The Glenn Beck Program - August 19, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Megan Basham & Steve Baker ｜ 8⧸19⧸24


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39 minutes

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6,050

Sentence count

410

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Misogyny

9

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Hate speech

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On today's show, Glenn and Stu talk about the upcoming Democratic National Convention and what Joe Biden should do when he takes the stage tonight. They also discuss the growing number of pro-Israel and anti-abortion protests that are taking place in Chicago.

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00:00:00.000 Well, on today's podcast, we get ready for the, you know, the DNC tonight and all of the mostly peaceful demonstrations that are going to be happening tonight.
00:00:13.680 And we actually give advice to Joe Biden on what he should do when he takes the stage.
00:00:20.020 Oh, I pray that he'll do it.
00:00:23.040 That's all on today's podcast.
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00:01:21.020 Now, back to the podcast.
00:01:29.540 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:34.020 All righty.
00:01:34.860 Well, Stu, how are you?
00:01:36.740 Just wonderful, Glenn.
00:01:37.920 Looking into that big bus.
00:01:39.920 I can't wait to get a...
00:01:42.140 Maybe I'll see if I can find an abortion on the bus or a vasectomy. 0.95
00:01:46.020 Whatever I can do.
00:01:47.680 Well, you're a man.
00:01:48.520 You could have a baby, too.
00:01:49.560 I could get the vasectomy.
00:01:50.620 You could have the abortion. 1.00
00:01:51.620 There you go.
00:01:53.120 It sounds like a wonderful thing.
00:01:56.660 Is there any promotions they're running?
00:01:57.840 Are they running a two...
00:01:58.420 Is there a two-for-one abortion special?
00:02:00.680 No, no, no.
00:02:01.980 I think it's interesting...
00:02:03.200 I think it's interesting that this cult that we have said is worshipping Moloch would come together at their big annual celebration and their DNC convention full of joy, just like they used to in the Bohemian Forest, and kill and sacrifice their young. 0.67
00:02:22.800 This is a religion, man.
00:02:24.980 This is their sacrament, and they're doing it in Chicago.
00:02:28.200 So, you know, no, it's not evil.
00:02:32.080 It's just a choice.
00:02:33.940 It's just a choice.
00:02:35.300 And I'd like you to see the choice of the people that, you know, are attending the DNC.
00:02:42.560 You know, you're going to have every star, but you're also going to have about 150,000 to 200,000 protesters there.
00:02:48.060 All of them protesting, you know, to, ah, from the river to the sea, let's keep Israel free?
00:02:56.000 No, uh, no, no.
00:02:58.540 It was something like that.
00:02:59.480 I can't remember, Stu, but I don't think it's pro-Israel, something tells me. 0.60
00:03:05.100 It's an aspirational phrase, Glenn.
00:03:07.820 Just in case you were wondering, as Rashida Tlaib reminded us, it's nothing to do with genocide.
00:03:12.720 It's an aspirational phrase, which is true.
00:03:15.360 It's just aspirational for genocide.
00:03:16.940 It's really nice because you have the outer ring.
00:03:20.780 You have to be against Jews. 1.00
00:03:23.500 And then the inner ring, you have to be against babies.
00:03:28.040 And then the inner ring is, you get to be for globalism, which I think is great.
00:03:34.880 I think it's great.
00:03:35.620 It's kind of a ritual, you know?
00:03:36.920 Hey, I want to kill Jews. 1.00
00:03:38.320 Hey, even more, I want to kill babies.
00:03:40.660 Hey, I want to kill everybody.
00:03:43.240 It's great.
00:03:44.480 It's great.
00:03:45.120 So there's your DNC for you tonight.
00:03:48.120 Yeah, there wouldn't be such a people problem if it wasn't for all of these people, Glenn.
00:03:52.340 So if we could find different ways to kill all of them.
00:03:54.660 Thank you.
00:03:55.200 Thank you.
00:03:56.260 All these evil Republicans are gone.
00:03:58.380 I mean, who knows what the future could bring.
00:04:00.520 And killing sounds so harsh.
00:04:03.520 Could we please use the word liquidate?
00:04:05.740 If we could just liquidate all of these people, we wouldn't have such a people problem.
00:04:11.940 Oh, gee, is that hate speech?
00:04:14.000 Is that hate speech?
00:04:15.300 Or is that sarcasm?
00:04:17.080 Is that making a point through sarcasm?
00:04:18.960 Well, I know the difference, but apparently YouTube doesn't.
00:04:23.340 YouTube has taken away some of our freedoms on YouTube.
