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00:00:05.640 We talked to him about his new lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and everyone involved in the Steele dossier and the lead up to the impeachment.

00:00:16.680 Great idea. Will it work? Plus, Bill O'Reilly on the biggest stories of the week.

00:00:22.820 And Alex Epstein joins us to tell us about Biden's handling of our economy and our energy future, which this is a spoiler alert.

00:00:34.240 He hasn't been doing a very good job with it. Really? Yeah. I don't know if you've noticed this.

00:00:38.020 Also, don't forget food shortages by Joe Biden. All on today's podcast.

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00:00:47.040 Oh, stop it.

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00:00:57.220 These guys are so stupid. You got to look at this. 1.00

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00:01:29.500 Number 45 and probably number 47, President of the United States, Donald Trump.

00:01:37.120 Hello, Mr. Trump, President Trump. How are you?

00:01:40.400 Hello, Glenn. How are you?

00:01:42.080 I'm good. Thank you for coming on and talking about this.

00:01:46.860 You are some of the claims in this suit, the RICO conspiracy, injurious falsehood, conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood, malicious prosecution, computer fraud and abuse act, theft of trade secrets.

00:02:03.240 The list goes on and on and on.

00:02:05.140 This is really not. Is this about the 2016 election or is this really about what they did to you this whole time?

00:02:15.900 Well, I think it's about everything. It covers a lot of territory.

00:02:19.520 It was totally corrupt what they did.

00:02:21.860 If this were done and you know this perhaps better than anybody else in the universe, if this were done the opposite way, as you know, they spied on my campaign.

00:02:30.740 When I made that statement, everyone thought, oh, my God, what a horrible thing to say.

00:02:35.240 I said, Obama spied on my campaign and the Democrats and and all hell broke loose, if you remember.

00:02:42.000 In fact, I put it out and I'd never seen I don't think I've ever seen a reaction, which usually means they're guilty.

00:02:47.900 In other words, you know, normally if they didn't do it, it wouldn't have that kind of.

00:02:51.160 But they spied on my campaign.

00:02:52.500 If this ever happened the opposite way, if I spied on Obama's campaign or in Hillary Clinton's campaign, it would have been treason.

00:03:03.740 It would have been everything right up until the death penalty.

00:03:08.140 And that may have been included, too.

00:03:09.840 But it would have been over.

00:03:10.960 It would have been the biggest thing ever.

00:03:13.640 But it didn't work that way.

00:03:15.460 So we caught him and we caught him cold.

00:03:18.180 And we've been just building it up and building it up and watching.

00:03:21.940 And frankly, we wish Bill Barr had the courage to do it or do it also.

00:03:28.020 But we've decided to do it.

00:03:29.980 Bill Barr was so afraid of being impeached.

00:03:32.160 He didn't want to do anything.

00:03:33.240 He got at the end.

00:03:34.780 I mean, he was petrified of being impeached. 0.93

00:03:36.760 So he didn't want to do a damn thing. 0.67

00:03:39.100 But, you know, how do you not get impeached? 0.79

00:03:41.380 Let's not do anything.

00:03:42.720 And all of a sudden that talk started dying down.

00:03:45.080 But we've been building this up for a long time.

00:03:49.160 The Durham report, you know, the early, hopefully it's just the early moments of the Durham report came out.

00:03:55.540 And that added to it.

00:03:58.080 And a lot of things are happening, a lot of things.

00:04:00.740 But they all knew it.

00:04:01.780 I mean, look, Obama knew about it, too.

00:04:03.740 I mean, it wasn't just Crooked Hillary. 1.00

00:04:08.360 But so we expect that names will be added to it as it goes along.

00:04:11.980 But this is very important.

00:04:12.840 But can you imagine if it were the opposite way and I spied on, let's say, Obama's campaign?

00:04:19.020 And not only that, you know, much of the stuff, when you think about it, took place beyond the campaign.

00:04:24.660 It was when we were in the Oval Office.

00:04:26.420 I know.

00:04:26.940 They spied while we were in the Oval Office.

00:04:29.360 So it wasn't just campaign, which in itself is really bad.

00:04:32.600 But it took place when we were in the Oval Office.

00:04:36.380 So the problem here is nobody ever pays for anything.

00:04:42.800 There are no consequences anymore in government if you're on the right side.

00:04:47.560 And people are sick to death of it.

00:04:50.820 But this is going now to, I think his name is Donald Middlebrooks.

00:04:56.860 And he was appointed by Bill Clinton.

00:05:00.860 Which is a conflict of interest, in my opinion.

00:05:03.620 That's right.

00:05:04.120 We have a judge who was appointed by Bill Clinton, who knows Hillary Clinton very well.

00:05:10.120 And we're suing Hillary Clinton and Clinton.

00:05:12.380 And we're suing the Democrats.

00:05:13.360 And we have a judge.

00:05:15.000 This is the way it works for Republicans, you know.

00:05:17.300 So I think it's a total conflict of interest.

00:05:21.920 And that's unfortunate.

00:05:23.820 Yeah, this is the guy who threw out the lawsuit filed against Hillary over her using private

00:05:31.220 email accounts and servers while she served as Secretary of State.

00:05:35.440 And nobody could believe that he threw that out.

00:05:37.740 Nobody could believe it.

00:05:39.140 So what are the odds?

00:05:42.680 What is the plan?

00:05:43.900 How do you think you're going to?

00:05:45.700 I can't believe I'm asking this question because justice should be justice.

00:05:50.460 But how are you going to maneuver around a judge like this?

00:05:55.480 Well, I think, and I talked to the lawyers.

00:05:58.100 They called up and they said, we have good news and bad news.

00:06:01.180 Everyone thinks this case is incredible.

