Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Ambassador Monica Crowley | 6/12/25
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Big show today. Senator Mike Lee discusses the big, beautiful bill and what he's put into it. And I think you're really going to like it. Also, Senator Lee attempting to force the federal government to sell some of the land that they own and refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Jason Buttrell joins us also to discuss potential military strike on Iran. Will we be at war this weekend? And Monica Crowley joins us to discuss military parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the No Kings rally scheduled for Saturday. All on today's podcast.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program and we say that to Senator Mike Lee. Hello Mike, how are you? I'm doing great. It's good to be with you as always. So how's that whole big beautiful bill thing coming?

Well, it's definitely big. We're working on making it more beautiful and trying to get it into a position where it does the job. But we've done our part. Yesterday, as the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, we released our title, which is going to help restore American energy dominance and reduce the deficit and unlock some of our federal land that's been neglected for affordable housing.

streamline domestic production of energy and repeal the wasteful Green New Deal spending. All this is going to help us deliver lower energy costs and more housing, greater prosperity for American families. So it's a good. OK, so this is this is something that you're adding. You want to add into the bill or did you add it in?

Yeah, we added it into the bill yesterday to address it. You know, we've got a nationwide shortage of housing, a shortage estimated by some to be over 7 million affordable homes. Nearly one out of every three acres in America, meanwhile, is owned by the U.S. government. In states like Utah, it's even more extreme. Almost 70 percent of our land is controlled housing.

by people in Washington, D.C. Effectively, none of this land can be used for housing. Now, in the West, where federal land is so prevalent, that means the federal government is depriving our communities and our families of needed land for housing, and that's inhibiting growth. So President Trump has recognized that connection between federal land ownership and the housing crisis, which is why he pledged to, in his words, open up

up portions of federal land for large-scale housing construction. So what happens with the land? Does the government give it back to the states? Does the government sell the land and keep the profits? What happens there?

Yeah, the government sells the land. This proposal was estimated to generate about $10 billion over the next 10 years. It would sell the land. And it's not all of it. In fact, it's a tiny, tiny fraction, just a fraction of 1% of federal land. And it can't be in a national recreation area, national park, a monument, anything like that. It's just garden variety land that's in...

or immediately outside municipal boundaries, a place where people already live, a place where it's accessible to utility connections and things like that, where people could build houses. It would make a big difference. Yeah. Let's go to the Green New Deal handouts. This is something that you're repealing all of those handouts in this part of the Big Beautiful Bill now?

Yeah. So there are parts of these that come through my committee's jurisdiction and we're getting rid of those much bigger portion of the

of those comes through the Senate Finance Committee's jurisdiction. And one way or another, Glenn, we're going to get rid of those. Some of them will be phased out over the next three and a half years. Others will start to go away much faster. The bottom line is when the House and Senate Democrats

the Green News scam legislation to which they assigned the Orwellian name of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really quite the opposite of that. They did that without a single Republican vote. And they did that in order to incorporate...

sort of their climate change religion into our national ethos. They did that without a single Republican vote. We should not have a single Republican voting to extend those, and that's why we're getting rid of them. Those things create market distortions. They change the incentives in a way that makes us

more vulnerable with our energy grid, things that result in irrational, inefficient decisions, we're getting rid of all of it. So, Mike, I was glad to see in this portion of the bill that you guys have worked on and are putting in now, or put into the big, beautiful bill, the refilling of the Strategic Oil Reserve.

We are last night, and I know you're aware of this. You have to be. Last night, we made moves that usually only happen right before war. We brought all of the families home from all of the bases in Middle East. We told all of the I think we closed or just at least reduced the staff of many of the

embassies around in the Middle East. There's talk that Israel is going to strike Iran if that happens. I mean, we could go into war. We could have $200 a barrel oil if this thing went poorly. And we have almost no strategic oil reserve.

It's yet another reason for us to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It's also another reason, Glenn, why we've got to open up our own energy capacity in the United States, including our own oil and gas production. We've got a lot of oil. We've got a lot of gas. We've got a lot of other great natural resources that we use for energy, for manufacturing and all sorts of things.

All this stuff has been stymied by a federal permitting process that has gotten out of control, and we're doing everything we can to streamline that process. So that, too, can become part of our strategic petroleum reserve, you might say, not just the official SPR, but also the...

