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Glenn Beck sits down with James Comer, the chairman of the committee that is trying to find out exactly who signed what on executive orders, and also the Office of Radical Transparency. Glenn also talks about the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and why he should be remembered as the first black president of South Africa.
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Hey, we've got a lot of stuff going on in today's podcast, some of it here in the shortened
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version, some of it in long form. We talk about energy and how important energy is,
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what's being done. We go in with James Comer. He is the chairman of the committee that is trying
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to find out exactly who signed what on executive orders. Fascinating interview with him. Also,
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the Office of Radical Transparency. But what I really want to point you to is the very beginning
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of today's podcast. I did about 30 minutes on just the big, beautiful bill. What Trump is trying to do,
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what, why we can't just slash the budget, even though I am all for this, why we can't do it,
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what we should be doing it, and what we do today, how it is going to affect you very soon in the
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future. All of our lives, our lifestyles are about to change. The big, beautiful bill, you must
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understand the ins and outs and why things are being done and not being done, and then take action
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intelligently and ask the Congress to do a few things and the Senate. All on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Alex, welcome to the program.
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Yeah, thank you so much for taking this stand and saying the things that really I don't think
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anybody is going to reward you for or even thank you for. And in many cases, I think I fear it will
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fall on deaf ears. And what we're talking about is the situation in South Africa. Everybody's focused
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on white genocide. But it is much, much, much, much, much deeper than just that. It seems to me,
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you know, Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia when I was young, he took over. It was the breadbasket of
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Africa. He took it over, destroyed it, slaughtered people, became a horrible communist monster.
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And the world just stood there and watched. And I think we're going through the same thing now in
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South Africa. But you say this is the beginning of it. What's happening there is going to happen
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here. So let's start with your credentials on how do you know about South Africa?
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Well, thank you, Glenn. And I actually moved there on the day of my 18th birthday. It's a long story,
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but I had a lot of money. I lived outside the United States, didn't want to come back. And so
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I just moved down there. I was young, dumb. I didn't know the Lord. But give me a firsthand
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look at what was going on. I traveled all through the country and all through the region. And it was
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already bad at that time. It wasn't like what they're dealing with today, but it was already getting
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bad. And just by talking to people, you know, I wasn't a Christian. I wasn't even especially
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conservative. But just by talking to people, you could get a sense of the hatred of the division.
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You could see the infrastructure crumbling. You could see, I mean, everything was collapsing.
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Life expectancy collapsed more than 10 years in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the
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former apartheid government. So it was already bad. But it wasn't until I got back to the United
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States and started in journalism that I really started digging into the root of this. And what was
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really a turning point for me, Glenn, because I had heard all this living down there, but I wasn't
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quite sure what to make of it. But the turning point for me was in 2012, when a lot of people I
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knew from South Africa contacted me, an individual by the name of Gregory Stanton, Dr. Gregory Stanton.
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He's the founder of Genocide Watch. He was an anti-apartheid activist. So nobody could accuse him of
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being a racist or an apartheid supporter. He went down there on a fact-finding mission. And he had at that
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time a genocide scale with eight stages. And after his fact-finding mission, he concluded that South
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Africa was at stage six at that time. Six was the planning and preparation stage. Seven was the
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extermination phase. Eight was denial after the fact. And the evidence that he used was available
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to anybody. I mean, I could see it. People were sending this to me. The president of the country at
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that time, the polygamist pagan ruler Jacob Zuma, was on TV singing, bring me my machine gun. We're going
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to shoot all the boars. You had the head of the ANC Youth League at that time, Julius Malema. Donald
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Trump just showed his video in the Oval Office last week saying, kill the boar. We're going to
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kill the farmers. So all that- Hang on. Hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. So before you go on,
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could you explain, because what the New York Times said was, you're just ignorant of all history if you
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think that's what that means. That's just a historic song. You know, I don't care what the Klan was singing
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in 1860. I don't, if they're singing it, you know, in front of thousands today, I take it as the same
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way they meant it in 1860. Can you just clear that up? Yeah, and I think the New York Times is being
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deliberately dishonest here. And I think also the effort to frame this in pure, no, that would never
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happen, right? They didn't try to cover up the genocide that Stalin unleashed against the Ukrainians
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by invasion. They've got a long history of this. They painted Fidel Castro as a freedom fighter in the
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George Washington of Latin America. They've got a very long history of this. But the history of
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South Africa is very complicated, and everybody needs to acknowledge that. But these are genocide
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songs. We need to be very clear. These are songs aimed at promoting hatred and ultimately the
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extermination of this particular people group that is identifiable by its culture, by its language,
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by its Christian heritage. It is a nation in the true sense of the term. And so as I was seeing all
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this, I said, I have to do something about this. You're right, Glenn. It was terribly unpopular.
