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00:00:00.000 Hey, we welcome Stu back to the program today.

00:00:02.840 What a program it is.

00:00:04.000 We start with, well, I think Stu had about a week's worth pent up inside of him.

00:00:10.460 He had a lot to say, so we started there.

00:00:12.580 We have Cheryl Atkinson on, who is talking about the government pharmaceutical insurance

00:00:19.860 nastiness that is destroying all of us, health-wise and as a country.

00:00:27.520 And we have Steve Friend on to talk about the assassination attempt.

00:00:32.440 Still no news.

00:00:33.840 And a news story of the Secret Service, who picked a lock and broke into a hair salon

00:00:41.000 because they needed a bathroom.

00:00:42.980 Is that legal now?

00:00:44.760 That and more on Harris Walls.

00:00:48.360 That nightmare on today's podcast.

00:00:51.540 First, if you...

00:00:53.320 I mean, I don't know if I can explain everything to you.

00:00:55.720 I mean, if you don't know your money is at issue, I don't know if I can help you at all.

00:01:01.140 Your money is at stake right now.

00:01:03.440 We end up getting another four years of this, and we are not going to be able to stand as

00:01:08.720 a country because our dollar will be wiped out.

00:01:12.460 I hope we get a better president and Trump.

00:01:14.580 I hope we get a better Congress that we have.

00:01:16.760 But the progressive left is destroying the dollar.

00:01:21.440 And the only way to preserve that is to have something in its stead.

00:01:25.600 Have something of true value.

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00:01:32.220 And that's gold or silver.

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00:01:35.180 It's a storehouse of value.

00:01:37.680 Because as your dollar goes down, that price goes up.

00:01:41.480 And if they weren't manipulating, not just the United States, but the central banks in

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00:02:27.220 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:32.080 Well, hello, Stu.

00:02:33.840 Glenn.

00:02:35.000 Happy to be back.

00:02:36.220 It is, we've got a stretch run here of three months or so, and it's going to be, what an

00:02:43.100 adventure is ahead.

00:02:44.820 Oh, my gosh.

00:02:45.740 Nothing happened last week.

00:02:48.020 Nothing.

00:02:49.360 What?

00:02:50.440 Did she, had she had named Walls as her running mate yet?

00:02:54.560 No, that happened last week.

00:02:55.820 That definitely happened last week.

00:02:57.380 Yeah.

00:02:57.780 Yeah.

00:02:57.960 What a rollout.

00:03:01.440 You know, Glenn, you know what I've heard?

00:03:03.780 I've heard he can fish and hunt.

00:03:07.360 Yes, he can.

00:03:08.480 I've heard, this is what I've learned about Tim Walls, watching this coverage very closely.

00:03:13.540 He's trying to carry out some sort of fish genocide because all the guy does is fish.

00:03:20.160 Yeah, I've seen, I have seen more pictures of him with fish than, than the Seattle market

00:03:28.140 they show every single time a football game is played in Seattle.

00:03:32.160 Every single time.

00:03:33.580 This guy just fishes and hunts.

00:03:35.460 That's the only thing he does.

00:03:36.600 That's because he's so moderate.

00:03:39.300 He's just such a moderate guy.

00:03:41.220 Such a moderate candidate.

00:03:42.660 I mean, sure, he happens to be the choice of every insane leftist on, on, uh, social

00:03:47.860 media, but this guy, they did it because they thought he was so moderate.

00:03:52.420 They, they just loved his moderate policies and that's why he was named.

00:03:56.300 What an, another, another incredible rollout from the Democrats.

00:03:59.440 There's not a lot of Marxists that like to fish.

00:04:02.740 Right.

00:04:03.220 You know, so he's out there fishing.

00:04:05.060 Yeah, he's Marxist, but he's out there fishing and hunting.

00:04:07.300 Did you know, Glenn?

00:04:08.160 You know.

00:04:08.400 He was the one who said weird.

00:04:11.180 He was the one.

00:04:13.840 He was the guy who came up with it.

00:04:16.520 Yeah.

00:04:17.020 That incredible tactic that's worked so well.

00:04:20.200 He said weird.

00:04:21.700 And that is why he's now going to be the vice president of the United States.

00:04:27.400 I can't wait.

00:04:28.820 And then, you know what he's going to do while in office, Glenn?

00:04:31.460 I'll tell you what he's going to do.

00:04:32.720 Fish.

00:04:33.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:33.680 That's it.

00:04:34.460 All he's going to do is fish and hunt because that is all we've learned about Tim

00:04:38.560 Walls, not the fact that he has, that he completely botched the response to the George Floyd riots.

00:04:46.900 That hasn't been covered at all by anybody.

00:04:49.140 No one's asked him one question about that.

00:04:51.820 Because you know what, Glenn?

00:04:52.940 No one's asked him one question about anything.

00:04:56.060 We know.

00:04:57.340 Not even his fishing.

00:04:58.680 They haven't even gotten mad at him because he's killing too many fish yet.

00:05:02.080 It's just been nonstop praise about how he said weird once, and he's a big hunter.

00:05:08.980 Well, they asked J.D. Vance about the weirdness.

00:05:11.540 Over and over again.

00:05:12.520 They've asked him that.

00:05:13.480 Yes.

00:05:13.900 Yeah.

00:05:14.100 Well, they asked him this weekend.

00:05:15.280 Here's what he said on CNN.

00:05:17.260 This is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff.

00:05:19.840 They can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of.

