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00:00:00.000 Hey, we've got a lot of stuff going on in today's podcast, some of it here in the shortened

00:00:19.940 version, some of it in long form. We talk about energy and how important energy is,

00:00:24.940 what's being done. We go in with James Comer. He is the chairman of the committee that is trying

00:00:33.480 to find out exactly who signed what on executive orders. Fascinating interview with him. Also,

00:00:39.880 the Office of Radical Transparency. But what I really want to point you to is the very beginning

00:00:44.500 of today's podcast. I did about 30 minutes on just the big, beautiful bill. What Trump is trying to do,

00:00:52.240 what, why we can't just slash the budget, even though I am all for this, why we can't do it,

00:00:58.940 what we should be doing it, and what we do today, how it is going to affect you very soon in the

00:01:04.600 future. All of our lives, our lifestyles are about to change. The big, beautiful bill, you must

00:01:10.720 understand the ins and outs and why things are being done and not being done, and then take action

00:01:17.000 intelligently and ask the Congress to do a few things and the Senate. All on today's podcast.

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00:03:26.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Alex, welcome to the program.

00:03:37.280 Yeah, thank you so much for taking this stand and saying the things that really I don't think

00:03:45.640 anybody is going to reward you for or even thank you for. And in many cases, I think I fear it will

00:03:52.400 fall on deaf ears. And what we're talking about is the situation in South Africa. Everybody's focused

00:04:01.460 on white genocide. But it is much, much, much, much, much deeper than just that. It seems to me,

00:04:09.980 you know, Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia when I was young, he took over. It was the breadbasket of

00:04:18.020 Africa. He took it over, destroyed it, slaughtered people, became a horrible communist monster. 1.00

00:04:25.880 And the world just stood there and watched. And I think we're going through the same thing now in 0.90

00:04:31.920 South Africa. But you say this is the beginning of it. What's happening there is going to happen

00:04:37.020 here. So let's start with your credentials on how do you know about South Africa?

00:04:41.680 Well, thank you, Glenn. And I actually moved there on the day of my 18th birthday. It's a long story,

00:04:47.440 but I had a lot of money. I lived outside the United States, didn't want to come back. And so

00:04:51.080 I just moved down there. I was young, dumb. I didn't know the Lord. But give me a firsthand 0.99

00:04:55.800 look at what was going on. I traveled all through the country and all through the region. And it was

00:04:59.820 already bad at that time. It wasn't like what they're dealing with today, but it was already getting

00:05:04.220 bad. And just by talking to people, you know, I wasn't a Christian. I wasn't even especially

00:05:07.960 conservative. But just by talking to people, you could get a sense of the hatred of the division.

00:05:14.320 You could see the infrastructure crumbling. You could see, I mean, everything was collapsing.

00:05:18.580 Life expectancy collapsed more than 10 years in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the

00:05:24.400 former apartheid government. So it was already bad. But it wasn't until I got back to the United

00:05:29.820 States and started in journalism that I really started digging into the root of this. And what was

00:05:35.260 really a turning point for me, Glenn, because I had heard all this living down there, but I wasn't

00:05:39.060 quite sure what to make of it. But the turning point for me was in 2012, when a lot of people I

00:05:44.120 knew from South Africa contacted me, an individual by the name of Gregory Stanton, Dr. Gregory Stanton.

00:05:49.760 He's the founder of Genocide Watch. He was an anti-apartheid activist. So nobody could accuse him of 0.95

00:05:53.940 being a racist or an apartheid supporter. He went down there on a fact-finding mission. And he had at that

00:05:59.800 time a genocide scale with eight stages. And after his fact-finding mission, he concluded that South

00:06:05.680 Africa was at stage six at that time. Six was the planning and preparation stage. Seven was the 0.58

00:06:11.360 extermination phase. Eight was denial after the fact. And the evidence that he used was available

00:06:16.820 to anybody. I mean, I could see it. People were sending this to me. The president of the country at

00:06:20.440 that time, the polygamist pagan ruler Jacob Zuma, was on TV singing, bring me my machine gun. We're going 0.79

00:06:26.800 to shoot all the boars. You had the head of the ANC Youth League at that time, Julius Malema. Donald 0.99

