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00:01:41.360 Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We have some Hunter Biden updates and

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00:03:23.580 Pat Gray joins me in just a minute. First, I want to talk to you a little bit about

00:03:29.380 Devin Archer, because some things have really been bothering me. I've now seen or read two

00:03:34.880 different interviews from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner, Devin Archer, and I'm not exactly sure

00:03:41.500 what to make of his little PR tour. Is it just blind luck that he always seems to be just out of

00:03:50.540 your shot every time something happened that could tie him to the Biden family influence peddling

00:03:54.940 scheme? And this is what you really need to noodle here. Is it possible that every time,

00:04:01.900 oh, you know what, I had to go to the bathroom. Okay, sure. But I'm not really seeing a big push

00:04:08.500 by the GOP to really get down to what actually happened. And this bothers me a great deal.

00:04:14.740 Every time I'm expecting to see an explosive follow-up question during his congressional testimony,

00:04:19.640 it never came. Now, you may not notice this because maybe you didn't read the official

00:04:26.820 transcript. It was released last Thursday, and I understand you get busy and everything else,

00:04:31.800 and that's what you pay me to do. So by that time, Archer had already been interviewed by Tucker

00:04:38.080 Carlson before the transcript was released. Tons of what he disclosed couldn't be cross-tracked

00:04:45.640 by Tucker Carlson and his team. And there are a few things that need to be. On page 12 of the

00:04:53.800 congressional transcript, Arthur testifies that he first met the head of Burisma in Moscow.

00:05:01.580 Okay, why is that important? Well, the dates here, the dates here are just a little interesting.

00:05:08.720 The meeting took place on the exact same day that Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.

00:05:18.120 Now, why was the head of Burisma in Russia on that day? Why was Devin Archer's team considered a good

00:05:27.100 fit for Burisma as Russia was stealing Crimea? Did Devin Archer know that Burisma was one of the only

00:05:36.000 Ukrainian energy companies that had drilling rights in Ukraine? Some of the questions that should be

00:05:42.420 asked. The weeks following Russia's invasion of Crimea were pretty eventful. Hunter would join the 0.98

00:05:48.700 board of Burisma. He would also have a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House, and Joe Biden would

00:05:54.720 travel to Ukraine to discuss, to discuss, quote, fracking and greater energy production.

00:06:00.700 Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Joe Biden is going over to Ukraine to talk to them

00:06:07.960 about more fracking, natural gas, and oil, and trying to make sure that the Ukrainians and Burisma can do

00:06:21.580 more of these things. And yet, just a couple of years later, he's over here shutting us down.

00:06:28.840 Now, this context alone makes for a pretty fortuitous meeting. I mean, don't you think

00:06:35.460 it's at least a little interesting? It's least, it's worth at least a question, I'm thinking.

00:06:42.460 Congress treated this entire portion with like kind of a deer in the headlight, like,

00:06:46.780 what's happening, dude? And they don't say anything. Now, Devin Archer claimed that his meeting

00:06:54.700 at the White House was due to a school project for his kid. I'm not making this up. Something

00:07:02.900 involving paper mache. Wow. Now, was it only paper mache that was discussed at this meeting?

00:07:14.820 Did Burisma come up at all? Did Crimea and Burisma, the gas leases come up? Why did Hunter Biden tell

00:07:24.860 Archer to buy a burner phone just three days before his White House visit? Can we see the messages and

00:07:32.240 the emails and the calls from this so-called burner phone? Why do I have this feeling that this burner

00:07:39.440 phone has since been disappeared? Now, that's page 12. Let's go up a little further here. Let's look

00:07:50.620 at page 84 and 85. Congress attempts to ask a question about a man named Rob Walker. Now, who's

00:07:57.800 Rob Walker? Well, we know Rob Walker. He was revealed in the previous House disclosures as allegedly being

00:08:04.600 the middleman that received the cash payments from Hunter Biden's overseas dealings and then

00:08:09.820 delving them out to random members of the Biden family. Okay. When his name was brought up,

00:08:16.440 Archer's lawyer immediately butts in and shuts down. None of this is within a scope. Don't answer that.

00:08:23.680 That's what he said, which kind of sounds like the Rob Walker information is kind of important.

00:08:30.220 This is not how business is done. Why was it done this way? Why was the question about Rob Walker

00:08:39.440 shut down so quickly and pointedly? Why have we not called Rob Walker in to testify? Can you answer

00:08:46.740 that one? On page 36, Archer describes a business trip to Dubai where he attended along with Hunter

00:08:55.560 Biden and multiple Burisma executives. He then goes on to talk about how Burisma wanted Hunter to call

00:09:02.840 DC to fix the problem they were having. The group walked out just out of earshot from Archer and made

00:09:10.480 the call. What a stroke of luck. Now, remember the original statement was that Burisma wanted Hunter to

00:09:19.780 call DC for help. As Archer is pressed, Archer responds with this, and I'm quoting from the

00:09:27.280 transcript. Listen, I didn't hear the phone call, but he called his dad. Whoa. That's pretty interesting.

00:09:37.780 I thought this was reported that he just called DC. No, he said he called his dad.

00:09:44.600 Hmm. Now, was Devin Archer told that Hunter called DC or his father, Joe Biden? Because the statement

00:09:53.700 actually says both. James Mandafolo, the general counsel for the House Oversight Committee,

00:10:03.060 pushed him. He said he was asked if it was during the drive back to the hotel that the Burisma

00:10:09.980 executives told Archer that they had, quote, called the vice president. Uh, was it at the, was it in the

00:10:17.140 car or was it in the drive at the, with the drive home or was it sometime the next day? Now, this is

00:10:24.760 when things get a little weird. Devin Archer's lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, immediately chimes in

00:10:31.880 and says, uh, he told you expressly he called his father or that he called DC. Okay. Which, which one

00:10:40.620 is it? Now, remember, this is Devin Archer's own lawyer pushing in and he's like, oh, um, DC, DC.

00:10:49.500 Hmm. So wait, you said twice that it was his dad. And then you say, oh, no, no, no. Uh, it's DC.

00:10:59.940 After your attorney reminds you. Now, this was later brought back up right after testimony broke

00:11:07.200 for recess. Archer's lawyer stated that he wanted to clarify something before the rest of the interview

00:11:13.280 commenced. What was it he wanted to clarify? Well, the Devin Archer definitely, totally did not hear

00:11:21.600 anyone say Burisma executives had Hunter call his father. And it's for reals this time. Okay. This time

00:11:28.800 they mean it. Now I'm sorry. Can we circle back around on this one? It seems like a big deal for

00:11:38.240 the main witness who apparently has no direct information on influence peddling merely just to

00:11:45.340 acknowledge the appearance of it. But he didn't just do that. He also said he was told that Hunter

00:11:52.060 called his dad. Then he doubled down on it when asked by the committee general counsel. But then

00:11:59.100 when his, uh, lawyer butts in and asks him, are you sure that's what you mean? Oh yeah, no, it was

00:12:08.660 just DC wink, wink, nod, nod. I don't know. I think that should call for a little pushback,

00:12:15.680 uh, from Congress. Just, I mean, just a little. After reading the testimony, I almost get the

00:12:22.780 feeling that Congress is letting this slip through the cracks. Now, why would they do that?

00:12:28.460 Well, I've always assumed the rest of Washington DC was pissed at the Bidens for shining a light on

00:12:33.500 something they all have been quietly doing for decades upon decades. Washington is an influence

00:12:40.940 peddling Mecca. It is their number one cash crop. With that context, why would they want to bring it 1.00

00:12:48.880 all out in the open? Maybe just some food for thought. Now let me break for 60 seconds. We'll

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00:14:33.440 You know, it's really interesting. Let's say Holly to, uh, Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, who is

00:14:37.960 filling in for Stu today, who is, I was shocked by the pictures. Uh, I don't know about you, Pat,

00:14:45.180 and I don't know how he's going to do in court, but let, you know what, let's leave it alone. It's

00:14:50.600 getting harder and harder to say it, but innocent until proven guilty. So anyway, uh, the, have you

00:15:00.740 seen the new Rasmussen report? I don't think so. Okay. So this is on the impeachment. How many people

00:15:10.220 are for impeaching, uh, Joe Biden? And this to me is, I don't know, a little stunning. Uh, it shows

00:15:19.620 that the average American believes that Joe Biden did something wrong, that he, uh, he's, it's risen

00:15:30.000 to a high crime or misdemeanor, but you know, they're not really, I don't know. But why impeach

00:15:38.640 him over it to impeach him? Just leave him, leave him. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

00:15:44.280 Now I saw a story and it said, uh, Joe Biden might want to thank former president Donald

00:15:50.360 Trump for this. Voters appear to be suffering from impeachment fatigue. Really? Is that Donald

00:15:55.040 Trump that they think for that? Or is that the Democrats that knew all of this stuff about

00:16:00.920 Joe Biden and impeached Donald Trump over and over? It's not Donald Trump that was like,

00:16:06.180 you know what? You should impeach me. You don't remember him impeaching himself, uh, twice.

00:16:13.300 You don't remember that. No, I don't. I don't. Yeah. But he's on this spree of trying to go

00:16:19.740 to jail now. He's like, Hey, put me in jail. Put me in jail. Uh, there is now new information

00:16:29.860 that there was a money trail to the Biden family coffers from China.

00:16:37.260 U S attorney's office in Delaware charged Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes last month,

00:16:42.020 uh, released to a federal court last week, a now scuttled plea deal that affirmed the presidential

00:16:47.460 son got millions himself from Chinese forces in 2017 and 2018. The mood, the money was, uh,

00:16:57.060 money that it was included from a Chinese energy firm. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute,

00:17:02.500 a Chinese energy firm that is linked to the Chinese communist party. Hang on. There's another

00:17:12.140 story about this someplace. Cause I read a story about how we might have to dip into our strategic

00:17:18.780 oil reserve. And then I read this, uh, energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple

00:17:25.980 conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official before the Biden administration

00:17:32.000 announced that it would tap the strategic oil reserve. Hmm. Granholm's previously undisclosed

00:17:39.280 talks with the Chinese national energy administration chairman revealed that the Biden administration

00:17:45.480 likely discussed its plans to reduce, uh, to release oil from the SPR with China before the public

00:17:54.480 announcement. An amazing coincidence. Secretary Granholm's multiple closed door meetings with a CCP

00:18:03.860 connected energy official raised serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden

00:18:09.860 administration's energy agenda. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, help me out with this, Pat. So he was

00:18:16.620 getting money, at least his son was verifiably, he was getting money from a Chinese communist chart of party

00:18:24.460 controlled energy company, millions and millions of dollars going to him from that. And then he was also

00:18:33.180 getting money from Burisma to help them with their energy thing. Right. And yet the Biden seemed to be

00:18:42.640 awfully sure that, you know, brown energy is really bad. So that's weird. That is weird. That is very weird. Huh? Maybe it's 1.00

00:18:57.280 good over there. And it's bad over here. Is that what we know it's bad over here? Yeah. Well, colonialism for one

00:19:06.720 thing. Let's just say that. Colonialism. Yes. Thank you. And people here are not as willing to give money to

00:19:15.260 Hunter Biden, uh, you know, unless it's for art, for energy here. So screw these energy companies here.

00:19:23.180 Yeah. They don't know who to pay. They don't know how the game is played, you know? Right. They're learning.

00:19:28.780 They're learning, but, uh, well, and his art is incredibly valuable. As you know, uh, what does he get at?

00:19:35.300 $500,000 a piece for those paintings? They're beautiful. They're beautiful. And you get,

00:19:40.320 you, you get an appointment to a international post post and a beautiful painting to go along

00:19:45.900 with it. Right. So, right. And I think like a stay at the Lincoln bedroom too, if I'm not mistaken.

