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00:00:00.000 Hey, Pat. Favorite, favorite news story on the show today. What is that? What would it be?

00:00:08.060 Oh, so hard to choose. Yeah, yeah. Credit Suisse, perhaps? Yeah, I like that because it sounds like

00:00:19.360 it's not happening here. Credit Suisse bank, possibly by the time you hear this, maybe it

00:00:28.880 has gone over. Maybe I can guarantee you, you won't know for five years because the Fed doesn't

00:00:35.860 have to report anything to us mortals for five years. But I guarantee you in five years from today,

00:00:41.880 they will release that they have poured billions, if not millions, if not trillions into the market

00:00:49.580 over in Europe. The market took a beating on the banks and Moody's downgraded our banking,

00:00:58.480 our entire banking industry went from stable to, what is it? Danger? Negative. Negative. Yeah.

00:01:06.720 But Glenn, that'll never happen. Well, it just did. So we got that going for us. Tonight,

00:01:12.540 you got to watch the TV show. We'll have all of the information on what you're actually facing.

00:01:19.700 And we'll tell you that not to scare you. We tell you that so you can mentally prepare and physically

00:01:24.900 prepare yourself for the next phase of whatever comes. We had a lot on the show today. We also

00:01:31.820 talked about guns with Ken Paxton and how do we stop an out of control government? Ken Paxton is the

00:01:39.280 attorney general of the great state of Texas. And I think he said he has 38 cases against Joe Biden

00:01:43.980 right now. He was 45. It is crazy how out of control they are. All right. That's all on the podcast

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00:02:56.340 to the Glenn Beck Program. Okay. So no biggie, no biggie. Russia and the United States got into

00:03:07.700 a little squabble yesterday. Just a little drone situation. Drone was down. It was no big deal.

00:03:14.660 Actually, international airspace. It actually isn't a big deal. Normally, it may become a big deal

00:03:24.000 because we keep pounding our chest, which is not the smartest thing to do right now. By the way,

00:03:32.420 so you know, if we do go to war, the Pentagon has its new strategic management plan out

00:03:38.640 and it is, it's fantastic. It's fantastic. And I mean this sincerely, roughly one out of every six

00:03:48.000 pages dedicated to diversity and climate change. So in fact, they're prioritizing climate and diversity

00:03:57.080 and equity and inclusion as their short-term goals at the Pentagon. They want to make sure they have

00:04:03.660 that ready to go by 2026. So one of the three goals focuses entirely on managing anticipated impacts

00:04:13.500 of climate change. Like, I would think poverty might be one of those things, you know? But maybe not.

00:04:21.920 Um, then the second goal out of the three, uh, is, you know, the broader diversity, equity,

00:04:28.880 and inclusion. Hmm. And the good thing is what they're doing is they're going to department,

00:04:35.340 they're going to a partner with the universities to be able to get new recruits to come in. And

00:04:42.360 I would think the universities would be the first place I would go to find a soldier.

00:04:47.940 Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's going to be, so don't worry if we go to war, 0.75

00:04:55.080 all right, enough of that. Uh, uh, the new report out from the government,

00:05:05.200 what are they worried about? Well, uh, they are quite upset that crash test dummies

00:05:16.620 are not diverse enough. Oh, they're too white. Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen a, 1.00

00:05:25.580 uh, a dummy of color. Have you? I haven't. Have you seen a dummy of color? I haven't seen

00:05:33.260 a lesbian dummy either. No, that's, I haven't either. I haven't seen it either. I think some 1.00

00:05:38.580 transgendered dummies who might be fat and black, you know, should be in the seats because they're 1.00

00:05:47.380 people too. Yeah. So they need to crash just like white people do. Smash into the dashboard. 1.00

00:05:54.500 Exactly right. Go through the windshield. Yeah. This is how, this is how crazy this is. You know,

00:06:00.700 you're, you're, you're looking at the dummy. What the crash test dummy is supposed to tell you is

00:06:05.520 how your bones and flesh will behave in a car accident. Okay. Not the color, the color of your

00:06:14.080 skin makes no difference. But I thought we had learned that. Uh, so anyway, um, Debbie Wasserman

00:06:23.940 Schultz yesterday, uh, said Americans are to blame for the fentanyl smuggling. Now I thought,

00:06:31.640 I thought she was blaming people saying because the demand is high here. Okay. You want that highly

00:06:39.500 addictive, deadly drug. And so, you know, that's why it's being smuggled and she would have a point,

00:06:45.220 but no, no, no, that's not her point. Her point is that xenophobia stops border reform.

