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How Do You Say Dude in Russian? And Other Musings on Running a Country

Does Bill O'Reilly think there should be an independent investigation into the president's dealings with Russia and James Comey?

"Absolutely," O'Reilly said Friday on The Glenn Beck Program.

But only to clear him of any impeachable wrongdoing. While both Glenn and Bill agree Trump didn't break any laws, he did act in very imprudent ways.

"I don't believe that Donald Trump is involved in some scheme with Vladimir Putin. I don't believe that he was trying to, in nefarious ways, get Comey to drop it. I think what he was looking for was, 'Look, dude, I want you to be my friend,'" Glenn theorized.

The biggest problem facing President Trump? Himself.

"The president has got to learn that this is not a business deal. You're the president of the United States," Glenn said.

But is it possible for Trump to learn lessons from his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week?

"That is the most astute question that you've asked in this hour," O'Reilly jabbed, jokingly. "The big mistake that Trump made --- and he can't make it again --- was having a private meeting with James Comey. If you're president of the United States, you don't have a private meeting with anybody. Didn't the Lewinksy thing, you know, [teach you anything]?"

Enjoy the complimentary clip or listen to the entire segment for details.

GLENN: Bill O'Reilly joins us now for a look at the week in review. Bill, Donald Trump had a pretty hair-raising week.

BILL: I think that's true. And if you want to break it down, we can do that in about a minute.

The first thing that put him back was a allegation that he gave classified information to Russians when he met with them. The Russian ambassador and the foreign minister. That story's bogus, and it has gone away pretty much now. But the antiTrump media ran with it heavily. Okay? But, look, Trump was trying to convince the Russians to help him with ISIS more. So he said, look, they want to bomb everybody's airlines. You already lost one airline over the Sinai. Here's what they're doing. Our intel says they're close to doing it. That's not giving away national security, and he has a perfect right to try to convince the Russian -- these are the two top guys, so it's like talking to Putin. That was a bogus story.

GLENN: I will tell you that, you know, Israel couldn't be more happy that Trump is in office, and they said it was us and the official word is we're good, et cetera, et cetera. But some of their generals did come out, and they were pushing for we can't trust America with anything.

BILL: Yeah, all right.

GLENN: So it was a big deal, but it wasn't an impeachable offense, which the media was trying to make it into.

BILL: I'm looking at it from a does it hurt the American people? And it does not. Okay.

The second one, much more serious. So he fires Comey. I don't think Trump, by the way, because he's such a wealthy man in his life never really had to deal with blow back understands that when you take a controversial action, people are going to come after you. So what happened was he fires Comey, Comey's friends in the FBI said. Okay. Now it's our turn. So they leak out notes that the former FBI director took on on a one-on-one meeting with the president. And the notes say that Trump wanted Comey to lighten up on the national security adviser Flynn who was fired as well. Okay. Big story. Got to get to the bottom of that story. But here's the deal. As soon as I heard that, I went "Didn't Comey testify under oath that there was no interference in the Russian investigation with congress?" Yes, he did.

GLENN: Hang on. Wait, wait.

BILL: That there was no -- McCabe that there was no Russian interference? Yes, he did. Okay. So now you have Comey and McCabe both saying under oath, hey, you know, there's no interference. All right. So then . . .

GLENN: What did she wait, wait. Can I just point out something? I want to point something out here. He answered a very specific question about was there interference from the justice department. He did not talk about White House interference. He was -- he answered a very specific question. Was there interference from this person, this person, or this person? And that's the answer. No, there was no interference there.

BILL: Okay. But on McCabe, it was much broader. And all I'm saying to you is this: If President Trump did put the arm on James Comey in a private meeting to somehow go easy on the Russia investigation in total, in total, that should have been reported, and it was not.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: Okay?

GLENN: Yes.

