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00:02:49.460 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:51.980 We are in a tough, tough battle.

00:02:55.460 We have a tough negotiator.

00:02:57.720 And just like if you've ever been in the room when somebody's really negotiating hard and you're like,

00:03:01.720 God, I don't know if I would have said that.

00:03:04.540 You trust the lead negotiator to know what he's doing.

00:03:08.360 So we're going to talk about the economy, the tariffs.

00:03:11.140 And by the way, Elon Musk came out over the weekend and said,

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00:03:22.680 We've already, Doge has already reduced the deficit by $1 trillion.

00:03:31.860 $1 trillion has been cut.

00:03:34.260 We're what, two weeks in?

00:03:36.000 Keep going, Elon Musk.

00:03:38.140 And I'll explain why in just a second.

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00:04:51.300 Talk.

00:04:51.860 The clock is ticking now.

00:04:54.100 And I think everybody's very well aware of that ticking clock.

00:04:58.400 And it's happening faster than people realize.

00:05:02.400 There is a freight train that is barreling down the tracks, and we are standing right in its path.

00:05:08.040 And we're debating whether the track should be made of steel or recycled materials.

00:05:13.300 I don't think that's what we should be talking about.

00:05:15.660 The train doesn't care.

00:05:17.960 It's coming either way.

00:05:20.080 You, however, because you are paying attention, you can get off the tracks and warn others as well to the game that's being played now at a global level.

00:05:30.120 We have to move, but we must not blink.

00:05:34.660 Let's start with tariffs here.

00:05:36.060 I'm going to cover a lot of things this hour.

00:05:37.680 But tariffs, they're a really big deal.

00:05:39.760 But Canada, this isn't about you.

00:05:42.000 Okay?

00:05:42.240 It's not about Mexico.

00:05:43.300 It's not about Panama.

00:05:44.540 It's about security.

00:05:47.660 It's about drug runners.

00:05:49.920 It's about our borders.

00:05:51.660 It's about making America strong again.

00:05:55.440 It's honestly about the U.S. and the end of the structure that was set up post-World War II.

00:06:02.040 That's what it is.

00:06:03.120 Now, the left and economic experts will now tell you, you can't do that.

00:06:06.940 But that's what they've been doing.

00:06:08.760 They've been dismantling the economic structure of post-World War II.

00:06:12.960 Right?

00:06:14.080 I mean, they say it.

00:06:15.680 It can't continue like this.

00:06:17.740 It's going to collapse.

00:06:18.900 That's why we need a great reset.

00:06:22.260 Except they want the great reset to go to a bigger global system.

00:06:28.820 Donald Trump says no.

00:06:30.680 It needs to be America first, just as Canada, the EU, Mexico, and the rest should do the same for their countries.

00:06:38.700 The United States, and quite honestly, the entire Western world, and I think the Eastern world as well, is at the precipice of an economic, political, and societal reckoning unlike anything the world has faced since maybe the Great Depression.

00:06:54.140 And in some ways, it's worse, because this time, it's not just about economics.

00:07:00.920 It's about trust.

00:07:02.400 It's about trust in our institutions, trust in our leaders, and even trust in one another.

00:07:08.200 And that's what makes this moment so dangerous.

00:07:12.400 President Trump is walking into a storm, perhaps running headfirst right into it, with a task that borders on the impossible.

00:07:24.300 Think of this.

00:07:26.080 He's got to be right.

00:07:28.140 Not most of the time.

00:07:30.000 Not right on balance.

00:07:31.300 He has to be right almost every time, every policy, every decision, every negotiation.

00:07:37.760 He's got to be right.

00:07:40.540 It has to be in the right order, the right timing, and the right execution.

00:07:45.460 And we must not blink as he negotiates.

00:07:50.800 Because here's the truth.

00:07:52.460 We are out of margin for error.

00:07:55.100 As pilots would say, we're out of runway.

00:07:58.500 We have no more runway.

00:08:00.060 Anyway, it's either get this plane up or crash.

00:08:04.660 Now, imagine trying to defuse a bomb with shaky hands after somebody else set the timer and booby-trapped all of the wiring.

00:08:12.980 That's exactly what we're dealing with.

00:08:16.460 However, for anyone who's beginning to shrink because of the shrieks of Justin Trudeau and make you question what Trump is doing with tariffs,

00:08:26.600 look who came to the negotiating table this weekend.

00:08:30.060 Panama.

00:08:32.340 What?

00:08:33.380 I thought they were going to fight to the bitter end.

00:08:36.180 No.

00:08:37.180 They're returning the control of the Panama Canal to us.

00:08:42.580 We don't own it.

00:08:43.800 But they're kicking China out.

00:08:47.660 That's what he wanted.

00:08:48.940 So for the first time, America, you need to understand, first time since Ronald Reagan, at least, that we've had a president who knows what the truth is and knows how to get it.

00:09:00.620 Just as Reagan said, that's an evil empire of communism, our number one enemy.

00:09:06.260 Trump is declaring globalism our number one enemy and returning jobs and manufacturing back to America.

00:09:15.780 That's what's happening.

00:09:17.240 That's what he's doing.

00:09:18.680 You see, we have to grow our way out of this debt.

00:09:22.320 It's not enough just to cut.

00:09:24.600 We also have to grow.

00:09:26.340 Our debt is over $34 trillion and climbing.

00:09:30.740 Our annual deficit is over $1.7 trillion.

00:09:34.440 The interest on our debt alone is $1 trillion a year.

00:09:40.460 Just the interest.

00:09:42.800 That's more than we spend on national defense.

00:09:47.680 It's going to surpass what we spend on Social Security.

00:09:51.660 And once that happens, the math doesn't work and it collapses under its own weight.

00:09:57.400 And that will happen because almost all of the debt accrued under Biden were written as short-term loans.

00:10:07.000 A lot of it comes back up to be re-loaned and re-mortgaged this next 18 months.

00:10:16.920 Now, because Biden was such a good negotiator, we're going to have to negotiate under higher interest rates.

00:10:28.600 Uh-oh.

00:10:30.200 This is why we don't have a choice.

00:10:33.760 Just this one fact, if not dealt with, quickly will kill us.

00:10:40.060 The Federal Reserve, our so-called economic firefighter, is out of water.

00:10:44.660 In fact, I think they've been an arsonist for a long time.

00:10:47.700 Interest rates are already high.

00:10:49.560 Inflation is sticky.

00:10:51.380 Quantitative easing, the magic trick that they told us would work for over a decade, is no longer even an option.

00:10:58.500 The Fed printed $8 trillion in the last 15 years.

00:11:04.140 And what did we get?

00:11:05.980 What did we get?

00:11:07.600 Did we get new companies, new manufacturing, new jobs everywhere?

00:11:11.780 No, we got asset bubbles, distorted markets, and the illusion of prosperity for us,

00:11:17.640 as the uber-rich and large corporations, along with the banks, just got much, much, much richer.

00:11:25.260 The illusion is finally fading.

00:11:28.180 Reality is setting in.

00:11:30.420 There's going to be a great reset.

00:11:32.380 Most likely, it'll be on Wall Street.

00:11:34.060 And just when we thought it couldn't get more complicated, here comes artificial intelligence and artificial superintelligence,

00:11:42.140 reshaping the entire world, what will feel like overnight.

00:11:49.440 Millions of jobs are going to be obsolete.

00:11:52.200 Now, will there be new ones?

00:11:54.080 Probably.

00:11:54.980 They usually come.

00:11:56.680 Are they going to come fast enough?

00:11:58.400 No, there's going to be pain.

00:11:59.840 We've talked about that for 15 years.

00:12:01.740 See, everything that we've ever talked about that ended with somebody, usually a president, saying,

00:12:08.080 and at that point, there will be no good options, we're here.

00:12:13.420 That's where we are.

00:12:14.580 And the economy isn't, it's not a machine you can just reboot.

00:12:21.760 It's more like an ecosystem, and we've been poisoning it now for decades.

00:12:27.980 So how do you fix this?

00:12:29.580 How do you pull a nation back from the brink when it's addicted to easy money and cheap credit and government handouts?

00:12:37.660 Well, you start by telling the truth.

00:12:40.420 And that's what Donald Trump has been saying.

00:12:42.440 We screwed ourselves, and we've been screwed by every other nation, and including ourselves, mainly ourselves.

00:12:50.120 Look, we're broke.

00:12:52.140 Yes, if the world were a neighborhood, we'd be the one that had the biggest house, the nicest cars.

00:12:58.440 We might even have a fleet of jets.

00:13:01.200 But what the neighbors now know is that everything in our house, including our house, was purchased on loan,

00:13:09.120 and our income can no longer service just the interest on the loan.

00:13:15.020 Everybody knows, it seems, except perhaps the family inside of the house with the fancy gates.

00:13:20.900 That would be us.

00:13:22.080 This is why the $1 trillion cuts, $4 billion a day that Elon Musk announced over the weekend, is a really big deal.

00:13:31.500 But it cannot be the end.

00:13:33.880 It has to be the beginning.

00:13:36.360 Because we can't afford to be the world's babysitter or policeman anymore.

00:13:40.360 We can't keep writing blank checks to foreign countries while our own people are in real danger.

00:13:47.520 It's really easy.

00:13:51.740 We as a nation, as a nation, need to downsize.

00:13:55.100 That's it.

00:13:56.060 We need to look at our government and say, it's far too big.

00:13:59.560 We need cuts.

00:14:01.440 And the most important thing is a new mindset.

00:14:03.880 The post-World War II order is over.

00:14:08.560 That system where America props up the global economy, defends half the planet, underwrites everybody else's welfare state, it's over.

00:14:16.160 It's dead.

00:14:17.760 Why?

00:14:18.620 Why are we still living under trade laws that were written right after World War II to help rebuild the European and German car companies?

00:14:29.600 I think Mercedes is okay.

00:14:31.460 I think they'll make it without us.

00:14:35.140 It's been dead for years.

00:14:37.840 This thing has been on life support for decades, and it's been dead for at least two decades, maybe three.

00:14:51.400 We just haven't had the funeral yet, and we need to.

00:14:55.300 Countries like Panama are already beginning at the negotiating table.

00:14:59.160 Why?

00:15:00.180 Why?

00:15:01.420 Donald Trump is playing a serious game.

00:15:04.500 He is a serious negotiator.

00:15:07.880 We still hold sway in that neighborhood, even though everybody knows we're broke.

00:15:13.040 It's our security team that protects the entire neighborhood.

00:15:17.220 If we stop, they'll need to spend money.

00:15:21.480 Money they don't have, or at least haven't been willing to spend.

00:15:25.140 So, yeah, you like our jets?

00:15:30.800 You like our protection?

00:15:32.580 You like the world order?

00:15:34.180 Yeah, you're going to have to pay for some of it because we're done.

00:15:37.160 And the world is feeling the shift, and the ones who are really against it were the ones that were designing a new global community, not a local community.

00:15:49.360 The tariffs, the economic pressure, it's not just about money.

00:15:55.240 It's about leverage.

00:15:57.300 For the first time in generations, we're forcing other nations to stand on their own two feet.

00:16:03.340 We're telling them, look, we have standards, we have a border, and you cannot allow China to come in, make all that fentanyl right under your nose, and then ship it across our border with drug cartels.

00:16:16.220 And if you can't control them, we're going to push you first, 25% tariff.

00:16:21.960 And if you can't control them, then we're going to take care of those drug cartels ourself because they're killing people here in America.

00:16:29.040 And Canada, I'm sorry, it's not about you.

00:16:31.640 We're good friends.

00:16:32.540 We are, but you have problems as well.

00:16:35.840 You need to look at Canada first.

00:16:40.100 We've all built our economies on the illusion that we could have it all without paying the price.

00:16:45.160 BRICS is building an alternative to the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, which is not a conspiracy theory.

00:16:51.580 It's happening.

00:16:52.740 China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, they're betting against us.

00:16:57.360 And Canada is beginning to say they'll join Panama and others to stand against us too.

00:17:01.700 So, fine, bet on America's best days are behind us.

00:17:07.180 But no, they're not.

00:17:09.260 They're hedging their future against the collapse of the dollar.

00:17:12.420 That's fine.

00:17:13.260 If they're right, if the dollar loses its status as the world reserve currency, then our standard of living will collapse almost overnight.

