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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We've got quite a program for you today. We're going to start with politics. We have Mike Lee on. He's going to be talking about some of the things in the big, beautiful bill that he would like to see changed. He's introducing a bill today or introducing it to be introduced into the bill. Also, we have a candidate for Texas Attorney General. And I called all of my real deep constitutional friends and I said, tell me about this guy, will you? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

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All right. Happy to introduce a candidate for Texas attorney general. And he is the he was the go to guy for all of the litigation against the Biden administration in Texas. He was the number two guy in Texas. His name is Aaron Reitz. Hello, Aaron. How are you? Hey, Glenn. I'm great. How are you?

I'm really glad to hear that you're running. Tell me a little bit so people know who you are. Tell me a little bit of your background.

Sure. Well, thanks for having me. And I'm proud to share this news with Texans on your show for the first time. So, look, here's the deal with Attorney General Paxton now throwing his hat in the ring for the United States Senate. It's giving Texans a once in a decade opportunity to put a what President Trump called me in.

a true MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution to succeed Paxton and keep his foot on the gas to press in hard on all the things that Texans really care about, whether it's border security, election integrity, the attempts to trans our kids, the woke-ification of our schools, environmental overreach, all of these issues.

I've spent the past several years litigating, investigating, defending and appealing, working hard on. And my body is covered in scars from the kinds of lawfare that I've been engaged in. And I think that Texas,

Texas voters want to see their next attorney general continue on the aggressive battle tested path that we've enjoyed over the past several years. I think I bring that to the table. I think Texans want an AG who's built in that mold. And I think folks can I want folks to join that fight by going to my Web site, Aaron Wright's dot com, A-R-O-N-R-E-I-T-Z dot com.

So help me out on a couple of things. We are getting all kinds of pressures. The Soros people are just dumping money into Texas and trying to make sure that Ken Paxton does not win the Corrin race. And then you, I'm sure you're going to be a target of it as well.

What are the things that we must, must preserve and must fight for in Texas to remain Texas? Because I think we're getting a little soft in some places. Yeah, you're exactly right. Look, I understand with very clear eyes that we as a country and as a state are in the midst of really a civilizational battle for the soul and the heart of what it means to be an American and what it means to be a Texan. And there are forces out there who are extremely,

extraordinarily well-funded who see Texas. They see Texas as representing the best values and virtues of our country and our rich traditions, and they want to destroy it. And they've got unlimited money to move into our school districts, to our urban centers, to our HR departments in Texas-based companies. And they want to turn Texas into something that it's not, that it never was,

And it never ought to be. And so what you need in the Texas attorney general's office is a real MAGA warrior who's going to partner with the president, work with him, the administration, the Justice Department and all of our allies within the state to really hold the line. The Texas attorney general has vast influence.

investigative and litigating powers to hold these Soros-funded DAs and mayors and other blue state agitators and all of the nonprofits that are funding these riots that are happening, not just in LA, but in Austin, the state capital. You have to have an AG who is going to understand the nature of the threat

and has the experience to be able to go into the arsenal of legal weapons that he'll have at his disposal and fight against the enemies of our country and the heart of what it means to be Texas. And that includes issues ranging from election integrity, border security, backing our cops,

ensuring that our kids are not being indoctrinated with woke nonsense, that we're not harboring illegal aliens and ensuring that when Texans go to the ballot box, that they can trust that their vote is being counted and that aliens and other, you know, box stuffers are not being counted either. And if we don't have an A.G.,

that can hold that line. If you don't have an AG who has experience in that kind of legal warfare, I think it's going to make Texas slip into the hands of the left before we know it. What would you be doing if you were the Attorney General in California? And you didn't have Governor Newsom on top of you, but what would you be doing if what was happening in California and you were the AG and it was happening here in Texas?

What would you be investigating doing? What would happen? Yeah, it's funny you frame it like that, Glenn, because, you know, I announced my resignation last night from the Justice Department. And a lot of my friends who kind of knew what was going on, I was texting with many of them. And I said, guys, I'm resigning from the Justice Department so I can go get activated by the Marine Corps and go hold the line against these insurrectionists. So that

You know, don't tempt me, Glenn, with a good time to suppress the insurrection that's happening in California. This kind of thing, by the way, Glenn, is happening in Texas at a different scale. If you were to look at images, I would just encourage you and your viewers to Google images of Austin protests, Austin riots, riots.

Right now in Texas, these sorts of things are happening. So what I would want to do as Texas attorney general is reassure our local sheriff's departments and our police officers that we've got their back. What you're seeing in Texas, and this is actually happening where you have Soros funded DAs in all the major counties in Texas,

that are litigating against our police officers who put their lives, safety, and health and welfare on the line to keep our community safe. And so I want...

cops to know that I've got their back. I want our families to know that I'm there to help keep the community safe. And I'm here to back the blue, enforce law and order, and ensure that Texas and our cities and our communities are places where you can live peaceably, invest in

prosperously, not have to worry about your stores getting looted by the rioters. And I think people, when they look into my background, they'll realize that I'm the guy that's fit for the job. And to learn more about me, I would encourage folks to go to my website, Aaron writes dot com, a r o n r e i t z dot com.

You are very good. Very, very good at that. So tell me about your challenger because this guy is a huge GOP donor, been involved with the GOP forever, wealthy, wealthy, wealthy oil and gas guy. He says he's going to spend at least $10 million on his election kickoff. You're against massive money and an insider with the GOP.