00:06:03.240 And I don't think I've ever received more positive remarks.

00:06:07.020 They're so tired of nobody doing anything.

00:06:09.860 I know.

00:06:10.340 And we have them.

00:06:11.380 And we've caught them.

00:06:12.480 And then Barr didn't act because Barr was lazy and scared.

00:06:18.680 And he was just, he was scared.

00:06:20.800 Contempt.

00:06:21.360 They were holding it.

00:06:22.140 They wanted to hold him in contempt.

00:06:23.580 You remember those days?

00:06:24.560 Yeah.

00:06:24.860 Yeah.

00:06:25.080 He didn't want any part of contempt, which means going to jail.

00:06:28.040 And he didn't want any part of impeachment.

00:06:30.100 They were going to impeach him numerous times.

00:06:31.660 So, and so he didn't do, he didn't do his job, but frankly, and it was, it's very sad that

00:06:38.440 he didn't because this case is incredible.

00:06:39.980 Now, we have a judge who was appointed by the Clintons and who threw out stuff like, like

00:06:46.500 it was, like it was waste paper.

00:06:49.580 And it's very unfair.

00:06:52.140 So, Mr. President, you have government officials like Orr, Comey, McCabe, seemingly actively

00:07:00.980 engaging in this.

00:07:02.080 We're waiting for the, the Durham report.

00:07:04.940 But you have Bruce Orr funneling the Steele dossier to the DOJ and the FBI.

00:07:11.320 They knew that it was false.

00:07:13.440 Um, they need a harsher punishment than just a lawsuit. 0.52

00:07:18.440 But do you have any confidence that the justice department now is anything other than a political

00:07:25.180 organ?

00:07:26.700 Well, it would be wonderful.

00:07:28.220 We'll have to see.

00:07:29.260 And, uh, you know, we had, this was accumulating for a long time.

00:07:33.900 Uh, it's, you know, one of those things we're going to have to see.

00:07:37.840 We're hitting them very hard.

00:07:39.420 More and more information is coming out.

00:07:41.140 Even since we filed it, all of a sudden people are calling.

00:07:44.120 People are so happy that a case is finally being filed against these people where they,

00:07:49.860 you know, the two lovers, they go out and they, then they sue the government because

00:07:53.480 they haven't been treated well.

00:07:54.680 And yet they were using servers and everything else.

00:07:56.640 The whole thing is crazy.

00:07:58.240 So I said, it's, it's, I've got to do it.

00:08:01.180 You know, I'd rather not have to do this.

00:08:03.480 I'd rather have government handle it.

00:08:05.220 This should be handled by government, but it can handle, be handled by us very strongly.

00:08:09.520 And this is a very strong case.

00:08:11.200 People that read this case said, wow, this is a strong case.

00:08:14.560 And this case will build.

00:08:15.980 Now, the problem we have though, is if you have a judge that's going to throw out the

00:08:19.020 case and you have to go through appeals, I think you have a great appeal section, but

00:08:24.140 we'll see.

00:08:24.720 But it's, uh, it's very effective.

00:08:26.940 So we'll probably ask for a recusal, uh, maybe a change of venue, but not a change as

00:08:32.760 much as a recusal.

00:08:33.940 I think it is, uh, amazing.

00:08:36.200 One of the defendants in the case is a former state department official and spokesperson for

00:08:40.220 Clinton, Philip, um, uh, reigns.

00:08:42.580 And he said, he tweeted yesterday, I think this is hysterical.

00:08:46.900 He looks forward to deposing president Trump.

00:08:49.840 I don't see, uh, I'm not too concerned.

00:08:52.840 Um, they're laughing at this.

00:08:54.420 And I have to tell you, just as a spectator here, um, you are probably the most investigated

00:09:04.160 man on planet earth.

00:09:06.600 Yep.

00:09:06.960 Every single intelligence agency, at least in five eyes.

00:09:12.100 And I'll bet you it's all around the world.

00:09:14.860 Every newspaper, every reporter, every journalist have dug through everything and you're pretty

00:09:22.100 clean.

00:09:22.660 So what do they think they're going to get from you in a deposition?

00:09:27.940 Yeah.

00:09:28.740 Beyond pretty clean.

00:09:29.920 I have a friend, a very successful guy said, you're the cleanest man in history.

00:09:34.960 I mean, how about this?

00:09:35.900 Where Paul Weiss, a big law firm, that's a total Democrat, Hillary Clinton firm sends

00:09:41.840 one of their partners, Robert Schumer heads it, or one of the big partners, Robert Schumer,

00:09:47.120 that's Chuck Schumer's brother, sends one of their big partners into the Manhattan DA's office

00:09:52.100 take two of our people and three of our people.

00:09:54.800 You're tough, you know, smart young guys and go into the Manhattan DA's office.

00:09:59.380 Never happened before because they have hundreds of lawyers do a good job. 0.71

00:10:05.040 They took their partner, top guy, an anti-Trump, a Trump hater.

00:10:11.240 Like you wouldn't believe.

00:10:13.020 All of them made massive contributions.

00:10:14.720 One of the biggest donors, that firm, to Hillary Clinton, put him in the DA's office to prosecute

00:10:21.020 Trump.

00:10:21.440 Let's get Trump.

00:10:22.220 Now we can get him.

00:10:23.660 And Vance, Cy Vance, whose father sold the Panama Canal, as you know, for $1, perhaps the

00:10:31.480 single worst business transaction ever made by our country.

00:10:35.080 And Cy Vance, instead of using one of his hundreds and hundreds of lawyers, of course,

00:10:40.120 he used 20% of, I heard close to 20% of the DA's office, hundreds of lawyers, 20% was using

00:10:48.000 it on this, instead of the murders, the drug dealers, the crime, the street crime in New

00:10:53.800 York, which is at a record level.

