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00:01:30.240 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I don't know much how much we pay Julio,

00:01:45.240 but I think we should probably pay him a little more. He's in Chicago, and he was in the crowd

00:01:51.220 yesterday with the protesters. Julio Rosas, welcome to the program.

00:01:56.100 Yeah, thanks for having me, Glenn. You bet. So what did you experience yesterday? We're going to

00:02:03.660 roll some of the video that you had taken yesterday, but what did you experience?

00:02:10.660 So yesterday was the first official march on the DNC. This is something that a lot of groups have been

00:02:16.820 planning for months. They made it very clear that they wanted to disrupt the DNC, or at least try to.

00:02:24.400 And so they started at a park a couple blocks away from the United Center. They made their way.

00:02:31.360 Things were fine. There wasn't anything crazy happening until they got to a park where the park

00:02:39.000 had the security perimeter fencing that goes all around the United Center, which is where the DNC is

00:02:46.720 being hosted. And at that point, the police that had been walking alongside them went to the edges of

00:02:54.780 the park. And so because of that, the crowd had free access to the perimeter fencing. Probably about

00:03:03.360 15 minutes, 15, 30 minutes after the crowd arrived at the park, they started to shake and tear down the

00:03:11.060 fence. And I have to be honest, you know, these aren't people who, it doesn't look like a lot of

00:03:16.120 these people go to the gym. So I didn't think it'd be possible for them to do that because this is a

00:03:19.820 pretty sturdy fencing. But because it is temporary, they were actually able to tear down multiple

00:03:26.840 sections of the perimeter fence. And so they were able to get closer to the second fence, which was not

00:03:34.460 nearly as durable as the first. And they were trying to tear that down. Police had to come in

00:03:40.380 to prevent them from doing that. And probably about 30 minutes after people streamed into the

00:03:46.220 breaches, that's when a large contingent of Chicago police came in to force everybody back out. And

00:03:53.080 there were at least two arrests that took place there. After people were out, then even more Chicago

00:04:00.640 police came in to clear everybody from the park because so much damage was done to the perimeter

00:04:05.440 that they needed to secure the area in order to allow people to fix the breaches.

00:04:12.280 So what are you expecting to happen? Because when I heard that, you know, they're trying to recreate

00:04:18.560 1968, which will go very poorly for the Democrats. And, you know, they had riots on the streets in

00:04:27.660 Chicago and police brutality, yada, yada, yada. But it, the American people saw it and they said,

00:04:34.460 I don't want any part of any of this stuff. And that could happen again. Do you think that this has

00:04:41.060 kind of taught them that there's no way to get in and so they're going to behave or is it going to get

00:04:46.360 worse?

00:04:47.920 I mean, I think they view it as a victory. Like I said, the fact that they were able to breach the

00:04:53.040 fence in multiple places is pretty significant. I think, I think it's going to be great.

00:04:57.660 Some of them to kind of keep doing what they're doing. And so I think it remains to be seen what

00:05:03.220 happens. I think the, I think the biggest night for potential disruption and violence is Thursday

00:05:09.640 when Vice President Harris officially accepts the nomination because they, they take credit. I mean,

00:05:15.560 the pro-Palestinian, pro-Khamas crowd takes credit for Biden no longer being on the top of the

00:05:22.560 ticket. They say it's because of their pressure. That's why he's no longer the nominee.

00:05:27.380 As opposed to his disastrous debate a couple months ago. So they, they, they have, they definitely

00:05:32.660 have an inflated sense of, of, of ego in terms of what they're able to do and what they've

00:05:38.980 accomplished so far. So, uh, you know, we got, we got the rest of the week. Um, and I think,

00:05:45.300 you know, Monday, yesterday was, uh, the reason why they were out at noon was because they wanted to

00:05:51.500 really make a big show that they were out there and they, they don't want their demands to be ignored.

00:05:57.560 So what time do you go online? You cause you're a, you can, you can watch this on your sub stack,

00:06:02.220 mostly peaceful dot live, right?

00:06:05.640 Yes. Yes, that is correct.

00:06:07.160 Yeah. Okay. Um, so what time are you going back out today?

