Best of the Program | Guest: Justin Haskins | 9/28/26

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So, a new report is out, came out Friday for TPUSA and UVU, the place where Charlie Kirk was killed. And it's an internal document that shows what really happened that day. And there are going to be people give you all kinds of opinions on it. I have an opinion, and it's all about the facts, and I share those with you on today's podcast. Plus, Broken Families, there's this heartbreaking story in The Wall Street Journal, it came out this weekend, about 138 families every month have somebody say, you're not my parent anymore, you're toxic, you're dangerous to be around, I need a safe space, or whatever it is. We talk about that, and the reaction from the audience was pretty intense. We did a poll, and more than half of us are facing these kinds of problems. And it's getting worse. This is 10 times worse than it was five years ago. Also, Justin Haskins joins us. He's got a new poll out, and it'll show you how much trouble we are actually in with the youth. Anybody under 30, the extreme views is shocking. We go into the war in Iraq, with questions like, do you want America to win or the Iranians to win? Would you trade for cheap oil and gas? Would you dismantle Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state for cheap oil and gas? What do you think the results are? It's terrifying. We have that and so much more on today's Best of Podcast.

Welcome to The Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. This weekend, we had about 100 people up to the house here at the Standing Rock Ranch. We had the first wedding here at the ranch. It was a family wedding, and had a conversation with one of my nephews. We don't see the world the same, and I love him to death, and he loves his uncle. And we were having a conversation. I said, just, when we finished hugging each other, I looked him in the eye and said, just make me a promise, will you? That this will never stop. Our love will never stop because we disagree on politics, because it's not worth it. And he said, Uncle Glenn, I promise you.

I'm going to talk about those families that are struggling, including mine, from a story from The Wall Street Journal here coming up in just a minute. If you're struggling with your family because of politics, you are not alone. And I have to tell you, I have a hard time.

Well, we'll get into it in a minute. There was news that came out on Friday. Utah Valley University released the independent review of the day Charlie Kirk was killed on campus. Outside experts did more than 70 interviews, read thousands of pages, videos, dispatch logs, text messages, blah, blah, blah. It's all released, and within an hour, everybody had a verdict, everybody had something, I got to get on the air, and I got to talk about this. I got to quick, I got to get on my podcast. The family's lawyer blamed the university, parts of the left blamed Turning Point. Podcasters said the silence is the real story. Is it? Is that the real story? The silence?

Most of these people couldn't even finish page 10 They told us, you know, silence.

Sometimes silence is the real story. Like my opinion on some of these podcasters is.

Now I just told a story there, didn't I? My silence was the story. Not this time. You know, we're living in the so-called information age. We're not living in the information age anymore. We were in the information age. Now we're in the opinion and outrage age. Opinion is the currency of the day, and it is so cheap to print. It is, nobody ever runs out of opinions. My gosh. Facts are what's scarce in today's world. So let me not sell you aside here. Let me tell you the facts of what's in the report in order. You decide what it means. You're smart enough to figure this out. So you decide. So in July of last year, a Turning Point field representative asked the campus club to request the outdoor courtyard. Charlie had spoken at UVU before he knew the place. The police chief learned about the event three weeks out. Okay. All right. That's probably, you know, the planning forum estimated 600 people didn't list any safety concerns. So the police chief doesn't find out until three weeks out. That's a problem. That's a problem. University staff warned the courtyard would be hard to control. Point in their favor, Turning Point wanted it anyway with its own ticketing. University went along. Probably shouldn't have done that. Reviewers said it should have kept those decisions for itself. Then there was no security assessment. No written plan. Nobody studied the rooftops. Two days before, Charlie's own security flagged the walkway above the stage. The chief taped it off and posted two officers there. That morning, he texted Charlie's security supervisor, meet at 11 Well, they didn't meet. Why? The chief was clearing protesters off the walkway, then chasing students off a balcony outside the president's office. He was busy fixing the problems he could see. 13 sworn officers for the whole university. No screening, bike racks for barriers, camera recording, nobody watching, no ambulance. You know, the emergency manager was on vacation. And then at 12.23, a shot came from the roof more than 400 feet away. So whose fault is it?