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I got called names and things like this. But I did a cover story in the New American Magazine 2012
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called Genocide and Communism Threatened South Africa. And I did a companion piece for it,
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South African Communists' Friends in High Places, where I showed the role of people like Henry Kissinger
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and David Rockefeller in bringing this situation about. And the reason it's so important, Glenn,
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and I hope we can get into this a little bit more, the reason it's so important for Americans to
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understand this is this is the model and the plan they have for you. The Boers, the Afrikaners,
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they're the Afrikaners because they came from Holland and Denmark and Germany and France to Africa.
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We are the Amerikaners. That's what they call us because we went to America. Our histories are
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very closely paralleled. They diverge, of course, when the Afrikaners fought against the British
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Empire, they lost. They were trying to preserve the independence of their little republics down there,
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the Orange Free State and the ZAR. When we fought the British Empire, we won. But other than that,
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our histories, I mean, they are the closest thing we have to cousins anywhere in the world.
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And what is happening is a microcosm of what they want to do to the United States and the broader
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Christian West. And they're even using the same tactics. So go through that. What are the tactics
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that they're using? Well, there are several. First and foremost, I would say the racial division and
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the effort to paint the target group as some sort of innately horrible, evil group of people. And as
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somebody who has been all over the world, who's lived outside the United States almost my entire
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life, who goes to these U.N. conferences, I can tell you that's happening right this moment.
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They are painting Americans as a danger to the world, right, where climate criminals,
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now Donald Trump is pulling out of all these climate agreements. We are a threat to the world.
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We're getting out of the World Health Organization. We're these greedy, selfish Americans. We don't
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want to share our medicine. We just want to steal money from all the whole world. The colonialism,
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of course, the racial narrative, the same racial narrative is actually being used against Americans
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right now overseas. Americans are these racist yahoos who built a system on white supremacy. We
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abused the Indians. And we don't deserve to exist. And they show things like, for example, George Floyd.
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And they look at that in foreign newspapers. They think, wow, America is this terrible white supremacist,
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evil society that needs to be dismantled. And then you look at the actual tactics for how they waged the
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war within South Africa. Very similar to what's happening now. People pouring across the border,
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intelligence operatives from East Germany, from the Soviet Union, from Mozambique, from Angola,
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from Libya, from Cuba, you name it, training terrorist cadres, engaging in terrorist acts.
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And we haven't seen anything like what South Africa has seen, to be clear. In the 70s,
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we saw a little taste of that with Barack Obama's buddy Bill Ayers when he and his minions were
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bombing the State Department, bombing the Pentagon, bombing the Capitol, murdering police officers,
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and then bombing their funerals. They realized that was not going to be a successful tactic at that
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time. But they will come back to that if and when they think the time is right.
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And I think they think that the time is almost right.
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I think you're exactly right. I mean, I did a special last week, Alex, on what is the left
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planning? Because none of the things that they're doing right now are lining up with the mood of
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America. They are going more radical, more dangerous, more violent. And it's being encouraged
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by the leaders of the far left in the Democratic Party. And most Democrats, and I think most Americans
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are just going, oh, well, it's a crazy left. No, no, no. This is the exact opposite of what you do if
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you're trying to win elections. This is what you do if you're trying to create civil unrest and possible
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That's exactly right, Glenn. And then all you have to do is look at the rhetoric, right? I mean,
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at this point, they're not even hiding it anymore. How could we forget Jamie Raskin talking about
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blocking Trump, even if it led to civil war conditions? I mean, those were his words, not
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mine. A member of Congress, a prominent Democrat advocating resistance to Trump, even if it meant
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civil war-like conditions. You look at the way some of these members of Congress are talking,
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some of the way these Democrat mayors and Democrat governors are talking.
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And I think a lot of conservative Americans are kind of insulated from this, Glenn. They go to
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church, they hang out with their social circle, their family. They don't realize the rage that is
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being stirred up and fomented deliberately on the other side, sometimes with blatant lies and fake
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news. Sometimes they take the grain of truth and blow it all out of proportion. But they are stirring
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people up into a blind rage. And they're telling these people, I mean, their term is Trump is literally
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Hitler. And if he's literally Hitler, and his supporters are literally supporting a Hitler,
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anything is justified to stop them. So we all, I think, had some very dangerous territory here. And I think
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your average conservative American is clueless about what's coming.
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So tell me, do they have a deep state in South Africa?
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They do. And it's actually intimately intertwined with our deep state here. That companion article
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that I mentioned earlier, South African communist friends in high places, what I showed is that
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subversives within our own state department were building up the deep state there. Now, let's go back
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a little bit further. First, we start with the Soviet Union, because a lot of this had its roots in
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Moscow. The South African communist party was the first major communist party that the Soviets set
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up outside of the Soviet Union. It was, for intents and purposes, a tentacle of the Soviet communist
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party. And what's really interesting, this is one of the ways you know this is not a racial issue,
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right? The issue is never the issue. It's always the revolution. The original slogan of the communist
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party in South Africa was, whites unite to keep South Africa white.
