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00:02:11.880It is Wednesday, the 7th of January, in the year 2026, that is going to be remembered as a year the entire world changed.
00:02:23.480I absolutely believe 26 and 27 are monumental and will decide, and I think it's being seen right now, is America an empire in decline?
00:02:35.520I want to talk to you about Iran, North Korea, Greenland, the arsenal of democracy, what's happening in New York with Mamdani, and CRINK.
00:02:47.740I'm going to start with a term or an acronym you probably have not heard before, but it is what is being dismantled or attempting to be dismantled by this administration right now, CRINK.
00:03:21.880No apps, no cell service, no waiting for a bar to pop up.
00:03:24.720You press a button and you're talking instantly, whether you're checking fences, moving equipment, you know, I actually had one of the guys that works at the ranch.
00:03:33.600He went off a cliff accidentally and his forerunner was upside down in the top of a tree.
00:03:42.120That was an interesting thing because he couldn't get down and we finally were like, where's Caesar?
00:03:50.080We found him in the top of a tree with the forerunner, but he had no cell service, nothing.
00:03:56.120Rapid radios would have come in handy.
00:04:22.300You know, I've been on this, this, this hunt, I feel since over the weekend with Venezuela and it's all starting just to fall into place.
00:04:34.880You know, one of the only skills I think God gave me was the completely useless, you know, when the world breaks down storytelling ability.
00:04:44.880That's going to get me, that's going to get me eaten by week one.
00:04:47.540They're like, he's out of stories and he looks delicious.
00:04:50.300The other thing that I do have an ability to do is connect the dots.
00:04:56.740And I've been on this dot connecting kick here in the last few days and more dots seem to be appearing.
00:05:04.840And I, it's becoming very clear that America and empire in decline is not a thing.
00:05:15.860And I, I want to take several layers of this, but I want to start with an acronym that you've probably never heard before.
00:06:52.620I think I'm just beginning to understand it.
00:06:58.480We're not, he's not building an American empire.
00:07:01.780He is building something that I think is much closer to what we were hoping for or thought was going to be built in the 1990s when we talked about a unipolar moment.
00:07:14.500You know, that America was going to lead, but everybody was going to get together because we're all free now.
00:07:24.020And, you know, we had these hopes of lollipops and sugar plums and everything was going to be great because we won.
00:08:43.040Instead, he's saying, you know what, this doesn't work.
00:08:46.800And we'd love to help broker a deal between all of you guys.
00:08:50.320And, you know, look what you can build.
00:08:53.300And let me help you with the framework so you can all get along.
00:08:57.520For 20 years, it feels like America longer than that.
00:09:02.300The story of the Middle East was Americans go in, Americans retreat, and Iranians advance, right?
00:09:10.760Then in the first term, he came with the Abraham Accords.
00:09:14.500And Israel normalized with the UAE and Bahrain and Morocco.
00:09:19.920And now everybody is, now it seems like everybody is normalizing relations.
00:09:24.380And he has taken the entire Middle East, which was available to all of the presidents in the past, but they didn't do it for some reason or didn't get it.
00:09:39.800He just took them all and went, yeah, you guys should all get together because you can actually be a global power and influence, but not with Iran.
00:09:52.540And so he normalized the relations between them.
00:09:57.880And it wasn't just a series of photo ops for him.
00:10:02.140It was he took the U.S. and aligned the economic and security architecture for everybody.
00:10:10.380Israel, the Gulf, potentially Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.
00:13:48.420And anybody who is a conservative, you know, or just common sense and doesn't think that oil is the big worst thing that could ever happen, we've all been saying, we have enough oil.
00:14:01.880Why are we buying our oil from the Middle East?
00:15:45.300Once you flag a ship, then if you flag it Russia, then the Russian Navy can get involved because that's a Russian flagged ship, even though it doesn't belong to Russia.
00:15:55.660We have been following this ship and trying to stop this oil tanker from bringing oil that should not be going overseas from Venezuela.
00:16:06.060And we have been trying to track it down.
