Glenn Beck talks about OJ Simpson, Iran, and why we are missing the boat on God. Glenn also talks about a growing trend in the right toward anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. And Pat corrected me on being too harsh on Congress.
00:00:00.000And I don't know if I've laughed so hard as today, on today's program, and it was not about O.J. Simpson dying, surprisingly, because I think it's too soon to joke about his dad.
00:00:14.960But we talked about several things that are going on in today's world that you really need to know about that you're probably not hearing anywhere else.
00:00:24.760First of all, I talked a little bit about Israel and why that matters in a way that I don't think, well, I might even get in trouble for, you know, maybe rabbis and priests and everybody else.
00:00:41.620But talking about God, why it's important and why we're possibly missing that boat.
00:00:48.500And also, Pat corrected me on being too harsh on Congress.
00:00:55.400Yeah, some genius coming out of some Congress people's mouths.
00:22:18.580And it used to be hard to say that because you just don't—it wasn't as clear as it is right now.
00:22:28.140But everything that we're seeing going on, you are on the wrong side of history.
00:22:34.220Now, George Soros' number two guy met with my number two guy years ago and delivered what I regard and everybody who was part of this regard as a threat.
00:22:49.580It is the reason why I did the Puppet Master three-day series on George Soros, because on the advice of a very good friend, and he knew George Soros, when he said to me,
00:23:05.420wait, tell me the story again, because I was calling him for some advice, and he said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:23:14.100You got to get on the air right away, and you have to make everybody understand that you are the number one target from George Soros, that you are his main enemy, because there's only safety in the spotlight.
00:23:34.840And so that's why I exposed him as much as I did.
00:23:37.800They were trying to get me to back off, and the word that was given to one of the guys who worked with me, was an executive vice president at the time, Joel Cheatwood.
00:23:50.180He was told by the Soros, you know, number two guy, that your boss is hurting my boss, and this is going to end, and you need to send your boss that message.
00:24:02.480He's going to stop doing this, and Joel Cheatwood said, no, I know my boss, and I don't think he's going to stop, and then it was said, the ship is about to set sail, and you're either on the ship or you're not, but there's no turning back.
00:24:27.200You will be left behind, and Joel said to him, well, I'm pretty sure my boss would rather be standing on the dock.
00:28:47.040And the only thing we need to do is inform ourselves, inform our friends, and then stand up for what you know to be true.
00:28:55.620You know it's not right to have the press, have the government come after them because they want the source of the whistleblower that blew the whistle on a Chinese spy?
00:30:38.140I mean, it seems pretty clear what's going on.
00:30:40.120It's tough, though, because the evidentiary standards for proving something like, you know, quote-unquote insider trading, they're very difficult to meet.
00:30:49.680If you have that kind of inside information, and you have a sense of what's going to happen before it does, and what stocks are going to pop before anyone else does, you know, yeah, it's fairly clear that you're not supposed to then start making trades.
00:31:02.980But you can, you know, you can say a kind word to a family member, to a staff member, to relatives of a staff member, and there's really nothing legally to stop them from taking action on that.
00:31:15.320So it's a system that's ripe for abuse.
00:31:20.440This is George Santos exposing how the congressional leaders silence opposition and what would happen to Congress if, you know, people started actually looking into their stock trading.
00:31:33.140I'm thinking, I want to go sign on to Abigail Spanberger's bill on individual stock trading.
00:31:38.960I was told that if I signed, co-sponsored a bill and made too much voluminous flair over it, that I wouldn't be seated.
00:32:28.740If that level of scrutiny that you received in Congress was applied to anyone else in that building or the people who are at the top of both parties, what do you think would have happened to them?
00:32:37.420You'd be running 535 special elections today if they were real.
00:32:42.900If they apply the same level of scrutiny to me, you'd vacate the whole building.
00:32:46.920Why was George Santos selected to be the one who talked to you?
00:32:57.320We reached out to just about everyone who is involved or might be involved, whether in a good way or a bad way, with these kinds of trading practices.
00:33:12.520Ro Khanna, Rep Ro Khanna, seemed like he might be interested.
00:33:17.660He played footsie with us, ghosted us.
00:33:19.980A bunch of other people, including the sponsor, co-sponsor of that bill that George Santos mentioned there, co-sponsor with Chip Roy, who we did talk to.
00:33:35.780I mean, Matt Gaetz, George Santos, you know, these guys are considered mavericks or worse by a lot of even Republicans.
00:33:44.160But, you know, when those are the only guys who are willing to speak to you, it's because there's a code of silence just about it.
00:33:50.960It's like an omerta, and it's very tough to penetrate.
00:33:53.620So, you know, we were very grateful to be able to get the inside scoop from those guys because, you know, they have been through fire, and they are willing to say what others aren't.
00:34:02.020Here is Matt Gaetz from the special last night.
