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If Colluding With Russia Isn't a Crime, What Is It?

Is it a crime to meet with people on the promise of foreign interference with an election?

Glenn opened up the floor to callers on radio Wednesday to see what TheBlaze audience thinks of Donald Trump, Jr.’s emails planning a meeting to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian state.

A story in the New York Times on Monday claimed that the younger Trump had emails about meeting with the “crown prosecutor of Russia” to learn “highly sensitive” information about Clinton because the Russian government wanted to support his campaign. On Tuesday, Trump, Jr. himself tweeted screenshots of the emails verifying that the story was accurate.

Glenn reminded people that it’s important not to wear a “term jersey” if you want to share a nuanced perspective; the country doesn’t necessarily need to hear more from people who are deeply loyal only based on partisan lines.

In today’s political discourse, people are often reactionary and subjective. Can principled people remain consistent and identify right and wrong in political scandals?

“We have to get to a place to where we ask ourselves in advance of a scandal, ‘Does it matter?’” Glenn said.

Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

GLENN: Hello, America. And welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Glad that you are here. Donald Trump said yesterday that his son was open, transparent, and innocent. He also said he was -- what was it? A very classy boy. What was the first thing that he said? Something like that.

STU: He's a high-quality guy or something.

GLENN: High-quality. Big, beautiful doors at his house. High-quality.

Which was -- I thought was a funny -- very Trump statement. He did come out later and say that he was open, transparent, and innocent.

Okay. Open and transparent, no. But he did release the document yesterday, about halfway through this program, that showed the emails. But that is because -- it's important to remember -- the New York Times -- whoever is leaking these, which is a conversation we have to have. Who leaked this email?

Who had a copy of this email? Who leaked this email to the New York Times? How did they get that?

Hmm. Donald Trump Jr. had told us that Kushner and Manafort had no idea what the meeting was about. But if you look at the email chain, in the CC was Kushner and Manafort. So is it possible that one of them leaked this email, knowing that it was coming out, and, you know, a couple of weeks ago, knowing that they had already told the FBI about this email and so, at some point the investigation is going to lead to this, I want to make sure I look like I'm clean.

Manafort if you know -- Manafort, in the New York Times and from the -- the KGB woman or the woman who is definitely not KGB, she said Manafort was just -- he was just looking at his Blackberry or his i Pad the whole time. He wasn't even paying attention. And Kushner, he left within two minutes. So both of those were -- were kind of cleared in some sort of way by the Russian woman.

I know that Donald Jr. tried to clear them, but unfortunately his email had the CC to both of them. So they both knew what this meeting was all about.

That's not exactly -- what was it? Open and transparent. And, you know, when you release something because the feds are going to release it or the press is going to release it within a few minutes, it doesn't really count, "Oh, I wanted to get it out there." You did a good job because now people are able to say, "Hey, he released this. It didn't come from the news." But it also works against you if you've been on the front lines saying, "Fake news. Fake news. Fake news." Because we can easily say, "It's not fake news. He released this."

So the questions we have to ask are, if this isn't a crime, if this isn't something that you're going to go to jail for, this is really just a sin. And is this a sin of, what? Is it a sin of commission or omission?

Is this a sin of -- of impeachable status? Or is this just a sin that we all forgive and move on. Or is this something that we all defend?

And that's where we have to look. And I want to talk to you, not as a guy who -- I want to hear from you. I don't want to tell you what to think. I really want to have a conversation with you. Because I want to know how you are thinking. I want to know how you are viewing this. I want to give you a chance to vent. I want to give you a chance to reason and think. So the conversation that I'd like to have with you is one where I am pushing and prodding and asking questions, but I'm going to do that on both sides.

I don't want to hear from people who are wearing a team jersey. If you are strongly Never Trump, strongly Always Trump, strongly, you know, one side or another. I really want to hear from people who are struggling with this or have made up their mind one way or another, that can help others. But you're not just a robot on, I got to get Donald Trump out, I got to keep Donald Trump in. I want to talk to real people.

Here's what I -- here's what I want to preface this with: Before this election, I said, we have to know -- we have to -- we have to get to a place to where we ask ourself in advance of a scandal. Does it matter?

And this comes from the Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton debacle of the '90.

Does this matter? Here's what happened in the '90s. As you remember, the left said, "He didn't." We said, yes, he did.

No, he didn't.

Yes, he did.

No, he didn't.

Yes, he did.

No, he didn't. For about eight months. And then all of a sudden it was revealed that, "Oh, my gosh. Yes, he did."

Then what did they do?

It doesn't matter.

Yes, it does.

No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does.

Then why were we arguing about this for so long?

Well, it matters to him personally. This is a personal sin. This doesn't have anything to do with him being president.

Yes, it does. The president can't lie to the American people.

It was a personal lie. It doesn't matter. Yes, it does. No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. Oh, my gosh.

Now, I want to talk to you about the aftereffects. You most likely argued that a sin about sex in a marriage doesn't matter. And so what happened was, we went through about eight months or a year, maybe two, of arguing about is oral sex, sex? Depends on what the definition of "is" is. The damage that this did to the credibility -- the reason why Hillary Clinton lost is because we didn't teach the Clintons a lesson then.

