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00:00:00.380 One day before our special on socialism that you're going to be able to find everywhere, that's tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern.

00:00:07.300 You don't want to miss it. Socialism, a warning from the dead.

00:00:10.940 We ask that you come with an open mind and you really, really pay attention to what we're going to share with you tomorrow.

00:00:18.800 Something that the rest of the media will not share.

00:00:21.720 And it kind of ties into some of the news that was breaking today about Venezuela.

00:00:25.920 We have an update during the show from Venezuela on what is actually going on there.

00:00:32.240 Also, John Solomon is with us to talk about how they did find a collusion.

00:00:37.920 He and his reporting has found collusion, not with the Trump administration, but with the Obama administration.

00:00:47.520 Wait until he lays this story out for you.

00:00:50.400 It's pretty remarkable.

00:00:51.580 We also look at Joe Biden's new speech impediment, which is kind of disturbing.

00:00:58.140 And in what I would think is one of the highlights of the show, Stu breaks down the Clarence Thomas and Biden argument.

00:01:06.600 They are changing our history in real time.

00:01:10.620 And it's really, really important and good as well.

00:01:16.320 And don't forget, tomorrow night, Wednesday night, May 1st, May Day, is the date of the special that we're airing called Socialism.

00:01:24.300 Oh, the coincidence.

00:01:25.700 Socialism, a message from the dead.

00:01:27.700 How did socialists turn a capitalist country in just three years to socialism?

00:01:32.440 Going back, looking at how it happened then and how they're attempting the same thing right now.

00:01:38.940 It is an incredible look at history and also, unfortunately, our present.

00:01:43.460 Socialism, a message from the dead.

00:01:45.500 It's available for free.

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00:01:58.560 It's tomorrow night, May 1st, May Day, Socialism, a message from the dead.

00:02:02.860 That's all on today's podcast.

00:02:04.180 I saw some video today that I thought was a little disturbing and not that he is going senile or anything like that.

00:02:25.940 He is just if I were working for Biden, I would be concerned a little bit.

00:02:33.440 Yeah, you think maybe a little bit on this about a speech that he gave yesterday where he was if he was slurring his words a bit and he's starting to sound like a very old man.

00:02:49.160 Listen to this.

00:02:49.900 I want to thank Rich Fitzgerald, the county executive, Allegheny County executive for being here.

00:02:56.960 And all my time in public life since I've gotten involved, the country wasn't built by Wall Street bankers, CEOs and hedge fund managers.

00:03:06.660 If the enterprise hits hard times, everybody took a hit.

00:03:09.200 Union workers, the UAW took incredible cuts in their future and their pensions and the less to get GM working.

00:03:18.220 They also got that last year and tried to cut wages or freeze wages for their people.

00:03:23.740 Right today, the same is happening in big hospital systems.

00:03:27.040 I think we have to rethink how we define what constitutes a successful economy.

00:03:32.960 Folks in America don't think their children are going to have the same standard of living they had.

00:03:36.860 How can a person's dignity be maintained?

00:03:40.820 Why do they do that?

00:03:42.220 It means investing much more in medical research to conquer devastating diseases like cancer and addiction and Alzheimer's.

00:03:49.600 So God bless you all and may God protect our truth.

00:03:52.560 Now, this was in front of the Teamsters yesterday in Pittsburgh.

00:03:57.240 And again, I don't think he's senile or anything else, but he is starting to slur his words like my grandfather used to.

00:04:05.300 And that doesn't instill confidence.

00:04:08.060 Yeah, you hit a wall there maybe where it's just not happening.

00:04:12.780 Here's the issue with Joe Biden is he's not a deliberate speaker, right?

00:04:16.960 He's not the type of he's not a professor where he sits back and is speaking in marked tones, you know, that's not what he does.

00:04:24.140 He is a conversational guy.

00:04:26.120 He tries to sound like everything he says is off the top of his head.

00:04:30.380 And that's been part of the charm, I guess, of Joe Biden.

00:04:32.800 If you are an archaeologist and can find the charm, that's kind of it, right?

00:04:37.380 He's conversational.

00:04:38.220 He kind of goes that way.

00:04:39.260 That gets harder and harder, I think, as you get older.

00:04:41.780 And if he's having issues with this, he's going to have to change his style.

00:04:46.980 You know, he really is.

00:04:47.760 And that will be death to him.

00:04:48.920 Yeah.

00:04:49.560 That'll really be death.

00:04:50.620 That's going to be tough.

00:04:51.620 I mean, look, it's his first speech in a long time.

00:04:54.020 Maybe you chalk this one up to he's a little rusty.

00:04:57.840 You can make that argument, you know?

00:05:00.380 I mean, I'm just...

00:05:01.960 Maybe he was just tired or whatever.

00:05:03.360 But if I were on his staff, I would be concerned you can't pile speech after speech after speech up like this.

00:05:11.180 No.

00:05:11.460 Well, and Glenn, if this is your campaign launch, you can't be tired.

00:05:14.940 This is not an I'm tired option.

00:05:16.800 Especially after you're running against Trump.

00:05:20.920 Trump is a machine.

00:05:22.520 He has unlimited energy when it comes to this stuff.

00:05:25.760 And he...

00:05:26.160 I mean, that was probably the most amazing thing about 2016.

00:05:29.360 I mean, the guy ran...

00:05:30.680 How old is he?

00:05:32.580 72?

00:05:33.740 72 years old.

00:05:35.020 And he is...

00:05:35.860 He's not in shape.

00:05:36.940 It's not like the guy's worked out his whole life.

00:05:38.700 No.

00:05:39.020 He's like I do.

00:05:39.700 He's at McDonald's every day.

00:05:41.180 Right.

00:05:41.560 And he is just a machine.

00:05:44.000 He just doesn't slow down.

00:05:46.140 I remember we did one weekend in Iowa last year.

00:05:49.300 Or last election.

00:05:50.420 Do you remember this?

