RADIOJanuary 30, 2024

The ONLY BILL Biden needs to sign to secure the border

The media insists that President Biden is finally getting tough on the border. But is he REALLY? Biden is demanding that Congress pass a bill that would give him new emergency powers to shut down the border. But Glenn is sick and tired of giving presidents emergency powers. Instead, he wrote up the only bill that Biden needs to sign to secure the border. And just in case Biden decides to ignore that one, like he's ignoring all the current border laws, Glenn wrote up a second bill to close all the loopholes ...

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GLENN: From CNN. President Joe Biden is embracing tougher border measures, including shutting down the US-Mexico border. Marking a stark shift from his early days in office, as he tries to fend off former President Donald Trump's attacks on immigration policy.

Hours after speaker of the House, Mike Johnson warned on Friday, that the emerging border deal in the Senate was dead on arrival. Biden offered this message to House Republicans.

CNN translates. Securing the border through these negotiations is a win for America.

For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it.

If you are serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill. And I will sign it.

Now, CNN goes on to explain, over the course of his administration, Biden has leaned on more restrictive measures to try to stem the flow of migration.

STU: Which administration is this?

I'm sorry. What?

GLENN: But Friday's statement revealed a tougher stance, as the president tried to control the issue that's dogged him.

STU: Is he too tough on the border?

I think he might be too tough.

GLENN: He's almost too tough. Well, I have worked all weekend long on a bipartisan bill. Okay? Now, I am going to do something that the politicians won't. I'm going to show it to America, and then we could debate and discuss it.

STU: I'm not sure about that tactic.

Seems erratic. Now, here it is. I've written it down. And I'm waiting for the president's signature.

It just says, we will enforce all -- all federal laws, at all borders. At all times. And he just puts a signature there.

STU: Wow!

GLENN: So we can debate. We can debate. Is it too much?

Is it too little. Is there any pork in there, that you see.

STU: Right. What if we just don't do it on the southern border.

GLENN: It says all borders, at all times.

STU: I'm trying to negotiate with you, Glenn. What about some of the times?

Or how about none of the times.

How about that.

GLENN: I think he should sign this one.

STU: How about we won't enforce all federal laws at all borders at all times?

GLENN: No. It says we will enforce. Right here.

STU: I'm just trying to get this through.

GLENN: Are you a member of the administration. I'm just trying --

STU: I'm a gang of eight.

I look at eight people combined.

I'm the gang of eight.

GLENN: Well, there it is.

There has been some talk in committee.

STU: Oh. The committee that lives in said your head.

GLENN: Yeah. There's lots of us in here.

And Bill was saying, well, I don't know, Mr. Beck. Because --

STU: What year is in your head?

GLENN: It like 1824.

And, I mean, am looking at this. And I see it signed by President Joe Biden.

And I said, yes, sir.

But he tends not to enforce the laws.

And I said, I know. That's why this is a pinkie promise. That says, he will enforce the laws.

STU: Right. Okay.

GLENN: I would like to make an amendment. So I had -- I have an amendment, I would like to offer.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: From one of the voices in my head.

And so he signs this one.

That says, you know, I'll enforce the law, the federal laws, at all borders. At you all times.

And then he signs this one into law. I will actually enforce the law, I just signed.

By Joe Biden.

STU: I feel like we might get into a little bit of a Russian doll situation here.

Where bill after bill after bill.

GLENN: Right.

STU: I think it would improve the situation.

GLENN: You do. You do.

So I just don't think that, you know, we need any of the special emergency powers. You know, NBC made me feel better.

These are just akin to the ones that were introduced during COVID.

Oh!

Oh, okay.

Oh. Yeah.

STU: Wait. So, first of all, they're laws like COVID. You mean the ones that the Biden administration fought so hard to overturn.

Why -- because I remember Trump did put in a bunch of restrictions.

And the entire debate of the early administration was, how fast he could get them removed.

And then how

GLENN: Right.

This is just giving them the emergency power to put those or any other kind of things that they might think of, in.

STU: Now, of course, that doesn't affect people who are saying they are persecuted.

GLENN: No.

STU: Those people can still come in.

GLENN: No. And you can come in the front doors, just don't climb in the windows. So you could come in.

