The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Marion Smith ｜ 10⧸9⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the, is it Wednesday? The Wednesday podcast.

00:00:04.460 Holy cow, this one was hard to get through because we have so much to talk to you about.

00:00:10.300 We have more on the impeachment and news that nobody else has.

00:00:15.540 That is really critically important that you understand and pass on to your friends.

00:00:20.560 We also have some financial news that nobody seems to want to be talking about.

00:00:25.280 Some of the things that Donald Trump did yesterday, including open skies, a law that he has repealed, and I'm happy about it,

00:00:33.680 but it opens the door to a lot of questions on why, what are we preparing for?

00:00:42.440 And there are some rumors going around about the funds, the sovereign funds that the Chinese own, and we'll talk about that.

00:00:52.220 Also, the NBA, what is really happening with the whistleblowers in Ukraine, the 76ers kicking the guys out who are saying free Hong Kong.

00:01:05.180 Also, Turkey has just invaded Syria. What does that mean?

00:01:11.540 Boy, this is a, this is a jam-packed podcast. Don't miss a second of it. Here it is.

00:01:22.220 All right. I want to talk to you a little bit about what is happening in China.

00:01:36.740 Stu, can you give me an update on what you have with the NFL and everything else?

00:01:41.140 China is changing in NBA.

00:01:43.180 Yeah. I mean, there seems to be a really increase in the aggressiveness of China over even just the past few weeks.

00:01:50.580 The, the ridiculous NBA saga with Daryl, Daryl Morey, who is an NBA general manager for the Houston Rockets.

00:01:59.320 And, like, just to put a, an emphasis on this, because he tweeted out, I support Hong Kong, you know, support democracy, was, was just obliterated by not only the league, his owner, other owners.

00:02:13.420 How dare you insult the People's Republic of China?

00:02:17.900 Yeah. And the, and the wonderful Communist Party was essentially the response.

00:02:22.300 Now, after a real blowback from Americans saying, oh, wait, wait, what are you guys doing?

00:02:28.320 You're siding with the Chinese government here?

00:02:30.900 There was a little bit of a step back yesterday.

00:02:33.520 Adam Silver, who is the commissioner, released a statement that I thought was really weak, frankly, that said, well, we're not going to crack down on people's personal views if they're employees of the league, which was exactly what they had done for the past few days.

00:02:46.180 He did make a statement and said a little bit more clearly yesterday that we're not, we understand that he had a viewpoint and we're not going to, we're not going to get involved in whether he's right or wrong.

00:03:03.420 So there was a little bit of an improvement in the NBA's position yesterday.

00:03:06.620 This did not help the opinion of China, however, who then not only has been taking down posters around the cities for the games that are being scheduled, that were scheduled there, they're not airing them.

00:03:17.480 They have a streaming service there that is not airing the games.

00:03:20.220 There's a big, big pushback there, and this is coming to a major head, and you get the sense that South Park was right.

00:03:30.260 You know, China basically is controlling multiple, you know, large portions of our economy because they can hold us at gunpoint. 0.93

00:03:40.180 And if you think this is bad, if you look at the way the NBA has reacted, it's going to point you to what, you know, Glenn has been talking about for a million years on how they could do this with our entire economy.

00:03:52.220 So I want to take you there.

00:03:54.380 First of all, let's just remember that something's wrong with our banking system.

00:03:59.520 I just sent something to Bowie, one of our producers, in the control room.

00:04:06.080 If you could open that up and put that chart up.

00:04:08.860 This is something that Stu found very interesting yesterday, and you found this chart, I think, in the Wall Street Journal, maybe?

00:04:16.120 It was a Wall Street Journal chart, yeah.

00:04:17.880 And you said, you've been talking about this bank, this quiet bank bailout for a while.

00:04:24.880 I just saw a graphic on it, and it totally changes everything.

00:04:28.280 Yeah, can you explain exactly?

00:04:31.080 Yeah, so this is the repo.

00:04:33.140 Yeah, very complicated.

00:04:34.060 This is the repo market.

00:04:37.280 And what happens is every bank has to have a certain amount of money, you know, in their coffers when they close every night for the overnight.

00:04:45.920 And sometimes they're short.

00:04:48.360 You know, they might be short $5 billion or, I mean, $5 million or, you know, whatever it is.

00:04:54.000 And so they borrow money from the other bank, and they'll say, hey, we're short something.

00:04:59.880 Can we just sell you these treasuries or you give us a loan based on these treasuries, and we'll pay you 1% for the 24 hours or the actual, it's usually about eight hours.

00:05:13.880 And they're like, fine.

00:05:15.340 And so it happens all the time.

00:05:17.740 The Fed doesn't usually get involved.

00:05:20.320 Now, it used to prior to 2008, but it wasn't a very big deal.

00:05:25.280 You would just go to the Fed, and the Fed would take your asset, and they would give you a loan, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:05:32.220 It's standard.

00:05:33.040 However, not what's been happening.

00:05:36.200 What's been happening since the oil fields went on fire, you will see, now, if you happen to be watching the blaze, let's describe this for our radio listeners.

00:05:46.940 You will see that the beginning of this chart starts in 2005, and it is marked in billions of dollars.

00:05:56.200 So you will see that the Fed was bailing these banks out or borrowing, lending money to these banks every night, you know, between 25 and 48, is this in billions?

00:06:10.320 Yeah, billion dollars, okay, every night.

00:06:12.580 And it just rotates.

00:06:14.600 You give it back the next day.

00:06:16.080 Okay, you will see that in 2008, when Bear Stearns went belly up, you will see that it went up to $125 billion every night.

00:06:29.840 And we all know what happened.

00:06:31.880 Yeah, I mean, that's a crisis situation.

00:06:34.500 Correct.

00:06:34.980 Right.

00:06:35.440 Correct.

00:06:35.860 Then they were bailed out, and it went to almost zero every night.

00:06:40.720 For a long, long time.

00:06:43.660 What, almost 10 years?

00:06:45.440 10 years.

00:06:45.760 10 years of zero dollars.

00:06:47.480 Zero.