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Absolutely. They only adopted the quote unquote black liberation when they realized that would
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be a more effective tactic for bringing South Africa to its knees and putting all those strategic
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critical minerals and shipping lanes in their hands. So they basically took over an existing
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structure, the African National Congress, to the point where the entire leadership of the ANC
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was dominated by actual card carrying members of the South African communist party. And whistleblowers from
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both of those parties came and testified to this fact in Congress. So you had a very powerful
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communist apparatus there that was supported by the Soviet Union and all the Soviet satellite states.
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They were getting huge amounts of money. Of course, the UN was backing them as well.
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And then you add to that, the US deep state was supporting them to the point where our government,
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starting even in the 1950s, was pouring millions. By the time it was all done, hundreds of millions,
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according to Rand University, hundreds of millions of dollars into these subversive communist groups
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like SWAPO, the Southwest African People's Organization, like the Pan-Africanist Congress,
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which was kind of an offshoot of the ANC, pouring money into this, very much like what they did in
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Zimbabwe. Right. And it was the same situation in Zimbabwe where the US deep state then got involved
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and they presented a false binary. Your choices are either apartheid or communist revolution.
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And what they didn't tell people was a lot of the African nations in South Africa were actually
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allied with the Afrikaners against the communist revolution. None probably more significantly than
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the Zulus who were brutally and viciously targeted by the communists through necklacing,
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through mass murder, horrific things. And so we watched this really interesting situation where
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the communist powers of the world were united in the same end goal in South Africa with some of the
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most elite and powerful institutions in the United States. And of course, Reagan spoke out about this
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a little bit, tried to stop some of this. They actually put the ANC and some of the key leaders on the
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US terrorist list. But ultimately, it just it proved to be too much. And and they ended up with a
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communist revolution, which now is entering its second phase where they just steal stuff and kill people
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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All right. I want to talk to you about the big, beautiful bill, but I want to talk to you instead
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of all of the politics going around it. I want to, I want you to understand what we are facing
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right now. Uh, what we are facing right now is, uh, collapse of, uh, you know, of our economy
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collapse. You know, they will say that, you know, what's coming is a collapse that is going to be
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worse than 2008. I believe, and I could be wrong. Remember, I'm a optimistic catastrophist. Uh, I believe
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that, uh, it doesn't have to be this way, but we are, we are looking at losing the, the dollar, uh,
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and it's going to happen fast. How do people go bankrupt over a long period of time? And then
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all of a sudden, and the, all of a sudden part is coming our way. Now, the majority of Americans
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feel that the country is headed in the right direction. And I believe it is, but what we're
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looking at is, uh, is a really difficult situation. So let me ask you, how did we become the world's
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leading economy? What did we have that others didn't have? Because it was very easy. And I want
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you to, I want you to make a checklist in your own mind. Uh, this is what we used to have. We had cheap
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energy, cheap labor, uh, educated labor. We had small business entrepreneurs. We had individual
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inventors that were in their garage or their barn. Uh, we had ingenuity. We had low regulation,
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a cohesive society that was built around stable laws and a stable government. That's what it took
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for us to become the leader of the world. Now let's go through those and see how many of these
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we have or are on the road to repairing cheap energy. Yes. I think we're, we, we didn't have that,
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but yes, uh, we are doing it now. Cheap labor. I don't know how to do that one. Educated labor.
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Well, as soon as we get rid of all of the DEI crap that's going on, yeah, I think we could
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maybe reeducate ourselves. Small businesses. No, small businesses are being choked by taxes and
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regulations. Um, um, individual inventors. Not really. Everything's being gobbled up by big ed and
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big government. Uh, ingenuity. Well, ingenuity happens when, uh, you don't have DEI,
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you don't have all of these things, regulations. And when you have tax cuts and people realize I
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can do this and I can actually make more money and I can get ahead. That's when ingenuity in America,
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at least goes on. And I don't think we're there yet. Uh, uh, low regulation. No, the answer to this
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is not in the big, beautiful bill. The answer to this is in the reins act. And you will see by the
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end of this monologue, that is the most important thing we could do a cohesive society. I don't know.
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That's our job. Are you feeling like you're making inroads on that one and stable laws and
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government? Well, that is the DOJ. That is the FBI. That is restoring trust in our institutions.
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Are we doing that? Well, I think this is one of the reasons why people think that we are,
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you know, on the right track because yeah, we're starting to see it, but we're making some real
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mistakes there as well. And that has to happen. That's why Donald Trump, the, I mean, if you look
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at these, you can understand why Donald Trump has the agenda that he has, he's got to repair these
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things. Now, the old way of fixing an economy, because you are, you are now in trouble, right?
