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00:00:03.220 He was the chief of staff for Donald Trump.

00:00:06.460 He is suing Nancy Pelosi.

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00:01:38.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:42.400 former White House chief of staff, senior partner now at Conservative Partner Institute,

00:01:51.740 and a guy who's filing a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi, which let's just pause for a second

00:01:58.000 and revel in that news.

00:02:00.920 Mark Meadows is with us.

00:02:02.140 Hi, Mark.

00:02:02.640 It's great to be with you.

00:02:04.740 Thanks so much, and thanks for always bringing the truth to the American people.

00:02:09.400 I try, Mark.

00:02:10.780 And I know that you served Donald Trump very, very well.

00:02:15.940 He used to always say, this guy never stops working, and I know that to be true.

00:02:21.140 Tell me what's going on, because first you said you weren't going to testify January 6th, right?

00:02:28.060 Well, yeah, there was a whole lot that was actually written about what was happening

00:02:34.580 and what was not happening, just to be blunt.

00:02:37.440 And I can tell you that from day one, what we said was we were always going to honor

00:02:44.920 the president's executive privilege.

00:02:47.500 It's not my privilege to waive.

00:02:49.700 I'm not going to be the first chief of staff to waive it.

00:02:52.500 I don't think that compelling his chief of staff to come to Congress to testify is something

00:03:01.080 that historically has ever been done and certainly is not a good precedent to start.

00:03:07.560 That being said, we've been in negotiations for several weeks and months, being very clear

00:03:18.400 that the president's executive privilege would always be protected.

00:03:23.580 We tried to reach an accommodation.

00:03:27.260 We were working on that accommodation, providing some of the documents.

00:03:31.140 Then it became very apparent that they were going to continue to ask about conversations

00:03:39.080 that I had with either the president or other senior staff as it related to some of those

00:03:45.320 non-privileged documents.

00:03:47.700 And then over the last 72 hours or so prior to filing the lawsuit, a subpoena arrived where

00:03:57.940 they were actually looking for all of the communication from my personal cell phone device, subpoenaing,

00:04:06.980 my carrier.

00:04:09.960 And when that happened, it became very obvious that they were not going to put any limits on

00:04:17.460 what they were looking for.

00:04:20.040 And the overreach, the constitutional overreach, in my opinion, was just not where I could voluntarily

00:04:27.880 come in and participate for a deposition.

00:04:32.060 And we also know, I mean, we know they've already made up their minds on what happened.

00:04:37.760 They did this with Donald Trump in the impeachment, and it was grotesque what they did.

00:04:43.220 But the critics, no, CNN would say that, well, what do you have to hide, Mark?

00:04:51.000 What is it that you're hiding?

00:04:52.100 Why won't you share all these things?

00:04:54.500 Can you explain why presidential privilege is so important, not just for this president,

00:05:01.320 but for presidents down the road?

00:05:03.140 Well, for every president, and certainly for every chief of staff, it's not only that.

00:05:09.780 They say, well, what do you have to hide?

00:05:13.280 You know, I've publicly have stated that, to my knowledge, no one in the West Wing had

00:05:18.840 any advanced knowledge that there would be a breach of security at the Capitol on January

00:05:24.100 6th.

00:05:24.960 And I've shared that publicly and privately.

00:05:30.640 But at the same time, what, you know, to have them have me come in and say, well, what

00:05:35.520 did you tell the president?

00:05:36.520 What was your conversation?

00:05:38.960 You know, at this point, what it does is just empowers them.

00:05:44.340 And you're right.

00:05:44.940 All the people on the January 6th commission have all voted for impeachment.

00:05:48.880 You know, so I don't know that they're, you know, neutral arbiters of the truth.

00:05:54.340 As you know, I've got a new book out, The Chief's Chief.

00:05:57.740 And they said, well, you know, you talk about things in The Chief's Chiefs.

00:06:01.380 And the, you know, the subject matters in there are not the intimate conversations that

00:06:11.420 a chief of staff would have with the president of the United States.

00:06:14.780 And so for me, it is far too expansive.

00:06:21.060 And I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, truthfully, Glenn.

00:06:26.080 I mean, when you really look at it, this is what courts are for.

00:06:29.460 If this is something that the courts would, you know, believe is constitutional and should

00:06:34.700 weigh in, should a president, a current president, be able to waive the executive privilege of

00:06:39.860 a previous president, it would set, in my mind, a very dangerous precedent where just different

00:06:46.280 parties would then essentially use both Congress and this waiver to actually just look at political

00:06:55.360 opponents.

00:06:57.240 And it's just not where, what our founding fathers, I think, envisioned.

00:07:01.280 You know, Mark, I've talked to Mark, to Mike Lee about this.

00:07:04.380 And I and I've always disagreed with this until I talked to Mike.

00:07:08.400 I said, why didn't we go after, you know, Nixon?

00:07:12.000 Why didn't we go after Hillary Clinton? 1.00

00:07:15.640 And he said, it's really distasteful.

00:07:18.020 But he said, I think it's right.

00:07:19.640 He said, once you open that can of worms on your opponent after they left office, he said,

00:07:26.400 that's what happens in banana republics. 1.00

00:07:28.820 He said, because then it will be used for sheer political purposes to destroy the other party

00:07:37.240 or the other candidates of the future.

00:07:39.820 And he said, you just he said, I think it's just way too dangerous to do that.

00:07:45.960 Do you agree with that?

00:07:47.360 Well, it is.

00:07:48.380 I do.

