Glenn Beck is back from St. George and the Blueprints of Liberty Museum in Liberty Village. He talks about Joe Biden and the Nord Stream Pipeline. He also talks about a new investigation into who blew up the Nordstream pipeline.
00:00:16.480The radio broadcast begins in about 60 seconds.
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00:00:23.820According to the USDA, a lot of our annually planted crops in the breadbasket states are not going to be harvested this season due to extreme weather conditions, worldwide fertilizer shortages, and let's be honest, Washington.
00:00:39.160It means that the food in your grocery store is going to go up in price and things are going to get worse.
00:00:45.220The second largest food grower in the world is in the Netherlands, and they're shutting their farms down.
00:07:44.040The trans person's manifesto who went into the school and killed six people.
00:07:49.520And they keep saying, well, there's all these conspiracy theorists.
00:07:53.560Well, because you're not telling us anything.
00:07:55.960You're not coming forth with information that makes any sense.
00:08:00.820So, currently, there are official investigations being conducted by Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Russia.
00:08:09.120And nobody seems to have any information.
00:08:11.920Sweden has collected evidence from the seabed, but deemed the information national security and refused to release it.
00:08:21.400You know, there comes a point in a nation's history where national security means you should release the information because nobody's believing any institution.
00:08:34.800Why would the government investigating this be content with the whole world just thinking, maybe it's the United States?
00:08:48.060It doesn't make sense that it's Russia, but maybe it was Russia.
00:08:52.740At first, the United States and Russia blamed each other.
00:08:55.740Then the veteran journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an in-depth article that claimed the United States was ultimately responsible.
00:09:25.740Three months ago, Joe Biden met with the German counterpart for a private meeting.
00:09:31.740Then a few days after that, things started to be reported in places like the New York Times that it was a pro-Ukrainian group that most likely blew up the pipeline.
00:09:45.160And six individuals chartered a sailboat and pulled something off that previously all the experts were saying could only be accomplished by a major state actor.
00:09:59.000So the curious, back to him, the curious Swedish engineer in his private investigation, Eric Anderson read Seymour Hersh's article, and his original intent was to try to prove it accurate.
00:10:15.900But on conclusion, he decided the most likely culprits were amateurs with not a lot of experience.
00:10:25.420He found that the explosives used and how they were placed were, how do I say this, not Navy SEAL quality.
00:10:36.240So not the U.S. government, says the private enthusiast.
00:10:42.240Well, you know what, I feel so good when we're on the verge of World War III that a Swedish private enthusiast could give us the answers.
00:10:51.840The grayzone.com received exclusive photos from Eric Anderson's investigation and their analysis.
00:10:59.540I've never even heard of it, but let's see what they have to say.
00:11:05.260Their analysis differs from Anderson's.
00:11:09.120They cite another independent engineer that none of us have heard of named Michael Cobbs.
00:11:16.420And he says that the amount of explosive used, around 100 pounds, was very, very specific.
00:11:29.100He said if we disregard the chain reaction caused by the overpressure at all the other crime scenes, the scale of destruction certainly seems calculated, but by no means exaggerated.
00:12:22.260After Biden met with the German prime minister, and this is the only official narrative that we have, a pro-Ukrainian group of six individuals that are connected to the Ukrainian military, charted a sailboat and set off to blow up Nord Stream.
00:12:45.440Well, apparently, a tip came in from a, quote, Western intelligence agency.
00:12:54.260Oh, they said five men and one woman loaded diving gear, oxygen tanks, and a hundred pounds of explosives onto the sailboat.
00:13:07.220Then, without any other equipment, no decompression chamber, somehow or another, the five men and the one woman, I want to make sure that we were very inclusive.
00:13:21.900Somehow, they took that 100 pounds of explosive down to the ocean floor, placed them exactly in the right place on the pipelines.
00:13:32.680And the tip from the Western intelligence agency went on to say it was a lucky, lucky thing that they placed the explosives exactly in the right place.
