On today's show, Glenn Beck sits down with reporter Stu Hunter to discuss the growing problem of a 30% shortage of medicine in the United States, and how to be prepared for it. Glenn also talks about how important it is to have some antibiotics in your home in case of an emergency.
00:12:16.360So, 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.
00:12:28.260He was detained in Shanghai for three months.
00:13:00.560Ho was convicted in December 2018 without calling a single witness.
00:13:06.220He served three years in jail and was deported.
00:13:09.580Prosecutors placed the spotlight in his case on China's use of the foreign bribery to win contracts for its Belt and Road initiative.
00:13:18.440Hunter 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.
00:13:37.080CEFC 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.
00:13:52.040The 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.
00:14:14.780Anyway, 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.
00:14:27.600And less than four weeks later, Joe Biden announced he was running for president.
00:14:31.540The DOJ had this information March 2019 and did nothing.
00:14:36.780Congress has the Biden bank records, but it doesn't know the reason for the payments.
00:15:00.080So, you know, CEFC, this is an energy company.
00:15:04.220They are not only doing the Belt and Road Initiative, which is bad enough in itself.
00:15:10.720The Belt and Road Initiative is is basically the Chinese plan to take over the world and all of its technology.
00:15:21.360OK, that's why we banned Huawei, because it was part of their Belt and Road Initiative.
00:15:28.480And Huawei technology was gathering information.
00:15:32.620So we are dead set against the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:15:37.900So, CEFC, they're paying them to help the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:15:43.500But 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.
00:16:01.680Now, let me ask you, has there been a president that is more green energy than this guy?
00:16:11.940Have you seen that all car companies are discontinuing gasoline engines?
00:16:57.480We 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.
00:17:12.000They 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.
00:17:43.600But 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?
00:18:01.620Or is it, hey, we'll get you some kickbacks here on green energy.
00:18:06.580You're going to be really, really good on green energy, right?
00:20:35.240Um, and I want you to, I want you to read it and see how I've stacked it.
00:20:42.520Um, and you can see that online right now, but I want to send this out.
00:20:47.860Maybe we'll send this out like tonight.
00:20:49.680We'll send it out this evening around dinner time.
00:20:52.560Uh, 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.
00:21:01.900And then we'll also put in a link in tomorrow's show prep.
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00:21:13.160Um, 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.
00:21:26.860Um, uh, but there's new information in today's show prep that just came out and we missed it last night.
00:21:39.120So 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.
00:21:52.220We told you a little bit today about the, all the cars that are coming out last of the line, meaning no more gasoline engines.
00:22:03.700That is going, that's kicking the door behind us closed.
00:24:20.160As 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.
00:24:44.600He 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.
00:25:01.460So you want to talk about a run on the banks?
00:25:06.820I think I mean, it's not a great country, but I think it was an ally just a few years ago.
00:25:11.440Indonesia now saying don't do anything with American credit cards because there might be a disruption and we don't want to catch contagion.
00:25:22.240So they are isolating themselves from our banking system.
00:27:23.560It's a warning that companies get that identify potential violations of U.S. securities law.
00:27:31.600Coinbase shares fell nearly 12 percent in extended trading after the news broke on Wednesday, adding an 8.16 percent drop during regular trading hours.
00:27:42.440Based 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.
00:27:56.500Coinbase said in a regulatory filing, the potential civil action may seek injunction relief, disgorgement and civil penalties.
00:28:21.600Today, we're disappointed to share that the SEC gave us a Wells notice regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets.
00:28:31.600Our staking service, Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime and Coinbase Wallet, after a cursory investigation.
00:28:39.900A 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.
00:28:51.980It is not a formal charge or lawsuit, but it can lead to one.
00:28:57.440Rest assured, Coinbase products and services continue to operate as usual.
00:29:02.660Today's news do not require any changes to our current products or services.
00:29:08.340They're saying, please don't run on us.
00:29:14.320Today's Wells notice does not provide a lot of information for us to respond to.
00:29:19.180The SEC staff told us they had identified potential violations of security laws, but little more.
00:29:26.380We asked the SEC specifically to identify which assets on our platform they believe may be securities, but they declined to do so.
00:29:34.680Today'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.
00:29:48.960Although we don't take this development lightly, we're confident in the way we run our business.
00:29:54.460The same business we presented to the SEC in order for us to become a public company in 2021.
00:30:01.160Look, here's what the government is doing.
00:30:05.680They 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.
00:30:21.800We can't we can't do business under the kind of onerous regulation.
00:30:26.960So they regulated one bank out of business.
00:30:29.480Then the next one they said, no, we're we're fine.
00:30:33.000And the government stepped in and said, you're not fine.
00:33:03.580There's already a 30% shortage on drugs.
00:33:08.440We are turning into Cuba or Venezuela.
00:33:11.680Now, you know what happened when Hugo Chavez died and the bus driver takes over.
00:33:19.420And 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.
00:33:42.140If you have a family member in Venezuela, you know, you sent them the basic of basics.
