The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 265 ｜ 'You're Going to See Indictments'： Russiagate Walls Closing In ｜ Sen. Eric Schmitt ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:01:19.480 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

00:01:25.120 Those are the powerful words of Dr. Martin Luther King.

00:01:27.820 And they underscore the urgent need for accountability because without holding wrongdoers responsible, injustice doesn't just persist.

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00:01:39.140 For years, we have witnessed this threat.

00:01:42.380 We've watched it unfold in real time.

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00:03:51.120 Senator, how are you, sir?

00:04:05.720 Hey, Glenn.

00:04:06.420 Good.

00:04:06.680 How are you doing?

00:04:08.000 Great.

00:04:08.640 It's good to talk to you as always.

00:04:10.440 I'm excited to talk to you about your book because it is, you're taking us into the inside

00:04:15.760 of what you've already seen and then kind of laying the groundwork for what needs to be done.

00:04:24.020 Because, you know, as you and I have talked about before, there's real frustration in America

00:04:29.420 that there doesn't seem to be any action happening, you know, an arrest of bad guys.

00:04:36.400 For instance, this weekend, everybody's going back and forth.

00:04:40.820 Why was John Bolton, you know, why did they go in and search his place?

00:04:47.140 Do you have any insight on this?

00:04:50.300 Probably two things.

00:04:51.780 One is that, you remember, he wrote that tell-all book about his time as the National Security Advisor.

00:04:58.980 Right.

00:04:59.220 And, you know, again, some of this is conjecture.

00:05:04.200 There's classified documents that were utilized for that.

00:05:07.960 And whether he has them in his possession or not is my guess what they're looking for.

00:05:12.800 Also, I can tell you that in just an experience as a prosecutor, that kind of thing happens

00:05:17.720 very late in the investigation, where they're looking to corroborate things that they already

00:05:25.300 have or missing a few things that they're looking for.

00:05:29.380 But I also know this investigation has been going on for a while, including under the Biden

00:05:34.960 DOJ.

00:05:36.260 So I know the left wants to turn this-

00:05:39.200 On him specifically?

00:05:40.820 Or is this part of a bigger case?

00:05:43.560 That's my understanding related to him.

00:05:45.500 Now, we can talk about Russiagate.

00:05:48.060 And I think this is separate from that.

00:05:50.120 This is, I think, just a guy who probably, you know, he has an enormous ego and has access

00:05:57.420 to a lot of classified documents and was probably pretty sloppy about it.

00:06:01.720 And that's probably what the Bolton stuff's about.

00:06:03.860 So interestingly, I know the left, the Washington Post has an editorial today about, oh, my gosh,

00:06:08.340 this is lawfare now against a political opponent.

00:06:10.860 That's not what this is with John Bolton.

00:06:12.920 And I also think, as it relates to that-

00:06:15.560 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:06:15.940 Why do you say that?

00:06:16.840 Why do you say that?

00:06:17.660 Because I think Bolton, in and of himself, independent of the Russiagate stuff, that Bolton

00:06:25.320 was mishandling classified documents.

00:06:29.840 And that's what the raid on his home is all about.

00:06:33.280 And I also know that this investigation about Bolton predates Trump 47.

00:06:40.460 So, you know, what that tells me is that Bolton was sloppy about all this, and he's got a big

00:06:48.480 mouth, as everyone can kind of observe, and that that caught up to him.

00:06:52.900 And we'll see.

00:06:53.520 I mean, they haven't, he's not been charged with anything yet.

00:06:56.020 But when you're doing something like they just did, that's usually pretty late in the

00:07:01.240 stage of the investigation.

00:07:02.800 Yeah.

00:07:02.900 Okay.

00:07:03.340 All right.

00:07:03.760 And now you go on from there.

00:07:06.440 You were talking about Russiagate.

00:07:07.460 Yeah, when you talk about Russiagate, this is one, you know, I was on your radio show

00:07:13.700 last week talking about the book, Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court.

00:07:16.900 You're great to have me on to talk about those fights, and we can talk more about those too.

00:07:21.500 And people can get it on Amazon.

00:07:23.000 But if you want to kind of understand, this is why the Russiagate, I think it's such a

00:07:27.860 fulcrum for all of the things that happened over the next eight years, really, is because

00:07:34.340 in my view, it gave them license.

00:07:36.420 It gave the left Democrats license to make Donald Trump into something that he never

00:07:44.240 was with this threat to democracy.

00:07:46.080 He's a Manchurian candidate.

00:07:47.520 He is a Russian agent.

00:07:48.920 All of these things, even Hillary Clinton, after she lost, called him an illegitimate president.

00:07:54.220 And it all stemmed, we know now, when Tulsi Gabbard declassified those documents a couple

00:08:01.400 of weeks ago.

00:08:02.660 We also know why they were so hellbent on President Trump never getting back in office.

00:08:07.120 We know why they didn't want Tulsi Gabbard in that position.

00:08:10.120 All these sort of like, you know, reformers and disruptors that would be in administration

00:08:14.800 inside the castle now.

00:08:16.420 Um, that's why they, they don't want him there.

00:08:19.940 It's why, by the way, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was a plaintiff in my Missouri versus Biden

00:08:23.920 censorship lawsuit, as a guy Fauci tried to destroy because he talked about natural immunity.

00:08:28.940 He's now the head of NIH, right?

00:08:30.900 So, so we're a very, very interesting time historically.

00:08:34.260 And I think you, you put this stuff in context as well as anybody, Glenn, it's easy to, and I'll

00:08:39.280 get back to the Russiagate thing in a sec, but it's easy to kind of like, um, look at all

00:08:44.960 of this stuff as a, as a new news cycle and something new and you move on.

00:08:49.000 This stuff is critical.

00:08:50.260 So we all know now that a Soros funded organization worked with the Hillary Clinton campaign to

00:08:56.740 distract from her email problem and create a narrative that President Trump was somehow

00:09:03.400 affiliated or sponsored by, or preferred by Vladimir Putin and the Russians.

00:09:07.180 That's false.

00:09:08.540 Totally not true.

00:09:09.440 Uh, was, you know, been made true or been made, um, verified a thousand different ways

00:09:15.440 now, but it didn't matter to him.

00:09:17.640 That then becomes the Steele dossier, which then through the intelligence community becomes

00:09:22.500 laundered as something real.

00:09:24.820 And the people that knew it was false, Barack Obama knew it was false.

00:09:29.280 Brennan knew it was false.

00:09:30.420 The CIA director, Comey, the FBI director knew it was false.

00:09:34.040 Clapper knew it was false.

00:09:35.380 Uh, a guy by the name of James Baker, who was the general counsel at the FBI knew it was

00:09:40.060 false.

00:09:40.860 Interestingly, James Baker then, uh, becomes general counsel at Twitter during the 2020

00:09:45.100 election when the Hunter Biden laptop story should have unfolded and it didn't.

00:09:49.780 But anyway, so these guys knew it was, they knew it was nonsense.

00:09:53.040 They launder this report, uh, to, to spy on him.

