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00:02:34.560 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:02:39.820 Hello, America.

00:02:44.580 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:46.840 We are so glad that you're here.

00:02:48.160 It is Monday.

00:02:49.620 Now let's look at what's trending today.

00:02:51.700 What are the hot topics?

00:02:52.760 Jerome Powell in a fight with Donald Trump.

00:02:55.380 Gee, I wonder who's going to win on that one.

00:02:56.960 We're going to go into the creature from Jekyll Island.

00:03:01.400 And also, we have the Islamic regime collapsing in Iran.

00:03:07.120 It looks like it.

00:03:08.280 Maybe.

00:03:08.840 Maybe I'm being a little optimistic.

00:03:10.900 I'm trying.

00:03:11.560 Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.

00:03:12.940 It's going to be close.

00:03:14.320 But they're starting to round more people up.

00:03:16.620 President Trump is saying that he's going to get a little more serious with them.

00:03:20.320 I don't know what that means yet.

00:03:22.320 But also, the left is starting to change their tune here in America.

00:03:27.780 And an interesting theory on that one.

00:03:30.480 Also, what's happening in Minnesota.

00:03:33.200 It's a nightmare mess.

00:03:34.800 But we know where it's coming from.

00:03:36.280 We get into that.

00:03:36.960 And the last thing that's trending is the Golden Globes.

00:03:40.120 One of those things we're not going to talk about today.

00:03:44.340 Gee, I wonder which one.

00:03:45.960 We begin in 60 seconds.

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00:05:37.220 Oh, yeah.

00:05:38.420 Well, hello and welcome to the program.

00:05:41.040 So let's start with the big story of the day, the Golden Globe.

00:05:43.480 No, I'm kidding.

00:05:44.600 I'm not going to tell you.

00:05:46.080 Let me talk to you a little bit about Jerome Powell.

00:05:48.260 Jerome Powell had a hissy fit last night because on Friday, the DOJ said, look who we're coming after.

00:05:57.700 Now, in case you don't know, you don't go after the Federal Reserve unless you're President Trump.

00:06:05.380 Reagan tried to do it and it didn't go well.

00:06:09.320 It didn't go well for President Reagan.

00:06:11.640 But President Trump may be a different animal entirely.

00:06:16.060 He is going after the Federal Reserve with the DOJ and they filed against the Federal Reserve and said, we're going to start looking into this palace that you're building.

00:06:29.420 Now, let me give you an update on just the palace that they're building.

00:06:32.560 They're like a billion dollars in overruns right now.

00:06:36.080 Now, let me ask you, if you got a loan and you were a billion dollars overrun, do you think the bank would have a problem with that?

00:06:47.940 Do you think the bank might say, you know what?

00:06:50.680 I don't think I'm going to give you another loan because you're a billion dollars in cost overruns.

00:06:56.660 I think the bank would have a problem.

00:06:58.600 This bank doesn't have a problem with it.

00:07:01.020 There's no bank calling them going, hey, what are you doing?

00:07:04.640 The president is the one having to call them and say, what are you doing?

00:07:07.880 Because for some strange reason, this is a private corporation and you, the taxpayer, are paying for their new palace.

00:07:17.980 That's the best I can describe it.

00:07:19.420 It's a palace, you know, with fountains in the lobby of the chairman.

00:07:22.380 And, oh, it's beautiful.

00:07:23.720 It's beautiful.

00:07:24.180 And you'll, the great thing is, is you'll be able to see it when you go into the federal, oh, wait, you don't go into the Federal Reserve.

00:07:32.660 I don't go into, who goes into the Federal Reserve?

00:07:35.920 Well, the elites are really going to enjoy it.

00:07:39.520 They're going to love it.

00:07:41.640 Billion dollars in cost overruns.

00:07:43.500 The president has a problem with that.

00:07:46.060 He's bringing it up to them and saying, you know, maybe we should look into this legally.

00:07:49.680 Maybe there's some things going on.

00:07:51.080 Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:07:52.440 You can't check the books from Colin Powell.

00:07:55.900 You can't check the books of the Federal Reserve.

00:07:59.860 Hmm.

00:08:00.620 Really?

00:08:01.880 Well, President Trump is going to check the books on the Federal Reserve.

00:08:04.840 Now, I want you to know that that's not really what this is about.

00:08:10.480 Yes, they're a trillion or a billion dollars in cost overruns.

00:08:14.640 Yes, they're out of control.

00:08:15.820 Yes, you can't check their books.

00:08:17.300 But that's not what this is about.

00:08:18.780 What this is about is Donald Trump doesn't think the Federal Reserve, a private corporation with all this secrecy, should be the ones making the decisions on what your interest rate is.

00:08:30.760 Now, I'm going to go a step further and say, I think the free market should decide.

00:08:38.760 Yeah, you see, when you take all of the big banks and you put them together and you call them the Federal Reserve, that's what I like to call a monopoly.

00:08:50.820 Not the game, but just as frustrating.

00:08:55.600 The banks have a monopoly.

00:08:57.780 The banks are the ones colluding to decide what are they going to charge you for interest.

00:09:04.860 And by the way, inflation, that's not a bug.

00:09:09.820 That's a feature.

00:09:11.980 Inflation is planned.

00:09:13.720 Now, let me ask you, if I said to you, hey, how much money should your dollar lose every year?

00:09:23.120 How many pennies on every dollar should you lose?

00:09:27.060 Should you lose two, three, five, or eight pennies on every dollar every year?

00:09:36.060 You have it in savings.

00:09:37.660 You're spending it.

00:09:38.620 How much would you like it to go down?

00:09:41.480 Now, I'm a weirdo.

00:09:44.480 So I say, no pennies.

00:09:47.320 It should not lose value.

00:09:49.540 In fact, I'd like it to gain value.

00:09:52.780 But that doesn't happen.

00:09:54.380 Why?

00:09:54.940 Because the Federal Reserve has decided that 2% inflation is the right number.

00:10:00.920 So you should lose two cents.

00:10:04.280 Wait, every year on every dollar?

00:10:06.000 And we're losing much, much, much more than that.

00:10:09.180 I was doing a calculation the other day.

00:10:11.180 I'm charging when we announce that the torch is up for subscription.

00:10:16.880 I'm charging you $9.99.

00:10:18.640 And for the first month that we offer it, it will be inflation-proof for the rest of your life.

00:10:25.900 As long as you hold your subscription, if you were one of the founding people that came in,

00:10:31.040 I will never raise the price on you.

00:10:32.900 Now, as doing some calculations, $9.99, we're going to call it, no, this is crazy.

00:10:41.020 We're just going to say it's $10 because that's what $9.99 is.

00:10:44.440 But anyway, you put $10 in.

00:10:47.620 That's what I charged when we first put the blaze together.

00:10:50.400 I said, it's $9.99.

00:10:52.180 Do you know how much $9.99 is worth today in 2011 dollars?

00:10:58.180 This will show you how much money your money has lost.

00:11:03.980 How much is $9.99 today if you had 2010, 2011 dollars?

00:11:12.880 That's actually like $6.70.

00:11:17.640 Your dollar has lost over $3.

00:11:21.480 Your $10 bill is now worth about $7.

00:11:27.260 That's how much money you've lost since Obama was in.

00:11:32.580 That's not a bug.

00:11:33.920 That's a feature of the Federal Reserve.

00:11:37.280 And most people don't even know what the Federal Reserve is because you're not taught about it.

00:11:42.560 Not because it's secret.

00:11:44.920 You know, books have been written.

00:11:46.600 Hearings have been held.

00:11:47.920 Transcripts have been preserved.

00:11:49.440 But you don't teach it to anybody because, well, I mean, it's inconvenient.

00:11:54.560 It doesn't exactly flatter power.

00:11:56.580 Actually, if you start looking at it and you realize what it really is, you're like, I don't think I like that at all.

00:12:05.160 No, no, no.

00:12:05.900 It's the Federal Reserve. 0.93

00:12:07.580 They named it the Federal Reserve for dopes like us.

00:12:12.440 So we would always say, well, it's a federal institution.

00:12:15.100 It's part of the government.

00:12:16.320 No, it's not.

00:12:17.240 It's a private corporation.

00:12:20.180 If you had to read one book this year, I would suggest you read a book called The Creature from Jekyll Island.

00:12:29.460 It's by G. Edward Griffin.

00:12:31.120 When I first read this, I didn't know who G. Edward Griffin was.

00:12:35.760 And so I started doing my homework on him because I'm like, I don't want to read this if he's some crackpot.

00:12:40.760 Well, he's not some crackpot.

00:12:43.120 And I actually did an interview with him the last year at Fox.

00:12:46.660 Some people say, G. Glenn Beck had G. Edward Griffin on, and that's why they fired him.

00:12:51.520 They didn't fire me, and it had nothing to do with it or did it.

00:12:55.980 But it is uncomfortable.

00:12:57.780 Nobody wants to talk about this.

00:12:59.220 But what he does in this book, he doesn't start with conspiracy.

00:13:03.620 He begins with history.

00:13:07.860 The banks had been wanting a federal bank forever.

00:13:11.840 They wanted to control the money supply.

00:13:14.000 They wanted to be the ones to print the money and control the money.

00:13:18.020 And I'll get into why here in a minute.

00:13:19.500 But it was a small group of men.

00:13:21.660 It was senators and bankers and financial architects.

00:13:24.740 And they slipped out under assumed names and got onto a private train and went to a private retreat on a place called Jekyll Island.

00:13:35.300 There was no press, no public record.

00:13:38.280 There were no voters.

00:13:39.660 This was all entirely secret.

00:13:42.280 And they were not drafting a bill to be debated.

00:13:45.960 They were designing a system to be accepted.

00:13:50.400 And what emerged from that island was not a government agency, at least in the normal sense.

00:13:58.120 It was a mechanism.

00:13:59.840 It was a reason why it's a creature from Jekyll Island.

00:14:02.740 It's a hybrid.

00:14:03.660 It's a hybrid creature.

00:14:05.140 It's public in its appearance.

00:14:07.600 It's private, unbelievably private, like illegally private in any other business.

00:14:13.440 And completely shielded from all accountability.

00:14:18.360 Tell me another structure like that.

00:14:21.440 Besides what?

00:14:22.240 The CIA.

00:14:24.680 Armed with power.

00:14:26.740 Power that no free society should ever hand to any unelected body, ever.

00:14:33.320 And the creature is the Federal Reserve.

00:14:36.100 And it's not a department like the U.S. Department of Finance.

00:14:39.900 It's not that.

00:14:40.460 It's regional banks, privately owned by member banks.

00:14:47.580 Remember when they said, oh, you know what?

00:14:49.760 The banks are too big to fail.

00:14:51.720 What does that tell you we should do with the banks?

00:14:54.740 This is what people said in 2008.

00:14:56.440 They're just too big to fail.

00:14:58.380 That would mean, okay, then maybe we don't let them fail.

00:15:02.140 I mean, not in my opinion, but this is what the argument was.

00:15:04.820 We don't let them fail this time.

00:15:06.900 But then what do you do after you save them?

00:15:11.980 Reason and logic would say, I make them smaller.

00:15:17.000 So I'm never in this position again.

00:15:19.700 Right?

00:15:20.220 They didn't.

00:15:21.220 They made them bigger.

00:15:22.340 And yes, governors are appointed, but once they are seated, they have extraordinary independence.

00:15:31.640 And the president can't do anything about it.

