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00:00:30.000 We talk about pardons with Alan Dershowitz and Mike Lee.

00:00:35.500 We talk about the dangers just ahead of our own president with Richard Staropoli.

00:00:42.660 He's with Homeland Security and Secret Service.

00:00:46.920 And we talk about the Ark of the Covenant, its location they may be getting close to with Zev Orenstein, all on the best of today's podcast.

00:01:00.000 Let me tell you about the Burnout Launcher.

00:01:01.760 It is great.

00:01:03.740 Mainly because it can be a lot of fun.

00:01:05.720 For instance, probably a little too close.

00:01:07.500 Stu, I'm going to make the desk a little beggar. 0.96

00:01:09.860 So he's maybe about, I don't know, 40 feet away.

00:01:12.200 So it really doesn't.

00:01:13.480 I mean, it'll leave a mark, but it won't, you know, really hurt him. 1.00

00:01:16.540 So every time he says something stupid, I can take out my Burnout Launcher and just go, poof, shoot him in the chest. 1.00

00:01:22.260 The Burnout Launcher is a great, great alternative. 1.00

00:01:25.780 You know, when you shoot, you have to shoot to kill. 0.92

00:01:28.580 That's just the way it is. 1.00

00:01:29.640 You don't shoot to wound, you shoot to kill.

00:01:31.520 And that's why you just don't ever want to pull your gun out unless you absolutely have to.

00:01:35.960 But there are situations where less lethal is the way to go.

00:01:39.460 And that's why people have tasers or they have pepper spray because they don't want to pull out a gun.

00:01:44.540 The Burnout Launcher looks like a gun and its barrel looks like it's like it's a cannon coming out at you.

00:01:51.460 It can fire rounds that will just hurt Stu really, really badly.

00:01:56.140 But also tear gas.

00:01:58.120 You hit anywhere, like five feet around this threat, up to 60 feet away, and they'll be taken down by tear gas for about 40 minutes incapacitated.

00:02:09.060 It is great.

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00:02:35.560 So Richard Starpoldi, he is a former U.S. Secret Service special agent, also former Department of Homeland Security chief.

00:02:44.260 He was the chief information officer there.

00:02:47.140 And I read an article by him the other day.

00:02:50.680 He has extensive experience on matters involving intelligence gathering and emerging technologies.

00:02:57.480 But also, you know, security was with Secret Service.

00:03:02.080 So not only forgery and bank fraud and fugitives, but also the security around the president of the United States.

00:03:09.080 And he believes we are in for possibly a rough winter here.

00:03:18.340 Richard, welcome to the program.

00:03:20.740 Well, thank you very much for having me, sir.

00:03:22.500 You bet.

00:03:23.080 You bet.

00:03:23.500 Thank you so much.

00:03:24.340 Um, so can you, can you give us the threat that you see coming?

00:03:31.280 Well, you know, Glenn, I don't think I said anything, um, that most people hadn't surmised to begin with about the deficiencies and the shortcomings of the Secret Service and how they've allowed their political feelings

00:03:43.880 to compromise the, the, the mission of the Secret Service and providing the adequate level of protection for President Trump.

00:03:50.820 Right.

00:03:51.440 Right.

00:03:51.860 It is, it is, I think it's more than obvious to, to real bad guys or evil doers as W would have put it, um, that every incident that's gone on that involved President Trump,

00:04:03.260 since he was shot in Butler to include the incident with the guy on the golf course, the, the Chinese national walking onto the Mar-a-Lago property, um, other incidents, um, people are watching these things and they're viewing them as a test of the response of the Secret Service.

00:04:19.940 And I've got to tell you from a law enforcement, from a Secret Service perspective, the Secret Service has not fulfilled their primary mission.

00:04:27.560 They've simply allowed way too many things to happen, um, that could have ended in total tragedy.

00:04:33.420 And were it not, but for a millimeter in Butler, we'd be having a much different conversation about who the next president is going to be.

00:04:41.040 So Richard, um, I have, I, I've actually begged to, to testify against the Secret Service in Congress because I have firsthand knowledge of things that, that I have done, um, and, and how I've been able to approach the president without anybody, you know, looking into me and my team with guns.

00:05:03.120 I mean, it's crazy. Um, however, in the last few, um, well, probably the last two months, maybe the Secret Service is at least for a layman like me all over it.

00:05:20.420 I've never seen security like what's happening right now with Donald Trump. Never.

00:05:25.880 And that's, that's partly right, right? The optics now has gotten a lot better, but the problem is, and this is just by virtue of the, the acting director's, you know, most recent testimony where he continually says in full view of the public, um, that they're lacking the adequate manpower resources to do this job.

00:05:44.280 So a real bad guy interprets that as, okay, let's take a look and see what's going on.

00:05:49.300 And yes, the people that are around the secrets that are around president Trump have been pulled much closer.

00:05:54.800 It is more difficult to get closer to them.

00:05:57.600 All that simply means that these organized groups need to pull back their perimeter.

00:06:02.160 Look what happened at the event in Vegas before the election, a guy in a car or a truck was allowed to drive within a quarter of a mile.

00:06:10.680 Turns out he was a Trump supporter, but he was stopped by the local sheriff's office.

00:06:16.400 Hey, what if that truck had been loaded with explosives?

00:06:19.560 He got close enough to cause tremendous damage to that building and bring the roof down.

00:06:24.700 And yet even at a quarter of a mile, he never encountered a federal agent, let alone a Secret Service agent.

00:06:31.420 The Secret Service is not providing the presidential level of protection that they need to, to President Trump.

00:06:37.880 And they're masking that because they're saying, well, he was a former president.

00:06:41.880 Now they're saying, well, he's, he's not inaugurated yet.

00:06:44.600 So consequently, you left the guy who's target number one on everyone's hit list, not as protected as he should be.

00:06:53.560 Yet you're providing 40 or so protected details to members of the Biden crime family to include crackhead, non-taxpaying Hunter Biden.

00:07:02.920 And this is a big problem. You don't have manpower. Why are you providing protective details to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Kareem Jean-Pierre, Admiral Kirby?

