The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Tiller Russell ｜ 3⧸23⧸23

00:00:01.000 So, how would you describe today's podcast?

00:00:04.600 What would you say?

00:00:06.120 Some would say it was a bit of a downer.

00:00:08.220 However, I think, you know, we talk about this sort of later in the podcast that, you

00:00:13.940 know, there's certain days where really important things happen.

00:00:17.400 You need to know there's a sense of urgency to make sure you get this information.

00:00:21.240 And certain days we get to screw off.

00:00:22.840 Today was not one of those days.

00:00:23.920 Tomorrow's screw off.

00:00:24.540 But today, you know, I want to ask you, when you first walked in, I said, Stu, I've never

00:00:31.460 seen a Newsday with so many stories that tell you exactly what's coming.

00:00:40.180 That's terrifying.

00:00:40.920 I mean, you've been doing this for a very long time.

00:00:42.740 Right.

00:00:43.180 But did I overstate that to you?

00:00:45.480 I mean, I think, no, I think it's the construction of it, right?

00:00:48.860 Right.

00:00:49.120 You know, it's all these things that kind of fit together and paint a picture that, you

00:00:53.380 know, it's definitely scary, but also something you should be prepared for.

00:00:56.680 You have to be prepared for it.

00:00:57.960 Because if you're prepared for it, then you don't have to worry about it.

00:01:00.460 You can just go on.

00:01:03.220 You know, I described today's podcast as our daily podcasts will look at an ailment.

00:01:11.340 You know, you come into the doctor and you're like, oh, my foot hurts.

00:01:15.160 And so we'll do x-rays and then we'll talk about that.

00:01:17.580 And then you come in and you're like, man, my leg really hurts.

00:01:22.800 OK, my neck is really bad.

00:01:25.600 At some point, you've got to put all of the information together of all of the symptoms

00:01:30.060 and then say, no, it's actually not your foot, your leg or your neck.

00:01:34.520 It is your spinal column.

00:01:36.700 Whatever it is, you have to look at all of it together.

00:01:41.560 And usually we'll just show you one x-ray today.

00:01:44.520 I'm going to show you all the x-rays and you'll be able to pinpoint exactly where we are

00:01:50.020 and what is coming so you can be better prepared.

00:01:53.700 That is today's podcast.

00:01:55.460 Really important one.

00:01:56.540 By the way, we talk about we have a 30 percent shortage of medicine right now.

00:02:01.080 There was testimony given, a new study done, testimony given to the Senate yesterday

00:02:07.380 that it is to national security proportions, 30 percent of inexpensive medicine shortage.

00:02:21.280 OK, what does that mean?

00:02:23.380 Well, that means if we continue down this path, you know, you're talking about real problems with medicine.

00:02:29.880 We're not making anything here.

00:02:32.820 We're having all kinds of problems with the supply chains.

00:02:36.900 Look, may I suggest our sponsor can help you with this.

00:02:41.200 Sponsor of today's podcast is Jace Medical.

00:02:44.500 Jace Medical has made the Jace case.

00:02:47.860 All right.

00:02:48.180 And it will give you five different antibiotics.

00:02:52.540 We're short antibiotics.

00:02:55.160 If you can't get antibiotics, it's like you live in an 1840.

00:02:59.020 You know, you you cut your finger and you can die.

00:03:03.640 You got to have some antibiotics.

00:03:06.240 Way to have some in your home so you're prepared or even when you're just on vacation,

00:03:11.020 you don't have to go to a doctor right away.

00:03:13.020 You can get it from Jace Medical.

00:03:15.520 Highly recommend the Jace case.

00:03:17.840 Please look into this and get some antibiotics into your home in case of an emergency.

00:03:23.400 Jace, J-A-S-E medical dot com.

00:03:26.580 Jace medical dot com.

00:03:29.180 Make sure you use the promo code Beck and say it.

00:03:39.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:43.200 All right.

00:03:47.700 I ask you, if you cannot listen to the entire radio program today, do your best and go and

00:03:56.160 get the podcast today after the show.

00:03:59.080 It'll be posted and listen to the podcast.

00:04:02.400 Also, today is a day that you really should have my morning show prep.

00:04:09.780 It goes out every morning.

00:04:11.480 You sign up for it now.

00:04:13.200 I will ask the team to make sure that they maybe resend this show prep today again tomorrow

00:04:19.720 because it's already in people's email boxes.

00:04:22.320 It is it is so critical today's show prep.

00:04:28.020 Really, if I spent about 90 minutes, I just did a video that I think they're putting up

00:04:33.200 on Twitter and everything.

00:04:34.520 I don't think I've ever done that either where I come in and everything is dark in the studio

00:04:40.060 and it's just me in the computer and I see the show prep and I arrange it and I got on

00:04:45.660 and recorded something saying, look, if you get the show prep, this is the way you need to read it.

00:04:52.580 It is clear where we are headed.

00:04:56.800 Make no mistake.

00:04:58.420 Do not be deceived.

00:05:00.200 Do not be distracted.

00:05:03.140 Let me start here.

00:05:07.460 Hunter Biden, the Hunter Biden story.

00:05:10.680 It is critical now that we do not play games of he said, she said, or it doesn't matter or any of this.

00:05:20.740 Listen to this, because if this is allowed to go on, we do not survive as a nation.

