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00:00:00.000 We're going to be mighty popular today because on today's podcast, we have Kristi Noem and she didn't do well on Tucker last night.

00:00:09.200 At least that's the perception. Tucker went after her and said, you know, you're selling out your values for this NCAA debacle where South Dakota is saying, wait, we're not going to fight this in the colleges because we might lose.

00:00:23.340 There's a lot of half information and wrong information out there. And going into the podcast, I didn't know if I was going to agree with her or disagree.

00:00:32.760 And when we disagree, we tell people to their face. And so they they hate us. They hate us. So did she hate us or not? What really happened?

00:00:42.800 Yeah, we'll get into that. I think that's it's an interesting conversation about just the conservative direction in general that we get into as well there.

00:00:50.280 Let's talk about the border quite a bit today. Yeah, we had an expert who was down on the border just about to cross into Mexico because he is a, you know, homeland security guy.

00:00:59.620 Been with the DPS here in Texas. He's he's a guy who knows this inside and out.

00:01:04.880 He said, I can't get any information from anyone on the American side.

00:01:10.920 But boy, people talk on the other side of the border. And he told us what's really going on there.

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00:02:00.640 Todd Benzman. He currently serves as the Texas based senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C.

00:02:08.820 Policy Institute. He led the counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety's intelligence and counterterrorism division in its multi agency fusion center.

00:02:19.820 Before his Homeland Security service. He was a journalist for 23 years covering national security after 9-11 as a staff writer for major newspapers and reporting in 25 different countries.

00:02:31.160 He is also the author of the book, America's covert border war, the untold story of the nation's battle to prevent jihadist infiltration.

00:02:40.160 He joins us now. I believe you're in Mexico now, Todd, is that right?

00:02:46.920 At the moment, I'm on the Texas side.

00:02:50.360 And as soon as we're done with this call, I'm going to head over into Piedras Negras, which is on a smaller city on the Mexican side across from Eagle Pass, Texas.

00:03:02.940 And yesterday I spent all day in Ciudad Acuna across from Del Rio.

00:03:10.860 So tell me what is really happening on the border.

00:03:13.380 Well, migrants are coming from all over Mexico, southern Mexico, and also from other parts of Mexico where ports of entry are walled or they're better walling in those areas and harder to get across.

00:03:30.480 So what they're doing is they're sector shopping for the easy routes in.

00:03:35.560 And this happens to be one of the easy sectors they perceived easy to get through and into the United States and be released.

00:03:43.420 And so just in the past week in this sector, about 5,700 migrants crossed over and were apprehended or got away, about 1,700 got away estimated, which compares to like kind of in the low hundreds on a normal week.

00:04:02.560 So we're really seeing a major, major spike happening in this sector because it's perceived to be forgiving and easy to get through.

00:04:14.580 So is this happening with the Texas Border Patrol as well?

00:04:20.200 I mean, because we've had this problem before with Obama, not this bad.

00:04:25.320 But Texas DPS has been down on the border, and they are different than the Border Patrol from CBP.

00:04:35.120 Are they?

00:04:36.040 Yeah.

00:04:36.940 Yes.

00:04:37.640 I've, you know, there's a trooper car just about a mile behind me on the road here.

00:04:45.100 You see them all over.

00:04:46.760 They're deployed along with National Guard.

00:04:50.100 I've seen National Guard here.

00:04:51.820 And the purpose of that is to fill the gap because Border Patrol is spread very thinly in an area like this.

00:05:01.000 This is why it's easy to get through here where there's no walling.

00:05:05.500 They just come through and either bum rush the agents who are here and get past them or they can, you know, family units know that they can turn themselves in.

00:05:17.940 So some are running and some are turning themselves in.

00:05:20.180 And the family units are being paroled right into the country with notices to appear.

00:05:26.020 And now they're not even bothering with notices to appear in some parts of the border.

00:05:30.100 They're just waving them through the turnstile into the Greyhound bus stations.

00:05:36.980 And so, yeah, a couple days ago.

00:05:38.480 And are we, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:05:39.560 Are we, the United States government is paying for these trips all over America, right?

00:05:44.660 I wouldn't say that they're paying for the bus fare, but they, there are NGOs that are facilitating communications and wire, you know, the migrants are getting money wired in from relatives and they're paying for their bus fare.

00:06:00.960 But there are NGOs that are assisting and cooperating with all of, all of that.

00:06:07.060 But you've got DPS is here and National Guard.

00:06:10.700 And what happens is they can catch migrants. 0.85

00:06:13.680 They can't hold them for long and they call border patrol comes and picks them up.

00:06:18.000 So it's really good to have them here.

00:06:20.720 Okay.

00:06:21.480 So we have noticed a difference.

00:06:24.500 We have, we have good relationships with the border patrol and we are, we're getting a total blackout.

00:06:33.460 People won't talk to us and it is leading us to believe that there, that is, there's something happening here on the border and nobody wants to talk about it.

00:06:43.580 Is that just me being me or are you experiencing a kind of a blackout as well?

