On today's show, Glenn Beck introduces a term that you probably have never heard, crink. What is President Trump doing to counteract crink? What is it? Also, some breaking news about a new special on Glenn Beck and his research on the Islamization of America and the Western World.
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00:00:30.480Today, I introduce you to a term that you probably have never heard, crink.
00:00:34.760This actually is very important in your life, crink.
00:00:39.780What is President Trump doing to counteract crink?
00:02:59.460And he's military and former military intelligence.
00:03:03.120He is, he's just a great researcher and put a great team together.
00:03:08.320And we have uncovered a lot of things in our 10 years together.
00:03:12.380One of the reasons why I changed my relationship with the Blaze, you can still see the show every day on Blaze TV, but we have added 50% more information to the show.
00:03:26.760I have been frustrated with the load of commercials that we have to do as podcasts.
00:03:33.520Broadcast, we have to pay for the transmitters and everything else and the local stations.
00:04:37.640But anyway, so one of the reasons why I started all of this and changed my daily schedule is because I want to produce so much more information for you because it's incredible what's happening in the world.
00:04:52.400But I also want to go deeper on things.
00:04:55.880And so we have taken our Wednesday night special, and we're spending all of that time on weekly research for the radio show and what we do on.
00:05:04.940And I hope you've heard the difference that just this week on the amount of time that we're spending on the radio show to get this really right and dialed in for you.
00:05:13.820But also, we want to spend the time to find the deep stuff, not just the stuff that everybody can report on, you know, on Fox News or CNN, but the stuff that really matters and go deep.
00:05:26.900So you understand it and you see what we believe is there, we'll be able to prove it to you.
00:05:35.200So we have partnered and almost tripled our research staff and budget, and we've also partnered with people like Ryan Morrow, who is really amazing.
00:05:47.780He is the Morrow Institute director, he's a counterterrorism expert, and he's helping us do research on our first special on the Islamization of America and the West.
00:06:00.420Because, gang, if we do not pay attention to Islamism, and you're seeing it beginning here in New York, you're seeing it in Detroit, you're seeing it in the Somali community in Minnesota, it's happening.
00:06:14.960It's bad in Texas, and if we don't understand that and take it seriously, it'll be lights out.
00:07:20.080So what was known prior to today is that there was a man and woman in Gaza who were killed in June 2024 because they were holding three Israeli hostages.
00:07:30.080The Israelis came in, had to kill the two Hamas operatives, the man and the woman.
00:07:34.020And then it became known that the man was an official writer at the time called a correspondent for a website called Palestine Chronicle.
00:07:44.160Palestine Chronicle is basically the same thing.
00:07:47.420It's like the public face of a nonprofit organization based in Washington state called the People Media Project.
00:07:53.880And so the freed Israeli hostages sued them.
00:07:58.560And their defense was, well, he's not really a correspondent.
00:08:01.620He's a contributor because they changed his title after this happened on their website.
00:08:05.760And they said even though he was writing for us actually two to three times a day after October 7th, it was on a voluntary basis.
00:08:13.540You can't prove that we actually gave him money.
00:08:16.300And so I, in working with your team, went through the website, and what we found was really interesting.
00:08:25.540They boast about an event that they held in Gaza, ostensibly just to give free haircuts for Palestinian children.
00:08:33.060And this is an article written by that man who is an official writer.
00:08:36.880And he talks about his wife, the woman who was killed in the raid, doing this event for the Palestine Chronicle.
00:08:44.780And they refer to her essentially as a staff member.
00:08:47.580They say this is our initiative coordinator for the event.
00:08:53.460And they slip up enough that they actually say funds for this initiative was raised from personal donations by Palestine Chronicle editors.
00:09:04.600That means money passed from that Washington state-based organization, the Palestine Chronicle editors, to the wife of this guy, of this main hostage holder, who she was also involved in there.
00:09:20.640So their defense of, well, our writer, yes, was holding Israelis hostage and writing for us while holding them hostage, but he can't prove that we gave them money.
00:09:29.100Well, we found in their own words, they gave money to his wife.
00:09:32.800That is, as far as I can tell, illegal.
00:09:36.500It is illegal to knowingly pass money to Hamas operatives.