BILL: That's all. So then you basically say all right. We have a mess. It's a mess. And of course, the anti-Trump media is impeach him. Hang him. Set him on fire, you know? All of that. So I'm sitting here going. Okay. Why don't we have level-headed -- now, I did call for BillOreilly.com on the podcast, which was nice of you to mention, I did call for a special investigator to be appointed. Because then Trump could say I'm going to concede my mistake. And it's a good choice. With one exception. Muller is a friend of Comey's. So there's no doubt that the leak came from the FBI, and that's why Comey got fired in the first place because Trump felt that the FBI was leaking all kinds of stuff out.

Now, I think that's going to be blown out to be true, in my opinion.

GLENN: So you're one of the only people -- by the way, talking to Bill O'Reilly from BillOreilly.com. Who knew he had a podcast or a book? But he had just written a book called old school.

BILL: Two books.

GLENN: What's the other book?

BILL: "Killing the Rising Sun" and "Old School." Get them for dad.

GLENN: Yeah, they have to sell. They're backing up in Bill's garage. They have to get them moved out. He has to pull his family van in there. Anyway. BillOreilly.com.

This is interesting because a lot of people's knee-jerk reaction is special prosecutor, we don't need a special prosecutor. I think this is actually good because I really don't believe -- I don't believe that Donald Trump is involved in some scheme with Vladimir Putin. I don't believe that he was trying to in nefarious ways get Comey to drop it. I think what he was looking for was, look, dude, I want you to be my friend. There's nothing here he's leaving anyway, let's just move on. And I think he doesn't think of things the way he needs to because he's president. He's thinking of things like a businessman.

BILL: I agree. But here's the question for you. How do you say dude in Russian?

GLENN: I don't.

BILL: Look, the key part of your question was the word jerk. So on the left, whatever Trump does is impeachable, and we have to murder him. On the right, we don't want to know because we like him. So the special counsel, whatever you want to call Muller is necessary to stop the madness, which it has. Which it has. Stop the madness. We have a country to run here. If we need a fourth investigator, FBI one, senate two, house three. If we need a fourth, fine. Now, it isn't Trump's style, and I can tell you this because I know him very well, to make back room deals that don't benefit Trump to the tune of billions of dollars. He doesn't do that. He did want to have a good relationship with Putin. Yes. Did he sell out? Did he do anything untoward? We'll find out. We'll find out. But right now on the record, there isn't anything.

GLENN: So but you do believe that these investigations are important and can clear this up?

BILL: Yes. Absolutely. You've got to have that.

GLENN: So there's a lot of people, Bill, though, who are on the right who just don't want to hear it, and they think that this is --

BILL: So what. That was Nixon too when. Nixon left office, 33 percent of Americans didn't want him to, according to the exit poll when he got on the helicopter and waved goodbye. You're always going to have that.

GLENN: So let me ask you this: The other part of this, one, we have to have an independent investigation. Let's just get it done. The second part of this -- leave out the press because I don't think the press is curable at all. But the president has got to learn that this is not a business deal. You're the President of the United States.

BILL: Absolutely.

GLENN: Will he learn that?

BILL: That is the most astute question that you've asked in this hour. The big mistake that Trump made, and he can't make it again, was having a private meeting with James Comey. If you're President of the United States, you don't have a private meeting with anybody. Didn't Lewinksy thing, you know -- you don't meet privately with anybody ever. You always have somebody there. Andy Card was velcroed to Bush the youngers side--

GLENN: Bill, you were there with the height of my controversy with me where I was white hot, you know hatred or love, and even I at that point would never have meetings with people by myself. Ever. And that's me. I just knew I was a target.

BILL: Absolutely.

GLENN: The president has got to learn this.

BILL: I always left my door open when anybody would come into my office. You can't. And the fact that Comey -- and Trump doesn't even trust him, and you meet with him alone? You can't do that.

GLENN: So if you're an adviser, and you're talking to Donald Trump, what is the advice you give to him to make this stop?

BILL: Well, he's already done it. The justice department appointed Muller, but you know Trump had to okay that. Sessions doesn't do anything on his own. So he's already done it, and it's already succeeded to some extent. Now he goes abroad. It's a big dog and pony show over there. And the anti-Trump press is going to come out with something every day. Every day there's going to be something else. Somebody will leak something, and they'll do this and that. But it doesn't reach critical mass; right? Unless there is a very specific allegation. And now Trump has just got to say hold it. You got four investigations. Let him do it. Let him do it. And then he doesn't have to be involved with it anymore, so I think he avoided the bullet but, boy, you can't make too many more mistakes. He just cannot do it.

