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00:02:29.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:33.380 There's a couple of things that I want to get to right away.

00:02:38.920 There's three things that I'm going to try to squeeze in this hour.

00:02:41.160 I don't know if I can make it.

00:02:42.040 But one is what happened to X, the attack on X yesterday.

00:02:46.300 Who did it?

00:02:48.440 And why does this matter to you?

00:02:50.980 It's very important.

00:02:52.280 Second thing is, I got a green card.

00:02:54.400 I'm going to go protest.

00:02:55.920 Should that be allowed?

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00:03:11.080 Are you now?

00:03:12.740 We'll tell you about that.

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00:03:16.940 going to be joining us here in just a minute.

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00:03:23.120 He knows the facts on what's going on with the cartels in Mexico.

00:03:26.020 He's coming up all in the next 60 minutes first.

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00:04:41.420 Stu Breguier is Pat Gray.

00:04:42.940 Hello, Stu.

00:04:43.620 Or, Pat.

00:04:44.660 Whoever I am.

00:04:45.480 Hello, Glenn.

00:04:46.440 How are you?

00:04:47.000 Good.

00:04:47.780 Perfect.

00:04:48.320 We had a great show today.

00:04:49.360 Listened to you this morning.

00:04:50.140 Oh, thank you.

00:04:50.820 All right.

00:04:52.020 Let me start with X here.

00:04:55.740 So, yesterday, there was a major, massive cyber attack on X.

00:05:01.540 Shut things down for quite a bit.

00:05:04.140 Musk came out and said,

00:05:05.960 it has all been traced to the Ukrainian area.

00:05:10.600 Okay.

00:05:11.440 Now, this is very complex and really important that we figure this out.

00:05:16.320 These are spoofed IP addresses, and they all point into Ukraine.

00:05:22.480 Now, I guess Musk is saying, you know, he's part of the Trump administration,

00:05:29.640 and there's an opposition to USAID for Ukraine, and their fight against Russia.

00:05:34.880 But that doesn't, to me, that doesn't make sense.

00:05:36.820 I mean, Zelensky was really stupid when he was in the White House,

00:05:40.420 but I don't think he's this stupid, okay?

00:05:43.720 Alexei Svet, who is an expert on this, he says,

00:05:50.560 I mean, Ukraine is trying to get us to not pull our CIA and our intelligence off of the field.

00:05:58.060 That would be just stupid.

00:05:59.200 Larry Kudlow was on with Musk yesterday,

00:06:01.960 and he suggested that Russia might be framing Ukraine.

00:06:07.800 So, here's what happened.

00:06:08.740 The attack hit, thousands of users were cut off from X.

00:06:15.020 Now, after that happened, a third group came in.

00:06:18.860 The pro-Hamas group, Dark Storm. 0.50

00:06:21.500 They claimed to be the attackers in giving the, you know, DDoS attack on X.

00:06:27.740 They have targeted the UAE's Ministry of Defense and LAX,

00:06:33.000 if you remember that, when that system went down recently.

00:06:35.820 So, they have some cyber muscles.

00:06:38.740 Now, Musk said it was a resource-heavy hit from, and I'm quoting him,

00:06:45.020 from a large, coordinated group and or country.

00:06:49.960 So, how is this happening and what does it mean?

00:06:54.480 Well, X is obviously a huge hub for raw, unfiltered voices.

00:06:59.480 You disrupt it.

00:07:00.540 You choke free speech.

00:07:02.200 The only real free speech, I think, in the world.

00:07:05.900 I don't believe that it's Ukraine.

00:07:08.780 For pro-Hamas, I guess it could be perceived as a strike against, you know,

00:07:14.780 Musk's alignment with Trump or Israel.

00:07:16.900 But it's really more destabilizing.

00:07:21.720 You destabilize X and you start to sow the seeds of chaos, distrust.

00:07:27.920 It weakens the platform that is really shaping and responsible for global change and discourse.

00:07:36.440 So, who did it?

00:07:39.420 Ukraine has motive, but little logic on this. 0.73

00:07:44.400 Why drive the U.S. even further away?

00:07:47.200 It doesn't make sense to me.

00:07:48.660 If you want to bet on the Ukraine thing, I would put my money on Russia. 0.88

00:07:52.220 I mean, they have built these, you know, these cyber hack shops in the basements of all these Russian, you know, 20-somethings. 0.95

00:08:03.340 Mom, I need another.

00:08:04.920 Mother, I need another sandwich.

00:08:07.120 You know, kind of there in their basement in their underpants.

00:08:09.420 And it fits with the way they handle things, pinning the blame on Ukraine to try to get us to break away from Ukraine.

00:08:24.120 I mean, this is how stupid everybody is.

00:08:26.780 They're like, Donald Trump, see, I told you he was in bed with Russia.

00:08:29.280 No, this is negotiation, okay?

00:08:31.600 The pro-Hamas group has the claim, the history, but this is a scale that really appears at this point to only be able to be pulled off if you have state backing.

00:08:47.360 Now, let me throw something else in that is possible.

00:08:51.140 A rival tech titan or a wildcard nation.

00:08:55.820 What happens with a DDoS attack is it floods servers with traffic, and usually that's with botnets.

00:09:05.420 And they hijack a site with these botnets, and they are, I mean, it's just wave after wave after wave.

00:09:13.860 This is all done electronically.

00:09:17.100 Thousands of bots, to get that done, you need a pretty sophisticated command system, know-how,

00:09:24.560 how to dodge the defenses of X, which I would imagine are pretty robust at this point.

00:09:31.040 That's not cheap.

00:09:32.400 That's not easy.

00:09:34.280 It's not, oh, look what I've done.

00:09:35.940 I've hacked X.

00:09:36.680 That's not what's happening here.

00:09:38.860 This screams big money and big coordination.

00:09:42.880 Think state actors or elite, elite hacktivists with deep, deep pockets from maybe a state actor.

00:09:50.880 So, there's a possibility that maybe these aren't separate attacks.

00:09:56.300 Imagine a puppet master, like a tech rival, eyeing, you know, digital dominance.

00:10:04.260 They want to shake X from the game.

00:10:07.600 They orchestrate using Ukraine and pro-Hamas. 0.99

00:10:11.900 Those are just pawns in this.

00:10:13.680 Or, consider this, X's outages could be a test run for bigger targets, elections, markets, infrastructure.

00:10:23.140 Maybe it's China. 0.71

00:10:24.420 I don't know.

00:10:25.100 And that's the scary part.

00:10:26.620 Cyber warfare is evolving.

00:10:29.160 And right now, X is the lab rat.

00:10:32.280 And I don't think we have an idea at all at this point on who it is.

00:10:37.040 The evidence, however, leads to state involvement.

00:10:42.880 That's not good.

00:10:46.560 Because we right now have all of Europe saying that we no longer have their values.

00:10:53.260 And they hate Musk.

00:10:54.700 And we've seen how they've been using Brazil to go after Musk.

00:10:59.220 It could be Europe, our supposed ally.

00:11:02.400 Anyway, the pro-Hamas hit, this group does not have this kind of power, I think.

00:11:12.760 It doesn't have this kind of power.

00:11:15.880 Here's the thing you need to take away from this.

00:11:19.900 Digital is now, it's no longer a vein.

00:11:23.600 It's an artery.

00:11:25.660 You cut our arteries, we bleed to death quickly.

00:11:30.020 Finally, these attacks that are going after our arteries of communication, of business, of any kind of transactions, anything that threatens business, our freedom of expression, that's a new battlefield.

00:11:49.320 Remember, it was Russia and Putin that said, the next war, World War III, will not be fought with missiles.

00:11:57.160 It will be fought with ones and zeros. 0.77

00:12:02.020 Before we all start pointing fingers, maybe we should start asking questions.

00:12:08.820 Are we doing anything to defend our systems here?

00:12:13.500 Because we need to stay sharp.

00:12:18.140 This is, in my opinion, this is short of, but we're approaching a digital 9-11.

00:12:27.360 This is maybe the first World Trade Center attack where it didn't really hit anything.

00:12:33.420 It did damage, but it didn't take the building down.

00:12:36.560 That's what this is.

00:12:37.600 This is, what was that, Pat, was that the 95, 96 World Trade Center attack?

00:12:43.680 Yeah.

00:12:44.300 Yeah, something like that.

00:12:45.520 Okay, maybe 93.

00:12:47.260 It's not going to take that long to get it right this time.

00:12:51.120 This is a wake-up call to everybody in the Western world, but especially here in America.

00:12:58.720 We need to know who this was.

00:13:01.520 All right, now, while we're talking about enemies of the state, let's talk about the enemies within.

00:13:10.020 There's this big debate over the green card thing.

00:13:13.720 Uh, I got a green card so I can disrupt.

00:13:17.280 No, no, no.

00:13:18.740 This is about Mahmoud Khalili.

00:13:22.200 He's a green card holder that is now facing being deported because he is a guy sowing the seeds of dissent, of dissent, of violence. 0.99

00:13:36.660 He is the guy who was responsible for much of the bad stuff that was happening at Columbia University.

00:13:42.760 Um, and now, uh, Trump, he's going in with immigration and ice and he just hates everybody that's different.

00:13:52.300 No, no, that's not what's happening here.

00:13:54.620 This guy is not a citizen, not a citizen.

00:13:59.840 He was leading the protest, really violent, awful, ugly, anti-Semitic protest at Columbia University.

00:14:08.660 Not just anti-Semitic, but leaning towards the whole Islam is great, we should have Sharia law kind of ideas.

00:14:20.480 This cannot be tolerated here in America.

00:14:25.400 He holds a green card.

00:14:27.500 What is that?

00:14:28.820 That is a ticket, a golden ticket to live and work in America. 0.52

00:14:34.240 But just like Willy Wonka, you can be ejected from the tour of the chocolate factory at any time.

00:14:43.460 There's some fine print there that you might want to take half glasses and read half the contract like they did in Willy.

00:14:53.160 It's not a passport.

00:14:55.860 It's not citizenship.

00:14:58.480 So, let's look at this.

00:15:00.940 You're handed a gas pass to the greatest estate on earth, okay?

00:15:07.720 The greatest estate ever built.

00:15:09.640 Marble floors, golden chandeliers.

00:15:12.460 It's the greatest.

00:15:13.400 Nobody thought it could ever be this great, but it is.

00:15:15.960 The view that stretches on forever and ever.

00:15:19.280 And you've been invited to come and sit at the table, have some wine, build a life.

00:15:25.260 But you don't own the deed.

00:15:28.820 The owners are being very, very generous.

00:15:32.320 And they said, stay as long as you want.

00:15:35.540 Now, honor the house.

00:15:37.020 You got to live by the rules.

00:15:38.560 Honor the house.

00:15:40.740 So, you've been invited to sit at this table, eat your fill, live like you're somebody that is part of the family.

00:15:50.280 But then you start smashing the windows.

00:15:53.640 You start, you know, whispering to other members in the house about, this place is bad.

00:16:00.220 This place has got to go.

00:16:01.060 We should torch the place.

00:16:02.780 How long before that key is snatched from your hand by the owner?

00:16:08.080 And who, in their right mind, would say, you can't take the key from him?

00:16:14.240 No one.

00:16:15.380 If you're a family member, if you care about the house, no one would say, dad, you're being a little unreasonable.

00:16:22.660 He was only trying to torch the kitchen and the guest wing.

00:16:27.660 No.

00:16:28.980 He's a guest.

00:16:31.220 And that's where we are with this guy and so many others.

00:16:35.160 Every green card holder that mistakes privilege for a birthright, you're in for a surprise. 1.00

00:16:46.420 There's a new sheriff in town.

00:16:47.900 There's a new sheriff in town.

00:16:49.740 He's great.

00:16:50.760 We love him.

00:16:52.860 It's a revocable lease.

00:16:56.340 That's what that is.

00:16:58.140 It's not a title.

00:17:00.340 You're not lord of the manor.

00:17:01.920 He's got a revocable lease with you.

00:17:08.240 And here we are today.

00:17:10.180 We're all like, I don't know this.

00:17:12.120 I mean, he should be able to sow chaos and terror and spread all the anti-American seeds he wants.

00:17:20.340 No, he cannot.

00:17:23.960 Here's why.

00:17:24.720 A green card will make you a permanent resident, legal, but not a citizen.

