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Glenn's POWERFUL view on life & God: ‘My world was about to change’

In this clip, Glenn reflects on hardships in his personal life, and he explains how they’re shaping the way he views God’s love, his role for this show, and what YOU should do to spiritually prepare for what’s coming next. He explains the ways in which children are suffering now more than ever — thanks to certain social media apps — and he urges parents to do what they can to protect them from those evils. Glenn reminds us that his difficulties aren’t unique, and that millions of parents are grappling with similar challenges. Plus, he encourages us all to remember that Jesus’ love is eternal for ALL…even gun owners, despite what former Sen. Claire McCaskill may say.

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Let me address something personally here just for a couple of seconds, and then we're going to go into the crazy news.

About four weeks ago, I think I've mentioned to you, maybe six weeks ago. I mentioned to you that I had a -- I had a feeling in prayer one day. That -- in fact, the words came to me, your whole life is about to change. Everything is about to change. I need you to rededicate yourself and come to me every day for the next two weeks.

So I would go to our temple every day for two weeks. And pray and meditate and serve.

And I didn't get an answer, per se, on what that meant.

For a long time, I thought, maybe it's -- gosh, maybe he's just testing me.

Will you actually do what I say?

And so I did. And then I told you, that I started to feel very, very optimistic, about our situation. And that I was possibly being released from what I believe has been a calling, that I've been honored to be called to serve. But I have not enjoyed it, per se. Of being a watchman on the tower. And warning people.

Here's what's coming. And I feel as though, there's the possibility that those days are over for me in this way. I'm still going to be warning you. But I -- it was a very heavy burden for me to go, am I missing anything?

What do I need to tell you?

I feel as though what I need to tell you now, is not a warning. It's an invitation.

All those who have really been able to hear. I think most people have made their choices.

And others will choose differently as we go. Some will fall away. Some will join.

But the mass in this audience has heard. And I believe you're the most prepared people on planet earth right now. I don't think there's anyone.

Well, maybe the Soros family. That is more prepared for whatever comes our way next.

And my invitation to you is believe in yourself.

Know who God is. And know what your relationship to God is. And if you have wrongs in your life, write them. And understand that you are a child of a loving and forgiving God.

He -- he is watching us, just the way we watch our children, when they make huge mistakes. And you're like, oh.

You didn't have to do that. And now some things are going to -- repercussions are going to happen.

And -- but I'm with you.

There is one kind of love, unconditional love, that I think is proveable to all of us.

And that is the love of our children.

When you have a child, it's different than even your marriage.

You can say it's unconditional.

But it's really not. Your spouse can do some things. That you're like, okay.

You've crossed a line there.

But when our kids do something, they're still our kids. Because we see in them, who they could have been and who they still can be, if they just get past all of this stuff. That's the way God looks at us. And he's just waiting for us, to turn back to him. I had a different understanding about how my life is about to change, and I -- I am glad is to, it only lasted a night. But I had a -- we've had suicidal ideation in my family with my children. And it went past an idea on Monday night. And my world was about to change. The good news is: My child is healthy. And I don't think any permanent damage. And safe in a hospital. And we'll leave it at that.

The reason why I tell you this is, I know I'm not alone. They're -- she was in a children's hospital, and in this children's hospital, there were three can I see. She's just turned 17. She was the oldest on the floor.

And they are treating children for suicide, at the age of eight. Something is going on. And I believe I know what it is. It's what's being taught in schools. How our schools are behaving. How our children are so lost. They're attacking each other unlike anything I've ever seen. Sex is just no big deal.

When you and I both know, it is a very big deal. In my lifetime, childhood, and I've always said this as a joke. But I think it's actually kind of true.

The rest of your life is just trying to recover from childhood. You know. And in little things.

It doesn't even have to be a bad thing. Like my mom used to always say, anyone want gum?

And we didn't have a lot of men. And so she would take the wriggly spearmint gun. And she would cut it in half. And she would give half of it to my sister. And half of it to me. So now, I always have either three cubes or sticks of gum. Always.

I don't need three. I just have so overcompensated, and I've done that my whole life. You know, and we all have that one way or another.

Something that we're trying to -- just marked us.

Imagine the marks that are being left our children today. And it is intentional.