00:06:10.220 So there, there's another protest, uh, at the Israeli consulate here in Chicago,

00:06:16.340 that's scheduled for 7 PM. Um, that one is being organized by a group that is explicitly calling

00:06:22.640 to make this week. Great. Like 1968, that's kind of their slogan. Um, and yeah, which, which is

00:06:29.040 interesting, which is, you know, why would you want to kind of recreate the conditions to where,

00:06:32.780 you know, your side gets absolutely, uh, beat down by the, I wouldn't really look at it as a

00:06:39.280 success. But again, at the same time, they kind of view it as the view 1968 as a propaganda win.

00:06:45.180 Um, because when people talk about 1968, they talk about, Oh, how horrible it was for the police to,

00:06:51.100 you know, crack down on rioters and everything. Right. Um, it certainly would have been interesting

00:06:55.300 to have been there for that, but that's cause I'm, I'm a sick individual when it comes to that,

00:06:59.780 but it speaks, but it speaks to, it speaks to how even back then they were, they used the media to,

00:07:06.240 to their advantage to say, Oh, well, actually it's their fault, not our fault.

00:07:09.160 I think that I've had. Um, so I, so, you know, looking for, for, for this week and for later

00:07:14.620 today, there, there is stuff planned, um, just because again, they want to make sure that this

00:07:19.940 is their time to, to crash and ruin the Democrats party because they're not listening to them.

00:07:27.540 Julio, thank you so much. Stay safe this week, William.

00:07:31.140 Yes. Thank you.

00:07:32.620 All right. Thank you. Um, blaze, uh, media national correspondent, uh, Julio Rosa.

00:07:39.060 Um, so I don't know if you've seen, uh, what the Capitol research center has put out, but they

00:07:46.520 have, they have a very narrow, uh, definition of extremist extremist groups are only designated

00:07:57.140 extremist groups. If they have documented ties or publicly expressed support for terrorism or terrorist

00:08:06.020 groups, ties to, or publicly expressed solidarity with hostile foreign governments and, or support

00:08:12.800 for anarchism, uh, Marxism or communism. Okay. That's the deal. So how many of those groups

00:08:22.020 are in Chicago right now, at least 279 extremist groups are now on the streets as part of this

00:08:32.980 coalition to March on the DNC in Chicago, separate coalition that is publicly planning disruptions

00:08:39.780 at the convention, several Chicago based Islamic groups that are also involved in the efforts,

00:08:45.800 but are not officially enlisted in any coalition of the 229 groups involved in the anti-DNC efforts,

00:08:54.840 162 or 71% qualify as an extremist group. At least 147 of the anti-DNC groups have expressed support.

00:09:06.020 147 of these groups have expressed support for, or have ties to terrorist groups or terrorist attacks,

00:09:16.560 but a handful of those 147 groups have ties to, or publicly support Hamas and, uh, and, or the

00:09:25.940 terrorist attacks on Israel, uh, on October 7th. Hamas allied and Iran backed Marxist Leninist terror

00:09:34.840 groups. Also on the ground, the popular front for liberation of Palestine, they have strong direct

00:09:40.840 links to a coalition that is openly planning to replicate the violent 1968 democratic convention.

00:09:47.240 Um, the majority of the identified extremist groups are linked to, or have expressed solidarity with at

00:09:53.320 least one of the nine foreign governments hostile to the United States, including Iran, China,

00:09:59.880 Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Pakistan, and Nicaragua. The extremist groups also have ties

00:10:09.320 to or expressed support for 19 foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah,

00:10:15.880 the Houthis, the Iranian revolutionary guard core, the PFLP Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic resistance

00:10:24.760 in Iraq, the lion's den, the democratic front for the liberation of Palestine, the Muslim brotherhood,

00:10:31.640 Jamaat is, uh, Islami, uh, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Marxist terrorists from Puerto Rico, Islamist terrorists 0.89

00:10:40.600 in Sudan, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, uh, his, Hezbollah-e-Mahajin, Duktarhan-e-Malat, and the communist party of the

00:10:54.520 Philippines, the new people's party. The coalition to march on the DC, uh, DNC's official statement

00:11:01.000 and website content explicitly supports Hamas and the atrocities committed on October 7th.

