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Glenn Beck
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Goodranchers.com American meat delivered. Hello America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. Pass it on. Crank the game. Glam Back is on. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Oh, my gosh. And it is. And it is the last show before we celebrate our 250th birthday as a nation. Live from Washington, D.C. there's a ton to talk about. We begin in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Rapid Radios. When you go to a play, the audience only sees what is happening on stage. They don't see the stage manager wearing the headset backstage, quietly making sure that every actor hits their mark. Every scene change happens on time and everybody knows exactly what comes next. If that communication breaks down, the whole production starts to unravel. It turns out that it is just true about any group of people. Whether you're running a job site, coordinating a church event, hunting with friends, or keeping track of the family on vacation, good communication is what keeps everything moving in the same direction. That's why I like rapid radios. 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And I said, you know, nobody knows about the state fair. Nobody knows about what's happening in Washington D.C. and the streets are empty here. And it's sad. It's really sad. And then the Washington Post decided to cover it. And I have had it. I've had it. I drove by the Washington Post here in Washington D.C. and I thought, oh, wow, I wonder why half of the building's lights are out. Because you're going broke. And I can't wait until you entirely broke. America has survived 250 years. We've survived 250 years. And that is fabulous. But I have to tell you, I've had it with the reflex from the press. The automatic impulse to search every American moment for the dark cloud instead of the sunlight. Think about what is happening this week. Not next year, this week. This week the United States turns 250 years old. Do you know how remarkable that is? For we have the same constitution. The average constitution lasts 17 years. No one living has ever seen anything like this. No one living will ever see it again. This is not another 4th of July. This is the 4th of July I saw as a kid, the 200th this is the 250. I'll be long dead and my kids will remember, oh, I saw the 250. And they will remember it when it is the 300 grandchildren, our great grandchildren will read about this in history books. And one of the nation's most influential newspapers looked at this moment and said, gee, Bob, how could we cover this today? I don't know. Have we covered the fireworks?
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Jason
Nah.
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Glenn Beck
Are they really worth it? Well, have we thought about how much pollution the fireworks are gonna cause? That's it, Bob. Let's run to the press. You gotta be kidding me. That's your front page instinct? Pollution? Not the greatest experiment in self government. No, not that. God. God, not that. No, the astonishing fact that a republic born in the age of kings has survived invasions, civil war, world wars, depression, terrorism, every prediction of collapse. Not the millions of families gathering to remember where freedom came from this weekend. Not the veterans who carried that freedom, bled and died for that freedom. Not the children seeing the Capitol for the very first time. No. Smoke. Smoke. That's what the Washington Post chooses. Smoke. Now, before some liberal tweets, some angry tweeted me, let me say I know. Yes, fireworks produce smoke. Okay, I've known that the very first time I saw fireworks. It's kind of like, don't tweet me. Fireworks cause smoke, water is wet and the sun is hot. I get it. People with asthma should know that large firework displays can temporarily affect air quality. Now, if you think that that is news to anybody, report it. Maybe on page A17. But if your first instinct on America's 250th birthday is to warn people about the smoke instead of reminding them why fireworks exist in the first place, then somewhere along the line you've really forgotten what news is supposed to do. Have we alerted them that there's going to be smoke? Maybe they should stay away from the nation's capital because there's a lot of fireworks. There's got to be a lot of smoke.
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Co-host/Producer
Oh,
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Glenn Beck
I have no use for these people anymore. I really, I. They're just such a source of frustration. Journalism is not just about facts. It's also about judgment. Every editor tells you what matters by what place they put above the fold. Whatever they place above the fold, that's what matters. Every headline is a declaration of their values. Every front page says, this is what everybody should talk about and think about today. So on the most extraordinary independence week in American history, they decide what matters most. Not liberty, not history, not what's actually happening. Not gratitude, but particulate matter. You know, when I got up this morning, I thought, what is the particulate count today? I'm wondering. You see why people are exhausted. You see why nobody reads the crappy Washington Post anymore? I mean, honestly, do you see why trust has collapsed? Because you're morons. Every American achievement arrives with a lecture. Hey, there's gonna be smoke in the air. And did you know you're standing on stolen ground? Celebration now comes wrapped with guilt. Every flag needs an apology. I got a firecracker I'd like to shove up. Every victory requires a disclaimer. It's relentless and we're done with it. But just know it has consequences. Everything you're doing today has consequences. Because the people who are taught to roll their eyes at their own history will eventually stop defending it. People who cannot celebrate can't get past themselves to celebrate what their nation did has forgotten themselves. I walked in the National Mall. I saw children staring up with wonder at some of the monuments Yesterday. I saw veterans standing quietly before the monuments built for friends who never came home. I saw families from every corner of the country. That's the story. Washington Post. That's the headline. That's what deserves to be remembered. You don't have to pretend America is perfect to love her. The founders didn't read their letters. They argued constantly. They knew this nation had sins to confront and promises yet to fulfill. Wait until you hear what I say. What? Thomas Jefferson, the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Let me tell you what he wrote about that Declaration. But they still pledged their lives, their fortunes and their honor to her. Because they understood something too many people in our elite institutions have completely forgotten. Love does not require perfection. Do you go home at night? Washington Post reporters. Do you go home at night and just keep reminding your wife, you know, you once were really fat? You know, I love it when you're skinny. I love it when you're healthy looking. But you remember when you were pregnant how fat you were? I don't know, because I keep thinking about all the fatness in your history. Is that love? Love requires gratitude. So let me say something here that apparently has become controversial. America is worth celebrating without apology, without caveats, without the frickin stolen land, without embarrassment, without an asterisk. And if that offends you, the problem is not with the fireworks. The problem's not with the country. The problem is you. The problem is somewhere, somehow, you lost the ability to be grateful for the greatest inheritance of liberty ever handed from one generation to the next. And that is far more Dangerous than a little smoke in the air. More in a minute. Let me tell you about our sponsor. This half hour, it's Z Factor. I want you to imagine for a moment. My phone's about to go. Are you swimming? Nope. I'm just talking about the Washington Post. Sorry. Things you could accomplish if you were well rested. Clearer thinking, more patience, even better decisions. The kind of energy that does not require a second cup of coffee just to feel human. When you're actually rested, everything from your work to your relationships feels more manageable. 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I went down yesterday to the mall and I went to the state fair. And most people don't even know what the state fair is. The state fair, just these. It's a collection of these buildings. It's. It really is kind of like a world's fair, except with crappy state collections where half of the states were like, that's a Donald Trump thing. You know what? We're. California Cinnamon Orange Crate. And so they have this. They have. California has this display. I swear to you, it just says inside a big sign that says California. A couch and a desk. I don't know what you're doing there. You go into New York. I didn't because I felt like if I go in, it's a rat and it smells like urine. I don't. I don't know what New York has in there. Very few states actually took it seriously. And it's sad. Some states didn't even show up because it's a Donald Trump thing. It's an American thing. By the way, congratulations to Pennsylvania. You did a great job. I went into the Pennsylvania one. It was really, really great. They took all of these flags from American history. I mean, it's Philadelphia, it's Pennsylvania. So Gettysburg, they had flags from Gettysburg. They had flags from the, the Revolutionary War. It was, it was really a stirring display. It was really, really neat. But most of the states didn't take it seriously at all. And it's sad. And so people are walking around and they're going to the Mall and there's going to be a lot of stuff going on this, this afternoon. But I was, I was a little disappointed because nobody knows what's going on here. And if you, if you know the fireworks. I talked to you yesterday. Largest fireworks times 10. The largest firework display ever, ever in the history of the world. Guinness World Record stuff. Air Force One is gonna do a flyover.
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Jason
It's.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, you've never seen anything like this, and you never will see anything like this. And nobody in the press is even talking about it. I walk by two broadcast booths, beautiful broadcast booths. Empty, dark. Nobody's in it. Like, why, why, why is no one, why is no one in there? Why aren't the networks here covering anything? Anything. They'll just cover that. Nobody's here because nobody knows about it. That's the problem. Nobody knows about it. I mean, it's really. And then I walk down a little farther, I see, you know, there's music going on on the stage, there's museums all around you, there's the state exhibits, the Lincoln Memorial on one end, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, all of this stuff. Greatest collection of American history on Earth. You know, the, the NASA has displays out on the Mall. You can see the world's largest jet engine. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. Like, it could fit two of me on one standing on my head, could fit inside of this engine. It's. It's amazing. And at the end, right in front of the Capitol, there was a giant screen and it was showing the World Cup. And there were thousands of people there, thousands, shoulder to shoulder, standing there watching, laughing, chilling, cheering, celebrating. I thought it was great. But then I thought, you know, where is everybody else on this? Where is everybody on going to the America? And maybe it's going to change because tomorrow most people are not going to be working. And maybe if you're in the Washington, D.C. area, are planning on coming there. And it is Hot. It is hot. But people were willing to stand in the sun for something they believe is worth standing in the sun for, and that is the World Cup. And I tossed and turned last night. I'm going to be interested to see how I feel after the weekend. You know, when I was growing up, Fourth of July belonged to everybody. Fourth of July in D.C. apparently now only belongs to MAGA people. And I'm hoping this changes. I hope I'm wrong, but that's what it feels like. You know, aren't. My neighbors didn't vote the same way. I knew that. My dad used to say it. I don't agree with that guy on anything. We don't vote the same way. Doesn't matter. But we all went to the same church. We didn't agree on taxes or foreign policies or even who we voted for for president. But we agreed on one thing. America was worth celebrating. Not because she was perfect, but because she was ours. Millions have sacrificed to hand her to us. And every generation has built, has inherited a country that was built by people that we'll never, ever meet. I want you to remember that this weekend. That used to be enough. Somewhere along the way, we began treating patriotism as it belonged to one party or tribe instead of the other. It doesn't. It doesn't belong to the Republicans. It doesn't belong to the Democrats. History is not controversial. The flag is not controversial. Celebrating our country's birthday, how is this controversial? And when I say that, I want you to be concerned about that. That should concern all of us. Because a nation that loses the habit of celebrating itself eventually loses the desire to preserve itself. History is like a photo album. If you stop opening that photo album for your children, your children will eventually forget who the people in the pictures were. Once they forget who those pictures are, it doesn't matter. And they stop wondering where they came from or who they are. So let me just make a request. If you're in the Washington, D.C. area at all, bring your children, bring your families, bring your grandchildren. Walk them all. Stand in front of the Capitol. Read the words carved into the Lincoln Memorial. Visit the museums. Talk to your kids and your grandkids about who built this country. Yes, it's hot. There's tons of free water everywhere. They're handing it out like it's water. But stay for the celebration. Every public indication, the fireworks display has been planned at an extraordinary scale unlike anything you've ever seen. Not just here, but in the world. And you'll never see America's 250 ever again. Never once in a lifetime. So don't let somebody else tell you what America is. Don't do it. Come see her if you're in this area. If not, go to a fireworks show. Go to a celebration that's actually celebrating not born in the USA with fireworks behind it from some. I mean, just stop that. Stop it. Don't go to some fireworks celebration that is, you know, somebody with their yahoos hanging out, singing some popular song, has no idea what Independence Day is even about. Go celebrate the country. If we don't show up for our own history, somebody else is going to write it for you. America's not a place just on a map. She's an inheritance. She's a promise. She's a story that is only kept alive if each of us decides it's worth remembering. Learn it, celebrate it. Protect it. Because what we inherit without gratitude, you're not going to keep for very long. I want to thank everybody who's watching last night, our special on the Golden Door. I mean, Ricky, we had some amazing people and. And it even trended. History never trends. It was even trending last night because of Alexander Hamilton. What I said about Hamilton, nobody knows that about Hamilton. How many, how many listeners did we hear from Jason last night that were watching it? And they were like, I didn't learn any of this stuff. I didn't know any of this stuff. It was all in the chat last night. It was so cool, too. They said they never learned any of that stuff in school, which I thought was a big point. And it wasn't hard. That stuff is out there. You just have to look for it.