00:06:53.240 What? And because we're so racist, we will not go for border reform. And that's why,

00:07:03.100 that's why fentanyl is coming through. I just, I'm pointing these out. That doesn't even make sense.

00:07:07.940 I'm pointing these out because I just, I want to find an expert anywhere on any subject that is correct.

00:07:16.760 Okay. Stop listening to the experts. Stop it right now. By the way, Granholm has been, uh, she's, um, 0.71

00:07:29.100 she's been asked to, um, to just, can you just define what you were talking about? Um, where we can,

00:07:39.600 we can learn from China on climate change. What, what exactly is it that we can, we can learn?

00:07:48.280 She said, uh, the Chinese have tackled climate change and they've been very sensitive and they've

00:07:55.940 actually invested a lot in their solutions to achieve their goals. Now, if their goals are to

00:08:01.460 destroy the West, I would agree with you on climate change. I, you keep using those words.

00:08:10.380 I do not think they mean what you think it means. Uh, because I, I, well, I'd like to hear she,

00:08:16.180 she hasn't answered. Um, but if you are in New York and you're the attorney general,

00:08:22.420 okay, you're the attorney, you are the chief law enforcement person in New York. What are you

00:08:31.040 concentrating on? Okay. I would say, you know, crime, crime, maybe the murder rate that is gone. No,

00:08:39.860 no, no. The AG's office in New York is proud to host a drag queen story, our readathon this Sunday,

00:08:52.420 from 11 till three. Um, they're going to have, um, the attorney general will be there, uh, drag

00:09:00.400 storytellers and city and state elected leaders are going to be there. Hopefully they've invited

00:09:06.480 a lot of three-year-olds to this event. Oh, it's going to be the safest place on the planet for

00:09:10.940 your children. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course it will. So hopefully all of New York's children will

00:09:15.160 be gathered. All of them will be there. Now you can't get tickets. Um, but, uh, you know,

00:09:22.420 uh, it, all the, all the, all the people that are co-sponsoring this event are all Democrats,

00:09:27.980 but, uh, New York city mayor, Eric Adams, uh, has previously praised the pack, uh, practice of

00:09:34.380 having drag Queens, uh, read, uh, children. I, I would like to hear from the expert on what new 0.91

00:09:43.320 information we have about how healthy that is, how healthy that is. I know it is, right? Of course I do.

00:09:50.620 Yeah. It's the only reason they're trying to force this on our children is because they

00:09:53.900 understand it's so healthy because the experts know things that we don't know. Okay. Well

00:10:00.440 there, that's why they're experts, right? And it's not, the goal is not for just our children

00:10:06.460 to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent and drag storytellers, uh, support

00:10:14.720 that. I'm not making it up. I am not making it up. Meanwhile, a transgender pro fat doctor 1.00

00:10:25.280 is furious that four thin white, uh, white, rich, able-bodied cisgender men were behind the movie,

00:10:33.740 the whale after it won its Oscar award. I hate thin white cisgendered fat fat. Oh no. 0.96

00:10:42.640 Non-fat. Non-fat. They're thin. Yeah. They're thin. They probably hate fat. Although they made

00:10:46.600 a movie about- About a fat person. Fat person. Who won the Academy Award for portraying that person.

00:10:53.140 Yeah. And it wasn't, it wasn't prosthetics. I thought it was. It wasn't. He gained a bunch

00:10:57.320 of weight for that. Yeah. A lot of weight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would never, that would be the last

00:11:02.780 role. Yeah. I would play that role and then it'd be like, you don't know what, I'm not gonna lose

00:11:08.020 the way. Are there any other roles that were really bad, Mabel? Well, when you go from George

00:11:16.240 of the Jungle where he was ripped, you know, at washboard abs to the whale, uh, you're gonna

00:11:22.600 win an Oscar. That's gonna happen every time. If you were once, you know, super attractive,

00:11:29.240 but you make yourself unattractive for a role, that's a lock for the Oscar. Sure. Sure.

00:11:35.900 You know, you gotta go that extra mile. Yeah. If you are, if you're a model, a beautiful,

00:11:43.000 beautiful woman, and you're willing to say, I want to play the Joker and I'll literally 1.00

00:11:48.300 cut my face up. Right. You'll probably get an Oscar. You probably will. Because, you know,

00:11:54.040 that's not, look, you're not, you're not doing anything. It's almost a sin not to cut your

00:11:59.000 face up. You know what I mean? I know. Uh, you know, you say that's, that's mutilation.

