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00:00:30.000 Hey, on today's podcast, the anger at the UnitedHealth CEO was misplaced.

00:00:35.480 Who really should we be angry at?

00:00:39.260 And how do we solve that?

00:00:41.580 Plus, Brian Bergen is on with us from New Jersey to talk about what's happening in the skies over New Jersey and Washington.

00:00:50.140 The Republican opposition to Donald Trump with Chris Bedford, our D.C. correspondent for The Blaze, all on today's podcast.

00:00:58.940 Let me tell you about the Burnout Launcher.

00:01:00.740 It is great, mainly because it can be a lot of fun.

00:01:04.680 For instance, probably a little too close.

00:01:06.460 Stu, I'm going to make the desk a little bigger.

00:01:08.840 So he's maybe about, I don't know, 40 feet away.

00:01:11.200 So it really doesn't, I mean, it'll leave a mark, but it won't, you know, really hurt him. 1.00

00:01:15.500 So every time he says something stupid, I could take out my Burnout Launcher and just go shoot him in the chest. 1.00

00:01:21.240 The Burnout Launcher is a great, great alternative. 1.00

00:01:24.740 You know, when you shoot, you have to shoot to kill. 0.92

00:01:27.560 That's just the way it is. 1.00

00:01:28.600 You don't shoot to wound, you shoot to kill.

00:01:30.460 And that's why you just don't ever want to pull your gun out unless you absolutely have to.

00:01:34.920 But there are situations where less lethal is the way to go.

00:01:38.300 And that's why people have tasers or they have pepper spray, because they don't want to pull out a gun.

00:01:43.520 The Burnout Launcher looks like a gun, and its barrel looks like it's a cannon coming out at you.

00:01:50.460 It can fire rounds that will just hurt Stu really, really badly.

00:01:55.120 But also tear gas.

00:01:57.120 You hit anywhere, like five feet around this threat, up to 60 feet away, and they'll be taken down by tear gas for about 40 minutes, incapacitated.

00:02:08.020 It is great.

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00:02:35.420 You know, I really didn't think that we would have to start here, but America seems to be thirsty for blood.

00:02:46.320 Now, I want to talk about those people who I believe are in the vast minority that are overjoyed, just, I don't know, all just hepped up on the lust of this guy.

00:03:06.260 I mean, this is blood lust what's going on.

00:03:10.240 The guy who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO, whose name should stop, people need to stop saying his name.

00:03:21.020 Stop making him into a well-known hero or even a well-known individual.

00:03:29.260 Stop saying his name.

00:03:30.880 He's doing more damage.

00:03:35.960 And the press, who we won't say the name of any shooter, unless, of course, they're a conservative or they're a complete Marxist.

00:03:46.940 And that is exactly what we're talking about here.

00:03:50.040 I don't care what his ideology is.

00:03:52.580 I don't care who, you know, he took a picture in front of a Trump sign. 1.00

00:03:56.700 I could give a flying crap. 1.00

00:03:58.740 He is the embodiment of Marxism. 0.99

00:04:05.900 And you'll notice that all of the supporters are all of the supporters of all of the deep Marxist ideas. 0.97

00:04:17.280 Marx was the one who was saying to people, go in, get the bourgeoisie, drag them out in the street and kill them. 0.86

00:04:26.120 This is a prediction you remember I made on Fox years ago. 0.89

00:04:31.880 Many times, yeah.

00:04:32.700 Yeah.

00:04:32.980 And the first time I said it, it was out of frustration because I was watching the media hold these people up.

00:04:38.360 And I said, are you out of your minds?

00:04:40.660 You think they're going to think you're a friend? 0.70

00:04:44.120 They're using you and they will pull you out of your cute little anchor seat and they'll pull you into the streets of New York and beat you to death. 0.79

00:04:54.840 And that's exactly who they are.

00:04:59.120 Now, let me start here.

00:05:00.500 How many people do you know?

00:05:07.060 Plus, how many people do you know because the death count was on the news every day, the death count of COVID?

00:05:17.900 How many people do you know personally and just through facts of the United States died because of COVID?

00:05:31.300 Whose fault was that?

00:05:32.660 I will tell you, it was the fault of Fauci, it was not Peter Strzok, it was Eco Alliance, it was China, it was the Wuhan lab, it was big, deep, secret science, it was our federal government,

00:05:59.760 and it was the healthcare industry, some, some, we now know that they knew that this vaccine wasn't effective, we now know they made up many things.

00:06:18.300 How many people had a grandparent die where they had to watch them die on FaceTime or standing outside of the nursing home with them not even understanding why you couldn't come in?

00:06:34.340 How many people died because we followed what the government was telling us to do and the government was in bed with these giant pharmaceutical companies and the teachers' unions?

00:06:51.340 Now, out of all of those people that lost a loved one and has every reason to be pissed,

00:07:04.060 how many of them that you know or you have read about picked up a gun and killed somebody in the government or Fauci or the United Healthcare people?

00:07:19.880 How many do you know?

00:07:22.640 Remember, we're talking about people who know they've been betrayed by their government or these healthcare industry or the big pharmaceutical.

