Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly talk about the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the end of the year, and their top three most important stories of 2019, and how they compare to each other's top three of the past year.
00:03:30.000Number two is the charge of fake news and the American people's inability to recognize truth, being able to see it, and also the press not being able to see it.
00:03:50.000You know, the right says this is fake news.
00:04:20.980And the third pick was because I think it has eternal and lasting ramifications if it's more than just talk, and that is calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
00:04:59.540My thing is looking out for the folks back as you know.
00:05:02.220Is it amazing that neither one of us put, and I think this is more of a question of how much has happened that is huge this year, the Harvey Weinstein effect and what has happened in the last year and where we're headed in the next year?
00:05:27.280I mean, this is a remarkably huge story.
00:05:30.640It is a big story, but it isn't touching the lives of the folks.
00:05:36.120It's more of a sensationalistic piece of culture that most people are kind of just looking at going, wow.
00:05:48.700But does it affect the way they live their lives, the way they go to work, the way they raise their children?
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00:21:23.680One of the things that has been really remarkable to me this year is our fascination on space.
00:21:31.980From Elon Musk and what he is doing to go to Mars and last, what was it, last Friday, we sent something up for the International Space Station and we used Elon Musk's SpaceX.
00:21:46.860And to watch that thing launch and within, I think, 10 minutes, you know, the booster rocket was back landing on the launch pad.
00:21:58.940There's something else that's going on.
00:22:01.200And that is what the New York Times released this last week, which was, are we alone?
00:22:09.100And the money that the government has spent looking at UFOs.
00:22:15.100And one of the guys who is a career intelligence officer, he worked with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence, Director of the National Intelligence.
00:22:26.560He was a special agent in charge, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:25.260And as far as speaking for the department, it's been about two months now since I've been out of the Department of Defense, so I certainly can't speak on behalf of the department.
00:23:33.480But what I can do is speak on behalf of myself and I think on behalf of my colleagues that work this particular portfolio.
00:23:43.080And I think the evidence at this point is quite overwhelming.
00:23:49.280I think as we are entering this, as you said just now, kind of this new era of space, I think we are entering a new era where the evidence is quite frankly overwhelming.
00:24:03.740Yeah, you know, we saw the video that they released, and I would imagine that there's maybe even more compelling stuff than that.
00:24:11.780But we saw the video and, you know, the airmen talking about, look at this, it has no wings.
00:24:21.080I've heard you talk about, you know, seeing things and having, you know, documented footage of things without a propulsion unit.
00:24:30.740No, you know, no wings, no surface, you know, that we would recognize as anything that would keep something afloat.
00:24:41.140Is this the most compelling thing that you have?
00:24:45.620Is this video or is there more that you have seen?
00:24:51.980These two videos that are out in the public domain are simply just a very, very small sample of the collective amount of information that we have over the years.
00:25:04.180So, Luis, was there a conversation in the agency, you know, or in this, you know, group of we need to tell the American people this.
00:25:17.460This is not information that the government should hoard.
00:25:19.780This is really kind of important stuff.
00:25:21.980Well, I think that's a fantastic observation.
00:25:26.420In my perspective, it may be a little bit more selfish, and that was I needed to be able to tell the most senior levels of DOD leadership,
00:25:34.760please keep in mind that, you know, as a former soldier and an employee of DOD, my loyalty is first and foremost to the American people.
00:25:44.600Second is to the Department of Defense, and third is to the Secretary of Defense.
00:25:48.280In this particular case, I think we're in a situation where this country has never had a better Secretary of Defense, in my opinion.
00:25:57.180And, yes, I'm a little biased, but I think I can say that because I served with the man and have seen him in combat situations.
00:26:03.880So my loyalty to the boss is paramount, and when you are in an organization, a department where silos and stovepipes restrict the ability to give the top commander the information he or she may need to make critical decisions,
00:26:22.460regardless of resources, regardless of resources, we have an obligation to make sure that we have that ability.
00:26:28.360So what kind of decision would somebody in the Defense Department need to know this information?
00:26:39.240I mean, have you seen hostility or what?
00:26:45.960Well, I'll get to that piece in a second.
00:26:48.680And the answer, in short, is we haven't seen any overt hostility.
00:26:51.560But keep in mind, in DOD, we are a national security organization.
00:26:57.480And so I don't want to say we get paid to be paranoid, but we definitely get paid to make sure things aren't a threat.
00:27:03.600So if we're not sure it's not a threat, then we have to presume it could be a threat.
