The Glenn Beck Program - January 24, 2024


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Lt. Chris Olivarez & Steve Robinson ｜ 1⧸24⧸24


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Glenn Beck is joined by Texas Lt. Gov. Rick Perry to discuss the immigration crisis in his home state, and to discuss why he thinks Joe Biden should be the next president of the United States. Glenn also talks about why he doesn t want to vote for Donald Trump.

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00:00:00.000 Stu, what do you think the most impressive point that I made today was?
00:00:06.360 I mean, there's so many to choose from in today's podcast.
00:00:09.880 I thought your passionate 45-minute rant on the inequities of the Oscar
00:00:16.800 not going to Margot Robbie for Barbie was powerful.
00:00:21.420 I didn't think anybody heard that.
00:00:23.480 Many didn't.
00:00:24.260 I didn't do that, but I, oh my gosh.
00:00:26.840 I could feel it.
00:00:28.540 There's a real injustice there that's so deep with me.
00:00:32.360 We talk about a lot of things.
00:00:33.780 We talked about the border today, a lot about the audio from Carrie Lake.
00:00:37.940 That just drives me out of my mind.
00:00:40.620 That is so immoral.
00:00:42.700 And, you know, if you want the moral high ground, you should call the GOP and say,
00:00:47.840 enough, that guy should not be the head of the GOP in Arizona.
00:00:51.700 And if you don't know what we're talking about, you need to find out.
00:00:56.060 And it's right at the beginning of the podcast.
00:00:58.540 But that goes all the way, I think, to very high levels in Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.480 And we have a right to know who was making that offer and phone call.
00:01:07.800 I think I know, but you'll have to decide for yourself.
00:01:11.140 Also, more on the border, some really disturbing news.
00:01:14.200 And it goes along with what's happening tonight on TV.
00:01:17.040 We're looking at the border and we have the lieutenant governor on with us from the great state of Texas.
00:01:22.980 They're not backing down.
00:01:24.820 You don't want to miss it.
00:01:25.620 And then a very heartfelt plea to the audience that of people who disagree with me to call in and talk to me about why you would vote for Biden.
00:01:36.400 And what you what's your feeling?
00:01:40.060 We had an interesting call from a guy who was a conservative says, I can never vote for Donald Trump.
00:01:44.320 I will vote for Joe Biden.
00:01:47.300 Fascinating conversation.
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00:03:06.240 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:03:12.340 Well, welcome to the program.
00:03:14.820 Now, I want to start with something that I don't think if we were a liberal show, MSNBC,
00:03:20.240 we would be doing this.
00:03:22.660 But I think conservatives are different.
00:03:26.560 I think I, at least I do, I want to know all the bad things that are happening in my own party.
00:03:32.820 Because I believe my own party, even though it's not my party,
00:03:36.160 the people on my side, if you will, some of them are corrupt.
00:03:40.980 And I don't have an answer for who did this, but I want you to just ask yourself the mom formula.
00:03:50.260 And I'll tell you what the mom formula is after you listen to this.
00:03:54.660 It was last year at CPAC.
00:03:57.600 Carrie Lake made a pretty bold statement. 1.00
00:04:00.840 And she said, someone in the GOP, in the back east GOP, tried to bribe me to keep me from running for Senate.
00:04:13.480 Now, a lot of people can say those things, but do you have the evidence?
00:04:17.720 Yes, she does.
00:04:20.480 And it was released yesterday.
00:04:23.240 I want you to hear this, which was taped, I believe, by her.
00:04:30.740 And it is the voice of the Republican, head of the Republican Party in Arizona.
00:04:38.560 Listen.
00:04:39.400 Is there a number of which?
00:04:41.400 I can be bought.
00:04:42.740 You can not be bought.
00:04:44.020 That's what it's about.
00:04:44.980 You can take a pause for a couple of years.
00:04:46.600 No.
00:04:46.760 And then go right back to what you're doing.
00:04:48.840 No.
00:04:51.060 10 million, 20 million, 30, no, no, no.
00:04:54.160 A billion, no.
00:04:57.620 This is not about money.
00:04:58.960 This is about our country.
00:05:03.340 I think it's disturbing that they would even, that anybody would think this is.
00:05:09.320 No, to be fair, even me, even me, I'll say this.
00:05:12.360 I want a fresh race right now for the reason that I've never seen anyone. 1.00
00:05:18.400 I can't think of a single person in a federal race who've lost, ran in and won.
00:05:24.040 I can't think of it.
00:05:24.940 If you can think of it, let me know.
00:05:25.900 I am not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run.
00:05:31.220 You should call them and tell them to get behind me.
00:05:32.940 So what's going on?
00:05:35.000 What is, I'm assuming this is our friend.
00:05:38.540 Oh, this is, this is, this is back east.
00:05:42.600 They, there are very powerful people that want to keep you out.
00:05:46.560 But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is, in a big way.
00:05:53.760 So, this conversation never happened.
00:05:56.160 This is crazy, though.
00:05:57.840 They should want me.
00:05:59.440 I'm a great candidate.
00:06:00.980 People love me.
00:06:02.800 These people are corrupt.
00:06:04.720 Well, maybe you're right.
00:06:07.960 They are corrupt.
00:06:09.440 Maybe you are.
00:06:10.200 This is a wrap.
00:06:10.860 Don't, don't go.
00:06:11.900 If you ever, though, I don't get myself in trouble.
00:06:13.860 But this, if you, if you, if you say no, which is fine.
