Glenn Beck is in Utah this weekend and he's going to see the movie "Unplanned" in Salt Lake City. He also talks about the latest on Global Warming and Joe Biden. And he tells a story of corruption on Joe Biden that you have to hear.
00:04:12.140Now, that's something that nobody wants.
00:04:14.060I mean, if you put yourself in Hillary Clinton's shoes and you're just awful, not because of corruption and crimes and everything else that you've done, but because you're just not qualified to be the president.
00:04:51.160The Russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counterintel people I've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
00:05:47.120Uh, but to think that Donald Trump was the guy that had access to all this polling and data and knew exactly, he was guiding, this is not collusion, she's saying he guided the Russians on how to do this.
00:06:26.000If you're going to commit a crime by trying to guide the Russians to hack the Democratic National Committee, why not just hack the Democratic National Committee?
00:10:00.960And so then you go out and you look for little pieces of facts that will, yes, if I put it that way and I put this word over here and that word over here and then this sentence from that person underneath.
00:10:31.760Now, when you're in opinion media, and I know this because I have always said, in fact, I remember when I was at CNN arguing with the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle who called me a journalist.
00:10:49.020And I had him on the show and I said, I'm not a journalist.
00:16:14.820The audience—there's parts that the audience would really appreciate, too, because it was all about kind of your Obama liberals who said they're just not racist at all.
00:16:24.140But in the end, there was a hint of it you might have detected.
00:16:27.420So this one—yeah, this one is—and again, I liked his last movie.
00:16:31.580I just feel like Jordan Peele is in that moment where he can do no wrong to critics, so they have to say anything he does,
00:18:59.760But it was just, like, all—it was just them, you know, the typical, you know, chase action scenes, which were just—I've seen them 100,000 times now.
00:23:16.560They've been, I think they spent over 2,000 hours talking about the whole non-story that turned out to be a complete hoax.
00:23:24.220But yesterday, Glenn, I went on your TV program and said, you know, I think they're so upset because they are, you know, they are liberal activists.
00:23:34.520And for them, this has been completely destroying their narrative.
00:23:50.000And they honestly, they showed up to the White House every single day thinking that this was going to be their Woodward and Bernstein moment and that this was going to be the name they made for themselves.
00:24:01.020And they were going to take down this president.
00:24:03.300And that's how they were going to make their mark on the world.
00:24:06.180We are the journalists who took down the Trump presidency.
00:24:09.100I mean, the fact that that didn't happen and this is basically over is devastating for them.
00:24:13.060And you want to hear what, you know, the liberal journalists are saying.
00:24:16.080You just have to listen to the Democrat politicians because they sound exactly the same.
00:25:56.080No, that was what the investigation was.
00:25:58.380Well, why would he believe Putin over the intelligence agencies?
00:26:02.700Because if John Brennan is any reflection of our intelligence agencies, it turns out that he was right not to believe them.
00:26:12.920I mean, you got Joe Scarborough saying, oh, John Brennan, were you just like us and you were given, you know, maybe not so good information?
00:26:20.780And John Brennan was like, well, yes, it turns out the information we were given wasn't as good as we thought it was.
00:26:26.460You were the former director of the CIA, dude.
00:26:29.400I mean, you cannot just get away with what I guess it was wrong.
00:26:45.380First, on the intelligence committee or community, John Brennan said that he was committed treason and that he had it on good authority, that this was going to come and he was going to go to jail because he's a traitor.
00:27:02.680OK, then yesterday he comes out and says, I had bad information.
00:27:06.720At the same time, he's saying that the media is hammering Donald Trump because he said we should have an investigation on our intelligence community.
00:27:17.000Well, if you're the former director of the CIA and they're telling you, yeah, he was definitely and they turn out to be wrong, wouldn't you be calling for an investigation?
00:27:29.920Shouldn't John Brennan be joining Donald Trump on that?
00:27:37.780But I think at this point there's such partisan hacks that they just don't they're not even thinking logically.
00:27:42.520They're just sputtering out of control.
00:27:44.300I mean, the whole thing and they should investigate where this thing started, because the whole thing was based on a dossier that has been discredited from day one.