GLENN: Going over to Israel, he won't say -- or he said that they're going to move the embassy. If I said there was anybody that would move it, it would be him.

BILL: Yeah, but that's a Netanyahu call, though. He's not making that call. He's going to do what Netanyahu wants. We don't know. We're not privy to what Netanyahu wants. But if Netanyahu wants the American embassy in Jerusalem, it will be there. If he doesn't, it won't. That's what's going on there.

GLENN: You're saying Netanyahu tells our president what to do on that?

BILL: On a case like this? Yes.

GLENN: Wow. Bill O'Reilly from BillOreilly.com. I pay him in sandwiches, so I promise him that he could say something nice about something --

BILL: Yes, we need to get everybody mobilized. Go to BillOreilly.com. Signed books. I'll give you yours for free.

GLENN: I don't believe I have any of your books signed. I don't think you signed a single book for me. Not one.

BILL: Now I will. And -- but who are you going to give it to? This is what I want you to know. I'm going to send you two signed books. Now you can put them right up on eBay and make some money. But if you're going to give them to somebody, who are you going to give them to?

GLENN: I'm going to give one of them to my dad.

BILL: Good. Old school. I'm sure he's an old school guy; right?

GLENN: I'm going to take a shovel and bury your book right next to him, and he's going to love it.

[Laughter]

BILL: Oh, I see.

GLENN: BillOreilly.com. Grab his books. The killing the rising sun is fascinating. You'll learn more than you ever knew about World War II and Japan and old school.

BILL: Can I say one more thing?

GLENN: Oh, jeez. What?

BILL: If people came in on this interview late, Beck post it on The Blaze, and I post it on BillOreilly.com. The whole interview from top to bottom. So I think people want to listen to it again if they came in the middle.

GLENN: And I especially want you to go back and listen to the warm, friendly greeting that Bill did.

PAT: It meant so much to you, right?

GLENN: It meant so much.

BILL: I'll work harder on it.

PAT: No, you couldn't do it any better.

GLENN: People say that you're a cold bastard, and I don't see it.

PAT: No. Oh, my goodness. No.

BILL: Would it help, Beck, if I called you dude? Would that help?

[Laughter]

STU: I think so.

GLENN: No. No, it really wouldn't. No, it really wouldn't.

STU: I think you should go back too and listen to the incredible compliment that Mr. O'Reilly paid to you, Glenn, when he said this is the most amazing question you asked in this hour. Which was huge. What a hurdle to clear.

GLENN: The most astute.

STU: You have the most beautiful girl in the room.

GLENN: We're alone. Bill, thanks a lot, man. Appreciate it.

BILL: All right. Guys, we'll see you next week.

GLENN: See you next week. Bill O'Reilly every Friday and every day at BillOreilly.com.

STU: One thing I like Bill O'Reilly is he never makes me feel panicked. Whenever there's a really stressful situation, he just kind of says stuff, and I'm, like, okay. I guess we're all right. Who cares. We'll make it through this.

PAT: Very calming.

STU: There's something calming about the way he talks about issues that I really enjoy.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: You freak me out. He --

GLENN: No, and you know what? I want to -- but he -- his deal is he never reads beyond the day. He has told me over and over again. Off the air. I'll say come on, Bill. George Soros. Come on. And he's, like, you can live ahead of the news cycle. I live today. This I know to be true today.

STU: You need both. Both.

GLENN: But that's where the tension between us comes, which I really enjoy. That and the fact that he is just --

PAT: Oh.

GLENN: He smells like a funeral home. When you talk to him, don't you just.

JEFFY: Feel that funeral home --

GLENN: Yeah. Okay. I'm only saying that because I know he's listening.

