Democrats Are Acting Like Alcoholics. It's Time to Take Their Keys | Guests: AG Andrew Bailey & Joshua Weigel | 7/3/24

This episode delves into the perceived failures of the Democratic Party, drawing parallels between their actions and the behavior of alcoholics who refuse to acknowledge their issues. The discussion focuses on the consequences of this denial for American politics and society.

1. The Democratic Party's refusal to address President Biden's cognitive decline is likened to an alcoholic's denial.
2. There is a growing distrust in government institutions, fueled by perceived manipulation and control.
3. The centralized control exercised by the Democratic Party is seen as a threat to American democracy.
4. The need for American citizens to take responsibility and address these issues is emphasized.
5. The discussion highlights the dangers of allowing unchecked power and the importance of accountability in leadership.

1: Opening Remarks

The episode begins with Glenn Beck expressing frustration over the current state of American politics, particularly the Democratic Party's handling of President Biden's fitness for office.

• Glenn Beck: "It's like dealing with an alcoholic who won't give up the keys."

2: Biden's Cognitive Decline

Discussion on the visible signs of President Biden's cognitive decline and the Democratic Party's refusal to address it.

• Glenn Beck: "If they would have done the responsible thing a year ago, they wouldn't be in this situation."

3: Centralized Control and Its Dangers

Beck and his guests explore the dangers of centralized control within the Democratic Party and its impact on American democracy.

• Stu: "Yet again, centralized control fails."

4: The Role of the Media

Critique of the media's role in covering up or downplaying President Biden's issues, comparing it to the complicity seen in other authoritarian regimes.

• Glenn Beck: "The press is being used by somebody. I don't know who is in charge of anything anymore."

5: The Intervention America Needs

Beck calls for an intervention to address the problems within the Democratic Party, emphasizing the need for citizens to take action.

• Glenn Beck: "Only the alcoholic can stop the alcoholic behavior. We can point it out, but we are not going to allow them to burn down our house."

1. Stay Informed: Regularly update yourself on political developments and question the narratives presented by mainstream media.
2. Engage in Discussions: Talk with others about the current political climate and encourage open, honest conversations about the issues facing the country.
3. Support Accountability: Advocate for transparency and accountability in government, and hold leaders responsible for their actions.
4. Vote Wisely: Use your vote to support candidates who prioritize integrity, accountability, and the well-being of the nation.
5. Promote Decentralization: Support policies that reduce centralized control and empower local governance and individual freedoms.
6. Protect Free Speech: Defend the First Amendment and the free exchange of ideas, especially when those ideas challenge the status quo.
7. Foster Community: Build strong, supportive communities that can stand together in the face of political challenges.
8. Prepare for Change: Be ready to adapt and take action as the political landscape evolves, ensuring that your values are represented in the future of the country.

Glenn and Stu further break down Biden’s mental decline as more Democrats are allegedly waking up to the issues the elderly president has. Glenn talks about the importance of freedom of speech and its ability to hold back a radical government. Missouri AG Andrew Bailey joins to discuss his lawsuit against New York City regarding allegedly interfering with the 2024 presidential election. Glenn accuses the Democrats of engaging in "alcoholic behavior" with their destructive habits. "Sound of Hope" director, producer, and writer Joshua Weigel joins to discuss the true story of an East Texas church that adopted 77 foster care children. Glenn and Stu discuss the breaking NY Times story that Biden told an ally he is considering discontinuing his campaign. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay joins to announce his new venture that forces people with conflicting ideologies to have civil discussions. Glenn reads through the Declaration of Independence ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.

People

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, George Stephanopoulos, Hunter Biden

Companies

Democratic Party, The New York Times

Books

None

Guest Name(s):

AG Andrew Bailey, Joshua Weigel

Content Warnings:

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Glenn Beck
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This is the Glenn Beck program, hello America. I don't know how today's show is going to go because I have a cold. And stu, I don't know if you remember this. Do you remember in when was it just seems like yesterday. I think it was 2011 that I was in Israel and I flew to Israel. I still haven't fully recovered from the jet lag on that. So really, you've had multiple years, a.

Stu
Bunch of vacations, and you've been prepping for weeks for this show.

Glenn Beck
You're not ready for it yet.

Well, no, I'm not saying I'm not ready. I'm saying I have a cold and still a little jet lag from my trapped over 2011. So yeah, so I don't know how it could go. Don't hold me accountable for anything today because, well, I'm sorry I fell asleep there for a second. Anyway, let's get right to the show here in just a second. 1st let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Our sponsor is leaf home gutters. They're hard jobs, then they're unpleasant jobs, and then there's jobs. You have your son climb up on the ladder and do. If you're like me, sometimes your son is broken and the shop that fixes them is closed for the weekend. So what do you do when that happens? You gotta get up on the ladder yourself and clean out your house's gutters. Not happening because I'm getting leaf filter from leaf home gutters for my house, it is a filter for your gutters that helps protect your home from flooding, roof damage, rotting siding, foundation issues, all of the fun stuff that you don't want to deal with. Best of all, you'll never have to think about cleaning out your gutters again. Protect your home. Never clean out your gutters with leaffilter, America's number one gutter protection system. Schedule your free inspection and get up to 30% off your entire purchase@leaffilter.com. glenn Beck. That's leaffilter.com glenn Beck. Do it now. All right. Now, Stu.

Stu
Yes, Glenn.

Glenn Beck
I don't, you know, I just, I just found out while I was doing that commercial, Sarah whispered in my ear that that's the same excuse that Joe Biden was using for the debate.

Stu
You're kidding.

Glenn Beck
And I know I didn't know that. Well, now we know it's credible, right?

Stu
Because.

Glenn Beck
Exactly right.

Stu
I will say I don't want this man to step down. I want him to be the nominee.

I want Joe Biden to be the nominee for the democratic party. And it's wrong to have him have to step down.

He's the right man for this race. He needs to stay in it.

Glenn Beck
Yes, I much too, but much to my own eternal shame when I do put politics ahead of everything else, I agree 100% with you, because it's not really going to get better with Kamala Harris.

Stu
Oh, no.

Glenn Beck
Imagine her answering the phone at 03:00 a.m. good God.

Stu
I will say.

And I think she did that in her previous jobs when she was working for a mayor in Los Angeles. But I think if you kind of go to the real future of the country, my initial reaction was similar to yours, and I've sort of evolved on this, Glen, which is.

Glenn Beck
Yeah, okay.

Stu
The. I'm really terrified for the next six months of Joe Biden being president. Should he step down immediately for the good of the country? Of course he should. However, if he does so, it's, like, more likely we have four years and six months of a president who's putting our country in danger, one that might be more awake, might be more coherent in speeches, but is also very, very damaging to the future of our country. And so I'm kind of at that point now. It's like, however you get these people out of office for the next five, four and a half year or four years is almost more important than what happens in the next six months. Fingers crossed.

Glenn Beck
Well, I have to just point out that we have a puppet president now, and we have, for a while. And we've told you, we've asked you over and over again, who's actually running the country? Well, it was a conspiracy theory because Joe Biden was so healthy. And so, you know, he doesn't even need Viagra. He's having sex all the time. He's just so, so alert and no, he's not.

Stu
He didn't even, he even said something to that effect. Didn't he even sort of referred to that idea that it was like his sex life was super active still.

Glenn Beck
Yeah.

Stu
To show his virility.

Glenn Beck
Yeah.

Stu
Not sure how that's been going the last few days, but good luck for it, Joe.

Glenn Beck
There's got to be somebody that can put him on the back of a horse with his shirt off just to show his virility like Putin did. But, you know, he's, he's, he's not running the country.

And that's the reason why Kamala Harris was selected, because she can't run the country either.

And we know this now. There's, you notice the administration hasn't missed a beat. They just keep going. They're doing what they're doing. He doesn't know.

He's not making the decisions. The question is, who is?

Who is? If the president of the United States is having CP seeps starting at, you know, waking up at 11:00 in the morning, having a meeting, and then going to bed at four, who's running the country?

My gosh.

Stu
Yeah. And Glenn, you should point out those preparations which took place over six days for the debate never started before 11:00 a.m. and Mister Biden was given a time for an afternoon nap each day. This is, according to the New York Times, the only example they could come up with when they were pressed for examples where he's really, really on top of things was him screwing over Israel, which is when they were in the middle of all these missiles being fired at them. He was on his game to tell Netanyahu, no, you're not allowed to fire back. That's the only thing they could come up with. Now, of course, we have no evidence that that's true, but the fact that he was inspired to be awake by screwing Jews over isn't necessarily something that gives you more confidence.

Glenn Beck
You know, Jake Tapper. Did you hear Jake Tapper yesterday?

Jake Tapper accused the Democratic Party of engaging in orwellian tactics.

