The Glenn Beck Program - February 06, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Liz Wheeler & Christopher Bedford ｜ 2⧸6⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

165.73491

Word Count

7,530

Sentence Count

592

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Politico has been getting millions of dollars from the U.S. government to subsidize their operations. Is this a scam? Or is this a massive government corruption scandal? And why is the Senate still not on track to vote on Kash Patel?


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Hey, we talk about the mass scandal in the media now that the media, of course, is avoiding.
00:00:36.120 But what has been exposed by Liz Wheeler?
00:00:39.100 It's much more than Politico taking a few dollars.
00:00:44.560 What are they taking the dollars for?
00:00:46.640 And how did we go from eight yesterday to $34 million coming in to Politico from the government?
00:00:55.080 Also, why has the Senate committee delayed the vote on Kash Patel another week?
00:00:58.920 Same old story.
00:01:00.600 But some real good insight on what's happening on that and what the Trump administration has just done that is really going to open up this whole exposing of every agency with Chris Bedford.
00:01:15.200 That's all on today's podcast.
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00:02:44.620 Liz Wheeler is here.
00:02:45.620 She is the host of Blaze TV's The Liz Wheeler Show.
00:02:49.480 She broke the news early yesterday that the federal government has been subsidizing Politico, not to the tune of $6 million, but $34.3 million.
00:03:03.420 She has the receipts.
00:03:05.620 Liz, welcome to the program.
00:03:08.080 Hi, Glenn.
00:03:08.560 Thanks for having me.
00:03:09.420 You bet.
00:03:09.960 So the media is now saying this is a right-wing conspiracy.
00:03:14.460 There's nothing to see here.
00:03:15.800 But if the Trump administration, if those people were all subscribers to the Blaze, and we were getting $6 million or $35 million from the Trump administration, even if it was all legitimate, they would go apoplectic.
00:03:35.600 So tell me why this should.
00:03:38.120 What?
00:03:38.360 This is what, as they should go apoplectic if that were happening, this is one of the biggest media scandals of this decade, and it's also a litmus test.
00:03:47.440 Anybody in the swamp, anybody elected politician, anybody in the media who's defending Politico getting this amount of money from the federal government, they're part of the problem.
00:03:56.420 They're the baddies, not the goodies here.
00:03:58.220 So what's happening is yesterday we woke up to news that Politico had received $8 million from U.S.Aid.
00:04:05.780 U.S.Aid, of course, is a so-called autonomous agency of the federal government that Elon Musk has been doging.
00:04:11.720 He's been exposing corruption within that agency.
00:04:13.800 It's a CIA front.
00:04:15.540 It's a CIA front.
00:04:16.720 It is in charge of all of the color revolutions all around the world and the color revolution that they've been trying to pull here in America.
00:04:25.320 Anyway, go ahead.
00:04:26.100 That's exactly right.
00:04:27.500 I was going to say it's the nexus of the censorship industrial complex.
00:04:31.220 They've taken their political warfare abroad and aimed it back at us.
00:04:34.600 So no better target for Elon Musk than U.S.Aid.
00:04:37.880 This is a scandal in and of itself that Politico was receiving $8 million from them in 2024.
00:04:43.240 But what my team and I did is we went onto this website where any American citizen can find out how their taxpayer money is spent.
00:04:50.220 It's called usaspending.gov.
00:04:52.540 And you plug in the name of any recipient organization group.
00:04:56.380 We typed Politico into the keyword.
00:04:59.240 And then instead of just looking at year 2024, we said all fiscal years.
00:05:03.080 Let's see how much Politico has received in the last 10 years.
00:05:05.560 And what we found before our very eyes, it began to populate millions upon millions of dollars, totaling $34.3 million.
00:05:14.460 And Glenn, this is not just from U.S.
00:05:17.180 This is from a variable laundry list of the most corrupt federal government swampy agencies like the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, sub-agencies like the FDA and the CDC and the EPA.
00:05:33.240 And if you look at when these subsidies started, they started just about the moment that Trump descended on that golden elevator in 2015.
00:05:42.120 And that's when the gravy train for Politico started.
00:05:44.400 And then you can see it year by year in 2020 and 2021, when Joe Biden took office, all of a sudden, these subsidies to Politico increased exponentially, exponentially.
00:05:56.900 And, of course, you'll have these defenders saying, well, these are just subscriptions that federal government employees paid for Politico Pro.
00:06:08.280 It's like a $10,000 a year subscription.
00:06:10.180 They claim it's a premium service.
00:06:11.600 Uh-huh.
00:06:12.140 Aimed right for the Beltway.
00:06:14.780 Aimed right directly at the Beltway.
00:06:18.020 So go ahead.
00:06:18.620 100 percent.
00:06:19.700 Well, first of all, that's clinically insane to pay $10,000 for a subscription service.
00:06:24.500 That's not a subsidy.
00:06:25.740 That is patronage if you are paying $10,000.
00:06:29.000 But this is what money laundering is, right?
00:06:31.780 It's nebulous.
00:06:32.860 It's vague.
00:06:33.960 Money is fungible.
00:06:35.380 So if the bulk of your revenue or a huge percentage of your revenue is coming from so-called federal government employees that are paying this exorbitant fee, what are you going to expect in response?
00:06:48.740 You're going to expect in response coverage exactly like Politico has given us, where they told us the Hunter Biden laptop story isn't real, that it was Russian disinformation.
00:06:57.580 In fact, they were the leader on that.
00:06:59.960 They were the leader on that.
00:07:01.200 Yep.
00:07:01.800 Yes, of course, which makes sense when you think about where they're getting all this $34.3 million from.
00:07:07.140 They were defenders of the COVID-19 jab, the Moderna jab, even for young men, which we now know it's very dangerous.
