In this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn and his good friend Pat McCartan talk about the CDC's decision to defy President Obama's executive order and run 13 weeks of Critical Race Theory training at the CDC. Also, Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton joins the show to talk about ActBlue, a far-left political organization that has been accused of funneling money to Black Lives Matter.
00:02:14.620Certainly, their fundraising for Black Lives Matter Global Foundation has been of interest to us.
00:02:20.680Act blue is a conglomerate of organizations.
00:02:23.320They do the political fundraising for campaigns and candidates.
00:02:27.360And as you pointed out there, that PAC activity.
00:02:29.960But separately, they raise money through this charitable arm that then gets funneled to another third party, which is running Black Lives Matter as a fiscal sponsor.
00:02:42.120So if you want to give money to Black Lives Matter, you can't.
00:02:45.600You give it to act blue that has, I guess, a pinky promise with this tide center, which is a far left group that is acting as a fiscal sponsor for Black Lives Matter.
00:02:55.520You can't give a donation to Black Lives Matter and have it be tax deductible.
00:03:00.740It's an unusual set of circumstances that if a similarly situated, well-known conservative group was involved in, that'd be called for investigation.
00:03:27.980You know, I've never seen anything like this.
00:03:31.640I've been involved in nonprofit work for 20-plus years, and the idea of a fiscal sponsorship, that's something the left has been doing, though, when you think about it.
00:04:26.400And, again, the area of political fundraising, they report what they report.
00:04:32.300And unless someone's willing to get behind the numbers and get behind the self-reporting, this is going to go on not only with ActBlue but everyone else.
00:04:44.060And ActBlue suggests that the reason that they have all these unemployed people is because they're homemakers or they're wealthy and they don't need to report anything other than being unemployed or self-employed.
00:04:56.740But, you know, it highlights the fact that a lot of money sloshes around our political system.
00:05:04.320And despite all these laws for transparency, which I really don't put much faith in anyway, both on principle and in practical and practical issues, practically speaking, it's hard to track where all the money's coming from.
00:05:19.440And so all this concern about foreign funding, you know, there are a lot of easy ways for foreign nationals to participate in our election system without getting caught in an improper way.
00:05:31.700There is a story that I read, well-documented, well-sourced, and I am not seeing it anywhere, that the actual whistleblower during the impeachment was Vindman himself.
00:05:47.540Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was the guy who was on the phone call, was disturbed, as in his own words, because it was going against a policy that he agreed with and had worked hard on and wanted to see pursued.
00:06:04.460And he went and talked to Schiff, if I understand this right, he couldn't be the whistleblower because he was on the phone call, so they needed another guy.
00:06:16.340And he went and told someone about it and said, blow the whistle, go to Schiff, go to these people, and blow the whistle.
00:06:30.220It became pretty clear during the impeachment hearings themselves when he was questioned on it that Vindman had talked to the alleged whistleblower that Schiff colluded with improperly, in my view.
00:06:43.000You know, and my concern has always been that, you know, just because someone else has a national security clearance, it doesn't mean you can tell them everything, anything you want, if it's classified.
00:06:58.220And if he was improperly sharing the contents of that classified call, A, with his brother, or B, with his buddy over at the CIA, evidently, that was the actual whistleblower, who had worked previously in the White House, both under Obama and Trump, that would have been inappropriate.
00:07:15.660And I've always been highlighting the need that Vindman should be criminally investigated, the whistleblower should be criminally investigated, and to the degree Schiff was involved in the sharing and properly classified information in his staff, that criminal investigation should extend into the House.
00:11:05.700It's not necessarily because Fauci did anything wrong.
00:11:08.440And we wanted to know CDC communications with WHO in China in the early days of the virus to see what the lies were that we were being told.
00:11:17.620They're telling us they can't get to them until only at a rate of 500 pages a month, which means 8,000 pages will be reviewed.
00:11:26.780And that means we won't be getting them until, do the math, 2022.
00:12:31.260It seems like it's completely out of control, but we bring it back down to earth using the rule of law and the accountability of free information, the Freedom of Information Act.
00:12:39.240So there's an ability to petition the government under our Constitution that we have to exercise more forcefully and more regularly.
00:12:48.660The left is quite adept at getting information out to destroy their political opponents from the government.
00:12:57.040Here we want to figure out about the corruption of the government and judicial watch is often alone and pushing for it.
00:13:03.240Congress has got to reform and restore itself, and certainly the agencies have got to be curtailed and cut back because the abuses will increase and metastasize the bigger and bigger government gets.
00:13:15.760In my view, it's taking a 50,000 foot view, big government, big secrecy, big corruption, big oppression.
00:13:24.360They all go hand in hand and you've got to pull it all back.
00:13:28.880You've got to curtail the government, ensure transparency, reform and restore the Congress, and have a president and cabinet agency heads who take this seriously.
00:13:39.560In my view, IGs are like a waste of time if the cabinet agency heads are doing their jobs.
00:14:10.680Remember, they weren't put in there by the good guys.
00:14:12.920They were put in there by the radical left who thought they needed to control the, quote, presidency to keep the bureaucracies free to do what they wanted to do.
00:14:22.220This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:14:30.560All right, so a new face, at least on the national scale, that I am aware of, a guy who has been doing amazing work in the last few months and needs to be known by every freedom-loving person.
00:14:54.320He is a filmmaker, a writer, a policy researcher.
