On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend and long-time supporter, Rep. Jason Crowell (R-Illinois), to discuss the latest in the Iran nuclear deal, the latest on the Trump administration, and much, much more.
00:06:33.580Well, I don't know if I think it's inevitable.
00:06:36.080I think they're on a timeline to get a lot of this done due to oil reserves.0.79
00:06:41.200And I think the timeline benefits Iran if they can keep the regime together, hold everything together, and, you know, increase economic pressure with the, you know, turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz.0.76
00:06:52.180So I think that being that that is the timeline, if we end up potentially having to take or see some of the islands that are there in the strait where the IRGC is firing off rockets, I think that might be inevitability.0.78
00:12:08.980And yeah, I am also concerned about the, you know, our, you know, production capacity with munitions, which sounds like the president is as well.
00:12:17.820But we don't necessarily have to do things like take Cargill under.
00:12:21.800Like there was this Wall Street Journal report that came out yesterday and they were talking about expanding the war or the potential to stay.
00:12:28.760That's some of the options the president has.
00:12:32.240Wall Street Journal. And per their report, it says the options discussed in the situation room included broadening airstrikes, targeting Iran's underground pickaxe mountain nuclear facility, striking additional energy infrastructure, and potentially seizing Karg Island or other strategic islands in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
00:12:51.180Now, those are just options. What's equally important to look at is the moves that Besant does, because the economic moves against Iran are very, very significant. Iran is on the brink. I was just looking at some of the figures on that. I don't have them in front of me right now, but their economy is straight devastated.
00:13:09.320And right now, Iran is basically a military dictatorship with a few corrupt politicians that are the figureheads that are going to some of these negotiations.
00:13:19.640But the IRGC is in control of Iran right now.0.64
00:13:22.400I want to see targeted sanctions directly at IRGC banks, IRGC infrastructure, and their companies that they have created to elevate them to the status that they are in the country right now.
00:13:34.540You start targeting IRGC specifically, and this regime could accelerate faster than what a lot of people are looking at.
00:13:41.860Why haven't we done it? Why haven't we done it yet?
00:13:43.980I think they've done some moves on that, but I think that these moves will get more intense.
00:13:49.140And that's something very specific to look at as far as what Bessent and the Treasury does if they start making more targeted moves in that direction.
00:42:56.100And that's why I love free spoke free spoke will let you compare how the left, right and independent sources are all covering the same story.
00:45:43.920going to be there with him apparently.
00:45:45.760to verify a lot of the stuff that he is going to say whether he talks about china or not i hope he
00:45:51.560does i hope he does but we'll see china is a i mean it's a pretty big adversary and i personally0.93
00:45:58.920like it when we take them on but we've got a lot of we got a lot of we had a bowling ball a chainsaw0.98
00:46:04.480and a machete in the air that we're juggling right now is he going to take that on we'll see
00:46:09.800uh also i gotta tell you uh senator slotkin stood at a podium yesterday and explained why your party0.51
00:46:18.040blocked the save act and it is insanity it is absolutely insanity and i'm gonna put an end to
00:46:23.880the insanity in just a few minutes but first i want to get peter swizer on the phone and talk
00:46:28.000about china and what he's expecting to hear from the president and what what peter knows about uh
00:46:33.280election interference foreign election interference that he has already proven out
00:46:38.140because i know he has shared these things with the president uh before peter joins us here in
00:46:43.640just a second as we prepare for the president's speech tonight at 9 p.m eastern all right first
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00:48:45.100Schweizer, host of The Drill Down, also the author of The Invisible Coup, and the president of
00:48:53.080Government Accountability Institute. Hi, Peter. How are you? Hey, I'm good, Glenn. Great to be
00:48:58.180with you as always thanks for having me yeah thank you so what do you think the president's
00:49:02.200going to say tonight i think he's going to focus on several aspects of foreign interference i think
00:49:08.560china is going to be a central player in that uh and i base that on you know where the information
00:49:17.140chain has been going um with regards to some of the documents that have been declassified and
00:49:23.080And I would say front and center in this, in terms of driving this, has been John Solomon, a friend of mine, friend of yours, who has had a lot of documents declassified.
00:49:34.540And there are two sort of shocking things that he brought out as a journalist.
00:49:39.040He's now working temporarily as a so-called SGE, special government employee with the White House, to help in the declassification process.
00:49:48.440But two things, Glenn, that he has already exposed.
00:49:52.020Number one, the fact that we know that now in the 2020 election, China was hacking voter databases in multiple states and that the CIA knew about this.
00:50:07.000And according to John's reporting, which is, again, based on documents, the CIA did not want to emphasize it or publicize it because they thought it would help Trump in that 2020 election.