00:09:56.620 Number one, as a presidential candidate.

00:09:58.180 And then when he wins to undermine him and his presidency, try to sideline a duly elected

00:10:05.020 president of the United States from achieving his agenda.

00:10:07.320 They never forgave him for going down the escalator in the first place.

00:10:11.780 And so then of course you have the first term, then the Russia stuff is used as a predicate

00:10:16.320 for, well, the, you know, uh, we took the deposition of Elvis Chan.

00:10:21.160 You can read about it in the book.

00:10:22.040 Um, a couple of interesting tidbits from the deposition with Elvis Chan.

00:10:27.100 One, they were pre bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story all throughout 2020.

00:10:33.200 They, the FBI had the laptop in their possession in late 2019.

00:10:37.700 They knew it was real.

00:10:39.320 So they're having these monthly, then weekly meetings with the biggest companies in the

00:10:43.000 history of the world, um, and telling them, be aware of a Russian hack and leak operation

00:10:48.340 coming.

00:10:48.840 Yoel Roth, who was like the integrity guy at Twitter, uh, said in an affidavit that he

00:10:55.580 specifically referenced the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:10:58.440 Okay.

00:10:58.620 So the FBI knows it's real.

00:11:00.120 They're telling him, be aware of the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:11:02.820 It's not real.

00:11:03.920 It's, it's a Russian hack and leak operation. 0.85

00:11:06.940 Think about that.

00:11:08.600 President Trump is the president of the United States at the time.

00:11:11.940 So this is how, how deep the rot was inside the admin state, deep state, whatever you want

00:11:18.820 to call it, they continue to try to undermine it.

00:11:22.180 They continue to try to make sure that he wasn't going to be president again.

00:11:25.480 And so that happens in 2020, that apparatus, then once Biden comes into office, all those

00:11:33.200 folks, then just simply turn the switch on this misinformation, disinformation game.

00:11:39.240 They've been playing to censor Americans. 0.88

00:11:41.740 Now they're inside.

00:11:43.160 Now they've got the keys to the, to the, to the Corvette and they turn it on the American

00:11:47.980 people.

00:11:48.560 Right.

00:11:49.500 And, and it continues, of course, then when he's running for president again, um, he's

00:11:54.820 a threat to democracy and they, you know, Jack Smith comes around the, you know, the number

00:11:59.760 two at Atlanta meets with the white house, um, all the same day, the number three person,

00:12:04.920 the DOJ goes to Alvin Bragg's office to try to put him in jail for the rest of his life.

00:12:08.600 So if you put that, like, if you, if you, you and I have this conversation, like this

00:12:13.400 seems like a Hollywood movie or some kind of coup plot in a third world banana Republic,

00:12:20.340 but it was happening here.

00:12:22.260 And one of the reasons why I wrote the book is because we can't forget that, like we can't

00:12:28.560 forget the things we were fighting against for four years and the strategies we employed

00:12:33.380 in Missouri to win when I was attorney general, like on the COVID vaccine shot or the censorship

00:12:37.380 lawsuit or the student loan debt forgiveness case, or the DEI struggle sessions, or the ESG

00:12:43.920 policies that we launched an investigation.

00:12:45.980 Anyway, so you can't forget this stuff.

00:12:48.120 But that's what everybody would say.

00:12:51.580 It's old news.

00:12:52.600 It's doesn't matter anymore.

00:12:54.520 I mean, they learned this from Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

00:12:58.600 I didn't have sex.

00:12:59.740 Yes, you did.

00:13:00.300 No, I didn't.

00:13:00.820 Yes, I did.

00:13:01.280 No, I didn't.

00:13:01.860 After a year and a half.

00:13:03.060 Okay.

00:13:03.480 Yes, I did.

00:13:04.360 It doesn't matter anyway.

00:13:06.180 Um, so explain why this stuff matters.

00:13:10.120 Why do we have to know it?

00:13:11.460 Why does it matter that we correct it?

00:13:14.440 Yeah.

00:13:14.840 Um, uh, there's a, there's a check writer, Milan Kadir, who, who wrote that, um,

00:13:20.380 the struggle against power is the struggle against memory and forgetting.

00:13:27.640 And if you believe in this, if you believe in this Republic, it's, it's kind of an

00:13:33.820 aberration in, in, in human history.

00:13:35.940 You know, like promote the founders were very well aware of this.

00:13:39.680 They create a separation of powers and federalism, essentially to have ambition, right?

00:13:44.240 Ambition.

00:13:44.760 So no, you know, all these things to protect individual liberty.

00:13:47.380 What we saw during COVID, let's just take COVID for example, that we can talk.

00:13:51.200 What we saw during COVID was I, I, I've said this, I think on your show before, I don't

00:13:57.360 think power necessarily corrupts, but I do think power reveals like when you're in those

00:14:02.460 positions, what do you do with it?

00:14:03.800 That's very revealing about who you are, what kind of leader you are, what your intentions

00:14:07.840 are, what your motivations are.

00:14:09.580 And in COVID, we saw, you know, people who never should have had power had way too much

00:14:13.700 of it and exercise it in ways that I thought, you know, were, were unimaginable.

00:14:18.720 And for me, honestly, that kind of, and I write in the book, it was this inflection point

00:14:23.620 in my life of, I looked around and I saw the forced masking of five-year-olds.

00:14:28.560 I saw compulsory COVID shots of the guy that's just trying to, you know, he's driving a forklift

00:14:33.340 and he wants to feed his family.

00:14:35.140 He's going to lose his job.

00:14:36.280 Like he's going to lose his job over this.

00:14:38.120 So somebody had to do something.

00:14:39.140 So we stepped up and did something, but you know, there was police tape around playgrounds

00:14:44.900 and bulldozing skate parks.

00:14:46.760 Yeah, I know.

00:14:47.660 Like, you know what I mean?

00:14:48.300 Like it feels like a distant place, but it was here and not that long ago, five years ago.

00:14:54.380 So I think we have to understand that and never let it happen again.

00:14:59.540 It's, it's not that, it's not that we just have forgotten.

00:15:03.640 We haven't done anything.

00:15:05.680 Nobody paid a price for that.

00:15:07.660 Did they?

00:15:08.660 Fauci is still out.

00:15:09.980 The people who were, I mean, when you think of the crimes and I mean, actual crimes and

00:15:17.300 you could call them, I think they rise to the crimes against humanity because of the

00:15:22.240 number of people that died, the crimes that they committed doing research with the Chinese 0.99

00:15:29.320 that they knew they were not allowed to do, but they were arrogant enough saying we can

00:15:34.460 control it.

00:15:35.140 It's, it's okay if we do it, they do it with China. 0.96

00:15:38.000 Then to protect themselves, they concoct this unbelievable story, destroy even more people

00:15:48.180 while the, while the disease that they made ravages the whole world. 0.92

00:15:53.900 If that's not a crime against humanity, what is a crime against humanity?

00:15:58.820 Yeah.

00:15:59.180 And I will tell you that, um, and I, I lay it out in the book.

00:16:03.020 We took Fauci's deposition and it was only the second time that he had his deposition

00:16:07.940 taken.