00:04:29.680 Why?
00:04:31.100 Well, because we dared to have a newsmaker on.
00:04:35.360 We dared have Tommy Robinson on.
00:04:39.240 What was it?
00:04:39.840 Last week?
00:04:40.380 Week after?
00:04:40.860 Now, he's the guy that the English are saying is responsible for it.
00:04:48.180 I interviewed him.
00:04:49.560 I asked him about violence.
00:04:52.940 He said he was absolutely against violence.
00:04:55.600 And there wasn't one thing in this eight-minute interview.
00:04:58.760 There's not one single thing that he said about violence, except to say he's not for it.
00:05:05.960 In fact, could we please play the Tommy Robinson clip here?
00:05:11.740 You are not calling for the rioting and burning of buildings and bricks through windows, correct?
00:05:20.720 Glenn, if you will, I've just put a video together.
00:05:22.820 The insanity of this is the media, the politicians and the police are currently building a narrative
00:05:28.400 and they're pumping it everywhere that I've instigated these calls for violence.
00:05:31.960 So what I've done is I've gone through, and if you look, it's my latest tweet on my Twitter.
00:05:36.180 I made a video, and I've cut together all the things I've said.
00:05:39.200 Do not be violent.
00:05:40.000 You're a moron if you're burning thin.
00:05:41.520 Put the bricks down.
00:05:42.980 You're ruining everything.
00:05:44.360 I have appealed for calm, peace, and love from the start of this.
00:05:48.520 So the truth doesn't matter.
00:05:49.740 Do you know why the truth don't matter?
00:05:50.900 Because my name is banned from Facebook.
00:05:52.560 My name is banned from Instagram.
00:05:53.660 I'm banned from TikTok.
00:05:54.700 So they can tell the public whatever they want.
00:05:56.680 And they're currently telling them that I am the instigator of all this violence.
00:05:59.940 So when you're looking at the riots right now on British TV, on every chat show, everywhere,
00:06:04.160 they're saying it's Tony Robinson.
00:06:05.740 Whereas the truth, if you watch my video, is the total opposite.
00:06:11.180 Huh.
00:06:12.920 So that's the only time we talked about anything violent, and he was against it.
00:06:19.060 But YouTube is taking now their marching orders from the European Union.
00:06:25.700 This is something we warned you would happen.
00:06:29.640 We now all have to comply by Europe's standards.
00:06:34.040 So if Europe puts this woke bullcrap in, these public-private partnerships will say,
00:06:40.380 yeah, well, we've got to do it for Europe.
00:06:42.440 Otherwise, we won't be able to compete.
00:06:44.680 So, you know, they'll kick us out of Europe.
00:06:46.680 Good.
00:06:47.180 Kick you out of Europe.
00:06:48.400 Kick us out of Europe.
00:06:49.440 That's fine.
00:06:53.740 This is not an American-first attitude because we're better than everybody else.
00:07:00.780 You don't break our constitution.
00:07:04.040 You don't go against the things that set America and the rest of the world free for the first time in human history.
00:07:12.620 We have certain standards here, don't we?
00:07:16.560 Or maybe we don't.
00:07:17.900 Maybe we don't.
00:07:18.640 And I can't figure out the standards at all of YouTube because this is the note we got.
00:07:27.140 YouTube doesn't allow hate speech.
00:07:29.200 Tell me what the hate speech was there.
00:07:31.760 Tell me what the hate speech was.
00:07:34.040 Or content that provides or promotes or incites violence.
00:07:39.500 Okay?
00:07:40.740 Tell me how we promoted or incited violence.
00:07:44.800 Can't do that.
00:07:46.280 And in some cases, content that is potentially controversial or offensive.
00:07:52.940 It may remain up, but with some features disabled.
00:07:58.600 That's exactly what this is.
00:08:01.400 It's remained up, but you can't share it.
00:08:05.680 You have to go through a maze to get to it.
00:08:07.960 And the features are disabled.
00:08:10.460 You can't read any comments.
00:08:11.880 You can't make any comments.
00:08:14.620 Your videos are still live on YouTube, but some features have been disabled, meaning the watch page will no longer have comments, suggested videos, or likes.
00:08:23.540 So you can't share anything.
00:08:26.580 You know what this is?
00:08:28.220 This is a digital ghetto.
00:08:30.900 And I know I got a lot of heat from social media when I first talked about a digital ghetto. 0.60
00:08:37.820 I said, that's what they're building.
00:08:39.580 You can talk all you want.
