On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by CNN political commentator Errol Lewis, Al Franken, and Joe Walsh to discuss the latest in the case of a man accused of opening fire at a gay bar in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:03:38.700Finding out that the person who attacked that club, according to the attorney, identifies as non-Bidenary.
00:03:50.500So, attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in new court filings tonight, that the suspect now identifies as non-binary.
00:07:13.780It sounds like they're trying to prepare a defense against a hate crimes charge.
00:07:17.600That's the least of his problems, legally speaking.
00:07:19.740But it looks like they're trying to build some kind of sympathy or at least confusion on the question of whether or not this was purely motivated by hate.
00:07:26.600Errol Lewis, a political commentator I've never heard of because I don't really watch a lot of CNN until this moment.
00:54:56.060But you also ought to have a chance and a right to be able to, to, uh, to defend yourself as well.
00:55:01.200This, this, this is just reasonable, isn't it?
00:55:06.980Yeah, it's, it's what we're talking about.
00:55:09.000These things are just, speaking of unreasonable though, out in Arizona, where I still believe I don't, I think they're still counting votes.
00:55:18.340So somebody just made the comment and a message to me.
00:55:24.040And by the way, if you want to send me a message, I'm at Mr. Justin Barkley everywhere on social media.
00:57:17.500On election day, nearly half of all polling locations had problems with tabulating machines and printers.
00:57:23.740Malfunctioning tabulation machines forced voters to wait in line for hours to exercise their sacred right to vote.
00:57:31.560I talked to voters who waited in line for hours.
00:57:34.500One man told me he went to a location and there was a three-hour line because the tabulators weren't working.
00:57:40.020He drove 15 miles to another location and the printers weren't working.
00:57:44.480He drove another 15 miles and was finally able to cast his vote, but he's not sure it counted.
00:57:49.840Now, how many people just gave up and said, I'm going home?
00:57:53.740How many people that came, and this is all same day, day of voting, these tend to be more Republican voters and particularly Carrie Lake voters.
01:04:46.860We just touched on a few things and updates over the break.
01:04:50.320But did you see the latest at the border?
01:04:54.800Kevin McCarthy, who hopes to be the Speaker of the House, has gone down, GOP leader, going down to the border, demanding the resignation of Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, Mayorkas.
01:05:15.560He says he ought to resign or be impeached.
01:05:20.620If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure.
01:05:32.500We'll determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry.
01:05:37.660Determine whether we turn that a little bit stronger.
01:05:42.720I would like to say he's, we're going to, you can resign or face impeachment.
01:11:51.780The things that were happening behind the scenes continue to come out.
01:11:55.300We're going to talk about some of those things, including ESG, with a good friend from Michigan here, Congressman Bill Huizinga, Michigan's 4th District.
01:12:31.320But, look, as you bring up a point, there are some heartbreaking issues.
01:12:35.700FTX, one of these crazier stories, and you're well-positioned to talk about these things because of the committee that you're on, Congressman.
01:12:43.000But let's start with FTX and what happened there.
01:12:47.920It appears now, I don't know, they paint this picture, and it certainly ought to be looked into, and hopefully you'll get some oversight on this.
01:12:54.500But it appears now that taxpayer money from Americans was sent over Ukraine.
01:13:00.320In some ways, Ukraine sent money to FTX, and then FTX, this cryptocurrency run by this guy that looks like he's homeless, he's got this crazy hair, this guy named Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, FTX, ESG, all these acronyms.
01:13:16.400Anyway, Sam Bankman-Fried then takes the money, and he sends it off to all these Democrats and apparently is funding these campaigns.
01:13:23.460And, you know, this, at the very least, looks like a complete disaster.
01:13:35.920If Enron and Bertie Madoff had a baby, it would be named Sam Bankman-Fried.
01:13:42.680I mean, this is bad business, but then clearly it looks like an emerging picture of just outright fraud.
01:13:50.060And, you know, you mentioned the money that SBF, as he's referred to, what he put into the political system, that was $38 million directly into primarily Democrat causes and super PACs.
01:14:46.620But you're going to be seeing some names emerge, including, I believe, a prominent senator from our home state of Michigan,
01:14:53.660who happened to be the chair of the Ag Committee, who were very big beneficiaries from this.