00:05:29.880 We become Russia.

00:05:32.760 I don't know any Democrat that wants us to become like Russia.

00:05:37.840 I don't know anybody.

00:05:38.820 Well, maybe George Soros.

00:05:40.200 I'm not sure.

00:05:42.540 Listen to this.

00:05:44.580 Hunter Biden had an FBI mole named One Eye who tipped off his Chinese business partners

00:05:52.120 that they were under investigation, according to an Israeli energy expert arrested in Cyprus

00:05:59.080 last month on gun running charges.

00:06:02.260 Why should we listen to him?

00:06:03.960 The story goes on.

00:06:04.940 The House Oversight Committee is investigating the explosive claims by Dr.

00:06:10.480 Gal Luft, a former Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties to Washington

00:06:19.500 and Beijing, who says he was arrested to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden family and FBI corruption.

00:06:28.220 Details, he told the Department of Justice in 2019, which he says were ignored.

00:06:35.140 Luft, 56, made the claims February 18th on Twitter after being detained at a Cyprus airport as he prepared to board a plane to Israel.

00:06:46.120 He said, quote, I've been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S.

00:06:54.560 The U.S. is claiming that I'm an arms dealer.

00:06:58.400 It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

00:07:02.120 I've never been an arms dealer.

00:07:04.980 DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden.

00:07:10.360 Shall I name names?

00:07:11.800 All right.

00:07:14.760 So he is waiting extradition.

00:07:17.940 He is in jail.

00:07:19.940 He says, I'm not a drug.

00:07:23.160 I mean, a gun trafficker.

00:07:27.420 Through his American lawyer, Robert Hennick, Luft said he tried four years ago to inform the DOJ

00:07:36.000 that Chinese state-controlled energy company, CEFC, had paid $100,000 a month to President Biden's son, Hunter,

00:07:46.000 and $65,000 to Joe's brother, Jim, in exchange for their FBI connections

00:07:52.960 and the use of the Biden name to promote China's Belt and Road initiative all around the world.

00:07:59.880 This fits with exactly the other information we gave you last night.

00:08:07.640 By the way, if you sign up for the newsletter tonight, you'll get all of the transcript.

00:08:11.920 You'll get all of the show prep for last night's program where we were showing you what the left is really afraid of

00:08:20.680 and what Biden is doing to distract you.

00:08:25.020 This Bill O'Reilly said, and he'll say it tomorrow, I'm sure, on the radio program.

00:08:29.180 This Trump thing is never going to trial.

00:08:32.540 It'll never have a jury.

00:08:34.060 It will never go there. 0.97

00:08:35.720 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:08:38.640 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:08:39.880 Hillary Clinton paid a fine for the same thing she did, except what she did was the Crossfire Hurricane dossier, 0.92

00:08:50.880 which caused us to spend millions of dollars, three years or four years of lies on the media.

00:09:00.220 It's probably the most impactful thing any politician has ever done to thwart the truth.

00:09:07.880 She paid a fine.

00:09:09.160 It was a misdemeanor.

00:09:10.420 And you're going to go after Trump?

00:09:11.960 No, they want you to not see this.

00:09:17.420 And by the way, if they do arrest him, then they'll turn this whole thing around and say,

00:09:21.820 this Hunter Biden thing is only about us arresting Donald Trump. 0.97

00:09:27.360 We knew that guy was dirty. 0.96

00:09:29.320 We arrested him.

00:09:30.080 And now they're bringing this up and trying us as revenge.

00:09:34.100 Mark my words.

00:09:34.920 Okay, so his American lawyer, back to the guy, the Israeli guy, his lawyer said he tried four years ago

00:09:45.480 to inform the DOJ, the Chinese state-controlled energy company, CEFC, had paid $100,000 a month

00:09:52.280 to President Biden's son, Hunter 65, for his FBI connections.

00:09:59.760 Luff learned about the scheme through his own relationship with Hunter's Chinese business partners.

00:10:04.920 Patrick Ho and Yi Jiang Ming, the chairman of CEFC.

00:10:11.880 Any of those?

00:10:12.540 Patrick Ho, does that name ring a bell?

00:10:15.700 Do you remember why that rings a bell?

00:10:17.260 I don't remember why, but it does ring a bell.

00:10:19.160 You'll remember it in a second.

00:10:21.280 From 2015-2018, Luff organized international energy conferences in partnership with Ho's think tank,

00:10:28.700 the non-profit China Energy Fund Committee, a front organization for Yi's CEFC, which is the Communist Party energy.

00:10:40.020 Yi confided to Luff that Hunter had an informant in the FBI, quote, or formerly of the Bureau,

00:10:47.600 extremely well-placed, who they had paid lots of money to, to provide sealed law enforcement information, end quote.

00:10:58.160 The FBI mole was called One-Eye.

00:11:00.840 Now, I'm a little uncomfortable with the nickname One-Eye when we are discussing anything with Hunter Biden,

00:11:09.560 but I digress.

00:11:11.740 I don't know if that's necessary.

00:11:13.420 One-Eye told Yi, you'll never be able to hear this again with a straight face.

00:11:18.480 One-Eye told Yi that the Southern District of New York was investigating him and or Ho in late 2017.

00:11:27.020 And Ho is part of the story, too?

00:11:28.400 Yes, it is.

00:11:28.920 Okay, now I can't.