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The ONE “forever war” Glenn Beck supports

This Fourth of July, Glenn Beck reveals the only “forever war” he supports. It’s the war Americans have been fighting since our nation’s founding, and we must continue the fight…

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GLENN: Two hundred forty-nine years ago, I think it is tomorrow. Right? Is tomorrow the second, or is it the first?

What day is it today?

So it was 200 -- 249 years ago, tomorrow, that somebody sat alone, in a -- in a one-room hotel room.

And scratched out the words, when in the course of human events. Those are the first six words of a document that is so dangerous!

Still today, so revolutionary.

It was whispered in those candle lit rooms by men who knew. Knew. That if I signed this document, that's a death warrant.

I'm dead!

I'm dead.

But in the course of human events, shh.

Jefferson wrote them!

33 years old. Adams would later say, you do well to revere Jefferson. But he didn't write alone. Basically, I was there too.

And so was Ben Franklin. The ideas were forged in the minds of men like Franklin, who is old enough to know better. And Adams, who was stubborn enough, not to care. And they weren't perfect men. But I love this about the left. They try to make you think.

That you think are perfect. I don't think they were perfect! I mean, Ben Franklin used to walk around naked in his house a lot. That shows, I mean, for as smart as that guy was. It shows, maybe he had a lack of mirrors. But they weren't perfect!

They owned slaves. They argued. They compromised.

How does that make them different than us?
I mean, we should be able to relate to them!

What is it that we tolerate right now?
What is it that we compromise on?

What is it -- what are our failures that future generations are going to go, these people just didn't get it? Perhaps what we should notice is that they, unlike most of us. They were willing to gamble their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

For something that had never, ever been done before. Something entirely new!

The idea that rights don't come from a government, or from a king, or from a parliament.

They don't come from the majority voting. Everyone has certain rights.

You know, for all these people who are, you know -- going in Macy's, and burning down towns. And then stealing clothing. And they're like, because I've been oppressed!

And you can't -- I've got rights, you know.
Yeah. Yeah.

You know who the first people were, to articulate those rights?

You know the only country that actually has stood for those rights?

And we're imperfect!

That idea came from the Founders, that you say you hate.

But the actual rights come from God, which you dismiss!

Think of this. Just ponder this for a second.

That all men are created equal! That their rights are given to them, by a creator.

It's not a political assertion. It's a genius. That's eternal truth!

That's theological dynamite, lobbed straight in to the thrones of Europe.

All over the world, it's still dynamite.

They knew what they were doing.

And I don't mean like, they knew what they were doing.

They had it. No. They knew that the British crown had the largest military force in the world. And these guys, they were farmers. They were printers. They were lawyers. They were a ragtag collection of intellectual and idealists, facing down an empire, where they said, the sun never set on the British empire. Meaning, the colonialism was everywhere!

You could not escape England. And yet, they declared it. We're leaving, without apology!

And they said that when a government becomes destructive of the ends of liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness, it's not only the right of the people, it's their duty to throw it off!

Wow. And you know what is amazing? That's not rebellion.

That's -- that's not revolution. That's -- that's responsibility.

That -- that kind of language today, that would have you flagged, shadow banned. Labeled an extremist. In most countries, disappeared!

But that is the foundation of what we call America. The American experiment. And it's that. The American experiment.

And it's just that, an experiment. We didn't know if we could get it right. And we haven't gotten it right. But isn't it worth experimenting?

Isn't it worth trying to get that concept right?

When you fail on that concept, you're like, eh. That's a stupid idea.

That's not a stupid idea. That's the greatest idea of all time.

Why are so many people willing to just quit?

The experiment is self-rule. It's not perfect.

Never has been. Slavery. Jim Crow. Internment camps. Assassinations.

My God! Forgive us, for what we have done.

But at the same time, what nation has done more to correct its own errors?

What people have shed more blood, not for conquest, but for freedom.

Twice in the last century, we crossed oceans. Not to claim territory. But to liberate that territory!

Our sons and daughters fought and bled on foreign soil to push the darkness back, to fight against Naziism and fascism and Communism. And here we are. Here we are today.