00:11:07.800 A group's official involvement in the coalition is a very strong indication that they are a supporter

00:11:13.120 of terrorism. A large portion of the extremist groups have engaged in, endorsed, or attempted to

00:11:22.360 assist acts of violence, property destruction, economic sabotage on the U.S. soil, and if

00:11:28.680 justifiably described as acts of terrorism. The monitoring of the mainstream media coverage

00:11:34.840 of the protests found almost a universal failure to inform readers or watchers about the pro-terrorism

00:11:42.360 stances of the groups and the activists mentioned and quoted in the news articles and on-air segments.

00:11:48.280 That's quite a list. That seems, uh, I don't know, maybe dangerous and something people should

00:11:56.760 point out. What do you think, Stu?

00:11:59.200 You think that's, you think that's worth pointing out? I mean, I don't want to get extreme here. You sound like a,

00:12:04.680 uh, some sort of a nutjob protester there with that sort of request. 0.71

00:12:10.280 But look at the, look at the groups. These are all the enemies, the worst of the worst,

00:12:17.640 and they are 60% of them, they say, are from foreign countries. 60% of these people coming in to,

00:12:26.360 on the streets of Chicago are from foreign countries. This is foreign interference from our 1.00

00:12:33.160 greatest enemies. And the Democrats are playing footsie with them. Yeah. I mean,

00:12:40.120 they should be denouncing them from the state. Yes, that should be not, not handing them their,

00:12:44.920 the, their chosen vice presidential pick. That's certainly not the direction to go. I mean,

00:12:49.180 if you think about it that way, the reason why Tim Walls is the vice presidential candidate is to

00:12:55.600 appease these groups. They specifically picked him because they were worried about these protests

00:13:01.340 and worried this stuff would flare up. Yes. So they gave them exactly what they wanted. And what

00:13:06.300 happens, Glenn, when you give terrorists and terrorist supporters exactly what they want?

00:13:12.560 They demand more and get stronger and louder and more dangerous. And you incentivize them.

00:13:17.980 And closer to you. Right. You incentivize them to do more of this. And so this is what they have to

00:13:21.780 deal with. I mean, they have made this bed and they now have to lie in it. So let me just,

00:13:27.740 now that you know who these protesters are and you know, the reaction of the, uh, Harris, uh, campaign

00:13:35.480 to embrace and get closer. Do you think she's qualified to be commander in chief? 0.99

00:13:42.740 Do you think sitting down at a negotiating table with Iran, South Korea, China, Putin,

00:13:51.300 that she'd be able to actually bring peace to the world?

00:13:59.460 This is the most dangerous time in our country's history. This is more dangerous than the civil war

00:14:06.760 because we have nuclear weapons pointed at us.

00:14:10.720 We not only have the chance of civil war in this country, we are looking at global annihilation as

00:14:20.160 well. If we're not careful, my gosh, I just, you know, nobody is, nobody's pointing anything out

00:14:31.940 in the media, the mainstream media. It was all bunny rabbits and, and Easter flowers from the networks

00:14:39.660 yesterday and they intentionally hid Joe Biden. They intentionally, I mean, you don't go 90 minutes

00:14:47.400 late for the president of the United States. They pushed him out of prime time on the East coast.

00:14:53.780 And that was intentional. They're hiding him. Nobody wants to see him anymore. He's now on vacation

00:15:03.940 in California. And I, I hope his health stays really, really strong. But again, I ask who's running

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00:16:18.320 compare and contrast here for a second. Last month, while covering the Republican national convention,

00:16:24.140 the Washington post published a piece filled with contempt for the rich, the corporate bigwigs

00:16:31.400 that were flocking to Milwaukee to rub shoulders with Donald Trump. Now you could have said this

00:16:38.000 maybe 20 years ago, 25 years ago that, you know, wall street and big business was in the pocket of the

00:16:46.260 Republicans. You cannot say that anymore. You just can't. All of the corporations,

00:16:54.080 are all part of the W E F and this global public private partnership that Biden and Harris have been

00:17:02.060 pushing. In the article during the RNC, they described the oil and gas executives and the

00:17:09.680 crypto backers and powerful Republican politicians having hushed conversations in fancy luxury suites

00:17:17.460 about alleged tax breaks that apparently Donald Trump is only going to provide to America's most

00:17:23.860 wealthy. The image they painted was greedy, evil businessmen making back alley deals in dark rooms.