00:16:09.120 And, you know, I write the book, not for lawyers, although I hope lawyers read it.

00:16:13.680 Um, it's really, it's really to give your audience, like kind of an inside view.

00:16:17.840 What is it, what's it like to be at the NIH in November of 2022 and taught and, and ask

00:16:24.240 Fauci questions for eight hours?

00:16:25.960 Like, what's that like?

00:16:27.280 And I will tell you that the other attorney general, uh, Jeff Landry, who was in the case

00:16:32.180 had a copy of RFK juniors, really Anthony Fauci in the middle of the table, which I thought

00:16:36.980 it was hilarious.

00:16:37.720 Uh, I don't think that, uh, he didn't appreciate it, but what, what was telling, we spent probably

00:16:46.340 the first half Glenn on the lab leak and asking him, you know, what were his relationships

00:16:54.380 with, with certain people?

00:16:56.880 And, you know, because, you know, in 2014, the United States of America said, we don't

00:17:01.200 want to do gain of function research anymore.

00:17:02.700 Yeah.

00:17:04.340 But Fauci, he knew better.

00:17:06.900 He's the expert.

00:17:08.620 And so he starts, you know, funding the eco health Alliance.

00:17:11.980 And to your point, effectively funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where they

00:17:18.600 did not have the same safety protocols that they should have had to conduct that kind of

00:17:23.340 experimental research.

00:17:24.560 And then you have this, this, you know, supercharged virus.

00:17:28.340 And for, you know, for your audience, basically gain of function research is let's create something

00:17:32.780 that wouldn't exist in nature.

00:17:35.200 That's so powerful that we would then create a vaccine to solve the problem.

00:17:40.320 The reason why most sane scientists don't want to do it is because, um, the idea that you'd

00:17:46.540 be creating something that probably would never exist before with the risk that it could be

00:17:50.440 unleashed on the world.

00:17:51.280 Isn't worth the risk, right?

00:17:52.840 Like you wouldn't want to do that and end up with COVID-19, which is what we ended up

00:17:57.220 with.

00:17:57.580 And it's swept through the world, especially in the first wave.

00:18:00.340 Now you get to Omicron.

00:18:01.820 It's, you know, it's for most people, it's a seasonal virus.

00:18:05.660 If you have a bunch of comorbidities, it's a different deal.

00:18:10.960 But again, one of the lessons of COVID was we treated the 80 year old in the nursing home,

00:18:14.980 the same as the five-year-old in the classroom, which was totally insane.

00:18:18.740 But again, what happens when you have this kind of group think that creeped in, but anyway,

00:18:23.520 Fauci's deposition was instructive in that, you know, he claimed to be the science, but

00:18:28.820 then he said, I can't recall about 174 times as I recall.

00:18:33.680 He didn't like to be questioned.

00:18:35.680 He sent his chief deputy over to China in the beginning days of the pandemic to kind of survey

00:18:40.960 what China was doing.

00:18:42.420 And boy, he came back as a big proponent of lockdowns.

00:18:46.640 And as you remember, that's not what Trump's ethos was.

00:18:50.360 And that was the beginning.

00:18:52.100 That was the beginning of the divide where the Democrats would, you know, they would,

00:18:57.540 they would, they would obsess over President Trump because he stopped flights going in

00:19:01.340 and out of China, even though that was absolutely the right thing to do because it was Donald

00:19:04.880 Trump.

00:19:05.260 Um, and so you see this in crime in DC right now, just whatever he does, they take the

00:19:09.580 opposite point of view, but Fauci then became this opposition leader in, there were Fauci

00:19:14.020 candles, you know, that were burning across the country.

00:19:17.280 Yep.

00:19:17.520 Yep.

00:19:18.240 So it is, um, I think I mentioned this to you last week when I was on your show, but

00:19:21.600 it reminded me, so I ran into, I met RFK junior in Utah at the Republican AG conference.

00:19:28.640 This, I think it was the same, um, weekend we had had dinner out there and he came and

00:19:35.220 he had seen some of the work that I was doing in Missouri and, and it thanked me for that.

00:19:39.260 And we, and we had a conversation with a small group and him and he reminded me of something

00:19:43.300 I had not thought about in a long time, um, was, was the Milgram experiment, which was

00:19:49.300 this Yale study in the 1950s where a guy in a white, you know, lab coat and a clipboard

00:19:56.260 would welcome people into a room.

00:19:58.440 And there were people paid on the other side, paid actors on the other side of the wall.

00:20:02.800 And you were being asked then to turn up the dial of pain if there was a wrong answer.

00:20:09.000 And what they discovered was in the experiment that people would scream on the other side.

00:20:13.300 Including screams almost, you know, of, of intense pain.

00:20:16.920 And then the next time, nothing like the person was maybe dead and the willingness of some

00:20:22.820 people to continue to turn that dial is, is what haunted me as he, as we were talking about.

00:20:28.500 And the point was, man, if you get somebody in power, like Fauci, who's just spewing worse

00:20:33.720 than nonsense, but dangerous stuff, there are a lot of people that are willing to go along

00:20:37.480 with it.

00:20:37.820 And you also need to have people who are willing to stand up to it.

00:20:40.180 Well, it was because if, if I remember right with Milgram, it was because of the white 0.96

00:20:46.780 coat, because they were an expert and the person that was just turning the dial wasn't

00:20:53.480 an expert.

00:20:54.240 And so they looked at the expert and that's why Fauci kept saying, you can follow the

00:20:58.600 science, follow the science, follow the experts, listen to the experts.

00:21:01.180 Because if you, if you, um, cloak it in a white coat, you cloak it with authority, most

00:21:10.000 people will just go along with the authority.

00:21:12.580 And this experiment was done on how did you, how did you get the Germans to go along with

00:21:17.900 putting people in ovens?

00:21:19.320 How did that happen?

00:21:20.740 That explained it.

00:21:21.940 And it also explains, uh, Fauci.

00:21:25.580 It does.

00:21:26.360 And it also, by the way, and I think Glenn in, in the last line of defense, people can

00:21:30.800 get now the biggest chapter or the, the, the most in the book, I spent a lot of time on

00:21:36.340 the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit.

00:21:37.680 There's the COVID wars.

00:21:39.120 There's, there's the Missouri versus Biden.

00:21:41.060 There's a bunch of other stuff.

00:21:41.880 Second amendment fights.

00:21:42.680 We had Soros funded prosecutors, ESG, DEI, all the nonce masking, all that stuff.

00:21:48.860 But in, in that big chapter, um, what is interesting is that yes, you have these authority

00:21:56.100 figures and they were able to sort of cloak their, their, um, what they were doing in the

00:22:02.040 science or being an expert.

00:22:03.760 The next phase though, if you believe in America and you believe in the first amendment, I think

00:22:09.040 is perhaps the most chilling, which was if you dare to question it, if you dare to question

00:22:14.320 it, you were, you were silenced.

00:22:17.020 They were punishing dissent.

00:22:18.720 You were de-platformed.

