On today's show, Glenn Beck ties together the news of the day with a message of love and the trade you make with your time. He talks about the dangers of sleeper cells in America, the Iran situation, and the need to stand up against oppression.
00:00:30.000Today's podcast, I begin with the news and kind of tying a few stories together.
00:00:34.200What is the news of the day telling us about America and where we're at?
00:00:41.740Also, a message of love and the trade you make with your time.
00:00:46.520And from DHS, Chad Wolf, what are we actually facing with the possible sleeper cells here in America?
00:00:54.600And what, how bad is it with the airports and with DHS because the Democrats won't fund our Department of Homeland Security?
00:01:03.800All of that and so much more on today's podcast.
00:01:07.120Ever notice how people will spend hours comparing prices before they buy a television, but they will sign a mortgage that lasts 30 years and never look at it again?
00:04:18.380Well, because I can't see the future, it may not be a huge mistake.
00:04:22.860It may be the right thing to do because of all of the ramifications
00:04:26.780of what comes if you don't make that move.
00:04:29.840But everybody acts so sure, and we're trading so much away.
00:04:39.440you were just talking about the Iranian girls.
00:04:46.340I don't understand how the men on the left,
00:04:51.000do you not have somebody in your life,
00:04:53.640a woman, a daughter, a mom, a wife, a sister,
00:04:58.340that you can't see what these women are going through
00:05:02.600over in Iran and you can't empathize with them?
00:05:06.480How can you say you want to stand up against the great oppression here in America on homosexuals and yet you will not say anything about this regime that throws homosexuals off building tops or executes them in the public square?
00:08:11.520but this is the first time i've lived with a parent since i was 18 and maybe it's just that
00:08:22.280I'm getting to the age where I am starting to get it, but I'm starting to see things wildly differently.
00:08:32.840We both realize that time is speeding up, that time is shorter than either of us think.
00:08:38.020But I think only with time, with age, can you understand the value of those things you trade for time.
00:08:48.360my grandparents my parents told me when i was younger
00:08:54.140they told me things that i i just didn't understand you know
00:08:58.300those are the things they told me when i was younger i heard but didn't understand
00:09:05.040maybe you can't under understand until you've lived long enough to see the pattern
00:09:10.160But older people, older people used to tell me all of the time that, that they would say, you know, time just goes by so fast. It just goes so fast. Well, you know, when you're young, that really sounds ridiculous.
00:09:30.120A year feels like forever when you're 20.
00:09:35.520Ten years feels like an entire lifetime.
00:09:41.420But I'm beginning to understand what they meant.
00:09:43.840Life does not move at a constant speed.
00:09:47.940It moves really slowly until it doesn't.
00:17:18.740My wife made me try the three-week quick start before I was advertising, and I didn't advertise for them because I didn't know if it worked.
00:17:36.560800, the number four relief or relief factor.
00:17:39.600dot com. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:17:47.920I want to connect a few stories that on the surface look completely unrelated, but they're
00:17:53.740actually not. They're all telling you the same thing about how power is working in America right
00:17:58.960now. So let me start in Washington. The Senate now is preparing to vote on the SAVE Act. This
00:18:07.380is a complete sham. Now, this is just a bill that says you have to prove you're a citizen to vote
00:18:14.080in American elections. Think about that for just a second, just this basic idea.
00:18:20.660If you're voting in the United States, you should be an American citizen. That's it.
00:18:28.120But the Senate leadership is already warning that it might need 60 votes to pass. Well,
00:18:32.840yeah if you don't do your job it will and that's where the game begins because technically they
00:18:39.360are right practically they're hiding behind the rules the senate has called for something or it
00:18:47.080has something called the filibuster and originally if you wanted to block a bill all you had to do
00:18:51.880is stand on the floor and talk hour after hour day after day you know your voice giving up your
00:18:56.780legs shaking. Mr. Stewart, Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Okay. That, that, that's the whole
00:19:02.860point of that movie. But today you don't have to do that anymore because it's hard. You just
00:19:08.860threaten a filibuster and then walk away and you need a 60 person vote to bring it back to the
00:19:13.500floor. No speeches, no fight, no accountability. Okay. No courage, just a zombie filibuster.
00:19:20.240Republican senators know something most Americans don't. They could force the issue. They could keep
00:19:29.280the Senate in continuous session for day after day after day. And if Democrats want to block
00:19:35.340voter citizenship requirements, then let them stand there for 24 hours a day explaining why.