00:06:47.920 And then, on September 18th, for the first time, so it's a kind of like a heartbeat graph, with one big spike up to $125, you know, for the Bear Stearns thing.

00:06:59.720 And then it goes almost flatline all the way to zero for 10 years.

00:07:04.520 Which is the best case scenario.

00:07:06.160 Right.

00:07:06.440 For this particular measure.

00:07:07.760 Then, on September 18th, all of a sudden it spikes up to $75 billion.

00:07:12.480 Then, by September 25th, it's at $105 billion.

00:07:16.500 And then, by October 2nd, it's $181 billion.

00:07:20.600 More than it was during the 2008 collapse.

00:07:23.240 A lot more.

00:07:24.400 It was about $130 was the very top for one day.

00:07:28.420 And then it kind of spiked back down.

00:07:30.980 This is $181 billion, and it's still going on.

00:07:34.440 So, we don't know what's going on with our banks.

00:07:37.780 We have no idea.

00:07:39.900 Now, let me give you how this ties into China.

00:07:42.580 We are already in a precarious situation.

00:07:44.800 I told you at the beginning that trade wars always follow a certain pattern.

00:07:53.380 And when the world is on edge, that pattern always ends in war.

00:08:00.740 For instance, what was the Boston Tea Party?

00:08:06.120 Trade war.

00:08:07.440 Trade war.

00:08:08.060 Okay.

00:08:08.940 Trade wars between countries.

00:08:11.040 When countries are in conflict, that's usually the last step.

00:08:17.420 And here's what happens.

00:08:19.240 The first step is there's some sort of political crisis, and that leads to some sort of a banking crisis.

00:08:27.940 Now, we had that.

00:08:29.360 We have our political crisis going on, and we also had our banking collapse in 2008.

00:08:36.180 The next step always is the governments step in to bail their banks out, and they start to devalue their money.

00:08:45.520 They start to just print money.

00:08:47.580 Well, we've done that.

00:08:49.940 Then, because other countries begin to devalue theirs, look overseas, look at what everybody is doing,

00:08:57.520 the trade imbalances start to go crazy.

00:09:00.780 And that's when trade wars start.

00:09:03.520 That's the last step before war, is a trade war.

00:09:10.400 And there's a few reasons for it.

00:09:12.920 Trade wars usually get nasty and nationalistic, and so you start saying,

00:09:18.200 well, we're not in this with them, and they're not in this with us.

00:09:21.320 And you start throwing barbs back and forth, and it spirals out of control.

00:09:26.040 And World War I, World War II, both started by trade wars.

00:09:30.980 Now, here's the next step.

00:09:34.900 Here's the latest in our trade war.

00:09:37.300 Now, this has been leaked, and these people who leaked this should be found.

00:09:46.240 I mean, I really believe the White House is a sieve,

00:09:50.440 and we are leaking things for political reasons that are very bad.

00:09:55.500 So here's what we do know.

00:09:59.820 I want you to recall that in prior programs, we noted that the Chinese printed 51 trillion U.S. dollars

00:10:09.340 in their money and used a portion of that to invest in Western and U.S. stocks and bonds.

00:10:17.560 These were off-balance sheet holdings per their own Financial Stability Report in 2018.

00:10:24.920 So they reported this, but it was off their balance sheet.

00:10:29.420 They printed 51 trillion dollars.

00:10:33.380 So, you know, if we gather up all the cash in the entire world, every, you know, every yak 0.81

00:10:41.000 and every clam and every dollar and every pound, we take all of it, that is 50 trillion dollars.

00:10:50.480 So they printed more than what the entire world has out in circulation.

00:10:56.600 Half of that went 15, between 15 and 24 trillion is the estimate from the Bank of International Settlements

00:11:06.560 that the Chinese now bought in U.S. stocks, bonds, and real estate.

00:11:11.820 This according to their 2018 report.

00:11:15.120 Marco Rubio introduced a bill in the Senate early this year requiring foreign holders of U.S. equities

00:11:22.460 to report ownership structures, a backdoor way for us to know who owns the companies,

00:11:28.800 who owns the trusts, who owns the LLCs that are making this investment.

00:11:33.100 The bill, for some reason, most likely China, never made it out of committee.

00:11:39.240 We speculated at the time that it was possible that President Xi from China

00:11:43.880 was weaponizing our own financial system against us, enabling him to crash the U.S. economy

00:11:50.540 just by hitting a sell button.

00:11:53.480 If they have 24, I want to make sure this is right, yes, 15 to 24 trillion dollars

00:12:02.560 invested in U.S. stocks and bonds.

00:12:05.360 If he hits sell, we have a major depression on our hands.

00:12:11.400 So something happened yesterday that is very important.

00:12:15.840 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:12:38.320 We have some bad news.

00:12:39.800 The world is at war today.

00:12:42.120 Today, Turkey has launched their initiative to rid the world of the Syrian Kurds. 1.00

00:12:49.300 Well, that's not possible because yesterday the president tweeted out that we are not abandoning

00:12:55.860 the Kurds in any way.

00:12:58.380 They're special people.

00:12:59.400 They're wonderful fighters.

00:13:01.000 And likewise, we have a great relationship with Turkey.

00:13:03.660 So don't worry about that.

00:13:05.600 And then Lindsey Graham, to the Turkish government, you do not have a green light to enter into

00:13:12.080 northern Syria.

00:13:14.300 Unfortunately, they have entered into northern Syria.

00:13:17.380 Is it possible they caught the yellow, the yellow light?

00:13:19.460 Maybe.

00:13:20.040 Maybe they just caught the yellow light.

00:13:21.260 Just at the very end.

00:13:22.960 It was very amber.

00:13:25.640 Very amber.

00:13:26.560 But we didn't have a camera at the light.

00:13:31.120 We don't know.

00:13:32.440 So Turkish warplanes have started to carry out airstrikes on civilian areas.

00:13:36.600 Apparently, there's huge panic among the people of the region.

00:13:38.900 There should be.

00:13:40.060 I wonder why.

00:13:40.640 This is going to go down as, look, I want our troops home.

