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Insurrection Act Crash Course: Would the Founders STOP Minnesota's Violence? | Guests: Brad Meltzer & Carol Roth | 1/16/26
16 Jan 2026
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We have the president now saying that he may pull out the Insurrection Act. Something I'm actually for, but I warn you, we are in such dangerous territory right now. And, you know, the one thing that I'm really sick of, I am really sick of all of these people who just have opinions, like me, honestly, like me. America doesn't need more people like me. America needs more facts. Actual facts.
And then take the argument and look at it from both sides, especially when it comes to the Constitution. Because we're entering... There are two things I'm going to talk about today in the Constitution. One is the trade deal. You have no idea what that means to you. That could be the end of...
America, as we know it, all of the progress the president has made could be gone with one decision and cause the world to go into chaos. The Insurrection Act is the same. That could cause civil war or it could save the republic. We shouldn't look at any of these things lightly and we should not be looking at our team jersey and say, I'm on that team. No, I'm on Team Constitution.
So what does the Constitution say? Let me make, I'm going to make a case for the Insurrection Act and a case against using the Insurrection Act up in Minnesota. I'll tell you my opinion on it. Then I want to take a vote from you, the listeners. You can do that at glennbeck.com.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Insurrection Act in current events?
We have people that are here. They're dangerous. They're illegal. They need to be taken out of the country. That is the federal government's job to do that. And the state is thwarting it. They're also thwarting it because they're trying to get away with massive fraud.
So if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, this is what he said yesterday, who are only trying to do their job, then we, yes, will institute the Insurrection Act.
The framing matters because it shifts the question from can the people protest to who upholds the law when that law is being resisted. And before you say this is a peaceful protest, it is not a peaceful protest. There are documented cases, lots of them, of assault. Watch the news.
Well...
Depending on who you're watching, look for the tape. It's everywhere. OK, and if that isn't the threshold to bring in the Insurrection Act, if that's not the way we pull it in. Well, if that's not what they had in mind. I don't know what to do. I mean, they gave the president extraordinary power to preserve civil authority.
The same constitutional logic that says a governor cannot lawfully encourage or tolerate organized opposition to a federal enforcement, just as the president cannot stand idly by when federal officers are attacked. That tension between order and chaos, between lawful protest and violent obstruction, is exactly the kind of crisis the Insurrection Act was written to address.
And in the face of escalating violence and political obstruction, some would argue, It has to be considered if only to protect the rule of law. Who protects the law? Who protects the Constitution? Look, it was an insurrection. That's what they keep calling it on January 5th or 6th or whenever it was, you know, up at Capitol Hill.
Would they have let that go on for days and days and said that was just that was that was nothing but a peaceful protest? Of course not. And I wouldn't have either. It wasn't. It wasn't. When you have people beating cops, when you have people breaking windows, you have to stop it immediately. The president was the one who said, where's the National Guard?
But the left didn't want the National Guard there because they wanted that act of insurrection. You wouldn't have done it for January 6th, and you shouldn't do it now. That's my opinion. That's the president's opinion. But let me make a strong case for the other side. And then we'll let you decide. We'll do that next. First, Blinds.com.
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Chapter 3: How does the Insurrection Act relate to civil order?
It's the Democrats. It's the Republic. Climate change. Somehow or another, it's still Trump's fault. But this is the trick. This is the world's WWE. This is the world wrestling match of the entire world. The real show is happening offstage because the real show is being planned. All of it's being planned. We're just participating in a show they've planned. And it's not just an American show.
This is a global show. The leaders in Brussels recently, a couple of weeks ago, met to discuss security somehow or another, have the whole European continent ready, military ready by 2030. Good luck with it. How are you going to do that? How are you going to do that? You don't have the functioning economy anymore to do that. So instead of fixing that, Brussels wants to pump out more regulation.
You know, and a $2 trillion Green War climate rebuild everything plan. This is why Donald Trump is after Greenland. And so very clear. NATO is over. Europe is over. Canada is waffling. Well, we better have, if we want a golden dome, we better have Greenland.
