Chris Bedford represents The Blaze at the White House yesterday and joins us to give the breakdown on what he saw and what he heard. Also, Jeff Brown on AI and how fast things are evolving in that field. Steve Friend, the whistleblower from the FBI, also, can it even be salvaged at this point or is it too far gone? Also, in that topic, we talk a little bit about what Pam Bondi is releasing today.
00:01:14.580But if it doesn't come quickly with prosecution, it's a nothing burger.
00:01:19.120You know, that one type of guy you see in the old movies, a strong, silent type, the John Wayne guy who's rough and tough and doesn't feel the pain.
00:01:26.280He just, you know, you punch and shoot him, but he just keeps coming.
00:02:50.080Yesterday, the blaze was in on the first cabinet meeting along with other unqualified organizations asking questions of the cabinet and Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
00:03:13.920And he also clarified some things that the mainstream media was saying that were absolutely untrue.
00:03:17.900But when he walked into the press office, he saw over the Perel, you know, sanitizer, a sign taped to the wall that says, we stand with the Associated Press.
00:03:41.640That we don't think the White House Correspondents Club should be the one that says, nope, only you are qualified to go in and ask questions?
00:03:52.460You've been proven as liars over and over again.
00:03:55.380And I just want to show you, and this is one of the benefits if you're watching, if you have a subscription to the blaze, this will pay for six months.
00:04:03.180Just this is worth six months of subscription.
00:04:08.020I want to show you a picture of a guy.
00:04:53.980And he just said recently, the White House, the White House press corps, we did not receive any notice in advance that the White House was making a decision and said, you know, move AP out and rotate people.
00:05:09.520And he said, quote, it tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.
00:05:14.640It suggests that governments will choose the journalists who cover the president in a free country.
00:05:20.320Leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.
00:06:27.140If you're in the media and you're trying to actually convince people that you are the American people that you stand with them, then maybe you shouldn't dress like you're a villain from the Hunger Games.
00:06:36.700Maybe people look at that and say, you know, this is strange.
00:06:40.440This doesn't seem representative of me.
00:06:42.060And certainly they love to talk about this.
00:06:43.780No one in there was elected by anyone except for other members of the press and other members of their club.
00:06:51.560You know, I have to tell you, when I heard you were there and I knew you were standing in front of a lot of the press corps, I so wanted to send you a T-shirt.
00:07:00.860I would have sent it to you had I known that just has, you know, Blaze Media, White House press.
00:07:09.060And then on the back, it just said all of it, not just let F you, because that way you'd look absolutely, you know, I'm just proud of the White House press corps.
00:07:20.560But all of those weasels standing behind you, I so want to say to them, F you, your time is up.
00:07:31.400You've betrayed the people and journalism.
00:07:38.720But this isn't a violation of the First Amendment.
00:07:41.540You have been keeping people out who are trying to actually tell the truth.
00:07:46.520And yesterday you saw it. You did. I think you did a story or it was at least a tweet where they were lying again about who was actually in charge of the cabinet meeting.
00:08:01.200Yeah, you had Aaron Rupar passions himself as a reporter out there trying to claim that Elon Musk was in charge of the cabinet meeting.
00:08:07.940It didn't run with any of the facts, but of course, the narrative had already been cooked up.
00:08:11.920So Elon Musk sat in a chair with other invited guests who are not members of the cabinet against the wall, wasn't at the main table, referred to the president as the commander in chief and answered questions when he was directed to by the president.
00:08:26.060Just like you saw Howard Lutnick and other and then Pete Hegseth and other members of the cabinet do when President Trump called on them because of the area of their expertise.
00:08:36.280Yeah, it was a mix when I went in there because I wasn't sure exactly what to expect.
00:08:40.400It had been it had been a few years since I'd been in the briefing room.
00:08:43.480Basically, you know, everyone always talks about access, but at the blaze at the Federalist at the Daily Caller, we were not frequent guests of the Biden administration.
00:08:53.220My time in the Oval Office was limited to Trump's first time.
00:08:57.100And I was there with James Rosen from Newsmax and previously Fox, who had been there in the Oval Office in the press briefing covering George W. Bush.