00:07:13.760 They're the ones, Glenn, that led.
00:07:15.800 They broke the story when the Supreme Court leaker leaked that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs case.
00:07:22.200 They were the ones that published that.
00:07:23.900 So they are an arm.
00:07:25.960 They're a propaganda arm of the federal government.
00:07:29.100 This, as you said, is the biggest scandal in media.
00:07:34.080 So you know, Liz, just a point of information that most people don't know.
00:07:39.780 During the Obama administration, it may still be true.
00:07:42.800 I don't know.
00:07:43.920 You couldn't not only get to Blaze TV to log on on a government computer.
00:07:49.600 You couldn't go to theblaze.com.
00:07:53.620 It was banned as a website for the government.
00:07:58.140 Yeah.
00:07:59.240 Yeah.
00:07:59.880 Oh, man.
00:08:01.080 Yeah.
00:08:01.520 So.
00:08:02.100 So.
00:08:02.120 So.
00:08:02.140 Yeah.
00:08:02.920 So anybody who is like, well, you know, they were just.
00:08:06.080 Well, there are a lot of people that wanted to, you know, subscribe and subscribe personally, not through their office and just be able to listen or watch or just get their news from the news site, theblaze.com.
00:08:22.140 And they were blocked.
00:08:24.180 Every government employee was blocked.
00:08:27.320 I did not know that.
00:08:29.880 I mean, it proved it proved exactly what we've been saying.
00:08:32.880 First of all, there is no justification on the face of this earth for thirty four point three million dollars to be given from the federal government agencies to a supposedly objective media organization.
00:08:44.120 There's just there's no explanation for it.
00:08:45.840 We all know that they're the swamp creatures that are defending it or just exposing their true colors here.
00:08:50.800 We're not always lucky enough to have an email that says this ten thousand dollars is for the big guy or this ten percent is for the big guy.
00:08:58.140 But we know we're smart people.
00:08:59.840 We use common sense.
00:09:00.820 We know how human nature works.
00:09:02.000 We know that if the federal government is giving this exorbitant amount of money to a media organization, what they're going to get in return is coverage and cover ups and propaganda and emotional manipulation.
00:09:13.000 And exactly what we've seen from Politico for the past for the past decade, you know, coincidentally, since this gravy train began.
00:09:20.960 And one comment on, you know, the Blaze TV, I I double checked this morning to see how much our subscriptions are, because I was like, OK, I pay for a couple of subscriptions to even mainstream media outlets, although I really try not to because I don't like to give them my money.
00:09:35.480 But I need to for research purposes sometimes me to normal people pay a hundred dollars a year.
00:09:41.800 That's what if you go to blaze TV dot com slash Liz is one hundred twenty dollars for an annual subscription and you can get twenty dollars off.
00:09:48.240 That's what normal people pay.
00:09:49.660 And even then they probably share the login, which also normal people do.
00:09:54.020 Well, we don't encourage that.
00:09:56.260 But yes, but yes, you're right.
00:09:58.320 I mean, you know, my initial payment to open the doors, I had a few partners and they I can't remember what they gave, but it was probably around 10 million together.
00:10:14.760 And I had put in 20 million myself.
00:10:18.340 We started this entire operation with 30 million dollars.
00:10:24.400 30 million dollars is what kicked off the blaze when the technology didn't even exist, that we had to invent all of this stuff to do it, to have 34 million dollars coming in from the federal government.
00:10:39.120 They are your master.
00:10:41.340 They are absolutely your master.
00:10:43.900 Could you talk about one thing, Liz?
00:10:45.760 Because the press is hanging their hat on the fact that some media outlets said that was that was the cause of them not making payroll was doge.
00:10:57.780 That didn't that didn't have anything to do with it, did it?
00:11:01.700 Well, it depends on if you are a swamp creature and you view the world through your own twisted reality or if you're a normal person that can look at things that probably aren't coincidences.
00:11:11.640 We were told that we were told that, according to this initial report, that Politico had never missed a paycheck before.
00:11:17.160 So I would just pose questions to all of to all of us normies.
00:11:22.280 Do you think that's a coincidence that the day that their gravy train is cut off, that they're not able to make payroll?
00:11:26.980 It's funny.
00:11:28.180 It's funny because one of my producers knows one of the people at Politico and on the phone all day yesterday arguing back and forth.
00:11:40.220 And this person said, we have payroll glitches here all the time.
00:11:45.020 And I thought, I've never had a payroll glitch.
00:11:49.820 If I'd get another payroll service, it was glitchy all the time.
00:11:56.540 So, I mean, they either have the worst payroll service, which there's lots of them out there you can get that actually work, or there was something else going on.
00:12:07.240 But that's not the story.
00:12:08.700 No, that's what they were using to distract from the $34.3 million.
00:12:14.500 Even the subscriptions are a distraction because they don't want us to think $34.3 million given from basically the Biden regime to Politico.
00:12:23.980 It is one of the most significant scandals the mainstream media has ever been exposed without an excuse being in the middle of that I can remember.
00:12:31.540 So, we also found out yesterday that our federal government gave millions of dollars to the BBC.
00:12:41.840 The BB frickin' C.
00:12:44.480 That's supposed to be the Queen's money, not our money.
00:12:48.620 What the hell are we doing funding the BBC?
00:12:51.720 I mean, the—go ahead.
00:12:55.520 No, listen, this is what's so critical to understand.
00:12:58.440 The reason that people, like, I don't know if you've been watching Brian Stelter's X-Seat.
00:13:02.000 It's quite funny because he's freaking out about this.
00:13:04.020 The same with Jen Psaki on MSNBC.
00:13:06.560 She was like, there's a hostile takeover of the federal government happening because you and I are identifying ways that taxpayer money has been corruptly abused.
00:13:17.900 That's a hostile takeover in her mind.
