The Glenn Beck Program - January 05, 2026


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Venezuelan President Maduro was captured by the US military and taken into custody. The question is, what is this all about? Is this about drugs? Is it about terror? Or is it about overthrowing the Venezuelan government?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, first day back. What a day of the news. I've talked to you a lot about Venezuela, the reasoning behind the raid of Maduro.
00:00:08.880 I hear people say, no, it's about this. No, it's not. It's about this. It's actually about all of those things and so much more.
00:00:15.660 Also, Trump's show of power. You know, this is not a regime change.
00:00:22.820 This was the opportunity to give the citizens of Venezuela an honest vote.
00:00:27.660 That's why he left somebody who's not a fan of Donald Trump, not a fan really of America or capitalism in as the president.
00:00:34.180 He did not regime change this. Is it going to work? I don't know. But what's it really about?
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00:02:21.340 Let me get back to Venezuela and where we are.
00:02:25.140 Now, the hard truth on all of this is that we have to argue about the constitutionality of this.
00:02:42.280 Bombing a foreign capital, capturing a head of state, I mean, that is an act of war, really, by most definitions.
00:02:52.240 But here's the harder truth.
00:02:55.440 And I'm not saying that makes it right.
00:02:57.080 I'm saying this is why we have to have this conversation.
00:02:59.580 Every modern president has crossed this line.
00:03:02.040 This is not a Trump problem.
00:03:03.540 This is a systemic failure.
00:03:07.140 And it has gone back decades.
00:03:09.520 That doesn't make it right, but it makes it real.
00:03:13.120 So what is this all about?
00:03:15.220 I just told you it's not about oil for us, but it is about oil.
00:03:18.540 It's not about drugs, but it is about drugs.
00:03:21.060 It's not about terror.
00:03:22.880 Oh, yes, it is about terror.
00:03:25.660 I mean, let me start with drugs.
00:03:27.280 Drugs, the cartel of the sons.
00:03:30.140 The sons, the reason why they call it the sons is on our lapels.
00:03:34.000 When you have a general, you have stars.
00:03:36.240 They have sons on their lapels.
00:03:38.680 Okay, so you'll have a three-son general.
00:03:40.640 That cartel is one of the nastiest cartels in the world, and it is run by the generals of the government of Venezuela. 0.97
00:03:53.300 So is this about drugs?
00:03:57.420 Yes, it is.
00:03:59.200 Is it about terror?
00:04:01.520 Yes.
00:04:02.480 We've told you over and over again about the island, and Jason will get into this probably at the top of the hour a little bit more on the insider feed.
00:04:10.040 But we've talked about the island off the coast of Venezuela that is in bed with China, Russia, and Iran.
00:04:20.020 And Hezbollah actually comes and trains Venezuelans to be a part of this cartel. 0.73
00:04:26.240 And they use all of the tactics of Islamic terror, and then after their training on the island, they actually finish their training off by going to Iran. 0.87
00:04:36.060 So is this about terror?
00:04:38.700 Yes.
00:04:39.260 Also FARC.
00:04:40.360 We have been fighting FARC in Colombia forever.
00:04:44.580 We have soldiers on the ground in Colombia helping fight FARC.
00:04:48.740 That is a Marxist communist, and then you have on top of that, you have the terror of the Islamists also coming from Venezuela. 0.79
00:05:00.820 So is it about drugs?
00:05:02.040 Yes.
00:05:02.360 Is it about terror?
00:05:03.440 Yes.
00:05:04.140 Is it about hemispheric control?
00:05:07.520 Yes, it is.
00:05:09.480 It absolutely is.
00:05:11.460 If America can restore the rule of law, honest capitalism, national sovereignty, and freedom here in America, we will set more people free than any other power that could possibly replace us.
00:05:31.640 Okay?
00:05:32.440 Trump believes this, and I do as well.
00:05:35.900 Okay?
00:05:36.740 But time's not on our side.
00:05:38.280 You have financial systems that are cracking, empires that are falling, AI is accelerating everything, and the world has to choose.
00:05:47.820 We have to.
00:05:49.380 And whether people realize it or not, the last election made that choice.
00:05:57.560 This is what America First looks like long-term.
00:06:02.000 Not isolation.
00:06:03.820 Not chaos.
00:06:05.980 Strategy.
00:06:07.460 Strength.
00:06:08.280 And a true will to win.
00:06:11.220 Let me tell you, you know, I have up on the chalkboard a couple of things.
00:06:15.700 Hemispheric control.
00:06:17.020 You watch.
00:06:18.000 If this goes the way I think it looks like it is going right now, Cuba may fall.
00:06:26.100 Colombia may fall.
00:06:27.780 Mexico may have to clean itself up. 1.00
00:06:30.440 We may have a completely different hemisphere because of what is happening right now.
00:06:38.180 We may have Iran falling. 0.90
00:06:40.840 Do you know what that means to the world?
00:06:44.000 If Iran, the leader in Islamic terror, falls?
00:06:48.040 That is a huge win.
00:06:49.540 That is a huge win.
00:06:51.040 A huge win.
00:06:55.000 But also a huge win for the U.S. military.
00:06:57.000 We have been hearing that the military is weak, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:59.960 And we saw, we've seen what they've been doing with Reyes and Cain.
00:07:05.280 We've seen what they did to ISIS.
00:07:07.560 We see how they can clean things up when we set our minds to it.