00:09:04.760But it's been a long time since I'd had the pool of able to choose them.
00:09:13.240A few people, a small group of people were clearly upset.
00:09:15.980But after talking to them for a minute and then suddenly realizing, wait a second, this guy hasn't tried to rip my throat out with his fangs.
00:09:35.140And one of my favorite things is I sat with a bunch of the camera crews.
00:09:38.760And those guys, those are hardworking guys who are very skilled.
00:09:41.640They're going to hold up those boom mics, those cameras, get all the try to get shots in, try to make sure that they're broadcasting everyone.
00:09:49.380They're not all the high and mighty guys.
00:09:51.000And if you wanted to hear someone cracking a joke about AP, there would be that in that crew.
00:09:55.780And they did not have any of the self-importance that the reporters did.
00:09:59.040But it's a funny room in there and kind of a sad room in a funny way.
00:10:02.440It is amazing to me how they have their own elite interests from the 60 Minutes lawsuit to Ukraine, but are not in touch with the American people at all.
00:10:17.600And it's nice to be in the same room with them so you can actually view them and go, dude, I mean, you're almost a parody of yourself at this point.
00:10:32.320When you finally get the opportunity at the first cabinet meeting of the most powerful person in the world who is reshaping American government in a way that is impacting regular people, when tax cuts are on the line, when the country is barreling towards debt, when you ask one, two, three, four questions in a row about your friends who completely and totally fixed and doctored an interview to make a candidate look good and are now losing a lawsuit.
00:10:58.120And that's the focus of your questions. And they were so proud of themselves.
00:11:02.180I saw one reporter who was asking questions about Ukraine and her phone blew up from all of her friends saying, thank you.
00:11:08.040Thank you for asking that question. At one point, the president said, what am I here doing?
00:11:12.420Am I negotiating with you and the press corps or am I negotiating with Russia on this?
00:11:16.540This is the beginning and we're trying to get toward peace here.
00:11:20.000And it's a room that there was actually there were some really good journalists in there.
00:11:24.060And there are some people who are asking some questions that are rather interesting about what's next in our American policy with Israel.
00:11:30.140What's next with the tariffs that are going on in Mexico and Canada?
00:11:34.020But there are others who are just so can't get out of their own way.
00:11:38.240And the obsessions of elite niche interests.
00:11:42.100And it reflects in the declining and the fact that the American people don't listen to them anymore.
00:11:48.200They consider themselves the fourth branch of government in a way.
00:11:52.020And when the press, when we act properly, we can be that check and balance.
00:11:56.260But what they don't realize is we don't have an army.
00:11:58.900We don't have the executive. None of us are elected.
00:14:06.380So wait, wait, wait, before we leave that, because I saw the morons at CNN saying, oh, he is, you know what he admitted to?
00:14:15.500He's saying that these are dead people who died in the government years ago and are still now collecting, I guess, their salary and social security.
00:14:24.640Is that what Elon Musk is insinuating?
00:14:29.660He was saying that there's, they think that they're paying some people who either haven't been working for the federal government for years or, or maybe have retired, or maybe he even insinuated, yeah, that some of the people have expired.
00:14:44.140Now, of course, there's different jobs that would never work.
00:14:46.660If you work in the Pentagon or the military, then you're going to, you're going to be kicked out of your email if you don't keep up to date on the different patches.
00:14:53.760But that same kind of Byzantine system allows folks to be able to stay on the role potentially for a lot longer.
00:15:00.560And we've been discovering that with voter rolls.
00:15:02.700We've been discovering that with a whole lot of different aspects of the federal government and the state governments in general.
00:15:08.740And, you know, I've heard stories when I first moved to D.C. about people who would never come to work because they were alcoholics and that was considered a medical condition.
00:15:17.900And you can't fire somebody for a medical condition.
00:15:21.860And that's, when you've got a system that allows for that kind of thing and doesn't make people show up and doesn't make people respond to emails, then you might get people who are on there fraudulently.
00:15:31.320Okay, Christopher, I've got one minute left.
00:15:33.700Tell me the second question and the answer.
