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00:00:30.000 There's a ton that was happening on today's show.

00:00:32.840 We talked about RFK and the hearing.

00:00:36.960 Tulsi Gabbard, is she going to be somebody that's going to be confirmed?

00:00:40.580 I think she's going to have the hardest time. 0.90

00:00:42.300 We explain why.

00:00:43.420 Craig T. Nelson is on to talk about a new movie that he has done called Green and Gold that's excellent.

00:00:49.020 We talked to Congressman James Comer about the Biden family.

00:00:53.640 And will the Justice Department now start examining this?

00:00:58.080 Because whether anybody goes to jail or not, it has to be exposed.

00:01:01.580 And Pat is back from Mexico.

00:01:03.840 And he saw a few differences between the U.S. and Mexico.

00:01:07.640 He said he almost cried when he finally got back to America.

00:01:10.840 We take so much for granted here in the U.S.

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00:02:37.560 Tulsi Gabbard, her hearings begin tomorrow.

00:02:40.200 Those are going to be open, but the vote is in the skiff.

00:02:45.360 And here is here's the real problem.

00:02:48.440 Tulsi Gabbard has been charged by President Trump to go in and look at every single secret agency

00:02:55.440 and find out what the black ops are, what have they been doing, who is involved in any of this smear.

00:03:04.840 She's being smeared like crazy again today, again by the intelligence community.

00:03:11.000 And she's I think she's the most risky vote because it's it's a secret vote and it should not be a secret vote.

00:03:21.320 She is not. She doesn't have any high high top secret clearance yet.

00:03:25.840 She has none. So she's not going to be divulging any secrets.

00:03:31.180 And I want to know I may not have to hear everything.

00:03:36.880 If some things are sensitive, then, you know, I want security for the United States.

00:03:42.340 But this has been a secret vote since the Department of Homeland Security invented the job of Department of National Intelligence.

00:03:51.500 She oversees all the spooks.

00:03:53.680 And I want to know how my representative is voting, because without if they take a secret vote, then we don't know who's on our side, who's not.

00:04:02.740 I want to be able to say, wait a minute, Senator, why did you vote that way?

00:04:09.920 This is a way for them to be cowards and do things.

00:04:12.580 I mean, you don't understand how many senators and congressmen have said to me in secret outside looking around being very paranoid.

00:04:25.060 You carrying a phone and then say they are spying on all of us that has to stop.

00:04:33.540 This is an oversight.

00:04:35.620 So you might want to call your congressman and make sure that they vote or your senators and make sure that they vote for Tulsi Gabbard and demand that it's not a secret vote.

00:04:46.880 You can make a difference.

00:04:48.500 With that said, before I go to Pat, let me just give you one other piece of news that just came in from Ron DeSantis, who was on yesterday's program.

00:05:00.420 He said, I want you to thank all the listeners of your program yesterday, Glenn, who have supported the strong immigration proposals in Florida.

00:05:09.660 They called, they wrote to the Florida legislatures to insist on the strongest law possible.

00:05:18.060 Please keep up the calls and the letters for the provisions that are currently missing from the legislature's latest bill.

00:05:25.460 So they started to make, you made a difference yesterday.

00:05:28.820 Keep it up.

00:05:29.520 They're starting to move his way.

00:05:31.540 But you've got a lot of rhinos in Florida that are trying to play the old game.

00:05:39.700 Don't get DeSantis' bill through or you're going to lose Florida.

00:05:45.440 You're going to lose what you have.

00:05:46.900 The minute he's gone, these weasels will come back in and screw it all up again.

00:05:52.160 Be strong and send a strong message to the legislature.

00:05:56.280 Hello, Pat Gray.

00:05:56.980 Welcome.

00:05:57.460 Hello, Glenn Beck.

00:05:58.180 You just got back from Mexico, right?

00:06:00.500 I did.

00:06:01.300 Yeah.

00:06:01.540 How was that?

00:06:02.360 It was awesome.

00:06:03.380 It was great.

00:06:03.900 It was eye-opening, though.

00:06:05.400 You know, you realize just how much we take for granted in the United States.

00:06:13.740 Every time I travel, I come back and go, oh, thank God I'm back in the United States.

00:06:17.380 Yeah.

00:06:17.800 Oh, Jackie and I were both that way.

00:06:21.160 We nearly wept as we flew over the DFW area coming back home.

00:06:26.400 I mean, it's so tragic to see what they have to put up with in Mexico. 1.00

00:06:32.840 What do you mean?

00:06:33.380 I mean, it's a nation with incredible resources.

00:06:36.420 You know, they have oil.

00:06:37.720 They have agriculture.

00:06:39.980 They have tourism.

00:06:40.700 They could be very wealthy.

00:06:41.040 They could.

00:06:41.760 Yeah, very wealthy.

00:06:42.440 They could.

00:06:43.540 But their leadership squanders it because they're corrupt.

00:06:47.140 And, you know, it's pretty bad when the water is so bad that you can't even brush your teeth with it.

00:06:54.100 You can't even put it in your mouth to spit it back out because it's too dangerous to do that.

00:07:00.480 You can't even flush toilet paper down a toilet.

