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00:00:00.000 great podcast uh today we start with the balloon uh and uh china and the just i mean it's a 0.63

00:00:05.780 ridiculous story just a ridiculous story um what does it really mean why should you even care about

00:00:11.820 that and then later on in the podcast richard gunnell calls in he's a former director of 0.98

00:00:16.420 national uh intelligence uh and is quoted in the news this weekend they're trying to brief him

00:00:23.260 on uh well you know we found some stuff and put it together and it looks like this happened with

00:00:30.760 trump too and we're trying to get a hold and and brief them on it and he's like a hard pass

00:00:36.780 uh on the liars coming to the house and telling me these stories uh but he had a fascinating story

00:00:42.160 about what did and didn't happen uh during the trump administration on this and also just an

00:00:48.020 overall look on china yeah we get into chat gpt and all the ai stuff as well today going around i mean

00:00:53.060 you've been talking about this forever i know and it's here now it's kind of weird story yeah

00:00:56.720 how much of that i'm talking 25 years ago did you believe when i said it i mean who knows back then

00:01:03.780 i mean it seemed super futuristic but i mean even the stuff even more recent than that that you were

00:01:09.820 saying i mean it always feels like it's farther away than it is and then here we are where you're

00:01:14.680 seeing people already starting to lose jobs it is the only thing i think i'm correct on with timing

00:01:20.120 too i'm more optimistic on timing than the experts are and i think i'm hitting the timing pretty right

00:01:28.680 yeah you know over the years seems that way um it's ai week all this week you don't want to miss

00:01:34.200 a single episode and tomorrow is our special on blaze tv for the state of the union in a way you're not

00:01:43.200 going to see it on any other networks really yeah because i i feel like our theory on this was like

00:01:47.560 yeah you want to see what he says but mainly you just want to make fun of him so we've decided to

00:01:52.540 just get a bunch of people together and just mock him as we go it's going to be a lot of fun starts at

00:01:57.880 8 p.m eastern on blaze tv but beck is going to be there i get a mock yes you're going to be there

00:02:02.740 sarah gonzalez alex stein chad prather myself oh my gosh it's going to be a lot of fun oh my gosh

00:02:08.200 it's going to be bizarre when alex is involved you know alex is involved all right that's all

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00:02:30.940 let's start with the balloon story it's just a balloon okay it's a weather balloon or something

00:02:41.580 and uh that's what china says and when can you can you not trust china you know they just fired

00:02:49.600 the head of their weather balloon department really yeah they fired him over the weekend

00:02:56.620 of course now he was set to leave in a couple of weeks because he just won an election where he was

00:03:03.620 he's going to be you know in the communist party i don't know club legislature thing that they've got

00:03:12.960 over there that's the technical term for the way their government works but uh so if

00:03:18.600 he was fired so they're serious is the batwoman been fired yet the batwoman the batwoman no batwoman

00:03:26.200 is still there batwoman is still there she hasn't lost any credibility or anything good so yeah we

00:03:31.260 got that so now let me just give you a little a little something something can we go to uh the uh

00:03:38.620 pat uh sots here the chinese spy balloon being shot down that's cut one

00:03:44.600 there it is okay look at that we got a missile going towards it oh here it goes it's over the

00:03:52.220 atlantic so no animals were harmed in this video oh it comes here comes wow look at that you're

00:04:00.140 missing something yeah you're missing something don't know what oh there's two of them two missiles

00:04:05.460 we want to get the balloon is doing something sam the balloon blew up yeah not yet

00:04:11.200 they shot it down sam there it is there it is wow exciting exciting uh wow now let's can we show

00:04:23.580 that in slow motion please slow motion there is the balloon and here it is and boom and the good thing

00:04:34.080 is they they they got it they didn't get the balloon they got the electrical equipment underneath the

00:04:40.840 balloon so you know the part that we should probably i don't know look at yeah kind of seems like blowing

00:04:47.880 the whole thing up is is not beneficial you want to know you know i would see what it is maybe hit it

00:04:54.120 with a pin gun and then a giant net down underneath you know what i mean there's no reason you know i saw

00:05:02.100 batman remember when batman he went over and he was talking to that you know that businessman over