00:06:32.100 Trump just showed his video in the Oval Office last week saying, kill the boar. We're going to 0.99

00:06:38.020 kill the farmers. So all that- Hang on. Hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. So before you go on, 1.00

00:06:42.920 could you explain, because what the New York Times said was, you're just ignorant of all history if you 0.51

00:06:47.780 think that's what that means. That's just a historic song. You know, I don't care what the Klan was singing

00:06:53.400 in 1860. I don't, if they're singing it, you know, in front of thousands today, I take it as the same

00:06:58.820 way they meant it in 1860. Can you just clear that up? Yeah, and I think the New York Times is being

00:07:05.480 deliberately dishonest here. And I think also the effort to frame this in pure, no, that would never

00:07:10.840 happen, right? They didn't try to cover up the genocide that Stalin unleashed against the Ukrainians

00:07:14.980 by invasion. They've got a long history of this. They painted Fidel Castro as a freedom fighter in the

00:07:19.780 George Washington of Latin America. They've got a very long history of this. But the history of

00:07:24.600 South Africa is very complicated, and everybody needs to acknowledge that. But these are genocide

00:07:29.260 songs. We need to be very clear. These are songs aimed at promoting hatred and ultimately the

00:07:35.340 extermination of this particular people group that is identifiable by its culture, by its language,

00:07:42.560 by its Christian heritage. It is a nation in the true sense of the term. And so as I was seeing all

00:07:48.200 this, I said, I have to do something about this. You're right, Glenn. It was terribly unpopular.

00:07:52.220 I got called names and things like this. But I did a cover story in the New American Magazine 2012

00:07:57.080 called Genocide and Communism Threatened South Africa. And I did a companion piece for it,

00:08:02.200 South African Communists' Friends in High Places, where I showed the role of people like Henry Kissinger

00:08:07.500 and David Rockefeller in bringing this situation about. And the reason it's so important, Glenn,

00:08:12.480 and I hope we can get into this a little bit more, the reason it's so important for Americans to

00:08:16.100 understand this is this is the model and the plan they have for you. The Boers, the Afrikaners, 1.00

00:08:22.460 they're the Afrikaners because they came from Holland and Denmark and Germany and France to Africa.

00:08:27.520 We are the Amerikaners. That's what they call us because we went to America. Our histories are

00:08:32.980 very closely paralleled. They diverge, of course, when the Afrikaners fought against the British

00:08:38.740 Empire, they lost. They were trying to preserve the independence of their little republics down there,

00:08:43.020 the Orange Free State and the ZAR. When we fought the British Empire, we won. But other than that, 0.91

00:08:48.340 our histories, I mean, they are the closest thing we have to cousins anywhere in the world.

00:08:52.500 And what is happening is a microcosm of what they want to do to the United States and the broader

00:08:58.260 Christian West. And they're even using the same tactics. So go through that. What are the tactics

00:09:05.840 that they're using? Well, there are several. First and foremost, I would say the racial division and

00:09:13.280 the effort to paint the target group as some sort of innately horrible, evil group of people. And as

00:09:21.420 somebody who has been all over the world, who's lived outside the United States almost my entire

00:09:24.620 life, who goes to these U.N. conferences, I can tell you that's happening right this moment.

00:09:29.060 They are painting Americans as a danger to the world, right, where climate criminals, 0.56

00:09:33.600 now Donald Trump is pulling out of all these climate agreements. We are a threat to the world.

00:09:38.520 We're getting out of the World Health Organization. We're these greedy, selfish Americans. We don't 1.00

00:09:42.680 want to share our medicine. We just want to steal money from all the whole world. The colonialism,

00:09:47.960 of course, the racial narrative, the same racial narrative is actually being used against Americans

00:09:53.760 right now overseas. Americans are these racist yahoos who built a system on white supremacy. We 0.99

00:09:59.660 abused the Indians. And we don't deserve to exist. And they show things like, for example, George Floyd. 1.00

00:10:05.220 And they look at that in foreign newspapers. They think, wow, America is this terrible white supremacist, 0.96

00:10:11.000 evil society that needs to be dismantled. And then you look at the actual tactics for how they waged the 0.98

00:10:17.420 war within South Africa. Very similar to what's happening now. People pouring across the border,

00:10:23.480 intelligence operatives from East Germany, from the Soviet Union, from Mozambique, from Angola,

00:10:28.000 from Libya, from Cuba, you name it, training terrorist cadres, engaging in terrorist acts.

