In his 85 years, constitutional scholar and legal expert Alan Dershowitz has played a role in some of the biggest legal and political moments of our time — basically every “trial of the century.” On this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Glenn gets a deep look at the most controversial case Alan has tackled yet. Dershowitz has said that two of the most unpopular people he has defended were O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein, but neither compares to his defense of Donald Trump. And the consequences of defending Trump have been catastrophic, not only for him, but for everyone he loves. He analyzes the multiple civil suits and indictments against Trump and offers his expertise on how Trump’s lawyers SHOULD argue his cases. Having lived under McCarthyism, he says a new McCarthyism is looming. It’s the focus of his latest book, “Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule Of Law,” and a recent highlight of his podcast "The Dershow." But just how imminent is the threat? “We’re four bananas away from being a banana republic," Alan warns.
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Alan Dershowitz DESTROYS Legal Arguments for Trump Indictments | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 192
Dershowitz: Joe Biden Made a HUGE MISTAKE Pardoning Hunter
President Biden may have thought that issuing a blanket pardon for his son Hunter Biden would end any investigations into his or his family’s crimes. But attorney Alan Dershowitz tells Glenn that it may have actually done the opposite. Dershowitz explains how Hunter can still be questioned and the truth unearthed. He also weighs in on the acquittal of Daniel Penny, which he believes was the correct ruling in a case that should never have been tried.
Transcript
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GLENN: So probably -- well, he's definitely the most famous lawyer, of my lifetime.
And I think, the most important lawyer, in my lifetime, maybe in the last 100 years.
Alan Dershowitz.
He's a Harvard Law school professor, emeritus. He's also the host of his podcast, the Dershow.
And we wanted to get him on, to talk a little bit about Daniel Penny and a few other things.
Hello, Alan. How are you?
ALAN: First of all, will you send my very best to Senator Lee. His father and I were co-clerks together, 60 years ago, in the Supreme Court. And we had launch together every day. Why?
Why? Because he was a Mormon and couldn't have coffee, and I was an Orthodox Jew. And couldn't have almost anything. So we set the table.
And we were -- and we would schmooze and talk about everything.
And his father, you know, Rex, who was the solicited general, was a great, great man. And I think Senator Lee is a great man too.
And I hope he plays a major, major role, in the coming administration.
GLENN: I tell you, I hope he becomes a Supreme Court justice.
I -- I -- I think he truly cares about what the Founders meant and about the Constitution.
I mean, everything he does, it's all based in the Constitution. I will definitely pass it on.
ALAN: Yep. And it's based on his father. I can tell you that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
His father was an amazing constitutional scholar. The dean of Brigham Young Law School.
You know, the guy was -- he would have been the greatest Supreme Court justice. Unfortunately, he died very young.
So, Alan, first of all, how have you been?
I know -- I think you came out and said, you couldn't vote for Joe Biden.
I know things got really ugly for you. Have things gotten better at all for you?
ALAN: Well, I'm in Florida now. Everybody loves me in Florida. As long as I'm in Martha's vineyard, I'm doing great.
You know, my hat is split. Half the people come up to me, yell and scream at me.
And half the people come up to me and tell me how much they admire me. I wear a hat in New York saying, proud American Zionist.
And --
GLENN: Wow.
ALAN: And, you know, I get people talk to me about that, as well.
So, you know, when people come up to me and say, I hate you. I never know. Is it for Trump? Is it for Israel?
Is it for who I represent?
I never know.
GLENN: I love that. I love that.
ALAN: That's what happens when you're a controversial lawyer.
GLENN: Yeah. So let's start with Daniel Penny.
ALAN: Before you do that. I want to wait. After I get off the air. I want to hear you defend Black Lives Matter.
I don't know if you heard yesterday, the head of Black Lives Matter. Turned to penny in the courtroom, and said, hey, buddy. This is a small world.
And then he went outside. And he talked about strangling people. And being violent.
I'm not such a big fan of Black Lives Matter.
GLENN: So I'm not a fan of -- I can't defend what he said, personally.
To Daniel Penny?
But when he said, what would happen -- you know, they -- there's no justice. No peace.
What would happen, maybe we should start, you know, killing people every time they oppress us.
I believe that's constitutionally protected speech.
It's ugly. It's awful.
But what is that -- that test called?
Stu.
STU: The Brandenburg.
GLENN: The Brandenburg.
ALAN: Look, I agree with you. But he said it in front of a crowd of people. That were surrounding white people.
Then it would be an incitement. But if he said it in the abstract. In an interview. It's just despicable and disgusting.
It reminds me of what you Justice Brennan once said.
Justice Brennan wrote an opinion saying, that the Constitution protected to burn the American flag.
And he was -- what would you do, if you saw somebody burning an American flag, and Justice Brennan, who was about five-three tall. Said, I would walk up to him, and I would punch him in the mouth. And then I would defend his Constitutional rights.
GLENN: So that is -- so let me ask you. Because we've had a debate here. Before we went on the air, where I told Stu. I said, I think I'm going to use this as an example.
