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00:00:14.940 We have a lot on today's podcast.

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00:00:20.660 James Comer, he is a representative of Congressmen out of Kentucky.

00:00:24.340 He is part of the group that is now subpoena, has the subpoena power,

00:00:31.560 and has subpoenaed Hillary Clinton and also Bill Clinton to come talk about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:00:37.680 It's a very fascinating experiment that we're seeing.

00:00:41.960 Also, a report from Just the News talking about Schiff's potential illegal immoral

00:00:46.340 and what the whistleblower said was treasonous to reveal this classified information

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00:03:02.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:08.420 Also, Representative James Comer, he is from Kentucky.

00:03:16.780 He is currently the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

00:03:23.320 And the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed now both Hillary and Bill Clinton

00:03:31.420 for testimony on Jeffrey Epstein.

00:03:34.980 And me thinks this might have been a setup the whole time,

00:03:39.340 but I'm probably wrong on that, because it's brilliant.

00:03:43.620 You've got everybody on the right or on the left saying,

00:03:46.160 we're going to subpoena.

00:03:47.920 Okay, well, let's start with Bill and Hillary Clinton, 0.85

00:03:49.740 and they've issued the subpoenas, and let's see where this goes now.

00:03:53.400 James Comer is with us now.

00:03:55.120 Hello, James.

00:03:55.740 How are you, sir?

00:03:57.280 I'm well.

00:03:57.860 Thanks for having me on.

00:03:58.780 Yeah.

00:03:59.060 So do I have this pretty much anything you confirm or deny on this theory of mine

00:04:06.020 that this is going to work out unfortunately or an unfortunate way with the Democrats?

00:04:12.280 Well, you know, the Democrats were, you know, they have Trump derangement syndrome,

00:04:16.460 and everything's about Donald Trump,

00:04:18.960 and they had been signaling for days in an Oversight Committee hearing

00:04:23.520 that they were going to make a motion to subpoena the Epstein files.

00:04:27.960 Scott Perry from Pennsylvania, a good member on the Oversight Committee,

00:04:32.880 a good Republican.

00:04:33.500 He, when they made that a motion, he amended it to include subpoenas for six former attorneys general,

00:04:41.460 Republican and Democrat, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, and they voted for it.

00:04:46.600 And the significance of them voting for that amendment, and it passed, of course, in a bipartisan manner,

00:04:53.200 is that if you normally send a former president a subpoena,

00:04:56.860 the odds of that subpoena ever coming to fruition would be slim.

00:05:02.160 But in this case, Glenn, they voted in a bipartisan manner, Republicans and Democrats,

00:05:09.280 to subpoena both Bill and Hillary Clinton.

00:05:12.900 That carries weight in court, and everyone in America wants to know what was going on in Epstein Island.

00:05:19.540 It's not just a Democrat issue or a Republican issue.

00:05:21.800 Democrats want to know because they hope and pray Donald Trump had something,

00:05:26.300 you know, some liability there.

00:05:30.000 But Republicans want to know, too, because we believe there was a cover-up.

00:05:33.480 We believe the government knew more than what's been out there.

00:05:37.200 We believe there's probably some kind of list somewhere.

00:05:39.960 So I think that what happened in the Oversight Committee is going to lead us to being able to ask

00:05:45.660 Bill and Hillary Clinton questions for the first time ever.

00:05:48.840 Okay, so let me ask you, just to play devil's advocate, and to be fair,

00:05:52.320 are there plans to subpoena any Republicans or friends and associates of Republicans or friends of Donald Trump?

00:06:00.940 Well, I don't guess Bill Barr's his friend, but he was one of the attorneys general.

00:06:06.080 There are two Republican AGs that were on the list, and we'll go wherever the investigation leads.

00:06:12.300 Look, this is not a partisan issue.

00:06:16.760 They're Republicans are equally as curious and interested in what was going on in Epstein Island.

00:06:22.960 I've been in Kentucky for two weeks now.

00:06:25.520 My son plays baseball.

00:06:27.460 I go to baseball fields all over the state watching him.

00:06:31.380 And people come up to me, these aren't political people, and they know that I've issued the subpoenas.

00:06:37.540 I subpoenaed Pam Bondi for the Epstein files.

00:06:40.940 And I don't think that's gotten a lot of press and probably didn't make many friends with the administration.

00:06:48.060 But people want to know.

00:06:50.080 And that's what people are coming up to all of my colleagues, not just the Freedom Caucus guys

00:06:55.400 and the ones that are on TV all the time, just the normal, moderate Republicans.

00:07:01.940 This is what people want to know.

00:07:03.760 I mean, they're curious about Epstein, and we're serious about it as well.

00:07:07.540 Well, I'm glad to hear that because I've never seen anything like it.

00:07:10.000 This story is not going away.

00:07:11.520 I mean, it just has to be – you have to lance this boil and just let the – sorry, but drain it and let it be what it is.

00:07:20.800 Based on what you've seen so far, do you believe the Clintons had knowledge of the criminal activities on the island?

00:07:27.500 Well, I believe that the Clintons were very close with Epstein.

00:07:32.440 And we know that Clinton went there a few times.

00:07:38.960 I don't know if he went as many times as some conservative outlets have reported, but he may have gone more.

00:07:45.680 I don't know.

00:07:46.120 But we're going to find out.

00:07:47.820 And this is a serious thing.

00:07:50.860 You have two people that were charged, both Epstein and Maxwell.

00:07:55.040 Was the government involved?

00:07:58.960 Was the government spying on people that were there?