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Jason
It was the proudest I've ever been of one of our specials. And we've done a lot. And we've done a lot of big, explosive specials. This was the proudest I've ever been.
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Glenn Beck
Nathan Bowie, Mikayla, I mean, everybody involved did an awesome job on this thing, but it was a great special. But the progressives were a little stunned to learn. Wait, wait. Alexander Hamilton? He was. He was far, far, far to the right of Donald Trump on immigration.
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Co-host/Producer
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
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Jason
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Glenn Beck
Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. If you happen to be watching today, we've had several comments on. Where'd you get the 250 flag? I don't know where you can get it. I got it at the mall yesterday, which I have to tell them all story at some point. I got at the mall yesterday, meaning the National Mall, you know, where the, all the monuments are. This is the official 250th celebration flag. And I might even, I might auction this off for charity when I'm done. I'll fly it over the ranch and then sign it and auction it off for, for charity at some point. But it's, I think it's a beautiful flag anyway. You know, all of us, I've been thinking about, I've been thinking about what we've been talking about here. And I want to inspire you to reach deeper than we have reached before in our lives. I know, I am trying to. You know, every one of us are born holding things that we did nothing to earn. Nothing. If you were born in this country, you started your life already holding freedoms and protections, a voice, a vote, a standing in the world. And we didn't do anything to deserve it. We just, it was handed to us, just handed to on the day we arrived. And it was handed to us just like it was handed to our parents. The person before you and the person before them. Millions of people will spend their entire lives reaching for what we were given for free. And most of the world will never be able to touch it. And it's tempting to call something like this a possession, but it's not. It's not something we own. Okay? It's something that's just yours, kind of. Because I think that's the first and most dangerous mistake a person can make about it. Because an unearned privilege is not a possession, something that you own. It's closer to a debt. It's something that you have to earn after the fact, earn backward. And how do you do that? By carrying the responsibilities that came attached to it. You might wonder what those responsibilities are. I know I was mentored by one of the best broadcasters alive in his day, Michael o', Shea, and he mentored me when I was very young, and I did nothing to earn it. And when we. When I first went on to, you know, be my own, I said, why did you do this? And he said, because you owe it to me now to pass this on to somebody else. We don't teach, and we need to teach. And that's how we pay it off. We show up, we pay it in. We tell the truth when a lie would be easier, when we treat the people that we disagree with as a fellow citizen and not as an enemy. Looking after the parts of the common thing that nobody is forcing you to look after, that's the work. Do it. Because when you do, something quiet and remarkable happens. The privilege that we were handed by accident actually becomes a privilege you hold by right. You earn it in arrears. You convert an accident of birth into something that is genuinely, finally yours. But stop doing the work, decide that the privileges are simply yours and the responsibilities belong to somebody else. And now that thing begins to hollow out. And that's the part that makes it so hard to see. You know, in time, privilege that no one is keeping up doesn't get revoked. Nobody comes to take this. They don't. It just stops being real underneath while it still looks completely intact from the outside. That's why we feel so hollow right now. Freedom is still written down. It's still there. It's still in the books. It's still in the archives. But the living thing, living thing that it pointed to quietly has gone out. It's like a house with the lights still on, but nobody is home. It's empty. Our country is nothing more than this exact bargain. It runs through all of us, every single one of us, living Here at the same time, millions of unearned inheritances, each one made real only by the carrying of it. And that tells you exactly where a country breaks. It breaks at the point where enough people on every side decide the privilege. That privilege is mine by right and the responsibility belongs to somebody else. That's the other side's problem. The dangerous part is that nobody ever believes that they're the ones who stopped paying. Everyone is certain that the debt belongs to somebody else. And that's what keeps this whole deadly hollowing out so dangerous. Right until the moment the thing it was holding up gives way. You can watch it happen in the plainest of places. Look how we're treating our own laws. A city decides which federal laws it will bother to enforce. Which federal official decides what court order he's going to bother to obey. And both of them are doing the same identical thing. They're keeping the authority, but they're setting down the duty that that authority was supposed to carry. There comes rights and responsibility. There is a duty to what we have been handed. Look at immigration, the whole of it. Honestly, look at this. A person crosses outside the legal door because the legal door is slow. And my, my, my, my, my need is real. And a business hires that same person off the books because it's cheap. And it's me, me, me, I've got to get more wealthy and it cheapens it even more. And both of them are taking the benefit of the country with while declining its rules. Neither one is comfortable to say out loud, but both are true. Look at, look at the fraud, the waste, the abuse of public money. The contractor who pads the invoice, the public servant who signs it without looking. They're not opposites. They are the same partners in the same theft. Each one trusts the other one to keep treating the common purse as nobody's in particular. Like that money just doesn't come from anywhere. And look the hardest of all, the oath of office, the most naked version of this entire bargain that exists. You're asked to stand up, raise a hand, put your hand on the Bible and swear to God. And all those out loud that can hear you in front of everyone, you are naked, making a promise to carry a specific responsibility in exchange for a specific power. That oath doesn't care what party administers it. It's supposed to bind the person who swore it from the first day to the last. And it's broken the moment that person decides. The power was the real prize. And the oath was just the words you say to get to that Power, the words didn't matter. It's the power that matters. And every one of these things, the shape is the same. The shape is the thing to see. The privilege is kept, but the duty is set down. Each person is privately certain that the one who broke faith was not them. It was somebody else. There is one more turn on this. We are not the last people who will ever live here. We hold these things that were self evident in trust for people who do not exist yet. So when we fail, when we treat our citizenship as a possession instead of responsibility, when we stop being moral and a principled people because it's inconvenient, we're not just spending down our own inheritance, we're handing our children a much, much smaller one. The rights we pass forward are diminished by exactly the amount we failed to keep up. A little less freedom that anybody ever bothers to defend. A little less truth that anyone insists on. A little less trust holding strangers together as one people. And it compounds, and it's the compounding interest that matters. Each generation that inherits less has less to pass on. And it also passes on that feeling that less is normal. Until one day, someday, I don't know when, hopefully far enough down the road that we never see it, but people begin to wake up and discover that they're no longer living in the country that they inherited. Not because anyone invaded it, not because anyone repealed it, but because link by link, payment by missed payment, we stopped earning the thing that we were quietly given and we quietly let it become something smaller than what was handed to us. That's the whole of it. That's the hard part. Privilege comes first. It's unearned. It's a gift we didn't deserve. People feel guilty now and they try to make you feel guilty. You know your privilege. Do you know your privilege? Do you know your privilege? It's not what the woke is saying. Do you know your privilege? Do you know how blessed you are for living here? So don't feel bad about it, pick up the responsibility. Because that's the payment that makes that privilege real. It keeps it real. It passes it on whole, or God help us, expands it. We were never owners of this privilege. We were only the current trustees of something we are obligated to pass forward. And not in worse shape, but at least as strong as we found it. Every generation has to answer this question, and it's a question that we're answering right now. Whether we mean to or not, we're answering it. And it's simple. Are we paying for what we were given. Do we realize that comes with a price? Did we pay for what we feel we were owed or are we just spending it down? We're not too far gone. Some people are wondering that now. Are we too far gone? We're not too far gone. We're not. I don't think God is done with us. And I'm not willing to ride off in the sunset and say, well, I got mine because I want my children and my grandchildren to inherit something even grander. Celebrate Independence Day this week and Happy 250America. More in a minute. Let me tell you about Super Sure. Some some companies actually seem to assume that you have all day to sit on hold. They assume you, you know, you don't mind explaining the same problem to three different people. 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Announcer
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck.
