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00:00:30.000 Hey, on today's podcast, Chris Bedford represents the blaze at the White House yesterday.

00:00:35.120 Joins us to give the breakdown on what he saw and what he heard.

00:00:38.440 It is crazy.

00:00:39.980 Also, Jeff Brown on AI and how fast things are evolving in that field.

00:00:44.700 In fact, there were two breaking stories that happened about AI that were massive when we were talking to him.

00:00:51.520 Also, Steve Friend, the whistleblower from the FBI.

00:00:54.280 Can it even be salvaged at this point or is it too far gone?

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00:02:40.040 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:44.420 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:46.300 We're glad that you're here.

00:02:47.120 Yesterday, something remarkable happened.

00:02:50.080 Yesterday, 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.

00:03:09.440 And our own Chris Bedford was there.

00:03:12.200 He asked the question yesterday.

00:03:13.920 And he also clarified some things that the mainstream media was saying that were absolutely untrue.

00:03:17.900 But 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.

00:03:31.280 Can I ask you why?

00:03:32.920 You know, the Associated Press is saying this is a violation of freedom of speech and the First Amendment.

00:03:37.800 What?

00:03:38.880 That we're rotating people out?

00:03:41.640 That 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?

00:03:51.280 No, I don't think so. 0.98

00:03:52.460 You've been proven as liars over and over again.

00:03:55.380 And 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.

00:04:03.180 Just this is worth six months of subscription.

00:04:08.020 I want to show you a picture of a guy.

00:04:12.340 This is the gentleman.

00:04:14.520 Can you put him up, please?

00:04:15.520 Yeah, this is the gentleman, the one in the pink dress carrying the purse.

00:04:20.580 He was the guy making that.

00:04:23.960 Oh, there he is.

00:04:24.600 Look at that.

00:04:25.320 Oh, he's in another dress and it's cut up to his crotch and he's wearing leather boots and a fan.

00:04:34.960 Oh, man, he's a handsome it.

00:04:38.560 Anyway, this is the guy that was in charge of the White House press corps.

00:04:43.480 He was the guy for Biden making the decisions on who was qualified to go in or not.

00:04:51.520 His name is Eugene Daniels.

00:04:53.980 And 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.

00:05:09.520 And he said, quote, it tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.

00:05:14.640 It suggests that governments will choose the journalists who cover the president in a free country.

00:05:20.320 Leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.

00:05:23.140 You were still there, dude.

00:05:25.320 Well, you weren't because you just took a job, believe it or not, as the replacement of Joy Reid.

00:05:30.840 Boy, MSNBC is sure woken up.

00:05:33.520 They get it.

00:05:34.220 My gosh, this is such a perversion.

00:05:39.200 But that is the word of the day, I think, in Washington.

00:05:42.040 Perversion.

00:05:44.180 But he's a sexy, sexy it. 0.98

00:05:47.060 He really is.

00:05:48.160 And he's the guy who has said to my company forever, you're not qualified.

00:05:56.080 You're not serious.

00:05:57.580 Oh, really, dude in the pink dress with the purse?

00:06:00.960 You're qualified and serious?

00:06:02.900 Uh-huh.

00:06:04.700 Okay.

00:06:06.060 Chris Bedford is with us right now.

00:06:09.120 He is our senior editor for politics and our Blaze Media Washington correspondent.

00:06:14.380 He was in the cabinet meeting yesterday.

00:06:17.420 And I understand, Chris, you were getting daggers in the back like crazy from the mainstream media.

00:06:24.360 Well, thanks for having me, Glenn.

00:06:25.880 And then, you know, you're right.

00:06:27.140 If 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.

00:06:36.700 Maybe people look at that and say, you know, this is strange.

00:06:40.440 This doesn't seem representative of me.

00:06:42.060 And certainly they love to talk about this.

00:06:43.780 No one in there was elected by anyone except for other members of the press and other members of their club.