00:09:39.980And by the way, the husband, and they knew this at the time because of the Facebook interactions, was a publicly identified spokesperson for Hamas's Ministry of Labor.
00:09:48.900So, I mean, it doesn't get more solid than that.
00:09:53.440And we are busy right now mapping out the connections of this organization, of the head of it, Ramzi Baroud, because this leads to all sorts of other organizations, including one in Turkey, led by Sami al-Aryan, who was one of the top Muslim Brotherhood Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, a professor in Florida, who was deported shortly after 9-11.
00:10:18.900So this shows that this group, yes, they're connected to Hamas, but they're actually part of this broader Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-Palestine Islamic Jihad-connected network out of Turkey.
00:10:32.040Oh, and I also need to mention that the chief editor of Palestine Chronicle, at least used to be, maybe still is, a non-resident scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:10:43.860Wow. So, Ryan, this is, we have not been willing to say, some of us have, you certainly have for a long time, we've tried to say the things that are true, and everybody has dogpiled and said, Islamophobia, Islamophobia.
00:11:06.420I think because of the Trump administration, those days aren't just over where you can say something that is true and is not Islamic, I don't care about Muslims, I care about Islamists, that's who I care about, the ones who use Islam as a political power and want to have Sharia law.
00:11:28.700Those are the dangerous ones. That's not radical, that's political Islam.
00:11:34.760And do you feel that the administration, because I'm sensing they are, do you feel the administration is serious about these things and we're going to start seeing these not just exposed, but people being deported, institutions being shut down, and this, that we actually take this serious as, because I believe we are in a war against Islamists.
00:12:05.420Are we starting to deal with it that way, do you think?
00:12:10.320I certainly believe so. And from a few different angles, to your earlier point, actually, since I was a teenager, I started doing this when I was 16 professionally, that's when I was first hired.
00:12:21.220I based it on the idea that civilians could be almost like an intelligence counterpart to the federal, state, and local agencies.
00:12:29.660And so I've put together a civilian intelligence network ever since then, back in 2002, so I could see the impact that things like this actually have.
00:12:40.720So it's not something we have to just say, well, is the administration going to do this or that?
00:12:44.580Like, you can play an active part in it, and I think most people don't understand that.
00:12:49.500Your audience does because they are obsessed with research, as I can tell every time I'm on your show, the emails I get.
00:12:56.460But so this is very impactful. This is equipping the administration. When the will is there to take action, civilians can provide it.
00:13:06.900It's not just a matter of saying, oh, well, we've got the right people in power now. Let's just sit back and watch.
00:13:10.640It's like, no, you've got to act a part of it. And by the way, some of my best sources, the best informants I've had deep inside some of these groups were Muslims who came to me.
00:13:20.740So you're absolutely right that it's not about fighting Muslims. It's because some of my best allies have been Muslims.
00:13:27.880And to prove your point that, yes, the administration will act specifically on the stuff that you and I put together, look at what has happened since we released our investigation into George Soros' network.
00:13:40.640financing with over $80 million into domestic terrorist groups and pro-terror groups.
00:13:46.260Within three business days, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration had essentially launched an investigation of George Soros' network as a result of what we did together.
00:13:58.000And that's already having effects, even if you're not hearing about it publicly, because we were actually attacked for that in one media article that I thought was comical,
00:14:07.560because it was basically saying how bad it is that these allegations are out there, because these groups like Soros and them are complaining that they're spending so much money on lawyers to make sure they're in compliance with the law.
00:14:18.440So that there's no pretext to go after them.
00:14:21.760I was like, yeah, yeah, shame on us. We made you spend money to make sure you're following the law.
00:14:26.260Now you know what it's now you know what it's like to be a business owner in America for everybody else.
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00:16:16.200It's nice to have a stable of experts like you that really get it and can explain what's going on.
00:16:22.840I wanted to have you on today because what's happening in New York is quite remarkable, and I think it is a form of capital controls.
00:16:34.760When a government says you're going to have a different relationship with private property, isn't that a capital control where they're saying you can't spend your money the way you want to spend your money?
00:16:46.480Yeah, I mean, certainly in terms of what a layman would consider a capital control, you know, economists have a very strict definition, but there are what we consider to also be de facto capital controls.