00:07:33.100 They know they've been betrayed.

00:07:35.300 Their families, did anybody go after the governor of New York who knowingly put sick people into the nursing homes and killed how many, Stu?

00:07:47.140 Arguably thousands.

00:07:48.460 Thousands.

00:07:48.800 Okay?

00:07:49.980 Do you know why they didn't pick up a gun?

00:07:54.940 Because that is not American. 0.95

00:07:57.340 That's not the way we do things here.

00:07:59.620 That's the way they do things in Marxist countries.

00:08:03.980 And when those kinds of people get in power, then government becomes force and a fire. 0.59

00:08:12.480 And then the officials just tell you, see if this sounds familiar, just tells you exactly what to do and what to believe.

00:08:22.500 And if you don't, they'll drag you out into the street.

00:08:26.300 They'll discredit you.

00:08:27.540 They'll make sure you can't work.

00:08:28.880 And at the end, if you still won't comply, they'll beat you to death in the street to teach everybody else a lesson.

00:08:35.400 That's who this guy is.

00:08:38.680 That's who this guy is.

00:08:40.140 That's who, that's what he wants.

00:08:42.100 That's what everybody who is standing up now saying, well, it's, I don't agree with murder, but they should be afraid.

00:08:50.240 No one in a civil society should be afraid other than afraid for justice.

00:09:00.720 They should be afraid of being exposed and the police coming to pick them up if they broke the law.

00:09:09.120 The reason why we have vigilante justice is because, why, why, they're making him into Robin Hood.

00:09:22.480 What's the story of Robin Hood?

00:09:24.880 What is it?

00:09:26.200 Oh, he stole from the rich and gave it to the poor.

00:09:31.380 No, that's not the story of Robin Hood.

00:09:34.300 The story of Robin Hood was the sheriff and the king and the nobles, i.e., the government at the time, was taking everything from the poor and feasting on it.

00:09:50.660 They were robbing the poor because they controlled all of the laws.

00:09:57.260 Robin Hood took the money back from those guys, from the corrupt government, and gave it to the people.

00:10:08.960 That's a story I think I'd like to make very well known that that's an anti-Marxism story.

00:10:18.380 That's an anti-fascist story.

00:10:21.460 That's an anti-huge government controls everything story.

00:10:27.260 People are calling him Robin Hood.

00:10:30.820 He's not Robin Hood.

00:10:31.760 He wasn't a good guy.

00:10:34.060 Who did he help?

00:10:38.140 Do you know what happens when people are afraid and they're already in bed with big government?

00:10:43.800 This is the largest public-private partnership probably ever in the history of the world.

00:10:48.940 Our healthcare industry with the United States government.

00:10:51.880 You want to be mad at somebody?

00:10:54.440 Be mad at the government that they won't let the healthcare industry carry insurance across state lines.

00:11:01.980 There's all kinds of things that could be done to make sure that our healthcare privately actually works.

00:11:11.080 But because we've had so many damn Marxist and big government people in,

00:11:16.460 they've made all these rules so it falls apart. 0.95

00:11:20.500 Why?

00:11:21.380 So they can jam you into something where you become beholden to them.

00:11:27.740 This is remarkable that there are so many.

00:11:47.200 And I'm glad we're knowing who they are.

00:11:50.000 I really am glad.

00:11:51.080 I'm glad they're exposing themselves.

00:11:53.440 Jimmy Kimmel?

00:11:54.020 Do you know what Jimmy Kimmel did last night?

00:11:58.020 I mean, I didn't need any more information on Jimmy Kimmel to know who he was.

00:12:04.220 But, yeah, we now know he's a guy that will preach against violence,

00:12:15.560 will preach against people who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law,

00:12:20.840 say they are violent, and then come out and hold up vigilante squads,

00:12:30.760 and encourage it, and laugh at it, and make it famous.

00:12:34.420 Here's what Americans do.

00:12:44.260 Americans see a problem, and they tolerate it. 0.95

00:12:51.560 Unfortunately, they tolerate it, usually way too long.

00:12:56.860 But nobody likes to step into the unknown.

00:13:01.660 Nobody likes that.

00:13:02.680 You don't like that.

00:13:04.260 If I said, hey, you know, here's some facts that will make you completely change

00:13:11.700 and make you a liberal, and I actually had facts, which don't exist,

00:13:18.200 that would make you into a progressive or a socialist.

00:13:23.060 Even if I could make that point, most people wouldn't do it.

00:13:29.860 And I could say that about anything.

00:13:32.520 Let me change your religion, your belief. 1.00

00:13:34.540 I can prove to you that God doesn't exist.

00:13:37.120 Just say I could prove to you, which I can't, that God doesn't exist, or he does exist.

00:13:43.800 Most people won't go there because it's uncomfortable and foreign. 1.00

00:13:48.760 They know that they would have to change everything in their life.

00:13:54.340 That's why people come to Jesus usually only when they're on their knees,

00:13:59.700 because they have no other option than to change.

00:14:05.440 That's why rich people don't, you know, you don't see the rich people say,

00:14:09.840 you know what, I think I should have some missionaries over and talk to them about Jesus.