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I mean, you are, we know that the government, the, the business in America is not good. The dollar
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is not good. Our debt is not good, but people don't really understand why it is so bad.
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Well, let me show you. Remember, I told you at some point, it was right after 2008, I said,
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they're going to start printing money and they're going to tell you that they're not printing money.
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They're digitizing money. And everything I said that they would do, and they denied that they would do,
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they did. And I said, that would lead to inflation, which it did. Our government debt would
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explode, which it did. And our dollar would lose value and eventually lose its place. They would
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start to degrade, I mean, sorry, downgrade our dollar status, which they are doing now.
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And then eventually we lose the reserve dollar, the currency for the reserve. And everybody said
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that would never, ever happen. And now look at where we are. Okay.
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In the years when I was growing up, how did you fix an economy? Well, the government could step in
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and they would cut taxes, but when they cut taxes and not cut spending, that increases debt.
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Then you have the Fed lower the interest rates. That helps people have cheaper money to be able to
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take loans and start businesses, et cetera, et cetera. But instead, what our people did is they just gave
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zero interest rates. So all of the big corporations just took on all kinds of debt, but they didn't have
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to worry about it because they didn't have any interest payments. So they just took on all kinds
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of debt that inflated our dollar by pumping all of that money in it inflated our dollar. So you,
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if you lower the interest rates, you have debt, you have things like QE, quantitative easing,
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which puts debt on the Fed, and you have inflation, which is our biggest problem.
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Then the other thing you would do is you would do a stimulus package. Have you noticed that this is
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the first time in American history, this administration that I know of, that nobody's talking about a big,
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beautiful stimulus package. Why? Because a big, beautiful stimulus package, that doesn't work
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anymore because all it's doing is adding money to the debt. And then the last thing you would do if
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you were a conservative is you would cut regulation. Now we can't do, tax cuts, he's doing, but is he
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doing the tax cuts in a way that are, I mean, he's just holding the tax cuts, right? We're not getting
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new tax cuts. Why? Because it will increase the debt. So we're doing the same tax cuts, just making
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them permanent. So your tax is not going to change. That does not help spur the economy, but it does help
00:24:06.440
stabilize the economy. But he is then take taxes and he is saying, hey, no tax on tips. He needs,
00:24:14.380
he's giving tax cuts to the people at the lowest level of the economy. That's not going to spur on
00:24:20.200
the economy. However, because of all the other problems, it's really important because the people
00:24:25.260
at the bottom of the ladder are really struggling and they have to have relief. So a way to do that
00:24:31.600
is give them tax cuts, some sort of tax relief because you can't do a stimulus package. So let's
00:24:39.400
try this and hope that people spend that money wisely. Okay. The other thing that you do when you
00:24:48.940
have a troubled economy, like we have had in the past and we do now, is you look for a black swan event.
00:24:55.980
You look for a game changer out on the horizon, something that is going to change everything.
00:25:00.880
Sometimes that's war. Sometimes that's an invention. But what will change everything to
00:25:07.680
refigure the economy? Okay. So now let me tell you why the president is doing what he is doing with
00:25:20.340
a big, beautiful bill. Everybody is arguing that we have to cut the deficit. Everybody is saying
00:25:29.260
there's no debt reduction here and we have to have debt reduction. That is great. And you're right.
00:25:36.060
We absolutely do. I am with you 110%. We cannot continue spending this way. Now let's look at the
00:25:46.000
other side. Why wouldn't you cut the debt? Well, there's a couple of reasons. You don't think it's
00:25:51.720
a problem. Nobody with a brain doesn't think it's a problem now. And that may explain a lot of what's
00:25:57.080
happening in Washington because I'm not sure. They may be sharing one or two brains between the whole
00:26:01.140
lot of them in Congress. But you know that this is a problem. Okay. So you don't care that it's a
00:26:08.980
problem. That's another one. You don't care that it's a problem. You just think it will go on forever
00:26:14.180
and the sun is shining right now. So I'm going to, I'm just going to keep spending and I'm just going to
00:26:19.100
put my head in the sand and it doesn't matter because the United States is an oppressor anyway
00:26:23.860
and yada yada. Whatever your reason is, you don't care. You recognize the problem, but you don't care.
00:26:30.620
That's the second reason. There is another reason why not to cut the debt. And it is one that is very
00:26:38.960
hard for Americans to understand. But I take you back if you're my age to where Ronald Reagan saying
00:26:44.300
when this debt gets to a point to where we are spending more on interest than we are on our
00:26:51.000
national defense, there will be no good options left. We are here. There are no good options left.
00:27:01.600
The other reason why you don't cut the budget, you look for ways to spur the economy on.