00:15:35.920Well, Eric Prince, a friend of the show, had offered his services for private military contractors to help with immigration and deportation.
00:15:47.140And I asked the president, is that something he was considering?
00:15:49.120It was the shortest answer he ever gave.
00:15:50.760He said he is not considering that offer.
00:15:53.420Did he say he wasn't considering or he hasn't talked to Eric Prince about it?
00:15:58.820I said, have you talked to Eric Prince or are you going to be talking to him about that?
00:16:58.780All right, if you're like most people, there's probably some things you'd change about your mobile plan if it wasn't such a big hassle, right?
00:17:06.520You get in there, you fiddle around with it, maybe have some, you know, money saving in the process.
00:18:07.900This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:18:12.480Friend of the program and a guy who is so deeply entrenched in AI and what's happening on the technology front and has this really gift to be able to break it down for dummies like me.
00:18:29.940So we understand what's coming and what's coming next.
00:18:36.880I think I talked to you a couple of years ago, Jeff.
00:18:39.460Maybe you were in town and we talked and you said AI agents are going to be a reality and people will be using them in 2025, by or by the end of 2025.
00:19:05.780I mean, the 11 labs example is just one of many, but this trend towards agentic AI, which is giving artificial intelligence programs agency, i.e. empowerment, to perform tasks that we would normally do ourselves.
00:19:28.280And so what will that mean for the average person?
00:19:31.220How will that manifest itself to the average person?
00:19:33.700It's, you know, we'll all feel like we have a very talented executive assistant that is helping us navigate our days and recapture, you know, an hour, two hours, three hours of our time.
00:19:53.420That we would normally spend on really kind of menial things that tend to suck up a lot of our time, you know, making hotel reservations, which was the example from 11 labs, is a perfect example.
00:20:11.740Something that's probably even more tangible would be, you know, imagine your own agentic AI for just a normal American household.
00:20:23.420Understands their food consumption and their eating habits.
00:20:28.180It is empowered to go out and order online a week's worth of groceries to be delivered at a time when it knows that you're at home, dropped off at your front door.
00:20:43.480Happy to provide you with recipes for all of the food that it purchased on your behalf.
00:20:50.580And able to actually transact with the store.
00:20:53.720So empowered to, you know, charge to credit cards or bank accounts.
00:21:00.780I mean, all of that friction that we spend hours a week literally disappears overnight.
00:22:36.200We're already, we're already seeing some of the, the sprouts of AGI.
00:22:42.800Musk and his team at XAI, which is his artificial intelligence company, just a few days ago, released their latest frontier AI model called Grok 3.
00:22:59.080If you haven't played with Grok 3 yet, to, to understand and to start to be, to start waking up to, oh dear God, you know, the wonders of it and the horrors of it, just go in and ask it to just say, here's who I am and this is my goal.
00:24:12.220I mean, if I think back just 12 months ago, you know, Musk and his team at XAI, most of the experts in the industry were, they were kind of a punching bag.
00:24:26.940Yeah, they, you know, they were, they were so far behind what was being done in the industry with meta, with, with Google, with open AI, with Anthropic, you know, four major players in the frontier models.
00:24:41.740But what I wasn't look, I wasn't looking at where XAI was 12 months ago.
00:24:46.660I was looking at what they were doing and what they were building and how fast they were building it.
00:24:51.320Didn't they build this from scratch in 12 months?
00:24:54.340Uh, the, the, the feat was even more incredible actually.
00:24:59.140So they, you know, they found, um, very smartly, uh, an existing physical building, a factory.
00:25:10.580It was actually an old Electrolux factory of all things.
00:25:14.620Um, so they, and they did that because they could save time not having to construct, you know, the physical infrastructure, the building.
00:25:22.840Um, and so they found this Electrolux factory outside of Memphis and, uh, literally in 122 days, they spun up 100,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units.
00:25:35.300These are like the workhorses for training artificial intelligence, 122 days.
00:25:40.380They did what nobody else in the industry had ever done.
00:25:44.060And it gets better because then the next 92 days, they spun up an additional 100,000 GPUs.
00:25:51.060So a total of 200,000, the largest AI super factory that exists on the planet, uh, in the span of just over 200 days.
