The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Michael Franzese ｜ 8⧸7⧸23

00:00:00.000 We have a great show today. We're talking to one of the capos of the Colombo crime family. 0.99

00:00:08.300 This guy is, I mean, he's the Dr. Phil of crime movies and crime information.

00:00:16.700 He is just amazing.

00:00:18.780 He's a guy who, his father was a really, really, really bad guy.

00:00:25.080 He passed away in 2000, but he or 2020, but he was in prison for many, many years.

00:00:32.960 He didn't want his son to be a mobster.

00:00:35.820 His son became a mobster because dad went to prison.

00:00:39.040 He was going to be a doctor.

00:00:40.380 He met a good woman 38 years ago.

00:00:42.720 They got married and he completely left that.

00:00:45.480 He's the only one to do that and still be alive.

00:00:48.920 But we were talking about crime families today and we wanted to know,

00:00:52.400 is the Biden family a crime family?

00:00:56.020 That and the questions that need to be asked.

00:00:59.320 We read through the transcript from Hunter Biden's business partner, Devin Archer.

00:01:07.120 And where are the Republicans on this again?

00:01:09.800 Because there's some questions that really need to be asked and answered.

00:01:14.160 All that and more on today's Monday podcast.

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00:02:18.040 I've now seen or read two different interviews from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner, Devin Archer,

00:02:37.440 and I'm not exactly sure what to make of his little PR tour.

00:02:41.860 Is it just blind luck that he always seems to be just out of earshot every time something happened that could tie him to the Biden family influence peddling scheme?

00:02:53.800 And this is what you really need to noodle here.

00:02:57.360 Is it possible that every time, oh, you know what, I had to go to the bathroom.

00:03:01.960 Okay, sure.

00:03:02.980 But I'm not really seeing a big push by the GOP to really get down to what actually happened.

00:03:10.220 And this bothers me a great deal.

00:03:12.320 Every time I'm expecting to see an explosive follow up question during his congressional testimony, it never came.

00:03:19.700 Now, you may not notice this because maybe you didn't read the official transcript.

00:03:25.020 It was released last Thursday.

00:03:27.240 And I understand you get busy and everything else.

00:03:29.380 And that's what you pay me to do.

00:03:30.920 So, by that time, Archer had already been interviewed by Tucker Carlson before the transcript was released.

00:03:39.860 Tons of what he disclosed couldn't be cross-checked by Tucker Carlson and his team.

00:03:45.940 And there are a few things that need to be.

00:03:49.140 On page 12 of the congressional transcript, Arthur testifies that he first met the head of Burisma in Moscow.

00:03:58.980 Okay, why is that important?

00:04:00.920 Well, the dates here, the dates here are just a little interesting.

00:04:07.360 The meeting took place on the exact same day that Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.

00:04:15.760 Now, why was the head of Burisma in Russia on that day?

00:04:20.780 Why was Devin Archer's team considered a good fit for Burisma as Russia was stealing Crimea?

00:04:30.220 Did Devin Archer know that Burisma was one of the only Ukrainian energy companies that had drilling rights in Ukraine?

00:04:37.220 Some of the questions that should be asked.

00:04:41.000 The weeks following Russia's invasion of Crimea were pretty eventful.

00:04:45.220 Hunter would join the board of Burisma.

00:04:47.560 He would also have a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House.

00:04:50.900 And Joe Biden would travel to Ukraine to discuss, to discuss, quote, fracking and greater energy production.

00:04:59.780 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:05:02.240 Joe Biden is going over to Ukraine to talk to them about more fracking, natural gas, and oil.

00:05:12.300 And trying to make sure that the Ukrainians and Burisma can do more of these things. 0.95

00:05:21.740 And yet, just a couple of years later, he's over here shutting us down.

00:05:27.620 Now, this context alone makes for a pretty fortuitous meeting.

00:05:32.520 I mean, don't you think it's at least a little interesting?

00:05:34.520 It's worth at least a question, I'm thinking.

00:05:39.940 Congress treated this entire portion with like kind of a deer in the headlight, like,

00:05:44.380 What's happening, dude?

00:05:47.100 And they don't say anything.

00:05:49.440 Now, Devin Archer claimed that his meeting at the White House was due to a school project for his kid.

00:05:57.480 I'm not making this up.

00:05:59.980 Something involving papier-mâché.

00:06:04.520 Wow.

00:06:07.600 Now, was it only papier-mâché that was discussed at this meeting?

00:06:12.960 Did Burisma come up at all?

00:06:16.400 Did Crimea and Burisma, the gas leases, come up?

00:06:20.920 Why did Hunter Biden tell Archer to buy a burner phone just three days before his White House visit?

00:06:27.940 Can we see the messages and the emails and the calls from this so-called burner phone?

00:06:33.000 Why do I have this feeling that this burner phone has since been disappeared?

00:06:42.040 Now, that's page 12.

00:06:45.340 Let's go up a little further here.

00:06:47.840 Let's look at page 84 and 85.

00:06:50.780 Congress attempts to ask a question about a man named Rob Walker.

00:06:54.780 Now, who's Rob Walker?

00:06:56.120 Well, we know Rob Walker.

00:06:58.380 He was revealed in the previous House disclosures as allegedly being the middleman that received the cash payments from Hunter Biden's overseas dealings and then delving them out to random members of the Biden family.

00:07:10.860 When his name was brought up, Archer's lawyer immediately butts in and shuts down.

00:07:18.080 None of this is within the scope.

00:07:19.560 Don't answer that.

00:07:21.280 That's what he said.

00:07:22.320 Which kind of sounds like the Rob Walker information is kind of important.

00:07:27.820 This is not how business is done.

00:07:32.500 Why was it done this way?