00:07:03.960 The sewer system is so screwed up.

00:07:06.700 I don't know how they put up with it.

00:07:09.560 I don't know why they put up with it.

00:07:11.880 I guess they're used to it now.

00:07:13.700 I mean, again, if we didn't have Donald Trump, we would be in that situation and we just have to put up with it.

00:07:23.700 They don't have a Donald Trump and anybody who looks like could be a Donald Trump.

00:07:27.600 They're killed by the cartels.

00:07:29.340 Yeah, it's true.

00:07:30.200 I mean, it does show you what 50 or 100 years of socialism brings you.

00:07:34.820 Yes.

00:07:35.420 And corruption with corruption.

00:07:37.420 Yes.

00:07:37.740 Yeah.

00:07:37.900 And the cartels are in control of a lot of what happens there.

00:07:42.760 Where did you go?

00:07:43.480 We went to Valladolid first and then we went to Tulum, which are, you know, Tulum's kind of a trendy, new touristy area now.

00:07:52.000 Oh, well, you scream trendy.

00:07:54.280 Don't I, though?

00:07:55.180 Right?

00:07:55.820 You scream trendy.

00:07:56.440 If people see me and hear me, they think, he might not scream trendy, but he does scream tourist when he's in Mexico.

00:08:03.660 That's for sure.

00:08:04.100 That I'm sure of.

00:08:05.240 That's for sure.

00:08:06.120 Military presence there.

00:08:07.400 I know in Cancun, it's heavy.

00:08:09.640 Yeah.

00:08:09.960 It's not as heavy as it is in Cancun, but there's still pretty serious military presence.

00:08:14.440 You see them driving around in their Humvees and the Jeeps with the AR-15s or AK-47s.

00:08:22.700 I'm not sure what they use.

00:08:23.900 And they're on the street corners on the main strip where the tourists all walk down the street all day long.

00:08:31.520 So there is a serious presence there.

00:08:33.420 But you can't even trust that.

00:08:34.580 No.

00:08:35.380 You can't.

00:08:35.800 And I was told when I was there, hey, don't ever carry cash with you if you rent your car.

00:08:41.560 Because when they pull you over, they will find a way to take it all from you.

00:08:46.700 I'm like, well, we have that in America.

00:08:48.580 It's called civil asset forfeiture.

00:08:50.500 So I'm pretty used to that.

00:08:51.960 In Mexico, they have just called corruption.

00:08:54.820 Yes.

00:08:55.820 And that's what they said.

00:08:56.680 We at least give it a fancy name.

00:08:57.640 They said the cops are so corrupt there that if you get pulled over and they know that you have any sort of –

00:09:03.160 because they offered to accept your ticket right then and there.

00:09:07.180 And they usually find a way when they find that you have money to take it all.

00:09:12.040 That is so – can you imagine living that way?

00:09:14.300 No.

00:09:15.100 I mean, that's where we were headed.

00:09:17.980 It is where we were headed.

00:09:19.860 You couldn't trust the police.

00:09:21.700 You couldn't trust the FBI.

00:09:23.200 I mean, I still don't.

00:09:24.220 I trust my local police, but I don't trust the FBI, don't trust the justice system.

00:09:31.380 I mean, look at what Donald Trump is taking on right now in this last week.

00:09:36.080 When you were on vacation, I'm assuming you saw some of it.

00:09:40.740 Yes.

00:09:41.300 What were your thoughts, and did you hear anybody in Mexico say anything?

00:09:44.860 It felt too good to be true.

00:09:47.180 I mean, the things that he was doing were a dream just a few months ago.

00:09:52.580 Right.

00:09:53.180 And remarkably, he's still doing more.

00:09:55.420 Every day, he would come in and we're like, oh, my gosh.

00:09:58.220 You could tell Doge is in effect with this –

00:10:00.480 Oh, yeah.

00:10:01.440 I'm sure we'll get into it later.

00:10:02.780 Fork in the road.

00:10:03.760 Yeah, this idea that every single employee gets this email saying,

00:10:07.400 you can just respond, resign to this email, and then we'll pay you until September,

00:10:12.060 which may get overturned in the courts.

00:10:14.300 But it's the exact thing that they did with Twitter, right?

00:10:17.380 Uh-huh.

00:10:17.860 And it started the same way.

00:10:19.720 It started the same way.

00:10:20.400 Yeah, the letter to the Twitter employees and the letter to the government employees

00:10:25.440 started with a fork in the road.

00:10:28.140 Yeah.

00:10:29.060 And I think that's great.

00:10:30.740 I don't have a problem with that.

00:10:31.920 I don't have a problem with it either.

00:10:32.840 I mean, there's some clause that you can pay employees $25,000 for them to resign.

00:10:40.360 Like, that's in the law.

00:10:41.540 It's like the Homeland Security Act for some reason.

00:10:43.480 It's in there.

00:10:43.940 But paying people until September would go well over that for a lot of employees.

00:10:48.580 So they may have trouble with that particular part of it.

00:10:51.200 But again, all these things are getting challenged.

00:10:52.840 Pretty generous, though.