00:11:30.060 Now I've lost all focus.

00:11:31.500 I know.

00:11:31.840 So, the Southern District of New York, this One-Eye told, that an Asian, an African, and a Jewish guy were named on a sealed indictment.

00:11:44.140 Soon after the tip-off, Yi offered Hunter a million dollars to be his private counsel.

00:11:49.620 Do you remember what happened?

00:11:53.180 Isn't he the guy that met in, I think, a lobby in a hotel, maybe in Florida, remember?

00:12:05.220 And there was an exchange of things.

00:12:07.760 And he was like, hey, I just want you to, you have lawyer friends that can represent me, remember?

00:12:13.840 Okay.

00:12:14.300 And then he was busted.

00:12:15.920 Okay.

00:12:16.360 So, he offered Hunter a million dollars to be his private counsel and flew to China, leaving his wife, daughter, son, mother, and nanny in his $50 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West.

00:12:28.260 He was detained in Shanghai for three months.

00:12:32.500 Then he disappeared.

00:12:36.860 Before he left New York, Yi told Ho that the coast was clear for him to come back to the U.S.

00:12:44.320 On November 18th, Ho flew into JFK, where he was arrested, remember, by FBI agents on bribery and money laundering charges.

00:12:55.200 Ho was a patsy, says the Israeli guy.

00:12:58.640 He was the fall guy.

00:13:00.560 Ho was convicted in December 2018 without calling a single witness.

00:13:06.220 He served three years in jail and was deported.

00:13:09.580 Prosecutors placed the spotlight in his case on China's use of the foreign bribery to win contracts for its Belt and Road initiative.

00:13:18.440 Hunter was paid $1 million by CEFC to represent Ho, which entailed contacting his FBI sources on Ho's behalf and engaging another attorney to do all the legal work, according to emails, on Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:13:37.080 CEFC paid a further $4.9 million to Hunter and Jim Biden in monthly installments for 14 months from August 2017, government records show, government records show.

00:13:52.040 The House Oversight Committee released bank statements last week, additional $1.1 million funneled from Chinese company affiliated with CEFC, went to Hunter, Jim Haley and and and and another Biden that we don't know who it is.

00:14:14.780 Anyway, Luff claims he contacted the DOJ after Ho was jailed and federal investigators flew to Brussels to interview him for more than 18 hours, but he never heard from them again.

00:14:27.600 And less than four weeks later, Joe Biden announced he was running for president.

00:14:31.540 The DOJ had this information March 2019 and did nothing.

00:14:36.780 Congress has the Biden bank records, but it doesn't know the reason for the payments.

00:14:42.080 Now it does.

00:14:44.440 OK.

00:14:48.760 The corruption around the Bidens.

00:14:53.220 This isn't.

00:14:55.240 This isn't just bribery.

00:15:00.080 So, you know, CEFC, this is an energy company.

00:15:04.220 They are not only doing the Belt and Road Initiative, which is bad enough in itself.

00:15:10.720 The Belt and Road Initiative is is basically the Chinese plan to take over the world and all of its technology. 1.00

00:15:21.360 OK, that's why we banned Huawei, because it was part of their Belt and Road Initiative.

00:15:28.480 And Huawei technology was gathering information.

00:15:32.620 So we are dead set against the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:15:37.900 So, CEFC, they're paying them to help the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:15:43.500 But also, their cover, and maybe this is true as well, their cover is that the subsidiary of this that was paying them the million or actually total of three million dollars, that was for green energy.

00:16:01.680 Now, let me ask you, has there been a president that is more green energy than this guy?

00:16:11.940 Have you seen that all car companies are discontinuing gasoline engines?

00:16:19.320 All of them.

00:16:20.420 Where are all the charging stations?

00:16:27.560 Where is all of the wiring to be able to carry that amount of electricity to all our new kind of gas stations?

00:16:38.820 They don't exist.

00:16:40.900 Where is the new energy that is going to replace all of the gasoline?

00:16:47.100 It doesn't exist.

00:16:48.260 We are intentionally being crippled, and they're kicking the door behind us.

00:16:53.620 They're closing it.

00:16:55.180 There's no way out of that.

00:16:57.480 We now know in our Inflation Reduction Act, they are paying billions of dollars to energy companies who have coal-fired plants to close them down now.

00:17:12.000 They will pay them 100% of their profit for the next 10 years if they will close down their coal-fired plant, and they only get the money when they either sell it for scrap, dismantle it, or get rid of it.

00:17:31.460 Then you get your money.

00:17:34.720 Why would you do that?

00:17:37.080 Why would you do that?

00:17:39.680 Now, is it possible?

00:17:41.420 I don't think this is it.

00:17:43.600 But you already have a family, the President of the United States, getting money from our enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, for, what is it, information from the FBI?

00:18:01.620 Or is it, hey, we'll get you some kickbacks here on green energy.

00:18:06.580 You're going to be really, really good on green energy, right?

00:18:10.360 Or what?

00:18:13.800 What is all this money going for?

00:18:18.400 This is important, America.

00:18:21.060 This is not just, hey, so I, you know, gave a guy a favor for the local golf course to be built.

00:18:30.980 That's not what this is.

00:18:33.140 This is dealing with our enemies.

00:18:37.620 Joe Biden is also sending our $100 billion, our $125 billion, to a guy in Ukraine named Kolomoisky.