If Hillary Clinton would have said, "You know, the truth does matter," if she would have come out -- I said this when it was happening, if Hillary Clinton would have taken her luggage and put it in front of the White House and said, "He's still my president, but he's not my husband right now. We may get back together. No man should ever treat a woman like that. The truth does matter." Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's life would be a lot different. And Hillary Clinton may have been president in 2000. Because she would have had credibility. And perhaps she would have learned -- perhaps, because we are talking about the Clintons -- perhaps she would have learned that doing -- standing up for the truth pays off.

But instead, her supporters said, "Oh, it doesn't matter. We love you anyway. You guys can get things done." And so the truth didn't matter.

Now, how has this affected our kids? Pat, do you have that stat of --

PAT: I don't have it in front of me, but it seems to me that it was about 80 percent of 12-year-olds in 2009 or 2010 that didn't believe oral sex was sex.

GLENN: Right. It is meaningless to them. And they really don't believe that oral sex is sex, and they are embracing it. What one generation tolerates, the next embraces.

Now, remember, I know how you feel about your kids. I know how you feel about your life. I know how you're feeling now about, I haven't had a raise. I haven't had a job. I can't afford my insurance. I'm under attack with my children. I can't even send them to school.

Right. Right. So I can't tell you -- I can't tell you what you need to do. You need to do what you need to do.

But for me, if we lose the younger generation -- it's not even Generation X. I have something that we probably won't get around to, today. A new study on generation Z. Have you seen generation Z? They are a direct result of the Tea Party. I'm convinced of it.

They are a direct result of how bad the government has gotten and how we have infused things into them, because of the Tea Party, standing up for what is right and standing up for smaller government and the truth and transparency.

Generation Z is not like Generation X. And there's a new study out that says, Democrats, be warned, generation Z is not in your roundhouse. They're not with you.

So what we do with our children right now makes all the difference in the world. Now, we know how it worked out on oral sex. An unattended -- an unintended consequence. We thought we would teach our children about lies, and perhaps we did. But what we actually taught them was sex is meaningless. Oral sex is meaningless. It means nothing.

And they learned that just from us arguing back and forth. I don't know what they're going to learn from this. But I know they're going to watch us and they're going to learn something. And so I want to be really, really careful before we engage in arguments. It's why I'd like to -- I'd like to turn down the volume of this and have a reasonable conversation. And that's why I've asked for people with no teams. If you're on a team, that's fine, as long as you can turn the passion down. Because I don't want to add to the name-calling and the passion, because I don't want to set -- begin to set the example for our children, before we really know what we're doing. Because we don't have all the facts right yet.

And I'm more concerned about the children, our children, and what we're teaching them. Because we all know, if we lose our children, we're toast. We already know what the left is teaching their children. We already know what the institutions are teaching our children. We're the last hope with our children.

GLENN

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If you’ve watched the footage coming out of Los Angeles this week, then you know something’s wrong.

You feel it. You see the chaos. The organized protests that magically appear—funded and networked—hit the same cultural pressure points every time: violence in the streets, masked as justice. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again now with even more urgency: this isn’t organic. This is orchestrated.

When I first began formulating what would become TheBlaze in 2010, Barack Obama was surrounding himself with Marxist radicals.

These were people who spoke like revolutionaries and moved like Islamists: Bill Ayers, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, CAIR, George Soros, Code Pink, the Tides Foundation, and someone who just came up again in yesterday’s news, Ron Gochez. I stood in front of those chalkboards and said, “Watch this. Watch how the socialists, the communists, the Islamists, and the anarchists would work together—not because they love each other, but because they share a common enemy: the West.”

Israel would be the first target, then Europe, then the cascading violence would reach our own shores. When I laid that out, not one single voice in mainstream media—left or right—engaged with it seriously. Not one host. Not one outlet. Nobody asked, “Wait, why would Glenn say that? Is there any truth in it? What’s the evidence?” Nothing. It was like screaming into a hurricane while standing completely alone.

This was before podcasts meant anything—before Rumble, before Substack.

This was when Netflix was still mailing movies to people. Not a single serious media personality was making an impact online because they weren’t online. I had just left Fox, and someone over there—someone I respected—looked me in the eye and said, “You’re not seriously going to do that online thing, are you? It’s a fad.”

Funny how a few short years later, they didn’t say that when Tucker left. Or when Megyn did. No one called it a fad then. But when I did it, everybody said my career was over. Truth be told, some nights, in the dark, I believed it too.

I pushed forward anyway because my goal was simple: create a safe haven. Not just a single place where voices could be heard or A platform for those who had spent their entire lives working to tell the truth, but were forced to play ball with corporate media and big government. What I wanted to start was a movement. Someone has to show others it can be done, and others will do it.

Look at the army of truth-tellers that has risen: TheBlaze, with people like Allie Beth Stuckey, Steve Deace, and Nicole Shannahan. Did you know that our current Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, started at TheBlaze? You have The Daily Wire, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson, Sean Ryan, Bari Weiss, and Dana Loesch—hundreds of independent creators, journalists, whistleblowers, and citizen investigators, all standing where there was once nothing but silence. Remember, the last election was not won by corporate debates, but by that “fad” called the internet and podcasts.

Thank You

To every person who supported us, who built this with us—I say this from the bottom of my heart: thank you. Mission accomplished. We used to say, “This is the network you’re building.” Now I can proudly say: look at what YOU built.

To be clear, this is not an ending. I’m not done—not even close—and neither is TheBlaze. I know some of their plans; TheBlaze will continue to grow and expand, just as I will. This is an expansion, not an ending.

