The Glenn Beck Program - April 15, 2026


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Anna Paulina Luna ｜ 4⧸15⧸26


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00:00:30.000 Well, happy Tax Day. I mean, I don't want to, I'm going to leave my tree up for a week. 0.99
00:00:35.220 The celebrations just continue. Don't you feel so patriotic on Tax Day? We talk about that.
00:00:41.420 Also a message to my conservative friends that are receiving death threats. And really,
00:00:47.080 it's more than just my friends. It is the truth that needs to be spoken to all of us.
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00:02:52.360 with us. Now let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Our good
00:03:06.500 friends at Turning Point USA had to issue this statement. Erica Kirk, wife of late conservative
00:03:11.240 icon charlie kirk received some very serious threats in her direction prompting her absence
00:03:16.100 from the event in athens georgia she was supposed to address you know the the students she said i
00:03:25.000 was so looking forward to tonight's event uh at the university of georgia with our vice president
00:03:29.880 jd vance but after all our family has been through i take my security team's recommendations
00:03:35.080 extremely seriously thank you for your amazing georgia chapter for all of your support god
00:03:39.980 bless you all can we please leave this woman alone can we can we please just leave her alone
00:03:45.920 what do you say we don't leave her without a mother and i don't know which side i'm talking
00:03:51.480 to i don't know if i'm talking to the radical left or the the real radical dangerous uh right
00:03:56.920 or those who call themselves the right i don't know um but we gotta you know we we have to we
00:04:05.880 We have to start saying, all of us, that violence is not acceptable.
00:04:12.980 If we normalize this, we have a very, we have really dark days ahead of us.
00:04:20.420 Saturday, Harmeet Dillon chimed in on another friend of ours,
00:04:24.960 Turning Point USA's Frontlines reporter, Savannah Hernandez,
00:04:29.260 a friend of the program, former Blaze employee,
00:04:32.100 and somebody I just I have a lot of respect for. She was, there are multiple videos out. She was
00:04:41.500 up in, I think it was Minnesota. Yeah, she was up in Minnesota. And she was attacked by a mob.
00:04:47.500 And you can see all the videos. She was exposing, you know, the radicals against ICE. And she was
00:04:59.200 there and she was attacked and she was going to be on the show today. And I just got this note from
00:05:03.920 her. Glenn, you know, I never would turn you down, but I'm struggling with
00:05:10.800 some dizziness and head pain today and had to end up canceling all of my appearances for the day.
00:05:21.940 Please, my sincerest apologies. I have a mild concussion. I just need a day to recover.
00:05:26.760 um ricky wrote her and said oh my gosh i hope you're okay blah blah blah please tell she said
00:05:33.760 please tell glenn uh i'm extremely grateful for him covering the story and i would definitely be
00:05:38.360 on if i was feeling better i did a couple of hits yesterday but by the end of the day i just felt
00:05:43.120 really ill and i just haven't felt normal since so i want to talk to my friends and i want to talk
00:05:51.860 to you as well because I have been there my first death threat happened in 2007 2006 I think it was
00:06:05.560 2007 I was on a tour for the Christmas sweater and we had serious death threats our my tour bus
00:06:13.600 was run off the road it was a scary time and I know what happens you immediately think it's not
00:06:20.940 worth this. It is not worth this. My friends, my friend, we are in a time that is thick with
00:06:31.760 credible threats. And that's happening because the powers that you name, the liars, the corrupt,
00:06:38.120 the enemies of the Bill of Rights and the Western inheritance have marked you.
00:06:43.300 they want you silent
00:06:46.120 they want you gone
00:06:47.400 for a reason
00:06:49.020 and I know because I have been there
00:06:52.760 I have heard that voice that
00:06:54.420 whispers lies in your head
00:06:56.860 the oldest temptation
00:06:58.520 stop
00:07:00.340 it's not worth it, step back
00:07:02.340 somebody else can carry it
00:07:13.300 please hear me.
00:07:16.260 Hear it from the marrow of every soul
00:07:20.200 who ever stood where you stand right now.
00:07:24.440 You were born for times such as this.
00:07:33.520 Do you imagine the Lord is searching the earth today
00:07:36.820 for somebody less frightened than you?
00:07:39.940 Do you think he's hunting for a heart that's never trembled?
00:07:46.800 It's not true. He's not.
00:07:49.840 Every hero you knew felt the same terror that you feel now.
