Glenn Beck and Stu discuss the Hegseth testimony by Sen. Hegoshek, the Hirona hearing, and much, much more. Plus, the winner of Ryan Seacrest's "America's Dumbest Senator" competition.
01:05:24.920I like to keep it that way because, you know, that way he doesn't know for sure that I'm not the one in charge.
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01:06:42.660May I just give you a blast from the past, which can be uttered again today.
01:06:49.640We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
01:06:56.720We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
01:07:03.500When Barack Obama said that, we didn't know what that meant.
01:07:08.280But I think everybody in America knows what it means with Donald Trump.
01:07:12.380It means an end to all of this DEI nonsense, a return to common sense, a return to policing of our streets, of secure borders, of a military that actually knows how to fight.
01:07:29.620A government justice department that is not going after parents, not claiming that they're terrorists who actually recognize terrorists and will get them off the streets, put them in jail or ship them back home.
01:07:46.220That's the fundamental transformation that you're going to see on beginning on Monday.
01:07:52.720Now, Stu, I thought of you when I first saw this article, the birth date of this department is going to be Monday, according to Donald Trump.
01:08:07.960He announced the creation of a new government department to seek tariff payments from foreign governments.
01:08:15.740He called the new department the External Revenue Service.
01:08:37.360He said, we're going to begin charging those that make money off of all of us with trade, and they're going to start paying finally their fair share for far too long.
01:08:45.040We've relied on taxing our great people using the Internal Revenue Service through soft and pathetically weak trade agreements.
01:08:52.500The American economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves.
01:08:58.960I'm announcing that I will create the External Revenue Service to collect our tariffs, duties, and all revenue that come from foreign sources.
01:09:07.820We will begin charging those that make money off of us with trade, and they will start paying finally their fair share.
01:09:39.420I'm not a big tariff guy, as you know.
01:09:41.960But I think it would be smart to look at this not just as tariffs, but as, you know, there are ways to get revenue.
01:09:51.160Like, you know, people were talking about cross-border payments, for example, where you, like, you know, let's say an immigrant comes across the border, starts sending all their money back to Mexico, or, you know, certainly businesses doing this.
01:10:20.920By the way, Canada suddenly says they're going to buy more U.S. products because Trump said, you know, Canada is not a really good neighbor to us.
01:10:35.300We buy more from them than they buy from us.
01:10:39.280And he started talking about a 51st state.
01:10:42.460And now all of a sudden, Canada is like, you know what?
01:10:46.260I think we should buy more American products.
01:10:48.820This is the way a good negotiator works.
01:10:53.460You know, there's a story today, Germany.
01:13:28.340Los Angeles County Fire Chief, Anthony Marone, said, anybody who is a person experiencing homelessness should be seeking shelter.
01:13:41.300I ask all Los Angeles County residents in wildfire prone areas to understand that this is necessary for public safety to have power shutoffs.
01:13:54.300And they're going to prevent our our next fire from starting if we have down paralyzed power lines.
01:14:00.060I also ask our unhoused neighbors not to have warming fires.
01:14:06.260Anybody who is a person experiencing homelessness should be seeking shelter.
01:26:32.800I support Israel going in until every member of Hamas is dead.
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01:27:32.900Okay, so first of all, you know, yesterday during the confirmation hearings, you know, Pete did incredible.
01:27:39.340They were trying to lock him into their sound clips or sound bites.
01:27:43.160But, you know, the one thing that I kept hearing from the Democrats was they were taking his comments out of contacts in regards to women in the military.
01:27:50.680So, Pete never said that he didn't want women to serve in the military.
01:27:54.540But I have the same agreement in that there are certain roles that women should not be subjected to in the military, right?
01:28:01.700So, in a lot of foreign countries, you'll see that there will be women-only sniper teams and or women-only teams that will see certain combat.
01:28:09.240Now, I preface this by saying that there has been a study that was done, and it showed that when women were placed in harm's way, that the natural instinct for men was to protect that woman.
01:28:34.920And so, when you have, though, a woman that's, let's say, placed on a special forces team, they come under fire, hypothetically, that woman gets hurt.
01:28:44.400Instead of focusing on the mission as if it would be if there were just other men present, the men would then, in turn, go to protect that woman.
01:28:51.580And it could ultimately result in, A, more casualties, more people getting hurt, and then also jeopardize the success of the mission.
