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00:02:04.680Yesterday, I was on the phone with Donald Trump before the news of Chris Christie broke, and he's talking to me, and I'll give you his reaction to Chris Christie when he found out, which was before the rest of the world found out.
00:02:22.140Kind of funny response from Donald Trump.
00:02:24.380We have coverage of what he said yesterday on Fox News, also the debate from CNN, and so much more, including the premiere tonight of our investigative reporting.
00:02:40.280It's our documentary, our Blaze documentary on Colony Ridge.
00:04:17.840If your daughter or your wife is walking around with, you know, pepper spray in her purse, okay, good, good.
00:04:23.640How about having a weapon, a gun, that can fire tear gas up to 60 feet away, so something is happening, she has to just hit within six feet.
00:07:18.760It is the third world coming to America, and they've got to go someplace.
00:07:28.140And this story broke last summer, I think, when the Daily Wire and the New York Post did a story on Colony Ridge.
00:07:39.320And it was horrifying that the drug cartels were running it, and, you know, there's kidnapping and sex crimes and all kinds of stuff going on.
00:07:50.380And it's completely changing the makeup of this very, very red county in Texas.
00:08:52.920The developer's brother gave, who I think is the co-developer, I'm not sure, but the developer's brother gave Governor Abbott $1.4 million for his campaign.
00:09:07.200And I asked, what do you get for $1.4 million?
00:09:10.560You'll see the answer, and you'll see it on blazetv.com slash Colony Ridge.
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00:09:24.700So go to glenbeck.com, or I'm sorry, go to blazetv.com slash Glenn, use Colony Ridge, and you'll save.
00:10:09.920There's another parallel universe in which DeSantis and Haley are sort of two pretty highly qualified presidential candidates running for the Republican nomination from two different wings of the party, and it was a totally normal election.
00:10:24.760And then you kind of step back and you're like, well, actually, there's another candidate who's up by dozens of points.
00:10:34.600If you were going to look at the attacks leveled by both of these candidates, and you'd say, was it against the other one on stage or was it against the guy who's in the lead in the race?
00:10:44.160I would say it was 80-20, the person on stage.
00:10:51.860It felt like they both sort of know that Trump is winning this, and there is still a possibility that he may be in a gulag somewhere in a few weeks, so we better run for number two.
00:12:00.520You know, there's been a couple of polls that have come out.
00:12:03.780They've basically showed that the race hasn't changed much.
00:12:06.960There is one more Des Moines Register poll, which is sort of the, you know, the gold standard poll of the state that's supposed to come out this weekend that maybe give us one last bit of information.
00:12:16.820A few polls have come out, though, and showed, you know, DeSantis and Haley close for second, and then Trump significantly ahead.
00:14:34.380But we've never had – we've never had the debates go on with the guy who was way ahead just not showing up.
00:14:42.760And we then have also never had, okay, he's going to win, but I don't know if he's going to jail.
00:14:50.560And then we've never had, yeah, okay, maybe he's not going to go to jail.
00:14:57.400If he does, he'll still run and constitutionally can still be elected.
00:15:01.620And then on top of that, oh, and the other guy, he might die in office because he's so old.
00:15:07.880They may replace him with Gavin Newsom, or they could just take the first lady from another president and drop her in at the last – I mean, it's crazy.
00:15:50.120And it's not – I mean, again, it's an unlikely possibility that both of those things would happen.
00:15:55.320But, like, the fact that we're in this world where these things are like normal discussions.
00:15:59.000Every day we come on, we're like, I don't know.
00:16:00.760Looks like the president is completely lost his marbles.
00:16:03.000And the other guy running, I don't know, might be in a gulag.
00:16:06.500Like, that's like a normal conversation these days.
00:16:09.420Trump and I talked about this yesterday, and I said, we're in a banana republic.
00:16:12.740If they don't take the one trial and push it past the election, you know, you have no time to prepare.
00:16:21.220Alan Dershowitz said no good attorney would ever take this case or allow it to go through.
00:16:27.940He said if I were his attorney, I would go to jail before I would represent him because there's no time to be able to go through three million documents.
00:16:37.780And that's just what we know they have now.
00:16:39.540And then I said, and then on top of that, taking his name off the ballots and everything else, and Trump said, we're just out of control.
00:19:31.740You were on the phone with him when that happened.
00:19:33.760Yeah, when he got that in, when I went back into my office, you know, and was in a meeting and, and I look up at the screen about 20 minutes later and he's announcing that he has dropped out.
