RADIODecember 08, 2022

EXPOSED: Federal agency is ROBBING AMERICANS of private land

In this clip, Glenn details a story from Oregon in which homeowners cannot reach their private cabins because the road needed to access them has been taken over by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Ben Burr, Executive Director of BlueRibbon Coalition, tells Glenn this story exemplifies a different kind of federal land grab: ‘They enact so many regulations that make it so difficult for you to access and enjoy your property that eventually you just can't afford to own it anymore. So you sell it, and then they turn it into a conservation area or something.’ It’s a unique type of tyranny that MUST be stopped. Burr explains why this issue needs national attention AND pressure…

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GLENN: We have Ben Burr on with us now, he's blue ribbon coalition expert. He is watching and fighting against the federal land grab, that mainly is happening in the West.

Ben, welcome to the program.

BEN: Yeah, thanks for having me, Glenn.

GLENN: So did you look in -- I -- I had my office look into you, and ask the about the story of the homeowners that have to walk to their cabins. And nobody is repairing the road. Because it's BLM land now. Is this just another land grab?

BEN: I believe it is.

I've been working against these federal agencies for years now, and one of the common trends I see is these agencies work to dispossess property owners of their property.

And the way they do it is through what is called a regulatory taking. They enact so many regulations that make it so difficult for you to access and enjoy your property. That eventually, you just can't afford to own it anymore. So you sell it, and then they turn it into a wilderness or a conservation area or something.

It's a really pernicious form of tyranny, that exists within our public system, and these poor property owners in Oregon have been fighting BLM for two years to be able to access a road, that they've been accessing since 1906, to go to these cabins. And now BLM is telling them, they're not allowed to do it. They put up a gate. They won't get the key, and they are being prevented from going to what is essentially their homes.

GLENN: So what -- what is it that they can do?

BEN: Well, currently, we're putting a lot of pressure on the BLM, they've started an administrative process, to see if they can reopen this road. But the reason that I think this needs national attention is because there just needs to be pressure -- Congressman Bentz has been helpful in trying to get this done.

But as you know, the Republicans were in the minority last Congress. As soon as there's a majority, I'm hoping there's some Congressional scrutiny on the behavior of what's going on at the BLM office.

I just -- I don't think the BLM can be an agency that can just decide one day, that you can't go to your home anymore. And they block off a road.

GLENN: I got news for you.

I know you agree with me on this. No agency should be able to get up one day and just change the rules. No agency should do that. Congress makes the law.

BEN: They don't have to change the rules. The BLM's own rules say, like, if you look at their handbook, it says that they cannot deny a property owner access to go and use and enjoy their property.

They're not following their rules. And so -- but they are willing to play chicken. Like, so the question is: Is this going to have to go to court?

It's just frustrating that that might have to be the outcome. Because all you need is for one field managerial to change his mind, and say, they can keep using this road, they've been using since 1906.

And one thing you should know. I did help them get emergency access to go winterize their cabins one year.

There was an early breeze coming. Nobody had turned off their water. This was the first year that they couldn't go up. And we petitioned BLM, saying, can we just go up and turn off the water so we don't break all our pipes and destroy our homes?

And they were like, okay. Fine. You can do it.

So they actually drove up the road, that had been allegedly destroyed by an erosion event that happened from a flood.

The road is passable. You can still do it in a four-wheel drive vehicle. So no work needs to be done.

But the BLM just won't let them open the gate. They're telling them no. And the reason is because they're worried these four wheeled vehicles will run over fish in the river.

GLENN: Oh.

BEN: And I've hiked to these cabins, Glenn. I have a picture on our website. Of me hiking up there. The river goes up to my knees. Have you ever tried to run over a fish in a river that is knee-deep with a Jeep?

GLENN: Oh, I do it all the time. I just run over. That's how I fish. And how I take out my anger. I just drive up and down rivers that kill fish. Yeah. This is ridiculous.

BEN: And there are a few places where there are river crossings. They have been doing it for a century and more. And they're worried about the fish.

And they're just like, I don't think they'll run over the fish in their Jeeps.

I've tried to catch fish with my hands in a river when I was a kid, and it's impossible there. They're pretty -- they're pretty adaptive.

GLENN: Yeah. It's almost as if water is their element.

BEN: Almost.

GLENN: Almost. Almost.

Okay. So, Ben, is this part of -- I remember during the Clinton years, somebody was talking about Yellowstone and letting roads in and around the park degrade so people would just -- eventually just vacate that area, because it was too difficult to get to. I don't even know if that was true. That was something going on around the '90s. Is there a concerted effort in our -- in our land management agencies? To do these kinds of things?