Today, I’m announcing a new chapter—not a departure from our mission at TheBlaze, but an expansion of it.

While we’ve helped crack the back of corporate media, there’s another system just as broken, just as corrupted, just as dangerous: education.

We are going to do for American education what we did for legacy media.

This is not a new news network. This isn’t a Blaze 2.0. The Glenn Beck Radio Program will continue, stronger than ever. TheBlaze remains fearless and unshakable. What I’m building now is something new: a mission designed to spark a renaissance in how we teach and understand American history, civics, faith, and service.

Let me tell you—we are ready.

Since 2008, I’ve been quietly collecting rare documents and artifacts that tell the true story of America—the good, the bad, and the ugly. We need a place to find honest history, unfiltered and raw. In partnership with David Barton and WallBuilders, we now hold the largest private collection of early American founding documents in the world—from the Pilgrims through 1830. Only the Library of Congress and the National Archives hold more.

For the last three years, we’ve been digitizing it all, preserving it, and building systems and tools so you can access it directly—no gatekeepers, no ivory tower historians rewriting our past. Just you, the truth, and history that speaks for itself.

We have a team working day and night—literally. One team here, another on the other side of the planet, working while the first one sleeps—all toward one goal: putting this collection into your hands.

What I’m about to show you in the next few months will blow your mind. And yet, that’s just scratching the surface.

This is my next battle—and I’d like to enlist you to help me.

Something big is coming.

Something historic. Just like with TheBlaze, it won’t belong to me. It’ll belong to you: a movement to rekindle curiosity, restore critical thinking, and reignite belief in something higher than the chaos on our streets.

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Because if Los Angeles teaches us anything this week, it’s that the world we feared is here. But if history teaches us anything, it’s that ordinary people, led by truth, can still change everything.

Will you join me again on this venture?

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Newsom lets his REAL goal SLIP while daring Trump to arrest him

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently dared President Trump to arrest him for protecting illegal immigrants. But Glenn Beck points out the bigger news that Newsom accidentally dropped: when he claimed Trump "wants a civil war,” he was self-diagnosing. That's what the LA riots are really about, Glenn argues.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: I want to take you back to Los Angeles here for just a second.

To Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is -- I mean, what is he?

What is he playing at?

I don't even know what he's trying to do. He's all over the board.

Play cut 11. Here he is playing tough guy. Listen to this.

VOICE: Get your hands off these poor people who are just trying to live their lives, man. Live their lives.

Pay their taxes. Ten years. The fear, the horror, come after me. Arrest me. Let's just get this over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn. But I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up, they need to stop, and we need to push back. And I'm sorry to be so clear.

STU: I'm sorry to be so clear.

GLENN: I --

VOICE: So, Tom, arrest me.

GLENN: Tom, do it. Here he is, he is saying these are people who come in here and pay their taxes.

What was arrested on Friday?

A rapist. A murderer. People who are not here just paying their taxes, trying to live a quiet life and be who they are.

They are being who they are.

Unfortunately, every time they are who they are, they end up with another ten-year sentence.

And somehow or another, in California, you're not paying for those crimes. You're just out in the streets.

That's who was arrested on Friday.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And he's playing tough guy.

STU: It's important to note this. A lot of times, when these debates happen that we've had a million times.

We tend to go through the same different channels we've been in before.

This is -- we could have a debate about whether ICE should go to a random Home Depot and arrest 45 immigrants, legal immigrants, looking for work.

GLENN: Sure.

STU: I would support that.

Because I think the law is important.

GLENN: Me too.

STU: However, you can have that debate. And that is the debate that we have been having.

This particular grimace action, had nothing to do with that.

The one we're talking about, went after actual criminals.

They went after --

GLENN: Criminals.

STU: Rapists. And all sorts of terrible criminals.

That was the target of this action.

It has nothing to do with the people we're talking about. And I can't get over how bad Gavin Newsom is on this clip.

It is the performance is terrible.

He gave versions of this to like six different media sources.

And you can tell he's like struggling to find his way into, I want to say, arrest me tough guy.

He wants to say that so badly.

But like, what that was, was a much worse version of what Joe Biden tried to do over and over again.

With like, well, I meet him under the bleachers, at the football field. And I punch him in the face. It's that same terrible thing, where Democrats have like manifested what they believed tough men talk like.

GLENN: Right! Because they don't know --

STU: And they try to re-create it in person.

It's pathetic.

GLENN: Because they're not real men.

STU: No.

GLENN: They don't understand real strength.

They think men just talk tough like, go ahead!

I'll beat you up in the back of the school, at 3 o'clock this afternoon! That's not men.

Those are little boys.

And that's -- that's who the men on the left are: Little boys.

They have no idea.

And then he -- he starts with a little bit of truth. In this next clip.

He starts with saying, look, I'm sane, you're sane.

But listen to what it goes into.

Because they always do this.

They tell you who they are, and what they're planning on doing.

Cut three.

VOICE: Stop these guys.

These idiots, that are jumping up on cars. That are burning these way months. These people, that's a disgrace.

And the impact they're having on our democracy -- there's a lot at risk here.

I mean, this is not just a simple act of disobedience. They should be arrested, they should be held accountable.

Anyone would tax any innocent person, including a law enforcement person that is lawfully doing their job! They're members of our communities, just like everybody else.

They go to the same churches. They're good human beings. Just because we don't like Donald Trump. Just because we don't like their orders. Doesn't mean you have the right to hurt or harm people.