00:07:34.820 Why was the question about Rob Walker shut down so quickly and pointedly?

00:07:39.740 Why have we not called Rob Walker in to testify?

00:07:43.640 Can you answer that one?

00:07:44.940 On page 36, Archer describes a business trip to Dubai where he attended along with Hunter Biden and multiple Burisma executives.

00:07:56.160 He then goes on to talk about how Burisma wanted Hunter to call D.C. to fix the problem they were having.

00:08:03.400 The group walked out just out of earshot from Archer and made the call.

00:08:09.060 What a stroke of luck.

00:08:11.200 Now, remember, the original statement was that Burisma wanted Hunter to call D.C. for help.

00:08:19.840 As Archer is pressed, Archer responds with this, and I'm quoting from the transcript.

00:08:26.640 Listen, I didn't hear the phone call, but he called his dad.

00:08:31.840 Whoa.

00:08:33.420 That's pretty interesting.

00:08:35.400 I thought this was reported that he just called D.C.

00:08:37.900 No, he said he called his dad.

00:08:43.260 Hmm.

00:08:44.980 Now, was Devin Archer told that Hunter called D.C. or his father, Joe Biden?

00:08:50.260 Because the statement actually says both.

00:08:53.940 James Manda Folo, the general counsel for the House Oversight Committee, pushed him.

00:09:01.180 He said he was asked if it was during the drive back to the hotel that the Burisma executives told Archer that they had, quote, called the vice president.

00:09:12.860 Was it in the car?

00:09:15.860 Or was it with the drive home?

00:09:19.080 Or was it sometime the next day?

00:09:21.560 Now, this is when things get a little weird.

00:09:24.200 Devin Archer's lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, immediately chimes in and says, uh, he told you expressly he called his father or that he called D.C.?

00:09:36.420 Okay.

00:09:37.120 Which one is it?

00:09:39.500 Now, remember, this is Devin Archer's own lawyer pushing in.

00:09:43.180 And he's like, oh, D.C., D.C.

00:09:47.280 Hmm.

00:09:48.760 So, wait, you said twice that it was his dad.

00:09:53.400 And then you say, oh, no, no, no.

00:09:56.520 It's D.C.

00:09:57.540 After your attorney reminds you.

00:10:01.060 Now, this was later brought back up right after testimony broke for recess.

00:10:06.400 Archer's lawyer stated that he wanted to clarify something before the rest of the interview commenced.

00:10:11.560 What was it he wanted to clarify?

00:10:14.700 Well, the Devin Archer definitely, totally did not hear anyone say Burisma executives had Hunter call his father.

00:10:23.220 And it's for reals this time.

00:10:25.540 Okay.

00:10:25.940 This time they mean it.

00:10:28.820 Now, I'm sorry.

00:10:30.480 Can we circle back around on this one?

00:10:33.400 It seems like a big deal for the main witness, who apparently has no direct information on influence peddling.

00:10:41.600 Merely just to acknowledge the appearance of it.

00:10:45.720 But he didn't just do that.

00:10:47.560 He also said he was told that Hunter called his dad.

00:10:51.340 Then he doubled down on it when asked by the committee general counsel.

00:10:55.680 But then when his lawyer butts in and asks him, are you sure that's what you mean?

00:11:03.320 Oh, yeah, no, it was just D.C.

00:11:07.620 Wink, wink, nod, nod.

00:11:10.580 I don't know.

00:11:11.360 I think that should call for a little pushback from Congress.

00:11:15.000 Just I mean, just a little.

00:11:18.460 After reading the testimony, I almost get the feeling that Congress is letting this slip through the cracks.

00:11:23.080 Now, why would they do that?

00:11:24.020 Well, I've always assumed the rest of Washington, D.C. was pissed at the Bidens for shining a light on something they all have been quietly doing for decades upon decades.

00:11:35.800 Washington is an influence peddling mecca.

00:11:40.480 It is their number one cash crop.

00:11:43.520 With that context, why would they want to bring it all out in the open?

00:11:47.400 Maybe just some food for thought.

00:11:52.440 Now, let me break for 60 seconds.

00:11:54.960 We'll right back to the show.

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00:13:19.840 You know, it's really interesting.

00:13:32.300 Let's say, Holly, to Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, who is filling in for Stu today, who is, I was shocked by the pictures.

00:13:40.980 I don't know about you, Pat, and I don't know how he's going to do in court, but you know what?

00:13:47.020 Let's leave it alone.

00:13:47.840 It's getting harder and harder to say it, but innocent until proven guilty.

00:13:55.100 So, anyway, have you seen the new Rasmussen report?

00:14:01.200 I don't think so.

00:14:03.640 Okay.

00:14:04.120 So, this is on the impeachment.

00:14:06.800 How many people are for impeaching Joe Biden?

00:14:10.920 And this, to me, is, I don't know, a little stunning.

00:14:15.740 It shows that the average American believes that Joe Biden did something wrong, that he's risen to a high crime or misdemeanor.

00:14:29.740 But, you know, they're not really, I don't know, that excited.

00:14:35.920 But why impeach him over it?

00:14:36.920 To impeach him.

00:14:37.920 Just leave him.

00:14:39.020 Leave him. 0.78

00:14:39.640 It's fine.

00:14:40.620 Don't worry about it.

00:14:41.400 Now, I saw a story, and it said, Joe Biden might want to thank former President Donald Trump for this.

00:14:48.660 Voters appear to be suffering from impeachment fatigue.

00:14:51.520 Really?

00:14:52.100 Is that Donald Trump that they thank for that?

00:14:54.040 Or is that the Democrats that knew all of this stuff about Joe Biden and impeached Donald Trump over and over?

00:15:02.060 It's not Donald Trump that was like, you know what?

