Glenn Beck shares two stories from his own life that he has never heard before. One is the story of how he recovered from a debilitating back injury, and the other is a story about how he was fired from a job because of a tweet.
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00:06:13.320This agent's tweet filled with acronyms indecipherable to the layperson like TTPs, UW and EW was itself a reply to a missive from Washington Post Pentagon reporter who noted the wealth of information that the U.S.
00:06:31.260military had gathered about Russian ops just by observing their combat strategy in real time.
00:06:39.200The interchange illustrated the interplay between the national security community and those who cover it.
00:06:46.300And no one straddled both worlds quite like ABC News Meek.
00:06:51.580He was an Emmy-winning deep-dive journalist who was a former senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the House Homeland Security Commission.
00:07:02.520His detractors within ABC, Meek was something of a military fanboy, but his track record of exclusives was undeniable.
00:07:11.560Breaking the news of foiled terrorist plots in New York City and the Army's cover-up of the fratricidal death of Private First Class David Sherratt in Iraq.
00:07:24.340A bombshell that earned Meek a face-to-face meeting with President Obama.
00:07:28.580With nine years at ABC under his belt, a buzzy Hulu documentary poised for Emmy attention, and an upcoming book on the military's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan,
00:07:42.460the 52-year-old journalist seemed to be at the height of his powers and the pinnacle of his profession.
00:07:48.300But outside his Arlington, Virginia apartment, a surreal scene was unfolding, and his storied career was about to come crashing down.
00:08:03.100Meek's tweet marked the last time he posted on Twitter.
00:08:07.720The first thing Meek's neighbor, John Anatoly, noticed that morning was a black utility vehicle with blacked-out windows blocking traffic in both directions on Columbus Pike.
00:08:21.540It was just before dawn on that brisk April day, and self-described police vehicle historian Anatoly was about to grab a coffee at Starbucks before embarking on his daily three-mile walk.
00:08:37.720He inched closer to get a better vantage, and when he saw an olive green Lenko Bearcat G2, an armored tactical vehicle often employed by the FBI among other law enforcement agencies,
00:08:51.680a few Arlington County cruisers surrounded the jaw-dropping scene, but all of the other vehicles were unmarked, including the Bearcat.
00:09:01.800Anatoly counted at least 10 heavily armed personnel in the group.
00:09:09.360None bore anything identifying which agency was conducting the raid.
00:09:14.820Just after 10 minutes, the operation inside the Siena Park apartment complex, a six-story upscale building for D.C. professionals, was over.
00:09:28.480They took off pretty quickly and headed west on Columbia Pike towards Fairfax County.
00:09:33.940Most people seeing that green vehicle will think it's some sort of a tank, but I knew it was a Lenko Bearcat.
00:09:40.680It's a vehicle designed to jump out of so you can do a raid in a quick amount of time, and it can return fire if they're being fired upon.
00:09:49.180Multiple sources familiar with the matter say Meek was the target of an FBI raid at the Siena Park Apartments, where he had been living on the top floor for more than a decade.
00:10:01.280An FBI representative told Rolling Stone its agents were present on the morning of April 27th at that block, but they could not comment further due to an ongoing investigation.
00:10:15.540Meek has not been charged with a crime, but independent observers believe the raid was among the first, and quite possibly the first, to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration.
00:10:31.060A federal magistrate judge in the Virginia Eastern District Court signed off on a search warrant that day before the raid.
00:10:38.820If the raid was for Meek's records, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco would have had to give her blessings.
00:10:47.500A new policy enacted last year prohibits federal prosecutors from seizing journalist documents.
00:10:53.460Any exception requires the deputy AG's approval.
00:10:58.760They said, to my knowledge, there hasn't been any case since January 2021.
00:11:04.900In the raid's aftermath, Meek has made himself scarce.
00:11:14.600This story takes a turn now, and I'm not sure what we're getting here.
