Glenn and Stu talk about the latest ice storm in the U.S. and what it means for the upcoming mid-term elections. Plus, Sean Reyes talks about gun control and why he thinks Ron DeSantis should win the primary.
00:03:39.440I'll take it here for a second as we solve these technical issues.
00:03:42.020We appreciate everybody hanging out and a little understanding here with what we're trying to accomplish here.
00:03:49.180And what's interesting about what Trump is doing is he, I think, sees appropriately a potential weak point for his run in the COVID response stuff.
00:04:03.840You know, people remember going back to March and April of 2020.
00:04:07.520You know, when you heard the phrase, two weeks to stop the spread, the person standing on the stage was Donald Trump.
00:04:13.480And I think everybody has some sort of remembrance of that.
00:04:17.600And I think you're going to see candidates in the field try to go to Trump's right, if you will, and say Donald Trump was the guy who had Anthony Fauci standing by his side, who had Dr. Birx standing by his side, who told us two weeks to stop the spread, who then told us after those two weeks were over, another month to stop the spread.
00:04:40.020Obviously, there's a lot of criticism over the vaccines among the Republican base.
00:04:46.520And Trump has kind of held the line there and said, look, these things were great and they saved a bunch of lives.
00:05:01.860If you're Donald Trump, you can kind of see the first steps in his approach as as he was talking on the plane the other day where he said, look, you know, a lot of these governors are out there bragging about their covid responses.
00:05:15.420You know, Florida shut down, Florida shut to people forget this Florida shut down.
00:05:19.800I think it's what he said was a lot longer than some of the others.
00:05:23.420And, you know, in sort of normal Trump fashion, there are some truth to that.
00:05:30.720I mean, I think you look at the DeSantis response to covid and most people on the conservative side of the spectrum look at it as a good response.
00:05:37.620They, you know, so here's the here's the problem that I have with Donald Trump is, you know, he he is the guy.
00:07:47.900Like if you like Trump's response, what you would say is he turned on these restrictions relatively quickly.
00:07:55.420Now, he turned slower than DeSantis did.
00:07:59.160Remember, Donald Trump was out there criticizing Brian Kemp, who was really the first one, at least in that area, to turn to turn around on those restrictions.
00:08:08.840You know, I think you could look at people like Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
00:08:13.380Iowa was another state that never closed down.
00:08:15.560But, you know, again, when you look at the spectrum of responses, both Trump and DeSantis would be, I think, on the right side of that for most conservatives.
00:08:28.080I mean, DeSantis has not participated in this criticism yet, but like they will eventually be needling each other on this response.
00:08:33.860And it really, you know, it's it is I think there are definitely parts to criticize of Trump's response.
00:08:41.760DeSantis's response, I think, was more standard for Republicans.
00:08:44.780And both of them stood up pretty strongly eventually and got to that point where they said, look, this is wrong and we should not be doing this.
00:08:52.560The question with Trump is one of his weak points is going to be he went through his entire administration with Anthony Fauci there.
00:09:01.520And, you know, everyone looks at Fauci as the center point of this.
00:09:04.620And over and over and over again, every one of his competitors in this primary are going to show pictures of Donald Trump sitting there praising Anthony Fauci, standing next to him, Fauci praising Trump.
00:10:04.880We didn't know at the time I'd like to hear Rick and or sorry, Ron and Donald Trump say this, that we didn't know at the time that there were deals with the government and the pharmaceutical companies.
00:10:19.560We didn't know at the time that gain of function research was going on and is still going on.
00:10:26.300So I want to have a frank and open, honest discussion and really hearing on everything that happened.
00:10:36.380But the first step is we are to never, ever the federal government close down businesses and close everything down from the federal level.
00:10:46.800People were already isolating before we did it.
00:10:50.860We're not going to do that ever again.
00:10:53.020And we are going to make sure that it never happens again through legislation.
00:13:13.560I want to see governors who have actually taken hard stands and are continually moving the ball forward, not playing, not playing where at least we're not them and certainly not playing defense.
00:13:45.160So really no one there that you you think there's no one obvious that all these people are very low in the polls.