00:07:11.240 Can we get Jason on real quick, Sarah?
00:07:14.840 I think you have to move.
00:07:16.800 Because I want to talk a little bit about, can he stay there?
00:07:19.360 I want to get Jason, Jason, talk about, and we'll talk about a little bit more next hour,
00:07:25.820 but talk about the message this sent to China and Russia and the rest of the world on our military.
00:07:34.260 I've never seen a military operate.
00:07:36.340 I thought that what happened with Israel was an insane, you know, against Iran was an insane military operation just in capability. 0.57
00:07:43.600 I've never seen effectively a two-hour war be pulled off before, but that's exactly what happened.
00:07:50.540 Venezuela is full of Chinese technology that operates their air defense radars, all that stuff, Russian air defense missiles.
00:07:59.780 It was supposed to be the most hardened system in Latin America due to our adversaries, China and Russia. 0.52
00:08:07.440 And we made it look like it was, I don't know, they ordered it off a Timu.
00:08:12.760 It was absolutely insane.
00:08:15.340 They have some tech that I don't even know about, and I was in military intelligence not too long ago.
00:08:21.140 But, yeah, you're very scared.
00:08:24.340 You're rethinking everything right now.
00:08:26.380 If you are going to, let's say, a global gun show, if you will, where the countries are selling their military technology,
00:08:37.400 you'd be walking up to the counter with China and go, wait a minute, wasn't this the system that was in Venezuela where America flew helicopters,
00:08:48.440 low-flying, slow helicopters into the country, and we completely disabled their defense.
00:08:57.520 If you listen to what Donald Trump talked about, he said that this was the first time space force was involved.
00:09:06.060 So we have something up in space that we used to completely shut everything down in Venezuela.
00:09:16.100 I don't think that's ever been done before.
00:09:19.060 Has it, Jason?
00:09:21.000 Not to this magnitude.
00:09:22.460 This is what, I mean, you've talked about this over the years, how scary it's getting with, you know, cyber capability.
00:09:28.480 And that is the new salvo of major conflicts.
00:09:31.520 Well, if you heard Donald Trump when he addressed the nation, what he described, he mentioned this or teased a lot of it.
00:09:39.720 He said we had certain capabilities, and he said all the lights went out.
00:09:44.060 What that means was as the helos and the assault team, the breaching team, were flying in as all the aircraft was flying overhead,
00:09:52.360 that was probably a cyber attack.
00:09:54.280 It knocked out early warning detection.
00:09:56.640 It knocked out power.
00:09:57.620 The future of warfare is terribly scary, but it's clear now to our enemies that that is a capability that we have, that we have mastered,
00:10:08.460 and we're willing to employ it at any time.
00:10:11.160 Weren't they, there was a plane, I think it was called the E-6, right?
00:10:15.980 Is that what it's called?
00:10:16.820 The intelligence plane?
00:10:18.060 Yeah.
00:10:18.200 The one that would fly in and could shut things down, but they had to all fly in first, and they could shut, you know, power grids somewhat.
00:10:25.960 They could disrupt communications, but not like this.
00:10:30.200 I don't know if we've replaced the E-6 now with something in space, but again, if you are looking at what America does,
00:10:39.720 and you're a military person, you realize, oh my gosh, America is not some aircraft carrier kind of old-timey system.
00:10:54.460 They are still leading the world in military, because this was not, this was not like the leftovers from the 1970s from China.
00:11:05.760 This was the latest stuff from Russia and China, correct?
00:11:08.660 So they're, basically, I mean, they didn't give them their absolute best stuff, but yeah, it was not next-gen, but it was very, very modern.
00:11:18.040 Like the S-300 missile system, which they are now over the S-300, but it's still very, very capable.
00:11:23.320 Very similar to like what Iran would use to, you know, to protect their airspace.
00:11:27.240 But it went way beyond even just, you know, technological capability.
00:11:31.180 It also showed like insane planning.
00:11:34.180 I mean, I think a lot of people don't understand that the airbase that we went in and did the assault where Maduro was hiding,
00:11:40.200 that's considered the Pentagon of Venezuela.
00:11:43.660 So just imagine that.
00:11:44.600 It's considered the Pentagon of Venezuela.
00:11:47.720 And we just flew straight in.
00:11:49.040 I mean, this was an operation months in planning.
00:11:53.240 You probably look back into like maybe August, July, August.
00:11:57.700 They would have had to have inserted covert CIA operatives at that time just to get eyes on Maduro, find him, track him, get his,
00:12:07.520 I can't remember what they used to call it, not proof of life, but basically what they're doing is tracking every single one of his movements
00:12:13.160 to find out where he is every single day, 24 hours, seven days a week.
00:12:17.120 They did that for months and then did this operation so well planned.
00:12:22.960 Glenn, two hours and it was over.
00:12:25.860 I know.
00:12:26.140 We used to say that Israel in the Six-Day War was amazing. 0.80
00:12:30.280 This is a two-hour war.
00:12:31.940 Yeah.
00:12:32.520 And, I mean, you've just taken a very well-prepared state and taken the head of state out in the middle of the night.
00:12:40.920 Oh, and by the way, people are saying, oh, yeah, and we killed a bunch of soldiers.
00:12:47.900 We killed 34 people.
00:12:49.580 They were Cubans.
00:12:51.520 What does that tell you?
00:12:54.260 They were Cubans.