BEN: Oh, 100 percent.

In the Clinton era, you have what was called the roadless rule, which was one of these rules, that the agencies just dreamed up. That I think if we could get it before the Supreme Court again, they would strike it down after the EPA versus West Virginia case.

Because they just made up the rule out of clean cloth. They had no congressional direction to do it. But my organization, political, that's one of the primary things we fight over, is roads.

Because if you can close roads, you can close access. That means we're not using our natural resources. It means people can't access private property.

I've helped ranchers. In the same cases, folks in Oregon tried to get up to their graving permit -- permitted land and their private properties.

And so there is a concerted effort to obliterate and decommission roads, all across the public land system. Because that's how you can turn it into what's called designated wilderness, which is you can only go and walk on it, on your own 2 feet, and you can't do anything.

No mechanized anything, on a wilderness area. And some wilderness is okay. Like the recreation region, it's probably okay to have some regions that are okay for all that. But this group that wants to close it all down, wants it all.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I have -- I have land up in Idaho. That when I bought it, it was a good thing.

It's surrounded by BLM, and then surrounded by national forests.

And I thought, that's a good buffer. And everything else. No. That's really bad.

It is literally surrounded. The road has to go through the national forest, to be able to get to my -- my ranch. That's exactly the kind of stuff they want to shut down.

BEN: Yeah. So you have neighbors, who have the infinite power of the federal government to hurt you, if they ever decide they don't want to be your neighbor anymore.

And so you and I, get into conflict with our neighbor, we go knock on their door. And we go talk to them. And we work it out. Things get really heated. Maybe we go to civil court. You have a disagreement with your government, and the government says, we don't like using that road anymore. Now you have to go up against something with a 4 trillion-dollar budget, infinite regulatory power to dispossess you of your property. And how often do you think an individual citizen wins those fights?

It's -- it's hard work. The only reason why I have any ability to know how to do it. Is because I had somebody who had been working at the agency, for 35 years, train me on how to challenge these decisions that come out of these agencies. And there's not a lot of people that know what to do or how to do it.

And so that's an open invitation, by the way. If any of your listeners ever need help with these federal land agencies. We're here to help them.

GLENN: And your federal website is sharetrails.org. Sharetrails.org.

TRAITOR: Dem Congresswoman Pledges Loyalty to Guatemala... Here's What MUST Happen to Her Now!

Glenn Beck reacts to Democrat Congresswoman Delia Ramirez pledging her loyalty to Guatemala over her loyalty to America. Glenn makes the case for why Rep. Ramirez should be removed from Congress and why her "undocumented" husband MUST have his immigration status investigated. Now the question is, will Congressional Republicans have the backbone to take action on this disturbing situation...

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GLENN: So what happens when somebody who is elected, pledges allegiance to another country?

Well, first of all, it's a violation of your oath. But let me get into the story.

Congresswoman Delia Ramirez stood this week on foreign soil, speaking in Spanish at a summit in Mexico City.

And she said, and I would like to quote: I am a proud Guatemalan, before I'm an American.

Now, this isn't all. Her husband also is in this country illegally.

That's not me saying that. That's the Rolling Stone, which reported that a couple of years ago. So let this sink in here for a minute. This is a sitting member of Congress, sworn to uphold the Constitution. Says she's a Guatemalan before she's an American. Meanwhile, her household, defies the immigration laws that she just swore to protect and defend.

All right. This is not a gaffe. This is not a misquote. This is intentional. And it is happening over and over and over again. We have people, Ilhan Omar. She is a Somali, before she's an American. Those are her words.

This is not about heritage or cultural pride. You know, you can't say you don't love the country of your ancestors.

I mean, Tania's family is so great.
You know, because they're -- they come from Italy. They're Italian-Americans, but they would never say they're Italian-Americans. They're Americans.

Where is your family from?

Italy. And they're proud of that.

And I love that they have mixed that, and it has become very American. Love that. But when you separate yourself, and you are an Italian first -- there is no way anybody in Tania's family and throughout history, would have ever said -- in fact, her uncle Leo, I talked about a million times.
He was born here in America, while they were on vacation!

They went back to Italy, but he was the only natural-born citizen.

He was the only citizen. When the war came, they were afraid, that the entire family was going to be wiped out. So what did he do?

He came to America.

But instead of just sitting and collecting things.

