Glenn and Matilda discuss the latest in the Trump administration, JD Vance's comments on Trump's VP picks, and the Epstein scandal. Plus, the latest on the Mueller investigation, and more. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on Fox News Radio.
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00:02:52.560So I am, you know, I collect American history, and I collect it to preserve it, and I want to tell the whole story of American history, the good and the bad.
00:03:05.360Probably the best example is we have a lot of stuff from Patton, and he was an amazing guy.
00:03:10.320But we also have one letter from Patton where he is a monster, and I mean a monster, no better than the Nazis.
00:03:20.600And, you know, we all have these conflicts in us, some bigger than other, and we wanted to make sure that we showed both sides of Patton.
00:03:33.620That we don't make anybody into a hero without showing this is the heroic stuff they did, and this is the questionable or really bad stuff they did.
00:03:42.940Jeffrey Epstein's black book is up for auction.
00:03:51.140Now, this is not the book that he had when he died.
00:03:56.120This is a book from around the year 2000 that he lost.
00:07:52.780Like, I mean, there's certainly I don't know that he's in that book per se, but I will say that my instinct is, yes, you should bid on it.
00:08:00.680Largely because I think one of the things you do at the museum and is part of your mission statement over there is to preserve history that will be erased.
00:08:10.320And, man, the Epstein thing falls directly in that category.
00:08:14.500Like, we know about it right now, kind of.
00:08:17.820I don't think we know the whole story.
00:08:19.520And the powers that be will do everything they can to make sure that goes down some memory hole that we don't remember it like the Lindbergh case.
00:10:05.820So, all five names, including that of President Donald Trump, interesting that that one is out, are well-recognized financial and industrial figures.
00:10:16.320The significance of the checked and highlighted names is unknown.
00:10:19.420The details included in the vast majority of the entries are most extensive.
00:10:24.460Epstein not only includes the name, address, and telephone number of his contact, but in most cases also adds other residential addresses and numbers, contact information, family members, secretaries, immediate employees, associates, cell phone numbers, and at least one instant, a contact's girlfriend's number.
00:10:41.680There's a good deal of information hinting at Epstein's sordid pass, including the very first entry, contact information for the front desk, and five apartment numbers corresponding with telephone numbers at 301 E66th Street.
00:10:56.700This address was home for many young models, girlfriends, pilots, and lawyers associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:11:04.020The book contains entries for former Ford models, CEO Kate Ford, as well as an entry for masseuse, which lists 24 women's names and numbers with pager numbers as well.
00:11:19.980The history of this criminal relic is fascinating.
00:11:22.240The mid-1990s musician living in Manhattan discovered the book lying on Fifth Avenue sidewalk in Midtown.
00:11:28.040She eventually put it in storage, was not until 2020 while cleaning out her storage unit that she realized it belonged to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:11:34.820She reached out to several media outlets, not this one, who failed to react.
00:11:39.060Assuming that the book was a copy, she listed it on eBay, where it was purchased by a graduate...
00:11:55.860A 2004 Epstein black book was discovered by the FBI and used in legal proceedings, but this copy, which came to light after Epstein's death, was not considered as evidentiary importance at the time of its discovery.
00:12:09.380According to Business Insider, the 1731 names contained in the two volumes together do not appear in the 2004 book.
00:12:19.460During its six-month investigation, Business Insider journalists had respected forensic document examiners, applied forensics, examined the book to determine its authenticity.
00:12:28.480After a researcher looked at the binding and the data within, the examiners determined there are indications or evidences to suggest the Q1 address book predated the online version of the address book and was in existence in the late 1990s.
00:12:45.700So a copy of that report is available.
00:14:17.200We do also know that Donald Trump threw him out, right, of Mar-a-Lago.
00:14:22.220Yeah, they had him falling out a long time ago.
00:14:24.820Because he was, you know, I guess trying to recruit some of the females.
00:14:28.760And Donald Trump said, get out, don't come back.
00:14:32.020Yeah, no, they had definitely, the Trump thing is, I don't know, I think that's a complete disconnect to the Epstein story from long, long ago.