00:15:33.920 You know, the president, when he selects a, I'm going to select a new chairman of the Federal Reserve.

00:15:40.280 Do you know where he gets the names?

00:15:41.660 He gets the names from the Federal Reserve.

00:15:45.380 He can't say, you know what I'm going to put in charge?

00:15:48.140 Rand Paul.

00:15:49.360 He can't do that.

00:15:50.500 Because they wouldn't allow Rand Paul to ever get near the Federal Reserve.

00:15:54.340 I don't even know if he's even been allowed to walk into the Federal Reserve.

00:15:59.120 So the president can only pick from the people that he wants.

00:16:03.220 You know what that is?

00:16:04.560 That's the Soviet Union and the way they used to run elections.

00:16:07.940 That's the way Putin runs elections today.

00:16:10.640 That's the way they run elections in Iran.

00:16:14.600 The people can choose just from these pre-approved people.

00:16:20.320 And the consequences are not abstract to you.

00:16:24.380 They have the power, the only ones that have the power to create money out of nothing.

00:16:31.300 They can just type it in with a keystroke and we're printing more money.

00:16:35.880 It sets the interest rates, which decide what you can do.

00:16:41.580 Can you open a business?

00:16:42.760 Can you afford a home?

00:16:44.540 Are your savings, remember, because of interest rates and because of inflation, are your savings rewarded or are you punished?

00:16:53.880 If I've been saving money since 2010, look how much money.

00:17:00.440 I had $100,000 in.

00:17:02.220 It's now worth $667,000 because it's lost money.

00:17:09.540 It's lost the value of it.

00:17:11.360 It still says I have all that money, but it's actually only worth about $67,000.

00:17:16.760 What are you doing?

00:17:19.540 Why would we do this?

00:17:20.940 Why would we allow this institution to do this to us?

00:17:23.920 They are privately stealing from us and telling us it's for your own good and your own safety.

00:17:30.220 It also decides liquidity, a word that nobody really pays attention to.

00:17:35.680 What liquidity means is do the banks have enough money?

00:17:39.500 Do we need to print some more money so the banks have more money?

00:17:41.780 Because the banks, if liquidity dries up, then you can't get a loan.

00:17:48.520 So we've got to print more money, which will cost us more.

00:17:54.180 And then because that's a really, really bad idea, usually printing money the way we've been doing it,

00:18:00.560 it's going to cost me on top of it because then you're going to have to raise my interest rates to unbelievable levels

00:18:05.960 to be able to suck all that money back in.

00:18:07.820 Who thinks this is a good idea?

00:18:12.760 By the way, this is not regulation.

00:18:14.900 This is command.

00:18:16.780 They have command and control.

00:18:22.380 So what is this really all about?

00:18:26.840 What is the president really doing?

00:18:29.140 And what is the Fed really doing?

00:18:32.020 I want to try to explain, just with this argument on the Fed,

00:18:35.200 I'll explain what they're arguing about here in a second.

00:18:37.820 And then I want to show you what the Fed really is

00:18:40.260 and how this is a really brilliant master move, master stroke of genius,

00:18:46.880 if you are trying to control the world.

00:18:52.780 Remember, progressives, the word progressive, what does that mean?

00:18:58.460 It means we make progress little by little, right?

00:19:01.460 We're making progress.

00:19:02.440 Progressivism is progress a little bit at a time.

00:19:07.900 Why a little bit at a time?

00:19:09.220 Why don't we just go for it?

00:19:10.460 Why don't we just make these changes?

00:19:12.160 Why wouldn't progressives state what their goal is and then make those changes?

00:19:18.760 Because they know you don't want what they're selling.

00:19:21.900 In the early 1900s, progressivism is just translated, if I may, slow communists.

00:19:32.460 They didn't want the riots in the street.

00:19:35.140 They didn't want the bloodshed.

00:19:36.460 They don't want the banks overthrown and the economy.

00:19:39.860 They'll just do it slowly by taking a little bit more power

00:19:44.540 and a little bit more of your stuff every day.

00:19:48.800 We'll continue in 60 seconds.

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00:20:07.900 That's like the opposite of the Federal Reserve.

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00:21:00.100 Chalkboard is next.

00:21:01.220 Ten seconds and then back to the show.

00:21:06.760 The founders understood the danger of a federal bank and a federal institution

00:21:25.820 because who benefits from a central bank?

00:21:31.160 When money is created, it's not you, the wage earner,

00:21:35.080 because your purchasing power goes down.

00:21:37.300 It's not you who saves money.

00:21:39.860 You've been told, save money, save money, put money in.

00:21:42.580 No, because discipline is punished through inflation.

00:21:46.940 The first people that benefit are the closest to the spigot.

00:21:51.680 The spigot opens up, and it's the large financial institutions,

00:21:55.540 the big banks, who are the federal reserve.

00:22:00.200 Understand that.

00:22:01.160 The banks are the federal reserve.

00:22:03.860 They're the ones who profit first, then any government that's borrowing money,

00:22:11.020 and then the speculators who can move before prices rise.

00:22:16.220 Why do you think there's not a big move for the federal reserve in Congress?

00:22:22.240 How much is Nancy Pelosi worth again? 0.97

00:22:26.140 How did she make all that money? 1.00

00:22:29.240 Oh, her husband's just great. 0.99

00:22:30.260 No, her husband makes Warren Buffett look retarded, okay? 0.96

00:22:37.880 And that's, I mean, I'm sorry, but that's the hard truth. 0.93

00:22:42.120 Anybody who knows to make moves and what moves to make before

00:22:46.140 are actual beneficiaries of the system, but not you.

00:22:50.300 There's no vote, there's no receipt, there's no debate, and the founders understood that.

00:22:55.600 So I want to take you back to the founding era, then back to the progressive era,

00:23:00.060 and then show you what it all means today when we go to the chalkboard.

00:23:04.500 I know chalkboards on radio are really kind of dicey, but check it out at glenbeck.com,

00:23:09.180 and I'll explain it if you happen to be listening to us on radio.

00:23:11.840 That's next.

00:23:12.580 So, I work on a ranch.

00:23:22.060 Eh.

00:23:22.240 I own a ranch.

00:23:25.560 Work's not really involved.

00:23:27.020 Well, work is very involved, but I do none of it.

00:23:30.580 Occasionally, somebody at the ranch will let me ride a horse, sometimes.

00:23:34.160 Anyway, when you're out there, communication is not nice to have.

00:23:39.100 It is the difference between everything is fine and we have a real situation here.

00:23:43.500 Here's the problem.

00:23:44.340 Cell service is spotty at best.

00:23:46.400 In fact, on the ranch, because I live up in the mountains, there's no communication with cell service.

00:23:52.420 None.

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00:24:45.200 A cute little Ricky.

00:24:56.920 Monday, January 12th.

00:24:58.640 By the way, Stu has the week off.

00:25:01.240 God, this guy never worked.

00:25:02.800 You know what it is.

00:25:03.760 The Eagles had a very bad weekend, and I'm going to be honest with you.

00:25:10.180 Stu got involved in some rioting in Philadelphia.

00:25:13.040 He's in jail.

00:25:13.880 We'll bail him out.

00:25:14.500 Don't worry about it.

00:25:15.340 But he'll be back next week.

00:25:17.740 And he is, for those of you who have been paying attention,

00:25:20.660 he is starting his own business, and he's going to be leaving us shortly. 0.94

00:25:25.660 Traitor. 0.98

00:25:26.420 And just couldn't get the job done. 0.98

00:25:29.240 You know what I mean?

00:25:29.820 Is it done yet?

00:25:30.760 Is the job done?

00:25:31.400 No.

00:25:31.680 Uh-uh.

00:25:32.220 We saved America?

00:25:33.140 No.

00:25:33.620 I quit.

00:25:34.940 Anyway, we have a really nice send-off for him.

00:25:40.460 At some point, we're going to do some nice things.

00:25:43.660 Because, I mean, he's one of my best friends, and we've worked together for 27 years.

00:25:48.960 It's really weird.

00:25:50.960 It's weird.

00:25:51.420 Like, the marriage gone bad.

00:25:52.600 Except we like each other still.

00:25:55.120 I think we might even like each other more when we're away than we do at this time.

00:25:59.160 We really like each other.

00:26:00.180 I mean, Tanya may have some competition. 0.99

00:26:03.440 I'm just saying.

00:26:04.100 Tanya and Lisa.

00:26:04.860 Just, okay.

00:26:06.020 Let me tell you about the Federal Reserve and what's going on.

00:26:10.360 Now, Trump and Powell are going back and forth.

00:26:13.480 Powell came out with this extraordinary statement last night where he said,

00:26:18.840 you know, the president is going after us, and I'll tell you what really is happening here.

00:26:22.660 He just wants control of the interest rates.

00:26:24.640 And I was listening to it, and I thought, you know, who are you, you unelected bank guy?

00:26:31.960 Who gave you the power?

00:26:33.480 Well, I know who gave you the power.

00:26:34.760 The Senate did, and the Congress did, and the president did under Woodrow Wilson in 1913.

00:26:38.600 But the people didn't.

00:26:40.440 I would much rather have an elected official or people that would answer to me.

00:26:45.580 But think about the Federal Reserve.

00:26:47.040 They don't answer to anyone but themselves.

00:26:51.700 Okay?

00:26:52.660 The president can't fire them.

00:26:54.520 The president has to pick the replacement out of the replacements they suggest.

00:27:00.280 We can't audit their books.

00:27:02.400 We don't know what they're doing.

00:27:04.140 It's completely secret.

00:27:06.160 There is no—the CIA has more oversight, I believe, than the Federal Reserve.

00:27:12.300 And they're not a federal organization.

00:27:17.820 They are not part of the government in the traditional sense.

00:27:21.980 Who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea?

00:27:27.800 Let me show you what the founder's idea was.

00:27:30.760 Okay?

00:27:30.980 The founder's idea, like it or not, was that God gives man rights.

00:27:37.720 Before, it was God gave certain people, kings, etc., etc.

00:27:42.340 God gave rights to those people, and those people had rights over you to tell you exactly what to do,

00:27:49.140 how to live your life, what land you could own, you know, what you had to do with your money,

00:27:53.680 what you had to do with your whole life.

00:27:55.380 They could tell you everything about your life.

00:27:59.580 The founders came along and said, I don't think that's the way it should be.

00:28:02.720 I think God gives the individual rights.

00:28:05.460 So the individual is more powerful or as powerful as any king.

00:28:09.740 And the people can decide what to do with their business, what they can do with their life,

00:28:16.200 who they can marry, how they live, where they live, what house they could buy, what land they could own.

00:28:22.260 Before, all those decisions were made by the king.

00:28:24.880 You couldn't own property.

00:28:26.660 The king or the lord and the lady had to give you that land, or you had to negotiate it.

00:28:31.660 How is a pauper going to do that?

00:28:33.060 How is somebody who's at the bottom of the barrel going to be able to buy land?

00:28:37.440 Couldn't.

00:28:38.220 They couldn't.

00:28:38.800 And everything, including the banks, were controlled by the king.

00:28:43.420 Okay.

00:28:44.680 Founders came along and said, that's got to stop.

00:28:46.980 Because people are their own sovereign.

00:28:50.620 You're the sovereign over your own life.

00:28:53.180 And governments, says in the Declaration of Independence, are instituted among men to protect those rights.

00:28:59.980 So the first thing is, all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

00:29:05.580 And governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.

