A U.S. Army Major and his wife have been charged with a criminal plot to give confidential medical information to the Russian government. Also, there is a new problem with Europe s energy supply and a new drought that is on the way.
00:02:26.340We've got a couple of things that we want to start with.
00:02:28.120I don't know if you heard about the army officer that has now been accused of handing information directly to our enemy or directly to Russia.
00:02:39.140And now, of course, you know, espionage comes to mind.
00:02:48.960Also, there is a new problem with Europe's energy.
00:02:53.420There is a new drought that I have to tell you about.
00:02:56.400Cardboard cars are on their way and the difference between fossil fuels and petroleum products.
00:03:05.820A comment on my show from this Wednesday where I showed about 150 products out of the 6,000 products made by stuff that, well, that Jed Clampett was trying to shoot a rabbit and came bubbling up.
00:03:21.960Yeah, some people, including Crowman, whose pronouns are him and he, I had a problem with my analysis.
00:03:33.960We'll get into that and so much more in 60 seconds.
00:03:39.600First, let me tell you about Relief Factor.
00:04:51.020U.S. Army Major Jamie Lee Henry and Anna Gabriellen are married.
00:04:57.420And 2015, they got married and blah, blah, blah.
00:05:03.140And then, apparently, he has been charged with a criminal plot to give confidential medical information related to members of the U.S. military and their spouses to the Russian government.
00:05:40.400U.S. Army Major and Doctor and his physician wife have been charged with a criminal plot to give confidential medical information to Russia.
00:08:50.040Did you see this clip from Ben Shapiro that, I guess, was going viral?
00:08:55.460Some, I don't know, Media Matters hack who, like, picked out a clip of Ben Shapiro talking about gender.
00:09:01.340And Ben was saying something like, you know, the sensible policy here is for boys to go pee-pee in the boys' room and girls to go pee-pee in the girls' room.
00:09:10.480Because, you know, they can't use urinals or something like that.
00:09:13.320And they put this out like they caught him saying something.
00:09:17.520Like, I mean, yes, boys should go to the bathroom in the boys' room and girls should go in the girls' room.
00:09:23.340How is this something we're talking about?
00:09:25.020Look, this is what the woman who is one of the righteous of the nations who saved Jews in Poland, okay?
00:13:17.160Now, just to answer some of the tweets on our show from Wednesday night, where I pointed out that there are about 6,500 petroleum products that we really can't live with, live without.
00:13:35.800Like, I don't know, plastic comes to mind.
00:13:40.020Well, I got a lot of heat from Wednesday night's Blaze Wednesday night special.
00:14:26.000See, your response to me shows me exactly, and should show you, exactly what the problem is.
00:14:38.200I'll get into the fossil fuels and petroleum thing, but what is the problem that we're burning fossil fuels, and it's going up to the sky, and then the temperature goes up?
00:16:09.200If the elites decide that we are going to stop using fossil fuels, and so we're not using anything for fuel, which is about 70% of all of the oil that's brought up,
00:16:22.720how much is that plastic baggie going to cost to make?
00:16:29.380How much is it going to cost to drill when 70% of what you're drilling for is no longer being sold?
00:16:38.700How much is your Vaseline for your little chapped lips because I've been up at Aspen, man?
00:16:46.780How much is your snowboard going to cost?
00:16:53.420Not to mention that many of these products are used, are made with other parts of the refining process, right?
00:17:03.080Not all of, when you're refining it, there are other elements that the industry has incredibly and wonderfully been able to figure out other ways to use.
00:17:13.840You can make these products, not from the waste, but that's using all of the petroleum, okay?
00:17:23.540So you can use it for fuel, oils, heating, electricity generation, asphalt, road oil, feedstocks, plastics, synthetic materials.
00:17:35.540Just about everything we use has some sort of petroleum product in it.
00:17:40.160Now, if we are going to stop and no longer use waste products, that becomes your central product, how much is that going to cost?
00:17:52.960Also, mention that plastic in particular is a result of a high heat industrial process, which, of course, is only available to us because of fossil fuels burning.