00:10:53.580 Constantly.

00:10:54.500 That's pretty generous.

00:10:56.020 It still saves, what was it, $150 million a year?

00:10:59.520 Oh, it would save a fortune.

00:11:00.720 It depends on how many people take it.

00:11:02.280 Right.

00:11:03.240 But I would take it.

00:11:04.380 If I were in the administration, I'd be like, you know, they're going to find a way to cut.

00:11:10.820 I've done my deal.

00:11:12.320 I mean, unless you're hardcore, I think I would take it.

00:11:16.360 And I think, of course, this is part of the reason.

00:11:18.960 It's the same thing Elon Musk did and the same thing that he's doing here.

00:11:22.140 If you are an opponent of Donald Trump and are working at a job that you're now executing

00:11:27.000 policy that you disagree with.

00:11:28.640 I mean, like, look, I'm sure there are good liberal workers who are in there because they

00:11:33.280 got in there and they wanted to do they wanted to change the world and help people.

00:11:36.580 And they go in there and all of a sudden, like, they're cutting these programs.

00:11:40.180 They probably don't want to stay in that job.

00:11:41.960 And so this gives them the opportunity to get out.

00:11:44.540 Of course, there are millions and the majority are liberal in government.

00:11:51.200 They believe that government is the way to fix things.

00:11:55.440 So they go into those government jobs.

00:11:57.500 Yeah, it makes sense.

00:11:58.040 We don't believe that.

00:11:59.420 So we don't go into those jobs.

00:12:01.260 We go into the private sector.

00:12:02.060 Correct.

00:12:02.380 And get victimized by those other people.

00:12:04.180 I know.

00:12:04.820 So, I mean, it only makes sense that our government is riddled with socialist or big government

00:12:13.140 people, especially over the last few years with what's been happening with our educational

00:12:17.340 system.

00:12:18.460 They're just pumping them out like crazy.

00:12:20.720 Yeah.

00:12:20.900 And this is a great way to just, you're going to wind up getting, I don't know, how many

00:12:24.520 people accept this?

00:12:25.540 A quarter?

00:12:26.700 I don't know.

00:12:27.280 Probably a lot of people.

00:12:28.720 10%.

00:12:29.160 I would think a lot.

00:12:29.900 I don't know.

00:12:30.580 Whatever it is, it's going to be a large, broad number of people who are like, you know

00:12:34.040 what?

00:12:34.180 I'll get paid till September and I'll find a new gig.

00:12:36.500 And like, that's a great setup for somebody, right?

00:12:40.460 I'd much rather pay them till September to do nothing, but there's an end date on it.

00:12:45.700 Then continue to pay them for what they're actually doing because whatever that is, isn't

00:12:49.340 working.

00:12:49.620 And it certainly beats severance if you get fired anyway and we give you two weeks and

00:12:54.300 we say, see ya.

00:12:55.180 Yeah.

00:12:55.800 This is a way better option for you.

00:12:58.140 Which was implied quite clearly in the email.

00:13:00.620 Yeah.

00:13:00.820 Yeah.

00:13:01.120 You're probably going to get fired anyway, so you might as well take this.

00:13:04.340 And they probably are.

00:13:06.100 I really think Donald Trump is serious this time about reducing the size of government.

00:13:11.620 Oh.

00:13:11.840 I really think he's going to.

00:13:12.900 Yeah.

00:13:13.120 Oh, I think he's serious about all of it.

00:13:15.700 Yeah, I do too.

00:13:16.180 I mean, he, you know, it takes on watching him now, everything he told me over the summer

00:13:22.340 and during the election, it, it changes the way I viewed that.

00:13:28.200 I knew he intellectually was there.

00:13:30.820 Yeah.

00:13:31.380 But this shows that he not only was intellectually there, he began planning this a long time ago

00:13:38.980 and has the basis covered.

00:13:41.540 The way he's doing things is, is remarkable.

00:13:45.320 It's incredible.

00:13:46.180 I mean, he's said this a few times, but I really think it's true. 0.99

00:13:48.960 I think he's, he's had the most consequential eight days in office.

00:13:53.020 Ever.

00:13:53.340 In history.

00:13:54.040 Oh, yeah.

00:13:55.000 Ever.

00:13:55.240 It's been intense.

00:13:56.020 It has.

00:13:56.820 It's been intense.

00:13:57.520 And I feel.

00:13:58.240 And intensely good.

00:13:59.380 Yeah.

00:14:00.160 And I will say, like, I feel like we've missed things.

00:14:03.400 I, at least.

00:14:04.000 Oh, I know we have.

00:14:04.920 Because I've, we've talked about a lot of these things and I've, it's impossible to do

00:14:08.640 a deep dive in all of them.

00:14:09.500 Guys, guys, this is, you and I, we, the three of us were together during Obama.

00:14:14.920 Remember?

00:14:15.660 Yeah.

00:14:15.760 We couldn't keep up with it because he overwhelmed the system.

00:14:20.680 The media can't keep up with this.

00:14:23.280 We can't keep up with this because he's overwhelming the system.

00:14:27.120 It's brilliant.