00:27:09.460
You don't cut the budget at least radically at all because right now, you're ready for this one?
00:27:18.480
It's not going to improve your mood. The U.S. government and the budget, what we spend every
00:27:24.020
year now accounts for 25% of GDP. So if you want to cut the budget, let's say we just cut it in half,
00:27:34.220
which Coolidge did. That means that we take 12 cents out of every dollar that is being spent
00:27:41.440
and used in America. We take 12 cents out of the economy.
00:27:48.320
Now we're going to have to do it at some point, but how are you going to do that? Because that'll
00:27:54.100
hurt the GDP. You will reduce the GDP. Once you reduce the GDP, then you have problems again with
00:28:02.180
the budget, the taxes and interest rates. So you have to spur the economy on before you start
00:28:08.760
dramatically cutting the budget. Now, if your mood didn't improve when I said your GDP is now 25%
00:28:15.480
of federal spending, let me include the state and local spending. So when you include the tax money
00:28:23.760
that is being spent now, your dollars that are being spent in our economy, and you include the
00:28:31.080
federal government spending, the state spending, and the local spending, the good news is it might be at
00:28:40.900
times as low as 34%, but it's much closer to 45% of our GDP. So almost half of our spending,
00:28:52.420
almost half of our gross domestic product, meaning what we build, what we buy, almost half of it
00:29:01.240
is being spent and purchased by our government. So you cannot cut the budget quickly, dramatically,
00:29:10.940
but you must cut the budget or we collapse. Do you see what Ronald Reagan was saying? We're in a place
00:29:17.060
where there are no good options. If we do not do the things we must do now, and I'm going to give
00:29:26.320
that list to you here. In fact, let me do that now. The number one thing that everybody should be asking
00:29:31.700
for in this big, beautiful bill is not necessarily more cuts. I'd like more cuts. But remember, we have
00:29:38.680
to spur on the economy. How do we do that? We have to stabilize our laws, make sure that we are focusing
00:29:46.620
on education. This is a longer term thing, the education, stabilizing our laws to make sure they apply to
00:29:53.620
everyone equally. Do the exact opposite of what New York did when they went after Donald Trump's business, even
00:30:00.680
though other businesses do exactly the same thing. You cannot have a growing economy if you don't have
00:30:07.180
stable laws. So you have to strengthen the DOJ and the FBI. President Trump is doing that. You do have
00:30:15.300
to cut, but you have to cut strategically. That's what Doge was doing. Congress is not doing their part
00:30:22.360
by even passing the minimum of what Doge did. That's Congress's fault. Then you need the RAINS Act,
00:30:31.300
because the biggest thing that will spur on the economy that we can actually do, we can't cut
00:30:37.120
taxes anymore. We can't cut the budget dramatically, which we have to do. So what do we do? We've
00:30:44.640
already lowered the cost of energy dramatically. We're already getting foreign investment, which will
00:30:50.740
help us reshore for our workers. That's longer term. We have the game changer. It's AI. Here's what we
00:30:58.600
don't have. Low regulation. We have to have low regulation. So I want you to call Congress and the
00:31:07.220
Senate and say, put the RAINS Act in the big, beautiful bill, because then you don't have to
00:31:13.660
keep going over and over and again and saying, well, will the Supreme Court allow us to do this? Well,
00:31:18.720
did Congress pass that money, et cetera, et cetera? It puts the power back where it belongs in Congress
00:31:25.780
for all of these regulations. And it defangs this out of control, bloated government because it
00:31:34.520
requires that Congress passes all of the regulations. Well, they're not going to pass a lot of them,
00:31:41.040
are they? That's why they got rid of them. This is a Woodrow Wilson progressive tool. Get rid of it,
00:31:47.260
make it an administrative state. The RAINS Act is imperative. You want to survive? Pass the RAINS Act.
00:31:53.720
It is the only tool that we have that will have positive consequences. And I can't think of any
00:32:02.900
negative consequences because we restore the power the way it is in the Constitution,
00:32:09.100
and we cut all of the insane regulation quickly, which spurs on growth. That's what Donald Trump is
00:32:17.440
trying to do. He's like, we cannot cut our way out of this debt. We have to grow our way out of this
00:32:22.540
debt and then begin to cut. This is why the tariffs, this is his logic on the tariffs. I'm going to get
00:32:29.560
foreigners to pay taxes so we can put that in. I don't believe in that, but he does. That's what
00:32:37.260
he's trying to do. Everything he's trying to do makes sense if you understand the problems that we
00:32:44.300
have. You may not agree with the solutions, but at least somebody is pursuing a solution.
00:32:51.300
You know, there was a great article out today, and we put it in the prep because it is so,
00:32:56.500
so, so, so, so, so important. It's from Victor Davis Hanson. And he says, look, historically,
00:33:02.400
if you don't fix this now, historically, he said, from Greece to Rome through the Middle Ages to the
00:33:08.560
Renaissance, there are only three ways of dealing with unsustainable debt, and none of them are good.