00:18:04.740That's how we make the heat to make the plastics.
00:18:06.920So you're going to have to come up with a bunch of different solutions here.
00:18:10.540And then when they're trucked around the country, what are they trucked in?
00:18:50.440Not too many of them actually save you money rather than cost you money.
00:18:54.080As the economy begins more and more chaotic, you have to keep an eye out for the opportunity to spend less, especially on the things you're spending money on regularly.
00:20:35.780And apparently, GOP senators just can't figure Mitt Romney out.
00:20:46.340Mitt Romney is doing what you have to understand.
00:20:50.060What Mitt Romney is doing right now is working as hard as he can to make sure the GOP does not have the majority.
00:21:01.060He is working so a constitutional-based senator is not elected so you'll have a better shot of getting unconstitutional things rammed through.
00:21:15.280And what they're doing in Utah, if you fall for it, and you elect this clown, this CIA agent, you want to talk about the deep state, you want to put a CIA agent in?
00:21:33.280I mean, this CIA agent, if this works, the Republicans will never, ever hold the majority ever again.
00:23:34.560So you can't cut Internet safety out of your budget, please.
00:23:39.680Tanya and I have used LifeLock several times.
00:23:43.160They've alerted us and we have alerted them.
00:23:45.780It's telling that Tanya, the first thing she did when she accidentally gave a code for something to a scammer, the first thing she did was call LifeLock and say, hey, hey, I just did this.
00:24:34.400We're being joined by Chris Stewart, a congressman.
00:24:37.960He was an Air Force officer, distinguished graduate, top of his class, officer of the training school, undergraduate pilot training, 14 years as a pilot, flying both rescue helicopters.
00:25:39.720So, Chris, tell me what you can about, there's a lot of people, a lot of people, that their first thought with the Nord Stream pipeline was, oh, my gosh, did we do this?
00:27:02.520If you look at every nation, it's really hard to create a very plausible explanation for why that nation would do it.
00:27:10.420It's certainly the case if you're trying to argue the U.S. did it.
00:27:13.200And, by the way, some of the reporting on this is misleading in the sense that they take the statement from Victoria in England, for example, the State Department official.
00:27:23.180She's clearly talking about Nord Stream 2 and that they're going to try to push Germany not to approve opening that pipeline.
00:27:30.420And I think some people misread that and say, oh, see, they're threatening to blow it up.
00:27:34.740Ukraine simply doesn't have the capability.
00:27:36.840And I don't think Ukraine would do it because it would stress the relationship with the allies so much.
00:27:42.340Russia, on the other hand, I think you could make an argument that, for one thing, they just want to create chaos.
00:28:05.340For the average EU home, it's going to cost more than $3,000 a month to heat their home over this next winter.
00:28:14.480And I think that Russia would have been under enormous pressure to open up that pipeline.
00:28:19.400And this just eliminates that for them.
00:28:21.780They don't have to deal with that international pressure now.
00:28:24.540But I think more than that, they love the chaos.
00:28:27.600And my greatest fear is that it shows that this isn't we're not in the wind down phase of this war.
00:28:34.480We're really in the opening stages of it still.
00:28:37.160And if Russia did this, and my personal belief is that they probably did, it shows you that there's a lot of things, a lot of tools that they still have available to them that are going to make it really difficult for us to step through the next, I think, six months or so.
00:28:54.980And if we don't really know, they can claim we did it or anybody else did it and escalate.
00:29:01.420Because they immediately said, well, gloves come off now if you can do this.
00:29:06.400Forget about nukes, which they did mention.
00:29:20.800And that's one of the very obvious conclusions is that they would claim that we did it regardless of who did it.
00:29:27.660If they did it, they're going to say that we did, and it's going to open the door for them to retaliate.
00:29:32.560And if you take that in conjunction with what happened yesterday and them claiming that there was a supposed referendum on the four, you know, the four essential, essentially states in eastern Ukraine, where, I mean, these numbers sound Stalinistic.
