Glenn Beck talks about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Baghdad, the attack in Benghazi, the assassination of our president, the Epstein suicide note, the Star Wars review, and a tribute to Don Imus.
00:00:00.000Hey, welcome back. I mean, I guess to me, you've been here. But thank you so much for tuning into today's podcast. We have a lot to talk about. We're going to talk a little bit about the guy we killed in Baghdad. You know, that's just Donald Trump going crazy.
00:00:15.580The Epstein suicide note, Star Wars review, the review of the movie 1917. Surprisingly, I'm a Seahawks fan as well as we find out in this episode.
00:00:29.300Steve Dace will talk about politics and what's really happening on the ground in Iowa and a tribute to Don Imus. All on today's podcast.
00:00:45.580You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:53.680We're going to war. It's World War Three. Maybe, maybe not. Let's let's let's not count our chickens before they hatch here.
00:01:05.580Let's talk a little bit here. I'm going to next hour really get into who is this guy that we killed?
00:01:11.780Why did we kill him? What do we know about him?
00:01:16.840Was this just something that, you know, Donald Trump did just half cocked or perhaps is this something that was coming for a long time?
00:01:26.560And yet no one seemed to understand the signs that Donald Trump was showing starting.
00:02:18.400However, I don't think that they would take on America knowingly.
00:02:25.040So, in other words, them sending a missile, you know, from a ship off the off our coast or whatever or, you know, blowing up the presidential motorcade or, you know, they're threatening the White House.
00:02:38.500I just don't see them doing that directly as a state because we would wipe them off the face of the earth within an hour.
00:02:47.360They kill our president and Americans, no matter no matter what Hollywood is saying today.
00:05:42.400I mean, it used to be every single year.
00:05:43.980I don't know if they're still doing it.
00:05:45.080But they would propose a draft every single year because their little philosophy that not enough white people, I think, are on the front lines.
00:05:55.440They need to turn everything into race.
00:05:57.880But that is something that the Democrats have been talking about for a very long time.
00:06:17.560Yes, he was a high-level official who was organizing attacks against our troops in the country where we have an authorized military action.
00:06:24.820He's also not responsive to the people.
00:06:30.380He does not fall under the elected government.
00:06:35.680That's the thing that you have to understand.
00:06:38.120There is an elected government of Iran.
00:06:41.840And then above that, there is the Supreme Council.
00:06:45.220And the Supreme Council doesn't answer to the elected officials.
00:06:49.680In fact, they're the ones orchestrating what all of the officials are doing and who can run and who could be a legitimate candidate.
00:07:00.020But this guy in particular, he only answers to the Supreme Council, which is all of the crazy mullahs.
00:07:07.240He doesn't answer, doesn't have to talk to, doesn't have to report to, doesn't have anything to do with the elected government.
00:07:13.500So what you're talking about is a guy who is rogue, who's listening to religious zealots, and he's going around the world setting up ways to kill people and to kill Americans, to kill anybody that stands in the way of the Iranian idea of a new caliphate.
00:07:33.500I love how they keep bringing in the, look, we've had intelligence failures before.
00:07:39.780And, you know, who knows what this has got.
00:07:41.680They're saying there was an imminent attack.
00:07:43.280And there's been these, you know, remember the Iraq War?
00:07:46.620You went into that and you had nothing.
00:07:48.240And it's like, well, I guess theoretically this is possible.
00:07:51.200But let's investigate this for a second.
00:08:39.960He would have been in Acapulco before the missiles started coming.
00:08:44.040So you can't do that with this administration.
00:08:47.180They will leak against him on anything.
00:08:49.300And you have to be guarding that side of it if you're Donald Trump at this point.
00:08:54.240This is what happens when you can't work together on anything.
00:08:59.940When there is nothing sacred and it's all about destroying a president.
00:09:04.640When it's all about destroying a president, that's what you get.
