On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn and Stu discuss the stabbing of a woman by a moose in the woods, the latest in the Trump administration, and the latest additions to the 2020 Republican presidential field.
00:03:32.520Those are always at the top of the list because most of the time you just don't think about it because most of the time you're not in a tight spot.
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00:05:08.480He didn't know the parties, how they actually work in Washington.
00:05:11.560And he was stabbed in the back, in the side, in the shoulder, you know, in the chest, in the stomach, everywhere he was stabbed, by everybody.
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00:50:57.100You ought to do broadcasting for a living.
00:50:58.920What a what a what a perfect framing of where we are in this country.
00:51:05.340And as you know, from this early American historian to you, a great patriot and friend who has forgotten more about American history than most students learn.
00:51:23.340So you do believe that we're at the twilight's last gleaming right now?
00:51:28.100I think that the as as Churchill would put it, that the end of the beginning just occurred, which is to say, you know, the next several weeks, the Biden-Harris regime comes to a close.
00:51:39.520I think that we're tilting toward Dawn's early light.
00:51:42.300I'm hopeful by my nature because of my faith and because I'm an American.
00:51:45.840But I think the key thing to the underlying point that you're making, Glenn, is that just because we won the election doesn't mean that, you know, we can go back to everything we were doing.
00:51:57.080And we're in for some really difficult times to make this turn and to make it without collapsing everything and to make it fast enough to where people will feel, you know, like like Malay.
00:52:13.200You know, he's turned that around quickly in Argentina.
00:52:17.440I don't know if we can turn that fast.
00:52:44.800We had to secure an election victory, which has happened.
00:52:48.680But the second thing is the men and women who are in key positions.
00:52:53.160We were in great shape with the president and vice president.
00:52:55.940I would argue in great shape with the speaker of the House.
00:52:58.920I think we will be OK with the new majority leader of the Senate.
00:53:03.020Nothing against Senator Thune personally, but he's not the most aligned with this thing that we've just outlined to put it charitably.
00:53:11.000But popular will might be something that he responds to.
00:53:15.400But the good thing, Glenn, is point number three, which is that not everything that needs to happen is in Washington.
00:53:23.000And if you look across the Fruited Plain and you see the governors and also very importantly, an increasing number of local officials, county executives, county commissioners, school board officials, the center right in this country has been awakened to the reality that we all have to dig a little bit deeper in spite of all the sacrifices we've made to participate in the revitalization of the American dream.
00:53:48.560But it's point four that that is the most important and to some extent it's the hardest.
00:53:53.000Politics, to some extent, doesn't matter.
00:53:56.200It's all about society and culture, our local communities, our families.
00:54:01.680The thing that I try to emphasize in the book is not just an America first posture, but a family first posture in which we're going about our lives virtuously.
00:54:11.260We're all flawed, of course, but as virtuously as we can, because our institutions and our politics reflect us as individuals.
00:54:18.180And it's really important we not lose sight of that as we are making this turn to dawn's early light.
00:54:23.800It's we can't restore America if we don't restore ourselves and our families.
00:54:30.040If we don't put first principles back into our own lives, that our society is just a reflection.
00:54:36.420I mean, our government is just a reflection of our society.
00:54:51.800You know, once a guy on your side gets caught doing something, you're like, yeah, well, that's not that big of a no, you got to care about it.
00:54:58.560You got to care about it in your own house.
00:56:36.960And, boy, that has stuck with me because it's those kinds of things that my mom's stepping up in that moment to say, no, you must comport yourself better than that.
00:56:46.680That that's the kind of thing we have to do writ large across this republic.
00:56:50.340Because just to come full circle here and to sum up in this response, Glenn, if you read Madison's notes about the constitutional debates, as you know, well, Madison said, really, our motivation in building this constitutional system is to build a framework that acknowledges the fallen nature of humans.
00:57:15.460They knew how they because they knew people, how the progressives want to put the elites in place and they treat the, you know, the hardworking, you know, everyday guy as really the forgotten man.