00:12:55.340 What were the Cubans doing there?
00:12:57.200 Not making sandwiches for the troops.
00:12:59.160 What were the Cubans doing in Venezuela that put them in harm's way?
00:13:05.200 This just shows, and next hour we're going to show you, this is, again, this is Donald Trump taking apart a system that we have allowed to grow and allowed to metastasize, almost metastasize.
00:13:23.000 We are at the point now, if we don't do radical surgery, it will metastasize and it will kill the West.
00:13:29.500 He's doing radical surgery.
00:13:31.660 Remember when he first came in, there were two things that he said, Panama Canal, and what was the other thing he said?
00:13:37.220 Like right off the bat, where he was like, yeah, I swear to defend the Constitution, blah, blah, blah.
00:13:43.540 Hey, look, Panama Canal and Greenland.
00:13:47.780 Greenland.
00:13:48.240 Yeah.
00:13:48.600 So help me God.
00:13:50.060 Okay.
00:13:50.560 And we're all like, wait a minute.
00:13:51.720 What?
00:13:52.200 Panama Canal?
00:13:53.400 What are you talking about?
00:13:54.960 We found out that was the beginning of this doctrine and Greenland.
00:14:01.060 Why did he say that?
00:14:02.480 Because that was the other part of this, rare earth minerals.
00:14:06.260 Do you see what he said after Venezuela?
00:14:08.600 We don't need Greenland now.
00:14:11.740 This shows this is a well thought out plan.
00:14:16.940 This is a very well thought out plan.
00:14:19.780 Would we like to have the resources of Greenland?
00:14:22.200 I'm sure we would.
00:14:23.200 I'm sure we would.
00:14:23.320 But we have now made so many.
00:14:25.880 When he's saying, you know, I got brought peace here.
00:14:28.320 I brought peace here.
00:14:29.060 I brought peace here.
00:14:30.000 Yeah.
00:14:30.220 But we didn't do that for nothing.
00:14:31.220 We did that to make strategic allies to be able to have control of certain elements that
00:14:40.700 are required for the United States to be able to write a new chapter in the AI world.
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00:15:43.420 And Jason is filling in a lot of stuff, especially today is a good day for Jason just to look at
00:15:49.600 what's happening with the military in Venezuela.
00:15:51.840 This was an amazing operation in Venezuela.
00:15:54.140 Um, and you know, it's, it's, uh, it's incredible how, you know, I don't know if you saw this,
00:16:02.260 uh, Margaret Brennan, she was talking to Marco Rubio.
00:16:05.700 This is cut five.
00:16:06.920 And it's amazing how the press just doesn't ever seem to get it.
00:16:11.700 They just don't, they get all kinds of stuff, but this, nope, they just don't understand.
00:16:16.560 Listen, I'm confused.
00:16:18.120 Are they still wanted by the United States?
00:16:20.560 Why didn't you arrest them if you are taking out the narco-terrorist regime? 0.98
00:16:26.140 You're confused.
00:16:27.700 I don't know why that's confusing to you.
00:16:29.320 They're still in power.
00:16:30.080 I mean, it's very simple.
00:16:30.560 You're not going to go in and wrap up.
00:16:32.040 You're going to, you're, but yeah, but you can't go, you're going to go in and suck up
00:16:35.100 five people.
00:16:35.940 You can't, they're already complaining about this one operation.
00:16:38.920 Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there
00:16:42.500 four days to capture four other people.
00:16:44.860 We got the top priority.
00:16:46.740 The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the
00:16:51.120 country that he was not.
00:16:52.420 And he was arrested along with his wife who was also indicted.
00:16:55.140 And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation.
00:16:58.720 It was.
00:16:58.840 It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country.
00:17:03.860 The guy lived on a military base.
00:17:05.920 Land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his
00:17:09.960 rights, put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any American or any 0.62
00:17:14.180 American assets.
00:17:15.280 That's not an easy mission.
00:17:16.460 And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?
00:17:19.780 I mean, that's absurd.
00:17:21.020 The others who were also indicted are still in place.
00:17:23.160 So that's the point of my questioning there.
00:17:26.500 But you talked about not being the legitimate president.
00:17:29.240 So you wanted us to land in five other military bases?
00:17:31.720 No, I'm asking why you chose that this was the limit of the military operation.
00:17:36.620 But to your point that you just made that Maduro was not the legitimate president.
00:17:41.280 He was the guy who was claiming to be the president.
00:17:43.080 Right.
00:17:44.200 Well, the opposition target.
00:17:47.020 Oh, my gosh.
00:17:48.020 I mean, how many you know, if we would have done it with five other people, they would
00:17:53.900 have said two things because it probably would not have gone as well.
00:17:58.060 I mean, that would have been an impossibly complex mission.
00:18:01.800 And so we probably would have lost people.
00:18:03.740 And then they would have celebrated the loss and said, you know, how horrible Donald Trump
00:18:07.500 is on that.
00:18:08.040 And the other thing is they would have been saying regime change, regime change, regime
00:18:13.320 change.
00:18:13.740 I thought Donald Trump was against regime change.
00:18:16.780 Yes, he is.
00:18:19.240 That's why we left the vice president in place.
00:18:23.200 It's still the same regime, even though we feel it's illegitimate.
00:18:28.100 We left the regime and now they're going to have elections, free and fair elections and
00:18:34.100 let the people decide.
00:18:35.300 We're taking the kingpin out.