00:22:20.480 Um, people, their lives were ruined.

00:22:23.640 Um, all because somebody said something as crazy, like Dr. Bhattacharya said, which is natural

00:22:29.980 immunity is actually still a thing.

00:22:32.160 Or you know what, maybe all what we're doing with these kids, they're the, the downsides worse.

00:22:37.620 They're going to have psychological problems.

00:22:39.380 There's going to be loss of learning.

00:22:40.540 And people were punished for that too.

00:22:43.140 This was the government and the government was outsourcing that to these big tech behemoths.

00:22:47.300 And then also universities through a bunch, through NGO nexus that was doing the dirty

00:22:51.660 work for the government there too.

00:22:53.440 Why?

00:22:53.800 Why, why, why, why?

00:22:55.400 Control, right?

00:22:57.320 It's not necessarily a foreign concept in the history of man, but the idea is that in this

00:23:03.100 country, we're supposed to believe in, in your ability to express yourself and the government

00:23:07.720 isn't going to control that.

00:23:09.100 By the way, this was, we filed the lawsuit.

00:23:12.060 I mean, there was in, in, um, may of 2022 and I had seen enough.

00:23:17.120 I had seen Saki at the podium talking about, she's flagging things for Facebook.

00:23:21.600 And along with my solicitor, general John Sauer, who's now the solicitor general of the

00:23:25.300 United States, brilliant lawyer.

00:23:26.740 Or we're just sitting around like, what is going on?

00:23:29.160 This is weird.

00:23:29.980 And then you get the whole ministry of, um, um, the, uh, not the ministry of truth, but

00:23:35.620 the, uh, uh, disinformation governance board.

00:23:38.440 Yeah.

00:23:39.120 Right.

00:23:39.780 Yeah.

00:23:39.980 That name was already taken.

00:23:41.520 And, uh, they were, the government, the government was going to be in charge of deciding

00:23:45.220 what the truth was.

00:23:46.840 That's crazy.

00:23:47.660 You know, people can make those decisions themselves, but that was under attack too in this, in

00:23:53.080 these dark days.

00:23:53.940 And so, you know, um, in America, we just, I think when we see that kind of stuff, we

00:23:58.780 got to fight back.

00:23:59.460 And that's the lesson in the book.

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00:24:56.760 So I go back to, yes, we have to fight back, but nobody's been arrested for any of that.

00:25:04.320 And remember, I described it as a crime against humanity, and you didn't necessarily disagree

00:25:11.220 with that label.

00:25:12.120 So if you don't go to jail for something like that, what, I mean, what do you go to jail for?

00:25:21.420 Right.

00:25:21.960 And I think, look, I get this question a lot now, which is now that we're on the other

00:25:26.660 side of the fever dream, and we are in a position now to do something about it, not

00:25:33.440 just uncover.

00:25:34.640 But I think, look, for me, the first piece of this has to be transparency, which I think

00:25:40.140 is the phase that we, like what Tulsi Gabbard did three weeks ago.

00:25:45.980 Is this coming with COVID?

00:25:48.960 Yeah.

00:25:50.100 Yeah.

00:25:50.780 I'm pretty confident of that.

00:25:52.060 But let's take Russiagate.

00:25:55.580 I do believe, Glenn, I do believe you're going to see indictments.

00:26:00.760 I don't know how in a free country you could have people in those positions blatantly lie

00:26:08.220 and try to subvert the will of people, try to defraud the United States of America, and

00:26:12.560 also potentially keep people off the ballot who have a First Amendment right to be on the

00:26:16.840 ballot without legal consequences.

00:26:20.440 And so how do you do that?

00:26:21.440 Well, there's a couple of barriers, right?

00:26:23.660 You've got a statute of limitations problem.

00:26:26.560 Obama, ironically, because of the Trump decision in the United States versus Trump, presidential

00:26:36.420 immunity is a thing.

00:26:39.280 However, there is no immunity for a presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:26:45.500 There's no immunity for the CIA director.

00:26:49.120 There's no immunity for the FBI director, and there's no immunity for, you know, Clapper

00:26:53.600 in this regard either.

00:26:54.780 So you've got a statute of limitations problem.

00:26:58.100 However, a conspiracy gets you outside of that.

00:27:03.680 And that is, I wrote an op-ed last week.

00:27:06.100 I think that's coming.

00:27:07.380 I hope that comes.

00:27:08.860 Because, you know, in criminal law, a conspiracy, or if you light the fuse in mile marker one,

00:27:16.920 and the explosion happens, even though you're not involved there on mile marker 10, you are

00:27:25.020 responsible for the conspiracy.

00:27:26.860 You are a part of the conspiracy that was ongoing for not just President Trump's, not just during

00:27:33.560 the campaign in 2016, not just during his presidency in 2016 to 2020, and, you know, but even after all of

00:27:41.660 that, as that continued, I think that's the hook.

00:27:45.460 And there has to be accountability here.

00:27:49.680 And I think that means criminal prosecutions.

00:27:52.900 Now, the facts have to bear all of that out.

00:27:55.460 And you have to, you know, because we, listen, we still, I still believe in a country where we're a country of

00:28:00.840 laws and not of men.

00:28:02.600 I don't think we want to do what they did.

00:28:05.200 But I also think when people did what they did, they ought to be held accountable for it.

00:28:09.240 So let me talk, let me change gears.

00:28:13.260 Let me, let me go to Washington, D.C. and the president saying that, you know, Chicago might

00:28:21.840 be next.

00:28:23.020 Well, as I read the Constitution, he doesn't have the right to do that.

00:28:25.800 He does in D.C., but he doesn't have the right to do that in Chicago.

00:28:29.260 You were the, you know, you were the A.G. for Missouri.

00:28:33.280 St. Louis is on that really dangerous city list.

00:28:37.000 Does he have a right to do it?

00:28:38.480 Can he do it?

00:28:39.140 Is there a way to do it?

00:28:40.680 Is it right to do it?

00:28:42.360 Well, let me, let me, let me sort of take the law enforcement angle of what you're asking

00:28:47.420 in two separate parts.

00:28:48.940 The first is actually last week we announced I've been talking to Cash Patel and other

00:28:56.600 folks at the DOJ since the confirmation process about getting help in St. Louis.

00:29:02.720 And, you know, Cash, I think, who I've known for a while, is committed to getting people

00:29:09.980 out of Washington, D.C. and out into the field, into the country to help get the FBI back to

00:29:15.080 what it's supposed to do, which is to help tackle violent crime.

00:29:18.740 And so there's a partnership now that St. Louis is going to get the largest infusion of per capita

00:29:25.100 of permanent FBI agents anywhere in the country to work side by side with local law enforcement

00:29:30.740 to take not not to be paper pushers, but like to actually bust up criminal gangs and put really

00:29:37.020 bad people who are carjacking and terrorizing communities in jail for a long time.

00:29:40.580 So, I think that's a very good way to go about doing this, and I think hopefully Missouri will

00:29:46.640 kind of lead the way on that.

