot. And someone on Laura Trump's teams, like, yeah, she looks like a total babe. So good.
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Glenn Beck
She does. She, I mean, in that, in the, I mean, you know, I'm just saying I, you know, painted a babe.
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Ricky
I'm just saying Trump, Trump will appreciate that.
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Glenn Beck
Yes, yes. But it's, it's cool. And at the bottom of the painting, it says Marianne McLeod, May 11, 1930, Ellis Island, New York City. Mother of President Donald J. Trump. Can you tweet that out for me? I mean, see it anyway. Apparently everybody else has seen it. Can you just tweet the picture of that out? And anyway, immigration. Only in America could you come as a maid and the next generation, be a billionaire and also the President of the United States. Only in America. I could, I could, I could go over and say I'm an Englishman my whole life, but they never think I was English. You're probably like most people. Most people, you know, don't want any trouble. They avoid it. They walk away from it when they can. They de. Escalate it whenever it's possible and hope it never comes looking for them. That's the right instinct. But sometimes trouble doesn't care. You know what you want. It shows up in a parking garage, you know, on a dark walk home at your front door late at night or few seconds, you know, it just sits there. And then it decides you look like an easy target. That's why I want to talk to you about Burn Up. It gives you a way to protect yourself without relying on lethal force. The burner launcher. It fires powerful kinetic and pepper rounds. It can stop a threat from up to 60ft away, giving you time to escape and get to and get to safety. It's legal. All 50 states requires no permit, no background check. Take a look at Burna. Go to Burna by rna.com Glenn learn more about it or try before you buy at a Sportsman's Warehouse location. It's you're going to find one near you. It's Byrna B y r n a.com Glenn the Burn a launcher. Crank the game. Glam back is on. Glamback is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America, it's Monday. We're going to get an update on Iran. What is happening there? Two merchant ships have successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz today. US Flag that's according to centcom. We are going to be escorting other ships through. Of course Iran is, you know, saber rattling whatever saber they have left. But President Trump has said it's time for these ships that, you know, have nothing to do with this to be able to get through and get out of there. And so we're escorting them. Iran has proposed two different peace treaties. We've rejected both of them. They're not really moving much. We'll get the latest on this coming up in just a second. Also, some of these lefty organizations that are funneling money into some of the worst things possible. Texas has had enough. I would hope that maybe America has had enough on that as well. We'll take you to what Texas is doing on Act Blue here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. You can be exhausted and still not sleep. 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That's 8, 800, the number four relief or visit relief factor.com that's relieffactor.com Better sleep, better days. Z factor from relief factor.com all right, let me tell you the latest from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He just dropped the hammer on Act Blue. This is the the Democratic machine, the massive small donor donation machine that the details that we have gone through on this program on some of our specials in the past just makes your blood boil. Paxton's lawsuit accuses ActBlue of flat out lying to Americans about its safeguards. You know, they claim the the they screen all of the donations, they brag about stopping fraud, blah blah blah, but the evidence shows nope, they're wide open for fraud, wide open for fraudulent contributions, prepaid cards, gift cards and most damning foreign donations that federal law explicitly forbids. When is this country going to get serious about this? Seriously, when are we going to get serious? No other country would allow this to happen. We all know the real money behind a lot of this stuff is coming from China. What happened this weekend? Chinese money, Russian money, Iranian money, former Venezuelan money, all the people who are hostile to us and quite honestly some of the frenemies that we have that despise American sovereignty but love buying influence over here. And it's not conspiracy theories. The House has been investigating these straw donor schemes that illicit money is funneling through countries like China into platforms exactly like ActBlue. Least, least Paxton is doing something in Texas. Why isn't everyone doing this? Why is no one seemed to be concerned about all the foreign money here? Millions and millions and millions of dollars, hundreds of millions pouring in from oversea actors who have zero business meddling in our in our republic. None. It's against the law. Can you imagine what China would do if we had been sending a billion dollars over to China and we were undermining them and they had clear proof of it. You imagine what would be said. Why are we acting like this is no big deal? Act Blue, let me stay on this one for a second. It processes billions of dollars for Democrats. If even a fraction of that is tainted by foreign cash, then every race they touch is compromised. What a surprise. But it's not just the rotting of our ballot box. These same people, especially the Chinese Communist Party, they have been dumping billions into our education system for decades and nobody cares. Do you know that $12 billion from China and Qatar alone has gone into our universities? Do you just trust Chinese money in Our university. You think that's