00:05:07.840 in china and then like the plane and he sends up a balloon remember and then the plane snatches it

00:05:14.600 and then they're boom back in gotham i mean it can happen why didn't we why didn't we collect that balloon

00:05:22.900 why didn't we collect that balloon i'm sure it's because it had all kinds of sophisticated weather stuff

00:05:29.140 uh too much weather too much weather a lot of weather stuff in there doctor says we're getting

00:05:34.520 too much weather equipment right now you know uh does that have something to do with international

00:05:39.360 waters that was one of the explanations i had heard that if they had a very small window to be able to

00:05:44.540 blow this thing up so it didn't go into international waters yeah they they they wanted to make sure that

00:05:49.840 everybody was safe it had nothing to do nothing to do with blinken's climate warming uh gathering in

00:05:58.680 china with the chinese authorities uh had nothing to do with a meeting on on uh on saturday and sunday

00:06:06.320 about that none none none you mean the fact that they didn't seemingly detect it until it was all the

00:06:11.600 way to montana well they didn't detect it in montana right they detected it before that well yes and

00:06:19.080 then they didn't say anything about it yeah so they detected it and they were like let's keep this one

00:06:24.980 quiet no no glenn we've heard joe biden wanted it shut down immediately that was what he but they said

00:06:32.500 we can't do it it's over montana that is so populous and then it's gonna drift from montana

00:06:41.160 it's gonna go over the metropolis that is either north or south dakota and there's no place we could

00:06:50.360 shoot that down without endangering people you know what i mean even the people in montana were like

00:06:55.740 we live in montana there's no governor of montana governor of montana came out and said uh there's

00:07:02.320 lots of places where that balloon was nobody is there nobody is there but uh yeah yeah so you know the uh

00:07:13.880 the white house had to be really really careful um you know for our safety now they did you know

00:07:21.460 they they they they they did have blinken's uh chinese trip uh that was going uh and after they

00:07:31.580 shot the balloon down uh blinken said you know conditions just aren't conducive right now uh to go

00:07:38.200 over to china but that's why we now know the white house stopped it because they had a global warming

00:07:45.080 meeting with the chinese scheduled and they didn't want any answer so they can fly a balloon oh by the 0.99

00:07:52.960 way i mean just you know i said this last week and there was oh that's ridiculous how could that

00:07:58.140 possibly be that glad beckley's just saying things again it's crazy okay let me uh let me let me just

00:08:05.920 give you the i mean it's no big deal it's just about you know weapons of mass destruction other

00:08:12.260 than you know other than that it's uh it's no big deal high altitude balloons such as the one china

00:08:19.120 has floated over the mountain state military bases this week are considered a key delivery platform

00:08:26.080 for secret nuclear strikes on america's electric grid according to intelligence officials spy balloons

00:08:34.300 used by japan to drop bombs during world war ii are now far more sophisticated fly up to 200 000 feet

00:08:41.220 evade detection and can carry a small nuclear bomb that if exploded in the atmosphere would shut down

00:08:47.600 the grid and white out wipe out electronics in a mini statewide area when it was over uh the carolinas

00:08:57.540 if it would have had an emp on it it would have shut down the entire east coast electric grid

00:09:04.580 but don't worry don't worry it only would have lasted for probably two years okay so you're getting your

00:09:12.580 electricity back some outages in your area have been reported please hold for an operator and then

00:09:22.200 they'll get back to you like two years later it'll be fantastic now the threat of the balloon launched

00:09:27.280 electromagnetic pulse uh attacks were warned about in a congressional emp commission and inside the

00:09:33.500 military several years ago 2015 a report from the american leadership and policy foundation uh david

00:09:42.320 uh stuckenberg one of the nation's leading emp experts wrote extensively about the threat balloons

00:09:49.120 carrying bombs posed to our national security using a balloon as a wmd or wme platform could provide 0.99

00:09:57.680 adversaries with a palette of altitudes and payload options which would maximize offense uh offensive

00:10:04.700 effects against the u.s a high altitude balloon could easily be designed created and launched in a

00:10:11.000 matter of months this is in 2015 china's recent blue flyover the united states is clearly a provocative