00:09:07.940The president can't trust you, can't talk to you, can't bring you in for advice and counsel, just has to do it without you.
00:09:16.720Because he knows that anything he says in private will immediately be leaked if they either disagree with it or think that they can get a political leg up.
00:09:30.360And Trump has to follow the law whether he thinks people are leaking against him anyway.
00:09:34.640But what he doesn't have to do is follow every little traditional disclosure that friends used to give each other back in the day where they would go out and have drinks at the fancy steakhouse after work.
00:11:29.640Yeah, it's interesting because, really, this story was out there for such a long time.
00:11:33.500Conservatives complained about it for years and years and years that Jeffrey Epstein was, you know, the normal target was Bill Clinton that he was hanging out with.
00:11:41.300And nobody in the media cared about this story.
00:11:44.400Eventually, we got to a point in which the guy who gave the sweetheart deal to Epstein was in the Trump administration.
00:11:53.000And at that point, thousands of reporters swamped to the scene to figure out exactly what happened.
00:12:01.420And some of the reporting, honestly, has been really, really good.
00:12:03.600I mean, the Miami Herald probably at the top of that list.
00:12:05.960But there's been some excellent reporting on this.
00:12:07.840And now, you know, it does seem like the journalists have crossed the line as, you know, now they care.
00:12:12.480I'm not sure it was all of the journalists.
00:12:14.560I think some of the journalists did care.
00:12:16.260I think it was all of their bosses either didn't care or were being told not to care.
00:12:23.260We know this with the James O'Keefe story where they were able to get the one reporter who, you know, was complaining about not being able to get the story out, you know, years ago.
00:13:17.100Do you think there was foul play here?
00:13:18.760The forensic evidence released so far, including autopsy, point much more to murder and strangulation than the suicide and suicidal hanging.
00:13:29.460I hesitate to make a final opinion until all the evidence is in.
00:13:34.220People will say, well, you're being paid by Mark Epstein.
00:13:38.280So, of course, you're going to say that something suspicious is going on.
00:13:42.880That's a reasonable thing for some people to think.
00:13:45.220But our job is to find what the truth is, just to find out whether it's a homicide or a suicide.
00:13:52.580We still haven't gotten all the information.
00:13:55.600And this is not a guy who hadn't dealt with situations like this.
00:14:18.400Very unusual to have two and not three.
00:14:22.720And going over, over a thousand jail hangings, suicides, in the New York City state prisons over the past 40, 50 years, no one had three fractures.
00:15:04.360So you'd see almost markings of a slippage, which they did not see.
00:15:08.120Also, they go into some depth on the fractures, which just seem to be completely odd.
00:15:18.960And the fact that this, the pictures are more consistent with a wire, essentially, a wire strangulation than a typical jailhouse hanging of themselves.
00:15:31.700However, the other evidence presented was pretty compelling as well.
00:15:35.860And, you know, what do you want to do?
00:15:37.020You want to come up with a motivation for something like this if it's going to happen?
00:15:39.420And the motivation was clear in his suicide note.
00:16:16.260However, when you're locked in there against your will for one full hour, that's 60 minutes, also the name of the show that this happened on.
00:19:54.520Now, this is according to one of the guys we talked to.
00:19:57.120He was the former chairman of the board of GM, I think.
00:20:01.180He said GM won't be making cars the way we think about cars today by 2030.
00:20:06.380He said there'll be fleets and most people won't own their cars.
00:20:10.660And that was such a hard thing for somebody of my age to think not owning a car, but the way cars are changing in technology, the only car that's going to not look completely outdated or be completely outdated is Tesla because it will update its software all the time.
00:20:31.960And so when you want that new, you know, that new thing, you just update the car.
00:20:37.940Well, GM, all these other car companies are not doing that, which makes the resale value of your car go dramatically down.
00:20:49.920This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:24:12.940In 2007, his people kidnapped five American soldiers in Iraq, in Karabala, and murdered them.