00:29:48.580You know, 99% of the people there voted to join with Russia, 92% of the people in another region voted to join with Russia.
00:29:56.820Again, those are the kind of numbers that Stalin would win by.
00:30:17.480He's looking to exert more pressure, not less.
00:30:21.080So I talked to Chad Robichaux, who was in Ukraine just recently, and he actually walked the mass graves.
00:30:31.060He told me last night, because I said, before I put you on the air in saying this, I've seen the video, but I want to make sure you didn't just see a patch of dirt or you saw things that the Ukrainian government were saying, this is what it was, that you actually saw these things.
00:30:45.100And he said, Glenn, I saw women and children with their hands tied behind their back and bullets in their head that they tried to bury quickly because they were leaving.
00:31:03.560It shows the desperation of Vladimir Putin and his leadership.
00:31:06.260It shows the inhumanity of leadership, which doesn't surprise, I think, anyone.
00:31:10.480It also shows the results of a hastily assembled and untrained army.
00:31:14.820This is now not a professional army any longer.
00:31:18.360Many of them are conscripts that have been in the army for, in some cases, a matter of a few weeks, it's all.
00:31:24.860With very little training, if any, and including in that, you know, the laws of war, the discipline of a professional soldier that we don't expect from them any longer.
00:31:34.520Which brings me to this one point, Glenn, I hope I can make.
00:31:37.380And I think now stepping back from that, and that is, okay, where are we in the U.S. and what are we doing there?
00:31:42.740I just finished an editorial that asked this question.
00:31:47.140Look, in the early days of the war, I supported the separate.
00:31:49.560I thought we had to help Ukraine and the Ukraine military.
00:31:54.740They have demonstrated that courage on the battlefield can change a battlefield in ways that sometimes weapons can't.
00:31:59.860But the president of the United States has to tell the American people now, this is our goal in Ukraine.
00:32:06.760Because if President Biden agrees with President Zelensky that now our objective is to expel every Russian from eastern Ukraine, including Crimea, then I promise you, we will be at war with Russia.
00:32:20.120If that is our goal, Vladimir Putin is not going to leave Crimea.
00:32:24.260I mean, it was part of Russia up until 1958, and when Khrushchev drew a line and says, oh, now you're part of Ukraine now.
00:32:32.560And the people there genuinely are ethnically Russian.
00:32:39.080And Putin is not going to surrender Crimea.
00:32:41.760And if President Biden agrees with Zelensky, he needs to embrace the American people for a long, long and potentially very deadly war.
00:32:48.320If, on the other hand, our goal is just to say, go back to the pre-February invasion lines, then he should state that that's our goal so that Zelensky knows we're not going to support him going beyond that.
00:32:59.920I think we're at this point now where we have to define why we are there and at what cost is it going to be to achieve the goals of that defined being there.
00:33:12.200And this president hasn't done that at all.
00:33:14.380And the result of that, Glenn, is 20 years later we may be in there, just like we were in Iraq or Afghanistan.
00:33:20.020The Senate just passed a bill last night to fund the government, which includes another $12 billion for Ukraine.
00:33:48.860I am a defense hawk, and I believe the United States needs to help in this situation.
00:33:53.480But we have to define the limits of our health.
00:33:56.280We owe the American people an explanation for how much money we're willing to spend and how long we're willing to be there and the goals we're trying to achieve.
00:34:33.360However, I'm not convinced that some rogue party, somebody, and it could be for a million different reasons, I'm not convinced that some of our money that has been over there without any accounting didn't give somebody half a billion dollars and say, don't blow these things up.
00:34:53.380And we didn't do it, but it was maybe possibly our money.
00:34:58.240There's no accountability for any of this.
00:35:01.040And now that would be, what, $75 billion that we have sent over there?
00:36:25.960But you have to look back on the last 20 years in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in Libya, and a number of other places and say, okay, what lessons have we learned?
00:39:01.360I don't, I just want it to run, just run.
00:39:04.760I would have had to buy that truck, a new truck, at least three times probably by now, a new one, which you want to do that because it was out of warranty and the cost to fix it was astronomical.