00:18:47.440 If you watch my program, or you follow me on radio, and you remember what we did on Ukraine three years ago, who's Kolomoisky?

00:18:58.880 Kolomoisky is the guy who had Privat Bank and Burisma.

00:19:05.260 He's the guy that Joe Biden handed $8 billion of our money to put it in Privat Bank.

00:19:15.000 What happened to it, no one knows.

00:19:18.720 It just disappeared.

00:19:21.220 So Joe Biden goes back to that guy and makes him the guy that is overseeing $125 billion.

00:19:34.100 America, this is just the first story.

00:19:39.880 I've got about 20 of them.

00:19:41.140 I don't think I'm going to be able to get to all of them today.

00:19:43.360 Anyway, you've got to, you've got to get the show prep and read it in order.

00:19:49.520 This is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:19:52.680 Just this one.

00:19:55.240 But there is so much more.

00:19:57.080 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:08.200 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:10.280 I know you mentioned potentially sending out today's prep tomorrow.

00:20:13.420 And I don't think people are going to want to wait that long after hearing all of this.

00:20:16.680 They probably want to read it all earlier than that.

00:20:18.860 Is it, I mean, or I guess we could send like a link to tomorrow morning to yesterday.

00:20:23.180 Why don't we do both?

00:20:24.780 Producers, if you're listening, I want to do both.

00:20:27.140 I want you to sign up for the free email newsletter today.

00:20:31.140 This is critical information.

00:20:33.840 And I'll explain it in just a second.

00:20:35.240 Um, and I want you to, I want you to read it and see how I've stacked it.

00:20:42.520 Um, and you can see that online right now, but I want to send this out.

00:20:47.860 Maybe we'll send this out like tonight.

00:20:49.680 We'll send it out this evening around dinner time.

00:20:52.560 Uh, and that way you can look at all of them and share them with your family or anybody that wants to read them, but read them all tonight.

00:21:01.900 And then we'll also put in a link in tomorrow's show prep.

00:21:06.160 So you'll get it.

00:21:07.260 Okay.

00:21:07.380 Okay.

00:21:07.840 And how do people sign up?

00:21:09.160 You just go to glenbeck.com.

00:21:10.480 glenbeck.com.

00:21:11.420 Sign up for the free email newsletter.

00:21:13.160 Um, you get all of the information by the way, as well, at glenbeck.com on last night's episode, which outlined the Hunter Biden, uh, case and what, what they're really afraid of.

00:21:26.860 Um, uh, but there's new information in today's show prep that just came out and we missed it last night.

00:21:32.700 Cause it hadn't been released yet.

00:21:34.280 That is staggering, staggering.

00:21:37.500 Okay.

00:21:39.120 So we've told you now about, uh, what the government is actually doing with the justice department, uh, you know, FBI, what all of these things are, are pushing us toward.

00:21:52.220 We told you a little bit today about the, all the cars that are coming out last of the line, meaning no more gasoline engines.

00:22:03.700 That is going, that's kicking the door behind us closed.

00:22:08.820 There's no going back from this.

00:22:11.080 And yet we don't have the energy.

00:22:13.420 We don't have the transmission lines for the energy that it will need.

00:22:18.780 We'll need to have very soon.

00:22:22.080 Okay.

00:22:22.680 We told you a little bit about that.

00:22:25.120 I told you what's coming in censoring you and monitoring you.

00:22:30.860 I want to explain today's show as most days we will, and most hosts will do this.

00:22:41.180 They are, they're a doctor and you're seeing a symptom in the society.

00:22:47.920 And so you'll take as the doctor as in my role, I take, and I show you that x-ray and I say, look at this symptom.

00:22:56.120 Look at what's happening in our body.

00:22:59.800 This is really bad.

00:23:02.120 Okay.

00:23:02.800 And then I put that x-ray down and I say, wow, look at this infection.

00:23:11.240 This is horrible.

00:23:13.160 And we diagnose that symptom and we put it down.

00:23:17.580 Today, I'm showing you all of the facts of all of these symptoms so you could diagnose what's happening.

00:23:29.780 Forget about all of the symptoms.

00:23:32.060 Let's look at all of them together.

00:23:34.480 Is there a clear case for what is happening to the body of our country?

00:23:40.640 Yes, there is.

00:23:43.940 And unfortunately, I don't give it a long life.

00:23:49.900 You have six to 12 months to live as a republic.

00:23:54.900 And it's going to take one bad cold to bring it down.

00:24:01.320 I just told you about the financial situation.

00:24:05.320 Let me give you two other stories.

00:24:06.880 This one you won't hear anywhere else.

00:24:09.520 But tie this to all of the financial stories of what China and Russia is doing with gold and what they're doing to replace the dollar.

00:24:19.320 Listen to this one.

00:24:20.160 As part of a new payment system launched last year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo called on Wednesday for his countrymen to abandon the use of foreign payment networks like MasterCard and Visa and to adopt credit cards from domestic banks.

00:24:44.600 He said everyone in Indonesia should be able to use Indonesian manufactured credit cards so we can be independent in case of a geopolitical disruption that could economically affect our country.

00:25:01.460 So you want to talk about a run on the banks?

00:25:04.120 Now you have Indonesia. 0.99

00:25:06.820 I think I mean, it's not a great country, but I think it was an ally just a few years ago.

