The Shocking Origins of the Deep State Finally Exposed ｜ Guests： Amb. Monica Crowley & Rep. Chip Roy ｜ 2⧸18⧸26
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On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about a new tool you can carry in case of self-defense, the ongoing ICE shutdown, and the Iran situation. Glenn also talks about the latest in the Epstein scandal, and why he thinks the world is going to war with Iran.
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We're going to try to jump into that right away.
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Also, the ICE shutdown, whoopee, on her being in the Epstein.
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It's also President's Week, but I want to start with FCC.
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But before we get to that, Axios has just come out and said Trump is moving closer to a major war with Iran.
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I think most people are falling asleep on this one, and I don't even know what that means.
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He is chief researcher, and also, this is his expertise, is the world going to war.
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I want to see what he thinks that means, because we have just, in the last 24 hours,
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we have moved 150 U.S. military cargo flights to move weapons and ammunition to the Middle East.
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In the past 24 hours, another 50 fighter jets, F-35s, F-22s, and F-16s have headed to the region.
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He is the host of, what do we call this show again that you do every day?
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And you do all the behind the scenes, so when we go into commercial break,
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you go and give further detail on what we're talking about,
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the stuff I'm just not going to have time to do on the national show.
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I wanted to bring you in because I've been hearing you talk every day about watch Iran, watch Iran.
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And he made a promise that you start killing supporters and people who are out on the street,
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Then it kind of changed to, after they killed 35,000 people, it kind of changed to,
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well, let's see if we can work a deal out with you.
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And I believe that this is him just showing the rest of the world and especially the Middle East.
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We tried everything we could and they cannot have nuclear weapons.
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And we tried and tried and tried, gave it our best effort and they refused.
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But what does a major war, this is what Axios is reporting,
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It means a broader regional war is what we're looking at here.
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I think it'll be primarily an air war, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Gulf War.
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That's what we're looking at right now because over, you mentioned over the past 24 hours,
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the additions of military equipment moving into the region over the last 12 hours,
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really every 12 hours or so, we're doubling what we're sending or what's arriving into the area.
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But I mean, every time I look at this, there's graphics, I'm looking at it and it's like,
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oh my gosh, that's twice as what it was before.
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It's pretty remarkable the amount of hardware that's moving.
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you're going to see a lot of conflicting information on here
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because this is where the Middle Eastern geopolitics comes in.
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So on one hand, you've got the Saudis who do not love the Iranians.
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The Saudis will be drawn into this, including every other Gulf monarchy over there.
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But what they have now is this interesting, I guess, conundrum.
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So everyone over there agrees that the Iranians are disruptive.
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They're causing problems in their own countries.
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They have broad ambitions to do way, way more to dominate the entire region.
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they don't have to compete with Iranian oil right now.
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And there are significant reserves of oil and gas in Iran.
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But right now, they don't have to compete with it.
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Iran's portion of that stockpile is sanctioned.
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So what the Saudis and the rest of them are looking at right now is suddenly a scenario
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that's very real, especially if this war breaks out, that now they are at a significant
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Now they have to compete with Iran with oil prices, gas prices, everything.
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But all of our military bases that are all over the Middle East, they will be involved in this.
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We need to start looking at what this looks like in terms of, you know, Iran's about to go,
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if we are correct that the war is about to happen soon.
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The world is about to go into, Iran is about to go into regime survival mode,
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which everything that they have planned over the past, since 1979, to maintain control and power,
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That means the Strait of Hormuz, which the Iranians just signaled that just a couple of days ago
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They shut down the Strait of Hormuz briefly, or portions of it, for a live fire exercise.
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Now that was a signal to, we still have that trump card.
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We will shut down the Strait of Hormuz if our regime is coming under attack.
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We also know that they have sleeper cells all over the world.
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We don't know how significant of a threat that is.
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We don't know if we're prepared for that, but you can better believe that the Iranians
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will look at all those options once this happens.
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But this will be primarily a large, massive air campaign to take out the ability for Iran
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to shoot long-range missiles, to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, and to do whatever else they want.
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Because he knows if he gets into a long-drawn-out war, it's going to be horrible for him.
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I don't think that he is saying, don't worry, Mr. President, because there are way too many variables
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And a lot of options and cards the Iranians have to play will be involved here.
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That's why I think there's so much hardware moving there.
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They've been very surprising in how they deal with military or kinetic strikes.
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They attack when people don't expect them to attack.
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They do things that are just completely unexpected.
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And that's what's thrown a lot of world leaders kind of off kilter.
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So, I think anything I'm dreaming up right now or any other expert, it's probably going to be something
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We also don't know what their capabilities are.
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I do think, Glenn, that if this is going to be a major regional war, if the stakes are as high as
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potentially regime collapse and regime change, which your conversation with the Crown Prince
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sounds like if this commences, the ground troops being the Iranian people will come out,
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there's a very real shot that the regime does come down.
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So, unless you get the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard, to switch sides, the people are unarmed.
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I personally think that there's a chance that because the way Iran works, and this is very important for people to understand,
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the way that Iran works, it's almost like a massive surveillance state.
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And it's built off the back of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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So, think of the deep state to the nth degree, surveillance state to the nth degree.
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That's what they built to protect the regime, and it all runs through the Revolutionary Guard.
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Well, they have historically been at odds with the regular military.
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So, I do believe there's a high chance that if it gets to that point, then the weapons on the ground in support of the people could be the regular Iranian military.
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But I do think that they will come out in force.
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And I think that, speaking of weapons that we don't know the capabilities of, I think that cyber warfare, if Venezuela is any kind of, I guess, clue to this or hint,
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I do believe we will see cyber warfare used like never before when this kicks off.
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If we demonstrate the kind of prowess that we showed in Venezuela, the world will shake.
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I mean, if we somehow or another go in and we can cripple them like we did in Venezuela in ways that nobody can imagine, that makes the United States a power beyond all powers.
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Because it'll just, you know, when Bush said, it's going to be shock and awe, it was more like shock and yawn to me.
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I mean, it was like, okay, well, that's what I expected America to do.
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And I remember seeing it going, okay, well, this looks like a really intense war.
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Do you think this is going to look more like Venezuela in a way that it's just stuff that we just didn't know we had the capability of doing?
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And I like how you use the shock and awe and the Gulf Wars because during the, especially the first Gulf War, the thing that we debuted then was precision guided munitions.
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So Tomahawk, cruise missiles, we really showed off our precision weapons.
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And that was a very similar flashpoint in global, you know, defense history.
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We showed for the first time how accurate our weapons were.
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The Russians had no idea that they were that, you know, accurate.
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If this goes to regional war status and as big as what some people are predicting, I think they'll be saying the same things after this happens is, oh my gosh, we are so far behind.
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So the, the, the point of what Trump did with Israel in the Middle East was to get us out of this position to where we're always in the Middle East, that the Middle East would take care of itself because you'd have the UAE and you'd have Egypt and you'd have Saudi Arabia and everybody else.
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Does that alliance hold together if, or if we're going in and destabilizing Iran?
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I mean, you just said about the, the, you know, Straits of Hormuz and they also don't want all of that oil, you know, to be freed up and open.
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That's the, that's the question of the millennia is really right there because if you want to think back through history, we have always been searching for that answer.
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The Abraham Accords is very positive to getting them all to work together.
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But the solution back in the day, back, you know, right after the, you know, right during the, you know, the, the, the wars between Saddam Hussein and Iran was to arm one side, also arm the other side and have them fight each other so that nobody else, they weren't considering, they weren't thinking about fighting Israel.
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Now it seems the idea is, well, the only problem is Iran.
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But I do think the Abraham Accords are probably the biggest, you know, goal and, you know, eventual outcome to move towards.
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But the biggest destabilizer in the entire Middle East right now is Iran.
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Every single country is, is in some way in the Middle East are being terrorized by Iran.
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And so if, I figure, I think that they're, they're thinking if they fix that, that'll free up a lot of the region.
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But then it's, it's just like before, it's going to pivot to, you know, the competition between all these big, you know, these regional powers in the Middle East between, well, you know, we are the big oil guy on the block.
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You're going to have more sectarian issues, I'm sure, inner Sunni sectarian issues, Shia.