00:40:54.840I will tell you that I think a discussion needs to be had about the federal government's involvement in insurance of places where, you know, really only rich people can afford.
00:41:43.780But, you know, even more embarrassing is being in your underwear and then sweating and the drips just rolling down the sides of your chest.
00:41:54.480I'm pretty sure the underwear thing is actually slightly worse than the sweating thing.
00:47:51.000If you're going to pray for something, he's got to go.
00:47:54.000And I'm hoping that the Russian people, you know, you don't get a lot of reporting out of there, but nobody can really be supporting Putin.
00:48:03.320And he looks terrible and he's hiding out.
00:48:28.820But do you think that we would have done that?
00:48:31.200Do you think we I mean, it's no matter what I think about the left.
00:48:35.220I do think there are people that are that are that nefarious, but I just can't see our Navy SEALs being ordered to do that and and us doing that.
00:48:51.960You can watch cable news and hear a half an hour that you get me.
00:48:56.780They just make this stuff up because the ratings are going down so quickly and they come on.
00:49:03.600Oh, yeah, and you sit there going, if there's no facts, which there aren't in this, OK, all you have to say is, gee, it's possible that maybe Putin went down in a diving belt, but you can't.
00:49:19.600You know, yeah, so we had we just had Chris Stewart on and and he's a congressman.
00:49:28.200He's on the Intel Committee and a highly decorated Air Force colonel, I think.
00:49:33.820And he said, you know, we just we didn't do this, but he doesn't say who did it and he didn't rule out that some of our money that we're just sending out with with no accountants might have been used by some nefarious figure to to do it.
00:51:27.640So if we were energy independent now, if Trump had been reelected, we would be making billions and billions of dollars and the Europeans would not be so chilly this winter.
00:51:40.900How does the German government not get overthrown if tens of thousands of Germans freeze to death and they're not turning their nuclear power plants back on?
00:54:13.180I can't believe, Bill, that we are at a place to where we all agreed five years ago that pedophilia is bad, is bad and should never be normalized.
00:54:24.360We knew that grooming children or showing children what what really is pornography, teaching them about sexual acts in the second grade,
00:54:35.700having trans drag shows in school libraries and have them strip in front of little kids.
01:03:25.240Our permissive culture today stems from the 1960s.
01:03:30.960And the same kind of people, I can't say that, the Lizzo's of the world, the stars of today, are leading us into a deeper, darker place than anybody was leading.
01:03:44.460Well, I can't say anybody because it was a pretty dark place with sex, drugs and rock and roll in the 60s.
01:03:48.800But at least it was surrounded by, you know, oh, this is about love, man.
01:15:09.360And that changes, as you said, that changes the whole dynamic of your life.
01:15:15.880Yeah, I was really, I was shocked when I went to Italy recently with my wife, and I thought for sure I wouldn't be recognized or anything else.
01:15:24.120And I thought that would be, you know, and I was recognized and stopped all the time.
01:15:31.380And I honestly, I thought of people like Elvis or Michael Jackson, people with real fame.
01:16:30.920Wait, Beck, before you dump me off, thank you for discussing my book, because Glenn Beck listeners actually buy and read books, and it's a very important program.
01:25:33.940One of the worst lessons schools beat into kids' heads is to have respect for the inferior person at the front of the room who happens to have power and authority over you.
01:25:44.680Michael Malice says what he's thinking.
01:28:10.980First of all, I don't know that it would be this state versus that state because we would all love a political system where people argue about the issues and what's your vision for America.
01:28:20.460It would be, is this state working versus do you want Nazism in the White House?
01:28:24.880I think that's how the campaign would be with the full support of the corporate press.
01:28:29.600But I think it's really funny because there's a lot of conservatives, I think, and I can think I'm totally wrong, who believe that, you know, God forbid something happens to President Biden and Officer Harris becomes the president, that she'd be a lock for the nomination in 2024.
