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Chalkboard Quiz: Did You Cheer or Jeer on These Obama, Hillary and Trump Issues?

Where do you stand on the bombshell report from the Washington Post that Trump leaked classified intel to the Russians? If true, was it treason? Should he me impeached or step down? Does it even matter if Trump is or isn't qualified to handle sensitive information?

In analyzing the report, Glenn first asked a series of important, revealing questions. How would you answer?

Enjoy this complimentary or read the transcript for details.

GLENN: All right. Let me talk about the Washington Post. And let me just say, the media and the DNC are celebrating today because they smell blood in the water. And they think this is going to take Donald Trump out. And indeed, it might.

Those on the G.O.P. side and the -- let me put a category out there, the always Trumpers, the ones where Donald Trump could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and they would still be for him, they would still say, "Well, Hillary Clinton." I don't care about Hillary Clinton.

Those people are also not even willing to listen to what the Washington Post actually is saying. They're going -- they're going to read the stories that are combating the Washington Post story without actually reading the original source.

Imagine -- imagine reading the -- the -- all of the professors talking about how bad the Constitution is or how bad the Declaration of Independence is, without actually reading either one of those. Do you think you would get the truth?

You can't argue a story unless you've read the original source. So we did. Last hour, I spent the time to go over the original source, the Washington Post, and to go over the audio of the Trump White House response.

Let me break this down to you: There's some questions that we have to ask ourselves first. For instance, one of the questions we have to ask ourselves: Did you cheer or jeer when President Obama said the 1980s want their policy back?

I, for one, I cheered. Remember, Mitt Romney said, "I cheered." When Mitt Romney said, you know, I want this -- you know, the biggest geopolitical foe of ours is Russia, I cheered. And when Obama said this...

OBAMA: Governor Romney, I'm glad you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat. Because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia. Not al-Qaeda. You said Russia. In the 1980s or now, calling to ask for their foreign policy back.

(chuckling)

GLENN: So were you happy? Yes or no? I was not happy with President Obama. And nobody in this audience was happy with President Obama. The mainstream media and the Democratic Party, yes, they were. They thought that was great. They denied that Russia was a threat. We didn't.

Next question. Did you say anything like Hillary shouldn't be around classified information? She's not qualified to be around classified information if she doesn't understand how to use classified information. How did you feel?

VOICE: Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

GLENN: Okay. "Intended" was the word there.

Okay. So let's just -- when Hillary Clinton -- when people said Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be around classified information, if she handle it this way, she can't be the president of the United States. I agreed with that. I said, yes. The mainstream media said no.

Did you think that it -- by the way -- and we could go deeper on that. Just the word "intended." Did you think it was right that the mainstream media went and -- our investigators went in and said, "Well, what's her intent?"

No, we said, "What's the law?" Not what's your intent? What's the law?

Did you think it was treason or, you know, on the road -- did you say, "This guy is out of control, "when this moment happened with President Obama?

(inaudible)

GLENN: Okay. Remember this? The mic was on. And everybody on the right had a cow because he put his name -- he put his hand on the knee of Medvedev and said, "Look, this is my last election. I'll have more flexibility after the election." Yes, transmit to Vladimir.

And we all said, "Vladimir!" You're -- you're -- you're saying you'll transmit this to Vladimir? Did you think that that was on the road to treason? I didn't think it was treason, but I certainly highly questioned it. I questioned it. The mainstream media and the DNC did not.

Now, what does this tell you? This tells you that we have switched places. Because now -- now we're the ones -- when I say "we," the right -- we're the ones saying, "Yeah, the 1980s want their policy back. Don't you understand?" The Republicans -- the Republicans are saying, "The Russians are our friends." And the Democrats -- the Democrats, the people who have never been against Russia, even when it was the Soviet Union, we're the ones now saying -- we're the ones saying, "It doesn't matter. And that's not what he intended. And, yes, maybe he leaked a little classified information to the Russians." And it's the Democrats saying, "He's not qualified to be president if he doesn't know how to handle sensitive information."