After 249 years tomorrow of that experiment, standing at the lip of the very abyss, those men feared.

A godless chaos, rising in the east and a cold atheistic utopia, clawing at the foundations of the Western world. Islamism and Communism, two ideologies that have killed tens of millions of people. Now dressed all in new robes, selling old lies.

And we can't even teach a child where their rights come from. We have replaced Jefferson and Adams with TikTok influencers and bureaucratic groupthink.

We're raising generations to not even know the truth about their own identity.

But to question their identity. And they could be, oh, you're a funny, funny colored unicorn today. What do you want to be tomorrow?

We don't teach them anything about truth, or their inheritance, most importantly. Their inheritance. What good are hot dogs and fireworks, if the soul of the nation is up for auction? What is the meaning in Fourth of July, if we have forgotten the why? If we don't even call it Independence Day anymore. Most people don't even know who we fought against for independence.

They think we fought for its independence! Most people think we fought the South!

And yet, we'll light the sparklers, or blow our fingers off, because we're just that stupid.

This Independence Day weekend, would you do me and yourself and your country a favor, and read the words out loud. Speak the words out loud.

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.

And to assume among the powers of earth, the separate, but equal station, to which the laws of nature.

And nature's God entitle them.

A decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes, which impair them to the separation.

What are they saying?

Look, we want to be decent people.

We want to be decent people.

And we have to separate them.

But we believe it's only right that we tell you why we have to separate. And it's not because of all the bad things you've done. We'll get to those later. It's because we're different. And you don't understand. You have been telling us all of these things, we no longer believe in. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, and they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable. Unchangeable rights.

And just among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, government are his instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

My gosh. Read those words. And let your children hear what thinking and courage sounds like.

That to secure these rights, I'm telling you, the king, who thinks that your government was given to you, by God.

And you are the ruler.

And you will tell everybody what to think, what to do. What to buy. What to sell. What to tax. What not to tax. Who gets land. Who doesn't get land.

No, no, no. Government are his instituted among men, deriving their powers, their just powers, from the people. And that government is only there, established by those men to protect the rights that God has given each of those men.

Let them feel the chill, that runs down the spine, when Jefferson writes, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government, or from the governed. Let them hear the words, of -- of responsibility. What responsibility sounds like, with courage and freedom. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

And to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their a lot of and happiness.

In other words, you have the right, you have the responsibility to stop tyrants. And if the government has gone bad, to throw that government off.

But reconstitute a government, that will do a better job at protecting those rights. Not to form a communist government.

Not to do anything else. But you want a new government?

Fine! Let's find the way to make men more free. This is not a metaphor. This is a declaration of war on tyranny in all of its forms.

I mean, I said, yesterday, freedom isn't free.

It was paid for by somebody's blood. But you have to remember, they paid for their freedom, not for our freedom, necessarily.

We -- there comes a time, we have to pay for our freedom. And God forbid, that it comes down to blood.

But at least shake off the apathy. We -- we must renew this promise of this experiment of America.

We need to fight for it as well. An out-of-control government that seeks to rope us into forever wars, over and over again. We're all against forever wars. I'm against it.

I hate them.

But there is one forever war, that is required in a free society. A different kind of forever war.

A war against ourselves, a war against human nature in each of us. Because of human nature, we get fat. We get lazy.

We get tolerant of abuses. Let your children hear you speak these words. And when you speak them, ponder them yourself.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes.

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

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a sign to reduce them under absolute despotism.

It's their right. It's their duty. To throw off such government. And provide new guards for such future security.

In one paragraph, we make the point twice. And they tell us, look, we've studied people.

We know you're going to get fat and lazy and apathetic. And you won't want to do stuff for transient causes. Because this is really not good.

But when push comes to shove. And everything is moving towards absolute despotism. Absolute tyranny. Then you must stand up.

I ask you to ponder this. This particular part, when a long train of abuses and usurpations. Prudence will indeed dictate that governments long established should not be exchanged for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils suffer, than to right themselves.

Aren't we exactly the same people, that their experience was talking about?