The fact that, yeah, yeah, exactly. We open up and war. We open up other federal lands that have a lot of oil and gas will be in much better shape.

You know, I it's so curious to me that all of the people who have been strongest in pushing this, you know, global warming agenda are now totally silent when the A.I. needs so much energy. And they're like, we have to have coal plants. We have to have nuclear power plants. And all of a sudden, those things are OK again with so many. But please.

please address this with the audience. How, how essential it is that we do not play the same games. We are running out of time to be able to produce massive amounts of energy that we're going to need within the next three years.

- Yeah, exactly. As my friend Alex Epstein points out in books that he's written, including one called "Fossil Future," he points out that we need energy. And if you're worried about climates changing, and climates do change, the best thing we can do to address weather-related crises and things like that is to continue to utilize clean, abundant, affordable sources of energy.

That's how human beings survive. That's how human beings will continue to thrive and prosper in the future.

And so we shouldn't go off on any more of these larks, any more of these. You know, it's essentially a secular religion to those who have been pushing climate alarmism. And we've got to reject that and stop forcing people into this. Look, if somebody wants to try to avoid using any source of power that doesn't come from a unicorn, a windmill or a solar panel, fine.

But don't force the rest of us to accept your false religion. Let me go to NPR and PBS. Is this in the Big Beautiful, Bill?

I have yet to see a title that deals with them directly. I have heard that we are likely to defund them and it's got to happen because these are entities that are federally funded. I've been saying for a long time, government funded propaganda is wrong.

There's all kinds of propaganda out there. It's a natural outgrowth of the First Amendment. But government funded advertising is a particular type of evil that we should avoid. And I understand people have most Americans have decades worth of exposure to PBS and NPR. And most people, regardless of their political background, can point out good things that PBS and NPR have produced over the years.

Increasingly, what we've seen is that those entities are becoming less and less inclined to provide a fair, objective set of messages to the American people. And increasingly, they are hell-bent on making sure that a far-left agenda is being portrayed, communicated through these government-funded networks. They have every right to say whatever they want.

They say whatever they want, within the laws of what our broadcast regulations allow, of course. But they do not have a right to do so with government funding.

It's bad enough the American people have to work months out of every year just to pay their federal taxes. They shouldn't, on top of that, have to pay those federal taxes so that some of them can be used to distribute messages that they regard as wrong, as corrupting, as taking us down the wrong direction politically, which of course they do.

By the way, anybody who says they're killing Big Bird, Big Bird has quite a quite an operation behind him. I've never seen any anything more successful than Sesame Street in the toy store. They've they're fine. They can make money on their own. Last thing, Mike, did the the spat between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, did that help or hurt this bill?

You know, in the end, it's hard to say what impact it'll have on that, in part because the book isn't closed on this bill. The bill is not even fully written yet, much less passed. And so that's hard to say. I will say this just on a personal level. It was saddening to me to see it.

there was an energy that came about through that romance. I really liked the duo of Trump and Musk. I thought it gave a lot of momentum to the cause of government reform. And, you know, maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I would love to see those wounds healed. And I'd love to see that team get back together at some point.

Yeah, I you know, it looks like the president, you know, president yesterday or day before said some really nice things about Elon Musk and and Elon Musk came out and said it was inappropriate. It was over the top of what I did. And so, you know, maybe there's a there's a chance. But is this bill going to pass? And if so, how long before we see a up or down vote?

Yeah, look, I suspect that some version of this bill is going to pass. I will reiterate, as I've told you and others in the past, the bill as it was passed in the House,

Will not pass. That will not become law in part because it just doesn't do enough when you're raising the debt as much as they're trying to raise it here. And when you're dealing with an almost thirty seven trillion dollar debt and you've got an opportunity to pass something with Republican votes and only Republican votes, you can do better than that. You have to do better than that because our debt is going to eat us alive unless we stop our debt from eating us.

So we're doing everything we can to save additional money to bring down our annual deficits substantially in this. Because under the House-passed bill, it would more or less perpetuate $2 trillion annual deficits. That's just not sustainable. Our debt's growing faster than our economy, and that's a killer. Mike Lee, the senator from the state of Utah. Always good to talk to you, Mike. Say hi to the family for me, William.

