The Glenn Beck Program - February 01, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Sean Reyes ｜ 2⧸1⧸23


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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.

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00:00:00.120 Oh, my gosh, Stu. Was that fun or what?
00:00:03.340 Oh, it was quite the adventure, Glenn. I'm glad you were able to join us today.
00:00:06.700 Yeah, don't you feel like we're living in some ways like in 1970 at times here in Texas?
00:00:13.400 Just the whole society just shuts down.
00:00:15.700 Shuts down.
00:00:16.160 Whenever there's a little ice on the ground.
00:00:18.440 We have ice. We have ice on the ground.
00:00:19.700 And, I mean, it's bad. It's about, you know, half an inch or a quarter inch thick everywhere.
00:00:26.100 And we're supposed to have another ice storm.
00:00:27.680 But we don't have salt. We don't have sand.
00:00:29.820 We don't have anything.
00:00:31.480 And so the entire city shuts down.
00:00:35.820 And it happens like once a year.
00:00:37.440 And it's just bizarre.
00:00:39.880 It is so weird.
00:00:41.700 You know, we're used to everything.
00:00:43.020 Well, let's just take care of that.
00:00:44.520 We don't have any of that stuff here.
00:00:47.480 But today's broadcast was interesting, to say the least.
00:00:52.880 We talked a lot about Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis and the election that is coming our way.
00:00:58.920 We also talked to Sean Reyes about something that is really pressing.
00:01:04.040 Two things.
00:01:04.740 One, you are now 118 days away from being a felon if you have a pistol with a pistol brace on it.
00:01:14.840 And the ATF has entered it into the rule books.
00:01:20.440 And so the clock is ticking now.
00:01:22.120 Talk to Sean Reyes about that.
00:01:23.800 Also, what's happening with ESG.
00:01:26.500 And so much more all on today's podcast.
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00:02:50.280 We want to talk and continue our conversation here on the candidates.
00:03:08.680 You know, we just went through where Donald Trump has some real credibility with ending wars.
00:03:17.100 And I'm not sure where DeSantis, you know, I haven't seen proof of DeSantis in action.
00:03:24.020 We have seen it with Donald Trump.
00:03:25.820 But let's talk about COVID now.
00:03:27.880 Yeah, it seems like one of the approaches right now from Trump is...
00:03:35.880 Oh, I can't hear Stu.
00:03:36.420 This is wonderful.
00:03:37.560 Of course.
00:03:37.900 Go ahead, Stu.
00:03:38.820 Thank you.
00:03:39.440 I'll take it here for a second as we solve these technical issues.
00:03:42.020 We appreciate everybody hanging out and a little understanding here with what we're trying to accomplish here.
00:03:49.180 And 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.
00:04:03.840 You know, people remember going back to March and April of 2020.
00:04:07.520 You know, when you heard the phrase, two weeks to stop the spread, the person standing on the stage was Donald Trump.
00:04:13.480 And I think everybody has some sort of remembrance of that.
00:04:17.600 And 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.
00:04:40.020 Obviously, there's a lot of criticism over the vaccines among the Republican base.
00:04:46.520 And Trump has kind of held the line there and said, look, these things were great and they saved a bunch of lives.
00:04:52.380 Does the base agree with that?
00:04:53.900 And again, it matters what the base agrees with because they're the ones who are going to make these decisions.
00:04:59.200 So how do you handle that?
00:05:01.860 If 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.
00:05:15.420 You know, Florida shut down, Florida shut to people forget this Florida shut down.
00:05:19.800 I think it's what he said was a lot longer than some of the others.
00:05:23.420 And, you know, in sort of normal Trump fashion, there are some truth to that.
00:05:29.220 It's probably exaggerated.
00:05:30.720 I 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.
00:05:37.620 They, you know, so here's the here's the problem that I have with Donald Trump is, you know, he he is the guy.
00:05:49.800 He who suspended.
00:05:51.700 However, however, in his favor, I give everyone a pass.
00:05:57.340 Well, except for Fauci, because of what he knew was going on, according to documents.
00:06:02.220 I give I give almost everybody a pass that everybody was trying to do the right thing.
