Glenn Beck is back in the studio with Stu to talk about his dog, Uno, and the dangers of the European Union's new trade deal with the US. Plus, a story that could change the course of history.
00:13:02.300You need somebody who is honestly a perfectionist, somebody who is a really hard worker, who's, you know, really working hard to make sure you get the most for your house.
00:13:17.000And then you pay less for the house that you're buying.
00:13:21.660A little over a decade ago, I started a company with my brother, Robert.
00:13:25.020It works with the best real estate agents, in our view, we put them through the ringer, in the country.
00:13:32.880We started with the 500 best, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:13:55.020Again, we're talking about something that just passed on Friday in the EU that affects us.
00:14:11.260And it's the economy, it's the environment, it's free speech, it's all of it.
00:14:18.980So there's not a single long list of specific rules that companies need to comply with.
00:14:26.340There are some specific rules that are included.
00:14:29.260However, this new law includes hundreds of vague statements and references to existing international agreements and EU regulations.
00:14:39.800Many of those are also long agreements featuring many more rules, such as the Paris Climate Agreement and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
00:15:11.020The total number of social credit scoring metrics included in this law is currently unknown, but is likely in the hundreds, if not more than a thousand.
00:18:25.380During which companies must provide comprehensive information.
00:18:32.360Now, according to the European Parliament, member states will be required to provide companies with detailed online information on their of their due diligence obligations via practical portals containing the commission's guidance.
00:18:47.000They will also create or design and designate a supervisory authority to investigate and impose penalties on any non-compliant firms.
00:18:58.760These will include naming and shaming.
00:22:33.900Last year, customers were saving about, I think, $830 a month if they were doing business with American financing.
00:22:42.440We just found out the average now this year is $854 a month.
00:22:48.900First of all, that's like getting a $10,000 raise at the end of the year.
00:22:53.580But I want you to imagine what something like that could do to your finances every month when you're paying your bills, having an extra $854.
00:23:03.000You might be able to go to McDonald's.
00:23:05.080If you're a homeowner and you're worried about things, please, you know, before the show, we all prayed for you about your finances today.
00:23:15.100We prayed for you because we know the pressure you're under.
00:23:17.380Please let American Financing talk to you and help you.
00:24:08.360John Rich is going to be singing as well.
00:24:11.480The reason why I agreed to do this is Jason, this is the second year Jason did this, and the whole thing is to remind that no matter what experts or society says, men need to be men.
00:24:29.860I'll be speaking about men who stepped up to the plate in dark hours of history and became men that the world needed because men have meaning.
00:24:39.500You know, I was at a graduation yesterday and, oh my gosh, the number of women with, you know, the girls as they're graduating and they have all of the cords and the, you know, honors and everything else.
00:25:35.980There were Maybelline ads for guys putting on makeup.
00:25:42.040I don't know any woman, Sarah, do you know any women that, you know, are looking for a man and you're like, I just want a man who's putting on makeup every day, you know?
00:33:41.740They hoped that a final draft treaty could be agreed upon in its yearly meeting of health ministers that starts today.
00:33:55.020However, it was rejected after two years of closed doors meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
00:34:03.760It is off the table, at least for now.
00:34:07.080Now, remember, the League of Nations was off the table until the war, and then it went on the table, then it got off the table, and then it changed into the United Nations.
00:34:17.700So, we have to keep our eye on this, but this is a huge, huge victory.
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00:35:45.460You can pack it in your checked luggage without the need to declare it as a firearm, making it the airport experience, you know, less than, oh, God.
00:37:26.100And then in the defense, I mean, I think this thing, if you can't find one person to say no on this one in New York City, that's saying a lot.
00:37:38.920But one of the, I think this will be overturned just on this.
00:37:42.320Bradley Smith, he's the former FEC commissioner, the chairman.
00:37:46.720OK, that's the federal election commission.
00:37:52.200The judge, he was going to testify that even if there were a campaign contribution, which there wasn't, it would not have been needed to be filed until after the election, which completely destroys the idea that this was an influence campaign to try to influence the election.
00:38:13.680Because remember, they're not saying the crime is the cover up of the affair.
00:39:42.800He said, in the end, we are all standing on that wobbly stool when the government seeks to convict people without evidence or even a clear crime.