00:33:14.040
They're all civilizational killers. Number one, the Weimar Republic did it in Germany. You pay back
00:33:19.640
what you owe in cheap dollars. You inflate the dollar, and then you bankrupt what really helped
00:33:26.940
cause the depression. You can do that. You can pay back the $37 trillion in inflated dollars. It's
00:33:32.540
just not good. It is the Weimar Republic. Number two, you can confiscate private wealth. People do
00:33:39.540
that all the time throughout history. This destroys the legitimacy of the government. It makes private
00:33:45.120
investors hide their money. Confiscate the wealth. You're already seeing leftists say that that is
00:33:52.080
exactly what we have to do. It never works. Never works. It didn't work in Athens. It didn't work in
00:33:58.000
Rome. It didn't work in Renaissance. Italy, it doesn't work. And the last one is the most drastic,
00:34:03.660
and it's a killer too. South America has tried this one, and it's just redoubts the debt. Just say,
00:34:08.700
you know what, guys, we're not going to pay you back. All three of those are civilization killers.
00:34:15.380
So pay attention to this because your lifestyle is about to change.
00:34:21.000
You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes wherever
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you download podcasts. Well, the head of Hamas, Sinwar, according to Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:34:30.300
has just been killed. He's meeting with his 70 virgins now. I hope they're all ugly and complainers
00:34:35.460
and very, very controlling. I hope they make Mrs. Macron look like a sweetheart and a lovely,
00:34:44.720
lovely lady. Anyway, so he's out. We've been talking about what's going on in Congress now and
00:34:52.100
the Senate with the big, beautiful bill. Let me switch gears here because I said one of the things
00:34:57.580
you have to do to repair the economy is to fix the rule of law. We must have a consistent rule of law
00:35:06.420
or we will not have an economy. We won't have a civilization. The congressman from Kentucky,
00:35:13.140
James Comer, is with us now. We want to talk about the cover-up and the investigation that he is
00:35:20.080
overseeing right now on, you know, what happened with the auto pin, what happened with the president,
00:35:29.920
who was actually running the White House and why this matters. He represents Kentucky's first
00:35:34.920
congressional district, serves as the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability,
00:35:39.860
where he aggressively advocates for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in government. Welcome,
00:35:45.520
Congressman. How are you, sir? I'm great. Thanks for having me on. Good. Your investigation
00:35:51.540
has shown us now that there may be as many as three, more than that, but three in like a little cabal
00:35:59.640
that were kind of orchestrating the use of the auto pin for key executive actions and pardons. Can you
00:36:08.300
can you confirm whether you have any evidence identifying a person or persons?
00:36:15.180
Yeah, we have three. We have very good sources that point to four staffers, most of whom no one's
00:36:24.380
ever heard of, that were the ones who actually operated the auto pin. Remember, even if Joe Biden
00:36:30.560
was on the top of his game and even if he were authorizing the use of his signature on the auto pin,
00:36:36.160
he's not the person that would take the document and put it in the auto pin and press the power
00:36:42.600
button. We've identified the four staffers. We're fairly certain these are the four staffers that
00:36:50.100
actually put the auto pin in operation. We're bringing them in. We've asked them to come in
00:36:57.440
voluntarily, which that's the process to do a subpoena. If Thursday is the deadline for their
00:37:04.820
response, we've given them a week to respond and lawyer up and all that. If they do not respond,
00:37:10.160
or if they say no, then they will get a subpoena the very next day from me and they will have to
00:37:16.140
come in for a full blown deposition. We want to find out the process, who gave them the authority to
00:37:22.780
use the auto pin, who were they talking to? Then the next step will probably be the names,
00:37:29.340
like Klein and the people, maybe Joe Biden, the people that are in the news as who everyone
00:37:35.380
suspects were possibly running the White House. This is important because so much was done in the
00:37:43.080
last 100 days of the Biden administration from an executive order standpoint. They Trump-proofed
00:37:48.680
the government. They Trump-proofed the government with the auto pin. And then we all know about the
00:37:54.440
pardons, but just the executive orders alone, these are given the Trump administration fits in court,
00:38:01.320
like when he's trying to bring the federal employees back to work. The Joe Biden auto pin
00:38:06.800
signed an executive order in the end saying they could continue to work from home and gave them
00:38:10.820
collective bargaining rights and everything else. These are issues that are blocking the Trump agenda
00:38:17.820
in court and things that we think should be invalid because they weren't legitimately signed by the
00:38:24.780
president of the United States. And furthermore, this investigation may repeal that the president
00:38:29.040
of the United States didn't even know anything about these executive orders.