00:24:22.400And instead of striking back at Soleimani, we released some of his people that had been arrested in Iraq.
00:24:31.320Soleimani and the Quds Force were responsible for approximately 600 deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq with specially formed, explosively formed penetrators.
00:24:42.340These are warheads that are planted in IEDs along the road.
00:25:00.580And certainly, for sure, the man who replaces Soleimani, should he conduct similar operations against Americans, he is definitely going to be next.
00:25:09.180So it's almost as if history is repeating itself in in some ways.
00:25:12.880Under the Obama administration, we had the Benghazi consulate attacked.
00:25:19.500And then when Iran tries to do it again with a new Reagan, if you will, somebody who thinks a little like Reagan, we don't put up with it.
00:25:45.280And I know this primarily from Iranian sources, but also from Americans who were who were had access to some of the briefings before the 9-11 attacks and to a very key document, which is in my one of my books on Benghazi called Deception.
00:26:02.060This is a defense intelligence agency after action report delivered to then director Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn, remember, who was then became the national security advisor to President Trump and was going to clean house in the intelligence agencies and of the deep state.
00:26:20.520Well, Flynn asked the entire defense intelligence community what happened in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012.
00:26:28.060And I specifically want you to tell me what we knew about the Quds Force involvement.
00:26:32.860That means Soleimani and the Al Qaeda involvement.
00:26:36.540The report that came back, which I've published, you can see it at KenTimmerman.com or in my book Deceptions.
00:27:21.000And I think we know pretty clearly by now from what Secretary of State Pompeo has said and the president, the U.S. intelligence community knew it.
00:27:30.460They knew that Soleimani was behind that.
00:27:34.000You know, they were they were attempting, Glenn, to repeat what happened in Benghazi.
00:27:46.340Well, what a difference a president makes.
00:27:49.120This president immediately sent 100 Marines from Kuwait.
00:27:52.620They secured the embassy and the attackers dispersed as opposed to what happened in Benghazi.
00:27:57.860What do you say about the I'm just quoting a headline here?
00:28:03.380Millions of angry mourners from all walks of life participate in separate separate funeral ceremonies held in the southwestern city, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah of the of the martyr Soleimani.
00:28:17.960Well, I don't see them joining in the ranks of martyrdom with him.
00:28:31.280They oblige government employees to attend these mass rallies to chant death with America.
00:28:37.240And many times when when the cameras pan out or you get somebody from a pro freedom movement taking a YouTube video and they post it, you see that when the camera pans out, there's nobody in the square.
00:28:49.900There's a there's a tight crowd around the speaker up front and then there's nobody in the rest of the square.
00:29:12.100They're very active in social media when the regime does not block the Internet.
00:29:15.480They've been celebrating the demise of Qasem Soleimani and can't can't wait until the rest of the tyrants go with it.
00:29:22.900People are trying to make Donald Trump look like this was just something that, you know, he's doing because he wanted people not to pay attention to the impeachment, which is what a lot of conservatives said about the bombing of the aspirin factory during the the Monica Lewinsky thing.
00:29:43.100When Bill Clinton was going after Osama bin Laden, who Americans didn't know at the time, but this you know, I was reading this and it talked about how we have we've always been following him.
00:29:57.580But the White House told the Pentagon, I want to know where this guy is 24 seven at all times back in May.
00:30:05.700It was also back in May that we we put the could's force on and the IR.
00:31:33.680Do you believe that proved or opened the eyes of the administration or the Pentagon and was enough evidence to know this guy we have to watch because he's all over the world and we may have to take him out?
00:31:50.880I think what happened is that he essentially made it so crystal clear that Soleimani was never going to put down the gloves.
00:32:00.920He was never going to stop killing our people and that we had to take action.
00:32:04.620I think that really I think you're right.
00:32:44.440Is Iran and the mullahs and the Ayatollah, are they enough of 12ers that they believe that they're going to wash the world in blood and this is a good thing for them to retaliate?