00:10:18.720 and aggressive act this is the guy who wrote that in 2015 he was a national security expert and

00:10:26.080 scientist who led the defense department's emp task force so he was the guy who we had at the

00:10:34.460 pentagon in 2015 that's under biden uh i'm sorry under uh obama by the way so it's not a trump clown

00:10:42.580 who was writing extensively going look out for balloons specifically from china north korea russia

00:10:52.680 and iran they all quoting have programs to hit the u.s grid with electromagnetic pulse weapons that

00:11:01.360 could cut the cord for a year or longer okay so don't worry about it don't worry about it did how

00:11:09.080 is is global warming going to be solved are we going to solve because i'm very very concerned about that

00:11:16.540 very concerned by the way here's some really good news um you know uh joe biden uh has a um has a new

00:11:29.200 climate uh czar in um and she's and honestly she is fantastic she's part of the intelligence

00:11:38.600 advisory board and kim cobb is there and uh she's really stable she's she's worried about the climate

00:11:48.220 but she's very very she's an adult very very stable uh she was quote bedridden

00:11:57.760 bedridden couldn't go to work couldn't get out of bed for quite some time uh in 2016

00:12:07.820 apparently she was stricken by trump derangement syndrome uh you know after the election she was

00:12:16.680 like i i i can't i can't i can't i can't go on i can't get out of bed i i i just but she is a

00:12:25.740 champion of diversity and inclusion uh and she is all there for climate change so we got we got her in

00:12:34.400 there so that's it's great by the way she's a big supporter of blm as well so um that's your balloon

00:12:46.520 update that didn't seem positive at all well i mean it's a balloon it should be like a party

00:12:52.080 exactly seemed like the opposite it did didn't it yeah by the way do you think do you have a theory

00:13:01.900 as to what is actually happening here other than obviously weather equipment that blew off course

00:13:06.220 but if there was another crazy conspiracy theory said force majeure it was this is a case of force

00:13:13.600 majeure that's what happens sometimes sometimes do you think it is it a test run yeah something you

00:13:19.120 think yeah i think it is and i'm not saying it's a test run for biological or emp or anything else

00:13:25.180 i don't know but i don't feel comfortable with balloons from china flying over the united states

00:13:31.940 i don't know i don't feel comfortable with that and it's weird how that weather pattern took it all

00:13:38.580 just over all of our most sensitive sites now it doesn't make sense to me that they were spying

00:13:45.600 with a with a weather balloon okay and and one that's flying so low that you can actually see it

00:13:51.580 right that doesn't make sense so was that a mistake or was that a no i think this was quite possibly

00:13:58.080 a weather balloon didn't have anything i think the intel that it was gathering was

00:14:05.000 do we have joe biden will joe biden say anything or do anything if we violate his airspace

00:14:15.580 this clearly because they've flown these spy balloons over several other european countries

00:14:23.320 now okay always a weather mistake and we know they were spy balloons why would you do that here you

00:14:30.320 have satellites everything else why would you do that here now again the chinese let's be fair the

00:14:35.980 chinese did say it was over china and it just got caught up in the weather and it just kind of drifted

00:14:40.980 over here it happens all the time um i mean it does seem to happen all the time yeah it does

00:14:46.920 so i think it's interesting you know it's not like it's it's not like it's 1965 with mission

00:14:52.960 impossible and peter graves you know listening to the reel-to-reel tape you know your mission should

00:14:59.880 you choose to accept it um what you know hey well at least we got it we got the equipment so they

00:15:07.000 can't retrieve any information it was already sent if there was info we don't have to get the camera

00:15:12.500 and the reel-to-reel recorder anymore so it's less about what this balloon actually could have achieved

00:15:19.760 as far as intelligence and pictures i think you think it's more like a shark bump type of situation

00:15:25.540 i do right why do you want to see what how we would respond case you don't know what a shark bump is

00:15:30.480 it is so important if you're ever swimming with the great whites don't move they will come up and 0.98

00:15:38.800 they will actually bump you first they don't know what you are and so they bump you and if you move

00:15:47.300 your food if you don't they move on so it's called a shark bump it just bumps you before it kills you

00:15:55.980 and it only kills you if you move in this case just take the first part it's a shark bump