00:06:17.060 It's your choice.
00:06:18.320 Don't tell people.
00:06:19.200 They're going to have, try to have me murdered.
00:06:23.080 Today's world, man.
00:06:24.760 If that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff, man.
00:06:27.780 I hear the cartel, they say the cartel's operating in 50 states right now.
00:06:30.140 Like all 50, you know? 0.98
00:06:31.720 So.
00:06:33.280 So what, what, what's going on?
00:06:34.780 Who is it?
00:06:35.260 What?
00:06:36.360 Forget the who.
00:06:37.920 Let me just tell you the what.
00:06:40.980 Let's just say there are people calling around.
00:06:43.860 Saying, gosh, no, they can't repeat this.
00:06:46.480 Never repeat this.
00:06:47.060 If you say no, don't.
00:06:47.720 Because they, I got offered to buy up.
00:06:49.280 Yeah.
00:06:50.740 Because then we lose our ability to get things done in the future.
00:06:54.140 Jeez.
00:06:54.540 Here's my problem.
00:06:55.740 Rather than just say, let's work with her. 0.55
00:06:57.780 She's a great candidate. 1.00
00:06:59.860 Because they don't own me.
00:07:02.180 And it pisses me off.
00:07:04.400 Yeah, it's not about ownership.
00:07:08.000 It's about control.
00:07:10.240 I don't know if it's about control.
00:07:11.360 It's about being on the team.
00:07:17.040 Like I said.
00:07:17.880 You know what I mean?
00:07:18.260 They want to be on the team.
00:07:20.700 They want you to be on their team.
00:07:22.840 Just team.
00:07:24.000 You know?
00:07:24.300 But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that.
00:07:27.040 So what do they want?
00:07:27.960 What do they want me to do?
00:07:29.480 You want me to stay opportunists.
00:07:34.140 What?
00:07:34.780 I'll tell you what I can offer you.
00:07:39.140 What?
00:07:39.420 I said, you can do whatever you want.
00:07:43.300 It's a talking head, this, and that.
00:07:44.820 So the ask of me was, it's kind of funny.
00:07:48.000 So the ask I got today from back east was, is there any companies out there or something
00:07:55.380 that could just put her on the payroll and give her, to keep her out? 0.96
00:07:58.440 And I said, well, what are you willing to do?
00:08:01.360 Whatever we need to do.
00:08:02.360 This is about defeating Trump.
00:08:04.520 And I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.
00:08:08.540 DeSantis is not America first.
00:08:11.840 This is about the final death blow to Trump.
00:08:17.200 And I don't think that's good for our country.
00:08:19.240 I love Trump.
00:08:20.300 I love Trump.
00:08:20.960 It's not good for our country, Jeff.
00:08:24.100 It's not.
00:08:24.940 But at the same time, I'm not even sure Trump's going to get it.
00:08:32.420 I don't know that you're going to get it.
00:08:33.560 I think what it really comes down to for a lot of people, it's not only about control
00:08:38.540 or agenda.
00:08:39.140 It's just about the ability to raise money to win.
00:08:43.700 If you really want to know, all of what those public schools are in the money, I think.
00:08:47.500 I don't believe that.
00:08:49.180 And even on their end, what makes them the most money?
00:08:51.980 I know.
00:08:52.660 All these consultants don't want their payday to end.
00:08:56.940 And I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people.
00:08:59.680 This is a hill worth dying on.
00:09:01.480 If they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not
00:09:09.100 letting them do that.
00:09:09.960 I owe it to the people of Arizona to carry their torch and their voice.
00:09:14.240 Or you don't go away, but you pause.
00:09:19.420 This is the battle is right now, Jeff.
00:09:21.700 You pause.
00:09:22.960 And you fill your coffers.
00:09:25.120 No, the battle is right now.
00:09:27.620 The battle is right now.
00:09:28.920 And we don't have time to pause on this battlefield.
00:09:33.060 You're not.
00:09:36.840 Well, you can't scratch their back.
00:09:39.340 It's not for you.
00:09:40.280 Yeah.
00:09:41.680 You don't have anything to offer them.
00:09:44.140 And they're sitting around people who have sucked off of them.
00:09:47.300 You know what I mean?
00:09:48.460 It's just, it's a backscratching club.
00:09:51.020 That's all DC is.
00:09:51.840 It's a big backscratching club.
00:09:52.840 You're in no position to scratch anybody's back.
00:09:55.980 And you've already made it known that if you get there, you're not going to scratch anybody's
00:09:57.940 back.
00:09:58.400 I don't scratch people's back.
00:09:59.920 You know?
00:10:00.120 I was, I've been on the outs with a lot of people for a long time.
00:10:02.320 I don't scratch people's back.
00:10:03.080 You know?
00:10:04.000 Where are we in two years if they steal the election again?
00:10:08.320 Listen to what you're saying.
00:10:10.140 Why don't we do something about it?
00:10:11.940 So that we, the people, can pick our...
00:10:13.780 What can we do?
00:10:14.920 I'm not willing to accept that.
00:10:16.620 And I'm going to be the biggest pain in these people's...
00:10:19.380 Go back and tell them that.
00:10:20.700 I'm running.
00:10:22.300 And I'm going to be the biggest pain in their...
00:10:24.040 I'm not willing to tell them that.
00:10:27.540 And they're going to have to kill me.
00:10:30.460 To stop me.
00:10:31.240 That is incredible.
00:10:35.680 And incredibly slimy.