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Co-host/Producer
Kexi is celebrating America's Erica's 250th birthday this year. And while some people mark big occasions with speeches or fireworks, Kexi decided cookies were the way to go. I think they're onto something right now. Right now they've got the biggest sale of the year going on 25% off standard cookie boxes. If you've got, if you're looking for a gift or something to bring to a gathering, Kexi's a huge hit. Every single gathering. Maybe just an excuse to stock up on really good cookies. This is a great time. They've released a Fourth of July cookie box created specifically for America's 250th anniversary. And they're only making 250 of them. Not, you know, 25 zillion, not limited. Like the way companies usually lie to you about that. There's making 250 boxes. So once they're gone, they're gone. They also have a brand new Hawaiian coconut loaf from Kexi available this summer. It's a buttery loaf packed with coconut and a touch of pineapple that honestly could make a good breakfast. A good dessert, a good thing to just cut one more slice of when you standing in the kitchen at 3am not that I would ever do such a thing. What I like about Kexi, it is a family owned bakery. It's a family that I love. By the way, you love the Mist as well. Pat Grace family. They're the ones that created this and honestly they'll ship them nationwide. It's one of those things that, you know, you can get cookies from other places but like it's not going to be special like Kexi. Plus they're not going to be nearly as good. Kexi.com, k e k s a.com get 25% off standard cookie boxes. Grab that 4th of July cookie box. Grab the Hawaiian coconut loaf. You're going to love all of it.
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Glenn Beck
It's kexi.com. Oh man, there is so much going on, especially on Torch this weekend for 250 if you're traveling the country, just listen to all the stuff. We have the American Story that is going on. We have the first two chapters in Chasing Embers, which is a great history story.
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Jason
Big announcement on Chasing Embers coming out next week.
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Glenn Beck
Next week. Tomorrow, July 3rd. I did a speech on the USS Midway, which I've been told don't follow children and don't follow animals. No one ever said don't follow a fireworks show. They had to run because the city was like, we're going to shut this thing down unless you do the fireworks. Now we're like, we have one more speaker. It's Glenn, Becky. So they did the fireworks and then I had to give my speech.
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Jason
Thank God. It was great.
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Glenn Beck
It was the Midway speech on Torch that comes out tomorrow. On Saturday, the American Story special On radio and the midway speech, wherever you get your podcast. So you'll be able to get that on the podcast. But the American Story special, it's on, I don't even know, 400 and some stations all across the country. And you're gonna love it. On Monday, I'm at cufi, the Christians United for Israel, a night to honor Israel. That's in Washington, D.C. i think I'm doing something with the vice president. Is that done? You know, am I doing an interview?
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Jason
It's not confirmed.
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Glenn Beck
Then Vegas is next Saturday. I'll be in Las Vegas at Freedom Fest. And then I think I should take a trip to the hospital.
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Jason
I think he'll fit it in sometime in between, probably.
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Glenn Beck
But we will see you this weekend and we'll be here for the 250. If you're, if you're around and you're a torch member and you see this big Q tip looking guy with just the white hair, like, you know, I'm a giant Q tip, say hello because this Q tip talks. And we'll be with the family and with your family, hopefully. And we'll see you. Okay. The final chapter on the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence. Jonathan Turley also.
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Glenn Beck
Anna Paulina Luna is also coming up. Stand by. We are living in a time where it's really easy to forget what this country is actually about, how it came to be. And we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history, but that's not how it happened. That's why I think young George Washington is so important right now. This is a film that takes you back before he was president, before the revolution was won, before George Washington was George Washington, that symbol. And it shows you the young man he really was. Not perfect, not polished, but somebody who is shaped by failures, hard decisions and courage and by a sense that there was something bigger than himself at work. Great leaders are not created in comfort. They're forged when things are hard, when stepping forward cost you something. With the 250th anniversary of America right around the corner, this is a powerful way to market. 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He shut up, you know, with the weight of this thing and his little folding desk pressing down on him. And I told you yesterday, he scratched out the words, we hold these truths to be self evident. But that's actually not what he scratched out at first. I'm going to give you part three, take you through now. It's getting ready to be butchered. Now it has to go in and they have to decide what stays in, what is not in. And Thomas Jefferson never forgives the people in this room for what happens to the Declaration of independence. Part three, the mangling of the Declaration of Independence. We begin in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about real estate agents. I trust.com. there is a reason that people who play chess don't look at their, their next move. They're thinking three or four, sometimes 10 moves ahead. The person who wins usually is the person who saw the consequences before anybody else did. Buying or selling a home isn't that different. 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It's realestate agentsitrust.com realestate agentsitrust.com okay, so Thomas Jefferson has been, for 17 days eking out this draft of the Declaration of Independence. And now comes the part of the story that will tell you more about what America actually is than any fireworks show ever could. I don't know, this firework show on Saturday is going to be pretty amazing, but that's. I digress. The Declaration of Independence was not handed down from heaven on a golden tablet, okay? It was argued over. It was cut. It was compromised. It was mangled. Jefferson's own friends use that word, mangled, in a hot, sealed, frightened room of really flawed men. And I promise you, the true story is a thousand times better than the myth or anything that they ever taught you. I don't even know. I don't even know what I learned about the Declaration of Independence in school. But I can tell you what I know now. It's completely different. But first, you have to understand the error. In that building, Congress was seated in Philadelphia in a sworn oath of secrecy. The members had to take a pledge. Not one word of what was being said inside leaves this room. Not one word. So the doors were shut and the windows were closed. Remind you, this is in Philadelphia in July. It's super hot. It is like what it is now here in Washington, D.C. it's like 90 or, you know, 100 degrees. And then you add the humidity. Then add. Think of this. They're sitting in this room, closed off. They're wearing wool jackets, wool socks, wool vests, heavy wigs. There are no fans. There's no ice. Air conditioning would have to wait for the guy in San Antonio, Texas, to invent it in the 1950s. And there was no deodorant. Deodorant had to wait almost well over a hundred years. 1888. It was invented in Philadelphia. Oh, I know this. It was Mum's deodorant.
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Jonathan Turley
Okay.
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Glenn Beck
But again, I digress. No deodorant for now. No open doors or windows. Because every sentence spoken in that chamber was hanging. It was a hanging offense. If it reached the king's ear, you would be drawn and quartered. So there was no press in the room, no public, no record of the debate for the world to see. Just a few dozen men sweating through their shirts, deciding whether to commit treason with the windows nailed shut. Against spies, that's the pressure cooker these sacred words came out of. So Jefferson, who trusted their judgment most, didn't show his draft to the whole committee first. He just slipped it to the two men whose Opinion he valued above all others. And that was Benjamin Franklin, who was so crippled by that summer he could barely climb a staircase. And John Adams. And the two of them only made a handful of small changes. And they're marked on our copy, the original engraving from 1826 of Jefferson's first draft. We have it and you can see it. There's just a word here and a word there, and they're signed B. Franklin J. Adams. But one of the small changes, I'd argue, is one of the most important edits in the history of the English language. Jefferson had originally written that these truths were sacred and undeniable. Sacred and undeniable. And we think it was Franklin who crossed it out and wrote, self evident. Why? Sacred means you have to believe it. You can't really question it. It's sacred. It's scripture. It rests on your faith. It asks you to bow. Self evident means you only have to think for a minute. It rests on reason. It's available to every human being who can look at the world and see it plainly. It's self evident. It's right there. With one stroke of the old man's pen, the most important sentence in the document was thrown open to all of mankind, believer and skeptic, Christian, Jew, deist, doubter, all of it. So you don't have to take it on faith that you were born free. You only have to open your eyes. That is an edit that changed the world. And the man who probably made it thought he was just tidying up the pros a bit. So it's June 28th. The committee lays the draft before full Congress, and that's when the knives come out. Not the committee's gentle trims, but Congress's over. The first few days of July, they fought their way towards a vote itself. The whole body went through Jefferson's draft line by line, and then they cut a quarter of it. A quarter. And Jefferson had to sit there the whole time in the room, sweating, silent. He couldn't bring himself to defend his own work out loud. He would sit there and he would watch them carve up his words in front of everybody. Can you imagine, Imagine being a genius sitting in a room and watching a committee carve up everything you do. Anybody who's ever poured their soul into something, and then watched a committee, you know, redline it. You know exactly the particular agony that that guy was going through. And then comes the most human part of the story, part I never heard before. Ben Franklin is sitting next to Thomas Jefferson the whole time, and he's Watching that kid suffer. He's watching him flinch at every cut they make. So Franklin leans over, he says, tom, I want to tell you a story, a story about a young hatter. And he's opening up a new shop. And he was so proud of what he was doing. He was so excited about it that he wants to make a huge sign. I'll give you the rest of the story here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor, this half hour is Patriot Mobile. Have you ever had that moment when you realize you've been paying for something you actually didn't want? Maybe it was, you know, streaming service you never watched, you know, or a subscription you forgot you had to, you even had. And you have to cancel. Look at your bill, and you're like, why am I still paying for this? Well, there's another kind of bill that deserves the same kind of question, and it's your cell phone bill, because with some big wireless companies, a portion of the money that you pay them every month goes to places like Planned Parenthood. You don't want to do that. Patriot mobile.com/beck. That's where you want to go. Switch your service. Do it today. Patriot mobile.com/beck. They have paid millions of dollars into organizations that help our cause. They're on our side. 9 7, 2 patriot use a promo code. Beck. Get a free month of service. 972 patriot or patriot mobile.com Becky, do it now. 10 seconds. Station ID and back to the story. Tom, let me tell you a story. There's this guy named John Thompson. He was a store. He was. He was a hatter. And he wanted to open a shop, and he wanted to make the best hat shop ever. And he wanted this grand sign. And he said, it's going to say, john Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats. Ready for money. And it would have a picture of a hat on it. And he shows it to his friends. And Tom looks over at Ben Franklin, smiling painfully, most likely.
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Mm.