00:07:55.280 Every last one of them.
00:08:00.280 They were all afraid. Read their words.
00:08:03.820 Even Christ.
00:08:06.520 Christ was in the garden.
00:08:09.940 bleeding from every pore, laying on his face, begging,
00:08:15.820 Father, please, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.
00:08:24.220 The sinless Son of God tasted the full weight of what was coming.
00:08:29.800 He knew, and he still rose and said, nevertheless,
00:08:39.940 Not my will, but thine be done.
00:08:45.320 Imagine how afraid he was.
00:08:47.880 He didn't cease to be afraid in order to obey.
00:08:51.900 He obeyed while and in spite of him being afraid.
00:09:01.860 That's the only courage that has ever changed the world.
00:09:04.620 bonhoeffer standing against the nazi machine silence in the face of evil is evil itself
00:09:13.800 god will not hold us guiltless not to speak is to speak not to act is to act
00:09:19.720 he didn't escape the noose by being quiet
00:09:24.160 he escaped the greater death the death of the soul that refuses to live by truth
00:09:32.880 Stolus Nietzsche, rotting in a gulag
00:09:38.580 for the crime of refusing the lie
00:09:41.360 gave us the simplest, most explosive command
00:09:46.380 ever written for people who speak,
00:09:51.260 who feel compelled to speak, but are afraid.
00:09:56.800 Live not by lies.
00:10:02.880 He wrote, let their rule hold not through me.
00:10:10.360 He said the courageous individual's first and simplest step is this.
00:10:15.980 I'm just not going to take part in that lie.
00:10:18.620 Not in my words, not in my silence, not in my fear.
00:10:21.700 I will not take part of that.
00:10:25.760 Lincoln, the nation is tearing itself apart.
00:10:29.160 The guy knew he was going to die.
00:10:30.700 He knew it.
00:10:32.880 he wrote,
00:10:35.440 it often requires more courage to dare to do the right thing
00:10:40.000 than to fear to do the wrong.
00:10:45.440 One of my favorite lines from him is,
00:10:47.940 let us have the faith that right makes might,
00:10:51.960 and in the faith, let us, to the end,
00:10:55.520 dare to do our duty as we understand it.
00:11:00.760 He didn't wait until he was brave.
00:11:02.880 he dared while the threats were real.
00:11:08.740 Martin Luther King literally bombs at his door.
00:11:12.820 People shooting into his front room with his children in the other room.
00:11:17.000 Death threats by mail.
00:11:18.960 He still cried out,
00:11:20.960 courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite the obstacles. 0.92
00:11:26.420 He told us, build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
00:11:32.880 the night before he died he talked about going to the mountaintop 0.75
00:11:37.660 I may not make it there with you
00:11:38.960 he knew the mountaintop view included a cross
00:11:41.580 but he climbed it anyway
00:11:43.940 which brings me back to you
00:11:49.040 and people like you
00:11:54.400 the cup hasn't passed
00:11:59.600 the threats are real
00:12:01.720 The fear is honest, but the calling is louder.
00:12:08.220 Concentrate on the calling.
00:12:11.360 You have already spoken the truth where others just whispered.
00:12:15.780 You've already exposed the rot when others just politely ignored it.
00:12:21.100 You've already defended the rights that our fathers and forefathers bled for
00:12:25.940 and the civilization our mothers prayed would endure.
00:12:29.680 you know you can't lay it down now
00:12:34.000 because if you do
00:12:35.560 the lie wins another inch
00:12:37.620 and the corruption breathes easier
00:12:41.860 and the bill of rights
00:12:44.140 becomes one more relic
00:12:45.600 in a museum of forgotten freedoms 0.62
00:12:47.600 but to all those with ears
00:12:52.500 if you stand
00:12:58.400 Trembling, maybe, yes
00:13:02.140 But if you stand, the lie is pierced
00:13:07.000 The corrupt are put on notice
00:13:09.680 And somewhere, a young man or a young woman watching you
00:13:13.680 Will learn that courage is not the absence of fear
00:13:17.040 It's the refusal to let fear right your ending
00:13:20.740 the Lord
00:13:29.420 is asking all of us to stand
00:13:33.580 what an honor
00:13:38.120 what an honor
00:13:41.760 he's not looking for a fearless vessel
00:13:47.040 he knows that doesn't exist
00:13:49.080 He's just asking for a faithful one.