00:13:48.420A recent report from the Swedish outlet, the Expressen, which is probably a little more credible than the gray zone, but seeing that I've never heard of the Expressen either, who knows?
00:14:01.300They said a lot of important clues were found when authorities located the sailboat.
00:14:06.220Now, on this sailboat, they found traces of explosives that match exactly what would be needed.
00:14:16.060Not what was used, but what would be needed for underwater demolition.
00:15:16.660I wish we could find that guy, but we can't.
00:15:19.980They did, however, track down one of his relatives, who stated they knew for a fact that he was not out of the country during the time of the bombing.
00:15:48.680We currently have four official investigations.
00:15:53.800Two of them are private investigations, and one with an extremely lucky Western intelligence agency tip that claims six people on a sailboat pulled everything off.
00:16:09.400Dueling narrative after dueling narrative.
00:16:33.240Outside, you know, of regurgitating, you know, stuff from their usual, well, insiders and unnamed sources tell us,
00:16:43.040really, is that somebody from the NSA, is that somebody from the CIA, who's been obviously feeding you false information for years,
00:16:52.740and yet you're still going back to the same source over and over and over again?
00:16:58.500So, chalk this one up to yet one of the greatest mysteries of all time that places us on the verge of World War III that will probably take us several years to actually find out what the truth is.
00:17:17.020But don't worry, they're very, very close to telling us the whole truth on the Kennedy assassination.
00:17:24.440So, this one's right around the corner.
00:17:28.640All of these lies, all of the disinformation, only makes things much more dangerous in the world.
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00:24:49.380Bryce is like, I really think Bryce Canyon is kind of, you know, and on the sixth day, God was like, I don't know.
00:24:57.680I got an extra 15 minutes, and he made Bryce Canyon.
00:25:01.980It is one of the most beautiful places on earth, just outside of St. George, and we're here for Liberty Village.
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00:25:39.500That hopefully will happen in about an hour.
00:25:41.320Also, we want to thank Ledges Golf Course in St. George.
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00:25:55.040We had a fundraiser there a couple of nights ago for Mercury One.
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00:26:52.860So, Pat, affirmative action yesterday.
00:26:56.640Yesterday, if I know my history, and I'm pretty good at it, and I know what Martin Luther King was all about, yesterday would have been a very, very good day.
00:29:08.160You're only saying that because of the writings of Margaret Sanger where she said, don't tell the black pastors that we're trying to get rid of all blacks.
00:31:03.660But I'm telling you, my gut screams this to me, that the great society, you can't take Johnson, who was the guy who stopped the Civil Rights Act in 1959.
00:31:19.120And then by 1964, have him the champion of civil rights.
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00:58:16.220But this particular ruling, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled today that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
00:58:30.260Court ruled 6-3 for designer Lori Smith, despite a Colorado law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender, and other characteristics.
00:58:43.100Smith had argued that the law violates her free speech rights.
00:58:49.040Smith's opponents warned that a win for her would allow a range of businesses to discriminate, refusing to serve black, Jewish, or Muslim customers.
00:59:38.860And, you know, you want to be racist, be racist, but, you know, I ain't going to your place, and I don't know anybody who does, and anybody who is sitting, and I'm driving by, and I see you were having coffee at the KKK place.
00:59:58.640Hopefully that business would go out of business.
01:00:01.000But they write, Neil Gorsuch wrote, the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands.
01:00:14.720The dissent was written by Sonia Sotomayor.
01:00:19.360Today, the court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.
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01:17:55.400Thank God there is, there was no VR at the time of Lewis and Clark.
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01:26:19.340How did this bill come about and what does it mean?
01:26:25.160Well, you know, in Idaho, we've had our fair share of things that have happened in our state going back to the Ruby Ridge siege with the weavers back in the early 90s.
01:26:39.740And in my district, District 10, we have very engaged people here that are involved in the Republican Party, involved in the conservative movement.
01:26:50.460And we've just seen the things that have been transpiring across the nation, in our state, in regards to the weaponization of government and more specifically the FBI.
