Bill O'Reilly, Amy Klobuchar, and more on today's episode of The Glenn Beck Program. Also, we begin with a letter from a man who writes in about his experience with Relief Factory and how it has changed his life.
00:05:49.040Yesterday, she came out and introduced her Health Misinformation Act, co-sponsored by Senate Commerce Communications Subcommittee, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:01.340Create an exception to websites currently current liability protection for user posted content.
00:06:07.040So, in other words, if Facebook is providing misinformation, well, they're not they're not held responsible.
00:06:50.220That's why it was it was OK to protest in the George Floyd thing, because obviously more important than the pandemic as a health issue was racism.
00:09:02.340I don't know what you would call those two.
00:09:04.340But we were flagged as a company and it cost us money to tell you that we felt that there is a chance it came from the lab.
00:09:16.020It's obvious that that's where you even start, you know, when you have a Corona virus coming out and it's got a you know, it's got a wet market.
00:09:27.620Two hundred and seventy seven yards away from the bio lab.
00:09:31.940You look at the wet market, but you also look at the bio lab.
00:09:36.680We weren't allowed to do that for months after the Corona virus spread.
00:09:41.500Democrats and media talking heads dismissed any possibility that the virus could have leaked from a research laboratory.
00:09:49.620Tom Cotton, do you remember what Tom Cotton went through because he said that it was coming from the lab or the possibility that it was coming from the lab?
00:10:00.160He was laid. He was labeled a fringe conspiracy theorist for that.
00:10:05.600Well, it turns out looks like he may be right.
00:10:12.920So what happens to the people like me, people like you that might have been saying and exercising their First Amendment right to question the government?
00:10:24.140Remember, that's part of the First Amendment.
00:10:27.700It is also to petition the government to get together and say, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:10:35.060You owe us answers because we don't believe that if we lose the right to petition our government and the right to free speech, what's really left that is important?
00:10:48.600If you can't question the government, if you can't question what the mainstream media and the government say.
00:10:58.960Do you really have any freedom left anymore?
00:11:03.420That's not a rhetorical question, by the way.
00:11:06.900Tell me how you have freedom without freedom of speech, freedom of expression.
00:11:12.080Tell me how you are free if you're not allowed to question authority.
00:11:25.880See, this is what happens to communist countries.
00:11:28.540People just think that, oh, well, no, they just have some bad leadership at the top.
00:11:32.620No, they kill everything that leads to invention.
00:11:37.220They kill everything that leads to progress because you're not allowed to question those in authority.
00:11:47.940So only those in authority, if they steal the ideas from other people or they just come up with them themselves, that's the only way you get any kind of progress.
00:12:00.540And who's interested in progress when those at the top are fat and happy?
00:12:13.360Now, another one, of course, was the Russian bounties on American soldiers.
00:12:17.800A few months before the 2020 presidential election, the media began to circulate a report suggesting Russian officials secretly place bounties on the heads of American soldiers,
00:12:28.860effectively paying the Taliban to kill Americans.
00:12:33.780Everyone from The New York Times and now the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, pushed this narrative.
00:12:41.680The Washington Post even gave Trump four Pinocchios for calling the story fake news.
00:12:46.600Now, six months after the election, the story has changed.
00:12:52.000A new statement from the Biden White House said former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said from the beginning that the intelligence community did not have high confidence in the information.
00:13:02.680And yet the press and the government, all of the agencies said, if you question that.
00:13:12.280You were just a crazy Trump supporter.
00:13:16.120You were just trying to get him elected.
00:13:18.640You were ignoring the fact that Americans were being slaughtered and and executed at the request of Russia.
00:16:04.540But we know what the truth is because we saw it.
00:16:08.560We we in America, the people who were involved could write a book.
00:16:16.980And then in the time when it wasn't just what was politically correct, but what could be made into a good movie like that's a higher standard.
00:17:16.040If I said the things I said, which are true, and we now know about Obamacare, when they were trying to shove that through, they could have silenced me because that's a health issue.