00:58:26.540And while I am not as prone to pessimism as you are, you know, that I am I am a hopeful realist.
00:58:34.360And so what the advice that I've been giving to people, you know, that family members from across the country call me friends, elected officials.
00:58:41.080I said, Kevin, you know, what's the advice or what's the posture that Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action are taking with all of this?
00:58:47.960We're going to be accountability partners and all of us need accountability partners, whether informally or formally.
00:58:54.660And by that, it's not so much a negative thing.
00:58:57.100But these elected officials need people who are trusted friends, who are aligned with them philosophically, who want the same thing, which is the restoration of the American dream.
00:59:07.700But who also are such good friends that as good friends do and only good friends can do, we can level with them, hopefully behind the scenes and say, don't do that.
00:59:20.060And if we have this attitude, if everyone in your audience has that attitude and going back to my point about comportment, we do that in a way that's charitable, that's civil, but also candid.
00:59:30.020I actually think that we are at the beginning of this golden era of conservative reform.
00:59:54.360That's why you could be a kid in a grocery store and somebody who you didn't recognize would walk up to you and say, you're Bill and Mary Beck's son, aren't you?
01:00:20.240There is a place for the community to say, look, we all agree on the same values and what you're doing here is wrong when it is clearly wrong.
01:00:33.020We just shut up now because we're afraid of the response or the attorneys that are going to get involved or whatever.
01:00:44.760In fact, so much of what I talk about in the book, although I do cover quite a bit about politics and policy because they are important, is about the point you just made.
01:00:53.180Just our daily relationships and one of the reasons I decided to home in on that, Glenn, is because I've learned in the second half of my career where I've moved from academia to politics, as you know,
01:01:06.160that what people are looking for, people who listen to you, people who support Heritage, largely the same people, they say, Kevin, you know, give me give me some solutions that I can do in baby steps or bite sized pieces.
01:01:20.800And what I realize is let's start by doing that in our individual relationships, our individual conversations.
01:01:29.040I'm encouraging people, as exciting as it is with all of these cabinet appointments the president's making, of course, support those and pay attention and be accountability partners.
01:01:39.120But don't lose sight of what's going on in the politics of your city, of your county, of your state, and develop a relationship with someone who represents you.
01:01:48.280Even if they are a member of the opposing party and you're going to disagree on everything, now is the time for us to press the advantage on what the American people have said loudly and clearly over the last eight days.
01:02:01.760And that is we want to wake up in a normal country.
01:02:05.360So use the power of shame to when people are being abnormal, be charitable about it.
01:02:11.320But the American people are with us on this point.
01:03:52.940Well, when J.D. won the Ohio Senate seat, actually when he won the Republican primary, which was kind of a tooth and nail political fight, I hadn't met him yet.
01:04:04.140But we had a lot of mutual friends, and people were telling both of us that we would really enjoy each other's company because we had similar upbringings.
01:04:12.580And so I texted him, and I said, you know, let's talk.
01:04:16.040Well, he called me the next couple days.
01:04:17.260And it started this personal friendship, which also has this bond of not just politics, Glenn, but sort of in the way that you and I have gotten to know each other in the last few years, that we have a similar worldview that's anchored in our faith, that's anchored in our realism about the challenges we're confronting.
01:04:34.440And so when I finally met him in person, when he was sworn in, we just completely hit it off.
01:04:44.540And so almost all the time we agree on policies and politics.
01:04:48.920We have some differences of opinion on things, but unlike some of his colleagues in the Senate who bristle at even a 5% disagreement with them, when we've had differences of opinion on legislation and policy, J.D. almost relishes that conversation.
01:05:06.140He does, because he's just so authentic.
01:05:08.140So all of that to say, when I was thinking about people who could write the foreword and really capture what I'm trying to capture in the book, which is an understanding of the reality ahead, but also that we're hopeful in part because of overcoming some challenges in our respective childhoods, J.D. was perfect.
