Glenn Beck speaks with Terry Trobiani, owner of Gianelli's Drive Thru about his fight with the village of Prairie Grove, IL about flying the American Flag. Glenn also talks about the Fauci insanity, the hearing with Adam Schiff, and a warning on a recent incident with Simone Biles.
00:03:21.060Apparently, what's happened here is, and I could not immediately decipher it from the letter that they gave me,
00:03:26.340but apparently what's happened is that the village of Prairie Grove has classified the American flag as a sign and have taken away the symbol of the American flag.
00:03:35.000So as a sign, it falls under their temporary sign ordinance, which prohibits any flying or any positioning of any signs on your property.
00:03:43.920So now this includes the American flag.
00:03:46.540And what they did also in this pamphlet, which, again, I wasn't looking for, but I kind of interpreted later,
00:03:52.400is the only way that I could fly an American flag on my property is if I put it on a permanent 20 to 30 foot flagpole, which they have to permit.
00:04:00.840So what they're doing is they're denying me my rights under the U.S. flag code and my civil rights acts and being able to fly the American flag any way I want.
00:04:11.000I should be able to wake up in the morning and say, oh, I'm really having a great day.
00:04:14.200I'm going to stick a flag in my front wall.
00:04:28.700I get my questions back to them where, well, since all this has been going on, no one's come back to me and say, well, maybe we misinterpreted something.
00:10:23.900He's the author of Chaos Under Heaven and a columnist with the Washington Post.
00:10:28.560Now, I'm not going to hold that against him.
00:10:31.180Uh, but, uh, he has, uh, he has been on this Rand Paul, uh, Fauci debate, and I'm not hearing anybody telling the truth in the mainstream media.
00:10:49.260So, so, so, how is this not an open and shut case with Dr. Fauci?
00:10:56.760Well, you know, we've spent a year and a half placing Anthony Fauci on this pedestal and venerating him as a deity, and so when he gets into the five-minute shouting match with Rand Paul, it's very easy for everyone to just write the story that Fauci got vanquished by Rand Paul without actually listening to what these two men were saying and seeing which one makes the most sense.
00:11:16.700Just follow the issue of what Anthony Fauci has been doing in terms of throwing cold water on the lab leak theory and avoiding congressional oversight of the NIH's relationships with these Wuhan labs, then you can understand why people like Rand Paul and lots of other people, including lots of scientists, think Fauci is playing a double game here.
00:11:38.460That he's using his authority and his popularity and his ability to have the Democratic Party in Congress come to his defense every time he gets into one of these scuffles to distract us from the real issue.
00:11:53.560And the real issue is that the NIH, and not just the NIH, and USAID and the Pentagon and all of these other U.S. agencies were doing work funneling American taxpayer money and know-how to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:12:07.180And now that the pandemic broke out on the doorstep of the lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has told us all to go pound sand.
00:12:14.280And how can that be, and why were we doing all of this collaboration, and do you still want to do this collaboration with a bunch of Chinese labs that won't even let us into the lab when the crisis breaks out?
00:12:25.720And you don't even have to believe that the lab leak theory is true to understand that people like Anthony Fauci, who were the head of this collaboration, who promoted this collaboration, whether you call it gain-of-function or you don't call it gain-of-function, that's kind of a word game.
00:12:39.120We can get into that if you want to. But the bottom line is that's a red herring, because Fauci was in charge of overseeing this collaboration, and he failed in that fiduciary responsibility.
00:12:49.660It's obvious, because now when we're trying to get into the lab to investigate the greatest pandemic in human history, they won't even open the lab to us.
00:12:56.800So what are we, schmucks? We want to give them more money when they tell us we can't even go into the lab to do the investigation?
00:13:02.920That's what Anthony Fauci is arguing for, and that seems crazy to me.
00:13:05.840Josh, can we go into the word games here being played with gain-of-function for a minute?
00:13:10.100Because it does appear to, I think, the average person looking at this, that Anthony Fauci is just playing semantics here.