00:05:22.580 As Harry S. Truman once said, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

00:05:26.100 And I'm doing this because I think that me being vice president will help improve people's lives.

00:05:29.960 So I accept their attacks, but I think that it is a little bit of projection.

00:05:35.140 Dana, if you think about, you know, just take a couple of days ago.

00:05:39.280 Tim Waltz gives this big speech.

00:05:41.200 He's been announced as the VP nominee.

00:05:43.320 And I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave my big speech,

00:05:47.300 and I saw my wife, and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife,

00:05:50.440 and I think that's what a normal person does.

00:05:52.680 Tim Waltz gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it.

00:05:57.940 So I think that what it is is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz,

00:06:01.240 who aren't comfortable in their own skin because they aren't comfortable with their policy positions for the American people.

00:06:06.020 And so they're name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they're going to make their lives better.

00:06:11.180 I think that's weird, Dana, but, like, they can call me whatever they want to.

00:06:16.020 Excellent. He's good.

00:06:17.380 He was on all of the shows yesterday.

00:06:19.700 Here he is with Dana Bash schooling her just, I mean, just a little bit.

00:06:24.940 Cut six.

00:06:25.340 And on the question of when he left the National Guard,

00:06:30.740 he filed his election paperwork February 10, 2005.

00:06:35.000 That was a month before the National Guard even announced that it was possible that they would deploy to Iraq,

00:06:40.780 and it ended up being two months.

00:06:42.440 He retired two months before they actually got the paperwork.

00:06:45.420 But on CNN last night, Dana, one of the people who was actually in charge of him

00:06:49.360 said they knew they were going to deploy to Iraq in February of 2004, or fall of 2004.

00:06:54.520 So he knew he was going to Iraq.

00:06:56.640 He decided to quit, to retire, whatever word you want to use.

00:07:00.180 Retire.

00:07:00.620 Because, whatever, because he wanted to run for Congress.

00:07:04.780 He lied about that.

00:07:05.740 He said that when he decided to retire, he did not know that he was going to Iraq.

00:07:10.460 That is another untruth, as even his senior military officer said.

00:07:14.140 So, again, I'm not criticizing the service.

00:07:16.480 I'm criticizing the dishonesty.

00:07:18.420 Dishonesty spoken in favor and for the purpose of political benefit.

00:07:23.320 And I think that the most important thing here, Dana, is it goes to Kamala Harris' judgment.

00:07:28.220 Tim Waltz is ultimately going to be the vice president.

00:07:30.220 Kamala Harris is in great health.

00:07:31.420 I'm sure she's going to be president, if she wins, for four or maybe even eight years. 0.92

00:07:35.800 Why did Kamala Harris choose a person who has lied about their military service?

00:07:40.920 I think that is a serious lapse in judgment.

00:07:43.620 And I don't want to hear from a campaign spokesperson of Kamala Harris.

00:07:46.560 I want to hear Kamala Harris herself address what I just said. 0.93

00:07:49.400 You know, I've seen a lot of statements from veterans, including those you serve with,

00:07:54.420 saying it's just untoward to be criticizing somebody who served for 24 years.

00:08:00.320 Dana, I'm not interested in the ad hominem.

00:08:02.760 I've heard from a lot of veterans groups who criticize Tim Waltz.

00:08:05.520 The question is, he said he served in war, and he didn't.

00:08:09.460 That is a dishonesty.

00:08:10.500 I really, I couldn't care less what one or the other person says about it.

00:08:15.080 I care about what the truth is.

00:08:16.820 The truth is that Tim Waltz didn't tell the truth.

00:08:19.400 And importantly, Dana, this is about Kamala Harris's judgment.

00:08:24.920 They went on to a really good job.

00:08:27.280 Yeah, he was good on these shows.

00:08:28.440 And this is a smart use of JD fans.

00:08:31.220 Put him in these situations.

00:08:32.680 Put him in these situations where he's going to be attacked constantly.

00:08:35.660 Because the tone of every one of these interviews this weekend was that constant attack, constant attack.

00:08:43.520 Now, again, neither the presidential candidate nor the vice presidential candidate have had one question asked to them on the other side of this.

00:08:53.560 Not one.

00:08:54.800 Not one.

00:08:55.660 He's showing up to interview after interview after interview as the vice presidential candidate.

00:09:00.240 At least they have somebody to ask questions to.

00:09:03.080 Well, they do on their side.

00:09:06.240 They do. 0.97

00:09:07.600 The guy who is too incompetent to run.

00:09:10.940 Joe Biden is being asked all kinds of questions.

00:09:13.520 Incredible.

00:09:14.380 They're really bad questions.

00:09:16.240 But yes.

00:09:16.780 Well, he's giving the same answers to cut one.

00:09:19.980 Mark my words.

00:09:24.220 If he wins this nomination, I mean, excuse me, this election, watch what happens.

00:09:30.060 It's a danger.

00:09:31.040 It's a genuine danger to American security.

00:09:38.320 Now, I don't know what the setup question was to that.

00:09:40.860 Most of the setup that I saw from that interview was, so your grandkids were hugging you the other day.

00:09:47.540 How did that make you feel?

00:09:48.780 Well, it was like the lightest touch interview I've ever seen in my life.

00:09:53.080 But to Biden's credit, at least he's actually out there speaking to reporters.

00:10:00.220 I mean, I don't know that that counts.

00:10:01.780 It was more of a, you know, like the type of interview you do with your grandpa with like a, you know, a memory service.

