Glenn Beck's thoughts on the Bitcoin crash and what it means for the future of the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has lost more than $2,000 in value in the past 24 hours. Will it bounce back? Will it be able to? Will governments around the world finally wake up to the fact that they are no longer in charge and realize they have to do something about it? Is this the beginning of the Great Crash of 2018?
00:04:50.200First, I want to shake down exactly, get to the core of what the FISA memo really is, and then I want to give you all of the update.
00:04:59.680But how many of us really, at this point, even know what this is supposed to be?
00:05:05.000We don't know exactly what's in the FISA memo.
00:05:09.340In fact, Axios is reporting today, inside the Trump administration, sources who have been briefed on the memo expect it will be underwhelming and not the slam dunk document that it's been hyped up to be.
00:05:22.900They're hearing that there's much more skepticism inside the White House than has previously been reported about the value of releasing this memo.
00:05:30.500Trump wants to release the memo, but there are a number of people in the White House who are fairly underwhelmed, and there's internal anxiety about whether it's worth angering the FBI director and intelligence community by releasing the information.
00:05:45.660I want you to know, the holdup on this memo is coming now from the administration.
00:05:50.860Before, it was the hype of the Democrats.
00:05:55.660Hey, everybody, text me, text me, text me to release the memo.
00:06:02.180I wrote it, and I have control over it.
00:06:04.660The president can approve that we release it, but you text and tell all those Democrats that that memo should be released.
00:10:08.300Now, if you are a patriot and you get a document and it shows a whole bunch of stuff, you can use your logic and go, okay, germaphobe, that's not happening.
00:12:07.040We've been in front of you a lot of times talking about the information that has turned out right many of the times with Christopher Steele.
00:12:16.620Now, I have to ask one more question that nobody in the FBI and nobody in the DOJ wants me to ask, and that is, have you sourced any of this yourself?
00:12:33.700Do you have anything else besides Christopher Steele?
00:12:37.320And how did you get this from Christopher Steele?
00:15:41.480They can also just buy your social security number, most likely, on the dark web.
00:15:46.680One in four people, 25% of people, have experienced identity theft already.
00:15:50.680And if you're only monitoring your credit, your identity is going to be stolen in ways that you're probably not going to be able to detect.
00:15:57.300Thieves sell your information on the dark web, and then they can get an online payday loan.
00:16:02.480They can take and file for your tax return.
00:17:54.880So there are some people speculating that this is too dangerous and it shouldn't be released in the administration.
00:18:03.600The word is, and I don't know if I believe this at all, that they're saying there's nothing really in this memo and it's been too overhyped and it's going to be a dud.
00:22:46.480I want you to listen to Richard Blumenthal on the FISA memo.
00:22:50.440The Department of Justice has said that it would be extraordinarily reckless.
00:22:55.560And the release of this memo is really reminiscent of the darkest days of the McCarthy era with character assassination.
00:23:04.600It endangers methods and sources of the intelligence community.
00:23:08.400And it reflects an effort to distract from the Mueller investigation, which now is tightening its vice with this interview of Mark Corralo that the New York Times is.
00:24:01.560Now, nobody, you notice nobody said the McCarthy scare in the last 100 years is one of the worst government things that has happened, right?
00:24:13.380The government has a trial for un-American activities and will put you in jail because you believe something that we don't like.
00:24:23.640And we call you in and can destroy you without any evidence at all, just on hearsay, just on people accusing you.
00:25:22.460I don't know that we ever get to the bottom of this unless we do.
00:25:25.240And if we're going to have a Congress that does oversight, we can't accept the FBI or the DOJ or any other branch of government from closing the gate in front of us and saying,
00:25:34.020sorry, you can't look at this because it's classified.
00:25:36.500Then what I saw and what I believe happened could go on in perpetuity, and we become a banana republic.
00:25:43.620This is earth-shaking, and it does go deeper than Watergate, and that memo doesn't answer it all by any means.
00:26:16.040You are not being fair and objective because you just heard two really big charges.
00:26:27.260And I could make the case for the McCarthy charge and also at the same time holding the same point of view that it goes deeper than Watergate.
00:26:40.060Yes, I could make both of those cases.
00:26:42.940What I can't make the case on is the evidence because no one has the evidence.
00:26:52.780What Steve King is saying, we have to release what evidence we do have, I am assuming, to stir up the people to get them to say,
00:27:02.560okay, we demand that everything is released here and there is a real investigation.