00:16:09.540Well, about a few hours ago, maybe five hours ago, we caught up with it.
00:16:13.720Now, Russia was sending ships to protect this because it was a Russian flagged ship.
00:16:39.100So we are very, very serious about this.
00:16:42.980And because of the way Venezuela just happened, American credibility on the war front, the rest of the world, our enemies are freaking out right now because even people who are in the military, I shouldn't say in the military, I'm sure they know more, but people who have been watching the military, former military, people that know about the military, even they are looking at it going, how the hell did we just pull this off with Venezuela?
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00:21:44.120The other thing that he's done and he's doing it the right way.
00:21:47.480He is negotiating and making these partners all around the world so we can protect ourselves and our way of life and the Western civilization, honestly.
00:21:59.640He's pushed $10 billion in critical mineral deals across multiple countries just in the last 12 months.
00:22:58.920But when the markets shift and the deal gets complicated, that's when a difference between a salesperson and a professional really shows up.
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00:23:21.360And we have thousands, literally thousands of agents that want to work with real estate agents I trust.
00:23:27.460But we keep the number down to, I think it's about 3,000 agents around the country because we want to be able to watch them, make sure, because they don't work for me.
00:24:31.380I want you to know I am very optimistic for the first time.
00:24:47.140I've been saying, I told you I think two or three years ago, I had been saying this internally, but I didn't want to say it to you until I just really felt like we could do something about it.
00:25:01.920And I have been feeling for several years, no way out, no way out, no way out.
00:27:43.360And because America was perceived as in decline, people were saying, I got to find a new partner because I don't think I trust America to be the one that's going to stand.
00:27:54.580So I don't know what's going to happen to them.
00:27:56.340I think it's, I'm going to bet on China.
00:29:08.400We based our dollar not on the full faith and trust of America, but on the full faith and trust that you got to buy oil with the U.S. dollar, okay?
00:29:19.240And we had to make a deal with the Saudi Arabians and OPEC.
00:29:22.760That's why we were mired in that mess forever.
00:31:55.760I think and I hope we're in a good situation because the world is confused.
00:31:59.620He's breaking all of the, he's not traveling down the highways that everybody's like, ah, he's going to come up here and he's going to turn left and then he's going to make two rights and then he's going to turn left again because that's the way it works.
00:32:15.080So all of our allies or all of our, some of our allies, all of our enemies, and especially those that were on the fence are like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:32:27.100And so everybody is pausing and especially because of the, because of the success our military has had and an overwhelming, almost like Israel, when they started, you know, the beepers went off and you're like, what the, when Ukraine went and took those tanks out and the airplanes with the drones, everybody was like, wait, everything's changing.
00:32:54.100No, no, no, no, no, from what I understand.
00:33:22.340And if you are someone that is, you know, one of these countries that, you know, rely on Russia for your security or you have a guarantee of security from Russia or China, all of that is off the table right now.
00:33:37.040It means nothing and everyone is scared.
00:33:40.620There's deterrence right now, just in that right there.
00:33:43.800People are not knowing how to protect themselves.
00:33:46.600They're not knowing whether they can continue to listen to Russia, continue to listen to China, everything.
00:33:51.320I mean, it's a completely different game today.
00:33:57.020I've never seen an American president fight like this ever in my lifetime, ever.
00:34:02.320He is, I think he's going to be remembered as, assuming this works, this could go horribly, you know, by tomorrow, this could all fall apart.
00:34:14.840But assuming this works, he's going to be remembered as a refounder.
00:34:19.920He is going to be the guy that relaunched America.
00:34:23.580And I want you to know, only if he remains constitutional.
00:34:31.060Yesterday, you can find it at glenbeck.com, George AI, it was, you know, constitutionally, where was this Venezuela thing?
00:34:40.400And I watched some of the comments, some people, you know, because it was on YouTube and people were like, oh, yeah, I see, Glenn Beck doesn't care about the Constitution.
00:34:46.820His George AI is saying all of this stuff like, oh, Trump is the greatest.
