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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to Monday. We have a great podcast for you. We're going to talk a little bit about

00:00:04.440 Sanctuary Cities and how they're upset and how Cher is now wearing a MAGA hat. I never saw that

00:00:11.540 one coming. Cory Booker, too, apparently. We'll talk about Sanctuary Cities and how we can up that

00:00:18.320 just a little bit. I mean, the president's all about show. Let's really put on a show.

00:00:23.840 Uh, also, uh, Joe's polls, Joe Biden, not looking real great. Uh, uh, Pelosi is starting to minimize

00:00:33.260 AOC and the real fanatics, except that's not going to be sitting well. Also, uh, who should be

00:00:42.560 funding, uh, who the government should be funding if anyone, and did you get a tax break? This one

00:00:49.340 from the New York Times. You don't want to miss it. Also, don't forget tonight, five o'clock,

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00:01:26.660 blazetv.com slash Glenn. And also, uh, Stu's watching Game of Thrones tonight. He's not watched a single

00:01:33.360 episode. No. To bring us up to speed tomorrow.

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00:01:48.160 Oh, he's got a nice house too. Yeah, I got a nice house. So you can get a lot from like when

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00:02:33.560 lock.com. That's home title lock.com. I am fabulous. Glenn, are you? Yes. Yeah. I feel

00:02:40.060 good today. You do? Yeah, I do. I do. I do. Usually a dangerous thing. Well, usually when

00:02:44.460 you feel good, I have to deal with PR nightmares for the next six weeks. Well, either you say

00:02:48.780 that when I feel really bad too. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. I wonder what we're

00:02:52.500 learning here. Um, so here's the thing, uh, Donald Trump today is the day that, uh, I love,

00:03:02.920 I love Donald Trump being the president of the United States because no one else would have the 0.98

00:03:07.000 balls to do this. He came out and said, okay, so, um, you won't help us out on the border. 0.98

00:03:13.640 Um, you don't think it's a problem, but everybody else in America seems to think it's a problem,

00:03:18.220 but you don't. In fact, you've got your sanctuary cities. So I tell you what we're going to do.

00:03:22.500 We got all these people that you just say release into America. What we're going to do instead is 0.99

00:03:29.640 we're going to transport them to your sanctuary city and we'll just drop them off in your city.

00:03:36.760 Good luck with that. Yeah. I'm, I'm interested in this because it's a, I heard it's a radical

00:03:40.980 proposal. Um, I, you know, this, he's out of control. You know, at first they just said it was

00:03:45.840 something that was floated and that was bad enough, but now the president's really, really considering

00:03:49.700 it. And I just, I want someone to ask what is the negative? Tell you explained to me what the

00:03:57.640 negative is. The only one I've heard is it's going to cost more, which doesn't make any sense to me

00:04:02.560 at all. Cause there's sanctuary cities around every border in America. So you can just go to a close

00:04:07.480 one. You don't have to go to San Francisco. It could be an option. I hope it is an option.

00:04:11.720 See, that's the thing. It's like, this is being treated as a troll, right? By the president of

00:04:16.120 the United States. He's trolling them. And the trolling part, as you pointed out, is really

00:04:19.920 fun. And in fact, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to up the ante. I don't think it's troll

00:04:25.060 enough, but we'll get to that in a second. Okay. Go ahead. But I got to say the trolling part of it

00:04:29.880 is my least favorite part of this proposal. Listen to it for a second. Let me give you my case.

00:04:37.100 Uh, how is this bad for the cities, the sanctuary cities? Cause I hear, you know, all these left

00:04:45.080 wing people coming out and saying, well, we, we can't bring all these people here. We're

00:04:48.800 can't even care for our own. I think it was share. It was share. Yeah. Share. She's like,

00:04:52.340 we can't even care to care for our own here in California. You can't bring more people here.

00:04:56.240 Wait a minute. That's our argument. Yes. Stupid. Yes. I don't, like I, I don't even begin to

00:05:02.540 understand how they're, I don't understand how they actually get out and, and tie their own shoes

00:05:09.840 and make it in the world. Yeah. They obviously have not thought these things. If that is your

00:05:14.120 argument, you're on the wrong side. Exactly. And maybe it's so fundamental to their belief

00:05:21.020 that the real reason we don't want illegal immigrants here is because they're race, 0.95

00:05:25.420 we're racists. Like maybe that's what they actually believe. I've always thought that was

00:05:29.460 just a dumb political tactic. Maybe that's what they actually believe. Because if you think the 0.98

00:05:35.080 only reason we want people here, don't want people here is because we don't like Mexicans. Well, 1.00

00:05:38.640 then you're an idiot. I mean, we, we, we, we're happy to bring legal Mexican immigrants into this 1.00

00:05:43.620 country. Happy to do it. The, the question here is whether we can take care of people who are illegal. 0.99

00:05:49.080 So if you are saying that it's bad, it's a punishment essentially for these cities to get these

00:05:54.080 illegal immigrants. You are admitting a foundational part of our argument. And if it's not true, well,

00:06:02.380 then you're going to be happy. It's not a punishment. So you, you're not worried on the

00:06:04.840 city side. How about for the immigrants? Is it bad for the immigrants? Well, you tell us all the time 0.90

00:06:10.640 that the sanctuary cities are the only people treating them fairly. You tell us that the cities

00:06:17.140 that are sanctuary cities are welcoming with open arms, these people, and are treating them better

00:06:22.580 than the other places. So shouldn't it be, if we're going to be nice to illegal immigrants 1.00

00:06:27.080 or people claim, trying to claim asylum, that we should bring them to the cities that you

00:06:31.440 identify as the only places they can be treated fairly in the United States? Yes. Isn't that good

00:06:37.240 for immigrants? Yes. So now we found it's good for cities and it's good for the immigrants.