00:18:38.060 That's how you do things.
00:18:39.940 I don't.
00:18:40.200 Well, she would have been confused if we would have gone in in World War Two and taken Hitler. 0.51
00:18:47.320 How come you only took Hitler? 0.85
00:18:50.140 Well, it'll probably fall apart once Hitler's gone. 0.91
00:18:55.340 What do you think?
00:18:57.820 You know, it's it's it's incredible to me.
00:19:00.960 And if you would have killed everybody around Hitler, then, you know, the press today would
00:19:05.840 be like, and they killed everybody without a try. 0.53
00:19:09.380 They just went in and just took them on and killed them all.
00:19:13.180 Oh, please.
00:19:15.020 And you have a typical approach, right, for the media.
00:19:17.540 It's like, well, you know, you shouldn't have shouldn't have intervened.
00:19:20.920 But while you were intervening, why didn't you intervene more?
00:19:23.760 Right.
00:19:24.020 Like exactly right.
00:19:24.920 There's no of course, there's no place for him to actually land this.
00:19:28.240 That makes them happy.
00:19:29.020 We all know that going into this, it was an amazingly complicated thing.
00:19:33.220 Now, that's a great explanation and an amazing, an amazing score, an amazing pull up.
00:19:40.520 I mean, the world, I can tell you, every other military and every other president of every
00:19:45.740 other country is now looking at that going, holy smoking crap. 0.99
00:19:52.040 Yes, no one in the world has been able to do anything like that.
00:19:57.420 Holy crap.
00:19:58.860 Because I really thought there was a, we talked about this at the time, that when you put these
00:20:04.280 sorts of assets in the region, there is a likelihood that something's going to happen.
00:20:10.780 You don't just do this because it's fun and everyone wants to go on a boat trip together.
00:20:14.840 Right.
00:20:14.940 And so they're in the middle of this and you could have easily seen a situation where there were
00:20:19.240 strikes that were strategic, that weakened the regime enough that there was an uprising in the streets.
00:20:25.640 Kind of maybe what we're maybe seeing in Iran without the strikes, right?
00:20:29.140 They uprising, the person's pressured, they come up with a plan to leave, they feel like they're
00:20:33.200 toast and they're in Russia and, you know, hanging out in Moscow in a couple of weeks.
00:20:36.360 That type of thing seemed possible.
00:20:39.420 The fact that we just went in there and took the guy, I didn't see, I gotta say, I didn't
00:20:43.920 see that one coming.
00:20:44.660 I guess the final straw was Maduro negotiating with the United States.
00:20:51.940 Yeah.
00:20:52.300 And then mocking the negotiations publicly.
00:20:55.640 And that's when Donald Trump said, the guy's not serious, get him, take him, because they
00:21:01.460 were negotiating.
00:21:02.680 And again, he was not serious.
00:21:04.960 And that is the one thing that really kind of bothers Donald Trump, wasting his time on
00:21:10.200 negotiations.
00:21:10.740 You're not serious.
00:21:11.540 You saw it with Putin.
00:21:12.500 You see it in Ukraine.
00:21:17.340 You know, if you're wasting his time, he has no time for you.
00:21:21.780 Uh, and so I think that's, I think that's what's happened.
00:21:25.700 It's going to be interesting to see what happens in court, because I think this also has something
00:21:31.000 to do.
00:21:31.500 You know, I made a big list of, okay, it is about oil.
00:21:34.040 It is about drugs.
00:21:35.000 It is about terror.
00:21:35.940 It is about the hemispheric control.
00:21:37.640 The, the Don row, uh, doctrine is they're calling it now.
00:21:41.500 Uh, it's about proof of concept for the U S military.
00:21:45.220 It's about, it's about all those things, but I think it's also about smartmatic.
00:21:49.200 I think it's also about the voting machines.
00:21:53.480 Possibly.
00:21:54.280 I have nothing on this, but, uh, I mean, that could be part of it.
00:22:00.720 Can we get, uh, Maduro to testify?
00:22:03.200 And they, because aren't they suing currently every media, major media organization over
00:22:07.040 that?
00:22:07.360 Tell you that I wouldn't put that past.
00:22:12.380 Future.
00:22:13.240 Yeah.
00:22:13.360 You know, you want to turn state's evidence on, because we know that they have been affecting
00:22:19.960 us on the streets.
00:22:21.220 We don't know if they've been affecting us with our voting machines.
00:22:25.060 There's, you know, there's a lot of good, you know, evidence that, yeah, maybe they were.
00:22:29.860 There's a lot of people that are, have been sued with their pants off, you know, until they
00:22:33.820 have nothing left because they said, well, there's a really good case.
00:22:37.360 Well, it hasn't been made yet.
00:22:39.160 Will it be made in a court of law that might be part of why he went after Maduro?
00:22:47.200 I think, you know how you say, uh, kill two birds with one stone.
00:22:53.520 This needs to be updated.
00:22:56.960 This is kill 40 birds with one stone.
00:23:00.860 That's what Donald Trump pulled off.
00:23:02.960 He is taking off is a big word.
00:23:05.420 That's a big term so far, so far.
00:23:08.020 Right, because this is going to be judged by how it turns out, not by this first, this
00:23:14.880 first incredible military operation, which is legitimately impressive and is great for
00:23:19.940 Venezuela if they don't screw it up, right? 0.98
00:23:22.060 You know, if they, this is an opportunity for Venezuela, who, by the way, already got, they 0.57
00:23:28.820 already did this.