Because people, they always say, oh, you know.
Speech has limits. And, you know, you can't cry fire in a crowded.
Yes, you can!
Unless it leads to, you know, a stampede.
ALAN: Or is likely. Is likely. It doesn't to have lead. But it's likely to lead.
No, I think you're right. And I think you're right also from a conservative point of view, to be defending free speech for all. We can't live in a world in which it's free speech for me. But not for thee.
GLENN: Exactly right.
ALAN: I defended the right of Palestinian kids to put up a flag -- Palestinian flag to commemorate the death of Yasser Arafat.
And then when they put up the flag, I defended them. And I got them to be able to put up the flag. I hated that.
And then I got up there and I said, well, Yasser Arafat died.
It was too late. If he only died four years earlier, there might have been a resolution in the Middle East.
So I'm with you on the very expansive view of free speech.
GLENN: Yeah. Do you think we're moving -- I -- sense a shift, that maybe some of this craziness, is -- we're waking up to it. Do you feel that way?
ALAN: I wish you were right. I hope you're right.
Not on the left. The left is so goddamned self-righteous. They think that free speech.
Due process. The right to counsel was written for them.
They have Harvard law school, defending them.
Try believing the Constitution. It was written to promote the Democratic Party.
And every constitutional issue he's involved in. You know what his position is going to be.
Is it good for the Democrats?
If it's good for the Democrats. If it's good for the left. For the radicals.
And the constitutional Framers and candidates.
And fits bad for them. No. We can't have that for the constitutional law.
I don't think we're gaining any ground.
But the university campuses -- but I think we're gaining ground in the general public.
Now, I think maybe the Penny result shows that.
GLENN: Yeah.
RICHARD: I think Penny -- I think the case in Minneapolis, might have been decided a little differently today than it was years ago, when he was convicted and still is in jail.
I was thrilled by the -- by the verdict in the -- in the Penny case. And I think it sends a powerful message. I also think that the hung jury, you know, I thought the hung jury might have been six-six, five-seven. But obviously, the quick verdict on Monday morning, suggests that the hung miss on Friday, was probably ten to two or 11 to one in favor of acquittal. So that I think -- you know, look, that case should have never been brought. And the district attorney should not be the district attorney.
He should be defeated. He, not only brought this case. He brought that made up case against Donald Trump. And now he wants to prevent Donald Trump from appealing, by saying, well, we'll put the sentence off for four years.
We will hold the sort of Damocles over your head for four years.
I'm going to able to campaign for office, saying, I've got a conviction against Donald Trump. And he didn't get it reversed on appeal.
And I think it's -- it's disgusting. He's the worst districting district attorney in my lifetime in New York history.
And, remember, that's an office that had -- that had -- that had -- and now it has Alvin Bragg! Oh, my God. It's a disgrace.
GLENN: So let me ask you. Because we were talking about what he did on Friday. And what the judge allowed.
You have to have -- if you have a hung jury, on the first count.
You can't move to the second count.
It's a hung jury, and you have to have a retrial, right?
It's a mistrial.
ALAN: Unless, the defense asks to you consent for it.
Which often happens. But it didn't happen in this case.
So he dismissed the higher count. And allowed the jury to deliberate the lower count.
Look, in the end, that was good for Penny. Because there's double jeopardy there. You can't be tried on either counts. Because the first count was dismissed. To have
It wasn't hung. It was dismissed.
And that means it was jeopardy, and the second it was an acquittal.
So he's free. It's a civil lawsuit against him. But he will win that civil lawsuit. It will probably never get past the motion to dismiss because the person bringing it, it wasn't a father who had nothing to do with the son. He had no relationship with the son.
He became the father only after the killing. In order to gain publicity from it.
GLENN: So he has basically no standing. Is that what you're saying?
ALAN: I don't think he has a real standing to bring the lawsuit. And what's his damages?
You know, it's very hard to figure out, what they are.
And more over, a jury found, that there was no causation of death.
There was justification.
So I -- I don't think that the lawyer is interested in the money.
Or even a publicity at this point. Are going to want to bring that case forward.
I think it will be dropped. It's not like a DOJ case. Where clearly there was a strong civil case after he was acquitted.
And he won the civil case, although he didn't collect any money.
GLENN: Let me switch to politics here.
There are things. Like, I believe Anthony Fauci should be investigated. They've already investigated him in Congress.
But it should go through a court of law. And if he's found to have done the things that we now believe he did.
There should be some sort of penalty for him. And anybody else that was involved.
I don't care, right, left, Republican, Democrat.
We can allow this kind of stuff to happen.
Now, Biden is -- they suspect. So we're just speculating here. That he may pardon him in advance.
Is that even possible?
Before you're charged.
ALAN: Where a connection was pardoned. Not only before he was charged. But before there was any criminal investigation.
He was charged -- he was pardoned.
And the pardon power, as you said in your introduction.
Why don't we have a kingly pardon power?
It's the only residents of the British rule over the United States.
GLENN: Correct.