00:17:33.480 You don't vote.

00:17:35.320 You don't sit on juries.

00:17:37.100 By the way, those two things are responsibilities, not rights.

00:17:42.480 So you have no responsibilities as a citizen, which means you have no rights as a citizen.

00:17:49.120 And if you step out of line, you get sent back.

00:17:54.540 The Constitution wraps its arms around citizens, freedom of speech, assembly, all of that.

00:18:01.300 Non-citizens?

00:18:03.200 Nah.

00:18:04.060 There's an embrace there, but it's very, very, very loose.

00:18:07.660 Supreme Court made a rule back in 1893 when I was just a kid with Fong Yu Ting. 0.82

00:18:16.500 Oh, wait until you hear the story of Fong Yu Ting. 0.72

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00:19:33.720 Well, back in my day in 1893, there was this young whippersnapper called Fong Yu Ting. 0.82

00:19:52.240 And he went, his case was taken to the Supreme Court.

00:19:57.040 I won't bore you with all the details because I was too bored to really read them.

00:20:01.760 But I do know that the outcome is Congress can deport non-citizens at will. 0.83

00:20:08.860 There is no right to stay here.

00:20:12.300 It doesn't exist.

00:20:13.100 You break the law.

00:20:14.040 You threaten the nation.

00:20:15.520 Bye-bye.

00:20:16.460 That's not cruelty.

00:20:18.780 That's the rule book.

00:20:21.720 So, this guy, kicking him out, that's not cruelty.

00:20:26.800 That's not a tragedy of his rights being violated.

00:20:29.940 He has no rights.

00:20:31.580 It's privileges revoked.

00:20:34.380 Not rights.

00:20:35.560 Privileges.

00:20:37.020 Now, think about this again.

00:20:38.860 You're inviting somebody in your home.

00:20:41.060 You're welcome to the couch.

00:20:42.840 You can have all the coffee you want.

00:20:45.080 You have the peace and quiet.

00:20:46.640 But if you start carving up the furniture or plotting to blow the roof off,

00:20:50.980 I don't owe you a bed anymore or matches to light the fuse.

00:20:56.120 Period.

00:20:56.720 America is exactly the same. 0.95

00:20:59.260 We have flung the doors open so wide.

00:21:02.520 Millions walk through.

00:21:03.700 And I'm happy about this to chase their dreams.

00:21:06.880 But that comes with this deal.

00:21:10.800 Don't tear down.

00:21:13.100 You don't do that.

00:21:15.220 You can't take the things that are holding this whole thing together and start taking the beams down.

00:21:21.480 You can't.

00:21:22.520 You're not a citizen.

00:21:23.720 You know, if you hate the beams, you're really rude.

00:21:28.000 But you're also a massive risk.

00:21:30.740 Get the hell out of here.

00:21:33.560 And by the way, I think we have enough cracks in our foundations without handing out free hammers.

00:21:37.600 I don't know about you, but I'm like, hey, we shouldn't give hammers to everybody that comes in here.

00:21:43.440 We should take those hammers away.

00:21:45.380 So, if history is a teacher, and that teacher's got some scars to show you, this isn't about free speech, because that's sacred for you and me.

00:22:00.780 We're citizens.

00:22:01.360 If you're born here or you swear an oath, you have skin in the fight.

00:22:07.200 You can rant.

00:22:07.960 You can rave.

00:22:09.440 You can burn flags if you want.

00:22:10.780 That's your call.

00:22:12.020 Your family.

00:22:14.100 You've earned the voice.

00:22:16.960 Green card holders.

00:22:18.520 You're our guest.

00:22:20.720 You know, you want to do whatever you want.

00:22:22.260 That's fine.

00:22:23.080 Get the hell out.

00:22:24.760 Period.

00:22:26.340 We have to guard the gate.

00:22:28.660 You see what's happening in Europe.

00:22:31.880 It's not good.

00:22:33.300 It's not good at all.

00:22:35.940 We cannot go down that route.

00:22:39.020 Green card holder.

00:22:40.040 You're preaching terror.

00:22:41.580 Bye-bye.

00:22:42.440 Stirring chaos.

00:22:43.620 See you later.

00:22:44.700 Spitting on the values that open the freaking door for you.

00:22:48.740 Bye-bye.

00:22:50.260 Want to stay?

00:22:51.680 Build.

00:22:52.720 Don't burn.

00:22:54.560 Period.

00:22:56.060 All right.

00:22:56.660 Back in just a second.

00:22:57.800 We're going to talk about what's really going on down in the border for Mexico next.

00:23:07.500 This is Glenn Beck.

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00:24:47.500 Yeah, hello, America. 0.92

00:24:48.840 We're going to get back to the border and what's happening with guns here in just a minute.

00:24:56.340 I want to stop before we get there and just do a little mop-up on a couple of other stories that are out there.

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00:25:08.380 There are several stories that are out about how the EPA has just cut their budgets.

00:25:16.680 And everybody's freaking out about, Doge, Doge is trying to do all this stuff, and they have no right to do it.

00:25:23.520 And USAID, Rubio cut a whole buttload of money out of that and said, we're not going to give it to you.

00:25:30.160 And everybody is saying, we've got to feed the world.

00:25:34.980 Okay, okay.

00:25:36.260 Hey, no, we don't have to.

00:25:38.160 We should be charitable, and we already are the most charitable people.

00:25:42.680 This USAID is not about charity.

00:25:44.960 It's a CIA op.

00:25:47.060 That's what it is, a CIA op.

00:25:49.400 I'll give you the details on that, but let me just first give you a little, just a little comparison here on what we're spending and how big this nightmare actually is.

00:26:04.040 Okay.

00:26:05.200 We have a budget.

00:26:06.640 We spend $6.3 trillion.

00:26:11.360 That nobody can even fathom that.

00:26:15.360 Okay.

00:26:16.600 If you look at Walmart, they pulled in $611 billion.

00:26:22.540 This is the biggest store, the biggest revenue king in the world.

00:26:29.660 $611 billion.

00:26:33.520 How many times have you shopped at Walmart or bought anything from Walmart in the last year?

00:26:41.220 Now, if you're in New York, you would look at Walmart.

00:26:43.820 Never.

00:26:45.240 Okay.

00:26:45.520 But for the rest of people, we're at Walmart all the time.

00:26:50.080 Okay.

00:26:51.140 So, Walmart, we are spending, our government's spending is like every store, every truck, and employee combined for 10 Walmarts.

00:27:05.840 That's what we spend in one year.

00:27:07.920 Let me give it this a better way.

00:27:09.920 Take all of the Fortune 500 companies.

00:27:13.320 Now, at the top are things like Apple, Amazon, Google, ExxonMobil, and then 496 other massive global companies.

00:27:28.380 Their total revenue for a year is $18.1 trillion.

00:27:36.820 That's the 500 largest corporations in the world.

00:27:43.220 $18.1 trillion is their revenue.

00:27:47.520 Our government is spending $6.3 trillion.

00:27:51.540 That's 35% of what these companies, the 500 biggest companies in the world, think about what they're making, what they're providing, what they're doing.

00:28:03.320 Imagine if we spent 35% of what they are making and building and everything.

00:28:10.760 If we bought 35% of that in oil, in computers, whatever.

00:28:18.800 However, if we got 35% and purchased that, but that's what we're spending, but we're not getting any of that stuff.

00:28:28.320 One third of what America's biggest, 500 biggest companies earn spent by our government.

00:28:38.920 That's kind of big.

00:28:40.220 So, you look at the headcount of the Fortune 500.

00:28:45.600 Headcount.

00:28:46.380 How many people do the Fortune 500 companies employ?

00:28:51.040 29.7 total.

00:28:54.800 Our government employs 10% of that number.

00:29:00.960 Look at America as a company, because it is, gang.

00:29:04.200 I'm sorry to say it.

00:29:05.140 It has to be run like your family or a company, or we go broke.

00:29:09.540 And I don't know if you know this, we've gone broke.

00:29:13.680 10% are employees versus them.

00:29:17.740 Again, think about everything that those 500 companies produce.

00:29:23.720 All of the cars, all of everything that they produce.

00:29:29.480 We have 10% of their workforce.

00:29:33.280 What do we produce?

00:29:35.140 That's not including the military, by the way.

00:29:38.920 One in 10 Fortune 500 workers could be a federal employee.

00:29:45.740 Now, how fast are we growing?

00:29:49.640 In 2000, the budget was $1.8 trillion.

00:29:54.140 In 2023, two years ago, our budget was $6.3 trillion.

00:30:00.320 That's an increase of spending by 250%.

00:30:05.860 Have we grown?

00:30:08.760 I mean, it's not a problem.

00:30:09.920 If you're going to make more money to spend more money, that's fine.

00:30:13.640 You can spend more money and make more money, and you never have a problem with it.

00:30:16.460 Has our government provided 250% growth?

00:30:23.000 Has our Fortune 500 companies given us 250% of growth?

00:30:30.000 No.

00:30:30.720 So, why are we spending 250% more?

00:30:35.360 Some of this is inflation.

00:30:39.320 But what causes inflation?

00:30:41.980 The government spending money it doesn't have, and printing and borrowing money.

00:30:51.220 So, there's no way around this.

00:30:53.940 It's not the capitalist system.

00:30:55.840 It's the fact that the government doesn't work within the framework of common sense or a capitalist system.

00:31:02.160 I hate to say capitalist system.

00:31:03.960 I just mean balance the budget.

00:31:09.120 Fortune 500 companies churn out cars, phones, oils, medicine, everything that you use every day.

00:31:17.340 And it's efficient because it has to or it will go out of business.

00:31:23.400 See, the market demands results.

00:31:26.200 We don't for some reason.

00:31:27.600 We spend all of that money, all of that money, 35% of what all 500 of these companies actually make in a year.

00:31:37.440 We spend 35% and we don't demand any results.

00:31:42.540 Have things really gotten that much better?

00:31:45.280 Do you believe we've gotten 250% better as a nation?

00:31:50.380 Do you believe we've gotten 25%?

00:31:52.280 Do you believe we're 2.5% better than we were 25 years ago?

00:31:56.700 I don't.

00:31:59.480 So, here's how they've been spending your money.

00:32:01.780 And this is why all of these cuts matter.

00:32:05.020 $1.1 trillion on DEI programs.

00:32:09.120 You could even say it was noble.

00:32:11.620 I don't think it was.

00:32:13.340 But let's say you do.

00:32:15.660 Was it $1.1 trillion in value for one year?

00:32:24.540 I don't think so.

00:32:26.700 $312 million in loans.

00:32:29.480 You ready for this one?

00:32:30.900 To kids for COVID.

00:32:33.680 I don't even know how that happens.

00:32:37.000 $17 billion in EPA DEI grants.

00:32:41.100 Those were canceled.

00:32:42.260 Billions that could have fixed roads or, I don't know, fed our veterans, gotten some of our veterans off the streets.

00:32:48.300 The VA, they announced yesterday that they have renegotiated 2% of their contracts and saved almost a billion dollars with 2% of the contracts renegotiated.

00:33:03.120 If 2% saves that much just for the VA, let's just start with the VA.

00:33:09.120 What are the, how much savings would happen with the other 98% of the contracts?

00:33:15.940 And now let's take that out of the VA.

00:33:18.520 What would happen if we renegotiated, oh, I don't know, 50% of all of the government contracts and line them up with common sense?

00:33:27.640 You have to fight to survive every single day, but the government doesn't have to.

00:33:36.780 When you're a business, I don't care how big you are, ExxonMobil could go out of business.

00:33:43.760 Somebody comes up with a better way, a better thing, they'll go out of business.

00:33:48.680 And there's nothing that could stop that because they don't have guns that says, you will buy oil from us.

00:33:56.140 They don't have that.

00:33:57.660 The government has that gun.

00:34:00.440 You will buy your government services from us, no matter how much we suck, no matter how much we waste.

00:34:07.640 You're buying it from us.

00:34:09.320 Oh, and by the way, if we want to waste money beyond people's imagination, we can.

00:34:15.960 And we're going to bill your kids and your grandkids, and they'll be in debt forever.

00:34:20.320 I don't think so.

00:34:21.800 No, thank you.

00:34:24.540 Our national debt is $34 trillion.

00:34:28.620 Our deficit in 23, it's bigger now, but our deficit in the last confirmed numbers in 2023 is $1.7 trillion.