00:19:52.160 You might, you might do. Well, that was a more of a Clinton kind of thing. So I don't know if you

00:19:58.220 heard Vivek Ramaswamy said on Saturday that he said the war in Ukraine is likely tied to the

00:20:06.240 allegations that president Joe Biden's son received bribes from overseas energy firm Burisma. The purpose

00:20:12.820 of the U S military is to advance American interest, to protect the homeland, not to aimlessly fight

00:20:18.820 some random war that is arguably a repayment for the private bribe that a family member of the United

00:20:26.560 States received $5 million from Burisma. Does that not make sense? It sure does. Why is it? We are

00:20:33.780 sending so much over. Remember, what did they impeach, impeach Donald Trump over?

00:20:38.180 Uh, the Russian collusion for one thing and, uh, the payment to the stripper, right? The,

00:20:47.140 no, it wasn't, you miss, you miss remember. Okay. No, you miss remember. They were impeaching him,

00:20:55.900 trying to get impeached, impeach him and trying to get him thrown under the bus because he made a

00:21:01.360 phone call to Zelensky. Okay. So the phone call, correct. Where, what did he say? What did Trump say

00:21:13.680 to Zelensky? Uh, he, if I remember correctly and I'm still maybe misremembering this, uh, but he,

00:21:23.380 he, he wanted information. I think, uh, he wanted them to look into the corruption from, uh, the Biden

00:21:33.880 family. Ah, the Biden family in Burisma. So he says, Hey, I'll send these to you, but you got to help me

00:21:42.880 out here. You look into this because I know it was happening. Look into this. Yep. So they tried to

00:21:49.220 say quid pro quo. Okay. But wait a minute. So Zelensky talks to Trump. He knows how valuable

00:21:58.020 that information is to Trump and anyone against Joe Biden. Zelensky knows Zelensky comes over here

00:22:05.820 and says, Hey, I want more money, more money, more money. And Joe Biden doesn't even pass go to give

00:22:12.100 him the $200. He just keeps shelling out the cash. Cheat. Shouldn't someone look into that

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00:23:59.880 So coming up, we got Michael Franzese, huh? The former capo from New York's Colombo crime family.

00:24:19.200 You would think with such a good detective like Colombo in the family, you know, they wouldn't do

00:24:26.020 crime, but maybe that's why they were so good at it. I'm just saying. Hmm. That's a really good

00:24:32.020 point. He's sitting down. Thank you. He's sitting down with us here in just a second, uh, coming up

00:24:37.380 at the top of the next hour. So the beginning of our number two, and we're going to talk to him about,

00:24:42.740 uh, crime families. Uh, you know, they don't, did you know this? They don't necessarily have to be,

00:24:49.680 uh, Italian. Really? I didn't know if you know that. Well, could they be, I don't know, 0.99

00:24:54.740 for instance, Irish? Is that possible? Wow. I never thought of that. Maybe. Yeah,

00:25:01.140 it could be. Like an Irish crime family sort of thing. An Irish crime family. Nothing springs 0.97

00:25:08.640 to mind on that, but we'll pursue that. Yeah. Okay. We'll pursue that. So he's going to be joining

00:25:14.780 us. This, this guy is a, I mean, he is a kind of a legend, a kind of a legend. He was the son of

00:25:23.980 the notorious underboss of New York's violent Colombo crime family. Uh, as frenzies rolls within 0.80

00:25:29.720 the ranks, he was estimated to be making five to eight million dollars per week from gasoline

00:25:35.860 bootlegging per week. That's not bad. That's not bad. Yeah, he was, yeah, he was doing, yeah,

00:25:41.360 what are you pulling down a week? Uh, anyway, uh, he was involved with the Russian mafia in that scheme.

00:25:47.200 He survived countless ground grand jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal

00:25:52.400 racketeering trials, eight years in prison, mafia death sentence. He's still the only high ranking

00:25:57.600 member or made man, uh, still in his prime earning years to publicly walk away from the mob and live

00:26:05.500 to tell about it. Uh, frenzies, uh, with fortune magazine, number 18 on the list, the 50 most wealthy

00:26:13.680 and powerful mob bosses today. He is, um, not that guy at all, not that guy at all. And, uh, has, uh,

00:26:24.340 has done some pretty amazing things. Anyway, he's going to be on with us, uh, coming up to talk about

00:26:29.660 what was that? What was that thing you were wanting to talk to him about? I was wondering about, you know,

00:26:33.580 cause you mentioned that they're not all just Italian crime families. Maybe there's, uh, I don't

00:26:38.460 know. I just picked one out of the blue and thought maybe there's Irish crime families.

00:26:43.620 Huh? Yeah. Huh? Maybe. Yeah. Well, could be, could be, I don't know. We'll check with him.

00:26:47.800 Crime families, perhaps, maybe. Well, let's just focus on one. We've only got a short amount of time.

00:26:52.880 Okay. So we'll just, we'll just focus on that Italian one. Uh, did you see the appearance of 1.00

00:26:58.900 Mitch McConnell, uh, this weekend? Yeah, I did. There were some, there were some,

00:27:03.580 discussion on my show as to whether or not this is real. Uh, Jeffy, who's filling in this week,

00:27:09.000 was, uh, was saying this, he doesn't think it's, it's real audio. And I, I think it's absolutely

00:27:15.820 several versions. There are several versions from several different locations. Yeah. Uh,

00:27:22.780 it's not just one video. So here's, here's what happened. Listen.

00:27:26.720 So Mitch McConnell

00:27:29.760 is giving a speech. You can barely hear it. And they're, they're chanting, retire.

00:27:43.720 Huh?

00:27:47.140 He's still giving it. I don't know if he can even hear them.

00:27:50.000 Well, I think the stroke that he had affected his hearing a little bit. So I don't think

00:27:56.900 he does hear them. A little bit. So that's good. He just keeps going and giving the speech.

00:28:01.840 This goes on for a long time. Then they go into booze. Listen, they just go into booze. And then,

00:28:08.000 I mean, I've never heard anything like stop. I haven't heard anything like this. Have you?

00:28:13.580 I don't think so. No, not that sustained and that obvious. No, no. And especially not for

00:28:20.920 conservatives. We don't generally go that way. Right. Um, if he doesn't get the message after

00:28:27.220 that, I don't know what it's going to take. I think people, I mean, that was brutal. People

00:28:32.260 are sick of what's going on in our government where we've got people who are, you know, badly

00:28:39.040 disintegrating mentally and still in office. It, I think we'd like it to stop many of us. And, uh,

00:28:48.460 and the thing where he just stopped for 20 seconds was just too much for people. It's like, okay,

00:28:53.280 uh, enough. We don't need that from the Senate minority leader as well as the president and two

00:28:59.400 different senators and the speaker of the house or former speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi. I mean,

00:29:05.940 we're, we're just done with it. I have to tell you, I am, I'm really tired of hearing, uh, and

00:29:14.260 watching these people who were the don't trust anyone over 30 crowd. Yes. Glenn Beck is ranting

00:29:22.420 against the hippies again. These are the radicals from the sixties who have become the man and they're

00:29:30.840 trying to set the course. I mean, this is not just that they're making tax policy. They,

00:29:35.920 they are designing the future. They will not ever see or have to live in. What are we doing?

00:29:44.400 How, how is it, you know, our generation, the latch key generation, or I'm in the last year of

00:29:52.100 the boomers, but I don't know about you, Pat, you're kind of in the same place I am. I don't relate to 1.00

00:29:57.200 the boomers at all. I relate to, I relate to, um, we're generation. Are we generation X? No.

00:30:04.880 It's closer to, yeah. We're close to generation X. Yeah. We're close to generation X. And I relate

00:30:10.620 much more to generation X than I do the boomers. And I'm sick of the boomers. You know what? You had 1.00

00:30:16.820 your time, right? You designed it. Why are you handcuffing the future of our children? I feel

00:30:23.340 like our generation is supposed to stand up between the next generation and this generation that is 0.55

00:30:32.380 still ruling from the grave and say, stop it, go home and let the younger generation start to chart

00:30:41.620 their own course because they'll live it. They'll live it. I think that's imperative. I think the

00:30:48.360 oligarchy has to end, uh, because that's what we're living right now. We're living in an oligarchy. 0.89

00:30:54.320 It is. And, uh, when, when you look at, uh, at the people who are obviously compromised, obvious,

00:31:01.940 Diane Feinstein, John Fetterman, the president of the United States. Now you've got Mitch McConnell,

00:31:08.760 Mitch McConnell, man. I mean, and if, by the way, if Democrats would be honest, they'd be calling out

00:31:17.480 their side. Like we are our side. Mitch McConnell needs to go. Uh, and so do these Democrats who have 0.82

00:31:25.880 been compromised. It, it, it, it's not about party. It's about the country. And isn't it weird when you

00:31:33.760 say compromised, they're the same people that have been compromised by China. Feinstein has been,

00:31:41.220 uh, long time said that she was compromised by China. Mitch McConnell, long time said to be

00:31:48.840 compromised. And same with Joe Biden. All three of those guys who refuse to leave are involved deeply

00:31:56.300 with China. Yep. And then, you know, then you've got a person like Eric Swalwell, who was with the

00:32:04.600 yum yum, uh, for two years, the Chinese spy. I think it's fang fang. It is fang fang, but people 0.98

00:32:11.740 have taken to call it her yum yum for some reason. And I love that. Uh, but it's, is it a, is it not

00:32:18.600 incredible that he survived that whole scandal? A Chinese spy for two years and nobody cares. 0.92

00:32:26.780 Pat, we have the president of the United States. Most, I mean, the odds of him not being influenced

00:32:37.660 by the money coming to his family. Yeah. Astronomical. Okay. Compromised by the Chinese 1.00

00:32:45.040 wouldn't blow the balloon out of the sky. Met, we just found out this weekend. Granholm met with

00:32:52.040 the head of the energy, uh, commission for China and told them, Hey, we're going to dip into our,

00:32:59.840 our strategic oil reserve. What would the strategic oil reserves be strategic for? Oh, I don't know.

00:33:07.540 A war with our enemy. So we tell somebody who we think we might be going to war with

00:33:14.460 that we're going to reduce our strategic oil reserve and we consult with them for three days.

00:33:21.460 What are we out of our minds? You know, uh, yum yum is there. Okay. That's a really big deal.

00:33:28.740 This has caused the destruction of our country. If it is true and put us on a path with war for Ukraine 1.00

00:33:37.780 and China. What help me out. I wish I could. I, it's just so frustrating. Just so frustrating. So did

00:33:50.260 you see that, uh, Blinken came out this weekend? Uh, a Russian court has now convicted Vladimir Putin's

00:34:02.920 number one opposition convicted him on charges of extremism. Sentenced him to 19 years in prison.

00:34:14.400 Okay. He's an extremist. Blinken comes out and says the United States strongly condemns Russia's

00:34:21.680 conviction of their opposition leader on politically motivated charges. The Kremlin cannot silence the

00:34:29.640 truth. He should be released. Now, this statement comes one day after Trump is, uh, charged and

00:34:42.120 arraigned and with federal charges, uh, alleging that he orchestrated a plan to overturn the results

00:34:48.160 of the 2020 election, which would make him an extremist. Are, are we serious about what we're saying to

00:35:00.960 China? Has Blinken been called? Do, does he know what's going on here in the United States? Uh, it's

00:35:08.280 incredible. The lack of self-awareness, isn't it? It just, uh, total and complete blindness to it.

00:35:14.320 Amazing. They, they, I think they, many of them don't care, but I think also many of them absolutely

00:35:23.760 do not see the tie one to another. They're like, no, this is different. How exactly? How back in just a

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00:37:04.980 realestateagentsitrust.com. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:29.440 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. Pat Cray has joined us.