00:06:49.320 Exactly right.

00:06:50.700 Exactly right.

00:06:51.560 You 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.

00:07:00.860 I would have sent it to you had I known that just has, you know, Blaze Media, White House press.

00:07:09.060 And 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.

00:07:20.560 But all of those weasels standing behind you, I so want to say to them, F you, your time is up.

00:07:31.400 You've betrayed the people and journalism.

00:07:35.980 So it's it's you'll cry all you want.

00:07:38.720 But this isn't a violation of the First Amendment.

00:07:41.540 You have been keeping people out who are trying to actually tell the truth.

00:07:46.520 And 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.

00:07:58.260 They said it was Elon Musk.

00:08:01.200 Yeah, you had Aaron Rupar passions himself as a reporter out there trying to claim that Elon Musk was in charge of the cabinet meeting.

00:08:07.940 It didn't run with any of the facts, but of course, the narrative had already been cooked up.

00:08:11.920 So 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.

00:08:26.060 Just 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.

00:08:36.280 Yeah, it was a mix when I went in there because I wasn't sure exactly what to expect.

00:08:40.400 It had been it had been a few years since I'd been in the briefing room.

00:08:43.480 Basically, 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.

00:08:53.220 My time in the Oval Office was limited to Trump's first time.

00:08:57.100 And 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.

00:09:04.760 But it's been a long time since I'd had the pool of able to choose them.

00:09:09.220 And there was a mix of reactions.

00:09:10.720 Some people were really upset.

00:09:13.240 A few people, a small group of people were clearly upset.

00:09:15.980 But 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.

00:09:22.160 I'm not bleeding from the eyes.

00:09:24.420 They didn't quite know what to think.

00:09:26.160 It was almost like we were a bunch of humans stuck in the same room for a number of hours there.

00:09:30.400 You assured them, though, that we weren't.

00:09:32.760 Right.

00:09:33.940 Of course.

00:09:35.140 And one of my favorite things is I sat with a bunch of the camera crews.

00:09:38.760 And those guys, those are hardworking guys who are very skilled.

00:09:41.640 They'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.

00:09:47.580 And they also don't care.

00:09:49.380 They're not all the high and mighty guys.

00:09:51.000 And if you wanted to hear someone cracking a joke about AP, there would be that in that crew.

00:09:55.780 And they did not have any of the self-importance that the reporters did.

00:09:59.040 But it's a funny room in there and kind of a sad room in a funny way.

00:10:02.440 It 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.

00:10:17.600 And 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.

00:10:28.400 That was a wild round of questioning.

00:10:32.320 When 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.

00:10:58.120 And that's the focus of your questions. And they were so proud of themselves.

00:11:02.180 I saw one reporter who was asking questions about Ukraine and her phone blew up from all of her friends saying, thank you.

00:11:08.040 Thank you for asking that question. At one point, the president said, what am I here doing?

00:11:12.420 Am I negotiating with you and the press corps or am I negotiating with Russia on this?

00:11:16.540 This is the beginning and we're trying to get toward peace here.

00:11:20.000 And it's a room that there was actually there were some really good journalists in there.

00:11:24.060 And there are some people who are asking some questions that are rather interesting about what's next in our American policy with Israel.

00:11:30.140 What's next with the tariffs that are going on in Mexico and Canada?

00:11:34.020 But there are others who are just so can't get out of their own way.

00:11:38.240 And the obsessions of elite niche interests.

00:11:42.100 And it reflects in the declining and the fact that the American people don't listen to them anymore.

00:11:48.200 They consider themselves the fourth branch of government in a way.

00:11:52.020 And when the press, when we act properly, we can be that check and balance.

00:11:56.260 But what they don't realize is we don't have an army.

00:11:58.900 We don't have the executive. None of us are elected.

00:12:01.640 None of us are judges.

00:12:02.740 All we have is the people's trust and the people caring about us and the honor of our word and the fact that we represent them.