00:23:30.400 Venezuela already did what Donald Trump did the legal way.
00:23:34.280 They came in and they voted him out and he lost by 35 points, yet he stayed in power.
00:23:38.800 Right.
00:23:39.120 So what Trump has done here is potentially.
00:23:42.340 CBS News doesn't necessarily agree with that.
00:23:44.460 Brennan just said, what do you mean?
00:23:45.860 So-called legitimate.
00:23:47.500 Yeah, this one's well known.
00:23:49.360 35 points.
00:23:50.600 Every Democrat, by the way, acknowledged this and was criticizing Trump for not doing enough
00:23:55.380 to get Maduro out of power.
00:23:56.640 Because he loved Venezuela and Maduro.
00:23:58.780 He was strengthening Maduro's grip on power as of, oh, two weeks ago.
00:24:03.800 I know, I know.
00:24:04.220 But, okay, they took him out.
00:24:05.480 Now there's an opportunity.
00:24:06.800 Now, look, right now we have the vice president still in control.
00:24:09.780 She is essentially just Maduro, right?
00:24:12.260 There's no difference really in who she is as opposed, except for the fact that she's very
00:24:17.960 much intimidated by what just happened.
00:24:19.420 Yeah, I would say-
00:24:20.560 And he's probably going to play a ball.
00:24:21.540 Let's just say this, Stu.
00:24:23.280 We're doing the show.
00:24:24.500 And the federal government comes in.
00:24:26.080 They grapple in through that glass.
00:24:28.100 Yes.
00:24:28.500 They grab me for what I have just been saying on the air.
00:24:33.240 I know this is a dream come true.
00:24:34.400 I've had this dream many times.
00:24:35.040 Right, I know.
00:24:35.700 And I'm flown away on a helicopter.
00:24:38.180 Yes!
00:24:38.440 And the microphone is open.
00:24:41.100 And your job is to continue what I was just saying.
00:24:46.020 I'm not sure you continue that sentence.
00:24:49.880 Yeah.
00:24:50.400 You might have a change of heart.
00:24:51.660 You might be like, you know, I want to rethink some things.
00:24:55.660 First of all, in my dream, the cable snaps and you crash to the ground and I can see it
00:24:59.320 right out the window.
00:24:59.960 I appreciate that.
00:25:00.520 But secondly, you're right.
00:25:01.640 It would be a little bit difficult.
00:25:02.740 And you'd think that she's going to play ball. 0.99
00:25:07.140 That being said-
00:25:08.320 I don't think she's going to play ball.
00:25:10.580 I don't think she's going to play ball.
00:25:12.220 I think she's going to be-
00:25:13.380 I mean, Trump is saying she's playing ball.
00:25:15.760 Oh! 0.60
00:25:16.260 And she is-
00:25:17.060 She'll play ball, but she's not going to be the president.
00:25:19.460 No, I think the question is, can she help this transition into whatever's next?
00:25:24.740 Let me ask you this.
00:25:25.620 I think we have time for this.
00:25:26.820 Do you have a take on-
00:25:28.740 One thing that was interesting to me, and again, Donald Trump is dealing with a hundred
00:25:34.000 things that we don't even know what they are right now.
00:25:35.740 So I don't know what the answer to this is, but I was a bit surprised that he was dismissive
00:25:41.580 of the opposition leader as a possibility.
00:25:45.020 So was I.
00:25:45.600 And I think-
00:25:46.240 Why would he do that?
00:25:48.160 I think, and I could be completely wrong on this, I think that was his attempt of not
00:25:55.680 saying regime change.
00:25:57.960 Mm-hmm.
00:25:58.800 Okay.
00:25:59.380 You know, it's him saying, look, they have the vice president in.
00:26:02.860 What I didn't understand is why he took the extra step of saying, I don't think she has
00:26:07.980 the support.
00:26:08.520 Yeah, that's the part-
00:26:09.740 Because she did.
00:26:10.180 She won by 35 points.
00:26:11.600 Yeah.
00:26:11.840 She didn't technically run because she was prohibited from running.
00:26:15.200 Right, right, right.
00:26:15.360 But the person who was standing for her won by 35 points.
00:26:18.620 So I think she does have the support, but I think what he was trying to say there is,
00:26:25.820 I'm not here for regime change.
00:26:27.180 We're not here for regime change.
00:26:29.660 That guy was the head of this corrupt organization, and that needs to change.
00:26:36.680 We're taking him in.
00:26:37.960 We're trying him and his wife in New York, of all places.
00:26:42.180 We're going to try him in New York.
00:26:44.320 And so here are the keys to your country.
00:26:47.700 Go do with it what you want.
00:26:49.720 We're watching you.
00:26:51.080 Well, but I, so again, I would get what you just said, right?
00:26:54.940 That would make sense to me because it would be, okay, we're, this is the, in the hands
00:26:59.100 of the Venezuelan people.
00:27:00.200 They need to make these decisions.
00:27:01.460 When you pair it with actually the people who are going to be running the country are
00:27:05.460 standing behind me, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, that doesn't strike me as somebody
00:27:11.240 who's trying to avoid the idea of regime change at all.
00:27:14.420 It seems like somebody who wants to say, I'm very much in control of this situation.
00:27:17.380 This is ours.
00:27:17.800 Again, let me go to people grappling in and grabbing me.