00:08:41.460 Talk all you want, you Jews. 1.00
00:08:43.800 You just have to do it behind this wall.
00:08:46.160 You can say whatever you want.
00:08:48.000 Oh, but nobody will see us because there's a wall between us?
00:08:53.560 It's a digital ghetto.
00:08:57.500 YouTube, telling the truth is not inciting violence.
00:09:03.520 Telling the truth is not controversial.
00:09:07.280 And if it's offensive, get over it.
00:09:11.440 Since when in this country can we not talk to a newsmaker?
00:09:15.720 What was hateful about this?
00:09:18.320 What part incited violence?
00:09:20.740 Oh, I know it's controversial.
00:09:23.000 But with whom?
00:09:25.600 The elites.
00:09:28.360 I'm doing a show this Wednesday night.
00:09:30.480 This is what the whole special is about.
00:09:32.520 This is going around the Constitution because public-private partnerships are in bed with our governments.
00:09:41.320 And we're very careful.
00:09:42.920 We are very careful on what we put on YouTube because we know that X and the Blaze are the only true free platforms that we don't have to worry about.
00:09:54.520 Two.
00:09:55.240 Two platforms that we don't have to worry about.
00:09:58.560 X and the Blaze.
00:10:02.380 My gosh.
00:10:03.220 I got this on Friday right after the show and I was livid.
00:10:08.160 Livid.
00:10:09.140 How dare you?
00:10:11.760 This is a newsmaker on a newsmaking show.
00:10:20.220 Fight.
00:10:21.300 Fight.
00:10:22.380 Fight.
00:10:26.560 That's controversial.
00:10:27.920 He said fight, fight, fight.
00:10:30.080 You know what he meant by that.
00:10:31.320 He meant burn down Minneapolis.
00:10:33.500 No, they already did that.
00:10:38.220 May I just show you some other things that have not had any problems on YouTube and are still live and are still there?
00:10:46.920 You know, the Home Secretary of the UK is now saying that they have to look at ideological trends and what they need to do is hold people's views about women.
00:11:03.520 It's not okay anymore to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred towards women.
00:11:13.740 What online hatred towards women is there?
00:11:19.920 Come on, think this through.
00:11:21.300 Well, if you're talking about the UK, I would say it's about 60% of London now.
00:11:28.360 What is it?
00:11:28.780 58% Islamist? 0.83
00:11:32.440 They don't seem to like women an awful lot.
00:11:36.600 They don't seem to give the rights to women. 1.00
00:11:40.760 Is that who you're talking about, England?
00:11:42.400 Or are you talking about the extreme right wing?
00:11:48.040 Oh, you know what it is?
00:11:49.900 This is it.
00:11:50.820 It's not the Islamist that you're worried about.
00:11:53.660 It's all of those people that say these men can beat up women in a boxing ring.
00:11:59.800 Right?
00:12:00.620 The one that says your daughter has to compete against men in sports.
00:12:05.720 Or the one that says, hey, you, as a guy, you can become a woman and become anything. 0.90
00:12:13.100 You go, girl, even though you're a man.
00:12:18.040 That must be the hate.
00:12:19.380 The ones that hate women, right? 0.96
00:12:21.080 The ones that are taking all of the rights that women have worked so hard for and flushing them down the toilet. 1.00
00:12:27.180 That's got to be the ripped women's rights you're talking about. 1.00
00:12:30.980 Or is it the extreme right wing?
00:12:35.720 Now, when you listen, I think you can spot, I mean, it kind of, inciting violence, you kind of know what it is when you hear it.
00:12:45.620 Tommy Robinson saying, no, you are destroying everything we're trying to do by pricking up a brick or having violence.
00:12:53.100 Yeah, I kind of understand that.
00:12:54.680 Because if it wasn't the FBI or the CIA or whoever that orchestrated Jan 6, if it was really just a bunch of right wing people, which I highly doubt.
00:13:11.020 Thanks a lot.
00:13:12.060 You've destroyed everything.
00:13:13.320 So I understand that, what Tommy is saying.
00:13:19.280 But let's listen to some other things that are not inciting violence or controversial that are still on YouTube with all of their privileges.
00:13:30.120 Cut five.
00:13:30.820 Some of the success that we've been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years were it not for Black Lives Matter. 0.91
00:13:38.140 And the intensity and the brilliance of that movement that forced, at least, that there would be some counterforce to the status quo, which is so reluctant for change, if not hostile to change.
00:13:52.340 That's what these movements do.
00:13:54.840 But they're not going to stop.
00:13:55.900 They're not going to stop.