00:17:31.560 After all, the post would remind you democracy dies in darkness.

00:17:36.300 But even if the post description of the RNC attendees was completely accurate,

00:17:44.040 I'd still take rich CEOs over the groups invading the DNC in Chicago this week,

00:17:50.280 which unsurprisingly, the post and others have failed to cover. Last hour, we told you who these

00:17:58.060 people were. And it is terrifying. It is every terrorist group on the planet is on the streets in Chicago.

00:18:10.160 But is anybody going to say anything about it? No, no. You know, there's, it's very hard to make

00:18:17.820 Planned Parenthood look good, but those protesters do. But what are they calling for? One's calling for

00:18:26.480 Jewish blood, and the other is calling for baby blood. This is a blood death cult. That's all it is. 0.99

00:18:36.020 Planned Parenthood was parked outside with buses providing free vasectomies and abortions for those

00:18:43.540 who are lucky enough to sign up before all the spots were filled. I mean, how many abortions can you do

00:18:49.960 in a bus in one day? I don't know. Conservative media reacted to the news with shock and disgust,

00:18:56.280 libs of TikTok called Planned Parenthood's efforts demonic. It is. The pro-life group Students for Life

00:19:03.400 said this proves the far left is, quote, the party of death. That is true. But free abortions really 0.69

00:19:10.840 shouldn't be all that shocking. After all, pro-abortion groups like Aid Access, run by a team

00:19:16.720 of European doctors, has been mailing abortion pills to women in all 50 states for as low as 100 bucks for

00:19:23.040 years. The party's nominated VP candidate signed a bill into law last year that removes the requirement

00:19:31.840 for doctors to use all reasonable measures to preserve the life and health of a baby who survives

00:19:38.640 an abortion attempt. Born, born outside of the mother's body. There is no health for the mother you have to 1.00

00:19:46.240 worry about anymore. And the nominee for the president, Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:19:53.240 made, I think, a Freudian slip of the tongue. Do we have the reduce the population clip by any chance?

00:20:03.360 Maybe it was a mistake for the prompter. Maybe. Maybe she accidentally said the quiet part out loud.

00:20:12.360 I think it was Freudian. She said, she said this, listen. When we invest in clean energy and electric

00:20:20.460 vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.

00:20:27.900 Freudian slip. Freudian slip. She said, she said reduce population, but I'm sure the prompter said

00:20:35.500 reduce pollution. But that is part of the deal. Listen to Bill Gates. We have to reduce the population.

00:20:47.500 This is a death cult.

00:20:49.000 Now the left is revealed. It's no longer just the party of killing babies. 0.99

00:20:56.240 They're also the party of eliminating the possibility of them at all.

00:21:02.220 J.D. Vance received immense backlash from the left recently calling out the childless cat ladies running the

00:21:10.220 Democratic Party. But he's right. Democratic voters are more likely to not have children by choice.

00:21:17.340 Not due to medical reasons or the inability to conceive, but by choice than the Republican

00:21:23.700 counterparts. There was a University of Chicago poll that was conducted in 2022. They found 38% of

00:21:30.200 Democrats had no children compared to 26% of those on the right. 38 to 26. But like Planned Parenthood's

00:21:40.960 free abortions, it shouldn't be surprising. This has been an ongoing movement pushed by the left for

00:21:46.360 decades. There was an op-ed published by the New York Times in 1990. William A. Burley argued that

00:21:56.420 quote, having fewer children means a better life and a healthier environment. He wrote this truth

00:22:03.680 should be taught to our kids, which unfortunately he was in the perfect position to do as the principal

00:22:09.520 of an elementary school in New Milford, Connecticut, teaching yesterday's millennials, who are now 0.99

00:22:16.640 reproducing today at staggering low levels, that having kids in their future adult years is a death

00:22:23.500 sentence for personal freedom. So the Washington examiner, Timothy Carney, wrote that a decade or two

00:22:31.500 after Burley's op-ed was published, New Milford, Connecticut, has suffered such a decline in birth rate

00:22:39.200 that it closed its family birthing center. Student population at the high school dropped so much

00:22:45.860 that the JV and varsity football teams had to combine to field a team. A shutdown of the community

00:22:54.020 center building now hosts a Howl-o-ween parade for dogs. This is happening all throughout the country.