We'll do. Thanks so much, Glenn. All right. You bet. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because...

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Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. I want you to think back on what it felt like on September 12th. You remember that? We at one point did the 9-12 project because I wanted to remind people what it felt like when we all stood together. It was the day after the bombings of the World Trade Center. I can't believe I actually have to refresh people's memories, but there are so many people now in the audience that didn't live through it, didn't know.

But the World Trade Centers came down and we were shell shocked and all of us knew we were going to war. All of us knew this is a problem. Never seen that before in the days when we never said, well, never seen that before.

We saw something we didn't expect and that first day we were freaking out. The second day we came together and we were strong and we stood in our principles, but we realized this thing is so fragile. It could come apart any moment. If somebody really wanted to take us down, they could do it, especially if it was a coordinated effort.

Luckily, 9-11 wasn't necessarily a global coordinated effort. I mean, I think there was more coordination than anybody wants to talk about, but it still was not like it is now.

With everything that is going on in the world right now, with everything that is coming, the L.A. riots, the the no kings, which I hope are not riots, but just demonstrations on Saturday in Washington, D.C. These these protests and riots, well-funded, all left radical revolutionary stuff happening in our streets.

Israel, we found out last night, is on the verge of striking Iran. Can we play what the president said just yesterday about his negotiations with Iran? Do you think you're going to be able to stop Iran from enriching its? I don't know. I did think so. And I'm getting more and more less confident about it. They seem to be

And I think that's a shame, but they, I'm less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of, of,

deal be made I would have said a deal would be made something happened to them like oh I don't know maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm trying to have instincts about things you think China taught them and no I don't think China has anything to do with it I just think maybe that maybe they don't want to make a deal what can I say but and maybe they do mmm so what is that there's nothing final what happens then well if they don't make a deal they're not gonna have a nuclear weapon right

If they do make a deal, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon, too. But they're not going to have a nuclear weapon, so it's not going to matter from that standpoint. But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying. It's so much nicer to do it. But I don't think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal. I think they would make a mistake, but we'll see. I guess time will tell.

You have to remember that the president knows he is negotiating at all times. He you have to understand when he speaks, he's not speaking to the reporter. And I've I've known enough presidents, spoken to enough presidents, and I know this one quite well.

And I was yelled at by George W. Bush about this very thing. The president can't say everything that is on his mind because the world is watching and there are analysts all over the world dissecting his every eye movement, let alone his words. And I thought it was interesting to say, I don't know. It seems like something happened to them.

But he followed it up with and she talked over it. I just have a good instinct on that. So what he's saying is, I don't have any intel, Iran, on this. I just have a pretty good gut. What is going on with you? Because you've changed. Then she said, is it Iran? No, it's not. It's not China. It's not involving China at all. I just think they're not interested. So what has changed?

He was sending them a message. He knows something that they know now he knows. I have no idea what it is. But remember, it was just a few days ago. He was telling Benjamin Netanyahu, do not strike them. I want a deal. Do not strike them. And and I was cheering for that because I don't I mean, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

But at the same time, we do not, if there is any other way than Israel going in, we need to take that other way. But President Trump says something happened to them. That, to me, says one of their allies may have stepped to the plate or they know something we don't know about us.

Now, Israel is on the verge of striking Iran. That came out yesterday. The U.S. has just evacuated all non-essential embassy staff, pulled all military families out of the region. That does not happen unless we are preparing for war. That's the only time stuff like that happens. On our own streets, New York, Los Angeles, radical Hamas riots, draped in socialist slogans, are growing. They are not spontaneous.

This week, two days ago, the leader of Al Qaeda. Yeah, Al Qaeda is calling on Muslims in America to kill Americans with no red line. That's not a metaphor. That is direct incitement. That is Al Qaeda saying Muslims in America now go, go, go.

The world has gotten dark quickly, or has it been quickly? Some of us have been pointing this out for a very long time. We just happen to be now in a position where everybody is starting to position their forces. And it is terrifying, but it all comes down to one thing. We forgot. We forgot that evil exists. We forgot what evil looks like. We forgot we have to name evil.

