A 75-year-old woman has us needing to reevaluate our connections to humanity, to friendship, rather than online engagement. Also, there are some big explosive things coming out in the Russiagate story, and it s much, much deeper than that. Now it s all becoming clear what the deep state was and is and who is involved.
00:04:01.180We have a guy who has written the book literally on the Clinton cash, Peter Schweitzer, who is with us to kind of tell us what this means, what is in the memo.
00:04:14.300And are we moving closer to coming to the truth about the corruption of the Clinton foundation?
00:04:26.820This one is this one must make you feel good.
00:04:29.060I mean, finally, some proof and you're vindicated.
00:04:34.140Well, you know, it's funny, Glenn, and I can talk about this openly now because the New York Times last year outed me as working as a confidential informant with the FBI.
00:04:46.360What that really means is I shared information with them.
00:04:58.660And at one point, there were four FBI field offices.
00:05:03.000So, in other words, these are the agents in the field, Little Rock, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., New York, and also, interestingly, the FBI extension office in Nigeria.
00:05:16.200Because, remember, with the Clintons, it was global corruption.
00:05:19.280And they actually had in Nigeria a audio tape of a very corrupt oligarch bragging on a phone conversation about how he had donated to the Clinton Foundation and gotten favors in return.
00:05:47.280And immediately, FBI headquarters basically said, hey, you know, we don't want you doing this.
00:05:52.760And now what you have with the great reporting of John Solomon in Just the News is Sally Yates, a Department of Justice official, telling them a year or so later, shut this down.
00:06:07.540And that, of course, is highly, highly, highly unusual because field offices are supposed to organically follow leads and investigate.
00:06:18.400And to have the headquarters shut down an investigation on somebody as important as the Clintons, you know, speaks, of course, of the problems of the deep state that you've highlighted for so many years.
00:06:29.240Yeah, the deep state is really becoming clear right now.
00:06:32.980I did a show last night, Peter, that where you can now see the outlines and you can see where they learned it and how they perfected it, you know, beginning in 2020.
00:06:43.520And it's the same group of people, you know.
00:06:46.300It's kind of like when we were doing the progressive thing from the 60s.
00:06:49.380You'd see, wait a minute, it's just one group of people.
00:06:51.840It's just like, you know, I don't know, 20 to 100, maybe 200 people.
00:07:10.200Yes, I believe it was because of things that were being extracted at the Department of Justice.
00:07:17.640And, yeah, she's one of these figures that you're talking about there.
00:07:21.160That's part of the you would call the permanent apparatus in Washington, D.C.
00:07:25.800And what they do is they serve in senior government positions.
00:07:28.980They may leave for a while and they'll go and work for a powerful law firm or they'll work for an investment fund or whatever, make a little extra money.
00:07:37.080Because, of course, government doesn't pay them all of what they want.
00:07:42.340But oftentimes they end up doing favors, of course, for the people who paid them when they were on the outside.
00:07:48.280And they are invited back into government because they're all kind of involved in this revolving door.
00:07:56.320And, you know, again, for Yates to take that position to say, essentially, I don't care what you guys are seeing and what you're investigating.
00:08:06.760And, by the way, she felt comfortable doing that.
00:08:09.320She's not protecting the people in power.
00:08:11.240She's doing this in 2017 when Donald Trump is in office.
00:08:15.680And which, again, speaks to the fact that for all the rhetoric and the claims from the deep state that Trump somehow politicized the Department of Justice,
00:08:25.460further proof that he did not, that the permanent state still ran those institutions during his first term.
00:08:33.780This is a timeline released by the FBI through Just the News.
00:08:37.580The timeline stated that in July or August 2015, an FBI supervisory special agent at the Washington field office had, quote,
00:08:45.660a brief discussion, end quote, with a member of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, quote,
00:08:51.800regarding the Clinton Foundation allegations, which had been focused on by the because of the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweitzer.
00:09:00.280At the time, an investigator, whose name remains redacted, was in the process of attempting to predicate an investigation based on the allegations.
00:09:10.380I mean, what is it like to know that the government was revolving around you and what you had exposed?
00:09:18.620Well, I tell you, Glenn, I appreciate that.
00:09:20.860I mean, we always base our information on paper trail, as you know.
00:09:36.040We kind of pushed all the chips on the table.
00:09:39.180And so that includes, you know, the timing of financial transactions.