00:27:09.180I'm guessing that that's what the patriotic Republican is trying to do with this because, as he stated, the Oversight Committee is being told you can't have access to that information.
00:43:56.540You know, my advice, I know Brady a little bit.
00:44:00.140And my advice to him and everybody else who's famous in this country is never, never allow cameras into your home or photograph yourself in any at all.
00:44:13.000Because we live in a world now where, on the Internet, the primary focus is to destroy people, to hurt people.
00:44:23.900And I've heard a number of sermons from different clerics of different religions zeroing in on the evil that the Internet has presented to the world.
00:44:35.140And I absolutely believe that any famous person, or even regular people, allowing themselves to be photographed for stuff that's going to be put out for mass market is crazy these days.
00:44:48.240Particularly a guy like Brady who doesn't need the publicity.
00:45:37.320You know, but that's by design because I have to protect myself.
00:45:42.360Look what happened, you know, and, and to, to me and others and you, and to some extent, not the same thing, but I always have to protect myself.
00:45:51.140And, and I always did, but it didn't matter because once you get into a realm of the truth, doesn't matter anymore.
00:45:59.420And we are there in this country, then no matter what you do, but I feel bad for Brady.
00:47:01.980This is not even about Hillary Clinton.
00:47:03.180This is about the FBI and what they said to the FISA court, and that is going to be very telling.
00:47:12.200What are you expecting in the memo that's coming out from the Republicans, and why are they waiting so long?
00:47:18.860Well, the Trump White House is afraid that if it comes out that Ray may quit, the FBI chief appointed by Trump may quit, Sessions may do something.
00:47:33.680They're afraid of the backlash from the Justice Department and the FBI.
00:48:11.620And I think we've discussed this before in your program.
00:48:13.700There's a tape by an attorney, a hate Trump attorney, that the Trump administration knows about.
00:48:21.460It's in the hands of somebody very close to the president that shows money, big money, is being offered by the attorney to women to accuse Trump of stuff.
00:49:10.000I'll even say, I will even say that the, if for, for investigative purposes, we may not have a right to every detail at this point, but certainly the oversight committee does.
00:49:23.440And they are the ones, the Republicans on the oversight committee on the House Intel are putting it out.
00:49:31.060But more importantly, I think, the president should say, I'm putting this memo out so you know that there was an abuse under the Obama administration of surveillance.
00:49:59.040Um, so, uh, my advice to the president is, uh, release the original affidavit sent from justice and FBI to the FISA court and redact all of the sensitive information.
00:50:15.660Cut the middleman out of the Republican party and just give me that.
00:50:32.500But, you know, and then I would say, I'd order the justice department to say, okay, redact what you need to redact.
00:50:39.060But let's just see what the, uh, what the warrant was based upon.
00:50:42.920And I think that we have to do that at this point.
00:50:45.980So I believe the trouble will come if the FBI affidavit did not tell the FISA court that this was from Fusion GPS, which was working with the Russians, and it was paid for by the DNC and elect Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:51:02.660If they didn't tell the FISA court those two things, and they also didn't at least double check the facts that they were pulling out and, and using as specifics, then you can, you can say there's something really, really dirty here.
00:51:36.980Because the Democrats are fighting so hard to not let the folks see the memo.
00:51:43.920I mean, this is where it's coming from.
00:51:45.560Newsday, the, uh, newspaper on Long Island, where I live, editorial today, oh, this is a smokescreen, oh, you know, hey, look, pal, let the people decide what's a smokescreen and what isn't, okay?
00:51:59.300You know, I, when we come back, I want to play this audio from, uh, Steve King, who said this is worse than Watergate.
00:52:05.760I mean, you're an, you're a real journalist.
00:52:07.680You've been around for, you know, I mean, since the invention of fire.
00:52:11.220And, uh, uh, and I'd like to get your opinion on what is the difference between this and Watergate.
00:52:29.580You need to be surrounded by the right people.
00:52:31.600Uh, the people that see your vision, the people that, uh, uh, are hardworking and innovators, people that are, are seeing the world for what it is, not what it was.
00:52:43.160You don't have time to get lost in a huge stack of resumes or emails and phone calls.
00:54:44.140I don't know that we ever get to the bottom of this unless we do.
00:54:46.780And if we're going to have a Congress that does oversight, we can't accept the FBI or the DOJ or any other branch of government from closing the gate in front of us and saying, sorry, you can't look at this because it's classified.