01:28:57.820And so, I think when we're looking at, you know, military policy as a whole, we need to take these things into account and consideration.
01:29:06.180But, you know, it's very easy, because Pete is a white male, for them to try to demonize him and paint him as this anti-woman, you know, alcoholic womanizer, which is simply not the case.
01:29:17.660The other thing and the reason why I wanted to show my support for him was, look, Pete is a Christian.
01:29:22.100He has the Jerusalem cross tattooed on him.
01:29:24.480That doesn't mean that he's a Nazi, and that does not mean that he's a white nationalist.
01:29:27.500And so, what I've been telling reporters is, if Pete was so anti, you know, anti-minority, anti, you know, anything to do with what we stand for in values in this country, why would Jimmy Carter then have that same thought?
01:29:44.060Because they don't really have much of a response to that.
01:29:50.040Because I took from him yesterday something else about the military.
01:29:54.540I have no problem with women in the military, with an exception of the natural order of things where I think men –
01:30:04.520I have to tell you, if one of the guys was captured by, you know, Al-Qaeda, I would do everything I can to make sure that one of the members of my team, you know, were safe, and I'd do everything that we should do.
01:30:19.580However, it's different if I know that the woman member of our team has just been captured.
01:30:26.040It takes on a different meaning to me because I know what's going to happen to her in compared to, you know, Tom or Tim.
01:30:31.900And I think that is a natural instinct that you cannot get rid of, and you don't want to.
01:30:40.220The second thing that I think Pete was talking about is – and we saw this in the fire chief in Los Angeles where she said, you know, I'll talk to people and they'll say, well, you can't lift my husband out of our burning house.
01:30:55.940And her response was, well, you know, he got himself into a place he shouldn't be, so why should I?
01:31:13.160I would say that there still is, though, this aspect of psychology and certain situations where I don't think women should be placed, right?
01:31:22.500So right now what we're seeing is, you know, and those are all great points, one, right?
01:31:27.500So the military standards currently is that there are different standards for women and for men.
01:31:34.020But there are also different requirements for different jobs, right?
01:31:37.000So, like, if you go in, for example, to be a firefighter, you're required to lift X amount, whether or not you're a man or a woman in the military.
01:31:44.240But in that sense, I would say that when you're talking about conditions where you're living in the field, when you're talking about conditions, when you know that there is going to be a psychological aspect and component, it doesn't mean that women aren't as good as men.
01:32:00.300And I think that there's been cases and can be, or women can be better snipers than men are, you know, depending on what you're looking for job-wise.
01:32:08.340But what I will say is, you know, as far as my perspective is concerned, I don't think women should be required to register for the draft.
01:32:15.620I know that Senate Democrats were pushing that in the NDAA.
01:32:19.420And I also think that women should not be placed in certain combat roles in the military for those reasonings.
01:32:29.180Um, you were one of the biggest advocates for the UAP UFO disclosure.
01:32:34.720Any updates on, on that hearing, uh, the updates on the New Jersey drones and it, were you able to get David Grush into a skiff and get a classified briefing?
01:32:49.660So I was not able to get Grush into a skiff.
01:32:52.420In fact, they were blocking that by, uh, via not reactivating his security clearance.
01:32:57.320And so I'm hopeful with the new incoming administration, especially because as of right now, you know, Marco Rubio is going through his confirmation for secretary of state.
01:33:05.260And I've been in the Senate, one of the big advocates and supporters of looking into UAPs, um, AKA UFOs, and then everything else associated with that.
01:33:16.340Um, now what I will say is that I've been grossly disappointed and disgusted by how the Biden administration handled what happened with the Chinese spy balloon, which to be clear is different than a UAP.
01:33:27.560But the fact is, is that some of these drones are likely tied to not just hobbyists, but also to probably more nefarious actors.
01:33:35.720And that even if we had that information available to share to the public, I don't believe that the Biden administration would have done that because of how I saw how they handled the, um, the drone.
01:33:46.820Um, yeah, the balloon traversing the United States and collecting intelligence, nonetheless, it was a Chinese intelligence operation.
01:33:53.900Um, you know, I had one of my colleagues, Van Drew, who actually made an omission on television that it was adversarial drones.
01:34:01.060And then you saw the Intel community come out and papoo it, but Van Drew would not just make something like that up.
01:34:06.340So you're seeing kind of this rift occur with the intelligence community and then people that do want the American people to simply know the case.