00:23:04.400 On TikTok in 23, the term DINK resurfaced from the late 1980s, which stands for dual income, no kids.

00:23:13.540 That year, DINK videos of child-free parents bragging about the ample time and money they have

00:23:18.920 to travel and eat at nice restaurants surpassed 33 million views.

00:23:25.780 One of the TikTokers who posts DINK vlogs for her over 100,000 followers said in one video, 0.61

00:23:33.600 we don't have kids to feed. We've got lots of money to spend on goodies while showing her and her 0.98

00:23:39.140 husband shopping at Costco. The glamorizing on social media of the decision not to reproduce

00:23:45.620 may be enough to push thousands of potential parents grappling with the decision to decide

00:23:51.680 child-free is the way to go.

00:23:55.720 How different would fertility rates look today if TikTok videos romanticized parenthood instead?

00:24:02.280 So while the child-free lifestyle rises in popularity, the popularity of just being around

00:24:10.360 kids plummets. Major league sports stadiums now have family sections as if kids don't belong with

00:24:16.900 the rest of us. In vitriolic backlash against social media famous parents who sacrifice their

00:24:24.020 own dreams for the sake of their kids, like Ballerina Farm, that continues to grow. So what is the reason

00:24:30.680 behind all of this? Surely a political party starving for power and control would realize it needs a future

00:24:41.060 populist to carry the torch. But they're aborting their own future voters. That party also stands 0.87

00:24:50.640 directly alongside globalists who want freedom thinkers to have as little power as possible. And having

00:24:57.700 kids gives you just that. Having and raising kids gives parents something to live for beyond

00:25:03.900 themselves. It requires them to reflect on the future and the kind of country they want for their

00:25:09.900 kids and what citizenship means and how to teach that. It gives them a reason to fight. It gives them

00:25:18.260 ownership.

00:25:18.960 I'm not saying kids are property. They're living beings with their own individual needs, personalities, and

00:25:27.340 desires. But raising them gives parents the kind of autonomous power that globalist governments do not want

00:25:34.840 citizens to have in any shape or form. Whether it's financial freedom in owning a home or the intellectual

00:25:41.540 freedom in knowing that my kid is mine and you can't force me to teach her the dark principles and

00:25:48.820 beliefs of the far left. They are teaching so brazenly in schools and everywhere. But still they try

00:25:59.000 through educational indoctrination as soon as a child is big enough to don a backpack. But at the end of

00:26:06.720 the day the far left knows that indoctrinating the sacred home where the parents have complete control

00:26:13.240 over the lessons and the principles that they choose to shape their kids is much it's a much bigger

00:26:18.660 battle in a tougher battle. So why fight the fight when you can just eliminate the kids?

00:26:25.540 You will own nothing and be happy. You will raise no one and you will be happy. He'll be happier just

00:26:34.960 as the dink couple. Extra money to spend on gifts and lavish trips around the world they say. 0.98

00:26:41.180 You will have the freedom to stay up late. You will roll back and forth in bed just screaming

00:26:47.260 freedom!

00:26:52.560 But like so much of the far left claims the opposite is true.

00:26:58.240 I don't know what will convince people of the lies that they're buying into. So many of

00:27:10.880 them just last night. Stunning lies. Provable lies. But you see they're counting on their voter

00:27:23.320 and they've laid the groundwork. They don't trust that just stupid is enough. They need you to hate 1.00

00:27:40.920 Donald Trump more than your personal finances. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than open borders.