00:12:03.680 No, no, no, no. You're a consenting adult, but even if you were five years old, you make

00:12:09.820 any cuts on your body you want. Mutilation. Where did that, where'd that come from? Where'd

00:12:15.240 that come from? That's Bible thumpers. Oh, jeez. Christian nationalists. 0.99

00:12:20.780 Yeah. You know, like, well, you, for instance. Me? Yeah. I'm a Christian nationalist. Christian

00:12:30.000 nationalist. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't know that. Have you read the Daily Costs yet

00:12:34.280 today? Because you, you need to. Really? I, no, I, I haven't. And dare I say, no one has.

00:12:40.380 Nobody. I might be the only person who read this. Yeah. Yeah. No one has read that. This,

00:12:45.880 here's the headline. This is very bad. Glenn Beck has purchased a trove of Roe documents,

00:12:53.820 Roe v. Wade documents, for his revisionist history museum. Bum, bum, bum. Yeah. Ooh, it's scary.

00:13:04.840 It, it is scary. Sickeningly. Uh. Is that your word or their word? It's his word. Yeah. Yeah.

00:13:11.560 Uh. This is the exact opposite of what the seller wanted to have happen. Oh. Yeah. The exact opposite.

00:13:19.000 Had I known that, I might have bid more. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:27.280 Oh, I remember the days when Glenn Moody's will never downgrade the United States, which they did.

00:13:34.220 Glenn, they would never. Our banking sector is the strongest in the world. Following the biggest bank

00:13:40.300 failure since the financial crisis of 2008. Yesterday, Moody's investor service downgraded its rating

00:13:47.420 for the entire U.S. banking system. They went from stable to negative.

00:13:57.940 Okay. That's good. That's why your stock market is down about 600 points, uh, right now. Uh,

00:14:04.440 and you look like you are on the verge of having bank failures in, uh, Europe. One in France. One

00:14:11.340 is Credit Suisse. Uh, I'm surprised, uh, if Deutsche Bank is not involved in that, but I can guarantee

00:14:20.400 you we are shoveling money towards Europe right now to, uh, stop the contagion, but it is coming.

00:14:28.520 Please prepare yourself. Ken Paxton is here. He is the, uh, Texas attorney general, uh, and he's

00:14:36.220 fighting, uh, to get an injunction to freeze the ATF stabilizing pistol brace ban. Uh, have we gotten

00:14:46.180 that yet, Ken? Uh, no, we haven't. We're waiting for a ruling from the court. I'm, I'm pretty optimistic

00:14:53.500 given that the, uh, ATF has no authority to, to regulate these, these pistol braces. So if they

00:15:01.320 don't do an injunction, what's next? So then we would, uh, we would proceed to, um, actually trial

00:15:10.880 to, to make our arguments in a, in a district court arguing that this, this should not be permitted.

00:15:16.360 The ATF shouldn't be able to make up new regulations that Congress didn't pass. Um, we've been pretty

00:15:22.680 successful. I think we've won about 80% of our cases against department of justice. So, you know,

00:15:27.500 it always depends on the court, the judges, you never know what they're going to, what's going

00:15:30.640 to happen on all the way up to the Supreme court. But this to me looks like a winner.

00:15:34.180 So you had an executive order come out yesterday, uh, and he has, he has taken, uh, the federal trade

00:15:44.380 commission. Uh, he has taken the justice department, um, you know, the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco,

00:15:51.480 and firearms, explosives. Um, and he is, he is pushing to have all kinds of different changes

00:15:59.020 made, but isn't this the same kind of thing? This, that these changes cannot go through these

00:16:05.280 agencies. If you're, if you're talking about a right, it's got to go through Congress. Does

00:16:10.240 it not? Oh yeah. So this is what he's been doing from day one when he announced that, you

00:16:14.980 know, we weren't going to deport people anymore. Uh, it's, it's why we have 45 lawsuits against

00:16:20.080 him because he's doing this in all kinds of different areas. And to, to have his agencies

00:16:26.860 or his executive orders come out on background checks that Congress, he claims failed to do

00:16:32.980 that suddenly now, if Congress doesn't deal with it, I'll just step in and do it. That's not the

00:16:36.680 way the system works. He has to work with Congress. He wants to regulate more. If he wants to somehow

00:16:41.560 affect our second amendment rights, either has to pass a constitutional amendment or, you know,

00:16:46.080 work around the edges of that amendment and work with Congress. He can't just do it on his

00:16:50.200 own. So are we going to see, I mean, I'm, I'm sorry, cause I know how hard you, you and others

00:16:58.320 are working. Um, you know, you've got, you really do have 45 lawsuits against him right now. Do you

00:17:04.600 not? That's correct. Uh, they have, they've sued us like eight times. So we're, we're involved in

00:17:09.320 over 50 lawsuits with the federal government right now. That is crazy. Um, it, I'm just, you know,

00:17:17.520 we seem to be running out of time and they just keep doing these things and it gets worse and worse

00:17:23.440 and worse. Do you see a time when one of these cases will say enough is enough of all of this stuff?