00:27:10.460And so we need to understand how these things work.
00:27:13.280And from my perspective, you know, our secretary is a guy who likes more information, not less.
00:27:20.740And I think the issue really being stigma within the department.
00:27:25.800Secretary Madison inherited a wonderful department, but a department, no less, that over 70 years has developed some silos and stovepipes.
00:27:34.400And the things that DOD does very well, obviously, looking at defined threats such as terrorism and potential nuclear weapons and chemical weapons and proliferation of, you know, issue du jour.
00:27:48.120The one thing that it's not very comfortable with are those things that are very hard to define.
00:28:27.300Now, and I am obligated to protect any and all classified information.
00:28:31.840So whatever I share, of course, has to be classified.
00:28:34.900But what I can share with you is, I think, just the overwhelming amount of data and reports that we have received from people who are, keeping in mind, these are people with the highest levels of security clearances.
00:28:50.520These are people who are trained observers.
00:28:53.640They fly multimillion-dollar weapon platforms for their country on a daily basis.
00:28:58.300And they are the most trustworthy of trustworthy.
00:29:00.900And on top of that, these folks understand what they're looking at.
00:29:04.980They, it's not the fact that they just happen to be astute observers.
00:29:10.560And on top of that, we now have equipment that can very quickly ascertain what we're looking at, if it's an aircraft, if it's a missile, if it's a drone, to the point where we actually know what kind of drone it is.
00:29:22.580And unfortunately, I can't go into detail than that.
00:29:25.920But with that said, the most compelling thing I've ever seen, I think, is it's a bunch of things.
00:29:32.840I think when you, one thing is to look at an object in a radar return or on a screen.
00:29:38.880And if you don't know what you're looking at, it's easy to say, oh, it's just a fuzzy dot, and the camera pans off screen.
00:29:45.240When in reality, that's not what's happening.
00:29:46.960When in reality, what you're looking at, if you understand what the radar return is telling you in infrared hot, infrared cold, et cetera, is an object that we can't get close to.
00:29:57.260It is taking evasive measures to avoid us getting close.
00:30:01.020And then when we do get close, it takes off at incredible velocities that, frankly, defy our understanding of logic, really.
00:30:11.520We're talking about objects that can drop from 80,000 feet down to 50 feet in a hover and then instantaneously jump back up to 80,000 feet.
00:30:21.540And when I say 80,000 feet, it's actually higher.
00:30:24.200That's as high as we can see it with a particular system.
00:30:28.000Of course, we have other systems that are better than that, too.
00:30:30.880But in this particular case and other cases, we are seeing things that will interfere with equipment and our ability to further put information on these things.
00:30:47.820Are we going to be seeing more of this, or are they still going to keep tight-lipped?
00:30:52.240Is this pretty much what we're going to find out?
00:30:53.900Well, I hope that we do more as a nation to insist that we see more.
00:31:03.100I think we need to make sure that we engage who we need to engage our leaders and say, hey, look, this is worth investing.
00:31:11.720I hate to say it, but $22 million, that's not enough.
00:31:14.760I know everybody's getting wrapped around the axle about the money, when really the bigger story here is, folks, we've been looking at this stuff for a while, and it's real.
00:31:23.340And as a nation, we need to decide, is it a national security imperative?
00:31:28.580Former Pentagon UFO official Luis Elizondo.
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00:39:30.420And there has been a lot that has happened in culture.
00:39:35.700And I want to play just some of some of the things that I have selected as these are probably going to be in the history book at some point, depending on who's writing them.
00:41:05.720One guy who I think is really coming into his own and I think is the leading voice for the millennials, for conservatives, and that's Ben Shapiro.
00:41:17.920In case you missed this very important audio cut this year, listen to Ben Shapiro as he speaks to a pro-abortion student.
00:41:28.120The problem is that any time you draw any line other than the inception of the child, you end up drawing a false line that can also be applied to people who are adults.
00:41:37.000So either human life has intrinsic value or it doesn't.
00:41:39.400I think we both agree that adults' human life has intrinsic value.
00:43:39.160Well, you're at least you at least have some credibility.
00:43:42.780And I think there's coming a time where somebody like Ben Shapiro, who just politely says the truth, and that's what it is, is going to be, you know, dearly loved.
00:43:53.380And you will have your chance to love him the next couple of days as he fills in here for the radio show on Thursday and Friday of this week.
00:44:20.700As I said, I take thousands of photos.
00:44:22.740I don't remember these particular photos.