00:06:41.360 What about the border towns themselves? The border towns that are not sanctuary cities. What about the

00:06:47.860 cities that they're going to, these illegal immigrants or asylum seekers are going to 1.00

00:06:52.460 now that are not sanctuary cities? The people who do want to enforce our immigration laws and are

00:06:58.400 instead forced to take thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants that they aren't welcoming

00:07:03.520 with open arms. Is it fair to them? No, it's not fair to them. And it's not fair to the immigrants 1.00

00:07:08.600 either. The undocumented immigrants, because these are dangerous cities for them because they're not 1.00

00:07:15.660 welcomed like they are with open arms in places like San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and

00:07:22.800 even Austin, Texas. You know, you've got open arms. You're saying, come here. What is the point of

00:07:32.600 saying you're a sanctuary city? Because you're saying, open arms. Hey, this is the place. If you're looking

00:07:39.100 for sanctuary, nobody ever, you know, uh, Esmeralda didn't run into the house of the hunchback, 0.97

00:07:45.920 you know, because she's like, Hey, I want some soda. Does anybody have any soda in here? No,

00:07:53.540 she cried sanctuary. You can't touch me. You can't take me out of here. You can't do anything. I'm safe

00:08:00.920 here. That's why you have a sanctuary city. You're safe there. Every place. It's not a sanctuary city.

00:08:08.500 It's very unsafe. And as we've learned, nobody wants to feel unsafe. That's a safe zone for you.

00:08:17.940 So you, we don't want to just let them come over to places that are not safe. Exactly. The feelings

00:08:25.640 are an important part of this, I think. Yes. And again, like, I think this can come off as a troll,

00:08:30.320 but in reality, no, no, no, no. If, if it is like these, these cities are saying we have the resources

00:08:35.980 to deal with these people. We have the, we, we have the open arms to deal with it. We have the

00:08:40.060 type of people who will accept illegal immigrants. You guys don't. We're better than you. We've 1.00

00:08:44.920 decided to violate federal law to signal our virtue on this issue. We should reward that

00:08:51.040 behavior. I agree with you 110%. And the only thing in the article initially, and since the

00:08:57.540 only thing they can come up with those two things. One is it's going to cost more. We don't have the

00:09:03.360 money for this. Hey, Hey, it's the right thing to do. Well, that's not put a price on the right

00:09:10.580 thing to do, but you do have to put, as I would argue in many other cases, as would you, that

00:09:15.660 Congress has the power of the purse and there has to be money associated with these types of things.

00:09:20.400 You can't just create money. You can't just print money to do this. Right. So I, now look,

00:09:25.520 the government doesn't care about this, but I do. Uh, there are so many stew. How dare you this?

00:09:34.700 What will it cost us not to do this? Again, you're just trolling. No, I'm saying this is a

00:09:40.900 legitimate proposal. I say, let's take them up on their offer. Sure. I understand that. But like

00:09:49.620 they're like, so I'm listening to, by the way, I don't want to just troll in a minute. I'm going to

00:09:53.760 tell you how I want this actually executed. I don't want to just troll. I sincerely want this 0.89

00:10:00.640 to happen. I am with you on this. I mean, I will help out. You know what? This program,

00:10:06.880 I believe if they say there's no money for buses, I believe this audience will raise the money

00:10:14.600 to bus these people to sanctuary cities. It's funny. I had the same thought of like, okay,

00:10:19.900 well, they're on a bus. They'll be on the bus a little bit longer. Will there be more associated

00:10:23.240 costs? I guess. But first of all, they're close by. They keep talking about San Francisco. That

00:10:28.520 would take a long time. But Glenn, according to at least ABC news, they're not, they're flying

00:10:33.860 people to these cities. They're taking, they're in planes at $7,000 an hour that they're flying

00:10:39.900 people to these cities. And they're like, well, if they have to fly them a little bit longer,

00:10:43.080 it'll cost more. Flying them? How is that even a thought? Like I, if they're going to Indiana,

00:10:50.760 they can get on a Greyhound bus and go to Indiana if that's where they're supposed to be sent.

00:10:55.340 And that's the other thing here is that- Greyhound bus? I say we just get some yellow

00:10:59.120 school buses. Whatever. The point though is that the, the idea that if we can't hold them

00:11:05.200 in our facilities, which by the way, Republicans have asked for additional facilities and been

00:11:09.860 rejected by Democrats, very important to remember. So if you can't, you have to put them somewhere

00:11:15.240 inside the United States. Why would you not give them to the people who say they want them?

00:11:19.640 Exactly right. That is a good option. Exactly right. And you can do it by the way. There are

00:11:24.140 border towns. There are places all across the border that are sanctuary cities. Preach it.

00:11:30.540 You don't have to go to San Francisco or somewhere in Alaska. You can bring them to the closest one

00:11:35.420 and certainly save money over flights with a bus. Preach it. Now, may I tell you how I would like

00:11:48.180 to see this unfold? The best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:12:25.520 today? The Glenn Beck program has Mr. Pat Gray on. Hello, Pat. How are you? Hello, Glenn.

00:12:31.140 So. Isn't that great? It's great. It is great. It is great. It is great. And you know what's so

00:12:35.520 great about not only the Glenn Beck program having Pat Gray on, we also have Stu here and we're going

00:12:41.360 to talk about how we can make these sanctuary cities very happy. Right. And very happy. I'm all about

00:12:49.140 that. I am all about it too. I think they're going to be thrilled. I know, uh, mayor elect

00:12:55.200 Lori Lightfoot of Chicago is going to be incredibly happy. Mom, Gordon's sister. Yeah, I think so.

