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00:03:22.700 There is an ancient evil that is sweeping the world, and we have seen it before.

00:03:36.440 Yesterday, our college campuses were on fire.

00:03:50.360 New York, California, police being backed up in the corners.

00:04:08.500 Some people being arrested.

00:04:11.380 Strangely, not in Texas.

00:04:13.820 A&M was almost a war zone.

00:04:20.300 The governor comes out and says, we will not tolerate anti-Semitism.

00:04:24.260 But the world is tolerating anti-Semitism, and most of these college students really have

00:04:33.580 no idea what they're even protesting.

00:04:36.500 And what would you say is the main goal with tonight's protest?

00:04:42.700 I think the goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop.

00:04:47.500 I honestly don't know what NYU is doing.

00:04:50.400 Is there something that NYU is doing?

00:04:51.820 I really don't know.

00:04:52.540 I'm pretty sure that you know what NYU is doing.

00:04:55.000 I don't know what.

00:04:55.880 About Israel.

00:04:57.080 Why are we protesting here?

00:04:58.460 Why are we even protesting?

00:05:00.500 I wish I was more educated.

00:05:02.000 This has happened before Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.

00:05:08.500 What's happening on America's college campuses is horrific.

00:05:12.920 Anti-Semitic mobs have taken over leading universities.

00:05:15.960 They call for the annihilation of Israel.

00:05:18.380 They attack Jewish students.

00:05:20.200 They attack Jewish faculty.

00:05:22.320 This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.

00:05:26.400 It's not only reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the 1930s.

00:05:31.460 It happened here in America.

00:05:36.440 It was February 20th, 1939.

00:05:41.520 Hitler was building his sixth concentration camp.

00:05:45.840 He was about to go in to Poland.

00:05:48.240 And on the streets of Manhattan, Americans gathered to salute the flag at Madison Square Garden.

00:05:56.920 I pledge undivided allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

00:06:10.100 and the republic for which it stands,

00:06:14.140 one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:06:21.360 Speaker after speaker came and stood in front of giant portraits of George Washington with the Nazi symbol.

00:06:32.200 Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans,

00:06:34.960 fellow Americans, American patriots,

00:06:37.460 I am sure I do not come before you tonight as a complete stranger.

00:06:44.480 You all have heard of me through the Jewish-controlled press 0.73

00:06:50.860 as a creature with horns,

00:06:55.040 a cloven hoof,

00:06:57.340 and a long tail.

00:07:01.340 We, with American ideals,

00:07:03.480 demand that our government shall be returned to the American people who founded it.

00:07:10.220 Of course, he sounds just like one of our founders.

00:07:15.400 If you ask what we are actively fighting for under our charter,

00:07:21.720 first,

00:07:23.980 a socially just white Gentile ruled United States. 0.99

00:07:27.820 A socially just white Gentile United States. 0.98

00:07:37.880 This has happened before in America.

00:07:41.760 And it's happening again.

00:07:44.920 There is one guy who has written an article that I saw, I think, yesterday or the day before

00:07:51.080 from Semaphore.

00:07:52.160 He's a national political reporter.

00:07:53.760 David Weigel is with us.

00:07:56.720 And the pro-Palestinian protesters have all started to mask up.

00:08:02.120 Now, why would they do that?

00:08:05.200 David, welcome to the program.

00:08:07.380 It's good to be here.

00:08:08.200 Thank you for having me.

00:08:09.160 You bet.

00:08:09.680 So, why are they masking up?

00:08:12.020 They're wearing, you know, COVID masks, N95 masks.

00:08:16.000 They are.

00:08:16.780 And I heard two reasons for this.

00:08:18.680 And I printed both of these reasons.

00:08:20.140 Not everyone I called got back to me.

00:08:21.940 But one was that on the left, I'd say more than anywhere else in the country, there still

00:08:28.500 is a belief that you need to mask up to protect from COVID.

00:08:31.500 You need to mask up to protect other people from who might have comorbidities, et cetera.

00:08:36.380 It's always May 2020.

00:08:39.720 That's a belief that's out there.

00:08:41.080 But the National Lawyers Guild, which is sort of the left's legal advice clinic, which operates

00:08:46.860 around the country, and other people on the left have said, it is important to cover your

00:08:52.040 face to avoid facial recognition, to avoid being doxxed, you know, to be in a photo and

00:08:56.160 somebody looks up who you are and says, please fire this person.

00:08:59.820 They've been advising that for years.

00:09:01.300 And they started advising that after 2020, because there were lots of anti-mask laws on the books

00:09:07.200 to prevent people from concealing their identities.