00:13:50.480Tim Scott is the one you maybe said had potential as a I think there's I, you know, I think predicting any of this stuff at this point is it's crazy is crazy.
00:14:25.860This is the most unstable the world has been in my lifetime.
00:14:30.640I can't I cannot think of another time that is more unstable than than it is right now.
00:14:36.360So let's let's all pretend we're alcoholics and take it one day at a time.
00:14:46.920This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:49.560Jason Batrill, who has a update for us, Jason, give me give me the update on what is happening now with Joe Biden and the FBI.
00:15:12.740Hello, Glenn. Well, I'm sure everyone's seeing this all over Twitter and there's like aerial cams from helicopters going over President Biden's house right now.
00:15:22.060And they're live streaming the FBI raiding his house looking for these classified documents.
00:15:27.640Did everyone see that? No, they're not treating it the same way that they did.
00:15:58.820Stu mentioned this earlier, what they're opening this up, the precedent that it opens up here.
00:16:02.920And the reason why is because you're looking at a weaponized Department of Justice and FBI.
00:16:10.980And I think when you look at this on a timeline, I think this was this is covering up as one of the biggest election interferences in American history.
00:16:26.460So when we first heard about this, when the timeline started materializing, the Biden lawyers found classified docs at the D.C. think tank office on November 2nd.
00:16:36.000Second, why did we not hear anything then?
00:16:39.260Because that was in the very middle of the hoopla surrounding Trump and the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:21:10.620Now they're going and raiding a sitting president's home.
00:21:14.140That's fine if we had a justice department that we trusted, but we don't.
00:21:22.180We know they're not after real justice.
00:21:24.740So that leads you to what is what is it that they're after?
00:21:29.620This becomes extraordinarily dangerous for a republic.
00:21:34.640If your justice department is corrupt and the deep state is in charge and they can just take any president and go into their house and raid it and charge him on things that Hillary Clinton didn't go to jail for.
00:22:36.920I mean, I think the further we start seeing that the Ukraine stuff, the business dealings with Hunter Biden, the rest of his family and why they were so like hyper focused on Ukraine and why now they are so hyper focused on making sure that, you know, everything is secure there.
00:22:54.620You know, they got to make sure that, you know, all of those skeletons are completely buried.
00:23:00.060I don't even think that we're we probably haven't even scratched the surface.
00:23:04.060I mean, we've covered Burisma in detail.
00:23:09.400What do we not know that they had their fingers in?
00:23:12.280I mean, this is getting absolutely insane.
00:23:15.160I you know, the thing that bothers me so much is the amount of money that has gone over there, because we know most of it has not gone to the front lines.
00:23:23.720We've had people on the front lines who have verified this.
00:23:30.760You're seeing 10 politicians had to step down because they were taking the aid and funneling it towards their families, et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:02.140Do you know politically what could be done with a billion dollars, ten billion dollars if this money is being funneled nefarious places, which is the only way dirty money ever goes?
00:25:11.340I mean, they're going to try and minimize and, you know, make it seem more benign.
00:25:16.380What Biden did, I saw that in some of the early reporting on the raid or the FBI search today, they're trying to say that, you know, Joe Biden is in full cooperation with the FBI, you know, more than happy to let the FBI search his home today.
00:25:34.000Um, there's no difference between that and what Donald Trump did.
00:27:38.080Yesterday, we had a guy who filed a lawsuit here in Texas against the ATF on the, what do you call them, the stocks, the collapsible stocks.
00:27:54.240The pistols that can turn into rifles magically with the stabilizing stock.
00:28:00.460And the ATF said that those are absolutely legal.
00:28:05.300Well, they've been legal for years, blah, blah, blah.
00:28:08.520Now, through a stroke of a pen, not Congress or anything else, they decide that that's a felony to own one of those.
00:28:15.380In case you missed yesterday's podcast, we talked to the guy who was filing suit because yesterday was the day that it actually became in the federal registry, which means it's now officially on the book.
00:28:31.680So the clock started running yesterday.
00:28:33.500You have 120 days before you're a felon.
00:28:37.520They may not get away with this, but what they're doing when you say weaponizing, there's two things that people have to understand.
00:28:45.580How a national socialist kind of takeover usually happens is they make so many things through regulation illegal that almost everybody's in violation of something.