00:17:32.200 Cause it's really the same case over and over again, isn't it?

00:17:35.400 Yeah, it really is. Whether you're dealing with the second amendment, whether you're dealing with

00:17:39.600 the first amendment, whether we're dealing with whatever, uh, immigration, it's the same case

00:17:43.800 over and over because it's him looking at laws, knowing he can't pass a change that the people

00:17:49.840 who elected our representatives are not going to vote for that. And so he makes his own decision

00:17:54.700 to be an Imperial president. That's what we're talking about. And the problem with the court system

00:17:58.960 is it's not fast. It is not designed to be fast. It is because of all the litigation going on.

00:18:04.340 It's, it's a, it's a slow process. So I think you're going to, you're going to need all,

00:18:08.320 you're going to need Congress to step up. You're going to need, uh, you're going to need

00:18:11.980 state legislatures to step up. Like I'm encouraging my legislature right now to, to pass something

00:18:17.200 that will allow me to get sued by the federal government over the immigration issues. So we

00:18:22.380 can take that back up and try to overturn the Arizona, the U, uh, USB Arizona, which said that

00:18:27.640 states can't pass through on immigration laws, which is insane because the results affect us

00:18:32.300 more than it does the federal government. So what are they responding on that? Are they,

00:18:38.320 is, do you have any support in the house and the Senate? Uh, it's, uh, I, I'm, there's a,

00:18:44.980 there's a house bill and a Senate bill. I'm, we're looking at both of those. I'm actually

00:18:47.860 going to go testify in front of the border security committee tomorrow about, about this very issue.

00:18:53.520 And so, yeah, I think they've, they've been listening to what, what I've been saying.

00:18:56.960 They've been listening to what others have been saying. I think they are going to try to pass

00:18:59.740 something that will basically challenge, uh, what was done by, you know, justice Kennedy,

00:19:06.400 justice Roberts, and three liberal judges where they said that Arizona couldn't pass their own

00:19:10.240 immigration laws. And we can see the consequences of that. That cannot be the right result. It 1.00

00:19:15.440 cannot be that states have to watch the federal government, not enforce laws, and then come and

00:19:19.920 say, well, you can't protect yourself. That doesn't make any sense for states.

00:19:23.820 So, um, let me go back to putting them all together. Um, I was just looking through some

00:19:31.580 documents on Roe versus Wade and, uh, it wasn't just Roe versus Wade. They were trying to drag in

00:19:39.580 a couple of other cases as well to make a, a fatter, more robust kind of argument is, is there nothing we

00:19:49.360 can link together out of all of these lawsuits and, and bring to the court and say, look, the,

00:19:56.440 this is the same thing. It's an abuse of, of power.

00:20:02.520 Yeah. I mean, there's, there's no doubt that we can do that, but typically what, and this is just

00:20:08.400 the way the Supreme court will work. So they like things narrowly defined. They like to make their

00:20:13.920 decisions based, and this is Robert's, uh, focus. He, he likes to confine things to the most narrow

00:20:19.540 result possible. And so we're sort of forced into making more narrow arguments about that specific

00:20:26.580 violation of law as opposed to trying to make it broader. It just doesn't seem to really work with

00:20:31.920 Roberts and the Supreme court. Well, that's unfortunate for us because I mean, I, I like them

00:20:38.300 to be very, very narrow as well, but they're using that against us right now. They're, they're just,

00:20:44.840 they'll abuse it in one very narrow way and then they'll come back and abuse it in another very

00:20:50.060 narrow way. And they're using our strength against us. No, it's absolutely true. And that's why,

00:20:56.280 you know, that's why elections matter. I mean, we've got a president that doesn't have any respect

00:21:01.580 for federal law, state law, the U S constitution. None of that matters to him. He's he'll, he'll walk

00:21:09.500 around it. He calls it, they call it workarounds, work around the constitution, work around federal

00:21:13.120 law. They have no respect for it. They're, they're literally no different than, you know, we're no

00:21:18.540 different than what happens in China or, or, or, uh, as far as our presidency, this is a very similar

00:21:24.980 to what dictators do. Yeah. So, um, may I ask you, and I know you, you haven't been, you know,

00:21:30.700 doing any more than casually following this, I'm sure, but does it, doesn't this fit the same kind

00:21:37.860 of thing that they just did with the, uh, FDIC. I mean, you know, Congress has ruled it's, and they've,

00:21:44.900 they've raised this amount several times, uh, since what, 1936. And, uh, they've raised it to 250,000.