By the way, you know, some would think, hey, this sounds really bad.

Some, including you know who. This sound to me like a Mexican standoff.

And I was in my head going, hey. Stop that language! This is not a Mexican.

What year are you from?

STU: I will say, I want to see the animated film Inside Out, about your head and all the different personalities in there, having these arguments.

GLENN: It would be good. It would be good.

STU: That would be a great sequel.

GLENN: Anyway, we are at a place now where the federal government, you know, at any time could say, hey. We don't appreciate it, Texas. And do more than -- well, I can't even say it.

That is so wrong of me.

My gosh, I have who don't even so callous, that I would even suspect that Friday, the president coming out and saying, we're stopping all natural gas exportation from the United States of America for the next year.

Not only really pissed off our allies. Because they need it!

But I was just about to go down this very calloused road. And I apologize in advance, for thinking that that may have happened on Friday.

Because the two states that would be punished, would be Texas and Florida.

Now, to assume the president would do something like that is just -- to have him say?

CNN would translate, I want to make things better for the people in Texas. That's why I'm going to shut down 30 percent of all of America's supply, just coming out of Texas.

I think -- I could have felt targeted. By the president.

But I don't think that's what he's doing at all.

STU: Always looking out for the best for all of us.

That's the Joe Biden way.

I think people believe that.

GLENN: Yeah. So he has Border Patrol that he commands. That he commands.

And then we have Greg Abbott, who he commands, the National Guard.

And then we have the President who says, no!

I'm the leader of the National Guard. And so he's saying, I'm going to federalize them.

And if he federalizes them.

Then, and this is a really great -- soldiers love this.

When they're like, okay.

I'm kind of in the middle of this.

And I kind of agree with this guy.

It doesn't matter which guy. I kind of agree with this guy. So I think I'm not going to do what the other guy tells me to do.

Soldiers love ambiguity. They love it.

STU: It's very important for a military.

GLENN: It really is great.

STU: You have to make sure you have different orders for different people, letting them decide individually.

GLENN: Right. And they can't decide. If they decide, well, they should be tried. And it's like the Border Patrol.

You know, the Border Patrol.

Are you going to -- are you going to shoot the Texas National Guard, or the Texas law enforcement?

Especially, since you guys really agree. In fact, they came out. Rank-and-file, Border Patrol agents are not going to start arresting Texas national guard members for following their lawful order. That's fake news.

Texas National Guard and rank-and-file BP agents worked together, to respect each other's jobs, period. The Texas national guard members have lawful order. And they have to carry out those orders.

So the rank-and-file of the Border Patrol, is kind of on the side of Texas.

STU: Hmm. Uh-oh.

GLENN: Now, this is where that crazy ambiguity thing happens.

STU: It's so fun. It's so fun.

Well, if you wanted direct orders. And you wanted this to be so much better for yourself.

All you have to do is stop whipping migrants on horseback. And it's such a huge problem.

GLENN: Amen. And, you know what, the Texas Border Patrol. They appreciated that. They appreciated the president came out and said, slavery.

STU: Yeah. What I liked, after it was proven without a shadow of a doubt, that it didn't happen.

They didn't wind up correcting it. I think that's important for a military's morale. MAGA extremism.

Is that what you said?

MAGA extremists? Or I'm sorry, ultra MAGA extremists. I'm sorry.

GLENN: It's like the marketing isn't working on new MAGA, ultra MAGA. Super, super huge scary MAGA.

STU: Right. Yeah. Like it didn't work just saying they were MAGA. And then it didn't work when they said it's MAGA extremists.

Now it's ultra MAGA extremists.

GLENN: Ultra MAGA extremists. Now with ESG. Is that like MSG?

Kind of.

STU: We'll go to ultra MAGA, mega Doppler extremist. Very soon.

GLENN: It's great.

STU: And then we just keep upping it from there.

GLENN: Extra spicy MAGA.

STU: I say like what they do with on global warming. In 50 years, this could happen. And when people say, okay. Tell me -- get in touch with me in 49 years.

It's actually happening right now, it's worse than ever. Do you believe that?

GLENN: No.

STU: Oh, my God. It happened last week.

GLENN: Time to get out!

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The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.