00:50:18.360Oh, my God. What becomes. Yeah. What really becomes frightening is when you merge that with the second big explosion he has. So you have China hacking into voter databases in multiple states. Then also in 2020, what did we have reported? The FBI got a tip that China was looking for ways to exploit the mail in election balloting system.
00:50:42.040And one of the ways in which they were potentially going to do that was through fake IDs.
00:50:48.240And lo and behold, there was a lot of reporting, official government reports, customs, border patrol, et cetera, that just at Chicago O'Hare alone, there were 1,500 shipments involving more than 20,000 counterfeit driver's licenses.
00:51:03.320So, Glenn, if you look at their ability to hack into voter databases and you look at what appears to be a systematic effort to generate large volumes of fake IDs, you merge those capabilities together.
00:51:18.100You have the potential for really affecting elections.
00:51:42.540And, of course, China vehemently denies that they are involved in our eternal affairs at all, which is, of course, a joke.0.72
00:51:50.220Everything from fentanyl to some of the political disruptions in our country China's involved in.
00:51:56.200And what I would say is, you know, Trump is, as you put it quite well, there's a lot he's juggling right now.
00:52:02.840But what I will tell you is this. Agree or disagree with him on, you know, the 2020 election.
00:52:10.300This has been a passionate topic for him, election integrity and, you know, with the SAVE Act and everything else going on.
00:52:18.880So I think if he is going to risk the wrath of China, which he has done in the past, it's probably going to be on an issue like this that he's very, very passionate about.
00:52:29.880And I think the most important thing here, Glenn, is that we're actually now going to start having this conversation that you and I have been having for a while on a nationwide basis.
00:52:40.840The fact that China is engaged in a lot of aggressive actions within our country, the Biden administration wanted to bury that.
00:52:49.880The Trump administration is willing to talk about it openly, which I think is good.
00:52:55.120So the other thing, you know, if number one, China hacking our voter database and the CIA covering it up, remarkable.
00:53:03.320Two, FBI tip exploiting the mail, the mail-in ballots and sending in fake IDs.
00:53:10.840um how do you get around the fake id thing if you're talking about you need id for the save act
00:53:17.460what where does that put the save act and what has to be done to stop that well uh look i think
00:53:25.440the save act act is absolutely necessary but as it is with so many things there's no silver bullet
00:53:32.220you know the the problem is that our adversaries are very smart they shift around they they shift
00:53:37.880the terrain, and they exploit things that are, you know, even ostensibly legal. So, you know,
00:53:44.200one of the things that, Glenn, you and I talked about earlier this year is how China has exploited
00:53:50.500our EB-5 immigration program, which, you know, you invest in the country, you get permanent
00:53:56.160resident status. 90% of the people doing this are Chinese. They don't even actually live in
00:54:01.500the United States. They're supposed to. But what that allows them to do is legally donate to0.99
00:54:06.820american political campaigns so they're donating there's tens of millions of dollars uh that we've
00:54:12.960been able to calculate it's probably much higher of money that's literally flowing legally from
00:54:18.300chinese nationals living in china to our political elections um you know you can take various actions
00:54:25.600to restrict that they're going to try to find other ways it's like water going downhill it's1.00
00:54:31.040going to figure out a way around the barriers so we cannot assume the save act's going to fix
00:54:35.800everything but we absolutely have to plug these holes uh and the issue with fake ideas is a real
00:54:42.600one and one of the things that that should be pointed out is you know china does not go after0.55
00:54:48.980when these rings are exposed that are producing these fake ids china does not go after and
00:54:54.420prosecute these people um they allow them to continue to operate which indicates that this0.96
00:54:59.820is effectively i would argue state supported by the ccp this is this is part of what their effort
00:55:05.400is. Peter, what is the mainstream media going to say if he comes out with this evidence? And,
00:55:14.880you know, I know John Solomon, you know, we, you know, I trust John like I trust you. There are
00:55:19.860very few reporters that I really trust. John is one of them. You're another one that I know that
00:55:25.180you have turned over every stone and you are not a political hack. And everybody in the media knows
00:55:32.820that too about about john solomon i mean that he's worked for all of them um and he has deep
00:55:39.460deep integrity so he's saying this he's uncovered all this now the president is going to say it
00:55:45.640he's he's going to have the cia standing next to him when he says these things
00:55:50.240what is the media going to say what's their pushback going to be on this
00:55:54.240well uh first of all let's remember um that that in effect the media is at least a lot of the
00:56:02.360media is kind of complicit in this, right? Because they have poo-pooed, they have pushed
00:56:06.420the Russia narrative and downplayed the China election meddling, which has come up from time
00:56:12.620to time. So it's essentially showing them with their pants down. So it's going to be embarrassing
00:56:18.340to them. I think we're going to hear people saying, well, this is speculative, even though
00:56:23.240there are actual documents that say this. They're going to say it's exaggerated. They're going to
00:56:28.920say it's it's you know trump's mad about losing 2020 and and this is sort of a personal vendetta
00:56:34.300but again all of that is ignoring what the actual evidence points to um and if you look at the
00:56:40.880documents i mean john has released uh some of these documents earlier this year it's very clear
00:56:46.220they say exactly what he says so i think the key thing is you and i we need to continue to say