00:09:09.880 And those laws were lifted or changed or halted because of the guidance that Anthony Fauci and

00:09:16.360 others put in place in 2020.

00:09:17.680 So some of these people, I mean, these are the people that are going to be leading the world

00:09:25.020 at some point.

00:09:27.300 These are the, quote, best and brightest in our universities.

00:09:32.500 And there is reason to believe that they don't want to be known because they won't be able

00:09:39.580 to get a job.

00:09:40.440 Well, you've seen, if you've seen enough videos of people talking to reporters at these

00:09:47.640 protests, often maybe a reporter from a more conservative outlet who students don't want

00:09:52.560 to talk to, you might see this dissonance, right?

00:09:55.300 There are people who have decided to go out in the public space, be part of something big,

00:09:59.660 be part of something historic with cameras literally surrounding them.

00:10:02.900 I mean, everyone is a camera phone.

00:10:04.600 And they don't want to go on camera, share their identity, take a mask off.

00:10:09.520 I have encountered that for years covering right and left protests from January 6, Baltimore

00:10:14.920 riots.

00:10:15.460 I've covered a lot of this stuff.

00:10:17.560 The attitude is generally that you want to be part, you want to loan your body, I would

00:10:22.440 say, to a mass demonstration, but you don't necessarily want to put your face in front

00:10:27.880 of it because you might be exposed.

00:10:30.840 That is the idea that a mass movement does not mean that every single person is going to

00:10:35.700 have an A&E biography written about them or filmed about them.

00:10:39.980 It is my body is here because I'm here, because 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000 people are here.

00:10:46.260 It's hard for the police.

00:10:48.900 It's hard for our opposition to resist us.

00:10:51.520 And so hiding from cameras, the media, et cetera, that isn't contradictory.

00:10:57.360 That is, you are still doing social justice if you personally don't want to have your name

00:11:01.520 attached to it and your face attached to it.

00:11:03.720 So you brought up January 6, and what happened on January 6 was a nightmare and horrible,

00:11:12.360 and I want everybody who broke a window, did damage, all of this stuff, threatening people,

00:11:18.180 I want them all to go to jail correctly and justly be tried and go to jail.

00:11:24.820 You never hear anyone separate the good people from the bad people here.

00:11:30.840 And I'm wondering, how many of these protesters even have a clue as to what they're saying?

00:11:39.300 How many of them even know what the river to the sea means?

00:11:44.000 Well, that's a question.

00:11:45.540 Usually you show up and ask people, can you define this term?

00:11:48.440 And again, you often encounter people who don't want to be in a gotcha game on camera,

00:11:55.080 on a recorder, talking about this because they want to be a part of something bigger.

00:11:59.960 I can't psychoanalyze for every single person who's taking part in one of these protests.

00:12:05.660 But that attitude is there.

00:12:07.260 And I think in coverage of this, you're starting to see, not to get too meta because I'm covering it too,

00:12:13.060 you're starting to see the negative impact of this.

00:12:15.160 There are people at a protest, the people who are most bold about going out there,

00:12:20.660 not using a mask, getting a bullhorn, saying slogans.

00:12:24.060 They're often part of groups like the Party for Socialism or Liberation,

00:12:28.560 the Revolutionary Communist Party.

00:12:30.200 They're people who are very drilled, who are already on every watch list,

00:12:33.320 are already on the FBI's watch list, and will say things like,

00:12:37.060 here is a slogan for you to chant, and the slogan means death to Israel, 0.91

00:12:40.000 or here is a pro-Hamas flag that I'm waving.

00:12:42.880 They are next to people who might just, you know, they have, I'm not trying to be too patriotized,

00:12:50.540 but they might have a different view of things where they just would like a ceasefire in Israel,

00:12:54.180 and they decided to go walk and join this protest because that seems to be the way to get it.

00:12:58.520 I mean, you made January, I mentioned January 6th, you mentioned it.

00:13:02.620 Were there people who showed up at protests and stopped the steal protests

00:13:06.620 and were angry about the election and then went home?

00:13:08.920 There were.

00:13:09.360 There were also people who showed up and said they want to overthrow the government.

00:13:12.620 There were people who showed up at Black Lives Matter protests.

00:13:15.540 I got covered in 2020 who said, yes, I'd like more police reform.

00:13:19.540 And then they went home.

00:13:20.580 But the people with the megaphones were saying,

00:13:22.320 and we want to overthrow capitalism and abolish prisons of police, right?

00:13:25.240 So I think by concealing their identities, that has exacerbated the role that the more radical voices have in this movement.

00:13:34.700 And you see the backlash.

00:13:35.980 You see the way that, I'm just describing things without justifying them.

