Former Vice President Joe Biden pleads guilty to two counts of failing to pay his taxes and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed if he meets certain conditions, according to court documents filed today. Glenn Beck reacts to the news.
00:02:27.220The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware has reached a plea agreement with Hunter Biden,
00:02:32.320in which he's expected to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes.
00:02:42.180Biden also faces a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed if he meets certain conditions,
00:02:52.420according to court documents filed today.
00:02:55.580Two sources familiar with the agreement told NBC News that it includes a provision in which the U.S. attorney has agreed to recommend probation for Biden for his tax violations.
00:03:04.500Well, he's been such a good soul for so long.
00:03:06.980I think, you know, just a light slap on the wrist for Mother Teresa will probably do it.
00:03:13.040Legal experts also said that the tax and gun charges will likely not result in any jail time.
00:06:53.380How do I carry it when you bring it into an airport, which is completely legal and you have it legally separated in like fourteen hundred different boxes?
00:07:05.080You sweat your brains out because you could go to prison if you get it wrong.
00:07:10.540Yeah, I used to live a block away from the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania side, which has much better gun laws than New Jersey does.
00:07:18.320And I was terrified that I would bring my gun to the range or something in Pennsylvania and I don't know, leave it in my trunk.
00:07:26.820And then drive across to get gas in New Jersey, which we did all the time.
00:07:30.380And if you get pulled over over there and they go through your stuff somehow and find the weapon and come up with some chart, totally different laws.
00:07:38.380I was terrified to take the thing out of the house because I was afraid something would happen and I would keep it in the car for five extra minutes.
00:07:45.100I'll stop on the way home and get gas and cross that border.
00:08:12.760I've never seen that magic caliber changing gun, but he is all over wanting stricter restrictions on guns.
00:08:22.980His son violates a pretty basic one that is clearly marked out on the paper where your signature is a felony, a felony to knowingly provide false information.
00:09:27.300Like I feel like if I were to commit any one of the hundreds of crimes you've outlined that he's committed, I would be in jail for a long time.
00:10:13.700Do you think that the FBI report from an informant alleging that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe while he was vice president should be made public or kept secret by the FBI?
00:10:24.54083% say the FBI should make it public.
00:10:28.800Only 17% said it should be kept secret.
00:10:32.360Most of those were members of the Biden family.
00:10:36.40074% of Democrats, 82% of independents, and 92% of Republicans say the file should be public.
00:13:10.240He said, I'm assuming that it's because of the style of weapons that we have and the press that is against them.
00:13:17.100The current administration seems hell-bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans.
00:13:22.260He said, we have a reputation of dotting all the I's and crossing all the T's.
00:13:27.100It's not worth doing things that are going to get you in trouble.
00:13:31.980By the way, the IRS, thanks to the Senate, has hired the additional 80,000 agents that, for some reason, are involved in seemingly gun control.
00:14:12.800There will be jail time at the end for those who have blatantly broken the law and then used their political connections to get away with, well, everything except seemingly murder.
00:14:29.340You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:33.520Ben, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:25.280Uh, we've been, we've been very fortunate to have, you know, a lot of support, but, you know, I feel like it's our job to have conversations with all of the groups and really educate the people what we're doing and be transparent about it.
00:15:45.500Um, so let's talk about what you're doing.
00:15:47.600First, I want to state your company's mission and goal through technological and engineering breakthroughs in biosciences and genetics.
00:15:56.720Colossal is accepting humanity's duty to restore earth to a healthier state while also solving for future economies and biological necessities of the human condition.
00:16:08.600Colossal revolutionized history and will be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species.
00:16:22.040On the journey, we will build radical new software tools and technologies to advance the science of, uh, genomics.
00:17:02.340Yeah, I mean, so fundamentally we're working on three species, the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo.
00:17:10.760Um, and we believe that de-extinction and bringing species back, leveraging all these genetic rescue technologies, not only can help bring these incredible animals back and help restore those ecosystems, but can actually develop technologies that we can use to advance conservation.