00:56:53.280follow the facts, follow the evidence, because it is all very clear what China's doing. And they
00:56:59.740need to walk away from this, I would argue, very embarrassing posture they have of kind of taking
00:57:06.640China at its word. And, you know, everything is about Russia. Look, Russia spent, what,
00:58:14.860um i have not looked into it what i would say is uh of course in georgia the margin of victory
00:58:21.740was pretty narrow i have not seen because again i have not looked into it i have not seen
00:58:27.240concrete evidence of of the actual manipulation of uh the number of votes that were necessary to
00:58:34.340win those seats um that's that's the way that i i look at it until we can see otherwise i have to
00:58:40.200assume that that those senators are there because it was an election that they won in a very very
00:58:46.840weird year with a lot of mail-in ballots and a lot of irregularities anything else you think
00:58:53.720he's going to speak about tonight Iran I think he will probably address a number of subjects
00:59:01.200and I think in you know as it comes to Iran look it's it's a very difficult situation but I think
00:59:08.900if you believe what the intelligence told him and what he saw and what the immediate objective
00:59:14.360was, which was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability, he took political
00:59:21.620action. And I think now he is at the point where he gave Iran an opportunity for a peace agreement,
00:59:28.800probably not great chances that that was going to happen. And now we are back at square one.
00:59:35.040And what it's really led to in the region, honestly, is a lot of countries, Arab countries, are starting to align more aggressively with the United States.
00:59:46.120So we always want, I think, in the world, Glenn, on the global stage, quick solutions to things.
00:59:53.580There are a lot of times no quick solutions to these kinds of points.
00:59:56.800So I think he's certainly going to address it, but I think he's done well to not allow that to be the overhang of every single thing that we're talking about, which is certainly what happened to George W. Bush in Iraq.
01:15:00.080And they had to pick out of, I don't remember what it is,
01:15:04.760the 5 million or 2.5 million items that the Smithsonian American collection has.
01:15:11.940They had to go and go in and narrow that 2.5 million items down to the most important 30 for this display that they're doing in Washington right now.
01:15:23.100And one of them is a glass voting box from the 1800s.
01:15:30.280I go over to another Smithsonian Museum and they have another one that has even more glass on it.
01:15:35.540the one we'll tweet out a picture of has wood on top and has you know little like little wood sides
01:15:43.040and the reason why is because in the 1800s they wanted people wanted to be able to see
01:15:49.280their ballot and put it into the box and see it fall into the box and then when it came to voting
01:15:55.320they wanted to see you take off the top of the box see your hand in pulling up certain ballots
01:16:02.200making sure that all of the ballots were counted.
01:28:14.520But, you know, I met Dr. Black when Uno was probably seven and he was already, you know, acting kind of old, you know, and he would never eat.
01:28:26.860And the vet kept saying to us, you've got to get him to gain weight.
01:29:40.340Rough Greens makes any dog food better.
01:29:43.100Okay, I want to share with you what Gavin Newsom said at this annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
01:29:55.260okay the term economic democracy has been around for a while why because you don't want to call it
01:30:04.200communism okay it's really weird i'm telling you not to use the word communist for for a completely
01:30:11.720different reason i'm trying to teach you every day how to and i i'm sorry i don't mean to come
01:30:18.240off that sounded really condescending i am a guy who is struggling every day trying to figure out
01:30:24.820how to teach my kids how to be stronger um in defending and understanding uh our republic
01:30:34.120and my kids come home to me and they talk about marxism they talk to me about how many
01:30:40.300communists and marxists there are uh and they talk to me about how they are struggling you know
01:30:47.160defending jews and they're like dad it's getting really bad it's getting really really bad and so
01:33:10.660in 1979 were rounded up killed jailed or just disappeared so it doesn't end well for the
01:33:17.600marxist but that's the way it was done in 79 and that's the way it's happening here
01:33:21.540um and we're not dealing with socialists like we have understood socialism before you know
01:33:27.360oh we just want swedish you know health care first of all i've told you the last few weeks
01:33:32.500look up swedish socialism it doesn't exist anymore not the way everybody's saying they
01:33:37.540are more free and their taxes while they are higher they do not penalize the rich they don't
01:33:44.740penalize people who are builders and they don't give stuff just to as freebies everybody pays a
01:33:52.080share in sweden okay they've changed all of these things in the 90s because they were they were
01:33:56.700dying uh economically um but if we are going to make this case to uh our kids we're going to make
01:34:06.780this case to help them make the case and what they're fighting the minute you say well you're
01:34:12.860just a communist some people are but i think as i told you yesterday the the vast majority of people
01:34:20.580who are now saying they're socialist have no idea really what socialism means they certainly don't
01:34:28.920know what communism means i told you that the socialist democrat the socialist democrats of
01:34:35.800america dsa that they're the ones who are doing most of the um organizing and the wins you know
01:34:44.940uh for the socialist candidates all over they're the ones with the momentum i told you the other
01:34:50.980day their own polling internal polling from them not from me from them shows 50 lights of like 51
01:34:59.340percent of their board are communists. But communism doesn't mean anything to the younger
01:35:06.240generation, and it's easy to dismiss and have people roll their eyes. Oh, yeah, it's a communist.