00:11:21.840In the raid's aftermath, Meek has made himself scarce.
00:11:25.700None of his Siena Park neighbors, with whom Rolling Stone spoke with, have seen him since.
00:11:32.940With his apartment now appearing to be vacant, Siena Park management declined to confirm that their long-time tenant was gone, citing privacy policies.
00:12:24.880Sources familiar with the matter say federal agents allegedly found classified information on Meek's laptop during their raid.
00:12:33.440One investigative journalist who worked with Meek says it would be highly unusual for a reporter or a producer to keep any classified information on his computer.
00:44:08.720Don't worry, they're gonna get to that after.
00:44:12.460They got the real dangerous prayer people out.
00:44:15.560We're gonna talk about that, a missing journalist, the FBI, and we begin with COVID and Thomas Massey in 60 seconds.
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00:45:55.360So we were having an early morning producers conference, and there was a story out yesterday that talked about how the CDC was going to vote and try to get the COVID-19 vaccination into the, you know, mumps and rubella category.
00:46:16.240And it would protect them if they could.
00:47:05.680Today, at 1.20 on their schedule, there's a vote on adding COVID-19 to the childhood immunization schedule.
00:47:14.760Now, what your producers are correct about is that this won't make it mandatory for schools in every state, not immediately, but in some states it will when it kicks in.
00:47:27.440Now, it looks like, based on the meeting I was watching this morning, because it's going on right now.
00:47:31.760They're doing this right now, that this will kick in sometime in February, and then it will trigger automatic COVID mandates for schools in several states.
00:47:47.260Now, as far as liability goes, the vaccine manufacturers aren't worried about that yet.
00:47:54.000That might not happen in this meeting, because they've already got protection from liability under the PREP Act, which I call Medical Malpractice Martial Law.
00:48:06.700Literally, the PREP Act overrides every state law and every federal law on the books.
00:48:40.800It leaked into her throat, required surgery to fix, and she could not sue the people that did that to her, because they said they didn't do it on purpose.
00:48:53.480So they're not worried about liability right now, the vaccine manufacturers, but they want to get this on the childhood schedule.
00:48:59.680I've got a slide that was presented yesterday by Dr. Sarah Oliver in their meeting that says incorporation of COVID-19 vaccines in the immunization schedule is an important step toward inclusion of COVID-19 vaccines in routine vaccination program.
00:49:15.500Now, what that means, she's saying in the mandatory vaccine programs in many states for your child to attend school.
00:49:26.660Now, here's another story I want to share with you.
00:49:30.940If you're a working mom, a single mom, and you've got kids, first and foremost, you'd hope your kids get educated at school, but the service they provide is daycare.
00:49:40.520And a woman contacted me during the COVID shutdowns of the schools.
00:49:45.640She had to lock her 12-year-old daughter in her apartment while she went to work at a bottling facility for soda pop.
00:49:53.900And she said she felt guilty when she was at work because she was afraid her daughter might be eating all of their food, which she didn't know when she could get more of it.
00:50:03.040A mom like that cannot take her kid to private school.
00:50:06.540This is a sentence for single working parents and for double parents at work.
00:50:14.200And for parents that would like to live a normal life, but don't believe that an mRNA vaccine should be put into my child's arm.
00:50:29.380And listen, here's another one of their slides from yesterday.
00:50:33.260By the way, they're going to vote on this today after lunch.
00:50:36.000But one of their slides yesterday, when they were promoting the vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11, one of the things they promoted as a benefit is rates of myocarditis after primary series in children ages 5 to 11 are considerably lower than rates in adolescents.
00:50:53.080In other words, myocarditis caused by the vaccine, they are promoting the fact that kids 5 to 11 should get the vaccine because they're at lower risk of getting myocarditis from the vaccine than kids, than their older siblings.
00:51:11.900How about a risk versus reward benefit calculation that takes into account prior infection and natural immunity?