00:13:18.960He's, I mean, the documents literally say gain-of-function on them, and he's trying to make this argument that it's obvious it is not gain-of-function.
00:13:31.600Right, sure. So, you know, again, I think it is a word game, but it's worth parsing out, because it's confusing to everyone.
00:13:39.040You know, what we know is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing work to modify back coronaviruses in ways that made them more transmissible and more dangerous to human beings, okay?
00:13:50.140And that's what they published. That's what they admitted to. That's not even in dispute.
00:13:53.880Now, to Rand Paul and to me and to you, if you're gaining the function of a virus, well, how could that not be gain-of-function?
00:14:01.080And what Fauci's game here is, is that he's pointing to a specific definition that the NIH uses to determine whether or not they should submit this gain-of-function research to their own review body.
00:14:12.180In other words, is it risky enough to warrant another level of review?
00:14:15.500But what's funny about that, I mean, not ha-ha funny, but kind of ironic funny, is that that definition was written by the NIH and Anthony Fauci.
00:14:22.580In other words, he crafted a definition to exclude all of the research that he was in charge of, and so then he built an oversight mechanism and then never used it, okay?
00:14:33.780They built an entire oversight mechanism, review board, after the Obama administration paused the gain-of-function research, because it's risky, because lab accidents happen all the time.
00:14:44.080And they turned it back on, and Anthony Fauci was instrumental in turning it back on inside the government during the Trump administration, when the Trump officials weren't paying attention.
00:14:53.100And then he wrote the definition and designed the oversight system so it was never used, okay?
00:14:58.280And then when the bat coronavirus pandemic breaks out on the doorstep of the bat coronavirus lab, and everyone's like, hey, Anthony Fauci, can we take a look at your documents?
00:15:07.080And by the way, he says, no, I won't even give my documents over.
00:15:11.400And then, by the way, do you think now that perhaps you should have reviewed this risky research?
00:15:17.120So you could make, in other words, it's going to be tough to prosecute Anthony Fauci for lying, because in his mind he's telling the truth.
00:15:25.120But the point is that he's bragging about a loophole that he created.
00:15:28.860He built a loophole into the system, then he walked through the loophole, and then he uses it to defend himself.
00:15:34.740And that is probably a good defense against perjury, but it's not a good defense against, hey, why were you doing all this risky research with all these Chinese labs that tell us to go pound sand when there's a pandemic there?
00:15:44.320It's like having a cheating husband and having the cheating husband design what cheating is.
00:15:49.180And he says, well, massage parlors aren't cheating, right?
00:15:52.480Like, well, okay, I mean, but you designed the rules that amount to cheating, so of course you're not going to break them.
00:16:01.800Right, or it's like, I always like to say it's like, you know, having, you know, Robert Kardashian judge OJ, okay?
00:16:10.000Doesn't mean that Robert Kardashian is not like a great lawyer, but he's got a conflict of interest because he's friends with OJ, okay?
00:16:15.480And that's what I'm getting to here is that Anthony Fauci, by the way, if you read the New York Times yesterday, is preparing to ask Congress for billions of dollars more to expand risky virus research to every kind of virus there is, influenza, you name it, okay?
00:16:32.540He gave an interview in the New York Times where he said the pandemic shows we have to spend billions, billions more digging up viruses all over the world, taking them back to labs.
00:16:40.040Now, you know, on CNN, on Sunday, Jake Tapper asked Anthony Fauci, do you still think it's a good idea to do business with these Wuhan labs that we can't even get into?
00:16:48.780And he said, don't worry, we've always been safe, we'll continue to be safe.
00:16:54.900And that doesn't, when you know this, Glenn, when a public official says, trust me, that's when you know something's fishy, that's when you know you have to install some oversight.
00:17:04.360So my point is that we can't have a system where the doctors and scientists oversee the doctors and scientists because they don't understand national security, and they definitely don't understand what's going on in China now, which is the big, bigger scope of my book, which is that, yeah.