00:10:40.540 The name of the guy who is making this offer is the chair of the Arizona Republican Party.
00:10:47.720 I've talked to some legal experts.
00:10:50.720 They're not sure if this is illegal.
00:10:53.180 You're not sure if this is illegal?
00:10:55.940 You're offering someone a bribe.
00:10:58.580 If it's not illegal, it should be illegal.
00:11:05.540 Some very powerful people want you to step aside.
00:11:09.780 Some very powerful people do not want you in.
00:11:14.540 Now, what can they give you to step aside?
00:11:16.800 Nothing.
00:11:17.900 Money.
00:11:18.800 Jobs.
00:11:19.660 Nothing.
00:11:19.960 No, we're not.
00:11:24.000 We're not trying to stop you.
00:11:25.660 We...
00:11:26.340 A pause.
00:11:27.440 Just a pause.
00:11:30.160 This is in our own party.
00:11:33.300 Let's ask the mom question of this. 0.99
00:11:35.580 Because who's responsible?
00:11:37.400 He says it's the powers back east.
00:11:39.820 Some people back east.
00:11:41.140 Now, I think I know who he's talking about because I have heard through the grapevine for
00:11:47.520 the last few years about this kind of stuff.
00:11:51.100 Not this blatant, but this kind of stuff happening.
00:11:54.580 Because somebody's got a big, huge treasure chest.
00:11:58.880 Now, the mom question is motive, opportunity, and means. 0.52
00:12:05.740 Because let's ask mom, who has the motive to stop Carrie Lake from going into the Senate? 1.00
00:12:19.080 Who has the opportunity to do it?
00:12:23.380 And who has a giant Senate chest that has used it in, I think, ways that the average Republican
00:12:36.780 would not be very proud of?
00:12:39.340 And we have seen this treasure chest used against Republicans who are the only choice in some
00:12:47.800 states.
00:12:48.340 Who has the means?
00:12:52.920 Check.
00:12:53.460 I'm thinking of someone.
00:12:55.080 The opportunity.
00:12:56.580 Check again.
00:12:58.820 And the motive.
00:13:01.040 Giant check.
00:13:04.160 Now, I have absolutely...
00:13:06.640 I don't know who you came up with, but I have no idea if that's true.
00:13:12.060 That's why I don't want to say a name.
00:13:14.200 Because I don't know.
00:13:15.980 But we damn well better find out.
00:13:21.620 Every single person in this audience should be calling the GOP national headquarters today
00:13:26.960 and saying, what the hell is this?
00:13:29.900 I'm sorry, I won't accept that you can't find...
00:13:35.540 For some reason, we had somebody leak a SCOTUS decision, put our Supreme Court justices' lives
00:13:47.740 at risk, and somehow or another, they couldn't get that one of the two people that had access
00:13:56.060 to it.
00:13:56.540 They couldn't figure out who it was.
00:13:59.280 You've got like two to four people maximum that had that.
00:14:04.640 You can't figure it out.
00:14:06.960 Ha.
00:14:09.440 I'm so sick and tired of this.
00:14:11.680 Every single person that writes a check to any GOP person, you should not fund the GOP
00:14:21.980 until this is exposed and cleaned up.
00:14:28.560 This is corruption at the highest levels.
00:14:32.020 No, no.
00:14:32.820 This is...
00:14:33.360 What did he say?
00:14:34.860 This isn't about control.
00:14:37.300 This is about ownership.
00:14:42.400 I thought he said it wasn't about ownership.
00:14:43.860 It was about winning the election.
00:14:45.680 No, he said it was about ownership.
00:14:47.760 And then it's about being on the team.
00:14:49.760 It's about being able to raise money.
00:14:52.000 Right.
00:14:52.620 Yeah.
00:14:53.420 Okay.
00:14:54.860 She said it was power and control.
00:14:56.820 And he said, no, it's just ownership.
00:14:58.600 They want you on the team.
00:15:00.000 So, in other words, they want to own you.
00:15:03.740 That's the problem in Washington.
00:15:06.460 And I'm sorry, we cannot say we're the good guys if this stuff is happening in our own party.
00:15:13.240 This is the kind of stuff that we all say we're against.
00:15:17.280 Are we against it in our own party?
00:15:19.220 Because I am.
00:15:21.060 I'm pretty sure you are too.
00:15:23.760 Did you hear how slimy that guy was?
00:15:28.220 It's not me.
00:15:28.920 It's not me.
00:15:29.420 I mean, I'm just the messenger.
00:15:31.940 I'm just saying I got a call from back.
00:15:34.240 You know what happens when I get a call from back east?
00:15:37.560 First of all, my gosh, was Lucy right about, you know, that Christmas is run by the syndicate back east?
00:15:45.800 My gosh.
00:15:48.080 So, I got a call from back east.
00:15:49.980 You know what I do with that call?
00:15:51.420 I'm not doing that.
00:15:53.460 Do your own dirty business.
00:15:55.720 Click.
00:15:56.140 But see, he has ambitions.
00:16:00.600 He wants to go higher.
00:16:02.400 He wants to be one of the bigwigs that he can call out west someday and say, look, here's what I want you to do.
00:16:10.240 Shame on you, Jeff DeWitt.
00:16:16.060 Shame on you.
00:16:18.420 Do you have no pride?
00:16:25.940 Do you have no love of country, of decency?
00:16:30.240 Do you not know what ethics are?
00:16:33.060 I suggest you start looking them up, Jeff.