00:10:34.440 And we haven't seen anything like what South Africa has seen, to be clear. In the 70s,

00:10:38.440 we saw a little taste of that with Barack Obama's buddy Bill Ayers when he and his minions were

00:10:42.580 bombing the State Department, bombing the Pentagon, bombing the Capitol, murdering police officers,

00:10:47.720 and then bombing their funerals. They realized that was not going to be a successful tactic at that

00:10:52.520 time. But they will come back to that if and when they think the time is right.

00:10:56.520 And I think they think that the time is almost right.

00:10:59.840 I think you're exactly right. I mean, I did a special last week, Alex, on what is the left

00:11:05.640 planning? Because none of the things that they're doing right now are lining up with the mood of

00:11:12.860 America. They are going more radical, more dangerous, more violent. And it's being encouraged

00:11:20.240 by the leaders of the far left in the Democratic Party. And most Democrats, and I think most Americans

00:11:27.780 are just going, oh, well, it's a crazy left. No, no, no. This is the exact opposite of what you do if 0.59

00:11:33.760 you're trying to win elections. This is what you do if you're trying to create civil unrest and possible

00:11:39.780 civil war.

00:11:40.440 That's exactly right, Glenn. And then all you have to do is look at the rhetoric, right? I mean,

00:11:44.680 at this point, they're not even hiding it anymore. How could we forget Jamie Raskin talking about

00:11:50.200 blocking Trump, even if it led to civil war conditions? I mean, those were his words, not

00:11:55.480 mine. A member of Congress, a prominent Democrat advocating resistance to Trump, even if it meant

00:12:02.340 civil war-like conditions. You look at the way some of these members of Congress are talking,

00:12:06.760 some of the way these Democrat mayors and Democrat governors are talking.

00:12:09.680 And I think a lot of conservative Americans are kind of insulated from this, Glenn. They go to

00:12:14.240 church, they hang out with their social circle, their family. They don't realize the rage that is

00:12:20.380 being stirred up and fomented deliberately on the other side, sometimes with blatant lies and fake

00:12:26.020 news. Sometimes they take the grain of truth and blow it all out of proportion. But they are stirring

00:12:30.300 people up into a blind rage. And they're telling these people, I mean, their term is Trump is literally

00:12:36.260 Hitler. And if he's literally Hitler, and his supporters are literally supporting a Hitler, 0.76

00:12:41.740 anything is justified to stop them. So we all, I think, had some very dangerous territory here. And I think

00:12:47.700 your average conservative American is clueless about what's coming.

00:12:50.700 So tell me, do they have a deep state in South Africa?

00:13:01.040 They do. And it's actually intimately intertwined with our deep state here. That companion article

00:13:06.100 that I mentioned earlier, South African communist friends in high places, what I showed is that

00:13:10.420 subversives within our own state department were building up the deep state there. Now, let's go back

00:13:15.600 a little bit further. First, we start with the Soviet Union, because a lot of this had its roots in

00:13:19.260 Moscow. The South African communist party was the first major communist party that the Soviets set

00:13:24.060 up outside of the Soviet Union. It was, for intents and purposes, a tentacle of the Soviet communist

00:13:31.240 party. And what's really interesting, this is one of the ways you know this is not a racial issue,

00:13:34.840 right? The issue is never the issue. It's always the revolution. The original slogan of the communist

00:13:39.000 party in South Africa was, whites unite to keep South Africa white.

00:13:43.920 Wow.

00:13:44.320 Absolutely. They only adopted the quote unquote black liberation when they realized that would 0.95

00:13:49.960 be a more effective tactic for bringing South Africa to its knees and putting all those strategic 0.88

00:13:54.480 critical minerals and shipping lanes in their hands. So they basically took over an existing

00:13:59.520 structure, the African National Congress, to the point where the entire leadership of the ANC

00:14:04.700 was dominated by actual card carrying members of the South African communist party. And whistleblowers from

00:14:11.780 both of those parties came and testified to this fact in Congress. So you had a very powerful

00:14:16.860 communist apparatus there that was supported by the Soviet Union and all the Soviet satellite states.