00:34:38.560 That means we spend $1.7 trillion that we don't have.

00:34:41.380 We have to borrow that money.

00:34:42.460 That's $1.7 trillion, $2 trillion more than we can collect from people.

00:34:50.560 Our GDP is $26 trillion.

00:34:54.460 Our debt to GDP is 130%.

00:34:57.100 Our deficit is 6.5% of our GDP.

00:35:02.200 Imagine a company that has a debt 1.3 times its revenue.

00:35:07.560 It doesn't last.

00:35:11.680 It goes out of business.

00:35:13.980 But it goes out of business because the banks won't lend it any more money.

00:35:17.580 Nobody will lend it money.

00:35:18.940 Everybody in the stock market will take their money out and say, I don't believe in that one anymore.

00:35:23.200 But we have the full faith and credit of the United States of America because we're big.

00:35:27.700 The world can't last without us.

00:35:29.960 They're about to, gang.

00:35:31.340 It can tax you and print cash so you know that's not a fix.

00:35:39.980 That's a delay.

00:35:41.440 A delay of the inevitable.

00:35:44.420 $34 trillion in dollar bills would circle the entire planet 130 times.

00:35:52.760 The deficit of $1.7 trillion is three times the Walmart revenue.

00:36:04.680 Every year, the family budget, $50,000 a year.

00:36:11.440 If you spend $65,000 a year, you have to borrow $15,000 every year.

00:36:18.120 In 10 years, you owe triple your income, and then you have to go get a loan for that, and you have to keep renewing that loan.

00:36:29.640 What do you think your interest rates would be?

00:36:32.200 What do you think the bank would say you are as a credit risk?

00:36:36.780 What do you think your credit card interest rate would be if they would even issue you one?

00:36:44.040 That's what we're facing right now.

00:36:48.120 A business has to sell what people want, or it goes out of business.

00:36:55.780 A restaurant run by the federal government serves you cold soup littered with flies, and they don't care.

00:37:05.160 Because if you don't buy it, it doesn't matter to them.

00:37:08.820 You have to pay for it anyway.

00:37:10.300 Your great-great-grandkids are going to have to pay for it anyway.

00:37:14.420 No competition, no accountability, just a blank check.

00:37:18.120 The government has our credit card, and it has no limit.

00:37:22.480 It swipes $6.3 trillion, pays $4.6 trillion, and then charges the rest.

00:37:29.300 And no bank says stop.

00:37:31.820 Interest compounds.

00:37:33.760 One day, we have to pay for it.

00:37:36.100 There are cracks in the dam.

00:37:42.240 $1.1 trillion on DEI programs.

00:37:46.720 That's two Fortune 500 companies' revenue.

00:37:50.500 Gone.

00:37:53.180 Did that make us safer, or stronger, or richer?

00:37:57.200 $17 billion in EPA grants?

00:37:59.840 Canceled.

00:38:00.380 But why spend it in the first place?

00:38:02.180 That's 28 Walmart profit margins.

00:38:05.600 $312 million to kids for their companies at COVID?

00:38:08.900 What?

00:38:10.340 Absurd.

00:38:11.240 Who approved that?

00:38:12.900 I know it's pocket change, but not to you, not to me.

00:38:15.300 We'll never make that kind of money to be able to give it to the government in our taxes.

00:38:18.820 Every million counts when you're talking $6.3 trillion.

00:38:23.680 $900 million from 2% of VA contracts?

00:38:28.440 That's one agency.

00:38:30.240 Multiply that across the government.

00:38:33.480 Waste is not the exception.

00:38:35.860 It's the rule.

00:38:38.140 Cut spending.

00:38:39.580 Boost our revenue.

00:38:41.180 Easy to say.

00:38:42.460 Hard to do.

00:38:43.440 Cutting programs means somebody's going to hurt, and they're going to lose votes.

00:38:51.400 You have to, or we're all going to lose.

00:38:56.160 Waste is the lowest hanging fruit.

00:39:02.360 What are we doing?

00:39:03.360 Why is the house on fire, and we're debating paint colors?

00:39:08.760 Why?

00:39:10.760 We have a budget.

00:39:12.660 We have to hit the budget.

00:39:15.560 We have to turn around.

00:39:18.680 If we don't, the fire wins.

00:39:21.920 Back in a minute.

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00:44:44.460 Hello, America.

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00:44:47.020 All right.

00:44:47.260 Want to talk to you a little bit about something Rubio has done.

00:44:50.160 Very, very controversial.

00:44:52.360 He's going to cut all of these programs with USAID.

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00:46:16.700 Okay, so Rubio is cutting the budget.

00:46:21.260 What is it, Pat?

00:46:22.280 85% of the USAID programs he's cutting.

00:46:25.540 Let me just put you at your kitchen table here for a second. 1.00

00:46:29.060 You got the bills spread out all over your table, and you're like, where's all this money going?

00:46:35.240 I can't afford to meet all of the bills.

00:46:37.880 Where's the money going?

00:46:39.140 And then you see on your credit card a charge for $70,000 for a musical in Ireland.

00:46:46.800 And you're like, honey, right?

00:46:51.100 That's the first thing you would say, honey, did we sign up for a musical in Ireland?

00:46:57.860 Do you know how close we are to bankruptcy?

00:47:00.100 What the hell is this?

00:47:01.660 Well, I just thought it would be nice.

00:47:03.420 No more spending on musicals in Ireland for the love of Pete.

00:47:07.500 But that's what's been happening with your tax dollars through USAID, and it's much worse than that.

00:47:12.140 So 83% of all of the USAID programs are getting the axe.

00:47:17.260 Amen and amen.

00:47:19.160 If you have been listening to me for the last 15 or 20 years, I've been circling USAID over and over and over again.

00:47:27.700 Really bad collection of radicals that are spending your tax dollars on things you don't know about.

00:47:34.420 Now, this is a long overdue reckoning, okay?

00:47:41.080 The United States Agency for International Development, notice that it's called USAID, but they never say it that way.

00:47:49.920 It looks like that, but it's not.

00:47:52.240 It's USAID.

00:47:54.660 That's what it's called.

00:47:55.520 Not USAID.

00:47:56.540 USAID.

00:47:58.160 Why?

00:47:58.520 Because it's the Agency for International Development.

00:48:02.060 It rolled into the scene in 1961, courtesy of John F. Kennedy, and it was supposed to be our shining beacon in the Cold War, a way to win the hearts and minds, showing the world what freedom and generosity could look like.

00:48:18.460 Remember, we're in the Cold War.

00:48:20.720 We're trying to beat the Soviets.

00:48:23.280 So it's less than inspiring when you really know.

00:48:26.760 Maybe it's clever when you know what it was really meant to do.

00:48:33.200 It was meant to overthrow communism.

00:48:38.580 It was meant to buy elections, work with revolutionaries, and also go into countries and say, look how great Uncle Sam is, right?

00:48:51.160 But we jumped that last track long ago.

00:48:56.040 Your tax dollars, we shelled out $1.5 million to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace of Serbia.

00:49:04.240 I don't think most Americans could find Serbia on a map.

00:49:09.780 Why do we care about what Serbians are talking about around the water cooler? 1.00

00:49:15.460 Okay?

00:49:16.520 $70,000 for a DEI-themed musical in our...

00:49:20.280 Honey! 0.98

00:49:22.440 I don't really think that Uncle Sam needs to swoop in with a song and dance number.

00:49:27.320 I really don't.

00:49:28.280 Ireland, you're on your own with that thing.

00:49:31.600 $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.

00:49:36.460 Now, as much as I love the arts...

00:49:39.280 No!

00:49:40.460 What the hell is that?

00:49:42.640 $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru.

00:49:48.240 Are we running a charity or is this some sort of global art festival?

00:49:56.300 I'm not really sure.

00:49:59.620 So USAID finally is caught red-handed funding the meals that ended up feeding Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria.

00:50:10.000 Now, when I got up this morning, I was thinking to myself, you know what?

00:50:13.560 We should be more charitable towards Al-Qaeda. 1.00

00:50:16.260 No, that wasn't me.

00:50:17.920 Maybe...

00:50:18.340 I don't think it was you.

00:50:19.740 If it was, maybe you should...

00:50:21.620 Honey! 0.98

00:50:23.200 Ask yourself, when the hell did I become for that?

00:50:25.660 And then there's the millions and millions of dollars funneled into EcoHealth Alliance.

00:50:32.920 Do you remember that name?

00:50:35.620 EcoHealth Alliance.

00:50:36.900 The makers of the Wuhan lab and COVID-19. 0.98

00:50:41.840 Why did we spend all of that money?

00:50:46.120 Okay.

00:50:46.800 Also, can we talk about the elephant in the room?

00:50:48.800 And when I say elephant in the room, I mean the one that's wearing a trench coat, a hat, and dark glasses.

00:50:55.880 You know, the CIA elephant that is in the room.

00:50:59.420 Because that's what this is.

00:51:01.240 This is a CIA front.

00:51:05.320 That's what USAID is.

00:51:07.700 That's not tinfoil hat stuff.

00:51:10.020 That's cold, hard fact.

00:51:12.180 Back in the Cold War, they were training foreign police in counterinsurgency tactics, torture techniques in Latin America.

00:51:20.760 You know, all those fun things that we've all grown to love so much and have really caused the rest of the world to love us so much.

00:51:28.600 That's not a conspiracy.

00:51:30.540 That's history.

00:51:32.300 Documented and undeniable.

00:51:35.220 Now, what happens when the Cold War ends?

00:51:38.640 Well, we have to find new enemies because all that funding is there.

00:51:42.380 So, what do we do now?

00:51:44.760 Okay.

00:51:45.200 Well, the Cuban Twitter fiasco to stir up dissent in Cuba, bankrolled by USAID.

00:51:52.560 Then there's Ukraine.

00:51:53.800 I don't even know where to start with Ukraine.

00:51:55.820 Hey, do you remember Hunter Biden who had that cushy, cushy gig on the board of Burisma?

00:52:02.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:52:03.880 Well, while Hunter was cashing those checks, his dad was VP.

00:52:07.680 USAID was pouring money into Ukraine for development and governance programs.

00:52:14.420 Guess who one of the recipients of that was?

00:52:17.260 Everybody's favorite, George Soros.

00:52:21.000 Now, I don't know.

00:52:24.080 I don't think that's a good idea.

00:52:26.760 Is this aid or is this revolution?

00:52:29.860 Is this aid or is this just greasing palms?

00:52:32.640 There's going to be people who stand, Democrats and people on the left, and I shouldn't say, really good people who really care about aid, who really care about people.

00:52:47.020 And they're going to stand because they hate Donald Trump so much.

00:52:50.880 They're going to say, just Donald Trump.

00:52:52.240 He just hates helping people.

00:52:53.720 Okay, first of all, this isn't about Trump.

00:52:58.380 It's not about Trump.

00:53:00.100 It's about us.

00:53:02.340 It's about you and me and every single taxpayer who is sick of seeing our money flushed down the drain on pet projects and covert ops.

00:53:11.800 I don't want covert ops that are no longer even overseen by Congress.

00:53:19.380 This isn't about being stingy.

00:53:21.440 This is not about turning our backs on the world.

00:53:23.960 This is about accountability.

00:53:26.860 It's about making sure that when we do want to help, we're actually helping, not hurting.

00:53:32.340 Think about it like this.

00:53:36.280 You're running a small business, and you find out that 83%, 83% of your expenses are going to stuff that doesn't move the needle at all for your business.

00:53:47.400 Okay?

00:53:48.580 Fancy coffee machines, you know, random side hustles, you name it.

00:53:53.500 83% of what you're spending, and you're a small business, do you cut that?

00:53:58.920 Or do you go, well, that might be doing good.

00:54:00.840 I mean, coffee is very important.

00:54:03.380 No.

00:54:04.580 You would cut it.

00:54:05.960 Why?

00:54:07.220 Because everyone suffers if you go out of business and you don't cut it.

00:54:12.420 You refocus on what works, what keeps the lights on, and that's what USAID, that's what the overhaul is aiming for.

00:54:22.680 That's why they didn't cut 100%.

00:54:23.840 I would have cut 100%.

00:54:24.940 That's why they didn't cut 100%.

00:54:26.520 I guess some of it does good things.

00:54:29.060 I personally believe in private charity.