01:35:11.100So we have to find other ways to attack. But I want you to know that what Gavin Newsom was
01:35:18.840talking about is the definition of communism. I just want to quote him, quote, rather than being
01:35:26.560made unilaterally by private actors, important decisions about production are the results
01:35:33.840of broad deliberation processes among workers and potentially other constituencies. All
01:35:42.680models of economic democracy, as conceived, appear to be incompatible with capitalism.
01:35:53.420OK, I'm still quoting. It is not the owners of capital or the anonymous forces of the market, but the democratic voices of all citizens that control the economy.
01:36:10.140We vote to make houses free, for example
01:36:14.740Owners don't get to decide anymore how their resources are used
01:36:19.840Which means that ownership ceases to exist
01:36:23.900We're talking about now the end of ownership
01:46:28.840We're not even talking about socialists.
01:46:30.440We're talking about communists now, people who are running, who are identifying, you know, Gavin Newsom in that speech, he's not going to identify as a socialist.
01:46:45.080He's not going to identify as a communist.
01:46:47.080But what he's talking about is actual communism.
01:46:52.520And I'm sorry, Democrats, you better wake up.
01:46:55.600you better wake up because um if you don't know what communism is uh wow you're in trouble you're
01:47:05.440in trouble if you do know what communism is and you're going along with uh gavin newsom
01:47:11.680and you're using euphemisms for it what he's talking about now is communism do you think
01:47:18.820that's going to make america freer and better and your life less expensive yet filled with
01:54:07.820provide abortion they're not lgbtqi plus plus all of that crap um they don't believe that your child0.98
01:54:16.640should be butchered um you know under age uh and you can't unionize in those states they're right0.94
01:54:23.820to work states cnbc but really what what what kind of businesses do you run what kind of what0.92
01:54:32.900kind of business climate is that that's the kind of business climate all businesses are fleeing from
01:54:39.020in other states so anyway what do people say about it i was just gonna say the best rebuttal to cnbc
01:54:46.360comes from freddie the german soccer fan who's gone viral who i hope overstays his visa he loves
01:54:52.500this country so much he actually was in tennessee the last couple days and he said when people told
01:54:58.360us at the beginning of our road trip that people in the south are different we didn't really know
01:55:01.520what they meant but after spending several weeks here we finally understand the hospitality here
01:55:06.380is just something else and he just goes on to rave about tennessee so take that cnbc and i will tell
01:55:12.580you this most americans are good i've lived in new york you know people here in california for
01:55:17.820the most part until they realize who i am um they're very they're they're nice you know generally
01:55:22.920speaking people americans are nice um and part of that is because we're trustworthy we're trusting
01:55:31.060Not trustworthy. We're trusting. We trust because there is no other place on earth that hasn't had the secret police at some point encourage you to turn and spy on your neighbors until the Biden administration and COVID.
01:55:48.920We had never had that. Thank God that was short lived.
01:55:52.940and you know George Bush tried to start it I was so against this when Bush right after 9-11 he said
01:56:02.480hey you know check on your neighbors and if you see your neighbors doing something let the federal
01:56:07.260government know call a special White House line and I about flipped my wig and they stopped that
01:56:14.480thank God but Biden started doing that again because of COVID we can never be those people
01:56:20.380never once once you start turning on your neighbor and turning them in to the government
01:56:27.080there's no trust left anymore you'll never go back to it um and i think that's you know traveling in
01:56:34.380europe i think that's the difference is you know for centuries one government or the other
01:56:40.700had spies and you would turn your neighbors in just so you could advance yourself
01:56:46.060um and you know and that that's not the that's not the you know hey don't say anything if you
01:56:54.220see somebody assembling a bomb you know or their suspicious activity or you know this tim walls
01:57:00.720thing is so baffling to me because he's you know i'm talking about actual kindness actual trust
01:57:08.300um and being good to one another and tim walls and people like him will take that compassion