00:15:04.340 You should impeach me.

00:15:07.420 You don't remember him impeaching himself twice?

00:15:11.200 You don't remember that?

00:15:12.360 No, I don't.

00:15:13.940 I don't.

00:15:15.000 Yeah.

00:15:15.520 But he's on this spree of trying to go to jail now.

00:15:18.180 He's like, hey, put me in jail.

00:15:19.640 Put me in jail.

00:15:20.360 Well, there is now new information that there was a money trail to the Biden family coffers from China.

00:15:34.780 U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware charged Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes last month, released to a federal court last week,

00:15:42.320 a now scuttled plea deal that affirmed the presidential son got millions himself from Chinese forces in 2017 and 2018.

00:15:51.880 The money was money that it was included from a Chinese energy firm.

00:15:58.800 Now, wait a minute.

00:15:59.800 Wait a minute.

00:16:00.960 A Chinese energy firm that is linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

00:16:08.740 Hang on.

00:16:09.060 There's another story about this.

00:16:11.980 Someplace because I read a story about how we might have to dip into our strategic oil reserve.

00:16:17.320 And then I read this energy secretary.

00:16:20.660 Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official before the Biden administration announced that it would tap the strategic oil reserve.

00:16:34.380 Hmm.

00:16:35.080 Granholm's previously undisclosed talks with the Chinese National Energy Administration chairman.

00:16:40.700 Revealed that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to reduce,

00:16:46.040 to release oil from the SPR with China before the public announcement.

00:16:53.980 Uh-huh.

00:16:54.880 An amazing coincidence.

00:16:56.700 Secretary Granholm's multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official

00:17:03.000 raised serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration's energy agenda.

00:17:10.720 Now, wait a minute.

00:17:11.220 Wait a minute.

00:17:11.940 Help me out with this, Pat.

00:17:13.120 So, he was getting money, at least his son was, verifiably.

00:17:17.480 He was getting money from a Communist Party-controlled energy company.

00:17:25.180 Millions and millions of dollars going to him from that.

00:17:28.000 And then he was also getting money from Burisma to help them with their energy thing.

00:17:36.720 And yet, Biden seemed to be awfully sure that, you know, brown energy is really bad.

00:17:47.820 Isn't this weird?

00:17:49.800 That is weird.

00:17:51.060 That is very weird.

00:17:53.120 Huh.

00:17:54.100 Maybe it's good over there and it's bad over here.

00:17:59.560 Is that what we should be?

00:18:00.980 Well, we know it's bad over here.

00:18:02.360 Yeah.

00:18:02.540 Well, colonialism, for one thing.

00:18:04.680 Thank you.

00:18:04.780 Let's just say that.

00:18:05.460 Colonialism.

00:18:06.320 Yes.

00:18:06.860 Thank you.

00:18:07.780 And people here are not as willing to give money to Hunter Biden, you know, unless it's for art, for energy here.

00:18:18.420 So, screw these energy companies here.

00:18:21.000 Yeah.

00:18:21.180 Because they don't know who to pay.

00:18:22.300 They don't know how the game is played, you know?

00:18:24.300 Right.

00:18:24.960 They're learning.

00:18:26.540 They're learning.

00:18:27.580 But, uh...

00:18:28.580 Well, and his art is incredibly valuable, as you know.

00:18:31.940 What is he getting?

00:18:32.780 $500,000 a piece for those paintings?

00:18:35.460 They're beautiful.

00:18:36.520 They're beautiful.

00:18:36.820 And you get an appointment to an international post and a beautiful painting to go along with it.

00:18:43.940 Right.

00:18:44.280 So...

00:18:44.840 Right.

00:18:45.200 And I think, like, a stay at the Lincoln bedroom, too, if I'm not mistaken.

00:18:49.700 You might.

00:18:50.460 Yeah, I think you do.

00:18:51.240 Well, that was more of a Clinton kind of thing.

00:18:54.240 So, I don't know if you heard Vivek Ramaswamy said on Saturday that he said,

00:19:01.180 the war in Ukraine is likely tied to the allegations that President Joe Biden's son received bribes from overseas energy firm Burisma.

00:19:09.540 The purpose of the U.S. military is to advance American interests, to protect the homeland,

00:19:14.500 not to aimlessly fight some random war that is arguably a repayment for the private bribe that a family member of the United States received,

00:19:25.360 $5 million from Burisma.

00:19:27.460 Does that not make sense?

00:19:29.460 Wow.

00:19:29.560 It sure does.

00:19:30.260 Why is it we are sending so much over...

00:19:32.940 Remember, what did they impeach Donald Trump over?

00:19:36.700 The Russian collusion, for one thing.

00:19:39.700 And the payment to the stripper, right?

00:19:44.720 No.

00:19:45.540 Mm-mm.

00:19:46.700 It wasn't the payment to the stripper.

00:19:48.080 You misremember.

00:19:49.040 Okay.

00:19:49.620 No.

00:19:50.240 You misremember.

00:19:52.020 They were impeaching him, trying to impeach him, and trying to get him thrown under the bus

00:19:57.040 because he made a phone call to Zelensky.

00:20:01.940 Mm-hmm.

00:20:02.640 Mm-hmm.

00:20:03.020 Okay?

00:20:03.580 The quid pro quo.

00:20:04.760 The phone call...

00:20:05.880 Correct.

00:20:07.720 Mm-hmm.

00:20:08.000 Where?

00:20:08.640 What did he say?

00:20:09.980 What did Trump say to Zelensky?

00:20:12.060 Uh, he...

00:20:14.540 If I remember correctly, and I'm still maybe misremembering this, but he wanted information,

00:20:24.160 I think.

00:20:25.160 Mm-hmm.