The opening of the show, Tapper called out the Democratic Party for engaging in a discernible pattern of lying to the public. He argued party officials want Americans to not believe what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and your own ears. Last Thursday night he said, quote, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command, end quote. You know, that where that comes from, George Orwell's 1984.

So, and that is true. And, but it's, it's not just on this. America needs to wake up. It's not just on this. Listen to this story from space.com.

boeing Starliner capsule is performing well on its first ever astronaut mission. In fact, it will likely be able to stay in orbit beyond the initially envisioned 45 day limit.

Now wait a minute. Now wait a minute. It's performing so well that it's going to stay up there, you know, for a while. It may be up there for a long while, and we might leave it up there and then we'll return those astronauts home on some other vehicle that is not as good as the Boeing Starliner. The Starliner, they still haven't figured out why the jets weren't working, why the, the, you know, the positioning jets around the side, like 28 of them just didn't work. They can't figure out why.

Plus, it was leaking helium.

I don't know if they were having birthday parties up there or why they had helium, but it was leaking helium.

And now they're trying to convince us that it's. No, it's, no, no, no. It is so good. It can stay longer than the 45 days. Yeah, that's right. Probably because the astronauts are like, I'm not getting into that death trap.

I'm not getting back into that thing.

But deny what you know. Deny what your eyes tell you, deny what your ears tell you. Deny what you know. That is the problem. Now, Biden said he fell asleep on the stage.

He fell asleep on the. When did you fall asleep on the stage?

And so now they're going to fix it because yesterday, apparently, Hunter Biden is joining Joe Biden for all of his meetings now.

Hunter, speaker one, the crack addict.

Well, I mean, that the only explanation for that is. Yeah. Hey, dad, do you need a bump? I can, you know, you need to wake up. I got something here for you. That's the only explanation. The people in the meetings are saying, we're confused. We didn't have any idea why Hunter Biden is now in the meetings of, and taking notes and discussing things and, like, taking the lead for dad.

What do you, are we, what?

Stu
I don't know. I don't think, look, there's a lot on the line here. And I don't know that I would recommend this course of action, but he's got this, this interview coming up with Stephanopoulos. Do you consider a bump before it?

Do you just, do you give it a whirl? I mean, we know regular Joe Biden doesn't work. What if, you know, I mean, what, what could possibly go wrong? I don't think it could be worse than Thursday night. I think maybe you give the guy a little bit of juice and see what happens.

I mean, you know, it might be.

Glenn Beck
A fun name, a fun story.

Speaker one, an unnamed source from the White House said Hunter Biden popped into a couple of meetings and phone calls with the president that he had with some of his advisors. Another person familiar with the matter said the reaction from some senior White House staff members has been, what the hell is happening? Yes. Now you know how the rest of us feel. What the hell is happening?

Hunter came back with the president from the family weekend at Camp David and went with the president straight into a speech prep.

Hunter's presence in and around his father's meeting comes amid questions about whether Joe Biden should continue his election campaign. Good lord. I'm sorry.

Oh, yeah.

What is happening?

25 House Democrats are preparing to ask Biden with to withdraw now.

Stu
Can't let the, you got to stop this bleeding somehow if you're Biden, right? You have to figure out a way to shut these people up, get them through the next couple of weeks. Let me at least get to this Friday interview. You'll see how good it's going to be. You got to just delay, delay, delay. If you're Biden right now, I don't even know if he can do it. The momentum seems to make it impossible. Right now.

Glenn Beck
He's, he's, he's gotta, he's toast. Let me ask you, if he fails this, this Friday George Stephanopoulos interview, if he screws up at all, if he zones out, if he can't express himself, if he doesn't look vital and invigorated, he's done. He's done.

Stu
And we're going to learn so much about this because, I mean, you look, look, the New York Times is all in on him being gone. Every single story is not only like all these people are saying behind the scenes, he's terrible. He can't speak. He can't get through meetings. Here's another anecdote. Here's another unnamed official. Here's over and over and over again. And then how can he be replaced? How would this work. Every story is about this, Glenn, and I've never seen anything like it because we all know what the New York Times could do and normally does in this situation.

Glenn Beck
Lie.

Stu
They don't report these anecdotes. They don't tell you what these people are saying behind the scenes. They form the opinion they want you to have, and that is what they're doing again here. And Stephanopoulos's approach in this interview is going to be fascinating to watch because obviously, he can help. Take him out. If he presses him, if he goes after him, if he really makes this as uncomfortable as possible, he could end the campaign.

Or will he do the old school thing, which they've been doing for as long as I've known every democratic media, and just, like, soft pedal it, let you know when he has a bad moment, step in, cut him off, help him. What do you think happens?

Glenn Beck
The press is being used by somebody, I don't know who is in charge of anything anymore, but the press now is spreading the narrative that it's over. He's got to go every got to go. So we'll, we'll see. Does the press get the way, their way? And when did they decide?

You know, they didn't. They decided that he was fine up until last Thursday and that all of us were liars and, you know, misinforming and using disinformation and, and Russia, Russia, Russia to, to mislead the nation in thinking he was incompetent. Then he went from, he's, he's superman to good heavens, we got to get him out of there overnight. And now they're rushing and saying, he's got to go, he's got to go, he's got to go. I would like to know what the plan is.

I mean, we're talking about all of our future here. What is your plan? You know, they, they're now talking about maybe we do a mini primary and we kind of do it like speed dating.

Dave Isay
Yeah.

Glenn Beck
What? Let's not speed date for the leader of the free world.

Speed date.

Stu
It's interesting. I mean, it does to me feel like the Kamala thing is the most likely thing. I mean, there's a lot of intricate logistical reasons for that, mostly revolving around money that make that so. But still, it's like, you know, if they try to go down this road and I turn this into some big spectacle, I don't think that's necessarily going to help them. And you see a lot of these people who are leaking against Biden are saying wonderful things about Kamala. Now, some might speculate, as we have said since the very beginning, there's no way this four year presidency ends without Kamala Harris taking a shot at winning this. She is the most ambitious, selfish person in Washington, DC. And she, I guarantee right now her people are all leaking against Biden to make this thing happen.

Glenn Beck
Of course they are. Of course they are. And you know what's weird is so far, there's not a big push for her. Only Clyburn. Only Clyburn is really jumping on the Kamala. Clyburn did train. Yeah. Which everybody else is kind of quiet about it. Yeah, that's enormous. He's the guy who got Biden to pick her.

Stu
Yep. And he's the guy who got Biden elected. I mean, remember, Biden was losing in South Carolina. That endorsement is what turned around the primary in 2020.

So that is a huge part of this. So let me ask you this, Claude, and maybe you can answer this after the break, but you are going on vacation next week.

When you come back, is Joe Biden the democratic nominee?

Glenn Beck
Give me a second to think about that.

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Okay. If he holds his own on Friday's George Stephanopoulos.

If he's okay and he doesn't make any critical errors and he doesn't look bad, he's still the nominee.

If he.

Stu
Big question.

Glenn Beck
I know. If he does poorly, it's over.

Stu
This interview you think is the entire ballgame, at least for the moment.

Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And they might turn to, you know, Doctor Hunter.

Seriously, I mean, if you have, if you have this and you're Joe Biden, I, I mean, you don't try a little cocaine. It's the end.

It's the end. It's the end.

Stu
I like this. It's possible he might just try. Look, they've already found it in the White House. I don't know why everyone assumed it was hunters.

Glenn Beck
Hunters.

Stu
My understanding was Hunter was more of a crack guy. It's a different form of what they found in the White House.

Maybe Joe is taking the, the other path. I don't know. But I think you're right, though. So this is, this was his attempt to say, let me put something on the board. You're going to see me in real time. You're going to see how I perform and judge me by that.

There are a hundred reports today that I read this morning, Glenn, from insider tip sheets and all these other things of people saying Friday is too late.

It's Wednesday.

They're saying Friday and you have a.

Glenn Beck
Holiday and tomorrow is a holiday.

Stu
When was he supposed to do the interview?

Glenn Beck
Right.

Stu
I guess he could have done it on Monday or Tuesday, but they're saying yesterday that, yeah, we know the Stephanopoulos thing is coming. That's too late. This is how committed they are to this.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. And I'm, I, you know, I just don't, I mean, I'm on with Piers Morgan today and I know he's going to argue with me on Ukraine, like, shut up, Mandy. You know, and he's going to call me a Putin apologist and everything else because if you disagree with him on Ukraine, you're a Putin apologist.

And, and I was thinking about my approach with this, and I think I'm just going to say, first of all, you know, we're never going to agree. So why, why are you doing this? Why?

But the, the second thing is, Pierce, you've never understood America. Never. You conflate american conservatives with, you know, the far right in France and they're completely different.

And what you don't understand is that America has fundamentally changed. Conservatives have fundamentally changed. We don't trust the government. And this time we have a list of things to show us. No, I don't trust the government. So when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to, you know, who's president, who's running the country, I have no idea. I have no idea. And all possibilities are out on the table because we're seeing things that we've never seen before.

