Glenn and Stu join me in the winter wonderland of Dallas, Texas as we cover all the latest news and notes from the past 24 hours. Joe Biden is back, Kevin McCarthy visits the White House, and more!
00:42:46.820Glenn is having all sorts of tech problems.
00:42:48.380He's going to join us potentially here at some point.
00:42:50.760I wanted to bring in Pat Gray as well, so we can go through some of the issues of the day.
00:42:55.000In fact, one of the issues that's, I think, pretty interesting is Trump starting to carve out a differentiating point here in the primaries.
00:43:04.560How can he differentiate himself from his other rivals?
00:43:08.700We'll look at the way he's trying to do that here coming up in 60 seconds.
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00:44:21.320There's nowhere else to go, nothing else to do.
00:44:23.340So, you know, we might as well be on the air today.
00:44:26.740I'm doing this from my home office and looking out our windows here, and my driveway is nothing but solid ice, and out further, the street is nothing but solid ice, covered by just a little skiff of snow so you can't see the solid ice.
00:44:42.680So, things are going really well here in Texas right now.
00:45:04.320Even the day before this hit, we had some freezing on the roads, and you could feel it.
00:45:08.960I mean, people were, there was accidents all over the place, and at some level, yes, as a Northeasterner, I would like to just blame terrible drivers in Texas, and I do understand that that is, it is probably part of it.
00:45:21.980People are not used to driving in this stuff, and also not prepared.
00:45:25.120I mean, my car is rear-wheel drive and is not equipped to go anywhere in this particular environment.
00:45:32.900That's because, you know, 99.9% of the time, you don't have to deal with it.
00:45:36.740So, the society just has come together and said, we are going to do nothing to prepare for this.
00:45:41.660Yeah, so that's why we have four snow trucks and about, I don't know, one and a half salt trucks.
00:46:53.140I mean, look, we all know that Trump, you know, makes grand statements.
00:46:57.280And not always precise in the details in those statements.
00:47:03.300But I will say, directionally, you kind of think that he would be the type of person who would be able to go in there and negotiate this.
00:47:10.280I mean, he's had a relatively good relationship with both of these parties over the years.
00:47:18.740Obviously, you know, it was one of the things that the left complained about, that he was having dealings with Zelensky that were too close and too tight.
00:47:32.440But I will say it's interesting that he's looking for this point to separate himself, like he did in the 2016 campaign when it came to Iraq.
00:47:40.240You know, he was the only one out there saying we shouldn't have been in the Iraq war.
00:47:43.880It was a disaster I knew from the beginning, blah, blah, blah.
00:48:53.920And it's nice, at least, to see somebody, in this case, Donald Trump, actually calling for, hey, let's put an end to it.
00:49:01.380And nobody else seems to be doing that.
00:49:04.600Yeah, you know, and Pat, it's funny because I spent the whole last hour talking about stuff like the debt ceiling and who to primary because our debt is so out of control.
00:49:14.300And so, you know, I think you and I and Glenn and a few other people seem to be the only people on the right left who care about spending anymore.
00:49:23.240But, like, even all that being said, as much as I care about spending, it's not even my top priority here when it comes to our involvement in this war.
00:49:31.880I am much more concerned that the Biden-Harris administration is walking us closer and closer to direct conflict with Russia.
00:49:47.040I don't have any faith that this administration can walk this line successfully.
00:49:52.360And even if you think, you know, hey, Ukraine, you know, is the victim of aggression here and we want to hold this line so that Russia doesn't roll into NATO and it gets worse.
00:50:01.860The way we're doing this, saying things like we're going to outwardly do press conferences, bragging about how we're sending offensive weapons into this war to potentially and the goal being to kill Russian soldiers.
00:50:15.860I know we wouldn't take that nicely if Russia was doing it to us.
00:50:19.660And I expect they're not going to as well.
00:50:22.140At some point, they're going to cross the line and say, look, we're just at war with America.
00:50:25.880Let's admit it and let's start attacking them.
00:51:21.380I believe the quote from Joe Biden was we would not give offensive weapons like tanks and planes and trains, which, again, I don't know of the offensive train weapon that we have.
00:51:32.460If we do have that, first of all, it sounds really cool, but it does not seem to be the smartest weapon out there.
00:51:43.540It's like you're putting your attack train on rails, and, like, they're going to know where it's going to go.
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01:06:02.600I'll take it here for a second as we solve these technical issues.
01:06:05.180We appreciate everybody hanging out and a little understanding here with what we're trying to accomplish here.