00:26:04.580And that is what enabled them to produce Grok 3, which is better than anything else that exists on the market today.
00:26:11.960So, um, let's, let's spend a minute talking about Elon Musk, uh, because he's doing the same thing.
00:26:19.280And Donald Trump, I swear to you, between the two of them, I think they get about 10 minutes of sleep a day.
00:26:23.860Um, they are moving at such a rapid pace.
00:26:29.480Um, I think Donald Trump is going to be recognized in time as the guy who brought, uh, the entire world into a new world, a new position, not just by how he is transforming how we do work in government, but the, by bringing, uh, uh, uh, Elon Musk in.
00:26:53.860Who is not hiring a bunch of 20 somethings that know nothing.
00:26:58.140The one thing I, and I'd love to hear your opinion on the one thing that these 20 somethings know is how to, uh, write a query, how to, uh, set up the question, ask the right questions, the right prompts for AI.
00:27:23.860Jeff, that is, uh, a hundred percent accurate.
00:27:29.340You know, when you, when, when we're dealing with systems like this at scale, millions of, in this case, government employees, uh, trillions of dollars that as we've learned, nobody really knows where the money's going, who's receiving it and what it's being used for.
00:27:48.080Uh, you really do need software engineers, uh, and that's precisely who he hired, um, and they are using forms of artificial intelligence to get through the data very quickly to find out, um, the frauds, uh, which they've done with remarkable speed.
00:28:04.500Um, and, uh, they'll continue to do it.
00:28:08.520I mean, imagine in a matter of weeks, how much progress they've made, just imagine where we'll be by the end of, uh, 2025 by employing the technology.
00:28:17.860And of course the, um, really the operational approach that Elon Musk uses in all of his businesses.
00:28:24.240And, and, and to be able to have, uh, a genic AI go in and write the programs that will make it easy for the average person to see, understand, and query.
00:28:37.220If follow that trail for us, I mean, in a year with the speed of, of the growth of AI, uh, it's going to put the, the power into the hands of the average person.
00:28:53.600There's no hiding anymore in 2026, there will be no hiding.
00:28:59.700Uh, uh, under one premise and that is, is that, um, uh, president Trump and his team are able to continue to, uh, dismantle this industrial censorship complex.
00:29:14.840Um, you know, the last four years, what, what did we see?
00:29:18.940We saw that they had complete control over the big tech companies over Microsoft, over Google, over meta that were influencing us and manipulating us and, you know,
00:29:29.400engaging in massive PSYOP campaigns, uh, and there was no freedom of speech as we know very well.
00:29:36.740And so, you know, as long as, as long as that is true, as long as that continues to be dismantled and we have the level of transparency that we've seen, um, just in the last, uh, six weeks, hopefully today will be another big day.
00:29:54.840Pam Bondi is supposedly releasing the Epstein client list today.
00:30:00.920Precisely. Um, uh, amazing. I'm very excited about that.
00:30:05.360And I presume that the reason it's taken as long as it has, uh, is that they've been lining up the, the prosecutions and preparing to do both at the same time.
00:30:14.580Yeah. I, uh, I sincerely hope you can't just let that information just fly out there and just sit there and, and do nothing about it.
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00:30:31.060Steve Friend, FBI whistleblower, and a guy who, uh, honestly should be reinstated at the FBI and be running a few things, I think, along with all the other whistleblowers that were, uh, ushered out by the last administration.
00:30:47.940Thanks. Do you have any comments on, on what's happening with, or what we should expect from the, uh, client list from Epstein today?
00:30:57.800Well, I mean, I've just been on record on that. There is no expectation of privacy because Jeffrey Epstein is no longer alive.
00:31:03.720So I've always kind of scratched my head at the fact that it was kept back.
00:31:06.760And if there's any sort of insinuation, well, it could compromise and jeopardize ongoing investigations.
00:31:11.420I think we're at a level in this country that, uh, we need to have the transparency and, uh, this should have been a bit out there.
00:31:18.020And, you know, I, I was looking at listening to your numbers, Glenn, one, four, five, six, I'm going to put it at a 6.66.