I would just say it's time for people to take responsibility of their own actions and their own life right now, because I don't trust anyone in power. Glenn Beck, now let me take you here. Do you trust that the dollar is solved and solid?

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You know, I talked to you a little bit about the story in the New York Times yesterday. The first Amendment is out of control.

Tomorrow is Independence Day, and we should all review what freedom of speech is really meant for and what it is now. It was written by a guy named Wu. He's a law professor at Columbia, and he writes about tech and everything else. And he says First Amendment was a tool that helped the underdog. But sometimes in this, sometime in this century, the judiciary lost the plot. Judges have transmuted a constitutional provision meant to protect the unpopular opinion into an all purpose tool of legislative nullification that now mostly protects corporate interests. So he's making the case that we've turned it upside down. And I have to tell you, he makes a persuasive case here. But he is wrong in the end. Let me just skip to this. He's talking about regulation of the Internet. Such regulation is not always perfect, to be sure, but it represents a legitimate tool which democratic governments can stand up to. Private power. The next phase in this struggle will presumably concern the regulation of artificial intelligence. I fear the first amendment will be extended to the to protect machine speech at considerable human cost. I 100% agree with that. It's something I've been warning about for about three decades. In our era, the power of private actors has grown to rival that of nation states. True again. Most powerful are the big tech platforms. True again.

Which, in their cocoon like encompassing of humanity, has grown to control commerce and speech in ways that would make totalitarian states jealous.

Correct again.

In a democracy, no republic, the people ought to have the right to react and control such private power as long as it does not trample on the rights of the individual. Again, correct.

But thanks to the Supreme Court, the First Amendment has become a barrier to the government's ability to do that. Free speech rights have been hijacked to suppress the sovereignty of humans in favor of the power and companies and machines.

Okay, so wait, but no, there's a difference between individuals and the government and regulations and suggestions.

You want to regulate? Okay, regulate. And let's have that not go through the administrative state. Let's have that go through Congress.

Let's have that debate, a serious debate about it. It. We can do that.

And I think the, the right of the individual is what will win in that. If we don't have some closed door, you know, Google writing the, the bill, but actual debate, the way Congress is supposed to work, then I think free speech will win because it's a strong argument for the people. But what the Supreme Court was talking about was, well, now, wait a minute. I think the government, you know, maybe, maybe we send it down to the lower court and have them re examine this, because should the government be able to just say, hey, you really need to. You need to silence these people? No, the government should never have that power. Ever, ever, ever.

Freedom of speech is the cornerstone, is why it is the first amendment. Freedom of speech, freedom of press, the way that the people can stand up against the government.

They can stand up against the government. They can question our government.

They can demand answers from our government. They have a press that should be completely separate from the government to stand guard against the government. Remember, this whole document was made of to stop a government from becoming tyrannical.

So if you're afraid of, you know, Trump or Biden becoming a tyrant. Your answer, the only answer should be, return to the constitution and the bill of rights.

The freedom of speech thing is so important.

Again, it was the first. But what it means is you can speak your mind without fear of censorship or persecution. Now, that doesn't make you popular, but it does mean that the government and those powerful institutions can do nothing against you to stop you. Would you like it if a church all of a sudden was in charge and said, you can't say these things?

I mean, how many people on the left believe in burning the flag?

You have a right to do that.

Okay, so why did the kid. Oh, gosh, where was it? In Oregon, the kid that, you know, burned rubber on the pride flag that was painted on the road? He was just charged with a felony.

A felony?

What is that other than a religion or.

Or a government saying, this is what we stand for, and you will not tarnish it?

Excuse me.

I don't want that happening through a church. I don't want that happening through the government.

I don't. I would like people to self regulate.

But things like peeling out on the pride flag, that happens sometimes, not because of homophobia. Sometimes it is homophobia. Other times it is just, you know what? I'm a rebel. You are telling me and jamming this down my throat. No.

And it's their only way for freedom of speech. That's the case that is made for burning the flag. Why is it different on the pride flag?

See, we have a. If we didn't have freedom of speech, we wouldn't understand anything, because the things that were said at some point or another that have made progress and pushed us into new areas have always seemed crazy or dangerous, but they move us forward. Well, I'm not talking about speech that moves us forward, makes progress. I mean, the speech that's dangerous. Oh, really? Because that's what every authoritarian and autocratic and theocratic dictator has always said. The problem is, who's in charge of judging what's dangerous and not the church, the government, academia, some other group or organization that would have the power to silence people.

Remember, the only speech that needs protecting is the speech that either the majority doesn't like or power doesn't like.

You know, the world was flat for a very long time, and for centuries, that was the accepted view, and challenging it was seen as heresy.

And then thinkers like Pythagoras and later, during the age of exploration, Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus dared to propose and demonstrate otherwise. It was their courage to speak out and to explore beyond the known boundaries that led to an understanding of what the earth really was. Now, the power didn't want it. The church didn't want that.

Church would prosecute anybody and persecute anybody. You know how they got King Ferdinand to do it? Gold.

I'm telling you, there's lots of gold.

And you know what happens if he. If he's wrong? He falls off the edge of the earth. Big deal.

The idea that the sun revolves around the earth. Or is it the earth revolves around the sun?

That faced significant resistance. Copernicus and Galileo pioneers revolutionary idea went against the power of the time. In 1633, the Catholic Church, which was the power, tried Galileo during the Inquisition and forced to. Forced him to recant under threat of torture.

Okay, who's deciding what free speech is good? What's progress? What's not? It's easy to see them in reverse.

You know what Socrates was killed for? He was killed by the government. He went through a fair trial. You know he's killed for because he was corrupting the youth of Athens.

Because he encouraged questioning the established norms and beliefs.

Anybody who ever says, don't, you can't question that. Don't question that.

You should run from.

Socrates was corrupting the youth because he said, question everything.

Giordano Bruno, I think it was his name. He's the guy who said, there's infinite suns and infinite worlds.

He was burned at the stake in the inquisition of 1600.

Martin Luther as well as Martin Luther King.

How about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla?

The war of currents, this was all about power, literally and figuratively. Power and money.

Here's Thomas Edison, who is using the system to stifle innovation.

Edison wants direct current because he was losing that battle, because it didn't make sense and it wasn't working.

He had to discredit Tesla. And through. He did it through smear campaigns and propaganda.

He had public demonstrations where he got this sick doctor to go and electrocute animals.

Using Tesla's alternating current.

He would take down horses, dogs, whatever you had. He'd go to a state fair or a local fair, and he'd execute the animals and saying, that's what Tesla wants to put in your house.

Thank God we weren't afraid of the scare tactics, because that's what we all have in our house today, or at least we will for a while, until they come up with something even better that you're not allowed to question.

If you can't challenge prevailing wisdom, if you can't propose a new idea, if you can't say, wait a minute. This doesn't make any sense.

Everything stops.

Progress depends on the free exchange of ideas. And if you get rid of your opposition, life falls apart.

Even the Bible says opposition in all things.

You have to have the metal and the flint.

It's when they rub together, when they strike against each other, that's when a spark is made, and that's when things change.

This is what we're arguing about right now. It should show you the health of America.

I mean, when you have a cold, the doctor might talk to you about, you know. Okay, I want you to take this and this and this and just get some bed rest.

But when you have a cold and you have cancer. The doctor's not talking about the cold, okay?

He's talking about cancer.

Our cancer is so deep. We're down to the fundamentals. We're down to, okay, you can't lose freedom of speech.

You can't lose your. Your protection against your own civil rights.

We're down to the big ones. That's how sick this body is. Meanwhile, they want you to yell and scream about Biden or Trump or whatever.

It's the fundamental rights that are first expressed in our declaration of independence, something that was signed and agreed upon on July 2, finally announced to the american people on July 4 that we should be concentrating on.

I urge you, this, Independence day tomorrow, and I know your family's gonna roll their eyes and go, dad, please. At least mine do all the time. Dad, please.

Read the Declaration of Independence tomorrow.

Read it. Understand it. Work through it with your kids.

Work through it with yourself.

It's still alive today.

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You know, Stu and I are just talking off air here about the trouble the Democrats are in, and it couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Honestly, they deserve it. They absolutely deserve it. This is what happens when man thinks he knows more than men. And, you know, they talk a great game about democracy, but they don't believe in it. Otherwise they would have, you know, we knew this three years ago, but even just say a year ago when he really started to look bad, if the powers that be would have been honest with the people and said, you know what? He is starting to get kind of bad. You know what? Let's put him, let's do a real debate. Let's, he's got to debate, you know, the other primary candidates. He's got to do that. No, they avoided that. They lied to us and said he's fine, blah, blah, blah. Most Americans didn't want Joe Biden, but the state, the big state, the big party, they wanted Joe Biden because we know now he's not really the president.