00:14:57.700He has directed four films for PBS, including his latest America Lost, that told the story of the three forgotten American cities.
00:15:06.560He is also the director of the Discovery Institute Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality, and a contributing editor at the City Journal, where he covers poverty, homelessness, addiction, crime, and other afflictions.
00:15:17.860He's a really smart guy and relentless, and people are starting to go to him now and say, I've got documents, and he is posting them online, and what he posted yesterday should chill all of us to the bones.
00:15:43.740Yeah, yesterday was a big day because, as many of your listeners know, the president passed this executive order abolishing critical race theory trainings from all federal agencies.
00:15:55.240But unfortunately, the CDC, operating in direct violation of this order, announced to their employees that they were moving forward with a very kind of inflammatory critical race theory training that spanned 13 weeks.
00:16:10.760I was able to obtain documents from inside the CDC, as well as an external PowerPoint that gives more content of the presentation.
00:16:21.720It's talking about trying to destroy the system of meritocracy, trying to destroy the idea of American exceptionalism, and trying to weaponize the CDC to fight white supremacy.
00:16:32.060But even more horrifically, is that this was a direct violation.
00:16:37.460And actually, Glenn, this is breaking news.
00:16:39.200I heard, actually, two minutes ago, the director of OMB, Russ Vought, just announced on Twitter, he retweeted me with a message saying that these things have been canceled, suspended indefinitely.
00:16:51.700And, you know, I imagine the White House was pretty upset, but this is actually a victory.
00:16:58.020The CDC has now been kind of beaten back from its plan of continuing critical race theory training.
00:17:03.860So the bad thing here is, is that the response from the CDC was, hey, look, we have to do this because this is this is a health crisis.
00:17:14.780You know, racism in America is a health crisis and it's getting people killed in the streets.
00:17:20.140And so they just decided on their own.
00:17:22.800I will believe that something is actually being done when people start to clean house.
00:17:29.140I mean, this was I mean, did you get your was your source?
00:17:55.620One is that there has to be some more severe consequences.
00:17:58.940I know that if you were in a private company and you directly violated the CEO's order on something in a big way like this, you would be out the door within a couple hours.
00:18:09.120I think the same standard should be held here.
00:18:11.900But also, I'm just one person with one set of sources.
00:18:15.800How many other agencies across the federal government are violating the president's order?
00:18:21.380I've had some unconfirmed reports that I'm working on now that it's happening in multiple agencies, including Customs and Border Patrol.
00:18:30.540And I'm working on this, you know, today and tomorrow to confirm.
00:18:35.280But my sense is that it's the tip of the iceberg that actually there are probably hundreds of these trainings continuing to happen in direct opposition to a presidential order, which raises the question.
00:18:45.820What's the point of having a president if he doesn't have control over his own administration?
00:20:25.240Otherwise, you don't have a presidency.
00:20:27.800You don't have a system of government.
00:20:29.780You have unelected people doing what they want.
00:20:34.060And unfortunately, I think that that's exactly what we have.
00:20:37.160I think that there is a kind of permanent administrative state that operates on its own ideology that really never changes depending on who's in office.
00:20:46.020And unfortunately, for those of us on the right, their ideology is kind of technocratic in nature, is progressive in nature, is kind of scientific in nature.
00:20:55.580It very much dovetails nicely with progressive administration.
00:20:59.060So I think what happens is that we may score these tactical victories like shutting down a training session, shutting down many training sessions.
00:21:06.200But the problem of the permanent bureaucracy remains.
00:21:09.680How do we make politics meaningful if the largest organ of our politics, the federal government, which has more than a million employees?
00:21:19.320If the president, who's duly elected under a constitutional system, cannot control the bureaucracy.
00:21:27.920And in the past, they had a spoiled system, which had its problems.
00:21:31.000But one advantage of that is that the bureaucracy was political.
00:21:35.300The bureaucracy is no longer political.
00:21:37.080It operates independently of our political forces.
00:21:40.340And I think that is a true constitutional problem that we'll have to grapple with for the years to come.
00:21:47.400Well, this is something that the Obama administration and what was it?
00:21:51.960Something 2.0 Society 2.0 with Clinton and Soros that they had developed.
00:21:59.140This is what they developed and a system that operates on its own no matter who.
00:22:04.480That's why the president was targeted with Ukraine.
00:22:07.740That's why they made that such a big deal.
00:22:12.760And that's why I keep saying if the president doesn't do something about that, if charges aren't brought up and real people fired because of what happened, nothing's going to change.
00:22:26.160If he just says you're stopping these and he doesn't fire the head of the CDC, if he doesn't fire all of the people that were involved in this, this is a cancer.
00:22:43.260I think that it's important that there be some sort of repercussion, because if the only consequence is that the training gets canceled, no big deal.
00:22:51.460Any other agency around the government will say, well, you know, we can go go forward with it.
00:23:28.280And if if you're exactly right, if they don't, it's deep trouble.
00:23:34.720If they if they do, you will empower the whistleblowers as well, because whistleblowers are right now sitting there watching and saying, I've got something that everybody should know.
00:23:46.320But if I blow the whistle and the top people don't get fired, then I'm screwed.
00:23:51.740I mean, they'll just they'll just they'll just screw with me.
00:23:54.160They'll they'll go on a hunt to find out who it was.
00:23:57.200It will empower whistleblowers if they see justice being done.