helping? Or do you think that's propping up Marxism and all the great things that China is doing? And Qatar. Qatar. I know some people absolutely love them. I'm not a fan of Qatar. You know, I kind of remember Al Jazeera. Anyway, that money is going into Harvard and Stanford and NYU and Columbia. They're all on the take. Tell me the good things that have come out of that program. Have you ever heard of Confucius Institutes? Okay, Confucius Institutes and. And classrooms. This is the Chinese Communist Party propaganda. They have funneled $158 million while pushing anti American narratives, self censorship, Marxist ideology, all disguised as cultural exchange, all into our universities. They shape the curriculum. They've trained generations of students to hate America, the country that educated them, and to cheer for the regime that is paying all the bills. It's poison. It's pure, deliberate poison. And it's not about elections. It warps our culture from the classroom. Up again, I ask, why is no one doing anything about this? Why? Kids who will graduate, they will graduate believing the United States is the villain and that the rich are the enemy, while the real puppet masters are in Beijing and Shanghai, laughing all the way to the bank, spending billions to convince our kids that. Look at what happened over the weekend. I can't say this enough. Look at the May Day rallies that swept the country. Really? Did they sweep the country? Hundreds of groups with $2 billion in revenue behind them. Can I ask the Tea Party, did we even have a fraction of a billion dollars? I mean, did we even have a hundred million? I. I question whether the entire Tea Party movement had over 5 million total. They had $2 billion. And they're using it to scream tax the rich. Abolish ice. March against American capitalism. And nobody's saying anything.
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Jason
Why?
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Glenn Beck
Why? They'll block our streets, they'll shut down schools. They'll lecture us about workers over billionaires. But who's funding all of it? Who's funding the signs? Who's funding the logistics? Who's funding the professional organizers? We know dark money networks that are tied directly back to Neville Roy Singham. He's the tech tycoon that's in Shanghai. He's dumped an estimated $278 million into far left groups. The Democratic Socialist of America, the People's Forum, Code Pink, and others that will parrot the Chinese Communist talking points. It's a quarter of a billion dollars. Do you know what a quarter of a billion dollars can buy these days? It buys these useful idiots who will rail against American wealth while the protest machine runs on millions and billions of dollars from foreign adversaries who want us divided and weakened and distracted. That's why they don't have a problem with Iran or Russia or China. Notice they're not protesting against those guys because a lot of the money is coming from those guys. It is the ultimate hypocrisy and stupidity. And it seems like our own government, the ones that are supposed to be protecting us from this stuff, they're on some sort of a suicide mission. Now, this money, same foreign cash that allegedly slips into Act Blue to elect politicians. It floods our universities and indoctrinates our activists, you know, now bankrolling street theater that attacks the system that. That these regimes fear and envy. They can't beat us, so they have to destroy us. Enough. Can somebody in Washington say enough? Should we ever, ever, ever take a dime from China, Russia, Iran, or any regime that wishes us harm and allow it to be in our political system, our educational system, or our culture? No. No money for elections or education or culture or any of. None. Texas is standing up. Ken Paxton is standing up. I guess Washington is still looking into it. This is foreign interference on steroids, and it's in broad daylight. And why are the people. You know, we should. We should start arresting anyone who is taking, Knowingly taking this money from foreign governments and doing the bidding of foreign governments. We should pass laws that if we need to. I think there are already plenty of them, but we should start passing or enforcing the laws that say no foreign cash in any of this stuff. And if you have a politician who's like, we're going too hard on China Sharia, we're going, you know what? That. That should be the last election this person ever faces. The American people need to understand, oh, your politician won't stand up against Sharia law. Will not everybody should be asking their politicians, when you get into office, will you pass a bill against Sharia law? When you get in office, will you stop the Chinese cash from coming into our universities and into our political process? Will you do it? It's easy. No ifs, ands, or buts. Yes. No, that's it. Which one is it? For both of those. It should be a pretty easy yes for both of those things. It is beyond time that our justice system does what it's supposed to do. Name names, rat it out, follow the money all the way back to Beijing and to Doha, to the front, you know, to the front groups, to the useful idiots that are on the payroll because there's lots of them. Ken Paxton doing his part in Texas Congress. You have the same report. Doj, fec. You have all the tools. You're going to do it. You're going to shut it down, you're going to expose it, you're going to prosecute it. Because if we don't rip this foreign poison out by the roots. It's not going to just sway one election or one campus. It's already hollowing our republic out from the inside. And there's. There's not gonna be anything worth fighting for in the end. This is our country. Our country, not their country. What do you say we just do the reasonable things and take it back? The things. This is what we have to demand. Demand our DOJ stop the foreign