00:10:55.220 They were all focused on getting Trump, but how would you like it?

00:10:59.260 And in all fairness, the new gentleman who came in, Alvin Bragg, who is a, you know, considered

00:11:05.400 liberal, he looked at this thing and, I mean, I'm reading the papers, but what he said is such

00:11:12.580 an honorable thing.

00:11:13.760 He couldn't believe it.

00:11:15.260 I heard he was very disturbed by the fact that they sent a team of Hillary Clinton Trump

00:11:20.960 in to prosecute Trump from a firm that's 100%, you know, that's totally against, it's one

00:11:28.060 of the main Democrat firms, I think the main Democrat firm, and I think they have tremendous

00:11:33.120 legal liability, but he sent this sleazebag in to get Trump, think of this, they sent this

00:11:40.400 guy in to get Donald Trump.

00:11:42.600 So he acted as a prosecutor, he's a never-Trumper who contributed to, so it continues. 1.00

00:11:48.240 But Alvin Bragg saw that, and he also saw, by the way, the banks weren't hurt, Trump's

00:11:54.380 statement is very powerful, I have a great statement, my statement is so strong, and all

00:11:59.980 of the other things, and think of that, they sent a Trump hater into the, to act as the

00:12:07.320 DA to bring down Donald Trump, and they still couldn't find anything.

00:12:12.500 I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I gotta live with this, hey Glenn, and I gotta live this

00:12:18.720 life, okay, a lot of fun, I did a great job as president, right now you wouldn't be in

00:12:24.280 Ukraine 100%, Russia would not be there, 100%, and I spoke to Putin about it, I know that

00:12:30.620 Putin's attitude toward Ukraine better than anybody but his closest girlfriend, okay, I

00:12:36.880 know his attitude better, I know all about him in Ukraine, I said don't ever do it, don't 1.00

00:12:41.820 ever do it, and I told him why, and I'm not gonna tell you right now, but I'll tell you

00:12:45.700 at the right time.

00:12:46.880 But he would have never, ever made the move, so we have a rigged election, and because of

00:12:52.000 a rigged election, we have potentially millions of people dying, because this thing could spiral

00:12:56.560 into a nuclear war.

00:12:58.000 I think it's the most dangerous time in the history of this world because of nuclear, because

00:13:04.020 we've never had power like this, and I think that right now we're, and we have a president

00:13:08.540 that's grossly incompetent, that's being laughed at over there, that has no relationship, he just 0.52

00:13:16.140 sits there, everyone's talking, screaming, and you know, the other leaders, they're all at the top 0.87

00:13:20.560 of their game, and he's just watching them talk, the whole thing is horrible, this should have

00:13:26.120 never happened, Ukraine should have never happened. 1.00

00:13:28.400 I find myself in the weirdest position at night, praying hard for the health of this president,

00:13:35.740 because I think Kamala Harris would be even worse than this president. 1.00

00:13:41.220 She laughed at the immigrants, and they called them immigration, it's immigration, 1.00

00:13:46.140 and you see people coming in on stretchers with their arms cut off, with their face smashed,

00:13:51.580 and horrible, and she's laughing about it.

00:13:55.420 I said, that's just, it's not the right person.

00:13:58.780 Kim Jong-un also tested a new ballistic missile.

00:14:04.460 He's having fun.

00:14:05.860 What, what are, are we looking at a split world?

00:14:10.880 They're now talking about, you know, the dollar going away, and getting a new digital curve.

00:14:17.140 I mean, this is insanity, and I don't think people understand what this administration

00:14:23.420 has done with these sanctions that will crush the dollar.

00:14:28.520 I don't think people understand how that's going to affect their lives.

00:14:32.480 That's true.

00:14:33.160 Well, I know sanctions better than anybody, because they sanctioned the hell out of Iran, 0.87

00:14:36.840 and they were ready to make a deal until the elections.

00:14:39.660 We would have had a deal within one week after the election.

00:14:42.860 They were, they were ready to make a deal, and I had the sanctions.

00:14:46.420 But people don't understand that when you do sanctions, it hurts us as much and sometimes

00:14:51.220 more than it does the country you're sanctioning.

00:14:53.260 And what it does is forces these big countries like Russia or others, and that doesn't mean

00:15:00.440 you don't do them, but you have to be very careful, because it forces them to use other

00:15:04.840 instruments, not the dollar.

00:15:06.400 They go different ways.

00:15:07.480 They sell their oil for gold, or they sell their oil, and all of a sudden you're saying,

00:15:11.960 wow, half the, half the world is now off the dollar.

00:15:14.580 It used to be, you know, the currency, when I left, it was, it was very powerful.

00:15:19.440 As an example, we used very strong sanctions on Iran, the strongest ever used up until that

00:15:24.820 point, but that deal would have been solved, and we would have been right back on the dollar,

00:15:29.260 and they would have been fine, and they would have been, everybody would have been happy.

00:15:32.280 That was all set to happen.

00:15:33.660 Do you think, I'm sorry, do you think, Mr. President, that if this continues to spiral

00:15:42.180 out of control, with Joe Biden threatening China, which is just a joke, but do you think,

00:15:50.780 I don't see anything standing in their way, if we're busy over in Europe with this president,

00:15:56.620 of China just taking Taiwan?

00:15:59.680 Well, except the only thing is that Putin's done very poorly, and Xi is looking at that,

00:16:05.560 and he's saying, I bet Putin wished he didn't do that one, because that one is not working

00:16:09.180 out too well. Let's see what happens. The problem is, the danger is, does Putin say,

00:16:14.020 all right, now we're going to escalate into the next level of military, and you know what that is?