00:13:40.080 You're seeing the way that these protests are responded to by police, by governors, et cetera.

00:13:45.780 They're responding to the very vocal anti-Israel sentiments, anti-Zionist, sometimes anti-Semitic, sometimes murderous sentiments they're hearing from people who do show up and say,

00:13:55.600 here I am, here's who I am, here's what I believe.

00:13:58.180 And it is something that will offend 95 percent of the country or more.

00:14:03.220 How long do you think this lasts?

00:14:05.720 I mean, is this something that dies out?

00:14:08.140 I mean, I always thought the Occupy Wall Street thing would die out faster than it did.

00:14:13.780 And I think they actually had a huge impact.

00:14:16.480 I think those banks and those corporations saw that they were being disrupted and went, okay, well, we'll throw you some money your way and support your way.

00:14:25.840 Just leave us alone. 0.76

00:14:26.880 Is this real staying power and how big is this movement in America?

00:14:36.080 It has grown.

00:14:37.760 It's harder to quantify because this has been happening in places with Democratic politicians, in college towns, on college campuses.

00:14:48.340 There are parts of the country you can drive for 100 miles.

00:14:51.040 You're not seeing anyone talk or put up a sign about this conflict.

00:14:53.940 But if you're Joe Biden and you go raise money in West L.A. or Ann Arbor, et cetera, you're going to be surrounded by people for whom this is the defining issue.

00:15:02.660 So how much has it grown?

00:15:04.200 Hard question.

00:15:05.060 Now, the sentiment against funding the war, I should say funding aid to Israel as it wages this war in Gaza, that has collapsed.

00:15:13.860 That's sort of the paradox here.

00:15:15.860 Look at polling for how many Americans want there to be the funding bill that was passed in the last week.

00:15:21.520 It's lower than the share of Americans who supported the Vietnam War at this point in 1870.

00:15:28.320 And I bring up Vietnam because not enough to mention enough things, but a lot of protesters see themselves as heirs to that sort of anti-war movement, heirs to the people who showed up, protested the war, willing to get arrested.

00:15:39.720 In some cases were shot.

00:15:40.700 And, yes, they are willing, that side of the movement is willing to just keep protesting, keep getting arrested, keep doing disobedience.

00:15:49.060 As long as the war is going on, some of them, I would say, and you have to do this to separate, some of them for as long as Israel exists. 0.98

00:15:55.860 You could go to a left-wing protest when nothing was, there was a peace fire, there was an Antipada, nothing was happening in Israel.

00:16:01.980 There would be people calling for the end of the Jewish state to be replaced by Palestine.

00:16:07.780 That's been there for decades.

00:16:10.140 But this level of intensity and this sort of organizing, this is the motivator that is getting half the population of the Ivy League out onto the campus and protesting.

00:16:20.440 I think that is tied to how long this war goes on.

00:16:23.140 If there is a ceasefire, I would assume that a lot of the people I've been talking about, people who are showing up and protesting and don't necessarily want to be identified but are not radicals, those people I think would go home, based on my experience and what happened with protests in the past.

00:16:37.360 You can see protests shrink over time, how many people are showing up to this because they're worried about being exposed or because they think that they might have believed in part of this cause, but it went too far for them.

00:16:50.760 I think that would happen at some point.

00:16:52.360 I don't think anything changes as long as this war is going on.

00:16:57.760 That's the terminator.

00:17:00.400 I mean, that's why Wall Street broke up for a number of reasons, but capitalism was still there.

00:17:04.720 The banks were still there.

00:17:05.740 The system they were protesting was still there.

00:17:08.260 This war, again, not to overcompete things, this war is defining these protests.

00:17:14.300 When the war is over, there still will be a movement, a smaller movement, that is agitating for just the destruction of the current state of Israel.

00:17:20.880 And I think their numbers will have increased, but they're not going to be able to amass crowds like they are right now.

00:17:27.160 David, thank you so much for watching this.

00:17:29.560 Thanks for your really insightful, the rise of the mask is Israel, Gaza protester.

00:17:35.260 You know, you just picked up on something I don't think anybody did.

00:17:39.400 I was surprised too.

00:17:40.700 I know.

00:17:41.240 I was the first one to put it out.

00:17:42.400 Thank you very much.

00:17:43.340 You bet.

00:17:43.760 You can read it at semaphore.com, semaphore.com.

00:17:46.660 David, thank you so much.

00:17:48.260 Thank you very much, Glenn.

00:17:49.020 Thank you very much, Glenn.

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00:19:02.880 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:05.660 Rabbi Itzhak Alderstein is with us now from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

00:19:12.800 He is the Director of Interfaith Affairs.