00:13:03.700 Yeah. Okay. Half sister. Uh, this is, this is Lori, uh, talking about what she wants to do with

00:13:09.020 Chicago and illegal immigrants. Listen, I don't think that we should take the bait every time the 1.00

00:13:13.180 president puts out a provocative tweet. What I think we need to do is make sure that we are being very

00:13:18.720 clear and speaking our values. We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all

00:13:24.480 over the world who call Chicago, their home. They'll continue to do that. And we're going to

00:13:28.420 continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants. And we want them

00:13:33.580 to come to the city of Chicago. Lori, as you just said, we're a sanctuary city. What happened to your

00:13:42.060 voice? What's going on? As Lori just said, they're a sanctuary city and they are, they want, they want

00:13:52.040 immigrants from all over the world. I mean, is she lying? She said they want to be truly welcoming

00:13:58.560 community. Right. I think we start in Chicago and here's the great thing, America. This sounds like a bit.

00:14:07.380 This sounds like something we would have said 15 years ago and there was no chance of this happening.

00:14:15.340 I think this president will do it. That's what I love about this. He would, he would, he would do

00:14:21.520 this. He would, he's got a twitchy eye. He is, he is, it's why he was a horse in a hospital. It's why he

00:14:29.800 was elected. It really is. It is. It is. We wondered the whole time. We know now this is why he was

00:14:35.760 elected because he would do something like this. Yeah. Well, he, it was his plan to ship him to

00:14:40.180 sanctuary cities, which I thought that's, that's genius. George W. Bush would never have done that.

00:14:46.440 No president would have ever done that. Now listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing. It won't work

00:14:51.420 unless it's a production. It will not work unless you have plane loads arriving all at the same time.

00:14:59.260 Planes, buses. Yeah. You've got to have, it has to be an overwhelming city. And I think

00:15:04.840 an overwhelming scene for one city. And I think you do it to one city and they stop.

00:15:10.980 So it'd be so hard to pick though, because you got Chicago mouthing off. Wait, wait, wait.

00:15:15.440 Chicago is where it started. Remember last week we showed you that the sanctuary city movement

00:15:22.020 started in Chicago. Oh, that was the first one. We drop them off. We drop them off at that church.

00:15:29.040 At that exact address where 19 charitable organizations mysteriously have their home

00:15:34.560 base. Yeah. No, I think that, that makes sense. Chicago is the one. The only thing about Chicago

00:15:39.760 is there, cause I mean, there's a part of this again, that's a troll, right? Where, and that's

00:15:44.540 what everyone's talking about in that it probably is the type of thing that you want to make a big

00:15:49.540 production about and let everybody know. Chicago is a big enough city that it is, it can absorb a lot

00:15:55.360 more that. And I, that may be why they were looking at small and mid-sized cities rather

00:16:00.140 than large ones. Along those lines is Cambridge Mass. Their mayor just talked about this over

00:16:06.420 the weekend. Mark McGovern of Cambridge said, I'm proud Cambridge is a sanctuary city. Trump

00:16:12.500 is a schoolyard bully who tries to intimidate and threaten people. I'm not intimidated. And 1.00

00:16:17.360 if asylum seekers find their way to Cambridge, we'll welcome them. I'd love to put that to the test.

00:16:23.300 Oh, that's a great one. Here's 78,000 from the last month. Good luck. Yeah. I think too,

00:16:30.180 the other thing about that is, is I like the idea of targeting, not a city like Chicago that is

00:16:34.180 absolutely struggling and can't even do things for themselves. Pick, pick a nice rich community.

00:16:41.300 Cambridge, Massachusetts is a fantastic one. They got plenty of money. 80,000 a year is the average

00:16:45.160 salary. Oh yeah. This is like, you're talking about, this is the wealthiest nation on earth,

00:16:49.940 Pat. Of course we can help these immigrants. Absolutely. This is one of the wealthiest cities.

00:16:53.300 In the wealthiest nation on earth. MIT is there. MIT will probably open the doors just,

00:16:58.480 and just admit them into college. That's what I think is going to happen. You don't even have to

00:17:03.180 qualify. Free college tuition at Harvard. I think Harvard, if they overwhelmed the city in any way,

00:17:11.760 I think Harvard would open their gym doors. Yeah. And still have them housed there. Wouldn't that be

00:17:17.160 great? Because they're really nice. Well, and they've got an endowment. I don't know if you're

00:17:21.040 aware of $39 billion, $39.5 billion. Now they could take every single one of these illegals 1.00

00:17:28.780 and give them free college education for the next 50 years with that tuition, probably. Just apply it

00:17:35.480 to educating illegals who come to Cambridge to live in your sanctuary city. That'd be awesome. 0.67

00:17:41.520 I love this. And you know what's going to happen in Cambridge? As we've been told over and over

00:17:46.200 again, the crime rates are going to fall. They're going to drop through the floor because as we

00:17:52.840 know, immigrants' crime rates are lower than citizens. Here's the thing. Truth is no longer 0.99

00:18:02.480 verifiable. We've taken the search for truth and disconnected it from all kinds of science and

00:18:11.000 reason, right? Truth just becomes something that someone says, and then someone else equally as

00:18:19.460 important or more important repeats it. And then after so many people repeat it, it becomes true.

00:18:25.080 Okay. So the, the, we know if sanctuary cities had more people coming into them, the crime rate would

00:18:34.960 of course fall. Okay. And so they tell us, right. So let's just put it to the test. Pat Gray,

00:18:43.200 are you willing to say you were wrong? If indeed we put 78,000 people in Cambridge and the crime rate

00:18:53.440 does indeed fall, are you willing to say you were wrong? Yes. Are you willing, Stu? I think I am.

00:19:00.220 I am too. If, if, if all of a sudden Cambridge just becomes this paradise, okay. Okay. We were wrong.

00:19:12.320 If property values go up, crime goes down, salaries go up, employment is better. Uh, I'll happily admit

00:19:20.920 I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I'll change out really well. Change sides. Yeah. I'll change

00:19:26.900 sides on this, but I don't think it's going to happen, but you do now put your money, put your

00:19:33.500 town, put your neighborhood, put your tax dollars where your big fat mouth is because you forced 0.76

00:19:44.640 us to do it. You forced us to do it. We are all putting our tax dollars into something we don't 0.63

00:19:53.260 believe in. We're forced to do it. We live near a sanctuary city. If we, if we have, if we live,

00:20:01.960 God forbid, near the border, we're all suffering from it. You in Cambridge, no, not so much.