00:16:18.400 And do you think he would?

00:16:20.200 The world is, well, he doesn't want to lose, I can tell you that. It'll be very interesting

00:16:25.080 to see, because he doesn't want to, look, I knew him very well. This would have never happened,

00:16:29.820 would have never happened. Now people say, what would you do now? And there are things you can do now,

00:16:34.680 but we had all the cards before he did it. All the cards. And I thought he was negotiating when

00:16:40.400 he moved the troops. I didn't, you know, I really thought it was a great negotiating posture. He

00:16:45.340 stood here with troops, and he wanted to get certain things. And he should have been able to

00:16:50.340 do something, but he wouldn't have done it whether he got it or not. He would never have done it with

00:16:55.280 me there. But he's a guy that you cannot have him lose face. How do you give him a win here? I mean,

00:17:03.900 how would you solve this? If you had to walk in right now, he's not going to walk away a loser. 0.98

00:17:13.960 How do you give him a win? How do you end this? Well, see, I don't think a win anymore is the

00:17:18.540 NATO thing, you know, that they're not going to go into NATO, because that's not, you could have had

00:17:22.600 that before. They should have had that before. But it was never put, in all fairness, it was never

00:17:27.240 put on the table. Right. You know, there was nobody saying, let's do this. And certainly it

00:17:32.340 should have been, because I guess they didn't believe, you know, they didn't think he was

00:17:35.440 really serious about doing it. Very few people did. Maybe nobody except him did. And, you know,

00:17:41.920 I think he made a tremendous mistake. And on a humanitarian basis, it's just as bad as anyone's

00:17:46.980 ever seen. I mean, it'll take 100 years to rebuild that country. And they're knocking down

00:17:51.600 buildings and things that are magnificent, old. You know, we have in this country 200-year-old

00:17:57.580 buildings that we think they're great. Yeah. They have buildings that are thousands of years

00:18:01.960 old. You know, it's like they have things that are very old and very beautiful, and they're

00:18:06.580 gone. They're wiped out. A lot of things are wiped out. A lot of, most importantly, the people.

00:18:12.160 But artwork and so much is just, that country is devastated. It's going to take 100 years to

00:18:17.720 rebuild that country. Mr. President, thank you so much. Are you looking forward? Do you see more

00:18:26.620 things coming from the Durham report that will help your case? Well, I think so. I mean, it looks like

00:18:33.840 he set a foundation. And if you look at what he's got, these are Hillary Clinton people, and he's got a

00:18:40.360 very strong foundation. And you look at that, and now you look at the times where they did, I thought

00:18:45.120 that was another terrible story. Really terrible. They knew all about Hunter Biden. They said they

00:18:49.980 misread it. They knew all about Hunter Biden and criminality. It made a 17-point difference. But we

00:18:55.500 won it anyway. We got 75 million votes. We got more votes than any sitting president has ever

00:19:00.400 gotten. I was told if I got what I got the last time, we got 12 million more votes. I was told if we

00:19:05.640 got what we got the last time we went. So, you know, I think that a lot of things are going to be

00:19:10.760 happening over the coming year. You are very lucky to be doing what you're doing because your show is

00:19:14.660 going to get very interesting. So is the world, unfortunately. Unfortunately, yeah, because

00:19:21.160 much of it is sadly. Yes. Yeah. Mr. President, thank you so much for talking to us. I really

00:19:26.260 appreciate it. This is something that every American, I don't care who you voted for, how you feel about

00:19:32.560 any of the people that are involved here. Every American should care what happened and the power

00:19:40.740 that has been gathered by Hillary Clinton and the DNC and how corrupt we have become this. We won't have

00:19:50.380 fair elections and won't have freedom until somebody pays a price for what has happened. Thank you very

00:19:56.880 much, Mr. President. Appreciate it. Thank you, Glenn. And we have a very corrupt media. Remember that. I know.

00:20:02.560 Yeah. Next time we're on, I'll ask where the media is in the lawsuit. Thank you so much. God bless.

00:20:14.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:28.240 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, biggest story of the week, sir.

00:20:32.560 Putin is losing.

00:20:35.120 That's the biggest story of the week, the month, maybe the year.

00:20:38.900 Okay. What does that mean?

00:20:40.840 And it means that the Russian military complex thought it would go in in about 10 days and occupy

00:20:51.360 most of Ukraine and that Zelensky would flee like the Afghan leaders did. 0.71

00:20:58.200 Um, and none of it's happened. Um, and now with the increased weaponry that NATO is, uh, sending

00:21:06.300 into Ukraine, remember the whole Western border of Ukraine is open.

00:21:11.340 The Russians don't have anybody there. So they can get as much, um, armaments and, uh, humanitarian aid in

00:21:18.700 there as possible. So Putin, uh, now is embarrassed because every military expert in the world knows that

00:21:27.940 his army is not performing well. And instantly the defense minister of Russia vanishes. Did you catch

00:21:36.600 that back? Yes. I see that story. Yes. I wonder where he is probably looking out of a window

00:21:43.900 and then wanting to see the sidewalk at close up distance quickly or at the bottom of a lake. Yeah.

00:21:51.080 Okay. So that would be like our defense chief, you know, blinking secretaries there. Anybody like

00:21:58.280 that? Uh, Lloyd Austin just disappearing, just gone. Okay. So that, that is the signal that right there,

00:22:09.240 that the, the defense minister of Russia has disappeared. Now, none of the Russian people

00:22:16.820 know that. And probably the army doesn't even know it because there's no flow of information

00:22:22.820 inside Russia. It, he knocked down Facebook and Instagram and it's hard to tweet there, except

00:22:30.380 the Russian government can tweet worldwide because Twitter hasn't banned them. Trump is off,

00:22:38.440 but the Russian government is okay. Yeah. Putin's fine. Donald Trump. Absolutely not.