00:31:26.020I think that's probably, so do you expect that there is information in there that we don't know that's meaningful?
00:31:37.180I think, I think that it will be meaningful. I mean, if, if they went through the lengths that they did, and I mean, if memory serves for the, I mean, I've, I've always been, this is an unpopular opinion.
00:31:47.120And Jeffrey Epstein, uh, was, uh, charged in violation of double jeopardy.
00:31:52.760And so, I mean, I'm not crying for the guy because he was fundamentally an evil person, uh, who's probably, uh, burning eternally in hell right now.
00:32:00.080But, um, the, the fact that this has been used this list, uh, that to charge Ghislaine Maxwell, uh, for trafficking, but we don't know to who, I mean, the way that it was handled, it just never passed the smell test.
00:32:13.700And I think that this is one of those big, uh, pillar type of moments where they can turn over a new leaf and push forward that transparency is the rule of day is in keeping with what we're seeing at the doge and, uh, completely government wide right now.
00:32:29.340And it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything if it's released and there's no action.
00:32:33.640I think that's why cash passed it to Bondi, um, because if there are, you know, pretty significant names in there, I would imagine the prosecution has to follow pretty quickly, or it'll just look like a nothing burger.
00:32:47.120Cause nobody expects anything, any bad guy to ever go to jail anymore in the government.
00:33:04.380So I think cash in and over to the attorney general Bondi here, let her make that assessment is probably the way, the way to go.
00:33:10.160Um, so they were apparently another whistleblower, um, was saying that the FBI, you know, as cash was getting ready to come in and coming in, they were, I mean, they were shredding documents like they were, you know, going to do a ticker tape parade for the astronauts, uh, in New York city.
00:33:29.420Um, uh, and I'm wondering how much may have been lost and can we get the FBI back on track?
00:33:40.220Are there, are there enough good guys in there and are there enough good guys that know where to look and know who the bad guys are?
00:33:48.280The level of subterfuge that went on in, during the transition period.
00:33:53.620And then even during the Trump administration, before cash Patel was elevated to become the director was enormous.
00:33:58.540I mean, it wasn't just limited to document shredding as, as Garrett O'Boyle brought forth.
00:34:03.720I mean, when it comes to the ice deportation raids, the FBI at first was letting people, uh, opt out and they still are.
00:34:10.420They're saying, well, if you have a moral objection to going after trend day, Aragua, then you don't have to participate in it.
00:34:16.100They're openly having a moral, who has a moral case against arresting those guys?
00:34:24.440I think, uh, you just have to look no further than the hiring practices over the last 10 to 12 years when they really elevated and prioritize diversity.
00:34:33.100I mean, that the core values of the FBI, rigorous obedience to the constitution used to be it.
00:34:37.580And then they put that last behind diversity, uh, and they've just fundamentally changed the personnel who are in there.
00:34:43.820So, you know, the subterfuge is enormous, uh, but I think it is going to be contingent and hinge on how guys like Garrett O'Boyle and Kyle Serafin, myself and others who are not as public, um, are handled now.
00:34:56.860Because if we set the precedent that if you come forward for the right reasons at the right time, the right way, then not even just rewarded, just you aren't having your life completely crushed.
00:35:06.580I mean, Garrett and I both are one week apart on our suspensions and definitely we hit 29 months this week.
00:35:13.540So, I mean, there needs to be some movement on that.
00:35:16.220And if it does happen, then people will know that the Bureau now is going to have the back of people who come forward for the right reasons.
00:35:22.420And I think that there will be more people coming forward because they know where the bodies are buried.
00:35:26.860They're not going to have to try to launder it to just a few of us out here in the, in the Twitter space or the, uh, the content creation space to hopefully that we can bring it out.
00:35:34.660Have you been contacted by cash or anybody at the FBI?
00:35:38.700I mean, cause I think, you know, one thing I like about cash is he knows, um, firsthand what the FBI is capable of because they did it to him.
00:35:49.080Um, and the same thing with you guys, is anybody reached out about the possibility of you guys, not only coming back, but leading some of this, uh, house cleaning.
00:36:01.040And we haven't had any of those conversations.