00:17:29.200And I was lying to the American people.
00:17:37.840If Americans don't start to see that our founding fathers were exactly right, if you don't, if the government doesn't have a healthy fear that the American people are watching and will remember and will take action at the voting booth,
00:17:59.780If they don't fear the people, the people will fear them.
00:18:06.360And no government, left or right, no president, left or right, Republican, Democrat, Independent, should ever have as much power as our president now has.
00:18:19.080No president, no Congress should ever be able to make the American people afraid.
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01:01:25.120Some of the people were extraordinarily violent.
01:01:27.220And we should be talking about those people.
01:01:29.880But doesn't that work, Bill, when you say the people on television continue today to say that what's happening in Portland is peaceful?
01:01:41.320What happened all throughout last summer was peaceful?
01:01:44.220Well, I mean, I'm not, I'm not sure what your question is.
01:01:51.280So how can he, how do it, does anybody, are there people out there that still don't see that when he says you can't listen to people on television that will say this was a peaceful march?
01:02:07.540And I don't know who those people are.
01:02:11.320I don't know what channel Joe is watching.
01:02:13.580I don't even know if Joe knows what channel he's watching.
01:02:16.300But the progressive left, and that's who Joe represents, they want to continue to demonize anybody who voted for Donald Trump by saying, you know, it's your fault.
01:03:25.340She's furious with the Republicans who now are not going to participate in Pelosi's investigation because they wouldn't put Jordan and the other guy from Indiana on the panel.
01:03:39.080And so I'm going, are you kidding me, lady?
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01:06:30.360And a lot of my reporting was centered on that, so I know what I'm talking about.
01:06:35.340And then in the 1990s, it got so bad, they elected Rudy Giuliani as mayor.
01:06:40.800And Giuliani came in with U.S. attorney credentials and basically reorganized the police force to be a very, very aggressive, punitive force in the sense that it would arrest you.
01:06:53.620You jumped over a turnstile in the subway.
01:06:56.340If you did graffiti, you would be taken in.
01:07:13.920Then Bloomberg came in and he kept all of the Giuliani policies, the stop and frisk, the aggressive gun seizures on the street, and crime stayed very low.
01:07:31.580That happened over a almost 20-year period in New York City.
01:07:37.420So then when de Blasio took over the communists, he just blasted all of that out and said to the criminals, you can do what you want because it's society's fault.
01:10:39.620I because the strike force that he's put together for these, you know, the gun trafficking in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
01:10:50.440They're launching the Justice Department, launching a strike force in those cities.
01:12:25.980But I think that in the election next year, 2022, that is one of the most important elections in American history.
01:12:36.680So if Americans don't come out and say, look, we may not like Republicans or conservatives, but we cannot watch our country be destroyed by the progressive left.
01:12:54.360It's got to be that overwhelmingly the progressive left Democratic Party is rejected in 2022.
01:13:03.000If that does not happen with all of all of the corporate media, and I mean all of it now, on the side of the progressives promoting propaganda from the left, if the American people are not smart enough to do that or motivated enough to do it, to go out.
01:13:23.780Then this country is now is then going to descend into tribes.
01:13:27.900So it'll be each tribe hires its own personal security, does what it wants to do, but there's not going to be any cooperation among we the people.
01:13:40.900We'll break down, just like they did in medieval times.
01:13:44.820And I don't think people understand how important 2022 is.
01:13:48.980It is vital for this country to stop the madness, literally stop the madness, because that's what we're experiencing now.
01:15:12.100If somebody hurts you, no matter if it beats you up or shoots you or stabs you or breaks into your house or your car, the odds are those people are not going to pay a price for doing that.
01:15:24.620I mean, every American has got to get out of their fog and understand exactly how dangerous Joe Biden is.
01:16:48.000Bill, when you when you look at where we're at and Joe Biden as our as our president, you know, that one thing that nobody is talking about is the incredible.
01:17:03.360Loss of consciousness, almost in that in that town hall, he went for.
01:17:28.820That's underway, just like the other question is illogical.