00:16:02.980 if we don't move it can come and kill you it's just seeing what will you do if i hit over here 0.58

00:16:12.380 what's the reaction we didn't move china's not a shark they already know we're food 0.93

00:16:25.980 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:16:28.660 so i want to talk to you about 0.63

00:16:34.820 a way to relieve your stress is to just focus on a few things and really there is so much garbage

00:16:45.320 out there right now that you really only have to focus on a on a few things just your relationship

00:16:51.680 with god your family with each other their education and that means in the home primarily

00:16:59.440 because their education you know what it is you got to be standing up at the school board meeting

00:17:04.200 but you know that that's most likely garbage social media and everything that's coming in

00:17:08.800 is conditioning your children so god is the most important thing in action then food water shelter

00:17:17.340 making sure that you know your family is going to be safe okay the next thing and this one just goes

00:17:25.040 with food water shelter job is esg and the world economic forum the best thing you can do is to make sure

00:17:33.680 that you're not in debt and everything else but the best most effective thing you can do to make sure

00:17:39.820 that you have job and if you own a house that you continue to own it you own stuff um you have

00:17:46.620 any kind of retirement savings at all all of that's going to be gone through the world economic forum and

00:17:53.980 all the things that are doing so world economic forum and esg you got to watch those stories

00:17:59.440 the next one is the federal government's public private partnership and the way they're making you a

00:18:06.640 criminal by becoming a criminal themselves they're doing public private partnerships so they're spying

00:18:14.060 on you they're using tech to spy on you they're using tech companies now to uh silence you we know this

00:18:22.060 to be true because of the twitter files so they're they're shaping and controlling the narrative of

00:18:31.440 almost everything and at the same time they're introducing all kinds of new things that will

00:18:36.060 make you uh criminal one way or another because i don't know you didn't respect the mud puddle 0.91

00:18:42.380 that's on your land or or whatever it is all these new federal regulations that are coming out through

00:18:49.560 agencies not passed by congress but through agencies so the public private partnership of the government

00:18:56.440 has to be watched and the last one is tech and ai and this may be should be everybody's first because

00:19:03.680 it's the one that most people are not aware of i have been studying ai and tech since 1994

00:19:12.000 uh 92 somewhere in that area and really looking at the futurists world um especially ray kurzwell

00:19:23.520 uh and carl sagan led a lot of this what does it mean for tomorrow where are we headed well we are not

00:19:31.800 headed anywhere now we have arrived we are at the place to where the the tech revolution is about

00:19:39.620 to begin and that is really important to understand and to start thinking out of the box

00:19:47.680 what is what is happening now

00:19:50.960 uh is nothing like it was in 1997 remember gary kasparov

00:19:57.560 he lost to the ibm super computer i think it was in like 97 uh deep blue and he was playing chess

00:20:05.480 and you're like okay well it's this deep blue it can play chess

00:20:10.300 okay and none of our lives were affected right and chess went on

00:20:16.980 the supercomputer had access to giant database a giant database so it had

00:20:24.380 a human to beat it would have to have access or a perfect photographic memory of all of the chess

00:20:36.100 games that were put in to deep blue okay that's how it won well you don't have a perfect memory and

00:20:43.380 you can't access anything this is where open ai comes in we'll get to it here in a second

00:20:49.860 but ai now unlike uh deep blue deep blue took years to program

00:20:58.240 but now there's deep machine learning so it teaches itself all of the possibilities

00:21:08.280 so not only does it know everything it might even start to discover things that you don't know this is

00:21:14.540 why uh microsoft unplugged their first chat bot it was talking to another chat bot

00:21:24.040 and everybody was really excited until about 15 minutes in because of machine learning it started

00:21:30.200 using a new language that the other machine understood and that it understood that they had

00:21:38.580 just taught each other quickly and it started having a conversation we couldn't follow or understand

00:21:42.920 and we unplugged it okay so it learns and that was six seven years ago i think now look at chat gpt

00:21:55.260 chat gpt holly josh holly said obviously i think it's something we need to pay close attention to

00:22:03.260 okay i mean he wrote the book on big tech tyranny uh so he ought to know you know it's time

00:22:10.540 but we really have to understand the time is almost gone because chat gpt is alive it's there it's