01:28:43.180And I think that's absolutely, no way, no way, because there's so much lip service, sure, for women and for minorities.
01:28:49.840But when you look at how the Democratic Party votes in the primaries, if you look at 2020, it was Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg, and Amy Klobuchar had the most votes.
01:29:33.920If you look at him, he's an 80s supervillain from Wall Street with that pomade and that smirk on his face where he's, you know, at the end of the movie, he's just put in his place and kind of kicked out as the landlord.
01:29:47.640He's like, you know, so many tropes put into one.
01:29:50.460And what he's done with California, I have to give him credit.
01:30:28.280However, the problem is going to be quickly is that Florida will prosper, but everything he's doing in California is going to make it so much worse and expensive.
01:30:43.640But I don't think Democrats necessarily vote in terms of quality of life.
01:30:49.640They're more interested in having their agenda prescriptions put forward, and then they shrug their shoulders in terms of why that everyone else should be miserable.
01:30:57.800And we saw this with the begging for ongoing lockdowns and the begging for more quarantining and so on and so forth.
01:31:05.160They want everyone to be miserable and equal.
01:31:09.680So I think it might end at some point.
01:31:13.600Don't you know what Mrs. Thatcher said?
01:31:15.600The problem of socialism is eventually run out of other people's money.
01:32:25.120So I want to be very careful because I, I have sympathy for everybody who has lost their home and, you know, and Mercury One is down in Florida right now, helping the residents there.
01:32:39.260I mean, the, the beachfront homes that are, you know, million, $10 million homes that should not be built there because, you know, in the old days, you couldn't get insurance to build the house.
01:32:56.640And then all of a sudden the federal government said, oh, we'll insure that.
01:33:00.820Well, why are we insuring those houses?
01:33:04.380And I want to take care of everybody that is there, et cetera, et cetera.
01:33:07.960But shouldn't we have a conversation about living on the coast in a, in a hurricane zone or a flood zone?
01:33:17.440That if you want to do that, you should do that at your own risk.
01:33:21.640Now, that'll mean a lot of rich people are the only ones that live there, but so be it.
01:33:26.020As long as I'm not paying for their house, their house, we shouldn't be insuring as a federal government places.
01:33:33.520Where people shouldn't be really living unless it's at their own risk.
01:33:38.420Well, I mean, you could extrapolate that even further.
01:33:40.680We shouldn't be subsidizing college loans, right?
01:33:44.740Because if you take out a loan, any kind of loan, you know, it's really funny.
01:33:48.680I read Kamala Harris's autobiography and she discussed this when she was an attorney general, how, and her claim, it was just amazing to see in writing, was that, you know,
01:33:57.780we should have bailed out all these mortgages because when the bank lends you money, that's them saying you can afford to pay it back.
01:34:09.700Like, it's really, when you see something like that in black and white, it's like, okay, there's no, whether this person is being honest or not, there's no conversation possible to be had with them.
01:34:19.000This is a completely Martian worldview as far as I'm concerned.
01:34:21.620Yeah, and it's a worldview, that in particular is a worldview where you have no responsibility.
01:34:27.920You know, I went to the, I think it's the southern side of the Grand Canyon, the Native American side, the Navajo side.
01:34:56.040He said, unlike your side, your government puts up all these walls and fences and everyone thinks, oh, well, they wouldn't make it so I could climb over it if it was too dangerous.
01:35:08.260He said, here, people see, oh, it's a rock slide to your death.
01:35:39.760And, you know, I was not a fan of 2008, to put it mildly.
01:35:42.940And at a certain point, that credit card is going to run out and the piper is going to come due.
01:35:48.880And then if you think inflation is bad now, things would really get out of the bed.
01:35:53.500You know, I learned from the Congressman Chris Stewart today that our bailing out or our funding of Ukraine right now, we are actually paying for the retirement funds for the government of Ukraine right now.
01:36:55.820I wish life were as simple as good versus evil.
01:36:59.840Maybe that was the case in World War II, except we don't talk about Stalin because we didn't know where to fit him in there because he was on our side.
