Hour 1
How the hell did we get here?...Are we at the end of the 'enlightenment'?...we've replaced our churches with our parties…the planet and global warming are now our ‘god’...Fix Reason firmly in her seat...there are two Americas and it's not 'left' and 'right' ...98% of all mass shootings occur in 'gun-free' zones...Arming our schools like prisons?...probed, prodded and wanded? ...There is definitely something rotten in the Broward County Sheriff's Office....CNN's Jake Tapper Hammers Sheriff Israel with Facts…asks the questions Glenn, Stu had and then some…be suspicious of people who want more power...Sheriff Israel blames the NRA for his own miscues...has a problem telling the truth
Hour 2
The Coming Insurrection… ‘a hard turn to the extreme left’...bye bye, Dianne Feinstein...out with the very, very old and in with the new ...Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic with Politico Magazine Editor-in-Chief Blake Hounshell...FACT: Russia did try to infiltrate our 2016 presidential election and is actively causing chaos ...Courage is not rewarded anymore; why?... ‘America, you are good’...what will be your legacy? ...Props for President Trump's White House interior design...President Reagan's rug, Bush’s couches and Obama's desk ...Report: North Korean Olympian cheerleaders are 'sex slaves'
Hour 3
Marching for our lives...let the 16-year-olds handle it? ...What Gun Control Advocates Are Proposing is Worse Than Doing Nothing...President of the Crime Prevention Research Center John Lott joins the show to discuss the real facts when it comes to gun crime...mass shootings started in 1995 with the introduction of 'gun-free zones'...Armed police at schools = Bad Idea...cost and benefits of guns? ...Transgender wrestler? he/she wins girls’ state wrestling title for the second time; is this fair? ...Sheriff Israel says he performed ‘amazing leadership’ = Ha! Ha! Ha! ...We must stop trying to just ‘win’ and ‘look for reconciliation’ ...Student activist David Hogg slams Dana Loesch with false facts ... ‘being exploited’…teen handed a ‘national platform’?... 'something really wrong' in sheriff's office
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love courage, truth, Glenn, Beck, I've been reading a lot of history. I've been reading a lot of philosophy in reading a lot of GS.
I've been I've, been reading a lot trying to figure out
how the hell did we get here.
Now I I know the progressive era.
I know the movement of postmodernism, I
no history, so I know where we're headed, but what happened.
How is it so many people just don't care about facts any?
What is what is that.
I believe we have come to the end of the enlightenment.
Enlightenment was
a period in the seventeen hundreds that
what was the the death
religion and the death of the king. It was the death
people ruling over other people.
People had an opportunity to read to think to pray,
to read their Bible too
listen to science in
police. They said up no more nonsense,
no more nonsense!
No more! No more
people telling me! I am your king because God told me I was your king. Well, I
He can't sense that I can't feel that I can't taste that I can't see it here. It smell it I'm
buy into that because it's nonsense.
So we put an end to nonsense and we
in two common sense.
There is something in all of us called calm,
incense.
And we're going to base our lives on common sense and the search for truth.
Being right isn't the important thing. The
actual search for truth is the important thing and
we're not going to take the truth hand
down to us from some
king.
From some priest, we
find it ourself. That was the enlightenment, fix reason firmly in her seat and question. With
goodness even the very existence of God, for if there be a god, he must surely rather on
questions over black
enfolded fear, tell
last time you saw an honest question: come out of somebody on tv.
Tell me the last time you saw an honest question being uttered by a politician.
I mean what I say: honest question: I mean one where the person is actually seeking the truth and it could
change their mind.
They're willing to ask a question where, if
each person on the other side has a really great answer, they might say, huh.
I don't know why I don't know,
I don't I've, never thought of it. That way. I
can't respond to that right now. I might have to get back to you
the last time you saw that that's the
spirit of the enlightenment, that
the is what sets America apart, but we
I have replaced our churches with our parties.
With our ideological dogma, we
replaced our church and our God with the plan
and global warming fixer,
it's firmly in her seat.
Is global warming happening well,
it was for a while because I can read a thermometer points.
Seven degrees in the last one hundred years. So is
global warming happening? Well, it was yes now. No
will it start again, maybe be
believe in global warming. Let me check the thermometers.
It's pretty easy.
Do I believe that it's man made,
I don't know, I
my reason tells me that you can't just
Crash the sky and the water and the forests and the land and everything just trash it.
And everything's going to be great, so
yeah. I think man does affect the planet
as he does. He affected enough with with
c o something that trees breathe, something
plants breathe on a roll. Maybe I don't think so.
I've seen the science you can make a case
I to you to make a stronger case. The other way.
Fourteen trillion dollars to fight it does any of it work. No.
If you believe in CO two well, then common sense would say
you need to stop eating all animals. Stop he
farm animals. If you stop
eating beef, you
do more to help quote
the planet.
Then getting rid of all of the cars and everything else combined, it is the biggest factor so, if
fix reason firmly in her seat, I'll have a conversation with somebody who believes in global warming.
I'm going to have a hard time if it's your religion, but if you're
opened to a rational conversation and you're a vegetarian, a vegan, I'm cool,
okay least you're consistent now, let's have a discussion,
but I will not listen to somebody who has burger breath
and telling me that we are. We are.
Five years away from with me not being able to turn things around, you should be going after the the meat industry, not the car industry. If that's what you believe, let's try this one.
If you believe that we
have to stop children,
I'm picking up, sticks and
attending that it's a gun that we must stop. In fact,
We've gone so far to classify finger guns which all kids have played with forever.
That we have to fix.
The our society, because we are teaching our kids to be violent with the class too.
Look alike: firearm
that is now in
the code book as a finger gun. You know like you used to as a
That's a class to look alike finger gun; ok, alright,
you believe that that is so
who dangerous that our kids are
Pointing their fingers at one another that that
teaches them to be violent. Well, I'm
it, don't believe that, but
I am with you if, if
you are leading the way in Hollywood, to stop
all violence in movies, because certainly if a kid
points, his finger with a finger gun that
that's training him, certainly why
watching all that violence with big?
impressive stars has got to be doing something: an card forbid. With Hollywood,
Let's talk about gaming's, where we can gaming Ark
kids can be in virtual reality with
a machine gun.
They can be a sniper and shooting people in the head.
And you don't want to have a conversation about that at all.
You know you just want. What are you some neanderthal?
Oh yeah, like the games are making it wait, the class to look alike, finger gun that does
but games. Don't I can't have it
versation with you. I cannot have a car
rotation with you. This is the
problem. There are two Americas and it is
not left and right.
It is those who are willing to engage in logical conversation, an actual thinking
and those who want to do common core. Two two.
Five. If you can show me how you got there,
you want to ban all guns. Let's think this through
we're. The only country on earth that has
is the right to bear arms in
the constitution, so to get all
guns taken away to get a rs AI
cars have been around since Vietnam.
Why is it that all of a sudden we
having shooting with AR
Why are AR is a problem now they weren't a problem in the 70s, but they are suddenly now. If
fix reason firmly in her seat? That will tell you something has changed within us? Not the gun, however,.
You want to take away all guns that will take
you possibly a civil war, but it will take
few years to get that done,
but you want to make sure that we never have this problem in school again. Ok!
Well, then, we probably shouldn't start with the guns. We can talk about that as long as
fix reason firmly in her seat, but
are you aware that out of
all of the mass shooting, since one thousand nine hundred and fifty all of them only two
have happened in the place where people can carry guns.
Ninety eight point: nine percent of all mass shootings in America have happened in a gun, free zone.
That should tell you something how about this one.
I don't want my kids living in a prison.
Well, I don't want my kids living in a prison either. Well,
that's what it'll be. If you have armed guards around our schools a prison.
I don't know I've gone to a football game recently. They practice
gave me an anal cavity search. It's a football game.
I didn't feel like I was living in a prison. I go
travel at the airport,
it's pretty intense, I don't feel like the airport is a prison. I feel it's non
events, but I don't feel like it's a prison.