00:14:28.460 It is.

00:14:28.880 He's using Cloward and Piven in reverse.

00:14:32.060 Against them.

00:14:32.560 Against them.

00:14:33.320 I will say, though, this is the new norm, isn't it?

00:14:36.120 There's no way a Democrat gets into office and doesn't do the same stuff now.

00:14:39.480 This is it.

00:14:39.980 That's why, that's why we have to win.

00:14:42.700 That's why we must win in two years.

00:14:45.460 We must win every single election until the end of time.

00:14:48.100 And these.

00:14:48.420 Well, no, I mean, no.

00:14:49.320 Because if you can, if you can codify these things, otherwise, the next president.

00:14:54.220 It's got to be backed up with legislation.

00:14:55.040 It has to be.

00:14:55.960 We have to stop this executive order stuff.

00:14:58.460 Yes.

00:14:58.880 To get a hold of the country, we have to do it that way now.

00:15:02.280 But it's got to be codified.

00:15:04.240 Otherwise, we're just going to keep doing this over and over again.

00:15:06.680 And no country will survive those wild swings.

00:15:09.920 None of them.

00:15:10.720 Pat, good to have you back.

00:15:11.660 Thank you very much.

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00:16:37.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:16:42.480 All right, let's go to James Comer, who is with us, congressman from Kentucky.

00:16:48.260 Welcome, congressman.

00:16:49.300 How are you?

00:16:50.700 I'm well.

00:16:51.220 Thanks for having me on.

00:16:52.100 It is great to have you on.

00:16:53.480 I want to look at your book and what we found, but I want to frame it in a way of – it's just frustrating to talk about all this stuff.

00:17:04.240 That we know if nothing is going to change.

00:17:08.460 So tell me what you found and how we can actually make sure this doesn't happen again on either side.

00:17:16.000 Well, we found two things.

00:17:17.400 First of all, obviously, we found that the Bidens were on the take.

00:17:20.720 What the media tried to say about the Bidens was they were in business like Jared Kushner and Donald Trump.

00:17:29.520 But what we found in our investigation when we started subpoenaing bank records and things like this and bank violations, that was the big thing.

00:17:37.200 The suspicious activity reports was that they didn't have a legitimate business.

00:17:41.420 They had all these LLCs.

00:17:44.120 They had about 26 or 27 LLCs, and at least 20 of them were flat out what's called shell companies.

00:17:52.600 They were not real legitimate businesses.

00:17:55.300 The banks flagged them.

00:17:56.460 They said that their client, when they would ask Hunter Biden, what is this LLC, he would say it's an investment company, and then the bank examiners would be communicating with each other when we subpoenaed the emails from the banks.

00:18:10.340 And they would say, the client says this is an investment company, but it has no investments, which is a shell company.

00:18:19.420 They were using these shell companies to launder money from these foreign nationals, and I would argue from the country of China, not from a Chinese energy company like the media said.

00:18:32.260 According to Tony Bobulinski, yeah, it was the Chinese Communist Party just bribing the Bidens.

00:18:38.860 They would then launder it in incremental payments to 10 different family members.

00:18:44.200 So we found out, first of all, the Biden family was on the take, and secondly, we found out that the government knew about it.

00:18:51.580 That's the thing.

00:18:52.420 The government knew.

00:18:53.380 There were four different government agencies investigating the Bidens.

00:18:58.060 They were hot on the trail.

00:18:59.280 That was the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

00:19:05.160 All had ongoing investigations, and when they would get to the point to where they would have to talk to Joe, because none of this money would be happening without Joe Biden.

00:19:15.080 Right.

00:19:15.580 And they were told to stand down.

00:19:17.180 So we found out the Bidens were on the take, and the government knew it, but there was a cover-up.

00:19:22.320 Now, how does somebody get that kind of power to, say, stand down?

00:19:28.160 That's a great question, and that's what we call, what I call the deep state.

00:19:33.780 These were deep state bureaucrats.

00:19:35.880 It wasn't necessarily the Christopher Wray's or the James Comey's.

00:19:41.300 It was the embedded bureaucrats, the unelected bureaucrats who actually run these government agencies.

00:19:47.980 And a lot of people think, okay, Trump's won the election.

00:19:51.420 He's come in.

00:19:52.400 He's going to put Cash Patel, who I love and I already communicate with, and he's the right guy for the job.

00:19:58.380 But Cash is going to have to fire a lot of career people in the FBI.

00:20:03.700 And, you know, the way the civil service laws are, you can't fire them.

00:20:09.260 And that's what happened to Trump the first administration.

00:20:12.040 He wanted to fire some of these people in the bill bars of the world.

00:20:16.180 They would say, oh, you can't, or the James Comey's of the world.

00:20:19.360 They're going to. This time, they're going to try.

00:20:21.200 Yeah, they're going to.

00:20:22.360 And that's how you stop it, because people think, we need to pass a law or fix this to where this doesn't ever happen again.

00:20:30.880 Well, the laws were in place.

00:20:32.740 The banks notified the Treasury that they thought the Bidens were on the take.

00:20:37.780 The suspicious activity reports that we got, and I have a banking background.