01:05:26.280And to sum up, he said, Kevin, not only am I going to do this, I'm not going to have someone ghostwrite it.
01:05:31.340I'm going to sit down and write it myself, which to me was extremely gratifying.
01:05:35.100You know, I've been watching, Stu thinks I'm back on the sauce.
01:05:39.940You know, I'm a recovering alcoholic and he thinks it's got to be drunk right now because he's optimistic.
01:05:46.340I said something last night that I would have never guessed that I would have said, you know, everybody's calling Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan.
01:05:56.280I think if he can pull off what he's saying in those, have you seen his little, you know, six minute videos that he's putting out on how to.
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01:08:12.660Talking to Kevin Roberts, the president has a lot to do.
01:08:35.080And when I said to him a few weeks ago, are you going to be able to get this done in four years?
01:08:39.780Are we going to be able to turn this around?
01:08:41.560He said, Glenn, I've got to turn this thing around in the first hundred days.
01:08:44.620If I don't get all this stuff done in the first hundred days, we're not going to get it done.
01:08:50.180He knows, and he is pedal to the metal.
01:08:53.840What has to happen in the next 100 days?
01:08:56.260Well, he's got to continue the pace of appointments that he's making.
01:09:00.360It's a political blitzkrieg, which is awesome, with this pace of appointing cabinet secretaries and heads of agencies.
01:09:07.180And that will continue over the next week.
01:09:09.680And then the second thing that needs to happen is that the official transition and everyone associated with that will then work on levels two, three, and four.
01:09:18.920And I think that will go very well because of the preparations that have gone on just across the conservative movement about that.
01:09:25.300And so we ought to be very optimistic about that.
01:09:27.960In other words, those first two steps and the pace on that's really good, Glenn, are probably a little ahead of schedule because these men and women, I mean, literally, as soon as the president takes the oath of office, need to start flooding the zone with executive orders and scaling back the government overreach that's happened.
01:09:47.980And not just in the last three and a half years, but that happened, as you know, under the Obama-Biden administration.
01:10:24.760And you know that because of your understanding of history, and that's the legislation.
01:10:28.200And I think that the House will be relatively reliable on that because of Mike Johnson's leadership.
01:10:34.060But it is a real challenge to have that slim majority.
01:10:38.220And so it's really important that people who are listening to this understand now is the time to start asking your member of the House, what are they going to do on the legislative priorities?
01:10:47.800Number one, close the southern border.
01:10:52.060Restore the rule of law there and also in the interior of the country.
01:10:56.340Our heritage colleague, Tom Homan, who's been appointed Borders Are, is going to do a great job of that.
01:11:02.060But we have to have legislation that fixes this problem.
01:11:04.760The Senate, of course, is going to be a question, but I think popular will can help.
01:11:08.800Priority two, legislatively, Glenn, is to extend the Trump tax cuts.
01:11:15.240It's vital for the health of the economy.
01:11:18.340In fact, if you look at what the stock market's going to be doing, just one indicator but an important one about sort of the mood of medium and big capital.
01:11:28.780Extending the Trump tax cuts is essential, and that needs to happen soon.
01:11:33.060And for the very point that you mentioned earlier about President Millet in Argentina, one of the reasons this is succeeding, his plans there are succeeding, is because he has kept the pedal to the metal.
01:11:48.120And, you know, to your point about your conversation with President Trump, that is his mindset.
01:11:52.980And so if this happens in the first hundred days, then step four will be something that Trump can take on as a massive project.
01:12:01.680In addition to having Vivek and Elon lead this new Department of Government Efficiency, I suspect that the Trump-Vance administration will find some particular agency and tell the American people,
01:12:13.320this is going to be an example of how we devolve power back to you.
01:12:22.760But that's actually where the American people will say, this is the promise.
01:12:27.000This is fulfilling the promise of what we voted for.
01:12:29.520So the thing that has excited me recently is the fact that, you know, he's talking not about extending the Trump tax cuts,
01:12:39.440but actually going much deeper than that to give us a real boost in the economy.