00:36:02.120Since Vietnam, show me the president, show me the military, you know, over a year's period that has been where he has, where any president has been up back against the wall with so many possible World War III, everything we're dealing with.
00:36:23.080If Ukraine, that could go to nuclear war, Iran could go to nuclear war, North Korea, China could go to nuclear war.
00:36:32.760All of these things that we've been saying, I haven't thought about being vaporized since I was eight.
00:36:39.260And everything he has done so far, so far, has taken us from the brink, pushed us all the way there, and then worked out in our favor.
00:36:52.620I've never seen anybody with that batting average before.
00:36:54.900It doesn't mean that he might not get up one day and then strike out and, you know, we're all vaporized.
00:37:02.600But so far, if this works, I mean, look at this.
00:39:35.200You know, I've often thought, if I was standing there in a 7-Eleven and there was a robbery going on, and somebody had a gun, and they were pointing it at the cashier, and I had my gun on me, would I pull my gun?
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01:12:23.480So, this is important that you know this information because you're going to hear it.
01:12:29.540And unless you understand what they're saying, unless you're looking for these things, it's all going to be couched in, we're doing this for national security.
01:12:42.580We're just doing this to balance this or that with China, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is.
01:12:47.900But capital controls don't come into play when people are worried.
01:12:53.740It comes into when massive changes are coming.
01:14:51.500You need to know about this information.
01:14:55.360And these are called deep dives, and we'll be doing these a lot throughout the year.
01:15:03.440It's, you know, I've stopped doing the Wednesday night show because it was just too, I had to produce it every Wednesday.
01:15:11.860And so sometimes we were like, I don't know, what is the topic?
01:15:14.500Instead, sometimes I'll go into a week, and I'll be like, this topic, this topic, this topic, and we can create these deep dives of deep, quick understandings of something that is very important, and we don't have to produce it.
01:15:30.460We produce it when it's right, and we give it to you when it's time.
01:15:36.260And if you're a member of The Torch this month, it's free.
01:15:40.200I'm not asking you for a credit card or anything just to try it out.
01:15:43.120I just want you to see what we're doing, and it's at glennbeck.com.
01:15:51.020So if you go to the watch page right now on glennbeck.com, it's featured right there on the watch page, and it's under the specials tray for right now.
01:16:01.780We'll reorganize all the names later as we produce more content.
01:16:05.640Yeah, and we're really grateful to everybody who is watching us on glennbeck.com and helping us.
01:16:10.680You know, I said to the insiders today, because we've done something for the insiders during the radio program, and it is, it's, you're going to play a very important role.
01:18:09.340There's another one that I saw that I just don't think we're going to do.
01:18:13.120Keith wrote in and said, please back away from your praise for Abraham Lincoln and show him for the tyrant that he was.
01:18:25.200Keith, I don't think I'm going to back away from my support of Abraham Lincoln.
01:18:28.940You know, this is weird because this comes up a lot in a very small circle.
01:18:34.520I've heard, usually Southerners, and they look at Abraham Lincoln as an absolute tyrant, and he did do some things that, you know, in a civil war, you probably wouldn't want to do outside of a civil war.
01:18:49.580And I know the South viewed him as a tyrant, but I don't.
01:20:19.240First, most people don't realize how much how much power is in the small recurring decisions that you make every month, especially the ones that feel automatic.
01:22:46.160I found this story in the Wall Street Journal and it was like on page A21, a little teeny story.
01:22:52.380And I think it was John Conyers who had either suggested or passed the fastest law where if you renounced your citizenship in America, you still had to pay taxes on 50 percent of everything that you made, even outside of the country for five years.
01:23:19.320And you're going to see that you watch California, New York.
01:23:22.820They're going to start trapping money.
01:23:24.640You'll move away and California will say, yeah, you still have to pay taxes for the next five years because whatever reason they'll try to do that.
01:23:33.220And please don't move to Texas or Florida.
01:23:39.100I hear New Jersey is wonderful this time of year.
01:23:42.240I don't think that's going to help you very much, though.
01:23:43.780Well, maybe you can all gather together in New Jersey and prove to the other states that you're going to fix that one and not make it like New York or California.