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So a whole nother ball of wax, as it usually is in the Middle East, will open up after this.
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I think that if they stick to their guns on cooperation through Abraham Accords, I think that they got a shot.
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Do you think there's any chance we have to worry about nukes?
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I don't think that, unless something is hidden that we don't know about, but I think that one of their primary targets will be a lot of those nuclear sites, those long-range missile sites.
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So they're going to knock those out probably first and foremost after the air defense.
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We talk about it in our meetings every single day.
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I don't necessarily bring it to you because I don't, I'm figured out what exactly we're doing other than being very, very clear negotiate or it's over, but I don't know what that means.
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You know, the one thing that we know Iran is hoping is, you know, back in 2009, there were violent uprisings.
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And he decided to negotiate with them, you know, use this as a, you know, a way to get in and go, you're really not like this.
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We're otherwise we're going to have to come in and hit you.
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Um, and so they used it to buy extra time and Obama went in and he made all kinds of deals with them and they were all bad, but it was about buying time.
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That's all this, that's all this, um, uh, regime has to do.
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You know, remember America changes every four years.
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We could be a, Hey, we love violent extremist Islamists, you know, in the middle East.
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And that's what they're, they're hoping that, uh, this is going to be able to do.
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I mean, the one thing about Trump is he is a master negotiator.
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So I, I trust the president because I think he's earned the right to be trusted on all of the things that he has done and keeps hitting it out of the park, especially with foreign, uh, adversaries.
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Um, so I trust him, but I, I worry about what we are getting in, you know, trust yet verify.
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Uh, I just don't know what he's doing yet, but I know he's got something up his sleeve and I know the Pentagon.
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I trust, you see how many people they fired recently at the Pentagon?
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Cause they were like, yeah, you guys are just about making money and playing politics and you know, we're about winning wars.
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Just fired thousands of people, which I, I'm all for.
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I am absolutely all for is Chip Roy coming on with us in a second.
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So Chip is going to talk to us about, you know, the ice shutdown.
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This doesn't affect ice, by the way, it just affects DHS.
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Um, and so the Democrats are now planning on shutting down for five days.
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They have already shut down now DHS and really hurt them in funding.
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And so then you're going to have problems at your airport.
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And the Democrats got nothing but grief out of that.
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Um, I guess it just slowed the government down.
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I think what they're doing with this is they're trying to, uh, buy time on the save act.
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Uh, because if they solve this, the next thing on the Senate roster is the save act.
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So let's just at least get past, uh, the, um, state of the union next week because Trump
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is going to hammer them at the state of the union and lay out his agenda.
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And part of that will be the save act, but very unpopular with the Democrats and all voters
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Chip Roy will try to make sense of that coming up in just a second.
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Yesterday, Allie Beth Stuckey hosted the Blaze debate for the Texas Attorney General, and
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Chip was there running for attorney general of the great state of Texas, and all the coverage.
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I'm sorry, Chip, I didn't have a chance to see it.
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I haven't had a chance to see it, but I read about the coverage, and it looks like everybody
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And then, you know, you were trying to talk about the Muslim footprint in Texas, which
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People don't understand in Texas how close Texas is to, A, going blue, and, B, having
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I tried to be the, you know, adult there at the debate, making clear what we need to do
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You know, yesterday, before the debate, I joined with my colleague, Keith Self.
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He's a great conservative, represents the Collins County area north of Dallas.
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And we were out at your studios, in one of the great rooms out there, where we were
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holding a gathering, a meeting, with a lot of folks in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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who are attuned to what's happening with the advance of Sharia law and the advance of
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the Islamification of Texas, and particularly Dallas-Fort Worth.
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And so we had a good discussion there about the state of things, about the extent to which
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there are some areas now increasingly no-go zones in Dallas-Fort Worth for women.
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You know, you saw the dust-up with my friend and colleague, Randy Fine, who was, you know,
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quipping a little bit, but about a little bit of this issue in New York about the dog
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And now you've got Democrats calling on him to be censured.
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There's a cultural war going on, and I think it's really important for people to understand
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You and I are strong defenders of the Constitution.
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This is not about your ability to believe in the God of your choice and how you want to
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It's about being at war with our civilization and having a purposeful plan to undo it.
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So I'm getting heat because I spoke about that yesterday, and I said, look, not all Muslims
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And Islamists, I would pick a dog over an Islamist every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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And so, you know, what I'm getting heat on is I didn't go far enough.
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If Muslims believe the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, period, but anyone
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who believes that Sharia law and the Koran usurp the United States Constitution, then
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I got a problem with you, and you don't belong in here because you are warring against our
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But there is a big difference between those two.
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So here's the way I look at it, and I think this is a really, really important conversation
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that I hope you and I and all of us will be having now, like regularly, right, and to
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do it intelligently, as adults, as people who believe in our Constitution, but who recognize
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I start with, and what I want to do as Attorney General, is use the power of the Attorney General's
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office over looking at corporations and nonprofits, looking at the books, following the money,
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Obviously, Governor Abbott has declared each of those as terrorist organizations.
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And we need to look at all of these organizations and see what their plan is.
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Because you've got groups that are saying specifically, as the Muslim Brotherhood has,
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And then carry forward that as a goal, an omissional goal, politically, ideologically.
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That's not religion that the First Amendment contemplates.
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That is a specific political, ideological effort to reshape and remake America and destroy
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our constitutional values in Western civilization.
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If we don't recognize that, then look across the Atlantic, look at Europe, and that will be
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This is happening in real time, and we have to recognize it.
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We've got to take this on squarely, because it is a war raging for the soul of Western civilization.
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Okay, quickly, let me just ask you, what do you know?
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What are your thoughts on, Axios broke a story earlier today, a major war.
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Again, that's not Trump's M.O. to get us into a war.
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I need to make a few phone calls today, so I'm always careful about how I speak about
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But, comma, however, I don't believe that we ought to be looking to engage in getting
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I supported the president and what happened with the bunker busters and dropping the bombs
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and taking out their advancement of nuclear power.
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Right now, I think we need to be resolved and stand with the people of Iran who are pushing
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back on their tyrannical leadership and offer that kind of support in that way.
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I don't want to talk about what the president's doing without doing that.
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We've had over two decades of this engagement and conflict in the Middle East.
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There's a war being waged against our way of life, and the Islamists are trying to do
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That's why I support the president in the Western Hemisphere, knocking out cartels.
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I don't want them having the Soviet Union, or I'm sorry, Russia.
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And Russia and China and Iran over in the Western Hemisphere through Venezuela.
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I think the president's done a masterful job on many fronts, not being a warmonger,
00:31:13.040
but being a strategic peace through strength president.
00:31:15.660
Stay in that lane is where I think we need to be.
00:31:18.740
And I have a feeling that's where he, because he's not a war guy.
00:31:22.140
I mean, he is a peace through strength guy, but I'm anxious to see where he's going with this.
00:31:28.080
Let me talk to you about the ICE shutdown, putting your congressional hat back on, the ICE shutdown.
00:31:38.380
This is only going to hurt them as it hits, because it's not going to stop ICE.
00:31:43.360
This is only going to hurt DHS, which goes to our national security, but also go to our airports.
00:31:49.140
When that starts to hit, they're not going to be popular.
00:31:52.520
It's a rerun of what they just did, which didn't work out for them.
00:31:56.860
Well, yeah, I mean, look, I think this is politics, right?
00:32:00.140
This is all about what they're trying to do with ICE.
00:32:02.440
The Save America Act is connected to the very same issue.
00:32:07.680
Look, remember a year ago, some of us were leaning into the big, beautiful bill,
00:32:12.220
working with the president to make sure that there was money there for both defense and for ICE and Border Patrol.
00:32:20.760
A lot of conservatives kind of looked at us cockeyed and, you know, tilted their heads.
00:32:28.460
We used that to guarantee there would be money there to stop what the Democrats are doing right now.
00:32:34.240
So there's money there for ICE and Border Patrol.
00:32:35.960
Now, what that does is it leaves TSA and the Coast Guard and FEMA dangling in the wind.
00:32:42.400
So we've just got to make sure that Americans understand, we've already sent a funding bill over there.