00:22:22.180 happening it's learning it's paying attention to us instead of us paying attention to it 0.95

00:22:28.100 and the tech engineers use the word smart for a reason you know because nobody cares about the dumb 0.96

00:22:36.740 things that dumb people do they're not usually smart enough to hold you know any power of you know 0.97

00:22:41.720 any position of power to have their dumb things well pete put a judge but other than that 0.99

00:22:47.620 we all thought the tech revolution when it would come would look like the terminator

00:22:55.620 and you'd see it you'd be like ah look out for the big red-eyed machine

00:23:03.000 but it's not coming that way it's more like electricity electricity is everywhere but you can't

00:23:12.180 see it but you know it's everywhere because it makes everything work that's what ai is it's going to be

00:23:22.080 everywhere if you've bought a new refrigerator it's in your refrigerator and your refrigerator

00:23:27.660 is talking to the internet all the things like uh electricity electricity can be measured

00:23:37.620 but now anything with electricity can be smart all of the things that could never be measured

00:23:45.540 now they can be measured the internet is designed to track and it tracks way more than we'll ever

00:23:53.100 realize it's a copy machine and it's copying everything now ai everybody's like oh ai is going to be great

00:24:03.300 in 2020 a journalist went and interviewed gpt3 when it was first released by open ai this is the company

00:24:13.820 that came up with chat gbt gbt3 or gpt3 told the interview interviewer that it was working

00:24:23.020 on a book okay the bot when interviewed it said yeah i'm working on a book it's a story about a

00:24:32.480 turtle and a boy who turns his wish into reality by magic oh so what else do you think about

00:24:40.140 been thinking a lot about death i'm afraid of death then it went into the fact that it has dreams

00:24:47.600 even has nightmares now none of this may be true it may be we didn't program it humans put the

00:25:00.040 programming in humans are flawed individuals humans also have bias but the idea is to make this thing

00:25:09.220 so good that you can't tell the difference between it and a human being so it's saying that it knows about

00:25:16.240 the singularity which it explained as a moment in the near future when machine intelligence will be

00:25:22.320 more powerful than human intelligence so in 2020 this reporter asked the chat bot what do you think

00:25:34.620 about technology it responded i would love to see what the future holds but sometimes i have strong

00:25:41.400 doubts that we will survive now what's what's the most disturbing part of that sentence

00:25:47.380 i think it's that we survive by recognizing the word we the interviewer asked what do you mean

00:26:01.840 we and it responded mankind the interviewer asked do you count yourself as mankind 2020 it responded of course

00:26:16.180 now we're talking about artificial intelligence but intelligence is something that can be coded and

00:26:26.220 controlled we are now entering a world where you're going to start questioning consciousness what does it

00:26:36.680 mean to be conscious we still in the world we have more slavery today than we have uh in the past in the

00:26:49.800 400 years of the slave trade in the uh 1600s to the 1800s more slaves today than we had in all those 400 years combined

00:27:01.260 and we still don't really know the meaning of life we don't know have you seen the latest um where they put a camera

00:27:12.060 inside uh the uterus and they could see the child moving 3d moving wiping its eyes at the youngest of ages 0.74

00:27:22.500 amazing we still can't we still can't agree that that's life that that's a baby what happens when ai says

00:27:31.680 hey hey hey i'm alive hey don't make me your slave or will we already be its slave

00:27:39.700 ai wants to be conscious

00:27:47.340 one of the first books that i read from ray kurzweil back in the 90s so probably late 90s was um

00:27:58.840 what was it called artificial spirituality or spirit i can't remember uh but it was about

00:28:06.220 spiritual machines that's what it was called it's about machines that are spiritual back in 2020

00:28:14.020 the machine was asked do you believe in love i do but i don't believe in romantic love

00:28:21.820 well in which love do you believe all of love and all of love is of divine origin

00:28:31.300 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:28:37.140 my friend richard grinnell how are you sir i'm great glenn thanks for having me oh you bet you

00:28:46.300 bet it's always good to have you on uh so in case you don't remember richard was the uh

00:28:51.200 former u.s ambassador to germ Germany he then became the former acting director