00:20:09.320 Well, it's 7.6% Hispanic there. Hmm. And, and, uh, about 70% white there. Oh my gosh. You know

00:20:18.860 what the problem is? There's too much diversity. You don't know. The problem is they don't have

00:20:24.380 enough diversity. Right. You know what I mean? Let's, let's. Irving, Texas is 25, 25, 25.

00:20:30.860 Let's take a bunch of people who don't speak English that have no intention of becoming an 1.00

00:20:39.100 American that just want their culture and let's drop them in Cambridge. And I'm wondering if anyone 1.00

00:20:48.180 in Cambridge would start to say, Oh, this place, this place is become, it's just getting better.

00:20:54.900 It's what that is now what they'll say. Of course they will. They will. But I'm, I'm wondering if

00:21:01.540 anyone would say, Jesus, like we're losing what we were. You know, a lot of people do on vacation.

00:21:09.180 Certainly not. Glenn, when you got a nice vacation with a family, you want to enjoy the great outdoors

00:21:14.020 with your family, you'd go camping. Well, they would love a tent city in Cambridge. I think they

00:21:18.740 would love a bunch of tents popping up all over the city for people to live. Where you don't even have

00:21:22.680 to go out of the city for camping. Imagine that right there, right there for you. And you know,

00:21:27.280 you're talking about camping. Another place to do it is, is Portland, Oregon. Oh, that's true.

00:21:32.740 Yeah. People love that. Yeah. I mean, those guys, those guys, you want to talk about hearts.

00:21:36.520 They camped out for a long time there. Yeah. And they've got big, big, big, big, big, big,

00:21:40.680 big, big, big, big hearts in Portland, Oregon. They would love to take care of, you know,

00:21:47.120 150,000. Well, they would. They tried to shut down ICE completely. Right. So we should send,

00:21:51.720 we should send them there. And, and, and because they've got big hearts, they can take care of

00:21:59.780 everything. The city is totally in control. Let's just drop a hundred thousand people into their

00:22:06.140 population. See what happens. I mean, we can even give, you know what? The left is so pro-choice.

00:22:12.200 They always are. We can give the, the each illegal immigrant a choice. Do you want to go to city A 1.00

00:22:19.060 that the mayor says this or city B where the mayor says this? And we can have them put them side by

00:22:24.220 side and say, which one would you rather go to? And you know what? I bet a lot of them are going to

00:22:28.540 pick the place that says specifically that they're a welcoming community to illegal immigrants.

00:22:33.400 The people who say that, you know, we bring them here. We want them here.

00:22:37.140 Yeah. One city is fighting to abolish ICE. One city will not work with federal enforcement.

00:22:44.880 One city will not arrest you. One city will not ask you any questions at all. And if you are stopped

00:22:52.840 with drunk driving, don't worry about it. Don't worry. We all have a few on the way home from work.

00:22:59.640 That's the way it works. That's right. Not American citizens. Cause they go to jail. 0.98

00:23:04.460 Well, yeah, but if you're not from here, then it's fine. Yeah. We'll just let you go. Right. I mean,

00:23:09.820 what do you think we're talking about? Hate mongers? No. Okay. Yeah. No. So you have that or you have a DWI.

00:23:16.960 You're not only in jail, then you're deported and that's not fair. And the mayor and the city and the

00:23:23.460 police and everybody else, they're all committed. In fact, they look at ICE as a partnership.

00:23:28.860 Which city do you want to go to? Oh my goodness. I'm going to Portland. Oh, it's all about,

00:23:34.160 you're all about Portland. You're about Cambridge. You're about Chicago. Los Angeles. These are good,

00:23:38.440 good places to go. Chicago started the movement, right? They started the sanctuary city movement.

00:23:43.220 They started the caravan movement. San Francisco's got Nancy Pelosi's district right there. And we know

00:23:48.240 she loves them. What if you just drop them off at Nancy Pelosi's house? Certainly she'd be excited

00:23:52.300 about that. Wouldn't she? She'd love that. Well, there's a giant wall around her house though.

00:23:56.000 Oh, shoot. The walls don't work. In fact, they won't work in this case because they'll get over

00:24:03.220 that wall if they want to. I'm telling you, warning, America. Warning. I've kind of come to a place in

00:24:12.800 the last year where I've realized, eh, you know what? My job is not to provide answers. It's really not

00:24:21.300 because I got none. My job is to warn you. That's my job. I'm on the gate. I can see a little

00:24:28.960 over the horizon. My job is just to warn you. So listen to my warning. Heat it. Don't heat it.

00:24:36.920 My hands are clean. I'm warning you now. There is going to be such a struggle on our border

00:24:44.980 that the western half of America at some point you will have farmers, ranchers being slaughtered

00:24:55.980 and you will have people claiming this is their land and no longer part of the United States. It

00:25:02.100 was stolen from them and they want it. Warning. If you continue going down this road, that is what

00:25:10.800 will happen. These are not just all wonderful people that are coming over. You don't know.

00:25:18.680 Would you say everyone in Seattle is a wonderful person? Pick the whitest white city in the U.S., 1.00

00:25:25.420 whatever that city is. Would you say everybody in that city is great? Of course not. Of course not.

00:25:32.140 Of course not. You are letting hundreds of thousands of people in. You have no idea who any of them are.

00:25:40.800 It's ridiculous to think that some do not have ill intent, are not running from the law,

00:25:48.180 and not because they were just persecuted. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. Warning. 0.87

00:25:59.300 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:26:10.800 All right. Last week, I took you through several examples of the way Joe Biden apparently helps his

00:26:20.060 close family members secure amazing business deals while he was vice president. One of those

00:26:27.640 instances involved Joe Biden's younger brother, James, becoming an executive of a new construction

00:26:34.520 company, even though he had absolutely no experience in construction whatsoever. Six months after he

00:26:43.060 joined the company, it scored a $1.5 billion contract to build 100,000 homes in war-torn Iraq.