01:14:59.740But this is it's unfortunate because the technology that lies below crypto, this blockchain technology, is the technology of the future.
01:15:12.300What Sam Bankman-Fried did is set back any acceptance into that.
01:15:18.660And frankly, it's, I think, going to be a bigger call for more governmental regulation in a space that has been fighting to have as light a touch as possible.
01:15:28.300But, you know, this is just outright fraud and would be illegal whether there was regulation or not.
01:15:33.500And speaking of which, you know, obviously these, the corruption that looks like took place here.
01:15:40.760I mean, there are pictures of video and whatnot of, you know, Congresswoman Maxine Waters blowing kisses to this guy.
01:15:47.060There's a list of donors and folks who he donated to.
01:15:50.580I mean, these are stories that people are going to continue to hear about.
01:15:54.080But hopefully you get some oversight on this and break down and hold these people accountable.
01:16:00.140And honestly, Glenn has touched on this quite a bit.
01:16:03.820He's been fighting this battle to tell people what's going on and how they can fight back.
01:16:11.680But ESG, if we can break this down, it's a scoring system that right now companies and financial institutions and eventually people are going to get scored on this, too.
01:16:25.140They're already looking at some of these sort of pilot programs.
01:16:29.780You get sort of a new credit score and the scoring system is all based on things that have really nothing to do with performance or it's all based on social, environmental, and then what governance.
01:16:45.540It's all social justice and things like that.
01:16:49.600Can you break this down and give people a little bit of a glimpse at what you're dealing with there?
01:16:55.720And first and foremost, I do want to give a shout out to Glenn Beck for doing this as well.
01:16:59.480I found myself in the car during the campaign, driving around, listening to him yelling, yes, yes, as he was talking about it on radio, because this is sort of that sneaky Pete issue that's been coming in that is going to have a massive impact on all of our lives.
01:17:17.320In fact, on Tuesday, the Department of Labor just came out and finalized a rule saying that pension funds, your 401ks and others really don't have to be so worried about a return or materiality anymore,
01:17:31.420because they're now going to factor in this environmental and social and governance matrix that, as you point out, is really all about control
01:17:44.940and about how we how we how we bend society and and and and the economy into the will of of the government.
01:17:54.200And, you know, the watchword in investing has always been materiality, materiality, materiality, meaning that is this issue material to you as an investor?
01:18:08.160And and and and what what what the Securities and Exchange Commission has done now and now what the Department of Labor has done has set all of that aside.
01:18:18.980And it really is more about the environment, but not just the environment.
01:20:03.620Is your rainbow flag flying outside your door?
01:20:05.720Are you doing all the are you checking out all the boxes that you need to everything you got to dance to through the jump through the hoops in order to get your score up?
01:20:13.680Because otherwise, if not, suppliers won't deal with you because their score will be affected.
01:20:18.180And this will crush the economy here in America and the little guy.
01:20:43.000Securities and Exchange Commission has said, you know, we have to be so worried about the environment that we are going to not only require companies to report their scope one and scope two environmental emissions,
01:20:56.300which means what what did they directly produce and what has been been used to deliver their products and that kind of thing.
01:21:05.260Right. Totally makes sense for an energy company, a power company, something like that.
01:21:36.100Big international corporation publicly traded.
01:21:38.780So Nestle is going to be required if these rules go through to go not only to, you know, their their look at their own footprint,
01:21:48.060which could be literally delivery vehicles and all the other things that they have to do.
01:21:52.520But who then is taking their product out and delivering it to the stores?
01:21:56.380What is their environmental footprint?
01:21:57.980But, oh, wait, under scope three, you have to actually go back to the farmers who are producing the key, the carrots and the peas and the corn that go into the baby food jars to have them figure out what their environmental impact is,
01:22:14.060not just on their fuel use, but it could be their fertilizers, all those things.
01:22:18.960And as one of these guys said to me, he said, compliance department, you're looking at it.
01:22:24.660Right. I mean, these are small, independent, family owned farms that are now suddenly getting caught up into this massive movement and it's going to have a huge effect.
01:22:36.200Congressman Bill Huizinga, you mentioned, and this this is something that will dramatically transform life as you know it here in America if we don't stop it.
01:22:46.960What do you recommend? What can people do?