00:32:58.360Or are they in butt-saving mode and may strike, but they're not going to really – they're not going to have their fingerprints really well known on anything?
00:33:17.520Look at Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:33:22.460He died at the age of 88, comfortably in his bed of old age.
00:33:27.220The leaders of this regime, they can be 12ers and they can try to send the masses out to martyrdom, but they themselves are going to save their rear ends.
00:33:35.860They've got airplanes waiting to take them out of the country should the regime start to fall.
00:33:40.560I think they're going to save themselves, and I think the person and the people who have replaced Qasem Soleimani are not going to take dramatic action against the United States because they know they're next.
00:33:51.420And is this something that we play out?
00:33:57.760We would be well advised to play out by playing this almost like the collapse of the Soviet Union.
00:34:06.080Tighten sanctions, help the people on the streets, and make sure everybody knows how evil this regime really is.
00:34:14.880But we don't have to lob any bullets or any men over there.
00:34:21.560This is like the collapse of the Soviet Union.
00:34:24.000We can sit back, enjoy it, but help the people of Iran.
00:34:28.180I think what we ought to be doing, and apparently we now have the capability of doing this, is make sure whenever the regime shuts off the Internet that we turn it back on so the people of Iran can communicate to the rest of the world so the regime cannot kill in darkness.
00:38:00.040And from the Steve Dace program, which can be heard on this network every day, right after my show on the Blaze Radio Network and TV Network.
00:39:48.860Well, I thought Robert Stack's voiced character in Beavis and Butthead to America actually did the most intrusive inspections in human history.
00:39:57.260But that aside, you know, what you're pointing out, Glenn, is what I have been saying on my show for the last couple of months.
00:40:04.120And I'm not trying to be hot takey, so I got that hot take out of the way, and I want to be really serious.
00:40:11.340He sounds like the average guy who's 80 years old.
00:40:14.480And has lived a long life and has done a lot in his life and been in a lot of high-stress situations.
00:40:20.120I don't think he can do the job, and I think that if he were leading a rival investment group to take over a Fortune 500 publicly traded company, and you were in the other investment group, I think you could at least get a hearing in front of a judge about his competency level of whether he's legally competent or not.
00:40:37.760And I think that's why he has not taken off in this race.
00:40:44.040And if you live here in Iowa, you see two Joe Bidens.
00:40:48.520He's running a great ad right now, again, looking at it from a Democratic mindset.
00:40:52.540He's running a great ad right now, and he sounds presidential about how terrible Trump is.
00:40:56.800And if I only listened to that ad and I was a rural Iowan who remembered him with Barack Obama for eight years, that's the guy I would vote for.
00:41:05.280But if I went out there on the campaign trail and actually saw him without the makeup and without the script and just interacted with him retail style, I would walk away shaking my head thinking, I don't know that this guy can be president.
00:41:16.220And I think that's why, you know, when he first burst onto the scene last March, he had, you know, poll numbers on the national level into the 40s.
00:41:24.400We've never seen anything like this, really, maybe since Fred Thompson was your flavor of the month 10 years ago.
00:41:29.560And then the more and more voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have gotten a chance to look at him.
00:41:34.040You've seen his numbers on the state level have flatlined compared to just the national name ID contest.
00:41:39.480And it's because when you look at him up close, you just don't think he's up to the job.
00:42:16.320What's happening in Iowa is, you know, Democrats have lanes just like Republicans do with evangelicals and libertarians and the Bush wing.
00:42:24.180Well, there's wings in the Democratic and, you know, Ted Cruz used to call them lanes.
00:42:27.640There's there's lanes in the Democratic Party as well.
00:42:30.040And the problem they're having is no one is able to break out of their native lane to consolidate support.
00:42:36.580And so what we have now is you have Pete Buttigieg.
00:42:39.060He is the candidate of the white suburbanites who desperately want a virtue signal to the leftists who hate them, who, you know, drive a Subaru, live in a cul-de-sac with a coexist bumper sticker.