Yeah, look, I think that that's right. But one of the things I've learned as I talk with major sort of Texas Republican primary grassroots leaders and influential figures in the state and folks who are looking to back a candidate who has a proven MAGA track record, someone who the president called influential.

a true MAGA attorney, someone who the president called a warrior for the constitution, someone who has experience fighting alongside President Trump at the Justice Department, someone who has experience and a proven track record fighting along Senator Cruz.

someone who has a proven track record fighting alongside Attorney General Ken Paxton as his deputy, and who has a long record of, like I said before, litigating, defending, suing, investigating, appealing on all of the major issues that Texans care about. I think that folks will look at my and any other challenger, whether it's the one you're referring to or frankly any other entrance into the race,

There is not a candidate available right now at this time in history and in Texas's election season that is going to be able to prove that my body is covered in the scars of this war that we've been in. And so what I want folks to look at is not whether a candidate has played GOP politics as usual, not whether he has bankrolled

organizations and other candidates to secure endorsements, not whether there's a flashy money play, but look at the records, look at the experience, look at the scars, look at the energy, look at the fights, look at the blood that has been shed, look at the threats that have been made.

ask yourself who's bought the state bar license has been investigated ask yourself who has been boxed ask yourself which like dick durbin the senior uh... a democrat on the senate judiciary committee called quote a danger to democracy or corey booker who during my hearing uh... for the justice department said that i sent a chill down his spine ask yourself which other candidate

Is this feared by the left and has the scars to show that he's ready to show up on day one and be a MAGA warrior for Texas to partner with this administration, uphold law and order, enforce the rule of law and other people. I understand they may try to outrace. They may try to outrace me, but I don't think that that's what Texans want. I think they want a MAGA warrior situation.

for the Constitution, who's going to continue pressing in on Ken Paxson's fights, continue that legacy, work with this administration and has the record to back it up. And for people, if they want to know more about what that record is and my issues, I don't just have a policy page. Your average politician has like a these are my issues. I've got a track record page. And so you can see that on Aaron writes dot com, a r o n r e i t z dot com.

All right. Aaron, it is great to talk to you. You've been listening to a Marine, Texas top legal strategist under Attorney General Ken Paxton. He was the guy who led all of the with Paxton, all of the lawsuits against Biden. He is or was the chief of staff for Senator Ted Cruz.

also has been appointed and just resigned President Donald Trump's head of legal policy under Attorney General Bondi in the Department of Justice. It is great to talk to you. Thank you for your service to our country and our state. And I wish you all the best of luck, Aaron. Really. Thank you, Glenn. Look forward to fighting this fight along you.

You got it. Aaron writes, R-E-I-T-Z, writes, R-E-I-T-Z for Texas.com. Okay, let's see. We're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and give you some of the news. And then we have Mike Lee on to talk about something he's introducing in for the BBB, the big, beautiful bill coming up in just a second. Also, there's some really disturbing things happening in the Middle East that we need to talk about. This could be a very...

Very dangerous weekend. People are expecting that Israel is going to bomb Iran. We made some moves yesterday that are only made right before war. Would you agree with that, Jason? Buttrell is here. Would you agree with that? You're about to go kinetic. What did you say? About to go kinetic, usually. Yeah. Some moves that I've only seen right before we go to war, and they're disturbing. And I think...

Everybody's expecting it today or tomorrow, and I think they're going to wait for the weekend because of the stock market, because it could cause real, real problems. All right, we're going to get to that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Lear Capital. Ever heard the phrase, once in a generation? No.

Yeah, yeah. In fact, it seems like I hear that all the time. Now, once in a generation, inflation. Once in a generation, housing crisis. Once in a generation, debt levels. Okay, I don't have faith in any of these generations to be able to fix any of it because they were the generations that were making all the problems.

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Welcome to Stuberg here. Hello, Stu. How are you? Good, Glenn. How are you? Oh, my gosh. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. The candidate sounded pretty good. I just wish he had a website.

What was that again? I got to tell you, I love these guys who come on and actually know how to do it. You know what I mean? Yeah. How many times have I said to authors, you got to lead with the name of your book. Lead with the name of your book. In my latest book, Name Inserted Here, I talk about, and nobody knows how to do it. This guy gets on everything.

he knows how to promote his website. Yes. A little respect for you on that one. Including how to spell his name. That was very clear. He wanted to make sure people understood that. And now I think we do. But he's great. I think he should change the spelling on his website. He should get both. He should get R-I-T-E-S, rights. And he should get R-I-G-H-T-S. And his campaign should be Rights for Texas.

I'm standing up for your rights, rights for Texas. I give that to him for free. Wow. I just give it to him for free. That's an in-kind donation. You're going to be going to prison by the next Democratic administration. Well, that's happening one way or another, Stu. That's fair point. If the Democrats win in 2028, we're all going to prison. Just want to let you know. But you'll look nice in orange. It's a good color on you. No, I don't think so, Glenn, because I was listening to Gavin Newsom.

And he was just he couldn't believe that anyone would consider putting a political opponent in prison. He couldn't even conceive of the idea that anyone would even attempt to do such a thing. So we know if he were to win, that definitely wouldn't occur. No, not at all. Not at all.

I mean, unless they're a threat to democracy, then they have to go to prison. Well, yes, of course. I understand that we just blew through all of our merchandise yesterday. No king but Christ. And, you know, I got a lot of email from Jewish listeners that said, I can't. What am I doing?