00:07:16.220 And I could go on and on for another 20 people.

00:07:19.040 Kareem Jean-Pierre has Secret Service protection?

00:07:22.120 Oh, this has been going on for, for a long time.

00:07:25.600 There are almost 40 protective details that are being worked out of the White House.

00:07:29.840 Not all of them are done by statute that involve the Biden family.

00:07:34.600 Right.

00:07:34.880 There are people that are being given one or two agents and are driven to work back and forth under the guise of, well, you know, it's in the best interest of national security.

00:07:44.240 You can't tell me that isn't a conscious decision by the Biden administration to suck resources away from where they should have been allocated to President Trump.

00:07:54.340 Now, can I push back again, Richard, on this only because you're a pro at this.

00:08:00.480 I'm a layman, but I have been around presidents, you know, since Reagan.

00:08:05.420 And I remember the Secret Service around Reagan.

00:08:09.560 It was intense when I was at Mar-a-Lago just, what, last week.

00:08:15.860 I mean, I've never seen anything like it.

00:08:18.260 And in fact, I said to my wife, I think all of the taxes that I will pay in my entire life will not cover the bill of all of this apparatus and all of these people protecting the president.

00:08:34.880 And I pay a lot in taxes.

00:08:36.500 I mean, I can't imagine what real security would look like.

00:08:42.580 So what is what is it you think they're missing?

00:08:46.080 Well, what they're missing is that is the secret part of the Secret Service that you don't see.

00:08:51.020 Right.

00:08:51.280 The fact that you've got to go through all these metal detectors and pass through this coordinate of Secret Service agents, that's part of it.

00:08:58.700 But the other part of it is things like where's the air assets, right?

00:09:03.040 For years, the Secret Service has been using a helicopter airborne asset.

00:09:06.860 Well, since Igor Sikorsky invented helicopters, right?

00:09:10.220 By doing that, you've put people in the air.

00:09:13.000 You've demonstrated the ability to have secure communications amongst the personnel on board that helicopter.

00:09:19.660 And you've allowed the service to extend their perimeter out much, much further.

00:09:25.360 What the service is doing now is nice.

00:09:27.660 That'll stop the guy with the handgun.

00:09:29.860 That'll stop the guy from getting in close.

00:09:31.900 But that's not going to stop the organized threat.

00:09:34.820 And it's the organized threat that's a really, really big concern here today.

00:09:39.240 Right now with the nation state or the cartels, they don't need to get that close.

00:09:44.300 They just need to know where he is and take a building down, and that's the concern.

00:09:49.500 So there's two things that concern me, and you, having experience with Department of Homeland Security, would recognize this immediately.

00:09:57.820 I am – I mean, I see the way his plane – down in Florida, it was protected by rows of old school buses, okay?

00:10:07.940 They just parked them all around his plane.

00:10:10.100 And that didn't seem – I mean, that seemed a little like, I don't know, like how Venezuela might do it.

00:10:16.520 But I know that it probably is not that hard for a cartel or someone to get a rocket launcher across the border.

00:10:27.380 And the president's plane does not have – what is it, chaff or chaff?

00:10:32.240 Countermeasures, that's correct.

00:10:33.360 Yeah, countermeasures.

00:10:34.000 Doesn't have any of that.

00:10:35.180 So I'm worried about that, and I am worried that we do have really bad drug cartel people in the country and people from several countries who wish us death that could get those rocket launchers.

00:10:52.600 So is Department of Homeland Security – are they working with the Secret Service at all to find that?

00:10:59.560 Because I don't hear that – I heard that right after the first shooting, and then I haven't heard anything about it since.

00:11:06.600 No, and no one's heard anything from the Department of Homeland Security.

00:11:09.760 This guy, Alejandro Mayorkas, has turned out to be the biggest empty suit I think I've ever seen in the federal government, right?

00:11:16.160 The military assets that should be afforded President Trump – and I understand, listen, okay, he's not the inaugurated president yet.

00:11:22.940 That's totally irrelevant.

00:11:24.600 If something happens to President Trump, it has cataclysmic effects for the entire world, let alone the United States.

00:11:31.220 Yes.

00:11:31.460 The military assets need to be turned on.

00:11:33.680 And who can turn them on?

00:11:34.880 President Joe Biden.

00:11:36.140 But he's not going to do that.

00:11:38.280 You cannot surround Trump Force One, which I know that's how he likes to refer to it, with school buses or dump trucks.

00:11:45.160 You need jets.

00:11:46.880 You need military jets.

00:11:49.160 Do you not?

00:11:49.960 That's exactly right.

00:11:51.000 There's military jets, there's countermeasures that can be put on the aircraft, there's classified programs that can be employed and are employed for the sitting president of the United States that are designed to make sure that somebody doesn't lob a missile at the direction of that plane or fly a drone into the protected airspace and so on and so forth.

00:12:11.500 And these assets are not being used because he's not the sitting president yet.

00:12:16.360 This is total nonsense.

00:12:17.400 Since they've left this guy wide open to something happening between now and the inauguration.

00:12:23.560 And are you worried?

00:12:25.320 That's what you're really worried about is these next 40 days?

00:12:29.960 Well, it's the next 40 days, but it's also the next four years, right?

00:12:33.500 How can someone be a Secret Service agent and not go to work every day with the mindset, hey, I've got to stop the Muzadeen from coming over the wall today. 1.00

00:12:43.500 I've got to be thinking about what is the biggest cataclysmic effect that can possibly happen and design my protective security net, my site to thwart that.

00:12:54.000 Anything less than that and you're fooling yourself and you should not be a Secret Service agent.

00:12:58.920 So in the old days, that just wouldn't happen.

00:13:01.260 So I know that Donald Trump, he's a guy who grew up going to church with Norman Vincent Peale.

00:13:10.580 So he is a positive thinker.

00:13:13.220 He doesn't like to speak things like this.

00:13:15.300 And he has said to me, he said to the American people and he has said to me privately, I am very comfortable with the people who are around me, the Secret Service.

00:13:23.380 They're doing their job, blah, blah, blah.

00:13:26.160 And he won't talk about any of the security at all, ever, even privately.