00:29:48.680 And when I was attorney general also, I was going to say, I was going to say also what

00:29:55.280 we did, and I mentioned it in the book too, but this is before the left wing loonies came

00:29:59.080 in, but we had started something called the Safer Streets Initiative, where we had people

00:30:02.820 in the AG's office, my AG's office, deputized as assistant U.S. attorneys to get around the

00:30:08.600 Kim Gardner problem at the time, she's gone now in St. Louis, the Soros funded prosecutor 0.84

00:30:12.580 to prosecute violent crime in our federal courts with the U.S. attorney's office.

00:30:16.760 So, I think you're going to see, hopefully, some cooperation with state AG offices and U.S.

00:30:22.500 attorney's office on that front.

00:30:23.660 As it relates to the National Guard, which is what you're asking, the president has very

00:30:28.980 different authorities in Washington, D.C. than he does in other places.

00:30:33.560 Um, and, and when he, I think when he's talking about having the National Guard go places,

00:30:41.000 the best, I think, example of what that really looks like is think about what happened in

00:30:46.680 Los Angeles, which seems like a million years ago is like two months ago.

00:30:50.500 Um, when I, when ICE agents were being attacked and assaulted, um, you can have the National Guard

00:30:58.260 there to assist.

00:30:59.160 The National Guard doesn't make arrests.

00:31:01.380 The military doesn't make arrests.

00:31:03.180 Um, but the National Guard, I think, can assist local law enforcement, uh, in keeping the peace

00:31:08.120 and, uh, and let in freeing up more resources for local law enforcement to do their job.

00:31:12.280 So I think that's, that's what President Trump is talking about.

00:31:15.600 And, you know, it's amazing though, he's getting these big city mayors like, um, and J.B.

00:31:21.620 Pritzker, who's the governor of Illinois or the mayor of Chicago to take the incredibly 0.96

00:31:26.000 unpopular and stupid position, which is we don't need any help, nothing to see here. 0.99

00:31:30.900 And so anyway, it's crazy. 0.99

00:31:33.560 So is there a way to, you know, I was looking up Elliot Ness, uh, you know, when I, uh, heard

00:31:39.440 this story over the weekend and I talked a little bit about Elliot Ness, you know, the

00:31:43.760 untouchables, if you ever saw that movie, but it's based on a true story, uh, going into

00:31:48.360 Chicago and, and getting, uh, crime under control in Chicago, they used, uh, you know, accounting,

00:31:55.860 they used the IRS as their way to do it.

00:31:59.080 Um, and they cleaned Chicago up.

00:32:01.960 Are there tools that are not traditional law enforcement tools that the president has?

00:32:07.600 I mean, you know, well, first of all, uh, you know, the, the, the constitution says, unless

00:32:13.980 civil rights violations I think are going on and there is a, like a, a gross, uh, uh, dismissal

00:32:23.320 of federal law, something, something along those lines.

00:32:26.000 Well, that seems like ice, what, you know, all these sanctuary cities, are there things

00:32:30.640 that we can do, he can do besides send in the national guard?

00:32:35.800 Like, why aren't we cutting them off?

00:32:37.920 Why aren't we just cutting these cities off?

00:32:39.460 They need federal money.

00:32:40.500 You don't get any federal money.

00:32:41.600 Right.

00:32:42.920 Well, I think, uh, yes.

00:32:44.320 And one way of doing that is like, let's say you have discriminatory DEI policies, uh, in

00:32:49.500 your city.

00:32:50.560 Um, you just cut off all the federal grant dollars then related to anything.

00:32:54.240 Um, right.

00:32:55.240 That's one way to get at it because the Democrats have used that as an inverse, right?

00:32:58.120 Well, if you take this money, um, for a highway fund, then you gotta, you know, you gotta do

00:33:03.140 X, Y, and Z.

00:33:03.820 I think you gotta, but, but the difference is we're trying to pull people back.

00:33:07.220 I had her meet Dylan in front of my committee on the judiciary committee to talk about what

00:33:11.220 her plans were for the civil rights division of the department of justice. 0.89

00:33:14.580 And it was, um, it's just very exciting time because I've talked to her meet too.

00:33:20.700 I love her doing a great job.

00:33:22.580 A lot of people, a lot of people.

00:33:24.160 And by the way, one of my guys, uh, and I'm really proud of the team we had in the last

00:33:28.660 line of defense, the book that's out, you know, John Sowers, the solicitor general,

00:33:32.020 the first four district court judges that president Trump is appointed to serve in district courts

00:33:36.820 or we're in my AG's office.

00:33:38.500 They're coming to Missouri.

00:33:39.400 Uh, one of the deputy solicitors, a guy named Jesus said that, who's like the chief deputy

00:33:45.040 for, um, for Ms.

00:33:46.380 Dylan.

00:33:46.760 So there's just a lot of great Missouri ties to all the excitement that's happened, but

00:33:50.560 look, that, that division is perhaps been one of the most corrupted over the last 30 years.

00:33:57.180 And so it's not a surprise to me that a bunch of them walked and left.

00:33:59.820 Um, but what they can get back to now is I think they probably need to find a couple of

00:34:05.300 scalps in corporate America too, for the effect, like overtly racist policies that they've had

00:34:14.460 in place to meet their, you know, global, um, you know, index score over the year.

00:34:22.720 Yeah.

00:34:23.360 Right.

00:34:23.780 And, uh, I think you got to get after that.

00:34:25.600 I think, you know, we, I know in the book that when we launched an investigation into

00:34:29.900 the, um, net zero banking Alliance, which is now kind of in retreat, you were talking

00:34:33.980 about this probably before anybody was on ESG, but we launched an antitrust investigation

00:34:38.900 because, you know, these banks who control 40% of the capital in the United States were

00:34:43.060 saying we want portfolios.

00:34:44.700 They're going to be, have net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

00:34:47.300 The only way you can do that is first of all, you collude.

00:34:50.040 And second of all, you basically deny credit where credit where the applicants who have

00:34:55.200 like diesel trucks on their family farms loans and that's how expansive it was.

00:35:01.580 So they've kind of backed away.

00:35:02.960 A lot of this is a retreat.

00:35:04.200 Coca-Cola of course had, you know, a seminar on having people explain how they can be less

00:35:09.020 white.

00:35:09.500 I mean, this stuff is overtly racist.

00:35:11.680 So I think that, um, civil rights division is going to have a field day and hopefully again, 0.94

00:35:16.180 push this stuff further and further in retreat.

00:35:18.580 But I think there are things in, in, in motion right now that are, that are, um, going to

00:35:23.420 hold a lot of these really bad actors accountable who've done things, not just who are related

00:35:27.580 to some of the biggest scandals in American history, but even in corporate America where

00:35:31.380 they bought all this nonsense and, uh, and people were punished because of immutable characteristics.

00:35:36.860 Uh, talk to me a little bit about the Soros, you know, what you reveal in the book about

00:35:42.260 going after the Soros DAs and, and seeing all of the, uh, seeing all the, the Soros people

00:35:50.400 and money involved in politics.

00:35:53.540 Well, I think I get asked this question a lot, which is what, what's the point?