01:06:12.380And what's interesting about what Trump is doing is he, I think, sees appropriately a potential weak point for his run in the COVID response stuff.
01:06:26.740You know, people remember going back to March and April of 2020.
01:06:30.740You know, when you heard the phrase, two weeks to stop the spread, the person standing on the stage was Donald Trump.
01:06:36.400And I think everybody has some sort of remembrance of that.
01:06:40.820And I think you're going to see candidates in the field try to go to Trump's right, if you will, and say Donald Trump was the guy who had Anthony Fauci standing by his side.
01:06:52.760Who had Dr. Birx standing by his side, who told us two weeks to stop the spread, who then told us after those two weeks were over, another month to stop the spread.
01:07:04.000Obviously, there's a lot of criticism over the vaccines among the Republican base.
01:07:09.760And Trump has kind of held the line there and said, look, these things were great and they saved a bunch of lives.
01:07:17.140And again, it matters what the base agrees with because they're the ones who are going to make these decisions.
01:07:22.360So, how do you handle that if you're Donald Trump?
01:07:26.000You can kind of see the first steps in his approach as he was talking on the plane the other day where he said, look, you know, a lot of these governors are out there bragging about their COVID responses.
01:07:53.960I mean, I think you look at the DeSantis response to COVID and most people on the conservative side of the spectrum look at it as a good response.
01:08:00.540So, here's the problem that I have with Donald Trump is, you know, he is the guy who suspended.
01:08:14.460However, however, in his favor, I give everyone a pass.
01:08:20.620Well, except for Fauci because of what he knew was going on according to documents.
01:08:25.620I give almost everybody a pass that everybody was trying to do the right thing.
01:08:31.520Everybody was, you know, 10 days to slow the spread.
01:09:54.020I think we've heard a little bit of that.
01:09:56.160We've heard bits and pieces of that, though I still think he's out of step with a base on some of it.
01:10:02.320What's fascinating is really the argument for DeSantis and his response is very similar to the argument to Donald Trump and his success.
01:10:11.100If you like Trump's response, what you would say is he turned on these restrictions relatively quickly.
01:10:18.960Now, he turned slower than DeSantis did.
01:10:22.440Remember, Donald Trump was out there criticizing Brian Kemp, who was really the first one, at least in that area, to turn around on those restrictions.
01:10:32.320You know, I think you could look at people like Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
01:10:36.700Iowa was another state that never closed down.
01:10:38.880But, you know, again, when you look at the spectrum of responses, both Trump and DeSantis would be, I think, on the right side of that for most conservatives.
01:10:48.380So, like, they're trying to needle – I mean, DeSantis has not participated in this criticism yet, but, like, they will eventually be needling each other on this response.
01:10:57.860And really, you know, it is – I think there are definitely parts to criticize of Trump's response.
01:11:05.040DeSantis' response, I think, was more standard for Republicans.
01:11:08.120And both of them stood up pretty strongly eventually and got to that point where they said, look, this is wrong and we should not be doing this.
01:11:16.200The question with Trump is – one of his weak points is going to be he went through his entire administration with Anthony Fauci there.
01:11:24.080And, you know, everyone looks at Fauci as the center point of this and over and over and over again, every one of his competitors in this primary are going to show pictures of Donald Trump sitting there praising Anthony Fauci, standing next to him, Fauci praising Trump.
01:12:28.240We didn't know at the time – and I'd like to hear Rick and – or sorry, Ron and Donald Trump say this – that we didn't know at the time that there were deals with the government and the pharmaceutical companies.
01:12:42.920We didn't know at the time that gain-of-function research was going on and is still going on.
01:12:49.700So I want to have a frank and open, honest discussion and really hearing on everything that happened.
01:12:59.560But the first step is we are to never, ever, the federal government, close down businesses and close everything down from the federal level.
01:13:10.420People were already isolating before we did it.
01:13:13.980We're not going to do that ever again.
01:13:16.420And we are going to make sure that it never happens again through legislation.
01:15:37.440I want to see governors who have actually taken hard stands and are continually moving the ball forward, not playing, um, uh, not playing where at least we're not them and certainly not, uh, playing defense.
01:17:26.460She said within a week's time, she was playing like a pup, uh, totally amazed at how better both of my dogs digestion has been, which I think is that code for dog farts.
01:17:37.980Is that because I don't know if they make that claim, although it's well, nevermind.
01:25:18.900Maybe they're testing these newfangled digital wallets, you know, um, even though they own the companies that provide the services, they're creating a new one for complete control of everybody's dollars.