And that goes for them as well.

We're holding everybody to a higher level of accountability. But that's not what Trump is after.

He's not for peacemaking. He's here for war.

He wants a civil war in America. Not just here. He's testing the boundaries by nationalizing the federal guard.

GLENN: Okay. That's all you need to know.

What are they doing? They want war. They want Civil War on the streets.

And they're testing their boundaries.

That's exactly what's happening right now with the left.

They want Civil War. And they're testing their boundary.

Period.

STU: Remember, we do know of organizations that basically have advocated for this.

And many of them are on the streets right now.

GLENN: The ones that are printing the signs for the people who carry in the streets.

STU: Yeah. Yeah.

We know who the organizers are. This is why I said earlier today.

And Donald Trump and the FBI, they need to start arresting the organizers. Don't go after the people on the street!

Go after the money. Go after the organizers.

The ones who are -- look at this guy. This guy is one of the organizers.

I just would like to call him revolutionary Ron. That's what I called him when I first introduced you to him, back in 2010.

Here he is. At a UCLA, in defense of La Raza. Now, listen to this guy. This is 14 years ago. Listen to this.

VOICE: A revolutionary, Mexican organization here, we understand what they're saying. You're right. This is not just about Mexico. This is about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism. Our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez. That Hugo Chavez said, our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Africa poor. Our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Asia poor.

Our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.

GLENN: Okay, that's this guy. Revolutionary Ron, back in 2011. He was talking about his revolutionary Mexican organization called del Barrio

Union del Barrio is involved in the organization of some of these -- these protests, if you will.

Okay?

So they're on the ground.

Now, here he is, recently talking about his community's resistance to ICE. Listen to this. Cut seven.

VOICE: But what they didn't think was going to happen, was that the people would resist and fight back.

And that's exactly what happened in Paramount and in Compton, California.

Where for eight and a half hours, the people combating a man in the streets, against the Border Patrol. And after eight and a half hours of battle, and it was a battle.

Because there were people throwing back tear gas. People throwing back anything they could to defend themselves and the workers that were surrounded by over 100 Border Patrol agents.

After eight and a half hours, the Border Patrol, the sheriffs had to retreat. They had to retreat because of the fierce resistance of the community. And the hundreds of workers that were in the factories around them. Were able to escape.

They were able to go to their cars and go home.

GLENN: Okay. So stop.

Did you hear what he was saying?

Remember, who was his enemy?

Capitalism. Imperialism.

All of the things that -- all of the institutions that make America, America. If you will.

Okay?

They are for the overthrowing of our government!

What is he saying this time?

He's saying, that we're only doing it because of these good people.

Exactly the same message, that Gavin Newsom is giving you.

But notice, neither of them are saying, we want revolution in the streets.

Both of them want revolution in the streets. Gavin Newsom, they always tip their hand, by telling you, what Trump is doing. Or what the left -- what the right is doing.

It's always projection. It's what they're doing.

Okay?

So Gavin Newsom says this. The guy from del Barrio. He is saying the same thing in all of his other speeches.

And we have it. We are going to be going over all of this on Wednesday night's TV show.

And he's only one of these clowns.

And I'm not saying that he's the leader of it, or anything else.

He's the leader of his little group, and they are involved with a whole bunch of other groups.

Those groups need to be investigated.

I mean, it's not hard. You have them on tape.

By the way, he's a high school history teacher in California.

And he talks about how he is making all of his students into revolutionaries.

That's their real -- that's their real goal. Okay.

So here's the high school teacher saying, revolutionary, enemy is capitalism. Imperialism.

We've got to resist Donald Trump and what they were doing. By arresting these people.

Again, look at the list of the people that they were arresting.

And tell me that you were for that.

And then the other turn of the table is to make this all again, look like Donald Trump's fall.

Listen to this representative of California, Democrat, of course.

Gill Cisneros, listen to this. Cut ten.

VOICE: The president of Israel, he tried to instigate a confrontation between, whether it be law enforcement, the National Guard, and the citizens of Los Angeles, Southern California.

To serve his purpose. And that could be -- as Lucia said. To distract from this horrible economy, that he has created.

The tariffs. Plan that isn't working.

I mean, he's even killing the Kennedy center right now.

But he is trying to distract this.

And really, he's trying to force California to borrow a term from Game of Thrones, bend the knee to his will.

And we're not going to do that. And I'm so proud of our governor right now. And the interview that he gave. But everything that's going on right now, is of Donald Trump's creation. And making.

And, you know, they are literally pulling people off the street.

GLENN: No. No. They're literally not doing that.

But okay.

So what is he saying here?

He's saying, Donald Trump is just doing this, so you will bend a knee.

And he's trying force a war between the federal government and the good people of California.

I'm sorry. Good people of California, but if that's you I see on TV, in the black garb, setting cars on fire. Dancing in the streets.

You know, how did -- what was it? CNN. No. ABC.

Please, play the ABC cut, on how they were describing these very, very good Californians, in the streets.

Listen to this.

VOICE: Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there, in the wrong way.

And turn what is just a bunch of people, having fun, watching cars burning to a massive confrontation and altercation between them.

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

What are they saying there?

That if Donald Trump reacts and sends in the National Guard, or the police, you run the risk of having a confrontation, that will go poorly, and escalate.

That's exactly what the left wants to do. But listen to what he is saying.