01:37:05.760So I agree with you that I am perfectly happy speaking my mind.
01:37:09.820I do not have the information at hand, and I don't think any of us do.
01:39:14.760Josh, the thing I wanted to ask you was, what is it going to take for the women who claim to care about women and women's rights to stand up for the women in Iran?
01:39:27.660I haven't heard a peep out of anyone in the Democratic Party about Iran.
01:39:33.680Progressivism is domesticated imperialism.
01:39:37.140And their vision of imperialism is they have to bring civilization to the savages in America, by which they mean the red states.
01:39:44.200So they really, you saw this with Obama when he was like, okay, America's too big a force on the world stage.
01:41:23.460And they made a promise to themselves that they would hold on to the memory of what had happened and they would help the heroes of our country and their families.
01:41:32.340They would help the families that are left behind.
01:41:35.480So, if a first responder, that means police, firemen, how many police are being shot?
01:41:43.300If they are lost and they have a family that they leave behind, Tunnel to Towers comes in and pays off the mortgage so the family doesn't have to worry about moving or any kind of financial instability.
01:42:00.440If you lose your life over there, they do it.
01:42:02.820Also, catastrophically injured veterans and first responders, Tunnel to Towers builds mortgage-free smart homes, helping them live more independent lives.
01:47:37.200Because I know I work hard for, you know, every dollar that I make, and I like to give my money to charities and like to help people out and everything like that.
01:47:50.240And I think the most efficient way to get help to people is through the federal government.
01:56:16.220Their friends, and probably another layer.
01:56:18.080Let's add it on another layer of friends.
01:56:20.100All of that money combined will not even come close to paying for just the fraud in one example of what happened over the past couple of years.
01:56:32.000Just one example of the billions and billions and billions of dollars that were lost to fraud during COVID.
01:56:40.540All of your efforts, your entire life, every April 15th, you will go and you will file taxes.
01:56:49.380And through all of that effort, you will not even come close to paying to the money stolen by this one organization.
01:58:25.600Because I think the average American, if they actually believed their taxes were going to help people, would still, I mean, they would be okay with it.
01:58:34.080If you thought 98 cents on a dollar, 90 cents on a dollar, was going to something that was actually good, you would pay.
01:58:45.500And you'd pay, and you might even, you might even say, you know what, this year I did really well, I'm going to pay a little extra.
01:58:50.980Yeah, if you thought it was an efficient process.
01:58:52.700Now, I think there's a danger to that because, you know, even if the government is doing good, it's not necessarily the right way to do it.
01:59:00.360It sets up long-term real problems that happen from a giant expanding government.
01:59:05.620Even if the intentions are good, and even if sometimes the outcomes are good, that does not mean, like certainly someone who's signed up for this college loan plan, there probably are people who had real problems, maybe got screwed by some bad university, maybe had major health problems.
01:59:25.820There's all sorts of reasons why some of the people in that program, you would be doing good for people by reversing that debt.
01:59:32.100But, like, we all know that it leads to larger problems over a long period of time, and the vast majority of people are not in those positions.
01:59:40.920And, of course, then you're depending on government.
01:59:43.020So it creates a million different issues.
01:59:44.760But if we actually believe there was some good going on, maybe we could do this.
01:59:49.300The COVID is just the most extreme example that we're seeing publicly, but this stuff happens all the time.
01:59:55.100Billions and billions and billions of dollars are taken from these programs.
01:59:58.360Every one of them has money hemorrhaging.
02:00:00.920And then even think about the things that aren't stolen, the $300,000 turtle tunnel.
02:00:05.740I mean, if you live, the average person works their entire lives, pays taxes their entire lives, and never pays for that one turtle tunnel.
02:01:18.820Unfortunately, it seems as though the FBI would really like to make him into a villain and destroy him just because he supported that evil Donald Trump.
02:01:30.540Mike's busy revolutionizing the footwear industry right now.
02:01:33.620He's launched a brand new slipper, slides, sandals.
02:01:37.040They're fantastic, and you get them for $29.98.