00:05:51.640 And we were just going around.

00:05:52.880 It's...

00:05:53.400 You get off the plane.

00:05:54.680 You go to a car.

00:05:55.720 You drive for 45 minutes.

00:05:57.080 You get out of the car.

00:05:58.160 You're whisked around.

00:05:59.180 You don't know where you're going.

00:06:00.640 You know, especially like...

00:06:01.720 And I'm not even...

00:06:02.240 You know, Glenn's the one making the speeches.

00:06:03.540 I'm just kind of standing there behind and watching.

00:06:05.840 But, you know, you're meeting a bunch of people for the first time.

00:06:09.140 And you have to be on in every one of these moments.

00:06:11.740 Because, you know, these are important interactions you're having.

00:06:14.880 At least you think they are.

00:06:16.100 And then the second it's done, you're running to the car.

00:06:19.580 It's cold.

00:06:20.800 You're driving to another place an hour and a half away to do essentially the same speech to a different group of people.

00:06:26.000 Where you have the same interactions.

00:06:27.140 And you're doing this.

00:06:27.860 We did this for a weekend and I wanted to kill myself.

00:06:29.920 I can't even imagine what it's like to do that every single weekend.

00:06:34.280 Now, Trump was smart, I think, in the way that he sort of redesigned that process.

00:06:38.300 His process is, I got my big jet with my name on the side.

00:06:41.900 I land.

00:06:42.580 I talk.

00:06:43.140 I leave.

00:06:44.060 And I think that was part of this, you know, brilliance of the way he approached it.

00:06:48.400 You know, everyone else was going door to door and meeting nine people at a place, you know, where they're serving eggs and bacon.

00:06:55.680 And he's going to a big venue.

00:06:57.960 And so he had less appearances, but still talked to as many or more people.

00:07:02.160 And that's a smart way to do it.

00:07:03.480 And maybe Biden can pull that off.

00:07:04.740 But in a field of 20, he's not.

00:07:07.340 I mean, there's no celebrities in it.

00:07:09.200 You know, Biden's not a celebrity.

00:07:10.460 He's a candidate.

00:07:11.340 It's not like the second run for Obama.

00:07:14.880 Remember, Obama the first time ran like Donald Trump.

00:07:18.740 Had huge venues and, you know, could fill stadiums and arenas.

00:07:24.520 The second time, if you remember, he couldn't fill arenas.

00:07:28.720 Donald Trump is still filling arenas.

00:07:32.220 So he's still running with the same kind of electricity in the air where that didn't happen for Barack Obama.

00:07:41.160 Yeah.

00:07:41.360 And Trump has the ability, too, that I don't think Biden has in that Trump can say, look, I will show up when 10,000 people are there or I won't show up.

00:07:51.300 And no one's going to say, well, you're an elitist.

00:07:53.980 Well, yeah, of course he's an elitist.

00:07:55.500 He's got he's got a gold apartment.

00:07:57.260 Yes, he's an elitist.

00:07:59.220 He's actually I mean, he's pretty much admitted that.

00:08:01.240 Yeah, he's been like, I don't know why everyone says elitist is so bad.

00:08:03.680 It sounds like a good thing to me.

00:08:05.160 You know, I mean, where Biden is doing the exact opposite pitch.

00:08:08.920 Here's a guy who's got tons of money, tons of influence.

00:08:11.660 Look at the shows.

00:08:12.600 Go back and watch them.

00:08:13.520 The Ukraine one is out there right now for free on YouTube at the Glenn Beck channel.

00:08:18.020 Go there and watch what he's done in Ukraine, how much money flowed into that family.

00:08:22.840 I mean, billions of dollars of deals were going through the company through with his influence.

00:08:27.540 They got plenty of money.

00:08:28.580 They got plenty of influence.

00:08:29.480 But he's trying to pitch himself as middle class Joe, which everyone calls him if everyone is Joe Biden.

00:08:35.780 He calls himself middle class Joe.

00:08:37.280 No one else calls him that.

00:08:38.460 He's Lunchbox Joe.

00:08:39.560 He's the guy out and I'm a union guy.

00:08:41.400 I'm out there.

00:08:42.080 I'm he's basically acting like he's a construction worker running for president.

00:08:45.140 And of course, that's not true at all.

00:08:47.760 So he's a having to lie about it and be like you can't run the Trump style when you're I'm a guy who wants to shake everybody's hands because I've got my sleeves rolled up.

00:08:57.180 Biden's style is not conducive to the Trump approach and the Trump approach can be easier on a 70 plus year old person.

00:09:03.760 So if he's sounding like this on day one, that is worrisome for me.

00:09:08.860 So let me ask you this, because I saw some some people on the left say, ah, Trump took the bait.

00:09:16.620 He's going after he's making Joe Biden the candidate, which is great for Joe Biden and great for the Democrats.

00:09:22.240 And I thought, I'm not so sure.

00:09:24.180 I'm not so sure that Joe Biden is is the end all be all.

00:09:31.780 I mean, who who do you think would be the best candidate?

00:09:36.460 I mean, of the ones who have a chance, the best candidate to run against for Donald Trump.

00:09:42.640 Oh, if Donald Trump could pick his candidate, if he could pick his candidate, Elizabeth Warren, if he could pick his candidate has a chance.

00:09:50.800 Well, she's in the top. She's in the second tier of candidates, I would say. 1.00

00:09:54.040 No, I mean, she's around seven percent. 0.93

00:09:55.640 Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.

00:09:59.840 You know, Pete Buttigieg.

00:10:05.180 Bob Frank O'Rourke, I think he's tubing.

00:10:07.960 Yeah. Oh, yeah, he is. He's tanking as we speak.

00:10:10.540 I mean, I think Bernie Sanders would be the best, would be the ideal choice.

00:10:14.760 Yeah, I think so. I mean, Bernie Sanders, you know, the thing about Bernie Sanders is there is still a percentage of this country.