00:39:53.880If we allow a conviction, it is more than a stool that will collapse in this Manhattan courtroom.
00:40:01.500And look, this will be probably overturned.
00:40:03.920But that doesn't matter in some ways when it comes to what the ramifications are.
00:40:08.680If the courts and the jury can do this in New York, can anyone who is unpopular get a fair trial?
00:40:18.500We have to get into the politics of this, too, because, I mean, it's fascinating to think about, like, in some ways, even if he gets a conviction and they're like, well, you're fined, right?
00:40:30.000I mean, do the American people care at all?
00:40:32.760I feel like there's a good chance they just have already priced this in.
00:43:15.560What Biden is now suggesting is that we have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac get back into giving more taxpayer-backed consumer loans to people who can't afford a loan.
00:44:38.200It started, I think, with the Marines.
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00:46:06.720It's so frustrating when I read this in the media, the corporate press all of a sudden waking up and saying things like, oh, fast food and restaurants are more expensive than ever and people can't afford them.
00:46:17.900It's like, wow, that's a giant shock to me who's been telling you this for years and years based on the fiscal and monetary policies of this country.
00:46:26.620You know what's more frustrating to me is the fact that we know that they're wrong.
00:46:33.980We've seen that they're wrong over and over and over again.
00:46:36.320They're lying to us and saying we're a conspiracy.
00:46:38.500And then when it turns out to be right, they announce that it's suddenly true and right.
00:46:43.140And then people go back to them for the answer on how to solve it.
00:46:51.020It's the arsonists who are burning down your house and then they bring a water bottle and say, hey, I'm going to help push it, put out the fire and rebuild it.
00:46:58.020It is frustrating and the gaslighting when we're telling people what it is that they're going to experience or what they are experiencing from the Biden administration, from the press saying, no, no, you don't.
00:47:18.960Talk to me about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
00:47:21.120This was one of the biggest collapses during 2008.
00:47:29.880But if I'm not mistaken, it wasn't really taken that way because the federal government, we, the taxpayers, foot the bill for that one.
00:47:39.940So they didn't actually fail, but they did.
00:47:43.840So do you remember the scene in after trading places when Randolph and Mortimer Duke went bankrupt and then they pop up and coming to America and Eddie Murphy hands them this wad of cash and all of a sudden Randolph says, Mortimer, we're back.
00:48:00.100I feel like this is the exact same thing that's going on with Freddie Mac.
00:48:04.700And certainly if it happens with Freddie Mac and it gains acceptance, it's going to happen with Fannie Mae.
00:48:10.040So right now, these two government-sponsored enterprises, based on what happened out of the Great Recession financial crisis, they were put into conservatorships with the FHFA as well as the Treasury.
00:48:25.160So they've been watching them and making sure that they don't do anything risky, right?
00:48:29.980Well, now Freddie Mac had this great idea because people have so much equity in their homes.
00:48:36.060Let us go ahead and offer second mortgages.
00:48:40.840Now, you have to remember that these government-sponsored enterprises, Freddie Mac and, you know, as well as Fannie Mae, the whole point of them is to, you know, extend credit, make sure that people can get into housing.
00:48:52.540But second mortgages don't get you into housing.
00:49:38.000It's taking the money out of your home, the equity that you have, the ownership that you have, and saying, okay, no longer I have this ownership.
00:51:30.220We have an election around the corner.
00:51:32.160And obviously we've seen Biden try to do this cancellation of student loan debt.
00:51:37.620And, you know, that is not working out as well as he had hoped, although he keeps pushing it.
00:51:42.520So now how do we make people who are maybe struggling financially feel like they're wealthier, feel like they have more cash in their hands?
00:51:50.540Oh, we'll let them take this, you know, quote-unquote equity out of their homes, which is buying votes, which is increasing consumer spending, which pushes up the GDP, which we know is, you know, faltering based on last quarter.
00:52:04.920So all of these things make him look like the economy is doing better.
00:52:09.060By the way, also likely highly inflationary that we're adding more consumer spending into the mix here.
00:52:15.880So this is being proposed by Freddie Mac.
00:52:20.960And more inflation makes it harder for you to buy things later.
00:52:27.300You've got now a second mortgage and you're going to be in the same situation you were in if you spend that money to do anything other than pay off very high interest rates.