00:21:53.460 And then the treasury just goes in and says, no, we're going to take care of all of it.

00:21:58.680 I mean, you can't do that. Can you? Uh, I don't know that issue super well, but I can say this,

00:22:05.500 it's, it's, it fits the pattern of exactly what you and I've just been talking about for the last

00:22:09.760 five minutes. They don't really, they just make stuff up and then they make us stop them. And the

00:22:16.060 reality is we only have so many resources to stop so many things. So they just keep throwing stuff at

00:22:21.860 us. And that's why it's pretty important that other States get involved. That's why it's important

00:22:25.380 Congress gets involved. We need every possible angle to stop them from, from abusing their

00:22:31.100 authority and abusing the constitution because that's what they're doing. 0.89

00:22:33.960 So how can we support you and our other AGs all around the country?

00:22:38.220 I think what you're doing right now, just letting people know what we're fighting for,

00:22:42.160 that it really doesn't matter. These are just like random lawsuits that are about,

00:22:45.200 even that, even though immigration is a really important issue or the second amendment,

00:22:49.720 obviously super important. It's bigger than that. It's about the power of government and whether we

00:22:55.240 have a constitution that matters, whether we have a constitutional Republic that's going to last,

00:23:00.680 if we don't protect it now and people don't know that that's the fight, we are going to lose it.

00:23:07.220 All right. Ken, thank you so much. I really appreciate all that you do.

00:23:11.680 Um, you were really one of the leaders of the AGs, uh, and you guys are making a huge,

00:23:18.400 huge difference. I think, dare I say it, I think the AGs are the ones that are making the biggest

00:23:24.440 difference, uh, in the last couple of years. So thank you for your leadership, Ken. I appreciate it.

00:23:29.900 Hey, thank you. I really appreciate it. Have a great day.

00:23:31.680 You bet. Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, if you don't have a good attorney general in your state,

00:23:36.800 you need one. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:43.680 My good friend, uh, and, uh, a man I so respect because he calls the dirty on both sides of the

00:23:50.700 aisle. Uh, Peter Swiser is with us now, uh, head of the government accountability Institute and,

00:23:56.580 uh, the author of red handed and the co-host now of, uh, the drill down. Welcome Peter. How are you?

00:24:03.740 I'm great, Glenn. Always good to be on with you. Thanks for having me.

00:24:06.800 You bet. Um, so let's start with the, uh, the Biden crime family stuff you're following,

00:24:13.260 I'm sure what's happening in Congress and they, they keep coming out every day. I see something

00:24:19.100 new. Oh man, we just got some evidence. Oh, look how we got them now. Is this, should I even pay

00:24:27.360 attention to that? Peter is something going to be done? Well, I think you should pay attention to it.

00:24:33.140 Uh, look, what I would say, Glenn is let's look back at how far we've come. Uh, I first wrote about,

00:24:39.760 we first exposed, um, the China deals that the Biden's had, the extent of the Ukraine deals back

00:24:45.720 in 2018. I came on your show. We talked about it extensively on your podcast. We were voices crying

00:24:52.040 in the wilderness. The Bidens at that point were saying, there's no deals in China. What are they

00:24:56.260 talking about? We're at a stage now where they've had to admit, yes, okay. There were deals. Then the

00:25:02.360 laptop emerged and, and people realized, okay, uh, Joe Biden was actually involved. There was

00:25:09.200 communication. And then we are now at the point where, as I exposed in red handed, and again,

00:25:15.400 you were really the tip of the spear in exposing it, who was actually giving money to the Biden. So

00:25:21.440 I am encouraged by what I'm seeing, but look, here's the key thing. The leaders in Washington,

00:25:27.420 I think, want to think there's going to be a legal bullet that's going to fix this. There's going to

00:25:33.140 be some crime that they're going to find. That's not what this case is ultimately about. What this

00:25:39.460 case is ultimately about in my mind, uh, is about espionage, uh, because it's about who gave these

00:25:47.280 tens of millions of dollars of money to the Bidens. They don't, they don't dispute that they

00:25:51.400 got the money. The three people that got them the money have links to the highest levels of Chinese 0.57

00:25:56.840 intelligence. And so this is not going to be resolved ultimately by some prosecutors saying,

00:26:03.200 oh, we found some technical crime, uh, that we're going to get the Bidens on. It's going to take