00:19:15.580 He is one of my favorite people on Earth.

00:19:18.180 Rabbi, good to have you.

00:19:19.700 Great to be here.

00:19:20.800 Yeah.

00:19:21.380 You just got back from Israel.

00:19:23.120 Correct.

00:19:24.320 How are things?

00:19:24.920 You know, we say in Israel, kumokulonum, like everybody else.

00:19:31.260 It says a lot.

00:19:32.740 It means that we're going through some hard times, but we're still remarkably united.

00:19:38.120 Were you?

00:19:38.560 There's some signs of things fracturing a little, but it's a minority of the country.

00:19:42.100 Were you there for the response from Iran?

00:19:46.660 There?

00:19:47.180 It was a night of biblical meaning.

00:19:53.820 I was one of the overly naive people who actually believed that the reports from the media when they first came in,

00:20:01.660 they've launched, they're on their way, but they're only going to hit two places in the country.

00:20:05.380 So unless you're at an Air Force base in the Negev or sitting on the Golan, hey, it should be okay. 0.71

00:20:11.260 So I actually went to sleep.

00:20:12.500 There weren't too many people who went to sleep to be awakened at 2 a.m. by the scions of my wife saying,

00:20:20.100 we got to get downstairs to the bomb shelter.

00:20:23.420 What is that like, to live like that?

00:20:26.360 It's not pleasant.

00:20:29.660 It's not pleasant.

00:20:30.480 But I had steeled myself to it before.

00:20:33.580 I figured I'd rather die with my boots on figuratively in most of the country, not figuratively,

00:20:41.360 and die with pride as a Jew in God's land than cower in Brooklyn. 0.76

00:20:49.000 And we went downstairs.

00:20:51.960 We had some guests over as well.

00:20:53.720 And we waited a couple of minutes.

00:20:55.680 And, hey, nothing happened.

00:20:57.080 And then we get the old clear.

00:21:00.240 Hey, this is kind of like, you know, anticlimactic.

00:21:04.800 Yeah.

00:21:05.400 And we went upstairs and then, you know, just like figured we'd look outside and went outside.

00:21:11.560 We have a beautiful view from our porch in Jerusalem and treated to a light show like it was 4th of July.

00:21:21.200 And it, you know, you said it was biblical.

00:21:24.660 See if we're on the same page.

00:21:26.880 It was, it felt at least to me like just divine protection, the hand of God just putting a dome over Israel. 0.79

00:21:38.740 How else do you get a 99% rate of taking those things down?

00:21:43.400 We know that there is human inaccuracy.

00:21:45.900 Look, anybody who plays video games knows that you don't always get those incoming.

00:21:52.100 Right.

00:21:52.660 And any one of those could have done damage.

00:21:55.860 And then a few days later, after we sustain almost no damage at all with one injury in a Bedouin village,

00:22:03.600 a couple of days later, we finally respond to Iran and don't lob anything like those numbers there.

00:22:12.280 And they hit the munitions factory right next door to a nuclear installation and blow it up.

00:22:19.300 I got to tell you that what was done in Syria, you're in a town in Syria and there are buildings right next to buildings.

00:22:28.880 And you hit with a missile one and that collapsed and seemingly no damage anywhere else.

00:22:35.320 It is incredible how accurate things are happening with Israel.

00:22:40.380 Right.

00:22:41.120 And those who are believers don't attribute that to the might of the IDF.

00:22:47.380 Very, very, very grateful to the IDF, especially to the soldiers.

00:22:52.020 But they, you know, they got October 7th wrong and there have been lots of friendly fire casualties

00:22:57.680 because human error is always involved and there wasn't here.

00:23:01.800 To those who are believers, this was as close to a Cecil B. DeMille moment as we were going to get in our lifetime.

00:23:08.940 Forgive me for not knowing the eschology of Jews, 0.99

00:23:20.280 but there's many Christians who believe we're living in the times for the return of the Messiah.

00:23:28.420 I know Iran believes that they're looking for the return of the promised one, the 12th imam, 0.99

00:23:34.760 which gives them a real bloodthirst at this point.

00:23:38.540 What do people in Israel feel about the Messiah?

00:23:43.920 Look, we've been waiting for a couple of thousand years and we pray every day and we don't hope for the Messiah to come.

00:23:51.960 We know he's coming.

00:23:53.720 Yeah.

00:23:54.040 We know he's coming.

00:23:55.060 Jews and Christians share that.

00:23:56.600 We don't hope for a better world.

00:23:58.540 It's guaranteed.

00:23:59.320 God's word is money in the bank.

00:24:01.960 Whether we're living in those times, there are hints of it.