Okay, so what do they do? They force it down. Then they're forced to reveal that he is as incompetent as he is.

And now what happens? Your problems are ten times the size.

This is what happens when you listen to the experts and not to yourself. The problem is ten times the size, and they created it.

So now what do they do?

Well, they have to get around laws. They have to change their own rules. They, they have to short circuit the system some way or another to now correct the mistake that they wouldn't have made if they had listened to the democratic voter at the time.

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All right, so yesterday in New York, Donald Trump filed to stop the madness.

Because of the new Supreme Court ruling and wanted to review, this has now been delayed until September.

But again, I think they know it's not going anywhere. They're just going to use it now in September to, you know, lay out all the evidence again right before an election, which would be, again, election interference, in my opinion.

But that's the way they do it today. Andrew Bailey is with us. He is the Missouri, Missouri attorney general.

He has, he was on just a couple of weeks ago, and he said he planning on suing New York in response to the unconstitutional lawfare against Trump.

Breaking news here on the program with Attorney General Bailey on what the next steps are.

Attorney General Bailey, welcome.

Andrew Bailey
Thank you for, yeah, thank you for having me on. And as always, your analysis is spot on. There's a rogue prosecutor and a collusive judiciary in the state of New York who are absolutely looking to upend the national presidential election, and they're using lawfare to do it. This is poisonous to our democratic republic and our democratic processes. I can't let the state of New York sideline Missourians who want to hear from, engage with, and participate in a national presidential election for their chosen presidential candidate. And think about this. By statute, Missouri has electors that go to a convention who need access to a presidential candidate. They have a job to do under the statutes of the state of Missouri, and they're being denied access to a presidential candidate because of the gag order and the law. Fair illicit witch hunt prosecution against President Trump. The founders contemplated there would be disputes amongst the states, and they codified a method to redress those grievances. Article three, section two of the United States Constitution sends that case directly to the United States Supreme Court. I'm proud to report here on your program that we are on file at the Supreme Court. It's going to be Missouri versus New York to stop the law fair.

Glenn Beck
So what happened? Because aren't they like, aren't they like, I don't know, flying in rich people's airplanes now, illegally and unconstitutionally, of course.

How do they, how does this happen during the summer?

Andrew Bailey
Well, you're absolutely right. Their docket has ended. Their term has ended. But there's a special docket. It's called the original action docket for cases where the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction based on the United States Constitution, based on the plain text of the Constitution. So there's a special docket. So the justices will be notified. You know, there's a process that they go through where the clerks have to print all of the multitude of documents, distribute them to the different justices. It has to be placed on the oath docket or the original action docket. And then there will presumably be a period where the court will order a responsive briefing from the state of New York, and the case will proceed accordingly. But, you know, I think that there's been a major shift in the conversation on this issue because of the immunity decision coming down and the extension of time on the Trump sentencing. But I think you're also exactly right. Look, pushing the sentencing to September is actually very dangerous because it means that the honors conditions of confinement, probation, house arrest, community service, whatever that looks like after the sentencing, are going to happen even closer in time to the election. And either way, the gag order will remain in place between now and then again, that harms Missourians rights to hear from a presidential candidate. That's why this case is so important, why we had to get it on file and continue to push it forward to redress the grievances of the people of state of Missouri.

Glenn Beck
So two questions. First of all, when do you expect to hear from the Supreme Court? When could they rule on this?

Andrew Bailey
Well, my hope would be that they would demand a briefing from the state of New York as early as next week. Presumably, briefing would then appear from New York in the middle of July, and we would have a chance to respond to that briefing. And then if I'm the court, I'm going to wait until September and see what happens at sentencing. In other words. Words, if the judge says we're lifting, if the trial court judge in New York says we're lifting the gag order and President Trump's on bench probation, this offense was not a big deal, and there are no conditions of probation. Well, it's hard to explain that there's harm at that point. Now, I don't think that's going to happen. I think that you can look at the constitutional violations that are replete throughout this process and realize they want nothing more than to send President Trump to prison on the eve of an election. That's why we got to keep this case going and fight so hard to prevent them from interfering in the election. And shame on the media. Shame on the media for legitimizing this law, for legitimizing this injection of this poison into our democratic process.

Glenn Beck
So, Andrew, you have any other states joining you on this at the present time?

Andrew Bailey
Missouri win it alone because speed was of the essence. We had to get this on file. Now, I do anticipate that other states will have the opportunity to file amicus briefs in support but look, at the end of the day, this is about, I represent the state of Missouri and I represent the people in the state of Missouri who want to participate in a national election or being denied the right to do so. But I do think that it's incumbent upon every state attorney general to determine how the law fair and this attack on the national election is negatively impacting their people and defined appropriate remedies. The typical criminal appeal takes 18 to 24 months, and it really only redresses an individual criminal defendant's grievance that is in that process is inadequate at this time to protect the people of state of Missouri and anyone who wants to engage in the presidential election nationwide.

Glenn Beck
What did you think about the judge pushing it out into the mid, into mid September and then saying, apparently, if it is even relevant at that time, what does that mean?

Andrew Bailey
I have no idea. I'm concerned. I mean, clearly, the judiciary, this judge is working in collusion with Alvin Bragg, who should have been disqualified from the, in the first instance. They never, the judge should have never presided over the case, and the prosecutor should never have been allowed to bring these charges. But those systems clearly failed. And that's my evidence that I think we have every reason to infer that they are hell bent on sending President Trump to prison on the eve of an election. So, again, this delay actually puts us closer in time to when we would be going to the ballot box. And there's a doctrine in the law, it's called the Purcell doctrine, that essentially the judiciary should not be making decisions on the eve of an election. They could inject confusion into the election. I mean, voters are already asking questions, can Donald Trump appear on the ballot? Will we be able to go vote for him? Is he on the campaign trail? What's going on? This is all intended to dampen enthusiasm and drive down republican votes. That's a direct attack on our electoral process. And now it's going to go on at least into September.

Glenn Beck
Andrew, thank you so much. Appreciate everything you're doing in Missouri and for Missouri and for the country. Appreciate you standing by the constitution. Thank you. Thank you, Glenn.

Hey, happy Independence Day, Missouri. Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Stu, what do you, what do you make of, of the, I mean, again, this is, we were talking about it.

This is alcoholic behavior. What the Democrats are doing is alcoholic behavior. They are grabbing onto the steering wheel and they're just saying, no, it's going to do it my way, my way, my way. And they are forcing everything their way. They have made stuff up, changed laws, changed jurisdictions, did everything they could to get Donald Trump. And they waited until he announced they wouldn't have done it if he didn't announce that he was going to run for president. So they waited and they were thinking to themselves, most likely this is going to be perfect. It'll be in the running up of the election, and it's just going to be so sweet and so great. Well, it's not working.

And they just are keep hanging on the same thing with Joe Biden. If they would have done the responsible thing, the right thing a year ago and said, you know, there's a, there's, there's a lot of smoke about his confusion.

Let's just make sure that that's not happening for the good of the country, for the love of people. And they would have listened to the american people and they would have said, joe, you've got to do, because we have all these questions, you have to do either the primary or you have to do x number of interviews with tougher people, not people who are in the bag with some tougher people.

And we have to see you perform. And the american people need to see you perform. If they would have done the right thing, then they wouldn't be in this situation. But now the entire thing is in chaos.

And it's because they refuse to admit that they don't control everything.

It's the progressive Achilles heel. You have to be so arrogant that you think your way is the only way and it's the right way and that you can control all of these different variables so it'll work out for you. It never works out.

Stu
Yeah. Yet again, centralized control fails. Right. It's this story of the past, you know, couple hundred years really, since communism came around. We've seen this happen over and over and over and over and over again. I, you know, you look at this and their new excuse is almost the most disturbing one, which was this is from media and democratic elected officials.

And basically what they're saying to these reporters off the record is we're angry at the AIDS around the president because they kept telling us he was fine.

And so we kept believing it and repeating it and now we look bad.

Glenn Beck
And it's like, I don't believe that.

Stu
Well, I don't know. I think, I think there's an aspect to it, at least that's true, which is they, I think they knew what was going on, but they kept, kept taking these words and being like, well, let's, you know, this is the spin. This is what we're supposed to be doing. We're dutifully going to report it to everyone. And now that it's fallen apart, they're sitting here blaming the aides, which again, it's on you. If you're a journalist, you're the one that should have been asking these questions the whole time.

Glenn Beck
So I've been doing a lot of research on progressive doctors and especially those that influence those doctors in Germany and that, and those in Germany and what they said during the Nuremberg trials. It's the same thing. It's exactly the same thing. Well, I didn't know. It wasn't, it wasn't me. I was told that this was fine and I was told that that wasn't happening. They all knew. They all knew. All of the doctors knew.