00:19:55.420Well, he said so far, he's not going to endorse anybody.
00:19:59.160And I'm like, oh, geez, how am I going to endorse people when you get caught on a cold, hot mic seconds before your announcement where you're saying basically all the other candidates are terrible people and they are literally unfit to be president.
00:20:13.080He said in his speech announcing he was leaving, he said, anyone who says that you would have that you would vote for Donald Trump is unfit to be president.
00:20:20.000So how can he endorse any of them at this point?
00:20:22.680Again, you know, the two paths forward here are MSNBC gig and no labels candidate, right?
00:20:28.280Like there's no maybe, maybe Ozempic spokesperson, but that's after a few months of hard work and diet and exercise.
00:20:37.260So, I mean, I don't know that there's much going forward for Chris Christie.
00:20:40.460I will say the New Hampshire thing, it is legitimately an interesting race.
00:20:46.580We're not seeing polling that's showing it's very close.
00:20:49.960But in New Hampshire, though, I mean, you know, Nikki Haley seems to be about 30% naturally before Christie drops out.
00:20:55.800And every instinct among watchers, but also every polling piece of data that we have shows probably something like three quarters of his votes would go to Haley.
00:21:06.460So, look, I think that's going to be a close race.
00:22:04.180You know, that's how she's crossing her fingers.
00:22:06.720We'll deal with the other states after New Hampshire.
00:22:09.380And if she can get second place in Iowa, first in New Hampshire, I mean, look, I think it's a real long shot considering how she's built that coalition.
00:22:17.220But, you know, you cross your fingers and hope if you're Nikki Haley.
00:22:43.480But if you've ever dropped anything for a salad on the floor, they'll they'll like put it in their mouth and they just like and just immediately drop it back on the floor.
00:24:12.000Maybe later we can go through some of this polling on the border, Glenn, because, you know, it's a huge vulnerability for Biden going into this election.
00:30:38.520I know, Glenn, with Vavake as a potential Trump VP type of candidate.
00:30:42.140And it's like, you know, I mean, you could see it, you know, he's he sort of has a younger, more certainly a different approach, let's say a more well-spoken and sort of refined approach than Trump.
00:30:57.740And like what you might point out as issues with Vavake, if you're looking at him generally, like, you know, occasionally he does go down certain roads.
00:31:06.400He's had some odd comments on, you know, 9-11, for example, that might cause a normal candidate problems.
00:31:12.740That's not going to cause Donald Trump any problems.
00:32:10.180Again, I think that he has something to offer.
00:32:12.500But like his vulnerabilities as a candidate, the places he's, you know, weak or questionable as a lead candidate are all issues that Donald Trump could roll through without even thinking about it on a Tuesday afternoon.
00:32:43.820So, like, you know, it's an interesting fit because, you know, Vavake would be able to go on all these shows and just constantly roll over media people attacking Trump.
00:32:53.180And if that's a job, you'd think Trump would really like to have a bulldog.
00:33:08.040And basically didn't, you know, never disagreed with him for four years.
00:33:13.800I mean, I know everyone talks about January 6th, but, like, before January 6th, Pence was very subservient to Donald Trump basically the entire time.
00:33:49.280However, however, let's play the game of you need all of the Republicans.
00:33:55.080That would lead me to believe if Nikki Haley does well in Iowa, if she comes in second in Iowa, and, you know, you leave DeSantis kind of in the dust, I think DeSantis could be done.
00:34:27.760They take Trump off the ballot somehow.
00:34:30.060You know, something like that, you might say, okay, he's playing for second.
00:34:32.400If it was him versus Nikki Haley, all polling of Republicans shows he would beat Nikki Haley easily.
00:34:39.240But the question is, when given the three-way choice here with Trump and Haley and DeSantis, the DeSantis, people who like DeSantis are more likely to vote for Trump.
00:34:50.740If Trump isn't there, DeSantis may say, okay, well, I have a path forward.
00:34:55.300You know, I mean, again, we have to take these things seriously because, you know, the entire U.S. government seems to be aligned to try to destroy Donald Trump.
00:35:03.640So you have to think of what happens as a secondary choice here.
00:35:07.000And so DeSantis might see a path forward there.
00:35:09.220But in a traditional primary, if he has spent all of his resources on Iowa, if he finishes third, there's a new poll today that shows him in third, by the way, if that is true, and that is, and it's hard to believe, but if that is true, he's got to be toast, right?