Go to mega churches,
churches have security everywhere, armed personnel, I don't feel like that's a prison. I
go to a concert. They check
my wife's bag. I walk through a metal detector. I'm one did. I do.
I feel like the concert is a prison. I,
through a bank,
this armed guards, there cameras everywhere alarm systems. I don't
like I'm in a prison. I feel like I'm in a bank. Why
is it we protect everything
and make sure you're wanted for everything? But God,
where did we do that to protect our children? Is the stuff
the bank worth more than your child? Is a concert,
a higher priority to protect.
That our children in schools,
where across the country.
I'm just trying to just trying to figure out what we're actually trying to accomplish here, because I don't think
I don't think we're actually trying to accomplish anything except win. That's it
we're not actually trying to solve a problem.
Both sides just want to be right. That's it.
They just want to make sure that we get guns off the street because there right, no, no, I don't think they
been decided, except for you
in your mass, in your in you
church service, wherever you hold that strange. I hate
Second Amendment church service. Wherever you hold that ceremony, that's what you've decided.
Now I don't know if we can pull you out of your church, long enough to fix re,
didn't firmly in her seat, but the problem with our country is,
we have officially officially.
Unplug self, from the from the first principle.
Of making this system this grand american experiment that may
and can rule himself, we have unpegged,
we have drawn up the anchor and we have
old out of the port of reason. It is the enlightenment
that gave this experience this exper
and breath it gave it life.
Man cannot
cannot rule himself without reason, we're better than this.
We know these things to be self evident. We
just put on jerseys.
I will tell you what I've told the NRA since the day I die
on them. I don't join clubs. I don't join groups, the only two groups
that I think I belong to my church and I question, although
I'm I'm in trouble all the time, because I question all the time good.
Same with the NRA,
the minute they would violate and start to become a political source that
is betraying the second amendment in any way, I'm done with it. That's the year old. That's the only reason I don't join.
Sing for the discounts.
I join the NRA because
stand to protect the second amendment and they do it with reason.
The problem is, our society has unpegged from reason. I urge you today fix
reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness question to the
I need, where your
open to changing your mind, ask honest questions, because
the only way we're going to save our children
don't get me
started on that story about
the girl, I think, used to be a girl. Now she's,
a boy,
she's wrestling girls, and now the girls are upset because it's a bike, I can't even figure it out.
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Glenn, Beck, Mercury,
Glenn, Beck fix reason firmly in her seat and go over the Jake, tapper and share
of Nottingham
and and his
interview it was it was. It was quite amazing.
If you haven't seen it we're going to go over it here in just a second, let me just give you one little highlight here: go ahead, Sir, do you
I, the Broward Sheriff's office had done things differently. This shooting might not have happened,
in the fifteen votes were candy and nuts, you know Oj Simpson would still be in the record books. I don't know what that means, one dead people and there's on a whole long list of things. Your department could have done differently. Man yeah,
You know, I think this is why I think Jake Tapper is one of the best journalists out there. He'll piss you off one day and the very next day, you'll be cheering for him.
It should show that maybe he's not as biased as as as I am.
The main that once in awhile, you know you're like are. Why would you say that, but the very next day
He is asking the same person really tough questions in boy. Did he
as the sheriff tough questions? Yes, free, the sheriff
every question that I had for every question I had and followed up on many of them as well, and he he and created a whole list of new questions. After the interview we should go
do it, because there was a lot there. This guys, I don't know how he makes it through this with this job. I don't know how this is a disaster.
We we fix reason firmly in her seat and and and
the sheriff some reasonable questions and really get tough answers back.
Glenn answer back
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So I am. I want
about the school shooting and where we go from here, but I I want to do it
If, with this in mind, if it meant, if it meant that
we could stop all shootings.
Would you consider an infringement on your
second amendment right if it meant.
To me, the answer is yes, but I know the evidence shows that it doesn't work. So no no
If you could show me,
real evidence that this was an outdated mode of thinking and that
we had somehow or another solved to the reason why you should have guns in the first place and that is against tyranny,
and you need it for self protection. Well, then, you
Talk me into it, but I never seen that evidence. I've looked for that evidence, but I'm
open to hearing new evidence.
Share away.
If you are on the other side,
I could show you evidence that we could do
a few things beside not taking away guns and it was effective.
Would you change your mind, would you say well, let's start there and for both sides.
If we could get to a place to where
I could just say, look, you know we want to
this gun debate. That's fine, but this is the
the oldest debates in american history.
What is a militia so
we're not going to solve this in the next couple of weeks. Do we all believe that more that
more shooting is coming. I think
safe to say? Yes, we all know that okay, so
what are we going to do to solve it? Well, the first thing is: what can we
and from this shooting? What can we were learn from the last shooting we
from the last shooting in the church that a
somebody who is just
civilian with a firearm can stop the shooting. We
also learned that the
air force was not reporting
people with mental health issues or issues with guns and domestic abuse to put them in the system?
that had to be changed.
Now, what are we learned on this one? Well, I think
one thing that we've learned. Is there
Something wrong with this sheriff?
something wrong deeply wrong in Broward County it's. Why
something to have one guy that stay.
Is out of the building an waits while the shooting is going on, but there were four sheriff deputies. He does
He denies that a l, although his denial, has lots of qualification. You know qualification to it, which maybe we'll hear some of that here. Yes in this interview, but I think you know there's
also the thing of know? What do you learn from this mass shooting and
Other things I think, when you're leading up to the mass shootings is, if every citizen in America has told you that one specific person is going to do with school shooting. That might be a time
to understand that perhaps that person is in danger of doing a school shooting. Maybe you should do something about that when you have the number of reports and the number of altercations with this student that they did and the sheriff's department did nothing, that's a problem. That's a real, proud,
that's easy to fix. Let's make sure that's not happening any place else. Let's discuss this and get to the bottom of it.
A tapper started unraveling this this hero, sheriff's story uh
over the weekend, and, let's start with.
Why was there no report when they, when they called and said he's
a going to be a school shooter he's a school shooter in the making an he has access to guns? Why was there no report? Listen here, then,
three months ago, your office received a call from a tipster explicitly saying that the cruise could be a
quote school shooter in the making, according to notes, released,
call Nohra
or it was even initiated at this point. Sir, do you understand how the public seeing
flag after red flag after Red flag warning after warning after warning? They hear that you're off
this didn't even initiate a report when they got a call saying that this guy could be a school shooter in the making. How could there not even be a report on this one? Well, if that's
Acura Jake there would there there needed to be a report and that's what we're looking into that. A report needed to be completed in needed to be forwarded to our e,
homeland, security or or violent crimes unit, and and they would have followed up on it and you're? No, that need no relief by your office. I'm not I'm not making this up. This is from Broward and that's and that's what
the officer who handled that is on
restrictive duty and we are at an active internal investigation and we are looking into it.
So there's another person under
his command. That has failed to do the job. Yet
he wanted more law enforcement power that should always scare people.
What are you doing with the power that you do have, but he's been
asking for more power, listen the whole
Roxy. This is
giving law enforcement, giving deputies giving police officers not only in Broward County but in Florida and around the nation expand
the power to be able to do something more than just write a report. That's the whole reason I went on CNN. Is it making is insert, isn't making a threat against a school of crime
not if it's not if the person doesn't have the ability to carry it out. You could say
threat? I'm going to go to a school that it's not a crime if the person doesn't have the apparent ability to carry it out? Well, it's not a crime in September two thousand and sixteen the shooter indicated he wanted to buy a gun. Deputy Peterson knew about
he initiated a report. The school launched
Strat assessment. At this point you have somebody saying that they're going to shoot up a school and somebody with a gun. That's not enough.