00:16:35.960 Because you're so far away from ethical.
00:16:39.600 It's shocking.
00:16:46.220 This is what Donald Trump is fighting.
00:16:50.640 And let me tell you.
00:16:51.920 This is exactly the kind of stuff that Nikki Haley allowed to happen in her own camp.
00:17:04.400 She knew really bad organizations and funds that fund the Democratic Party in all kinds of ways went to her and said, look, we'll fund you. 0.94
00:17:18.740 And she said, yes.
00:17:20.620 This is not good by any stretch of the imagination.
00:17:27.000 And each of us should be.
00:17:30.700 In fact, can you get the number to the national headquarters of the GOP so people can call and write today?
00:17:37.380 Because you should call and write and say not another dime to any candidate.
00:17:43.480 None.
00:17:44.580 You think it's hard to raise money before?
00:17:47.820 Now without?
00:17:48.940 With this out?
00:17:50.220 Unless you clean house on this and show us who did it, you're done.
00:17:55.360 All right.
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00:19:31.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:19:41.920 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:19:44.800 We're hoping the head of the Department of Public Safety is going to be joining us from Texas here.
00:19:53.260 Talk to us a little bit about what they did yesterday.
00:19:55.540 They doubled down.
00:19:57.100 Texas, Ken Paxton came out and said, we're going to protect the sovereignty of Texas.
00:20:01.860 Well within the law, too.
00:20:03.720 Yeah.
00:20:03.960 It's not defying any orders.
00:20:06.620 They just can't do anything if the federal government snips the wire.
00:20:11.740 But the Supreme Court didn't say anything about Texas.
00:20:15.980 It said, you know, everything about the feds.
00:20:21.920 They can go in and cut it.
00:20:23.360 Okay.
00:20:23.860 Go for it.
00:20:24.640 There's a couple of things that we should talk about in the meantime.
00:20:31.680 One, Donald Trump won handily last night.
00:20:35.260 It was interesting to see how the polls started to come out.
00:20:39.260 And they always say, look, there are these counties that haven't yet come in, and they're going to be heavy Haley, or they're going to be heavy, you know, Trump.
00:20:48.300 It didn't say that CBS, which is the only, for some reason, the only thing I could get yesterday, was...
00:20:55.480 Were you in prison?
00:20:56.560 I was trapped.
00:20:57.100 I really was trapped.
00:20:58.200 Don't ask me.
00:20:58.940 But I was trapped.
00:20:59.840 And so I'm watching it on CBS, and it says basically, you know, it's pretty close to a tie.
00:21:05.980 She's within four or five points.
00:21:08.000 Well, no, that's not what it was.
00:21:09.640 I mean, she was that close for a while in the reported results.
00:21:13.080 But if it was really four to five points, there's no way they call it.
00:21:16.440 And I will say this.
00:21:17.220 They didn't call it.
00:21:18.340 Oh, CBS didn't?
00:21:19.340 CBS did not call it.
00:21:20.520 Almost everybody did call it immediately, which is quite the statement.
00:21:25.520 Honestly, I was surprised they didn't drag the drama out a little bit longer.
00:21:29.100 Well, no, they wanted to make sure that Haley looked like a victor that was only five points away.
00:21:33.840 That's not what it was.
00:21:35.380 I mean, that Trump was a victor, but Haley was right on his tail.
00:21:39.320 Yeah, but why would they announce...
00:21:40.740 Why would they call the race for Trump immediately?
00:21:42.660 You could keep it open.
00:21:43.420 They call it for Trump immediately, but because you want that narrow spread.
00:21:46.940 You want people to see it at that narrow spread and then go away.
00:21:51.620 Okay.
00:21:52.140 Well, maybe that's true.
00:21:53.900 I mean, to me, it just seemed like it wasn't even a contest because the second the polls
00:21:57.840 closed, they were like, okay, we got it.
00:21:59.220 Call it.
00:21:59.840 You know, like that's...
00:22:00.500 When they have information like that, what they know is it's a blowout.
00:22:03.180 It's not a five-point race.
00:22:04.180 They know it's not a five-point race.
00:22:05.460 I know that.
00:22:06.400 But that's...
00:22:07.020 So CBS might have been just...
00:22:08.040 Yeah, they were...
00:22:08.720 I mean, they're all calling it.
00:22:10.540 That's the number you see.
00:22:12.580 And you're like, oh, wow, she did a lot better.
00:22:14.640 No, still 11 points away.
00:22:16.580 All right.
00:22:16.940 We have our guest on.
00:22:21.400 He's made it on, thank God.
00:22:23.220 It's Lieutenant Chris Olivares.
00:22:27.040 He is with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
00:22:30.520 Lieutenant, welcome to the program.
00:22:32.840 Yesterday, Texas kind of just doubled down, did we not?
00:22:37.800 Absolutely.
00:22:38.420 Thank you for having me on, Glenn.
00:22:39.400 So yes, great to be with you and, of course, your listeners.
00:22:41.880 So as you mentioned, yes, the state of Texas, we're not backing down.
00:22:46.940 Governor Abbott made it very clear that the fight is not over with this whole situation
00:22:51.240 at Shelby Park and Eagle Pass.
00:22:52.900 I just got back from Eagle Pass last night to kind of get a rundown of what's happening
00:22:57.220 and what's going to take place with this whole Supreme Court decision.
00:23:00.940 And nothing has changed, at least on our end, with DPS and National Guard.
00:23:04.840 We're still continuing with operations at Shelby Park.