00:07:49.120 And, you know, there's sometimes when, you know, when you're in power that you would love to have

00:07:54.320 the ability to use the, you know, the law and the rules to your point.

00:08:01.280 And Senator Lee is right there.

00:08:03.420 I mean, you know, I'm not one to basically put a motive behind a particular individual.

00:08:10.860 But I am here to say that I do know, and, you know, obviously for filing the lawsuit

00:08:16.580 against Speaker Pelosi in the January 6th committee is, you know, it needs to have legitimate

00:08:24.660 legislative purpose.

00:08:27.500 It can't be just a fishing expedition.

00:08:30.620 And the broad scope of everything that appears that they're looking at, you know, it's troubling.

00:08:37.380 Now, some of those questions are not going to get answered in this lawsuit.

00:08:42.520 You know, should Congress have the ability to subpoena just about everybody's record?

00:08:47.120 Well, that becomes a dangerous path to go down as well.

00:08:50.420 But certainly this question of executive privilege and the broad scope of what they're doing would

00:08:56.140 have a chilling effect on future chiefs of staff and senior advisors to the President of

00:09:03.220 the United States in any future administration.

00:09:06.840 Can you imagine, you know, all of a sudden a Republican president in 2024, and then there's

00:09:14.420 a subpoena for Joe Biden's chief of staff and, you know, all his personal records and official

00:09:21.800 records as well.

00:09:22.840 So this is what courts are designed to do. 0.99

00:09:25.740 We felt like that this particular lawsuit was necessary to at least bring the question and

00:09:32.300 hopefully have the courts weigh in on it. 0.99

00:09:34.220 Yeah, whether whether it changes my outcome or not, I don't know.

00:09:38.220 I mean, I think this is perfectly reasonable for people to to understand that, because when

00:09:43.980 you say that about Joe Biden, yeah, you know, if there's something criminal that was going

00:09:48.720 on, I would want to talk to the chief of staff.

00:09:52.100 But I would also want it to be very, very narrow.

00:09:57.300 You know, it's kind of like a search warrant.

00:09:58.860 You can't just kick my house, my door down and say, yeah, we're looking for stuff.

00:10:03.520 You have to say, I know that we believe this is here.

00:10:07.440 And this specifically is what we're looking for.

00:10:10.720 And if the courts decided that I, you know, yeah, well, and they should.

00:10:16.820 But here's the interesting point, Glenn.

00:10:18.600 And it's it's it's important that you you put that that criminal component there.

00:10:23.800 You know, that's a law enforcement issue.

00:10:25.980 That would be an issue for the FBI or other law enforcement entities.

00:10:31.560 That's not under the purview of Congress to do law enforcement.

00:10:36.480 There there's a strictly legislative.

00:10:38.980 And so when you look at that, there are already provisions for sharing of information if, you

00:10:45.320 know, if fraud or criminal activity took place.

00:10:48.460 And so I appreciate you making the distinction, because that's that that is a significant one.

00:10:55.040 But again, I'm not an attorney.

00:10:56.820 I can tell you this, that hopefully the courts will weigh in and that they will look at this.

00:11:03.160 And that's what they're set up for do.

00:11:05.460 You know, when there's a dispute between the executive and legislative branch, hopefully they will weigh in in a real way.

00:11:12.240 Do you I'm just I was trying to think about this from your perspective this morning.

00:11:17.260 And I trust Congress and the FBI and everybody with I mean, I have there's no trust left in me on these things.

00:11:26.020 It's all become political to me.

00:11:29.140 And I know testifying in front of Congress, they have anything they want to do, they can do.

00:11:36.420 And you're in trouble.

00:11:38.940 You know, you they decide you're in trouble.

00:11:42.040 You're in trouble.

00:11:43.060 But more importantly, they destroy people's reputations.

00:11:48.480 Howard Hughes is one of the only ones that I know that came out unscathed in some something like this.

00:11:53.560 Do you worry that because they can't get Donald Trump because there's nothing there that they they are just looking for someone to hang this on, even if they can't really prove it?

00:12:05.280 They just want to they need a bad guy's head.

00:12:08.440 Well, obviously, again, I don't want to ascribe motives to particular members of Congress, but the political nature is not lost on me.

00:12:20.800 I you know, obviously, when you look at that there, I think that you can tell from some of the public comments that members of the January six committee have already made continue to make.

00:12:32.540 You know, this is more of a political narrative than it is a legislative one.

00:12:37.800 And, you know, there's a lot of people claiming the fifth and, you know, or at least I'm reading about that.

00:12:45.260 You know, for me, I felt like it was important from a constitutional standpoint that we we fight back on on this executive privilege and the scope of this investigation.

00:12:55.740 You know, listen, I trust in the Lord and and that's where I put my trust.

00:13:01.440 And I can tell you at this point, I'm fervently praying and, you know, it's Congress will do what they typically always do.

00:13:13.880 And and overreach is is one of those attributes.

00:13:18.300 So when the courts decide, if they decide you have to testify, you will testify, you have to testify.

00:13:24.340 And, yeah, I mean, you know, obviously they're they're the neutral arbiter in all of this, you know, certainly in sharing that.

00:13:31.780 I think that many of the Democrat members members of Congress will be very disappointed with the facts and what actually happened, you know, with regards to, you know, President Trump and his team.

00:13:46.320 I, you know, and at the same time, you know, I think that they're going to move ahead with contempt and hold me in contempt before that.

00:13:55.780 I'm hopeful that the courts will weigh in.

00:13:58.460 All right. Mark Meadows, best of luck.

