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00:01:41.380 Well, it's already started. Criminal investigation. In fact, some of these visits, I don't know if

00:01:53.500 you'd go as far as to call them raids. But the big breaking news breaking wide open yesterday out

00:01:59.380 of Minnesota will have the latest on the Somali fraud scheme with the Democrats. As somebody call it,

00:02:06.660 the welfare, Somali welfare pilots.

00:02:10.420 Give me the details on that.

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00:03:48.020 Well, it sure has been a whiplash weekend, I think, for some of those folks enjoying the fraud in

00:03:53.940 Minnesota. I mean, on one hand, one minute, you're like on a yacht somewhere,

00:03:58.660 right? Probably soaking up the sun. You know, millions of dollars from running daycares that

00:04:04.500 don't even have kids in them. So next, you get the feds knocking on your door. And that is

00:04:11.060 apparently what is happening this morning. There's been a lot of fallout from this.

00:04:16.020 Like I said, want to talk about that this morning. We've got the Iran developments since yesterday's

00:04:21.140 show. And we've got the first strike on Venezuelan soil, sort of. We'll explain

00:04:28.980 that story to President Trump talking about it yesterday in a moment as well. But first,

00:04:33.700 this morning, I think it was earlier today. I remember it was yesterday.

00:04:39.060 We got the news that the raids, if you want to call them that, have begun, so to speak.

00:04:46.180 That's good to see you. Yeah. So, ICE has been on the ground in Minnesota for a while now looking

00:04:50.900 at these fraud claims. And one thing now the Homeland Security investigation special agents

00:04:55.300 are looking into is, just as you said, that money trail of where this money is going to foreign aid.

00:05:00.500 You know, obviously, looking at any type of links to any criminal activity, obviously,

00:05:05.300 terrorism activity. You know, and one thing you will see is that ICE is actually out there

00:05:11.060 going with criminal warrants to conduct these investigations. So, all too often you hear that

00:05:16.020 ICE is just out there terrorizing the community or conducting administrative work. We've been on

00:05:20.580 the ground in Minnesota conducting criminal investigations and Homeland Security investigations

00:05:25.780 has gone door-to-door to a lot of these suspected fraud sites all over St. Paul and Minnesota,

00:05:31.540 and we're learning a lot. We've already seen some of the footage coming out where

00:05:35.140 they've gone into buildings, businesses, and they're doing some of this investigation,

00:05:41.940 just starting to have these conversations. They've been making progress, I guess, even

00:05:46.900 before we heard about this. This is some of the way these things work. You don't always

00:05:50.900 get all of the news and the headlines, the updates immediately. But Todd Lyons, ICE director,

00:05:56.580 saying they've been on the ground, they've been looking into it, and they've got folks.

00:06:02.020 Homeland Security is what it looks like in some of the uniforms I'm seeing. Of course,

00:06:06.420 that covers ICE, covers a lot of territory. But that is some of the breaking news and

00:06:12.980 developments coming out of that story. They are going to do some more door-to-door checks

00:06:20.020 in some of these cases in these places. In fact, there's more on the media, how they've covered

00:06:26.820 it. We're going to talk about that a little bit as well. But you know, it's interesting to note,

00:06:30.740 the story kind of comes out of nowhere. And then you find out, yes, they've known about it. In fact,

00:06:36.020 this fraud they've known about for years. When I say they, the state of Minnesota has known about it

00:06:40.820 for years. The federal government has known about it for years. And it's now really coming to,

00:06:47.380 I think, a boiling point, where you're really starting to get people probably disgusted more

00:06:54.260 than anything else. When you start putting the numbers together, this type of thing

00:06:57.380 doesn't happen if it's not for Elon and Doge. It doesn't happen if it's not for President Trump

00:07:02.260 saying we're going to clean this stuff up. It definitely doesn't happen if it's not for Nick

00:07:06.580 Shirley, the citizen journalist, the kid. I mean, I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. In fact,

00:07:12.660 I mean that in a very respectful way. This guy is like in his 20s, takes the camera out,

00:07:19.780 knocks on doors, does what the network's seemingly mainstream media folks are unwilling to do.

00:07:25.380 New. Incredible. And it certainly doesn't see the light of day without X and without talk radio

00:07:34.500 and programs like Glenn Beck, obviously bringing you the stories that you, uh, you just aren't going

00:07:40.580 to get if you're watching Lester and the nightly news or the today show or whatever now.

00:07:47.620 Anderson, Anderson Cooper over on CNN, whatever, whatever it is, you're just not going to get it.

00:07:54.980 You wonder why these people in cahoots. In fact, there is some thought to the process.

00:08:03.460 One of the reasons Kamala and or the people behind Kamala picked Tim Walz to run with her is they

00:08:09.140 wanted to include the billions of dollars in fraud with the seemingly the, uh, the Somali plan here to,

00:08:16.580 uh, to, uh, to, uh, to siphon off of. How do these people, Ilhan Omar, another one,

00:08:22.900 $30 million all of a sudden net worth skyrockets through the, how do these people come about all

00:08:28.980 this, but what does it come from? This is no secret. They've look, we, you and I have understood

00:08:36.740 how this corruption works for a long time. I understand I'm preaching to the choir,

00:08:43.220 but I have to say some of these things in hopes that maybe somebody's tuned in or they're listening,

00:08:47.220 or maybe somebody's on the edge of waking up. Feds conduct door to door checks that suspected

00:08:54.500 Minneapolis fraud sites. The American people obviously deserve answers on how this money is

00:09:00.020 being used. And, uh, that there ought to be arrests. In fact, there have already been several. I've got

00:09:09.380 the stat on this. I'll, I'll clarify it and get it to you in a little bit, but I believe there's already

00:09:14.820 been multiple arrests on this scenario as the, uh, investigations continue. Homeland security

00:09:23.140 agents on the ground in Minneapolis Monday, conducting those door to door checks, suspected

00:09:27.700 fraud sites. Authorities examined the alleged involvement of Somali immigrants in a broader

00:09:35.140 criminal scheme. This report says on daily wire. It's the department of Homeland security posted

00:09:41.140 a video showing two agents entering a convenience store where they asked the clerk about a suspicious

00:09:46.660 business next door. Last week. Obviously we know that 42 minute video coming down from Nick

00:09:52.660 Shirley prompting a lot of this, but they have been, they have been behind the scenes. They've been

00:09:57.300 doing some of this already. And here's that video.

00:10:02.180 You get the guys or the gal behind the counter is like, yeah, I don't really know much.

00:10:11.140 Looks like a kind of a party store, liquor store.

00:10:13.700 Yesterday I was working in Jordan. Uh, I wore on. So yesterday I was not here.

00:10:31.460 Okay. So I'm not sure.

00:10:32.660 No, I'm not saying

00:10:34.180 she's like, I'm not around. I see that camera. I think I'm sure they get a lot of this and

00:10:42.820 imagine what the, you know, what these guys have to put up with, uh, you know,

00:10:47.060 but the, the boots on the ground, so to speak in the actual, um, investigations are underway,

00:10:53.140 but that's a very good question. He said, would we see over here, we got this, this business,

00:10:59.700 but when was the last time you saw people in and out? They want to find out. Cause you know,

00:11:04.500 they're supposed to be getting, you know, multiple thousands of dollars per head per kid. And you

00:11:09.540 know, we, we got some of these to claim to have over a hundred K and there's just, it's crickets.

00:11:13.940 There's nobody there, whether it's these guys go knock on the door or, or Nick Shirley or, or someone

00:11:21.220 else. And I did mention the, the media, the local media is starting to, they eventually they had

00:11:29.380 to get into this, but now they're, they're starting finally, finally to dig in. And

00:11:39.860 we're getting, we're getting, in fact, some of the reporting and maybe some of the best

00:11:44.660 after Nick coming down from some of the local folks, let's say, well, you know,

00:11:49.860 I guess we've got to get in on this.

00:11:51.700 By the way, is that one place we told you about yesterday with the misspelled sign,

00:12:00.260 the quality layering, supposed to be learning center, they misspelled the sign.

00:12:06.260 Is it open or closed? Here's one of the local reporters on that subject. And there's still

00:12:12.260 a lot of question about whether it is or not.

00:12:14.180 Everyone seems to be talking about the viral video by YouTuber, Nick Shirley, visiting Somali

00:12:18.900 run daycares in Minnesota that received millions in taxpayer money in showing a lack of kids present.

00:12:25.380 Well, I have a strange twist for you. The daycare that's getting the most attention from Shirley's

00:12:29.140 video is the quality learning center misspelled as quality luring center. While answering questions

00:12:35.940 today, the state commissioner in charge of licensing daycares claimed that the quality learning center

00:12:40.820 permanently closed one week ago, which would have been before Shirley filmed his video. Listen,

00:12:46.340 I will share that our team was notified that quality learning center closed just over a week ago.

00:12:53.300 And I believe the details that were given at that time were around space concerns.

00:12:58.340 And that's what was what was shared. But after that press conference,

00:13:01.220 we went back to the quality learning center and vans were dropping off dozens of children.

00:13:06.900 Parents and a manager told us the daycare is open and is legitimate. We saw state inspectors leaving,

00:13:14.100 and we hope to find out by the end of the week if they made any new findings.

00:13:19.300 Follow for more news.

00:13:20.260 Closed, open, open, closed. Nobody there all of a sudden.

00:13:24.340 By the way, this is the new this is the new story.

00:13:27.540 There was nobody there the other day. Now all of a sudden they got like van fulls,

00:13:31.940 car fulls of people. They're trucking kids in because they like, well, we've got a we've got it.

00:13:36.740 We got to make it look like we're open for business here and get rid of these folks who have stumbled

00:13:41.620 on to this whole scenario. In fact, part of the scheme, from what I understand, is we're seeing

00:13:48.180 reporting on this is that parents would actually bring their kids in some cases to these places.

00:13:56.020 They would check them in for the day and then they would take them home.

00:14:01.780 And in some cases, we're hearing reports that they were actually handed envelopes.

00:14:08.660 The parents were sort of their take for being in on the whole thing.

00:14:13.620 Let us use your kids for a little bit, if it were. You know, that's not like the kids ever got

00:14:18.500 watched there. There was never really a daycare happening. But at the at the end of the day,

00:14:23.300 what they were doing is they were using the kids on a list so that if any of this did pop up,

00:14:29.860 they'd be able to say, well, look, here are here are the kids we're watching.

00:14:34.420 Here are our clients. These are the folks who we're talking with. And and again, you know,

00:14:42.020 these are just some of the reports coming now. How is because largely they've been quiet on how

00:14:48.020 how are they handling much like you would think anyway, the mainstream media much like you would think

00:14:52.260 handling this? In much the same way, you would imagine it. It is kind of funny to watch because

00:15:01.860 it's just as predictable as normal. Can you imagine? Oh, and what is Tim Wall say about it?

00:15:08.580 You imagine what what that might be? It's it's like all the the normal playbook stuff. And maybe

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00:16:56.740 You can only imagine, I'm sure, what MSDNC-13 is saying about all of this to Somali, the Somali

00:17:15.620 welfare pirate scheme. Now, I can't take credit for that. Somebody emailed me this yesterday,

00:17:20.980 and I got to give full credit where credit is due. So, I am all in on the pirate jokes

00:17:26.740 now. I think we're going to start using them in full force. You're going to hear some walking

00:17:32.840 the plank. I think you might hear, because, I mean, we have to. You know, you can't, obviously,

00:17:41.500 you know, this is a very serious subject, but you got to learn to laugh at certain things,

00:17:45.820 and I think it drives it home, makes it the absurdity of it, makes it, I think it makes

00:17:50.460 it even better. So, are you, now maybe that's going too far. Are you ready for what MSDNC-13

00:17:58.100 said about it? First, I want to get to this. This is a, this is a rundown from a guy on X

00:18:04.400 who's kind of catalogued the response from media in, in a very detailed way. And I really,

00:18:16.060 I really like, I really like what he's laid out here. So, it shows you how it's been covered

00:18:22.460 and who's covered it. By the other, the other thing I should probably mention here, it's not

00:18:27.520 just, and I told you yesterday, it's not just Minnesota. They are now starting to come up

00:18:34.340 with, and we're getting reports already from places all over the country. In fact, we've

00:18:41.300 heard some reports from Maine, we've heard some reports from Ohio, and it, yeah, it continues.