00:14:13.700 Because their life is fine.

00:14:29.540 What's happening here is we have Marxists preying on the people who have been shafted

00:14:41.440 or have felt shafted.

00:14:44.880 And I have news for you.

00:14:47.120 Everyone in this audience has felt shafted by the pharmaceutical companies

00:14:54.140 or the healthcare industry.

00:14:57.600 Everybody.

00:14:58.560 I do.

00:14:59.580 Everybody feels it, one way or another.

00:15:01.520 One reason is because they've made it now.

00:15:07.340 The Marxists have a right.

00:15:10.140 You have a right to all of it.

00:15:13.460 Well, you don't.

00:15:15.480 But that's beside the point.

00:15:17.120 The government has made it almost impossible

00:15:20.020 for you to actually

00:15:24.020 find ways to make it less expensive.

00:15:28.840 And then the government partnered with these guys.

00:15:33.840 And so they're all in bed with each other.

00:15:36.300 So there's no cop to run to.

00:15:39.320 Well, we ran to a cop because that's what Americans do. 1.00

00:15:42.740 We ran to the cop.

00:15:44.360 After we take it and take it and take it, 0.94

00:15:46.700 we finally get up off our butts

00:15:48.920 and enough of us go to the ballot box and say enough is enough.

00:15:52.840 That's why I'm so excited about Cash Patel.

00:15:56.240 Here's how Americans deal with things.

00:16:01.340 We went to the polls and we voted for Donald Trump, right?

00:16:05.700 We voted for Donald Trump.

00:16:06.900 Why did we vote for Donald Trump this time?

00:16:08.980 It was different than when we voted for him in 2020.

00:16:12.220 We were voting against the corruption in Washington,

00:16:17.920 but we didn't even understand the corruption like we do now.

00:16:21.920 Thank God he wasn't elected in 2020 because now we have a completely

00:16:26.140 different understanding and we have people from all walks of life

00:16:31.240 joining this movement now going, this has got to stop.

00:16:35.720 So the reason why I'm so excited for Cash Patel,

00:16:40.100 Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk,

00:16:42.440 is because I know those guys are going to expose it all.

00:16:46.220 Now, they may never see justice because, you know,

00:16:50.900 yesterday Biden did more pardons than any president ever in the history of pardons.

00:16:58.620 And he's talking about pardoning people like Fauci.

00:17:02.400 Pardoning him for what?

00:17:03.320 He said he wasn't a criminal.

00:17:05.860 I don't want him to go to jail or anything else if he didn't break the law.

00:17:12.240 All I want is the truth.

00:17:16.040 That's all you should want.

00:17:17.320 If these guys in the health care industry or pharmaceuticals or the NIH or whatever,

00:17:23.320 as we're talking about the COVID stuff, I just want the truth.

00:17:28.160 In fact, I'll go so far.

00:17:30.160 If he pardons Fauci, I want the truth about Fauci known.

00:17:36.420 If it is the truth, if we can expose all of the stuff and shows what we believe today,

00:17:42.480 it says that he knew and he was covering up.

00:17:46.600 I just want it exposed because I don't want him to have his good name for the rest of his life.

00:17:54.940 People should know he knew and obstructed.

00:17:59.380 He knew and falsified information.

00:18:02.660 He knew and covered up while millions died.

00:18:08.800 That should be known. 0.99

00:18:10.440 Do I want somebody to shoot him in the street? 0.95

00:18:12.840 Absolutely not.

00:18:14.960 Do I want people to know who he is based on facts?

00:18:20.400 Even if the president pardons him and he can never go to jail,

00:18:24.920 I'd rather have him tried and go to jail.

00:18:27.300 But I at least want it exposed.

00:18:32.220 That's what you voted for.

00:18:35.720 You want the health care system to be fixed? 0.91

00:18:39.660 That's what you voted for.

00:18:43.340 You want change?

00:18:45.880 Believe me, change is coming.

00:18:49.940 Only Marxists, only Marxists want to gun people down in the streets

00:19:01.660 and say, get them, they're rich, they're powerful, they're rich.

00:19:07.320 Did I mention they're rich and they're powerful? 1.00

00:19:10.680 Kill them. 1.00

00:19:11.580 Only Marxist Americans do not do that. 0.99

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00:20:34.540 Now, back to the podcast.

00:20:36.340 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:39.780 I want to bring in Brian Bergen.

00:20:42.600 I saw Brian on, I think it was X yesterday.

00:20:46.100 He's a New Jersey assemblyman that drove a couple of hours for this meeting with, you know, the DHS and, you know, the FAA

00:20:57.600 and everybody that should know what the heck is going on with these drones.

00:21:01.960 And he walked out early.

00:21:03.520 He was so flaming angry.

00:21:06.360 And I wanted to get him on today.

00:21:08.160 Brian, how are you?

00:21:10.000 I'm doing great, Glenn.

00:21:10.960 Thanks for having me, man.

00:21:11.820 You bet.

00:21:12.200 So, why'd you walk out yesterday?

00:21:14.940 What happened?

00:21:17.600 Well, so we got called down there.

00:21:20.160 We being all 120 members of the state legislature of New Jersey, the assembly and the senate,

00:21:26.000 got invited to come down to this special legislator-only briefing down in the state police headquarters.

00:21:32.720 And the state police was there and the Department of Homeland Security was there.

00:21:36.160 And they were supposed to tell us what's going on.

00:21:38.660 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:21:39.980 Hang on just a second.

00:21:40.720 So, they didn't even come to you.

00:21:44.880 No.

00:21:45.240 They said to all of the legislators, instead of how many guys were speaking, 10?

00:21:51.420 Less.

00:21:52.260 Less than 10.

00:21:53.720 Okay.

00:21:54.340 All right.

00:21:54.920 That's good.

00:21:55.560 All right.

00:21:56.260 Yeah.

00:21:56.760 Yeah.

00:21:57.000 So, we all went there.

00:21:58.400 And then the first thing that they say is this is not a classified briefing.

00:22:02.560 And, in fact, we could have probably let the press in.

00:22:04.300 And then they just went on and said that they know nothing and they have no understanding what's going on.

00:22:11.540 They don't know where they're coming from, where they're going to, or who's responsible for it.

00:22:15.700 And so, I was just pissed that we're there to listen to such a Bush League amateur hour presentation that they could have given us by a text message.

00:22:26.360 And what really got me upset was the primary reason why I left early was two things.

00:22:33.440 The colonel of the state police said that he had a helicopter of his hovering directly above one of these drones, which he called a six-foot drone.

00:22:41.960 But he felt unsafe for his pilots and had them land.

00:22:45.800 Ten minutes later, he says, hey, it'd be really nice to know where these things are coming from or they're going to.

00:22:50.760 And I'm like, well, why did you follow the freaking thing when you had it in your sights?

00:22:54.600 I mean, I have no idea why. 0.54

00:22:57.100 Now, I want the audience to know, you were an Apache helicopter pilot in Iraq.

00:23:03.900 Yes.

00:23:04.220 You have a Bronze Star Combat Action Badge, several honors.

00:23:09.440 You graduated West Point.

00:23:11.000 You're not a nobody on what happens in the sky.

00:23:17.180 Right, right.

00:23:18.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:23:19.280 And I mean, first of all, what he said is people are hovering above it. 1.00

00:23:22.440 I was like, well, that's stupid. 1.00

00:23:23.640 Who hovers above a target? 1.00

00:23:25.620 You know, you want to get a standoff distance and follow it, you know, so you can use your systems to track it.

00:23:31.700 And it was just, yes, I'm speaking from some level of experience here.

00:23:35.200 But more importantly, it was just common sense.

00:23:37.840 You have this thing in your sights that you know is potentially a threat because we don't know where it's coming from, where it's going to, where it's controlling it.

00:23:46.920 And it's six feet big in the sky, and you just let it go.

00:23:52.700 I mean, it was mind-boggling to me.

00:23:54.700 And the second thing that they said that really sent me through the moon was the Department of Homeland Security has some device that they're going to give to the state police that will help them identify drones in the sky.

00:24:06.940 And it's supposed to be pretty cool technology.

00:24:09.640 It filters out birds and stuff like that, and it's supposed to be really good.

00:24:13.720 Anyway, one of my colleagues said, well, when are you going to get it?

00:24:16.960 And the colonel of the state police said it should be here in a couple days.

00:24:20.420 And I was like, in my head, it should be here in a couple days.

00:24:23.500 What the hell are you doing? 0.95

00:24:24.820 Somebody go get in a van and drive it to frickin' New Jersey right now. 1.00

00:24:30.220 So, you know, I mean, Glenn, this is the level of stupidity that we're dealing with here, and that's why I was so frustrated and continue to be frustrated. 0.99

00:24:38.800 So let me run a couple of things by you. 0.98

00:24:43.000 First, somebody came out, you know, a congressman came out yesterday and said, I've got it on good authority that it's Iran and they got a ship off.

00:24:51.040 If that were true, would we not have followed these things back to the ship?

00:24:57.640 Why aren't we – if they're going back over the water and they're not ours, why wouldn't we be blowing them up over the water?

00:25:07.720 Well, so that's a great question, and it was Congressman Van Drew who said that.

00:25:12.140 And I think very highly of Congressman Van Drew, and he's not someone who normally says something outlandish like that.

00:25:18.460 Right.

00:25:18.640 In this case, you know, I rag on our state government all the time, and in this case, Homeland Security.

00:25:24.500 But our U.S. Navy is a force to be reckoned with, the best in the world.

00:25:29.980 Now, I'm a West Point grad.

00:25:31.800 It is Army-Navy week, so I hope we beat the hell out of Navy this weekend.

00:25:34.940 But I've got to give them some respect.

00:25:38.720 They would not allow an Iranian ship of any kind to get close to us.

00:25:42.780 Correct.

00:25:42.940 So I find that to be pretty unusual that that would happen.

00:25:45.980 So the next thing is, if we couldn't track these things – I've been in the New Jersey and New York area.

00:25:55.680 There's a lot of airplanes in the sky.

00:25:58.480 And if you can't track these and you don't know where they are, you would ground all of the planes because you don't know if they're hostile to planes.

00:26:11.180 You don't know if one of them just gets into the flight path of another.

00:26:16.020 There are planes everywhere in the sky.

00:26:19.900 So, again, that leads me to believe you can track these and you know where they're coming from.

00:26:26.240 Yeah, I don't know all the technology available to them.

00:26:31.100 What I do know is we're the United States of America, and I live in a state, New Jersey, which has a $56 billion budget.

00:26:38.760 The fact that we don't have the resources available to us to figure this out is ludicrous.

00:26:43.280 And you're right.

00:26:43.800 There's a lot of – the concerns keep piling up now.

00:26:47.780 One that you mentioned, what if they go dark, as the governor said?

00:26:51.700 You know, that's a danger to other aircraft that operate visual flight rules at night.

00:26:56.240 You know, there's a lot of potential issues here.

00:26:59.160 You know, some lawmakers are calling for a shutdown of drone activity in the sky.

00:27:04.620 But, you know, we don't even know who these people are, what they're doing.

00:27:07.620 They're certainly not going to listen if we shut down the activity.

00:27:09.560 Right.

00:27:10.240 Let's take all the guns from the good guys.

00:27:13.420 Right.

00:27:13.900 I got it.

00:27:14.560 Yeah, right.

00:27:15.400 But what we do need to do is common sense.

00:27:18.460 It just needs to be an all-hands-on-deck approach.

00:27:22.020 The state police, the National Guard, which can be mobilized by the governor, the Department of Homeland Security, and they need to follow one of these suckers to wherever it goes, and let's figure out who's responsible.

00:27:34.180 So here's what baffles me, Brian.

00:27:37.400 You get one guy with a laser pointer in his backyard, and he points it at an airplane and a pilot, and the FAA tackles that guy.

00:27:48.720 They grapple down from helicopters and make sure that never happens again.

00:27:53.660 And how do we, if this is some private citizen or citizens doing it, how would we not know that?

00:28:03.500 You're 100% right.

00:28:04.800 And that's why in the interview I had yesterday and a couple of hours, I said it's a lack of effort.

00:28:08.960 It has to be a lack of effort.

00:28:11.580 You know, the FBI is an amazing organization that takes down people all the time before they do all kinds of crazy stuff.

00:28:19.240 You know, they have a litany of successes that they can point to of stopping things before they happen because of their counterterrorism efforts and their intelligence efforts.

00:28:28.180 Why the hell they can't find anybody responsible for this or pick up any chatters crazy? 0.98

00:28:33.080 Okay, so let me give you my theory, and please, if you think it's nonsense, shoot it full of holes. 0.97

00:28:40.040 My uncle used to be in military intelligence back in the 60s and 70s,

00:28:45.880 and he did all of the nuclear stuff.

00:28:50.540 And when the stealth B-1 bomber came out, the wing, he said, old technology.

00:28:58.700 And I said, what?

00:29:00.160 And he's, because remember, it was first spotted, and they were like, what is that?

00:29:03.700 It's a UFO.

00:29:05.140 And he's like, that's been available for a while.

00:29:09.840 They'll announce it to the country, and they'll fly it around, and then people will speculate,

00:29:14.880 and then they'll say, oh, yeah, we have a B-1 bomber.

00:29:17.820 It's new.

00:29:19.360 I think a good chance is we are sending someone a message or we're doing something with the –

00:29:28.880 I mean, Russia just launched, you know, a hypersonic missile.

00:29:33.360 It doesn't make sense that our government doesn't know what this is and can't stop it

00:29:39.440 and doesn't see it as a danger.

00:29:42.180 What makes sense is they're lying to us. 0.97

00:29:45.100 They know what this is, and it's not extraterrestrial, and it's not any of that crap. 0.96

00:29:51.060 What do you think? 0.70

00:29:51.640 Yeah, well, so I don't disagree with the premise that you have here.

00:29:56.080 One of the things that I will say is unique to this area and where all this is happening

00:30:00.700 is we have a military installation called Picatinny Arsenal, and it's very important to Picatinny

00:30:06.380 Arsenal that there's good community relations because, you know, we want to maintain that

00:30:11.460 here, and it's a huge resource for the Army where it's at.

00:30:14.140 But any uncertainty about what's going on military-wise around here is bad for them

00:30:20.200 and bad for the future of Picatinny.

00:30:22.680 So they have an incentive to over-communicate when things are happening, and they often do

00:30:27.540 that when they're doing testing.

00:30:28.840 They over-communicate.

00:30:30.260 So in this area here, it's probably unlikely that there would be anything that the government

00:30:34.880 would want to do that would cause, you know, public concern.

00:30:38.860 So then what is your – what are you left with that makes sense to you the most?

00:30:43.060 You know, to be honest, I'm not left with much.

00:30:48.660 The only thing – before I went to this briefing, I would have told you it's FedEx or UPS or

00:30:54.620 Amazon testing out delivery capabilities of aircraft, you know, and they want to do it

00:31:01.200 at night so as not to freak people out.

00:31:03.020 But then, you know, by this point, it's blown up so high, you would think somebody would say

00:31:07.640 something.

00:31:08.740 They would say, oh, yeah, hey, it's us.

00:31:10.580 Chill out.

00:31:11.000 But – so I really don't know.

00:31:13.680 I'm legitimately concerned.

00:31:15.460 And I am not a conspiracy theorist.

00:31:17.200 I'm not one that jumps to conclusions.

00:31:19.440 But the fact that nobody knows and the people who are supposed to know give us no confidence.

00:31:24.660 And you believe they don't know.

00:31:26.560 You believe they don't know.

00:31:28.380 Yeah, but – yeah, I do.

00:31:30.380 And now, could the CIA know?

00:31:32.000 Maybe.

00:31:32.380 I wasn't briefed by them.

00:31:33.420 But I believe the state police and the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon do not

00:31:39.000 know.

00:31:39.980 I really do.

00:31:40.800 And that's scary.

00:31:42.080 It's equally as scary if I'm wrong.

00:31:44.760 And they do know when they're doing this to us.

00:31:47.380 So –

00:31:48.020 But that's the world we live in today.

00:31:49.640 Yeah.

00:31:50.000 You know, it's always like, it could be this, which would mean Jesus is coming, but it could

00:31:54.380 mean this, which would end with Jesus coming.

00:31:57.820 Yeah, that's right, Glenn.

00:31:59.940 But in this situation, this is the part that frustrates me.

00:32:03.040 They can just figure it out.

00:32:04.480 I don't understand.

00:32:05.240 I told them, give me a platoon of men, a couple of Apache helicopters. 0.96

00:32:08.320 We'll follow these frigging things. 0.93

00:32:09.800 And we will figure it out for you. 0.98

00:32:12.800 Somebody can get this done.

00:32:14.060 They're just choosing not to do it.

00:32:15.300 I know somebody with an Apache – a private individual with an Apache helicopter.

00:32:21.020 Well, let's get it over here, Glenn.

00:32:22.680 I'm ready to go.

00:32:23.600 I'm a little rusty probably, but I think I can figure it out.

00:32:26.400 They're probably listening right now.

00:32:28.540 If you want to check in, we'll maybe line that up.

00:32:32.340 Thank you so much.

00:32:33.000 Yeah, I love it.

00:32:33.740 Appreciate it.

00:32:34.820 God bless you, Brian.

00:32:35.460 Thanks for having me.

00:32:35.960 You bet.

00:32:36.540 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes

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00:32:41.920 So, every day I get a newsletter, the Beltway Brief from TheBlaze.com slash Bedford.

00:32:50.760 That's how you can sign up for it.

00:32:53.040 But Christopher Bedford is the writer of the Beltway Brief, and he is our Washington correspondent,

00:33:00.640 and he is up on things.

00:33:02.100 He wrote a story today about Mitch McConnell and his secret war on Trump.

00:33:09.580 This is not going to improve your mood much, but this is why the deep state is not just on the left.

00:33:19.140 It's on the right, too.

00:33:20.620 This guy is the most—I think he has the highest disapproval rating or disgust rating of any senator.

00:33:32.840 It's Mitch McConnell.

00:33:34.500 Chris is on the phone with us now.

00:33:35.900 Chris, welcome.

00:33:37.540 It's great to be here.

00:33:39.060 Thank you.

00:33:40.140 Okay.

00:33:41.180 Tell everybody the story.

00:33:44.100 Absolutely.

00:33:44.860 So, Mitch McConnell is obviously a well-known figure.

00:33:48.000 He's the least popular senator in the entire country, but he's also been the longest-serving leader in the Senate of any party.

00:33:55.200 And he's technically given up that title to John Thune, someone who is a longtime loyalist to McConnell.

00:34:02.840 But he's sticking around, and he's not just sticking around in the peripherals.

00:34:07.480 He's not just on the sidelines because he wants to finish out his term with a Democratic governor.

00:34:12.360 It's because he still has a lot of power.

00:34:14.780 He's going to be getting in charge of the influential Senate Rules Committee.

00:34:19.700 He's going to be in charge of Senate defense appropriations.

00:34:23.040 And over the last month, literally since Donald Trump's resounding win, his national vote win, his win that put him in the pantheon along with Reagan and Nixon for real massive comebacks and real ability to get there.

00:34:40.920 He's already been publicly attacking Donald Trump.

00:34:45.400 He went to the AEI dinner with just a bunch of neoconservatives and kind of part of the old right.

00:34:50.780 He went there just a week after the election and announced his intention to stand for Donald Trump's foreign policy and a populist reimagining of what's really been a failed foreign policy for the United States for the last 30 years.

00:35:02.600 He gave an interview that came out yesterday saying that he's going to try and do everything he can to keep the money flowing towards the wars abroad, Ukraine, Syria, the Middle East, which is against what the people just voted for.

00:35:17.380 But he's a shadow operator.

00:35:19.020 He's not someone who needs the limelight.

00:35:21.460 He's not one of those people who chases the camera.

00:35:23.640 So over the last couple months and years, oftentimes you'd see other senators come forward with his fingerprints all over it.

00:35:31.620 The latest is Joni Ernst.

00:35:33.820 She's a longtime McConnell loyalist who's coming out and she's trying to undermine Donald Trump. 0.92

00:35:40.460 She's taken a step back since then because of the massive blowback that she got.

00:35:45.380 But McConnell's fingerprints were all over that and other Republican resistance to trying to stop Donald Trump from getting his own appointees.

00:35:53.620 So how do you see this playing out?

00:35:55.580 So far, usually McConnell, he's only become so powerful because he wins.

00:36:02.780 You'd see an example of this when Tommy Tuberville made his brave stand against the Department of Defense and said they had to end their illegal abortion rules or he wasn't going to confirm any generals.

00:36:12.540 He was attacked by all these different Republicans.

00:36:14.760 The person who orchestrated that was Mitch McConnell.

00:36:17.280 He eventually won.

00:36:18.160 But he has been taking a bruising recently, too.

00:36:21.400 For example, he's the one who's behind James Lankford's Senate bill, which was a complete disaster, to try and give amnesty and work with Democrats on processing more border crossings.

00:36:31.900 When that went down, you see McConnell just kind of flither away.

00:36:35.780 He's not really in the headlines.

00:36:37.120 He even actually voted against the bill.

00:36:39.400 He stabbed Lankford in the back.

00:36:41.040 Oh, my gosh. 1.00

00:36:42.160 This guy's a dirtbag. 0.99

00:36:43.800 It's wild. 0.97

00:36:44.620 He never gave up anyone who wasn't going down, as they say, and the departed.

00:36:48.460 Now you see Joni Ernst kind of flipping in the wind here. 0.67

00:36:52.400 She's in trouble.

00:36:53.560 She's retreating.

00:36:55.100 And you see McConnell kind of slithering away.

00:36:57.480 But at the same time, he's giving these speeches saying he's intending to still be a stick in the mud. 0.86

00:37:02.640 And it's not the House of Representatives.

00:37:04.420 One powerful senator can really hold up the Trump administration.

00:37:08.200 So it's going to come down to a battle of wills if he decides to stick it out and actually really go at him.

00:37:13.680 It's going to pit John Thune against Mitch McConnell, or it's going to put him in Donald Trump's crosshairs.

00:37:20.000 Good luck with that.

00:37:20.600 It's going to become a real battle for who controls Washington, D.C. long after the election's over.

00:37:25.440 What do you think of the idea?

00:37:27.940 Mike Lee floated this, and I think it's brilliant.

00:37:30.400 What John Adams did when he was vice president, he went in, and whoever's in the seat, whoever's the highest-seated person, is in charge of the Senate.

00:37:42.220 And the vice president is a tie-breaking vote.

00:37:45.300 But he can do much more than that.

00:37:48.120 He can actually take control of the Senate.

00:37:50.360 If Donald Trump starts having problems like this, why wouldn't he just send over a very capable vice president and just say,

00:38:01.440 here's our agenda, here's what we're doing, here's what's happening?

00:38:05.200 Why wouldn't he do that?

00:38:06.680 I think he ought to.

00:38:08.100 I think that would be a really great role for Senator Vance, I mean, now vice president-elect Vance.

00:38:13.020 He only spent a few short years in Washington, D.C., but he had an extremely capable team.

00:38:17.660 And he worked really hard, and in that time, he was willing to butt heads with Republicans, willing to butt heads with Democrats,

00:38:23.480 and had an impact on that chamber, which you don't usually see in the first few years of someone who's new to Washington's Senate career.

00:38:30.960 He could come back, and he could really wreck that sort of thing.

00:38:33.520 I mean, his deputy chief of staff, James Braid, ended up becoming the director for legislative affairs for Donald Trump.

00:38:39.920 That's a good move.

00:38:41.120 This is the kind of guy who doesn't just listen to politics.

00:38:44.360 He also reads the books.

00:38:46.020 He's reading LBJ's history of the Senate.

00:38:48.220 He's digging through the rules.

00:38:49.320 He's digging through the history.

00:38:51.060 People who actually know how to try and get things done there.

00:38:54.180 You don't want – J.D. Vance is going to end up having a pretty big portfolio, it seems.

00:38:58.040 He's going to have a lot of responsibilities, more than maybe the OVC with a vice president.

00:39:02.960 So he may be a little busy, but he's certainly got some capable folks, and he's able to get in there.

00:39:07.520 But even if you don't take it over forever, even if you just go in at the beginning, if they start to slow down, Donald Trump has to have his appointments, has to have them quickly.

00:39:21.680 And he has to get his agenda done in the first hundred days, or they are going to – they will stop this any way they can.

00:39:31.240 He needs the Republicans, at the beginning at least, for the first hundred days, to move and move quickly.

00:39:38.280 That was the secret of the Obama administration.

00:39:43.940 That was, and this is really the time he's got to do it.

00:39:46.800 This is why you see them right now.

00:39:48.580 They're kind of arguing about how to approach this.

00:39:50.800 You've got January when everyone's going to come back to town, get to work, and there are some Republicans who are trying to attach basically a whole litany of what the Senate and the House wants to the early legislation.

00:40:02.540 You see Jason Smith, for example, he's trying to add tax reform to Donald Trump's early agenda, and you're seeing the Trump team saying, heck no, we don't want to bog this down with tax – we want to do tax reform, but you can do that next.

00:40:16.180 The first step is the Trump administration's promise to the American people.

00:40:20.320 It's a border bill.

00:40:21.300 It's an immigration bill.

00:40:22.340 It's a deportation bill.

00:40:23.800 That's what we want, and we want our nominees across the board, and we don't want to mess around with that at all.

00:40:29.180 But the people in Congress and the people in the Senate, they don't really like to listen that much to the will of the American people, so it is going to come down a little bit to a battle of wills, and it's also going to come down to how hard President Trump really wants to work on this.

00:40:44.160 An engaged president who really cares about Capitol Hill and is willing to navigate it can get a huge amount done.

00:40:50.100 The ability for Trump to pick up that phone, the ability of Trump to send that tweet, to rattle that saber, to actually be engaged, that's going to be kind of key here.

00:41:01.340 So give me the carrot that can be used, especially with McConnell and the stick.

00:41:10.080 So McConnell's big thing is his legacy and his foreign policy legacy.

00:41:17.440 He's trying to tie Donald Trump's hands on Ukraine.

00:41:20.600 He's trying to tie Donald Trump's hands in the Middle East.

00:41:23.360 And I don't know if there's many carrots that are really going to move him right now.

00:41:27.360 He's too advanced in his career.

00:41:29.280 He's obviously nearing the end of his career.

00:41:31.420 But there's certainly a stick.

00:41:33.760 And McConnell's, I'm going to write about this further for next week.

00:41:37.240 McConnell operates a massive influence network in Washington, D.C., a patronage network where his people are hired all over town.

00:41:45.980 Just mid-level staffers don't need to be in charge.

00:41:48.800 They have access to the money.

00:41:50.260 They have access to the lobbyists.

00:41:51.540 They have access to the power.

00:41:52.940 If you want to really crush an influence machine in D.C., you need to ban those people.

00:41:58.200 You need to stop that.

00:41:59.380 You need to stop the hiring.

00:42:00.500 You need to say, we're not going to work with firms to hire these people.

00:42:03.720 We're not going to hire those people.

00:42:05.800 And you're going to have to push people like John Thune to stand out and stand apart from McConnell and show that they're their own man.

00:42:12.220 Donald Trump will certainly have the will to do that.

00:42:16.720 Can he just poison that well if he has to?

00:42:22.060 I think if he has to.

00:42:23.360 Right now, people are holding their fire.

00:42:25.840 They're waiting.

00:42:26.280 McConnell sent out a couple of smoke signals and warnings saying he intends to do this.

00:42:30.780 But at the same time, when you read the interviews about Pete Hexas, you read the interviews about Tulsi Gabbard, you see no mention of Mitch McConnell because he's kept quiet.

00:42:40.720 He's not done taking the meetings.

00:42:42.480 But at the end of the day, everyone's waiting to see, is the old man going to try and burn it all down?

00:42:46.660 And if that's the case, I think you'll start to see open war.

00:42:48.880 Yeah, I have you spent much time with the president lately, Chris, president elect?

00:42:56.800 Not since his election.

00:42:57.940 Yeah, he is a different man and he is dead serious.

00:43:03.240 He knows now, unlike his first term, he knows where the bodies are buried.

00:43:08.120 He knows his friends, his enemies.

00:43:10.940 He knows what he wants to accomplish.

00:43:13.460 And he has boned up on how Washington works.

00:43:16.940 He's not going to take no for an answer.

00:43:19.540 He is he will he will just slash and burn to get things done because he knows I he's told me a million times.

00:43:29.420 I have 100 days to get the big stuff done or it ain't going to get done.

00:43:36.480 You know, I think that we are fortunate as a country that he lost that last election.

00:43:42.080 And now, yes, the way the team he has around him,

00:43:46.000 the seriousness of which they're approaching this, the mandate from the American people,

00:43:50.360 the respect of the global leaders, the dream team he's pulled together.

00:43:54.040 Yeah, all of it combined for what could be an absolutely historic lifetime presidency.

00:43:58.980 I have to tell you, from from here on out, I'm just when something doesn't go my way, you know,

00:44:04.580 or our way for politics, I will always look to 2020 because we wouldn't even have known how deep the infection was

00:44:14.980 had Biden and Harris not gotten in.

00:44:17.520 We wouldn't have seen how close they were and what perversion they were planning for our country.

00:44:25.460 It we're we are so blessed he didn't win in 2020.

00:44:30.420 Absolutely.

00:44:31.080 The enemy is laid bare.

00:44:32.200 It's and it's a good time to it's a good time to be winning again.

00:44:35.180 Just in time for the Christian solid. 0.99

00:44:36.680 Yeah, Chris, thank you so much.

00:44:38.420 And thanks for your your newsletter every day.

00:44:41.160 It's really, really good.

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