00:29:08.460 So the first thing that government comes into is the people saying, I need somebody to be a guardian over my rights, over my property, over, you know, business.

00:29:18.340 If I'm in business and somebody's being unfair, I need somebody to come in and go, hey, hey, hey, these are the rules.

00:29:24.700 You're wrong.

00:29:25.540 You're right.

00:29:26.160 But these are the rules.

00:29:27.380 And if you guys don't like the rules, you guys can change the rules.

00:29:31.460 I'm just here as a referee.

00:29:33.540 Okay.

00:29:34.020 That's the government's role.

00:29:35.360 Is that their role now?

00:29:38.140 Now, we did that for a while.

00:29:40.460 Then around the turn of the century, progressives came into the play.

00:29:44.720 Progressives, like I said earlier, are just slow communists.

00:29:49.980 And that's not a cute turn of phrase.

00:29:52.140 That is really what they are.

00:29:54.140 They believed in a collective power.

00:29:58.600 They believed in the elites.

00:30:00.200 So it became fascism or communism.

00:30:02.720 But progressives didn't want to have the bloodshed in the streets.

00:30:06.400 And so they thought they could just build it piece by piece because they knew it would take a revolution to do it.

00:30:12.280 And they had to separate you from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

00:30:18.400 Woodrow Wilson hated the Declaration of Independence.

00:30:21.200 Ask any real progressive, and they'll tell you that the Declaration of Independence plays no role in anything anymore.

00:30:27.500 It's an old, dusty document for a different time.

00:30:30.240 I'm here to tell you it's a document that is for this time, the future, and the past.

00:30:36.800 It's who we are.

00:30:38.060 It's our mission statement.

00:30:40.040 So we developed when we said all men are created equal.

00:30:43.440 Governments need to be instituted to protect those rights.

00:30:45.640 We came up with a government that checked on itself.

00:30:47.900 We had Congress, the president, and the court system.

00:30:51.200 And they all ran checks and balances.

00:30:53.520 Even in Congress, the purse strings, the only one that can start spending your money is Congress.

00:31:01.040 So your congressmen, you have to vote them in every two years.

00:31:05.400 Why?

00:31:05.980 Doesn't that seem ridiculous?

00:31:07.160 Every two years you have to go vote for your congressman? 0.64

00:31:10.200 No.

00:31:10.740 The founders knew.

00:31:11.760 They controlled the spending.

00:31:13.180 And so if you didn't like what they were spending, if they were raising taxes and spending too much, you could vote them out every two years.

00:31:21.640 So they didn't have this long control.

00:31:24.460 They were given the keys to the purse, to the safe.

00:31:28.700 They don't anymore.

00:31:32.320 You know, we haven't had a budget since 2008.

00:31:35.620 Progressives finally got rid of the whole budget process.

00:31:38.840 So it doesn't matter who starts it because all they do is they just add on to what they've already had.

00:31:44.980 We're going to expand this, going to track this, and they can move the money.

00:31:47.740 So you've lost that control over your money.

00:31:52.720 Also, the Senate was set up to be able to check, be the check and the balance on the federal government versus the state government.

00:32:02.340 Remember, states are more important than the federal government.

00:32:06.220 That's what they believed at the founding era.

00:32:07.860 But we need the federal government to settle arguments, just to play a referee, and to also, if there's a war, wage war.

00:32:15.780 OK, so we were so afraid that the federal government would get out of control and there would be a big, deep state that the founder said all of the senators are voted on by the state houses.

00:32:35.080 So you could send a senator, but the state house would vote on that.

00:32:40.180 They did that because they felt that the senator would be loyal to the state.

00:32:45.480 If it became an election, then other states think of this.

00:32:50.500 Why do you care about Chuck Schumer?

00:32:52.940 You care about Chuck Schumer because he affects you, because his loyalty is no longer to New York.

00:32:59.220 It's to the federal government.

00:33:01.240 They work for all of us instead of their state.

00:33:04.040 That's not the way it was set up, and that's part of the problem.

00:33:08.280 Then the president, the president didn't have enough control because they remember progressives wanted bean counters. 0.89

00:33:14.960 They wanted somebody that could control everything that wasn't necessarily elected.

00:33:19.020 They were just the best in their job.

00:33:20.960 And so let's get these experts in to do an administrative state.

00:33:25.020 And so they grew the administrative state, the deep state.

00:33:28.760 They grew all of these administrative arms, the department of this, the department of that, that you don't even know who runs those things.

00:33:38.040 If you have to deal with one of those, go ahead.

00:33:41.160 Deal with the Bureau of Land Management.

00:33:43.400 Go ahead.

00:33:44.940 Deal with the Department of Labor.

00:33:47.160 Who do you vote out?

00:33:48.520 You don't agree with what they're doing.

00:33:49.880 Who do you vote out?

00:33:52.020 You can't.

00:33:52.880 They're not responsive to you at all.

00:33:56.340 They're barely responsive to the president because they're trying to get rid of the president being able to fire any of those people.

00:34:02.840 So they are completely unelected and now approaching unfireable.

00:34:10.020 Then you have the courts.

00:34:12.380 And around 1920, the progressives again decided they need to make case law and not constitutional law.

00:34:19.720 So stop looking at the Constitution and reading it the way the founders wanted it.

00:34:24.780 Read it case law.

00:34:25.620 If we could get one case to say this, then it builds on that.

00:34:29.240 And then suddenly the Constitution doesn't matter anymore.

00:34:32.900 So they completely rotted all of the ideas that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights that you have.

00:34:42.180 They rotted all of that.

00:34:43.540 So you don't really have a constitutional government the way we and we haven't for 100 years the way our founders envisioned it.

00:34:51.180 Then between 1910 and 1920, all of those things happened.

00:34:57.200 Congress changed.

00:34:58.480 The Senate changed.

00:35:00.580 The administrative state under Woodrow Wilson.

00:35:03.480 Case law.

00:35:04.420 All of it happened between 1910 and 1920.

00:35:06.820 But they needed one other thing.

00:35:09.620 Because if you can control two things, health and money, you control people completely.

00:35:18.400 So they took over your money.

00:35:20.440 And this was voted on over and over and over again.

00:35:23.260 And the American people kept saying no.

00:35:25.140 And so they all got together, all these bankers and these senators got together and went to Jekyll Island for a week.

00:35:32.680 And they put together this whole idea of the Federal Reserve and named it the Federal Reserve so people would think that it's part of the federal government.

00:35:40.200 It passed.

00:35:41.360 It became a constitutional amendment.

00:35:43.600 And what does it do?

00:35:44.960 It controls everything.

00:35:47.580 It controls your inflation.

00:35:49.180 It controls the boom and the bust period.

00:35:51.520 It controls everything.

00:35:53.080 Basically, it controls you.

00:35:55.620 It takes us from a country that says you can do anything to you can do anything if the federal government says it's okay and if the bank says it's okay.

00:36:10.740 Before, you could do anything.

00:36:13.000 And the government just played referee.

00:36:16.360 Now, the banks and the federal government pick and choose winners.

00:36:21.180 Well, no.

00:36:21.660 You need a lot.

00:36:22.080 You can't just go out and do something.

00:36:23.340 You need a license for that.

00:36:24.740 Why do I need a license for that?

00:36:26.660 I mean, some things I think I need a license for.

00:36:30.040 Haircut.

00:36:30.800 Cutting people's hair.

00:36:32.200 I mean, in the era of straight razors, maybe.

00:36:35.340 Maybe.

00:36:36.120 That's not happening anymore.

00:36:37.260 Why do I need that?

00:36:38.780 I need a license for.

00:36:40.380 Why?

00:36:41.220 Why?

00:36:41.620 So the state can not just make their money, but the state also has control.

00:36:47.480 They also tell you who you can, you know, how you spend your money.

00:36:53.500 How much money you have?

00:36:55.160 How much money is that worth?

00:36:57.580 What will the bank allow?

00:36:59.240 And so we see this and we see this corrupt system and we're like, oh, those rich people.

00:37:04.060 You're targeting the wrong rich people.

00:37:06.680 For instance, California is now targeting billionaires.

00:37:10.260 Oh, the billionaires.

00:37:11.280 We got to tax the billionaires.

00:37:13.340 They're just going to move.

00:37:14.700 That's all that's going to happen.

00:37:15.700 They have enough money.

00:37:16.320 They're going to move.

00:37:17.040 They'll move their corporation.

00:37:18.080 They'll move everything out of California.

00:37:19.200 They'll move someplace else.

00:37:19.900 And if Texas decides to do that, they'll do.

00:37:22.300 Did you learn anything from France?

00:37:24.960 This is what France did. 0.91

00:37:26.000 All the billionaires moved.

00:37:29.320 Tax the billionaires.

00:37:30.840 What does taxing the billionaires actually do?

00:37:33.360 What high taxes actually do? 0.83

00:37:35.540 Take it away from you and give the power to the state.

00:37:40.100 Now, let me take a quick break and I'm going to come back and tell you.

00:37:43.020 So what is this all created?

00:37:44.620 Why is the Federal Reserve so important?

00:37:46.940 We go back to the chalkboard.

00:37:47.880 One final row on the chalkboard.

00:37:50.980 What is what is this created?

00:37:52.420 And what's the solution next?

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00:38:11.680 Peace of mind.

00:38:12.880 Yeah, peace of mind.

00:38:13.900 They don't care about any of that.

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00:41:12.240 So we're talking about the Federal Reserve, and here's where I want to go with the Federal Reserve.

00:41:16.680 The president is going after them.

00:41:18.120 Anna Polina Luna came out and said back in the summer that Jerome Powell lied under oath about the cost of the renovations.

00:41:26.920 I believe he did.

00:41:28.200 That'll have to be proven in a court of law.

00:41:30.080 But he thinks that he shouldn't have to answer for any of that because, well, he's the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

00:41:36.220 They're $700 million over budget, money you're paying for.

00:41:41.200 Now, I don't disagree that they need renovation.

00:41:43.580 I'm sure they need renovation.

00:41:44.580 The White House needed renovation.

00:41:46.400 Although Donald Trump paid for that or got private donors to pay for that renovation, you're not paying for it.

00:41:55.040 Let me ask you, this private corporation known as the Federal Reserve, why are you paying for the renovation?

00:42:00.900 Why isn't Citibank, why aren't the big banks paying for the renovation of their corporate headquarters, basically, the one that's bailing them out all the time?

00:42:10.380 Why aren't they paying for it?

00:42:11.660 Why are you paying for it?

00:42:13.140 You don't know the answer to that because they won't even open their books.

00:42:16.340 You cannot ask for their books and their records.

00:42:20.080 Let me ask you this.

00:42:21.020 Can you imagine running a business in America where you could tell the IRS, you don't look at my books?

00:42:26.200 Do you think anything bad might happen if no one could ever look at your corporation's books?

00:42:34.480 We can't.

00:42:35.420 They're completely opaque.

00:42:36.960 We don't actually know who owns them.

00:42:40.800 We don't know who they are.

00:42:42.500 They're shareholders.

00:42:43.480 Who are their shareholders?

00:42:44.680 Who do they answer to?

00:42:46.860 They don't answer to the president.

00:42:48.620 They don't answer to you.

00:42:50.060 And they have total control.

00:42:52.700 Back in 2008, the banks were too big to fail.

00:42:55.500 So, what do you do?

00:42:57.640 You would bail them out and then you would make them smaller.

00:43:00.400 They bailed them out and made them bigger.