influence money. And again, any politician that fights against it or expose, you know, or fights against exposing it. This is not partisan. You shouldn't be in office. This is not the Democrats or the Republicans. This is Americans deciding what our future is. Not China, not Doha or anybody else, but Americans deciding what our future is. Get the foreign influence out before it's too late. America. More in a minute. That was so divisive. Oh, my gosh. He's. Now he says, no Chinese money in politics. How do you argue about the how, how, how? How is it we're not on the winning side every time? All right. You wake up early, earlier than usual, because the house feels, I don't know, off. No hum of electricity, no light coming through the crack under your door. Your phone's dead. When you look out the window, whole street stark. And at first it's annoying. And then you think, okay, powers up, but it'll be back. Hours go by. Fridge is warming up. Stove doesn't work. You drive to the store. Everybody else drove to the store, too. Shelves are empty. Nobody really knows what's going on. That's the moment that it all hits you like, this is not a little inconvenience. It's the kind of thing that you can't fix on the fly unless you already did. My Patriot Supply. It's put together a family starter pack. It covers your family with a week's worth of emergency food, plus the basic tools you need to actually use it. Like off grid cooking, water, filtration, backup power, all for as little as $100 per person. And it's in stock, ready to ship right now@ preparewithglen.com that's preparewithglen.com Take this one simple, affordable step. Make sure your family is protected with the essentials preparewith glenn.com 10seconds station. Let me get an Iran update from Jason. Jason, oil has gone up and I don't know why. As we're starting to say we're escorting ships close to Oman and we're escorting them and there have already been a few of them that have shipped, have gone through with the American flag on the back. And why is oil going up? You know, do we have Carol on with us next? We're going to ask her that what is the, what, what else is going on in Iran?
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Jason
So the Trump administration has announced Project Freedom, like what you were talking about in an effort to take all of these ships. Many of these countries that have not weighed in either way at all on the Iran war, but they've just been stuck there to escort them through the Strait of Hormuz. There was a lot of people were curious on where this was actually going to happen or how it was going to happen through the Strait of Hormuz. But we just got this morning there was a maritime report sent out from a UK Based organization that kind of showed where that was. So basically they're sticking to, towards as close as they can to the ocean, Oman side, through Omani territorial waters and that's how they're getting through. Now I'm not sure why oil prices would be going up. There was a rumor this morning that the Iranians had fired some missiles at an American warship. And that was going all over social media this morning. CENTCOM said that's completely false, that that did not happen. So there is that, but I don't know if that affected oil prices at the start of that or what. But that now, as per the DoD is not true at all.
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Glenn Beck
You know, it's amazing how people just don't look to the future. Here's a guy who is changing opec, changing the way oil works, opening up oil fields, you know, drilling sites, bringing the world a new system and, and based on what we know works oil and everybody's bitching about gas prices. When gas prices went up last time, I didn't hear a lot of bitching about, not like this, gas prices going up. You know, you didn't hear the media say anything. And why were gas prices going up that time? Because they were closing all of our power plants, they were closing our refineries, they were shutting down our drilling systems, they were shutting our coal fire electricity plants and then tearing them down. They had no plan for the future. They had no plan and yet nobody was looking at it then long term and going, hey, you can't do that. That's a really bad idea for the future. And once again, now we're in the opposite situation. We just look at the price of gasoline. We're like, oh, well that's gotta stop. No. Well, sometimes, you know, a short term pain for some gain here on long term. If we can get done what he's trying to do. This is a really good thing. You know, again, I don't want to be the, the flag bearer for, you know, high gas prices and war, but I mean, we're in it. It's almost like we just, oh, just suicidal at times. I'm not in a good mood today, I guess because I'm just seeing this and, and then, then I see the report from England. Did you see the Latest? You know, NATO, in NATO, Trump is pulling out what, 5,000 troops in Germany. That leaves us, that leaves us with about 30,000 troops. That's a significant number of troops to be pulling out. I mean, you still have 30,000, but there's a lot of stuff that we do over in Germany and that's got to make the Germans nervous and it should make everybody nervous over there. I don't know if you saw this. Parliament actually said on the record they can fight an all out war for 10 days. 10 days. The defense has come out and said, you know, the, the defense ministers have come out and they've all said it's about a week, that's seven days. Senior officials that have been talking out said they have several days, that's five days of fighting. They don't, they're, they're not replenishing any of their supplies. They don't have anything more than 5 to 10 days of all out war. I mean, that's a sitting duck. What good are they as allies? You can't even protect yourself for more than five days. Holy cow. That's why. Go ahead.