00:19:41.860Make them hold the floor. Make them say it out loud. But that would require something rare in
00:19:48.500Washington. Effort, conviction, courage, a belief in our system. So instead, the bill just will
00:20:00.760quietly die, and the public will never see the fight. Okay, why does this matter? Well, let me
00:20:08.980tie the next story to this, because at the exact same time this is happening, the Justice Department
00:20:13.940is saying something else that could stop the country, should stop the country cold.
00:20:19.880Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon says investigators now are finding tens of thousands
00:20:25.660of non-citizens on voter rolls and hundreds of thousands of dead people still registered.
00:20:32.200Now, maybe most of these people will never vote, but not one of them should.
00:20:36.780But, you know, when it comes to our air travel, we don't say, relax, most planes land safely.
00:20:46.280Have you ever heard anyone actually suggest that Boeing should just come out and say, you know, we've had thousands and thousands of flights, and it was only one door that blew out in the middle of the flight.
00:21:47.820FBI director now says the Bureau ran four secret counterintelligence operations from 2016 to 2025 that monitored over a thousand Trump associates, journalists, lawmakers, and advisors.
00:22:02.820excuse me what this makes nixon look like child's play some of these probes are now under civil
00:22:13.280rights review the same institutions that tell you trust the system are quietly admitting the system
00:22:20.680has been used to spy on political movements meanwhile in los angeles investigators just
00:22:28.480uncovered something almost unbelievable, and we are in the sea of unbelievable and
00:22:35.400incomprehensible. Nearly half of the hospices in L.A. County show fraud warning signs.
00:22:45.020Companies were billing Medicare, your tax dollars, that are supposed to go to the people who
00:22:50.420actually need it, they were billing with zero patients. Multiple hospices registered at the
00:22:59.000same buildings. This is in LA now. Patients discovering that they were fraudulently enrolled
00:23:04.240in hospice care, and they didn't even know it. So somebody was using their name to get money
00:23:09.860to provide care that they never got, and no one did. And every patient was billed to the taxpayer
00:23:18.000for $29,000. That's not a glitch. That's an industry. And when government money flows
00:23:26.920without any accountability, predators follow it like sharks follow blood. Do you understand why
00:23:33.220they had to get rid of Elon Musk now and Doge? Do you see? Do you see? Now let me zoom out
00:23:40.660because something even bigger is happening. While our institutions are fighting over Senate
00:23:46.940procedure to trust the system of voting and medicare fraud to trust that your tax dollars
00:23:54.920are going where they said the world is moving and the world is moving fast the united states
00:23:59.900just sank 16 iranian mine uh mine layers in the persian gulf 16 and iran is threatening to mine
00:24:07.360the strait of hormuz that's that is a 20 no i'm sorry is it 20 i think it's a 20 mile stretch
00:24:15.020where one-fifth of the world's oil passes every single day.
00:24:21.500And what Iran is saying is, you want this war? Good. Enjoy $200 a barrel oil.
00:24:59.640That's like the oil workers in Soviet Russia demanding the fall of the Kremlin.
00:25:05.280It tells you the regime is weaker than anyone realized.
00:25:09.240But revolutions rarely happen cleanly. Sometimes the regime collapses. Sometimes it thrashes around for years. And all the while, when that is unfolding overseas, back here at home, we're arguing whether you should have to prove you're a citizen to vote.
00:25:31.480see that's the disconnect here the world is playing geopolitical chess for the whole game
00:25:41.340and washington is arguing whether the players are even allowed to sit at the board
00:25:46.080there's another lesson buried in today's headlines look at the media coverage of iran
00:25:53.680look at the media coverage of the iranian the girls soccer team which i get into here in a
00:25:57.580minute. One major newspaper, I'll just say, the New York Times, led with photos of people
00:26:03.960mourning the Ayatollah. But buried deep in the story are the lines that show Iranians are saying
00:26:13.000they actually hope the bombing continues if it means the regime falls. Wait, what? When is the
00:26:21.060last time you heard a people in a nation say, please, America, continue to bomb because you
00:26:28.260can't stop until the job is done. Why does the New York Times show the 10% instead of the 90%?