00:13:32.380 In fact, I brought it up and I said, hey, I'm really concerned.

00:13:35.420 He said, I don't want to hear it.

00:13:36.360 I don't want to don't speak things into existence.

00:13:39.760 So he is I don't know where he actually stands on this, but he seems to be happy with it.

00:13:47.860 What is the one thing he who should he have in that could clean this thing up?

00:13:53.560 I keep thinking Dan Bongino, but Bongino's I don't think going to do it.

00:13:58.100 Who should he put in to clean this up?

00:14:01.480 Because it really needs to be cleaned up the entire Secret Service.

00:14:05.320 He needs somebody that has the one the ability to walk into a room and command the respect of the field.

00:14:13.340 Right.

00:14:13.820 This guy that's in there now certainly doesn't have that.

00:14:16.740 Right. And that became monumentally evident when that congressman during last week's hearing produced that photo of the acting director sitting behind President Biden at the September 11th events.

00:14:27.620 Right. That wasn't coincidence.

00:14:29.320 Somebody sent him that picture.

00:14:30.960 No, no, no.

00:14:31.640 You know where that picture came from?

00:14:33.500 You know where that picture came from?

00:14:35.240 The guy's wife.

00:14:36.960 She was taking she was taking photographs of all of that.

00:14:40.740 So she was the photographer on it and everybody had their taped position and his position was way behind.

00:14:49.160 Wasn't even close.

00:14:50.340 Yep.

00:14:52.220 No, that's exactly right.

00:14:53.280 And she's a Secret Service employee, by the way.

00:14:57.320 His wife.

00:14:58.100 I don't know if that's commonly known, but the guy should not have been there.

00:15:02.540 That was all about the optics of putting himself in the proverbial photo.

00:15:06.940 Right.

00:15:07.360 So put that aside.

00:15:08.420 So to answer your question, you need somebody that that will have the respect of the rank and file.

00:15:13.640 Somebody that's been there and has done these things.

00:15:16.760 Right.

00:15:16.960 You also need somebody.

00:15:18.400 And this is where it gets a little more difficult.

00:15:19.980 That has been out of the government, say, for a decade or so, that has the business acumen to be able to deal with an organization that has 7000 employees.

00:15:29.900 We're pretty sure it's got 7000.

00:15:31.720 No one can give me an exact number.

00:15:33.100 And a budget of three and a half billion dollars.

00:15:37.180 That is a huge number.

00:15:38.800 You need someone that can appreciate how big of a number that is.

00:15:43.080 And the current policy of the Secret Service continually promoting Secret Service agents that have backgrounds in sociology and science into positions where they're managing that kind of a budget.

00:15:55.680 That doesn't work.

00:15:56.840 It's unacceptable.

00:15:58.520 The current director has asked for an additional two billion dollars.

00:16:02.460 You need five and a half billion dollars to do this job.

00:16:05.340 You have one mission and they can't get it done.

00:16:08.720 So ultimately, hey, the guys.

00:16:10.580 Listen, I've been asked who I would recommend.

00:16:12.480 I've given some names.

00:16:14.540 They've got them.

00:16:15.540 I've given a list of, hey, here's the things you need to do to get that agency back to where it was to achieve that level of greatness.

00:16:22.860 All this other stuff that they're.

00:16:24.300 Go ahead, sir.

00:16:25.000 No, no, no.

00:16:25.480 I don't mean to cut you off.

00:16:26.680 I have to hit a network break here.

00:16:28.480 But let me let me just say this, Richard.

00:16:31.660 Would you do me a favor?

00:16:32.560 Would you stay in touch with us as you see the names being narrowed down and you see who is nominated?

00:16:38.440 Could you give us a give us a heads up?

00:16:40.900 I'd love to have you back on.

00:16:42.420 And of course, any time that you see, I'd love a list of what you think has to be done at the Secret Service.

00:16:48.900 I mean, I think one of the biggest problems of the Secret Service is their budget.

00:16:52.920 And what I mean by that is that's all they rely on.

00:16:55.560 They don't they don't.

00:16:56.500 It's almost as if they don't put their brains in gear.

00:16:59.560 They just are like, spend the money.

00:17:02.320 We've got the equipment.

00:17:03.840 Well, what about you?

00:17:05.860 What about you as an individual?

00:17:08.880 That's right.

00:17:09.480 There's no for sort or predictive way that they spend this money.

00:17:13.460 If this were the private sector, I would fire every single one of them.

00:17:17.380 One last question, Richard.

00:17:19.000 Handling money.

00:17:20.020 One last one last question.

00:17:21.400 And I've got to I've got to run.

00:17:22.420 But can the president ever hire additional security outside if he wanted security?

00:17:29.720 Because I've said to him, you should get Gavin DeBecker.

00:17:32.840 Can yeah, can he do that?

00:17:35.400 Is that allowed?

00:17:36.440 He can't do that by by by statute back to 1901.

00:17:41.360 Right.

00:17:41.620 The Secret Service has to afford the the president protection.

00:17:44.740 But there's nothing that says he can't hire his additional protection.

00:17:48.160 And the Secret Service is going to have to work with that, whether they like it or not.

00:17:51.740 Yeah, that would change everything.

00:17:53.080 That would get their butts in gear.

00:17:55.600 I think. 0.98

00:17:56.920 But they need somebody to go in there and just fire people. 0.75

00:17:59.820 They do.

00:18:00.220 And I'd start with the leadership and let's redo it.

00:18:02.700 And I'd be more than happy to do that for them.

00:18:05.380 Are you throwing your name in?

00:18:08.480 You know, look, I've had this discussion with the president and with the Trump family before.

00:18:12.760 I said, I can come down there.

00:18:14.180 I will walk you through whoever you're most comfortable with making the director of the Secret Service.

00:18:18.340 I will clean house and get them back to where they need to be and get you started.

00:18:23.700 You'll have the most secure environment as possible.

00:18:26.420 And I'm certainly not going to.

00:18:27.640 My answer is not going to be, well, I've got to put you behind glass like you're working the counter. 0.86

00:18:31.460 Yeah.