00:54:58.840Then what I saw and what I believe happened could go on in perpetuity and we become a banana republic.
00:55:33.880He's basically putting forth a Democrat point of view.
00:55:37.160Is it, look, the Watergate thing was important because it showed an abuse of power at the presidential level where a low-level crime was committed and they tried to cover it up.
00:56:48.040I think this is actually – I think this is more profound than Watergate because it goes – I think it goes for a very long period of time.
00:56:57.660I mean, if you look into the investigation into Clinton and her emails and the changing of that, there's one crime, I think.
00:57:07.300The next one is the, quote, mountains of evidence of corruption on Capitol Hill when it comes to Uranium One.
00:57:20.060And I'm not making the same charge that everybody else makes that Hillary Clinton was the puppet master there.
00:57:25.520No, the FBI has mountains of evidence of corruption.
00:57:29.380I think this has been going on for a long time, and this is just one example of it.
00:57:35.140Well, if it starts to unravel, and the real tell is going to be when the inspector general of the Justice Department, Horowitz, Michael Horowitz, he's going to submit a report next month, I understand, in March.
00:57:49.480That's going to zero in on name names in the FBI and say these guys did this, and this guy did that.
00:58:12.600This just broke just in the last couple of minutes, Bill.
00:58:16.020President Donald Trump has approved the release of the classified memo compiled by the House Republicans.
00:58:21.020The document allegedly contains proof that some of the top officials in the Obama-era national security establishment
00:58:26.140abused their authority to obtain surveillance warrants on members of the Trump 2016 campaign.
00:58:31.520The memo will be released with some technical redactions requested by the FBI, which continues to object to the document's release.
00:58:38.560House rules dictate that the legislature can vote to declassify material in public interest, stipulating the president must approve its release within five days.
00:58:47.180They are expecting the memo to be transferred back to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who will then release it from the committee.
01:00:13.140And apparently, that's really where they were going after, is they had done investigations on him, I believe through the Uranium One thing.
01:00:22.180They had been watching him for a while.
01:00:24.620Then he goes over to Moscow after doing the Trump campaign.
01:00:28.040It's in the dossier, and apparently, that's the one that they targeted.
01:00:32.360Now, to me, that makes sense, and I'm glad they were targeting.
01:00:35.520I just don't like the way they did it.
01:00:37.500It's wrong the way they did it, apparently, if what the Republicans are saying is true.
01:00:43.940But that really doesn't have anything to do with Donald Trump, and I do want to know what Carter Page was doing over there.
01:00:51.380Okay, but here's the headline on this.
01:00:54.340Remember when Trump said that Barack Obama wiretapped him in the Trump Tower?
01:01:31.760You just said that you didn't think that this was as bad as Watergate, or it might be, but, you know, you're not necessarily thinking it's as bad as Watergate.
01:01:42.440What you had in Watergate was a break-in, and they were trying to steal information to use it against their opponent, but not use it through the government, but use that information, opposition research and research from them, you know, from internal, to be able to use it against.
01:02:03.820Well, the Democrats just went out and paid for it, but then they used it in the government to try to discredit their opponent.
01:02:15.200Yeah, but the Democrats didn't do it, because what the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign did was they said, here's some money, Fusion GPS.
01:02:41.100Then the FBI gets the dirt on Trump, that's false, phony, from Fusion GPS, all right, and brings it in to the judge and says, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we need a wire.
01:02:54.760On the Trump campaign, this guy Carter Page, and the judge says, okay, here's your wire, and then its surveillance begins, okay?
01:03:51.940This is the only way that this could be worse than Watergate.
01:03:56.140If there was a plan within the FBI by McCabe and Comey and Strzok and Lisa Page, all of these people, to influence the presidential election, if that is proved to be true, this becomes worse than Watergate.
01:05:43.860Is the FBI going to investigate the FBI?
01:05:46.800So you can count on another special prosecutor.
01:05:50.200Meantime, Mueller and his collusion investigation, no matter what he comes up with now, the Republicans aren't going to believe it, no matter what he comes up with.
01:06:02.500So this is a big gift to Donald Trump.
01:06:04.740And in the end, I believe a big gift to Russia, because we're still talking about Donald Trump, and we're still talking about the FBI and Hillary Clinton, and we're all arguing about it.
01:06:19.540And that is exactly what Russia wanted.
01:06:23.300Well, Putin doesn't really care what we find out.
01:07:21.980Would you feel comfortable today going over and, I mean, if you would want to, vacation in Russia?