00:21:26.820Well, I think it's, I mean, the only thing that really matters, of course, is the court of public opinion, because it's such a sham trial.
00:21:34.700I don't think that it's going to hold up on appeal.
00:21:37.060You know, the basic argument here is that he falsified documents in order to commit a crime, but they can't even identify which crime he allegedly committed.
00:21:44.640So, it's very hard to imagine anything like that can hold up on appeal.
00:21:48.860Now, look, it is highlighting, I think, how corrupt the justice system has gotten in certain parts of our country, right?
00:21:55.500So, you have the number three person at Biden's DOJ who jumps ship and goes and joins a local prosecutor office to participate in this.
00:22:03.380By the way, he's also, it turns out, a DNC-paid consultant.
00:22:07.120Then you have, of course, a Soros-funded prosecutor who brings the case.
00:22:10.340It's being presided over by a literal campaign donor to Biden-Harris, who is preventing Donald Trump from even speaking on the merits of the case in the court of public opinion.
00:22:21.000So, I think it's really helping Trump politically, which, again, I think is all that matters because most people who have any sense of fairness recognize that this is a sham trial.
00:22:33.280And so long as it's helping Trump get elected, I think that's the thing that matters most.
00:22:36.780I will tell you that I think the line of maybe the year, we're not finished yet, but I think the line maybe of the year is Donald Trump, when he came out, I think it was yesterday,
00:22:46.260and said, the Constitution is well worth me going to jail for.
00:22:53.240It's worth more than me trying to stay out of jail.
00:23:08.840This guy is literally trying to prevent him from speaking.
00:23:14.640The Democrats have made this a major political issue.
00:23:16.960The Democrats are fundraising off of it.
00:23:18.960Biden-Harris campaign sending around fundraising emails.
00:23:22.680Oh, isn't it funny that Donald Trump's in court today, sent us money.
00:23:25.820And yet the judge is preventing Trump from participating in what is right now the most lively political debate of the country.
00:23:34.060So, it really, I think, again, just drives home how much these guys have lost their minds.
00:23:40.420And, you know, I've even seen polls here that Biden, people who plan to vote for Joe Biden recognize this is fundamentally a sham trial.
00:23:48.700Now, here's the crazy thing about this, Glenn, is I do a lot of hostile media.
00:23:53.080It's one of the things I like to do is sort of taking our case to the other side.
00:23:56.000And I've sat in green rooms with people who months ago were angry at Alvin Bragg for bringing this case because it was such a weak case.
00:24:04.540But now that it's the only case that's actually gone to trial because the rest of them have fallen apart, you see the media treating this as legitimate.
00:24:12.260And I don't think anybody believes them, right?
00:24:50.940There isn't any difference, of course.
00:24:54.200The only real difference is I think that Donald Trump actually was engaged in some diplomacy and was negotiating with the Ukrainians and also other folks in the region about how much aid they should be providing.
00:25:05.980Of course, it shouldn't just be America, whether you support Ukraine or not.
00:25:08.840What's different about this is I think you're taking one of the few truly bipartisan issues in this country that we should be supporting our allies, Israel, and you're allowing it to be dictated by the far left.
00:25:19.220Now, I have a little bit of a different take on this, Glenn, because I think what Biden is doing is really killing two political birds with one stone here.
00:25:28.780One, as I've been warning for months, we don't have enough ammunition to send to Ukraine and Israel simultaneously.
00:25:43.060But simultaneously, he's going to his left flank and saying, the reason I'm doing this is because, you know, BB is bad and because we don't like the way that BB is prosecuting the war.
00:25:53.540So he gets to tell his left flank what they want to hear while covering for the fundamental failure of his foreign policy.
00:26:00.700It's one of the reasons, Glenn, it was such a bad idea for Republicans to give Biden this security supplemental.
00:26:07.360It's such a big bill that it sort of allows Biden to hide his priorities and to have his cake and eat it, too.
00:26:15.280The the other thing that I want to talk to you about is the health care that is now going to illegal migrants.