00:54:32.480 I don't want the government in charity business.

00:54:34.760 That's our job.

00:54:37.060 But this isn't about killing aid.

00:54:39.300 This is just about making it effective, aligning it with our national interest and, dare I say, our values, if we have any.

00:54:47.740 That's all the while trying to stop the bleeding out of the out-of-control spending.

00:54:56.300 We're bleeding out on the table.

00:54:58.380 We all know this spending is going to kill us.

00:55:00.760 I don't know why we continue to not do anything about it, why we don't demand.

00:55:04.520 Wait a minute.

00:55:05.060 No.

00:55:06.280 Republicans, Democrats, stop the insanity.

00:55:09.400 We're bleeding out on the table.

00:55:11.740 The longer we make this about Trump or the left or the right or Biden, the faster the patient called America dies on the table.

00:55:23.840 Can we focus on what really matters?

00:55:27.220 So let's prioritize what matters.

00:55:31.440 Well, number one, national security.

00:55:34.220 Okay.

00:55:34.720 We can't help anyone if we are not secure.

00:55:39.080 In a world where China is building islands in the South China Sea and Russia is flexing its muscles, we cannot afford to waste any of our resources on DEI musicals or transgender comic books.

00:55:52.740 Can we please, for the love of Pete, be a little strategic?

00:55:57.580 I want to build alliances, but I do not want to bankroll our enemies, foreign or domestic.

00:56:05.660 But this just isn't about security.

00:56:09.060 It's also about building an alliance.

00:56:13.380 Okay.

00:56:14.400 It's about morality.

00:56:16.280 When our aid ends up in the hands of terrorists, we're not just wasting money.

00:56:24.760 We're betraying the people that we're supposed to be helping and betraying the people who gave that money.

00:56:31.080 Does no one see, you know, I get some of the money that you spend on the commercials.

00:56:40.200 You know, that's why commercials, they pay me to, because you're going to go out and buy stuff, hopefully, because I've made a good case that it's something that will benefit your life.

00:56:49.480 When you subscribe to the blaze, I get a few pennies on everything that you subscribe.

00:56:54.740 And I look at that as sacred money.

00:56:57.040 I say this in staff meetings over and over again.

00:57:00.340 What do our listeners need?

00:57:02.580 How can we make their lives better?

00:57:05.240 I'm trying to, I look at your money.

00:57:07.120 I know how hard it is for you to buy a subscription.

00:57:09.460 I know what it is.

00:57:10.620 I know what time we're living in.

00:57:12.720 I know you have a billion other choices.

00:57:15.860 How can I serve you better is what I ask all the time.

00:57:20.680 Sarah, am I right?

00:57:22.000 All the time I ask that.

00:57:24.540 How can we help them?

00:57:26.240 Do you really think that this is helping the taxpayer, the DEI musical in Ireland?

00:57:35.400 Do you think that's helping you or your friends?

00:57:39.460 That's not who we are.

00:57:42.620 We're better than this.

00:57:46.300 Now, let me just talk to your friends or let me just give you the case so you can talk to your friends who just hate Donald Trump.

00:57:54.720 And everything is about Donald Trump.

00:57:56.780 It's not about logic anymore.

00:57:58.020 It's just about Donald Trump.

00:57:59.500 I have a challenge for them.

00:58:02.140 Look past the messenger and hear the message.

00:58:05.840 This isn't a partisan power grab.

00:58:07.740 It's a chance to clean house, to zero set our budgets and look at it and say, what's important?

00:58:15.460 Have you ever have you do you have subscriptions that you have no idea that you were paying for?

00:58:20.540 Have you ever done that?

00:58:21.440 You look at the subscriptions like, what the hell is a $6.99 for that and $8.99 for that and $3.99 for that?

00:58:29.060 All of a sudden, those add up.

00:58:31.340 You have to zero set and go, okay, let's just do the right thing.

00:58:36.780 Forget about all these things that we have been doing.

00:58:38.740 Let's look and see what is the right thing to do.

00:58:43.880 When you take USAID and you look at it and you look at it as USAID, you think, oh, that's a force for good.

00:58:52.620 But it's not.

00:58:53.680 It's a slush fund for bureaucrats and spies.

00:58:57.720 That's what it was designed to be.

00:59:00.560 We don't live in 1961 anymore.

00:59:03.920 I think we should maybe reevaluate the whole thing.

00:59:06.620 And you don't have to love the guy in the Oval Office to see this makes sense.

00:59:11.640 Waste is waste.

00:59:13.560 Inefficiency is inefficiency.

00:59:16.500 Accountability should not have a party label on it.

00:59:20.020 When your friends start talking to you about this, Donald Trump, stop it right now.

00:59:24.620 Stop it.

00:59:25.620 Should accountability have a party label?

00:59:29.660 Is inefficiency ever okay?

00:59:32.540 Is waste of your, you know, they say time is money.

00:59:38.000 You're working until April 19th just to pay your taxes.

00:59:42.120 From January 1st to April 19th, days after you have to pay your taxes, you're still working to pay those taxes.

00:59:50.180 Are you okay with any kind of waste of that money?

00:59:54.340 Because I'm not.

00:59:56.720 This is not slashing foreign aid.

00:59:59.660 It's not going to turn America into some sort of hermit kingdom.

01:00:05.520 Nowhere is anyone saying we should stop helping people.

01:00:08.440 We're saying we should stop screwing it up.

01:00:10.640 How do you argue with that?

01:00:15.460 We're not saying shut the door.

01:00:17.620 We're not saying isolate ourselves.

01:00:19.660 We're saying can we reevaluate for a second here because we're in deep trouble with our spending.

01:00:27.780 We're talking about taking our treasury and locking the doors when there are thieves at the door.

01:00:35.460 And opening the treasury when there's good to be done.

01:00:41.040 How is that suddenly so unreasonable?

01:00:46.940 You know, there are a lot of things I talk about on this program so you can get ahead of things.

01:00:51.000 I've been talking a lot about AI recently.

01:00:53.380 The way for literally decades this has been coming.

01:00:58.080 And I've been trying to prepare you for coming, what's coming.

01:01:00.480 And it's here now.

01:01:01.460 Another one that I've been talking to you for about decades, and that is precious metals, gold or silver.

01:01:08.080 It's coming.

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01:01:41.540 My grandfather used to say, you know what?

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01:01:49.500 What are all the central banks doing?

01:01:51.620 They're moving their money.

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01:02:32.200 10 seconds.

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01:02:33.280 Do I have the gun guy on in just a few minutes?

01:02:49.500 Okay.

01:02:49.760 We'll talk about that here in a second.

01:02:51.680 Did you see what former U.S. ambassador to Russia under Obama tweeted out yesterday?

01:02:57.160 This is really telling.

01:02:58.740 Okay.

01:02:58.980 It's Michael McFaul, and he's talking about USAID.

01:03:03.340 He says, huge mistake.

01:03:04.540 We needed reform of USAID, not dismantlement.

01:03:08.160 China is not ending foreign assistance programs.

01:03:10.860 In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.

01:03:21.440 Okay.

01:03:21.800 Okay.

01:03:22.200 Wait, wait, wait.

01:03:22.820 I thought this was all about aid.

01:03:24.320 Yeah, aid, like charity, right?

01:03:26.780 What do you mean soft power influence?

01:03:29.340 That's what they're arguing.

01:03:31.060 The left is arguing this is all about aid, and yet-

01:03:33.980 No.

01:03:34.700 It's not.

01:03:35.220 It's not.

01:03:35.880 And even-

01:03:36.400 He's saying it.

01:03:37.640 He admits it.

01:03:38.640 He says the quiet part out loud.

01:03:40.940 Right.

01:03:41.080 You're not supposed to do that, Michael.

01:03:43.100 You're supposed to just call it a charity, and children are dying now because of this.

01:03:47.660 So, he's absolutely right if that's the way you want to view.

01:03:52.260 That's what USAID was supposed to do, okay?

01:03:54.900 Soft power.

01:03:55.780 Mm-hmm.

01:03:56.080 Okay.

01:03:57.300 So, they're not closing it down.

01:03:59.940 That's exactly what the Trump administration is doing.

01:04:02.800 They're saying 85%.

01:04:04.160 We don't need any DEI musicals in Ireland.

01:04:08.320 If we're going to do this, let's be strategic about it.

01:04:12.900 Yeah.

01:04:13.080 Isn't that reform?

01:04:14.740 Isn't that the reform he claims he's for?

01:04:18.280 Yes.

01:04:18.880 Okay.

01:04:19.680 Yes.

01:04:20.000 All right.

01:04:20.200 I'm just having a hard time finding-

01:04:21.420 Seems to be.

01:04:22.320 Yeah.

01:04:23.220 But, you know, to virtually admit that this is a CIA operation is staggering because if

01:04:33.580 it's not, you don't use soft power influence to describe USAID, right?

01:04:39.240 You use charity, giving.

01:04:43.460 And you know what?

01:04:44.080 You know what?

01:04:44.760 He's right about the redesigning of all of this.

01:04:47.800 Charity means nothing when it doesn't come with respect.

01:04:51.220 That's exactly what Donald Trump is trying to do on the Mexican border.

01:04:55.540 The Canadian.

01:04:55.880 Right.

01:04:56.820 It's exactly what he's trying to do in Greenland.

01:04:59.520 And he's saying, we will give you things, you give us things.

01:05:04.940 That's what China is doing with their Belt and Road Initiative.

01:05:08.800 They're not giving fake charity.

01:05:11.120 They're buying and selling in unethical ways.

01:05:14.800 This is Glenn Beck.

01:05:18.400 I want you to think about your house for just a second and all the houses around it.

01:05:22.360 Now, imagine that everyone living in each one of those houses hates you and your family

01:05:27.000 and wants you to die. 0.93

01:05:27.940 In fact, they pass you in the streets every day.

01:05:31.100 They look over the fence as you're barbecuing.

01:05:32.840 They're like, I'm going to kill you and your family.

01:05:35.140 And they'll do it if they've got to have a chance.

01:05:37.300 And they've already killed a couple of your family members already.

01:05:40.360 Okay, that's pretty much what it's like to be a Jew in Israel.

01:05:44.560 Every day, they're looking over the fence going, I'm going to kill you and all your family.

01:05:49.360 And all of the death and destruction that's come out of that.

01:05:52.480 And the hatred just keeps coming.

01:05:56.060 Thank God for people who really understand this.

01:05:59.320 Understand what's going on in that little neighborhood.

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01:06:54.760 Welcome to the program.

01:06:56.680 John Dodson is with us.

01:06:58.080 He's been with us before.

01:06:59.200 He is the whistleblower on Fast and Furious.

01:07:03.920 He's blown a lot of whistles.

01:07:06.760 This one now, he's a former ATF agent and he is far enough away from things to where he can legally say everything that he knows.

01:07:16.300 I think everything he knows.

01:07:17.560 But right now, the Mexican government is suing our gun makers.

01:07:23.280 I believe this started and the seeds were planted by the Obama administration on this one, but I could be wrong.

01:07:30.380 But they're suing U.S. gun makers and they're blaming us now.

01:07:34.720 The tariffs are going up.

01:07:36.160 Why?

01:07:37.160 Because unfair trade.

01:07:39.020 Let's just have regular trade with each other.

01:07:42.100 What you charge us, we'll charge you.

01:07:44.120 But in the case of Mexico, it is also mainly about the border at this point.

01:07:49.140 You have got to declare those drug cartels enemies of the state and terrorist organizations, and you've got to stop them.

01:07:59.240 If not, we will.

01:08:00.760 But you've got to stop what's happening on our border.

01:08:03.640 What have they done?

01:08:05.140 They're blaming us for the drug cartel violence.

01:08:09.000 I'm sorry.

01:08:09.540 They're blaming our gun manufacturers for this.

01:08:12.560 John is here to tell us the whole story.

01:08:14.560 The author of The Unarmed Truth.

01:08:17.020 Hello, John.

01:08:17.520 How are you?

01:08:18.940 Hey, I'm fine, sir.

01:08:19.900 Thank you so much for having me on.

01:08:21.060 Oh, yeah.

01:08:21.460 I appreciate it.

01:08:22.420 So tell me what's really going on.

01:08:25.420 Well, what's really going on is actually complicated, but the gist of it is the Mexican government is far and away responsible for arming the cartels.