00:27:53.720And John Brennan actually used that dossier to launch an espionage campaign against all of Trump's people.
00:28:00.260So whether or not you can trust the guy, I think that's out the window.
00:28:04.900And the entire intelligence community has been, and including the guys at the Comey McCabe FBI, they've been essentially conspiring to get Trump, for lack of a better term.
00:28:13.940So I think it is fair to say maybe these guys aren't the honest brokers who thought they were.
00:28:18.900Maybe these guys should be investigated.
00:28:23.780And this I'd like you to ask your friends in the press pool there at the White House.
00:28:27.560When they start saying I know I know when they start saying Congress wants to look into all of this, Congress is calling for their own investigation.
00:28:41.340And they want access to this because they they claim today and yesterday they're claiming that they don't have to do the kinds of investigation that the FBI does.
00:28:54.400They have special powers and they can do special things that the FBI cannot do.
00:29:01.660I would like you to ask them if you believe that, then how come you didn't say, wait a minute, during the Kavanaugh hearings when they demanded there had to be an FBI investigation because only the FBI could look into things.
00:29:21.980Congress didn't have the power to do investigations like that.
00:29:27.420Are you saying that there is some hypocrisy?
00:31:19.520I think it was your governor that I heard yesterday saying, you know, Nebraska, they know how to take care of each other.
00:31:28.940And, you know, while we find it disappointing that the press isn't talking about this, you know, that's fine.
00:31:34.780We know how to take care of each other.
00:31:36.340And it must be frustrating for people in Nebraska that, I mean, it's like, I mean, you were treated worse than Puerto Rico.
00:31:47.940Nobody's even, it's like Nebraska's not even a state.
00:31:50.780We need to put it in context how big this flood is because since the media hasn't been covering it nationally, I think lots of folks just don't have any understanding of the magnitude of this.
00:32:03.500But I don't want to focus exclusively on the negative.
00:32:11.960But the sort of stuff of neighbors, I want to make sure we get back to that because I have tears in my eyes every day in some shelter in Nebraska where you meet yet another family who had their house washed away.
00:32:24.040And when they got delivered to the shelter, they insisted on getting into the volunteer line.
00:32:30.180People show up at our shelters again and again and again having had their homes washed away.
00:32:34.840And if their bodies are intact, they get in the volunteer line when they get to the shelter.
00:33:00.880The town that I'm from, a 25,000-person ag town, is on the flattest plains you can imagine.
00:33:08.620And my town became an island for three and a half days.
00:33:12.800And we had to start airlifting in water and food and other supplies because there was no way in or out of the town.
00:33:20.040Well, when you're in a 26,000-person town, we have an airport.
00:33:23.460So it was pretty easy to airlift supplies in once you realize this problem existed.
00:33:26.860We have a lot of communities of 300 or 500 people, and we go and find them, and everybody's been rescued now.
00:33:34.260I mean, every community can get in or out of their space now.
00:33:37.480But as you'd find some of these communities, there was no looting, and lots of houses have been destroyed.
00:33:42.840And people got together and created systems to share their food and to sort of voluntarily ration in a whole bunch of these communities.
00:33:49.560The magnitude of the flood is really hard to understand.
00:33:55.280I've been up and down on National Guard or Army Corps of Engineers helicopters every couple days just to see what is happening as the floodwaters have started to recede.
00:34:04.100And Governor Ricketts and I, Governor Ricketts, who you mentioned a little bit ago, he and I had the vice president in town last, I guess it was Thursday.
00:34:11.320And Pence was up with us, and Pence grew up in a town of 40,000 where everybody was washed away once in a flood.
00:34:28.600I will tell you, there is something about – my grandmother was from Nebraska.
00:34:34.360And there is something about these farming communities that we have lost in the rest of the country that – and I think it's because when you're a farmer, you have to rely on your neighbor and God.
00:34:49.200Those two things don't come through for you, you're toast.
00:34:52.380And everybody knows that I might be having a great year, but I got to take care of my neighbor whose crop was lost for some reason because the situation is going to be reversed down the road.
00:35:01.960And so everybody really does take care of one another, and it's so great.
00:35:08.980We have a picture hanging in our dining room that my wife put up a couple years ago.