00:08:02.060 Was the government turning a blind eye to the sex trafficking of underage girls?

00:08:08.000 I mean, there are so many questions that every American has.

00:08:11.960 And I think the fact that Clinton was there so many times, Maxwell was at Bill and Hillary – at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

00:08:19.900 So obviously, the Clintons thought a lot of Maxwell.

00:08:24.900 So we just have questions.

00:08:26.780 I'm not trying to embarrass the president or anything.

00:08:30.700 We'll have to have every I dotted and T cross if we get him in. 0.95

00:08:34.420 But normally, the prospect of getting a former president in to a congressional committee deposition is slim to none.

00:08:43.960 There have been two this last century that were subpoenaed by Congress, and Trump was one of them.

00:08:50.140 Neither made it to Congress.

00:08:52.480 But what makes this different is the Democrats voted for this, too.

00:08:56.000 And I think they got in trouble with Hakeem Jeffries and probably the Clintons when the committee was over because they were so focused on just subpoenaing the Epstein files, they left their guard down for the Clintons.

00:09:12.440 And that's what the Democrats have always done.

00:09:14.100 They've always played defense for the Clintons and the Bidens and all the corrupt deep state.

00:09:19.680 But I'm hopeful that this bipartisan vote will help us in court because this subpoena will go to court.

00:09:26.540 Make no mistake about it, and hopefully we've got good attorneys.

00:09:31.120 Our attorneys that represent us in court are through Mike Johnson's office, so hopefully they'll do a good job.

00:09:37.020 Do you have any concerns about the potential interference or special treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell after she's meeting with Todd Blanche, and then she gets this unusual prison transfer?

00:09:50.720 Are you guys going to investigate that?

00:09:52.300 Are you concerned about that?

00:09:54.620 Well, we're always interested in what's going on.

00:09:57.800 We weren't aware that he was going to meet with her or that she was going to be transferred.

00:10:03.000 And remember, August the 11th was the date I was supposed to take the committee down to depose Maxwell, which was Monday.

00:10:11.040 But what happened is last week her attorney sent a letter to me saying that she wanted to wait until the Supreme Court ruled on her appeal, which is supposed to be in September.

00:10:26.640 And if we went in there before September, before the Supreme Court ruled on her appeal, she was just going to plead the 5th.

00:10:33.560 So, you know, that's a reasonable request.

00:10:37.700 We're going to hope that the Supreme Court rules on her appeal, and then our committee's going down there and deposing her. 1.00

00:10:45.260 I mean, we've got, you know, I've got Marjorie Taylor Greene and Anna Paulina Luna and Byron Donald.

00:10:52.080 Everybody's interested in this, and everybody wants to participate in it.

00:10:55.140 Let me change the subject on a couple of things.

00:10:57.840 Yesterday, I saw this amazing video of the House being called to order and called into session.

00:11:04.100 They call in into session.

00:11:05.480 They have prayer.

00:11:06.100 They do the Pledge of Allegiance, and then they dismiss.

00:11:09.280 And this is all being done so they don't have to, or that it won't allow the president to do appointments when Congress is not in session.

00:11:21.880 Because they're saying, no, we're still in session every day, but you're not really in session.

00:11:26.040 Why are the Republicans doing this?

00:11:28.500 Why not just vote on the people?

00:11:31.460 I don't know.

00:11:32.540 You know, the confirmations are in the Senate.

00:11:35.660 And I don't know.

00:11:36.580 I read that, too, and I wasn't aware of that.

00:11:38.900 But I think in the past, they've always done that in August when we were out traveling our district.

00:11:47.500 So I really don't know.

00:11:48.800 That's a good question.

00:11:49.560 If Republicans are doing anything to slow down Trump's confirmation, then shame on the Republicans.

00:11:58.440 And we need new Republicans.

00:12:00.880 Because we've got to get these guys confirmed.

00:12:03.560 It's already too late.

00:12:05.000 Do you think Home Rule has a chance of being pulled back in 30 days for D.C.?

00:12:09.680 I do.

00:12:10.180 I do.

00:12:11.040 Look, I mean, people are scared in Washington, D.C.

00:12:14.400 It's a bad place.

00:12:17.520 And if you look out the window, it doesn't matter what part of town.

00:12:22.220 You've got all these teenage boys running around breaking stuff at 2 a.m., 3 a.m., and there's nothing being done about it.

00:12:32.240 And the way that D.C. laws are, they're not going to prosecute young people for anything.

00:12:38.900 These young people know it, so there are no consequences to their actions.

00:12:42.220 You've got a lawless town right now.

00:12:44.480 Yeah.

00:12:44.800 Well, I hope that that actually happens and they pull this back because this is a failed experiment.

00:12:50.100 It is.

00:12:51.340 You've hinted at the possible run of being the governor of Kentucky in 27.

00:12:58.120 Care to comment on where you are on that decision?

00:13:00.680 Yeah, it's two years away.

00:13:03.560 We've had, unfortunately, for the last 55 years in Kentucky, as Republican as Kentucky has been, we've had a Democrat governor 47 out of the last 55 years.

00:13:14.960 This governor now, Andy Beshear, he's term limited.

00:13:18.580 He can't run again.

00:13:20.560 I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run.

00:13:23.600 I was commissioner of agriculture before I came to Congress at the statewide elected office, and it's something that I'm seriously considering.

00:13:33.380 Obviously, I believe in term limits, so I never planned on staying in Congress very long.

00:13:38.740 I moved up quick.

00:13:39.700 I was the top Republican on the oversight committee after three and a half years, so I think I've proven myself.