00:06:52.300 Total blackout, Glenn.

00:06:54.380 This is, this is unusual.

00:06:56.400 Look, I mean, let's just face it.

00:06:58.380 It's the Biden administration caused all of this with their campaign rhetoric during the campaign.

00:07:05.300 And then their very first moves were to just open the border wide, reinstitute, catch and release.

00:07:11.220 The migrants that I talked to over there on Mexico side, all tell me with a, to a man and woman, that the reason that they came now was to take advantage of Biden's policies.

00:07:23.340 And it's embarrassing to, you know, to the Biden administration.

00:07:27.260 They don't want people to see this.

00:07:30.200 They'll tell you privately that that's what it's all about.

00:07:33.940 And they don't want to advertise what they've done and what they're going to be doing.

00:07:41.720 And I think that, you know, you could get the story without their cooperation.

00:07:46.280 I didn't even bother after the first couple of phone calls.

00:07:49.720 I saw that this thing was going nowhere.

00:07:52.100 There was going to be no embedding and no interviews with Border Patrol.

00:07:55.820 And I'll tell you this, Glenn, I've got a lot of Border Patrol agents all from California to the Gulf of Mexico who do talk to me on a regular basis.

00:08:06.100 And I know what's going on, at least through their eyes.

00:08:09.100 But the most important thing is that you can see it through the eyes of the migrants if American reporters would just bother to interview them.

00:08:18.540 What are they saying besides we came because of Biden?

00:08:22.280 Well, they're saying, A, we came because of Biden.

00:08:28.620 And they're saying that they know that they can get in now.

00:08:33.800 They're going to get in now, sooner or very soon.

00:08:38.280 Nobody who's coming to the border doesn't believe that they're not going to get in during this administration.

00:08:45.160 Unbelievable.

00:08:45.600 And they're very frank about the fact that they're coming in for economic reasons.

00:08:54.660 Nobody is talking about political asylum, how the government persecuted me.

00:08:59.980 Not one of them will tell you that.

00:09:02.740 They don't usually say that until they get coaching from an NGO legal group that tells them what to say to get asylum.

00:09:11.340 None of these people are here for asylum, but they're all going to use the asylum system to just get in through past the border patrol.

00:09:20.240 And win, lose, or draw, they're going to stay inside the United States illegally, legally, win, lose, or draw on their claim.

00:09:28.740 They're here for economic reasons.

00:09:31.460 Can you give me the name of any of these NGOs that you feel are instrumental in all of this?

00:09:41.100 Riesis, if I'm pronouncing that right, is a key one.

00:09:45.900 They're a legal support group, and they are all over this.

00:09:50.560 They're on both sides of the border.

00:09:51.840 That's one that immediately comes to mind, and I can get in touch with you after the show and shoot you some other ones.

00:09:59.580 But, you know, there's a...

00:10:01.060 Yeah, go ahead.

00:10:01.620 We had the pictures that came out yesterday, and we tried to get a hold of anyone yesterday.

00:10:09.800 We were completely ghosted on...

00:10:12.240 You know, and that's not usual.

00:10:14.580 We were completely ghosted by everyone when we were asking for verification of what James O'Keefe said yesterday,

00:10:23.960 that there is sexual abuse and abuse happening in these centers, and no one will get back to us.

00:10:32.620 Have you heard anything like that?

00:10:35.860 No.

00:10:36.720 As far as what's happening inside the detention centers, that's just a blackout for me and everybody else.

00:10:44.580 And, unfortunately, I don't have ICE sources that are close to the detention centers at the moment.

00:10:52.100 But, you know, I expect...

00:10:55.280 Yeah, go ahead.

00:10:55.660 No, go ahead.

00:10:56.220 You expect...

00:10:58.020 Well, you know, you can't keep that kind of a secret for very long.

00:11:02.980 I mean, eventually the truth will come out.

00:11:04.580 I mean, sometimes I will say that I have seen those kind of claims, especially during the Trump administration,

00:11:11.920 made frequently and not turn out to be supported.

00:11:19.660 Because they use those claims to force releases.

00:11:23.560 Oh, well, we've got to release them now because everybody thinks that they're, you know, so...

00:11:28.280 So tell me...

00:11:28.920 I'm a little skeptical.

00:11:29.720 So tell me this, because I was there under the Obama administration, and I saw what was happening with the cartels.

00:11:39.760 The cartels are having...

00:11:42.400 The word is they're making more money on this than they even are on the drug trade right now.

00:11:48.440 Can you tell me how dangerous it is and what this policy is forcing people into...

00:11:57.300 Not forcing, but is leading them into these relationships with the drug cartels?

00:12:03.860 There are sectors along the border that are entirely controlled by the cartels.

00:12:10.260 That's absolutely true, and nobody gets across in those sectors without paying the PISO to those guys.

00:12:19.100 The coyotes and the smugglers all have to pay the cartels for access to the Texas border.

00:12:27.040 And there are so many migrants.