00:18:51.820 All of this continues to unfold. So, keep that in mind. All right. So, what else, what is

00:18:59.140 the, what's the coverage on this been like? If you're, if you're going to take a look at

00:19:04.840 Cross the Board, what are they doing? The legacy media. Anyway, they didn't just miss the story

00:19:13.560 Drew Holden writes on X. They actively dismissed it as made up, racist, or xenophobic, again,

00:19:23.640 straight out of the playbook. Before the stories are quietly edited, he said, I've got some

00:19:29.680 screenshots, and he shares, I can't believe this is real, but the AP basically did the

00:19:33.940 Somalians founding America meme as a straight reported piece on how beneficial the community

00:19:41.000 has been in Minnesota. Where would America be, the headline says, without us? A community

00:19:47.660 of refugees is stunned by White House limits. I, I just, you can't make some of this stuff

00:19:55.760 up. It is, it is right out of the blueprint. Minnesota, here's another one from CNN, Minnesota

00:20:02.040 Somalis are as Minnesotan as tater tot hot dish. Here's another one from MS now or snow

00:20:11.920 or MSDNC32, whatever we're calling it today. Trump's targeting of Somali Americans is having

00:20:18.360 an effect in Minneapolis. Businesses say foot traffic is down in certain neighborhoods while

00:20:24.220 some residents are carrying passports with them at all times. Again, making some of the

00:20:30.460 folks, obviously the criminals in this case, the victims. Trump's attempt to combat fraud is

00:20:38.100 depicted by NBC News as xenophobic. No mention of the multi-billion dollar scam the community

00:20:43.560 was perpetrating. PBS writing, Trump threats raise fears in Minnesota Somali community. So it goes on

00:20:50.440 and on and on. It's exactly what you think it would be. Now here's MSDNC13 broadcasting

00:20:58.440 to all of America or the couple of people, the handful that watched that Somali fraud made up,

00:21:04.780 they say, made up, all of this made up, the story made up by Donald Trump.

00:21:11.180 Ones that were meant to go to help feed hungry people during the COVID pandemic to help keep

00:21:18.240 people in their homes who were at risk of homelessness. So first of all, if there is fraud

00:21:23.140 there, that should be fully investigated, no matter where it is, whether it's in a Democratic-led

00:21:29.460 state, a Republican-led state. I mean, let's pull back. So absolutely, it should be investigated.

00:21:35.300 You ever notice these people have the same sort of cadence? They all have the same sort of

00:21:39.080 way that they talk and how that they lead you in the conversation. They want you to just agree

00:21:45.320 with everything that they're saying. You know, they kind of nod and bob their head. And it's like,

00:21:49.740 you got to agree with me, right? We're on a cult together, right? This is how this works, right?

00:21:58.520 Just incredible. By the way, if there's a government program, there's fraud in every single

00:22:03.600 program. That's just how it works. More on this and the blaming of Trump on the way out of MSDNC13.

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00:24:06.340 Well, here it is, obviously clear. I mean, it's plain as day. All of this Somali pirate fraud is,

00:24:14.940 it's Trump's fault. So absolutely, it should be investigated. The question is, you know,

00:24:20.200 why is this a priority in a different kind of way? It's $9 billion, ma'am.

00:24:24.520 The politicization of the DOJ and the FBI is undeniable. That's why this is happening. See,

00:24:31.520 it's Trump's fault politicized. The DOJ and the FBI going after $9 billion in fraud.

00:24:38.660 Now, when they raided Melania's unmentionables drawer down at Mar-a-Lago, that was above the bar.

00:24:45.820 That was totally fine. This, the money after this $9 billion alone that we know of in

00:24:50.620 Minnesota. I mean, that, that, well, this is, this is just a, this is just a bridge too far.

00:24:57.440 So whether they are reliable narrators is, is the big question. And this is what happens

00:25:02.880 when you weaponize and politicize federal agencies that are not meant to be, um, politicized. And I

00:25:10.140 think the American people are right to ask the question, well, can we trust you? And that's a sad

00:25:15.200 thing. Oh, it's so sad. It's just so sad. It's just, you can't even make it up.

00:25:20.060 You know, involved in some way. Those people are being scapegoated in that community.

00:25:25.840 Criminals are being scapegoated folks. That's what MSDNC 13.

00:25:29.620 Scapegoated in a way that certainly serves the far right.

00:25:32.760 Oh, it's the far right. It's Trump in the far right. You're the problem folks.

00:25:38.820 You are the problem.

00:25:41.580 Sparkly in for back today in the Glenn Beck program. And that was from morning Joe.

00:25:46.040 So yes, that must've been, uh, was it yesterday? I, you know, it doesn't matter. It could be any

00:25:51.820 day and it's like, it's like a broken clock, right? Uh, anyway, that's how they, that's how

00:25:58.300 they operate there. So you've seen several different responses. Now local media, Minnesota

00:26:03.140 finally starting to pick it up. Uh, but I guarantee you're going to see the same sort of pattern,

00:26:08.960 which is, Oh, and by the way, it's racist, xenophobic amongst some of the other things.

00:26:14.460 So that's, that's how they're dealing with it. Uh, that's why does it matter? Because it,

00:26:20.220 all of this, it, all of it, it shows the pattern of the blueprint, really the playbook of how Democrats

00:26:26.000 operate corruption. Um, and unfortunately all of this, when it comes to you and I being on the hook,

00:26:35.060 you got, you got, look, people can't afford childcare, you and I Americans. And here we

00:26:42.660 are, we got the government spending billions in this fraud with Somalis. It's not even,

00:26:48.500 they don't even have any kids, uh, at any of these daycare centers. And all of this should

00:26:53.740 make us upset, but we need accountability. There needs to be a rest. And we ought to see

00:26:57.460 it. In fact, we already see, we've just heard director of vice criminal investigations are

00:27:01.440 on the ground. They're, they're, they're, uh, already, and they have been fact, they've got

00:27:05.380 folks arrested. Uh, let's talk about this and more with Mike Rogers is running for Senate in

00:27:10.460 Michigan, former Congressman. One of the stories I want to discuss with him this morning is there

00:27:15.220 are 10 races that will decide who controls the Senate. Uh, story, I think it was NBC who put this

00:27:23.060 out, but I thought it was kind of interesting because yeah, Michigan right there in that race

00:27:26.700 and Mike Rogers is in, uh, one of those. Why does this matter? Well, it's the exact same story

00:27:32.140 that I just discussed with you. We want the, the same old status quo, same old, same old,

00:27:37.140 where we continue down this path of corruption. We want to clean house and let President Trump

00:27:41.820 get along with his agenda and get things back on track for Americans. Uh, former Congressman

00:27:46.460 Mike Rogers joining us now. Congressman, thank you for taking the time to be here with us today.

00:27:50.880 Justin, it is always, uh, good to be on with you and thanks for having me.

00:27:54.740 So, uh, this story, big one, obviously, because it hits on so many different places. Yeah. The,

00:28:00.680 the corruption is, is massive. We've been seeing it. Not only is this maybe, uh, one of the biggest

00:28:07.900 we've ever seen, but also it's probably happening in lots of other places on top of it. You know,

00:28:15.020 there may be some election integrity issues wrapped up in this as well. And, uh, all of that matters

00:28:21.500 because 2026 is around the corner and we got to make sure that we are buttoned up and ready to go

00:28:27.380 because that election is going to matter more, uh, than most can even imagine.

00:28:32.340 Oh, you bet. Uh, and, and this next election is maybe the second most important election of our

00:28:37.980 lifetime, uh, getting out of the doldrums and the high cost and big regulation of the Biden

00:28:43.860 administration that really took a bite out of people's wallet was maybe the first one with

00:28:49.500 Donald Trump's election two years ago, but now is the time for people to get fired up and excited

00:28:55.460 to make sure that things like you saw in Minnesota. And by the way, if it's happening in Minnesota at

00:29:01.780 that rate, $9 billion, this is not one of our biggest States population wise. Imagine what's

00:29:08.080 happening in places like California and New York and Illinois, uh, around those places. And this is

00:29:14.320 just the tip of the iceberg. So, and it's going to take time to unravel these things. That's why this

00:29:19.700 next election is really so important. We can't slide backwards. You know, if we lose the house,

00:29:25.840 it becomes, uh, uh, you know, an impeachment or Rama, uh, for the president, anything that the Democrats

00:29:31.620 can do to stop them from securing the border, from stopping finding fraud in places like Minnesota

00:29:37.700 in this way, uh, from stopping the 20% decrease in homicides across these big cities in America,

00:29:46.240 because of the multi-pronged approach that the president has taken to fight crime, uh, you know,

00:29:52.660 that all unwinds. Um, and it boy, if you, if, if that doesn't motivate you, think of this under the,

00:29:58.200 uh, uh, the first Trump administration, the average for, okay. And remember two thirds of Americans are

00:30:05.020 invested in the market in some way, uh, through your work, through a 401k plan, others, those

00:30:10.600 401k plans went up 26 on average, $26,000 under Trump one under the Biden administration. Think

00:30:17.860 of that four years and how deadly that was to you. It went down $24,800 on average. So just this one

00:30:25.620 year of a president Trump and Republicans in charge, your 401k went up 20, $20,000, $20,000. So it just

00:30:34.840 shows you, it's so stark, the difference between big government, lack of freedom, don't care about

00:30:43.080 crime. Let anybody that thinks they want to come to the United States on in kind of policy versus

00:30:48.760 kind of law and order. Hey, let's get back to what works. Let's push down on prices through sane

00:30:55.480 policies on energy prices and other things and get this thing back. So yeah, this is, I, you know,

00:31:01.840 again, the second most important election, certainly of my lifetime and man, we've got

00:31:05.980 a lot of work to do to get people fired up, to get out there and make sure we don't slide

00:31:10.320 backwards.

00:31:11.480 Former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan with us right now. You just mentioned

00:31:16.180 some of those things. And I think one of the biggest is you talk about how important the

00:31:20.880 election is in 2026 and these importance of, uh, obviously winning these seats in the Senate,

00:31:25.700 in the house and continuing president Trump's agenda. Let's just look at what we've seen so

00:31:30.220 far. And I'm, you know, I think it's gotten so it's gotten so good. We almost forget about what's

00:31:36.220 happened with the border. We almost forget about the numbers with crime because things have gotten

00:31:40.680 so good and so quickly. Uh, but the other thing I noticed is, is, is people talk gas, groceries,

00:31:46.600 things like that. And I get it. I mean, maybe you're not as because it got so bad over the last

00:31:51.380 four years. Maybe you're not exactly where you want to be yet, but Mike, I just filled up in

00:31:56.000 Michigan for two 55 the other day, a gallon. And that's unheard of gas prices are the lowest

00:32:03.760 they've been in the last four years. And that's big credit to the president and the policies.

00:32:07.740 Oh, absolutely. Uh, you know, and that's what I think people need to understand is this is going

00:32:14.640 to take time. You think about the horrific, it was 9% inflation under Biden.

00:32:21.060 9%. And by the way, they, uh, spent 50% more, uh, federal spending. Now I asked yourself in that

00:32:29.580 when that four years, they grew the government by 50% and more spending. Did your paycheck get bigger?

00:32:36.160 Uh, did, uh, did, did, did your, you know, did your everything get cheaper by half? Of course not.