00:14:01.300 Thanks, Glenn. I appreciate it.

00:14:03.000 And thank you for you and all your listeners and and really appreciate it.

00:14:07.700 You got it. We'll keep you in our prayers.

00:14:08.960 Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff who has just filed a lawsuit against Pelosi and the January 6th committee members.

00:14:17.680 Let the Supreme Court decide whether or not executive privilege should be violated for this.

00:14:26.780 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:32.820 Bill O'Reilly.

00:14:34.200 Welcome to the program.

00:14:35.300 I know you've got a busy weekend this weekend and wanted to get you on it.

00:14:40.680 Just first of all, can you comment on what Mark just said?

00:14:45.400 I think Mr. Meadows missed the main point that President Barack Obama signed an executive order

00:14:53.700 that says executive privilege extends to presidents after they leave the White House.

00:14:59.820 That order is still in play, has not been overridden by Congress, which is the only way executive orders can get off the books.

00:15:11.200 Now, that that says it all.

00:15:13.000 So there's no way this committee in Congress will win the lawsuit because this is on the record.

00:15:21.700 Right.

00:15:21.840 And it's can't win.

00:15:23.720 I mean, if you say executive privilege and you're Donald Trump, which obviously he is, and that extends to Mr. Meadows and everybody else in the White House time.

00:15:35.560 So this is all a charade and nonsensical exercise in the exact opposite of what I'll be doing on Saturday and Sunday.

00:15:44.440 Which is the beginning of your Trump tour.

00:15:48.620 The history tour.

00:15:49.900 It's very important that people understand that this is, I'm going to get on the record, Beck.

00:15:54.600 I'm going to get on the record things you do not know.

00:15:59.420 I'm not going to get on the political merry-go-round, re-litigate the election.

00:16:04.940 No.

00:16:06.340 And, you know, here's something interesting.

00:16:08.200 I was going to lead with the vax and COVID because that affects every American.

00:16:12.740 But now I've shifted into Putin because of what Putin's doing.

00:16:17.860 And that'll be the lead.

00:16:18.900 That'll be the first topic that President Trump and I discuss.

00:16:22.800 And I'm off today.

00:16:24.640 I'm actually talking to you.

00:16:26.160 And that's the last bit of work.

00:16:27.320 And it is work to talk to you, Beck.

00:16:29.680 You don't know the half of it, brother.

00:16:32.960 He's trying from my side.

00:16:34.720 Yeah, I'm researching like crazy, you know, to find things that are on the record that I can present to President Trump.

00:16:42.020 I would really like to know the process of making Israel, making, I'm sorry, Jerusalem, the embassy site in Israel.

00:16:55.480 Every president has said no.

00:16:57.720 I know the State Department pushed back.

00:17:00.480 What kind of pushback did he get that we don't know of?

00:17:05.440 You should write that down on a card and give it to me if you can.

00:17:10.380 I know you're going to be watching the show because I'm not going to do that in the front line first half of the show.

00:17:16.600 There's just too many direct things that I have to deal with that are in the news now and affecting people's lives, like the economy and inflation.

00:17:24.320 I thought this was a history tour.

00:17:25.280 It is the history tour, but there's a finite amount of time.

00:17:29.600 It's two hours.

00:17:30.420 Doesn't sound like a history tour.

00:17:31.960 Does it sound like a history tour to you still?

00:17:33.820 You know, we're going to have a lot of bouncers at this, too, Beck.

00:17:36.840 They're going to know where you're sitting.

00:17:38.620 Yeah, where am I sitting?

00:17:39.720 Where am I sitting?

00:17:40.500 Am I sitting in a good seat?

00:17:41.560 Do I have a good seat, Bill?

00:17:44.500 Yeah, you'll be up with the folks.

00:17:47.840 Up with the folks.

00:17:48.800 So, I mean, the balcony?

00:17:49.920 Is that what you're saying?

00:17:51.220 I haven't located it quite yet.

00:17:53.440 Okay, yeah.

00:17:54.420 I think you're sitting next to Bette Midler.

00:17:57.760 That's where you are.

00:17:58.960 But, Beck, I'm serious now.

00:18:00.500 Write this question down and hand it to me.

00:18:03.180 I'm not going to give it to you.

00:18:04.980 Because I can do that in the Q&A portion, which is the second part of the program.

00:18:10.260 If I decide to, and if an usher will come all the way up there to collect my question, then maybe.

00:18:16.380 Then maybe.

00:18:16.860 You could hang glide down.

00:18:19.260 Hey, real quick, before we take a quick break, how much time do we have?

00:18:23.520 One minute.

00:18:24.480 Do you see that the Pope said, you know, sleeping before marriage, you know, having sex before marriage, not a big deal.

00:18:30.680 As a Catholic.

00:18:32.640 Geez, why didn't he say that 50 years ago for me?

00:18:37.800 You know?

00:18:38.960 I mean, I'm sitting there going, what?

00:18:41.120 I mean.

00:18:41.620 You mean?

00:18:42.760 I'm not sure if he's entirely Catholic or not.

00:18:48.820 What is he thinking?

00:18:50.880 I don't know what he's thinking.

00:18:52.320 He's the Pope.

00:18:53.060 And I want to stay on his good side, Beck.

00:18:54.820 Just like you.

00:18:55.900 I don't know.

00:18:56.980 No, no, no.

00:18:57.560 I don't mind being on the bad side of this Pope, but maybe that's just me.

00:19:02.360 I've got Bill O'Reilly on, and I want to talk to him about what President Biden did with Vladimir Putin.