00:12:30.680 The demand is so...

00:12:31.880 They are flooding in in such huge numbers that even the cartels are having to reconstitute themselves

00:12:41.040 to expand their smuggling branch, so to speak.

00:12:44.700 And they're giving these migrants risk bracelets. 0.88

00:12:48.100 It's human inventory control.

00:12:50.200 That's actually happening, especially in the Rio Grande Valley sector and Laredo.

00:12:57.040 sector now, where you have to prove that you've paid by wearing one of these wristbands.

00:13:03.840 They're numbered, which indicates a registration system on the Mexican side.

00:13:08.600 In the area where I am right now, they're less active.

00:13:14.260 The migrants that I talked to yesterday just crossed themselves over. 1.00

00:13:18.880 There are some sectors like this that are not heavily involved in the smuggling trade.

00:13:25.640 But as I said, migrants are shopping for the easy routes in, so they're coming to this sector 1.00

00:13:33.500 in increasing numbers.

00:13:34.780 And it's just a matter of time before the cartels assert themselves over here in this one, too.

00:13:41.280 All right.

00:13:41.440 So, Todd, let me ask you about the cartels.

00:13:44.800 How much does it take?

00:13:45.880 I've heard anywhere from $2,000 to $20,000 to get people over.

00:13:50.480 How much money is it actually taking for people to have their kids or their families smuggled over?

00:13:57.640 So, it ranges in price, of course, by nationality and location.

00:14:04.740 So, in the RGV right now, the Rio Grande Valley sector, the demand is so strong that the prices

00:14:12.060 have gone up, of course.

00:14:14.160 And it's $2,500 for a Mexican or Central American individual just to cross the river.

00:14:20.600 We're not talking about the money that it costs to get from Guatemala and through the southern

00:14:27.080 part of Mexico.

00:14:28.220 So, how are all of these people affording $2,500 on top of what they've already spent?

00:14:35.460 It gets worse.

00:14:36.500 I mean, if you're from Africa, remember, there are migrants coming from all over the world.

00:14:43.560 Africa, the Middle East, we've got Middle Yemenis coming through. 0.92

00:14:47.400 Great.

00:14:47.700 Iranians just hit the border in Arizona.

00:14:50.020 We can talk about that.

00:14:51.520 My book, America's Covert Border War, is all about that kind of migrant. 1.00

00:14:55.420 Those guys are paying $9,000 a head.

00:14:58.200 If you're from an Arabic country, Arabic-speaking country, you're paying $9,000.

00:15:04.280 If you're from Africa, $5,000. 1.00

00:15:06.720 And where they get the money is, to the best of my knowledge, a few places.

00:15:12.600 One is that they have U.S.-based relatives, especially like the Cubans and the Haitians,

00:15:20.060 have U.S.-based relatives that will wire them money to get in.

00:15:24.260 And then there's another thing that is happening with especially Central Americans who don't

00:15:29.860 really have $2,500 to get over the border is they owe it to the cartels.

00:15:35.120 So they have to give the names of their family members cell phones that are called to prove

00:15:40.560 that the family member answers, home addresses, and that sort of thing.

00:15:45.040 And if they don't pay the price, then there are repercussions or the threat of repercussions

00:15:51.720 against family members.

00:15:52.940 And that's kind of an indentured servitude, a kind of a slavery.

00:15:57.080 It's a terrible thing that's happening with that.

00:16:02.740 And then also people in the home countries will raise money.

00:16:07.720 Relatives in home countries like Bangladesh or Syria will raise money and get it here 0.95

00:16:15.280 because if they could get somebody anchored in here, then their relatives will come in

00:16:20.500 under chain migration.

00:16:21.640 So it's a great investment for somebody in northeast Punjab in India or Pakistan.

00:16:31.660 We have lots of Pakistanis that cross.

00:16:34.120 Give me the – I'm about out of time.

00:16:38.240 I've got about two or three minutes.

00:16:39.760 Tell me about the Iranians that have just crossed. 0.99

00:16:44.880 Yeah, well, we had 11 Iranians cross in Arizona.

00:16:48.840 They were apprehended.

00:16:49.720 We had three Yemeni migrants on the terror watch list that crossed in New Mexico

00:16:57.640 and a Serb who crossed in New Mexico who also was on the terror watch list.

00:17:03.920 We have about 20 a year, by my reckoning, who are on terrorist watch list before they get

00:17:10.400 to the border or at the border.

00:17:13.160 And what typically happens in – this is way longer than a minute, but there will be – there's

00:17:20.920 supposed to be security investigations that happen inside the detention facilities.

00:17:27.820 FBI and ICE intelligence and DIA and intelligence community agencies are supposed to be on this.

00:17:34.720 But when the border systems break down under the crush of a mass migration surge, all bets are off on that, 0.79

00:17:42.640 where everybody gets waved in and nobody has time to mess with Iranians or Yemenis or Syrians coming over.

00:17:51.400 And I'm very concerned about that, Glenn.

00:17:53.580 What should – what can people do?