00:06:08.240 Everybody was, you know, 10 10 days to slow the spread.
00:06:13.820 I give you a pass on.
00:06:15.600 However, it should have not been mandatory.
00:06:18.540 It should have been we believe 10 days to to stop the spread is advisable.
00:06:26.700 Shouldn't have been a mandatory thing that comes from the World Economic Forum.
00:06:30.920 That comes from the Treasury Department and event.
00:06:35.680 What was it?
00:06:36.160 Two oh one or two oh three.
00:06:37.860 The the strategy planning done by the W.E.F.
00:06:41.700 And and the Bill Gates Foundation and all of that.
00:06:44.720 They had this plan.
00:06:46.480 They walked it into the president.
00:06:48.360 Never been done before.
00:06:50.520 Shouldn't have been done.
00:06:52.220 If you are a constitutionalist, you would have said no.
00:06:57.740 Donald Trump is not necessarily a constitutionalist, although he's better than most.
00:07:03.260 It seems at times I wonder if DeSantis would have done it because he did close down the state.
00:07:10.680 But again, in the beginning, I give everybody forgiveness.
00:07:16.380 DeSantis and Trump alike.
00:07:17.860 But there comes a point to where you got to say, OK, this was really bad.
00:07:22.420 We shouldn't ever do that again.
00:07:24.820 And I haven't heard that from Donald Trump.
00:07:28.000 Have you?
00:07:30.440 I think we've heard a little bit of that.
00:07:32.980 We've heard bits and pieces of that, though.
00:07:36.340 I still think he's out of step with a base on some of some of it.
00:07:38.840 What's fascinating is really the argument for DeSantis and his response is very similar to the argument to Donald Trump and his success.
00:07:47.780 Right.
00:07:47.900 Like if you like Trump's response, what you would say is he turned on these restrictions relatively quickly.
00:07:55.420 Now, he turned slower than DeSantis did.
00:07:59.160 Remember, 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.
00:08:08.840 You know, I think you could look at people like Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
00:08:13.380 Iowa was another state that never closed down.
00:08:15.560 But, 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.
00:08:25.340 So, like, they're trying to needle.
00:08:28.080 I mean, DeSantis has not participated in this criticism yet, but like they will eventually be needling each other on this response.
00:08:33.860 And it really, you know, it's it is I think there are definitely parts to criticize of Trump's response.
00:08:41.760 DeSantis's response, I think, was more standard for Republicans.
00:08:44.780 And 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.
00:08:52.560 The question with Trump is one of his weak points is going to be he went through his entire administration with Anthony Fauci there.
00:09:01.520 And, you know, everyone looks at Fauci as the center point of this.
00:09:04.620 And 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.
00:09:15.080 All that stuff really happened.
00:09:16.560 That wasn't a dream, even though it seems like it at this point.
00:09:19.120 I don't think that's going to matter to people who would vote for Trump if if Trump stands up at some point.
00:09:27.220 I want to hear both of them say this.
00:09:29.040 Look, we did the best we could.
00:09:30.860 We took the advice we could.
00:09:32.420 We were in an emergency situation.
00:09:35.160 We didn't know then what we know now.
00:09:37.900 However, the most important thing we learned is you cannot do these style things.
00:09:45.700 It should never happen again.
00:09:47.880 And we should be passing the laws to make sure it never happens again.
00:09:53.540 The the we all gave everyone the benefit of the doubt Fauci.
00:09:59.100 And we gave the benefit of the doubt to our pharmaceutical companies.
00:10:03.580 Everybody stepped up.
00:10:04.880 We 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.
00:10:19.560 We didn't know at the time that gain of function research was going on and is still going on.
00:10:26.300 So I want to have a frank and open, honest discussion and really hearing on everything that happened.
00:10:36.380 But the first step is we are to never, ever the federal government close down businesses and close everything down from the federal level.
00:10:46.800 People were already isolating before we did it.
00:10:50.860 We're not going to do that ever again.
00:10:53.020 And we are going to make sure that it never happens again through legislation.
00:10:59.480 That's what I want to hear.
00:11:01.340 Yes, I think we need to do that and through the courts as well.