00:13:56.960 And this is a movement, I'm telling you.
00:14:00.120 They're not going to stop.
00:14:01.800 And everyone beware, because they're not going to stop.
00:14:05.280 They're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day.
00:14:10.500 And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that they're not going to let up, and they should not.
00:14:16.980 And we should not.
00:14:17.660 And they should not.
00:14:18.740 And they should not, said Kamala Harris.
00:14:22.720 And they should not.
00:14:25.280 That's in the midst of the rioting in the streets.
00:14:28.800 YouTube says that's fine.
00:14:30.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:16:09.860 So, Stu, do you ever see the movie Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood?
00:16:14.020 I don't know.
00:16:15.360 I don't know if I have.
00:16:16.180 It's one of his best.
00:16:17.420 Yeah.
00:16:17.600 It's one of every, like, four or five years, I break it out and watch it.
00:16:20.980 I just watched it a couple days ago.
00:16:23.000 It is so good.
00:16:24.680 And at one scene, he plays a preacher, and he is called into the town by the corrupt capitalist that's trying to buy all of the land because it has gold on it.
00:16:42.120 Well, anyway, he said, you know, preacher, you come to work here.
00:16:46.800 I'll tell you.
00:16:47.640 I'll tell you, you come to work here, and here's what's going to happen.
00:16:50.320 And you might find yourself in need of a church.
00:16:55.500 And, gosh, I could build one for you.
00:16:59.660 And Clint Eastwood says, well, I mean, if a man had a church, he would need fine clothes to be able to stand up in front of all those people.
00:17:10.540 And he said, oh, only the best.
00:17:12.300 You'd get only the best.
00:17:13.400 I mean, you know, hand-tailored preacher outfits for you.
00:17:18.780 And Clint Eastwood said, that's why it wouldn't work.
00:17:21.060 Because anybody who serves mammon cannot serve God.
00:17:28.020 How many of our churches are worried about money?
00:17:32.800 Are our churches up for sale?
00:17:38.860 Megan Basham is with us.
00:17:40.640 She's a Daily Wire culture reporter.
00:17:43.200 And she's written a new book called Shepherds for Sale.
00:17:47.320 How George Soros is trying to infiltrate your church.
00:17:51.900 Megan, you anti-Semite. 0.98
00:17:53.680 Well, thanks for having me, Glenn.
00:17:57.800 Yeah, it was quite a bit of research and getting quite a bit of blowback.
00:18:02.540 But the reality is this, is that evangelicals are roughly 30 percent of the American electorate.
00:18:08.620 They've rightly been called by even left-leaning outlets like the Atlantic, America's most powerful voting bloc.
00:18:14.640 They are the firewall against the most immoral policies that the left wants to enact.
00:18:20.940 They are what has been holding back the left's agenda.
00:18:24.280 And so actors like George Soros and other left-wing billionaires have started funneling money into evangelical institutions and ministries
00:18:33.360 to try to harness the power of high-profile evangelical leaders.
00:18:37.720 And they've been very successful.
00:18:40.180 So tell me how this manifests itself.
00:18:44.640 Like, if I'm sitting in a church, how do I know if that's my church?
00:18:52.720 Well, I can give you an example that's happening right now in this election cycle.
00:18:57.180 So if you're familiar with Christianity Today, which is known as Evangelicalism's flagship magazine,
00:19:03.760 founded by Billy Graham back in 1956, it's well-known, it's a trusted brand,
00:19:09.160 and it's been promoting a Bible study, a political Bible study, into churches and Christian colleges and campuses.
00:19:18.560 The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, starting last year, last August,
00:19:23.740 started promoting it to all of their 185-member schools.
00:19:28.080 Then you need to bring this curriculum in.
00:19:29.840 And essentially what it teaches is that voting is very complex.
00:19:34.940 And if someone tells you how you should vote when it comes to an issue like abortion,
00:19:39.480 you should run from that person.
00:19:41.560 But Christians have an obligation to vote to oppose alleged systemic racism.
00:19:47.020 So it's subtle, but it's pretty obvious who they're trying to get you to vote for.
00:19:50.240 Well, that program called the After Party, that curriculum, is exclusively funded by hard-left secular foundations,
00:19:59.240 the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation,
00:20:03.660 which is the largest funder of Planned Parenthood in the country.
00:20:07.500 And then you have the Rockefeller Foundation, which promotes, quote-unquote,
00:20:11.900 gender-affirming care for youth, meaning cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers,
00:20:16.240 all of those things for kids, and, of course, abortion.