00:37:34.340 You know, Glenn, the connection you drew between Alexei Navalny, who was just sentenced to another

00:37:41.280 19 years in prison in Russia, and Donald Trump, I think it's so appropriate because that's exactly 0.94

00:37:50.480 what's going on. We've got a situation like Russia.

00:37:54.300 Yeah. Isn't he in prison already for like serving nine years for opposing Putin?

00:38:01.100 And they've just added another 19 to it. So he'll probably die in prison, which is exactly what

00:38:06.720 they want to see for Donald Trump. Oh, big time. Big time. You know, I was talking to a friend this

00:38:13.680 weekend and we were talking about it and I said, you know, what they're doing to Donald Trump

00:38:17.840 is not to him. They don't care about him. They are sending a message to his family, to us,

00:38:27.980 to people like Vivek Ramaswamy. Do not even think of it. You try to cross us and we will wipe you and

00:38:38.460 your family out. You will never recover from it. Don't even think about it. That's what they're doing. 0.99

00:38:44.540 You think you're going to clear out the deep state? Think again. Yeah, I think that's exactly

00:38:49.800 what they're sending. I mean, you know, and it kills me that more people don't think this way.

00:38:58.760 This guy has been investigated by everybody. And this is what you have? Look at you investigate

00:39:06.800 with the deep state covering the tracks, with the media not doing any follow-up, with no one

00:39:15.740 in foreign countries trying to do this because they've got them in the bag. So nobody's investigating 0.55

00:39:22.940 them. Every single intelligence agency in the world went after Donald Trump because he was against

00:39:31.120 all of them. Every single, you know, Davos group went after Donald Trump. And this is the best they

00:39:40.280 can do? Really? This is the best they can do. A phone call where he called Zelensky and said,

00:39:49.880 hey, you need to check into this corruption. He's right. He was right to ask that foreign leader for

00:39:58.100 that information. And they accuse him of doing that to hurt Joe Biden's chances of running for

00:40:05.520 president. Okay. Then what do they do? They try to destroy Donald Trump's chances of running for

00:40:13.840 president against Joe Biden. It's craziness. It's craziness. And it's a trumped up phone call,

00:40:21.460 no pun intended. It is also a thing where he was saying that, you know, I believe I won the election.

00:40:32.900 Well, what do you do? You're charging him with what? Is that the Stacey Abrams Act?

00:40:37.800 Yeah. Geez.

00:40:38.940 Yeah. I mean, how much tape do we have of all of these people saying exactly the same thing?

00:40:45.820 We couldn't play at all, but we have a 24-minute montage of Democrats complaining that whatever

00:40:53.620 election it was they were talking about, 2000, 2004, 2008, so on and so on, all were illegitimate.

00:41:00.800 Every time they lose, the Democrats complain. I think we should make time for that.

00:41:04.220 We should. Yeah. It's really good. Yeah. Maybe we'll do that in hour number three. We might make 24

00:41:09.440 minutes of time just to get that. It's amazing. Back in just a minute with a former

00:41:15.480 made man, mob boss, and he knows crime families. We're going to ask him about the Biden crime

00:41:22.400 family. Coming up. The Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:52.400 Hello and welcome, America. It's Monday, but we are going to start

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00:42:38.480 rundown on him. He is a serious guy. He grew up the son of the notorious underboss of New

00:42:44.640 York's violent Colombo crime family. As Francis rose within the ranks, he was estimated to having

00:42:53.480 making five to eight million dollars a week from a gasoline bootlegging scheme involving the Russian

00:43:01.240 mob. He survived countless ground jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal racketeering

00:43:08.120 trials, eight years in prison, and a mafia death sentence. He is still the only high-ranking made

00:43:15.020 man while still in his prime earning years to publicly walk away from the mob and live to tell

00:43:21.620 about it. 1986 Fortune magazine ranked Francis as number 18 on its list of the most 50 most wealthy

00:43:29.960 and powerful mob bosses. Today, he is the only man from that list who is not currently in jail or

00:43:37.940 deceased. He's a changed man. Over the weekend, he was with Kirk Cameron at a library reading good books

00:43:49.100 to kids, believe it or not. Truly a changed man, became a born-again Christian, walked away from the

00:43:56.280 life, lives without witness protection, and he now has a bi-weekly YouTube show called Sit Down

00:44:02.940 with Michael Francis. Gets over five million views a month, and we're going to talk to him about crime

00:44:11.500 families. Now, Pat is insisting that we, for some strange reason, really kind of focus on maybe crime

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00:45:47.320 Capo. Okay. Thank you. Former Capo, not a capo, but I'm not Italian. My wife was dying when I said

00:45:55.060 that. Michael, how are you, sir? I'm good, Glenn. Good morning. Your wife knows the correct

00:46:03.920 pronunciation. Oh, yeah. My wife is talk with your hands Italian. When I joined the family 0.59

00:46:12.040 every Sunday and you couldn't understand half the family because it was all in broken English,

00:46:18.520 it was a wonderful experience. But probably not the same experience you had growing up.

00:46:26.580 Michael, first of all, tell me about your change in life because you were a bad dude.

00:46:36.640 Well, yeah, Glenn. I mean, I spent over 20 years on the street and, you know, my dad was the underboss

00:46:41.960 of the Colombo family, one of the five New York Mafia families. So I grew up in the life, 0.66

00:46:47.460 even though my dad initially, he didn't want me to, you know, to be a member. He wanted me to go to

00:46:52.220 school and be a doctor. And I was on that road until he drew a 50-year prison sentence for a

00:46:59.840 federal conviction that he had and went off to prison in 1970. That's when things kind of changed

00:47:05.220 for me. And, you know, long story short, you know, to try to help him get out of jail, my dad proposed

00:47:10.620 me for membership in the life and I became a made member. That's the term in 1975 and started on that,

00:47:18.360 you know, at that road. But, you know, long story short, I mean, I became a major target of law

00:47:24.780 enforcement. I had, you know, seven indictments. I went to trial five different times. So I had a

00:47:31.340 bullseye on my back from day one because my dad was that high profile figure. But, you know, it all

00:47:37.920 happened for me when I met a young girl who was, you know, a young Christian girl. She's now my wife of

00:47:43.440 38 years. And I decided if I was, you know, if I wanted this girl in my life, I didn't want her to

00:47:50.000 put through what every other family goes through of every member of that life. And I had to make a

00:47:54.400 decision whether to stay in or walk away. And obviously I chose her and it was a life-changing

00:48:00.560 experience. And that was, like I said, 38 years ago. And I ended up, you know, doing eight years in

00:48:06.580 prison. I had a huge restitution for a plea that I took for a racketeering case. And life just

00:48:13.600 changed, you know, from that point. So it wasn't easy. It was a struggle, a challenge. A lot of people

00:48:18.700 were upset with me, but, you know, we made it through.

00:48:22.960 Good for you. Good for you. All right. I want to talk to you about, now, for some reason,

00:48:28.300 Pat, who is filling in for Stu today, is really harping on, you know, okay, we know about Italian

00:48:34.580 mob families. Are there mob families and he's just pulled out of the air, I mean, Irish for

00:48:42.600 some reason. I don't know if you know any Irish mob families. But can you, go ahead.

00:48:50.900 Yeah, in New York, you know, there was a crew there. They were called the Westies. And, you

00:48:56.900 know, I was familiar with them. We kind of worked with them at times. A fellow by the name of Jimmy

00:49:01.720 Koonin, who's now doing life in prison, was one of the leaders. And I was fairly close

00:49:05.620 with him. You know, and obviously in Ohio, there was another group.

00:49:11.160 Well, hang on just a second. I mean, you were talking about the Westies. And then I think

00:49:14.520 you said the Koon's and that's so that's W's and C's. Is there anybody in the B's? Like, 0.78

00:49:19.100 I don't know, by, uh, when you look at the family of the Bidens, is that not a crime

00:49:27.880 family? You know, I gotta tell you, Koonin, it's so hard for me to sit back and watch what's

00:49:34.880 going on and wonder why this all hasn't been exposed. The right questions are asked. You

00:49:40.880 know, I'll give you an example. You know, it's always follow the money. The money trail

00:49:45.260 always leads to something. And just so you know my background, I was, uh, you know, I

00:49:49.700 was indicted and pled guilty to, it was a racketeering case, but the underlying act was

00:49:54.520 I was defrauding the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline. We devised a

00:49:59.760 scheme. I ran it for eight years where we were selling gasoline and just keeping the

00:50:04.420 tax money. And I had 18, 18 shell companies, 18 of them. They did nothing. They had no

00:50:13.280 brick and mortar. They had no employees. They had no service. All we did was create a corporation

00:50:19.860 so that we can open up a bank account. And the money that flowed in there was all illegal

00:50:24.720 money. It was all tax money that we were taking from the government. There was no other purpose

00:50:28.620 for the, for the company. And that's exactly the same thing that the Bidens are doing.

00:50:34.200 There's no brick and mortar that provide no service. There's nothing but a bank account in

00:50:39.680 order to collect money. It's been shown that there was, you know, I don't a hundred and some

00:50:45.100 odd suspicious activity reports from the banks, which is a dead giveaway that this money is bad

00:50:51.160 money coming from someplace. And, uh, you know, I just hope it's exposed because, you know, Glenn,

00:50:58.280 listen, I was a bad guy. I took responsibility for what I did. I walked away from a life that I knew

00:51:03.840 was no good. Uh, but to have a president in office that's doing these kinds of things that was elected,

00:51:11.100 you know, to, to provide for the welfare of the people and protect the country.

00:51:15.720 And basically it's treasonous in my view. And a lot of people share this view because I get around

00:51:21.300 and people talk. Uh, it's just, I mean, I never heard of anything. I happen, I happen to agree

00:51:28.740 with you on, on that. Um, the, let's just focus again on the shell corporations. Every one of his

00:51:35.400 children and seemingly grandchildren, I think, except for one, um, has the shell corporations

00:51:41.600 and all of this money is going in and they don't, they have never even been asked. But when you look

00:51:50.280 at them, there is no reason that these shell corporations are getting money from Burisma,

00:51:56.140 et cetera, et cetera. So why isn't that a bigger deal? What does that tell you?

00:52:01.720 I think every, every, every reporter and every news conference should be asking this question

00:52:08.580 until it gives an answer. And there is no answer. That's why it cannot be answered. There is no

00:52:14.080 answer because it's an obvious situation for me. And you know, this whole idea that, you know,

00:52:19.480 he's not collecting money directly. Well, so what? I didn't collect money directly either,

00:52:23.960 but eventually it came to me, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's beyond my understanding why these

00:52:30.180 questions are not being asked to him every single day. This is absolutely. So I mean,

00:52:35.220 it's just, there's no, when, when you, when you have the RICO statute, as I understand it,

00:52:43.080 it, it, it is even for the, um, thinking of the crime. Is it not? I mean, you don't actually have

00:52:51.040 to, if you're selling the illusion, that's enough for the RICO statute to kick in. Is it not?

00:52:57.460 Absolutely. You know, when you have a conspiracy, you can take, sit down and talk about,

00:53:04.780 you know, committing the crime and the illusion would be something like that. You don't have to

00:53:08.920 commit the crime. You just have to be talking about it. You just have to be using that or letting

00:53:13.900 people think that you're going to provide that service, even if you don't. So if people are

00:53:19.560 thinking that Biden is going to somehow, you know, uh, use the power of his office,

00:53:25.560 but never does, but you're leading people to believe that that's a crime a hundred percent

00:53:31.020 under the statute. And listen, I've had, I've had three RICO statutes and defended two of them

00:53:36.100 in court. I understand it extremely well. So there's no question. Uh, so, uh, they would say

00:53:46.880 that then that's just Hunter's crime. Dad didn't know anything about it. That's just Hunter's crime.