00:17:20.680 But it's going to anyway if we don't act boldly now.

00:17:26.440 Here's the thing.

00:17:30.480 It's not just about economics.

00:17:32.180 It's also about character.

00:17:33.900 We've been living in a fantasy too long, believing economic magic tricks can print wealth out of thin air, or we could borrow it forever without any consequence.

00:17:42.760 That's not how reality works.

00:17:46.260 Reality has rules.

00:17:48.440 And if you break them, you pay the price.

00:17:50.760 And we're not the only ones that broke all those rules.

00:17:53.980 Every country in the West did.

00:17:56.420 We're just the first now under Donald Trump to say, okay, we're out of that game.

00:18:01.700 Cuts are coming.

00:18:02.980 Deep cuts.

00:18:04.320 Cuts that will make people scream.

00:18:06.000 Cuts to programs that you think are sacred.

00:18:08.420 Cuts to programs that I think are sacred.

00:18:10.380 Because if everything is sacred, then nothing is sacred.

00:18:15.480 We've treated government spending like an all-you-can-eat buffet, but the bill is now due.

00:18:20.840 And guess what?

00:18:21.380 There's no such thing as a free lunch.

00:18:23.200 And in fact, every item we ate had a very high price.

00:18:28.680 It's easy to say, cut the waste.

00:18:30.820 But the truth is, the waste isn't enough.

00:18:33.560 Even if you eliminated every dollar of fraud, waste, and abuse, it wouldn't fix the problem.

00:18:38.160 Because the problem is us.

00:18:40.400 It's our expectations.

00:18:42.160 Our unwillingness to make sacrifices.

00:18:44.780 Our unwillingness to do it ourselves and force others to do it themselves.

00:18:52.020 Every generation before us has faced hard times.

00:18:54.940 Wars, depression, pandemics.

00:18:56.740 They rose to the occasion.

00:18:58.260 The history books are just wondering, which direction am I going to write this in?

00:19:04.920 Will we stand up?

00:19:08.760 Because a lot of tough things are coming.

00:19:11.960 A lot of tough things.

00:19:14.540 But here's the hope.

00:19:16.220 We still choose how this story ends.

00:19:18.580 We face the truth now while we still have some options.

00:19:22.260 We can tighten our belts, make the cuts, rebuild our economy on solid ground.

00:19:27.660 It's going to be painful.

00:19:28.680 Painful here and painful for other countries.

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00:19:34.640 Complacency is.

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00:20:45.000 You know, I worry about these tariffs as well, but Donald Trump is not a lawyer.

00:21:03.300 I mean, all of our presidents usually come from law.

00:21:06.660 He's not a lawyer.

00:21:07.820 He's not a politician.

00:21:08.760 He's a businessman, so he knows how the economy works.

00:21:13.360 He's the best negotiator I've ever seen.

00:21:16.660 And over the last eight years, he has earned at least my trust and respect.

00:21:23.980 I don't follow him blindly, nor should you.

00:21:26.780 I worry about the effects of tariffs, but I think I see what he's doing and why he's doing it.

00:21:32.020 And it may be the last chance we have if we do not let others see us blink.

00:21:38.540 This isn't about politics.

00:21:40.300 This is about survival.

00:21:43.300 The world as we've known it since World War II is over, and that's not a bad thing.

00:21:47.780 It's an opportunity.

00:21:48.700 It's an opportunity to rebuild something better, stronger, something real.

00:21:52.900 The question is, are we brave enough to face it, or will we believe the truth when we hear it?

00:22:03.580 Hello, Stu.

00:22:04.380 How are you?

00:22:05.620 Good, Glenn.

00:22:06.060 How are you?

00:22:06.720 Oh, my goodness.

00:22:08.660 Exciting times.

00:22:09.520 It is exciting times.

00:22:10.720 I've got a lot to say about USAID next hour.

00:22:17.520 That is a fascinating thing, isn't it?

00:22:21.100 Yeah, the Doge stuff is really encouraging, I think.

00:22:23.920 I don't know that everyone in America loves it as much as I do and you do.

00:22:27.740 I love it, especially with USAID.

00:22:31.020 Have you followed this?

00:22:32.320 Yes, I mean, on some level.

00:22:34.100 I can't wait to hear what you have to say about it.

00:22:35.580 Oh, you're going to like it.

00:22:37.400 Yeah.

00:22:37.800 Yeah, you're going to like it.

00:22:38.740 Finally.

00:22:39.680 It's interesting.

00:22:40.340 It feels like, I was talking to a friend this weekend, and he said that this is the first time in a while that it seems like the conservative movement actually cares about shrinking government.

00:22:51.100 Uh-huh.

00:22:51.740 Like, we went through a period there where, like, we didn't even talk about it anymore.

00:22:54.940 Yeah.

00:22:55.160 And it does seem like this is a real effort, maybe the most real effort we've seen for a very long time.

00:22:59.240 Right.

00:22:59.460 And it's not, it's not Reagan, where Reagan was still a guy, I mean, he didn't believe in big government, but the government did grow under him.

00:23:10.340 It largely because of defense, and that was a big part of him.

00:23:11.980 Uh, but, uh, it, uh, I think they're actually serious about cutting it and cutting the regulations and spending and everything else.

00:23:20.060 That's good news.

00:23:20.960 Yeah.

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00:23:25.000 Okay, um, listen, I don't know everything.

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00:23:35.760 Why?

00:23:36.460 Because I live in a country that had Democrats run the place almost my entire life, and I've seen several times what they do when they have power.

00:23:45.260 Now, thank God, at the moment, they don't, but that doesn't mean, you know, we should be lying down on, uh, the job of protecting what I've built, what you've built.

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00:25:03.660 Welcome to the program.

00:25:04.840 Donald Trump just got off the phone with Justin Trudeau.

00:25:07.380 Apparently, uh, uh, they're going to talk again at three this afternoon, but, uh, he's not, he's not going, he's not going light on good Justin, uh, which I'm very happy about, uh, Canada.

00:25:21.760 I mean, you're, I'm sorry when we're there too.

00:25:25.680 I don't want to feel like we're pointing out Canada going, you guys suck.

00:25:29.260 We sucked too.

00:25:31.460 We just woke up and changed leadership and we're, we are going in a different direction because we've learned the same things, you know, okay, you know it.

00:25:42.760 This can't continue this way, right?

00:25:45.700 Yeah, the one, the one, I mean, there's, I have several issues with some of these policies, but one that I do really is a little bothersome to me is Trudeau was so unpopular in Canada and so on the way out.

00:25:58.100 And now like, there's this like nationalist Canadian thing going on where they're booing the national anthem.

00:26:02.840 Wait a minute, he's, Trudeau's becoming a nationalist?

00:26:05.780 It's hilarious, but like, he's now getting the benefit, the benefits of the support of people who are just rallying around him mindlessly, whether the policy is right or not.

00:26:15.300 Correct.

00:26:15.740 Uh, that, I just don't like good things happening to Justin Trudeau.

00:26:18.180 So that is, I don't know if that was part, but again.

00:26:21.460 That is an unforeseen consequence.

00:26:22.740 Yes.

00:26:23.080 I don't like that.

00:26:23.680 Yeah.

00:26:24.180 Uh, but we will see, you know, obviously where this thing lands economically is much more important than that.

00:26:29.440 Here's the good thing.

00:26:30.560 We have a president that's not actually trying to destroy us.

00:26:34.400 Yeah, that's true.

00:26:36.000 I mean, whether you like this policy or not, and when it comes to tariffs, you know that the motivation behind it is to make the country better.

00:26:42.560 Correct.

00:26:42.980 And I don't know that that's always the motivation behind these policies when we've seen previous presidents go after them.

00:26:48.860 Obviously, a lot of Democrats have gone after similar policies, and I think a lot of times their motivations have been much, much worse.

00:26:54.260 So at least we've got good motivations behind this.

00:26:57.520 I mean, I think Trump is looking at this and saying he thinks it's going to work long term.

00:27:00.920 He thinks he's, I think most clearly, you pointed this out, Glenn, with Panama, with Colombia, most clearly he believes they're going to back down from this eventually and give us concessions.

00:27:13.680 And I think that's probably the most likely outcome.

00:27:16.360 Uh, it seems to be what's happening with Panama.

00:27:18.520 Yeah, it seems to be, it definitely happened with Colombia.

00:27:20.620 Like, that's, it does seem to be, we are the big boys on the block.

00:27:24.180 Yes.

00:27:24.720 And Donald Trump is not only, uh, familiar with that fact, but also comfortable with it, unlike other presidents.

00:27:31.000 Yeah.

00:27:31.220 He's comfortable with us being the big boys on the block.

00:27:33.340 Yeah.

00:27:33.440 He's comfortable with us being the world power.

00:27:35.680 That's okay in his eyes.

00:27:37.000 It's okay in my eyes.

00:27:37.880 It's okay in your eyes.

00:27:38.760 As long as you don't become a bully.

00:27:40.320 And see this, I mean, listen to what Justin Trudeau said.

00:27:43.140 Let's go to, uh, let's go to, uh, cut three, please.

00:27:52.100 And now is also the time to choose Canada.

00:27:59.180 There are many ways for you to do your part.

00:28:01.900 It might mean checking the labels at the supermarket and picking Canadian-made products.

00:28:07.580 It might mean opting for Canadian rye over Kentucky bourbon or foregoing Florida orange juice altogether.

00:28:16.580 No!

00:28:17.220 It might mean changing your summer vacation plans to stay here in Canada and explore the

00:28:22.480 many national and provincial parks, historical sites, and tourist destinations our great country

00:28:28.700 has to offer.

00:28:29.640 He's using this to turn around his own political fortunes, which is infuriating.

00:28:34.000 Like, he's got nothing to, he doesn't care at all about any of this other stuff.

00:28:36.660 No.

00:28:37.020 He's motivated by his own self-interest here.

00:28:38.840 So, here's cut six, more of Justin Trudeau.

00:28:41.680 I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are

00:28:48.060 choosing to target us, um, instead of so many other, uh, challenging parts of the world.

00:28:54.840 I don't think there's a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, oh, damn Canada.

00:29:00.140 Oh, we should really go after Canada.

00:29:01.860 You're right.

00:29:04.360 Um, why were you targeting us?

00:29:06.800 Why, why, why was your, uh, uh, your number two in command that just quit?

00:29:13.220 Why was she targeting people here for, you know, giving to a freedom movement in Canada?

00:29:19.120 I mean, it's not like you've been our best friend, Justin.

00:29:22.020 No, he's been horrible.

00:29:23.460 He's horrible.

00:29:24.080 But Canadians are great.

00:29:25.460 I love Canadians, uh, Canadians, and I love Canada.

00:29:28.160 Um, and Canada should love Canada and you should be concerned about, you know, what the state

00:29:34.980 of your country is in, you know, look at your immigration problems, look at what's happening

00:29:41.220 to your country.

00:29:42.320 That's what started all of this is the fentanyl that is coming across our borders, both North

00:29:47.660 and South and the illegals.

00:29:50.680 Stop it, stop it.

00:29:52.440 And, you know, a great way to stop it is to make sure you stop it at your borders from

00:29:57.400 them coming into your country.

00:30:01.820 That's, that's really what this is about.

00:30:04.140 Right.

00:30:04.280 And that's, what's clear here.

00:30:05.480 I like, you know, Trump always says like tariffs are his favorite word.

00:30:08.980 You've talked to him.

00:30:09.640 I know privately on phone calls about this.

00:30:11.320 I disagree with him on that.

00:30:12.780 Right.

00:30:13.280 And, and, but in a way, I don't think that's exactly what he means, right?

00:30:17.400 Like tariffs are good in, to the extent that they get something else done.

00:30:23.020 Yes.

00:30:23.360 Right.

00:30:23.580 Like they're not good in and of themselves.

00:30:25.080 They're just taxes in and of themselves.

00:30:27.040 Yes.

00:30:27.240 They do raise prices on us.

00:30:28.820 The calculation, however, is will the pain that is applied to both sides as Trump has

00:30:35.400 outwardly stated.

00:30:36.400 And it's, he, it's important to be fair to him.

00:30:38.500 A lot of people are like, oh, he's, he's not saying this.

00:30:40.860 He's saying there's going to be pain.