00:19:10.120 And I think it's the Washington Post that said he laid a red line down.

00:19:15.200 Oh, dear God.

00:19:15.880 I hope it's not like a red line that Barack Obama laid down.

00:19:20.260 How do you think that went?

00:19:22.040 What do you think is going to come of that?

00:19:25.100 Well, they say they talk for two hours, and I find that very hard to believe, because if it was that long, Biden would have needed a nap in between.

00:19:35.640 Two hours is not, you know, something that he does.

00:19:38.560 So, you know, it's hard to be precise on this, because we just don't know.

00:19:46.160 Not a lot of leaks.

00:19:47.640 If it were Trump talking to Putin, you would add the transcript about 15 minutes after they hung up.

00:19:52.560 Yep.

00:19:53.300 You know, there's no leaks from the Biden people, which is a tribute to Ron Klain, the chief of staff.

00:20:00.020 So I assume they all have little chips implanted in them.

00:20:03.200 And if they leak anything, he goes, ooh, ooh, right away.

00:20:06.460 Well, I don't think, I mean, the one thing that Biden has that Donald Trump didn't is no enemies around him.

00:20:15.760 Oh, I don't know about that.

00:20:18.140 You know, these people that get into politics for a living, you know, the swamp, they can be bought.

00:20:27.200 And then there's a lot of that going on.

00:20:29.640 And certainly the bigger news agencies would want to know if anything extraordinary took place.

00:20:35.140 But we don't know.

00:20:36.460 So let me give you a big, an outline, and I'll tie it in because I'm hoping President Trump will illuminate this further on Saturday.

00:20:47.340 So Putin's a bad guy.

00:20:49.280 In addition to being annoying, he is one of the most annoying people on the planet.

00:20:55.740 Because all he wants is attention.

00:20:58.120 He's 5'4", he doesn't wear shirts.

00:21:02.000 I mean, that's all he wants.

00:21:02.880 I didn't know he was 5'4".

00:21:04.660 That explains a lot.

00:21:05.340 Yeah, the guy's wearing Tom Jones heels.

00:21:07.780 And he barely gets up to 5'6".

00:21:10.520 Okay?

00:21:11.260 So he's just a little nebbish.

00:21:14.040 You know, who made his reputation in the KGB slapping 6'4", people like me around.

00:21:20.460 And so he's super annoying because he doesn't have to do any of this.

00:21:26.940 The second thing is that he sees a corrupt oligarch.

00:21:30.560 Putin's one of the wealthiest men in the world.

00:21:33.420 And his wealth is centered in Zurich, Switzerland, in a number of numbered accounts, where his girlfriend lives.

00:21:42.520 The girlfriend doesn't want to live in Moscow or St. Petersburg.

00:21:45.520 Why would you want to live there?

00:21:47.540 She's in Zurich watching the money.

00:21:50.020 How did he get the money?

00:21:51.540 Kickbacks from all of the Russian industries.

00:21:55.040 And Putin gets a piece of everything.

00:21:57.320 So he doesn't have to mass troops on the border of Ukraine because NATO is not going to invade Russia.

00:22:08.540 And NATO's not even going to accept Ukraine.

00:22:11.660 They may give him a little aid here and there, but what is this?

00:22:15.800 It's just to get Putin in the news.

00:22:19.240 He's totally opposite Xi in China, by the way.

00:22:22.120 So I want to get into this with Trump.

00:22:24.020 I want to know if Putin speaks English, for example.

00:22:26.100 Yeah, I thought of that, too.

00:22:28.280 Yeah.

00:22:28.640 Does he speak English?

00:22:29.860 I mean, after all these years of torturing Western people, maybe picked up a few curse words. 0.56

00:22:36.060 He doesn't respond.

00:22:37.860 He watches the interpreter as if he understands none of it.

00:22:42.260 And I'll bet you he speaks really, or at least he understands English 100%.

00:22:49.340 So I can certainly read the Wall Street Journal.

00:22:51.780 Okay.

00:22:52.520 So anyway, Fidel Castro did the same thing.

00:22:54.940 Castro spoke English, but he would never speak it.

00:22:57.940 So anyway, all Putin wants is to present himself to Russian people as a mini Mussolini, and he struts around.

00:23:06.320 So you've got to deal with it.

00:23:08.140 I mean, Trump had to deal with it in Helsinki.

00:23:10.620 Biden had to deal with it on the call.

00:23:12.420 But Putin doesn't care what you say.

00:23:14.160 However, there's one thing that could bring Putin to his knees, and that is if Joe Biden signs an executive order that says no American banks do business with Russia, and if a foreign bank does, we're not going to do business with that foreign bank.

00:23:33.240 That strangles the economy.

00:23:36.740 Putin's net worth drops $80 billion.

00:23:40.400 That is the way to go.

00:23:42.420 Now, I assume that was the red line you mentioned, that the banks.

00:23:47.340 Russia needs the currency because they can't survive without international money going in there.

00:23:54.240 Well, I don't know what the red line was, but I would take Biden at his word when he says, you know, I can cripple an economy because he's done it here.

00:24:05.300 So I think he's probably got a lot of practice.

00:24:09.040 Yeah, he's got a lot of practice over here.

00:24:11.260 But he can't shut down the Nordstrom or whatever it is pipeline.

00:24:15.540 Nordstrom.

00:24:16.020 Nordstrom.

00:24:17.120 It's Nord something.

00:24:18.140 Yeah.