00:26:23.200How does this president get away with so much executive power that there nobody gave him the authorization to do this?
00:26:33.820Nobody gave him the authorization to spend all of this money.
00:26:37.500Nobody gave him the authorization to relieve or to forgive, quote, all those loans and time to the back of the taxpayer.
00:26:45.620This is a very important concept in our in our Constitution.
00:26:50.280It's why congressmen have to be reelected every two years, because we want to them to answer for the money they just spent or allowed to be spent.
00:27:02.500Well, you're right, Glenn. And I mean, look, we know that at this point, Biden is a tyrannical president who will violate the law and it is a violation of the law.
00:27:11.760But I don't want to let us off the hook here, because we should know at this point that when we appropriate Joe Biden a big chunk of money,
00:27:19.540he is sometimes going to violate the law in the way that he actually distributes it.
00:27:23.840And this means that Congress actually has to take a little bit more assertive of a role, has to be willing to cut off certain appropriations, not write Biden these blank checks.
00:27:34.440This is really important, Glenn. Congress increasingly, you know, again, with this massive security supplemental, when you write Joe Biden a check,
00:27:43.280you can't go to the American people and say, well, you know, he's he's he's doing this illegally.
00:27:47.600Well, that's true. But, you know, he's going to do it illegally. So you have to be a little bit more careful about how we give this guy authority in the first place.
00:27:55.220And I have to say here, Glenn, this giving health care to illegal aliens is it should offend every single American.
00:28:03.820Again, we have a social safety net in this country. Medicaid exists for impoverished people to help pay their medical bills.
00:28:11.540If you allow folks who should not be in this country to begin with, who are here illegally to literally take from the mouths of American poor children so that we can fund their health care, then whose side are you really on?
00:28:24.120And I think it's becoming increasingly clear that Biden doesn't like the people who currently make up the citizenry of this country.
00:28:31.340And he's trying to change the way the country operates, the way that we distribute resources, the way that we vote.
00:28:37.820And that's what his illegal immigration push is all about.
00:28:40.340Well, I just cannot believe that, you know, those at the very bottom of the scale, the ones that the Republicans, the Democrats have said they care about the most forever.
00:28:50.160The black families that are trapped in Chicago and are barely making ends meet.
00:28:57.080How are they to view the government when they're not getting, you know, they're not being put up in a hotel someplace.
00:29:05.500They're not getting all of these perks.
00:29:07.720And yet we're doing it for people who just came here.
00:29:11.260I mean, if I were on the receiving end or on the need end of this and I was a citizen, I'd be like, dude, what are you doing?
00:29:53.140Glenn, I have a dear friend of mine who's getting up there in years, who is now eligible for Social Security.
00:29:59.340He basically found out that there were a number of illegal aliens who had used his Social Security number to get a whole host of benefits, including Social Security benefits.
00:30:09.080When he went to the government and said, hey, I'd like to know who's using these things so I can report to the police.
00:30:14.060They basically told him, no, we don't reveal people's personal information, even illegal aliens who are committing Social Security fraud.
00:30:21.360This is the kind of country that Joe Biden has created, where the very things that we do as a country to help the least fortunate are being given away to illegal aliens instead of American citizens.
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00:30:48.380I want to welcome back to the program Ryan Morrow.
00:30:50.920He is a counterterrorism expert, an investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center, where he monitors extremist groups in the U.S.
00:30:59.700He is also an adjunct professor at Regent University.
00:31:08.520Thank you so much for doing all of this work.
00:31:11.020It's crazy that when I read your work now, I'm brought back to 2008, and I see exactly the same names, the same circle of people all returning to do what they did during Occupy Wall Street.
00:31:30.980It's the same model, except this is more successful for various reasons.
00:31:38.400And I'm sorry to say it appears to be more militant and increasingly militant and revolutionary because we've been monitoring probably around 250, 300 different groups all at once, and we haven't fully investigated all of them.
00:31:54.900And my expectation based on my past work that you're familiar with with the Muslim Brotherhood and Phil Haney and that type of thing was that this would be a coalition and people would be surprised by the proportion of which are Islamist extremists, but there'd be a wide cast of characters.