01:12:46.100The more money you give back to the American people, the better the economy is going to go,
01:12:51.300especially for those who are hiring people and want to expand their businesses and get all of this regulation off of the backs of business and and and really entrepreneurs.
01:13:02.800You know, Bill Gates famously said a long time ago he couldn't start Microsoft today with all of the federal regulation.
01:13:11.500You know, he has said Trump has said that he is thinking about getting rid of all regulation that hasn't passed through Congress.
01:13:20.800Is there a possibility that that happens?
01:13:24.700There is a possibility that that happens.
01:13:27.560And in fact, I would say that it's essential that it does, because what I was talking to an economic advisor of President Trump last night and this person, I said, we're having this conversation that you and I are having about the blitzkrieg, if you will.
01:13:40.920And I said, what's the other thing that has to happen in order to sustain the pace of all of this deregulation and this this administrative reform?
01:13:51.020And this person said four percent economic growth.
01:13:53.920And this person said, if we hit that as a result of some of these policies and and unfreezing the capital that's sitting on the sidelines, this person said we're golden.
01:14:04.940And and I think it's it's likely that that's what's going to happen.
01:14:09.140The kind of thing that gets in the way is the typical establishment or what I call the uniparty in my book, Glenn.
01:14:16.220And you've got to really watch the Senate and a few members of the U.S. House.
01:14:21.920Now is the time to lay the groundwork to say the first hundred days is vital, not just for the first quarter of 2025, but for the next hundred years of American history.
01:14:31.580I've been saying that we are at a crossroads for the West and Western civilization for a while now.
01:14:39.400We've already made the critical decision that we're going to fork this road away from wherever the West has been going and go in a new in a new way.
01:14:51.600I think what Trump does here, if he can have the kind of success that Malay has had and he gets us out of the Paris Accords again,
01:15:01.000he gets us out of all of these things and he can codify some of these things.
01:15:06.920This changes the direction of the it saves the Western world.
01:15:27.480The first is I've been saying that since I got to Heritage a few years ago, which is that, guys, we've got the opportunity to be part of this refounding of this country where we regenerate institutions, revitalize our politics.
01:15:40.040And Trump is I mean, he's he's not merely a potential Reagan figure.
01:15:44.760He's a potential Washington figure, George Washington figure.
01:15:48.220But the second thing is about the West.
01:15:49.820You know, I spend a lot of time traveling the world on behalf of of American conservatism.
01:15:55.180And the place that I go once a quarter is the U.K., which is in far worse shape than America is.
01:16:01.660And there and across the continent of Europe, those folks are looking to us and to President Trump, not just to turn America around, but for America once again to be the lead of light that it's been for so long.
01:16:14.240Yep. Lead the way out of this nightmare.
01:16:17.380And it's just going to it's going to take getting rid of the elite class, getting them out of power and start listening again to the people.
01:16:52.160Well, I think the bravado of that selection is fantastic.
01:16:56.400And you can judge the the strength of a selection of the cabinet secretary, in this case, the attorney general, by what the swamp is saying.
01:17:05.600And so whether it's the DOJ folks complaining about Congressman Gaetz or the DOD, the defense folks complaining about Pete Hegseth, you know that they're great picks.
01:17:17.360These men and women who are being appointed to these positions, in this case, your question about Matt Gaetz, they have to go in with a plan and they have to go in with the right men and women who can execute that plan.
01:17:29.840And remember something that's very, very important.
01:17:32.820You've got to communicate with the American people about why you're doing what you're doing, because in addition to the administrative state being a problem, they, of course, control all of the strings of legacy media.
01:17:45.500And it's vital that there be a really refined plan for what the priorities are going to be.
01:17:51.620If Matt Gaetz does that, if Pete Hegseth does that, all the cabinet secretaries do that, not only will they be successful in their respective roles, but we actually will gain some momentum in this city about pushing out the ruling class.