They participated in it. They couldn't be a doctor if you wouldn't participate in it. So they chose that they wanted their lifestyle and their, you know, their position, and they chose to deny what they knew to be true, that killing people is killing people.

It's not compassion. It's killing people.

And in the end, they all tried to blame somebody else, but they all knew. There's no way you rode on that airplane with him. There's no way you were walking the halls of the White House. There's no way. None of these people had a really well placed source inside the White House that wasn't saying, jeez, Mandez. And this is getting insane. This is getting insane. There's no one, no one that spoke to a member of the press. The deal was they didn't want to hear it. They didn't want to see it. And now they're blaming it on others. You're just as guilty as those who stood. We could see it. The american people said, the democratic voters said, he's too old. He's too old. It wasn't ageism. They were watching him decay overnight every night.

You didn't want to see it.

Stu
No. And they kept that in play until the very, very end, until they couldn't do it anymore. I mean, Glenn, one week apart was this call now for him to step down because he's obviously too gold. And the controversy over cheap fakes. That was one week before this started. A week, a week ago, they were telling us these were all faked videos to make him look like he was incoherent.

Glenn Beck
And who believed that? Who believed that only the die hards that had to have it to be true.

Stu
Yeah.

Glenn Beck
You cannot force your will on everybody else. You cannot control reality.

It eventually all comes crumbling down. You're an alcoholic. You're addicted to power. You're addicted to lies. I don't know what it is, but you've got to surrender to the truth or you're going to burn the whole damn thing down.

And I got news for you. I'm, I'm, I'm a recovering alcoholic from an alcoholic family. I've learned these lessons, and I'm not going to be around you when you're burning the whole place down. You're not burning my place down. Down. You're not going to do it. And that's what Americans need to say. Only the alcoholic can stop the alcoholic behavior. We can point it out, we can wish them well, but we are not going to allow them to burn down our house because they're living in another reality.

No.

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All right, I just want to remind you about something that is happening, and I invite you to our studios. Our studios are kind of like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. It's kind of my dream lab, and it's an amazing place. It's really magical.

Everybody who comes through, I mean, we've Stu, have you ever walked through our studio with anybody who has been there for the first time and they haven't said, this place is amazing, especially when.

Stu
An Oompa Loompa walks by. Yeah, that's exactly what they're just pouring.

Glenn Beck
Sugar into the chocolate river. Don't worry about it.

It's really an amazing place. And we invite you to come in as we open the doors on Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21st. I'm doing something brand new, and it is american narratives in fine art. And fine art is usually for snobs. And we have to start encouraging our artists to tell american stories. Just don't paint a barn. Tell an american story. Tell our history. Inspire us.

Show us what inspires you. So we've invited these artists, and they're. I mean, I. I am blown away at the names of the artists that are on this list. They are some of the best artists in the world and many of the best artists in America.

And they're all coming. They've all gone through the museum one way or another, either digitally or in person, and they heard different stories, they saw different artifacts that inspired them, and they want to tell the story. So instead of having a bunch of art experts walk around going, yeah, well, I think his brush stroke, who cares? Who cares?

You can get judged that way everywhere else. I want to judge this on who motivated you, who connected with that american story in the most passionate way that you walked away after seeing that and going, that is game changing for me. I understand that port of history, or it's inspired me somehow or another, and you vote as you go through. Also, all of the art will be for sale. I'm going to be there the whole weekend. It is September 20 through 21st. I invite you to join us now.

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hopefully, this will be something that will happen yearly where we'll be able to tell new stories about America and push new art out into our system, into our culture.

So, you know, Americans can have something hanging on their wall that's more than a soldier, a jet, an american flag with the eagle carrying the president in his cloth.

I mean, it would be good if it was president Biden being carried away in his claws. I would be okay with that. I would be okay with that.

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I am so excited to talk to our guest. We have some really good, hopeful things to share with you here. But also our guest is Josh Weigel. You may not know his name, but you may know his work. It is brilliant work. He is the guy responsible for a short film called the Butterfly Circus, which if you've never seen, you must.

He got the, what was it? The Clint Eastwood Filmmaker award presented by Clint Eastwood at the Carmel Film Festival for this. It's really, really good. He's got a new movie out, and it is called the Sound of Hope, and it's from Angel Studios. I'm going to play just a real quick 32nd clip from it.

Here it is.

Here it is. Are you sure these people want us?

Joshua Weigel
I know they do.

Stu
You can call me mom.

Glenn Beck
Lord, if we can't wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what are we at? Noise. And the children can't take the noise anymore.

So it comes out tomorrow. It's in theaters nationwide, and it's called the Sound of Hope. And it is about a Texas church that adopted 77 kids that no one wanted in the foster care system. It's a true story and unbelievable. And the guy to tell it is Josh Weigel. Hi, Josh.

Joshua Weigel
Hi, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me. All that you said, amazing.

Glenn Beck
Oh, I just love your work. Just love your work. So how did you find the story of this church?

Joshua Weigel
Well, my wife and I had adopted, and she was working very much in that space in Los Angeles, and so she ran across the story and met Bishop Martin. And long story short, we just felt like this story had to be told in a movie, if possible. And so we just began that journey, especially after hearing the kids stories. You know, it just. It wrecked me.

Glenn Beck
Horrible.

Joshua Weigel
And I felt like, you know, it's a tough one to get on the screen with all the characters, but we just dug in and felt like it needed to be done. Done.

Glenn Beck
I tell you, I have several friends who were. Who grew up in the foster care system, and their stories are just nightmares. I mean, it's not Chu Chescow, but it's really a horrible system that we have many, many times. And I just. In seeing the way you portray some of the trauma from these kids and the things that the families had to deal with, I mean, it was. It's not all rosy. I mean, it's hard work to take kids who have been beaten and abused in a foster care system and bring them into your home.

Joshua Weigel
That's right. I mean, so these kids in particular, all kids go through extreme trauma just by losing their family and anything related to that, just powerfully hurtful. But these kids, the 77, these were the ones that were difficult to place. So that was kids who were heavily traumatized physically or sexually abused.

Sibling sets, you know, they hate to break up sets of kids, which is fantastic. They try to keep them together, but it's really hard to place a lot of the time because of that.

Glenn Beck
Yes.

Joshua Weigel
Or teenagers, you know, we kind of have. If people want to do this, it's often, like the younger ones. They're less scary, I guess. You know, it feels like there won't be as much to deal with, but it is. They took on the ones that no one wanted, which is what really made this story stand out to me. I felt like, you know, if they can do this, this little average community of people had the courage to just dive in when they saw this problem. Then, you know, we can all do something.

Glenn Beck
How big is the town of Possum trot?

Joshua Weigel
Yeah. Yeah. So it's not even an official town. It's a region. It's like an area. And they've just called it possum trot for years, which, as weird as that might be, people might be surprised to hear that Kansas City, when they're trying to think of a name for Kansas City, it was between Kansas City and Possum trot. So it must have been a big deal way back then.

Glenn Beck
Okay, so it's not how much, how many the population of possum trot compared to this church, which seems pretty small. I mean, 77 kids.

Yeah. How many people were involved in this? This.

Joshua Weigel
The area probably has three or 400 people, and that's sprawling. I mean, that's miles and miles of area considered passant trot. And so this community is more condensed, you know, in terms of the people who were involved. And the church itself, you know, probably has now, I don't know, 75 members or something. It's not a big. It's not a big church. So, you know, they imagine that all those kids and what that did to just the number of people and all of that, the growth that happened so rapidly, and then you've got kids that are struggling. So it was a big thing to take on.

Glenn Beck
So what was the secret that you found at Possum trot that we should all take away?

Joshua Weigel
Well, I think on a humanity sort of human level, we see problems all around us, and so often just leave it to others to deal with, especially the government. Something like this. It's like, well, there's a foster system. Surely they'll take care of it. But these are human children. This is nothing that a government should be primarily responsible in terms of raising the kids. So I think we got to follow the lead of this community on one level and just go, look, there's problems that we can solve. We must solve them. Get to leave them to others. And if you're someone, this is about a christian church. So, you know, that's a whole other layer of responsibility and heart. I mean, you. I think many of us in that place feel probably even more compelled to meet the needs of these kids. And then we have scriptures actually teaching us, you know, go, James 127. Go and visit or take care of the needs of the orphans and widows. Not just keep yourself pure and unspotted from the world, but there's this need to take action and do things in the name of Jesus and follow his footsteps. So that's my feeling. And then the community, we adopted two kids, like I said, and it's difficult no matter what you do, but when you don't have a community around you, it's much, much harder. And this community, that's the secret. There they are, family. It's one big family, extended family, friends, all do life together. And so these kids came into a very strong community and structure that, you know, they know is always there for them.

They could always come back to and just embrace them.

You know, imagine that. Just all of these different people, whether, whether they adopted the children or not, there's just a lot of people around to become that together.