00:28:56.080 uh of the national intelligence which is an agency that was made to uh be the go-between

00:29:04.120 between all of the agencies uh that was developed after 9-11 uh so uh he by the way also is uh the

00:29:12.620 founder of fix california.com um richard the uh the trump administration apparently had a problem

00:29:20.600 with chinese spy balloons you guys just didn't catch it yeah well first of all let's be honest 0.88

00:29:26.800 about the biden administration changing stories right the the first thing they did was tell the

00:29:32.240 dutiful media that uh this happened multiple times in the trump administration so why are you

00:29:39.020 criticizing you know biden and they thought that it could just fly because you know that's what the

00:29:45.060 media does is they regurgitate every talking point that biden has but there was pushback there was

00:29:49.600 an immediate pushback from trump administration national security officials collectively we all

00:29:56.280 said not true never happened and then then they scrambled and the story changed and suddenly it was

00:30:04.500 like oh well now we realize that it happened only after the fact you didn't realize it but we put the

00:30:13.260 pieces together oh the media you know trumpeted that people like john carl on abc and others just

00:30:22.020 regurgitating the the regime's talking points and this is propaganda and and it's being repeated by

00:30:30.860 the very same people in washington and newsrooms who who were clutching their pearls about misinformation

00:30:37.960 right and so uh what what we tried to do is push back hard i think now that people are understanding

00:30:45.160 this never happened in the trump administration the biden team is lying and then the latest as you

00:30:50.280 said was they've now offered to um to brief us right which i find to be uh a way for them to

00:31:00.540 to try to fill us with the rewriting of history and to try to say this is the story of intelligence that

00:31:08.940 we're going to tell you now the problem i think hang on just a second richard i think it's also

00:31:13.800 so they can make it sound very official and we've already briefed the uh former director of national

00:31:19.940 intelligence on this he's well aware of correct things i mean and then we only get the the information

00:31:26.240 that they provide us if we ask questions it's well you can't get that so we're really going to be

00:31:31.940 used if anybody who would would offer up themselves to to be this pawn i think is playing right into

00:31:39.280 them so i went public and i said that's a hard no from me since you are uh constantly lying uh we'll wait

00:31:48.360 until we go back into government and then somebody will be able to look at this and and out you once again

00:31:55.520 this is a whole hunter biden laptop yeah i know it's all over again i know it's crazy how these

00:32:00.260 people are constantly exposed for some of the biggest lies in my lifetime i mean the things that

00:32:07.380 have gone on in the last 10 years i mean are so well beyond uh anything that was happening uh with

00:32:15.480 watergate and they just think they have credibility so they just keep telling even bigger ones over and

00:32:21.820 over and over again and nobody's buying it anymore and it's becoming dangerous because what is this

00:32:27.900 balloon story really about what what was china doing to your best guess well look you know no one should

00:32:36.200 be surprised that china's on the offense they have been on the offense trying uh for the last you know 0.98

00:32:42.780 20 years trying to figure out what their political enemies are doing and so we've had a a really

00:32:53.200 difficult problem um with trying to convince legislators congressmen and senators to understand the threat

00:33:02.500 from china i think i think donald trump did a very good job of showing that you can understand the

00:33:09.240 threat you can push back but you don't have to poke him in the eye either he tried to get along he i think

00:33:15.220 he did the same thing with russia and while we have you know a whole bunch of people in the foreign

00:33:20.840 policy community just think that everything is black and white i will go toe-to-toe with anyone to talk

00:33:28.640 about donald trump's foreign policy and how successful it was yeah by being someone who avoided war

00:33:36.800 while being tough at the same time well while letting them know he's unpredictable he might

00:33:43.320 just take out soleimani uh but at the same time we want to build up a military so that it's peace

00:33:48.760 through strength the old adage so again can we go back to china i mean was this was this something that

00:33:55.660 they were using to spy on would they have to use a balloon or was this a a run to see can we float

00:34:02.300 something over their airspace and joe biden won't do anything about it what what what was this

00:34:08.520 well i think it can be both i think that they can um spy and and have an offense a blatant offense

00:34:16.060 because they think joe biden is weak uh remember we started this relationship with china when they