00:18:31.580 I know. 0.97

00:18:32.840 That's ridiculous. 0.94

00:18:34.180 This isn't Venezuela.

00:18:36.200 Richard, thank you so much.

00:18:37.640 I will talk again.

00:18:38.800 Thank you.

00:18:39.880 Richard Staropoli.

00:18:40.900 Thank you.

00:18:41.360 You bet.

00:18:42.300 Former U.S. Secret Service special agent and former Department of Homeland Security chief information officer.

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00:20:28.040 Now, back to the podcast.

00:20:30.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:35.160 Dev Orenstein is with us from the City of David Foundation.

00:20:39.660 He's the Director of International Affairs.

00:20:41.720 And we're going to talk a little bit about the archaeology of what's going on in the City of David.

00:20:47.580 How are you?

00:20:48.460 Great to be with you.

00:20:49.320 Yeah, good to have you here.

00:20:51.580 So, how far out of the city wall is the City of David?

00:20:59.200 Most people don't.

00:21:00.160 They've never been there.

00:21:00.960 They don't realize how small all of Israel is, let alone Jerusalem.

00:21:07.360 So, can you give us some scale first of what we're talking about?

00:21:10.600 So, Israel itself is about the size of the okay state of New Jersey.

00:21:15.060 We have about 10 million people living in Israel.

00:21:20.040 Jerusalem is the largest city.

00:21:21.800 Probably about a million people living in Jerusalem.

00:21:24.140 So, Jerusalem, by U.S. standards, is probably not the biggest city.

00:21:30.540 And yet, for billions of people, not millions, when they wake up in the morning,

00:21:34.540 they look to Jerusalem as a source of meaning, faith, hope, identity, inspiration.

00:21:39.140 I can tell you when my wife – I've said this a million times,

00:21:41.860 and I don't know if people can even begin to understand this.

00:21:46.160 My wife and I went the first time.

00:21:47.920 We went to the Temple Mount.

00:21:49.000 And you could almost feel – you could feel it.

00:21:54.460 And then we were all the way up at the border of Syria, past the Sea of Galilee.

00:21:59.220 And I looked at my wife, and I said, it's like it's pulsing.

00:22:03.160 I said, can you feel the Temple Mount even here?

00:22:06.820 There's a reason.

00:22:08.340 It honestly is like the polar – the pole goes right through the Temple Mount,

00:22:13.720 and the world actually revolves around that.

00:22:16.060 100%.

00:22:16.500 It's wild to feel it.

00:22:19.000 Now, if you ask the average Jewish person, Christian person, close your eyes 0.68

00:22:23.180 and imagine biblical Jerusalem.

00:22:25.740 Tell me what you see.

00:22:27.060 And you'll get answers like, I see the Western Wall.

00:22:29.660 I see maybe the Stations of the Cross, maybe the Church of Holy Sepulchre,

00:22:33.260 the Garden Tomb.

00:22:34.540 I see the Old City of Jerusalem, and all wonderful, good places.

00:22:38.000 Except none of them, at least when we're talking about the original Hebrew Bible,

00:22:41.940 none of those places are in the Bible.

00:22:43.360 When you think of the places where the kings of the Bible ruled

00:22:46.000 and the prophets of the Bible preached, you're talking about the City of David.

00:22:50.000 The City of David is today located just outside the walls of the Old City.

00:22:54.840 Now, most people think the walls of the Old City, those iconic walls,

00:22:58.020 they must be thousands of years old.

00:22:59.800 They're only about 500 years old.

00:23:01.740 Now, only –

00:23:02.720 Wait, wait.

00:23:03.020 The ancient walls around Jerusalem?

00:23:05.060 That's right.

00:23:06.000 500 years?

00:23:06.680 Built by Suleiman during the Ottoman period.

00:23:09.840 No idea.

00:23:10.980 Right?

00:23:11.380 Wow.

00:23:11.740 Now, most people will say 2,000, 3,000 years old.

00:23:14.340 Now, the walls of the Temple Mount, the Western Wall itself,

00:23:16.920 the Southern Wall, the Southern Steps,

00:23:18.540 all that's 2,000 years old going back to the time of Jesus.

00:23:21.720 But the wall around the Old City of Jerusalem is only 500 years old.

00:23:25.100 Now, if you're sitting here in America, you're like,

00:23:26.900 wow, 500 years is a long time ago.

00:23:28.940 Jerusalem, which is 4,000 years old,

00:23:31.100 500 years ago is like last week.

00:23:32.360 We don't get overly excited by anything 500 years old.

00:23:35.800 So, what happened?

00:23:37.140 We lost Jerusalem. 0.99

00:23:38.660 Everyone thought it was the Old City.

00:23:40.340 Until about 150 years ago, 1867, Queen Victoria of England,

00:23:44.200 she wants to discover the treasures of the Bible.

00:23:46.320 Like the Ark of the Covenant,

00:23:47.560 she sends a man by the name of Captain Charles Warren

00:23:49.500 to the Holy Land to find those treasures.

00:23:51.440 He comes to Jerusalem.

00:23:52.820 He wants to excavate the Temple Mount,

00:23:54.760 where the Temple of Solomon stood, the biblical Mount Moriah.

00:23:57.460 Except in 1867, the Ottomans, the Muslims are there. 1.00

00:24:00.020 And they say, Charles, we're sure you're a great guy.

00:24:02.660 No.

00:24:03.220 But you're not digging up the Temple Mount.

00:24:04.560 To this day, due to religious sensitivities,

00:24:06.460 political sensitivities,

00:24:07.820 the Temple Mount has had almost no archaeological activity.

00:24:11.900 So, now –

00:24:12.320 Wait, wait, wait.

00:24:13.040 Let me clarify this.

00:24:15.400 They have – Muslims, if I'm not mistaken,

00:24:18.180 have been digging.

00:24:19.400 That's not archaeology.

00:24:20.540 Right.

00:24:20.860 They've been digging it and putting it into dump trucks.

00:24:24.240 Yeah.

00:24:24.420 They've been destroying.

00:24:25.400 Right.