01:34:12.800Now, I think that this is probably a topic of longer discussion in regards to what a UAP is, but what's interesting, Glenn, and I know that you look at these things through a lens, as do I, um, as a Christian, first and foremost.
01:34:26.920But what was interesting when I was questioning Grush, um, I actually asked him, well, what would you consider in so many words?
01:34:34.060Is this like a physical entity? And he kept calling these things interdimensional beings, if we're specifically referencing UAPs.
01:34:41.520And so I think that that's just a lens in perspective to think about this from.
01:34:44.800I think that there's a lot, uh, you know, if you would have talked about this even 10 years ago, your political career would have been over.
01:34:50.800People would have said you were a consumer.
01:34:52.640I can tell you that this is probably the number one question I get.
01:34:55.760No matter where I'm at in the country, people come up, they've seen the hearing, they appreciate it because everyone's curious.
01:35:01.740So let me, let me just, let me just follow that here just a little bit.
01:35:06.280The intern, um, interdimensional beings that could be spiritual, uh, that could be a quantum being any idea what he meant by that?
01:35:18.120You know, I actually tried to pull on that string and he did not want to go there.
01:35:23.480And then I can also tell you that when I was talking to him with a group of other legislators on the phone prior to the hearing, that he did make the omission that he was actually in fear of his life and that something had happened where they tried to kill him.
01:35:36.480So I don't know if that was associated, but he did not want to go into that any further.
01:35:42.380And so based on my investigation, based on what we were told in the hearing, I would say that it does not seem like it would be a good thing that he gave me the impression that this was nefarious.
01:35:56.220Um, if, um, if interdimensional, I think quantum could be, you know, right on the same page there.
01:36:03.220So it is so bizarre that this kind of stuff is happening and we're not being told, uh, Donald Trump said that he would talk about the drones on Tuesday.
01:36:14.640He said, give me a day to get settled in office.
01:36:17.360And he said, I'll find out the drones and I'll tell the American people.
01:36:25.820I think that it would be well within his wheelhouse.
01:36:29.800And I think that he wants the American people to start to trust their elected officials.
01:36:34.520This goes so much deeper than just having someone in the white houses on your side, right?
01:36:39.460Because we know that, and from what I've gathered, remember I've been, has been bipartisan and bicameral, meaning the Senate, the house and Democrats and Republicans have all been working on this together to get some answers and information.
01:36:51.920And there is a certain level of stove piping that we've seen with information.
01:36:55.640And then also to the aspect of I, as a sitting member of Congress who sit on oversight and foreign affairs, was denied access by a general at Eglin Air Force Base to whom I responded, who gives you the right and authority to tell a duly elected member and group of congressmen that they don't have access to a program that we write the damn checks for.
01:37:13.840You have no authority to deny us access.
01:37:16.640And so that conversation probably was not comfortable for that general.
01:37:44.860He literally got up and left in the middle of the meeting, said he had orders to go TDY to the state of Georgia, and he never came back.
01:37:50.360Are you concerned at all about some of the conversations?
01:37:55.460We just saw another video from James O'Keefe where he's talking to somebody who was, I think he claimed to be in the FBI, said he and others were meeting with generals to make sure that they had a control on Donald Trump.
01:38:11.260Are you confident at all this time around Donald Trump's going to be able to route that?
01:38:20.560And I say that has to do a lot with the confirmation of the Secretary of Defense.
01:38:25.380You know, top down, last time when President Trump was in office, I think that there was a lot of trust in people to do the right thing.
01:38:33.140And then he realized that the deep state was real and there were people that were just running, regardless of whether or not he was a Republican and whether they were Republicans or not, that they were working against his agenda because they didn't like what he stood for.
01:38:43.940But now what we're finding is there is going to be a group set up to go through these generals that, A, discharge military members based on vaccinations and boards.
01:38:55.180But the fact is, is that if you are a general and you're pushing wokeness ideologies or you're trying to undermine the objective of the commander in chief, you have no place in the Department of Defense, period.
01:39:04.920And so those people are fired. And I look forward to that because I can just tell you from a congressional perspective, Glenn, I actually had an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act to remove DEI from military training.
01:39:17.120And I have friends still in the military. And so someone at Ramstein Air Base actually sent me an email of a officer there that was directly undermining what we did at the congressional level saying, Congress has removed DEI.