00:12:10.760 That's all we have.

00:12:11.760 And these people have forgotten that.

00:12:13.280 And a lot of them just represent the small niche interests of people, Manhattan or Los Angeles.

00:12:19.120 And they think that they are owed the trust of the American people.

00:12:23.080 But they're not.

00:12:24.040 And that's why they're suffering.

00:12:25.440 We're talking to Chris Bedford.

00:12:26.920 He is our Washington correspondent and senior editor for politics.

00:12:32.720 He also has his Beltway brief that comes out in the morning.

00:12:37.480 You can find it at theblaze.com slash Bedford.

00:12:40.480 Sign up for it.

00:12:41.220 It's great.

00:12:42.280 We use it on the program an awful lot.

00:12:45.760 Chris, you got one question in, but I think you got two in, didn't you?

00:12:50.660 What were you concerned about yesterday?

00:12:53.300 Yeah, so one of the questions that I got in was talking about what's next for Doge.

00:12:58.900 Because I got news, Jiglin.

00:13:00.240 I know that you guys are loving it out there in Free Texas.

00:13:02.780 But it took me an hour to get into work today because of all the changes that are going on in Washington, D.C.

00:13:08.000 You mean people are actually coming to work?

00:13:09.920 Yeah, people are actually showing up.

00:13:11.540 That's crazy.

00:13:13.220 They suddenly have to go.

00:13:14.700 I talked to my wife.

00:13:15.560 I said, we're going to have to leave an hour earlier to get in on that.

00:13:19.700 It's having a remarkable impact around here.

00:13:22.380 And it's a complete change to the federal government.

00:13:25.200 So we all know that Elon Musk had sent out an email the previous week saying, give me five things that you did in the past week.

00:13:32.700 And I asked him, well, what's the process?

00:13:34.400 About half of the federal workforce estimated has responded to your email.

00:13:38.600 Have you begun the process of firing them?

00:13:40.480 Are they going to be under review?

00:13:41.900 What happens next?

00:13:43.200 And he had a great answer, which was, this was not a performance review.

00:13:47.640 This was a pulse check.

00:13:48.940 If you have two neurons and a pulse, you ought to be able to respond through an email.

00:13:55.420 And even if it's someone saying, well, the work I worked on last week was classified, but here's my supervising.

00:14:01.100 And that's, that would have been a pulse check.

00:14:03.180 You would have responded.

00:14:04.020 And then the second question I asked. 0.99

00:14:06.380 So wait, wait, wait, before we leave that, because I saw the morons at CNN saying, oh, he is, you know what he admitted to? 0.92

00:14:15.500 He'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. 0.95

00:14:24.640 Is that what Elon Musk is insinuating?

00:14:29.660 He 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.

00:14:44.140 Now, of course, there's different jobs that would never work.

00:14:46.660 If 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.

00:14:53.760 But that same kind of Byzantine system allows folks to be able to stay on the role potentially for a lot longer.

00:15:00.560 And we've been discovering that with voter rolls.

00:15:02.700 We've been discovering that with a whole lot of different aspects of the federal government and the state governments in general.

00:15:08.740 And, 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.

00:15:17.900 And you can't fire somebody for a medical condition.

00:15:19.960 Jeez.

00:15:20.440 They couldn't get there.

00:15:21.860 And 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.

00:15:31.320 Okay, Christopher, I've got one minute left.

00:15:33.700 Tell me the second question and the answer.

00:15:35.920 Well, Eric Prince, a friend of the show, had offered his services for private military contractors to help with immigration and deportation.

00:15:47.140 And I asked the president, is that something he was considering?

00:15:49.120 It was the shortest answer he ever gave.

00:15:50.760 He said he is not considering that offer.

00:15:53.420 Did he say he wasn't considering or he hasn't talked to Eric Prince about it?