We forgot that peace is not the default setting of mankind. It is the exception. We forgot that empires don't fall from things that come from without. They fall from within. Our military is strong, but our will is fractured. Our economy is still the largest, but it's built on debt and digital illusions. Our spirit, our national soul, exhausted, divided, distracted. We don't even know who we are anymore.

So let me go back. Can America remain standing? And here's my answer. Yes. If we remember, if we remember that evil does exist, that there is no such thing as neutral when it comes to evil. If we remember that this nation was not built on comfort, it was built on courage.

If we reject the lies that are dividing us by race and faith or class or even political opinion, and remember that we are Americans, and what does that mean? It means we hold certain truths to be self-evident. Those things bind us together deeper than blood. Liberty, responsibility, our God-given rights.

Will we survive? Yes. But only if we prepare, not in fear, but in faith, not in panic, but in resolve. Because what's coming? Well, it's not chaos for the sake of chaos. It is an entire realignment of the world. And we have to decide right now, are we willing just to be swept away?

Or will we stand and stand firm and unshakable because we truly believe that there are certain truths that are unchangeable, that no one can change them? They were gifts to us from God, and those gifts come with responsibilities. And if we remember those things and then say, you know, is that worth fighting for? Is that worth living for? Is that worth struggling for?

Pray for peace, but prepare for fire and never ever forget the most important thing I can tell you today. Never forget this. No matter what you hear on TV, hear from any kind of anybody. When the world goes dark, it only takes one torch to light the way. One. Light yours.

All right. We're going to go through everything that is happening with Iran and with Israel, what the options are, what those look like. Because I you know, if if if Iran responds the way they might respond, the world is going to get involved. They have to. And we'll explain that here in just a second. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

Stoole, do you have any idea what it's like? I mean, Jason is up this week and he's staying up at the ranch.

And do you have any idea what it's like to have me and Jason in the same house for a week? It's not a happy place. No. Many visions of global apocalypse have been discussed. Yeah. I was working yesterday on what's happening with Hamas and Hezbollah. I just had finished the show. What is happening on the streets of Los Angeles and everything else? And I'm sitting there. I'm a little exhausted. And he comes up.

have you heard the news like no what I think Israel's gonna bomb uh let's not out of Iran could be tonight could be tonight you know what that means no I don't think I it means total collapse it's going to be ugly dogs and cats are going to be tearing each other's eyes out uh and and you know and it's a very good it's a very good possibility Kamala comes back and she's the president of the United States it's going to be that bad Glenn I'm like okay thank you and I'm not going to sleep

Sounds like a fun time. This is why you moved into the mountains, though, right? Yeah, it is. To get away from Jason. Well, okay, so Jason, take me through this, because yesterday the government did some things that they don't ever do, at least I haven't seen them do, unless war is pretty imminent.

Right? Yes. Can I start with maybe the possible upside, though? Yeah. Before we freak everybody out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the possible upside is, as we were watching all the developments yesterday, so was Iran. So were their people, especially because negotiations between us and the Iranians is still going on.

In fact, I think they're supposed to meet Sunday because the original ultimatum that Trump gave Iran was, I think it was 60 days. It's supposed to run out, I believe, today. So this is the negotiation of negotiations. Like this Sunday is big. Okay. So this all might be.

kabuki theater to get them to the table you saw i mean even trump's interview i mean yeah he is a master negotiator oh yeah and strategist on these things so this could be look hey this is what you're playing with you didn't give this to me last night well i gotta save some for i mean i was awake all night and he you're like oh yeah but it's probably negotiation he was like tanya go get the food supply let's go

All right. So it might be. But do we do we make these moves? I mean, that is a master negotiator, but that's an expensive move and a big move to pull everybody out of the embassies and to pull all of the families out from the military bases. Yeah. So so that is very big. So.

In a single 24-hour period, we had the Pentagon authorizing the voluntary withdrawal of dependents and family members from some of these locations within the Middle East.

Almost immediately after that, another, I don't know if you call this a leak or release came out that we were sending out emergency information to all of the diplomatic facilities, embassies within striking range of Iran. So you're talking about like Northeast Africa, all the Middle East, all those areas saying put together a comprehensive emergency plan and then send a diplomatic cable back to us to let us know what that plan is. Now, at this point, we were like,

Okay, what exactly is going on now? Again, at the same time, we get Senator Cotton saying that Pete Hegseth confirmed to them inside Congress saying that, okay, now Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.