00:13:56.020 So heal, sister, and rise stronger than before.
00:14:01.340 Let the powers rage.
00:14:03.220 Let the threats come.
00:14:04.840 Let the night howl.
00:14:09.020 You were born for this hour.
00:14:13.200 Say it with Stolus Nietzsche.
00:14:15.460 Their rule will not hold through me.
00:14:18.000 Say it with Bonhoeffer.
00:14:19.980 I will not be silent.
00:14:21.660 Say it with Lincoln.
00:14:22.780 I'll dare to do my duty.
00:14:24.500 Say it with King.
00:14:25.600 I will keep moving.
00:14:30.060 Say it with Christ nevertheless.
00:14:33.160 My will.
00:14:34.220 Not my will, but thine.
00:14:39.700 The cup is bitter,
00:14:41.180 but it's yours.
00:14:45.120 Drink it 1.00
00:14:45.720 and watch what God does with one woman, 0.98
00:14:50.020 one man who refuses to quit.
00:14:54.120 The ages are watching.
00:14:55.940 The West is watching.
00:14:57.460 Your children are watching.
00:15:00.240 Your children's children are watching.
00:15:02.840 So stand and live not by lies.
00:15:08.800 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:15:13.060 man happy tax day you beautiful red-blooded patriot you oh i love this day you know when
00:15:26.120 joe biden and barack obama said this is your patriotic duty and people want to pay more
00:15:31.620 they just want to pay more i thought that can't be true no it is true now it goes against
00:15:39.380 absolutely everything the polls tell us six in ten americans say they feel they pay more than
00:15:45.120 their fair share in taxes uh top earning households you know the ones that are paying over 40 percent
00:15:52.160 uh are the most likely to feel their taxes are a little out of whack a little a little bit a little
00:15:59.220 bit i mean i know what i did i pay here let me just tell you i'm a full tithing uh tithe payer
00:16:07.020 uh and i urge you to do it it's it's great but you give 10 of your money to god because you're
00:16:15.580 lucky to have you know 90 of it and i know what god has done for me you know he hasn't built any
00:16:22.920 roadways no he hasn't but he's done more for me than the united states government has
00:16:29.880 And I give God 10%.
00:16:33.680 I give the federal government 40%.
00:16:37.800 Seems a little out of whack.
00:16:42.840 You know what I'm saying?
00:16:44.020 Seems a little out of whack.
00:16:47.620 But I'm not alone in that.
00:16:49.660 It's not just top-earning households.
00:16:52.060 It is also middle income, 65% say, yeah, I pay more than my fair share.
00:16:57.940 Lower income.
00:16:59.880 Now, I don't even know if you're paying taxes in the lower income, but lower income, 49% say, yeah, I pay more than my fair share.
00:17:09.860 So I think they may be wrong about this patriotic thing, you know, except for me.
00:17:19.380 I mean, I feel so patriotic today, you know.
00:17:22.060 I just, I feel that. 0.98
00:17:23.840 i feel freedom washing over me you know as i stare at the w-2 and i realize the government has
00:17:30.680 has spent already the last 12 months deciding exactly how much of my i sweat my overtime
00:17:39.520 you know maybe i i i won't i won't buy this this month you know how much that money belongs to
00:17:46.660 them they've spent a whole year doing it and i appreciate it you know it's the sacred american
00:17:52.240 ritual where we all gather around the kitchen table and pour ourselves a stiff drink and celebrate
00:17:57.960 by mailing our hard-earned cash to people who who definitely know how to spend it better than
00:18:04.080 you do you know what i mean i mean sure i know how i would spend it but there's so much you know
00:18:09.600 months of grinding months of saying no to family vacations you know or timmy's little new shoes
00:18:16.240 you know, were shoes the best way to spend my money? Probably not, probably not, you know,
00:18:24.900 not to my college fund for my kids, no, no, not to that side hustle that you've been dreaming
00:18:31.240 about, no, no, it goes to the noble causes that make our life, I can't say better, but interesting,
00:18:38.280 you know what I mean? It's always a fresh surprise, you know, surprise inspections,
00:18:42.220 or fresh regulations or forms in triplicate.
00:18:46.320 I love that.
00:18:47.200 I love that.
00:18:52.060 On tax day, really nothing screams land of the free.
00:18:55.940 Like some bureaucrat in Washington deciding, you know,
00:18:58.960 your business needs one more safety sticker
00:19:01.220 that will cost more than your monthly mortgage payment.