01:22:48.900I mean, does it work when people call their congressman?
01:22:51.960Yeah, it does. I mean, don't give up on that, even if it's as hard headed as they sometimes may feel like that.
01:23:00.660That does affect people. All right. And and and the staff be reasonable, but talk to them.
01:23:06.980And you also need to be talking to your investment advisors. Right.
01:23:10.520Whether it's whether you're in a I don't care if you're in a union pension.
01:23:14.620I don't care if it's a 401k or whether you're doing something independently.
01:23:19.780Talk to talk to your investment advisors to say, hey, how how can our voice and our message get get through on this?
01:23:29.400How do you maximize return for that investment?
01:23:32.880Not just about all this other stuff, the E, the S and the G that that the government's talking about.
01:23:39.660So people have got to have their voices be heard on this.
01:23:42.740And that's why I'm glad Glenn has been talking about this, because it needs to get volume.
01:23:47.400Volume, both this one goes to 11, like crank it up, but also the amount of communication that that policymakers have in and and the both the Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Commission have had comment periods.
01:24:02.780And so if people are really wonky and want to go in and do that, that's another way of getting their voice to be heard.
01:24:08.220Congressman Bill Heisman, fighting the good fight. Appreciate you talking with us and taking some time today on the Glenn Beck program.
01:25:25.960The truth, the answer is decentralization.
01:25:28.440Whether it comes to questions about election integrity or elections, are they on the up and up or not?
01:25:33.820Well, the truth is, is that that's all about centralization of power.
01:25:39.040We've got to get away from, you know, the Washington, D.C. running things or some Bond villain lookalike out of Davos or somewhere else.
01:25:48.480So get right back to where folks are making decisions in your own backyard, not places and far off places and by people you'll never meet who have never met you and never been to where you live.
01:26:42.800It's not just doing businesses with folks.
01:26:45.220Make sure you let them know that you intend to stop doing business because of their practices and how they support this ESG nonsense.
01:26:55.600And then Congressman just mentioned it, but these pension funds or where your money is invested, have conversations with those people.
01:27:06.520The people that are doing the investing, you have conversations with them, you tell them you don't want your money in any of these funds or supporting any of this ESG nonsense.
01:27:57.460It's not just about how you and I are going to be able to live out our lives or retirement or whatever any of that looks like down the road.
01:28:05.400It's about making sure that we leave them a country that even halfway resembles what this nation was and is the greatness, the restoration.
01:29:08.520It's Justin Barclay, in for Glenn Beck today on the Glenn Beck Program.
01:29:10.960To answer that question, we decided to go straight to Arizona, straight to the source, and see if we could figure this out.
01:29:18.300Here's one man who said that he's been voting for 30 years in Arizona, and he just went to check the stout of his ballot, and they said he didn't vote.
01:31:44.940So to your listeners, if you are an Arizona voter and you're being told that you didn't vote, you go up and you can check most of the counties.
01:31:54.160You can go up and check to make sure that your ballot has been received and counted.
01:31:58.320And if you're one of those people like this gentleman that you just paid, played the clip of, I need to hear from you because that is a violation of HAVA, which is the Help America Vote Act.
01:32:09.180And that is a clear disenfranchisement of a voter.
01:32:13.200And I would love to hear from you at mark at votefincham.com because we probably will be helping people get connected with an attorney that can file a class action lawsuit for that.
01:32:25.180Mark, what about these people who went on election day and were told that their vote, well, it didn't go through the machine or they were told to go somewhere else or they just waited in line hours.
01:32:37.400I mean, on election day, these issues, some of the things that I've seen and heard in the videos, I mean, it's just I can't imagine that in America.
01:32:46.420Mark, somebody told me earlier, you know, Orion Seacrest can count 12 million votes on American Isle during the commercial break, but we can't get it together to get these votes counted on election day like this.
01:32:56.780It's either just complete incompetence like we've never seen on a scale ever before in the history of this country, or it's intentional.
01:33:06.880Let me lay out the theory of the case for you, Justin.
01:33:09.100There were no problems with early voting.
01:33:12.180So we actually have election month, not election day here, which that in itself is a massive problem.
01:33:19.340But people, you know, vote by mail has become ensconced in Arizona.