00:33:49.640Don't think it can't happen here because that's exactly where we're headed.
00:33:56.440And the only thing that will save us is God.
00:34:02.080The 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.
00:34:18.600Humble yourself and focus on kindness because we're going to need to hold each other up.
00:34:27.160And I don't care what you've done in your life.
00:35:09.080Are you concerned at all that in today's environment, an anniversary of Waco is could be used politically a hundred different ways?
00:35:22.800And I don't think any of them real good.
00:35:25.980You know, it's a big consideration, and it's something that we thought about while making it.
00:35:31.020And 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.
00:35:44.200And 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.
00:36:21.620Well, 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.
00:36:31.240And 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.
00:36:47.260And so that was this vision that he conjured and told the people that, you know, that followed him.
00:36:59.240And at a young age, you know, David, David Koresh's prophecy kind of continued to evolve.
00:37:05.040And 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.
00:37:12.200And 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.
00:37:21.060And 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.
00:38:45.640How is the survivor of David Koresh and Waco?
00:38:49.340Well, 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.
00:39:03.640And 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.
00:39:16.900And 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.
00:39:24.040I hear this took 10 hours to do an interview with her.
00:39:31.180I think it wears down everybody around me.
00:39:33.140But 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.
00:39:43.520And for this young woman, you know, it was.
00:39:48.060Every it was burned into her consciousness.
00:39:50.520She could literally literally remember every moment.
00:39:53.660And so it was like almost hearing somebody playing the movie in their mind of their life.
00:40:08.980The, you know, you look at Waco and it's, you know, it's hard to talk about because, you know,
00:40:22.000I 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.
00:40:30.220And I think some of the people involved with the Branch Davidians were good guys and didn't want it to go that way.
00:40:37.600And I think some of the FBI agents were like, what are we doing?
00:40:42.860But it just was something that just seemed to spiral out of control.
00:40:49.000Waco is one of those stories where everybody lost and everybody is haunted by it.
00:40:55.640And what was so surprising to me when you actually have a chance to sit down with everybody is they're all just human beings.
00:41:02.880I 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.
00:41:15.640But really, it's composed of individuals, right?
00:41:19.420It's individual human beings in impossible circumstances trying to make the best call that they can.
00:41:25.600And in this case, it was an absolute national disaster.
00:41:28.660And I think all of us are haunted by the specter of Waco.
00:41:32.420And 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.
00:41:44.000So what is it we're supposed to learn?
00:41:46.960I think that it's that it is human beings at the center of it.
00:41:51.460At the end of the day, it's easy to sit there and point fingers and say, OK, the ATF screwed this up.
00:41:58.960And unquestionably, there were all sorts of missteps and failures.
00:42:02.640But at the end of the day, really, it is human beings who are trying to do the best that they can.
00:42:07.840So 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.
00:43:56.240Well, I mean, these are questions that have been with us from the founding of this country, right?
00:44:00.660The right to to worship God the way you want the right to know the constitutional right to bear arms.
00:44:06.480But 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.
00:44:16.060And there's a complete failure to communicate by all of the adults.
00:44:20.240And I think that's really the you know, the burning lesson at the heart of Waco is you have to speak to each other.
00:44:27.000And at Waco, nobody could hear anybody else.
00:44:29.680The FBI members of the FBI or different factions are fighting with each other.
00:44:33.740And the Branch Davidians can't communicate with the press.
00:44:36.940The press doesn't understand what the hell is going on.
00:44:39.480And 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.
00:44:46.220You know, everybody's kind of screaming and nobody's listening.
00:44:48.920Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if it's communication problem as much as it is a listening problem.
00:44:53.480You know, I've yeah, I mean, I see, you know, the press or, you know, even me at times, whatever.
00:45:02.460But I see people approach something and they think they know what's going on.
00:45:07.520And 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,
00:45:18.620you're not listening and there's no way out if you're not listening.
00:45:29.200You know, it does require this humility where all of us have strongly held opinions, whatever your politics are, whatever your background is.
00:45:37.440And the ability for one human being to listen to another is what gives us a functioning civil society.
00:45:45.400And I think that's what we need to remember, because everybody's temperature is running really hot these days.
00:45:51.480So we are we're telling a story for Waco as well, not nearly as well as you're doing it with American Apocalypse.
00:46:01.140By the way, you can see it at Netflix.
00:46:09.340But, 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.
00:46:20.660And we listen to their piece and it doesn't seem any healthier.
00:46:25.060It's funny because my experience of this story, I had all of these preconceived notions about what I was going to contend with.
00:46:39.280You 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.
00:46:49.680And at some point in there, he's got David Koresh literally in his crosshairs.
00:46:54.160And 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.
00:47:04.880And what was so interesting about this guy was I kind of expected this, you know, door kicking, knuckle-packing, you know, whatever.
00:47:12.300And 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?
00:47:25.140Is this real or is this just a hustle?
00:47:27.520And so again and again and again, these people were much more complicated than I thought they would be.
00:47:33.440And that's, to me, what made it, you know, a fascinating exploration of the human condition.