Is it treason when Obama said, "I need more time. Transmit to Vladimir?" The Democrats now have a problem with talking to the Russians. And Donald Trump is saying, "I'm just -- I'm just talking to the Russians." So we've switched sides.

Now, in 2011, I showed you a chalkboard that said, "The left, the communists, the fascists, the anarchists, and the Islamists will work together to cause chaos and destabilize the Middle East, Europe, and the western world." Can we all agree that a lot of that is happening right now?

They're not plotting. I've said back in 2011. It's not that they're all working together to -- to plot and say, "Oh -- okay. You do this. And then I'm going to do that." But they are seeing mutually beneficial opportunities. And they each think that they're going to destroy the other one in the end, but they have a common enemy: The United States. And so what are they doing? They're causing chaos.

Before I get fully into the Washington Post, let me talk a little bit about chaos. Because chaos is exactly what we're feeling right now. This is the underlying problem in America.

It is chaos in everything we do. Because we've disrupted everything.

Stu, how many genders are there?

STU: The two.

GLENN: Thank you.

JEFFY: What?

GLENN: Thank you. Two.

PAT: Why the hate?

JEFFY: Thank you.

PAT: Why?

JEFFY: Thank you.

PAT: Why the hate?

GLENN: Listen to what's happening here. Even in jokes, when I ask that question, there are people all across going, I don't know. Is the number up to 92 now?

JEFFY: It might even be more.

GLENN: It might even be more. I know it was 82. And then I thought I saw 92, but I'm not sure anymore. Two is the answer. Two genders is the answer.

Now, if you want to change that, good, then you can change that. But you have to build a case over time. Otherwise, it causes confusion, otherwise known as chaos.

If I hold my finger up like a gun, is that dangerous?

JEFFY: Whoa, whoa.

GLENN: No. Well, yes.

PAT: Yeah, it's a lookalike firearm.

JEFFY: Thank you.

GLENN: Yeah. What is that doing? It's causing chaos. We can't trust the president. We can't trust the media. We can't trust our police. We can't trust our schools. What is that causing? Chaos.

Everything that we're doing, even those things that we do with good intent, is causing chaos. It is causing us to question everything. Even in a game of tag, you have home. Just get home. Go to home base. Let me take you home.

Do you understand your home? Do you understand what's going on? Do you understand your kid's homework? Do you understand Common Core, as you're trying to help them out? How about, do you understand what they're even saying online? Do you understand what's going on online? Do you feel comfortable that your kids and your family is safe from the outside influences, even in your own home? Because I don't.

I feel like we're keeping chaos at bay. Do you remember -- do you remember what I talked about when I talked about the Twelfth Imam. The Twelfth Imam will return.

Now, he is, according to Twelvers, and you don't have to believe this. You just have to believe that they do. The people in Iran, some of them, the ones that are in charge, believe in something called the Twelfth Imam. The Twelfth Imam is going to crawl out of a well at a time of great bloodshed when the world is washed with blood. And the way to get him to hasten the return of the promised one is to create chaos.

Let me hasten the return of the promised one. Well, that -- if you look at their holy scriptures and what they believe and you look at our holy scriptures and what we believe, in the book of Revelation and you invert them -- if you take -- if you take the Twelfth Imam's scriptures of the prophecy of the end time and you read them, you're reading the inverse of book of Revelations. You're reading the manual of the bad guy.

The bad guy -- it's almost as if they took the Book of Revelation -- and you could make a case that it wasn't prophecy. That that's what they did. I don't know. But you could make the case that they just took it and just said, "We're going to screw with those Christians. We're going to be the bad guys."

And that is caused by chaos. So the people in the Middle East have reason for chaos. Russia, as we have told you, one of the main advisers to Putin. His symbol of his political party is the ancient symbol of chaos.

So now, how do we reduce chaos? On this particular story, how is it we are to behave? What will get us through this story? How can we understand this story? How can we make sense of this story? How can we make -- how can we move forward with this story?

It's not that hard. And I'll give that to you. And how the media is also missing a greater point on what they exposed over the weekend.

Give you that coming up in a second. First, this.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!

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