00:11:03.400 We need to get all these things on record and locked down through the court system to make sure this doesn't happen again.
00:11:08.580 Glenn, let me can I ask you a couple of non-binding prediction questions for the future?
00:11:14.260 I'm not going to hold you to these.
00:11:15.820 OK, I'm not going to hold you these.
00:11:16.920 I'm not going to say you are an idiot for getting these wrong.
00:11:18.920 I just want your vibes at this very moment.
00:11:21.760 OK, OK.
00:11:22.340 So we know we have DeSantis and Trump in this back and forth here at the top of the primary.
00:11:29.680 Likely there will be a third person who at least has a run at some point.
00:11:35.540 Someone who gets, I don't know, into double digits in a few polls, maybe put some pressure on one of the two candidates,
00:11:40.880 maybe passes one of the two candidates and has an outside chance of winning.
00:11:44.780 Let me give you some names of people who are being thrown around right now.
00:11:48.360 Tell me who you who you think your number three is in this race right now.
00:11:52.240 You've got John Bolton, Mike Pompeo.
00:11:55.460 No, Mike Pence.
00:11:57.620 No, Nikki Haley.
00:11:59.680 No, Ted Cruz.
00:12:01.880 No, Christy Noem.
00:12:05.260 Maybe, but I lean towards no.
00:12:07.620 OK, Rick Scott from Florida.
00:12:09.840 Maybe, but I lean towards no.
00:12:14.440 Tim Scott, South Carolina.
00:12:20.580 That's the first one that I think is like, yeah, probably could be.
00:12:24.420 Yeah, maybe.
00:12:25.320 OK, Glenn Youngkin from Virginia.
00:12:27.940 No, no.
00:12:29.340 I hope to God not.
00:12:30.960 Right.
00:12:31.240 You're that that down on Youngkin already?
00:12:33.640 No, I mean, I just I I want to see governors that are leading like Ron DeSantis is.
00:12:43.320 I want to see governors understand and verbalize the country is on fire and we are building a barricade around our state.
00:12:55.000 It's why I'm sorry, but I don't give Texas.
00:12:58.780 I give Texas a hard time and I think they deserve it. 0.66
00:13:01.900 They are acting like it's business as usual, maybe a little dicey.
00:13:07.700 This isn't a rainstorm.
00:13:09.280 This is a category seven hurricane.
00:13:12.520 What are we what are we doing?
00:13:13.560 I 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.
00:13:30.640 I want somebody on the offense.
00:13:34.160 And you mentioned Texas and Greg Abbott's another one to throw in there.
00:13:38.260 I was saying no on him.
00:13:39.700 No, no, Larry, Larry Hogan, Liz Cheney from the left has been rumored as well. 1.00
00:13:44.640 No.
00:13:45.160 So really no one there that you you think there's no one obvious that all these people are very low in the polls.
00:13:50.480 Tim 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.
00:14:03.540 That's why it's non-binding.
00:14:04.500 That's why I non-binded you. 0.90
00:14:05.980 Yeah, well, because it's this is this literally all of this stuff could change overnight.
00:14:11.460 We we could, you know, we could be without power in 2024.
00:14:17.360 We could also be the king of the world with some new Bitcoin in 2020.
00:14:22.720 We have no idea what is coming.
00:14:25.860 This is the most unstable the world has been in my lifetime.
00:14:30.640 I can't I cannot think of another time that is more unstable than than it is right now.
00:14:36.360 So let's let's all pretend we're alcoholics and take it one day at a time.
00:14:46.920 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:49.560 Jason 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.
00:15:12.740 Hello, 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.
00:15:22.060 And they're live streaming the FBI raiding his house looking for these classified documents.
00:15:27.640 Did everyone see that? No, they're not treating it the same way that they did.
00:15:32.760 And this is amazing.
00:15:34.120 They've been in their house.
00:15:35.720 Sources told CNBC, I think, were the first to report this.
00:15:39.480 It was a very small story.
00:15:40.980 I didn't hardly see anyone reporting on it, but they've been there.
00:15:45.940 The FBI just recently took a look at his D.C. think tank office.
00:15:50.980 That took them around 12 hours.