00:13:19.720 But the reason they're freaking out about this isn't just because their pet projects won't be funded anymore or they won't have a login to their gossip reg, Politico magazine, or whatever it is.
00:13:30.320 The reason they're freaking out is because their mechanism of controlling us hinges on the mainstream media outlets, these corporate media outlets, running propaganda for them.
00:13:41.060 They'll never be able to lie to us and emotionally manipulate us if the media isn't taking a front—isn't taking a leading role in that.
00:13:48.880 And now they can't.
00:13:49.880 On top of that, they also have lost their gravy train through the NGOs.
00:13:54.780 They found a way to get all of their radical friends to open up an NGO and then funnel millions of dollars into it so they can do everything that they want with taxpayer dollars.
00:14:08.060 If you look at just USAID's 2023 fact sheet, the agency supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets, 279 media sector civil society organizations.
00:14:29.860 And this comes from the Columbia Journalism Review.
00:14:33.300 Now, I don't know, if you've got 6,000 journalists on your payroll, you could probably influence a few people.
00:14:45.380 This has got to stop, and I don't know what it's going to take for your neighbors to stop listening to the mainstream media.
00:14:56.620 That's why it's important not to say, in my opinion, that this is why they didn't make payroll.
00:15:01.240 Because we can't prove that.
00:15:02.420 We don't know.
00:15:03.300 I mean, great coincidence, but we don't know.
00:15:06.980 It's important to say, but this is provably true.
00:15:12.820 It's the thing with Ben Stiller and, you know, Angelina Jolie going over to Ukraine, getting $20 million.
00:15:19.740 That didn't happen.
00:15:21.280 That's not true.
00:15:22.140 You need to know what the truth is because the truth itself is so unbelievably powerful that you need to know what that is, and that's what we try to give you here every day.
00:15:34.900 Liz, thank you for this expose.
00:15:37.580 It's great.
00:15:38.140 Thanks, Glenn.
00:15:39.980 I appreciate it.
00:15:40.600 You bet.
00:15:41.080 Liz Wheeler from the Liz Wheeler Show on Blaze TV.
00:15:44.140 She's the one that broke.
00:15:46.260 Everybody else is talking about $8 million.
00:15:48.660 She's the one that broke yesterday.
00:15:50.380 It's $34 million.
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00:17:06.020 Now, back to the podcast.
00:17:07.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:17:12.760 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:17:15.020 Pat Gray is filling in for Stuart McGeer again today, who is off to the Super Bowl.
00:17:20.160 Sitting in one of those luxury boxes, I guess.
00:17:23.600 Way overpaid.
00:17:25.080 Anyway.
00:17:25.580 I think he's going to be right next to Taylor Swift.
00:17:27.720 Yeah.
00:17:28.100 Right?
00:17:28.380 Yeah, make it out.
00:17:29.360 Make it out.
00:17:30.020 Poor Lisa.
00:17:30.900 I know.
00:17:31.420 I know.
00:17:32.380 No, it's just wrong.
00:17:33.360 It's just wrong.
00:17:34.100 It is wrong.
00:17:34.800 But anyway, and the way he has just abandoned his Eagles because of Taylor Swift is-
00:17:43.060 It's pathetic.
00:17:43.900 It says a lot, right?
00:17:44.620 It does.
00:17:44.900 It says a lot.
00:17:45.560 Yeah.
00:17:46.300 I'm not sure which is worse, abandoning the Eagles or Lisa.
00:17:49.920 They're both pretty bad.
00:17:50.880 I think Lisa, but they are pretty bad.
00:17:52.700 You know what I mean?
00:17:53.300 Yeah.
00:17:53.520 Long time.
00:17:54.220 I mean, he's been loyal to the Eagles longer than loyal to Lisa.
00:17:57.180 Yes, he has.
00:17:57.820 So anyway, and the Eagles aren't buying purses.
00:18:02.880 True.
00:18:03.400 Yeah.
00:18:03.660 Well, that's what Stu said.
00:18:05.080 That's what Stu said.
00:18:06.320 And I would respond in his defense, but I don't see a defense.
00:18:10.920 But anyway, let's move on from this personal information about Stu.
00:18:16.000 You guys do this to me too, don't you?
00:18:18.020 What I've got-
00:18:18.600 Every time.
00:18:19.080 All right, so the Republicans have decided that, because I guess Dick Durbin, I don't
00:18:31.620 know how this has happened, because don't we have the majority on the committee?
00:18:35.320 I thought we did.
00:18:35.840 Yeah, I thought we did.
00:18:36.580 The committee was supposed to have a vote to get Kash Patel out of committee today.
00:18:43.920 Now they're saying it's going to happen next Thursday, because Dick Durbin wants a second
00:18:49.900 stab, probably literally, at Kash Patel.
00:18:54.600 That is absolutely insane.
00:18:58.240 Insane.
00:18:59.140 It is.
00:18:59.500 The reason why I think this is happening is because, yeah, Pam Bondi, she's not screwing
00:19:07.940 around.
00:19:08.980 You need to have the FBI.
00:19:11.740 They've lost all of their radical funding from USAID.
00:19:17.460 They're going to lose all of the-
00:19:19.460 Can you imagine how much corruption is in Medicare, Medicaid?
00:19:22.560 Oof.
00:19:23.120 Can you imagine?
00:19:24.120 That's the next thing Doge is taking on.
00:19:26.720 Imagine the waste and the corruption in that.
00:19:33.860 So you just can't have the FBI as part of this.
00:19:39.240 You can't have a pit bull in there.
00:19:41.360 I think that's their thinking.
00:19:43.640 One caveat.
00:19:45.040 I think the most important thing they don't want to happen is Kash Patel getting in and
00:19:51.060 releasing Epstein's-
00:19:53.160 Jeffrey Epstein files?