00:15:58.820 I said, have you talked to Eric Prince or are you going to be talking to him about that?

00:16:03.400 And he said no.

00:16:04.020 Okay, so are you going to?

00:16:06.620 Okay, covered.

00:16:07.700 Chris, thank you so much for everything.

00:16:09.900 Thanks for going into that sewer yesterday and helping clean it up and asking legitimate questions.

00:16:17.920 Thank you so much.

00:16:18.920 Christopher Bedford, our senior editor for politics and Washington correspondent in the White House yesterday.

00:16:24.380 I got to tell you, it was such a big deal yesterday.

00:16:28.900 I mean, Stu, I've been saying this.

00:16:30.600 I mean, we were treated as lizard people when I worked at CNN.

00:16:35.620 You don't have the credentials to work here or question politics or political leaders or what's going on in Washington.

00:16:43.620 It's been going on for so long.

00:16:45.760 And now they're standing behind Daily Wire, the Blaze, all of these upstarts that are actually listening to the people.

00:16:56.680 It was a remarkable day yesterday.

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00:18:06.980 Now back to the podcast.

00:18:07.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:12.480 Friend 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.

00:18:29.940 So we understand what's coming and what's coming next.

00:18:33.480 He has been spot on with us.

00:18:36.880 I think I talked to you a couple of years ago, Jeff.

00:18:39.460 Maybe 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.

00:18:51.860 And here we are.

00:18:52.660 And people have no idea what an AI agent even is, but they're about to.

00:18:59.380 Hi, Jeff.

00:19:01.260 Hey, good morning.

00:19:02.460 It is happening as we speak.

00:19:05.780 I 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.

00:19:23.900 That's the biggest trend of 2025.

00:19:28.280 And so what will that mean for the average person?

00:19:31.220 How will that manifest itself to the average person?

00:19:33.700 It'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.

00:19:53.420 That 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.

00:20:11.740 Something that's probably even more tangible would be, you know, imagine your own agentic AI for just a normal American household.

00:20:23.420 Understands their food consumption and their eating habits.

00:20:28.180 It 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.

00:20:43.480 Happy to provide you with recipes for all of the food that it purchased on your behalf.

00:20:50.580 And able to actually transact with the store.

00:20:53.720 So empowered to, you know, charge to credit cards or bank accounts.

00:21:00.780 I mean, all of that friction that we spend hours a week literally disappears overnight.

00:21:09.160 And this is just the beginning.

00:21:10.600 This is in the next, well, in this year.

00:21:13.140 So, I mean, what do we have left?

00:21:14.520 Eight months?

00:21:15.380 This will become reality this year.

00:21:17.400 It is moving at such a fast pace.

00:21:20.520 I mean, when Elon Musk on Sunday said, we are at the event horizon of the, the event horizon of singularity.

00:21:31.640 That is stunning if you know what that means.

00:21:37.380 That means what you and I talked about five years ago and saying, well, maybe we would get to AGI and maybe someday we could get to ASI.

00:21:48.140 It's now looking as though that is upon us.

00:21:53.020 We're at the event horizon, which means you're about to be sucked into it and cannot turn around.

00:22:01.560 That there, there is no turning back at the stage.

00:22:05.520 I mean, I remember when you and I spoke in, in 2019, the experts in the industry were talking about AGI in 2035 or 2040 that far out.

00:22:18.100 And I said at that time, no later than 2028.

00:22:23.380 And I've since revised that prediction to, to no later than 2026.

00:22:28.800 And, you know, Musk's comment is, is absolutely spot on.

00:22:34.340 AGI will come very fast.

00:22:36.200 We're already, we're already seeing some of the, the sprouts of AGI.

00:22:42.800 Musk 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.

00:22:54.060 It's amazing.

00:22:54.920 And it's just extraordinary.

00:22:56.960 It is.

00:22:57.260 It's just, it's jaw dropping.

00:22:59.080 If 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.