00:24:18.780 And there's a Germans sitting there going, they made a deal with the devil. 1.00

00:24:22.320 Merkel, thank God, Merkel's out of there.

00:24:24.380 So they make the deal with the devil that they're going to take natural gas from Russia, Germany now, and the pipeline goes from Russia right into Germany under the Baltic Sea.

00:24:37.280 And now Russia gets currency from Germany.

00:24:42.880 But if Biden says no, no more foreign currency going into Russia, then the Germans are going to freeze their tushes off.

00:24:49.980 What is what is what are the odds that he does cross that border and goes in and takes Ukraine?

00:24:58.440 You know, I would say four to one against.

00:25:02.800 I don't think that he wants at this juncture to provoke that kind of reaction because the Russian economy is fairly weak.

00:25:13.240 And, you know, you're just basically putting your country into a depression.

00:25:17.480 It's like China. 0.97

00:25:18.980 China's not going to do anything until after the Olympics.

00:25:22.860 I mean, they could saber rattle all they want, but they're putting on an exposition in February and March that will rival Hitler's Olympics in the mid-1930s.

00:25:33.180 It's the same kind of propaganda outfit.

00:25:36.560 Should we be boycotting that?

00:25:39.140 No.

00:25:39.600 No.

00:25:40.080 Why?

00:25:40.440 Look, because you've got to engage China.

00:25:43.300 And this is another Trump topic.

00:25:45.300 I don't know whether he agrees with me or not, but China is close to us as far as power is concerned.

00:25:53.780 Not quite as powerful, but they're close.

00:25:56.720 If you push them away and embarrass them and poke them and do all kinds of things, it's much more likely that they will invade Taiwan, that they will help North Korea, that they will even help Putin. 0.83

00:26:09.800 So you don't want to do that.

00:26:12.180 So they made some stupid diplomatic gesture that means nothing, and I didn't think that was a wrong move by Biden.

00:26:20.380 So you disagreed with Donald Trump's approach with the sanctions and how tough he was on China?

00:26:27.320 It depends what area it was in.

00:26:30.540 He was tough on trade.

00:26:33.580 Trade.

00:26:34.540 But he never humiliated Xi.

00:26:37.500 And he never went in and said, you know, in a bellicose way.

00:26:43.060 It was, Trump was all about making deals.

00:26:45.580 And if he didn't like the deal, then he'd say, well, we're not going to let you do this, or you're going to have to pay more to get your goods into.

00:26:51.860 That's a tariff.

00:26:53.340 They did that, but that wasn't, you know, provoking anybody to invade or bomb or anything like that.

00:27:01.460 Last thing, Bob Dole is lying in state in the U.S.

00:27:04.580 Capitol Rotunda.

00:27:05.760 Joe Biden is going to give a speech, yada, yada.

00:27:08.140 I remember in 1992 that Bob Dole seemed to be the oldest man on Earth.

00:27:14.460 He was, I believe, 68 when he ran.

00:27:19.960 Hillary Clinton is now 74.

00:27:22.400 Biden is 79.

00:27:23.800 Trump, 75.

00:27:25.560 Nancy Pelosi is 81.

00:27:28.120 Mitch McConnell is 79.

00:27:30.460 Bob Dole was a spring chicken in comparison.

00:27:35.020 Yeah, because we have a system now where it is very difficult to move on up to the east side, as the Jeffersons once sang.

00:27:46.060 You have in Washington maybe a half dozen people in the House and Senate that call all the shots, 100% of the shots.

00:27:57.260 It didn't used to be that way.

00:27:58.540 He used to be able to kind of gather power like Dole did in Kansas and kind of, you know, go right through the system.

00:28:06.680 That's why he got the nomination for president.

00:28:08.520 He never had a chance.

00:28:10.020 I mean, you know, come on.

00:28:12.340 But he was a very brave man.

00:28:15.640 Yeah, he was.

00:28:16.200 And I don't know if Americans understand how the Battle of Anzio, you know, if you read my book on World War II, Killing Patton,

00:28:24.940 you know, Dole, he was right in the middle of this thing, and he got, you know, wounded for his whole life.

00:28:32.720 Very patriotic guy.

00:28:34.220 I think he tried to do the right thing.

00:28:35.720 No taint of corruption around him.

00:28:39.060 So I'm glad he's getting the honor that he is getting.

00:28:41.700 So the thing I thought of was that Bob Dole came from the generation that was the hero generation of World War II.

00:28:51.140 And they, you know, they didn't come back and write a bunch of books and beat their chest or anything.

00:28:56.920 They just went back to work.

00:28:58.840 And they were generally a humble group of people.

00:29:01.800 The people we have in now are the 60s generation who think that the moon and stars have been hung by them in the age of Aquarius.

00:29:11.740 And they're just not going anywhere.

00:29:14.560 They're just they're just holding on where Bob.

00:29:17.740 He did his deal and he moved on.

00:29:19.860 You know, I said on Bill O'Reilly dot com on the Newsman News the other night that what Americans of all ages don't understand is the vast gulf between the baby boom generation.

00:29:31.500 That's me.

00:29:31.960 Are you in the boomers?

00:29:33.060 Did you make it into the boomers?

00:29:34.500 Just the last year is is my year.

00:29:39.600 So you're a boomer.

00:29:40.880 I know the boomers are trying to expel you, but you're in there. 1.00

00:29:44.060 I'll be fine with that.

00:29:44.840 The vast, the vast difference, because we were raised under parents and grandparents who endured incredible hardship with the Great Depression and World War Two and sacrifice for the good of the country was the mantra.