01:33:23.780In fact, 80% of the voting I used to vote by mail did for, I think, 20 some elections until I realized that the chain of custody for the ballots is broken the minute I let go of it.
01:33:34.880And it goes to somebody else other than an election official.
01:33:37.340So, and of course, the Guardian wanted to make a big deal out of that.
01:33:41.120It's like, hey, only an imbecile would continue to do something that they realize is a problem.
01:33:45.680But we've got all of the early voting.
01:33:49.000They had zero problems with tabulation of those ballots.
01:33:52.660Now, keep in mind, that is predominantly Democrat voters.
01:33:58.420Most Republican voters vote the day of the election.
01:34:01.840And they go to the polls and whether they have a mail-in ballot or they go to the polls and they get an on-demand printed ballot, most Republicans go to the polls.
01:34:10.220Suddenly, on election day, the tabulation equipment goes down.
01:35:12.780I think that this whole thing was planned to suppress the, quote, MAGA vote, you know, make America great again.
01:35:21.400I don't know why people have a problem with that.
01:35:23.000Even Republicans here in the state of Arizona have a problem with that.
01:35:26.160In fact, Stephen Richard, the Maricopa County recorder, a Republican, allegedly, Bill Gates, Maricopa County supervisor in charge of elections, a Republican, or so he claims, both of them formed a PAC in 2021 to see to it that, quote, MAGA candidates were hampered from making it through the election.
01:35:50.040Tell me that there isn't some kind of bias, that there isn't a foam on the scale of election fairness there.
01:36:17.680And now I've got to, I can't confirm this, but I'm told through the grapevine that her staff has been scrambling to put together a transition team because they had no idea that they would win.
01:36:29.160Okay, so there's some things, some anomalies in this that it's certain, guaranteed certain, that this was a fraud of an election and we will be going to court and we have to wait until the case is what they call ripe.
01:36:48.540So until Maricopa County and some of the other counties certify their election, we can't go to court because the best we could do is a stay to keep them from counting and certifying the election.
01:37:01.620Well, all that does is make this a very protracted thing.
01:37:04.680So we want them to certify because then we can go into court and say, okay, you've certified an uncertifiable election.
01:37:11.980The election in Maricopa County is irredeemably compromised because of the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters.
01:37:21.220And we don't even know how many people, because think about this, you send your ballot to the county and you expect that they're going to do what they're charged to do.
01:37:31.160The fact that the gentleman you played at the opening of this segment just happened to go up and take a look, how many people don't even think to go do that?
01:37:43.220They just trusted that the government did its job.
01:37:51.260And, you know, if you've got an Arizona voter listening to this thing, they need to validate whether or not their ballot was received and counted.
01:37:58.060That's probably the biggest piece of advice I can give folks right now.
01:38:02.140And if it wasn't, if you mailed one in or you went in person and your record, particularly in Maricopa County, is not showing that you cast a vote, we need to hear from you because you can be part of a class action suit.
01:38:16.420Mark, how can folks stay in touch with you or find out more about what's happening in Arizona, particularly stay plugged in on this?
01:38:28.640That's V-O-T-E, F like Frank, I-N like Nancy, C-H-E-M like Mark.com.
01:38:36.980If they click on the News tab, we're trying to curate all of the news that's coming in, but there are so many developments that are going fast and furious.
01:38:44.780The other thing they can do, obviously listen to this program, but check out Gateway Pundit and Western Journal.
01:38:51.160Those are two organizations that are covering this like ugly on an ape.
01:38:54.480So, and the legacy media, they're not going to cover this because they're perfectly happy with the idea that Arizona is a, quote, allegedly blue state.
01:39:06.580And what has happened here is a terrible assault on suffrage.
01:39:11.420The other thing folks can do, if they want to contact me directly, they can just send an email to Mark, that's M-A-R-K, at votefincham.com.
01:39:20.240Now, we are trying to raise money for litigation, so there's a donate button on that website.
01:39:24.460If people want to help us out, we would appreciate it.
01:39:27.580But Arizona is ground zero for turning the tide on election fraud, and that's what this is.
01:40:00.380Folks, I got to tell you, it's stuff like this that is continually, especially for the election denier crowd, nobody's denying their election.
01:40:17.340I don't know that you could call this an election, although at this point, nobody's denying their election.