00:14:21.560 They were getting huge amounts of money. Of course, the UN was backing them as well.

00:14:25.220 And then you add to that, the US deep state was supporting them to the point where our government,

00:14:30.880 starting even in the 1950s, was pouring millions. By the time it was all done, hundreds of millions,

00:14:36.520 according to Rand University, hundreds of millions of dollars into these subversive communist groups

00:14:42.900 like SWAPO, the Southwest African People's Organization, like the Pan-Africanist Congress,

00:14:49.240 which was kind of an offshoot of the ANC, pouring money into this, very much like what they did in

00:14:55.220 Zimbabwe. Right. And it was the same situation in Zimbabwe where the US deep state then got involved

00:14:59.840 and they presented a false binary. Your choices are either apartheid or communist revolution.

00:15:06.240 And what they didn't tell people was a lot of the African nations in South Africa were actually

00:15:10.960 allied with the Afrikaners against the communist revolution. None probably more significantly than

00:15:16.480 the Zulus who were brutally and viciously targeted by the communists through necklacing, 0.71

00:15:21.960 through mass murder, horrific things. And so we watched this really interesting situation where

00:15:27.760 the communist powers of the world were united in the same end goal in South Africa with some of the

00:15:35.340 most elite and powerful institutions in the United States. And of course, Reagan spoke out about this

00:15:39.720 a little bit, tried to stop some of this. They actually put the ANC and some of the key leaders on the

00:15:45.320 US terrorist list. But ultimately, it just it proved to be too much. And and they ended up with a

00:15:51.240 communist revolution, which now is entering its second phase where they just steal stuff and kill people

00:15:55.700 who get in the way. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. To hear the rest of this interview,

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00:17:26.940 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:30.440 All right. I want to talk to you about the big, beautiful bill, but I want to talk to you instead

00:17:33.500 of all of the politics going around it. I want to, I want you to understand what we are facing

00:17:38.300 right now. Uh, what we are facing right now is, uh, collapse of, uh, you know, of our economy

00:17:46.140 collapse. You know, they will say that, you know, what's coming is a collapse that is going to be

00:17:50.080 worse than 2008. I believe, and I could be wrong. Remember, I'm a optimistic catastrophist. Uh, I believe

00:17:57.880 that, uh, it doesn't have to be this way, but we are, we are looking at losing the, the dollar, uh,

00:18:06.160 and it's going to happen fast. How do people go bankrupt over a long period of time? And then

00:18:11.760 all of a sudden, and the, all of a sudden part is coming our way. Now, the majority of Americans

00:18:18.520 feel that the country is headed in the right direction. And I believe it is, but what we're

00:18:22.940 looking at is, uh, is a really difficult situation. So let me ask you, how did we become the world's

00:18:30.880 leading economy? What did we have that others didn't have? Because it was very easy. And I want

00:18:36.820 you to, I want you to make a checklist in your own mind. Uh, this is what we used to have. We had cheap

00:18:43.160 energy, cheap labor, uh, educated labor. We had small business entrepreneurs. We had individual

00:18:50.960 inventors that were in their garage or their barn. Uh, we had ingenuity. We had low regulation,

00:18:57.680 a cohesive society that was built around stable laws and a stable government. That's what it took

00:19:06.660 for us to become the leader of the world. Now let's go through those and see how many of these

00:19:13.180 we have or are on the road to repairing cheap energy. Yes. I think we're, we, we didn't have that,

00:19:19.660 but yes, uh, we are doing it now. Cheap labor. I don't know how to do that one. Educated labor.