00:13:45.620 And I love Kentucky, so it's something I want to do, but we're still about a year away from making the decision.

00:13:53.980 Okay.

00:13:54.540 Sounds great.

00:13:55.300 Congressman, thank you so much.

00:13:56.560 Really appreciate it.

00:13:58.060 Thanks for all your hard work.

00:13:59.780 Appreciate it.

00:14:00.240 James Comer, which, you know, I should have asked him, has he ever considered changing his name?

00:14:07.720 Because it's so close to James Comey.

00:14:10.180 And, I mean, are you committed to Comer?

00:14:13.560 Are you?

00:14:14.080 I mean.

00:14:15.160 That would have been a very, you know.

00:14:17.060 It would have been a very good question.

00:14:18.580 Pressing.

00:14:18.820 Yeah, very pressing question.

00:14:20.580 Because you're like, James Comer, isn't he the bad guy?

00:14:23.040 Oh, no, that's Comey.

00:14:24.320 James Comey.

00:14:25.180 I just want to point that out.

00:14:26.780 I'm sure he struggles with this decision on a day-to-day basis.

00:14:29.200 Right?

00:14:29.520 Right.

00:14:29.900 I mean, your wife kind of struggled with that for a while, right?

00:14:34.220 My wife.

00:14:34.560 Lisa Page is her name.

00:14:37.720 And Lisa Page, Lisa Page.

00:14:39.900 Oh, wasn't she the one with, oh, gosh, what was his name?

00:14:43.900 I just had it.

00:14:46.600 Gosh, everyone's yelling at the radios right now.

00:14:48.540 I can't think of the other guy's name.

00:14:50.380 But the two that had.

00:14:51.860 Peter Strzok.

00:14:52.540 Peter Strzok.

00:14:52.860 Peter Strzok.

00:14:53.160 Yes, thank you.

00:14:55.500 Part of the Russiagate scandal, right?

00:14:58.780 And there's so many quote-unquote scandals.

00:15:01.040 Yeah, no, they were big.

00:15:02.340 They were instrumental in that.

00:15:03.560 Yeah.

00:15:03.700 And as we're seeing, more instrumental than we thought.

00:15:05.920 Yeah.

00:15:06.560 Their names keep coming up.

00:15:08.220 Yeah.

00:15:09.160 That's Lisa Page. 0.95

00:15:10.120 Different spelling, but yes.

00:15:12.320 Yeah.

00:15:12.820 Is it, though?

00:15:13.540 Really?

00:15:13.940 Yes.

00:15:14.300 Just like Comer and Comey are different spelling.

00:15:17.560 There's a different spelling there.

00:15:18.800 Okay.

00:15:21.420 Let's see.

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00:16:44.660 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:16:49.940 So, John Solomon broke some news yesterday on justthenews.com, which if you don't check that every day, you should.

00:16:59.080 He is a real, God's honest journalist, an investigative journalist.

00:17:06.240 He's worked for the Washington Post until he wasn't welcome there.

00:17:09.320 He worked for the, I think he worked for the New York Times, but definitely the Wall Street Journal until he wasn't welcome there.

00:17:16.920 And he was like, you know what, I'm just going to have, I speak my mind.

00:17:20.260 I let the chips fall where they may.

00:17:21.860 And so he started his own thing, and it's really, really good.

00:17:24.140 But he has been breaking a lot of the stories that are coming about Russiagate.

00:17:30.240 Listen to this story.

00:17:32.100 A career intelligence officer who worked for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Representative Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear Donald Trump.

00:17:52.260 The FBI 302 interview reports obtained by just the news state the intelligence staffer, a Democrat by party affiliation, who described himself as a friend to both Schiff and now California Senator and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes,

00:18:10.640 has considered the classified leaking to be unethical, illegal, and treasonous, but was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.

00:18:25.940 So do you know what that clause is?

00:18:27.780 It's a really, an amazing clause.

00:18:30.900 You know what it is?

00:18:32.060 This is the one where they can, you know, where Harry Reid could go on and say, hey, Mitt Romney lied about not paying his taxes.

00:18:39.020 Yeah, he never paid his taxes.

00:18:40.640 He can't say that without Mitt Romney being able to sue him.

00:18:44.960 Right.

00:18:45.140 If it's not, if it's, if it's not true, you can sue him unless you say it on the floor of the House or the Senate, because then it's, then it's free speech that they have that you don't even have.

00:18:57.900 Yeah.

00:18:58.200 Okay.

00:18:58.480 It's like they're extra, extra free.

00:19:01.300 Yeah.

00:19:01.500 They're extra free.

00:19:02.700 They can say whatever they want and they can't get sued by it.

00:19:05.880 So he is, he's leaking this information, but he's leaking it on the floor of the House.

00:19:12.700 And that way he can say, I'm covered by the Constitution.

00:19:17.020 Now. 1.00

00:19:17.160 He is such a dirt bag. 1.00

00:19:18.820 It's a dirt bag. 1.00

00:19:19.600 Unreal.

00:19:20.640 Just a dirt bag.

00:19:21.600 Oh, okay.

00:19:22.500 So, um, this whistleblower, again, a Democrat by, by registration, um, he has been blowing the whistle on Adam Schiff and no one would listen to him.

00:19:34.040 DOJ officials, according to just the news, showed little interest in pursuing Schiff when the allegations were brought to them years ago, citing the very same excuse the lawmaker had offered in his, isn't that interesting?

00:19:46.200 So he says, I'm covered by this.

00:19:50.000 And the DOJ says, no, no, no, he's covered by this.