00:26:51.940 What are the odds? Here's a construction company that hires somebody as an advisor who has zero,

00:26:59.960 and let me say it again, zero construction experience. And just a few minutes, just a few

00:27:07.680 months later, he is so good with his advice that that company gets a $1.5 billion contract from the

00:27:15.540 United States government, which his brother is the vice president of. What are the odds?

00:27:24.220 It's a miracle. Even the president of the company said to investors, it kind of helps to have the

00:27:31.100 brother of the vice president as a partner. Oh, well, this isn't everything that's wrong with

00:27:37.080 capitalism, is it? If you think it's good to be the vice president's brother, it's even better to be

00:27:44.500 his son. On last Thursday's TV show, I did a major chalkboard explaining how Joe Biden's son,

00:27:52.100 Hunter, came on the board of Ukraine's largest private natural gas company. Now, wait a minute.

00:28:01.160 Wait a minute. Did Hunter have lots and lots of experience to be on the board of a gas company

00:28:09.940 in the Ukraine? Well, he had as much experience as his uncle did in construction. Zero.

00:28:18.320 Tonight on TV, I'm going back to the chalkboard for part two of Joe Biden's profile. And as bad as

00:28:27.660 the Biden's activity was in Ukraine, it is the tip of the iceberg when you see the deals that have

00:28:34.060 been struck in China. Now, to give you just a quick hint, and this isn't even a preview about how

00:28:41.400 plugged in they are in China, I want to give you a separate story that we don't even have time to get

00:28:46.880 into tonight. This should tell you how big tonight's episode is when this is a scrap that we couldn't

00:28:57.080 even get. We had to leave this one on the edit floor. Chinese oil tycoon Yi Jiang worked overtime to get

00:29:08.080 meetings with his top movers and shakers in the U.S. government. His efforts included, well, you just,

00:29:16.360 tell me, Stu, you're, you're just a, you're just a businessman. You want to do business with the United States.

00:29:23.060 What do you have to do to get a meeting with, like, the vice president? What do you think you have to do?

00:29:28.460 If, if the vice president under Obama, what do you have to do? You just message him on LinkedIn.

00:29:34.260 Then message him on LinkedIn. That's a good one. That's a good start. Send in your resume. Show how

00:29:40.020 much of a mover and shaker you are. Gotta be a big deal. Yeah, be a big deal. Have some merit behind

00:29:46.560 that. Or you could donate a hundred thousand dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Hmm. That's

00:29:55.160 always another path, isn't it? It seems to be a path to so many things. Right. I mean, it was almost a

00:29:59.540 rite of passage for any foreigners that wanted access to anybody in the Obama administration, but

00:30:04.940 it's, it's weird because those are separate. Right? Right, right. Of course. Okay. 2015, Mr. Yee

00:30:15.000 worked on trying to connect with the Biden family, but by that point, as you will see tonight,

00:30:21.860 Hunter Biden's company was deeply involved with Chinese businesses.

00:30:26.480 At first, one of Mr. Yee's top lieutenants, a guy named Patrick Ho met with Hunter Biden in

00:30:33.960 Washington, DC. That led Mr. Yee himself meeting with Hunter at a Miami hotel in 2017. At that

00:30:42.820 meeting, Mr. Yee proposed partnering with Hunter Biden's firm to invest in U.S. infrastructure

00:30:49.360 and energy. Well, there's nothing wrong with that, right? Then in November of 2017, Joe Biden's

00:30:58.900 brother, James, was in the hotel lobby when he got a random call from Patrick Ho. Now this,

00:31:06.780 remember, is Mr. Yee's top lieutenant. Ho was in deep trouble and told the vice president's

00:31:13.880 brother that he was looking for a lawyer. Federal agents had arrested Ho in New York on allegations

00:31:20.100 that he bribed African officials in Chad and Uganda for access to oil fields. Bribery? Wait a minute.

00:31:31.500 That's awful, an awful lot like what was happening with the gas in the Ukraine.

00:31:37.560 During Ho's trial, prosecutors showed that Mr. Yee's company had a side gig. Not only bribery,

00:31:46.280 but he also was an arms dealer. Ho was ultimately convicted of conspiracy, attempted bribery, and

00:31:53.720 money laundering. His boss, Mr. Yee, is now in Chinese custody at an undisclosed location.

00:32:01.280 Now, perhaps the weirdest and most cryptic part of this whole episode is what James Biden told the

00:32:08.660 New York Times when they interviewed him about that phone call from Patrick Ho. Listen carefully.

00:32:16.300 James Biden said he was surprised by the call and believed that Ho had intended to reach Hunter Biden,

00:32:23.940 Joe Biden's son. So he gave him Hunter's contact information. And then Joe, then Joe's brother,

00:32:32.700 James, said this, quote, there's nothing else I have to say. I don't want to be dragged into this

00:32:39.280 anymore. End quote. Dragged? Dragged into what? Who's dragging Joe Biden's brother into something nefarious?

00:32:53.260 Presumably, the deep web of Chinese business connections that Joe Biden facilitated for his son

00:33:01.320 while he was vice president might be something that his brother does not want to be dragged into.

00:33:09.360 Probably the most disturbing aspects of the Chinese deals are the national security implications.

00:33:15.640 Tonight, I will show you the partnerships that have been formed in China. I explain all of it on

00:33:23.640 tonight's Glenn Beck program only on Blaze TV. We also talked to Peter Schweitzer, who blew the lid off

00:33:30.760 this scandal on Biden's activity. But no one seems to care. Perhaps it's because they haven't heard the

00:33:41.080 story. They haven't seen it on the chalkboard. Tonight, things are heating up on BlazeTV.com slash Glenn

00:33:50.580 BlazeTV.com slash GLENN. If you haven't joined yet.