00:10:21.180 That remembers what socialism actually is, that it's not a social network.

00:10:25.040 It's not how you interact at parties.

00:10:26.720 It is something that killed 100 million people in the century that they lived in.

00:10:31.320 You know what I mean?

00:10:32.020 And when you got a giant black book filled with 100 million dead bodies that are all responsible, that are all from communism and socialism.

00:10:40.140 The older voter looks at that and says, even if they are friendly to the policies, the word is still scary enough to remember, wait a minute, this goes wrong.

00:10:51.440 I like universal health care, but these things go that far.

00:10:54.860 And all of a sudden, whoa, where have we gone?

00:10:56.860 And these things go down the hill fast.

00:10:59.020 They remember this stuff.

00:11:00.060 Wait until you see the special.

00:11:01.700 It's happening tomorrow night.

00:11:03.400 It's free.

00:11:04.360 You can go to blazetv.com slash Glenn.

00:11:07.560 You'll be able to watch it for free tomorrow.

00:11:09.040 Or you'll watch it on our YouTube channel or on our Facebook page.

00:11:13.760 But watch it.

00:11:15.040 Please watch it.

00:11:16.600 Watch it with your friends.

00:11:17.840 Watch it with your family.

00:11:19.500 It is the special is called Socialism.

00:11:22.160 A warning from the dead.

00:11:23.740 And it's a live special event tomorrow at 8 p.m.

00:11:27.600 And we made it free for the reason that we strongly believe every American needs to see this.

00:11:36.520 This is this is a document based on a document that we found that was smuggled into the United States from behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s.

00:11:47.120 And it just disappeared.

00:11:49.620 And nobody paid any attention to it.

00:11:52.140 And you really need to.

00:11:54.660 I was rereading it yesterday.

00:11:57.580 And it is I mean it is torn right when you hear it the way it talks about democratic socialism and democracy.

00:12:05.900 And we have to convince the people that they are they are they are in need of pure direct democracy.

00:12:14.520 And you see what people on the left are saying right now.

00:12:17.800 It's the same thing.

00:12:18.800 But this document shows you why they're saying these things.

00:12:23.400 And it's a way to flip a country and it was done by the former Soviet Union without a shot being fired. 0.76

00:12:32.140 They flipped a massive free market to communism in three years.

00:12:39.340 And we're already three years into this.

00:12:43.940 Socialism.

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00:13:20.140 This is the scene from Valkyrie.

00:13:22.560 Listen to this.

00:13:23.700 This is what is happening right now in Venezuela.

00:13:51.180 They're trying to get the broadcast.

00:13:52.440 They're trying to get the government control.

00:13:55.640 They're trying to convince the army to switch sides and go away from Maduro.

00:14:02.420 Right now, it looks like the National Guard has taken at least one air base.

00:14:07.480 It's happening in multiple cities.

00:14:09.520 But there hasn't been anything yet on broadcast.

00:14:13.540 Broadcast is still saying, you know, this is a coup and it's being put down.

00:14:18.160 But you have to remember, Maduro controls the broadcast.

00:14:21.780 As soon as they get the broadcast facilities, that could accelerate things.

00:14:26.940 If they don't get the broadcast facilities, it may die and freedom may be lost again for another God only knows how long.

00:14:37.460 We have Daniel DiMartino, who has an update on Venezuela in real time.

00:14:42.780 Hi, Daniel.

00:14:43.300 Tell us what's going on.

00:14:45.300 Hi, Glenn.

00:14:46.380 So what happened was unexpectedly today because tomorrow was supposed to be a big protest in Venezuela since it was May 1st.

00:14:55.800 And that's what the president had said, Guaido.

00:14:58.180 But today we woke up to see a big chunk of the military uprising in Caracas as well as in other parts of the country with Guaido and as well as former political prisoner, now free, Leopoldo López, who had been in jail for a long time.

00:15:14.060 And now he's free.

00:15:14.780 So we are very hopeful that this will be, that Maduro will be overthrown soon.

00:15:21.280 What are we looking for, for a sign that things are going either poorly or going well?

00:15:29.140 Do you know, Daniel?

00:15:31.000 Yes.

00:15:31.600 So I think that if this is successful, we'll see Maduro and the rest of his regime members fleeing the country because that's what dictators do in these kinds of cases.

00:15:45.920 Now, I'm still skeptical of, I don't want to say that it's successful when it's not because we've had this type of operation happen before, Glenn.

00:15:54.920 So we really have to be careful in what we say.

00:15:56.980 We have to check what the information that President Guaido is showing.

00:16:02.300 And as you said, especially to inform Venezuelans inside Venezuela, they have shut down most social media.

00:16:08.360 YouTube is shut down.

00:16:09.560 They're trying to shut down Twitter and Facebook.

00:16:11.740 People are just communicating, sending videos through WhatsApp.

00:16:15.520 And we look for them to seize the banks and the gold.

00:16:21.520 Do we know what the situation is in Venezuela about any remaining gold?

00:16:25.700 I know he has shipped most of it out of the country to Turkey.

00:16:30.740 Yeah, I don't think that there's any gold left since they took it over a long time ago.

00:16:36.440 But Venezuela won't need this gold, Glenn.

00:16:38.440 We have a lot of natural resources.

00:16:40.000 We have people who are willing to work.

00:16:41.520 We just need the freedom to do it.

00:16:42.820 You very well know that countries don't need natural resources even to succeed.

00:16:47.080 They just need free markets.

00:16:49.440 And hopefully this is what we'll get.

00:16:51.340 But I think that what the international community needs to be doing right now is supporting Guaido.

00:16:57.120 And they need to express their support and also stand ready to actually take action if Guaido requested.

00:17:04.640 Because if this is not enough, as you said, it might be the last chance to get freedom in Venezuela.

00:17:10.900 And there's a terrible humanitarian crisis, which according to the UN, 7 million people are in risk of dying at any time if we don't get humanitarian aid in soon.