He's like 18 years old.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army. And because he had a heavy Italian accent, everybody thought, he's a spy. And so he got the worst of the worst. He was on one of the first boats for D-Day. When that gate came down, he was one of the first to try to make a mad dash to the cliff.

Why? Because he's obviously a spy. He was proudly an American. When you serve in Congress, when you sit on the -- the committee for the Homeland Security, you're not just representing voters.

You're representing the sovereignty of the United States of America.

You are part of the body tasked to defend our borders.

Its laws!

And, yes, its identity!

And I can sick and tired. And I won't play the game. And nor should you, that our identity is worse than anybody else's. That our identity somehow or another, doesn't matter. Our identity as Americans.

We changed the world.

Now, you can be proud of that, while also being ashamed of some of the things we did, while we beat our chest. When we went awry. When we went away from our Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. When we get away from that, we're screwed.

We screw everything up. Well, we're doing that now!

She should be denaturalized, deported. Maybe. Maybe. That's what some members of Congress are calling for. She certainly should be kicked off the Homeland Security Committee.

She should probably be kicked out of Congress. You cannot have your loyalty to another country, over your loyalty to the United States of America.

I mean, when will we start taking allegiance, seriously again?

When? You know, the Founders were really clear. Let's look at this historically. George Washington, in his Farewell Address, warned about foreign entanglements. And we always think that that is -- oh, well, we shouldn't get involved in foreign wars. Yes, it is.

It is. Do you know why you have to be a -- a -- a naturally born citizen of the United States, to serve as president?

You can't be -- Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, everybody is like, I demand that Arnold Schwarzenegger be president. I think Elon Musk should be president. I wouldn't.

Because they weren't born here. Now, that is in our Constitution.

And why?

Because the Founders feared that you would have an alliance, that would be above the United States of America.

You would say, in Elon Musk's case, you know what, I really am more loyal to South America. Or South Africa, than I am to the United States.

Or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I am more aligned with Austria than the United States.

Neither of those guys will say that. Neither of those guys believe that.

But we have members of Congress, who say, I am more aligned.

And it is more the heart. The country that I have the heart for is Somalia, or Guatemala, over the United States.

Why are you serving?

That's what foreign entanglements -- it's not just military alliances. He wrote of the danger of foreign influence and corruption. Noting that allegiance divided, is allegiance denied.

Now, that's George Washington.

We all know that Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt did not believe in hyphenated Americans.

There's only Americans.

There is no room, quoting him.

There is no room in this country, for hyphenated Americanism. Now, that's obviously not a swipe to immigrants. It's a call to unify under one flag, one set of laws. One national destiny.

That's why we're the metal pot. That's why we came together. That's why we do incredible things. Because people came and brought the best of their culture with them.

But they melted and wanted to be an American.

And when dual loyalties creep into the halls of power, that's when a republic crumbles. That's when you're over!

And it's not from without. It's from within!

And as I said, congresswoman Ramirez, her comments didn't happen in a vacuum. They come at a time, when Donald Trump has made immigration central to the campaign, ending birthright citizenship, ramping up ICE arrests. Deporting those who break our laws. Apparently, except for her husband.

And what's the reaction?

Outrage. Outrage from the same people who, you know, want our borders open. Sanctuary cities.

Policies that blur, if not erase the line between citizen and noncitizen.

They want that gone!

This isn't political. It's not a political line anymore.

This is a spiritual one. This is a moral one.

This is a constitutional line.

And now, in her own words and her other than associations, she's drawn that line in the sand. On one side, is America. On the other side is Guatemala.

And she, by her own words, made her choice: Guatemala.

Now, the question is: Does Congress even care?

Will Congress -- will Congress end the American people?

Choose America over Guatemala or Somalia or any other place? Will we say, it matters?

So here's what happened. This -- this is what I believe should absolutely happen immediately. She needs to immediately be removed from Homeland Security or immigration-related committees. If you don't believe in national sovereignty, you should not be managing our national sovereignty. There should be a full investigation into her husband's immigration status.

No one in this country. Not even the spouse of the congresswoman should be above the law.

If Melania Trump had come here illegally, I would say exactly the same thing.

No one is above the law. Citizenship loyalty review. Boy, this really sounds scary. You want a citizenship loyalty review.

Yeah.

Yeah. We've had one in the past.

And I think we should re-- reintroduce it.

Because that is the oath of office.

The oath of allegiance.

And that has to be a binding standard for those who are serving.

Are you allegiant -- do you pledge allegiance to our flag, our country, our Constitution?

And if you can't say with real, full conviction, oh, yeah. Absolutely. Of course. That your allegiance is with the United States of America, well, then you don't belong in government.