00:24:08.360 I'm a little bit on the conservative side, so I try not to set ourselves up for disappointment.

00:24:15.160 But there's one thing in the Talmud that strikes me.

00:24:20.420 The Talmud says that one of the indications that you're on the verge or in the footsteps of the Messiah

00:24:26.880 is that the generation of it is, there are no fence sitters.

00:24:32.840 You're either on one side or you're on the other.

00:24:36.320 And we are so close.

00:24:37.580 So we really got there on October 8th when you have half of the people in the world,

00:24:42.500 I hope it's half the people in the world,

00:24:44.120 or still hundreds of millions who said, this is moral depravity.

00:24:49.080 If this can't be called not only evil, but barbaric and demonic, then nothing is.

00:24:58.120 And other people are saying, well, really, nothing is.

00:25:00.580 It's all context.

00:25:02.240 Or you guys brought it about.

00:25:04.880 Or what do you expect?

00:25:07.100 So the world, not just a small corner of it, and not just America,

00:25:13.100 but the world has divided itself up into people who have room to understand morality

00:25:19.100 and those who've rejected it and see everything is relative.

00:25:21.600 Do you see in the rest of the world,

00:25:27.860 and I don't even want to know the answer to this,

00:25:31.720 hopefully you see a difference in Christians, 1.00

00:25:35.700 the Jews see a difference in Christians this time around from the last time.

00:25:41.300 But we are only seeing the bad stuff.

00:25:45.460 When you go over to Europe,

00:25:46.940 are you seeing Christians and others surprisingly, maybe, standing up?

00:25:54.460 I'm surprised at the hesitation in your asking that question.

00:25:58.740 A hundred percent.

00:26:01.500 We're conscious in Israel that the only reliable allies we have on the face of the earth

00:26:07.080 are Christians, are serious Bible-believing Christians, to be more specific.

00:26:15.900 And then there are good people all over.

00:26:18.120 I came back not so long ago from Berlin.

00:26:20.360 My youngest son lives in Berlin.

00:26:22.080 He's on the faculty of a rabbinical school in Berlin.

00:26:26.420 He lives across the street from the synagogue and community center and school

00:26:31.100 where his kids go that was firebombed a couple of months ago.

00:26:37.260 So ever since the time that it was firebombed,

00:26:41.940 a group of people, mostly Christian, mostly Christian,

00:26:46.000 believing Christian, come every Friday night to stand guard

00:26:51.300 as a vigil for the people.

00:26:53.860 And these are just locals.

00:26:55.500 They're not busting from other parts of Berlin.

00:26:58.020 Locals in the neighborhood.

00:27:00.020 Yes, there are people.

00:27:01.040 There are good people.

00:27:01.840 There are good people all over.

00:27:03.580 I can point to Palestinian friends as well.

00:27:06.700 You know, I'm shocked because when I go over to Israel,

00:27:11.640 and I'll talk to Palestinians.

00:27:13.000 I don't go into Gaza.

00:27:14.780 But when I talk to Palestinians who are living in Israel,

00:27:17.540 if the cameras are off, they will always say,

00:27:23.180 I would much rather, I have a much better time in Israel than over in Gaza.

00:27:29.960 I live next door to the Jews, and we're fine.

00:27:33.300 But once the camera is on, you don't hear that very often.

00:27:38.940 And they're afraid.

00:27:40.240 They're afraid to say that.

00:27:42.020 Now, in Gaza, the ones who have been raised on this poison, I mean... 1.00

00:27:49.720 Sort of like students in America who have been raised on a different kind of poison.

00:27:54.440 Yeah.

00:27:54.640 It's not all that different.

00:27:55.480 So what do you do?

00:27:59.180 You know, you can't put a fire out.

00:28:01.560 You can't put 80% of a fire out and then go, we're just going to take a break.

00:28:05.280 We didn't stop in Germany with the Nazis.

00:28:09.000 You cannot have that.

00:28:10.740 You can't have anything other than, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:28:14.260 And then you still have to go through the community and find those that were leaders of it and Nuremberg. 0.69

00:28:23.760 Please tell me that Israel is committed to, no matter what the world says, finishing this job. 0.97

00:28:32.720 Because that's the only shot we have.

00:28:35.240 The majority of the country is committed to that, very, very strongly.

00:28:40.640 There definitely is a minority that's wavering.

00:28:47.720 Is it kind of the Tel Aviv kind of crowd?

00:28:49.860 Yeah.

00:28:50.720 Yeah.

00:28:51.380 The Tel Aviv kind of crowd.

00:28:52.540 And some of the old time, the old time leftists and some of the old brass of the army, which is very reluctantly giving up control to a younger generation, which is much more committed, much more focused.