01:25:38.520But Carol Roth joins us because Mom Donnie is going to make sure that every New Yorker can get into, you know, the World Cup, even though the World Cup isn't in New York at all.
01:25:56.280I don't know how he would get the tickets for all the New Yorkers.
01:26:00.980And he's also talking about at least one of his people talking about a new relationship with private property.
01:26:08.680That sounds like, I don't know, Stalin.
01:28:13.080It's nice to have a stable of experts like you that really get it and can explain what's going on.
01:28:19.720I wanted to have you on today because what's happening in New York is quite remarkable, and I think it is a form of capital controls.
01:28:31.560When a government says, you're going to have a different relationship with private property, isn't that a capital control where they're saying you can't spend your money the way you want to spend your money?
01:28:43.360Yeah, I mean, certainly in terms of what a layman would consider a capital control, you know, economists have a very strict definition, but there are what we consider to also be de facto capital controls.
01:28:56.420And certainly what is happening in New York is reminiscent of, you know, any time socialists and communists come to power.
01:29:05.960And it's one of the things that's kind of this weird triangle that's going on right now is it also reminds me of what happened in Venezuela.
01:29:15.720If you think about Venezuela and the fact that they were producing 3 million barrels a day of oil and they were a very prosperous country.
01:29:26.280And once the socialists, the communists, whatever you want to call them, theists took over, productive capital no longer makes investments.
01:29:36.660And so what's the logical outgrowth of that?
01:29:40.460Their output is down at this point to less than a third of that.
01:29:44.740And their infrastructure is so decayed that if we even wanted to help them get back to where they used to be, it's going to take around $100 billion in investments and quite some time, probably five years or longer, to bring it back to where it was before.
01:30:02.140So when you think about what's happening in New York and you hear things like rent controls and we're going to put these controls in place, landlords can't charge as much money to make things more affordable.
01:30:15.300Well, the same thing is going to happen.
01:30:17.320There is no financial incentive to make the investment in that property, which means everything decays, which means you have a bunch of slums that, you know, maybe are theoretically affordable,
01:30:29.840but nobody actually wants to live in them.
01:30:32.740So no matter what they try to dictate, when they're pushing these controls down our throats, it doesn't take into, it doesn't have the same outcomes as the free market would.
01:30:45.420And it has these terrible impacts and effects, which is why we all lean into capitalism and free market principles and what's made us so prosperous.
01:30:54.960So, so, so Carol, can the, can a mayor and city council do what they're talking about doing?
01:31:04.060I mean, you know, you look at, look at Seattle, boy, they've screwed that place up.
01:31:09.600California screwed that place up, but he is talking about full fledged collectivism, communism, really.
01:31:17.780Where the state is saying, you can't live there because of who you are or whatever, and we're going to give that property to somebody else.
01:31:28.980Well, you know, there's the common sense side of me and there's the reality, you know, of what is happening in the world.
01:31:36.340And the common sense would say, no, of course not.
01:31:38.940There's laws, there's a constitution that stuff like that can't happen.
01:31:42.260But we've seen the constitution flouted.
01:31:46.440We've seen the general principles of the country was founded on our rights and protections flouted so many times that they can certainly try.
01:31:55.580And I'm sure there are probably workarounds and things that they have, you know, in statues where they're going to say, well, you know, this wasn't up to code or this wasn't, you know, following this rule.
01:32:07.280So we're not actually really seizing it.
01:32:09.500We're just saying you're not following the rules.
01:32:11.180And going back to what I said, you know, if you are somebody who owns a property that, you know, it has rent control on it and you can't make the investment because you're not getting the market rent on it.
01:32:23.520And all of a sudden they say, well, you're out of the code.
01:32:50.320I mean, it certainly looks like it's a possibility.
01:32:52.880So as if these things happen, New York is just going to go into a cesspool and you're going to see big money.
01:33:03.180I mean, the money that's not out now, it's going to flee because it's not it just doesn't want to be sucked into all of that.