00:20:25.440 He wanted them to look into the corruption from the Biden family.

00:20:31.840 Ah.

00:20:33.140 The Biden family in Burisma.

00:20:35.380 Mm-hmm.

00:20:35.680 So he says, hey, I'll send these to you, but you gotta help me out here.

00:20:40.800 You, uh, look into this, because I know it was happening.

00:20:44.800 Look into this.

00:20:45.740 Yep.

00:20:46.020 So they tried to say quid pro quo.

00:20:48.500 Okay.

00:20:49.420 But, wait a minute.

00:20:51.040 So, Zelensky talks to Trump.

00:20:53.900 He knows how valuable that information is to Trump and anyone against Joe Biden.

00:21:00.320 Zelensky knows.

00:21:01.960 Zelensky comes over here and says, hey, I want more money, more money, more money, and Joe

00:21:07.120 Biden doesn't even pass go to give him the $200.

00:21:10.980 He just keeps shelling out the cash.

00:21:14.520 Cheat.

00:21:15.480 Shouldn't someone look into that in seeing that we know that at least 30%, maybe as high

00:21:21.820 as 70, is not going to the places we deem it to go?

00:21:25.660 So, this is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:21:30.480 Capo.

00:21:31.520 Okay.

00:21:32.000 Thank you.

00:21:32.420 Former capo, not a capo, but I am not Italian.

00:21:36.280 My wife was dying when I said that.

00:21:39.060 Uh, Michael, how are you, sir?

00:21:41.580 I'm good, Glenn.

00:21:42.460 Good morning.

00:21:44.960 Your wife knows the correct pronunciation, huh? 1.00

00:21:48.180 Oh, yeah.

00:21:49.720 My wife is talk with your hands Italian. 1.00

00:21:53.220 Uh, when I joined the family, uh, every Sunday, and you couldn't understand half the

00:21:59.500 family because it was all in broken English.

00:22:01.640 It was a wonderful experience.

00:22:04.140 Um, but, uh, probably, probably not the same experience you had, uh, growing up.

00:22:10.040 Um, Michael, um, first of all, tell me about your change in life because you've, you were

00:22:17.060 a bad dude.

00:22:19.780 Well, yeah, Glenn, I mean, I spent over 20 years on the street and, you know, my dad was

00:22:24.240 the underboss of the Colombo family, one of the five New York mafia families.

00:22:27.900 So, I grew up in the life, even though my dad initially, he didn't want me to, uh, you

00:22:33.480 know, to be a member.

00:22:34.440 He wanted me to go to school and be a doctor.

00:22:37.180 And I was on that road until he drew a 50-year prison sentence, um, for a federal conviction

00:22:43.740 that he had and went off to prison in 1970.

00:22:46.920 That's when things kind of changed for me.

00:22:49.040 And, you know, long story short, you know, to try to help him get out of jail, my dad

00:22:53.340 proposed me for membership in the life and I became a made member.

00:22:57.060 That's the term in 1975 and started on that, uh, you know, that road.

00:23:03.060 But, uh, you know, long story short, I mean, I became a major target of law enforcement.

00:23:08.380 I had, you know, seven indictments, uh, I was, uh, went to trial five different times.

00:23:13.740 So, I had a bullseye on my back from day one because my dad was that high profile a figure.

00:23:19.320 But, uh, you know, it all happened for me when I met a young girl who was, uh, you know,

00:23:24.260 a young Christian girl.

00:23:25.580 She's now my wife of 38 years.

00:23:28.340 And, uh, I decided if I was, you know, if I wanted this girl in my life, I didn't want

00:23:32.880 her to put through what every other family goes through of every member of that life.

00:23:36.840 And I had to make a decision whether to stay in or walk away.

00:23:40.140 And obviously I chose her and it was a life-changing experience.

00:23:44.460 And that was, like I said, 38 years ago.

00:23:47.160 And I ended up, uh, you know, doing eight years in prison.

00:23:50.000 I had a huge restitution for a plea that I took, uh, for a racketeering case and life

00:23:56.500 just changed, you know, from that point.

00:23:58.360 So it was, it wasn't easy.

00:23:59.800 It was a struggle and challenge.

00:24:01.280 A lot of people have met with me, but you know, we made it through.

00:24:04.660 Um, good for you.

00:24:07.000 Good for you.

00:24:08.100 Um, all right.

00:24:08.720 I want to talk to you about now, for some reason, Pat, who is filling in for Stu today

00:24:13.100 is really harping on, you know, okay.

00:24:16.120 We know about Italian mob families.

00:24:18.880 Are there mob families?

00:24:20.940 And he's just pulled out of the air attack.

00:24:23.320 I mean, uh, um, um, Irish for some reason, I don't know if you know, any Irish mob families,

00:24:28.980 uh, but, uh, can you, go ahead.

00:24:33.860 Yeah.

00:24:34.280 In New York, uh, you know, there was a crew there.

00:24:36.860 They were called the Westies and, um, you know, I was familiar with them.

00:24:41.420 We, we kind of worked with them at times.

00:24:43.760 So by name of Jimmy Coonan, who's now doing life in prison was one of the leaders.

00:24:47.660 And I was fairly close with him.

00:24:50.140 Um, you know, and obviously in Ohio, there was another group.

00:24:53.500 I, well, hang on just a second.

00:24:55.440 I mean, you were talking about the Westies and then I think you said the Coons and that's, 1.00

00:24:58.860 so that's W's and C's.

00:25:00.100 Is there anybody in the B's?

00:25:01.780 Like, I don't know, by, uh, when you look at the family of the Bidens, is that not a crime family?

00:25:13.320 You know, I gotta tell you, Glenn, it's so hard for me to sit back and watch what's going on

00:25:18.740 and wonder why this all hasn't been exposed.