01:27:08.140Well, I'm sure everyone's seeing this all over Twitter and there's like aerial cams from helicopters going over, uh, President Biden's house right now.
01:27:15.500And they're live streaming the FBI raiding his house, uh, looking for these classified documents.
01:27:52.280Stu mentioned this earlier, what they're opening this up, the precedent that it opens up here.
01:27:56.420And the reason why is because you're looking at a, uh, a weaponized department of justice and FBI.
01:28:04.560And I think when you look at this on a timeline, I think this was, uh, is covering up as one of the biggest election interferences in American history.
01:33:04.140Now they're going and raiding a sitting president's home.
01:33:07.700That's fine if we had a justice department that we trusted, but we don't.
01:33:15.720We know they're not after real justice.
01:33:18.300So that leads you to what is what is it that they're after?
01:33:22.880This becomes extraordinarily dangerous for a republic if your justice department is corrupt and the deep state is in charge and they can just take any president and go into their house and raid it and charge him on things that Hillary Clinton didn't go to jail for.
01:33:46.460I can't believe I'm actually kind of defending Joe Biden here because I'm defending the process.
01:33:54.580You should have done this from the beginning.
01:33:57.000Now they're using this as a political tool, I fear, because the biggest tool is Hunter Biden.
01:34:03.480And the things that are coming out about Hunter Biden are really, really damaging.
01:34:30.460I mean, I think the further we start seeing that the Ukraine stuff, the business dealings with Hunter Biden, the rest of his family and why they were so like hyper focused on Ukraine and why now they are so hyper focused on making sure that, you know, everything is secure there.
01:34:48.240You know, they got to make sure that, you know, all of those skeletons are completely buried.
01:34:53.640I don't even think that we're we probably haven't even scratched the surface.
01:34:57.160I mean, we've covered Burisma in detail.
01:35:03.000What do we not know that they had their fingers in?
01:35:05.880I mean, this is getting absolutely insane.
01:35:08.760You know, the thing that bothers me so much is the amount of money that has gone over there, because we know most of it has not gone to the front lines.
01:35:17.320We've had people on the front lines who have verified this.
01:35:24.360You're seeing 10 politicians had to step down because they were taking the aid and funneling it towards their families, et cetera, et cetera.
01:36:55.960I mean, they've they've already, you know, the grenade they dropped with Trump and now all the revelations that are coming out about Biden.
01:37:04.980I mean, they're going to try and minimize and, you know, make it seem more benign what Biden did.
01:37:11.240But I saw that in some of the early reporting on the raid or the FBI search today, they're trying to say that, you know, oh, Joe Biden is in full cooperation with the FBI, you know, more than happy to let the FBI search his home today.
01:37:28.700There's no difference between that and what Donald Trump did.
01:37:35.300They went and looked, they searched through the file folders, looked at everything and said, hey, Mr. President, you should probably put a padlock on that door.
01:39:31.720Yesterday, we had a guy who filed a lawsuit here in Texas against the ATF on the, what do you call them, the stocks, the collapsible stocks.
01:39:45.760But it's a, what are they called, the pistols that can turn into rifles magically with the stabilizing stock.
01:39:52.860And they, the ATF said that those are absolutely legal.
01:39:59.540They've been legal for years, blah, blah, blah.
01:40:02.220Now, through a stroke of a pen, not Congress or anything else, they decide that that's a felony to own one of those.
01:40:09.080In case you missed yesterday's podcast, we talked to the guy who was filing suit because yesterday was the day that it actually became in the federal registry, which means it's now officially on the book.
01:40:25.480So the clock started running yesterday.
01:40:27.800You have 120 days before you're a felon.
01:40:30.240They may not get away with this, but what they're doing, when you say weaponizing, there's two things that people have to understand.
01:40:39.280How a national socialist kind of takeover usually happens is they make so many things through regulation illegal that almost everybody's in violation of something.
01:40:54.600And then they apply pressure selectively to who they want to apply pressure.
01:40:59.540So if you have one of those, one of those guns and you haven't filed in 120 days because you're waiting for the court to speak on it, what's going to happen to you?
01:41:09.400They will arrest you even if they know nothing's going to happen.
01:41:14.080They want to make people's lives miserable through the system.
01:41:18.780That way they can control you, even if it doesn't end up that you have to be held in jail.
01:41:26.620The whole process is the real punishment.