00:20:20.660 So these are the people who are funding this curriculum,
00:20:23.500 which they said, we want to see this roll out in the battleground state of Ohio to begin,
00:20:28.140 and then across the country.
00:20:29.080 And it's being brought into conservative churches.
00:20:32.060 So this is just one example of what I cover in my book.
00:20:34.840 It's happening all over.
00:20:35.840 If you look at what George Soros has been involved in,
00:20:39.220 so he started funding an organization, secular left open borders organization,
00:20:44.800 called the National Immigration Forum.
00:20:47.340 They wanted to convince evangelicals to buy into these open border amnesty policies.
00:20:53.720 So they created a front group called the Evangelical Immigration Table.
00:20:59.620 And there is no legal separation between the National Immigration Forum and this evangelical front group,
00:21:05.700 but they brought in all of these well-known leaders,
00:21:08.740 quite a number of leaders from the largest Protestant denomination,
00:21:11.740 the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals,
00:21:17.040 which represents some 45,000 churches in dozens of denominations.
00:21:22.460 Once again, Christianity Today.
00:21:24.700 Once again, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
00:21:27.820 So all of these entities that are viewed as trusted and conservative,
00:21:32.120 but they're partnering with George Soros-funded organizations
00:21:35.220 and have taken George Soros' money themselves in order to participate in these programs
00:21:41.140 that are designed to convince conservative lawmakers that their most important constituency,
00:21:47.320 the evangelicals, want them to vote for these amnesty policies.
00:21:52.400 So this is how this sort of money, funneling of dark money is coming in,
00:21:57.640 and it's how this network of associations is working.
00:22:00.420 How many of the churches are actively aware of this?
00:22:09.100 I would say very few are actively aware of it,
00:22:11.980 and part of the reason is because, one, obviously, you know,
00:22:16.820 my book just came out a couple of weeks ago.
00:22:18.920 It immediately hit the New York Times list,
00:22:20.960 and I think it's because so many people were shocked to find out this information,
00:22:24.300 and also because the pushback has been so unbelievably fierce.
00:22:28.700 I mean, I expected some pushback, but there has been a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth
00:22:32.840 that this information has now been publicized on such a high level,
00:22:36.420 and I think it's because they knew that for so long,
00:22:39.420 most rank-and-file people in the pews, most average pastors,
00:22:43.140 were not aware that these things were going on.
00:22:45.880 And so you see a lot of scrambling to try to deny the information,
00:22:49.740 but you can't deny it, Glenn, because the reality is you can say that,
00:22:53.340 oh, hey, there's nothing wrong with the fact that we're hiring pastors
00:22:56.400 to be, quote-unquote, regional mobilizers to connect with lawmakers over,
00:23:02.900 for example, these immigration policies or these climate change policies.
00:23:07.060 Wow.
00:23:07.760 When you drill down on the—yeah, that's happening, too.
00:23:10.520 But when you drill down on the money, you cannot deny the IRS 990s.
00:23:15.560 You cannot deny what's right there in cold black and white in all of these financial filings,
00:23:20.980 that money is going from these secular left billionaires and organizations,
00:23:24.740 and not just George Soros, also people like Bill Gates, the Clinton Foundation.
00:23:30.600 Well, those are good religious foundations.
00:23:33.300 Right.
00:23:33.900 Those are great.
00:23:34.920 Those are great.
00:23:36.100 Pierre Omidyar, yeah, the left-wing Buddhist founder of eBay.
00:23:41.320 Today, he's funneling money into groups like the policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
00:23:48.440 So all of these secular left billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook,
00:23:52.080 all of this money is flowing from them into these evangelical ministries,
00:23:56.440 and it's gone unnoticed for a really long time.
00:24:00.740 So how do you approach this?
00:24:03.160 You're a pastor.
00:24:05.480 You see something.
00:24:07.000 You want to talk to him about it and say,
00:24:08.560 hey, have you seen any of this?
00:24:10.320 How do you talk to them?
00:24:13.540 Well, you know, I think the first thing is I have encouraged people,
00:24:16.520 look, don't blow your pastor up the minute you see maybe something from the evangelical immigration table 0.66
00:24:23.300 or the after party, which is that political Bible study from David French of the New York Times
00:24:29.060 and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore.
00:24:32.040 When you see that come in, first have a conversation with him.
00:24:34.560 Say, hey, pastor, can I take you to coffee?
00:24:36.640 Because there's a really good chance he doesn't really understand where it's coming from,
00:24:40.540 and some friend, some pastor friend of his brought it to him and said,
00:24:44.420 hey, you should have this in your church.