And then Sky News right after that said, yes, for the first time, the UN is admitting to us that for the first time in over 20 years, Iran is just not, they're not, they don't care about any of the, you know, the proliferation, anything. They're just going all out. Good. This was all spewing out immediately within 24 hours. Stu, help me. Help me, please. Help me. You've already run away to, you know, outside of all civilization. I don't know what more help you can get.

I mean, you have a shovel. I need, I can tunnel into the, I can tunnel in, you know, remember the, when the, what was it? The dwarves, you know, they, they tunneled into that mountain in one of the, you know, the Lord of the Rings thing. And they were in that mountain with the dragon and stuff. I think we could do that. You just get some shovels. Let's go, let's go. Um, so, uh,

I know you were up until the sun rose in Tehran because you were monitoring it because you were waiting for the skies to light up. I said this morning that I think if there's a strike, it'll happen after the stock market closes on Friday because this would cause massive disruption. And let's just talk about first before we get into what

The response would be and what we would have to do and what other countries would have to do. When Israel goes over, they're saying they're going to bomb the nuclear facilities, but we don't think they have enough to build a bomb yet. But there's a chance. And if they don't get all of it, it's real trouble.

Yeah, you best not miss. There's multiple, multiple nuclear sites within Iran. Just off the top of my head, I can think of six to nine.

I believe that they would have to at least have some kind of strike on. Some of the facilities are so well entrenched because they've been planning this for a long time and to defend specifically against an attack like this. They're so dug under the ground and protected and hardened that you're probably talking about multiple strikes at a single target. Right. So this we're talking about like it's not going to be like a single strike. This is like this in a way. It's kind of like Top Gun 2.

Yeah. Where they were going after and they had to, you know, they had to first land a bomb and then another one had to follow into that hole. Yeah. Right. Because it was all buried so deeply. Yeah. I mean, it's this is going to be precision stuff. Precision stuff. Top gun, too, but probably spread out over a week of multiple dangerous runs like that. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. You're looking at. Yeah, it's more than just a single night operation. It would go on for several days. Oh, my gosh.

Okay, so now, how does Iran respond? That's the question. Yeah. Immediately counterattack with a strike like what we saw, what was that, a few months ago. Something similar to that, just to start, and then the scary stuff happens. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. While we are sitting here.

And we are looking at the 250th anniversary coming this weekend. There is a new story out about the Jefferson Memorial, where the National Park Service is nearing completion of a renovation of the Jefferson Memorial to

That turns the site into a condemning portrayal of the president's legacy. According to the city journal, the project aims to completely renovate the basement exhibit level of the memorial to provide more perspectives as it shares Thomas Jefferson's multifaceted story.

Uh,

Mike, a literate literist said, certainly you need to take a look at the paradox of the author of the lines. All men are created equal who own more than 600 slaves in his life. You know, Mike, how come he owned 600 slaves? Why did he, why didn't he sell them? Yeah. I'm waiting for an answer from anybody in the audience. Anybody, why did he have 600 slaves? Why didn't he sell them? Why didn't he release them on his death? Why?

That's kind of stuff I bet they're not going to have in the basement. The renovation is funded in part by a $10 million grant from David Rubenstein. The NPS press release said Rubenstein previously funded exhibits about slavery at Montpelier, the home of James Madison and Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. In 2019, Rubenstein said he donated the project so when people go, they can actually learn about Jefferson.

In a piece announcing his donations, Smithsonian magazine called Jefferson a man of huge contradictions. No, not really. The memorial renovation will focus on reinterpreting Jefferson, particularly in light of the allegations that Jefferson had four illegitimate children with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. Now, the magazine and everybody else ignores in all of the major studies, none of them have come to that conclusion.

At the very worst for Thomas Jefferson, they say we have examined the DNA and it is not possible. Why isn't it possible? Because all of the documents of Thomas Jefferson's time are

shows that it was his brother who was being scandalous with the slaves, not Thomas Jefferson. So they don't know. But that doesn't stop anybody from carving that into stone.

By the way, if you really want to understand Thomas Jefferson, how do you understand a man who owns slaves and then wrote, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, to assume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station for which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare those causes which impel them to separation."

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights.

that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. And whenever that form of government becomes destructive of those 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 more likely to affect their safety and happiness.