01:07:30.300You know, when I was in Afghanistan, when I went over there, the military intelligence said I couldn't go out into Kabul because the Taliban had me targeted.
01:19:13.660But I mean, like, truthfully, I don't, we can't even say if we would have done the same thing
01:19:18.220if we hadn't had the confidence in ourselves just based off the experiences we've had in life and the skills that we have.
01:19:24.560I mean, the only thing that really gave me, you know,
01:19:27.500the confidence to run up at the guy and get up in his face was because I had been practicing jujitsu for the last year.
01:19:32.880And all I said pretty much to myself was like, man, if I can just get up in his face, I know I can do something.
01:19:37.800You know, I know a gun's operate, you know, getting too close to him.
01:19:40.900Uh, he won't be able to be as effective.
01:19:42.720So I just, that's what really gave me the boost.
01:19:45.380And also too, I think that our friendship, I mean, we've been friends for so long.
01:19:48.600I think we knew we would kind of have each other's backs and we'd all kind of talked about similar situations before.
01:19:54.720And we all knew we were kind of of the same mindset.
01:19:58.260Um, uh, do we know, what do we know about the, the terrorist that, that was the guy that you took down?
01:20:05.480Um, so yeah, actually, uh, he was, uh, later found out to be connected to the, uh, Brussels airport bombing and the, uh, Bataclan theater attack.
01:20:16.680Uh, he was from the same village in Morocco as, uh, those guys.
01:20:20.720And, uh, one of the first to come out of that terrorist cell.
01:20:24.300And, uh, so, I mean, he's being held in French custody right now.
01:20:28.260Uh, and I think it's become a much larger investigation and hopefully we'll be able to get some more information and,
01:21:45.860You're, I mean, option A, you sit there and wait until he shoots you, or you get up and try and do something.
01:21:50.540And, I mean, that was, the fight was a fight for survival.
01:21:54.220It was either he was going to kill us or we were going to kill him.
01:21:56.460But luckily we were able to just subdue him and choke him unconscious.
01:22:00.160I think that's the best thing about the movie because, like you said, people remember the headline and they're like, of course, two off-duty servicemen, of course they would.
01:22:07.340But the movie does a good job at showing that we're, we were three ordinary guys that none of us have ever seen anything traumatic like that before.
01:22:15.240And I think that that's why I would speak to more of, more of the masses of people because they'll be able to identify with one of us or all three of us and see just how ordinary we are and that we were really faced with an extraordinary situation.
01:22:27.880So, Anthony, if you were, if, you know, when they asked you, when Spencer said, hey, come to Europe, and you guys thought that there was a chance something like this would happen, do you, would you have thought you were the three guys that would have stood up and done what you, done what you did?
01:22:49.300Um, no, that, that would have, that would have definitely been hard to peg.
01:22:53.620I never would have thought nothing like that would have happened, but I guess hindsight being 20-20, especially me being the civilian that I guess didn't have formal training, um, I couldn't have picked two better guys to go on the trip with.
01:23:06.560So it was, um, so if, if I couldn't have imagined being in that situation with any other two people, that's for sure.
01:23:12.560That's, that's one thing our families kind of joke about is that, oh, it would be, it would be us that did something like that, not just because of like our training or, you know, anything like that, but just because we're always getting in trouble together and always, you know.
01:23:26.240Yeah, something always happens when we hang out.
01:23:34.720The, uh, the, the other interesting thing is it's off of that, uh, shoot is, uh, in the, um, you know, in the movie, it, it, it shows that, uh, you're troublemakers.
01:23:44.820I mean, none of you, uh, you know, excelled in school.
01:23:52.160Uh, and, you know, most likely not your moms, your moms come off as wonderful mothers.
01:23:58.840Uh, but, uh, you know, besides your moms, it doesn't seem like anyone with any authority in your childhood expected anything like this from you guys.
01:24:10.460Well, there's, uh, I mean, there's, there's one thing in life is we're never being like told what to do.
01:24:16.360So, I mean, we were difficult kids to raise, but I mean, we all are super thankful for the parents that we had and feel like they really shaped us.
01:24:23.800That's a good theme to draw from the movie, too, is just that, you know, like, even our success or our failures, they were all part of the bigger plan.
01:24:31.080And, uh, I think people will be able to identify with that.
01:24:33.520Like, if they feel like they're on the wrong path, that, that could be something pushing you in a direction that, for all you know, could be working in your favor in the future.