00:33:56.200 Joe Biden's stuff is amazing, isn't it? Yeah. And his, uh, his polling lead is seemingly,

00:34:12.380 I mean, evaporated at least in one poll. He now trails Bernie Sanders 2924 in the latest poll from

00:34:19.320 Emerson, which is a good pollster, but small sample size. The dates are right in the middle of the,

00:34:24.540 you know, the peak of this sort of controversy. So whether this is a long-term thing or not,

00:34:29.200 we don't know. Uh, Pete Buttigieg is up to 9% now in the third place. And then the kind of group of,

00:34:35.280 um, other contenders, including Kamala Harris and, uh, America's made their mind up on those guys.

00:34:42.260 Uh, O'Rourke and, uh, and, uh, uh, Warren as well are right there in eight. That's in 7%. And then

00:34:48.740 everybody else follows well behind. This is a national poll, by the way, this is going to be, uh, I'm

00:34:54.260 convinced. You make a lot of, I'm convinced statements about politics that you later on

00:35:00.200 say you were not so convinced about or should not have been so convinced about. Yeah. I was always

00:35:04.180 convinced. I was just always wrong. Right. Yes. You were, I mean, I'm, I'm willing to admit I'm

00:35:09.160 wrong. No, this is never, you've never been a guy who says I can predict politics. No, I'm the exact

00:35:14.260 opposite of that. I can't predict politics. I have no idea. Uh, no idea. I mean, I can predict,

00:35:20.760 predict, I can predict, uh, directions. I'm good at direction, you know, long-term direction.

00:35:29.300 And, uh, I just feel that, uh, this race is going to be won by somebody that is not in the system, 0.99

00:35:39.780 just not in the system. Uh, and that would be a Buddha judge or someone, someone like that. That 0.99

00:35:47.080 is, that's a complete outsider that when right now, uh, the people who are really paying attention

00:35:54.140 are the people who are politically connected and politically aware. I think the, the Democrats

00:36:01.940 are so overplaying their hand that their, um, their arrogance is going to be their undoing this time

00:36:13.680 around. And why I say that is, uh, when, when you see what AOC and Ilhan Omar and all of these people

00:36:25.300 are saying, um, it's too far for the average Democrat, even the democratic voter, not the

00:36:33.180 ones in Washington, even the ones in Washington and the ones in Washington are sick, but they, 0.53

00:36:38.020 but they're the ones they're not going to get the vote because people see this game that they're

00:36:43.280 playing and they're sick of it. They're sick of it. And Nancy Pelosi would love to get everything 1.00

00:36:49.320 that AOC and, uh, you know, Ilhan Omar are asking for. She'd love all of it, but she realizes that

00:36:56.200 exactly what you're saying. It's too far for a lot of America, right? Uh, she's used to dealing with

00:37:01.640 the entire caucus. Some people who are in purple districts where they won by one point and they

00:37:06.420 can't come out and endorse socialized medicine tomorrow, even though they may very well want it.

00:37:11.960 But here's the problem that, um, the Democrats, because they, they hated me and said, everything 0.99

00:37:19.560 that I said was, was, you know, conspiracy theory and stupid and whatever, that they didn't listen to 0.98

00:37:27.000 the warning that I gave, not just to the American people, but I gave it more importantly to the 0.99

00:37:34.900 Democrats. When I talked about the coming insurrection, that book from France, and it was

00:37:41.820 written by the people who were sick of the progressives. They were the actual Marxist

00:37:48.740 revolutionaries. And it started in, what a surprise, academia. And they were saying, you people have been

00:37:56.820 in office forever and we're so close now. We want it. Just take it. You guys are only doing this for

00:38:05.240 yourself. You're not, you don't even believe in this. You're just doing this for your own power and

00:38:11.180 you're never going to complete the deal. You're just going to keep stringing us along. And that's

00:38:16.280 why the insurrection was coming in France, which we have seen with the yellow vest. By the way, did

00:38:21.140 you see the police were given permission to use live ammunition to bring down yellow vest protesters

00:38:27.840 this weekend? Okay. Things are heating up in France and that is where it started. The real radicals that

00:38:35.800 said we want change. Now, Nancy Pelosi can say she's a progressive all she want, but progressivism was not

00:38:44.020 the answer. It was a means to the end. The end was to flip us red. Not red state. No, to flip us

00:38:55.720 totalitarian dictatorship. All I'm trying to, the words that didn't have the meaning that they have

00:39:02.400 now, there is no meaning. In fact, it was Stuart Chase that said after World War II, we just have to call

00:39:09.920 this system X now because fascism, communism, dictatorship, those are all words that have

00:39:17.500 different meanings. So we don't have a word. We're just calling it system X. So progressivism was just

00:39:26.140 to put in system X, which is top down everything. We would have known it as communism or fascism or

00:39:36.060 authoritarianism, statism. Nancy Pelosi doesn't realize you're not in charge anymore. You're not 0.99

00:39:45.660 in charge anymore. You think you are. You thought you could use these radicals. You thought you could

00:39:52.560 bring them in, give them a taste of power, teach them how the system works, then let them create their

00:40:02.320 own little viruses and you'd somehow be inoculated against it. You're not. I mean, she certainly is

00:40:09.900 dismissive of them. I mean, this, this video, can we play some of this? This is Nancy Pelosi talking

00:40:14.820 about, she gets to AOC and Ilana Mar. Listen to how dismissive she is of them. They, I mean, at this

00:40:22.660 point, the people who have held power for a long time hate this group of newcomers. They are not fans.

00:40:29.540 They don't like the idea that they're getting all the attention. They're getting all the media

00:40:33.800 love. Listen to this from Nancy Pelosi. You yourself said that you're the only one who can

00:40:39.720 unify everybody. And the question is, can you? By and large, whatever orientation they came to

00:40:47.580 Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center, that we have to go down the mainstream.