00:53:53.360 Cause you can't prove that Joe got any money whatsoever. How would you answer that?

00:53:59.920 Well, let me ask you a question. I'll set up a scenario. Let's say I'm in a room and I'm having

00:54:05.260 a meeting. Uh, I'll do something foreign from what we're talking about. We're in a room.

00:54:09.600 I'm having a meeting with somebody that wants me to be an executive producer on a film that they,

00:54:15.040 uh, that they're creating. Right. And, uh, they're asking me, well, you know,

00:54:19.340 why should I make you executive producer? Can you help get this film done? And I stopped to talk

00:54:24.600 and they're all of a sudden, hold a second. You know, my, my father's on the phone. He's calling

00:54:28.320 me. Hey dad, how you doing? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The weather's great out here. I'm just in

00:54:32.760 a meeting talking with somebody. Yeah, dad, I'll talk to you soon. I hang up the phone. They said,

00:54:37.380 well, what does your father do? Well, he's the head of universal studios. Oh, okay. Let's continue

00:54:42.080 our conversation. What does that mean right there? That means this guy now knows that I have the

00:54:47.400 connection to get whatever I want done with you. So you're going to hire me. It's the same thing

00:54:52.260 that's going on there. Biden doesn't have to say anything on the phone. Just the fact that he calls

00:54:57.620 in when you're sitting in a meeting with his son, uh, lets that person believe, okay, I have the,

00:55:03.520 the power through this young man here I'm sitting with to get whatever I need done. You know, it's,

00:55:09.340 it's, it's unbelievable what's going on and that people don't see through this. Uh, and they're not

00:55:15.020 asking the right questions. So I want to get to your right questions here in a second. I, but I want

00:55:22.500 to, I want to first stop at Hunter Biden. You know, you say you're in the room and you know,

00:55:27.020 he picks up the phone. I can't imagine, um, trusting somebody who, you know, is a, is addicted to

00:55:37.300 hookers, um, is addicted to crack cocaine. And you would think that that would make him, uh, a more 0.98

00:55:45.220 reliable source because you can squeeze is would, would you have gotten into business when you were,

00:55:52.540 you know, in the crime business, would you have gotten into business with Hunter Biden to get his

00:55:58.500 dad? And would it make it a bigger target or, uh, would it be less dependable? We'll get to that

00:56:06.420 here in just a second. Um, we are talking to Michael Franzese. He was part of New York Colombo's, 0.98

00:56:12.200 uh, uh, Colombo fight, uh, crime family years ago and a changed man and kind of upset what's going

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00:57:44.420 For our capo from, uh, from New York and New York's Colombo crime capo. Why am I saying it that way?

00:57:51.660 Uh, capo, um, uh, from the crime family in New York, he is the host of sit down with Michael

00:57:57.820 Francis. Uh, and we're talking about Joe and Hunter Biden and that crime family. Michael is,

00:58:06.340 is his drug addiction and hooker addiction. Does that make him a bigger, uh, target for, 0.79

00:58:15.840 you know, mobs? Well, you know, Glenn, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, he's irrelevant,

00:58:23.200 but if he's the, uh, you know, the way to get to his father, didn't matter that he had a drug

00:58:28.520 addiction or whatever, because nobody's using him for anything. You know, he's just the, the conduit

00:58:34.060 to his father. And if he gives the illusion or he gives the reality that he can get to his father

00:58:40.120 and get things done that the other person wants, it doesn't matter that he's, because he's irrelevant,

00:58:46.260 really. He's just a conduit to his dad. And look, my, my brother was a drug addict for 25 years,

00:58:52.600 serious drug addict, but many people got to me through him because he was selling my ability

00:58:58.040 to help somebody out for money. You know? So, I mean, it's so obvious, Glenn, it really is.

00:59:04.640 You know, Hunter has no skill. There's nothing that he can provide the whole thing with him being

00:59:09.340 on the Burisma board for $83,000 a month. I mean, it's, it's so obvious that he was just a conduit

00:59:16.220 to his father. And, you know, the reason that in my opinion, the reason that Joe Biden always sticks

00:59:22.600 up for his son, Hunter is because Joe Biden is the one that's moving him all over the world to make

00:59:28.400 these deals. So he can't go against him. You know, in reality, if this was true, I mean, look,

00:59:36.320 like I said, I have a brother, I have two sons. If I was in a position and these kids were going

00:59:41.600 around and causing me havoc like this, I mean, I either lock him up or have him in a room or sit

00:59:47.080 him down and say, you know, don't you dare go to any of these places and, and ruin my situation here

00:59:53.680 or compromise me in any way. But he allowed him to do this for years. And not only him,

00:59:59.000 but his brother and who knows, maybe other family members. It's, it's just so obvious, Glenn. It

01:00:04.720 really is. It was, it, it also makes it worse that he was traveling with his dad. You come off of

01:00:11.540 Air Force One or Air Force Two. That is another signal that he's right in with his dad. There's no way

01:00:19.160 his dad didn't know this. I mean, it's, it's beyond my understanding how people don't understand that

01:00:29.080 Joe Biden knew everything. Of course, he had conversations with his son. He's riding in the

01:00:33.980 same plane. He's with him all the time. Of course, he's conversing and you know, he's knowing what's

01:00:38.940 going on. And you know, this whole sweetheart deal that Hunter got, I mean, come on, I was facing

01:00:45.300 hundreds of years for tax evasion. You don't get a slap on the wrist and you don't get a misdemeanor

01:00:51.000 for tax evasion. You don't. And you don't, it doesn't take five years to investigate a case like

01:00:57.820 this. It's so obvious. It really is. And the fact that this man is up there and is, he's so dishonest

01:01:04.840 and lies about it. You know, Joe Biden, it's terrible. It really is. We have to break here in 0.54

01:01:10.800 about another minute and maybe a minute and a half. But you said you think he's a traitor to

01:01:17.080 his country. I happen to believe that as well. What else would you call it when you're taking

01:01:22.880 money from the Chinese and another country that we're now going to, you know, possibly going to be

01:01:31.280 in war with? There's nothing else to call it. It is what it is. It's obvious. You're taking money

01:01:40.280 from the, you know, the Chinese Communist Party. What are you taking it for? How could you be in

01:01:45.640 bed with them, so to speak, and not be doing some, you know, devious, you know, business with them?

01:01:51.560 It's so obvious and it's frightening. And I'll tell you, whether you're Republican or Democrat,

01:01:57.480 there's a time, you know, when you say, hey, my country first. And if this guy's been doing this

01:02:02.380 for years, how do we allow it to continue? And look, you know, I was a Trump supporter. I'll be

01:02:08.440 honest with you. But if Donald Trump was doing this, I'd say the same thing. It's country first.

01:02:12.860 I would too.

01:02:14.000 I would too.

01:02:15.160 I was on the street for 20 years. I was not an angel, but I still love my country. You know,

01:02:20.760 I have seven kids. I have six grandkids. I worry about what's going on here in the future for them.

01:02:25.420 And I just don't understand why people are not getting together and saying this man is not,

01:02:31.780 he shouldn't be in office, period. That's it.

01:02:35.800 Michael, hang on just a second. If you can, I'd like to come back with more. Michael Francis,

01:02:40.600 he is a former mob boss. His dad was ruthless when he was the head of the Colombo crime family.

01:02:49.140 Michael got out and turned his life around, as usually is the case when he met a good woman.

01:02:58.060 Back with more in a minute.

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01:04:33.320 We are talking to a world-famous mobster who has turned his life around. He is the host of Sit Down

01:05:01.820 with Michael Francis. He was part of New York's Colombo crime family. He's a made man. His father 0.85

01:05:10.060 was the notorious leader of the crime family. Like I said, he's changed his life, married a good woman

01:05:17.080 and turned his life over to God and has been on a good track for many, many, many, many years. 38

01:05:24.100 years married. So Michael, I want to lay out a, I just want to lay this scenario out and I don't think

01:05:30.880 anybody is laying it out this way, but you tell me what this looks like. So Zelensky, uh, I'm sorry.

01:05:38.440 Um, Kolomolsky, he is, I whore Kolomolsky. He is the, the oligarch, really bad dude. He beheads his, 0.94

01:05:47.760 uh, his, uh, opponents. Okay. Anybody gets in the way he is known to behead them. So he hires

01:05:56.400 Hunter Biden and, uh, he's trying to get, uh, you know, some access. The dad comes over Joe Biden

01:06:05.520 immediately after he's hired, he gives a big speech about how we got to do more fracking.

01:06:10.680 We have to have more oil running through. Now, this is the same guy that just three or four years

01:06:16.220 later shuts down all of America's fracking and, and oil. When Trump, uh, is, starts to fall on this

01:06:26.340 trail, he calls Zelensky. Now Zelensky is a, he was a comedian on television and Kolomolsky is one of

01:06:36.380 the big oligarchs that paid for his campaign to become president. He becomes president. President

01:06:44.220 Trump calls him says, Hey, can you look into this stuff? All of a sudden, all of this stuff is

01:06:50.080 leaked about how, uh, Trump is, is trying to do tit for tat. Uh, he's impeached and the whole thing

01:06:57.800 kind of goes away. Now Joe Biden gets in and shockingly he and, uh, Zelensky are pals and

01:07:07.300 they're pals against this war against Russia. But Zelensky is the only person I have ever seen

01:07:13.620 that can go to the white house. Not even Winston Churchill got this can go to the white house and

01:07:18.700 say, I want you to write more. And he will write check after check after check, billions of dollars,

01:07:25.360 none of it being tracked or accounted for. And by the way, Kolomolsky, he was just, uh, he just lost

01:07:34.480 his citizenship because last year, uh, uh, Zelensky said, you know what? The United States

01:07:42.380 is investigating him. He's got to get out of here. He's lost his citizenship. That sounds like

01:07:48.460 somebody being cut out of the deal because they think they can now. Does that not sound like a huge

01:07:55.840 money laundering system and blackmail bribery and everything else? Oh, absolutely. I mean,

01:08:04.460 it's so obvious, Glenn, it's so obvious. First of all, what is Hunter Biden doing in bed with

01:08:09.400 somebody like that? When your father is, uh, you know, how do you not stop him from being involved

01:08:16.460 with somebody like that? Correct. It's very simple because you're promoting it. You're promoting it

01:08:21.440 the same way he's been promoting Hunter all over the world to go out and make these relationships

01:08:26.180 and collect money. I mean, this is, this is a racket. And it's not only that. I mean, Hunter has

01:08:33.820 given us the information. He's sitting there talking on the phone with his father next to him,

01:08:38.800 shaking people down. This is extortion. You go to jail for this for a long time. And, and, you know,

01:08:45.480 the department of justice is not investigating this. They, they laid out this whole racketeering case.

01:08:50.780 It's, it's, it's as plain as day, you know, just going back to your, you know, to your question

01:08:56.100 about these companies, when you form a company, an LLC, a corporation, you do it for a purpose

01:09:01.480 because you have a business. That company has a function. It's a business that you're going to

01:09:06.900 provide a service to clients. So they in turn pay you. So the question is, what was the function

01:09:13.300 that these companies performed in order to receive money from a client? What was the service?

01:09:18.840 And if the case, what was his granddaughter, what service was he's providing, you know,

01:09:25.020 for people overseas to collect this money? The questions are not being asked and they should

01:09:31.480 be asked that every single, uh, time that you see this president, every time you're in the room with

01:09:37.480 his spokesperson there, because they can't answer this. There is no answer. The only logical answer

01:09:44.340 that's right in front of everybody's face is that he's collecting bad money for a service. And that

01:09:50.200 services he's selling, uh, you know, his position.