00:35:58.280 Why, why did Soros, why did he kind of arbitrage the system here in, in for relatively little

00:36:05.840 amount of money elect these Soros prosecutors across the country?

00:36:10.440 And it happened in Chicago and Philadelphia and San Francisco and St. Louis and other places.

00:36:16.020 If you, I mean, if you're a student of history, you are of Marxism, what you kind of have to

00:36:23.100 have before you really remake things is, is sort of disenchantment and chaos.

00:36:30.160 People have to be kind of untethered from the traditional things that anchored them in life,

00:36:34.980 which by the way, another reason why COVID was so scary, you couldn't go to church, you

00:36:39.120 know, um, you couldn't see your family.

00:36:41.860 You couldn't see your grandmother who was dying.

00:36:43.720 Like, and, and if you wanted to get together with your family, you were called a killer.

00:36:50.780 So they did everything.

00:36:52.300 And if you were on the other side, you were told to stay away from that member of your

00:36:57.900 family because they were dangerous.

00:36:59.600 I mean, that's right.

00:37:00.700 Everything to destroy everything traditional in, in all the human bonds.

00:37:05.620 Yes.

00:37:05.820 All the human bonds that traditionally tie us together.

00:37:08.160 Those were meant to be severed again, because the immense power and control these people had,

00:37:12.400 they could go on TV on a Monday morning, some County health official and tell people it's

00:37:16.520 okay to live your life or it's not, we're going to destroy your business week this week,

00:37:19.860 or we're, or we're not, we're going to let you allow people in.

00:37:23.220 And I'll tell you the other chilling aspect of that, Glenn, is that there were tip lines

00:37:27.200 opened.

00:37:27.740 I mean, 10 walls opened a tip line, um, to tell on your neighbor.

00:37:31.360 So one of the stories I tell in the book, the last line of defense that people can get is

00:37:35.100 we opened up our own tip line, but not to, not to oppress people, but to expose the oppression.

00:37:41.640 So when we sued 50 plus school districts for their mass mandates, we opened up that tip

00:37:46.180 line.

00:37:46.460 Tell us who's actually still forcing these kids to wear masks.

00:37:49.000 We heard stories that were unbelievable in Missouri, not this isn't in New York city.

00:37:53.140 This is in Missouri because a lot of these school administrators have gone to these conferences

00:37:57.440 and they've gotten the, the slide decks and they buy into all this nonsense.

00:38:01.180 But there were kids who refused to wear a mask, who were made to sit by themselves in

00:38:06.100 isolation in the middle of a school gym on a stage by themselves.

00:38:10.000 There were deaf kids.

00:38:11.520 There were deaf kids who had legitimate reasons and they can't learn anything. 1.00

00:38:16.340 And they were being told you can't attend an afterschool program.

00:38:19.100 Like the punishment that went along with noncompliance was really crazy.

00:38:25.020 And then of course, you know, with the CRT stuff, we, we opened that tip line up again and

00:38:29.220 we documented in the book, there were kids being forced to do something called a privilege

00:38:33.260 walk.

00:38:34.080 We're like, take closure, everybody in the class, grade school kids, close your eyes.

00:38:38.820 If you're white, take a step forward. 0.98

00:38:40.480 If your parents are married, take a step forward.

00:38:42.980 If your father has a job, take a step forward and then open your eyes and you look around

00:38:48.420 and that was your privilege.

00:38:50.800 And think about the division that creates among our kids who are just there to learn.

00:38:55.940 They don't, you know, all of this craziness that adults, you know, they should have known

00:38:59.580 better, but they were all doing this stuff.

00:39:02.100 It's just kind of wild.

00:39:04.060 They did know, they did know better.

00:39:05.580 And again, we saw school boards flip because of it.

00:39:09.960 And I think by and large, 2024, in addition to president Trump and kind of the singular political

00:39:14.780 figure, the American people rejected all of this stuff.

00:39:18.260 It was all in front of them.

00:39:19.280 And it's a kind of a return to common sense, but, um, you know, there's just a lot of stuff

00:39:25.220 that was going down.

00:39:26.420 Um, I swayed way off of your, your original question was Glenn, like, what was your original

00:39:30.860 question?

00:39:31.440 I started.

00:39:31.940 I don't even remember.

00:39:33.180 Oh, I mean, I've enjoyed the conversation.

00:39:35.600 Yeah.

00:39:35.880 Okay.

00:39:37.200 So it's, it's a disenchantment.

00:39:39.040 It's, it's a, um, it's a, it's a chaos that can create it so that then, you know, they

00:39:43.760 have a chance to sort of remake society in their own image.

00:39:46.980 And I think you have to buy into, you have to understand, cause that's the number one

00:39:51.560 question that comes to me all the time on George Soros.

00:39:53.780 Why?

00:39:54.280 I mean, he wants to make money.

00:39:55.760 Why would he do anything?

00:39:57.240 Because he doesn't believe in the system.

00:39:58.880 He doesn't believe he believes there is another system that is better.

00:40:02.880 Um, and it would be better for him.

00:40:04.840 Wouldn't be better for everybody else, but it would be better for him if it was designed

00:40:07.940 by him.

00:40:09.000 Um, and he also has said over and over again, I like to experiment with revolution and things

00:40:15.340 like that.

00:40:16.160 Well, I don't, but he does.

00:40:18.820 And so you have to understand, you just don't think like George Soros does.

00:40:22.740 Yeah.

00:40:23.240 I'll, I'll give you just one, one glimpse inside the book, um, where, where I saw it firsthand

00:40:28.260 in, in the summer of love of 2020, when of course, you know, you could, you couldn't

00:40:34.440 go outside and you certainly couldn't protest, exercise your first amendment, right.

00:40:39.620 Unless it was a black lives matter rally and then a riot.

00:40:44.600 And even like, remember that there were a thousand in the book thousand.

00:40:48.320 I think that was, by the way, for most normal people, that was kind of the breaking point.

00:40:52.540 They're like, why are a thousand health officials, public health officials writing a letter saying,

00:40:56.760 yeah, we know we've told you, you can't go outside and do stuff, but if you're protesting

00:41:00.820 quote unquote systemic race and it's racism, it's fine.

00:41:03.360 Like that was just totally insane.

00:41:05.860 But anyway, in that summer and ever in your audience will remember this in St.

00:41:11.040 Louis, a black lives matter group was marching to the white female mayor's house in the city. 0.99

00:41:16.580 And they were walking through a kind of a, you know, the central West end where there's

00:41:19.940 some really beautiful homes was a private street.

00:41:22.280 So on their way to the mayor's house, they come across the McCloskey's home and Mark and

00:41:28.860 Patricia McCloskey in this famous image, of course, come out in the pink polo and the 1.00

00:41:33.340 AR and, and, um, to protect their property.

00:41:37.320 Like they were threatening to kill their dog and burn their house down and they're outside

00:41:42.660 there and the media would like, that was unforgivable.

00:41:46.640 How dare you stand up and protect your lives or property?

00:41:50.900 Right.