And I'm like, look, you know, maybe we can change it. No king but the savior. You know, we can make that for Jews. We just disagree. I think he's already been here. You're still waiting for him. Whatever. But, you know, the no king but Christ merchandise. I unleashed this yesterday. This has been a thing that I was just making for my friends and family and coworkers. And it has the skull and crossbones on the back, which is a personal logo that I found from the founding era.

And it's the skull and crossbones. And then above it, the skull is a crown that is floating above the head. And that was their symbol back then saying to King George, no king but Christ. That's who we answer to. And I've always loved that. And so I made this kind of a personal logo a long time ago and started making T-shirts saying,

And I saw that the no kings protest is happening on Saturday. By the way, we've got the lowdown from the ambassador coming up in about an hour and a half from today's program and podcast. But they're saying no kings. And I'm asking Randy Weingarten, who's just a godless animal, who's your king? You don't have a king. Who's your king? Who are you answering to? Some committee, some...

You know, some unconstitutional, unelected Kamala Harris kind of thing. I mean, who's your king? I know who mine is. I don't have an earthly king. I have a heavenly king. I know exactly who I answer to. If you feel that way, you can get the merchandise at glennbeck.com. There's hats and everything else that are coming, but you can get the t-shirts right now. glennbeck.com

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Have you ever had that moment where you look at your finances and think, I think these belong to somebody else? I'm not really sure. I don't know how I got behind on the bills like this. But the credit card balances are much higher than you remember. The mortgage payment feels a little heavier each month. And somewhere along the way, that just-in-case fund got used.

Most Americans are in that boat right now and with rates all over the place, inflation still creeping, although it is way down. It's the lowest it's been since when, Stu? I think it's only 0.1% inflation, isn't it? Or is it 1% inflation? It was 0.1% month to month. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

So still, I mean, still, it's still rising. Let's be honest. Let's not do what Biden did. It's still rising. But that is unbelievably almost flat. Here's what I would like you to do. Get out of debt. You may not think you're going to be able to do it, but make a 10 minute phone call right now. 10 minutes. You could save as much as a thousand dollars every month. American Financing, 800-906-2440, 800-906-2440, AmericanFinancing.net.

Head over to Glenn Beck dot com. Get on the list for the free email newsletter. Sign up now. Glenn Beck dot com. 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 is 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 thing. Okay.

So this is something that 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 by

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, wilderness area, 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. A much bigger portion 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 passed 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 families.

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...

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

You know, it's so curious to me that all of the people who have been strongest in pushing this global warming agenda are now totally silent when the AI 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 okay again with so many. But please...

please address this with the audience, 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

is wrong. There's all kinds of propaganda out there. It's a natural outgrowth of the First Amendment, but government-funded propaganda 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.

I just say whatever I 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 for 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 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 $37 trillion 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.

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Next hour, I want to talk to you about if Iran, I'm sorry, if Israel strikes Iran.

And I think it could happen this weekend. We made some moves last night, kept Jason up, who is our military analyst. He was up all night until the sun came up in Turan, right? Before people were like, okay, it looks like we have another day. I think personally it's going to happen on the weekend. If it does happen, I think it'll happen either Friday night, our time.

or sometimes Saturday, give the markets a chance to see what's going on. Because this could cause a massive stock crisis. And depending, and I'm going to lay this all out for you next hour, depending on how Iran reacts,

This could be the moment that changes the entire world. And they've been preparing for this for a very long time. And Israel has got to be right. You better get all of it because we don't think they have a nuclear weapon, but we know they're close. And we also know they're close with other countries that have a nuclear weapon. And God forbid they have one and Israel misses it. They will launch it.

They will launch it. Burn in the fire of the Islamic fury is one of their favorite sayings over there, that the Jews will burn in the fires of the Islamic fury.

Make no mistake, that's why they want a nuclear weapon. I don't want to get involved in any of this, but that ship is going to pass us. We are going to have to respond. The whole world is going to respond to this because 80% of the world's oil passes through that area permanently.

And you don't just collapse oil. By the way, thank you, Joe Biden. We don't have a strategic oil reserve. Our strategic oil reserve, what does it last us now? A day? I think six hours. It's something ridiculous. We just kept draining the strategic oil reserve. And Joe Biden's like, I ain't gonna take that. And they never refilled it.

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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Well, hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Today, I want to urge you to pray for peace, but prepare for the fire. Because things are about to change here in America. And...

With all of the pressures on us right now, if they all start to come down at once, this is the time when I said people will look at the rest around the rest of the world and they'll say, wow, they're weak and they've got everything coming at them at once. Now, go, go, go, go, go. We might

And that moment. And I saw some disturbing things happen last night. I want to bring you aware. But I don't do this to cause you fear. I just want you to be mentally and physically prepared. Spiritually prepared. Because we'll make it if we keep our senses and we do the right thing.

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800 the number four relief all right i want you to think back on what it felt like on september 12th you remember that we at one point did the 912 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, uh, the world trade centers, uh, 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. Um,

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. First, Iran.

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So, 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. 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 gonna be ugly dogs and cats are gonna be tearing each other's eyes out uh and and uh 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 gonna be that bad glenn i'm like okay thank you and i'm not gonna 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's big. Okay. So this all might be a Kabuki theater to get them to the table. You saw, I mean, even Trump's interview. I mean, he is a master negotiator 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. What?