00:23:08.160 We still have restricted access to Border Patrol in that area.
00:23:12.220 And in fact, you know, National Guard is installing more barriers, more Constantino wire, more fencing
00:23:17.740 along the river to make it more challenging and try to discourage illegal border crossing.
00:23:22.200 So Texas is not backing down.
00:23:24.260 And we appreciate the support from everyone in Texas, you know, as far as supporting what
00:23:28.560 we're doing and what we've been doing for the last three years with border operations.
00:23:32.060 So we're very thankful for that.
00:23:34.260 They claim that you are, and I love this, that you're making it more difficult for them to
00:23:40.920 do their job.
00:23:41.640 But I'm not sure what their job is if, you know, razor wire and fencing, which is built
00:23:49.480 to discourage people from coming across the water, I'm not sure what their job is.
00:23:55.220 How is this holding them back from doing their job?
00:24:01.480 Well, it's all in a narrative, you know, Glenn.
00:24:03.920 I mean, they're just trying to portray, and I say they, I'm talking about the federal government
00:24:07.540 and even some of those that have been critical of Texas.
00:24:10.100 They're really trying to create this divide between, you know, federal agencies and the
00:24:14.800 state, which, you know, they're trying to create some type of conflict that's not, that's
00:24:18.400 non-existent.
00:24:19.260 You know, we still work great with border patrol, all the rank and file agents.
00:24:23.080 The relationship has not changed, but it does not make their job difficult for one, because
00:24:28.680 we have soldiers, we have state troopers that are at that park that are working along the
00:24:32.600 river.
00:24:33.160 They can respond to situations.
00:24:35.380 And if they come across people, you know, any type of illegal immigrants, whether it be a
00:24:39.260 family or child, they still turn them over to border patrol.
00:24:42.660 So border patrol is still able to respond and process those individuals.
00:24:46.600 We want to focus on those single adults that we are arresting right now for criminal trespass.
00:24:51.900 But this whole concept that it's going to make their job more difficult, I mean, that's
00:24:56.520 inaccurate.
00:24:57.140 I mean, we look back in December at Eagle Pass, we had the largest influx of illegal immigration
00:25:00.960 that we've ever experienced in the last three years.
00:25:02.680 Every single border patrol agent in that sector was pulled from the field to process people.
00:25:09.120 You had secondary checkpoints, border patrol checkpoints that were shut down because those
00:25:14.020 agents were used to process.
00:25:15.300 So now you have this free for all for all the criminal activity for human smugglers to
00:25:20.000 take place.
00:25:20.580 So now by us actually taking over this area, it allows those agents to get back to the field
00:25:26.180 to focus on that criminal work that they like, that they want to do.
00:25:30.000 They don't want to do administrative work.
00:25:31.180 They want to be out in the field.
00:25:32.800 I want to make sure that we're not passing on any disinformation, but I am surprised at
00:25:39.500 our federal government for not tracking this down.
00:25:42.380 There is a video that is going around and let me play it.
00:25:45.240 Cut four, please.
00:25:47.140 If you are smart enough, you will know who I am.
00:25:50.000 But you are really not smart enough to know who I am.
00:25:52.620 But soon you're going to know who I am.
00:25:54.820 Very easy.
00:25:56.460 Okay.
00:25:57.320 Soon you're going to know who I am.
00:25:59.360 Now there is, there's all kinds of things going around that, that say that this guy
00:26:05.980 was in Guantanamo for, I think, 11 years and was released.
00:26:11.220 However, we're looking at current pictures of the guy and he's a lot older than this guy
00:26:16.880 appears to be.
00:26:17.760 Um, but I, I don't know.
00:26:20.460 Has anybody run facial recognition on this guy?
00:26:24.940 You know, I saw that video circulate on social media.
00:26:27.860 Uh, I think that's, that really shows it's a clear example of the threats that are coming
00:26:33.720 across our border, especially when someone is actually saying that you're going to know
00:26:36.940 who I am soon.
00:26:38.100 Um, those are the type of threats that we worry about.
00:26:41.720 And that's the type of threats that, that are coming across the border right now.
00:26:45.800 They're exploiting the current situation, but yet our own federal government is not doing
00:26:50.300 nothing to stop it.
00:26:51.880 And of course, when Texas steps up, you know, we're criticized for what we're doing because
00:26:56.140 we want to stop that.
00:26:57.560 We want to stop those public safety and national security threats just right.
00:27:01.960 Just, just today, border patrol, uh, released that there was, there was over 96,000 known
00:27:07.880 gotaways, uh, since October 1st for this fiscal year, those are individuals that have made
00:27:13.240 it into the country right now.
00:27:14.720 And we don't know where they're at, what their intentions are.
00:27:17.140 And when you hear something like that from that individual in that video, that can only,
00:27:21.720 that can, you can only imagine now the type of people that are in the country right now
00:27:24.840 that have been able to get away and that possibly want to cause harm to our country.
00:27:29.140 The threat is here.
00:27:30.120 And I've said that, you know, numerous times, the threat's already here.
00:27:34.000 Um, and that's why it's so important to have border security.
00:27:36.660 But again, it all goes back to the policies and the fact that there is no consequences
00:27:40.540 in place to discourage illegal border crossings.
00:27:42.620 Well, I just find it hard to believe that, uh, our federal government has a video.
00:27:47.880 We know they can run facial recognition, uh, if he's in a database, if he's a known
00:27:53.980 terrorist, why we aren't talking about that, why the public isn't being told who he is
00:28:00.400 and to keep your eye out for this.