00:19:54.120 Yep.
00:19:54.780 Yeah.
00:19:55.000 I think that's a big part of it.
00:19:56.840 I do, too.
00:19:57.700 Who on that committee is part of that?
00:20:00.220 Yeah.
00:20:00.520 Would it surprise you if somebody on that-
00:20:02.780 No.
00:20:03.300 And it wouldn't surprise me.
00:20:04.500 It wouldn't surprise me.
00:20:04.780 It wouldn't surprise me if it was both Republicans and Democrats.
00:20:07.120 No.
00:20:07.620 Yeah.
00:20:08.100 Yeah.
00:20:08.440 I mean, I have no idea.
00:20:10.260 I have absolutely no idea.
00:20:12.000 But here's what I want.
00:20:13.760 I just want to know.
00:20:15.160 Yeah.
00:20:15.500 I just want the truth.
00:20:17.320 And I don't care if, honestly, if it were all Republicans, I mean, I doubt that.
00:20:22.840 But if it was all Republicans, okay, let the chips fall where they may.
00:20:27.720 I want to know.
00:20:29.160 I, you know, honestly, this is kind of the P.
00:20:33.000 Diddy thing.
00:20:34.180 Why isn't that?
00:20:35.760 Why?
00:20:36.340 Why isn't that case just busted wide open?
00:20:38.980 Right.
00:20:39.620 Why?
00:20:40.860 We, you know, the Pizzagate people, while they didn't, they weren't right about Pizzagate,
00:20:46.920 there was something in our psyche, uh, that was telling us our children are being abused
00:20:54.320 by powerful people because look what's happening.
00:20:57.940 The power people, uh, you know, in Hollywood and the power people in Washington seem to be
00:21:03.620 doing this.
00:21:04.180 The power people of, uh, of the drug cartels is bringing it, bringing them in.
00:21:09.240 We've lost 300,000 children in the system, just gone.
00:21:14.200 What do you think's happening to those kids right now?
00:21:17.740 So there's something in us that said, this is a real problem.
00:21:23.240 And until we lance that boil, until we know all of the details and we let the chips fall
00:21:29.960 where they may, we're never going to fix the country.
00:21:32.560 And it's been six years.
00:21:34.560 Epstein died in 2019.
00:21:36.840 It's been going on six years now.
00:21:39.860 And we still don't know.
00:21:41.320 How is that possible?
00:21:43.140 That is incredible.
00:21:43.560 Because there's too many important people.
00:21:44.980 Yeah.
00:21:45.180 I mean, you're going to see, you're going to see Bill Gates go down.
00:21:49.340 Almost certainly.
00:21:50.020 Uh, you're going to see, uh, the way he's acting.
00:21:52.500 I mean, I'd be really surprised if he's not deeply involved.
00:21:55.540 Oh my gosh.
00:21:57.140 I mean, what he's been saying the last couple of weeks.
00:22:00.460 Ah, wow.
00:22:01.700 Oh, you know, it was a big mistake to be around Epstein.
00:22:04.460 And yeah, I was having an affair.
00:22:05.860 I wasn't doing anything with the kids.
00:22:07.640 No, no.
00:22:08.260 Yeah, but I was having an affair and I, my wife was right.
00:22:11.480 That was the biggest mistake of my wife, my life, not listening to my wife and getting
00:22:15.280 a divorce.
00:22:16.020 Was it Bill?
00:22:18.000 Was it?
00:22:19.340 I mean.
00:22:19.760 Yeah, I think we're going to find out some other bigger mistakes than that.
00:22:22.360 Oh my gosh.
00:22:23.760 Yeah.
00:22:24.020 And I can't wait.
00:22:24.880 You know, your, his first mistake and, and a pretty big one too, was to steal all the
00:22:30.160 tech that he did from IBM and Xerox.
00:22:35.060 He still hasn't paid for that.
00:22:38.080 But that's going to be fascinating when that list comes out and it's inevitable now and they
00:22:45.020 know it.
00:22:45.500 I mean, Cash was, Cash was on my show.
00:22:47.800 When was that, Sarah?
00:22:48.840 Last summer, maybe, maybe last spring.
00:22:51.740 He was sitting in my office and, you know, I'm going through, okay, so how does all this
00:22:56.740 work and, and, you know, uh, where's the corruption?
00:23:00.420 He laid the whole corruption out on a chalkboard for me.
00:23:04.220 Uh, and we made it into an episode and he's sitting on my couch and he's like, no, you got
00:23:08.320 to add that name and that name.
00:23:09.580 And here's what you have to go after.
00:23:11.120 And, and we got, and I said, so who, who has the Epstein stuff?
00:23:16.460 And he's like, I know right where it is.
00:23:18.520 It's, it's in the hands of the director of the FBI.
00:23:22.560 Wow.
00:23:23.180 Now my question is, do we still know it's there?
00:23:28.960 Yeah, that's a good question.
00:23:30.600 And I think we do because, uh, that would be a Trump person that is in there.
00:23:37.640 Uh, even if Cash is not there, somebody is in charge of that vault.
00:23:42.220 I would have, I would have, you know, I would go into our nuclear silos and I'd get the two
00:23:49.080 guys with the keys, you know, that, you know, can point a gun to each other and say, I want
00:23:55.400 you to guard this safe because that's in there.
00:23:58.920 And if he starts to go bad, shoot him in the head.
00:24:02.640 He goes bad.
00:24:03.920 You shoot him in the head.
00:24:05.260 Uh, you know, you, you, I would want some fail safe on that.
00:24:09.420 Cause that is, you imagine how valuable that is in the wrong hands.
00:24:16.300 Imagine the blackmail.
00:24:18.220 That's what, that's why all this stuff has to be exposed.