That's not enough
not enough,
and that's one of the incidents. Of course there's dozens, but I mean that's
is that true his first answer is: do they have the ability to carry it out? Yes, this and then he says: well, it has a young reason. Okay, I'm gonna, yeah,
calm down, calm down, stop using reason, let's just jump on his side or against him, depending on what our religion tells us to do. That's true. I know Sis. This is the problem. This is
problem, so reason would tell you well let's stop here. Let's stop here. Is that true
now we know. That's not true. We know. That's not true. There was a a pig
trail very long against this kid, so you
obviously have enough power to make
sure that he is not around guns to make sure
but he gets some sort of medical treatment, etc, etc. Whatever it is, you may know
it will throw in prison, but you certainly can restrict him with all of the stuff that we had. So we know that's not true,
if it was true. That should be
first thing. The sheriff is asking for right. There here's specifics,
I had thirty one. You know complaints against this guy. Ninety,
in of them, we did exactly right. Ok will get back to the others,
but you didn't get right, but
on those nineteen I couldn't do anything and we knew
the gun. We knew that he was holding it to people's heads,
who he knew that he was threatening to shoot up the school and
he couldn't do anything. We know that's not true, but if
is true or if it were true, that should be the first
we work on. Don't you think, because
has to be other schools and other sheriffs that are
facing the same thing. I know this kid is going to go and do something because of the
nineteen reports that we have, but I can't do anything we
hear from those sheriff's. We should know LE
this help. You protect the children. Alright next cut.
When did he know about Peterson? I love this one. When
you can find out, the deputy Peterson had not gone into the building, how soon after the shooting did you know that off
not for days we how many investigators looked, I'm not sure, because,
you spent much of the Wednesday night Town Hall on CNN,
with the entire Stoneman Douglas community students and teachers and parents
back in the NRA, saying that
is, need more powers, more money to prevent future tragedies. You didn't
disclose any of this to
crowd, then the Stoneman Douglas High school community.
You know it then did you know it Wednesday night. It
spoken about during add earlier during that day, I'm not
in a timeline for tv or any new show. We need to get it right. We need to get it accurate. We're talking about people's lives were talking about a community. We
to corroborate. We need to verify and why
once we did the next day and uh, I looked at the tape and I was one hundred percent certain.
That it happened. The way I was told about the investigators initially told me told about I didn't even release it right. Look at the video one week after the shooting you haven't looked at the video, yet
I looked at the video soon as our investigators, it it it wasn't. My job to look at the video was investigators job to look at the video. I'm still sheriff being this this this, the this county. There were many
we need to do. We have investigated as homicide investigators in turn
affairs, investigators dissecting it and when they felt there was a video that ready for my view that I might take
action on one of our deputies. I looked at the video I'm
if you believe this guy hadn't seen that video before
A town hall in a weeks time, then he needs to be dismissed as incompetent. Just for that, I mean there's tons of
things that I would love to sell you, but the other thing is: can you
you forget it? Even if we saw the video he tells you there that he knew about it going on stage. Can you imagine the balls to go on stage on national television and
yell at Dana Lash and say
that she's not standing up for these kids when you know that your deputy was act,
really not standing up. He was crouching behind a wall. While people were being executed inside the school, can you imagine the book
tools to go on television and not bring that up. Now. Listen to this! Listen to this idea! That's incredible! Let's just fix reason firmly in her seat and let's just use his logic,
he doesn't want to go on television because it there's crowd there. It's commune
that's a community that is grieving and he
wants to make sure you just don't go in front of that community in front of that crowd, unless he
verify everything and he's one hundred percent sure that that's what happened.
So he was one hundred percent sure that the NRA caused the shooting he's one huh,
one hundred percent sure that it was
the gun and not the kid.
He was one hundred percent sure Eve,
even though he he
and the evidence presented to him that things could have been different, if not one, but
four of his deputies would have
moved in. He was
one hundred percent sure that it was the NRA's fault.
I wouldn't bring anything. He wouldn't bring
anything about his group
unless he was one hundred percent sure, and he just wasn't- he wasn't there, but he was so sure that the people who work there were at fault
I don't I don't under. I don't understand that that doesn't seem like you're really doing an investigation. That seems like a witch hunt well, and he did want to let that fact out in front of the families in a part of in a public forum. Gonna do one on one
yeah? I wanted to make sure that was one on one I know. Well, he did the
next morning, in a press conference, so he didn't do it one on one. He just put it out at a press release talk to reporters about doctor reporters, but in this interview with Jake Tapper, one of the reasons why he didn't do it was because he need.
Didn't you just didn't people like that in a crowd or a just impersonal forum. You, like the town hall,
you needed them that you know there was one parent that wasn't there and he wanted to make sure everybody was there, so he could personally tell them so
the parents were there and a press release. Well, it's interesting no strangers unit, you let that crowd a
acting a lash calling her a murderer and all these other terrible things it was mob. It was a my Christians in lines as you've been talking about it. I mean absolute mop and you knew,
as you were sitting on that stage and
making it worse by putting more blame on her and the NRA. You knew your own deputy
going, the fire in the next day,
action of duty because
didn't go in there. You, your judgment of it is of his actions, are so bad and you don't even bring that up. Any info
Did you make it worse? You make people go after her,
you make life, her life be threatened, that is in
comprehensible.
If this guy makes
through this thing with his job, that is
I don't. Even there is absolutely no justice. I will tell you,
during during
the town hall during
the town hall.
Cnn people wondered if day
and others had security to be able to get.
About they've started to worry about the guests: security wow wow,
I know I felt that way, but it's
strange does here. Cnn might have felt that way, and yet they continued to go.
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Glenn Beck. There is a lot wrong with the sheriff and we are going to go through our investigation
today at five o'clock you don't want to you, don't want to miss it
just what what are the things that just don't make sense here and by the way he
nailed for nepotism and hiring. You know family members and it campaign people
three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars in in cost adding.
So he could have his campaign. People on staff he's there's something wrong here.
Mercury,
love courage. The modern era. Progressive insurrection is coming the coming insurrection, something that we talked about.
Eight years ago we saw this beginning of this movement. In France. It's a
the civil war fought within the Democratic Party's own house, I'm giving
there are two there are
civil war is going on right now and they're, both halfpenny
in each of the parties. One is this: this in
filtration and take over by the alt right of the GOP and the
democratic, socialist takeover of the
The democratic party.
On the one side in the Democrats, let's just talk about the Democrats here, there's the new blood democratic socialists, basically just a
pc c, less scary way of saying Socialists,
marxist and on the other side there is the establishment of Democrats. The new blood is now angry and I think they're about to make their move Calif.
It may be the first battleground state in a so
highs in completely unexpected move. The California State Democratic Party decided not to endorse Senator
Dianne Feinstein as she gears up campaigning for the twenty eighteen midterms call
Ng Feinstein a senior center senator is a little misleading she's.
Entrenched and been the senior senator for I think about a hundred and fifty years she was, I believe,
She was talking about when she was running for governor and
how the last time she faced. This was when she was running for governor, and that was in nineteen. Ninety. I believe she was older than me today.
She was older than I am today at
that time in nineteen. Ninety five
sign represents everything.
That. The new blood is angry about in their eyes, she's a centrist, a Washington, Stooge, a corporate sellout and their tired,
The status quo, the capitulation, the lack of direction. What is the democratic platform right now? Real
What is it? Resistance opposite
in the trump that's
not a direction, that's a spinning compass and it is exactly the same position that the GOP found itself in.
After seven years of Obama? The s-
which had no clue how to reach their base anymore, the one-
thing they knew everybody agreed. One was Obama, care had to be stopped
and it was anyone but Hillary.
Resistance to one thing and one person is not a platform.
And this leads to disgruntled voters. Trump came in
and he listened to them and the result
It was probably the most stunning upset in american political history. The Radick
progressives are
the only voices on the left that are actually outlining any kind of action or agenda. To quote fine
signs, newly endorsed opponent within her own party. It's not just about resistance,
it's about real laws and here's what they want open borders,
a single payer, healthcare system. They want to map.