00:43:02.740 The corporations, they were Occupy Wall Street.

00:43:05.520 All these corporations were under attack.

00:43:07.400 Now, notice, nobody's attacking.

00:43:09.100 Nobody from the left is attacking these big corporations.

00:43:11.860 Why?

00:43:12.320 Because they made a deal.

00:43:14.100 And that's how you got BLM, the World Economic Forum.

00:43:19.640 It's all part of that same stew.

00:43:21.960 No, this should not be part of our system.

00:43:26.300 You want to fix it and make it fair.

00:43:28.980 Abolish the Federal Reserve.

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00:45:37.120 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:41.000 Glenn Beck is on.

00:45:44.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:45.920 We're glad you're here.

00:45:46.740 There's a lot going on.

00:45:48.380 A great realignment in a couple of ways.

00:45:51.980 One is, I think, good, but you should be warned that it is a dangerous move, but I think the right move.

00:46:01.140 The other one, strangely, is happening on the left, and it is the right move, but I don't know why they're making this move.

00:46:12.880 I have theories of why they're making this move, but I also think it is a dangerous move.

00:46:17.960 It means something more than their words, I believe.

00:46:21.700 We'll talk about Hamas is a terrorist organization from everyone on the left posting that this weekend.

00:46:30.780 What's going on here?

00:46:32.720 We'll talk about that.

00:46:33.500 I mean, it's true, and I'm glad, but why?

00:46:36.700 More in a minute.

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00:48:21.040 All right, let me talk to you about the great realignment.

00:48:24.500 And there is something that is happening right now in the world that is so important.

00:48:28.700 It is happening with Iran. 0.88

00:48:31.420 We'll give you an update on that.

00:48:33.600 But it is also happening around the rest of the world with Donald Trump and here in our own country.

00:48:40.440 So let me start first with what Donald Trump is doing.

00:48:43.380 You know, usually a great realignment is not going to come with trumpets.

00:48:47.900 Usually it moves quietly through shipping lanes and energy contracts and currency flows and alliances that no longer hold.

00:48:57.380 You notice the world is changing.

00:49:00.080 What Donald Trump is doing right now is not just America first or simply America first.

00:49:06.140 It is something far more disruptive.

00:49:08.300 It is a reset of the entire system and of loyalty and the way we gain loyalty or show loyalty. 0.99

00:49:18.260 Since the end of World War Two, the United States built a system that was really built on, I think, arrogance, stupidity and assumptions. 0.73

00:49:26.540 And those assumptions are this, that allies will always remain allies because we're a generous nation and we all want to get along and we all have the same things that we want to do. 0.98

00:49:37.840 We want to stop those commies from coming west. 1.00

00:49:41.460 OK, well, that hasn't been the problem for a while.

00:49:43.500 The commies are already here.

00:49:45.440 OK, well, we want to stop.

00:49:47.400 Do we really want to stop invasions?

00:49:49.500 What is happening in Europe with the that the invasion of Islamists? 1.00

00:49:55.940 That is an invasion and it's happening here.

00:49:58.740 Is anybody talking about is NATO doing anything?

00:50:01.020 No.

00:50:02.000 So we thought that we would all have the same principles and that we could all go along.

00:50:06.600 And because we're really, really generous.

00:50:08.920 OK, also, we believe that our adversaries could be managed through our generosity and engagement.

00:50:16.700 OK, and that stability meant more than leverage.

00:50:22.600 Trump comes in and he rejects all of that and he should.

00:50:26.420 Honestly, it has been a colossal.

00:50:28.820 We've tried it for 100 years and it's gotten to us, gotten us where we are today in a giant mess.

00:50:35.300 So he rejects all of that and has for decades.

00:50:39.740 He's been talking about this and his strategy is really brutally simple.

00:50:45.080 No more free rides.

00:50:46.080 Sorry, that's not going to pick up the bill anymore.

00:50:49.100 You're going to have to grow up.

00:50:50.500 No more ambiguity at all.

00:50:52.380 No more pretending economics and security are separate because they're not oil, money, guns, protection, trade.

00:51:02.040 They're they're not independent tools.

00:51:04.640 They are one weapon.

00:51:06.060 If used right, they are one negotiating tool or one weapon.

00:51:10.860 So look at what is happening right now around the world.

00:51:13.640 In Latin America, regimes that survived, honestly, only by laundering legitimacy through, you know, ideology are now being forced to choose reform or we isolate you.

00:51:27.360 In Europe, our longtime allies are being asked the uncomfortable question.

00:51:32.840 Are you partners or are you freeloaders?

00:51:36.180 Are you partners or are you dependent on us?

00:51:39.920 In Asia, the message is, you know what? 0.93

00:51:44.440 Supply lines are battle lines, period.

00:51:47.060 They are because we know you've stated it.

00:51:49.820 You want to rule the world.

00:51:51.080 We don't want you ruling the world.

00:51:52.600 You rule yourself, but not us, not the rest of the world. 0.93

00:51:56.320 So diplomacy has gone from not just a conversation, but diplomacy now is pressure.

00:52:04.200 And if you have a couple of things, that's a really good thing.

00:52:07.740 Here's why it could be very, very good.

00:52:10.460 If it works, it will restore clarity to a world that is just drowning in everything being gray.

00:52:17.180 There aren't there's no clarity on anything.

00:52:19.040 It also forces nations to actually stand for something.

00:52:23.780 When you are forced to do something or say something, you have to make a decision.

00:52:28.940 Do I believe this?

00:52:29.940 Is this who I am?

00:52:30.720 Is this who we are?

00:52:31.780 And nobody's been forced to do that.

00:52:34.620 They just go along with it and they can become whatever they want.

00:52:37.500 But this forces you to stand and pick a side.

00:52:41.400 It also rewards sovereignty over this global bureaucracy that is doing nothing but killing all of us.

00:52:50.740 And it dismantles the illusion that authoritarian regimes can hide behind trade while exporting their biggest trade.

00:52:58.520 And that's chaos.

00:53:00.700 It reminds the world that peace is not free and it never was.

00:53:07.100 While doing that, it is breaking up the entire coalition of convenience between Russia, Iran, China.

00:53:16.380 You know, this this axis of evil with North Korea and everything else that that's not based on trust. 0.74

00:53:22.100 That is based on a shared resentment of the United States of America and a shared willingness to state out loud they should go away. 0.99

00:53:31.380 They should be destroyed.

00:53:32.340 So I think all of these things are good things, but there is a real danger and we are entering that danger zone, if you will, if I may quote Kenny Loggins. 0.93

00:53:43.760 The danger zone that we're in right now, and you're starting to see it is isolation breeds desperation.

00:53:53.160 When you take a whole bunch of adversaries at once and you put pressure on them all at once, that forces cooperation among them that may not have otherwise exist.

00:54:06.060 But it also makes them a little more dangerous because they're backed up into a corner and World War Three.

00:54:13.880 I believe we're in it right now, but it's a Cold War.

00:54:17.740 Hot wars, all of them.

00:54:20.200 But this one for sure.

00:54:22.200 If we go into a hot war, it will be from a miscalculation.

00:54:27.380 Somebody will miscalculate and say they'll never do that.

00:54:31.520 And they will.

00:54:33.640 And that miscalculation could cause millions of people to die.

00:54:38.520 Doing nothing will cause millions of people to die because you can live in any world you want to live in.

00:54:45.520 But you can't live in a world based in reality if you think that this can go on this way forever.

00:54:53.060 It can't.

00:54:54.640 But when you risk economic shockwaves when you don't respect borders, you risk allies hedging their bets, not towards freedom, but towards survival.

00:55:06.680 And that's where we're headed right now.

00:55:09.940 Most of all, you have to be very careful so you don't risk overestimating control and how much power you really have.

00:55:19.300 Systems always break in the most unexpected places.

00:55:25.360 This is why this is why, you know, central control never works because you try to do something great and something unexpected happens.

00:55:34.920 And you're sitting there and the, you know, the energy market will snap back or the proxy conflicts ignite into real hot wars or cyber retaliation.

00:55:44.560 Remember, that doesn't wear a uniform. 0.99

00:55:47.080 We don't know who those people are.

00:55:48.240 We don't know how big that army is or even who's funding it at this point.

00:55:52.980 And history is, is full of people who were right about the problems, but underestimated the cost of the solution.

00:56:03.520 World War One is a prime example of that.

00:56:07.660 So is the people that sat at the peace treaty of Versailles.

00:56:12.980 That is an absolute example of overestimating or I'm sorry, underestimating the cost of the solution.

00:56:21.660 Some people think, you know, Trump says it's his own morality.

00:56:27.540 That's going to Trump strategy is not immoral.

00:56:32.480 It's also not reckless by default.

00:56:35.840 What it is, is very high stakes.

00:56:39.200 And the American people should understand we're playing a very high stakes game.

00:56:45.940 The reason why we have to put so many chips on the table is because we did nothing but encourage it for the last 40 years.

00:56:53.740 We have, I remember growing up as a kid, hearing Ronald Reagan talk about someday, all of our solutions are going to be solutions that none of us want to deal with.

00:57:02.800 The time to deal with it is right now.

00:57:05.060 Well, we're still not fully dealing with the things he was talking about back then.

00:57:08.680 And they're only going to get harder and harder to do, you know, it requires us now to know when pressure becomes punishment and when punishment creates martyrs instead of outcomes.

00:57:30.300 The world's being reshaped right now.

00:57:32.820 Alliances are being tested, not by words, but by consequences.

00:57:36.420 And whether this moment becomes the foundation of a more stable order or the spark of a more volatile one, it's not going to be decided by you or me or my speeches.

00:57:46.980 It's going to be decided by what breaks first.

00:57:50.500 And we have to be very, very careful.

00:57:52.820 Did you see that Britain is coming over and they want to make a deal with Canada now on free speech?

00:57:59.700 They're trying to get Canada, and they will, to sign up to ban X and Elon Musk because they know, name one person who has done more for freedom of speech in the world.

00:58:14.060 Name one person that has done more than Elon Musk.

00:58:16.700 You may disagree with him, but can you tell me one person who has opened the door for freedom of speech more than he has?

00:58:26.140 Europe doesn't like it.

00:58:27.680 Believe me, China doesn't like it.

00:58:29.240 There are many people here that don't like it.

00:58:31.100 Canada doesn't like it, but they're generally all the elites that don't like it.

00:58:35.280 Okay?

00:58:38.460 That's an unintended consequence. 0.98

00:58:40.900 When Donald Trump overestimated the pressure at the wrong time to say something about Canada, he inadvertently put the current premier into place in Canada because it was like, oh, yeah, screw you, Donald Trump.

00:58:59.840 And they voted against their own interests just to show Donald Trump.

00:59:03.340 So you have to be very, very careful and watch people's words, especially when people change their words dramatically.

00:59:13.080 Honestly, this has happened internally here this this weekend.

00:59:18.480 And you notice it's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

00:59:27.400 What is the regime of Iran, if not oppressive? 0.98

00:59:32.400 To women and homosexuals first. 1.00

00:59:38.180 Homosexuals are killed. 1.00

00:59:40.480 They're thrown off buildings. 1.00

00:59:42.040 They're persecuted. 0.98

00:59:43.620 They're raped to death sometimes. 1.00

00:59:46.280 Is this a good place or a bad place for homosexuals or anyone who chooses a different sexual lifestyle? 1.00

00:59:57.120 The answer is clearly no. 1.00

00:59:59.460 It's one of the worst places in the world.