00:20:42.100 I knew this was a big deal when we found out that we're 150 of these suspicious activity reports.

00:20:49.820 I knew from being a director of a bank, you don't issue these things for nothing, because the bank examiners roll in when you issue one of these.

00:20:58.360 And you certainly don't do it on a prominent client, unless you know darn well they're committing financial crimes.

00:21:04.760 It was reported 150. We found 170 on the Bidens, plus another 50 that they were a part of, that they were subject to.

00:21:16.440 So 220 bank violations where the banks, six different banks, were notifying the federal government.

00:21:23.060 We think they're laundering money.

00:21:25.720 We think they're violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

00:21:28.460 We think they're violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

00:21:32.280 So the checks and balances were in place.

00:21:35.380 The government agencies knew it, but they were told to stand down.

00:21:38.840 And I believe, and I write this in my book, that I don't believe they did it because they loved Joe Biden.

00:21:45.800 I believe they covered up for Joe Biden because they hated Donald Trump, and they didn't want Donald Trump to come back in office.

00:21:53.540 And that's why they did it, in my opinion.

00:21:55.540 And also, perhaps, that the banks are getting an awful lot of money.

00:22:02.740 You know, all the bailouts and everything else, all the cozy relationship with the banks, the Fed, and the federal government bother me a great deal.

00:22:13.080 Because they should have, if they weren't getting any traction here, and everybody was denying it, shouldn't they have come to the American people and said,

00:22:27.280 hey, we just want you to know that we really, truly believe, or we have canceled our business with this client because of suspicious activity or something like that?

00:22:39.980 Shouldn't they have done that?

00:22:41.180 I can tell you, the banks were scared to death.

00:22:45.060 When I first, when we flipped the House, and I became chairman of the House Oversight Committee,

00:22:50.120 one of the first meetings I had in January, when we were still trying to get a speaker elected that first week, was with Jamie Dimon.

00:22:58.000 And I write about it in my book, All the President's Money.

00:23:00.720 And he's the CEO of J.P. Morgan.

00:23:03.340 I knew J.P. Morgan was one of the banks that had a bunch of violations on the Biden.

00:23:10.820 And I said, I'm going to hopefully have subpoena power in a week or two.

00:23:16.920 And I just want you to know, I'm going to subpoena you and J.P. Morgan for these bank violations.

00:23:23.740 And I thought he would, you know, bark at me or whatever.

00:23:27.220 But he wanted me to have those banks.

00:23:30.100 And the other five banks, you're talking about Wells Fargo.

00:23:33.200 You're talking about Bank of America.

00:23:35.380 I mean, they wanted me to have, because they were screaming.

00:23:38.680 I mean, you don't issue a suspicious activity report on someone and not get the bank examiners to roll in.

00:23:45.820 But these banks were issuing dozens and dozens, and they had communicated amongst themselves

00:23:50.980 and knew that other banks were doing the same thing.

00:23:53.760 And they couldn't believe that the government wasn't doing anything.

00:23:58.540 And then that, you know, when the laptop came out, that, you know, they saw some of these emails on there

00:24:06.580 that alluded to the banks were after the Bidens.

00:24:10.560 And the media was saying, oh, there's nothing there.

00:24:13.020 It's Rudy Giuliani making stuff up.

00:24:15.100 It's right-wing crazy people like Comer saying the Bidens are corrupt when it's Russian collusion.

00:24:23.180 This is Vladimir Putin telling Republicans what to say.

00:24:27.280 And, I mean, to the banks, I'll defend the banks in this.

00:24:30.940 They were very cooperative.

00:24:32.340 They turned over.

00:24:33.340 I mean, they gave us the Biden bank records, which you think about it.

00:24:38.160 The sitting president of the United States, the banks gave the House Oversight Committee

00:24:44.080 the personal bank records of Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and all these shell companies.

00:24:51.600 And that's how we found it out.

00:24:54.180 How much money are we talking?

00:24:57.280 $35 million.

00:24:59.840 And according to the IRS whistleblowers, they never paid a penny of taxes on it.

00:25:04.760 Now, think about that.

00:25:05.600 What?

00:25:06.100 The Bidens would owe another $10 million in taxes.

00:25:09.700 What Hunter Biden got prosecuted on was the one legitimate thing he did.

00:25:15.780 So, the one legitimate source of income that Hunter Biden had over a 10-year period that

00:25:23.620 I looked at his bank record was from Burisma.

00:25:27.460 Burisma was a corrupt energy company in Ukraine, but it was a real company, and he was listed

00:25:34.840 as a director, even though he had no qualifications.

00:25:38.120 And they paid him an exorbitant amount of money, more than the directors of Chevron, Exxon, and

00:25:45.420 Mobile combined making a year he got.

00:25:48.260 But here's where he got – he didn't pay taxes on it.

00:25:52.000 He got a W-2 on it, and none of this other money he got a W-2 on because it was laundered

00:25:58.360 money.

00:25:59.020 But this was the one legitimate paycheck he got, even though it was unethical as hell.

00:26:04.460 Well, and he just didn't pay taxes on it.