He is describing these good people of California, as people who are just having fun, watching cars burn in the streets.

Okay. Well, let's just play that thinking out for a second.

A, I would be having fun, watching cars burn in the streets.

I would be asking myself, good heavens, what the hell is happening to our civil society. What is happening to our civilization?

So it wouldn't be fun.

But if you were having fun, just watching the cars burn in the streets, if police come in and say, hey.

Move along. Move along.

Why wouldn't you move along?

You weren't doing anything. You were just having fun, watching these cars burn in the streets.

Why would you suddenly have any kind of hostile intent. Or take the police of having hostile intent. If they were just saying, move along.

I would be expected to be told that, because a fire truck will be coming soon, to put that out. So all of California does not burn down again!

Their logic. There is no logic to anything that they're doing or saying.

Which brings me to this: Speaking of the teacher that was saying he was teaching kids how to be revolutionaries.

Let me read this.

This, I found incredible!

Apple has debunked AI reasoning hype. Apple is claiming that the New Age artificial intelligence reasoning models may not be as smart as they're making them out to be.

The study titled the illusion of thinking, understanding the strength and limitations of reasoning model via the lens of problem complexity. Blah, blah.

Here's what they say. Models, these AI large language models, they only memorize. They don't think!

Let me take you back to school.
Kids, remember this, write this down.

It's going to be on the test.

How is it that we're saying, that these large language models, are not really human.

They're not really capable of outthinking anyone.

Because they only memorize, and they don't think!

When our schools are teaching our kids, only to memorize, and not to think!

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Caught in the crosshairs: Will YOUR city survive June 14th?

People like AFT president Randi Weingarten and Walmart heiress Christy Walton are promoting a “nationwide day of defiance” protest event called “No Kings Day.” But amid the chaos in Los Angeles, Glenn Beck warns that the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests are designed for only one thing: to sow more chaos on our streets.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: The Coming Insurrection. I think we are -- I think we're here.

We're getting awfully darn close.

Look at the things that are happening right now. And the things that we said would happen.

And would all start be playing into each other.

You know, this -- this no kings event, next week.

I'm looking into it here. Jason, I know and you the staff have really been looking into it.

But June 14th, this is -- this is it.

In America, we don't do kings.

And on June 14th, we rise up.

And this is -- this is headed by Randi Weingarten. Who is strange. The head of the teacher union. Why is she so passionate about all of this, I wonder.

Anyway, she -- on Monday, they are going to tell their governments and the communities, no kings! Because what is happening according to Randi Weingarten and this group, is that Donald Trump has defiled our courts.

Really? The ones who -- wait. Weren't you guys just trying to pack the courts.

Defiled our courts. Deported Americans.

We haven't deported a single American. Have we deported a single American?

Disappeared people off our streets! What the hell does that even mean?

I mean, I know what it means. We're not doing that.

Attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services!

I wish they would have slashed our services.

Corruption has gone too far. No thrones. No crowns. No king. On June 14th, we rise up!

What do you suppose that is going to look like, in the midst of everything else, that is going on?

If you weren't for revolution, you would say, you know, guys, we've been working on the no kings thing, let's just hold off a little bit. Because we have California. LA.

Going on. This looks like it's starting to spread now. It's going to be in Boston. In New York.

Dallas. Last night.

And let's just -- let's just hold off on this.

Because we don't want to have, you know, another event, where we've got, you know, 150 cities, and these events going on.

And we're not at every event.

So we don't know who is actually organizing it.

Let's be very, very careful.

Let's take a breath.

They're not responsible people.

That is not their goal! To do reasonable things.
Their goal is to create as much chaos as possible.

I told you in 2000 -- beginning in 2008.

Look, the operative word for the future. The one word that you're going need to. Because it will describe almost everything, is chaos!

And anything that brings more chaos on the street, is not a good thing.

Stay away from people who are preaching chaos.

Law, order, constitutional principles. And principles that we find in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Those things run to.

Everything else, is going to be a real problem!

And isn't it amazing how all of these things are just suddenly spontaneously, all erupting.

We did a show, how many weeks ago?

Five weeks ago, where we said, what is your -- what's your goal, as a Democrat?

Because you don't get elected on these things.

You don't get elected by causing more chaos.

By saying, hey. We're for the murderers, and rapists.

You don't get elected. The people are not for these things.

And you are seeing it in poll after poll.

And in that special, I said, unless that's not your goal. Unless your goal is chaos.

Now is the time to strike!

And look where we are, right now.

You know, I have to say something about Dave Ramsey for a second.

I know this seems like a non sequitur, but it's not.

You know, the pro-Israel event, that I was just telling you, was being cancelled in Dallas.

There was one in Nashville.

And Dave is in Nashville.

And it was cancelled for the same reason.

Dave, apparently has a large compound, and could have a thousand people. Or 1500 people, at his -- at his place.

And so he hosted it.

And took great risk. And hats off to you. I've been sitting here, thinking, after I read that.

Can we put that many people into our studios. I just don't think we can.

But my gosh, there's a guy who is standing up for what he believes, and putting his money where his mouth is.

Putting his safety where his mouth is.

And thank you, Dave Ramsey, for doing that.

You're a great man. Truly a great man.

STU: Greater than you, apparently.

He could pull it off.

GLENN: Apparently.

Well, I've worked with too many wusses. People that are like, Glenn!

STU: No. I'm in Dallas, right now. Where are you? Hmm. Interesting.