00:15:53.340 So I'm assuming they're going to be there probably all day.
00:15:56.760 This is really unprecedented.
00:15:58.820 Stu mentioned this earlier, what they're opening this up, the precedent that it opens up here.
00:16:02.920 And the reason why is because you're looking at a weaponized Department of Justice and FBI.
00:16:10.980 And 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.
00:16:20.520 Can I explain that, Glenn?
00:16:23.000 Yes.
00:16:24.220 Can you?
00:16:25.460 I can.
00:16:26.460 So 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.
00:16:36.000 Second, why did we not hear anything then?
00:16:39.260 Because that was in the very middle of the hoopla surrounding Trump and the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:16:44.600 Why didn't we hear about this update?
00:16:46.520 Well, just six days later were the midterms.
00:16:48.880 They couldn't let it go because what we all know is that the raid at Mar-a-Lago was just a big political stunt.
00:16:53.380 That's all it was.
00:16:54.460 They were losing hardcore in the polls.
00:16:56.520 They knew that they were about to take a big defeat in the midterms.
00:16:59.080 They needed a whammy, and that whammy was the raid on Donald Trump's house.
00:17:02.980 That's what it was.
00:17:03.800 We all knew what it was.
00:17:04.860 Now we're seeing it materialize.
00:17:06.920 That's exactly what was going on.
00:17:08.420 Well, one day later, the D.O.J. on November 9th, the D.O.J. and the FBI decided, you know what?
00:17:13.540 I think we should look at these classified documents found in his home.
00:17:16.520 I think maybe it could have been a violation of federal law.
00:17:19.240 We're going to look into it.
00:17:20.320 Oh, really?
00:17:21.480 A day after the midterms?
00:17:22.880 Now you're going to decide?
00:17:24.220 But because of the slow drip process, we didn't even hear about that.
00:17:27.360 We only just now heard about that just a few weeks ago.
00:17:30.480 And now that the FBI is now moving on some of these places, we're starting to see that
00:17:35.400 the FBI is completely boxed in.
00:17:37.760 They've been caught.
00:17:38.920 They were outed in this scheme to work with the Democrats, to tank Republicans, to tank
00:17:44.280 Donald Trump.
00:17:45.240 And now they're like, okay, well, crud.
00:17:47.280 We have to move.
00:17:48.380 We have to do a raid.
00:17:49.380 We have to get involved and show that, hey, at least we're taking this seriously.
00:17:52.880 Will they eventually in the end?
00:17:54.560 Highly doubt it, because this has been a sham since the beginning.
00:17:56.680 All right, so here's a couple of questions.
00:18:00.120 First, you didn't touch on what CBS News has just reported, that the FBI conducted another
00:18:07.820 undisclosed search of the Penn Biden Center back in November.
00:18:12.120 I think that you might have just mentioned that in passing here.
00:18:15.920 They knew that these were in existence.
00:18:23.240 They knew this was a problem.
00:18:24.680 But they go and they raid it, and the White House hasn't ever talked about it.
00:18:31.420 The White House is telling America that they're very, very transparent.
00:18:35.280 They're cooperating 100%.
00:18:36.700 Who is shutting down the information?
00:18:41.020 Who is there a single journalist that would like to win?
00:18:47.120 Well, you're not going to win a Pulitzer because you have to lie to win one of those.
00:18:50.340 Is there anybody that cares enough about the truth, no matter where it falls, that they're
00:18:56.120 going to tell the truth?
00:18:57.140 No, we just found out about that raid that you just mentioned this week.
00:19:02.860 We found out about it this week.
00:19:04.180 It happened way back then.
00:19:05.800 I mean, you remember when all of this, it was almost kind of like a drip process when
00:19:09.860 they went to move on Trump.
00:19:11.160 Remember how investigative these journalists were being?
00:19:14.840 They were looking at torn up notes and toilet bowls.
00:19:19.280 That's like, oh, exclusive.
00:19:20.960 We found these torn up notes.
00:19:22.200 Look how careless he is.
00:19:23.380 Then we start finding out about these classified docs at Mar-a-Lago.
00:19:25.740 You know, that's the lengths they were willing to go.