00:17:59.060 Well, for one thing, people need to contact their representatives in Congress and the Senate

00:18:06.560 and make sure that the eye remains on the ball in terms of special interest aliens.

00:18:15.100 These are the guys coming in from those countries through Panama right now.

00:18:18.820 They're all coming in right now hoping to make the best of the Biden border and make sure that nobody forgets about that.

00:18:27.200 And really, the best thing that ever happened in illegal immigration control was to remain in Mexico. 0.67

00:18:33.640 That policy, totally innovative.

00:18:36.500 It worked like a charm.

00:18:39.020 And the deportations to the third countries, they got rid of those right away, put those back.

00:18:45.680 Those were great.

00:18:47.080 Those were great agreements.

00:18:48.820 Todd Benzman, the name of the book is America's Covert Border War.

00:18:53.320 We will check in with him again.

00:18:55.300 Thanks, Todd.

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00:20:11.080 I'm going to talk to you about a couple of things that are really important.

00:20:13.920 And let me start with computer chips.

00:20:16.020 They are the tiny little blocks made of silicon, cobalt and copper, and they power everything we rely on.

00:20:24.820 Watches, your refrigerator, clock, television, washing machines, dishwashers, everything.

00:20:30.980 And it's only getting more and more.

00:20:33.200 So every object has become more complex.

00:20:36.660 They need more computer chips.

00:20:38.560 But the supply chains are down, and no one has any idea when they're going to get any better.

00:20:47.240 The Guardian says that the global shortage in computer chips has reached a crisis point.

00:20:54.140 In cars, we need computer chips for airbags, power windows, radios, dashboards, catalytic converters, all of it.

00:21:02.160 The BBC just did an interview with the CEO of Volkswagen North America, and here's what he said.

00:21:08.560 I would say two things.

00:21:09.600 I think the first thing, there's been massive instability in the supply chains, whether it's been COVID, whether it's been other issues.

00:21:15.900 So we have at least gotten very good at managing that instability.

00:21:19.560 And frankly, that's what we've been doing week to week, car by car, looking at our profit margins, looking at where we have shortfalls, and managing that.

00:21:27.300 I think things will get stable by the fall, but certainly it's going to be complicated and it's going to be challenging.

00:21:32.960 But I think we'll navigate it, particularly here in the U.S. market, between our two main plants, Puebla in Mexico and Chattanooga in Tennessee.

00:21:40.520 Okay.

00:21:41.100 So this sounds good, right?

00:21:43.420 Week to week, car by car.

00:21:45.220 That's not good.

00:21:46.620 That's not good.

00:21:47.260 But he's optimistic.

00:21:48.220 But that's what you'd expect a CEO to say.

00:21:51.000 Let me give you some more information.

00:21:52.640 Ford has already started canceling shifts at two of its plants and expects $2 billion in damage as a result of the computer chip shortage.

00:22:03.280 The same for Nissan and General Motors.

00:22:07.200 That means workers here in America, industries even that stand to benefit from the computer chip shortage.

00:22:16.560 They're having a hard time because of the COVID-19, it caused a surge in electronic purchases.

00:22:25.060 Apple is the biggest buyer of computer chips in the world.

00:22:29.820 They spend $58 billion a year.

00:22:33.640 The demand for computer chips is so high that even Apple has to wait in line.

00:22:39.860 Even Apple, last year, they delayed the release of the iPhone 12 by two months because of a shortage.

00:22:47.400 Samsung is the largest, sorry, second largest buyer of chips.

00:22:51.600 They're the second largest producer as well.

00:22:54.240 They sell roughly $56 billion worth of semiconductors and they consume $36 billion worth.

00:23:02.900 The COVID-19 lockdown is only one of the problems.

00:23:07.980 It really exposed the problem.

00:23:10.460 The pro-lockdown people want everybody to stay home at their office.

00:23:14.400 They want everything to remain the same.

00:23:15.820 But the things we rely on to operate, they require more computer chips.

00:23:22.820 And the shortage is troubling, more troubling than any one cause really.

00:23:31.220 Last week, there was a major fire at one of the biggest computer chip suppliers in the world.

00:23:37.980 Last month, the power failure here in Texas caused two factories in Austin, Texas to suspend production,

00:23:44.400 which typically runs 24-7 in Austin.

00:23:48.680 Then there is talk of what's happening with the global economy.

00:23:52.460 Then there's China.

00:23:54.400 China is the world's largest importer and consumer of computer chips.

00:23:59.400 Now they want to be the largest producer.

00:24:01.120 They've spent the last decade working on strategies for a tech self-reliance, and they've been stockpiling computer chips.

00:24:09.040 This is what the Biden administration really means by infrastructure, by we need to invest in our infrastructure.

00:24:16.480 We are becoming more like China, public-private partnerships.

00:24:20.320 And you will see more and more that we are going to get into the investment world.

00:24:27.200 Last month, Bloomberg reported Chinese businesses bought $32 billion of equipment used to produce computer chips from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and elsewhere.