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Glenn Beck
And his friend says, hatter, that's redundant. You have right there on the sign. Makes hats. Why do you need hatter? Cut it. And the next one says, makes. Why do you need makes? Nobody cares who made them cut it. And the next guy says, ready for money. Of course it's for money. Cut it on and on, friend by friend, until all that was left on the sign was John Thompson and a picture of a hat. Franklin winked at him. I know what you're going through, and so does John Thompson. The hatter. Don't Take it personally. That's the wisest comfort an old man ever gave a wounded young one, I think. But one of those cuts wasn't small. And you need to hear this part clearly and squarely because it's the hardest and most important truth in the whole document. Jefferson's original draft contained a long, blazing, furious paragraph, laid out the entire Atlantic slave trade. And he put it right at the King George iii, right at his feet. He called it a cruel war against human nature itself. The King was violating the most sacred rights of life and liberty, and he was keeping this. This piratical warfare. He's calling him a pirate. Who was the pirate? Who were the pirates at the time? The pirates at the time were the Barbary pirates. They were the Muslims that could just take people. If you weren't Muslim, he could. They could take you and they could kill you, they could rape you, they could sell you into slavery because you're not really a person, because you're. You're an infidel. Thomas Jefferson says this piratical warfare is the warfare. And then he prints the Christian king and underlines it, mocking, saying, how dare you call yourself a Christian. And he is determined to keep an open market where men are to be bought and sold, capitalized men are to be bought and sold because he wants the King to see it. And remember, I said men, all men are created equal. And I count slaves as men. But wait a minute. Didn't Thomas Jefferson say, didn't he have slaves? Why didn't he free. Why would he say that and then have slaves? Because In Virginia, in 1767, in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson proposes an Emancipation Proclamation. Did you know that in the state of Virginia, long before he writes the Declaration of Independence, he authors an Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves must be freed. You know who stopped it? King George iii. That's why he was so passionate about this, because he goes on and he says, you have stopped every attempt to stop slavery. It was the most radical, most morally explosive passage in the entire declaration. A whole paragraph, half a pa. Now, this doesn't let anybody off the hook in either direction because the truth cuts both ways. And you should hear all of it. The contradiction is staggering and it is real. The man who wrote the searing condemnation of slavery owned more than a human being's. Himself freed almost none of them, even at his death, because he couldn't. He was in debt and they were property. That's why he didn't include life, liberty and property. But you have to hold on to all of these things, both good and bad. Don't flinch from it. That antislavery paragraph was in the document. It was written. It was written by Thomas Jefferson. That's important. The committee of five. Franklin, Adams, all of them left it in. They didn't cut it. It was for the full Congress that had to strike it out. And Jefferson told us exactly why they did it and who did it down. Cause he never forgives the Congress for doing this. The clause condemning slavery, he said, was struck out in complacence to South Carolina and Georgia, the two colonies that have never once tried to restrain the importation of slaves and who fully intended to keep right on two colonies, that's who would not abide. Means. Eleven colonies said no to slavery. A hundred years we were the only ones saying this, and we're still the only ones that feel bad about it. And they did it to keep all 13 colonies in the same boat, to keep the unanimity that if we didn't, the whole thing would have died. The bravest paragraph in the Declaration was thrown overboard. It was replaced with a vague, watered down line about the king stirring up domestic insurrections among us. The thunder is gone. The compromise was made, and that unpaid debt would come due fourscore and nine years later to be paid in a sea of blood at places called Antietam and Gettysburg. So how confident were these men
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Glenn Beck
what they had just done? It depends on the man, really. John Adams was certain it was monumental. He wrote home to his wife. Tomorrow is the anniversary, 250 years ago, that he wrote to his wife, Abigail, and said, boy, what we did yesterday on July 2nd will be remembered forever. It'll be celebrated down through the generations with pomp and parade and bonfires and illuminations in the sky from one end of the continent to the other. July 2, he wrote, will be remembered forever. He just bet on the wrong day, he thought. The day of the actual vote, not the fourth. The fourth is when we announced it to the world. I think he might have been baffled to learn that we light up the skies two days late, at least at the beginning. And Jefferson. Jefferson never made peace with it. Never. The cuts wounded him for the rest of his life. In the days right after the 4th of July, everybody else was celebrating. And he sat down and he quietly made clean copies of his original draft, his director's cut, if you will, the version before Congress, took the knife to it, and he mailed them to his friends like Richard Henry Lee and George Wythe. And he sent them each a note. One of them is almost funny in its Wounded pride. You judge for yourself, he told Lee, whether the thing is better or worse for the critics. Did the critics do the right thing? Lee wrote him back and said, no, no, no. They mangled it, Tom. They mangled it. Another friend, Pendleton, wrote Thomas Jefferson back after he sent them the original draft, and they said they changed it for the worst. Jefferson spent decades convinced that Congress had damaged his masterpiece. I want you to decide for yourself because both versions survive. It is so easy. Look up Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Do you know it's this audience that is making this famous. I found this about eight years ago and no one was talking about it. The Department of Education has announced it's going to be taught in schools beginning in 2030. Now, we showed the Department of Education this original draft, and I explained it to them. They were like, wait, what? How is it no one knows this? Because it answers all of the questions. You can find it online. Read that to your children. Read the first draft, and then explain what happened. Here's what I want you to leave with. I want you to leave with the truth. I want you to lead with the argument because it wasn't a parade. It was a fight. The finest words ever written down about human equality sit inside the very same document as deafening silence about the millions of human beings that equality did not yet reach a silence who that those men chose with open eyes. They knew what they were doing,
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Glenn Beck
they felt at the time, we won't make any progress if we don't first get free of the king, because he will never change. They knew it was a compromise, and they knew it was both more than they could live up to at the time, a hundred years before anybody else was, and a promise their grandchildren would be measured against and found wanting. But they signed it anyway. Let me ask you. Put yourself in their days. What would you have done? They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a promise they knew they were already breaking. And they trusted us, the people standing here 250 years downstream to finish what they could not. So go find it. Go read the original cut passages and all lay George Mason's Declaration of Rights. Beside it read the flawed, frightened, brilliant compromise, magnificent men who actually wrote it with a rope in plain sight and the windows nailed shut. The version they hand you in a school book is a statue. It's cold, it's finished, it's safe. It's wrong. The real one bleeds. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc. A licensed insurance agency half hour is super sure. Some decisions will stay with you. Others don't. You buy a cup of coffee and 10 minutes later you've already forgotten about it. But decisions that involve your business have a way of lingering in the back of your mind. Did I pick the right vendor? Am I covered for that? Should I ask more questions? That little voice has a way of stealing your attention, especially when you're trying to focus on something else. That's why I like Super Sure. They help take the guesswork out of the business insurance. You get one dedicated point of contact who knows your business, easy to use dashboard that puts everything in one place and a team that can give you straight answers when you need them. Are we covered for this? Yeah. You have confidence that your part of your business is being handled well, right? One last thing. Competing for your attention will help you make sure that nothing gets in the way of doing the right thing for your customers. And super sure.com Beck will give you a full report on your current policies. No obligation. Find out if you're overinsured or undersured. It's super sure.com beck1 super agent see one powerful platform super sure.com beck torch
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Glenn Beck
They don't want you to know this story about Trump. The Golden Door from Ellis island to the White House. A new documentary now streaming on Torch. So we just did this documentary. Its premiere was last night. On the Golden Door we talk about the 14th Amendment and Somali fraud. Here's a clip of it in case you missed it last night. And now we're arguing about birthright citizenship. Why all these suicide pacts? The 14th Amendment was specifically written for the children of freed slaves, not for people who fly in, have a baby and claim instant citizenship for the child while the parents stay illegal. That's insanity. That's not what the authors intended. And pretending otherwise is madness and wildly dishonest. We're also not the destination of import for false and dangerous ideologies, nor corruption from people who come here fleeing corruption. The Somali fraud cases. People were brought here under the promise that they would strengthen America. And what happens with some of our own politicians help? They set up massive welfare scams, ripping off the very taxpayers that welcomed them here. We brought you in to make America better and now you're stealing from us. That is not the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Jonathan Churley is with us, professor at Georgetown University, Fox News contributor and author of a tremendous book that everyone, everyone should read. Jonathan Turley, the author of Rage and the Republic. Welcome, sir. How are you?
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Jonathan Turley
Thank you very much. Good to see you, Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
Good to see you. I want to talk about some stories from your book here In a sec. First, can we just comment on the, the 14th Amendment? I did this special last night. That's not a suicide pact. And this is so dangerous. This isn't. We're not even facing the same kind of things that we were facing 30 years ago. We are facing enemies of our country putting birth citizenship tourism in here. How do we stop this? Because Congress isn't going to stop it.
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Jonathan Turley
Yeah, I've been a great critic of birthright citizenship for many years. I think we're a ship of fools by embracing this practice. We're one of a small number of countries. We're one of the outliers. Virtually all of our allies have rejected this. Many of our allies had this practice and rescinded it because it was such a bad idea. And so you have these, for example, Chinese companies that are virtually mocking us. You know, they, they have an open business to bring people over for this purpose. Now, how do we proceed from here? There's a couple of possible avenues. The most Obvious is a 28th amendment to go ahead and have this debate. It's, it's now resolved in the courts. It's not resolved in the country. We have the ability to amend the Constitution as our allies did with their own system. Systems. A lot of people say, well, that'll never pass perhaps, but we've never had a national debate on birthright citizenship, and maybe we need to have that. The other possibility was laid out by Justice Kavanaugh in his concurrence. This was a razor thin margin. It was a 5, 4 decision, was closer than some of us thought was going to happen because it was very clear that Roberts was going to vote for. For birthright citizenship. Many people thought Kavanaugh would go with him. Kavanaugh did not. Kavanaugh said, I don't think that birthright citizenship can be found in the 14th Amendment. But he said, even though the court has said that, we could still see Congress put limits on it. Now, that's a debatable point. I'm not confident that Roberts and Barrett will change their position. But the people in Congress are now moving to criminalize birth tourism, which should have been done decades ago, long time ago. And the interesting thing about that, Glenn, is if we take the both Paths. We could have the constitutional amendment debate going on, but then the legislation could be working its way back to the Supreme Court. There's a feeling among some that we left money on the table here that this was a close vote and that maybe the court would reconsider what it said, particularly if it's a narrower question dealing with birth tourism. We'll have to see. But there's a good reason to do both tracks.
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Glenn Beck
Jonathan, I'm here in Washington, D.C. i know you live here, and I've never seen the city look better. I, I mean, the parks look beautiful, the monuments are beautiful. What is happening on the Mall is remarkable. And because of our press, I'm afraid nobody's going to see this. I mean, it's remarkable what is happening in Washington, D.C. can you give me any hope that we haven't become, at least in Washington, D.C. a city where, if you believe in the flag or the Constitution or the Declaration, that you have to be maga? Do you see hope that we can come back together on these principles?