GLENN: I'm in an undisclosed location.
(laughter)

STU: Probably the smartest place to be, these days.

GLENN: I was going to say. I'm smart. I'm up in the mountains, where really, if you haven't thought about it, maybe you should consider it!

I'm just saying.

Let's see. What else haven't we -- what else haven't we hit yet, Stu. That is important to get in. Before we lose our national broadcast time?

STU: That's a good question.

We hit the -- the -- how about Brian Stelter, this is a fun one.

Brian Stelter.

GLENN: What!

STU: Now, Brian Stelter. He's out there, making sure you understand these protests.

First of all, he wants to make sure you know, well, not you, Glenn.

His friends that are texting him.

He wants them to know, that he has come on TV, and said, it's just a very small slice of Los Angeles.

Most people in Los Angeles are going about their business absolutely.

Normally.

Their lives are normal. They're unaffected.

GLENN: Wow. That's insight I couldn't have gotten from anybody else.

Wait. So you're not saying every person in Los Angeles is on the streets?

GLENN: No!

GLENN: Wow.

STU: I find that to be a fascinating thing.

There's like a nice little -- I don't know.

Let them eat cake element to it. I like.

Oh. Let those poor people, hit with rubber bullets. While we cheer them on.

From our wonderful Hollywood mansion.

I love you that element, of don't worry!

It's just --

GLENN: It's just the plebes of society.

STU: Yes. So he wants you to know about that.

Look, there's some relevance to that critique generally, in these moments. Right?

At times, we do get -- news cuts out the perspective that entire cities aren't on fire.

I do remember being on tour with you one time, Glenn.

And we were -- we were doing theaters across the country.

And I flip on the news.

It was MSNBC at the time.

And I see a former, you know, cable news personality, Rita Cosby. Do you remember Rita Cosby.

She was on MSNBC a few years back in the day.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: I see her on a boat. She's on a canoe. And she's on a boat.

She's floating around, and I'm looking at it like, where is she?

It's not on a river! She's on a street!

There's so much flooding. She's on a boat on a street. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. Where is she?

And I realized, she's legitimately like a block and a half from my house.

GLENN: I remember. You came in. And you were like, I can't do the show.

My kids might be dead.

Help!

STU: I'm texting my wife, calling my wife. What is happening?

She's on a boat, right by the house. And she was like a block and a half from my house. I finally got my wife on the phone, panicked.

My house will be flooding. What will go on? What will we need to do?

And she's like, oh, well.

There's kind of like a big puddle at the end of our street.

Is that what she's talking about? And not only was there only flooding right there, in this one period.

Which floods all the time.

Every restaurant in our town was opened.

Everyone was going about their business normally. There was like, one or two houses that were affected, that are right on the water. Right on the river, where we lived. But that was it. But like, from my perspective, watching it on MSNBC, it appeared, my house and all of its belongings were going to be floating down the Delaware river at any moment.

So there is some level of context and perspective that is important in those moments.

But it seemingly only happens when you're trying to downplay the violence of a riot on the left.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: And then today, Stelter is back on TV, saying one of the big problems with all of this is Twitter!

And X. Because what they're doing is echoing videos that could be, Glenn. You're not going to believe this. Could be up to hours old. So, I mean, you can't understand --

GLENN: Unlike television. Unlike television. Unlike television that is running -- that is running things from Friday and Saturday, you know.

STU: Right.

GLENN: It's up to hours old.

STU: Could be hours old. Maybe even a couple days old. And you shouldn't care, I suppose.

GLENN: Wow. That is amazing. Hey, can I ask you one of the shocking things that came out of what you were just talking about. Is that Brian Stelter was on TV.

Who knew that was still happening some place.

I want to ask your question on this. Get your thoughts on this.

Multiple people shot during DC pride parade. After gay activists rejected security measures.

Okay.

Have you heard about the shooting at the gay pride parade?

STU: I have not, no.

GLENN: Okay. That is odd to me.

Isn't that odd?

There's a big gay pride parade.

Shooting took place at DuPont Circle, a cite traditionally used by the LGBTQ+ community, leaving one male injured, according to the Washington, D.C. police department.

Shooting has occurred. Police also learned citizens of a stabbing that took place in the same area, which left two male victims suffering from stab wounds.

Okay.

So why haven't we heard about this?

Because you would think that that would immediately be turned into, see. Look, the gay pride parade.

They were told, they needed security, and they said, no!

We don't need security.

We're proud. And then, you know, nothing happened, except some right-wing extremists came out. And were stabbing gay people. And shooting gay people.

STU: Did the wrong shooter commit this crime?

Is that what occurred?

GLENN: When has that ever stopped.

STU: That's true.

That's the only thing I can think of.

Certainly, if a right-wing group decided to target a gay pride parade, it would be literally the lead story for months.

GLENN: For months.

STU: Yeah. So it has to be --

GLENN: For months.

STU: -- either just some general street crime, which wants to be ignored. Or it was -- you know, somebody else.

GLENN: It's got to be street. Just regular street crime.

Because that's crazy. By the way, the global gay pride parade that was apparently happening some place here in America.

And it happens every year. Some place globally.

And this year, it was America's turn. And they're saying, that the turnout, was about a third of what they expected.

Apparently, not so much pride, in the gay pride parade, this year, I guess.

I don't really know.

I don't really care, quite honestly.

But I would like to blame it on Donald Trump.