00:51:21.540Because the CDC is in complete denial of that for children.
00:51:25.920They don't talk about it in any of their slides.
00:51:28.200And they also, this goes against all, everything we've ever heard about children are the least likely to get it or to have a bad spell with it.
00:54:43.080It's the question every person, whether they're running for school board or dog catcher or U.S. Senate, needs to be asked in front of a camera,
00:54:52.760do you support mandatory COVID vaccines for children in order to go to school or play sports or anything like that?
00:54:59.600I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat.
00:55:01.380Don't give anybody a pass unless they've answered that question.
00:55:06.180Will you allow the FBI to continue to scoop up old ladies in a bogus face act arrest while not leaving every breadcrumb and every piece of evidence just sitting waiting for an FBI agent to show up on the people who are firebombing pro-life clinics?
00:55:34.180I mean, if the Republicans win, and I think they're going to, and if they win the House and the Senate, I have to tell you, you know this, Thomas.
00:55:47.220Pitch forks and torches are coming because a lot of people know our rights are being lost every day.
00:56:03.620I probably mention it every time I go on your show.
00:56:06.700We've got to separate the spending bills into separate bills.
00:56:09.980If Republicans do an omnibus bill that fixes in, they will say we can't get blamed for shutting down the government because we have to win the White House in two years.
00:56:20.580So we can't defund the FBI, you know, rounding up old ladies and put them in jail.
00:56:36.800And then defund the 87,000 IRS agents in a separate bill.
00:56:43.800Well, I think, I mean, the strategy that I would use if I were on the left, I would have you guys be responsible for, quote, collapsing the economy.
00:56:56.900Um, and so I think every, every single politician is going to be afraid of doing that and it will be scaremongering tactics.
00:57:06.800I mean, I've already heard on national media that we are going to lose our credit rating status because we will just default on all of our loans.
00:57:26.200Here's, here's the Thomas Massey plan.
00:57:28.420If I were speaker the day after January 4th, I would pass, and this is hard for me to do.
00:57:34.960I would pass a continuing resolution that doesn't kick in for nine months.
00:57:38.840It would fund all of government at 90% of current levels so that for nine months, Republicans have a runway where Democrats can't say, if you don't get your job done, the government's going to shut down.
00:57:50.860No, the government will be funded at a dime less on the dollar.
00:57:54.480But we could also cover, make sure we are going to pay off all our debts and we're not going to default in that same CR.
00:58:00.740And that way you, you take that argument away from the media and, and Joe Biden.
00:58:05.300You think that, you think anybody will listen to you on that one?
00:58:10.180I'm getting, it's getting some traction.
00:58:34.000It's, we have raw power in the form of a collusion between the, the social media companies, the government, the pharmaceutical companies, and the FBI, the, you know, the federal police.
00:58:49.300It's, it's a, it's a, it's a collusion.
00:58:50.780I'll throw in the USDA and the food processors.
00:58:53.700It's, you know, in a, in a libertarian sort of fantasy, there are no laws to prevent you from doing things, but you still have liability.
00:59:03.780You still can sue somebody if they hurt you or mislead you or cheat you.
00:59:08.540But what we live in today, it's, it's not even, uh, communism.
00:59:13.100It's a form where they've empowered the, the private companies, the government works hand in hand.
00:59:20.540So when they need to violate your constitutional rights, they use the private company.
00:59:24.160When they need to violate the law, they use the government and they work together.
00:59:28.520There is a, there's a name for that kind of government.
01:00:26.280And there is a new book, uh, that is out and it's very controversial because the left says it is, uh, you want your kids to listen to someone like Jordan Peterson.
01:00:39.020He, he, all he's saying is, uh, you know, maybe you should, um, maybe you should clean your room.
01:12:07.020Not by the federal government, but by states.
01:12:11.960Attorney General Eric Schmidt, who I just love, and 19 other state attorney generals announced the investigation yesterday.