00:52:40.360You take a loan out and do anything with it when the because this won't happen until after the election.
00:54:16.180That means that they take a bunch of these secondary mortgages, they package them together into a new security, and they sell them into the market.
00:54:24.080And these were the same types of securities, if you recall, which started the whole ball rolling with the Great Recession financial crisis.
00:55:30.940And at a time when we have the Federal Reserve who is frustrated with their attempt to fight inflation and the government continuing to spend like drunken sailors, no disrespect to the drunken sailors,
00:55:44.020then you keep having these consumer stimuluses.
00:55:47.780And this is what happened with the Biden administration when they came out, you know, right out of the gate a few months later and they did direct consumer stimulus.
00:56:04.500If you take money that is locked up in homes and all of a sudden you unlock that.
00:56:09.180And again, it's theoretical money because if the price of houses end up going down in that area, then they could end up being underwater and be in real financial trouble.
00:56:21.040So this is theoretical dollars that they have that they're going to take out and use the dollars to spend in the economy.
00:56:30.340It makes everything look like the consumer is doing much better.
00:56:33.160And it absolutely will eat away at your purchasing power, devalue your labor, devalue your wealth.
00:56:40.620Once again, it is the same cycle repeating for political purposes.
00:56:45.140Carol, I'd love to have you on again later this week because there's a couple of other things that are affecting small businesses and independent workers.
00:56:52.740Again, you know, so you will own nothing, but you'll be happy.
00:56:57.640Apparently, we're going to can I invite you back later this week?
00:57:30.000I have to tell you, I've been doing my pillow commercial here, but I have to tell you, when I got, Tanya came and she came home and I didn't know.
00:57:40.900She ordered new pillows and I was like, where is my pillow?
00:57:44.720Because I sleep on my pillow every night and I love it.
00:57:48.480And she got the new my pillow, the 2.0, and it's different than the 1.0.
00:57:55.240And I slept on it and I'm like, or I put it and I was like, honey, this is not the same.
00:58:01.700I have to tell you, I have been sleeping on these things now for a week and I wake up with, I haven't, I wake up in exactly the same position I went to sleep in.
00:59:22.380We have Alan Dershowitz on with us in just a few minutes to talk about the Donald Trump trial because Donald Trump's lawyers, their closing arguments are today.
01:00:11.500And they were all part of color revolutions in the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe.
01:00:16.340Remember I said a long time ago it will start in the Middle East, it will go to Europe, and then come here to America and sweep and topple America.
01:00:27.040We are there, I believe, and I'm going to show you the evidence of it and who is, you'll know who's going to be marching in the streets this summer and why and who's paying for it before it happens.
01:00:56.040That's tomorrow night at 9 p.m. Eastern on blazetv.com.
01:01:00.960Okay, this Trump trial we're going to start talking about here in just a second, but it is, it's amazing to me and sad that I think there's maybe a 50 to 70% chance that it'll be a hung jury.
01:02:08.340And, you know, if you think about the way maybe a Manhattan voter has been taught over the past years, here's a man who's literally Hitler.
01:02:18.420The only way we can keep him out of the presidency is by you guys doing something.
01:02:22.600And I think there's definitely going to be some jurors there that think that way.
01:03:25.120You know, the defense witnesses have been the bad witnesses.
01:03:27.720You know, I mean, over and over again, he's tilted the playing field that direction.
01:03:33.160And we'll ask Alan Dershowitz about the closing arguments and what does the judge, is there any cap on the judge when it comes to instructions?
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01:05:59.920I'm very concerned about what's going on in the Manhattan courthouse today because it could hurt America more than it could even hurt Donald Trump.
01:06:06.880This is the weakest, worst case I've seen in my 60 years of practicing law.
01:06:12.420And because it's New York and because this is a jury of New Yorkers and a judge, there might be a conviction here.
01:06:19.280It would be a horrible, horrible blemish, stain on the American justice system if that were to happen.
01:06:25.020You know, Jonathan Turley wrote a great article, I don't know if you saw it, about this trial.
01:06:32.260And the last line is something along the lines of, you know, a three-legged stool in every court case.
01:06:40.040And, you know, this is the most wobbly without a leg to stand on.
01:06:44.720He said, it's not Donald Trump standing on that stool.
01:06:48.240That is, that's something that's going to affect all of us deeply.