00:09:45.440A lot of the investigation started as it related to this Uranium One deal.
00:09:50.760You and I talked about this multiple times in 2015.
00:09:53.440Yeah. And this is the one where the, you know, the Clintons ended up getting one hundred and forty five million dollars from the Clinton Foundation.
00:10:01.620They also got speaking fees from these group of investors that Bill Clinton helped arrange the sale of American uranium company to a company that was owned by Canadians.
00:10:13.700But but by the way, the origin of that company was Russia.
00:10:17.820So, you know, all sorts of alarm bells were going off on that.
00:10:21.900But as the FBI investigation continued, they became involved and interested in other areas.
00:10:27.340The Nigerian investors, for example, because when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, we got these emails through the Freedom of Information Act.
00:10:38.600And when they were doing the Haitian Reconstruction after the earthquake, for example, which Hillary Clinton was in charge of, people would send emails to the secretary of state's office saying, we want a contract for Haitian Reconstruction.
00:10:57.600Turns out it was shorthand for friend of Bill.
00:11:00.780So the investigation began with Uranium One, but it included contracting with the State Department on Haitian Reconstruction, Nigerian deals.
00:11:21.520There were instances I know where they wanted to access banking records, for example, and they were denied the ability to do that by the Department of Justice.
00:11:30.540So the investigation never really got off the ground.
00:11:35.220And yet these field agents, and I can't speak highly enough of them, they doggedly continued those investigations because they saw how much smoke and fire was actually there.
00:11:46.780And this is what Loretta Lynch, and we now know, and Bill Clinton kind of spoke about on Clinton's plane on the tarmac in Phoenix in 2016,
00:11:57.440because she was, apparently, she was delivering a message that, don't worry, these scandals are going away.
00:12:06.500I have word from FBI, and we've got it under control, and it's all going to be shut down.
00:12:31.160And, you know, you're flat out lying to the American people, and, of course, you've got Bill Clinton involved in it.
00:12:38.700And this is the reason, as much as the left wants to say the reason people don't trust government is because, you know, people like you, Glenn, are trashing it all the time.
00:12:48.300No, you're exposing what it does, and they continue to lie to us and to deceive.
00:12:53.360And this is why we're a state in America where people don't trust governmental institutions, and I think rightfully so.
00:12:59.600So, are we any closer to anybody going to jail?
00:13:06.240As it relates to the Clintons, and, of course, I always predicate this, I'm not a lawyer.
00:13:10.620But what I would say is part of the challenge with those financial crimes is the issue of statute of limitations.
00:13:17.660But when it comes to the cover-up, I think you have some real, real possibilities there from a criminal standpoint.
00:13:26.500I think it's great that Congressman Comer's committee subpoenaed the Clintons.
00:13:31.660They're going to be coming in under oath to be asked about, I think, a wide variety of questions.
00:14:19.260I see Clintons, the Clintons, what they got away with in the Oval Office, you know, with the, I didn't have sex with that woman, and drawing us out for 18 months into this nightmare, all based on a lie.
00:14:36.020But then when it was exposed, he didn't pay a price because by that time, everybody was so tired of it, they just wanted to go away.
00:14:41.780That set up this kind of system where you just deny, deny, deny, and then by the time you find out, everybody's tired of the story.
00:14:50.060But also their corruption during the administration and then after the administration with the Clinton Foundation, that's what really set the Bidens up, right?
00:15:03.800Do you think that Joe Biden kind of learned from all of that, saw them getting away with it and like, well, I can do that.
00:15:08.740And he just did a more grotesque, obvious version of it?
00:15:14.980Yeah, Glenn, I think you absolutely nailed it.
00:15:59.820And that's the reason that Hunter Biden, you know, shortly after the Clintons started doing this and it became known, Hunter Biden set up a, quote, unquote, investment firm.
00:16:16.160So it was a mirror image of what the Clintons did.
00:16:19.700And it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, Republican or Democrat.
00:16:23.600We have got to deal with this because we don't want elected officials or unelected officials in D.C. realizing this is the way to make money.
00:16:32.000And if we know one thing, Glenn, we know that corruption gets imitated.
00:16:36.160If you don't deal with it, you don't pay a price.
00:16:40.680Other people are going to start doing it.
00:16:42.500Well, it's the same thing that's happening on the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:16:45.820You see kids see other kids getting a free ride and they can they can run the city at night and do whatever they want and never pay a price.