00:24:36.620 It's a 20% jump from the year before.

00:24:39.420 They have not mastered the technology yet.

00:24:42.040 They can't mass-produce chips at that level.

00:24:44.480 They're about a decade behind everyone else.

00:24:48.440 But here's another troubling factor.

00:24:52.420 The chip shortage also affects the defense industry.

00:24:57.180 We need computer chips for all of our guided missiles, for our airplanes, for everything we do.

00:25:06.540 And it's also going to hit you.

00:25:10.160 Prices are going to rise for anything that has a chip in it.

00:25:15.220 Computers, cars.

00:25:17.020 Cars may get actually harder to get.

00:25:19.520 We're living in a country now that I don't recognize.

00:25:22.160 I've never seen in my lifetime.

00:25:25.180 Where you have to wait.

00:25:28.520 I'm an American.

00:25:29.740 What wait?

00:25:30.880 What do you mean it'll be six months before it's here?

00:25:34.360 And that's happening all the time.

00:25:36.900 And people say there's no inflation.

00:25:39.520 Well, as somebody who has had to buy a lot of plywood lately, really?

00:25:44.940 Because that piece of plywood used to cost about $1,2, $15.

00:25:50.000 In some places in the country, it's now $56.

00:25:56.040 What's up?

00:25:56.760 What's up with that?

00:25:57.460 we are hitting inflation and fourteen hundred dollars in biden bucks is not really going to

00:26:07.320 hold us over this is more important than the other headline news we have a real crisis at

00:26:15.460 our border that we need to pay attention to but there is a you know there is a article run in

00:26:22.620 the scientific american about how climate anxiety is an overwhelmingly white phenomena

00:26:29.440 so it's not enough to be concerned about the climate if you're white and you're doing it you

00:26:36.760 must be part of the problem we need to reevaluate our priorities and be less concerned about whiteness 0.80

00:26:45.580 and climate anxiety and more about the technology that fuels human civilization and the

00:26:52.440 country that is pioneered most of it there was another story that i read uh yesterday

00:26:59.560 and i don't even know where this was from let me see it was on um

00:27:06.840 okay it doesn't say um but this was an uh an article that uh came out and it was talking about how

00:27:16.140 collecting has become a very big deal since covid and it talks about you know retailers are

00:27:23.900 reticent to speak about the trend stating that they don't wish to be on the record talking about

00:27:28.500 nearly sold out of ninety thousand dollar earrings during a time of growing wealth inequality

00:27:34.940 uh people are buying watches because they're on the home at computers all the time and so these

00:27:42.520 people who are really rich are just going through the uh online uh catalogs and looking what's up for

00:27:49.540 auction etc etc uh rolex day dates that sold in the secondary market in 2020 for 30 000 are now going

00:27:57.600 upward of 50 000 patek philippe watches are now you could buy them for 85 000 now they're going for

00:28:05.580 200 000 and the reason is they say because switzerland they're not making any watches right now

00:28:12.320 so there's the demand this article was written to make you hate rich people and how they're just

00:28:20.860 buying a mickey mantle uh you know baseball card and how much that's worth now or how they're buying

00:28:27.840 these old classic cars because they're how much they were my grandfather told me that during the

00:28:34.400 depression you watch what the rich people did before things got bad because it was as if the rich people

00:28:45.940 knew something that we didn't know and that's true and there weren't a lot of rich people there were

00:28:53.660 people like rockefeller back then now there's people with real wealth all around the country and so

00:29:02.460 some of them might be spending this money because they're bored or usually we go onto the yacht but

00:29:08.860 we can't get out onto the water now so i might as well buy a 250 000 coffee table

00:29:15.180 what this article does not tell you is that some rich people are now buying things of value

00:29:26.820 because they know things of intrinsic the germans did this in hyperinflation and before the war

00:29:38.280 they were buying things of real value because the dollar or their case the mark was not worth

00:29:48.520 what it was just the year before and as you start to devalue some people say now that your dollar

00:29:55.780 is going to lose about 48 cents in the next four years about the 15 percent each year will be lost

00:30:05.700 on the value of your dollar so if you have a hundred dollars in the bank in four years you'll still have

00:30:12.940 a hundred dollars but it will only have the purchase power of 51 or 52 dollars okay

00:30:19.120 that's cutting your wealth in half and it's only because of what they have done at the central bank

00:30:29.040 the fed and in washington to that dollar you've played by the rules this kind of situation helps

00:30:37.920 hurts people who have played by the rules don't be surprised when you see things that auctions of art

00:30:46.980 and everything else going for huge amounts of money and cars all of a sudden are going for huge amounts

00:30:51.840 of money and that that was a 1968 mustang why is it going for so much because people who know

00:30:59.120 people who see over the horizon are buying things with of intrinsic value they know that if they put in

00:31:09.360 i don't even know what an old mustang cost i'm a hundred thousand two hundred thousand dollars

00:31:14.980 whatever i mean a like a very nice mustang yeah i have no idea but like a showroom quality you know