00:35:13.940My wife's an Air Force brat, so born in California, but mostly from Alabama.
00:35:18.560And so when she got to Nebraska after we married and I went home to be a college president there, we had this experience where this 58, 59-year-old farmer dropped dead of a heart attack.
00:35:29.460And it was three weeks from harvest, and his wife looks outside a couple weeks later, and there are 15 $500,000 tractors harvesting all their crop and just producing all the grain for her.
00:35:43.480And my wife has a picture of all these tractors in formation in tandem in this lady's field on our dining room wall.
00:35:50.440I've seen it myself as well growing up in a farming community.
00:36:23.560So Omaha is on the central edge of the east side of our state, and most of the flooding was north-central and northeast Nebraska.
00:36:33.700We also have some massive livestock losses in the western part of the state because what precipitated this whole thing is we'd gotten about 40 inches of snow in 60 days in January, February, which is a lot of snow.
00:36:46.120This was more than – we have 40 inches in 60 days.
00:36:49.280And then we had this thing called a bomb cyclone, which I didn't know anything about before, but it's basically when you have a hurricane effect out of a blizzard.
00:36:58.640And so at the edge of that blizzard, it's calving season, and Nebraska is one of the biggest cattle sites in the Union.
00:37:06.380Mama cows tend to be good at their job by the second or third time they give birth, but the first time they often don't really know what they're doing.
00:37:11.780And so you need to help and make sure baby gets hooked back up with mama.
00:37:16.020And so in the middle of a blizzard, baby calves are 50 to 120 pounds.
00:37:20.880They can get frostbite if you don't have a rancher who knows how to help take care of them.
00:37:24.880So in the blizzard, we have north of $500 million of livestock loss already just from cattle.
00:37:31.080But in the eastern part of the state, where we now have flooding in Omaha and south down the Missouri River, so the Missouri divides Nebraska and Iowa, and then Nebraska and Missouri a little farther south, we're dumping sewage from 600,000 people straight into the river in Omaha because all the water treatment facilities are underwater.
00:37:50.000We have stuff like that that's even before you get to the question of how do you rebuild levees temporarily for just thunderstorm protection this summer.
00:37:58.240And then the longer-term question is how are farmers and ranchers going to get to market this fall because we have bridges washed out everywhere in the state.
00:38:13.520We know prayers matter, and so we are praying for the people of Nebraska and you and the governor and everybody else involved in the rescue and rebuilding process, which probably sounds like everybody in Nebraska.
00:38:29.620But we urge you to give wherever you want to give.
00:38:34.280Mercury One, when you give to Mercury One, 100% of the proceeds go to what it's earmarked for.
00:38:40.480So if you earmark it for the flood in Nebraska, 100% will go.
00:38:45.020We urge you just to go to our relief efforts on the site and just donate there at Relief Efforts, Humanitarian Relief, and the money will go there to help them out.
00:39:40.420It's about the future and how you're being manipulated by Google and Facebook and everything else.
00:39:46.540He is also, Peter Schweitzer is also the author of Secret Empires, How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
00:41:11.680And what that means is he doesn't have to disclose the business relationships, which are highly questionable, that his son has with all these foreign entities.
00:41:22.680And it's really highlighted by the fact that these business dealings are exactly in the foreign governments where Vice President Joe Biden was the point person for Obama policy.
00:41:34.940And in fact, in one instance, we know his son actually flew with his father on Air Force Two to close the deal with a foreign government.
00:41:45.180So Joe Biden can't plead ignorance to this by any stretch of the imagination.
00:41:49.620So what kind of deals are we talking about?
00:42:14.260Biden is, frankly, criticized by the Washington Post and other entities for going soft on Beijing.
00:42:20.660He basically doesn't challenge them much on the South China Sea, on human rights, on trade policy.
00:42:26.920The most important thing that happens happens 10 days after they come back.
00:42:32.180And that's when Hunter Biden's very small financial firm inks a $1 billion, that's with a B, $1 billion private equity deal with the government of China.
00:44:51.260And again, if you look at White House logs, we know that there are meetings that take place with a couple of the other guys that are his business partners.