00:23:18.920 How do I reach that goal?

00:23:21.680 Ask it philosophical questions.

00:23:23.540 Ask it deep questions.

00:23:25.360 Ask it deep questions about your industry that only the best people would know and watch what it spits back.

00:23:31.800 It is incredible.

00:23:35.300 I played with it over the weekend and I said to my wife, I understand what people have been saying that they just want to be in the room.

00:23:47.480 The reason why they want ASI, some of them, is because they want to meet a God.

00:23:52.300 And I said, I just played with Grok 3 and I just have met the smartest entity, the smartest person I have ever met.

00:24:05.280 And we're not even there.

00:24:06.860 We're not even close to there yet.

00:24:08.640 We're not there yet.

00:24:11.640 That's right.

00:24:12.220 I 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.

00:24:24.900 They thought it was.

00:24:25.540 They counted them out.

00:24:26.680 Yeah.

00:24:26.940 Yeah, 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.

00:24:41.740 But what I wasn't look, I wasn't looking at where XAI was 12 months ago.

00:24:46.660 I was looking at what they were doing and what they were building and how fast they were building it.

00:24:51.320 Didn't they build this from scratch in 12 months?

00:24:54.340 Uh, the, the, the feat was even more incredible actually.

00:24:59.140 So they, you know, they found, um, very smartly, uh, an existing physical building, a factory.

00:25:10.580 It was actually an old Electrolux factory of all things.

00:25:13.540 Wow.

00:25:14.620 Um, so they, and they did that because they could save time not having to construct, you know, the physical infrastructure, the building.

00:25:22.840 Um, 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.

00:25:35.300 These are like the workhorses for training artificial intelligence, 122 days.

00:25:40.380 They did what nobody else in the industry had ever done.

00:25:44.060 And it gets better because then the next 92 days, they spun up an additional 100,000 GPUs.

00:25:51.060 So a total of 200,000, the largest AI super factory that exists on the planet, uh, in the span of just over 200 days.

00:26:02.720 So less than 12 months.

00:26:04.580 And that is what enabled them to produce Grok 3, which is better than anything else that exists on the market today.

00:26:11.960 So, um, let's, let's spend a minute talking about Elon Musk, uh, because he's doing the same thing.

00:26:19.280 And Donald Trump, I swear to you, between the two of them, I think they get about 10 minutes of sleep a day.

00:26:23.860 Um, they are moving at such a rapid pace.

00:26:29.480 Um, 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.

00:26:53.860 Who is not hiring a bunch of 20 somethings that know nothing. 0.74

00:26:58.140 The 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. 0.79

00:27:14.200 That's what's happening.

00:27:15.680 AI is what's propelling the, I think the speed of discovery of what's in our government.

00:27:22.720 You agree with that?

00:27:23.860 Jeff, that is, uh, a hundred percent accurate.

00:27:29.340 You 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.

00:27:48.080 Uh, 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.

00:28:04.500 Um, and, uh, they'll continue to do it.

00:28:08.520 I 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.

00:28:17.860 And of course the, um, really the operational approach that Elon Musk uses in all of his businesses.

00:28:24.240 And, 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.

00:28:37.220 If 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.

00:28:53.600 There's no hiding anymore in 2026, there will be no hiding.

00:28:58.460 Do you agree with that?

00:28:59.700 Uh, 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.

00:29:14.840 Um, you know, the last four years, what, what did we see?

00:29:18.940 We 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,

00:29:29.400 engaging in massive PSYOP campaigns, uh, and there was no freedom of speech as we know very well.

00:29:36.740 And 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.

00:29:51.700 Um, on that, uh, on that point, um,

00:29:54.840 Pam Bondi is supposedly releasing the Epstein client list today. 0.96

00:30:00.920 Precisely. Um, uh, amazing. I'm very excited about that.

00:30:05.360 And 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.