00:30:43.000 These are his words.

00:30:43.980 Yeah.

00:30:44.120 There's going to be pain on us, but the calculation is the pain on us is going to be less than

00:30:49.720 the pain on them.

00:30:50.500 And they will hit give first.

00:30:52.140 And then they, he will get what he wants outside of the tariffs.

00:30:56.240 That's the calculation here.

00:30:57.600 I mean, it is a risky one at times.

00:31:00.000 And you know, these, I mean, you could call it a trade war or not.

00:31:02.880 The bottom line is when we escalate, then they escalate, then we escalate, then they escalate.

00:31:07.180 It's, you could call it, you could say it's not a trade war, but kind of is.

00:31:11.420 I mean, it's a trade competition.

00:31:12.960 If you feel more comfortable with those terms, but the bottom line is we believe we're going

00:31:18.480 to win it.

00:31:19.660 Yeah.

00:31:20.120 That's what he's saying.

00:31:21.520 And he believes we're going to win it.

00:31:23.140 And at the end of the day, we get concessions that improve the country.

00:31:27.800 The proof's going to be in the pudding on that.

00:31:29.500 Will it work?

00:31:30.200 It's work.

00:31:30.700 As you point out, it's worked kind of with Panama so far.

00:31:33.180 It seems like it worked.

00:31:34.460 It's worked kind of with Columbia.

00:31:35.800 It's, it's going to work with some of these countries.

00:31:38.340 You know, it's going to be more difficult with a country like China.

00:31:40.840 NAFTA, I think what we saw in his first term was a renegotiation of NAFTA into what was

00:31:47.520 the, which eventually became the USMCA.

00:31:49.620 Right.

00:31:50.500 And that.

00:31:51.480 Which he still doesn't like.

00:31:52.620 It was the best he could do.

00:31:53.740 It was the best he could do at the time.

00:31:55.100 He's, I guess, not happy with it now.

00:31:57.680 Because, you know, you're not allowed to put new tariffs on either one of these countries

00:32:01.300 in that agreement, which he negotiated.

00:32:04.060 But he wants something better.

00:32:07.020 I mean, how can we be upset with a president who wants something better for the country?

00:32:11.180 It's just a question as to whether it works or not.

00:32:14.420 And the guy, you know, the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic this weekend.

00:32:19.020 His, the GM came out and said, you'll have to judge me as to how it turns out.

00:32:22.700 We will.

00:32:23.100 We will.

00:32:23.620 Right.

00:32:24.700 Congratulations.

00:32:25.460 We will.

00:32:25.820 We will.

00:32:26.640 In fact, we kind of already have.

00:32:28.740 That one we already have.

00:32:29.860 That's probably a bad example.

00:32:31.140 Right.

00:32:31.300 But like, that's exactly what will happen, right?

00:32:33.400 If, if this works and he gets something out of it, people will probably be okay with it,

00:32:37.380 even if it is short-term pain.

00:32:39.340 Generally speaking, though, that the American people only have so much tolerance for that.

00:32:43.960 And, and Donald Trump has a, a finely tuned eye for that type of thing.

00:32:48.580 He does.

00:32:48.780 And I'm sure he's going to walk that line carefully.

00:32:50.600 Oh, yes, he is.

00:32:51.620 Yes, he is.

00:32:52.600 And like I said, he's not trying to destroy America.

00:32:58.040 He's trying to save America.

00:32:59.820 And I know that's a new concept to the American people.

00:33:04.140 It's kind of like, you know, I'm sure it's new to the Canadians as well.

00:33:07.820 Cut one.

00:33:08.840 Here's Donald Trump talking about tariffs on Europe.

00:33:11.860 Well, you're asking me a question because I'm sure you didn't hear.

00:33:16.160 Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union?

00:33:20.260 Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer?

00:33:24.660 Absolutely.

00:33:25.140 He wants stuff.

00:33:29.260 Yeah.

00:33:29.440 And this is how he gets stuff.

00:33:30.760 Yeah.

00:33:31.320 What, but what does he want?

00:33:33.920 I mean, it, various things from various countries, right?

00:33:36.620 Yeah.

00:33:36.780 He wants, uh, I mean, the big things, he wants an end to the World War II order where we are protecting Mercedes-Benz, allowing Mercedes-Benz to come in here and have all kinds of access to our market.

00:33:52.240 And Ford can't, we don't have that.

00:33:56.140 We don't have that in Germany.

00:33:57.120 Why?

00:33:58.020 Because we wanted to make sure that the German companies could recover and all of the car companies could recover.

00:34:04.980 You know, the world's just not a great place without another Citroen.

00:34:09.400 Uh, so, you know, that's what, that's what that is for.

00:34:12.880 That's why we did that.

00:34:14.140 And it never changed.

00:34:15.420 And it's got to change.

00:34:16.860 It's over.

00:34:17.600 It's got to change.

00:34:18.460 The other thing is that absolutely has to change.

00:34:21.760 They have to pay their 5% into NATO.

00:34:25.500 You got to pay it.

00:34:26.320 Yeah.

00:34:26.580 That's, that's, everyone is in this agreement.

00:34:29.580 Yeah.

00:34:30.720 Like exist with the terms of the agreement in place.

00:34:35.340 Follow them.

00:34:36.120 That's not a difficult thing.

00:34:37.340 We're doing a lot more than everybody else anyway.

00:34:39.680 Even if we all pay 5%.

00:34:41.200 I know.

00:34:41.680 We're the ones footing the bill.

00:34:43.300 Right.

00:34:43.500 We're the ones basically running this organization.

00:34:46.180 The least you can do is get to that, whatever that percentage is.

00:34:49.180 Yeah.

00:34:49.760 And, and it, you know, and that's fine if you don't, if you don't want to do that, that's fine.

00:34:55.980 Then the agreement doesn't exist.

00:34:57.800 And we're not going to, you know, protect you all the time.

00:35:02.760 You know, Winston Churchill had to beg the United States to come in because the Americans don't want to be involved in everybody else's business.

00:35:11.560 We don't, our government, our state department seems to want to, the military industrial complex wants to, but the American people don't.

00:35:20.360 So we're totally fine with that.

00:35:23.000 Europe.

00:35:23.660 We don't think that's a good idea for you, but you know, in time you'll learn to defend yourself and then you'll probably get pissed off at the French and start bombing them.

00:35:34.480 And then we'll be in it all over again.

00:35:36.860 Again, we don't recommend it, but go ahead.

00:35:39.880 We're not protecting.

00:35:41.920 What do you think Justin Trudeau is going to say if we said, oh, well, you don't want to protect your borders.

00:35:48.340 Okay.

00:35:49.140 All right.

00:35:49.600 You want a trade war.

00:35:50.860 Okay.

00:35:52.700 Well, I think we're done helping your military.

00:35:57.600 I mean, that's, I mean, we win at the end.

00:36:00.480 It's hopefully I'll never get to that, but we win in the end.

00:36:03.480 And they have to know that.

00:36:04.860 Yes, they do.

00:36:05.920 They have to know.

00:36:06.620 They do.

00:36:06.760 So, I mean, I'm not surprised they're retaliating with the 25% tariffs of their own that obviously will, you know, there are a lot.

00:36:15.240 We do send a lot of products to Canada as well.

00:36:17.760 We are the second largest exporter in the world.

00:36:21.420 But so we do send products to a lot of these countries and it will burn those companies and it will hurt at times.

00:36:29.040 If if these things even get into play and we're not even in place yet.

00:36:32.720 And would it be surprising at all if there was a delay of a month while they negotiate?

00:36:37.260 No.

00:36:37.460 And let me ask you, he was just on the phone with Justin Trudeau just a few minutes ago.

00:36:42.420 Yeah.

00:36:42.940 Hung up the phone.

00:36:44.560 What's he doing at three this afternoon?

00:36:47.060 Getting back on the phone with Justin Trudeau.

00:36:49.620 This is a negotiation.

00:36:51.560 Exactly.

00:36:52.460 Negotiation.

00:36:52.940 You can't get too worked up about it because you don't know where the story ends.

00:36:55.460 I know.

00:36:56.020 We have no idea.

00:36:57.180 We're not the ones negotiating.

00:36:59.160 Here's what we do know.

00:37:00.160 Our negotiator is trying to get the best deal for us.

00:37:05.200 And he's a businessman.

00:37:07.040 He understands it.

00:37:08.340 Unlike attorneys who run the rest of the world.

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00:40:10.980 We all know that you will do anything for your beloved Eagles in Philadelphia.

00:40:30.020 Sure.

00:40:31.560 Yeah.

00:40:32.080 You'll do anything.

00:40:32.880 America's team.

00:40:33.520 Of course.

00:40:33.920 But it's sickening what you've done to Philadelphia and the rest of the country all in the name of your greed, really.

00:40:43.380 Your greed of, you know, I want to be famous.

00:40:46.900 I want to have a great documentary.

00:40:48.720 I want to prove that I'm right.

00:40:51.580 Is it a coincidence that there was yet another helicopter crash?

00:40:56.760 I mean, it was a plane crash you're talking about, the one in Philly?

00:40:58.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:59.240 Was Washington not enough for you?

00:41:01.780 I don't.

00:41:02.140 Thank you, Sarah.

00:41:03.340 Thank you.

00:41:04.240 It's disgusting.

00:41:05.140 She's really morally out.

00:41:06.300 This is disgusting.

00:41:07.160 I would agree with that.

00:41:10.820 No, I had nothing to do with the incidents.

00:41:13.560 Oh, okay.

00:41:13.900 I did warn about them in advance.

00:41:16.980 Okay, sure, sure.

00:41:18.800 Specifically.

00:41:19.900 Yeah.

00:41:20.560 Irony only goes so far.

00:41:22.660 Yeah.

00:41:23.420 I've tried to.

00:41:24.340 Like I wasn't involved with ISIS.

00:41:26.300 Come on.

00:41:26.860 The caliphate.

00:41:27.340 When you warned about the caliphate, I don't think you were necessarily trying to promote ISIS to prove yourself right.

00:41:33.180 So, you know, I went to church yesterday and I talked to a guy whose son died exactly like they did in the Army, the Blackhawk pilots.

00:41:44.840 Oh, gosh.

00:41:45.780 Wait, what?

00:41:46.560 When?

00:41:47.360 Years ago.

00:41:48.540 And he said he's a pilot himself.

00:41:51.340 And he said, the problem is the Army, he said, they use night vision goggles.

00:41:58.700 Right.

00:41:59.120 And he's like, you can't.

00:42:00.540 That's like looking through a cardboard tube, he said, and everybody's in them.

00:42:05.680 He said, that's the only branch of the service that wears them in the Blackhawks.

00:42:10.620 He says, you notice Blackhawks aren't going down with all branches of the service.

00:42:14.340 It's the Army.

00:42:16.140 He said, that's their policy.

00:42:17.920 And he said, that's got to change.

00:42:20.060 Because, I mean, we've all kind of seen what a night vision looks like.

00:42:24.940 It's like, you know, again, it does some incredible things.

00:42:28.020 But not flying in a city.

00:42:30.360 In a city.

00:42:31.060 With commercial airlines.

00:42:32.360 Commercial airlines and lights.

00:42:34.160 Yeah, lights everywhere.

00:42:35.140 Right.

00:42:35.320 In the background, too.

00:42:36.320 Right.

00:42:36.620 So, when you see a light, it just goes, you know, it's just a flash of light in your eyes.

00:42:42.980 Yeah.

00:42:43.180 You're not seeing anything except the flash of light.

00:42:46.720 It's, I think, you know, he was, he's a pilot and his son died.

00:42:53.680 Same way.

00:42:54.320 And so, he's really looked into it.

00:42:56.300 We have to look into that.

00:42:58.020 Yeah.

00:42:58.520 It doesn't, it doesn't make much sense, honestly.

00:43:01.420 You know, it's because that was one of the things that someone pointed out.

00:43:05.040 You know, it looks, it almost looks intentional, right?

00:43:07.020 Like, you see the helicopter going right at the plane.

00:43:09.480 Like, how do they not see that?

00:43:10.580 But, he says night vision.

00:43:12.920 Night vision's part of that.

00:43:14.100 And it also, like, the fact that it's, like, a consistent speed.

00:43:17.040 Like, to actually time that, right?