00:31:21.560 what i mean school you know that that two hundred thousand dollars in that car is not going to lose

00:31:29.200 fifty percent of its value in four years it's not going to somebody will buy that for the equivalent

00:31:37.160 of two hundred thousand or maybe even a hundred and fifty thousand four years four years down the road

00:31:43.160 but not in american money you know not not it will be more expensive in american money people are using

00:31:52.940 these items as a store of value they're using them as a savings account that's why bitcoin is going

00:31:58.780 and doing what it's doing because bitcoin has gone up two hundred percent okay you could go down

00:32:05.900 175 percent uh okay still i i'm gaining 25 percent where i'm gonna have it in a bank account and i'm gonna

00:32:18.500 lose 15 20 percent yeah you might want to think about that the reason why i'm telling you this

00:32:28.700 is not that you know we have an audience that's going to go out and buy really expensive you know

00:32:32.700 mustangs jay leno i'm not sure if he listens to this program um but uh you need to start thinking

00:32:40.060 about those things you know i said to somebody the other day i don't smoke and i don't drink

00:32:46.380 but i think it's a probably a pretty good idea to buy cigarettes and uh vacuum seal them

00:32:53.600 to buy alcohol and just keep it because if you don't have any money people are going to look

00:33:02.200 to trade things and i i don't know cigarettes i don't think i know anybody that really smokes

00:33:09.220 but i've been trying to start but i haven't you haven't been going yet you know it's tough that

00:33:14.860 was my new year's resolution uh but you know alcohol things that people use you don't have to

00:33:23.240 go out and buy a mustang you just have to think what could i have what could i have a value that

00:33:29.540 people are going to need or want need is where most of us can get into and uh protect ourselves

00:33:39.840 what is it that people are going to need that they may not be able to afford to buy but they

00:33:46.460 might have something else that i can trade for that i might need you have to start thinking about

00:33:53.520 protecting your wealth differently uh i think really for the first time uh since the great depression and

00:34:04.020 maybe the first time ever because if this continues and we continue to spend like this

00:34:09.560 there will be no dollar left so every dollar that you're holding on to will become worth less

00:34:16.280 and less and less until it's worthless

00:34:19.680 this is the best of the glenbeck program and don't forget rate us on itunes

00:34:27.960 i uh really respect tucker carlson um i would say tucker and i were not friends i mean

00:34:39.540 we knew each other but we weren't friends or anything uh you know five years ago but i respect

00:34:44.760 him now i think he is uh a very brave voice he had christy noem on uh last night was that the

00:34:51.780 thumbs up she's here no you have the audio she was on with tucker carlson last night and uh here's

00:34:58.300 what happened efforts and i don't think so you're saying so hold on just to be clear it's not the

00:35:02.920 bill you're saying many times over and over again but wait wait wait so you're saying the ncaa

00:35:08.440 threatened you and you don't think you can win that fight they said if you sign this we won't allow

00:35:13.680 girls in south dakota to play and you don't think you can win in court even though the public 0.95

00:35:19.820 overwhelmingly supports you nationally and so you're caving to the ncaa i think that's what you're

00:35:24.660 saying no that's not right at all tucker in fact you're wrong completely i've been working on this

00:35:30.840 issue for years in fact several years ago i fought i fought usda to make sure that 4-h rodeo and that

00:35:37.900 the sport of rodeo could keep girls events girls events and boys events boys events so i've been

00:35:43.200 working on this for many many years and back since november i've been consulting with legal scholars

00:35:48.180 and professors across the country asking them how do i protect women's sports and they've gone 1.00

00:35:54.240 through the steps to how i would legally challenge the ncaa and keep them from bullying the state of

00:35:59.280 south dakota and what they've told me to do is that i need to build a coalition so that's why today

00:36:04.560 i launched defend title nine now.com and that's going to allow us to build a coalition of states that

00:36:11.340 can fight the ncaa okay listen i'm here's the thing and i don't know that this is well let me

00:36:17.740 just ask her because she's on with us now and i i just ask her first christy noem welcome to the

00:36:24.940 program hi glenn thanks for having me on you're welcome um so i so can we pick that conversation

00:36:32.200 up where you were last night about coalitions because you're getting a name that you know people

00:36:39.000 it's amazing how how fast people can turn um but uh people are saying on the right that you're caving

00:36:47.600 to this transgender ban and i can understand because i feel like we don't have many hills left and this

00:36:55.300 one is is popular with 80 percent of the people this one is a hill we should die on uh and it looks like

00:37:03.000 you're lowering the flag so tell me what you're doing with the coalition and why that's important

00:37:08.300 well when have you ever known me to cave glenn i didn't go through this whole last year um being

00:37:15.100 the only one to keep my state open in the entire nation and to fight for what was right and have

00:37:20.160 everybody piling on to cave on something like this so i'm trying to be smart and solve a problem and i

00:37:26.880 think a lot of times um we get bullied we get bullied by the left but the right can bully too and