01:12:20.860They want to know about the bank's involvement with the UN's Net Zero Banking Alliance, which is the source and what they've adopted for the ESG radical climate agenda with the stated goal of, quote, aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net zero emissions by the year 2050.
01:12:46.100The UN's ESG Bank Alliance represents 40% of the world's bank.
01:12:53.260The alliance claims it reinforces, accelerates, and supports the implementation of decarbonization strategies, i.e. the eradication of fossil fuels, and notes the vital role of banks in supporting the global transition of the real economy to a net zero emissions.
01:13:14.160So they have a few questions for these banks.
01:13:49.900Can you identify the objectives and mission of the Net Zero Banking Alliance and describe how you're implementing this?
01:13:58.020Can you describe to what extent you've incorporated the principles for responsible banking into your operations, including but not limited to the extent at which you consulted with other Net Zero Banking Alliance signatories as part of this incorporation process?
01:14:15.560Can you describe the extent at which you, as somebody who signed the Net Zero Banking Alliance, have acted consistent with your commitment to facilitate the necessary transition in the real economy?
01:14:27.520And can you describe just, you know, you signed it.
01:14:32.140Can you just say, you know, to what extent have you acted consistent with your commitment to engage on corporate and industry, financial and real economy action, as well as public policies to help support the Net Zero?
01:14:49.600I mean, we'd just like to we'd just like to ask you those questions.
01:14:52.940Now, this should be something that is on all of if they're proud of it, should be on all of their websites.
01:15:16.780It really doesn't happen all that much.
01:15:18.860On the midterm front, I don't know if you have heard about the the booby trapped yard signs for Democrats that have been put in yards of people in Pennsylvania.
01:15:36.980Pennsylvania and they haven't been asked permission and their Democratic signs and they put them in the yards.
01:15:43.460And when the homeowner comes to pull them out, there are razor blades that have been taped into the sides of the post and also the edges of the sign.
01:15:53.680And people are cutting their hands with razor blades.
01:16:25.000It almost makes you think that it's like every time there's a, you know, a waitress who happens to be a lesbian was given a receipt from her credit card purchase.
01:16:35.640And it said, I don't approve of your lifestyle.
01:35:23.260And so we're doing it with making sure that our children come along and serve the Lord and also have the same priorities you do.
01:35:30.140And that is to have Hobby Lobby going on forever, if possible, and be a ministry to those that are in need.
01:35:37.220How do you go from a framing place to everything you sell with that?
01:35:42.660I think there's a lot of people – they separate – I want to talk about family, too, because you talk about this separation.
01:35:48.680They separate God and their faith from their business, and they'll come up with all kinds of excuses that, you know, I've got to do what I've got to do.
01:38:05.960There's only one, and that's his – and he's given us a book, a direction book.
01:38:09.740And when we follow it, I don't know that there's a – I can't tell you of a better way to run a business than following the book and follow things that I think would be pleasing to our Lord.
01:38:19.800But tell me how – faith is one thing, but talk to somebody who doesn't necessarily have the faith just about how the principle of paying your employees, doing all of the things that you do.
01:38:34.420How do they convince somebody who doesn't necessarily may have faith but not your kind of faith?
01:38:43.420Yeah, well, my kind of faith believes that God's Word, of course, is where we're going to be best in our life in everything that we do.
01:39:01.560How does what we're being told in God's book, how does it look wrong?
01:39:05.820It just seems to make also common sense, and that's to care for people if you really want them to care for you.
01:39:13.220So people know, by the way, who Hobby Lobby is before they even knock on the door for an application.
01:39:18.420And because of that, I think we get the very, very best people that are out there, people that have a work ethic, people that have integrity.
01:39:25.740And so I think that's one of the secret sauces is just to have great, great people.
01:40:58.160They love it because they know they're doing something other than just doing something to make the owners rich, because that's not what they're doing.
01:41:05.160I want to talk to you about one more thing.