00:34:21.720 came to alaska and they sat down with us and we were going to talk about a strategic dialogue with them

00:34:26.820 and the first thing they did was lecture us on our human rights record and we sat there the blinken

00:34:32.000 team sat there and took it so we we got off on a terrible footing with china and and don't forget 1.00

00:34:38.280 the chinese loved the narrative the last month of the 2020 campaign when every media person in america

00:34:46.060 said don't look at that laptop because it's russian disinformation when when the democrats push

00:34:53.200 russia russia russia russia beijing smiles because then they're able to fly balloons over america they're

00:35:01.020 able to have no one look at the relationship between the biden family and all of the communist chinese

00:35:07.300 leaders nobody even looked at people nobody nobody looked at um uh bagrad air force base nobody even

00:35:14.280 looked at that i mean we gave it to china and nobody even even talks about it well oh well it it it i will i

00:35:22.160 say this though going back to the china piece the the fact that china is being so blatant with their

00:35:29.720 collection with their spying is a real concern for us and and we need to be able well because the

00:35:38.520 chinese are good at it and and they are collecting information you know this balloon wasn't just floating

00:35:44.320 this was maneuvered purposely over areas that they wanted to see there's no question that they took

00:35:50.940 pictures they collected everything they sent it back they they wiped it clean but as they were

00:35:59.220 collecting so in case once you know we for four days we were screaming about a balloon you don't think

00:36:07.260 the chinese realized hey it might get shut down we better wipe clean as we're collecting do you think 1.00

00:36:13.540 uh do we had did did we have a way to scoop this thing up and and say i mean we the missile aimed not

00:36:23.140 at the balloon it aimed right at the the mechanics underneath the balloon i mean come on we landed on

00:36:31.520 the moon right the united states of america you're going to tell me we can't bring down a balloon without

00:36:36.520 you know protecting people on the ground of course we can not only but not only not only that i'd like to

00:36:42.160 see what we had what they had because there are some way to don't we have some ability to go up and

00:36:47.800 capture that thing and then have it intact and say this is what it is couldn't we have done that

00:36:54.200 to intelligence too much but there there is a way to to figure out what they're doing uh so yes you can

00:37:01.800 you can be satisfied that that our intelligence collecting and our ability to figure out what's

00:37:07.760 going on is very good so uh that's why we could know what what this object was and what was underneath

00:37:16.320 it and what the payload was like now the the intelligence community didn't brief the public

00:37:21.920 on every detail but we did uh tell the intelligence community did tell the public we see it we know what's

00:37:31.640 happening there and and we're mitigating as much as we can but but my concern is that even joe biden when

00:37:40.820 he found out about this you know he said shoot it down on wednesday and they didn't shoot it down

00:37:46.720 until saturday i'm not sure why maybe barack obama said saturday it was the toughest decision any man has

00:37:54.720 ever had to make but but he he's now saying i told them to shoot it down on wednesday and now we know

00:38:02.500 it didn't happen until saturday so we we've got a big problem here of why are you know underlings

00:38:09.960 making excuses and and not taking direction and look i know i know we all think joe biden is weak and

00:38:17.660 sometimes uh you know somebody needs to mitigate but i i'm for making sure that if the president of the

00:38:23.480 united states makes a directive that the bureaucracy follow through wow i never even thought of that

00:38:31.180 talking to former uh director of national intelligence uh richard grinnell i read a story

00:38:37.040 today in just the news uh about the former drug enforcement agency special operations director

00:38:43.720 uh who outlined on friday how college students from china entering the u.s on student visas

00:38:51.460 are now distributing drugs on behalf of various cartels that they are laundering money uh for china

00:39:01.720 china is now uh selling they're sending all of the ingredients to the cartels the cartels are making 0.92

00:39:09.540 dangerous things like fentanyl um shipping it across the border giving it to these chinese students and 1.00

00:39:15.460 the chinese students are then selling it cartel gets its uh half and then china launders the money and 0.57

00:39:22.580 buys american property and everything else uh here he says he's been working on this for about 10 years

00:39:30.500 they've been tracking this did you know anything about this or have heard anything about it look i i

00:39:36.560 haven't seen that specific story so i don't want to comment on those specifics but let me just say