00:24:25.620 But meaning in terms of archaeology,

00:24:27.100 with the goal of uncovering the heritage and history of Jerusalem,

00:24:31.140 uncovering the biblical heritage of Jerusalem,

00:24:32.780 that hasn't taken place.

00:24:34.160 Right.

00:24:34.300 The opposite.

00:24:35.000 What the Islamic walk for the religious trust on the Temple Mount,

00:24:38.520 what they've done is the opposite of archaeology,

00:24:40.620 with the goal of not uncovering and celebrating the heritage of Jerusalem,

00:24:45.060 but actually destroying it.

00:24:46.260 And there's actual archaeologists that sift through all of the stuff.

00:24:50.180 To this day, you have archaeologists and volunteers

00:24:52.500 who are able to go and sift through the hundreds and hundreds of truckloads of earth

00:24:56.480 that were removed from the Temple Mount by the Islamic Religious Trust in the late 1990s,

00:25:02.640 dumped in garbage dumps.

00:25:04.640 And when you're sifting through this earth,

00:25:06.460 you will find next to 2,000-year-old coins, potato chip wrappers, Coke cans.

00:25:11.680 Why?

00:25:12.040 Oh, my God.

00:25:12.440 Because it's all jumbled together now.

00:25:14.320 So, they have no –

00:25:17.300 What did they do?

00:25:18.560 I mean, we have no idea what –

00:25:20.020 So, the pretense was they wanted to build an emergency exit on the Temple Mount.

00:25:25.400 There is a very large subterranean mosque known as the Marwani Mosque beneath the Temple Mount,

00:25:31.000 beneath the area known as Solomon's Stables, one of the most beautiful parts of –

00:25:35.080 Underneath that?

00:25:35.980 Underneath that, the southern end of the Temple Mount.

00:25:37.840 Wow.

00:25:38.180 They hollowed it out, and they built this subterranean mosque. 0.86

00:25:42.200 And then they said, well, now we have this mosque there.

00:25:43.820 We need to build an emergency exit. 0.98

00:25:46.440 And they used the legitimacy of building an emergency exit to bring in bulldozers and dump trucks and massive machinery.

00:25:52.920 One of the most famous Israeli archaeologists, he said, if you use a toothbrush on the Temple Mount, that's probably heavy machinery.

00:25:59.460 They used bulldozers and dump trucks.

00:26:01.340 And they took tons and tons and tons of earth and just threw it in the garbage dump.

00:26:05.940 And they said, why?

00:26:07.200 And the answer is very simple.

00:26:08.980 What they are trying to hide is that the Jewish people, and by extension Christians, have been in Jerusalem for thousands of years.

00:26:15.240 And so, if they can destroy that history, destroy that heritage, well, then they could go along with their claims that Israel's occupying, colonizing power that has no history and no heritage in the land of Israel or in Jerusalem. 0.56

00:26:26.140 They are seeking to rewrite history, to erase the Judeo-Christian heritage from Jerusalem. 0.98

00:26:30.820 In fact, the United Nations passed a resolution a couple of years ago saying that the Temple Mount and Western Wall are exclusively Islamic holy places.

00:26:40.420 What?

00:26:40.740 And they go on to say and condemn all the archaeological excavations in Jerusalem.

00:26:45.600 They might say, how on earth could anyone say such a thing that Jews and Christians of no heritage in Jerusalem condemn the archaeology?

00:26:52.400 Why would they say that?

00:26:53.600 But the answer is very simple.

00:26:55.000 If the story that you want to tell about Jerusalem is an exclusively Islamic story, then you will hate a place like the City of David, one of the most archaeologically excavated sites in the world,

00:27:04.900 because every single day we're in earthing antiquities, fancy word for old stuff, that show not simply as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact that Jerusalem's biblical heritage is true,

00:27:14.800 that the connection that Jews and Christians have with Jerusalem, the foundations that the United States of America, that the Judeo-Christian heritage that it's built upon comes from Jerusalem, that it's real.

00:27:24.640 And that is a nightmare to them.

00:27:26.200 So last time you were on, I think we talked about the Pool of Bethesda, and this is where Jesus healed the man who had been, you know, waiting for a miracle at the pool.

00:27:37.720 Right, the Pool of Siloam at the southern end of the City of David, right, which up until 2004 was totally covered up.

00:27:44.720 And then in 2004…

00:27:45.620 Did we even know that that's kind of where it was?

00:27:48.640 We know 100% that's where it is today.

00:27:50.300 No, no, no.

00:27:51.000 No, then, when we started the archaeological dig, we didn't know.

00:27:54.320 So they say hindsight is 20-20.

00:27:56.700 And obviously now everyone's like, well, of course we knew that's where it was.

00:27:59.480 But back then, 2004, it's all covered up.

00:28:03.060 There's a road above it.

00:28:04.120 There's a sewage pipe below.

00:28:05.900 And only because of a busted sewage pipe.

00:28:08.520 We have a teaching in our faith that says God has many miracles.

00:28:11.120 The reason we found one of the most significant biblical heritage sites in all of Jerusalem, the Pool of Siloam with deep significance to Christians and Jews alike,

00:28:18.640 was because of a busted sewage pipe.

00:28:20.300 And that, of course, leads then to another discovery.

00:28:22.380 Because the Pool of Siloam was the place where, before going up to the temple on Passover, Pentecost, tabernacles, the pilgrimage festivals, you had to cleanse yourself.

00:28:31.240 You had to wash, cleanse, bathe.

00:28:32.800 In the Christian scriptures, the story of the healing of the blind man, also Pool of Siloam.

00:28:36.980 And so the archaeologists said, well, if we know where the pool is, at the southern end of the city of David, the place where Jerusalem began,

00:28:42.620 how did the millions of pilgrims get from the pool all the way up to the temple on the Temple Mount?

00:28:46.940 Well, they widened the excavation, and they end up discovering what's known as the pilgrimage road,

00:28:52.020 the road that our ancestors, yours and mine, Jews and Christians alike, would have walked on 2,000 years ago when they went on pilgrimage up to the temple on the Temple Mount.

00:29:00.420 So it goes, that road would go right directly from that pool.