This is from the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

He goes on to say the history of the present king of Great Britain has a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations among which appear no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tender of the rest, but all have in a direct object of the establishment of absolute tyranny over these states. And to prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world. And so they listed all of their grievances.

And they were all one or two lines. The king did this. We tried to do this. And he stopped us by doing this. All one or two lines, except for the last usurpation. In Thomas Jefferson's own handwriting,

He, the king, 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 thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain."

who's determined to keep an open market where 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 very people, the slaves, to rise up in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them of,

by murdering the people upon whom he has also obtruded them, thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people with crimes he urges them now to commit against the lives of another. Thomas Jefferson was passionate, passionate about this. I'm going to leave it at that, and maybe you can figure out why this didn't go into the

Final draft. Was it Thomas Jefferson's fault? Because he wrote that while he was alone in a room himself. Why would every other line be one or two? But this one is a massive paragraph, half a page. Why? If he didn't care, if he was such a sphinx, if he's so complex that we just can't figure him out. You could figure him out. All you need is the facts and they're all available. They're all right there.

You know, yesterday I announced that I'm going to be expanding my mission a great deal coming in January. And I'll tell you more about it, but part of it is the reason why Monica Crowley just said, I know you have warehouses full of, you know, artifacts of American history. Not quite accurate, but it feels like it at times. I've been collecting it to be able to share it with you.

And that has never been open to the public. We do it now on a reservation only basis. And you're only allowed to see 1% of the collection. It's massive. But we've been doing things over the last three years, digitizing, scanning everything.

We have now almost completed a system that is totally searchable. You don't have to know what you're looking for. It's searchable by vectors. It will figure out what you're looking for and then show you all the possibilities. And hopefully, when we're finished...

It will point you right to the answer you're looking for without any hallucinations because it's a wired off system. It can only contain the things we put in it and it has to memorize all of it. That's where hallucinations comes from, from AI. And you will be able to search the entire language. I don't care if you speak Swahili.

it will translate it into Swahili. When we're done, it will also, you can say, I'm eight, I don't understand that. And it will break it down to your level and your language. If you want to know more about this, be the first to find out. Just go to glennbeck.com and sign up for our daily newsletter. I will use that mailing list to alert you because we're going to need your help. You know, I said yesterday that

I had the same exact feeling, this prompting, this push back in 2009 and 10 about the media. And that led me to start Blaze, which totally changed the media. Nobody was doing anything online. There was nobody of note there.

Nobody took it seriously. Nobody thought about doing anything live online. It wasn't even possible at the time. But we did. Now look at what now look at the world. Look at what's happening. And that was because of you. We were first through the door. And I I think what we have that I've been building now with with my team offside, in fact,

They're all around the world. We have one team in one hemisphere and one team in the other hemisphere. So we literally don't sleep. The work goes on 24 hours a day. And I'm going to need your help and your advice and your counsel.

But if you want to be a part of it and you want to know more about it, we will have details coming soon. And you can find them at glennbeck.com. Just sign up for our newsletter. Now that you've tortured journalists and sent them to Google and chat GPT to get the answer, can you reveal why Thomas Jefferson did not release his slaves upon his death?

Because no matter how many times he tried in Virginia, because he went to Virginia, his state capital, and he ran and and became a state legislator of some sort. I remember his exact title. He tried to change the law over and over and over again.

But he couldn't change it. They wouldn't change it in Virginia, even though they voted for that part of the Declaration of Independence. They wanted that in the Declaration of Independence. There were only two states that said no to that. And it needed to be a unanimous declaration. And so it was Georgia and North Carolina that voted against that.

And he went and he tried to do it over and over again in his own state, made some progress in some areas, not progress in others. But he could not release them because one thing he couldn't get done is slaves were viewed by the banks as property.

And if you were in debt, you couldn't just give away your property. That debt had to be paid to your debtors. Just like now, you go declare bankruptcy. They got to take what you have and divvy it up.

And so you couldn't sell your slaves. You couldn't release your slaves because they had real value and your debtors were looking for their money. And he was millions at the time, millions of dollars in debt. So he wasn't he wouldn't no matter what he tried, he wasn't able to do it. But he fought for that right for everybody in Virginia, not just him.