I got to save some for... I mean, I was awake all night. And he was like, oh yeah, but it's probably negotiation. He was like, Tanya, 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. So,

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 this is 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. Okay, so let's get into that here in just a second. Also, I want to talk to you about what's happening in New York on the medical front. And Governor Hochul, what she's... I mean, it's...

It is amazing how dark the left can go. Be the light. This is Glenn Beck.

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If you missed any part of the show, you can always get it on the Glenn Beck podcast. It's available wherever you get your podcasts or at glennbeck.com. You know, Sarah, who's in our control room, do you have anything that would make this whole Iran retaliating thing a little more tolerable? Do you have any, I don't know, Herb Alpert or...

All right. Okay, so let's just say the missiles start raining down, you know, from Israeli airships and they're going to blow up everything in Iran, you know, all of the...

All of the nuclear sites. All right. So then what happens? Iran retaliates. Missiles rain down on Tel Aviv. The Revolutionary Guard unleashes proxies. Hezbollah opens fire from Lebanon. Houthi strike. Red Sea shipping lanes. Shia militias go after U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. And then you have the Strait of Hormuz shutting down. And then you also have all of the terrorists in Europe and here in America just starting to do their own thing. Uh...

A little Herb Alpert. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Doesn't make it better, does it, Stu? No. I mean, the horn makes it a little better. I think it does make it measurably better. I think it's noticeable. I think thinking about missiles raining down on all of our heads is always offset nicely by Herb Alpert. Yeah.

Right. And I'm not sure that missiles are going to rain down on our heads, but they are going to be raining down. And especially, Jason, if what you say is true, that this one is going to be a sustained strike from Israel over a week. Yeah, I'm sorry. I can't get the tone out of my head. I'm just thinking it's asymmetric warfare.

Global economic collapse. Okay, so let's take this step by step. Israel goes in. They have to do it over several nights. There's no way they can do it in one night or two nights.

I highly doubt it. No way. The world is going to go crazy on night two. And unless technology on the Iranian side, I mean, the Israeli side is so overwhelming that I just don't, it's beyond my. Like what? Like some of their bunker buster bomb capabilities. Yeah. And how effective they can be. How would you know that?

That's the thing, right? You're not testing these every day at a location like, let's say, the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. You're just not doing it. So I just don't see how that would happen. So I'm expecting multiple days of this going on. And Stu, in those multiple days, how many days go by before the UN and everybody else says, Israel has got to stop, and they're setting our streets on fire?

Yeah. Well, I mean, last time when, you know, thousands of Jews were murdered and raped in their country, it was like October 8th and they were partying at the UN basically. So I would say not long. You're right. You know, 24 hours, 36 hours. Oh, 36 hours. I was going to really, I was thinking they'd do it before dawn. Um,

So that's really bad. Then the Strait of Hormuz. Explain how important the Strait of Hormuz is. Oh, it's I mean, is that's that's got to be almost like 50 percent or something like that of of oil runs through that. It's something around there. It's it's it's astronomical when you consider like global prices and how it will change. I had actually had it wrong. I thought it was 80 percent. It's 20 percent that runs through the Straits of Hormuz. But it is a very narrow passage. And like.

you know, those Iranian speed boats, like, you know, Haji and, uh, what was his friend bandit? You know, is it Mike too old? Does anybody remember, you know, quest doctor? What was it? Uh, Jimmy quest, Johnny quest, Johnny quest. Uh, but anyway, uh,

just take one of those speedboats, you can do some serious damage and shut that and choke that off. Right. And so that would be the asymmetric, non-conventional part of what this war will turn into. So the conventional part will be Israel's strike on Iran. Iran will probably immediately retaliate with another conventional type of attack. But Iran has said they'll hold us responsible for this. So what that means is, and this is why we are now evacuating diplomats from Iraq and

is they will strike their closest targets that we have close to their borders. So Iraq, embassies, northern Iraq or Beal, places like that would be prime targets. And they'll use this asymmetrically, not only from missiles, but their proxies. We're also taking people out of UAE and other places that we're supposedly friendly with.

I mean, they are, we are preparing in a way I haven't seen before. You know, and hopefully this is all negotiation, but that is telling me that they know that asymmetrical warfare on terrorist attacks are just going to be happening everywhere in the Middle East. And if they're happening in the Middle East, why would they not do it here in America? Of course they would. Of course they would. There we go again. Yeah.

The music needs to come back at this point. You're right, sir. It does work. It does work. Once terrorist attacks start exploding all over the world and we start envisioning that happening, you need Herb. Cue it up. Okay, good, good. So there's global panic. Oil tankers halted. Supply chains collapsed. $150, $200 a barrel gallon means about...

Means about $10 gasoline, at least in California. But I think they're there, isn't it? $10 gasoline in California means like $2. Yeah, but we're looking at $8, $9 a gallon of gas in the United States if they would do that.

That would be good. Yeah, that puts the rest of the states on par with California, which we cannot handle. So what happens to Europe? Does Europe get involved in this? Oh, everyone would be involved in this because that's the crazy, that's the ace up Iran's sleeve is targeting the Straits of Hormuz. There's another strait there, the Strait Bab el-Mendab Strait on the other side. I love Bab el-Mendab. He was one of my favorite.