If you can't say, no. My loyalty absolutely is behind the Constitution of the United States of America, then you should not be in government!

And here's the biggest thing that has to happen: This one happens with us. We have to stop going, oh, boy. That's just politics.

Because this is not politics! This is not politics.

This goes right directly to the soul of our nation. A line now has been crossed.

And it was crossed with Ilhan Omar. And we said nothing.

And now it's being -- now it's being crossed with Congresswoman Ramirez.

And she crossed two lines! Her husband, according to Rolling Stone, is an illegal.

So are we going to hold the line, or not?

Because if we don't know where our allegiance is, then we no longer know who we are.

We no longer believe in anything, anymore.

Because America doesn't matter.

You can -- you can serve as a defender of the Constitution, and our sovereignty, and not believe in the Constitution or our sovereignty.

That makes no -- you know what that means?

That means, retardation has gone airborne.

That's what that means.

That we are so -- we have become so susceptible to retardation, that we can't see our own suicide.

But that's what that story is really all about. And we have a choice.

So what are you going to do about it, today.

I suggest you stand up, and let your voice be heard.

These little-known stories PROVE America’s Christian history

Sen. Tim Scott joins Glenn Beck to discuss his new book, "One Nation Always Under God," and some of the amazing stories he tells in it that prove America's REAL history.

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GLENN: Tim Scott, welcome to the program. How are you?

TIM: Glenn, I'm doing really well. I hope you're doing fantastic.

GLENN: I am doing great. I'm doing great.

Tell me about One Nation Always Under God.

TIM: There's a story -- Glenn, the way I look at it, if we're going to understand our future, we must have a great foundation in our past. And America's foundation was a Judeo-Christian ethos.

GLENN: Now --

TIM: In One Nation Always Under God, I speak a lot about these amazing Christians who dedicated their lives to being extraordinary, not because of who they are, but because of whose they are. In God's hands, we can do the most remarkable things.

GLENN: So there's a -- there's a couple of books out, that are -- one of them is coming out.

Yours is iota now. One nation under God. That is explaining this, I think in the best way possible.

When a country loses its story, it loses.

It -- you can't sustain it anymore.

And these are the stories where American Christians stepped up and needed God. And moved our nation forward.

So let's talk about a couple of the stories.

Let's start with William Lloyd Garrison.
Who is he? What happened?

TIM: You know, one of the things that got my in trouble back in 2021. Is I said the truth, which is that America is not a racist country.

And one of the reasons why we're not a racist country, is because we've wrestled with race for so long, we've won.

And William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist who fought tooth and nail against racism and slavery.

And because of his fortitude, and his faith in God, that he was called, as an ordinary person.

To resist the way that the world was at the time. He achieved a victory for other people.

You know, proverbs 31:8 reminds us to stand up for those who can't stand for themselves.

William Lloyd Garrison. And millions of Americans have taken that stand. And today, we celebrate the achievement of those who went before us, and if we're smart, we'll remember that, as we look to our future. And celebrate where we are today, because of the sacrifices of yesterday.

GLENN: Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell.

TIM: Yeah, what a great story. Jim Lovell was a man of conviction and strong faith. He was lost in space, 200,000 miles -- 200,000 miles away from home, so to speak.

Running out of oxygen. He started praying. This peace fell over him. And he understood what he needed to do, to save the lives of the astronauts that were with him by conserving oxygen. Making some things happen that were merely impossible. But he was led by his faith and prayer, that gave him a peace that allowed him to rely on the expertise that he had inside of him, over years and years of an astronaut.

It's a tremendous story of victory, even outside of this world.

GLENN: Dorothea Dix.

TIM: Dorothea Dix is a wonderful story of an amazing Christian who felt called to examine the institutions, who are those suffering from mental health and mental breakdowns were housed. She found their life to be disgusting and challenging. She felt called by God, an ordinary, everything woman. She did something extraordinary.

She changed the way that the insane asylums at her time were housing everyday Americans. And because of her, we have sanity. We have respect and dignity. In so many of the places that today, those who are suffering mental health challenges are -- are taken care of.

Really an amazing story.

GLENN: Go ahead. Go ahead.

Finish up.

TIM: Just really an amazing story, of a woman called by God, to do something, frankly groundbreaking around the globe. All started here in America.

By one woman, with a Christian conviction.

GLENN: So we are -- let me get off the book here for a second.

But focus on this. What she did.

We are now -- we have a mental health problem on the streets of our country.

It is really bad.