00:32:41.540 It all went up exponentially. And so what the president is doing now and Republicans in Congress

00:32:46.620 are pushing down on those prices. And one of the key ways to do that, especially

00:32:51.000 on food, uh, and consumables is pushed down the price of, of gasoline. You know, everything

00:32:57.380 gets to everywhere by truck or, and, and, and boy, fuel costs matter when it's, when you're

00:33:03.600 starting to work to try to push down those prices. And yep, it's not where we all, I don't

00:33:07.740 think it's where the president wants to be. It's definitely not where you and I want it

00:33:10.900 to be, but it is heading in the right direction. And that's key. Why would we go back the other

00:33:16.600 direction? That would make no sense to me whatsoever. I think by the end of the president's

00:33:21.660 term, you're going to see prices back in line and you're going to have wage growth, which

00:33:26.840 is important. And that's where you're seeing wage growth happen actually across America

00:33:30.240 today. Wages are outpacing inflation for the first time in I don't know how long. And

00:33:35.940 so you think about those are the kinds of things. Yes, it can happen overnight because

00:33:40.420 that four years of unprecedented damage, uh, to the U S economy and freedoms in your life

00:33:47.680 and the regulatory burden that the federal government foisted on you. It takes time to

00:33:52.460 unwind it. And you said, you know what you're one of the first indicators is how much did I

00:33:57.400 pay for gas today versus four years ago? Well, guess what? It's two 55 here in Michigan that

00:34:02.960 you paid, which is unbelievable. Please after with this, let me know where that gas station

00:34:06.860 is. I'm going, I've been paying about two 70. I want to get there, but I, you know, it,

00:34:13.180 it does matter, but it takes time. And I think the, the pressures you're seeing on those costs

00:34:18.820 now is really important. And think of that, just your 401k in a year has already gained

00:34:24.080 back about 20, 20 some thousand dollars of what the Biden said had cost you.

00:34:28.720 Former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan. Uh, I want to talk a little bit

00:34:32.940 about, uh, the extreme, cause it's, it's like this with every other Senate candidate too,

00:34:37.140 that the opponents are very extreme though. Democrats are getting more and more radical

00:34:40.440 every day. Uh, that's why this matters. But also when we come back, we've got a couple of

00:34:44.840 things I I'd like, if you can hang just for a couple of moments here, uh, across to the end

00:34:49.260 of the break here, but we've got Venezuela. We've also got what's happening in Iran, which

00:34:52.560 we talked about yesterday. Wild to watch it all happen on the same day. Just, uh, a couple

00:34:57.920 of these things I'd like to get your take on. If we can, we come back, we have time

00:35:00.840 former Congressman Mike Rogers with us, Justin Barkley. And for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck

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00:36:44.800 And we got another boat yesterday, and then the first of its kind.

00:36:49.360 And the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs,

00:36:56.260 so we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where

00:37:01.600 they implement, and that is no longer around. Democrats complaining that some of these drug

00:37:08.480 runners, these terrorists, narco-terrorists, are getting blown up in waters. Well, I guess

00:37:11.640 fewer can be blown up if they blow up the dock, where they take off from. There's an interesting

00:37:17.700 piece, but this is, I say, called the first strike on land, and I say sort of, because I guess it's

00:37:22.540 water and land. But I want to get your reaction to this in this scenario. I only have a few minutes

00:37:28.340 here left, but former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate here in Michigan. What are

00:37:32.840 your thoughts on this?

00:37:35.620 Yeah, so people forget that Nicolas Maduro, who's the president of Venezuela, was indicted

00:37:41.520 as a narco-terrorist. He ran this group inside Venezuela called the Cartel of the Sons, which

00:37:49.060 was a way to funnel narcotics through using the government apparatus in Venezuela into the

00:37:54.620 United States. So that's what led to these first strikes on these boats, facilitated by

00:38:00.580 the government of Venezuela. And if you recall, it was Venezuela that emptied their jails first

00:38:05.840 and put these most violent criminals up into the United States. And they were establishing

00:38:09.880 criminal cartels, basically, wherever they landed in whatever state, which was why the crime rates

00:38:16.720 in those areas were really spiking. So what you saw today was that, or yesterday, was that next logical

00:38:23.280 step of saying, okay, now we've hit their ability to move off of shore. These facilities, and remember,

00:38:30.120 he has been designated as a terrorist, a narco-terrorist organization, that means the facility

00:38:36.380 that is used in facilitating drug movements was legally eligible to be targeted, and so

00:38:43.000 it was. So it is the next step up in trying to create a problem for Venezuela, and Maduro

00:38:50.260 specifically, in operating his drug cartel and getting it in the United States. And I would

00:38:55.960 put this in perspective, if we can, very quickly here, Justin. If you want to know why drug murder

00:39:02.620 rates have come down so much, it's that combination of ICE enforcement, getting criminals out of the

00:39:07.660 United States, an aggressive pursuit of these drug narco-terrorists, and better enforcement

00:39:15.900 around the country. It's this combination of things that have led to this reduction in murder

00:39:22.540 rates. It shows that it works, and it shows how much power these narco-terrorist organizations

00:39:27.200 had. It's harder to get drugs across our southern border. They've done a great job of securing it,

00:39:33.160 and now they're making it hard to get it in other ways, including using the government apparatus of

00:39:38.700 Venezuela to do it. That's what we voted for. By the way, before we let you go, just about 60 seconds

00:39:43.680 left here. Former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan, but we saw massive protests

00:39:49.320 taken to the streets there in Iran yesterday, and they say we want to get rid of this extremist

00:39:56.360 regime, and we just had a conversation about it yesterday. It was wild to watch the timing on this

00:40:01.480 as it just comes about, and the people there obviously praying for those folks in Iran that

00:40:07.700 are under that oppression of that regime there. But I'll give you about 30 seconds just to sound off

00:40:13.820 about this. We see things happening across the world. Yeah, I hope we don't make the same mistake

00:40:19.240 Obama did. They were protesting. The people of Iran came out in the streets. They said, hey, we're done

00:40:25.120 with this. We would prefer to be open to the West, if you will, and we did nothing. Obama said, we're not

00:40:32.800 doing it. We're not participating. We're not encouraging, and I'm not talking about sending troops in or

00:40:36.800 anything like that. Just encouraging them would have been great. He didn't do it. They ended up getting

00:40:42.060 beaten, thrown in jail, murdered by the Iranian regime for standing up and saying, we want change.

00:40:48.580 This is an opportunity for the United States, again, not with troops, but to try to get that

00:40:53.120 regime out so it's more open to the West and not trying to build nuclear weapons to kill people in

00:40:57.700 the region. Mike Rogers in the fight for Michigan, the fight for the country. Rogers for Senate.com.

00:41:03.160 Running as a Republican here in the state in the very critical race, one for the state and for the

00:41:07.940 country as well. Always a pleasure. Thank you, my friend. Thanks, my friend. Former Congressman

00:41:13.500 Mike Rogers, Rogers for Senate.com. We're back with more of the Glenn Beck program next. This is Glenn Beck.

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00:44:36.220 You've seen how important, in fact, folks, the youth folk, et cetera, has been when it came to the life of President Trump in the second term.

00:44:46.740 We've seen how important those moments are.

00:44:48.320 In fact, right now, what's happening in Iran, just talked about it last hour, but if you haven't seen some more of the protests and the things that are happening there as they turn against that extremist government, it's so critical.

00:45:05.620 You get to a point where the youth is fed up.

00:45:08.060 And, you know, it really seems like we're being marched maybe even on purpose to that point.

00:45:16.620 The question is, which way does it fall to that, well, tipping point, may even call it a cliff, in this country, as we've seen youth getting engaged in record numbers.

00:45:27.740 I don't know that anybody ever planned some of these folks to come out.

00:45:31.000 Now, where I am in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it's Justin Barkley, by the way, from WOD, Wood Radio, News Radio, Wood 1300 and 106.9 FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filling in for Glenn Beck today on the Glenn Beck program.

00:45:44.440 And when Trump came the first time around, first time around in 2016, 2020, and then 24, each time he ended his campaign here in Grand Rapids late at night.

00:45:58.100 First time was in a convention center.

00:46:00.500 Second time was at an airport hangar, I believe.

00:46:03.360 And then this last time was in a massive stadium we have, you know, holds about 12,000 people or so.

00:46:10.680 And a pact, just jam-packed.

00:46:13.700 I didn't go because I had to work very early, and I just know how those things go.

00:46:17.980 He's not going to wrap up until about 1 o'clock in the morning, and I've got to be out and on at like 4.

00:46:24.040 And that's my thinking as I was doing a morning show at the point.

00:46:26.620 And I thought, nah, I can't, I'm not going to go.

00:46:28.140 But I got report after report after report, and I saw lots of video from people that gave me the details about the thing they were most stunned about.

00:46:35.520 Trump was who Trump is.

00:46:38.200 I mean, the president did what he always does at those rallies.

00:46:40.980 But what they were more blown away with than anything else were the young people, the college-age kids that were showing up.

00:46:52.040 Now we know Charlie Kirk's role, obviously, turning point.

00:46:54.940 We know the role of podcasts.

00:46:58.300 When the president went to these places that were talking to these people, giving them a chance to actually be involved and be engaged.

00:47:05.560 We're all feeling very much a lot of the same things and a lot of the same pressures.

00:47:10.140 But this gave them sort of a vent to get it out there.

00:47:15.080 How important will they be in the coming years?

00:47:19.320 And then are they really getting what they asked for when they voted?

00:47:25.760 In 2024.

00:47:27.180 Delano Squires joins us right now.

00:47:29.100 And I wanted to press that question and then dig into what are the things that are going to continue us either down the road or trajectory, make America great again, or pull us completely off track to where some want us to be.

00:47:43.580 He's a research fellow in life, religion, and family at the Heritage Foundation.

00:47:47.760 You can follow him, by the way, online over on X at Delano Squires.

00:47:54.180 Thank you, sir, for being here.

00:47:55.300 I really appreciate you taking the time with us today.

00:47:57.140 Thank you for having me, Justin.

00:47:59.200 So, you know, all of this I bring up because this is like right in your wheelhouse.

00:48:05.400 When I ask the question, like, is it politics where our problems are or is it someplace much deeper?

00:48:13.380 Now, knowing I know the answer, I have a feeling you and I are going to be on the same track here.

00:48:18.480 But how do we how do we heal this land?

00:48:23.660 I definitely think it's deeper than politics.

00:48:27.040 My my spidey sense starts to tingle whenever a politician claims that they're going to save the soul of the nation.

00:48:34.400 And I had the privilege of preaching my first ever sermon yesterday at church for Sunday at church and throughout the Bible.

00:48:43.680 It's clear that that only God saves souls.

00:48:46.400 So so when politicians, even ones that we like, take on to themselves the power to heal, to transform or to save, I start to get a little suspicious.

00:48:58.520 So it's definitely deep into politics.

00:49:00.980 And I think the infusion of politics into every aspect of American life, from the brands that we support to our sporting events, to music, arts and culture.

00:49:15.080 Is not a sign of national health, in my opinion.

00:49:19.360 It's a sign that we have forgotten the first things and now vest all power and authority in our political leaders.

00:49:29.940 And again, that's not healthy.

00:49:31.080 So, no, I don't think politics is going to save us.

00:49:33.900 Politics is critically important because we are a nation of laws and we elect people to represent our interests.

00:49:41.560 And it's better to have good people representing your interests than bad people or people with bad ideas.

00:49:46.500 But that alone is not sufficient to save.

00:49:50.520 A lot of squires with us right now.

00:49:53.340 You know, I would agree with that.

00:49:55.640 I think our problems are much deeper than, you know, in the Bible it says we wrestle not against fresh and blood.

00:50:01.300 We know what this fight really is.

00:50:03.420 And I think some of that really comes out as politics.

00:50:06.240 It comes out as that, as the symptom.

00:50:09.560 But the question is, and I'll talk about this a little bit later on today too, but the question is, and I've seen millennials and Gen Z are reading the Bible more.

00:50:18.080 They're going to church, especially after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

00:50:22.240 But I think it's all the shaking of the things that we're seeing happening that's leading people to look for answers and find them, hopefully, in the right place.

00:50:33.160 Now, there's a lot of people that are going to give you a lot of answers.

00:50:35.820 Not all of them are going to be true.