00:29:03.780 That's right.

00:29:04.320 Right to the temple.

00:29:05.700 The temple.

00:29:06.300 I call it the biblical superhighway.

00:29:08.320 Anywhere you wanted to go in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, that road would take you there. 0.99

00:29:12.180 And I've been asked many, many times, what are the chances Jesus walked on that road?

00:29:16.760 That would be 100%.

00:29:18.420 Yeah, so I tell people, I say, look, conservatively speaking, you're talking about 100%.

00:29:24.080 I say, well, how do you know?

00:29:25.860 Well, the answer is really very simple.

00:29:27.280 If you believe that there was a historic Jesus 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, well, he was Jewish.

00:29:32.800 He went with all the Jews down to cleanse at the Pool of Siloam, the southern end of the city of David. 1.00

00:29:36.380 He would have then walked up from the pool along the pilgrimage road, along the half-mile journey up to the temple on the Temple Mount.

00:29:43.160 The Pool of Siloam that we're excavating as we speak in the city of David today is 100% the same Pool of Siloam from 2,000 years ago at the time of Jesus.

00:29:49.800 The pilgrimage road that archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority are excavating as we speak today, 100% the same pilgrimage road, same Temple Mount, same city of David.

00:29:58.380 Not simply a matter of faith, but a matter of fact.

00:30:00.340 It's real.

00:30:01.060 You could see it.

00:30:01.780 You could touch it.

00:30:02.680 You could walk on it.

00:30:03.720 It is the most significant half-mile on the planet.

00:30:06.380 There is no half-mile.

00:30:07.540 That means more to more people anywhere in the world than the city of David.

00:30:12.100 So when it comes to the temple, does it come to Solomon's Stairs?

00:30:17.600 And it's got to be below.

00:30:19.540 I mean, you excavate it.

00:30:20.520 How deep down did you have to dig to find the road?

00:30:24.460 So the pilgrimage road itself runs up the length of the city of David.

00:30:29.880 It comes out at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount.

00:30:33.300 So now what happens is it then splits off.

00:30:35.480 When it gets to the southwestern corner, there is one branch that goes off to the east, which comes out by the southern steps.

00:30:41.480 Again, another site with deep significance for Jews and Christians alike.

00:30:44.660 And then the other part, when it gets to the southwest corner, keeps going north along the western wall.

00:30:50.120 And that became the main thoroughfare.

00:30:52.420 In fact, when a person stands at the southwest corner of the Temple Mount, you could see the remnants of a massive staircase that would have taken the pilgrims up into the temple.

00:31:01.180 It's still there.

00:31:01.720 You could see the remnants of that staircase.

00:31:03.800 So this was the main thoroughfare where everyone is gathering.

00:31:07.000 Now, today, the pilgrimage road, or the vast majority of it, is about 60 feet underground.

00:31:13.400 Now, if this was the United States, what would happen?

00:31:15.880 You know, if you go to Gettysburg today, how many people are buried on the battlefield?

00:31:18.980 How many people live today on the battlefield of Gettysburg?

00:31:21.800 Nobody, right?

00:31:22.740 It's one of the most significant American heritage sites.

00:31:25.100 So in Jerusalem, you would say, well, City of David, it's significant, not just for millions, but billions of people around the world.

00:31:31.320 What should we do?

00:31:32.280 Two words, eminent domain.

00:31:33.780 Except in this part of Jerusalem, we don't do that.

00:31:36.700 And so the challenge is, how do you, on the one hand, respect the modern-day City of David and the people who live there today,

00:31:41.980 and at the same time uncover all the heritage with significance to billions of people around the world and give access to all those who want to see it themselves?

00:31:50.440 And the answer is with a lot of sensitivity.

00:31:53.220 That's why the City of David is only 11 acres in size.

00:31:56.320 We've only excavated one-third of the site to date over the last 150 years.

00:32:00.500 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:32:01.080 Right, so it's mainly with buildings and roads and everything above it?

00:32:05.140 Above it, right?

00:32:06.480 Holy cow. 0.89

00:32:07.420 And so you're literally trying to have the best of both worlds.

00:32:09.760 Respect the modern, uncover the ancient. 0.93

00:32:12.560 And that's why so much of the work has to be done with the utmost sensitivity and at the highest of standards,

00:32:19.520 because you can't afford any mistakes.

00:32:21.360 You can't afford for some—

00:32:22.480 You're not getting Elon Musk with his boring machine.

00:32:24.720 No, everything has to be—you're talking about small tools, lots of engineering to support everything that's up above.

00:32:31.680 But I had the privilege of hosting members of the Navy SEALs along the pilgrimage road,

00:32:37.200 and they were based out of Coronado on the west coast.

00:32:40.180 And they said, well, how does all this get covered up?

00:32:42.940 So I said, well, you know, it's really simple.

00:32:44.900 You know, you have one time period.

00:32:47.000 Someone comes in and conquers it.

00:32:48.420 They build on top of it.

00:32:49.560 Another one conquers them, builds on top of that, throws some earthquakes in there,

00:32:52.600 and you kind of get all these layers.

00:32:54.080 And I said, well, you know, just to bring it closer to home,

00:32:56.620 I said, well, you guys are out there in California.

00:32:58.660 I said, if you dug down beneath your homes, you'd probably find that once upon a time,

00:33:01.760 there were some Native Americans living there.

00:33:03.860 If you kept digging, you might find that once upon a time,

00:33:05.820 there were some Republicans living there.

00:33:10.360 I doubt that.

00:33:11.260 I doubt that.

00:33:11.820 I don't think you'll ever find that evidence.

00:33:13.780 It's Seattle.

00:33:14.460 Seattle has a Seattle underground.

00:33:16.300 Right?

00:33:16.700 Yeah.

00:33:17.300 So they're just built on top of it.

00:33:18.380 So in ancient times, it was under the sky.

00:33:20.020 But today, we have to take into account that there is a modern-day neighborhood.

00:33:24.860 And so the neighborhood is preserved, but we are uncovering that heritage.

00:33:29.800 So I want to go into some of the things that you have found that are possible.