00:13:47.020 I do, too.

00:13:47.900 I want our troops home.

00:13:49.540 I want to be out of all of these foreign entanglements. 1.00

00:13:52.980 However, when a country says that they are going to commit genocide, you take them at

00:14:00.140 their word, especially when they have a history of genocide.

00:14:05.540 The Kurds, the problem is these Kurds are not good guys. 1.00

00:14:10.760 Now, they happen to be on our side against ISIS, but they're not good.

00:14:16.120 They're not.

00:14:16.840 They're not Americans. 1.00

00:14:18.720 OK, they don't they don't love America.

00:14:21.200 They're they are communist Marxists and they they would be fighting us just as fast.

00:14:29.200 But that's not why Turkey is going in to get them. 0.81

00:14:32.740 Turkey wants the rest of Turkey back.

00:14:36.120 This is all about what is it?

00:14:38.000 The Balfour line.

00:14:39.340 What was that line called?

00:14:41.840 You know, the line that we we we made that ISIS was trying to make a big deal out of that

00:14:47.480 that they had.

00:14:48.120 OK, well, I have to go back.

00:14:49.640 Yeah, I know.

00:14:50.540 We've done so many shows on these things over the last 10 years.

00:14:54.560 This is all about division after after World War, after World War one.

00:14:58.580 And we divided it.

00:15:00.500 And ISIS was trying to take that back for the, you know, the caliphate.

00:15:05.320 And now Turkey is trying to take that back.

00:15:07.820 And Turkey doesn't want just Syria.

00:15:10.220 They also want the Iraqi Kurds who are really pro-American, who we have abandoned every time,

00:15:18.960 who are really good people.

00:15:20.700 There are also Christians in these communities in Syria that are being bombed by Turkey as

00:15:28.240 of right now.

00:15:29.260 So we have abandoned the Kurds that wiped out ISIS. 0.73

00:15:33.660 We helped them.

00:15:34.460 And then we just said, see ya. 0.98

00:15:36.640 And Turkey had been saying, we're going to go in and slaughter all those people because 1.00

00:15:41.060 they're terrorists. 1.00

00:15:42.460 OK.

00:15:43.200 And as President Trump said, he's he's fought them off doing that for three years.

00:15:47.700 He's been telling them, no, just hang on.

00:15:50.600 No, we're we're in the area.

00:15:52.880 No.

00:15:53.360 And I don't know if he got tired of telling them no.

00:15:55.600 No, no, I think what's happening is I think the impeachment is is now starting to affect

00:16:03.920 policy because the president's the president needs to fulfill some promises.

00:16:09.920 You'll notice in the last week we've been talking about the border and and there's all

00:16:15.200 kinds of news about the border on how many, you know, a million plus came in last year and

00:16:21.420 like a what is it's 160 miles of the border has just been completed or something like

00:16:28.020 that.

00:16:28.460 They've been doing that.

00:16:29.760 He wants to get out of war.

00:16:32.000 Nobody is helping him in the Pentagon in the State Department get out of these wars. 0.97

00:16:36.720 And so he's just starting to say, screw you. 0.56

00:16:39.980 We'll put alligators down at the southern border and I'm going to pull them out because 0.99

00:16:44.340 you guys wouldn't do what I asked.

00:16:46.720 And I believe this is a a a function of a deep state, but not the way we think of deep

00:16:58.040 state.

00:16:58.420 When we think of deep state, people usually think that's a star chamber and everything

00:17:03.020 else.

00:17:03.280 That's not the kind of deep state we have, although the Ukraine thing is beginning to 0.93

00:17:08.920 look like it.

00:17:09.940 We don't have a deep state like that.

00:17:12.080 What we have are these career people in Intel, career people in the State Department that

00:17:19.960 have their own policies that they believe is right.

00:17:23.920 And so they will thwart the president because they know they'll outlast him.

00:17:29.840 That's the kind of deep state we have.

00:17:32.320 And I think they just refuse to move.

00:17:35.660 This is what President Bush told me when I was in the office.

00:17:38.340 I was in the Oval Office and he tried to calm me down on something and he made it worse

00:17:42.800 by saying, look, whoever gets in and sits behind this desk is going to make almost the

00:17:47.720 same decisions because they'll get the same advice and they'll have the same facts they're

00:17:52.380 working on.

00:17:53.340 Well, Donald Trump doesn't care.

00:17:55.720 He doesn't like that.

00:17:57.360 He doesn't like that advice.

00:17:58.600 And he doesn't care about those facts.

00:18:00.560 He says that this has been caused because of decades of screwing it up.

00:18:07.980 So we're not going to screw it up anymore.

00:18:10.300 And he talked the other day about his great and unmatched wisdom.

00:18:13.600 He believes his wisdom is unmatched.

00:18:16.860 And so he's going to decide.

00:18:19.120 It definitely comes.

00:18:20.160 Doesn't it come off, though, as if Turkey is just pushing us around? 0.99

00:18:24.780 I mean, yeah, it does.

00:18:25.980 They they are coming.

00:18:27.460 They're basically demanding.

00:18:28.680 Get out, get out, get out, get out. 0.68

00:18:29.900 We say yes. 0.99

00:18:30.940 They have the balls to go ahead. 0.99

00:18:33.060 Communications director to write an op ed in the Washington Post saying, look, yeah, 1.00

00:18:40.240 we're going to go in there and we're going to get these guys because they're a terrorist

00:18:43.120 organization that's been working with the United States, by the way, this terrorist 0.77

00:18:47.380 organization.

00:18:47.940 We're going to go in there and protect all of our people.

00:18:50.060 And that's going to happen.

00:18:51.140 And I mean, they're announcing this in our newspaper, basically get out and then we'll

00:18:56.040 go in and take care of this the right way.

00:18:57.680 Yep.

00:18:58.200 That's it.

00:18:58.760 That's a weird position for the United States to be in.

00:19:01.240 These Kurds are reminiscent to me of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, who we also supported

00:19:06.720 and we also armed and we also funded and they were the enemy of our enemy and they were

00:19:13.920 fighting against the Soviet Union.