00:50:37.380 Obviously, that's a part of the problem.

00:50:40.180 But is it good news that we see people looking?

00:50:43.280 And how do we encourage, even politicians, who may not be able to save the soul but maybe can point people in the right direction?

00:50:54.120 Yeah, I mean, I think politicians need Jesus just as much as every man.

00:51:00.160 Even more so.

00:51:01.560 Even more so.

00:51:03.060 Even more so.

00:51:04.380 So, no, I'm encouraged by the fact that more people seem to be open to spiritual conversations.

00:51:11.000 More people seem to be open to going to church and reading their Bible.

00:51:15.120 But, again, it has to be rooted in something.

00:51:18.260 If all this becomes is performative politics, right?

00:51:22.360 So, I hold up my Bible.

00:51:25.620 But really, what I'm doing is trying to use biblical language and Christianese to get people over to my political side.

00:51:34.460 Then I don't think it's ultimately going to have the effect that we want it to have.

00:51:38.680 I remember reading an article about a politician who was caught up in an alleged affair with another person in sort of the political space.

00:51:52.140 And I won't name who because it's not even relevant.

00:51:54.400 But in that article, there was a political consultant that was quoted, and he said something to the effect of, well, you know, we use this type of language.

00:52:07.980 No, they talked about the politician having a Christian brand.

00:52:11.380 That's what it was.

00:52:12.040 And I just thought that that was such an interesting way to frame things.

00:52:17.380 And I'm not doubting the person's faith, and I can't say whether it's authentic or not.

00:52:20.940 But the notion that Christianity is a brand that politicians leverage, that they speak Christianese when they're in front of certain audiences,

00:52:29.900 but they live a different life altogether behind closed doors, is one, again, that I'm wary of putting too much emphasis on the political

00:52:43.020 when it clearly seems that many of the issues that we're facing today in our country are spiritual.

00:52:48.100 Yeah, a lot of squires with us right now as we talk about what it's going to take to save the country.

00:52:55.220 Look, I want to talk about the news of the day.

00:52:59.700 I want to talk about politics.

00:53:01.320 I think those are the things that we shouldn't stick our head in the sand.

00:53:04.840 We've got to be active.

00:53:05.640 We've got to be involved.

00:53:06.480 But they can't become the only thing we pay attention to.

00:53:11.460 They can't be the thing that we focus on the most.

00:53:14.260 It seems to me that we've got to have a better foundation and more grounding.

00:53:21.740 And I just wonder what your thoughts are when it comes to how do people do that on a daily basis?

00:53:29.400 It's one of the things I kind of struggle with and also like to make sure that I encourage and discuss with my audience when I do my daily show.

00:53:37.580 But just to make sure that people are keeping a conscious and healthy balance on, you know, making sure you're informed, but also making sure that it doesn't get to be too much.

00:53:50.620 Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great question.

00:53:52.980 I think one that many of us struggle with in an era of ubiquitous technology.

00:53:57.020 Right.

00:53:57.140 There was a time where, you know, once you turn the TV off, that was it.

00:54:01.780 When it got a certain time, you knew people weren't going to call you or they couldn't text you because you didn't have a cell phone.

00:54:08.920 So there were sort of natural limits built into how much contact we received from people outside of our home and how much information we were exposed to.

00:54:19.880 But now we live in a landscape where we're exposed to information 24-7-365.

00:54:25.240 No one is ever off completely.

00:54:28.440 There are millions of Americans for whom the last thing they do at night is to check their phone.

00:54:34.540 And the first thing they do in the morning is to check their phone.

00:54:37.460 They're constantly tethered to some type of digital device.

00:54:41.660 And that not only affects sleep patterns, I think it affects mood and behavior.

00:54:45.940 And it affects our ability to connect with our loved ones.

00:54:49.340 And let me tell on myself for a second, there have been times where I've been probably short with my children.

00:54:59.360 I have four kids because I was in the midst of typing up a banger tweet and they, you know, wanted to spend time with daddy.

00:55:08.480 And I was, you know, I was just trying to move them away in that moment.

00:55:15.140 And I had to take a step back and realize, like, what am I doing to myself?

00:55:19.320 I am forfeiting time with my children in order to send a tweet to impress people who I don't know about an issue that, while important, is not nearly as important as the investment that I'm making here in my home.

00:55:30.820 So I think part of how we do it is to engage in some type of digital discipline.

00:55:36.880 And there's a lot of talk about limiting children's access to devices.

00:55:41.140 But I think those lessons and those recommendations are just as relevant for adults as they are for kids.

00:55:50.860 So I think part of it is put down our devices, spend time with our family and friends, with our loved ones, engaging in conversations that are not just about politics.

00:55:59.200 It is going to church and sort of feeding the soul and the spirit.

00:56:07.540 It's finding things to do that bring us joy, that bring us fulfillment, and allowing God to use our gifts in ways that edify other people and glorify him.

00:56:21.440 Those are some of the things in terms of on a day-to-day level.

00:56:24.760 And then there's some big things, right?

00:56:26.300 But I am concerned that some of the voices on the far right, they would say they're far right.

00:56:33.700 I don't even know if I believe that, sound very much the same as the voices on the far left when it comes to issues around, let's say, marriage and family.

00:56:43.440 So the Andrew Tate, Red Pill, Nick Fuentes, Goyper guys are indistinguishable from, you know, far leftist, pink-haired feminist professors.

00:56:56.500 Both are telling their respective camps that marriage is a bad deal, that only suckers engage in it, and that family really is a drag on your personal pursuits.

00:57:04.760 So you can't have a country where the politics on the fringes are built in some part on exacerbating tensions between the sexes.

00:57:17.520 That's never going to work politically.

00:57:19.300 So I think we need to get out of this death spiral where, you know, it's sort of focused on radical materialism and individualism and get back to understanding that there are things that are greater than ourselves, and we won't really fully be alive until we find a purpose that's bigger than our day-to-day individual needs.

00:57:39.520 I want to talk more about, as you mentioned, being a father and what's that like, and so the most important parts, like really the foundation, that family aspect, and how that all ties in to what we're talking about here ultimately, seems like maybe is even revival.

00:58:00.780 Making America great again starts at home.

00:58:03.880 Let's talk about that when we come back.

00:58:05.560 Quick break, 60 seconds in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:09.260 Justin Barkley will be back right after this.

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00:59:12.360 Delano Squires with us right now on the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:26.120 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today.

00:59:27.700 Delano, thank you for taking the opportunity.

00:59:30.100 We're talking about, I think you will, maybe in Christian terms, you would call this like revival.

00:59:35.620 The president has called it making America great again, but really what we're talking about is putting things, first things first.

00:59:43.240 You know, really getting our foundation, our principles, our morals back in where they really ought to be.

00:59:50.940 And a lot of that runs right through that theme, that thread, right through the family, right through fatherhood.

00:59:56.300 And, you know, the story that you just told about writing up your banger tweet and the kids come in.

01:00:01.860 I can't tell you how many times.

01:00:04.080 And I'm a guy who does my best to be like as intentional as possible.

01:00:09.120 Okay, I'm going to be here with the kids now.

01:00:10.560 I'm going to do this and put the phone away and all these things.

01:00:13.060 But inevitably, you know, this stuff creeps in even when you're trying your best to do those things.

01:00:18.280 I just thought it was kind of interesting what you had to say.

01:00:21.860 But let's talk about family and fatherhood particularly.

01:00:25.740 I don't have to tell the folks listening.

01:00:28.700 I mean, they know how much it's been under attack, fathers particularly.

01:00:32.120 You see it in the black community, and I know you talk a lot about this.

01:00:36.380 How big of a role does that play?

01:00:38.980 Not just in the black community, but really all of America that we get.

01:00:42.180 We finally get sort of the family and fatherhood and all of it, really.

01:00:48.280 Back in alignment.

01:00:51.360 I think the breakdown of the family is the biggest social issue facing the United States of America today, without a doubt.

01:00:59.240 As you said, for years, for decades, this issue was often talked about in racialized terms, in terms of the breakdown of the black family.

01:01:09.100 And for good reason.

01:01:10.980 In 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote his still controversial report on the state of the black family,

01:01:17.380 the non-marital birth rate for black Americans was about 25%.

01:01:21.520 He considered that an emergency at the time.

01:01:24.720 The non-marital birth rate overall in America today is 40%.

01:01:28.800 So four out of every 10 American children are born to an unmarried mother.

01:01:32.500 America has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world.

01:01:38.780 About a quarter of American children just live with one parent, typically a mom.

01:01:43.280 So the issue that was concentrated, you know, particularly among black Americans is now widespread.

01:01:55.080 And this is not just an issue of parents who have never married.

01:02:00.080 It's an issue of divorce, no-fault divorce, that sort of tears families apart and forces children to sort of pick up the pieces.

01:02:09.520 And increasingly, it's an issue of the redefinition of marriage, surrogacy, abortion on demand,

01:02:19.000 reproductive technology that eventually, if without any sort of protection, will remove human beings from the reproductive process altogether, right?

01:02:33.220 We could get to that point.

01:02:35.180 So I think the way that we talk about family is important.

01:02:39.780 And again, going back to the earlier point, it has to be done in ways that are either bipartisan or nonpartisan.

01:02:46.680 So, and I'll give a quick example.

01:02:48.660 I remember it was last year when X was ablaze, when a conservative, you know, influencer was talking about the child she was having, Elon.

01:02:59.360 And I remarked that billionaires need to spend time with their kids too, right?

01:03:06.640 And that kids who don't have that access will suffer in the same way that low-income kids do.

01:03:11.760 So this is not an issue that can be pigeonholed into partisan boxes.

01:03:15.520 And I think it's important that we realize.

01:03:18.900 Delano Squires.

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01:04:58.280 Well, turns out the Somali welfare parents in Minnesota, the daycares, aren't the only one conducting fraud.

01:05:10.680 And that's no surprise.

01:05:12.360 I get it.

01:05:13.800 I get it.

01:05:14.460 You know, it's everywhere.

01:05:15.480 $9 billion there.

01:05:17.080 $5 billion here.

01:05:18.280 HUD Secretary Turner saying they discovered a whopping $5 billion in potential fraudulent payments.

01:05:28.940 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

01:05:31.560 Justin at justinbarclay.com.

01:05:33.360 That's the email.

01:05:34.260 Love to hear from you.

01:05:35.200 The conversations we can have online.

01:05:36.900 Also, at Mr. Justin Barkley.

01:05:39.340 B-A-R-C-L-A-Y.

01:05:40.800 At Mr. Justin Barkley.

01:05:41.880 Almost all the social platforms you can get.

01:05:44.680 Except for that weird one the left.

01:05:48.200 Is it called Blue Sky?

01:05:49.540 The thing that they tried to make happen, the anti-Twitter.

01:05:52.800 I'd never join that.

01:05:54.560 I heard people would join that and they'd immediately get booted off if they had any sort of right-wing name or something.

01:06:02.920 I don't know.

01:06:03.540 I just, everywhere else other than, other than that.

01:06:06.840 It might have been censored almost everywhere as well.

01:06:08.780 So that's kind of a badge of honor.

01:06:10.500 But love to have those conversations with you, including the one about HUD Secretary Turner.

01:06:15.800 He said $5 billion in potential fraudulent payments to illegals and dead people.

01:06:23.700 Now, I'm sure it's just illegals and dead people that are getting fraudulent payments.

01:06:28.200 I'm sure it's not illegals and dead people that are voting in these Democrat schemes.

01:06:35.100 But rampant rental assistance fraud as well, found in places like New York City, D.C. and other blue cities.

01:06:45.260 It was a Biden program.

01:06:49.880 Should somebody be arrested?

01:06:51.320 Maybe Biden's HUD Secretary in this scenario?

01:06:54.860 You know, during the Biden administration, there were over 12 million illegal aliens that came over the border,

01:07:00.000 straining our housing supply and making the costs go up.

01:07:03.420 And so we worked with Secretary Noem at DHS, as you alluded to,

01:07:07.320 to make sure that only American citizens are living in HUD-funded housing.