00:22:44.620 Hey, Jack Dorsey. Hello. Well, okay. I mean, he's probably still busy working on a reason to,

00:22:52.000 uh, uh, to kick the Ayatollah off. I want everyone listening to us right now, all the tens of millions 0.80

00:22:59.640 of Glenn Beck fans to just step back and just think that a former president of the United States

00:23:07.920 is banned from Twitter, yet the Putin government is not. Now that is about as stunning an indictment

00:23:19.560 of any corporation I have ever seen. Would you not agree, Beck? I would agree. I would agree.

00:23:28.800 So it's not complicated. No, even the ladies on the view could understand it. You'd have to

00:23:34.980 tell them slowly. You, you have to go over every word with them, but they could grasp it. Well,

00:23:41.580 you, you had, I think it was YouTube, uh, that removed the, uh, uh, the CPAC, uh, video because

00:23:49.620 the president mentioned that it was a crooked election. Yeah. Gone. And so gone. Okay. So as

00:23:56.340 long as we all know what's happening inside our own country, but let's get back to Putin. So there's

00:24:01.240 little Vlad five foot seven. Okay. And you haven't seen him topless lately because he's now serious

00:24:07.580 Vlad. So he hasn't been topless hunting tigers. He's, uh, clothed slaughtering Ukraine children. 1.00

00:24:15.400 That's, that's where Vlad is. He's a real macho man. You know, the village people love him. So

00:24:21.340 anyway, he thought he'd roll in there and that the Eastern part of Ukraine would be waving Russian

00:24:28.960 flags. And thank you for liberating us, Vlad. You're the greatest guy. And then he would occupy

00:24:34.080 the key cities in Ukraine and do what he wants in there and pose some guy like they did in, uh,

00:24:40.960 Belarus and Georgia that loves Vlad. That's what he thought. Now there's no assurance

00:24:47.320 that the Russian army will even defeat the Ukrainians. So it's been more than a month.

00:24:53.360 The news, the news today is, is that the Ukrainians, uh, have pushed the Russians completely out of 1.00

00:25:01.540 Kyiv. So they have gained ground on the Russians. That's can't believe that's crazy problem. No,

00:25:08.420 I know. I know. I know. You can't believe any reportage coming out of Ukraine because the

00:25:13.960 Ukrainian government obviously is going to go, we're kicking serious, but, and the Russians are 0.99

00:25:18.960 going to, Oh no, no, no, we are. So, but what is beyond any dispute is that we are into week five

00:25:27.320 and the Russians don't have any part of this theater secured. So Bill, let me ask you this, 0.77

00:25:34.340 but you know, when we showed the world how incompetent we were in, uh, Afghanistan,

00:25:39.880 it changed every ally and, uh, enemy's mind about us. What does this do for Russia? Because we were

00:25:49.040 always told Russia was a very good, uh, military and they had completely updated and they are,

00:25:56.260 they're better than they've ever been. Really? Excellent question back. And I'm going to give

00:26:01.040 you a surprising answer. So you have to understand the Russian army are conscripts. They're drafted.

00:26:09.240 Right. They're not signing up like the American army. Right. All right. So there's these guys out

00:26:15.440 on the steps. They're 17, 18 years old. They're all of a sudden in a uniform. They don't want to be

00:26:22.060 in a uniform. They're not elite forces. And that's who's getting the, um, bulk of the fighting in

00:26:30.580 Ukraine. So this is like, I mean, I thought Afghanistan was this for them, but this is like 0.84

00:26:35.520 Vietnam for us. And that's not against the American soldiers, but forces in, in Vietnam. We're not

00:26:41.380 incompetent. The communists never beat us one time. No, no, no, wait, wait, wait. But there's a

00:26:46.240 difference between incompetent. I don't want to take down the Vietnam soldiers by any stretch of the 0.65

00:26:50.180 imagination. Right. But their heart wasn't in it. Um, that's true because they were everybody

00:26:55.340 military performed very well under tremendously adverse circumstances of Vietnam. That's not the

00:27:01.520 case in Ukraine. So these Ukrainian, um, uh, fighters are far more motivated than the Russian

00:27:08.020 conscripts. But here's the most important thing of this embarrassment, military embarrassment for Putin.

00:27:13.660 She is watching this. Yeah. Now Putin cannot survive on this planet without China. So now she is going,

00:27:24.860 you know what, this might not be our best ally. If we throw in with him, we're going to get economic

00:27:31.880 sanctions put on us. That's going to hurt China big time because it's an export economy. They have to

00:27:37.600 sell their stuff overseas. If nobody buys it, the Chinese don't eat. So now she goes, look at this. 0.54

00:27:46.580 Um, so I fully expect because China is different from Russia. This is one man causing this thing in, 0.99

00:27:53.680 in, uh, Ukraine, one man and one man only Putin. It's not the Duma. It's not the Russian people.