00:25:11.440 Indonesia now saying don't do anything with American credit cards because there might be a disruption and we don't want to catch contagion.

00:25:22.240 So they are isolating themselves from our banking system.

00:25:27.080 Be very careful, he said.

00:25:29.420 We must remember the sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Russia.

00:25:33.220 Visa and MasterCard could soon become a problem.

00:25:37.720 Perfect.

00:25:39.240 Perfect.

00:25:39.720 Ted Cruz yesterday.

00:25:43.480 Full support, Ted.

00:25:45.000 What do you need?

00:25:47.040 Ted Cruz introduces a bill blocking the Fed from adopting central bank digital currency.

00:25:53.860 This is critical.

00:25:56.880 This is the door to the cage, the key, the locks, the razor wire around that jail cell.

00:26:06.840 If they get digital currency that is run by the Fed, your security, your freedom is over.

00:26:18.580 That is not hyperbole.

00:26:21.800 It will control what you can buy, where you can buy it.

00:26:26.480 It tracks every single dime and it's programmable so it can be different for different people.

00:26:34.800 You might be able to buy gas, but I'm not deemed somebody that needs gas, so I can't buy gas.

00:26:40.440 It's extraordinarily dangerous.

00:26:43.520 The Senate and the House need to pass a bill with a veto override that stops the Federal Reserve from doing this.

00:26:54.360 Now, how hard is that going to be?

00:26:58.080 Let me give you two more stories.

00:27:00.580 Securities and Exchange Commission issued crypto exchange Coinbase a Wells notice.

00:27:08.600 What's a Wells notice?

00:27:09.740 Well, I believe somebody that was just being confirmed for our federal court system couldn't identify what a Wells notice was.

00:27:19.940 It's probably something important.

00:27:23.560 It's a warning that companies get that identify potential violations of U.S. securities law.

00:27:31.600 Coinbase shares fell nearly 12 percent in extended trading after the news broke on Wednesday, adding an 8.16 percent drop during regular trading hours.

00:27:42.440 Based on discussions with the staff, the company believes these potential enforcement actions would relate to aspects of the company's spot market, staking service, Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime and Coinbase Wallet.

00:27:56.500 Coinbase said in a regulatory filing, the potential civil action may seek injunction relief, disgorgement and civil penalties.

00:28:05.680 Now, here's the problem.

00:28:07.980 What have they done wrong?

00:28:09.900 This is the question that Coinbase has been asking the SEC for months.

00:28:19.720 Here's their response.

00:28:21.600 Today, we're disappointed to share that the SEC gave us a Wells notice regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets.

00:28:31.600 Our staking service, Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime and Coinbase Wallet, after a cursory investigation.

00:28:39.900 A Wells notice is a way the FCC, sorry, SEC staff tells a company that they are recommending that the SEC take enforcement action for possible violations.

00:28:51.980 It is not a formal charge or lawsuit, but it can lead to one.

00:28:57.440 Rest assured, Coinbase products and services continue to operate as usual.

00:29:02.660 Today's news do not require any changes to our current products or services.

00:29:06.780 What are they doing?

00:29:08.340 They're saying, please don't run on us.

00:29:14.320 Today's Wells notice does not provide a lot of information for us to respond to.

00:29:19.180 The SEC staff told us they had identified potential violations of security laws, but little more.

00:29:26.380 We asked the SEC specifically to identify which assets on our platform they believe may be securities, but they declined to do so.

00:29:34.680 Today's Wells notice also comes after Coinbase provided multiple proposals to the SEC about registration over the course of months, all of which the SEC ultimately refused to respond to.

00:29:48.960 Although we don't take this development lightly, we're confident in the way we run our business.

00:29:54.460 The same business we presented to the SEC in order for us to become a public company in 2021.

00:30:01.160 Look, here's what the government is doing.

00:30:05.680 They just last week shut down the two biggest digital currency banks, both of which, both of which, the first one they shut down said they're talking to us about regulation and everything else.

00:30:21.800 We can't we can't do business under the kind of onerous regulation.

00:30:26.960 So they regulated one bank out of business.

00:30:29.480 Then the next one they said, no, we're we're fine.

00:30:33.000 And the government stepped in and said, you're not fine.

00:30:35.640 We're taking over and shut it down.

00:30:38.920 Now, today, they're coming after Coinbase and Coinbase.

00:30:43.360 You have to read this letter from Coinbase.

00:30:46.000 Coinbase is saying we have asked them.

00:30:49.660 They have been in our offices and we're like, let us fix anything that you want.

00:30:56.980 Just tell us.

00:30:59.300 How we're supposed to operate and we will.

00:31:03.140 And they won't.

00:31:05.760 The law is not being enforced here because you don't know what the law is because they can make it up.

00:31:15.180 But worse than that, worse than that, they can smear you and send you a Wells notice.

00:31:25.140 You're saying, I don't know what am I doing wrong.

00:31:29.460 And that smear will let that people know, oh, the federal government is going to shut them down.

00:31:36.660 And so everybody vacates.

00:31:40.300 They're closing your exits up.

00:31:46.940 And they're not doing it legally.

00:31:50.160 They're not doing it in the American way.

00:31:54.840 By the way, I want to just give you one more piece of information.