01:07:12.160 We also took away FHA-backed mortgages from illegal aliens during the Biden administration.

01:07:18.140 They turned a blind eye.

01:07:19.380 But we're going to keep the law to make sure that these mortgages,

01:07:22.500 which are backed by the taxpayer, go only to the American people.

01:07:26.080 And lastly, we are mandating that every public housing authority give us a comprehensive account

01:07:32.420 who's living in every unit in taxpayer HUD-funded housing.

01:07:36.780 Wow.

01:07:37.300 Ashley Davis, another impact of that wide-open border.

01:07:41.320 Imagine this, though.

01:07:42.440 I mean, it's the same thing that we're asking with SNAP as well.

01:07:44.940 We need to know where the money's going.

01:07:47.360 Imagine that.

01:07:48.400 We want to make sure that we actually have accountability here,

01:07:51.840 that we have transparency, that we have trackability,

01:07:54.200 that we know there really can be no fraud.

01:07:59.260 There will be no shenanigans.

01:08:01.780 Now, I don't know.

01:08:02.920 Is it possible to have 100% fraud-free?

01:08:06.740 I tend to doubt because, you know, what you incentivize,

01:08:11.020 you're going to get more of.

01:08:12.220 It's just human nature.

01:08:13.380 The free money, you know, let's see people lining off at the trough all the time.

01:08:16.760 So I don't know if it's, you know, if it's one of these things that we,

01:08:21.880 I don't care, can we cut it out altogether or is that just a pipe dream?

01:08:25.840 I don't know.

01:08:27.320 Government programs bring fraud.

01:08:30.300 In fact, you may say we got to fix it.

01:08:33.700 I may say that that's exactly how the system is designed to work.

01:08:38.140 I don't know if the government really is in the business of fixing problems,

01:08:43.080 although they ought to be,

01:08:44.160 or if they're more so in the business of just shuffling your money around

01:08:50.340 from one place to the next.

01:08:56.060 It's not just Somalia, by the way.

01:08:58.980 It's happening in other places or Minnesota, many Somalia.

01:09:05.880 I've told you this.

01:09:08.160 In fact, I know I've got some folks I know on the ground.

01:09:11.200 I'll just tell you that I know people involved in some of these investigations

01:09:17.380 will tell you it's not just Minnesota.

01:09:23.220 In fact, it's happening in Ohio.

01:09:25.380 We've already heard Maine as well.

01:09:26.680 There have been some arrests, so we know some of that is also happening.

01:09:31.700 We need to see more of it.

01:09:32.840 I mean, until somebody like Tim Walls is arrested, right?

01:09:38.360 Or the former HUD secretary is allowing these things to happen.

01:09:42.020 Until somebody like the big fish get fried, folks.

01:09:45.140 I don't know if you're ever going to see a stop put to all the...

01:09:48.980 Because there's got to be teeth.

01:09:51.780 Right now, it's like election fraud.

01:09:54.020 Same scenario.

01:09:55.220 The punishment doesn't outweigh the crime.

01:09:59.040 I mean, you get slapped on the wrist for these people.

01:10:02.320 Massive power and wealth if they succeed.

01:10:06.340 So, like, the risk versus the reward for this stuff,

01:10:10.180 it just doesn't seem to...

01:10:13.220 Well, it really doesn't stop them from doing it at all.

01:10:17.880 I mean, they're all in.

01:10:19.220 It's a daycare center owned by Somalians and stuff like that.

01:10:23.020 This is Ohio, by the way.

01:10:24.800 You ever seen any kids in this place here?

01:10:27.440 No, not that I know of.

01:10:28.640 I've just seen the building itself.

01:10:30.340 I've never seen nobody come out the building or go in the building.

01:10:32.780 This is a report from a website called Muckraker.

01:10:35.440 You've never seen anybody over there?

01:10:36.740 No, not at all.

01:10:37.800 So, right now, we are in front of the Great Minds Learning Academy.

01:10:41.600 It looks like the same sort of setup as Minnesota.

01:10:46.960 It's just kind of shoddy sign, bad neighborhood, that type of thing.

01:10:52.520 This is one of the many daycare centers, learning centers here in Columbus, Ohio,

01:10:58.140 that are associated with the Somali community.

01:11:01.080 As you know, Nick Shirley put out a bombshell report

01:11:04.480 about all these fraudulent daycare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

01:11:09.820 So, we wanted to go out to Columbus, Ohio, and investigate what might be going on

01:11:15.060 in the second largest Somali community in the United States of America.

01:11:20.980 Again, it's not just Somali.

01:11:22.740 I don't have a problem with them pointing that out, right?

01:11:28.320 And that's a fact, right?

01:11:31.060 But it's not just Somalia and Somalis.

01:11:37.600 The whole Somali pirate welfare, but that's a funny, that's meme, you know, meme-worthy.

01:11:42.200 That's good.

01:11:42.740 But at the end of the day, like I said, it's all of these, it's all of these programs.

01:11:51.580 It's every single end.

01:11:55.020 It's really the politicians, the people that are behind the scenes making it all happen.

01:12:01.200 Those are the ones who are responsible for it.

01:12:05.720 Democrats largely, you don't think there might be any Republicans involved in some of this, do you?

01:12:11.100 Oh, say it ain't so.

01:12:17.260 Most of what we see, I will say this, the blatant, most of it, you know, the sort of just like over the top, it is.

01:12:29.800 It's the Democrat Party.

01:12:32.520 It's just how they've been set up to work.

01:12:35.620 Because they exploit, and they've got cover they run for themselves on it too, you know.

01:12:40.700 Because they care.

01:12:42.040 They just care so much about the people.

01:12:44.600 They care.

01:12:46.700 They care so much about the people, the compassion.

01:12:49.860 They've got to make sure that they take care of the people, feed the people, give them daycare.

01:13:00.800 You know, all of the things, homes with housing right now, we're finding out about all of that.

01:13:06.420 Yeah, we got to make sure we take care of these people.

01:13:09.020 Oh, we need them.

01:13:13.980 We need them.

01:13:15.280 But they're a part of, they're exactly, they're part of who built this country.

01:13:21.000 Oh, not these people that are now.

01:13:23.200 We're talking about these people are just here sucking off of the resources.

01:13:26.460 And it sounds like they're not even getting what they're supposed to be getting.

01:13:31.900 Some of them are maybe, but sounds like most of the people, the people that need it most in some of the cases aren't getting what they're supposed to be or should be getting.

01:13:39.840 I mean, because it's being sort of siphoned off, siphoned off.

01:13:51.960 Well, and look, again, this is straight out of the playbook.

01:13:59.020 These people, they're better than you.

01:14:03.220 You have to understand this.

01:14:04.480 Well, this is how they're feeling.

01:14:05.560 They look down their noses at people like you and me.

01:14:10.520 They're the elite.

01:14:12.040 It's like the same guy the other day that was giving me a hard time for saving money on gas.

01:14:16.400 He goes, oh, whoop-dee-doo, you saved, you know, 30 cents on the gas or whatever per gallon.

01:14:23.340 I go, I start adding it up.

01:14:24.320 It's like more like 50 cents.

01:14:25.580 And I'm like, well, I got a 20-down tank.

01:14:26.880 That's 10 bucks.

01:14:27.720 And 10 bucks to fill up for me and 10 bucks to fill up for my wife.

01:14:30.860 And I start adding it up.

01:14:32.780 We're talking about hundreds of dollars a month.

01:14:34.420 And then you're talking about, you know, thousands of dollars, maybe even a year for the average person.

01:14:40.620 That's incredible when you talk about gas prices going down.

01:14:43.600 That's the elitist attitude.

01:14:44.680 They go, well, it's just a couple of cents.

01:14:46.760 What do you care?

01:14:49.280 I don't know about you, but it'd be kind of nice not to have to worry about something like that,

01:14:53.100 throwing a few bucks in the tank, not have to worry about how much it was.

01:14:56.700 These people, they don't care.

01:14:59.940 The elitist, the elite mentality, have no idea what you and I go through on a daily basis.

01:15:04.300 They have no idea what any average American is going through on a daily basis.

01:15:08.620 Why?

01:15:09.500 Because they're deeply embedded in the fraud.

01:15:13.300 They're not spending their money.

01:15:15.280 They're spending your money.

01:15:19.640 And we do have some more updates on this in the crackdown.

01:15:22.440 In fact, we've got more.

01:15:23.920 As the money's starting to dry up, they pull the plug on it.

01:15:27.960 We told you a little bit about this yesterday.

01:15:29.440 We have the report coming up here in just a second.

01:15:31.500 More out of Ohio and more on this fraud.

01:15:34.340 The latest.

01:15:36.680 Hopefully some teeth in some of this coming up right after this.

01:15:40.040 We'll take a quick break.

01:15:40.960 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:15:43.320 Back next.

01:15:45.060 Never put your future in another man's saddlebag.

01:15:48.740 Or your lunch.

01:15:50.160 You never know where that thing's been.

01:15:51.960 That stinks.

01:15:53.200 More Glenn Beck in a Jeff.

01:16:07.540 The older I get, the more I think about trust.

01:16:10.360 I think about the people in my life who have my trust and earned my trust.

01:16:14.620 And the trust that I have placed in some people who I later learned abused that trust.

01:16:19.340 I know we're alike in that way.

01:16:20.660 We don't trust a lot of people anymore.

01:16:22.620 It's like we're all Ronald Reagan.

01:16:24.220 Trust but always verify to make sure we're not making a mistake.

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01:17:07.700 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

01:17:22.540 Justin at justinbarkley.com.

01:17:24.200 The email, love those emails.

01:17:25.740 Thank you for sending those to you.

01:17:27.640 They love those conversations.

01:17:29.160 We're having plenty of them.

01:17:30.340 And I've got news stories.

01:17:32.240 We've got to break through.

01:17:33.660 So we've got some new details on the confession of the January 6th pipe bomber.

01:17:38.640 We've got that Nashville trans attack and stunning allegations here apparently of how she bought

01:17:51.320 the weapons involved in the attack, what funded it.

01:17:54.800 Speaking of federal money gone to the wrong place, how about this?

01:18:01.060 So the Small Business Association has decided they're going to stop, halt all the payments.

01:18:08.040 Crackdown in Minnesota over potential fraud is ramping up on multiple fronts now.

01:18:12.660 Not only do you have DHS and FBI agents on the ground, but the Small Business Administration

01:18:17.840 is now halting all federal funding to the state after identifying $430 million in PPP loans

01:18:25.640 in Minnesota that are suspected of fraud.

01:18:28.440 As we've been reporting, these concerns over fraud, particularly in the child care space

01:18:33.880 in Minneapolis, go back more than a decade, including these surveillance videos that were

01:18:39.300 part of a case prosecuted by Hennepin County back in 2015.

01:18:43.100 The video shows parents checking their kids into a daycare and then walking back out with

01:18:47.940 them minutes later.

01:18:49.360 Our Minneapolis Fox station reported that sometimes the kids wouldn't even show up and that either

01:18:54.180 way, the businesses would bill the state for a full day of services.

01:18:58.820 I told you that these parents would walk out with an envelope.

01:19:01.940 It's like the Sopranos, the Somali Sopranos.

01:19:05.560 This other video shows parents then allegedly receiving envelopes of cash as kickbacks from

01:19:11.820 the owners.

01:19:12.740 It's just a report card.

01:19:14.280 You got it wrong there.

01:19:15.480 The state is responding to these latest allegations of fraud at child care centers, claiming that

01:19:21.480 it's already investigated many of the businesses in Nick Shirley's viral video.

01:19:28.220 So there have been ongoing investigations with several of those centers.

01:19:35.000 None of those investigations uncovered findings of fraud.

01:19:38.720 One of the centers, Quality Learning Center, closed just over a week ago.

01:19:43.240 With those claims is that the manager of the Quality Learning Center says they never closed

01:19:49.880 and they are even open now.

01:19:52.140 The state agency was putting out false information.