00:24:21.700 Even if nobody goes to jail, it has to be exposed because otherwise you're blackmailing, you
00:24:26.720 know, all these people are compromised.
00:24:28.540 You don't know who they are.
00:24:29.960 You don't know who might be compromising them.
00:24:33.580 You know, that, that's, that's not good.
00:24:37.080 Yeah.
00:24:37.760 And you know, Bill Gates, not even probably the most powerful.
00:24:41.300 I mean, you've got Bill Clinton potentially, I would think.
00:24:45.140 Oh yeah.
00:24:45.680 Who is with him multiple times.
00:24:47.380 Oh yeah.
00:24:48.220 Like 20 trips overseas.
00:24:50.480 I mean.
00:24:50.840 On the Lolita Express.
00:24:52.380 I mean, really, really not good.
00:24:55.600 So there are some names that are on there that are pretty powerful.
00:25:00.680 So you also have the FBI director in charge of all of the documents on the Biden family.
00:25:07.900 All of that is in that same safe.
00:25:10.080 I mean, and Cash Patel is going to drop all of it.
00:25:16.340 I mean, on day one, I believe you will see on day one, it will be breathtaking on what,
00:25:24.080 I mean, I said to my, uh, said to my, uh, staff, we have to be ready because I don't
00:25:30.920 know how they're going to drop it.
00:25:32.000 I don't, but we have to have a team that is on that thing.
00:25:35.340 Whenever he is confirmed on his first weekday, he's going to do something amazing and probably
00:25:43.520 drop something big like the Christopher Wray stuff or most likely the Epstein stuff.
00:25:49.860 And he'll drop that.
00:25:51.600 And that's going to be earth shattering for a week.
00:25:57.040 That will be easily, will be poured over.
00:26:00.760 And then just the names, you'll just be talking about names.
00:26:06.920 I can't believe that we are sitting at a time where I have been, I mean, Pat, you and I've
00:26:17.840 talked about this forever by 2025, we may not be a country anymore.
00:26:22.340 We've talked about that for 30, 40 years.
00:26:25.160 You know, if this keeps going at this pace and continues to speed up like it was, we're
00:26:31.160 done as a nation.
00:26:32.260 I can't believe we're sitting here and I'm as optimistic as I am that we're going to make
00:26:39.180 it.
00:26:39.740 Yeah.
00:26:39.980 We're going to make it.
00:26:41.220 Yeah.
00:26:41.420 And it is the movement, the rapid movement of Donald Trump that's making it possible that
00:26:48.620 we might survive this.
00:26:49.780 Yeah.
00:26:50.380 Because it's, it is, it is the, all the activity that he has done in the first 17 days that
00:26:57.200 will save this country.
00:26:59.540 Yeah.
00:27:00.600 He's got to codify it.
00:27:02.300 He's got to codify this stuff.
00:27:04.540 No question.
00:27:05.480 Otherwise somebody.
00:27:06.240 Through legislation.
00:27:07.140 Yeah.
00:27:07.620 Yeah.
00:27:08.020 Otherwise somebody's going to come in.
00:27:10.200 Change it all.
00:27:10.720 And change it all.
00:27:11.720 I mean, if we don't win again in, in, in 2028, if Republicans don't win, they'll just
00:27:15.980 change it all again.
00:27:17.140 Whatever Democrat is elected next will reverse everything he's ever done.
00:27:23.720 And that's, that's the problem with the executive orders.
00:27:26.440 So one of the things that Donald Trump did, I have to tell you, I don't understand.
00:27:30.780 I've read this story three or four times today.
00:27:32.860 I just don't understand it.
00:27:34.660 Um, but, uh, people who do know are saying, oh no, no, no.
00:27:39.440 No, this is, this is the mother of all bombs.
00:27:44.700 Uh, what he just did.
00:27:46.700 The office of personnel management sent a memo out on Tuesday to the heads and acting heads
00:27:53.660 of all federal departments and agencies recommending that every agency revoke the career reserved
00:28:00.020 status for their chief information officers.
00:28:02.800 So the CIOs of every agency, by doing so, and by also opening the roles to general employees,
00:28:12.160 the establishmentarians presently occupying the increasingly politicized roles can be easily
00:28:19.240 canned and replaced by individuals willing to carry out the president's agenda.
00:28:23.540 Now we know that kind of stuff was happening.
00:28:27.760 They were going to try to start changing, uh, the status of some roles, but they're going
00:28:34.780 after the chief information officers, which I think one of the reasons why they're doing
00:28:40.580 it is because, uh, you have, uh, tech and Elon Musk is under tech.
00:28:51.040 Uh, Barack Obama put this office into the white house that if we can improve our government
00:28:57.440 efficiency, uh, through the use of digital technology, it should be done.
00:29:02.940 And so that's, that's where he's working.
00:29:07.160 And so he, when people say he doesn't have the right to do it, yeah, he does.
00:29:11.300 Yeah, he does.
00:29:12.360 But the chief information officer is the tech officer.
00:29:16.240 And so I don't know exactly why, uh, this is such a big deal.
00:29:20.740 We're going to explain it.
00:29:21.820 I've got somebody who actually knows they're going to explain it to me and to you, uh, here
00:29:26.180 in, uh, just a second.
00:29:27.400 The, the other thing that has happened in the last 24 hours is they're fighting back
00:29:35.420 now on, uh, the Medicare, Medicaid, all of the information that everybody has, uh, on,
00:29:44.520 on health.
00:29:45.700 And there, the reason why now the unions are pushing back on saying that Elon Musk can't
00:29:56.100 have any access to social security numbers.
00:29:59.200 He can't have access to any names, anything, not their health records.
00:30:04.200 They don't want him to have the social security number.
00:30:07.740 Why?
00:30:10.340 I think it's because they're going to find out exactly how much these people with social
00:30:18.080 security numbers are reporting to the IRS.