00:30:04.100 And if you didn't do that, you were ostracized.

00:30:07.500 You were a villain.

00:30:09.080 Now it's 100 percent different.

00:30:11.820 It's all about you, you, you, you.

00:30:16.740 Where's mine?

00:30:18.280 I want.

00:30:19.580 And so with that mentality, that selfish, selfish mentality that has permeated into the baby boom generation, by the way, I mean, we're not impervious to this, that you have a totally different societal outlook.

00:30:32.980 And that's why the permissiveness and the violent crime and you let homeless people overrun property and you let them shoot up narcotics, you let them do whatever they want.

00:30:44.560 OK, that's just stunning to the baby boomers and the few greatest generation people who are left. 0.97

00:30:53.200 Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much.

00:30:55.040 We'll see you in Florida.

00:30:56.060 Florida, if you want to see the Trump history tour with Bill O'Reilly, it begins this weekend, Saturday in Florida, and you can get tickets and all the information at BillOReilly.com.

00:31:06.220 Thanks, Bill.

00:31:07.200 All right.

00:31:07.600 Always fun.

00:31:08.200 Thank you.

00:31:08.620 See you on Saturday.

00:31:09.880 Well, I'll see you.

00:31:11.160 I'm not sure I'm going to, you know, stop in and say hello.

00:31:15.940 Be up in the rafters.

00:31:17.000 It'll I will need oxygen.

00:31:19.420 I think that's I mean, I don't think it could be that high.

00:31:23.280 You should still be able to breathe.

00:31:26.060 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:32:42.920 First, let me give you some optimistic news about Omicron.

00:32:48.400 At this point, no deaths have been recorded as of last night in connection with the COVID-19 variant Omicron.

00:32:58.920 So that seems really good.

00:33:02.240 We've known about it for, what, a week now?

00:33:05.620 It was right around Thanksgiving.

00:33:07.300 Yeah.

00:33:07.660 So, a little longer.

00:33:09.300 Early studies are now showing that the symptoms are much milder than the other COVID strains.

00:33:15.560 And early studies are showing that it is far more transmissible than the dominant Delta strain.

00:33:23.240 Here's why this is really good news.

00:33:26.600 This could be the dominant strain, and it will kill out all of the other strains.

00:33:33.160 It could just become a bad flu, which we'll have to deal with for the rest of our lives.

00:33:39.320 That's what I said would probably happen.

00:33:42.080 I think this was back in January when we were first talking about it.

00:33:45.360 I said, this could be, you know, another flu like the 1918 Spanish flu, which is what we have.

00:33:53.120 That's flu season.

00:33:54.340 That's just a different strain from the 1918 flu.

00:33:57.840 It became very mild, and we deal with it every year.

00:34:01.600 And that's what will eventually, hopefully, happen to COVID-19.

00:34:05.920 It'll just become a mild flu.

00:34:08.020 And that's what it looks like that Omicron is all about.

00:34:12.200 But you would not know that listening to the experts.

00:34:17.020 They are still freaking out about it.

00:34:19.580 And part of your job as a leader is to not freak out.

00:34:22.400 Say, we don't know yet.

00:34:23.920 We don't know.

00:34:25.580 Let's leave it at that.

00:34:26.700 Just stay vigilant, and we don't know.

00:34:29.860 But everybody seems to be freaking out.

00:34:32.340 It's hard, though, when you're the government and you're saying, believe me, I am the voice of science.

00:34:38.760 You can't say you don't know.

00:34:40.860 You know, that's the problem.

00:34:42.060 The truth is they don't know.

00:34:46.000 Right?

00:34:46.280 I mean, they don't know.

00:34:46.980 It just started.

00:34:48.340 There are indications, as you point out, that maybe it's a little bit less virulent.

00:34:51.540 Maybe it's a little bit more transmissible.

00:34:53.600 But I don't even think they have that locked down yet, frankly.

00:34:56.480 They don't know.

00:34:58.160 And it's like, instead of just saying, like, look, this is something to keep an eye on.

00:35:01.620 Let's see what's going on.

00:35:02.760 You know, South Africa is a little bit ahead of us.

00:35:04.380 We're seeing what's going on there.

00:35:05.600 It seems like it could be X, Y, and Z.

00:35:08.080 But we don't know.

00:35:09.240 Obviously, if you've watched us the last 18 months, you know we don't know.

00:35:15.280 You know we don't know.

00:35:17.180 And let's just tell you that we don't know, and you should go out there and take the information

00:35:23.480 you can get and assess your own risk and live your life.

00:35:26.320 So here's the thing.

00:35:27.320 From the San Francisco Chronicle, they reported yesterday, so far, only one person in the

00:35:32.640 U.S. has been hospitalized with Omicron, and there have been no deaths linked to this

00:35:39.020 mutation.

00:35:40.320 The New York Times reports that while hospitalization and deaths are rising in the United States,

00:35:45.580 it is, quote, almost all due to the Delta variant.

00:35:50.560 Yeah, it's 99.9% of cases are the Delta variant right now.

00:35:54.500 And now, Omicron is not, that's not the case in South Africa.

00:35:58.020 So the South, South Africa looks to be the new cases, the dominant variant is Omicron.

00:36:03.760 So it does seem to be being passed around pretty quickly, but we'll see.

00:36:08.000 We'll see.

00:36:08.600 We will see.

00:36:09.080 But that's optimistic news, and let's just continue to watch it.

00:36:12.460 Yes.

00:36:12.760 Instead of panicking everybody about everything.