00:10:09.100 Like where like they're like, oh, well, before he completely fades away, you should get him on camera telling you about him being a grandpa to you.

00:10:17.260 So you have that to always cherish.

00:10:19.060 It was more of that style of interview.

00:10:21.260 I don't know.

00:10:22.060 I think it's more of those.

00:10:23.480 Have you ever seen where they bring those old timey pictures back to life?

00:10:26.940 Oh, I thought it was kind of like that.

00:10:28.420 Yeah.

00:10:28.560 Where he's just moving slowly.

00:10:33.320 Yeah.

00:10:33.740 And then it goes back to the picture.

00:10:35.020 I think we're almost to that.

00:10:37.120 Pretty much was.

00:10:38.320 Yeah.

00:10:38.720 Also, he has now confirmed the Democrats pushed him out of the race.

00:10:44.260 Listen to this, cut two.

00:10:45.940 You're at your home, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, late July with your family.

00:10:51.180 And you make this historic decision.

00:10:54.180 Listen to this.

00:10:55.140 Tell me the story.

00:10:56.500 Tell me the story.

00:10:57.940 What?

00:10:58.120 The polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race.

00:11:02.180 It would have been down to the wire.

00:11:04.460 But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that

00:11:11.520 I was going to hurt them in the races.

00:11:14.480 And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic.

00:11:19.820 You'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did someone.

00:11:24.780 And I thought it would be a real distraction, number one.

00:11:29.040 Okay.

00:11:29.980 I have a hundred different things on this.

00:11:31.900 But let me start with a question.

00:11:33.640 You're in Rehoboth Beach.

00:11:35.080 Your family's there.

00:11:35.960 You make this historic announcement.

00:11:38.080 Tell me the story.

00:11:39.400 That's how you would ask him.

00:11:41.620 If he made an announcement that he cured cancer, which, by the way, I will remind you, he promised

00:11:46.460 he would do if he was elected.

00:11:49.120 It has not done.

00:11:50.380 Wait a minute.

00:11:52.060 You missed an update, Stu.

00:11:54.240 I have.

00:11:54.520 Last week, the president came out and said he has healed the economy and the environment.

00:12:03.300 Well, again, maybe he's done those two things.

00:12:07.120 But I can tell you right now, I am on HasJoeBidenCuredCancer.com.

00:12:11.080 And it still says no.

00:12:13.300 Cancer still exists.

00:12:15.040 It might have been the third on the list.

00:12:17.100 It's coming.

00:12:17.840 It's coming.

00:12:18.980 So, but if he said it, he made an announcement from the Rose Garden.

00:12:22.660 Hey, I just, we just cured cancer.

00:12:25.400 Here are the doctors who did it.

00:12:27.240 What an amazing.

00:12:28.280 That's the question you would ask.

00:12:30.160 You made a historic announcement.

00:12:32.400 What was it like being there with your family?

00:12:34.500 Tell me the story.

00:12:35.860 That's how you, the man was so embarrassed by his defeat at a debate and was so incoherent

00:12:43.160 that everyone thinks he has Alzheimer's.

00:12:45.300 That was the announcement.

00:12:47.160 This is not a historic.

00:12:48.460 Wow.

00:12:49.280 Tell me the story.

00:12:50.260 How could he possibly remember the story?

00:12:53.160 The whole, the whole tale is about how he can't remember anything.

00:12:57.600 He doesn't know what the story was because he's incompetent and incoherent.

00:13:03.620 So that's just that part.

00:13:05.060 And his answer is so revealing.

00:13:07.760 And, and I will say actually truthful, this is a Nancy Pelosi coup.

00:13:14.240 People kept saying, well, this is Barack Obama.

00:13:16.460 And we went back and forth about this on the air as well.

00:13:18.440 Now, this is Pelosi.

00:13:20.560 Pelosi was the one who actually won this.

00:13:23.800 Walls was Pelosi's pick.

00:13:26.620 Not Obama's.

00:13:27.420 Obama's pick, as we talked about, Kelly and Shapiro.

00:13:30.120 That's who Obama wanted.

00:13:31.540 And probably either one of them would have been a better pick.

00:13:34.260 Pelosi won.

00:13:36.260 Pelosi wanted Walls.

00:13:37.640 The hardcore left wanted Walls.

00:13:40.080 And she won.

00:13:41.780 She won every part of this.

00:13:42.960 And what's laughable about this entire thing is that he's like, well, a lot of them said

00:13:48.320 they wanted me to leave because it would hurt their races. 0.97

00:13:51.260 And, and what's so stupid is if he would have just held out for a couple more weeks, we would 0.97

00:13:57.900 already be at the point of this story in which they've decided that actually he was sharp as 0.99

00:14:04.420 a tack again.

00:14:05.500 And maybe it was just that cold.

00:14:07.360 And actually he's doing much, much better.

00:14:09.420 They would have completely reversed this already because the convention is here and they got locked

00:14:14.860 into him.

00:14:15.380 If he would have just held out, they would have all reversed themselves and said how

00:14:19.540 wonderful he was by now. 0.99

00:14:21.000 And yet here he is, this sad, pathetic old man who was trying to get himself through this race, 1.00

00:14:29.320 even though he's completely incoherent. 1.00

00:14:31.680 And they manipulated him into believing all of this nonsense.

00:14:36.640 And he cost himself the nomination.

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00:15:42.160 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:46.360 Welcome to my good friend, Cheryl Atkinson.

00:15:49.440 Hello, Cheryl. 0.92

00:15:50.300 How are you?