00:25:22.380 The right questions are asked.

00:25:23.940 You know, I'll give you an example.

00:25:25.440 You know, it's always follow the money.

00:25:27.740 The money trail always leads to something.

00:25:29.600 And just so you know, my background, I was, uh, you know, I was indicted and pled guilty

00:25:34.240 to, it was a racketeering case, but the underlying act was I was defrauding the government out

00:25:39.780 of tax on every gallon of gasoline.

00:25:41.820 We devised a scheme.

00:25:43.340 I ran it for eight years where we were selling gasoline and just keeping the tax money.

00:25:48.140 And I had 18, 18 shell companies, 18 of them.

00:25:54.940 They did nothing.

00:25:55.880 They had no brick and mortar.

00:25:57.140 They had no employees.

00:25:58.440 They had no service.

00:26:00.100 All we did was create a corporation so that we can open up a bank account.

00:26:05.260 And the money that flowed in there was all illegal money, was all tax money that we were

00:26:09.520 taking from the government.

00:26:10.480 There was no other purpose for the, for the company.

00:26:12.960 And that's exactly the same thing that the Bidens are doing.

00:26:17.500 There's no brick and mortar that provide no service.

00:26:20.560 There's nothing but a bank account in order to collect money.

00:26:24.180 It's been shown that there was, you know, I don't, a hundred and some odd suspicious activity

00:26:29.680 reports from the banks.

00:26:31.240 Yeah.

00:26:31.520 This is a dead giveaway that this money is, is bad money coming from someplace.

00:26:35.760 And, uh, you know, it's, I just hope it's exposed because, you know, Glenn, listen, I was a bad

00:26:42.720 guy.

00:26:43.320 I took responsibility for what I did.

00:26:45.340 I walked away from a life that I knew was no good.

00:26:48.360 Uh, but to have a president in office that's doing these kinds of things that was elected,

00:26:54.220 you know, to, to provide for the welfare of the people and protect the country.

00:26:58.800 And basically it's treasonous in my view.

00:27:01.640 And a lot of people share this view because I get around and people talk.

00:27:05.760 Uh, it's just, I mean, I never heard of anything like, I happen, I happen to agree with you

00:27:12.240 on, on that.

00:27:13.100 Um, the let's just focus again on the shell corporations.

00:27:16.880 Every one of his children and seemingly grandchildren, I think, except for one, um, has the shell

00:27:24.040 corporations and all of this money is going in and they don't, they have never even been

00:27:31.380 asked.

00:27:32.300 But when you look at them, there is no reason that these shell corporations are getting

00:27:37.800 money from Burisma, et cetera, et cetera.

00:27:40.400 So why isn't that a bigger deal?

00:27:43.720 What does that tell you?

00:27:44.820 I think every, every, every reporter and every news conference should be asking this question

00:27:51.720 until it's, it gives an answer.

00:27:53.500 And there is no answer.

00:27:54.920 That's why it cannot be answered.

00:27:56.760 There is no answer because it's an obvious situation for me.

00:28:00.380 And, you know, this whole idea that, you know, he's not collecting money directly.

00:28:04.500 Well, so what?

00:28:05.100 I didn't collect money directly either, but eventually it came to me, you know, it's, it's,

00:28:10.580 uh, it's beyond my understanding why these questions are not being asked to him every

00:28:15.260 single day.

00:28:15.980 This is absolutely.

00:28:17.360 So, I mean, it's just, there's no, when, when you, when you have the RICO statute, as

00:28:24.320 I understand it, it, it is even for the, um, thinking of the crime.

00:28:31.480 Is it not, I mean, you don't actually have to, if you're selling the illusion, that's

00:28:37.520 enough for the RICO statute to kick in.

00:28:40.120 Is it not?

00:28:41.680 Absolutely.

00:28:42.560 You know, when you have a conspiracy, you can take, sit down and talk about, you know,

00:28:48.540 committing the crime and the illusion would be something like that.

00:28:51.420 You don't have to commit the crime.

00:28:53.240 You just have to be talking about it.

00:28:54.980 You just have to be using that or letting people think that you're going to provide

00:28:59.200 that service.

00:28:59.900 Even if you don't, so if people are thinking that Biden is going to somehow, you know,

00:29:06.620 uh, use the power of his office, but never does, but you're leading people to believe

00:29:11.640 that that's a crime a hundred percent under the statute.

00:29:15.100 And listen, I've had, I've had three RICO statutes and defended two of them in court.

00:29:19.840 I understand it extremely well.

00:29:21.920 So there's no question.

00:29:26.400 Uh, so, uh, they would say that then that's just Hunter's crime.

00:29:33.660 Dad didn't know anything about it.

00:29:35.500 That's just Hunter's crime.

00:29:36.480 Cause you can't prove that Joe got any money whatsoever.

00:29:40.460 How would you answer that?

00:29:41.820 Well, let me ask you a question.

00:29:44.560 I'll set up a scenario.

00:29:46.120 Let's say I'm in a room and I'm having a meeting.

00:29:49.040 Uh, I'll do something foreign from what we're talking about.

00:29:51.880 We're in a room.

00:29:52.720 I'm having a meeting with somebody that wants me to be an executive producer on a film that

00:29:57.760 they, uh, that they're creating.

00:29:59.120 Right.

00:30:00.320 And, uh, they're asking me, well, you know, why should I make you executive producer?

00:30:04.100 Can you help get this film done?

00:30:06.320 And I start to talk and then all of a sudden a whole second, you know, my father's on the

00:30:10.780 phone.

00:30:11.040 He's calling me.

00:30:12.100 Hey dad, how you doing?

00:30:13.200 Yeah.

00:30:13.460 Oh yeah.