00:27:54.280 They need you to hate Donald Trump more than fentanyl and drugs on our streets and our children being 0.94

00:28:00.340 killed by illegals. The drug cartels are now running. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than hotel

00:28:07.620 rooms while vets on the streets. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than notice the people who 0.59

00:28:15.620 are strung out on drugs in our streets which are decaying every day. They need you to hate Donald Trump

00:28:22.200 more than communism. War. Possibility of nuclear war.

00:28:30.440 They need you to hate Donald Trump more than this cult of death.

00:28:33.780 I don't know. When we get into the ballot box, all of us as Americans, do they, do Americans actually

00:28:46.300 hate Donald Trump more than what's in their own best interest? You're listening to the best of Glenn

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00:29:00.840 Gerald Posner is an investigative journalist, Pulitzer finalist. He's the author of 13 bestselling

00:29:06.420 books, including Mengele, Case Closed, Why America Slept, God's Bankers, Pharma. And what was the one you

00:29:14.380 were mentioning, Stu? Hitler's children. Yeah. Gerald, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

00:29:21.020 Glenn, great to be with you. You know, and I and I listened to your lead in when you said, you know,

00:29:25.760 what is the Secret Service doing about the hundreds of groups and the tens of thousands of radical and

00:29:31.340 extreme demonstrators in front of the building? You know, one of the things I worry about is that the

00:29:36.760 recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which exposed sort of how the paper tiger of the

00:29:44.480 Secret Service, how they were not the James Bonds of the world that they had been, we'd been led to

00:29:50.880 believe in some ways, might encourage a copycat, might encourage somebody else who's on the edge to

00:29:58.000 realize that the system is vulnerable and vulnerable is with a capital V. So, Gerald, I mean, you've looked

00:30:09.920 at the Kennedy case, Martin Luther King, you've studied that for years and years to do case closed

00:30:18.340 very, very thorough. When you look back, there were so many conspiracy theories on that. And that's

00:30:30.660 because there were some things that just didn't seem right at the time, like Oswald being shot right

00:30:35.180 after. This is conspiracy central, because everything the government is doing, everything that the

00:30:44.220 Secret Service is doing, the FBI, is not normal. And if you don't want conspiracy theories, they're acting

00:30:53.240 exactly the wrong way. And so I don't know what's fact and what's theory. I don't know how to process

00:31:01.260 this with a government that you don't trust. Yeah, you're exactly right. Look, you hit the nail on the

00:31:07.140 head. The government in this case is not only, you know, hiding the information from the American

00:31:14.680 public, from investigators, from researchers. We're getting some members in Congress who are

00:31:20.100 getting whistleblowers who are coming forward. That's not the way to get information on when the

00:31:24.720 former president of the United States came within an inch of being killed. They should have learned

00:31:30.020 from the Kennedy assassination. They didn't. They should have learned from the King assassination.

00:31:33.160 Cover-ups do not work well. And it doesn't have to be the cover-up of a murder. It's just the cover-up

00:31:38.800 of the truth. They hide things. They keep documents back. They have communications here that they say

00:31:44.540 they didn't hold on to. There's a whole series of things. They've stonewalled from the beginning. And

00:31:48.860 Glenn, we became accustomed over time on these things, whether it was 9-11 or whether it was a

00:31:54.620 Cat 5 hurricane that came in or an earthquake. The government has these round-the-clock

00:32:00.400 news conferences in which people from FEMA and the FBI and whatever else, they hold the conferences.

00:32:06.040 If the investigators can't say something because it's under investigation, they'll say,

00:32:09.960 I'm sorry, I can't comment on that now. But here's what we can tell you. And here they went into a

00:32:14.080 silo. They didn't say anything at all. And, you know, not until we saw the former, you know,

00:32:19.380 disgraced Secret Service director get subpoenaed before Congress or she wouldn't have even been there 1.00

00:32:24.220 and then stonewalled them that day. No wonder people are skeptical about what happened. And

00:32:29.720 one last thing, I think, you know, you had a key thing when you said the Kennedy and King

00:32:33.720 assassinations, which I have studied. One of the things that they have in common with this

00:32:38.340 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which raises questions from the get-go, is you have a