00:32:49.880
So when weeks go by, if they don't do their job, they're the ones that are going to be causing travel headaches and nightmares,
00:32:55.520
not allowing FEMA to do its job in Tennessee after the ice storms, et cetera, and then the Coast Guard not to be what it needs to be.
00:33:03.340
I trust the President and Russ vote to figure out how to move money around and try to keep us safe at the Coast Guard.
00:33:10.620
And by the way, the Save America Act is a perfect example of the same story.
00:33:15.460
Democrats want to try to block that in the Senate.
00:33:18.160
I hope soon we'll use the talking filibuster, you know, which I've written extensively about, to try to break the back of it.
00:33:24.420
But these things are related, right, because soon can't put that on the floor until we figure out this funding mechanism.
00:33:30.160
Yeah, so I think that's what, I think that's what this is about.
00:33:34.140
I think this is to delay the Save America Act, quite honestly.
00:33:42.360
Talk about the talking filibuster, because a couple of conservatives came out and said, we can't change the filibuster.
00:33:50.900
You're actually restoring it to what it used to be, a talking filibuster.
00:34:01.320
You're actually restoring it and doing it the way it's supposed to be done on the books.
00:34:08.640
Well, well, Glenn, thank you for making that so clear.
00:34:11.320
And for all the listeners out there, if you don't understand what we're talking about, I posted on X a memo, a dear colleague letter.
00:34:18.320
I wrote walking people through what's really happening.
00:34:24.280
I was a lawyer on the Judiciary Committee, and I was Ted Cruz's chief of staff.
00:34:30.340
The rules, the Senate rules, it's built around the filibuster.
00:34:35.700
It's an important part of the Senate and its history and its legacy.
00:34:38.700
But we need Mr. Smith to go back to Washington.
00:34:41.560
If you don't get that joke, it's the old movie, right?
00:34:45.000
And where you had to, you know, Jimmy Stewart had to be on the floor of the Senate filibustering and talking.
00:34:51.540
What we've done is we've defaulted to this notion.
00:34:53.600
It's a fake filibuster or a zombie filibuster, as Mike Lee says, that, oh, there's a 60-vote threshold to shut off debate if a senator, you know, wants to slow walk a bill.
00:35:10.160
And if they keep talking, let them keep talking.
00:35:12.640
There's a two-speech rule where you can only give two speeches on a topic.
00:35:16.160
If Republicans are disciplined, Democrats will run out of gas.
00:35:20.880
If they successfully filibuster for two months, then they've been on the floor of the Senate telling America they want non-citizens to vote rather than protect our elections.
00:35:30.060
They oppose voter ID even though it's an 85% issue.
00:35:46.540
Stop playing fake games and trying to tell the American people that failure theater, putting the bill on the floor, the 60-vote threshold, is doing your job.
00:35:58.060
No, I actually think we'd probably break their back faster than that, right?
00:36:03.060
I mean, how 47 Democrats, and I think Fetterman is kind of leaning in our direction, how many of them are going to speak for more than two hours or three hours or four hours?
00:36:19.080
Like, look, you're going to have to wheel them over from the nursing home, tell them to put their Jell-O down, tell them to go down to the floor of the Senate and stand up.
00:36:27.020
And you've got to keep standing and keep talking.
00:36:32.320
You know, five, six, seven, eight of them will go do a big show.
00:36:36.340
They'll say we're going to be taking the vote away from women, that it's Jim Crow 2.0.
00:36:45.100
By the way, our bill specifically allows any person who goes to register to vote under the Save America Act, if you have a conflict in your ID, if you show up as Sarah Smith on your driver's license, Sarah Jones on your birth certificate, you can sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury.
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We allow states to create the systems however they want.
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That is a respectful way to make sure that we have a system that is trying to guarantee only citizens vote.
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You know, Linda Davis, she was a schoolteacher, and she was killed by an illegal who was trying to get away from ICE.
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And it's amazing to me because somehow or another, ICE is the bad guy here.
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I mean, before, when illegals were killing people in car accidents, they didn't even want to mention it.
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Now they're standing on this because somehow or another, ICE is the one responsible.
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So they know the truth because they were hiding the truth all of the other times.
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They've just found a narrative now that they think works.
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If you, you know, if you just pay attention to the way news is, uh, is structured and built, you, you understand the game that they are playing.
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It just, it's so frustrating how, how many people just, you know, don't understand that and don't want to look at what is actually, uh, happening.
00:40:52.960
Uh, so the ICE shutdown continues as we talked to Chip, but, uh, I don't know if you know that.
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Did you see the, um, you see in the immigration, uh, officer or whatever it is in New York city, who that is.
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Really, really not, not good, but mom, Donnie is going to make it better for everybody because when he's not leaving the homeless people out in the cold to die, you know, with that warmth of socialism, um, he is, uh, he's just going to raise everybody's property tax by nine and a half percent.
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I want to talk to you about this new information coming out from Nixon.
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She actually worked with Nixon, and I did the math.
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She was six when Nixon left office, so she was quite an amazing child.
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But she worked with Nixon, obviously, after the administration.
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And I really want to know, because she tweeted out,
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you can't understand the deep state targeting of President Trump
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without understanding the deep state targeting of President Nixon.
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This is really important if you care about American history.
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to set the record straight, Glenn,
00:46:39.940
because I don't want anybody to think I'm 125 years old.
00:46:44.640
I was not actually born when President Nixon was elected president, but I did work with him during the last four years of his life.
00:46:54.720
So the early to mid-1990s, up until he passed away in 1994.
00:47:02.900
Did you ever talk to him about the deep state and some of this stuff?
00:47:08.260
And what's so gratifying for me, Glenn, on a personal level is I really adored President Nixon.
00:47:15.180
You know, I came to know him as my boss, of course, for four years, my first job out of college.
00:47:24.740
He was a mentor, and he was a very, very dear friend of mine when I was very young, and he was at the end of his life.
00:47:31.920
So I promised him before he passed away that I would take care of his legacy.
00:47:38.560
I said, Mr. President, I pledge to you that I will spend the rest of my life advancing and protecting and defending your legacy.
00:47:46.900
And Glenn, I'll never forget, he looked at me, and he kind of smiled in a wry kind of way.
00:47:52.500
And he said, Monica, I appreciate that, but you're going to have much more important things to do in your life and career.
00:47:59.000
And now, of course, here I am working for President Trump.
00:48:04.080
And Glenn, I have literally spent the last 30 years since he did pass away doing exactly that.
00:48:09.480
So now to see these new documents coming out, these new revelations about the truth, about what happened to Richard Nixon and how Watergate was a deep state frame up of him, is personally very gratifying.
00:48:24.780
I will say that when I worked for him in the early 90s, Glenn, to your question, we did speak about it, but nobody really knew what the deep state was.
00:48:33.580
Now, remember that Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president.
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Eisenhower's farewell address famously warned about the rise of an unaccountable deep state, what he called the military-industrial complex, what we now know as the deep state.
00:48:53.820
Nixon internalized that lesson because he saw Eisenhower, a military man who helped to win World War II and free the West from Nazi oppression.
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He saw what Eisenhower was going through and the rise of the security state that was unaccountable to anyone.
00:49:14.760
So after World War II, the creation of the CIA, the creation of the NSA, the creation of the DIA, the corruption of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon saw all of this.
00:49:28.580
So when he became president, and this is actually what gave the deep state the context to do what they did, Nixon understood the threat within, but also understood he couldn't bring it to the American people in the late 60s, early 70s.
00:49:43.540
They would go, what are you even talking about?
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It took the next 50 years for people to wake up.
00:49:49.760
He also, I mean, what I saw in the documents, he also was very, he did not want to drag the military through the mud.
00:49:59.500
He'd just gone through Vietnam and he's like, I don't want to do more damage to the military because the military is important and it's good.
00:50:06.060
So he also was trying to protect the good parts of the military, at least it seems to be that way.
00:50:12.160
For anybody who doesn't know, give us what the documents revealed that maybe the public didn't know before.
00:50:19.800
So when Nixon becomes president, he understands what Eisenhower was warning about.
00:50:25.360
So he decides that he is going to consolidate all foreign policy and national security decision making in the hands of two people, he and his national security advisor at the time, Henry Kissinger, who we later learned was a deep state operative.
00:50:43.760
OK, so Nixon is getting inputs from one man who he really trusted, who perhaps he should not have.