00:30:13.800 Oh yeah.

00:30:14.280 Yeah.

00:30:14.460 The weather's great out here.

00:30:15.480 I'm just in a meeting talking with somebody.

00:30:17.360 Yeah, dad, I'll talk to you soon.

00:30:19.080 I hang up the phone.

00:30:20.160 They said, well, what does your father do?

00:30:21.780 Well, he's the head of universal studios.

00:30:23.660 Oh, okay.

00:30:24.500 Let's continue our conversation.

00:30:26.380 What does that mean?

00:30:27.220 Right there.

00:30:28.380 That means this guy now knows that I have the connection to get whatever I want done with you.

00:30:32.840 So you're going to hire me.

00:30:33.960 It's the same thing that's going on there.

00:30:36.540 Biden doesn't have to say anything on the phone.

00:30:39.100 Just the fact that he calls in when you're sitting in the meeting with his son, uh, lets

00:30:43.840 that person believe, okay, I have the, uh, the power through this young man here I'm sitting

00:30:49.300 with to get whatever I need done.

00:30:51.360 You know, it's, it's, it's unbelievable what's going on and that people don't see through

00:30:56.280 this, uh, and they're not asking the right questions.

00:30:59.720 So I want to get to your right questions here in a second, but I want to, I want to first

00:31:07.100 stop at Hunter Biden.

00:31:08.320 You know, you say you're in the room and you know, he picks up the phone. 0.99

00:31:10.820 I can't imagine, um, trusting somebody who, you know, is a, is addicted to hookers, um, 0.99

00:31:22.340 is addicted to crack cocaine. 0.60

00:31:24.200 And you would think that that would make him, uh, a more reliable source because you can

00:31:30.960 squeeze is would, would you have gotten into business when you were, you know, in the crime

00:31:36.760 business, would you have gotten into business with Hunter Biden to get his dad and would

00:31:42.380 it make it a bigger target or, uh, would it be less dependable?

00:31:48.600 We'll get to that here in just a second.

00:31:50.900 Um, we are talking to Michael Franzese.

00:31:53.280 He was part of New York Colombo's, uh, uh, Colombo fight, uh, crime family years ago and 0.92

00:31:59.180 a changed man and kind of upset what's going on in the country.

00:32:02.760 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:06.980 Oh, we are, uh, we are talking to a, a world famous mobster who has turned his life around.

00:32:15.000 He is the host of sit down with Michael Franzese.

00:32:18.700 Uh, he was part of New York's Colombo crime family. 1.00

00:32:23.020 He's a made man.

00:32:24.400 His father was the notorious leader of the crime family.

00:32:28.660 Uh, like I said, he's changed his life, married a good woman.

00:32:32.080 And, uh, turned his life over to, uh, God and has been on a good track for many, many,

00:32:38.000 many, many years, 38 years married.

00:32:40.420 Uh, so Michael, I want to lay out a, I just want to lay this scenario out and I don't think

00:32:45.880 anybody is laying it out this way, but you tell me what this looks like.

00:32:50.800 So Zelensky, uh, I'm sorry. 0.89

00:32:53.600 Um, Kolomowski, he is, I whore Kolomowski. 0.99

00:32:56.760 He is the, the oligarch, really bad dude. 0.97

00:33:00.640 He beheads his, uh, his, uh, opponents.

00:33:05.680 Okay. 0.97

00:33:05.980 Anybody who gets in the way he is known to behead them.

00:33:09.260 So he hires Hunter Biden and, uh, he's trying to get, uh, you know, some access.

00:33:18.160 The dad comes over Joe Biden immediately after he's hired, he gives a big speech about how

00:33:24.040 we got to do more fracking.

00:33:25.700 We have to have more oil running through.

00:33:28.460 Now, this is the same guy that just three or four years later shuts down all of America's

00:33:33.820 fracking and, and oil.

00:33:35.820 When Trump, uh, is, starts to fall on this trail, he calls Zelensky.

00:33:43.940 Now, Zelensky is a, he was a comedian on television and Kolomoisky is one of the big oligarchs that

00:33:53.120 paid for his campaign to become president.

00:33:56.600 He becomes president.

00:33:58.520 President Trump calls him, says, Hey, can you look into this stuff?

00:34:02.260 All of a sudden, all of this stuff is leaked about how, uh, Trump is, is trying to do tit

00:34:09.320 for tat.

00:34:10.380 Uh, he's impeached and the whole thing kind of goes away.

00:34:14.460 Now, Joe Biden gets in and shockingly, he and, uh, Zelensky are pals and they're pals

00:34:22.940 against this war against Russia.

00:34:25.000 But Zelensky is the only person I have ever seen that can go to the white house.

00:34:29.860 Not even Winston Churchill got this.

00:34:32.260 Can go to the white house and say, I want you to write more.

00:34:35.660 And he will write check after check after check, billions of dollars, none of it being

00:34:42.100 tracked or accounted for.

00:34:44.280 And by the way, Kolomoisky, he was just, uh, he just lost his citizenship because last

00:34:52.840 year, uh, uh, Zelensky said, you know what?

00:34:56.600 The United States is investigating him.

00:34:58.820 He's got to get out of here.

00:34:59.900 He's lost his citizenship.

00:35:02.420 That sounds like somebody being cut out of the deal because they think they can now.

00:35:07.800 Does that not sound like a huge money laundering system and blackmail bribery and everything

00:35:15.520 else?

00:35:15.920 Oh, absolutely.

00:35:18.320 I mean, it's so obvious, Glenn.

00:35:21.080 It's so obvious.

00:35:21.960 First of all, what is Hunter Biden doing in bed with somebody like that?

00:35:25.640 When your father is, uh, you know, how do you not stop him from being involved with somebody

00:35:31.980 like that?