00:32:13.080I've got to tell you, so far on my list, which is only a portion of what we have, I've come up with over 120 terrorism-tied organizations involved in these protests, almost all of which support Hamas and the October 7th attacks, and I can prove it because they all said it.
00:32:35.220This was conjured up and is being implemented by a group of Hamas supporters, some of which have ties to Hamas more directly.
00:32:46.420So I remember in 2010, I said, you will see an effort from Islamists, Marxists, anti-capitalists, communists.
00:32:57.500They'll all come together to disrupt the order and try to collapse the West.
00:33:03.440And I was made fun of because people said, like the Marxists and the Islamists have anything to do with each other.
00:33:10.220And I said, they're not going to be calling each other up.
00:33:13.440They just all see the opportunity to destroy more of America and destabilize us.
00:33:20.920Do you think that's what's happening, any of that?
00:33:22.720Yeah, well, you're being proven correct, and you're going to be increasingly proven correctly once we finish our huge expose, breaking down the entire makeup of this group and all the messaging that they're using.
00:33:35.000And you're right, they don't call each other up, but they do communicate on social media and the telegram chants and the rest of it because their language, their way of talking is now so similar because it's so revolutionary.
00:33:46.680And they've kind of combined their different causes into one thing, even if they disagree on what happens after their revolution succeeds.
00:33:54.440They kind of put that off to the side, but yes, that coalition is coming together.
00:34:00.320And I would say there's kind of like four concentric circles where on the outermost layer, you have the more typical Muslim Brotherhood style groups that are a bit cautious, but they imply their support for criminality.
00:34:11.840We condemn terrorism, but if you know how they talk, you know what they're saying.
00:34:18.880And then you have the next circle in where they're very similar, but they go a step further in passing around guides on how to do criminal acts of protest, so they're a little bit more militant.
00:34:28.820And then you move further in, and those are the people that are saying, well, we need to escalate on the college campuses, let's fight the police, let's get a little bit more destructive.
00:34:37.740And then there's this inner circle that I think can be accurately described as domestic terrorists, and I'm watching what they're saying to each other and what they're advocating,
00:34:46.260and they're passing around descriptions and guides on how to do every conceivable violent and act of sabotage that you can think of.
00:34:54.420And their debate and their argument, and they seem to be gaining ground, is that we're having so much success that, yes, of course we should escalate on the college campuses and the typical places we show up, the congressional offices, all that.
00:35:05.880But we're really doing so well right now that we should broaden out our campaign and not make it about influencing opinion and policy, but imposing our will.
00:35:14.660Let's dismantle the nationwide infrastructure that enables the U.S. and Israeli military alliance and capitalism and all of that to continue.
00:35:28.980As somebody who, you know, researches, you know, is a researcher on terror, how likely is it that we're going to see a massive terror strike, even if it's not something like 9-11,
00:35:48.040but it's several groups all around the country doing something around the same time to just really throw us off?
00:35:56.860The impression I get is that they may not take the exceptional risk of trying to coordinate it down to the very second or the very same hour,
00:36:06.400but they say generally, okay, now it's go time.
00:36:09.180In fact, that's what they're saying in the communication of saying, a lot of them are saying it's go time,
00:36:12.960but some are saying, yeah, maybe we should wait while we do the college campuses first.
00:36:16.240It's in that kind of stage of discussion.
00:36:18.300But they're all envisioning a large number of small attacks over a short period of time,
00:36:24.920and they see that as the most likely way forward as opposed to this resource-intensive operation like a 9-11 that has a higher chance of failure.
00:43:00.320So it will continue into the summertime.
00:43:02.920A lot of groups have put their credibility on the line into saying we're going to act over the summer and to the future.
00:43:08.020And even just from a more selfish operational standpoint, a lot of these nonprofits seem to be raising a lot of money and getting a lot of members.
00:43:16.920And so regardless of the cause, there's a real selfish motivation on each one of those parts to keep the chaos going.