And I don't know how to solve it. Tim, there's -- you know, the president says, you know, we've got a -- we've got to get these people back into -- into CAIR.

And that is absolutely true. But I also remember what the government was like.

What those government institutions were like. And what they became.

When I was a kid, and Reagan stopped them, they were really bad. And dangerous.

How do we stop this from becoming that again?

TIM: Well, that's a great question and one of the reasons I wrote about Dorothea Dix, I have looked around and saw the light of everyday Americans.

Today, 100,000 people have lost their lives, because of fentanyl and drug overdoses.

During COVID, we saw a 30 percent increase in parents bringing their teenage kids to the ER, because of mental health episodes. We are -- you are 100 percent right. We are living at a time, of great mental health instability. The way that we solve this is frankly not by having a government take it over.

It is, however, by having programs like the ones started by John Baker, who focused on celebrate recovery and church.

I believe the fastest way to solve the problems that we face today, is by depending, not on the government, but depending on each other.

And this program, called Celebrate Recovery is in over 40,000 churches around the world.

And as a result, we have seen lives restored.

We have seen people healed. We have seen families brought back together. The one thing you and I both celebrate, is the fact that the government -- we don't depend on the government.

Because they don't do things well.

And, frankly, the actual solutions are closer to home, in your local church.

In your local community.

In your family. We need the restoration of a family as the bedrock of our society. And meaning, the issues and the ills that we face.

That can't happen because of government fiat. It only happens because a person convicted by the Lord turns to God for help.

Families restore because fathers and husbands see their rightful place in the family, and they find their common sense, and return home to the families.

GLENN: What does it mean, convicted by the Lord?

TIM: I'll talk about my personal experience, as a kid growing up in poverty, I was lost as a goose in a rainstorm for much of my childhood. I nearly flunked out of school, because I didn't see a way forward.

Man, I'll tell you, I felt this growing need for something.

And I have some really good Christian friends who state me, by example, more than words, that what I was looking for was a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I felt this conviction. And I wanted -- I wanted to look at that, comparatively speaking to condemnation. So often people that condemn you, are looking out for your best interest.

But you need to have this conviction in your own heart.

That there is a better way.

And that conviction for me, led me to examine Christianity.

And I came to the conclusion. My life was better off in his hands. When I talk about that conviction, I'm really talking about this understanding that something must change. That it must start in me. Not somewhere else.

GLENN: You know, it is -- to me, it is the definition of evil. What we're seeing happen in our country, where people are telling you, everything is stacked against you. You'll never make it.

You have to vote for this, or your life is wasted.

It is so evil to convince people that they don't have everything in them, to make it. Because they do!

TIM: Absolutely. Glenn, this is one of the most important foundations of our country.

We were given our inalienable rights, not by government. Not from government, but by God. And if that's the case. Then we should never see ourselves as victims. But we should see ourself as victors. Because all things are possible, in a country, whose foundation is the Lord's

We haven't gotten it right. I'm not suggesting that we have.

But I am suggesting that the closer we get to that more perfect union.

The more likely we are, in consistent harmony, with the principles, that undergird the society, that come from the gospel.

GLENN: You know, we -- we never have gotten it right.

And, you know, anybody who says that America is a failure, never got it right.

Never lived up to its principles.

Have you read those principles.?

I mean, those principles that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Those principles are really, really, really super high.

And I can't --

TIM: Absolutely.

GLENN: And I can't think of a grander mission statement than what our Declaration lays out.

And we don't cut ourselves any slack as human beings and say, look, we're going to mess it up, but you've got to get back up, and reapply yourself to the mission again.

TIM: We need to keep preaching that, because that's exactly what the book of proverbs reminds us, that a man falls seven times. The good man gets up the seventh time that he falls.

It's the same thing we hear from Jesus, in the book of Matthew. That how many times shall we be forgiven? Seven times?

No, seventy times seven.

It's exactly the same thing we see in the midst of great challenges, and frankly, even in my own city in South Carolina. The Mother Emanuel Church shooting. The believers of that church said to the killer, that -- they said Matthew 5:44. You've got to love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

They said, I forgive you.

Where does that come from?

It comes from the recognition, that we're all flawed humans. And as flawed humans, the most powerful thing that we can do, is to give it to the Lord.

When we do that, we see this light come out of us. And from around us. That is what makes America in pursuit of this thing called perfection.

We will always, always fall short. But ultimately, are you going to strive for mediocrity?

Are you going to strive for average. Or do you want to get as close as possible, to this notion that we are perfectible.