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Jason
That's part of this ridiculousness of the entire NATO relationship because why would they, why would they prepare for a sustained conflict when they've got big brother United States to come and protect them? Meanwhile, while they never concentrate on that, they've got a ton of social welfare programs they can throw all that money into. And that's what they've been doing since World War II. That's enough of that.
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Glenn Beck
We have, we have paid for all of their social welfare by paying for all of their defense. They were able and they still spent themselves into oblivion. I mean, you know, at least ours was corruption. I'm convinced that our debt would be way, way small, way Small. Our national debt, if it wasn't for all this corruption, I'll bet you a third of it is. Is all just in money that was corrupt. And I don't, I don't even mean corrupt like, hey, we gave it, you know, for, you know, turtle tunnels and experiments on, you know, African tribes and lesbians and I mean, actual, just corruption. I think a third of it. What did they spend it on? You get the national health care system of England. Really? Congratulations. At least you got that. Wow. All right. More in a minute. Carol Roth joins us next. Talk about the economy. What's coming. All right. If you've ever experienced this situation, starts out, you know, you know, feeling simple. You're buying a house, you know, or maybe you're selling one. As the process goes on, the numbers get bigger and the decisions get more complicated. Complicated. And the time is passing and you're like, okay, a lot is riding on this. That happens a lot. And that's the moment where, you know, the person that you're working with as a real estate agent really matters. And it's why I started real estate agents I trust, because I've seen what happens when people get matched with the wrong agent. Somebody who doesn't know the market, doesn't negotiate well, or just, you know, treats it like another transaction. This is not just another transaction. This is your money. This is your timeline. This is your future. This is the biggest investment, maybe of your life. The right agent can make that process smoother, smarter, and a lot more successful. So you're not hoping it works out. You're working with somebody who knows how to make sure that it works out the right way. Check out real estate agentsitrust.com we'll line you up with the right agent in your area. You don't have to just. Just interview them. If you don't like them, you just move on. There's no cost or obligation or, you know, I don't charge you anything. The names, the name says it all. It's real estate. Agentsitrust.com realestate agentsitrust.com
- [107:29]
Ricky
if you miss Glenn's speech, our incredible torch singers and the fireworks on Ellis island, get it all now@glenn beck.com torch.
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Glenn Beck
Foreign. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. Thank you so much for listening. With everything that's going on in the world, and there's a lot want to bring Carol Roth in to talk a little bit about. Well, let's start with oil. Why did oil go up today? Carol when the President announced he was opening up and, and protecting some ships
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Carol Roth
going through, you know, so I think there's something you've heard of the boy who cries wolf problem, right? And unfortunately I think that the President has a little bit of a straight, will be open and safe problem. You know, some investors may, you know, put it to the side and sometimes you see that in the stock market. But the hardcore investors, investors, those who are in the bond market, those who are in the commodity market, they are looking at not what the President is saying directly. They're reading between the lines and they're taking note of his actions. Because the President happens to be very transparent if you know what you're looking for. And basically every time the yields on the 10 year get into the range of about 4.54%, the administration, led by a very smart guy at the treasury and Scott Bessant, starts to worry that we're going to have bond market dysfunction. And so the President comes out and says everything is going to be good, everything is going to be wrapped up here soon. We're taking care of everything in, in an effort to get those yields down and to buy them, you know, a little bit of space and a safety buffer. And if you are in the bond market, you're in the commodity market, you've noticed this pattern and at some point you don't believe it anymore. And obviously the longer that this goes on and the more tail there is, there's going to be on cost and economic consequences. So I think that you have, you know, in certain markets or you know, certainly each one is individual in terms of how they're digesting and information, it has different focuses, but I think that they have caught on to, you know, every time we hit this level, this is what the administration says, but we're not actually seeing an end to this conflict. And you know, investors who are very focused on geopolitics and oil and gas, you believe that the strait at this point is closed indefinitely and that there's no clarity about what an opening date is really going to happen.