Glenn Beck
So the, you know, I think our churches have become more theoretical.

And, you know, church has become a building, and it's not meant to be a building. You know, when they talk about it in the scriptures and they say the church, they don't mean the building. They mean the people that are following.

And being a Christian, a true Christian, is really hard, not because it makes you unpopular, but because there's so much required to do that most of us are just like, yeah, well, I'm gonna. Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna write a check. I'm gonna help out. That's not what this is. And this is truly about building community and doing the things you don't want to do, but you're required to do, and you're required to do it with joy.

And sometimes that sucks, you know?

Joshua Weigel
Well, I mean, that's, that is a powerful reality. And I think what's so, so interesting, and honestly, I think the, the silver lining in that is that, as you are called into these hard things as a. And I'm just talking about, you know, christians, I think humans, you know, we have a conversation, but you've got people saying they're following Jesus in particular, and they ought to do the things that Jesus did and follow where he goes, and he's always going to the broken things, and we were all broken, right? So there is that part of it that kind of sounds like, geez, do I really have to do this? Can't I just be an American with a white picket fence? And the answer, of course, is no. But what happened, and in my experience, is once you step into it, I mean, you have everything you need. I think we hear this word grace a lot, and I think that's a big part of what we mean by it, is that God is going to meet you with what you need when you step in, maybe not even before. You might have to step into it first, and then all of a sudden, you're full of everything you need. And that's a struggle.

What the things that disturb us the most in this world, I feel a responsibility as a Christian to do what I can to resolve them. That's what it means to be light and salt and all these things were metaphorically just talked about as. And I think that's something that's missing right now in America. It's beautiful. We have incredible blessings. Thank God for them. The world has been blessed by America more than anything else. You know what I mean? But at the same time, it can lull you to sleep. It can numb you. It can make you put off discomfort that you ought to bear. And so we made this movie to highlight that, that a community actually stepped in and did hard stuff like we all should do, and they were met with what they needed.

And then, you know, we could talk about the movie, too, though. It's. It's a movie. It's not just a matter. A pill. A pill to swallow.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. So let me just spend 1 minute just on that.

We. I'm sure you remember, Josh, when christian films were just the worst. They were the worst.

And we have made such incredible progress at such a fast, rapid rate, and the industry is changing, and you can now tell your friends who aren't necessarily christian, you got to go see this movie. And it's not a preacher, you know, it's not a preachy kind of, I want to convert you and get you baptized. It's a good movie. First, what's changed? How much has this changed to get us from where we were just a few years ago to hear?

Joshua Weigel
Yeah.

Oh, there's a lot, I think. I mean, I can mostly speak from my perspective, you know, I think it first starts with just refusing to do things that aren't.

That you can't do well, you know? And I think you have to expect a certain level of ability and excellence and skill, and you also have to know and understand the art form so that you don't misuse it. It's been so used as a tool to preach and spread messages rather than let it be what it is and bring all the great things to it as a movie so that people actually enjoy a movie. And that's for this one. I insisted on that. It's just how we work. It's like if we're gonna go and make a movie, then it ought to be all of the great things that we want and love and bring us into those theaters and keep bringing us back. So I think it's critical. I mean, if you like christian movies, I think you'll like this movie. It's got a ton of Jesus and all the rest. But, you know, I don't even really look at it as a christian movie. It's so based on the real world authenticity was a big discussion throughout. Like, we have got to capture the real story. These kids, what they lived through, what these families dealt with, the acting. It's like there's so much that's worked, that's come together, that has imbued it with this powerful authenticity. And what we're seeing is dramatic results. I mean, people are so moved. And as a creator, it's the best thing you can hear. But just in all kinds of different ways, you know, kids who've gone through it, who've grown up are now experiencing the movie and having, having a powerful emotional experience and, you know, just go down the line.

So it's, it's something I think you will, you will really love the experience of the movie. We're not saying, hey, please help us out. Go see our movie. No, swallow this bitter pill. It's like, no, it's a good movie.

It's a good movie and something to say, but you know you're going to.

Glenn Beck
It's one of those movies, you walk away feeling better, you know, I love movies where you can walk away from it and say, wow, I just feel so good. That was such a great experience, you know?

And you've captured that. Joshua, thank you so much. Thanks for all that you do. If you'd like to see this movie, it is out this weekend.

You can get tickets now@angel.com. beck angel.com dot grab your tickets now. Take your family, take your friends. It's a great independent. You want an independence. The Lord gives you independence. And this film will show you the path to real spiritual independence in just an entertaining and really good story sort of way. The sound of hope, the story of possum trot. It releases tomorrow. Grab your tickets now@angel.com. beck, Joshua, thank you. God bless.

Joshua Weigel
Thank you, Glenn. Appreciate so much.

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Stu
Some breaking news once again from the New York Times. Who I kid you not, is literally all in on making sure Joe Biden does not have this nomination anymore past this weekend. But they report that a key Biden told a key ally that he is weighing whether to continue in the race. The president's conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday. Goes on to talk about whether he knows he has to nail these three appearances. He has coming up, a couple of campaign rallies, but then also this George Stephanopoulopoulos ABC News interview.

It's going to be a great holiday, but an incredibly fascinating weekend.

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So President Biden has agreed to do a sit down with George Stephanopoulos on Friday, and yet they are still pushing him to step down so they can find another nominee.

They've created a huge mess in their own party because they refuse to recognize the obvious, that it's human to start, to slip towards the end. And I guess they can't wait until Friday, which says to me that he's in even more trouble than we've even seen. Because if he wasn't, he could sit down with George Stephanopoulos and knock it out of the park and it would be over, I think.

But somebody, you know, very powerful people and a lot of Americans want him out of office now after the debate. Debate.

He has just, the White House has just made an announcement, which is to be clear.

Stu
It is a report from the New York Times that Biden told an ally that he is weighing whether to continue in the race. This is the first indication from anywhere inside the Biden camp that this is going on. Now, assuming the Times is telling the truth, which, of course, is something we definitely have to consider.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. And you have to, you know, if that would have come out two weeks ago, it would have been a different story.

But now the New York Times is on the exact opposite foot and they are doing everything they can to get him out. So I don't know if I believe that.

Stu
I don't know. Because if this is actually an ally, then you would assume this is messaging approved essentially from the white.

Glenn Beck
Correct.

Stu
Right.

Glenn Beck
Correct.

Stu
It does give, essentially Biden an out here. He's got an interview scheduled with Stephanopoulos, as you point out, on Friday and two campaign stops, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Those must go well, is essentially the standard they've set for themselves here, which is just really legitimately incredible to the, to the extent that now we have a, we went through a nomination process. Joe Biden won that nomination process. He has participated as the nominee during a presidential debate. This has already occurred.

Right now, the favorite to be the democratic nominee on betting markets is Kamala Harris.

She has a 50% chance.

Glenn Beck
I think that's the only thing they can do.

Stu
Joe Biden at 29%. He has a 29% chance to be the nominee of the party whose primary he's already won.

That, I mean, the fact they're going.

Glenn Beck
To get around this, I don't, they're talking now about literally speed dating. Yeah.

A prime election speed. So they.

That's unbelievable.

Stu
Yeah.

Glenn Beck
Okay. All right. We'll give you. Go ahead, finish it up.

Stu
Yeah, no, I was just, I was just going to say, like, Donald Trump strategically has been really, really good at essentially stepping back and letting all this unfold. Right. Like, he's been, you know, doing a little truth, social stuff, but he has not gotten in the way. He's let all this go. I'm starting to wonder whether he should start to get in the way. Like, I think maybe he should release the vice presidential pick today to distract people from this. You want to keep binding this race.

Glenn Beck
I know. I think he should just come out and say, the one thing that would really make me addicted dictator is Kamala Harris. She would do it. Anybody other than Joe Biden. I just want to be a dictator.

Stu
I think it should be like my vice president.

Glenn Beck
I'm considering Stormy Daniels.

I wouldn't have necessarily thought of whatever.

Stu
You can to derail this right now, or he's going to have to face someone who can.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. I'm so torn on this because politically, the right thing is to keep Joe Biden in for the Republican Republicans, but for the country, it just, it's. This is, this is a horrible situation. He can't step down just from being the candidate.

I mean, he really should step down. And it would probably be the best thing for Kamala because then she would just be the incumbent president. All right, Dave, I say is with us. Dave is a good friend of mine. He does storycorps.

He is the founder and president. If you don't know Storycorps, good for you. You probably haven't listened to NPR. They've been doing. They've been featured on NPR Forever and ever and ever. And they're not an NPR thing.

It's just featured on. On NPR.

Dave is a. Just a.

An amazing american.

Someday, I think I might just have to do a podcast with just him because of the things that he has seen and done. He's preserved the voice of real people. All of the Storycorps stuff goes to the National Library or the Library of Congress. And so it's there forever to record the voices and the feelings of people as we live it. He's got an announcement to make on Storycorps. Takeonesmallstep.org dot Dave.