00:44:25.760I think with all due respect, I think people are going to look at this and find it hard to believe that someone such as yourself wouldn't know that they were grabbing somebody's butt.
00:44:37.220I can understand how people would feel that way.
00:44:41.200Have you ever placed a hand on some woman's butt?
00:44:44.820You know, I can't say that that hasn't happened.
00:44:48.120I take thousands and thousands of pictures.
00:51:50.920With a whirl of her skirt, she raced out the door and down the stairs and to the street and made her way to Madame's hair goods of all kinds.
00:52:00.520Della ran up the flight of the stairs to the shop.
01:16:40.660Sometimes death is a simple thing, a slip of the foot, a shift in the wind, a fall.
01:17:10.660Agios had faced death often in his thirty-three years.
01:17:15.660He had been an adventurer, a hunter, and to tell the truth, something of a rogue.
01:17:20.660He had always expected to die by violence.
01:17:23.660His blood spilled and his body wracked with agony.
01:17:26.660After he married the gentle foreigner named Wylea, though, he had begun to consider his ways of life and death.
01:17:33.660For her sake, he had hoped that when his time come, he would die well, as a man, not crying like a child or pleading for mercy.
01:17:43.660For years now, the boy had been begging to go with his father to the savagely dangerous land of bare sun-struck stone and rocky crags where they now stood.
01:17:53.660A muscular, broad-shouldered man with flowing midnight black hair and a long black beard, and beside him, a thin-limbed lad of only ten.
01:18:04.660The previous winter, Wylea had died in a premature childbirth along with Phylos' stillborn younger brother.
01:18:12.660The loss of his mother had left the boy pale and unsmiling, and left Agios feeling that his heart had turned to lead.
01:18:20.660And so, Phylos' coming with him on this trip was not a gift, but a necessity, for Agios had no one to watch over the boy.
01:18:29.660It had hurt, though, that the first faint smile that Agios had seen on his son's face in months had flickered there for a moment when Agios had said,
01:18:45.660Now, they stood at the top of the cliffs where the trees grew, looking down at the sheer rock face.
01:18:53.660Agios had already taken the resin from the first small grove of trees they had come to, and now they had reached the true orchard of wealth.
01:19:01.660And you must pay close attention, Agios told Phylos.
01:19:55.660Of course, he had counted the days until he could follow in his father's steps.
01:19:59.660Libanos trees, hunched and gnarled, clung to the cliff like weary climbers.
01:20:07.660At the pitch of noon, no wind stirred their branches.
01:20:11.660Many months earlier, Agios had climbed down to make careful incisions in the flaking bark so the golden tears would flow and dry.
01:20:19.660And anyone else who discovered this remote ravine with its precious trees might try to investigate.
01:20:25.660But they would soon hear the hiss of the snakes twining among its branches or feel the fatal sting of their fangs.
01:20:33.660Agios had deliberately established this colony of adders, now guards of his precious grove.
01:20:40.660Knowing the serpents were there made all the difference.
01:20:44.660Together, father and son threw rocks at the snakes, forcing them to lower branches, to trees further from the edge where Agios had marked Phylos' first tree.
01:20:54.660Because of Wailea's death, Agios had waited longer than usual to harvest, and the resin was nearly dry in the slash marks, golden and fragrant.
01:21:03.660That made the frankincense even more valuable.
01:21:07.660Agios knelt beside his son, and looped a coil of rope around the boy's waist.
01:21:12.660Listen, when you gather the flakes, remember they're worth more than everything we own.
01:21:26.660Agios tossed a few more rocks to make sure the snakes had retreated.
01:21:30.660Then tugged the rope to test it, and put his big hand on his son's neck.
01:21:34.660He bent the scruffy head and inhaled the warm, woody scent of Phylos' hair.
01:21:39.660Before they had set out, Agios had scattered the dust of his last harvest of frankincense, the residue from the bags, over the coals in their cabins.
01:21:48.660And Phylos carried the lingering aroma of it, like pine and lemon and earth.
01:21:54.660To Agios, frankincense smelled exactly like his son.
01:21:58.660But Phylos drew back, grinning, his excitement palpable.
01:22:02.660He edged toward the drop, his eagerness saying that this was not the time for affection, but for action.
01:22:09.660Agios looped the free end of the rope around his own waist and took it in slack.
01:22:13.660Phylos had grown up in the high mountains, and he didn't falter when he lowered himself over the rocky edge, rope tight, knees bent, feet braced on stone.