He played for the Yankees still? Yeah, he was in the minor league system. He does a play now, Bob El-Mendez. Bob El-Mendez. Yeah. All right, anyway, go ahead. This puts in context specifically that straight named after that famous Yankee player. Yes. That's weird. That is right by Yemen. So it shows you why Iran has been so concerned with Yemen. It's because of that straight.

So they've been preparing and planning for a retaliatory action like this for decades. This is their ace up their sleeve. This is why the rest of the world, including us, will have no choice but to intervene. Because what Iran will do is they'll have their proxies, like the Houthis in Yemen, shut down the Bab al-Mandeb, and then Iranian National Republican Guard will shut down the Straits of Hormuz. Then you halt oil traffic.

in the Middle East. Halt it. What happens... Thank you for her brother. What happens with...

Ukraine, if this is all happening, if I'm Putin, I'd be like, I'm taking Ukraine now. Right? I think he's actually already decided that. You may have missed the news a few years ago. He wanted to. Right. I mean, but he has slowed down. Then he sped up again. I know. But I mean, because Europe will be in chaos.

And why wouldn't why wouldn't he just take advantage of that and go, the world's not coming to help them now? Yeah, that's what the multiple layers on how the world will have to respond to this is very, very it's very complex and interesting. But you take a look at how Russia is even able to fight in Ukraine right now, primarily is from mortar shells coming from North Korea.

but also drones coming from Iran. We were planning a show actually to do this week before all the riot stuff happened, just about how warfare is changing and it's being test run in Eastern Europe right now. It is terrifying, but a lot of those drones are coming from Iran.

So you can see, I'm sure the Russians are playing their little, you know, manipulations. That's why I was surprised to hear that reporter asked Donald Trump a minute ago, you know, was it China? No, it should have been Russia. Yeah, I'm sure Trump was saying, don't ask about Russia, don't ask about Russia. And she didn't. Yeah. All right. Well, that is good news. Happy update from you. Always. Yeah. What, what...

I mean, what are the odds? This is gonna... I mean, this is all just like, you don't... You don't know your ass from your elbow. But...

Stu, I'm taking over under. Doesn't know his ass from his elbow on this topic. What do you think? I mean, it is Jason. So, I mean, 80, 90%. Good chance. Yeah. 80%? Okay, good. I'm happy with 80%. I will say, though, that trusting Donald Trump, the president knows what he's doing. And this was a very, I'll say it again, very public display all within 24 hours. So this could be a master's.

strategy and negotiation right before their talks this weekend with the Iranians. You know, this used to be better when I think, you know, I want an American president that talks tough and just sets things straight. It was a lot better when we didn't have the debt, no missiles, no strategic oil reserves.

you know, we're not, you know, tearing each other apart inside our own nation. Now it's like everything makes me crap my pants. The president's like, you know what? We're going to draw everybody out. Everybody back home. We're going to take all the families back because it could be a nuclear wasteland by 1215 tomorrow. You know, if he's bluffing, that's great. I just wish I knew. You know, I just wish I like...

It'd feel better if I knew. He can't tell us, or it's not a viable negotiation tactic. He can't be like, by the way, I'm just saying this. That's not true. But I, that was the first thing that kind of crossed my mind is as all of this news broke, it's like, okay, Israel, we're having these talks. Uh,

All of a sudden, we're getting these alerts that Israel may attack at any moment. And we're also getting news leaked about how the only way they're stopping is us. We're the only one stopping them. We're talking to them behind the scenes and we're saying, no, no, Israel, you can't do that. Luckily, we're here to stop them all leading into a negotiation where we're going to be trying to put pressure on Iran and

It would be nice for them to believe, hey, the only reason you're not getting hit with missiles right now is us. You better deal with us. It does fit into a negotiation framework. Did you guys see Melania and Trump at the Kennedy Center last night? Yeah. I mean, it just seems so surreal. Everything that is going on with the guy. The guy is like 70. What is he, 70? Yeah.

71. How old is Donald Trump? Trump? He's older than that. I don't know. Yeah. Is he? Whatever. He's an older guy. 78. 78? I can't keep up with him. I mean, he's got all of these things going on. It's like, hey, you want to go see a very long play tonight? We'll stay awake the whole time.

I mean, I go to a movie at three in the afternoon and I'm out. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, I didn't have my early bird dinner. And here's this guy, 78 years old. War is mounting, riots in the streets, the economy, everything else. He's like, you know what? What do you say around eight o'clock? We just take until maybe midnight and just go do something nice. Just you and me. Sorry, Mr. President. I have to sleep now for three days.

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uh wow i gotta tell you uh some happy things happening uh in court yesterday actually the the crypto bros um yeah they had their day in court yesterday uh they were charged in court yesterday and um

They were raided by ATF and New York Police Department, etc., etc., because apparently one of them who owns this house in Kentucky, he calls himself the Crypto King of Kentucky, worth nine figures. He and his partner were torturing somebody in New York to get their access code to their crypto wallet. And they were torturing him with a chainsaw.

So, you know, how much is too much, guys? I mean, how much is enough? Really? You're worth nine figures. You know, how much more do you need?

I mean, I've never heard anything like that. Have you? Unfortunately, yeah. There's been several of these types of stories lately. There's a weird world there. There's another story about a bunch of like teenagers that were able to hack and get access to Bitcoin and were like buying Lamborghinis and driving them to high school. And it's like as if no one was going to notice.

I didn't even notice you were driving a Lamborghini in today. That's so weird. They were renting yachts for prom parties. And we were like, there's something off here. I don't know what it is. I mean, I know Chick-fil-A pays pretty well, but I don't know that necessarily...