00:15:51.060 Hi, Glenn.

00:15:51.960 Thank you for having me.

00:15:53.960 I wish I was in studio with you.

00:15:55.880 I'm sorry I'm up at the ranch, but I don't even know where to begin with you, but let's

00:16:01.840 start.

00:16:02.200 You have a new book coming out on the 3rd of September.

00:16:04.840 So it's a couple of weeks away.

00:16:07.380 And it is Follow the Science, which I love.

00:16:13.460 What is the book and where did it take you?

00:16:17.360 Well, it's Follow the Science, How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures and Prevails.

00:16:21.640 And HarperCollins actually asked me to write it.

00:16:24.920 First, I think they envisioned a book picking apart the COVID missteps and the COVID vaccine

00:16:30.100 issues.

00:16:30.560 But we agreed that that's been pretty well done by the time this book would come out.

00:16:35.980 And there's some in here.

00:16:37.460 But I said, what about a bigger look at why exactly we're spending more than we've ever

00:16:43.200 spent on insurance and health care and medicine, but we're sicker, we're just growing sicker

00:16:48.440 and sicker as a society with chronic disorders that our medical establishment seems not to

00:16:54.320 notice.

00:16:55.140 You know, they're so busy getting us to the doctor to take pills.

00:16:57.800 The idea that they're looking for the root causes and the things that are perhaps destroying

00:17:03.620 us as a society has kind of gone by the wayside.

00:17:06.660 It's like they can't see the obvious.

00:17:08.560 So this examines the conflicts of interest that exist between news media, government,

00:17:15.100 political figures, big pharma, your doctor, medical schools, medical journals in ways that

00:17:22.020 actually lead to the destruction of our health.

00:17:24.780 You know, I saw something on cholesterol medicine and they said, you know, Alzheimer's

00:17:32.700 is a new thing and cholesterol is brain food.

00:17:38.940 And as we started to lower our cholesterol in our bodies, Alzheimer's started.

00:17:46.120 I don't know.

00:17:47.020 I didn't look into it.

00:17:47.880 I just was listening to this doctor talk.

00:17:49.900 I mean, I do think, and I don't know about that, but I do think we are made sick.

00:17:57.660 Some of our medicines and our cures are causing all kinds of problems and we don't recognize

00:18:05.780 them.

00:18:06.100 We just go try to find another cure for that one.

00:18:08.620 And the doctors and the government aren't doing their due diligence.

00:18:11.700 It wouldn't be hard to build databases and to find out what side effects are happening

00:18:16.940 and what's, you know, on a population level going on.

00:18:19.500 But they, I think, willfully turn a blind eye.

00:18:23.260 I know something of the statin problem.

00:18:25.320 I covered that at CBS News years ago.

00:18:28.260 And one of the things I uncovered, besides the fact that, as you said, every cell in our

00:18:33.580 body needs cholesterol and they're not sure at what level a particular person's cholesterol

00:18:38.540 is too low.

00:18:39.440 Your eyes need cholesterol, your brain needs cholesterol, and you can go too far.

00:18:44.120 There have been books written on this.

00:18:46.020 But even more interesting to me was the conflicts of interest when it comes to the studies that

00:18:50.780 are relied upon, and the book does talk about this sort of thing, the studies that are relied

00:18:55.040 upon that doctors look at as if they're solid and gold.

00:18:59.160 And I couldn't find any of them that were conducted outside of the makers of statins.

00:19:05.320 So I don't know if people understand, even when it's drug, even when it looks like it's

00:19:09.820 coming from a university, these studies are paid for and controlled under contract by companies

00:19:16.660 that don't allow the publication of negative material or, you know, can tweak the data and

00:19:21.820 do certain things.

00:19:23.100 And I found one independent researcher in California, a woman, who had crunched data from the studies

00:19:28.920 in ways that were not done in the studies, because the studies funded by the drug companies,

00:19:33.260 you know, certainly they want to analyze the data a certain way to become positive.

00:19:37.280 And she found all kinds of frightening things about what too many cholesterol drugs can do to the brain.

00:19:44.260 They're very effective.

00:19:45.220 They do lower your cholesterol, but that can be a bad thing for some people.

00:19:48.780 And also there's a link to cancer.

00:19:50.380 Fewer people in some studies were shown to be dying of high cholesterol, and yet she said

00:19:56.900 more were dying of cancer.

00:19:58.500 And that was not included in the study findings that were published because, you know, that

00:20:03.100 was not a positive outcome.

00:20:04.240 So all the time when our doctors are relying on these gold standard studies they read in

00:20:09.220 the medical journals, I think they're naive to not understand how manipulated they are.

00:20:14.060 Or even by the medical journal editors' own admissions, they've said things such as half

00:20:20.500 or more of the science in their journals can't be believed.

00:20:24.720 That's shocking.

00:20:25.800 I just did a podcast on Edward Bernays, who, as you know, was instrumental in, well, it was

00:20:33.560 called propaganda at the time until the Nazis kind of took that.

00:20:37.580 So he changed it to advertising.

00:20:39.840 But the only reason why we have eggs and bacon and toast and hash browns for breakfast is

00:20:46.000 because of an advertising campaign.

00:20:48.380 And he was representing, I think it was the ham industry, and they needed to sell more

00:20:54.080 ham and more bacon.

00:20:55.360 And so he had the idea that, you know, Americans are just having toast and coffee for breakfast.

00:21:01.620 I wonder about ham and eggs and hash browns.

00:21:04.620 That kind of sounds good.