Dave Isay
Welcome, Glenn. What a day.

Glenn Beck
Can you believe the insanity that. And people are just going on there with their life like, you know, it's. What. What's the problem? No, I'm just worried about getting some hot dogs for tomorrow.

Dave Isay
You know, it's rough days ahead. It's a crazy, crazy time. And I appreciate you having me on because, you know, it's. I think.

Joshua Weigel
What?

Dave Isay
What? You know, we've been friends for a bunch of years now, and I'm incredibly and kind of unlikely friends. Right.

Glenn Beck
Yeah, I know.

Dave Isay
You did. You did a. Did you do a segment a couple weeks ago about Teddy Roosevelt's man in the arena?

Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dave Isay
I don't know. I've been thinking about that. You know, it's.

I feel like together we've been kind of, you know, daring greatly.

Glenn Beck
Yeah, well, we both. I don't even know your politics, and I don't need to, Dave, but we both agree on american principles, and we both know our country is in trouble, and we both have faith that the american people, if they can get past the politics, will see reason and see each other again, and we save our country.

Joshua Weigel
Yeah.

Dave Isay
I mean, that, look, we both, exactly. We love our country, like, in ways that we can't even express with words. And we've both been fortunate enough to have a front row seat on who we are as Americans. And we know that, I know there's two ways this can go. We can see each other again, or we can, or we're going to leave a country that we don't want to leave for our kids and our grandkids. And it will be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the world. And this is a moment, even in the last 60 seconds moment, you know, and it's time. It's time to say enough, and it's time to, you know, it's time to stand up.

And as you said. Yeah, we, so you were, you know, when this idea of take of one small step, which is people, Americans, everyday Americans from across the political divides, saying enough talking to each other, getting to know each other as human beings, not talking about politics, and seeing that we have so much more in common than divides us, that it's hard to hate up close. This, you know, I came to you, and this was kind of a twinkle in our eyes.

And the Glenn Beck show has been with us the whole time. We launched. You know, we've tested this for years. We launched locally a bunch of years ago. We've had thousands of get Glenn Beck listeners participate. And I, this is the first call that I've had. We're going to announce this on Monday to the rest of the country. But it's, you know, given the stakes of what's coming up in the, in the country, you know, we are taking this national on Monday. You know, Glenn Beck listeners have always been able to participate. But other than Glenn Beckley partners, it's only been people in a couple of cities around the country, and now the whole country can participate. And we're hoping that thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people will come together and see each other as human beings and realize how much we have at stake here in this country if we can't love each other.

Glenn Beck
I want to bring in Michaela Hedrick. She is the co writer of my new book, chasing members, and she is 20 something. That is just.

She's a 20 something and a good one. And she's actually, no, you know, get Dicey, Mikaela, and you know, it.

You actually participated in the one small step program.

Mikaela Hedrick
Yes, I did.

Glenn Beck
Tell me your experience.

Mikaela Hedrick
I participated twice. The first time I was with a left leaning mom from Brooklyn who actually works for Storytel and the second time, I was with an older gentleman who was afraid to talk to me because he's never voted in his life. And while I work for Glenn Beck. But what I found was, did he.

Glenn Beck
Know that in addition, he did.

Mikaela Hedrick
I put it in my bio. So we knew upfront what was going on. But what I found is that we weren't afraid of disagreeing with each other. We were afraid of being misunderstood. We were afraid of being misjudged. And so as soon as we understood together that we were there to hear each other, then we could speak our minds without compromising, but also without fighting.

Glenn Beck
So.

But did you talk about politics?

Mikaela Hedrick
We did. We talked about my first discussion. We actually talked about abortion without ever losing our mind.

Dave Isay
Oh, my gosh.

Mikaela Hedrick
Yes.

I was so blown away that we went there. But storycorps encourages you to go there in a way that you're not trying to change each other's opinions, but you're trying to see where are you coming from. Why do you believe what you believe? And at the end of it, I realized, okay, you're not a monster. And she realized, I'm not a monster. And that was my deepest fear, is I was afraid I'd go in and I would be judged for being a hater or a monster. But the way they facilitated it, we had to listen to each other. And that does. You said, dave, you can't hate up close. You really can't.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. I tell you, Dave, I mean, the reason why I've been with you on this project from the beginning is I've had hardcore communists who have come into my office before shaking. They were so full of rage and anger towards me. And I've sat there and I just listened to them, and I tried to understand where they were coming from. And by the end, we've always walked away. We don't necessarily agree with each other, but we've always walked away going, he's not so bad. You're not so bad.

And I'm sorry that, you know, that I've made you feel this way, or he was. I'm sorry that I misunderstood. He started the conversation with me. I've heard about you. I hear people meet you, and then they like you. Well, it's not gonna happen to me.

And it was an amazing meeting, but if you just stay cool, you find the humanity within each other. Other.

Dave Isay
Well, Michaela said it better than I ever could. And, you know, you joke about Michael, as, you know, a young woman in her twenties, you know, we have biases there also, I mean, she's a great american.

Mikaela Hedrick
Thank you, Dave. Finally.

Dave Isay
You get your due. You've been waiting.

Glenn Beck
Yeah.

Dave Isay
You know, this is the core of the problem in the country. And this is what, you know, Lincoln said, you know, we'll never be defeated from. From outside. We can only be defeated from within. The issue isn't that we argue with each other. That's healthy. What's happened in this country is we're living in a reality distortion field, and we can't see each other as human beings. And when you can't see each other as human beings, that's what leads to the Holocaust. That's what leads to Israel Palestine. We can't go there.

We can either throw stones at each other, or we can pick up stones and build a better country. And we're at that inflection point, Glenn, and your audience, that, you know, I've always felt that media, put to its highest use, can be one of the greatest forces for good the world has ever seen. That almost seems like a joke now, given what. I don't think so, but it's true.

You know, we can create a better country together. And this. There's too much at stake. We've got to see each other as human beings. We've got to see each other as human beings again, or all of this, you know, what our parents, what our grandparents bled for and died for is going to be lost.

Glenn Beck
So, Dave, I know I've cut commercials for one small step that you err on different formats.

Are you getting conservatives much more frequently? Yes.

Stu
I mean, we are really.

Dave Isay
We are trying. We are going to need your audience to help spread the word. Yes, we are getting thousands of conservatives to do this, but we need more. We need millions. We need millions of people to do this.

Glenn Beck
I think, Michaela, you said this on why we're afraid of participating. How'd you explain it?

Mikaela Hedrick
I explained that conservative people have been rightly conditioned to believe that when somebody says a space is inclusive, they mean inclusive of everyone except for you. But as a young 20 something, as we said, one of the redeemable ones, though, I've heard stories of an America where I have a Trump sign and my neighbor has a Biden sign, and we still go to backyard cookouts, and if there's a big storm, we still take care of the elderly woman down the street. And I'd love to see that America again. And that's gonna take also a special level of humility from us as conservatives that say, look, I know we haven't been welcomed in these spaces before, but we believe that we all are united as Americans still. It's a special kind of bravery.

Glenn Beck
Yeah. And I think there's nothing, and that's.

Dave Isay
You know, it's, but that's America. That's, you know, it's the greatest generation. We can, we can be that again. It is going to take bravery, but I mean, I can't, again, I don't even know I'm on the call because Mikhail is saying everything better than I can. But this is exactly, it's exactly what it's all about.

Glenn Beck
We have, so, Dave, you're announcing this next week. How can people get involved?

Dave Isay
So we want, think of this as a July 4 resolution, which is a new thing.

Go to take one small step.org, sign up to be a part of this. Get everybody, you know to do this. We're going to start, you know, we're rolling this out in anticipation of this election where whatever happens, whoever the nominees are, on the day after the election, half the country is going to think it was stolen. So it is not going to be a good moment. So we need to strengthen those muscles that Michaela has. I didn't know she, when I heard, I heard that one of my staff members told me that she had, she had done an interview with one of your staff members and just gave me such joy of the work we've done together. So we, so we want every, we want you, everybody to participate. Do it. If you've done it before, do it again. Let's just, we have to see each other as human beings. Mother Teresa said, you know, we've forgotten that we belong to one another and, you know, we have to remember that. We do. And I can't say it better than Michaela.

Glenn Beck
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Okay, studio, anything new to report before I go into something else?

Stu
The world's on fire. Yeah, sure.

Glenn Beck
Okay, good.

Stu
Yeah, it is. I mean, it is more and more and more likely that this looks like it's going to happen. You know, there are reports out there, people are unconfirmed, of course. How do we know that potentially he could be stepping out as early as next week?

Again, I don't think this is good for Donald Trump or Republicans or conservatives or anything else, especially if.

Glenn Beck
If Big Mike is the one.