00:19:05.440 You know, doesn't that just scream the red, white, and blue?
00:19:08.420 And let's not move past this without recognizing the real heroes, you know, the real heroes in our society that we just can't seem to do enough for, you know.
00:19:23.580 I don't know if you've seen the news lately, but in California, Minnesota, in Illinois, and dare I say it, all throughout this fruited plain,
00:19:35.180 there are people that we are helping.
00:19:40.200 We are lifting up.
00:19:41.920 You may not ever be able to afford a Mercedes
00:19:44.940 because that's a lot of money, let alone a Maybach.
00:19:48.400 Have you ever seen a Maybach?
00:19:49.340 Those things are sweet.
00:19:51.020 You may not be able to afford it,
00:19:52.660 but together, together with you working
00:19:55.960 and taking your hard-earned money
00:19:57.640 and me working and taking my hard-earned money,
00:20:00.440 in the spirit of unity, really,
00:20:02.700 We could all chip in so some guy from Mogadishu can roll up in the top-of-the-line Mercedes-Maybach.
00:20:10.900 You know, the sunroof open, you know, not the big one, not the long wheelbase, you know, 65-inch wheelbase.
00:20:18.520 You don't need that.
00:20:19.540 You know, chauffeur, it's a little too much.
00:20:21.280 We're not monsters, you know, but you get the drift, you know.
00:20:26.060 we send in our taxes and uh you know guy who's working you know you know at a warehouse double
00:20:35.400 time just to pay his taxes we can send those and fund vacations we'll never take and and buy cars 0.70
00:20:43.940 that we'll never drive but aren't they worth it i mean they're from mogadishu and they're living 0.95
00:20:52.540 off of us but they deserve that oh man that glorious bipartisan all-american waste i mean 0.65
00:21:00.360 happy birthday happy birthday america 250 years in this grand experiment and uh you know we're
00:21:07.900 having that you know that that quarter millennium blow out and what better way to honor the occasion
00:21:13.040 than and bankrolling you know investigations that go nowhere you know how many how many millions of
00:21:19.080 that we spent on those glorious investigations and reports that nobody reads. And then nobody
00:21:24.460 goes to jail. We bought all of those bridges to nowhere. We have studies on why pigeons in Central
00:21:30.660 Park prefer gluten-free bread. That's important stuff. Nobody else in the world is going to do
00:21:36.160 that. Billions just vanish in black hole contracts. Consultants who couldn't consult their way out of
00:21:42.860 a paper bag. You know, it might sound like I'm getting angry here as I'm thinking about these
00:21:47.340 and listing them off, but I'm not.
00:21:48.900 It's just that I'm so patriotic about those programs
00:21:52.260 so bloated that they make Uncle Bob's beer gut
00:21:55.640 look anorexic, you know?
00:21:57.800 What would the founders say? 0.99
00:21:59.360 Oh, those powdered wig rebels.
00:22:01.660 What would they, they'd be proud today. 0.97
00:22:03.460 You know, they didn't have an income tax.
00:22:05.720 They didn't even dream of one.
00:22:06.980 In fact, they avoided all of that.
00:22:08.680 They thought it was wrong.
00:22:09.420 They thought it was theft, you know?
00:22:11.660 They fought a revolution over a tea tax.
00:22:14.560 that was basically some pocket change but uh good thing good thing the progressives came along and
00:22:21.560 changed all that 1913 they said you know what this republic really needs a little light theft
00:22:27.260 you know out of everybody's paycheck every two weeks because we have guns we have jail so we
00:22:32.900 can just take it uh and uh and we'll take it by force and we were like no you don't have to take
00:22:38.640 it by force we'll send it in we'll send it in and they said we're gonna make it easier we're gonna
00:22:43.020 take it out of your paycheck. That way you won't really notice. And then when tax day comes, if you
00:22:48.520 get a refund, you're going to feel great. You'll be like, Hey, I got a refund. Well, no, actually
00:22:54.080 you just gave them that money throughout the year. And then they held it. You couldn't use it.
00:22:59.840 You couldn't, you know, you couldn't gain any interest off it. They could, but they'd already
00:23:04.060 spent it on like, I don't know, my box for people who, who are, are providing great care for people
00:23:11.260 who are dying in hospice, even though they're not really dying in hospice and are not providing
00:23:17.020 any care, but they get a good, good car or vacation out of the deal or a nice $76 million
00:23:25.980 bank account. Man, progressives, I thank you. Progressives. Because we are making progress.