01:19:55.680 All of this is raising more questions about the credibility of the state agencies who are

01:20:00.920 supposed to be overseeing these programs that are now being investigated.

01:20:04.920 There's no oversight on any of this.

01:20:06.840 Are you kidding me?

01:20:08.480 They don't care.

01:20:09.480 They don't care where the money goes, just as long as the machine keeps rolling.

01:20:16.400 That's very clear here.

01:20:19.100 That's what this whole thing's set up is.

01:20:20.900 You got shell companies and fake daycares, call them fake cares, whatever.

01:20:26.940 You know, you got all these scenarios that are meant to just make it look, give them a veneer

01:20:32.560 that there's something going on.

01:20:33.700 And you got to wonder, you know, are we talking about trillions?

01:20:39.160 How much fraud are we talking about?

01:20:46.120 You know, I've seen Elon suggest that I think maybe a trillion dollars or more that they would

01:20:56.820 find.

01:20:57.180 It's just as a guess that does waste fraud and abuse investigation.

01:21:05.460 Meanwhile, like I said, it's not just the Somalis.

01:21:10.160 It's in everything.

01:21:11.480 Anything the government touches.

01:21:13.860 We got a similar situation here in Michigan.

01:21:16.680 We got this thing called the Michigan Economic, the MEDC, Development Corporation.

01:21:22.760 And you talk about, you know, kickbacks and this and that.

01:21:28.480 They caught this one woman.

01:21:29.560 She was apparently a big donor with the governor.

01:21:34.140 Millions of dollars.

01:21:35.940 And I think, you know, I start digging through the receipts of what this woman was supposed

01:21:40.420 to be getting and what she was doing.

01:21:41.880 They spent this organization like $4,000 for a coffee maker.

01:21:45.240 I mean, and it's par for the course.

01:21:48.800 This has been going on since the beginning of government, folks.

01:21:54.460 Glad to see it's coming to the light.

01:21:58.380 That's the best disinfectant is the sunlight.

01:22:01.460 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today.

01:22:02.980 We'll shine some more of it coming up next on the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:23:20.800 Now, we've got some interesting new information coming out about the J6 pipe bomber and a confession.

01:23:28.080 We've also got, speaking courtroom drama yesterday, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin in the courtroom.

01:23:35.560 And the decision of whether or not we get to see any of that, and I think we ought to be able to see it all.

01:23:39.440 But also, today, news about how that Nashville trans attacker bought the weapons she used to kill the innocent.

01:23:52.980 And a story that's continuing to bring us interesting pieces of information.

01:23:58.100 Speaking of federal money gone wrong, we'll get into that and more coming up today.

01:24:04.120 Justin Barkley in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program back after this in 60 seconds.

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01:25:20.440 It is at the root of everything that's wrong.

01:25:24.340 And by the way, when you hear these stories, this is just for you, but this latest story of the Nashville trans attacker

01:25:32.840 and how she was able to buy these weapons, multiple weapons, you're talking lots of money.

01:25:40.420 And where it came from, it all lines up with the same conversation we're having today about the Somali fraud

01:25:47.500 and the daycares, et cetera.

01:25:50.880 But the root of all of this, the root of all of it, we got to go back to and trace back to the core,

01:25:57.800 which is evil.

01:26:01.100 And the corruption in all of it.

01:26:04.460 So I wanted to do that.

01:26:06.140 Lance Wallnau joins us right now.

01:26:07.680 I've got good and bad news.

01:26:09.020 So, you know, we can talk a little bit about both.

01:26:12.520 But Lance, originally I want to talk to you about this story that I saw that was really encouraging.

01:26:18.580 Millennials and Generation Z, the Gen Z folks, are reading the Bible more in 2025 than they were last year.

01:26:25.620 They're going to church more.

01:26:27.020 Apparently, you know, the assassination of Charlie Kirk really sprang a lot of this into action with folks.

01:26:35.100 And it's, to me, it's encouraging to see.

01:26:39.280 I think part of it, and I'll ask you about this, is because of what we're seeing play out.

01:26:45.100 When we see these bad things, and there's so many of them happening,

01:26:49.400 the conditions that the kids are in and everything,

01:26:52.180 it's sort of leading to the things that we're watching.

01:26:55.760 They're looking for answers.

01:26:57.380 They're really searching.

01:26:59.680 And I think that's a good thing.

01:27:00.820 Welcome in, Lance.

01:27:02.260 It's great, great to be on your show.

01:27:04.240 Thanks for having me.

01:27:04.980 You know, what's interesting about all of this is I talked to Barna, I talked to Dave Barton,

01:27:11.960 different guys that are, like, experts in these things.

01:27:14.940 And something they said I think would help you and your audience,

01:27:18.300 they said that when there's an awakening historically, first great awakening, second great awakening,

01:27:23.280 whatever you want to call it,

01:27:25.540 they don't pick the dates for the awakening until they look back after it happened.

01:27:32.140 And that means that nobody said, hey, the Great Awakening started last year.

01:27:36.360 Did you like it?

01:27:37.080 So we are probably in the midst of what we would call a historic third great awakening after the second one that was in the Civil War.

01:27:46.340 So the reality is, all the data, when you've got stuff like Barna saying, I catch this, this is mind-blowing,

01:27:53.880 54% of Americans in 2020 said that a commitment to Jesus Christ is important.

01:28:01.760 And last year it rose to 66%.

01:28:05.900 That's all ages, which is a weird thing, because you don't see it reflected in the news.

01:28:11.640 You don't see it reflected in behavior.

01:28:13.460 But 66% of Americans are saying, oh, yeah, yeah, that's important.

01:28:17.000 So what it suggests is, that we're in the early stage of a great awakening.

01:28:22.660 And like the story you're covering with the trans shooter that gets money from the government.

01:28:28.560 Well, isn't it weird that there's no media covering the theft that's going on in Minnesota?

01:28:34.700 I mean, you've got, you basically have Fox News and a couple of outlets like ours that are saying, this is immense.

01:28:41.160 I mean, the FBI is up there now, but you're not seeing it covered in the New York Times, except to question the motivations for it.

01:28:49.140 So on the one hand, you have increased disengagement and almost like intentional negligence of news cycles from traditional media sources,

01:29:00.880 which feeds, I think, the feeling that something's out of control, which weirdly plays into the hunger for the Bible,

01:29:09.460 which is being reflected in the Gen X and the Gen Z, because in this uncertainty and chaos of who do you trust,

01:29:18.920 people are going to the Bible and saying, well, I've got to go back into something.

01:29:23.180 Jordan Peterson probably helped more than we realized.

01:29:25.940 I'm going to go back and check this book out.

01:29:28.600 Evidently, it's still there, but I don't know what else I can trust.

01:29:32.240 Does all that make sense?

01:29:33.240 You know, I do, and I think, you know, you look at AI and you look at everything else.

01:29:38.640 I just saw the stat the other day.

01:29:40.160 I was looking around on YouTube.

01:29:41.640 I like to get the fireplace video and play the music and Christmas music lately.

01:29:48.440 I just like to do it when I get ready, spend some quiet time.

01:29:51.540 I kind of like to do that, set the scene while I'm searching and I'm finding different videos.

01:29:56.260 And all that looks interesting, so I put that on, and it's like the history of, you know, the 12 days of Christmas or something like that.

01:30:03.260 And I realize as I start going through these that every one of them is AI-generated.

01:30:08.640 The videos generated, the script, the voice, it's all generated.

01:30:12.220 So I saw the stat the other day.

01:30:14.020 Blew me away.

01:30:14.820 It's like 30 or 20 percent of the videos on YouTube right now are what they're calling slow.

01:30:20.040 So it's irritating.

01:30:22.400 You know, I think I was the only guy that puts up on the big digital display the fire crackling.

01:30:30.040 And then my family called.

01:30:32.240 They said, Dad, it's 80 degrees in Texas.

01:30:34.520 Are you really going to do it again at Christmas?

01:30:37.060 I said, we're cranking up the air conditioner, and we're putting that dang fireplace to work.

01:30:42.380 So I do that every year.

01:30:43.640 But the AI thing, my sister, my wife has sisters that are professors in the Northeast, which is a really tough place to be a conservative.

01:30:53.160 And they cannot stand my pro-Trump conservative worldview.

01:30:57.500 And so they send to us videos of George Will and other people saying the most incendiary things.

01:31:05.840 And I send it back.

01:31:06.700 These are college professors.

01:31:08.160 I send it back to them saying, this is AI-generated.

01:31:11.920 This isn't George Will.

01:31:13.080 This isn't Mark Victor Hanson, David Hanson.

01:31:16.620 You guys are, you realize that when you're looking at images that seem to be talking to you, they are actually fictitious.

01:31:25.020 They're using, it's like having Glenn Beck say that he's going to vote for Kamala Harris if she runs.

01:31:30.260 That's how it is now.

01:31:31.900 And so now you've got new laws coming out very late, which is trying to restrict the misrepresentation of public figures.

01:31:40.620 But it's already ubiquitous.

01:31:43.080 It is.

01:31:43.620 And it's to the point where I really don't know whether we're going to be able to tell the difference.

01:31:48.860 And so they're getting so good.

01:31:50.440 There's something, I'm just not, I love AI for some things.

01:31:54.060 I think it's helpful for some things.

01:31:56.380 And, you know, look, I think there's a lot of great, Glenn's got a lot of great things he's working on with the torch and with George AI right now.

01:32:03.900 But he's been through it, really trying to tweak and make sure you put the guardrails up on this stuff because you have to.

01:32:09.260 Otherwise, there's just something off of this.

01:32:11.660 It doesn't work.

01:32:13.100 And so, but that's my point is with all of this stuff out there, as you mentioned, it's another one of these things I think is going to have people running to the truth.

01:32:23.220 And the only place you can really find it.

01:32:27.440 And that's happening.

01:32:28.880 And I think what's curious about it is that it's a younger, because the data was saying that Gen Z was, you know, and it still is true, that the lowest attendance in church, et cetera.

01:32:41.280 But if you read between the lines, there's a surge, there's a pushing up 30% and 24% to 49% right now for Gen Z's weekly Bible reading.

01:32:53.920 Now, that's pretty amazing when you get close to 50% of an age group.

01:32:58.040 They're certainly not saying it publicly, but privately they're going there.

01:33:01.860 And I just got information from a guy who has a thing called GroundWire, which is this ministry he's got, which is digitally engaging the Gen X and Gen Z's, not trying to get them to go to church,

01:33:16.720 but catching them in their pursuit of purpose or answers to loneliness and stuff like that.

01:33:23.480 He had 10 million inquiries last year.

01:33:27.280 The catch this, 2 million actually talked to a counselor to pray with them.

01:33:34.500 So 2 million of these young kids last year, 10 million digitally surfing online, got apprehended by a conversation about Jesus.

01:33:43.920 And the three issues that they're dealing with is hope because they're bombarded by negativity.

01:33:50.500 The greatest country in the world with the greatest freedom, with the greatest level of prosperity, but they are bombarded with negativity and they want to know, will the world get better?

01:34:00.400 Imagine that.

01:34:01.780 And purpose is the second thing.

01:34:03.740 What in the world am I doing here?

01:34:05.680 And the third thing, which is kind of tragic, is does anyone see me?

01:34:09.340 I'm actually alone, even in a crowd.

01:34:11.680 So that's the three things that GroundWire focuses on, purpose, hope, and loneliness.

01:34:17.380 And they had 10 million inquiries last year.

01:34:20.480 Gen Z, seeking.

01:34:22.740 So we've got these folks, and this is a movement.

01:34:26.400 We're going to need these young kids.

01:34:28.820 Talking about making America great again, as you're talking about that, really, that awakening that's happening.

01:34:33.880 I think that's at the core of it.

01:34:35.120 We need above and beyond the country becoming great again.

01:34:40.860 That starts at a much, I think, a much deeper place.

01:34:44.600 We need those things to happen in order to get there.

01:34:47.860 Dr. Lance Wallnau is with us right now on the Glenn Beck program.