00:43:19.780 A plane coming across and trying to hit it.

00:43:22.260 You'd have to speed up or slow down to try to hit a plane like that.

00:43:25.400 It's just really difficult.

00:43:26.960 Like, there's all sorts of stuff going on.

00:43:28.660 Every pilot that I've seen and talked to about this have been like, look, it sounds crazy.

00:43:34.660 But I'm not shocked.

00:43:36.040 And we need to do something about that.

00:43:37.620 Correct.

00:43:37.980 Because we shouldn't be risking it.

00:43:39.820 Correct.

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00:43:45.840 Let me talk to you a little bit about good ranchers.

00:43:47.960 It used to be that the country of origin, there was a labeling law which kept you from falsely

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00:43:59.220 Well, that got repealed.

00:44:00.680 So, these days, meat in the grocery aisle is suspect.

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00:46:02.220 Hello, America. It's Monday. I'm going to tell you about the squabble between Elon Musk and USAID.

00:46:13.040 What's that all about? Is it about protecting cuts? Is it about protecting national security?

00:46:19.660 Because Elon Musk isn't qualified to look at our books. It's not about any of those things.

00:46:24.840 It is about black ops. I'll tell you about that and show you what's about to come.

00:46:32.480 In about 30 minutes, I'm going to talk to you about a program called Timber Sycamore.

00:46:38.200 You may not have ever even heard of that. We have because we've discussed it on past shows.

00:46:46.020 And our ears perked up when Tulsi Gabbard was testifying.

00:46:51.020 Anyway, it all relates, goes right back to the Doge USAID strife, which we get into next.

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00:48:07.000 All right, let me tell you about what happened this weekend with Doge.

00:48:13.980 This is something that was tucked beneath the political squabbles and the Grammy night celebrity nonsense.

00:48:21.560 It is a story far more important than any of our daily distractions, and it makes me oh so very happy.

00:48:29.860 And you'll understand why in a minute.

00:48:31.300 This story pulls the curtain back on who really holds the reins of power in our country.

00:48:39.020 I want to connect a few dots with you here in the next 40 minutes or so.

00:48:44.220 We're going to talk about USAID.

00:48:46.640 We're going to talk about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency.

00:48:54.880 Doge and the Trump team are battling it out with USAID.

00:49:01.960 Okay?

00:49:02.740 We cannot let Elon Musk see our books.

00:49:05.780 We are not giving him.

00:49:07.200 Really?

00:49:08.200 You run an aid program.

00:49:11.620 What's so top secret that you can't let him see it?

00:49:15.040 This is about control.

00:49:18.880 Control over the flow of information, over government secrecy, and yes, control over your tax dollars.

00:49:26.840 So here's the story in a nutshell.

00:49:28.760 In case you didn't know, USAID, the U.S. Agency for the International Development, had its director of security, Jonathan Voorhees, and his deputy, Brian McGill, placed on administrative leave.

00:49:46.220 Why?

00:49:46.560 Because they refused to grant access to security systems and systems containing sensitive personnel files, security clearance information, even classified materials to employees of Doge.

00:50:02.380 When Voorhees and McGill said, no, you're not allowed to see any of this, that's when the Doge team threatened to call in the U.S. Marshals.

00:50:12.880 The U.S. Marshals over a bureaucratic disagreement?

00:50:17.640 No.

00:50:18.460 Mm-mm.

00:50:19.000 Remember, this is about something much, much bigger.

00:50:22.000 It's about who controls the machinery of the government when it comes to foreign influence, covert operations, and the shadow games our government is playing overseas.

00:50:33.440 So let's start with USAID.

00:50:36.200 On paper, it sounds great, right?

00:50:39.000 The U.S. Agency for International Development.

00:50:41.560 They're the folks who help develop countries, build schools, and fight diseases, and support democracy.

00:50:48.900 First of all, I don't want to be in that business as a government.

00:50:53.060 But if you've been paying attention, history will tell you something else.

00:50:57.960 It's well known that USAID has been much more than an aid operation since its inception in 1961.

00:51:07.760 By the way, can you tell me anything that happened with the government and overseas things that was good that happened in the 50s and 60s?

00:51:17.440 Maybe the Peace Corps, maybe the Peace Corps, but I doubt it.

00:51:23.700 USAID is a covert CIA operation.

00:51:28.240 They do covert black ops all around the world.

00:51:32.200 And their money just comes in and it just, oh, no, this is aid.

00:51:36.300 Black hole.

00:51:37.280 Now, this is not a conspiracy theory.

00:51:41.120 This is historic fact.

00:51:43.620 In the Cold War, USAID funded cultural organizations and student groups and agricultural projects.

00:51:52.300 They were covers for intelligence gathering.

00:51:54.840 And they have been accused of everything from influencing elections in foreign countries to helping overthrow governments that didn't align with our interests.

00:52:06.040 Do you want any country doing that?

00:52:07.720 No, we have a big problem with other countries influencing our elections.

00:52:12.800 How dare they?

00:52:15.460 Uh-huh.

00:52:17.280 Black ops.

00:52:18.400 Do you remember the color revolutions in Europe?

00:52:22.040 Yeah.

00:52:23.420 Yeah.

00:52:24.060 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:52:25.600 I'm not saying that every employee at USAID is a covert operative.

00:52:29.920 Most, I'm sure, are good, decent people trying to do their jobs.

00:52:33.060 But the agency has always had a dual identity.

00:52:37.600 Part humanitarian, part shadowy extension of U.S. foreign policy through the CIA.

00:52:44.380 And that's really the part that I think is interesting here.

00:52:47.600 Because every nation knows that this is a CIA front.

00:52:50.940 Except the American people.

00:52:54.300 We don't.

00:52:54.580 We don't know that, apparently.

00:52:55.980 We just, no, no, we're good.

00:52:57.520 We're, you know.

00:52:58.840 It has billions of dollars in black covert money flowing through it.

00:53:04.740 We just don't know it because those with oversight can't see the records.

00:53:10.240 President team has just been denied access.

00:53:13.320 Wait a minute.

00:53:13.780 Who works for who?

00:53:14.940 This is an aid thing.

00:53:16.560 What do you have that is so very top secret?

00:53:21.140 So here comes Doge.

00:53:23.260 The Department of Government Efficiency.

00:53:25.860 Sounds pretty harmless.

00:53:27.580 Yeah.

00:53:28.060 Like a bunch of accountants trying to balance the budget.

00:53:30.720 That's all we're trying to do.

00:53:31.940 But those who are running black ops know that Doge has two agendas.

00:53:38.260 And the president has made it very clear.

00:53:40.880 Yes, cut the waste.

00:53:43.100 Downsize the government.

00:53:44.900 But it also has another very specific mission.

00:53:49.880 Except this isn't a black op.

00:53:52.520 Again, this mission is right out in the open.

00:53:55.600 Where all missions should be.

00:53:57.380 Their mission is not only to cut the budget, but to break up the entrenched bureaucracies that have been running Washington like their own personal fiefdoms.

00:54:09.080 Trump's goal was to drain the swamp.

00:54:12.180 And Doge is supposed to be one of the tools that is headed by Elon Musk to drain that swamp.

00:54:19.160 Now, I personally like it for a couple of reasons.

00:54:23.480 Elon Musk is one of the world's greatest minds.

00:54:26.320 I mean, when he goes into his own companies, he sits with every employee for about five minutes and just says, what are you working on this week?

00:54:34.760 And if they don't have something that, you know, he feels is like really moving the company forward, you're not necessary.

00:54:43.240 You're fired.

00:54:44.400 He has a knack for cutting waste and making companies more efficient and also coming up with some really good products.

00:54:52.920 He's a disruptor.

00:54:54.420 He doesn't do things like everybody else.

00:54:56.580 He doesn't think like everybody else.

00:54:58.620 That's his strength.

00:55:00.460 He disrupts industries.

00:55:02.540 He challenges the norms.

00:55:04.180 And he's been on a very public mission to expose and challenge what he sees as government overreach, whether it's with Twitter or X or even the critiques of regulatory agencies.

00:55:14.440 Now, he can come in and he can look at these things and go, wait a minute, this doesn't seem to be exactly, you know, what you're supposed to be doing.

00:55:24.540 This is different.

00:55:25.900 This isn't about posting memes and calling out the woke mind virus.

00:55:29.740 This is about accessing the very heart of the government's covert machinery.

00:55:36.160 That's what's happening with USAID because it's not about aid programs.

00:55:41.120 It's all about data.

00:55:43.020 It's all about networks.

00:55:44.840 It's all about the hidden influence that the U.S. experts, you know, flex all around the world, including perhaps inside the United States against our own people.

00:55:58.360 But we don't know.

00:55:59.300 And now for the first time in decades, somebody from the outside of traditional power structures are saying, huh, what is it you guys do here?

00:56:10.680 And guess what?

00:56:12.280 The machine doesn't like it.

00:56:14.820 The people who've been running that machine also don't like it.

00:56:18.960 I want you to remember who was in charge of USAID.

00:56:22.980 Does anybody remember?

00:56:24.900 Anybody?

00:56:26.740 Bueller?

00:56:27.900 Anybody?

00:56:29.300 Samantha Power.

00:56:31.840 Now, Samantha Power, she's the wife of the Harvard professor, Obama advisor, and author of the really super important book called Nudge.

00:56:43.520 How to get people to do what you want them to do without them knowing.

00:56:49.420 Nudge.

00:56:50.060 So the wife of that guy, who I'm sure has nothing to do with nudging or doing anything like that, even though she was with the Obama administration forever, she doesn't know anything about that.

00:57:08.060 This is why John Voorhees and Brian McGill push back.

00:57:13.520 That's why they're risking their careers to say, no, you can't come in here because they weren't just protecting the files.

00:57:20.260 They were protecting the status quo.

00:57:22.560 They're protecting a system that is operated in the shadows for decades with little to no accountability to the American people.

00:57:30.300 And here's where it gets even more fascinating.

00:57:32.360 The employees at USAID and across the federal bureaucracy aren't just fighting to protect sensitive information.

00:57:40.600 They are fighting to protect their power.

00:57:44.960 He's getting into the roots now.

00:57:48.200 He's opening up to it.

00:57:49.420 You know how Donald Trump is kind of like a human hand grenade?

00:57:53.200 I've said this to his face.

00:57:55.020 You know, I think you're kind of like a human hand grenade.

00:57:57.360 What do you mean?

00:57:58.380 Well, I mean, you're the greatest human hand grenade I've ever seen.

00:58:01.940 Don't get me wrong.

00:58:02.760 You just kind of throw yourself into things and then a wall comes down.

00:58:07.120 And as the dust is settling, everybody goes, wait a minute.

00:58:10.400 What's on the other side of that wall?

00:58:13.320 That's what's happening.

00:58:15.220 Except this time, they're not just lobbing grenades in.

00:58:18.100 They know where it is.

00:58:19.720 Over the years, we've created this massive administrative state, which is a fourth branch of government that nobody votes for.

00:58:27.620 They're wholly unconstitutional.

00:58:30.780 No one really controls it.

00:58:33.200 You notice that the people on Capitol Hill, they're afraid of the intelligence agencies.

00:58:41.400 Hmm.

00:58:42.040 So who's really boss then?

00:58:45.280 They operate with a level of secrecy that would make our founding fathers roll in their graves.

00:58:50.560 This administrative state has been the gatekeeper of information, deciding who gets to know what, both here, at home, and abroad.

00:59:00.840 Does the president even know?

00:59:02.180 So when Trump and Musk come knocking, knocking, knocking at the door, trying to peek behind the curtain, the reaction is swift and fierce.

00:59:13.840 Because if they succeed, they'll manage to pull USAID's operations and put it right under direct control of the State Department.

00:59:23.860 Or even worse, in the public eye, they'll be held accountable for things.

00:59:29.660 We can't have that.

00:59:31.100 It will expose decades of covert actions, questionable alliances, the dark side of U.S. foreign policy that has been hidden under the guise of aid.

00:59:43.080 It's why the rest of the world hates us.

00:59:48.120 Think about some of the crazy things we've done in the name of foreign aid.

00:59:51.380 We've funneled money to warlords in Afghanistan.

00:59:54.360 We gave money to the Taliban, money to Gaza to prop up Hamas.