00:30:14.580 Yeah. 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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00:30:31.060 Steve 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.

00:30:44.660 Steve, welcome to the program.

00:30:46.880 Great to be here. Thanks, Glenn.

00:30:47.940 Thanks. Do you have any comments on, on what's happening with, or what we should expect from the, uh, client list from Epstein today?

00:30:57.800 Well, I mean, I've just been on record on that. There is no expectation of privacy because Jeffrey Epstein is no longer alive.

00:31:03.720 So I've always kind of scratched my head at the fact that it was kept back.

00:31:06.760 And if there's any sort of insinuation, well, it could compromise and jeopardize ongoing investigations.

00:31:11.420 I 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.

00:31:18.020 And, 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.

00:31:26.020 I think that's probably, so do you expect that there is information in there that we don't know that's meaningful?

00:31:37.180 I 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.

00:31:47.120 And Jeffrey Epstein, uh, was, uh, charged in violation of double jeopardy.

00:31:52.760 And 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.

00:32:00.080 But, 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.

00:32:13.700 And 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.

00:32:29.340 And it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything if it's released and there's no action.

00:32:33.640 I 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.

00:32:47.120 Cause nobody expects anything, any bad guy to ever go to jail anymore in the government.

00:32:51.860 It does.

00:32:52.740 And look, he's keeping in with what James Comey didn't.

00:32:55.760 And then that was when James Comey stood up and said that no reasonable prosecutor will bring charges against Hillary Clinton.

00:33:00.600 That was never his call to make that goes to the department of justice.

00:33:04.060 Correct.

00:33:04.380 So 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.

00:33:10.160 Um, 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.

00:33:29.420 Um, uh, and I'm wondering how much may have been lost and can we get the FBI back on track?

00:33:40.220 Are 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?

00:33:48.280 The level of subterfuge that went on in, during the transition period.

00:33:53.620 And then even during the Trump administration, before cash Patel was elevated to become the director was enormous.

00:33:58.540 I mean, it wasn't just limited to document shredding as, as Garrett O'Boyle brought forth.

00:34:03.720 I mean, when it comes to the ice deportation raids, the FBI at first was letting people, uh, opt out and they still are.

00:34:10.420 They're saying, well, if you have a moral objection to going after trend day, Aragua, then you don't have to participate in it.

00:34:16.100 They're openly having a moral, who has a moral case against arresting those guys?

00:34:24.440 I 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.

00:34:33.100 I mean, that the core values of the FBI, rigorous obedience to the constitution used to be it.

00:34:37.580 And then they put that last behind diversity, uh, and they've just fundamentally changed the personnel who are in there.

00:34:43.820 So, 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.

00:34:56.860 Because 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.

00:35:06.580 I mean, Garrett and I both are one week apart on our suspensions and definitely we hit 29 months this week.

00:35:13.540 So, I mean, there needs to be some movement on that.

00:35:16.220 And 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.

00:35:22.420 And I think that there will be more people coming forward because they know where the bodies are buried.

00:35:26.860 They'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.

00:35:34.660 Have you been contacted by cash or anybody at the FBI?

00:35:38.700 I 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.

00:35:49.080 Um, 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.

00:36:01.040 And we haven't had any of those conversations.

00:36:03.240 No, not at this point.

00:36:04.440 Um, which, you know, and, and I don't think any of us are aspiring to do that.

00:36:09.460 I'm fundamentally, we're sort of in Isaiah six, eight moment where, you know, whom shall I send?

00:36:13.960 Here I am.

00:36:14.520 Send me.

00:36:14.880 It's a, it's a recognition of I'm on the Hill and if it's called to serve, I will.

00:36:19.520 Uh, we certainly have a lot of information.

00:36:21.380 We have a lot of thoughts and if they want that, that'd be great and fantastic.

00:36:24.680 Uh, but I, I, I live in Florida and I wear shorts every day.

00:36:27.280 I don't know how I feel about going.