00:28:01.780 It just kind of, you know, again, goes under the wire and nobody seems to care about it.
00:28:07.380 And, uh, you know, we have, uh, we have enough problems.
00:28:11.680 We don't need a terrorist attack on our shores as well.
00:28:16.580 You're right.
00:28:17.120 That's the last thing we need, right?
00:28:18.240 I mean, of course, but now with this whole situation for the last three years and the
00:28:21.900 number of people that have made into the country undetected, um, those threats are real.
00:28:26.680 I mean, that's a real, that's the clear reality of the situation.
00:28:29.720 And it does go back to what the federal government has failed to do.
00:28:32.720 And they could have changed this.
00:28:33.900 They can't change this, uh, but they still refuse to do that.
00:28:36.680 And when you see videos like that circulating, they know the threat is here.
00:28:40.200 They know those type of threats are coming across.
00:28:42.000 But as you mentioned, has anything, has anything been done to identify this individual?
00:28:46.920 Probably not.
00:28:47.700 And we probably won't know now, uh, maybe days, weeks later when they actually find out this
00:28:52.640 individual was probably, you know, wanted or maybe on the terrorist screening database.
00:28:56.680 Uh, but by that time it's too late and that's happened in many cases.
00:28:59.640 So that's why it all goes back to having a proper vetting process in place.
00:29:03.920 But that's not being done right now because the agents are just overwhelmed, um, resources
00:29:09.000 are strained.
00:29:09.840 And that's why you see this constant flow of people coming across the border, um, unvetted.
00:29:15.040 Lieutenant Chris Oliveras, he is with the, uh, Texas Department of Public Safety.
00:29:20.160 He's a spokesperson, um, and bringing us the news that Texas is not standing down and not
00:29:26.720 sitting down.
00:29:27.580 Thank you so much, Lieutenant.
00:29:29.540 I appreciate everything you guys do.
00:29:31.680 Appreciate you and the support.
00:29:32.980 Thank you.
00:29:33.260 You got it.
00:29:33.860 Bye-bye.
00:29:34.840 It's, um, it's just, it's, it's, it's beyond unbelievable to me.
00:29:44.940 Uh, it, it's just, it's just beyond the realm of believability that we can have this kind
00:29:55.000 of, uh, video and the federal government hasn't said anything about it.
00:30:02.780 The federal government is not coming out and saying, Hey, he's a known terrorist beyond the
00:30:08.280 watch for this guy.
00:30:10.420 They haven't said anything.
00:30:11.740 And this is the reason for, um, is it disinformation?
00:30:19.760 Yeah.
00:30:20.500 Disinformation.
00:30:21.060 Which one is the one that you know you're telling a lie?
00:30:24.300 That's misinformation, right?
00:30:25.600 I think it's, I think it's, I think it's, I think it's misinformation in front of me because
00:30:29.780 we talked about it so many times.
00:30:30.960 So disinformation is you're just passing something on.
00:30:33.560 You don't, you don't have a nefarious and that's what's happening.
00:30:37.060 I don't know if anybody has a nefarious, uh, reason for putting this out.
00:30:42.520 He does look like that guy.
00:30:44.280 I, my team, you know, and who are we to say my team, we look at it and we're like, I'm not
00:30:50.380 sure if that's the same guy.
00:30:51.800 He looks, he looks older now than that.
00:30:54.920 Um, and, but it could be, but where's our federal government?
00:30:58.900 Where is anyone who is actually paying attention to the things people care about?
00:31:04.220 What, why do we keep talking about how MAGA is so extreme?
00:31:09.200 Really?
00:31:10.380 Is it MAGA that is extreme?
00:31:12.260 The one that's just saying, Hey, I'd like some law and order.
00:31:15.140 I'd like to make sure that terrorists aren't coming into our country.
00:31:18.400 I'd like to sure that, uh, make sure that, you know, we're not enabling people to rape
00:31:23.220 women over and over and over again as they're coming here. 1.00
00:31:27.980 One reason why there's not so many women and children. 1.00
00:31:30.280 Yeah.
00:31:30.440 Cause there's a lot of men there.
00:31:31.820 Some of them nefarious and you have to go through the cartels.
00:31:34.940 You want to send your wife? 1.00
00:31:36.780 You want to send your daughter?
00:31:38.220 I don't.
00:31:39.520 God only knows what happens to them.
00:31:42.860 So misinformation is false or inaccurate information spread without harmful intent.
00:31:50.140 Disinformation is false information spread with the intention to deceive.
00:31:54.960 So that is like, you know, it's false.
00:31:56.860 You're spreading it to deceive.
00:31:57.980 Mal information is information that is somewhat is based on reality, but is still used to inflict 1.00
00:32:06.120 harm on a person or, or organization or country or whatever.
00:32:10.460 So I think you were talking about is disinformation, which is an actual straight out lie or mal
00:32:16.920 information, which is somewhat true, but it's treated in the same way.
00:32:19.900 So in my day, we used to just have lies.
00:32:24.460 Okay.
00:32:24.920 We had lies.
00:32:25.580 Oh, you old timey guy.
00:32:26.820 Yeah.
00:32:27.000 Yeah.
00:32:27.260 And we had lies of omission and commission, meaning you knew what you were doing and you lied about it or you just didn't say anything.
00:32:37.780 But that was a lie because you knew what the truth was.
00:32:41.320 I think I, you know, I'm an old timer.