00:44:59.940There's a guy named Devin Archer, who's a longtime friend of Hunter Biden's.
00:45:05.060Devin Archer, who went on trial last year for a bond scheme that basically ripped $60 million off of the poorest Indian tribe in America.
00:45:16.980There is no conceivable path or way that you can justify the Chinese government giving this deal to Joe Biden's son,
00:45:27.800other than the fact is he is Joe Biden's son, and Joe Biden was the point person – Barack Obama said explicitly –
00:45:35.980the point person on U.S. policy towards China during the Obama administration.
00:45:58.540We've sort of scratched the surface on this.
00:46:00.940We know that there was also a dirty deal done in the Ukraine.
00:46:04.640So Ukraine, of course, facing aggression from Russia in 2014 – now, this is April of 2014, so this is only four months after that Chinese deal is inked.
00:46:17.400Hunter Biden joins the board of directors and is an advisor to a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma, and it's headed by two very corrupt oligarchs.
00:46:31.220I mean, these oligarchs, if you read about them, Kolomovsky and Vlachevsky, they're like out of – they're villains out of a Bond novel, a James Bond novel.
00:46:44.000Hunter Biden joins the board of these Ukrainian companies at exactly the same time that his father is responsible for all Western aid flowing to the Ukrainian government.
00:46:55.780And that includes $1.8 billion that we pump into the Ukraine through an entity called Privat Bank.
00:47:19.020The same oligarch who has Hunter Biden on the payroll, who controls Burisma Energy.
00:47:24.360And let me add again, Hunter Biden has no background in Ukraine.
00:47:28.700He has no background in the energy field.
00:47:31.460He gets this position because his father, again, is the Obama administration's point person on policy towards Ukraine at this very, very crucial time.
00:47:41.780And they figure out the way to get favorable treatment from Joe Biden is to set up the sun with a very lucrative arrangement.
00:47:49.300I know, I think I know the answer to this.
00:47:59.760You know, my view has always been, and, you know, in light of the Mueller report, in light of the Clintons and Uranium One, that we ought to be looking at all questions of foreign influence on American politics.
00:48:11.620Yeah, and it doesn't matter, you agree with me, I don't care if it's Republican or Democrat or independent.
00:48:17.800All relationships, especially anything to do with China and the Russian bloc.
00:48:48.340And in the case of Joe Biden, unlike the, you know, the allegations of Russian collusion with Trump, you have exchange of money, large sums of money, you have favorable policy decisions that Joe Biden is taking as vice president, and you have rival powers.
00:49:06.880I mean, China is a rival, and I would argue probably a bigger threat to America's future than Russia will be.
00:50:15.700This is all money that's going into account where Hunter Biden is skimming off funds.
00:50:21.640And it's all occurring in 2014 to 2016, while his father is vice president of the United States and steering American foreign policy.
00:50:30.200All right, Peter, will you do me a favor? Could you write this up in the clearest and most dead, dead to rights facts?
00:50:39.880So there's no speculation and and condense what you have in the book just to like a page or so.
00:50:46.880And I'm going to ask everyone in the audience to get the book Secret Empires.
00:50:51.160It's out right now. Get the book Secret Empires.
00:50:54.080But then if you can write this for me, I'd like to send this out to the audience and have them send it to everyone they know and make sure that it gets into the hands.
00:51:05.360Everybody should flood the Democrats who are running against Joe Biden, because the only way this will be investigated or talked about is right now when they're trying to bump each other off.
00:51:18.220Here's what I'm going to suggest, Glenn. I'm going to give you the rights to copy the afterword of the book, which is, you know, six or seven pages long.
00:51:28.680And it's just bullet points of what we know about the flow of funds, who they go to and where they go to.
00:51:35.440And you can send that out to your listeners. And this is not in dispute.
00:51:38.860You know, Biden's response to me only came when The Wall Street Journal did an initial report on this.
00:51:45.100And all he did was attack me personally. He didn't refute anything.
00:51:48.660And the problem that he has is the financial records, the Chinese corporate documents, they are all clear cut.
00:51:56.060This is not subject to dispute. The only defense that he has is to try to argue that his son got all these deals based on merit.