01:18:05.840Yeah, it is so critical that everybody understands what's at stake and why they're making these cuts.
01:18:14.260Do you believe that it would be legal and constitutional for the president to say, we're going to look at the whole ball of wax here and we're going to cut it by half and just like Calvin Coolidge did.
01:18:32.520And we're just going to go with the odd number.
01:18:36.740If your social security number ends in an odd number, you're out.
01:18:41.020Do you think that can be done without Congress?
01:18:45.820Without Congress initially, there are some details, like second order details that Congress would probably need to clean up.
01:18:53.840There are some pieces of legislation, governing legislation over some of the sub programs in the agencies that you've got to go address legislatively because of how they're funded.
01:19:07.880But that should not, I say that just as sort of nerd out on this, that should not prevent the president from going forward with that plan, nor should it prevent him from making recess appointments.
01:19:57.300Once upon a time, Jack threw some beans out the window.
01:19:59.720The next morning, there was this massive beanstalk.
01:20:02.020And because Jack hadn't read this story already, which I don't believe, he climbed it, found a giant's home, which he immediately broke into and attempted to steal stuff.
01:20:11.400Now, had the giant who lived there had SimpliSafe installed, Jack, I mean, he would have been caught in the act.
01:20:18.060Okay, he wouldn't have taken the, he wouldn't have taken anything from the giant.
01:20:21.260He wouldn't have chopped down the, you know, the beanstalk and the giant, you know, came crashing to his death, which I think is the way that story ends.
01:20:29.440You know, it would have been some make my day kind of scenes, honestly.
01:20:36.300You know, if he had SimpliSafe and he had the fast protect monitoring, SimpliSafe can act on an alarm within five seconds and even talk to the intruder.
01:27:46.380Earlier on the program today, we talked about these two green hoodlums or terrorists that had already gone into the National Gallery of Art and thrown paint on some of the art.
01:27:59.360Then, recently, on Valentine's Day last year, they actually walked into the National Archives and threw paint all over the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and everything else.
01:33:53.100So it's a double-edged sword in that regard.
01:33:55.740And after the election, it was just a matter of, you know, Steve, we can get out of this in such a way where we write the facts.
01:34:03.900We decide what we tell the judge were the facts of the case.
01:34:08.140Unlike a plea agreement, when you have an agreement with the government, they write the facts, and you're stuck with them.
01:34:13.300Because the alternative is go to trial.
01:34:15.320I will tell you that I pled, I don't know if I pled guilty, I might have, pled guilty in a case, had to surrender and just acquiesce on a case years ago involving terrorists.
01:34:34.160And somebody, I had them dead to rights, dead to rights, but the government was controlling all of the strings and all of the information.
01:34:42.840And if you can't get the information from the government that they have and that you know exists because you have copies of it,
01:34:52.840but the judge says, no, I need to see the official copy, and the government says, well, we're not going to give you the official copy, you have no place to go.
01:35:02.700They win every time if you, you know, can't get them to cooperate in any way and give you the information that they only have.
01:35:18.400Yeah, and our alternative here would have been to go to the appellate court, but we could only do that after the district court, the trial court, after that case was over.
01:35:27.900We could go to the appellate court, but again, we're talking about four misdemeanors.
01:35:32.540How much effort are you willing to put in to go to the appellate court to try to get this information that the trial judges denied you?
01:35:40.640Okay, so what's your sentence going to be, Steve? Do you know?
01:35:46.260Well, they set my sentencing hearing for March the 6th.
01:35:49.820Now, we don't know, but the judge himself acknowledged in the court date on Tuesday that we likely would never see each other again.
01:36:00.060He actually acknowledged that, actually said it twice in reference to the fact that there was going to probably be pardons coming down,
01:36:07.160and therefore I would never be sentenced.
01:36:08.620But in that moment, I think the judge made a really critical and unforced error because he decided to go ahead and dress me down as he would normally do during the sentencing hearing.
01:36:17.740And since he decided that we probably wouldn't be able to have that hearing in March, he was going to go ahead and take that opportunity now to chastise me.