Aren't we the people that are more disposed to suffer, than to right ourselves? Because we're too comfortable. Or we're too afraid, just to stand up and simply say no to lies.

No!

There is a difference between men and women.

No! Communism is to be feared. It's killed over 100 million people, in the last 100 years.

No!

Muslims aren't bad. Islamism is!

It's evil. No!

You can peacefully protest, any time, any place. And I will fight to the death for your right to do that.

But when you start burn cities down to the ground, no!

We're just a few days away. And we have marked our 249th birthday. Maybe. Just maybe, this year, can we stop asking what America was, and start deciding what America will be?

Where it just slips quietly into history. In the dark of apathy and ignorance.

Because the only thing more dangerous than tyranny is the people who have forgotten what it took to break its chains.

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We need REAL jobs in America — Trump should do THIS now!

It is clear we need to create more productive, high-paying jobs for American citizens. But that doesn't mean bringing back the same exact jobs of the past in massive numbers. It means creating and supporting jobs of the present and future that will better the lives of Americans. Glenn Beck and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts break down exactly what this entails and how President Trump can make it a reality.

Watch Glenn Beck's FULL Interview with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts HERE

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The most INCREDIBLE World War II story you’ve NEVER HEARD

One of the biggest American World War II cemeteries in Europe is in a small town in the Netherlands, where thousands of Dutch people continue the tradition to this day of “adopting” a fallen US soldier and checking in on his family. “The Monuments Man” author Robert Edsel joins Glenn Beck to tell this incredible story, which he documents in his new book, “Remember Us.”

Transcript

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GLENN: Robert, welcome back to the program. How are you, sir?

ROBERT: Great to talk to you!

GLENN: It's great to talk to you.

Can you remind me? You were on with us, after Monuments Men. And you talked about this great service that is still going on, where people that -- they were still looking for paintings and pieces of art, that had been taken by the Nazis.

And if I remember right, didn't somebody in our -- our own audience reach out to you, and say, I think we found one of those paintings?

ROBERT: Yes, sir. Absolutely.

The Glenn Beck audience. And Glenn Beck, you yourself deserve a lot of credit.

Because I hadn't walked out of your studio last time. You know, in Dallas at Las Colinas.

Headed back to our office at Monuments Men and Women Foundation office, before someone in my office contacted me and said, we've already had a lead, as a result of your interview with Glenn. And it turned out someone whose aunt had been given two paintings during World War II.

She had worked for the government overseeing Germany, and these two paintings were missing.

We were able to identify who the rightful owner was, and get them back.

So it's a great thing that you performed. And, you know, it's a magnificent conclusion, though obviously a very difficult part of history.

GLENN: What was it like to give that back to the family?

ROBERT: It was a deeply moving experience. We -- the foundation found and returned more than 30 works of art, from paintings to documents, ancient books. Tapestries, to museums. Individual collectors, and so on.

And, you know, when we see, oftentimes, the people just stand there, and they cry.

They don't even know what to say. Because they may have worked 50 or 60 years, trying to find some work of art that's been missing. And they haven't had leads. And to -- to see us standing there, with something that belongs to them.

Not asking for anything in return. Don't charge anybody for doing it. Because we feel like everybody who went through World War II already paid enough.

Words -- words just fail. It's just pure gratitude.

GLENN: I can't wait for you to tell this new story.

Tell me the story of the care takers. The care takers of --

ROBERT: Well, it's a story that found me, just as Monuments did.

I have written about -- in the Monuments Men, I told the story of two Monuments Officers who were killed in combat, one British soldier and one American, Walter Huchthausen. And Huchthausen was killed. He once did a last casualty at war. He was killed in the last month of World War II, and is buried in the American benevolence, American cemetery, in Margraten in the Netherlands. I knew that story, and I had made mention of a young girl who was harbored in September '45, asking for the address of his mother, wanting to write her and tell her, that she walked 5 miles, several times a week, from her house to the American military cemetery. It was called then. To put flowers on his grave. Because her family knew them. And they were grief-stricken to know that they were killed.