00:19:26.640 Well, as soon as we get rid of all of the DEI crap that's going on, yeah, I think we could

00:19:32.100 maybe reeducate ourselves. Small businesses. No, small businesses are being choked by taxes and 0.85

00:19:39.540 regulations. Um, um, individual inventors. Not really. Everything's being gobbled up by big ed and

00:19:46.920 big government. Uh, ingenuity. Well, ingenuity happens when, uh, you don't have DEI,

00:19:56.600 you don't have all of these things, regulations. And when you have tax cuts and people realize I

00:20:02.860 can do this and I can actually make more money and I can get ahead. That's when ingenuity in America,

00:20:08.040 at least goes on. And I don't think we're there yet. Uh, uh, low regulation. No, the answer to this

00:20:14.120 is not in the big, beautiful bill. The answer to this is in the reins act. And you will see by the

00:20:18.140 end of this monologue, that is the most important thing we could do a cohesive society. I don't know.

00:20:23.640 That's our job. Are you feeling like you're making inroads on that one and stable laws and

00:20:29.540 government? Well, that is the DOJ. That is the FBI. That is restoring trust in our institutions.

00:20:37.240 Are we doing that? Well, I think this is one of the reasons why people think that we are,

00:20:41.740 you know, on the right track because yeah, we're starting to see it, but we're making some real

00:20:47.780 mistakes there as well. And that has to happen. That's why Donald Trump, the, I mean, if you look

00:20:54.400 at these, you can understand why Donald Trump has the agenda that he has, he's got to repair these

00:20:59.960 things. Now, the old way of fixing an economy, because you are, you are now in trouble, right?

00:21:08.040 I mean, you are, we know that the government, the, the business in America is not good. The dollar

00:21:14.220 is not good. Our debt is not good, but people don't really understand why it is so bad.

00:21:21.960 Well, let me show you. Remember, I told you at some point, it was right after 2008, I said,

00:21:27.420 they're going to start printing money and they're going to tell you that they're not printing money.

00:21:30.760 They're digitizing money. And everything I said that they would do, and they denied that they would do,

00:21:34.660 they did. And I said, that would lead to inflation, which it did. Our government debt would

00:21:40.340 explode, which it did. And our dollar would lose value and eventually lose its place. They would

00:21:47.480 start to degrade, I mean, sorry, downgrade our dollar status, which they are doing now.

00:21:54.000 And then eventually we lose the reserve dollar, the currency for the reserve. And everybody said

00:22:01.760 that would never, ever happen. And now look at where we are. Okay.

00:22:06.220 In the years when I was growing up, how did you fix an economy? Well, the government could step in

00:22:14.040 and they would cut taxes, but when they cut taxes and not cut spending, that increases debt.

00:22:21.360 Then you have the Fed lower the interest rates. That helps people have cheaper money to be able to

00:22:28.960 take loans and start businesses, et cetera, et cetera. But instead, what our people did is they just gave

00:22:36.820 zero interest rates. So all of the big corporations just took on all kinds of debt, but they didn't have

00:22:44.580 to worry about it because they didn't have any interest payments. So they just took on all kinds

00:22:48.900 of debt that inflated our dollar by pumping all of that money in it inflated our dollar. So you,

00:22:57.020 if you lower the interest rates, you have debt, you have things like QE, quantitative easing,

00:23:05.260 which puts debt on the Fed, and you have inflation, which is our biggest problem.

00:23:12.040 Then the other thing you would do is you would do a stimulus package. Have you noticed that this is

00:23:17.320 the first time in American history, this administration that I know of, that nobody's talking about a big,

00:23:23.040 beautiful stimulus package. Why? Because a big, beautiful stimulus package, that doesn't work

00:23:29.700 anymore because all it's doing is adding money to the debt. And then the last thing you would do if

00:23:37.820 you were a conservative is you would cut regulation. Now we can't do, tax cuts, he's doing, but is he

00:23:44.500 doing the tax cuts in a way that are, I mean, he's just holding the tax cuts, right? We're not getting

00:23:52.680 new tax cuts. Why? Because it will increase the debt. So we're doing the same tax cuts, just making

00:23:59.900 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 0.55

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 1.00

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 0.97

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. 0.98

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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00:34:30.300 has just been killed. He's meeting with his 70 virgins now. I hope they're all ugly and complainers 1.00

00:34:35.460 and very, very controlling. I hope they make Mrs. Macron look like a sweetheart and a lovely, 0.99

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

00:38:53.580 the auto pin. Is any of that true?

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

00:45:24.180 cancer every year.

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,

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