00:27:20.820 Your dream come true.
00:27:21.900 Yes.
00:27:22.340 Okay.
00:27:23.660 If one soldier is left over in the corner and all he's doing is just looking at you the
00:27:29.940 whole time, you tend to do things differently.
00:27:36.400 You know what I mean?
00:27:36.940 Yeah.
00:27:37.360 And that's, he's using soft power.
00:27:41.200 He's using hard power when he has to, but he is gathering all of this soft power.
00:27:47.300 That's why when he said with you, with Iran, by the way, you touch any of the people on
00:27:51.960 the street, you kill them.
00:27:52.940 We're locked and loaded.
00:27:54.340 You don't have to actually be locked and loaded.
00:27:57.020 Everyone in the world believes he's locked and loaded.
00:28:00.820 So the soft power he has accumulated is extraordinary.
00:28:06.500 And I think that's what he's counting on, not only in Venezuela and Iran, but also counting
00:28:13.720 on in Mexico, in Colombia, and you watch Cuba.
00:28:17.540 You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.
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00:28:24.640 I'm so excited to show you some of the things that the torch has for you.
00:28:29.440 If you've been watching on YouTube today, hopefully it'll be ready for you tomorrow at
00:28:35.700 glennbeck.com.
00:28:36.680 I think it's working now, but I hate to jinx it.
00:28:40.860 You know, it's interesting when you have to beta test and, you know, then you go right
00:28:45.840 away to, you know, 12 million people, how that falls apart quickly.
00:28:50.040 But anyway, the, we did a couple of things.
00:28:55.300 One, if you're, you know, with the blaze, uh, you can watch us on the blaze as always.
00:29:02.080 Same with radio.
00:29:03.080 If you're listening to us on radio, the radio show is not changing one iota.
00:29:06.840 In fact, I think it's going to get stronger.
00:29:08.640 Um, the, the one thing that is changed.
00:29:11.780 If you go to glennbeck.com torch is really kind of my torch.
00:29:16.280 It's my, the things I feel passionately that I have to do.
00:29:19.840 Um, and there are so many things, you know, like today we're doing a George AI, I'm sorry,
00:29:26.300 a glenn AI, which is all of my 30 years of recorded stuff.
00:29:33.640 You know, when I was talking about politics, 26 years since 2000 until today, we've recorded
00:29:38.600 every single show.
00:29:39.460 We've captured everything.
00:29:40.420 We've captured most of my speeches.
00:29:42.180 We have every book that I read, 25 different books, and we've put that into George AI or
00:29:48.440 sorry, glenn AI separate.
00:29:50.560 And, um, we can tell you, uh, give you in-depth thing.
00:29:57.040 It's if I had perfect recall, which I don't, if I had perfect recall, what would I be telling
00:30:02.840 you today?
00:30:04.300 Um, and so that is going to come out today.
00:30:07.520 That's on just the communist movement.
00:30:09.660 This is Maduro.
00:30:10.640 This is, uh, uh, uh, mom, Dom, Mondami.
00:30:14.760 This is the protest that happened in the speech that was, uh, streets in what, what did I say?
00:30:19.620 12 different cities spontaneously on Sunday morning, all of a sudden they have printed
00:30:23.980 signs in 12 cities.
00:30:25.120 I mean, it's, it's remarkable.
00:30:26.980 So what is this movement?
00:30:29.200 Um, we have that, uh, coming after the show.
00:30:32.580 Usually it will drop immediately after, you know, at noon Eastern time today, it's going to
00:30:37.840 be a little later, but you'll find it at glennbeck.com.
00:30:41.060 Um, you'll be able to listen to that.
00:30:42.500 Also, we're doing something on George AI.
00:30:44.700 Jason, do you happen to have the bit of the George AI here?
00:30:48.380 Just tell me, just tell me about it.
00:30:49.900 We don't need to listen to it.
00:30:50.800 Just tell me about what, what is his opinion?
00:30:52.600 Cause I asked, what would the founders say about going into Venezuela?
00:30:58.160 So I do have it.
00:30:59.320 If you want to hear a little bit of it.
00:31:00.420 Yeah, a little bit.
00:31:00.900 Go ahead.
00:31:01.200 Play a little bit of it.
00:31:01.900 There we go.
00:31:02.240 Let's get real for a second.
00:31:06.480 If I told Thomas Jefferson, just picture him for a moment, sitting under candlelight, pen
00:31:13.180 in hand, wrestling with Locke and Montesquieu, that one day America would launch a surprise
00:31:20.100 military strike to capture the president of a South American country because he was running
00:31:25.780 a narco-terror operation with backing from China, Russia, and Iran.
00:31:32.280 Well, Jefferson would probably raise an eyebrow, sip his Madeira, and say, explain yourself.
00:31:40.900 And I'd have to try.
00:31:42.340 Okay, so stop there.
00:31:44.120 He's going into what the founders actually believed about foreign entanglements and the
00:31:50.780 Monroe Doctrine.
00:31:51.540 I have not heard.
00:31:52.500 And my guess is, I don't know what I mean, my guess is, is that he says that what Trump
00:32:03.660 did is iffy, but okay if it's, if it's, if he can come up with enough justification.
00:32:13.500 Did he say that?
00:32:16.240 Yes.
00:32:16.920 Um, they were, so George was very, I guess, uh, careful when he doesn't cheerlead for it.