00:34:06.340Congressman Gaetz offered to take us on a tour.
00:34:09.060So one of the committees where people have a lot of information is the Appropriations Committee, because they can view almost any vector of government funding.
00:34:19.520And so, you know, this is Mr. Rutherford's office.
00:34:23.280He's on the Ethics Committee and the Appropriations Committee.
00:35:02.000And we have members who are on the Energy Subcommittee of Appropriations, like Michael Guest, chairman of the Ethics Committee.
00:35:09.700And he's traded somewhere between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy stocks.
00:35:14.480He's been buying online gaming stocks and just making a killing on them.
00:35:18.540So you would think that the people that were on the Ethics Committee would be your best allies in this fight.
00:35:24.000But indeed, they're some of the most prolific traders.
00:35:26.180And not only trading, but in the case of Mr. Guest, trading in an area where he has access to energy information more so than almost any other American.
00:35:35.580And no indication that he wants to maybe slow down, pump the brakes, recognize that there might be some appearance of impropriety here?
00:35:41.420It seems as though the pace is only accelerating.
00:35:43.540So let me go back to a bigger point, James.
00:35:52.760What does this say about why these people are hanging out so long in Congress, why they just never seem to retire?
00:36:00.420Well, look, you know, I asked George Santos when he first got an inkling of how much patronage, how much of an insider's club and how much potential for corruption there was when he was in Congress.
00:36:20.000And he said basically day one, first briefing, you sit down, you know, he said it was eye popping and he realized suddenly the intensity of what he was dealing with.
00:36:31.560I mean, look, you know, you heard Congressman Gates pointing out that you got guys on the ethics committee, chair of the ethics committee in Congress.
00:36:38.900And they're setting standards. You know, it's a domino effect.
00:36:42.300You spend a few minutes on the Hill as an elected rep and you come to understand very quickly that there is there is a choice.
00:36:52.060Are you on team or are you off team? And this goes beyond just Republican Democrats.
00:36:56.460This goes to the heart of what is it that we're really doing here and how do we protect our ability as public officials to avail ourselves of the the advantages of being insiders in that system?
00:37:09.800It is a system that, you know, that really works as designed in that sense.
00:37:15.200And it's designed to keep people hanging around, taking advantage of what they can in whatever way they can for as long as they can.
00:37:21.580One of my very good friends is Mike Lee. And Mike tells me all the time, what the hell am I doing here?
00:37:26.800I am impoverishing myself. I could be out making a good living.
00:37:31.540And, you know, in his times of of frustration, he'll call me up.
00:37:36.600But what am I doing? Why am I even here? Well, this is not even good for my family, blah, blah, blah.
00:37:41.940When you have that kind of atmosphere, when you're not making money, you're it's almost costing you money to work there.
00:37:51.340That tends to have people come in, do it for a reason and then get out.
00:37:56.120We have these people who are hanging out for decades.
00:38:00.320Well, why wouldn't you? If I could get an 80 percent return on my investments year after year after year after year, why wouldn't you?
00:38:11.700You know, other than it's wrong. But wait a minute, I could double my money if I win two more elections.
00:38:18.060I could start with one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a bank account and I could be worth 30 million dollars if I just work here for the next 30 years.
00:38:30.620Yeah. And you know what, Glenn? I mean, really, what you're what you're alluding to here is that this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
00:38:36.660Like there is a symbiotic relationship between public officials and major corporations, in some cases, multinational corporations.
00:38:45.620And this is one facet of that relationship.
00:38:50.140And the longer that people stay around, the longer those networks develop and reinforce each other and police themselves, the more that both sides of the public sector, private sector divide,
00:39:02.720the more that divide melts away and it enriches people and it corrupts people and it creates very thick patronage networks that are just very tough to talk people out of participating in.
00:39:16.540You know, if you do get reelected, then you're back for a second term.
00:39:20.160And the pressure on you to play ball and to be part of the team is just immense.
00:39:24.740And, you know, I bet that that some of Mike Lee's colleagues look at him and they go, you know, oh, this guy's a this guy's dope.
00:39:32.260This guy's a pansy. You know, he's he thinks he's better than us.
00:39:36.380He's you know, he's he for some strange reason. He doesn't want to enrich himself.
00:39:41.600There's peer pressure. You know, it is sort of like a weaponized high school in a way.
00:39:47.020Jeez, what a great term. Weaponized high school. That is exactly what it is.
00:39:52.680James, thank you so much. I appreciate it. God bless.
00:41:00.440And you can openly just buy shocks of stocks of Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed Martin, you know exactly the numbers of what we have left.
00:41:13.440What companies make those things that were short on if I should showed you last night in this dock.
00:41:21.660The people who got out of airlines, carnival cruise lines, all of these things before you knew all of that.
00:41:31.640What was coming with covid before you knew they had already taken their gains and got out before things went down south because they had already been briefed.