00:26:08.760 Congress and Capitol Hill holding the family into account for the money they were receiving,

00:26:15.060 who they were receiving it from. And that's going to be the solution. So, um, we need to make sure

00:26:21.340 that our political leaders are doing that, uh, and not just outsourcing this and hoping that some

00:26:26.920 lawyer is going to do something about it. Um, now let's go to, um, Ukraine. Ukraine is one of the

00:26:34.600 dirtiest, uh, countries, uh, far as money laundering and everything else, uh, in the world. And we have

00:26:42.900 had everyone from George Soros, uh, Barack Obama's people, uh, Joe Biden's family, uh, the Clintons,

00:26:51.900 everyone is involved in this. That's shady. Um, and now we're going to war and we're sending them

00:27:00.120 billions and billions of dollars and there's no oversight. Yeah. Is this really just nothing more

00:27:09.380 than a money laundering scheme? Well, yeah, I'm very concerned, uh, about, um, the way in which the

00:27:16.880 aid is being sent to Ukraine. I, you, you and I, I know both, uh, uh, grieve for the Ukrainian people.

00:27:23.400 We, we support the Ukrainian people. It's the problem is Ukraine is led by this corrupt government.

00:27:29.120 I mean, let's remember Zalinski's chief financial backer. It's not even close. Right. Is a oligarch

00:27:36.620 named Kolomoisky. Uh, Kolomoisky, uh, is known to have ripped off billions of dollars of foreign aid

00:27:43.540 in the past. Right. It was something called Prevot Bank that, um, got money from the IMF

00:27:49.260 from the United States or from Europe. Wasn't it like seven, seven billion dollars or something

00:27:55.340 like that? I mean, it was an extraordinary amount. Yeah. And it basically disappeared.

00:28:00.660 And one of the things that emerged was that all these like LLCs had been established,

00:28:05.860 uh, that siphoned all the money off. So that who is, that's who Zalinski is. So obviously there

00:28:12.700 are Ukrainians fighting bravely for their country, but you have this cast of characters at the top of

00:28:18.240 Ukraine. And then you have Americans who are making decisions who were, have been involved in leadership

00:28:24.200 here, uh, who have their hand in the trough and have had their hand in the trough, not just in

00:28:29.320 Ukraine, but in Russia and with Vladimir Putin. I mean, let's remember 10 years ago, um, the Clintons,

00:28:37.720 uh, uh, the, um, John Podesta, uh, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, counselor at the state department,

00:28:44.400 we're all doing business with Vladimir Putin. He had, he had already invaded Georgia back in 2008.

00:28:51.480 They, they didn't care. Um, they were taking money from oligarchs and people in, in, in Russia and

00:28:58.180 Ukraine. So it is very hard not to look at this and say that there is a financial corruption component

00:29:05.500 to this. Uh, and all the people now who want to make Zalinski, the Thomas Jefferson of central

00:29:11.900 Europe, um, we're, have been getting rich off of people from both sides. The Clintons took money

00:29:17.620 from Ukrainian oligarchs. They took money from Russian oligarchs. So the entanglements are there

00:29:23.540 and to pretend that that didn't happen, that sorted part of this history didn't happen, uh, is,

00:29:29.200 is not being accurate, um, as to what's really going on. John Podesta has an energy company

00:29:35.160 and he got a $40 million investment from Putin's personal government investment fund, right?

00:29:43.340 That's right. That's exactly right. This is it. The company is called Juul Energy. Um,

00:29:48.940 he joined the board of Juul Energy, um, uh, you know, back, I think it was 2012, 2013,

00:29:54.960 within a couple of months, it got a $40 million investment from Rusnano, which is a sovereign

00:30:02.580 wealth fund, uh, that was called Putin's child, uh, by one of the Russian ministers. This was

00:30:08.860 Vladimir Putin's investment fund. Um, he was happy to take that money. John Podesta was when he then

00:30:15.380 went and worked for Barack Obama in the second term, uh, and the wall street journals reported on this

00:30:21.300 James Freeman did, uh, what basically happened was he tried to hide that asset. He took his ownership

00:30:27.940 stake in the energy company and gave it to one of his adult daughters to try to mask the fact that

00:30:33.960 these, uh, you know, assets were being held. Um, you look at Hillary Clinton, when Hillary Clinton

00:30:40.020 was secretary of state again, already Vladimir Putin had already invaded Georgia. Um, she said,

00:30:46.360 we're going to come up with this scheme as secretary of state called Skolkovo. And this was to create

00:30:52.260 a Russian version of Silicon Valley. We're going to get all these big tech companies to go and invest

00:30:57.800 in Russia. What could go wrong, Glenn? Well, what, what went wrong is among other things,

00:31:04.520 the Pentagon under Barack Obama later said, because of Skolkovo, Russia was able to get the

00:31:11.380 technology for this hypersonic missile, which they have now been using in Ukraine. Um, and,

00:31:17.720 and of course, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation collected money from the people who were

00:31:23.320 running Skolkovo in Russia, they actually donated to the Clinton foundation. So, I mean, this is all

00:31:30.780 in black and white. This is not speculation. We've reported on this. You and I have talked a little bit

00:31:36.080 about this in the past. Um, and nobody in Washington, official Washington wants to bring this up.