Stu
And by the way, did you see, and more than anything else, obviously, this is just a. You're trying to, you know, egg me on about the bet that we made that I had won. I don't know how it this is even a conversation, but now Joe Biden is the. Not even the favorite to win his own nomination. And they ran a poll with a bunch of different candidates to try to find out who would be the best challenger. And for all the troubles that Joe Biden has having, the polls haven't really reflected it yet. Even in this, like the only, he was better than all of the other options that were offered, including the big names like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and all these other ones. With one exception, I think he was down one point or tied with Donald Trump. Joe Biden was. And then Michelle Obama was up eleven.

Glenn Beck
Big Mike, I'm gonna use, I'm gonna use my winnings, my $4,000 that we bet, I'm gonna use that to get me across. I don't know what border, cuz we won't be welcome anywhere else, but when you pay me that $4,000, Stu. Three, that's what I mean.

Stu
No, it's not any more than three. It was 3000.

Glenn Beck
I've already said it twice.

Stu
No, you didn't matter if you said.

Glenn Beck
It, I didn't agree to it.

Back in a minute.

Stand up.

Glenn Beck.

Listen, Jack, I mean, unless you're a lion dog, pace. Phony. Phony soldier, you gotta get up pretty early in the morning, be Medicare. And that's no joke. I mean, I'm only sounding like this because I have a cold. And three weeks ago I went halfway around the world and jet lag is still. I'm.

Do you know he actually said he fell asleep during the debate? That's kind of not a good thing to admit to, but he did.

You know, maybe the president should take some z factor sleep. You know, it's from relief factor. We used to call it relief factor sleep, but it's z factor. It's a totally natural way to fall asleep, actually. He probably needs crack code cocaine to stay awake. And I think he's got a source on that one. I hear he's got a. He's got. Somebody can help him out on that. Anyways, z factor. If you'd like a great night's sleep, it works natural to help you fall asleep faster, sleep better, and stay asleep longer. Z factor from relief factor. Save 46% off your first order. Relieffactor.com relieffactor.com 1800 for relief.

Stu
Head over to blaze tv.

Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We are so glad that you tuned in today. Tomorrow is Independence Day, and I would strongly urge you to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to your kids this weekend. Do it. While you're sitting around in the yard or whatever, and they're going to roll their eyes and they're going to go, do it, do it, do it, do it.

I'm having a family reunion next week, and I'm forcing. Because it's at my place. So I can force this on. I can inflict it on my family. I'm doing around the campfire every night, I'm doing a one history story, and I'm going to tell them the true history of the patriots and villains of America and what we really stand for. And if they don't like it, tough. I'm old now. I can tell. Everybody, sit down. Get off my lawn.

So let me just do this because I've always wanted to do it, because I just think, stu, you would agree with me. This is a ratings bonanza.

Let me read to you the Declaration of Independence in Congress. July 4, 1776. The unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and then to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate but equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitles them. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. So, in other words, we're got to break up.

And we want you to understand why. And here's why.

Because we hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. And among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The part that we should start to memorize is after this, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That was unheard of.

That when any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. And to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such a form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Thomas Jefferson really thought that it would only last maybe 20 or 30 years years. And he thought there should be kind of a revolution every 30 years, every new generation, they have to fight for it themselves.

You can't just rule from the grave.

And we've done that by fighting wars. Now, we don't know our own history. We don't know what we're even fighting for.

And, you know, it has to be earned by every generation.

But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing the same object, invinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it when there's a long train, you don't change it for little reasons. But when there's a long train and it shows abuse, abuse, abuse, and it all leads to one thing.

Despotism, totalitarianism, fascism, communism, then it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such a government and provide new guards for their future security. So you can't really throw this on off and say, I want communism. You can throw this government off if it's become a dictatorship. But you have to then replace it with a government that is best to secure those natural rights.

Such has been the patient, suffering sufferance of the colonies and such. It's now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of government and the history of the present king of Great Britain. Britain is a history of repeated injuries, all having direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over these states.

And to prove this, we state these facts to a candid world.

They go into a lot of things. These are called the usurpations, and I just want to touch on them just a little bit, but you should read them all, because some of them are really very close to what is happening now.

You know, he's forbidden his governors to pass certain laws, has closed down legislatures, he has forced judges to rule his way in some areas. He's just said, nope, don't. We're not arresting anybody. We're not trying anybody. Sound familiar?

He is preventing immigration with some people, and he is promoting immigration and encouraging immigration from other people.

He has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of the colonies. He's made our judges dependent on his will. He's erected a multitude of new offices by a self assumed power. That would be the deep state he has kept among us in times of peace, armies and ships. He's combined with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation for protecting them with mock trials from punishment or any murders that they should commit.

So in other words, there's no equal justice. There's justice for some and not justice for others.

And then he gets. This is in the first draft, because this had to be voted on.

And of all of these usurpations, there's, you know, he's incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow subjects with the allurements of forfeiture or confiscation of our property. I mean, hasn't that happened with BLM, in a way, really?

And then he gets down to this, and this is in Thomas Jefferson's own handwriting. He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation.

This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain.

He's determined to keep an open market where capitalized men should be bought and sold. He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die. He is now exciting those slaves, those very people, to rise in arm arms against us, and to purchase their liberty, of which he has deprived them, and murdering the people on which he also obtruded them, thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes in which he urges them to commit against the lives of others.

There were only two colonies that voted against that. That's why it's not in the final. It was South Carolina, where the civil war started, and Georgia. In every state of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms, and our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. Three future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man adventured within the short compass of twelve years only on so many acts of tyranny without a mask over a people fostered and fixed in the principles of liberty.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned, nor have we been wanting in attentions to our british brethren.

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our immigration and settlement here. We've appealed to their native justice. We have.

And we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. But they have been death to the voice of justice. We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in war. In peace, friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in general Congress assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the recitude of our intentions, due in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies and of right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the british crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved and that as free and independent states, they have the full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances establishd, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may have a right to do.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Final thoughts before Independence Day.

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I have some final thoughts, but the White House has come out and denied now that the New York Times is telling the truth about Joe Biden telling a friend that he was thinking about dropping out. And you can't trust the New York Times because they're all in now. They're all in. They were all in before that. This was all a hoax. This was all misinformation that he was, you know, just not capable of being president United States. Now they're all in and getting him out. So you can't trust them. So I don't know what's going on other than Stu is going to be in a place where he's going to have to pay me the $5,000 that.

Stu
We, no, this is not, this is not Biden inflation. This is the same amount, 3000. And by the way, that's only if Michelle Obama wins or gets on the, gets the nomination. I will say we are going to enter a place in this bet very soon where I have no chance of winning because Biden's dropped out and you still have a chance with Michelle as a possibility. I don't like that at all.

Glenn Beck
Well, I will tell you that our bet is for $3,000. I'll let you out for $50. 1500. You pay me 1500 today and I'll let you out.

I mean, this offer only goes down from here. Still, if only goes down.

Stu
If my bet was Biden or no Biden, I would take that better. I would take the payoff, but because it's Michelle Obama, I'm sticking.

Glenn Beck
You're sticking?

Stu
I gave you $20, so last.

Glenn Beck
I'll buy myself out for $20 stone. And don't insult me. I'm not a whore.

Stu
You wouldn't be very busy if you were.

Glenn Beck
It would be my first job.

Well, forever.

So I want to just. I want to go over last thoughts for the independence weekend.

You know, there's a couple of things. They say that we're a democracy and that we're not God centered. Well, in the Declaration of Independence, we are all created equal, so that infers a God. It then mentions nature's God. And then waging a war against human nature is the work of the christian king. Meaning you're not christian. We know what christians are. You're not christian.

We humbly do the right things because we answer to mankind and to the supreme judge. Another reference to God. And with firm reliance on divine providence. So we are obviously. Obviously, we were God people from the very beginning. And all of the great changes came because of God.

They're saying that we're not a republic, that we're a democracy. Well, tell that to the battle hymn of the republic. It's not the battle hymn of the democracy. It's the battle hymn of the republic.

And when's the last time you really listened to the words?

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Lord, he's trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored he's loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift stored his truth is marching on the truth that all men are created equal and he is done with it and the truth will march on I've seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps so I've seen him with the soldiers they have builded him an altar in the evening dews and dams I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and the flaring lamps his day is marching on I've read the fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel as ye deal with my contemners contempt. Contemners, which are people that are in contempt of the law. So in other words, you know anyway.

So with you, my grace, shall let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel he has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat he's sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat. O, be swift, my soul to answer him. Be jubilant on my feet in the beauty of the lilies. Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.

He died to make men holy. And in the original song, let us die to make men free.

While God is marching on.

We are a republic. And any great advancement in this country has been done with humility.

And by following God, because he is coming and he has the swift and frightening sword. It is his wrath, not ours.

The Glenn Beck program.