00:19:28.280 All of this stuff, like you have lawyers involved within the Biden administration.
00:19:32.180 You have the DOJ involved, the FBI involved.
00:19:34.660 Going back months and not a single journalist knew a thing about it.
00:19:39.820 All right.
00:19:40.160 So, of course, that's not true.
00:19:41.660 So, Jason, tell me, what do you think is happening?
00:19:47.120 Why would the FBI be raiding his house yet again?
00:19:52.580 Why would they be doing this today?
00:19:53.920 Well, I seriously think that, I mean, this could point toward, because we know that it
00:20:00.140 was a two-pronged reason for raiding Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump.
00:20:04.440 One, it was a heck of a pre-October surprise for the midterm election.
00:20:11.920 That's one.
00:20:12.540 I think that was one of the biggest things.
00:20:13.940 The second, they actually wanted to prosecute him.
00:20:16.340 They did not want him to run for president again in the next election.
00:20:20.000 That was a big thing.
00:20:20.920 Now, I don't think that any one on the left wants Joe Biden to run again in 2024.
00:20:26.780 I do not think they want him.
00:20:28.380 He's vulnerable now, but so is Trump.
00:20:30.520 I think right now they're kind of like gambling.
00:20:32.980 Well, yes, we open them both up to prosecution.
00:20:36.020 They'll both be vulnerable.
00:20:37.580 But do we care?
00:20:38.320 No, I don't think they care.
00:20:39.840 I think now they're kind of like cutting their losses and they're looking towards who actually
00:20:44.180 they can find that's electable.
00:20:45.500 I don't think they have too many people that are electable.
00:20:46.980 But I think that they see the vulnerability of Joe Biden.
00:20:50.400 That's a bonus for them.
00:20:51.320 And they're going to continue with the vulnerability of Donald Trump.
00:20:54.420 They're going to make an example.
00:20:55.440 This is banana republic.
00:20:57.720 This is banana republic stuff.
00:20:59.960 You don't go in and raid a sitting president's home.
00:21:04.300 You don't do it.
00:21:05.740 We've never, ever done anything like this.
00:21:08.980 We've never did it with Donald Trump.
00:21:10.620 Now they're going and raiding a sitting president's home.
00:21:14.140 That's fine if we had a justice department that we trusted, but we don't.
00:21:22.180 We know they're not after real justice.
00:21:24.740 So that leads you to what is what is it that they're after?
00:21:29.620 This becomes extraordinarily dangerous for a republic.
00:21:34.640 If 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.
00:21:53.480 Nobody went.
00:21:53.920 I can't believe I'm actually kind of defending Joe Biden here because I'm defending the process.
00:22:01.000 You should have done this from the beginning.
00:22:03.440 Now they're using this as a political tool, I fear, because the biggest tool is Hunter Biden.
00:22:10.740 And the things that are coming out about Hunter Biden are really, really damaging.
00:22:16.000 It looks weak.
00:22:17.840 What was it yesterday, Jason?
00:22:19.320 We had the story about Hunter's Hunter setting up the biotech labs, the bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 0.79
00:22:30.100 He was the guy who helped start that and helped fund that.
00:22:35.460 What's that all about?
00:22:36.920 I 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.
00:22:54.620 You know, they got to make sure that, you know, all of those skeletons are completely buried.
00:23:00.060 I don't even think that we're we probably haven't even scratched the surface.
00:23:04.060 I mean, we've covered Burisma in detail.
00:23:06.220 Now we're getting hints of this.
00:23:08.180 Those are the things we know.
00:23:09.400 What do we not know that they had their fingers in?
00:23:12.280 I mean, this is getting absolutely insane.
00:23:15.160 I 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.
00:23:23.720 We've had people on the front lines who have verified this.
00:23:27.080 We're not seeing an influx of things.
00:23:29.180 Where are all those things going?
00:23:30.760 You're seeing 10 politicians had to step down because they were taking the aid and funneling it towards their families, et cetera, et cetera.
00:23:39.860 Ten politicians.
00:23:41.800 We're not monitoring anything.
00:23:44.320 And I think this is a huge payoff.
00:23:47.280 Did you see that it was what was it?