00:19:52.880 In his most recent interview with the Bureau in 2023, the whistleblower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI St. Louis office that he was personally, he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff authorized leaking classified information.

00:20:08.960 Quote, when working in this capacity, redacted staffer's name was called to an all staff meeting by Schiff.

00:20:16.120 In this meeting, Schiff stated the group would lead, would leak classified information, which was derogatory to the president of the United States, Donald J.

00:20:25.580 Trump.

00:20:26.420 Schiff stated the information would be used to indict President Trump.

00:20:31.140 The whistleblower total investigations that he stated this would be illegal.

00:20:35.720 And upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured him they would not be caught leaking classified information.

00:20:43.180 The staffer made similar claims to agents in the FBI's Washington field office as early as 2017, shortly after Trump took office in his first term.

00:20:53.820 Officials also said some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remain employed and in positions of power, a matter that they may be of interest to lawmakers in Congress.

00:21:09.280 This thing is so deep and so nasty.

00:21:14.460 I mean, if if we don't get the people like Adam Schiff, this will happen if they get away with it.

00:21:22.420 You may as a Democrat, you may be fine.

00:21:26.260 Donald Trump.

00:21:27.380 He's you cannot allow them to get away with leaking classified information to destroy another person.

00:21:36.560 OK, they knew these were lies, but they needed it to get out and it was classified.

00:21:44.240 No one was supposed to know that.

00:21:46.420 So here a congressman and now a senator, a U.S. senator said, don't worry about it.

00:21:53.580 You're not going to get caught.

00:21:55.080 Nobody's going to pay for this.

00:21:56.200 If they do that and they set this precedent and they do get away with it, what is the regulating rule of law?

00:22:08.280 When they want to do it to somebody else and maybe it's somebody you like.

00:22:12.800 What is the what is the regulating rule of law when the Republicans go, oh, well, you're going to play that way.

00:22:18.280 Well, we can do that, too.

00:22:19.140 You know, this is where critical thinking comes in.

00:22:25.400 This is this is where this is what Americans are missing right now.

00:22:29.900 And it's it's not that we're not capable of it. 0.56

00:22:32.980 It's that we're all living in our lizard brains. 0.93

00:22:36.300 We're all so freaked out by Nazi Nazi. 0.99

00:22:40.560 It's a Nazi. 0.71

00:22:41.200 We're so freaked out by the names that we've all called each other.

00:22:45.300 We no longer can stop and think.

00:22:55.100 The left is now moving towards no rule of law.

00:23:02.940 I mean, there Beto is now saying to the uber uber left.

00:23:10.200 Rules don't matter at all.

00:23:12.740 It doesn't matter.

00:23:14.260 We'll do whatever it takes to stop them and win next time.

00:23:19.380 Well, to me, it doesn't sound like they're going to do anything new.

00:23:23.480 Except that's their message to people.

00:23:29.060 That's not good.

00:23:35.300 Unethical, illegal and treasonous.

00:23:39.420 From somebody who describes Adam Schiff as a friend.

00:23:46.920 And nobody seemed to care.

00:23:50.440 The the stakes just keep getting higher and higher and higher on this particular story.

00:23:56.140 And I'm wondering, I mean, one thing that is not trending.

00:24:01.760 Let me see if I can find the trends here.

00:24:04.800 Okay.

00:24:05.320 On Google Trends right now, what's trending on Google Trends is martial law.

00:24:11.880 Martial law in Washington, D.C.

00:24:14.080 Well, that's that's not what's happening in Washington, D.C.

00:24:17.420 That's not martial law.

00:24:18.320 It is the president's right because the district of Columbia is supposed to be a federal district and it's out of control.

00:24:31.540 What was the stats on a thousand times?

00:24:33.300 What was it?

00:24:34.380 No, I have that here for you.

00:24:36.260 Give me one second.

00:24:37.020 I'll pull it up.

00:24:37.540 Some crazy amount more dangerous than Philadelphia.

00:24:40.640 I don't go walk the streets of Philadelphia at night.

00:24:42.700 I don't send my kids.

00:24:43.620 Hey, go get a gallon of milk.

00:24:46.120 Down the street.

00:24:47.500 What are the stats?

00:24:48.220 Do you have it?

00:24:48.760 I do.

00:24:49.960 It's just loading as we speak.

00:24:51.500 Okay.

00:24:52.060 This is from and it's from the this is from the Atlantic.

00:24:54.580 D.C.'s homicide rate in 2024, roughly 26.4 homicides for every 100,000 residents, is lower than both the 2023 and its peak in the 90s.

00:25:05.080 But according to data compiled by the Council of Criminal Justice, it's still still nearly seven times higher than New York City's rate, which is 3.8 per 100,000.

00:25:15.660 D.C.'s rate is also worse than that of Philadelphia, Atlanta and even Chicago.

00:25:20.280 In fact, it's closer to that of infamously crime-ridden cities like Memphis and Detroit than it is to some other important city areas.

00:25:30.500 The problem looks even worse in the most violence-plagued parts of the city.

00:25:35.160 As I found in my report, 2023, 57% of the city's homicides took place in wards 7 and 8, the city's poorest and largest percentage of black residents.

00:25:44.760 In fact, just 10 blocks of D.C. were home to 14% of all homicides.

00:25:49.620 Can you imagine what that area must be?

00:25:51.680 14% of entire cities' homicides.

00:25:54.400 Yeah, everybody knows somebody that has been killed.

00:25:59.500 Right?

00:25:59.760 In that area.

00:26:00.300 It has to be.

00:26:00.940 It has to be.