01:27:00.100So, several of my constituents here got together and put together this resolution to present at our summer meeting for the state GOP.
01:27:15.340We had some really good resolutions that actually passed this last summer meeting.
01:27:18.860But this is one of them, and this is one that has really picked up steam in the media because it is so straightforward, and it really hits on the issues that are transpiring in our government.
01:27:33.380So, before we get into the resolution and what has to happen and what it means, tell people in abbreviated form as much as you can, what happened with Ruby Ridge?
01:27:46.000Most Americans think of Ruby Ridge, and they think conspiracy theory, whatever, because that's how it was sold to the American people.
01:27:55.200Oh, it's some gun nut up in the woods.
01:27:58.020Tell us what happened with Ruby Ridge.
01:28:01.220Well, basically, and I was really young when it actually transpired, but I remember watching the news on what was going on, and even thinking back then, you know, why is this happening?
01:28:12.240You know, you had an issue with a sawed-off shotgun, and the Weavers went up to their cabin, just wanted to be left alone, basically, and started being surveilled by the FBI.
01:29:55.340Well, and in this resolution, we put in, there's several examples that are put in.
01:29:59.820I mean, you have the Ruby Ridge, you have the Waco, Texas, you have different programs that the FBI have put together, like Cointel Pro, that transpired.
01:30:09.520And we're going back, you know, to the early 50s.
01:30:12.640So this has been going on for a long time.
01:30:14.140And then we have more recent things that have transpired, such as parents speaking out at the school board meetings that have been put under surveillance.
01:30:22.300So there's all these issues that are continuing.
01:30:25.440Our government doesn't seem to learn the lesson.
01:30:27.540I was just back in D.C. just a couple of months ago with another organization to talk to Jim Jordan's committee and those that are on it about what's transpiring with the weaponization of government, how NGOs are being utilized to put people on lists and that the government is utilizing those lists and people don't even know they're on that.
01:30:47.640And then we have the FBI with what they've been doing with the surveillance, with what's happened with parents that are speaking out at the school board meetings, what's happened with President Trump.
01:30:56.400And so we have all these things that are transpiring where we just have a entity that is out of control, government overreach and not staying within their jurisdiction of the Constitution.
01:31:07.180We're talking to Idaho State Senator Tammy Nichols about a GOP resolution that has just passed condemning the FBI and calling for its abolition.
01:31:23.780Will it actually become a resolution that you think can pass?
01:31:29.280Yeah, well, you know, as as a senator, you know, are my desire and how it should work is that the things that are passed at the state party GOP meetings should translate over to the legislative session.
01:31:44.200And, you know, like in this last one, we had 26 different resolutions that passed.
01:31:49.660So now those 26 should come over through through the legislative process into actual pieces of legislation or legislative resolutions.
01:31:59.740So what we're hoping transpires with this and and I'm I'm a co-chair of the Idaho Freedom Caucus.
01:32:05.360And my members are very excited about this sort of pieces of legislation that could come into play.
01:32:12.160So what we're hoping to get out of this is that we would like to see other states also run similar resolutions at their state party level.
01:32:21.280And then also, you know, because we say in this resolution that if the FBI cannot be reformed, then we do support an abolition of this government agency.
01:32:32.160So so so we're kind of trying to give that incentive first that, you know, to reform, but we don't have a very good track record that that transpires with this.
01:32:42.580So the next step is to call for the abolition.
01:32:47.120So how is the state going to pressure?
01:32:50.660I mean, what what do you have to use as leverage to get them to reform?
01:32:57.040Well, first, this resolution is going to be sent to our senators and our congressmen in D.C.
01:33:06.940So we want them to know that this is something that the state GOP as a whole is wanting to see transpire.
01:33:14.380And, you know, we're going to be looking to them, of course, to help try to to lead that or to start putting the pressure on the federal government to rein in the FBI.
01:33:24.000If that is not the case, then the states have sovereignty.
01:33:28.140The states can exercise their sovereignty.