01:09:55.340 Yes. This is the weaponization.

01:09:57.740 The, the weaponization of the government now to destroy Donald Trump. When, when you were in the

01:10:07.180 mob, things like that had to be, uh, you know, you send people a message. What is the message

01:10:13.180 the government is trying to send and who are they sending it to? Donald Trump, the American people,

01:10:19.480 all of us, what is happening there?

01:10:21.600 You know what, Glenn, when I, when I was on the street, look, I'll say this and please understand

01:10:26.980 where I'm coming from. My dad, you know, spent a lot of years in that life and did a lot of bad

01:10:31.380 things. No doubt. So did I, I went to jail for a crime that I was guilty of. I pled guilty. I did my

01:10:37.280 time. Okay. But there were times when the FBI stretched their, uh, you know, their, their ability

01:10:43.940 and they, they committed crimes in order to catch us. But you know what? We were mobsters. People

01:10:50.060 look the other way. Okay. We get it. Sometimes the FBI had to do things like that. But I always

01:10:56.060 said, when you give the government an inch, they'll take a yard and they'll never give it back. If you

01:11:00.200 allow them to break the law, to go after lawbreakers, eventually they're going to use that power against 0.97

01:11:05.820 their enemies. And that's exactly what they're doing now. And they're so overt and so blatant about

01:11:13.040 it. They don't even care. They don't even care. It's so obvious. So, you know, I try to tell people,

01:11:19.000 I make them aware, this is extremely dangerous. It really is. Because when you give the government

01:11:25.220 the power to go after their enemies and weaponize them pretty soon, they'll use it against anybody

01:11:30.300 they want to. And look, they've been doing it with our social media companies, going, closing people

01:11:35.300 down, stopping free speech. This is terribly dangerous. There is a, a really dangerous trend

01:11:41.520 going on in this country and people need to wake up to this and they need to have it stopped.

01:11:46.500 You know, people even tell me, Michael, why, why are you so overtly talking about this?

01:11:51.620 Because, you know, next thing you know, they'll be coming after me. But listen, I'm 72 years old.

01:11:56.680 You know, I, I don't worry what they're going to do to me. I have seven children. I have six

01:12:00.880 grandchildren. This country is not the country that I grew up in. And, and it's such a dramatic

01:12:06.600 change that's going on. That's so overt and so obvious. I mean, this president, I'm telling you,

01:12:13.300 Glenn, you know, somebody has to get him under control. You know, I look, and I'm going to take

01:12:19.820 this a step further and, and please, I hope your audience doesn't get offended. But, you know,

01:12:24.480 I spoke to 850 border patrol agents, the state of Texas. I did a whole, you know, seminar with them.

01:12:30.520 And then we hung out afterwards and we talked some of the things that they were telling me about

01:12:34.240 what's going on in the Southern border. And they said, they're getting so little help from

01:12:38.400 the federal government. I mean, you know, I mean, there's murder taking place over there. People

01:12:43.420 are dying. The drugs that are coming over when you're president of the United States, and you

01:12:48.520 understand that a hundred thousand people a year are dying from fentanyl overdose and fentanyl poisoning,

01:12:54.840 because there's oftentimes that somebody will take an Adderall, you know, kids take Adderalls to stay

01:13:00.420 up at night so they can study, you know, kids in college. I know my daughters did that,

01:13:04.420 but these Adderalls, some of them being laced with fentanyl, that's poisoning. That's not even

01:13:09.720 an addiction. If you know that this is going on in your country and you allow it to happen,

01:13:15.940 you don't get this under control. What type of person are you? I mean, we didn't do that on the

01:13:21.040 street. We didn't allow that. We took care of our communities. You know, we might've been bad guys,

01:13:25.740 but we didn't allow crime to come into our neighborhoods and our communities. This is,

01:13:29.960 this is just horrible stuff. This is bad stuff. I'm telling you.

01:13:34.420 So let's just pause for a second. I don't know how much time you have, Michael. Can you stay over

01:13:41.100 the top of the hour? Yeah, I'm here. It's early morning where I am. Okay. Okay. So let me ask you

01:13:47.900 the follow-up question on the drugs. Compare what's happening right now with fentanyl to the worst time

01:13:56.600 in American history with drugs. I remember the crack thing in the 80s,

01:14:03.840 and, and how bad drugs were in the seventies compare what's happening because of our border

01:14:08.680 policy to those times. Well, it's, it's just as bad or worse because I don't, I don't know if you

01:14:17.800 realize what's going on in some of these cities now with Frank. I mean, I, you live in LA,

01:14:23.240 you would not believe what's going on there. You walk down the streets, you see drug addicts and

01:14:27.800 homeless people everywhere. The same in Portland, Seattle. I had a store in San Francisco, a pizza

01:14:34.280 place. We had to shut it down. We had to shut it down because, you know, people hanging out. We had

01:14:40.220 hypodermic needles on the floor. We had people defecating in front of the, but I can't even tell

01:14:46.240 you the scene that that's going on there. So, you know, and look, this is a little bit personal

01:14:51.740 for me. I mean, I had a sister that died of an overdose of drugs. My, my daughter's boyfriend

01:14:56.660 who did a lot of my video work, 24 years old, a terrific young man took an Adderall that was

01:15:03.160 laced with fentanyl in five minutes, Glenn dropped dead in my house, in my house. And he had no idea.

01:15:11.860 He was poisoned by this. It was an Adderall that he took. And a lot of these young people take these, 0.56

01:15:16.660 these Adderalls. I'm not saying they should not suggesting that, but they do. It keeps them awake

01:15:21.080 and they study. And this stuff is going on and it's happening and it's coming over the border in

01:15:27.600 droves that the, the agents told me they're not even getting 10% of the illegal drugs that are coming

01:15:33.160 over our border. This is straight from their mouth, not even 10%. So what does that mean? And this is

01:15:39.400 going into neighborhoods and communities. You know, I laugh, you know, the, the mayor of New

01:15:44.240 York who, you know, I had a little bit of high hope for when he came in, he was a former police

01:15:48.600 officer. The mayor of New York comes in and he's complaining about homeless, about immigrants

01:15:53.120 coming into, you know, to New York. We'll go after your president. He's the one that's allowing this.

01:15:59.120 Right. Right. It's not the, it's not the governor of the border states. I mean,

01:16:03.800 you're a sanctuary city. You welcome them with open arms. And now you complain, go after your

01:16:08.800 president. It's this administration. It's Mayorkas. It's these people that are allowing 0.79

01:16:13.940 this to happen. And what's, you know, Glenn, maybe you can answer me. What's the end game here?

01:16:19.360 Why are they doing this? Why are they allowing these people to come in in droves? You know,

01:16:24.460 to me, it's, it's a story that, well, yeah. I mean, what's the reason? What, what are they,

01:16:29.800 they're not humane. We know where they don't care about them. That's for sure. They don't want 0.96

01:16:33.720 them in their neighborhoods. But what, what's the end game? There's something devious going on here.

01:16:39.080 They have a, they have a devious reason to allow this to happen.

01:16:44.240 Well, I mean, everything that, I mean, you can't, to me, Michael, you can't be this wrong. And,

01:16:51.080 you know, by happenstance, I mean, everything they do leads to one way or another chaos,

01:16:57.640 the destruction of values and the destruction of everything that is American. I mean, we are being

01:17:05.160 impoverished through inflation. We are being killed through, honestly, this, all this is,

01:17:12.180 is the opium wars that the British did to the Chinese. The Chinese learned from it and they're 0.99

01:17:17.200 doing it to us. We are under attack inside and outside, and we are being destroyed. And I'm sorry,

01:17:25.040 you just can't be this wrong this many times and not have it be a coincidence. You can't convince

01:17:31.620 me that they're trying to make America a better place. They're dismantling it every step of the

01:17:36.060 way. Michael, hang on just a second. I'm going to, I want to take you one more step into, well,

01:17:40.900 before we leave the border, to the drug cartels. And maybe you have some insight on, on how bad those

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01:19:31.700 The Glenn Beck program.

01:19:48.240 This is the Glenn Beck program. Um, Michael Francis is with us. He is, uh, the Dr. Phil, if you will,

01:19:56.220 of, of, uh, uh, of organized crime for anybody who is a fan of, you know, um, organized crime

01:20:04.880 movies, et cetera, et cetera. Michael, the, the people we are now, and I believe we're dealing

01:20:10.680 with whether we're having sit downs or not, we are empowering these drug cartels. How bad

01:20:18.140 is, are these drug cartels? Can you compare them to anybody we've ever seen before?

01:20:26.120 Well, listen, they're, they're a ruthless group. There's no question about it. You know,

01:20:30.440 they have a, you know, firm control over so much of what's going on in Mexico. I know that for a fact

01:20:36.200 and, uh, you know, they are, um, they're certainly paving the way for a lot of these

01:20:41.640 immigrants to come across our border and come into the United States. I mean, I know that

01:20:46.660 and everybody knows that. I mean, border patrol knows that it's a fact and the government knows

01:20:52.880 that and they're allowing it to happen. It's, and what is, you know, what are they getting in

01:20:57.800 exchange? They're not doing charity. What are they getting in exchange for letting people go

01:21:03.400 across the border and owe them? Well, they're pouring drugs into this country. There's no 0.81

01:21:08.700 question about it. Like I said earlier, you know, border patrol told me they're not even collecting

01:21:12.500 10% of the drugs that are coming across. So that's one thing. I mean, they're, they're, uh, expanding

01:21:18.720 their drug influence, I would say here, uh, here in the United States. And I think that's obvious.

01:21:23.680 We see it's going on in the cities and there's also human trafficking going on, you know,

01:21:29.180 these cartels, they're very smart. Uh, Glenn, don't, don't, you know, take anything away from

01:21:35.060 them. They, they know what they're doing. Um, we are talking to, uh, Michael Francis. He's going

01:21:41.060 to be with us. He's a former capo for New York's Colombo crime family. He is going to be at Robbins

01:21:46.900 Theater in Warren, Ohio for the Ray Boom Boom Mancini Foundation on the 9th of September. Uh, he is

01:21:53.200 going to 23rd. He's at Caesars Casino in Atlantic city for the history of the mob.

01:21:59.180 Kaesars Casino on the 9th of September.

01:22:11.060 We've got to stand.

01:22:25.580 What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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01:22:55.580 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:58.400 It is Monday.

01:22:59.820 There is just a ton going on today.

01:23:03.240 Blinken made just an incredible statement this last weekend.

01:23:09.340 He's talking about the Russian prosecutors that have just put another 19 years on the sentence of Putin's main competitor.

01:23:23.040 A guy that Putin has put into jail about nine years ago.

01:23:28.580 They just tried him again while he's in prison for being an extremist.

01:23:33.760 Wow, does that sound familiar?

01:23:34.860 And Blinken came out and said,

01:23:38.680 The United States strongly condemns Russians' conviction of an opposition leader on politically motivated charges.

01:23:49.720 The Kremlin cannot silence the truth.

01:23:52.440 Really? Really?

01:23:56.260 We are having a fascinating conversation, at least I think, with one of the guys who was head of the most notorious crime family in New York, Michael Francis.

01:24:09.640 He is a former capo of New York's Colombo crime family, host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.

01:24:18.060 He is the Dr. Phil of organized crime.

01:24:21.860 Former made man, made millions and millions and millions and billions for the mob.

01:24:28.420 He became a born-again Christian, walked away from the life, changed his life entirely. 1.00

01:24:34.060 He's had some pretty incredible things to say.