00:19:15.320 So it was cool that that's kind of like and they turned into Osama bin Laden.

00:19:19.380 Yeah.

00:19:20.020 And that doesn't mean you just allow Turkey to come in and do whatever they please. 0.76

00:19:23.700 So here's the problem.

00:19:25.020 Here's the problem.

00:19:26.800 I wouldn't have a problem if Turkey was doing this.

00:19:31.680 This is between Turkey and Syria and the Syrian Kurds.

00:19:35.900 But the but Turkey is on the record wanting all of the land and they want all Kurds dead. 0.64

00:19:46.200 Yeah.

00:19:46.340 They're trying to reestablish the Ottoman Empire.

00:19:48.200 Right.

00:19:48.700 And so the problem with this is, is this is not like these Kurds were, you know, are super 0.98

00:19:56.240 bad.

00:19:57.160 They are in some regards.

00:19:59.340 We were using them like the Mujahideen or however I never could say those name as we were

00:20:07.960 using them and they're bad guys.

00:20:10.020 However, the real problem for me is Turkey stated goal over the last decade has been to get rid 1.00

00:20:19.620 of all of the Kurds, get rid of all of them, kill them all. 1.00

00:20:23.780 So they are talking about a genocide. 1.00

00:20:26.240 If they were just talking about these particular Kurds because these guys were causing problems 1.00

00:20:31.660 for China, but not the or for Turkey, but not these Kurds over here. 1.00

00:20:35.860 You know, we don't care about their race or whatever, but they do.

00:20:40.560 This is genocide.

00:20:42.360 And I think a lot of times this winds up in a zoom out situation where we're looking at

00:20:46.700 the big picture and talking about these in general concepts.

00:20:48.860 But what's actually happening here is we had, what, a couple of hundred troops who were

00:20:52.900 not fighting on the front lines in Syria, assisting the Kurdish troops in that region.

00:20:58.980 And that was what was keeping Turkey out from wiping all these people out. 0.69

00:21:02.280 So we pull out 150, what, 200 troops out so they can stand across an invisible line in

00:21:09.240 Iraq and watch the Kurds get slaughtered.

00:21:11.240 And by the way, when we say we want to bring our boys home, they're just, is Iraq home? 0.96

00:21:16.000 Because they're just pushing them across the border to Iraq. 0.53

00:21:18.240 They're now in Iraq.

00:21:19.000 That doesn't mean that they're home.

00:21:20.260 So can I ask you, can I ask you a question?

00:21:22.280 What do you do?

00:21:23.900 Because I don't want to be protecting or be in bed with the Syrian Turks or Syrian Kurds. 1.00

00:21:31.560 I don't, I don't think that ever works out well.

00:21:35.440 They always turn into Osama bin Laden. 0.91

00:21:38.100 Always they turn against us.

00:21:39.800 So I don't want to help them.

00:21:41.480 I didn't want them.

00:21:42.400 I didn't want them to be on our side, you know, from the beginning.

00:21:47.500 Look at every time we get into bed with a world power or any power that is bad.

00:21:52.980 We did this with Russia. 0.97

00:21:56.100 The Russia was our ally.

00:21:59.080 Okay.

00:22:00.180 All right.

00:22:01.200 Then what did we do?

00:22:02.460 We created the biggest foe because we said they were good.

00:22:07.100 No, they weren't good.

00:22:08.860 Look at what we're doing with China.

00:22:10.480 We are creating our biggest foe because we're saying that they're good.

00:22:14.580 They've never been good.

00:22:16.080 They killed 60 million people.

00:22:19.240 So I don't want to be in the round around the world going, you know what?

00:22:23.120 We're just best friends with you and we're in bed with you and we'll help you with the military and you'll help us.

00:22:29.020 And that's great.

00:22:29.540 I don't want any of that.

00:22:30.840 I don't want any of that.

00:22:31.740 So how do you end that?

00:22:33.740 How do you end it?

00:22:34.700 Unless you just say, yep, some people are going to be killed, but I got to pull them out.

00:22:40.020 Well, I mean, what Trump has promised right here to potentially fight against this is massive economic sanctions.

00:22:45.760 To destroy their economy.

00:22:47.000 Right.

00:22:47.580 He's not going to.

00:22:48.480 You don't think he's going to take that step?

00:22:49.700 Not on Syria.

00:22:51.220 Not on Syria. 1.00

00:22:51.980 He'll let them kill him in Syria. 1.00

00:22:54.160 All right, man. 0.99

00:22:54.740 That's, well, we'll see.

00:22:56.060 I mean, I don't, I assume he does not want that to occur, obviously.

00:22:59.060 So, you know, he, and he did threaten that publicly.

00:23:02.540 So we'll see.

00:23:03.480 I mean, you know.

00:23:04.460 For Syria.

00:23:05.440 And publicly.

00:23:06.180 For Syria.

00:23:07.000 Well, yeah.

00:23:07.640 He said he wouldn't allow Turkey to come in and just, and, and take the Kurds.

00:23:11.380 He said something about if they do something inhumane, which I guess is a, is a line that's a little different than them coming in.

00:23:17.540 I mean, I think.

00:23:18.680 As the op-ed says in the Washington Post, during a phone call with the president of Turkey on Sunday,

00:23:26.120 President Trump agreed to transfer the leadership of the counter-Islamic state campaign to Turkey.

00:23:32.320 That's how the op-ed opens.

00:23:34.960 This is from the Turkey, the communications director of Turkey in the Washington Post today.

00:23:38.520 Can that possibly be true?

00:23:40.280 I mean, he.

00:23:41.240 You can't turn an anti-Islamic movement over to Turkey.

00:23:46.880 To an Islamic. 0.99

00:23:48.420 Doesn't sound like there's going to be a good outcome from that.

00:23:51.220 Authoritarian state.

00:23:52.420 That's bad.

00:23:52.960 Now, look, a lot of things, I think we've come to a point with war.

00:23:56.000 I made this point, I think, a couple times before, but where we kind of judge it by the wrong metrics.