01:08:35.260 The data that I've seen and the way that E-Trace system works.

01:08:40.740 So ATF has E-Trace, which is where firearms tracing is conducted.

01:08:44.980 And if I can give you a brief background, if you don't mind.

01:08:48.320 So the only way we can successfully trace, and when I say we, I mean ATF, and I'm retired now.

01:08:54.200 But the only way you can successfully trace a firearm is if it has a U.S. nexus.

01:08:58.520 It was either manufactured here or imported into the U.S. at some point.

01:09:02.520 Either way, it's stamped, manufactured in the U.S. or imported in the U.S. by the company that did so.

01:09:09.080 So to say that all the prime guns successfully traced in Mexico are U.S. source firearms, it's kind of a rigged ballgame because the only ones we can successfully trace are U.S. source firearms anyway.

01:09:21.460 If a firearm was made in, you know, the former Soviet bloc or China.

01:09:25.560 We wouldn't have access to that.

01:09:27.000 We're not tracking that.

01:09:28.400 Exactly.

01:09:29.100 We can't trace that.

01:09:30.260 So it doesn't come back.

01:09:31.120 So the numbers are skewed from the very beginning.

01:09:35.300 Now, put on top of that, of the U.S. source firearms, and this is where it comes into what's the motive behind it.

01:09:42.520 Is it ignorance or is it deception?

01:09:46.540 So say that the vast majority of crime guns were covered in Mexico or traced back to U.S. sources.

01:09:51.820 Okay, again, we can only successfully trace those that are U.S. sourced anyway, but you are not discounting those ones that were purchased directly by the Mexican government.

01:10:03.200 Now, I worked on the border for the past 12 years of my career, especially in firearms trafficking.

01:10:10.300 And fast and furious, I was in a firearms trafficking unit.

01:10:13.060 Like, that was all that we were supposed to do.

01:10:14.880 And if you look at the data from E-Trace, it's clear.

01:10:20.700 It's so clear.

01:10:21.500 And by the numbers, the reports that I ran before I retired, every year, any 12-month period since 2010 until the day that I retired in 2023, whatever 12-month period you want to run, the Mexican government accounts for about 70 to 75 percent of the crime guns recovered in Mexico.

01:10:40.180 And these are direct purchases by the Mexican government or government-to-government sales from the U.S. government to Mexico.

01:10:47.420 The problem is those weapons are considered U.S. source.

01:10:51.420 And ATF doesn't delineate, doesn't take those out of the numbers when they speak to Congress or when they release the information.

01:10:58.960 They count them all as U.S. source firearms.

01:11:01.640 And so the American civilian firearms market is left holding the bag and blamed for the cartel violence in Mexico.

01:11:08.160 Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:11:09.120 So Mexico is buying this from us, and I assume that those guns are supposed to go to the Mexican government to fight cartels, et cetera.

01:11:22.700 Are these guns going into the hands of the cartels?

01:11:28.220 Yes, 100 percent.

01:11:29.700 And the icing on the cake is most of the money that they use to purchase these firearms is provided by the U.S. government.

01:11:38.420 The Mexican government says, well, we need help fighting the cartels, so we give them money to purchase equipment and weapons.

01:11:44.440 They buy these weapons directly from manufacturers, and I'll just say Colt, just as an example, all right, just because everyone recognizes the name Colt.

01:11:51.720 They'll buy two Conex boxes of M4 variants, you know, AR variants from Colt.

01:11:57.660 You know, these are military-grade weapons.

01:11:59.880 Two Conex boxes come.

01:12:01.400 One goes to the Mexican military.

01:12:02.960 One's diverted into the black market.

01:12:04.860 Those ones in the black market are recovered in crime scenes subsequently traced, and then that's counted as a U.S.-sourced firearm.

01:12:11.380 When they released the data about all the crime guns in Mexico, they count that as a U.S.-sourced firearm.

01:12:17.260 So do we have the serial numbers to prove that they were purchased by the Mexican federal government?

01:12:26.440 100 percent.

01:12:27.020 Like, it's all in E-Trace.

01:12:28.700 If you look at the E-Trace data, the data, like, well, one of two ways it will come back.

01:12:33.720 And there are several different ways that this happens.

01:12:36.140 So the Mexican government, ATF has issued different entities of the Mexican government, FFL numbers, and they all begin with a Z.

01:12:42.600 It has a Z as the first character.

01:12:45.420 So they can purchase directly from manufacturers, right?

01:12:49.380 And so when one of those firearms is traced, the trace comes back and says this firearm was traced to a foreign government or law enforcement agency.

01:12:57.340 Then the other way of doing it is they buy direct government-to-government sales.

01:13:01.560 So the firearm trace comes back and says, quote, the firearm is a U.S. military weapon, unquote.

01:13:07.700 So those are those are weapons purchased by the U.S. government and then sold to the Mexican government in order to support their efforts to fight the cartels.

01:13:17.160 But in fact, the vast majority of the crime guns that are being recovered in Mexico are stemming from these direct purchases by the Mexican government.

01:13:27.220 So, and I'm not joking, it's at least 70 percent every year that I ran it.

01:13:32.940 And I ran it religiously to the day I turned my computer and retired, I ran it.

01:13:38.840 And it's about it was 72 percent on that day.

01:13:41.620 And it's always been 70 to 75 percent.

01:13:45.000 So we're talking to John Dodson.

01:13:47.120 He is a former ATF agent.

01:13:49.660 He was a whistleblower on Fast and Furious.

01:13:52.300 He's the author of Unarmed Truth.

01:13:55.500 And we I think you were on the air and we talked about this and we talked about how the ATF was targeting and harassing whistleblowers who were testifying in front of Congress.

01:14:06.940 And I think you made a slight reference to this, but you couldn't talk about or wouldn't talk about it.

01:14:12.640 What is what's changed?

01:14:15.620 Well, if you remember, there was a different administration at the time.

01:14:18.900 OK, I was I was definitely worried about being prosecuted for providing this information.

01:14:25.760 All right.

01:14:25.980 So who is when they're doing this?

01:14:29.340 Is this because the Mexican government is the drug cartel?

01:14:35.380 The Mexican government is afraid of the drug cartel.

01:14:38.900 Who's really in charge of pushing the government to sue our gun manufacturers here?

01:14:44.860 Well, you know, and those are that's those questions are what I refer to as echelons above Dotson.

01:14:51.720 But I can tell you, OK, so best case scenario is the Mexican government doesn't know.

01:14:57.660 Like the current president of Mexico and the former president and the one before that doesn't know.

01:15:03.000 They only know the data that ATF has released that, you know, all these firearms are U.S.

01:15:08.000 source firearms and therefore they blame the U.S.

01:15:11.180 civilian firearms market.

01:15:12.200 That's best case scenario.

01:15:14.880 Then you have to make the argument or you have to at least ask the questions about, well, why don't they know the freaking truth?

01:15:20.300 Like if they're buying all these guns and they're they're not getting them all, they're being subverted into the black market.

01:15:25.460 Why aren't they aware of that?

01:15:27.780 So you'd ask that in the Ukrainians, too, but I digress.

01:15:31.880 Oh, Jack, that's that's a whole nother issue.

01:15:33.740 I can only imagine where that that information comes back.

01:15:37.020 Oh, my. But but so the Mexicans are either they're willfully ignorant. 1.00

01:15:42.600 All right. Or it's entirely corrupt either way.

01:15:45.740 But what frustrates me the most is especially now during these negotiations with the Mexican government over these tariffs and things like that.

01:15:52.220 Every time you hold them to account for something, the first response is, well, you've got to stop the, quote, flow of firearms, unquote, south.

01:16:01.420 You have to stop it.

01:16:02.480 And it's so hard when we're negotiating, when our officials are negotiating with facts that aren't true, that aren't accurate, or at least are disguised in a way to where they're they don't have the true story.

01:16:17.080 It's it's not fair to the American government.

01:16:19.120 It's not fair to the American people.

01:16:20.520 And it's not fair to the Mexican people at all. 0.63

01:16:22.960 So then so then why don't we do this?

01:16:24.980 Because you can buy guns elsewhere, Mexico.

01:16:27.520 Why don't we do this?

01:16:28.980 Why? Why doesn't if Trump knows this and I don't know if he does, but if Trump knows this, why doesn't he say, you know what?

01:16:34.520 You're right. We're going to stop all guns from crossing the border.

01:16:38.220 You can no longer buy American arms.

01:16:40.600 I know that would hurt the the arms companies here in America for maybe a year.

01:16:46.860 But then things change and the truth is out.

01:16:50.300 And Mexico doesn't want that. 0.99

01:16:52.240 And why wouldn't he just say, OK, we'll we'll stop all the guns coming across the border by your guns elsewhere for the next 12 months.

01:17:00.780 And let's see what happens.

01:17:02.460 Well, I'm going to be honest, because I don't think they know.

01:17:05.200 And that's part of the reason that I'm talking to you is because I there's no way to tell them they'll call ATF and ATF will say, oh, yeah, 80 percent of the firearms trace in Mexico are U.S.

01:17:14.840 source firearms, but they don't take into account the direct purchases by the Mexican government or the government and government sales.

01:17:21.100 Whoever's handling negotiations with Mexico, if they would sit down at the table and say, hey, we need you to work on fentanyl and border crossings and border security and things like this.

01:17:30.460 And Mexico will do what they always do, which is say, well, you've got to stop the flow of firearms. 0.94

01:17:34.640 Say, OK, give me one second. I've just rescinded, you know, all of the export licenses for your government to buy purchases, purchase firearms directly.

01:17:43.940 I revoked the foreign FFLs of ATF have issued you and I've ceased and desist all government to government sales from the Department of Defense and the State Department there.

01:17:53.180 Instantaneously, I have cut over 70 percent of the crime guns being supplied to Mexico.

01:17:57.580 So now, Madam President, it's your turn. What are you going to do? Put up or shut up?

01:18:03.220 That's brilliant. Have you talked to anybody in the administration about this?

01:18:08.880 No, sir, I don't. Like, how does anyone talk to the administration?

01:18:12.840 All right. Do me a favor. Give me a white paper on this and you tell me who it needs to go to and I'll get it to them.

01:18:19.040 OK. OK. I have been pounding this drum, sir, for years.

01:18:22.580 I have brought this to the attention of my ATF supervisors as far up the chain as I could go.

01:18:27.560 I even physically, like, handed the printouts, the documents, the data to the highest ranking DOJ official assigned to Mexico City at the time.

01:18:35.960 And nothing ever happened to it. And again, this is a previous administration.

01:18:40.620 So, well, you don't expect anything from that, but I expect something from this.

01:18:44.400 So give me the names of who it should go to and give me the best, sharpest white paper on it.

01:18:52.260 Don't overwhelm with facts. Give me the executive summary on the front so it can be understood and explained.

01:18:59.580 And then give me all the facts after that. I'll have it delivered to the right people.

01:19:05.480 And then I'll give them time to read it and digest it or their people to digest it. 0.79

01:19:09.600 And then I'll ask for an answer. What happened here? Why aren't you doing it?

01:19:12.920 I have no problems. I will work on that immediately this afternoon.

01:19:17.100 But in the meantime, sir, and I want to tell you, I know there are a lot of ATF agents that listen to your show and people, probably people in the administration.

01:19:24.300 Don't have to take my word for it. You can call any ATF agent, like someone in the administration, call a field office.

01:19:30.120 Don't call headquarters. Call a field office. Call any ATF agent that has an eTrace account and say, hey, I want you to run a report for me.

01:19:36.880 Log on to eTrace on the right hand side. Generate a statistical report. Click on that.

01:19:43.000 It's going to automatically populate to your org code. Change that default to recovery location.

01:19:48.160 Put in Mexico and do any 12 month time period that you want. 0.82

01:19:51.940 And you will see the data is clear on this issue.

01:19:55.500 All right. The Mexican military is the number one source of supplier of crime guns to the Mexican cartels.

01:20:00.880 It's hands down. And I mean, exponentially. So when you see the data, it will like it's it's flabbergasted.

01:20:09.300 John, get me the get me the data and get me those that white paper on it and an executive summary.

01:20:15.100 And I will I'll get it. I'll get it to them. As soon as you give it to me, I will send it.

01:20:19.940 Turn it right around and get it to all the leadership.