01:22:22.660A misstep sent a shower of stones and gravel tumbling down the escarpment.
01:22:27.660But Phylos adjusted himself and made it safely to the tree.
01:22:31.660Agios found his son's weight absurdly easy to bear.
01:22:35.660But just in case, he had doubled the rope around his own waist.
01:27:57.660By the time the sun rose, Agios was an empty husk.
01:28:02.660Some blood seeped into the ground beneath his legs and mixed with the dirt on his hands.
01:28:07.660But he didn't know if it was his blood or Phylos.
01:28:12.660The climb down the ravine and back up again with his broken son slung against his back had been a nightmare that no man should endure.
01:28:20.660Agios could still feel the slight weight between his shoulders, though Phylos now lay wrapped beneath an olive tree, less than two strides away.
01:28:32.660Agios glanced at Phylos' body and wished to see the slight rise and fall of his son's slender chest.
01:28:40.660But there was no undoing what had been done.
01:28:43.660The boy lay as still as stone and just as cold.
01:28:47.660Mourning burnished the marble skin of Phylos' arm where it had fallen out from the folds of the cloak that Agios had wrapped him in.
01:28:58.660A cruel joke that sunlight could make even this small portion of the child look so beautiful and so whole.
01:29:06.660Agios scrambled over and tucked the slender arm back into the cloak before, with tenderness that belied the taut muscles of his forearm and the stern slant of his dark brows, he lifted the body.
01:29:20.660He did not look like a compassionate man.
01:29:23.660But he stepped into the grave himself that he had dug and placed his son into the center as gently as a mother laying down her newborn to sleep.
01:29:36.660His mouth formed the words, but Agios made no sound, even though he tried again and again, his throat clenched with grief.
01:29:46.660Still moving his lips, still groaning with the weight of all the yearning he couldn't voice, Agios touched the place where Phylos' face was shrouded by the dusty cloak.
01:29:58.660It was the kind of blessing he offered in place of the words he could not say, a way to remember the feel of the boy's high cheekbones, the proud nose that he had shared with Agios, and the fine mouth that was his mother's.
01:30:17.660The grave was small, but Agios bent his knees and back and lay beside Phylos, his cheek in the grainy dirt and his hand resting on the body of his son.
01:30:29.660He wished he could have dug the grave larger, so large that he could creep in with his boy and pull the earth in after him.
01:30:36.660He imagined the dirt filling his nostrils, choking off the air, bringing death, bringing peace.
01:30:46.660But how could he share the grave when he had allowed his own son to die?
01:30:58.660When Agios took up the spade and began to shovel the loose earth into the hole, his grief was already finding a new incarnation.
01:31:06.660He burned with sorrow, but the flames began to ignite a fury in his belly, an anger that grew with each spade full of dirt.
01:31:16.660He filled it in the grave and lunged stones from the bed of a nearby stream with a strength that seemed inhuman after his loss and his sleepless night.
01:31:27.660He finished before the sun stood noon.
01:31:30.660Agios looked at the fresh grave, the old grave, and the home that was no longer a home.
01:31:40.660And then he dragged his steps back into the cabin.
01:31:43.660The red embers of a fire still glared at the grate, and Agios blew them to life.
01:31:50.660He threw wood on, all the firewood in the bin.
01:31:54.660And then when that was gone, the stools that he had sat on, the short, crooked table that he had made before becoming used to carpentry, the olive wood bowl his own hands had carved.
01:32:05.660What did he need to have these things now?
01:32:07.660Of the small bed that he had shared with his wife, the pallet where his son had laid his head.
01:32:12.660When the fire roared, he raked the burning coals out and scattered them across the floor.
01:32:17.660No vagabond would find an empty house and live here, where the memories of Wylea and Phylos and the nameless little baby deserved peace.
01:32:27.660Agios didn't leave it, until it was a blaze that could be seen for miles, a funeral pyre.
01:32:34.660The smoke choked the sun bright sky, belching dark shadow across the mountain that spoke of evil things.
01:32:42.660He left on foot, with nothing in his hands.
01:32:49.660I don't know if you saw this, but the Federal Reserve and the central banks now are starting to raise interest rates here in the United States, which is going to make your home, if you have an adjustable mortgage, going to make your home a little bit more expensive every single month.
01:33:12.660But also the central banks have, at least according to CNBC, I'll believe it when I see it, they say they're going to start investing in the stock market and Bitcoin, too.
01:33:23.660Oh, well, that's going to work out well.
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