00:21:05.520 He sent that around to all of the doctors in the country.

00:21:10.060 And that's why we have that, because he said, do you think this would be good?

00:21:13.860 And they would say, well, I guess, yeah, that sounds good.

00:21:16.620 And so they would start recommending eggs and bacon and hash browns.

00:21:20.920 It was an advertising campaign for a bacon company.

00:21:24.960 And you'd think...

00:21:25.960 Nobody ever knew it.

00:21:26.640 Yeah.

00:21:26.860 You'd think doctors would be more careful.

00:21:28.960 And I'm not here to knock doctors for no reason.

00:21:32.180 My dad's a doctor.

00:21:33.020 My brother's a doctor.

00:21:33.800 There are some very great doctors.

00:21:36.300 But as a profession, they've become wholly controlled by industries, starting in med school.

00:21:42.900 And I do talk about this some.

00:21:44.420 For example, I think people should be shocked to learn that the most popular or referred

00:21:49.520 to textbook in med school, according to many students, is the Merck Manuals.

00:21:55.140 The Merck Manuals published by the drug company Merck.

00:21:58.500 And as part of my research for the book, I looked up to see what Merck teaches doctors

00:22:03.700 in this popular manual about its own drugs and scandals.

00:22:07.620 And there's virtually nothing, as you can imagine, although they claim there's a firewall between

00:22:12.140 their textbook editorial people and their corporation that sells the drugs.

00:22:17.380 Sure.

00:22:18.180 I mean, it's really shocking.

00:22:20.100 It starts in med school.

00:22:21.700 It continues because the medical associations that give licenses and make determinations,

00:22:26.420 those are co-opted by special interests.

00:22:29.380 And drug...

00:22:30.000 You know, doctors are not doing their...

00:22:31.880 Too often, they're not doing their independent, original thinking.

00:22:35.600 They should be calling this stuff out.

00:22:37.280 But did you find that, like everything else, it's a handful of people at the top or controlling

00:22:47.500 interest or controlling money at the top, and it just keeps getting repackaged?

00:22:53.380 Well, absolutely.

00:22:54.980 And, you know, it's funny that I'm on here with you talking about follow the science and

00:22:59.660 some of the money trails, because years ago, when you were on Fox News, my husband introduced

00:23:04.220 me to the Glenn Beck show, and you were on TV with charts and graphs, and I wasn't...

00:23:10.620 At CBS News, I was not covering politics or follow the money stories about this sort of

00:23:14.980 thing.

00:23:15.580 So it looked like, you know, like, wow, this can't be true, because you were following

00:23:20.100 the money with Soros, and you had all these crazy...

00:23:23.720 The Tides Foundation.

00:23:24.960 My daughter calls them, you know, because I have them too now, like, there's like ropes

00:23:29.060 and pins and, you know, markers.

00:23:31.400 Right, yeah.

00:23:31.960 And, you know, that stuff, as I ended up diving into that as part of my investigative reporting

00:23:37.720 years later, it is true.

00:23:39.600 I mean, you knew that, but I confirmed through my own reporting as well, that the same players

00:23:46.240 are funding a lot of initiatives that dominate media and medicine.

00:23:52.080 And also, particularly when it comes to the science groups that do the health fact checks,

00:23:58.160 which, as we know, typically dispense with factual information and call it, you know,

00:24:04.380 untrue, and then push out their own misinformation under the guise of, hey, we're the fact checkers.

00:24:10.800 So there's, you know, a lot of...

00:24:13.020 Do you want me to read you like a little bit of the...

00:24:14.920 Yeah, go ahead.

00:24:15.940 ...connections?

00:24:16.540 It's the same thing.

00:24:18.560 I tell you, I had a friend, Richard Mellonskaife, he started the Heritage Foundation, and he

00:24:23.400 called me when I was at Fox, and he said, oh my gosh, I thought we had beaten these guys.

00:24:28.200 He said, the same people and the same organizations that I fought against in the 60s are doing it

00:24:35.160 again.

00:24:35.800 And it's the same story.

00:24:38.740 There's only a handful of these radicals that have so much power and money that are just

00:24:43.700 controlling so much of our life.

00:24:46.220 Well, I'll skip around.

00:24:47.620 Pointer Institute used to be this well-reputed journalism organization, you know, years and

00:24:53.440 years ago, but it's been taken over.

00:24:55.320 Like Duke Reporter's Lab, Pointer's funded by Google, Facebook, Craig Newmark, which is

00:25:00.940 Craig's list.

00:25:01.600 In 2015, Pointer got $1.38 million from Newmark and the Vaccine-Promoting Bill and Melinda Gates

00:25:07.400 Foundation to influence news coverage of global health initiatives.

00:25:11.180 Millions and millions more over the years from Google, George Soros, Open Society Foundations.

00:25:17.660 Then you go to Columbia Journalism Review, which again used to conduct important watchdog

00:25:21.960 reporting, very well-respected once upon a time, but it's turned into a, gosh, it leads

00:25:26.620 like a typical left-leaning misinformation rag sometimes now.

00:25:30.000 Well, in 2019, Columbia Journalism School accepted a $10 million gift from the Craig Newmark

00:25:36.980 Philanthropies, and Newmark, Craig's list, also sits on the board of Columbia Journalism

00:25:41.440 Review, and they have all these big initiatives to, you know, these people want to be resources

00:25:46.160 for journalists.