And it is coming from school and social media. TikTok, Instagram, they are the worst. They are the worst.

Not Instagram. It's -- what's the other one? It's the one that I don't have. The kids nowadays they have --

STU: Snapchat.

GLENN: Snapchat. Snapchat and TikTok. The worst.

Get your kids off of them. Take away, if you haven't given your kids a phone yet, mine needed them when they turned, what?

Fifteen. Because they had to go to school. They had to have a phone. They had to have devices. I should have pulled them from the school at that point. And just said, no. You know what, you're not going. But I didn't. And they've changed because of social media.

It is dangerous, and it is killing our kids. Quite honestly, it's taken everything in me, to not just pack up my entire house and move away to a very small town. And live in a house that has no access to internet.

If you can do that, you should. I do think you should. Live in a small town.

But your problems are going to follow you, because they're everywhere. But you need to do what you need to do, to protect your family. Don't send your kids to college.

What are you sending your kids to college for, honestly? Unless they want to be a doctor. But to find themselves? Oh, I'll help you find yourself. I'll not spend $50,000 or more, to help you find yourself. Because I know what you'll find. The exact opposite of everything that your mother and I have tried to teach you. And just tried. Prayed. Struggled.

Stayed awake every night. How do we make sure we plant this value or virtue deep inside of them?

That's what you'll find when you go to college. The opposite of that. And the people that we've prayed to make sure our kids never meet, we'll be paying their salary.

We know what's happening in our schools. And we still have our kids in schools. Some people just cannot do it.

But there are other options.

You've got to get your kids out of these schools. We're in an emergency situation.

Now, know that I'm a dead, that has just gone through a year of hell. And the last three days, have been the hardest of my entire life.

But I believe all of these things to be true. Something is going on. And we just won't name the evil. Okay. So let's do that.

Number one, it's Satan. Evil is playing a huge role in the world today. Period.

And in the name of Jesus Christ, you are dismissed! Two, social media. What is happening with social media, is just the beginning. You now couple it with AI, and your kids don't stand a chance. Three, what's being taught in schools.

They are lies! Four, the lies of the media and Hollywood.

You have to be in the world, but not of the world.

We need God, now more than any other time possibly in American history. Except for the Civil War. And the American Revolution.

But that's where we're at.

Like-minded people have got to start coming together, and helping each other. You know, I heard something. Do we have -- do we have from yesterday? Cut one. McCaskill. Claire McCaskill, talking about Jesus.

This -- this clip is amazing. Listen to this.

VOICE: One of my who can't understand children had his first communion over the weekend. And I listened to the homily at that service, and I was reminded about what a peaceful man Jesus was.

And I listened to that elected representatives. And they always want to say, oh, let's not make it political. After there's a slaughter of innocence. But this is in its essence, political.

And I will tell you this, I believe very firmly, that Jesus would be shocked, at what our country is allowing to happen.

There is no way that he would embrace everyone walking around with weapons of war.

GLENN: Stop. First of all, I don't speak for Jesus. So I don't know.

Second of all, I don't think Jesus will be shocked by anything.

I think he's got it.

The last thing is the most important thing we need to learn.

I don't think Jesus would embrace all gun owners.

Well, Jesus wouldn't take the guns from them. Jesus would embrace everyone. Even the most vile of vile.

Jesus would embrace. Because every single one of us are a son or daughter of the Almighty God. All of us.

He doesn't want us to win over the other side. He wants all of his children to return to him.

And you don't get that by calling people names, by putting your finger down them, and rubbing their face in it.

I don't care which side is doing it. That's not -- vengeance is his.

Ours is to love and support one another, and correct things that are eternally wrong and eternally true, to stand up for those things.

In the next few weeks, I'm going to go over some things that I found in history, that I was not aware of in any shape or form. I had no idea.

And my God Almighty, we are repeating history, almost exactly. And there is one last step to that history. Those historic events. One last step. And it is the one that will save us or destroy us.

And I will be telling you about it, in the coming weeks, as we finish doing all of our homework on it.

But I will tell you, it's not too late.

God is very aware of everything.

And he is our only prayer and salvation.

And he wants to help. All of his children. But we must be more like Christ, not his policemen.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“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.