00:26:01.000 It has to be.

00:26:02.240 As in many cities, violence is also hyper-concentrated among tight social networks.

00:26:06.660 According to a 2021 report, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, any given city, about 500 people are responsible for 60 to 70% of all gun violence in the city.

00:26:15.680 And this is from an article that's saying, this is from, you know, I mean, it's the Atlantic, it's more of a left-leaning situation, saying, hey, guys, like, sure, we can all say it's down, but are we communicating the real problem here?

00:26:29.380 Because, I mean, look, from a political perspective, Trump is going to win here.

00:26:35.300 Forget that, for example, you know, all the sideline stuff that everyone's talking about.

00:26:39.400 When you just boil it down to politics, which is what a lot of these people are thinking about.

00:26:42.400 If you are stuck on the side of the debate that says, actually, D.C. is Disneyland, you're going to lose.

00:26:50.400 And you're going to lose in a city that has voted for you time and time and time again because somebody's making the killing stop.

00:27:04.340 I mean, you know, what do they say about Mussolini?

00:27:07.480 Why was Mussolini?

00:27:08.760 I remember, was it your uncle?

00:27:10.880 My, let's be very careful, my wife's uncle, okay, or great uncle, I think, he was born here in America, but the family, they lived in Italy, and when Mussolini took over and the war started, they were afraid the entire family would be wiped out.

00:27:31.400 So he was an American citizen because he was born during a vacation in New York City.

00:27:35.920 So he, they sent him all by himself to America.

00:27:40.540 He didn't have a job or anything, so he just joined the military, and he started fighting on our side.

00:27:44.780 And we were talking, and nobody in the family had, nobody knew his war record.

00:27:51.040 No one.

00:27:51.920 No one.

00:27:52.460 And we're sitting at a wedding, and it's just the two of us.

00:27:58.900 And I'm like, so Uncle Leo, how'd you get here?

00:28:02.100 Tell me your story.

00:28:02.880 And he was like, let me tell you my story.

00:28:06.140 And he starts in telling a story, and I said, so you, do you remember Mussolini at the time?

00:28:15.100 Mussolini was a good man.

00:28:16.900 And I'm like, okay, can you keep your voice down on that one?

00:28:19.880 I mean, he's not my uncle.

00:28:21.380 He is not my uncle.

00:28:23.660 My wife's uncle.

00:28:24.760 My wife's uncle, which I'm questioning now my wife and my relationship there, said that.

00:28:32.880 Anyway, and I said, okay, keep your voice down.

00:28:35.940 What do you mean by that?

00:28:36.780 And he said, at first, before he joined with the Nazis, he said, our country was so out of control.

00:28:44.740 And he made, quote, you've heard this before, he made the trains run on time.

00:28:53.840 What he was saying was, he brought order to a very disordered society.

00:28:58.520 It was not functioning, okay?

00:29:00.980 And what Mussolini did at first was, I'm just going to bring some law and order here.

00:29:07.680 And this is why the progressive left had an argument with some at the very beginning saying, this is the new wave of the future.

00:29:17.740 It will make your country better, fascism. 0.91

00:29:19.940 This was their argument at the beginning.

00:29:21.760 Mussolini and Hitler. 0.77

00:29:24.720 Do you know why, you know, the swastika, if you flip it around, it's actually an American native and a Indian symbol of peace.

00:29:36.320 Did you know that?

00:29:37.480 Yes, I did.

00:29:38.200 I did know that.

00:29:38.960 So if you, but if you flip it around, then it becomes the Nazi swastika.

00:29:43.340 But that's not all.

00:29:44.560 When you look at a Native American, you will always know that it's Native American or Indian because the bottom of the, I don't know what you call it, the swastika, is flat, okay?

00:29:58.120 Okay.

00:29:58.800 What Hitler did is he pitched it up 45 degrees, okay? 0.92

00:30:03.400 So he moved that symbol that was just like a square and he put it instead on like a corner of the square so it's now pitched up.

00:30:12.740 Does that make sense?

00:30:13.620 You know what I'm saying?

00:30:15.260 Do you know why he did that?

00:30:16.700 No.

00:30:17.880 Because this is a system of progress.

00:30:23.080 We are progressives.

00:30:25.060 We are moving and racing towards the future. 0.89

00:30:29.140 So any of this crap that this was, you know, conservative, no, no, no, no, it wasn't. 0.99

00:30:34.040 This is all progressive socialist nonsense and dangerous. 0.98

00:30:39.700 But back to the story of what Trump is doing.

00:30:43.780 Trump is using the Constitution and he is doing it within the rule of law.

00:30:51.300 He has 30 days and then Congress has to either revoke home rule or it goes back or they can extend it for another 30 days.

00:30:58.940 But Congress has to do it.

00:31:01.360 So he's not becoming a fascist or a dictator or anything else.

00:31:04.440 This is not martial law.

00:31:05.780 This is all within the law.

00:31:07.200 But if he makes that change in those two districts where everybody knows somebody who has been murdered and most likely kids that have been murdered.

00:31:16.740 And that goes down and they feel safe on their streets and their kids are not they're not saying to the kids, just don't fall in with that gang.

00:31:24.720 That will change.

00:31:27.940 People will they may still vote the same way because they don't get it, maybe, but they will not be on board with dismissing.

00:31:37.740 I can guarantee you they're not on board with dismissing.

00:31:40.300 This is, oh, no, Washington, D.C. is a safe city.

00:31:42.960 Everything the media is doing right now, everything the Democrats are doing by trying to excuse this and try to make everybody the people who are living it.