00:25:47.080 They sound independent, and journalists like doctors too often don't scratch beneath the

00:25:51.400 surface, and they refer to them as if they're an official resource on news and information,

00:25:55.680 but all they are, are, you know, propaganda funded by these big groups, and then I'll

00:26:01.260 just mention one more, but there's, you know, dozens and dozens.

00:26:04.640 Health Policy Watch touts itself as a non-profit open access journal, but that's not what it

00:26:10.820 does.

00:26:11.620 It is, it's an activist website for issues like climate change and pro-pharma positions

00:26:18.000 on vaccines.

00:26:18.780 I don't know why those go hand in hand, but they always do.

00:26:21.820 And they partner with journalists to spread propaganda about these issues that they want,

00:26:26.640 and they're funded generously with Welcome Trust, left-leaning Welcome Trust, which frequently

00:26:32.160 partners with the vaccine-promoting Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

00:26:36.280 Yeah, Welcome Trust is a bad organization.

00:26:38.480 The head of Health Policy Watch is a woman who's a left-leaning climate change activist who 0.89

00:26:45.100 wrote for the World Health Organization.

00:26:46.760 I mean, this goes on and on, but like you say, you come up with the same names and groups

00:26:51.380 over and over again, billions upon billions of dollars around the globe, not just in the

00:26:56.620 U.S.

00:26:57.080 They're touching every small group that could influence our thought in these areas.

00:27:03.580 You know, you asked why, I don't know how climate change and what did you say the other

00:27:10.160 one was?

00:27:11.020 Vaccines or something?

00:27:11.900 Vaccines at any cost, promotion.

00:27:14.040 Yeah.

00:27:15.100 I think these people that are really driven by climate change, they're very anti, they're

00:27:23.560 Malthusian and very anti-human. 0.97

00:27:27.720 They're very population control, you know, we've got to get birth control in, we've got

00:27:32.180 to get the rate of birth way, way, way down.

00:27:35.260 And it just is a, it's just a bad mix of ideology when it comes to medicine.

00:27:46.360 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.

00:27:49.100 To hear more of this interview, check out the full episode anywhere podcasts are found.

00:27:53.200 A very brave man and a good friend of the program, Steve Friend is joining us.

00:27:58.380 He is from the Center of Renewing America fellow, he's a fellow at the, sorry, at the Center

00:28:04.740 for Renewing America.

00:28:05.840 He's also the FBI whistleblower that objected to being, you know, put on to duty to investigate

00:28:14.300 grandmothers as, as domestic terrorists. 0.91

00:28:17.840 He blew the whistle and the rest of it is history.

00:28:21.840 Welcome to the program, Steve.

00:28:23.200 How are you?

00:28:24.380 I'm doing well, Grant.

00:28:25.620 Thanks for having me on today.

00:28:26.360 You bet.

00:28:27.880 So you were with, uh, the FBI, um, and, uh, I know it's not the same, but I think you probably

00:28:35.640 could comment on this.

00:28:37.620 I'm not hearing anything satisfying coming from the FBI or the secret service on the assassination

00:28:45.660 attempt.

00:28:46.960 There's three things, assassination attempt of Donald Trump, uh, the guy that they, they just

00:28:52.820 let in, they knew he was on the terror list and they just let him in anyway.

00:28:56.360 Who was coordinating an assassination on Donald Trump.

00:29:00.320 And then the third comes out of Massachusetts this weekend where Kamala Harris was on stage

00:29:06.560 someplace at an event and the secret service and local police needed a bathroom. 0.97

00:29:12.360 So they covered up somebody's private security on their business and then pick the lock, went

00:29:20.340 in, use their bathrooms, occupied the space for hours.

00:29:24.360 And then closed back to the shop.

00:29:27.160 Didn't lock it back up, but closed it.

00:29:30.220 The lady came on Monday and she's like, what the hell happened here? 0.98

00:29:34.780 Uh, that's against the law, isn't it?

00:29:38.420 Oh, absolutely.

00:29:40.940 It is.

00:29:41.260 And I think if you or I were to engage in any sort of activity, that there would be criminal

00:29:44.960 charges against us at the very least for some sort of trespass.

00:29:47.660 But I think what these three elements that you're talking about expose more than anything

00:29:51.860 else is what I'd like to dub the myth of competence that we all sort of have in our federal

00:29:57.360 law enforcement agencies, because in pop culture, TVs and movies, shows that you consume, the

00:30:05.180 characters in those shows and movies, they're really sophisticated and really great at their

00:30:11.140 job.

00:30:11.600 And they're hunting down the criminals and they're chasing them down the back alleys and

00:30:15.380 slapping the handcuffs on.

00:30:16.620 And then they just fade to black.

00:30:18.400 But in reality, these agencies have now devolved into essentially DMVs with guns and badges.

00:30:26.040 And that's why it comes to the Trump assassination attempt.

00:30:30.380 You know, there's all these theories that are out there.

00:30:32.300 And, you know, you can count me sort of in the in the clan of people that believe that

00:30:36.240 incompetence was heavily involved in it.

00:30:38.460 And I think that there's one sort of presupposition that has gone into that, that so many people have

00:30:42.960 their questions about and rightfully so.

00:30:44.520 But we are presupposing that the Secret Service is always great at its job.

00:30:50.540 And these failures are explained.

00:30:53.060 And yes, I think that these failures are happening at every single event.

00:30:56.740 And it's just because of the providential nature of the country.

00:31:01.080 And then also because of the myth of competence that nobody's really tried and tested them,

00:31:04.720 which is why going forward, I think there's probably a heightened risk to Donald Trump for

00:31:08.380 any of these events that he's going to hold.