ALAN: There's nothing else in the Constitution, which so emulates the absolute power of kings, than the power to pardon and commute. It's without restrictions.
And it's without the need to explain.
And, by the way, you don't even need a document. As soon as President Biden said, I pardon my son, that act was completed.
And, by the way, you don't have to accept the pardon. Even if you reject the pardon.
And, by the way, there are some people who have already said, that if Trump pardons me, or if Biden pardons me, I will reject the pardon. Because a pardon makes it sound like I did something wrong.
GLENN: Wrong. Yeah.
RICHARD: The Supreme Court under Oliver Wendell Holmes in about 1926, rendered a decision, in a case called Bittle versus Petrovic (phonetic).
Which said, you can't reject the pardon. The pardon is an act of government. It's like immunity. If you're given immunity, you can't reject immunity. You have to testify, if you're given immunity. If you're given a pardon, you also have to testify.
I think Biden made a big mistake by pardoning his son.
He should have commuted his sentence. By pardoning the son. He opens the son up to asking any question at all.
About his criminal background. And his association with anything else.
Including his father.
Whereas, if he gave only a commutation of the sentence, it would mean he doesn't go to jail for a single day, but still can invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege.
So I think it's a blunder on the part of President Biden who is a lawyer, but didn't understand the consequences of a pardon.
As distinguished of the consequences of a computation.
GLENN: Do you think anybody is going to go after him though?
Because there's nothing politically to gain.
I think this is extraordinarily important on principle.
We cannot have people selling the power of the office.
RICHARD: Look, I agree with you.
And it's been part of politics for a long, long time.
I have to tell you, I think Trump has a warm spot in his heart for the Biden family.
He showed some sympathy. For Hunter Biden.
For his addiction. For all of that.
I don't think he will try too pile on. Now, you know, whether or not traditional committees -- get the choice of being held in contempt or perjury.
That's a different question. But I don't think Trump will do it. I think he's going to move on.
He wants to have a great four years. I want him to have a great four years.
You know, I'm not a Republican. But I'm a patriarch. I want to see every American president succeed. I have helped every American president. I have consulted and advised them since Jimmy Carter.
And I will then continue to do it. Any president that asks for my help, done. I'm giving it.
GLENN: That's the way it should be. Thank you so much, Alvin. I really appreciate it your friendship. And it's an honor to know you.
Really is. To have you on the program.
ALAN: Well, you're a great man.
And it's great to have a conservative who so believes in the Constitution and free speech.
And, again, send my best to Senator Lee. He's a great man.
GLENN: I sure will. I will. Thanks.
Alan Dershowitz. You can find him on the Dershow. The website is Dersh.Substack.com.
NBC News Leaves Out CRITICAL Context in Trump Interview
President-elect Donald Trump recently sat down with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” for his first sit-down interview since winning the 2024 election. Glenn and Stu review his statement on birthright citizenship and the CRITICAL context that interviewer Kristen Welker left out: The 14th Amendment doesn’t say, “all persons born in the United States are citizens.” The real quote includes a major qualifier that could allow Trump to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants without having to change the Constitution. Plus, Glenn and Stu review Trump’s comments on the war between Ukraine and Russia.
Transcript
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GLENN: Welcome to the program. And welcome to Stu Burguiere.
STU: Thank you, Glenn.
GLENN: You're welcome, Stu.
STU: And Donald Trump went on Meet The Press this weekend. This is what you're supposed to do if you're --
GLENN: Is it?
STU: Yeah, apparently so.
We're supposed to just reflexively go to NBC News whenever --
GLENN: Those days are over.
STU: Well, I thought they were too.
GLENN: Well, he has to do them.
STU: Well, does he? Does he have to do them?
GLENN: Yeah, I think he should do a little of everything.
You know what I mean? I think you shouldn't just go to podcasts. It's what Barack Obama did.
Remember? And he was doing interviews with -- who was that woman in the bathtub? And you're like, okay. This is ridiculous.
You don't have to do the bathtub one. But I think you should -- you should go on places, where you know --
STU: It's adversarial.
GLENN: It's adversarial. You won't get a good interview.
I think that's required as president.
STU: I agree with that. I --
GLENN: As president. Not necessarily as a --
STU: Even as a candidate, I think it's something you should do.
I mean, I think Kamala Harris shouldn't have done an adversarial interview at the campaign at some point, which she did not do.
GLENN: She didn't do interviews.
STU: In fact, she wasn't doing anything for a very long time.
And they switched strategies. And it did not help. In fact, it went the opposite direction.
I do wonder, there's the alternate world, what that election would have looked like, if she just continued to do nothing.
I think it would have been closer. I think if she never did an interview, it would have been closer.
GLENN: I think you're right on that.
I think you're right. The more she spoke.
The more you're like, oh, dear God, no.
STU: Don't do that.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Because I think they correctly realized that there were a certain amount of people, who were very worried about a candidate that couldn't do an interview.
GLENN: Right.
STU: Right?
So they tried to solve that, by doing interviews.