00:18:36.820And thank God, Donald Trump, can you imagine how bad this would be if Joe Biden's policies would have continued?
00:18:42.820Thank God we're doing a lot of really good things.
00:18:45.280But I wanted to get a sense from Chris on where we are and what he thinks of what's happening in Maryland and the warning that Goldman is giving this week.
00:19:12.920In fact, we released a report from the department just a few weeks ago.
00:19:17.020And if you had continued the Biden policies, which are to permit and subsidize energy sources that might be there, might not, and generally aren't there at peak demand,
00:19:29.220if we had continued those policies, they would have shut down another 100 gigawatts of firm production capacity that's there when you need it.
00:19:38.760And they had permits to approve and plan to add 22 gigawatts of that.
00:19:47.420So, a net loss of 78 gigawatts to an electricity grid that's already tight, that already delivers blackouts at peak demand.
00:19:55.760They were on a trajectory to increase blackouts by 100-fold by the end of the first Paris term if she had won that election.
00:20:04.380It is just we were driving over a cliff and they were hitting the accelerator to go faster.
00:20:10.480You know what really bothered me was the policy that when they shut these plants down that we would actually pay the power companies to shut these down if they dismantled the coal fire plants.
00:20:24.380They actually could get subsidies if they made sure there was no going back into that, which I found terrifying and horribly irresponsible.
00:20:37.340Like, the environmentalists melted down a few weeks ago when I used my authority at the Department of Energy to stop the closure of a one-and-a-half gigawatt coal plant in southwestern Michigan.
00:20:49.180Oh, you're going to impose tax costs on the ratepayers?
00:21:12.920We also stopped the closure of a very old power plant in Baltimore, but a critical power plant to keep the lights on at peak demand that's also running at full capacity as we speak today and has for much of the last few weeks.
00:21:30.380It's just when politics gets in the middle of energy, it truly impacts people's lives.
00:21:36.160It leads to blackouts, fighting costs.
00:21:39.140You know, we had 30 percent rise in power prices during just four years of President Joe Biden, and now we're going to launch the AI race against China, and we're going to have our lights going off without data centers, without any new industry in our country.
00:21:54.400Just thank God the American people overwhelmingly elected President Trump.
00:22:08.000But we are, I can assure you, we are headed in the right direction now.
00:22:12.140So, you know, what really bothers me is we have heard how dangerous nuclear power is and how we can't use that, even though that solves the global warming thing.
00:22:23.920We have to reduce our power usage, you know, go back to the good old days and, I don't know, medieval times.
00:22:29.800But now that AI is here, now that the big tech companies step up and say, no, no, no, we have to have power for AI, now all of those rules are out the window.
00:22:42.600Which bothers me so much because it is as if the left and the power structures don't really care about the average person and them having power.
00:22:55.300They care about these big corporations and AI being able to have compute power.
00:23:56.380It's not just those crazy rubes in middle America like you and I.
00:24:01.520So, you know, in your report, you said, you know, we will increase blackouts by 100 times in the next five years if we don't keep more baseload power online.
00:24:11.900How rapidly are we going to see these nuclear power plants, et cetera, et cetera, being built?
00:24:18.420And is it only to serve those server farms or are we going to redo the American power grid itself?
00:24:33.040So it is an exciting development, Glenn, but it's a government.
00:24:36.760It's this overweening, fear-mongering government that actually smothered and killed nuclear industry for most of the last four decades.
00:24:45.440So since it's been smothered for so long, it'll take time to get that ball really moving.
00:24:50.880We'll have an already closed nuclear power plant back open in Michigan later this year, January, hopefully at the latest.
00:24:59.700So there's some developments that will happen in the next few months, but most of it's going to take a few years.
00:25:04.980It's really what's going to feed the data centers that are going to be built and the re-industrialization of our country and keep the lights on and our air conditioning on in the summertime.
00:25:14.680Most of that is going to come from stopping the closure of the coal plant.
00:25:19.840But the Biden administration and Obama administration wanted to shrink our ability to generate electricity.
00:25:25.540And it's going to come from the expansion and rapid construction of new natural gas burning power plants.
00:25:32.520Natural gas is by far our biggest source of electricity.
00:25:35.720It's by far the lowest cost source of new electricity.
00:25:39.760So we are doing everything we can to permit, allow the construction of natural gas plants as fast as possible and removing these ridiculous requirements that, well, if you spend a billion dollars to build a new power plant within six or seven or eight years, you're going to have to capture all the carbon dioxide emissions and inject them underground.