00:32:44.100 shooter with a rifle shooting from a long distance. In most assassinations, we're accustomed to

00:32:49.740 somebody running up to the person they want to kill, like Sirhan Sirhan on Bobby Kennedy, or when

00:32:54.820 Wallace was shot by Bremer, or, you know, Ronald Reagan is shot by Hinckley. We know who the shooter

00:33:00.100 is. It doesn't answer the question of whether it was a conspiracy. Did they do it with somebody else

00:33:04.240 or were they a gun? But you know the person with the gun. Here, you have a shot from a distance with

00:33:10.800 a rifle, which immediately conjures up all the ideas for people who've seen, you know, Day of the

00:33:15.940 Jackal, some hired assassin, something more to it. And so I think that that adds to the overall

00:33:21.840 conspiracy speculation from moment one. So we also know now that two days before they said they were

00:33:30.000 going to increase Donald Trump's protection because they had stumbled upon a plot to kill him through a

00:33:37.780 Pakistani with ties to Iran, who was supposed to set it up and then leave before the assassination.

00:33:45.920 And they arrested him at the airport the day before the assassination. But then we find out not only did

00:33:53.300 they not increase, they actually decreased from four snipers to two. Yeah. Amazing. No, no, it's the type

00:34:03.900 of stuff that leaves you just shaking your head and say, no, that can't be true. And we now know that

00:34:09.920 that was the first time in the Trump campaign that there were snipers at a rally. So before that,

00:34:15.880 the Secret Service hadn't even provided the snipers. Imagine if this assassination attempt had been

00:34:21.980 successful and the snipers weren't there. People would be we'd be asking for people to go to jail.

00:34:27.540 And you're you're right about they've had a threat from a terror state that they know

00:34:33.420 they understand somebody's trying to kill the former president. They still have not upgraded

00:34:39.960 the security to be as great as it would be as if he was the sitting president. They actually cut it

00:34:45.360 down. We now know for two years before this, when the Trump campaign was asking for additional

00:34:51.760 security for different events, they were turned down repeatedly, something the Secret Service had first

00:34:56.300 denied and then had to admit when four whistleblowers told that to the Washington Post, Washington Post,

00:35:02.860 no friend of Donald Trump. They even reported that. And so here's a case in which we have them doing

00:35:08.080 less security, not providing it, notwithstanding the fact that there was a foreign threat to the

00:35:13.560 president as well. So what does your gut tell you? Hey, my gut tells me that we're going to find,

00:35:21.660 I think, I think, at the very least, like we did with Peter Strzok and the FBI when they were doing

00:35:28.100 the, you know, the fake investigation about Russia and the Russian dossier. And later Strzok's found

00:35:34.780 to have had emails to Lisa Page that says, I can't stand that guy, Trump. And he shows all of his bias

00:35:41.980 and how the investigation was paid. I'd be very surprised if we do not get emails, maybe official

00:35:49.540 emails within on government servers or private emails in eventual government investigations. If

00:35:55.060 the Republicans take the house, keep the house in November, we will have those inquiries in which

00:36:01.760 senior Secret Service members or maybe even those operational details for some of the rallies that

00:36:07.160 Donald Trump was at are saying very, very bad things about the former president. And that is going

00:36:12.220 to call into question. And we think of the Secret Service as being apolitical. It doesn't mean you don't

00:36:16.440 have a feeling about who you vote for. You go to the election ballot and you cast a ballot,

00:36:20.340 but you're protecting everybody. You're giving up your life for the candidate that you're protecting.

00:36:25.300 And if we start to think that they had tipped the scale because they didn't like the person they

00:36:30.740 were supposed to protect, and they may have been lax to allow somebody like a crooks, the 20-year-old

00:36:37.740 shooter, to get off a shot, then it's going to cause a real ruckus.

00:36:42.340 You know, Gerald, has it always been like this? And I've just been naive. I mean, I've always

00:36:50.020 looked up to Secret Service guys. I've seen them protect dirtbags and know that some of those guys

00:36:59.340 don't like these guys. And I mean foreign dirtbags, not just American. And they'd risk their life for 1.00

00:37:07.080 these guys. And I've always looked up to them. And I don't know. Is this new? Or has it always been

00:37:14.180 this way?