00:23:48.820 Two point five billion dollars, they say, was given out during the PPP program that shouldn't have been given out.
00:23:58.600 All went to corruption.
00:24:00.000 Two point five billion dollars.
00:24:02.140 Do 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?
00:24:17.400 It's not like it goes to the church.
00:24:19.500 This money is being funneled somewhere.
00:24:22.780 Where?
00:24:23.960 Who is using that money for what kind of a global campaign?
00:24:28.880 Where's that money's influence being felt?
00:24:33.060 We need to know this.
00:24:38.360 Jason, is your is it your belief at this point that the government is going to move on Joe Biden more than this?
00:24:51.860 Well, I I kind of do, because I don't think that I don't really see an out for the DOJ and FBI on this.
00:25:01.140 I really don't.
00:25:02.320 I mean, they've already, you know, the grenade they dropped with Trump and now all the revelations that are coming out about Biden.
00:25:09.720 I just don't see how they can.
00:25:11.340 I mean, they're going to try and minimize and, you know, make it seem more benign.
00:25:16.380 What 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.
00:25:34.000 Um, there's no difference between that and what Donald Trump did.
00:25:38.000 He was in cooperation with the FBI.
00:25:40.400 He allowed them access.
00:25:41.960 They went and looked.
00:25:42.740 They searched through the file folders, looked at everything and said, hey, Mr. President, you should probably put a padlock on that door.
00:25:48.960 OK, so he did it.
00:25:50.340 What is the difference?
00:25:52.140 Really?
00:25:52.600 What is the difference?
00:25:53.520 There is no difference.
00:25:54.380 But you can already see them.
00:25:55.780 You know, they're calling their shot right now that they're going to try and make this look more benign.
00:25:59.480 But, um, they'll probably end up saying that, OK, we did we find no criminality here for some weird magic trick.
00:26:06.360 We find criminality with Donald Trump.
00:26:07.900 But in the end, they're both they're both vulnerable with the ultimate.
00:26:13.420 So do you think that there is a do you think there's a chance that this is because that's what I'm hearing from people.
00:26:19.380 The left is done with the Bidens.
00:26:24.100 And so now this is all coming from the deep state and they're just going to destroy him and his family.
00:26:30.940 Yeah.
00:26:31.560 And Glenn, just a real quick point on just how deep this deep state is right now and how much they are outing themselves.
00:26:38.560 I mean, just look at the DOJ and the FBI.
00:26:40.760 Look at what they did to the pro-life activists.
00:26:43.360 You know, the just exonerated.
00:26:45.900 But can but can you believe that the DOJ actually they knew they did not have a case, Clint?
00:26:50.880 They knew they did not have a case.
00:26:53.000 They knew how flimsy it was.
00:26:54.660 He wasn't even blocking that entrance to give this other activist went towards a hook, basically ran him down the street.
00:27:02.920 And then he had, as per in the court, the Planned Parenthood CEO admitted that this guy had those issues before.
00:27:09.340 He had been confronting people out on the street, which they're told not to do before.
00:27:14.040 So the DOJ knew they didn't have a case.
00:27:16.760 But what did they do?
00:27:17.460 They still went because it was retaliation.
00:27:20.080 Their flagship banner issue, Roe v. Wade, had gotten overturned.
00:27:23.700 So they wanted to deliver a gut punch.
00:27:25.640 Had nothing to do with justice.
00:27:27.340 But they are weaponized.
00:27:28.760 I mean, this on top of what's going on with Biden and Trump right now, there's the deep state right there.
00:27:34.080 They are fully weaponized and they're coming after you.
00:27:36.180 Yeah, and that's what disturbs me.
00:27:38.080 Yesterday, 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.
00:27:52.060 But it's a, what are they called?
00:27:54.240 The pistols that can turn into rifles magically with the stabilizing stock.
00:28:00.460 And the ATF said that those are absolutely legal.
00:28:05.300 Well, they've been legal for years, blah, blah, blah.
00:28:08.520 Now, through a stroke of a pen, not Congress or anything else, they decide that that's a felony to own one of those.
00:28:15.380 In 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.
00:28:31.680 So the clock started running yesterday.