00:24:46.040 So that would be one.
00:24:47.060 And then two, if you sense that they are not willing to really look at the information there,
00:24:52.280 I think you need to have a tougher conversation.
00:24:54.780 And if it seems like, no, they are deliberately bringing this in,
00:24:58.060 then I am sorry, but you've got to find another church.
00:25:00.280 Tell me about Christian nationalism.
00:25:03.600 Did you look into that?
00:25:06.240 I did.
00:25:07.120 And, you know, largely what we're seeing when we look at the Christian nationalism discourse
00:25:11.760 is that I think it's a smear that's largely being used by the left
00:25:16.240 in order to dissuade Christians from participating in the civic process. 0.94
00:25:22.040 So essentially what you see is, for example, the Rob Reiner documentary,
00:25:26.660 which recently came out a few months ago.
00:25:28.680 They take something like the overturning of Roe, the Dobbs decision,
00:25:33.460 and they label that Christian nationalism as a smear,
00:25:37.140 when really what it is is just average Christians availing themselves
00:25:40.500 of the same constitutional process of free association, free speech,
00:25:46.060 electing candidates who are going to enact their policy preferences
00:25:49.360 and appoint the justices that they want.
00:25:51.580 They call that Christian nationalism,
00:25:53.620 but it's simply Christians doing exactly what their secular neighbors do.
00:25:56.900 Now, I know there are a small, fringy group of people
00:26:00.220 who are kind of leaning into that smear.
00:26:02.360 I don't think that's particularly wise.
00:26:04.280 But as far as actual money coming from the right or something like that,
00:26:08.400 that's not happening.
00:26:09.860 And not only that, where you do see Christian organizations
00:26:13.100 getting involved in politics on the right, it's very transparent.
00:26:16.700 There's no question about what people like Ralph Reed
00:26:19.060 and his Faith and Freedom Coalition are doing.
00:26:21.340 They're not trying to hide it because they're not taking money
00:26:24.540 from people who everyone knows are not Christian
00:26:27.400 and do not have any interest in building up God's kingdom.
00:26:32.440 It is something I thank you deeply for doing the homework on.
00:26:39.180 This is something that we exposed a couple of three years ago.
00:26:43.040 And I know that many churches are in the midst of an internal fight,
00:26:47.600 whether their flock knows it or not.
00:26:49.800 There is a big fight going on for the soul of these organizations.
00:26:55.240 And they have let the wolves in the back door.
00:27:00.360 And thank you for exposing it.
00:27:02.280 The name of the book is Shepherds for Sale.
00:27:05.120 Its author is Megan Basham.
00:27:07.540 Thank you so much, Megan.
00:27:09.440 Thanks for having me, Glenn.
00:27:10.540 I appreciate it.
00:27:11.840 You bet.
00:27:12.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:27:14.460 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:27:18.260 Stu, you remember last week when the Blaze had the report out
00:27:22.540 about the pipe bomb that it might have been planted by the police?
00:27:28.880 Yeah.
00:27:29.700 Okay.
00:27:30.360 We didn't spend a lot of time on it because I thought,
00:27:33.920 well, it might have been that.
00:27:35.960 It might have been a lot of things.
00:27:37.840 You know, I'll wait for Steve Baker to pin this down.
00:27:40.380 Then this weekend, I saw Darren Beattie of Revolver News came out,
00:27:44.800 and he said, it is the police.
00:27:50.200 Okay.
00:27:51.520 That's kind of a big deal.
00:27:53.640 I mean, that's earth shattering.
00:27:56.560 Steve Baker joins us now from the Blaze.
00:27:59.520 Steve, is this new information or it's the same information that you had?
00:28:05.340 Hey, this is exactly the information that we had and we released early last week.
00:28:13.340 But I think that whether it's Darren or any other journalists stepping out
00:28:20.160 and saying that this is conclusively proof that the police planted that bomb
00:28:25.700 is getting a little bit ahead of themselves.
00:28:27.940 And I'll tell you why.
00:28:30.040 We have the video of what we believe to be a Secret Service agent exiting a Metropolitan
00:28:38.720 Police vehicle, but he steps out of frame.
00:28:42.860 Now, he's carrying a bag in his hand, but he steps out of frame.
00:28:46.620 And then two minutes later, he steps back into the camera frame once again.
00:28:51.840 And that is not proof that he set a bomb down, but it does make us ask questions.