00:26:07.320 Okay, so what –

00:26:08.300 It's like the Bidens think they don't – taxes are only for the little people, not for the

00:26:13.160 – not for them.

00:26:14.940 I have to tell you, you're going to have president after president after president do this stuff

00:26:19.300 if these people don't pay a price.

00:26:23.000 And whoever was involved, but now they've all been pardoned.

00:26:29.040 Will we still move forward and expose all of the players and all – everything?

00:26:36.800 The people have to know.

00:26:39.380 This has to be on record and fully transparent.

00:26:43.800 I'm begging Bondi and Patel to move forward on this.

00:26:49.180 I told them we will help on the House Oversight Committee.

00:26:51.640 I've got fighters like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace and Byron Donald and Scott

00:26:57.580 Perry, I mean, Andy Biggs.

00:26:59.920 We want to keep moving forward.

00:27:02.020 But all we faced is obstruction from the Department of Justice.

00:27:05.300 Now that we have a friendly Department of Justice, if they will pursue this – the one

00:27:11.840 set of bank records I could not get because of – and Trump talks about this a lot – presidential

00:27:17.360 immunity.

00:27:18.080 We could not get Joe Biden's bank records.

00:27:21.400 I would love to see Joe Biden's bank records because, you know, there were plenty of allegations

00:27:30.780 that the FBI had that Joe Biden was taking bribes and things like that.

00:27:36.560 We found the money of the allegations to the Bidens.

00:27:40.860 But not to him.

00:27:41.680 To Jim Biden and the Biden family.

00:27:43.380 That's why Joe Biden had to pardon his entire family because of our investigation.

00:27:49.000 And, you know, somebody said, well, why didn't anybody go to jail?

00:27:54.400 We did the report, and all we can do – a police officer can arrest someone, but he can't

00:28:01.180 sentence them to prison.

00:28:02.400 And that's kind of like we were the police officers.

00:28:05.180 The prosecutors wouldn't take it.

00:28:07.620 The prosecutors wouldn't take it.

00:28:09.400 They would just attack me, and I wrote the book, All the President's Money, because the

00:28:14.400 media would not cover this.

00:28:16.460 They would either say there was no evidence – and honestly, a lot of conservative media

00:28:21.700 would miss the point.

00:28:24.460 Like when – I'll give you an example, and I write about it in the book.

00:28:28.040 Tony Bobulinski did a great job in a public hearing, and he said that the money from China

00:28:35.020 was a bribe.

00:28:36.440 I mean, this is the guy that was in on the deal.

00:28:38.600 He said the money from China was a bribe.

00:28:40.980 It was $8 million, but then he got into an argument, if you'll remember, with Ocasio-Cortez

00:28:48.820 with AOC, where she said RICO wasn't a crime.

00:28:52.680 Well, that's all that was on the conservative media, the clip of Bobulinski getting into

00:28:58.460 it with AOC, which was good.

00:29:00.180 He made her look bad.

00:29:01.240 But at the end of the day, the message from the hearing should have been that the money

00:29:08.000 wasn't from a Chinese energy company like the media said.

00:29:11.060 It was a bribe.

00:29:11.500 The money was a bribe from the Chinese Communist Party.

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00:29:23.240 I think the last time I talked to this guy, he talked to me while I was doing the CNN TV

00:29:30.600 show.

00:29:31.140 I'm not sure.

00:29:32.260 He has become, I mean, he writes, he directs, he produces, he's an actor.

00:29:39.140 He is somebody that has grown from just an actor that you might see on television to done

00:29:46.020 some incredible things.

00:29:47.700 He's currently doing Pawpaw in Disney Junior's animated series Pupstruction.

00:29:54.080 He's reprising, or is it reprising, reprising his role as Dale Ballard from Young Sheldon

00:30:00.880 in its upcoming spinoff, George and Mandy's First Marriage.

00:30:05.120 He was Zeke Braverman in NBC's Parenthood.

00:30:09.400 He was in movies like The Family Stone, Poltergeist, I forgot about that, The Voice of Mr. Incredible,

00:30:15.420 Hayden Fox in Coach, and he is now starring as Buck, a struggling Wisconsin farmer in the

00:30:24.120 independent film Green and Gold.

00:30:26.980 Welcome to Craig T. Nelson.

00:30:28.720 Hey, Craig T.

00:30:29.260 How are you?

00:30:30.720 Hi, Glenn Beck.

00:30:31.540 How are you doing?

00:30:32.680 I'm good.

00:30:33.660 I think the last time you were on the show, I apologize for wrecking your career by having

00:30:38.460 you appear on my show.

00:30:40.720 But you proved me wrong.

00:30:42.060 You know, I wasn't a curse around your neck, because you are great.

00:30:47.000 Just great.

00:30:47.620 Oh, no.

00:30:48.560 Thank you.

00:30:49.120 I had such a great time with you.

00:30:51.000 You know, it was a lot of fun.

00:30:53.620 I thought it was maybe Fox, but I'm not sure I remember.

00:30:59.120 See, I thought so, too, but Stu said it was CNN.

00:31:02.060 I think it was Fox as well.