01:24:36.520 He says that the Biden family is absolutely a mob family, and it is money laundering and should be tried on RICO charges.

01:24:50.020 He knows.

01:24:51.060 He has been tried three times on RICO charges.

01:24:54.820 We'll talk to Michael, continue our conversation in 60 seconds.

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01:26:02.260 We welcome back to the program Michael Francis, and he's been talking to us about the Biden crime family.

01:26:15.980 Let me start here by going back to how the crime family stuff works.

01:26:22.840 When they were doing their business deals, Michael, foreign companies that look like shell companies, they passed the money to a lawyer pass-through.

01:26:35.180 Then the money went to multiple family members, and none of the family members had anything to do with the deal.

01:26:44.020 For instance, Hallie Biden, how are they trying to explain that this is somehow or another legitimate?

01:26:52.480 Is there any way for this to happen and have it be legitimate?

01:26:56.500 Well, no, and the answer there is they're not explaining it.

01:27:03.100 Nobody's asking them the question, what service did Hallie Biden provide in order to collect money from a client?

01:27:10.180 It's very simple.

01:27:11.120 You know, when you set up a company, whether it be an LLC or corporation,

01:27:15.720 and you're selling a product or a service that that company provides to a client, you get paid for that.

01:27:22.320 Well, very simple.

01:27:24.080 What product or service were you selling, and why did you collect money for it?

01:27:29.260 It's so simple.

01:27:30.880 But these are shell companies that do nothing.

01:27:33.140 They have no employees.

01:27:34.340 There's no brick and mortar.

01:27:35.680 There's nothing behind it.

01:27:36.840 They don't even pay taxes.

01:27:38.620 I mean, that's right there.

01:27:39.780 They're not paying a tax for whatever money they're collecting.

01:27:43.180 But nobody's asking these questions.

01:27:46.340 And it's just plain and simple.

01:27:48.300 And they can't be answered.

01:27:50.440 They're saying, though, that none of this money is going to Joe Biden.

01:27:55.320 So he's not collecting any money off of this.

01:27:58.680 If you can't prove that, I mean, how does that happen in the mob world?

01:28:05.080 How does that happen?

01:28:07.080 Well, you know what?

01:28:08.240 It's simpler to prove this thanks to Hunter Biden and his laptop and his text messages

01:28:14.740 and the fact that he's sitting with his father in the room talking to these people that are

01:28:19.340 sending him money.

01:28:20.780 You don't have to look.

01:28:21.560 I never collected any of the money that came to me when we were defrauding the government

01:28:25.340 out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.

01:28:27.660 I mean, the money didn't come directly to me, but I was the force behind it.

01:28:32.920 I was the one that put all of this together.

01:28:35.300 It doesn't have to go directly to that person.

01:28:37.740 But look, Hunter Biden said this also.

01:28:40.080 You know, he had a conversation, I believe, with his daughter or somebody who said, you

01:28:43.040 know, I'm paying half my father's bills.

01:28:44.600 Basically, that's what he said.

01:28:46.880 So, you know, Joe Biden was certainly benefiting from this.

01:28:52.880 So how does that, like, for instance, when the money wasn't coming to you, go ahead.

01:28:59.080 Yeah, it's so simple.

01:29:00.660 All the government has to do is ask the right questions.

01:29:03.100 If the Department of Justice wants to investigate this, it's laid out.

01:29:06.780 It's all there in front of them.

01:29:07.880 Because if you put this in front of a jury and ask these questions, there's no logical

01:29:11.760 answer.

01:29:12.240 But it's so obvious.

01:29:14.920 So what are the right questions to ask then?

01:29:17.680 What are the questions that everybody needs to demand answers to?

01:29:22.300 Again, you form these companies.

01:29:25.120 What was the purpose?

01:29:26.200 What company, what function, rather, did these companies serve?

01:29:30.560 Did they sell a product or did they sell a service?

01:29:33.640 And if they did, what was the product and what was the service and why were you paid for

01:29:37.860 that?

01:29:38.140 Those questions, I guarantee, cannot be answered.

01:29:43.260 Because Hunter Biden certainly, who was a crackhead in all his issues, was not providing

01:29:48.100 any service to Burisma or to anyone else or to the Chinese Communist Party.

01:29:53.440 I mean, he basically shook them down.

01:29:55.140 It was extortion.

01:29:56.700 Shook them down in a phone call with his father sitting next to him.

01:29:59.660 I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what went on there.

01:30:04.200 You know, they cannot answer these questions.

01:30:07.260 And, you know, they don't have to.

01:30:10.120 And, you know, what bothers me is that Joe Biden, he laughs at this.

01:30:13.740 Like, you're not going to get me.

01:30:15.220 You know, he just he has that attitude.

01:30:18.440 So is that is that arrogance?

01:30:23.180 Is that arrogance, Michael, or is that incompetence?

01:30:26.920 I mean, why is why are they so out in the open with everything?

01:30:32.820 Well, it's arrogance because he controls the Department of Justice.

01:30:36.740 And obviously, you know, our attorney general is not going to prosecute him.

01:30:41.940 So he understands that he's not worried, at least at this point, unless the heat becomes

01:30:47.120 so hot that everybody starts to demand, hey, what's going on here?

01:30:50.860 This is my country and you're selling us out.

01:30:53.700 And then people from both sides, you know, start to say this is wrong.

01:30:58.780 And, you know, the laughing part of it, I think, is, yeah, I mean, I just don't understand

01:31:04.520 that.

01:31:05.140 I really don't.

01:31:06.000 It's mocking us.

01:31:07.780 So, Michael, when can I ask you to talk directly to people who are in the Department of Justice

01:31:13.380 who might be afraid?

01:31:14.860 I mean, there's a lot of fear connected with this.

01:31:17.880 You are a guy who was in the crime families and left and you have talked about an awful

01:31:23.080 lot of stuff.

01:31:24.980 Give somebody courage that is in a position to know something to go and speak out, because

01:31:31.460 quite honestly, this is the kind of stuff that happens in movies that gets you killed.

01:31:36.000 There's no question.

01:31:39.460 And look, you know, you have to applaud this people there that are courageous, that do have

01:31:43.700 a conscience, that do want to do their job.

01:31:45.680 I mean, these whistleblowers, what do they have to gain?

01:31:48.960 I mean, they become a target for a hostile Justice Department, you know, to come out and

01:31:54.460 tell the truth that they were shut down with these investigations.

01:31:57.060 Because, you know, look, the trail that they were on, they were going to uncover what was going on here, this influence peddling.

01:32:05.940 There's no doubt about it.

01:32:07.620 But it bothered them.

01:32:08.820 At least that's how I see it.

01:32:10.900 And they came out and they told the truth, what was going on.

01:32:13.540 You know, Glenn, again, you know, some of the people, I was looking at some of the answers, I mean, some of the answers that, you know, some of our Democrats were given about Trump.

01:32:24.920 You know, that, well, don't you see this as an attempt to shut down Trump during his campaigning?

01:32:31.880 And they come out and say, well, no, because a grand jury indicted him.

01:32:35.980 And, you know, that's laughable.

01:32:38.000 Anybody knows, anybody that's been involved in this system knows that a grand jury goes wherever a prosecutor leads them.

01:32:44.480 You know, the famous line, a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich, is so true. 0.97

01:32:48.640 So you don't have a chance to defend yourself in front of a grand jury.

01:32:52.600 You're not there.

01:32:53.380 You're not giving your side of the story.

01:32:55.000 You're not producing any evidence on your end.

01:32:56.960 It's all the prosecution's idea of what they want to present to the grand jury.

01:33:02.380 So for them to give these answers is just so, it's just so wrong.

01:33:08.040 You know, it's so wrong.

01:33:09.800 What's going on?

01:33:10.980 It really is.

01:33:13.400 Michael, I want to take you from something so heavy to just a film, because I'm just curious.

01:33:19.860 One of my favorite mob movies is A Bronx Tale.

01:33:23.140 And I don't know if that's complete, you know, if it was like that or anything else.

01:33:27.600 What is the most accurate mob movie that you've ever seen?

01:33:34.620 Well, let me just tell you, you know, A Bronx Tale, I love that movie.

01:33:38.460 And Chaz Palmitari is a very dear friend of mine.

01:33:40.760 He just killed the role of Sonny.

01:33:43.940 He was terrific in that movie.

01:33:45.460 And, you know, it was his story.

01:33:48.900 So in that regard, it was accurate.

01:33:50.880 The way he portrayed that character was very accurate.

01:33:53.560 But I will tell you this.

01:33:54.860 This is probably going to throw you a little bit.

01:33:56.740 The most accurate mob movie that was ever done was the 1996 HBO Gotti movie that starred Armand

01:34:05.700 Basante and Anthony Quinn.

01:34:07.860 If you haven't seen it, Glenn, you can go on YouTube and you can watch it.

01:34:11.380 It was extremely well done.

01:34:13.780 And much of it came off of the surveillance tapes and everything that were on Gotti at the time.

01:34:19.840 It was just a brilliant movie.

01:34:21.760 There is a scene in there with Anthony Quinn.

01:34:24.200 When he is talking to John Gotti, John almost got killed because he killed a made guy and he wasn't allowed to do that.

01:34:30.500 That gave me the chills.

01:34:31.840 It was so well done.

01:34:33.600 So I say that's number one.

01:34:36.460 And then obviously, you know, Goodfellas was terrific.

01:34:39.100 And Donnie Brasco was terrific.

01:34:40.600 Love that.

01:34:41.380 Accurate.

01:34:42.440 Yeah, well done.

01:34:43.920 And you know another one.

01:34:45.820 Have you seen the offer, the making of The Godfather?

01:34:50.380 It's called The Offer.

01:34:52.060 I saw it and I thought it was brilliant.

01:34:55.620 Now, that was my era.

01:34:56.840 I was very close with Joe Colombo.

01:34:58.460 I knew everything that was going on during that time with The Godfather.

01:35:02.460 It was pretty accurate and it was brilliantly done.

01:35:06.020 It really was.

01:35:06.860 It was terrific.

01:35:07.400 Do you think that's the way it happened?

01:35:12.740 Well, you know, there was some, I mean, they took some dramatic liberty, but I will tell you this.

01:35:17.500 It was seen through the eyes of, I don't know what's his name, the producer.

01:35:23.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:35:24.620 He did come.

01:35:25.800 Yeah, he came to meetings during the Italian American Civil Rights League at the Park Sheridan Hotel.

01:35:30.740 We were there.

01:35:31.440 Geez.

01:35:31.840 Al Ruddy.

01:35:32.820 He did come to the meetings.

01:35:34.620 Joe Colombo.

01:35:35.740 He did shut down the word mafia from the script.

01:35:38.760 He did cause a strike when, you know, early on when things weren't going well.

01:35:44.280 He saw all those things were accurate.

01:35:45.920 Do you know if the thing that killed me was when the guy who was going to lease the house for the shots of the Don's house in Godfather and Colombo, I think, picks the guy up and is working him over.

01:36:06.900 And the producer of The Godfather is called in, and he's just sitting there in horror, like, what are you doing?

01:36:14.640 Do you know if that happened?

01:36:16.620 I can't verify that.

01:36:18.740 I don't know if that was true or not, but I do know that there was some controversy over the house.

01:36:23.600 I don't know if they had to go that far with the owner, but there was some controversy, yes.

01:36:30.880 Michael, thank you so much.

01:36:32.900 I really appreciate it.

01:36:34.980 Your family, I mean, your crime family, that's the same crime family, right, that your dad oversaw after Colombo died?

01:36:45.600 Yeah, well, my dad was the underboss.

01:36:47.440 Wow.

01:36:47.800 So that's the second in command.