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Glenn Beck
So even if ships, apparently three American flagships have gone through, even if ships are going through now, none of them had oil I think, but yeah.
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Carol Roth
So you know, obviously there would have to be a long extended, you know, not, not a one off situation or a three off situation, but there would have to be a return to some sense of normalcy and flow. And even then that doesn't mean that there's, you know, definitely an end to the conflict. But you know, that within the Context is going to have a different read in terms of the market. And look, the reality is, Glenn, that there have. The cost of gas and the cost of oil on a worldwide basis should be higher at this point in time. There has been a lot of concerted efforts in terms of strategic petroleum reserve releases across the world and other efforts to try to keep this down and keep a lid on it during the conflict. So even at the high levels that we're at, it could be worse. And I think that again, that's part of the calculus is how much Runway is there to keep a lid on this over time. And obviously, the longer that it goes on, the more longer term risk there is.
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Glenn Beck
So the flying bananas are done this this weekend. Spirit Airlines is, is out. And Elizabeth Warren, when, you know, when she announced this with, with Joe Biden that they weren't going to merge with JetBlue, she said that's a win for the Republican, win for Biden. Well, it's not a win for anybody who had, you know, tickets on a cheap airline to go someplace to go see grandma or go back to school or whatever it was. That's not a win for you. Today all these people have lost their jobs, the airline is closed, and the only ones that will win are the bigger airlines.
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Carol Roth
Yeah, the thing about the Elizabeth Warrens, which has been progressivism, but basically liberalism in general at this point, is that they are always wrong and never in doubt. And this is a very dangerous combination because, you know, you can have this moral preening, but it doesn't replace economic reality. And they are so decoupled from the economic reality, either because they don't understand or because they don't care that they, you know, get to be Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons. Oh, I did a thing. I helped and you know. No, you did not help. They take their victory lap and then what happens is that long term, everybody suffers the consequences. You know, M and A is part of my background. I'm a recovering investment banker. You know, we see this all the time. You have a company that needs a lifeline and another company steps in and it's letting the market sort it out. Does it mean that, you know, that that would have worked? I don't know it, you know, 5050. But at least there would have been a chance. What they did is they took a struggling company and they said, no, you cannot have that lifeline. Look, we did a good thing. And like you said, now we have less choice. Now we have people who are out of a job. Now we have less of an opportunity for this to work its way out in the markets and in the system. And this isn't just about M and A. This is about minimum wage. This is about rent control. This is about every time they don't understand or don't care about economic reality, they want to do a thing. They want to do their Ralph Wiggum thing and be helping, and they're not helping. And they're making it harder for Americans to thrive, to be successful, and in some cases, just to afford the cost of living. And unfortunately, that's where we're at today.
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Glenn Beck
Well, but you can't. I'm sorry, but I can't. I can't give them the benefit of the doubt on this, because every time, I mean, the facts are out about minimum wage, they're going to go and say there needs to be a minimum wage. Now they're going to try to pass it in Congress again. No, especially not a national minimum wage. What somebody can live on in Preston, Idaho, is different than what somebody can live on in New York City. That makes no sense whatsoever. You put a national living wage together and it's 25 bucks. The people in small towns of America, you will lose those jobs. You will lose many of the jobs in the big cities because people can't afford that as a business. And the proof is there. They just never seem to want to look at it.
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Carol Roth
Yeah, I mean, if you recall, I'm with you on this. If you recall, my second book was the War on Small Business, which talked about what happened during COVID and how there was this direct attack on the small businesses of the world. And the intention behind it is that small business equates to freedom. You know, small businesses are very independent. They're scattered geographically, and individually, they don't have the funds to support these candidates and the lobbying efforts and, you know, quote, unquote, you know, legally launder money the way that big businesses can. And so, you know, they always talk about how it's Main Streets term, and we're here for the backbone of the economy. But at the end of the day, they're not thinking about the economy. They're thinking about their power. And what consolidates their power is being in bed with the big guys, which is why we have corporatism instead of capitalism these days.