00:30:22.000 If you aren't going to work and you're being paid full time, are you making more than you
00:30:30.480 were, uh, you know, when you were working here in the building, that's fraud.
00:30:37.480 You're working for us full time.
00:30:40.220 I think they, I think these, these guys are so brilliant.
00:30:43.960 Yeah.
00:30:44.200 I mean, I've been, I've been saying this for a while.
00:30:46.980 Now the left has been so genius at what they're doing.
00:30:50.540 It's, it's admirable.
00:30:52.340 I mean, you have to, you have to admire it.
00:30:54.700 Okay.
00:30:55.120 It's evil, but it's, it's, you have to look back and go, that was expertly done and brilliant.
00:31:02.380 Yeah.
00:31:03.740 Uh, we've caught up to them.
00:31:06.220 We've caught up to them.
00:31:07.360 And I think what's playing out is absolutely brilliant.
00:31:10.860 And this is only phase one, kids.
00:31:14.040 This is phase one.
00:31:15.720 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes wherever
00:31:19.740 you download podcasts.
00:31:21.360 Let me go to Chris, uh, Bedford, uh, Christopher Bedford.
00:31:24.420 He is the blaze media senior editor for politics and blaze media, Washington correspondent.
00:31:30.280 Chris, have you seen anything like what has been happening the last 17 days?
00:31:35.640 Never, never.
00:31:37.760 And I never expected to, and no one I know here in Washington ever expected to, there's
00:31:42.440 a lot of people who've been here a long time.
00:31:44.680 And, you know, I was listening in your introduction, you're talking about, well, Donald Trump said
00:31:48.980 he was going to do this, but I've been in DC now for over 20 years.
00:31:52.540 And a lot of people say they're going to do a lot of things and it never happens.
00:31:56.280 I've, I got to a point where I rolled my eyes and Republicans talked about the department
00:32:00.380 of education for tackling USAID, where I could go around and talk to rooms of congressmen
00:32:05.920 and senators and say, why are you funding the universities?
00:32:08.640 Why are you funding the left-wing activist groups?
00:32:10.460 Why don't you stop that?
00:32:12.020 And they just looked at me blankly.
00:32:13.700 Yeah.
00:32:14.000 Well, it seems too hard.
00:32:14.840 It seems too difficult.
00:32:16.180 This is a revolution going on, a soft, peaceful revolution in the way the federal government
00:32:22.700 works and it will have lasting impact.
00:32:24.660 Yeah, I, I hope so.
00:32:26.300 I hope the Republicans don't screw it up.
00:32:28.960 What the hell is happening with Kash Patel in the, in the committee?
00:32:33.040 Why is, why didn't they vote on him today?
00:32:36.100 That's a whole lot of essentially niceties going on at the beginning of this.
00:32:40.960 Chuck Rashley, who I think is actually a good Senator.
00:32:44.580 He's 92 and he's also goes by the rules.
00:32:48.320 He's got his standards.
00:32:49.320 When they began the committee at the beginning of the Congress, they should have gotten rid
00:32:53.200 of some of these rules.
00:32:54.160 They haven't been useful for a long time and existed from a period where Democrats and Republicans
00:32:58.160 maybe came to bipartisan consensus.
00:33:00.740 One of them was the ability to delay a hearing.
00:33:03.280 A single member on that committee can ask.
00:33:05.420 They wanted to look for more information.
00:33:07.520 The problem for this is, you know, that these Democrats are going to vote in line against
00:33:12.360 Kash Patel.
00:33:13.220 They're not looking for more information.
00:33:14.920 They're simply looking to, to delay and to sink anything they can dig up to scare Republicans.
00:33:20.420 They're going to do Republicans and Democrats.
00:33:23.720 Neither side has been able to use this rule for years now to do anything other than delay.
00:33:28.080 It actually hasn't changed any outcomes so far, but I tell you, it does have some people
00:33:32.980 nervous that they're going to find something to cause some kind of weak need Republicans
00:33:37.860 to quibble a little bit.
00:33:39.420 But I still think he's on lock right now, to be confirmed, in about two weeks.
00:33:44.100 Oh, I think so, too.
00:33:45.060 Why did Chuck Grassley do this?
00:33:47.800 I mean, you know, they always play by the rules, and I understand, but this isn't, you
00:33:56.340 know, when you're using the rules as they're intended, that's fine.
00:34:00.160 But when you have a bullcrap reason for doing it, and everyone knows this is just to delay,
00:34:08.560 why is he going along with it?
00:34:10.940 You know, a good illustration of kind of the way he's been a chairman is he's certainly
00:34:15.420 from an older time in the U.S. Senate of more bipartisan consensus, which, by the way,
00:34:20.520 I'll point out, is also a time Republicans are more of a controlled opposition party,
00:34:24.500 the one that actually really governed or played a hardball.
00:34:27.200 And it was wild to watch him during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
00:34:30.480 Because he was looking left and right, and you could tell he was just kind of overwhelmed
00:34:34.480 and amazed at the viciousness of the attacks from Democrats and how far they're willing
00:34:39.380 to go.
00:34:40.260 It took him by surprise.
00:34:42.220 And all dogs don't learn a whole lot of new tricks.
00:34:44.560 So he didn't walk, he walked into this committee process as thinking someone, we're going to
00:34:50.280 have mutual respect between the parties.
00:34:52.220 We're going to go by the way the rules were.
00:34:54.800 And not, I think, fully expecting just how vicious Democrats might get.
00:34:58.640 But if he were to go back, I suspect if he had to go back, switch, he would have gotten
00:35:03.060 rid of this rule at the time.
00:35:04.080 But it was an oversight.
00:35:05.600 Let me switch to Doge and Elon Musk.