00:23:33.280 Progressives, that's what it means. Progressive is to progress like, it's kind of like calling
00:23:39.400 a root canal elective dental enhancement, but that's what progressives have given us,
00:23:46.140 the income tax. It's great. So here we are 250 years in, staring at the ghost of Jefferson
00:23:51.900 in Washington who would have set their wigs on fire if they saw what we had turned no taxation
00:23:57.560 without representation into. And by the way, that brings up another thing, representation.
00:24:02.200 i mean come on our representatives they're representing you right don't you feel represented
00:24:10.980 you know because they're representing themselves just fine with your money but uh hey happy tax
00:24:20.060 day america and i'm feeling so damn patriotic right now i could salute the flag and sing the
00:24:25.920 national anthem and then just quietly curl myself in a ball and weep over my tax return
00:24:31.260 that's how good I feel today
00:24:33.620 because nothing says home of the brave
00:24:36.060 like voluntarily handing over your future
00:24:39.740 so the machine can just keep humming along
00:24:42.840 greased with your dreams
00:24:44.260 and our collective delusion
00:24:46.600 that this is somehow or another noble
00:24:48.480 God bless us, everyone
00:24:50.920 Tiny Tim say that?
00:24:52.400 Was he talking about America?
00:24:53.860 I'm not sure
00:24:54.660 but happy tax day, you know
00:24:59.560 I hope you have your tree up, because I've been decorating it all night long.
00:25:06.040 And by the way, they don't think they have enough.
00:25:08.480 I don't know if you saw this, but Hochul, now let me just take you, this is the governor of New York.
00:25:16.640 She is now saying that rich New Yorkers really need to move back from Florida, okay?
00:25:24.280 I want to make sure that we're smart about having a system in place that's not just about taxing for the sake of taxing and being conscious of the fact that I need people who are high net worth to support generous social programs that we want to have in our state.
00:25:38.440 So do you hear what she's saying there?
00:25:40.220 I need people of high net worth because I need their money to do stuff in the state.
00:25:47.000 You know why I'm not a full-time resident of Idaho?
00:25:49.980 I have a beautiful house in Idaho.
00:25:51.700 We use it for vacation.
00:25:54.280 And, you know, for the end of the world apocalypse.
00:25:57.640 And I have a house in Idaho.
00:26:00.320 The reason why I don't live in Idaho full time, because I would live in Idaho.
00:26:03.840 Well, my wife wouldn't. 0.92
00:26:05.100 She thinks snow is a bigger deal.
00:26:06.540 But I think the biggest deal is that when I went to speak to some of the Republicans up in the House and the Senate in Idaho, and I was going to go up and help them raise money, one of the leaders came up to me.
00:26:22.040 a Republican came up to me and said, have you moved here? And I said, we're thinking about it.
00:26:26.060 And he said, and this is a quote, we hope you do because we want to add you to the tax base.
00:26:34.380 And I said, you know what? You've guaranteed that I will never move to Idaho. Never.
00:26:43.500 But that was so selfish of me, you know, because they know how to spend my money much better.
00:26:49.620 You know, Florida, all these Floridians, they go down there or Texans, they go down there and they're like, hey, I don't know how to spend my money.
00:26:57.540 I don't know how to help people at all.
00:26:59.780 And look what's happening in Florida.
00:27:01.480 It's just falling apart.
00:27:02.360 But anyway, she says, Hochul says, the tax base is eroding and we need to get people back.
00:27:08.480 And so she's got a new idea on how to get people back.
00:27:11.440 And you're going to love it.
00:27:12.760 You're going to love it.
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00:27:20.580 We have to come together and understand when we have a good story and when we have a good case.
00:27:30.700 And right now there are a lot of good stories out there, but they're not necessarily good cases yet.
00:27:36.060 Think of yourself as a publisher of a newspaper.
00:27:40.500 Your reporter comes in and says, I got this story.
00:27:43.260 You're not going to believe this story.
00:27:44.020 Your job as a human being, as a good citizen, should be now to say, great, give me all of the facts that back that up.
00:27:51.340 When there's not enough facts, you need to look at your friend and not in a crossway, just say, I love this story.
00:27:57.660 I want to run with this story, but you don't have enough facts yet.
00:28:01.020 Keep me informed.
00:28:02.960 Keep following this story and keep me up to date.