00:31:03.400 Maybe it was, yeah.

00:31:03.860 Yeah.

00:31:04.340 Because I remember you being very brave coming on the show.

00:31:07.040 I remember going, this guy is over.

00:31:09.140 He's never going to work a day again in his life.

00:31:12.320 You were doing all those uncover and discover things.

00:31:16.520 Yeah.

00:31:16.680 We were getting into the deep state.

00:31:18.640 I know.

00:31:19.500 Isn't it crazy how things have turned out now?

00:31:22.900 Yeah.

00:31:23.540 Yeah.

00:31:24.180 I mean, it's like completely revealed, right?

00:31:28.220 Yeah, it is.

00:31:29.300 And anyway, I don't know.

00:31:32.140 But I had so much fun with you.

00:31:33.980 Thank you.

00:31:34.460 Thank you.

00:31:34.720 So I want to talk to you about the new film that's coming out, Green and Gold.

00:31:38.980 This is a passion topic for me.

00:31:42.440 I'm a rancher.

00:31:43.680 And when I say a rancher, I own cattle and somebody else does all the work.

00:31:48.300 So I'm not really a rancher.

00:31:50.020 But I live in a small town, you know, half the year of about 400 people.

00:31:54.480 And they're all farmers.

00:31:55.940 And we're losing that way of life.

00:31:59.840 And it is being destroyed.

00:32:01.440 And that's what this film is about.

00:32:04.780 Yeah.

00:32:05.420 Yeah, it is.

00:32:06.280 It's, you know, my family has a farm in South Dakota.

00:32:10.360 And they've had, it's been about 150 years.

00:32:13.260 Wow.

00:32:13.720 It's been in the family.

00:32:15.140 And then my wife has a family farm in South Dakota also, which is really, she comes from

00:32:23.440 that environment.

00:32:25.320 And it's, it's one of those things that I think it goes unnoticed because the people

00:32:33.000 that are employed in the task of doing the work don't have time.

00:32:40.300 Yeah.

00:32:41.140 To get out and say, hey, look at us.

00:32:44.280 Yeah.

00:32:44.860 You know, we're having a problem.

00:32:46.860 And what happens is it just, they get turned under like this, like the field, you know,

00:32:53.880 they get plowed under and forgotten.

00:32:57.820 And it's a shame.

00:32:58.960 So this is, this is a movie about bringing that awareness, but also it's a, it's a bigger

00:33:04.100 story than that, Glenn.

00:33:05.400 It's, it's about the heart and soul of who these people might be and are, I think.

00:33:12.800 I tell you, I, you know, Thomas Jefferson, when they were, you know, designing the jury,

00:33:18.280 who's going to be in a jury box.

00:33:19.900 And some of the founders said, we should just have scholars, et cetera, et cetera.

00:33:23.620 And he said, I trust people that have their hands in the dirt every day.

00:33:27.820 I want the average person.

00:33:29.580 And there is something about that.

00:33:31.740 I think when we moved off of farms into cities, we lost a lot, a lot.

00:33:38.660 And we're about to lose all of it, I'm afraid.

00:33:40.820 Well, you, we lose where we come from.

00:33:45.080 Yeah.

00:33:45.920 And, uh, but I think, yeah, go ahead.

00:33:48.940 I was going to say, it's also though an understanding.

00:33:50.800 I mean, when you, when you grow up on a farm, you live on a farm, you, you, you know where

00:33:55.200 your food comes from, you know, the circle of life.

00:33:58.240 You just, you just have a different, you know, you have to depend on God and your neighbor.

00:34:05.740 I mean, it's just lessons that you don't get necessarily, you know, living in the

00:34:10.800 suburbs or in the city.

00:34:12.840 Yeah, exactly.

00:34:14.000 And the values that, uh, they hold dear and, and that they, that they believe in are, you

00:34:22.980 know, they're traditional and they mean something.

00:34:26.960 They may be conservative, but, um, for them and their lifestyle, uh, it's reflected in how

00:34:35.600 they deal with each other.

00:34:37.500 And I think, um, I think all we can do, I think it's, it's great that we can somehow

00:34:45.340 bring an issue to the floor that, uh, says something about these people and who they are.

00:34:53.400 Um, is it true?

00:34:56.260 I read that, uh, by the end of the film, everybody, it was a passion project for everybody.

00:35:02.640 Um, and on day one, you walked in and said, Hey, uh, you know, I, I, I, I know we're not

00:35:10.840 putting a lot of money into this, but I think it should have, you know, different cameras

00:35:15.720 or, you know, additional cameras, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:18.240 And you just took it out of your, your salary because you believed in this so much.

00:35:23.700 Oh yeah.

00:35:24.740 Yeah.

00:35:25.220 Well, they didn't have the money to do what they wanted to do.

00:35:29.100 The cinema, as you know, um, the, the scope of the movie is the land and the land is what

00:35:36.200 endears ourselves to who these people are and beauty of it.

00:35:41.460 And that kind of scope, you need, you need processing and you need the ability to go out

00:35:47.540 and shoot it. 0.84

00:35:48.540 Right.

00:35:49.600 So they needed another camera.