01:36:50.560 And then my dad went to prison for a number of years, and then when he came out, he was the underboss again, so he had a lot of control there.

01:36:59.120 When he died, because he just died a couple of years ago, and he was over 100, I think.

01:37:03.280 He was 103.

01:37:07.500 How'd you feel about your dad?

01:37:09.320 How do you put that all in order in your head?

01:37:13.740 Well, you know, I grew up really loving my dad.

01:37:16.700 I mean, he was a good father in spite of everything else, but, you know, he didn't want the life for me.

01:37:21.940 He wanted me to be a doctor, go to school.

01:37:24.700 He taught me a lot of good things, believe it or not.

01:37:28.420 You know, he taught me to be respectful to people and to have integrity.

01:37:33.160 I know that sounds crazy, but he did, and he taught me a lot of good things.

01:37:37.700 When I walked away from the life, he was extremely upset with me.

01:37:41.280 And, you know, the main reason, everybody thought I was going to start cooperating with the government and put people in jail, but that's not what I wanted to do.

01:37:48.940 I just wanted out of the life, so I didn't do that.

01:37:51.340 And we didn't speak for about 10 years, but then we patched it up, and he understood what I did, because, you know, Glenn, I'll tell you this.

01:38:01.160 One of the hard—the mafia life, the gang life, they're evil lifestyles.

01:38:06.100 And the reason I say this, I'm not calling all the guys evil.

01:38:08.720 That would be unfair.

01:38:09.740 There were a lot of guys that were not evil.

01:38:11.340 So I was one of them, but the lifestyle is evil, because I don't know any family of any member of that life that hasn't been totally devastated, including my own.

01:38:22.960 And not my wife and children is the reason I walked away, but, you know, my mom, she died in 2012, 33 years without her husband.

01:38:31.560 At the end of her relationship with my dad, I can only call it ugly, because she blamed him for everything that went wrong in her life, and rightfully so.

01:38:39.520 And, you know, I had a sister who dies of an overdose of drugs at 27.

01:38:43.860 My brother's a drug addict, 25 years.

01:38:46.360 I can't even begin to tell you what, you know, the horror that that caused the family, and me in particular.

01:38:52.520 I had another younger sister who died at the age of 41, and my dad does 40 years in prison.

01:38:57.960 And every family of every member that I know has the same story, something similar.

01:39:03.820 So any lifestyle that does that to a family is no good.

01:39:07.400 And that's why I walked away.

01:39:08.500 I wasn't going to do that to the young girl that I married.

01:39:11.580 And, you know, but it's funny.

01:39:14.500 Listening to you, what you just said about how destructive it is to the family, you could say that about what's happening in America today.

01:39:25.880 Our kids are drawing up drug overdoses.

01:39:28.340 Our kids and our families are being destroyed by all of this.

01:39:32.160 Everybody's blaming each other.

01:39:33.580 I mean, it's, we are being run by a crime family.

01:39:37.840 Michael, thank you so much.

01:39:39.280 God bless.

01:39:40.000 And I hope to finally meet you someday.

01:39:43.580 You're fascinating.

01:39:44.420 Yes, Glenn, listen, keep up the great work, man.

01:39:47.040 We need your voice out there.

01:39:48.440 So I've been supporting you for years.

01:39:50.440 Thank you.

01:39:50.680 Keep it up, man.

01:39:51.380 God bless you.

01:39:52.860 Thank you.

01:39:53.400 Bye-bye.

01:39:54.060 Michael Francis, a former capo of New York's Colombo crime family and the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.

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01:41:33.960 So, Pat, you saw the poll that just came out from Rasmussen that shows that really nobody is interested in impeaching Joe Biden.

01:41:58.200 Right.

01:41:58.340 And I think that's for a couple of reasons.

01:41:59.900 One, they don't think anything will come of it.

01:42:02.120 Right.

01:42:02.380 You know, we've worn through the cycle of, you know, Clinton and then Trump, and it just doesn't go anywhere.

01:42:12.020 It doesn't go anywhere.

01:42:12.840 So, I think people are just kind of tired of that.

01:42:15.140 But it scares me that they will let this one pass.

01:42:19.600 Yeah, me too.

01:42:21.140 We've got to overcome the impeachment burnout because this is a guy that deserves it.

01:42:26.740 If anybody in the history of our nation did, and it's becoming more clear every single day it needs to happen.

01:42:34.780 It's going to be interesting to see if the Republicans have the giblets to make it happen, though.

01:42:40.520 Well, when you look at Mitch McConnell, he's the leader in the Senate.

01:42:49.380 He doesn't have any desire to expose people taking money from China because he's been doing it for years.

01:42:57.700 Yep.

01:42:58.180 Well, fortunately, the impeachment process, though, starts in the House, and you could at least do that.

01:43:03.440 They could at least get that done.

01:43:05.260 Yeah.

01:43:06.120 And then put the pressure on the Senate.

01:43:07.740 Let's see what happens.

01:43:09.160 Yes.

01:43:10.000 Yes.

01:43:10.720 And Mitch McConnell was not necessarily warmly received.

01:43:14.220 No.

01:43:14.320 We played some audio for you just about an hour ago.

01:43:20.140 I've got to play it again because it's pretty astounding.

01:43:23.840 But the McConnell people are now coming out and saying, no, no, no, that was the Democrats saying that.

01:43:30.200 Really?

01:43:30.920 Because if I were there, I would have been saying it, too.

01:43:33.740 Yep.

01:43:34.400 And I'm not a Democrat.

01:43:36.420 Back with more in just a second.

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01:44:57.520 I'm going to go to cut 18 here because this is,

01:45:27.500 This is just a reminder.

01:45:29.160 Last week, we told you what was happening with the South African Black Party,

01:45:34.140 where they packed about 80,000 people into a stadium and then started singing this. 0.99

01:45:47.500 Shoot to kill. 1.00

01:45:51.440 Kill the poor. 1.00

01:45:52.480 Shoot to kill. 1.00

01:45:53.340 The farmer. 1.00

01:45:54.320 Kill the poor. 1.00

01:45:55.060 The farmer. 1.00

01:45:55.400 Kill the farmer. 1.00

01:45:56.600 Kill the poor. 1.00

01:45:59.100 The white farmer. 1.00

01:46:01.480 That is a great catchy tune.

01:46:03.580 I was singing it all week.

01:46:05.220 It's got a great beat.

01:46:06.260 Easy to dance to.

01:46:07.720 Yeah.

01:46:08.360 Yeah.

01:46:08.640 Yeah.

01:46:08.940 It's awesome.

01:46:09.240 I like the, you know, especially when you can really jiggle the brr, and it just is great.

01:46:14.540 Also sounds like a machine gun a little bit, so it reminds you what the words are. 0.99

01:46:18.420 Kill the white farmer. 0.99

01:46:19.680 Now, let us bring you some additional good news from South Africa. 1.00

01:46:25.300 Cut 11, please.

01:46:33.720 Now, this is a helicopter going over a road with a line of cars, it seems.

01:46:40.300 What's happening here, Pat?

01:46:41.320 Uh, some sort of traffic jam.

01:46:47.100 You see the, you see all the crosses on the side of the road?

01:46:51.140 Yeah.

01:46:51.620 Those supposedly all represent white farmers who've been killed.

01:46:59.020 Huh.

01:46:59.940 So, yeah.

01:47:02.380 Yeah.

01:47:02.900 And, uh, well, you would think they would have fought back. 0.97

01:47:07.160 I mean, you have somebody that's chanting, kill the white farmer, and they've got a lot 0.97

01:47:11.600 of political power. 0.92

01:47:12.840 Why aren't these farmers fighting back?

01:47:14.960 I mean, it's, um, it's, it couldn't be gun confiscation, could it?

01:47:23.020 Well.

01:47:24.440 No.

01:47:25.060 Uh, yeah.

01:47:26.620 I mean, it could be in part.

01:47:28.860 It could be.

01:47:29.580 It could have something to do with it.

01:47:31.260 Yeah.

01:47:32.000 Yeah.

01:47:32.480 Uh, yeah.

01:47:33.260 But, you know, I hate, I hate to blame government intervention in the lives of people for anything,

01:47:41.200 you know?

01:47:41.420 Yeah. 1.00

01:47:41.840 Or just people telling everybody to kill white people, you know? 1.00

01:47:45.520 Right. 1.00

01:47:45.620 It was pretty bad when white people were saying that about black people. 0.90

01:47:48.820 Yeah. 0.76

01:47:49.320 You know?

01:47:49.940 Uh, but, uh.

01:47:51.580 Now this is just payback, though.

01:47:52.760 We should stop.

01:47:53.540 It's just payback.

01:47:54.480 It's fair play.

01:47:56.540 Oh, it is?

01:47:57.520 Mm-hmm.

01:47:57.780 Sure.

01:47:58.320 Sure.

01:47:58.500 Yeah.

01:47:58.660 Yeah.

01:47:59.600 Yeah.

01:47:59.840 Payback is hell, right?

01:48:01.500 It is. 1.00

01:48:02.560 Or a bitch. 1.00

01:48:03.520 Yeah. 1.00

01:48:03.780 One or two.

01:48:04.460 Yeah. 1.00

01:48:04.860 Or a bitch. 1.00

01:48:05.840 Oh, I think that's what it is in the scriptures. 1.00

01:48:08.620 It's payback is a bitch. 1.00

01:48:11.060 Thou payeth back is bitchin'. 1.00

01:48:14.560 Something like that. 0.98

01:48:15.420 It's close.

01:48:16.420 Yeah.

01:48:16.600 That's close.

01:48:17.660 Yeah.

01:48:18.120 Yeah.

01:48:18.420 I think it might be that payback is closer to hell, meaning that payback is evil, and maybe

01:48:26.200 it shouldn't happen.

01:48:27.060 Now, let's go to some common sense here and some clean thinking.

01:48:31.640 Pat, when I tell you gas prices are up, why do you think gas prices are up?

01:48:36.540 I mean, immediately jump to Vladimir Putin's price hike, for one thing.

01:48:43.420 Price hike.

01:48:43.940 Okay.

01:48:44.420 All right.

01:48:44.720 The Vladimir Putin price hike.

01:48:46.340 And the other thing I would say is global warming.

01:48:50.760 Oh, my gosh.

01:48:52.100 You've been watching CNN.

01:48:53.560 Listen to this.

01:48:54.160 It's blaming the heat wave, the climate crisis, for the nine-month high gas prices.

01:49:02.520 Listen to this.

01:49:03.420 And while we are just roasting in this heat, there's also an impact from the sun on our

01:49:10.040 wallets, CNN's Matt Egan explains.

01:49:12.540 No.

01:49:14.080 Victor and Amara, here's an unexpected consequence of this summer's historic heat wave.

01:49:19.380 It's making life more expensive for drivers.

01:49:21.880 Extreme heat is actually increasing the price of gasoline, which has surged to nine-month

01:49:26.760 high.

01:49:27.740 Here's why.

01:49:28.960 Refineries, much like humans, can't handle persistently sweltering temperatures.

01:49:33.720 These are complex facilities that turn crude oil into gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel.

01:49:38.300 And they start to break down in triple-digit heat.

01:49:41.620 Some refineries have to limit how much gasoline they're churning out, just when it's needed

01:49:46.300 the most.

01:49:47.140 Wow.

01:49:47.380 Analysts tell me that this situation has contributed to us.

01:49:49.580 Hey, Pat, Pat, can we just stop for a second?

01:49:50.720 And let me just ask you, those refineries, too, they have problems.

01:49:55.920 And I don't think the fact that we haven't built a new refinery since the 1970s has anything

01:50:02.220 to do with those things breaking down, do you?

01:50:04.300 No.