00:26:00.040No matter how much it costs, no matter how much it burdens our power sector, the direction they were in just didn't care about American people or American businesses.
00:29:23.960The most stable region actually is Texas, which is by far the biggest electricity grid.
00:29:32.680They produce more than twice as much electricity as California and just a little bit less nonsense in Texas.
00:29:40.200They still went crazy on the wind subs.
00:29:42.220They still have more expensive and less stable grid than they had 10 years ago.
00:29:47.140But they also have the mindset and the regulatory regime to fix their problem.
00:29:51.600Texas is rapidly growing its firm capacity and they're going to skate out of this crisis probably a little faster than the more Biden-influenced rest of the country.
00:30:03.380I can't thank you enough for everything you guys are doing.
00:30:06.100I'm amazed at how rapidly you guys have turned things around.
00:30:11.400I'm thrilled at the work you're all doing.
00:30:14.740And, Chris, you're really leading us in energy and I appreciate that.
00:30:41.300That was somebody who I think spoke right directly, at least to me, it felt like he was speaking to me and I felt like they at least were saying, I think he really meant it, but I think at least he was saying, we care about the average person.
00:30:56.240That's what we're focused on, that's what we're focused on, is the average person.
00:30:59.620And you just don't hear that from government very often.
00:31:02.220What about the kings and queens of nations, like Somalia, for example?
00:32:13.100But according to CBS News, who brought this story to me, she did gain a new companion.
00:32:22.220And she likes this new companion even more than her daughter.
00:32:25.580I read this story from CBS News a couple of days ago, and I jotted down some thoughts that I want to share with you.
00:32:31.620And I honestly, up until this morning, I didn't know if I was going to share these thoughts with you because, I don't know, I'm in this really unique place right now where I started.
00:33:13.120That's what we're going to lose our humanity.
00:33:16.020And then, as I was thinking about this and what I wanted to share with you, I thought, gosh, maybe we have already lost our humanity in a different way, in a different way.
00:33:31.220And then I just started going down this rabbit hole about me and, like, you know, who are you to say any of this stuff?
00:33:36.840I mean, I'm in a weird place right now.
00:33:38.680It's a good place, but it's a weird place.
00:33:40.160You know, this isn't ideal that she has found a companion, and I want to say we have to stop this, but then what do you replace it with?
00:33:52.380Then we just have this old woman at home by herself, rotting away, not talking to anybody?
00:34:00.900My thought was, what have I done to exercise my humanity?
00:34:06.060Instead of just getting on the radio and just, la, la, la, la, la, la, you know what you should do, you know what we should do, and then not do any of it, what am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?
00:37:03.300You might be having a horrible day, but you'll say, fine, pretty good.
00:37:07.740And you're doing it out of a courtesy because you know when you ask the question, you don't want somebody to say, you know, I'm really struggling right now.
00:37:15.680Because then you're like, oh, dear God, I've got to stop my day and sit down and talk to you.
00:40:09.960We can be in pain, but we will not change until the pain becomes absolutely unbearable.
00:40:17.180I went to a store to look at a bike the other day, and I sent a picture of this bike to my wife, and she said, I don't know who has my husband's phone, but where is he?
00:43:35.780What does it sound like when we enhance our humanity?
00:43:40.880It sounds like a chair that's scraping the floor as it's being backed out from the table because you've made an extra room at the table for somebody else in the neighborhood that, you know, eats alone or maybe just your family.
00:44:17.700I mean, in extreme cases, I mean, this is where I'd love to be.
00:44:23.280It means visiting the nursing home once a month until it becomes once a week, and then you learn names, and then you remember stories, and then your kids start asking when they can go back.
00:44:33.800Look, it's when your kids can see the difference between bright screens and bright eyes.
00:48:06.640Before I tell the world how dangerous this is, I need to start knocking on doors.
00:48:15.720Before I preach presence, I have to practice it.
00:48:19.800Be present with somebody 15 minutes a day.
00:48:22.760Undivided attention for the person sitting right in front of me.
00:48:26.220Now, my wife is like, oh, well, it's about time you figured that one out.
00:48:28.920But before I worry about how AI is going to remake us, I'll remember that just time, listening, being present, remakes us faster, much faster than AI ever will.
00:48:49.200Change usually comes when pain finally wins.