And what they should have done was let those people go. Realize, they're not going to vote for you, and hope.
GLENN: Has anybody noticed.
And I am biased because I've been talking to him, off-air.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And watching him talk to a lot of people, you know, without cameras around.
And his -- his grasp on deep subjects, has changed a great deal. Have you noticed Donald Trump in interviews is not the same guy he was in 2020?
STU: Yeah. I think that's true.
He certainly seems to be more focused and has a real plan, as to what he's going to do. As we know it's directly project 2025. Which he commissioned. We should remember, of course. Yeah. No.
It does seem like, you made the description.
I think it was last week, which it has been sticking with me.
Which, after 2020, he spent four years, thinking, this isn't going to happen to me again.
Like, I'm going to make sure these things -- if I get a president -- if I'm able to become president again. I'm not going to be able to be hit by all of these --
GLENN: I won't be surprised ever again.
STU: Right. It seems like he's coming in, ready for this.
GLENN: Yeah. He's ready.
The other thing that has happened to him. That I think has cut down on his slams and everything else.
I mean, he still does.
You'll notice he's not as crazy on things. And I think that's --
STU: What do you mean not as crazy on things? Just not as worried about --
GLENN: You know, name-calling. You know what I mean?
He's not like that, as much.
Because I think he -- this is just my speculation.
Put yourself in his shoes.
In 2014, everybody on both sides, loved him.
Right?
Maybe not as the president. But they -- they loved him.
STU: As a celebrity.
He was a big celebrity.
GLENN: And he's a great guy. A philanthropist.
He's done so much.
And then he gets in, and everybody that -- that were his friends.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: That knew him, and knew what he was like. They all of a sudden, turned on him.
And I think that just took him by absolute surprise.
And he just kept -- he had to keep punching and punching and punching.
And I think now, a couple of things have happened. One, he just stopped caring. Because you -- you do care. No matter what anybody says, you do care.
He stopped caring. And then I think when he was shot, I think he found his purpose. And I also think in the following months, he kind of became cool again.
He became the guy who could go on Saturday Night Live, and make fun of himself.
STU: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
GLENN: You know what I mean? And everybody would accept him.
He became kind of mainstream again.
So I don't think he feels that he has to punch anymore.
STU: Hmm. That's interesting. Yeah. I -- I have noticed a difference in him. I think getting shot. No matter what that is.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. That was critical. That was critical.
STU: It was.
GLENN: It has to change.
STU: Yeah. It has to change. So he's going into this with a real plan.
One part of this plan, this will be clip four. Is his plan to end birthright citizenship.
This is -- obviously, highly controversial. Many people on the left, do not like it at all.
They asked him about it, on meet The Press. Was it Wexler?
Christine Wexler.
GLENN: Yeah. Somebody who you've never heard of.
Because everybody you've heard of, has no credibility.
STU: There you go.
VOICE: You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one, is that still your plan?
VOICE: Yeah, absolutely.
VOICE: The Fourteenth Amendment says, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens. Can you get around the Fourteenth Amendment, with an executive action?
DONALD: We maybe have to go back to the people, but we have to end it. We're the only county that has it. You know we're the only country that has it.
Do you know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot. One foot. You don't need two. On our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America.
Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.
VOICE: Through executive action?
DONALD: Well, if we can through executive action, I was going to -- we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it.
GLENN: Okay. So notice -- notice what happened here.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: She comes with the 14th. Stu, tell me why the Fourteenth Amendment was first written. What was that really about?
STU: I mean, is it wrong to say slavery?
GLENN: No. Slavery.
STU: You looked at me --
GLENN: No, no, no.
It was written for slavery.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: It was written because all citizens could vote.
And you have certain rights.
Blah, blah, blah. And so the southerners.
The Democrats said, well, they're not citizens.
They're not citizens.
They're from Africa.
STU: So they can't vote.
GLENN: So they can't vote.
Yeah. If you were born here. Even if you were born a slave, you're a citizen.
That's what that was about. That was not --
STU: About illegal immigration.
GLENN: That was not illegal immigration.
Come over here, get into a hospital. Have a baby.
And congratulations. Everybody is a citizen.
We are the only one that has it.
And the only reason we do have it is because of slavery.
It was a way to make sure that Democrats didn't just cut blacks out of the vote again.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: That's what's so crazy.
And so notice he says, we may have to go back to the people.
Can you just change that?
Well, no. It's a constitutional amendment.
So we may have to go back to the people.
He says that first.
Her immediate response is, through executive action?
No. I just -- I just said, we may have to go back to the people.
STU: There are several parts in this interview. Where she doesn't -- it doesn't seem she listens to him. She has the idea of what Donald Trump says in this moment.
Already acted it out with her producers multiple times. So she's just not listening.
GLENN: That's right. That's why none of them have any credibility. Because there's not an honest exchange.
There is no honest questions.
He just said, we may have to go -- he volunteered. We may have to go back to the American people, for that.
STU: Right.