01:34:51.040 I want to ask you, because there's some other things.

01:34:53.780 When talking about the youth, there's some concerning things happening right now, too, because they are vulnerable.

01:35:00.520 They are searching.

01:35:02.140 And depending what they land on, it may mean the world to them, but it also could not only destroy them, but the country as well.

01:35:10.700 I want to talk about maybe some of the warning and the risk on that when we come back.

01:35:14.720 We've got to take a quick break of 60 seconds.

01:35:17.180 We'll be right back after this on the Glenn Beck program.

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01:36:38.100 Wanted to talk about this, LanceWallnau.com and the Lance Wallnau show.

01:36:42.300 But you've got these young people that are a big part of what really, I think, got Trump elected.

01:36:48.640 You've got the podcast.

01:36:49.820 You've got these kids coming together here in Grand Rapids, the last stop again on the campaign.

01:36:54.680 And I heard multiple of these just incredible numbers of college-age kids at that last rally that night.

01:37:02.380 And then, you know, we see how they come out in record numbers.

01:37:05.540 These kids are kind of being pulled around right now, and I think a lot of folks are.

01:37:09.000 In fact, we're watching this happen.

01:37:10.740 There's some weird things happening.

01:37:11.820 Some of them are coming back to Christ.

01:37:13.320 There's sort of a weird anti-Semitism thing that's happening as well right now.

01:37:18.200 And, again, I like them to go out and to look for these answers.

01:37:22.080 But, boy, I mean, we're talking about, you know, life and death in where they land in some of these places.

01:37:29.520 Oh, totally.

01:37:30.420 And, you know, so years ago I started this concept.

01:37:33.680 It was called Seven Mountains.

01:37:36.000 Because culture is a confusing subject.

01:37:39.140 And for a Christian trying to transform, engage, or change, you run into a lot of barriers.

01:37:45.520 One is, how do you do it?

01:37:47.900 And, you know, on one hand, Jesus says, go make disciples of nations.

01:37:51.480 So if you're an ardent Christian, you know that there's an agenda here for nations.

01:37:55.640 But then you have an eschatological problem, because our generation so is doom-centered that we believe the Antichrist is emerging any day.

01:38:02.880 So I said, you know what, it's simple.

01:38:05.960 There's seven vertical powers that shape a culture.

01:38:11.080 Your family and your church, or your spiritual community and your family, is the insulator.

01:38:16.440 But what's coming against you is education, government, media, entertainment, and big business.

01:38:22.400 And if you look at those verticals, you see that those are the things that are in the news.

01:38:26.200 So to your point, what's happening with this Great Awakening is at the same time there's a spiritual yearning.

01:38:34.720 There's these competing centripetal forces of media manipulation, digital bombardment, campus propagandizing that is also affecting that digital generation.

01:38:46.360 So Charlie Kirk's last two warnings that he gave before he was assassinated was, he said, be aware.

01:38:54.700 He went to the president and told him, if you do not make it affordable for under 30-year-olds to own a home, they're only owning them by the time they're 40 now.

01:39:05.340 If they don't have hope of owning a home in their 30s, then the lure of socialism, no matter how much you talk against it,

01:39:13.700 they feel the system's rigged, and they will move in a populist backlash, just like Trump tapped into the populist frustration with the deep state and with institutional corruption.

01:39:25.360 Mondami and these young socialists will arise talking the language of an under 30 crowd that doesn't trust the system either,

01:39:34.240 but believes that it's gained against them because they can't own property.

01:39:38.040 And so you've got to get home.

01:39:40.160 It becomes that practical, and Charlie was that practical a politician.

01:39:44.240 He said, you've got to make it affordable or I'm going to lose the argument with my generation.

01:39:50.160 And then he said the second thing, which is ironic and kind of prophetic,

01:39:54.220 he said this killing of the hero, what do you call it, the young guy that shot the insurance CEO.

01:40:04.420 And he said that's a threshold.

01:40:09.100 Mondami is one warning.

01:40:11.060 The other one is this kid, Chuck, whatever he is, that shot the insurance guy that became a hero online.

01:40:19.640 Yeah, that's it.

01:40:20.620 He said the violence against CEOs means we've crossed a threshold where the left no longer has the moral ability

01:40:28.840 to separate fact from fiction, and in a cosplay world in their brain,

01:40:34.580 young people will start killing influencers that are conservative or perceived to be establishment.

01:40:40.880 It won't just be politicians.

01:40:42.620 And Charlie was the first influencer to seal that.

01:40:45.960 So he's saying you've got these forces are at work.

01:40:49.400 And I'd say that the awakening we have that is potential has got with me a lot more intentional about how we fuel that

01:40:58.780 because you do have this socialist upbringing in the school system and in the university system.

01:41:05.880 When 93% of your faculty vote Democrat, I guarantee you've got a skewing of the worldview at the university level.

01:41:14.060 So your smartest potential future leaders are having to overcome propaganda to come out as a conservative.

01:41:22.000 Yeah.

01:41:23.040 Dr. Lancewell, now one last thing.

01:41:26.340 I'm watching this happen to a lot of people.

01:41:28.960 And I want to find out the balance here.

01:41:32.700 You hear black pill, red pill, and all this other stuff, blue pill.

01:41:35.580 But let me ask you this.

01:41:38.600 There's kind of this balance between people I hear and say, hey, you know, everything's great.

01:41:43.900 I'm going to sit on the couch and eat my popcorn and follow the plan, trust the plan, all that.

01:41:48.920 And then there's the other side that say, you know, nothing we do matters.

01:41:54.120 And everything is kind of chicken little, the sky is falling, black pill.

01:41:58.100 How do you walk that line?

01:41:59.980 I'm trying to encourage people on a daily basis to make sure you don't fall into either one of those traps

01:42:06.540 because we've got to stay engaged.

01:42:07.900 We've got to stay informed.

01:42:09.880 We only got a minute here.

01:42:12.740 100%.

01:42:13.140 And that's why I said it's so weird that we have to deal with negativity in a nation that is as great as this.

01:42:19.760 We are right now participating in the greatest political revolution that has happened since the founding of the country.

01:42:26.740 What we've seen happen in one year that we forget about with Donald Trump going from nearly being assassinated and locked up and bankrupt

01:42:34.420 to going in with an A-team like the Avengers, tearing apart all institutional decay from the top down as far as they could go within one year,

01:42:44.360 from the ceiling of the border to 4% GDP reversal, dealing with the country in $32 trillion debt,

01:42:49.360 and righting the ship while it's miraculously getting set on course.

01:42:55.920 We're in a—Trump has laid siege to academia, to government, to media, and to big business.

01:43:03.420 And he's literally forcing a revolutionary shift in all those mind-molding powers of culture.

01:43:10.040 And we're alive to watch it.

01:43:11.800 The midterms—I was with the president two weeks ago.

01:43:14.840 Twice, he said to a group of pastors, he said, I'm worried about the midterm.

01:43:19.720 This is the president.

01:43:20.440 He said, America tends to vote the opposite of its administration.

01:43:25.920 And we can't afford to have this experiment in recovery interrupted and blocked by more impeachments by the Democrats.

01:43:32.320 We must show up at midterms.

01:43:34.560 So to me, it becomes very practical.

01:43:36.860 We're in a revolution right now.

01:43:39.180 Trump has been prayed into it.

01:43:40.940 I don't believe he's an accident.

01:43:42.340 I think he's a phenomena of desperate intercession in the nation that needs an intervention.

01:43:48.460 And so we've all got to kind of get our oars in the water and say, what do we have to do?

01:43:53.320 We've got 90 days probably to make that conversation materialize, and it's grassroots.

01:43:59.440 It's not coming from the top down.

01:44:00.940 Can you stay with us?

01:44:01.800 I want to touch more on that, if you can.

01:44:03.440 I want to make sure we don't leave that.

01:44:05.320 Dr. Lance Wall, now the Glenn Beck program continues after this.

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01:45:51.460 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

01:45:55.620 And just wrapping up a great conversation with our guest, Dr. Lance Wilno, who's talking about what it's going to need to happen, really, to turn the tide.

01:46:05.740 And essentially for 2026 in the midterms.

01:46:08.540 You talk about the president being particularly concerned in these conversations.

01:46:13.320 And you are starting to nail down what some of that looks like.

01:46:18.520 But tell us, Dr., what are you seeing?

01:46:21.100 What do people need to be aware of here?

01:46:24.380 Well, first of all, I remember.

01:46:26.860 So I went in and we had an Oval Office meeting with the president.

01:46:29.540 It was a group of folks that were with the White House Faith Council and Paula White.

01:46:34.120 And she makes that act.

01:46:36.060 So she's down the hall from the president.

01:46:37.520 I mean, he literally put faith as an office down the hall from him, first president that ever did that.

01:46:44.560 And so we got a chance to go in.

01:46:46.700 And he was visibly concerned about midterms, talking about him.

01:46:50.020 She said, whatever he wants to talk about, let him talk about.

01:46:52.720 Well, he's talking about midterms.

01:46:55.000 So when we exited, Ralph Reed was with me.

01:46:58.920 And Ralph has been around since the formation of the Christian Coalition.

01:47:02.800 He was Charlie Kirk in Pat Robertson's Generation, the young guy that mobilized Christians in politics.

01:47:10.480 And I said to him, I said, he's concerned about midterms.

01:47:14.420 And Ralph looked at me and said, yeah.

01:47:16.340 I said, what's going to happen in midterms?

01:47:19.260 You're pretty much a prognosticator on that.

01:47:22.060 He said, it's going to be a bloodbath.

01:47:24.940 And my jaw dropped.

01:47:26.560 I said, wow.

01:47:28.560 And he looked at me.

01:47:29.460 He said, look around the room, Lance.

01:47:30.880 And I looked around the room.

01:47:31.860 He said, what do you see?

01:47:33.260 You know what I saw?

01:47:34.400 20 really great guys.

01:47:36.520 They're all pastors, leaders, influencers, conservatives, talking to each other, exchanging phone numbers.

01:47:42.920 He said, do you see the desperation, the fight, the hunger?

01:47:48.060 He said, right now, the Democrats are chewing glass in order to get back in power.

01:47:53.760 They could taste it.

01:47:55.460 Our side isn't focused at all.

01:47:57.760 And then it hit me.

01:47:59.380 You know, he's right.

01:48:00.440 Our side, listen, I'm having a conversation with you right now.

01:48:02.720 What can we do?

01:48:03.760 All that the left is doing now is thinking about regaining power.

01:48:08.040 And what we're thinking about is 100 different abstract ideas about where culture is at.

01:48:12.720 That's the difference between our sides.

01:48:14.420 That is horrifying.

01:48:20.580 But unfortunately, I think it's very true.

01:48:24.600 Yeah, it is true.

01:48:25.880 So, you know, so what do you do?

01:48:27.820 So what I've done is, you know, I've reached out to, first of all, money talks.

01:48:32.960 You've got to understand how Washington works and how power works.

01:48:36.100 So I realize, okay, we do our part as influencers, as thought leaders, we all have our calling.

01:48:41.100 But I go to the people that have resources.

01:48:43.540 And I say, we need a strategy.

01:48:46.100 Are you open?

01:48:47.340 Yes, yes.

01:48:48.080 We don't know what to do.

01:48:49.200 Tell us what to do.

01:48:50.040 So I'm rounding up the Ralph Reeds and the AFPIs and the organizations that actually have midterm ground gains, including Turning Point.

01:48:58.980 And I'm saying, I'm calling it up.

01:49:01.080 I'm going to have it.

01:49:01.800 We're going to get a data download from all you guys that are out there that raise funds for midterms.

01:49:07.680 But our side, the conservatives work independently.

01:49:10.380 On the left, it's all in, man.

01:49:12.780 They put their chips in the middle.

01:49:14.320 They all work together.

01:49:15.620 We work autonomously.

01:49:16.940 So I'm getting our people to come together, and then I'm going to get the investors to cherry-pick what's the most practical, powerful, effective strategy for 19 counties to make sure we don't lose Congress.