00:28:06.040 And if you're the reporter, you don't turn on the editor and say, what do you mean?
00:28:10.440 I got all the facts I need.
00:28:11.540 No, you don't.
00:28:12.600 You have a good story.
00:28:14.020 facts matter. Opinions don't matter. Facts matter. You got a good story. You got a good theory.
00:28:23.000 Show me the facts on it. Because there's a lot of things. Tomorrow, I'm going to go into deep
00:28:27.440 space. There is a war in space right now that nobody's talking about. And it's real. And we
00:28:32.380 should be paying attention to that. But nobody's talking about it. Then there's all of this UFO
00:28:37.060 stuff. And I don't know what to make of this. I really don't. You know, one of my favorite people
00:28:43.960 in Congress is, uh, Anna Paulina Luna. Uh, she's from Florida. Uh, and she, yesterday, 0.97
00:28:49.920 she had a deadline that expired, I think yesterday for the department of war to release over 40 UAP,
00:28:56.240 which used to be UFO videos. Yeah. Anna, you didn't, you didn't, you didn't get any of these,
00:29:02.800 uh, did you? No, we didn't. And in fact, as soon as I got into the office, as you know,
00:29:09.320 we were coming back from being in Florida. I had my team and said, have we received anything,
00:29:15.260 like even a confirmation of receipt from the Department of War? And they said, no, I think
00:29:19.200 you guys need to call over and see what happened because we've given them, you know, over 40 days
00:29:22.860 for this or a long time for this rather, and them not responding is not acceptable. And so it turns
00:29:29.980 out that it just so happens to be very conveniently that they never, or whoever did receive it,
00:29:36.520 never passed it on. And so the Department of War decided to respond to the House oversight saying
00:29:41.900 that they would give us a briefing at some future date, which is unacceptable. That's not really
00:29:48.380 their call to make. That's our call to make. And aside from that, I happen to be friends with
00:29:52.820 Hegseth. And I also know that the president gave a very clear directive. So whoever's trying to be
00:29:57.620 cute at the Department of War, that's not going to work. We know that these files exist. We've had,
00:30:02.800 and we gave them specific names and locators for these files.
00:30:06.120 And so for them to say that, you know,
00:30:08.360 they don't have anything to present to us is a farce.
00:30:11.600 So we'll get it.
00:30:13.380 Okay, so can you tell me,
00:30:15.120 and I know you probably have, you know,
00:30:17.940 clearances that you have to worry about here.
00:30:20.520 So I don't want to put you in a bad situation,
00:30:22.020 but can you give us any indication
00:30:24.240 what you think might be on these videos?
00:30:28.520 What are you looking for?
00:30:31.540 It's probably very similar to the previous videos you have seen released from my task force.
00:30:36.880 So as you know, Rep Burleson released a very now famous video of one of these things deflecting a hellfire missile.
00:30:43.520 But it'll probably be similar content.
00:30:45.820 I think at the end of the day, like we're not going to tell the American people what to believe, right?
00:30:49.480 But is it fair to say that if the U.S. government is continually denying access to these files, we know that they're there.
