Glenn Beck (68:39)
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. David Barton is on with us here in just a second. He is somebody, one of his guests, a representative from Texas was on because Texas. And I think it was one of Barton's guests. No, I'm sorry, one of Joe Rogan's guests. Yes. Was taking David Barton down because of what he's trying to do and what we're trying to do about putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms. And I think it's Arkansas and Texas have passed a law, we told you about it a couple days ago, where the, if, if the public provides a copy and it's got to be a certain kind of copy of the Ten Commandments, it has to be posted in the classroom. So we Put together something where you can get 30 copies. The average school has about 30 classrooms. You get 30 copies exactly the way the law dictates it has to be. It's a dollar per copy and you just bring it to the classrooms and they have to post it. Well, this one particular representative in Texas just said David Barton is a clown and all these kinds of things. Doesn't know what he's talking about. David is pretty well versed in, in constitutional history. And I'd like to see a little debate between the representative and David Barton on the Constitution. But we're gonna take him to task on this and see if the facts hold up. We'll do that coming up in just a second. The DNI released today, about a couple of hours before we went on a bombshell revelation about Barack Obama. I personally think, well, I know Donald Trump knew it was coming out today, and I think that's why he goaded President Obama into speaking because it just proves what Barack Obama said is untrue. And it is literally a bombshell. We're going to talk about it tonight. It's available@glenn beck.com but it is probably the big story of the day. But I want to talk directly to, to Democrats, to people who don't vote like I do. Okay. Is there, is there anything that is a line, is what if this story is not about Donald Trump, it's not about Barack Obama, but it's about a line that no government, yours are mine is allowed to cross. Because what has been revealed, and not by fringe blogs, not by right wing media, but somebody who used to be a Democrat, voted for Hillary. Did she vote for Hillary in the end? I think she did. She voted for Hillary Clinton, I think in the end. But she was a Democrat, a loyal Democrat now is a Director of National Intelligence and somebody who you just cannot argue, loves the country and will serve the country. She is in the most dangerous position outside of the presidency of the United States States. She is the one that stands in the doorway of all of the spooks in America. And these are people who will just kill people in the middle of the night and go have a sandwich afterwards. And what she revealed is that top intelligence officials under Obama knew there was no credible evidence of a Russian vote tampering in 2016. If you listen to today's podcast or you watch tonight's show, you'll see that I know that people are saying, well, no, it's apples and oranges. It's, it's really not in today's release. Proves that they knew that the public information or the information that they had did not match the facts. They changed the official assessments, they held back things that would have shown that actually the puppet probably would have been Hillary Clinton. And Russia knew that because of the DNC hack. And they didn't, they didn't change all of this to uphold democracy, but to shape it. Not to inform the people, but to steer the people. And they've done it over and over and over again. So let me ask you, if Trump had done this, if his, his intelligence department rewrote intelligence to frame Biden, would you say that was justified? I'm asking our side. I wouldn't. Would you? No, no, no. If the facts aren't there, the facts aren't there. I want to know the truth and I want to be able to trust the people who, you know are sitting there with a button. So I would say if, if Donald Trump had done this to try to thwart Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, it would have been a couple you, in fact, you on the streets would call it fascism and you would be right if he did it. So why is it different when the facts target the people you like? When does the truth become optional? Because I don't believe it does to be on the right side of history. The truth is never optional because when you make exceptions, that's when real freedom and democracy fails and falls. You know, he's a rapist, he's a Nazi, he tried to overthrow the government. Now maybe you believe that, you know, I don't know, I don't think so. But maybe you're right. But even if all of that were true, it still would not justify lying to the public, changing intelligence, weaponizing that intelligence and undermining due process. Never. Because you don't have, you have a dictatorship, you have an out of control government. You cannot become the things you despise to stop the things you despise. And if you think that they will do it just this time and not other times, they're showing the pattern. And if you think they won't do it to you, they always do. This is a warning from history. You know, when the, in the Roman Republic at the very end, citizens were told that Julius Caesar had to be stopped for the good of, of the Republic. So emergency powers were all granted, rules were broken, exceptions were made. And then when the threat was gone, the power remained, it didn't go away. All those exceptions to all those rules and they, there you have the fall of the Roman Republic, Weimar Germany, both the left and the Right. Believe the other side was destroying the country. See if this sounds familiar. So they violated every democratic norm they claim to defend. And in that mutual rage, the middle collapsed. And in that vacuum, Hitler rose. And then they were in trouble. Well, now half the country doesn't trust the elections. The other half doesn't trust the dissent. And both sides, the other. The both sides think the other side is not just wrong, but evil. This is one of the things that is coming out in these documents. This is what the Russians were actually trying to do to pit us against each other so we tear each other apart. So what happens when truth no longer matters? Only team matters, Only punishment. Well, I think, you know, when you read a headline that confirms your site is right, do you feel relief? Do you feel, you know, glee that the other side is hurting? Because if you feel the pleasure that the other side is hurting, you've already left the Republic. And I know that's hard, but I. I want to ask people who don't vote like me. I'm not asking you to vote like me. I'm not even asking you to believe me. I'm asking you to care when any side, your side, my side, left, right, center, uses power dishonestly. And separating from all the other times, I can agree with you. Yep, this been going on, both sides are doing. But unless we stop and say this cannot stand, we start fresh today, this cannot stand. And I stand with you. If Donald Trump or anybody on the right violates the Constitution or violates what our democracy is built on. I'm with you. We cannot go back in time. We have to. We can't change that. We can't worry about the future. We can only take care of the now. So what are we going to do right now? Forget about the past, Forget about the future. What can we do that is right right now? Because once the story stops being about politics and starts being about us, we can see the problems clearer. But when the truth no longer matters, power doesn't need to ask our permission ever again. And that's what we're all trying to avoid, isn't it? So I would just ask because honestly, I'm at a point in my life and I think you're there, too. I don't trust anybody. I don't trust anybody. And you know, so many people in the country would say, I don't trust you. And I'm not asking for your trust. I am just a guy like you trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Now, I probably have more information than the average Joe, because I've done this now for 25 years or 30 years just investigating stuff. I have a team that is well trained, that looks into all these things that I, that I. We fight with each other because we know what we want to believe. And we're like, wait, stop it. When somebody on the team is like, yeah, but, but this makes more sense. Yes, but does the evidence say that or does your gut say that? And that's when I'll say, here's what my gut tells me. I don't say this is the truth. I say, here's what my gut tells me. Here something seems wrong and here's what I think is happening. That's not true. That's speculation. But when I can show you the facts, you've got to deal with the facts. And nobody wants to deal with this document in, in your lifetime, Stu. Have you ever heard of a, a top, top, top, top secret document where it could not be held digitally and only 5 copies were made? They were in the top, the highest level security safe and only maybe a handful of people ever saw this document and it was released relatively in real time. This is not something from 1960, this is something from 19 or from 2016. Have you ever seen a document like that released ever?