Because I -- I -- we haven't received any kind of, you know, official proclamation. Or -- or any kind of presidential dictate on what we were supposed to do with gay month.

With gay Pride Month.

And so I'm a little lost. Insular even have my tree up. Do you have your tree up?

I don't know which flags to fly. I don't know when to fly them.

I just don't know what parade to even attend right now.

And it's -- it's a little disturbing.

There's one other story that we haven't gotten to, and that is RFK Jr has -- has fired all 17 members of the CBC vaccine panel. I couldn't decide which one was worse, so he was like, eh. You know what, all of them. And I would just like to say, thank you very much.

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Why Trump CAN send the National Guard to Los Angeles

Democrats and the mainstream media are furious that President Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell anti-ICE riots. But Glenn Beck has the receipts, straight from our laws. Glenn reviews just how chaotic the riots have become and why it’s NOT “unprecedented” for Trump to send in the National Guard.

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GLENN: All right. Let's just go through some of the video.

I want to introduce my executive producer, Stu Burguiere. And head writer. And chief of research for the Glenn Beck Program. Jason Buttrill.

We're just going to go over just some of the videos that you've seen. Maybe miss some of these.

Here's first. Our US Border Patrol agents, under fire. Cut one.

Yeah. See there. Okay. So they're in their Humvee or whatever it is. All right?

It's got to be great going into Los Angeles, going into your job, and doing this.

They're all in gas masks. Now, cut two.

This is a vehicle capturing the aftermath of the Border Patrol vehicle, as it's struck by -- here's cut number two.

You see the broken windshield up in front?

All right.

Cut three, these are foreign flags. And the chanting on the streets of California.

And there, of course, is the Party City Hamas flag.

See that one. What are they chanting? I'm a lunatic. I'm a lunatic. You and me, we're lunatics.

What was it? Notice, we're going to get into this next hour.

Play that again. Keep playing that. You'll notice, there's a sign that they're carrying. And you'll see it here in just a second. Right there.

CHIRLA. C-H-I-R-L-A. We're going to get into what that is, here in just a second.

But it is important, they're telling you, who they are.

And we're going to get into that here in just a minute. Here's some rioters that are holding rocks at the federal convoy.

Again, just throwing some rocks at everything.

And

STU: Oh, believe me, I mean, these people can easily be killed by this. You're throwing a rock at somebody coming by at 45 miles an hour, if it goes through the windshield, it will kill the person.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

So let's go to the next one.

Here's CNN, and how peaceful it is.

VOICE: At this point, this has been a very peaceful riot.

It's been tense at some points. But we haven't seen any violence happening here.

What people are saying, is that they don't think ICE belongs in Los Angeles. They want ICE out of the city.

STU: Is that a--

GLENN: Well --

STU: That the standard, Glenn?

GLENN: No. It's really not.

STU: Is it peace?

Because peaceful to me, indicates a bunch of people standing around, not committing any crimes. Right?

Maybe walked down the street. This is them blocked a freeway. She's standing in the million dollars of what seems like a freeway. Stopping all this traffic.

Terrifying all the people that couldn't get through.

GLENN: Right. But it's mostly peaceful.

STU: Mostly peaceful.

Then just down the street, things are on fire. And they're throwing rocks at people passing by at 40 miles an hour.

That's not mostly peaceful.

That's not the standard.

Like it's -- it's easy to be peaceful most of the time. Most criminals are, I would assume.

GLENN: Can I -- I don't know how you are define the word mostly.

But let me help you out.

Hiroshima.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Hiroshima, 1945.

It was mostly moderate temperatures.

Except for that one spike for just a little short period of time, on that one day. But it was mostly moderate temperatures.

STU: That's right!

GLENN: I don't understand -- no!

Here is, here is Karen Bass. The Los Angeles communist mayor.

Here's what she's saying.

JULIO: Frankly. I'm just outraged.

Because what happened is, when ICE went in. They just took people away.

And we just can't have this in our city. And it happened multiple places in the city. And what it does, is that it sews a sense of terror, throughout the community. For example, one --

GLENN: Okay. Stop. Stop. Stop.

So I just want to make sure, remind you, one of the guys that they arrested was inserting foreign objects into people, forcefully.

You know, I think that's called rape, myself.

But I don't know. I'm not an LA prosecutor. So I don't know what they call it there.

But it showed sew some terror into the minds of people like that.

We're coming to get you.

But that's not the average person in California. And if it is, I remind you, don't go to Disneyland, for the love of God. Go to Florida. At least, maybe, you won't have things inserted inside of you. If that's the way average Californians behave. We have Jason Buttrill with us.

Jason, you're watching all of this. What jumps out to you?

JASON: Specifically the claims of spontaneous grassroots. You know, it's a natural response to society, when something this terrifying happens.

But then they all have this one weird ideology. Blended with another one!

Which is very, very strange.

Like, you know, this is kind of a crazy coincidence, that they're all socialists. Communists.

Marxists.

With a little hint of Islamism.

GLENN: Really?

JASON: You know, I don't -- does anything really weird happen or bad in history. When you try to rally a bunch of people around socialism and anti-Semitism?

Has that happened before?

GLENN: Well, no, no, no. No. I know what you're saying.

But Germany was mostly safe for the Jews.

JASON: That's very true.

GLENN: Except for that little period of time. But other than that, mostly safe for Jews.

JASON: Oh, my gosh. Glenn, you these groups. You mention some of them.