00:28:33.500 You have 120 days before you're a felon.
00:28:37.520 They may not get away with this, but what they're doing when you say weaponizing, there's two things that people have to understand.
00:28:45.580 How 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.
00:29:00.900 And then they apply pressure selectively to who they want to apply pressure.
00:29:05.820 So 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?
00:29:15.920 They will arrest you even if they know nothing's going to happen.
00:29:20.380 They want to make people's lives miserable through the system.
00:29:24.620 That way they can control you, even if it doesn't end up that you have to be held in jail.
00:29:33.120 The whole process is the real punishment.
00:29:40.520 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:54.620 The 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.
00:30:17.160 Welcome to the program.
00:30:18.640 Sean, how are you, sir?
00:30:20.320 I'm doing so well, Glenn.
00:30:21.880 How are you doing?
00:30:23.120 Good.
00:30:23.380 You know, we don't deal with snow in Texas like you do in Utah.
00:30:26.500 So I my apologies for the cancellation earlier.
00:30:29.760 And we are just a we're a city.
00:30:32.800 At least Dallas is is like it's worse than it was with covid.
00:30:37.800 Nobody can move because of the ice on the streets.
00:30:40.600 But so thank you for your patience.
00:30:43.120 Sean, there was something that the Biden administration announced in November.
00:30:50.020 And this is so insidious.
00:30:52.900 And 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.
00:31:15.920 You have put together 25 states, the attorney generals, and you have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and trying to get that repealed.
00:31:29.900 Tell me about it.
00:31:31.140 Yeah, Glenn, we've filed Utah versus Walsh with 24 other states.
00:31:39.580 It's just like you said, because the Biden administration is trying to implement a rule that is immoral.
00:31:47.720 It is irresponsible and it is irresponsible and it is totally illegal.
00:31:52.320 And 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.
00:32:04.220 To pick investments based solely on financial reasons to benefit the plan and maximize value for beneficiaries, that's their fiduciary duty.
00:32:15.840 We call it the exclusive purpose test.
00:32:18.120 And 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.
00:32:36.100 You 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.
00:32:46.720 So this new Biden rule allows asset managers for these plans to abandon their fiduciary duty and become instead woke investment activists for ESG.
00:32:58.360 Glenn, this rule puts at risk over 12 trillion dollars, 12 trillion dollars of private retirement funds for 152 million hardworking Americans.
00:33:11.100 The whole civilian workforce in America, Glenn, is 165 million at last count.
00:33:16.600 So it just shows you the scale of the impact that this rule would have.
00:33:21.420 And 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.
00:33:37.880 So, Sean, this doesn't mandate that they they have to buy ESGs.
00:33:46.640 It just allows them to to put aside their fiduciary responsibility, which is insane.
00:33:55.840 Insane.
00:33:56.940 You're right.
00:33:57.920 It doesn't mandate.
00:33:58.920 And 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.
00:34:09.880 We're not mandating illegal conduct.
00:34:12.280 We're only allowing illegal conduct.
00:34:14.900 It's perverse the way that they that they put it forward.
00:34:21.360 Oh, OK, well, as long as it's not mandated, it's OK.
00:34:26.520 But we've seen the reality is and you've talked about this on your show a lot.
00:34:31.840 And thank you.
00:34:32.500 God 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.
00:34:43.500 And 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.
00:34:53.720 You have one right now in your state and mine.
00:34:57.120 It's a it's a Utah based company.
00:34:58.820 I'm going to throw it out.
00:34:59.560 You can have them on the show another time.
00:35:01.660 But Omnis Energy is about to make a huge announcement in Texas about really clean energy that will give us the energy dominance it deserves.
00:35:11.160 And many of Texas's most prominent business leaders are committed to this technology.
00:35:15.700 So I'm teasing it a little bit.
00:35:17.300 Oh, I think I know what this is.
00:35:19.760 When do they announce that?
00:35:21.680 It's coming.
00:35:22.460 It's coming within days or weeks.
00:35:25.720 And, you know, some of the principles.
00:35:27.840 Oh, this is really this.
00:35:31.300 This is going to be an exciting announcement.
00:35:33.080 This is going to be really good.