And I knew that story too. I mentioned that. And then in 2015, the nephew of Huchthausen wrote me and included a photograph of this elderly lady with this crown of white hair. And he said, here's a photo with Frida, and I couldn't place who this was.

I had no idea who it was. And I realized, my God, this is that 19-year-old girl that is still alive. So I flew to England. She married a British soldier after the war. And I went to meet with her. She started showing me photographs of when the American -- Americans liberated her area of the Netherlands.

And all these American soldiers that they knew.

And she said, you know about the American military cemetery.

She said, have you been there?

And I said yes. And she said, so you know about the great adoption program?

And I said, what? She said, the great adoption program.

I said, I have no idea what you're talking about. So I started doing some research on this. And learned, at the end of World War II, our largest World War II cemetery in Europe, was not Normandy. It was the Netherlands American cemetery, where 17,800 boys and a few women buried at this cemetery by May 1946.

And by that time, every single grave had a Dutch person, a local person, who volunteered to be an adaptor of that brave.

Go out there on the first death date of the soldier, Veterans Day, Memorial Day.

And if they had the contact information for the next of kin, send them a photograph of the grave.
And a letter.

Because they realized, it was okay to adopt the bodies of dead boys.

But where the real need was, was to reach across the ocean, into the American homes and try to assuage the grief of the families.

And they knew some of these boys. And I found it the most heartwarming, uplifting, and certainly unique conclusion to a World War II story that I think has been written.

GLENN: So are they still some of them still doing this?

ROBERT: Not some. In fact, there were about -- in 1940, 748.

American families were given the choice to have their loved ones sent home, or to be left overseas in a military cemetery.

The Army had no idea, how many -- how many families would want their boys sent home, and as a consequence, they couldn't tell how many cemeteries they would need.

We thought almost everybody would want to have the families sent home. But it turned out not to be the case. So about 61 percent came home. About 39 percent stayed in Europe, which was about the numbers from World War I.

Although, the numbers in this area, in the Netherlands were higher.

The -- the graves that are there now.

There are 10,000 boys there. And four women.

8300 graves. 1700 names on the walls of the missing.

Every one of them has an adaptor for 80 years.

All those graves have been adopted, without interruption.

There's a waiting list of almost a thousand people in the Netherlands, to become a doctor. This is a -- not just a --

GLENN: This is --

JASON: A privilege. Because they take their kids out to the cemetery. They turn the cemetery into a classroom. And you go out there. And, yes, there's a somber element. They're instilling in their kids, you're able to think, and say what you want to. Because of the freedom that was given to you, by this American girl or boy. And we don't do that in our country anymore.

GLENN: So this is one of the most incredible stories that I've -- I've ever heard.

And I'm shocked that the world doesn't know this!

Is -- have you -- is there anything like this, anywhere else in the world?

JASON: No. We couldn't even find a comp of any nature.

There are -- that is not to say, the people in Normandy area, don't care about Normandy and other cemeteries. They do, of course. As do the Belgians in other cemeteries.

But there's no place that created an organic great adoption program, during the war, in January 1945!

These people in this area of the Netherlands were so grateful, having been neutral in World War I.

And having not lost their freedom for 100 years!

And they didn't like it!

And when the Americans liberated them in September 44. I'll never forget this woman Freda. This elderly woman I met, looked at me, the first time I interviewed her. I knew her for eight years. The last eight years of her life.

I delivered a eulogy two summers ago. She looked at me, there were the eyes of the 19-year-old. And she said, when I saw that first tank over the hill and I realized, we were saved.

I looked at my dad, and I said, Papi, these American boys come all the way across the ocean to say this. And there were tears in her eyes.

Because they didn't -- they couldn't imagine how we could have moved that equipment across -- across the ocean.

And why we would have cared so much.

So there isn't anything like it.

But January 45, these people in this little town of Margraten.

A mile from the cemetery, organized a meeting of the town leaders. The town who got 1200 people.

And they were trying to find an answer to the question: How do you thank your liberators, when they're no longer alive to thank? And they came up with this idea of this great adoption program, and it's a story that I tell, following the lives of about 12 different American combat soldiers.