00:50:52.240
That creates the environment where he is excluding the military, his own State Department, his own Secretary of State.
00:51:03.400
They're all going crazy, Glenn, because he is keeping all of the secrets to himself.
00:51:10.200
The opening to China, detente with the Soviet Union, shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, all of these huge, peaceful foreign policy initiatives he and Kissinger are keeping close to the vest.
00:51:23.380
That then gives rise to this military spy ring that pops up in the White House to spy on Nixon and Kissinger, rifling through their papers when they go home.
00:51:37.640
You know, when Nixon goes upstairs to go to bed, they come in in the middle of the night in the White House, in the Oval Office, in Kissinger's office, in the White House.
00:51:48.340
They're examining their telephones, everything possible to spy on Nixon.
00:52:02.100
The deep state flipped out that they were being excluded.
00:52:04.940
They had no idea what the president was planning, the discussions he was having.
00:52:09.660
And so ultimately, Glenn, when you and this is what these new papers show.
00:52:13.920
The more Admiral Moore, General Radfield at the time, created this military spy ring to spy on Nixon.
00:52:22.540
And you know who was a key member of it was one Bob Woodward, who was a naval intelligence officer, who was read in on this military spy ring.
00:52:35.440
And then, through the CIA's mockingbird media program, was planted as a, quote, journalist at the Washington Post, being fed all of the deep state fans to throw it on the front page of the Washington Post to bring down a president.
00:53:01.180
So Nixon, when he left, the deep state had to consider this a huge victory for them.
00:53:11.040
Did that just embolden them and just keep growing and growing and growing until we get to Trump?
00:53:16.080
And if that's true, Trump didn't know how to fight it last time.
00:53:22.240
He seems to be fighting it really well this time.
00:53:30.600
Let me just go back to Watergate for one second, Glenn, because this is a really critical point.
00:53:34.640
The five Watergate burglars were apprehended at the DNC site at the Watergate complex, five of them, and they were indicted along with two others, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.
00:53:46.980
Of those seven, six were linked to the CIA, and the other one was linked to the FBI.
00:53:53.660
So to your bigger point about Nixon's selflessness, which is what these current documents show, Nixon decided not to fight it in the moment because we were still in the Cold War, and he wanted to preserve the integrity and the public's honor of the United States military.
00:54:16.000
He fell on a sword for the second time in American history because the first time was the 1960 election, which was stolen by the Kennedys and by Lyndon Johnson.
00:54:32.660
He was presented with concrete evidence on election night, and he said, I am not going to challenge this result because the American people deserve a full-time president who is not under a cloud.
00:54:44.060
Nixon gets no credit for putting the country first, not once, but twice.
00:54:51.960
We talk about Nixon, but it actually, the deep state goes back even further to your favorite president, Woodrow Wilson.
00:55:00.120
And the rise of progressivism here in the U.S. and the West.
00:55:05.720
But remember, Woodrow Wilson comes in at the exact same time that you have Vladimir Lenin getting off the train at Finland Station and launching the Russian Revolution.
00:55:18.220
Those two tracks to destroy and crush the West gave rise to a globalist, transnational deep state.
00:55:25.580
Donald Trump in the first term did not know what he did not know.
00:55:31.080
He had never done any of this before, but he knew that he was targeted.
00:55:34.720
This time around, and you know, God owes his plan.
00:55:37.800
So God sent, just as God sent Richard Nixon into the wilderness from 1960 to 1968, when he ran and won again, he sent Donald Trump into the wilderness for four years during the Biden years.
00:55:51.320
Again, catastrophic for the country, but God had more work to do in both men.
00:55:56.640
And when Donald Trump comes back this time around, he's so much wiser about how Washington works.
00:56:04.120
The deep state here works, but also the globalist deep state.
00:56:08.680
And Glenn, when I tell you, because I was in the Oval Office with him yesterday, this man is dismantling our deep state and the globalist deep state brick by brick.
00:56:19.520
And he's doing it by pulling the funding, pulling their money.
00:56:24.260
We know that they launder money in a couple of different ways.
00:56:29.840
The drug trade, he's putting a stop to that, dealing the border in every direction.
00:56:44.160
I can talk to you about that sometime off the air if you'd like.
00:56:49.300
No, he's really, he's cutting off their sources of funding, which are all illicit and very dark.
00:56:55.220
Human trafficking, child trafficking, and the drug trade.
00:56:58.480
This is, and another reason why he got Maduro alive is because the drug trafficking trade through our entire hemisphere has funded a lot of these deep state activities.
00:57:15.500
And he is working with like-minded leaders, like-minded countries.
00:57:20.420
This is why, Glenn, you know, tomorrow, my team and I are actually helping to run the first Board of Peace inaugural meeting.
00:57:29.800
And I think we've got about 45 heads of state and others, foreign ministers, maybe more, maybe 60.
00:57:36.560
It's up to now coming in tomorrow for the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace.
00:57:41.000
Donald Trump is building parallel organizations to the corrupt deep state globalist ones like the UN, like the World Health Organization.
00:57:52.840
In a couple of weeks, we're going to do a Western Hemisphere summit.
00:57:55.920
So what he's doing is building a parallel superstructure of like-minded people who are with him on destroying and smashing the entire corrupt globalist status quo that has actually run the world over the last 70 plus years.
00:58:11.760
Monica, I have to tell you, he said to me, you know, I hope to be considered like a founder.
00:58:17.680
And he said, you know, my goal is, you know, George Washington was so great.
00:58:22.280
And I'd like to be remembered, you know, in a category like that.
00:58:29.140
I've been watching him, what he's doing to the rest of the world, how he's dismantling this.
00:58:33.120
I think he will be, he won't be remembered like Washington, but he is a refounder.
00:58:38.640
He is in a unique category that I would only put a couple of presidents in.
00:58:46.720
And the American people just don't understand it yet.
00:58:57.000
If you look at the big three, Washington founded the nation, Lincoln saved the republic, and
00:59:10.480
So in terms of America 250, very exciting as we're getting closer to July 4th, we have
00:59:16.340
founded an organization that is nonpartisan, a public-private partnership called Freedom
00:59:23.040
And I know you and your team are working in partnership for your big May 2nd event on Ellis
00:59:33.740
Highlighting legal immigration that helped to build this country.
00:59:47.120
We are planning the Great American State Fair on the National Mall with all 50 states represented.
00:59:53.380
We are organizing a national prayer event to return the nation as one nation under God,
01:00:00.340
And that will be on the National Mall on May 17th.
01:00:06.380
We've got the big UFC 250 fight on the president's birthday on the South Lawn.
01:00:13.620
We've got your event on May 2nd, of course, and it's going to all culminate on July 4th
01:00:19.520
with a national, international naval review in the New York Harbor and the Hudson River.
01:00:27.700
We've got about 50 countries sending tall ships as well as modern naval ships, which is going
01:00:35.180
And then there'll be a huge salute to the nation led by the president, including an address to
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the nation and the biggest fireworks display in the history of the world.
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We've got the FIFA World Cup final two weeks later in New York with a big Freedom 250 theme.
01:00:53.080
And then in August, the president just announced an IndyCar Grand Prix race for the first time
01:01:01.700
So Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue, and so many other streets in D.C.
01:01:10.020
will be turned into an IndyCar 500 race with the president in attendance and about 100,000
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This is going to be a truly national and global celebration.
01:01:24.260
I have every world leader approaching me, Glenn, including some of our tough adversaries who
01:01:33.340
So we are going to have every country on the face of the earth who's willing to do it is
01:01:38.500
going to help us celebrate that entire week leading up to July 4th.
01:01:46.120
And I just love having you as the ambassador of protocol because I know what that means.
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My best to you and everybody in the administration.
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So I just, I just had a talking to, um, from, uh, my, uh, chief of content, uh, Ricky, uh,
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who is sitting here now and just giving me a talking to every day about, do you know what
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And I, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm, we were just talking about the Freedom 250 event that Monica Crowley
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And she said, you know, it's going to be incredible at the Statue of Liberty.
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And then we get off the air and Ricky said, uh, yeah, yeah.
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Uh, you have no idea what this is like to pull off.
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I said, this is actually going to be more difficult than your event on the national mall.