No, we just have old dollars. They're not inflation-adjusted dollars. These are the old dollars. Oh, okay. And you can't believe what they can buy today. I mean, they stole it from, how'd they get it? It was a very in-depth, long story about how they were able to get access to it. It was a hack of some sort. I can't remember all the details to it.

But it was like a network of a bunch of people, many of them on the younger side. And they were telling their parents like, oh, we made it during cryptocurrency investing.

I was like, all right. Like, do you check it out? Like, I feel like that's what I'm following up on. I think I say, can I see your IRS form? Because before you buy a Lamborghini, you might want to report some of this to the federal government. But, you know, maybe it's just me. By the way, they tortured this guy for 17 days. Yeah, it's terrible. With a chainsaw because these billionaires wanted his $28 million in cryptocurrency.

I mean, it is, it's, it's, the world's gone insane. I don't know if you've noticed this. This is Glenn Beck. Boy, Donald Trump's such a dictator. No? I mean, he's practically Kim Jong-un. Am I right or am I right? Of the military parade, who does that except Kim Jong-un? Well, countries do usually, I don't know, after a major victory,

Or on a 250th anniversary. Five seconds. I mean, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the army, the U.S. Army. And that's why we're doing it. I mean, it's definitely true. We're doing it for that reason. 100% true. And, you know, it's definitely needs to happen this summer. It's been talked about happening in the summer for a long time.

Is there any percentage of the chance that he put it on his birthday just to troll everybody? I mean, he could have picked another weekend. He could have picked another day. This is the day of their birthday. Why not put it on the day of their birthday? We've been talking about this for a long time. I feel like just to screw people a little bit, I think maybe it would have been fun to just throw it on his birthday anyway. He's getting a lot of trolling out of this. No, he's loving it.

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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Oh my gosh, people panic. We've got a dictator in the White House. He's still, you know, as if staging a military invasion of Los Angeles for no reason wasn't enough. Now he's hosting a big missile parade on his birthday.

From Newsweek magazine, Donald Trump issues warning for protesters at his military parade. From the AP, D.C. prepares for Trump's military parade with 18 miles of fencing and 175 magnetometers. From the Independent, which by the way changed its logo to the LGBTQ flag for Pride Month, Trump

threatens protesters who rain on his military parade on Saturday, you'll be met with a very big force. From NPR, critics say Trump's planned military parade will send the wrong message. From the Tennessean, why President Trump is hosting a military parade on his birthday. Well, now all you have to do to answer that last one is look at the White House. How are they advertising this? Join us on June 14th.

June 14th, the day 250 years ago on June 14th, 1775,

The U.S. Army was founded. So join us for the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary Grand Military Parade on the National Mall hosted by Donald Trump. This historic celebration honors our brave soldiers. You know, I don't see the part about his birthday being celebrated in there. Isn't that weird? Also, there's something else that's happening on Saturday. The No Kings protest.

You know, these are the same people that cheered for the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO by a leftist radical. And they cheer every time there's a Jew shot in our streets. They want to make it very clear Donald Trump is a military parade dictator. But that's not what's going on.

And we're going to talk to the woman, Monica Crowley, who is now the ambassador for your chief of protocol, I should say, for several big events this coming year. Monica joins me in 60 seconds. Stand by. First, let me tell you about leaf filter when it rains.

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Monica Crowley, good friend of the program. Good friend. How are you, Monica? Hey, Glenn. I am so great. I am sitting in Washington, D.C., and I'm so blessed and honored to be serving as ambassador and chief of protocol of the United States under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump. It really is extraordinary.

extraordinary glenn i think we spoke in during uh president trump's first term when i was serving at the treasury department the vibe this time is completely different not just across the administration but across washington dc it's like a new day has dawned so you are the ambassador i mean that is such so cool and the chief of protocol what what does that mean exactly

Well, that is a very good question. A lot of people have been asking me that question. It does come with ambassador rank. So I am now ambassador Monica Crowley. I did have to go through Senate confirmation to achieve this position. And chief of protocol essentially helps to manage all of the presidents, the vice presidents and the secretary of state's diplomatic engagements. And the chief of protocol myself handles the president and the vice president diplomatically.

And then my extraordinary team at Protocol usually handles the State Department and the secretary's diplomatic engagements. But what we really try to do is create the most welcoming, incredible environment so that the principals can engage in the most robust, effective diplomacy possible for the United States.

Your job would be, no, that doesn't mean reset in Russian, or no, it wouldn't be appropriate to give all your speeches on DVDs to the queen.

That would be the chief of protocols. Yes, I would. I would intervene before that red button that was translated. Glenn, right. The Russian foreign minister. Yes, that would be me. Good, good, good. OK, so I can't believe what they're saying about Donald Trump, that everybody is saying that this is, you know, about his birthday. It is the 200. What part of the 250th anniversary of America do people not get that?

This is the 250th birthday on the day that happens to be his birthday, but it is also the birthday of the U.S. Army. What part of that don't they understand here?