01:17:32.060And I've heard you speak about it because you all I'm not being solicitous, but you're always straight up about what you're doing.
01:17:39.080And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are.
01:17:45.740Why can't the the the experts say we know that this virus is, in fact, it's going to be our assuming we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, permanently approved.
01:18:23.600Look, but I don't think there's anyone in the country, not even Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer would say we have an articulate president who can hold a thought in his mind and give a precise answer to a question.
01:19:12.400And I did a thing on Bill O'Reilly dot com where I said to my audience on the No Spin News, I knew when I announced the Trump O'Reilly history tour that I would be attacked.
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01:24:37.980He's going to tell us all about the exciting things happening in Norway with his new novel, Black Ice.
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01:26:23.440You know, I remember the days when, you know, you'd send me a galley of the book and you were very excited and you'd be like, Glenn, I'm so excited.
01:26:37.220And then it would come and it was autographed.
01:26:39.220The only reason I know this is because I've been putting the books back in my shelf at the house and I have all of your books and most of the galleys and they're all autographed, say nice thing.
01:26:49.280This time I just got something from a PR person.
01:26:55.540Oh, man. So, only Stu got to sign one this year.
01:26:59.480Don't lie for him, Stu. Don't lie for him.
01:27:01.660I will say the gold-plated, you know, display case was a little over the top, Brad, but I did appreciate it.
01:27:08.720And I will tell you, I also said I was not talking to you again until, you know, until your hero, Scott, walks into a room and somebody's listening to the Glenn Beck program.
01:27:21.740Or just renewing their subscription on the blaze.
01:27:25.280It's not happening. It's not happening.
01:29:36.220We've been friends for a very, very long time.
01:29:37.980And I, I, I think I coined the term, uh, faction is what you write, um, because it is, it's always based in facts.
01:29:50.180And I can always tell what you're concerned about just by reading your books.
01:29:55.420And in reading this one, you are, you are concerned about something happening in the Arctic, uh, and, and how far behind Russia and China are.
01:30:06.940Um, uh, in the area, can you tell me what you were thinking on this?
01:30:13.280So, uh, I've been friends with the former national security advisor, Robert O'Brien since college.
01:30:18.520And this was a issue that I had brought up with him, uh, is China inserting itself into the Arctic.
01:30:25.100So the Arctic is getting warmer and warmer and the ice is melting up there, which provides a lot of opportunities.
01:30:33.520And China, suddenly the Russians were bad enough up there.
01:30:36.560They've opened up 50, more than 50 old Cold War era bases up in the Arctic.
01:30:42.020So they're moving very quickly up there.
01:30:44.040And China has declared itself a quote unquote near Arctic state, which is the Seinfeld of diplomatic terms, because it means absolutely nothing.
01:30:51.920The closest China is to the Arctic circle, any settlements over 800 miles away.
01:30:56.640So China's trying to get a foothold up there.
01:32:05.160So the Chinese have all these different forms of statecraft, and I joke in the book that they have as many forms of statecraft as the Eskimo have words for snow.
01:32:14.920So there is a kind of a honeypot operation where someone, the Chinese are trying to get influence in D.C.,
01:32:22.420and they put a very attractive young woman, Chinese woman, Chinese woman living in L.A.,
01:32:27.140up to sweetening a deal with somebody to try to get China's ends pushed through in Congress, correct?
01:32:52.100What, did Swalwell, the fang-fang thing, play any role in this?
01:32:56.720Yeah, I think that was something that was, you know, I was clipping a lot of articles out of the paper when this was happening.
01:33:03.020And, you know, there have been people that have been busted for not registering as a foreign agent.
01:33:08.140That's another thing that really makes me mad.
01:33:10.480In fact, they just busted another guy for lobbying on behalf of UAE Monday.
01:33:14.980So that kind of stuff, people trying to exert influence on behalf of foreign nations and not registering as an agent is something that I don't like, particularly when it's Americans doing it.
01:33:25.320I just think it's absolutely, it's terrible.