00:35:25.660Like, if you spend all of this time, all of these resources on Iowa, and you finish third behind Nikki Haley in a state that's like Iowa, that's catastrophic for this campaign.
00:35:36.320Really cold, cold front could help DeSantis because his people are going to be hopefully motivated.
00:35:44.720If he's behind Nikki Haley, they'll either give up or they'll be motivated to get out to the caucus and really caucus for him and be strong.
00:35:55.740He's got the best organization, I think, in the entire state.
00:35:58.100I talked to Steve Dace yesterday who kind of outlined that same idea.
00:36:01.240I think Donald Trump has a pretty strong, I've heard that he is killing it on the ground.
00:36:05.300I mean, look, that poll that I mentioned that has DeSantis in third place also has Trump over 50%.
00:36:11.800The weather could definitely play a part in this, though.
00:44:45.340But if he's going to dip into the emergency funds, he then has to call it an emergency or he can't get any of those funds.
00:44:52.660It's $37 billion, and yet he announced just earlier this week, or was it last week, that he's going to be covering health insurance and sex changes with the California health system.
01:02:03.280Because the New York Post didn't get it right.
01:02:06.420I don't think the Daily Wire got it right.
01:02:09.580We tried really hard to get this right.
01:02:12.460And you will see the truth of Colony Ridge.
01:02:15.700And it's not about the Texas development.
01:02:18.760It is about you and your neighborhood.
01:02:22.040If you don't stand up, if Congress doesn't stand up and say, no budget, if there's no border security, then this will come to your community.
01:08:36.000Much of that is not even what the law allows.
01:08:38.420What they could and should do is say that because there is no affirmative right to asylum by anybody coming into this country without documentation,
01:08:48.420there's no affirmative right that we have to recognize.
01:08:50.380The president and secretary Mayorkas should say, once we're no longer able to process all of them,
01:08:56.360we're going to stop even considering asylum applications for people who cross our borders without documentation and thereafter seek asylum.
01:09:05.000We should be turning them around right away.
01:09:08.000This whole negotiation presupposes that this is, you know, somehow based on a lack of adequate federal legislation.
01:09:15.540Sure, some of our laws are messed up and need to be fine tuned.
01:09:30.580Well, there are elements of it that might make things better,
01:09:33.060but there are elements of it that might turn up the electromagnetic pull for illegal migrants.
01:09:39.120For example, there are provisions that would eliminate the 180-day waiting period between the time someone is released from the initial screening
01:19:17.780I interviewed the developer, John Harris, to get an idea of the demographics of illegal citizens versus, you know, illegal immigrants living in Colony Ridge.
01:19:29.000He gave me one story, and then I got a different one from the county sheriff, Bobby Rader.
01:22:26.880Trump is now in court for closing arguments in his New York City fraud trial, which I...
01:22:31.460You know, when there is no victim of the fraud, I don't know how they continue with the trial, as we found out from one of the testimonies of Deutsche Bank.
01:24:26.300We get to Peter Giedel, who is the managing editor for Blaze Return.
01:24:33.880That is our tech column on blazetv.com.
01:24:38.840And he is at the Consumer Electronics Show.
01:24:42.100He's there to check out what are the trends, what's coming, how is AI affecting, are you seeing anything about cryptocurrency, what is happening with Bitcoin, etc.
01:28:00.080But I think we're definitely going to see some products that break through and are utilizing this technology in ways that will have transformative effects on society.
01:28:12.880You know, there's a lot of integrations coming of, you know, there's forward-facing consumer products like ChatGPT that people are using.
01:28:27.180And, you know, sometimes it's silly stuff like making photos.
01:28:29.840But I think there's a lot in the background of, like, you know, companies that are creating AI that could do a lot of contract work that a lot of lawyers do now.
01:28:42.800How far away are we from a personal assistant that is really good?
01:28:51.420There's some products here already that are utilizing AI to basically interact with your apps.
01:29:00.640So instead of researching best flights, you know, if you're trying to go to New York City for vacation, you can just tell the AI to find the app and book your plane.
01:29:14.140So I think it's very reasonable to think within 18 months we're going to see an assistant that's very competent and is taking away a lot of menial tasks away from a person.
01:31:06.700But what is the, what's the talk about central bank digital currencies and, you know, kind of the, we're going to make all of your problems disappear.
01:31:25.100There's, you know, there's some talk of it.
01:31:27.900You know, a lot of people, it's hard to get them on record.
01:31:30.640You know, they express fears and concerns even with, you know, they work at these tech companies, but obviously they don't want to go on record.