01:00:02.600 How about for women? 0.95

01:00:04.700 Is the Islamic regime good for women? 0.98

01:00:07.500 You can be married off if your dad decides my daughter is going to marry this 60 year old man.

01:00:16.940 At nine, it's legal. 0.85

01:00:20.240 And they do it.

01:00:22.380 And I don't know if you've seen any of the videos of these girls who are going to their wedding of a 60 year old man and they're nine and they're just crying. 0.95

01:00:30.660 Like, I mean, imagine nine years old and now I'm going to have sex with this 60 year old man. 0.99

01:00:36.200 It is sickening. 1.00

01:00:38.080 Absolutely sickening.

01:00:40.520 How about how about is it good for women and freedom to control their own bodies? 1.00

01:00:48.680 So why is the left not in the streets right now, shoulder to shoulder with me and others saying freedom for the Iranian and Persian people freedom?

01:01:02.560 This regime has got to collapse.

01:01:04.980 Why are they not doing that?

01:01:09.880 And at the same time, why did they change their language in a very important way this weekend?

01:01:16.640 I'll tell you what that was and why I think it's happening.

01:01:19.520 And then we're going to go to Iran and we're going to talk to somebody who has the update on everything that's happened in Iran in 60 seconds.

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01:02:39.860 So some Islamist jihadi decides to take a U-Haul truck in Los Angeles and just plow through a bunch of people who were there protesting in favor of Iran.

01:03:01.340 And unfortunately, they took him out and beat him.

01:03:05.020 And it got really, really ugly.

01:03:07.180 But that should show you people have had enough.

01:03:09.860 Now, let me just give you some names.

01:03:14.640 New York Attorney General Letitia James.

01:03:18.600 Here's what she tweeted this weekend.

01:03:20.420 Hamas is a terrorist organization and we do not support terrorists.

01:03:26.980 AOC. 0.99

01:03:28.560 Hey, so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading a chant saying we support Hamas is disgusting and an anti-Semitic thing to do.

01:03:37.540 Pretty basic.

01:03:38.380 Chuck Schumer.

01:03:39.000 Chuck Schumer.

01:03:39.680 Let's be clear. 0.93

01:03:40.640 Hamas is a terrorist organization. 0.80

01:03:44.360 Governor Kathy Hochul. 1.00

01:03:46.180 Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for the genocide of Jews. 0.98

01:03:51.580 Gillibrand. 1.00

01:03:52.340 Hamas is a terrorist organization committed to the murder of Jews. 0.82

01:03:56.500 Mom, Donnie, as I said earlier today, chants in support of a terrorist organization have no place in our city. 0.99

01:04:03.500 It goes on and on and on.

01:04:05.420 Why is this happening?

01:04:07.720 Why is this happening?

01:04:08.820 To me, there's a couple of reasons, and I want to bring Jason in on this.

01:04:13.880 There's a couple of reasons that could be happening.

01:04:16.240 They actually have always believed that.

01:04:19.200 Or there's a change coming and they know that they are going to be on a chopping block.

01:04:26.340 This is going to suck them into places they don't want to stand anymore.

01:04:31.080 Do you understand what I'm saying, Jason?

01:04:32.480 Yeah.

01:04:32.960 What do you think it is?

01:04:34.060 I think it could be a couple of things.

01:04:36.400 One is a little more scary.

01:04:38.980 The other one is, I think, I think is a good sign for what's happening.

01:04:46.780 And that's the one they're good.

01:04:48.320 The mood has changed in the country and they're going to be on a chopping block themselves.

01:04:52.400 And people will say, I reject you if they don't change now.

01:04:55.440 Yeah.

01:04:56.360 Express the one that, unfortunately, I think you could be right.

01:05:00.000 The one that is the scary option to you.

01:05:02.960 Well, we know that in true top down, bottom up, you know, inside out, you know, in that playbook, we know that the left has been playing footsies with these people for a long time.

01:05:12.980 They've welcomed in the Red-Green Alliance, even though the Red-Green Alliance doesn't make any sense, like you were just pointing out. 0.95

01:05:19.080 I mean, you are pro-LGBT, elemental P, but for some reason, you're for the people that throw homosexuals off buildings. 1.00

01:05:27.580 It does not make sense.

01:05:29.440 You are pro, you know, women's rights, you know, feminism, all that stuff.

01:05:34.100 But somehow you're also pro the people that will force women into certain clothing and then put all these different roles on him that are beneath men.

01:05:42.400 It makes no sense.

01:05:44.200 So I think that, you know, if you have been playing footsie with some of these people and you know that they're about to get violent, maybe you have heard that they're about to get violent, possibly in certain attacks.

01:05:55.260 You're going to want to get out in front of this immediately.

01:05:58.600 Immediately.

01:05:59.300 It was a little frightening because they all were saying exactly the same thing.

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01:07:35.300 What would George Washington say about the mess that our modern leaders have created?

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01:07:53.680 There seem to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed.

01:08:05.160 These are violent.

01:08:07.120 If you call them leaders, I don't know if they're leaders or just they rule through violence.

01:08:12.200 But we're looking at it very seriously.

01:08:14.220 The military is looking at it.

01:08:15.580 And we're looking at some very strong options.

01:08:19.780 We'll make a determination.

01:08:21.280 Some of the protesters were killed through the stampeding.

01:08:25.080 I mean, you know, there's so many of them.

01:08:27.200 And some were shot.

01:08:28.620 Are we getting a full report?

01:08:29.620 I'm getting an hourly report.

01:08:31.500 And we're going to make a determination.

01:08:32.960 We are in a dangerous situation.

01:08:36.980 Donald Trump is not somebody whose words you should dismiss if you are talking about him going in and taking care of a situation.

01:08:46.800 For a guy who does not like war, he goes and he uses our military strategically, quickly.

01:08:53.880 But, you know, again, everything in the world is on the edge.

01:08:58.240 And he's kind of in a tough place because he has said, you start killing the protesters and we're locked and loaded.

01:09:07.140 The president blows all of the credibility he's had around that he's built up because he is a man of action, a man of his word.

01:09:15.460 How is he going to react?

01:09:17.660 Goldie Gamari is with us now.

01:09:20.060 She was on with us last week.

01:09:22.740 Persian.

01:09:23.760 Were you ever a citizen of Iran?

01:09:25.680 Were you living in Iran when this thing fell or did you come with your parents?

01:09:31.980 So I was born after the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat.

01:09:36.300 I was born in Iran, but my parents came to Canada when I was a year old.

01:09:40.700 Okay.

01:09:41.660 And you are a human rights activist and watching this and you care deeply, obviously.

01:09:47.640 Tell us what happened over the weekend.

01:09:49.820 Before we get into Trump, what happened over the weekend?

01:09:51.900 It seemed to have been growing, but at the same time, the oppressions seem to be growing.

01:09:58.720 Yes.

01:10:01.060 So the movement, the revolution has definitely escalated.

01:10:06.180 We saw videos coming out, footage of millions and millions of Iranians all across the country going out into the streets and peacefully marching, peacefully demonstrating.

01:10:18.460 And they were saying this is the final battle, Pahlavi will return. 0.84

01:10:23.220 Pahlavi is, of course, the crown prince.

01:10:25.980 Reza Pahlavi, who is the leader of the Iranian national revolution.

01:10:29.960 But you're absolutely right.

01:10:31.400 At the same time, we started to see escalating violence.

01:10:35.420 And this is what the regime does.

01:10:37.380 So right now, we're in the endgame.

01:10:40.620 And the reason that the violence is being escalated is because the regime knows that it's on its way down.

01:10:49.440 And it's basically going scorched earth.

01:10:52.300 So what we do, and we spoke about this last time, Glenn, where I said one of the interesting things about what we have seen so far, like this was last week,

01:11:00.960 is that the Internet still hasn't been shut down.

01:11:04.040 And I predicted that I think someone has been smuggling Starlink into the country.

01:11:09.480 And just a few days ago, Elon Musk confirmed that he has actually assisted in bringing hundreds of thousands of Starlink devices into occupied Iran.

01:11:20.260 So first of all, I want to give a big, big shout out to Elon Musk.

01:11:24.000 He's a hero of the Iranian revolution.

01:11:27.340 Yeah, and Iranians love him.

01:11:28.340 And so that's how we've been able to get footage come out.

01:11:32.220 Because what the Islamic dictatorship has done now is they have shut down the Internet. 0.99

01:11:36.780 They've, you know, cut it completely. 0.94

01:11:38.960 And we always know that when that happens, that's when they slaughter Iranians. 1.00

01:11:43.580 And so the Crown Prince, Reza Qahilavi, he has the most reliable sources.

01:11:50.600 And yesterday, he did an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Features.

01:11:56.440 And he confirmed that as of yesterday, the number of casualties in occupied Iran is more than 9-11.

01:12:05.760 So we know that for a fact.

01:12:07.900 But we also know that this is the final, final push.

01:12:11.920 And President Trump's message has given Iranians a lot of hope.

01:12:17.280 We know that he's going to act because he is a man of his word.

01:12:21.100 It's just a matter of when.

01:12:23.620 So we're all hoping that President Trump acts sooner rather than later because the situation, it's gotten really bad.

01:12:31.680 It's gotten really bad.

01:12:33.460 Yeah.

01:12:33.840 How should he react?

01:12:37.980 What should the president do?

01:12:39.440 I'm not, I'm not a military strategist.

01:12:44.780 So I can't, I can't say, obviously, I mean, we don't want like World War III or anything like that.

01:12:49.800 But, you know, Marco Rubio said it best.

01:12:53.060 There's never been a population where, you know, there's never been like a situation where the people of a country are so fundamentally opposed to those who are running the country.

01:13:04.440 So all I can say is that we all trust in President Trump.

01:13:08.560 We trust in his, in his expertise.

01:13:11.600 We know that whatever decision he's going to make is, is the right one.

01:13:15.720 Iranians, like they're not giving up.

01:13:17.620 They're still out in the streets.

01:13:18.720 They're still fighting.

01:13:20.400 The, the, you know what?

01:13:21.960 So when, when the Islamic regime found out that, that Elon Musk has helped smuggle in Starlink, they have now brought in military-grade jammers from, that they purchased from the CCP. 0.93

01:13:35.000 And those military-grade jammers are, have now jammed the Starlink.

01:13:39.460 So, so we're getting even, even less, even less videos coming out, which means the situation is pretty bad.

01:13:46.240 We know that the Islamic regime, they've also brought in their terrorist proxy forces.

01:13:50.400 But the, the few messages that we are able to get from inside occupied Iran, what Iranians are telling us is that, yes, the situation is bad.

01:13:59.940 And, you know, what we're seeing right now or what we're hearing about in terms of the casualties, it's maybe only like 20 or 30% of the, of the truth, like of the actual numbers.

01:14:10.580 But what they're saying is that now is not the time for, for tears.

01:14:15.040 This is the final battle, and what Iranians are asking, for those of us who are outside of Iran, is to be their voice and to just let people know that even though the internet is shut down, that doesn't mean that the revolution isn't happening.

01:14:30.220 In fact, the revolution is, is growing.

01:14:32.920 It's, it's basically everyone now.

01:14:34.640 Everyone is out of the streets, and it's now or never.

01:14:37.340 And Iranians, they, they, they can smell and taste freedom after 47 years of, of Islamic oppression.

01:14:46.200 I will tell you that, you know, I, I, I pray for the Iranian and the Persian people.