00:17:20.240Which is that, you know, these scientists in China may be very nice people, but they're not in control.
00:17:26.580They live in a totalitarian dictatorship that's becoming more aggressive and more repressive, and that means us harm, and that if you understand China, you understand that they're not doing open science anymore, and that they've taken all of our money and know-how and built another part of the lab where they've worked with the Chinese military to do whatever they want to do with those viruses outside of our purview.
00:17:45.620That's what the Trump administration revealed.
00:17:47.440That's what the Biden administration has confirmed, as that U.S. intelligence shows.
00:18:05.320Now, the question is, going forward, do we want to continue to fund and build their military bioresearch program?
00:18:10.680Is that a good idea, especially when they won't even let us into the city that the pandemic broke out into?
00:18:16.240That seems crazy to me, but that's what Fauci is explicitly advocating for.
00:18:20.000So how did we miss the fact that the guy who's running this lab is a former, I think, general, at least in the Communist Party army, and his job was bioweapons?
00:18:35.900You know, what happened was, for the first year of this pandemic, and Glenn, I know you know this well, we couldn't even talk about the Wuhan labs.
00:18:44.100You were called racists or conspiracy theorists for even uttering the word Wuhan lab.
00:18:48.600And I know this because I got attacked all the time, and many people like me.
00:18:52.420And the problem, of course, was that the reason that that was considered a conspiracy theorist theory was because the friends of the lab, including Peter Daszak at the EcoHealth Alliance and lots of other friends of Anthony Fauci, you know, put out a bunch of scientific papers saying the lab was totally impossible, and you're a racist, a conspiracy theorist if you mention the lab.
00:19:10.560So that's why for a year, we couldn't even have a rational conversation.
00:19:14.240We still can't have a rational conversation in a Senate hearing about how we got into this mess, about how the pandemic that killed 400, 4 million people and 630,000 Americans started, which is crucial information, by the way, for preventing the next one.
00:19:27.640In other words, if we don't figure out how this started, how are we going to prevent the next one?
00:19:32.460So the fact that in Wuhan they have a bioweapons program, bioresearch program with the military is not really a shocking thing to say after all, because of course they do, because we have one, they have one.
00:19:45.640That's what you do if you're a big country, you have a bioweapons research program.
00:19:49.180But the fact that that was also may have been linked to or they may have taken our know-how from our government-funded projects, that's a big problem.
00:19:58.260That's a big, scary thing to think about.
00:20:00.280It has implications for the entire industry of scientific collaboration, and that's Anthony Fauci's industry.
00:20:06.420He's the head of that, a part of that industry.
00:20:08.860So lots of big, powerful interests here are getting upset just by the idea of getting to the truth of this.
00:20:15.040And that's not even talking about the Chinese government cover-up.
00:20:24.100You know, so they've got a real problem here, too.
00:20:26.820So it's very easy for the Biden administration to just do a 90-day intelligence review and then come out and say, well, we couldn't figure it out.
00:20:33.500Oh, well, you know, let's all go on with our days.
00:20:35.740But that's a very dangerous path to go down.
00:20:37.860That's what Anthony Fauci would like us to do.
00:20:39.560He'd like us to say, oh, that's his new line.
00:20:41.800Oh, well, I don't know what's going on in China.
00:20:43.760But, you know, we're never going to find out.
00:21:09.120Right now, we have several congressional investigations trying to get the documents, not just, again, from Fauci, but from USAID.
00:21:15.460Why won't Anthony Blinken hand over the documents?
00:21:17.560Samantha Power, Francis Collins of the NIH.
00:21:20.240There are Pentagon documents about tens of millions of dollars that the Pentagon, the U.S. Pentagon, gave to the EcoHealth Alliance that went to these Wuhan labs.
00:21:41.600The Defense Threat Reduction Agency gave millions of dollars to the EcoHealth Alliance, and some of that went to the Wuhan labs.
00:21:48.960They were trying to, you know, cooperate with China's bio-research program, which now looks kind of crazy.