00:35:34.660 We'll we'll we'll let you in on that on the show.
00:35:39.000 I've known about this for a couple of months and been waiting and waiting and waiting.
00:35:42.900 And I'm excited to hear that.
00:35:44.860 I don't want to take their thunder.
00:35:47.300 And I know.
00:35:47.860 But but you know what, there are there, Glenn, there are other technical reasons.
00:35:52.840 And 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?
00:36:01.040 In addition to it violating the fiduciary responsibilities, there are other factors that violate the major questions doctrine because it has vast economic impact.
00:36:14.760 And the DOL actually doesn't have the authority to do this.
00:36:18.400 It's arbitrary and capricious.
00:36:19.740 And 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.
00:36:35.820 So there's a proxy element here, too, which is another aspect of ESG that is pernicious.
00:36:43.240 And again, they're so brazen.
00:36:45.600 This this this audacity of woke is is unbelievable.
00:36:50.320 Right.
00:36:50.520 Sean, I will tell you, we have been fighting ESG with ESG legislation through wall builders and David Barton.
00:37:02.240 And, you know, I've been up at different states talking about it.
00:37:05.180 And they have really mounted an effort in I think about 30 states are considering legislation.
00:37:10.700 I 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.
00:37:28.260 And 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.
00:37:39.780 We've tried to give them several months to clarify and rectify the problem they haven't.
00:37:47.520 And 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.
00:38:07.100 Anyway, 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.
00:38:19.160 This hurts everybody, including the little guy.
00:38:22.400 OK, this is not just the energy sector.
00:38:24.720 This is everybody, especially the little guy is going to get hurt on this.
00:38:28.700 Are 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?
00:38:42.620 No, absolutely.
00:38:43.920 And we've pushed back on some of the S and the G. 0.99
00:38:46.840 And let me talk about that before I do.
00:38:49.020 Thank you for your partnership with David.
00:38:51.300 He is doing he's a warrior out there.
00:38:53.680 And and the work that you all are doing and you deserve credit with the legislatures is important.
00:38:59.420 And Congress has a role to play and they're trying to push back through a resolution.
00:39:04.100 But 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.
00:39:12.920 So so Texas, Louisiana, Jeff Landry and the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jason Meares and all these other A.G.s.
00:39:19.560 They'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.
00:39:27.980 There 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.
00:39:41.700 Right. 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.
00:40:00.440 So we pushed back on that. So people think that the ESG is only the E.
00:40:05.280 There'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. 0.67
00:40:15.100 It hurts everyone. And I want to be clear, Glenn. We're not saying you can't invest your money, your own money.
00:40:21.700 Yeah. 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.
00:40:30.120 Right. Right. Can you can you help me on one thing unrelated to this, Sean?
00:40:35.320 The 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.
00:40:45.640 And, you know, that that's a year long process if you're lucky.
00:40:50.020 But you are going to be a felon within one hundred and twenty days, even if you're in the process of the tax stamp.
00:40:58.700 And so they're saying, turn your gun in. Well, I know a lot of people that have these guns.
00:41:03.300 They were perfectly legal until they just decided to, you know, just change the regulation on their own.
00:41:12.000 And what what does the what should somebody do?
00:41:16.020 I 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?
00:41:23.820 Should you what should you do?
00:41:26.600 Are we going to be felons if you have those guns?
00:41:28.300 We're under assault on our Second Amendment rights.
00:41:32.760 And, 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.
00:41:47.780 Here is, I think, a practical solution.
00:41:52.180 Glenn, 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.
00:42:13.460 Because, 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.
00:42:26.040 Thank you for for having me on.
00:42:28.400 I 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.
00:42:39.520 You are an incredible warrior champion for us, Sean.
00:42:43.960 I appreciate everything you're doing.
00:42:45.540 You're really one of the good guys.
00:42:47.040 And there's probably 15, 20 of them out there that are in as attorney generals that are just diehard.
00:42:53.580 And you are one of the real leaders of that group.
00:42:55.680 And I appreciate it.
00:42:56.640 And and good luck running against Mitt Romney in the primary.
00:42:59.860 Anyway, Sean Ray has the attorney general for the great state of Utah.