00:24:00.900 Where, like, we're like, you know, here's the length of time from the beginning of the invasion to today, and now it's our longest war.

00:24:06.600 Like, I hate that argument when it comes to Afghanistan because, like, we can say, is that, yes, it is. 0.98

00:24:12.100 Let's just say it is our longest war, which I, you know, I quibble with because what is war, right?

00:24:17.820 When you think of war, you think of World War II.

00:24:20.180 Continual battles.

00:24:20.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:24:21.560 Every day.

00:24:22.080 Like, yes, we are still involved in this situation, but would you rather have a one-week war where 500,000 people are killed on your side, or would you rather have a very long war with very few people killed, which is the new style of war?

00:24:36.960 I don't like war at all, but the idea that 150 people being kept in what seems to be relatively, for that region, safe circumstances because they're not on the front lines of battle,

00:24:50.760 to prevent an entire, you know, group of people that have assisted us to get wiped out does not seem like the idea of being the world's policemen.

00:25:03.520 I think the world's policemen, we are constantly invading places.

00:25:08.400 Honestly, the world's policemen is what Donald Trump promised he would do.

00:25:12.560 If you do something wrong, then we'll come in and we'll punish you.

00:25:18.120 Well, that's the world's policemen.

00:25:20.960 Right.

00:25:21.480 A peacekeeping force, which they never are, but a peacekeeping force is what we actually were doing there.

00:25:30.380 You know, we were keeping the security force, just making sure that things, you know, are stable and they don't fall into extremist hands.

00:25:41.980 So we were helping, right?

00:25:42.780 We were helping with airstrikes.

00:25:43.940 We were helping with resources.

00:25:45.440 We were helping with training and advice.

00:25:47.360 But what was our real role there?

00:25:49.400 Our real role there was Turkey's not coming in while our guys are there because they don't want to, they don't want to conflict with us.

00:25:55.920 And almost the instant it happens, they're in.

00:25:59.020 No, it is the instant.

00:26:00.020 And they promised it in our newspaper, in our capital.

00:26:04.140 Despite the fact, the warnings from the president and a U.S. senator, they did it anyway, which looks really bad for us.

00:26:10.320 Again, who is this?

00:26:11.900 Is the warning real?

00:26:12.880 I mean, if they really had this call where Trump said, yep, now this is your gig, if that actually happened, I mean, obviously somebody's not telling the truth.

00:26:22.360 Now, I would tend to support, believe our president over Erdogan.

00:26:26.480 So, but still, like, that needs to be sorted out.

00:26:30.340 And you've got to think the president of the United States, if he sees this and they're just lying about this phone call, he's got to be infuriated today.

00:26:37.700 I would think so.

00:26:38.620 Well, maybe Nancy Pelosi can get a copy of that phone call. 0.79

00:26:42.720 All right.

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00:27:20.720 There is there's a lot happening today.

00:27:23.920 Things are accelerating.

00:27:26.460 We have Turkey starting to drop bombs in Syria, which they first said they weren't going to do.

00:27:34.240 Or Trump first said that he wasn't going to allow them to do.

00:27:37.140 And then it was if they don't if they do anything inhumane.

00:27:41.040 So we are we're displacing thousands of Christians today in Syria, and they may die if we can't get them out, because I do believe that Syria is on a genocidal tirade. 1.00

00:27:55.620 Even if it doesn't happen right now, they're going to be in charge of of what's going on, and they are looking to reestablish the Ottoman Empire.

00:28:05.780 And that is a stated goal.

00:28:07.800 And I know Ottoman Empire.

00:28:09.240 That's crazy. 0.97

00:28:09.720 That's as crazy as a caliphate.

00:28:11.880 Listen. 0.98

00:28:12.320 Don't listen to the so-called frickin' experts because they're wrong every step of the way.

00:28:22.800 Take people at their word.

00:28:26.720 Russia has also started using a new unit, what's been around for 10 years, to destabilize Europe. 0.83

00:28:35.020 And our officials in Washington are wondering what's happening.

00:28:41.040 Listen.

00:28:44.200 Because we told you what was happening.

00:28:47.440 We told you clearly this was coming.

00:28:50.520 All you have to do is listen to the people who Putin listens to.

00:29:00.200 Meanwhile, the impeachment hearings are making our president look weak to the bad guys in the world.

00:29:10.080 You think there's a reason why China is upping the game? 0.85

00:29:14.460 You damn right. 0.84

00:29:16.260 Because they think they can win. 0.86

00:29:18.320 Meanwhile, yesterday, the president repealed the Open Skies Law, which allowed China and Russia and everybody else just to fly their military jets in our airspace with no problem.

00:29:34.920 No.

00:29:35.940 No.

00:29:37.100 That was a bad law.

00:29:38.700 But why did the president revoke it yesterday?

00:29:42.280 Things are heating up.

00:29:43.900 Listen to the first hour of this podcast today to find out just what's happening on Wall Street and what is happening with stocks and bonds and the bank bailouts that the Fed is doing.

00:29:59.440 It is time now more than ever to keep calm and carry on.

00:30:07.120 You cannot blindly support impeachment or support no impeachment.

00:30:13.360 Don't blindly do it.

00:30:15.320 You must have the facts.

00:30:17.720 I told my staff today that we need we need some things up on my set for the five o'clock because you can't understand.

00:30:30.240 Nobody is nobody is explaining this to you.

00:30:34.780 And we are going to explain it every frickin night.

00:30:37.920 We are going to go through it every night because people need to understand last night we went over the whistleblower.

00:30:47.080 Let me just give you some of the highlights.

00:30:49.360 Here's how the usual whistleblower complaint is handled by the intelligence community.

00:30:54.480 It's very simple.

00:30:56.120 There are five steps.

00:30:58.240 First, whistleblower has to come to the inspector general.

00:31:01.880 Now, the inspector general then has 14 days to determine if the complaint is credible and of urgent concern.

00:31:09.580 You don't come in and file something.

00:31:12.920 You go to the inspector general and you say, hey, listen, this is what I'm hearing.

00:31:18.120 Well, what are you hearing this from?