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Jonathan Turley
I do, Glenn. You know, the, the city looks gorgeous. You know, I was here during the 1976 celebrations when I was a young congressional page. This is far more grand, and it's gorgeous. And I've talked to people, including National Guardsmen who are on the Mall.
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Glenn Beck
They're having a ball.
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Jonathan Turley
I mean, the National Guards personnel are really loving it. People who have come down to the Mall love it. They had a. They had a rodeo on the Mall, for God's sake. I mean, that. It was.
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Glenn Beck
It was so. They're doing it every day. I saw it last night. It's crazy.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Jonathan Turley
And even in this heat, it's like 100 degrees and people are still going out there. But, you know, there is a real crisis of faith in this country. You know, I just wrote this morning on my blog about a guy who's going to be making into Congress. He's unopposed, who just trashed the Declaration of Independence and said that fascism is written into the, the fabric of our country. That's now in vogue on the left. But we can't have. You know, these are voices that have been around since our founding. Now, there's more of them now, but we shouldn't pretend that they're the majority. Most Americans are deeply patriotic. Most are celebrating the Fourth. Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Jonathan, is it. Is it? I mean, because I look at, you know, you write the story of Thomas Paine and it's such an amazing guy. He's 19 years old. These were not old guys in powdered wigs. That we think of just these old crotchet. These were young men that did it. What is the difference? Why is this. Why is this idea of freedom, real, true freedom, that was birthed for the very first time here in America? Why did it attract the people like Thomas Paine or Nathan Hale or any of these guys? It wasn't. It wasn't Thomas Payne that was in 19, I think it was Nathan Hale, right. Who was the one that said, give me liberty or give me death.
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Jonathan Turley
Right. And I think. And so you. You have. I. You definitely have.
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Glenn Beck
What's the difference?
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Jonathan Turley
Well, the. You know, the difference is that this was a different place at its time. You know, you had. John Locke once said that in the beginning, all was America. And he was talking more than just, it's an unexplored territory. This was a place that people could begin anew, new things could happen. And the world was fascinated by us. There was a Frenchman who wrote a book that I talk about Rage in the Republic. And he asked, what then is this American? They viewed us as a virtual new species. And when you talk about figures like Patrick Henry and others, we were incredibly lucky to have them with us. But Thomas Paine is a focus on the book. And some historians have asked me, why. Because he's often dismissed. But Thomas Paine may be the quintessential American. You know, he was incredibly courageous and principled. He was also obnoxious and reckless, and he didn't have many friends, but he was a genius. And he came to this country after failing in everything he'd ever attempted. You know, I spoke to some young students not back, not long ago, and I said, you know, you should think about Thomas Paine. Here's a guy who. Every business he started ended in. In. In bankruptcy. Every job he held, he was fired from, his marriages, collapsed. He ended up in London standing in front of a man as a heaping, smoking pile of human wreckage. Nobody thought anything would come of Thomas Paine except that one man in London, and that was Benjamin Franklin. And he saw something in that wreckage and paid for him to come to the United States. And two years later, Thomas Paine would write Common Sense and be called the penman of the Revolution. He sums up what it is about this country, that this is a place where you can pursue your own manifest destiny. You can be that person, that person that you have dreamt of becoming. And it's in the eyes of people like Thomas Paine, it's in the eyes of people that come to this country to today. You know, when Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. He wrote it anonymously. And John Adams wife wrote him and said, people think you wrote it. And he wrote back. And this was an interesting letter, in my view, because John Adams was not a fan of Thomas Paine later in life. But John Adams wrote back and said, I couldn't have written that book, but I think I know who did. I met a man named Thomas Paine, and he had genius in his eyes. Well, it is, as you say, Glenn, an amazing fortune that we have in this country. We had these incredible individuals coming together at just the right time, at just the right place. Keep in mind, this is the world's first major Enlightenment revolution. The Enlightenment writers have been around for a while. John Locke had written for a long time ago, and that's why Europe really were fascinated, that this people, these groups, this group of people came together at some point on the globe. They had no contact, no connection with each other, no real connection to the land, no stratified, you know, institutions. And they created the first Enlightenment revolution. And they wanted to know, who then is this American? So the question I ask in the book is, can we answer that question today? Who were we then and who are we now? We have to answer that question or we won't have another 250th anniversary. We'll not be here for the 500th. But there's a lot.
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Glenn Beck
Go ahead. No, finish, Finish.
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Jonathan Turley
This crisis of faith is being fueled by people who want to condition us, who want to break that spirit, who want us to accept that on the 250th anniversary, we should trash the Constitution. Law professors, law deans, saying the Constitution has to go, that we have to pack the Supreme Court, they're trying to condition voters to accept radical change in the world's oldest and most successful democratic republic.
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Glenn Beck
So, Jonathan, I only got about 90 seconds, and I know you're talking about a different kind of faith. You're talking about a faith in America, the faith in the experiment itself and the documents itself. But there's also another faith. And, you know, it kills me when people say these were all deists. No deist will ever talk about miracles. And they all, almost all of them, talk about the miracles that they witnessed to bring this whole thing about. And I was wondering, you know, we're having this crisis of faith of who we are. And then I see FIFA come, and I see all of these people online saying how great America is, and it has touched so many Americans. It's renewing our faith. It's like, wow, we're not the bad guys. We're not wrong. We do have something to be proud about. And it has given me such a boost this summer on our 250. And I wonder if that's not kind of a smile from divine providence again on when we really need it. Providence is smiling down and saying, you know, listen to what these people are saying.
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Jonathan Turley
I think it is, Glenn. And the fact is that what made us an enlightenment revolution is a core principle, that our rights come from God, not from the government. That's what John Locke wrote about. That's what they embraced. And it's no really error or oversight. In France, they went after the clergy first. They rejected organized religion. They rejected the protection of faith in the United States. We didn't. We embraced it. And the two revolutions turned out quite differently. We became the world's most successful democracy and France became the terrorist. But we have this moment to redefine ourselves, to remember who we are at this moment. These are revolutionary times, but we remain a revolutionary people. What we stand for is still revolutionary. That we have rights that belong to us as human beings, not granted to us by the government.
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Glenn Beck
Jonathan, I don't mean this as a point of shame for you. I mean this as a compliment. You, you've really affected my thinking in life. You've made me a better man and, and really helped shape my belief in America. And I, and I thank you for all of that and thank you for being on the program today. Thanks.
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Jonathan Turley
Thank you, Glenn. That's so kind of you. Good to be with you.
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck. So Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, she's coming up here in just a second. Please Jason, no drooling. She just tweeted Thune is very disrespectful. Thune is intentionally trying to roll the House. This is why until the Save America act is passed, the House must put it on must pass pieces of legislation. Reconciliation 3.0 can get some stuff done, but it mainly incentivizes there are procedural hurdles in the Senate. The point is the House must utilize all of its tools. She's going to explain that and explain what is going on. She's holding up. She and a few others are holding up everything in the House and I say good for her to join the US From Washington next. If you ever notice how hard it is to find something you can trust. Not a trend, not a logo, not a story, just something made. Well, something made to last. Made by people who actually care whether it holds up a year from now. They're not just trying to sell you something, but they care. And they have the same values. Most clothes, they're not designed to be like they were. You know, maybe they're designed to be good for a few washes and then they quietly fall apart. That's why I have a lot of respect for American Giant. They built their entire company around the idea that clothing should be tough and comfortable last and made here in the United States. And they have spent a fortune bringing machines and manufacturing back to the United States. They work with all American cotton, American factories, American skilled workers who know what they're doing. So buy American today@american-giant.com Glenn that's american-giant.com Glenn Save 20% when used by name for your first purchase. That's american-giant.Com Glenn. Swipe the flame. Pass it on. Crank the game. The fusion of entertainment in life, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America, and welcome. It's Friday, kind of. It's Friday. It's Thursday. But tomorrow, is anybody really gonna work? I mean, I have been working all week. Representative Anna Annapolina Luna is joining us here. In just a second, she's gonna tell us the truth about what's really going on in Washington on so many things. She just wrote, Thune is very disrespectful. Thune is intentionally trying to roll the House. I cannot wait. I love anyone who will take John Thune to the woodshed. Cause he deserves it. We're gonna talk to her about that and so much more here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Chapter. There are some decisions in life where good just isn't enough. It's not really good enough. Choosing a Medicare plan is one of those. There are so many options, so many rules, so many little details that can actually affect your coverage. Your doctors, your prescriptions, and what you pay out of pocket. You get it right, you may never think about it again. You get it wrong, and you're thinking about it constantly. You're dealing with the consequences for a long time. That's exactly why I love Chapter. They take all of that guesswork out. They do not work for the insurance companies. They're not getting paid by the insurance company. They're the only ones that can look at everything through AI. It's a process that they learn. They start with, you learn about your doctors, your medications, your health needs, and then your budget. And they help you find the plan that actually fits your situation. They're not trying just to sign up for something as quickly as possible so they can get paid. I want you to go to Chapter right now. It is a great, great service. Just go to chapter. Hit £250. Say the keyword, chapter. £250. Keyword, chapter. Anna, welcome.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Thanks for having me back.
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Glenn Beck
Glenn, it is so great to have you.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Thank you. Yeah. Especially on the 250th birthday weekend.
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Glenn Beck
No, it's nuts. I'm nuts. It's nuts. I don't remember what. Congressman, I'm sorry to change this subject, but I just noticed your congressional pen there. And I had a congressman walking with me at one point, or maybe it was a senator, and he took it off. The minute he got off the Capitol grounds, he took it off and. And he said, this is the ring. He's like. This is. I feel like the whole.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I think it's Massey.
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Glenn Beck
It was Massey. Yeah.
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Anna Paulina Luna
He's. He's right. I like to Wear it during press interviews for speech and debate. Clause if people try to sue you.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, as long as you're wearing that.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, you know, because you've invited me as my official capacity, so, you know, when I'm talking about people's insider trading and stuff. Yeah.
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Co-host/Producer
Wow.