00:33:34.760 I was just talking to somebody who did a documentary on the Ark of the Covenant.

00:33:38.740 And one of the places that he said it might be is right in that area where you're digging.

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00:33:56.340 Senator Mike Lee joins us now.

00:33:59.060 Hello, Mike.

00:33:59.580 How are you?

00:34:01.040 Doing great.

00:34:01.880 Good to be with you as always, Glenn.

00:34:03.240 I have to tell you, we just got off the phone with Alan Dershowitz.

00:34:06.860 And I was teasing that you were coming up, you know, in a few minutes.

00:34:09.980 And he said, wait, before we start, I just have to please tell Mike Lee.

00:34:14.380 Hello.

00:34:14.680 I'm going to send you a clip of it.

00:34:15.920 It was amazing.

00:34:17.160 Please tell Mike Lee.

00:34:18.520 Hello.

00:34:18.840 I was a clerk with his father and we had lunch and he he spoke so highly of your father and of his principles, et cetera, et cetera.

00:34:28.420 And then it spiraled strangely into you.

00:34:31.640 And he was like, and Mike is, you know, the apple doesn't fall from the tree, fall far from the tree.

00:34:36.080 And I'm like, you don't know, Mike, personally.

00:34:37.800 I do, but he was so complimentary of you.

00:34:42.180 And we both talked about, hopefully you will be a member on the Supreme Court someday.

00:34:47.080 It's pretty amazing.

00:34:47.820 Well, that's kind of what you just say.

00:34:51.340 Years, years ago when I was clicking on the Supreme Court, I was looking, found a list of law clerks who served during October term, 1963, when my dad was a law clerk to Justice White.

00:35:02.680 And I saw that another one of the law clerks that year for a different justice was Alan Dershowitz.

00:35:09.380 So I was pleased to discover that.

00:35:12.560 He said he said later when I met him, I asked him if he remembered my dad.

00:35:16.820 And he said, oh, yeah, we were great friends anyway.

00:35:19.180 Yeah.

00:35:19.320 He said he had lunch with your dad all the time because he couldn't drink coffee and and he is a Jew couldn't eat anything else.

00:35:27.140 So they had lunch together all the time.

00:35:29.960 They were a good pair.

00:35:31.120 Yeah, they were.

00:35:31.940 They were.

00:35:32.700 Mike, I want to talk to you about all of these pardons.

00:35:37.680 First of all, as Dershowitz said, you know, it is the only kingly power we grant. 0.99

00:35:44.240 Has it always been used like it's being used now?

00:35:48.220 I mean, I remember the first time I heard about it really was with Nixon.

00:35:53.660 And then it was used for maybe, you know, a few pals, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:59.340 But my gosh, now it's, you know, pardoning for future crimes.

00:36:03.300 And it's is this is this what it's supposed to be?

00:36:06.880 And why do we have it?

00:36:09.440 OK, so as to the reason why we have it, Alexander Hamilton provides one of the best explanations for that in Federalist paper number 74.

00:36:18.400 Sure, read it.

00:36:19.180 And he argues that it's it's an absolutely essential tool for mitigating what he called the cruelty of the law.

00:36:28.900 Now, remember that the federal prisoners, those who have been convicted of a federal offense, it's an executive authority that keeps them in prison.

00:36:39.020 It's the president's job to execute the law.

00:36:40.940 And so it operates as kind of a natural extension of the president's power to oversee that process.

00:36:50.820 But this one goes a step further and allows the president even to officiate the underlying conviction or in some cases through the clemency power, take the lesser included step of reducing a sentence.

00:37:01.500 The idea here is that even though it is subject to abuse, even though it can be abused and it has been abused at times in the past, as some would argue, it's nonetheless better to have it there.

00:37:15.960 Yeah, as a backstop for abuses in the law and excesses in punishment, such that if we took it away, I think their problems would be greater.

00:37:27.200 Yeah, there is. It's kind of the idea.

00:37:30.200 I'd rather have, you know, one bad guy go free or 10 bad guys go free than one good guy, you know, unjustly in prison.

00:37:39.800 So I guess I kind of I can kind of see it from that point of view, because I think there there is some, you know, injustice that happens from time to time.

00:37:48.000 Um, Dershowitz said that, um, in granting his son blanket immunity, he said he thinks that was a big mistake.

00:37:58.340 It opens his son up to testify on a lot of stuff.

00:38:02.120 Is it do you see it that way?

00:38:04.200 Yes, absolutely.

00:38:05.440 In fact, that was one of the first observations I made on X for my at based Mike Lee account right after this happened.

00:38:12.840 I pointed out that this makes it very easy for us now to issue a subpoena and hold hearings in the House and of the Senate in which we invite Hunter Biden to come and testify to tell us a lot of things, including things about his business operations and any business relationship he had with the big guy and have him named the big guy and identify him as such.

00:38:39.360 But he'll say he'll just take the fifth, right?

00:38:42.840 Okay, so he takes the fifth.

00:38:44.700 But what happens when he pleads the fifth?

00:38:47.660 And then we can point out that you're immune because he's pardoned you prospectively, not just for the crimes of which he's been charged and convicted, but of any and all other crimes that might arise out of any of his conduct since 2014.

00:39:04.560 So when you say the fifth, you're like, who are you protecting besides your dad?

00:39:09.760 Right, right, exactly.

00:39:10.980 So what is it exactly you're protecting?

00:39:13.160 Because anything older than 2014 is almost certainly covered by the statute of limitations.

00:39:19.140 And anything since then, you're immune because you're pardoned prospectively.

00:39:26.320 And so you can't plead the fifth if you don't have any sort of credible basis for arguing that it could lead to your criminal liability.

00:39:33.840 But so, Mike, I just don't think we're going to I don't think we're going to continue with the hearings on the Biden family.

00:39:40.900 I think we should only because it should at least be exposed.

00:39:46.320 And people know if the president had sold his office and sold the American people out, that should be known because there has to be at least some shame attached to it.

00:39:59.040 So we we we we don't do it again.

00:40:03.600 But are we really is anybody going to spend on any time on that?