00:35:32.520 Correct.

00:35:32.980 It's very simple because you're promoting it.

00:35:35.460 You're promoting it the same way.

00:35:36.960 He's been promoting Hunter all over the world to go out and make these relationships and

00:35:41.900 collect money.

00:35:43.120 I mean, this is, this is a record and it's not only that.

00:35:47.640 I mean, Hunter has given us the information.

00:35:49.900 He's sitting there talking on the phone with his father next to him, shaking people down.

00:35:54.920 This is extortion.

00:35:55.920 You go to jail for this for a long time and, and, and, you know, the department of justice

00:36:01.420 is not investigating this.

00:36:02.920 They, they laid out this whole racketeering case.

00:36:05.760 It's, it's as plain as day, you know, just going back to your, you know, to your question

00:36:11.080 about these companies, when you form a company, an LLC, a corporation, you do it for a purpose

00:36:16.460 because you have a business.

00:36:17.980 That company has a function.

00:36:19.860 It's a business that you're going to provide a service to clients.

00:36:23.760 So they in turn pay you.

00:36:26.000 So the question is, what was the function that these companies performed in order to

00:36:31.120 receive money from a client?

00:36:32.780 What was the service?

00:36:34.300 And if the case, what was his granddaughter, what service was he's providing, you know,

00:36:39.920 for people overseas to collect this money?

00:36:43.360 The questions are not being asked and they should be asked that every single time that

00:36:49.880 you see this president, every time you're in the room with his spokesperson.

00:36:53.760 And they're, because they can't answer this.

00:36:56.620 There is no answer.

00:36:57.800 The only logical answer that's right in front of everybody's face is that he's collecting

00:37:03.100 bad money for a service.

00:37:04.840 And that service is he's selling, you know, his position.

00:37:08.480 The weaponization of the government now to destroy Donald Trump, when you were in the mob, things

00:37:23.300 like that had to be, you know, you send people a message.

00:37:26.780 What is the message the government is trying to send and who are they sending it to?

00:37:32.700 Donald Trump, the American people, all of us.

00:37:35.620 What is happening there?

00:37:37.480 You know what, Glenn, when I was on the street, look, I'll say this and please understand where

00:37:42.160 I'm coming from.

00:37:42.920 My dad, you know, spent a lot of years in that life and did a lot of bad things.

00:37:46.880 No doubt.

00:37:47.800 So did I.

00:37:48.520 I went to jail for a crime that I was guilty of.

00:37:51.160 I pled guilty.

00:37:51.880 I did my time.

00:37:53.320 OK, but there were times when the FBI stretched their, you know, their ability and they committed

00:38:00.200 crimes in order to catch us.

00:38:02.600 But you know what?

00:38:03.660 We were mobsters.

00:38:04.780 People look the other way.

00:38:06.120 OK, we get it.

00:38:07.420 Sometimes the FBI had to do things like that.

00:38:10.540 But I always said, when you give the government an inch, they'll take a yard and they'll never

00:38:13.960 give it back.

00:38:14.760 If you allow them to break the law, to go after lawbreakers, eventually they're going

00:38:19.220 to use that power against their enemies.

00:38:21.780 And that's exactly what they're doing now.

00:38:24.480 And they're so overt and so blatant about it, they don't even care.

00:38:29.700 They don't even care.

00:38:30.900 It's so obvious.

00:38:32.380 So, you know, I try to tell people, I make them aware, this is extremely dangerous.

00:38:37.640 It really is, because when you give the government the power to go after their enemies and weaponize

00:38:42.860 them, pretty soon they'll use it against anybody they want to. 0.82

00:38:46.600 And look, they've been doing it with our social media companies, going, closing people down,

00:38:51.020 stopping free speech.

00:38:52.580 This is terribly dangerous.

00:38:53.900 There is a really dangerous trend going on in this country, and people need to wake up

00:38:59.680 to this and they need to have it stopped.

00:39:01.940 You know, people even tell me, Michael, why are you so overtly talking about this?

00:39:06.600 Because, you know, next thing you know, they'll be coming after me.

00:39:09.400 But listen, I'm 72 years old, you know, I ain't worried what they're going to do to

00:39:13.980 me.

00:39:14.300 I have seven children.

00:39:15.440 I have six grandchildren.

00:39:16.800 This country is not the country that I grew up in.

00:39:19.640 And it's such a dramatic change that's going on that's so overt and so obvious.

00:39:25.780 I mean, this president, I'm telling you, Glenn, you know, somebody has to get him under control.

00:39:32.940 You know, look, I'm going to take this a step further.

00:39:35.700 And please, I hope your audience doesn't get offended.

00:39:38.500 But, you know, I spoke to 850 Border Patrol agents, the state of Texas.

00:39:43.440 I did a whole seminar with them.

00:39:45.500 And then we hung out afterwards and we talked some of the things that they were telling me

00:39:49.020 about what's going on in the southern border.

00:39:51.300 And they said they're getting so little help from the federal government.

00:39:54.920 I mean, you know, I mean, there's murder taking place over there.

00:39:58.140 People are dying.

00:39:59.500 The drugs that are coming over.

00:40:00.940 When you're president of the United States and you understand that 100,000 people a year

00:40:06.280 are dying from fentanyl overdose and fentanyl poisoning, because there's oftentimes that

00:40:11.680 somebody will take an Adderall, you know, kids take Adderalls to stay up at night so

00:40:16.180 they can study, you know, kids in college.

00:40:18.140 I know my daughters did that.

00:40:19.880 But these Adderalls, some of them being laced with fentanyl, that's poisoning.

00:40:24.180 That's not even an addiction.

00:40:25.260 If you know that this is going on in your country and you allow it to happen, you don't

00:40:31.240 get this under control.