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Glenn Beck
And it seems to me that these companies need to go through with it. I just saw an interview with the mayor of Seattle, and she's like, starbucks is not going to move. They need us. They need to be in Seattle. I don't think they do need you, but they might have some loyalty to Seattle. But I have to tell you, if I heard some. Somebody who had been marching revolutionaries in front of my business say that I would be so. But I'm different. I'd be like, you know what? Wrap it up, gang. We're moving. I don't care where we're moving to. We're going to move to Tennessee, we're going to move to Florida. We're going to move. Move to Texas, but we're moving. That's it. Enough. Same in New York. You come after these corporations. Are they actually going to move, do you think?
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Carol Roth
I mean, we've seen it here in Chicago. Absolutely. Over time, they're going to be forced to do it. Ken Griffin, who was the founder of Citadel, which is a major financial services firm, got absolutely fed up with what was going on in the state and the attack attempt to milk businesses, milk the quote, unquote, wealthiest people. And so he took his own tax base. He took a bunch of jobs and, by the way, a lot of philanthropy. He gave a lot of money to improve the city. And what we're seeing is it's not only him, but other wealthy people who have left, and the burden is now falling to the middle and working class. You have a bunch of people who are saying, I don't understand how, you know, my property tax bills keep going up. I don't understand why everything is getting more expensive here is because they're driving out the people who are giving the most dollars to the state in order to be able to operate. You think the state is going to all of a sudden peel back its budget? No, they're just going to continue to pass it on. So instead of growing the pie, they're shrinking the pie, and you have have to eat a bigger piece of it. In this case. The pie is not delicious, Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, and it's sad because it. The ones who pay, like Spirit Airlines, it's the. It's the poorest. It's the poorest people. You know, nobody rich, you know, is riding Spirit Airlines. It's just the people who are struggling, you know, day to day to get by, who are, you know, wanting to save money. And Spirit Airlines was there for them, and now they're not. Can I switch sub? Go ahead.
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Carol Roth
Oh, sure, Go ahead.
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Glenn Beck
Finish up.
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Carol Roth
Well, I was just gonna say they're going to price people out of being able to take a vacation. The people who are at, you know, working hard, working class people are no longer going to be able to fly because the government had to get in the middle and say, I'm sorry, you can't have this choice.
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Glenn Beck
Exactly right. Exactly right. You know, we did our big celebration for America's250 or Freedom250. It's always confusing because Freedom250 is the conservatives doing something. America's250 is the big corporate, you know, and progressive thing that wants to keep America kind of, you know, the American founding is problematic, so we don't really want to focus on that. That's an actual quote. But, you know, I remember. I'm old enough to remember the bicentennial. I remember in. In 1976. It was everywhere. Everywhere. And there were products everywhere. I don't even see. I don't see any marketing of this at all anywhere, do you?
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Carol Roth
So this is a crazy thing. There was something that came out from Oreo in the last couple of days that they're doing a special edition Oreo with red, white and blue filling in the middle. So, of course, my initial thought, like, okay, great, this is, you know, 250th anniversary celebration. Finally we're going to see some merch. And no, they're doing it. They're calling it the Firecracker Popsicle Edition instead of branding it with this huge celebrity. No, Huge celebratory milestone. And it's just, as, you know, not only a patriot who would buy, you know, every piece of merch that is out there because it's just, you know, fabulous. And you can't get your hands on enough red, white and blue and things that celebrate America. But as somebody who focuses today a lot on marketing and branding, you know, this is just leaving cash on the table and the fact that no one in corporate America is stepping in to this celebration. I have seen almost no merchandise, and it's a shock because I would have thought the second we hit January 1st, we would have seen the American. American flag red, white and blue everywhere. It's been absolute radio Silas. And now we have a product and they didn't even put the branding on it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's crazy. I didn't even know that about Oriole. That is nuts. If Firecracker. What? You can't say who you. Who else is marketing? I guess you could market those to. To France and England as well. They're red, white and blue. But, I mean, you know, it's clear who they're for. Thank you so much, Carol. I appreciate it.
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Carol Roth
Always good to see you.
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Glenn Beck
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