00:16:59.620And certainly what is happening in New York is reminiscent of, you know, any time socialists and communists come to power.
00:17:09.100And it's one of the things that's kind of this weird triangle that's going on right now is it also reminds me of what happened in Venezuela.
00:17:18.820If you think about Venezuela and the fact that they were producing 3 million barrels a day of oil and they were a very prosperous country,
00:17:29.400and once the socialists, the communists, whatever you want to call them, theists took over, productive capital no longer makes investments.
00:17:39.780And so what's the logical outgrowth of that?
00:17:43.580Their output is down at this point to less than a third of that.
00:17:47.880And their infrastructure is so decayed that if we even wanted to help them get back to where they used to be,
00:17:55.740it's going to take around $100 billion in investments and quite some time, probably five years or longer, to bring it back to where it was before.
00:18:05.740So when you think about what's happening in New York and you hear things like rent controls,
00:18:10.880and we're going to put these controls in place, these landlords can't charge as much money to make things more affordable.
00:18:18.420Well, the same thing is going to happen.
00:18:20.420There is no financial incentive to make the investments in that property, which means everything decays,
00:18:27.820which means you have a bunch of slums that maybe are theoretically affordable, but nobody actually wants to live in them.
00:18:35.560So no matter what they try to dictate, when they're pushing these controls down our throats,
00:18:42.960it doesn't have the same outcomes as the free market would, and it has these terrible impacts and effects,
00:18:52.360which is why we all lean into capitalism and free market principles and what's made us so prosperous.
00:18:58.100So, Carol, can a mayor and city council do what they're talking about doing?
00:19:07.220I mean, you look at Seattle, boy, they've screwed that place up.
00:19:12.520California screwed that place up, but he is talking about full-fledged collectivism, communism, really,
00:19:21.500where the state is saying you can't live there because of who you are or whatever,
00:19:26.640and we're going to give that property to somebody else.
00:19:42.740There's a constitution that stuff like that can't happen.
00:19:45.780But we've seen the constitution flouted.
00:19:49.480We've seen the general principles that the country was founded on, our rights and protections flouted so many times that they can certainly try.
00:19:58.700And I'm sure there are probably workarounds and things that they have in statues where they're going to say,
00:20:04.700well, you know, this wasn't up to code or this wasn't, you know, following this rule.
00:20:10.420So we're not actually really seizing it.
00:20:12.640We're just saying you're not following the rules.
00:20:14.420And going back to what I said, you know, if you are somebody who owns a property that, you know,
00:20:20.240it has rent control on it and you can't make the investment because you're not getting the market rent on it,
00:20:26.600and all of a sudden they think, well, you're out of the code, you know, you have all these fines.
00:20:30.460Are you going to make that investment?
00:20:34.460Probably not because you're not going to get a return on it.
00:20:36.760You could use your capital more productively somewhere else.
00:20:39.460So then they say, well, you're in violation of these fines,
00:20:42.280so we're now going to come in as the government and we're going to take this over.
00:20:46.320We've certainly seen things that look like that all over the place.
00:22:18.600They're trying to put in place a wealth tax, which we've talked about many times.
00:22:24.920Certainly something like, you know, seven or nine countries in Europe have abandoned since it was such a bad idea.
00:22:31.180California, because capital is mobile, but they're trying to make it retroactive, that if, you know, you are a citizen as of, I think, was the end of 2025, beginning of 2026 of California, that you can't try to get around this rule.
00:22:45.480We're going to come after you anyway to try to take your wealth.
00:22:49.960So these are not theoretical things that could happen.
00:22:54.260These are proposals that are being put on the table, that are being led by people like Ro Khanna in California, who is a representative from Silicon Valley.
00:23:05.220His constituents are the tech bros, are the billionaires, are the people who put him in place.
00:23:12.760And then he is turning around and saying, well, guess what?
00:23:16.640You know, at the core, I'm still a communist, whether you put me in place or not.
00:23:22.800I can tell you, being from Chicago, we've seen the impact of this real-time, not certainly directly capital control, but the bad policies that have driven out billionaires like Ken Griffin.
00:23:35.780And the hole that that has left, not only in terms of his tax revenue, his philanthropy, but all the jobs that went with him, is this money that is no longer here as part of the tax base.