00:36:28.640 By the way, I, I, I, I so agree that, uh, I heard the other day that it's, it's an insult

00:36:36.860 to swamps, uh, to call it, it's a more of a sewer.

00:36:40.320 A swamp is, is not bad enough.

00:36:43.540 Um, the, um, uh, the, what do you think we need to see from cash Patel that would say

00:36:54.960 to us, this is, we're serious.

00:36:58.600 We're correcting that.

00:37:00.640 Um, we're, we're cleaning this thing out.

00:37:03.500 What, what, go ahead.

00:37:05.520 I think a very public, uh, firings of some of the worst actors who, uh, we do know names

00:37:12.340 of, um, we've brought forward would be great.

00:37:15.000 I think a very public announcement that the FBI is going away and completely ending its

00:37:19.580 intelligence collection apparatus on the American people doing away with the quota system that

00:37:24.660 they've had for the last 11 years called integrated program management.

00:37:27.760 That's driving it forward, restating how they're going to bring in people of merit and no longer

00:37:32.980 going to prioritize diversity and use the FBI Academy as some sort of washout program,

00:37:38.080 just make it a competent law enforcement training program that makes meritorious people capable

00:37:42.600 investigators.

00:37:43.680 Like those are the sorts of changes that you can have.

00:37:45.440 And I think as long as we're on the topic of like something like an Epstein list, uh,

00:37:49.320 if I could have my choice of any one of those, those stories that you have, and there's a

00:37:53.460 lot of them, I want to see the Butler, Pennsylvania case completely opened up again.

00:37:58.340 That individual has no expectation of privacy.

00:38:00.420 He's no longer alive.

00:38:01.960 The fact that the FBI purposely said that it was potentially domestic terrorism and they

00:38:07.600 to justify that said it was because of the congressional baseball shooting because they

00:38:11.440 had erred in that decision to call that not an assassination attempt.

00:38:14.600 They said that the Bernie Sanders supporter who arrived at the baseball field and asked

00:38:17.580 where the Republicans and then tried to murder them all wasn't an assassin.

00:38:20.960 It was suicide by cop.

00:38:22.460 They labeled Butler domestic terrorism and that puts a classified label on it and they can't

00:38:28.340 comment on that.

00:38:29.100 I'm sorry, Senator, Congressman, it's an ongoing investigation.

00:38:32.120 Uh, well, the victim is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

00:38:35.660 Uh, he's entitled to that.

00:38:36.680 And as are the people who put them there.

00:38:38.520 So let's just come up with a quick list here.

00:38:41.560 If you don't, if you don't mind, Steve, uh, okay.

00:38:44.980 Butler, what else, what else should be, um, opened up?

00:38:50.740 Uh, Butler, uh, I think the J six pipe bomber, the weapons of mass destruction, the sole act 0.99

00:38:57.820 of possible terrorism on January 6th, 2021, who never struck again for the last four years

00:39:02.720 mysteriously.

00:39:03.300 And the FBI claimed the cell phone data was corrupted, but then the cell phone provider

00:39:06.840 said, no, it wasn't.

00:39:07.760 They're still lying about that.

00:39:09.400 I think we could probably go to Las Vegas, the Vegas shooting, one of the worst mass shootings

00:39:13.500 in the history of the country with a memory hold pretty quickly after that, if they got

00:39:17.260 the bump stock, what do you think that was, what are your thoughts on that, Steve?

00:39:21.820 Uh, if I have to put on my, my, uh, theorizing hat speculation, I think there was a deep

00:39:27.180 confliction issue.

00:39:28.180 There were multiple agencies were involved.

00:39:29.920 I think that Steven Paddock, who interestingly, his father was on the FBI top 10 most wanted

00:39:34.460 list, uh, that Paddock was probably working with some government agency was, uh, selling

00:39:40.780 weapons to a terrorist organization, laundering it through the casino to justify having it.