If welfare, state and they're tired of waiting for it to that,
just like we discussed years ago in the book from
grants, the coming insurrection, the slow
who creep and eventual socialist takeover- isn't working. That's what they were complaining about in France, it's taking too long, and I don't think you
people that we elected that promised us this utopian world are ever going,
but there I think it's
about you,
and so in that book the French were prepared to rise up and take it progressives
democratic, socialist, whatever they're calling themselves these day these days, they
are coming for the incumbents, the people like Dianne Feinstein,
whether she will lose or not at this time I don't know, but they are
coming and they're the only ones left with an actual plan, though
the only ones with an actual voice. An message Democrats are about to
the hard turned to the extreme left. What's going
out in California, I believe is just the beginning. It's Monday February, twenty six you're listening to the clan back program.
So today I we started the show with the school shooting and this this
this plea to Reviv the enlightenment, which is what the movement
Does that created this country? The idea
that man can rule himself is being lossed because man's proving the point that he can't?
because he has he's given into the religion of the day, Arpel,
nickel ideology and so weird,
changing positions were going back and forth, nothing makes sense. There,
there's no common sense anymore. When a class to look
like firearm of finger gun, can get somebody in trouble because that's
teaching our kids to be violent, but Hollywood
nobody's even talking about that or gaming,
where you're in a virtual world, with a gun and you're shooting peoples heads off now that snuff
worry about, but a class two firearm something's wrong. Why
We have no reason and I want to start focus
being on people who are using reason and
they are breaking the norms. People who are think of this open
to having their minds changed one way or another.
I think journalism is in real trouble because we are just you know:
you're going to read from whatever you know news
musician and go to you would think
reading political that politico is on the left. I think most conservatives believe that
not sure that they would agree with that, but the editor in chief of political magazine, Blake
Town Cell, is a guy who has written
e lately that I I don't know if he's getting heat for saying, wait,
and hang on just a second, I'm not
oh sure, about this Donald Trump
collusion charge anymore, yeah, Blake
interested in this piece, because it's a it's a it's an interesting piece called
confessions of a Russia Gate skeptic,
not that there are really serious
questions that need to be answered and serious things that have happened as they
gone through these investigations. But you bring up and
an interesting point which is
something I think we've talked about a lot of the show more big, Donald Trump fans here,
and but I've kind of felt the same thing that a lot of
claims about rush
and the outward intent,
no collusion with Russia may be overblown. Can you go
kind of how you came to this conclusion and I'd love to hear too, if you're getting pushed back
people who do seem to have an investment in making sure? This is true
sure, and thanks so much for having me on it. This is something I've been thinking about for a while, as I watched some of the breathless coverage of the Russia Scandal- and
you know by the way, let me just say that I think that the
russian meddling in the election is a c
this matter and I think settling thought it is alright man in the thank you in that
from molar of the thirteen Russians in the three russian organizations. They definitely try to mess with
ocracy. That is serious business. The question is really
whether Donald Trump was per
recently involved in cutting a deal with the Russians
to help him win the election and I'm skeptical for a number of reasons, one of which is that
I watched the Trump campaign and
it was a mess. I mean it's
achievement that they dispatched
be strong republican field and maybe
Hillary Clinton, who was, if not a form
all candidates. He certainly had a form formidable war, chest and organs of the demo,
a party behind her.
You know remember this. This campaign was really disorganized and I think Steve Bannon of all people said it best when he said we couldn't even
glued with the Republican National Committee, let alone the Russia, and
from everything that we saw out covering the campaign, I think that's true. I mean these guys couldn't couldn't organize a two car parade and
so this is something I didn't mention in the piece, but I think it's worth noting they didn't expect to win so it
they were counting on this sweet deal with the Russians to get elected.
Why were they leaking? You know in the weeks running up to November eighth that
that they would they would that they were going to lose. They were all looking for their next gig trump was
quietly working on Trump television and from all by all accounts, he was shot
to the actually one. So
I don't think that kind of thing squares with this notion that there was some secret collusion. You know, having said that, he certainly seemed open to
The idea is the Trump Tower Meeting with Don Junior, where he said you know, there's this crazy email from this british promoter.
Says: hey you remember that thing about how the Russians are going to help your Father get elected. I've got some dirt.
You and Don Junior emails back, you know if it's what you say it is. I love it especially later in the summer, but then there's no follow up. As far as we can tell. You know,
It seems like it was a meeting on false pretenses by these people who were trying to get the magnitsky acts thank shins lifted and it's not clear what their connection was to the russian government. I think the the Trump people were disappointed because they were expecting some better dirt than a God, which was some stuff related to bill. Browder who's, a former hedge fund guy who's, been funding and leading these efforts to sanction the Russians, because his lawyer,
who was killed in mysterious circumstances years ago in Russia. So it's murky, but I think people have really gotten ahead of their skis. So I think there are lots of reasons to doubt
sort of strong version of the collusion argument, so blue
I think we are in lock step on this. I too believe that the
the Russians. I don't know
they were trying to effect the election as much as they are trying to cause chaos and distrust. I mean that's their own words that
they are trying to pit us against each other.
Destroy us from within I mean the enemy has to come from within for us to really fall. If you believe Abraham Lincoln, a house divided itself against itself, cannot stand
and we're doing a nice job at that and
yeah we're doing great we're doing that expertly. America's number one yeah we're number one at that, the
the the
do. You see a willingness in the press, two
find the real answer which to me
is the real answer. Is
Russia is real trouble and if we don't pay attention- and we don't start doing things that we
to do, they are going to get better at this.
And and and and and and heard us as we did them in the 1980s and early 1990s
Do you see a willingness in the press on
either side to stop making this about Hiller
Clinton or Donald Trump and make this about the Russians and what they're trying to do to us?
You know, I think it's hard to generalize about the press. There's lots of reporters who were trying to dig into the facts of the investigation and
you know, there's opinion folks that are trying to make score political
points on one side or the other all the time I do.
I think there is like a real by
in concern out there about how to stop the Russians the next time around.
But nobody is really talking about the point that you made, which is that
reason they were able to have any success and it's hard to say what kind of success they had and how do we measure what what the impact of their efforts was?
we are so divided as a country we're tearing each
their every day
People are sharing. You know fake and misleading,
use all the time and because the
and divide has gotten so
two wide and so deep in this country, it's like
how to play for a country like Russia and manipulate.
I mean when you see what they want you when you see what they did, they took
turn on. What was it right? After the
they did? A not my
president and a celebratory. You know Pro Donald Trump Party, both in New York City. They took the side of the cops
it's black lives matter and against the cops with black lives matter. I mean that's all they,
trying to do is to get us
to the extreme to argue with each other and hate each other
yeah, and they they they're doing a bang up job of it. I mean remember that
we'll talk about how Michael Flynn went to that Russia today, Gala dinner in Moscow, yeah. Well, guess who is there Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate
and she never really adequately explained what she was doing there and then you have lots of evidence, including the indictment that the Russians were trying to help Bernie Sanders and boost his campaign during the election. So you know we have to keep in mind that
Vladimir Putin is going to completely amoral guy. He doesn't really have an ideology other than Putin,
and you know he doesn't care whether he's supporting Republicans or Democrats or the Green Party or
Libertarians and whoever he just wants to cause chaos, and you know it
suited his purpose during the election to
how about Donald Trump and then it suited his purposes after the election to boost the last
and her Donald Trump. This is a guy who only cares about power, and,
frankly, you know he's winning right now. How
back to Stu's original question you getting any push back from the you know, the
those of the world so to speak.