00:41:51.520 Um, and they became obviously a big story.

00:41:54.340 So just to give you some sense of how crazy it was, the, the, the rioters in that summer

00:42:00.580 hardly were charged and certainly not to the extent that they could have been, including,

00:42:06.000 you know, there was a police officer, David Dorn, Captain David Dorn was protecting his

00:42:11.020 friend's store that night was murder.

00:42:13.660 And so all this is happening.

00:42:15.320 So instead of going after violent criminals, what does the prosecutor do?

00:42:18.840 She charges the McCloskey's, um, with, with, with a crime for merely exercising their second

00:42:25.800 member rights.

00:42:26.300 And so we stepped in, wrote a brief, ultimately the case was, they were pardoned by the governor,

00:42:30.320 uh, after they, you know, they entered into a plea deal, but it just goes to show you,

00:42:34.640 there's just a very weird, um, and again, I think we're, I think it's in retreat now.

00:42:40.540 Um, but this, I, a misplaced sense of, of who the victims are in this, in this world.

00:42:47.080 Um, you know, the, the, the actual victims of violent crime are much lower on the totem pole

00:42:53.000 than the quote unquote victims of systemic racism who are committing crimes themselves.

00:42:58.480 I, I'm not sure.

00:43:02.800 I'm not sure it's in retreat.

00:43:04.280 It is publicly and it is with the general population, but these are die hard radicals who have done

00:43:15.560 everything in their power to move it this far.

00:43:18.780 If I were that, I wouldn't be given this up.

00:43:21.080 I'd be like, yeah, it's a setback, double down, double down.

00:43:24.560 And it seems as though they are doubling down.

00:43:26.620 Well, I think the best example of that, and what, what we're watching very closely is on

00:43:32.720 DEI, like they, you know, the name that they tried to make, you know, diversity, equity,

00:43:38.660 inclusion, all these words that maybe sounds so flowery or the Institute of peace, you know,

00:43:44.980 um, which is crazy, but, um, people, people are aware of it, but that's my concern.

00:43:52.960 And what we wanted to be watched was that it just doesn't go underground and call be called

00:43:56.720 something else, but it's the same kind of cultural Marxism, but by another name.

00:44:02.160 Yeah.

00:44:04.820 Nearly one in four pregnancies and in abortion.

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00:44:21.560 Some, uh, some mom who is scared and unsure, a child who never gets the chance to take its

00:44:27.000 first breath and the future that ends before it even begins.

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00:45:18.920 Are you a hopeful guy?

00:45:21.220 I am generally optimistic.

00:45:24.080 Okay.

00:45:24.600 So let me just take you, let me just take you through this.

00:45:27.340 What was the first thing that you saw when you went, holy cow, I can't believe this is

00:45:34.220 happening.

00:45:36.320 I think, um, yeah, I think, uh, for me.

00:45:40.080 Um, and I mean, this is not just the gratuitous plug for the book, why I wrote the book.

00:45:48.220 I, I felt like in that job as attorney general, I saw the whole landscape for the first time.

00:45:55.160 I saw, you know, we beat back the election lawsuits in 2020 from Mark Elias.

00:46:02.900 I saw the censorship.

00:46:04.860 I saw the DEIs in a local school district in Springfield, Missouri.

00:46:08.820 I saw it all play out in, in the middle of America, in the heartland where the forces

00:46:17.160 were relentless and they wanted to shut down our lives.

00:46:21.140 And they wanted to force you to get a shot that, you know, that people can debate whether

00:46:25.940 you should get it or not, or you would lose everything.

00:46:28.660 You were going to have to, you have to confess to crimes of, of people who weren't related

00:46:36.940 to, um, all this stuff was unfolding and I wanted to lay it out, but to answer your question

00:46:42.360 specifically, I would say that in the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, I had a hunch that something

00:46:50.220 was much deeper than what they were saying at the podium about working with social media

00:46:55.840 companies.

00:46:57.360 We made it, when we filed the lawsuit, of course, it was lampooned as attention seeking and,

00:47:02.480 um, a conspiracy theory, but we'd made a very important strategic decision that we outline

00:47:07.980 is we sought discovery before we sought the injunction.

00:47:11.620 The injunction of course, is to stop the government from doing something you're objecting to.

00:47:15.380 The discovery is sort of all the evidence that you would normally get later after you

00:47:19.700 get a temporary restraining order, maybe, and then you go to the full-blown trial and

00:47:24.120 all of that.

00:47:25.420 We sought discovery first.

00:47:27.220 When we got that first round of stuff back, um, I couldn't believe it.

00:47:34.600 I couldn't, I, this is what, by the way, this was just what was available.

00:47:40.020 Um, we know now that they went underground with private email addresses.

00:47:44.420 Um, with, with who they were communicating with, but they were, Glenn, they were secret,

00:47:49.820 um, portals created for high ranking government officials and these big tech companies to say,

00:47:56.720 this is it, take it down.

00:47:58.220 And they did it.

00:47:59.180 They would threaten section two 30 protections.

00:48:01.500 They would threaten investigations.

00:48:03.500 Um, Biden's up there saying, you guys are killing people.

00:48:06.060 These social media companies, again, the biggest companies in the world are changing

00:48:10.080 terms of service.

00:48:11.100 Um, that kind of Leviathan of government weaponized against people, half the country is, uh, is

00:48:22.580 pretty scary and, and was, was very eyeopening for me.

00:48:25.940 And it, but I will tell you, it gave me a resolve.

00:48:28.420 It gave me a resolve.

00:48:29.300 When I saw what they were doing to kids and COVID and the censorship, it gave me resolve

00:48:32.960 and it's, and, and it's made me the Senator that I am now.

00:48:35.720 Um, but, uh, I wish it never would have happened, but you are always been a fighter.

00:48:41.720 I mean, I look back in my childhood and I didn't get this till I was probably maybe even

00:48:47.160 50.

00:48:48.220 Um, I grew up prime of my, uh, childhood really in the seventies, you know, 1976, the bicentennial.

00:48:58.560 I live in a town called Mount Vernon.

00:49:00.520 And it's dying because a mall comes into town.

00:49:03.340 My dad is a small business owner.

00:49:05.420 They're trying to come up with something that will, you know, revitalize the town.

00:49:09.120 My mom and dad come up with, well, we live in Mount Vernon, Washington.

00:49:12.600 The bicentennial is coming up.

00:49:13.900 Why don't we make this like a little colonial, you know, colonial thing.

00:49:17.440 And, uh, so I, I was steeped in all of this, you know, American history and also fighting

00:49:23.340 for our little small town.

00:49:24.660 And I didn't even realize until I think my wife said it to me, I might've been 40 or

00:49:29.840 50.

00:49:30.380 And she said, you realize you're just reliving your mom and dad's life.

00:49:34.680 It's not a small town anymore.

00:49:36.280 You're fighting for your country and you're using, you know, all the patriotic trappings

00:49:40.080 that, you know, you grew up with and you have that same zeal for America and the same zeal

00:49:45.060 for his small town.

00:49:46.340 So what was it with you?