01:36:25.560And what he did, Glenn, it was incredible.
01:36:27.660And we're going to have the transcript of this, and we'll certainly release it through the blaze, is that he dressed me down, not for my behavior,
01:36:35.600but he criticized my actual work as a journalist because I had used the terms, weaponized DOJ, and I had been critical of the biased court.
01:36:46.840Wow. Wow. What a violation of your First Amendment.
01:36:51.920All right, guys. Steve, thanks for explaining this.
01:36:54.580Bill, best of luck. Keep us up to speed.
01:36:57.140I think you are right. I think Donald Trump's going to come in.
01:39:14.140And it has the Czech National Orchestra backing it up.
01:39:19.200It's something you can sing along with every song.
01:39:21.820It's your favorite kind of, at least my favorite, uh, Christmas songs are, you know, the standards and the ones that, you know, you listen to over and over again.
01:39:31.080And if the arrangement is right and you can, they haven't changed it up too much, it's great.
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01:39:45.300Um, Thomas Massey is going to join us.
01:39:49.000We're waiting for him to call in, um, but Thomas is going to call in and talk to us a little bit about everybody freaking out about Matt Gaetz as attorney general, uh, because Massey has come out.
01:39:59.920Massey was a little bit sassy, uh, uh, about this, um, and is, is supporting the nomination, obviously.
01:40:36.200Cause the recess appointment thing looks, I mean, it's not been confirmed.
01:40:40.480I think that's why Trump was so okay with, was okay with Thune is he wanted that recess appointment, which means he's not confirmed by the Senate because he'll have a hard time going through the Senate.
01:40:52.540Um, but yeah, I don't think he'd have any chance, honestly, to get through the Senate in normal procedures.
01:40:58.720And so he's, he's going to be a recess appointment as soon as they go on recess, Trump nominates, and then it just slides through, but it's a, it's an acting role.
01:42:25.080I don't know how many times and heard Merrick Garland try to say, when we ask a question, I'm sorry, that's the subject of an ongoing investigation.
01:42:33.560And it's our longstanding policy not to comment.
01:44:39.240When he gets to DOJ, he's going to know which rocks to turn over, which ones are going to have snakes and scorpions underneath of them.
01:44:46.180Because, you know, he spent many years asking these questions.
01:44:50.680I can't imagine the day he walks in there and actually, instead of asking for the documents, gets to pull the file open and pull the documents out.
01:45:00.000They've got to be, I mean, have you guys issued a warning on destroying of any kind of documents?
01:45:07.620Because that's what they did to you guys with the January 6th committee.
01:45:28.340The Secret Service received five preservation notices from different committees in Congress and still deleted all of their phones and their texts from January 6th.
01:45:38.600So I'm not, I mean, I'm not sure what good that will do.
01:45:41.960And then you have people who use illegally are using their private phones.
01:45:47.360It's going to, you know, the forensics, you better hire a forensic expert to try and find some of the stuff that's been bleach bedded over there.
01:45:54.480I'm sure the shredders are in overdrive, illegally so.
01:45:58.760But to answer your specific question, I don't know what preservation notices we've sent, but we should be sending them in overdrive.
01:46:42.340And, look, they were not planning for Trump to win.
01:46:45.480And then they had a backup plan for Trump to hopefully appoint another Bill Barr type who would coddle, you know, them and really work against Trump.
01:46:56.740Matt Gaetz is somebody, again, who's been the subject of political witch hunts, is going to be more motivated and more knowledgeable than anybody else on how to stop that crap from being turned loose on the American people, as it has been at DOJ.
01:47:12.060I've got to tell you, Thomas, you make me feel much better.
01:48:39.820This Thanksgiving season and the rest of the year, we can especially be grateful for the meat we put on our plates.
01:48:45.680Especially if that meat is from good ranchers, which means it's from American farms and ranches.