GLENN: So you're suggesting that maybe it would be a constitutional amendment? Well, yeah. I think we would have to do it.
I might -- if I get stuck, I might find a way to do it with executive action. But it is a constitutional amendment.
So, yes, that's an honest conversation.
STU: Right. No.
GLENN: That's not what she did.
STU: No. Do we have this clip handy again, to play it again? I want to see if you catch this one little of this. This is clip four, again.
Listen to her verbiage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
VOICE: Do you promise to end birthright citizenship on day one?
Is that still your plan?
DONALD: Yeah. Absolutely.
The Fourteenth Amendment says though, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens. Can you get around the Fourteenth Amendment?
STU: Okay. Stop.
Is that a quote?
All persons born in the United States are citizens?
That's what she said the Fourteenth Amendment says.
GLENN: You know, now that you ask me, I doubt it is. Have you looked it up?
STU: I have it. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, she leaves that out. But not necessarily important to the conversation.
But the next part is, comma, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, comma, are citizens of the United States and of the state written they reside.
The whole Fourteenth Amendment argument. And you might disagree with this part of it, is that that phrase, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, means that illegal immigrants are not included.
Now, I --
GLENN: How? How?
STU: Well, they're not subject to that jurisdiction.
GLENN: So, in other words, the -- well, if mom --
STU: They would be.
GLENN: If mom and baby, were there. Then they would be subject to that jurisdiction.
But the family would not be. Because they're someplace else?
STU: I think the argument, and again, I wouldn't say I'm an expert on the Fourteenth Amendment argument here.
GLENN: I'm going to tell you.
I am absolutely so far away from an expert. You might as well talk to a fisherman.
STU: What I have heard, people make this argument before.
GLENN: Okay.
STU: And the argument is basically to be subject to that jurisdiction. Is it not mean that you -- everyone, of course, has to follow the laws of a country, that you move into.
GLENN: Correct.
STU: To be subject of that jurisdiction. Means you have to have a basis in the country.
So it's not like you just cross the border. And, hey, I'm now a subject of this jurisdiction.
You're a visitor, right?
Or in this case, a criminal. And I'm crossing the border.
GLENN: Right.
STU: So you would not get necessarily those protections.
Of -- of that Fourteenth Amendment.
GLENN: May I just say, the only thing I hate the Founders for, is their use of commas.
STU: You know, it's a good point.
GLENN: Stop with the use of commas.
Could you please, for the love of Pete, the right to keep and bear arms.
Comma.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: Under a well-run regulated militia.
Comma. Shall not be infringed.
Can you stop with the commas? It makes it too complex now. Stop with the commas.
STU: Very true.
But I think, regardless of what you think about the argument, of the 14th amendment. And people who are -- who believe illegal immigrants would not be grandfathered into that.
If it's foundational to the argument, why would you skip it?
Right?
GLENN: Right.
STU: You have to bring that up. Because --
GLENN: Could you do me a favor?
Could you have ChatGPT? Or something like that?
STU: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: Type that in, and ask what that means.
STU: Sure. It will take me a second, obviously.
GLENN: Yeah, yeah. All right.
STU: Do you want to go on to the next clip.
GLENN: Yeah. Let's go to the next clip.
STU: Okay. Next someone on Ukraine.
And what needs to happen with Ukraine.
This is, again, Trump on Meet The Press.
There are people being killed in that war, at levels never been seen before.
You have to go back to the Second World War. And even that, if you take a look and you know what it is, it's the soldiers, largely. The cities have been emptied out and demolished.
The country has been demolished.
If I won that election. Which you know how I feel about it. I won't get into it.
Because we don't need to start that argument.
I think it was an easy argument.
It was really proven even more complicit than the win I had on this one.
Yeah, but that's your opinion, but I disagree with it. Had I assumed -- kept control.
Number one, Israel wouldn't have happened.
Number one, Ukraine would have never happened.
It would have never happened in Ukraine and Russia.
But the number of people being killed. Soldiers. Young, beautiful soldiers.
Hundreds of thousands of people are being killed.
And, you know, it's very interesting.
It's level. Totally level the battlefields.
Totally level.
The only thing that stops a bullet. Is a body. A human body. And the people being killed. Hundreds of thousands on both sides. Russia has lost probably 500 thousand. Ukraine has lost higher than they say.
Probably 400,000.
You're talking about hundreds of thousands of bodies, laying all over the fields.
It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
And it should have need been allowed to happen.
Biden should have been able to stop it.
GLENN: Amen!
He's absolutely right.
And when this is over, and the body count is actually revealed, and when you see. And when you see BlackRock there, rebuilding.
When you see all of these friends of the Bidens rebuilding.
When you see BlackRock owning the farmland.
Then maybe you will start to have some idea of how grotesque, this really was.
All right. More in just a second.
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GLENN: So let's go to Chat GPT.
And just see what it says about the Fourteenth Amendment and that particular phrase, between commas.
STU: And I will say our robot betters seem to have summarized this the same way that I understood it. So historically, the consensus among most legal scholars and historical practices has been the phrase, excludes only a few categories. This is the phrase of "not subject to the jurisdiction in the United States."