00:39:45.960 Uh, and then he happened to sell to the wrong people who perpetuated the, the attack at

00:39:50.740 that moment.

00:39:51.180 And then the government said, Oh, Nellie, we might've just materially supported terrorism

00:39:55.460 ourselves.

00:39:57.580 Good heavens. 0.95

00:39:59.740 I even thought, Oh, I don't want to live in your brain.

00:40:02.860 That is a, that's a frightening thought.

00:40:06.660 This is what happens when you're at home for 29 months, Clint.

00:40:10.140 Uh, uh, the Clinton, uh, the Clinton case with her email servers, uh, I I'd like to see

00:40:20.080 that.

00:40:21.700 Um, and also I think it's worth getting into the fact that we now have the expose.

00:40:26.940 I mean, it's not, it's dated information.

00:40:28.240 It just didn't get the public, uh, awareness was the, the honeypot scheme that James Comey

00:40:32.700 ran on Donald Trump's campaign in 2015.

00:40:35.420 Explain that that just came out a couple of days ago.

00:40:37.540 Well, I had actually came back, uh, in October of last year, Carrie Pickett reports that James

00:40:43.700 Comey ran off the books.

00:40:45.260 So nothing was officially opened up.

00:40:46.880 He had two female agents infiltrate Donald Trump's campaign to, uh, put themselves out 0.92

00:40:52.460 as sexually available to try to elicit information that they could then open up criminal investigations

00:40:57.340 on members of the Trump campaign.

00:40:58.620 And when it came to light, because media actually took a photograph of one of the agents, they

00:41:03.220 pulled the plug, promoted one to a high level senior executive position and move the

00:41:07.480 other one over to CIA so that, that they wouldn't have to be called to testify.

00:41:11.540 And, and this is James Comey acting, calling the shots on this as the director of the FBI

00:41:15.940 trying to impact the presidential election.

00:41:18.320 You know, one of the things I thought of, we go back to, uh, the Epstein case.

00:41:22.440 If you look at the Epstein file, we, we all know that one way or another, uh, Prince

00:41:28.100 Andrew's name is going to be on there.

00:41:29.960 And I believe today, uh, the prime minister of England is visiting the white house.

00:41:36.460 How unbelievably awkward would it be if our department of justice has released information

00:41:42.800 showing that Prince Andrew was involved in something this horrendous?

00:41:46.720 I mean, we all know he was, but I mean, for the government to make it very clear that,

00:41:52.040 yep, here's how many times, here's where he was, here was in the room, here was on the

00:41:57.600 plane with him, uh, on the day, the prime minister of England comes, wow, that's going

00:42:02.520 to be an awkward meeting.

00:42:04.640 It'll be fun.

00:42:05.520 But I think if anybody can handle that in front of the media, Donald Trump and if it's conduct

00:42:11.260 of Prince Andrew, I mean, I'm sorry, that's on you.

00:42:13.680 I mean, no, I know that I'm just revealing it.

00:42:16.100 Yeah, no, I, I'm just saying, uh, I, I, I, I don't like conflict so much.

00:42:21.360 I would be the guy who was like, um, I'm going to leave you guys here for a minute.

00:42:25.160 I'm going to go.

00:42:25.800 Would you guys like a cup of coffee or a Diet Coke or something?

00:42:28.160 I could go run out and get that while you just chit chat here for me.

00:42:31.020 I don't want you.

00:42:31.980 It's going to be awkward.

00:42:33.240 It's going to be real awkward.

00:42:34.380 Would be extinguishing a tiki torch.

00:42:36.500 Oh, I know.

00:42:40.480 Steve, thank you so much.

00:42:41.740 Thanks for all of your service in the past.

00:42:43.780 And, uh, thanks for keeping us up to speed.

00:42:45.660 Uh, FBI whistleblower, uh, Steve friend.

00:42:48.860 Na, na, na, na.

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