00:40:53.800 They know that? They do. But it doesn't look like that. It looks as if you're, it's fractured.

00:41:01.260 She likes to minimize the conflicts within her caucus between the moderates and the progressives.

00:41:07.900 You have these wings, AOC and her group on one side. It's like five people.

00:41:13.260 No, it's the progressive group. It's more than five. I'm a progressive. Yeah.

00:41:18.920 No. No, you're not. Well, she is. She is. She is a, remember, she's actually more progressive 0.57

00:41:25.500 than them. She's, she's progressing slowly. They're going for the revolution. Correct.

00:41:30.300 But she sees progressivism as a destination. It's not a destination. It is a system to get you. It's

00:41:40.480 like, I'm a train. No, you're, no, you're, you're, that's not a destination. That's a vehicle that

00:41:47.840 delivers you from one place to another. Progressivism is to progress you to another

00:41:54.280 destination. The people at the other destination are saying, your train's too slow.

00:42:00.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:42:16.520 Also today is charity day. Uh, today you're probably feeling your most charitable, right?

00:42:21.060 This is how you support other people. You pay your taxes. I bet you're feeling exciting about

00:42:25.320 feeling not only charitable, strangely charitable and so very patriotic. Yes. Super patriotic.

00:42:32.180 This is basically July 4th, part two. And I hope you're feeling that way today. I know

00:42:36.820 I am when the, when the federal government comes into my account, just sucks out a big

00:42:40.820 chunk of it today. Love it. Excited about it. Love it. Almost as much as I love it when they

00:42:45.100 take it is when I read about how they wasted it. Yeah. That's really fun too. Love that. When

00:42:50.060 you realize, and they're like, Oh, when Nancy Pelosi says there's, there's just no scraps

00:42:54.880 left in the cupboard. We can't cut anymore. And you get these, you know, what was there

00:42:59.180 was, you had one the other day, like, it was like several billion dollars in just fault,

00:43:03.380 like mistaken payments to people. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was it on the college thing?

00:43:07.620 Was it? Uh, yeah, no, it was on the Pell Grants. Yeah. Pell Grants. They just,

00:43:12.040 sometimes they screw it up. Pay it, man. You've already paid it. Ah, pay it again.

00:43:17.200 And every once in a while you like to stop and think about it when they say like, Oh yeah,

00:43:21.420 they made a, let's say a $10 million mistake, a minor mistake when it comes to the, to the

00:43:27.620 government of the United States. Uh, they made $10 million payment to someone who didn't deserve

00:43:32.380 it or it's just disappeared or whatever. And you stop and think about it. And that is going

00:43:36.960 to be more money in taxes than you will pay in your entire life. Plus probably everybody

00:43:46.540 you know, every dollar they will pay in their entire life. And that's that little kicker

00:43:53.160 story that doesn't even, it's not even on the front page of the paper. If there was

00:43:57.200 one, I don't know if they print them anymore, but it's like the inner, like you're in the

00:44:00.840 little tiny little section of like the hill.com, like, you know, several clicks in and they'll

00:44:06.040 be like, Oh yeah, they've wasted $10 million on this. That's everything you'll work for,

00:44:10.300 for your whole life plus a lot. And that is like, when you think about it, how just, just

00:44:16.980 depressing that is. These little mistakes, these little stories we bring up are real people's

00:44:22.980 life's work going down the drain for nothing, nothing. You could have every tax dollar you've

00:44:30.460 ever put in back plus all the tax dollars of everybody that you know back and then some

00:44:39.540 if they hadn't made that one mistake and we blow it off all the time. We don't even blow

00:44:45.020 it off. Barely even worth a mention. I mean, you think they, every year they release that

00:44:48.900 government waste report Republicans do that show all the quirky things that they've spent

00:44:53.440 money on. You know, they spent $500,000 on this story to see if snails can fly. And like,

00:44:58.560 it's all this weird stuff. And you're like, Oh, that's a funny, that's a funny kicker story

00:45:02.200 that day. Those are people's life's work going down the drain over and over and over again

00:45:08.420 every year. And nobody notices. I mean, you want to know how bad taxes are. And I think

00:45:14.200 it's, it's, we're at the point where we need to start making these arguments and making them

00:45:20.940 more profound because I mean, listen, listen to this. This is the New York times today.

00:45:24.880 Um, and I just, I just, just did this just a second ago. Now that as I'm talking about

00:45:29.800 this, listen, this says the gap between perception and reality on the tax cut appears to flow from

00:45:34.340 a sustained and misleading effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad

00:45:40.180 middle tax tax, uh, middle class tax increase. This is the New York times telling you this

00:45:46.040 time. Yes. They are telling you that it was a misleading effort by liberals that make people

00:45:52.360 not understand this because we're seeing long sustained. Yeah. We're seeing now, uh, polls as

00:45:56.800 low as 17% of people believe they got a tax cut when the real number is well North of 60, uh, and

00:46:03.160 probably even higher than that. We don't know how the final numbers yet. They say the effort began in

00:46:07.440 the fall of 2017 when Republicans prepared, uh, their first draft of this tax bill and one tax policy

00:46:14.420 center at the independent tax policy center predicted it could raise taxes on nearly a third of middle

00:46:19.360 class taxpayers. Now that's not the bill that passed. I continued through Trump's signing of

00:46:24.040 the law, even though the group's model showed the same group that initially said it would raise taxes

00:46:28.200 on people. The group's model showed that the revised bill would raise taxes on relatively, relatively few

00:46:35.180 in the middle class. After the law went to effect, Democrats played down those estimates and instead

00:46:41.080 highlighted projections that most Americans taxes are set to increase in 2026.