Well, they don't want to see the truth. Of course, they're going to take any cudgel, even if they have to make one up and hammer Donald Trump with it. This happens to fall on the president's birthday, which is providential. And it also happens to fall on Flag Day. And I just want to make a bigger point about all of this, Glenn, because you have been

so extraordinary in talking about America's exceptional history for years and years and years. And I know you've got entire warehouses full of American historical pieces that are absolutely priceless and invaluable. I do feel a little like Citizen Kane at times, but go ahead. You're our

citizen Jane Glenn Beck. But this is not about him. And the bigger point about the fact that all of this, so the president is giving me this big portfolio to be his representative to these people

big U.S. hosted events over the next couple of years, including America 250, including the FIFA World Cup happening next year, including the 2028 Olympic Games happening in, we assume, Los Angeles. And it's providential that all of this is happening while Donald Trump is president, because America first generation, the MAGA generation, Glenn, we are the natural heirs to

to the revolutionary generation. And, you know, the other day I was in the Oval Office with the president and we were talking and he said, you know, Monica, in retrospect, 2020 had to happen this way. And I said, yes, it did. God knows what he's doing. It had to happen this way because to have President Trump preside over the semi-quintennial, which is a big word to say America's 250th birthday, is just such a gift, isn't

Isn't it, Glenn? It's a gift. It is. It is. So let me ask you, we haven't done a military parade since I think George H.W. Bush did it with the end of the Gulf War. We don't see them very often. What are we expecting? What is this going to be like?

So on Saturday, again, June 14th in Washington, D.C., the United States is going to commemorate 250 years of the U.S. Army's history, strength, service, and sacrifice with this extraordinary landmark celebration in Washington. And I can tell you, Glenn, I was born on an Army base. My father was U.S. Army. I was born at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. So this means a lot to me personally, and I know to some extent,

so many others who are associated with and have served not just in the Army, but across our military branches of service. We are going to put on a grand military parade that is going to bring to life 250 years of Army history, from the Revolution to today's cutting edge technology.

So I encourage everybody to come out and see this parade, watch on TV, however you can observe this, because it is going to be just massive. We are going to have historical reenactors. We are going to have restored military vehicles.

precision flyovers, performances by elite US military bands. We are gonna honor those who have served past and present, including wounded warriors and Gold Star families. And we are going to have, let me just tell you this,

over 120 military vehicles and artillery pieces going back to the historic World War II era. We're going to have Vietnam-era flyovers, and we're going to have very cool F-22 flyovers.

So the people who are on the ground, you can watch on TV, but... Yeah, this is one thing that I wish I could be at. I think this is going to be extraordinary. I would imagine the coverage is going to be different on Fox than it would be on CNN. But we'll see. The other thing I have to ask you, and I don't know if you can comment on this, but I'm very concerned about this No Kings thing.

I mean, these are radicals again, and they have been planning something all week and been planning it for quite some time. And they decided to select Saturday in Washington to do these big protests. What are you expecting? And any comment on that, if you can?

Well, peaceful protests are protected under the Constitution. And Caroline Lovett made that very clear that peaceful protests, the president has no issue with. But if they veer into violence, they will be dealt with very harshly. I can tell you we're expecting violence.

countless people to descend on Washington, D.C. for this parade this weekend. And if you want tickets, they're still available. America250.org. America250.org. The tickets are free, but you do have to register because of the security issue, because obviously the president is going to be present. But we are well aware of the potential for these kinds of protests and this kind of activity. So the two America 250

250 Commission is working hand in glove with the Department of Homeland Security, with the U.S. Secret Service, with the Park Police, with the Department of the Interior, as will happen for all of the events over the next year, to make sure that this is the safest, most secure event possible.

that you can attend. So everybody will have to go through security and that's why we're making everybody register at the website if you want to attend. Again, it's free, but we want to ensure that this is a showcase, Glenn, for American leadership, dynamism, military strength, as well as we're honoring those who have served, honoring the U.S. Army, honoring the country. But we do want to ensure that everybody will be safe and sound attending this parade.

I will tell you that the left tried to do this when I did that big event on the Lincoln Memorial. We had about three or four hundred thousand people show up. And right before they made this big deal that the you know, that we had to up security because the Panthers were going to show up and Al Sharpton's group and all these lefties, the teachers unions, they were all going to boycott and they were all going to be there.

And our crowd was totally cool and fell. In fact, the the Black Panthers walked through our crowd trying to spark something. And everybody's like, hey, join us. Just sit down. Come on. Let's just watch. It's cool. And they just gave up and walked away. But I really think they did that to try to suppress the numbers.

And if you are anywhere near the Washington, D.C. area, you will not see anything like this again. I mean, and it's our 250th. You need to get your tickets and go. Don't let them frighten you. I have, you know...

When it comes to protection of our people, I tend to think that we might have that down under this president. But nobody, nobody does it better. Nobody. And President Trump will not tolerate violence of any kind. So, again, the website is America 250 dot org for your free tickets. He also is going to do one really cool thing at the end of the parade. Glenn, of course, we're going to have fireworks.

and the rest of it. But at the end of the parade, President Trump is going to preside over the live reenlistment of 250 U.S. Army soldiers, which is going to be an incredibly powerful symbol and a visible reaffirmation of honor, respect and duty being restored to our armed forces. Thanks to President Trump. It's really great. It's really great. Monica, thank you so much.

Oh, it's my great pleasure. My pleasure as always, Glenn. Thank you. God bless. You bet. Bye-bye. So it's America250.org, America250.org. You know, it's funny because Biden put something in, and I don't remember the name of the other one, but it's not America 250. And this one is also to celebrate America's 250. But in their own documents, it says, we want to de-emphasize American history.