00:29:09.920 It would be so frustrating to live in America right now.

00:29:17.300 It would be so frustrating to have the bombs actually raining down and what happened on October 7th and then sit next to somebody who's like, yeah, I think we should give it a paw.

00:29:29.160 It would be hard.

00:29:30.560 It would be hard.

00:29:34.440 What can we do to help?

00:29:36.540 What can this audience do to help?

00:29:38.860 What do Jews here in America need and what do Jews in Israel need? 0.94

00:29:47.600 Well, that's a bunch of questions.

00:29:49.500 Jews in Israel are enormously buoyed up by shows of support from the rest of the world.

00:29:57.700 On the one hand, we're prepared to go it alone.

00:30:00.420 What we've done, what the events of the last months preceded by a couple of decades have done is to produce a Gen Z in Israel, which is the polar opposite of what we have here in the United States. 0.97

00:30:17.680 We're talking about kids who are when they're 18, 19, learn to live together, to cooperate in the army, learn that they have a national mission, that they work for others and for community.

00:30:34.740 And now they've had a practicum in what it means to translate that into reality and see the reaction of the rest of the world.

00:30:43.880 So we're prepared, and we have the strength to go at it, and whatever God decides is the outcome, you know, we'll live with it or die with it.

00:30:54.320 But it is so comforting to know that it's not the entire world that has turned against us, that there are good people all over, almost exclusively people who believe in Abrahamic monotheism.

00:31:14.180 Yeah.

00:31:14.900 Do you have a theory on why this keeps happening?

00:31:19.680 People have been coming up with theories about anti-Semitism for thousands of years.

00:31:32.040 The only theories that resonate with me is that Jews stand for something that consciously or subconsciously much of the world resists, which is a connection between man and God. 0.89

00:31:49.680 People committed to people committed to a mission of making God's will something real.

00:31:56.080 Even Jews who are not observant still stand for that biblical message, and that message is more than a lot of people can take. 0.66

00:32:04.960 Hitler supposedly said it best. 1.00

00:32:08.660 He said that there are two things that we can never forgive the Jews for, circumcision and conscience.

00:32:19.680 That's a powerful statement.

00:32:22.260 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Podcast.

00:32:24.760 To hear more of this interview, check out the full episode anywhere podcasts are found.

00:32:29.220 This is what happened last night.

00:32:31.640 I have to tell you, I didn't even know how to begin to have a discussion on this.

00:32:44.020 I'll start with this.

00:32:45.500 We are not accusing Dominion of anything.

00:32:48.860 We are not saying that this alleged vulnerability has ever been used or existed.

00:32:53.740 In fact, I've got another, and they've done that, got the t-shirt, I have another t-shirt for you.

00:32:59.300 We're not even saying that this will be used to manipulate the next election.

00:33:04.960 We are doing one thing.

00:33:07.320 We are highlighting something that was alleged in a federal court.

00:33:11.400 We haven't seen anyone disputed or even talk about the alleged vulnerability.

00:33:16.320 Now, it shouldn't matter what side you're on.

00:33:20.360 It shouldn't matter if you work for Dominion or any other voting machine company.

00:33:25.560 You, me, everyone.

00:33:27.860 We all want a secure election.

00:33:30.600 We want there to be confidence on all sides when we vote.

00:33:35.740 Talking about potential issues gets us closer to those goals.

00:33:41.460 And asking questions used to be something that both the left and the right agreed together that we should be doing.

00:33:50.140 I want to show you a transcript of a conversation on PBS regarding Georgia's voting machines.

00:33:55.320 Two of the experts, Alex Halderman and Harry Hurstie, said that they were potential vulnerabilities that attackers could take advantage of.

00:34:07.820 Hurstie said that Georgia's system was complicated and it doesn't seem to have any safeguards.

00:34:15.860 If you're curious, Georgia's system is Dominion, the same system mentioned in the recent petition.

00:34:22.000 Now, the alleged vulnerability is different, but here they are all freely talking about it.

00:34:29.800 Take a look at this transcript.

00:34:31.720 It was October 2020.

00:34:35.680 Why was it okay for both sides to talk about it then, but hardly anyone will do it now?

00:34:44.600 Harry Hurstie is somewhat of a legend in the community that searches for vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems.

00:34:51.180 He was featured in an HBO documentary explaining how he hacked a Diebold voting machine back in 2005 using a single memory card.

00:35:01.980 I'll tell you the results of that hack later on in the program.

00:35:05.260 But that election system, Diebold, was later bought in 2010 by Dominion.