00:29:00.900And then they apply pressure selectively to who they want to apply pressure.
00:29:05.820So if you have one of those one of those guns and you haven't filed in 120 days because you're waiting for the court to speak on it, what's going to happen to you?
00:29:15.920They will arrest you even if they know nothing's going to happen.
00:29:20.380They want to make people's lives miserable through the system.
00:29:24.620That way they can control you, even if it doesn't end up that you have to be held in jail.
00:29:33.120The whole process is the real punishment.
00:29:40.520You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:54.620The guy that I think should be the one to save America from the peril that is Mitt Romney and primary him in Utah is Sean Ray, as he is the Utah attorney general, a good friend and a very good man.
00:30:52.900And Joe Biden said that he wanted regulation now to be able to force everybody's retirement fund into ESG style funds that could dramatically impact the the retirement accounts of millions of Americans.
00:31:15.920You have put together 25 states, the attorney generals, and you have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and trying to get that repealed.
00:31:31.140Yeah, Glenn, we've filed Utah versus Walsh with 24 other states.
00:31:39.580It's just like you said, because the Biden administration is trying to implement a rule that is immoral.
00:31:47.720It is irresponsible and it is irresponsible and it is totally illegal.
00:31:52.320And the reason it's illegal is that ERISA, which is the federal law that requires investment managers of private benefit plans like 401ks that you have, that I have.
00:32:04.220To pick investments based solely on financial reasons to benefit the plan and maximize value for beneficiaries, that's their fiduciary duty.
00:32:15.840We call it the exclusive purpose test.
00:32:18.120And this new Biden rule, which, by the way, as you said, they tried to sneaky, really sinister past this rule and hope that no one would would notice, kind of like they did the last time we had to sue the Department of Labor on OSHA vaccine mandates.
00:32:36.100You remember that we took that to the Supreme Court in one and we'll do the same here if we need to, because this is yet another existential threat from ESG.
00:32:46.720So this new Biden rule allows asset managers for these plans to abandon their fiduciary duty and become instead woke investment activists for ESG.
00:32:58.360Glenn, this rule puts at risk over 12 trillion dollars, 12 trillion dollars of private retirement funds for 152 million hardworking Americans.
00:33:11.100The whole civilian workforce in America, Glenn, is 165 million at last count.
00:33:16.600So it just shows you the scale of the impact that this rule would have.
00:33:21.420And again, it weaponizes and politicizes the role of asset managers at a time when 401ks are already taking major hits due to the economic downturns and high inflation from this administration.
00:33:37.880So, Sean, this doesn't mandate that they they have to buy ESGs.
00:33:46.640It just allows them to to put aside their fiduciary responsibility, which is insane.
00:33:58.920And it's funny that you say it that way, because that was the defense that the DOL administration put forth for why this this is still acceptable.
00:34:32.500God bless you for being such a voice of reason, a loud voice and pushing back on this ESG insanity, because ESG funds are largely underperforming.
00:34:43.500And they're getting that zero that they should be looking at, by the way, technologies that are actually profitable and don't cause more environmental impact.
00:34:53.720You have one right now in your state and mine.
00:34:59.560You can have them on the show another time.
00:35:01.660But Omnis Energy is about to make a huge announcement in Texas about really clean energy that will give us the energy dominance it deserves.
00:35:11.160And many of Texas's most prominent business leaders are committed to this technology.
00:35:47.860But but you know what, there are there, Glenn, there are other technical reasons.
00:35:52.840And I just want to throw this out to any of the lawyers out there who are questioning, OK, what what is the basis and why is it illegal?
00:36:01.040In addition to it violating the fiduciary responsibilities, there are other factors that violate the major questions doctrine because it has vast economic impact.
00:36:14.760And the DOL actually doesn't have the authority to do this.
00:36:19.740And it also another thing that we didn't really talk about a lot is that it allows proxy voting, again, in a way that prevents them from or requires them from from living up to their fiduciary responsibilities.
00:36:35.820So there's a proxy element here, too, which is another aspect of ESG that is pernicious.
00:36:50.520Sean, I will tell you, we have been fighting ESG with ESG legislation through wall builders and David Barton.