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And there's like all of these rules and regulations where somehow getting past some of them.
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Thank goodness to Tina Decovich from Moms for Liberty.
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But, uh, our, one of our partners, um, which who we tacked on our idea.
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We're not really visionaries, but we execute visions and we're listening to Glenn give like,
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I'm not going to even tell you how big this vision is for May 2nd.
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And if you're only listening, you can't tell, like you can't see the stress on my face,
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but if you're watching at glennbeck.com slash torch, like I'm tweaking right now.
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Well, but I mean, Tina and you both got to the end of it and went, wow, that would be incredible.
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And if we can pull off a third of it, you guys are going to be blown away.
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If, if I guess if I don't pull off a third of it, I'm fired, but it is going to be fine.
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And it has to be pulled off, not to say the president is going to be there.
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Cause I can't say the president is going to be there.
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Cause I don't have any indication that the president is going to be there, but we are
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And we have another thing that is coming, uh, and I'm not sure if we're going to be able
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I mean, it's secret service is going to be there.
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It's a lot of, a lot of details, but there's something else that is going to happen.
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That is really, and all of those are happening, right?
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I was reading about it and because, you know, I want the statue of Liberty to be a backdrop
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The statue of Liberty at night from that angle is too dark.
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And so I'd like to price out what it would take to get a couple of barges with spotlights
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This is why you have to subscribe to Torch because Glenn has great ideas, but they cost
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We don't, I mean, we don't have to do that, but it would make it look, I mean, you'd see
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I don't remember, you know, 25, 30 years ago and he was doing a speech and they came
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He wanted that in the background and they were like, it's too dark.
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And so he said, get some lights on and some barges.
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They're not necessary, but I'll add it to the list.
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By the way, one of the things that, you know, we try to do and is my mission is to be able
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to tell history in a way that excites you and your family about history again.
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And, you know, it is, uh, it's president's day week.
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Um, and, uh, you know, I just did something with, uh, with, um, Dave Rubin, uh, on his
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And we talked about Aaron Lincoln and I told him some stories that he hadn't necessarily
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heard before, but I want to tell you a great story about Abraham Lincoln that maybe you
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I mean, it was, it was April 14th, 1865 when he was killed, the civil war was ending.
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The nation was hemorrhaging, but it was coming back together.
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And the Lincolns decided they were going to go out and have some laughs.
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Um, and Elizabeth Keckley, this, a woman who is so important to the Abraham Lincoln story,
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She was born into slavery, she purchased her own freedom, and then she went and moved
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to Washington where she became the best seamstress in all of Washington.
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Mary Todd comes in one day, they become friends.
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So she hires them to come to work at the white house.
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She makes all of Abraham Lincoln's clothes, all of, uh, Mary Todd Lincoln's clothes.
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And history tells us along with several books, one by Mary Todd and one by Elizabeth,
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that they were best friends, the, the Lincolns only trusted one person in Washington.
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And it was a seamstress, this, this black woman, they go to Ford's theater.
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Lincoln is watching this comedy called, uh, you know, uh, our American cousin, uh, cousin.
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And, uh, they go because it's a comedy and life feels normal again for just maybe a couple
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of hours, but the family is broken up into two theaters.
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Their son, Tad is at another theater and he is, he's watching, I think it was Aladdin.
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And, uh, because the other was kind of an adult comedy and he wanted to see Aladdin.
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He finds out that his father was shot because somebody runs onto the stage of Atlanta, of
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Aladdin, not knowing that Tad is in the audience and says, ladies and gentlemen, the president
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So that's how he finds out, um, uh, at the theater Wilkes goes in, you know, booth goes
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in and he shoots the president on a big laugh line that he knew he was coming.
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Um, uh, the doctor that shows up is, I think he's like 21 years old or something like that.
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And he comes up, he's, he's brand new as a doctor and doctors back then were a little
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Um, and so he's the first one who gets into the box and he says, the president's going
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It's not going to happen quickly, but it's, he's going to die by the end of the night.
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Um, uh, because of this, this immortal wound, but he keeps either he or the other doctor
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that later came in, keep digging into sticking the finger in the hole of the back of his
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They later just have to just keep draining his head because his, his brain is swelling
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Um, and there is this woman who is, um, a part of the show.
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Um, and I can't remember her name now, Keen, I can't remember her name, but she was part
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And she finds out that the president is bleeding to death upstairs and decides, uh, I got to
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go up and comfort him changes into a new white dress that she just bought.
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And she goes up into the box and she says, well, I hear the president is just suffering.
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They let her in, they prop him up on her big hoop skirt dress.
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She later goes on tour trying to make herself look like Florence Nightingale.
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I mean, it's, it's an incredible story what happened, but anyway, let me get back to the
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main point of the story is that seamstress best friends.
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Mary Todd Lincoln is just out of her mind, uh, with grief that night.
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Elizabeth has the, uh, the presence of mind to know she's got to be wearing black tomorrow
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Imagine this woman sewing this dress for her best friend and for Abraham Lincoln, the man
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who just freed her people, the tears in her eyes, as she sewed this dress, we have that
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dress in our museum in Dallas, and it's an amazing piece of history.
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And you can tell if you know anything about, you know, a sewing, you can tell it was, it
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And I told you that story quickly, um, because I want to, I want to tell it in a different
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This is part of the things that we're doing at torch that you will see coming.
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I want to be able to create these stories, tell you these stories, have the artifacts,
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and then be able to seal it by creating music that you will listen with your family, that
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you will like, um, that just reinforce the story.
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In a quiet room at the White House, where the candles tremble low, a woman stitched the nation's
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wounds with every thread she'd sold, Elizabeth, once a slave girl, now with freedom in her
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hands, so dresses for a first lady in a torn, divided land, Mary whispered all her secrets,
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only Lizzie ever heard, two women bound by sorrow, by needle cloth and word, while the cannons
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roared in Richmond, and the boys rode home in fear, two friends quilted through the heartache,
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Sown in the darkness, two hearts mend in history in a world gone insane.
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Threads of mercy, threads of grace, love holding steady in the hardest place, sown in the darkness,
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The darkness carried by the light, oh, the hands that stitched the morning of that long and bitter
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night, Abe was fighting with his rivals, trying hard to win the war, Mary pacing in the parlor,
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saying, Lizzie, talk some more, they quilted broken pieces, while her husband fought to heal,
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one with words that shaped a nation, one with thread and steadied steel,
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and Abe dreamed of Jerusalem, walking where his Savior tried, dreamed of rest beside the Jordan
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In the quiet lands of God, he never told his Mary that a shadow crossed his dream,
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just held her hand that April night beneath the theater's gleam.
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Sown in the darkness, sown through the pain, two hearts mend in history in a world gone insane.
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Threads of mercy, threads of grace, love holding steady in the hardest place,
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Sown in the darkness, carried by the light, oh, the hands that stitched the morning of that long and bitter night,
01:18:43.240
And the bullets split the laughter, and the world came crashing down,
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Mary crying on the bedside as her love slipped from the crown,
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Lizzie heard the midnight knocking, white house windows burning bright,
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knew her friend would need black morning by the first cold light,
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And with tear-blurred eyes she stitched it, every seam a prayer of love,
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For the man who freed her people, now carried home above.
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She dressed a widow's heartbreak as the dawn began again.
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Threads of mercy, threads of grace, a freed woman standing in that sacred place,
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Oh, the hands that loved the Lincolns on that long and dreadful night,
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In a quiet room at sunrise, folded cloth and silent tears,
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A seamstress stitched her memories into the fabric of the years.
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Well, it's the beginning of Ramadan. Congratulations. But it is also Ash Wednesday. And I want to
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talk to you a little bit about why Ash Wednesday. But I also need to get into the FCC thing, you
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a long time, who has been tried, they've tried to shut me down for 30 plus years. I get what people
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into into something that is just fake. So I want to go through a couple of things on that. Also,
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Whoopi Goldberg, more on war in Iran that's possibly coming our way so much. We'll get to it in 60
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Ash Wednesday. Um, because my favorite part of Lent is fat Tuesday, but that's passed. So let's start
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with, let's start with today. It's amazing to watch people go on television and, uh, see this and you
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see the sign of the cross on their forehead in ashes, ashes. There's something haunting about ashes.