01:20:23.520 All right, sir. I appreciate it. Thanks, John. I appreciate it. God bless.

01:20:26.600 John Dodson, the unarmed truth. By the way, if you're an ATF agent and you can do that and you can verify what he's saying.

01:20:34.400 Call us. I'd love to hear from you because Mexico is putting in there. 0.84

01:20:39.040 They're suing us. They're suing all of our gun makers here in America for 10 billion dollars.

01:20:45.200 No, I don't think so. But it's going to the Supreme Court.

01:20:48.400 I think the Supreme Court is going to say you can't you don't have a leg to stand on.

01:20:52.360 But again, it's the same kind of corrupt mentality of the last administration, you know, of not actually addressing the issue, but going after little pet peeves and going after our guns and our rights to guns.

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01:22:41.780 Did you know any of that, Pat?

01:22:42.980 No.

01:22:44.200 No, I didn't.

01:22:44.980 But I firmly believe that the Mexican government fully knows.

01:22:50.960 Of course they do.

01:22:51.540 They know full well what's going on.

01:22:53.000 Of course they do.

01:22:53.540 And they're just corrupt.

01:22:54.780 Because they have to be.

01:22:56.280 You're dead.

01:22:57.360 Yes.

01:22:57.820 I mean, I have to tell you, if there is anybody that is not in bed with the cartel, which I don't know if they exist, but if there is anybody that's not, they're praying every night.

01:23:06.580 The citizens of Mexico, I bet you, are praying every night.

01:23:10.100 But please, dear Lord, send the American soldiers in here in the dead of night and kill all of these people. 0.88

01:23:17.480 Yeah.

01:23:18.040 When you can't vote for your mayor that you want to vote.

01:23:21.100 Yeah.

01:23:21.420 Because 11 of them have been killed.

01:23:23.720 You're not living in a free society.

01:23:26.740 Right.

01:23:26.860 You're shutting your mouth because if you open your mouth, you and your family will be dead.

01:23:30.780 When you send 9,000 troops northward 20 years ago and 6,000 of them join the cartels, yeah, it's a problem.

01:23:39.840 That's right.

01:23:40.300 It's a problem.

01:23:41.040 And I hope the day comes soon that the Mexican people can be free and we are also free of these cartels.

01:23:49.480 Because I really hope that in the middle of the night, I don't know what happened, but all of them, they wake up dead.

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01:26:05.020 Hello, America.

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01:26:10.380 And usually I unplug from the news on Friday, which is, you know, exactly what they expect everybody to do.

01:26:16.340 And there was a story that came out that I would have missed if I had not been on that plane.

01:26:20.880 I've been waiting to talk to you about it, and I just didn't have time yesterday.

01:26:23.280 It's about the Department of Homeland Security.

01:26:26.900 And Trump just went in and said, hey, you know that that union deal you just did with a TSA under Biden?

01:26:35.020 It's off. We're not doing it.

01:26:38.080 Why?

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01:28:20.200 Okay.

01:28:20.540 Take a deep breath because this one's going to set you off for a little bit.

01:28:23.420 Friday, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a bomb saying they're axing the TSA's union deal.

01:28:32.780 Okay.

01:28:34.020 Why?

01:28:34.620 Well, because they made this deal under Biden and 86% of our airports.

01:28:42.660 More TSA people are clocking in as union reps than are actually checking your bag.

01:28:52.780 Okay.

01:28:53.660 Nearly 200 out of them get paid your tax dollars to sit in meetings, not to stop bombs.

01:29:02.020 Okay.

01:29:03.860 But to, I think, give a middle finger to every one of us who's ever missed a flight or slow security line.

01:29:09.620 Last May, Biden's crew gave 42,000 TSA screeners a huge fat union contract.

01:29:17.380 More rights and bigger checks.

01:29:19.360 Did you get that in?

01:29:20.520 Oh, no.

01:29:21.800 You didn't get that, did you?

01:29:23.580 Okay.

01:29:23.860 Now, DHS is a dumpster fire.

01:29:27.720 They have screeners booking sick days seven months out.

01:29:33.600 I'm going to be sick in September.

01:29:38.060 Excuse me?

01:29:38.980 How do you know you're going to be?

01:29:40.440 Oh, it's weird.

01:29:41.660 You're sick the same time Coachella is happening.

01:29:46.840 Isn't that weird?

01:29:48.000 So, what's happening is they are just abusing the system and the good ones are all there picking up the slack.

01:29:56.700 I mean, this is the way it happens in government.

01:29:58.600 This is why we've got to cut the size of government and honestly cut the unions out of government. 0.88

01:30:06.140 Over 60% of TSA workers now say the lazy ones are just coasting and that's killing morale.

01:30:13.580 Now, 60% of TSA workers, unions are pissed because Trump said, nah, we're not doing that.

01:30:23.040 They're saying, there's workers' rights.

01:30:25.540 Okay, first of all, you work for the government, so you don't really have workers' rights like everybody else outside of the government.

01:30:31.700 And you don't have to quote me.

01:30:33.720 You can quote FDR.

01:30:36.540 And he was kind of a big union guy.

01:30:38.620 He loved unions.

01:30:39.560 Remember him?

01:30:40.360 Kind of a progressive icon.

01:30:42.140 He said it cannot happen in the federal government.

01:30:46.260 1937, he writes that public unions are a no-go because they don't bargain with the boss.

01:30:53.320 They bargain with the customer.

01:30:56.780 He said when they slack or strike, we're the ones that end up paying the price.

01:31:03.240 No flights, no services, just chaos.

01:31:08.360 Picture this.

01:31:10.080 200 TSA union reps are chilling and they're just like, you know what?

01:31:15.160 What can we do to make this job easier and the unions stronger in TSA?

01:31:20.320 They're talking about that while you're barefoot holding your toothpaste in a baggie, missing your flight.

01:31:28.280 That's your money.

01:31:30.520 Your money.

01:31:32.460 FDR said this is a power grab, and it is.

01:31:36.640 Government jobs are exploding.

01:31:38.460 We have 7 million people that work for the government that's federal, state, or local.

01:31:44.220 Unionized.

01:31:45.140 7 million people.

01:31:46.600 That's one in every 20 Americans.

01:31:50.320 Over a third are unionized.

01:31:53.660 Now, what is the rate of unionization in the private sector, in the real world?

01:31:59.100 6%.

01:32:00.180 In the federal world, it's 30%.

01:32:04.860 Why?

01:32:07.780 Why?

01:32:08.640 Private unions fight broke companies.

01:32:11.780 Government unions fight you.

01:32:14.640 And the politicians don't care because it's not their cash. 0.85

01:32:19.060 It's your cash.

01:32:21.000 We spend $6 trillion of our federal budget.

01:32:26.600 Half of that is on salary and pensions.

01:32:31.780 I don't know.

01:32:32.640 Sounds like a problem.

01:32:34.940 You know.

01:32:36.420 Hello?

01:32:37.560 You're 30.

01:32:38.820 You're hustling two gigs.

01:32:40.480 Maybe you're driving for Uber.

01:32:41.800 You got a full-time job, but you also have to do the Uber thing.

01:32:44.560 Half of your paycheck is feeding a machine that doesn't even work.

01:32:50.260 How's that fair to you?

01:32:51.740 I'm trying to.

01:32:53.340 Is this the way we're supposed to be?

01:32:56.400 Let me go back to our first principles.

01:32:58.540 The Constitution.

01:32:59.360 It says government serves of the people, by the people, for the people.

01:33:02.980 It serves us.

01:33:03.700 Okay.

01:33:04.060 Article 2 runs the show.

01:33:07.620 Article 1, Congress pays the bills.

01:33:12.100 Where's the part about us funding union reps over our security?

01:33:18.660 It's not in any of the articles.

01:33:20.900 It's not even in an article in the New York Times.

01:33:23.360 Okay.

01:33:23.760 It doesn't exist.

01:33:25.200 When the TSA cares more about job security than America's security or your security,

01:33:33.040 something's wildly broken.

01:33:35.260 You stood in those lines.

01:33:36.940 You've had your shoes off, laptop out, praying your water bottle doesn't get cavity searched.

01:33:42.980 You know.

01:33:43.940 I see you're holding a water bottle.

01:33:46.440 Come on over here.

01:33:47.180 We got to make sure you don't have another one in your butt. 1.00

01:33:49.360 Excuse me?

01:33:50.120 That's not freedom, man.

01:33:51.660 That's insanity.

01:33:52.640 And it's because we panicked after 9-11.

01:33:55.900 That's what happened.

01:33:57.440 50,000 screeners, $8 billion a year, 432 airports, safety first, right?

01:34:05.700 No, it's not safety first.

01:34:07.640 Come on.

01:34:08.120 We've all stood in those lines.

01:34:09.960 How many times do you stand in line and go, you know what?

01:34:12.300 This is a very efficient and great system.

01:34:14.900 I feel so much safer now.

01:34:16.360 I've never felt that way.

01:34:19.600 Government tests.

01:34:20.720 They do tests every year at the airports.

01:34:23.380 They miss fake bombs and fake guns 70% of the time.

01:34:31.600 Wait, and they just got a raise?

01:34:35.180 Wait, what?

01:34:37.060 95% of the time back in 2015.

01:34:40.140 So they're getting better.

01:34:41.420 It was 90.

01:34:42.000 They only caught 5% of the bombs and the guns.

01:34:47.040 Now they're only missing 30% of them.

01:34:55.040 You are more likely to be groped than protected in those lines.

01:35:00.380 And you and I both know it.

01:35:02.200 Now, there's two airports that are doing things differently.

01:35:05.360 Believe it or not, I can't believe this.

01:35:07.240 I don't know how this happened.

01:35:08.820 But San Francisco and Kansas City, those airports are the only two that are privatized.

01:35:16.660 Fully private firms.

01:35:18.640 Guess who nails the tests every year?

01:35:23.740 Okay?

01:35:24.360 Guess which lines move like a TikTok dance?

01:35:28.460 Smooth, fast, effective, happening quickly.

01:35:31.940 It's those two airports.

01:35:34.000 You know, the ones that are finding the guns and the bombs.

01:35:36.320 Why?

01:35:36.760 Because private companies cannot afford to suck like this.

01:35:42.480 TSA.

01:35:43.420 That's a government fail.

01:35:45.140 Okay?

01:35:45.340 What happens?

01:35:46.880 Oh, whoops.

01:35:48.080 We let a bomb get on an airport, on an airplane.

01:35:50.980 Whoops.

01:35:52.100 Who's held accountable for that?

01:35:53.800 Do they go out of business?

01:35:55.340 No, they don't.

01:35:56.460 They don't.

01:35:57.140 Ever.

01:35:59.320 If a private airport can outdo what the federal government is doing everywhere else,

01:36:06.400 why are we stuck with this clown show?

01:36:08.920 I'll tell you why.

01:36:11.100 Unions.

01:36:12.700 Government.

01:36:13.220 If they miss a bomb at one of those two airports and it goes off on a plane,

01:36:21.340 do you think the people, the plane, the airplanes, the airlines,

01:36:29.180 do you think they get sued out of their mind and they go out of business

01:36:33.360 because they hired a firm that was missing a bomb?

01:36:37.260 Yeah, they do.

01:36:38.720 So they're incentivized to make sure no bombs get on that plane.

01:36:43.140 The government, are you going to sue the government?

01:36:45.100 You can't sue the government.

01:36:46.780 You might be 40.

01:36:48.440 You're juggling kids, your mortgage.

01:36:50.920 Why is your tax money funding a TSA that fails when the San Francisco airport thrives?

01:36:59.000 Why are we not ditching this whole thing?

01:37:02.120 I say abolish the TSA.

01:37:03.920 Let the airports hire private security.

01:37:06.620 It works.

01:37:09.500 No airline in the country would allow 70% of the bombs and the fake guns getting through.

01:37:19.000 They couldn't afford it.

01:37:20.280 But the government's like, ah, and they cash the check.

01:37:27.080 This is why our founders, they wanted a lean machine.

01:37:30.580 Madison said in Federalist 51, power hoarding kills republics.

01:37:36.840 Government unions, they're modern hoarders.

01:37:40.980 They lock in the job.

01:37:43.040 They shield the slackers.

01:37:45.280 They grow the beast.

01:37:46.920 Rome collapsed when the bureaucrats got too comfy.