00:32:43.880 Sure.
00:32:44.540 But I'm pretty comfortable with just using lies or propaganda.
00:32:49.280 Which you boil propaganda down.
00:32:53.480 And it is lies.
00:32:55.640 We had a call yesterday who was reporting something that he had read in the main wire.
00:33:11.860 Um, the editor in chief and investigative reporter is Steve Robinson.
00:33:18.120 Um, he, he has been doing a lot of work at the main wire.com and he has been trying to cover,
00:33:26.600 um, the politics and everything else that's going on.
00:33:30.120 But one of the things that he has really uncovered and has been on for the people of Maine is how Maine has been overrun by unlicensed
00:33:41.300 Chinese operated grow sites.
00:33:45.600 Now these grow sites are growing marijuana.
00:33:47.760 They're unlicensed.
00:33:48.740 So they're illegal.
00:33:49.740 And it is, it's China coming in and populating all of this. 0.99
00:33:55.780 We checked into Steve.
00:33:57.640 I wanted to make sure that he was, uh, somebody that, you know, actually was credible.
00:34:02.920 He worked for the Howie Carr show, Barstool Sports.
00:34:05.760 Uh, in fact, the, uh, police up in Maine, uh, use some of his reporting as a training manual for uncovering this particular problem, uh, up in Maine.
00:34:17.560 So thanks for the tip to our listener that called in yesterday.
00:34:20.760 Steve Robinson is on with us now from the main wire.com.
00:34:23.860 Hi, Steve.
00:34:25.400 Hi, Glenn.
00:34:26.220 Thank you very much for having me on.
00:34:27.800 You bet.
00:34:28.320 So tell me what is happening.
00:34:30.600 Yeah, so the, the reporting from our perspective really began with the leak of a department of homeland security memo.
00:34:39.200 It was a picture of an email that had been sent around.
00:34:42.820 And what it said was that there were hundreds, over 800, uh, Chinese owned illegal marijuana cultivation sites operating within the United States.
00:34:51.540 And it specified that there were more than 270 of these sites operating in Maine.
00:34:56.500 And that came as a surprise to me as a lifelong Mainer, uh, someone who covers Maine politics.
00:35:01.100 I'd heard some about it, but 270 seemed like a big number.
00:35:04.280 Um, so after that initial story came out, we decided that we were going to start reviewing public records, interviewing people in the community and try to see if we could find these locations and really flesh out this story.
00:35:15.340 And so I actually called a buddy of mine, uh, in the central part of the state and asked him about it.
00:35:21.320 Uh, he's an electrician and he's plugged in with this and he said, oh yeah, it's a big problem.
00:35:25.180 There's, there's seven of these in our hometown.
00:35:27.460 Um, and so I went to Dexter where I grew up and I went around and I saw these sites and, you know, you can, you can smell them.
00:35:33.660 And there's other indications based on the property records, the tax records, electrical permit records, where you can put together that it's a pretty big, sophisticated marijuana grow without even having to look inside of it.
00:35:45.980 Uh, and then you can look and ask the town, uh, you know, as, have you guys approved any marijuana, uh, grow sites for the most part, the local police, uh, the county sheriffs, the state police, they know where these locations are.
00:35:58.220 Uh, but for some reason, uh, even as this network has proliferated across rural Maine over the last three years, uh, there really hasn't been a tremendous amount of law enforcement activity around them.
00:36:09.660 Uh, now that's kind of starting to change.
00:36:11.760 There's been about eight or nine busts of these facilities and you're talking about places where they're growing a thousand, two thousand, three thousand marijuana plants and trafficking that typically out of, uh, Maine to places where there are still black markets.
00:36:26.800 And they can get a higher value for it.
00:36:28.500 Um, but it's a, it's a vast, uh, network, a vast organized crime network that is taking advantage of rural Maine, buying up houses that middle-class families could be living in using tremendous amounts of electricity, which increases prices for the rest of Maine and generally undermining the quality of life for people in the state.
00:36:48.660 So this is happening over six different counties in Maine, uh, and there, these, these sites are purchased by whom are they, are they Chinese nationals or do they hire an American to be the name on the, on the title?
00:37:07.800 How, how is this working?
00:37:08.920 Uh, so none of them, uh, none of them that I've found have an American name on the deed.
00:37:14.400 Uh, most of them, uh, according to the department of Homeland security, they believe that the sites are operated by, uh, individuals who are president in the United States illegally.
00:37:24.200 Uh, some of them, wait, wait, wait, illegally or legally.
00:37:29.060 Illegally.
00:37:29.600 Okay.
00:37:29.800 They're there.
00:37:30.300 They have, they do not have authorization to be here in the United States.
00:37:33.040 And I'll say that the, the rise of this network in Maine has corresponded with unprecedented levels of, uh, you know, encounters of Chinese nationals at the Southern border, according to DHS data.
00:37:44.240 Um, so there's, there's every reason to believe that the people who are here are, uh, operating these sites are here illegally.
00:37:50.480 The, uh, Chinese individuals who own these sites are predominantly from Brooklyn and Quincy, Massachusetts.
00:37:57.240 Uh, and whether they have legal status or not, it's hard to discern because, uh, New York and Massachusetts will both give a driver's license to an illegal alien, regardless of their citizenship status.
00:38:09.160 And, uh, do they speak English?
00:38:13.720 Do they fit in?
00:38:15.820 Uh, they're, they're, they operate really apart from the community.
00:38:20.100 They're, they're often never seen outside of the houses.