00:31:10.860 But to pivot to the second issue with the FBI and investigating this, this assassination

00:31:19.160 attempt, I think one of the most disturbing elements and hasn't been picked up on was when

00:31:23.140 the deputy director of the FBI, Paula Bate, said that they were going to investigate it as

00:31:28.980 domestic terrorism.

00:31:30.620 And that to me is to the layperson seems reasonable.

00:31:34.020 You don't want to have blinders on.

00:31:35.960 But being a subject matter expert here, the FBI is now going to slap a classified label on

00:31:40.500 this investigation and they're not going to be able to be transparent because you don't

00:31:43.940 have a need to know.

00:31:44.700 You don't have a security clearance.

00:31:45.880 I'm sorry.

00:31:46.980 I'm sorry, Congressman.

00:31:48.360 Can't comment on an ongoing investigation.

00:31:50.100 So that's that's tremendously disturbing.

00:31:52.060 And then the last thing that I definitely want to get to is this Pakistani national. 1.00

00:31:57.200 Now, this is what I like to call the playbook that the FBI has been running the last two and

00:32:01.720 a half decades, particularly since 9-11, where essentially what they do to justify their

00:32:06.160 existence as a bureaucracy, as a self-looking ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable

00:32:11.620 person, an emotionally disturbed, maybe someone with radical intentions, but not capable of

00:32:16.980 carrying forward an actual attack without the involvement of the FBI.

00:32:20.460 They'll identify them, use confidential human sources, use undercovers, and then groom them

00:32:27.020 for as long as it takes to engage or at least agree to engage in an activity that can be

00:32:32.780 labeled as terrorism, and then they will arrest them.

00:32:35.020 And the added wrinkle here was that they imported this Pakistani through the border. 1.00

00:32:40.480 They sponsored him arriving, arriving.

00:32:42.520 The FBI Dallas office actually was the signee on him arriving.

00:32:46.120 And it wasn't just to slap the cuffs on him.

00:32:48.200 They followed him and orchestrated this plot that could never have happened without the involvement

00:32:53.140 of the government for three months, and then justify their existence with this big dismantlement

00:32:58.360 stat, which is also tied to their quotas.

00:33:00.900 This is just the FBI version of Fast and Furious.

00:33:05.380 But with the exception of being guns with the ATF, we are now running terrorists so that we

00:33:11.280 can justify our existence as an agency.

00:33:13.560 So, he was supposed to leave right after he had set something up, before the assassination.

00:33:23.720 So, did they, because I don't even know if I've read what they had busted other than him.

00:33:30.320 Did they actually bust something up?

00:33:33.100 The plot is completely absurd, Glenn.

00:33:36.240 I've read through the affidavit.

00:33:37.800 This is an individual who was essentially indigent, didn't have the finances, and were led to believe,

00:33:42.720 from the FBI, that he arrived here and then just happened.

00:33:46.700 The first person that he had a conversation with was an informant for the government about

00:33:50.940 soliciting hitmen to carry forward not only assassinations, but he wanted dozens of people

00:33:56.780 to have protests that were going to be covered while they did reconnaissance.

00:34:01.000 He wanted to get people that were going to steal documents and thumb drives from government

00:34:04.980 figures, and all for the low, low price of $5,000, which he didn't actually have.

00:34:11.040 And he was doing things like asking the informant to put his phone in a drawer while they had

00:34:17.080 conversations.

00:34:17.960 I mean, that's not a Faraday bag.

00:34:19.600 It's not really operational security.

00:34:21.980 These illusions of grandeur that he had, to me, indicate that he was a prime person that

00:34:27.660 the FBI likes to target, the people who are vulnerable.

00:34:31.240 And not for nothing, let's just say he's a bad guy.

00:34:35.500 What's to say that they don't import him here?

00:34:38.320 And he just says, you know, this plot that I have doesn't sound like it's going to be

00:34:42.220 achievable. 0.99

00:34:42.840 I'll just grab a butcher knife and stab the next infidel that I see. 1.00

00:34:45.840 And then the FBI should be on the hook for that. 0.99

00:34:47.720 So this is them believing in their own competence that certainly nothing bad will happen while

00:34:52.000 we have him on the hook for three months.

00:34:54.040 And they've been lucky.

00:34:55.300 We've been lucky that nothing worse has happened.

00:34:57.100 But I think the bottom line is that the FBI is inventing these cases so that they can

00:35:02.560 go to Congress and say, look, all the good work we have done here.

00:35:06.780 Why don't you give us enhanced funding?

00:35:08.140 Why don't you give us enhanced tools?

00:35:09.500 Think of all the good work we could do like Lindsey Graham wants to do now.

00:35:12.960 And that is giving the FBI backdoor access to encrypted communications.

00:35:17.960 That way the FBI can circumvent the Fourth Amendment.

00:35:22.560 Oh, my gosh.

00:35:23.660 Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham.

00:35:25.220 Um, so, so let me see if I have this right.

00:35:28.840 What was this, uh, guy that they picked up, uh, or, you know, um, finally arrested and

00:35:36.760 told us all about it.

00:35:37.860 Was this just a distraction from the assassination?

00:35:43.700 I think the timetable works out to be that he was arrested on July 12th and the

00:35:48.900 assassination 10th happened on the 13th, which to me certainly explains the, uh, the

00:35:54.740 messaging that we got about this Iranian threat, uh, because the FBI was really super

00:35:59.760 concerned about someone who they groomed to, uh, engage in a terrorism, which never was

00:36:04.300 going to happen and really didn't have their eye on the ball.