01:41:30.700Back on just a second, because we have some new information about Hunter Biden as well that is just, gosh, I don't know how people with a conscience actually are navigating today's news and feeling good about it.
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01:43:42.520We so apologize to all of our guests that we have been off and on again and had to bump because of technical reasons, but Sean Reyes was bumped from earlier in the show, and he's made time to come back on with us.
01:43:59.700He's going to be talking about something very, very positive.
01:44:03.020He is leading the way, along with 25 other states, these attorney generals are doing the hard work, and he is doing everything they can, along with 25 other states, to save your retirement.
01:44:19.740Wait until you hear this story and what's being done.
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01:44:27.060Back with Sean Reyes, the attorney general from the great state of Utah, next.
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01:46:58.940There was something that the Biden administration announced in November, and this is so insidious.
01:47:08.820And Joe Biden said that he wanted regulation now to be able to force everybody's retirement fund into ESG style funds.
01:47:21.560That could dramatically impact the retirement accounts of millions of Americans.
01:47:31.360You have put together 25 states, the attorney generals, and you have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and trying to get that repealed.
01:48:14.860We've put together a lot of financial managers of private benefit plans like 401ks that you have, that I have, to pick investments based solely on financial reasons to benefit the plan and maximize value for beneficiaries.
01:48:30.560We call it the exclusive purpose test.
01:48:33.260And this new Biden rule, which, by the way, as you said, they tried to sneaky, really sinister past this rule and hope that no one would would notice.
01:48:44.620Kind of like they did the last time we had to sue the Department of Labor on OSHA vaccine mandates.
01:48:51.940And we took that to the Supreme Court in one and we'll do the same here if we need to, because this is yet another existential threat from ESG.
01:49:01.760So this new Biden rule allows asset managers for these plans to abandon their fiduciary duty and become instead woke investment activists for ESG.
01:49:13.380Glenn, this rule puts at risk over 12 trillion dollars, 12 trillion dollars of private retirement funds for 152 million hardworking Americans.
01:49:26.160The whole civilian workforce in America, Glenn, is 165 million at last count.
01:49:31.660So it just shows you the scale of the impact that this rule would have.
01:49:36.480And again, it weaponizes and politicizes the role of asset managers at a time when 401ks are already taking major hits due to the economic downturns and high inflation from this administration.
01:50:13.840And it's funny that you say it that way, because that was the defense that the DOL administration put forth for why this this is still acceptable.
01:50:47.760God bless you for being such a voice of reason, a loud voice and pushing back on this ESG insanity because ESG funds are largely underperforming and they're getting that.
01:50:59.560Of course, they are zero that they should be looking at, by the way, technologies that are actually profitable and don't cause more environmental impact.
01:51:08.680You have one right now in your state and mine.
01:51:14.680You can have them on the show another time.
01:51:16.860But Omnis Energy is about to make a huge announcement in Texas about really clean energy that will give us the energy dominance it deserves.
01:51:26.280And many of Texas's most prominent business leaders are committed to this technology.
01:52:05.440Glenn, there are other technical reasons.
01:52:07.960And I just want to throw this out to any of the lawyers out there who are questioning, OK, what what is the basis and why is it illegal?
01:52:16.160In addition to it violating the fiduciary responsibilities, there are other factors that violate the major questions doctrine because it has vast economic impact.
01:52:29.900And the DOL actually doesn't have the authority to do this.
01:52:34.860And it also another thing that we didn't really talk about a lot is that it allows proxy voting, again, in a way that prevents them from or requires them from from living up to their fiduciary responsibilities.
01:52:50.960So there's a proxy element here, too, which is another aspect of ESG that is pernicious.
01:53:05.700Sean, I will tell you, we have been fighting ESG with ESG legislation through wall builders and David Barton.
01:53:17.400And, you know, I've been up at different states talking about it and they have really mounted an effort in I think about 30 states are considering legislation.
01:53:25.880I have been working with another organization for the last I mean, we've been working with them for at least eight months, but we found out some things that that they were doing to undermine the protection for the people.
01:53:43.980And just a quick side note, I'm going to be making an announcement about that very well known foundation and what they've been doing.
01:53:54.720We've tried to give them several months to clarify and rectify the problem.
01:54:03.000And tomorrow's program, I'm going to be telling you something quite shocking and very, very disappointing on a on a foundation that is has a long legacy and heritage that you're going to be disappointed in.
01:54:22.280Anyway, so let me ask you, let me ask you on the ESG front, is anyone that, you know, protecting because this is the this is the problem with this.