00:59:58.600 We've run guns to the Syrian group ISIS, propped up dictators in Latin America, even funded opposition groups in countries where we wanted regime change all under the banner of freedom and democracy.

01:00:13.080 Again, this is why everybody hates the American government.

01:00:18.180 Her people see our influence as good and benevolent.

01:00:22.560 And sometimes I think we are.

01:00:24.520 Other times, America is anything but.

01:00:27.940 So in exchange for our tax dollars, we've asked countries to change their laws, to accept abortion in places where the people are morally outraged.

01:00:37.340 We promote transgenderism in their schools.

01:00:40.560 We we tell them that this is the enlightened way to go.

01:00:45.160 Otherwise, they lose their aid.

01:00:47.200 We force them to open their markets to multinational corporations that sometimes are don't have their best interest at heart.

01:00:54.380 And we conduct military operations on their soil.

01:00:57.820 You will do it our way.

01:00:59.500 And yet you don't know anything about it.

01:01:01.660 Most Americans have no idea because it's all wrapped up in the nice, shiny package of humanitarian assistance.

01:01:10.380 So here's what happens if Doge succeeds.

01:01:13.840 What happens if Musk and Trump manage to pry open the lid to this operation?

01:01:18.120 Well, for once, the bureaucrats lose control of one of their many hiding places.

01:01:25.480 The intelligence community loses one of its more useful tools and the American people might finally get to see just how much of their hard earned money has been used not to build schools or feed the hungry, but to manipulate foreign governments and maintain our empire of influence.

01:01:44.660 And here's the kicker.

01:01:47.740 This isn't about just the past.

01:01:49.560 It is about the future, because if Musk and Trump can break through this wall, it sets a precedent.

01:01:55.180 It says no part of the government is beyond scrutiny of our elected officials.

01:02:00.300 And that terrifies people who've been running the show.

01:02:04.260 So what do we take away?

01:02:06.020 One.

01:02:07.800 Pay attention.

01:02:09.260 Stories like these are not bureaucratic squabbles.

01:02:11.920 This is the battle front.

01:02:14.820 This is the battle line right there that will decide who actually runs the country.

01:02:21.920 We're going to see more on this, and the intelligence agencies are not going to like it.

01:02:27.180 So one thing I would take away from this is don't take any news story at face value for a while.

01:02:33.460 There are many hiding places, and those who receive and use dark money for black ops are going to fight back.

01:02:40.100 Second, ask questions.

01:02:43.200 Continue to ask questions.

01:02:45.440 Why does USAID have classified systems that other government officials can't access?

01:02:51.020 Why is there so much resistance in an aid organization to transparency?

01:02:56.340 And third, remember the people that are screaming the loudest about protecting democracy are often the ones most afraid of the people actually seeing how the sausage gets made.

01:03:05.840 So this isn't about USAID, Doge, or even Trump and Musk.

01:03:11.100 It's about whether you have the right to know what our government is doing with your money.

01:03:19.240 Stay curious, America.

01:03:21.740 We will get to the bottom of this, but we have to be willing to go through the tough times.

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01:05:09.680 All right.

01:05:12.240 So have you thought ahead as to what this looks like at the end?

01:05:15.880 What does all this look like with the back and forth, with them kind of going after all of this?

01:05:22.540 What does it look like at the end?

01:05:24.160 Oh, it looks like a Jason Bourne movie.

01:05:27.080 I mean, it looks like every James Bond movie, except Tulsi Gabbard is the one that is, you know, trying to expose it all.

01:05:35.540 Elon Musk is the secret agent.

01:05:37.440 I mean, it's, they're, you know, this is an octopus, and it is going to fight back.

01:05:46.080 It's Spectre.

01:05:47.320 I mean, if you watch the James Bond movies, the last six, with Daniel Craig, Spectre is what we're fighting.

01:05:59.060 It really is.

01:06:01.320 Watch the James Bond called, I think it's Spectre, and he infiltrates and hears their board meeting.

01:06:08.460 It's exactly what is happening.

01:06:11.140 It's this shadowy group of leaders all over the world who is like, yeah, we're using everything we have, and we about have control of the world through all the intelligence agencies.

01:06:23.620 It is Spectre.

01:06:25.380 So what would I expect?

01:06:27.080 I would expect some explosions, maybe a car chase or two.

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01:07:52.940 All right, so we just told you about USAID and what's going on with Doge.

01:07:56.420 Now let me tell you something you might have missed.

01:07:59.620 Timber Sycamore with Tulsi Gabbard.

01:08:02.760 Next.

01:08:03.140 Welcome to the Clean Back Program.

01:08:17.540 FBI agents are starting to pack up their desks.

01:08:21.040 It's fear of FBI mask firings.

01:08:24.680 Swirl, that's sad.

01:08:29.980 Good.

01:08:31.080 I'm glad.

01:08:31.680 Benjamin Netanyahu just arrived in D.C.

01:08:35.600 He said that he's meeting with Trump and they hope to redraw the lines in the Middle East.

01:08:43.040 That's an interesting thing.

01:08:44.880 I think Donald Trump is absolutely headed that way.

01:08:49.060 The USAID headquarters have been closed.

01:08:53.580 Thank you, Donald Trump, for that.

01:08:57.520 And there was something else.

01:08:59.340 Oh, and Mexico just came out.

01:09:01.340 The Mexican president just talked to Donald Trump.

01:09:05.160 And that 25% tariff, well, that's on hold.

01:09:12.380 She said, I talked to Donald Trump and we had a great conversation.

01:09:16.380 And he put that on hold.

01:09:17.680 And I'm sending 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border right now.

01:09:23.380 So I've got that.

01:09:24.500 And Justin Trudeau, God bless his soul.

01:09:27.800 He's going to talk about three o'clock this afternoon.

01:09:30.760 Yeah.

01:09:32.240 Who's a good little prime minister?

01:09:34.600 What a joke.

01:09:35.560 Now, let me tell you about, I just told you about USAID and how that is a CIA front.

01:09:45.080 And Donald Trump is going to do two things with Doge.

01:09:48.820 He is going to cut all the bad guys, try to find them.

01:09:52.860 He may not find all of them, but he's going to find a lot of them.

01:09:55.300 Oh, did I mention the FBI people are clearing out their desk, getting ready for a mass fire?

01:10:01.580 Huh.

01:10:02.360 Anyway, he's going to clean out a lot of the mess and a lot of the black ops that are happening.

01:10:10.020 And he's also going to cut the budget.

01:10:11.740 So he's got that going for him.

01:10:13.540 Now, the left in the deep state, they're a little freaked out.

01:10:18.800 If they could have shredders at their disposal 24 hours a day, I don't think there would be a lick of paper left in any of these agencies.

01:10:30.200 Consider some of the questions that have been swept under the rug all the way back to Obama.

01:10:37.680 Consider the American lives that are lost overseas.

01:10:41.360 Consider the foreign lives lost.

01:10:43.220 Consider the regimes that have changed and the chaos that's spread all over the world in our names with our tax dollars.

01:10:52.940 Now consider what Donald Trump's team has pledged to break and uncover.

01:10:59.100 So if you listen to some of the confirmation hearings in the Senate, you might hear a little sneak peek at what's to come.

01:11:06.060 Tulsi Gabbard, on Friday, revealed for many Americans, they don't know about it, it's a clandestine Obama-era program that sought regime change in the Middle East and unloaded over a decade of violence and chaos.

01:11:24.660 Listen to this.

01:11:25.380 Senator, as someone who enlisted in the military specifically because of al-Qaeda's terrorist attack on 9-11 and committing myself and my life to doing what I could to defeat these terrorists,

01:11:39.840 it was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9-11, their families and my brothers and sisters in uniform.

01:11:48.600 When, as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama's dual programs that he had begun really to overthrow the regime of Syria

01:11:59.980 and being willing to, through the CIA's timber sycamore program that has now been made public,

01:12:08.220 of working with and arming and equipping al-Qaeda in an effort to overthrow that regime,

01:12:15.180 starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East.

01:12:19.220 DOD train and equip program, again, begun under President Obama,

01:12:23.700 is widely been known, looked at, and studied that ultimately resulted in over half a billion dollars being used

01:12:30.940 to train who they called moderate rebels but were actually fighters working with and aligned with al-Qaeda's affiliate on the ground in Syria.

01:12:40.620 Hmm, that's weird.

01:12:42.080 Most Americans have never heard about Obama's timber sycamore.

01:12:45.940 It's possibly the largest gun running and training operation our little spy agencies have ever pulled off.

01:12:53.700 How many people died in Syria as a result of this?

01:12:56.400 How many people died all over the Middle East?

01:13:00.300 How many terrorists received weapons and training from our government?

01:13:05.040 Al-Qaeda?

01:13:06.560 We know that many of those same terrorists now control the government of Syria right now,

01:13:12.020 and the horror show is not over yet.

01:13:14.100 Why haven't we heard about this?

01:13:15.960 Why does every school kid know about Reagan and Iran-Contra, but not Obama and timber sycamore?

01:13:22.660 It is because it not only reveals terrorists receiving our training and weapons that we supplied,

01:13:31.480 but it also reveals American lives that have been lost.

01:13:35.960 We still don't know the full details on what happened in Benghazi.

01:13:40.200 Why is that?

01:13:41.760 Why is it that Hillary Clinton and Obama made sure of that?

01:13:45.200 That wasn't part of some gun running operation to Syria, was it?

01:13:51.580 Is this part of the piece of the fallout from Obama's timber sycamore?

01:13:57.460 Why was the U.S. ambassador even in Benghazi?

01:14:01.620 Why was there a State Department annex in such a dangerous place?

01:14:06.240 And why was it so unguarded?

01:14:08.380 Why was there a secret CIA substation there?

01:14:12.880 Why was it kept so low-key?

01:14:15.360 Why didn't the military respond?

01:14:18.240 Why were they so quiet and ineffective?

01:14:21.600 Were they trying to keep Obama and Clinton's little secret hidden?

01:14:27.660 And all at the cost of four American lives.

01:14:30.280 Say their names.

01:14:34.200 They like to say that.

01:14:35.760 Say their names.

01:14:37.420 Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, Glenn Doherty.

01:14:42.680 They still deserve justice.

01:14:45.880 We deserve answers.

01:14:47.940 I just want you to know, what's happening in Washington, D.C. right now is about cutting the budget.

01:14:56.400 But it has a dual purpose in everything they're doing.

01:15:01.460 They are cutting the heart out of the secret ops.

01:15:06.100 They are exposing what our government is doing.

01:15:09.380 By moving USAID over to the State Department, USAID can't have that.

01:15:13.840 I mean, I don't think of the State Department as some place that's clean and has a good agenda.

01:15:22.240 But apparently that's being cleaned up as well.

01:15:25.800 What is it we are going to learn over the next few months?

01:15:30.880 What is it we are going to see exposed?

01:15:35.340 It's quite amazing.

01:15:37.500 It is quite amazing.

01:15:38.880 By the way, Sunday, yesterday, Musk wrote that career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress.

01:15:56.340 Oh, boy.

01:15:56.960 What's this?

01:15:58.880 Apparently, the Treasury Secretary, the new one, has allowed the Department of Government Efficiency to gain access to the federal government's payment system.

01:16:07.720 Okay, wait a minute.

01:16:09.800 So USAID won't allow the DOGE officials any access to their aid programs.

01:16:19.480 But the Treasury is like, yeah, open up the books.

01:16:23.540 They discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

01:16:35.360 They literally have never denied a payment in their entire career, not once.

01:16:46.240 So why do you have them?

01:16:49.840 And why would they be told that?

01:16:53.960 My gosh, this house of cards is going to come crashing down.

01:16:58.240 They are going to have serious issues.

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01:20:08.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:20:10.220 We're glad you're here.

01:20:10.840 There's a couple of things that are going on that are actually, I think, pretty exciting.

01:20:15.520 First of all, let's start with Mexico and Canada.

01:20:18.880 Mexico has just announced that the tariffs have been delayed for a month because they are sending 10,000 boots to the border in Mexico to try to stop that.

01:20:35.040 Claudia Steinbaum, who is the president of Mexico, she was very upset over the weekend about that slanderous claim that we have anything to do at all with drug cartels.

01:20:46.880 I know, Mexico, you are completely clean.