01:33:11.340And I can't imagine yesterday we played a clip of Mom Donnie talking about this and he was talking about how, you know, if if you're if you're a landowner, you are you know, you own apartments or you're renting things out to people that, you know, there's all kinds of new rules coming your way.
01:33:28.860And I thought I would never own a piece of property in New York.
01:33:33.160I would get out of there as soon as I can, because it's not going to be stacked even fairly, not not just in my favor.
01:33:40.160It's not even going to be stacked fairly for a capitalist.
01:33:44.020And at some point, if you drive enough people out, the city and the state will have to try to protect itself.
01:33:52.280And that's, again, where capital controls come in and they'll say you can't take your money out or you have to pay taxes for the next five years if you're moving out.
01:34:01.620Won't won't they try to trap money there?
01:34:05.220Well, you're seeing this happen real time in California.
01:34:08.900There are so many things to talk about in that little piece.
01:34:11.460So let me just start with the last one.
01:34:15.480They're trying to put in place a wealth tax, which we've talked about many times, certainly something like, you know, seven or nine countries in Europe have abandoned since it was such a bad idea because capital is mobile.
01:34:30.560But they're trying to make it retroactive that if, you know, you are a citizen as of, I think, was the end of 2025, beginning of 2026 of California, that you can't try to get around this rule.
01:34:42.200Well, we're going to come after you anyway to try to take your wealth.
01:34:46.840So these are not theoretical things that could happen.
01:34:51.160These are proposals that are being put on the table, that are being led by people like Ro Khanna in California, who is a representative from Silicon Valley.
01:35:02.100His constituents are the tech bros, are the billionaires, are the people who put him in place.
01:35:09.280And then he is turning around and saying, well, guess what, you know, at the core, at the core, I'm still a communist, whether you put me in place or not.
01:35:19.680I can tell you, being from Chicago, we've seen the impact of this real time, not certainly directly capital control, but the bad policies that have driven out billionaires like Ken Griffin.
01:35:32.000And the whole that that has left, not only in terms of his tax revenue, his philanthropy, but all the jobs that went with them, is this money that is no longer here as part of the tax base.
01:35:44.860And so the middle and working class now are having to pick up that difference.
01:35:49.840And people are shocked at how much they're having to carry, because the people with money can take it somewhere else, and they're left holding the back.
01:35:58.560I actually saw somebody say, how come he's not spending money in Chicago anymore?
01:36:13.120Yes, and it's the fact that there is this level of economic illiteracy, and that if you went up in front of a bunch of people or even members of, you know, the state representatives, and you say, okay, you know, which would you rather have, you know, 90% of a pie or 50% of a pie?
01:36:33.040And they would actually give you that answer without knowing how big the pie is, because they don't fundamentally understand that we're looking at trying to, you know, have less of a burden for everyone and grow the pie and make it a wonderful place to live.
01:36:47.820And these policies, you know, New York is one that's staggering to me, Glenn.
01:36:52.720If you think about it, this is Wall Street.
01:36:55.620This is the financial capital of the United States.
01:36:59.280This is where the Fed monetary policy comes from.
01:37:41.100And I am also proud to announce that I will be signing an executive order directing HPD to work alongside the Department of Buildings, the newly invigorated mayor's office to protect tenants, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and our newly created office of mass engagement to hold rental ripoff hearings across all.
01:38:05.800We will we will hold these rental ripoff hearings across all five boroughs within the first hundred days of this administration.
01:39:18.920Little by little high interest debt starts stacking up more and more and your breathing room gets smaller and smaller.
01:39:24.160And American financing, you know, what they do is help you step back and actually look at the whole picture, not just the next bill that is due.
01:39:32.960And they're a family owned company that specializes in helping people consolidate high interest debt and restructure their finances in a way that makes sense.
01:39:41.080You know, for real life, they're not talking about, you know, refinancing your I mean, unless it's right for you refinancing your whole loan, your home loan.
01:39:48.500They're saying, well, let's take some of that and take a new loan out, maybe at six percent for ten thousand dollars out of your what you have saved in your in your home.