00:28:59.600 And it makes us question the FBI directly once again, as we did in our article,
00:29:05.280 which was our lead in that article, was the FBI can solve this for us today
00:29:10.720 if they will release the DNC's own security cameras.
00:29:15.680 Their own security cameras are aimed and focused on exactly that spot where the bomb was placed,
00:29:22.440 but they have never released that to the public.
00:29:27.460 So it is, I mean, I have to tell you, I mean, if you have to take a leap of faith,
00:29:32.120 if you're forced to take a leap of faith, and you look at all of the evidence,
00:29:37.380 it is circumstantial, but it is pretty good, especially when the DNC has that video and won't
00:29:46.880 release it, why wouldn't you release the video?
00:29:51.000 That's the great question about this bomb, and that is what makes, as you're saying there,
00:29:58.060 this so, such a, it's such an easy thing to come to a conclusion on when you have a bomb
00:30:05.280 that was allegedly placed 17 hours earlier, around, you know, 7.30, 8 o'clock the night before,
00:30:12.460 and then it allegedly sat there undetected during all that time with so much foot traffic that morning,
00:30:20.760 so many officers all over that building from various agencies,
00:30:24.420 two different bomb sweep teams swept the facility.
00:30:30.060 We know that from the OIG report that came out a couple of weeks ago.
00:30:33.900 There is this mounting evidence that there just couldn't have been a bomb there for 17 hours,
00:30:42.760 but somehow, some way, 15 minutes before it was discovered, we see a guy getting out of a car,
00:30:50.600 bag in his hand, he walks over that direction, into that, you know, it's a blind spot in the camera
00:30:59.440 coverage from the CCTV, because they moved it, well, this particular camera, we went back,
00:31:07.540 when we were in the, in the Capitol, uh, viewing room, we went back eight days,
00:31:11.560 that camera had been fixed for eight full days prior to this event, and then that camera begins
00:31:20.240 moving five minutes after the alleged discovery of the bomb by a plain-clothes Capitol police officer.
00:31:28.560 So, when, then suddenly, suddenly that, that camera starts moving by remote control,
00:31:33.100 it focuses in, it zooms into that location in between the benches,
00:31:36.840 you can kind of pick up a little bit of a, um, uh, visual of the bomb when that camera moves,
00:31:43.440 and then it sweeps away, and then within 30 minutes, whoever the operator was turned that
00:31:49.500 camera off of the investigative scene, uh, full 90 degrees away from it, and it never returned
00:31:56.060 for the rest of the day. So, this takes us into a whole new territory, if it is true, and this is
00:32:03.240 why I, uh, as much as I believe this probably is what happened, um, you don't want to go there,
00:32:11.500 you know, uh, unless it's absolutely true, and I don't know how we would ever prove that,
00:32:17.040 um, but this, you say, why, why do you say this was a Secret Service agent?
00:32:22.980 Uh, mainly because of the way he was dressed. It was a Secret Service detail, and Secret Service
00:32:29.040 were mingling with Metropolitan Police officers that day in that detail, which is not uncommon.
00:32:34.760 Uh, they do assist, uh, uh, the local police do assist the Secret Service, and there was, of course,
00:32:40.300 uh, the fact that we learned, uh, sometime, uh, well, a year later, after January 6th,
00:32:46.480 that Kamala Harris was actually inside the building at that time.
00:32:51.560 So, what do you think, why was it planted?
00:32:56.720 There's no doubt, no, I, I, I have no problem going out, uh, and declaring the reason for it
00:33:01.840 being planted. The reason for that bomb and the one over at the RNC, uh, the Capitol Hill Club,
00:33:06.660 was diversionary. They were specifically planted to divert resources from the Capitol. Bear in mind
00:33:16.060 that only five minutes before the first breach on the West, uh, front there at the Capitol on January
00:33:22.240 6th, was, that's when the first bomb was found at the RNC, and then only, um, two, three minutes
00:33:31.660 before the breach, this particular, who we think is a Secret Service agent, uh, wearing a trench coat,
00:33:37.840 carrying a bag, just two to three minutes before that barrier, uh, barricade breach at the Capitol,
00:33:44.880 this guy disappeared towards those benches, and then he's back, and then five minutes later,
00:33:49.960 or 15 minutes later, um, some minutes after the barricade breach, the Capitol Police plainclothes
00:33:56.480 officer found the bomb. And that diverted resources from the Capitol that were needed.
00:34:03.660 So do you think it was ever supposed to go off?
00:34:07.460 No, these, these, these bombs were not viable. They were, they were absolutely, um, uh, props.