00:31:19.400 What?

00:31:19.620 Where did you get this?

00:31:21.120 Did you see anything?

00:31:22.360 They have 14 days after you go in and meet with the inspector general to see if it's credible and of urgent concern.

00:31:31.880 Now, the urgent concern language is really important.

00:31:34.940 An intelligence community urgent concern is defined as relating to the, quote, administration or operation of an intelligence activity within the authority of the director of national intelligence involving classified information.

00:31:52.660 You can't just go to a member of Congress.

00:31:56.060 You can't just go in and and and circumvent these things.

00:32:02.400 You have to go to the IG, because even if you have a top secret clearance doesn't mean you have clearance to see everything that's top secret.

00:32:12.540 It's top secret.

00:32:14.000 Do you have a clearance?

00:32:15.260 Yes.

00:32:15.720 What's your need to know?

00:32:17.840 So members of Congress don't have a need to know things.

00:32:21.480 If they do, they then can ask for those top secret documents and say, I have top secret clearance.

00:32:29.480 But it's very important.

00:32:31.160 Not everybody has any secret.

00:32:33.520 Not everybody can just go to Area 51 and find the alien bodies.

00:32:37.380 Do you have a need to know?

00:32:38.580 All right.

00:32:43.200 The information.

00:32:44.100 Step three.

00:32:44.660 If the information is deemed credible and urgent, then the IG is required, required to forward it to the national, the director of national intelligence.

00:32:53.480 Then the director of national intelligence, the DNI, has seven days to submit that report to Congress.

00:33:00.700 However, if the information is deemed not credible or no action is taken, the whistleblower then can go directly to Congress, but capitalized, but he is required to tell the IG and work with the DNI to ensure that he isn't exposing classified information that he is not supposed to.

00:33:25.900 OK, that last step is incredible.

00:33:27.800 You can go to Congress, but you have to inform the IG and the DNI because they have to look at that and say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't tell them that.

00:33:39.400 Because they don't have the clearance to know these things.

00:33:46.120 Now, that's the way it is.

00:33:47.540 And we've seen this in every movie.

00:33:49.760 Jack Bauer or any Tom Clancy character, Jack Ryan is always in trouble because he's like, I'm just going to tell.

00:33:56.800 You can't tell them.

00:33:58.120 And they always get in trouble for telling them.

00:34:00.720 Here, this guy's going to get a promotion.

00:34:04.020 What are we doing to our intelligence community?

00:34:07.160 We are equipping them.

00:34:09.600 We are arming them.

00:34:13.420 All right.

00:34:14.160 So that's what normally happens.

00:34:15.660 But that's not what happened this time.

00:34:17.600 Here is what happened.

00:34:18.860 The phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian president occurred on July 25th.

00:34:23.980 And then there's this weird 18-day gap.

00:34:28.860 18 days.

00:34:30.380 The guy didn't file any kind of complaint.

00:34:32.520 Well, he probably had to hear it from the water cooler.

00:34:35.060 Did it take him 18 days to do it?

00:34:38.880 Here's what happened.

00:34:39.920 You follow the usual official process.

00:34:44.820 The complaint should have gone directly to the IG.

00:34:47.940 But the New York Times broke the story that the whistleblower went straight to the House Intelligence Committee.

00:34:54.460 This whistleblower skipped steps one through four.

00:34:58.740 He only used half of number five.

00:35:03.760 He went directly to Congress.

00:35:05.600 That's only one line in step number five.

00:35:10.320 He didn't inform the IG.

00:35:11.720 He didn't inform the DNI.

00:35:13.380 No one.

00:35:14.160 He went right directly to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

00:35:18.040 Now, why is that?

00:35:20.540 Why is that?

00:35:21.640 What kind of responsible whistleblower does that? 0.98

00:35:25.540 Cuts the system out.

00:35:27.080 Because he could have gone to them and gotten nothing.

00:35:30.360 But then the rules state, as long as he did that, he can go to Congress.

00:35:36.000 Now, here's the part that they really don't want to, they don't want you to know.

00:35:44.340 What guidance did the Democrats give this whistleblower?

00:35:48.440 How much and what information was shared?

00:35:52.100 This whistleblower is a CIA officer.

00:35:55.720 And he just revealed classified information without permission from the Director of Intelligence or the IG.

00:36:02.160 And that 18-day gap before he decided to actually follow the correct procedure is not him deciding and tossing and turning because he went to Congress to Adam Schiff and the Intelligence Committee.

00:36:19.040 That's in one of those glass rooms.

00:36:21.700 You've seen them in, you know, the movies where they go into the glass rooms and you have to sign in.

00:36:27.240 You have to buzz in. 0.83

00:36:29.060 And then you sit in there and everything that you say is totally top secret.

00:36:34.160 Nothing can come out of that room.

00:36:36.400 Okay?

00:36:37.200 This guy went into that room and talked to Adam Schiff and Schiff and who else?

00:36:44.180 Who else was in the room?

00:36:46.280 Who else heard it?

00:36:47.700 Was it the full committee that heard it?

00:36:51.700 Or was it just a few?

00:36:54.180 Did the DNC attorneys, did the attorneys for Adam Schiff that are in that room, did those attorneys help craft this whistleblower's story?

00:37:10.480 What is, what does Schiff know?

00:37:13.740 When did he know it?

00:37:14.940 Who else knew it?

00:37:16.020 What was said?

00:37:17.300 Who were the attorneys in the room?

00:37:19.400 Did they help?

00:37:21.060 Because here's what we know Schiff said.

00:37:24.220 Okay, you've got to go get a lawyer.

00:37:27.340 You've got to go get a lawyer?

00:37:30.080 That's not in any of the procedures.

00:37:32.720 You've got to go get the IG.

00:37:34.720 You've got to go to the DNI.

00:37:36.660 No, no, you've got to get a lawyer.

00:37:38.380 And you've got to prepare this case.

00:37:40.600 For what?

00:37:42.940 Schiff knew about it.

00:37:44.440 I believe Schiff and possibly the attorneys in that room broke all kinds of laws.