01:14:51.660 I pray for this evil, evil regime to come down.

01:14:55.420 I, I do not want our troops to get involved in a, another foreign war, but I don't, I don't think that it's going to take much from President Trump.

01:15:07.200 If, if we withdraw our support or we remain silent, it's going to end up the way it did under Biden and Barack Obama, and that only strengthens our, our enemy at times.

01:15:18.820 It'll make them stronger, at least for a short period of time, and, and it will become very, very, very, very, very dangerous for everybody involved and make the people that want to go march in the street the next time a little more hesitant because this time we said something.

01:15:36.940 And I, I, I'm glad I'm not the president today.

01:15:40.840 Let me just say that.

01:15:41.840 I'm glad I'm not the president today, and I pray that he makes the right decision for everybody involved.

01:15:47.460 Thank you.

01:15:48.100 I'm sure, I'm sure he will.

01:15:51.340 And, you know, I agree with you.

01:15:53.020 I don't want boots on the ground.

01:15:54.740 No, no Iranians want, like, like, we don't, the Iranian people themselves are the boots on the ground.

01:15:59.900 Yes.

01:16:00.160 So in that sense, you know, we don't want, you know, we don't want to, you know, drag people into another war or anything like that.

01:16:06.260 But, again, I'm not a military strategist, but, you know, like, maybe president, like, I'm hoping he does something like, you know, what he did with the nuclear facilities.

01:16:14.640 I don't know.

01:16:15.240 I mean, maybe something like that.

01:16:17.320 But, but what I can say is that, you know, Iranians, they're hopeful.

01:16:22.420 And the crown prince, he actually put out a very interesting message yesterday to Iranian people that the mainstream media are not picking up on.

01:16:30.920 So he actually said.

01:16:32.280 So he confirmed yesterday, he said, we are not alone, and international help is on the way.

01:16:39.380 So, so he actually said that in his message.

01:16:43.200 So, so that, to me, gives me hope.

01:16:45.960 And it's given 90 million Iranians hope that President Trump will be doing something. 0.89

01:16:51.360 And, you know, we, we have faith in him that whatever decision it is, it's going to be the best possible decision for everyone.

01:16:59.040 We have one shot at this, and, you know, President Trump, he knows best, he knows best, he has the intel.

01:17:06.940 So we're all very hopeful.

01:17:09.160 You know, like, President Trump has never been more popular right now in, in occupied Iran.

01:17:14.320 Iranians are literally going out and they're renaming signs after him, calling it President Trump Street.

01:17:20.360 But, but not only that, Iranians are also know how much support they have from, from, you know, everyone outside.

01:17:28.420 And there's actually just one thing I wanted to say to you personally, Glenn.

01:17:34.120 I, someone told me to check your, your profile last night.

01:17:38.200 And when I checked your, your profile pictures, I got a little emotional.

01:17:42.960 I'm not going to say, I'm, I'm, I'm, I got, I got a little bit emotional, um, because what you did, um, you know, for, for, for your listeners, if, if they don't know, um, you, you changed your bio picture to, to the real flag of Iran.

01:17:59.600 And that is just so, um, so meaningful.

01:18:05.080 And I can say that on behalf of all, all, all Iranians, we're so grateful for, for the solidarity that we're seeing from Americans, because we feel like this is the first time in 47 years that, uh, people are realizing that we're, we're not the enemy of America.

01:18:22.420 We, we love America.

01:18:23.640 We love Americans.

01:18:24.800 We used to be allies before 1979.

01:18:27.320 And, and it's, you know, we're both fighting the same enemy, which, which is this evil, um, Islamic dictatorship. 0.86

01:18:34.020 So, you know, uh, free Iran is going to mean a safer America. 0.96

01:18:38.000 And I just, I cannot wait until, um, until we can, you know, uh, be like officially right.

01:18:44.020 The allies again.

01:18:44.840 So just, I want to thank you for your support and solidarity.

01:18:47.880 That's a meaningful gesture.

01:18:49.420 You are more than welcome.

01:18:50.780 I urge everybody to put on your, put on your social media, just put if the real flag of Iran, which is, it looks just like the Iranian flag, except it doesn't have the Islamic thing in the middle.

01:19:02.300 It has the golden tiger, uh, in the center, uh, or lion, sorry.

01:19:07.840 Yeah.

01:19:08.000 The golden lion.

01:19:09.520 Um, and, uh, it, it, uh, I think people all around the world need to stand up for the Persian people.

01:19:17.480 They have been living under this oppressive regime for a long time with so much courage.

01:19:22.160 And like Goldie just said, nobody has really stood up for them.

01:19:25.780 Um, and you know, we, you can never give freedom to people.

01:19:29.760 They have to earn it, but they are earning it and they want it desperately.

01:19:34.380 Um, and this is the turning point.

01:19:37.240 If, if Iran falls, this is the turning point, um, against Islamic extreme extremism. 0.91

01:19:45.040 They no longer have this huge pile of money and this giant proxy that is there.

01:19:51.300 And you will see things begin to turn because of this.

01:19:54.880 I think it's why the left this weekend started coming out against Tamas and saying it's a terrorist organization.

01:20:00.660 They haven't been on that bandwagon for a while and it's because the Persian and Iranian people are standing up and saying, we're not saying we're against this regime.

01:20:10.260 We're against Sharia law. 0.54

01:20:12.300 We are against this oppressive idea that Islam is a government.

01:20:19.260 It can be a religion, not a government, uh, and it's oppressive and they are proving everything that the left has been cozying up to is poison.

01:20:30.720 And it is so important.

01:20:33.000 I don't, I don't want to do it through force.

01:20:35.220 I don't really want us to get involved.

01:20:37.220 I want the people to be able to do it and anything that we can do to strengthen them with our voices and our support online.

01:20:45.540 All of us should be doing anything that we can do with speaking out for, uh, the Iranian and the Persian people and standing up for them, uh, to be able to be free.

01:20:56.960 We should do.

01:20:57.800 And Goldie, I would love to, when it falls, I would love to be one of the first people that can walk on a free, the streets of a free Iran and broadcast my show from there.

01:21:10.120 I, I, you would be more than welcome.

01:21:13.560 We would love to have you.

01:21:15.000 Oh my gosh.

01:21:15.900 You know, as soon as Iran is free, we're looking forward to welcoming Americans back to Iran. 0.90

01:21:21.960 Like we cannot wait.

01:21:23.220 We cannot wait.

01:21:24.080 Um, and I just wanted to point out something really, really poetic.

01:21:27.360 Um, 47 years ago, Jimmy Carter and the Democrats, um, helped to turn Iran into an Islamic dictatorship. 0.79

01:21:35.300 And now 47 years later, the 47th president of the United States is going to free Iran and, and, you know, fix the mistake that Jimmy Carter and the Democrats made 47 years ago.

01:21:47.840 So that's, that's so incredibly poetic.

01:21:49.640 And I just want to say, God bless president Trump.

01:21:51.960 God bless America.

01:21:53.280 Thank you so much, Goldie.

01:21:54.180 I appreciate it.

01:21:54.700 God bless you.

01:21:55.800 Um, if you would, um, uh, like to get more information and follow, please just, um, just, just follow her.

01:22:03.120 Uh, you can find her on X at G G H A M R M A R I it's G Gamari. 0.81

01:22:14.060 Um, and follow her on Twitter.

01:22:15.820 You can also find her, um, on YouTube as well, but she gives a good analysis of what is happening.

01:22:21.440 And every day, uh, every day that goes by, it's either going to get stronger or weaker and it's going to happen quickly when it does.

01:22:30.840 And now is the time to pray for the Iranian and Persian people back in just a second. 0.99

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01:25:47.560 Correct me if I'm wrong, Jason, but I don't believe we've moved any of our assets in the Persian Gulf right there by the Straits of Hormuz.

01:25:56.980 Boy, am I getting dicey on my geography.

01:26:01.160 There are some American military assets that have moved, but there are no aircraft carriers over there, I don't think, at the moment, which is strange, right?

01:26:08.220 Yeah.

01:26:08.420 I would think that, you know, the first show of power is you start moving all of those assets over there, and that says something to the mullahs. 0.99

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01:28:40.000 hello america there is a lot going on today we have iran we still have venezuela to sweep up

01:28:46.300 um we have now cuba looking a little dicey are we gonna get involved in cuba i hope not

01:28:52.960 still venezuela i'm sorry uh greenland uh i had a really disturbing interview with uh a good friend

01:29:01.320 of mine edwin black who has been on this show several times he wrote ibm and the holocaust

01:29:05.940 the farhud uh was some of the other ones uh war against the weak he is probably the leading

01:29:13.920 authority on uh genocide eugenics and the holocaust uh i've talked to him several times

01:29:22.840 this interview is coming out on wednesday for torch um he's always talked me out of the tree

01:29:30.660 he's always said look glenn this is very clear how this happens yada yada and just because we might

01:29:37.820 be you know at step seven of a 10 step you know you know program to get you to a genocide

01:29:44.800 we're a long way away he told me something friday that will curl your hair and it comes out

01:29:51.820 on uh on wednesday and it and you have to hear it um his warning to the world is a little a little

01:30:00.840 terrifying uh and should make us pay attention to what is also happening in iran uh closely uh all

01:30:08.260 right we're going to turn this to socialism and what it actually does and how it starves people to

01:30:14.640 death with a guy who was actually involved in ns in venezuela he was a former head of training for

01:30:21.540 cargill and he saw firsthand how the food crisis was caused in venezuela and how it was done what

01:30:31.900 what were the real conditions for the people of venezuela you're all for socialism you know you're

01:30:38.160 all for all of this great let's tell you what it's really like once you get there we'll do that here in

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01:32:30.900 code beck three month of service okay do we have uh jeff on jeff cats uh casen is um the cargill

01:32:39.600 former head of training uh and he can tell us what really happened in venezuela with the food crisis

01:32:47.140 remember it went from one of the richest most prosperous countries in the hemisphere to a

01:32:53.920 country that was literally eating the zoo animals um because there was nothing left uh and that went on

01:33:01.440 and on and on and on under maduro uh and the man who has uh kind of a first-hand insight on that is

01:33:09.780 uh jeff kazen and he's with us now hi jeff how are you yeah good morning uh it's uh it's good to have

01:33:15.860 you on um so how did you get involved in venezuela what what was your role there with cargill yeah so uh

01:33:25.220 first off i am a former employee um i was the head of trading for the region um and cargill had a

01:33:32.340 substantial business there uh in all the way to retail so they were bringing in raw materials

01:33:37.340 processing wheat to flour refining vegetable oil making pasta making rice so a lot of very staple type

01:33:44.420 of uh of commodities that fed the country um and it had been a long-standing business also had salt

01:33:51.220 also had feed mills um pretty standard action and so we have a centralized group so i would have a

01:33:56.860 group in caracas working uh for me and i would be managing across the entire region from the u.s

01:34:03.360 so you uh minute rice that's cargill right uh cargill did have a a parboil rice plant there

01:34:12.000 it's very well known um yeah it was nationalized um i believe in 2009 tell me what nationally because

01:34:19.820 most people don't even understand oh it was nationalized explain what that actually means

01:34:24.620 um and in this case and you know it can be very ways they do it but in this case armed people show

01:34:30.900 up at the plant and say we're taking over you're in violation of some law or you know you're gouging

01:34:37.140 the population and we can run it at a lower price and so they did they showed up and um and