01:33:30.900And we see that happening in all sorts of other forms where states, you know, do things that, you know, the federal government may not like or, you know, like with drugs or with illegal immigration or any of that sort of stuff that the states exercise their sovereignty.
01:33:47.600And that's really what we're getting to now.
01:33:49.620We the federal government is not doing their job.
01:33:52.520The states are the ones that give the power, the control to the federal government.
01:33:58.200And so the states need to start exercising their sovereignty and saying we are not participating in this anymore.
01:34:04.760If the FBI comes to the state, then our sheriffs, our constitutional sheriffs need to exercise their authority.
01:34:10.380But we need to we need to put our federal government, our congressmen and our senators on notice that this is what we want to see transpire.
01:34:18.240And if it does not happen, the states need to start exercising their sovereignty to say we're not participating in this anymore or we are we are going to regain our our control and our authority to say enough is enough and do that through legislation.
01:34:33.420I have to I have to I have to tell you, I think this is the bravest legislation in any state that I have seen yet.
01:34:46.220Are you how much pushback are you getting from the people in the state?
01:34:52.760And are you worried about federal pushback at all?
01:34:58.680You know, so far, we haven't received a lot of pushback in our state.
01:35:03.080Again, this is a resolution that we weren't even sure how far it was going to get.
01:35:06.820And it wasn't one that we that we thought was going to actually get a lot of attention.
01:35:11.900But the more it's getting out there, I've had actually people from different parts of the country contacting me because of things that have happened to them.
01:35:20.940And their their situations that they've had dealing with the FBI.
01:35:26.580So that's been very interesting to me to see the people actually become aware of what's transpiring and that we actually ran this.
01:35:34.760And so, yeah, I'm hoping I mean, we might get pushback on the federal, but so be it, because we have an out of control agency that is acting with outside of the Constitution, outside of their authority.
01:35:47.440And we have to we have to retain that we have to get that back under control.
01:35:55.080I hope that you have enough people in the legislature that have clean lives, because that's the way the FBI has gotten away with it for so long.
01:36:10.820This is what Hoover did and then use it against them and and blackmail them into siding with them.
01:36:18.820So I I hope you have enough in the legislature that are the fear of their God more than they fear the United States, the the FBI.
01:36:30.620Yeah, you know, I and and we know that that that there are tools that are that are utilized to to get people to to do things.
01:36:41.220And again, that's why we put the examples that are in this resolution so that people are aware that these are the things that have transpired in the past.
01:36:48.940These are the things that have transpired recently and that we have a problem that we need to get back under control.
01:36:55.400So. Tammy Nichols, the Idaho State Senator, a part of the Freedom Caucus in Idaho, thanks for being on.
01:37:06.600And I am a proud resident of the state part time, but I'm a proud resident and landowner in Idaho, and I'm counting on you guys keeping it free.
01:37:20.340I have to tell you, I would love to hear from other states that are considering joining them the way to make this happen, you know, is is a bunch of states doing this.
01:37:36.100You know, what's really crazy is, Pat, how many times have we heard about, oh, there's a constitutional crisis.
01:37:42.200That's going to put us in a constitutional crisis.
01:37:44.400I've heard that my whole life whenever they say, you know, Bill Clinton had a cigar in his eye.
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01:39:25.560I want to spend a few minutes with an old friend that I haven't seen in a long time, but I've been watching your career for quite some time, John Irwin.
01:40:45.200And whether it's like Kurt Warner never giving up on his dream or this magazine from 1971 that I bought on eBay eight years ago that had Jesus on the cover and talked about this hippie spiritual awakening and called it the Jesus Revolution.
01:40:59.100I just, we love true stories that bring a rush of hope to the audience.
01:41:02.600And I think people need it now more than ever.
01:41:04.320When we first met, I don't even know, 10 years ago, we were talking about how bad Christian films were.
01:41:40.000He's like, you know, frontiersmen tend to die on the frontier.
01:41:42.120I'm like, well, the trail will be blazed, man.