01:50:04.760 Uh-uh.

01:50:05.080 No.

01:50:05.640 No.

01:50:05.820 Because if you built one recently, it would just break down anyway, so it wouldn't help.

01:50:10.560 It would break down.

01:50:11.220 Right?

01:50:11.700 Yeah.

01:50:12.140 Just like they did in the 70s, you're right?

01:50:14.500 Yeah.

01:50:14.660 And they're just not made for that kind of heat.

01:50:21.400 That's why gas prices are so high in Saudi Arabia.

01:50:26.160 Because it's so hot over there.

01:50:28.120 Oh, yeah.

01:50:28.820 And they just can't make the fuel.

01:50:31.700 That's why you pay like 10 cents a gallon over there.

01:50:35.220 It should be one.

01:50:37.260 But because of global warming, it's almost 10. 0.97

01:50:40.940 Maybe this is a stupid question, but do they not have air conditioning at these refineries? 0.80

01:50:47.680 Because I would think inside the plant, it's not quite as hot as outside the plant. 0.99

01:50:54.080 No.

01:50:54.220 This is complicated machinery.

01:50:56.580 All right.

01:50:56.680 It's not about men.

01:50:58.000 You know, it's about algorithms and machines.

01:51:00.780 It's very complex.

01:51:01.920 Yeah.

01:51:02.180 I don't understand.

01:51:03.040 Are you a refinery engineer?

01:51:05.760 I'm not.

01:51:06.740 No, I'm not.

01:51:07.600 Okay.

01:51:07.980 There you go.

01:51:08.540 You're not an expert in it.

01:51:09.640 So let's just move on.

01:51:11.020 It's global warming.

01:51:12.740 Duh.

01:51:13.180 You know, at least with Vladimir Putin, it was closer to the truth.

01:51:23.400 You know what I mean?

01:51:24.420 It wasn't Vladimir Putin.

01:51:25.860 It was us doing that to Vladimir Putin that caused everything to go up and us shutting down all of our pipelines and everything else.

01:51:34.500 But at least Vladimir Putin was somewhere near it.

01:51:37.820 Global warming is causing the gas price to go up this month?

01:51:42.100 Come on.

01:51:42.600 I mean, wow.

01:51:43.800 Oh, my gosh.

01:51:46.080 Okay.

01:51:46.940 Here is something I just heard about in one of the mountain states.

01:51:53.300 I won't name which.

01:51:56.140 But I do know that in one of the mountain states, there is some construction going on, massive construction.

01:52:05.300 And, of course, it's not paid for by your tax dollars.

01:52:08.280 It is Joe Biden's relief.

01:52:12.100 And you have to put a sign up that said this project was approved by Joe Biden.

01:52:20.160 And it's my understanding that not only is there a sign, but if you don't keep the sign there, if you don't put it up, there are inspections from the federal government.

01:52:34.260 And they inspect to make sure that signage is up.

01:52:38.460 And if that signage is not up, you lose your funding.

01:52:42.220 That is unbelievable.

01:52:45.540 Wow.

01:52:46.380 Here's another CNN report from the about the Biden administration and signs at construction sites.

01:52:53.800 And so now this effort to buy the White House to to put the Biden administration's name out and signs, particularly at road projects to remind people this is, you know, this is part of this administration.

01:53:09.120 This is who to credit.

01:53:10.980 Do you think this is going to make a big difference?

01:53:13.820 Oh, I do think, just like with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act during the Obama years, making sure that we label the infrastructure investments and the Wi-Fi investment and the Superfund cleanup and all of the investments that are being made,

01:53:31.000 the jobs that are being brought back from overseas, the supercomputers that are going to be built as a result of chips being manufactured here, all of that has to be communicated very visibly and also comprehensively.

01:53:44.260 And you know, stop, stop, stop.

01:53:46.960 Pat, I think I think I want a new jingle made for Biden's war, something that will remind people that Biden got us into Ukraine.

01:53:59.840 I mean, his incompetence, maybe we do a jingle about how many people died in Afghanistan, because that was clearly his, too. 0.96

01:54:09.060 I think she's right, clearly reminding people for who's responsible, you know, that high gas prices.

01:54:17.900 Yeah, I think we need to make some.

01:54:20.240 I can't do a sign because I'm on radio and podcast, but I suppose I could make jingles for that.

01:54:26.680 If anybody would like to, you know, suggest any lyrics for a jingle, that would be good.

01:54:35.900 Remember, it has to be catchy.

01:54:38.540 Something about Joe Biden's war and Ukraine and maybe even Joe Biden's inflation would be something.

01:54:47.900 We should maybe help this administration.

01:54:50.480 Bidenomics should be in it.

01:54:53.180 Yeah.

01:54:54.500 Bidenomics.

01:54:55.040 Yeah.

01:54:56.260 It's Bidenomics.

01:54:58.240 Yeah.

01:54:58.880 I like that.

01:54:59.780 I like that.

01:55:01.420 Paying too much at the grocery store.

01:55:04.820 It's Bidenomics.

01:55:07.120 I like it.

01:55:08.020 I like it.

01:55:08.360 It's good.

01:55:09.220 Real quick.

01:55:10.120 I saw this.

01:55:11.280 I saw this and I, I, at first I thought, what the heck is going on?

01:55:17.520 Do you remember the, the, what was it?

01:55:20.540 It wasn't the land of the lost where the people were really, really small and land of the giants.

01:55:27.200 Do you remember that?

01:55:28.740 Vaguely.

01:55:30.340 Vaguely.

01:55:30.920 Oh my gosh.

01:55:31.540 Really?

01:55:32.420 Land of the giants.

01:55:33.520 Uh, earthlings went someplace.

01:55:35.820 I don't remember where, and, uh, they were surrounded by giants.

01:55:40.360 And so they were always by like a pencil and it would just be a giant prop of a pencil and they'll be standing next to it.

01:55:46.640 I felt that way when I saw this, you, I'll describe it, but I want to show it to you, uh, on blaze TV.

01:55:54.020 Uh, please play, uh, what is it?

01:55:55.940 Cut six.

01:55:56.620 $25,000 per tire.

01:56:02.380 Wow.

01:56:02.880 Per tire.

01:56:03.480 The tire is bigger than this guy's whole body.

01:56:06.680 Yeah.

01:56:06.940 That's how you get inside.

01:56:07.820 No, the, the wheel.

01:56:09.060 He, his head doesn't even make it to the top of the tire.

01:56:12.760 His head is at the top of the wheel.

01:56:14.780 He couldn't even reach the door handle to get inside this thing.

01:56:17.960 No, you can't even reach the top of the door.

01:56:20.220 The, you don't, you can't even touch the bottom of the door.

01:56:23.820 So you, you mount this Hummer.

01:56:25.940 Wow.

01:56:26.860 From the bottom.

01:56:28.660 And it's an apartment inside.

01:56:32.180 How cool is that?

01:56:32.960 And it's a huge.

01:56:34.900 Okay.

01:56:35.360 Wow.

01:56:35.640 But wait, there's more.

01:56:37.440 Watch what she's about to do.

01:56:39.920 She's about to sit down.

01:56:42.700 And you know, where is your driving position?

01:56:45.760 You drive this thing from here.

01:56:48.740 Look at that.

01:56:49.960 So you.

01:56:50.320 You can actually drive it.

01:56:52.060 Three, four.

01:56:53.120 My gosh.

01:56:54.200 Look at that.

01:56:54.960 You're driving like an apartment building.

01:56:58.260 Yeah.

01:56:58.720 Wow.

01:56:59.400 It's a house.

01:57:00.140 It's a giant house.

01:57:02.040 And not like, not like, oh, it's a, you know, it's a trailer.

01:57:05.440 No, it's a giant house built to look like a Hummer.

01:57:09.740 And it actually runs.

01:57:12.860 It's got big, giant tire.

01:57:14.780 I mean, it's crazy.

01:57:16.160 What did that thing cost?

01:57:17.420 He is standing.

01:57:18.620 I don't know.

01:57:19.520 He's, you know, where the kickboard comes out or the step comes out when you open up a door of a big, you know.

01:57:25.520 So he, his head is where that board would come out underneath the door.

01:57:30.900 That's how tall this thing is.

01:57:33.040 It's incredible.

01:57:34.800 Wow.

01:57:35.760 A house sized Hummer.

01:57:38.000 That's impressive.

01:57:38.760 Yeah.

01:57:39.160 It took four years to make.

01:57:41.380 Four years to make.

01:57:43.180 Where is this?

01:57:44.380 Do you know where that's located?

01:57:45.860 You know, I don't.

01:57:47.680 I mean, in America, it's either America or it's like Dubai, because only America and Dubai do things like this, you know.

01:57:56.680 All right.

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01:59:46.100 So the Humvee we were just talking about, we did a little more research on it, like it matters, but it is out of Dubai.

01:59:53.240 And they say the tires are $25,000 a piece, but I don't think that that's much different, honestly, than a Bugatti.

02:00:03.440 I think, doesn't the Bugatti, you can only, I can't remember how long it can run at high speeds, but you have to change the tires after, you know, a very short period of time if you're at high speeds.

02:00:18.800 And then you have to replace the wheels.

02:00:22.520 And I think the wheels are, I think that's $25,000 or something like that because the wheels, it's, the traction is so, the force on those tires and the wheels that it will actually snap the wheels off.

02:00:38.920 So the wheels are too damaged to use.

02:00:41.300 I think it's after like three runs.

02:00:43.200 It's crazy.

02:00:44.540 It's crazy.

02:00:45.500 Yeah.

02:00:45.980 The $3 to $4 million initial price tag is just the beginning on those kinds of cars.

02:00:51.860 You never, you never think, hey, the maintenance is going to kill me.

02:00:55.580 Of course, I guess if you have a $4 million car, you're going to be okay with that, right?

02:01:02.520 That's like trying to buy the White House and going, what does it cost to mow the lawn here?

02:01:06.880 What are the utilities like?

02:01:08.100 You probably shouldn't.

02:01:10.340 If you're worried about the utilities, you probably shouldn't buy it.

02:01:13.680 Probably not.

02:01:16.220 Yeah.

02:01:16.900 So we got that going for us.

02:01:18.700 What else have we not hit?

02:01:20.600 The weekend box office is kind of interesting.

02:01:22.980 Did you know Sound of Freedom is still top six?

02:01:27.040 It was number six this past weekend.

02:01:29.920 It just brought in another $7 million and it's still ahead of Mission Impossible, which

02:01:40.660 is still ahead of Mission Impossible.

02:01:43.680 In overall money?

02:01:44.980 Yeah.

02:01:45.660 Yeah.

02:01:46.000 Sound of Freedom is about $12 million ahead of it.

02:01:48.100 Oh my gosh.

02:01:48.620 It's been out a week longer, but it's not going to make up $12 million in a week.

02:01:52.420 It's $12 million?

02:01:53.460 Yeah.

02:01:53.780 It's way ahead.

02:01:54.900 I mean, that is, think of how much money Mission Impossible costs.

02:01:58.380 Just think how much the insurance on Tom Cruise is every time he makes a movie.

02:02:04.380 Right.

02:02:05.180 Oh my gosh.

02:02:05.760 And that was like a $15 or $17 million movie to make.

02:02:09.380 How much is this total now?

02:02:12.180 $163,473,473.

02:02:15.740 Unbelievable.

02:02:17.200 It's really something.

02:02:17.960 If that doesn't tell you where Americans are, that thing is being panned everywhere.

02:02:23.220 It has fewer theaters by far, not even being shown in some cities.

02:02:28.600 Are you kidding me?

02:02:30.680 Beating Mission Impossible in gross.

02:02:33.060 That's amazing.

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 07, 2023

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