00:31:57.940 I gave it to you last hour.

00:31:59.300 But in case you don't get back to the podcast today.

00:32:03.100 Please do try to get the podcast.

00:32:05.100 But listen to this.

00:32:06.040 There is a 30% shortage right now.

00:32:09.880 It is being called a national security threat.

00:32:13.840 You're not hearing about it anywhere because they're all too damn busy with the distraction of,

00:32:20.720 is Donald Trump, well, is he guilty or not guilty?

00:32:24.960 Are you kidding me?

00:32:27.040 This is a misdemeanor.

00:32:29.660 Why is this out?

00:32:31.140 Because they don't want you looking at all.

00:32:35.560 I lived in New York.

00:32:37.200 They start closing bridges.

00:32:39.020 You better get the hell out of there.

00:32:41.120 Well, they're closing all the bridges, gang.

00:32:43.340 And they're telling you to look at Times Square at this outrageous billboard.

00:32:49.240 30%, 30%, 30% shortages at hospitals now of really important and inexpensive drugs.

00:33:00.100 We don't make them here anymore.

00:33:03.580 There's already a 30% shortage on drugs.

00:33:08.440 We are turning into Cuba or Venezuela.

00:33:11.680 Now, you know what happened when Hugo Chavez died and the bus driver takes over.

00:33:19.420 And it becomes a clepocracy where you just have villains running it who are just gorging themselves on the wealth of the nation and screw everybody else.

00:33:33.820 They ate the zoo animals.

00:33:37.080 They had no medicine.

00:33:39.240 They're begging us to send Band-Aids.

00:33:42.140 If you have a family member in Venezuela, you know, you sent them the basic of basics. 0.95

00:33:49.640 Don't think it can't happen here because that's exactly where we're headed.

00:33:56.440 And the only thing that will save us is God.

00:34:02.080 The only thing that will save us is turning back to God and asking for his forgiveness and asking him to grant you peace and serenity and take your anger from you.

00:34:18.600 Humble yourself and focus on kindness because we're going to need to hold each other up.

00:34:27.160 And I don't care what you've done in your life.

00:34:29.800 I don't care how smeared you are.

00:34:32.080 All hands on deck.

00:34:34.040 There is something called forgiveness and redemption.

00:34:37.640 Grab on to it.

00:34:39.800 Because we need you in a lifeboat.

00:34:45.620 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:34:52.840 Tiller Russell is with us.

00:34:55.740 He is the director of Waco American Apocalypse.

00:34:59.220 Hey, Tiller, how are you, man?

00:35:01.600 Good morning, Glenn.

00:35:02.340 Thank you so much for having me.

00:35:03.580 I appreciate it.

00:35:04.320 You bet.

00:35:05.320 You know, are you concerned at all?

00:35:07.300 I guess just got to start with this.

00:35:09.080 Are you concerned at all that in today's environment, an anniversary of Waco is could be used politically a hundred different ways?

00:35:22.800 And I don't think any of them real good.

00:35:25.980 You know, it's a big consideration, and it's something that we thought about while making it.

00:35:31.020 And I think at the end of the day, what we felt like is this story's been told for sort of political purposes so much, beginning on day one, as it was breaking on national television and on the newspapers every day.

00:35:44.200 And we wanted to approach it from more of a, I guess, a humanist perspective where you talk to the people and you find out what it's really like to live through something like this.

00:35:53.720 So tell me about the young girl.

00:35:56.120 She, I think, was nine years old.

00:35:57.800 And she was, she was in there when, you know, the whole thing was set on fire, a nightmare.

00:36:05.300 Tell me her story.

00:36:06.960 Yeah, her story's pretty amazing.

00:36:08.380 She was, you know, born and raised into the Branch Davidian sect, and her parents were both members of it.

00:36:16.060 And hang on, can you, wait, wait, can you just, what is the Branch Davidian?

00:36:20.280 What is it that they believed?

00:36:21.620 Well, basically what it is, is it's an offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist religion that David Koresh ended up coming in and kind of, you know, taking power of.

00:36:31.240 And he had this prophecy that the end of the world was coming and that he was going to lead his flock through this, you know, Armageddon-like battle with the powers of Babylon, also known as the federal government, and that he would kind of lead them on to the afterlife.

00:36:47.260 And so that was this vision that he conjured and told the people that, you know, that followed him.

00:36:52.500 Okay.

00:36:52.880 All right.

00:36:53.460 So her parents were involved.

00:36:55.580 She's born into it.

00:36:57.680 What happened?

00:36:58.460 Born into it.

00:36:59.240 And at a young age, you know, David, David Koresh's prophecy kind of continued to evolve.

00:37:05.040 And what he said at a certain point was that he was going to dissolve all the marriages of the members, you know, that were following him.

00:37:12.200 And that then he would be able to take as spiritual wives, essentially, you know, have sex with all the women and be the only one who was able to do so. 0.90

00:37:21.060 And when that happened, this young woman's mother, her name's Heather Jones, and her mother said, I'm out, I'm not doing this, and left. 0.59

00:37:29.020 And her father stayed and she stayed.

00:37:31.860 And so.

00:37:32.380 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:37:33.160 Mom left the daughter behind? 1.00

00:37:35.280 Yeah, you know, I think it was incredibly challenging circumstances.