00:35:52.180 So I said, yeah, I'm like, Hey, let's do that.

00:35:54.440 You know?

00:35:55.700 And, uh, boy, they did, they got a, they really got a, it's a beautiful film.

00:36:00.740 So, so, you know, we've, we've talked a little bit about message, but if you haven't seen the

00:36:10.020 movie, you know, I have, but most people can't see it yet, um, explain the plot, sell it to

00:36:17.400 somebody who's like, okay, well, I like farmers, et cetera, but sell the movie.

00:36:21.820 A fourth generation guy, kind of a crusty guy, I've been, you know, he's got a farm that

00:36:29.280 he's trying to farm organically and he doesn't use machinery.

00:36:34.200 He's got some draft horses, but he has the best clover in the area.

00:36:41.280 And, uh, he's got the best cream and the best butter and he's proud of it and he's trying

00:36:48.540 to make a go of it, but the milk prices are rising and falling and sure enough, he's going

00:36:54.760 to lose his place.

00:36:55.720 And he's trying to hold it together.

00:36:57.980 He's just trying to hold it together for his, got a granddaughter who's working on the farm

00:37:03.940 and, uh, he's, he's already lost a daughter, um, to a dream that she had and he doesn't

00:37:11.980 want to lose a granddaughter.

00:37:13.240 So he's got pretty tight cramps on it.

00:37:16.960 And so it's a story of, it's a story of trying to keep something you love and making a mistake

00:37:24.740 probably in how you're raising your granddaughter and then seeing the repercussions of that.

00:37:31.900 Um, and also bringing a guy to faith that, uh, is, I think one of those people that's,

00:37:41.260 uh, hard to reach.

00:37:43.220 Um, so I, I really identified with it in that regard.

00:37:47.360 It kind of covers a wide range.

00:37:49.960 I, I, I related to, uh, I mean, I've had this conversation over and over again.

00:37:56.080 Um, my kids want to live in a city and I wanted to live in a city when I was a kid, but,

00:38:01.620 uh, you know, we bought this ranch and I hope my kids will take it for generations because

00:38:09.380 it, it, it's just a superior lifestyle.

00:38:12.280 I think you just, it's just more rooted in reality.

00:38:15.860 Um, but you know, sitting there looking at your kids and going, are they going to take

00:38:20.120 this?

00:38:20.840 Especially if it's been in your family for, you know, generations.

00:38:24.820 It's kind of the Yellowstone story really without all the killing and stuff.

00:38:30.920 Yeah.

00:38:31.320 Without all the drug running.

00:38:37.900 Yeah.

00:38:38.340 Right.

00:38:39.120 Yeah.

00:38:39.640 Yeah.

00:38:40.520 No, this is, yeah.

00:38:41.560 It's about heart, you know, and it's also about trying to find it.

00:38:44.900 And that's what it's so, I love about the movie.

00:38:50.180 Well, I want to thank you for coming on the program and, uh, uh, enjoy talking to you again.

00:38:55.540 Uh, and, and thank you for your bravery.

00:38:58.000 I mean, you were brave when really no one was brave.

00:39:02.200 Do you think things are changing or is it just going out of Hollywood?

00:39:07.400 No, I don't think things are changing, Glenn.

00:39:11.460 I think what we're reading is, uh, is in the Bible and, um, and what we're seeing is

00:39:20.800 definitely, uh, coming about.

00:39:25.840 It's, uh, it's, it's quite frightening for me.

00:39:30.940 Uh, but it's a wake up call, isn't it?

00:39:33.420 Yeah, it is.

00:39:33.940 I, I tell you, I, I am still there that we are living in, uh, those days.

00:39:40.680 Uh, uh, some of the, I feel like the Lord gave us a little bit of a pressure relief, but,

00:39:47.220 uh, but now it's up to us.

00:39:50.080 I mean, he's only going to do what we can't do and we couldn't have averted that bullet,

00:39:53.940 but he did.

00:39:55.280 Uh, and, uh, and now we're expected to do all the hard work and, you know, it's, uh,

00:40:02.480 it's an amazing time to be alive.

00:40:05.560 It is.

00:40:06.260 And we have to do the most with it and do what we can to, um, to get the message to people.

00:40:13.100 You know?

00:40:13.780 Yeah.

00:40:14.500 Um, that we have to do something.

00:40:18.140 Craig T.

00:40:18.780 Thank you very much.

00:40:19.820 God bless you.

00:40:21.220 Good to talk.

00:40:21.900 Thank you, Glenn.

00:40:22.440 You bet.

00:40:22.840 Good to talk to you.

00:40:23.400 Uh, Craig T.

00:40:24.700 Nelson.

00:40:25.020 The name of the, uh, movie is Green and Gold.

00:40:28.880 It is coming to theaters nationwide on January 31st.

00:40:33.900 Uh, and I highly recommend it.

00:40:36.560 It's really good.

00:40:37.120 Several people on the staff and I have watched it and, uh, highly recommend it.

00:40:41.360 Really, really well done.

00:40:43.880 Uh, and a great story that you will relate to.

00:40:46.400 Green and Gold.

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