00:37:33.980 they're not looking at the facts so in this situation the coalition that i'm forming is to

00:37:38.860 go after the ncaa they have been bullying states for a long time with their policies by forcing us

00:37:44.480 to allow men to participate in women's sports i'm a small state south dakota small we had to fight hard

00:37:51.260 to even get any tournaments or games in the state of south dakota and i recognize that the ncaa can come

00:37:56.680 in and crush me and can make an example out of me and then point to south dakota and say see

00:38:01.000 no other state better challenge us whatsoever so that's why i'm trying to be smart about this

00:38:06.340 and build a coalition of athletes of states of governors attorney generals and show the ncaa that

00:38:12.560 we're going to fight to make sure that only girls can play in girls sports now is why the website 1.00

00:38:17.180 defend title nine now dot com is out there and i'm hoping everybody will go there look at the

00:38:22.440 information sign up so that we can send that message okay so is it's not the ncaa that you're

00:38:29.000 worried about uh worried about alone it's what these organizations can do with the woke capital and

00:38:38.360 the woke uh businesses exactly that's exactly it so um we have to stand up and defend um the right that

00:38:49.140 we have and the the title nine federal law that's in place that women are women and only women should 1.00

00:38:56.340 play in women's sports and we can do that in a way that picks a fight that says and uh that that fails 1.00

00:39:04.400 or we can do it in a smart way and build momentum so that we can actually win i've talked to legal

00:39:10.120 scholars and professors about this issue for months in fact glenn i've been working on this issue for

00:39:15.280 years if people would do their homework once and go back and look years ago i fought usda and the

00:39:21.860 federal government when they were trying to force rodeo to let boys into girls events and to make 1.00

00:39:26.800 girls participate in boys events and i fought them alone and got south dakota to be able to still

00:39:33.320 keep boys and girls events separated and usda um you know turned around did a 180 on the issue and

00:39:41.580 allowed us to keep boys events boys events and girls events girls events so there's no gray area for me

00:39:47.940 on this i've proven myself for years on this issue and i'll continue to do that regardless of

00:39:53.660 of who decides that they want to try to attack me and bully me so christy you know me well enough

00:40:00.020 to know because you've listened to the show for years you know that if i disagree with you

00:40:05.840 i would tell you um yes and i hope my audience knows this because the passion is uh going against you

00:40:15.320 on this right now and i completely understand that but i think it's misplaced um you know i told a

00:40:22.640 story yesterday about abraham lincoln uh before the um before they did the second confiscation act

00:40:30.660 abraham lincoln i have a a note from him that he wrote to the speaker of the senate and said please

00:40:37.140 don't adjourn they were supposed to adjourn that night uh and they were going to pass the the second

00:40:42.520 the second confiscation act which took slaves from the south and freed them and uh he wrote and said

00:40:50.980 don't don't don't pass that don't wait wait i have another idea and he was because he was an attorney

00:40:57.560 he realized this will come back to bite us because once the war is over we have to return the property

00:41:07.520 to the two people so we need something else and that's what led to the emancipation proclamation 0.76

00:41:13.740 and got rid of the confiscation act because it wouldn't hold and he knew that and i right because

00:41:20.660 i know what we're all up against right now you're not going to be able to fight this by yourself

00:41:27.580 and if you indeed are putting together a coalition of states and and others that is critical

00:41:36.880 because a we don't want any bad case law uh stacking up exactly right glenn exactly right and listen um

00:41:46.000 you know this is this is the war that we're in and we have to be smart and strategic so we can win it

00:41:51.280 we've seen this play out in the pro-life movement for years um everybody believes we we should ban

00:41:57.520 abortion outright but we know we can't win in court and if you look at south dakota i'm in the eighth

00:42:02.840 circuit um which every person who's done an analysis on that circuit says i south dakota i and

00:42:10.580 can go ahead and and look at collegiate sports and we can we can ban all um activities for anybody who's

00:42:19.800 male in a female sport and then nta and those organizations will come after me and then i can sue

00:42:25.220 them absolutely i can do that but across the board and i've been talking for months to legal scholars

00:42:31.640 and professors about this across the country they say you will likely lose there's a very very very

00:42:37.840 good chance that you will lose this and then that will make an example out of south dakota so build the

00:42:43.060 momentum so that they can't just focus on a little state like south dakota now the the lies about what's

00:42:49.040 going on in south dakota right now are rampant across the country i did not veto a bill i did not veto

00:42:55.420 the bill that the legislature sent me what i gave them was a style and form revision that they can accept

00:43:01.400 and if they accept that i can protect all students under the age of 18 in our k-12 system

00:43:07.020 and make sure that in the state that we are making sure that only girls playing girls sports only boys

00:43:12.180 playing boys sports i can fix all of the other items that they sent to me in that bill that are a trial

00:43:18.480 lawyer's dream and keep all the litigation out of this so families don't have to sue 20 times to get

00:43:24.220 fairness and let me do that and then let me build the coalition to win at the collegiate level 0.77