00:26:36.400Because the story they want to tell you is always the same. America, bad, enemies,
00:26:43.740misunderstood, so step back. Here is what the headlines today actually reveal. The institutions
00:26:52.780that are supposed to protect trust, elections, law enforcement, government spending, the media,
00:26:59.360are all under strain at the same time. They're not broken beyond repair, but they are
00:27:03.800deeply strained. Jonathan Martin made a point about me today in Politico. He said,
00:27:11.440how can one spend decades in and around American politics and not understand the basic macro
00:27:16.380politics of midterm elections? He's talking about why I'm for the SAVE Act, and he says it's going
00:27:21.620to hurt the Republicans in the midterms. I don't know your proof on that one, but I don't care
00:27:26.840about the midterms. Jonathan, that's your job at Politico. Politico. You should be about the
00:27:33.880midterm elections. My job is to care about the principles of the republic. You know, only caring
00:27:41.500about the next election, which is very important, don't get me wrong, is what got us here in the
00:27:47.280first place. A strained system that wobbles more and more each passing day. And when the systems
00:27:54.740are strained like this, there are only a few things that matter. Principles, transparency,
00:28:02.420transparency and courage. Transparency means letting Americans actually see the fight,
00:28:10.680whether it's a Senate filibuster or an FBI investigation. Courage means you have to be
00:28:16.980willing to stand there and defend your position in the light and let the chips fall where they may.
00:28:23.620Because if you're not willing to stand up and explain what you believe,
00:28:26.840you know maybe you shouldn't be blocking the vote in the first place
00:28:30.420and that's the real story not just what happened but what it reveals about where our country is
00:28:39.160today a moment where the truth is fighting to surface and the people running the system are
00:28:45.960deciding whether or not they're going to help it surface or keep it sinking
00:28:50.420the truth is surfacing whether they like it or not i don't know how it all works out
00:28:58.340but the truth will always set you free this is the best of the glenn beck program
00:29:06.040all right welcome to the uh we're talking to chad wolf he is uh the america first policy
00:29:17.460institute homeland security immigration chair he's also the former dhs acting secretary and
00:29:23.800i wanted to get him on because the democrats still are not uh you know are not allowing dhs to be
00:29:31.940funded uh and that is the craziest thing i've ever heard i mean at this time what are you trying to
00:29:38.880get us all killed chad wolf is uh here with us now um chad the headlines today in some cities are
00:29:46.960you got to get to the airport super, super early because you might be in line for several hours
00:29:51.880because people are not showing up for work. I mean, I don't know if I would either,
00:29:56.620but not showing up for work. It's overwhelming the system. That I don't think should be the
00:30:03.700headline. I think the headline is what's being missed at the airports because of the shutdown.
00:30:09.880How safe are we, Chad? Yeah, well, thanks for having me on. I agree with you. I think there's
00:30:15.560two issues at play here. One is requiring DHS workers, and in this case, airport officers and
00:30:23.580screeners, to have to go to work, do their job, but not get paid to do it. And then the second
00:30:30.320piece that you rightfully point out is the security aspect of that. And so this hits hardest probably
00:30:36.480in our airports, but there are other parts of DHS that are impacted as well, because a lot of these
00:30:42.500screeners at airports are living paycheck to paycheck. And after they miss one or two
00:30:49.720paychecks, what we're starting to see, and you indicated long lines at airports, is they start
00:30:55.780to call out. They start to call out sick because they have to go drive an Uber. They've got to
00:31:00.180pick up another part-time job to pay the rent, the mortgage, or put food on the table. And so
00:31:06.060that becomes a problem. It becomes a problem for the traveling public, and it becomes an
00:31:10.660inconvenience, but the security aspect of it is even if they show up for work, I would want them
00:31:18.180totally focused and committed on their job at hand. What I don't want are screeners at the airport
00:31:24.060going through the motions, but really their mind is how do I support my family? How do I support
00:31:29.720my family? And pissed off. I know, you know, if I'm pissed off at a company, I don't do my best
00:31:35.620work and i don't think that these people you know intentionally would let something go through or
00:31:41.220anything like that i mean they're still americans and they're human beings but it is it's just part
00:31:46.500of being human you know it is wrong to ask them to step up to the plate and come in for a long
00:31:53.780period of time because there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is going to end soon
00:31:57.660democrats just don't seem to care about yeah no and i i think what's the frustrating thing is this
00:32:03.700is entirely preventable. It's, you know, particularly at a time when we have conflicts
00:32:07.820with Iran and, you know, very, very dangerous world in which we live in. The fact that we
00:32:13.460would not fund the Department of Homeland Security that is hand in glove with the Department
00:32:18.700of War, making sure that we're keeping the homeland and everyday Americans safe is just
00:32:24.600bizarre. It's bizarre to me that the Democrats can continue to hold out on this position.