01:06:54.060And I don't even know what it means if a court like this can find any man guilty like this because he's unpopular.
01:23:30.780There is something that happened over the weekend.
01:23:33.640We spoke about it earlier, but I want to talk to Justin Haskins.
01:23:38.200He's my co-author of The Great Reset and Dark Future, and he and his team spent a lot of time at the Heartland Institute for Socialism.
01:23:52.460He's a research center director there.
01:23:54.580And what happened in Europe in the last few days is something that we all need to know because it will affect every one of us in America, Canada, all over the world.
01:24:09.300Well, probably except for China, who's just going to get a pass for some reason.
01:24:13.300But we'll talk about that in 60 seconds.
01:24:18.420Listen, we talked to you last hour about Freddie Mac.
01:24:23.680Freddie Mac is a government-backed institution that was one of the reasons why we had the crash in 08, a big one, because they would give loans to people that couldn't get loans anywhere else for a reason.
01:24:37.680Well, Joe Biden has now decided that, you know, just before the election, he's going to give out second mortgages.
01:24:46.160It could be as much as $5 trillion of your money being backed up for people, giving people loans so they can spend it in the economy.
01:24:58.120You want to get a second mortgage, pay off your debt.
01:25:01.120That's good. If you can get a, you know, 6% mortgage over a 25% mortgage, absolutely.
01:25:12.100But now the government is doing it, $5 trillion, and most people are going to dump it into the economy.
01:25:20.320What do you think that's going to do to the dollar and inflation?
01:25:23.500We are already spending out of control, $1 trillion every 100 days.
01:25:28.820Please, I beg of you, I beg of you, please find out if gold or silver is right for you.
01:25:37.700You know, I don't know if you've seen the price of gold and silver and all of the other things that people are counting on, Bitcoin, going through the roof.
01:25:47.600Why? Why? Because my grandfather used to say, if we only knew what the rich people knew.
01:25:53.900Well, what are the rich people and what are the central banks of the entire world doing?
01:26:33.600And I'm not referring to the social credit scoring system in Europe that's going to transform all of life in America and probably destroy freedom.
01:26:40.880I'm talking about coming on the air, having to admit that I'm wrong and that you were right.
01:26:51.740I mentioned it behind your back, but I was never going to bring it up.
01:26:56.580No, you know what, you know, I just, I'm such a cynic on, on especially the EU and now our government that they'll do, they'll do the wrong thing every time, every time.
01:27:11.440And what they passed, when was it, this weekend, Friday?
01:27:34.040So for three years, you and I have been warning people about this pending legislation that was working its way through the massive bureaucracy of the European Union and their legislative process that would essentially create a global social credit scoring system
01:27:54.540that would be imposed on companies that do business in Europe, companies that are based in Europe, and then many of the companies that they do business with.
01:28:04.660So we're not talking about just European companies.
01:28:07.560We're talking about American companies that do business in Europe and American companies that do business with someone who does business in Europe.
01:28:15.120So massive, massive numbers of companies.
01:28:17.760And I think that'll go all the way down the chain.
01:28:23.380If you are Philco and you are providing the radios and the stereos in a Ford, everybody who makes a part, Philco is part of it now because they're selling to Ford.
01:28:37.400But everyone who makes a part for Philco, I believe, will also be a part because it goes down the chain all the way, right?
01:28:46.620Yeah, I mean, that is essentially how it works.
01:28:49.300There are some exceptions to this, but I'll give you a specific example because the law is incredibly complicated.
01:28:56.120I'll give you a specific example that I think a lot of people can relate to.
01:29:00.520This is related to the agricultural industry, okay?
01:29:02.860This covers all sorts of things, not just agriculture.
01:30:07.640They are – Bayer is now one of the largest agricultural companies in the United States.
01:30:13.160They're one of the largest seed companies in the United States.
01:30:16.060So all of these farmers all across the United States that are buying seeds, many of them are buying seeds from Bayer, which now has to comply with these ESG rules.
01:30:27.020And so think of all of these farmers, not just the farmers, but all of the transportation companies, all of the storage companies, the warehouses, all of the people who are supplying parts and machines related to these various businesses.
01:30:45.140Many of them, not all of them, but many of them are going to be directly or indirectly tied to this ESG law, and that's just one tiny part of it.