00:38:22.820 Uh, they'll go to grow shops in the areas where they'll, um, show a picture of the product that they want on their phone, uh, and indicate that that's what they want, uh, for supplies because they're spending a lot of money at the grow shops.
00:38:34.800 They are treated like VIPs.
00:38:37.060 Uh, for the most part, they have enough English to get by, uh, if they're ever questioned by law enforcement or a code enforcement officer, uh, we've heard stories about, uh, their ability to speak English rapidly going away when they think that they're coming under scrutiny.
00:38:49.800 Uh, at a recent bust in, uh, Machias, Maine, that was spearheaded by the Machias police department and the Washington County Sheriff's office, which is, uh, you know, it's one of the most rural counties in Maine.
00:39:01.180 Uh, law enforcement uncovered a, uh, a, uh, PRC passport to Malaysian passports, an airplane ticket that showed a recent arrival from, uh, the People's Republic of China.
00:39:13.120 Uh, and they also found close to 3000 pot plants in nine different grow rooms.
00:39:18.640 Uh, and they found, uh, in the meter box, uh, because of course these places need tremendous amounts of power.
00:39:24.760 They found that the meter box had been, uh, rewired by someone with a sophisticated understanding of electrical engineering.
00:39:31.720 So as to steal power from the power grid and the power company doesn't really know exactly, or hasn't told law enforcement how much power was being stolen or for how long, but their best guess is tens of thousands of dollars worth of electricity was stolen.
00:39:45.620 Uh, and used to create a tremendous amount of marijuana, uh, and they know that they were using through the meter 10,000 kilowatt hours a month in addition to whatever they were stealing.
00:39:56.860 So across the board, the, the impact of these sites, this operation on the state is not doing anything good for the people of Maine.
00:40:05.700 And there's also a quite a bit of evidence that the, the people who are operating these sites are victims of human trafficking.
00:40:12.280 The three individuals who were managing the grow and Machias said that they were paid between a thousand and $2,000 a month, uh, for their work, managing that grow.
00:40:23.300 So why is this not being picked up by the state?
00:40:26.560 Why is nobody doing anything about it?
00:40:28.700 It's illegal.
00:40:30.140 They're not licensed to do it.
00:40:33.460 Why isn't anything being done?
00:40:36.440 That's a fantastic question.
00:40:37.960 Uh, the governor of the state, Janet Mills has been completely silent on this as has her appointed police commissioner, the congressional delegation.
00:40:46.840 When the original story broke, all four of them sent a letter to, uh, attorney general Merrick Garland, asking him to take a look at this.
00:40:54.220 They never received a response.
00:40:56.100 Uh, a few months later, Senator Susan Collins sent a letter highlighting the main wires reporting to the U S attorney of Maine.
00:41:02.420 There's some indication that she might be taking, uh, you know, uh, hearing evidence from law enforcement about, uh, developing a possible strategy for this.
00:41:11.020 But I think that the real answer is, is twofold, Glenn.
00:41:14.180 It's, uh, when the, when the people of Maine voted in 2016 in favor of legalizing marijuana and in 2020 brought out the regulatory framework, that was a signal to law enforcement.
00:41:25.140 That marijuana was no longer a law enforcement priority, that they should be focusing on fentanyl.
00:41:30.160 So when they hear about a marijuana grow, they kind of just say, oh, all right, well, it's not really a problem.
00:41:34.980 But the other one is, uh, a fear of racism.
00:41:38.280 There's a tremendous amount of concern amongst law enforcement, uh, amongst the power companies, regulators, anybody, that there'll be a perception that they singled out somebody based on their race, their ethnicity, their nationality.
00:41:51.760 Uh, and that has hampered law enforcement's ability to deal with, uh, a criminal network that is operating with the, uh, tacit, if not explicit blessing of the communist party of China.
00:42:04.220 Where's this money going?
00:42:06.860 According to the department of Homeland security, a lot of the money is going right back to PRC and money does not flow back to mainland China without, uh, the approval of, uh, people in the government there.
00:42:17.500 The money's also being used to finance other activities, according to the feds, like human trafficking, like, uh, um, uh, narcotics trafficking as well.
00:42:27.400 That's been harder for us to pin down in the course of our investigation because you fentanyl doesn't, isn't quite as smelly as marijuana is.
00:42:34.400 It's harder to pin down.
00:42:35.700 Uh, but the, the Homeland security does believe that they're engaged in narcotics trafficking and, and like any, any criminal organization that's running rackets,
00:42:43.380 why wouldn't they expand and diversify if they already have a network, uh, set up along the I-95 corridor to move product up and down and distribute it to where they can sell it to customers.
00:42:55.360 I can't, I can't believe, I mean, cause this is happening in other States.
00:42:59.100 It's not just Maine, uh, as well.
00:43:01.100 So it's happening everywhere.
00:43:02.760 Um, Steve Robinson, he is from, uh, the main wire as in the state, uh, with an E, the main wire, uh, dot com.
00:43:11.660 Um, check out his work.
00:43:13.520 You, Steve have my producers, phone numbers.
00:43:16.660 You get any more information.
00:43:18.180 You're furthering the story at all.
00:43:20.000 Please call us and update us.
00:43:21.620 William.
00:43:22.980 Absolutely gone.
00:43:23.740 We'll do.
00:43:24.080 Thank you.
00:43:24.480 Thank you.
00:43:24.980 Appreciate it.
00:43:25.540 It's Steve Robinson, mainwire.com.