00:35:11.000 We don't know if this software is still in use, but the HBO documentary website mentioned that, as of several years ago, it was still used or not used.

00:35:23.920 There is an interesting history here.

00:35:26.480 The other expert featured in that PBS piece was Alex Halderman.

00:35:30.820 Last year, he was given access, last year, to the Georgia Dominion voting machines to see if he could find any vulnerabilities.

00:35:41.940 And he did.

00:35:44.520 Halderman found Dominion's machines in Georgia are, quote,

00:35:47.400 Dominion countered that the hack was unrealistic, but federal authorities found the same vulnerabilities,

00:36:00.260 and more than 20 cybersecurity experts backed up Halderman's findings.

00:36:05.800 Now, there was never any evidence that this was taken advantage of in an election.

00:36:10.540 The worry is that this could be abused in future elections.

00:36:17.400 So, this is actually a good story.

00:36:20.220 Everyone seems to be in agreement that the hack is possible, and we know about it in advance.

00:36:26.620 So, it should be easily fixed, right?

00:36:29.300 All you have to do is upgrade the system before November, and it's over.

00:36:34.380 Well, not so fast.

00:36:35.880 Quote,

00:36:36.380 Some of the issues could be mitigated by upgrading the Dominion software,

00:36:41.480 but Georgia officials say the upgrade is unrealistic,

00:36:44.820 an enormous undertaking they won't start until after the 2024 elections.

00:36:52.160 What?

00:36:53.320 I mean, I hate to say that this gives the appearance that they're not taking the election security seriously.

00:37:01.580 That's quite a quote.

00:37:02.900 I only point out these recent vulnerabilities to show you that they have been found before,

00:37:09.600 and that not only that, but the experts and the media used to talk about them all the time.

00:37:17.760 I don't want to look backward.

00:37:19.840 The past is the past, but we must fix the system if there's a problem.

00:37:26.460 There was one specific allegation in the court documents that caught my eye.

00:37:31.640 It was so technical and specific, I hadn't seen it anywhere.

00:37:37.920 But this is an excerpt from the lawsuit that describes the alleged vulnerability.

00:37:43.280 This is public, and that's one reason why we wanted to do this show.

00:37:47.600 You can read this for yourself, but I have to warn you,

00:37:51.920 the nerd speak sounds like a mixture of Greek combined with Japanese.

00:37:56.220 This is not something anyone and everyone could do.

00:37:59.020 Luckily, I have my nerd speaker decoder ring.

00:38:03.240 In a nutshell, here's what it describes.

00:38:05.780 It describes how Dominion's democracy suite systems encrypt their data.

00:38:11.720 An encryption key is needed to access the critical data.

00:38:15.900 Some call it the God key.

00:38:18.420 It should be kept encrypted itself.

00:38:21.020 But in the allegation described in the lawsuit, it claims that on some Dominion machines, it's not.

00:38:29.720 The allegation claims that the encryption key can easily be secured for on the system,

00:38:37.020 and that the only security safeguard is logging into Windows.

00:38:41.080 This petition that makes this claim, from March,

00:38:46.140 claims that a malicious actor could use this to, quote,

00:38:52.040 gain total access and control over an election, end quote.

00:38:57.000 When you go to vote, and you get a ballot, you mark your selections at the voting machine.

00:39:04.340 Then when you're finished, the machine prints the vote.

00:39:07.020 You take that to a tabulator.

00:39:09.600 An election official scans the ballot into the tabulator and records your vote.

00:39:14.900 The information is later saved to a memory card, and that is taken to a computer.

00:39:20.420 That computer is where this alleged vulnerability is claimed to be.

00:39:27.120 How many people in the election office have access to that computer?

00:39:31.460 What if the only guy with the key in that office is malicious?

00:39:35.660 What if someone broke in?

00:39:38.520 Now, clearly, this does not appear to be something that anyone could pull off.

00:39:43.540 People without the proper skill could not do this.

00:39:47.840 I couldn't do this.

00:39:48.820 But what's being alleged would take some expertise, but appears that maybe the court filing described this alleged vulnerability as, quote,

00:40:01.580 a bank telling the public that they have the most secure vault in the world,

00:40:07.280 and then taping the combination of the vault on the wall next to the door.

00:40:13.560 I'm going to show you some video here and some long disclaimers.

00:40:19.700 Why don't you take the disclaimer?

00:40:22.000 Because we asked a cybersecurity expert with knowledge of this allegation to attempt to recreate what was described in the court case.

00:40:31.560 Could they do it?

00:40:33.140 We asked them if they could use the same Dominion software and then asked if they could screen record the entire process.

00:40:41.060 So they did.

00:40:42.980 Disclaimer, and then I think we have another disclaimer coming up.