01:30:55.640There are a million different ways that the tentacles of this is going to reach out into American society.
01:31:02.280You could be just a owner-operator of a transportation truck.
01:31:11.280And you're just driving seeds around Iowa.
01:31:14.340And if you happen to do business with one of these businesses that's owned by Bayer, you're going to have to comply with these rules too.
01:31:21.000And it goes on and on and on and on and on down the line.
01:31:24.100Now, people will say, and please read Dark Future if you haven't read it yet, listen to the audio tape.
01:31:33.540I try to make it a little more fun because it's, I mean, it's talking about this stuff, or The Great Reset.
01:31:40.680I highly recommend that you read both of those because that is now spelling the future, and this was one of the big ones.
01:31:49.860We could stop ESG, possibly, and we've done a good job at moving in that direction, but we didn't stop it.
01:31:57.200We can stop it in our own states and hopefully in our own government.
01:32:03.640But we told you the Trump card on that, sorry, Donald Trump, the Trump card on that is if the EU passes it, then we have to do it if we want to do business with the EU.
01:32:17.080Well, of course we want to do business with the EU, and it would not only mean that we wouldn't be selling stuff to them, it would mean, I believe, they can't buy stuff from us, right?
01:32:30.200Yeah, if you're a business in the European Union and you're buying something from a company that's based in the United States, like say you're an energy company in the United States and you're getting natural gas out of the ground and you're selling natural gas to Europe, yes, this is going to apply to you directly.
01:32:48.260There's no question about it, and then all of the companies that that natural gas company is doing business with are also going to be caught up in this too.
01:32:57.760This is the most diabolical plan that I've ever seen.
01:33:05.520It is now the law in Europe, and unless the United States of America stands up immediately and says, nope, you can do this to everybody else, but you can't do this to us.
01:33:16.220Unless they do that immediately, the fundamental transformation of the United States of America that Barack Obama talked about, that all the Great Reset people were talking about four years ago.
01:33:27.920Anybody who has talked about a global governance system, this is it.
01:33:40.920Now, I immediately sent this to a couple of friends in Washington and said, this is the most important thing you can talk about and work on right now.
01:34:22.600This is crucial that you understand and you begin to talk to your senators and your congressmen that you vote for somebody who will stop this.
01:34:35.020This puts all of the Great Reset plans from Europe, which now will have to do it, into the United States and everywhere else.
01:34:47.480And I will bet you, Justin, it will not affect China.
01:35:00.760And the reason for that is because the way that they set up the enforcement mechanisms in this was very tricky.
01:35:06.460Essentially, what they did was say, all the countries of the European Union have to pass laws that comply with this law.
01:35:13.180And then it's up to each individual country to enforce those laws.
01:35:16.960So, in other words, if the countries of the European Union decide, we're not going to enforce the law on China, then they don't have to enforce the law on China.
01:35:27.400And so, I think that's exactly what's going to happen.
01:35:30.420This is a license for European Union countries to go after anyone they want or to not go after anyone they want, depending on what their agenda is.
01:35:39.900And so, China absolutely will get a pass, and we won't.
01:35:42.360And before we lose all of our status in the world and all of our ability to sell anything, we have to have a president, a senate, and a congress that will stand up to Europe and say, we're not playing ball.
01:36:39.660Today is the day you have to make an important decision.
01:36:43.180You keep your current cell phone plan, you know, the one where you shell out big money every month to a big mobile corporation that donates money to leftist causes and puts us in the situation we're in right now.
01:36:54.080Or you could change to Patriot Mobile, which doesn't do any of that.
01:36:59.920In fact, is fighting against these things and charges way less for the service and shares your values.
01:38:00.020So there are a number of provisions in this, and we're still working our way through it.
01:38:04.740It's more than 100 pages long, and it cites a bunch of other agreements, international agreements, human rights, policies, other things in the European Union, which are also many pages long.
01:38:16.140And so we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of pages of legislation that we're going through.
01:38:20.900But one of the things that comes up over and over and over again is misinformation and disinformation.
01:38:26.800That companies can't, that they have to make sure they have policies that are making sure that on various topics, like, say, climate change, for example, and things like that, that they're not supporting misinformation and disinformation.
01:38:41.040Well, one of the companies, and there are many, but one of the companies that would fall under this legislation is a company called Apple.