01:39:30.000So we're renaming it. Please still proceed with the training. So guess what?
01:39:34.220That person is also going to be fired. And that's really how you're going to stop at the DOD.
01:39:38.820Good. If you could hold for 60 seconds, I need to take a network break and then come back.
01:39:43.780And I want to ask you about Cuba, what the Biden administration just did, and also about Tulsi Gabbard and how you feel about her and her nomination.
01:39:52.920Back in just a second with Anna Polina Luna, representative from Florida.
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01:40:04.540I mean, California, were you thinking about this? You should have.
01:40:07.920But also different situations. You know, maybe you don't like guns.
01:40:13.480I own a gun. Maybe you like guns, but you know that maybe deadly force is not always the answer.
01:40:20.280Maybe you're a teacher in school and you want to end shootings in class.
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01:40:34.400I don't know why schools are not looking into this. It's like they almost don't want this solved.
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01:41:23.540You know, we were just talking about the deep state and being able to navigate through all of this.
01:41:41.100And it seems like the Biden administration has done nothing but but just set little brush fires all throughout the government here in the last couple of weeks, one of which is he Biden has just taken off the terror status and open up relations again with Cuba, which Trump is going to undo.
01:42:02.020Yeah, I'm here. You know, what I will tell you, Glenn, is I think that there are a lot of people now that Biden is out and that they have lost the House and the Senate that are trying to do anything last ditch to prevent and obstruct a incoming Trump admin.
01:42:20.580And I actually had spoken to Mike Lee about this months ago, and he was saying that they were even trying to, in the Senate, put in little nuggets of legislation in some of the bills that they were passing that would really prevent President Trump from doing anything to stop the spending in Ukraine as well.
01:42:36.040So in my opinion, yes, incoming Trump admin, especially with his foreign policy, is going to be extremely aggressive.
01:42:42.520And I know that I'm going to be aggressive. Remember, I also sit on foreign policy with our new chair, Brian Mass, who's extremely pro-Trump.
01:42:48.820And so we back the president's agenda, at least from a congressional perspective.
01:42:53.160But, yeah, these people, to be honest with you, I've met with Biden, I've talked to Biden, but he knows that it's over for his legacy and his political career.
01:43:04.100So I just don't think he cares anymore.
01:43:05.980I will tell you, I hope that we clean out the State Department, at least the sixth and seventh floor.
01:43:11.700A lot of people in the State Department have to go.
01:43:14.640The last question is on Tulsi Gabbard.
01:43:21.340She doesn't have a lot of experience with the deep state and intelligence.
01:43:26.980How do you feel about her preparedness for that, to be able to clean it out?
01:43:31.640I think that because of the fact that she's been in the House and she understands how these agencies work, that gives her a leg up and a perspective as opposed to other individuals.
01:43:41.580But I think what's really interesting about her appointment is, remember, not only did you have the Democrat machine go after her, right?
01:43:48.340I mean, Clinton called her, smeared her.
01:43:51.500The legacy media hated her when she ran for president.
01:43:54.800And then she was placed on a watch list.
01:43:56.660So I think in part of the reason why she was appointed is because she had that those agencies weaponized against her.
01:44:03.300And if you those positions, you're more at a personal level inclined to fix the problem because, you know, firsthand what it's like to be subject to their prosecution and persecution.
01:44:15.700And so I think she is going to obviously have a lot of opposition when she goes through confirmation.
01:44:23.860But the one thing that she has is she used to be a Democrat.
01:44:26.320So I hope that she throws it right back into their faces.
01:44:58.400But we're today literally five days away from the fundamental transformation of America back to something that you recognize with common sense.
01:45:08.380Donald Trump swears in on Monday and Blaze TV will be there.
01:45:13.540I'll be hosting the coverage for Inauguration Day from District of Columbia.
01:46:48.360Tonight on our Wednesday night special on Blaze TV, the secrets, the lies, the utter absence of any kind of transparency from all levels of our government is tearing our country apart.
01:47:15.280Congresswoman Luna was just talking about this, about how we need transparency, and that's what we thought we were getting under Barack Obama.
01:47:27.300That's what the left voted for, I think, because it was hope and change, that it would be transparent, that it would be a different age.
01:47:36.780And we are five days away now from the fundamental transformation of America with Donald Trump.
01:47:42.780The Trump administration has a chance to change all of this, start a new era of accountability.