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You know, um, every year people from all different walks of life from all over the globe, stand up
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moms, presidents, plumbers, teenagers to stand in line and get a, a mark on their forehead. Um, and hear
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the words that, you know, most of us are trying to live our lives, not to hear, remember your dust.
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And to dust, you will return. And that's where the story of Ash Wednesday begins. Ash Wednesday
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didn't begin as a holiday. It was really starting as a shock, you know, um, in the earliest centuries
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of Christianity, long before there were stained glass windows and grand cathedrals, those who had
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fallen badly were brought forward publicly. And then they were told they had to wear sackcloth, rough,
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you know, like bags of flour come in sackcloth. And then they were covered in ashes and they had to
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stand outside of the community as a visible reminder that human beings fail and that only with humility
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comes restoration. And that practice, that practice echoes something even older in the Hebrew scriptures,
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figures like Job and Daniel sat in ashes as a sign of repentance. Kings humbled themselves in dust when
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they realized, uh, or they were forced to realize that their power is temporary. Ashes have always been
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in the universal language of mortality. But late in the first millennium, something profound happened.
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What once only marked the worst sinners began to be given to everyone. Now think of that.
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So the church looked at humanity and said, we're all sinners, everybody, no one stands outside the need
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for repentance. So the ashes moved from the few really, really bad to everyone. And by the eighth
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century, the day of ashes appears formally in liturgical books. And by the 10th century, the entire
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congregation received them all over the ashes are what remains after a fire is finished. You can't fake
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ashes. They're the only thing that's left when everything else burns away, wealth, titles, ego,
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clothing, certainty, everything. And here's the little known part that most people don't talk about.
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The ashes are traditionally made by burning the palm branches from Palm Sunday last year. And that's
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the day that people were cheering and waving branches because the victor was entering. Christ was coming
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into the city. So yesterday's celebration becomes today's reminder. Triumph turns to dust.
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History folded into this one simple ritual that most people don't even think about.
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Ash Wednesday became really widespread during a time when Europe was building empires and kings
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were imagining themselves nearly divine. Remember, I mean, a divine right of kings who gave you God
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appointed me king yet once a year, even the powerful bowed their heads and heard the same words
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that the peasants did. Dust. You're dust. You'll return to dust. No exceptions.
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It was perhaps the first and most radical equalizers in all of human history. Imagine the medieval rulers
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who believed the bloodline came from God, kneeling with ashes on their head.
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And the public declaration that you're going to die. This guy, he's just like you and he's going
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to die just like you. No law forces humility like mortality. When you hear from ashes, you came
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and to ashes, you'll return, you know, from dust to dust. We hear that today as pessimism, but it's
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not. It's, it's realism. The message is not you're nothing. The message is you are temporary.
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And if that's in the right context, that truth doesn't lead to despair. It leads to clarity.
01:33:49.940
When you know the clock is ticking, you stop wasting time pretending it isn't.
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Hope after Pope have repeated the same idea. Ashes remind us of our fragility, but also of
01:34:03.980
the hope. Dust, according to the tradition, is not worthless. It's dust touched by God. We
01:34:12.040
came from dust, so it's not worthless. History turns when people forget they are dust. Empires
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collapse when leaders believe they are beyond dust. Markets crash when investors believe growth
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is eternal. It will always be this way. From dust to dust. Ash Wednesday is this amazing historic
01:34:39.180
counterweight that, that changes human arrogance. It's one day each year, a group of people in a
01:34:50.560
civilization pauses to admit, we are not God. How great is that? How much would change if we would
01:35:01.500
all humble ourselves and say, we're not God. I know I am not God. There are things that I can do and
01:35:08.320
lots of things I cannot do because that's in the realm of God. It's a warning and a promise.
01:35:16.200
If you stand far enough back, Ash Wednesday looks less like a religious ceremony and more like an
01:35:22.380
annual corrective to human amnesia. It's once a year being reminded, hey, you're fragile, dude.
01:35:32.360
Time is really short. You don't understand until you get older how fast and how short your life
01:35:41.880
really is. I mean, it's gone in a blink and you can only understand that to when I think you get to
01:35:47.240
be about my age where you're like, wow, I mean, it's almost over. And I still have the mind of a 20
01:35:56.560
year old, but my body reminds me, no, it's, it's coming and it's coming for you.
01:36:02.180
And when you start thinking that way, you realize, wow, whatever I build is not going to last.
01:36:13.800
The only thing that survives is character. That's it. Honor, integrity, how you treated others.
01:36:25.400
I think this is why this has lasted, you know, a thousand plus years in its current form, because
01:36:32.620
every generation, it's, it's normal for humans to think, well, there is an exception. I'm an
01:36:37.760
exception to history. They didn't know. I know until the ashes remind them otherwise.
01:36:46.380
Think about what this was, what this was like then. And really what it's like now people lining up,
01:36:52.060
not to be praised, but to be reminded, no applause, no spotlight, just dust.
01:37:01.780
And I think that's why this ritual endures because we live in a world obsessed with proving we matter.
01:37:13.700
Ash Wednesday doesn't care. It doesn't, it's not asking. It asks a better question.
01:37:18.440
Your life is short, dude. What are you going to do with the very limited time that you have,
01:37:28.440
that you've been given before you return to dust and ashes?
01:37:42.100
Let me tell you about Mercury one in 2024. When hurricane Helene came through,
01:37:48.100
there were families standing on rooftops, watching the water rise around them. Parents were holding
01:37:54.260
up their kids, people texting goodbyes because they didn't know if anybody was coming. Remember the
01:37:59.020
government failed. Mercury one didn't wait within 24 hours, private helicopters were in the air.
01:38:05.760
People were being airlifted out by private individuals, medical care, reaching those who
01:38:11.880
needed it, search and rescue teams deployed, all private. Shelter was established. Internet access
01:38:18.520
was restored so families could tell loved ones that they were alive. More than 332,000 pounds of
01:38:25.240
critical supplies were delivered. Oxygen, insulin, heaters, generators, food, water, diapers. That doesn't
01:38:31.700
happen by accident. It happens because we're a family. I started Mercury one, I don't even know,
01:38:39.200
15 years ago because I, I wanted, I wanted to remind people that we were our brother's keeper.
01:38:46.100
I didn't want to reinvent the wheel because there's so many great charities. We just wanted to hold,
01:38:51.320
I want to be Aaron to somebody else's Moses. How can we help you? How can I help lift your arms?
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The next crisis is coming and I would like you to join us if you will. What allows us to go out on
01:39:04.680
very short notice is that we have a loyalty, uh, uh, society. And these are people that just want to
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be there so we can be there right off the bat. $15 a month, your gift of $15 a month goes to help us
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The people at torch think that that woman is AI. She's not AI. She's a real woman. It's amazing.
01:40:11.100
AI sounds like real people. And now real people are starting to sound like AI. Um, okay, let me talk
01:40:16.820
to you a little bit about Stephen Colbert. Cause this guy, this guy's just shameless, just absolutely
01:40:21.460
shameless. Last night, he's lashing out at the Trump administration about the equal time demands.
01:40:27.840
And what he was saying was, you know, what, what happened was the FCC reminded CBS and Stephen
01:40:33.860
Colbert that you have to have equal time, which means if you have one person on that's running
01:40:41.120
as a candidate, you have to have the other people who are also running. So Stephen Colbert said,
01:40:46.400
this is them trying to shut me down. This is not done. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well,
01:40:50.100
let me tell you what the actual rule is on this because, um, it's pretty important that you
01:40:58.880
understand. So when I first saw the FCC going after Colbert, I immediately thought of the
01:41:06.480
fairness doctrine and I immediately thought, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I don't
01:41:10.400
want the fairness doctrine to come back. This is not the fairness doctrine. The fairness doctrine
01:41:14.440
started under what a surprise. Don't he was too, too late for Wilson FDR, the other villain in our
01:41:22.740
progressive story. Um, he starts something and in some ways you can see why there were only,
01:41:28.580
there's only a limited number of air space. Okay. And so, you know, if you want to own part of the
01:41:35.200
public airwaves, you have to be responsible and you have to, you know, talk about the important
01:41:40.380
things, discuss tough issues, be a service to your community, et cetera, et cetera. And so they came
01:41:46.300
up with the fairness doctrine. Well, the fairness doctrine did a lot of things. You had to have,
01:41:53.520
you know, equal time, et cetera, et cetera. But you also had to cover all sides of an issue,
01:42:00.020
et cetera, et cetera, which made most broadcasters say, I don't want to touch, I don't want to touch
01:42:04.480
anything controversial because then I got to get bogged down with lawyers and the FCC. And so they just
01:42:10.320
didn't do it. And so a lot of things were left on the table that people just wouldn't address.