00:23:47.560And so the middle and working class now are having to pick up that difference, and people are shocked at how much they're having to carry, because the people with money can take it somewhere else, and they're left holding the back.
00:24:01.660I actually saw somebody say, how come he's not spending money in Chicago anymore?
00:24:17.040And the fact that there is this level of economic illiteracy, and that if you went up in front of a bunch of people or even members of the state representatives,
00:24:29.160and you say, okay, which would you rather have, 90% of a pie or 50% of a pie?
00:24:36.480And they would actually give you that answer without knowing how big the pie is, because they don't fundamentally understand that we're looking at trying to have less of a burden for everyone and grow the pie and make it a wonderful place to live.
00:24:51.300And these policies, New York is one that's staggering to me, Glenn.
00:24:55.800And if you think about it, this is Wall Street.
00:24:58.760This is the financial capital of the United States.
00:25:02.540This is where the Fed monetary policy comes from.
00:29:49.020He is building something that I think is much closer to what we were hoping for or thought was going to be built in the 1990s when we talked about a unipolar moment, you know, that America was going to lead.
00:30:06.880But everybody was going to get together because we're all free now.
00:30:11.140And, you know, we had these hopes of lollipops and sugar plums and everything was going to be great because we won.
00:31:30.020Instead, he's saying, you know what, this doesn't work, and we'd love to help broker a deal between all of you guys.
00:31:37.740And, you know, look what you can build.
00:31:40.600And let me help you with the framework so you can all get along.
00:31:45.060For 20 years, it feels like America longer than that.
00:31:49.540The story of the Middle East was Americans go in, Americans retreat, and Iranians advance, right?
00:31:58.040Then in the first term, he came with the Abraham Accords.
00:32:00.920Israel normalized with the UAE and Bahrain and Morocco, and now it seems like everybody is normalizing relations.
00:32:11.900And he has taken the entire Middle East, which was available to all of the presidents in the past, but they didn't do it for some reason or didn't get it.
00:32:26.880He just took them all and went, yeah, you guys should all get together because you can actually be a global power and influence, but not with Iran.
00:32:40.000And so he normalized the relations between them.
00:32:45.120And it wasn't just a series of photo ops for him.
00:32:49.200It was he took the U.S. and aligned the economic and security architecture for everybody, Israel, the Gulf, potentially Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.
00:34:35.080It's almost a free fall, and it's almost Weimar Republic status, okay?
00:34:42.140So everyone is consumed with just surviving.
00:34:46.980You know, when you have fear, when you have oppression, that's bad, and that'll get people into the streets.
00:34:54.300But when they cannot survive, they can't eat, that changes everything.
00:34:59.720And the axis of resistance, that's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis, all of that, they can't afford to keep all of that together.
00:35:14.760But now the regime is bringing these people in.
00:36:35.640And anybody who is a conservative, you know, or just common sense and doesn't think that oil is the big worst thing that could ever happen, we've all been saying, we have enough oil.
00:36:49.200Why are we buying our oil from the Middle East?
00:38:08.180Hopefully, because we're preparing for it, it will never happen.
00:38:11.240But we are now not the vulnerable importer.
00:38:16.420We are now the stable producer and the one who is shepherding all of the oil.
00:38:23.080Did you hear what happened just a couple of hours ago?
00:38:26.260So, we have been following this tanker that has been Russian flagged, okay?
00:38:33.040Once you flag a ship, then if you flag it Russia, then the Russian Navy can get involved because that's a Russian flagged ship, even though it doesn't belong to Russia.
00:38:42.880We have been following this ship and trying to stop this oil tanker from bringing oil that should not be going overseas from Venezuela.
00:38:53.280And we have been trying to track it down.
00:38:56.760Well, about a few hours ago, maybe five hours ago, we caught up with it.
00:39:00.940Now, Russia was sending ships to protect this because it was a Russian flagged ship.
00:39:26.320So, we are very, very serious about this.
00:39:30.220And because of the way Venezuela just happened, American credibility on the war front, the rest of the world, our enemies are freaking out right now because even people who are in the military, I shouldn't say in the military, I'm sure they know more, but people who have been watching the military, former military, people that know about the military, even they are looking at it going,
00:39:57.520how the hell did we just pull this off with Venezuela?