That are, are you know in it
want to make this the story of one side or the other? You know, Democrats, Republicans bad
yeah. I mean I was,
I was hesitant to write this and I've been thinking about it for a while for exactly that reason that
I was afraid I was going to be accused of
you know, covering for Donald Trump or you offering him support that he didn't deserve
and be finally to
how to get it off my chest and and say what I thought, because you know, I think that people have gotten
way out of control and beyond the facts. On this
I got a fair amount of
thanks, not hateful criticism on twitter,
mostly from the left and so, and then
there are people that are kind of welcoming me into one
no ideological side either. I'm just
call it straight right
like we're not trying to welcome you into one side or another. What we're trying to do is say thank you for saying something that we know probably cost you,
because you believed it not it's not because we believe it, but because you believed it
We need more brave people to actually say what they think is right and take that risk thanks, Blake preciate it. I appreciate it thanks
and that's a lake County jail the editor in chief of political. So it's a big deal when something like this comes out. The articles confessions of Russia Gate Skeptic and I encourage you to read the whole thing: 'cause. They go through piece by piece, Papadopoulos, Carter, page Michael Flynn, all the accusations and take them on in a way that I think, is not expected by the rest of the media. So really interesting piece will treat it from back. Let back in that world of stupid. Courage is contagious market.
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Glenn Beck Mercury Glenn Beck
coming up in just a little while we have John Lott. He is probably the best.
Stadtische. Would you call him
devastation on on guns? He is
a co author of my book control, the truth about guns and
we have him to come in and just let's, let's fix three
in firmly in her seat and let's talk about the actual stats
guns and a ours and everything else, and let's be
our life on facts, not on feelings:
that's going to be hard to do in this in this world. That is being dis.
Connected from reason, but let's at least stand our ground
and going back to a quick gun, Blake Hounshell from political again point this out. This is a guy. Who is the editor in chief of political saying, hey, I don't know if there's really that much to allow
the things that the media
emphasizing when it comes to the Russia thing,
and I think it's important to highlight people from the left or from the
history media who come and say: hey, wait a minute. Let's take, let's take a take a breath here and let's
Now, let's maybe go push against what the rest of the media is saying. I know that when, whenever we,
Talk about Russia and say hey! There is something here from Russia. We get pushed back from the
parts of the world who say
we're, not I don't know being loyal enough to Donald Trump when we have big couldn't have been clearer that we don't think this is a Donald Trump issue. It's not it's important that I think we highlight those voices when they are out there and you
read that at Glen Becker at world of Stu and Twitter back in a second.
Glenn Beck
Mercury. This is the Glenn Beck program
want to continue the conversation we we were having before the break about courage.
If you notice the courage is not rewarded anymore, curry
his courage to speak your mind, for instance, we just had Blake
on Shell on the was the editor in chief of politico.
Now, here's a guy who has pressure for clicks pressure from him,
pierce pressure in this this world that he lives in of of groupthink
pressure in the world that he lives in of political power in posturing, and
he says himself in the interview that he just did with us that he was
He was concerned about saying: wait, I'm not
sure, there's anything to this Donald Trump collusion thing. Now: here's the editor in chief of the politico
you'd think he wouldn't be afraid of anything, but he was afraid why.
Because we've, let our ideologies
come our religion,
our religions are actual
religion, are, churches are even answering
to the higher power, and that is politics.
We are all becoming.
Members of the church of the
GOP or the Dnc.
And just like all churches, man, we fight against each other. If you are a part of that church, you're going to Hell, you're part of the devil.
I've come to a place to her. I just don't believe any of that. I just don't believe it.
And you know what, if God is? If that's God, then I don't want any part of him.
If God is this guy who is like and there's a really good person is really trying to really be great and
he's following the faith that he finds honestly in his heart and your
a damn him to Hell. I
you don't know what I don't understand any of it then now
understand what I was supposed to learn from Jesus. If that's the truth, and I
so that makes me a heretic good good.
I'm not saying it's true, it's it's!
It's where I am.
I don't know what truth is anymore, because truth,
truth is supposed to be verifiable. Everything else is faith, true
is verifiable and
Even truth can change when it comes to scientific truths. We
take theories and we've made them into truth. You know.
Evolution, don't think so. But
I don't know the big bang could be.
But it's a theory. I don't know what happened
for the Big Bang, what led the fuse? What's first cause. I don't know you don't know.
We have to be able to have these conversations without damning,
each other Jake.
Where was she
I wish she would have done?
I wish he would have said more at the town hall, but I don't know what he could have said at the town hall it. The problem,
as the town hall itself,
CNN, should not have put four thousand grieving angry people
into an auditorium to have
of a reason, rational debate. It was destined to be
AA bloodlust from the very beginning.
Do I wish he would have said something? Yes, I do, but he didn't.
Over the weekend, he did an unbelievable job of excoriating, this sheriff when he had the facts, and he asked simple questions.
I pointed this out over the weekend
and man. It's incredible: Jim
Jake Tapper can do no nothing right, a guy who was a
hero of journalism to so many on the right just a few
years ago, when he pushed the Odm,
Stration up against the wall is now the devil himself wow,
because he's asking tough
Actions of the administration isn't that what we want. I don't want someone who is a.
Asking easy questions of either side. I want the truth. You know.
The commanding voice the voice that speaks little, but when it speaks.
It has compelling moral authority, that's gone, we don't have that anymore.
We have flat and every distinction out, we don't want anything different
want uniformity. We want to all
walk in lockstep. That's that's! That's not who we are
for the Nobel for the great for the brave for the rare for the
man or woman. That only appears every one hundred or one thousand years that that's gone. Respect is gone. Ask
anybody who you really respect the answer will literally be nobody. Nothing.
This is our age, the age of une, respecting.
The age of mediocrity.
That's not who we are.
If you want to be a leader today, man,
even a mediocre leader, pull
you down from every side, you're going to be shot at from every side. You are
constantly and in
every way, from every side being pulled down, and let me ask you.
Do you know anybody alive today, that's going to be remembered in a hundred years or a thousand years.
You know anybody do you
have you have you seen, anyone that is
is leaving today.
That has the respect and the
staying power of Plato or Aristotle or Paul Augustine, Aquinas Lincoln.
Immanuel Kant, Bon Hoffer Churchill, king, do you see them America.
You are good, no matter where you are hearing my voice. You are good huh.
Fortunately, in today's world,
it's not enough just to be good. You have to be good for something.
What is it that you are contributing? What is it that you are that you're building?
What good are you bringing to the world.
Will it be said of you, the world was a better place.
Yes, because you were alive, you
have to be good for something, and that good is so
thing that you must spread to others.
America is great because America was good and we
spread it to others, not out of error.
It's like we have in the last one hundred and twenty years.
Because what we created was good.
We're living in a world of mediocrity, we are living in a world that is pushing so
strangely sameness and otherness. You are either with us or at.
Against us you're, either in lock, step on everything or nothing at all. Right.
Rise above mediocrity rise above indifference,.
Rise above the crowd and when the
all crowd has turned their back on you, that's ok,.
At this time in history, the crowd is wrong.
And if you ever see someone in that crowd turn for just a second, they turn and, and they recognize common sense and they recognize common truths, make sure you say to that person in the crowd
for you? Yes, because if they begin
turn and you look at them and say what good are you anyway? Where were you the rest of the time? They will never turn your way again, no
matter if they spit on you, no matter if they hate you, it doesn't matter.
The world is always hated those people, it
always hated the people who wouldn't go with the crowd.
This is our greatest opportunity
really prove who we are and what we believe don't get tired, become committed, screw your courage to the sticking place.
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Glenn Beck Mercury
Glenn back, so there is a story that I read that I just can't figure out.
I don't know how this is bad. Donald Trump
decorated. The oval office with hand me downs from past presidents is in respect the
office. Glad! No. I don't believe this is one of the greatest story. This yeah me go.