00:21:56.780Now it looks kind of, they didn't know that, but now we know that.
00:21:58.820The question is, what are we going to do going forward, and how can we even know what to do if those documents all remain secret?
00:22:04.920So we need at least one Democratic committee chairman to threaten to use the subpoena power to get those documents that are in the hands of the U.S. government.
00:22:13.560They need to release our intelligence.
00:22:15.100We don't need the Chinese Communist Party to give us permission to investigate.
00:22:19.060You wouldn't ask O.J. for permission to investigate O.J., would you?
00:22:22.980No, you would just use your powers and influence to do the investigation, whether the defendant likes it or not.
00:22:28.800The Chinese government is not going to like it, and Democrats don't want to risk upsetting the U.S.-China relationship.
00:22:34.220But I say, if you don't risk upsetting the delicate sensibilities of the Chinese Communist Party to figure out the death of 630,000 Americans, what would you risk it for?
00:22:45.140What could be more crucial to our national security and our public health?
00:22:48.880Talking to Josh Rogan, his book, Chaos Under Heaven, Trump, Xi, and the battle for the 21st century.
00:22:54.320And Josh, I want to focus on the last part here for a second.
00:22:56.500You look at China and what's happened over the past just few years, where they're cracking down on capitalists, businessmen are disappearing.
00:23:06.880They're cracking down on crypto and removing that from the country, obviously expanding the Uyghurs and all the problems there, the issues with Hong Kong and the way that that has changed.
00:23:17.640It just strikes me as there is a massive change in the way this country is dealing with the world.
00:23:25.300Over just the past few years, we've always thought of China as a threat and there's problems there.
00:23:30.040We've never agreed with them on human rights and all these things.
00:23:33.080Am I correct to detect a real change, though, in momentum and direction over the past couple of years?
00:23:39.780I like to refer to it as the great leap backward.
00:23:42.240You know, it's clear that Xi Jinping, in his first couple of years, when he came in in 2013, said about consolidating power,
00:23:48.500purging all of his rivals under a false corruption, anti-corruption plan, shutting down freedoms, building concentration camps.
00:23:57.560And once he had all that in place, he turned his focus to the rest of the world.
00:24:01.040And that's a big part of the book, is how the Chinese Communist Party has expanded its interference and influence in free and open societies, especially ours,
00:24:09.140how they've sought to influence our schools and our markets and our tech companies and our sports and our Hollywood movies
00:24:15.980and how all the various institutions of U.S. society have been slow to react to that reality.
00:24:23.020But they're waking up to it now as, you know, the pandemic ravages the whole world and we see what China's power really looks like.
00:24:31.300And I think that awakening is happening in other countries as they're getting blackmailed about for Chinese vaccines
00:24:37.080or told that their companies can't do business in China unless they ignore the genocide or ignore the crackdown in Hong Kong.
00:24:44.800And yet here in America, our Justice Department is dismissing, you know, all of the Chinese military spies that were in our in our institutions.
00:24:55.860We're just a missing a dismissing the charges, not not continuing with an investigation and setting them free.
00:26:34.740We will probably have you on early and often about China as they they have risen.
00:26:40.460And I think we're already with ones and zeros at war with them.
00:26:48.220This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:54.180I've got a big charity weekend coming up on Friday.
00:26:59.160I'm going to be Friday morning broadcasting from St. George, one of the most beautiful towns you've ever seen.
00:27:06.380Quick conservatives flock to St. George, buy a place in St. George because all these California people are going to move in and they're going to destroy this great little town.
00:27:17.440Anyway, I'm going to be there not saying things like that on Friday to encourage people to rise up.
00:27:25.560Last year, Operation Underground Railroad had a campaign to rise up for children and stand against sex slaves and trafficking, human trafficking and just slaves in general.
00:27:41.280I don't know. I think it's something we can all do.
00:27:43.880Everybody is, you know, wanting to get out in the streets.
00:27:47.280This is one thing that we can all agree on.