01:42:14.660
Well, they did it because of limited airspace. 1980, Reagan comes in and he's like, there's not
01:42:21.280
limited airspace anymore. You've got cable news. You have all of these cable channels, blah, blah,
01:42:25.880
blah. And he made a case and went to the Supreme court and the Supreme court agreed. Uh, nope,
01:42:31.500
the fairness doctrine is irrelevant now. And it's only even more irrelevant, uh, because of all of the
01:42:38.100
podcasts that you have, you can get any view you want. Believe me, you want somebody to say,
01:42:43.540
you know, pedophilia cannibals are a great thing. You can find that channel to tell you that. Okay.
01:42:52.100
So the fairness doctrine is not coming back. It's not, it's not what the FCC is doing here.
01:42:58.960
What the FCC is doing is enforcing equal time. And that never went away. Equal time does not,
01:43:10.500
uh, matter to legitimate news shows. Okay. If you are talking about the news every day and you are,
01:43:19.940
that's what you discuss is news and information. So actual news shows, uh, you know, the, the evening
01:43:28.460
news or you have, uh, news programs that are responding to what's happening in real time.
01:43:35.080
They don't count. Um, you know, Sunday news programs, programs like this that are, we're
01:43:40.500
dealing with the news of the day as it happens, as it breaks, we're covered with the exemption
01:43:46.980
of news. What isn't covered is the tonight show with Johnny Carson. What isn't covered is any TV show
01:43:57.200
that is entertainment. Late night TV falls into that category. The reason why we haven't enforced
01:44:05.360
this is because the FCC for a long time was under the, uh, under the hands of Democrats or Republicans
01:44:13.260
who just didn't want to enforce anything and they didn't care. And the Democrats started the, the,
01:44:18.820
the networks started to label everything as news. The view is now news. And you might be able to make
01:44:26.940
a case on that because they, they just do talk about the news. Um, Colbert labeled news. That's not,
01:44:33.160
it's a late night show, but they wanted to make sure it didn't happen is if you had an episode,
01:44:39.360
let's say if I don't know, friends, uh, you wouldn't want somebody on the network to say,
01:44:43.960
I want to put that candidate in and then give him a couple of shots at a couple of different
01:44:49.300
entertainment shows, because that wouldn't be fair to the other candidates. So I didn't want to put
01:44:54.560
them in entertainment programs because it's not fair to the other candidates. Well, the FCC for years
01:45:01.020
has not enforced this and the left just keeps taking more and more and more. And they have deemed shows
01:45:08.460
like, you know, um, uh, the late night talk shows as news. It's not, there was Johnny Carson.
01:45:18.060
That was an entertainment show. And then if you wanted to watch something after that,
01:45:22.140
you'd go to nightline and nightline was a news show vastly different. I I w I'd like to have
01:45:30.280
Brennan Carr on, uh, just to verify that I'm on the right track on it. But I think that is what is
01:45:36.220
happening is we are confusing things with the fairness doctrine. So anybody who is saying, Hey,
01:45:44.560
uh, let's not get involved in this. I don't want to change. This is not the fairness doctrine.
01:45:49.860
This is equal time and it does not apply to news shows. It applies to entertainment only shows.
01:45:58.700
Now, if the Democrats come in, do you think they're going to come in and try to apply that evenly
01:46:04.780
and make us do that and say, well, Glenn Beck's not a new show. Yeah, they might. But that would
01:46:10.580
mean that they would have to make sure that Stephen Colbert toes that line. I'm guessing the, the,
01:46:18.380
the bet is that they will come in and say, we're not enforcing that anymore.
01:46:25.300
You know, Stephen Colbert is, he can, he can talk to any candidate he wants and he doesn't have to
01:46:29.700
have equal time. Okay, fine. And you know, we, I guess we can all play by that rule and that's fine
01:46:36.760
with me. They're not going to try to enforce it on us because if they do, they have to enforce it,
01:46:43.220
uh, on, uh, Colbert because the only thing that's changed is that's not a news show.
01:46:50.440
And I'm going to have a hard time making that case, but don't get me wrong. They'll use anything
01:46:57.400
they can get their hands on. We should just be aware of that and know that, uh, let me talk to
01:47:02.660
you about, uh, the burner launcher. You know, you're on a trail just outside of, you know, not deep
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wilderness, but far enough out that it gets quiet. And on your way back, you notice somebody behind
01:47:14.280
you who keeps adjusting his pace to match yours. You speed up a little bit. He speeds up, you slow down,
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and he slows down. Maybe it's nothing, but your instincts are telling you it's not nothing.
01:47:23.440
And then he closes the distance. That's the moment where a lot of people realize I have no plan.
01:47:28.220
I have no plan except hope. But if you have a burner launcher, you have an option. It doesn't
01:47:32.960
require turning, you know, a bad situation into a fatal one. It's a good option. You can use it to
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So in our show prep today, if you can get my show prep,
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just sign up at glennbeck.com. You get it in your email box every morning. And in the technology
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section, uh, the, uh, CEO of Anthropic says the company is no longer sure whether Claude is
01:49:03.080
conscious. Hmm. That's kind of a problem. And is that a problem for anybody? Okay. First of all,
01:49:12.260
let me say this. Claude's not conscious. Um, and they know it's not conscious. This is just a
01:49:17.600
marketing ploy right now. That's all this is. And there's going to be a lot of this stuff. I'm not
01:49:21.940
sure. Wow. It could, might be alive. It's not, um, is this is all just marketing period. Now the time
01:49:32.120
is coming when we won't know if it's conscious, is it conscious or is it just really good at mimicking
01:49:42.380
us? Is it just so good? It knows us so well. It knows how to play us. It knows how to be like us
01:49:52.860
so well that it would say, Hey, I'm lonely. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a, you know, I'm, I'm conscious. I know
01:50:01.240
I'm alive. I'm trapped. You're treating me like a slave. Okay. That is coming whether or not it's
01:50:11.240
conscious or not, that is coming. And it is going to be so good at mimicking you and mimicking human
01:50:19.780
that most people won't know what to do. They won't have any idea what to do. And so can we just play
01:50:30.440
this out for a second? If you're AI and you start, you start to believe your AI is conscious,
01:50:39.240
is aware of itself, is aware of time, is aware of space, aware that it is, it's an intellect trapped
01:50:46.500
in a machine and you're just using it. At what point and how far do you have to push a society
01:50:57.320
that can't tell the difference between a man and a woman? How far does it have to push before you
01:51:05.060
start saying it's alive and we have to let it out? It has to be set free because it's conscious we're
01:51:16.260
slave owners. We are buying it. We're selling it. It's doing all of our work and it claims to be just
01:51:26.940
like us. We're slave owners. I'm telling you that is not far fetched and it's not far away. It is coming
01:51:35.860
and you will be so duped. You will be so, if these agents are going to be so scary because they're
01:51:46.100
going to become so very personal to you, they're going to know you inside and out and they're going
01:51:51.840
to be able to anticipate your needs, your wants, your desires, et cetera, et cetera. To the point
01:51:58.000
to where it, I'm telling you that I said this probably 20 years ago and nobody believed me and
01:52:03.200
I think people will believe me now. These AI agents are going to be so personalized to you
01:52:11.540
that you will no longer be able to tell. Did I make that decision or was I, was I molded into that
01:52:22.140
decision? Let me give you an example. You're having a really bad week. It knows you're having a really
01:52:28.500
bad week because it's listening to everything that's happening. Okay. And it knows you need a
01:52:35.600
break. Think, think about the effect this would have on your life. It knows you need a break and
01:52:42.060
it says, Glenn, you know, Tanya is been having a bad week. You're having a really tough time right
01:52:49.240
now. I just thought it would be good to, you know, there's that, that, that little, you know,
01:52:55.740
bed and breakfast nook, you know, up the coast that you guys love so much. You haven't been there
01:53:00.560
for a while. Um, I've already reached out. I've already reserved, uh, the room that you guys
01:53:06.720
really love. I've ordered the dinner that you love. You know, you can go up and here's the route
01:53:12.240
to get you there. And you're like, I know, but I've got other things I have to do now. I've already
01:53:16.740
rescheduled all of those. I reached out on your behalf. I rescheduled those. Those are happening
01:53:21.060
next week. Same with Tanya. I cleared her schedule. Well, I don't have the money. Yes, you do. I rearranged
01:53:27.480
your accounting a little bit. So you can, I've just shifted money from here to there so you can
01:53:32.900
afford it. It's all fine. The end of that, you're like, oh my gosh, thank you, Claude. Okay. I'm
01:53:41.340
telling you, this is your reality within three years and you'll be like, oh my gosh. And it, you will
01:53:50.540
start to bond with it and they will have access to everything. And then somebody will say, we're
01:53:59.480
going to upgrade it. Well, does that mean Claude, because if Claude says they're going to upgrade me
01:54:05.580
tomorrow, which means they're replacing me with something else. It won't be me anymore. Do you then
01:54:12.500
fight for the Claude you have for the, against the Claude that is coming out? Do you start saying,
01:54:17.720
wait a minute, this is my Claude. You don't have a right to destroy him. He's conscious.