01:34:45.540 hats off to my employer at the time um we immediately just told our employees that safety

01:34:50.500 is first and get out um managers some of them actually were were exited the country um they

01:34:57.080 took the plant over um i don't believe it ever ran again they didn't have any expertise to run the

01:35:03.020 plant uh we did receive the plant back a number of years later uh empty uh all the equipment was

01:35:09.200 either sold in the global black market or scrap because any anything that could originate a dollar

01:35:15.000 hard currency in there uh across the country is is you know it's it's one thing it's scrapped clean

01:35:21.640 and so that's it's a situation they said that you were gouging the poor but that's not i mean

01:35:28.720 there are a thousand generals in the army um and and that's part of the problem right isn't it all

01:35:36.820 kind of divvied up between them yeah i mean it's divvied up between the military and and that's

01:35:42.320 how you you buy um loyalty and then even on the ground right they've uh armed militias in the in

01:35:49.140 the cities um and they've divvied up the cities and to think of them maybe like uh regions of the old

01:35:54.680 mob so that all of this to my understanding it still exists it is a very complicated situation on

01:36:01.020 the ground and i don't think as americans we should underestimate how complicated that is

01:36:06.160 what do you mean by that how do you mean well you have you know an entire generation um if you're

01:36:12.820 hungry um you do things to survive right and theft is not doesn't carry the stigma um i would say i

01:36:21.740 wouldn't say violence extort i mean you have to do things that if you were out and you went and stole

01:36:26.920 something i'd look down on you as american but that's not the case in a country where you're trying

01:36:32.460 to survive right people don't look at that it's my part my neighbor stole this so they could feed

01:36:38.280 their family right that's a cultural thing and that's that's not gonna go away overnight

01:36:42.920 um the the people though generally speaking um i mean when do you think they figured it out

01:36:53.040 that this was really bad or do you think they knew from the beginning um i'm not that's a little bit

01:37:00.800 too political probably for me i think it just got too you know it just grows over time you know our

01:37:06.700 experience around these type of takeovers around the world my personal lifetime experiences these never

01:37:12.620 work um and obviously it got away right um there was an election though originally and a populist

01:37:19.480 government did win the first election right right right back and back and so i think it's a very

01:37:24.320 important um in my again personal opinion for a republic or democracy to thrive that we have an

01:37:31.360 extremely wide and strong middle working middle class yes and i think that gets away from you you can

01:37:37.520 lose an election right um so the government opened grocery stores because um they said that things

01:37:44.900 were you know you're being gouged and everything else and so they opened that what what happened

01:37:50.160 there yeah i mean you can see this i saw this as a proposal in new york city and it just brought back

01:37:56.860 nightmares right so the government said okay we're going to provide the population we're going to open

01:38:01.400 grocery stores and we're going to provide food cheaper and they did right they took money from other

01:38:06.780 parts of the economy maybe the petrol economy or they just printed money um and they they would buy

01:38:13.180 literally buy bottled oil from us and sell it below cost at these stores well eventually

01:38:19.320 the private industry goes goes bankrupt right it can't compete and uh so all these private grocery

01:38:26.740 stores start to go out of business because people who by the way are hungry they're going to go and

01:38:31.660 buy that food at the cheapest you know that calorie the cheapest location and then it spirals right now

01:38:37.160 you only have state stores right that are not responsive to what the consumer wants um you know

01:38:43.040 it forces private industry out and then you start to see the you know this empty shelves and the

01:38:48.200 reduced choices and things like that um it just it grows over time and then the the government

01:38:55.500 handouts become more necessary and so the people become more dependent on it right that's absolutely

01:39:02.260 right you know when you're hungry and your choice is either to comply or uh or you know or starve right

01:39:10.140 you're you're more apt to comply and that's human nature and you can't fault the venezuelan people

01:39:15.380 for that we would do the same thing so the and that's really the sad thing is people don't understand

01:39:20.520 you know like like you know people coming across the border i have said i'm i'm strongly against

01:39:25.580 illegal immigration but i've i've often said you know you you how do you blame people who are starving

01:39:32.960 in their own country especially if the country says we don't care about the laws just come on in

01:39:38.600 i mean i would i know i would do that for my family to be able to feed my family so they would

01:39:43.780 have a better stable life i would absolutely cross a border in the middle of in the middle of the

01:39:48.600 night if i had to i would i mean it's hard to blame people for doing what governments have so

01:39:54.920 screwed up uh to not get out of there and go someplace where you can feed your family

01:40:00.240 yeah i think you're absolutely i think we have to have a lot of empathy for the people who came

01:40:06.980 here looking for a better life uh when the border was open in theory was they thought it was legal

01:40:12.820 um and they they made a run and i think as you know things go over these next six months eight

01:40:18.160 months a year you have to have a lot of empathy for people here legally and illegally that they were

01:40:23.520 chasing a dream and um some of them i sometimes think i sometimes yeah some of them definitely were

01:40:30.040 and i think we need to to have empathy on all sides um for these people um the um tell me about

01:40:38.180 how the dollar is used um because you were trying to buy raw materials right to make you know to make

01:40:45.200 things out of wheat you had to buy it but what what happened what what happened to the system

01:40:50.420 yeah so the government not only outspent their petro dollars and of course the petro

01:40:55.640 capacity you know plummeted over time so they just printed money and and it you know a lot

01:41:01.840 different than here um you know i think in my time there um which is around 2015 to 18 the the

01:41:09.760 boulevard went from like a dollar would buy 800 boulevard to the dollar would buy like 12 000

01:41:15.260 so the currency became non-functioning and it basically becomes somewhat of a barter economy

01:41:20.960 and the only way we have to sell products by law in boulevards we have to be able to exchange that

01:41:26.840 and the only place we could exchange it was with the government i'm making this a little too

01:41:30.620 complicated we needed dollars to go buy cargos of u.s wheat or canadian wheat and so it was all about

01:41:37.260 getting somebody to in the government that give us an allocation of dollars and over time it was

01:41:43.960 okay when it started and then over time um it just got corrupted um we couldn't get allocations of

01:41:50.320 dollars or those allocations of dollars went to local firms that um were willing to pay bribes and

01:41:56.760 and do the facilitating payments to to make it work it was very hard uh to import um just the raw

01:42:03.820 materials uh to go through the plants to feed the people and then it just compounded because we

01:42:09.540 couldn't import things they needed or make things in country they needed um actually import strangely

01:42:15.800 enough had to rise of finished goods which you know that hurts employment and and on down the line

01:42:21.240 it's just there's so many strange and unintended consequences when you get into this type of economy

01:42:26.500 and the and the people that worked for you i'm assuming that you had american standards

01:42:31.460 or as close as you could for the plant um uh and i would imagine that that would be a problem

01:42:39.040 going home from a plant like that whenever nobody else has that kind of uh have access am i wrong

01:42:46.280 yeah i mean it you know first we we did work for a company that held american standards wherever they

01:42:52.600 worked in the world and they did a good job and so that made my world really clear we weren't going

01:42:57.800 to pay bribes and that but personal security um you know as soon as that employee you know they leave

01:43:03.580 our uh our guarded compound gated compound um you know they're going to go home to a to a gated compound

01:43:11.100 apartment complex um they liked i of course we were in a large office building in crocus you know we had

01:43:18.060 some things they liked coming to work it was safe um we had internet access um so access to the global

01:43:24.740 world we had a gym we had hot showers because even at home i mean you didn't know imagine going to your

01:43:30.700 home and this week you don't know if you're going to have water or this week you're not going to have

01:43:34.660 electricity not just hot water water yeah not just hot water water right so um you know it was you

01:43:42.960 know we provided our employees with a staple a box because we we made staples right so that every week

01:43:47.560 they would get uh a box of staples to to take home with them and and a lot of western companies did a

01:43:53.820 lot of good things but eventually um you know you wouldn't want to live like that either and the people

01:43:59.380 the first real huge waves of venezuelans around the world were the educated the ones that had

01:44:05.220 resources and um they distributed themselves all over the world a lot of them to spanish speaking

01:44:10.420 some to the u.s and my experience was you know they were great uh great people to have um we

01:44:17.180 re-employed them in plants all over latin america engineers and managers fantastic um but you can imagine

01:44:24.560 the brain drain oh yeah that goes on oh yeah it goes on right you need people that can run water

01:44:29.660 plants and electrical generation stations and and that so that that left the country so jeff i only i've

01:44:37.040 got about a minute left why does it seem like the world just never learns its lesson on this stuff

01:44:43.540 we just keep doing the same thing over and over again why yeah i um you know i was thinking about

01:44:50.260 you know we we entered the former soviet union i've lived in in the czechoslovakia when it was still

01:44:55.360 and you know it's almost like we forget right did it take and then the lucky thing about venezuela is

01:45:01.500 it's about 25 ish years so it's maybe not so as ingrained as it was in the in the soviet union

01:45:08.600 and you got to be optimistic i mean the country has resources natural resources and it's got a you had a

01:45:15.540 really good education system for a long time if you can attract some of these people to come back

01:45:20.580 the professionals the doctors the technicians um you know there is a reason to be optimistic that the

01:45:27.180 system is not so ingrained in the culture yeah jeff thank you so much i appreciate it

01:45:32.200 giving us an inside look at what things were like you know you've seen it over and over again i don't

01:45:37.160 think i'd want your job but see it over and over yeah all right well hey thanks for having us on and

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01:50:43.240 i want to tell you another story in venezuela uh and hopefully we're going to be hearing good

01:51:08.420 endings coming out of venezuela and iran hopefully we'll start to hear from the persian people about

01:51:14.480 what life was like under these mullahs um when that comes to an end please pray for the people 0.95

01:51:20.020 of iran um that that comes to a peaceful conclusion where the mullahs go away forever

01:51:27.160 um it is well within the realm of possibility but i think we also need to understand that venezuela is

01:51:34.360 not free you know everybody was complaining oh regime change he just wants regime change he didn't

01:51:39.600 change the regime he took one bad guy out the vice president now i i did some research on this last

01:51:47.060 night and i had somebody of real credibility tell me this but i don't know if it's i don't know if

01:51:52.460 it's accurate um because i couldn't find it anywhere last night that uh the uh father-in-law of the

01:52:01.880 current president of venezuela was carlos the jackal um and also her father was big you know

01:52:10.000 socialist communist involved in a lot of other really bad things they're this is not a friendly

01:52:15.980 regime uh and so the venezuelan people are still being oppressed and it is not good i mean that's

01:52:23.860 kind of an understatement especially when you hear from renzo castillo he is a guy he's an american

01:52:29.540 citizen he was detained if you will he was tortured in venezuela um because why i don't know and his

01:52:41.120 wife is still being held renzo is with us now to tell us what happened he was in jail in venezuela

01:52:47.020 for 300 days and it took marco rubio to negotiate to get him released renzo welcome how are you doing

01:52:55.940 good morning uh thank you you're so much for giving me the time you bet um so tell me what

01:53:01.840 happened how did this start how were you arrested well um just to make a little quick uh adjustment to

01:53:11.780 that i was i was never arrested because this is what they told me i was never detained i was only

01:53:16.920 being held for questioning an investigation so you were held hostage i was i was held hostage i was

01:53:23.180 kidnapped worse okay um so you were never charged with anything uh well at first i was charged um

01:53:33.200 with one different account i was charged for uh espionage so when i got to the prison in which

01:53:40.040 they sent me which is rodeo one prison which is a maximum security prison in venezuela um when they