00:32:29.660And it's a little, you know, I don't know, I haven't seen any polling or anything, but I suspect that the American people do not support this.
00:32:38.320No. And as the lines get longer, it's going to get worse.
00:32:42.240And then people will know who's responsible because, I mean, I was just talking to Cheryl Atkinson and she said, you know, she had just seen a report.
00:32:51.02010,000 known terrorists, uh, have been on our radar that have come into the country,
00:32:57.0801500 from Iran. Um, how bad is the possible terror network here in America?
00:33:08.140Well, uh, it's bad, right? We, we talked about four years of the Biden administration. So over
00:33:13.460the course of four years, you had, you had over 11 to 12 million individuals come into the United
00:33:19.580States, over 18,000 known or suspected terrorists, right? The National Counterterrorism Center just
00:33:25.060testified about that. Over 18,000 known or suspected terrorists tried to enter the country
00:33:30.440during Joe Biden's tenure, and a variety of them made it in. And so you combine that with the
00:33:37.520existing networks of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other proxies that have been here in the United States
00:33:43.740since the 80s, more or less. And it starts to paint a picture of a real kind of heightened
00:33:51.380risk and threat environment. Now, we have an outstanding law enforcement apparatus, FBI,
00:33:57.320Joint Terrorism Task Forces, and other things that keep the American people safe. But we're
00:34:01.460asking so much of them because we don't know who really is in the country. Because I said it at
00:34:08.320the time, and I think we're facing it right now, is the four years of the Biden administration,
00:34:13.040We won't really know the destructive nature of their immigration policies for years and years to come.
00:34:19.780And I think we are staring down the barrel of that right now.
00:34:24.080Big time. I have to tell you, I would never talk about this on the air.
00:34:27.780I would love to be a part of a red cell team just on terror because I have wargamed this out since 2001.
00:34:33.740And there are things that I don't understand why terrorists haven't done.
00:34:38.220Again, I wouldn't say any of it on the air, but I got to tell you, we are very vulnerable, and it doesn't take a lot of people to pull off some really, truly devastating things in our country.
00:34:54.560I think we have, again, certainly a risk of either cells or lone individuals doing a variety of different things here in the United States.
00:35:05.100And we've seen some of that, unfortunately, and we'll continue to do that.
00:35:09.540I think the threat environment that we're in today is as high as we've probably seen it.
00:35:15.120And you see that with the IEDs in New York City and elsewhere.
00:35:20.280So, again, I go back to not funding the department is absolutely crazy that you're going to have the airport workers.
00:35:28.420You're going to have the men and women of the Coast Guard, also very junior, live paycheck to paycheck in some instances as well.
00:35:36.420You know, they're hand in glove overseas with the Navy down in the Caribbean.
00:35:40.500And, again, you want them totally focused.
00:35:43.240They will be focused, but they're human, as you indicated.
00:35:45.860And they're going to be worried about their family because when they're deployed, you know, that paycheck needs to come in to make sure that their wife, their kids, their family are taken care of.
00:35:55.280And that's going to be on their mind as well.
00:35:58.420Are you more concerned about places like Dearborn and Minneapolis, or is it all around the country?
00:36:07.020I mean, are there particular hotspots that we should be watching and concerned about?
00:36:14.360Yeah, I think my concern is throughout the country.
00:36:17.540I understand the Dearborn reference, but I think if you are an individual with bad motives,
00:36:26.660that you're going to target, you could target iconic landmarks, things that get high visibility,
00:36:33.760obviously New York City, Los Angeles, your big cities pop up there. But those cities also have
00:36:39.800the best infrastructure and law enforcement, right? And those targets have been hardened over
00:36:45.500the past several decades. So maybe you're perhaps looking to a softer target, or perhaps you're
00:36:51.320going to lay in wait, right? Because the threat environment and law enforcement is on their guard
00:36:56.080right now but perhaps you wait until the summer until the world cup arrives um and you decide to
00:37:01.580do something there at a at a stadium and a mass gathering of some kind so you can see all of the
00:37:07.220implications out there of of really kind of what the challenge is today here and here in the homeland
00:37:14.340we are sitting at a time where we are now at war with the biggest terror organization and funder of
00:37:21.880terrorism in the world with iran um and you know they have allies of china and russia and doesn't
00:37:30.140dhs also look at all of our cyber uh protection i mean how vulnerable are we with with cyber now
00:37:37.860yeah absolutely the they certainly have a you know the cyber security and infrastructure security
00:37:43.540agency or cisa as it's referred to has a big role there now it's mainly defensive posture because
00:37:50.340what they try to do is not only protecting government networks, but it's important to
00:37:55.660remember that about 85 percent of our critical infrastructure, such as water, you know, waste
00:38:00.000treatment plants, water plants and the like, are privately owned. And so CISA provides a lot of
00:38:06.080intelligence and a lot of capabilities to those private sector companies to make sure that their
00:38:11.220cybersecurity hygiene and measures are up to date. And you've got about two thirds of that agency
00:38:17.400that are not working because of the shutdown today.