Bomber recipients.

Tankers.

Because we don't know that story.

We don't what knows to an American story, when they're killed on the field of battle.

Because it's depressing.

We move on to the next scene in a movie.

Well, I want people to know, you started your program with freedom is not free.

It's ugly.

Let's talk about that. Let's talk about what the cost is.

Let's talk about the stripping line that the body goes through, and the removal of dog tags, one being put in the mouth, if there's still a head. And the other being nailed to the cross, because they don't have time to stencil the names on yet.

Let's talk about that, and let people know, it's not just a Marvel movie. Or a gang war.

This is real. This is painful. And, of course, at the end of the war, when we Americans declare victory, and move on with our lives, there's millions of family members in the United States, whose lives will never be the same.

So it is -- it's still happening today. It's still happening today.

GLENN: The name -- the name of the book is Remember Us.

And take us -- I mean, because that's really kind of the -- the -- the beauty of it.

Take us through the rest of the book, just briefly.

It starts with what?

ROBERT: Well, I follow -- I began what a nice life was in the Netherlands. Until May 10, 1940.

And the Netherlands does not get much attention from World War II, and yet everybody has heard of Battle of the Bulge. And Battle -- those are all within 50 miles of what we're talking about.

They happened around there. Of course, World War II, in western Europe, begins right here in this area. Because the German tanks roll across the border.

So I cover the life of these 12 different Americans. I interviewed all their family members. Some make it through the war. Some don't.

You read the book, you realize who makes it, who doesn't. But their lives converge around this area of the Netherlands. And when post-world War II stories end, with the war being over, remember us kicks into a transcendent moment when the Dutch come up with this idea of this great adoption program. The Americans refuse to provide the names and addresses of the next of kin.

So they're foiled with trying to achieve their ultimate objective. Which is to try to contact all the American families.

And frustrated, there was -- one of the key figures of the book.

A woman who is the mother of 12 children.

Who takes it upon herself. She's a woman of action.

She writes president Truman. And pleads for him to get involved.

When that doesn't work. She gets on the first airplane, she's ever flown on. She leaves her kids behind.

She flies to New York. Lands in LaGuardia Field.

She goes to Washington, and meets the members of Congress. Including a young guy from Texas, named Lyndon Johnson.

Who says, young lady, you need to go to Texas. Because there are so many military bases there.

She flies to our hometown. And lands in Lovefield.

In June of 1946. And is met by two family members. And for five weeks, she lives with American families, that lost somebody during a war.

And to each of them she says, leave your boys with us. When the election comes.

We will watch over them, like our own forever.

And they have done that. Now, today, these 10,000 Dutch doctors only have contact information for 20 percent of the American families.

They couldn't ever get the others.

GLENN: You're kidding me. Where is the list? Do you have a list?

ROBERT: Yeah. The Monuments Men and Women Foundation entered into a joint venture with the Dutch Foundation for Adopting Graves.

Not charging anybody for this. And we have created a website called foreverpromise.org.

And on that website is a list of all 10,000 men and women, more women that are buried at the cemetery, or whose names are on the walls missing.

And it's a searchable database. We're asking people to go and see. Do you have someone you know, or a relative, who is buried there.

And if so, we have a short questionnaire. What's your relationship? Are you aware of this great adoption program? Are you in contact with your adopter? Would you like to be? Would you allow us to share your contact information?

I connected a lady from Richmond, Texas. Saturday night. To her -- to this young Tammy, that's the adopter of her brother.

She's 93 years old.

She was in tears. At the thought when she leaves this world, there will be someone there to watch over her brother.

And that's what we're all about is this connecting.

GLENN: Rob, I have to tell you.

You've really done something with your life. I mean, I know you don't need me to say it.
But what a great job you have. And what a great service you have done for so many years.

Thank you so much.

Please, look this up.

The forever promise project.

You can find it at foreverpromise.org. Foreverpromise.org. Robert Edsel is the author's name. The book is Remember Us. It's a perfect read for this week.

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