00:43:28.940 and so i did i did not veto a bill that's a complete lie that's out there this is a style

00:43:33.820 and form revision and i'm hopeful my legislature will see that this is the way that we can actually

00:43:38.520 fight the fight and win and at the end of the day have a victory that really does protect women 0.98

00:43:43.480 is it a fair character characterization governor that you you basically are sending back let's just

00:43:49.980 say three quarters of the bill that you you want to push through uh and you're going to make changes

00:43:55.200 to the other quarter is that a i mean because you're the way i understand your reasoning here

00:43:59.600 is that the everyone who is not in college would be covered by this right and you also had an issue

00:44:05.240 with with uh with performance enhancing drugs right that there would be lots of lawsuits that would

00:44:11.520 be associated with this the way that it's written can you talk about that for a second

00:44:14.600 yeah you're exactly right everybody that is not in college sports would be protected if they would

00:44:20.860 accept my revisions and also they sent me some regulations and reporting requirements

00:44:26.320 that don't define what performance enhancing drugs are and they also allow any student that didn't make

00:44:33.280 a team to go back and to sue that team and that school and that individual student who would use a

00:44:38.520 performance enhancing drug retroactively but they also don't define it so then that opens it up to all

00:44:44.260 kinds of opportunities for a student who didn't make a team to go after someone a year in the past that

00:44:52.120 also allows them to sue for emotional damages for physical damages for um you know and it's far

00:44:58.860 reaching so the litigation aspects of what they sent me just isn't workable as far as what good

00:45:05.120 conservative governing do and people tell me conservatives tell me chris you just signed the bill

00:45:09.980 politically it's it's easier for you it fix everything well governors don't do that governors

00:45:14.800 don't get to make political decisions we have to govern and we have to take care of our people

00:45:20.520 and be smart about what we're doing and making sure we're not arbitrarily you know taking a political

00:45:25.640 position and then hurting people in the long run so this is doing the right thing here i know that i am

00:45:31.560 i'm hopeful that people care enough about the truth in this day and age that they will see it

00:45:35.680 and that we'll have the opportunity to go forward and ensure that at all levels in collegiate sports

00:45:41.000 as well that only girls play girls sports and that we protect title nine it strikes me uh governor as

00:45:47.580 the the audience that you know saw you stand up during covid and i would argue a much stronger

00:45:53.040 tougher place to stand up uh where standing up for women playing women's sports seems relatively obvious 1.00

00:45:58.420 um so my knowing the audience as we've seen over the years they're they they can i think what

00:46:05.020 you're saying is logical to to most people but they're concerned that what happens over and over

00:46:11.060 again with politicians is they say well i can't do this right now i'll do it later and we'll put

00:46:16.400 together this coalition we'll fight and then they don't see that fight and they'll hold you accountable

00:46:20.340 if you don't if you don't follow through with us can you speak to the people that feel quite honestly

00:46:25.640 like i do come on don't surrender we please we are in the fight of our life and we've got to have

00:46:33.980 somebody who's willing to stand do you understand that feeling from the people who are upset and can

00:46:40.920 you speak to that i can but i don't know why they're doubting me the last 12 months 18 months

00:46:49.620 hasn't proven myself and you have to go back three years to see that i've already fought this fight

00:46:55.860 in my state and stood and was the only one i didn't have any help from my congressional delegation or

00:47:00.940 the state government or any time when i was fighting for 4-h rodeo and for rodeo to remain

00:47:06.360 girls events and boys events i did that alone with with that sport in the state of south dakota so the

00:47:12.840 fact that people are questioning me is because they haven't done their homework and they don't know me

00:47:17.620 and they haven't watched my career and i can go home you know and uh and i'm in south dakota and can

00:47:24.260 be happy and and do that but the people who are judging me right now or the people who are the

00:47:29.980 political ones and they're they're not the ones who really care about governing and making sure

00:47:35.360 that we're doing what needs to be done in this country so what's unfortunate to me is the um lies

00:47:41.880 and deceit that are out there around this issue because there's nobody that's proven themselves

00:47:46.260 more on this particular issue than i have i've already delivered for them in my state and i will for

00:47:51.400 the country if they will give me the chance to build this coalition and show that we can get it done

00:47:56.940 uh governor christy noem uh i honestly didn't know for sure which way i was going to how this

00:48:04.360 interview was going to end um but i can tell you i am happy to say uh you haven't disappointed me

00:48:12.360 i think you're doing the exact right thing and a lot of people don't understand that yet

00:48:18.000 uh because uh they're so they're so used to politicians caving um but thank you for that

00:48:26.740 also thank you for the abortion uh as a dad of a special needs child i know that you're signing a

00:48:33.940 bill today that has passed the house and senate uh has been in the works for for uh you know a long

00:48:40.440 time and weeks ago it it passed you're uh going to sign this today uh that is a good hill to

00:48:46.800 to not die on but to live on thank you absolutely absolutely thank you glenn you bet

00:48:52.940 governor christy noem uh from south dakota

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