Party for socialism and liberation. Conveniently had all these slick signs printed up.

You know, I'm trying to search way back into the memory bank. But I think we saw the same thing. And ties to pretty much every anti-Semitic attack. And violent like riot that has happened over the past year or so.

GLENN: Let's remind you, what was the name of the party that the guy, Stu.

Can you look this up, quick. Remember the guy who shot the two kids in Washington, DC? Coming out of that -- you know, how to help the Palestinian people, and these two Jews walked out, and they're gunned down in the street. He was part of the party of socialism.

Or something. Wasn't he?

JASON: He had ties to the party for socialism, Liberation, and another group. It was either the People's Forum or the Answer Coalition. I can't remember.

GLENN: Which is also involved in all of this!

JASON: No! In this grassroots spontaneous thing? Wow. Wow.

GLENN: Yes. Yes. Producing the killer in Washington, DC. And these.

JASON: And the riots on Columbia University. Kind of odd. It's very grassroots.

GLENN: So here's LA Councilwoman Hernandez. Listen to this.

Cut 13.

VOICE: And we've mobilized. That's why they're changing tactics. Because community defense works, and our resistance has slowed them down before.

And if they're resilient in our tactics, then so are we!

When they go up, when they show up, we will show up even stronger.

GLENN: Okay. I'm not sure what that means, exactly.

They're escalating the tactics. Well, when you shut down freeways. When you start throwing literal concrete slabs at police officers and -- and federal officers, hmm. Yeah. I think you're going to -- I think they're going to have to change tactics.

Because despite what CNN says, it's not a mostly peaceful protest at that point.

So they're sending in the National Guard.

But, by the way, we will have a lot in the next couple of days. But about 20 minutes, I will take you through the funding.

You will have to find ways to get this to your friends. Because if they cannot be saved at this point, if they can't be turned and they can't understand what's actually happening in California, and who is responsible and behind it.

And what their intentions are, you are going to have to write your friends off.

You just will have to. Because they'll never get it.

If they can't get it, after what we will teach you this week. They will never get it. So it's really important you understand what's actually happening.

And not just -- not just the stuff on X, and everything else.

But you actually understand in-depth what is actually happening. And we will give that to you, in about 20 minutes. But so the president sent out the national guard. Well, the governor was very upset about it. Very upset.

He says, that it was unlawful. Police were making arrests. Twenty-nine on Saturday. Ten on Sunday.

That's what this whole thing, they say is -- is about, 39 different arrests. Not going in and scooping up whole neighborhoods.

Very specific targeted individuals. Who we told you who some of them were.

They are very bad people.

So once again, is this about that, or is this about the overthrowing of the United States?

Okay!

So Los Angeles police declared several of these, quote, rallies to be unlawful assemblies.

And -- and the police were saying, they're throwing, quote, concrete projectiles. Bottles and other items at police.

They set several self-driving cars from Alphabet's Waymo. I love this. They set those things on fire. How much is that costing you, Google? You regretting at all, being in bed with these people, at all?

No. Of course not. Of course not.

They were -- demonstrators were shouting, shame on you, at the police. While they were throwing concrete slabs.

They were carrying Mexican flags. And signs denouncing the US immigration authorities.

And those signs as you pointed out, Jason.

I mean, just look at the pictures. At the bottom of the sign.

They were printed by, which group?

JASON: Party for socialism and liberation.

GLENN: Okay.

Socialists and anti-Semites. Socialists and anti-Israel people.

This is so incredible -- incredibly dangerous. Because when we say, they're anti-Israel.
They're anti-Semites.

What we really mean, they're Islamists.

And we will give you some stuff this week, on what's happening with this country. But I'm telling you, this is our future. This is what it's going to look like, from now until 2028.

It's only going to get worse and worse and worse on our streets.

And we will to have some decisions made, and we have to be very, very careful. Because if somebody should win on the other side.

On their side in 2028, we are in deep, deep trouble. Because they don't care about the law.

They're not -- they are not enforcing the law. They do not care about the Constitution.

They will wrap themselves in the Constitution, but they don't care!

So the president sent out the National Guard.

And everybody who knows anything about the Constitution, will say immediately, he can't do that!

Posse comitatus.

But read the Constitution. The president can send in the national guard without the approval of the state or the governor on very specific things.

Okay. And here they are. The president has the authority in cases of insurrection.

Rebellion. Or when federal rights are being denied.

Okay?

So he can do it, active duty military, in the United States, for extraordinary situations.

They can send them in section 251, at the request of the state. If a legislature or a governor of a legislature can't be convened, request of help to suppress an insurrection can be sent to the president, and he can send them in.

Section 252, without a request.

When he needs to enforce federal law, if unlawful obstructions or rebellion make it impracticable. Is that right?

Impracticable. Whatever. To enforce -- how did I get this job? I'm in the Hall of Fame. America, raise your standards, for the love of Pete!

Anyway, if it makes it impossible for them to enforce federal law in a state, by regular means, the president can send in forces without state consent.

Would you say that we are having unlawful obstructions, or rebellion, that make it impossible to enforce the federal law? In California?

Section 253. Rebellion or denial of Constitutional rights.

So if there's an insurrection or domestic violence that hinders the execution of federal law, results in the denial of civil rights, protected under the Constitution.

Or if the state authorities are unable or unwilling to protect those rights, the president may deploy troops without the approval of the government.

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