00:42:49.640And they love Pete Buttigieg because they're anxious to show you they're not a homophobe.
00:42:53.700They've not looked at his qualifications.
00:42:56.240That's his only qualification to them.
00:42:58.020And then you have the college campus feminist hard left crowd loves Elizabeth Warren.
00:43:04.880And then you have, you know, your old school Democratic, you know, traditional labor, socially moderate by today's standards anyway, Democratic Party that likes Joe Biden.
00:43:15.360And these and you've got these candidates now.
00:44:16.880We don't know what the weather is going to be like.
00:44:18.480So let's say there's a massive ice storm and rural Iowans can't get to their caucus site.
00:44:22.700But a bunch of campus feminists can just walk across the quad at Iowa, Iowa State, Grinnell, et cetera.
00:44:27.860That could make a huge difference where this is concerned.
00:44:30.940And then, Glenn, something your audience needs to know is the way that the Iowa caucuses are structured in the Democratic side is different than in the Republican side.
00:44:39.020You know, you're not going to get four or five, six candidates with two percent on the Democratic side.
00:44:42.900They're going to have a straw poll for relevancy right away.
00:44:45.740And they get in that room, you know, 10 years ago in the 08 caucuses when it was open on both ends.
00:44:50.320My caucus site, we shared a site with the Democrats in the hall over us.
00:44:55.600We could not hear ourselves think it was like a labor rally.
00:44:58.300And so they get into that room and the emotion and the and the ethos begins and the id starts to flow.
00:45:04.120And there's wide swings of opinions and college girls start bringing their their moms and grandmas and say, don't you want to vote for Elizabeth Warren?
00:45:11.620I think, you know, that creates a very fluid environment.
00:45:15.600I do think we know who the top four are going to be.
00:45:18.300I think, though, knowing the order is tough.
00:45:20.800And keep in mind, not since nineteen nineteen nineteen eighty eight was the last time there was a contested Democratic caucus that the winner of the Iowa caucuses did not win the nomination.
00:45:30.980So anyone who tells you Iowa doesn't matter, just doesn't know history or they're just not telling you the truth.
00:45:51.420The problem is, while that you would think and we've seen if you've seen this in the Republican Party in the past, well, we anybody but Obama.
00:45:58.320But the problem is there's not an agreement on what that looks like.
00:46:01.440Does a technocrat who doesn't address divisive issues and gives you a reassuring persona like a Mitt Romney, does that beat Barack Obama?
00:46:09.860Does putting Mitt Romney or Barack Obama on a national stage to have a worldview clash like a Rick Santorum or a Newt Gingrich, does that do it?
00:46:17.360And so there's the same arguments happening in the Democratic side.
00:46:20.280I know it sounds nuts to us, but if you follow their media and their Twitter, they think the reason they're losing to him is they're not nasty enough and they don't lie as much.
00:46:30.120And so there's that there's that debate that is.
00:46:33.080And I know Stu follows that, so I'm sure he can verify that for me.
00:46:37.300And then there's the debate of we need a mainstream American source.
00:46:41.260All right. And so, you know, there's that that's that's actually what Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are both running for that.
00:46:47.040Pete Buttigieg never, ever mentions homosexuality in his ads here.
00:46:51.340He doesn't come across as any kind of activist, no effeminacy or anything of that nature.
00:46:57.120He talks about being a soldier, a mayor of a small town in a red state.
00:47:01.160And so he is he is he is kind of eaten into some of Joe Biden's support with that crowd as well.
00:47:07.180Do you think that there are a couple of narratives that come out of this, at least in the political media, is one, the caucus sort of situation you talked about earlier,
00:47:15.800that's raucous and really, you know, has passionate supporters is a big indicator of potential upside for Bernie Sanders and that you get into the room where it looks like Warren's finishing third or fourth.