00:37:02.240And, you know, I've been up at different states talking about it.
00:37:05.180And they have really mounted an effort in I think about 30 states are considering legislation.
00:37:10.700I have been working with another organization for the last I mean, we've been working with them for at least eight months, but we found out some things that that they were doing to undermine the protection for the people.
00:37:28.260And just a quick side note, I'm going to be making an announcement about that very well known foundation and what they've been doing.
00:37:39.780We've tried to give them several months to clarify and rectify the problem they haven't.
00:37:47.520And tomorrow's program, I'm going to be telling you something quite shocking and very, very disappointing on a on a foundation that is as a long legacy and heritage that you're going to be disappointed in.
00:38:07.100Anyway, so let me ask you, let me ask you on the ESG front, is anyone that, you know, protecting because this is the this is the problem with this.
00:38:19.160This hurts everybody, including the little guy.
00:38:22.400OK, this is not just the energy sector.
00:38:24.720This is everybody, especially the little guy is going to get hurt on this.
00:38:28.700Are you seeing any real forward momentum at all on protecting the little guy in the S and the G or is still are people still just worried about the E?
00:38:53.680And and the work that you all are doing and you deserve credit with the legislatures is important.
00:38:59.420And Congress has a role to play and they're trying to push back through a resolution.
00:39:04.100But the A.G.s, I speaking of warriors and you have an incredible one there in Texas, my colleague, Ken Paxton, he is co-filing with me.
00:39:12.920So so Texas, Louisiana, Jeff Landry and the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jason Meares and all these other A.G.s.
00:39:19.560They're the ones you call us off in the last line of defense and we are pushing back for the little guy, not just on the E, but on the S and the G.
00:39:27.980There was not too long ago an insurance issue that came up, which they were trying to pass a law that would require the insurance company to violate numerous state laws in the guise of being more diverse.
00:39:41.700Right. And and it actually would require the insurance company, this rule to consider race in terms of assessing risk and issuing insurance, which blatantly on its face violates a number of state laws.
00:40:00.440So we pushed back on that. So people think that the ESG is only the E.
00:40:05.280There's definitely the S and the G part of it. And we'll continue as A.G.s to push back on all of that, because, as you said so eloquently, it hurts the little guy.
00:40:15.100It hurts everyone. And I want to be clear, Glenn. We're not saying you can't invest your money, your own money.
00:40:21.700Yeah. And social warrior and activist. We're saying when you have a fiduciary duty to invest other people's money, you can't do that.
00:40:30.120Right. Right. Can you can you help me on one thing unrelated to this, Sean?
00:40:35.320The rule went in two days ago now for the pistol braces and the ATF says if you have a gun with pistol braces, you have to apply for a tax stamp.
00:40:45.640And, you know, that that's a year long process if you're lucky.
00:40:50.020But you are going to be a felon within one hundred and twenty days, even if you're in the process of the tax stamp.
00:40:58.700And so they're saying, turn your gun in. Well, I know a lot of people that have these guns.
00:41:03.300They were perfectly legal until they just decided to, you know, just change the regulation on their own.
00:41:12.000And what what does the what should somebody do?
00:41:16.020I know there's a lawsuit that was just filed yesterday here in Texas, but should we wait for this to play out in the court?
00:41:26.600Are we going to be felons if you have those guns?
00:41:28.300We're under assault on our Second Amendment rights.
00:41:32.760And, you know, I just I was just at SHOT Show recently in Las Vegas and we were talking about this, you know, many good American companies and even foreign companies that that support the Second Amendment.
00:41:47.780Here is, I think, a practical solution.
00:41:52.180Glenn, if I were you in any state where you have a good attorney general who understands the the Constitution, I would reach out to their office and ask for advice and also see if they are joining us in being able to push back against these rules and encourage them to do that.
00:42:13.460Because, as you pointed out, the average citizen is now caught in this no man's land and it's a it's a precarious place to be, my friend.
00:42:28.400I know it's crazy right now with the weather conditions, but I really so wanted to talk to you about the ESG and the Second Amendment issues and everything else going on there.
00:42:39.520You are an incredible warrior champion for us, Sean.