00:32:23.980 He doesn't, he doesn't outright condemn it, but George is very, was there, was there, was
00:32:31.140 there constitutional backing?
00:32:32.680 Was there congressional backing?
00:32:34.880 If we had allies, they didn't want to buck against allies, which I thought was kind of
00:32:39.780 interesting.
00:32:40.140 Interesting.
00:32:40.880 So, um, and did he use an example?
00:32:44.320 Cause we had to put in, and I want to talk to you about this, Jason.
00:32:47.520 I want to talk to the engineers about this too, of George AI, because I know when you originally
00:32:53.840 put this in, he had no idea what Iran was.
00:32:55.980 It was Persia. 0.71
00:32:56.680 I mean, he didn't know what any of this was, uh, Russia.
00:32:59.820 Um, so we had to give him some information.
00:33:03.140 I want to make sure all of that modern information is purged from the system, you know what I
00:33:08.480 mean?
00:33:09.040 So it doesn't affect him, or at least is isolated.
00:33:12.060 So it doesn't affect his opinion on anything.
00:33:13.940 Cause I don't ever want this to become political or anything.
00:33:16.420 I just want to know what would the founders say about this?
00:33:19.740 Did he go into, did he use any, uh, examples from their time?
00:33:23.560 For instance, the Barbary pirates.
00:33:25.760 So that's exactly what he used to use the justification for the Barbary pirates.
00:33:29.180 He, uh, talked about, I keep saying he.
00:33:32.000 It, it talked about, um, why, uh, the founders actually greenlit that war and some of the,
00:33:40.040 you know, justification behind that, and then tried to equate it over and didn't kind
00:33:44.760 of, you know, played two sides, assume that, okay, yes, there is justification for that.
00:33:49.000 And then also played the other side.
00:33:50.640 Okay.
00:33:50.860 If there's not justification for it and really goes through the, like both sides.
00:33:54.700 It's a really, it's a thought provoke.
00:33:56.160 It's like a thought experiment.
00:33:57.100 And it's really interesting.
00:33:58.580 Um, also, uh, we have those two.
00:34:01.280 They will be posted shortly after the, uh, the program.
00:34:05.180 Um, there's a couple of other things that are up now at, um, at glennbeck.com that are
00:34:10.520 torch only.
00:34:11.700 I'm going to make everything free for this month.
00:34:13.800 So I'm not asking you to put in your credit card or anything.
00:34:17.180 You can just see if you like it or not.
00:34:18.800 It's going to be, uh, $10 a month.
00:34:20.820 It's not going to be $9.99 because nobody, we've abolished the penny.
00:34:24.380 Why are we still saying $9.99?
00:34:26.700 It's going to cost you a penny more.
00:34:28.100 It's going to be 10 bucks.
00:34:29.840 Okay.
00:34:30.580 Oh no, it's actually only $5 and 51 cents, but we're, we're rounding up to the nearest
00:34:36.560 10.
00:34:37.460 What a stupid thing.
00:34:39.240 Um, but, uh, you'll be able to get all of the shows and everything else.
00:34:42.880 And for the first month, when we announced this, I'm going to make it inflation proof.
00:34:47.600 You sign up, you're part of the original people that sign up.
00:34:51.000 I'm never going to raise the price on you.
00:34:52.780 It'll be, have you seen how much money we're printing?
00:34:54.840 That's nuts.
00:34:55.720 I know.
00:34:56.280 I know.
00:34:56.840 I know.
00:34:57.240 That's why I'm only doing it for the first month.
00:34:58.780 You should build in a 100% pricing increase per month just to be safe.
00:35:03.640 Yeah.
00:35:04.060 Yeah.
00:35:04.320 I know.
00:35:04.820 I know.
00:35:05.360 Um, wait, wait.
00:35:05.960 So what, so you have the live stuff that's going on, obviously, like you can see stuff
00:35:11.020 when the commercial is going on, there's additional content that you're going to, you're
00:35:14.220 going to want to check out, but there's a bunch of other stuff on there too, right?
00:35:16.660 So there is the American story, which is, uh, based on the book, the American story, um,
00:35:24.940 uh, written by Nathan, who's one of our just really talented history writers here.
00:35:28.980 Uh, and I, uh, tell the story.
00:35:31.740 Can we do cut nine?
00:35:33.920 Here's a bit of that.
00:35:34.820 It's available right now at glennbeck.com.
00:35:36.680 The first five episodes.
00:35:40.360 It's after 8am when Washington's troops finally swarm into Trenton.
00:35:45.800 There's no turning back now.
00:35:47.960 The Hessian troops stumble from their barracks into heavy musket and cannon fire.
00:35:53.260 In the frenzied charge, an 18-year-old Virginian takes a musket ball through the shoulder that
00:35:59.220 severs an artery.
00:36:01.120 He collapses.
00:36:02.100 He's bleeding out in the snow.
00:36:04.520 A civilian doctor named John Riker, as in Riker's Island, rushes into the fray.
00:36:11.540 Riker's not in the army.
00:36:12.800 He just shone up to offer his assistance when he heard the battle erupt.
00:36:18.500 Spotting the fallen officer, he tears open the man's uniform and clamps the artery with
00:36:23.420 his bare fingers.
00:36:24.900 It works.
00:36:26.340 Dr. Riker saves the young lieutenant's life.
00:36:30.300 A young man named James Monroe, who is going to go on to serve as the nation's fifth president.