00:30:57.840 they're saying you don't have authorization or they're coming up with excuses as to why you can't
00:31:02.540 see them well that's not their decision to make they weren't elected to office they're not the
00:31:07.020 president of the united states they're defying the wishes and will of not just congress but also the
00:31:11.840 president and so it's our job to run it down so can you tell me so you're not out to prove one
00:31:19.560 thing or another you're you're setting out saying hey this is not your information to hide
00:31:23.600 and if you're going to hide it you need a good you need a good reason that you tell congress and say
00:31:28.900 here's the case why we think they should be kept silent is that that's what you're doing
00:31:34.400 most certainly and i what i've gotten really frustrated with is you know people that are
00:31:39.920 again are not elected are these low-level bureaucrats or members of the intelligence
00:31:44.240 community that are making decisions that have no authority to make those decisions and then they
00:31:49.200 think that they can you know defy congressional orders and so really i think that's kind of what
00:31:54.060 we've been up against but ultimately at the end of the day i have seen stuff other members of
00:31:57.980 congress have seen stuff and gone public with it that in my opinion is not created by us i don't
00:32:04.060 think it's owned by china or russia so there's that but i mean i'm not going to tell people
00:32:09.020 really what they need to to believe i think that that's on them um ultimately though i do have a
00:32:14.940 massive issue with with the denial of access to information and so that's really what we're
00:32:19.220 fighting here especially as a congress as a congressperson that is your job they you know
00:32:25.100 the federal government doesn't understand oversight oversight means nothing if you can't say show me
00:32:29.960 your work show me work you you you guys you put in the in the in the public sector here you work
00:32:37.060 for us my job is to make sure that you're not hiding things and that can only happen if they
00:32:44.420 are held to oversight and honestly on the flip side it can only happen if they can trust that
00:32:51.280 no one who are getting top secret clearances are going to leak stuff well here's the thing too
00:32:57.200 like if it was fake then tell us why we can't see it but the whole and yeah the whole the whole way
00:33:05.620 that they're handling this is in my opinion an admission in itself right that they stonewall
00:33:11.500 they block they prevent um and then stuff does come out and then they don't make comment on it
00:33:17.560 so so i think the whole way that it's in itself is kind of yeah it it it is it is funny the way
00:33:25.660 they're handling it and it is let's say there's nothing there i think there is i believe in you
00:33:31.200 know little green men i don't know they're going to be green or little but uh you know i what a
00:33:35.420 waste of space if you know we're out here all by ourself i don't know what we're going to find in 0.98
00:33:41.060 those. However, the way they are behaving at a time when the trust of the average American
00:33:50.360 towards its own government is at record lows, they should be doing everything they can to
00:33:57.160 restore that trust. For instance, my trust in the war machine was really lost under Biden.
00:34:05.720 I have more confidence in our Pentagon and our soldiers now than I've ever had in my life.
00:34:11.060 I mean, it's way off the charts.
00:34:13.480 However, I still have questions because too many things are secret.
00:34:17.760 I don't need to know about what's going on in this war right now,
00:34:20.280 all the secret details right now, but you do.
00:34:23.440 If you're on oversight, you need to know those things.
00:34:27.080 And if you're trying to restore trust in our country,
00:34:30.320 the best way to do that is transparency.
00:34:33.860 A hundred percent.
00:34:35.000 So why would you act this way?
00:34:37.360 Well, and that's exactly my point.
00:34:39.280 and they have been denying access or and and again the famous story of me representative gates and
00:34:45.440 representative burchett being denied access at eglin air force base and then the base commander
00:34:49.920 famously gets up in the middle of the meeting which i've never seen happen in my life remember
00:34:53.520 glenn i'm a vet too never seen this and just decides that he's going to go on a um a temporary
00:34:58.640 duty to georgia in the middle of the meeting and doesn't return and then it turns out that we did
00:35:03.440 talk with pilots and we did get confirmation that there were uaps there and they didn't want to show
00:35:08.320 show it to us. But the whole point is, is that this argument of, okay, so you have the American
00:35:14.140 people, you have elected representatives, and then you have the intel community, and then this
00:35:19.140 internal war that takes place within the intel community regarding declassification, et cetera.
00:35:23.300 This is not just siloed to UAPs, but I think it gets into the discussion on 9-11. It gets into
00:35:28.620 so many other issues. And what I will say is, you know- Wait, wait, wait, wait. Take me from a UAP
00:35:36.240 quickly to 9-11.
00:35:38.600 How do you get there?
00:35:39.440 What's that tied?
00:35:40.380 Just big picture.
00:35:41.300 So we've been, yeah,
00:35:42.340 so we've been pushing for declassification
00:35:44.320 and release of the 9-11 files for the families.
00:35:46.980 And we, there's a select group,
00:35:49.760 it's civilian board that each gets a vote
00:35:51.960 and they vote on whether or not
00:35:54.080 it's a recommendation to the president
00:35:55.780 to declassify these files.
00:35:57.180 But the point is,
00:35:57.780 is that we should have the files.
00:35:59.620 Here's an interesting thing
00:36:01.220 that an investigative journalist
00:36:02.320 recently told me, Glenn,
00:36:03.380 but apparently, and this does tie to also
00:36:05.980 Jeffrey Epstein. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein was actually trying to work on behalf of the Saudi
00:36:12.400 government to block the release of the 911 files for the families. And that was something that
00:36:17.080 kind of came out in investigative reporting. So it's like an interesting, you know, quantum thread
00:36:22.060 connection, right? But I mean, this whole issue of government transparency, it is such a big deal
00:36:28.580 for restoring trust. You can see with the declassification order on the Kennedy files,
00:36:32.920 how much stuff we found out when those files finally came out.