00:34:14.020 And we know that beyond any shadow of a doubt. We have, we have direct testimony from one of the
00:34:18.740 agents that worked on that bomb scene, worked on the, um, investigation of the bomb. And he was told
00:34:26.080 by his superiors that these devices were not viable. What's your gut tell you on this?
00:34:38.220 My, my gut tells me that we're going to learn who this man is. That's the first thing. And that's
00:34:47.000 one of the reasons why it would be reckless for us to declare him, the guy that plucked planted the
00:34:52.340 bomb. Uh, that would be, you know, there's, there's probably some legal jeopardy for us to do that,
00:34:58.220 but it's suspicious. We are going to learn who he is. We're also eventually going to learn after
00:35:03.940 three and a half years, I hope why Kamala Harris was in that building, why she was not at the Capitol
00:35:10.540 where she was being basically coronated as then, uh, vice president. She was a voting senator at the 0.91
00:35:17.660 time. She was, uh, the BP elect at the time and the debate for her ascendancy to vice president,
00:35:28.100 the certification of electoral college vote was taking place at the Capitol at the time,
00:35:33.220 but she had been scheduled according to this same OIG report. She had been scheduled according to the
00:35:38.840 secret service logs two days in advance that she was going to be at the DNC from 1130 to 330 during
00:35:47.360 the scheduled debate. And during the scheduled vote, she was not going to be there. And this is,
00:35:54.280 I'm telling you, Glenn, that's a bigger mystery to me than even the bombs. But if we do discover
00:35:59.480 that these bombs were in fact planted by one of the agencies, secret service, FBI, MPD, Capitol
00:36:07.140 police doesn't matter. We just, if we've discovered that it literally, no, no pun intended blows this
00:36:14.840 thing up. Tell me about what you know about the secret service, uh, and the, the body of the, uh,
00:36:23.420 would be assassin of Donald Trump being cremated before Congress had a chance to examine and
00:36:29.940 investigate, uh, and also that they, they cleaned up biological evidence and, uh, that apparently
00:36:38.660 doesn't happen. Is that true? Uh, it shouldn't have happened as soon as it did. That's the first
00:36:46.020 answer. It is not 100% uncommon that if a case is clearly solved, that they don't clean up and they
00:36:54.900 don't take the body away or that they don't go ahead and turn the body back over to the family for
00:36:59.460 however they wish to, um, uh, take care of the body at that point, it's not uncommon, but this is not
00:37:05.300 a common case. And that's why this should not have been, uh, done so soon. And I think that
00:37:10.260 representative Clay Higgins from Louisiana is absolutely correct in that. Now, as a law enforcement
00:37:15.380 officer himself, a sheriff in Louisiana, he would have seen the disposal of bodies of all types of
00:37:20.560 all types of homicides. Um, and, and he would know based on the significance of this, that it
00:37:26.720 should have been preserved to the body of Thomas Crook should have been preserved to have other
00:37:31.680 investigators, backup autopsies, other examinations from different agencies to confirm, validate
00:37:38.320 findings. Because if you don't do that, all you do is open up the conspiracy theories and you let it
00:37:44.640 ride that there must be a coverup. Now we were pretty sure they're a coverup. We just don't
00:37:50.480 know if they're covering up their, uh, incompetence or if they're covering up something much more
00:37:55.520 sinister. What's your gut tell you? I, uh, in this case, I'm, I'm, I'm in the camp solidly
00:38:05.040 that this young man was groomed, that he had help. Um, I do not believe for a second that there was a
00:38:12.400 second shooter on the scene and those conspiracy theories are easily disproven, but, uh, we have
00:38:20.480 one of our absolute most trusted sources is an individual who for 30 years did this very thing
00:38:28.400 for our government overseas in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Central America. He told me, and I'm quoting,
00:38:38.720 he said, what disturbs him the most about this particular case and Thomas Crooks is he says,
00:38:45.120 I recognize my own handiwork. Are we going to find out who it is?
00:38:52.720 I'll tell you what, you know, that I'm looking, you know, the Joe Hanneman, uh, who we wrote this
00:38:57.360 article, uh, who I wrote this article with, uh, we're going to be looking at this thing for a long
00:39:01.040 time. I, uh, wish you luck. And I hope that, uh, thanks for being responsible on this. I'm not saying
00:39:06.720 that the other reporters are not, they may know something that I don't know, or we don't know.
00:39:10.480 Um, but, uh, I don't want to rush to anything and get it wrong. This is way too important. If that's
00:39:17.120 true, then your deep state is exposed and nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.