00:37:40.360 And I think she was kind of intimidated and, you know, broken hearted, you know, her daughter.

00:37:47.460 All right.

00:37:47.740 But, you know, her daughter ended up, you know, stuck there in that. 0.97

00:37:50.900 And so, you know, and David Koresh was her uncle, actually.

00:37:55.340 And so she grew up in this scenario.

00:37:58.600 And she was actually the last child to make it out of the compound alive.

00:38:02.940 And it was an incredibly powerful and emotional experience hearing her tell her story.

00:38:10.100 I just I just I collect American history and I just bought a piece from the Titanic.

00:38:19.960 It is from a 16 year old girl.

00:38:23.080 She was on the Titanic and she tells this harrowing story.

00:38:25.780 In fact, you see it in the movie Titanic.

00:38:28.060 But she said, I didn't speak for three months after this.

00:38:33.100 She lost her dad.

00:38:34.460 She was the only survivor in her family.

00:38:38.060 And it just devastated her to the point she couldn't speak for three months.

00:38:43.860 How is she doing now?

00:38:45.640 How is the survivor of David Koresh and Waco?

00:38:49.340 Well, it was, you know, I think anybody that lives through something like this, whether it's the Titanic or whether it's, you know, Waco or whether it's the depredations of the Night Stalker in Los Angeles, you know, which was that story we told before.

00:39:03.640 And it's always one of these things where you have to, I think, very sensitively talk to the people because you're asking them to talk about the most dramatic, intense moments of their lives.

00:39:16.900 And they need to feel like they're in a place where they can really tell the truth about it for the first time and tell it to the world.

00:39:24.040 I hear this took 10 hours to do an interview with her.

00:39:27.760 Yeah, I do.

00:39:29.320 I do these exhaustive interviews.

00:39:31.180 I think it wears down everybody around me.

00:39:33.140 But it takes a long time to get to the point where people feel comfortable enough to really tell you about, you know, that the intensity of that experience and what it's like to live through it.

00:39:43.520 And for this young woman, you know, it was.

00:39:48.060 Every it was burned into her consciousness.

00:39:50.520 She could literally literally remember every moment.

00:39:53.660 And so it was like almost hearing somebody playing the movie in their mind of their life.

00:39:58.660 It was really a powerful experience.

00:40:01.640 So, by the way, she's what, 39 now?

00:40:04.000 30th anniversary.

00:40:05.300 She was nine.

00:40:06.240 That's exactly right.

00:40:08.980 The, you know, you look at Waco and it's, you know, it's hard to talk about because, you know,

00:40:22.000 I don't know, except for maybe the innocent children and some of some of the people in there, you know, there wasn't really a good guy on either side.

00:40:30.220 And I think some of the people involved with the Branch Davidians were good guys and didn't want it to go that way.

00:40:37.600 And I think some of the FBI agents were like, what are we doing?

00:40:41.340 We this is not good.

00:40:42.860 But it just was something that just seemed to spiral out of control.

00:40:49.000 Waco is one of those stories where everybody lost and everybody is haunted by it.

00:40:55.640 And what was so surprising to me when you actually have a chance to sit down with everybody is they're all just human beings.

00:41:02.880 I mean, we think of the FBI or we think of the ATF as these big institutions that are, you know, monolithic and know exactly what they're doing or, you know, don't know exactly what they're doing.

00:41:15.640 But really, it's composed of individuals, right?

00:41:19.420 It's individual human beings in impossible circumstances trying to make the best call that they can.

00:41:25.600 And in this case, it was an absolute national disaster.

00:41:28.660 And I think all of us are haunted by the specter of Waco.

00:41:32.420 And as you started, Glenn, like it's really important to have this reckoning with these iconic moments in American history on the anniversaries so that you don't have the same tragedies again.

00:41:44.000 So what is it we're supposed to learn?

00:41:46.960 I think that it's that it is human beings at the center of it.

00:41:51.460 At the end of the day, it's easy to sit there and point fingers and say, OK, the ATF screwed this up.

00:41:57.200 OK, the FBI screwed this up.

00:41:58.960 And unquestionably, there were all sorts of missteps and failures.

00:42:02.640 But at the end of the day, really, it is human beings who are trying to do the best that they can.

00:42:07.840 So for me, it's an exploration of the human condition, what it's like to be alive, what it's like to die, what it's like to have to make these vital decisions when there's tanks surrounding a compound, all the, you know, movie TV cameras are there.

00:42:23.800 And what do you do?

00:42:24.940 It was uncharted territory for everybody.

00:42:27.000 It is seem in my memory, at least it seems like kind of what we're doing right now with Russia.

00:42:37.140 The American people are going, this isn't good.

00:42:40.200 And I don't agree with Russia, but I I think the people should be free, but they're not all the good people over there.

00:42:48.860 And and it just keeps going and getting escalated by either Russia or by us and keeps getting bigger and bigger.

00:42:55.440 And we're all kind of sitting there going, well, there's got to be an exit here.

00:42:58.460 Can somebody take an exit?

00:43:00.300 And and then nobody does.

00:43:02.340 But I remember watching it going, why?

00:43:04.580 Why?

00:43:05.720 What's the why?

00:43:06.900 Why aren't we just sitting down and talking about this?

00:43:09.280 Why is this getting so far out of control?

00:43:12.040 I mean, it went for what, 50 days?