00:38:20.700So that's really, really concerning as well.
00:38:23.000So aviation, cyber, obviously the border and others that DHS does,
00:38:42.760As we've talked about, as this drags on,
00:38:45.680you know, they could be six weeks without getting a paycheck. And even when the government opens
00:38:51.000back up, it's not like they get paid the next day. It's going to take two to three weeks for
00:38:56.140that back pay to come in. So again, you can see how this could draw out for eight weeks.
00:39:01.540And we're asking these agents and officers, 75,000 law enforcement officers at the Department
00:39:07.480of Homeland Security, we're asking them to risk their lives every day to protect Americans.
00:39:12.460and congress can't even give them the pay i would say the low pay that that that we paid them but
00:39:19.160they can't even do that i i think it's it sends absolutely the wrong message on a variety of
00:39:24.380different fronts um we heard last week that one of the last things that happened you know as we
00:39:31.960were bombing iran at the very beginning was there seemed to be some encrypted message that went out
00:39:37.660and they were talking about the possibility that that was an activation of sleeper cells
00:39:41.740uh do you have any indication that's real yeah i saw that public reporting as well and just what
00:39:49.660i saw i i i can't ascertain on how real that is on on whether that's just some reporting or or
00:39:56.040whether that is is truly what the intelligence community has picked up on but regardless of
00:40:01.600that i think as soon as you know as soon as conflicts kinetic conflicts start to happen
00:40:07.360overseas and Iran, the Department of Homeland Security goes, shields up, right, on a variety
00:40:15.580of different fronts. So even whether or not this went out or not, they are doing everything that
00:40:21.940they can during a shutdown, mind you, to protect a variety, you know, all the different, you know,
00:40:30.380from a maritime perspective or a cyber perspective or a border perspective, or how do we screen
00:40:35.280travelers coming into the country. Obviously, CBP does that on a real-world basis. And so
00:40:41.560they will augment all of their apparatus to look for suspicious activities around
00:40:50.560proxies tied to the Iranian regime and others. And so as a threat environment picks up,
00:40:59.980um, the alertness and what you're looking for across the department, um, as you screen travelers
00:41:07.160and do other things also ticks up as well. Chad, if you were still the, you know, acting DHS
00:41:13.500secretary, what advice would you give to the American people today? Yeah, I would say, look,
00:41:22.480you know, continue your lives, continuing what you do each and every day, but, but have some
00:41:27.860awareness around what you do. It's, you know, if you go out and you want to go out to dinner and
00:41:35.320you want to eat on a sidewalk, that's fine. Just have a little bit more awareness of your
00:41:40.940surroundings and where you're at and making sure that you're, you know, continuing to understand
00:41:48.080kind of the threat environment the United States is. And I wouldn't say you need to disrupt or
00:41:55.640change your pattern i think that's what the terrorists want uh us to do so don't give them
00:42:01.200that satisfaction but be aware of your surroundings and and understand kind of the the situation that
00:42:07.800we're in are we at more risk because of the funding coupled with mullen in transit in transition
00:42:16.480does that yeah compound this problem i i you know the the transition of a new secretary coming in
00:42:25.280And I hope it happens very soon because it helps.
00:42:27.640It does help to stabilize the department.
00:42:29.260But look, there are a lot of professionals at the department underneath the secretary at all of the operating components that are doing their job right now.
00:42:38.940And so I have a lot of faith because I know a lot of them that they're going to do that regardless of what is happening at the secretarial level.
00:42:47.660Now, we need to get Senator Mullen in there and in there quickly to, again, stabilize.
00:42:52.520And hopefully, because he's coming from Congress, hopefully can break the logjam on DHS funding.
00:42:58.680But I would say my overall concern is just the overall threat environment that we are now in tied with the lack of funding for the department.
00:43:09.440Thank you so much, Chad. I appreciate it. Really appreciate it. Thanks for all that you do. God bless.