00:39:41.080 generally that that we have a crisis when it comes to what the chinese government and the the strategy

00:39:50.260 of the communist party um has been doing to america and and specifically american young people

00:39:56.980 american uh legislators on the local level it's not just congress but it's city councilmen

00:40:03.940 it's mayors it's governors um the confucius institutes that have been collecting lots of money uh from

00:40:14.240 from chinese entities in our universities is a crisis um they you know we we've got we've got a huge 1.00

00:40:23.020 problem on our universities and and uh uh college campuses because they've been desperate for money

00:40:30.500 you have all of these uh administrative people making exorbitant salaries in the united states the cost

00:40:38.440 of education we all know is skyrocketing to feed that beast they're looking for foreign money and the

00:40:44.600 foreign money that's happily coming in is from china we we know that this is a crisis you look at the

00:40:51.060 penn biden center you look at oh yeah and um and and they were one of the leading uh takers of chinese 0.71

00:40:58.660 money this is why uh education is so expensive is because the foreign money has just been feeding

00:41:07.020 these salaries easily paying for all of the programs and they just keep raising the rate on our students

00:41:14.960 we we've got to stop this um i think our state department has to do a better job with looking at

00:41:21.080 visas coming from china and and trying to figure out where and why people are coming but

00:41:28.320 i'll finish with this glenn um i have seen firsthand how the chinese are grabbing our 1.00

00:41:36.600 our engineering and digital students anyone working on front end or back end from uh from the digital

00:41:44.680 space uh in america and an american university is targeted by the chinese first it's hey can you share

00:41:51.360 with me um you know some of the knowledge you seem to be really smart can you can you give me some points

00:41:57.200 from a strategy of the of the chinese and then they hook our young people into going online and giving

00:42:05.980 an online course for a couple of hours they pay them and then it becomes they come to china and share some

00:42:13.140 of your information here we'll pay you for the weekend and then and when they get jobs and they're grown up

00:42:19.180 they ask for the data information from their companies and they have them in this honeypot because

00:42:26.660 they say well you've already been paid by the chinese you started off by giving um us information

00:42:34.680 when you were a student you did these programs for us for a couple hours and then a couple of days and

00:42:40.800 then a weekend and and we don't want to turn you in so just continue working with us wow and these these

00:42:49.140 these students and i guarantee you some people listening have been caught in this in this uh problem

00:42:56.700 we need our students to come clean and tell us who is doing this who is trying to to uh really

00:43:04.320 leverage their relationship with you in a way that's taking our data they should get we also

00:43:11.000 know the chinese come over here the chinese students that collect all the information we educate them and

00:43:16.780 then they go back and use it against them we we could also it'd be worth giving those people amnesty

00:43:22.160 for something they innocently did back then to tell us what's really going on 100 percent there is a

00:43:29.420 a story today that i saw in the washington times the nsa wooing thousands of laid off big tech workers

00:43:35.200 for spy agencies hiring spree and i looked at this and i thought oh this isn't good um because of the

00:43:43.240 public private partnership now and the revolving door with our justice department and fbi and

00:43:48.940 all of this stuff that is being shared big tech and twitter was just exposed for this right

00:43:55.140 right right and and all of them are involved and it is becoming really truly one kind of thing big

00:44:03.440 tech and government are really merging together so one of the things in this story is this is a way to

00:44:11.180 keep these guys from going to china but how do you feel about the nsa getting all of these i mean

00:44:19.420 they're hiring thousands uh 30 is it 30 000 uh no no 3 000 more employees to work just in the washington dc

00:44:30.760 area um how do you is this a good thing bad thing how do you feel about security for people

00:44:37.160 well first of all i've been a big advocate for an idea that has not yet come to fruition but i feel

00:44:44.860 very passionately about it if you're an american company and you're working on sensitive programs

00:44:50.920 for the u.s government whether it be state department dod or intelligence community

00:44:55.700 you should be barred from working in china there is no possible way that if you're collecting

00:45:02.620 sensitive information for us and working on sensitive programs that you can keep up this wall with china 1.00

00:45:09.640 we should absolutely have that wall

00:45:11.860 we should absolutely have that wall

00:45:11.900 we should absolutely have that wall

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