Well, we're only perfectible on the other side.

But until then, let us strive in the direction of perfection.

Because we believe in absolute truth.

We'll miss the mark.

But I'm going to continue to fight tooth and nail, to be all that I can be, until I am entered into heaven, through the glory of God.

GLENN: I want to ask you something, because we were talking about conviction.

And you've been talking about religious conviction. But let me ask you about conviction to our own country.

We had a Congresswoman Ramirez. She was at a summit in Mexico City. Over the weekend, she's speaking in Spanish.

And she says, I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American.

We've had Ilhan Omar say, that she feels like she serves Somalia, more than the United States.

Can you be, you know, an official of the United States, and hold up the Constitution, if you're -- if you are not convicted that America is where your heart is?

That that is what -- that's what comes from?

You could say, God comes from.

And I get that. That's first citizenship.

But if your first citizenship is in Somalia or Guatemala.

How are you in the government of the United States? Should that be?

TIM: Glenn, let's just be clear for all the listeners.

Anyone who has taken the oath of office.

Who says their allegiance is to another country.

They have betrayed their oath of office. And they should resign, period.

Let me go a little further.

Any American citizen, that says, they're more beholden. Or connected to their homeland. That's not America.

Then they too are as lost as a goose any rainstorm.

The fact of the matter is, to be an American, requires in my heart, in my deepest understanding. You have to assimilate, acclimate to what it means to be an American. You cannot hold an allegiance to somebody else, while saying that, you know, I'm here, because it's it is greatest country of the planet. But I'm going to celebrate home.

The fact that you are here, suggests that the most compassionate country on the planet, has allowed you in.

At least, in response to our compassion and our love, at least assimilate to what it means to be an American. And then go a step further.

Encourage everyone in your community, to do the same.

It is not okay to get here. And be -- you know, to say that Somalia, is where you're going to sell your real affection.

Or that somewhere in Mexico.

That game has been played.

And they all lose.

We, the United States of America, an incredible melting pot of people. But we have one single culture, and it is defined at our inception.

It is the unique place on the planet, where we celebrate diversity. But not multiculturalism. I think they're very different.

We have multiple cultures in our country. But unless they align under the banner.

We can't survive.

You have to be committed. And one of the things you'll read in one nation always under God. Available right now, at Amazon.com. Or where books are sold.

The one that you'll figure out pretty quickly, is we celebrate America.

We don't celebrate any other country.

For one reason!

We are the city on the hill. We are the greatest place on the planet, that calls home. And I believe, we have an obligation. No, a responsibility, to celebrate all the founding fathers, who went before us.

And the ordinary people, who stood up, for this American ethos. Embedded in the gospel, so as to move us towards being a more perfect union. It is a prerequisite for public service, that you state with all of your heart, we are one nation, under God, and indivisible. Period!

GLENN: Senator Tim Scott, always great to talk to you, sir. Best of luck with the book. It's One Nation Always Under God.

It is available now.

One Nation Always Under God.

It's great to have this as a reminder for your family. Reminder for yourself, on who we really are, and how God has just woven into our DNA.
Tim, thank you so much. Senator, I appreciate it.

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Former Atheist Makes the Case for Angels, Demons & the Soul | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 262

Are angels, demons, and miracles real? Renowned atheist turned Christian author Lee Strobel joins Glenn Beck to explain it all. Lee makes a logical case for the existence of God, like he did in his bestselling book “The Case for Christ.” He touches on everything from why young people are turning to God and why so many Muslims in the Middle East are having dreams about Jesus to what near-death experiences really are and whether we’re living in the end times. Plus, Lee dissects some of the biggest questions people have about the supernatural: Are ghosts actually demons? Are angels our deceased relatives? How do you know you’re hearing from God? Will AI become the Antichrist?

How Trump's new executive order is a "MIRACLE"... for now

President Trump signed a new executive order cracking down on banks that are using ESG to “debank” conservatives, fossil fuel companies, and others who the banks disagree with. This is “a big win” for freedom, Glenn Beck says. “The Great Reset” co-author Justin Haskins joins to explain why this proves “ESG in banking is dead, at least for now.”

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GLENN: One other win, that is coming out of the White House. And I hope that Congress will codify this, and so we don't just leave it as an executive order.

But the White House is preparing a new executive order, against targeting -- or, order on targeting banks.

That are targeting conservatives, or crypto firms. Or religious organizations.

This is ESG.

And we know that they were doing this. We have evidence, that they were doing this.

We have victims, that it was done to.

And they're -- we don't have all of the information yet.