00:36:06.480 And then we can get into the speculation about a character like Crooks, who not for

00:36:11.080 nothing kind of strikes me as sitting squarely within the profile of someone who would be

00:36:16.020 recruited and targeted for grooming to engage in something that he was not predisposed to do.

00:36:21.020 And then maybe did the thing that I just talked about, but instead of grabbing the butcher

00:36:24.420 knife and stabbing an infidel, grabbed his dad's AR and said, I'm going to take a shot 1.00

00:36:28.200 at the candidate for office.

00:36:30.500 So who is, I mean, who should, uh, pay for, for this?

00:36:37.540 I saw that the, I think it was the fire chief of, uh, Butler County just resigned over this

00:36:44.040 because of staging and everything else.

00:36:45.780 I, I don't, I could be wrong.

00:36:47.580 I don't think it's the local law enforcement's place.

00:36:50.660 I mean, you know, when the secret service come in, they usually just come in and just

00:36:54.900 say, here's what you're doing.

00:36:56.420 And you do that and don't ask any questions.

00:36:59.560 Um, uh, you know, who, whose fault really was this?

00:37:03.140 Who should pay for this?

00:37:05.340 There's going to be a lot of accountability, hot potato as it comes to this assassination

00:37:08.960 attempt, because you could see Kimberly Cheeto get up there and say, the buck stopped with 1.00

00:37:12.780 me, but you know, it was really local law enforcement's job and just having been at both levels, you

00:37:18.100 could easily see that roof being something where the locals said, Hey, that should be

00:37:21.900 covered.

00:37:22.220 And the secret service said, okay, we'll cover it.

00:37:23.900 And then it didn't get covered.

00:37:24.940 And then they're just looking back and forth at each other saying, Hey, that's your job.

00:37:27.940 No, that's your job.

00:37:28.780 And then meanwhile, it doesn't get covered at all.

00:37:30.720 But I think ultimately, because the secret service is supposed to be the chief agency there

00:37:36.160 who's calling the shots.

00:37:37.220 It needs to be them who falls on this and there needs to be an independent investigation because

00:37:42.840 I don't trust the FBI.

00:37:44.380 And it's not just a personal animus.

00:37:45.940 The FBI has a track record for investigating assassination attempts, like the 2017 congressional

00:37:50.940 baseball shooting, where the shooter was a Bernie Sanders supporter showed up at the

00:37:54.800 ball field and asked where the Republicans were and then proceeded to shoot Steve Scalise.

00:37:58.300 And the FBI said, that's not an assassination attempt.

00:38:00.900 That's suicide by cop.

00:38:02.100 So there needs to be an independent investigation, maybe funded here, could be used in the congressional

00:38:08.000 leverage here for the upcoming budget.

00:38:11.460 It could also be a request from the Pennsylvania State Police, because I know there's a federal

00:38:15.600 nexus here, but it was in their backyard.

00:38:18.340 And I don't see any reason why they couldn't conduct a thorough investigation.

00:38:21.960 I would trust them far more than the FBI, which is going to say this was domestic terrorism,

00:38:26.280 perhaps, or perhaps we already had a domestic terrorism case open on crooks.

00:38:29.980 Either way, we can't talk about sources and methods.

00:38:33.700 This is an ongoing investigation.

00:38:35.560 Maybe we'll give you something here in a decade when nobody's really paying attention.

00:38:40.280 So one last thought.

00:38:43.120 The woman in Massachusetts that had her business just taken over without her permission, without 1.00

00:38:50.100 her even being there and knowing it, they covered the camera, they broke in, picked the lock,

00:38:55.320 and went in and spent hours in there, just because I guess they could.

00:39:00.860 She's not pressing charges.

00:39:03.280 She says, you know, I'm really angry.

00:39:05.260 I feel violated.

00:39:06.480 But I, you know, I don't, you know, they have a job to do.

00:39:09.740 No.

00:39:10.620 If people don't stand up, I think that's a violation of the Third Amendment.

00:39:16.760 I mean, that never gets any attention.

00:39:18.680 I think that's the violation of the Third Amendment.

00:39:20.800 But it's certainly breaking and entering.

00:39:24.060 And if people don't push back and say, no, I'm sorry, if that were anyone else, you'd

00:39:32.080 be in jail today.

00:39:33.800 So I'm sorry.

00:39:35.400 I might like you guys.

00:39:36.680 I understand your situation.

00:39:37.880 But you cannot do that because it'll never stop.

00:39:42.220 This is the natural downstream consequences of what we experienced in 2020 when we said

00:39:46.800 you had to stay home and stay safe and shut down your non-essential business that you

00:39:50.480 use to feed your family and pay your mortgage.

00:39:52.720 And this is the chilling effect that it has.

00:39:54.120 And I shared your sentiment about the Third Amendment.

00:39:55.960 It would be interesting to see an heterogenic attorney take that up. 0.96

00:39:59.240 But the government does not respect your civil liberties, does not respect the Bill of

00:40:04.140 Rights.

00:40:04.920 And this is just another example of the fact that they are willing to impede on those just

00:40:11.040 for their own convenience.

00:40:12.080 I mean, how hard is it to find a bathroom?

00:40:16.060 Steve, thank you so much.

00:40:17.180 Thanks for everything you do.

00:40:18.180 Stay safe.

00:40:18.700 Steve Friend, former and current whistleblower on the FBI.

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