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01:49:56.600Here at the Mercury Studios Complex, over at the American Journey Experience, our museum,
01:50:03.140every year we have a pro-family legislative conference where people come in, legislators from all over the United States, and we talk issues.
01:50:13.600Justin Haskins, who is also the co-author of my book, Propaganda Wars, is joining us.
01:50:34.380Yeah, writing suicide notes, you know, all that stuff.
01:50:37.800I'm going to freak them out this year because I am so optimistic on what I'm seeing.
01:50:42.120I think we are on the verge of a golden era.
01:50:44.520If the left behaves itself and if all of these appointments that Trump is making are really well thought out and they have an agenda in front of them.
01:50:58.980They know what their target is when they first walk in.
01:51:11.600But then last night I was thinking about it really carefully and I realized there is a very clear strategy here, I think.
01:51:20.540On the one hand, you have some appointments like Marco Rubio at state and Elsie Stefanik for UN ambassador that are more conventional picks.
01:51:30.460They also happen to be in the departments where I don't think Trump has had as much trouble in the past.
01:51:37.880Then you have the Matt Gaetz pick and you have Kristi Noem at DHS and you have some of these others that you look at and you're like, this does not seem conventional at all.
01:52:20.220When you're doing building or you're tearing stuff down, you either throw it into a giant garbage bin that you rent for a month or you just pile it up in the backyard and you burn it all.
01:53:05.040We are on the verge, I think, of very, very disturbing times when it comes to a propaganda war.
01:53:14.160I really believe that that's where we're headed, because the left is not just going to sit there and allow itself to be wiped out by Elon Musk and Matt Gaetz and people.
01:53:25.400And we've seen what they've done in the past with Russian collusion 1.0, with all kinds of crazy things.
01:53:33.040I mean, we talk about in the book how the five eyes, you know, the five eyes, these this sort of alliance that was revealed by Edward Snowden and some others.
01:53:44.420And really and really revealed recently, again, to even be more disturbing when it comes to wiping people like Elon Musk out.
01:53:55.340Right. And in the book, we talk about how these five eyes intelligence agencies from these different countries like the United Kingdom and New Zealand and Australia and America have this alliance where they're sharing data and they're sharing all these this material they're collecting on people, how they had spied on world leaders within their own alliances.
01:54:13.940Yeah. So, for example, Angela Merkel, who was the former head of Germany, she had been spied on by the NSA on her phone and then they were sharing it amongst each other.
01:54:25.240So if they're going to do that to someone who's basically in agreement with them on everything, what are they going to do to the guy who's putting the torch to these whole departments?
01:54:35.240Oh, I know. And I will tell you, Jack Kennedy has come to mind over and over and over again in the last 10 days for me, because I've never been a conspiracy theorist on the Kennedy thing.
01:54:46.060I've always been like, no, come on. It was just, you know, it might have been a lone gunman, but I believe the CIA just wound that guy up and he was doing the CIA's work because Jack was going to tear apart the CIA, tear apart the military industrial complex, stop the war.
01:55:08.160Does any of this sound familiar? Stop the wars. That's what he wanted to do. And they killed him.
01:55:14.540You mentioned the other day on the air, I can't remember, it was a couple of days ago or something, a story that came out recently about the Pentagon running war games on the Trump administration coming in and how to handle different situations that might come up.
01:55:28.060Why are they doing? There is. Why are they doing?
01:55:30.140There is clearly a massive conflict that's about to happen here between these two groups, the people who want to reform and get rid of the deep state and the people who are in the deep state and want to do everything they can to protect it.
01:55:43.240And everyday Americans are going to be caught up in the midst of all of that.
01:55:47.020And that was the whole point of writing this book, Propaganda Wars.
01:55:50.920It was the whole point was we wanted to prepare people for the insanity that's coming down the road.
01:55:56.120Now, we didn't necessarily think the it was going to play out like this with a landslide victory for Trump and everything like that.
01:56:02.360Yeah, but, you know, I feel so optimistic right now.
01:56:06.160And I think that's another miracle from God.