01:20:50.760 Everybody who says anything about a drug cartel is shot in the head.

01:20:55.380 You suddenly were one of them that just made it through, and what?

01:21:02.080 You're tough on those drug cartels?

01:21:04.480 Uh-huh.

01:21:05.940 It's a great fortune.

01:21:08.480 It's like Nancy Pelosi's investing.

01:21:10.100 She's always nailing every stock pick.

01:21:11.600 Yeah, I know.

01:21:12.300 You know, it's just like that.

01:21:13.400 Yeah, it's just like that.

01:21:14.400 And congratulations to her for that.

01:21:15.580 I mean, it's not like you're in bed with them, I'm sure, you know, by choice.

01:21:19.120 Well, I mean, actually, you are.

01:21:20.560 You don't want to die.

01:21:21.720 But, I mean, you've got that going against you.

01:21:24.080 Yeah, there's different variations of this.

01:21:26.900 Some people really are in bed.

01:21:28.500 Yeah.

01:21:28.640 Some people are willing to do as little as needed to stay alive.

01:21:33.660 Yeah.

01:21:34.300 Which I think is where she stands.

01:21:35.860 Probably.

01:21:36.280 Maybe.

01:21:36.660 I don't know.

01:21:37.020 We don't know for sure.

01:21:37.940 We don't know for sure.

01:21:38.800 I mean, the idea of, well, I am just shocked by that slanderous allegation.

01:21:46.960 Hilarious.

01:21:48.000 Hilarious.

01:21:48.360 But also, by the way, we should point out, I don't know if we said it on the air or off

01:21:51.600 the air, actually, but we were talking about these tariffs earlier, and I said, I don't

01:21:55.920 get worked up about this because who would be surprised if there wasn't a one month delay

01:22:00.180 before we actually get to these tariffs?

01:22:01.920 It's exactly what you'd expect from this.

01:22:04.500 No, you know, tariffs are dangerous to both sides, and that's why they're a useful tool

01:22:10.320 to get what you want, but also why everyone in reality would love to avoid them if it's

01:22:16.420 possible.

01:22:16.800 And I think, you know, a month here makes a lot of sense, a delay to see if Mexico steps

01:22:23.000 up and does the types of things that we want them to do.

01:22:26.480 Why, you know.

01:22:27.020 Why we fight those crocktails like nobody's business.

01:22:31.400 I, just a southern belle, much further south than you thought.

01:22:36.180 I think you gave me the vapors in case of the vapors with that.

01:22:40.860 This is a good outcome.

01:22:42.560 I mean, the markets have already recovered a good chunk of what they were.

01:22:46.020 Everybody should relax.

01:22:48.400 Everybody should relax.

01:22:49.400 It's not like this is week one of his actual presidency.

01:22:52.780 We went through four years of this, right?

01:22:54.980 We went through four years of Donald Trump negotiating with foreign powers, saying things that seem

01:22:59.820 shocking to everyone, and then it's turning out fine.

01:23:02.440 Yeah.

01:23:02.580 So you got to kind of relax a little bit when it comes to this stuff, even if you don't like

01:23:07.540 the policy.

01:23:08.400 Yeah.

01:23:08.620 He's negotiating.

01:23:09.780 And what is he negotiating for?

01:23:11.900 Well, when it comes to Mexico, I don't know, an end to the drug cartel thing.

01:23:15.820 Yeah.

01:23:16.140 What do you say?

01:23:16.800 You like them?

01:23:17.640 You keep them on your side.

01:23:19.180 They're not having any influence here in the United States of America.

01:23:22.040 And if you can't do that, we will kill them.

01:23:24.980 I think that's pretty weird.

01:23:26.500 I would think anybody who's like, well, we don't have a problem with a drug cartel.

01:23:30.880 Well, if we did, we wouldn't mind you coming in and helping us clean that mess up.

01:23:36.860 You would think people would be for it.

01:23:38.820 I can guarantee you everyone in the little small towns that are run by all the drug lords,

01:23:43.540 they'd like the United States of America to come in and clean that up.

01:23:47.520 Very true.

01:23:48.040 I was doing something for Studios America tonight.

01:23:50.920 We're going to be talking about this as well.

01:23:52.620 And I was looking at, you know, I was like looking at quotes from conservatives because,

01:23:57.120 you know, Trump kind of released a statement.

01:23:58.220 Anyone who's opposed to tariffs loves China or whatever.

01:24:01.060 And it's like, you know, again, it's just another part of the negotiation.

01:24:04.560 But I was looking back at quotes from Rush Limbaugh on tariffs.

01:24:07.700 And he actually talked about the first round of Trump tariffs.

01:24:11.320 And listen to this.

01:24:12.320 He said, Trump is simply trying to level the playing field by tightening the screws on them.

01:24:17.060 Now, once that starts, once you oppose a tariff policy, which, of course, conservatives are on paper,

01:24:21.660 are supposed to be universally opposed to because a tariff is nothing but a tax.

01:24:25.520 And, of course, we oppose taxes simply on the movement of goods and services.

01:24:29.520 But we didn't start it.

01:24:31.840 And, like, so that's kind of a way, a lens to look at this.

01:24:35.260 Tariffs are something to be opposed generally.

01:24:38.420 However, in certain areas, especially when they're already putting tariffs on our stuff,

01:24:43.620 if you're trying to level the playing field, they can be useful, especially in a situation like this,

01:24:48.860 like a negotiation where you're trying to get another outcome.

01:24:51.900 And, you know, I have to tell you, if America had a 20% tariff on everything, but we had no income tax,

01:25:00.200 I'd be all right with that.

01:25:02.280 It'd be a flat tax.

01:25:03.260 Yeah.

01:25:03.740 On our consumption.

01:25:04.560 And that's what he talked about in the campaign.

01:25:06.080 Yeah.

01:25:06.400 The problem with that is-

01:25:07.560 That's not where he's going.

01:25:08.020 I mean, I think he would love to go there.

01:25:10.060 I think he would, too.

01:25:10.760 I think he would be-

01:25:11.580 There is a bill that has been proposed to repeal the income tax.

01:25:16.720 Say it again.

01:25:17.640 Sarah.

01:25:18.280 Sarah.

01:25:18.520 No.

01:25:19.040 Don't.

01:25:19.300 Come on.

01:25:19.840 Come on.

01:25:20.180 Don't do this creepy thing again, please.

01:25:21.640 No, go ahead.

01:25:21.920 Sarah, go ahead.

01:25:22.420 Why do you participate in it?

01:25:24.160 I can see why he would-

01:25:25.720 I'm just mixing some cocktails here.

01:25:27.980 Just have some ladies over.

01:25:31.700 A little martini music.

01:25:32.680 We're going to talk just a little tariff.

01:25:37.100 No tax talk.

01:25:38.620 Go ahead.

01:25:39.800 I don't know where it was.

01:25:40.920 I've totally lost my train of thought now that you got-

01:25:43.400 No, he was talking about-

01:25:45.280 What do you mean that was creepy?

01:25:50.140 Women have nightmares that begin with that music.

01:25:54.980 Oh, my God.

01:25:55.760 I just had his dream that Glenn Beck was mixing cocktails in my house.

01:26:01.760 I think, you know, again, as a-

01:26:04.660 As a-

01:26:05.080 As a negotiator-

01:26:05.740 That's what-

01:26:06.140 That's why he loves them, right?

01:26:07.460 He doesn't love them because he loves taxes.

01:26:09.800 He doesn't love them because he loves increasing costs

01:26:12.140 on the American consumer, which everyone knows

01:26:15.260 that's what happens with a tariff.

01:26:17.100 At the end of the day, he loves them because

01:26:18.840 it is a blunt instrument that he can use

01:26:21.760 as a negotiation tactic to win other things he wants.

01:26:25.820 And he did it all throughout his first campaign,

01:26:28.180 his first four years.

01:26:29.700 And now he's back in and we're at month one

01:26:31.380 and we're like, shocked!

01:26:32.500 It's the art of the deal.

01:26:33.920 It's the art of the deal.

01:26:34.720 He's not going to do that.

01:26:36.480 He might.

01:26:37.280 Yeah.

01:26:37.600 And back 25% with no warning.

01:26:39.840 You've got two days to implement it.

01:26:41.420 Sounds crazy!

01:26:42.300 And then now we've got a month's delay

01:26:43.520 and we play this out, right?

01:26:46.600 That's a good-

01:26:47.180 I mean, at least he's got a plan,

01:26:49.020 unlike most of our other politicians.

01:26:50.560 I hope he could just put a tariff on Justin Trudeau.

01:26:55.420 Personally?

01:26:55.920 Just personally.

01:26:56.580 I don't get it.

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01:31:04.280 make sure that the data that everybody collects on us is owned by each of us rather than by the tech

01:31:11.640 giants uh and he wants to start this with tiktok welcome to the program how are you frank i'm well

01:31:20.380 glenn how are you doing today i'm good i'm good so tell me first i guess we start with project liberty

01:31:25.680 explain what you're trying to do with that yeah so we we have a um you know this awesome internet

01:31:35.560 technology which we all are dependent on now it's no longer a nice to have right it's a must have and

01:31:42.760 and it's evolved into a place that the that i believe and those of us involved in project liberty

01:31:49.640 believe is is is very bad for uh american citizens and for america at large and the reason i say that is

01:32:00.980 that um everything about us now is is captured um and you know scraped uh from us and and aggregated in

01:32:13.780 in you know centralized places and uh including china in one instance and all of this information about us

01:32:23.380 uh essentially it creates a a virtual version of us that it should be owned by each of us right

01:32:31.540 because when you when you have all this information and all this knowledge extracted and and uh and in

01:32:39.300 single centralized points knowing about us and can manipulate us and so on and so forth that's

01:32:45.380 that's antithetical to democratic principles right where individuals have agency and own and control

01:32:51.780 themselves so we started this project five years ago december of 19 to build an alternative uh tech

01:32:58.820 stack which would allow individuals to own themselves to own their personhood in the digital

01:33:04.820 age to own their data and to permission its use and to get value for it quite frankly because it

01:33:10.660 turns out it's extremely valuable so that's what project liberty is about the tick tock bid

01:33:14.660 is um is intended to to really uh accelerate the effort we've built the tech stack it's up and

01:33:23.060 operating there's a couple million people using it now but a couple million people is not an

01:33:27.620 alternative internet we need we need a couple hundred million people so i tell you i i have been

01:33:32.740 concerned about this and and really it was especially when you look at the power that is being

01:33:38.980 consolidated with just a few individuals and a few companies the only thing that we have uh is our own

01:33:46.980 information that's that's where our power and money comes from is from our information and they've just

01:33:52.500 taken it all from we've given it to them but it is absolutely time we take it back um is that even

01:33:59.300 possible frank to do that yeah yeah yeah absolutely possible and that's why i committed a half a billion

01:34:06.100 dollars to this project to actually build the technology to prove that it's possible and that's

01:34:11.620 up and running as i said we have a couple million people using it now and several apps built on it

01:34:16.580 then but we need much more than that you know i mean glenn you hit the nail on the head i mean look

01:34:21.460 if i was the postmaster general and i said to you and your listeners i have a i have a i have an idea

01:34:27.380 i have a deal for everyone you can send your mail from now on for free no no stamps you know you send

01:34:32.500 it for free you might say well okay what's what's the deal all right um well in exchange i'm going to

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01:34:43.780 going to surveil you 24 hours a day you'd say wait a second that's super creepy and and i say well but

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01:34:54.820 going to read it and everything i learned you know not just where you shop or what food you like to eat

01:34:59.940 or this or that but your your thoughts including your most intimate ones your feelings including

01:35:07.300 your most intimate one they're now mine okay so you would say wait a second this is creepy and

01:35:12.340 very unfair oh one other thing i'm going to read your 14 year old daughter's diary when i learned

01:35:17.700 she's concerned about her weight i'm going to push stuff towards her to make her feel worse then i'm

01:35:22.820 going to push stuff towards her to have her buy things because i made her feel feel worse i'm going to

01:35:27.140 profit from that oh and while i'm at it i'm going to teach her show her how to cut herself hurt herself

01:35:32.420 harm her harm herself because i've made her feel so bad about herself so now you'd say wait a second

01:35:37.780 creepy unfair and downright harmful and that's the internet we have it's time to take back ownership