01:41:45.580But I think that there is a new, there's, there's this revolution of faith and values in the entertainment industry, in Hollywood, at all levels.
01:41:53.680I think there's just a lot of people either getting better and better at what they do or people that are great at what they do saying enough is enough.
01:42:01.040I have to align my values with my work and it has to happen now.
01:42:09.780It's surprising, but I just think that there's a lot of titans that, you know, um, what do they say when you, when your pain outweighs your fear, change can begin.
01:42:18.800And I just think the content driven by the studios has gone so far, um, counter to what we need in our, in our households with our families that people are just saying, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta make a change.
01:42:33.440And even what's profitable, what Disney has done to itself is the biggest suicide act I've ever seen.
01:42:42.820There's no one that had that credibility that they had and they just flushed it down the toilet.
01:42:48.720I know, I remember, I think it was when they added TVMA and rated our content to Disney plus I'm like, it's, it's still the great, you know, story and brand.
01:42:58.000But I'm just like, man, I've never felt that this company I love has been as far from my home, you know, as it is right now.
01:43:04.700And, uh, and I do think we can change.
01:43:12.180And, uh, stuff that we can watch together that draws us closer to our values and closer to each other.
01:43:17.120And so I think there's just a great opportunity on behalf of, um, people of faith and values in industry.
01:43:22.640So John is here because, uh, we're in St. George, um, trying to help a project called Liberty Village, which is amazing.
01:43:32.420Check it out at, um, uh, unitedwepledge.org.
01:43:36.420But he has a very exciting, I mean, this is one of the best announcements and biggest announcements.
01:43:42.840I've been waiting for this for a long time.
01:43:45.640He's going to announce it on this program in, uh, just about two minutes.
01:43:52.160I like having comfortable feet, you know, um, I don't usually, I'm not the kind that usually walks around wearing slippers, but you know what?
01:44:01.680I'm successful enough and old enough to just do it and not care.
01:44:07.420Um, I don't know, you know, if you're 20, maybe it's a different world.
01:45:32.020We are in St. George, Utah for a project called Liberty Village, which is this great project that is going to build Mount Vernon Independence Hall for people of the West.
01:45:45.600But it's going to be something that is more than just a recreation.
01:45:48.900It is a learning center and a place for families and young adults and kids to come to and learn about American history and what we really stand for.
01:47:00.440It just means that our obsession is to entertain the audience and to give them a wonderful experience at theater, which I'm in awe that they come to...
01:47:09.200It's just as expensive to go to my movies as it is to go to Top Gun.
01:47:15.760If I hold any record or whatever, I love it that it's related to a relationship with the audience and just entertaining them and giving them movies that they love.
01:47:24.720So you make the announcement of what you are now doing.
01:48:00.120And I read book after book after book on the American Revolution and on the Founding Fathers and incredibly complex characters, incredible story.
01:48:09.440It's a story of faith and entrepreneurism and just this incredible moment in time and group of people.
01:48:17.720And I've studied it for years, all the way back to a very similar place to Liberty Village.
01:48:46.680If you want to learn it, you have to read a lot of books.
01:48:48.460And so I thought, why can there not be a multi-season TV series that really gets it right and shares multiple perspectives and tells the story of how this country came to be?
01:49:02.080Because you realize when you learn the story and you learn the complexity, the flawed aspect of the characters, what we've gone through as a country, that we are stewarded with this incredible and fragile experiment that we're still perfecting or ought to.
01:49:19.300And so I just think the stories are incredible.
01:49:22.540As a storyteller, I love true stories.
01:49:24.880The stories are unbelievable and inspiring.
01:49:30.660And I just, I came out of a long time of research with this incredible sense of awe and wonder.
01:49:37.540And I'm like, there needs to be, sometimes there's one, we were talking about there's one aspect of it, like John Adams, which I really loved.
01:49:45.620And I thought, why can't there be a multi-season TV show with some movies in between that just tells the story of the founding of our country and why we're here and the people that forged the nation that we're in today and all of the problems that they endured and things that they suffered and things that they triumphed over along the way.