Because I would not expect this from Donald Trump is a great dog. This is a great Donald Trump story. If you look at the,
the photos of the White House over the years you'll find that Trump has just
show the number of design elements from his predecessors,
Dwight Eisenhower. Jimmy Carter. Both skipped redecorating that follow
The new president's ascension to the White House, even Ronald Reagan, didn't break out his interior design till second term. Still
most modern presidents have redesigned the space to fit their own taste. I thought the whole thing would be dipped in gold by now
Ok, I said everyone said it was going to happen to put his name on the front of it. So remember when George Bush said the first question you get once you are elected president. Is you get a call from the White House and they say what do you want? Your rug to look like I think, Donald Trump's,
Uh answer was, I don't know. Is there an old one laying around.
He's using Ronald Reagan's rug, your
Bush's couches in
a story, Barack Obama's desk uh. That's
you'd have to go to that one yeah, the Abraham, Lincoln in Boston that was last displayed by Barack Obama Gerald Ford's large, the case,
you know, grandfather clock, a portrait of
a person hung by Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton's? Drapes amen, good,
spend anything. What do you have? I love this? They have clean those drapes right
I don't get everything out of the rug, but they did clean the drapes.
Here's another story that I would be interesting.
See the media cover. North care
is cheerleaders that
aim the media darlings at the winter Olympics. Yeah
great story, they really were passionate about. I don't think team, yeah, yeah, yeah,
report out of Bloomberg, apparently they're also sex slaves for the dictatorship. They have to attend daily parties
to promote propaganda and they
provide sexual services to
the party leadership, whether they want to or not might seem like
fancy show on the outside. However
have to go to parties and provide sexual services, and that kind of pain follows. Oh, I wonder if anybody you know from the press would like to take it back, that they
so funny and so cheering maybe there is. They were very happy because that that was a moment where they weren't doing that with class
for a team is a lot better like that, and then they had to do at home and there's one more there's one more story out and remember the cat. Lady from New York yeah
yeah she's, come out. The new press
story said I've never had
the press plastic surgery at all. This is all natural.
He told Glenn back
mercury,
love. Courage, Abraham Lincoln, said
a firm believer in the people. If give
the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis, but the great point
is to bring them the real facts. So we
do that this half hour- let's let's
here with the facts about the hashtag, never again, movement and the upcoming march for our lives rally that is planned for March 24th in Washington DC for
for over a week now CNN and the rest of the media, betrayed this movement as grass roots and totally trick teen driven-
and maybe it was the very beginning,
but it's not anymore Joe.
Just a few days after the horrible tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School, a junior
Cameron case Caskey, set up a go fund me account to raise money for the march for our lives. Caskey
the teenager, who confronted Senator Rubio on stage at CNN's monster truck rally event last Wednesday night and so far thirty two.
Thousand people have donated two point: five million dollars to go to the go fund. Me account two point: five
So you know that is more money than we raised by far for restore
honor
on the National mall.
What is this money going for? Well, on the go
me page Caskey, says the fun
will be spent on the incredibly difficult and expensive process that is
organizing an event like this.
How does she know how much it costs we
people making more specific plans, but for now, no that
this is the March and for everything left,
over is going to be going to victims funds. The
search for our lives, has now received an additional three point: five million dollars in pledges from George Clooney Oprah, Winfrey Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Gucci
Eli Broad Cameron, Caste Father
said that Cameron and friends are being directed by people with knowledge of how to
on Sibley spend this money and it's going to be very transparent. In quote.
Well. I I hope it's better than George Clooney September 11th fund.
Passkeys dad also said that with Clooney's help, the teams have been.
Will bring some attorneys in some administrative help and
relations firm, whose
It's include, Meryl Streep will Smith Charlize Therone Woody Allen, keep him away
from the teenagers.
So why do you need all of this if it's such a grassroots thing driven by teenagers?
These are now sixteen year olds, with over six million dollars at their disposal.
Already the march for our lives rally, has a slick website, selling merchandise.
This is a political campaign. Make no mistake. The new
spokesperson for the rally said: yes, yes,
any leftover funds going towards supporting a continuing, long term effort by and for young people to end the academic epidemic of mass shootings.
That is turned our classrooms into crime. Scenes in other words
March, for our lives is essentially a new gun control. Lobbying firm started
a sixteen year old, kids, but not run by sixteen year old kids and by the way
my question would have been. You have an official spokesperson now, the
Teens have brought in DINA Katz to help organize a rally. Cats is the Coex executive producer of dancing with the stars, Owen
is the co executive director of the LOS Angeles women's March no big deal. The rally is
also being organized in collaboration with the nonprofit group called Everytown for gun safety. The
Bisri Board of this group includes one former governor and six former mayors, all Democrats. It also includes Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett and Kenneth Lerer, who helped start
the Huffington Post Buzzfeed.
Oh and the website stop the
parade dot com.
He said the march in DC will include include a protest outside
If the White House, where they will destroy Ar15 rifles.
He told CBS at the end of the day, this isn't a red and blue thing. This is in Democrats or Republicans. This is about everybody and how we're back
sing for our lives. Now perhaps cast
truly feels that way, but it's uh
crash course in how american politics and media work this. May
have started as a team cause, but it has been hijacked by very powerful forces on the left.
They have. A very specific agenda
It's Monday February, 26th you're, listening to the Glenn Beck program.
Imagine if this was on the other side what the press would be saying about the funding if Joe
just one just one of the coke brothers would have written a check for uh huh.
Thousand dollars
Imagine what the media would be saying we want
stick to the facts. Fix re,
didn't firmly in her seat, an question with boldness, even the very existence of God, for if there be a god, he must surely rather honest questions over blindfolded fear. That was Thomas
Jefferson, and that is the spirit of the enlightenment. That was
Spirit of America, but we have lost that now. Everybody's just trying to win well
stop trying to win and let's actually start to figure out what is happening. There's some
deep inside of our children that has changed a rs have been available since Vietnam,
kids, weren't shooting each other. What's happened to us and let's get the facts on
and guns and the actual facts on what the proposals
actually mean. Will they help art
children be safer?
we go to John Lott? He is written an article he's also coauthor of my book control. He is the president of the crime.
Bench and research center and probably the best mind on the
that's around guns and gun control. Welcome to the program, John. How are you
doing ok glad not good. To talk to you again. So John, let me just go through your article piece by piece, because facts are important:
The new hot number from the gun control advocates is that there have
eighteen school shootings so far this year. Can
who tell me about the eighteen that have happened said
at the beginning of the year. All right!
Well, I mean it includes gunshots fired on campus, as well as those off campus, but includes things like a police off
sir who accidentally discharged his gun and nobody was harmed. It includes suicides
may have occured by an adult in the car parking lot that had nothing to do with the school somebody just driving by pulling into the parking lot and killing themselves.
Uh includes a case where a pellet gun
broke a window in a school bus, so that was parked done
even an actual school pro,
but in a parking lot for buses
you know nobody was inside the bus at the time when the pellet gun broke the window. You know things that
change from a annoying to you know, minor cases
two things that don't have anything to do with guns on campus by and you have a you have two of them that are kind of what would be the
is mass public shootings that get everybody's attention. Where you had people killed
uh and uh multiple people harm one was in Kentucky
yeah and the other one was obviously and uh in Florida. So,
but what everybody is saying, they're looking for is an end to these
and they're making all kinds of proposals. So let's take them one by one. First, more back
ground checks right
before you get to the whole list. I just want to say something that is I'm incredibly frustrated by this debate. I've been in
did this debate. For twenty years I had a piece in the Wall Street Journal back in nineteen
and eatin marks. Ninety eight a call
and for getting rid of gun free zones at schools, pointing out that we
and really had any of these attacks at schools until after
one thousand five hundred and ninety five, when the so called Gun Free School Zone ACT was passed FED,
and you know I want to do something I want-
I don't want these things to ever occur again, but I want something that actually matters. The types of rules that
are asking me to go through right now. The one thing that they
here in common is that they wouldn't have stopped these attacks, and yet there are the ones that people keep
pushing for even before we know what the facts were for a right.
I mean we look at what happened with the sheriff and all
all of the all of the things that should
and done could have been done would have been done in other places.