Those categories are children of foreign diplomats, enemy soldiers, and some Native American tribes, who maintain their tribal jurisdiction.
Legal precedent has largely supported the view that children born in the US to foreign citizens are indeed US citizens.
Regardless of the immigration status of the parents.
Then some conservatives argue, subject to the jurisdiction, thereof, excludes individuals who are in the country, illegally, as they are not legally subject to the jurisdiction in the same way as lawful residents or citizens.
GLENN: Yes.
STU: They claim that because illegal immigrants have not entered the country, and remain in it legally, that they or their children should not automatically receive citizenship.
That is my understanding of the debate. And, again, you can say, you disagree with the conservative side of that debate.
GLENN: Right.
STU: You know, many do.
But to -- to actually skip the phrase, that is important to the debate. When talking to the man, who is arguing the conservative side of that debate. Is journalism malpractice, at the very least.
And I think it's intentional.
I believe it's intentional. But I don't know.
GLENN: Wait. I think it's NBC.
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STU: It's not intentional. It's NBC.
GLENN: It's NBC.
STU: It's just what we are.
GLENN: It's just what they do. Of course it is.
STU: Yes! And that's, again, like -- it goes back to our original conversation, as opposed to whether you Meet the Press or not.
Do you need to go to a place that is intentionally doing things like that?
I mean, that is -- that is inexcusable for the one phrase that's important to the debate, you leave out of the amendment?
I mean, that's obviously intentional.
GLENN: I like the fact that the president was calm, cool, collected. Didn't name call. Went through that whole thing.
Wasn't a fair interview. It was exactly what you would expect. But at least he went and talked to the other side.
STU: Yeah. I think it's worth doing to talk to the other side.
I think it's worth doing adversarial interviews.
I wish he had a little honesty.
I feel like when you went back on the show with Russer. That's what you got.
Was -- it wasn't an interview liked. A lot of times, he took things, and took the democratic side a little unfairly. But you wouldn't eliminate the part of the amendment, that is the debate.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: He wouldn't have done that.
GLENN: No. And he would have given you -- there were times, that Ruser -- you would be pissed off at him. Because it was your guy. But you would also be cheering for the other side. Because he was fair. He was even-handed.
It was all that really, we asked for.
Does the SHOCKING Daniel Penny Verdict Mean Justice is BACK in NYC?
A jury has found former marine Daniel Penny NOT GUILTY of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely. Glenn and Stu are shocked, especially since the jury couldn’t decide whether to convict him of second-degree manslaughter. But while this is a good outcome for justice, Glenn and Stu argue that it isn’t a perfect outcome: This case should have never gone to trial in the first place! The guys explain why Penny should have been seen as a hero, especially by those in New York City who know how subways work. Plus, they discuss how the leftist BLM crowds will react to the verdict.
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GLENN: Well, the Daniel Penny verdict has come out, and he has now been found "not guilty."
STU: Yes!
GLENN: Thank God.
STU: Thank God there's some justice.
GLENN: What's weird. First of all, the judge, I think broke the law. I think the judge and what's his name? The district attorney up there, in New York. Really, they should be disbarred. What they did in this particular case, was wrong.
When you have multiple counts, and you're hung on the first count.
You don't go to the second count.
You -- you declare a mistrial.
But the judge, because of -- is it Alvin Bragg?
STU: He's the DA.
GLENN: Yeah. The DA. Alvin Bragg went and said, we will accept that they're hung on that.
Just have them consider the lesser charge.
Well, that's not the way it works.
You don't do that.
And he was just trying to get them to convict.
And somehow or another, they went back today, with very little time.
And found him 12-zero.
Not guilty.
Which is weird, that they were hung, on the more serious charge.
STU: More serious charge. Yeah.
GLENN: I think it's like, guys, it's Christmas.
I've got to go shopping.
Just all right. Whatever.
I mean, honestly, it might have been that.
I don't know why, on the lesser charge, they didn't have a hard time
STU: Someone was sharing, one of the courtroom drawings of the jury.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: And one of the people was wearing a mask.
And they were saying, this has to be the person, who is holding this up. It kind of does make sense. I don't know if it actually is accurate.
GLENN: Either that or it was the guy who shot the United Health Care guy.
What a great place to hide out. Hiding in the jury box.
STU: Yeah. He's great.
Fascinating thing. You know, not exactly a banner year for Alvin Bragg.
He's had a rough one. Really, an embarrassment in every single way.
GLENN: No, he really has. I honestly don't know why he's not being recalled. Other than it's New York.
STU: Even in California, they've been recalling these guys. They've been defeating them in elections.
And this approach of we only go after the good guys, and let all the bad guys go.
It's not an approach, the American people are comfortable with.
That's something, I think -- it's a message we --
GLENN: I don't even know how the Good Samaritan law just didn't apply to him.
He obviously was not trying to kill the guy.
STU: Obviously.
And they knew that.