01:54:34.360This hurts everybody, including the little guy.
01:54:37.340OK, this is not just the energy sector.
01:54:39.920This is everybody, especially the little guy is going to get hurt on this.
01:54:45.060Are you seeing any real forward momentum at all on protecting the little guy in the S and the G or is still are people still just worried about the E?
01:55:08.900And and the work that you all are doing, Glenn, you deserve credit with the legislatures is important.
01:55:14.500And Congress has a role to play and they're trying to push back through a resolution.
01:55:19.320But the A.G.s, I speaking of warriors and you have an incredible one there in Texas, my colleague, Ken Paxton, he is co filing with me.
01:55:28.160So so Texas, Louisiana, Jeff Landry and the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jason Meares and all these other A.G.s, they're the ones you call us off in the last line of defense.
01:55:37.820And we are pushing back for the little guy, not just on the E, but on the S and the G.
01:55:43.200There was not too long ago an insurance issue that came up, which they were trying to pass a law that would require the insurance company to violate numerous state laws in the guise of being more diverse.
01:55:56.920Right. And and it actually would require the insurance company, this rule to consider race in terms of assessing risk and issuing insurance, which blatantly on its face violates a number of state law.
01:56:15.660So we pushed back on that. So people think that the ESG is only the E.
01:56:20.520There's definitely the S and the G part of it. And we'll continue as A.G.s to push back on all of that, because, as you said so eloquently, it hurts the little guy.
01:56:30.340It hurts everyone. And I want to be clear, Glenn. We're not saying you can't invest your money, your own money.
01:56:36.920Yeah. And social warrior and activist. We're saying when you have a fiduciary duty to invest other people's money, you can't do that.
01:56:45.360Right. Right. Can you can you help me on one thing unrelated to this, Sean?
01:56:50.560The rule went in two days ago now for the pistol braces and the ATF says if you have a gun with pistol braces, you have to apply for a tax stamp.
01:57:00.880And, you know, that that's a year long process, if you're lucky.
01:57:06.200But you are going to be a felon within one hundred and twenty days, even if you're in the process of the tax stamp.
01:57:13.940And so they're saying, turn your gun in. Well, I know a lot of people that have these guns.
01:57:18.580They were perfectly legal until they just decided to, you know, just change the regulation on their own.
01:57:27.220And what what does the what should somebody do?
01:57:31.360I know there's a lawsuit that was just filed yesterday here in Texas, but should we wait for this to play out in the court?
01:57:41.820Are we going to be felons if you have another assault on our Second Amendment rights?
01:57:47.380And, you know, I just I was just at SHOT Show recently in Las Vegas and we were talking about this, you know, many good American companies and even foreign companies that that support the Second Amendment.
01:58:02.200Here here is a I think a practical solution, Glenn, if I were you in any state where you have a good attorney general who understands the the Constitution,
01:58:16.760I would reach out to their office and ask for advice and also see if they are joining us in being able to push back against these rules and encourage them to do that.
01:58:28.740Because, as you pointed out, the average citizen is now caught in this no man's land and it's a it's a precarious place to be, my friend.
01:58:43.680I know it's crazy right now with the weather conditions, but I really so wanted to talk to you about the ESG and the Second Amendment issues and everything else going on there.
01:58:54.820You are an incredible warrior champion for us, Sean.
02:00:08.520It runs on canned heat and it burns really super hot, yet it's totally safe.
02:00:14.340You light the fuel and within really five minutes, it's hot enough to boil water and even heat a 200 square foot room to keep the family warm.
02:00:23.180It does it without smoke, without toxic fumes and without any danger.
02:00:48.180Now, remember, this program was accused by everyone on the left and all media of being conspiracy theorists because we told you ESG will come to your bank and your retirement and everything else, and we were called conspiracy theorists.
02:01:13.140Well, now, all GOP senators and Manchin as well are challenging Biden's ESG climate investment rule.
02:01:24.360They are trying to shoot it down from the Senate.
02:01:31.960Heroin is no longer a crime in Vancouver, and they're trying to legalize heroin and fentanyl all across Canada.
02:01:42.140So no more problems are we going to be happening up in Canada, I'm sure.
02:01:49.500And also, don't forget, tonight, usually our Wednesday night special, we have to rerun a special, The Farmland Wars, Global Takeover America's Land.
02:02:00.560On Friday, we will be presenting our Wednesday night special this Friday at 5 p.m.
02:02:07.400It's the COVID blueprint, the next crisis globalists will use to control you.