But, they're -- there's some real enforcement coming.

And this is a huge victory for this audience.

Because this audience was the first that took on ESG.

I mean, nobody believed it.

Remember, we came out with the great reset. Justin Haskins and I. We put that book out. And we came out against it.

And nobody believed it. Nobody believed it was true. Nobody understood it.

It was this audience that moved and got so many people involved, and started passing state laws et cetera, et cetera.

And now, there's an executive order on it. And we have Justin Haskins here to talk a little bit about it.

He's the coauthor of my book, The Great Reset, and gosh, what was the other one? Dark Future.

So, Justin, welcome. How are you?
JUSTIN: Among others, yes.

GLENN: I know. I know.

So, Justin, this is a big, big win for anyone who knows who ESG is, and wanted it stopped.

JUSTIN: Yeah. The fight -- the weaponization of the financial sector in the United States and really the entire West was the key to the whole Great Reset plan of transforming the global economy.

It was how they were going to force everyone to move to the left.

And they were doing it.

We didn't just have individual examples. We had CEOs. And internal policies.

All of this on the record, very out in the open, saying, we're going to, you know, phase out certain gun owners, for example.

We don't want gunshots.

We don't want fossil fuels.

We don't want any of these things. We're going to phase all of this out of the banking am is. Well, that means that you're going to destroy all of these businesses. We know that they targeted individual people, including Donald Trump himself was targeted by numerous banks, not just one.

JP Morgan Chase targeted Trump. Bank of America refused to do banking with him. Deutsche Bank also did this.

So this was a huge, huge problem. It was it is biggest part of the great reset.

We've been fighting over this for years now. Something like four years. And finally, finally, the Trump administration is taking action, and ESG and banking is dead, at least for now.

It is dead.

GLENN: Yeah. At least -- until it's codified, it's dead through executive order, which is better than nothing. But they've got to codify this. Remember, this was -- the banks will say, look, we were only doing what we had to do.

Because of, quote, reputational risk.

So they would say, to somebody like me. They could debank and they could say, you know, we're not giving you a loan.

And not explain why. But they would know why.

And what they would be saying internally is, it's a reputational risk. Because we're doing business with Glenn Beck. And Glenn Beck is against these things which the government says are -- they all have to be done. We could be in trouble, with the government.

We would be in trouble with our reputation. And with the reputation that we have with the federal government.

And so they would have to debank. That was the whole idea.

They didn't want to have to do it. Many of them did.

But they didn't want to have to do it.

They would be required to do it. By law. Through the federal government.

And now it looks -- do we have any clue. Have you heard anything that is in this actual executive order?

JUSTIN: Yes. So it sounds like the executive order is going to come out today. If not today, tomorrow. There's been lots of leaks from various media talking about what's in it. I think there's a lot of incredible things in this.

The Secretary of the Treasury is going to be required to create a whole set of new policies and regulations across the federal government, that are going to deal with debanking moving forward, into the future. All of the stuff that you were just talking about, reputational risks. All of those policies are going to be stripped from regulatory agencies throughout the federal government. they're not going to be allowed to do that anymore.

And I think one of the most overlooked parts of it, that's going to be incredibly important is: There's going to be a vast investigation into everything that has already happened. And so regulators are going to go in. They are going to look at the politically driven debanking policies. And if any laws have been violated, at all, they're going to go after them, through the Justice Department.

And they're going to punish these institutions or other regulatory agencies. They will punish these institutions for engaging in discrimination in the past.

Because some of these cases involved Christian organizations and other religious-based groups. Well, those were illegal.

But we think, with the laws that were on the books, under the Biden administration were illegal. But we think that some of that was going on too. So there's going to be a chilling effect, I think here.

A long-lasting chilling effect. Because if you're a financial institution, even if some future democratic president comes to you and says, hey. We really want you to do this. We want you to move in this direction.

They'll have to look back and say, yeah. But if someone like Trump comes back to the White House again. We could be investigated and sued.

And fined. And potentially people could go to prison if we did this.

So I don't know if we want to do that again.

So that is a huge, huge part of this.

So do we need a law passed in Congress?

100 percent!

Congress, where are the heck are you?

Why aren't you doing something on this already?

GLENN: I know. I know. On.

PAT: But it is a huge win for us so far.

Huge win for people to support freedom.

And this audience deserves so much credit for it.

You and your team do, Glenn. Without you, none of this would have happened.

I truly believe that. Without Ricky and Sara and Jason.

The whole team.

None of this could have happened.