01:33:27.320And I don't care what party you come from, you cannot do that.
01:33:30.820You can't go in and try to lobby for China or somebody else and not, you know, basically wear it on your sleeve like a NASCAR uniform.
01:33:57.440So there is a lot of trying to put people at ease when they're making these deals.
01:34:03.660The Chinese, they're very happy to, you know, let people wet their beak and make money off these deals.
01:34:09.940And they phrase it and put it in certain terms so that people really can tell themselves, lie to themselves that they're not doing this on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
01:34:19.300But that's exactly what's going on, regardless of who China puts up as a face on this thing.
01:34:24.020And they, you know, the Chinese tried to buy a Canadian mining company in the Arctic so they could actually get some real estate in the Arctic that they could claim as theirs.
01:34:32.280I mean, and the stuff they were doing in Norway, using a Chinese real estate investor and trying to use him to buy all this property up there.
01:34:40.700So it is a creeping, endless thing as China pursues this Belt and Road Initiative where they're putting money all over the world and then trying to influence the politics and the governments where they're making heavy investments.
01:34:56.460Well, you know, we've got a lot of problems, and it goes back decades and over multiple administrations.
01:35:02.800I mean, you know, under Clinton, there was the missile technology from Loral that got given to the Chinese.
01:35:08.360And they bullied the crap out of American companies who do business in China to turn over their sensitive trade secrets and things like that.
01:35:19.040But the thing that steams me the most is that they were putting the brakes on the WHO in the beginning of COVID so that they could go around the world and try to buy up the PPE.
01:36:05.940And with two teens who needed cars, it's nuts what's going on.
01:36:12.120And if we don't get control of our supply chains and stop manufacturing critical items like PPE and like medications in China, we're never going to be able to stand up to them when we need to.
01:36:22.420When you look at I don't know if you saw what happened yesterday, but it it felt like something that China would do.
01:36:29.600There came out and said that this was just a software update that caused a shutdown of like Bank of America's website, AT&T.
01:36:40.660I mean, a whole list of giant corporations were offline yesterday for a while.
01:36:46.780And I thought if this is a cyber attack, this shows how people are just don't do not take us seriously and how far behind we are in our infrastructure.
01:36:58.520We and don't talk to me about the infrastructure Joe Biden is doing.
01:37:01.960I mean, actual protection of our infrastructure.
01:37:05.580We have I think we're already in a war with China and and Russia.
01:37:12.260It's just a cyber war unlike we've ever seen before.
01:37:19.400No, not on this front, not in what's called gray zone conflict, which is where the cyber attacks.
01:37:25.020That's the term for the arena in which those are happening.
01:37:27.680And Glenn, you and I years ago, years ago, talked about a white paper that was written by two Chinese PLA colonels called unrestricted warfare, where these Chinese strategists, military strategists said there is no way they could ever beat the United States on the conventional battlefield.
01:37:45.800So they needed to find other ways, things that we took for granted and thought were harmless and could weaponize those and turn them against us and use them against us.
01:37:53.900And that's where we're at. And we are woefully ill prepared to handle this kind of conflict.
01:38:00.420And it's not going to let up. Look at the key. Look at the the the gas pipeline that got shut down with ransomware from those Russian hackers.
01:38:09.160It's bad. And the Chinese, we hear all about the Russian hackers all the time.
01:38:12.860But the Chinese are even more sophisticated.
01:38:15.220They have office buildings just full of these people that all they do is hack and look for vulnerabilities all day long.
01:38:22.800Brad Thor, the author of a new thriller that is out perfect for the summer.
01:38:28.520It's called Black Ice. More in just a second.
01:38:32.480He's also he's also the movie Born Identity.
02:03:15.480How do you think things are with race relations?
02:03:20.080We haven't seen this in a very long time.
02:03:23.040And it has been very expensive for the left.
02:03:28.400It has taken an awful lot of work and brain power.
02:03:32.940But congratulations, they have succeeded in splitting this nation apart and reversing trends that we had been making in positive ways since the 1960s.