00:36:36.520 And multiple administrations had tried to release that,
00:36:39.940 but it was the CIA that was blocking it
00:36:41.560 until Director Ratcliffe came in
00:36:43.760 and then fully authorized the declassification of the files.
00:36:50.500 Are you more concerned about finding out that somebody,
00:36:54.720 because I'm going to do a story tomorrow about the war in space.
00:36:58.300 You know, nobody's talking about this,
00:37:00.080 but there is a war in space.
00:37:01.560 China is, you know, right behind us, and there are some things that they're doing with satellites that nobody's talking about, that, you know, we have to defend ourselves, and they're doing things that are not real good.
00:37:14.720 Are you afraid that this is going to expose that we have enemies here that are earthlings, that have technology, that we are putting us way, way behind? 0.73
00:37:31.340 Or are you thinking this leads to little green men, for lack of a better term? 0.66
00:37:37.260 Yeah, I wouldn't say a little agreement, but I think that it leads to us not, I think it leads to the reason why you're not seeing a push for the declassification as quickly as possible is because I think there are people that realize that if the US government can't explain it, I will say this.
00:37:53.500 if it was an adversary's technology, we would still not be number one. So I don't think that
00:38:01.360 this is technology that, you know, is, is owned by another government, but they're just, there's
00:38:06.320 things that we can't explain. And the reason I say it like that, because if I get too much in
00:38:11.280 the specifics, sometimes people try to, you know, use it as a tax or whatever it might be, but that's
00:38:15.480 a fact that's we cannot explain it so anna did um help me out on one thing um one of your colleagues
00:38:23.880 talked about how if we knew it would be game-changing that he has seen like hybrid
00:38:31.380 experimentation or anything else do you believe there's anything to this kind of stuff well we've
00:38:39.300 had a number of whistleblowers come forward people that claim to be whistleblowers there's both
00:38:44.480 credible and not credible people, right? In my opinion, it's always interesting within the UAP
00:38:51.680 space because you have both good and bad actors. You have people that are credible, are legitimate,
00:38:55.720 and then you have people that I think are placed there to discredit the information or push for
00:39:02.660 transparency. And I think there have been people that have come across our past or that we've
00:39:08.600 directly interfaced with that claim to have information and then end up being completely
00:39:12.080 full of it. And you say, okay, meet me in a SCIF, and then they don't show up. Or they're really
00:39:18.500 cagey about getting information. They've never had firsthand information. It's always second
00:39:22.520 or third order information. So I'm not basing my statements on that. I'm basing my statements
00:39:29.760 and my analysis on the information that I have seen firsthand and directly with other members
00:39:36.380 of Congress. Is it more likely that we are looking at this time period right now and we have a
00:39:44.620 government that is using this and actually in some ways making it into a possibly bigger deal,
00:39:53.220 by the way, they're doing it to deflect and to get people to talk about anything other than the
00:39:59.520 actual corruption that is going on? Or is it more reasonable to believe we're headed towards
00:40:06.280 you know people think we're headed towards an event an announcement of some sort yeah no i don't
00:40:11.960 i've seen those theories and you know the first shocking thing when i got to dc glenn is there's
00:40:17.500 no like room of geniuses trying to figure things out that's it worth a draft pick this is as good
00:40:22.900 as it gets right there's no like grain scheme up here and i think when you're in dc you realize
00:40:27.340 that right once you actually kind of get you ascend to this position um in full transparency
00:40:33.640 see, this conversation really started because of what happened at Eglin Air Force Base.
00:40:38.920 And then Representative Burchett and myself and other members telling Comer we needed to do a
00:40:43.700 hearing. And then other members doing hearings on their committees and then me getting the task
00:40:48.520 force. So there's no like grand plan here other than we believe that there needs to be transparency
00:40:54.700 and we're pushing for it. And President Trump agrees with us. And of all people, I think Barack
00:40:59.280 obama agrees so you know there's that i remember when i was taking hillary clinton and bill clinton's
00:41:03.880 deposition um that came up in the questioning and hillary clinton actually also too would never
00:41:10.600 thought i'd agree with hillary clinton on something but she also had the same opinion
00:41:13.500 well anna always great to talk to you um thank you so much for everything that you do in congress
00:41:20.600 and for the great state of florida and we'll talk to you again anna paulina luna the representative
00:41:24.980 from Florida.
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