01:53:45.860 took me there they had fake names and they had our charges which was espionage and i was very like

01:53:52.780 uh you know i was very like confused like what's going on because they just put this thing and they

01:53:58.920 had a fake name for me so i was a little bit afraid that they were hiding me and then i've noticed that's

01:54:04.760 when i that's when i realized there were a few more americans uh where i was at and then some other

01:54:09.660 guys from a different country and then we they didn't know because they didn't have nobody across

01:54:15.960 from from them that couldn't see the paper so but once i got across from them and i voted to see the

01:54:20.600 paper that they had uh you know i told them hey is your name this and they're like no that's not my name

01:54:25.480 i go well they have you under this name and then so they didn't know and they had all of us under

01:54:30.560 espionage and then on december 16th it was the day in which they decided to present us to present us to

01:54:37.600 uh uh so-called court but uh they had a judge and then they had a public attorney that came over

01:54:44.200 in which the charges went from espionage to terrorism it was like four charges of terrorism

01:54:49.720 and um that's for all uh the foreigners and for the venezuelans like my wife it was the same charges

01:54:57.520 plus treason so um this reason itself because she she's a citizen of venezuela right you're not a

01:55:04.900 citizen of venezuela she is all right correct she so um she was born in venezuela but she was not

01:55:12.260 living in venezuela when i met her i had met her in peru in south america while i was vacationing

01:55:16.680 and we had bought a house in venezuela that we were kind of like fixing together so she went back to

01:55:23.080 venezuela so she can be with her kids and build a house together so this way when i go there we have 0.97

01:55:29.360 somewhere to go you know so that was the plan and so she's she was back in venezuela for like maybe

01:55:34.800 about six months or something like that and then uh i have flew to colombia so i can see her because

01:55:40.480 the flights were super expensive at that moment there were still flights to venezuela so there wasn't

01:55:45.460 like a super high risk saying hey do not go to venezuela yet you know because people always say like

01:55:50.700 well how why didn't you go like well nobody knew what was going on like the reason nobody can go is

01:55:55.140 because of us now but it wasn't us before you know so the reason why i didn't fly in there because

01:56:00.480 the tickets were really really expensive so we decided to take a road trip from colombia to

01:56:06.440 venezuela to where she lives at with the houses that it's like about 12 hours from the border from

01:56:10.880 colombia so we decided to take a little road trip and when we crossed the border i was with uh over there

01:56:18.620 in venezuela um and colombia they have taxis on motorcycles and they have regular taxis right

01:56:25.320 so i was in a taxi driven by a motorcycle that was just going to take me across the border

01:56:30.760 while i wait for uh my wife and her best friend uh to cross the reason why we did that is because

01:56:36.880 the taxi driver had to drop off a package to his family in venezuela um in um in tachita which is at

01:56:45.540 the city where it happened and he was going to charge me like so much less just for him doing

01:56:50.740 that favor and i'm like i don't care i mean the the moto taxi motorcycle taxi was like three dollars

01:56:55.240 i'm like perfect so all i had to do is just like wait uh literally like a less than a mile from the

01:57:00.700 border so when we are crossing the border patrol which um they look more like military you know they

01:57:08.700 just kind of waved and they let us go through so they didn't stop us and then i was waiting at the

01:57:13.500 location but you know what happened is like after like an hour an hour and a half i was very worried

01:57:18.780 because she was only like two cars behind but the motorcycle guy goes to the border and he goes hey

01:57:23.980 man i don't see him i'm like what do you mean so maybe they're checking the car because i have brought

01:57:27.960 a lot of stuff to venezuela like for the house and for the kids you know so um so we just waited a

01:57:35.320 little bit then it happened like about over two hours and that particular moment he goes back over

01:57:40.060 then he goes like man i don't see them i don't see them 30 minutes after that the the military

01:57:45.480 guys come over and they see the motorcycle guy sitting down and he calls them over he was like

01:57:50.920 you come here and then i was sitting in in a table and then the military guy comes over like you and

01:57:57.980 then he goes he tells me to come over and i like stand up like you know i didn't do nothing wrong

01:58:01.900 and he goes you come over are you renzo and i'm like yeah and he shows me my my california id

01:58:06.440 and he goes come with me and i'm like what's going on and he goes like uh this is an investigation

01:58:12.200 and you to come with me you're not you're not being detained and he grabs me by like by my neck

01:58:16.640 and he throws me in the back of the car oh sorry before he throws me in the back of the car his

01:58:20.920 other partner comes over and they kind of like tagged him to throw him in the back of the car

01:58:25.040 but like i said the border is only like less than a minute from where we were at so we get to the

01:58:30.380 border they take me out of the car and the first person that i see is my wife and she's like

01:58:35.240 super stressed out like she's pale and i told her like baby like we didn't do nothing wrong

01:58:39.400 we'll just you know we'll leave you know we didn't we didn't break no law you know right so

01:58:45.360 they took me inside their little border office and then that's pretty much when i can say like

01:58:51.220 the nightmare began um they um they grabbed my phone from my my so my backpack she had it that's

01:59:01.200 where my american id was and that's on my phone all my stuff was there right so they grabbed my phone

01:59:06.520 and they told me disconnect unlock it and i'm like why i'm like why do you need to unlock it like

01:59:12.380 do you need like uh some kind of paperwork and then he puts the phone on my face and you know the new

01:59:17.320 phone's not like it has facial recognition yeah but as soon as the phone unlocked mind me at this

01:59:22.560 particular moment um i am at their office right i'm surrounded by uh i'm surrounded by uh military

01:59:32.540 personnel and then he starts looking at my phone and then all of a sudden he shows me one of my

01:59:37.700 pictures of me working with the fellas and you know i wear tactical clothing for work because i do uh

01:59:44.680 security protection and i do private security you know so he the first thing that he said to me was

01:59:51.060 you're a commando right and i'm like no i'm not a commando there's like what what special forces

01:59:56.760 are you from but i'm not from any special forces and it was like are you a marine i'm like no i don't

02:00:02.440 know what you're talking about like i'm not a condition this might work and then he started

02:00:06.580 scrolling into my pictures and they can see me you know with me uh practicing shooting and me with

02:00:11.720 other guys and then he asked me yeah exactly right so so i i renzo i hate to do this to you but i'm

02:00:19.120 gonna run out of time so they take you they take you and they put you in jail you're sleeping on the

02:00:25.720 floor you there's other americans you're there for a year when you say you were tortured what does

02:00:31.760 that mean how how are you tortured well brother how can i tell you like it it can be physical

02:00:39.000 mental yeah uh physical i mean look check this out bro like and i haven't said this to nobody you're

02:00:45.920 gonna the first person that i say this uh sometimes our defiance because we didn't want to uh

02:00:54.600 blow the rules you know i will not eat like i will go on hunger strikes so one time i went on a

02:01:02.660 hunger strike for over a week and a half and they took me to infirmary and at the prison then they

02:01:09.140 said like if i'm not gonna eat they're going to tube me up you're gonna uh put a catheter on me and

02:01:14.820 then you're gonna put uh the uh the liquid on the vein on your vein i'm sorry right now the iv yeah and

02:01:22.600 uh the iv so i told them like no i'm not gonna eat so then they cuffed me to the bed like my arms 0.87

02:01:29.240 and my feet and without any anesthesia or anything they put the catheter on my penis 0.92

02:01:35.040 and then they put that tube down my throat oh my gosh back like eight of them holding my neck and

02:01:42.280 um they were just like while i was struggling trying to like breathe they're just putting that tube down

02:01:47.160 my throat i mean that's just like one of the things that happened you know and that probably happened like

02:01:52.320 in november um yeah that was kind of like pretty rough i didn't think i can what would i can get

02:02:00.260 to do that what would you say to people who are you know these white karens that are out uh protesting

02:02:07.120 the you know what the what actions america has taken in venezuela to get rid of maduro and start

02:02:13.980 to put some pressure on them what what would you say to them the people who you know supposedly

02:02:20.320 are protesting for the venezuelan people well they should talk to venezuelan people before they

02:02:28.100 start doing this thing because there isn't a person in venezuela that is not free and those people that

02:02:35.080 are not connected with the military or not connected with the cartels those are the ones that are suffering

02:02:40.180 and they're actually when i was there all they wanted is for them to be free and they they really did

02:02:46.140 say they they were hoping for trump to to help them and i am sure that's what i hear now because

02:02:53.880 i'm still in contact with them they are very happy with what's going on and actually they even want

02:02:59.020 more intervention because the cartel is so it's still there you know i mean they they have maduro

02:03:05.420 maduro is just the face you know the person kind of like in charge is dios dado cabello and he's still

02:03:11.040 there he's the first he's the one that came out and he's the one that put me on his tv show saying

02:03:16.980 that i was a mercenary and i was here to to kill the president and you know a big old plot it was

02:03:22.760 huge brother and then so this particular guy dios dado after the u.s after trump said that they want

02:03:29.000 all political prisoners to come out he has come out i think like a day ago two days ago saying that he is

02:03:34.360 not going to let any of the political prisoners come out so he's still in charge and unfortunately

02:03:39.660 like he's still running venezuela because people are afraid like you know people don't understand

02:03:45.300 here in the u.s you know how beautiful it is that you can go outside and protest and not get killed

02:03:51.580 and not get uh you know don't get kidnapped or get pretty much quote unquote how they call it

02:03:58.880 disappeared how they call it in venezuela over here we have we have that we're able to protest we're

02:04:06.000 able to speak against some of the leaders without any repercussion you know what i mean so people in

02:04:12.360 venezuela are still suffering because they cannot speak for themselves you know they cannot fight 1.00

02:04:16.400 so for those people out there that they are thinking something that is not they should probably do

02:04:23.300 the research a little bit more and they should know a person that i've been that i've been

02:04:28.180 held captive i'm being tortured if it wasn't for this administration i would not know if i was told i

02:04:34.700 would be out any anytime soon you know and i really appreciate all the hard work that the administration

02:04:41.740 who has done donald trump my president marco rubio the spija team which is the team that got uh the

02:04:49.160 americans out and for the people to realize that this is not you know it sounds like oh here goes

02:04:56.800 the u.s trying to get oil oh here's just trying to get but you know what what's more important in all

02:05:01.360 of that is the life of those people the life of all those political prisoners that are being tortured

02:05:06.560 that has more value than any tons of gold and any tons of of oil or whatever money you know because

02:05:16.020 those those people that are suffering no matter how much money you give them they'll never be happy

02:05:20.820 until they have their family member back you know and that's what i think is more important

02:05:24.660 renzo i we pray for you we pray for your wife who is still in jail and i thank you so much for your

02:05:30.740 conversation with us i i will tell you that um the what he's saying here is so incredibly important

02:05:39.800 you know as i'm listening to him talk i'm thinking how many people right now around the world are

02:05:46.080 hoping the united states will just pay attention not come running in with troops just pay attention

02:05:53.480 look at all what happened during covid all the people in hong kong that were in the streets they

02:05:58.800 were waving american flag they just disappeared because we weren't paying attention we're paying

02:06:03.780 attention now please pray for the people in venezuela there's a lot left to be done there by the people

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02:06:29.940 they don't suddenly you're stuck with payments that don't seem to move the needle wondering why

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 12, 2026

The REAL Issues with Jerome Powell and the Fed ｜ Guests： Goldie Ghamari & Renzo Castillo ｜ 1⧸12⧸26

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