00:37:15.420 No, I think that, look, and you see this very, very well in your report on it as well, how polarized

00:37:23.260 we are as a country. And it seems to me that that has infected the bureaucracy in many ways.

00:37:31.680 We talk about the politicization of the FBI. And if we think of that as the CIA and the intelligence

00:37:39.040 services and the State Department, why should we be surprised? It's not as though there was a wall

00:37:43.380 up that kept that virus from going over to Secret Service. But I do think, to what you said, that

00:37:49.280 most of the agents, the vast majority of the agents in the field, what I call the close protection,

00:37:55.560 those who are responsible for actually throwing themselves on top of a candidate if they hear gunshots,

00:38:00.980 as those agents did, who were close to the stage. And they are putting themselves in the line of a

00:38:08.760 bullet for all they know. Now, one of the things we all said, Glenn, when we saw that play out was it

00:38:15.840 was very visible that when they lifted, you know, the former president gets back on his feet and

00:38:20.880 they're starting to move in a cauldron around him back to the car. They have that circle around that

00:38:25.680 close protective circle. They don't know if there's a second shooter, if the shooter who's originally

00:38:30.320 gotten off, the shots is still active. And we see two of the agents who are full head shorter than

00:38:36.820 the president. The old way of doing it was that you assigned Secret Service agents for the close

00:38:42.580 protection who at least were the same size as the candidate you were covering. Right. So that if

00:38:47.720 you're trying to get the candidate out of there and somebody's shooting, they're going to hit an

00:38:51.040 agent, not the candidate. If the former president was being moved out from Butler, from that rally,

00:38:58.120 after that failed shot and was then killed by a second shooter because the agents were too short,

00:39:05.380 could you imagine what we would be doing in this country? It would be it would turn it just it

00:39:10.960 would turn things upside down. I think that day, I mean, you you saw it. I was I saw it right after it

00:39:18.380 happened. And it just just clipped his ear because he moved. If if he wouldn't have moved, it would

00:39:26.660 have been John F. Kennedy live on television. I think that could have put us in civil war.

00:39:32.760 No, you're right. And I tell you that we now know, which we didn't at that time, that now we see all

00:39:41.920 the videos. You know, one of the great things, the difference from the Kennedy or King assassination

00:39:46.100 is people have what you expect, cell phone videos. They're they're taping the rally. They're there.

00:39:51.240 And what's amazing is that 140 yards away from the stage where Donald Trump is taking the stage at

00:39:57.460 6 p.m. and then speaking are a group of people, you know, regular rally goers who've gone out that

00:40:03.400 day to see the former president saying, hey, there he is. There he is. See him. He's rolling over.

00:40:07.760 He's there. Hey, officer. Hey, officer. And and that you have to put yourself for half a second

00:40:13.780 into the shooter, the 20 year old kid who has practiced a lot of the range. He's got this

00:40:19.620 deranged idea that he's going to kill the former president. But he's expecting he's found this spot. 0.99

00:40:26.000 You know, he wants to get to the top. He has his range finder. He tried to get through the perimeter

00:40:30.180 and they turned him away. He's climbed onto the roof of the building. He's managed to get his gun up

00:40:35.860 there and he's ready to try to pull off this assassination. Now he gets spotted for this

00:40:41.040 minute and a half, two minutes beforehand. People are yelling and he can hear that clearly.

00:40:45.760 They're down there. They're they're calling him out. They're pointing to him. So that has to add

00:40:50.120 some adrenaline to the whole mix. And then a police officer gets to the top of the roof.

00:40:56.280 Right. Right. Before he starts to fire, he looks over and that officer drops down. But

00:41:01.220 it had to rush the shooting a little bit. He had to be under the pressure of knowing

00:41:06.500 it's closing in on him. And so we talk about, you know, the difference between getting off that shot

00:41:13.620 and it hits the former president and kills him or not could also be those moments of chaos that are

00:41:20.360 playing out away from the stage that just made enough of the difference.

00:41:23.560 Na na na na na.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 20, 2024

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