01:50:09.440And I just feel passionate about what George Washington called the divine hand, that this movie, that this country is indeed a miracle.
01:50:17.960The fact that it's here at all is incredible.
01:52:37.520That's the character that I fell most in love with and read the most books on and was just thoroughly fascinated by his leadership and his character and his complexities.
01:52:50.540And so, I would say that Washington will be the central figure in the series.
01:52:55.980There is, down in the museum downstairs, in the revolutionary time, there are the four black patriots that we decided to highlight.
01:53:08.720And most people, it's crazy to me that people say, there's, you know, black people didn't have a role in America.
01:53:41.920But as we were saying, retreat, retreat, he decided to move forward.
01:53:45.680And he shot the commander of the British army and saved the day.
01:53:54.020And that famous painting of Bunker Hill, they are now teaching in school because Peter Salem is off to the side and it looks like he's hiding behind a white guy.
01:54:05.140They're now teaching that that's not even Peter Salem.
01:54:08.160That's just how people looked at black people as they were cowards.
01:54:13.880Then you don't understand the story at all.
01:54:15.940Well, as I understand it, the Revolutionary War represented the most integrated army until Vietnam.
01:54:27.780A lot of what they were, I liked, you've got incredible memorabilia.
01:54:30.880I literally held George Washington's spectacles last night as the highlight of my year that you own.
01:54:38.740But, you know, the other thing that you highlighted was the paragraph that Jefferson wanted in the Declaration of Independence about the evils of slavery.
01:54:48.720And so, to understand how they were grappling with these issues and how they knew what they had to deal with and figuring out how to do it.
01:54:54.920How do we not understand that in a hundred years from now, I think people will say, how did these people in 2020 not stop abortion?
01:55:07.300How did they not see that that was murder?
01:55:10.000Yeah, I think, and we're trying, just like they were.
01:55:13.340And how progressives don't understand, unless you want war, you have to take it one bite at a time.
01:55:39.740And that's one of the things that I think I really want to highlight in the material.
01:55:42.720And I think a lot of the problems, in my opinion, that we're facing as a culture are just the fact that we don't understand our origin story.
01:55:50.660And we don't understand why we're here.
01:55:52.220And we don't understand how unbelievable it is that this country exists at all.
01:55:58.400And I think there would be great worth in just giving an accurate and visceral and entertaining account of the founding of the country.
01:56:11.400I think it'll make us all, I hope, it'll replace a feeling of disdain with a feeling of awe and wonder.
01:57:01.040I can only imagine, certainly Jesus' revolution, where you just feel, again, what Washington called a divine hand.
01:57:07.600You feel like a supernatural will behind an idea.
01:57:11.460And I feel that with this, that there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
01:57:17.940And I just think that it just feels like there's a, it feels like being strapped to a rocket.
01:57:24.980And, and, and I think this is a project that, that, that America needs and, and that the world needs.
01:57:32.420And, and, and I just love the stories and I'm honored to tell them.
01:57:36.360And I'm grateful that the audience, once again, I think I shared last night, a lot of the headlines, which is revolution read, read, you know, heartland faith audience shocks the industry again.
01:57:47.060Some point the industry can't be shocked.
01:57:48.920This is a, a large underserved audience and they've spoken so loudly on our films that it, it gives us an opportunity to tell stories like this, to tell them well, and to tell them accurately.
01:59:19.120I mean, anybody who wants to create anything that, that, that, that's worthy, whether that's a company or a product or, you know, or, or, or run for office or whatever needs to study these stories.
01:59:30.220I mean, these were some of the greatest thinkers, greatest minds, greatest writers, complex people, flawed people.
01:59:36.740But, and it's an amazing story about a group of, of, of, of ordinary flawed people, some with extraordinary gifts coming together at a unique moment in time.
01:59:46.280And doing something that would outlive them all.
01:59:48.460And I think we can all learn from that.
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