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Glenn Beck
Wow. Yeah. He took it off. He said, I don't like it because he's like, it's the power of the ring. It's like, it's my precious. My precious.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Anyway, he's not wrong. He's not wrong for a lot of people, you know, especially right now with the political climate, too. You don't want to wear it unless you're, you know, on the Hill because it's a target.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Scary.
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Anna Paulina Luna
It's definitely changed, especially after Charlie. But what's even crazier is that, you know, there's this sentiment of assassination culture where people are actually pushing it and embracing it. And, I mean, we can probably do a whole segment on what just happened in New York with a lot of the DSA candidates getting elected, but, you know, there's been a lot of anti white rhetoric, a lot of. I believe I saw one comment specifically that said gassed. And it was referencing a group, you know, of predominantly Jewish Americans. And so, you know, that type of stuff is. Is really horrifying to see because these people say, oh, well, communism or socialism just hasn't been done correctly.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Anna Paulina Luna
And we know that that's wrong when.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, how many times do we have to go through this? It's the same. It's the same thing. It just doesn't work, generally speaking. You, you, you hopeful?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, yeah. So last time I was talking with you, I think we were talking about the Neville Roy Singham and the network, and you saw that the Department of Justice has a massive investigation and has been working on investigating him, going after him criminally. So, yes, absolutely hopeful.
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Glenn Beck
So I had. Jason was with me. I had the FBI call. How long ago is that? Three months ago, Jason. Oh, yeah, easy. Maybe, Maybe six months ago, the FBI called and said, we'd like to talk to you. And I'm like, do I need to come? Is there a problem?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Always bring a lawyer.
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Glenn Beck
What he said was, jason, what did you do? Yeah, yeah, I did. So I said, sure, come on over to the house. So a couple of agents came over to the house and they were actually, you know, gathering information and they said, you know, so much about these networks. And I said, well, tell me what you guys know. And it was almost nothing.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah, they're. They're New a lot of them, you know, you'd figure that the criminal aspect this gets into far. So I actually have the legislation already back. I'm writing it with Derek Van Orden, who's another member of Congress. And so it's specifically to force influencers to kind of actually go after these networks also for taking money from foreign government. So we know that with the Singham network specifically is getting a lot of funding from China. But now that the Department of Justice is actually doing their job instead of going after, you know, people at abortion clinics that are simply protesting or, you know, Catholics. Right. It's crazy what happens when the government does their job.
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Glenn Beck
And it was crazy to me. As they sat down, Jason and I, they left. And Jason, I were like, oh, my gosh. I mean, and it makes sense, you know, Obama, Biden, they're not investigating any of this stuff. They don't want any investigation on this stuff. And it was amazing to me how little they knew at the time because these are advanced networks. And if the those networks are put on notice, oh, we're coming for you, some of it will go deeper into hiding, but a lot of it will just stop because it's right on the surface.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, a lot of these people, to include the individuals that were knowingly engaged with taking money from foreign governments, are now also under investigation. But you can't just do investigations. There has to be punitive action to it. And so that's going to happen.
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Glenn Beck
Wait, wait, wait. Say that again because that's like conservative porn. You don't hear that all the time.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. So it's going to happen. They're not just investigating to investigate. They are going after these people. And so I have known about the investigation for some time. I just can't talk about it until the DOJ actually does their announcement. But, you know, this goes back to. Yeah. Even with the pen. Even with the pen. Sen.
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Glenn Beck
I think the pen gives you permission to sit here.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, depending on who's, who's interpreting the rules.
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Glenn Beck
Right, right, right.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Senator Rubio at the time when he was on Senate Intelligence actually had written a letter, was following the Singham network. Senator Rick Scott actually also just did a letter to say, hey, some of these organizations, like Code Pink, we need to remove the 501c3 status of them.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Also to Senator Jim Banks. So we have a lot of good conservative senators that are following this. But, you know, I mean, can we please go to the Senate because I got a lot to share.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let's go.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. So I You know, I want to just be really clear about something. We're on America's 250th birthday right now, our birthday celebration, basically this entire year. And we control the House, the Senate and the White House. And yet you have a group of four Republicans in Senate. And really, John Thune, who has every ability to enforce the talking filibuster and just doesn't want to do it, Mike
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Glenn Beck
Lee is beside himself.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, but the thing is, is that you cannot, like, if you're going to continue the cycle of insanity, then you can't complain about it. But that's why I'm taking such a hard time, frontline position on what I'm doing right now with, by the way, other members of Congress. This is not just my fight. I mean, members of the Freedom Caucus, Representative Tim Burchett, Max Miller, all these members are saying, hey, hold up, we have the ability to, in the text of the National Defense Authorization act, put these Save America Acts. And yet why are we not doing it? And so I'm not voting for the rule. They're not going to vote for the rule. And the excuse that I got from leadership, actually, I got a call from Steve Scalise, and he said we can't put it in because it's considered not germane. That means it has nothing to do with the bill. First of all, there's been many cases this year in the 119th Congress where they've done other legislation that you could argue was not germane, and they stuck things in. And secondly, as a veteran, if you are telling me that voter ID and proof of citizenship and everything else in TV is not important to national defense and security, maybe you haven't been paying attention.
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Glenn Beck
It is. And so we have, especially with, especially with what's happening with China, especially with, with what's happening with Iran.
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Anna Paulina Luna
It's not just China and Iran. It is Chuck Schumer saying that he wants to give citizenship to millions of illegal people. Here it is the fact that it doesn't matter if it's one or a hundred or a thousand cases of voter fraud. Why would you not want to secure that? It is the fact that you have, you know, I call them blue and ons. But these Democrats that are saying, oh, the, you know, the Trump machine's going to steal the election, you hear this crazy concept that they're still, that they stole the last election. Well, let's play devil's advocate. If you really think the election's going to be stolen, don't you want voter id? But like, even aside from that, even aside from party politics, black, white, Hispanic, Democrat, Republican, independent, men, women, we all want voter id, period. And so I'm not going to. I don't care if they go on television and trash me. Everyone who's paying attention knows that if we don't stick this in the NDA, if we don't stick it in fisa, if we don't try everything, if we don't try in reconciliation, it will never become law. And that's not. That's not an option.
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Glenn Beck
Is the president for you on this or against you?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Because I. I won't speak for the president, but what I will say is that I have been one of President Trump's very few from the beginning, protectors and defenders, and I was with him in New York City, and I will continue to have his back. And there are some members of Congress that are using this fight right now for some personal reasons and gains. I think he's addressing them, not me.
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Glenn Beck
Can you tell me what the hell is wrong with Thune? People ask me all the time, why won't they do it? What are they gaining by not doing it, other than just continuing to play the game?
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Anna Paulina Luna
You know, John Thune's GOP went to censure him. Then they said, well, if we censure him, it's going to give the Democrats a win. I would argue that, you know, when you have someone that's failing to deliver on one of the promises that the Republican Party made to the American people, then that's a failure in itself. And when you, in the military, you learn when you have poor leadership, you don't blame the enlisted. You take responsibility as a commanding officer. So where's the responsibility taking of the Senate? Then? You have these other members that don't care. So this idea in the Senate is, and you can see it, they were more concerned about putting the automatic win for some of the lawsuits that they had for their cases than they were debating Save America. They're more concerned about dog parades than Save America. They all went on recess and vacation. And then they're attacking Mike Lee behind closed doors and Senator Scott because he's fighting. I don't care. I don't want to be in Senate. And what I will tell you is part of the freeing, part of, I think my mentality in this is that I don't care if I'm here for 10 years or not. So, like, I can do what's right and necessary.
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Glenn Beck
So let me tell you something. When you actually don't care, because that's that's what terrified people. When I was at the network level, that terrified them because I didn't care if I was on Fox for another day or cnn. It didn't matter to me. I don't care. When you actually can say I don't care and people believe you, the power that comes with that is remarkable because people don't know what to do with you. There's no way to intimidate you. You're like, go ahead, I don't care.
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Anna Paulina Luna
The best advice I ever got was from Jim Jordan. Two things. The first thing he said is always travel with your spouse because, you know, you're a young woman. And they'll try to spread rumors, which I do always travel with my spouse and my child as well. And then the other thing was is if you promise to do what you said you were gonna do on the campaign trail, it's remarkable how easy it will be for you at this job. And I promise to do this to every single one of my voters. And you know what? When people go to the press and they trash me, I'm not going to bring up their stock trades that look remarkably similar to insider trading. I'll let the American people do that. But what I will focus on is my parliamentary tools in my toolkit. And guess what? You want my vote. Put the text of the Save America act and the National Defense Authorization Act. Stop giving me excuses. Stop pulling parliamentary procedure. Stop lying to the American people and saying that we're obstructing. We are fighting. You all promised to do this when you guys got elected again.
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Glenn Beck
I have to go back. Why won't they?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, there is some concern, I think in the House that Senate would have to take a tough vote on the NDA, but I don't care.
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Glenn Beck
Oh my gosh.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Let's send it over. Let's help our frontline members that depend on this. Let's help them get elected. Cuz guess what? The midterms are only a few months away. Let's give the American people faith in their vote and the election process. Let's deliver for the President. But more importantly, if the Senate's going to then make the decision to strip that out, let them offer the amendment to strip it out. Let them take that vote and let John Thune say, this is what my chamber did. But it is not my job. And I refuse to run cover for the Senate and I refuse to run cover for those in the House that are trying to protect the Senate.
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Glenn Beck
Do, do you think the GOP Is anyone learning the Lesson from Cornyn. And what happened that the GOP voter is just done. We're not playing the same game anymore.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I think the Senate made a very terrible mistake in in trying to back candidates that they knew would fail because they live up here. They've gotten too complacent in their circle. And that's why the founding fathers never wanted politics to be a full time job. But they'll just have to learn the hard way. And I look forward to the president's convention because some of these people won't be able to show their face. And it's not about shaming people, it's about calling them out for promising and failing to deliver more.
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Glenn Beck
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Anna Paulina Luna
That roll when we get back.
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Glenn Beck
So what is the plan from here?