00:17:19.280 Unbelievable.

00:17:21.160 Daniel, thank you so much.

00:17:22.460 From Young Voices, that's Daniel DiMartino.

00:17:24.860 And please keep us up to date even as the show goes on today.

00:17:28.280 We'd like to know.

00:17:30.000 So you know Mercury One has already stationed itself on the border.

00:17:34.760 We have many of our allied groups there waiting to go in, waiting to provide aid.

00:17:43.020 We just need the green light.

00:17:45.340 And we could certainly use your support.

00:17:48.240 If you would like to help those in Venezuela, if we can get in as soon as this thing is over and we can get in, we're going in with soup kitchens a-blazing.

00:18:02.700 Because we know how dire the situation is.

00:18:05.880 We just can't get in at the moment.

00:18:07.980 But we are stationed there.

00:18:09.260 We are also stationed with the Nazarene Fund and Operation OUR right at the border as well to try to find those children who have been taken from their parents and are being smuggled out across the border.

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00:18:34.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:39.260 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:19:12.060 And John Solomon is a journalist.

00:19:15.260 He worked for the AP and the Washington Post, among others, for about 20 years.

00:19:20.140 He now is the editor of – John, is it Politico or The Hill?

00:19:25.580 I'm the executive vice president of The Hill.

00:19:27.640 Of The Hill.

00:19:28.160 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:19:28.940 Yeah, no problem.

00:19:29.880 And executive vice president of The Hill.

00:19:32.480 And John has been looking into the nefarious stuff that has been going on in Ukraine with really pretty much everybody, it seems, who's at the top of these parties.

00:19:45.200 Joe Biden is one of them.

00:19:47.480 And now, if we're looking for collusion, John, do you believe we found it in Ukraine with not the Trump administration but the Obama administration?

00:19:57.540 We clearly have a growing body of evidence there, Glenn.

00:20:01.220 And I think if we wind back a little bit, about a month ago I reported that Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they had released a Black Ledger book during the 2016 election designed to tarnish Paul Manafort's reputation.

00:20:15.080 And as part of that, they admitted that their goal was to help Hillary Clinton.

00:20:21.180 And the evidence is pretty clear.

00:20:22.300 There's a court ruling in Ukraine that says the Ukrainian government wrongly released this document in an effort to sway the 2016 election.

00:20:30.260 And then there was a tape recording released by that court and by a parliamentary member in which a top – what you would call the FBI of Ukraine.

00:20:39.060 It's called NABU.

00:20:39.780 He was captured in a tape recording bragging that he was trying to help Hillary Clinton.

00:20:46.180 So from that, we tried to roll back and find out, well, how did that happen?

00:20:50.420 What was the genesis?

00:20:51.720 What gave the idea of Ukraine to go look after or to release some dirt on Paul Manafort during the middle of the 2016 election, hoping to hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton?

00:21:01.740 And what we found out was Ukraine officials were summoned to the Obama White House in January 2016.

00:21:08.280 This is just as Donald Trump was beginning to rise in the polls and start to win his primary victories one after the other.

00:21:14.260 And they brought these prosecutors together, including the very agency that leaked the documents, and gave them a mandate saying, hey, can you go out and help us find some dirt on Paul Manafort?

00:21:24.480 And it was that meeting in January 2016 that gave rise to this sort of series of events where you have a foreign government now admitting on the record that it tried to intervene in the 2016 election.

00:21:36.480 That government wasn't Russia.

00:21:38.400 It was Ukraine.

00:21:40.580 That's unbelievable.

00:21:41.760 Now, how much of this is related to what Joe Biden did with his son on holding back all of that American aid?

00:21:53.680 I mean, was that involved at all?

00:21:55.820 And I'm not saying that was part of the deal, just the flexing of the muscles that they knew if we don't help America out, they could cut us off at any time.

00:22:07.040 Yeah, I think that's right.

00:22:07.940 And it's funny, both the Manafort case and the Biden case, what we call the Burisma case, both came up in that January meeting.

00:22:17.300 And so the Democrats had two needs that they had from Ukraine.

00:22:20.720 That's part of the reason why they took the extraordinary option of bringing them overseas, bringing them to the White House. 0.54

00:22:26.740 Normally, prosecutors from a foreign government don't go to the White House.

00:22:29.720 It's a rare episode to invite them into the White House and to have a discussion about what are really internal cases in Ukraine.

00:22:38.340 The first one is Paul Manafort, as we just described.

00:22:40.780 But the second one, according to the attendees at the meeting, the Obama White House also asked, could the Ukrainian authorities step down on their own investigation of a company called Burisma Holdings?

00:22:52.220 This was a company that hired Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, to be a board member, and from which more than $3 million was paid in consulting fees to Hunter Biden during the 2014-2015 timeframe.

00:23:06.920 So the second request at the meeting was, first, help us get dirt on Paul Manafort and Donald Trump.

00:23:11.720 The second request was, could you guys stand down on the Burisma investigation?

00:23:16.940 And if so, the FBI will take it over. Trust us. We'll do a good job investigating it.

00:23:22.060 And that didn't happen. The Ukrainians wouldn't back down. 1.00

00:23:25.220 So then two months later, what happened?

00:23:27.120 Joe Biden shows up in Ukraine and says, if you don't fire the prosecutor leading that case, I'm going to cut off your foreign aid.

00:23:33.600 And, of course, he got what he wanted.

00:23:34.980 So that White House meeting had a dual purpose, according to the Ukrainians.

00:23:38.840 One was Biden, one was Manafort.

00:23:40.500 So, John, what they were accusing Donald Trump of was accepting a phone call from the Russians saying, we have information.

00:23:52.500 And the Trump campaign said, OK, we'll meet you.

00:23:57.480 Let's talk about that.

00:23:58.840 Then they had no information.

00:24:00.120 This is much worse because it's the Obama White House reaching out to Ukraine and saying, we need your help to find dirt on these people.

