Ep 37 | Mike Lee | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This week, Glenn sits down with Senator Mike Lee of Utah who has spent his career defending the basic liberties of Americans and Utahns as a tireless advocate for our founding constitutional principles. Senator Lee acquired a deep respect for the Constitution early on. His father, Rex Lee, who served as the Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan, would often discuss varied aspects of judicial and constitutional doctrine around the kitchen table, from Due Process to the uses of Executive Plenary Power. He attended most of his father's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, giving him a unique, hands-on experience and understanding of government up close. He serves on Judiciary, Commerce, and Energy Committees and is currently the Chair of the Joint Economic Committee. He is consistently one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate and also one of the nicest and most well-liked on both sides. He is also a New York Times Best-Selling author of 3 books including his latest, "Our Lost Declaration: America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State." They talk about everything from Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution all the way to John Roberts on the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My guest on the podcast today has got to be one of the only people in the world who is friends with both me and Bernie Sanders.
0:07.0	We'll talk about that. We'll also dig into his passion for our nation's founding documents, the lifeblood of America.
0:13.5	He came to his passion honestly when you grow up hearing about the founders in the Constitution around the kitchen table and watching your father argue cases before the Supreme Court.
0:23.0	He probably destined for a law career, but he is a formal federal prosecutor.
0:28.0	Served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. He was elected to the US Senate in 2010.
0:35.0	He serves on the Judiciary, Commerce, and Energy Committees. He is currently the chair of the Joint Economic Committee.
0:42.0	He is consistently one of the most conservative members of the US Senate, and also is one of the nicest and probably most well-liked on both sides.
0:51.0	He's also the New York Times bestselling author of three books, including his latest, Our Lost Declaration.
0:57.0	America's fight against tyranny from King George to the Deep State.
1:01.0	We talk about Thomas Jefferson in the Constitution all the way to John Roberts on the Supreme Court, and I saw a side of Mike Lee I haven't seen before.
1:12.0	And also the socialist Democrats that are running that he works with in the Senate and Donald Trump.
1:19.0	Surprising interview with Senator Mike Lee.
1:22.0	Mike, the words we hold these truths to be self-evident has really bothered me lately, because I'm not sure that we have any truth.
1:35.0	If those aren't self-evident, what is?
1:40.0	But you know, I guess I used to think you could wake anybody up, and I think I'm going to be the president of the United States.
1:48.0	I'm going to be the president of the United States.
1:52.0	I'm going to be the president of the United States.
1:56.0	I'm going to be the president of the United States.
2:00.0	But you know, I guess I used to think you could wake anybody up in the middle of the night and you say, hey, should you be free?
2:08.0	Of course, should the government pick you up in the middle of the night? Of course not.
2:12.0	Should you be able to write your own destiny?
2:15.0	Should somebody be able to just to take your life on a charge and you don't have a way to respond to it?
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