00:28:00.760 It's him. China's different. So she, who is the virtual dictator there, he's got to answer. 0.78

00:28:08.520 He's got to answer. Putin doesn't have to answer. Not now, but when the military turns on him,

00:28:14.320 which I believe will happen. Wow. That's going to be the end of Putin. All right. So,

00:28:18.800 uh, let me ask you this because that is a, a trapped rat. Uh, and even, you know, you,

00:28:24.680 you corner a cat and they pounce, they, they will fight their way out. And he is a, uh, he's a fighter

00:28:31.400 and we backed him into a corner. Uh, I just had president Trump on about an hour ago and,

00:28:38.200 and asked him this question. So does he find a way out or does he amp things up and, and actually

00:28:46.500 consider things like chemical weapons? And Trump told me, I don't know. I can't predict him. I don't

00:28:53.260 know now. Well, that's a, that's a fair answer from Trump. Oh, I think it is. How can anybody know

00:28:58.960 how emotionally damaged Vlad Putin is? We know he's emotionally damaged because no rational human

00:29:06.900 being would do what he did. So we know that. But again, in order to carry out gas and nukes and all 0.54

00:29:15.180 of this, the army has to do it. The commanders have to do it. And Putin is in a position now where his

00:29:25.880 main guy, the defense minister, obviously he wasn't, you know, performing. He's gone. The major

00:29:34.860 commanders know that the Russian commanders know it, that he's out. And are they going to,

00:29:40.680 they going to do that? I'm not sure. So I think, well, I mean, look at project Valkyrie. I mean,

00:29:47.820 it takes a lot for you to turn on a commander in chief who just can kill you. It does. But when

00:29:52.840 you're talking nukes and gas, you know, when you're talking that kind of stuff, then Russia, the, the

00:30:00.120 people, the military is the only group in Russia that can neutralize Putin. So the people really,

00:30:07.120 the people can rise up and they can cause trouble, but they can't get up. The military could. So

00:30:13.580 Putin is not nearly as strong as he was seven weeks ago. So, so, so, so let me ask you this,

00:30:20.240 and I'm not asking you for a prediction. I'm asking you for the most likely or most probable outcome

00:30:26.400 here. Do you see this ending quickly? Do you see this dragging on? Do you see him getting more

00:30:32.380 violent or a coup, an inside coup from the military? Well, I think that Putin has a few

00:30:39.700 more weeks to do whatever he thinks he can do. But the sanctions are really cutting into

00:30:46.940 the supply chain. We have supply chain problems in America. Can you imagine the supply chain

00:30:54.140 problems in Russia back? Yeah. They can't get Big Macs. They can't have a Coke. They can't.

00:31:00.160 Well, I will tell you that Russia, you know, this Russia is a very different, the big cities

00:31:05.340 are very Americanized or, you know, Western, but once they run out of vodka, I mean, you

00:31:11.640 know, Hey, yeah, I know. I know. So what I'm trying to say is this, I think he's got a window

00:31:17.480 Putin of a, maybe two or three more weeks that he can, he's not going to be in a position

00:31:27.020 of what they call, it's a cliche, do or die. In that two or three week period, Zelensky has

00:31:33.240 already signaled, look, we won't join NATO. They probably give Putin a few Eastern provinces in the

00:31:39.900 country. If he'd stop, they probably would do that. So I think that the odds are that Putin will say,

00:31:46.960 okay, I'm going to stop and declare victory. And I'm going to tell the Russian people on a, 0.62

00:31:52.560 you know, announcement that the Russians are heroic and we freed all these people, you know,

00:31:57.860 that's probably the best odds, but nobody can really, um, no, nobody can really predict it.

00:32:05.740 But here's something that people don't know either. The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox

00:32:11.560 church, 90% of Russians are Russian Orthodox. Key real is his name. He is supporting Putin.

00:32:19.940 Oh yeah. It's unbelievable that this guy who's like the Pope in Russia. Oh yeah. Is supporting

00:32:29.000 Putin because if he sees him, he real, who is bound for hell. Hey, patriarch, you really believe in

00:32:36.540 heaven and hell? Guess where you're going. Okay. If he would say, you know, I think enough's enough.

00:32:43.780 Yeah. Putin would have to stop. Well, Putin is, he has positioned himself because of Alexander

00:32:49.800 Dugan as a, as a defender of the faith. Yeah. He's got the cross on. Right. Even when he's

00:32:55.840 topless, he wears a cross. I don't want to even think about that, Bill. All right. Back with more

00:33:01.060 with Bill O'Reilly. There's a ton to talk about. You can stay the full hour with me, Bill.

00:33:05.300 Yeah. Back, you know, I wouldn't do it for anybody else, but for you, I know you're come

00:33:10.680 on, man. You're in long Island. You're, you're probably in your boxers and you've got a metal

00:33:14.920 detector. You're out by the beach looking for coins or this is the best of the Glenn Beck

00:33:24.000 program. Alex Epstein. Oh my gosh. President Biden is a fascist. Oh, how can you possibly

00:33:44.860 say that, Alex? Well, thank you for picking my most controversial and literally true

00:33:53.720 quote. Yes. It is. Yeah, it is truth. By the way, let me introduce you. Uh, this is

00:33:59.160 Alex Epstein or Epstein. He is the founder and CEO. You got to write the first time. Did

00:34:02.880 I? Epstein. Sorry. It doesn't really matter. Uh, Alex Epstein, founder and CEO center for

00:34:07.500 industrial progress, author of the moral case for fossil fuels. And, uh, it is a great,

00:34:13.760 great book. Uh, all right, Alex, how could that possibly be true?

00:34:18.780 So it's weird that the term fascism isn't used except to insult kind of pro freedom people,

00:34:26.840 but fascism has a literal meaning, which I indicated in that tweet, which is, it's essentially the same

00:34:32.540 thing as socialism, which is total government ownership and control of everything. But under

00:34:37.180 fascism, there's this phony ownership. So you have title to property, but the government has

00:34:42.460 unlimited ability to control your exercise of that property. And in some ways it's worse than

00:34:48.160 socialism because I ran to roughly put it as, you know, it gives you the responsibility of

00:34:53.060 ownership without the benefits. Yep. It almost sounds like the great reset, but I digress.