00:31:42.460 If you discuss these things, you're somehow undermining the Ukrainian cause. No, you're not.

00:31:48.400 You're showing that the Ukrainian people have been victims, not only of Vladimir Putin,

00:31:52.700 but of the aggressive financial actions of elites in the United States as well. So, um, you know,

00:32:00.600 when we first got into this, I thought they, uh, my, my, the cynical part of me immediately went to,

00:32:10.640 they are destroying evidence. They did so much dirty stuff over there. They're paying people off and

00:32:18.360 destroying evidence. I don't know if that's true other than the labs that Hunter Biden was involved

00:32:23.520 in. Um, but the, uh, the money seems to me to be some sort of a payoff money laundering.

00:32:32.940 Are, do you think we're going to be able to track this ever and see if any of that money came back

00:32:39.420 to people here in the United States? Uh, I think it'll be hard to do. Certainly we're going to do that.

00:32:46.000 And I know you and your team are going to try to trace that, but I mean, here's, here's really the

00:32:50.960 problem in the nutshell, as far as I'm concerned, I, I am in support of providing, you know, food

00:32:57.580 supplies, even some military supplies to the Ukrainian people. What I don't want is these blank 0.99

00:33:04.220 checks, these tens of billions of dollars in cash, uh, that are basically being dumped into Ukraine,

00:33:10.920 where you're going to have Zelensky. And of course his chief financial backer Kolomoisky and these

00:33:16.700 other, uh, Ukrainian, uh, oligarchs like, uh, um, you know, that have donated to the Clintons like

00:33:22.860 Victor Pinchuk and others. I don't want them handling that money. Um, and of course they are going to be

00:33:29.100 handling that money. It's going to be going through their companies and their entities. That to me is a

00:33:34.720 huge problem. The way you make sure that the Ukraine story never gets reported in terms of

00:33:42.420 what was going on, the, the, the people that were doing deals there, the corrupt deals, the way you

00:33:47.220 make sure that story doesn't get out is you continue to pay the leaders of Ukraine and provide them with

00:33:52.460 financial support. If you end that, um, that's when you are at risk. So there's no question. Yeah,

00:33:59.940 there's no question that is got to be some motivation as to what's going on. Why was Randy

00:34:06.020 Weingarten and, and Janet Yellen there? I don't know if they're planning to change the Ukrainian 0.71

00:34:12.060 school curriculum. I certainly hope not. Uh, but yeah, it's, it's again, demonstrates that

00:34:17.580 Randy Weingarten is a political figure. She's not the, uh, ultimately a, a teacher and advocate for

00:34:24.520 teachers. But again, this is part of the network because it's, it's, it's government money,

00:34:29.260 but it's also NGOs and nonprofits. Uh, these are organizations like the Clinton foundation that

00:34:36.020 Randy Weingarten has given lots of money to, and his head of American Federation of Teachers has done

00:34:41.460 work with, they have received, uh, large sums of money to do, uh, various projects in Ukraine. And

00:34:48.820 again, there's, there's no accountability for that. We think about government corruption and taxpayer

00:34:54.040 money, but there's a lot of, you know, nonprofit organizations that receive money sometimes from

00:35:00.200 governments, uh, to carry out, um, projects in countries like Ukraine. It's, it's, it's really a,

00:35:07.240 in my mind, a very cynical takeoff of, you know, the old Rahm Emanuel line about never let a crisis go

00:35:14.000 to waste. Um, that, that applies to global crises as well. That applies to war zones, unfortunately. Uh,

00:35:22.040 and to see Randy Weingarten there, um, you know, provides no positive basis for anything good, uh,

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00:36:54.080 So Peter, um, tell me about, uh, uh, tell me about the Republicans. Do we have Republicans

00:37:13.680 dirty in Ukraine as well that would, um, want to stop the investigation on this kind of stuff?