00:24:13.180 That's exactly right.

00:24:14.260 I mean, it's a it's an overt ask as opposed to a passive receipt.

00:24:19.580 So if you if you compare the two episodes of Trump Tower meeting, it was sort of a passive event where the Russians take the initiative, ask to come in, then don't deliver the goods.

00:24:30.420 Here you have the Obama administration making an overt request of the Ukrainians.

00:24:34.900 And it's not the only one.

00:24:36.200 If we remember, you go back to January 2017, so long ago now that we forgot this, but Politico reported that around the same time as this meeting that I just documented at the at the Obama White House, that the Democratic National Committee in the form of one of its consultants was seeking dirt from the Ukraine embassy.

00:24:55.820 And I'm going to have some new revelations on that.

00:24:58.480 But you have the DNC going into the Ukraine embassy in Washington asking for dirt on Paul Manafort.

00:25:03.560 You've got the White House asking Ukrainian authorities to help them restart the case on Paul Manafort.

00:25:10.040 These are not accidents.

00:25:11.820 They're not coincidences.

00:25:12.900 There was a concerted effort by Democrats, both in the government and in the political party system to try to get Ukraine's help in trying to make the case that Donald Trump was an agent of Russia, which we now know isn't true.

00:25:26.640 And so now you have a foreign power involved and you have pretty clear overt asks being made by by Democrats of a foreign power to help them in the election.

00:25:35.400 Do we have anyone in journalism at all looking into this besides you?

00:25:43.220 Well, the good news is I've heard from my friends in Ukraine that that The Washington Post and The New York Times have been in country in the last few days asking questions.

00:25:51.740 So hope springs eternal that more people will pay attention to this.

00:25:55.860 I think as time goes on, the more important element to watch will be what Attorney General Barr does.

00:26:03.460 He's taking a look at the entire intelligence community's behavior during the Russia investigation.

00:26:08.800 And part of that could very well look at what was the source of this information, who solicited it, who was pushing the flesh on this.

00:26:15.520 And I think when we get those answers, I think his inquiry almost certainly will lead in some directions towards Ukraine, because Ukraine was clearly playing in our election.

00:26:26.020 They've admitted it now. And the question is, who was complicitous on the American side?

00:26:30.240 And I think we're beginning to get a little bit of a portrait of who the conspirators or complicitous people were in the United States.

00:26:37.660 OK, so but the Ukraine did not like Manafort.

00:26:41.460 I mean, they had nothing. They had no love lost for Manafort. Manafort was I mean, he was a bad dude for Ukraine.

00:26:50.120 He was on the right. He was corrupt and he deserved what he got, I think. 0.86

00:26:55.820 Yeah, absolutely. Listen, he was helping the party that was the Russia aligned party that got thrown out of power in 2014. 0.75

00:27:03.900 He collected a lot of money. He's not the only one.

00:27:06.220 Remember, Obama's White House counsel, Greg Craig, has been indicted for taking money from the same party, helping them and then not properly accounting for it or reporting it here.

00:27:14.880 So you had both Manafort and Greg Craig, a Republican, a Democrat, playing in this Ukraine field on behalf of the Russian back party.

00:27:23.180 And the Ukrainians didn't like either.

00:27:24.900 What's interesting, if you read my story, you'll find out that when the Ukrainians said, hey, we not only have stuff on Manafort, we have stuff on Greg Craig and the Democratic administration said, oh, no, no, we're not interested in that.

00:27:34.900 Just just keep that to yourself.

00:27:36.300 And so you can kind of see the selective nature of what went on between the U.S. government and the Ukrainian prosecutors.

00:27:43.500 So off the subject, what is your take of what's just happened with this new president who's a comedian?

00:27:51.300 Do any gauge on him on where he's going to fall on things?

00:27:56.200 Well, there are some. His name is Alinsky.

00:27:58.740 He's a first time political newcomer, was the most famous comic on Ukraine television.

00:28:04.380 He was sort of be what we would consider Jerry Seinfeld in the 90s to Ukraine.

00:28:08.960 He's now the president elect, will be president shortly.

00:28:11.820 And he has made quite a few soundings in the last few weeks that he wants to get to the bottom of this.

00:28:18.320 He wants Ukraine to get clean on this.

00:28:20.600 I think you're going to see a change in leadership in all the offices, including the prosecutor's office.

00:28:25.260 One person that there's a lot of speculation in Ukraine about becoming the next attorney general, the next prosecutor general is a guy named Kulik.

00:28:33.800 And Kulik is one of the people I've talked to several times on the record who has kind of told this story that the Ukrainians were playing in the election, that we got cut off in the investigation of Biden.

00:28:45.000 If he becomes the next prosecutor general, the American administration will have a very strong counterpart if they so choose to investigate these allegations.

00:28:52.800 Wow. Thank you so much for doing all this.

00:28:55.260 work, John. Appreciate it.

00:28:56.540 John Solomon, he's the executive vice president of the Hill and a journalist, even though the left is trying to discredit him, saying, no, he's an opinion guy.

00:29:06.160 Really, 20 years AP in Washington Post, that makes you an opinion guy.

00:29:10.140 He's tracking down the facts without the opinion.

00:29:13.560 And the left just doesn't like what he finds.

00:29:15.900 You know, the New York Times had a headline recently.

00:29:37.800 It was in March.

00:29:39.880 I'm sorry, it wasn't New York Times.

00:29:41.000 It was Politico.

00:29:42.240 And in the article, the headline was how Bernie could save socialism from Trump.

00:29:49.880 Making Donald Trump the enemy of socialism.

00:29:53.420 Amen.

00:29:53.860 Good.

00:29:54.040 Well, you've got my vote.

00:29:55.840 The headline turned out to be the tamest part of the article.

00:29:58.980 Listen to this.

00:30:00.060 Sanders should deliver a detailed speech that chronicles exactly where Maduro went wrong and why he doesn't deserve the moniker of socialist.