01:47:50.200Hopefully, that's exactly what happens.
01:47:53.240Think about all of the things that we have been lied to over the past decade.
01:47:58.440Epstein, Ukraine, Biden crime family, the withdrawal in Libya and Benghazi, the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
01:48:10.860Without transparency, we cannot be, we can't have any accountability.
01:48:19.360Tonight, I'm going to peel back the layers on two issues in the country right now that demand answers.
01:48:24.540We're going to hold the state and the city governments accountable over the fires in Los Angeles.
01:48:30.160We're going to look at the mysterious drone encounters also popping up all over the country.
01:48:34.920This is happening, and both of those are really important to get an actual answer on.
01:48:43.080Did you hear that the DJI, the Chinese drone company, recently allowed their drones to fly over no-fly zones like military bases, airports, and other sensitive infrastructure?
01:48:55.480Why would they do that just days before the inauguration?
01:49:09.500I'll show you the official government documents that address all of it tonight.
01:49:13.640And I'm going to sit down with the one and only Michael Schellenberger.
01:49:16.420He always has an uncanny ability to get these whistleblowers before anybody else.
01:49:21.540Michael Schellenberger and I are going to talk tonight on the Wednesday night special, 9 p.m. on Blaze TV, and Thursday, tomorrow, on my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Glenn Beck.
01:49:34.280California fires, New Jersey drones, government secrets exposed with Michael Schellenberger tonight.
01:49:41.900Glenn, we mentioned the, was it American Airlines?
01:49:46.880They can no longer use ESG in their investment portfolio, according to a court ruling.
01:49:52.760There's still some unraveling in the courts that's going to need to happen.
01:49:56.340I think people are going to run from it with this, just this simple court ruling.
01:50:13.700You think of a company like, I don't know, like Patagonia or something, right?
01:50:19.020Like, here's a company that's, their policy stated is like, what we're doing here is, sure, we're selling you coats, but what we do is care about the earth.
01:50:57.920They want to sell you stuff at their store, and if they feel like their business will be helped by giving ESG options of everything, they'll probably do it.
01:51:09.060If they think their lobbying in Washington will be helped by, say, checking off boxes for LGBTQ equity, they'll probably do it.
01:56:18.000But the part that I had forgotten about it is Starbucks then closes all of its stores for a day for racial bias training for their employees.
01:56:31.520Thousands of Starbucks close so that they can teach their employees not to be racist, question mark.
01:57:00.880So not only do they close all their stores, they then institute racial bias training for other employees and they change their policy, their stated policy to now you can come in without buying anything and just stay in the store as long as you want.
01:57:19.260The entire nationwide policy changes after this.
01:57:23.680And one thing as I was going back and going through this story, because there's an update to it that I couldn't believe was.
01:57:33.060I actually felt like it seemed insane for any of these things to happen.
01:57:38.380It felt it feels like we are totally out of an era where a company would close three thousand national stores to implement a day of racial bias training.
01:57:51.880It feels like we've passed the peak and we are on the other side of this.
01:57:57.580And that seems now completely insane to the point of I don't think a normal company, you might find one here or there, Ben and Jerry's might do it, but a normal company would not react that way anymore.
01:58:11.440I don't know if that's 100 percent true, but it now feels nuts that that occurred.
01:58:15.660And to as an added piece of evidence to this, Starbucks is now changing that policy that they changed back in 2018.
01:58:23.220They are now saying, no, you can't just come camp out in her store without buying things anymore.
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02:00:15.580So, Stu is just talking about Starbucks and how in 2018, Starbucks in, I think it was Philadelphia, had two black guys walk into their store.
02:01:25.160Or did the big banks and all the investment firms and all of the big companies that had their headquarters in New York, were they, did they realize this is killing us?
02:01:54.700And by 2018, as people are burning cities down and getting rid of police officers and everything else, Starbucks, who was part of that, we're on your side.
02:02:05.100It gets so bad that they're called racist because they wouldn't let people use the bathroom.
02:03:07.940We might be able to back out all of, get out of all this stuff that we've been living, you know, we've been living like a hostage to terrorists.
02:03:18.260Let's back out of this while we can because others are doing it and they're getting praised for doing it.
02:03:25.060I don't think it's as, if I may quote myself, higgledy-piggledy as it seems.
02:03:34.920I think this is these giant corporations who went into it, you know, thinking, oh, this is going to be great.