00:35:08.880 The media is running a nonstop campaign against Elon Musk.
00:35:15.600 He is doing everything the president campaigned with him on the campaign trail.
00:35:21.840 He would bring him out, say, this is the guy who's going to go in and he's going to look
00:35:25.500 at every budget.
00:35:26.600 He's going to, with a team, go and look at everything.
00:35:28.740 He's doing it the right way.
00:35:32.280 He's doing it through the office of digital.
00:35:36.860 What is it?
00:35:38.880 What is the office that he's actually running?
00:35:41.020 It was set up by Barack Obama to, if we can make government more efficient by digitizing
00:35:47.460 things, we should.
00:35:48.500 That's the office he's working out of.
00:35:53.760 And the left is just losing their mind.
00:35:59.240 It's kind of wild.
00:36:00.380 I'm writing about it right now for tomorrow's Beltway Brief Newsletter about, I mean, if
00:36:04.920 you're on the Capitol Hill listservs, I used to have a house in Capitol Hill.
00:36:08.480 My wife was on the mom's listservs.
00:36:10.260 People are setting up support groups for federal workers who may have their feelings hurt or
00:36:15.080 may be looking at eight months of paid salary if they resign.
00:36:18.680 People are trying to search around.
00:36:20.220 Can we find a USAID flag that I can fly in front of my house next to the rainbow flag,
00:36:25.020 never an American flag on Capitol Hill?
00:36:27.240 The absolute panic gripping the city is incredible because Republicans have never actually done
00:36:33.120 what they said they were going to do to actually tackle the deep state, to actually look at
00:36:38.360 the bureaucracy.
00:36:39.860 I mean, tonight is the deadline for federal employees to take the offer that Elon Musk's
00:36:45.080 put out on behalf of the president, do take a buyout until the summer in order to resign.
00:36:50.960 So you get paid, you get to look for another job, you get to figure things out.
00:36:54.560 And people at first were suspicious, but the numbers keep on growing.
00:36:57.920 10,000, 20,000 people have taken it.
00:37:00.360 And I strongly suspect that by the midnight deadline, which they've announced they will
00:37:04.220 not extend, you're going to have an absolute flurry of people who say, I'm out of here.
00:37:08.760 I'm done.
00:37:09.340 I'm quitting.
00:37:09.980 You can't fire me.
00:37:10.780 I, uh, I got to tell you, I, I would be taking that.
00:37:15.260 I mean, especially if I disagreed with Donald Trump, uh, I'd get the hell out of town because,
00:37:20.760 you know, especially in Intel, when, when Tulsi Gabbard starts to go through those 18 agencies,
00:37:27.360 you know, you know, things were done and things were done at USAID that does the president know
00:37:35.180 about this.
00:37:35.860 Let's not ask any questions.
00:37:37.280 President doesn't need to know.
00:37:38.800 Um, when it, when it comes to these black ops, you know, there are people who are like,
00:37:42.960 I'm not taking the fall for this.
00:37:45.920 Excuse me.
00:37:46.500 I'm not taking the fall for this.
00:37:47.840 If, if we get caught, it's on your, your head, not mine.
00:37:52.620 All those conversations that have happened over the last 20, 30, 40 years, there are all
00:37:58.540 those chickens are coming home to roost.
00:38:00.140 Uh, I'd get the hell out of there or I'd become a whistleblower.
00:38:05.940 Uh, you've been talking about this, uh, you're in it ever since I first saw you on TV decades
00:38:11.380 ago about the corruption and the interconnectedness between USAID department of state, the federal
00:38:18.420 grants that give out the lawsuits and the activist groups.
00:38:21.980 And this has been a real blessing finally for, for Elon Musk to pull it off and to see all these
00:38:26.940 organizations and to have the, these young and brilliant people who spend their free
00:38:32.600 time trying to use computers to read ancient scrolls are now focusing their attention on
00:38:38.440 what's going on in Washington, DC and the interconnectedness and how much of the American
00:38:44.280 left and the global left, which has been so successful that they seemed impenetrable and
00:38:49.500 indestructible these last couple of 20 years or so, how much they're actually funded, how
00:38:55.140 much of it is fake, how much of it comes out of the U S taxpayer, how much of it can't
00:39:00.680 possibly stand up on its own.
00:39:02.480 And I think that half of the freak out that we're seeing isn't just because of USAID, which
00:39:07.480 is a huge spreader of this money, but because of what they expect to be found after USAID
00:39:13.160 as they dig deeper, as you get people like Chelsea Gabbard, exactly to your point.
00:39:16.960 So tell me, you wrote a story today, um, that I honestly, I don't really understand about
00:39:23.660 the, um, the CIOs of every agency.
00:39:27.240 Can you tell me, you said this was absolutely critical and a very big deal.
00:39:31.900 I don't understand it.
00:39:33.140 Can you explain it?
00:39:34.580 Talk down.
00:39:34.920 It is because, so when you have the secretaries and the directors, they come in and they're
00:39:39.240 appointed or they're confirmed by the Senate or just sent in by the white house, they rely
00:39:43.740 on a team and these departments and agencies, one of the top people they rely on as a chief
00:39:48.520 information officer.
00:39:49.900 Now that's someone that the left will always say, Oh, they're, they're non-political.
00:39:53.960 They're non-political, but non-political in DC is code for Democrat.
00:39:57.800 This city is 95% Democrat.
00:40:00.340 That is all of them.
00:40:01.580 So non-political is just don't touch me.
00:40:03.780 I'm above the rules.
00:40:05.020 I defend the Democrats.
00:40:06.620 Now, some of these guys are actually in there doing Yeaman's work, but by and large, if you're
00:40:11.660 the new secretary and you walk in and you say, I want all the communications between
00:40:15.440 my agency, EPA, and these outside environmental groups, or I want to see what communications
00:40:22.080 you had with the FBI on this subject, or I would like to see where all the projects are
00:40:26.640 going.