00:49:47.980 What have you found anything from your childhood?

00:49:51.160 Have you always been this fighter that looks for the injustice or is this, this just happened

00:50:00.840 somehow?

00:50:01.740 When you write, when I've never written a book before.

00:50:04.640 Um, and when I wrote the book, it requires a lot of reflection.

00:50:09.440 Um, I, I actually saw I, in this picture you see, or what am I pointing to here?

00:50:16.700 That's actually me in the congressional baseball game.

00:50:18.980 Um, so I, I, I played a lot of, I played a lot of sports growing up, uh, including a

00:50:26.300 couple of college sports.

00:50:27.100 And, and, and, and I don't know, I was just thinking about that question that you asked,

00:50:30.700 like COVID was an inflection point, but what was it, what was stirred inside that in that

00:50:38.860 moment, there was no question, but I had to be a defender.

00:50:42.480 I had to be the last line of defense.

00:50:44.140 Well, when I was growing up, I played, I mean, grade school soccer, I was the sweeper, which

00:50:49.960 is the last guy in baseball.

00:50:51.920 I played in the outfield in basketball.

00:50:54.700 I played in the paint and in football, I was the free safety.

00:50:59.460 So I suppose there's something that God wired me through.

00:51:04.720 Well, nature or nurture or both to want to fight for the little guy and stand up and push

00:51:12.740 back.

00:51:13.240 And it doesn't matter who's on the other side.

00:51:15.760 It didn't ever matter to me.

00:51:17.060 I remember an incident.

00:51:17.960 I recount in the book too, of a kid with special needs that was being bullied on a bus in seventh

00:51:23.120 grade.

00:51:24.240 And I was outnumbered, but I thought it wasn't, it thought it was unjust.

00:51:28.080 I'm sure I didn't call it unjust in seventh grade, but, and I, you know, they were in

00:51:33.480 seventh grade.

00:51:34.100 Now, this is an injustice.

00:51:35.620 We must march.

00:51:36.740 But anyway, go ahead.

00:51:37.840 But, but I can, I confronted the bullies and I shamed him with my words.

00:51:42.500 I mean, I wasn't afraid to throw down either growing up where I grew up in a pretty work

00:51:46.280 class neighborhood.

00:51:46.880 So that wasn't, it was still kind of an honor culture.

00:51:50.120 But they backed down.

00:51:51.640 And I remember telling my dad about it and he said, you know, you never let anybody pick

00:51:55.200 on somebody who, you know, fault of their own has those kinds of challenges.

00:51:59.160 And then Steven, I've talked to you about my son, who's special needs and nonverbal.

00:52:03.840 And that has been only strengthened, I think, in me now.

00:52:08.440 I think God gave us Steven to protect him and to, and that's why I entered public life.

00:52:15.160 I wasn't, I was a lawyer.

00:52:16.620 I'd made partner.

00:52:17.500 I was starting a family.

00:52:19.020 I wasn't going to run for office.

00:52:20.640 Steven was born and he has a four hour seizure and he has all these challenges.

00:52:24.640 And I kind of went through this process of discernment.

00:52:27.960 Like, what do you want to do with your life?

00:52:29.360 And for me, it was public service.

00:52:30.740 So I ran for office and then, you know, I find myself here.

00:52:33.580 So it's a combination of things.

00:52:34.780 I've always loved this country.

00:52:36.140 I've always believed in America and the promise of America.

00:52:38.980 I suppose I've always had this kind of fighter defender DNA and through the catalytic experiences

00:52:44.880 with my son.

00:52:45.740 Um, and, and that kind of in the background of to serve, I I'm doing what I do today and

00:52:52.560 I feel like I'm exactly where I should be and I'm really grateful for it.

00:52:57.580 So let me go back to the question.

00:52:59.480 You're an optimist.

00:53:01.020 I want you to be a realist.

00:53:03.160 What is it that we're facing and what do we have to do?

00:53:07.800 What are the odds of winning 10 years down the road?

00:53:10.540 Well, if you would ask me this question a year ago versus today, my answer may have

00:53:18.320 been, in all honesty, just a little bit different, but wildly different.

00:53:23.060 I will say though, that the American people, they saw the lockdowns, they saw the open borders,

00:53:36.420 they saw the struggle sessions, they saw the leftist ideology, they saw the canceling,

00:53:44.820 they saw the censorship, they saw the lawfare, they saw President Trump, you know, stare it

00:53:52.480 all down and win.

00:53:55.800 And the American people sat in that jury's box, in my view, and they delivered their verdict.

00:54:00.060 They wanted reform because they still believe in America.

00:54:02.520 And I do too.

00:54:03.100 And I think I start the book, the first line in it, Glenn, is in November of 2024, the fever

00:54:11.300 broke.

00:54:12.540 And I believe that.

00:54:13.980 I think we were captured by something that's hard to really explain, but hopefully has cycled

00:54:20.980 out.

00:54:21.760 However, I am not naive, especially in foreign policy, definitely a realist.

00:54:26.180 I'm not naive.

00:54:27.920 These are forces that aren't going away.

00:54:29.860 They are in retreat and they have lost, but they're not going away.

00:54:33.720 And again, the reason why I wrote the book is, the last line of defense, it's a playbook.

00:54:39.700 Like, it was the darkest days.

00:54:41.700 We stood up, we fought back, we had a lot of big wins.

00:54:43.700 But there is a playbook because they have their playbook, but central to all of it is the

00:54:49.060 courage, the courage that's necessary to stand in the arena, the courage that in the middle

00:54:54.940 of all the stuff, when, you know, most people maybe aren't seeing it the same way you are,

00:54:59.480 that you're still willing to stand up and push back and fight for the things that you

00:55:02.320 believe in, no matter the cost.

00:55:03.420 There's a lot of incentives to just go along with things, especially in my job.

00:55:07.240 It's, you know, to go to the ribbon cuttings and all the stuff you can do, you can fill

00:55:11.440 all your time with that.

00:55:12.660 That's not me.

00:55:14.060 Like, that's not me.

00:55:15.160 I'm doing this because I believe in America and it's worth fighting for.

00:55:18.880 So it's not over yet.

00:55:20.880 It's never over.

00:55:21.600 The struggle against these forces and their ideology will never be over.

00:55:25.440 But I will say that I am optimistic that America and the things that we believe in,

00:55:32.300 we're going to win out.

00:55:33.400 But it is under constant assault.

00:55:35.040 It is under constant assault.

00:55:36.940 And that is probably a realization that I know now more than ever, given some of my

00:55:41.280 experiences.

00:55:43.260 Senator, as always, good to talk to you.

00:55:45.220 Thank you so much.

00:55:46.280 Name of the book is The Last Line of Defense.

00:55:50.400 And the author is Senator Eric Schmidt.

00:55:53.380 God bless.

00:55:54.060 Thank you.

00:55:55.020 Thanks, Glenn.

00:56:01.120 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 30, 2025

Ep 265 ｜ 'You're Going to See Indictments'： Russiagate Walls Closing In ｜ Sen. Eric Schmitt ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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