00:31:53.720 No, it's a lie first.

00:31:56.160 And they've got to be looking at those people going, wait a minute.

00:31:58.980 Wait a minute.

00:32:00.240 I thought you were on our side.

00:32:01.560 I thought you were trying to protect us.

00:32:03.220 You're not.

00:32:04.740 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts.

00:32:10.500 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:12.120 So I posted on X, I think, or maybe it was Instagram over the weekend.

00:32:18.860 Somebody sent some pictures of me from my childhood and one of them was me from 1977 with a magic show and they brought it to life with AI and it was it's stunning.

00:32:31.640 It's stunning.

00:32:32.600 And I posted it and I said, this is a very old picture of me, you know, and I told the Johnny Carson thing, et cetera, et cetera.

00:32:40.180 But I just thought people would know, I mean, cause you can see the, the, the folds and the creases in the picture.

00:32:46.340 I just thought people would know that that was AI.

00:32:48.760 No, no, they didn't.

00:32:50.420 They didn't.

00:32:50.820 Yeah.

00:32:50.880 It was interesting.

00:32:51.260 Cause you're wording to, on the post said this picture I sent in.

00:32:56.780 Yeah.

00:32:57.160 To, to Johnny Carson or something like that.

00:32:58.900 Right.

00:32:59.100 So I would have sent the film back.

00:33:01.500 It would have been film back then.

00:33:02.740 I would have said that.

00:33:03.640 Yeah.

00:33:03.980 I sent this film in.

00:33:05.540 Right.

00:33:05.780 This movie.

00:33:06.440 Yeah.

00:33:06.540 This movie.

00:33:06.980 Yeah.

00:33:07.160 Right.

00:33:07.440 And this, you said picture.

00:33:08.700 And when I saw it, I was like, wow.

00:33:09.920 I mean like that, but I had seen, I've seen other AI versions of this where they take a photo and it moves around.

00:33:15.320 But it is getting incredible.

00:33:18.320 I mean, that really absolutely looks real, looks real.

00:33:23.680 Here I am.

00:33:24.620 If you're watching on the blaze TV, let me show you.

00:33:27.160 This is a picture of me on my first birthday and my birthday cake.

00:33:33.880 Now this photo has been, you know, hung on a wall of our house forever, but I never seen a video of me.

00:33:41.540 That's weird.

00:33:42.600 It's weird.

00:33:43.820 And so I was looking at this and I was thinking, I don't remember the sound of my mother's voice anymore.

00:33:52.100 I was, you know, 13 or 14 when she died.

00:33:55.480 And I remember when I couldn't remember her voice.

00:33:59.660 I remember when I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't remember what she sounded like anymore.

00:34:02.760 And it took me about 10 years and it was really, it was horrible.

00:34:05.720 That's a really tough thing.

00:34:07.000 And I thought, my gosh, if I had an old tape of her, which I don't think I do, if I had an old tape of her,

00:34:12.360 I could match that to a picture of her and make her talk. 0.88

00:34:18.140 And it would be weird, weird, because it's not her.

00:34:22.880 It's not her.

00:34:23.880 It's soulless.

00:34:25.320 Okay.

00:34:27.460 Here's another one.

00:34:28.620 1976.

00:34:29.580 This is, I was in the Rose Bowl parade marching for the Bicentennial.

00:34:34.060 I mean, there's no video of that unless you go to CBS, I think, who covered that parade and looked it up.

00:34:43.140 But that's me.

00:34:45.600 I'm 12.

00:34:47.680 Here's me in 1984.

00:34:49.720 I was doing something with the AMC Movie Channel.

00:34:54.200 And it's crazy.

00:34:58.560 It looks like film.

00:35:02.640 And so there's these reactions that came out.

00:35:06.940 Elon Musk said, for most people, the best use of Grok app is turning old photos into videos,

00:35:11.520 seeing old friends and family members come to life.

00:35:13.840 And then somebody said, these are not coming to life.

00:35:16.600 The animation of pictures have no bearing on reality.

00:35:18.800 It's the interpretation of a soulless AI that has no idea what your family member was actually like.

00:35:23.120 Absolutely true.

00:35:23.840 So what you don't want a bunch of Twitter posts and algorithms to pretend to be your grandma spit in the face of God. 1.00

00:35:30.040 But it's a cool, but it's so cool and hip.

00:35:32.520 Does it spit in the face of God?

00:35:34.240 I don't think it's spitting in the face of God.

00:35:36.300 I think it is if you go, that's my mother.

00:35:40.020 And remember this, we are now entering the time of from 1990.

00:35:46.720 When did we first meet?

00:35:47.920 97?

00:35:49.720 Yeah.

00:35:50.160 Right around the time that Ray Kurzweil came out with his book that I had been reading.

00:35:58.220 And it was the age of spiritual machines.

00:36:01.680 And I said, they are going to claim consciousness.

00:36:05.020 They're going to claim that they're human.

00:36:07.640 You're not going to be able to tell the difference.

00:36:09.520 They are going to bring our dead relatives, quote, back to life.

00:36:13.800 All of these things.

00:36:15.280 We're there.

00:36:17.160 We're there.

00:36:18.840 Yeah.

00:36:20.180 I mean, we just saw an interview with Jim Acosta and a shooting victim.

00:36:24.700 That was so bad.

00:36:25.920 Which was absolutely horrid.

00:36:29.080 But that was, I mean, and that seems like, I don't know.

00:36:32.780 We're learning all these lines as we go, right?

00:36:35.080 This is something that we're all viewing in real time and figuring out what is the appropriate line.

