GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: September 11th and it always takes me by surprise. I think, I’m cool, I’m cool. Walking the streets of New York this morning, man, it was alive today. Horns honking. It’s 7:30 in the morning and it might as well be 1:00 in the afternoon in this city. We have Duncan Hunter on with us. Of course, Duncan Hunter running for President of the United States. He’s the guy who built the only border fence that actually works and it’s the one in San Diego and it’s completely transformed San Diego. Of course, they found ways around the fence, which is great. Now the police can’t ask you anything. They can’t ask you if you’re an illegal alien in San Diego. So they are still in there pitching but at least there’s a fence up.
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Welcome to the program, Duncan Hunter, how are you, sir?
HUNTER: Hey, Glenn, doing good. How are you?
GLENN: I’m good. You know, I’m concerned with some of the things that are going on with homeland security. I’m doing a segment on TV tonight about one of the segments. The first segment is on 9/11 and the fact that our visa problem, you know, people overstaying their visas is twice as bad as it was on 9/11. I wonder if — I’m trying to find out and maybe you know. You know, after they broke up that big ring in England, what was it, about eight weeks ago and they said to the FBI, you’ve got to find these 100 \_people in the New York area, and I think it was 200 people nationwide. I haven’t heard. Did we find them? Do you know?
HUNTER: You know, I don’t know, Glenn. I think if they had, they would have announced it.
GLENN: I do, too.
HUNTER: This kind of points to the general inability of bureaucracies to move quickly even in times of war, even in this war against terror and I think you may recall that nine months after the terrorists hit us on 9/11, their student visas came through from the INS. So, you know, the most important thing we could do right now, Glenn, you started out with it, is securing the southern border of the United States with security.
GLENN: Well, but I have to tell you. It’s not just the southern border. It’s the northern border as well. You know as well as I do, Canada is an amazing hotbed for Islamic radicalism.
HUNTER: Well, now, that’s true, and I held a hearing in Canada with the armed services committee last August and the testimony from our agencies up there was that when we secure the southern border and close down that 2,000-mile exposure, we may, in fact, have lots of pressure on the northern border. So if we have to — if we have to build fences, if we have to have more security, more surveillance, we do it. But the point is, Glenn, you do what you have to do to secure your country and, you know, right now it’s a law that that 854-mile fence be constructed across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and the administration is not carrying out the law and there’s nothing that stands in their way. There’s no more votes. They’ve got $800 million cash on hand to build it.
GLENN: How about the environmentalists?
HUNTER: We actually waived. The full House and Senate waived all environmental considerations. We gave Department of Homeland Security, gave Mr. Chertoff the ability to sign his name one time and waive, that is, push aside all of these environmental restraints. And most of them, Glenn, were very phony. As you know, they kept a smuggler’s gulch in San Diego from being sealed for six years on the basis that birds might not fly across this 10-foot high fence.
GLENN: I have Chertoff on in about an hour and 10 minutes and I’ve got to tell you, I know what he’s going to say. He’s going to say, Glenn, we’re building the fence. We’ve got, like, 12 miles built. You just don’t build it in a day.
HUNTER: Glenn, here’s your question back to him. Why can’t you have multiple contractors building multiple sections of fence. That is you give one contractor mile one to mile two, the next contractor mile two to mile four and the next question you should ask him is, I wrote into the law that the first big section, that is between collection co-, California and Douglas, Arizona, the entire State of Arizona has to be completed with a double fence by May 30th of next year. That’s not much time. Ask him how he’s going to get 392 miles double-fenced by May 30th. Ask him if he’s got plans to do that. Would you do that for me?
GLENN: I certainly will, sir.
HUNTER: And I’ll ship you the bill so you can point it out to him.
GLENN: Tell me, because you were there for the hearings yesterday on Petraeus. I mean, the guy is just dirt strong. And honestly he didn’t say all the things that I’d like to hear. I mean, he was pointing out that there are things that are, you know, not working and things that, you know, where we have a lot, a long way to go before we can claim progress, but it was a pretty balanced testimony. Are you as outraged? Tell me the — were there Democrats that were outraged by moveon.org questioning his loyalty?
HUNTER: Well, you know, that full-page ad in the New York Times that said General Petraeus or General Betrayus was really below the belt, was obviously the worst insult that you can give an American military man. Here’s a guy who sacrificed a great career in business, away from his family now for years and years and years, has to watch casualty reports every day and you’ve got Democrats trying to take away the one thing that a military guy has and that’s his honor. And that’s why I came after them yesterday, and I thought it was — I thought the idea that the chairman of the international relations committee said in his statement that this would not be General Petraeus’ testimony, that he was taking his testimony from political operatives and the worst thing you can do to insult a military guy when he’s asked to give his personal judgment as to something that upon which the lives of many people depend, the idea that you accuse him of simply having his speech written or his testimony written by a politician, by a political operative is about the worst insult you can give them. So I had a few words for my friends, the Democrat side yesterday. And the one thing I noticed, too, Glenn is this. You know, moveon.org did that full-page ad accusing him of being General Betrayus. Not a single — a lot of Republicans responded to that and I started off as the ranking Republican on the armed services committee. Not a single Democrat objected and that, I thought, was unusual because what that showed me was that the Democrat party is so dependent now on its hard left edge, that is, the left edge –
GLENN: I will tell you this that Nancy Pelosi, hats off to her, she did come out and say that it was wrong.
HUNTER: Good, I’m glad.
GLENN: She did come out and say that, which I was bowled over and congratulations, Nancy Pelosi.
HUNTER: She should be congratulated for that.
GLENN: Duncan, I sure appreciate everything and stay strong. Keep fighting the good fight, brother.
HUNTER: We’re going to get after them. And have Mr. Chertoff look at those to see how he’s going to build that fence.
GLENN: Oh, I will. I will. Duncan Hunter, thank you very much.
By the way, Duncan Hunter won the straw poll in Texas over the weekend, which surprisingly you just don’t hear anywhere.
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