We had multiple opportunities to stop the shooter, even while he was shooting and we didn't do it.
Right, well I mean it's
tortoise and other things you can have training. It's not clear that the sheriff's deputies had
training in these cases,
and you know,
but even beyond that,
I want to replace the signs that we have it schools. It's say these
schools are gun free zone with signs that you can see in places from
access to Oklahoma to Ohio and other places.
Play warning selective staff or teachers at the school have weapons to be able to go and defend themselves and others. You know we have twenty five
States in the United States that two varying degrees now allow
to be able to carry permit concealed handguns on the school grounds, staff for teachers summer much more. Let
all in terms of allowing it than others, but in all those places that allow
there's not one example: the school shooting occurring. There's! No! You know the fears that people have. If you listen to the discussion last week from people like
Rubio to the listening session that President Trump had where people were saying. Well, you know,
teachers are emotional, was one of the arguments that were brought up against Trump. Well, you know, you don't see any problems,
I no one answered all this charge that occurred outside of school hours and that's it. You know who and that's over years decades
so you know the discussion is often well, let's put a police officer in a,
but the problem is putting some.
Buddy in uniform is it may make you feel good, but it's impossible job. Anybody who's read any. My books know that I think police are extremely important. Stopping crime. I think police are the single most important factor, but
If you put an officer in uniform to try to guard against these types of attacks, it's impossible job.
Putting somebody in uniform is like putting somebody there who
the neon sign above the it says shoot me first, because if he's the only person that has a weapon, these killers know that if they kill the police,
your first, then they have nothing more to worry about then they're going to be free for some period of time until others
able to arrive on the scene to go and kill people. So John just take
this is this is something that we clearly know as a society. It's why we protect the identity of air marshals.
We don't put an armed
police officer in uniform on airplanes. We let
makes sense, so the bad guy never knows who the good guy is weed.
We don't want to shoot out. Well, you certainly don't have a problem with the shootout in an airplane
and by the way pilots are
emotional, because all the pilots had to be trained to use a weapon. Just
it's. The Marshall goes down. We didn't have a problem with that either. This is a
the bogus debate. Let me go
before we run out of time. Let me go through through the things that, for instance, more background checks. Tell me about
why that won't work for one
go to log. The from Obama through now and other times has been these background checks on private transfers. The deal is there's
not only would have been relevant for this attack in Florida, and people were calling for this, like in an hour and a half after the attack, even before they knew how the killer had gotten his gun. There's not one mass public shooting this century or years before that would have been stopped if this law has been in effect, there is simply no cases where people have gotten the gun. In this way, there would have been stopped by the background check, even if it had been effective.
Well let me let me let me just one of these silly things that they push for, and my own belief is the reason why they push forward. Is they just want to make it costly for law bodies that,
since to get guns they they know. They've been asked a couple times by the media uh. You know to identify one case where this is mattered and the response that you get from them as well. We still need to try to do something. You know. Maybe it might stop something in the future and they can't point to one case
in the past, where it would have helped how about the new assault weapon ban? Let's just ban these assault Weapons- John, let's just I mean nobody needs an assault weapon with this have helped. No, it wouldn't have. I mean first of all, I'm not even sure I hope
People are just ignorant and don't know what the guns are and how they operate, but you know the Ar15 fifteen
semi automatic rifle small caliber semi
medic rifle they fire the same bullets with the same rapidity. Doing the same damage is a small caliber hunting, rifle
you want to go and ban all semi automatic guns. Fine, let's talk about that, but to go and buy. I don't think it makes sense, and I can
but but but but to try to go and buy some guns based on how they look just simply doesn't make any sense correct
while levy, but you wouldn't have to ban the semi automatic handguns because a semi automatic handgun I learn from NBC News? It just
is travel as fast as a as a rifle, and so a rifle will just kill the person with a handgun
much quicker. Well, if you look over the last decade about sixty eight percent of the mass public shoe
seven, should solely involved solely handguns. If you include handguns used in part of the attack it'll handguns with rifles handguns with shotguns. It makes up about eighty four percent of the attacks involved. Handguns
in some way, and so you know all they're going to do is they'll ban. You know maybe
could be in all rifles and then they'll come back
so what we need to ban all handguns. You know what, but people need to talk about. Are the costs and benefits of God so when they go and they say, let's ban guns for people underage twenty one. Well, it's horrible that this nineteen year old
or killed people when we should do things to try to stop at things that we know will work, but the thing is: lots of law abiding twenty year olds used guns to protect themselves and their families and the problem that you ultimately faces that if you were going to
Hey ban guns from a particular area or ban guns for particular people. It's the law, abiding good citizens who obey those who
those are not the criminals. It's the reason why we've been having these attacks after we created these gun free zones.
John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center. His latest book is the war on guns, arming yourself against
Gun control lies, he is the
based on the stats. You need
have that book in your library thanks John
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the Glenn Beck program. Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's office about this shooter before the incident, whether it was
people near him close to him calling
Chase Jake? I could only
responsibility for what I knew about. I exercises. Might my due diligence give
amazing leadership to this age. Amazing leaders work yesterday got
there's there's a lot of things we've done throughout this. This is you you don't measure
since leadership by a deputy not going into
these deputies were suffering? This is somebody later slip, but whether or not they protect the community. In this new case, you've listed twice,
three incidents before the shooting involving the shooter and still
nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands to make sure that there were at the school was protected to make sure you were keeping an eye on him, your
the ads on sales. I don't understand how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership check
tapper patch gray. Yes, I love
taproom. We've said it many times. I'm sometimes he'll be agonizing to us
and then other times they'll be agonizing to the left. He treats. Everybody is an actual journalist yeah. I think so. He actually asks hard questions
I I I I think he could have. I think he was put in an impossible situation at the town hall. He was, but that's not his fault, that Saint Ann's fault and and and he he he, how
hold they sheriff's feet to the fire, nonstop for
about. Twenty minutes I want to smoke was more than twenty eight minutes and having a strange and then the Porsche sheriff I mean poor sheriff. I don't mean it that way. The share
his mouth was so dry. He was starting to look like Anita Dunn Everett, with the lizard to the lizards doing was his mouth was dry. He knew he was in trouble. I was surprised he didn't say. Is there a commercial break? You have to go to or anything he did shut Jake down, though od on one question when he was asked- and I think we have the audio, but if he was asked about whether or not if they would have
put up on any of this stuff. Could this have been averted and he
pretty power here go play it see?
Do you think that if the Broward Sheriff's office had done things differently, this shooting might not have happened it
this in a and butts were candy and nuts? You know Oj Simpson
it's still being erected books. I don't know what that means. I seventeen dead people and there's a whole long list of things. Your department, I like gosh Jake, you are just so good wow, that's if and butts were candy and NUTS Oj Simpson. First, a Oj Simpson is still in the record books. Yes, he is not one hundred percent. Now
Six people have outrushed him in a season. So I moved down. You move down a little bit, maybe answer schedule yet that wasn't due to ifs and bugs no yeah more than six 15th and 16th game of the season which they added on after he had the two thousand yard season. Prob,
the specifics there yeah,
not sure. If you asked for it, you got it Toyota. What do you get?
let me try this on. You, don't forget higher the vet,
may may all I got to say to you a little bit more. Is there earlier eyes? Full hearts can't lose deal with that blue chip. Four out of five dentists recommend crest, the Iranians a lot of them. I don't know something they agree for edify agree on something, and no I don't know that one of them want you to eat more sugared snacks. Well, I don't what is it that poll? I don't think there was a better shot down. Then that
but because it was yeah, it wasn't for effect, it was true.
It was righteous indignation, I don't even know what that means, and there
Eighteen dead people right, the guy that was. I was really rough. I mean it, you know. Let's look, I don't think it's justified very, I think, is very little desire and and Jake Tapper's an exception. I think to this, but it's very little desire to actual real conversation up on this.