00:36:16.580 Now, I have some video, and I rolled my eyes when I first heard about it, and then I watched

00:36:25.240 the video.

00:36:26.560 This is video captured by our security guard that looks at a bank of cameras every night.

00:36:37.600 He's here by himself, and a few of the cameras are in the secure vault area where we keep

00:36:46.900 a lot of antiquities.

00:36:50.160 And when I got here one morning last week, this particular guard was as white as the driven 1.00

00:37:00.960 snow.

00:37:02.140 He was shaking, and he said, I have to, he said to the chief of security, I have to show

00:37:09.140 you something because I think, I think there are ghosts in the museum and in the vault.

00:37:16.480 And Craig kind of rolled his eyes and went, uh-huh, okay.

00:37:22.500 And he said, no, no, I want you to watch.

00:37:24.560 And we watched it on the playback from the security cameras.

00:37:30.200 We have all kinds of sensors and alarms.

00:37:33.260 Nothing went off.

00:37:35.280 But we can't figure out what this is, and I want to play it.

00:37:38.520 If you happen to be watching on the blaze, I want to play this for you.

00:37:41.780 Um, we have probably, I don't even know, 20 cameras all over, and, uh, none of the cameras

00:37:51.500 have ever shown anything like this.

00:37:54.980 Here it is.

00:37:56.420 This is in the exhibit hall.

00:37:58.780 And, uh, if you're, uh, you're seeing there is one, something that looks like a cloud of

00:38:07.600 smoke comes in from one corner and then disappears.

00:38:13.640 And then another one goes to the opposite corner, uh, slowly across the screen.

00:38:20.420 It is really bizarre.

00:38:22.240 It sort of looks like an animal at times, but then it sort of dissolves.

00:38:26.320 Right.

00:38:26.940 Um, now go to the, uh, can you go to the other ones?

00:38:30.320 There's another one here that comes from the opposite direction.

00:38:33.060 And what's kind of spooky is where these things are either coming from or going to is right

00:38:42.900 around old Sparky.

00:38:46.660 We have in one area of the, um, museum in the exhibit hall.

00:38:52.520 Look at that thing. 0.92

00:38:54.380 Uh, we have sitting there old Sparky.

00:38:57.580 This is the electric chair from the New York prison.

00:39:00.220 Uh, and we have a guillotine from France. 0.66

00:39:06.280 Look at that.

00:39:06.820 That's slow motion.

00:39:07.520 What is that, Stu?

00:39:09.520 I mean, I certainly don't know.

00:39:11.240 Uh, but, uh, I mean, I guess it could be, I mean, that that is moving.

00:39:18.080 That is like a round ball of something moving very quickly.

00:39:22.960 I mean, I guess in theory, some of them look like potentially you could say they're just

00:39:27.540 like pieces of dust or debris moving close to the camera, right?

00:39:33.000 Like a lot closer to the camera than the floor is.

00:39:35.980 Uh-huh.

00:39:36.900 How come no other cameras are showing those things?

00:39:40.560 Why is no other camera anywhere close to the camera?

00:39:44.020 Only the camera that it's close to would show it.

00:39:46.020 But you would have, if that was dust, you would see that occasionally on other cameras

00:39:50.820 because it's not like the exhibit hall is just dust.

00:39:54.000 Yeah.

00:39:54.260 All of the cameras are exactly the same.

00:39:56.880 They're just pointed in different directions.

00:39:58.980 And only this one by the electric chair and the guillotine and some of the stuff from Auschwitz 0.90

00:40:07.140 all in that area.

00:40:09.200 And that's where we're seeing this.

00:40:13.320 Now, some people said that they could see a face in that.

00:40:17.700 And if that's true, do you have the picture of the face?

00:40:20.760 I think it does look like there.

00:40:23.180 Look, it looks like Thomas the tank.

00:40:26.300 I don't know that it looks like Thomas.

00:40:28.060 It looks like a ball.

00:40:29.260 It looks like a ball.

00:40:30.180 It does.

00:40:31.540 Or Thomas the tank.

00:40:32.980 That's a round face just like that.

00:40:35.140 Yeah.

00:40:35.320 I'm just telling you.

00:40:37.160 Maybe Thomas the tank.

00:40:38.500 So, do you have a theory on this?

00:40:40.460 I mean, is this a Raiders of the Lost Ark thing?

00:40:42.620 What's going on?

00:40:43.340 Yeah, no.

00:40:43.760 I don't have a theory on it.

00:40:45.580 I mean, I believe in angels.

00:40:50.400 I believe in spirits.

00:40:53.440 I believe that there is a thin line between the two worlds.

00:41:00.160 I'm not one for ghosts.

00:41:02.960 I'm trapped here because I was connected to the electric chair.

00:41:06.540 I don't believe in that kind of stuff.

00:41:08.500 Seems like you do.

00:41:10.360 Seems like you do.

00:41:13.160 There could be an explanation for it.

00:41:15.780 I don't think it's the dust explanation because we would have seen it on the other cameras.

00:41:20.880 Well, the other cameras, there are other images going by that look different than the one I was just talking about.

00:41:27.540 Like, it does look like it.

00:41:28.500 It's almost like it looks like it's galloping in some weird way.

00:41:31.400 Right.

00:41:31.900 Yeah.

00:41:32.080 And in that exhibit hall, we've never seen that, and it only happened.

00:41:39.200 This guy watches these monitors every night, and he was like, it was that night.

00:41:44.680 Look it.

00:41:45.440 Look what happened.

00:41:46.280 He's here every night watching these monitors.