We cannot let the Chinese or the EU, who will be against us in this Western Hemisphere, at some point they will be, because everybody's fighting for their own new world order. Donald Trump wants a new world order that bases everybody on their own country. You be strong in your own country. We have a set of rules and laws that we all agree to.
But we are not going to do this globalist stuff anymore. Okay. Europe is blaming Russia and carbon. We're blaming MAGA and misinformation. All different costumes. All the same director. It's all about saving the planet or defending democracy. But the pattern is really all about control.
And the more control the system gets, the less sovereignty you have over your job, over your choices, over your data, even your thoughts. Again, I take you to Mark Carney. What is he thinking? Donald Trump is an authoritarian. So. We're going to throw our hat into the ring with communist China.
The only upside is, I guess, if you conflate all Muslims with Sharia law, which is a horrible mistake, I guess you could say, well, the upside is there won't be a single Muslim living in Canada because China kills anybody that wants Sharia law. They just round them up. There's no trial. They just kill them.
Okay, all right, well, I guess if that's what you want, Carney, this is an amazing move by Canada. And we just have to understand that this is a game for the whole world. You're watching a slow-motion wealth transfer from the middle to the managerial elite all throughout Europe.
You're seeing it happening all over the world and we're not far behind because every build back better, every trillion dollar package, every temporary emergency measure moves us closer to the same cliff. We're all there because as we know now, a ton of money just went to NGOs to sow the seeds of our own destruction. How many billions, how many trillions in the end?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Brad Meltzer share about his new book 'The Viper'?
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Chapter 5: What unique concept is explored regarding secrets in funeral homes?
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One of my favorite guests we ever have on is Brad Meltzer, and usually we schedule an hour, but there's so much going on in the world that I can only get a few minutes with him today. But he's got a new book out in the Escape Artist series. It's book number three, but you don't have to read one and two. You can get right to it.
Can you give us a synopsis of the Viper here without giving away the whole plot?
Of course, my friend. A man... walks into a funeral home carrying his favorite blue suit because he's got a terminal disease and this is the suit that he wants to be buried in. But here's the thing, Glenn, you know, if you open up in your local bank a safety deposit box, then paperwork gets filed. The government can track it. Same thing if you go to the UPS store and open up a P.O. box.
But if you secretly sew something into the lining of your suit and you hand that suit over to your local mortician, you have an ultimate untraceable hiding spot. So the man leaves the suit in the funeral home, goes back to his hotel where there's a man with a gun waiting for him, says, where is it?
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Chapter 7: What key themes emerge from the conversation about trust and credibility?
Our guy says, I don't know what you're talking about. The man with the gun shoots him dead. That suit's still in the funeral home. You won't believe what's hidden inside it or who's about to find it. And that is chapter one of the Viper. That's so good.
So good. I love the way you think, and I love the way you put real stuff in. So this idea of hiding it in the suit, that's all real, right? I mean, it could be done.
I mean, you're making it up, but it could be done. Yeah, yeah. I went to a funeral home and saw it. Wait, wait, what? I went to a funeral home and I'm going through the funeral home researching and I see this door and it's got a big padlock on it. I say to the funeral director, what's in there? Does he show me around? And he says, oh, you're going to love this.
He opens up the door and there's all these old suits and like, you know, like what your grandmother would wear to a wedding, like a sequined gown. And he says, if you're if you're old and you don't have a lot of family, you pick out what you're going to wear to your funeral home. But it's also got like a Jets jersey in there. There's a cowboy hat that someone says, my ex-wife hated this hat.
Make sure I'm wearing it in my coffin. Like people are wild.
Oh, my gosh.
And I said, that's the best hiding spot I've ever seen.
OK, so this this whole book is about hiding and disappearing. But and I want to get into some of the disappearance part of this. But can we go back? We had a conversation maybe two years ago. Ricky, would you book him for a long term podcast?
We had a conversation about the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, the best mortuary in the in the world because of what they do to take care of our soldiers, et cetera, et cetera. But you did not tell me something that played a role in this book and you actually thinking this way is on 9-11. Somebody hid a secret. They were on the plane on 9-11 and they hid a secret and the secret was found.
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