And without this audience pushing for this. At the state level. At the federal level. Demanding action. Making this a huge issue.

I honestly think that this whole thing would have died.

And no one would have cared about it. And we wouldn't be seeing this massive victory today.

GLENN: You know what, thank you for reminding me here.

Because I am so grateful for the audience, every day. I see the impact that they make. But thank you for reminding me where I was, when we first came up -- and you I both, we were like, this can't be true. And then we realized, oh, my gosh. This is all happening.

We wrote The Great Reset. And at the end, right before we released it, I think you remember this. It was like, there's not really a happy ending here.

And both of us, we had soul-searched so long.

We were like, I know, but I don't know if there's actually a way to stop this.

Because I'm not sure anybody is going to get it, or care! Look at what happened, Justin.
Nobody cared. Nobody understood it. Nobody believed it when we first wrote that book. It's incredible!

JUSTIN: Yeah, absolutely incredible. And as we stand here today, not only are we talking about the most important part of the Great Reset, dying, at least for now.

Dying. But think about all the other victories. Look. Think about the cultural victories that we've had recently.

These gigantic corporations are no longer these DEI institutions that they were before.

The Sydney Sweeney ad is the perfect example of that. Klaus Schwab has been thrown out of the World Economic Forum. He's not even in charge of it.

His kids have been removed from the WEF. His top lieutenants are gone. This is -- this is incredible. From where we've started, to where we are today, has been nothing short of a massive, massive victory.

GLENN: I was going to say, miracle. Massive, massive miracle.

Because nobody -- nobody thought, I didn't think.

If I said to you, in 2023. That Trump was going to get elected. And within his first month.

And I listed half of the stuff, that he's done. You know, the -- you know, the -- you know, PBS and NPR, would be defunded. That you wouldn't have to take your shoes off in the airport.

That we would actually -- actually have hard evidence, that shows us the actual members and leadership of the Deep State.

That ESG would be taking its last breath, debanking would be over.

If I said that we were going to -- I don't think I would have believed it.

I wouldn't have believed it. In six months, no.

No way. This guy is amazing.

JUSTIN: Look at big tech companies.

Big tech companies are suddenly fans of Donald Trump.

They're working with them. On the revolution.

I mean, everything -- the world has completely turned on its head.

GLENN: What happened yesterday with Apple?

Pats, how much was the investment coming from Apple yesterday.

PAT: 600 million.

GLENN: 600 million.

To build chips here in America.

I was told just three years ago.

Chips can't be made here in America.

We'll never make chips in America.

We're now funding billions of dollars in chip manufacturing here in America.

We're bringing -- and as much as everybody says, well, we can't bring jobs back to America.

We have to bring jobs back to America.

If we're not making chips and there is a disruption or a -- a country that is hostile to us, decides not to send us chips, we're done.

If we don't move our medicine, here to America, and somebody hostile to us, or there's a disruption, we're done. Literally dead!

Look at the progress that has just been made, in the FDA, and -- and with RFK.

In -- in just the last six months.
Just this has been remarkable. It's incredible.

JUSTIN: And I think this is a great opportunity to remind people, to be patient, and -- and to take stock of where we were, not that long ago. And where we are today.

Obviously, a lot of conservatives don't agree with everything that Donald Trump is doing.

I don't agree with everything that Donald Trump is doing.

That's normal. That's fine.

That's always the case.

If you go back and look at Ronald Reagan.

Guess what, folks. There's a lot of stuff that Ronald Reagan did. That I think most people would say, was really bad. Really bad.

But we all love Reagan, because overall, he was a net massive good for the country.

What Donald Trump has done so far, you didn't even mention border security. Which I thought, something that would never happen in my lifetime. Ever.

GLENN: I know. I know. I know.

JUSTIN: What is happening right now, is a complete transformation of society in America for the better. It's going to take time.

It's going to take time. All of these policies require that.

But we are making huge progress in ways that we never thought were possible.

Just a few years ago.

And we literally wrote a book called Dark Future.

That's where we were at!

GLENN: I know. I know.

And we hated it.

But we really believed it. And look where we're at now.

Justin, I want to have you on tomorrow.

Because we didn't get a chance of what's happening over in Sweden.

With the Prime Minister.

This is massive and kind of leads to the Dark Future thing.

And it's going to be happening everywhere.

So can I have you back on tomorrow?

JUSTIN: Of course.

GLENN: Okay. Good. Justin, thank you so much. Justin Haskins. And you can follow Justin at -- where is it? JustinHaskins.com.

So hard to remember. JustinHaskins.com.