00:37:21.300 Yeah, I'm sure that there are. Um, I, I think the reason that there's so much focus on, uh, for

00:37:28.500 example, the Clintons, um, uh, and, and, you know, the Biden's is because they made obvious and clear

00:37:36.180 efforts, uh, early on, uh, to stake out claim in Ukraine. And it really is one of the ultimate 0.55

00:37:42.900 ironies, right? When you think about it, that, you know, the, the, the quote unquote biggest

00:37:47.740 advocates for Ukraine and Ukraine independence, uh, have been people like the Biden's ostensibly.

00:37:55.000 Uh, and yet, uh, Vladimir Putin chose two occasions to go into Ukraine. Uh, one time in 2014,

00:38:03.820 when he moved into Crimea, which of course was the Obama Biden administration, then he skipped to the

00:38:09.840 Trump administration. And when Joe Biden became president of the United States, uh, he decided to

00:38:16.140 move in again, um, which is really strange when you think about it because Biden has sort of thumped

00:38:23.260 his chest that I've been such a staunch supporter of Ukraine and Ukraine independence. Uh, and yet when

00:38:29.320 he has been at the highest runs of power, that's when Vladimir Putin has been the most aggressive. So

00:38:34.060 he sees weakness there, but to answer your question, yes, I'm sure that there are, uh, Republican

00:38:40.220 political consultants, uh, that have gotten, you know, NGO grants to do sort of nation building work

00:38:47.300 in Ukraine. The problem is, is that those efforts of course, always go through the Ukrainian government

00:38:52.980 and Ukrainian political parties. Uh, and when you look at the span there, there's, there's not a lot

00:38:58.500 of clean hands, uh, in any of the political parties there. So John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta

00:39:05.420 was over in Ukraine, did some really, I think some dirty stuff. All of a sudden just disappeared. 0.75

00:39:11.900 Uh, he just like went away. I'm closing shop. Oh, like literally overnight. I'm shutting it all down.

00:39:17.600 Then when Biden got into office, he opened shop again. Uh, is he involved in Ukraine again?

00:39:25.720 Uh, I don't know if he is again, but he certainly was before. And let's remember, um, Tony Podesta,

00:39:31.720 uh, of course his brother, John, you know, Podesta ran the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.

00:39:37.880 Tony Podesta, uh, was a lobbyist who did an enormous amount of work with foreign clients.

00:39:44.240 Uh, some of them Russian, some of them Chinese, some of them Ukrainian, a veritable United Nations 0.99

00:39:50.020 of clients. And he never registered as a foreign agent, uh, under the so-called FARA Act,

00:39:55.720 uh, which is of course what they went after. Um, you know, uh, Donald Trump's, uh, campaign

00:40:01.400 manager, Paul Manafort for failing to file. Uh, Podesta retroactively filed, I think 30,

00:40:09.100 um, uh, filings for clients after they went after Paul Manafort. Uh, they never went after

00:40:15.720 John Podesta.

00:40:16.420 Yeah. What a surprise. What a surprise. In my mind, in my mind, I'm glad that they went

00:40:21.600 after Manafort for FARA violations. We need to enforce that. You've got to be consistent.

00:40:25.960 You've got to be consistent. It seems like they never are. Um, real quick. And I know this

00:40:30.920 is kind of out of your expertise, but I know you know a lot about Putin. Uh, are we headed

00:40:35.680 towards war?

00:40:37.640 Uh, I think we are headed towards war and I think here's the, here's the problem. Vladimir Putin

00:40:43.120 has sort of put all his chips on the table in Ukraine. Uh, you have to give him some 1.00

00:40:49.020 win way to save face. Yeah. If you say unconditional surrender, uh, that to me is a recipe to escalation.

00:40:57.040 And this is the kind of man who would start using battlefield nuclear weapons. Uh, and once

00:41:01.900 that happens, uh, you know, God help us all. So you have got to have some kind of a negotiated

00:41:08.440 settlement that protects Ukraine, protects your Ukrainian people, but also gives Vladimir Putin 0.63

00:41:13.820 something. The problem is that's not Joe Biden's strategy. Joe Biden thinks he's FDR fighting

00:41:19.240 Hitler. Hitler of course did not have nuclear weapons. Uh, it's a totally different world

00:41:24.220 we live in.

00:41:24.720 Yeah. And we also had a plan, uh, after Hitler too, uh, where we're just saying, uh, you know 0.89

00:41:31.600 what? The next guy will probably be better. The guy standing in the wings, uh, do not look

00:41:36.320 better, uh, by far. Uh, Peter Swiser. Thank you so much. You can listen to his podcast. It's

00:41:42.740 called the drill down with Peter Swiser.

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