00:17:25.740Uh, because conservation needs more money, it needs more tools, it needs more technologies, uh, because we could lose up to 50% of all biodiversity between now and 2050 if we're not careful, uh, as well as advance the same tools and technologies that can be applied to human healthcare and help from everything from cancer research to genetic engineering and getting rid of certain types of disease states, uh, in humans.
00:17:49.600And so it's kind of a systems model thinking to kind of the, one of these big challenges that we think a lot of technologies will come from it that can benefit, uh, both conservation and, uh, uh, humanity.
00:18:06.000So Alta Charo, uh, uh, is one of our, she's our lead ethicist.
00:18:11.100And we picked Alta because you can learn a lot from a critic.
00:18:14.320And so we actually went after, uh, uh, to talk to, we after early, early on our journey, we went after Alta and a few other people because, uh, also specifically had debated George church years before on why you should not bring back a woolly mammoth.
00:18:28.840And so we really want, we really want people like that, like informed critics that can help us do things in the most transparent way.
00:18:38.040And also make sure that we're educating the general public in conversations like this on what we're doing and taking that feedback.
00:19:34.420And we're driven to extinction either directly or indirectly, uh, by mankind.
00:19:39.740And so that's where we're really, the woolly mammoths were killed by man.
00:19:43.880Um, yeah, early man actually hunted, uh, mammoths.
00:19:47.900And what's interesting about elephants that most people don't realize is that they take 13 years to get to sexual maturity before they can breed.
00:19:57.960So you don't have to kill all the woolly mammoths or all an elephant population to, to push that species into extinction.
00:20:05.380You just have to, uh, create enough that you get that downgrading effect, uh, through the population.
00:20:10.820And then you get genetic bottleneck, which ultimately led to their extinction was genetic bottleneck and, and the species, meaning there wasn't enough diversity in the species to continue on.
00:20:20.980Um, and so same thing with, you know, with the Dodo, we actually eradicated, uh, the Dodo.
00:20:26.640Most people think that we, that we just ate the Dodo, but we actually, most of the Dodo's died because mankind actually brought in invasive species to Mauritius in the surrounding islands, uh, which actually, you know, killed a lot of the, uh, young as well as, uh, the eggs since they were laid on the ground, since they were flightless.
00:20:43.700And then lastly, the Australian government paid people through a bounty program to eradicate the Tasmanian tigers.
00:20:53.300Well, now, uh, you know, looking back on it, um, it was really driven by, uh, the sheep, uh, industry.
00:21:00.780So all of the folks that were ranching were actually, they've proven now we're actually stealing and poisoning and killing each other's sheeps for competitive means.
00:21:09.360They blamed it on the Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, uh, but there's no, uh, you know, data to suggest that the thylacine could even one attack a sheep or two eat a sheep, a smaller, you know, marsupials in kind of their, um, in, in their stack.
00:21:47.920It serves zero purpose to bring them back.
00:21:50.400Uh, weirdly and really weirdly enough though, we get asked about the Megalodon a lot, which terrifies me that people would even ask that question.
00:22:03.340And I'm like, do you really, assuming that we could, which we can't, why would you ever want, I mean, the ocean's already scary enough.
00:22:10.040Why would you ever want something like that out there?
00:22:13.340And so, so we have kind of a, uh, our ethical framework of, of what we focus on our species that can help restore existing ecosystems, uh, where mankind had a, uh, complete, uh, role in or partial role in their extinction.
00:23:01.740And so what happens in the permafrost, unlike what happens in, you know, the rainforest and whatnot in the rainforest, you get this nitrogen oxygen cycle where things die to get quickly eaten or absorbed into the, into the forest floor.
00:23:14.900Uh, and then it's kind of a rinse and repeat in the permafrost.
00:23:27.720And so, I mean, we've, um, I have not been to Siberia, but Ariana Hussili and George Church, George being my co-founder, have actually been to Siberia.
00:23:35.960And actually when they've extracted, uh, uh, mammoth carcasses, they still have like blood and tissue in them.