00:34:58.720 Go ahead, Alex. Oh yeah. Well, it is, but, but I think it's important and I'm glad you're

00:35:03.260 highlighting the great reset, which is actually the great regress. But the great regress is global

00:35:08.980 fascism in particular. So it's not saying it's become out of fashion to say, okay, well, we all are

00:35:14.920 smart people are going to literally own everything and control it. They're like, no, you can own

00:35:19.300 it, but we have unlimited control, including we get to control every molecule of CO2, which

00:35:25.220 basically means every body and every machine in the society. So I think it's really important

00:35:30.040 to identify fascism as a thing and for its negative associations to remain with it. And that I think

00:35:36.660 it's why it upsets people so much when I do it because they don't want that those associations,

00:35:41.860 but those associations are very deserved. So there's some disturbing things like yesterday

00:35:47.960 coming out from Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, which is one of the leaders of this fascistic

00:35:54.960 movement. I mean, in case you don't know, he just said the actions taken by the private sector in

00:36:01.620 Ukraine and Russia demonstrate the power of capital markets, how the markets can provide capital to

00:36:07.960 those who have constructively worked within the system and how quickly they can deny it to those

00:36:14.560 who operate outside of it. Holy mother, that sounds terrifying. That's everything we said was coming.

00:36:22.220 That is fascism. And what's happening is President Biden is saying, we're going to do everything we can

00:36:30.080 to get these oil prices down. No, he's not. He's doing exactly the opposite, exactly the opposite.

00:36:36.800 And he's doing it through these corporations in a public-private partnership on ESG to not provide

00:36:45.280 any of the financing for these companies to actually build the infrastructure or reopen the

00:36:51.560 infrastructure to get things flowing again. So you raise a lot of issues, and I think all of those

00:36:58.140 issues come together in what just occurred a few days ago, which is the SEC announcing new,

00:37:04.320 what they call climate-related disclosure rules. This is in the context where we have rising oil

00:37:11.120 prices, rising gasoline prices, and lowering security, particularly in Europe, but also concerns

00:37:16.900 in the U.S. And there's a recognition that we need more domestic fossil fuel production, and maybe that

00:37:23.460 those who have been opposing domestic fossil fuel production over the years are villains in this case.

00:37:29.100 And the Biden administration, that's kind of an obvious thing, but the Biden administration is trying

00:37:32.980 to stretch all logic and say, no, in fact, we have done nothing to oppose domestic fossil fuel production,

00:37:39.380 even though I've been doing this for the last 20 years, including as part of Obama, and even though

00:37:44.180 I literally ran on, I guarantee you, we will end fossil fuel. So they're trying to stretch this so much,

00:37:50.660 but they can't help themselves, because at the same time, they just propose these rules,

00:37:55.460 which literally say that, which in effect mean I should say that every company under a certain

00:38:01.900 jurisdiction has to acknowledge climate catastrophisms. You have to say our CO2 emissions are not just

00:38:07.360 causing warming, but literally global catastrophe, and you have to adopt practices that the government

00:38:14.020 deems good, and they specify particular things like renewable energy, which really means unreliable

00:38:19.400 solar wind. So if that's not fascism, I don't know what it is, but it's even worse than regular

00:38:24.560 fascism, because it's green fascism, which means green is the idea that human impact is bad. So it's,

00:38:31.160 which is an anti-human idea. So it's anti-industrial fascism. So the worst of all worlds, government

00:38:36.640 control, but it's not even trying to make industry effective. It's trying to make industry green,

00:38:41.740 which ultimately means just we don't do anything.

00:38:43.880 So here's, here's one thing that, because I'd like you to make the moral case, but here's, here's something

00:38:50.060 that most people don't know. When Trump got into office, Rick Perry was our Secretary of Energy, and he went

00:38:55.560 over to Poland, and Poland is somebody that was completely dependent on Russia for their gas, and Rick

00:39:04.960 said, well, how much gas do you guys need? And he told him, the president of Poland told him, and he's like, I think

00:39:13.040 we can get that from just Texas alone. Hey, don't worry about your gas problem. We were shipping so

00:39:18.380 much natural gas over to Poland, that they were actually selling part of it, because they had

00:39:24.340 enough for themselves, they were selling part of it to Ukraine. That took everybody out of the Russia 0.92

00:39:31.560 pipeline. And Biden comes in, that's over. We're not sending it now. That's insanity.

00:39:38.900 Well, so there's just this basic fact, which is that the US has virtually limitless quantities of

00:39:47.240 fossil fuel that we can produce domestically and abroad. So and this is true of the world in general.

00:39:53.280 So when you see price spikes and supply not meeting demand, you can be sure that the political

00:39:57.840 phenomenon, not a physical phenomenon or some like lack of skill or something like that. And the natural gas

00:40:04.340 case that you raise is a very instructive example. Recently, on my podcast, Power Hour, I had Toby

00:40:10.060 Rice, who's the CEO of EQT, which is the nation's largest natural gas producer. And so, you know, we

00:40:14.820 could be producing a third more natural gas, if we had the pipeline infrastructure, and the export

00:40:21.100 infrastructure. Well, who's been opposing pipelines and exports for 20 years, Joe Biden, and in general,

00:40:27.020 the anti fossil fuel left. So the idea that they've done nothing to restrict production,

00:40:31.660 is just an insult to our intelligence. Yeah. So talk to me about I mean, because when people say

00:40:37.920 we got to get off fossil fuels, getting off of fossil fuels, even if we were building all kinds of

00:40:46.060 nuclear reactors, we must have fossil fuels, because almost everything in our lives has petrochemicals

00:40:56.940 attached to it. Correct? That's true. But it's a relatively small fraction of fossil fuels. And

00:41:03.900 it's particularly oil and natural gas, although you can do that stuff with coal. So you're right

00:41:08.220 that the general idea of keep it in the ground, one major reason is just totally ignorant and

00:41:14.320 destructive is because we have all these life enhancing synthetic materials. So if you want to

00:41:18.400 keep it in the ground, that means the artificial hearts are never going to exist. That means, you know,

00:41:22.780 refrigerators are not going to exist. Modern sanitation is not going to exist. So it's what

00:41:28.020 it really shows is the just fundamental irresponsibility of the anti fossil fuel movement.