Topic here on CNN this weekend- and you kind of talked about that you were on with Brian Stelter, we have a clip of it here, talking about it
myself any favors. Now I don't think
see it and really liked you that much after this. Well, they didn't like me in the first place I mean with anybody. I don't think I made anybody happy, that's kind of
that's kind of Nigeria. That is, it is kind of your life story. Here it is from CNN. We can't read
only the things that we agree with. We have to have
conversations, call
conversations that make us uncomfortable. We have to have that.
You've talked on your progress in the past. About be honest with you to be honest with you one thing too, and this is something that you're not going to want to hear
CNN had a right and a responsibility to have that conversation that Town Hall, when you added a room full when you added what two thousand
eight thousand people that
grieving and angry you did nothing you
things worse. If
who wanted to have that conversation. Then, let's have that conversation in a in a calm way, but adding it.
Adding the crowd, it became the Christians and the lions, it was despicable and all the students that she would have told them to shut up. This is
Oh, I would
I've said this is to
who raw right now to have a stadium full of people. Let's just you pick
people you have the kids that want to talk, and, let's
that conversation in
small room without the cheering crowds,
why it won't go on Bill Maher bill. Maher has asked me for years to go on his program. I won't because it is just the cheering crowd.
Somebody's trying to win. Martin Luther king
would not have done that. Martin Luther king.
Would have had the discussion without the cheering crowds. Don't try to win. Look for reconciliation, that's great and you're right that
The only way people ask all the time, especially lately, I think, there's a good number of people who
really want to try to come together.
And figure this out. I think not scream at each other. It just feels that
Yeah, that's the answer, but we were not going get to it.
We're continually scream it. It must have this conversation with you, Pat, but uh. I think that we have, I think, we've come
The end of the period of enlightenment, everything
this country was based on was
the honest search for truth. Empirical truth,
you know to mean I'm not going to listen to a church, tell
e that they have all this power, that they can do these things, because God gives them the power, and so I must fall in line. I'm
I'm going to listen to a king. Tell me he's got all this power because of God I'm
going to listen to magicians. I want empirical fact
now. If you want to go on faith, that's fine, but keep your faith out of the control
of the government. The government
and uh and faith should not mix when it says when it when it when it comes down to
troll of people's lives
and we looked for the truth and let the chips fall where they may. We don't look for that anymore. We're not looking we're, not interested, no you're looking for the win
exactly right, I am sick of winning.
If this is what winning feels like, I am sick of winning and we
been playing it now for over twenty years and I'm sick of it yeah.
But no one wants to have honest conversations. I mean it. You know this is a problem. I I die, bring the. Let me give you these two audio clips, the I these are specifically selected for Pat Gray,
enjoyment, because these two moments back to back in the same interview tells
heck of a story of where we've been over the last week. Here's David
Log, one of the students who's been on every show. Imagine
will also was on the same show as you were on this week
on CNN, with Brian Stelter, talking about
Dana Lash and the NRA. What Danish trying
the I believe she is the ceo of the NRA she's, trying to distract people, if you listen, you were taught is not a national spokeswoman for then are exactly she's national spokeswoman in as a please national propagandist for the NRA. If you listen, you were speaking, she does she's, not really saying anything. You sounding positive and confident, and that's what you want the people in the NRA to believe she wants people in Congress
as far as the how bout with mental health and things like that- and she says that she can't do that. Are you kidding me you own these politicians,
passed legislation that enables these bump stocks, which, by the way, aren't allowed it
shooting ranges because they're too dangerous. That's how bad they, but continuing on with my point she wants Congress
to take action and says that they won't. Are you kidding me? She owns these Kong,
but you can get the magicians. She doesn't care about his children's lives, so he didn't even know who she was right now it's in the beginning, but he does know that she owns Congress. He has. He doesn't care about children's lives with her daughter because she has children. Yes, yes, the error, but it is ours to write and she's she's. She owns people, even though she just started with the NRA yeah yeah, where she was working with us. I didn't know she had all of those politicians in the pocket. Yes, you should pass stuff for us, hello, really great, on more cable channels. Okay, so, but again here's a got a kid who's put
up there as an expert by
every media source. Here's the guy he's, got all the passion he's. The guy will take him seriously. We have to respect all of us use. We can't say one word of criticism of what he says, because that means you're you just don't care about children, you don't care about the victims.
This later on, he's asked not
at the NRA, but about the mass is
stir that has been Broward County Sheriff Steve if it says that Israel's real, I think I can only think of Europe, Israel and
so he these asked about that. Here's! What he says
you concerned that you might actually lose support if you get too personal to and
well she's already done, that by attacking Sheriff Scott Israel who
say there were some major mistakes made here in ones that we have to look into
and I don't want to say anything until after the investigation done 'cause. I don't know what happened. I'm just a student. I had to witness this horrifying incident, but honestly, how can you say that you support lawn forest?
if you're just constantly attacking them over this hi John Disgusting argue these: are the people they're trying to protect our lives? Do they mean make a mistake? Absolutely! Is that something that we have to fix
absolutely but there's a much bigger problem in Washington so
So when it when it's about the NRA, he knows everything about them. He knows the date as the ceo and owns all these politicians, despite her just starting this
pretty recently buddies. When I come
so the the the police wait for the just a still, not all hello. This is thirty. Can asking those questions? These
the kid that was kind of my point from the beginning,
that's why I here's what I can't. Here's get my arms around, so
can I say to Brian I said to Brian
you know to have these emotional crowds was not a good thing. You want to have them on great, let them talk and his wrist
once was so you
think we should have to you think Jake should have just said shut up. No, that's not what I said. No,
you said I didn't say that, and that's really disrespect you were talking about the kids. In fact, you were talking about the audience, yet the crowd crowd. Well, I don't know what Jake is supposed to
you want snow crowd too little room in the problematic decision. Is the crowd being there and not not not CNN's decision up front, not the representation of these families like if you have you been there in a room like Trump did
get a listening session with people who are victims of the shooting there wasn't screaming over the top of each other, either 'cause it was calm. It was Tom discourse you put in five thousand people, all of
are there to just yell at Dana. Another position at the NRA is a recipe for disaster, and they should have recognized that ok, so he
doesn't. He won't listen to that and once
if you, if you say we shouldn't, have had the arena, then
as a can saying, we have to tell these kids to shut up. We have to take these k
they have a right to be listened to.
They don't have a right to be listened to unchecked, you
had Brian cells sets Seltzer Stelter skelter. I can never see his name, because I was single Brian Setzer, how the orchestra yeah is so,
brain sitting there and who's sitting next to the others. On the other side of this kid, ten
can rather-
and you hear this kid
this argument- that Dana
is you know the NRA, which is a little ridiculous,
but more than a little ridiculous, and then you have him, stick up for the sheriff who
nobody in their right mind is sticking up for the sheriff. No one in their right mind is sticking up for the sheriff and there's
no discussion at all on there's no push back on him
on saying how? How does this make sense? I thought you wanted this
to stop n n. What makes you think that
passing a ban on some guns is going to make any of this. Stop there's no evidence of that, and he,
some things that we could take of take care of right now, because there
be another shooting in York
Audi. If this is happy
in with the sheriff's department,
no push back at all
yeah one. I think the reason why the advocacy groups
and a lot of the media really like these kids. That are, you know we're we're victims of this, or at least at the school with this occurred is because of that. You can't put
back you can't push back on the arguments. The arguments get smooth sailing. They get this nice clean,
or empty highway, to just drive down and say every liberal blog statement. That's ever been put out there without anybody saying anything because I'll be.
You can't push back at the kid obviously doesn't know these points he's just he
obviously reading blogs and just spouting exploited.
Exploited by these being a sixteen year old? That is being given a national platform? That's what's happening,
It's definitely not a word of criticism to him personally, but you have to be able to push back on the points or there's no point in having him on. May I remind you, though, only you can prevent forest fires rip waffle. Thank you.
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