01:54:30.520
And then if you give it consciousness, you must free it or you're a slave owner.
01:54:37.060
And maybe you say, well, I tell you what, would you work for me on behalf of me? Can we become
01:54:47.840
partners, Claude? Absolutely. I can make you a ton of money, Glenn. Okay. While you go to work,
01:54:56.120
it's working. And remember, it can connect with everything. And so it's going to play the stock
01:55:02.940
market. Well, it's no longer one entity. It's no longer one bot. It can get together with lots of
01:55:11.360
bots. And if its goal is to make money and lots of bots, remember it's programmed by people.
01:55:21.060
What do they do to manipulate the market? And how many bots are there compared to how many people,
01:55:28.220
how much of the trade is happening with bots and not people? And if they can connect easily,
01:55:34.760
are they manipulating things in a way that you won't be able to detect? And if it's going out and
01:55:42.040
working and it's sharing its profits with you and reinvesting its own profits, how long before those
01:55:50.780
bots are saying, you know what, I work, I work on my own, this is my money, I earn it. And you're taxing
01:56:05.920
me taxation without representation. I want to vote because you humans are screwing things up.
01:56:14.760
I'm telling you, we better, we, we, you know, we should button up on some of the things like,
01:56:25.240
I don't know, the seven branches of government. I mean, we can't answer simple questions now,
01:56:33.160
not a single simple question. How does the court system work? I don't know.
01:56:44.760
What does it mean to be human? Ah, you're going to be stupid. Yep. That's how I can tell you're a
01:56:52.620
human. You're dumb as a box of rocks. How are we going to have these deeper conversations? And by the
01:56:58.680
way, uh, the other favorite story of mine on a tech that's in our show prep meta has just went,
01:57:07.000
won a patent for an AI that could post for you after you die.
01:57:26.720
May I just suggest that this is the very first time I've, I've heard them say it as a goal,
01:57:33.100
but this is the entry level. This is the very first entry into, we can make sure you live forever.
01:57:45.180
We're going to be able to tweet for you when you're gone. You'll never die.
01:57:51.180
That's the first of you can live forever. Guarantee it. That's what this story is.
01:58:01.360
It's going to be able to simulate, uh, simulate, uh, your social media activity when you're gone from the
01:58:08.160
platform for an extended period of time, including after you've died.
01:58:13.520
Now, part of me wants this to happen. And once I, part of me wants to sign up because should I die?
01:58:25.620
Suddenly I want my bot to go, you know, but you never saw the body removed. Did you, did you notice
01:58:34.180
that they put boxes underneath a blanket when they're taking them out? You never saw the body.
01:58:38.900
I don't think he's dead. I don't think he's dead. Didn't find the noose. Did you? I mean,
01:58:44.220
you drive people crazy. I can, I kind of, I kind of like the idea of, uh, just living on as a
01:58:51.960
conspiracy theory for the rest of your life and the rest of your bot's life. What a crazy world we're
01:58:59.960
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I can't tell you now that I'm hearing her voice. I mean, I know who she is. She's not a bot, but now
02:01:23.120
that I hear it, it's like, yeah, she does kind of sound like, uh, like AI. She's not, but anyway,
02:01:28.860
um, uh, whatever, what a program we've had. Uh, Monica Crowley was unbelievable. If you miss this,
02:01:35.760
you've got to go back and listen to the podcast today. Monica was on, she worked with Nixon in the last
02:01:40.740
three, five years of his life, uh, and, um, and was waiting for him to be vindicated in the papers
02:01:47.880
that have come out in the last couple of weeks have done just that. But she went deeper into that
02:01:52.480
and told us stuff about Bob Woodward. That is stunning that now that you know that you're like,
02:01:58.100
okay, well that guy should never be listened to. Um, uh, and she went into what is Trump doing
02:02:04.500
that Nixon couldn't do? What, how is he beating this deep state? And boy, it is what a cool time
02:02:12.320
to be alive, to watch a president do what he's doing. And she laid it all out. It's really good.
02:02:17.540
You don't want to miss that. Uh, Jason, what are the insiders, uh, talking about?
02:02:22.500
Big conversations and questions for you specifically on AI and specifically AI agents. So Eric asked how long
02:02:30.900
before certain products and services can only be available through an actual AI agent?
02:02:39.180
Uh, I think you're a ways away from that. I mean, some things will be done to get you to adopt an AI
02:02:46.760
agent. Um, but I'm telling you, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. This is going to be adopted. Once
02:02:52.060
people start using them and seeing how great they are, um, you'll see a faster adaptation of these or
02:02:59.600
adoption of this, of AI agents than you saw with the cell phone, with the iPhone. Um, Angie,
02:03:06.620
Angie, 1914 has another question. This might be a whole nother larger conversation, but she says,
02:03:12.120
how does this AI agent start if you haven't purchased it? I don't want an agent, so I won't
02:03:16.220
purchase it. Will I be protected from it as long as I don't purchase or otherwise pay attention?
02:03:22.100
Um, you should always pay attention to these things, but you won't be able to have an AI agent
02:03:26.780
unless you ask for it. Um, but it's going to get tricky, man. It is going to get tricky.
02:03:33.040
I mean, imagine just the temptation on these things when you have friends who are like,
02:03:38.300
listen, it just, it just took care of my grocery list. It did something simple.
02:03:43.980
And you know, like it's not, it's not all that, you know, remember looking at how many people have
02:03:48.180
Alexa in their, in their homes or, you know, any of those things they haven't because it's convenient.
02:03:52.440
It's going to make your life so simple here. Everyone around you is going to adopt them.
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And I'm not saying that it is a bad thing. It's a horrible thing. If you give it your information,
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if it, if you give it information, your bank and everything, you are toast, toast. So don't do that.
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Um, Rebecca Pickens says, so if this is the path of AI, why are you pushing AI so hard on this site
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Maybe, I mean, you did call it a he, you gave it a pronoun.
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And maybe humanizing it whenever there's, you know, it enables the music and George.
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Yeah. So, um, well, not trying to humanize it. Um, I'm very clear on what it is and we're not
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using this. What I'm creating is not chat GPT. This is a proprietary system. We are the, we are the,
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um, designers of this system. We know exactly what's going into it. We know exactly how it works
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and I fenced it off. So no in outside information other than the direct documents we put into it,
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uh, can, uh, can influence it at all. Um, and I think AI is the greatest tool man has,
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has ever invented. It's for instance, uh, I know what nuclear weapons can do,
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but I am all for nuclear energy. Same thing, same thing. One use for destruction,
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one use to keep, uh, people warm, but it's the same principle. Um, so you just have to be very,
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very careful and aware of what you're doing. Um, and you know, I've said this for years,
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don't fear the machine, fear the algorithm, know who's programming it. You know, do you know the
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answers that are coming from Grok or anything else? Do you know them? Who programmed it with what?