00:38:33.060
So I've heard that we have a whistleblower at a very high level of the Democratic Party
00:38:40.600
that has blown the whistle on a little cabal inside the White House that actually,
00:38:47.060
what I heard, was that some people in the White House had figured out a way to monetize
00:38:58.260
We don't know, but that will be a line of questioning, especially when you get to the
00:39:03.920
pardons. Remember, everyone knows about the pardons for the Biden family as a result of our
00:39:09.460
investigation. But they pardoned thousands of people. Some of them were murderers and rapists.
00:39:15.440
Some were legitimate pardons. But when you're talking about thousands of pardons, who vetted
00:39:21.220
them? Who gave them the authority? And the auto pin was used in every one of those pardons.
00:39:30.020
Outside of the Hunter Biden pardon, it looks like the auto pin was used on every single pardon
00:39:36.640
issued by this president. And, you know, there's there's rumors that that there were people that
00:39:44.820
were monetizing that. I don't know. But we're going to we're going to try to find out. But I'll tell you
00:39:49.480
this, but a lot has come out in the last three weeks. We've been waiting on this. We've been waiting
00:39:54.820
on this Tapper book. We have been waiting for this Tapper book for a while because we knew that he had
00:40:02.760
sources inside the White House that spilled the beans on Joe Biden's mental incapacity. So so
00:40:10.560
this has helped fuel momentum for the investigation. More evidence has surfaced. So so we're we're
00:40:19.060
trying to go from there. So do you what specific legal or constitutional violations do you believe
00:40:26.600
the auto pin may have breached? And how serious? Well, first of all, yeah, it's very serious because
00:40:37.640
first of all, you you have to physically sign anything pertaining to the law. I have to sign
00:40:46.060
subpoenas. I can't I have an auto pin. Everybody in Congress has an auto pin. Use an auto pin to sign
00:40:52.640
proclamations and mass letters and newsletters and things like that. But wait, wait, wait, wait,
00:41:00.560
wait. Didn't we didn't we in 2000? I don't know, 10 Barack Obama, maybe eight Barack Obama is in
00:41:07.080
Hawaii and it was the first authorized use of the auto pin for a for a executive order or law or
00:41:13.980
something. So did that not change? Was that a one time only thing? You know, our lawyers say you have
00:41:24.000
to sign anything pertaining to the law. You have to physically sign it. If if you know, if Obama had a
00:41:30.740
situation where he was in another country and something had to, you know, go out, I don't think
00:41:35.360
anyone would challenge that. But but to to use the auto pin for everything for the last at least 100
00:41:43.080
days of the administration when you have so much activity, you know, this wasn't a natural disaster.
00:41:48.540
And you had to do an executive order to get food to people who were starving to death after a tornado
00:41:53.920
in Kentucky or anything. This is this is, you know, Trump proofing the the next administration
00:42:00.900
to where you can't eliminate the Department of Education because you can't fire those employees.
00:42:05.320
You can't make the employees have to come back to work. You're giving them more rights to work from
00:42:09.620
home where where you you signed executive orders saying, oh, you've got to pay the student loan debt
00:42:14.920
off. I mean, the list goes on and on. Oh, and my whole family, they're pardoned. By the way,
00:42:19.540
you can't you can't prosecute them. They've they've you know, they've they're there. You can't touch
00:42:25.960
them. So so these are the kind of things. If I have a subpoena, I have to fly back to Washington
00:42:32.000
to sign it or we have to overnight it. I mean, there's a million things that you have to do
00:42:37.380
and have to get notarized and all this other stuff. This was this was not legal. There's no way
00:42:44.620
these will hold up in court, especially especially if there's no chance, if there's no evidence that
00:42:51.280
Joe Biden gave the order to use the auto pen. And we have found no evidence where there were
00:42:58.080
emails or anything that said Joe Biden said, yes, I want to find that executive order or I want to
00:43:05.120
find that pardon. Just go ahead and get the document and put it in the auto pen. Remember,
00:43:10.820
he spent very few days the last 100 days in the White House. He was in Delaware, you know,
00:43:16.820
going between his two mansions on the beach. He was not in the White House. So there's there's a
00:43:23.440
lot of evidence that that that's going to be hard for the Democrats and their friends in the left
00:43:29.760
wing media to try to spin that Joe Biden was actually running the show. And if you're in the
00:43:35.500
White House, if you're giving orders, why not just sign it there? Why do you have to use the auto pen?