01:31:39.780You know, the CBDC, I would encourage your listeners to do some research.
01:31:45.460There's a great, we have some articles on return kind of summarizing in their own words all the people who are advocating for this technology.
01:31:54.280So it's kind of this, this sort of Damocles that's hanging over everything.
01:31:59.040But one thing I'll say that I was noticing is there's a ton of companies that are harvesting biometric data, your health, your health things, and then what they're doing with that technology or with that information, no one knows.
01:32:15.700There's a, there's a mirror, like a literal black mirror called a beer.
01:32:24.100It's by a company called Barracuda, BeMind.
01:32:27.980And when you wake up in the morning, it will use technology to read your mood and what you're kind of thinking almost, and then, you know, give you soothing music to make you feel better because the mirror can tell that you're having a bad depression or a bad day.
01:32:46.500And then, you know, again, they're harvesting all of this data and what they're going to use it for and assuming that it's going to be tied into digital health records and then into CBDCs to me is not a big leap.
01:33:03.560I think that that's, it's really right around the corner.
01:33:06.260Yeah, I tell you, the, the digital IDs are, are truly between that and CBDC.
01:34:13.700And your diary from CES day one, AI, everything.
01:34:17.500Are you generally optimistic as a human being seeing all of this stuff or not?
01:34:27.640In, I mean, I would say in general, I'm somebody who got into tech journalism because I actually generally love technology.
01:34:38.600And I think that there's some really cool and amazing things that we can create with this.
01:34:44.260I mean, I, I saw this company there, actually several companies are creating kind of like haptic feedback canes for blind children that will give them a signal if there's someone in front of them just by kind of buzzing on their hand.
01:35:00.300And it's, they were saying it's like really revolutionizing and helping, you know, blind children.
01:35:04.680So, you know, obviously there's a ton of technology that's beautiful and incredible and makes our lives better each day.
01:35:11.820But there are, there are really some trends that are very concerning about just technocratic, monopolistic, giant company control, government control over your life.
01:35:25.340And they're going to be wielding a lot of power with this information and this digital control.
01:35:31.600And I mean, you've talked about this in your books and on your show over the years.
01:35:35.780And it's, we really have to be on guard about what's coming and, you know, try to resist it as much as we can.
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01:43:22.660He created American Giant by rescuing a clothing factory that was about to shut down in North Carolina.
01:43:29.160They started producing quality American clothing with American-grown cotton and American workers.
01:43:34.580They retrained everybody, brought in the old fabric mills, brought the machines back that had been sold to Japan years ago so they can make that classic 1950s, 1960s hoodie that was unlike any hoodie or any sweatshirt ever.
01:43:55.540They have great clothing and the money stays here in the United States and more jobs are created.
01:44:33.640I just, I have to express some disgust for journalists that have, were caught on tape making assassination jokes about President Trump.
01:44:51.120One of the first things you learn when you're in the media is you never joke about that, ever.
01:45:01.240However, it's not funny, it's, it's something that the Secret Service will be all over you for, if you joke about it, they don't have a sense of humor about that, nor should we have a sense of humor about that.
01:45:15.500Yeah, we had an incident a few years ago where Glenn threatened my life, and no one seemed to care about that, but when they thought it was mistaken, I guess, for a threat against someone else, and we had the Secret Service visiting us.
01:45:30.360And the Secret Service came out, and they said, look, we know, we just have to check this out.
01:47:15.620So, here's something else the journalists probably aren't loving today.
01:47:22.520We have Fauci yesterday sat before the House Coronavirus Subcommittee for a seven-hour stretch of questioning about the pandemic response that he oversaw.
01:47:35.620Um, he said, well, um, actually, it's, uh, not a conspiracy theory that Wuhan lab leak.
01:49:01.020Then, you know, we heard that the art gallerist that was tasked with selling Hunter Biden's paintings, you know, met with President Biden and attended the wedding of the first family.
01:49:59.900Who advised him not to show up for the subpoena and instead go to the Senate side and stand there and give a press conference a couple of weeks ago?
01:50:55.000To come answer the committee's questions under oath before the American people.
01:50:59.800This is the same time that they stand by the categorical noncompliance of Republican members of Congress, like Mr. Jordan, who have material information.
01:51:12.740So, unannounced, Hunter Biden and one guy who looks like an attorney, the other guy who honestly looks like a drug dealer.
01:51:21.900I thought it was Larry Flint for a second.