00:40:46.820 Yeah, so an additional disclaimer.

00:40:50.220 Okay.

00:40:50.360 This is the Microsoft admin computer.

00:40:55.980 So you would log in here, put your password in.

00:40:58.280 It would open up to this.

00:40:59.920 Then you would go into the tabulation.

00:41:03.540 Okay.

00:41:04.140 Database does not require additional password once a viewer is logged into Windows.

00:41:08.260 Okay.

00:41:08.720 We're fine.

00:41:09.440 All of this up there, it's all encrypted.

00:41:11.940 You see?

00:41:12.280 But the encryption keys are stored in this table right here in plain text.

00:41:18.040 So they take the keys.

00:41:19.620 This is the key to the main vault.

00:41:21.520 And you cut and paste.

00:41:23.760 You put the last one over here.

00:41:26.240 Now watch what happens.

00:41:27.800 When you put the keys in.

00:41:32.000 Here's the last one.

00:41:33.000 Now you can decrypt the election files using the extracted keys and a few lines of code.

00:41:46.960 Open.

00:41:49.100 There's the encryption.

00:41:52.420 Now using the keys, a description script is executed.

00:41:56.400 And now I have the names.

00:41:59.820 I have everything that I need.

00:42:02.280 It's now decrypted.

00:42:03.420 It's the knock list.

00:42:04.960 It's out in the open.

00:42:06.520 A user can run a script to re-encrypt it if they wanted to make any changes.

00:42:12.840 The conclusion from the expert.

00:42:14.600 With no password in just a few minutes with an election server, an individual can access the keys to the election.

00:42:23.720 That is stunning.

00:42:26.400 Let me play one more thing because I brought John Graves in last night.

00:42:31.980 We went to the chalkboard and I said, just so people understand what I just showed you, look at this.

00:42:39.320 Well, I want to make sure that we have this right and everybody understands.

00:42:43.240 Yes.

00:42:43.460 Okay.

00:42:44.800 The election, the voting machine is like a bank.

00:42:48.440 Exactly.

00:42:49.100 Yes.

00:42:49.640 And to get in to the front door, you need a key.

00:42:53.320 Who would have that key?

00:42:54.780 All the commissioners?

00:42:56.580 Yeah.

00:42:56.860 Any Dominion employee, a county commissioner, they would either have it or have authority.

00:43:00.640 Anybody who can access the database has the PC login key.

00:43:04.720 Okay.

00:43:05.160 So that's a Windows PC, right?

00:43:08.260 Yes.

00:43:08.760 And it's all normal and you just sign in.

00:43:11.380 Username and password and you put the password in.

00:43:13.760 It opens the door of the bank.

00:43:15.220 And you're in the bank lobby.

00:43:16.420 Right.

00:43:16.840 But you should not be able to open the vault.

00:43:19.500 No, you should not.

00:43:20.380 Okay.

00:43:20.760 With the key to the bank.

00:43:21.920 Right.

00:43:22.420 Okay.

00:43:22.780 So you have the key to the, and all commissioners have this and that's normal.

00:43:26.480 Yeah.

00:43:26.840 Right.

00:43:27.260 Yeah.

00:43:27.380 But in the lobby of the bank, in the open are the four keys that open the vault.

00:43:36.000 That's right.

00:43:36.920 So what can you do in the vault with the four keys?

00:43:39.920 Yeah.

00:43:40.080 So the allegations that were made in this lawsuit that you pointed out, these keys could shut

00:43:48.000 off the cameras and wipe that you were there because they're encryption keys.

00:43:52.220 They could take the gold and replace it with counterfeit gold.

00:43:55.240 Take the cash, replace it with counterfeit cash.

00:43:57.680 You would never know it.

00:43:59.580 And then literally go right back out and no one would know that you're there.

00:44:03.620 You showed that on the demonstration of the cybersecurity experts.

00:44:07.300 That's not good.

00:44:07.880 No, it's not good at all.

00:44:09.180 That's why it alarmed me.

00:44:10.280 All right.

00:44:10.720 So we're going to go through this just a little bit more.

00:44:12.920 And then the most important part, what do we do?

00:44:18.140 This audience could play a very big role in saving the Republic, but it's going to take

00:44:24.300 your time.

00:44:26.000 It's not hard.

00:44:27.540 It's really not hard, but we all have to do it because this is really kind of happening

00:44:34.000 through us.

00:44:36.260 And so you have to spread the word because there's, you know, there may be 10 million

00:44:40.880 people listening, but you know, that's, that's, uh, that's not enough.

00:44:45.060 We need everybody to be aware of this.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 25, 2024

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