01:38:48.900I don't know, maybe some of your audience has heard of Apple before.
01:38:52.720Apple not only is one of the largest tech companies in the world.
01:38:56.940They make all of the, you know, iPhones and computers and all of that stuff.
01:39:00.700But they're also the largest podcast company in the world.
01:39:05.720They have the largest podcasting platform.
01:39:08.720Think of all the other companies that are doing Europe, business in Europe, communications companies, social media companies, Facebook, all of these companies.
01:39:22.120They're all going to have to comply as well, including with the provisions that are related to misinformation and disinformation, and not just in their own company, but also with the companies that they're doing business with on the upstream side of their businesses.
01:39:37.700So this is going to impact everything.
01:39:41.000This is going to impact this radio show, potentially.
01:39:44.160That's the kind of thing that we are dealing with in the long run here.
01:39:48.440This is the end game that we've been warning about forever.
01:39:52.120This is why we started the blaze, but understand that the blaze is an app.
01:40:01.640Apple has, you know, the market on, uh, apps.
01:40:06.240That means if this, well, it will, because it's gone through, it's already been, but if we don't stop it in America, you will not be able to find the blaze on an app.
01:40:17.080Also, I heart, one of the bigger, uh, podcasts, I don't know, even know how many podcasts they have, like 800 different podcasts.
01:40:26.160They go to Europe, uh, they go all over the world.
01:40:31.920I don't know how much money they're making, and I don't know how much money Apple is making just on the podcast division.
01:43:01.940We're talking about actually ending freedom in America.
01:43:04.740We're talking about misinformation and disinformation rules, wholesale destruction of various parts of our economy, European social justice standards being imposed.
01:43:14.520Control of our food, control of our food, absolutely.
01:43:19.700And it's just, and we're just scratching the surface.
01:43:21.980The other important thing to keep in mind is that not only are we still figuring out what else is in this, think about the ramifications for gun rights and things like that.
01:43:29.980But in addition to all of that, we also have the potential for more rules in the future.
01:44:20.060This is my company, and I've got great people that work for it.
01:44:25.700And what we do is we look for the real estate agents all around the world that – sorry, not all around the world, Europe, here in America – that have the best practices.
01:46:43.660This is the only one that is elected by the people.
01:46:47.880So they answer to the people and the Constitution of the United States.
01:46:53.540Now, if a federal agent comes into town and needs to go into a house, the sheriff, who is the local person that in a lot of places, like where I live, you know the sheriff, he's there to come to make sure that the federal government is living up to the Constitution,
01:47:14.260and they're not breaking down the door of somebody who the sheriff could knock on the door and say, hey, Bill, listen, there's this problem, blah, blah, blah, and that he's there to guard the people against an unrighteous or out-of-control government federal official.
01:48:03.100I want you to, I add you on to make the point of why it's important to pay attention on who is running for sheriff in your county.
01:48:12.720Tell me about your county and the race that you're in.
01:48:16.460So I'm currently in a runoff race against the incumbent sheriff.
01:48:20.600It's extremely important to get out to vote, and something you just said that I wholeheartedly believe.
01:48:26.020For me, running for sheriff means that I would be elected by the people.
01:48:29.740I would answer to the 32,000 people that live in Gillespie County, and that's extremely important.
01:48:36.020I do believe when you're appointed, it tends to be actually more political.
01:48:38.800But when you answer to the people, that's the only way to look at it, that you answer to them and you work for them.
01:48:44.320And most importantly, you protect and defend them as a sheriff.
01:48:47.660So that's why it's important that people understand the role of a sheriff in their county.
01:48:51.580I think it's extremely important for them to have that knowledge, and for not only that, but for the sheriff to share that with them on a regular basis in open meetings to say, this is what we're looking at, this is what we need to do.
01:49:01.800And we've unfortunately experienced what you're talking about here in Gillespie County about a year ago.
01:49:19.580The triggers were mailed, and they received them.
01:49:22.220The ATF showed up in Gillespie County and met up with an investigator.
01:49:27.500And at that point, they did call these individuals.
01:49:30.740The problem was is that, and, you know, this is talking to the individuals involved, was that there really was no paperwork.