00:41:33.140 But it's not just the petrochemicals. The main thing is, is the energy because fossil fuels still

00:41:38.660 are uniquely cost effective source of energy, which means they provide low cost, reliable energy

00:41:44.280 for all types of machines, including heavy duty industry and transportation, things that nothing else does

00:41:50.200 right now. And they do it on a scale of billions of people in 1000s of places. And this is a world

00:41:56.080 that is dramatically underpowered, we still have 3 billion people using less electricity than a

00:42:02.000 typical American refrigerator. And that's why I say I have a new book coming out in two months called

00:42:06.280 fossil future. And it is a fossil future. And we need to embrace that because the world needs more

00:42:11.380 energy. Fossil fuels are uniquely good, we should be liberating nuclear, what I call decriminalizing 0.62

00:42:16.660 nuclear, that's a key thing. Yes, for human beings to flourish for decades and generations to come, we need

00:42:22.120 to be doubling down on fossil fuels. So right now, it looks like the the new axis power, if it's cobbled

00:42:29.300 together, would include much of Asia, China, of course, and India, maybe even Saudi Arabia, and Russia,

00:42:41.300 they're all going to double down on fossil fuels, which makes our fight for climate ridiculous,

00:42:48.180 because you can't do half of the world. But that's what we're going to do. What happens to the West,

00:42:57.260 if we continue to go down this road with a great reset and choking to death all of our fossil fuels?

00:43:06.260 What does that mean for us? I'm glad you're highlighting this in fossil future, I use the

00:43:11.960 term unilateral disempowerment to discuss this, because we're unilateral saying, yeah, we're not

00:43:16.960 going to be empowered by fossil fuels, but we're one sixth of the world's emissions and declining.

00:43:22.060 So what happens is one sixth, go ahead and declining. Yeah. And so if you look at it, it's really

00:43:29.380 terrifying. I mean, we're just getting a memory now of the 70s, which I was not alive. And I was born in

00:43:33.940 1980. But I know the history, people have had no idea until recently what an energy crisis is like,

00:43:39.940 and what you will do in an energy crisis. But what you see with Europe is, look how cowardly they are 0.84

00:43:45.300 in the face of Russia, they won't do anything. Why? Because Russia can literally kill them by cutting 0.88

00:43:50.200 off their energy supply, because they were so irresponsible and made themselves super dependent 0.97

00:43:54.380 on Russia. This is just the beginning, though, there can be far more control. So there's the ability to

00:43:59.940 cut off people's energy. But then there's also just the ability to have far more resources for an economy

00:44:05.940 and to wage war. A brilliant point, Palmer Luckey, who's the creator of Oculus, but also created the new

00:44:12.180 defense company, Anderil, like one of the few tech guys who's really pro-American. He made the point that,

00:44:17.160 you know, you succeed in wars with a massive domestic production ability that you can sustain. How does ours

00:44:23.240 compare to China right now? And what's going to happen if we keep mandating unreliable solar and wind,

00:44:28.340 and then they keep using 60 plus percent coal for their electricity, including to make our

00:44:34.120 unreliable solar panels and wind turbines? We're going to be, we'll be France at best, France without

00:44:39.540 nuclear power. Let me ask you this. We keep talking about, you know, well, gas is so expensive, you just

00:44:46.520 buy an electric car. The electricity coming from the outlet is not a magic box. Most of it is made by

00:44:55.080 coal. Some of it is made by fossil fuels. Some of it is made by, by nuclear, but you cannot cut off

00:45:05.220 the fossil fuels in our power plants. How fast, what does it look like? What percentage has to be

00:45:14.020 plugging their cars in before we, we, without changing anything, have an energy crisis because of

00:45:21.580 electricity? Yeah, that's a, that's a great thing to raise. You know, the Babylon Bee, I live in

00:45:28.040 California still, and the Babylon Bee had this great headline when Newsom, Newsom is just such a piece

00:45:33.900 of work because, you know, by 2035, he said, we're outlawing gasoline cars. And they had this great

00:45:39.700 headline, you know, governor outlaws like, you know, gasoline cars or mandates electric cars in a state

00:45:46.580 without electricity. And that is the essential logic of what we're talking about. We're going to

00:45:50.880 say, we're going to use all of these battery cars, and yet we're undercutting our ability to produce

00:45:56.080 electricity. And we're seeing, you know, even more than the canary in the coal mine with what's

00:46:00.280 happened in California, with what's happened in Texas. Just the fundamental thing that's happening

00:46:04.740 is people are mandating unreliable solar and wind, and they are divesting from reliable power plants.

00:46:10.860 And in particular, they are not investing in resiliency measures. That's a lot of what happened in Texas,

00:46:15.960 where you don't weatherize things. So while Alberta was did great with worse temperatures

00:46:20.640 during the week of the Texas crisis, Texas had a disaster, because it's it spent, you know,

00:46:25.760 $70 billion on solar and wind, and the related infrastructure. So it's it's a disaster to depend

00:46:32.360 on elect, like, the more you have electric vehicles, you have to have an amazingly robust grid. And yet

00:46:38.560 we're mandating these vehicles and worsening the grid, which just gives the government total control

00:46:43.460 and can lead to total catastrophe.

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