You could see it in the interview afterward.
GLENN: Right.
STU: Quite clear.
GLENN: So how did the Good Samaritan law not apply?
STU: What version of New York has of that law, precisely.
And obviously, I think --
GLENN: Oh, it's probably a good Samaritan law, if you're a Good Samaritan. And you're trying to cause harm, but it's on a white person.
STU: Yeah. I would not be surprised, if that's exactly how it's written.
GLENN: And you are somebody who is in any of the other categories, then it's --
STU: That's how it's applied.
GLENN: That is how it's applied.
STU: Right?
GLENN: By the way, the threats are being issued now.
After the jury finds him guilty.
And activists --
STU: Not guilty.
GLENN: Yeah. Not guilty.
And they are also -- activists are in the streets of New York, right now. Protesting. That he wasn't --
STU: It's very difficult to even understand. I mean, because some of the people who he was protecting on the subway, were people of color, if you will.
GLENN: Yeah. There wasn't -- I don't think there was anyone on the subway, that wasn't happy about it too. They were all -- everybody in the car were like, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
STU: Yeah, they may not have been happy that he died. And I don't think anyone was, including Daniel Penny. Right?
But they saw this as a clear, legitimate threat to their well-being. As they clarified in their testimony, it was not yet another one of these crazy people on the subway if you've been in New York City.
And this is a weird -- I think it's a weird experience for anyone who has never been there or worked there as we have.
But it's like, very much a normal part of your life, to go on the subway.
And have a crazy person get on the subway, and do something crazy, while you're on the subway. In an enclosed metal tube.
It's a weird experience.
And you get really used to kind of looking at your shoes.
And looking the other way. And acting like this thing, that would have been the story you told your friends, every single day, if you live in any other city.
You just ignore it. And act like it's not happening.
GLENN: I'm trying to remember the comedian, that has the special happy face. He's so funny.
He talks about, just getting on the subway in New York.
Just trying not to get high on crack.
He's like, somebody comes in, in the subway.
And they're smoking crack.
And somebody is like, hey, you can't do that here. Like the guy cares.
Oh, my gosh. This is so unlike me.
Oh, there's a child here, I'm so embarrassed. And you just try not to get high on crack!
STU: Right, it always reminded me of how gun-free zones were really stupid.
In that, the people who were coming to murder, don't care about the gun-free zones.
The people who are coming to smoke crack on the subway. They don't care about your subway crack laws.
GLENN: They don't care. They don't care.
STU: They don't care. So the people who were actually testifying in the trial.
Made clear distinction between that normal part of New York life of someone coming on the subway.
And acting a little crazy, and maybe a little threatening. And what this guy was doing.
They said, they really believed they were in danger. And I think that was the correct assumption.
He was saying, he didn't care what the -- you know, if you went to prison for life, he was going to kill people. He was threatening them directly.
The fact that Daniel Penny stopped that.
Or God forbid, whatever it could have become, from happening, means he should be treated as a hero, not as someone who is on trial.
And the fact that this came out right, is a good conciliatory prize, but not the right outcome.
GLENN: It is.
Was it Bernie Goetz?
Who was the one who shot the guy on the subway?
STU: Bernie Goetz is one of them.
GLENN: What happened to him?
STU: He got off too, if I remember correctly.
GLENN: Isn't it weird, it's the same out of control city?
Where somebody is just -- you know, everybody knows, they're afraid on the subway.
Everybody knows, crime is everywhere.
And nobody does anything.
And Bernhard Goetz took a gun on the subway, shot a guy of control. Went through the same thing and was found innocent. I believe.
STU: And it was -- it was more -- I would say, more controversial than this one.
GLENN: Oh, yeah.
Because he was carrying a gun.
STU: Right. And he was actually -- he was, firm right, convicted of carrying an illegal firearm. Firearm. He was not supposed to have without a permit. But that's all he was -- that's all he got.
GLENN: Right.
STU: In this case, this is quite clear.
And, you know, it's disturbing, the way that he was interviewed. He's interviewed as if the police were his friend. And they were trying to suss all this out.
In a positive way. I didn't like that at all.
GLENN: You said a couple of things that stuck out to me a couple weeks ago.
You said, I finally get, the police are not your friends. Do not talk to the police without your attorney.
STU: Yeah. I've always been, you know, I have great interactions with police. I think that's still the norm. But you don't know.
STU: You don't know.
Popping into my head. Is Jeff Fisher. Host of a podcast here on Blaze -- TheBlaze podcast network.
And he always says this. He carries a card with him. That gives you the outline of don't talk to the police.
You know, they're not your friends. He has a whole little six-step plan. You are ever talked to.
GLENN: Is it written in crayon?
STU: No. It's not his writing.
It's just his card. He just has so much legal trouble. He has to have it with him at all times. I remember him showing it to me at times. All right. Most interactions. It's totally fine to talk to police.
After watching that with Penny, I was like, gosh. If you do something right -- if God forbid, you have to use your Second Amendment rights in personal defense.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
STU: I wouldn't say word one, to the police.