01:41:07.040I'm going to take a one-minute break, and then we'll be back.
01:41:10.160The name of the book is Leadership, Not by the Book, David Green and Bill High.
01:41:15.600And it is – it's kind of like Jordan Peterson's book.
01:44:04.860How do you convince somebody that is, like, overwhelmed at work?
01:44:09.480They're like, no, I got to get this done, or I'll lose my job.
01:44:14.540Yeah, I think that I just think if we think very long and we create all of this wealth and have no family and our kids are messed up, can't we think a little bit about that and know that how can we not get there, that our family is the most important?
01:44:31.820That has to be – I don't know how you not get there, to be honest with you.
01:44:36.380Yeah, we usually say God, country, family.
01:47:16.700I mean, between our tax dollars, which we all ponied up so they could go against Hobby Lobby and fight them.
01:47:30.380And then because Hobby Lobby won, which I'm thrilled about, we then had to get our tax dollars together to pay all of the legal bills for Hobby Lobby.
01:49:08.740And there's advantages to campaigns for doing this, right?
01:49:11.080It means you don't, not only do you get the vote and lock it in, you also don't have to spend resources on trying to get that person out on a specific day.
01:49:19.020It's a massive advantage to get your people to vote early.
01:49:53.520It means something, but it's important not to read too much into it.
01:49:56.480Early voting, voting data, uh, is known to be at times misleading when you're trying to draw grand conclusions out of it.
01:50:05.420Uh, there are a lot of different factors.
01:50:06.920I'm only, I'm only drawing from that, that we are engaged more than they are at this point, that we are more excited about going out and voting, more motivated to go out and vote.
01:50:18.680Than they are, um, and if that continues all the way through, that's a really good sign.
01:50:42.680New York Times poll asked it respondents to select one of the two following statements that is aligning closest to your view, even if they don't match exactly.
01:50:55.240American democracy is currently under threat.
01:50:59.520American democracy is not currently under threat.
01:53:56.840And these people have a reason to be pissed.
01:53:58.760I mean, it just gave all new wrinkles in the argument that hadn't been there 10, 15 years before.
01:54:05.020Yeah, and I think the two things the Democrats didn't really understand when they saw this polling early on was while there is real concern for, quote unquote, democracy in our country, there are much bigger concerns, right?
01:54:20.260People are much more concerned about the economy and inflation and crime and the border and many other things than democracy as a voting issue.
01:54:29.580And number two, they didn't realize that half the people saying they thought democracy under threat believed the Democrats were the threat.
01:54:40.240They were the ones who were the problem here.
01:54:42.740It wasn't that everyone thought democracy was under threat because of January 6th or because of Donald Trump.
01:54:48.360Many of them believe there were problems with the election.
01:54:50.700Many of them see what is going on when, you know, Republicans are being investigated by the IRS, for example, all the corruption and massive problems that have gone on, even outside of the electoral process, just the way the country is run.
01:55:07.380And so while it motivates and animates at some level, it's not the top of the mind issue.
01:55:12.940And also there's half of the country who see what, let's say, the left is doing with the January 6th commission and say, you're the ones doing this.
01:55:23.280You're the ones violating the rules of our democracy.
01:55:25.980So they really invested a lot of resources in this and it's fallen on its face.
01:59:25.760But, of course, what it is is you're able to do the things you want to do that you believe in, that you think are important, to spend time with your kids instead of busting your butt at a second job.
01:59:33.780All these things are crucial to people's lives.
01:59:37.680And while, yes, I don't know what the max is, Glenn.
01:59:40.140Maybe there's some liberals in our audience that can answer this.
01:59:43.140How many abortions can you have in a year?
01:59:45.920How many abortions are you going to have in a lifetime?
01:59:47.620Even if you really love abortion, how many times are you going through that?
01:59:52.280You know, I guess you could have a – I don't know how many per week you can have, but I know how many times I go to the grocery store every week.