00:30:08.520 This is such revisionist history, which Stu is going to get into here in just a second.

00:30:14.920 Such revisionist history.

00:30:18.020 Chavez already, when he left office, when he left office, Venezuela was already number one on the misery index in the world.

00:30:30.860 Okay.

00:30:31.300 It was already falling apart.

00:30:34.080 This is what always happens with socialist countries.

00:30:37.920 Remember, we're not talking about Canada or Sweden.

00:30:42.020 Those are free markets with socialist underpinnings.

00:30:47.220 So, in other words, you know, socialist medicine.

00:30:50.000 But that's not a socialist country.

00:30:52.700 It's a free market.

00:30:55.240 Venezuela is a socialist country.

00:30:58.000 The government controls everything.

00:31:01.340 This is exactly what democratic socialists are looking for.

00:31:05.140 And we have to be really, really clear on this.

00:31:09.840 When they're saying, well, he's not a socialist.

00:31:12.440 He's a dictator.

00:31:13.620 Yes, that's what happens.

00:31:16.200 Well, that's what Hitler. 0.96

00:31:17.460 Hitler wasn't socialist because he just took power. 0.78

00:31:20.100 No.

00:31:20.760 He was democratically elected.

00:31:22.900 He even gave the people a chance.

00:31:26.980 He then broke the Constitution by killing so many people in the night of long knives.

00:31:33.380 But he went to the president, and the president forgave him, and the people forgave him.

00:31:39.840 Then he took power.

00:31:41.720 He became a chancellor.

00:31:42.800 Well, he still was a socialist.

00:31:47.960 He just became a dictator.

00:31:50.700 Venezuela is a socialist country.

00:31:53.280 But once these guys start to lose power, then they don't care about the democratic process anymore.

00:32:02.700 A few days ago, the New York Times ran another article.

00:32:05.520 This one was, can we please relax about socialism?

00:32:12.800 No, I don't think we should.

00:32:15.740 Only in America is the word used with such perceived menace.

00:32:25.560 Now, check out this definition of democratic socialism.

00:32:28.640 Democratic socialism is, briefly put, a noble tradition of civic consciousness that was historically a far greater degree than any of its champions or detractors today often care to acknowledge, grounded in deep Christian roots.

00:32:48.000 Really?

00:32:49.460 Really?

00:32:51.920 I mean, that's an argument I haven't heard before.

00:32:54.660 It's ridiculous, and the author never explains it, but it sure sounds nice.

00:33:00.340 Then we get this.

00:33:02.100 In countries where, since World War II, the principles of democratic socialism have shaped public policy, basically everywhere in the developed world except here,

00:33:11.320 the lives of the vast majority of citizens, most especially in regards to affordable health care, have improved enormously.

00:33:18.780 Well, it turns out the New York Times specializes in commentary about socialism.

00:33:22.600 In March, the article, Bernie Sanders scares a lot of people, and quite a few people of them are Democrats, captures the angst that democratic socialists are causing.

00:33:32.460 Here's, listen to this.

00:33:33.780 A word of caution from the New York Times.

00:33:36.660 The United States was founded as a contradiction to, not an extension of, Europe.

00:33:42.260 Self-reliance is to America what fraternity is to France, part of its core.

00:33:47.120 The American space, so immense, so un-European, conjures in Americans a bristling independence of spirit that wants government out of their lives. 0.60

00:33:58.320 But other than that, it checks all the socialist boxes.

00:34:02.820 Socialism is not journalist, it says.

00:34:05.760 Intellectuals are politicians armed with a policy agenda.

00:34:08.660 As Mark and Engels understood, this was one of their core insights.

00:34:13.720 What distinguished them from other socialist thinkers ever ready with their blueprints is the workers who get us there, who decide what and where there is.

00:34:24.940 That, too, is a kind of freedom, a socialist freedom.

00:34:28.460 Now, here's the lie, and here's the thing I'm going to give to you tomorrow on a special broadcast that we have made for free.

00:34:38.120 I don't remember a broadcast we have worked this hard on for this long.

00:34:42.840 Especially when you're giving away.

00:34:43.980 Good job.

00:34:44.480 Yeah, I know.

00:34:45.280 Smart.

00:34:45.780 I had to fight to make this one free.

00:34:48.320 They don't like giving the, especially this, has been wildly expensive.

00:34:52.320 But I want it to go out to the widest possible audience, and I need you to watch it and to share it.

00:34:58.680 So, you can watch it on blazetv.com.

00:35:01.660 You can also see it on our Facebook page and also on our YouTube page tomorrow, live at 8 p.m. Eastern.

00:35:11.380 Please, please share this with a friend.

00:35:14.380 It is all about socialism and a warning that we have found from the dead now.

00:35:21.160 This is a plan, a blueprint.

00:35:25.740 And as the New York Times said, it's not, you know, socialism is not journalists, intellectuals, or politicians armed with a policy agenda.

00:35:35.100 It's the people.

00:35:37.100 But in the intellectuals' blueprint, it describes this.

00:35:43.600 And it talks about how you have to have democracy to get there.

00:35:49.700 Now, listen, in order that the reformist, democratic way to socialism be complete,

00:35:56.160 there had to be, of course, a denial of the basic condition of the possibility of victory for socialism, of the dictatorship.

00:36:05.520 Our state has decided for socialization in the democratic manner.

00:36:10.920 That is to say, at the ballot, and not through revolution or dictatorship.

00:36:16.960 Thus, solving the problems of transition from capitalism to socialism, breaking the desperate resistance of the bourgeoisie,

00:36:25.880 of expropriating the desperate resistance of the capitalists.

00:36:32.360 Private capitalist production into socialist production on a large scale should be possible without the direction of policy by the worker's class,

00:36:42.340 without a dictatorship, just by phrases about some sort of pure democracy.

00:36:49.080 In other words, revision and denial of the basic Marxism of Marxist-Leninist theory of classes and class struggle.