00:36:37.740 Such a great series.
00:36:40.060 That is called The American Story.
00:36:43.760 The first five episodes are available right now at glenbeck.com.
00:36:46.840 They're all about 45 minutes.
00:36:48.880 It's all commercial-free.
00:36:51.380 Days of Ash is another story.
00:36:53.260 This is something.
00:36:53.940 First five episodes are out of this.
00:36:56.000 This is a story that I wrote.
00:36:57.560 They run about 12 minutes each episode.
00:37:00.540 And this is a dystopian future.
00:37:06.660 The second season is outrageously great because AI gets involved and it starts to become very
00:37:12.620 godlike.
00:37:14.480 But anyway, first five episodes.
00:37:16.300 Here's a preview of Days of Ash at glenbeck.com.
00:37:18.920 It wasn't a flash crash.
00:37:24.320 It wasn't a stock market collapse.
00:37:26.460 It was something deeper.
00:37:28.160 It was a confidence collapse.
00:37:30.280 The kind that rewrites nations and unearths old ghosts.
00:37:38.880 By nightfall, my neighbor Steve had showed up at my gate.
00:37:41.520 He was out of some medicine.
00:37:43.200 Not permanently.
00:37:44.240 Just out until his next shipment.
00:37:46.260 But we both knew that shipment probably wasn't coming.
00:37:50.160 The pharmacies weren't even answering their phones now.
00:37:52.840 He stood there in the dark.
00:37:55.040 Looking at me.
00:37:57.040 Holding out a medical bag like a child holding a broken toy.
00:38:05.900 I had prepared.
00:38:07.680 I let him in.
00:38:08.980 I gave him what I had.
00:38:10.620 I told him, we'll figure something out.
00:38:12.380 But we both knew.
00:38:14.400 No one was coming.
00:38:17.040 The cities, they were louder.
00:38:18.920 I could hear it on the CB.
00:38:20.460 Riots in Atlanta.
00:38:21.840 Roadblocks in Chicago.
00:38:23.160 Gas stations being stripped bare in under 10 minutes.
00:38:26.260 A woman in Denver?
00:38:27.600 She was shot over a loaf of bread.
00:38:30.800 The guy who shot her said, well, she had two.
00:38:33.640 And the shooter had none.
00:38:34.620 There is a lot of stuff.
00:38:39.060 I haven't even scratched the surface.
00:38:41.880 Like I said, and you will see it tomorrow.
00:38:43.760 Or if you watch it on YouTube today, this program, you can watch it and you will see the full three hours.
00:38:49.980 It won't be like that tomorrow.
00:38:51.180 Only an hour on YouTube as we normally do.
00:38:54.220 But the full three hours, you can see that if you listen through or watch through glennbeck.com starting tomorrow, we've added 50% more information.
00:39:06.180 We're doing two shows at the same time.
00:39:08.740 I don't think this has ever been done before.
00:39:10.400 It's completely different.
00:39:13.040 And we're doing it because I kind of feel in some ways I'm running out of time.
00:39:17.840 And there's a lot I have to do yet.
00:39:20.520 And so all of the shows, everything, I'm not contractually obligated to anything anymore except this program, which I want to do every day.
00:39:32.100 Everything else, I'm doing it because I want to do it.
00:39:36.460 And my attention span sometimes is that of a goldfish.
00:39:41.180 And there are many things that I want to do.
00:39:43.480 There are many stories I want to tell you.
00:39:45.080 There's much history I want to show you.
00:39:47.800 You will see we're going to do capital controls.
00:39:50.280 Is that released this week?
00:39:52.080 It releases when you tell us to release it.
00:39:56.420 You said wait for the news cycle.
00:39:57.980 Okay.
00:39:58.260 So there is a special on capital controls.
00:40:02.760 This is the way the Wednesday night specials will be.
00:40:05.900 We'll do them when we feel we have it and we have it right.
00:40:09.920 Capital controls is something I've been working on for a while.
00:40:12.640 It's something that you don't know.
00:40:14.700 You'll hear this.
00:40:15.500 If you watch CNBC, when things start to get bad, you'll hear them talk about capital controls and it'll go right over your head.
00:40:22.880 And because of that, this show came from my grandfather, said to me he was in the Great Depression.
00:40:29.660 He said, Glenn, if we would have only known what rich people knew when they knew it before the Depression, we might have been able to save and not gone through what we went through.
00:40:39.700 So that show is based on that from my grandfather saying that I saw capital controls and saw some things being done in the government.
00:40:49.020 I'm like, oh, people need to be aware of what this is.
00:40:52.940 And it's an amazing show.
00:40:55.140 That one runs about an hour.
00:40:56.920 And again, it's all free right now this month at glennbeck.com.
00:41:01.500 You can find those shows right now at the front page of glennbeck.com.
00:41:04.840 And in the next couple of weeks, we'll start talking to you about the subscription.
00:41:12.320 Again, it's going to be $10 for the first month.
00:41:15.780 If you sign up for the first month, I'm not going to – I'll never raise the price on you with inflation.
00:41:21.560 It'll be completely inflation-proof for the rest of your life or mine because it's going to – you probably cancel after I die.
00:41:28.740 You'll probably cancel maybe.
00:41:31.460 But it'll be – for the rest of your life, it'll be inflation-proof.
00:41:34.600 You can find out all about it now at glennbeck.com.