01:35:44.820 of ourselves in the digital age we're we've given up our citizenship we've given up our agency and

01:35:51.460 you know and it's just it just let's fix it this is just technology and we can fix it from the ground

01:35:59.620 up and that's that's what project liberty is all about and i'm gonna go ahead i have to tell you frank

01:36:05.060 that um i don't know why we don't care more about this i guess people just don't see the problem and as i

01:36:12.340 see it it is truly the loss of of the most important thing and that is free will we we're to a point to

01:36:21.220 where it knows us better than we know ourselves and we can so easily be manipulated because it knows us

01:36:28.660 better than we know ourselves uh and we won't we're we're entering a time where we won't know if we voted

01:36:36.020 for somebody because we actually felt that way or that was planted in us or we bought this product

01:36:42.020 because we were steered that direction i mean it is truly the loss of free will you again nail being

01:36:51.780 hit in the head we talk far far too much about the loss of free free speech and far too little about

01:36:57.300 the loss of free will this is highly manipulative technology the tick tock issue has brought this

01:37:05.860 to the fore it it's uh grave concerns about having the information on 170 million americans

01:37:14.740 uh in the hands of the chinese communist party and even graver concerns that the chinese communist

01:37:21.460 party would have the ability now to manipulate 170 million americans and and it's a little crazy

01:37:27.940 though mark of uh frank that we are sitting here we're only concerned because it's the chinese

01:37:33.540 we think if anybody else is doing it i guess it's fine if apple's doing it if google's doing it it's

01:37:38.180 okay this is this is exactly right this is why this this tick tock legislation i think is a is kind of

01:37:46.340 it's it's a so-called tip of the iceberg yes bring the whole the whole architecture the whole architecture

01:37:52.820 of how the internet works to the fore people like yourself and thank you for doing it are bringing these

01:37:59.700 issues forward so people understand and and believe me i under i i appreciate the difference of our

01:38:06.500 information going to to to beijing versus going to silicon valley yes but quite frankly i don't i

01:38:12.980 don't want my information in either place i want to own i want to own my information i want a permission

01:38:18.020 it's used and i want to benefit from it if it's going to make exactly right create a lot of a lot of

01:38:23.140 economic activity exactly right so frank so tell me about the bid that you put you've already placed a

01:38:28.420 bid on tick tock right yes um and uh how is this being received how does this i mean i haven't i

01:38:37.540 haven't tried to buy tick tock so i don't i don't have any idea how that even works um you know how's

01:38:44.020 it going i guess do you know if you're in the running yeah well definitely in the running uh we don't know

01:38:50.500 if if well let's take it let's take a step backward what's going on here right so so back in the spring of

01:38:57.860 last year legislation was passed a great piece of legislation passed by a strong bipartisan majority

01:39:05.300 in congress to um uh force by dance the parent company of u.s tick tock to either shut it down in

01:39:14.820 the u.s or sell the u.s assets the u.s platform and and uh so that was uh legislation that had a

01:39:26.660 uh gave bite dense 270 days to sort that out with one 90-day extension available to them so

01:39:34.900 uh we put in our our bid uh within that 270 days and i think we're the only ones to put in a

01:39:44.420 a certifiable bid a bid where we as a buyer can move forward and not only be not only have the

01:39:51.140 finances in place but meet most importantly the national security criteria which was a

01:39:58.980 disentanglement of the chinese technology from the u.s assets being sold because you already have

01:40:05.860 built the platform that's exactly right and had we not been building this platform we would not be a

01:40:11.620 bidder because we just coincidentally can solve for this national set of national security issues and and

01:40:18.740 so we saw tick tock as a wonderful opportunity that fell in our hand i fell in our laps to say

01:40:27.780 we'll buy tick tock solve the national security issues move the user base and the data over to

01:40:33.140 this clean made in america stack give people ownership and control of their data and we've we've solved

01:40:40.740 a bunch of issues because we've also spun up an alternative to the current internet so people would

01:40:47.700 have a choice you and i would have a choice do we go on the internet where we're surveilled 24 7 and

01:40:53.380 we give up everything about us for free or do we go on a different internet and we permission the use

01:40:59.300 of our data and we're in charge of ourselves we own ourselves and we get value to me i i believe

01:41:06.420 you know people will flock to this new internet because they'll have all the benefits that you

01:41:11.780 currently have uh ease of use and be able to order things and have them delivered to your house and

01:41:17.860 and be entertained and communicate with people but you'll be doing it from a position of power

01:41:23.220 and where the power will be in the individual's hands not in a centralized platform's hands this is by

01:41:29.940 the way when i wrote the book our biggest fight i used the american project as my framing device because

01:41:35.700 it's so ironic that 250 years ago we were doing the same thing which was taking rights from a single

01:41:42.260 centralized power a monarch and saying no no we're citizens born with these rights right it became

01:41:49.060 inalienable rights and we want to be citizens not subjects why in the world would we become allow

01:41:55.780 ourselves to lose our citizenship in the digital age just to you know get free apps it's nuts

01:42:01.220 well yeah i mean every word you say it gets me excited because i've been waiting for somebody

01:42:07.540 to do this but for some reason i think yeah but what's the other shoe that's going to fall why

01:42:12.660 i mean what are you facing what are the what are the giants that maybe you're facing that would stand

01:42:18.660 in the way of this well i think the incumbents are you know the ones who are benefiting from our data

01:42:26.660 and have you know built this you know soul-sucking data-sucking machinery uh are the ones that are

01:42:36.260 going to resist the change because they're profiting mightily and look i'm a capitalist my family's been

01:42:43.060 building infrastructure for 131 years i'm all for people making money and and uh you know i love i

01:42:49.460 i love the america that my my family helped build literally build uh but i i don't i don't like seeing

01:42:56.420 money be made at the expense of american citizens right where as you say we're losing our free will

01:43:01.780 and we're in in in our ability to get along with each other and we don't even have an information

01:43:06.740 ecosystem right now where we can tell fact from fiction right where we're we we just are in this

01:43:12.980 never never land where if you destroy trust and faith in your fellow you know american your your

01:43:21.380 your your your your fellow human being and then we've lost it all i mean america is built on a

01:43:27.620 belief in the the worth number one the worth and dignity of every human being and the fact that

01:43:33.540 they're born equal and the the ability of human beings being in a better position than centralized you

01:43:40.580 know government some monarchy or some centralized government to make decisions for us right that's

01:43:45.780 why we started self-governance right because that's it's the power of the individual that's where the

01:43:52.420 agency should be and for it to matter we have to respect it in other people that's the so-called social

01:43:58.260 contract and then and then give people power and we can govern ourselves and we're we're rapidly losing

01:44:05.220 that ability to to to self-govern and to have agency because of of how this technology works in a

01:44:13.300 highly centralized way i would have to believe that uh elon musk would understand this uh and be a supporter

01:44:21.780 and i would imagine donald trump would be a supporter do you have the connections are you working with the

01:44:27.540 administration on this yeah we have um kevin kevin o'leary uh called me you know he's the shark tank guy

01:44:35.940 and and uh and he said look i i talked to all the potential bidders you're the only one that really

01:44:42.020 has a solution to the to the technology and i want to join your bid and i said come on in this is

01:44:48.180 this is the people's bid for tiktok this is this is bigger than tiktok right it's changing how the internet

01:44:54.420 works and kevin kevin has a great relationship with with millions and millions of small businesses

01:44:59.860 in america because he's been doing shark tank now for 17 years and i said come on in we want small

01:45:04.740 businesses we want everybody involved in this and i i mentioned kevin because he's he's you know he's

01:45:11.460 been kind of hanging out at mar-a-lago and making sure the president the president knows exactly what

01:45:16.100 we're doing and i've talked to a number of people in his administration about what we're doing we

01:45:20.660 there's there's no secrets here glenn we want to be totally transparent where we believe this is

01:45:27.700 i called the book our biggest fight for a reason right we believe this is the issue of our day to

01:45:33.380 reclaim what's ours to reclaim our data it is our personhood when when your listeners hear the word

01:45:40.900 data it's kind of like who cares about data right it just is it's one of those terms that what does it

01:45:45.540 mean think of every time you hear the word data i want you and your listeners to think of personhood

01:45:53.060 your person yeah your virtual you it is you why would in the world we would we let anyone else own

01:46:00.340 us it just i can't emphasize this enough let's reclaim what's ours and then restore trust and

01:46:08.820 integrity in the internet and then let's go build a more powerful version with generative ai but i i'm

01:46:15.060 very concerned about taking a broken internet that exploits people and making it more powerful

01:46:22.100 until we fix the the core infrastructure once we fix the core infrastructure so the individuals benefit

01:46:28.100 then let's make it more powerful and better for people and let people benefit from the financially

01:46:33.460 as well i think we could have a a beautiful future without so much concern and anxiety and skepticism

01:46:40.660 about the technology if we fix the core infrastructure okay frank hold on for one minute i have

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01:47:53.460 so frank is there anything the average person can do to help this along

01:48:10.660 yeah absolutely i mean and by the way i just just heard your ad and and uh and it's interesting we

01:48:17.620 need more moral voices involved in this faith leaders and so forth i had the privilege of just

01:48:23.300 having an audience with uh with pope francis just eight days ago in in the vatican and the vatican is

01:48:30.180 very very interested in this project because it actually operationalizes what the pope has been

01:48:35.780 writing about and speaking about now for several years which is the harms of the current of current

01:48:41.780 internet technology and social media and i think we can all agree i think we can all agree

01:48:47.780 and so i think that shows me that this idea is resonating and and which is which is great to your

01:48:54.100 question about i think we all need to get engaged in this because you know

01:48:59.220 look i'll do what i can but but no no single person can can can can win this fight this is going to

01:49:07.700 take a an army of people insisting on a better internet and i would say i would start by asking

01:49:13.220 people to go to project liberty dot io or to uh the people's bid dot com and learn about what we're

01:49:21.140 doing and there's plenty of ways there to be easy to engage and people will will be happy to to to

01:49:27.460 respond to questions and engage you in the project in ways that you think you can be your listeners

01:49:32.020 think they can be helpful we need you frank thank you so much i appreciate it we're going to be

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01:51:22.180 all right welcome to the program we are so glad that you are here well uh the administration has

01:51:31.940 pushed the top fbi brass out of the bureau in the latest uh shake-up looks like cash patel is going to

01:51:39.300 be the the bureau's next director which i am so excited about so excited it's gonna be big yeah it's a lot

01:51:47.380 of chaos glenn i i feel like we need a return return to normalcy candidate in 2020 and i'm

01:51:52.340 going to say it right now joe biden wow i think he runs again in 28 and we get him back in there to

01:51:57.140 return us to normalcy i mean i think do you think i mean he won't be exactly young in 2028 he'll be

01:52:04.500 four years older which will make him 169 something like that i can't remember uh but anyway uh i mean

01:52:12.580 kamala she still hasn't decided what she's gonna do i know she might run she might run she's just

01:52:19.300 wondering if people are interested right now she might run you know who else is considering a run

01:52:24.500 who they say is you know it's possible think of this president betterman i don't think it would work

01:52:34.500 uh i know i will say i the fetterman regime if you if you will in that seat has been much better

01:52:42.500 than i would have thought it would have been um of course his voting record still sucks yeah but he

01:52:47.780 does that approach for the democrats would be smart i don't think he's the right person to execute it on

01:52:52.900 a national election basis you don't think no i don't think he's quite the guy i would i mean i could

01:52:58.580 see him negotiating with world leaders i'm sure that would go well i mean it's he's had a few

01:53:05.220 good comments on a few topics which is more than i expect from the average you know what's weird is

01:53:12.180 as he recovers from the brain damage he seems to become more and more conservative

01:53:19.220 could it have been i mean i'm just saying i'm not i i'm not saying that that's you know what causes

01:53:27.140 people to become more conservative but you're not not saying it but i'm not not saying it either

01:53:31.220 yeah i don't think he would be the guy who do you think would be the guy who's the or gal of course

01:53:37.620 uh guy or gal or any one of the other 94 genders that you can come up with wow you're limiting i'm

01:53:43.940 limiting uh if you had to pick one who's the favorite right now to be the 2028 democratic nominee