01:49:37.080And I believe in due process, and, you know, if they bring in paperwork that's got their T's crossed and their I's dotted and it's proper and it's correct.
01:49:45.300And I have a problem with saying, guys, this is what we've got to do.
01:49:48.620But you said another key factor is that the sheriff should be in to where he can pick up a phone and say, hey, this is what's going on.
01:49:58.200Can you come in and let's discuss this so we can do what's brought by you as the citizen of this county?
01:50:03.920And so, basically, they called these individuals up, and then after they admitted that they actually had the trigger, which, you know, I'm going to say talking to the individuals, they had no idea that two ATF agents were sitting there listening to their conversation.
01:50:17.360So, when they said, yes, we have the trigger, then they were told, well, hey, if you bring them in, there will be no charges filed.
01:50:22.820You won't have to worry about the ATF coming after you.
01:50:28.060And, you know, one of them, I will say this about all of them that I spoke with, they're all good men, and they don't want any negatives.
01:50:34.000But when you're told, hey, we won't file charges, they decided, hey, I'll bring the triggers in and I'll turn them in.
01:50:39.940There was one gentleman that he did not go down without a fight.
01:50:43.520I won't use the words he shared, but he just said, I don't believe that you're doing, I can't believe you're doing this.
01:50:49.300In his words, I really felt like they should have mailed me a letter, sent me something in the head of time, not just call me up and put me on the spot, you know, where there was no ways for me to work with anybody at that point.
01:51:00.620You also had like a 70-year-old woman arrested for January 6th?
01:51:27.560So realistically, just, you know, I'm going based on what he said at a debate that we had.
01:51:32.680He basically said that by the time he was aware of it, she was already pretty much being loaded up in a vehicle and then being transported by the FBI.
01:51:39.400Isn't that the role, though, of the sheriff to say to the FBI, you have any problem with anyone in my county, you come to me first?
01:51:55.420The deputies are doing what they're told or allowed to do.
01:51:58.580But to me, and I said this in my public debate that they can see on YouTube, I simply said to me the fact that they didn't call the sheriff, because here's the way I look at it.
01:52:09.180I will be, if I'm elected, the top law enforcement officer of the county.
01:52:13.280I do not want to put deputies in a position.
01:52:15.980And so what I said, the rule, if I'm elected, was that each deputy will know we get up, we wake up Ayala, and he's going to handle this.
01:52:22.720Because to me, I want it to be between me and the federal government, not between the deputies that are employed by the county and the federal government and me.
01:52:36.400And I think that's extremely important when it comes to leadership, that you're lower, the guys that are doing the real work and the guys that are hustling out there, putting themselves on the line every day.
01:52:48.640Those are the guys that should know what the expectations are of your top leader, your sheriff.
01:52:54.680Because the FBI can come in and just say, we need your deputies.
01:53:02.080And most sheriffs will just say, okay, but the sheriff can say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:53:14.320And when you said something earlier, and I'm going to re-quote you when you said that it's the only elected position, to me, that says volumes to that.
01:54:41.220I just wanted to use him as an example of what you need to know, because I've learned a lot about the sheriffs and their relationship with the FBI and ATF.
01:54:50.920They are supposed to go through the sheriff.
01:54:54.640And if you don't have a sheriff that is standing up to them, they won't.
01:55:00.580You need a sheriff that says to the federal government, I protect the Constitution and the rule of law in this county and the people.
01:55:10.160And I'm with you if we're protecting and defending the Constitution.
01:55:15.460But I need to know what you want to do to people in my county.
01:55:20.460And you save people from having a, you know, a door kicked in in the middle of the night, because the idea is the sheriff can go with the FBI in their vans.
01:55:34.180They can go knock on the door and say, Bob, I know you and there's a problem.
01:55:42.540They want to talk to you about such and such.
01:55:45.280That's the way it's supposed to be done.
01:55:47.100Not with a 79-year-old or, yeah, 79 or 69-year-old woman who was parading in the Capitol, surround the house and come in with the, you know, the black masks and everything else.
01:56:06.040So, please, please, find out who you're voting for, for sheriff, and actually sit down and talk to them or go to a debate, because it's critical, especially now.
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01:56:29.780Actually, it was a mom and dad, and their kids were growing up, and they were selling, you know, blinds and shades and shutters and drapes the, you know, the usual way in a store and, you know.
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