How do you... It's like, please come to Glenn Beck's birthday party, but we want to de-emphasize Glenn and his birthday. I mean, how do you do that?

Oh, my gosh, we are so fortunate that President Trump is the guy who is in office. Otherwise, you wouldn't have even known that America was 250 years old. And that is extraordinary. Countries don't last that long. This Constitution has lasted 250 years. The average length of life for a Constitution is 17 years. That's the average length.

I don't know, says something good about our Constitution. Back with more in just a second.

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unbelievable in the lefties that are there that are going to try to, you know, I guess, I don't know, just march around the mall and nobody's watching them. I guess they've been having zoom calls all week. Then they have, they had a, a Marshall training course yesterday designed to prepare you for your event. We'll equip you with essential skills for a smooth and secure mobilization. What does that even mean? Mobilization?

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And, um, that was an old way in the revolutionary times to say no Kings, but God, no Kings, but Christ. Uh, and you can shop it and get it now at glenbeck.com glenbeck.com. Uh, we're going to be coming out with some other products. They can probably, maybe they'll put them up today. I don't know when, if we're ready yet, but we have hats and other things, but, uh, right now at glenbeck.com, get your t-shirts, no Kings, but Christ. And, uh,

Randy Weingarten, you don't have a king, right? I know. So who do you serve?

Who do you serve? Because it seems like you do have a king. The way we were dealing with the last president who, you know, was a bumbling idiot, but all of you guys got together and said, don't point that out because we'll just do the work without him. It seems like you answer, well, not to God, not to a president, not to the Constitution. Who do you answer to? I mean, you have no king, but yeah, right. Who do you answer to?

No Kings, but Christ available now at Glenn Beck dot com. Let's see. There are some interesting things. And Coulter just tweeted something. If I were Trump, I'd let Seattle stew in the Antifa lunatics on its own. The number one priority is getting illegals out of the country, not solving problems of liberal governors and and the problems that mayors create for themselves limited to themselves.

So she's basically saying, I've heard this a lot. Why don't we just let them just implode? Well, probably not the best of ideas. I know I feel that way all of the time. And I have made it very clear. None of my tax dollars are going to California to bail them out. When that thing implodes, why am I going to bail you out?

But we do need to be there to help them. They are the largest... I'm sorry. It's the 17th largest economy, I believe, in the world. Is that right, Stu? And...

You know, that just doesn't go down without impacting all of us. So I don't want it to just decay into chaos and flames. I don't want to bail them out on all of their programs that they're doing. I won't do that. But I also don't want to aid in their destruction because that will hurt all of us like crazy. And we all know it, except for them. I don't know. Their people know it, but their politicians are still in absolute denial.

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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 be

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.

The memorial's designers sought to convey, in the mid-1900s version of our U.S. democracy, Thomas Jefferson had become the face of that endeavor. In crafting this image, they selected specific materials, details, and excerpts from his writings. Studying these choices reveals their motives.

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...

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 tenor of the rest, but all have in a direct object 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 dye. 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.

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to alert you because we're going to need your help you know i said yesterday that i i had the same exact feeling um 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 it was nobody of of note

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 the world. Look at what's happening. And that was because of you we were first through the door. And I think what we have that I've been building now with my team, off-site, 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 became a state legislator of some sort. I don't 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.

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Brian Wilson died this week, and there's a lot of obituaries out about him. I will tell you, I grew up on the West Coast, and I was just too young, really, for the Beatles and for the Beach Boys. But on the West Coast, the Beach Boys really were, kind of really said everything about California at the time. And so I have a special love for them. But

You know, Brian Wilson is such a complex guy because he really kind of, he had real mental problems, had a mental breakdown. He was doing drugs, depression, anxiety. He was just, I mean, he,

He had a really tough go of it. And he was recording something called Smile back in 1966. And the band didn't like it. These were his brothers. And I think Love was, I think it was a cousin. And so they didn't like it. And they were like, this is not going to be a commercial success. And he was pushing things beyond what anybody had ever thought of before. And nobody understood it.

He was, this was the first concept album. It, you know, it turned out to be Sergeant Peppers be one album kind of about, you know, just tells a whole story, but,

This Brian Wilson was the one who invented it and he shelved it because of so many different pressures and reasons, but he couldn't get it done because it is still groundbreaking. And we never, it was never completed in its intended form the way he wanted it. It has been reconstructed a bit. And even the reconstruction is amazing. You know, one song because they released one song that,

And the record company went crazy for it. And it was called good vibrations, probably the biggest song that comes from that album. And they were like, we, we, we, we, we want more like that. And he's like, well, it's on the album and, but it's a whole concept. Uh, and they're like, no, no, just make another hit like that. And so they didn't release anything. I think after good vibrations, that was in 66. Um,

I think he released something in 2003, maybe. Smile, somebody had redone it. I'm not sure how involved he was with that. But he was doing something that he called modules. Nobody had ever heard of modules before. It was something he made up. I'm going to record these modules, and then I'm going to drop them in over and over again on the song. Today, modules are known as sampling modules.

He was that far ahead of everyone else. Sampling didn't happen until what? Rap? And sampling is still used today? And he had taken classical, jazz, rock, Americana, all of it, and just...

fused it all together. You know, you should listen to the sessions if you're a Beach Boys fan at all. Listen to the sessions that were released. The Brian Wilson sessions. I think that was in maybe 2011 or just look for Smile. It's a very different album way ahead of its time. ... ...