01:37:53.280 It just collapsed.

01:37:54.980 How comfy do you think our bureaucrats are? 1.00

01:37:57.400 Look at them.

01:37:58.080 Look at them.

01:38:00.540 Britain's empire wobbled until it slashed its payroll.

01:38:05.840 We have 7 million government workers.

01:38:09.560 More than the populations of 38 states.

01:38:13.780 Wow, that's a...

01:38:17.540 Wait, say that again?

01:38:20.160 Our government workers total more than the population of 38 different states.

01:38:28.000 That's not public service.

01:38:31.760 That's a heist.

01:38:35.200 So, here's the thing.

01:38:36.600 Trump went in and he said, we're cutting your union contract.

01:38:41.660 No.

01:38:42.560 No.

01:38:43.380 You're not spending...

01:38:44.560 You're not having these employees spend their whole day trying to figure out how they can make the union stronger.

01:38:51.640 We want every employee looking at how we can make our safety better.

01:38:56.740 So, first thing, it has to be done.

01:39:00.680 And, you know, I could dream.

01:39:02.200 I can dream.

01:39:02.900 Hey, I'm a dreamer.

01:39:05.560 No government unions.

01:39:07.560 No collective bargaining for public workers.

01:39:09.960 None.

01:39:10.420 Zip.

01:39:10.760 Zero.

01:39:11.760 FDR nailed it.

01:39:13.760 They cannot hold the people hostage.

01:39:15.740 Hostage.

01:39:18.100 What they're doing is they're negotiating with the politicians, but the politicians aren't the ones spending the money.

01:39:26.120 It doesn't cost them anything.

01:39:28.120 And they get kickbacks from those unions.

01:39:31.640 So, you're paying for it.

01:39:34.060 They cannot negotiate like that.

01:39:37.040 Because the one that's actually...

01:39:39.780 The one that's paying the salaries isn't represented there.

01:39:43.500 That's why FDR was against it.

01:39:45.280 And he was right.

01:39:47.380 You can't unionize against your boss and your customers.

01:39:54.860 Merit over membership.

01:39:57.380 Period.

01:39:58.940 Two.

01:39:59.880 Cut the fat.

01:40:01.080 Seven million?

01:40:02.060 More than 38 states?

01:40:03.420 I think we can lose a few.

01:40:05.620 Trump's buyouts.

01:40:07.200 Full pay for eight months to quit.

01:40:10.900 75,000 got out.

01:40:12.460 That's a good start, maybe for a Monday.

01:40:15.280 Freeze the hires.

01:40:18.680 Take the federal government and slash it to 3.5.

01:40:21.760 There's going to be chaos.

01:40:23.080 Yes, there is.

01:40:23.920 Have you ever worked for a company that is dying?

01:40:26.920 A company that is out of business if they don't do things drastically different?

01:40:31.200 We are that company.

01:40:34.520 This country is dying.

01:40:37.060 To save it, and to save the employees that we can, because we'll all be out of jobs, you've got to slash, and you're going to have some chaos.

01:40:47.060 But then it writes itself.

01:40:50.000 Private companies run lean.

01:40:52.620 3% of the employees are administration.

01:40:56.560 That's the average of private companies.

01:40:59.780 3%.

01:41:00.400 Do you know what ours is for the government?

01:41:02.660 15% of all of them being bosses.

01:41:08.140 15%.

01:41:08.660 I don't know.

01:41:11.600 You're killing it at work.

01:41:14.880 Why is your tax bill propping up paper pushers?

01:41:17.940 Why?

01:41:18.160 Privatize all of the airport security.

01:41:22.760 Kansas City and San Francisco, they do it better, faster, safer, cheaper.

01:41:28.100 Repeal the 2001 Aviation Security Act.

01:41:32.120 Congress can do it.

01:41:33.200 Let the airports and the airlines compete.

01:41:36.660 You'd rather breeze through than beg some Fed to hurry up, right?

01:41:40.620 You'd rather have it done right, competently, and somebody that you can hold responsible.

01:41:48.160 You know, Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century.

01:41:53.140 He crushed a police strike in 1919.

01:41:55.900 He said, no, there's no striking against the public.

01:41:58.020 Can't do it.

01:41:59.480 Reagan fired 11,000 controllers.

01:42:01.800 Airplanes are going to fall out of the sky.

01:42:03.860 You know what didn't happen?

01:42:05.440 That.

01:42:07.200 This isn't anti-worker.

01:42:09.580 This is pro-you.

01:42:13.760 Help your friends.

01:42:14.940 Keep that in perspective.

01:42:16.780 We don't mind the workers.

01:42:19.360 We're going after efficiency, competence, security.

01:42:26.760 This is not against the worker.

01:42:29.360 It's about you.

01:42:32.740 Back in just a minute.

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01:43:52.660 Did you have any idea that that was going on?

01:44:00.900 None.

01:44:01.500 Yeah.

01:44:01.900 Neither did I.

01:44:02.260 No.

01:44:02.580 None.

01:44:03.680 I mean, I knew that the TSA was failing tests.

01:44:06.940 But did you know that they gave, I mean, Biden did so many things at the very end to give all these, all these people that are quite honestly Democratic donors.

01:44:19.020 That's what the unions are, give them all these gifts. 0.99

01:44:22.860 When you have people in the airport that are representing the union instead of representing, why am I paying for that?

01:44:32.940 The union should be paying for that.

01:44:35.100 Yeah.

01:44:35.840 And you're right.

01:44:37.420 I've never gone into the airport, stood in one of those lines, and felt safer because of it.

01:44:43.660 Never.

01:44:44.400 Never.

01:44:45.300 You know what?

01:44:45.740 It's the opposite.

01:44:46.500 I went to, and Dallas is really good.

01:44:49.220 I think Dallas is good.

01:44:51.060 I went into Dallas, and they were overwhelmed.

01:44:54.860 I don't remember what it was.

01:44:56.320 It was a holiday or something, and they were overwhelmed.

01:44:59.120 And so they said, you don't have to take anything out of your bags for the x-ray.

01:45:04.260 You don't have to take off your shoe or your belt.

01:45:05.940 Just go.

01:45:06.540 And I'm like, wait a minute.

01:45:07.360 Wait.

01:45:07.740 Wait a minute.

01:45:09.040 If you can do that because we're backed up, why the hell are we doing that all the time?

01:45:14.760 Right.

01:45:15.760 All of a sudden, it's okay not to fly safely?

01:45:18.780 No.

01:45:19.740 No.

01:45:21.380 Come on.

01:45:22.380 God, it pissed me off.

01:45:23.760 I know.

01:45:25.920 It's irritating.

01:45:26.940 It is.

01:45:27.020 You know, I don't understand.

01:45:28.140 Do you understand, Pat, how so many people are just so blind to this?

01:45:34.180 They just think they just want to destroy America.

01:45:37.800 The sheep.

01:45:38.760 Yeah.

01:45:39.480 Absolute sheep.

01:45:40.700 Yeah.

01:45:41.320 Because if we did it the way the Israelis do it, you would appreciate that kind of security. 0.99

01:45:47.440 Right?

01:45:47.900 I did.

01:45:48.560 Where not only do you feel safer, but you know that they're actually profiling people because

01:45:54.400 it makes sense.

01:45:55.440 You get on the plane, and they hand you an actual steak knife.

01:45:59.820 Yeah.

01:46:00.700 Yeah.

01:46:00.900 Because they know you're not going to kill anybody with it.

01:46:02.680 Right.

01:46:02.880 Because they've done their work.

01:46:04.120 Yeah.

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01:46:11.320 It is the most secure airline.

01:46:13.700 I mean, think about the attacks that are after LL Airlines.

01:46:17.420 You take one of those things, hostages, and you're doomed.

01:46:20.420 They're doomed.

01:46:21.880 They've never had a problem.

01:46:23.600 Why?

01:46:24.820 Because they don't let political correctness or unions or anything else.

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01:48:16.320 So, Pat Gray is joining me today.

01:48:20.360 Stu is sick.

01:48:21.240 I don't know.

01:48:21.600 He's got the sniffles or something.

01:48:23.080 He's in his big fuzzy slippers today, eating bonbons on the couch.

01:48:27.300 But thanks, Pat, for joining in and filling in for him.

01:48:31.140 There's a story that I don't know if you saw, but let me just give you the headline first.

01:48:34.940 It's from the Salt Lake Tribune, which I think is an abomination.

01:48:37.960 Oh, what a great source.

01:48:38.460 It's an abomination.

01:48:39.560 Or an abomination, one of the two.

01:48:42.020 What did I say?

01:48:42.960 You said abomination.

01:48:44.620 I said it's a great source.

01:48:46.420 Oh, okay.

01:48:46.860 One of the two.

01:48:47.500 It's a great source of abominations.

01:48:50.880 So, here's the headline.

01:48:53.680 Yeah.

01:48:54.120 Meet the Utah software engineer and distillery co-owner giving notes to Elon Musk and Doge.

01:49:00.920 Oh, geez.

01:49:01.620 This is a story about the woman who is exposing all of the stuff that Doge is finding, okay?

01:49:13.620 We just recently found out who she was.

01:49:17.420 She has been keeping her identity quiet.

01:49:20.120 She didn't want to be doxed or anything else because she knows what that means.

01:49:22.880 So, she's gone under the name Data Republican.

01:49:26.200 If you're not following Data Republican, you should be because she's out leading the way outside of Doge, showing the connections of where all this money is.

01:49:35.980 Who's doing what?

01:49:37.160 She's fantastic, okay?

01:49:40.240 And I did an interview.

01:49:41.640 You should have her on.

01:49:42.900 It's fabulous.

01:49:44.020 I did an interview with her.

01:49:45.480 She is mute and deaf. 0.87

01:49:49.580 Yeah, I've read about her.

01:49:50.320 Yeah, and I did an interview with her, and it's fascinating to see.

01:49:53.400 I mean, it's crazy to do an interview with somebody that can't speak and can't hear. 0.99

01:49:58.040 Yeah.

01:49:58.620 But it was a fabulous interview.

01:50:00.620 So, she's really, really good at what she does. 0.63

01:50:03.200 Now, her husband owns and runs a distillery, a place where you can get microbrews and everything else.

01:50:15.920 So, now, why did the Salt Lake Tribune feel it necessary not only to dox her and introduce her to everybody, but also then say, oh, and her husband owns this?

01:50:29.740 Wow.

01:50:30.460 Okay?

01:50:30.960 So, they could lead a boycott.

01:50:32.320 So, they could lead a boycott.

01:50:33.300 So, I wrote a letter yesterday, my office did, to the Tribune and to the reporter.

01:50:40.440 Nationally syndicated radio host and Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck is concerned about the alleged backlash of the spirits of the Wasatch distillery as they are receiving as a result of your reporting.

01:50:51.920 Why did you feel it necessary to include their family business in your reporting?

01:50:57.560 How did you feel that was relevant to Data Republicans' profile?

01:51:01.160 Do you regret any of the backlash to the business in, you know, review bombs and calls for boycotts in the article's comment sections?

01:51:11.180 Glenn will be commenting about this on his national radio program.

01:51:13.820 Wanted to give you a fair shake if you have any comment.

01:51:15.940 Deadline 7 a.m. Central tomorrow, March 11th.

01:51:20.560 No.

01:51:21.480 No, we didn't get any comment from that reporter.

01:51:23.700 He was too busy.

01:51:25.060 Just too busy.

01:51:26.100 I don't know if he's out, you know, spray painting Teslas.

01:51:29.040 You know, I don't know.

01:51:31.160 Um, but Mike Lee lost his mind over this.

01:51:38.360 Here is a private individual not wanting to be doxxed, just showing how you can find these things using AI to show the waste in government.

01:51:50.500 And here is the Salt Lake Tribune, which is only a little bit worse than the Deseret News.

01:52:01.140 Um, am I wrong on that one?

01:52:03.200 No, you're not.

01:52:03.820 Okay.

01:52:04.540 Um, uh, they are, they're just hack organizations at this point.

01:52:09.660 Um, and why did they do this?

01:52:12.700 Now there's a, a boycott against this distillery.

01:52:16.040 And somebody said to me, Glenn, you should lead a boycott.

01:52:19.540 And I'm like, well, a, a, I don't drink, uh, as part of my faith.

01:52:23.740 And B, I'm an alcoholic.