00:40:08.320 Well, I think someone should, because as you say, we need at a minimum to to know what happened, regardless of what comes of it.

00:40:16.900 We need to know for purposes of posterity, for purposes of knowing what to look out for in the future.

00:40:26.380 We need to have answers to that.

00:40:28.260 And so I strongly suspect that you'll have at least one committee in the House and at least one committee in the Senate that will hold hearings on this and do some investigating and hopefully subpoena under Biden to come and testify as a witness.

00:40:40.620 So I talked to Kash Patel, well, this is probably four or five months ago before he was, you know, before we it was before the assassination attempt.

00:40:48.620 So it was still a time where you're like, I don't know, it's going to be close.

00:40:53.380 And he wasn't jockeying for anything.

00:40:55.480 And we were just talking about, for instance, the Epstein case.

00:40:58.800 Where is that diary?

00:41:00.060 And he said it's with the head of the FBI.

00:41:02.340 And I said, it's got to it has to be released.

00:41:04.680 That's too much power for one person or a group of people to even have.

00:41:08.680 It should just be open.

00:41:11.760 And he said, well, I think the Justice Department and and the FBI should start declassifying a lot of stuff that shouldn't be declass.

00:41:22.540 It shouldn't be classified.

00:41:23.700 And he said, well, you find the body that is buried.

00:41:26.480 You don't really need to do much because it's already been done, but then all classified.

00:41:31.400 So nobody can see it.

00:41:34.160 No, that's right.

00:41:35.080 And I was just with cash yesterday.

00:41:37.000 It was in my office.

00:41:37.760 We had a great conversation.

00:41:38.880 I look forward to getting him confirmed.

00:41:40.380 Yeah, I love it.

00:41:41.120 Pointing out that one of many reasons why they do this sort of thing, they don't keep investigations open long after there has ceased to be any meaningful possibility of moving on them.

00:41:56.620 Just so that they can keep the files closed.

00:42:00.020 And this is the very kind of thing in government that makes people curious.

00:42:04.860 It's one of the reasons why you still have the JFK files.

00:42:08.220 Right.

00:42:08.820 That, you know, 60 years after the fact remained, remained locked.

00:42:15.080 This is absurd.

00:42:16.440 The American people need and deserve to know what has gone on in their own government and what those files say.

00:42:22.580 I don't want to I don't want to get anything, you know, and invade your private conversation.

00:42:28.440 But tell me in the private conversation, do you think that he is is going to be going down that road?

00:42:34.180 Do you do you foresee that from from all of the people that Trump is putting into office?

00:42:40.380 I mean, we should know everything that you guys should know.

00:42:44.600 I think the American people should know what happened with Fauci and everything else.

00:42:48.600 You think we're going to release these investigations?

00:42:52.500 I think he's going to be doing a lot of declassification.

00:42:55.880 I don't want to speak for him.

00:42:57.220 Yeah.

00:42:58.360 But I do believe that he will declassify a lot of things.

00:43:03.020 I'll leave it up to him to decide how, when and what circumstances to do that.

00:43:08.840 But I know that his strong inclination is to declassify things that don't need to be classified anymore and that the American people have the right to know.

00:43:18.000 And so one of the many reasons why we need to get cash to tell confirmed.

00:43:21.360 What about Hegseth?

00:43:23.940 I also had Hegseth in my office last night.

00:43:27.100 I'm very optimistic there.

00:43:30.860 We're making huge progress.

00:43:33.020 And look, with both of these guys, I have yet to hear any legitimate reason why we shouldn't confirm either one of them.

00:43:45.240 I believe that Pete Hegseth is somebody who is, at the end of the day, going to be our Secretary of Defense.

00:43:51.760 He is going to get confirmed.

00:43:54.100 And I don't know whether or how many Republican senators might, at the end of the day, vote against him.

00:44:01.300 But I think it's going to be a very small number.

00:44:03.400 And I think it's going to be small enough that, at a minimum, we'll get him confirmed, even if that means we have to bring in the vice president to break a tie.

00:44:10.540 But I think they will both get through.

00:44:12.860 And I think they should get through.

00:44:14.240 Remember, when a president gets elected, the president has a certain mandate.

00:44:19.360 And there's a time-honored practice of deferring, in most instances, to the president's choices, particularly on very key positions, like Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and, yes, FBI Director.

00:44:34.200 What about Tulsi and RFK?

00:44:39.220 Tulsi and RFK are going to get through as well.

00:44:44.240 In each instance, you can find something that the leftist mainstream media and the uniparty fixtures in Washington will oppose.

00:44:57.060 But in each case, they're opposing these people because they oppose Trump and because they don't want daylight shed on the swamp.

00:45:06.560 They want the swamp's secrets kept as a secret.

00:45:10.860 So I'm running late, and I'm up against a break, Mike.

00:45:14.280 But let me just wrap it up with this.

00:45:16.400 We were talking earlier today.

00:45:18.540 If you release all of this information and you start going after deep, deep corruption, that is, like, movie-like dangerous.

00:45:30.540 You're going against some of the most powerful and richest and the intel community.

00:45:36.920 That's going to be really dangerous for people, isn't it?

00:45:41.820 Less dangerous than keeping these secrets.

00:45:44.640 Look, this is why we have elections.

00:45:46.680 This is why we have a constitution, so that the people remain in control of government, and so that the people don't become pawns of the government.

00:45:54.980 Yes.

00:45:55.440 As if boasting, as the axe that wields itself against he who made it, it's time to put the people back in charge of their own government.

00:46:04.500 To do that, they need information on what's been happening in their government.

00:46:08.040 That's why we've got to get these people confirmed.

00:46:09.700 Yeah, good, good.

00:46:11.160 Mike, as always, great to talk to you.

00:46:13.760 Thank you so much.

00:46:14.280 Likewise.

00:46:14.320 Thanks so much, Glenn.

00:46:14.940 You bet.

00:46:15.260 Bye-bye.

00:46:15.820 You can follow him on, what is it, Based Mike Lee.

00:46:21.840 His ex account is Based Mike Lee.

00:46:24.160 It's very funny, very smart as well, but very funny.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 10, 2024

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