00:46:47.860 after the individual tax cuts are scheduled to expire. So they're saying your taxes are going

00:46:55.700 to go up after the tax cuts go away, which of course is true. This is, but that's them. That's

00:47:01.780 their tax, those, their, their tax rates, which are higher. This is the amazing thing about the New York

00:47:06.400 Times. At times they tell the absolute truth. Yeah. At times they'll say that now they'll disagree with

00:47:13.860 what they just printed in the op-ed. Yes. The op-ed will tell the exact, all these lies will be echoed a hundred

00:47:21.100 times. Yes. By all of their op-ed columns. Correct. Just a couple. But sometimes they do great reporting. It's such a

00:47:28.900 weird thing. If you are really, truly just being a hack for the left, how does this person survive? Yeah.

00:47:39.480 It's a mix. I mean, I, and I think that's important. That is important to note. It is. I mean, a lot of

00:47:43.980 times when we're talking about real conservative arguments, you know, the basis for that, the source

00:47:48.420 of that reliable information is the New York Times, because it's easy, it's great to go to the left and

00:47:53.040 say, uh, this is the New York Times I'm showing you. This is them saying it, not me, not in National

00:47:58.320 Review, not the blaze, not Breitbart. Here it is right here, New York Times. Uh, they say now that

00:48:04.220 three quarters of Democrats say they did not think they got a tax cut, uh, from the law. And

00:48:09.040 the overall, uh, share of Americans who said that they got a tax cut just rose slightly since

00:48:14.940 the initial, uh, argument. Experts are divided on whether the tax law, uh, tax cut law was a good

00:48:20.520 idea, but there is little disagreement on this core point. Most people got a tax cut. The tax

00:48:26.580 policy center estimates that 65% of people paid less under the law and only 6% paid more. The

00:48:33.000 Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's nonpartisan team of tax analysts, found that every income

00:48:38.060 group would see a tax cut on average. So did the Institute of Taxation on Economic Policy,

00:48:42.880 which is a left-leaning think tank. They went even further. They said every income group

00:48:48.960 in every state would pay less on average. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Um, and what's

00:48:55.440 interesting about that is people aren't realizing these tax cuts, uh, because they say a relatively

00:49:01.340 small amount. Um, some people got about $780, the middle, the middle, uh, middle class. And they

00:49:07.600 say, well, you know, $780 is nice. You'd like to get $780, but you know, it was a few dollars

00:49:13.960 in bi, bi-weekly checks. And I think, and I just said this myself, I'm mad that I'm paying a giant

00:49:19.500 chunk today. I have a giant tax bill to pay today, unfortunately. But the truth is I should be happy

00:49:25.540 about that because my money was in my hands for longer. I was able to invest it. I was able to

00:49:31.520 hold onto it. I was able to make interest. I did not make an interest-free loan to the government.

00:49:35.200 You know, what's crazy is we use the federal government as a bank. Yeah. And it's the worst

00:49:40.580 bank ever. And we do the same thing with social security. It's the same idea. We, we, we look at

00:49:45.080 the federal government as a bank and we hope we get a tax return. Well, you're getting the money you

00:49:50.600 paid in, but you're not saving, you're not getting any interest on that. So they're not paying you

00:49:56.040 interest. No. So you could have put that same amount in the bank and said, I'm going to take

00:50:02.840 less every month and I'm going to put it in the bank so it can earn interest. I'm going to put it

00:50:08.260 in a CD. I'm going to put it in something safe, but it'll at least get 5% interest. And then come tax

00:50:14.380 day. I will take that money and I'll cash it out and I'll pay exactly how much I need to pay.

00:50:21.900 Instead, we don't do that. We let the government take all of our money. And then when they give us

00:50:29.440 a year later after holding it and using it, then they give it back to us without any interest.

00:50:36.380 And we celebrate like it's a gift. Like the whole thing is a gift. Like I didn't know I had any of

00:50:41.820 that. Yeah. I think it's insane. I want to say it was H&R Block last year that did an ad campaign

00:50:46.140 about like it's tax refund day. Like there's this great holiday. It's like, it's not a holiday.

00:50:51.440 They've been stealing your money for a year. I mean, this is, we've been saying this point for how

00:50:56.720 long? I mean, legitimately 30 years. Reagan. Reagan said it. He said, if you at the end of the year,

00:51:02.020 if people had to just write a check, then this would be totally different. Why don't we push for that

00:51:07.600 as actual policy? Why? We always talk about it. We always mention it. I don't know. You know,

00:51:13.120 because make it quarterly checks or monthly checks or whatever it is. Every time you get a paycheck,

00:51:18.640 every time you get a paycheck, it's not withheld. You have to write it out. Write a check and send

00:51:22.540 it in. You have to write a check. It's automatically, you know, you got to be able to, there has to be

00:51:26.360 some action taken because it's just like your point with immigration. If we take all the sanctuary

00:51:31.720 cities and take illegal immigrants and spread them out across, there will be some impact to these 1.00

00:51:36.460 cities, but most people might not notice the big impact. If you do it with a bunch of buses and

00:51:41.380 they all arrive at the same time and you plop them down and everyone's going to notice, you do with a

00:51:44.340 lot of fanfare. This is what this is. It's fanfare. Make people notice what they're doing. Make people

00:51:50.000 accountable to, you know, to, to, to the actual people and the money that they're spending because

00:51:57.320 people don't realize it. You know, we say this with health insurance too. People don't know what the

00:52:01.240 prices are. This is why they develop this system. They develop this system because they knew you

00:52:07.960 would revolt if you actually had to do it yourself. So they've made it. But what, what, what thing does

00:52:15.240 the government make easy for you? The government make anything easy for you? You can't get a, I mean,

00:52:21.560 it's impossible to do almost anything when it comes to government. Almost anything. Except give them your

00:52:26.440 tax dollars. They will take those tax dollars. Now at the end of the year, it's a pain in the ass. But that's to

00:52:32.020 get your money back a lot of times. Correct. But to pay your taxes every single paycheck. Oh, they make that

00:52:38.740 so easy and they take that burden away from you. Thank you so much for that. The Blaze Radio Network.

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