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Anna Paulina Luna
So the plan is, is that there was a procedural maneuver that the floor leader decided to do. So he voted against the rule with us so that he could call up the vote again and potentially try to save it. But there's no saving the rule in the current form that it was written. And I want to be really clear about something. The Republican Party leadership knew where they're at with this vote weeks out and they didn't want to negotiate. And so it's going to fail. I'm very comfortable with that. I've already made my peace with it. But so if they want the NDA to go through, they're going to have to attach Save America act to it. By the way, the National Defense Authorization act isn't actually due till September. And then I want to just argue this one point in that they're saying, well, we can do stuff in reconciliation. I think we should do all of the above. Every single piece of legislation going to the Senate needs to have Save America attack, force them to strip it out every single time, force them to take that vote. But also in reconciliation, there's only certain things that we can do because reconciliation has to have a monetary tie to it. And so we can incentivize states, for example, to purge their voter rolls, we can incentivize states to require voter id. But you really think that places like New York and California are going to say that they're going to do that? They're just going to get their members of Senate to get the appropriations and they'll go around it.
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Glenn Beck
How concerned are you about this? 66% new poll out, 66% of Conservative and moderate Democrats have no problem with the socialists in their party.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Now that that goes into the foreign influence operation. If the DOJ continues doing what they're going to do and brings criminal action, which I think they will against some of these people, and then we pass the legislation to prevent influencers from taking money from foreign governments and then, you know, we meet with X meta in, in identifying at least accounts that are foreign run accounts. So like X did something brilliant where they were actually able to show where these accounts were being run out of. And you saw a lot of the biggest critics or even sometimes posing as right wing accounts were actually being run out of Africa and Asia and like just not, not American citizens. That will help. But ultimately it's about whether or not you can articulate and debate those ideas. And my concern is that you have people that are so upset with the Republican Party, but like what have you done to actually change it? Have you run for office, have you gotten involved? Or are you sitting online complaining? And if you're sitting online and complaining, that's not going to fix the problem. What I loved about Charlie is while everyone was complaining, he was doing. He would go to the campuses, he would have the debates and then the Success came with it. And people seem to think that, you know, they forget that. And so what I would say is that you have to take action, you know, but also, too, our country is still not as bad as what these people say does. Look at the. Like, the videos of the Europeans coming, and they're like, smuggling out ranch dressing and tea.
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Glenn Beck
I think this is divine. I think this is divine providence giving us hope when we were losing it.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. And it's. You know, you can track politics and it can be kind of negative, but, like, look at us compared to other countries, and it's amazing. And what I will say is that, you know, you have the administration, some people didn't want the peace deal in Iran to work. That's too bad for them. It's going to hold up, and we're going to get the peace deal with Russia, Ukraine, and that will be President Trump's legacy.
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Glenn Beck
But you think we're gonna get the peace deal. Why do you say that?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Because you're wearing the pin.
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Glenn Beck
She's clutching the pin. Do I. My precious?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. I think that based on conversations and what I will say is that a lot of people are gonna be upset about that in Congress because they're not gonna be making too much money anymore on their stock portfolios. But that's too bad. That's not what the plan is. And so I'm happy that President Trump is at the helm. And what I will say is that a lot of people can speculate, but they don't actually know what's happen. Internal conversations.
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Glenn Beck
I was talking to a prime minister over in Europe recently, and he said, you know, we were just having dinner.
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Anna Paulina Luna
And he said casually, just having dinner with the Prime Minister.
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Glenn Beck
And he said. He said there were. There are three mafias. The industrial.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Military, industrial complex.
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Glenn Beck
Yep. That one. The pharmaceuticals.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Healthcare industry and the press. He said, they are actual mob families.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And they should be. They should be treated as such.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. And they're everywhere. I noticed when I started engaging and saying, like, hey, I support the president's doing with the peace talk with Russia, Ukraine, and then a lot of EU members were kind of, you know, coming at me. Then I found out one was a convicted or, like, had some, like, child conviction. And so I called him out for that. He got quiet real quick on that. But, you know, there's a lot of these people that, you know, you can just see it. It's Blaine. And again, you have to be able to push back. But, you know, is that really good for ratings on the news? No, it's not. People don't want to talk about a peace deal. People want to talk about, you know, the stuff that's going to get them clicks.
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Announcer
I do.
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Glenn Beck
And I think Americans really?
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Jonathan Turley
You do?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. You're different.
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Announcer
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
I think people would love to hear it. Always so good to see you. Thank you so much for coming in, making the time and happy Independence Week.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Happy Independence Week.
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Announcer
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Thank you. Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna from the great state of Florida. We'll be back with our final thoughts before the end of the program. This is the last show of the week for our 250th year. NMLS 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. All right. Financial strength isn't just about how much money you make. You know, don't, don't get me wrong here. Income really matters. I know a lot of people that have made, you know, a lot of money who still feel like they were falling behind while others with much more modest incomes, you know, have, you know, have their finances under control. The difference isn't always what's coming in, it's what's going out and how much of that is going to interest. So I want you to take a look at Smart Equity, the loan from American Financing. If you have equity in your home, you may be able to use it to pay off your high interest debt without touching the low mortgage rate that you might have, you know, locked in years ago. You don't want to touch that thing. Keep the mortgage that you like and get the stability of a fixed rate loan instead of a varia rate heloc. And you could put, you know, a lot of that hard earned money towards that interest and pay that down, no upfront fees. To find out what you qualify for, call 8009-0624-4080-0906-2440. It's americanfinancing.net
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Glenn Beck
So welcome back. It is our last half hour here before we go to celebrate. And we'll be back on Monday again From from Washington, D, D.C. anna Paulina Luna decided to stay with us because Jason roped her in for something wholly inappropriate, the Ballas Rhino. And so then we started talking about, you know, UFOs or UAPs. And are you happy with what, the progress we're making on this.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah, mainly because I. Under the last administration, we are being obstructed. And really, until President Trump gave the green light for them to start releasing stuff, stuff we would not have been able to talk about or share some of the investigations that have been conducted by the federal government. We wouldn't have been able to talk about some of the footage that you're now seeing.
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Glenn Beck
Do you. Can I ask you. And I'm not asking you for details. I'm asking you, do you know something that has not been released? Do you know things that you feel the American people should know?
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Anna Paulina Luna
There will be an announcement soon on one other kind of factor to all this, but it's. It's nothing that I. I think it'll just be kind of give the assurance that people will understand that the phenomena is real. But, no, I mean, for the most part, everything that we have been able to discuss in a skiff, we can now talk about publicly. And what I will say is, without a doubt, the phenomena is real. The phenomena is real.
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Glenn Beck
And so are you leaning one way or another, foreign or not earthly?
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Anna Paulina Luna
I think when you talk about these things, I don't say not earthly because we don't know.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, okay.
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Anna Paulina Luna
They're here or not. But what I would say is that energy is real. And a lot of these, you can see in some of them orbs, they can't explain it. And so I think that gets into a deeper discussion. But when you are talking about this, when I first started kind of on this journey with Representative Burleson and Representative Burchett, Representative Jared Moskowitz and Representative Gates, a lot of people said, you are going to ruin your career over this. It is one of the most widely questioned things now. And I think this gets into a deeper issue of, you know, do you think that we're the only. Are you.
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Glenn Beck
So that's what I was going to ask you. Instead of saying, do you know something? Let me say this. Is this a defense or is this a spiritual question? Which is the bigger question? Defense or philosophical? Spiritual.
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Anna Paulina Luna
With pin on. Defense and national security with pin off, I think.
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Glenn Beck
What is pin on? Pin off. Oh, okay.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Pin not enough.
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Glenn Beck
The ring. Okay, I got it. I got it.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. Pin off. I think that it will really kind of make people ask the fundamental question of do you believe that we. Well, first of all, do you believe in God or not? And then do you believe that we're the only creation? I don't understand. Not speculating on nefarious or bad.
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Glenn Beck
I I don't understand how people are saying that this is going to make everybody question their faith. It's not gonna. If I find out that there are other beings, why would it question faith?
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Anna Paulina Luna
There was a group of pastors, I don't even know who these pastors are, that said that they had been briefed and that was wholeheartedly not true. And Eric Burleson put out a statement to actually say, I don't know why my. My comments are being taken out of contents. I context. I think a lot of people that knew the phenomena was real. And I'm not saying that these pastors did this, but what I am saying is I have. We have come across people in our investigations that were knowingly planting false information to discredit it, that were then stonewalling obstructive people that have lied. I mean, if you.
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Glenn Beck
From inside the house, from inside the
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Anna Paulina Luna
government, however, people within the sector on UAP investigations, people within the chambers and intelligence, et cetera. The former director of Arrow very famously attacked our witnesses and us. And then the new director of arrow is 180 different and has actually been doing an incredible job.
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Glenn Beck
Tulsi. Tulsi Gabbard, you. I mean, but she's. She's heroic. Yeah, Heroic. What she's done.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah. And I think a lot of people, you notice that they're trying to attack her. I mean, let's just like look at what she declassified on Fauci. That's insane. Literally. Fauci is Dr. Mengele. I don't know how you can't compare it. We're actually looking at doing a hearing on the declassified files, but that's what it is. We just had a hearing on MK Ultra. Some of the stuff on that was explosive.
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Glenn Beck
But even with what Tulsi aberration Paperclip, the worst mistake this country ever made bringing these doctors in after the Nuremberg trials.
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Anna Paulina Luna
They gave them. They gave them a pass, but I mean, that was, you know, so we're correcting historical wrongs here, which is, I think, very important. But if you.
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Glenn Beck
Better than tearing down statues, better than that.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Correcting the historical wrongdoings of the past to move forward in a good direction. But also too, you know, with what that Tulsi just released on the Russia collusion front. And like think about this. We had such. And we're going to tie this to the peace talk stuff right now. Up until really Clinton and Bush, we had open dialogue and discussion with the Russian government, which, by the way, we talked to China. China sends spy balloons over the country. Why would we not talk to Russia, another nuclear superpower. Then people say, oh, this is Russian propaganda. No, I'm sorry, this is foreign policy. Big difference. And diplomatic talk. But then you see that Obama put together the team to legally spy on Trump. They use Russia as a scapegoat. Fracturing, permanently fracturing. And convincing half the country that we need to hate and basically tried to bait us into a war with Russia. And then you see that Tulsi declassifies that the funding that was supposed to go to Ukraine is going to Joe Biden's reelection campaign. On House Oversight, we find out about the laundering of funds from. From Burisma, a Ukrainian company, to Joe Biden's family directly. I mean, crazy corruption.