00:41:49.200 Well, the only explanation is our evil spirits from the Nazi boxes. 0.91

00:41:56.500 You are such a jerk.

00:41:57.660 The Nazi boxes. 0.72

00:42:00.340 Don't buy Nazi paraphernalia.

00:42:02.100 So, you don't believe in any of that?

00:42:05.100 In the ghosts running around your museum?

00:42:08.820 Well, it does.

00:42:09.360 Did we see Nicolas Cage at any point?

00:42:11.200 No, but it does look a little like what I saw in Ghostbusters, the one that was eating the hot dogs.

00:42:18.480 I will say, it is a low-resolution camera.

00:42:22.720 That's the one thing.

00:42:24.200 It's really low.

00:42:25.140 It's very pixelated.

00:42:27.600 No, that close-up was.

00:42:29.100 You can see the individual pixels.

00:42:31.560 Do it again.

00:42:32.180 Play it again.

00:42:32.760 Play the slow one.

00:42:34.760 Now, this is slowed down frame by frame.

00:42:37.260 Right.

00:42:37.760 And look how much drag there is on this image.

00:42:40.520 It's not, but that's because it's night vision.

00:42:44.080 Yeah, it's just tough to tell.

00:42:46.220 I mean, I'm not bashing your camera quality.

00:42:48.700 I'm just saying that it's a difficult thing to pick up in the dark.

00:42:51.880 I mean, I don't know.

00:42:53.840 I'm not a huge, I'm usually the type of person that says, you know what?

00:42:57.780 If anybody, I may be wrong on a ghost here and there, but I'm going to be right most of the time when I say it's not a ghost.

00:43:03.140 I'm going to say the same thing.

00:43:04.740 I'm going to say the same thing.

00:43:05.900 I just don't, you know, there are things in that part of the room that I purchased because I collect the dark things of history so we don't forget.

00:43:16.040 You know, there's nothing quite like saying, you know, revolutions usually end, you know, with your head being chopped off.

00:43:24.900 Oh, by the way, here's one from France.

00:43:27.300 Okay.

00:43:27.900 There's nothing like that.

00:43:29.320 And talking about Tesla and Edison and what a bastard Edison was and the height of his arrogance and his just disgusting lack of humanity is the New York electric chair and having it and go.

00:43:48.040 So, yeah, that's the one right there.

00:43:50.660 That's kind of a that's kind of a cool thing to have, but I have never put them in the house.

00:43:56.080 I've never put any of this stuff in my house because I don't I just don't want that juju in my house.

00:44:04.620 You know what I mean?

00:44:05.800 And we have a team that prays over everything and we pray in that area.

00:44:12.520 But I do believe in spirits.

00:44:14.500 I don't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I do believe in spirits.

00:44:18.040 I don't know.

00:44:20.360 I have no idea what that it could be dust.

00:44:22.820 I don't think it is, but it could be dust.

00:44:25.320 What is what you say?

00:44:26.640 You don't think that's what it is.

00:44:27.860 What do you think it is?

00:44:28.820 I really don't know.

00:44:30.040 You don't know.

00:44:30.580 I really don't.

00:44:31.340 I don't know either.

00:44:32.200 I will say I'm just, you know, speculating on mundane things.

00:44:35.680 At first, he thought it was an animal.

00:44:38.300 He's like, how did an animal get?

00:44:39.440 Yeah.

00:44:39.680 At one point, it does look like an animal.

00:44:41.440 And and that's what he thought.

00:44:42.760 He's like, how did an animal get in there?

00:44:44.180 And then he played it back and he's like, that's not.

00:44:48.520 It's kind of like, you know, in planes, trains and automobiles.

00:44:51.700 Where's your other hand between two pillows?

00:44:54.680 Those aren't pillows.

00:44:56.440 It's kind of like that.

00:45:01.360 If you're watching, if you're watching, call us.

00:45:06.100 I'd love to hear what I just love to hear your thoughts on them.

00:45:09.780 I mean, I did.

00:45:10.460 I really didn't believe in UFOs.

00:45:13.340 I do believe in in UFOs now.

00:45:16.220 I mean, it's just.

00:45:18.200 The evidence is there.

00:45:19.960 The government has verified that they have pieces of alien technology.

00:45:27.300 I don't know.

00:45:28.380 I mean, you know.

00:45:31.960 I didn't think Biden could win and he's won.

00:45:36.100 So is it really a stretch to say it might be a ghost in this world?

00:45:41.580 I'll take anything.

00:45:43.080 I mean, we're in a parallel universe.

00:45:44.940 Call us 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

00:45:51.040 We have a lot of weird things there.

00:45:53.200 We just got a piece of the Hindenburg, which you have to see, Stu.

00:45:57.100 It's a big piece of the structure of the Hindenburg.

00:46:00.420 Really?

00:46:00.800 It's unbelievable.

00:46:02.100 I was under the impression a lot of it burned.

00:46:04.840 A lot of it did.

00:46:05.500 A lot of it did.

00:46:06.480 Yeah.

00:46:06.760 A lot of it did.

00:46:06.900 You got one of the pieces out.

00:46:07.740 Yeah.

00:46:08.140 So one of the guys who was doing the forensics on it at the time brought a huge

00:46:14.880 piece of it home to, I think, Ohio.

00:46:19.420 And we just we just found it with the family.

00:46:24.820 And it's it's not in the ghost area.

00:46:29.280 But maybe that was Hitler looking for the Hindenburg. 0.89

00:46:33.180 We don't know, Stu.

00:46:34.840 Na na na na.

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