Not because I don't think the police are trustworthy. I think they are. But there's a system around it.
And, frankly, you can't trust anybody.
And there's a system around it. That will churn that into, a -- you know, something where you are a racist. Or you are -- I don't know what they're going to say about you.
The best thing is, just zip it.
GLENN: If the government wants to get you, they will get you. They will get you.
STU: Yeah. I think that's true.
They hold all of the cards.
STU: Especially in a place like New York.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
STU: Especially.
If you're a conservative living in New York. It's -- I don't know how you do it.
GLENN: I don't know why you do it. Honestly.
STU: You did it.
GLENN: I did it.
STU: Years ago. But you did it.
I don't think things were nearly as bad. When you were there.
I don't think they were great.
GLENN: Do you remember the process of trying to get a gun?
My life was at stake.
You know, all the time. Had to have six security guys with me. You know, in rotation. All the time.
Sometimes all six of them.
And couldn't get a -- couldn't get a -- no. The judge just didn't think it was necessary, that my threats were credible.
It's like, here's -- remember the end of miracle on 34th Street. I want that proof on my desk. And they came in with all the bags of letters from Santa Claus. That's kind of like the way I felt like.
Oh, I can bring you the proof.
What are you talking about?
It's insane.
STU: Let me give you another movie, that tells the same story.
It's a United Health Care CEO walking to work.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: You think you don't need protection in that city. This poor guy just walking to work, with a wife and two kids. Just gets executed in the streets. And most of the city seems to be cheering on the murderer.
And, you know, in a world like that, you don't need protection in that city?
Of course, you do. There's a great -- I think it's like a flowchart in one of your books. I can't remember which one was it.
Might have been arguing with the idiots.
It's one of the earlier ones from the guns.
How to buy a gun in New York.
GLENN: Yeah. It was --
STU: I want to say, argue winning idiots. Inconvenient Book, maybe. I don't remember.
Oh, you have one of them. You can flip through it. There is -- if there's a gun chapter. Probably it's in there.
But there's a flowchart on how to get one in New York.
And it was actually a person who was Kevin. Who was a coauthor of the book, who actually tried to do it and went through the entire process.
It is insanity. Insanity. It's step after step after step.
Submitting paperwork.
Going back. Resubmitting it.
Over and over and over again.
And it's like to the point where they know actually in reality, what you're doing.
They know they're on the -- they should approve it. But they do everything they can, to did know it.
It's similar to what they're accusing health care companies of.
GLENN: It's exactly the same.
They just wear you out.
STU: Yeah. They just wear you out. It's years.
GLENN: Until you're like, I can't.
Who can do that? Who can do that?
STU: I will say, this is not a paid commercial.
Good time to think about a Byrna launcher.
Because that is legal in all 50 states. Again, check your local laws just to be sure. Triple sure.
I know it's legal in states. I don't know if cities have it. Be sure. Be careful.
Make sure you check.
That is exactly the type of thing that the Byrna launcher is --
GLENN: This is something that I don't understand.
And again, not a commercial.
I don't understand why those aren't in every school.
In every school in America.
Why aren't those in schools?
STU: They're non-lethal.
GLENN: Non-lethal. So you won't kill any of the children.
You might make some of them cry with tear gas. You don't have to be a good shot.
You can put your hand just outside the door. And aim it down the hallway. Towards the guy who is shooting.
And if you're here -- within 6 feet. It will stop him.
It's going to put him in tear gas, and give everybody a chance to pile on that guy
STU: Yeah. I don't understand it either.
GLENN: You're not going to kill any children. Why would -- it's almost as if somebody doesn't want to solve this. Because that is -- that is the solution, is a Byrna launcher.
STU: Yeah. It's at least -- a great part of it, at the very least.
And it -- it's available. It's affordable.
GLENN: If you're ever on a school board, you should suggest that.
'Young Turks' Host: Democrats Need to WAKE UP | Ana Kasparian | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 237
“I can’t believe I’m hearing you say this,” says Ana Kasparian, producer and host of "The Young Turks." Although she and Glenn have always represented opposite sides of the political aisle, in this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," they find a surprisingly wide array of topics to agree on. They agree that the “mainstream media plays defense for the Democrat Party” and that we must ban government stock trading. Although she once bought the mainstream narrative, Ana woke up to the reality of the border crisis when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started busing migrants to blue cities, and she recognizes there is a “problem with Biden neglecting the border.” Glenn admits that the Democrats were right about Big Pharma, he was “wrong about the Iraq War,” and that he, like Ana, is totally flabbergasted by the pro-war Democrats and Kamala Harris welcoming an endorsement by Dick Cheney. The pair debate the limits of free speech, states' rights, abortion, federal minimum wage, and unionized workers before strategizing how to get money and corporate interests out of politics. Ana reveals that she was not “surprised on election night at all,” and, even though her audience hates when she says so, “Trump is funny.” Both Glenn and Ana hope these kinds of conversations can begin to heal our national division and help us come together to create a more perfect union.