00:37:52.480 helped him craft this, then sent him to an attorney firm.

00:37:56.700 And you're not going to guess who this attorney firm is.

00:38:00.060 This attorney firm, the odds of this happening are just, I mean, so coincidental.

00:38:05.360 The main lawyer representing the whistleblower is Mark Zaid.

00:38:11.320 Shortly after the president was inaugurated, Zaid co-founded an organization called The Whistleblower Aid.

00:38:20.400 Its main page now says, report government and corporate law breaking without breaking the law.

00:38:27.340 But that's not what it said when it was first established right after the president was inaugurated.

00:38:34.120 No, no, no.

00:38:35.560 Fortunately, whatever is online is forever.

00:38:39.600 What it used to say was, today, our republic is under threat.

00:38:46.820 Whistleblower aid is committed to protecting the rule of law in the United States and around the world.

00:38:52.400 Okay, there's nothing wrong with that.

00:38:54.580 But it almost seems like a setup, a partisan attack on Donald Trump.

00:38:59.500 They didn't do it during the Obama administration.

00:39:01.600 They did it right after Donald Trump was elected.

00:39:04.880 And then, and then what they did is they went out and tried to goad people into spilling the beans on Trump.

00:39:14.620 They were on every street corner and every, you know, every subway stop going to the Capitol.

00:39:22.360 They stood on street corners in D.C. handing out pamphlets and whistles so you could whistleblow.

00:39:27.760 They hung signs up in the D.C. metro that said, you know, you've got to blow the whistle on this.

00:39:35.820 This is the guy?

00:39:37.520 He just happens to find this guy's firm.

00:39:41.540 Or is this a partisan setup from the very beginning?

00:39:45.860 It's at least worth knowing before people start to say, yeah, I'm with this impeachment.

00:39:54.360 It's at least worth the president being able to present some of these things, but nobody's doing it.

00:40:04.740 We are five o'clock tonight.

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00:40:09.900 We expose the documents.

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00:40:14.260 Tonight, we're going to introduce you to the real Underwoods.

00:40:21.360 Underwoods.

00:40:23.520 Francis Underwood and his wife, Claire, were, I always thought, were the Clintons.

00:40:30.320 No?

00:40:31.720 Mm-mm.

00:40:32.980 They were actually based on another real-life couple, good friends of the Clintons,

00:40:38.480 who are even more brutal than the Clintons.

00:40:44.080 How were they involved?

00:40:46.100 The Underwoods were involved in Ukraine? 0.82

00:40:49.460 You're damn right.

00:40:52.020 Wait until you see the story of the Chalupa.

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00:41:28.680 Marion Smith is a civil society leader, expert in international affairs. 0.86

00:41:33.380 He has been the executive director of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation since March

00:41:39.180 of 2014.

00:41:40.000 I love this organization.

00:41:42.700 They are fighting to keep the multiple holocausts and programs alive in people's minds so we 0.92

00:41:51.860 don't forget the victims of communism.

00:41:54.740 And there are over a hundred million of them now, just from the last century.

00:42:02.000 Marion is from South Carolina.

00:42:04.260 And what I love is he is also the National Civic Art Society chairperson, which I don't

00:42:11.120 know somebody with your credentials, how you got them to give you that role.

00:42:15.180 But God bless you.

00:42:16.860 Marion Smith, welcome.

00:42:18.240 Thank you, Glenn.

00:42:20.140 Great to be with you.

00:42:21.360 So can you just these corporations, is it an overstatement to say that these corporations

00:42:29.900 that are in bed for the cash of China, that they are going to someday possibly be remembered

00:42:38.360 as the kind of company that the Nazi collaborators were?

00:42:43.960 Well, I think, you know, 30 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell.

00:42:47.780 And in the days after that, if someone would have said that in 2019, it would be America's

00:42:55.540 business elite, sports, entertainment elite that would be ushering in a censorship state

00:43:03.840 inside of the United States, along with, you know, giant tech companies, I don't think

00:43:08.240 anybody would have believed you.

00:43:09.960 But China has effectively intertwined themselves into all elements of American society.

00:43:17.780 They have been very strategic and silent about it.

00:43:20.820 They have appealed to greed and to short-term interest.

00:43:25.500 And the fallout right now over the NBA's refusal to stand immediately with Daryl Morey, eventually

00:43:35.260 after China, you know, punished the NBA, Adam Silver had statements defending free speech.

00:43:43.880 But it's very clear the leadership of the NBA came down very heavily on Morey.

00:43:48.000 And he deleted his original tweet supporting Hong Kong and issued an apology.

00:43:53.840 Horrible.

00:43:54.760 But, you know, the fallout of all of that is, I think, revealing to Americans just what's

00:44:01.100 wrong at the very top of so many of our institutions.

00:44:03.760 And that is that they have made a deal with the devil and the Chinese Communist Party. 0.90

00:44:09.120 They have made money and they have pretended that they're advancing democracy and political

00:44:17.340 values of freedom by trading or conducting business with China.

00:44:23.280 But simply not the case.

00:44:24.600 Yeah, we're not we're not bringing our culture into theirs.

00:44:30.080 We're bringing our products into theirs and they are bringing their their culture of of

00:44:37.340 intimidation into our country. 0.94

00:44:40.120 Well, the problem is that it's not even working on the business side anymore.

00:44:46.680 You know, internationally, China, with their Belt Road Initiative, is this is essentially standing

00:44:52.400 up a alternative to the, you know, rules based international trading system that the United

00:44:59.480 States has defended, which respects free enterprise.

00:45:02.220 And they're, you know, engaging in neo mercantilist, exploitative, you know, trading policies with

00:45:09.820 essentially countries they're trying to make client states.

00:45:13.240 And in those countries, they also present their their values of authoritarianism.

00:45:19.020 But then businesses, Western businesses operating in China have increasingly been pushed out now

00:45:24.960 that their technology has been stolen.

00:45:27.020 Their business practices have been copied.

00:45:29.140 They're being pushed out as well.