00:36:57.780 So they're saying, look, if we want to do this without revolution,

00:37:04.080 what we have to do is convince the average person that you need pure democracy.

00:37:09.820 Because people will vote for free stuff.

00:37:14.700 So if we can get pure democracy, we can do it without a strong arm of revolution or a dictatorship.

00:37:22.240 Then once we have it as it goes on, then the vice comes down.

00:37:28.520 Then we have it and we hold them.

00:37:31.560 This is how they flipped other countries.

00:37:34.600 The blueprint that we're going to show you tomorrow was one that was smuggled in from behind the Iron Curtain into the United States in the 1960s.

00:37:43.460 And then it was just lost and people forgot it.

00:37:46.120 And I'm not saying anybody is using this as their blueprint.

00:37:49.400 I'm just saying we're getting to exactly the same place.

00:37:53.880 They're doing exactly the same thing as this blueprint written in 1950 and used on Czechoslovakia.

00:38:02.280 They're using the same tactics.

00:38:05.340 So whether they know it or not, it doesn't matter.

00:38:09.140 They flipped Czechoslovakia.

00:38:12.200 They're flipping us.

00:38:14.460 And you need to see it.

00:38:17.220 You need to watch it with an open mind.

00:38:21.540 That's tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern.

00:38:25.320 The kind of stuff that nobody in the mainstream media is going to actually do their homework.

00:38:33.700 It's not conspiracy theories.

00:38:36.960 It is the truth.

00:38:39.320 And I make that case tomorrow at 8 p.m.

00:38:42.540 Don't miss it.

00:38:44.440 Socialism.

00:38:45.340 A warning from the dead.

00:38:47.060 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:06.780 There is something really disturbing going on in America.

00:39:13.420 Truly, truly disturbing.

00:39:16.760 And it has reared its ugly head here before.

00:39:21.400 And it always happens during a time where there's a rise in socialism.

00:39:26.100 And it is worse in Europe.

00:39:28.260 But it is becoming very clear here.

00:39:31.160 Even the New York Times last week.

00:39:33.440 I don't want to show you this if you happen to be watching Blaze TV.

00:39:36.320 But the New York Times op-ed cartoon up with Donald Trump being led by a dog with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu by a leash.

00:39:51.120 And he's wearing dark sunglasses.

00:39:52.600 And it looks like he is leading, you know, being led by Israel. 0.66

00:39:59.420 The dog has a Jewish star of David around its neck. 0.96

00:40:04.920 It is horrifying.

00:40:07.180 And the New York Times said, oh, we apologize for that.

00:40:11.740 We apologize.

00:40:12.640 Really?

00:40:13.020 You didn't know that was anti-Semitic?

00:40:15.340 Well, it kind of looks like something that maybe Germany.

00:40:18.080 No, it doesn't kind of look.

00:40:19.220 It looks exactly like what Germany did. 0.96

00:40:22.040 In fact, we found a magazine cover from Germany with an old Jew leading by the hand Winston Churchill. 0.92

00:40:33.780 It's exactly what Goebbels was doing.

00:40:38.960 And the left seems to not care about it.

00:40:41.800 And we have to care about the people that are in China, the Muslims that are in China that are being rounded up systematically and killed or tortured in China.

00:40:53.300 We have to care about the Christians that are being killed and bombed.

00:40:58.440 And we also have to care about our Jewish brothers and sisters.

00:41:01.600 And I was so moved by what happened in California that the rabbi said to one congregant, could you bring your gun?

00:41:14.380 Because he worked for the border security.

00:41:17.240 Could you bring your gun?

00:41:18.280 And so this guy would travel four hours back and forth just to be able to be at the synagogue and worship.

00:41:26.620 He happened to be there with his gun.

00:41:29.060 And he's the reason that that didn't become a mass shooting.

00:41:32.960 These synagogues and these houses of worship and the Torah schools are under attack.

00:41:45.920 And could you survive?

00:41:49.520 Could your church survive if it had to have bomb-proof, bullet-proof glass?

00:41:54.680 I mean, think of the cost.

00:42:01.820 Well, I was, I got an email on Sunday from Yael Eckstein.

00:42:10.820 And Yael is, she's with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

00:42:17.180 Her father was the rabbi that ran that for a very, very long time, who has just passed away.

00:42:22.660 And the last time I saw him, we talked about how can we help these synagogues that are under attack.

00:42:30.880 And so Yael is with us now.

00:42:32.720 Hi, Yael.

00:42:33.240 How are you?

00:42:34.720 Hi, Glenn.

00:42:35.480 Thank you so much.

00:42:36.720 You're welcome.

00:42:37.340 First of all, I'm so sorry about the passing of your dad.

00:42:40.120 He was a great, great man.

00:42:42.460 Thank you.

00:42:43.120 I know he felt the same way about you.

00:42:45.480 Thank you.

00:42:46.340 So we see in France a 74% increase in the number of attacks against Jews.

00:42:51.600 Germany, 60%. 0.62

00:42:54.720 Here in the U.S., last year alone, it's up 15%, sorry, 57% here in the United States.

00:43:03.700 And I don't know how these synagogues can afford to harden themselves. 1.00

00:43:09.420 It is a huge problem that we're seeing all around the world that Jews are vulnerable.

00:43:17.580 I mean, you see the attacks in Europe have become a daily occurrence.

00:43:21.940 And now that it's gotten to America with San Diego and the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 people were killed,

00:43:28.600 if it could happen in America, it's a sign that it's happening even more intense in the Arab world and across Europe.

00:43:35.540 And so what we've been so shocked by, these attacks that we just would never believe could happen on American soil,

00:43:45.300 at synagogues, during worships, at churches, at mosques, like what we're seeing around the world,

00:43:51.920 it's always been the case, Glenn, that when the world has gone crazy and can no longer switch between good and bad,

00:43:59.840 and right and wrong and darkness and light, it's the Jews who are targeted.

