On today's show, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) joins Glenn Beck to talk about the latest in the Epstein scandal and how the Democratic Party is trying to subpoena Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton for their testimony on the Epstein case. Also, a report from the New York Times reveals that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-D.J.C.) leaked classified information to the press on the House floor of the House of Representatives. Also, we talk about AI and what's coming next with AI.
00:08:52.480But what makes this different is the Democrats voted for this, too.
00:08:56.000And 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.
00:09:12.440And that's what the Democrats have always done.
00:09:14.100They've always played defense for the Clintons and the Bidens and all the corrupt deep state.
00:09:19.680But I'm hopeful that this bipartisan vote will help us in court because this subpoena will go to court.
00:09:26.540Make no mistake about it, and hopefully we've got good attorneys.
00:09:31.120Our attorneys that represent us in court are through Mike Johnson's office, so hopefully they'll do a good job.
00:09:37.020Do 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?
00:09:50.720Are you guys going to investigate that?
00:09:54.620Well, we're always interested in what's going on.
00:09:57.800We weren't aware that he was going to meet with her or that she was going to be transferred.
00:10:03.000And remember, August the 11th was the date I was supposed to take the committee down to depose Maxwell, which was Monday.
00:10:11.040But 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.
00:10:26.640And if we went in there before September, before the Supreme Court ruled on her appeal, she was just going to plead the 5th.
00:10:33.560So, you know, that's a reasonable request.
00:10:37.700We're going to hope that the Supreme Court rules on her appeal, and then our committee's going down there and deposing her.
00:10:45.260I mean, we've got, you know, I've got Marjorie Taylor Greene and Anna Paulina Luna and Byron Donald.
00:10:52.080Everybody's interested in this, and everybody wants to participate in it.
00:10:55.140Let me change the subject on a couple of things.
00:10:57.840Yesterday, I saw this amazing video of the House being called to order and called into session.
00:13:03.560We'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.
00:13:14.960This governor now, Andy Beshear, he's term limited.
00:13:20.560I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run.
00:13:23.600I was commissioner of agriculture before I came to Congress at the statewide elected office, and it's something that I'm seriously considering.
00:13:33.380Obviously, I believe in term limits, so I never planned on staying in Congress very long.
00:17:32.100A 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.
00:17:52.260The 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,
00:18:10.640has 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.
00:18:45.140If 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.
00:19:22.500So, 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.
00:19:34.040DOJ 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?
00:19:50.000And the DOJ says, no, no, no, he's covered by this.
00:19:52.880In 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.
00:20:08.960Quote, when working in this capacity, redacted staffer's name was called to an all staff meeting by Schiff.
00:20:16.120In this meeting, Schiff stated the group would lead, would leak classified information, which was derogatory to the president of the United States, Donald J.
00:20:26.420Schiff stated the information would be used to indict President Trump.
00:20:31.140The whistleblower total investigations that he stated this would be illegal.
00:20:35.720And upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured him they would not be caught leaking classified information.
00:20:43.180The 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.
00:20:53.820Officials 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.
00:24:52.060This is from and it's from the this is from the Atlantic.
00:24:54.580D.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.
00:25:05.080But 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.
00:25:15.660D.C.'s rate is also worse than that of Philadelphia, Atlanta and even Chicago.
00:25:20.280In fact, it's closer to that of infamously crime-ridden cities like Memphis and Detroit than it is to some other important city areas.
00:25:30.500The problem looks even worse in the most violence-plagued parts of the city.
00:25:35.160As 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.
00:25:44.760In fact, just 10 blocks of D.C. were home to 14% of all homicides.
00:25:49.620Can you imagine what that area must be?
00:26:02.240As in many cities, violence is also hyper-concentrated among tight social networks.
00:26:06.660According 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.
00:26:15.680And 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?
00:26:29.380Because, I mean, look, from a political perspective, Trump is going to win here.
00:26:35.300Forget that, for example, you know, all the sideline stuff that everyone's talking about.
00:26:39.400When you just boil it down to politics, which is what a lot of these people are thinking about.
00:26:42.400If you are stuck on the side of the debate that says, actually, D.C. is Disneyland, you're going to lose.
00:26:50.400And 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.
00:27:04.340I mean, you know, what do they say about Mussolini?
00:27:10.880My, 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.
00:27:31.400So he was an American citizen because he was born during a vacation in New York City.
00:27:35.920So he, they sent him all by himself to America.
00:27:40.540He didn't have a job or anything, so he just joined the military, and he started fighting on our side.
00:27:44.780And we were talking, and nobody in the family had, nobody knew his war record.
00:29:44.560When 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?
00:31:07.200But 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.
00:31:16.740And 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.
00:31:27.940People will they may still vote the same way because they don't get it, maybe, but they will not be on board with dismissing.
00:31:37.740I can guarantee you they're not on board with dismissing.
00:31:40.300This is, oh, no, Washington, D.C. is a safe city.
00:31:42.960Everything 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.
00:32:12.120So I posted on X, I think, or maybe it was Instagram over the weekend.
00:32:18.860Somebody 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.
00:36:29.080But that was, I mean, and that seems like, I don't know.
00:36:32.780We're learning all these lines as we go, right?
00:36:35.080This is something that we're all viewing in real time and figuring out what is the appropriate line.
00:36:41.000Like, 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.
00:37:14.100Like, Jim Acosta is way over the line because he's supposedly a journalist doing something obviously unethical using a dead child for politics.
00:37:23.780You look up unethical and you see his picture.
00:37:25.720The groc just spits out a picture of him.
00:37:27.520It'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.
00:37:51.860That's why seances did so well after the wars.
00:38:51.020And 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.
00:39:48.880You 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.
00:40:03.580And 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.
00:40:18.880And then having him terribly talk about gun control in an interview.
00:40:43.040It would be grotesque, but also way better than that.
00:40:46.200Like, 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.
00:41:00.380I 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.
00:41:06.820But I think the reason why it was so poorly received is because he went so far past the line so early.
00:41:12.760Like when, when the, the, the pictures that you posted are the norm and everyone's used to seeing them.