00:45:31.020 And then, of course, the entire national security element to this and and and the infiltration

00:45:37.760 of companies and and firms that are important for U.S. national security.

00:45:45.360 You know, all of this has been made possible by the silence in American society about the nature

00:45:52.340 of the People's Republic of China, silence on the human rights abuses that they've been conducting.

00:45:57.340 And it's been a bipartisan problem.

00:45:58.980 So can you give me a give me a rundown?

00:46:03.660 Because your organization is about the victims of communism.

00:46:06.720 And so you document these things and keep these stories alive.

00:46:10.720 Tell the American people the kinds of things that they're doing.

00:46:14.840 For instance, the guy who is wearing a Houston's Houston Rockets T-shirt tried to light the

00:46:21.360 Chinese flag on fire.

00:46:23.100 He was picked up by the Chinese police and disappeared.

00:46:26.100 What happens to people like that?

00:46:28.100 And what is their real record on human rights?

00:46:31.100 Well, the record on human rights, going back to Mao's Communist Party and when they took

00:46:40.280 over China in 1949, since that time, the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the deaths

00:46:47.940 of some 50 million people.

00:46:49.440 The Chinese Communist Party remains the single deadliest entity in world history.

00:46:57.340 And, you know, that was through purges.

00:47:00.880 That was through land reform.

00:47:03.240 That was through the Cultural Revolution.

00:47:06.120 But they will say those are things of the past.

00:47:10.140 We're not those communists anymore.

00:47:12.040 That is what the propaganda has been in the West since 1989.

00:47:21.520 And Americans were eager to believe it. 0.55

00:47:25.840 And yet, inside of China, throughout that entire period, they were devouring their own people 1.00

00:47:31.640 and ethnic minorities.

00:47:32.920 The cultural genocide in Tibet has continued until today.

00:47:37.360 And more recently, we've seen, of course, the update of a gulag system, a 21st century gulag system

00:47:46.740 in Xinjiang or East Turkestan, where one and a half to three million Uyghurs and others,

00:47:53.800 and there have been documented cases of Christians in those camps and of non-Uyghurs,

00:48:00.760 non-Turkic people in those camps.

00:48:02.500 But it's basically a three-tiered camp system where you have re-education camps,

00:48:10.920 you have forced labor camps, and then you have sort of factory towns or factory complexes,

00:48:17.680 where if you're really good and you make it out of the first two camps,

00:48:21.320 you can work in one of those factory complexes.

00:48:25.480 It's essentially a modern-day gulag, and to have up to three million people out of a population

00:48:32.260 of 11 million in that province, it lets you know the scale.

00:48:36.760 And in those camps, we do know that there is ideological training,

00:48:41.860 treating adults like they're four-year-olds and making them cite gibberish from Mao and Xi Jinping

00:48:50.400 and, you know, proclaim allegiance to Marxism and Maoism.

00:48:56.100 And we know that there is low-skill, labor-intense, you know, products being made in those facilities.

00:49:05.600 Sadly, some of it, clothing, we know for fact, has ended up in Western countries being sold in stores.

00:49:13.340 Marion, how serious is the threat of China to freedom around the world? 0.94

00:49:23.200 Well, we have begun to see the nature of the party revealed externally.

00:49:31.900 They have for now 70 years, you know, this month, the People's Republic of China turned 70.

00:49:40.020 That means they have officially outlived the Soviet Union, which fell apart in its 69th year.

00:49:47.400 And, you know, in 1990, the Soviet Union no longer believed that its system was better than the West.

00:49:58.440 They didn't have a confidence in Marxism-Leninism.

00:50:02.520 But what you see today under Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party

00:50:05.720 is absolutely an arrogant confidence that their system is just as good, if not better, than democracy.

00:50:13.620 Well, they are the people of China are not rooting for the Hong Kong people.

00:50:21.380 They actually are convinced now that they're terrorists.

00:50:25.860 Well, of course, to understand anything about China, we have to remind Americans that we can't trust them. 0.99

00:50:37.000 We can't trust the economic data.

00:50:38.640 We can't trust the polling numbers.

00:50:40.340 We can't trust statistics that they put out.

00:50:43.020 They lie. 0.98

00:50:43.700 Communists lie. 0.91

00:50:44.460 The Chinese Communist Party lies.

00:50:46.440 It's been documented across all industries.

00:50:50.380 Medical data coming out, economic data, etc., etc.

00:50:54.100 The Chinese people, sadly, don't really understand what's going on in the outside world. 1.00

00:51:00.080 And that's partially because American tech engineers and tech companies like Google and their project Dragonfly

00:51:06.960 have been helping the Chinese to perfect a more total totalitarian system than Orwell could have ever dreamed of. 1.00

00:51:15.460 And because of that, you know, things like the Tiananmen Square massacre,

00:51:18.800 things like the Hong Kong protests and what's really going on in the outside world are not known in China

00:51:26.000 because of the effectiveness of the censorship authorities and the measures online

00:51:31.840 and the draconian punishments for anyone like that individual you just mentioned

00:51:37.940 who was making a statement supporting the Houston Rockets.

00:51:40.940 But to see that same kind of punishment given by American companies against their employees in the United States,

00:51:52.840 you know, we had last year Marriott fired an employee for tweeting something critical of China in the United States.

00:52:00.200 And you see it, Blizzard, an e-sports company, has just fired a number of people

00:52:07.920 over statements made by one of their gamers in support of Hong Kong.

00:52:13.340 But why is Hong Kong so important?

00:52:15.160 Because it proves to the world that Chinese people can be prosperous, free, happy, without the Chinese Communist Party.

00:52:23.120 And that's an existential threat to the propaganda of Beijing,

00:52:26.600 which has done its best to make sure that everybody understands that China is the party,

00:52:32.300 the party is China, and to criticize the party is to somehow criticize the Chinese people

00:52:37.620 or to be racist against Chinese people.

00:52:40.400 That's just not true.

00:52:42.040 Marion Smith, Executive Director of Victims of Communism.

00:52:45.840 The Blaze Radio Network.

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 09, 2019

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Marion Smith ｜ 10⧸9⧸19

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