00:43:14.780 51 days.

00:43:15.700 It's like watching a slow motion car crash.

00:43:18.320 You can see, you know, everybody's about to go flying through the windows and there's about to be blood in the streets.

00:43:23.960 And nobody knew what to do because nobody had ever been in a situation before, just like we are seeing with Russia today.

00:43:30.680 So it's and and I think history is that it's most relevant.

00:43:35.420 You know, you're a huge history buff.

00:43:36.980 And I think history is that it's most relevant and resonant when in some way it speaks about what's happening in the world today.

00:43:44.200 And I think this Waco story really does.

00:43:47.360 You know, it's a story about God and guns in America and what that does to our children.

00:43:52.040 And wait, wait, wait, wait, explain that.

00:43:54.520 What does that mean?

00:43:56.240 Well, I mean, these are questions that have been with us from the founding of this country, right?

00:44:00.660 The right to to worship God the way you want the right to know the constitutional right to bear arms.

00:44:06.480 But at the center of Waco, what you have is all of these children whose lives are literally in the hands of all of the adults around them.

00:44:16.060 And there's a complete failure to communicate by all of the adults.

00:44:20.240 And I think that's really the you know, the burning lesson at the heart of Waco is you have to speak to each other.

00:44:27.000 And at Waco, nobody could hear anybody else.

00:44:29.680 The FBI members of the FBI or different factions are fighting with each other.

00:44:33.740 And the Branch Davidians can't communicate with the press. 0.79

00:44:36.940 The press doesn't understand what the hell is going on.

00:44:39.480 And it's it's this failure to communicate, which I think is, you know, a vital thing that's happening in the world today, too.

00:44:46.220 You know, everybody's kind of screaming and nobody's listening.

00:44:48.920 Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if it's communication problem as much as it is a listening problem.

00:44:53.480 You know, I've yeah, I mean, I see, you know, the press or, you know, even me at times, whatever.

00:45:02.460 But I see people approach something and they think they know what's going on.

00:45:07.520 And if you're not humble enough to be willing to change your opinion when you find different facts and a lot of people aren't on all sides of every issue,

00:45:18.620 you're not listening and there's no way out if you're not listening.

00:45:26.240 I think that's absolutely beautifully put.

00:45:29.200 You know, it does require this humility where all of us have strongly held opinions, whatever your politics are, whatever your background is.

00:45:37.440 And the ability for one human being to listen to another is what gives us a functioning civil society.

00:45:45.400 And I think that's what we need to remember, because everybody's temperature is running really hot these days.

00:45:51.480 So we are we're telling a story for Waco as well, not nearly as well as you're doing it with American Apocalypse.

00:46:01.140 By the way, you can see it at Netflix.

00:46:03.120 Really good.

00:46:03.880 I haven't watched it yet, but my staff has really good.

00:46:06.940 I'm watching it this weekend.

00:46:09.340 But, you know, we talked to somebody in the branch Davidians and they said, well, we won't really talk to you unless you will, you know, let us say our piece unedited.

00:46:20.660 And we listen to their piece and it doesn't seem any healthier.

00:46:25.060 It's funny because my experience of this story, I had all of these preconceived notions about what I was going to contend with.

00:46:37.260 And really, I kept being surprised.

00:46:39.280 You know, there's this sniper from the hostage rescue team, this guy, Chris Whitcomb, who tells the story of what it's like to roll into Waco, you know, armed for bear.

00:46:49.680 And at some point in there, he's got David Koresh literally in his crosshairs.

00:46:54.160 And he realizes, okay, if I pull the trigger right now, I'm going to go to prison for the rest of my life for an unauthorized murder.

00:47:02.800 But this will end the standoff.

00:47:04.880 And what was so interesting about this guy was I kind of expected this, you know, door kicking, knuckle-packing, you know, whatever.

00:47:12.300 And instead, here was this really deeply thoughtful guy who was a writer, and he was a poet, and he had actually deeply engaged with David Koresh's theology during the siege to say, like, is there anything there?

00:47:25.140 Is this real or is this just a hustle?

00:47:27.520 And so again and again and again, these people were much more complicated than I thought they would be.

00:47:33.440 And that's, to me, what made it, you know, a fascinating exploration of the human condition.

00:47:37.940 Tiller, thank you so much.

00:47:39.300 Josh, you are quite the director.

00:47:43.380 We've been watching you for a while, and you're really a great director.

00:47:48.280 Thank you so much for telling the story in a sensitive and balanced and honest way.

00:47:53.480 Appreciate it.

00:47:55.020 Thank you for having me, Glenn.

00:47:56.300 You bet.

00:47:56.960 Tiller Russell, you can find Waco, the American Apocalypse, Netflix.com, Netflix.com.

00:48:03.840 It was released yesterday.

00:48:05.900 He's also one of the executive producers of the program.

00:48:09.300 Oh! 0.60

00:48:10.300 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:11.300 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:11.940 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:16.300 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:17.440 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:21.560 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:23.220 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:24.400 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:25.220 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:31.320 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:31.920 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:32.820 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:35.460 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:35.720 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:36.420 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:36.760 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:37.460 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:37.560 Tanana! 0.93

00:48:38.440 Tanana! 0.93

The Glenn Beck Program - March 23, 2023

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Tiller Russell ｜ 3⧸23⧸23

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript