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00:00:00.000 On today's podcast, Pat joins me from the Pac-Ray Unleashed program, and we talk about what happened over the weekend.

00:00:08.480 Was there any news at all?

00:00:11.000 Why is he not capable of running a campaign, but he is capable of being president of the United States?

00:00:19.340 Doesn't that seem a little maybe perhaps backwards?

00:00:21.760 Why did he announce it on Sunday in kind of a rushed fashion when people said that it would be Sunday afternoon at the latest that he would do it, but he denied it?

00:00:34.420 Who's lying?

00:00:35.960 Why could we possibly and how could we possibly accept Kamala Harris, who not only is a diehard socialist radical, but she also was part of the team that was lying about his health the whole time.

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00:02:31.220 So it was interesting, wasn't it, this weekend?

00:02:35.900 We started Friday with someone releasing that Joe Biden would, on Sunday, resign.

00:02:44.100 Now, this is not what Joe Biden said.

00:02:46.800 In fact, nobody in the White House agreed with that on Friday.

00:02:50.920 In fact, just before the tweet went out, nobody in the White House even knew he was going to.

00:02:57.040 I'm going to get back to that here in a second because I think something doesn't smell right.

00:03:04.040 Now, the reason why, they say, is because of money, polling, it would wipe out the Democratic Party, staff, friends, donors, all abandon Joe Biden.

00:03:18.200 Listen, I don't think that's it.

00:03:21.340 Why did they announce on Friday?

00:03:25.920 And who announced on Friday that a missive would be coming from the White House and he would resign?

00:03:34.500 Now, this is why this bothers me.

00:03:36.060 When you do something this dramatic, first time in American history, when you do something this dramatic, you don't usually just spring it on everyone.

00:03:47.780 You usually will go in and have a speech and they will announce that the president is going to speculate what he's going to say, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:56.140 And then he gives a speech from the Oval Office in his in his stepping down from the party.

00:04:04.820 He said he would be addressing it later this week.

00:04:09.580 Why?

00:04:10.380 Why didn't he address it from the Oval like all other presidents?

00:04:14.360 Why would he just pop it out?

00:04:15.880 My guess is there was another gun waiting to go off.

00:04:19.680 You have until noon.

00:04:21.760 You have until 2 p.m. on Sunday to resign or what?

00:04:28.600 What did Joe Biden get in return for resigning?

00:04:35.760 Was there or were there promises made by anyone that we will make sure that you're not you're not held responsible for any of those crimes that you might have committed?

00:04:49.900 And was it said this way?

00:04:51.760 Look, Joe, you and I both know there's some real flaming hot evidence here that you were selling your country out.

00:04:58.480 We'll make sure that goes away and you and your family will be pardoned.

00:05:03.560 But you have until noon on Sunday.

00:05:06.940 I don't know.

00:05:07.800 That's speculation.

00:05:08.940 But I feel like there was a gun that was going to go off on Sunday at at some point.

00:05:15.080 But there is also, you know, they can they can pardon him if he steps down from presidency.

00:05:28.100 I don't think he's going to be president until the end of the year or until January 20th.

00:05:33.300 But they can pardon him if he's not the president.

00:05:38.900 They can pardon his family and they can very easily blame that now on if Trump gets in, it's going to be just revenge.

00:05:46.660 He's just going to put all the Bidens in family.

00:05:49.260 And we had to.

00:05:50.820 And that'll be good enough, apparently, for a lot of Democrats.

00:05:54.420 Nancy Pelosi was the driving force behind all of this.

00:05:58.900 And I loved Nancy Pelosi in the last few weeks where she was like, you know, we want Joe Biden to make the decision himself.

00:06:05.180 I made the decision.

00:06:06.380 I'm staying.

00:06:07.460 Yeah, right.

00:06:08.120 But he'll make that decision.

00:06:09.600 And we're waiting for that decision.

00:06:11.400 I already made that decision.

00:06:13.060 As like I said, he'll make it.

00:06:15.000 And we're we're very excited for him to make that decision.

00:06:20.000 It's it's like Barack Obama used to say, you know, we can get along.

00:06:24.420 You just have to get in the boat with me.

00:06:27.020 Oh, wait. 0.97

00:06:28.000 So, wait, I'm a radical that needs to be destroyed.

00:06:32.960 But you'll forgive me if I sign up for everything you want to do.

00:06:37.840 Oh, OK.

00:06:39.500 All right.

00:06:41.960 So she was the driving force behind this.

00:06:45.480 Now, Alex Soros said he would not endorse Kamala Harris.

00:06:50.480 Harris, yet he did right away yesterday.

00:06:55.220 In fact, people are lining up.

00:06:56.980 Barack Obama strangely did not endorse Kamala Harris.

00:07:02.480 I personally don't think and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

00:07:11.700 I don't think Kamala is going to be the the candidate in the end.

00:07:18.860 Who do you think it's going to be that?

00:07:20.620 I don't know.

00:07:22.280 I don't I don't see how they pass her up because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:07:26.680 So you got double identity politics going there.

00:07:29.600 She's the next in line.

00:07:31.380 She'd be really tough to jettison. 1.00

00:07:34.020 But if they open it up at the convention, pretty much anything could happen.

00:07:38.560 So I think they'd like it to be Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer.

00:07:45.500 Oh, I hope.

00:07:46.620 Yeah.

00:07:47.560 But yeah.

00:07:48.520 You know, here's the thing, you know, they they first of all, why didn't Biden step down?

00:07:58.660 There's a couple of questions.

00:08:00.380 Why didn't he step down as president of the United States?

00:08:03.300 If he is not capable of running a campaign, he is certainly not capable of running the White House.

00:08:11.080 Now, that may have been the gun that was going to go off.

00:08:14.200 25th Amendment.

00:08:15.360 We're going to we're going to take you out of the Oval.

00:08:17.560 We'll leave you as president so you can finish your term and we'll have parades for you and everything else.

00:08:24.120 And you'll be remembered as one of the greatest presidents of all time.

00:08:27.280 And she look at how George Washington you are by stepping aside for the good of the country and the party.

00:08:33.540 That is a possible gun that could have gone off.

00:08:37.960 Otherwise, the 25th Amendment is going to be exercised.

00:08:42.400 So there's no reason why the man can't run a campaign.

00:08:46.560 You know, because all of this is he's cognitively not there.

00:08:51.160 He can't do it.

00:08:52.780 He can't debate.

00:08:53.980 Well, if you can't debate, I don't want you in a room with Putin or Z. 0.56

00:08:58.400 I don't want you on the telephone with anybody.

00:09:01.300 But the Democrats are suddenly fine with that because they say he can't win.

00:09:05.900 Well, Pat, look at Kamala Harris's poll.

00:09:10.300 Kamala Harris, she is she's below Joe Biden.

00:09:17.220 She is more unliked than Donald Trump is.

00:09:22.320 So why would they go for somebody else who has this horrible, horrible image and likability problem who polls just the same, if not a little below Joe Biden?

00:09:37.260 Why would you have that as your replacement?

00:09:40.320 That doesn't make sense.

00:09:41.600 No, really.

00:09:43.080 I mean, nobody makes sense, though, on the Democrat side.

00:09:46.340 Who does make sense?

00:09:47.400 Gavin Newsom has a terrible record in California that can be exploited easily.

00:09:52.700 Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.

00:09:54.120 I mean, she's terrible.

00:09:55.580 They've got nobody on the bench.

00:09:58.540 Right.

00:09:58.960 But I'm not talking about that.

00:10:00.800 I'm talking about what doesn't make sense to me is why you jettison somebody and you say it is because he's not capable.

00:10:10.360 OK, we'll lose.

00:10:11.700 He's not capable.

00:10:12.540 He's not capable of running a campaign, but he's OK to run the country for the next six months.

00:10:18.880 Doesn't make sense.

00:10:19.440 That bothers me.

00:10:20.320 That's an inconsistency.

00:10:21.820 Then also, the other thing that bothers me is the honest ones will say, well, he just can't beat Donald Trump.

00:10:29.140 His poll numbers are too horrible.

00:10:31.880 Well, Kamala's poll numbers are just as horrible. 1.00

00:10:35.140 So, why wouldn't you let him in and then accept this person?

00:10:45.600 And why wouldn't you push for him to retire?

00:10:49.100 Is it because then you lose the first female black president to be president as an election trick? 1.00

00:11:01.120 I mean, why wouldn't he just resign and her take over and then she can run and she'll have, you know, she'll be the president and you can show what she can do and that, you know, people get used to it. 0.98

00:11:14.920 Or do you need the fact that she'll be the first black, you know, Asian president? 1.00

00:11:24.720 Female.

00:11:26.360 I mean, I don't think they want to waste it on her.

00:11:32.180 I honestly don't.

00:11:33.060 I don't think they want.

00:11:33.980 I mean, they are holding that back.

00:11:36.240 And I don't know how they get away with not running her as president because of that.

00:11:41.140 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:11:42.880 You took her on.

00:11:44.160 You know you took her on because of DEI.

00:11:46.740 You took her on for DEI purposes.

00:11:49.140 And now you're not going to let her go because you say she's not qualified.

00:11:53.100 You want what?

00:11:53.620 A white woman? 1.00

00:11:55.700 A white man?

00:11:57.460 They can't get away with that. 1.00

00:11:58.900 They're so screwed. 1.00

00:12:00.340 They really are. 1.00

00:12:01.100 And I love every second of it.

00:12:01.780 Yeah.

00:12:02.860 It's going to be a fun convention.

00:12:05.100 I mean, if you thought 1968 was chaos, wow.

00:12:08.960 I mean, they didn't have the kind of chaos within the party that in 1968 that they have now.

00:12:15.880 This is unprecedented stuff.

00:12:19.660 And this is something that you really want to pay attention to because this is American history in the making.

00:12:25.840 How is it, Pat, that we have Democrats that have been saying that this is the end of democracy, and yet the same ones that have been telling you he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, are now the ones saying, boy, he's not fine.

00:12:47.820 They called us a conspiracy theorist to say that he wasn't fine.

00:12:51.060 Then when it was exposed, they're the ones saying it's okay.

00:12:56.760 They were also the ones that it's not okay.

00:12:59.720 They were also the ones that said, no, he doesn't need to have a primary.

00:13:03.680 We don't primary him.

00:13:05.180 He doesn't need to go and actually campaign and primary.

00:13:09.380 They wanted to keep this quiet for as long as they could.

00:13:12.900 So they're the ones, because remember, when there was no primary, the reason why people were talking about it, because a lot of Democratic voters didn't want Joe Biden. 0.97

00:13:24.100 They didn't think that he, but those people were crazy and dangerous. 0.93

00:13:28.000 They're own voters.

00:13:28.900 So they had 14 million people vote for Joe Biden, and now for the third time, the presidential election in the Democratic Party is going to be decided by elites.

00:13:42.060 The first time it occurred was 2016, when the Democratic National Committee manipulated money in the process to help Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders.

00:13:52.580 Remember that?

00:13:53.140 And all the Sanders people were pissed off.

00:13:55.060 Superdelegates.

00:13:55.720 The second time, right, the second time was 2020, when the party elites pushed out Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, so Elizabeth Warren would split the progressive vote with Bernie Sanders, which then made Biden the candidate.

00:14:12.180 Both times, both times, people knew this was happening.

00:14:16.800 Now, this time, even though she was deeply, deeply unpopular with Democratic voters, remember, she came in last.

00:14:27.900 She bailed.

00:14:29.480 Nobody liked her.

00:14:31.860 She's now apparently going to be the candidate because they thwarted the primary system, so they didn't let the people speak. 0.81

00:14:40.020 And now they're going to go to an open primary.

00:14:42.880 That's what they're actually calling for.

00:14:44.900 It is crazy for the Democratic Party, the ones that are shouting that, you know, we're headed towards a dictatorship where the elites will call all the shots.

00:14:56.100 They have the elites calling all the shots.

00:15:00.260 You know, it was a very small number of Democratic Party donors and the media that chose Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Harris.

00:15:08.020 It was the media that influenced the donors and decided Biden should go after his, you know, they should go after him on the disastrous debate performance.

00:15:19.100 The ordinary Democrat, really, do you realize you don't have a voice anymore? 0.93

00:15:25.920 When the media insisted he was fine, you just jumped on board with the media saying, yeah, see, you guys are liars.

00:15:35.160 How many times do they have to do this to you before you wake up and go, gosh, these guys are really not good people.

00:15:42.500 They're just not good people.

00:15:44.700 Well, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

00:15:49.100 You are sacrificing your own influence, your own liberty, your voice.

00:15:55.520 What, at the altar of not Trump?

00:15:58.080 How many people do you think in China and Russia and Iran right now are like, well, I don't know.

00:16:07.300 I mean, now it's a toss up.

00:16:10.420 Do we go for Kamala or Trump?

00:16:14.060 They're all going for Kamala Harris.

00:16:16.620 It's going to get even easier for them.

00:16:20.140 And here's how this is going to work.

00:16:21.900 So in early August, they're trying to put this together.

00:16:25.920 In early August, they're going to have an open primary.

00:16:29.880 So it'll be an open convention.

00:16:31.880 And they'll go out and say to all the delegates, who do you want to be president?

00:16:37.640 If they come up with Kamala Harris, then they're all going to be like, Kamala is the one.

00:16:42.860 But then on the second vote, it is open to the superdelegates.

00:16:50.500 These are about 5,000 of the super elites.

00:16:53.760 And the super elites get to vote.

00:16:56.620 And whatever the super elites get to vote, whatever they vote, well, that's going to probably be, well, that's more important than the other delegates.

00:17:04.920 I'll tell you that.

00:17:07.060 So you've got about 5,000 people total that are going to be making the decision in Chicago on who you can have as your choice for president of the United States.

00:17:21.840 And it's all caused by the same people who are now voting.

00:17:25.320 They're all the ones that told you he was fine.

00:17:28.060 They're all the ones that said, no, no, no.

00:17:29.940 He's super, super moderate.

00:17:32.380 He's just a fuddy-duddy.

00:17:34.260 He's just a little old man that just means well.

00:17:37.860 And these are the people who are saving democracy, let's not forget.

00:17:42.440 This is all about democracy and how they're trying to save this country from the non-democratic Donald Trump.

00:17:52.980 And you know that that's right.

00:17:54.460 I mean, the super delegates are going to decide this thing next month.

00:17:58.780 It's absolutely what's going to happen.

00:18:01.840 And I don't think the super delegates and the super elite in the Democrat Party, I don't think they want Kamala Harris. 0.92

00:18:09.100 No, I don't.

00:18:09.920 I don't think so either.

00:18:11.080 I don't think so either.

00:18:12.120 You'll notice it.

00:18:13.060 Barack Obama did not endorse Kamala.

00:18:14.460 Right.

00:18:15.120 And they spoke yesterday.

00:18:16.300 Kamala.

00:18:17.380 Yeah.

00:18:18.440 And it's interesting to me.

00:18:20.840 I don't think that she's going to be the nominee.

00:18:24.660 I could be wrong, but I just don't think something's going to happen that will make it easy for her not to be the presidential candidate.

00:18:34.820 At least that's what I think.

00:18:38.500 I mean, they just don't want – the American people are not going to stand for another cramdown.

00:18:43.260 They're not.

00:18:43.720 And, oh, she's the first female black Asian president. 0.68

00:18:48.360 Nobody cares anymore.

00:18:49.740 They just don't care anymore. 0.83

00:18:52.260 And she's wildly unlikable. 0.75

00:18:56.480 Wildly.

00:18:57.220 I mean, first of all, the first female president didn't work with Hillary because she's as likable as Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:19:06.180 The two are just – you put them in a room together.

00:19:08.640 I think they cancel each other out.

00:19:10.000 I think they just disappear.

00:19:10.940 And her policies are a little crazy. 1.00

00:19:20.360 She does have policies, kind of. 1.00

00:19:23.340 At least we can look at her record and see what she was for and what she was against.

00:19:28.260 And it's going to be a – well, it's not an easy transition to make for most Americans and I believe most Democrats.

00:19:36.880 Okay, your God-given freedoms are up for grabs right now.

00:19:46.000 We don't know what our country is going to look like in six months from now.

00:19:50.880 There are people that have sworn a duty to protect your freedom.

00:19:57.240 And I don't think they're doing a very good job at it.

00:20:00.140 And, in fact, we are still now threatening with more war.

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00:21:26.400 Now back to the podcast.

00:21:27.500 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:21:32.640 So let me go to Carol Roth now, who is joining us.

00:21:38.580 She is the author of You Will Own Nothing, and a former investment banker.

00:21:44.100 I want to talk to her a little bit about Kamala Harris, but also about this so-called short, taking a short position against Donald J. Trump a day before the assassination attempt of 7-13.

00:21:59.180 She's been looking into it for us.

00:22:02.220 Carol, welcome.

00:22:03.960 Hi, Glenn.

00:22:04.840 Have you aged 12 years in the last 10 days like I have?

00:22:09.340 Yes, I have.

00:22:10.800 Yes, I have.

00:22:11.820 Yes, I have.

00:22:12.480 And I think we're going to age another 40 years by the end of the summer.

00:22:16.960 Yeah, I think you're right, unfortunately.

00:22:18.900 Okay, so tell me, is this true or not, the Trump media option story?

00:22:27.040 So this was one of the biggest stories going around social media, and certainly was very odd, right?

00:22:33.960 The day before he gets assassinated, there is this big set of options contracts betting against the stock, saying that they were betting that the stock was going to fall massively.

00:22:46.680 Millions and millions of contracts.

00:22:49.360 And, of course, everybody's tying, what does this mean, what does this mean?

00:22:52.680 So this is what I found based on publicly available information.

00:22:57.560 So registered investment advisor called Austin Private Wealth, as you mentioned, they have to file what's called a 13F filing.

00:23:05.720 This is a disclosure filing that's required quarterly from any investment manager that has more than $100 million in assets under management.

00:23:16.800 And basically, it lists all of their equity holdings, which usually includes equity-related options and other ETFs and stocks and the like, at the end of every quarter.

00:23:28.240 And since after the quarter ends, it takes a little bit of time to gather the data, that's usually filed within a few weeks after the end of the quarter.

00:23:39.380 So the filing for Austin Wealth, as of the end of June, was made on July 12th.

00:23:46.800 So people who sort of, you know, think that this was reflective of something that happened on July 12th didn't really appreciate that this was an end of June report that was filed on July 12th.

00:23:58.940 So that sort of set off the first wave of conspiracies.

00:24:02.480 The second thing, very unfortunate, is that they had a third-party vendor, apparently, according to their press release, that had erroneously misstated their positions.

00:24:14.940 And that meant that for the Trump media group, they had put, instead of putting 12 contracts, which represented 1,200 shares, because each contract is 100 share, it showed that they had 12 million share equivalents.

00:24:34.380 So, you know, that sounds a little sketchy.

00:24:36.760 Why would they do that?

00:24:37.760 But they did that on every single call-and-put option that they had listed.

00:24:42.480 So it was, you know, for NVIDIA, they had 370 million shares listed, Bank of America, 110 million shares.

00:24:49.800 So this was a clear error across the board.

00:24:52.560 And because I don't believe anything, I went back and I checked all of the previous filings.

00:24:57.740 And in all of the previous filings, they had a normalized number of contracts being shown.

00:25:04.240 So it was clear this was a mistake and it was an outlier.

00:25:07.580 So when you put these two things together and you look like it looks like there's so many shares and it's done at a time period that looks like it was the, you know, Friday before the assassination attempt, but really that was just a filing date.

00:25:22.020 It got very blown out of proportion and they recognized their error and they did a new filing that they had to amend with the SEC.

00:25:31.220 And this is on July 16th.

00:25:33.540 And for anybody who's super nerdy and likes to go through and look at filings, this is all available on the SEC site, Edgar, which allows you to find, you know, all the filings, the publicly available filings that are made by companies.

00:25:47.920 So it's an unfortunate mistake in terms of timing and sort of the scope of the mistake that was made.

00:25:55.180 Okay.

00:25:56.360 Let me take the next one.

00:25:59.460 And that is CrowdStrike.

00:26:03.220 There was a major outage this weekend and they say it was just a release of new software and it was, you know, it was just an error that nobody caught.

00:26:13.280 How does that happen and put the United States, I mean, there were like 12 planes flying in the sky because of this and Europe was hit even harder than we were.

00:26:25.200 Yeah, this is, you know, I've talked about Nassim Taleb before in previous books and things like that.

00:26:32.640 And he's the author and sort of coiner of the phrase, the black swan and wider use.

00:26:38.320 Right.

00:26:38.740 And they talk about these systemic risks that are being brought on by the fact that we're all so interconnected and technology is really exacerbating the systemic risk.

00:26:51.140 In fact, it's one of the reasons I argued and you want nothing that a central bank digital currency on top of all the other reasons made no sense because it increases, you know, that the idea that you could have this massive one off systemic risk instead of everything being decentralized and having maybe more frequent but smaller risks.

00:27:11.200 So when you have a firm that is tied into basically every major company on the planet and is impacting how their infrastructure runs, you're increasing the ability to have these huge systemic risks.

00:27:28.040 Now, how can this happen?

00:27:29.820 You know, is it intentional?

00:27:31.100 Is it a test run?

00:27:32.140 Is it just incompetence?

00:27:34.180 Unfortunately, I tend to think that we are in the era of incompetence.

00:27:39.380 And, you know, that is in many ways just as bad.

00:27:43.080 And we've seen in all of these different areas of our lives, these sort of lackadaisical policies and the fact that people are no longer in school taught, you know, merit and excellence and the value of their name and their work.

00:27:57.440 And they just want to be, you know, given things based on an equity.

00:28:01.620 And because I showed up, you know, you do get these worse outcomes.

00:28:06.360 And so, you know, how could it happen?

00:28:08.540 I mean, we all sit there and go, yeah, wouldn't you test for these things?

00:28:12.580 But, you know, that's sort of the reality we're living in.

00:28:15.720 And I think it really should highlight and put a giant red neon sign on the fact that we shouldn't all be on these same systems.

00:28:25.460 There should be some level of decentralization.

00:28:28.800 There should at least be a secondary fail safe because, you know, this is something that was massive and was able to be brought back up in short order.

00:28:38.440 But the next time that may not be the case.

00:28:41.260 And this is the kind of stuff you and I have been talking about in terms of preparation because, you know, what if you didn't have ATM access for multiple days?

00:28:49.740 What if you didn't have access to a pharmacy that couldn't get you your medication on time because, you know, they couldn't access their records?

00:28:58.880 I mean, there's so many things now that are all completely reliant on technology, which is great when it works 99 percent of the time.

00:29:06.060 And when it doesn't work, it can be a disaster.

00:29:08.600 So quickly, I just want to touch on Jamie Dimon being thrown around.

00:29:14.280 What a surprise that is when I saw him at Davos and he was like, you know, we should take a second look at Donald Trump.

00:29:19.160 I don't think he's that bad of a guy, but he's he wants to be Treasury secretary.

00:29:23.320 But I also saw a story that Donald Trump is friends with Larry Fink from BlackRock and would consider that.

00:29:29.920 I don't believe that.

00:29:32.140 I what have you heard?

00:29:33.700 And yes, I saw that headline as well, and I almost fell over, you know, in the Jamie Dimon versus Larry Fink.

00:29:42.940 I'm taking Jamie Dimon every single day or 24-7, 365, every single time.

00:29:49.780 Jamie himself has been positioning to get out of J.P. Morgan for the first time ever.

00:29:55.900 He said that, you know, he is no longer a he I'm going to be here for the next five years. 0.99

00:30:00.100 It's, you know, I'm I'm looking for a successor.

00:30:01.960 One of the things that you may or may not be aware of, and that's happened with Gary Cohn in the last administration, is that if you go into an administration, they make you sell all of your shares, which means you don't have to, at that point, pay the capital gains taxes on them.

00:30:19.300 So it's a really waiting, a really great way if you've got a lot of stock to get a windfall.

00:30:24.460 So and given the fact that Jamie Dimon is plugged in with all of all of these people and knows what's going on, I think that that's one to watch for Larry Fink.

00:30:34.360 I think we all need to raise our voices if that sounds like it's becoming something that's going to happen.

00:30:39.700 This is why I always tell you that for people who say, should I get out of the stock market, you have to remember, these guys are always taking care of their own.

00:30:49.360 If we're talking about Jamie Dimon in charge of things, what do you think his number one priority is going to be?

00:30:55.380 Wall Street.

00:30:56.260 Right.

00:30:56.540 So let me switch now to Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:31:01.980 Just based on the insane things she was for when she was a senator and running, what happens to the economy under Kamala Harris? 1.00

00:31:14.100 Yeah, this is very scary.

00:31:16.020 I mean, we know that Kamala doesn't have a lot of economic stats.

00:31:19.220 We know she likes Venn diagrams, but that's about it.

00:31:23.140 And yellow school buses.

00:31:24.820 Yes, and yellow school buses.

00:31:26.120 So that's sort of the extent of her economic knowledge.

00:31:30.420 And what's scary about that is it makes her more susceptible to the bad actors.

00:31:36.280 We already know that Biden was not the one who was running the last administration.

00:31:41.080 I mean, that's super clear to everyone.

00:31:43.100 He was positioned as a moderate, and he was the most destructive president economically and otherwise than we have seen in a lifetime.

00:31:50.140 So now you have the same people who are pulling the puppet strings, and now they have Kamala Harris,

00:31:55.140 who has, and I know that Justin Haskins, your co-authors, brought this up before.

00:32:00.640 She has a very checkered history.

00:32:03.700 She was, I think a lot of people forget this, she was one of the Senate sponsors, co-sponsors, of the original Green New Deal.

00:32:12.580 So she put her up there.

00:32:14.260 Which was insane.

00:32:16.040 Yeah.

00:32:16.440 I don't think people remember, because the Biden version is insane, too.

00:32:19.700 But this was like, you know, $100 trillion insane, and that was their estimate.

00:32:24.620 So this is somebody who is in the same league as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren when they're talking about policy.

00:32:32.340 We have her on video saying things like, I don't think there should be any private health care.

00:32:38.400 And if you go back to being somebody who wanted to step into that co-sponsorship, most of the senators did not want anything to do with that.

00:32:47.300 But there were a handful that did.

00:32:48.900 She stepped forward.

00:32:50.200 And if you start going through that, I mean, it's a socialization of everything.

00:32:53.480 It's not only just completely killing energy policy, but it's a socialization of labor and wages, and, you know, even more so of college, and, you know, all of these different government handouts and, you know, basic income programs.

00:33:10.620 So I think that people really need to be doubled down on, A, this is not only an extension of the Biden administration terrible policies, because the same people are pulling the strings.

00:33:22.180 But she's also aligned with every kooky socialist on the planet. 1.00

00:33:27.740 And this isn't a person with a lot of political clout and fortitude that says, no, you know what, I came from, you know, this area, I ran a business, you know, I'm strong in this, and I know.

00:33:38.760 I mean, do you think she has any idea what monetary policy is?

00:33:42.320 I can't imagine she does.

00:33:43.740 And that makes her extra, extra dangerous.

00:33:49.060 Thank you so much.

00:33:50.380 I appreciate it, Carol.

00:33:51.340 Thanks for all of the homework that you've done over the weekend to prepare for this segment.

00:33:55.880 I appreciate it.

00:33:57.040 Carol Roth, you can follow her at carolroth.com slash news, and you can get her updates on stories and the economy and also her book, You Will Own Nothing, from the former investment banker, carolroth.com.

00:34:15.040 Thanks, Carol.

00:34:16.240 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:34:18.180 Let's have a chat. 0.99

00:34:21.660 First of all, let me say hello to my best friend, Ray, who's sitting in for a stupid ear. 0.99

00:34:29.600 Hello. 0.98

00:34:30.640 Hello.

00:34:31.340 Hi.

00:34:32.020 That was thrilling to say hi to you.

00:34:33.940 Wasn't it, though?

00:34:34.540 Also, Steve Baker joins us.

00:34:38.280 Steve Baker is, of course, a menace to society, a dangerous man that should not be on the streets.

00:34:44.360 Somehow or another, he is still on the streets.

00:34:46.880 They have it.

00:34:48.060 And if you have a bad problem with parading in your town, God help you if Steve ever comes to town.

00:34:56.620 Steve, how are you, sir?

00:34:58.020 Hey, Glenn.

00:34:58.580 I'm good.

00:34:59.500 Thanks.

00:34:59.800 Steve is the investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent.

00:35:05.280 Have you been looking into the Secret Service problem?

00:35:10.360 I don't know what the problem is, but there's something there.

00:35:13.920 Glenn, in the last 10 days, I feel like I've been drinking from a fire hose on this.

00:35:19.040 I was actually in D.C.

00:35:21.160 I was pulling out of, actually, Fairfax County, just across the river there, at exactly the moment that the assassination attempt happened.

00:35:30.400 I regret wholly that I did not turn my car around because I was headed back home to Raleigh at the time.

00:35:36.100 I regret that I did not immediately drive to Butler County in Pennsylvania.

00:35:41.920 I don't know how far it is, four or five hours, whatever it was, from where I was located at the time, because we had an avalanche of really good on-the-ground intel that was coming in for the first 12 or 16 hours after the shots were fired.

00:35:56.420 But then came the gag order from Mayorkas all the way down the chain, and they not only instructed their on-the-ground Secret Service agents who were there that day, no more, zip it up, don't say a word. 0.98

00:36:11.740 Literally, the words were, if you want to keep your job, you're going to shut up.

00:36:16.340 You can't talk to your wife. 0.97

00:36:17.500 You can't talk to another Secret Service officer or agent, even outside of the investigation itself.

00:36:24.520 And so that came down.

00:36:27.280 It came down hard.

00:36:28.160 They also ordered all of the local police departments to follow the same gag order.

00:36:34.440 They ordered Pennsylvania State Police, the local sheriff's department, et cetera, et cetera.

00:36:38.700 So they put them all under the same gag order.

00:36:40.640 They weren't exactly 100% successful with some of the other agencies because we are still getting some information out.

00:36:47.600 But that's what I've been living now for the last nine, ten days.

00:36:53.400 Okay, well, there's nothing that gives people more confidence than gag orders.

00:36:58.160 Yeah.

00:36:58.780 Let me ask you a couple of things and see if you've looked into them yet.

00:37:05.600 The things that are disturbing beyond the 3% slope of that roof, which is so highly dangerous, is the shooter on the water tower.

00:37:16.500 Have you looked into that?

00:37:17.760 Yeah.

00:37:18.380 Look.

00:37:18.760 Is that true?

00:37:19.400 I have watched now – in fact, I was driving here to Dallas yesterday.

00:37:25.700 And so during that drive, I was able to pull up on YouTube all of these conspiracy theorists' videos about the multiple shooters.

00:37:31.180 So now we're two, three, even four shooters is what they're claiming.

00:37:36.100 And now the conspiracy theorists are now fighting amongst themselves about how many and where the shots came from and that sort of thing.

00:37:42.420 Look, I'm going to tell you this is the first time that we've revealed this publicly.

00:37:46.420 We did write an article.

00:37:48.700 Our first article was about the 448-yard shot that came from the Secret Service sniper, our counter sniper, that took out the kid crooks.

00:37:59.980 Which was far more distant than they originally said, right?

00:38:04.520 Correct.

00:38:04.660 Because it was supposedly from the 130 yards approximately that everybody showed the two counter snipers on.

00:38:13.520 Yeah, we published that story.

00:38:14.580 It came from like three times that.

00:38:15.800 Yeah, we published that story last Tuesday.

00:38:17.760 And then Trump, in his speech Thursday night, said – or he said, he said – and then the Secret Service sniper took him out from a much, much further distance than we had first learned.

00:38:27.860 Right.

00:38:28.080 So, we were kind of like, okay, yeah, thanks for the confirmation, Mr. President.

00:38:32.120 But the bottom line is, is that we've been able to, through our sources on the ground, we've been able to confirm that we know that the kid got off something on the order of eight shots.

00:38:44.700 They say six to eight.

00:38:45.980 We actually even have one local cop who is telling us that there were ten casings possibly found there on the top of that roof.

00:38:52.800 That, that's still nebulous.

00:38:55.400 So, we're sticking with the six to ten line right now.

00:38:59.720 But, no, there's no evidence whatsoever that a shot came from the water tower.

00:39:04.080 There is some evidence, though, that the counter snipers got off as many as three shots.

00:39:10.720 So, we know that one missed for sure.

00:39:13.320 We know that the guys that were behind them up on the – behind the stage, behind Trump, those counter sniper teams, we know that they did not make the connection.

00:39:21.740 We know that one of those definitely missed.

00:39:24.780 And then we also know because, as I said, we haven't revealed this yet, I actually had in my hands the telemetry from the counter snipers scope within an hour after the shooter was taken out.

00:39:38.720 Wow.

00:39:39.420 Now, I've not been allowed to publish that.

00:39:41.300 And there's reasons for that because there are good guys that were on the ground that were trying to help them keep their jobs.

00:39:47.720 So, that's the bottom line there.

00:39:50.400 So, does it tell us anything?

00:39:52.740 It tells us it was a 448-yard shot.

00:39:55.520 It tells us what the wind speed was.

00:39:56.900 It tells us how many clicks they made to compensate for distance and bullet drop, you know, that sort of thing.

00:40:01.780 But you can't say exactly where because that would –

00:40:04.160 That's correct.

00:40:05.300 That would reveal who took the shot.

00:40:07.400 So, Steve, what about the idea that they had seen him up to an hour before, they knew before something was wrong, saw him, you know, taking measurements before Trump even got on stage and nobody in secret service alerted the president or even thought about not going through with everything.

00:40:35.800 What about that?

00:40:36.720 Is that true?

00:40:37.360 It's even worse than that, Glenn.

00:40:39.340 We know that the counter snipers had crooks in their sight at least two minutes, maybe even as much as 10 minutes ahead of time.

00:40:48.600 We know that they had them in their sights.

00:40:50.900 But we know that they did not take him out and pull the trigger because – and this is where it gets fun.

00:40:57.740 And I'm watching Cheadle up here on television doing her, you know, testimony before Congress right now.

00:41:03.300 And this is where the cover-up begins and this is where the lies begin is because we now know conclusively that the counter-sniper teams were trying to, quote, unquote, de-conflict.

00:41:15.580 Now, what that means is is that we are told that there was supposed to be a counter-sniper team on top of the very roof, which Crooks fired his shot at President Trump.

00:41:27.380 So, did they think that was a counter-sniper?

00:41:29.300 They did know, and that was the problem.

00:41:31.380 They had a briefing.

00:41:32.420 Now, they did not have – they didn't get their – they didn't do their whole normal routine.

00:41:36.260 They weren't there days in advance.

00:41:37.700 The counter-sniper teams have a typical, you know, SOP, standard operating procedure.

00:41:44.420 None of that was done that day.

00:41:45.660 We know that.

00:41:46.380 We know that they did get a briefing and they were told where the other counter-snipers would be so they didn't shoot each other, right?

00:41:52.500 So, they were told.

00:41:53.500 And they were told there would be a team on that roof.

00:41:56.140 So, suddenly, they see somebody with a gun in the prone position.

00:42:01.040 Now, if they got him – if they got a good scope, they knew he had long hair.

00:42:04.200 They knew he had a gray T-shirt.

00:42:05.740 They knew he had on camo shorts.

00:42:07.280 They knew he didn't – wasn't dressed like a counter-sniper, right, from a professional police organization.

00:42:12.760 But they were told – and also, these sniper teams are always in pairs.

00:42:17.220 So, they couldn't see his spotter.

00:42:19.040 So, they're looking for his spotter.

00:42:20.380 Was he on the other side of that little slightly sloped roof?

00:42:22.720 There's a spotter behind a tree.

00:42:24.860 They couldn't find the spotter.

00:42:26.200 So, they were, quote-unquote, de-conflicting.

00:42:28.300 And this is where it gets bad, is that the policing agencies and the Secret Service were not on the same radio comms.

00:42:38.280 We know that the local county team had their own comm center.

00:42:43.640 We know that Secret Service had their own comm center set up.

00:42:47.400 But we also had shooters or counter-snipers from Pennsylvania State Police.

00:42:51.720 They weren't on the same comms.

00:42:54.040 So, the big failure there is when you're not on the same comms, you have another guy – you have a representative in each one of the command centers who's – basically, you cross-pollinate with the agency so that they can talk to each other.

00:43:05.020 So, you've got a handheld – okay, we're hearing this.

00:43:06.760 Can you radio your guys?

00:43:07.740 So, these guys, these snipers that had him sighted are calling this in.

00:43:12.060 They can't hear.

00:43:13.180 It gets even worse.

00:43:14.860 If this chatter is going on, the three guys that need to be hearing this are Trump's close detail guys on the stage with him.

00:43:23.780 Those three, the big, you know, professional-looking Secret Service guys that piled on top of him, they needed to be hearing that.

00:43:31.660 They weren't hearing it, which is why they did not intervene and pull him off the stage in advance of that attack.

00:43:35.900 Like, wow, incredible.

00:43:39.080 So, can you align what we do know with just gross incompetence?

00:43:48.980 I mean, incompetence at a biblical scale, you know?

00:43:54.280 It's time tens.

00:43:56.820 Can you square this?

00:43:58.520 I can't yet, Glenn.

00:44:01.920 I can't square it because when I look at these things, you must always go to government incompetence first.

00:44:10.360 All right.

00:44:10.660 You have to go there.

00:44:11.520 And then you talk about the largest government in the world.

00:44:13.620 It's going to be the most incompetent government in the world.

00:44:15.800 And these agencies are getting more and more incompetent because we know we've had discussions for the last week about the DEI hires.

00:44:23.800 And it was very obviously present there in those individuals protecting Trump that day.

00:44:28.860 And we're looking at it on television right now, the DEI hire being grilled by Congress right now.

00:44:35.380 But the point being is that we go to incompetence first, but I've never, ever seen this level of incompetence from the beginning to the end to every single level.

00:44:47.860 And now they are in full CYA cover-up mode.

00:44:51.820 Now, are they covering up the grand conspiracy or are they covering up the gross incompetence?

00:44:56.080 I don't know, but that's what they're doing because there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the FBI cannot be doing a press conference every day and saying this is what we found so far.

00:45:05.040 This is what we've learned to take away some of these conspiracies.

00:45:08.300 This is how many shell casings were on the roof.

00:45:10.500 These are not classified top secret things.

00:45:14.780 These are not hidden classified investigative techniques.

00:45:19.420 This is old world gumshoe work that they're doing right now.

00:45:23.180 And there's no reason they cannot be telling us what they're finding.

00:45:26.080 Have you heard that somebody was wearing a gray suit, went up, took photographs of the scene, came down, and they thought it was FBI or Secret Service, and he said, send this to the ATF?

00:45:41.460 Yeah.

00:45:42.480 And that the ATF is somehow involved in this.

00:45:45.340 Yeah, I've not been able to identify that yet, but having multiple agents on the ground or multiple representatives from multiple three-letter agencies is not uncommon, particularly in this time of year.

00:45:58.060 Every four years, the Secret Service is spread very thin.

00:46:01.400 I mean, let's be honest.

00:46:02.460 We have two conventions that are up there providing the advance protection, security, sweeping, all of those things that were going on, are supposed to be going on, both in Milwaukee and in Chicago.

00:46:11.640 And then you have multiple candidates, so they're spread out.

00:46:14.320 And then, of course, you know, Jill Biden was just there 30 miles away in Pittsburgh that day.

00:46:17.800 So they're spread thin.

00:46:19.240 So when they are, they call in tactical groups and representatives and security people from other three-letter agencies to help supplement.

00:46:27.460 So it's not uncommon that they were there, but they certainly shouldn't be taking the lead on this, not by any means.

00:46:33.420 And what about the slope of the roof, Steve, and them deciding that it was too dangerous for an agent to be up there?

00:46:41.920 If that's the case, if you really are afraid somebody's going to roll off the roof with a 3% grade slope, don't you position?

00:46:49.440 You're a kindergarten teacher.

00:46:51.020 Yeah.

00:46:51.360 And you position somebody at the ladder, right?

00:46:54.300 I mean, just to make sure nobody gets up there.

00:46:56.580 How is that possible?

00:46:58.120 Well, first of all, the roof should have not been accessible at all.

00:47:01.300 This was the first failure.

00:47:03.940 The first failure is that the advanced teams that come in, they do what they call they wedge all the access points.

00:47:10.420 So in other words, if it's a rally downtown, they weld all the manhole covers.

00:47:16.520 They actually put plywood on unmovable ladders.

00:47:20.660 They cover them up with plywood so that nobody can climb up a ladder.

00:47:23.860 If they're a removable ladder, they get removed.

00:47:26.180 All of these things that were supposed to have been done that day have not been done.

00:47:30.520 Now, and of course, look, again, I say, why don't we know on a daily basis?

00:47:37.960 They don't have to go into the failures right now, but the FBI, having taken over this investigation, needs to be telling us exactly every single day, this is what happened.

00:47:46.920 This is what the shooter did.

00:47:47.960 This is where he was.

00:47:48.880 This is where he went. 0.97

00:47:49.580 If you don't think they don't know every step he took, you're crazy.

00:47:52.520 They have geofencing on his cell phone.

00:47:53.920 They know every step he took that day, and there were what they call massed cameras there.

00:48:01.440 We don't have confirmation yet that there were drones or that there were helicopter cameras, but we do have overhead shots of the kid coming from somewhere, from somebody's camera, and it wasn't somebody with their cell phone 3,000 feet in the air.

00:48:15.640 Thank you so much for everything that you do, Steve.

00:48:21.660 How is your case coming?

00:48:24.340 They set a trial date for me in November, November 12th.

00:48:27.900 I don't think that that will happen then.

00:48:29.240 We just recently appealed just last week to the D.C. court about their stripping my rights to protect myself away from me.

00:48:37.220 So we are appealing to a higher court so that I can go about the country safely.

00:48:43.680 Let me know.

00:48:43.840 If you don't get that, I'll get you a burner launcher.

00:48:46.400 Thank you.

00:48:47.240 You should at least be able to protect yourself with that.

00:48:49.600 Yeah.

00:48:49.880 Steve, thank you so much.

00:48:50.960 I appreciate it.

00:48:51.480 Steve Baker, investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent.

00:48:54.360 Thank you, man.

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