01:53:53.540 who would it be jd vance really i think they might even go ah screw it just nominate him vance

01:54:02.020 i i it's interesting i i think i would probably say at this point josh shapiro if if if if the way

01:54:09.300 the election went down benefited anyone i think it was him it won't be it won't be it won't be because

01:54:14.900 he's i mean he's jewish well that's what that does seem to be a problem with that party um but also

01:54:21.460 uh look at they just look at they just put in the dnc this weekend david hogg i mean that doesn't

01:54:30.820 see nothing they've learned zero nothing they have no idea what to do here but i mean if you think about

01:54:36.380 the way that election went down everyone said why would they pick tim walls of all people it's a

01:54:42.140 terrible choice they should have gone with josh shapiro and everyone was like well the problem

01:54:46.720 with that was the hamas wing of the party was not exactly excited about that pick but that is true

01:54:54.140 it is true that's exactly what happened i mean precisely what occurred it's amazing but i think

01:54:59.540 there is the possibility right um that they might look at this and say well we didn't go with him and

01:55:06.180 we lost and the fetterman sort of um instinct of the party thinking that fetterman might be a good

01:55:12.600 choice highlights the idea that maybe they can come to sensibility on a couple of bigger issues

01:55:18.800 and shapiro would probably be a lot better than israel than most people in the democratic party

01:55:22.420 these days maybe like they can latch on i mean i think the impression that we have of john fetterman

01:55:28.140 right now on the conservative side of the aisle is a bit dangerous because he is a liberal he is still

01:55:33.560 a democrat he is still voting 90 something percent with joe biden he he is prominently and out in an

01:55:40.840 outspoken way good on one or two things and that has it i can give you other examples of how that has

01:55:49.820 um persuaded republicans to completely change their mind in a matter of months uh you saw one going for

01:55:56.640 the hhs secretary role recently remember even donald trump himself was calling him a left-wing lunatic in

01:56:04.040 april we tend to do this with actors a lot you know they say one or two conservative ish things

01:56:13.020 and we're like we love you we're so starved for we are just i know we are just we are that pathetic

01:56:20.400 yeah that pathetic kid with glasses that has the tape around the side of the dance so no one's coming

01:56:26.740 nobody's coming over all of a sudden a girl sort of trips and says oh sorry and touches your shoulder

01:56:31.980 like oh my god she loves she loves me she's changed my life we go down that road often and i do worry

01:56:39.140 that i mean look i don't think that a lot of republicans are going to vote for josh shapiro but

01:56:43.360 like the the thing is can you get somebody in the middle who may have could like donald trump

01:56:47.980 who's going to go for that they're not going to go who's not going to go for it democrats the the

01:56:53.340 machine the dnc will never go for that i mean they have high they have had democrats who were

01:56:59.580 in comparison uh pro-israel before uh that's occurred so i mean it's not when well i mean

01:57:07.620 joe lieberman joe lieberman is 25 years ago he is an example 25 years ago but i mean even compare

01:57:16.000 like someone like hillary clinton to what they're rolling out there now kamala harris

01:57:23.460 hillary clinton looks like she you know she was from a republican think tank on israel compared to

01:57:29.980 to aoc and the and the batch of people they're churning out these days i mean in the middle of

01:57:35.820 all the hamas protests at college campuses hillary clinton went on the view and like explained to

01:57:42.940 israel to them in actually a completely rational way like the right story about israel now i do

01:57:48.860 she does she really believe that my argument would be no she certainly doesn't believe the policies

01:57:53.320 that i believe but she's way better than what they're churning out these days that's they are

01:57:57.780 going i think she actually does believe that but she sold that one out as soon as it became unpopular

01:58:03.260 when she had power like when she had power she was going the opposite direction but i think you know

01:58:09.340 she's she was actually i was and we could bring that up i think we played it at the time it was

01:58:14.060 like huh who said that hillary clinton said that it's you know i do think that there is a

01:58:19.120 a small slice of rational thought uh in the democratic party that still sort of exists fetterman's the

01:58:27.200 most prominent example of it on that issue it's only that issue unfortunately um so that's a problem

01:58:33.780 uh but i they're not gonna do they won't you don't think you can't get through a primary without you

01:58:38.940 think unless no no way unless you uh unless you own that person and everybody knows we got kind of

01:58:47.980 like it'll be kind of like a thing of he's going to return us to normalcy no he's not he's he has no

01:58:56.200 control over his bowels let alone his opinions he's looking for digestive normalcy right he'll do

01:59:03.520 anything because he wants the power it has to be you know they'd have to have something on shapiro i

01:59:09.700 think they'd have to have something over him like you will do what we say it seems like they usually

01:59:15.780 do that does it does seem like that so i don't know but he'd be the only one i mean you think tim

01:59:21.060 walls is getting that gig no kamala no i don't think they look at kamala it's like oh she was great

01:59:27.160 and just got a raw deal i think they look at her as someone who could have won and didn't she's going

01:59:31.980 to be the governor ready she's going to be the governor of california 100 i think that is the

01:59:38.640 next step for her that's what she's gonna do oh and you deserve it california oh you deserve every

01:59:45.520 little bit of it you vote her in you deserve every bit we're like how can we do worse than gavin

01:59:52.680 newsom and it's like i well we could go with kamala we could consider karen bass for governor that's

01:59:57.840 one way of going you could try that out and see if she could burn the entire state down instead of

02:00:03.120 just her city i don't i don't know is lenin still alive can we get him it no he's really that whole

02:00:11.220 tomb in moscow is all right that's sad yeah do you think uh gavin newsom completely done after what

02:00:19.600 happened in california no i don't either i you know i've talked to other conservatives about this and

02:00:24.760 they're like oh finally he's toast and i think there's a good chance nope that's possible but i

02:00:29.200 put nothing i mean who's about to be the next mayor of new york city andrew cuomo yes andrew freaking

02:00:37.420 cuomo he's murdering their senior citizens and he's like put me in charge i'll nail this thing

02:00:43.500 it's incredible they're like yeah yeah he's winning the the primary polls by a lot of course he is

02:00:49.800 of course he is of course he is and that's what democrats do they they rehab these people and

02:00:54.720 they'll put them in another role i mean you could definitely i wouldn't i wouldn't put it past his

02:00:59.220 brother to go back on cnn now that he's so conservative yeah and he'd be the new conservative

02:01:05.280 yeah he'd be the new conservative voice he's the voice of common sense i can't tell if i would be i

02:01:11.320 mean i would be absolutely losing my mind on this show every day if these things happen if he becomes

02:01:15.780 mayor and you know chris cuomo i think he has a job but going to become mayor i think why do you say

02:01:21.800 yeah why do you say if he hasn't even announced his run yet but it's happening it's gonna it's

02:01:26.440 gonna happen i just you know i'm allowing for i'd put money down on that one don't you think though

02:01:31.140 there's he does have a lot of opposition in new york like among democrats who don't like him

02:01:35.980 and there's a chance that you know more scandals come out i definitely don't believe we know the

02:01:42.220 extent of his illegal activity that i promise you um my belief is that we do not know the full

02:01:48.480 extent of his illegal activity i my guess is what do you mean in killing old people well no we only

02:01:54.380 well we know some of that okay who knows how many other people he killed outside of the covid years

02:01:58.300 you know we don't know that for sure i mean you don't really think yeah no i definitely that's

02:02:03.940 seems crazy we can you imagine that he would ever do such a thing he seems like an upstanding

02:02:09.080 individual i mean it's really kind of offensive the question you have what is it you're saying

02:02:13.380 about cuomo like he's a mobster sending people to sleep with the fishes ah forget about it

02:02:22.080 with andrew cuomo the question you have to ask yourself if you did he commit a crime there's

02:02:28.380 only one question would it have benefited him in any way and then you know the answer every time

02:02:32.920 if the answer is yes then again then the answer is yes that's that's how you know if it would have

02:02:38.620 benefited him of course he committed the crime i would like a little chart on this because if the

02:02:43.860 answer is no it doesn't benefit him is it always no no there's more questions because he's still i

02:02:51.800 think he'd still commit crimes just for the pleasure right okay i think that's possible as well okay but

02:02:57.320 that's a perfect mayor for new york a perfect one they deserve every little bit of that that they get

02:03:04.720 especially after seeing this in albany and then choosing it anyway like you deserve everything

02:03:11.260 you get gavin newsom i mean could gavin newsom have had a more slimy rise to the top than he had

02:03:17.300 every single thing that's happened to california the people who voted for him at least in california

02:03:24.180 because we always get emails from people like help me i'm in california and i'm conservative we're

02:03:28.160 telling you move i would say get out as fast as possible i mean the call is coming from inside

02:03:34.200 the state california is too liberal for mark zuckerberg even zuckerberg is leaving i gotta tell

02:03:41.900 you i'm very concerned about hollywood moving here zuckerberg moving here i don't like it it might be

02:03:48.160 time for texas to wall off that whole area of texas just wall it off so a ball a wall in the

02:03:57.000 southern border and the northern border well no no no i just say we wall off austin okay so inside

02:04:05.080 so let them all land it's like it'll be like they can land west berlin situation you have to go in

02:04:09.300 the middle of the country to land right you can land but there's no there's no gate on those walls

02:04:13.880 you have to take a plane to get out okay and they can airdrop supplies yeah absolutely we've seen that

02:04:19.940 happen but we're not going to but somebody could i've met maybe new york city and austin like great

02:04:27.040 food uh it's got great things there's some great things there because liberalism is needed okay to

02:04:36.100 balance we'd be a very boring world if it was just conservatives all right we'd all be working

02:04:42.520 uh that's all we'd do we'd just be like efficient members of society moving along to the right the

02:04:50.080 world's best interests right so it'd be terrible there'd be nobody to avoid when you approach the

02:04:54.860 stoplight you know what i mean as you're approaching the stoplight and you're seeing the guy and he's

02:04:59.100 coming to your car and you know he's going to ask that wouldn't be happening if we were all

02:05:02.840 conservative it sounds great well kind of but it's important it's important yeah they're good at the

02:05:09.460 arts you know they're good at entertaining there are good what do you say you're a clown to me yes

02:05:14.660 you're a clown to me uh but it's an important clown it's an important clown like i mean this is going

02:05:20.520 to be sound dismissive to the arts but it's like if you're if you're me for dismissive if you're

02:05:27.780 pursuing something with a maniacal focus yes that leads to you kind of standing up and reciting lines

02:05:36.560 that someone else wrote you know maybe that's not the most productive activity so it should be

02:05:41.140 assigned to the left no that's not to say there's not great conservatives doing that and i love movies

02:05:46.240 right but like what is a movie to me it's a waste of time right like i watch it it's great i i a couple

02:05:52.080 hours i would have to agree you're right you're right and of course it's important because sometimes

02:05:57.120 we want to waste time yes i agree so we could have you know 14 15 yeah and then they can digitally

02:06:05.820 send us their movies it's fine all right let me ask you something why is this ancient roman movie

02:06:10.980 look like austin are you living with pain uh if so how bad is it how frequent is it it is the sort

02:06:19.000 of thing that just only annoys you or does it interfere with the way you live your life you have

02:06:23.920 to make decisions based on whether or not it's going to flare up here are a few follow-up questions

02:06:28.680 how long are you going to put up with it what have you tried to get rid of it have you tried

02:06:32.920 everything because that's what i thought i tried everything my wife said no yeah i mean i've tried

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02:07:18.400 wow the fbi agents are just packing up their desks uh and and good i'm glad i'm really glad

02:07:46.340 um because what donald trump is coming in to do is uh change the culture because the culture was sick

02:07:54.160 and quite honestly too unconstitutional for me if you sat there that whole time maybe you were thinking

02:08:00.520 i'm just gonna hold out until you know sanity returns i'm gonna keep my head low you know maybe

02:08:06.200 that was the right thing to do but if you were participating in any of that if you think well

02:08:10.680 he's gonna fire me now good leave save us trouble leave but uh he is taking he's taking all of it on

02:08:20.800 uh i mean every single horn or every single bull that he needs to take by the horns he's taking it

02:08:29.680 this is glenn beck

The Glenn Beck Program - February 03, 2025

Trump's Tariffs EXPLAINED： Why He Deserves Benefit of the Doubt ｜ Guest： Frank McCourt ｜ 2⧸3⧸25

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