00:44:04.800 And right now we're in a world where there is so much darkness,

00:44:07.680 and what we're seeing is that the Jews more and more every single day are being targeted.

00:44:14.200 And so just like you said, you spoke about with my father,

00:44:16.980 and my father came back from that meeting so encouraged that, you know,

00:44:20.560 the fellowship's donors are mostly individuals who give $50 a month, the widow's mite,

00:44:27.940 and their tithes from Social Security to help Israel and the Jewish people.

00:44:34.020 And I remember him coming back from that meeting with you and saying,

00:44:37.240 it's not just the individuals who care so much about Israel and the Jewish people,

00:44:44.000 and about Christians who are being persecuted across the Middle East,

00:44:47.240 and about Muslims who are being targeted, it's people on the top as well, like Glenn Beck.

00:44:52.360 So thank you for standing for these important issues,

00:44:55.880 and I know your followers feel the same and appreciate that in you.

00:44:59.620 So here's what I would like to suggest, and your father and I talked about this,

00:45:03.560 and I know you have developed a fund,

00:45:06.380 but I would like to suggest that if you would like to help support and protect the Jewish people,

00:45:14.520 this is the first step to being, you know, one of the righteous,

00:45:21.300 is taking an active step to protect the Jewish people.

00:45:27.120 And you can do that by donating, and you've set up a page.

00:45:31.200 Why don't you tell me about the page and where the money will go for security?

00:45:35.380 Yeah, so the fellowship, Jewish communities around the world rely on the fellowship

00:45:42.200 to provide them with simple things that you would never believe that they don't have,

00:45:45.640 like security doors or a security camera or a lock on the door.

00:45:51.220 And it's all for Jewish synagogues and schools.

00:45:54.200 In locations that we work with different officials that I can't speak about,

00:46:01.080 but that they know the exact Jewish communities are most at risk

00:46:05.620 and being targeted directly by terror groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

00:46:11.120 That just last year we equipped places like Norway, Oslo, in India, in France, in Mexico, in Thailand.

00:46:20.260 And so now what we're working on is to get security for locations that we know they are being targeted.

00:46:30.000 And there are many of those, places like Poland and Turkey and Russia.

00:46:35.560 And so our goal is to raise $500,000 now to immediately equip the most,

00:46:41.840 I'd say the most targeted eight locations across the world that we know there are direct threats against them.

00:46:50.620 And what they need are simple security precautions like anti-bullet windows

00:46:57.400 or a security guard to simply stand at their gate, make sure a terrorist doesn't come in with a gun.

00:47:03.220 And so the way that your audience can donate is we set up a special number.

00:47:07.580 We know that your followers are just so generous and so forthcoming

00:47:13.140 and doing the right thing to help others in situations of crisis

00:47:16.500 like the Jewish communities around the world is in right now. 0.99

00:47:19.360 And so we have a special number.

00:47:20.600 It's 1-800-201-8383.

00:47:24.920 Once again, that's 1-800-201-8383.

00:47:28.580 Or online, www.iscj.org backslash BEC.

00:47:36.900 And yes, something like a camera system that places like America,

00:47:42.120 almost every synagogue has, and these attacks still happen.

00:47:46.380 Well, in places like Kathmandu, Nepal, they don't have that, and they're in need of that.

00:47:53.640 Yael, thank you so much.

00:47:54.820 And we will encourage our listeners to help out.

00:48:00.460 And thank you so much.

00:48:02.600 Just let us know how we can help and what we can do.

00:48:06.040 Thank you so much.

00:48:07.580 God bless.

00:48:07.760 And I just join you in praying for peace and doing everything we can to bring hope to those people who need it.

00:48:13.300 God bless you, Glenn.

00:48:14.340 Thank you.

00:48:15.420 Yael Eckstein, she is with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,

00:48:20.460 the I-F-C-J dot org slash BEC is where you can donate,

00:48:27.160 or you can call the number that she laid out.

00:48:30.320 It's 800-201-8383.

00:48:33.680 This, honestly, you know, I'm doing something on socialism tomorrow.

00:48:39.540 And my daughter came in, and she brought something that I got for her birthday a few years ago.

00:48:47.480 This is my eldest daughter, Mary.

00:48:49.120 And it's a picture of the woman I always talk about, Paulina,

00:48:53.440 that was one of the righteous among the nations.

00:48:56.120 And she would only let us take a picture of her hands, and we got one picture of her. 1.00

00:49:06.960 And that one picture is of her side.

00:49:09.540 She was so shy and so sweet, and she just didn't want any credit.

00:49:17.620 She was just somebody who tried to do the right thing and try to reach out and save the Jewish people that she could save.

00:49:28.900 And at the very bottom of that is the quote that she told me.

00:49:36.040 The righteous did not suddenly become righteous.

00:49:38.780 They just did not go over the cliff with the rest of society.

00:49:42.440 All we have to do is do what we've always done.

00:49:48.480 When people are in need, we act.

00:49:52.680 There is nothing that will give us more protection than helping children,

00:50:00.900 and quite honestly, I think helping the Lord's people.

00:50:04.940 It's clearly in the Scriptures.

00:50:09.160 They are targeted.

00:50:11.100 Christians are being targeted.

00:50:14.160 And you know what we're doing with the Nazarene Fund.

00:50:17.500 And I urge you to get involved if you'd like to get involved in that.

00:50:21.380 But here is something where these people are going into the synagogue,

00:50:26.080 and they're sending their kids to school, and they are terrified.

00:50:29.280 So let's help the nine, what did she say, eight or nine different facilities around the world

00:50:38.960 that are most in danger.

00:50:41.560 And you can donate now at ifcj.org slash beck, or call 800-201-8383.

00:50:51.280 The Blaze Radio Network.

00:50:56.840 On demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 30, 2019

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Daniel Di Martino, John Solomon & Yael Eckstein ｜ 4⧸30⧸19

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