00:40:26.860 I want an accounting for everything.
00:40:29.100 Where's the money going?
00:40:30.540 The chief information officer is the person who's going to get that to you.
00:40:33.800 And when they're trying to move against you, like they were in the first Trump administration,
00:40:38.500 that just ends up with leaks of the New York Times.
00:40:40.880 It ends up with lawsuits.
00:40:42.560 It ends up with different activist groups coming at you, personal friends I know of
00:40:46.660 mine, some of which declined to buy the insurance before going in, ended up being sued for millions
00:40:52.260 of dollars for decisions that they made as executives to go after different kinds of
00:40:56.540 wasteful spending that we're seeing go on right now.
00:40:59.140 Chief information officer can be someone who controls that, but also they do a lot of cybersecurity
00:41:03.680 and protection of American data and American secrets.
00:41:06.920 In the modern world with the Trump administration, they're looking at this and saying,
00:41:10.880 I can get an engineer from Palantir.
00:41:14.480 I can get someone from Peter Thiel's world to come in here and do cybersecurity.
00:41:18.020 Sure, it's a pay cut, but it's a couple of years as the chief information officer, Department
00:41:21.700 of State, EPA, any of these different groups.
00:41:24.940 That's a cool thing on their resume.
00:41:26.600 It's an opportunity for them to serve.
00:41:28.660 And we're going to get top-notch talent that way.
00:41:30.840 So in every aspect, American security and the ability of the executive to actually know
00:41:35.520 what's going on in their own agency, this is a crucial move, even if it is a little in
00:41:39.400 the weeds.
00:41:40.620 I thank you for explaining that in a way I can understand.
00:41:43.640 The other thing that I saw today was that they are freaking out about Doge going into Medicare,
00:41:55.140 Medicaid, and looking into, what department is that?
00:42:00.280 Health and Human Services?
00:42:01.520 AJF.
00:42:02.120 Yeah.
00:42:02.840 And so going into there, which is a big one, they're expecting to find all kinds of fraud
00:42:08.620 in that, and the unions are starting to organize and saying, he can see raw numbers, but he
00:42:17.860 can't allow him to have any access to names or social security numbers or anything else
00:42:25.400 of any employee.
00:42:27.940 And one of the thoughts is that he is going to run those social security numbers and find
00:42:34.260 out what you were paying in taxes, what you're making.
00:42:37.720 Are you working from home on another job when you're supposed to be working full-time?
00:42:42.680 Have you heard that?
00:42:44.620 Yes.
00:42:45.020 That's one of the things, that's one of the ways that the administration has to fire people
00:42:50.760 with cause is having secondary work and taking money from outside sources while you're supposed
00:42:56.560 to be a full-time federal employee.
00:42:58.660 How many of these people are taking gigs with the gig economy?
00:43:01.980 How many of these people are taking payments from some other side hustle?
00:43:05.420 So it's kind of, it's been really wild.
00:43:07.800 It's been a conversation around school playgrounds and even the churches around D.C.
00:43:12.680 between employees who, for the first time that they've been six-figure federal employees
00:43:17.140 for years, have to figure out who's going to watch their kids during the day while they're
00:43:21.120 at work.
00:43:21.480 The kind of thing that you and I had to figure out when we went to work.
00:43:24.560 We put on our big boy pants and went to a job.
00:43:27.180 And it shows you exactly where their priorities have been.
00:43:32.360 D.C.'s outside markets on a nice day and outside bars and cafes are absolutely packed
00:43:38.400 with people hanging out with their friends, quote-unquote, working from home.
00:43:41.940 And you'll see it over and over again.
00:43:43.580 And it's something that Elon Musk has railed against in his previous companies, his rocket
00:43:50.840 ship company, Tesla, at Twitter.
00:43:54.460 He comes in and says, we're done.
00:43:56.840 You're coming into the office.
00:43:58.140 It's essential for you to be here.
00:43:59.900 And this is going to be a path for him to get in there.
00:44:02.360 But it is one of the freakouts.
00:44:03.840 And it's one of the places you're going to start to see, they're so disorganized right
00:44:07.160 now, but start to see a flurry of lawsuits from the unions, from employees, and from
00:44:12.280 activist groups trying to stop everything they can.
00:44:15.560 So progress, this is kind of the opening strike.
00:44:18.700 And I expect progress too slow and grind down a little bit.
00:44:22.760 But if he keeps on moving at this pace, this frenetic pace, he keeps on working weekends,
00:44:26.500 as he says, we're still going to make incredible progress.
00:44:29.320 I got to tell you, I talked to Holman last night and I said, you know, how far planned
00:44:36.540 out are all of you guys.
00:44:38.100 And he said, oh, we're in phase one.
00:44:40.040 In about four weeks, phase two is coming.
00:44:42.640 And then we have three and four.
00:44:44.160 He said, I'm not going to give anything away, but we're a long way from being done.
00:44:48.300 This is well planned out.
00:44:49.540 I don't think it's going to slow down.
00:44:52.180 I imagine if the liberals could go back in time and just treat Donald Trump like a normal
00:44:56.900 Republican instead of trying to put him in prison.
00:45:00.060 I think they would take that deal on a heartbeat.
00:45:02.500 What they've created now is incredible.
00:45:04.620 Thank you so much.
00:45:06.620 Christopher Bedford, he is Blaze Media Senior Editor for Politics, Blaze Media, Washington
00:45:11.280 Correspondent.
00:45:13.000 And the crucial step that President Trump's administration is taking in an effort to make
00:45:17.500 government more responsive, transparent, efficient and accessible to the public is the
00:45:22.380 story that is on Blaze right now.
00:45:24.600 Na na na na.