00:47:27.500And those Sanders people are going to bring the Warren people over to Sanders at the last minute.
00:47:31.840And that, you know, with his fundraising numbers, he's doing well in New Hampshire is a good poll for him today that I mean, there is a path here for Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.
00:47:40.980I do. And I didn't a few months ago. I know it sounds morbid, but we started off talking about Joe Biden's competency.
00:47:48.780So let's just go ahead and, you know, and round third while we're at it here.
00:47:52.020But his candidacy has taken off since his heart attack. He was dead in the water.
00:47:56.180He was polling single digits in Iowa, single digits nationally.
00:48:00.320He was behind Elizabeth Warren in New Hampshire.
00:48:02.720His heart attack has, if you go back and look at where his metrics were pre that event to where they have been since, there's no question that that has been a galvanizing moment.
00:48:14.740So you have to ask yourself, what the hell is wrong with people?
00:48:19.160I mean, a heart attack in an old guy, Ronald Reagan even.
00:48:23.780I mean, that is not good news for somebody who's walking into a very high stress job.
00:48:31.540No, but I think it I think for his base, it sort of coalesced them that, hey, we've got a window of opportunity to go full Soviet.
00:48:39.680We can't lose this. That was number one.
00:48:41.900And then and then and then number two is Elizabeth Warren made the mistake of being honest.
00:48:47.760Well, as honest as she was willing to be.
00:48:49.800I know she was the clear front runner.
00:48:52.420Hey, show your work on your Medicare for all plan.
00:48:54.780And like the true Wellesley College for Women dean of faculty she's always wanted to be, she thought, you bet, I'll put this all in a white paper and convince you that my one size fits all plan that you hated about Obamacare, supersizing it, you'll like it even more.
00:49:08.940And and even though it's what a lot of Democrats believe, it was a politically amateurish move.
00:49:13.860And I think it made a lot of people that thought, hey, maybe she could beat Trump think if she's going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe at the first if she's going to answer the first booty political booty call here, then she can't lie well enough to do this gig.
00:49:27.440She's just she's just too much of a true believer.
00:49:30.260And I think that has that crushed her numbers because she had really eaten into a lot of Sanders numbers.
00:49:35.160She was kind of his softer side of Sears.
00:49:37.520And when she showed that she could not match up politically with with what they thought was going to be necessary to win, she's imploded.
00:49:45.440Bernie has risen. And then you've now you've got Buttigieg and Biden fighting to be this more mainline candidate.
00:49:52.740You've got this Amy Klobuchar who from Minnesota is a neighboring state who's not going to win here.
00:49:58.180But if you get into that room and Elizabeth Warren or and or Bernie Sanders of support is eaten up by the other, she could maybe surprise and finish in the top three.
00:50:05.900She would only be taking votes away from Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden.
00:50:09.860So that's why I think this thing is very, very fluid.
00:50:12.380And I would caution anybody to make any dramatic pronouncements here until we get another week.
00:50:17.580With that being said, dramatic pronouncement, I would like if it were held today, not not in a couple of weeks, but today.
00:50:29.280If it were held today, it's going to be 50 degrees in Iowa today and it's beautiful weather.
00:50:33.980If it would be held today, we'd break a turnout record.
00:50:36.900That'd be the highest voted in Iowa caucuses of all time by either party.
00:50:41.000And then I think it would really just come down to when we get in the room, can Bernie Sanders and or Elizabeth Warren supporters, you know, whether it's the Soviet id versus the feminist id, what wins out there?
00:50:54.400And that's, you know, that's that's a little bit like, you know, asking me to forecast an apocalyptic event I hopefully don't want to be around here for.
00:51:01.720So I don't know the answer to that, but it would come down to if one of those two in the rooms across Iowa can can absorb the other support.
00:51:10.600If they can, one of those two would win.
00:51:12.460If not, then I think Pete Buttigieg would win.
00:51:14.900But I don't think it would be an impressive win for anybody right now.