00:36:41.000 Like, to me, quite clearly, you doing the magic trick and the kid coming back to life from the shooting to be interviewed by a supposed journalist.

00:36:49.000 Totally different.

00:36:49.600 And I can see the bright line in between them.

00:36:52.060 Yeah, I can too.

00:36:53.040 You know, you're supposed to say, like, it's a cool little thing.

00:36:55.000 Like, yeah, cool.

00:36:56.320 I'd love to see a picture of my mother moving.

00:36:59.980 I'd love to see that.

00:37:02.160 But it's not my mom.

00:37:03.840 And I'm very, very clear about that.

00:37:06.460 Like, that's closer to the line to me.

00:37:09.880 It's a little.

00:37:10.980 Because it's not.

00:37:11.740 It's nothing unethical about it.

00:37:14.100 Like, Jim Acosta is way over the line because he's supposedly a journalist doing something obviously unethical using a dead child for politics.

00:37:23.780 You look up unethical and you see his picture.

00:37:24.320 Right.

00:37:24.660 Like, he is a definition.

00:37:25.720 The groc just spits out a picture of him.

00:37:27.520 It's, and I'm being careful here with the way I'm phrasing this, but it's slightly less horrible to me for the parents of this child to want to, you know, darkly see, you know, their child moving around as they would be.

00:37:51.860 That's why seances did so well after the wars.

00:37:54.980 Well, pet cemetery.

00:37:56.740 Yeah, I was thinking of pet cemetery.

00:37:58.960 Okay, all right.

00:38:00.020 We can go there.

00:38:00.860 You could understand Herman Munster in pet cemetery.

00:38:03.760 No, he was the guy that lived next door, right?

00:38:06.140 I can't remember.

00:38:06.480 I don't remember.

00:38:06.980 All I remember is you could understand the thought of, like, God, my child died in this terrible thing.

00:38:16.240 Yeah.

00:38:16.660 And I just, what would he have been like today?

00:38:18.920 Like, I can understand as a parent wanting that.

00:38:22.120 It's not a great idea.

00:38:23.520 This is the story of Frankenstein.

00:38:24.780 You know why Shelly, you know why Shelly wrote that?

00:38:28.880 No.

00:38:29.440 What was her name?

00:38:31.220 Shelly Long.

00:38:32.020 Mary Shelly.

00:38:33.460 Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein.

00:38:35.420 It's a long story.

00:38:36.460 It involved, you know, a contest between, you know, these writers.

00:38:39.880 But she had been seeing electricity where they had been shooting electricity into dead frogs and it would make their legs move.

00:38:50.460 Right.

00:38:50.720 Okay.

00:38:51.020 And so she looked at that and she was like, and I think she had just had a child die or somebody, but she, she was going through the mental anguish of death.

00:39:02.020 Okay.

00:39:02.620 And then she saw this and she thought, ooh, what would it be like if we could bring the dead back?

00:39:10.740 And that, that's kind of the, the, the germ, as I understand it, of Frankenstein.

00:39:16.100 Well, that's what we're going through right now.

00:39:18.340 Okay.

00:39:18.840 Except the physical body is not there.

00:39:20.940 Right.

00:39:21.260 I mean, and that's probably not that far away.

00:39:26.520 Somebody will do.

00:39:28.000 You could do something like that.

00:39:30.120 Absolutely.

00:39:30.940 I mean.

00:39:31.780 Soon.

00:39:32.340 The, the robotics, you can just, you could make it look like somebody.

00:39:37.000 I mean, we're five to 10 years away from somebody, from a robot looking exactly like me, speaking like me, but not being me.

00:39:48.540 Yeah.

00:39:48.880 You know, not, not the, and not the Walt Disney, let me kind of walk across this floor and sit down, you know, not the, an evening with the presidents, but an actual AI robot.

00:40:03.580 And again, some of this, I think part of why the Jim Acosta thing was so poorly received by not even just the right, but everybody taking a child shooting victim, bringing him back to life as a, an adult.

00:40:18.880 And then having him terribly talk about gun control in an interview.

00:40:24.000 Part of it's the journalistic thing.

00:40:25.600 Part of it is just how tasteless it seemed.

00:40:27.480 I mean, I would have a problem.

00:40:28.500 I mean, I think we're pretty, you know, it didn't really happen in my lifetime.

00:40:32.560 You know, John F.

00:40:34.960 Kennedy, it'd be like bringing John F.

00:40:36.600 Kennedy back to talk about gun control or Abraham Lincoln and have him talk about gun control.

00:40:41.280 That would just be so grotesque.

00:40:43.040 It would be grotesque, but also way better than that.

00:40:46.200 Like, seriously, like I, bringing back JFK, like you'd be like, oh, you'd roll your eyes, but like bringing back a, a child to utilize a dead child for your political purposes.

00:41:00.380 I mean, it's so, that's, that's terrible when they do it without the AI, let alone when they actually do it this way.

00:41:06.820 But I think the reason why it was so poorly received is because he went so far past the line so early.

00:41:12.760 Like when, when the, the, the pictures that you posted are the norm and everyone's used to seeing them.

00:41:20.320 I thought people were.

00:41:21.860 It was, it's weird.

00:41:22.960 Well, you're very much, you're too into this world.

00:41:24.620 You're ahead of the parade on AI, certainly.

00:41:28.980 So, cause I, you know, there, there's the, I'm just starting to see these things happen.

00:41:33.600 And I'm just starting to see these things look legitimate.

00:41:36.920 Like the ones you, you posted.

00:41:38.440 You just see the stuff I haven't posted.