01:39:58.960Leave your regular mortgage alone and then take that six percent interest and pay off those credit cards that are costing you 20 percent interest.
01:40:41.860Carol, let's talk a little bit about Venezuela and Iran.
01:40:57.880And if you want to throw in Greenland, we can.
01:41:01.960What Donald Trump is doing, I think, is remarkable, if it works.
01:41:07.900He is rebuilding an entirely new system.
01:41:14.160So the Western Hemisphere is the is the the sphere of influence for the next hundred years.
01:41:21.400He's rewriting everything and he has put oil and rare earth and all of the things we need to not only survive, but to thrive in the next century and to hold down Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.
01:41:37.860It's quite remarkable, at least the way I'm seeing it.
01:41:46.180This is one of the greatest things that is coming out of the Trump administration.
01:41:51.380You know, the Biden administration weakened America's position on the world stage and really didn't pay any attention to the national and economic security issues that we had in terms of our dependence on China for things like shipbuilding and making defense weapons and the like.
01:42:10.660And under that administration, there was further encroachment into our not only our hemisphere, but also into these countries that have these strategic resources.
01:42:22.640So when anybody says, oh, well, you know, the U.S. just cares about oil.
01:42:27.900Well, you know, what do you think it is that Iran cares about or Russia or China?
01:42:33.140Everybody's there for the same reason.
01:42:34.980So the fact that they're paying attention here and taking steps to shore up the national security and the economic security, it's similar to what happened in Argentina when we talked about previously the swap lines and making sure that we got China's influence out of that region.
01:43:01.100I mean, just with the gold in the ground in Venezuela, we don't own it.
01:43:05.760But if Venezuela is on our side, not China's side, you have a harder time building bricks.
01:43:10.620You have a harder time doing a gold back currency, you know, and controlling all of it because you've now lost the gold that's in the ground in Venezuela.
01:43:20.880So there are little things like that that I think nobody is really talking about that is is putting the brakes on destroying the American dollar and strengthening us to some degree on that.
01:43:37.540But it also I'm worried that, you know, we're we're backing these countries into a corner where pretty soon they're going to figure out, holy cow, Donald Trump is playing to win.
01:43:49.940And, you know, when somebody's back is up against the wall, they become very, very dangerous.
01:43:56.800Are you are you concerned about that at all?
01:43:59.720I think there are a few different ways that this can go and kind of building on what you're talking about, the concerns that you're not only about the gold in the ground, but the fact that China had led tens of billions of dollars to Venezuela that now may not be paid back.
01:44:14.080I think these potentially could be tools to get China to the table, to come up with some sort of what's been called a Mar-a-Lago accord, you know, a financial reset, because obviously there are a lot of financial issues between the countries as well as with our country.
01:44:32.140And I think this may be a tool to get everybody to the table and to come to an agreement, because remember, Donald Trump is a business person.
01:44:41.340He is art of the deal. Negotiations are his strength.
01:44:45.360And, you know, he's tried some other avenues, but this is another avenue that could get these countries to the table.
01:44:51.860That being said, these are not necessarily rational actors.
01:44:55.820So does that mean then all of a sudden we have now put, you know, China taking over Taiwan in play?
01:45:02.660I think that these are all possibilities, but the hope is that we get more of these countries to the table.
01:45:09.280Yeah. And with the collapse of or the changing of the guard in Venezuela and the possible collapse in Iran, those are just those two things are significant, significant movement in toward America in a good way.
01:45:28.320Carol, thank you so much. You can find her at carolroth.com, carolroth.com.
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01:50:00.740And quite honestly, this week, I don't feel like we are a fading empire or a crumbling nation or a second rate anything.
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01:50:41.900We really need Greenland because of their rare earth minerals.
01:50:44.400I believe we do need Greenland, not as a 51st state, maybe as a protectorate, it would be nice, not by force, not by military, purchase, maybe.
01:50:56.360You could make everybody, you know, you could offer everybody there $10 million, and what is it?
01:51:01.820$500 billion, you'd get Greenland and give everybody, everybody, you'd get $10 million.