00:43:39.840
You sent letters to the personal physicians, as well as multiple advisors. Were we going to hear
00:43:47.580
from the physician? I mean, you know, we all suspected the president was not actually running
00:43:52.960
things. We have to know his, you know, his the real truth about his mental capacity towards the end,
00:44:01.980
which would also strengthen the case that he didn't have any idea about the auto pen. These weren't
00:44:07.960
things that were coming from him. He was probably, you know, like Edith Wilson did with her husband,
00:44:13.020
shoved underneath a hand or used, you know, shoved into the auto pen and signed without him really
00:44:18.080
being cognitively able to understand what he's signing. Yeah. And that's, that's obviously why
00:44:25.160
we're bringing the physician in. We have a lot of questions. We're going to consult with Ronnie Jackson.
00:44:30.960
If Ronnie is available, I'd love to have him in for that interview or deposition, whatever it turns into.
00:44:37.960
Because he was the White House position under Trump. And, and I think that he,
00:44:43.480
he has a lot of insight. I've watched several of his interviews, so he knows exactly what's expected
00:44:51.260
of the White House position. I mean, this, this Dr. O'Connor, he, he's, you know, he better be on the
00:44:56.740
top of his game because we have his, his predecessor in Congress, who's been very critical of a lot of the
00:45:06.400
statements that, that Dr. O'Connor put out, uh, praising Joe Biden and his health. And that comes
00:45:12.360
out that he's got stage three prostate cancer. And they're trying to say, well, we never tested him
00:45:16.860
for, for prostate cancer. I mean, that's just not, I mean, I get, I'm 52. I get tested for prostate
00:45:25.980
Yeah. Um, so, um, we're talking to Congressman Comer, uh, who is, um, Kentucky's, uh, Congressman
00:45:33.880
from the first district, but he also is the chairman of the house, uh, committee and oversight and
00:45:37.940
accountability. Um, the thing that, um, I think most Americans want to see is not just the uncovering
00:45:44.700
of the truth, but actually consequences. If this were happening, are people going to jail
00:45:52.040
for doing this? This is a, I mean, we just heard from, uh, Jake Tapper's book again, uh, just yesterday
00:45:58.620
or day before that, uh, you know, they, there was, they were calling themselves the Politburo that there
00:46:04.620
were, there was a few of them, three or four of them that were just saying we're running it now.
00:46:09.400
Uh, and if he's reelected, it will still run it. That that's not constitutional.
00:46:16.300
It's not constitutional. If, if I, as a member of Congress or chairman of the oversight committee
00:46:21.620
could put people in jail, I would have put some of the Biden family members in jail.
00:46:25.560
We investigate, and then we turn over the results of our investigation to the attorney general.
00:46:30.300
So the question, that question, uh, should be asked to Pam Bondi. We certainly hope that she
00:46:35.740
holds people accountable. We're, we're still optimistic that she will hold people accountable
00:46:40.740
from, uh, investigations of the Biden influence peddling. We, we've, you know, Jim Jordan and I
00:46:46.860
have, have, uh, led three or four investigations where we believe that people should be held
00:46:52.700
accountable for things that were done in the last administration. So, uh, again, I, if I could put
00:46:58.360
people in jail, I would, uh, I would do it. Of course, if the Democrats, when they were in charge of
00:47:03.100
Congress, if Adam Schiff could put people in jail, he would have put, he would have put,
00:47:06.780
uh, Jim Jordan and Scott Perry and Donald Trump in jail, if he could have.
00:47:10.860
Right. I mean, I, I want the system to work the way it should. I'm glad you don't have,
00:47:15.340
uh, you know, the power to put people in jail. I'm glad it goes through the DOJ,
00:47:18.740
but, uh, the DOJ, if there are actual crimes committed, I can't think of a higher crime
00:47:23.600
than usurping the power of the president of the United States and hiding the fact that he's not
00:47:28.520
actually making the decisions or running the country. Uh, that is in my, in my view, that is
00:47:33.860
a very high crime. Uh, and it's, it's the biggest scandal in the history of America. If you have,
00:47:39.900
uh, four, three or four bureaucrats, like what Tapper is a legend that, that were never elected,
00:47:46.140
that no one's ever, I've never heard of them. And I'm pretty involved in, in things in Washington
00:47:51.040
and they're running the country. I mean, that's, that is a bad deal.
00:47:59.180
Congressman, thank you so much. Thanks for spending some time with us and explaining what's
00:48:02.700
going on in Congress and best of luck to you. Um, when do you expect a, an answer they have to
00:48:07.000
answer by tomorrow, uh, before you subpoena them? By tomorrow, if they don't, they know the next,
00:48:13.860
the next step subpoena. We've been very clear about that. So, uh, and that's, that's the process.
00:48:18.800
So we're starting with them. We'll see where the trail leads. I fully expect every name that Jake
00:48:24.140
Tapper, uh, has, uh, alleged in his book. We're running the country as well as some others that
00:48:30.180
many on conservative media, uh, suspect we're running the country. I fully expect to hear from
00:48:35.740
them all, uh, over the next few weeks, hopefully. Good. Thank you very much. Congressman, uh,
00:48:40.480
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