01:52:26.140 Not a good thing for me going, you know, I need to go to that distillery right now.

01:52:32.440 It's our patriotic community.

01:52:34.600 But if I live there, I would go and put my money down and say, Hey, can I'll, whatever beer you're making there.

01:52:42.340 What's your most expensive beer?

01:52:43.780 Give me a glass.

01:52:44.600 I'd put the money down on the table before they pour it and say, I don't need the beer.

01:52:48.960 I just wanted to support you guys.

01:52:51.460 I mean, this is outrageous what is happening.

01:52:56.860 And quite honestly, guys, this is terrorism.

01:53:00.460 I said this earlier about the Tesla stuff.

01:53:02.620 When you are firebombing Teslas, what are you, what are you doing?

01:53:09.420 You're not sending a message to the driver of that Tesla.

01:53:12.800 That's not what you're doing.

01:53:13.900 You're not saying, you know what?

01:53:15.280 You shouldn't, you shouldn't.

01:53:16.780 You're sending a message to that driver and everyone else.

01:53:20.260 You buy a Tesla, you support Doge and what he's doing politically.

01:53:27.260 And we will come after you.

01:53:29.760 We'll burn your car to the ground.

01:53:32.300 Good luck with that.

01:53:33.880 Who knows what could happen next?

01:53:35.720 That's terrorism.

01:53:36.980 Is that not the literal definition of terrorism?

01:53:41.040 It is.

01:53:41.920 So what is this?

01:53:44.540 What is this?

01:53:45.700 You're doxing.

01:53:46.800 You have a newspaper coming out and saying, oh, by the way, oh, and her kids, her kids go to this school.

01:53:55.080 You're one step away from that.

01:53:57.260 What does her husband's distillery have to do with her as data Republican?

01:54:02.680 What does it have to do with anything?

01:54:04.820 Nothing.

01:54:05.500 You want to create terror in her life.

01:54:09.420 You are a terrorist and you should be treated as a terrorist.

01:54:14.700 You don't do that.

01:54:17.360 You don't try to make people afraid so they will stop saying what you believe is politically wrong.

01:54:26.460 You don't do that.

01:54:27.960 You allow free speech and you argue in the open market.

01:54:33.020 You do not say, how about this?

01:54:35.840 How about this, Salt Lake Tribune?

01:54:37.980 I'm going to take the reporter and I'm going to dox the reporter and I'm going to find out if he belongs to any country club.

01:54:45.740 And I'm going to tell you the name of that country club.

01:54:47.520 I'm going to find out where he buys his clothes, where he does any business, and I'm going to expose it.

01:54:53.720 And I'm just saying, I'm just going to tell you where he shops.

01:54:56.080 I'm just going to tell you where he lives.

01:54:57.400 I'm just going to tell you all these things about him that have nothing to do with his job.

01:55:02.120 Now, would they be okay with that?

01:55:07.220 Would the Salt Lake Tribune say, Glenn Beck, good job?

01:55:11.420 No, they wouldn't.

01:55:12.840 They would be right for calling me a terrorist.

01:55:15.740 Well, what is the difference between me doing it to your reporter and you doing it to this private individual?

01:55:24.720 Who is risking everything themselves and would not like to risk their family, but they're risking everything themselves because they believe that the government is corrupt.

01:55:38.520 By the way, for all of you who don't think that, read the founders, read George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, all of them.

01:55:49.580 They warned this would happen.

01:55:53.100 They told you government is fire and you better control it or it will control you.

01:55:59.260 And so all of you revolutionaries that are revolutionary for the republic are so freaking stupid, you don't know your ass from your elbow.

01:56:12.000 So, read what the founders said.

01:56:16.800 All this person is doing is trying to say there is corruption here.

01:56:22.300 We should seek out that corruption.

01:56:25.860 And if it is proven to be corruption, it should be shut down.

01:56:30.200 Why?

01:56:30.500 Because it's, A, America, a country that is going broke, a country that is losing its soul.

01:56:39.620 And if you want to save what I believe is the greatest nation ever to be on earth,

01:56:46.980 as well as one of the darkest nations ever to be on earth when we go wrong,

01:56:53.220 we should make sure we don't go wrong, hold up the Constitution and the rule of law,

01:57:01.940 and not become terrorists ourselves.

01:57:08.740 So, I was going to say I'm not going to do any of those things about that report.

01:57:15.760 I wouldn't say anything about this reporter.

01:57:19.080 Or will I?

01:57:20.380 I don't know.

01:57:28.340 I don't know.

01:57:29.000 I haven't decided yet.

01:57:31.320 Sleep well, reporter.

01:57:34.600 Did he just make a threat?

01:57:36.000 No, I just said I'm not sure if I should give the information about any business you might be involved in.

01:57:44.940 I'm just thinking, should I do exactly the same thing you just did to her and her family?

01:57:53.900 I don't know.

01:57:54.980 I have a problem with it.

01:57:56.280 But you know what?

01:57:57.220 You might be right.

01:57:59.160 It might be the noble thing to do.

01:58:02.480 Back in a minute.

01:58:08.720 So, you're walking through the neighborhood at night.

01:58:11.240 Something's not right.

01:58:12.180 Might be just that there's somebody from the Salt Lake Tribune in the neighborhood.

01:58:16.240 You know, you just know something's not right.

01:58:18.780 You should expose their family.

01:58:22.040 You can feel it.

01:58:23.120 It's a shiver down your spine, the darkness, whatever it is.

01:58:27.040 You can either be relaxed and calm and just dismiss it and say there's nothing there.

01:58:32.360 Or you can just prepare yourself and go, oh, I got my burner launcher right at my side, ready to go in case.

01:58:38.960 But there's probably nothing there.

01:58:40.500 But the point is, you're not afraid.

01:58:41.840 Like maybe some reporters should be.

01:58:46.640 Oh, my gosh.

01:58:47.720 But only if I did the ethical thing according to your rules.

01:58:52.460 You have an instant peace of mind.

01:58:54.740 One pull of that trigger and it's over.

01:58:56.620 No blood.

01:58:57.280 No permanent harm.

01:58:58.900 Just a firm message that you're not easy prey.

01:59:03.320 The burner launcher.

01:59:04.160 It's a tool for those who know that safety and courage go hand in hand.

01:59:07.740 That you don't need to be a soldier to protect yourself.

01:59:10.120 You just need to be a citizen who cares.

01:59:13.120 Looks like a gun.

01:59:14.260 It fires non-lethal rounds.

01:59:16.000 Either projectiles or tear gas pellets.

01:59:18.540 Either one's going to stop that attacker in his tracks for, well, long enough to get the police.

01:59:22.700 That's for sure.

01:59:23.920 It's legal in all 50 states.

01:59:25.960 You have to be over 18 years of age. 0.95

01:59:28.320 But you should own one.

01:59:30.000 Not every dangerous encounter should be lethal or require lethal stopping force.

01:59:35.320 Sometimes less lethal is the way to go.

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02:00:00.820 Glenn Beck.

02:00:02.060 We'll be right back.

02:00:03.500 And I get so angry.

02:00:29.880 I apologize for being so angry.

02:00:32.520 I didn't start off that story that angry.

02:00:34.680 But as I started reading it and saying it, I mean, I talked rationally to Pat about it.

02:00:39.260 And then I get on the air and I'm like, you know, these frickin dirtbags, they are terrorizing people.

02:00:45.040 Yeah.

02:00:45.300 And they think they're morally superior and can do it.

02:00:48.660 But they would never allow us to do it.

02:00:50.860 Nor would I want to do it.

02:00:52.380 Or would I?

02:00:53.620 Because maybe maybe it is my sacred duty.

02:00:58.140 Yeah.

02:00:58.300 Maybe it's the noble thing to do.

02:00:59.860 The noble thing to do to expose this reporter.

02:01:03.900 And who else is involved with him in his life?

02:01:08.780 Completely unrelated to what he does on the reporting.

02:01:13.080 But maybe we should look into it and don't think I won't.

02:01:19.080 It's also hard because I've got just a searing dislike for the Salt Lake Tribune that's pretty much always been there.

02:01:33.720 Yeah.

02:01:34.040 We both do.

02:01:35.640 And so we have a, you know, we have this is this story about data Republican is not about that.

02:01:40.920 But we both have a problem with the Salt Lake Tribune, but also even worse, the Deseret News.

02:01:48.260 That thing should be sold, should be sold.

02:01:51.040 You can't control and stand for the value.

02:01:54.200 The Deseret News is owned by the church in Salt Lake.

02:01:57.600 And if it can't stand for its own American and religious principles, it should be sold.

02:02:04.900 Pat Gray does a show right before me.

02:02:07.600 I don't own the blaze.

02:02:09.120 Okay.

02:02:09.560 I'm the founder of the blaze, but I don't own the blaze.

02:02:12.800 But if I did, and believe me, even though I don't, if Pat, who is so closely related to my show, he came from my show.

02:02:22.280 And if he was doing a show on this network and he was standing against all of the things, I would not say, well, I need a show.

02:02:30.060 I cancel that show.

02:02:31.800 Yeah.

02:02:31.920 All of a sudden I'm pro-abortion. 0.93

02:02:33.760 Right.

02:02:34.280 And I'm anti.

02:02:36.200 No, I cancel American. 0.93

02:02:38.860 Yeah.

02:02:39.300 I mothball his studio until I can find somebody that doesn't stand against all of my values because it harms my reputation because people then think, oh, well, Glenn must believe that because he's having him do that.

02:02:54.760 Now, I don't have control of who is hired and fired from the blaze.

02:02:58.360 At one point I did, and I would never put up with it, never, because it hurts my reputation.

02:03:06.180 So why is the Deseret News?

02:03:08.080 I mean, you don't need it anymore.

02:03:10.480 You could hire 10 people and just do the stories that actually matter eternally.

02:03:17.400 And you could get 10 people, even if it's one story a day, that would be better than a whole newspaper of crap that goes against your values.

02:03:27.680 That's just my opinion.

02:03:28.660 And it attacks people like Mike Lee.

02:03:31.200 Yeah.

02:03:32.340 Yeah.

02:03:32.780 Calling him an extremist.

02:03:34.780 Yeah.

02:03:35.380 Mike Lee is the furthest thing from an extreme.

02:03:38.100 You know who is an extremist?

02:03:39.300 The author of that article in the Salt Lake Review.

02:03:45.360 And maybe he should be exposed as one of those.

02:03:47.640 Does he drive a Tesla?

02:03:50.100 What car?

02:03:51.000 Why doesn't he drive a Tesla?

02:03:52.560 Maybe somebody should firebomb that car because it's not a Tesla.

02:03:58.400 No.

02:03:59.900 That makes you a terrorist.

02:04:01.360 But I'm guessing that his cohorts that work with him are probably laughing at people who are firebombing Teslas.

02:04:12.020 It shows them they shouldn't buy a Tesla.

02:04:15.380 Really?

02:04:16.680 Teslas and the Chargers, which, by the way, are paid for by us.

02:04:21.220 So you're firebombing your own tax dollars.

02:04:25.440 You're sticking to him.

02:04:26.740 You got him.

02:04:27.460 Yeah.

02:04:29.080 These people are so stupid.

02:04:30.820 Oh, my gosh.

02:04:33.640 It's really, truly amazing that they can actually tie their own shoes, let alone get into a car.

02:04:38.860 Well, they might have a Tesla that drives them to the Salt Lake Tribune.

02:04:42.320 Yeah, hopefully.

02:04:43.240 Because otherwise they wouldn't be able to get there.

02:04:45.440 May I just say that, what's the name of this thing?

02:04:48.660 The Wasatch Distillery.

02:04:50.580 The spirits of the Wasatch Distillery.

02:04:53.320 I'm an alcoholic, but if I were there and I was driving by, I would go in and say,

02:04:58.040 Here, beer for everybody who wants to come in today, because they're getting a boycott, unreasonably so.

02:05:06.000 They're going to get all kinds of backlash.

02:05:11.820 But it was the noble thing to do, wasn't it, Mr. Reporter, who so far hasn't been named on this program.

02:05:21.500 Will he be?

02:05:22.560 I don't know.

02:05:26.100 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 11, 2025

Burning Teslas Because You Hate Elon Is TERRORISM ｜ Guest： John Dodson ｜ 3⧸11⧸25

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