00:41:40.460 If you think this is incredible, you should see the stuff that's coming.

00:41:44.060 It's like, it's a, yes, but he tried to jump so far and it was, so it was poorly received.

00:41:53.120 And it was, but as this becomes the norm, that line will start to move.

00:41:56.460 Right.

00:41:56.980 And these things will get more and more common.

00:41:58.840 And it's the same thing, I think with Dave Rubin.

00:42:03.060 Oh yeah.

00:42:03.380 You know, that didn't, that didn't work out well for Dave.

00:42:06.220 Oh really?

00:42:06.720 I, I, no, people were like, cause I, you know, and Dave was just doing it.

00:42:10.300 This is, I'm going on vacation.

00:42:11.840 Why don't I just have a robot?

00:42:13.080 It'll be fun.

00:42:13.740 It'll be fun.

00:42:14.340 It's not, he's not trying to con anybody or anything.

00:42:16.860 No, not at all.

00:42:17.780 But it is so far away from being ready for prime time.

00:42:20.880 It's so clearly, you could talk to him, but it's so clear.

00:42:25.480 Why Dave?

00:42:26.220 That's a very good question.

00:42:27.960 You know, and you're like, oh, I see that.

00:42:29.660 Yeah.

00:42:30.080 It's, it's still, the technology is not perfect yet, but you could,

00:42:33.020 it's, it's, we've advanced so far so fast that you can see it's right around the corner.

00:42:37.180 Like, you know, the examples we've been talking about in using AI where, you know,

00:42:40.760 one of the things I use it for in real life is like you go and you go to a shelf at a Walmart

00:42:45.800 and they have, you know, 47 types of glue.

00:42:49.860 Right.

00:42:50.200 I don't know what kind of glue I need for whatever project I'm working on.

00:42:54.040 Wow.

00:42:54.340 Right.

00:42:54.700 You're not a man.

00:42:56.280 A hundred percent admit this.

00:42:58.260 Right.

00:42:58.440 Like, I don't know.

00:42:59.400 That's not my world.

00:43:00.360 I would have, I would have said, honey, I don't know what glue.

00:43:03.140 Where's the Home Depot?

00:43:04.100 What?

00:43:04.380 Right.

00:43:05.280 So you're twice the man I am.

00:43:07.160 Thank you.

00:43:07.380 You take a picture of the entire thing and you type into the AI, say, Hey, I'm doing

00:43:12.480 this thing.

00:43:14.060 I'm wood to plexiglass, right?

00:43:16.620 Like what's the best glue for that?

00:43:19.240 And it tells you it's this glue.

00:43:21.420 It's in the fourth row in the blue box.

00:43:24.100 Like it tells you exactly which one, like you have.

00:43:26.340 That's unbelievable.

00:43:27.200 It's absolutely unbelievable.

00:43:28.220 To me, that seems like that is a, a 10 year innovation of AI.

00:43:33.900 Not like, I feel like six weeks ago it didn't exist.

00:43:38.180 No, it didn't.

00:43:38.640 And now all of a sudden it's here and it's per, it works really, really well.

00:43:41.460 Yeah.

00:43:41.760 And now there's this where you're bringing photos to life.

00:43:44.260 That wasn't here a year ago.

00:43:45.980 We weren't doing that.

00:43:47.340 Maybe it was the very beginning of it.

00:43:49.100 The very beginning of it.

00:43:49.720 But like now it's super common.

00:43:51.200 It's on every one of these services is doing something like it.

00:43:54.440 You can generate videos.

00:43:55.900 The newest one from Gemini is not only can you create a video from a picture, you can now

00:44:02.840 walk through it like it's a video game and control which way you're going, where you're

00:44:07.460 looking.

00:44:07.800 You can do things to the environment, like paint a wall and then walk away, come back

00:44:13.300 and the wall's still painted.

00:44:14.540 You are in the forest.

00:44:15.860 You cut a tree down or you, you tie a ribbon around a tree for you.

00:44:20.500 So you can remember where you went.

00:44:22.520 It will remember where those are.

00:44:24.520 So when you go out and you maybe leave the game or whatever, you can come back and those

00:44:29.280 ribbons are still there.

00:44:30.120 It's like creating, you know, if you go back in the day, like to Doom or like one of those

00:44:34.520 video games where you could walk around the first person shooter thing, you're creating

00:44:38.340 that in seconds from one of your own photos.

00:44:42.400 Minecraft.

00:44:43.320 Minecraft.

00:44:44.180 Imagine Minecraft.

00:44:45.360 I mean, that's what that was the beginning of this was Minecraft.

00:44:48.640 Yeah.

00:44:49.080 Now it's like it's real.

00:44:51.380 And you could just do it and it's like available in and do it in seconds.

00:44:57.020 And like, that seems like a 20 year innovation to me.

00:45:00.760 And it happened in weeks.

00:45:02.260 It felt like.

00:45:03.560 And these things keep happening.

00:45:05.460 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:45:14.440 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:45:17.540 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:45:20.240 Are those from Winners?

00:45:21.800 Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings.

00:45:24.260 Did she pay full price?

00:45:25.600 Or that leather tote?

00:45:26.620 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:45:27.840 Or those knee high boots?

00:45:29.240 That dress?

00:45:30.080 That jacket?

00:45:30.740 Those shoes?

00:45:31.420 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:45:34.280 Stop wondering.

00:45:36.000 Start winning.

00:45:36.920 Winners.

00:45:37.520 Find fabulous for less.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 12, 2025

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. James Comer ｜ 8⧸12⧸25

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