00:40:32.600 What type of person are you?

00:40:34.880 I mean, we didn't do that on the street.

00:40:36.880 We didn't allow that.

00:40:37.880 We took care of our communities.

00:40:39.460 You know, we might have been bad guys, but we didn't allow crime to come into our neighborhoods

00:40:42.920 in our communities.

00:40:44.220 This is this is just horrible stuff.

00:40:46.680 This is bad stuff.

00:40:48.320 I'm telling you.

00:40:50.680 So let's just pause for a second.

00:40:53.480 I don't know how much time you have, Michael.

00:40:55.420 Can you stay over the top of the hour?

00:40:57.860 Yeah, I'm here.

00:40:58.900 It's early morning where I am.

00:41:00.140 It's OK.

00:41:01.380 OK, so so let me ask you the the follow up question on the drugs.

00:41:06.420 Compare what's happening right now with fentanyl to the worst time in American history with drugs.

00:41:15.500 I remember the crack thing in the 80s and and how bad drugs were in the 70s.

00:41:21.400 Compare what's happening because of our border policy to those times.

00:41:27.320 Well, it's it's just as bad or worse, because I don't I don't know if you realize what's going on in some of these cities now with Frank.

00:41:36.020 I mean, you live in L.A.

00:41:38.620 You would not believe what's going on there.

00:41:40.700 You walk down the streets.

00:41:41.780 Oh, I know.

00:41:42.340 Addicts and homeless people everywhere.

00:41:43.900 The same in Portland, Seattle.

00:41:46.220 I had a store in San Francisco, a pizza place.

00:41:50.020 We had to shut it down.

00:41:51.900 We had to shut it down because, you know, people hanging out.

00:41:54.920 We had hypodermic needles on the floor.

00:41:57.060 We had people defecating in front of the book. 0.97

00:41:59.840 I can't even tell you the scene that that's going on there.

00:42:03.100 So, you know, and look, this is a little bit personal for me.

00:42:07.320 I mean, I had a sister that died of an overdose of drugs.

00:42:10.460 My my daughter's boyfriend, who did a lot of my video work, 24 years old, a terrific young man, took an Adderall that was laced with fentanyl in five minutes.

00:42:20.480 Glenn dropped dead in my house.

00:42:24.020 In my house.

00:42:25.420 And he had no idea he was poisoned by this.

00:42:28.400 It was an Adderall that he took.

00:42:29.900 And a lot of these young people take these these Adderalls.

00:42:32.400 I'm not saying they should not suggesting that, but they do keeps them awake and they study.

00:42:37.600 And this stuff is going on and it's happening and it's coming over the border in droves that the agents told me they're not even getting 10 percent of the illegal drugs that are coming over our border.

00:42:49.160 This is straight from their mouth, not even 10 percent.

00:42:52.500 So what does that mean?

00:42:53.660 And this is going into neighborhoods and communities.

00:42:56.240 You know, I laugh, you know, the mayor of New York, who, you know, I had a little bit of high hope for when he came in.

00:43:02.660 He was a former police officer.

00:43:04.160 The mayor of New York comes in and he's complaining about homeless about immigrants coming into, you know, to New York.

00:43:10.180 We'll go after your president.

00:43:11.900 He's the one that's allowing this.

00:43:14.020 Right.

00:43:14.220 It's not the governor of the border states.

00:43:18.560 I mean, you're a sanctuary city.

00:43:20.260 You welcome them with open arms.

00:43:21.640 And now you complain.

00:43:22.580 Go after your president.

00:43:24.480 It's this administration.

00:43:26.520 It's Mayorkas. 1.00

00:43:27.400 It's these people that are allowing this to happen.

00:43:30.280 And what's, you know, Glenn, maybe you can answer me.

00:43:32.740 What's the end game here?

00:43:34.320 Why are they doing this?

00:43:35.760 Why are they allowing these people to come in in droves?

00:43:39.200 You know, to me, it's destruction.

00:43:40.680 Well, yeah, I mean, what's the reason?

00:43:44.400 They're not humane.

00:43:45.720 We know they don't care about them.

00:43:47.340 That's for sure.

00:43:48.180 They don't want them in their neighborhoods.

00:43:50.080 But what's the end game?

00:43:52.060 There's something devious going on here.

00:43:54.120 They have a devious reason to allow this to happen.

00:43:59.180 Well, I mean, everything that, I mean, you can't, to me, Michael, you can't be this wrong.

00:44:05.540 And, you know, by happenstance.

00:44:07.860 I mean, everything they do leads to, one way or another, chaos, the destruction of values, and the destruction of everything that is American.

00:44:18.560 I mean, we are being impoverished through inflation.

00:44:23.360 We are being killed through, honestly, all this is is the opium wars that the British did to the Chinese.

00:44:30.620 The Chinese learned from it, and they're doing it to us. 0.97

00:44:32.980 We are under attack inside and outside, and we are being destroyed.

00:44:38.980 And I'm sorry, you just can't be this wrong this many times and not have it be a coincidence.

00:44:45.540 You can't convince me that they're trying to make America a better place.

00:44:48.900 They're dismantling it every step of the way.

00:44:51.240 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, naaam.

00:44:55.140 Naa, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

00:44:55.660 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, naaa, na, na, na, na.

00:44:57.360 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na...

00:44:57.780 Na, na, na, na, na, na.

00:44:59.800 Na, na, na, na, na, naa

00:45:01.500 Na, na, na, na, na, na.

00:45:10.940 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, naaể.

00:45:15.120 Na, na, na, na, na, na naaa.

00:45:16.780 Na, na, na, na, na, na memorable.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 07, 2023

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Michael Franzese ｜ 8⧸7⧸23

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