00:24:05.300Uh, I don't know what was in their full microbiome and then their stomach, uh, when they died, but some of them froze nearly instantly, uh, and are incredibly well-preserved.
00:24:18.340Uh, there's so many theories, you know, on that, right?
00:24:21.620Obviously, you know, it's cold, it's already, you know, sub-freezing temperatures up to negative 40, you know, in the winters.
00:24:28.020And so if things stop moving, you know, mammoths and a lot of other species, uh, that, that can survive, you know, in not just the Arctic circle, but circle polar north, which is a little bit wider than the Arctic circle actually have different ways to produce things like hemoglobin and blood genetically than we do.
00:24:46.980So they actually have the ability, uh, you know, to survive and thrive in those environments.
00:24:51.880And we wouldn't even be able to breathe in some of those environments yet.
00:24:55.140They could, but when that, when that system stops and everything stops moving in that heat generation stops, uh, everything freezes.
00:25:03.640So when you look at, uh, bringing them back, uh, have you thought about the impact, the unknowns, you know, uh, who was it?
00:25:15.840Rumsfeld said there's knowns and then the, the, the unknowns that are unknown, uh, have you thought about reintroducing a, a pretty large species back into the, uh, the ecosphere and, and the ramifications of that, that are not necessarily good.
00:25:38.900I mean, you always have intended and unintended consequences with whatever you do.
00:25:43.320If you look at probably one of the most successful rewilding campaigns, rewilding the process of reintroducing a species back into its native habitat that no longer exists there.
00:25:53.240One of the most successful rewilding campaigns of all time with relatively large animal being, you know, the gray wolf was back in Yellowstone where we as humanity reintroduced wolves back in Yellowstone, uh, after 70, after we called them 70 years.
00:26:07.260And that has led to a complete blossoming of that ecosystem.
00:26:36.320And the people that I grew up with that are just, you know, farmers and hunters and everything else were like, you cannot remove the wolves.
00:26:56.060I'm just, I just have the fortunate, you know, ability to work with really smart people doing really interesting things, but fundamentally science, just cause you're a scientist doesn't mean you're right.
00:27:05.600Lots of scientists have done lots of weird things.
00:27:08.480Um, your grandfather and the people that you grew up with were a hundred percent, right.
00:27:11.880We need to respect nature and you need to assume the system works for a reason.
00:27:17.720And when we interfere with it to your question, you know, there are consequences.
00:27:22.040And so with what we do know right now about the tundra and the Arctic is that it's a completely degraded ecosystem.
00:27:29.500But what we know from all of the research of that land is it used to be kind of like Yellowstone.
00:27:35.180It was full of different large cold tolerant megafauna like mammoths and mastodons and muskox and whatnot.
00:27:42.760So if we can return those animals, we hope that will help, you know, uh, replenish that ecosystem and build a better, uh, diverse ecosystem.
00:27:50.800And they've done little experiments like this over time, including, uh, in, uh, a place called Pleistocene Park, where they've reintroduced cold tolerant megafauna, not mammoths yet.
00:28:43.600Like when you start to look at the world of genetically modified organisms or, or GMOs, you know, I think that, you know, we don't have as many, I think challenges.
00:28:53.800We have different challenges, but it's a different set of challenges than people that are working with like mosquitoes or gene drives, where they really have to be mindful of the unintended consequences.
00:29:03.800The best of the Glenn Beck program is touring all the time, uh, which I think he's, that's the reason really, he's only working a three day week.
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00:31:26.240I was on vacation and I can't tell you how many times, and I gave you credit each time, believe it or not, how many times I said, yeah, my, you know, things are, we were talking about things getting really dark.
00:31:38.560And I used your line about your son coming to you and saying, I finally know what I want to be.
00:31:45.060And yeah, I just tell him, like, look, it doesn't matter.
00:31:49.540Like, son, I don't know if you, I know you don't watch the news because you're eight, but look, just enjoy the moment because you're not going to make it.