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Glenn Beck
We all knew this.
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Anna Paulina Luna
But it's declassified now. We have proof. And now, you know, this comes at an interesting time because President Trump is trying to get the peace negotiate. I'm not. I'm not pro Russia, pro Ukraine. I'm pro America. We can't continue funding this war. And by the way, we should be leading with peace talks, not Tomahawks. I mean, this is common sense. So, yes, Tulsi did incredible as Odie and I. And I hope that people can understand that. What? She's declassified. Maybe people don't like her for personal reasons. I like her. I like her greatly. What she did is a great service to this country. And I hope that people understand the magnitude of that.
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Glenn Beck
You see how.
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Co-host/Producer
Who is.
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Glenn Beck
It's coming after the new dni. No. Yeah. Hillary Clinton leading the. Today, the story is she's leading this campaign to get him out because he's just not qualified. And I'm like, you know what? Since when have you had a problem with somebody who is an inept. You have a problem that they're going to look for things you don't want found.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I was at the deposition for her with Jeffrey Epstein and she could not be more different than her husband because I was there for Bill Clinton and Hillary and she's just not a nice lady.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, she's nasty.
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Anna Paulina Luna
He's not a likable person. Very and truly, truly just not a nice lady. Bill, I could see why he was president. He like just interesting kind of seeing how he kind of navigated everything. But, you know, her attacking Pulte, that's a badge of honor.
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Glenn Beck
I agree. I agree. Congresswoman, can I switch topics over to
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Co-host/Producer
the memorandum of understanding really quick?
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Anna Paulina Luna
On Iran.
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Glenn Beck
On Iran. I think our Glenn and I have, I think, been on the same page here as we've been saying, let's just like, take a step back and wait to see what they're doing on this.
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Anna Paulina Luna
But the mainstream, very smart approach, imagine.
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Announcer
Right.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, why are they going to tell us? They're not telling us. I mean, we're not in the rooms. We don't know. So let's trust the people we elected until they prove that they're not trustworthy. And Donald Trump has not proven to me at least, to not be trustworthy.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Correct. And you're also seeing this effort to try to pit Marco Rubio and JD Vance against one another, which is totally false. Marco's brilliant. JD's brilliant.
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Glenn Beck
And they work together well.
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Anna Paulina Luna
They work together well. The President has a good team going. But not to mention, no one also gives Kushner and Witkoff enough credit it, because they are also part of those discussions. And what I would say is that going back to the kind of foreign influence operation and really trying to destroy this country, first of all, no influencer is going to be able to give you a scoop on what's happening with private negotiations. Secondly, anyone who's ever going to advocate for war is always on the wrong side of history. It is literally in the Bible. What does it say about the peacemakers?
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Glenn Beck
Blessed.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Exactly. So I'll take the biblical word over that. But aside from that, what I would say is that, you know, you have to change the method of insanity with negotiation if it didn't work the first time. And so they are trying a different approach. And I think it will hold up. You're always going to have factions that are resisting. But if you look at what's happened recently, you know, there is incentive in incentivizing factors to get Iran to play ball. And if you look at what President Trump did with his Board of Peace, having countries like Russia involved, etcetera, you think that that's not a factor in making sure that the peace deal holds up. I mean, do people not understand that President Trump has a very good, respected. And respected is a keyword position on the world stage with these other global leaders. And so what I will say is that I'm going to back him fully on this and I will take on the entire machine effect.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay, back in just a minute with a final thought. First, let me tell you about American. Sorry. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. If you were starting from scratch today, would you make the same decisions? Good question. Good question. Something you should. You should ask about anything. Would I buy the Same car? Would I use the same bank? Would I choose the same insurance company? Because sometimes we don't just stick with something. Sometimes we do just stick with something because it's what we're used to. It's what we've always had. Your cell phone company deserves the same question. If you're starting from scratch today, would you choose a company that was sending money to Planned Parenthood? I wouldn't. I don't like the fact that they're taking some of my money and putting it to things that I think are very destructive. I'd rather do business with something like Patriot Mobile. Patriotmobile.com Beck call 972 Patriot use the promo code Beck. Get a free month of service. Patriotmobile.com Beck or call 972 Patriot promo code Beck make the switch.
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Announcer
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Glenn Beck
We don't need to agree on everything, just enough to stand shoulder to shoulder. Glenn Beck is back in a minute. Hey, you don't want to miss. If you're anywhere in the D.C. area and you're looking for something to do 4th of July. These fireworks are truly going to be once in a lifetime. You'll. You may never see anything like this again. 3,000 to 8,000 shells is what a normal fireworks show is for a large city. These are 850,000 shells. There will be as many as 2 to 5,000 fireworks in the sky at the end at the same time from eight stations. Nothing like this has ever been done. Normally they spend about a hundred thousand dollars on the fireworks. This through private donations and everything else is $1.6 million in a fight. You will never. It's a world record fireworks show. Never been done. You don't want to miss this.
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Jason
Is this going to be on the mall?
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Glenn Beck
I don't know what you're talking about.
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Jason
Okay, so Annapolis Luna loves you because she didn't ask you the question. You're supposed to. You got to tell us the mall story.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Jason
We got four minutes. Let's go.
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Glenn Beck
I made. I want to preface this with. I've never said this story out loud before because it's so humiliating. Okay. I'm. I'm 18 years old. I'm from Seattle. I've never seen a beltway. I told you that I'm on the. I have to go, I have to go into, you know, Maryland. I'm in Maryland. I was just get on to 495North. All of a sudden it says welcome to Virginia. I know that. South. How am I on? Wait a minute, I'm on 495 South. I get off the exit, I turn around, I get back onto 495North. Then all of a sudden I see welcome to Virginia, 495 South. What the hell is happening? Okay, so I'm, I'm out of my element. I'm out of my element. I come for an interview here in Washington D.C. and I'm going to work for WPGC. And it's. We're snowed in and so I don't see anything where we pick us up at the airport. The program director says, we're going right to the studios. We're going to probably have to sleep at the studios. Record snowstorm. It's me, the afternoon guy. Bruce Kelly and the program director were trapped in the studios for three days. I'm on the air talking about a city I don't know anything about in this snowstorm and doing shows every six hours for three days. So it starts to thaw and everything's opening back up. And the program director says, hey, before you leave, you can't come to Washington without going to the mall. Now I'm from the West, I'm stupid. And I'm think, I don't say anything, but I think to myself, why would I want to go to a frickin mall? I want to see the monuments. But he's like insistent, you gotta go to the mall. And I'm like, I've seen a mall before. I don't need to see Macy's. And so he takes me into Washington. I'm really kind of, I'm just stewing in it. Why are we driving to the mall? I've got an hour. I want to see Lincoln. So we get, we get to the mall and we're standing there and there are all the monuments. And he said, here's the mall. I start looking for an entrance.
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Jason
Oh, honey.
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Glenn Beck
And I'm like, what a great country. We've built a mall underneath the monuments. Oh, he looked at me like, I can't hire you. I can't hire you. You are too stupid. He gave me the job because he was desperate. But that, what I love about this
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Jason
is that earlier you told us you were 19. Now you say you're 18.
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Glenn Beck
I think I was 12. I was 12. Yeah, I was 19 years old. I was not 18, but I want to believe I was 12. I mean I now I think of that. I mean but you don't know that. You don't. What else do you call the mall? You don't call the mall that.
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Jason
Why do we call it the mall?
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Glenn Beck
I don't know why we call it a Mall.
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Jason
You're Mr. History.
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Glenn Beck
I don't know. I don't have all the answers. I barely knew it wasn't an Ann Taylor underneath Lincoln. I had no idea. An Ann Taylor?
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Announcer
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Let's be serious. 18, 19 year old Gledbeck was really looking forward to going to sparrow. Yeah, I was, I was. They are making pizza at a sparrow underneath Washington's monument.
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Jason
Do you think they had Hot Topic back then? You know, back in the 50s?
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Glenn Beck
Oh, excuse me. What did you just say? We are way running out of time. Way running out of time. Are you guys staying for the fireworks? Yeah. You are. Of course you are.
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Jason
I am. I have waiting on my invite from you to watch with the family but having. I don't know, my phone's been a little maybe myself.
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Glenn Beck
So the person who just made me tell the mall story is now saying watch with the family. Not sure I can make that happen. Yeah, if we can get you. Because I, I think we have, I think we're supposed to be in a. I don't know, I think we were invited by somebody to go sit with them. So I will make sure that we're sitting.
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Jason
I want to watch it from a refrigerator box.
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Glenn Beck
Oh my gosh. I want to. You know what the thing is, it is I want to be up near the Washington Monument because they say, I mean wherever you are you're going to have a good view. If you're over anywhere in this area. But you really, if you're in this area, please don't miss this. This has never been done before. It's Donald Trump going, nobody thought they could do a bigger thing than China. They've. China has never come close to this. Nobody has exploded this many fireworks ever before. It is 11 times bigger than the biggest fireworks show ever done in America. I can't even imagine the scope of that.
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Co-host/Producer
I've seen some big fireworks place like
- [126:01]
Glenn Beck
Disney or something like that, but I can't. Some of these fireworks, they're saying, I haven't, don't have confirmation but they're saying some of the big one, they're 16 inch shells. Some of them, they say they would be as big as four football fields across. That's a quarter of a mile across for one. And they say there will be thousands in the air at the same time. 45 minute show.
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Jason
God bless America.
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Glenn Beck
God bless them, America. So be safe. Be safe. Celebrate. Check out the stuff that we have on Torch. You can listen to the American story if you're driving anywhere. Get all your love. Love your history, love your country. Happy Independence Week.