01:49:28.920 That's what it comes down to.

01:49:30.760 But it's so weird.

01:49:31.660 It's like grassroots.

01:49:32.600 I feel like Sam Adams in a tavern in Boston.

01:49:35.360 It's like no one else is doing this.

01:49:37.040 This is totally self-directed.

01:49:38.740 It's critical.

01:49:41.840 And these races, and it's talking about the House specifically, but also the Senate, they're very important.

01:49:49.300 I don't think – you know, it's – this is how I see it.

01:49:53.720 You know, look, we were all the nation.

01:49:56.920 There's no way.

01:49:58.060 I don't see the election of President Trump to this term.

01:50:01.940 I just don't see it being anything other than divine intervention, particularly with his life being saved, that assassination attempt, the millimeter miracle, as our good friend likes to call it.

01:50:14.700 But, you know, this is – it's just – there's no way to see it.

01:50:19.260 I think we hit our knees.

01:50:20.900 I think we got our brief, you know, our second chance, right?

01:50:26.760 But now we're at the point where people don't realize it wasn't just about getting him elected.

01:50:32.400 We have to see this through, and there's so much that has to take place if we don't walk it out.

01:50:37.800 There's so much.

01:50:38.520 Yeah.

01:50:39.040 And we didn't even discuss the real phenomena of what happened when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

01:50:45.560 You have the DNA, the fingerprints, the confession of the parents, the killer himself, all of the data pointing to shell casings,

01:50:53.280 the Antifa engagement, a trans-Antifa connection in Salt Lake City.

01:50:57.740 You see all the data, and where do we go?

01:51:00.900 We decide to attack Israel and make the Jew the enemy.

01:51:05.560 If that isn't the weirdest cosmic spiritual evidence of warfare I've ever seen,

01:51:12.680 I'm sitting there going, why in the world isn't this a massive moment to deal with trans-activism?

01:51:20.480 And all of a sudden, we're attacking Netanyahu.

01:51:22.280 Netanyahu.

01:51:22.960 It was the weirdest Candace Owens' whole meltdown and the perpetuating of it with 4 million people listening every day.

01:51:30.680 What does that tell me?

01:51:32.040 I got targeted by her, by the way, which is why I'm bringing her up.

01:51:34.900 She even mentions me as being a nefarious actor influencing Charlie Kirk.

01:51:39.860 And I look at this and I go, we're like having a circular firing squad.

01:51:44.140 What does that tell you?

01:51:45.060 There's nothing the enemy would want more.

01:51:49.080 I mean, we're all in that moment right now where we're divided in the moment.

01:51:52.720 We need to be more united than ever.

01:51:54.940 We're being pulled apart.

01:51:57.040 And that's obvious to me.

01:52:01.200 I mean, it's a plan.

01:52:02.700 Whether you look at it as a natural or supernatural, I mean, we know where it's coming from.

01:52:09.100 Well, at least in my opinion, it's never been more obvious.

01:52:12.500 Totally.

01:52:13.340 Totally.

01:52:13.900 That's my point.

01:52:15.060 It's so, Ron, obvious that you'd think that we would stop and blow the whistle and break up, you know, and kind of huddle and say, what's the game plan for midterms, guys?

01:52:24.960 Is this really helping?

01:52:25.960 You know, I mean, I work with these guys, I work with Bannon, I work with these guys.

01:52:31.100 I'm going, hey, this is not good.

01:52:33.160 Guys, focus, focus.

01:52:35.180 Charlie provided it in his life.

01:52:37.340 He built a coalition that kept everyone in their lane.

01:52:40.980 But interesting verse, when the apostle Paul left Ephesus, he said, after my departure, wolves are going to come in among you.

01:52:49.200 And from among your own selves will men arise speaking perverse things to create an audience for their own personal following.

01:52:57.080 If that was true in the first century when Paul left Ephesus, I guarantee it's true when anyone of apostolic stature leaves a movement like Charlie left with Turning Point.

01:53:09.000 Yeah.

01:53:10.120 Dr. Lance Wallnau, by the way, you want to watch the Lance Wallnau show, you can go to LanceWnau.com, find out more about that, where to watch it.

01:53:17.380 And, of course, Lance, you got a book out, The Return of the Lion, God-surprising end-time plan.

01:53:23.860 Highly recommend picking this up.

01:53:25.840 But tell everybody about it and where they can get it.

01:53:30.100 Yeah, I appreciate that.

01:53:31.500 So, Justin, I wrote this during the – I saw there was going to be an anti-Semitism strike that was going to happen.

01:53:38.760 I wrote it during the decision-making period when the president was deciding to take out the nuclear capacity of Iran.

01:53:45.420 And I wrote the book saying, Israel is going to play an end-time role.

01:53:51.000 It's not going away.

01:53:52.360 It's going to continue to be an odd obsession of all the nations because the Bible predicts it.

01:53:58.400 And so it's a book about the return of the lion, that Jesus is indeed coming back, but he's not coming back as the lamb.

01:54:06.100 He was sacrificed as a lamb.

01:54:07.940 The Bible says he's coming back as a ruler to judge the nations.

01:54:11.340 So my premise is – it's only about a 95-page book, easy to read – is that there's going to be a different dispensation of the manifestation of how God moves in the last days than we anticipate because he's coming back to rule and to judge.

01:54:27.860 He's not coming back to reconcile.

01:54:29.920 So the book explains the end times and Israel's role and the rise of anti-Semitism.

01:54:35.420 It's at LanceWallnaut.com forward slash lion.

01:54:38.980 I'm making it available for any amount.

01:54:40.860 Basically, I'm trying to get the message out.

01:54:42.680 Just pay postage and get the book.

01:54:44.920 I'm getting it out there for people.

01:54:47.020 Lance Wallnaut.

01:54:47.960 Where can folks watch the show and listen to you daily?

01:54:51.460 Yep.

01:54:51.920 It's basically on all social media.

01:54:55.200 And we do a Real America's Voice on Saturday – on Sunday.

01:54:58.620 So – but you can just go to LanceWallnaut.com forward slash podcast and you can catch me on any of the typical channels.

01:55:07.660 Always an honor.

01:55:08.600 Thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us and sharing what you're seeing out there.

01:55:13.440 I definitely think it's important.

01:55:15.380 Folks are listening.

01:55:16.420 And if somebody heard this that needed to.

01:55:19.520 Thank you, Justin.

01:55:20.440 I appreciate your voice out there.

01:55:22.080 You got it.

01:55:22.560 God bless.

01:55:23.480 Dr. Lance Wallnaut.

01:55:24.660 Okay, more coming up, folks.

01:55:25.940 We're going to continue in the program.

01:55:27.560 Not a lot of time left.

01:55:29.040 So we make sure we can hit a couple of things that we've got to hit.

01:55:32.120 We've been talking about all this fraud.

01:55:33.800 We've been talking about all the money that's gone to places that it shouldn't.

01:55:38.760 The Somalis and some of the other places.

01:55:41.380 But what about the money that went to buy the weapons that the trans attacker in the Nashville school used?

01:55:50.200 Guess where it came from, too?

01:55:52.300 We'll tell you about it next.

01:55:54.060 In for Glenn of the Glenn Beck Program.

01:55:55.540 Back after this.

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01:57:37.400 Oh, look at us.

01:57:39.740 Look at what we've built.

01:57:42.440 We toil, we sweat, we hand over our earnings piece by piece, paycheck by paycheck to the great machine in Washington, D.C.

01:57:51.640 The swamp, they'll take care of the needy.

01:57:54.060 They promise they'll take care of you.

01:57:56.980 Anything you know.

01:57:57.700 Well, educate the young, lift up the struggling.

01:58:02.180 Mobile words for sure.

01:58:04.040 Beautiful.

01:58:05.600 Taxpayer dollars for Pell Grants.

01:58:07.500 For dreams, for college, tuition money.

01:58:11.180 Meant to open doors to build futures.

01:58:13.940 Where does it all go?

01:58:14.760 Well, one, straight in the hands of a monster.

01:58:19.100 Audrey Hale.

01:58:20.120 Unemployed, living at home, plodding in the shadows.

01:58:24.400 Gets her federal checks.

01:58:26.780 Over $2,000 at a time.

01:58:28.860 Refunded after classes, no questions asked.

01:58:30.980 She scribbles it down herself.

01:58:32.580 FAFSA grant checks.

01:58:34.360 Starting at about $2,000.

01:58:36.080 Right next to her shopping list of rifles, carbines, ammunition.

01:58:48.020 It's money.

01:58:49.780 Money that she would use.

01:58:53.380 To carry out one of the most heinous, most horrific attacks imaginable.

01:58:59.820 Her own parents confirm it to the police.

01:59:04.180 It was the grant money.

01:59:07.580 Our money.

01:59:09.040 Your money.

01:59:09.860 Mine.

01:59:12.980 We paid for it all.

01:59:14.100 We paid for the bullets that tore through innocent children and teachers

01:59:21.960 at Covenant School in Nashville.

01:59:30.660 Six lives stuffed out.

01:59:32.340 Three of them, nine years old.

01:59:33.920 Not because of the guns.

01:59:39.520 Because the system handed cash to someone twisted.

01:59:47.020 With no real oversight.

01:59:49.320 No strings tight enough to stop the madness.

01:59:51.780 And this?

01:59:53.280 This isn't new, is it?

01:59:56.480 Government money vanishes into fraud rings.

01:59:59.200 Stealing student aid.

02:00:01.040 Billions lost in pandemic handouts.

02:00:03.000 Embezzled by officials.

02:00:04.640 Squandered on ghosts.

02:00:07.140 And lies.

02:00:08.480 Again and again.

02:00:10.860 Our trust.

02:00:12.840 Whatever was left at this point.

02:00:15.200 Is weaponized.

02:00:16.280 Literally this time.

02:00:18.960 Against us.

02:00:20.400 And against our kids.

02:00:24.520 Now we're learning in Minnesota.

02:00:28.660 That in Dearborn.

02:00:30.120 No doubt I'm sure.

02:00:30.760 Money again headed to these so-called daycares.

02:00:37.800 Ending up in the hands of terrorists overseas.

02:00:43.540 How many more times?

02:00:44.900 How many more graves do we dig with dollars that were never meant for this?

02:00:54.860 You know, here's the cold hard truth, folks.

02:01:00.500 We're not just taxpayers.

02:01:01.600 We're accomplices by accident.

02:01:05.660 Funders by force.

02:01:07.960 And the machine keeps turning.

02:01:12.140 Blind.

02:01:14.420 And bloated.

02:01:15.200 Always asking for more.

02:01:21.940 When do we say enough is enough?

02:01:28.280 When do we demand that every dollar we surrender is guarded like the precious lives it could destroy?

02:01:35.660 Every dollar that's taken.

02:01:44.360 Because next time.

02:01:48.840 It might be your school.

02:01:53.520 It might be your child.

02:01:57.280 Paid for.

02:01:59.320 With your money.

02:02:00.500 Again.

02:02:06.540 This story is an inconvenient story that the mainstream media will not cover.

02:02:13.580 And if they do, it might be a little blip.

02:02:19.020 It might be a little blurb.

02:02:20.180 It might be.

02:02:23.180 A little piece.

02:02:24.220 It won't be the full, cold, hard truth.

02:02:26.620 The one that we all need to confront.

02:02:29.340 And come to terms with.

02:02:33.760 Inevitably, it's all on us, folks.

02:02:35.360 We get to choose.

02:02:40.740 Do we stand out?

02:02:42.920 Say enough is enough?

02:02:44.080 Fight back?

02:02:45.360 Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

02:02:48.020 Justin at JustinBarkley.com.

02:02:50.440 My email.

02:02:51.260 Love to hear from you.

02:02:52.000 Back tomorrow for Glenn.

02:02:53.400 In the meantime, make it a great one.

02:02:56.000 God bless.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 30, 2025

Justin Barclay filling in for Glenn- Trump Administration Announces Investigation into Fraud in Minnesota

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